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1.) Swamp Fox - 11/18/2015
[B][SIZE=2][COLOR="#FF0000"]Donald Trump and Glenn Beck Coordinate Message Attacking Obama Refugee and Economic Policies:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]













2.) DParker - 11/18/2015
Today's press release by the European Commission (the executive governing body of the European Union):

[URL="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6110_en.htm"]European Commission strengthens control of firearms across the EU[/URL]

Short version:

A group of international terrorists acquire military arms and ordnance from the black market (just like the goons who shot up Charlie Hebdo) and use them to shoot/blow up over 100 already disarmed civilians in Paris. The EC concludes that the only rational thing to do is to clamp down harder on those mostly disarmed and law-abiding citizens by further restricting a bunch of things that had absolutely nothing to do with the massacre.

[quote][LIST]
[*]Stricter rules to ban certain semi-automatic firearms, which will not, under any circumstance, be allowed to be held by private persons, even if they have been permanently deactivated;
[*]Tighter rules on the online acquisition of firearms, to avoid the acquisition of firearms, key parts or ammunition through the Internet;
[*]EU common rules on marking of firearms to improve the traceability of weapons;
[*]Better exchange of information between Member States, for example on any refusal of authorisation to own a firearm decided by another national authority, and obligation to interconnect national registers of weapons;
[*]Common criteria concerning alarm weapons (e.g. distress flares and starter pistols)in order to prevent their transformation into fully functioning firearms;
[*]Stricter conditions for the circulation of deactivated firearms;
[*]Stricter conditions for collectors to limit the risk of sale to criminals.
[/LIST][/quote]

Brilliant. It's always nice to be reminded that we in the U.S. don't hold a monopoly on that sort of "We must do something. This is something. Therefor, we must do this." pants-on-head stupidity.
3.) bluecat - 11/18/2015
I heard that Josh Earnest today was spouting off that the French have been successful bombing due to the intelligence given to them from the United State. So....um...if we knew where they were, why weren't we bombing them?
4.) Swamp Fox - 11/18/2015
DP, did you see where Professor Popoff hopes to spend the rest of of his presidency prioritizing gun control (when he's not busy staying on the right track elsewhere, I suppose)?



You have to admit the man's a fast learner, if nothing else.



[url]http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/17/obama-im-thinking-ill-spend-my-last-year-in-office-focused-on-gun-control/[/url]
5.) DParker - 11/18/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;36422]DP, did you see where Professor Popoff hopes to spend the rest of of his presidency prioritizing gun control (when he's not busy staying on the right track elsewhere, I suppose)?



You have to admit the man's a fast learner, if nothing else.



[url]http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/17/obama-im-thinking-ill-spend-my-last-year-in-office-focused-on-gun-control/[/url][/QUOTE]

Eh...what does he care? His campaign worries are over, and the two dolts vying to be his heir are throwing themselves on that same political grenade already anyway. Quite frankly, I encourage both of them AND their party's members in Congress to keep pushing that agenda.
6.) Swamp Fox - 11/18/2015
Glenn Beck might be a great TV and video equipment salesman, but no one beats Barry for firearms...:grin:
7.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
I see tonight that some moron down the road from me has Christmas lights up already...I guess when stores and ads are hyping Christmas before we've even had a chance to enjoy Halloween, there's no hope left for regular people anymore.

But then again, there might not be hope for regular people anymore, anyway...




[I][B][SIZE=2]
Quarter of men believe they have 'man periods'
[/SIZE][/B][/I]



[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/health/quarter-of-men-believe-they-have-man-periods/[/url]




8.) DParker - 11/20/2015
Well, I [i]was[/i] feeling kinda' bloated this afternoon. On the other hand, that probably had something to do with the Indian bufffet I went to for lunch.
9.) bluecat - 11/20/2015
Did you have a mango lassi?
10.) Wild Bob - 11/20/2015
:laugh::groan:
11.) DParker - 11/20/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36447]Did you have a mango lassi?[/QUOTE]



???
12.) bluecat - 11/20/2015



Did you have the Lamb Korma at least? Uh oh, my mouth is starting to water.
13.) bluecat - 11/20/2015
Must have meant the other Indian. Well then how was the pemmican and dried cranberries?
14.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
I don't know if anyone saw this from a few months ago...:-)...


Some show I was watching did a few interviews with Indian restaurant owners and they all confirmed the stereotype...LOL


[url]http://www.msn.com/en-ie/foodanddrink/foodnews/indian-restaurant-writes-white-ppl-on-customers-receipt-after-he-orders-mild-curry/ar-AAeIIDe?li=AAcVLvg[/url]
15.) bluecat - 11/20/2015
That's funny, rude but funny.


Okay, I'm offended and here is a list of my demands...
16.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
"I resign. I don't need this $#!+."


LOL
17.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
[B][SIZE=3][url]http://www.theonion.com/article/parents-dedicate-new-college-safe-space-honor-daug-50851[/url][/SIZE][/B]







18.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
19.) bluecat - 11/20/2015
20.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
LOL...


If I knew how to embed a tweet image, I'd show you Hillary's strategy to defeat ISIS. As of now, all I know how to do is copy and paste the text, which doesn't look as good. :-)


Then again, her "strategy" doesn't look so good, either. I missed how simple it is amid all her babbling yesterday.

So, what the hell: From her campaign advisor, who I thought was supposed to be a fairly smart guy, for a flaming lefty---



[I]John Podesta
✔ ‎@johnpodesta
Hillary's strategy to defeat Isis:

✓Defeat Isis in Syria & Iraq
✓Disrupt & dismantle terrorist infrastructure
✓Harden our defenses


11:13 AM - 19 Nov 2015

[/I]


Got that? The strategy to defeat ISIS is to defeat them, make things more difficult for them, and to protect ourselves better. The checkmarks make it extra strategic-y.


I don't know how these people find their shoes in the morning.
21.) bluecat - 11/20/2015
LOL!

Kind of reminds me of how the beauty pageant gals come up with a plan to solve world hunger.

1. Come up with a plan.
2. Implement plan


They were playing clips of Hillary yesterday from a few years ago (maybe newer) saying muslims were of no threat to the United States.
22.) DParker - 11/20/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36462]LOL!

Kind of reminds me of how the beauty pageant gals come up with a plan to solve world hunger.

1. Come up with a plan.
2. Implement plan[/QUOTE]

I believe this was the definitive scholarly dissertation on that subject, and is the yardstick by which all subsequent action plans should be measured:

[video=youtube;U5oVzbwYWpg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5oVzbwYWpg[/video]
23.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
Don't know about that quote, but YESTERDAY she said "Muslims...have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism."

That's an exact quote. I'd highlight [B]"nothing whatsoever"[/B] so it catches everybody's attention, but nobody's so stupid as to miss the stupidity here.

She also characterized ISIS as "criminals," which I suppose is an improvement on "misunderstood job-seekers" or some of the other stuff she could have come up with. (See Marie Harf, and the journalist who said the other day there's a possibility that any jihadis that infiltrate the country could come to like it here, work hard and become assimilated.)

But in more upbeat news, Jen Psaki has reemerged from the clown car she apparently locked herself in for the last few months. She said something in the last few days, but it sounded like popcorn farts to me so I didn't catch it. I'm sure she'll be back to noteworthy dumb-assery soon.



[url]http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/254624-jen-psaki-performances-state-department-receives-promotion-white-house/[/url]
24.) bluecat - 11/20/2015
Yep, that was Hillary's quote. I didn't realize it was current. That even makes it worse.
25.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2015
DP...LOL on that video...I couldn't watch it all in one shot...It was either the gut-level embarrassment for a fellow human being or the hysterical laughter, but something made me have to pause that every 10 seconds or so....:laugh:
26.) bluecat - 11/20/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;36463]I believe this was the definitive scholarly dissertation on that subject, and is the yardstick by which all subsequent action plans should be measured:

[video=youtube;U5oVzbwYWpg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5oVzbwYWpg[/video][/QUOTE]

OMG! Where in the Wide World of Sports did you find that? Hilarious.
27.) DParker - 11/20/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;36466]DP...LOL on that video...I couldn't watch it all in one shot...It was either the gut-level embarrassment for a fellow human being or the hysterical laughter, but something made me have to pause that every 10 seconds or so....:laugh:[/QUOTE]

I'm betting that you needed those pauses to contemplate the agricultural potential of her huge tracts of land.

[QUOTE=bluecat;36467]OMG! Where in the Wide World of Sports did you find that? Hilarious.[/QUOTE]

That one went viral when it was first aired back in '08. It's almost as classic as the '07 Miss Teen USA, "The Iraq, and other places such as" schpiel by then Miss Teen South Carolina.
28.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2015
[B][SIZE=4]Uh oh! Robots are learning to DISOBEY humans[/SIZE][/B]


What could go wrong? LOL



We're gonna need a bigger safe space!









Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3334786/Uh-oh-Robots-learning-DISOBEY-humans-Humanoid-machine-says-no-instructions-thinks-hurt.html#ixzz3tASK3jao[/url]
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29.) bluecat - 12/02/2015
Do you think Hillary is thinking, "More voters!"
30.) DParker - 12/02/2015
First it was women getting the vote....now this. The end it truly nigh.
31.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2015
This robot has the ability to detect danger (Cue Will Robinson) so I don't believe it will be voting Democrat...:wink
32.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2015
How about that Hillary campaign whiffing on the number of presidents we've had?


Or maybe somebody on the inside is secretly a feeling the Bern and sending subliminal messages? I think a lot of die-hard Dems would like to skip Hillary, delay the benefits of a woman in the White House (which I guarantee most can't articulate) one more cycle, but they just don't have the guts to call Hillary out for what she is.


On a more positive note: If you believe Hillary's stories, she's been rejected from the space program *and* the Marines on account of she self-identifies as a woman, so there are at least two areas of the government that are working as they should.


They say good luck comes in threes...
33.) Wild Bob - 12/03/2015
So I normally stay pretty quiet on the current events topic, especially in the political arena...but today I'm going to rant. :rage:

Two issues near and dear to my heart:

1) The current Administrations stance on gun control: In light of the latest fiasco of crazy in San Bernardino - everyone better dam well rally even more support for the NRA. As much as I hate to admit it; I think the time is here when we better start digging in and forming even stronger coalitions for gun rights between various hunting and outdoor groups.

2) The Transportation Bill: What are those $*)^&#%/ idiots thinking??? And shame on all of them; both parties alike - IMO, none of our so-called politicians care to draft a responsible bill that focuses on the direct issues at hand! All they can do is muddy the waters, cross-contaminate the issues with their own bloated BS and then point their crooked ass fingers at each other...[I]its ridiculous and nothing but a dam sham[/I]... Wasting funds on ‘hi- tech information sharing and communication,’ REALLY??? Sure, lets inform the public of which routes not to take, rather than fixing the dam issues to begin with…and that’s only one idiotic rider in that bill…I’ll spare listing the others. This is what happens when you have politicians, who think they are experts on a given topic, address the so called issues. It’s a sham.
34.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
All the comments from the Democratic presidential hopefuls have been about gun control. All the comments from the Republican presidential hopefuls have been about prayers and condolences.

I think the Democrats finally got this one right. I would like to see a gun ban for terrorists.
35.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36775]All the comments from the Democratic presidential hopefuls have been about gun control. All the comments from the Republican presidential hopefuls have been about prayers and condolences.

I think the Democrats finally got this one right. I would like to see a gun ban for terrorists.[/QUOTE]

Well, all you have to do now is identify U.S. residents who intend to become terrorists *before* they've actually done anything, then figure out how the Constitution doesn't apply to them.
36.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
It was tongue in cheek. I should have put in the ellipses... I would like to see a gun ban for terrorists...:wink

It was more of a statement of them not realizing it was a terrorist hate crime on Christians.

"I don't have all the facts but..."
37.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
38.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2015
I assume most people here are following the anti-gun "terrorist watchlist" idiocy of the last few weeks, so I haven't said much about it or posted any links. But if things get slow around here I can be talked into it...LOL

Professor Popoff didn't waste any time hopping on this, nor did Hillary. I enjoy the commenters who are twisted enough to say prayers won't help, but in the next breath demand gun control for people who are aren't the problem.

Gun control to solve attacks by the type of people who are building pipe bombs is a whole 'nother level of rich, too, but if I say that out loud I'll be accused of bullying mental defectives.
39.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36781]Blessed are the cheesemakers.[/QUOTE]

They are gouda people.
40.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
:applause:
41.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36784]:applause:[/QUOTE]

That's it? Nothing about what a muenster I am?

That makes me bleu.
42.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;36785]That's it? Nothing about what a muenster I am?[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna go out on a limburger here, and say that stinks.


:wink
43.) DParker - 12/03/2015
OK, 'tis the season. Everybody sing:

"You cheddar not pout, you cheddar not cry...."
44.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[video=youtube;vJhq9eq_eJg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhq9eq_eJg[/video]
45.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
:-):-)
46.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
Wow, I posted that about 2 seconds too late.


You think you're holier than thow?
47.) Wild Bob - 12/03/2015
"You cheddar watch out,"

I [I]knew[/I] you were a Green Bay fan in disguise Blue...
48.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;36788]OK, 'tis the season. Everybody sing:

"You cheddar not pout, you cheddar not cry...."[/QUOTE]

That's a golden moldy.
49.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36791]Wow, I posted that about 2 seconds too late.


You think you're holier than though?[/QUOTE]

Holier than....

50.) DParker - 12/03/2015
So, when are you going to Monterrey, Jack?
51.) DParker - 12/03/2015
Thanks for turning into station KURD! Now, that old Beatles favorite....[I]Let it Brie[/I]....
52.) DParker - 12/03/2015
I don't care what cheeses you offer me. I'll Edam all.
53.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;36799]Thanks for turning into station KURD! Now, that old Beatles favorite....[I]Let it Brie[/I]....[/QUOTE]

Followed by the Ricky Lee Jones hit [I]Chuck E.'s in Love[/I]....
54.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2015
LOL...

Look who's on a roll....I mean a cracker...




Chuck E....:laugh:...I see what you did there. LMAO
55.) Wild Bob - 12/03/2015
He's a regular 'Cheese Whizz'. :beer:
56.) DParker - 12/03/2015
Yeah, but Swampy's an American Single.
57.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
Goodness gracious, you are all on fire.
58.) Wild Bob - 12/03/2015
Yea, but he's strangely quiet today. Is he in a sandwich, or perhaps in a pickle???
59.) DParker - 12/03/2015
BTW....my new favorite term is "assault-style clothing".

Carry on.
60.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=Wild Bob;36808]Yea, but he's strangely quiet today. Is he in a sandwich, or perhaps in a pickle???[/QUOTE]

He must have cut the... well you know.
61.) Wild Bob - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36810]He must have cut the... well you know.[/QUOTE]

:laugh: Keep 'em coming! This could carry on to compete with the pony/horse play thread...
62.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
That was a grate thread. :wink
63.) Wild Bob - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;36809]BTW....my new favorite term is "assault-style clothing".

Carry on.[/QUOTE]

I have a pair of 501's that could be in that catagory of clothing...everytime I put them on ; they assault my groin. :ek:
64.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
What cheese can you disguise a small horse with?

Wait for it.


No peeking.



Mascarpone
65.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
That thread was pasteurized a few months back.
66.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;36809]BTW....my new favorite term is "assault-style clothing".

Carry on.[/QUOTE]


LOL...I caught that yesterday at one of the news conferences. Are the talking heads using it?




[I]"You dirty rat!" the gagster yelled, firing his high-caliber military-style rifle with the shoulder thing that goes up.

Fortunately, the copper was wearing assault-style clothing, complete with bulletproof ceramic cheese plate.
[/I]
67.) Wild Bob - 12/03/2015
Yea, but this thread is going to take the Hoop!
68.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
69.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36812]That was a grate thread. :wink[/QUOTE]

He said without a shred of irony.
70.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;36814]What cheese can you disguise a small horse with?

Wait for it.


No peeking.



Mascarpone[/QUOTE]



There's no whey I could have come up with that one! :grin:
71.) bow-fishhunter - 12/03/2015
72.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;36822]There's no whey I could have come up with that one! :grin:[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;36819]He said without a shred of irony.[/QUOTE]

Very nice gentlemen.
73.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=bow-fishhunter;36823][/QUOTE]



The nerve of those Republicans bringing God into this. "Cheese and Rice"
74.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
Besides, God normally plays spades or golf during crises.
75.) DParker - 12/03/2015
76.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
:tu:

I can't do better than that.
77.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;36829][/QUOTE]

Although, it's not to be taken literally, it means any fermented and aged dairy products.
78.) bluecat - 12/03/2015
It truly takes a cottage.
79.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2015
So, with the prayer-shaming, we now know who is thick-headed AND desperate.


If we did some MRIs of their skulls, I'm pretty sure we'd find a rind.
80.) DParker - 12/03/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;36833]So, with the prayer-shaming, we now know who is thick-headed AND desperate.


If we did some MRIs of their skulls, I'm pretty sure we'd find a rind.[/QUOTE]

Which calls to mind the old joke, "They took some cranial x-rays, but they didn't find anything."
81.) Deerminator - 12/04/2015
Always play the God card.
82.) Wild Bob - 12/04/2015
DN...What a rag! Am I the only one that is offended by that cover (and I mean offended on multiple levels...:re:)
83.) Swamp Fox - 12/04/2015
No, lots of people up in arms about that cover, which follows on the [I]DN's[/I] outrage that anyone (read "Republicans" ) would oppose using a government watchlist (which a 14-year-old can understand is overly broad and provides no due process) to infringe on Constitutional rights.

Unfortunately, the type of people who read the [I]Daily News[/I] are not known for being smarter than a 5th grader.

Today's [I]DN[/I] cover includes Wayne LaPierre's picture in a photo lineup of what the paper calls terrorists. Since their definition of a "terrorist" seems pretty loose based on that array, it's safe to say we're not talking about a high level of intelligence at the paper compared to the readers, either, but that's not much comfort, is it?

They've gone full moron:



[url]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/daily-news-cover-calls-latest-045556109.html;_ylt=AwrBT7niu2FWrbkADTxXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--[/url]
84.) Swamp Fox - 12/04/2015
To circle back on the college thing I promised (I'm gonna coin the phrase "WTFU" as a catch-all for this category, where U stands for "university") and to piggyback on DParker's excellent comment in another thread that many times a parody of the news is better and better-done than the news coverage that inspired it, I submit this for your amazement:


[I]We, the Students of Hamilton College, demand the end of the inevitable tokenization of all marginalized bodies at Hamilton College. Hamilton College cannot continue to overwhelmingly perpetuate narratives that center whiteness, able-bodied individuals, colonization, heteronormativity, and cisnormativity. The faculty, administration, staff, and student body at Hamilton College almost ubiquitously encompass a single population that continues the exclusion of historically underrepresented communities.

This syndrome produces a methodically unfair system that inhibits these underrepresented bodies from thriving. It becomes the duty of these select few to educate the masses, a burden that these individuals should not carry. The demands below address the flaws within our Institution and demand the immediate changes that must come about for true “Diversity and Inclusion” to be achieved.

[/I]


This is NOT the parody or satire, in case you were wondering. This is real.


And it goes downhill from there...On, and on, and on downhill. There is a link to the entire pompous rant...er, I mean "declaration"...in the article linked below if you want to gaze upon it.



(As an aside, this reminds me of the illiterate manifesto submitted by students in a graduate school class, I believe, designed to help students write clearly. (If you call it a remedial class, be prepared for blowback.) The professor's editorial advice for a student's paper, that the word "indigenous" --as in "indigenous people(s)"-- should not be capitalized, was proclaimed a macro-/micro-/nano-/whatever-aggression, and it which triggered a poop storm which led to the elderly teacher's resignation IIRC. The writing contained in the manifesto spoke volumes, and proved the need for the class. How the authors made it to college, let alone grad school, is a mystery to me.)



But to get back on track, I hope this brightens your day:


[B][SIZE=3]Hamilton College Students’ List of Demands Doesn’t Go Nearly Far Enough

[/SIZE][/B]


[url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427894/hamilton-college-student-demands[/url]



^^^^^^This is the parody, LOL.
85.) DParker - 12/04/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;36886]But to get back on track, I hope this brightens your day:


[B][SIZE=3]Hamilton College Students’ List of Demands Doesn’t Go Nearly Far Enough

[/SIZE][/B]


[url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427894/hamilton-college-student-demands[/url]



^^^^^^This is the parody, LOL.[/QUOTE]

Is it wrong that I was a little turned on by the finger-pointing-angry-woman photo at the top of that article?


P.S.: That's a funny piece (the article, not the finger pointer).
86.) Wild Bob - 12/04/2015
Well, that doesn't surprise me for two reasons:

1) Hamilton is a Liberal Arts School
2) Hamilton is considered a 'Little Ivy League' School

The kids that go to those types of colleges don't tend to become the engineers, business majors, accountants, legal advisors, architects, designers, administrators or manufacturing gurus that drive our economy...

Rich trust fund kids that don’t have to earn a living seem to be the majority of the students at those types of colleges.

I'm not saying that ridiculous things don't go on at other non Ivy League schools as well, we all know they do. I'm just trying to point out that there are still two types of college kids; the ones that understand the importance of their education and then there are the spoiled, entitled ones that are just baggage.

Just my .2 cents, OK, I'll shut up now.
87.) DParker - 12/04/2015
[QUOTE=Wild Bob;36891]Just my .2 cents, OK, I'll shut up now.[/QUOTE]

Wow...you're only giving us 1/5 of a cent's worth? You're a cheap bastard, aren't you?

:wink
88.) Swamp Fox - 12/04/2015
"I've always wanted to pretend to be an architect"----George Costanza (to the best of my recollection)


Nothing wrong with a liberal arts school, or a liberal arts education. It should expose you to the great big world through the ages, and teach you to communicate clearly and think critically. Whether or where you can get that education these days is one question. And whether that's for everyone is another.

Ideally, you'd come out of high school with some of that, but I think we all know most don't.
89.) Wild Bob - 12/04/2015
Today...yes. :-)
90.) Wild Bob - 12/04/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;36896]"I've always want to pretend to be an architect"----George Costanza (to the best of my recollection)


Nothing wrong with a liberal arts school, or a liberal arts education. It should expose you to the great big world through the ages, and teach you to communicate clearly and think critically. Whether or where you can get that education these days is one question. And whether that's for everyone is another.

Ideally, you'd come out of high school with some of that, but I think we all know you don't.[/QUOTE]

Hey, I started out to become an architect (first two years of college in architecture school). Until I woke up and realized that for every successful, independent architect that made a comfortable living, there were 3 dozen more that struggled as draftsmen that got dumped on. Then I wised up and went in to Civil Engineering / Project Management...now I just get dumped on...:duh:
91.) Swamp Fox - 12/04/2015
:-)...
92.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2015
93.) luv2bowhunt - 12/07/2015

Posted by America, Hell Yeah on Saturday, May 23, 2015
94.) Wild Bob - 12/07/2015
:tu:

I'm sure if we just pass more gun control; it'll take care of terrorism. :re:
95.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2015
Very well done video. Thanks for posting that. Especially on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the day after that lackluster and frankly embarrassing speech by the President last night.

I have a commentary on 0's speech, which I wrote last night and am letting steep for the day. It's a blow-by-blow, including the full text of the speech, so it takes up a lot of space. I'll post it late tonight if I'm still up, or early tomorrow, when I can have a shot of posting it in sections over "contiguous" consecutive boxes. It will be easier to read that way, LOL. Perhaps one or two people will be interested. :tap::wink



BTW, I remember that Reagan speech being reprinted in a magazine in the early 80's. Reading it doesn't have the same effect on you as listening to it does. Neither does reading it in your early 20's vs. coming across it again after you've been out in the world a bit.

It's something like 50 years old, and still as relevant as it was when he gave it.

Timeless, even.
96.) billy b - 12/07/2015
Thanks L2, that was a real president.
97.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2015
Okay, before Luv2's post gets too old, let me ask a question that I've wondered for a long time.


One of the most famous lines in the Reagan speech is "You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery."


It appears that way in the transcript, too, so we know he didn't misspeak. But "know and do not believe" is such an odd phrase (unless it's a reference I don't get) that I've always wondered about it. The rest of the line is a reference to Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death speech.

So after much puzzling when I first read the speech, I came to think that what "know and do not believe" means is that we [B]know[/B] that some people are willing to trade liberty for peace and life, [B]but[/B] (rather than "and") [B]we[/B] don't [B]believe [I][COLOR="#FF0000"]in[/COLOR][/I][/B] that ourselves.

Do you think I'm right, or does anyone have a different interpretation?

"As to be" sounds awkward to my ear as well, but I think I get the gist. Maybe speech patterns when Reagan and his speechwriter were coming up just sound a little antiquated or airy today from time to time. I would have written it very slightly differently, to convey that life and peace are [B]sometimes [/B]purchased at the price of chains and slavery, but not always, because as I read it today it doesn't say that. But I would think that logically, that would be the point to be made.



[I]Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death![/I] ---Patrick Henry
98.) bluecat - 12/07/2015
I thought Obama was the greatest orator teleprompter reader of our time.
99.) DParker - 12/07/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37013]...and the day after that lackluster and frankly embarrassing speech by the President last night.[/QUOTE]

Are you kidding? That was a [B][I]great[/I][/B] speech! It was utterly devoid of substance, persuasion or any credible gun-control proposals...meaning that the predicted next wave of panic-buying is far less likely, and might actually be able to continue to find ammo and other goodies available on the shelves for a while longer.
100.) Wild Bob - 12/07/2015
"So after much puzzling when I first read the speech, I came to think that what "know and do not believe" means is that we know that some people are willing to trade liberty for peace and life, but we don't believe in that ourselves." - Swampy

That is essentially how I read and understand it.

I was talking with my mother earlier today (she is 86 now) and she was telling me it doesn’t seem possible that 74 years has passed since the December 7th that changed life so drastically. It really made me stop and think about how much has happened in the time since the beginning of World War II...
101.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2015
Actually, unrehearsed and when he isn't doing his stand-up comedy act, Obama's truly awful. Stammering incoherence is being charitable oftentimes.

Of course, he sometimes likes to do his routine when talking about serious matters as well. So many insults for Republicans, so little time. He's pretty slick at that.

But I really don't know where his reputation as a great speaker came from in the first place, even off a telepropmter. His sing-song, nose-in-the-air lectures just tie my stomcach in a knot to the point that I can seldom watch or listen to him. I usually have to read his speeches to maintain calm.

I realize the media that pumped up the quality of his oratory were/are in love with him, but objectively there are plenty of speakers better than 0.
102.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;37059]Are you kidding? That was a [B][I]great[/I][/B] speech! It was utterly devoid of substance, persuasion or any credible gun-control proposals...meaning that the predicted next wave of panic-buying is far less likely, and might actually be able to continue to find ammo and other goodies available on the shelves for a while longer.[/QUOTE]


LOL...Always look on the bright side of life. :wink
103.) DParker - 12/07/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37061]I realize the media that pumped up the quality of his oratory were/are in love with him...[/QUOTE]



Now...just [I]try[/I] to get to sleep tonight.
104.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2015
Aaaaach!:laugh:
105.) DParker - 12/07/2015
106.) bluecat - 12/07/2015
nice rack
107.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2015
The look on her face is just perfect!


You can almost see the tingle running up her leg. LOL
108.) luv2bowhunt - 12/08/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37057]"You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery."

[I]Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death![/I] ---Patrick Henry[/QUOTE]

Here's how it reads to me - "You and I [I][B]know[/B][/I] that life is not so dear and peace so sweet, that we would keep them at the cost of chains and slavery."

"You and I [B][I]don't believe [/I][/B]that life is so dear and peace so sweet we are willing to purchase them at the price of chains and slavery."



He's using both the positive and negative argument to make the same point. I'm glad you weren't writing it. It's perfect the way it was presented and needs no editing.
109.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2015
LOL...

Considering that someone just edited it so he could explain it to me, I'd say maybe the benefit of editing is not 100% off the table. :wink

You put in an extra "not" in your first interpretation instead of channeling the original quote as-is, whereas I'm going to interpret below without adding or taking away positive or negatives. I do add an imagined third party to the negotiation, though, whereas you have found a way that you think limits the thought to just the "You and I" the author actually speaks of.

So you add something to the plain language and I do, too. Your addition is a word, while mine is a spirit. I think that means it's possible we're both right in our interpretations, or both wrong. LOL

I'll think some more about it and see if I come to agree with you and disagree with myself (What are the chances?!? :-)) because I can see just a bit of merit to your reading and think it's worth pondering a little longer.

("Well now you're just being conciliatory!" :wink:-):wink)


I think you'll see where we differ in our readings. At least I hope so, LOL.

Here's how I get something different out of it than you do:

The original: [I][B]You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.[/B][/I]


On the first thought that the line inspires, here's you: [I]You and I know that life is [B]not [/B]so dear and peace so sweet, that we would keep them at the cost of chains and slavery.
[/I]
Here's me: [I]You and I know that [B][I]some[/I][/B] consider life so dear and peace so sweet that they would purchase them at the price of chains and slavery.[/I]


On the second inspiration, here's you: [I]You and I don't believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet we are willing to purchase them at the price of chains and slavery.
[/I]
Here's me: [I]You and I do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

[/I]


Just for the record: I actually [I]llke[/I] the original phrasing for its beauty. I just find it a little odd, and possibly a trade-off between being poetically airy (light, flowing, energizing) and being immediately accessible, clear and precise. I mean, if the two of us are fighting about it on the internet, what does that say? :wink:wave:
110.) luv2bowhunt - 12/08/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37099]I mean, if the two of us are fighting about it on the internet, what does that say? :wink:wave:[/QUOTE]

Fighting??

Now come on Chris. You've known me long enough to know when I'm fighting or when I'm just talking.:wink




PS - You are stupid.
111.) luv2bowhunt - 12/08/2015
On a serious note, it says: "[B][I]You and I know and do not believe[/I][/B]..."

My interpretation (which is what I thought you wanted).......

.....You and I know............and..[.and here comes what we know.]........'WE' [I][B]do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.[/B][/I]

I think it was meant to be that simple. I think (as usual) you are trying to muddy the waters. Which is you being you.:wave:
112.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2015
I'll go back and re-read. Either too much coffee today or too little.

I think I got what you were saying the first time, but give me a while, LOL.



"You and I know and do not believe that HuntingCountry is a hunting website..."


See my issue?


But give me some more time to think some more. Dangerous, I know. :-) But I'm spinning a bunch of plates today... :beer:
113.) luv2bowhunt - 12/08/2015
"You and I know and do not believe that HuntingCountry is worth the price of chains and slavery Alex has placed on us."


That would be more of what Reagan was saying. See the difference. It's more that just a simple 'we know and do not believe X'.


But........wait for it..................................who really.....................nah.......not gonna do it.
114.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2015
Ah!

Maybe we are not understanding "as to be purchased by chains and slavery" the same way, then.


Let me continue to work on it. I can't really concentrate on deep internet forum thoughts right now.

I know...A first attempt, right? LOL
115.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2015
Okay, I'm making progress. I think I'm seeing what you're seeing. Not sure I agree with it, but I'm a lot closer , and I'm not done yet.. :-)


I've had six hours of sleep in two days, so maybe that has something to do with my problem, LOL.
116.) Wild Bob - 12/08/2015
No, you'll never see as Luv too see's; that is like comparing Yoda to an ewok. :-) :p
117.) Swamp Fox - 12/09/2015
How about Larry to Curly? That's more my speed. :-)


Nyuck nyuck nyuck...
118.) bluecat - 12/09/2015


:wink
119.) bluecat - 12/09/2015
[QUOTE=luv2bowhunt;37112]"You and I know and do not believe that HuntingCountry is worth the price of chains and slavery Alex has placed on us."


That would be more of what Reagan was saying. See the difference. It's more that just a simple 'we know and do not believe X'.


But........wait for it..................................who really.....................nah.......not gonna do it.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37116]Ah!

Maybe we are not understanding "as to be purchased by chains and slavery" the same way, then.


Let me continue to work on it. I can't really concentrate on deep internet forum thoughts right now.

I know...A first attempt, right? LOL[/QUOTE]





:wink
120.) Swamp Fox - 12/09/2015
The People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front...LOL


Splitters!


:wink
121.) bluecat - 12/09/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37145]The People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front...LOL


Splitters!


:wink[/QUOTE]

I'm just here for the wolf nipple chips.
122.) bluecat - 12/09/2015
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/08/burglary-suspect-hides-in-florida-lake-where-gator-eats-him/[/url]


A suspected burglar jumped in a Florida lake apparently hiding from law enforcement before an 11-foot alligator killed him, investigators said Monday. His hand and foot reportedly turned up inside the animal's stomach.

The alligator that killed a suspected burglar in Florida. (Brevard County Sheriff's Office)

Brevard County Sheriff's Maj. Tod Goodyear says 22-year-old Matthew Riggins told his girlfriend he would be in Barefoot Bay to commit burglaries with another suspect. Authorities received calls Nov. 13 about two suspicious men in black walking behind homes and investigated. Riggins was reported missing the next day.

Goodyear said sheriff's divers recovered Riggins' body 10 days later in a nearby lake, and that the injuries suggested the alligator had pulled him below the surface. [B]"He hid in the wrong place," resident Laura Farris told Bay News 9.[/B]


I'm thinking he hid in the perfect place.
123.) Wild Bob - 12/09/2015
Here is an interesting (yet scary!) read about the status of the American Middle Class.

[url]http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/[/url]

It is a current release from the Pew Research Center...I'm posting this because it ties directly to the dialogue between me and Swampy last week on this thread as well as another thread regarding higher education and college.
124.) Swamp Fox - 12/09/2015
Hey, WB...Great link. Got a lot out of it, and I've only skimmed it so far.



Bluecat, you beat me to it, :-) ----That's one way to take a bite out of crime. :wink


I want to see what his girlfriend looks like. LOL
125.) bluecat - 12/10/2015
Burglar: "Honey, I'm going to be out late tonight robbing and pillaging."

Hot brainless girlfriend: "Okay dear, be safe."
126.) Swamp Fox - 12/10/2015
.......
127.) DParker - 12/10/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37220].......[/QUOTE]

Not guilty!!!
128.) Swamp Fox - 12/10/2015
LOL!


:pop:
129.) bluecat - 12/10/2015
How do you accidentally kill one bear over your limit of one? I know she's from Kansas so she was using fingers and toes to count but...
130.) Swamp Fox - 12/10/2015
From what I gather, it was a case of botching a follow-up shot. Lost the first animal in the scope and accidentally shot a second, mistaking it for the first.
131.) bluecat - 12/10/2015
I wondered about that.
132.) Swamp Fox - 12/15/2015
I missed this from a few days ago. I guess in all the genius from 0 and Hill and the other usual suspects over the last couple of weeks, it got buried.

When you can't even keep up with the most basic of the laws on the books, maybe there's something wrong that more laws aren't going to fix. Just thinking out loud here.

At least he gave an honest answer. I can only imagine how some others with no more of a clue would have replied.


133.) bluecat - 12/15/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37274]I missed this from a few days ago. I guess in all the genius from 0 and Hill and the other usual suspects over the last couple of weeks, it got buried.

When you can't even keep up with the most basic of the laws on the books, maybe there's something wrong that more laws aren't going to fix. Just thinking out loud here.

At least he gave an honest answer. I can only imagine how some others with no more of a clue would have replied.


[/QUOTE]

Wow! I guess if you are trying to "close the internet loophole" you might want to know if it exists. Too pathetic to even laugh.
134.) Wild Bob - 12/16/2015
Yea, I agree...

But the expressions on the faces of his two compadres directly behind him on either side are priceless! :lol:
135.) Bob Peck - 12/16/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;37221]Not guilty!!![/QUOTE]

Agreed.

I'll be PC here where normally I wouldn't. Let's say she is book smart and no shrinking violet. Her Dad is retired Army Col. Mark Vail. She's run the 26-mile Bataan Memorial Death March twice. Theresa serves as a Sargent in the Kansas Army National Guard Medical Detachment as a dental technician (yeah, I know) but let's just say she does exactly what she's told and often without thinking.

In Army Times from 04/14 she states openly:
"I’ve never been elk hunting. I’ve never been bear hunting. But I’m not afraid to say, “Let me try it. Let me go do it.”

Knowing the laws first hand, doing your homework, using common sense and relying on no one (except the guide to get you in front of the animal) is the only way to make sure you don't get caught in a bad spot. I bet the outfitter takes the fall and she skates without a legal scratch.
136.) Bob Peck - 12/16/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;37221]Not guilty!!![/QUOTE]

Agreed.

I'll be PC here where normally I wouldn't. Let's just say she is book smart and no shrinking violet. Her Dad is retired Army Col. Mark Vail. She's run the 26-mile Bataan Memorial Death March twice. Theresa serves as a Sargent in the Kansas Army National Guard Medical Detachment as a dental technician (yeah, I know) but let's just say she does exactly what she's told and often without thinking.

In Army Times from 04/14 she states openly:
"I’ve never been elk hunting. I’ve never been bear hunting. But I’m not afraid to say, “Let me try it. Let me go do it.”

Knowing the laws first hand, doing your homework, using common sense and relying on no one (except the guide to get you in front of the animal) is the only way to make sure you don't get caught in a bad spot. I bet the outfitter takes the fall and she skates without a legal scratch.
137.) Swamp Fox - 12/16/2015
I would think she'd at least get dinged for making false statements on any tags/forms she signed or punched, but I think odds are that the outfitter faces more and/or stiffer charges. I think it's in court now, or soon. My guess is a small fine for her and a bigger fine for him. He didn't sound too worried about it in the video.


I haven't heard about this one blowing up Facebook or Twitter, oddly enough, so maybe the Internet Social Justice Warriors don't watch George Snuffleupagus...
138.) bluecat - 12/16/2015
[QUOTE=Bob Peck;37279]Agreed.

I'll be PC here where normally I wouldn't. Let's just say she is book smart and no shrinking violet. Her Dad is retired Army Col. Mark Vail. She's run the 26-mile Bataan Memorial Death March twice. Theresa serves as a Sargent in the Kansas Army National Guard Medical Detachment as a dental technician (yeah, I know) but let's just say she does exactly what she's told and often without thinking.

In Army Times from 04/14 she states openly:
"I’ve never been elk hunting. I’ve never been bear hunting. But I’m not afraid to say, “Let me try it. Let me go do it.”

Knowing the laws first hand, doing your homework, using common sense and relying on no one (except the guide to get you in front of the animal) is the only way to make sure you don't get caught in a bad spot. I bet the outfitter takes the fall and she skates without a legal scratch.[/QUOTE]

Only DParker knows for sure but I interpreted his "Not guilty" in a little different way. I interpreted it more as a statement of "I don't care what she did, that gal is gorgeous" than of any legal transgressions.
139.) DParker - 12/16/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;37297]Only DParker knows for sure but I interpreted his "Not guilty" in a little different way. I interpreted it more as a statement of "I don't care what she did, that gal is gorgeous" than of any legal transgressions.[/QUOTE]

How [I]DARE[/I] you suggest that I would be so shallow and chauvinistic as to evaluate a woman's actions based on her physical attractiveness!!! Why, I'll have you know that.........



Oh, wait....that's exactly what I meant. Never mind. :grin:
140.) bluecat - 12/17/2015
She can sit on my jury anytime!
141.) Swamp Fox - 12/17/2015
This is rich: [I]NY Times [/I]report on Defense Secretary Ash Carter's occasional early use of private email for gov't business.


Buried in the middle of the article is this fanciful claim (emphasis mine):


"[I]It is not clear how many work-related emails Mr. Carter sent and received from his personal account. Mrs. Clinton has said she sent and received roughly 30,000 work-related emails exclusively on her personal account over the four years she was secretary of state. [B]There was no prohibition at the State Department on the exclusive use of a private server, although the practice was highly unusual.[/B][/I]"




Far, far away, way down toward the end of the somewhat lengthy piece, we find this, if we're still reading (Again, emphasis mine.):




"[I]The email practices of senior administration officials have come under increased scrutiny since the disclosures about Mrs. Clinton’s private account. An inspector general has said there was classified “Top Secret” information on Mrs. Clinton’s private account — [B]having classified government material outside a secure government account is illegal [/B]— and the F.B.I. is investigating.

[/I]"




Not the most blatant obfuscation, misdirection and butt-covering for the administration and Clinton in particular that you'll ever see, but I thought it was of some interest on a slow HuntingCountry news day.


[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/us/politics/defense-secretary-ashton-carter-conducted-some-official-business-on-a-personal-email-account.html?_r=0[/url]
142.) bluecat - 12/17/2015
:Yawn

Ain't nothing gonna happen
143.) Swamp Fox - 12/17/2015
I think the latest news will shake things up a little after Christmas, assuming Trump and terrorism don't have more eruptions on the scale that the media is handling now. That's not to say the wheels of justice will turn with Obama in the WH and a loyal Dem AG. but...



[url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/15/sources-review-affirms-clinton-server-emails-were-top-secret-despite-department-challenge.html[/url]



[url]https://reason.com/archives/2015/12/17/top-secret-materials-among-hillarys-lost[/url]
144.) bluecat - 12/17/2015
Don't you see what you're doing? You're getting my hopes up. Don't mess with my fragile emotions. I won't be able to take another let down. :co:
145.) bluecat - 12/17/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;37309]She can sit on my jury anytime![/QUOTE]

Man that one didn't land.
146.) Swamp Fox - 12/17/2015
[B][SIZE=3]Move Over, GunBroker.com[/SIZE][/B]


There's a new fireams marketplace in town....I wonder if Jonathan Gruber and Zeke Emanuel had anything to do with this egg-heads' Turkish bazaar?

Guess which party the legislation's sponsor belongs to?


[I]Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act, which was reintroduced this week by Rep. Donald Payne Jr. [Party affiliation and state redacted for your discussion and amusement] is the latest attempt by [political party redacted] to address gun violence. The bill has 22 co-sponsors.

"Although no one piece of legislation will eliminate all gun violence, this bill will get guns off the streets and keep them out of the hands of people who wish to cause harm,” Payne said. "If we can get one gun off the street, if we can save one life, then we have to take action.”

The voluntary gun buyback proposal resembles legislation offered by earlier this year by Rep. Rosa DeLauro [Party affilaiation and state redacted] that sought to pay gun owners to turn over assault weapons to the federal government.

Both pieces of legislation are virtually certain to go nowhere in the [party identification redacted]-controlled Congress.

[B]As part of Payne's $360 million gun buyback initiative, the Justice Department would pay gun owners a premium of 25 percent more than the market value of their firearms.
[/B][/I]

[Emphasis mine.]




As part of the brilliance of this bill, you don't get 25 % more cash than you would in a normal sale, because then you could just sell these clowns your old unwanted guns and buy firearms and ammo you want more. No, they've thought of that. So the brain-trust proposes to give you a debit card that you can use on pretty much whatever you want, but which disallows spending on guns and ammo.


That seems like it will work. It's not like anybody has any cash or credit to buy guns with once they've bought their groceries with the Genius Party debit card.



[url]http://thehill.com/regulation/263632-democrats-want-to-buy-your-guns[/url]
147.) bluecat - 12/17/2015
"If we can get one gun off the street, if we can save one life, then we have to take action.”


Yeah, the life of the criminal.
148.) Swamp Fox - 12/17/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;37331]Man that one didn't land.[/QUOTE]


Maybe if you'd worked handcuffs and women's prison in there somehow...


:wink
149.) bluecat - 12/17/2015
Well the judge did say "all rise".
150.) bluecat - 12/17/2015
She'll probably be sentenced to washing the dusty car while the chain gang looks on...
151.) Swamp Fox - 12/17/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;37333]"If we can get one gun off the street, if we can save one life, then we have to take action.”


Yeah, the life of the criminal.[/QUOTE]



Some people have a tendency to shoot first and aim later, but they tend not to know who they are...


152.) DParker - 12/17/2015
[quote]"Although no one piece of legislation will eliminate all gun violence, this bill will get guns off the streets and keep them out of the hands of people who wish to cause harm,”[/quote]

Because if there's one thing we know criminals "who wish to cause harm" can be motivated by it's a chance to give up the tool of their trade for a 25%-over-market profit.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37332]It's not like anybody has any cash or credit to buy guns with once they've bought their groceries with the Genius Party debit card.[/QUOTE]

Someone please forward this link to the morons behind that bright idea: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility"]Wikipedia: Fungibility[/URL]
153.) DParker - 12/17/2015
BTW...how does .gov "buy back" something that it never sold?
154.) Swamp Fox - 12/18/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37332]
That seems like it will work. It's not like anybody has any cash or credit to buy guns with once they've bought their groceries with the Genius Party debit card.

[/QUOTE]



[QUOTE=DParker;37338] Someone please forward this link to the morons behind that bright idea: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility"]Wikipedia: Fungibility[/URL][/QUOTE]




Also, keep an eye out for the economists on our side who will oppose this because "It will create a black market for these debit cards." I'm sure they'll make an appearance somewhere.

If the cards truly can be used for anything except guns and ammo, I don't see a whole lot of people paying face value-- much less a premium--or anticipate many stupid enough to sell at a discount, LOL.


There's a reason you shouldn't get out of high school without as good a grasp of Econ 101 as you have on getting a condom over a cucumber.
155.) Swamp Fox - 12/18/2015
[QUOTE=DParker;37339]BTW...how does .gov "buy back" something that it never sold?[/QUOTE]


They can do anything they want, since it's not their money...LOL :tap: LOL



Or should that be :tap: LOL :tap: ?
156.) Wild Bob - 12/22/2015
So I'm going to change the immediate topic a bit; but it is a current event that is huge. (However, this event is not a derogatory, shit-flinging political topic, so most of the media is not putting it first and foremost. As usual, anything that is not inflammatory and negative seems to get second page coverage at best…which IMHO, is a mistake, because this development will have profound effects on the future of the world. But I save that rant for another day…)

Anyway, has anyone been following SpaceX and their company's program? (SpaceX is a space delivery company.) If you haven't; you should do a little reading up on them...[U]huge [/U]development within the last couple of days as they have achieved getting the first stage rocket back to earth and successfully landing it. They've suffered some set backs in the past, but this latest development is tremendous and will push further developments into space exploration and eventual colonization.

Hang tight Luv2…you’ll be building highways on Mars, and I’ll be constructing ‘gravity free’ sewer and water systems LOL. :lol:

Or rather, our kids probably will be doing that.
157.) Swamp Fox - 12/22/2015
Not sure I want to be around when they do the initial testing on the gravity-free sewer system...LOL


I knew Space X was having problems, but I don't pay a lot of attention to outer space...(LOL...cue the friendly teasing) ...

I mean, discovering Tang was pretty cool, but otherwise I'm pretty busy with life on this planet.




I've got some suggestions of people we could send into space, but it's disappointing to hear that now they might be able to get back...
158.) DParker - 12/22/2015
Things like SpaceX are the future of commercial (and to some extent even government) use of Earth-orbit space, so I wish them all the best.

But someone's going to have to develop something a LOT faster before I move to Mars, no matter how good your low-G sewer system is. There's no way I'll be able to get Amazon 2-Day Prime shipping using chemical rocket engine technology.
159.) Swamp Fox - 12/22/2015
Maybe we could get Ahmed on that...

I mean get him on the alternate engine technology...Although getting him on a one-way rocket to a distant galaxy would be fine, too...:wink
160.) DParker - 12/22/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37475]Maybe we could get Ahmed on that...

I mean get him on the alternate engine technology...Although getting him on a one-way rocket to a distant galaxy would be fine, too...:wink[/QUOTE]

Well, he's already moved to Qatar, so....tomato, tomAHto....
161.) Swamp Fox - 12/22/2015
If Wild Bob could get his kids to invent a radio or a record player or something like that, maybe they too could get a free-ride education in a Middle Eastern country...LOL


That would solve a lot of WB's problems. :wink




Then if he could just figure out a way to get them arrested so he can sue for, oh, say, 15 million dollars, he'd be all set.
162.) bluecat - 12/22/2015
I would be happy just to tour the White House on the taxpayers dime.
163.) Swamp Fox - 12/22/2015
Well, Barack seems to have been touring the White House for seven years now on our dime, so there's probably no reason they can't let you in for a few hours...LOL
164.) bluecat - 12/22/2015
LOL! Interestingly I tried to go in June and contacted our state representative. We did not give them enough advance notice apparently. Our representative did arrange for a guided tour of the capitol building which was really neat. It just pained me to hear that he had a free tour of the White House without hassle.
165.) Wild Bob - 12/22/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37479]If Wild Bob could get his kids to invent a radio or a record player or something like that, maybe they too could get a free-ride education in a Middle Eastern country...LOL


That would solve a lot of WB's problems. :wink




Then if he could just figure out a way to get them arrested so he can sue for, oh, say, 15 million dollars, he'd be all set.[/QUOTE]

Sheesh...I didn't realize I had so many problems (do you know something I don't???)

My kids are going to be just fine thank you. They started their 1st day of Christmas Vacation this morning...So I left them something to watch over their morning coffee/hot chocolate. Which was this:



My wife told me later that they were both 'Glued' to all 19 + minutes of Admiral McRaven's speech. When I ran home for lunch, they were both very eager to show me their completed chore lists. Oh, and by the way, their beds were made. (Not that that, is anything new...but it was great reinforcement for what Mom and Dad are always harping on...)
166.) Swamp Fox - 12/22/2015
Let's face it...If Obama invited you to the White House, the best part would be the opportunity to kick him in the shins...



I mean, I know the tour would be interesting and all, but...
167.) bluecat - 12/22/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37494]Let's face it...If Obama invited you to the White House, the best part would be the opportunity to kick him in the shins...



I mean, I know the tour would be interesting and all, but...[/QUOTE]

I wanted to see the oral office.
168.) Swamp Fox - 12/22/2015
I want a couple of kids to complete my chore list...
169.) bluecat - 12/22/2015
[QUOTE=Wild Bob;37492]Sheesh...I didn't realize I had so many problems (do you know something I don't???)

My kids are going to be just fine thank you. They started their 1st day of Christmas Vacation this morning...So I left them something to watch over their morning coffee/hot chocolate. Which was this:



My wife told me later that they were both 'Glued' to all 19 + minutes of Admiral McRaven's speech. When I ran home for lunch, they were both very eager to show me their completed chore lists. Oh, and by the way, their beds were made. (Not that that, is anything new...but it was great reinforcement for what Mom and Dad are always harping on...)[/QUOTE]

Very inspirational WB. Thanks for sharing.
170.) Wild Bob - 12/22/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;37496]I want a couple of kids to complete my chore list...[/QUOTE]

You miss the point; those are [U]their[/U] chores - not mine. I still have mine. :-)
171.) bluecat - 12/22/2015
I see these inspirational military guys and gals and wonder why they can't be leading our nation instead of Urkel.
172.) Swamp Fox - 12/22/2015
[QUOTE=Wild Bob;37498]You miss the point; those are [U]their[/U] chores - not mine. I still have mine. :-)[/QUOTE]


Have you considered that you might be doing it wrong, then? :wink
173.) DParker - 12/22/2015
[QUOTE=bluecat;37499]I see these inspirational military guys and gals and wonder why they can't be leading our nation instead of Urkel.[/QUOTE]

There's still hope!

[video=youtube;BqpJvey-7-s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqpJvey-7-s[/video]
174.) bluecat - 12/22/2015
That's a good one!
175.) Swamp Fox - 08/24/2016
A biologist, a psychiatrist and a rodeo clown walk in to a Porta-Potty store:



[I]"Everybody in here who's really sure they're a boy raise your hand," said Hodges. "If you can tinkle on a fire you go to the boys room, if you can't, you go to the girls room, right?"

[...]

Fair organizers encourage anyone disturbed by the comments to contact them directly or on the Calhoun County Fair Facebook page.
[/I]



[url]http://www.wilx.com/content/news/Rodeo-clown-fired-for-comments-about-gender-identity-at-Calhoun-Co-fair-390965081.html[/url]
176.) bluecat - 08/24/2016
This is going down a slippery slope where rodeo clowns, entertainers, comedians, armchair quarterbacks, story tellers, haiku writers, water cooler conversationalists, jesters, archery forum antagonists cannot work their craft.

:laugh: :fire: :shh: :pop: :bad:
177.) Swamp Fox - 08/24/2016
To say nothing of the Judean People's Front, and old ladies...:wink



[I]"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say "Ni" at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land...Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history."
[/I]
178.) bluecat - 08/24/2016
LOL!

For the record: It's the People's Front of Judea. :wink
179.) bluecat - 08/24/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43338]A biologist, a psychiatrist and a rodeo clown walk in to a Porta-Potty store: [/QUOTE]

The biologist looked at the sales clerk and asked if the waste structure was accommodating for both small and large intestine evacuations.

The psychiatrist wanted to know if the storekeeper loved his mother and if his current profession wasn't sublimation for a deep-seated desire for the potty training that didn't come from his mother because she was never there.

The rodeo clown said, "Hey, let's potty like it's 1999!" all the while snapping his big purple suspenders and kicking his huge flipper feet.
180.) bluecat - 08/24/2016
181.) bluecat - 08/25/2016
I should get at least a half a point for the image of the "big purple suspenders". :-)
182.) Swamp Fox - 08/25/2016
What do you think this is...The Clinton Foundation?


Supreme comedic power derives from a guffaw from the belly, not from some farcical erratic charity. :wink



I'm more inclined to give you a whole point for Obama In A Barrel. :wink





183.) bluecat - 08/25/2016
Okay okay, I'll stop groveling. :-)
184.) DParker - 08/25/2016
I mean, if I went around sayin' I was a comedian just because some moistened bint had lobbed a donation check at me they'd put me away!
185.) Swamp Fox - 08/25/2016
Supreme comedic power derives from a guffaw from the belly, not from some farcical erratic charity. :wink



I'm more inclined to give you a whole point for Obama In A Barrel. :wink
186.) DParker - 08/25/2016
Headline: Crab auditions for role in local production of [I]West Side Story[/I]

[video=youtube;0QaAKi0NFkA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QaAKi0NFkA[/video]

"You're not putting MY ass in any boiling water!"
187.) Swamp Fox - 08/25/2016
LOL...You two!


:grin:
188.) Swamp Fox - 08/25/2016
"Stay back! I'm a Ginsu Master!"
189.) Swamp Fox - 09/08/2016
Not one mention in this article that Trump, Clinton and Kaine have been all over around here lately:


[B][SIZE=2]Reports of Creepy Clowns Spread to More Cities: 'It Is Not Funny,' Police Say[/SIZE][/B]


[I]There have been reports of more clowns in more cities spotted lurking in the woods.

In the past month, police in the Carolinas have received multiple reports from people claiming clowns with white-painted faces were acting strangely in the area – at least once attempting to lure kids into the woods with money.

The reports have fueled speculation that the sightings could be a hoax, or possibly even morbid fans trying to promote the 2017 movie release of Stephen King's It, about an evil clown known as Pennywise that terrorized a group of young boys.

One local TV station wondered if Rob Zombie's upcoming film, about a group of kidnapped carnival workers, might be involved in guerrilla marketing – but the distributor said they were not.



[/I]


[url]https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/reports-creepy-clowns-spread-more-194145243.html[/url]
190.) bluecat - 09/08/2016
191.) Swamp Fox - 09/08/2016
Personally, I've been doing more fishing than anything in the woods lately, so I want to go on record as saying I've had nothing to do with this...
192.) bluecat - 09/08/2016
So what you're saying is that if we conducted a routine traffic stop we wouldn't find some big floppy shoes underneath the seat?
193.) bluecat - 09/08/2016
Mr. Clown I'd like to introduce you to Gaston Glock, Gaston Glock meet Mr. Clown.
194.) Swamp Fox - 09/08/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;43668]So what you're saying is that if we conducted a routine traffic stop we wouldn't find some big floppy shoes underneath the seat?[/QUOTE]


LOL...

Maybe some forgotten breakfast bars and a few old Bojangles wrappers, but no floppy shoes...:-)
195.) bluecat - 09/08/2016
Isn't this where Deerminator comes in and says "Clowns taste funny"?
196.) Swamp Fox - 09/08/2016
:laugh:


That would be one of his better jokes, LOL...


Where is he, by the way? I hope he's okay.
197.) DParker - 09/08/2016
198.) bluecat - 09/08/2016
:-):-)
199.) bluecat - 09/08/2016
200.) Swamp Fox - 09/08/2016
LOL...
201.) Swamp Fox - 09/13/2016
[B][SIZE=5][COLOR="#A52A2A"]BOO![/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]



202.) bluecat - 09/13/2016
That is not right.
203.) Swamp Fox - 09/13/2016
I was in my late 20's before I knew anybody was scared of clowns.

I had a client whose kid was terrified of them. I mean six or seven years-old and just scared witless. I almost laughed when they told me about it. Don't ask me how it came up in conversation, LOL.
204.) DParker - 09/13/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43895][B][SIZE=5][COLOR="#A52A2A"]BOO![/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]



[/QUOTE]

Not a jury in the world would convict me.
205.) bow-fishhunter - 09/13/2016
[video=youtube;LsNApGxEfQY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNApGxEfQY[/video]
206.) Jon - 09/14/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43898]I was in my late 20's before I knew anybody was scared of clowns.

I had a client whose kid was terrified of them. I mean six or seven years-old and just scared witless. I almost laughed when they told me about it. Don't ask me how it came up in conversation, LOL.[/QUOTE]

Swampy, when you say "client", what do you actually mean? I mean some business guys have clients that they take to lunch and try to sell stuff to, some drug dealers have clients but what are your clients actually about?
207.) bluecat - 09/14/2016
:pop:
208.) bluecat - 09/14/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43895][B][SIZE=5][COLOR="#A52A2A"]BOO![/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]



[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DParker;43900]Not a jury in the world would convict me.[/QUOTE]

Looks like you even have an 'X' ring.
209.) Swamp Fox - 09/14/2016
[QUOTE=Jon;43906]Swampy, when you say "client", what do you actually mean? I mean some business guys have clients that they take to lunch and try to sell stuff to, some drug dealers have clients but what are your clients actually about?[/QUOTE]



I have nunchuck clients, bowhunting clients, computer hacking clients...I only want clients who have great skills.
210.) bluecat - 09/14/2016
...and huge tracts of land.
211.) Swamp Fox - 09/14/2016
That WOULD be nice...LOL.
212.) Jon - 09/14/2016
I knew you'd skirt the answer with movie quotes
213.) Swamp Fox - 09/14/2016
Jon, I sent you a PM.
214.) bluecat - 09/14/2016
Full disclosure Swampy. We want transparency here.
215.) Swamp Fox - 09/14/2016
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!!!
216.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
[I]Welcome to Swampy's Lobster Shop---"Claws You Want the Very Best"

Pricing Policy:

Live Fresh-Caught: $10/lb.

Re-tail (Returned to the sea): $20/lb. (covers extra time, wages and fuel)


[/I]
217.) bluecat - 12/01/2016
I'll see your fat lobster and raise you some fat-laced money.


[B]Vegetarians Are Not Happy About The UK’s New Animal Fat-Filled Money[/B]

Strict vegetarians in the United Kingdom may find their currency options becoming more limited.
The Bank of England said on Twitter Sunday that the new plastic £5 note, which entered circulation in September, contains “trace” amounts of animal fat in the form of tallow.

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uk-money-animal-fat_us_583df2d9e4b0ae0e7cda75bb[/url]
218.) bluecat - 12/01/2016
I'll see your fat lobster and raise you some fat-laced money.


[B]Vegetarians Are Not Happy About The UK’s New Animal Fat-Filled Money[/B]

Strict vegetarians in the United Kingdom may find their currency options becoming more limited.
The Bank of England said on Twitter Sunday that the new plastic £5 note, which entered circulation in September, contains “trace” amounts of animal fat in the form of tallow.

An online petition is demanding that the bank stop using tallow in the bill’s production, noting it could be a problem for millions of vegetarians, including those, like Jains and some Hindus, who eschew meat for religious reasons. As of Tuesday, the petition had more than 65,000 signatures.

Some Hindu leaders in the U.K. are planning to discuss banning the new notes from temples, the BBC reports.

The Bank of England is touting the new notes, which feature former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as being stronger, longer lasting and more secure than paper money. They plan to roll out a polymer 10-pound note, featuring author Jane Austen, in 2017 and a new 20-pound note featuring artist JMW Turner by 2020.

UPDATE: Nov. 11 ― The Bank of England has said they are looking into “potential solutions” to the animal fat problem, according to the BBC.

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uk-money-animal-fat_us_583df2d9e4b0ae0e7cda75bb[/url]
219.) bluecat - 12/01/2016
Warning, if you are on blood pressure medication, you may want to reconsider.

220.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
LOL...


The BBC link at that article is pretty interesting. It's amazing how much bowing and scraping people will do for a few loonies who sign an on-line petition.
221.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;45758]Warning, if you are on blood pressure medication, you may want to reconsider.

[/QUOTE]



I saw that one. Tucker Carlson's interviews on that show are always good. I think I've only missed one since he's been on. Most people don't get away without a severe butt-whipping.

As far as that guy goes, he's an idiot and a blatant liar from a far corner of the left, but it's good to see what's out there.
222.) bluecat - 12/01/2016
Tucker is a good egg.
223.) DParker - 12/01/2016
I think the real question that Carlson failed to ask here is: Did the cop shoot Stabby McStabberson using a gun with the shoulder thing that goes up?
224.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
I remember that interview, too...LOL


225.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
[B]Swedish Christmas Goat Torched For 35th Time In 50 Years[/B]


LOL----









[url]http://video.foxnews.com/v/5230813547001/?#sp=show-clips[/url]
226.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
There's an embed option there, but I can't get it to work. :tap:
227.) bluecat - 12/01/2016
That is a fine tradition.
228.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
Mead shot out my nose when the Three Little Pigs and the Vandals came up...LOL

That show is very funny, BTW, if you're just seeing it for the first time there.
229.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
Oh, now the embed wants to work. That's weird. Not even the code showed up in the post, though I left it in the text box.

Now: Voila, video.
230.) bluecat - 12/01/2016
The first goat burned down. But it was rebuilt. The next goat burned down and then fell over. It was also rebuilt. The next goat burned down, fell over and gouged a big hole in the ground. But the fourth goat...:wink
231.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2016
:-)

I'll give you + 3 for that, LOL.
232.) DParker - 12/02/2016
Mmmmmm.....Swedish cabrito......

So I guess Big Tex has 35 goats to hang out with now.

233.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2016
"Goat ropers need love, too."



:wink
234.) bluecat - 12/02/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;45783]Mmmmmm.....Swedish cabrito......

So I guess Big Tex has 35 goats to hang out with now.

[/QUOTE]

If you squint, Big Tex looks like carrot top - the way we would all like to see carrot top...
235.) bluecat - 12/02/2016
236.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2016
Holy smokes...Good catch, LOL.
237.) DParker - 12/02/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;45786]If you squint, Big Tex looks like carrot top - the way we would all like to see carrot top...[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty sure Carrot Top has been flaming for a long time now.
238.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2016
LOL...

+2


I haven't seen any of his act---I was gonna say his stuff---in a LONG time, but I remember him as being pretty funny.

Maybe I just have a weird sense of humor, LOL.
239.) DParker - 12/02/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;45790]LOL...

+2


I haven't seen any of his act---I was gonna say his stuff---in a LONG time, but I remember him as being pretty funny.

Maybe I just have a weird sense of humor, LOL.[/QUOTE]

He actually was. I thought his best routine was talking about pretending to be the little girl from the Wendy's logo and going through the drive-thru to mess with the staff. "Those fries better be fresh! Don't make me come in there!!"
240.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2016
That is probably the bit I remember best, LOL. The Hooters Job Application was pretty funny, too.


I saw him on a semi-serious interview a while back and he got a couple of jokes in at the end. One was Chris Christie's skinny jeans, which were a pair of very small, tight jeans sewn onto the front of some circus tent-sized dungarees. LMAO Think those tuxedo-front black t-shirts and you get the basic idea. It was good for a belly laugh.
241.) DParker - 12/02/2016
This is easily the most interesting story I've read so far this week...

[URL="http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-nemesis-is-a-screw-salesman-at-a-home-depot-in-alabama-1479672919"]WSJ: Venezuela’s Nemesis Is a Hardware Salesman at a Home Depot in Alabama[/URL]

[QUOTE]The alleged mastermind of the plot likes to sport a red University of Alabama baseball cap and answers questions at his day job from do-it-yourselfers on what kinds of screws they should use to hang shelves.[/QUOTE]

I'm not a UofA guy, but I'm going to say "Roll Tide" anyway. :grin:
242.) Swamp Fox - 12/05/2016
I saw that story somewhere else recently, so if folks who don't subscribe to the WSJ want to read about this, they can probably find it with a search. However, I recommend a WSJ subscription for anyone who wants to read a national newspaper that isn't full of crap :tu: or just wants access to linked articles, since many other outlets link to the Journal.

The article made me wonder something I've been wondering for a while: Why do we never hear of any PR, propaganda or psy-ops we're targeting for our foes? I don't need to know the details and the home addresses of the agents and staffers. I would just like to know that we ARE addressing various JV teams and other "symbols of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire," because it seems like President Redline pretty much dropped the ball on that kind of thing. :re:



[url]http://www.mediaite.com/online/jill-stein-gets-predictable-backlash-after-calling-castro-a-symbol-of-the-struggle-for-justice/[/url]
243.) Swamp Fox - 12/06/2016
[B][SIZE=2]Alt-right On-line Poison Almost Turned Me Into A Racist
[/SIZE][/B]

[QUOTE]This is one of the best trolls of 2016. I won’t put it at number 1 without much more thought, but I think it’s defintely in the Top 5. Master media manipulator Godfrey Elfwick just struck the British media once again, and this time the victim is the Guardian. Before I show you some of that, let me remind you that this guy also conned the BBC World Service (which, I admittedly enjoy) awhile back.

[/QUOTE]
[url]http://theralphretort.com/godfrey-elfwick-brilliantly-trolls-guardian-with-alt-right-nearly-turned-me-racist-column-11029016/[/url]


Be sure to check the bit about Glenn Greenwald ^^^. I'm shocked---shocked, I tell you---to find out there's some drama there.

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-right-online-poison-racist-bigot-sam-harris-milo-yiannopoulos-islamophobia[/url]
244.) DParker - 12/06/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;45852][B][SIZE=2]Alt-right On-line Poison Almost Turned Me Into A Racist
[/SIZE][/B]


[url]http://theralphretort.com/godfrey-elfwick-brilliantly-trolls-guardian-with-alt-right-nearly-turned-me-racist-column-11029016/[/url]


Be sure to check the bit about Glenn Greenwald ^^^. I'm shocked---shocked, I tell you---to find out there's some drama there.

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-right-online-poison-racist-bigot-sam-harris-milo-yiannopoulos-islamophobia[/url][/QUOTE]

I've long been saying that parody is no longer possible when it comes to the inane gibberish coming from the left these days. I'd call this supporting evidence for that.
245.) Swamp Fox - 12/06/2016
[B]"Who needs convenient energy-producing oil, safe and efficient transportation, and everyday low prices anyway?"
[/B]



246.) bluecat - 12/06/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;45873][B]"Who needs convenient energy-producing oil, safe and efficient transportation, and everyday low prices anyway?"
[/B]



[/QUOTE]

Is this where they take the elderly out into the snowstorm to um, you know?
247.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;45891]Is this where they take the elderly out into the snowstorm to um, you know?[/QUOTE]



....Kick him in the icehole when he takes a pea?

:wink



(I don't know how many people know that old joke....LOL)
248.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2016
[B][SIZE=2]22 heavily armed men post mannequin challenge on Facebook, much to delight of cops[/SIZE][/B]



[QUOTE]It’s unclear if the mannequin challenge can be won, but these gentlemen have offered evidence it can be lost.
[/QUOTE]



There's a lot to unpack here, from the legal details to the writing, but that line, at least, was dope.


:wink




[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/12/07/two-arrested-when-firearm-studded-ala-mannequin-challenge-goes-viral-leads-cops-to-lawmans-goldmine/?tid=pm_national_pop&utm_term=.a630488a54a6[/url]
249.) DParker - 12/07/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;45906]....Kick him in the icehole when he takes a pea?

:wink



(I don't know how many people know that old joke....LOL)[/QUOTE]

Considering how many times I heard my father tell it over the course of about 20 years, I doubt I'll ever get it out of my head.
250.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2016
LOL....


Comedy through the ages...:grin:
251.) bluecat - 12/08/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;45907][B][SIZE=2]22 heavily armed men post mannequin challenge on Facebook, much to delight of cops[/SIZE][/B]







There's a lot to unpack here, from the legal details to the writing, but that line, at least, was dope.


:wink




[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/12/07/two-arrested-when-firearm-studded-ala-mannequin-challenge-goes-viral-leads-cops-to-lawmans-goldmine/?tid=pm_national_pop&utm_term=.a630488a54a6[/url][/QUOTE]
I missed the mannequins of blm marching just down the street.
252.) DParker - 12/08/2016
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Flash back on Keith Ellison, the genius that the Dems are wanting to take over as DNC chair. The good stuff starts at about 1:30.

[video=youtube;xON45yeObBk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xON45yeObBk[/video]
253.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2016
LOL...I suppose by "they" he could have meant the general "they", as in "those guys" i.e. our enemies. But maybe not, LOL. He is out there. Can't wait to see the media going bat poop crazy over the "alt-left," LOL.

Speaking of the general they, did you see where General Tso died the other day? The weird thing is that 20 minutes later, he came back to life.

Badum-bum!


[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/world/asia/general-tso-chicken-peng-chang-kuei.html[/url]




"Say hi to the Colonel for me!"


But I digress. I'd love to have this guy as DNC chair. With Pelosi remaining in her post and Howard Dean showing no sign of shutting up after walking away from the job, it would be the Loon Trinity leading the Dems. Not sure I can think of a better trio to cement Republican gains in 2018.
254.) bluecat - 12/08/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;45923]LOL...I suppose by "they" he could have meant the general "they", as in "those guys" i.e. our enemies. But maybe not, LOL. He is out there. Can't wait to see the media going bat poop crazy over the "alt-left," LOL.

Speaking of the general they, did you see where General Tso died the other day? The weird thing is that 20 minutes later, he came back to life.

Badum-bum!


[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/world/asia/general-tso-chicken-peng-chang-kuei.html[/url]




"Say hi to the Colonel for me!"


But I digress. I'd love to have this guy as DNC chair. With Pelosi remaining in her post and Howard Dean showing no sign of shutting up after walking away from the job, it would be the Loon Trinity leading the Dems. Not sure I can think of a better trio to cement Republican gains in 2018.[/QUOTE]

Boo Hiss!

[I]
At Hunam, the chef [B]Tsung Ting Wang[/B] — who was also a partner with Michael Tong in another prominent Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, Shun Lee Palace — put a Sichuan spin on the dish. He crisped up the batter
[/I]

Sum Ting Wong with this chicken.
255.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2016
"In case you missed it":

This has to be one of the best interviews I've seen of one of the Notorious Weasels who make the rounds on cable news doing impersonations of mushroom farmers driving manure spreaders. (Loyal readers might remember I called Schiff a weasel months ago, somewhere deep down in the Benghazi thread. I only point this out to suggest that Tucker may be reviewing the forum from time to time to keep his fingers on the pulse, LOL)

I looked around and couldn't find a clip that went long enough to catch Tucker saying at the very end, "And coming up at the end of the show, we'll have our puppet-master, Vladimir Putin" [paraphrasing]. But the look on Adam Schiff's face at the end of what is here is Amex Platinum.

If you're short on time, catch the last three or four minutes, but do stay to catch the look. :grin:

256.) DParker - 12/08/2016
I'm thinking Joe Isuzu would be more trustworthy than that clown.
257.) bluecat - 12/08/2016
Tucker from the top rope! That was awesome.
258.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;45924]Boo Hiss!

[I]
At Hunam, the chef [B]Tsung Ting Wang[/B] — who was also a partner with Michael Tong in another prominent Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, Shun Lee Palace — put a Sichuan spin on the dish. He crisped up the batter
[/I]

Sum Ting Wong with this chicken.[/QUOTE]


LOL...I saw something the other day about Chinese name jokes...I don't remember where or what the context was, except it went through a fairly long history. The part that stuck with me was from military aviation where the phrase "Wing Tu Lo" or maybe the abbreviation WTL means something significant, LOL. Anyway, it had its origin in some quirk of Asian airplanes or Asian flying back in the day. Wish I'd paid closer attention to what I was reading and where, now. LOL

If I happen to run across it again, I'll link it.

In the meantime, to brighten everyone's day, some aviation humor:

[url]http://www.skygod.com/quotes/flyingjokes.html[/url]
259.) crookedeye - 12/08/2016
what do you call a chinease billonare??

Cha Ching
260.) bluecat - 12/08/2016
Suang Dong and Lo Dong were items on a Chinese menu growing up. Always had a good laugh at that. If you like dong, you were in business.
261.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2016
[QUOTE=crookedeye;45929]what do you call a chinease billonare??

Cha Ching[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;45930]Suang Dong and Lo Dong were items on a Chinese menu growing up. Always had a good laugh at that. If you like dong, you were in business.[/QUOTE]


You two!


LOL


:beer:
262.) DParker - 12/08/2016
Have we forgotten this already?

[video=youtube_share;FBhaxnw8Rl0]http://youtu.be/FBhaxnw8Rl0[/video]
263.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2016
LOL...I made a half-hearted attempt to find that...But I knew you'd pull through!
264.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2016
I love how that plays in a loop! LMAO
265.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2016
Some salty language:


266.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2017
Bob Peck's [URL="http://http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2376-Rebel-Rebel&p=46618#post46618"][I]Rebel Rebel[/I][/URL] music video got me thinking about Chumlee from Pawn Stars
267.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2017
Bob Peck's[URL="http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2376-Rebel-Rebel&p=46618#post46618"] [I]Rebel, Rebel[/I] music video[/URL] got me thinking about Chumlee, from [I]Pawn Stars.[/I]


He got in trouble with the law recently, or maybe what I heard was just a follow up to this:

[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/05/23/chumlee-pawn-stars-wont-see-jail-guns-drugs-charges/84802182/[/url]


which involves some gun charges and a plea deal.


I have at least two questions: One, does anyone know the exact gun-related charge that was brought against him (and/or what he pleaded to) and two, how is it that in the course of things he's forced to forfeit all his guns as part of the plea agreement?
268.) DParker - 01/13/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46622]I have at least two questions: One, does anyone know the exact gun-related charge that was brought against him (and/or what he pleaded to) and two, how is it that in the course of things he's forced to forfeit all his guns as part of the plea agreement?[/QUOTE]

I believe the charge was criminal possession by a prohibited person, which suggests that he has a felony conviction on his record (though I can't find any specifics on that), and would also explain the forfeiture. I also managed to find a leaked photo of Chumlee and his dad conferring with with an attorney on the matter:

269.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2017
LOL...

I think that's actually where he got his nickname. Heard that somewhere at some point.

The prior felony conviction idea makes sense, though I wish journalists would at least mention a small detail like that (if that's the case) instead of just writing that "Oh, by the way, forfeiting your guns is a perfectly normal part of how this works."


"That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works!"








[url]http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ridiculous-lawsuits-2009/story?id=9450948[/url]
270.) DParker - 01/13/2017
And you thought all you had to worry about was someone peeing in the pool.
271.) Swamp Fox - 04/17/2017
This is apparently a real screen grab...LOL



272.) DParker - 04/17/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;48314]This is apparently a real screen grab...LOL



[/QUOTE]

Hopefully that's Spicer's replacement.
273.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2017
LOL...Sean Spicer: The hardest-working man in Washington.


If you enjoy a laugh every once in a while:

[url]https://twitter.com/sean_spicier/media[/url]



Nominated for this week's Troll Of The Week:

[url]https://twitter.com/sean_spicier/status/872081834066272257[/url]
274.) bluecat - 06/07/2017
LOL!
275.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2017
276.) DParker - 06/08/2017
I think John McCain can now officially be diagnosed as being a senile old fart.
277.) Swamp Fox - 06/08/2017
I have felt bad in the past for occasionally saying something similar about him (at least once on here) but have never felt the need to take anything back. I'm not an automatic McCain hater, either. I agree with him on some things and seriously disagree on others.

I didn't watch this go-round, but can imagine, from some written reports which I've skimmed this afternoon.


Here's one mildly amusing/informative account:


[url]http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/336975-dingell-trolls-mccain-after-odd-exchange-with-comey[/url]



I wonder if Dingell has ever given Nana Pelosi any advice about her cognitive impairment, though?
278.) DParker - 06/08/2017
I watched it, and it was as cringe-worthy as any Trump tweet...though at least McCain has age as an excuse.

And I certainly can't argue with Dingell's take on the importance of naps.
279.) Swamp Fox - 06/14/2017
I'm having a hard time believing that I'm the first to make this point, but maybe I need to get out more. I've given it 18 hours or so and haven't heard anything, so Ima pull the trigger:





280.) bluecat - 06/14/2017
I heard that line of questioning and was just shaking my head in the car. Wow. Good analogy Swampy. You are racking up the points. Going for the purple baboon?
281.) Swamp Fox - 06/15/2017
Blue baboon or purple panda...Nothing else on the top shelf really interests me anymore...
282.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
What do you get somebody who has pretty much everything?
283.) Swamp Fox - 06/15/2017
Five tickets for the water gun booth?

Wait, let me think about that a little more before we lock it in...



284.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
I know what you're thinking...
285.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
When Dirty Harry wants the purple panda, you give him the g'damn purple panda.
286.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
"Aim for the heart Ramon"
287.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
:-):-)
288.) Swamp Fox - 06/15/2017
LOL...+3, at least.


I think Ramon has his rear sight folded down. Never noticed that before. I'll have to look again later. I just stopped in for a second to make sure everyone was staying on track here...:-)
289.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
I know I'm don't have the stuff for plush top-shelf animals in my future but if I could at least get a dribble glass with wildlife scenes on the front, I'd be a happy camper. :-)
290.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;49462]LOL...+3, at least.


I think Ramon has his rear sight folded down. Never noticed that before. I'll have to look again later. I just stopped in for a second to make sure everyone was staying on track here...:-)[/QUOTE]

I think you are correct on the sight.

I wish I could have an involuntary facial twitch. Girls would be all over me.
291.) DParker - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;49456]Five tickets for the water gun booth?

Wait, let me think about that a little more before we lock it in...



[/QUOTE]

The guy with the monkey hanging off his neck is gripping the base of his water pistol awfully tightly while his eyes seem to be rolling back up into his head. I'm just sayin'.
292.) DParker - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49451]What do you get somebody who has pretty much everything?[/QUOTE]

Nothing....literally: [URL="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002J8VDXE/"]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002J8VDXE/[/URL]
293.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;49480]Nothing....literally: [URL="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002J8VDXE/"]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002J8VDXE/[/URL][/QUOTE]

I tried ordering it but they were out of stock.
294.) bluecat - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;49456]

[/QUOTE]

She looks good, feels good, fits my hands well, lightweight, reliable and easy on the wallet. The pistol is nice too. :wink
295.) DParker - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49482]She looks good, feels good, fits my hands well, lightweight, reliable [B][COLOR="#B22222"]and easy on the wallet[/COLOR][/B]. The pistol is nice too. :wink[/QUOTE]

I'm betting that's a damned lie.
296.) DParker - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49481]I tried ordering it but they were out of stock.[/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;M5QGkOGZubQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ[/video]
297.) Wild Bob - 06/15/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;49484][video=youtube;M5QGkOGZubQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ[/video][/QUOTE]

:tu: This is great! I've got a couple entitled employees that I'd like to give this line to. :applause:
298.) Swamp Fox - 06/16/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;49483]I'm betting that's a damned lie.[/QUOTE]


You're a wise man.
299.) bluecat - 06/16/2017
Her nightly rates are very affordable.
300.) Swamp Fox - 06/16/2017
Stop it, you two...You're ruining the fantasy.
301.) Swamp Fox - 06/16/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49451]What do you get somebody who has pretty much everything?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;49480]Nothing....literally: [URL="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002J8VDXE/"]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002J8VDXE/[/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;49481]I tried ordering it but they were out of stock.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;49484][video=youtube;M5QGkOGZubQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ[/video][/QUOTE]




Last week I ordered a thesaurus from Amazon to replace my old one, which I've lost somehow.

When it arrived, I discovered all the pages were blank, and they won't accept returns.

I have no words to describe how angry I am.
302.) Swamp Fox - 06/21/2017
Speaking of having no words, how about having no place to say them?...LOL

I looked around a little bit at the coverage of the shooting of Philando Castile and the subsequent acquittal of the officer who killed him and quickly lost patience with the cesspools that are most comments sections. The NRA hate is strong out there, and of course 95% of that comes from the usual suspects, so you'd have to dig deep for any smart criticism of the group's non-reaction (so far). The police fan-boy contingent has shown up as well, but I suspect some of the buses broke down on the way to the Forum, or they lost a few riders at the last Cracker Barrel, since the chanting from that side of the street seems a bit muted in this case.

I haven't been to the firearms blogs to any real extent. I'm just talking about the mainstream outlets. I can't say there's much improvement at conservative sites, either, especially if they use Facebook for commenting. I'm not sure how all that works, but I've learned that if you let your comments section be accessed through Facebook it's a sure way to kill it, intelligence-wise. There are places I just can't go anymore :rage:, LOL.

My count-down clock has the NRA coming out with a statement tomorrow, finally, after being scorched thus far for their near-silence. No predictions on how suitable or acceptable their position will be, except that it won't make everyone happy.

Also, as a side note, I'm a little surprised that Gun Owners Of America hasn't said anything (at least that I've found) since they are a bit more forward-leaning.

You'd like to think that both groups are taking a slow and measured approach to composing their thoughts before revealing them, now that all the facts that are ever going to be available are actually available, but I wonder.

On a semi-related note:

I'm debating whether we should use this thread to flag notable comment section episodes elsewhere (brawls, idiocy, intelligent discussions, unicorn sightings, etc.) as they arise on different topics, just so we don't have to waste our time surfing the cesspool for something interesting, or whether we should have a separate thread for that. Something like a "Best of the Web Comments of the Day Section." ---:pop:
303.) Wild Bob - 06/21/2017
A tech savvy guy like you using an old fashioned book thesaurus...you really expect me to believe that??
304.) Swamp Fox - 06/21/2017
Man, I can't win around here.

I thought I'd get points for ordering it on Amazon...


LOL
305.) bluecat - 06/21/2017
Good idea Swampy. Having it all under one roof works for me.




What part of "Don't reach!" is hard to understand?
306.) Swamp Fox - 06/21/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49567]Good idea Swampy. Having it all under one roof works for me. [/QUOTE]


You mean you'd rather have posts like that on this thread or on a separate thread?
307.) bluecat - 06/21/2017
Doesn't matter. This one is fine.
308.) Swamp Fox - 06/21/2017
This one it shall be then, until further complaint.
309.) Swamp Fox - 06/21/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49567]

What part of "Don't reach!" is hard to understand?[/QUOTE]


Well, that's where the trouble starts, isn't it?

Castile had still to produce the license, from what I understand, as he had only given his insurance card at that point. Despite commentators to the contrary, I think "it" clearly means "the gun" rather than the license when the officer says "Don't reach for it" (or words to that effect) three times.

But maybe everything's not "clearly" evident when you're under stress or have been smoking marijuana. Maybe you think everything's still cool if you reach for your license which you were asked for, as long as you don't reach for the gun which you politely told the officer you had.

Since we can't see into the car, we don't know that he was reaching for anything, in the first place.

I'm not sure why a passenger is being asked for his license anyway, in this situation. I can understand asking a passenger for the insurance card if he's the owner of the vehicle and the state requires it be in possession (though plenty of states get along just fine without requiring drivers to produce their insurance documents at traffic stops).

Seems like a better command would have been: "Okay, hands on the dashboard. Forget about the license. Ma'am, show me YOUR license." Etc.

But of course that is all Monday-morning quarterbacking.



[Edit: I've seen some stuff this afternoon that indicates Castile was the driver. When the incident first happened, the girlfriend's video made it appear that he was in the passenger seat, and I'm not the only one under this impression. I really haven't been able to nail down the facts after having looked at a few news reports, but there seems to be some weight behind the idea that he was driving when pulled. I'd appreciate a link to a definitive source.]

[Update: I finally found a link to the criminal complaint against the officer late last night. From it, we learn that Castile was the driver.

[url]https://www.ramseycounty.us/sites/default/files/County%20Attorney/Yanez%20Jeronimo%2011%2016%2016.pdf[/url]

How the girlfriend's video seems to show him and his seat belt in the passenger seat (dead or dying) I still don't know, but it does. I'll let people look up the video and screen grabs for themselves, but if anyone knows the answer to this, clue me in.]
310.) bluecat - 06/21/2017
I heard the audio this morning. You just have to feel for an officer today, who is trying to do their job, trying to stay safe while doing it and all the while under a microscope. Everything is scrutinized.
311.) Swamp Fox - 06/21/2017
Two upsides to being scrutinized here: Cops can be trained to handle stops better, and maybe the random gun safety training/civil rights organization that's in your mailbox every two weeks can figure out how to develop the dash-cam video into what everybody likes to call "a teachable moment."
312.) Swamp Fox - 06/22/2017
I added an edit last night and an update this morning to Post 302.
313.) Jon - 06/22/2017
If you read the court description of the event, the driver had no license, it was revoked so he wasn't reaching for something he didn't have. He was reaching and making the cop nervous for his life. He had already given the cop his vehicle paperwork so no other reaching was required ESPECIALLY after being told numerous times to STOP REACHING.
Sad that someone had to die, sad that the cop now has to live with the grief and sad that the guy's family had to bury him. Listen to direction, don't give a cop any reason to fear for his/her life and you'll be just fine.
314.) Swamp Fox - 06/22/2017
[QUOTE=Jon;49591]If you read the court description of the event, the driver had no license, it was revoked so he wasn't reaching for something he didn't have. He was reaching and making the cop nervous for his life. He had already given the cop his vehicle paperwork so no other reaching was required ESPECIALLY after being told numerous times to STOP REACHING.
Sad that someone had to die, sad that the cop now has to live with the grief and sad that the guy's family had to bury him. Listen to direction, don't give a cop any reason to fear for his/her life and you'll be just fine.[/QUOTE]




I agree with this, although I’d point out the following from the reliable information that’s available to me. [Jon, if you have a link to the info you’re referring to, I’d appreciate it.—Thx.]

If we assume he was reaching for something (and the audio includes Castile’s and the girlfriend’s statements that he is not reaching for “it”, although there is no video) it could have been his wallet or anything else that he was trying to get. I think it’s fair to say somebody might reach for ID even if he or she didn’t have a valid driver’s license.
I doubt he’s reaching for the gun, at least not in a menacing way, because 1) that doesn’t jibe with him having just told the officer he was carrying and his statement that he is not reaching for “it” and 2) the officer’s partner describes movements that I don’t think are consistent with someone who is trying to get his pistol out of a right front pocket while seated behind a steering wheel. (See my link in 302).

I don’t know that the movements are consistent with trying to get your wallet out of your right rear pocket, either, but we don’t know what pocket his wallet was in at all (could have been the left rear, say, which would make the movements more appropriate) because they didn’t keep track of that on the scene or at the hospital.

In any event, the officer’s command of “Don’t reach for it” could have been clearer, was misunderstood, or was ignored. It’s hard to believe that a clear-thinking person would ignore an order deliberately if he understood it, and this is the problem. Getting stopped by the police is stressful. Your mind can go blank. You can say stupid stuff. You can be a boyscout and still be rattled.

Also, Castile may have been high. There was THC in his system, but that doesn’t mean he had just been smoking or was under the influence, as most people should know. I’m not aware of any testimony that says he had just been smoking or was impaired, but I’m happy to receive such if it exists.

“But the officer says he smelled burned marijuana!” And if Castile doesn’t account for the smell of marijuana in the car, you can look to the girlfriend. Based on her reaction and videotaping escapade immediately after the shooting, while her boyfriend is bleeding out mere feet from her, there are four possibilities: She’s so high she can hunt ducks with a rake; she’s a sociopath; she’s in shock; or all three.

So everybody agrees that there might have been problems inside the car, but only the ones who were there know for sure.

Many police procedure experts and anyone with some common sense can see there were problems outside the car as well, and have said so. It’s not sufficient that a cop is nervous to allow shooting someone, just the same way many want to say it’s not sufficient for Castile to have been stressed or disoriented to absolve him of whatever his actions were.

There are several layers of requirements for “reasonable fear” and “imminent danger” and all that to consider in the use of lethal force, and if people want to discuss it I’ll throw some stuff out there. Bottom line is that just because an officer is under stress or has some fear doesn’t justify shooting a man who’s trying to do the right thing and just told you he has a weapon.
315.) Swamp Fox - 06/22/2017
[QUOTE=Jon;49591]If you read the court description of the event, the driver had no license, it was revoked so he wasn't reaching for something he didn't have. He was reaching and making the cop nervous for his life. He had already given the cop his vehicle paperwork so no other reaching was required ESPECIALLY after being told numerous times to STOP REACHING.
Sad that someone had to die, sad that the cop now has to live with the grief and sad that the guy's family had to bury him. Listen to direction, don't give a cop any reason to fear for his/her life and you'll be just fine.[/QUOTE]


I agree with this, although I’d point out the following from the reliable information that’s available to me. [Jon, if you have a link to the info you’re referring to, I’d appreciate it.—Thx.]

If we assume he was reaching for something (and the audio-video includes Castile’s and the girlfriend’s statements that he is not reaching for “it”, although there is no video inside the car) it could have been his wallet or anything else that he was trying to get. I think it’s fair to say somebody might reach for ID even if he or she didn’t have a valid driver’s license.

I doubt he’s reaching for the gun, at least not in a menacing way, because 1) that doesn’t jibe with him having just told the officer he was carrying and his statement that he is not reaching for “it” and 2) the officer’s partner describes movements that I don’t think are consistent with someone who is trying to get his pistol out of a right front pocket while seated behind a steering wheel. (See my link in 302).

I don’t know that the movements are consistent with trying to get your wallet out of your right rear pocket, either, but we don’t know what pocket his wallet was in at all (could have been the left rear, say, which would make the movements more appropriate) because they didn’t keep track of that on the scene or at the hospital.

In any event, the officer’s command of “Don’t reach for it” could have been clearer, was misunderstood, or was ignored. It’s hard to believe that a clear-thinking person would ignore an order deliberately if he understood it, and this is the problem. Getting stopped by the police is stressful. Your mind can go blank. You can say stupid stuff. You can be a boyscout and still be rattled.

Also, Castile may have been high. There was THC in his system, but that doesn’t mean he had just been smoking or was under the influence, as most people should know. I’m not aware of any testimony that says he had just been smoking or was impaired, but I’m happy to receive such if it exists.

“But the officer says he smelled burned marijuana!” And if Castile doesn’t account for the smell of marijuana in the car, you can look to the girlfriend. Based on her reaction and videotaping escapade immediately after the shooting, while her boyfriend is bleeding out mere feet from her, there are four possibilities: She’s so high she can hunt ducks with a rake; she’s a sociopath; she’s in shock; or all three.

So everybody agrees that there might have been problems inside the car, but only the ones who were there know for sure.

Many police procedure experts and anyone with some common sense can see there were problems outside the car as well, and have said so. It’s not sufficient that a cop is nervous to allow shooting someone, just the same way many want to say it’s not sufficient for Castile to have been stressed or disoriented to absolve him of whatever his actions were.

There are several layers of requirements for “reasonable fear” and “imminent danger” and all that to consider in the use of lethal force, and if people want to discuss it I’ll throw some stuff out there. Bottom line is that just because an officer is under stress or has some fear doesn’t justify shooting a man who’s trying to do the right thing and just told you he has a weapon.
316.) Jon - 06/22/2017
If a cop is yelling "Don't reach for it" at me, I'm not going to reach for ANYTHING even if I know what he's talking about.

Here's a little more for you.
[url]https://bluelivesmatter.blue/philando-castile-shooting-video/[/url]
317.) Swamp Fox - 06/22/2017
No argument here. I'd be clenched tighter than I don't know what.

There are a few inaccuracies and statements of facts not in evidence in that article, though, as far as I can tell, but I don't think they're really the point. Not really worth hashing out, in the big picture. Just want to put it on the record.
318.) bluecat - 06/28/2017
[url]https://libertywriters.com/2017/06/cnn-got-caught-sick-lie-trump-just-unbelievable-cover-tracks/[/url]

Shirley this isn't true...

:-)
319.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2017
Contrived News Network?

They must really feel the need to feed the beast. Remember when they were going on and on for weeks about the Malaysian airplane? I could name a few stories they completely missed. Somebody over there has some really poor judgment about who and what to put on the air.

BTW, somebody give Jim Acosta a chill pill. He's gonna have a stroke.

The NYT and WaPo and a few others I could think of if I had some time are really embarrassing themselves lately. Really sloppy when they're not flat-out dishonest.

As yer dad probably told you: Don't believe everything you read.


[url]http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/conceptual-penis-social-contruct-sokal-style-hoax-on-gender-studies/[/url]
320.) DParker - 06/28/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;49697][url]http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/conceptual-penis-social-contruct-sokal-style-hoax-on-gender-studies/[/url][/QUOTE]

From the link above:

[quote]Its ramifications are unknown [B]but one hopes it will help rein in extremism in this and related areas[/B].[/quote]

LOL! Dream [I]on[/I]!
321.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2017
Conceptually, it could happen...LOL
322.) bluecat - 06/29/2017
High-ranking Catholic cardinal in Australia is charged with sexual assault

[I]Australian police charged a top Vatican cardinal on Thursday with multiple counts of historical sexual assault offenses, a stunning decision certain to rock the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis' chief financial advisor and Australia's most senior Catholic, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to be charged in the church's long-running sexual abuse scandal.[/I]


Note: Don't google "Catholic", "Priest" and "Sexual Abuse". You really don't have the bandwidth.



[url]http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-australia-cardinal-charged-20170628-story.html[/url]
323.) bluecat - 06/29/2017
You know when you rock the Roman Catholic Church, you've really left your mark. The bar is set so high.
324.) Swamp Fox - 06/29/2017
This is why nobody goes to Australia anymore...
325.) bluecat - 06/29/2017
He thought a book would stop a bullet and make him a YouTube star. Now he’s dead.


[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/29/he-thought-a-book-would-stop-a-bullet-and-make-him-a-youtube-star-now-hes-dead/?utm_term=.147c8bf868ef[/url]
326.) Swamp Fox - 06/29/2017
I obviously love great journalism, or so says the WP when they blocked me from that article because I have read too much of their material this month.

I think it's really more that they're concerned for my mental health than they want to get me to cough up some shekels to get through their paywall. I'd like to think so, anyway.

Can you post a relevant excerpt so I know what's going on? LOL
327.) Swamp Fox - 06/29/2017
More CNN:




328.) bluecat - 06/29/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;49718]He thought a book would stop a bullet and make him a YouTube star. Now he’s dead.


[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/29/he-thought-a-book-would-stop-a-bullet-and-make-him-a-youtube-star-now-hes-dead/?utm_term=.147c8bf868ef[/url][/QUOTE]

Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time persuading his girlfriend to fire a gun at his chest.

There would be a thick encyclopedia between the muzzle and his body, authorities say he told 19-year-old Monalisa Perez. The pages, he reasoned, would stop the bullet.

He even had evidence that it had worked once before — a different book with an entrance hole but no exit.

So on Monday evening, the young couple positioned two cameras outside their home and prepared for their breakthrough stunt. They wanted fame, family said, and danger often brings it.

“Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever,” Perez teased in a tweet at 5 p.m. “HIS idea not MINE.”

It had been three months since the young couple added their vlog, La MonaLisa, to YouTube, where they posted clips of their daily lives and their 3-year-old daughter. They live in Halstad, Minn., a tiny town on the North Dakota border between Grand Forks and Fargo. Episodes featured shots from their home, the car or at the doctor’s office, which is where Perez revealed in May that she was pregnant with a boy.


Their shtick, though, was pulling minor pranks: doughnuts with baby powder instead of powdered sugar, feigning paralysis from a grocery store wheelchair, hiding hot peppers on an egg salad sandwich. Just this week, Perez posted a video of Ruiz doing a handstand inside a rotating fun house tunnel at the county fair.

But the bullet and book stunt was supposed to be their moment.

“I said, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it,’ ” Ruiz’s aunt, Claudia Ruiz, told her nephew when he shared his idea, according to Valley News Live. “Why are you going to use a gun? Why?”

His response, she said, was simple: “Because, we want more viewers.”

With one camera attached to a ladder and the other propped on the back of a car, the couple staged their stunt, according to authorities. Ruiz held the book to his chest and Perez held the gun, a gold [B][SIZE=4][SIZE=6]Desert Eagle .50-caliber pistol[/SIZE][/SIZE][/B] considered “one of the most powerful semiautomatic handguns in the world.”

From a foot away, court documents say, Perez fired.

This time, the bullet didn’t stop in the book but instead pierced Ruiz in the chest. Medics tried to revive him, authorities said, but he was declared dead at the house.
329.) bluecat - 06/29/2017
I guess you could say that Pedro went Chapter 11.
330.) Swamp Fox - 06/29/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;49721]I obviously love great journalism, or so says the WP when they blocked me from that article because I have read too much of their material this month.

I think it's really more that they're concerned for my mental health than they want to get me to cough up some shekels to get through their paywall. I'd like to think so, anyway.

Can you post a relevant excerpt so I know what's going on? LOL[/QUOTE]


Never mind. I figured it out. I saw a less catchy headline this morning but ignored it.

.50 AE from a foot away, through a book, into the chest.

Hate to say it, but "Jeez, what a couple of morons."
331.) Swamp Fox - 06/30/2017
In all the commotion today, I almost forgot about this from yesterday...LOL






ICYMI:


CNN s̶t̶o̶o̶p̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶i̶d̶i̶o̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶p̶a̶g̶a̶n̶d̶a̶ does segment on Syrian immigration.

332.) bluecat - 06/30/2017
I really enjoy listening to Mark Steyn.
333.) Swamp Fox - 06/30/2017
I don't get to listen to him much. Used to read him a bit.

That was one of the funniest segments I've ever heard him do. All he needed was a little steering-wheel hand gesture as he was describing Anderson Cooper and Elmo trying to drive the CNN spaceship out of the Black Hole, and I would still be on the floor in convulsions.
334.) bluecat - 06/30/2017
He fills in for Rush and Hannity sometimes. I always feel a little lighter after I listen to him.
335.) Swamp Fox - 06/30/2017
What's Hannity on about these days? Hopefully he's on vacation next week so no one has to sit though more of what I'm sure has been wall-to-wall face lift talk for the last two days.

No offense to Hannity fans, but I just can't watch, and listening is worse...LOL.
336.) Swamp Fox - 06/30/2017



337.) bluecat - 06/30/2017
I don't have a problem with him. But then again, I have him on speed dial.
338.) Swamp Fox - 06/30/2017
LOL...Sometimes he has good guests, but a lot of times they're just props/punching bags. His show would be a lot more interesting to me if 1) he could learn how to get off a topic when it's beaten to death 2) he could pick better topics each night, not just the one at the top of the Outrage of the Day list, which then he'll do some the next night, too and 3) he weren't so predictable.

Rush is much better on that last point especially. He's an original thinker, or at least presents things in original ways. In contrast, when I listen to Hannity, I feel like it could be a fundraising-letter-on-tape from the [insert name of today's least interesting, most spun-up non-Democrat group here].
339.) Swamp Fox - 07/11/2017





This woman seems to have made a remarkable recovery. I suppose it’s possible Obamacare is what saved her, but I would fact-check any such claims. In any event, she somehow was able to hop, crawl or mosey on over to CNN today to promote the next Lefty Women’s March and its list of three demands of the NRA.

One of those is straightforward footstomping, the second complete nonsense (both regarding a recent NRA ad), and the third is a call for a statement on the Philando Castile shooting. Reasonable people can argue for a statement or none. Dana Loesch made some comments today in an head-to-head with Mallory that some are taking as an official NRA statement.

Loesch says she’s speaking for the “NRA membership.” I hate to say it, but I think it’s even odds that before the week is out we’ll find that whether you like what Loesch said or not, that will not be the NRA official statement.


Video of Mallory vs Loesch on CNN today at the first link.



[url]https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/07/10/womens-march-plans-protest-after-nra-fails-to-issue-statement-on-philando-casti-n2344082[/url]


[url]http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/10/nra-breaks-silence-on-philando-castile-s[/url]
340.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2017
Well, I guess I was wrong about the NRA (again). I've heard nothing reining in Dana Loesch's statement (or supporting it from a higher level for that matter). Looks like the NRA prefers the "ignore it and maybe it will go away" approach in this instance.

If somebody has different information, let me know.
341.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2017
This is fun:

[B][SIZE=2]White House officials tricked by email prankster[/SIZE][/B]

[QUOTE]A self-described "email prankster" in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner and received that official's private email address unsolicited.

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/white-house-officials-tricked-by-email-prankster/index.html[/url]

[/QUOTE]


Others involved or "involved" include Tony "The Mooch" Scaramucci, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Eric and Donald Trump, Jr., and the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman.


LOL
342.) DParker - 08/01/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;50550]This is fun:

[B][SIZE=2]White House officials tricked by email prankster[/SIZE][/B]




Others involved or "involved" include Tony "The Mooch" Scaramucci, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Eric and Donald Trump, Jr., and the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman.


LOL[/QUOTE]

343.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2017
LOL...So true.


344.) Swamp Fox - 08/29/2017

345.) DParker - 08/29/2017
Sage advice.
346.) Swamp Fox - 09/14/2017
[B][SIZE=2]One-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s ‘What Happened’ disappear on Amazon[/SIZE][/B]


[QUOTE]Hillary Clinton may have written the best book of the year ― if you go by the reviews on Amazon.

“What Happened,” the former Democratic presidential nominee’s tell-all about the 2016 presidential race, currently boasts an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 5.
But that wasn’t always the case.

According to Zero Hedge, the number of one- and five-star reviews garnered by the book were roughly equivalent as late as Wednesday afternoon, giving “What Happened” an average rating of about 3 out of 5 stars.

An Amazon spokesperson said measures have been taken to ensure the reviews being left are authentic.



Now, about 95 percent of customers who left a review that wasn’t deleted gave the book 5 stars out of 5.

[url]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/13/amazon-deletes-one-star-reviews-clinton-book/[/url]
[/QUOTE]

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/14/amazon-redacts-one-star-reviews-of-hillary-clintons-what-happened[/url]


As of this moment, 94% five stars, 2% four stars and 4% one star


Looks like the one-star reviews are largely verified, now . . .LOL . .. . Easy peasy … Order the book, write the review . . cancel the order . . . Suck that, Amazon software engineers! (Are the five-star reviewers that devious, or are they just throne-sniffing sycophants?)





[url]https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton/dp/1501175564[/url]
347.) bluecat - 09/14/2017
Hell, I'm surprised they add up to 100.
348.) DParker - 09/14/2017
That's the book where she asserts that the lesson to be taken from Orwell's [I]1984[/I] is that we should trust our political leaders and the media...which is as ironic as it is idiotic, if you think about it.

349.) Swamp Fox - 09/14/2017
Possibly just idiotic, since irony usually involves the unexpected.
350.) Swamp Fox - 09/14/2017
She would have been clearer in making her point, but she let her ghostwriter talk her out of it ...
351.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
One in the chamber...

[B]Woman found concealing gun during vaginal search at jail[/B]

After Amika Witt was taken to the McLean County jail, a female CO found a loaded handgun inside the suspect's body


[url]https://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articles/418410006-Woman-found-concealing-gun-during-vaginal-search-at-jail/[/url]
352.) bluecat - 09/15/2017


:-)

"Of course not honey." LMFAO!
353.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;51644]One in the chamber...

[B]Woman found concealing gun during vaginal search at jail[/B]

After Amika Witt was taken to the McLean County jail, a female CO found a loaded handgun inside the suspect's body


[url]https://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articles/418410006-Woman-found-concealing-gun-during-vaginal-search-at-jail/[/url][/QUOTE]


Serious birth control measure...none shall pass
354.) Swamp Fox - 09/15/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;51644]One in the chamber...

[B]Woman found concealing gun during vaginal search at jail[/B]

After Amika Witt was taken to the McLean County jail, a female CO found a loaded handgun inside the suspect's body


[url]https://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articles/418410006-Woman-found-concealing-gun-during-vaginal-search-at-jail/[/url][/QUOTE]



355.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
Does that mean if she is in the mood, her loaded chamber indicator is visible?
356.) Swamp Fox - 09/15/2017
It's no wonder women go to the doctor more.
357.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
New meaning to double tap?
358.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
It's a good thing that Kimber has a beavertail or she might experience hammer bite.
359.) Swamp Fox - 09/15/2017
I don't even wanna know about the night sights ...
360.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
More specifically the rear sight.
361.) DParker - 09/15/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;51651]New meaning to double tap?[/QUOTE]

Two in the.....ah...one in the....er, I mean....

Never mind.
362.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
Do you think she is a breach loader?
363.) Swamp Fox - 09/15/2017
Third-wave feminists are triggered by this thread.
364.) Swamp Fox - 09/15/2017
This woman hasn't had a boyfriend in so long that she knows what a dust cover is for.
365.) bluecat - 09/15/2017
empty magazine?
366.) bluecat - 09/16/2017
Aka, chamber maid.
367.) bluecat - 09/28/2017
So...tonight I will be exercising [B]my[/B] political views and NOT watching the Packers game. It sucks. Sports was one of those activities where you could escape politics. But now that is gone.
368.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
My prediction is there will be a lot less nonsense tonight, although people will still talk about it. Sunday and Monday will be even less, and by the time we get to next Thursday or Sunday, we'll be back to "normal."

But I've been wrong before. A lot depends on whether certain people can keep their lips zipped and let this thing die off the way it was on track to.
369.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;51978]So...tonight I will be exercising [B]my[/B] political views and NOT watching the Packers game. It sucks. Sports was one of those activities where you could escape politics. But now that is gone.[/QUOTE]


You could always call the Gruden Hotline if you get bored.
370.) bluecat - 09/28/2017
I'm never bored.
371.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
LOL ... Good answer.
372.) DParker - 09/28/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;51986]You could always call the Gruden Hotline if you get bored.[/QUOTE]

I got yer hotline right here....

[video=youtube;JSnO3t3dTG4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSnO3t3dTG4[/video]
373.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
LOL ... There's a reason I've never heard that song.

:omg:
374.) bluecat - 09/28/2017
Oh my! LOL!
375.) bluecat - 09/28/2017
Confession time DP...
376.) bluecat - 09/28/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;51986]You could always call the Gruden Hotline if you get bored.[/QUOTE]

Speaking of look-alikes, has anyone seen Popeye and Gruden in the same place?
377.) bluecat - 09/28/2017


378.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
I was thinking this is closer:

379.) DParker - 09/28/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;51991]LOL ... There's a reason I've never heard that song.

:omg:[/QUOTE]

You were in a coma for most of 1977? [I]Hot Line[/I] was an international Top 10 hit, and went gold as a single.

[QUOTE=bluecat;51993]Confession time DP...[/QUOTE]

OK, here's my confession: I actually remember being 16 years old...or at least parts of it.
380.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;51997]You were in a coma for most of 1977? [I]Hot Line[/I] was an international Top 10 hit, and went gold as a single.

[/QUOTE]


Well, not a coma exactly ... :-) ... But I was on crutches for a large part of '76/77. Which explains why I never made it to the NBA or NFL ...At least partially.


To be honest, the line "I asked the CIA ... They said it was okay" sounds vaguely familiar but I have no memory of the song itself. Maybe somebody way down the beach was playing it, and I heard it in the background. It sounds like that kind of song. I'm for sure it never played in any vehicle I rode in, LOL.

Some disco music got better with age; some got merely tolerable; but some disco well and truly sucks, and always will. :p:tap::wave:
381.) DParker - 09/28/2017
Well, yeah. But it's like MSNBC: It sucks, and I don't watch it, but I know it exists, and recognize it when I smell....er...see it.
382.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
I bet Billy has some disco favorites ...


:p
383.) Swamp Fox - 09/28/2017
Damn! ... We lost him!

I'll have to use the gaff next time.
384.) Swamp Fox - 09/29/2017
.....
385.) Swamp Fox - 10/16/2017
Two shocking nuggets for today:



[B][SIZE=2]Sorry, Internet, The Vikings Were Not Actually Muslim[/SIZE][/B]

[QUOTE]There is actually zero in this find that makes the case the wearer had a clue that the hidden Arabic text was anything other than a design. And the idea that the Vikings got the idea of Valhalla from Islam is so bizarre that one can’t even laugh about it.

...

In this case, it is trying to build a narrative of the Vikings being heavily influenced by Islam in order to construct an argument that it is hypocritical of modern Scandinavians to not want to be overwhelmed by Islamic immigrants. Nevermind the cultural differences that have arisen in the intervening centuries.

A lot of historical research runs on two principles. First, it forgets the “absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.” If you want a great example of how that oversight freakin set back the study of pre-Columbian America, read about the efforts of the proponents of the Clovis culture. Secondly, “post hoc ergo propter hoc” is not a logical fallacy but an organizing principle. For instance, for quite a long time it was axiomatic that trade routes in the Mediterranean followed the shoreline, that ancient sailors did not venture beyond sight of land (apparently, ‘hey, y’all, hold my beer and watch this’ was not a thing back then). Why did we believe that? Because all the shipwrecks were near the shore. Why was that? Well, rocks have a bad effect on ships and, most importantly, exploration was limited to areas that could be reached by divers. Now, with side scan sonar and other developments, we are discovering ancient wreck in very deep water in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. So fuzzy thinking was a significant problem for historians long before the SJWs decided to own the past.

[url]https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/10/16/sorry-internet-vikings-not-actually-muslim/[/url][/QUOTE]




[B][SIZE=2]Clinton Foundation: We’re Not Returning Weinstein’s Money, Thank You[/SIZE][/B]

"We spent it already" ... LOL


"That's not how it works! That's not how any of this works!"



[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/16/clinton-foundation-not-returning-weinsteins-money-thank/[/url]
386.) bluecat - 10/16/2017


Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty.

387.) Swamp Fox - 10/16/2017
On the other hand, the good news is that BO isn't running for president again, unlike some people I could name.


On the other other hand, if Trump doesn't get his act together and Republican lone rangers don't learn to play well with others, 2018 and 2020 could be ugly when Barack decides "he's da man!" to campaign for Hillary or whoever the lefty of the day is at that point.
388.) bluecat - 10/19/2017
[B]Police: 'No evidence' of excessive force in Michael Bennett incident[/B]

Police said Friday that they found "no evidence" that officers used excessive force in detaining Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett during an August incident in Las Vegas and that they had reasonable suspicion to make the stop.

Bennett has accused police officers of racial profiling, saying they pointed guns at him and used excessive force in the incident, which occurred outside a nightclub after the Aug. 26 fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor.


[url]http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20863146/las-vegas-police-release-video-incident-involving-seattle-seahawks-defensive-end-michael-bennett[/url]



[I]I'm sure it was just a case of misremembering.[/I]
389.) Swamp Fox - 10/19/2017
I haven't heard the whole story. Cops say they detained him because he was running. He says he was running.

I've seen reports that he was running despite police instructions for everyone to get down. I've haven't heard those instructions at that point in the video, haven't seen him running, and no one else was on the ground. In fact, there's quite a lot of people just milling around.

I'd like to know how fast he was running, because no one else in the videos I've seen is on a mad dash.

I wouldn't doubt police detained him because he was running. What the heck would you do? Gosh!





What if he was just jogging, though? Walking fast? Skipping a little?

What if this is all three-dimensional chess to distract from Trump's tweets?
390.) bluecat - 10/19/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52487]What the heck would you do? Gosh![/QUOTE]

I would run...right up to the moment where the police say don't run.
391.) Swamp Fox - 10/19/2017
That makes too much sense for a situation like this.

:tap:
392.) bluecat - 10/19/2017
"The Officers' excessive use of force was unbearable,"

Um, what do you do for a living again?
393.) Swamp Fox - 10/19/2017
You could then file a suit for being detained because you were standing still, because if you'd kept running, they might not have caught you.

This stuff can get confusing. Which is why you need a lawyer. LOL
394.) bluecat - 10/19/2017
Okay Yogi. :wave:
395.) Swamp Fox - 10/19/2017
It depends on what the meaning of the word "were" is ...


396.) DParker - 10/19/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52487]What if this is all three-dimensional chess to distract from Trump's tweets?[/QUOTE]

Fascinating.

397.) bluecat - 10/20/2017
[B]Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular ‘mystery meat’ in locked cases[/B]


[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/19/spam-heists-in-hawaii-prompt-retailers-to-put-the-wildly-popular-mystery-meat-in-locked-cases/?utm_term=.12ee887342d1[/url]


Last month in the Pearl City community on Oahu, Safeway customer Arlene Sua watched as a man suddenly grabbed eight cases of Spam and headed for the door. She thought “‘Okay, this isn’t real. No, he’s not going to take it, no, no,” she told KHON TV.

But it was real. The man took off with the Spam and disappeared.

Elsewhere on the island at about the same time, three women loaded up shopping carts at a Long’s drugstore with 18 cases of — you guessed it — Spam. They made a rush for the exit. Fortunately, an alert customer, Kurt Fevella, saw the attempted heist in progress, stationed himself at the door on Spam patrol and stopped them in their tracks. They shoved the carts toward at him and took off, Fevella told KITV4.

A shop at a downtown mall wasn’t so lucky. The Honolulu Police Department is now offering a $1,000 reward for a man (and an apparent accomplice) who entered a store on Oct. 3, grabbed a case of Spam and punched a security guard who attempted to stop him.

Police reported that the thief “fled in an unknown direction.”
398.) Swamp Fox - 10/20/2017
So the lesson here is that spam blockers aren't 100% reliable?

This changes everything ...
399.) bluecat - 10/20/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;52496]Fascinating.

[/QUOTE]

It took me awhile to see the joke but I figured it out. Forgive me, I don't play chess too often. Bones has just realized that he left his castle unprotected and Spock is letting him stew in his own juices before making his move of check. SMDH. LOL! Why didn't I see that!
400.) DParker - 10/20/2017
A security camera captured this image of someone police are calling "a person of interest":

401.) Swamp Fox - 10/20/2017
LOL!
402.) Swamp Fox - 10/20/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;52533] Bones has just realized that he left his castle unprotected and Spock is letting him stew in his own juices before making his move of check. SMDH. LOL! Why didn't I see that![/QUOTE]


"Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a spatial thinker!"
403.) DParker - 10/20/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52538]"Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a spatial thinker!"[/QUOTE]

404.) DParker - 10/20/2017
Headline of the week: [URL="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-pelosi-latimes-summit-20171019-story.html"]L.A. Times: Nancy Pelosi says she hasn't experienced sexual harassment in Washington[/URL]
405.) bluecat - 10/20/2017
Darn it! Lol!

I think she is safe. Even harassers have certain standards.
406.) Swamp Fox - 10/21/2017
It's slim pickin's when you're an old bat ...


407.) DParker - 10/21/2017
Awwwwwww.
408.) Swamp Fox - 10/26/2017
[B][SIZE=2]Kokomo man’s warning after having 16 guns stolen: ‘Don’t let strippers in your house’[/SIZE][/B]



[QUOTE]KOKOMO, Ind.-- Howard County gun owner Billy Swaggerty said he learned a bitter lesson after his back door was kicked in last spring and more than a dozen firearms, some of them assault-style rifles, and the safes they were kept in were stolen.

“Be careful who you tell, keep it to yourself, don’t be bragging about how many guns you got, be careful who you let into your house and make sure you buy a quality safe,” he said. “And that’s another thing…don’t let strippers in your house.”[/QUOTE]


[url]http://fox59.com/2017/10/20/kokomo-mans-warning-after-having-16-guns-stolen-dont-let-strippers-in-your-house/[/url]
409.) bluecat - 10/26/2017
We need stricter theft laws...
410.) DParker - 10/26/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52697][B][SIZE=2]Kokomo man’s warning after having 16 guns stolen: ‘Don’t let strippers in your house’[/SIZE][/B][/QUOTE]

Hold on while I get a pen and some paper. That's the sort of sage advice you need to write down.
411.) Swamp Fox - 10/26/2017
Put it on your fridge so you don't forget.
412.) bluecat - 10/26/2017
Memo to self, background check the strippers first.
413.) Swamp Fox - 11/03/2017

414.) DParker - 11/05/2017
415.) DParker - 11/05/2017
416.) Swamp Fox - 11/05/2017
LOL ...

I'd heard differing accounts of the pending revolution. Didn't happen in Texas, either, huh?


And I need to get on whoever did the Hillary tweet's mailing list ... :-)
417.) DParker - 11/05/2017
418.) Swamp Fox - 11/05/2017
... LOL
419.) Swamp Fox - 11/06/2017
Jokes about communism and socialism aren't funny unless everybody gets them ...



[QUOTE]BAD HAMBRE
[SIZE=2][B]Pets on the Menu as Venezuelans Starve[/B][/SIZE]
[I]Many Venezuelans can no longer afford beef or chicken. The government tried to make them eat rabbits. But no. Some invade zoos to carve up buffalo and horses. And many go hungry.[/I]

[url]https://www.thedailybeast.com/zoo-animals-on-the-menu-as-venezuelans-starve?via=newsletter&source=Weekend[/url][/QUOTE]
420.) DParker - 11/06/2017
Rabbit, buffalo and wild pigs? That sounds like a buffet to me.
421.) Swamp Fox - 11/06/2017
But horses are right out!
422.) DParker - 11/07/2017
Well, it didn't take long for pressure from her own party to cause Donna Brazile to do a 180 and contradict herself on whether or not the 2016 DNC nomination process was rigged in Clinton's favor (mostly BY Clinton).

[video=youtube;hQyoVYhTVVQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyoVYhTVVQ[/video]
423.) bluecat - 11/07/2017
Whoa! Jeez.
424.) DParker - 11/07/2017
I think the purple hair is meant to distract you from the song-and-dance routine she's doing.
425.) Swamp Fox - 11/07/2017
She should check in with her ghostwriter more often.

On the other hand, it's not that big a surprise that progs are having such a hard time with -- you know -- [I]words[/I]. The plain meaning of words is not really their strong suit.

I'm stocking up on popcorn for when Prairie Flower Screeching walks back her own comment.


[url]https://www.snopes.com/2017/11/03/donna-brazile-elizabeth-warren-rigged-2016-primary/[/url]
426.) DParker - 11/07/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52952]The plain meaning of words [B][I][SIZE=5]is[/SIZE][/I][/B] not really their strong suit.[/QUOTE]

427.) Swamp Fox - 11/07/2017
You thought it was bad when Brazile got caught on the debate question.

Then you thought it was bad when Brazile was caught lying about the debate question.




[url]https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/10/20/donna-brazile-tells-big-fat-lie-gets-caught-humiliated-video/[/url]


Then you thought it was bad when Brazile admitted she was lying about being persecuted about the debate question.

Now we're supposed to think it's bad when she's lying about what she thought and wrote.

Actually, I've had my innoculations by now, and I think it's pretty good ... LOL



Dems be like :dig:


:cool:
428.) Swamp Fox - 11/07/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;52953][/QUOTE]




LOL ... +3
429.) Swamp Fox - 11/07/2017
Speaking of digging deeper holes:


Ruh roh!



[QUOTE][B][SIZE=2]Fusion GPS official met with Russian operative before and after Trump Jr. sit-down[/SIZE][/B]

The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump.

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/07/fusion-gps-official-met-with-russian-operative-before-and-after-trump-jr-sit-down.html[/url]

[/QUOTE]

So it looks like the meeting with the Russian lawyer that the Dems were freaking out about was actually coordinated with the Dem-funded firm tasked with digging up dirt on Trump.

Seems legit.

Nothing like finding Russian ties right where you put them. It's even better (and easier) than finding your keys when you've misplaced them.
:ek:


Dems: [I]I can't find the Russian ties!
[/I]
Grandma: [I]Where was the last place you had them? [/I]
430.) DParker - 11/07/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52954]You thought it was bad when Brazile got caught on the debate question.

Then you thought it was bad when Brazile was caught lying about the debate question.




[url]https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/10/20/donna-brazile-tells-big-fat-lie-gets-caught-humiliated-video/[/url]


Then you thought it was bad when Brazile admitted she was lying about being persecuted about the debate question.

Now we're supposed to think it's bad when she's lying about what she thought and wrote.

Actually, I've had my innoculations by now, and I think it's pretty good ... LOL



Dems be like :dig:


:cool:[/QUOTE]

431.) Swamp Fox - 11/07/2017
LOL! That's PERFECT!


:p
432.) bluecat - 11/16/2017
[B]Real-life Hamburglar? Woman climbs through McDonald's drive-thru window to steal food and cash[/B]


[url]http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/11/15/woman-climbs-through-mcdonalds-drive-thru-window-to-steal-food-and-cash.html[/url]

I'm guessing that that wasn't a diet drink.
433.) bluecat - 11/16/2017
[B]POLICE BODY CAMERAS CAN THREATEN CIVIL RIGHTS OF BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE, NEW REPORT SAYS[/B]

[url]http://www.newsweek.com/police-body-camera-incident-report-memory-civil-rights-minority-711584?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news[/url]

You knew it was coming, ya just didn't know when.
434.) DParker - 11/16/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53154][B]POLICE BODY CAMERAS CAN THREATEN CIVIL RIGHTS OF BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE, NEW REPORT SAYS[/B]

[url]http://www.newsweek.com/police-body-camera-incident-report-memory-civil-rights-minority-711584?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news[/url]

You knew it was coming, ya just didn't know when.[/QUOTE]

This part is actually a valid point...

[quote]Because an officer’s memory of an event may be altered by watching body camera footage, doing so will likely alter what officers write in their reports. That, in turn, can make it more difficult for investigators or courts to assess whether the officer’s actions were reasonable based on what he or she perceived at the time of the incident, states the report, “The Illusion of Accuracy: How Body-Worn Camera Footage Can Distort Evidence.”[/quote]

But then it veers into Stupid Town with this...

[quote]Here's why this matters: Without carefully crafted policy safeguards in place, there is a real risk that body-worn cameras could be used in ways that threaten civil and constitutional rights and intensify the disproportionate surveillance of communities of color.[/quote]

First off, the use of the word "surveillance" is grossly misleading, as this isn't about surreptitious monitoring for the purpose of discovering illegal activity. It's about recording interactions between cops and the public for the purpose of having proof of what actually happened, and/or learning from such incidents later. And so long as the rates of crime are disproportionately higher in certain communities, those communities will...and should...be subject to higher rates of interaction with the po-po.
435.) bluecat - 11/16/2017
Agreed, and why would the civil rights of blacks and browns be any more violated than those of other colors in the footage.
436.) DParker - 11/16/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53157]Agreed, and why would the civil rights of blacks and browns be any more violated than those of other colors in the footage.[/QUOTE]

#checkyourprivilege
437.) Swamp Fox - 11/16/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53154][B]POLICE BODY CAMERAS CAN THREATEN CIVIL RIGHTS OF BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE, NEW REPORT SAYS[/B]

[/QUOTE]

I think there's a setting on the camera that can fix that, but I'm not sure.

Not really a tech guy.
438.) Swamp Fox - 11/16/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53157]Agreed, and why would the civil rights of blacks and browns be any more violated than those of other colors in the footage.[/QUOTE]


I just know something called White Balance can't be good.

Or maybe it is.

I'm so confused.
439.) DParker - 11/17/2017
The War On Drugs® yields another impressive example of law enforcement.

[URL="http://triblive.com/local/valleynewsdispatch/12960252-74/buffalo-township-couple-sues-township-insurance-company-claiming-false-arrest"]Police mistook hibiscus plants for marijuana, arrested Buffalo Township couple, suit claims[/URL]

[QUOTE]The suit says that Sneddon claimed to have expertise in identifying marijuana.[/QUOTE]

OK, Barney Fife. Let's have a look....

What you found:



What you and your "expertise" somehow managed to mistake it for, even after the 66 year-old woman you were handcuffing explained your error to you:



440.) DParker - 11/17/2017
Oh, and let me tip my hat to the genius from Nationwide as well. Your busybody....er, I mean....vigilance has no doubt saved many lives!
441.) Swamp Fox - 11/17/2017
Wow.


"What's the matter with Florida?"

Reminds me of this one:


Guy sits in jail for 3 months waiting for drug test results to come back.

Conclusion: Yep, it's drywall.


[url]https://nypost.com/2017/06/27/handyman-jailed-for-months-after-cops-mistake-drywall-for-cocaine/[/url]
442.) DParker - 11/17/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53196]Wow.


"What's the matter with Florida?"

Remnds me of this one:


Guy sits in jail for 3 months waiting for drug test results to come back.

Conclusion: Yep, it's drywall.


[url]https://nypost.com/2017/06/27/handyman-jailed-for-months-after-cops-mistake-drywall-for-cocaine/[/url][/QUOTE]

He was snorting drywall? Even worse!
443.) bluecat - 11/17/2017


'The amazing stuff about this hibiscus, is that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on the stuff.'
444.) DParker - 11/17/2017
LOL! "Bark like a dog for me, bark like a dog. Ill teach you the meaning of respect"
445.) Swamp Fox - 11/17/2017
This is causing a lot of confusion in Buffalo County:

446.) Swamp Fox - 11/17/2017
Police there are developing a new field test, to distinguish hibiscus from sober biscus ...
447.) DParker - 11/17/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53202]Police there are developing a new field test, to distinguish hibiscus from sober biscus ...[/QUOTE]

*golf clap*
448.) bluecat - 11/17/2017
449.) Swamp Fox - 11/17/2017
LOL!
450.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017

451.) DParker - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53277]
[/QUOTE]

Yeah, she's getting (rightly) hammered pretty hard...and not in a good way.
452.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
As a warrior for women, she opened a can of whoop-ass on herself. Harvard grad, and somebody gave her a Ph.D., but apparently dumb as a stump. Writes for [I]Teen Vogue[/I], so that makes 2-for-2 airheads from there that I'm familiar with. Hide your daughters, ladies and gentlemen, because the stupid is strong from that direction, to say nothing of the feminazi stalinism, LOL.


Some people might want to watch this railroad disaster from the beginning, so as a public service let me backtrack a bit, so to speak:


We start here:


[QUOTE]
[/QUOTE]


It slides down with a pantload of "nuancing" and "layering" through a tar pit of liberal identity politics gobbledegook 'til we land here:






[QUOTE]


[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]If some innocent men's reputations have to take a hit in the process of undoing the patriarchy, that is a price I am absolutely willing to pay. ..... And when the situation is framed as caring about one or the other, men's careers lose out over women's bodily autonomy in my view.

---- Emily Lindin (@EmilyLindin) November 21, 2017
[/QUOTE]






(Actually, Till was lynched: Beaten, mutilated, shot in the head and thrown in the Tallahatchie River, from which his body was not recovered for three days, but who's concerned about details?)


Anyway, we then stumble to here:

[QUOTE]

[/QUOTE]




[QUOTE]

[/QUOTE]


To wind up here, more or less:















and there's some more after that, but basically the scene closes on Emily with her head stuck in the banister, claiming everything's alright and that people weren't catching all the proper semantics, but thank you to all the "real people" who replied to help with all the "nuancing" she wanted to do to "move the conversation forward."

To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "If you use the word "nuancing," you might be a pretentious clownbag squeeb." And if she thinks there was any nuance involved in her argument, she's definitely an illiterate moron who probably shouldn't pursue a career as a writer too much longer. I suspect she doesn't know what "nuance" and "semantics" mean.

I caught exactly two replies (out of hundreds) in support of her, and they both looked like the type of little progweasels who would like to take her out for a mocha latte, tell her about how woke they are, and try to get in her pants.
453.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
That's some pretty crazy nuancing there guys. It's always nice to see a libtard get it handed to them. Not sure I even understood what the hell she was saying but anywho...





This hearkens back to a simpler time of running home from school to eat a snack, throw the football around and watch Susan Dey.

Oh, the power of women. Just be careful how you assert your manhood. :wink
454.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
LMAO!

I don't even want to know how you thought of that!

Too good!

You win the internet for today, and it's not even 10 AM!


:applause:
455.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53281]That's some pretty crazy nuancing there guys. It's always nice to see a libtard get it handed to them. Not sure I even understood what the hell she was saying but anywho...

[/QUOTE]


It really was an epic fail, but I'm a little surprised she didn't get scorched worse than she did. It's possibly because the sisterhood and its male hangers-on didn't show up to make her argument even more stupider. Maybe they're over there now, though. I'm sure I won't be able to resist peeking at some point today.

Even though no one showed up to man the barricades with her, so to speak, several of her tweets got a disturbing amount of likes, so I don't assume she's the only person who's willing to see innocent men crushed if it means dismantling the patriarchy.




456.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
Limbaugh: "Feminism Was Established So As To Allow Unattractive Women Easier Access To The Mainstream Of Pop Culture"


LOL!
457.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
Women really DO fancy men with ‘muscles and money’ according to the website full of pictures of 'hot commuters' taken secretly by females on the London Underground

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5081485/Women-want-men-muscles-money-finds-TubeCrush.html#ixzz4zAopNgg9[/url]

This study was really a blow to all feminists.
458.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53282]LMAO!

I don't even want to know how you thought of that!

Too good!

You win the internet for today, and it's not even 10 AM!


:applause:[/QUOTE]

Synchronicity
459.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53285]Women really DO fancy men with ‘muscles and money’ according to the website full of pictures of 'hot commuters' taken secretly by females on the London Underground

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5081485/Women-want-men-muscles-money-finds-TubeCrush.html#ixzz4zAopNgg9[/url]

This study was really a blow to all feminists.[/QUOTE]



[QUOTE]The site has around 3,000 visitors daily, 40 per cent of which are male.
[/QUOTE]



LOL ...
460.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
If you put your ear to the wind you can just hear the collective roar of all men saying, "I [B]knew[/B] it!"



Hopefully there won't be a study showing that men are attracted to pretty women. That would be devastating and shocking.
461.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
To rip off a blog post I saw:

[QUOTE]
“How can we make progress on gender roles when men still prefer fit young women who wear a C-cup?”[/QUOTE]


LOL ...



But really, the problem goes deeper than biology ...









I'm so confused ... LOL
462.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
Can you imagine God up there in his heavenly throne pulling at his beard going, "They can't figure [B]this[/B] out?"


Life is tough in a millennial world. There's just so much confusion.
463.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
[quote]“How can we make progress on gender roles when men still prefer fit young women who wear a C-cup?”[/quote]

The nerve.
464.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
This should help clear things up.

Poll: 77% of Democrats with 4-Year Degrees Think Sex Not Determined at Birth

[url]http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/12/pew-77-percent-white-democratic-graduates-cannot-determine-person-sex/[/url]

465.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53290]Can you imagine God up there in his heavenly throne pulling at his beard going, "They can't figure [B]this[/B] out?"


Life is tough in a millennial world. There's just so much confusion.[/QUOTE]




466.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
Oh ... God?

I thought you said "Gob."


:-)
467.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
468.) DParker - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53280]Till was lynched: Beaten, mutilated, shot in the head and thrown in the Tallahatchie River[/QUOTE]

And THEN we kill him!!

469.) DParker - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53288]If you put your ear to the wind you can just hear the collective roar of all men saying, "I [B]knew[/B] it!"[/QUOTE]

If you put your ear to Emily Lindin's ear you can hear the ocean.
470.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53296]And THEN we kill him!!

[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;53297]If you put your ear to Emily Lindin's ear you can hear the ocean.[/QUOTE]



+5s all around! ...LOL
471.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53297]If you put your ear to Emily Lindin's ear you can hear the ocean.[/QUOTE]



Earlier today, I noticed Emily was taking a break from Twitter, LOL.

As of right now, though, she has retreated to the bunker, swung closed the doors and hidden her account.

[url]https://twitter.com/EmilyLindin?protected_redirect=true[/url]





I suspected last night that I should grab all the best tweets while I could ...


This is one of my favorites. It's between this one and the nuancing vs. layering poll :applause::




472.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
Ouch, that had a little stank on it...LOL
473.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53292]This should help clear things up.

Poll: 77% of Democrats with 4-Year Degrees Think Sex Not Determined at Birth

[url]http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/12/pew-77-percent-white-democratic-graduates-cannot-determine-person-sex/[/url]

[/QUOTE]

Amazing. The party of science.

And civics. And the arc of history. What else? :re:


[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankmiller/2017/09/20/students-arent-the-only-ones-who-dont-understand-free-speech/#6d903e175932[/url]


[url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/poll-constitution/index.html[/url]




474.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
What have the dumbocrats ever done for us...
475.) DParker - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53292]This should help clear things up.

Poll: 77% of Democrats with 4-Year Degrees Think Sex Not Determined at Birth

[url]http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/12/pew-77-percent-white-democratic-graduates-cannot-determine-person-sex/[/url]

[/QUOTE]

It's true. I might look like a fat, middle-aged man...but I'm really an athletic 20 year-old young woman. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the locker room to join my sisters on the local college women's volleyball team.
476.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53303]It's true. I might look like a fat, middle-aged man...but I'm really an athletic 20 year-old young woman. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the locker room to join my sisters on the local college women's volleyball team.[/QUOTE]

You can be anything you want to be! You just have to believe in yourself!

It's all on a spectrum, anyway ...

You go, girl!
477.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53302]What have the dumbocrats ever done for us...[/QUOTE]



Well, there's Manifest Destiny, but after that things kinda go off the rails .... LOL


[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny[/url]
478.) bluecat - 11/22/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53292]

[/QUOTE]

Enjoy your cats.
479.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2017
That's unnecessarily derogatory toward cats ...

They know what's up!



480.) DParker - 11/22/2017
Lest we forget our own village idiots...this just in from the "Aw, C'mon...Man!!! What The Hell's Wrong With You?!!!" files. 68 year-old TX representative decides it's a good idea to take a junk-inclusive nude pic of himself and send it to some woman he's having a fling with. Shockingly, said pic finds its way to the Internet. I mean, who could have imagined that ever happening?

[URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/amp/texas-congressman-joe-barton-apologizes-after-nude-photo-surfaces-n823426"]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/amp/texas-congressman-joe-barton-apologizes-after-nude-photo-surfaces-n823426[/URL]



I think I speak for pretty much the entire planet when I say, "Ewwwwwwwwwwww".
481.) DParker - 11/23/2017
On the other hand...there's always creepy Uncle Joe.

[video=youtube;KQ-YjGmpO4Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=KQ-YjGmpO4Q&app=desktop[/video]
482.) Swamp Fox - 11/23/2017
Sixty-eight is the new 14.

[I]Campaign spokesman Sum Ting Wong dismissed rumors that the congressman would resign, insisting he would "stick it out through the next erection and work hard every day to regain the confidence of voters in his dicstrit."[/I]
483.) DParker - 11/23/2017
LOL OK....+7.
484.) Swamp Fox - 11/23/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53309]On the other hand...there's always creepy Uncle Joe.

[video=youtube;KQ-YjGmpO4Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=KQ-YjGmpO4Q&app=desktop[/video][/QUOTE]


Well, *that* clip's about 10 minutes too long!


Joe thought he wasn't ready *last* time around ... It's a whole new meat grinder waiting out there now.


I wonder if anyone's ever approached him to do commercials for panel vans?







On the other hand, there's this:


485.) bluecat - 11/23/2017
+ a bunch, Swampy.
486.) bluecat - 11/23/2017
That's just Joe being Joe.
487.) bluecat - 11/29/2017
488.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2017
"Senator, I studied Pocahontas. I know Pocahontas. Pocahontas could have been a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Pocahontas."


[Coming soon to a debate stage near you. PM me for address to remit royalty fees.]


Not sure the progs have really thought through this "Pocahontas is a racial slur" thing very well ....


489.) bluecat - 11/29/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53309]On the other hand...there's always creepy Uncle Joe.

[video=youtube;KQ-YjGmpO4Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=KQ-YjGmpO4Q&app=desktop[/video][/QUOTE]



How is this loser not behind bars? That whole thing is disturbing.
490.) bluecat - 11/29/2017
Inappropriate comments during a speech? Yeah, I hate that too.


491.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2017
"All workplace violence and no play makes Jackass a dull boy."

But seriously [:awkward and inapproriate rimshot:] ...On the spectrum of unseemly Obamanisms that's pretty mild. Somebody could put together a really good montage if we're going down this road of "inapproriateness." I'd start with memorials, meeting leaders of state, and golf choices. People who are offended by Trump have had some serious trigger adjustments and memory wipes recently, apparently.

Here, let me help :wink ...








[url]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/10/obamas-antics-at-nelson-mandela-tribute-jovial-con/[/url]


[B]'Leisure activities are a good way for release and clearing of the mind': White House defends Obama golfing just minutes after addressing nation about James Foley's beheading – as John Kerry goes SAILING
[/B]
Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732133/Leisure-activities-good-way-release-clearing-mind-White-House-defends-pictures-Obama-playing-golf-just-minutes-addressing-nation-James-Foley-s-beheading.html#ixzz4zqXGTfKd[/url]
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This is classic... Enjoy, kemosabe!


[QUOTE]President BARACK OBAMA was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upstate New York.

He spoke for almost an hour about his plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living. He referred to his time as a U.S. Senator and how he had voted for every Native American issue that came to the floor of the Senate.

Although President Obama was vague about the details of his plans, he seemed most enthusiastic and spoke eloquently about his ideas for helping his "Red sisters and brothers".

At the conclusion of his speech, the Tribes presented Obama with a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name, "Walking Eagle".

The proud President Obama accepted the plaque and then departed in his motorcade to a fundraiser, waving to the crowds.

A news reporter later asked the group of chiefs how they came to select the new name they had given to the President. They explained that "Walking Eagle" is the name "given to a bird so full of shit it can no longer fly."[/QUOTE]
492.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53405]How is this loser not behind bars? That whole thing is disturbing.[/QUOTE]



Wait til the press remembers nekkid swimming in the pool:

[B]
In Defense Of Naked Joe Biden[/B]


[QUOTE] In "The First Family Detail," author Ronald Kessler claims to have the skinny on Biden from Secret Service agents who protect senior politicians. "Agents say that, whether at the vice president's residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude. Female Secret Service agents find the behavior offensive," Kessler writes.


[url]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/in-defense-of-naked-joe-biden/375507/[/url]

[/QUOTE]




That's SO 2014 ....LOL
493.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53408]Wait til the press remembers nekkid swimming in the pool: [/QUOTE]


To say nothing of this:


[B]
Ted Kennedy On The Rocks
[/B]
[url]https://www.gq.com/story/kennedy-ted-senator-profile[/url]
494.) bluecat - 11/29/2017
+ 5 Oh, the memories.
495.) bluecat - 11/29/2017



Hit the bricks.
496.) DParker - 11/29/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53411]


Hit the bricks.[/QUOTE]

LOL! I did a Google Image Search on that one twice, with each one giving in a different "Best guess for this image: " result. The first one was, "Matt Lauer bulge" and the second was, "silver daddy".
497.) DParker - 11/29/2017
Poor Katie Holmes. She never stood a chance.

498.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2017
LOL ..

Now do Rosie O'Donnell ...
499.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2017
500.) DParker - 11/29/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53414]LOL ..

Now do Rosie O'Donnell ...[/QUOTE]

Not with your....er.....keyboard.
501.) Swamp Fox - 11/30/2017
[QUOTE][B]
Rosie O'Donnell Breaks Her Silence on Donald Trump: "I Seriously Worry Whether I Will Be Able to Live Through His Presidency"[/B]



[B]Q:[/B] I wonder if your role as a comedian has something to do with so many people not taking you seriously a decade ago? And now with your role on this show, which is not necessarily comedic though there are moments of levity, how do you balance your role as a comedian with being a truth teller and dramatic actress as well?


[B]A:[/B] I haven’t done any interviews since he’s been elected. Today’s the first day of doing interviews. I haven’t been on television doing interviews since he’s been elected, so when I do the press for this show that will be the first time, and it has taken me a full year to integrate the reality of him being a president in a way that I don’t come across as either so full of rage that no one can hear my words, or so sad that I can’t articulate the level of pain. It’s taken a year for me to get my equilibrium back, to come back up to the surface, to really go, “Okay, every Monday is the hope that this is the last week"—and every Friday is a devastation. There are people who tell me, “Oh it’s going to be another year, another two years,” and I seriously worry whether I personally will be able to live through [his presidency] and whether the nation will be able to live through it and survive. It’s a terrifying concept, on the brink of nuclear war with a madman in charge. And the ineptitude—the impotence of people who should be able to stop him claiming they can’t—is absolutely infuriating.

[url]https://www.wmagazine.com/story/rosie-odonnell-smilf-showtime-new-donald-trump-interview[/url] --Published October 24, 2017[/QUOTE]


[B][SIZE=2]
[COLOR="#FF0000"]"You can only bring 3.4 oz. of liberal tears on a plane, but it turns out that wasn't the main problem ..."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]
502.) bluecat - 11/30/2017
:laugh:
503.) bluecat - 11/30/2017
504.) bluecat - 12/01/2017
505.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2017



[QUOTE][SIZE=2][B]Vox's puritan Christmas party wouldn't be so funny if its writers hadn't dumped on the Pence Rule so much[/B]
[/SIZE]

This isn’t so much a defense of Vice President Mike Pence’s personal rule that he will not meet alone with any woman who is not his wife, as it is a celebration of a pretty humorous self-own.

Vox Media announced in a company memo this week that its staff would be limited to two drinks at this year’s Christmas party.

The reason is clear: They don’t want to run the risk of employees having too much to drink and doing things that could later be categorized as sexual misconduct. After all, Vox is still dealing with the fallout from firing Lockhart Steele, the company's editorial director, following allegations he sexually harassed a former employee.

[...]

This is all a bit infantilizing, and it suggest Vox’s brass holds a dim view of its staff. But whatever. Whatever works for them works for them.

What makes this entire episode particularly amusing is the fact that the media group that doesn’t trust its staff to behave themselves after two drinks is the same group that owns a site that has published a whole bunch of thinkpieces decrying the so-called "Pence Rule."

[...]

The funny thing is: When you place them side by side, Vox’s two-drink rule is the same damn thing as the Pence Rule. At the heart of it, both rules are based on the premise that humans are fallen and that we’re better off setting up strict guardrails to protect against situations which could potentially lead to dishonor and ruination.

Just as Pence does, Vox is protecting its employees against the occasion of sin. There is one difference, though: Pence makes the choice for himself!

[url]http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/voxs-puritan-christmas-party-wouldnt-be-so-funny-if-its-writers-hadnt-dumped-on-the-pence-rule-so-much/article/2642354[/url][/QUOTE]
506.) bluecat - 12/02/2017
Scott Frost just named NU football coach.
507.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2017
He's not playing, though.


508.) bluecat - 12/02/2017
He'll be a player coach.
509.) crookedeye - 12/02/2017
im really looking forward to next year..this makes it all worth while..that stadium is going to be rockin first game next season when frost comes running out the tunnel...theres only upward progress after this season..


did you hear terry dury fell out of his tree?? hes ok
510.) crookedeye - 12/02/2017
i finally used a linemans belt hanging a stand this year..what a difference..

i guess drurys step broke...ned yost the KC baseball coach was in the process of hooking up his harness and his stand collaspe..hes very lucky to be alive
511.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2017
I missed the Drury thing, but I saw the KC Royals manager story the other day somewhere that you mentioned here a week or so ago. He was hooking up when the stand collapsed. Nearly died from the trauma done to his pelvis, etc. I don't know anything other than that.

Now's the time for Luv2 to formally issue the Drury challenge. Seize the advantage, LOL.
512.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2017
Typing the same thing at the same time ... Uh oh!


I'm liking this guy more and more, too:


513.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2017
That can't be good ...
514.) crookedeye - 12/02/2017
scott frost is the best pic they could have made..im seeing big 10 championships in the near future..
515.) crookedeye - 12/02/2017
what was central florida 0 and 12 a few years ago..and today the acc champs..thats coaching right there..
516.) Swamp Fox - 12/02/2017
AAC ...but who's counting, LOL. That UCF game looks like it was a good one today, but I didn't catch it.

[url]https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/12/02/memphis-central-florida-aac-championship[/url]

Here's Drury taiking about his accident. Sounds like the step pulled out from a damaged tree. Old set, and the farm manager checked it at some point this year, but either missed the problem or storm damage occurred after the check. I think he has five broken ribs, a broken vertebra and some other damage. Fell on his heavy pack, which he was wearing, 17 feet or so, he says.

Worth listening to if you have nothing else to do, LOL, but there's not much more to it than that.

[url]http://wiredtohunt.com/2017/07/06/100-wild-podcast-41-mark-drury-on-aggressive-tactics-for-big-bucks/[/url]
517.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
i dont no if i really like those rock climbing harnesses..say youre standing in youre stand sideways and youre stand collaspes..seems like you would flip and be sideways until hopefully you caught you balance..they hopefully didnt break youre back..

i think the wingman and a regular harness is the way to go..
518.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
i call it the american conference college, so its the acc..
519.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2017
[QUOTE=crookedeye;53446]i dont no if i really like those rock climbing harnesses..say youre standing in youre stand sideways and youre stand collaspes..seems like you would flip and be sideways until hopefully you caught you balance..they hopefully didnt break youre back..

i think the wingman and a regular harness is the way to go..[/QUOTE]


I like the idea of the wingman but I doubt you could get me back in a traditional harness for any reason.

Keep slack out of your tether and you don't have to worry about 95% of the scenarios people dream up. You'd need an extraordinary amount of slack to tip over sideways in any meaningful way for any length of time. Remember that the harness doesn't hold you as if it's tied to the middle of a solid, inflexible stick or rod; it pulls you into a semi-sitting position with your weight (upper body) up top and facing the anchor.

I know people have tried to do it to make a point, but I've never heard of anyone successfully showing how a rock harness---even with the maximum amount of slack we hunters would possibly have --is going to put someone in a horizontal or upside-down position.
520.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
i wonder why osha doesnt approve rock climbing stuff for workers
521.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
i'll tell you why ..because falls happen unexpectantly..
522.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
noing you might fall.. a rock climbing harness is the way to go..
523.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2017
[QUOTE=crookedeye;53450]i wonder why osha doesnt approve rock climbing stuff for workers[/QUOTE]


My guess is inertia. It's easier to to what you've always done. Rock harnesses have only been around in somewhat current form since the 60s. I'm not sure about arborists harnesses (same basic concept, but a lot heavier, if not sturdier). I prolly should go look that up for grins and giggles.

By contrast, I can think of four-point harnesses in use way back, at least to the early 20th century. Think emergency parachute harnesses of early aviators, for example.

In an industrial setting, you (usually? always?) have someone or some equipment to help you when you get stuck dangling in your five-point harness. In sport climbing or arborist work, you often don't. So I'm guessing getting attached and left to hang in the back between your shoulder blades was off the table pretty early in the brainstorming session, when those groups got together to shoot the breeze.
524.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
a guy fell through a roof one time with 10 ft of slack..it was one heck of a jolt to him but a trip to the hospital he was back to work the next day..
525.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2017
LOL ... Enjoy ... LOL

(Also, don't do anything shown in either of these clips ... LOL)






526.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
when i work i always like to have at least 30 ft of slack in the rope...it makes it easier..lol plus the pavement will break my fall..
527.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2017
[QUOTE=crookedeye;53456]a guy fell through a roof one time with 10 ft of slack..it was one heck of a jolt to him but a trip to the hospital he was back to work the next day..[/QUOTE]

What are you tied to up there? Some type of line run across the roof, or individual anchors?

I was reading some stuff a while back where some firefighters were all flustered about how they were going to get a guy out of a tree after his treestand collapsed. They were talking about humping ladders through the woods to get up above the guy.

You can imagine how well that was going to work. Eventually a guy with rope climbing or rope rescue training set them straight a little bit, but you can imagine that if the damn fire department or EMS guys have to be specially trained to get you out of a jam, (and that training isn't all that common), you might as well figure out how to do it yourself, LOL.
528.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2017
Here's what I was looking for originally when I posted the two clips above. Includes bonus sarcastic running commentary from real-life climber, LOL. Comments section is amusing, too, as I recall.


529.) crookedeye - 12/03/2017
theres going to be a frost advisory for big 10 opponents come early fall next year..
530.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53459]... but you can imagine that if the damn fire department or EMS guys have to be specially trained to get you out of a jam, (and that training isn't all that common), you might as well figure out how to do it yourself, LOL.[/QUOTE]


Sometimes you just have to take charge and do things for yourself, and that goes double for Waffle House Emergencies:


[SIZE=2][B]While an employee slept, SC man made himself at home at Waffle House[/B]
[/SIZE]

[url]http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/36966063/while-an-employee-slept-sc-man-made-himself-at-home-at-waffle-house[/url]


:grin:
531.) bluecat - 12/04/2017
Waffle houses seem to bring out the best in people.
532.) Swamp Fox - 12/04/2017
It's the hash browns ...
533.) bluecat - 12/04/2017
The ones with the real hash.
534.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2017
[url]https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/cold-opening/n10108[/url]
535.) DParker - 12/08/2017
LOL! There's so much irony in that I hardly know where to begin.
536.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
(CNN) — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders isn't a big fan of the media.

Which is, of course, her right. The relationship between any White House and any press corps tasked with covering that White House is almost always fraught and fractious.

But, on Monday, Sanders made an accusation that went way, way beyond the pale of the usual give and take between White House and press corps. Here's what she said:

[I]"There's a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people. Something that happens regularly. You can't say -- I'm not done. You can't say that it's an honest mistake when you are purposely putting out information that you know to be false or when you're taking information that hasn't been validated, that hasn't been offered any credibility and that has been continually denied by a number of people including people with direct knowledge of an incident. This is something that -- I'm speaking about the number of reports that have taken place over the last couple of weeks. I'm simply stating that there should be a certain level of responsibility in that process."
[/I]


[url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/sarah-sanders-press-briefing-analysis/index.html[/url]


She got game! Always entertaining. Never backs down.
537.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
I saw that. It was like she was having to manage a classroom full of third graders after lunch.

(Speaking of which, I just got a flashback of standing in line with my plastic tray and sliding it along on stainless steel rails. I can smell what the lunchlady has behind the window. I think we're getting either shells or ravioli today.)
538.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
Jamie Harrington is poking me in the ribs ...
539.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
540.) DParker - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE]Sarah Sanders just made a hugely offensive allegation against the media[/QUOTE]

That's like saying you offended a hooker by calling her a whore.

[QUOTE]But, but, but. Nowhere in anything we know about Ross' erroneous reporting is there even a whiff of intentionality.[/QUOTE]

Uh...right here:

[QUOTE]There's no question that Ross' reporting was misleading. And that it was taken by lots of people who oppose Trump's presidency as game, set and match on collusion. It was a big mistake made even worse by the fact that Ross relied on a single source rather than at least two sources, which is long-standing journalistic practice.[/QUOTE]

So he intentionally ran with a story based on a single-sourced assertion without vetting it, in violation of basic journalistic standards. This also wasn't Ross' first offense.
541.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53717]Jamie Harrington is poking me in the ribs ...[/QUOTE]


I'm going to separate you two in about half a minute. You can think about it while facing the wall.
542.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
Perhaps we should divulge how many diet cokes we drink during the day. That's what's more important than any of this.
543.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53724]

So he intentionally ran with a story based on a single-sourced assertion without vetting it, in violation of basic journalistic standards. This also wasn't Ross' first offense.[/QUOTE]




Exactly. You beat me to it. When you rush or single-source or hand out anonymity like candy, you're are doing it intentionally. You know it's dicey and yet you do it anyway. You're sacrificing standards and deserve to get your ass handed to you when it blows up in your face.

There's even more embarrassment in expanded video, so I would encourage anyone with the time to look it up, because you know the media is going to harp on this for at least a few weeks.

Cilliza is a bit of a dunce and very predictable (but not much worse than a lot of people). He has a pretty big platform, though, and so this take will get picked up and amplified, if it's not already conventional wisdom this morning.
544.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53726]Perhaps we should divulge how many diet cokes we drink during the day. That's what's more important than any of this.[/QUOTE]

Saw it. Didn't read it.


LOL


[B]TS; DR[/B] .... ???


Too Stupid; Didn't Read ......???



Could that become a thing?
545.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE]But, to suggest -- or believe -- that the mistakes made by the media, including CNN, are purposeful is beyond offensive to anyone who spends their days in this profession. Is it possible there is a bad apple or two? Yup. Just like in every profession ever. But the vast, vast majority of journalists work like hell to get it right and beat themselves up for weeks and months when they make an honest mistake.
Those are the facts. And they aren't negotiable -- not by Donald Trump, not by Sarah Sanders, not by anyone.---Chris Cilliza, above[/QUOTE]


I think the media would do a lot of good for themselves if they quit whining about how they’re offended and being insulted ―especially comical since they’re screwing up even basic journalism so badly, never mind punditry― and start standing up for their consumers. People don’t trust the media because they see a lot of incompetence, but also because they see the media making things all about the media.

There’s plenty of material out there to cover, but what’s front and center is the media “resisting” and getting things badly wrong while doing so. Journalists like to spout off about being champions of the little guy, but what we see is them being champions mostly for themselves.


New Flash: It’s not all about you.

Pull up your big-boy pants and do your jobs!
546.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
[url]http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/12/11/cnn-airs-segment-on-trumps-soda-consumption-while-nyc-terror-attack-unfolded/[/url]


547.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
You know what I got from that graphic? That I could look forward to two full days of lead-up to three or four hours of blathering about developing voting results in Alabama, before the media hot-take can be finalized:


548.) DParker - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53730][url]http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/12/11/cnn-airs-segment-on-trumps-soda-consumption-while-nyc-terror-attack-unfolded/[/url]


[/QUOTE]

Well, you've got to wash down those 2 scoops of ice cream with [I]something[/I].
549.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
There's gotta be a middle ground between 24-7 Trump Derangement Coverage and 24-7 Doom and Disaster Coverage ...


The Cartoon Network?
550.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53732]Well, you've got to wash down those 2 scoops of ice cream with [I]something[/I].[/QUOTE]


LOL ...


Here: New emoticon for "Watching the news right now." ------

551.) Swamp Fox - 12/13/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53731]You know what I got from that graphic? That I could look forward to two full days of lead-up to three or four hours of blathering about developing voting results in Alabama, before the media hot-take can be finalized:
[/QUOTE]


Republicans process the Roy Moore loss in Alabama:

(Warning: Some salty language. They're really upset.)




Oh, wait ...



But I do need to get out of the prediction business ... LOL
552.) bluecat - 12/13/2017
That was awesome! A good start to the day.
553.) Swamp Fox - 12/13/2017
I challenge the internet to come up with a video or at least a GIF that is not so obviously shoehorned to fit Moore. I'm embarrassed for our creative class if it fails.

Looking forward to all the over-the-top reaction and and centrifugally spun analysis today.

I have Joy Behar in the office pool for most lame-brained response. Other nominations?





Speaking of creativity, the report she's reading from tuned out to be false within hours, as everyone here probably knows. But it WAS inspirational! Behar and her audience needed a trip to the medicine cabinet to even out the mood swings.)


[QUOTE][SIZE=3][B]Are conservatives less creative than liberals?[/B][/SIZE]
[B]Obama's election may mean spurred creativity for the nation[/B][/QUOTE]

["So the answer may surprise you" ... If you don't know how this works. :re:]

[QUOTE][url]https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200811/are-conservatives-less-creative-liberals[/url]
Posted Nov 05, 2008

[/QUOTE]
554.) bluecat - 12/15/2017
'Jingle Bells' rooted in racism, Boston University professor says

“Jingle Bells,” one of the most well-known Christmas carols in the world, is now being called racist.

A Boston University theater professor claims the Christmas carol has a “problematic history” because it was originally performed to make fun of African Americans.

“The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,” Kyna Hamill, a BU theater historian, wrote in her “Theatre Survey” research paper on the story of “Jingle Bells.”


SNOWFLAKES AT CHRISTMAS? SOME UNIVERSITIES OFFER NO SAFE SPACE FOR SANTA – OR JESUS

“Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States,” she wrote.

Hamill started researching the history of the famous Christmas carol after a so-called “Jingle Bells War” – a dispute between two towns, Medford, Mass. and Savannah, Ga. – that claim to be the birthplace of the song written by James Pierpont.

“Its origins emerged from the economic needs of a perpetually unsuccessful man, the racial politics of antebellum Boston, the city’s climate, and the intertheatrical repertoire of commercial blackface performers moving between Boston and New York,” Hamill wrote.

The traces of blackface minstrel origins can be found in the music and lyrics, as well as the “elements of ‘male display,’ boasting, and the unbridled behavior of the male body onstage,” the author wrote.

The song’s lyrics, which Hamill adds “display no real originality,” and reference things like “Miss Fanny Bright” and “dashing through the snow” connect the song to blackface dandy, according to the research paper.

“Words such as ‘thro,’ ‘tho’t,’ and ‘upsot’ suggest a racialized performance that attempted to sound ‘southern’ to a northern audience,” Hamill wrote.

“As I mentioned in my article, the first documented performance of the song is in a blackface minstrel hall in Boston in 1857, the same year it was copyrighted,” Hamill told Fox News. “Much research has been done on the problematic history of this nineteenth-century entertainment.”

Hamill added that her research has been public for two years and has nothing to do with Christmas.

Jingle Bells was the first song ever broadcast from outer space in 1965, as reported by History.com.

The research paper was widely panned on social media with Twitter users calling it liberal overreach.

“Jingle Bells is racist, White Christmas is racist, Baby it’s Cold Outside is sexist. What the hell happend to the America I grew up in where people didn’t wake up every day trying to find something to be offended by?” one Twitter user wrote.

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/15/jingle-bells-rooted-in-racism-boston-university-professor-says.html[/url]
555.) DParker - 12/15/2017
556.) bluecat - 12/15/2017
I knew it!
557.) Swamp Fox - 12/16/2017



I'm gonna claim that the professor hasn't said the song is racist, just that the song had racist origins. I have a feeling she knows the difference. Throw in some cultural appropriation for bonus points. My blood pressure still hasn't spiked.

I'm too lazy to download/pay for the research paper to read it, but until somebody shows me a quote in contradiction, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
558.) Swamp Fox - 12/16/2017
559.) bluecat - 12/16/2017
Well, I told ya! But did you listen, no.
560.) Swamp Fox - 12/16/2017
LOL ... +2
561.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
I was gonna start a new thread for stuff like this, called "Top Signs America Is In Decline", but I don't have the energy.


...two, three, four ...


[QUOTE]A new law went into effect in the new year that has some Oregonians terrified and threatening to protest.

Why? Because the new law will allow Oregonians in certain unpopulated areas the option of pumping their own gas and some Oregonians just can’t even.

[url]https://www.redstate.com/prevaila/2018/01/03/hilarious-oregonians-freaking-pumping-gas/[/url][/QUOTE]
562.) bluecat - 01/03/2018



:-)
563.) DParker - 01/03/2018
Yeah, that really blew me away the first time I needed gas when we spent a year in Portland. I got out of my car, took the gas cap off and started to reach for the pump when the "attendant" (scruffy low-life who was sitting on an Igloo cooler waiting for someone to pull up so he could do his vital job) came running over, giving birth to a heiffer in the process. Who knew I was about to become an outlaw by pumping my own gas? I'd only been doing that in...oh...just about every other state in the union since I was 12 years old.
564.) bluecat - 01/03/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;54051]Yeah, that really blew me away the first time I needed gas when we spent a year in Portland. I got out of my car, took the gas cap off and started to reach for the pump when the "attendant" (scruffy low-life who was sitting on an Igloo cooler waiting for someone to pull up so he could do his vital job) came running over, [B]giving birth to a heiffer in the process[/B]. Who knew I was about to become an outlaw by pumping my own gas? I'd only been doing that in...oh...just about every other state in the union since I was 12 years old.[/QUOTE]

+ 5 :laugh:
565.) bluecat - 01/03/2018
I'll be honest, I wasn't aware there were any full service stations still in existence.
566.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
I thought it was only New Jersey, but when I saw this story I vaguely remembered hearing something about Oregon. I think that's it, though.


They tried to do away with it in NJ a few years ago, if I recall, but I don't know what happened. From what I can tell, the system is corrupt. I used to think it was just on the Turnpike, to keep things moving along without motorist lollygagging, but as far as I know it is (was?) more stupid than that, and statewide.

I'd like to see more "full service" stations or gas stops, to be honest, or a choice of full- or self-serve, but the compulsory stuff can go pound sand.
567.) DParker - 01/03/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54054]They tried to do away with it in NJ a few years ago, if I recall, but I don't know what happened. From what I can tell the system is corrupt.[/QUOTE]

Political corruption? In [I]New Jersey[/I]?!!! The HELL you say!!!!!
568.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
I know ...Shocker.
569.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
For some reason I have it in the back of my head that I'd heard somewhere that it was a union thing, but I don't know that it's true and I'm too distracted to look it up, LOL.
570.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
This Luv2 deer season recap thing has me all on edge ...
571.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
I don't know if any of you are following the news today, but the whole day has been lit AF, as the cool kids say. I've actually never seen it as nuts.



And Now The Latest: Hillary and Bill's house in NY is on fire ... LOL ...I think it's the "guest house" but you know it's the servers and file cabinets ...LOL


572.) luv2bowhunt - 01/03/2018
573.) luv2bowhunt - 01/03/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54062]This Luv2 deer season recap thing has me all on edge ...[/QUOTE]

via GIPHY

574.) bluecat - 01/03/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54063]I don't know if any of you are following the news today, but the whole day has been lit AF, as the cool kids say. I've actually never seen it as nuts.



And Now The Latest: Hillary and Bill's house in NY is on fire ... LOL ...I think it's the "guest house" but you know it's the servers and file cabinets ...LOL
[/QUOTE]

Don't tease us like that.
575.) DParker - 01/03/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54063]I don't know if any of you are following the news today, but the whole day has been lit AF, as the cool kids say. I've actually never seen it as nuts.



And Now The Latest: Hillary and Bill's house in NY is on fire ... LOL ...I think it's the "guest house" but you know it's the servers and file cabinets ...LOL[/QUOTE]

From this report: [URL="http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/new-castle/2018/01/03/fire-reported-clintons-house-chappaqua/1001102001/"]lohud: Fire reported at Hillary and Bill Clinton's house in Chappaqua[/URL]

[QUOTE]But scanner reports said it was a bedroom fire...[/QUOTE]

I guess Bill was entertaining company while Hillary was out.
576.) bluecat - 01/03/2018
Energizer Bunny: "Do you smoke after sex?"

Bill: "I don't know, I never checked."
577.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
Bill and his cigar habit ...What are you gonna do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The guy from 528--the probability/stats place--his name is Nate Silver: He said yesterday something to the effect that he blamed journalists and the media for acting like the Hillary email thing was like the apocalypse, in light of the current tensions with North Korea (which everybody in the the predictable precincts has their hair on fire about).

I'm half tempted to find his geek ass online and ask him what are the odds "extreme carelessness" can burn your house down.
578.) bluecat - 01/03/2018
extreme carelessness   gross negligence

It's a minor detail. :wink
579.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54069]....what are the odds "extreme carelessness" can burn your house down.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;54070] extreme carelessness * gross negligence

It's a minor detail. :wink[/QUOTE]



"Burn the house down? What?...Like, with unsecured documents or something?"

580.) bluecat - 01/04/2018
581.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
LOL...

One of the best tunes and music videos ever... LOL ...



Suck it, millennnials!
582.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54072]


Won't let me embed from phone.[/QUOTE]


Can you do it from laptop/desktop?


#FirstWorldProblems---


We really have to bring the Friday Music Videos back ....
583.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
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584.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
.....
585.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
586.) bluecat - 01/04/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54074]Can you do it from laptop/desktop?


#FirstWorldProblems---


We really have to bring the Friday Music Videos back ....[/QUOTE]

Yes, the phone just doesn't bring up that option.
587.) DParker - 01/04/2018
588.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54087]Yes, the phone just doesn't bring up that option.[/QUOTE]

That's weird.
589.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
DP, I've been trying to come up with a good Donner Party joke all day, but am sad to report failure.
590.) bluecat - 01/04/2018
591.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
LOL---I made a brief, sad attempt to find a Far Side, because I figured he had done at least one, but somehow that never came up, LOL.

Keep them coming, because I need some good material to get through the next couple of days of hibernation.


It's so cold here, we got genuine powder last night. Two inches where I am.
592.) bluecat - 01/04/2018
593.) bluecat - 01/04/2018
594.) bluecat - 01/04/2018
595.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
I think the Donner Party had to deal with something like 22 feet of snow at one point. That kind of adversity makes for strong family bonding and heart-warming meals around the fire.
596.) DParker - 01/04/2018






597.) Swamp Fox - 01/04/2018
LOL... I like the procrastination one.

I keep turning around "Donner party ...Party of 45 ...Your table is ready" in my mind but I can't really see how it's that biting, or gets you in the gut ...

Maybe I have to remember that "Perfection is the enemy of the good" line.
598.) DParker - 01/05/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54101]LOL... I like the procrastination one.

I keep turning around "Donner party ...Party of 45 ...Your table is ready" in my mind but I can't really see how it's that biting, or gets you in the gut ...

Maybe I have to remember that "Perfection is the enemy of the good" line.[/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;UUNvFVQYClY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNvFVQYClY[/video]
599.) bluecat - 01/05/2018
Let's eat grandma...
600.) bluecat - 01/05/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54094]LOL---I made a brief, sad attempt to find a Far Side, because I figured he had done at least one, but somehow that never came up, LOL.

Keep them coming, because I need some good material to get through the next couple of days of hibernation.


It's so cold here, we got genuine powder last night. Two inches where I am.[/QUOTE]

Is it a 12 cat night?
601.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2018
It was 4* at 5:30 this morning, so yeah, I could have used some extra heat.



DP: +4 for the video.
602.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54104]Is it a 12 cat night?[/QUOTE]


12 Cat Night > Three Dog Night


But:

#RejectedBandNames
603.) bluecat - 01/05/2018
[url=https://imgur.com/hM9yNPI][/url]

Three Cat Night
604.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2018
Better than rubbing two sticks together ...
605.) DParker - 01/05/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54112][url=https://imgur.com/hM9yNPI][/url]

Three Cat Night[/QUOTE]

So there IS a Heaven!
606.) DParker - 01/05/2018
"It's so cold, Bernie Sanders was spotted with his hands in his own pockets."
607.) bluecat - 01/05/2018
lol


608.) bluecat - 01/05/2018
609.) bluecat - 01/05/2018
610.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2018
[QUOTE][B][SIZE=2]Fake 'gorilla channel' parody of new Trump book fools media figures[/SIZE][/B]

Several prominent media figures fell Friday for a parody that claimed White House staff set up a mock “gorilla channel” for Trump after he was upset that such a channel did not exist.

Twitter user @pixelatedboat, who's known for parodying political figures and posting satire, posted an image on the social media site Thursday that purported to be an excerpt from author Michael Wolff’s hotly anticipated book on the Trump administration, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."

The parody imagined Trump being upset over a lack of a “gorilla channel” on White House televisions.

[url]http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/367666-twitter-falls-for-parody-gorilla-channel-excerpt-from-new-trump[/url][/QUOTE]




I was watching the chaos on the interwebz last night. Pretty funny. I'm surprised at a few people who fell for it, others not so much.
611.) DParker - 01/05/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54124]I was watching the chaos on the interwebz last night. Pretty funny. I'm surprised at a few people who fell for it, others not so much.[/QUOTE]

The funniest part is that a 24/7 gorilla fight channel would be more entertaining than 99.9% of what's on the rest of TV, cable and streaming video.
612.) Swamp Fox - 01/06/2018
I think if we get 10,000 signatures on a petition, CNN has to act on it.
613.) BULLZ-i - 01/06/2018
WOULD MY ORIGINAL POST COUNT ON BOWCOUNTRY COUNT??
614.) Swamp Fox - 01/06/2018
LOL ... That would be a mandate.



Hey, stranger! :wave:
615.) crookedeye - 01/06/2018
Bullzi!! whats going on? me and the guys where just talking about you the other day...
616.) bluecat - 01/08/2018
Dem-ordered study to expose illegal online gun sales backfires

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...xpose-illegal-online-gun-sales-backfires.html[/url]


:co:
617.) DParker - 01/08/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54146]Dem-ordered study to expose illegal online gun sales backfires

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...xpose-illegal-online-gun-sales-backfires.html[/url]


:co:[/QUOTE]

It looks like your link has backfired too.

[QUOTE]Something has gone wrong...
It seems you clicked on a bad link and stumbled upon our 404 page[/QUOTE]

Ah....here it is: [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/08/dem-ordered-study-to-expose-illegal-online-gun-sales-backfires.html"]Dem-ordered study to expose illegal online gun sales backfires[/URL]
618.) Swamp Fox - 01/08/2018
Don't worry, they'll keep trying. These people are relentless. Full of shit and unhinged, but relentless. Shannon Watts went on a 10-tweet tear today, attacking Dana Loesch with photos, links, diagrams, circles and arrows. (It's a separate thread from the one below.) That was after a six-or seven pager going after an NRA active shooter video a few days ago. I thought they were in favor of more training?





619.) bluecat - 01/09/2018
Thanks DP. Don't know what happened.
620.) Swamp Fox - 01/10/2018
Well, surpriise supriiise surpriiiise!


Huma won't be divorcing Carlos Danger after all ... Which is very convenient, what with all the investigation and prosecution going on, and all ...


And Hillary sitting off to the side be all like


621.) Swamp Fox - 01/10/2018
Well, correction: I should have said they pulled their divorce proceedings out of court. They could come to a divorce agreement privately, or stay married.

They claim they want to go private for the benefit of the child.

My instinct says, "Nah."

I have "Staying married to invoke spousal privilege" in the office pool.

You?
622.) DParker - 01/10/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54167]I have "Staying married to invoke spousal privilege" in the office pool.

You?[/QUOTE]

I don't have enough information to lean one way or the other, but I certainly wouldn't bet against you on this one.
623.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
mcconnel says if theres a goverment shutdown, there going to have to work saturday and sunday...so we all no there going to kick the can down the road again for another month so they dont have to "work" the weekend..its laughable
624.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
....
625.) Swamp Fox - 01/18/2018
That's pretty good. I haven't watched SNL in ages. I don't watch [I]Morning Joe[/I] except once in a blue moon, but it seemed like they nailed it. Joe and Mika ARE a little cringe-inducing.
626.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54296]That's pretty good. I haven't watched SNL in ages. I don't watch [I]Morning Joe[/I] except once in a blue moon, but it seemed like they nailed it. Joe and Mika ARE a little cringe-inducing.[/QUOTE]

i cant watch morning joe, i get to pissed with in about 10 seconds..i seen the little clip on hannity and thought id share..pretty good for snl...i thought the trump stuff was pretty funny sometimes..
627.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
i think trump will go down as the greatest president we had ...at least in my mind.
628.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
fare and balanced as it should be..
629.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
its like every freakin day when i turn to see what the other channels are saying... he's racist , he's a russian spy, hes fat..he eats two big macs and two macfish and drowns it with a festy malt..trust me i can do that..

the guy is really doing somthing special now..
630.) Swamp Fox - 01/18/2018
He has the best genetics ...
631.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
i cannot believe the press core for the whitehouse.. cnn has a doctor up there now saying he has heart diasese,,its almost sad how we the people elected a president and the press is so disrepectful..its sad what are country has become.
632.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;54306]i cannot believe the press core for the whitehouse.. cnn has a doctor up there now saying he has heart diasese,,its almost sad how we the people elected a president and the press is so disrepectful..the press would rather se are country fail than give trump suceed.
633.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
do i need to say it again??
634.) crookedeye - 01/18/2018
lidays gramm are howevere you spell it.,. he needs to go..
635.) Swamp Fox - 01/18/2018
LOL ...

Lindsey's OK. I don't always agree with him, but that's OK.

He's entertaining, too. :-)
636.) bluecat - 01/19/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;54308]do i need to say it again??[/QUOTE]

We all feel the same brother. The dems were pissed Trump was healthy. lol.
637.) crookedeye - 01/29/2018
mcabe is out of fbi.... the ****ing FBI.....
638.) Swamp Fox - 04/05/2018
Seems like several of the boys are getting their periods ...

I bet there is a special ceremony for that.


[B]Parkland Students Are Using Their Clear Backpacks to Break the Stigma Around Periods
Cameron Kasky is filling his backpack with tampons.[/B]



[url]https://www.seventeen.com/life/school/a19670410/parkland-students-clear-backpacks-period-stigma/[/url]
639.) bluecat - 04/05/2018
They should be putting douche bags in there too.


I thought it was interesting when Media Hogg said that he felt like everyone was being punished because of the actions of a few. lol
640.) Swamp Fox - 04/05/2018
"The school feels like a prison."


No, it really doesn't, kidz...But the good news is maybe some of this due process and presumed innocent and natural rights stuff will sink in over the next 20 years ...
641.) bluecat - 04/05/2018
#EndViolence
642.) bluecat - 04/05/2018
If life gives you lemons, fill your backpack full of tampons and insult your senator.
643.) DParker - 04/05/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55434]They should be putting douche bags in there too.[/QUOTE]

Those are already carrying the backpacks.
644.) bluecat - 04/05/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;55438]Those are already carrying the backpacks.[/QUOTE]

645.) DParker - 04/05/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55435]"The school feels like a prison."


No, it really doesn't...But the good news is maybe some of this due process and presumed innocent and natural rights stuff will sink in over the next 20 years ...[/QUOTE]

I'm doubting that his reading list sports anything like Hobbes or Locke...nor anything else more cerebral than [I]Micheal Moore's Guide to Detroit Area Donut Shops[/I].
646.) Swamp Fox - 04/06/2018
It's a safe bet that [I]A Modest Proposal [/I]would be right out, as well ...


[url]https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kevin-williamson-fired-atlantic_us_5ac66563e4b09d0a1191532b[/url]



It appears that a journal of news and analysis should also be a safe space.
647.) Swamp Fox - 04/06/2018
[QUOTE]And so it goes, the steady, inexorable division of America into the tolerable and the intolerable — with the range of tolerable people narrowing ever-so-rapidly. There’s no grace in this brave new world. There’s no charity. It’s not enough to disagree. Now we must ruin. Now we must humiliate. Saying “you’re wrong” is no longer enough. The argument isn’t sufficient.

One final note, The Atlantic was attracted to Kevin in part because of his independence, because he was willing to say what he thought even if he infuriated members of his own ideological tribe. And he often did. In return, he didn’t face a mere news cycle of fury. He faced it for weeks that stretched into months and have now stretched into years. The Atlantic couldn’t face friendly fire for a few days. Its cowardice hurts us all.

[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kevin-williamson-firing-by-the-atlantic-cowardly/[/url][/QUOTE] ....
648.) bluecat - 04/06/2018


Boom!
649.) Swamp Fox - 04/06/2018
:tu:
650.) Swamp Fox - 04/06/2018

651.) bluecat - 04/06/2018
+ 4 :-)
652.) Swamp Fox - 04/09/2018
"Only cops should have guns."



"Thay, thailor. Mind thtepping out of the vehicle?"


[B]Roadside strip search by NJ state trooper in NJ draws protest and legal action
[/B]


[url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/roadside-strip-search-by-nj-state-trooper-in-nj-draws-protest-and-legal-action/ar-AAvDdYx?ocid=st[/url]
653.) crookedeye - 04/09/2018
swampy are you ok?
654.) bluecat - 04/09/2018
Is that a nightstick or are you glad to see me?
655.) DParker - 04/09/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55492]"Only cops should have guns."



"Thay, thailor. Mind thtepping out of the vehicle?"


[B]Roadside strip search by NJ state trooper in NJ draws protest and legal action
[/B]


[url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/roadside-strip-search-by-nj-state-trooper-in-nj-draws-protest-and-legal-action/ar-AAvDdYx?ocid=st[/url][/QUOTE]

"The trooper is then seen pulling on blue latex gloves..."

Yeah...that's when I start contemplating resisting arrest.
656.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;55493]swampy are you ok?[/QUOTE]


"So, did you jump?"

"Yeah, a little."
657.) DParker - 04/10/2018
Nope...you done broked it.
658.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2018
Well, shit. I'm not out of music yet.
659.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2018
I guess this is where we hit the red button and wake Alex up ...
660.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2018
If not for the fact that it's way past his bedtime, I'd say Luv2 might have had something to do with this.
661.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2018
Note to self:

Play Two Dollar Pistols, Lillibullero, Leahy, etc.


662.) bluecat - 04/10/2018
I can reply to music forum but there is an error in displaying it as my message appears in one of the latest posts panels.
663.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2018
I can't even reply. The last post (which I see as mine) shows as a big blank screen with no options. I don't think replying to the post above it worked either.
664.) bluecat - 04/10/2018
I replied but it doesn't show up. But my text shows up in the new post forum panel. Yours does too (Hey, is this thing on?)
665.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
ive been watching the ceo of facebook speckinberg..that dude is one smart guy.. congress is a total embarasment.
666.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
its unbelievable wants going on.
667.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
alex should be very worried...
668.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
its all about the children... give me a break..
669.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
congress is worried about the kids now ..this is the most disgusting thing i ever watched
670.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
all there doing is eturupting him noing they are on tv..
671.) DParker - 04/10/2018
I hear the poor bastard is down to his last $64 billion.
672.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
facebook is free... im not a member but only a suscriber..what is this about ? the russians again..
673.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
what is all the stink about? its a free service anyone can get on it
674.) crookedeye - 04/10/2018
im actually pissed..
675.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2018
Facebook is forming a commission to study the effects of social media on democracy ... LOL


676.) Swamp Fox - 04/11/2018
Album version for the better audio ... LOL

But the idea is still the same ... :grin:


677.) Swamp Fox - 04/11/2018
LOL ...


[QUOTE]OPINION
[B]Facebook has always been one big swindle
[/B]

...

The problem isn’t that Zuckerberg is a businessman, and an exceptionally gifted one, but that he pretends to have stumbled out of the lyrics of John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” To listen to him, Facebook is all about connectivity and openness — he just happens to have made roughly $63 billion as the T-shirt-wearing champion of “the global community,” whatever that means.

It’s this pose that makes him and other Facebook officials sound so shifty. In a rocky interview with Savannah Guthrie of “The Today Show” last week, Sheryl Sandberg was asked what product Facebook sells. “We’re selling the opportunity to connect with people,” she said according to The Washington Post, before catching herself, “but it’s not for sale.”

Something or other must be for sale, or Facebook is the first company to rocket to the top ranks of corporate America based on having no product or profit motive. Guthrie, persisting, stated that Facebook sweeps up data for the use of advertisers. Sandberg objected, “We are not sweeping data. People are inputting data.”

Uh, yeah. That’s the genius of it. In a reported exchange with a friend while he was a student at Harvard, Zuckerberg boasted of having data on thousands of students because “people just submitted it.”


SEE ALSO
Zuckerberg says Facebook didn't do enough to prevent privacy scandal


Zuckerberg has now managed the same trick on a global scale. On the one hand, Facebook has indeed made efforts to protect the data of its users, knowing that it can’t risk a fundamental breach of trust. On the other, Zuckerberg has repeatedly said he’s sorry for offenses against his users’ privacy because his business model contradicts his self-righteous public posture.

The company is deeply committed to that posture. In the “Today” interview, Sandberg made a confession as humble brag, “We were very idealistic and not rigorous enough.” In his prepared testimony before a House committee, Zuckerberg declared, “Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. For most of our existence, we focused on all the good that connecting people can bring.”

It’s possible to imagine something like Facebook run as a nonprofit service for the global commons. That’s not what Zuckerberg choose to do. To his credit, he created a compelling — nay, for some people, addicting — product and made a killing for the ages.

Perhaps the public pressure will force the social network to give its customers even more control over the use of their data. At a minimum, it will have achieved something if it gets Facebook to give up the saccharine one-world rhetoric about its mission and admit the bottom line is as important to it as any other profit-making company.

[url]https://nypost.com/2018/04/09/facebook-has-always-been-one-big-swindle/[/url][/QUOTE]
678.) Swamp Fox - 04/17/2018
I'm still waiting for someone to make a convincing case for why states should be dipping into anyone's pockets for purchases by their residents when the seller has no physical presence in that state and the buyer is (usually) paying income taxes and property taxes already. There are no buildings to inspect or protect from fire; there are no employees to protect with police. We're paying out the wazoo for roads with gas taxes and tolls. But because Bob wants to buy a widget from Joe, Joe must collect a tax from Bob and remit it to the government, even though Joe will never step foot in Bob's state and thinks it is, in fact, a shit-hole.

Seems legit.


[url]https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093440/will-you-soon-have-to-pay-sales-tax-on-every-online-purchase[/url]
679.) bluecat - 04/26/2018
"Hey, hey, hey."

Too soon?
680.) DParker - 04/26/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55663]I'm still waiting for someone to make a convincing case for why states should be dipping into anyone's pockets for purchases by their residents when the seller has no physical presence in that state and the buyer is (usually) paying income taxes and property taxes already. There are no buildings to inspect or protect from fire; there are no employees to protect with police. We're paying out the wazoo for roads with gas taxes and tolls. But because Bob wants to buy a widget from Joe, Joe must collect a tax from Bob and remit it to the government, even though Joe will never step foot in Bob's state and thinks it is, in fact, a shit-hole.

Seems legit.


[url]https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093440/will-you-soon-have-to-pay-sales-tax-on-every-online-purchase[/url][/QUOTE]

When I did my Oregon state income taxes for the year that we relocated from there to Texas, the scheme they used to calculate the portion of my year's income that was subject to taxation by OR included a portion (albeit a really tiny one) of the income I'd earned while living in TX. It added about 75 cents or so to my total bill, so I paid it rather than waste my time and effort trying to challenge it...but the principle of it still sticks in my craw to this day.
681.) bluecat - 04/26/2018
Maybe that explains your love of crawfish.
682.) bluecat - 04/27/2018
What's that saying? Discretion is the better part of valor.
683.) Swamp Fox - 04/27/2018
LOL ...
684.) Swamp Fox - 05/02/2018
Discuss amongst yourselves:

[B][SIZE=2]Redskins Cheerleaders Describe Topless Photo Shoots and an Uneasy Night Out
[/SIZE][/B]

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html[/url]
685.) Swamp Fox - 05/02/2018
I'm sorry. I don't mean to pick on "Democrats." I'm sure there are a few who are perfectly respectable.

But this doesn't help:

[url]https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/05/02/breaking-hillary-clintons-basket-of-deplorables-just-got-a-lot-more-crowded-video/[/url]


See the first link first:


686.) DParker - 05/03/2018
I wonder how the wife would react to a last-minute switch from the British isles to Costa Rica.
687.) Swamp Fox - 05/03/2018
Well, I don't know about the British Isles, and I think a lot of them are pie-faced, but when you move over to the Emerald Isle you're on your own, buddy.

688.) Swamp Fox - 05/03/2018
.....
689.) DParker - 05/04/2018
Andrew "spittin' image of Goebbels" Cuomo likens himself to Churchill in proposing a bit of stupidity that bears no resemblance at all to what Churchill actually did:

[URL="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/cuomo-promises-a-dunkirk-style-citizens-fleet-to-block-drilling"]Bloomberg: Cuomo Promises a Dunkirk-Style Citizens' Fleet to Block Drilling[/URL]

Hey, Andy...the Prime Minister would like to have a word with you regarding your presumptuous idiocy.

690.) Swamp Fox - 05/04/2018
LOL ...

He's such an ass. I like the list of what "Republicans are against" and the state-subsidized solar-panel plant ...LOL


But somebody REALLY has to talk to him about sticking his finger in women's chests ...
691.) Swamp Fox - 05/04/2018
I'm thinking somebody's about to make a killing in some kind of business that hires older white guys, without apology.


[url]https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/05/restaurant-pays-bias-settlement-refusing-hire-old-white-guys/[/url]
692.) DParker - 05/06/2018
693.) Swamp Fox - 05/06/2018
LOL ... I heard more about Cinco De Mayo this year than I ever had before, by several orders of magnitude.

Somebody from the CDM familia ought to get together with the Kwanzaa people so we can coordinate our irrelevant "holidays" and be more efficient with the ways we spread our attention, run advertisements and promote drink specials.
694.) DParker - 05/06/2018
Hey, now......don't go screwin' with my half-priced margaritas.
695.) Swamp Fox - 05/06/2018
So the Mexicans beat the French ... :re: ... Big whup ... So does somebody every 50 years or so ...
696.) Swamp Fox - 05/06/2018
I'm sayin' that's on average ... Throughout history, including ancient times ... Lately it's probably been more like every 25 years ...
697.) Swamp Fox - 05/10/2018
I guess you have to know the music ...


[url]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/then-the-censors-came-for-rap-music/560003/[/url]
698.) DParker - 05/11/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55922]I guess you have to know the music ...


[url]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/then-the-censors-came-for-rap-music/560003/[/url][/QUOTE]

Holy crap. That was one of the most poorly written pieces of SJW propaganda I've ever read. I wonder if anyone knows the exact date that semi-iliteracy became a requirement for graduation with a journalism degree.
699.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2018
It was after 1981 .., I know that...


You're right. The article is a mess on several levels.

With a few tweeks, though, he could have gotten it published in [I]Rolling Stone[/I] back in the day, and I would have enjoyed it.
700.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2018
LOL ...

Phuckin' Dookies ....


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/11/rap-music-vegan-muffin-fiasco-duke-university/[/url]
701.) DParker - 05/12/2018
Sorry, I just can't get past the "vegan muffin".
702.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2018
I know you have some woke people in Texas ...
703.) bluecat - 05/12/2018
Sounds delicious.
704.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2018
I think I live far enough from Duke that I could sell regular, non-vegan muffins and make a profit. But it's close ... Ten miles one way or the other could make the difference ,,,


Where's my Social Justice Compass?
705.) Swamp Fox - 05/15/2018
.....
706.) DParker - 05/18/2018
Libertarian Knock-Knock joke:

"Knock-knock."

"Get a warrant."
707.) Swamp Fox - 05/19/2018
LOL ...

I resemble that remark.


"Meow ..."
708.) DParker - 05/31/2018
It's now officially impossible to tell the difference between real news and a piece in The Onion:

[URL="http://abcstlouis.com/news/nation-world/oregon-bakery-fires-employees-for-denying-black-woman-service-after-closing"]Oregon Bakery Fires Employees For Denying Black Woman Service After Closing[/URL]

[QUOTE]In one statement, the bakery admitted that the employees did not necessarily do anything wrong, "this is more about how a black woman was made to feel" at the business.[/QUOTE]

709.) bluecat - 06/05/2018
[B]Philadelphia Eagles Disinvited to White House for Super Bowl Celebration[/B]

[url]https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/06/04/philadelphia-eagles-donald-trump-eagles[/url]



So, they are upset that they no longer can go to a celebration of which most didn't want to go. Lol! Go Donald Go!
710.) bluecat - 06/29/2018




[url]https://nypost.com/2018/06/28/rite-aids-are-blasting-barry-manilow-tunes-to-deter-vagrants/[/url]


:-)
711.) DParker - 06/29/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56349]



[url]https://nypost.com/2018/06/28/rite-aids-are-blasting-barry-manilow-tunes-to-deter-vagrants/[/url]


:-)[/QUOTE]

LOL!
712.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2018

713.) bluecat - 07/05/2018


This looks like a sound idea.
714.) crookedeye - 07/05/2018
why isnt anyone in shape anymore? how mush fat can you carry
715.) crookedeye - 07/05/2018
evderyones overweight these days.. high blood pressure, diabetes, my pants are to tight..i seen a girl i new in grade school the other day at the store, we started to talk.she always had a nice ass,her ass got really big i mean realy big, not that i was complaining..but it was big though.
716.) bluecat - 07/06/2018


I hear you brother. It is sad. Even our superheros are going to pot.
717.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56420]evderyones overweight these days.. high blood pressure, diabetes, my pants are to tight..i seen a girl i new in grade school the other day at the store, we started to talk.she always had a nice ass,her ass got really big i mean realy big, not that i was complaining..but it was big though.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;56470]

I hear you brother. It is sad. Even our superheros are going to pot.[/QUOTE]




LOL ...



CE, did you ask her out anyway?


Ask her if she thinks you'd look good in a cape ...
718.) Swamp Fox - 07/18/2018
Just sayin' ...




719.) bluecat - 07/18/2018
lol!
720.) DParker - 07/18/2018
[video=youtube;r-3HEyR-c3M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-3HEyR-c3M[/video]
721.) Swamp Fox - 07/18/2018
LOL ... My Mustang/Camaro pisses on your Jag-u-ar ...

[Insert Calvin cartoon image here]
722.) DParker - 07/19/2018
723.) Swamp Fox - 07/19/2018
LOL ...

They're having a hard time getting over it.
724.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2018
The kids are gonna give it another try before they have to go back to school, retreat to their rooms, or continue to play useful idiots for the Dems.

The next week should be ... interesting.






Swampy sez:



725.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2018
I hope we don't have to explain to young David that things were non-violent right up until the point that the British tried to seize the guns because the Americans had guns ... But we probably do.
726.) DParker - 08/01/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56675]The kids are gonna give it another try before they have to go back to school, retreat to their rooms, or play useful idiots for the Dems.

The next week should be ... interesting.






Swampy sez:



[/QUOTE]

That reminds me of the guy who came flying out of the Edinburgh Subway we were walking by...his sandwich still in hand...after he saw some homeless guy try to walk off with his (sandwich guy's) bicycle he'd left by the door., yelling, "'ey..foak oaf!!!!" He didn't put the thief on his arse (which it looked like he could have done without much trouble), but I had to award him a lot of points for the pithy outburst combined with the fact that he handled the whole matter without ever losing his grip on his sub.
727.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2018
LOL ... Do they call a sub a sub in Britain? I think they do. I worked and played at one point in a little bar owned by a loveable Cockney bastard and his old lady ---who was quite the cutie and whose name was Sandra or Sondra depending on which side of the pond was speaking to her--- and we sold sammiches which I think he called subs. She then kicked his arse to the curb and made subs in a nearby town and the pub got sold to a nurse who made a good go of it for a while ...

I often wonder what happened to all of them. In the good times, it was like our own little Yellow Submarine.



728.) bluecat - 08/01/2018
3D guns...All legality aside, how could a plastic barrel withstand the pressures?

Remember when Glock was accused of being able to pass airport security because it was all plastic?
729.) DParker - 08/01/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56679]3D guns...All legality aside, how could a plastic barrel withstand the pressures?[/QUOTE]

It can't. You either use a metal barrel, or you have a .22 that you get one shot out of before it's destroyed.

That's what makes all this kerfuffle so funny. With the ready availability of affordable and durable mass manufactured semi-automtic firearms the left is just sure that street thugs and other petty ne'er-do-wells are going to switch to making their own 1-shot plastic guns in puny calibers on multi-thousand dollar high-maintenance 3D printers with production capacities of maybe 1 or 2 pistols / day (that then need to be assembled from the printed parts).

I'm tickled that they're opting to waste their time on such a non-issue...that they can't even hope to win.
730.) bluecat - 08/01/2018
Excellent. Maybe the gangs will find a vocation and take up gunsmithing so that they learn to assemble their plastic guns. Watch for an overload of gang members milling around the public library waiting to use the 3D printer.

"I got next!"
731.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56680]It can't. You either use a metal barrel, or you have a .22 that you get one shot out of before it's destroyed.

That's what makes all this kerfuffle so funny. With the ready availability of affordable and durable mass manufactured semi-automtic firearms the left is just sure that street thugs and other petty ne'er-do-wells are going to switch to making their own 1-shot plastic guns in puny calibers on multi-thousand dollar high-maintenance 3D printers with production capacities of maybe 1 or 2 pistols / day (that then need to be assembled from the printed parts).

I'm tickled that they're opting to waste their time on such a non-issue...that they can't even hope to win.[/QUOTE]



I'm imagining someone explaining this on [I]The View[/I].


I'll be in my bunk.
732.) bluecat - 08/02/2018
Kerfuffle...+2
733.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2018

734.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2018
Me feeling mislead by the media, after finding out I really CAN'T make a gun that I would want ...


p
735.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2018
Me feeling mislead by the media, upon discovering I really CAN'T build a gun I want to threaten our national security ...


[url]https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CookedMemorableAmericanlobster-mobile.mp4[/url]
736.) DParker - 08/02/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56687]Me feeling mislead by the media, upon discovering I really CAN'T build a gun I want to threaten our national security ...


[url]https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CookedMemorableAmericanlobster-mobile.mp4[/url][/QUOTE]

[I]Build[/I] a gun? I was told that I could just download one. WTH?
737.) DParker - 08/02/2018
Because prior to the advent of 3-D printers and the ability to disseminate information electronically we lacked the technology to make firearms on an individual basis using simple hand tools.

738.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2018
Shhhh! :shh: Don't confuse them, DP!




739.) DParker - 08/03/2018
OK. Well, if you'll excuse me I'm off to print myself one of those fully semi-automatic 30 mag clips with the shoulder thing that goes up.
740.) Swamp Fox - 08/03/2018
[I][B]Upgrade your printer for only $297 ... (Two-year contract required.)[/B][/I]




741.) DParker - 08/04/2018
"Hey, I've got a great idea. Let's liken ICE agents to Nazis while trivializing the murder of > ~6 million Jews in order to make a stupid political statement!"

[URL="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6026621/New-stage-production-Diary-Anne-Frank-replaces-Nazis-ICE-agents.html"]New stage production of 'Diary Of Anne Frank' replaces Nazis with ICE agents hunting for illegal immigrants[/URL]
742.) bluecat - 08/08/2018
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dui-suspect-allegedly-tells-police-shouldnt-arrested-shes-clean-thoroughbred-white-girl-005705323.html[/url]

[QUOTE]Plenty of people have tried to finagle their way out of a speeding ticket by offering an excuse to a police officer like “please, I really have to pee” or “I left the stove on!” But it takes somebody really entitled or incredibly intoxicated (or both) to try to tell the arresting officer she shouldn’t be taken into custody because she’s a “white girl.”[/QUOTE]


She looks good in orange. lol!
743.) DParker - 08/08/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56719][url]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dui-suspect-allegedly-tells-police-shouldnt-arrested-shes-clean-thoroughbred-white-girl-005705323.html[/url]




She looks good in orange. lol![/QUOTE]

So...she's white, takes thorough showers and knows who her parents are?
744.) Swamp Fox - 08/09/2018
LOL ... I heard about this today and was gonna post it ... Great minds think alike, I guess.

Or it was a slow news day.


[QUOTE]

Swampy Sets The Seen:

"I just had a couple of glasses of wine."


"How big were the glasses?"
[/QUOTE]

++++


BTW, How does the thoroughbred comment get mentioned, but isn't contained in the actual quote?

Forget about the shoddy journalism ... Who's the freakin' editor?
745.) Swamp Fox - 08/09/2018
She also claimed (according to news reports) to have attended "a high accredited university."

I was thinking at first it must have been Clempson or Knebraska, but it turns out to have been LSU.

:ach:
746.) DParker - 08/09/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56723]She also claimed (according to news reports) to have attended "a high accredited university."

I was thinking at first it must have been Clempson or Knebraska, but it turns out to have been LSU.

:ach:[/QUOTE]

What she meant to say was, "I attended an accredited university and was high the whole time."
747.) Swamp Fox - 08/09/2018
There it is ... That's the joke that was waiting to come out.

I've heard bong technology has come a long way. I learned that on Twitter a few nights ago.
748.) Swamp Fox - 08/09/2018
Poor girl ...


749.) Swamp Fox - 08/09/2018
LOL:



[QUOTE]Omarosa Manigault-Newman, a former aide to President Trump, secretly recorded conversations with the president while she was serving in the White House, multiple sources told the Daily Beast. [url]http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/400965-report-former-white-house-staffer-secretly-recorded-trump?__twitter_impression=true[/url]
[/QUOTE]



The person whose job it is to write this is called a PR Weasel:

[QUOTE]Simon & Schuster, the publisher of “Unhinged,” responded to the Daily Beast in a statement. “Without commenting on the specific contents of UNHINGED,” the spokesperson said, “we are confident that Omarosa Manigault Newman can substantiate her highly-anticipated account of life inside the Trump White House.”[/QUOTE]
750.) bluecat - 08/09/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56721]So...she's white, takes thorough showers and knows who her parents are?[/QUOTE]

and she has lots of sisters...
751.) DParker - 08/09/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56731]and she has lots of sisters...[/QUOTE]

Her father is a stud and her mother is a nag.
752.) Swamp Fox - 08/09/2018
She *eats up* the slop.

Her father was a mudder ... Her mother was a mudder ...
753.) bluecat - 08/09/2018
"And tell you what, put a sawbuck on Captain Nemo in the third at Belmont."
754.) DParker - 08/09/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56734]She *eats up* the slop.

Her father was a mudder ... Her mother was a mudder ...[/QUOTE]

I'm out!
755.) DParker - 08/09/2018
[video=youtube;BAIlVCStp3c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIlVCStp3c[/video]
756.) DParker - 08/10/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56729]Poor girl ...


[/QUOTE]

Hell, she could lead the Democrat party now.

[video=youtube;wmcQ2AfOCAA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmcQ2AfOCAA[/video]
757.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2018
She's the gift that keeps on giving.



It says something that even though she's proved herself a dunce over the last few weeks, the media thinks this type of Dem is trending, and wants to give her a platform.
758.) Swamp Fox - 08/10/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56737][video=youtube;BAIlVCStp3c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIlVCStp3c[/video][/QUOTE]



:tu:
759.) DParker - 08/11/2018


760.) Swamp Fox - 08/12/2018
LOL ...


Next she should do the March On The Baptist Churches fundraiser ...
761.) Swamp Fox - 08/12/2018
I'm conflicted. As an American of Irish and German descent, I would like the Germans to man up and name the squirrel "Kaiser Wilhelm" or "Crazy Ludwig" or some such, but on the other hand I realize the days of anything intentionally humorously ironic coming out of Germany are long past.


[QUOTE]A tiny squirrel chased a German man so aggressively that the man called the police for help Thursday.

Police arrived to witness the end of the pursuit, which ended when the exhausted animal collapsed and fell asleep, according to the Guardian.

The officers transported the animal, which had likely lost its mother and was searching for a new home, to a rescue center. But first they named it Karl-Friedrich and declared it their mascot, according to a police statement.

“It often happens that squirrels which have lost their mothers look for a replacement and then focus their efforts on one person,” police spokeswoman Christina Krenz told the Guardian. She told the publication that the experience can be "pretty scary."

The twitter account for the Karlsruhe police department tweeted photos of the rescue effort, including multiple photos of the baby squirrel sleeping. Karlsruhe is a city located in southwest Germany.


[url]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/10/german-man-being-chased-baby-squirrel-calls-police/961931002/[/url][/QUOTE]




Ha Ha!


[url]http://video.foxnews.com/v/5802817725001/raw-video-stealthy-squirrel-swipes-police-officers-donut[/url]
762.) Swamp Fox - 08/12/2018
763.) Swamp Fox - 08/12/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56742]LOL ...


Next she should do the March On The Baptist Churches fundraiser ...[/QUOTE]



The Unitarians and about half the Episcopalians should be good for some shekels ...
764.) Swamp Fox - 08/12/2018
Otto is a fine name, but maybe not combined with Bismark anymore ...

765.) crookedeye - 08/12/2018
...?
766.) Swamp Fox - 08/13/2018
Imagine being someone who listens to that more than once on purpose ...
767.) Swamp Fox - 08/13/2018
[SIZE=3][B]"I'll take Surprising/Not Surprising for 500, Alex ..."[/B][/SIZE]





[B]Today in Surprising/Not Surprising : [/B]

Not surprising that the NY Times would publish a piece either ignorant of or in opposition to the country's founding principles, but surprising/not surprising that SJWs would advocate a boycott that might cause immigrant kitchen workers to lose their jobs:


[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/opinion/constitution-founders-democracy-trump.html[/url]


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/08/12/sessions-eats-tex-mex-houston-hashtag-boycott-campaign-begins/[/url]
768.) Swamp Fox - 08/13/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56738]Hell, she could lead the Democrat party now.

[video=youtube;wmcQ2AfOCAA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmcQ2AfOCAA[/video][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56739]She's the gift that keeps on giving.



It says something that even though she's proved herself a dunce over the last few weeks, the media thinks this type of Dem is trending, and wants to give her a platform.[/QUOTE]



[QUOTE][SIZE=2][B]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is The Best Thing To Happen To The GOP All Year[/B][/SIZE]


This is a mistake that Democrats have made before, latching onto someone they believe is destiny’s child and the next savior of their electoral hopes. But loading too many of your hopes in an untested messenger comes with risks. Fame and destiny were thrust on Barack Obama after his 2004 convention speech. He went on to some significant victories for himself, but he wound up being a mediocre president whose personal popularity clearly didn’t carry over to benefit the rest of his party once he was done. Do the Democrats want to make that mistake again?

I certainly hope so.


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-best-thing-happen-gop-year/[/url]

[/QUOTE]


"Mediocre president" ... ? ... LOL ...



Jeez, man... Grow a pair. :bad::tap:
769.) Swamp Fox - 08/13/2018
[I]John F Kennedy[/I] was a mediocre president ...


[Also several others I could mention, including Republicans.]


Barack Obama is no Jack Kennedy ...



[Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Lloyd Bentsen.]
770.) DParker - 08/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56751]Barack Obama is no Jack Kennedy ...



[Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Lloyd Bentsen.][/QUOTE]

"Well let me tell you something, I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine, and governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson."

~ Ronald Reagan
771.) Swamp Fox - 08/13/2018
LOL ...



"It's funny... You don't LOOK 152-ish ,,,"
772.) Swamp Fox - 08/13/2018
"Imagine if kids were taught American history anymore ..."
773.) Swamp Fox - 08/13/2018
.....
774.) Swamp Fox - 08/15/2018
[url]https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/09/sen-chris-murphy-brett-kavanaugh-is-a-second-amendment-radical/[/url]



I'm about to post something crude, scandalous and politically incorrect ... Somebody stop me!
775.) DParker - 08/15/2018
On a lighter note....Hamburger Helpers....

[video=youtube;qD8fOwVNzmE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD8fOwVNzmE[/video]
776.) Swamp Fox - 08/16/2018
+5 for "Hamburger Helpers" ...

That's pro-level headline writing right there ....

:grin:
777.) Swamp Fox - 08/16/2018
So much fail (and LOL):

[QUOTE]Nor does socialism mean what it once did. When you look closely at what today’s self-proclaimed democratic socialists are advocating, it is not state ownership of the means of production. They are simply proposing another reform epoch like the New Deal or the Progressive era that would include major legislative steps to reduce inequality of income and wealth, provide citizens with new ways to contain the power of large corporations and expand the services to which all citizens are entitled.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/08/15/how-conservatives-made-socialism-attractive/?utm_term=.70a0daaa177f[/url][/QUOTE]





Okey dokie, then ...
778.) Swamp Fox - 08/16/2018
Aretha will get respect in only 50 of the 57 states, which just proves how much America was never great ...








[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/andrew-cuomo-failed-governor-failed-politician/[/url]
779.) DParker - 08/17/2018
And just when I finally began to think...think what I'm tryin'to do to her.
780.) bluecat - 08/17/2018
You guys make me laugh.
781.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2018

782.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2018
[B][SIZE=3]Swampy Recommends:[/SIZE][/B]


[B][SIZE=2]Visiting this thread ...
[/SIZE][/B]


783.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56776]And just when I finally began to think...think what I'm tryin'to do to her.[/QUOTE]


That's a solid +3, but only because it's been a long day and it took me a minute ...

784.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2018
This is entertaining.

Be sure to read down to (and further surf) in the area where the Snopes wise-ass gets pwned ...


Good times ....

[B][SIZE=3]
Who’s up for James Woods vs. CNN’s Oliver Darcy over the merits of unsealing jurors’ personal info?[/SIZE][/B]


[url]https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/08/18/whos-up-for-james-woods-vs-cnns-oliver-darcy-over-the-merits-of-unsealing-jurors-personal-info/[/url]
785.) DParker - 08/19/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56790]This is entertaining.

Be sure to read down to (and further surf) in the area where the Snopes wise-ass gets pwned ...


Good times ....

[B][SIZE=3]
Who’s up for James Woods vs. CNN’s Oliver Darcy over the merits of unsealing jurors’ personal info?[/SIZE][/B]


[url]https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/08/18/whos-up-for-james-woods-vs-cnns-oliver-darcy-over-the-merits-of-unsealing-jurors-personal-info/[/url][/QUOTE]

You know, as much as I hate to admit it...I kinda' miss the blissful ignorance of not realizing just what pathetic playground mouth-breathers so many alleged adults really are. Twitter has completely destroyed that comforting illusion.
786.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2018
It's not that there haven't always been idiots and vicious contention in this country. There have.

It's that the internet and social media have exposed them to the light for everyone to see (even those with little historical perspective or any functioning current events muscle) and---unfortunately--- provided them with a megaphone and high def screen.

I am anticipating with some trepidation/delight the upcoming surveys that show journalists/fact-checkers/media rank lower than politicians/used car salesmen/lawyers in public approval.
787.) DParker - 08/19/2018
It's so depressing that I had to escape reality by starting a cure of 11 lbs of pork belly today. In bacon there is peace of mind. Ohhhhmmmmmm.
788.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2018
Join the electric resistance ...


[url]https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/singingBowlsDroneGenerator.php[/url]
789.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2018
Best way to reply to Australian gun-grabbers who insist on commenting --- without invitation-- on the American right to keep and bear arms:








Best and most natural reaction:



790.) DParker - 08/19/2018
Maduro decides that what the Venevualan economy really needs is more heavy-handed government manipulation. The solution? Increase the minimum wage by 6,000% and raise taxes. That ought to make things much better.

[URL="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/19/venezuelan-shopkeepers-alarmed-by-maduros-latest-economic-moves.html"]https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/19/venezuelan-shopkeepers-alarmed-by-maduros-latest-economic-moves.html[/URL]
791.) Swamp Fox - 08/20/2018
Check out what they're doing to the price of gasoline:





I guess I missed primetime to take the Bronco down there and let her sip essentially free go-juice at 11 miles per gallon, cruising the beaches for loose women, bueno snorkeling, and bowhunting opportunities at zoo animals.

[Sigh...]



That's okay. Since my window closed on hunting wild boar in the haunted woods of Transylvania, no other disappointments faze me anymore.
792.) bluecat - 08/20/2018
My last turkey hunt in May, I took along the trail cam (Browning Strike Force), set it up on a likely trail and crossed my fingers as this was a new area I hadn't hunted. I got the camera back yesterday and noticed it had taken 248 pics since May and battery life was at 67%. Nice. So I was pretty jacked up to see the pics today. There were about 200 pictures of cattle and a few deer. This one was kind of neat. She's so full of babies I think you can see the hooves poking her in the side.

793.) DParker - 08/20/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56799]There were about 200 pictures of cattle and a few deer.[/QUOTE]

So in the interest of maintaining ecological balance I expect that your freezer will be full of ribeyes and brisket this year.
794.) bluecat - 08/20/2018
jam packed
795.) DParker - 08/20/2018
[video=youtube;Vet6AHmq3_s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s[/video]
796.) DParker - 08/20/2018
R-E-S-P-I-C-T

Al Not-so-Sharpton paying homage to his late good friend, Urethra Franklin.

[URL="https://twitter.com/BarstoolNewsN/status/1031180459965931521"]https://twitter.com/BarstoolNewsN/status/1031180459965931521[/URL]
797.) bluecat - 08/21/2018
Urethra had a sister that could really sing too named Mulva. Not many people know that.
798.) Swamp Fox - 08/21/2018
Wasn't it Mulva who wrote the book [I]Yes, Vagina, There Is A Santa Claus...[/I] which is such a big hit each Christmas season?




I don't want to discuss what the book is about this late at night,, but maybe tomorrow .... LOL
799.) bluecat - 08/21/2018
Mulva and Urethra learned everything about singing from their aunt Catheter.
800.) DParker - 08/21/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56807]Mulva and Urethra learned everything about singing from their aunt Catheter.[/QUOTE]

Urine good hands with Aunt Catheter.
801.) bluecat - 08/21/2018
Yeah she's gold.
802.) bluecat - 08/22/2018
Urethra wasn't just a sensation in the US but did tours around the world. Later in her career though she stayed incontinent.
803.) bluecat - 08/22/2018
People often ask me if I like Urethra. I say it just Depends.
804.) Swamp Fox - 08/23/2018
Fan mail:


[QUOTE]You two are on fire.


Sweet streams and goodnight,

Dysuria[/QUOTE]
805.) DParker - 08/23/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56812]Fan mail:[/QUOTE]

From some flounders?
806.) bluecat - 08/23/2018
Urethra had a burning desire to sing from birth.
807.) Swamp Fox - 08/23/2018
This thread has taken off in an unexpected direction ....


808.) Swamp Fox - 08/23/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56813]From some flounders?[/QUOTE]


Flounder ... trout ... Whatever it takes ...
809.) DParker - 08/23/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56816]Flounder ... trout ... Whatever it takes ...[/QUOTE]

810.) bluecat - 08/23/2018


so sad
811.) DParker - 08/23/2018
Speaking of sad...

[video=youtube;naOBAEE9myU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOBAEE9myU[/video]
812.) bluecat - 08/23/2018
I see what you mean. He needs to lift with his legs more.
813.) bluecat - 08/23/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56815]This thread has taken off in an unexpected direction ....


[/QUOTE]

I'm just going with the flow.
814.) bluecat - 08/23/2018
I don't want to interrupt the stream.
815.) bluecat - 08/24/2018
We're getting piss poor participation in this thread.
816.) DParker - 08/24/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56823]We're getting piss poor participation in this thread.[/QUOTE]

But it's the #1 subject.
817.) bluecat - 08/24/2018
The #1 subject is circling the drain.
818.) crookedeye - 08/24/2018
trump took a shit then had a p[layboy bunny and a pornstar and the media is giong insane..are milatary is getting funded by trump ..job numbers are up.. lets dran the swamp..
my pocket book not full but who cares....man i love that guy .... not a phony speak ypoure own mind..
819.) crookedeye - 08/24/2018
sessions is toast. i think he's part of the swamp..the only rison im bitter is because hillary got off hook so easialy.. trust me ..its going to come out in trumps favor..

why because IN GOD WE TRUST!!
820.) Swamp Fox - 08/25/2018
Odds that Trump announces he will not run for re-election in 2020 by


Jan. 2019 ----5:1

December 2019 ---3:1

October 2020 --- Even


LOL
821.) Swamp Fox - 08/25/2018
.....
822.) DParker - 08/25/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56829].....[/QUOTE]

LOL! I watched that one earlier today. Most of those are pretty good.
823.) DParker - 08/26/2018
Florida Man needs to step up his game after Netherlands Man raises the bar.

[URL="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6094357/Man-hospitalised-stuffing-15-hard-boiled-EGGS-bottom-high-date-rape-drug-GHB.html"]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6094357/Man-hospitalised-stuffing-15-hard-boiled-EGGS-bottom-high-date-rape-drug-GHB.html[/URL]
824.) Swamp Fox - 08/27/2018
Wait ... This is going on in Florida, too?

South of Jacksonville, though ...Right?


[QUOTE]Later that evening, the man began feeling stomach pains and went to his local hospital. [/QUOTE]


Later that evening? .... Later that EVENING??? .... Everything was perfectly fine until later that evening?


[QUOTE]The eggs caused a giant rapture of the gastrointestinal wall, which was sewn up by the doctors.[/QUOTE]


Well, now I've heard everything. Was it a biblical rapture of only certain elements of the gastro-intestinal system, or more of a generalized feeling of digestive happiness and fascination?
825.) bluecat - 08/27/2018
This is disturbing.
826.) DParker - 08/27/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56837]This is disturbing.[/QUOTE]

I've become so unsurprised by anything I read anymore my first reaction was, "Well at least he peeled them first."
827.) Swamp Fox - 08/28/2018
Only because the first guy who tried it died a death of a thousand cuts after posting on Facebook what he was doing over the weekend ...

It went viral, so to speak ...


[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi[/url]
828.) DParker - 08/28/2018
Wow...you could knocked me over with a feather when I saw that this came from NPR. It's actual fact-based investigative journalism....a rare bird these days.

[URL="https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent"]NPR: The School Shootings That Weren't[/URL]
829.) bluecat - 08/28/2018
Someone over there is going to lose their job. Good times.
830.) DParker - 08/29/2018
[URL="https://www.nasdaq.com/article/gun-control-steps-hurt-dicks-sporting-sales-shares-slip-20180829-00523"]NASDAQ.com: Sales at Dick's go limp following anti-gun policies.[/URL]
831.) Ohbuckhunter - 08/29/2018
Topic of the day.

CE hits the lotto and buys hookers n blow

Bluekitty get mad At CE n demands he shares

Swampy shows up in his giant hat and calms everyone down

DP googles it to make sure it’s valid and makes a plan to regain control of the situation.

Obh is still fat and still hopeing farmgirl doesn’t get her eyes checked
832.) Jon - 08/29/2018
Hey little piggy
833.) Ohbuckhunter - 08/29/2018
[QUOTE=Jon;56857]Hey little piggy[/QUOTE]

Went to the market.
834.) DParker - 08/29/2018
[QUOTE=Ohbuckhunter;56855]CE hits the lotto and buys hookers n blow[/QUOTE]

And he'd probably just waste the rest of it.
835.) DParker - 08/30/2018
It turns out that the Polk Co., FL sheriff is an entertaining guy when giving a press conference. The accompanying video of that event is a bit long, but worth it.

[URL="https://www.wesh.com/article/uber-driver-shoots-kills-winter-haven-man-threatening-him-deputies-say/22861177"]https://www.wesh.com/article/uber-driver-shoots-kills-winter-haven-man-threatening-him-deputies-say/22861177[/URL]

Short version: Sociopathic meth-head's belligerance and stupidity earn him a sucking chest wound and a ride in the back of a hearse. Sheriff delivers a long-but-well-told story recounting the details of the incident. The money quote:

"Here is a message for the hotheads of the community: Don't do that stuff. Good people carry guns. And they will shoot you...a lot. Graveyard dead. Leave people alone."
836.) bluecat - 08/30/2018
That was worth the time.
837.) Swamp Fox - 08/30/2018
[QUOTE=Ohbuckhunter;56855]Topic of the day.

CE hits the lotto and buys hookers n blow

Bluekitty get mad At CE n demands he shares

Swampy shows up in his giant hat and calms everyone down

DP googles it to make sure it’s valid and makes a plan to regain control of the situation.

Obh is still fat and still hopeing farmgirl doesn’t get her eyes checked[/QUOTE]


LOL ...


:wave:
838.) Swamp Fox - 08/30/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;56849]Wow...you could knocked me over with a feather when I saw that this came from NPR. It's actual fact-based investigative journalism....a rare bird these days.

[URL="https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent"]NPR: The School Shootings That Weren't[/URL][/QUOTE]



I heard that report the other day. Went looking for some coverage/commentary from the usual suspects that evening and found zip, zero, nada. Complete radio silence.

Of course, I can't claim my survey was accurate, because I couldn't read what a lot of the usual suspects had to say (if anything) because they've blocked me for calling them on their bullshit once or twice ... LOL ...
839.) bluecat - 08/30/2018
What's with the sudden love affair of John McCain by the left? They hated that man in 2008, called him a war monger and a racist.
840.) DParker - 08/30/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56866]What's with the sudden love affair of John McCain by the left? They hated that man in 2008, called him a war monger and a racist.[/QUOTE]

He hated Trump, and the enemy of my enemy.....
841.) DParker - 08/30/2018
BTW...we can't let the day go by without standing back and admiring what for any other media outlet would be described as it's most stupid bit of commentary ever...but it's CNN, so there are plenty of competition for stupidity there:

[video=youtube;B9Cz_OWe3Kk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Cz_OWe3Kk[/video]

So, according to the brilliant left-wing legal analysts and other talking heads at CNN, ANTIFA...the group of mindless white kids one Twitter user so eloquently described as "whiter than Pat Boone making a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder bread in a Minnesota snow storm"...is "widely perceived as an African-American organization", and Trump's description of them as "violent people" is racist.

ANTIFA mugshots. I mean, just look at all those black faces..I think I can see as many as 4:

842.) bluecat - 08/30/2018
843.) Swamp Fox - 08/30/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56866]What's with the sudden love affair of John McCain by the left? They hated that man in 2008, called him a war monger and a racist.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;56867]He hated Trump, and the enemy of my enemy.....[/QUOTE]


Substantial number of know-nothings on social media were/are calling him a war criminal.

A great time saver. Very useful for skimming past anything else they ever say.
844.) Swamp Fox - 08/30/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56870][/QUOTE]

LOL ...
845.) Swamp Fox - 08/31/2018
After this, the Lanny Davis thing (standing by their gutted story!!) and numerous other episodes of incompetent journalism that we could list, isn't it time to lobby the airports to change the channel?

Because who in their right mind watches CNN unless he is stuck, with nowhere to turn?
846.) crookedeye - 08/31/2018
one of the funniest things i seen on here. was obh self filming himself on here during the texas pig hunt.. texas by the way is 2000 ft below sea level..anyhow you could see beads of sweat running down his forhead each step his breathing got more labored..you could see billys truck where he droped him off about 50 yards away..it got to the point in the video i couldnt even understand what he was saying..:grin:
847.) bluecat - 08/31/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56881]texas by the way is 2000 ft below sea level..[/QUOTE]

DP, is this true?
848.) DParker - 08/31/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56882]DP, is this true?[/QUOTE]

It was about 265 million years ago...give or take a few days. Today, not so much. If it were then our real need for a southern wall would be one nearly a half mile tall all along the Gulf of Mexico.
849.) crookedeye - 08/31/2018
fake news...
850.) Swamp Fox - 09/01/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56881]one of the funniest things i seen on here. was obh self filming himself on here during the texas pig hunt.. texas by the way is 2000 ft below sea level..anyhow you could see beads of sweat running down his forhead each step his breathing got more labored..you could see billys truck where he droped him off about 50 yards away..it got to the point in the video i couldnt even understand what he was saying..:grin:[/QUOTE]


LMAO ... I remember that, LOL.

Question for the audience: So, if the air gets thinner as you rise above sea level, does it get fatter as you descend below?
851.) DParker - 09/01/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56885]LMAO ... I remember that, LOL.

Question for the audience: So, if the air gets thinner as you rise above sea level, does it get fatter as you descend below?[/QUOTE]

Only if you're viewing it on TV, 'cuz the camera adds 10 lbs.
852.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
Has Nebraska lost yet?
853.) crookedeye - 09/02/2018
lighting strikes..that never stoped me in are putt putt competition... scott frost is a stud..
854.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
Is he playing?
855.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
What happened to Jim Harbough? He was such a stud as a player. Now he looks like an absent minded dufus.
856.) crookedeye - 09/02/2018
its raining here in omaha.. i had to get inside after smoking my cigar..
857.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
Question, do you fire KU's head coach now or wait till game is over?
858.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56894]its raining here in omaha.. i had to get inside after smoking my cigar..[/QUOTE]

Do you have smoking jacket like Heff?
859.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
Tell me you are wearing underwear.
860.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
I'm guessing your smoking jacket smells like Hai Karate and Swisher Sweets. Amirite?
861.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
KU is better on road as they get fewer eggs thrown at them.
862.) Swamp Fox - 09/02/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56898]I'm guessing your smoking jacket smells like Hai Karate and Swisher Sweets. Amirite?[/QUOTE]

Nailed it!





Deserves a place in the BowCountry Member Profile Hall of Fame along with the likes of Luv2's red Miata ...
863.) bluecat - 09/02/2018
I knew Nebraska wouldn't come out of the first weekend with a win.
864.) crookedeye - 09/02/2018
will just chalk that one up as a win...1 and 0! off to a good start.. who's next!!?
865.) crookedeye - 09/02/2018
whatever happen to that kansas coach. he was kind of chubby and locked his players in cabinets? they need to get him back..they got to soft after that.
866.) crookedeye - 09/02/2018
i thought he was a good coach..you dont run the right route... you get put in the cabinet..next time its going to be longer.. thats coaching
867.) bluecat - 09/03/2018
Kind of chubby? Lol!
868.) bluecat - 09/03/2018
Dude was immense.
869.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2018
3.75 billion dollars here, 3.75 billion dollars there ... Sooner or later, you're talking about real money.





[url]https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nike-loses-3-75-billion-150241411.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw[/url]
870.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56902]will just chalk that one up as a win...1 and 0! off to a good start.. who's next!!?[/QUOTE]


[QUOTE]Phil Steele ranks Nebraska’s 2018 football schedule as the 6th toughest schedule in the country. Nebraska’s opponents in 2018 have a combined record of 98-58 (62.8%) based on last season’s results.
[/QUOTE]



Something's wrong with the algorithm ...

[url]https://fbschedules.com/nebraska-football-schedule/[/url]
871.) bluecat - 09/04/2018
Isn't toughest relative? I mean Kansas has no chance to win a game this season. That my friend, is a tough schedule.
872.) DParker - 09/04/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56910]3.75 billion dollars here, 3.75 billion dollars there ... Sooner or later, you're talking about real money.





[url]https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nike-loses-3-75-billion-150241411.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw[/url][/QUOTE]

It looks like their stock took a knee.
873.) Swamp Fox - 09/05/2018
LOL ...

It does, don't it?


+4



(It's like looking at a constellation ... You have to free your mind to see it.)
874.) bluecat - 09/06/2018


Fred Bear would have been so proud. RIP Burt.
875.) DParker - 09/06/2018
RIP Burt.
876.) Swamp Fox - 09/07/2018
A really interesting guy.

This piece on his career, outlook and reflections is worth a few minutes.


[url]https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093[/url]
877.) Swamp Fox - 09/07/2018
I've read some stuff over the last few days about Nike's calculation and confidence in its ad campaign---Essentially, they think objectors are not their market, and they are looking beyond the blow-back---but this seems to indicate they might have miscalculated.

It's one thing to say that "Our market will support us." It's another to whistle past the stats that show every surveyed demographic group thinks less of you today vs. yesterday.


878.) crookedeye - 09/08/2018
today is the first day of the Big Red kick ass tour..

deliverance is a top 5 movie , if not the best movie ever, that "sex" scene where that hill billy gets shot with an arrow and warren beatty bent over that log, thats a hell of a scene..
879.) crookedeye - 09/08/2018
a reporter ask scott frost...how are you going to adjust to the big10? scott frost answered..its not how were going to adjust to them its how there going to adjust to us!!

man i fired up already!!
880.) crookedeye - 09/08/2018
i was thinking about the nike ad.. kapreneks scaraficed so much for his stance..then the 22 year old navy seal coming home from afganastan, The Flag drapped over his coffin,neatly folded up and handed to his parents, the nike ad is pretty mute if you really think about it.
881.) bluecat - 09/09/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56935]a reporter ask scott frost...how are you going to adjust to the big10? scott frost answered..its not how were going to adjust to them its how there going to adjust to us!!

man i fired up already!![/QUOTE]

Pride goes before a fall.
882.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
it was Plasimns*verse 34 th in the bible.. you shall only bask in the fruits of victory decendents upon defeat.. thus the meaning... wait till next week..
883.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
i actually liked how they played...how they lost that game i have no answer for..whats the old saying? get back on the horse that bucked you off..whos next?
884.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
theyll be fine.. trust me the better team did not win today..
885.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
back when i played putt putt golf..lewi the squirt Mcdonald won every major tournament in the midwest..granted the wind mill banked off the flower pot no.7 hole lost him the world championship..
886.) bluecat - 09/09/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56942]back when i played putt putt golf..lewi the squirt Mcdonald won every major tournament in the midwest..granted the wind mill banked off the flower pot no.7 hole lost him the world championship..[/QUOTE]

I hate when that happens.
887.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
he didnt miss alot of shots , but banking it off the side wall , under the windmill, then bouncing off the flower pot into the hole,, took nerves of steele..
888.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
there was a kid out of north dakota that took the title that year.. frankie twinkle toes wasinski won the tournament..on the last hole double banked and threw the water trap made a hole in one..
889.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
i beleive it should be an olympic game..
890.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
what family members wouldnt be proud of a gold medilist in putt putt golf?
891.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
standing there on the podium as the national athem is played..as a chineses judge places that gold medal around youre neck..
892.) crookedeye - 09/09/2018
that could be a story you could tell you kids and grandkids..you were a gold medalist in putt putt golf..
893.) bluecat - 09/09/2018
Don't forget you get a free Slushee for every hole in one.
894.) Ohbuckhunter - 09/11/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56881]one of the funniest things i seen on here. was obh self filming himself on here during the texas pig hunt.. texas by the way is 2000 ft below sea level..anyhow you could see beads of sweat running down his forhead each step his breathing got more labored..you could see billys truck where he droped him off about 50 yards away..it got to the point in the video i couldnt even understand what he was saying..:grin:[/QUOTE]

[url]https://youtu.be/yAZ-1b2-QqM[/url]
895.) Ohbuckhunter - 09/11/2018
It’s hard to be a fat guy in a little coat
896.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2018
Those were the days ... And that clip's classic.


CE has a future in narrating narrated video ...
897.) Ohbuckhunter - 09/12/2018
He does have a face for radio.
898.) bluecat - 09/12/2018
899.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2018
[QUOTE=Ohbuckhunter;56966]He does have a face for radio.[/QUOTE]


His mom thinks he's very handsome, and that's what's important.

'Cause if your mom can't give you some props ... it's probably down to following Nebraska football ...
900.) bluecat - 09/16/2018
Troy State...ouch.
901.) Swamp Fox - 09/16/2018
LMFAO ....

Should I dig up my post from about a month ago busting CE's chops about Troy State? ... LOL
902.) crookedeye - 09/16/2018
they did not look good at all..that game reminded me of last season ..but worst..scott froast said if any player wants to leave, leave right now! trust me he will turn this program around... kansas is a power house now they destroyed rutgers
903.) crookedeye - 09/16/2018
that game kinda reminds me back when i was at thrid base playing agaisnt Saint Lutherns Church, when eddie englecamp went 4 for 4 and pitched a no hitter.
904.) bluecat - 09/16/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57033]they did not look good at all..that game reminded me of last season ..but worst..scott froast said if any player wants to leave, leave right now! trust me he will turn this program around... kansas is a power house now they destroyed rutgers[/QUOTE]

Kansas won't win another game this season.
905.) bluecat - 09/16/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57034]that game kinda reminds me back when i was at thrid base playing agaisnt Saint Lutherns Church, when eddie englecamp went 4 for 4 and pitched a no hitter.[/QUOTE]

Eddie was on the juice.
906.) bluecat - 09/16/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57032]LMFAO ....

Should I dig up my post from about a month ago busting CE's chops about Troy State? ... LOL[/QUOTE]

Find it.
907.) crookedeye - 09/16/2018
are were swampy said Trump had no chance at winning the presidency..find that one too...lol
908.) crookedeye - 09/16/2018
whats the deal with these crickets coming into my basement now?? there legs start falling off then they die..im like wtf..
909.) crookedeye - 09/16/2018
i seen a wolf spider down there the other day, it looked like he was hunting
910.) Swamp Fox - 09/17/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57038]are were swampy said Trump had no chance at winning the presidency..find that one too...lol[/QUOTE]


:-) .... I don't think I ever said that. Certainly not once he got rolling, which was pretty early. I can't say his pulling ahead wasn't a surprise, though.
911.) Swamp Fox - 09/17/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57037]Find it.[/QUOTE]



8/4/18 --"It's that time of year again" thread



[QUOTE][QUOTE=crookedeye;56700]we have the hardest schdule in football, Just the way we like it...come get some..[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56701]Wait a minute ... Akron and Troy State Universities? ... Why don't you just play William and Mary (by themselves) and the School For The Blind?[/QUOTE]



[/QUOTE]
912.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
Lol...
913.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57040]i seen a wolf spider down there the other day, it looked like he was hunting[/QUOTE]

I'd set up a makeshift ground blind using the laundry basket, the magazines and the old couch. Is it legal there to hunt over bait? Set up some cameras and get dialed in on what times are best.
914.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
I have a wolf spider call if you want to borrow it. I've washed most of the saliva off.
915.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
Don't over call, they get call shy.
916.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
is it like the hadel turkey gobble call?? i had more spit in that thing, still couldnt get a decent gobble out of it..sold it to some sucker on ebay..
917.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
it was one of those calls you had to build up massive amount of spit before it would even work right..
918.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
that turkey gobble call i had sounded more like a coon and a dog fighting..
919.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
They might be controlling your centipedes, so I wouldn't go over the bag limit. You might try to find some centipedes carcasses and set them up as decoys.
920.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
i think i have the centepedes under controll this year, with my spray and bug traps..ive been catching alot of little ones.the big ones are the ones im after, they are nocturnal..you need to get up early to even see one.
921.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
the traps cant hold them..
922.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
the big ones are smart, once in a while you see one on the wall. i mean the big ones..
923.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
once you turn on youre light they freeze..i had one about 2 inches, he was big...i snaped a towel at him as he scurried undernealth the closet door..that was about a year ago..i no his still around..
924.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
I know a guy that was a bodybuilder and the cockroaches got into the muscle protein powder. They were invincible and you couldn't crush them anymore.
925.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
They cornered a kitten and were roughing it up pretty good before he stepped in.
926.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
i seen an alpha centipede take down a mouse before
927.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
his tenticles wraped around the mouse..he was about a 2 incher maybe 2 1/2 inches you could tell he was the alpha male..
928.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
you could tell he had a grip on the mouse the battle lasted for about 10 minutes
929.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
If you don't lay the wood to these vermin early on, they teach that attitude and hate to their young and it becomes ugly and personal. They don't believe they are living in your world, you are living in theirs. I've seen their little parades and such.
930.) crookedeye - 09/17/2018
remember when you see one of the alpha males on youre wall ..he's just afraid of you as you are of him..
931.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
I'm not so sure about that. Don't let your guard down. That's usually when they strike.
932.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
You might think differently when you wake up with blood on your pillow and you're a pint low.
933.) bluecat - 09/17/2018
Once they get a little taste of human juice, there's no going back.
934.) Swamp Fox - 09/19/2018
Natural enemies of the centipede include the badger and the chicken. Maybe you let a few of them loose in your basement. Or a pushy salesman of very, very tiny shoes.

Here's the money idea, though. According to Orkin, centipedes are "solitary arthropods that become defensive and violent in the company of other centipedes."

Can you say pay-per-view Centipede Fight Club?
935.) Swamp Fox - 09/19/2018
Enjoying watching a lot of Resistance heads explode today.
936.) DParker - 09/20/2018
I'm just trying to recover from that whole, "a little taste of human juice" thing.
937.) bluecat - 09/20/2018
When I was in the fourth grade I played halfback for the Riverdale Colts. One Sunday afternoon, the opposing defense was stunting and sending five, our coach (Mr. Higgens) called me over to send in a play. "Bluekitty" (I was much smaller then), He grabbed me by my facemask and drew me in. "I need a toss power trap." Here's where it got interesting. He shoved me out on the field but before I left he gave me a little pat on the rump.

Clearly this is inappropriate touching. Even though it happened maybe 50 years ago, somebody should pay. I hate to drag my family and the grade school principal (he knew this patting was going on and did nothing) through all this but it has to be done.

How much should I ask for in damages? Just come out with it in the newspaper and then refuse to testify?
938.) bluecat - 09/20/2018
I don't really remember the incident because I was never on the Riverdale Colts, I was on the Sunnyside Bears.

I have a pretty strong case though.
939.) DParker - 09/20/2018
I'm just going to leave this here....

[URL="https://cultofthe1st.blogspot.com/2018/09/why-christine-blasey-fords-high-school_19.html"]WHY CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD’S HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS WERE SCRUBBED[/URL]
940.) bluecat - 09/21/2018
941.) DParker - 09/22/2018
942.) bluecat - 09/22/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;56935]a reporter ask scott frost...how are you going to adjust to the big10? scott frost answered..its not how were going to adjust to them its how there going to adjust to us!!

man i fired up already!![/QUOTE]

Beat down in the big house.
943.) crookedeye - 09/23/2018
that game was rigged...michigan had to have some type of ballons . airbags in there uniforms..the nebraska defense was bouncing off michigans offensive line..

Go Big Red!! i cant wait until next saturday..
944.) crookedeye - 09/23/2018
its almost insanity what the demorcrats are doing.
945.) crookedeye - 09/23/2018
what about the fb freaking i...im not talking about the majority of the department, but the upper deep state. lol

really though there is somthing fishy going on.
946.) bluecat - 09/24/2018
Sex assault eyed after turtle is discovered in woman’s vagina

[url]https://nyp.st/2xGYN7v[/url]

:cf:
947.) DParker - 09/24/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57096]Sex assault eyed after turtle is discovered in woman’s vagina

[url]https://nyp.st/2xGYN7v[/url]

:cf:[/QUOTE]

I think that falls squarely into the "What the hell were you searching for when you found that?" category.
948.) DParker - 09/28/2018
I've been watching/listening to SCOTUS confirmation hearings for about 20 years now, and I've never witnessed anything even remotely like the circus this one has been.
949.) bluecat - 09/29/2018
It's nuts.
950.) Swamp Fox - 09/29/2018
Clown show.

Dems may have over-played their hand.

No good can come of it.
951.) Swamp Fox - 09/29/2018
Lagging indicator: Gun sales 4Q
952.) crookedeye - 09/29/2018
one more week..then flake is going to have to live with himself..what a phoney ..nothing will become of this fbi investigation but good things for kavanaugh...the vote will happen in two weeks.
953.) crookedeye - 09/29/2018
blumenthal was an vietnam hero..he charged up hill 47 in the dark to save his company lol...what a joke these people are..and now blumenthal is questioning Kavanaughs credibility..


This is almost unreal!!
954.) crookedeye - 09/29/2018
whatching this shit...i have never been more motivated to vote in my life..
955.) crookedeye - 09/29/2018
they shown that video of those two freak ladys yelling at flake in the elavator...i would have punched her right in the mouth..
956.) crookedeye - 09/29/2018
girls nowdays can kick youre ass..thats why you need to land the first shot on them....lol
957.) crookedeye - 09/29/2018
the vote will proceed with the sound of the viking horn..


958.) DParker - 09/29/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57177]girls nowdays can kick youre ass..thats why you need to land the first shot on them....lol[/QUOTE]

Ah, the classics.

[video=youtube;TphCi4zH1sk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TphCi4zH1sk[/video]
959.) Swamp Fox - 09/30/2018

960.) Swamp Fox - 09/30/2018
961.) Swamp Fox - 09/30/2018

962.) Swamp Fox - 09/30/2018









963.) bluecat - 09/30/2018
The Boilermakers? CE, you've got some splaining to do.
964.) bluecat - 09/30/2018
I was able to listen to the whole game while on the deer stand. I picked up the broadcast from KRVN in Lexington. What happened to KFAB out of Omaha? They carried Rush Limbaugh instead of the game. 1110 right?
965.) bluecat - 09/30/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57183]








[/QUOTE]

LOL!
966.) crookedeye - 09/30/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57185]I was able to listen to the whole game while on the deer stand. I picked up the broadcast from KRVN in Lexington. What happened to KFAB out of Omaha? They carried Rush Limbaugh instead of the game. 1110 right?[/QUOTE]

its 92.3 fm now..kfab drop it some yrs ago..
967.) bluecat - 09/30/2018
That's really hard to believe. That was Husker central for ever.
968.) Swamp Fox - 10/05/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57174]blumenthal was an vietnam hero..he charged up hill 47 in the dark to save his company lol...what a joke these people are..and now blumenthal is questioning Kavanaughs credibility..


This is almost unreal!![/QUOTE]



Blumenthal might have charged up Turkey-Burger Hill ... Really, a tall mound in Connecticut behind the Bed, Bath and Beyond...
969.) bluecat - 10/05/2018
They're all a cast of n'er-do-wells.

Feinstein with her Chinese limo driver spy, Booker a known woman abuser, Blumenthal lied about his service.



Just don't throw ice.
970.) crookedeye - 10/06/2018
its a good day..the huskers have made alot of changes this week..alot of player changes, scott frost is weeding out the weak from the riley recruiting class..i got that feeling there might be some ass kicking in wiscousin tommorrow.. i can feel it..
971.) bluecat - 10/06/2018
Good luck CE. Frost nos what he is doing.
972.) DParker - 10/06/2018
973.) DParker - 10/06/2018
974.) crookedeye - 10/07/2018
Trump said he has more indian blood in him then senator warren...
975.) bluecat - 10/07/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57207]Good luck CE. Frost nos [B]not[/B] what he is doing.[/QUOTE]
fifm
976.) Swamp Fox - 10/09/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;57210][/QUOTE]


LOL ....
977.) Swamp Fox - 10/09/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57218]Trump said he has more Indian blood in him then senator warren...[/QUOTE]


So what he's saying is his grandmother or his mom got around?
978.) Swamp Fox - 10/13/2018
979.) DParker - 10/14/2018
LOL! Definitely the mame base of the week. Who thought that Lindsey he would ever become a right-wing hero?
980.) Swamp Fox - 10/14/2018
I've always said Lindsey's alright ....


981.) DParker - 10/14/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;57237]LOL! Definitely the meme base of the week. Who thought that Lindsey he would ever become a right-wing hero?[/QUOTE]

Correction: "meme"...not "mame"...and that's after running up a $300+ tab at a local whiskey distillery for my son-in-law's birthday (a personal best that I'm taking pride in at the moment, but that I'm sure I'll be embarrassed by in the morning).

But bonus points for the Marley tune none the less.
982.) Swamp Fox - 10/15/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;57239]Correction: "meme"...not "mame"...[/QUOTE]

I was hanging out in the frozen foods section one night at the Piggly Wiggly, waiting for something good to happen, when someone asked me if I knew where the edamame was ..

I said, "You mean the soybeans?"
983.) bluecat - 10/15/2018
It's made out of people.
984.) DParker - 10/15/2018
Bet you can't eat just one.

985.) Swamp Fox - 10/16/2018
I can tell people have reservations about Elizabeth Warren's own-goal today ...
986.) Swamp Fox - 10/16/2018
I probably should have saved that line for a more lively forum, but she sure did chop herself off at the knees.


It really was a coup for her enemies ...

People talk about tribalism in today's politics, but if you lie down with buffalo you're gonna wake up with Buffalo Pattys ...


[Bluecat probably has some pictures, which he shouldn't post ... Just sayin' ...}
987.) DParker - 10/16/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57243]I can tell people have reservations about Elizabeth Warren's own-goal today ...[/QUOTE]

The left thinks her squawking was very brave.
988.) Jon - 10/16/2018
The senator from NJ who calls himself Sparticus gives her 2 swords up
989.) bluecat - 10/16/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;57245]The left thinks her squawking was very brave.[/QUOTE]

She needs to chillax and smoke'm peace pipe.

I just found out I'm 1,024th Irish, so "top of the morning to ya".
990.) bluecat - 10/17/2018
Warren needs to bury the hatchet.
991.) DParker - 10/17/2018
992.) Swamp Fox - 10/17/2018
[QUOTE=Jon;57247]The senator from NJ who calls himself Sparticus gives her 2 swords up[/QUOTE]


So we know he likes movies about gladiators ... LOL
993.) Swamp Fox - 10/17/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57248]She needs to chillax and smoke'm peace pipe.

I just found out I'm 1,024th Irish, so "top of the morning to ya".[/QUOTE]

Welcome to the club ... How well can you hold a grudge?
994.) Swamp Fox - 10/17/2018
Can't believe we don't have pics of Buffalo Patty yet ... You fellas are slipping.


Think Peppermint Patty, but with an extra 300 pounds, a short skirt, and cowboy boots ...
995.) bluecat - 10/17/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57255]Welcome to the club ... How well can you hold a grudge?[/QUOTE]

I'm still pissed that Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri vacated the Big XII, does that count? These were all part of the Big 8 and have a long tradition with KU. Leaving was wrong.

I'm glad that Nebraska is losing, I've always hated Missouri (any proper Kansan does - Muck Fizzou). To turn your back on your neighbors like that. I'd always liked Nebraska up until that time - lived in Lincoln for 11 years-thought highly of Tom Osborne. Now I always cheer for them to lose. The year Kansas beat them into submission in Lawrence was a happy day for me. I still have and will take to the grave, the ticket stub from that game. I watched the elitist NU fans filing out of the game at the 3rd quarter. Nebraska fans always prided themselves on how they support the team win or lose. B.S.

Pour me another pint Swampy, we may be here awhile.
996.) DParker - 10/18/2018
Meanwhile, this year's hunting season in Texas.

997.) bluecat - 10/18/2018
Charlie don't surf.
998.) Swamp Fox - 10/18/2018
LOL ... +5

Now, if I ever kill nice buck in the aftermath of a hurricane, I'm gonna name him Charlie. :-)

Every year a few monsters go down because they're pushed out to the more accessible open, higher ground by rising water. It's a neat trick if you can manage it.
999.) Swamp Fox - 10/18/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57255]Welcome to the club ... How well can you hold a grudge?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;57257]I'm still pissed that Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri vacated the Big XII, does that count? These were all part of the Big 8 and have a long tradition with KU. Leaving was wrong.

I'm glad that Nebraska is losing, I've always hated Missouri (any proper Kansan does - Muck Fizzou)...

Pour me another pint Swampy, we may be here awhile.[/QUOTE]



I'd call that a good start ... LOL
1000.) bluecat - 10/19/2018
Have I mentioned I hate Missouri?
1001.) Swamp Fox - 10/19/2018
Duly noted, Grammaw ...

:grin:


1002.) bluecat - 10/19/2018
+5

LOL, "Personnally, I don't think much of Hoosiers neither."
1003.) bluecat - 10/19/2018
1004.) DParker - 10/19/2018
LOL! Dammit bluecat! You beat me to the punch.
1005.) bluecat - 10/20/2018
There are so many good ones out there, it was hard to choose. Have you seen the 'Land of Lakes' one?
1006.) DParker - 10/20/2018
1007.) bluecat - 10/20/2018
Lol, that's a good one.
1008.) crookedeye - 10/21/2018
nebraska probally is the best team in the big 10.... huge win for the huskers
1009.) bluecat - 11/09/2018
Looks like they are still counting votes in Florida! Who would have guessed. lol...
1010.) DParker - 11/09/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57324]Looks like they are still counting votes in Florida! Who would have guessed. lol...[/QUOTE]

1011.) Swamp Fox - 11/15/2018
So ... [B]M[/B]ichael [B]A[/B]venatti [B]G[/B]ot [B][B]A[/B][/B]rrested ...
1012.) bluecat - 11/15/2018
Well she did hit him first...

He needs to get back to work vilifying Kavanaugh with unsubstantiated claims.







Can they put prisoners to work counting votes in Florida?
1013.) DParker - 11/15/2018
#ibelieveher
1014.) crookedeye - 11/17/2018
....
1015.) crookedeye - 11/17/2018
everybody thinks those golden disc are easy..
1016.) crookedeye - 11/17/2018
i went to college for that..
1017.) crookedeye - 11/17/2018
that was my speciaslty back when i was in high school..i would practice everyday after school..
1018.) bluecat - 11/19/2018
Congrats on your victory over Mich State.
1019.) Swamp Fox - 11/19/2018
I'm down to trying Mrs. T's pierogies, CE, since you won't give me your brother's recipe ...

Just want you to know how low I've fallen ...
1020.) Swamp Fox - 11/19/2018
Everybody/anybody: Send me your links to NRA/GOA/other influential reactions to the police shooting of the armed security guard in the Chicago area in the last week or so.

[url]https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-security-guard-jemel-roberson-killed-details-20181115-story.html[/url]
1021.) DParker - 11/20/2018
I don't know about all that, but I'm definitely having a glass of scotch when I get home:

[URL="https://local21news.com/news/nation-world/police-man-detoxing-from-alcohol-cuts-off-own-genitals"]Police: Man detoxing from alcohol cuts off own genitals[/URL]
1022.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2018
That seems the wiser route ....
1023.) DParker - 11/20/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57350]That seems the wiser route ....[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I'd be nuts not to.
1024.) Swamp Fox - 11/22/2018
[I]"...nuttier than Mr. Peanut's pool party."[/I]

----Jonah Goldberg, as far as I know, or some unknown comedy genius I should sit a hunting blind with some time as soon as possible
1025.) billy b - 11/23/2018
Happy Thanksgiving you toeds (yankee for Turds)!!!!!!
1026.) crookedeye - 11/24/2018
billy you still have that cabelas chair you were always chiming in about? cabelas has them for 47 bucks without the armrest..im getting tired of buying chairs every year..should i buy with the armrest or without?? that hawk chair i bought last year kinda sucked..
1027.) crookedeye - 11/24/2018
plus i did shoot a buck this year billy...i had no choice, it was either him or me..i turned to my left as he was charging me...it seems to happen to me all the time..
1028.) Swamp Fox - 11/24/2018
What were you wearing?
1029.) Swamp Fox - 11/24/2018
Happy Thanksgiving back at you, Billy. Nothing going on up here with us chickens.


[Narrator: If Trump shot someone wit a toity-toity on Toity Toid Street, his poll numbahs still wouldn't go in da terlit ... ]



I ran across a guy with an *outrageous* Brooklyn accent just the other day ... Apparently dis is where da money is ...



1030.) billy b - 11/25/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57354]billy you still have that cabelas chair you were always chiming in about? cabelas has them for 47 bucks without the armrest..im getting tired of buying chairs every year..should i buy with the armrest or without?? that hawk chair i bought last year kinda sucked..[/QUOTE]

I still have it and I still use it, going to W Texas with the boys in 3 weeks. Mine doesn't have arm rests, you'll luv it.
1031.) billy b - 11/25/2018
[QUOTE=crookedeye;57355]plus i did shoot a buck this year billy...i had no choice, it was either him or me..i turned to my left as he was charging me...it seems to happen to me all the time..[/QUOTE]

Pics or it didn't happen kinkeye.
Keep em going Swampy, it's all gonna come back!!!
1032.) bluecat - 12/12/2018
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered porn star Stormy Daniels to pay President Donald Trump more than $292,000 in attorneys' fees and another $1,000 in sanctions in connection with her dismissed defamation suit against Trump.

That was much less than the nearly $800,000 in legal fees and sanctions that Trump's lawyer Charles Harder asked for earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

But Harder in a statement Tuesday said that Daniels was ordered to pay amount to 75 percent of Trump's legal fees. And he crowed that the $1,000 in sanctions are for her filing "meritless" defamation action.

That defamation suit came in response to a Trump tweet that all but called Daniels for claiming she was menaced by a man seeking to keep her quiet about a sexual tryst with the president.

"The court's order, along with the court's prior order dismissing Stormy Daniels' defamation case against the President, together constitute a total victory for the President, and a total defeat for Stormy Daniels in this case."

[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/11/judg...neys-fees.html[/url]


Completely unrelated, but last night a squadron of aliens landed on my lawn. We barbecued some ribs, drank a few cold ones and talked about man, the galaxy and the Green Bay Packers. Apparently they are big fans. I know right?
1033.) DParker - 12/12/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57474]the galaxy and the Green Bay Packers. Apparently they are big fans.[/QUOTE]

I [I]knew[/I] Aaron Rogers wasn't human!
1034.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2018
BC---

Link's not working.

I'd love to see the breakdown of fines and sanctions on Daniels vs. her lawyer. The article I saw yesterday didn't mention it either. I suppose it's entirely possible the legal team walks away scot-free.
1035.) DParker - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57480]I'd love to see the breakdown of fines and sanctions on Daniels vs. her lawyer. The article I saw yesterday didn't mention it either. I suppose it's entirely possible the legal team walks away scot-free.[/QUOTE]

"Daniels" is 100% liable for the whole thing. CPL ("Creepy Porn Lawyer") has no liability in this case. Or are you're referring to his mountain of debt and other assorted financials problems?
1036.) bluecat - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;57476]I [I]knew[/I] Aaron Rogers wasn't human![/QUOTE]

Now his girlfriend is out of this world.
1037.) bluecat - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57480]BC---

Link's not working.

I'd love to see the breakdown of fines and sanctions on Daniels vs. her lawyer. The article I saw yesterday didn't mention it either. I suppose it's entirely possible the legal team walks away scot-free.[/QUOTE]

You want a cost breakdown of various sexual acts?
1038.) bluecat - 12/13/2018
I'd only be going from memory.
1039.) DParker - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;57483]You want a cost breakdown of various sexual acts?[/QUOTE]

$50...same as in town, Father Flannigan.
1040.) Swamp Fox - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;57481]"Daniels" is 100% liable for the whole thing. CPL ("Creepy Porn Lawyer") has no liability in this case. Or are you're referring to his mountain of debt and other assorted financials problems?[/QUOTE]

In some cases the lawyer(s) can face fines, penalties and/or sanctions for improper suits. I assume this is state-by-state, although you'd think the ABA or other national groups interested in ethics and standards could be pressed to address loose-cannon lawyers in states that let them run wild.
1041.) Swamp Fox - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;57485]$50...same as in town, Father Flannigan.[/QUOTE]



You have an extraordinary collection of old punchlines. :grin::wink

You should probably never let me see your underground storage facility.

LOL



1042.) DParker - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57487]You have an extraordinary collection of old punchlines. :grin::wink[/quote]

Well, I'm old. And my ass has been acquainted with a great many barstools. The line is actually just, "$50, same as in town Father." But I thought that would sound uber creepy to anyone who wasn't familiar with the joke.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57487]You should probably never let me see your underground storage facility.

LOL[/QUOTE]

1043.) bluecat - 12/13/2018
Do you think she'll pay him in singles?
1044.) bluecat - 12/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57480]BC---

Link's not working.

I'd love to see the breakdown of fines and sanctions on Daniels vs. her lawyer. The article I saw yesterday didn't mention it either. I suppose it's entirely possible the legal team walks away scot-free.[/QUOTE]

Sorry about that. Here is a working link for a working girl.

[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/11/judge-orders-porn-star-stormy-daniels-to-pay-trump-attorneys-fees.html[/url]
1045.) bluecat - 12/17/2018
1046.) bluecat - 01/03/2019


Hail to the Chief. lol
1047.) DParker - 01/03/2019
Ah, so that's [B][I]how[/I][/B] she did it.

I'm sorry...my blood sugar is a little low right now.
1048.) bluecat - 01/03/2019
boo hiss...
1049.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2019
LOL ... When I heard a few days ago that she had announced her exploratory committee , the first thing that came to my mind was "sending up smoke signals" ---LOL --- but I missed my opportunity to be the first one on the internet to post it ... LOL ...

It was a horrible, epic lapse in concentration; I'm sorry, and it won't happen again.
1050.) Swamp Fox - 01/03/2019
Is it too much to hope for that Pocahontas and Spartacus form a ticket and run against Adolph Twitler in 2020?


1051.) bluecat - 01/11/2019
CNN’s Jim Acosta mocked for accidentally proving that border walls work

[url]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cnns-jim-acosta-mocked-for-accidently-proving-that-border-walls-work[/url]



Delta Bravo, lol
1052.) DParker - 01/11/2019
He really is proof that a flat-lined EEG is not only not a disqualifier for a journalism position at CNN, but is actually a prerequisite.
1053.) bluecat - 01/11/2019
+5 lol
1054.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2019
He's such a numbnuts ...


Boom!


1055.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2019
[B][SIZE=2]‘AYFKM’? NBC New York’s getting torched over their ‘weird euphemism for an armed home invader’[/SIZE][/B]


[url]https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/01/11/ayfkm-nbc-new-yorks-getting-torched-over-their-weird-euphemism-for-an-armed-home-invader/[/url]


LOL
1056.) DParker - 01/12/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57657][B][SIZE=2]‘AYFKM’? NBC New York’s getting torched over their ‘weird euphemism for an armed home invader’[/SIZE][/B]


[url]https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/01/11/ayfkm-nbc-new-yorks-getting-torched-over-their-weird-euphemism-for-an-armed-home-invader/[/url]


LOL[/QUOTE]

He shot his mother-in-law?
1057.) bluecat - 01/14/2019
Okay, I'll play. Drug dealers are unlicensed pharmacists.
1058.) DParker - 01/14/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;57659]Okay, I'll play. Drug dealers are unlicensed pharmacists.[/QUOTE]

Like I'm an underappreciated male stripper.
1059.) bluecat - 01/14/2019
For you and Swample

The Irish are always the first ones to come to the aid of their fellow man.

Shortly after take-off on an outbound, evening Aer Lingus flight from
Dublin to Boston, the lead flight attendant nervously made the following
painful announcement in her lovely Irish brogue: "Ladies and gentlemen,
I'm so very sorry, but it appears that there
has been a terrible mix-up by our catering service. I don't know how
this has happened, but we have 103 passengers on board, and
unfortunately, we received only 40 dinner meals. I truly apologize for
this mistake and inconvenience."

When the muttering of the passengers had died down, she continued,
"Anyone who is kind enough to give up their meal so that someone else
can eat, will receive free and unlimited drinks for the duration of our
10 hour flight.

Her next announcement came about 2 hours later: "If anyone is hungry, we
still have 40 dinners available."
1060.) bluecat - 01/14/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;57660]Like I'm an underappreciated male stripper.[/QUOTE]

I prefer to think of a male stripper as an xy-chromosome-containing bipedal hominid clothing relinquisher.
1061.) Swamp Fox - 01/15/2019
That Aer Lingus flight is right up there in Irish lore with the Flight of the Earls and the Flight of the Wild Geese.:-)

There's probably a song about it. :wink Maybe an air chantey. :grin:


Oldtime flight song:



Newtime flight song---When you're stuck at the airport in Ireland ... LOL :

1062.) Swamp Fox - 01/15/2019
Countdown to St Paddy's Day:


[url]https://days.to/st-patricks-day/2019[/url]


:clap:

:beer:
1063.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2019
I'm enjoying the self-destruction of the Democratic Party leadership in Virginia ...



"You make the rules .. Don't be the fools."
1064.) DParker - 02/06/2019
DNC: "Quick, we need a distraction from our party in-fighting!"

Virginia Democrats: "Hold my beer...."
1065.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2019
It's the party of choice:

You can choose among socialists, wannabe socialist hypocrites, authoritarians, busybodies, panderers, mushy squish gibberish playback artists, or just-plain dumb-asses.

There may be other options, but right now I have enough to pick through to keep me busy.

I will say there should be a special prize for Reagan- and post Reagan-era Southern Democrats, though.

They're the worst ...


[QUOTE]"I'm a chicken ... Rooster, that is!"

"Don't give me that! You're not a chicken!'

"What am I, then, boy?"

"You're a loud-mouthed schnook!"

[/QUOTE]
1066.) DParker - 02/07/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57727]You can choose among socialists, wannabe socialist hypocrites, authoritarians, busybodies, panderers, mushy squish gibberish playback artists, or just-plain dumb-asses.[/QUOTE]

Also, rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!

1067.) Swamp Fox - 02/07/2019
LMAO .... There you go!... That's what I was straining for but couldn't quite put my finger on ... LOL ... +7

What sad times are these ... There is a pestilence upon this land.
1068.) Swamp Fox - 02/07/2019
[QUOTE]WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator Elizabeth Warren is embroiled in controversy once again, this time after she admitted to wearing racially offensive "paleface" at a costume party back in her college days.



"As a proud Native American woman, I now realize that dressing as a white woman at that party all those years ago was insensitive and offensive," she said in a heartfelt apology video. "It was wrong of me to culturally appropriate white culture, as I am only 1023/1024th white European colonizer."

"I only hope that my constituents can forgive me for who I was back in my college days," she added.

Warren was also photographed with a friend dressed as a KKK member, but she refused to distance herself from that photograph, calling the KKK "an important part of the history of abortion rights in America, for which I have fought my whole career."



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>>>>>
1069.) bluecat - 03/07/2019
[url]https://www.theblaze.com/news/mayor-claims-hate-crime-but-it-was-pollen[/url]
[I]
Mayor claims she was hate crime victim after 'yellow, sticky substance' found on car. But cops have simpler explanation.
'It ignited some fear in my spirit. My God, who would do that?'[/I]



She looks like the woman version of Don King.
1070.) bluecat - 03/07/2019
You can't make this stuff up.
1071.) bluecat - 03/07/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57730]WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator Elizabeth Warren is embroiled in controversy once again, this time after she admitted to wearing racially offensive "paleface" at a costume party back in her college days.



"As a proud Native American woman, I now realize that dressing as a white woman at that party all those years ago was insensitive and offensive," she said in a heartfelt apology video. "It was wrong of me to culturally appropriate white culture, as I am only 1023/1024th white European colonizer."

"I only hope that my constituents can forgive me for who I was back in my college days," she added.

Warren was also photographed with a friend dressed as a KKK member, but she refused to distance herself from that photograph, calling the KKK "an important part of the history of abortion rights in America, for which I have fought my whole career."



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1072.) DParker - 03/07/2019
Trees are well known for being virulent racists.
1073.) bluecat - 03/07/2019
White Oak privilege
1074.) Swamp Fox - 03/07/2019
Black Olives Matter
1075.) DParker - 03/07/2019
Whatever they were, they certainly made Ashes of themselves.
1076.) bluecat - 03/07/2019
I'd heard on the news that the fact that there was no message scrawled into the pollen was the message itself. You know, the same argument the left uses for global warming -the colder it is, the more they site global warming as the cause.
1077.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2019
I ce-dar what you did ...

[in my best upper-Midwest accent]
1078.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;57854]Whatever they were, they certainly made Ashes of themselves.[/QUOTE]



I ce-dar what you did ...

[in my best upper-Midwest accent]
1079.) bluecat - 03/08/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;57857]I ce-dar what you did ...

[in my best upper-Midwest accent][/QUOTE]

+5 lol, well done son.

You're not a two-bit hack[I]berry[/I].
1080.) bluecat - 03/08/2019
[url]https://www.thecollegefix.com/students-protest-school-president-for-saying-that-his-granddaughter-will-be-raised-as-a-girl/[/url]


[I]Students protest school president for saying that his granddaughter will be raised as a girl
[/I]


Um, that's all I got.
1081.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;57859][url]https://www.thecollegefix.com/students-protest-school-president-for-saying-that-his-granddaughter-will-be-raised-as-a-girl/[/url]


[I]Students protest school president for saying that his granddaughter will be raised as a girl
[/I]


[/QUOTE]



1082.) bluecat - 03/13/2019
[url]https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/air-pollution-racial-disparities/[/url]

[I]Earlier this month, environmental scientists at the University of Minnesota came out with a startling nationwide study showing that different demographic groups are exposed to drastically different amounts of air pollution each year. The study overlaid US Census data with exposure levels of a pollutant called nitrogen dioxide, or NO2, which is created by combustion in vehicles and power plants. The results: Each year, people of color are exposed to 46 percent more NO2 than white people.
[/I]


"Hey you, get off of my cloud."
1083.) DParker - 03/13/2019
Wait...you're telling me that a demographic that is disproportionately represented in urban populations is more likely to be exposed to pollutants that are present in higher levels in....urban environments? Stop the presses and get those folks a government research grant!!!
1084.) Swamp Fox - 03/16/2019
1085.) bluecat - 03/17/2019
damnit, you really had me going there for a sec.
1086.) Swamp Fox - 03/17/2019
We're living in an incredibly stupid time.


1087.) bluecat - 03/27/2019


Are these considered fake gnus? It's so hard to tell anymore.
1088.) DParker - 03/28/2019
I seez what you done there.
1089.) bluecat - 03/28/2019
It looks like this whole "Jussie's Girl" Smollett incident ain't over. I heard where Michelle Obama was involved in the dropping of the 16 felonies. Shocking!


I know that this whole thing has been hard on Jussie. I just hope he doesn't beat himself up too bad about it. Things like this just happen in racist countries.
1090.) Swamp Fox - 03/30/2019
Don't worry. The FBI's involved. First the college bribery scandal and now some B-List race-baiting fraud.


Good to know the federales are working on the important stuff ...
1091.) Swamp Fox - 03/30/2019
.....
1092.) bluecat - 04/11/2019
New drinking game. Every time a democrat speaks, take a shot and yell, "and how are you going to pay for that?" btw, I heard Bernie Sanders was so lazy he got thrown out of a commune. lol

[url]https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-says-blue-shield-will-be-relegated-to-nose-jobs-insurance-doesnt-cover-optional-cosmetic-surgery[/url]


Bernie says Blue Shield will be relegated to nose jobs; insurance doesn't cover optional cosmetic surgery
1093.) DParker - 04/12/2019
He, Ocasio-Cortez and Maxine Waters should take their comedy acts on the road.

[URL="https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/10/maxine-waters-goofs-grilling-banks-student-loans/"]https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/10/maxine-waters-goofs-grilling-banks-student-loans/[/URL]
1094.) Swamp Fox - 04/13/2019
I hate to say it, but the Dems are a clown show. They used to be a serious party dedicated to segregation, anti-anti-Communism and punitive taxation.


Now what've they got?
1095.) Swamp Fox - 04/13/2019
If anyone's interested or hasn't been playing along at home and wants to catch up, Google something like "Ocasio Cortez fails economics" to get an eye-opener of the stupidity on one side of the equation, anyway.

I think googling "maxine waters fails" might crash the network, so try to avoid that ...
1096.) Swamp Fox - 04/13/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;58052]I hate to say it, but the Dems are a clown show. They used to be a serious party dedicated to segregation, anti-anti-Communism and punitive taxation.


Now what've they got?[/QUOTE]



.
.
.

I'll go first ... LOL



Identity politics, anti-capitalism and confiscatory taxation.


Anything else? ---LOL
1097.) DParker - 04/15/2019
RIP Notre Dame Cathedral.

1098.) bluecat - 04/15/2019
I wonder if there was foul play. Sad.
1099.) bluecat - 04/15/2019
Trump threatening to release illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities is hilarious. Nanny Pelosi was beside her self.

Not in our backyard...
1100.) Swamp Fox - 04/20/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;58079]Trump threatening to release illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities is hilarious. Nanny Pelosi was beside her self.

Not in our backyard...[/QUOTE]



Troll Level: Unmatchable Master
1101.) Swamp Fox - 04/20/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;58077]RIP Notre Dame Cathedral.

[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;58078]I wonder if there was foul play. Sad.[/QUOTE]



Premier night of the final season of [I]Game Of Thrones[/I]: Coincidence?
1102.) Swamp Fox - 04/20/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;58079]Trump threatening to release illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities is hilarious. Nanny Pelosi was beside her self.

Not in our backyard...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;58099]Troll Level: Unmatchable Master[/QUOTE]


Coulter: Let’s face it, this border crisis wouldn’t be as bad under a Democratic president [url]https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/19/coulter-lets-face-border-crisis-wouldnt-bad-democratic-president/[/url]
1103.) Swamp Fox - 04/20/2019
[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/19/actual-ap-headline-tourist-mecca-notre-dame-also-reActual[/url] AP headline: “Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship”vered-place-worship/
1104.) Swamp Fox - 04/26/2019
Troll vs. Troll ...

1105.) Swamp Fox - 04/27/2019
This is excellent:


[QUOTE][I]"Some critical decisions about the Russia investigation were made before I got there. The previous Administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America. The FBI disclosed classified evidence about the investigation to ranking legislators and their staffers. Someone selectively leaked details to the news media. The FBI Director announced at a congressional hearing that there was a counterintelligence investigation that might result in criminal charges. Then the former FBI Director alleged that the President pressured him to close the investigation, and the President denied that the conversation occurred.

So that happened."


[/I]
There is no mistaking Rosenstein’s meaning, even if he didn’t attach names to those allegations. Until now, many just assumed that Rosenstein would have a lot to say about Donald Trump once he left the Department of Justice. That impression has some reasonable basis; Trump occasionally took public potshots at Rosenstein, and at one point seemed on the verge of firing him. Rosenstein only mentioned Trump once by name in the whole speech, however, and that was a positive reference to a Trump quote about the rule of law. One gets the impression from this passage that he will have much more to say about the actions and inactions that took place before Trump ever got to the White House.



Rosenstein offered this metaphor as a hint:

[I]"There is a story about firefighters who found a man on a burning bed. When they asked how the fire started, he replied, 'I don’t know. It was on fire when I lay down on it.' I know the feeling."[/I]

The outgoing DAG had a few words for the media too, especially those he termed “mercenary critics”:

[I]"Then there are the mercenary critics, who get paid to express passionate opinions about any topic, often with little or no information. They do not just express disagreement. They launch ad hominem attacks unrestricted by truth or morality. They make threats, spread fake stories, and even attack your relatives. I saw one of the professional provocateurs at a holiday party. He said, “I’m sorry that I’m making your life miserable.” And I said, “You do your job, and I’ll do mine.…

In our Department, we disregard the mercenary critics and focus on the things that matter. As Goethe said, 'Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.' A republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle. Some of the nonsense that passes for breaking news today would not be worth the paper was printed on, if anybody bothered to print it. It quickly fades away. The principles are what abide."
[/I]
On a more philosophical note, Rosenstein warned about the dangers of news-cycle governance. He related remarks from a retiring Congressman about why he decided not to run for another term:

[I]"Last year, a congressman explained why he decided not to run for reelection. He said, 'I like … job[s] where facts matter. I like jobs where fairness matters. I like jobs where, frankly, … the process matters.'”[/I]

He was describing an American courtroom. “I like the art of persuasion,” he said. “I like finding 12 people who have not already made up their minds and … may [let] the facts prevail. That’s not where we are in politics.”

That congressman spoke the truth. It may never be where we are in politics. But it must always be where we are in law.

That was almost certainly Trey Gowdy speaking, although Rosenstein doesn’t mention the name. It sounds like a mission statement for Rosenstein’s post-DoJ life. He may never achieve the same level of public notice as he currently enjoys in his position, but it seems doubtful that Rosenstein ever plans to fully retire and refrain from commentary. If this valediction is any hint of what might come in the future, then a whole new set of people should be concerned about what he’ll say once freed of the constraints of his current office.[/QUOTE]


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/26/rosenstein-previous-administration-didnt-tell-us-whole-truth-dont-get-started-comey/[/url]
1106.) Swamp Fox - 05/11/2019
Grim Reapers!








[url]https://www.businessinsider.com/us-has-a-secret-knife-missile-to-kill-terrorists-not-civilians-2019-5[/url]
1107.) DParker - 05/11/2019
They used that because the sharks with frikkin' laser beams don't work on land targets.
1108.) Swamp Fox - 05/11/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;58199]They used that because the sharks with frikkin' laser beams don't work on land targets.[/QUOTE]



1109.) DParker - 05/11/2019
Even more effective:

[I]Oh Tannenbaum, oh Tannenbaum....[/I]
1110.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2019
I have a vague recollection of this reference, but if you could post a link or video I could sleep better tonight ... LOL

Monty Python WWI Christmas Eve "truce" ?
1111.) DParker - 05/13/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;58209]I have a vague recollection of this reference, but if you could post a link or video I could sleep better tonight ... LOL

Monty Python WWI Christmas Eve "truce" ?[/QUOTE]

Given your land shark reference I thought you'd recognize the song that would get you murdered by The Killer Christmas Trees...also from Season 1 (IIRC) of SNL.
1112.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2019
Damn! .... Well, no rest for the wicked ...




I shall await your exposition on the morn ...
1113.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;58131]Troll vs. Troll ...

[/QUOTE]


I could never support a presidential candidate who was not well-read:

[QUOTE]Buttigieg, asked about the president’s swipe, admitted to not knowing the reference and trolled the president right back.

"I’ll be honest. I had to Google that,” Buttigieg told reporters Friday. “I guess it’s just a generational thing. I didn’t get the reference. It’s kind of funny, I guess.”


Mad magazine, whose Twitter bio is: “STILL IN PRINT,” in return trolled Buttigieg for not knowing the cartoon. “Who’s Pete Buttigieg? Must be a generational thing,” the magazine tweeted early Saturday morning.


[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/11/trump-nicknames-pete-buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman/?utm_term=.0321778bad6d[/url]
[/QUOTE]
1114.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;58131]Troll vs. Troll ...

[/QUOTE]

I could never support a presidential candidate who wasn noot well-read:



[QUOTE]President Trump dismissed the youngest candidate in the Democratic field by comparing him to a caricature created decades before Pete Buttigieg was even born.

“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” Trump said when asked by Politico what he thought of Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind. The reference to the gaptoothed, big-eared boy made famous as a mascot for Mad magazine did just as much to show Trump’s age as Buttigieg’s.

The magazine used the illustration on its cover back in 1956 as a write-in candidate for president. While fairly ubiquitous in pop culture, the popularity of the cartoon and the magazine peaked in the 1970s.

Buttigieg, asked about the president’s swipe, admitted to not knowing the reference and trolled the president right back.

"I’ll be honest. I had to Google that,” Buttigieg told reporters Friday. “I guess it’s just a generational thing. I didn’t get the reference. It’s kind of funny, I guess.”


Mad magazine, whose Twitter bio is: “STILL IN PRINT,” in return trolled Buttigieg for not knowing the cartoon. “Who’s Pete Buttigieg? Must be a generational thing,” the magazine tweeted early Saturday morning.

President Trump dismissed the youngest candidate in the Democratic field by comparing him to a caricature created decades before Pete Buttigieg was even born.

“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” Trump said when asked by Politico what he thought of Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind. The reference to the gaptoothed, big-eared boy made famous as a mascot for Mad magazine did just as much to show Trump’s age as Buttigieg’s.

The magazine used the illustration on its cover back in 1956 as a write-in candidate for president. While fairly ubiquitous in pop culture, the popularity of the cartoon and the magazine peaked in the 1970s.

Buttigieg, asked about the president’s swipe, admitted to not knowing the reference and trolled the president right back.

"I’ll be honest. I had to Google that,” Buttigieg told reporters Friday. “I guess it’s just a generational thing. I didn’t get the reference. It’s kind of funny, I guess.”


Mad magazine, whose Twitter bio is: “STILL IN PRINT,” in return trolled Buttigieg for not knowing the cartoon. “Who’s Pete Buttigieg? Must be a generational thing,” the magazine tweeted early Saturday morning.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/11/trump-nicknames-pete-buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman/?utm_term=.8b77cff89134[/url] [/QUOTE]
1115.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;58131]Troll vs. Troll ...

[/QUOTE]



I could never support a presidential candidate who was not well-read.

[QUOTE]President Trump dismissed the youngest candidate in the Democratic field by comparing him to a caricature created decades before Pete Buttigieg was even born.

“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” Trump said when asked by Politico what he thought of Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind. The reference to the gaptoothed, big-eared boy made famous as a mascot for Mad magazine did just as much to show Trump’s age as Buttigieg’s.

The magazine used the illustration on its cover back in 1956 as a write-in candidate for president. While fairly ubiquitous in pop culture, the popularity of the cartoon and the magazine peaked in the 1970s.

Buttigieg, asked about the president’s swipe, admitted to not knowing the reference and trolled the president right back.

"I’ll be honest. I had to Google that,” Buttigieg told reporters Friday. “I guess it’s just a generational thing. I didn’t get the reference. It’s kind of funny, I guess.”


Mad magazine, whose Twitter bio is: “STILL IN PRINT,” in return trolled Buttigieg for not knowing the cartoon. “Who’s Pete Buttigieg? Must be a generational thing,” the magazine tweeted early Saturday morning.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/11/trump-nicknames-pete-buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman/?utm_term=.8b77cff89134[/url][/QUOTE]
1116.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2019
[QUOTE]The magazine used the illustration on its cover back in 1956 as a write-in candidate for president. While fairly ubiquitous in pop culture, the popularity of the cartoon and the magazine peaked in the 1970s.[/QUOTE]

Ironically, so did [I]The Washington Post[/I]...
1117.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2019
"fairly ubiquitous..." ... ? ...

I rest my case.
1118.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2019
I remember when the Post and the rest of the media did the whole "To be fair..." thing and came to Trump's defense during the Second/Two Corinthians scandal of the 2016 campaign.

They were all about making excuses for him for flubbing a reference about a text which has been fairly ubiquitous (starting in early modern English, anyway) since the 16th century.

Of course, the popularity of the Bible peaked in about ________________
1119.) crookedeye - 05/13/2019
swampy who are you talking too???
1120.) Swamp Fox - 05/14/2019
I am talking to a small, quiet ---nearly mute, in fact--- group of scholars on a website called HuntingCountry or some such ... Let me check the address bar on my machine and I'll get back to you if I have somehow gotten turned around ....
1121.) bluecat - 05/15/2019
I'm getting better...
1122.) DParker - 05/15/2019
Here, we haven't done one of these in a while...

[URL="https://mobile.twitter.com/mpsregentspark/status/974645778558980096?lang=en&fbclid=IwAR1wUK-WrXWt611C816D1Ihfgla8OETzT1f-txNso9SoR67WWIUX-Pki87s"]https://mobile.twitter.com/mpsregentspark/status/974645778558980096?lang=en&fbclid=IwAR1wUK-WrXWt611C816D1Ihfgla8OETzT1f-txNso9SoR67WWIUX-Pki87s[/URL]

1123.) DParker - 05/15/2019
Of course the real threats here are the letter opener, the fencing foil, the honing rods and the spoon.

[URL="https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/1128259712984735744"]https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/1128259712984735744[/URL]

1124.) bluecat - 05/15/2019
You laugh, but a honing rod in the neck is fatal.
1125.) bluecat - 05/16/2019
How many chefs were shaken down to get all that contraband?
1126.) bluecat - 05/16/2019
A sure sign you are going to get attacked with a blade is when the perp stops and hones his chef knife first while you watch and wait for them to get the perfect edge on it.
1127.) DParker - 05/16/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;58239]A sure sign you are going to get attacked with a blade is when the perp stops and hones his chef knife first while you watch and wait for them to get the perfect edge on it.[/QUOTE]

Hey, any job worth doing is worth doing right.
1128.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2019
This is why no one takes the British seriously.
1129.) bluecat - 05/17/2019
Honing a weapon only makes sense, but you should probably strop it away from the crime scene. Just sayin.
1130.) bluecat - 05/17/2019
A sure way to confuse your attacker is to compliment their chef skills. Hey, is that an ice hardened Henkels bread knife? Nice! Be gentle.
1131.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2019
Shonta hones her coconuts every night before she goes on stage ....


[QUOTE]A Florida woman was charged with assault after she allegedly threw a coconut at a man outside of a strip club.

Shonta Bolds, 36, was arrested Saturday after the incident at the VIP Gentleman's Club in Key West.


Shonta Bolds, 36, was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon on Friday in Key West, police said.



FLORIDA MAN SLAPPED GIRLFRIEND WITH CHEESEBURGER, KICKED HER DOWN STAIRS: POLICE



Bolds reportedly admitted to investigators that she did, in fact, throw a coconut at the man, but noted "it did not hit him."

[url]https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-coconut-assault-strip-club[/url][/QUOTE]




If it's not coconuts, it's crossbows. It's always something ...
1132.) bluecat - 05/17/2019
You mean he didn't use the 16-ton weight for self-defense?
1133.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2019
He didn't think of it, stunned as he was by the sudden notion that coconuts might migrate.
1134.) bluecat - 05/17/2019
Have you seen Shonta's coconuts? You could poke your eye out.
1135.) DParker - 05/17/2019
Did she grip it by the husk?
1136.) bluecat - 05/17/2019
People go bananas over Shonta's coconuts.
1137.) bluecat - 05/17/2019
In a buffet sting operation police were able to catch the slasher, because he always carved against the grain.
1138.) bluecat - 05/17/2019
That and the fact he was the only one that could fold those swan napkins which he always left at the crime scene.
1139.) Swamp Fox - 05/19/2019
"THAT'S not a swan napkin ..."

1140.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2019
1141.) Swamp Fox - 07/03/2019
This guy is hurting the curve ... (?) .... LOL

DISGUSTING#USWNT star Alex Morgan pretends to smoke marijuana after scoring a goal

3 out of 10 Americans are addicted to marijuana and this is an absolute inexcusable act by this broad pic.twitter.com/s1cf687Txa

— Richard Tator (@RealDickTator) July 2, 2019 ">
1142.) Swamp Fox - 07/03/2019

1143.) DParker - 07/03/2019
Dick Tator, eh?
1144.) DParker - 07/03/2019
I felt a great disturbance in the Force...

[URL="https://www.gobourbon.com/45000-barrels-of-bourbon-destroyed-in-jim-beam-warehouse-fire/?fbclid=IwAR2gNUCWjBRtAY7cviuEr2mKjF_8itrxFWty2eZcOrzPyVeyjMXbka2AzHI"]45,000 Barrels of Bourbon Destroyed in Jim Beam Warehouse Fire[/URL]

1145.) DParker - 07/03/2019
RIP Arte Johnson. He was a veeeery interesting guy.

[URL="https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/arte-johnson-master-of-hilarious-characters-on-laugh-in-dies-at-90/ar-AADOeIv?ocid=spartandhp"]https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/arte-johnson-master-of-hilarious-characters-on-laugh-in-dies-at-90/ar-AADOeIv?ocid=spartandhp[/URL]

1146.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2019
[QUOTE]"Humor for me consists in incongruity," he said in 1974. "If I were doing a Hasidic rabbi, I'd have him speak with an Irish accent. … You take it out of reality and make it cartoon-esque without being denigrating. Because people today are so sensitive, it's the only way of creating humor without offending someone."[/QUOTE]

I would LOVE to know what his thoughts were about the 2000-teens ... LOL


I am champing at the bit for 50s/60s/70s humor to come back around...





Oh, and contrary to conventional wisdom, the funny guy CAN get the girl. :-)





Or not [*sad trombone*]:


[url]https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/women-say-they-want-a-guy-with-a-sense-of-humor-they-dont/[/url]



Thanks for the the article! Plus 7 just for the hell of it ... :beer:
1147.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2019
You know why Italy is shaped like a boot?
1148.) DParker - 07/05/2019
Good news, everyone! Joe Biden just declared that Russia did not "interfere" in the 2016 presidential election.


1149.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2019
Well, I'm glad that's settled ... LOL

It will be interesting to watch the Dems eat their own this cycle ... It's only gonna get more entertaining from here.
1150.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2019
Speaking of entertaining ...


1151.) DParker - 07/18/2019
Every time I think I've read the most stupid thing a "news" organization could possible put out, the WaPo and NYT step up with a hearty, "Hold our beers..."





1152.) Swamp Fox - 07/18/2019




This is why almost no one reads the NYT anymore ...
1153.) Swamp Fox - 07/18/2019
....
1154.) Swamp Fox - 07/19/2019
It's hard to believe that @Luv2Bowhunt and all those guys have nothing to say about any of this ...

Maybe I should check one of the other forums,,,
1155.) DParker - 08/01/2019
So it turns out that painting our mechanical slaves (machines that are created for the sole purpose of doing our bidding on command) white is racist.

[URL="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-08-01T13%3A31%3A45&fbclid=IwAR18yMxtT9_K3wuJLE9U1hrIRhSEEiVbp0WhPSA7eohghEz1I9m91FZ_KW0&fbclid=IwAR0ZeVq3cCqmBCmm0Y1PfG3wyDVPHCUu6FICq5Bz9H6wSiLO98aBDuME2FE"]Robot racism? Yes, says a study showing humans' biases extend to robots[/URL]

So they think it would be better (or at least less racist) if more of the servomechanisms that were created for the sole purpose of doing our bidding on command were painted brown instead. Yeah, I'm sure that would be well received.
1156.) bluecat - 08/01/2019
I'd post a link up of this, but there are so many ads and popups I didn't want to burden anyone. There is a clear indication of Trump's Russian involvement now.

Trump likes hamburgers.

Yeah, I said it.
1157.) DParker - 08/01/2019
I really like strudel, so I'm literally Hitler.
1158.) DParker - 08/01/2019
Meanwhile, at the West Baltimore Planet Fitness...

1159.) bluecat - 08/01/2019
[url]https://nypost.com/2019/08/01/elijah-cummings-baltimore-home-broken-into-cops/[/url]


lol...
1160.) bluecat - 08/01/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;58791]So it turns out that painting our mechanical slaves (machines that are created for the sole purpose of doing our bidding on command) white is racist.

[URL="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-08-01T13%3A31%3A45&fbclid=IwAR18yMxtT9_K3wuJLE9U1hrIRhSEEiVbp0WhPSA7eohghEz1I9m91FZ_KW0&fbclid=IwAR0ZeVq3cCqmBCmm0Y1PfG3wyDVPHCUu6FICq5Bz9H6wSiLO98aBDuME2FE"]Robot racism? Yes, says a study showing humans' biases extend to robots[/URL]

So they think it would be better (or at least less racist) if more of the servomechanisms that were created for the sole purpose of doing our bidding on command were painted brown instead. Yeah, I'm sure that would be well received.[/QUOTE]

I don't think the left thought that one through.
1161.) DParker - 08/01/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;58796][url]https://nypost.com/2019/08/01/elijah-cummings-baltimore-home-broken-into-cops/[/url]


lol...[/QUOTE]

Now that's funny.
1162.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2019
You know midget robots make the most sense, right? But no one dares say so.

If I could get a midget robot to do my bidding, I wouldn't care what color it was. Slap some clown shoes and maybe some little pants with suspenders on it and I'm happy.
1163.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;58795]Meanwhile, at the West Baltimore Planet Fitness...

[/QUOTE]

LOL ... +5
1164.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;58794]I really like strudel, so I'm literally Hitler.[/QUOTE]


You know what you can expect when you buy from a German bakery?







Precision execution of every order ...
1165.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2019
Was that too dark?
1166.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2019
Well, here's a lighter note:

[B][SIZE=4]NBC: Hamza Bin Laden May Be Shagged Out After A Particularly Long Squawk[/SIZE][/B]


I figured this merry band would enjoy that headline, which I caught when I suddenly came over all peckish around lunchtime ...



[url]https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/08/01/nbc-hamza-bin-laden-may-shagged-particularly-long-squawk/[/url]
1167.) DParker - 08/02/2019
LOL! A little bitty pie shop just opened up last week at a location that's on my way home from work. Being the civic-minded supporter of small local business that I am I decided to stop by and grab a slice of flaky, crusty fruit-filled goodness to take home. Apparently they did a good job of getting the word out because the display case was quite clean, and was certainly uncontaminated by pie. Fortunately the 30-ish guy working the counter grocked the reference when I began interrogating him by rattling off the names of pies they were obviously out of, and played along.

Finally he pulled out their last remaining slice of blueberry pie and boxed it up, thus preventing me from having to shoot him.
1168.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2019
LOL ...

+5
1169.) bluecat - 08/02/2019
That's awesome. I'm sure that was fun.
1170.) bluecat - 08/02/2019
Nice!
1171.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2019
[B][SIZE=2][I]The Pie Shop Sketch[/I][/SIZE][/B]


"Don't mention the war ..."
1172.) DParker - 08/02/2019
I was rather disappointed by the lack of men dancing to bouzouki music though, as I too delight in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse.
1173.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2019
LOL...

How do you feel about Walpole? ---

Is there a public library nearby?
1174.) DParker - 08/02/2019
It's always nice to be reminded from time-to-time that the U.S. hasn't cornered the market on social media morons.

[URL="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/instagrammers-flock-to-toxic-lakes-monte-neme-siberian-seychelle/"]Instagrammers fall ill at 'idyllic' lake that is actually a toxic dump[/URL]
1175.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2019
LOL ...


Kudos, though, to the baklava-masked individual riding an inflatable unicorn through the poison.
1176.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2019
There was a story I heard or read recently about Instagram tourists inundating a tiny little Austrian alpine town for and because of Instagram//social media fever.

The town's about 200 people ... it receives 8000 tourists a day.

Many of the villagers are [I]disgruntlichkeitlich[/I]...
1177.) Swamp Fox - 08/02/2019
Before anyone says anything:


Insert your *own* umlaut.
1178.) bluecat - 08/02/2019
I noticed you used inundate rather than infested. Good choice.
1179.) bluecat - 08/02/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;58818]LOL ...


Kudos, though, to the baklava-masked individual riding an inflatable unicorn through the poison.[/QUOTE]

One of the funniest sentences I've heard in a while.
1180.) Swamp Fox - 08/03/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;58823]I noticed you used inundate rather than infested. Good choice.[/QUOTE]

LOL ....
1181.) Swamp Fox - 08/03/2019
Trump would be so much better a president if he were a skilled orator, or had better language skills, or would just learn some Austrian...


1182.) Swamp Fox - 08/16/2019
Jersey:

(The N stands for "nuke it" ...)




1183.) DParker - 08/30/2019
This is the actual page that gets displayed when you try to access non-existent content on Trump's personal website (donaldjtrump.com),

1184.) bluecat - 08/30/2019
Nice!
1185.) Swamp Fox - 08/31/2019
LOL ....

Troll Level: Master of Masters

(Can we use that term?)
1186.) bluecat - 09/11/2019
[url]https://www.cnsnews.com/video/newsbusters/rosie-odonnell-911-truther-first-time-fire-melted-steel[/url]





I agree with Rosie, she's beyond ignorant.



Here's to all those that perished and our brave men and women who tried to save them.
1187.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2019
I believe she's on several different medications, but they're all contra-indicated for dumb-assery.


Somebody should red-flag her doctor ...
1188.) DParker - 09/12/2019
This has no relevance to current events, but I just thought it was funny as hell...and I didn't feel like starting a new thread.

1189.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2019
:-)

You know who else likes steaks well-done, with ketchup? .... LOL
1190.) DParker - 09/13/2019
And eats pizza with a knife and fork.
1191.) bluecat - 09/13/2019
I eat my Snickers bar with a knife and fork.
1192.) Swamp Fox - 09/15/2019

1193.) bluecat - 09/17/2019
Two whites also make a meringue.
1194.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2019
Oh, thank gawd ... I thought I broke the forum with that joke (three days, no posts anywhere, LOL) ...


+7

:grin:
1195.) bluecat - 10/07/2019
[url]http://www2.kusports.com/news/2019/oct/07/college-football-electric-video-woman-crocheting-k/[/url]

lmao
1196.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2019
LOL ...

Y'all have some sharp uniforms, though ...

“I wonder what she's knitting,” Zack Rohring tweeted around 11 a.m. Saturday. “I really hope they show her again at the end of the game so we can find out. Lol”


RJ Young
@RJ_Young
· Oct 5, 2019
This is KU football personified—in all its glory.

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[B][COLOR="#FF0000"]PEAK TWITTER >>>>>[/COLOR][/B](Rohring was quickly reprimanded by commenters who informed him that the woman was crocheting, not knitting.)

One tweeter said the crocheting lady would likely find more entertainment with her project than with the game, which Oklahoma won handily. Another said, “This is KU football personified—in all its glory.”


Derek Duke
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The sad thing is that what she is doing will probably more interesting than this game.

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Some even compared “Crochet Lady” to Snoop Dogg, who made headlines this weekend for his performance at KU’s Late Night in the Phog, which included money guns and pole dancers — a risque performance for which Kansas Athletics apologized.

“Snoop Dogg one day... Crochet lady the next. Kansas is on one emotional rollercoaster,” one person tweeted. Another, “Crochet Lady>Snoop Dog.”


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Snoop Dogg one day... Crochet lady the next. Kansas is on one emotional rollercoaster [url]https://twitter.com/espn/status/1180521686673903616[/url] …

ESPN

@espn
College football is ELECTRIC ⚡️

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Crochet Lady > Snoop Dog [url]https://twitter.com/ftbeard_17/status/1180515147162374144[/url] …
1197.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;59285][url]http://www2.kusports.com/news/2019/oct/07/college-football-electric-video-woman-crocheting-k/[/url]

lmao[/QUOTE]


LOL ...

Y'all have some sharp uniforms, though ...

“I wonder what she's knitting,” Zack Rohring tweeted around 11 a.m. Saturday. “I really hope they show her again at the end of the game so we can find out. Lol”


RJ Young
@RJ_Young
· Oct 5, 2019
This is KU football personified—in all its glory.

Embedded video

Zack Rohring
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I wonder what she's knitting. I really hope they show her again at the end of the game so we can find out. Lol

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SWAMPY SEZ: PEAK TWITTER >>>>>(Rohring was quickly reprimanded by commenters who informed him that the woman was crocheting, not knitting.)

One tweeter said the crocheting lady would likely find more entertainment with her project than with the game, which Oklahoma won handily. Another said, “This is KU football personified—in all its glory.”


Derek Duke
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The sad thing is that what she is doing will probably more interesting than this game.

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Some even compared “Crochet Lady” to Snoop Dogg, who made headlines this weekend for his performance at KU’s Late Night in the Phog, which included money guns and pole dancers — a risque performance for which Kansas Athletics apologized.

“Snoop Dogg one day... Crochet lady the next. Kansas is on one emotional rollercoaster,” one person tweeted. Another, “Crochet Lady>Snoop Dog.”


�������������� ����������������
@TMOluvsSports
Snoop Dogg one day... Crochet lady the next. Kansas is on one emotional rollercoaster [url]https://twitter.com/espn/status/1180521686673903616[/url] …

ESPN

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Crochet Lady > Snoop Dog [url]https://twitter.com/ftbeard_17/statu...15147162374144[/url] …
1198.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2019
[QUOTE=bluecat;59285][url]http://www2.kusports.com/news/2019/oct/07/college-football-electric-video-woman-crocheting-k/[/url]

lmao[/QUOTE]

LOL ...

Y'all have some sharp uniforms, though ...

“I wonder what she's knitting,” Zack Rohring tweeted around 11 a.m. Saturday. “I really hope they show her again at the end of the game so we can find out. Lol”


RJ Young
@RJ_Young
· Oct 5, 2019
This is KU football personified—in all its glory.

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Zack Rohring
@ZacharyRohring
I wonder what she's knitting. I really hope they show her again at the end of the game so we can find out. Lol

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[COLOR="#FF0000"]SWAMPY SEZ: PEAK TWITTER >>>>>[/COLOR](Rohring was quickly reprimanded by commenters who informed him that the woman was crocheting, not knitting.)

One tweeter said the crocheting lady would likely find more entertainment with her project than with the game, which Oklahoma won handily. Another said, “This is KU football personified—in all its glory.”


Derek Duke
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The sad thing is that what she is doing will probably more interesting than this game.

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Some even compared “Crochet Lady” to Snoop Dogg, who made headlines this weekend for his performance at KU’s Late Night in the Phog, which included money guns and pole dancers — a risque performance for which Kansas Athletics apologized.

“Snoop Dogg one day... Crochet lady the next. Kansas is on one emotional rollercoaster,” one person tweeted. Another, “Crochet Lady>Snoop Dog.”


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@TMOluvsSports
Snoop Dogg one day... Crochet lady the next. Kansas is on one emotional rollercoaster [url]https://twitter.com/espn/status/1180521686673903616[/url] …

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Crochet Lady > Snoop Dog [url]https://twitter.com/ftbeard_17/statu...15147162374144[/url] …
1199.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2019
And now I'm pretty interested in those money guns, and pole dancers ...
1200.) bluecat - 10/07/2019
What an atmosphere for crocheting/knitting/reading -quiet, no one around, beautiful sunny autumn day.
1201.) bluecat - 10/07/2019
The athletic director said he had no idea what Snoop Dog was about. Really, you couldn't google him or watch a video for 5 minutes/30 seconds?

It's awesome here btw.
1202.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2019
LOL ... We just had our hottest day of the year Wednesday or Thursday... In October, LOL ... 101-103 real temps depending where you were ... Cooler now.

I always enjoy people who complain about the heat ... Greyhound runs both ways.

Tell me about the pole dancers ...
1203.) bluecat - 10/07/2019
It's just good clean family fun. Come out, see your Jayhawks and oh and by the way, Billy, that is called grinding.
1204.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2019
LOL ...

Well, I'm off to Youtube ...


[QUOTE]"Mom! ...Please! How about knocking?!?"
[/QUOTE]
1205.) DParker - 10/07/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59291]And now I'm pretty interested in those money guns, and pole dancers ...[/QUOTE]

"now"?
1206.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2019
LOL ...
1207.) DParker - 11/16/2019
Yet another example of fine journalism.

[URL="https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/juvenile-man-arrested-in-a-shooting-and-car-jacking-case"]https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/juvenile-man-arrested-in-a-shooting-and-car-jacking-case[/URL]

"Your Honor, not only did the defendant steal a car and engage in reckless gun play, he was childish about it as well!"
1208.) Swamp Fox - 11/17/2019
LOL ...

You really have to wonder how some of these knuckleheads graduated ...
1209.) DParker - 12/01/2019
1210.) Swamp Fox - 12/01/2019
:grin::applause:


I keep sayin': It's not too late for Hillary to get in .... LOL
1211.) crookedeye - 12/01/2019
Next Sunday they have a new program in search of Bigfoot....I doubt it'll be as good as moneymakers show..he was probably the greatest big foot hunter moneymakerwas the first to do wood knocks
1212.) billy b - 12/01/2019
Seems like you've been doing wood nocks for 30 years, did you ever get an answer??
1213.) Swamp Fox - 12/08/2019
A toast to the new puritans:






[url]https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/ryan-reynolds-peloton-wife-aviation-gin-advertising-1203428394/[/url]
1214.) bluecat - 12/08/2019
Just don't get your wife anything, because somebody is going to be offended.
1215.) crookedeye - 12/08/2019
We need to start talking turkey hunting,, and spring time.
1216.) crookedeye - 12/08/2019
Back when I was a kid I had to dig a tunnel threw the snow just to get to school..
1217.) crookedeye - 12/08/2019
Learning was all that mater back then. Right billy?
1218.) crookedeye - 12/09/2019
Plus we catch bigger crappie here innebraska
1219.) crookedeye - 12/09/2019
Them little crappie in Texas don't compare to the big black ones in the farm ponds of the husker state
1220.) crookedeye - 12/09/2019
:huh:
1221.) DParker - 12/09/2019
[QUOTE=crookedeye;59597]Them little crappie in Texas don't compare to the big black ones in the farm ponds of the husker state[/QUOTE]

You got us there. Nebraska is definitely crappier than Texas.
1222.) bluecat - 12/09/2019
Lol, +4
1223.) DParker - 12/09/2019
I look forward to seeing the new license plate motto: "Nebraska. Home of the big black ones."
1224.) Swamp Fox - 12/10/2019
LOL ...


Nebraska should stick to the clear-water carp ....

:wink
1225.) billy b - 12/10/2019
[QUOTE=DParker;59599]You got us there. Nebraska is definitely crappier than Texas.[/QUOTE]

Yes, it's spelled correctly!!!
1226.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2019
"Nebraska ---The N stands for Knowledge"


[That never gets old ... LOL]
1227.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2019
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59586]A toast to the new puritans:






[url]https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/ryan-reynolds-peloton-wife-aviation-gin-advertising-1203428394/[/url][/QUOTE]


I wonder if the director of the Peleton video is still employed.

Since there is no justice in the world, it's possible that his stock has risen ... LOL
1228.) bluecat - 12/12/2019
Their stock will rise high.

[url]https://youtu.be/nN8V6SYm164[/url]
1229.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2019
LOL ... Great catch. +4
1230.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2019
Peleton stock took a big hit for a few days, BTW .... I'm guessing it has since bounced back, like a quarter off a gym-ratress's ass ...
1231.) Swamp Fox - 01/08/2020




[B][SIZE=3]Uh-oh!
[/SIZE][/B]





[url]https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/01/07/uh-oh-based-on-march-for-our-lives-fundraising-haul-it-looks-like-david-hogg-is-a-huge-part-of-the-problem/[/url]
1232.) bluecat - 01/08/2020
I was going to donate .47 but now I don't think I will.
1233.) bluecat - 01/08/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59616]Peleton stock took a big hit for a few days, BTW .... I'm guessing it has since bounced back, like a quarter off a [B]gym-ratress's[/B] ass ...[/QUOTE]

Is that really a word Swampy?
1234.) DParker - 01/08/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59800]



Uh-oh!






[url]https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/01/07/uh-oh-based-on-march-for-our-lives-fundraising-haul-it-looks-like-david-hogg-is-a-huge-part-of-the-problem/[/url][/QUOTE]

1235.) Swamp Fox - 01/08/2020
Sure... I just made it one. Looking forward to its adoption by the powers that be, who routinely decide that centuries of order, grammar, spelling and meaning (and not just English) do not preclude change and adaptation just for the hell of it.

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/us/merriam-webster-they-word-year.html[/url]


Language a free-for-all, assuming I can use the term un-problematically, since it does refer to horse racing and toxic male brawling ....
1236.) Swamp Fox - 01/08/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;59805]Is that really a word Swampy?[/QUOTE]



Sure... I just made it one. Looking forward to its adoption by the powers that be, who routinely decide that centuries of order, grammar, spelling and meaning (and not just English) do not preclude change and adaptation just for the hell of it.

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/u...word-year.html[/url]


Language is a free-for-all, assuming I can use that term un-problematically, since it does refer to horse racing and toxic male brawling ....
1237.) Swamp Fox - 01/08/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;59807][/QUOTE]


I'm shocked ....Shocked, I tell you ...
1238.) Swamp Fox - 01/08/2020
My guess is there's another 26-year old social media content writer out of work right now, while young David is off getting pantsed at Harvard.

Oh, well. Plug another one in there. The most important thing is generating clicks.

Wait ... Maybe they should bring that other kid back ...
1239.) DParker - 01/08/2020
Ruh-roh Shaggy....



As you might expect, the responses are pure gold.
1240.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2020
LOL ....


The Kmeister should stick to lefty politics since that's what he's good at, in a lefty bonehead sort of way.




Thanks for the giggle.
1241.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2020
Speaking of boneheaded attention-whores:







[B]LOL[/B]
1242.) DParker - 01/09/2020
It looks like Krugman has since deleted the tweet only an idiot...or someone desperate to get out ahead of a story...would have issued to begin with. He must have gotten a call from his lawyer and/or the editorial staff of the NYT.
1243.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2020
It was probably just one of those headline translation errors that was misinterpreted as something like "Young Asian Girls Economize On Clothing But Splurge On Footwear"...


Words to that effect, anyway ....
1244.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2020
You can see why he would want to click on that, with his Nobel laureate, at least.
1245.) DParker - 01/10/2020
Curse you Google Translate!
1246.) Swamp Fox - 01/10/2020
LOL ...
1247.) Swamp Fox - 01/10/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59809]Sure... I just made it one. Looking forward to its adoption by the powers that be, who routinely decide that centuries of order, grammar, spelling and meaning (and not just English) do not preclude change and adaptation just for the hell of it.

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/u...word-year.html[/url]


Language is a free-for-all, assuming I can use that term un-problematically, since it does refer to horse racing and toxic male brawling ....[/QUOTE]


LOL, the link is broken, just like the modern standards of dictionaries. Literally.

[QUOTE][B][SIZE=3]
Did We Change the Definition of 'Literally'?[/SIZE][/B]
[SIZE=2]Literally every modern dictionary includes this definition

[/SIZE]
[url]https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally[/url][/QUOTE]





LOL:

[QUOTE]Some of our readers are not happy about this. Here are a few of the comments left at this entry:

[QUOTE]Definition 2: the dictionary is literally wrong.

This is literally the stupidest thing I've ever read.

I literally can't even.
[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
1248.) DParker - 01/16/2020
OK, here's your "This is why we can't have nice things" story of the day.

[URL="https://q13fox.com/2020/01/15/80-year-old-woman-accidentally-shot-by-diner-at-western-washington-restaurant/"]80-year-old woman accidentally shot by diner at Western Washington restaurant[/URL]

[QUOTE]Police are not sure why the gun went off[/QUOTE]

Yes they are.
1249.) DParker - 02/04/2020
Remember, this is the party that's whining about how terrible the electoral college is.

[URL="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/angry-sanders-supporters-storm-out-of-caucus-calling-it-a-joke-and-waste-of-time"]https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/angry-sanders-supporters-storm-out-of-caucus-calling-it-a-joke-and-waste-of-time[/URL]
1250.) Swamp Fox - 02/04/2020
I've been listening to far-left, third tier and identitarian Dems whine all day about the Iowa caucus system and being the first showcase on anti-nationalist public radio. :re:

I guess they forgot about Jimmy Carter and Barack Hussein Obama to be gnashing their teeth so loudly about how rigged Iowa is against them.
1251.) Swamp Fox - 02/04/2020
Please, please, please nominate Bernie in a brokered convention ....
1252.) Swamp Fox - 02/04/2020
1253.) DParker - 02/04/2020
1254.) DParker - 02/04/2020
1255.) DParker - 02/04/2020
1256.) bluecat - 02/04/2020
The Washington Compost
1257.) DParker - 02/04/2020
All aboard the S.S. DNC!

1258.) bluecat - 02/04/2020
Media Spin: "Today's democratic party is moving swiftly and really cooking"
1259.) crookedeye - 02/04/2020
i kinda like chuck shumer..hes like the devil
1260.) crookedeye - 02/04/2020
i hope but im not counting on it trump will call nancy the digbat she is,.
1261.) crookedeye - 02/04/2020
i always like hearing luv 2 debate hunting styles..you guys do no he was one of the first guys to hang a camera into the trees... who would of thought that..thats genious
1262.) bluecat - 02/04/2020
I remember when that whole thing transpired. He slipped on a peanut butter sandwich while messing around on stand and ended up launching himself out of the tree. While he was laying there on the ground he looked up and saw that his camera was caught up in the branches. He left it there because it was a cheap camera and more trouble to get it than it was worth. The idea was born. Genius, um no, clumsy and awkward, yes. The first picture of him screaming and soiling himself as he was falling was fairly humorous. Does anybody still have that picture?

Soon after that, Luv2 was always seen wearing the "Comfort Fit with Stretch Tech Technology" Jordache jeans which allows a little more freedom of movement but still provide the skin tight look and feel.
1263.) Swamp Fox - 02/05/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;59960]All aboard the S.S. DNC!

[/QUOTE]



LOL:



1264.) DParker - 02/05/2020
I hear the New Hampshire DNC delegate apportioning will use a much more sophisticated and fair system than the coin tosses in Iowa.

1265.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2020
[QUOTE][B][SIZE=3]Too Good To Check: Team Hillary Link To Iowa Caucus App?[/SIZE][/B]

Just when we thought the Hawkeye Hork was bad enough for Democrats, along comes this link to Democrats’ previous national faceplant. The app that caused some — not all, but some — of the problems in Iowa yesterday came from an outfit called Shadow. Four of its top executives recently worked for … wait for it …

[url]https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/02/04/good-check-team-hillary-link-iowa-caucus-app/[/url]

[/QUOTE]

Do the Dems have a secret behind-the-scenes directorship, codename [I]C.H.A.O.S[/I]., and they think the C stands for "competence"?

That's what we all want to know..
1266.) bluecat - 02/06/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;59973]I hear the New Hampshire DNC delegate apportioning will use a much more sophisticated and fair system than the coin tosses in Iowa.

[/QUOTE]

They should choose rock, cause nothing beats rock.
1267.) DParker - 02/06/2020
The best comment I saw on that one was, "What made them think 'Shadow' was a good name? Was it because SPECTRE was already taken?"
1268.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2020
Paper covers rock, which is basically the whole Democrat reason for being, to translate from the French.
1269.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;59977]The best comment I saw on that one was, "What made them think 'Shadow' was a good name? Was it because SPECTRE was already taken?"[/QUOTE]

The party of transparency ...
1270.) bluecat - 02/06/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59978]Paper covers rock, which is basically the whole Democrat reason for being, to translate from the French.[/QUOTE]

Rock flys right through paper.
1271.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59979]The party of transparency ...[/QUOTE]




1272.) bluecat - 02/06/2020
[url]https://youtu.be/MyCa-LHtIKE[/url]
1273.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2020
LOL ... +4 for the reference
1274.) DParker - 02/06/2020
I just knew it was really Trump/Putin/Ukraine/Marley's Ghost who was responsible for the Iowa Dem Caucus train wreck, and not the fault of the unfairly maligned, completely honest and competent DNC!

1275.) bluecat - 02/06/2020
Did they run out of fingers and toes when counting Uncle Joe's votes?
1276.) Swamp Fox - 02/06/2020
This little turd is a menace to the national IQ:






[QUOTE][B][SIZE=2]David Hogg Just Got Schooled On The History Of Gun Control[/SIZE][/B]
[url]https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2020/02/06/david-hogg-schooled/[/url]
[/QUOTE]
1277.) DParker - 02/06/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59995]This little turd is a menace to the national IQ:


[/QUOTE]

Harvard really does take only the best and brightest, don't they?
1278.) DParker - 02/06/2020
On a lighter note...

1279.) bluecat - 02/07/2020
+ 3 votes, with more to count.
1280.) DParker - 02/07/2020
Those wily Russians are now inserting fake applause tracks in Buttigieg footage.

1281.) bluecat - 02/07/2020
CNN spin: Actually you have it backward. The applause was so deafening that the applause was edited out in the first video so you could hear him speak.
1282.) Swamp Fox - 02/08/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;59997]On a lighter note...

[/QUOTE]


LOL ...

+4 for the find.
1283.) Swamp Fox - 02/08/2020
All my heroes have feet of clay. [[I]sigh[/I]]

:tap:



I guess it's down to Yang now ...
1284.) Swamp Fox - 02/08/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;59999]Those wily Russians are now inserting fake applause tracks in Buttigieg footage.

[/QUOTE]


All my heroes have feet of clay. [sigh]





I guess it's down to Yang now ...
1285.) DParker - 02/10/2020
"Look, unless you want to bring us some boysenberry syrup and extra butter, we'd appreciate it if you'd go away and let us eat our Grand Slam Breakfasts in peace."

1286.) bluecat - 02/11/2020
Lol, she was working that room.
1287.) DParker - 02/13/2020
1288.) bluecat - 02/13/2020
He's still sticking to his pathetic story too.
1289.) Swamp Fox - 02/13/2020
LOL ...

Besides the absence of the useful word "allegedly" in the typical reporting and the outrageous intersectionality of various layers of victimhood listed here, I'm focused on the content of his character:

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/arts/television/empire-jussie-smollett-attacked.html[/url]
1290.) bluecat - 02/13/2020
He's a lying, dog-faced pony soldier...
1291.) DParker - 02/13/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60012]LOL ...

Besides the absence of the useful word "allegedly" in the typical reporting and the outrageous intersectionality of various layers of victimhood listed here, I'm focused on the content of his character:

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/arts/television/empire-jussie-smollett-attacked.html[/url][/QUOTE]

I was surprised to see that quite a few of the comments were demonstrations of a reasonable amount of skepticism, while the rest...well...they didn't age so well.
1292.) Swamp Fox - 02/13/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60013]He's a lying, dog-faced pony soldier...[/QUOTE]

LOL ... + 4


It's too bad Biden won't make it to the White House, because we could use four years of that kind of comedy.
1293.) bluecat - 02/14/2020
Well, that and he was going to cure cancer. Damn, so close.
1294.) bluecat - 02/14/2020
+ 4 for Swampy's comments on other thread. I don't want to rock the boat. Lol
1295.) Swamp Fox - 02/14/2020
LOL ... You're complicit ...
1296.) Swamp Fox - 02/14/2020
Some Biden Quotes---

Not from Macedonian content farms, or Russian-influenced. Just Uncle Joe.

(And just a selection from the first page, LOL)

[QUOTE]
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.
Joe Biden
Stupid, Nice, Mean
"Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny" by Xuan Thai, Ted Barrett, [url]www.cnn.com[/url]. February 9, 2007.
16 Copy quote

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
Joe Biden
Crazy, Eight, President
"The Biden Agenda" by Evan Osnos, [url]www.newyorker.com[/url]. July 28, 2014.
3 Copy quote

It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.
Joe Biden
President, Vices, Easy
"Biden - "It's Easy Being Vice President" by Dominique Pastre, [url]www.foxnews.com[/url]. February 26, 2010.
2 Copy quote

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.
Joe Biden
Athlete, Blow, College
2 Copy quote

There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.
Joe Biden
Stupid, Years, President
1 Copy quote

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.
Joe Biden
Mean, Swimming, Thinking
Interview with Chris Wallace, [url]www.huffingtonpost.com[/url]. October 22, 2015.
9 Copy quote

I get a lot of credit I don't deserve.
Joe Biden
Credit, Deserve
Source: [url]www.telegraph.co.uk[/url]
1 Copy quote

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.
Joe Biden
Gun, Ideas, Gun Control
Interview to Associated Press, [url]www.nwitimes.com[/url]. November 18, 1993.
4 Copy quote

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
Joe Biden
Chance, Absolute Certainty, Stills
"MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski Gushingly Admits: Joe Biden Is 'Our Guy,' Also, 'I Love Him'". Interview with Rachel Burnett, [url]www.newsbusters.org[/url]. July 19, 2010.
52 Copy quote

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.
Joe Biden
Order, Profound, Historical
3 Copy quote

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden
Giving, Use, Able
"Pelosi Vows 'No Blank Check' on Iraq War". "All Things Considered" with Allison Keyes, [url]www.npr.org[/url]. January 7, 2007.
0 Copy quote



[url]https://www.azquotes.com/author/1383-Joe_Biden[/url][/QUOTE]
1297.) bluecat - 02/14/2020
He ain't always tired. He's come too far to turn back now.
1298.) bluecat - 02/14/2020
I don't feel no ways tired I've come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
Lol
1299.) Swamp Fox - 02/14/2020
He's struggling in SC, which was supposed to be his firewall.

Black support has been slipping, reported for several weeks. Lots of elbows being thrown.

Some fun stuff, this not the least of it:


[QUOTE]Republicans urged to cause ‘chaos,’ vote in SC Democratic presidential primary

[url]https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article239964558.html[/url]

[/QUOTE]
1300.) Swamp Fox - 02/14/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60024]I don't feel no ways tired I've come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
Lol[/QUOTE]

There's still time for her to get in ...
1301.) Swamp Fox - 02/14/2020
Sideshow Joe:



Unfortunate photo framing for Plugs ....LOL


And here he's looking a bit ...orange?

1302.) bluecat - 02/14/2020
C'Mon man.
1303.) Swamp Fox - 02/14/2020
^^^^^ LOL


[QUOTE][B][SIZE=3]How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
[/SIZE][/B]
[SIZE=2]Same-sex spouses feel more satisfied with their partners than heterosexual ones. What’s the secret? [/SIZE]


[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/sunday/marriage-housework-gender-happiness.html[/url][/QUOTE]



[B][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR="#FF0000"]?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B]
1304.) bluecat - 02/14/2020
[QUOTE]When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden
Giving, Use, Able
"Pelosi Vows 'No Blank Check' on Iraq War". "All Things Considered" with Allison Keyes, [url]www.npr.org[/url]. January 7, 2007. [/QUOTE]

This reminded me of someone saying that they were going to be more assertive if that's okay with you.
1305.) bluecat - 02/14/2020
[QUOTE]"I support the Second Amendment," he said. "I own a 20 gauge and a 10 — excuse me, a 12 gauge shotgun. But my Lord, any of you guys who need a clip that has 100 rounds in it, you shouldn’t be hunting, man. You’re a danger to yourself."[/QUOTE]

Plugs
1306.) Swamp Fox - 02/17/2020
Cool story, bro:



1307.) bluecat - 02/17/2020
So he's a comedian too.
1308.) Swamp Fox - 02/18/2020




People forget what a bullshit shoveler and major-league asshole he was, until he reminds them.

Would we have better memories if we weren't on sensory overload from the current circus?





This piece literally has too many good excerpts for me to pull ... So I'm literally punting on most of them.

It's worth ten minutes to read the article and get the rest, though, as a reminder.


[QUOTE]

[B][SIZE=3]How the $800B stimulus failed[/SIZE][/B]

[...]

Now, at the first implementation meeting in 2009, Biden — with a smudged Ash Wednesday cross still on his forehead — declared that the stimulus would “literally drop kick us out of the recession.”

Officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $800 billion stimulus was the largest economic recovery program in history. Adjusted for inflation, it was nearly five times more expensive than the Works Progress Administration. It was bigger than the Louisiana Purchase, the Manhattan Project, the moon race and the Marshall Plan.

Economists and nonpartisan forecasting firms estimate that the stimulus created and saved more than 2 million jobs. It generated an unprecedented buzz around clean energy. A relatively small pot of education grants goaded 32 states to enact major reforms, such as tying teacher pay to student performance or lifting caps on charter schools. When the last dime is spent, more than 41,000 miles of roads will be paved, widened and improved; 600,000 low-income homes weatherized; and more than 3,000 rural schools connected to high-speed Internet.

But despite these achievements, the stimulus ultimately failed to do what America expected it to do — bring about a strong, sustainable recovery. The drop kick was shanked.

[...]


In reporting on the stimulus over three years, I traveled to 15 states, interviewed hundreds of people and read through tens of thousands of government documents and project reports.

What I found is that the stimulus failed to live up to its promise not because it was too small (as those on the left argue) or because Keynesian economics is obsolete (as those on the right argue), but because it was poorly designed. Even advocates for a bigger stimulus need to acknowledge that their argument is really one about design and presentation.

[...]


Even as the stimulus was pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy in its first year, it appeared as if nothing was happening. The jobless rate skyrocketed, easily exceeding the poorly conceived chart Obama’s economic advisers had put together, showing that unemployment would never breach 8%.

[...]

[url]https://nypost.com/2012/01/29/how-the-800b-stimulus-failed/[/url]

[/QUOTE]
1309.) Swamp Fox - 02/18/2020
[QUOTE]One Thursday afternoon in late January, they [Democratic party leaders] briefly had another worry to contend with: the entire party losing its mind after a Fox Business reporter tweeted a “SCOOP” that Barack Obama “is growing increasingly anxious about @BernieSanders rise in the national polls & where the avowed socialist would take the country; he is considering a public statement addressing it.” The report was quickly rubbished by those close to the former president — [B]such an action would obviously be painfully out of character for the studiously quiet Obama ...[/B]

[B]The truth of Obama’s silence on the 2020 primary is that it’s not just about his obvious wish to stay out of the spotlight[/B], but it also reflects a choreographed strategy.

[...]

[url]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/what-obama-is-saying-in-private-about-the-democratic-primary.html[/url][/QUOTE]



LMAO .... (emphasis mine)
1310.) Swamp Fox - 02/18/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60020]+ 4 for Swampy's comments on other thread. I don't want to rock the boat. Lol[/QUOTE]


[QUOTE=Jon;60039] ...."Moms who demand action" [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;60044]I think I saw that movie decades ago when I was much younger and a lot more single.[/QUOTE]


1311.) Swamp Fox - 02/18/2020
Ooops ... Wrong thread ... LOL
1312.) DParker - 02/21/2020
Tweet of the decade.

1313.) bluecat - 02/21/2020
Lol!
1314.) Swamp Fox - 02/22/2020
Oof!

Ellison should resign and delete his account immediately... LOL
1315.) Swamp Fox - 02/24/2020
[QUOTE][B]
Howls of Laughter Erupt After NYT Columnist Paul Krugman Suggests Sanders Is ‘Not a Wannabe Authoritarian’[/B]

[url]https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/02/24/howls-of-laughter-erupt-after-nyt-columnist-paul-krugman-suggests-sanders-is-not-a-wannabe-authoritarian/[/url][/QUOTE]

Worthwhile to read Krugman's tweets, embedded above. Classic lefty preening that "We enlightened ones are better than human nature." I especially like his optimism that Bernie is an "infinitely better man" and Dems won't stand for abuse power ... because that's never happened before ...



[QUOTE=DParker;59813]Ruh-roh Shaggy....



As you might expect, the responses are pure gold.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;59814]LOL ....


The Kmeister should stick to lefty politics since that's what he's good at, in a lefty bonehead sort of way.




Thanks for the giggle.[/QUOTE]
1316.) Swamp Fox - 02/24/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60072]

...

Who would have thought the media and the social justice warriors were in the bag for the Commie sympathizer?[/QUOTE]


I expect we'll see more of this rather than less in the future, though I'm rather enjoying the fear of some limousine lefties that a Bernie nomination will blow up the Democratic party like a fart in a Soviet space suit ...
1317.) Swamp Fox - 02/25/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60072]...
Who would have thought the media and the social justice warriors were in the bag for the Commie sympathizer?[/QUOTE]


I expect we'll see more of this rather than less in the future, though I'm rather enjoying the fear of some limousine lefties that a Bernie nomination will blow up the Democratic party like a fart in a Soviet space suit ...
1318.) bluecat - 02/25/2020
Failing to teach history is starting to take a toll.
1319.) DParker - 02/25/2020
Creepy Uncle Joe is apparently so disgusted by the whole thing that he's giving up on his White House bid and is trying to get himself...or "the other Biden"...back into the Senate.

[URL="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watch-joe-biden-says-hes-a-candidate-for-united-states-senate"]WATCH: Joe Biden says he's a candidate for 'United States Senate'[/URL]
1320.) Swamp Fox - 02/26/2020
Looking forward to all the articles from the NYT, LAT, and WaPo that describe Biden as senile and sleepy, ala Reagan.

Oh ... And the cartoons!
1321.) Swamp Fox - 02/26/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60098]Failing to teach history is starting to take a toll.[/QUOTE]

1322.) bluecat - 02/26/2020
Joe said 150 million Americans have been killed through gun violence since 2007. Damn, that's a lot (dot, dot, dot) lol.
1323.) DParker - 02/26/2020
It makes me feel like my guns aren't pulling their weight, just sitting there not killing anyone. Slackers.
1324.) bluecat - 02/27/2020
I knew it was a matter of time before the dems blamed our President for the Corona virus.

Anyone hear if they are blaming him for Koby's death yet?
1325.) DParker - 02/27/2020
I blame him for the leaking hot water pipe under my foundation. I mean...why not?
1326.) bluecat - 02/27/2020
The helicopter was flying in fog exacerbated by smoke from the wildfires that were caused directly from global warming. Donald John Trump doesn't believe global warming is caused by man, therefore, he is directly responsible for that helicopter going down.

My release misfired at 0 degree temperature. The bitter cold is caused by global warming. Donald John Trump doesn't believe global warming is caused by man, therefore, he is directly responsible for me missing that big deer.

Hey, I think I'm getting the hang of this.
1327.) Swamp Fox - 02/27/2020
Has there been any global warming since 1998?

Last time I checked, there hadn't been.

I'm happy to be corrected, but this is why they now talk of "climate change."


I suggest these knuckleheads all move to Southern California ... I hear that the climate is ideal there all year 'round.

In the meantime, Californians are moving [I]en masse[/I] to Texas ...

There, depending on the part of the state, it's not the heat ---it's the humidity :wink --- or it really is just the heat.

Go figure ...
1328.) Swamp Fox - 02/27/2020
Wow.
Just wow.

This is neither conservative, nor republican. (Yes, I meant the small "r", but substitute the capital if you'd like.)



[QUOTE] [B]Push for national popular vote movement gets boost from conservatives

Leaders of a new conservative campaign advocating for the national popular vote movement are seeking to promote the effort at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week.
[/B]
Several leaders of the group Conservatives for Yes on National Popular Vote, which formed earlier this month, are seeking to educate those on the right about the movement and push back on perceptions that such an effort would largely benefit Democratic candidates.

“CPAC is a very tough crowd for us because the knee-jerk reaction for most Republicans is to oppose this,” said Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party who plans to promote the national popular vote effort at the conservative confab.


“They think Hillary Clinton and Al Gore would have been president. Well, the fact is we don't know what would have happened,” he added, referring to the Democrats who won the national popular vote in 2016 and 2000, respectively, but lost in the Electoral College those years.

The group's campaign manager, Dennis Lennox, acknowledged that it’s a “communication challenge” to distinguish their movement from the Democratic push by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to completely abolish the Electoral College.

Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), which has been passed by 15 states and Washington, D.C., individual states would award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.

The conservative leaders maintain that this agreement would not get rid of the Electoral College. The electoral system would still be used, they argue, but the electors would be distributed based on the national popular vote instead of the state’s popular vote in the winner-take-all method.

Lennox said their campaign has scheduled meetings with organizations and individuals to inform other conservatives about their cause during CPAC, which starts Wednesday and runs through Saturday.

The group argues that in current presidential campaign culture, a disproportionate amount of attention is given to battleground states over the rest of the country. They argue a national popular vote system would be more equitable.


“Let's be honest, we don't elect a president of the United States. We elect a president of the battleground states under the current method,” Lennox said.

Conservatives for Yes on National Popular Vote say their method would allow every person in every state to have an equally weighted vote, including conservatives in deep blue states who may not turn out because they don’t think their vote matters.

The group has seen a boost from former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who is supporting its efforts.

Steele said that the Republican Party is increasingly at a disadvantage in the Electoral College as more states, like Texas, with 38 electors, could become more liberal.

“We empower citizens to feel and to come to know that their votes will count in every election,” Steele told The Hill.

Anuzis said the lack of turnout from voters who think their vote doesn’t matter for president can have a “devastating” impact on down-ballot candidates of the party. He predicted that the U.S. could shift to a national popular vote model as soon as 2024.

The NPVIC amounts so far to 196 electorates, although Colorado’s approval is now contingent on a 2020 referendum. The bill would automatically be enacted for the country if states with a minimum of 270 electors — the number needed to win the presidency — approve of the compact.

[B][B]Gary Gregg, the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville, said he believes the national popular vote movement may capture the attention of some conservatives, but he said he doesn’t think it will become a mainstream idea on the right.

The political scientist said those pushing for the national popular vote are “abolishing the Electoral College without actually going through the amendment” process.

He added he thinks they are ignoring potential problems like the legality and the public’s reaction in states where the popular vote differs from the national popular vote. Additional parties could enter the mix, he said, which could lead to no candidate reaching a majority of votes.

“A conservative should give the benefit of the doubt to history and to actual experience rather than throwing it into the wind and saying, 'Well, hypothetically, I think in the future something's going to be good for us,'” Gregg said, adding he thinks this method would benefit the Democratic Party more than the GOP.

“We should never make a constitutional change because it's going to help a political party, for crying out loud,” he added. “That's clearly what they're trying to argue.”

There have been five elections in U.S. history where the person who won the presidency lost the popular vote, including in 2000 when former President George W. Bush (R) lost to Gore (D) by almost 550,000 votes and in 2016 when President Trump (R) lost to Clinton (D) by nearly 3 million votes.
[/B]
Trump himself has previously entertained the idea of a national popular vote election, saying in a 2017 interview, “I would rather have the popular vote because it’s, to me, it’s much easier to win the popular vote.”

But other conservatives like Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) have vehemently opposed the idea, saying it would mean “politicians will only campaign in (and listen to) urban areas” in a 2019 tweet.

[url]https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484843-push-for-national-popular-vote-movement-gets-boost-from-conservatives[/url]

[/B]

[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=bluecat;60098]Failing to teach history is starting to take a toll.[/QUOTE]

Or Civics, or Government, or critical thinking. Let me throw Math, Statistics, Western Civilization, English Literature and Latin in there just as well, because they all are bedrock. Sorry if I missed some others.

[B][FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=2][COLOR="#FF0000"]But none of these lead to the conclusion that "majority rules" is ---as the kids say-- lit.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B]
1329.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60101][/QUOTE]


[QUOTE]

Two Democratic congresswomen from Florida who called out Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders earlier this week over his comments praising aspects of late Cuban Communist leader Fidel Castro declined to participate Thursday in a vote to formally condemn the 2020 frontrunner’s remarks.

Representatives Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Donna Shalala, both representing districts at the southern tip of Florida with large Cuban-American populations, were absent for a House vote to bring to the floor an amendment disapproving of Sanders’s comments praising Castro’s health care system and literacy program.




The House voted 224 to 189 to reject a procedural motion to immediately consider the measure, effectively tanking the resolution. Both congresswomen were marked as not voting.

“I’m hoping that in the future, Senator Sanders will take time to speak to some of my constituents before he decides to sing the praises of a murderous tyrant like Fidel Castro,” Shalala, who previously served as secretary of Health and Human Services, wrote in a Sunday tweet.

“I find Senator Bernie Sanders’s comments on Castro’s Cuba absolutely unacceptable,” Mucarsel-Powell agreed in her own tweet.

“The Castro regime murdered and jailed dissidents, and caused unspeakable harm to too many South Florida families,” the Miami congresswoman added. “To this day, it remains an authoritarian regime that oppresses its people, subverts the free press, and stifles a free society.”

However, on Thursday, Mucarsel-Powell accused Republicans of politicizing the vote to condemn Sanders, saying GOP members “attempted to use an underhanded maneuver to derail an important public health bill to protect our children from a vaping epidemic.”

“It is shameful that they attempted to create a false choice between standing with the Cuban community and a generation of children whose health is at risk,” she continued.


In a video clip from the 1980s, Sanders claims that part of the reason the Cuban people did not help the U.S. overthrow Castro’s regime was because the authoritarian leader provided them with health care and education.

“We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but, you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad,” the Vermont senator said Sunday on CBS when confronted with the decades-old comments. He went on to praise Castro’s “massive literacy program,” saying, “Is that a bad thing even though Fidel Castro did it?”

Later during Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate, Sanders doubled down on his remarks, even invoking similar comments by former president Barack Obama.

“What Barack Obama said was they made great progress on education and health care,” Sanders said from the debate stage.

Thursday’s resolution would have rebuked Sanders for his comments “disregarding the history of systemic human rights abuses, forced indoctrination, and authoritarian actions of the literacy and education policies of the communist Castro dictatorship in Cuba.”

The resolution was led by Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, a Florida Republican and a nephew by marriage of Castro who has heavily criticized the communist regime.


[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/news/democratic-congresswomen-who-criticized-bernie-sanders-cuba-remarks-skip-vote-to-condemn/[/url][/QUOTE]





......
1330.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2020
Profiles in courage ...
1331.) bluecat - 02/28/2020
One man's terrorist is another man's religious scholar.
1332.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2020
Let's not be judgmental if someone makes the trains run on time ...
1333.) bluecat - 02/28/2020
McAuliffe Calls For Gun Control After Republican Shooting: "We Lose 93 Million People A Day"

[url]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/14/mcauliffe_calls_for_gun_control_after_republican_shooting_we_lose_93_million_people_a_day.html[/url]


That is slightly more than what I would have guessed. We should be out of people by next Thursday. So...problem solved.
1334.) bluecat - 02/28/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60129]One man's terrorist is another man's religious scholar.[/QUOTE]

THE WASHINGTON POST: DEAD ISIS LEADER WAS ‘AUSTERE RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR’

[url]https://www.camera.org/article/the-washington-post-dead-isis-leader-was-austere-religious-scholar/[/url]
1335.) DParker - 02/28/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60136]McAuliffe Calls For Gun Control After Republican Shooting: "We Lose 93 Million People A Day"

[url]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/14/mcauliffe_calls_for_gun_control_after_republican_shooting_we_lose_93_million_people_a_day.html[/url]


That is slightly more than what I would have guessed. We should be out of people by next Thursday. So...problem solved.[/QUOTE]

We know that's not right. Biden told us the rate is only ~24,158/day.
1336.) bluecat - 02/28/2020
McAuliffe must have included suicides and police involved shootings. That tricky devil.
1337.) DParker - 03/04/2020
Well, that's all she wrote. CNN has called American Samoa for Bloomberg. Biden and Sanders might as well just pack it in now.
1338.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2020
LOL ... I noticed that.

That's what 500 million bucks gets you ..
1339.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2020
And who would have thought California would go for the socialist nutbag?
1340.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2020
Bernie should announce his list of judges for potential nomination to the Supreme Court.

That should give him a boost. --- LOL
1341.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2020
This is amusing:

[QUOTE]MSNBC anchor Katy Tur has a knack for accidentally running into Trump voters on the campaign trail. In a recent trip to East Los Angeles ahead of Super Tuesday, Tur asked a local Latino voter who he and his family would be supporting in the primary. He said Bernie, but couldn't tell Tur why.

"Por que Bernie Sanders?" Tur asked him.

"They don't know, but they're going to be supporting Bernie Sanders," an interpreter told her.

Tur tried to get some kind of an answer out of him and asked him if maybe it was his daughter who was leading the charge for Bernie. He admitted, somewhat ashamedly by the looks of it, that his daughter would actually be voting for President Trump.

Why? "The economy," he sighed.

[url]https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2020/03/03/msnbc-bernie-interview-is-gold-n2562981[/url][/QUOTE]
1342.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2020
1343.) bluecat - 03/04/2020
They don't call it Super Thursday for nothing.


J. Biden
1344.) bluecat - 03/04/2020
"You know the thing."

J. Biden
1345.) DParker - 03/04/2020
Man, I'm in the wrong business. Mini-Mike spent $500 million of his own money to win 4 delegates from American Samoa. I'm betting I could have delivered that for him for 10 cents on the dollar.
1346.) bluecat - 03/04/2020
Do the Samoans identify with Mike because of his height?
1347.) DParker - 03/04/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60212]Do the Samoans identify with Mike because of his height?[/QUOTE]

I think it's their shared love of floral garb and professional wrestling.

1348.) bluecat - 03/05/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;60210]Man, I'm in the wrong business. Mini-Mike spent $500 million of his own money to win 4 delegates from American Samoa. I'm betting I could have delivered that for him for 10 cents on the dollar.[/QUOTE]

That's a lot of samolis.
1349.) DParker - 03/05/2020
Well, it's official. The party of "diversity" has now whittled it's options down to 2 demented old white guys. Man, I was [I]so[/I] wrong when I thought 2016 was as weird as things could get.
1350.) bluecat - 03/05/2020
Well yeah, but they could identify as a couple of young black gay transvestite questioning woman if they wanted to. See, all fixed.
1351.) bluecat - 03/05/2020
You know, one out of 3 democrats are as stupid as the other two.
1352.) DParker - 03/05/2020
You can't argue with math.
1353.) DParker - 03/06/2020
1354.) bluecat - 03/06/2020
+6, lol
1355.) bluecat - 03/06/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;60221]You can't argue with math.[/QUOTE]

I came here for an argument.
1356.) Swamp Fox - 03/06/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60220]You know, one out of 3 democrats are as stupid as the other two.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;60221]You can't argue with math.[/QUOTE]




Watch These Two Imbeciles Fail First-Grade Math On MSNBC


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/03/06/watch-two-imbeciles-fail-first-grade-math-msnbc/[/url]

[QUOTE]Suddenly the NYT’s endorsement of Elizabeth Warren makes sense.

I agree with Charles Cooke that it simply cannot be that Brian Williams and Mara Gay are organically this stupid. They know what 600/1 is. But their brains shut off because they were offered this elementary math problem in the context of a narrative both yearn to believe, that the mega-rich like Bloomberg have so much wealth that they could afford to make literally everyone else rich if they wanted to.[/QUOTE]

1357.) bluecat - 03/06/2020
That's some powerful stupid there.

I could still use the 1.53 though.
1358.) DParker - 03/06/2020
I used to joke about brain damage being a requirement for getting into journalism these days. It's not so funny anymore.
1359.) DParker - 03/07/2020
The good news is that I think we've finally identified Bernie's economic advisors.

BTW, just to put the magnitude of this little "math error" into perspective...it's like the difference between flying from Dallas to Vancouver, B.C. vs flying from Dallas to Neptune.
1360.) Swamp Fox - 03/07/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60226]That's some powerful stupid there.

I could still use the 1.53 though.[/QUOTE]


You're lucky ...

1361.) Swamp Fox - 03/07/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;60228]The good news is that I think we've finally identified Bernie's economic advisors.

BTW, just to put the magnitude of this little "math error" into perspective...it's like the difference between flying from Dallas to Vancouver, B.C. vs flying from Dallas to Neptune.[/QUOTE]


Good one.

As the ever-notable Charlie Cooke wrote, "The scale of the error here is galactic." :laugh:


[QUOTE]Obviously, the math here is spectacularly off. If Michael Bloomberg had divided the money he spent on his
presidential run evenly among Americans, we would each have got $1.53, not $1 million. For Bloomberg to give $1 million to each American, he would have to be worth $327 trillion (in cash), which, for context, is around 17 times American GDP and about five-and-a-half thousand times what he’s actually worth. The scale of the error here is galactic.
[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-million-dollars-per-person-affair-is-telling/[/url][/QUOTE]

I highly recommend reading his entire column on this, plus his other which he links to.
1362.) Swamp Fox - 03/07/2020
Speaking of maffs .... This interview has always stuck with me. I saw it live a few years ago and it really drove home that something is terribly wrong when so many "activists" have abso--effin--lutely no idea what they're talking about.

1363.) Swamp Fox - 03/07/2020
"I dare say, unless you're high as a kite, you wouldn't volunteer to pay 90% [tax rate]."

LOL ...
1364.) Swamp Fox - 03/07/2020
And then of course, there's the problem that--when you say you're from "an incredibly working-class family on numerous forms of government assistance, basically scraping by" and it turns out that-- based on your parents' expensive home and your very expensive high school and college-- there might be some questions .... it kinda brings the whole socialist activism thing that you're involved in into focus.

[url]https://www.thecollegefix.com/million-student-march-organizer-is-part-of-1-percent-and-her-cheering-dad-is-gender-mobile/[/url]

[url]https://www.socialistalternative.org/author/keelymullen1/[/url]

And ---for bonus points--- there's this cringe inducer:


1365.) bluecat - 03/07/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60231]Speaking of maffs .... This interview has always stuck with me. I saw it live a few years ago and it really drove home that something is terribly wrong when so many "activists" have abso--effin--lutely no idea what they're talking about.

[/QUOTE]

He was very patient with her. If the roles were reversed and he was a liberal he would be screaming and yelling and belittling.
1366.) DParker - 03/08/2020
This is well past the point of being funny.

1367.) DParker - 03/09/2020
1368.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2020
LOL ... I've heard of a similar cartoon. Everything in the fridge is huddled in one corner with masks on, and the lonely Corona looks dejected.

There's probably a meme to that effect that's gone viral.
1369.) DParker - 03/09/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60256]...that's gone viral.[/QUOTE]

What you did there....
1370.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;60235]This is well past the point of being funny.

[/QUOTE]

I don't know about you,, but when I type "Joe Biden" into my Bing search bar, te first reult I get is "Joe Biden dementia" and the third or fourth is "Joe Biden endorses Trump."

I'm not kidding.

"C'mon, man!"
1371.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;60235]This is well past the point of being funny.

[/QUOTE]

I don't know about you,, but when I type "Joe Biden" into my Bing search bar, the first result I get is "Joe Biden dementia" and the third or fourth is "Joe Biden endorses Trump."

I'm not kidding.

"C'mon, man!"
1372.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2020
Prediction: Corona Virus top Halloween costume of 2020.


I'm getting my items together as we speak.
1373.) DParker - 03/09/2020
I wouldn't bet against that one.
1374.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2020
1375.) DParker - 03/09/2020
So you're saying we could cure this whole thing if we had a coconut? Of course, the coconut's tropical....

[video=youtube;TsSuueEGQSM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM[/video]
1376.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2020
LOL ... Awesome recall...


1377.) DParker - 03/10/2020
Totally.
1378.) DParker - 03/10/2020
Congress needs to pass emergency legislation requiring all media sources to provide nothing but episodes of Bob Ross painting, 24/7, until everyone calms the hell down. Now just sit back and enjoy some happy trees, dammit.

1379.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2020
LOL ...

A guy I know uses this lunchbox ... LOL


1380.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2020
And the only Finnish girl I know personifies this meme:




As a bonus, she's cute as a speckled reindeer ...
1381.) bluecat - 03/10/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;60273]Congress needs to pass emergency legislation requiring all media sources to provide nothing but episodes of Bob Ross painting, 24/7, until everyone calms the hell down. Now just sit back and enjoy some happy trees, dammit.

[/QUOTE]:applause:
1382.) bluecat - 03/10/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60274]LOL ...

A guy I know uses this lunchbox ... LOL


[/QUOTE]

I took you more as a Batman and Robin or Bob the Builder lunchbox type of guy.
1383.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2020
I see what you did there.
1384.) DParker - 03/10/2020
I'd totally bring that lunchbox to work if it didn't mean ditching my Josie and the Pussycats one.
1385.) DParker - 03/10/2020
Happy 80th birthday, Chuck Norris (who, by the way, can blow bubbles with beef jerky).

1386.) bluecat - 03/11/2020
Do you think it's possible that if Joe wins the Democrats take back control of the House as he proclaims?
1387.) bluecat - 03/11/2020
I fear he's going to take away my AR-14 too.
1388.) DParker - 03/11/2020
He can have my AK-22 when he pries it from my cold, dead toes.
1389.) Swamp Fox - 03/12/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;60283]Happy 80th birthday, Chuck Norris (who, by the way, can blow bubbles with beef jerky).

[/QUOTE]



LOL ... +5


I was just talking about Chuck Norris jokes the other day.

Did you know that they play [I]Walker, Texas Ranger [/I]re-runs on TV during the day? Right in there with [I]Andy Griffith[/I], [I]Bonanza[/I] and [I]Gunsmoke[/I].

Now that's a classic line-up, LOL.



Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.
1390.) Swamp Fox - 03/12/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60284]Do you think it's possible that if Joe wins the Democrats take back control of the House as he proclaims?[/QUOTE]


LOL ...


1391.) DParker - 03/12/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60288]LOL ... +5


I was just talking about Chuck Norris jokes the other day.

Did you know that they play [I]Walker, Texas Ranger [/I]re-runs on TV during the day? Right in there with [I]Andy Griffith[/I], [I]Bonanza[/I] and [I]Gunsmoke[/I].

Now that's a classic line-up, LOL.



Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.[/QUOTE]

Whenever the wife and I are out and about, our favorite joke regarding us getting older is that we need to get home in time for Matlock.

1392.) DParker - 03/12/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60289]LOL ...


[/QUOTE]

It's going to take an extra scotch or two to get to sleep tonight.
1393.) bluecat - 03/12/2020
From smelling hair to smelling victory.
1394.) Swamp Fox - 03/12/2020
Two or three of you know who Neera Tanden is but what difference, now, does it make?


1395.) bluecat - 03/18/2020
I think the thing we need to take away from all of this is make sure you cook your bats to an internal temperature of 155.
1396.) DParker - 03/19/2020
I blame Brother Maynard for skipping that part.
1397.) bluecat - 03/19/2020


Everybody was Kung Flu Fighting
1398.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020
LOL ... Good call. ^^^

I've been sitting on a Wu-Tang Virus joke for a while, "because racism."

But you just know the government introduced the virus.

Like with crack, and coyotes.


1399.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020
And now back to stuff that resembles music ...

1400.) bluecat - 03/19/2020
This just in, Lyme disease will now be called Viron73x. Apologies to Old Lyme Connecticut for the insensitivity and racism.
1401.) bluecat - 03/19/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60356]

I've been sitting on a Wu-Tang Virus joke for a while[/QUOTE]

I would try cold compresses until the swelling goes down.
1402.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60353]I think the thing we need to take away from all of this is make sure you cook your bats to an internal temperature of 155.[/QUOTE]

I've told this story before, but when I used to get three or four dinners a week at the bar of a place with the same name as a late-60's/early 70's country rock band (minus one word denoting a familial relationship), the joke between me and the bartender after the nanny gubmint suddenly took over the restaurant/personal dining bidness was this:

[QUOTE][I]Jane [with order pad in her hand]: If you could have your burger any way you'd like it, how would you order it?

Swampy: I'd really like it if it came out medium-rare.

Jane: I'll see what we can do.

[/I][/QUOTE]

And then I'd wait to see what happened ....

There was a period when the results were subject to the skills of whichever earnest river-crosser was in the back, but most of the uncertainty and unhappiness was caused by the busy-body WASPs in state and federal government.

So that pretty much sums everything up ...

1403.) bluecat - 03/19/2020
Those were good. I was looking for the rusted out rustoleum spray can.
1404.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020
BTW, the Climax/High Point sign and the sign for Bat Cave are legit NC signs. Climax and High Point are in the Piedmont (mid state) and Bat Cave is not far from Asheville (western NC).

They missed the sign for Erect, apparently ...
1405.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60359]I would try cold compresses until the swelling goes down.[/QUOTE]


LOL ...


1406.) bluecat - 03/19/2020
^^^lol
1407.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60358]This just in, Lyme disease will now be called Viron73x. Apologies to Old Lyme Connecticut for the insensitivity and racism.[/QUOTE]


No. The better solution is to rename the whole town for some little sister burgh in Central America (Is that problematic? Feminists, you're on the line ... ), because centrism makes everyone happy.

Lyme disease can remain, but will henceforth be called by its catchier name: The Honky Bug.
1408.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020
....
1409.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2020

1410.) DParker - 03/20/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60355]Everybody was Kung Flu Fighting[/QUOTE]

I wish I had this kind of time on my hands.

1411.) bluecat - 03/20/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;60367]
[/QUOTE]

....
1412.) DParker - 03/21/2020
Local craft brewery still able to sell via curb-side pickup only offers a free roll of TP with every order. Another win for capitalism.

1413.) Swamp Fox - 03/21/2020
Poll: Which local or national newspaper makes the best toilet paper?


(This is what home delivery is all about. Be sure to tip your ̶p̶a̶p̶e̶r̶b̶o̶y̶ paper-person at Winter Solstice.)

We're blessed with great toilet paper here locally, and on the East Coast generally.
1414.) Swamp Fox - 03/21/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60369]....[/QUOTE]

+5 for the very timely reference. :tu:
1415.) bluecat - 03/22/2020
Yeah, too bad. Saw he passed away on the news tonight.
1416.) DParker - 03/22/2020
Suck it' you 49 lightweight states. We're #1!

[URL="https://www.kxan.com/news/weird-news/texans-drinking-the-most-during-covid-19-data-suggests/?fbclid=IwAR0W116O8HCRsKDUYf8ksHSJwdr5QTSpWuXF1ST0LtAEKD7cplD3J-nAa2s"]Texans drinking the most alcohol during COVID-19 outbreak, data suggests[/URL]
1417.) bluecat - 03/22/2020
That's because you guys use the most toilet paper.
1418.) DParker - 03/22/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;60380]That's because you guys use the most toilet paper.[/QUOTE]

Hey, all those chile rellenos don't just eat themselves, y'know?
1419.) bluecat - 06/04/2020
Virginia governor to announce removal of Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond as city reckons with Confederate monuments

[url]https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/ralph-northam-robert-e-lee-statue-removal/index.html[/url]



There was no word whether governor Ralph Northam would be doing this in blackface.
1420.) Swamp Fox - 06/05/2020
Just remember that the people who cheer this most vocally are weirdly uncritical of a previous Administration which rewarded a Cuban dictatorship well-known for an execrable racial history.
1421.) DParker - 06/16/2020
As I've often said, it's always good to be reminded that the U.S. doesn't hold a monopoly on this sort of stupidity:

[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53060894"]Ex-MP Fiona Onasanya attacks Kellogg's cereal box 'racism'[/URL]
1422.) bluecat - 06/16/2020
ELM

Elves Lives Matter
1423.) bluecat - 06/16/2020
Looks like someone beat me to it.
1424.) DParker - 06/16/2020
Yeah, you need a time machine to beat the internet to anything.
1425.) Swamp Fox - 06/17/2020
Woke Stupidity is the fastest gun in the West ...

We just need to decide who plays him/her in the movie.
1426.) DParker - 06/18/2020
LOL! This is great. OK, not a current event, but I didn't want to start a new thread for it. This is a book that's currently available via Amazon.in (India):

[URL="https://www.amazon.in/World-War-II-History-Encyclopaedia/dp/9386316765"]World War II: History Encyclopaedia[/URL]



The best part is the 1-star reviewer who starts off by saying that he "Had much hope" for the book when he ordered it. I guess that cover art just wasn't enough of a red flag. The good news is that 146 Rupees is currently equal to about $1.91, so he's probably only out 2 week's pay or so. Then again, I suppose A-10s would have come in handy at Normandy...

1427.) bluecat - 06/18/2020
"The author is completely illiterate."


Ouch
1428.) bluecat - 06/19/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61152]

Then again, I suppose A-10s would have come in handy at Normandy...

[/QUOTE]

I'm not a plane guy so had to look that up. Good catch.
1429.) bluecat - 06/19/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61133]As I've often said, it's always good to be reminded that the U.S. doesn't hold a monopoly on this sort of stupidity:

[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53060894"]Ex-MP Fiona Onasanya attacks Kellogg's cereal box 'racism'[/URL][/QUOTE]

Is the Lucky Charms leprechaun next?

Cap'n Crunch RIP?
1430.) DParker - 06/19/2020
#cerealboxfictionalcharacterlivesmatter
1431.) bluecat - 06/19/2020
+6 lol
1432.) Swamp Fox - 06/19/2020
LOL ... It's amazing the crap you can buy on Amazon ...

Well, at least "Steve" in the call center provided g̶o̶o̶d̶ excellent customer service:


1433.) Swamp Fox - 06/19/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61133]As I've often said, it's always good to be reminded that the U.S. doesn't hold a monopoly on this sort of stupidity:

[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53060894"]Ex-MP Fiona Onasanya attacks Kellogg's cereal box 'racism'[/URL][/QUOTE]



A cartoon monkey that looks more like a cartoon chipmunk is surely a sign of disrespect and privilege ...
1434.) Swamp Fox - 06/20/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61156]Is the Lucky Charms leprechaun next?

[/QUOTE]


"...but we don't want the Irish! ... Aw, prairie shit!"

1435.) Swamp Fox - 06/21/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61152]

[URL="https://www.amazon.in/World-War-II-History-Encyclopaedia/dp/9386316765"]World War II: History Encyclopaedia[/URL]




[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;61153]"The author is completely illiterate."


Ouch[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;61155]I'm not a plane guy so had to look that up. Good catch.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;61157]#cerealboxfictionalcharacterlivesmatter[/QUOTE]

[SIZE=3]
[B][SIZE=2]Was it over when Thomas Jefferson bombed Pearl Harbor?[/SIZE][/B][/SIZE]
1436.) bluecat - 06/22/2020
Now it's over.

1437.) bluecat - 06/23/2020
:-):-)
1438.) bluecat - 06/23/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61163]LOL ... It's amazing the crap you can buy on Amazon ...

Well, at least "Steve" in the call center provided g̶o̶o̶d̶ excellent customer service:


[/QUOTE]

freakin' hilarious
1439.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2020
Watch the whole episode to get the context, but for anyone who's ever called in for "Customer Service" from a few utilities which dare not speak their names ^^^




Don't get me started on [naming] AT&T/ NFL Sunday Ticket .... :tap::tap::tap:
1440.) bluecat - 06/24/2020
Customer Service is one of the most frustrating things that come to mind. It's rare to even find someone that you can understand let alone the hours spent navigating menus.


[Direct TV]
1441.) DParker - 06/24/2020
After ~20 years as a pretty happy DirectTV customer I finally had to dump them last year after AT&T took them over and completely destroyed what used to be a good Customer Service department...not to mention what a horrible job they did "integrating" the online account management into their (AT&T's) existing website. I had been contemplating abandoning satellite in favor of less costly online streaming for a while before that, but was so satisfied with DirectTV that I couldn't bring myself to do it...the AT&T came along and made it easy for me.

Similarly, Verizon had been my home phone and internet service provider for even longer, and I was just as happy with them. Then Frontier bought their operations in several states...our included...and what was once a rop-notch customer service experience immediately went into the crapper, and became the worst I've ever had to deal with. Unfortunately the alternatives in my area are even worse overall, so we're basically stuck with them. On the bright side, the technical side of the house seems to have been relatively unimpacted, and the service has remained as reliable as it was before, and since they got their billing bugs under control I haven't needed to deal with cust serv at all.
1442.) bluecat - 06/24/2020
I'm not sure I understand your happiness with Direct TV. Your mileage may vary, but we've never received a correct bill for 3 years. It is absolutely painful to talk with them.

but...

at least it's not Peggy

1443.) DParker - 06/24/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61184]I'm not sure I understand your happiness with Direct TV. Your mileage may vary, but we've never received a correct bill for 3 years. It is absolutely painful to talk with them.[/QUOTE]

I was only happy with them until AT&T acquired them, which happened 5 years ago. The bulk of my tenure as a customer was before that.
1444.) DParker - 06/24/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61184]I'm not sure I understand your happiness with Direct TV. Your mileage may vary, but we've never received a correct bill for 3 years. It is absolutely painful to talk with them.[/QUOTE]

I was only happy with them until AT&T acquired them, which happened 5 years ago. The bulk of my tenure as a customer was before that. Hence my, "AT&T took them over and completely destroyed what used to be a good Customer Service department" comment.
1445.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2020
This is spot-on.

DirecTV was positively *destroyed* by AT&T, much like my 800 # service years ago.

If there's one company I will absolutely run away from doing business with, it's AT&T ... or anyone else involved in bombing Pearl Harbor ...
1446.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61184]I'm not sure I understand your happiness with Direct TV. Your mileage may vary, but we've never received a correct bill for 3 years. It is absolutely painful to talk with them.

but...

at least it's not Peggy

[/QUOTE]


LMAO! ... If you identify as Customer Service, you're Customer Service ...


That's where we are these days.

Un-reality.


+10
1447.) bluecat - 07/08/2020
(CNSNews.com) - "Chicago is now the largest outdoor shooting range in America," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told Fox News's Sean Hannity Monday night.

"And other cities are a following. It's not caused by the coronavirus, it's not caused by racism. It's caused by nihilism," Kennedy said.

"To kill a child, you have to be a nihilist goon with no values whatsoever. But that is what happens when we defund our police, when we refuse to fix our schools, and we undermine the family unit."

[url]https://cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/sen-kennedy-chicago-now-largest-outdoor-shooting-range-america[/url]
1448.) Swamp Fox - 07/15/2020
Saint Samsung is the next to go...



1449.) bluecat - 07/15/2020
The interesting thing about that statue is that those that can relate to him the most won't realize he's gone.
1450.) Swamp Fox - 07/15/2020
It's apparently difficult for people --especially the loudest-- to imagine ten years ago, much less 150 or 300 or 600 ...


Good job, educators.
1451.) Swamp Fox - 07/15/2020
"> .........
1452.) Swamp Fox - 07/15/2020
....
1453.) DParker - 07/15/2020
Asheville, NC...the San Francisco of the East Coast. This is what happens when you spend your life eating BBQ with mustard-based sauce. I can't wait to see the Biltmore turned into Section 8 housing.

[URL="https://www.wyff4.com/article/asheville-passes-reparations-resolution-in-historic-vote/33319471"]https://www.wyff4.com/article/asheville-passes-reparations-resolution-in-historic-vote/33319471[/URL]
1454.) Swamp Fox - 07/15/2020
Two st0opid; Din't read .....

It's a shame what's happened to Asheville with the snowbirds ...


And Asheville wouldn't no BBQ if it bit them on the ass anyway ...

Plus mustard is a SC thang... Thank you, Jesus, and you can FRO... :wink



[I]Look Homeward, Angel [/I]: More important than ever....
1455.) DParker - 07/15/2020
I never let details get in the way of my epicurean snobbery.
1456.) Swamp Fox - 07/15/2020
A man's got to no his limitations...:-)


1457.) Swamp Fox - 07/16/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61413]Saint Samsung is the next to go...



[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;61415]The interesting thing about that statue is that those that can relate to him the most won't realize he's gone.[/QUOTE]

Way under-rated post from bluecat ... Many layers to this.


If Sister Mary Elephant were here, she'd want 1200 words from each of us analyzing the post and the topic, plus she'd have her ruler out for Alex for not paying attention to the music thread.

Is 1200 words cruel for fourth grade?


Yes, but it's fair.
1458.) bluecat - 07/16/2020
Thanks, I put my all into that one.
1459.) bluecat - 07/16/2020
Where's Bo?
1460.) Swamp Fox - 07/23/2020
"WTF?"


Oh, so close ...


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/07/23/wait-really-redskins-known-washington-football-team-upcoming-season/[/url]
1461.) DParker - 07/24/2020
I wonder if this is what the concessions will be selling at their home games.

1462.) bluecat - 07/24/2020
LOL, Well they put it to the vote and "The Washington Football Team" narrowly edged "Human Group" by a nose.
1463.) bluecat - 07/24/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61486]I wonder if this is what the concessions will be selling at their home games.

[/QUOTE]

Is the 12 fl. oz. text really necessary?
1464.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2020
Seems condescending and racist to me ...

Also perpetuates a systemic trapdoor for failure at the same time ...

I mean, ---[I]12 fl. oz[/I]. --- Like, who's s'posed to no what that means?



[QUOTE]THE SMITHSONIAN HAS LOST ITS MIND

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture has posted up a guide to “Whiteness” that is straight out of a drunken faculty meeting. As the old saying goes, you have to read it not to believe it. Here’s the opening paragraph:

[QUOTE][I]Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America. Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.[/I]
[/QUOTE]
[....]

But the real show-stopper is the graphic table of White Culture (rendered more schematically here), which I post here in two installments. Take it in slowly:







My favorite part is the attack on “scientific method”:

Emphasis on Scientific Method:

• Objective, rational linear thinking

• Cause and effect relationships

• Quantitative emphasis

Remind me again why we’re supposed to think Republicans are against science?


As an antidote, see John McWhorter’s article in The Atlantic out today attacking the whole “white fragility” narrative, and especially Robin DiAngelo’s prominence at the moment. Some samples:

[I][QUOTE]I have learned that one of America’s favorite advice books of the moment is actually a racist tract. Despite the sincere intentions of its author, the book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us. This is unintentional, of course, like the racism DiAngelo sees in all whites. Still, the book is pernicious because of the authority that its author has been granted over the way innocent readers think. . .

DiAngelo’s book is replete with claims that are either plain wrong or bizarrely disconnected from reality. . .

An especially weird passage is where DiAngelo breezily decries the American higher-education system, in which, she says, no one ever talks about racism. “I can get through graduate school without ever discussing racism,” she writes. “I can graduate from law school without ever discussing racism. I can get through a teacher-education program without ever discussing racism.” I am mystified that DiAngelo thinks this laughably antique depiction reflects any period after roughly 1985. . .

A corollary question is why Black people need to be treated the way DiAngelo assumes we do. The very assumption is deeply condescending to all proud Black people. In my life, racism has affected me now and then at the margins, in very occasional social ways, but has had no effect on my access to societal resources; if anything, it has made them more available to me than they would have been otherwise. Nor should anyone dismiss me as a rara avis. Being middle class, upwardly mobile, and Black has been quite common during my existence since the mid-1960s, and to deny this is to assert that affirmative action for Black people did not work.

White Fragility is, in the end, a book about how to make certain educated white readers feel better about themselves. DiAngelo’s outlook rests upon a depiction of Black people as endlessly delicate poster children within this self-gratifying fantasy about how white America needs to think—or, better, stop thinking. Her answer to white fragility, in other words, entails an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people. The sad truth is that anyone falling under the sway of this blinkered, self-satisfied, punitive stunt of a primer has been taught, by a well-intentioned but tragically misguided pastor, how to be racist in a whole new way.[/QUOTE][/I]


[url]https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/the-smithsonian-has-lost-its-mind.php[/url]


[/QUOTE]

The [B]W[/B]ashington [B]T[/B]oxic [B]F[/B]ragilities ?
1465.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61487]LOL, Well they put it to the vote and "The Washington Football Team" narrowly edged "Human Group" by a nose. [/QUOTE]



LMAO ... +5

So it's between the Human Group and the Toxic Fragilities at this point ...

(Though I also like [I]the Washington Weasels [/I]....)
1466.) DParker - 07/25/2020
I was going to propose the Washington Carbon Units to be as inclusive as possible, but then I realized that might be offensive to any silicon-based life forms that might one day invade the planet.
1467.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2020
1468.) DParker - 07/25/2020
Why is she addressing her brother Linus as "Charlie Brown"?
1469.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2020
It's all intersectional ...

Linus = a rat = a pig= a dog= a boy = Charlie Brown

If you don't get it, we have an education camp you can go to.

But if it is just that reference you don't get, hit me up ---I'm sorry: gently nudge me or whisper in my ear -- and I will get back to you as soon as my struggle for universal justice will allow ....
1470.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61494]Why is she addressing her brother Linus as "Charlie Brown"?[/QUOTE]


All white men are alike?






[Don't @ me ...]
1471.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2020
1472.) Swamp Fox - 07/26/2020
Graphics and text need some work, but generally I approve:


A big paddle tail should be more prominent, unless we're trying to avoid jokes about beaver---and assuming that anyone nos what a nutria is, or even a muskrat---and while I like the idea that "Washington" is so diminished in size that you can barely read it, any self-respecting swamp rat knows that "Swamp Rats" is two words.


I like the font, though.

It has a good beat, and you can dance to it.


1473.) Swamp Fox - 07/26/2020
I heard that photos and screen shots of Adam Schiff were rejected in the search for a [I]Washington Weasels[/I] logo.

They wanted something less cartoonish ...
1474.) bluecat - 07/26/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61500]I heard that photos and screen shots of Adam Schiff were rejected in the search for a [I]Washington Weasels[/I] logo.

They wanted something less cartoonish ...[/QUOTE]

Okay that was good. +6
1475.) Swamp Fox - 07/27/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61508]Okay that was good. +6[/QUOTE]



What about the rest???


Chopped liver?


:tap:


LOL


If 2020 was an ice cream truck:





:grin:
1476.) bluecat - 07/27/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61494]Why is she addressing her brother Linus as "Charlie Brown"?[/QUOTE]

It's not to be taken literally, but any melon-shaped, subservient male dufus in the Peanuts comic strip.
1477.) Swamp Fox - 08/05/2020
I've said it before on here and I'll say it again:

I'm just here to stick up for partisanship and the two-party system.


[B][I]Leftism is a mental disorder: [/I][/B]



1478.) Swamp Fox - 08/06/2020
1479.) DParker - 08/06/2020
I'm going to start an online service proof reading memes for a nominal fee.
1480.) bluecat - 08/06/2020
In the meantime, let's eat grandma.
1481.) bluecat - 08/06/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61618][/QUOTE]

That's a good one. +3
1482.) DParker - 08/06/2020
Punctuation will be an additional charge.
1483.) bluecat - 08/07/2020
I already spent my money on vowels.
1484.) DParker - 08/18/2020
This barten...er...I mean respected member of Congress is a genius. A [B][I]GENIUS[/I][/B], I tell you!

[URL="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-save-usps-progressive-pen-pal-program"]AOC's idea to save USPS: 'Progressive pen pal program'[/URL]

You knew it was going to be a good idea when she started off with, "I've been thinking...".
1485.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2020
[QUOTE]Social media users were quick to mock the idea for various reasons, such as the environmental effect of encouraging people who are already using digital communication to use more paper.

[/QUOTE]

Of course they were. Because if you write a few letters, you're destroying the planet.


I don't care if you're a mocker on the left or the right: If you think writing letters is something you should be worrying about, you're out of your GD mind.


[I]American schools today[/I], ladies and gentlemen ...
1486.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2020
[QUOTE]The moment Trump won re-election
[/QUOTE]


The second thread might be the more entertaining, but surf both, LOL ....


[B][SIZE=2]All the Dems had to do was to appear to be sane, and they just couldn't do it ... [/SIZE][/B]





1487.) DParker - 08/19/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61686]Of course they were. Because if you write a few letters, you're destroying the planet.[/QUOTE]

The best part is that she's pitching this idea to a generation that can't be bothered to type "your" and shortens it to "ur" because it takes too much time and effort to type those two extra characters. Yes, these are exactly the people I would expect to jump on the idea of communicating with others by buying paper, envelopes and stamps...and then picking up a pen, sitting down and writing letters. Oh, and then take them to a mailbox.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61687]The second thread might be the more entertaining, but surf both, LOL ....


All the Dems had to do was appear sane, and they just couldn't do it ...





[/QUOTE]

That reminds me of any one of a hundred crappy SNL musical acts from the past couple of decades.
1488.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61688]The best part is that she's pitching this idea to a generation that can't be bothered to type "your" and shortens it to "ur" because it takes too much time and effort to type those two extra characters. Yes, these are exactly the people I would expect to jump on the idea of communicating with others by buying paper, envelopes and stamps...and then picking up a pen, sitting down and writing letters. Oh, and then take them to a mailbox.

[/QUOTE]


This is so true, LOL.
1489.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2020



1490.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61685]This barten...er...I mean respected member of Congress is a genius. A [B][I]GENIUS[/I][/B], I tell you!

[/QUOTE]


I see what you did there ...


You left the (D) out ...


Inconvenient truth: There's no (D) in "problem solver" either ...

:wink
1491.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2020
I saw a car today with two bumper stickers:


[QUOTE][B]Fight Truth Decay: Vote Democratic 2020[/B][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE][B]Elizabeth Warren![/B][/QUOTE]



There was no indication that it was an Ironic Honda, but it [B]was[/B] a Honda.
1492.) Swamp Fox - 08/20/2020
Another Inconvenient Truth:

Mail-in ballots are not the same as absentee ballots.

Either Adam Schiff (D) is a lying POS, or he is an ignorant incompetent:



Given past history ... Hmmmm... I'm not sayin' you can't be both, if that's your truth ...

1493.) Swamp Fox - 08/28/2020
1494.) Swamp Fox - 08/28/2020
1495.) bluecat - 08/28/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61760][/QUOTE]

Wang Dang!
1496.) bluecat - 08/28/2020
Putin sad like baby mongoose.
1497.) Swamp Fox - 08/28/2020
Re. sad baby mongoose reference----




I don't know where that's from,, but it seems apt ...

LOL

+3 at least
1498.) bluecat - 08/28/2020
No reference, if you look at him, he looks like a sad little mongoose.

I had a comment about the other picture but I used a little discretion and didn't post it. Alex would be so proud...wherever he is.
1499.) Swamp Fox - 08/29/2020
Okay ... Between you and DParker, I always have to be aware of what reference I'm missing ... LOL
1500.) DParker - 08/31/2020
1501.) bluecat - 09/01/2020
[url]http://www2.kusports.com/news/2020/aug/31/ku-wont-allow-fans-football-opener-other-home-spor/[/url]

[I]KU won’t allow fans at football opener, other home sporting events in September[/I]

So, really nothing has changed.
1502.) DParker - 09/01/2020
But I've been assured that NPR isn't a propaganda machine...



"Without evidence', assuming you completely ignore all of the videos...from multiple angles...of the incident that all clearly point to self-defense.
1503.) DParker - 09/02/2020
Nice mask, Governor Trumpsfault.

1504.) bluecat - 09/02/2020
Not to be outdone. Blames salon owner for letting her in.

[url]https://knss.radio.com/articles/video-nancy-pelosi-without-mask-at-salon-appointment[/url]
1505.) bluecat - 09/02/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61812]Nice mask, Governor Trumpsfault.

[/QUOTE]

Wine and Liqour?
1506.) DParker - 09/02/2020
Clearly he spends his time in neighborhoods populated by the educated elite.
1507.) DParker - 09/02/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61813]Not to be outdone. Blames salon owner for letting her in.

[url]https://knss.radio.com/articles/video-nancy-pelosi-without-mask-at-salon-appointment[/url][/QUOTE]

Are you questioning your betters, peasant?!!!!!
1508.) Swamp Fox - 09/03/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61811]But I've been assured that NPR isn't a propaganda machine...



"Without evidence', assuming you completely ignore all of the videos...from multiple angles...of the incident that all clearly point to self-defense.[/QUOTE]




NPR has become increasingly un-listenable.

It now shocks me if a program is not about or doesn't take a woke angle on race, racism, gender (sic), LGBTQRSVP, Trump's transgressions against democracy, or Covid out of all context.

It has gone from "What you gonna do?" shoulder-shrugging progressive background noise to the primary probable cause of epileptic eye-rolling among vulnerable moderate and conservative populations.

I'd say it's definitely worse the last eight months or so.





Worth a few minutes:


[url]https://spectator.us/npr-without-evidence-trump-cnn-associated-press-kenosha/[/url]


#DefundNPR ... :nk::nk: LOL
1509.) Swamp Fox - 09/03/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61812]Nice mask, Governor Trumpsfault.

[/QUOTE]


I'll give him a pass on the mask, but jaywalking while making his woman bodyguard carry bottled water for him is unforgivable ...
1510.) Swamp Fox - 09/03/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61793] [/QUOTE]



[url]https://i0.wp.com/politicallyincorrecthumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/joe-biden-has-released-a-statement-alphabet-soup.jpg?resize=518%2C389&ssl=1[/url]
1511.) Swamp Fox - 09/03/2020
[QUOTE=DParker;61793] [/QUOTE]

1512.) Swamp Fox - 09/03/2020
If a census-taker comes up to my house one more time, he's gonna find out that Beau Zodecloun, who identifies as French-Lebanese, don't play that.
1513.) DParker - 09/03/2020
Yeah, I've learned to just expect shitty, biased "reporting" from these asshats for a couple of decades now. But they've ratcheted the dial on the propaganda bullshit machine so far past 11 on this one even my jaded old ass is beyond disgusted by the vileness of it.
1514.) Swamp Fox - 09/03/2020
If you were a well-intentioned citizen looking for perspective on the issues of the day, you would be flying forever left (like NASCAR?), blind as a bat, listening to NPR's high frequency squeals.

In this case and a few others, they have completely thrown in the reporting towel. Even the analysis is shabby.
1515.) bluecat - 09/03/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61809][url]http://www2.kusports.com/news/2020/aug/31/ku-wont-allow-fans-football-opener-other-home-spor/[/url]

[I]KU won’t allow fans at football opener, other home sporting events in September[/I]

So, really nothing has changed.[/QUOTE]

[B]Notebook: Jayhawks preparing for opener without fans, late kickoff[/B]
[url]http://www2.kusports.com/news/2020/sep/02/notebook-jayhawks-preparing-opener-without-fans-la/[/url]

Okay, Trivia time, what year was the article written?
1516.) bluecat - 09/03/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61814]Wine and Liqour?[/QUOTE]


[QUOTE=DParker;61816]Are you questioning your betters, peasant?!!!!![/QUOTE]

I was questioning the bitters.


Note: Some comments were taken out of context and rearranged to make funny. No alcohol or hair saloon (see what I did there) was harmed in the making of this joke. Any reference to historical figures or leaders (old and senile) is entirely coincidental. We stand behind our beliefs that setting up people in hair salons is less than optimal, if in fact, the salon owner knew five years ago that a pandemic would occur so installed a camera system hoping that Nanny would walk in without a mask five years later (her housekeeper forgot to get it for her and left it on her dresser or she left it in the limo). There is a sort of sick brilliance to the whole thing if true. We should all forget about this quickly and get back to work.

MSGA (Make Salons Great Again)
1517.) DParker - 09/03/2020
And it just keeps getting more bizarre. Apparently AP didn't learn anything from Sandmann's lawyer taking CNN/WaPo/et al to the cleaners. And this is even worse. In those cases the idiots just jumped to narrative-driven conclusions before bothering to let the facts come out. Here we have most of the facts, and they're just flat-out lying about them.

[URL="https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2020/08/teen-suspect-arrested-in-illinois-after-2-killed-at-kenosha-protest.html"]https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2020/08/teen-suspect-arrested-in-illinois-after-2-killed-at-kenosha-protest.html[/URL]

[QUOTE]Two people were killed Tuesday night in an attack carried out by a young white man who was caught on cellphone video opening fire in the middle of the street with a semi-automatic rifle.[/QUOTE]

Zero mention of the two mobs chasing him, the first asshole trying to pick a fight with Rittenhouse's group, the skateboard attack, the convicted felon who pulled a gun on him, etc, etc. These pieces of crap make Pravda look like amateurs.
1518.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
You're right. I think there are quite number of people with blue checkmarks and/or who identify as journalists who would be wise to make discreet inquiries about legal representation, because Hell is coming to breakfast ...
1519.) DParker - 09/04/2020
I'm going to call it now (actually, I called it 2 days ago...just not here):

Kyle Rittenhouse walks on all charges, including the bogus "Possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18". I don't know if the grand jury no-bills, the DA's office comes to their senses before making even bigger fools of themselves...or a jury acquits. The state has no case here at all.
1520.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
I doubt there is much chance of a no-bill, sheeple being sheeple.

I doubt there is much chance of the DA's office coming to its senses, DA's offices being DA's offices.

It will be up to the jury (and his representation) ... In the absence of other evidence, it SHOULD be clear sailing.



Wisconsin being Wisconsin, tho ... LOL
1521.) DParker - 09/04/2020
Grand juries can sometimes surprise you with a display of uncommon sense. Though living in TX, where a no-bill would actually be the most likely outcome in this case, might have instilled a bit of unwarranted optimism in me.
1522.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
Skateboard dude:


[QUOTE]In 2012, Huber was found guilty of felonious strangulation, two counts of domestic abuse, false imprisonment and use of a dangerous weapon, records show. Huber was again found guilty in 2018, this time of disorderly conduct, domestic abuse and repeat offender charges, according to online documents. [url]https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/28/kenosha-shooting-kyle-rittenhouse-huber-rosenbaum-grosskreutz-criminal-records/[/url]
[/QUOTE]


Milwaukee Sentinel:

[QUOTE]Kramer said he had not seen Huber in recent years but remembered him as having a gentle nature.

"I heard he was trying to save somebody from being shot," said Seebeck.
[url]https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/lake-country/2020/08/26/kenosha-jacob-blake-protest-shooting-what-we-know-victims/5635760002/[/url] [/QUOTE]






LOL ,,,,,:re: ...... Journalism much?
1523.) DParker - 09/04/2020
That's the piece of crap that GoFundMe labeled a "hero"...right after they deleted Kyle's defense fundraiser.

My shit-list is growing at an unprecedented speed.
1524.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
The reason he's a hero is because the other two douchebags were 1) a sex offender (back at approximately age 18) with a more recent sheet including bail jumping, battery, two counts of domestic abuse, plus disorderly conduct, and 2) a Marxist with a drunken/gun conviction.
1525.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
Faceplant :re: :



[url]https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/facebook-bans-posts-in-support-of-alleged-kenosha-shooter-kyle-rittenhouse[/url]


[url]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/28/facebook-blocks-searches-of-kyle-rittenhouse-illin/[/url]


+++++

Not the first guy to lose his job over his opinion on this:

[url]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arthur-love-iv-maryland-fired-kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooter-facebook-post/[/url]


On a side note, the bio of the author of that last bit:

[QUOTE]Caitlin O'Kane[/B]

Caitlin O'Kane is a digital content producer covering trending stories for [B]CBS News and its good news brand, The Uplift.[/B][/QUOTE]


[I]Emphasis mine[/I] ... lol
1526.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
[QUOTE]Skateboard dude:


[QUOTE]In 2012, Huber was found guilty of felonious strangulation, two counts of domestic abuse, false imprisonment and use of a dangerous weapon, records show. Huber was again found guilty in 2018, this time of disorderly conduct, domestic abuse and repeat offender charges, according to online documents. [url]https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/28/k...minal-records/[/url]
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Milwaukee Sentinel:

Kramer said he had not seen Huber in recent years but remembered him as having a gentle nature.

"I heard he was trying to save somebody from being shot," said Seebeck.
[url]https://www.jsonline.com/story/commu...ms/5635760002/[/url]
[/QUOTE]


LOL ,,,,,:re: ...... Journalism much?[/QUOTE]




This response to "inquiries about the MJS's coverage" is positively Orwellian:

Cancel my subscription.


[QUOTE]Our natural instinct as journalists is to report what we know. But that instinct has to be tempered by the demands of accuracy and fairness. [url]https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/09/01/kenosha-protest-shooting-why-were-not-writing-victims-background-jacob-blake-record-riot-vs-protest/5679537002/[/url][/QUOTE]


It apparently hasn't occurred to these geniuses that when reporting on crime, violence and riots, reporting the known criminal and violent backgrounds of those involved might be a really basic part of their jobs, as well as accurate and fair.

Or maybe it has, and they're just gas-lighting you.

Read the whole thing at the link.
1527.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
I corrected one of the Journal Sentinal's links above.
1528.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
[QUOTE=bluecat;61826][B]Notebook: Jayhawks preparing for opener without fans, late kickoff[/B]
[url]http://www2.kusports.com/news/2020/sep/02/notebook-jayhawks-preparing-opener-without-fans-la/[/url]

Okay, Trivia time, what year was the article written?[/QUOTE]



Have you ever considered simply giving up on Jaywalker football, and just declaring your love for Mississippi State?


LOL ... :wave:
1529.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61841]This response to "inquiries about the MJS's coverage" is positively Orwellian:

Cancel my subscription.





It apparently hasn't occurred to these geniuses that when reporting on crime, violence and riots, reporting the known criminal and violent backgrounds of those involved might be a really basic part of their jobs, as well as accurate and fair.

Or maybe it has, and they're just gas-lighting you.

Read the whole thing at the link.[/QUOTE]




It's even money that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will be sued out of existence.


That's gonna leave a mark...
1530.) bluecat - 09/05/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61843]Have you ever considered simply giving up on Jaywalker football, and just declaring your love for Mississippi State?


LOL ... :wave:[/QUOTE]

Southern belles, barbecue, the smell of flowers in December, large bluecats... nah...lol
1531.) Swamp Fox - 09/05/2020
Well, it's not Ole Miss, but I suppose it will have to do .... :wink
1532.) Swamp Fox - 09/05/2020
Jerry Clower plays for Mississippi State .... :grin: .... :beer::wave:




1533.) bluecat - 09/05/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61850]Jerry Clower plays for Mississippi State .... :grin: .... :beer::wave:




[/QUOTE]

Where do you find this stuff, lol?
1534.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2020
Oh.... That's common knowledge among the right people ... LOL ...


Jerry Clower was a legend. :p
1535.) bluecat - 09/09/2020


lol...
1536.) Swamp Fox - 09/11/2020
Imagine being a dad and not publicly blasting CNN for politically manipulating a picture of you with the son you lost too soon.


[QUOTE]Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.— George Orwell 1984

[/QUOTE]


1537.) Swamp Fox - 09/11/2020
Even worse, imagine being a dad and manipulating your own photo of your dead son for political purposes ...
1538.) Swamp Fox - 09/11/2020
Which is where we are today ...
1539.) Swamp Fox - 09/11/2020
I don't know if Joe Biden ever took a copyright law class, but it appears everyone around him failed it as well ...
1540.) bluecat - 09/11/2020
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;61872]Even worse, imagine being a dad and manipulating your own photo of your dead son for political purposes ...[/QUOTE]

On par with that, looking at the original photo and thinking racism.
1541.) Swamp Fox - 09/16/2020
Agreed.


And just to be clear: "The Biden Campaign" supplied that doctored image.


Imagine being a dad and not firing your whole campaign staff ...
1542.) Swamp Fox - 10/13/2020
Uncle Joe doesn't know which way to turn.

He was against "court packing" (LOL and :re:) before he was for it, but just won't tell you he was/is for it.



[QUOTE]The big takeaway here is that there are more boneheads today than in 1983, when this was common wisdom. Hence the need for Sasse’s lecture.



[url]https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/10/12/sasse-wapo-stacking-packing-biden-boneheads-civics-101-lesson/[/url]
[/QUOTE]
1543.) Swamp Fox - 10/13/2020
"> .....
1544.) Swamp Fox - 10/14/2020
Oof! :nk:

Charles C.W. Cooke is a treasure:

[B][I]Do You Even Article V, Bro?[/I][/B]


[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/do-you-even-article-v-bro/[/url]
1545.) Swamp Fox - 10/19/2020
Too good to excerpt.

C'mon man!


LMAO


[QUOTE]

Sometimes when Joe Biden offers yarns about his childhood, I think of a Woody Allen bit from his stand-up days in which the comic tells the story of being invited to a Halloween party while visiting the Deep South in the early 1960s. Allen decides to dress-up as a ghost, and throws on a white sheet and sets off. Soon, a bunch of men also in white sheets drive up and order him to get in a car. A naïve Allen, assuming the group of people are also going to the party as ghosts, obliges.

Allen, of course, ends up at a Klan rally, where he gives himself away by “pledging” 50 dollars for the cause in the manner Jews donate at Temple during Rosh Hashana and other holidays. Facing the noose, Allen says:

And suddenly my whole life passed before my eyes. I saw myself as a kid again, in Kansas, going to school, swimming at the swimming hole, and fishing, frying up a mess-o-catfish, going down to the general store, getting a piece of gingham for Emmy-Lou. And I realize it’s not my life. They’re gonna hang me in two minutes, the wrong life is passing before my eyes.

In a piece I wrote not long ago about Biden’s long and rich imaginary life I noted that we were probably “only a few speeches away from Biden recalling how his dad used to sit on the edge of his bed and tell him, “Champ, always remember, transgendered folk are just like the rest of us.” He’s certainly working his way there.

Mock Trump’s word salads all you like, but read this fairytale Biden offered at his recent soft-pitch townhall:

[QUOTE]And I was being dropped off to get an application in the center of our city; Wilmington, Delaware, the corporate capital of the world at the time. And these two men, I’m getting out to get an application to be a lifeguard in the African American community because there was a big swimming pool complex.

And these two men, well dressed, leaned up and hugged one another and kissed one another. And I’m getting out of the car at the light and I turn to my dad. My dad looked at me and said, “Joey, it’s simple. They love each other.”

The idea that an 8-year-old child or a 10-year-old child decides, you know I decided I want to be transgender. That’s what I think I’d like to be. It would make my life a lot easier. There should be zero discrimination.

And what’s happening is too many transgender women of color are being murdered. They’re being murdered. And I think it’s up now to 17, don’t hold me to that number. But it’s — it’s higher now?[/QUOTE]

So, let’s get this straight: A teen Biden is looking for work in the black community of 1950s Wilmington, when he happens to spy two men just kissing on the street. His dad, a car dealer from working class stock, tells him, in essence, that love is love. Biden must have forgotten this lesson when he was voting for the Defense of Marriage Act only to remember it now. It’s certainly convenient — and also about as likely as the ending of Allen’s skit, wherein the comic gives such a rousing speech about peaceful coexistence that the Klansmen end up buying Israel bonds.

[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/someone-elses-life-is-passing-before-bidens-eyes/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first[/url][/QUOTE]
1546.) Swamp Fox - 10/19/2020
Who needs a Pass The Story Thread when you're living in times like these? ^^^ LOL
1547.) bluecat - 10/19/2020
The media will never question him about anything controversial.

"So tell us again Joe, how you will be a better president than Trump."
1548.) DParker - 10/19/2020
2020 is now almost complete...

[URL="https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Zoom%20Dick%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends"]Trending on Twitter: "Zoom Dick" (Jeffrey Toobin suspended from The New Yorker for exposing himself during a professional Zoom meeting)[/URL]

1549.) Swamp Fox - 10/20/2020
LOL... I saw that earlier today. The two pundit comments I saw that left a mark were (paraphrasing):


"Somehow it always seems to turn out that the people you always thought were idiots really are idiots."

and

"Henceforth when a man is caught playing with himself on Zoom, we will say that he was seen [I]Toobin [/I]."
1550.) DParker - 10/20/2020
"No, no Jeffrey...we said the meeting was going to be an [i]election simulation[/i]."
1551.) Swamp Fox - 10/20/2020
LOL ... +7 ... I knew there was a joke in there somewhere, but was a little distracted today.


I knew I could count on someone here to put their finger on it ... :wink
1552.) DParker - 10/20/2020
1553.) bluecat - 10/20/2020
:-):-)
1554.) Swamp Fox - 10/21/2020
Can't believe I whiffed on "election simulation" but I guess we all have our off days ... :bang: LOL


"If anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that this sort of thing was frowned upon ... "


LOL .....



Mega points to DP and BC for the Seinfeld clips. :grin:

Congratulations, boys: You both deserve it .... LOL .... :clap::grin::laugh:


(Do you boys need a house? --- LOL)
1555.) bluecat - 10/21/2020
I'm out there Swampy and I'm lovin' every minute of it.
1556.) DParker - 10/22/2020
"Go away! Toobin'!!!"

1557.) Swamp Fox - 10/22/2020
This (below) is a few days old but I've been distracted by the Rudy Gulliani/Borat thing ... LOL ... Prolly will be a blockbuster premier, now ...

Haven't seen pictures of the actress playing the reporter...


"Get back to me when *you're* 76 ..." .... LOL



****




[B]Facebook Pulls Down Old Monty Python Bit Recycled For Far-Left Loon Sen. Mazie Hirono On Grounds That It ‘Incites Violence’[/B]


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/10/20/facebook-pulls-babylon-bee-joke-sen-hirono-grounds-incites-violence/[/url]

[url]https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/20/facebook-demonetizes-babylon-bee-saying-acb-monty-python-joke-incites-violence-n1072750[/url]

[url]https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/10/22/facebook-hey-babylon-bee-sorry-automated-systems-deleted-satire-sen-hirono/[/url]


[B]

So much for Facebook's automated OR manual systems ... LOL [/B]
1558.) DParker - 12/16/2020
Well, this interview...and a bunch of other media prognostications just like it...certainly didn't age well.

[URL="https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/11th-hour-with-brian-williams/2020-05-15-msna1357836"]Trump is lying about having a vaccine by the end of 2020![/URL]

Bonus points for Brian Williams being conducting a hit-piece accusing someone else of making stuff up.

[QUOTE]WILLIAMS: Dr. DR. Redlener, more experts today forced to, in other words, singing for their supper, the Health and Human Services Secretary whose literal first words were to thank the President for his leadership. The American public was today promised, the promise was held out that we`ll have a vaccine by the end of this year. Is that possible in your view?

DR. IRWIN REDLENER, EXPERT ON PANDEMIC INFLUENZA: Oh, Brian, you know, what`s another day of POTUS in Wonderland here? It is preposterous to make that statement and also to kind of mislead the American people about what`s possible, what`s not possible. We can have a vaccine in two months if we wanted to forego the absolutely critical phase of long human testing to make sure that the vaccine works, and most importantly, that it`s safe. It is impossible to get that done by the end of the year. And this is clearly a like you indicated earlier, a some sort of play or ploy to create the narrative that`s going to play out for the November election campaign.[/QUOTE]
1559.) Swamp Fox - 12/16/2020
Now we just need the gurus of Obamacare, like Zeke Emanuel and Jonathan Gruber, back in the driver's seat...

Oh, wait ....



[url]https://lidblog.com/zeke-emanuel-wrong/[/url]

[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/joe-bidens-dr-death/[/url]

[url]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/[/url]



[url]https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/what-echo-chamber-abc-news-turns-to-jonathan-gruber-to-discuss-recent-obamacare-ruling[/url]
1560.) DParker - 12/16/2020
[QUOTE]Why I Hope to Die at 75[/QUOTE]

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
1561.) Swamp Fox - 12/16/2020
LOL ...

[QUOTE]"Things your grandparents say...."[/QUOTE]



Zeke seems impervious to wisdom, and probably will never catch on if he lives to be 111 ...
1562.) Swamp Fox - 12/19/2020
The Democrats have a socialism problem, a Russia problem, and an Obama problem:




I hope they know how to wet a paper bag,'cause they need to punch though this little issue ...
1563.) DParker - 01/08/2021
I suspect that many of my fellow online shoppers have finally cracked under the stress of prolonged quarantine. My favorite whole bean coffee has become difficult to find locally, so I turned to Amazon to see if I could find it (or a good substitute) there, and while doing so was presented with the following "Frequently bought together" recommendation:



My breakfasts just seem so boring by comparison now.
1564.) bluecat - 01/08/2021
I prefer crunchy frog myself, but hey.
1565.) bluecat - 01/08/2021
lol...
1566.) DParker - 01/08/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;62775]I prefer crunchy frog myself, but hey.[/QUOTE]

Ditto. It's not only rich in protein, the bones make for a nice calcium supplement as well.
1567.) bluecat - 01/08/2021
Think of the poor sod that counts out the 1,000 mealworms for each order.

"Hey, I only got 996! I got ripped off man!"
1568.) bluecat - 01/08/2021
Think of all the people ordering mealworms and saying, "Hey, what's this Texas coffee doing here? I won't drink that."
1569.) Swamp Fox - 01/08/2021
I don't know...This could be a warning sign... It's possible you're on some kind of edge, or a dimensional warp.
1570.) Swamp Fox - 01/27/2021
She's baaaack...




[url]https://twitter.com/i/status/1352376510729113601[/url]
1571.) DParker - 01/27/2021
Yeah, I watched that yesterday...along with videos of the same now-silent group of leftist reporters repeatedly giving Kayleigh McEnany grief over not wearing a mask, even though her boss had not just signed an EO mandating them on all federal lands. I believe this is an example of what the cool kids refer to as "cringe-worthy".
1572.) bluecat - 03/15/2021
Did you hear that Nanny is trying to blame the crisis on the border as Trump's fault. Tsarnaev bomber gets a stimulus check - Dr. Seuss is cancelled - gas prices sky rocketing - air strikes in Syria.

Well done Joe!
1573.) DParker - 03/15/2021
It's like a nature documentary about rats cannibalizing the weak among their own ranks.

[URL="https://nypost.com/2021/03/14/covid-19-vaccine-czar-to-be-subject-of-complaint-calling-about-cuomo/"]https://nypost.com/2021/03/14/covid-19-vaccine-czar-to-be-subject-of-complaint-calling-about-cuomo/[/URL]

[URL="https://nypost.com/2021/03/14/de-blasio-blames-cuomo-for-not-closing-nyc-sooner-as-covid-spread/"]https://nypost.com/2021/03/14/de-blasio-blames-cuomo-for-not-closing-nyc-sooner-as-covid-spread/[/URL]

The richness of De Blasio blaming anyone for being slow to act is the cherry on top.
1574.) bluecat - 03/15/2021
I really enjoy watching the dumpster fire the democrats have and are creating.
1575.) Swamp Fox - 03/16/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;63453]It's like a nature documentary about rats cannibalizing the weak among their own ranks.

[...]

The richness of De Blasio blaming anyone for being slow to act is the cherry on top.[/QUOTE]



Bullseye!
1576.) Swamp Fox - 03/16/2021
I would say the two of them deserve each other, but Cuomo is so wounded I don't think he can lay a glove on DeBlasio right now ... Which is a shame, because DeBlasio needs a good slapping around ....


Maybe Cuomo can reach out to some of his old friends from the neighborhood ....
1577.) Swamp Fox - 03/16/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63452]Did you hear that Nanny is trying to blame the crisis on the border as Trump's fault. Tsarnaev bomber gets a stimulus check - Dr. Seuss is cancelled - gas prices sky rocketing - air strikes in Syria.

Well done Joe![/QUOTE]

Unfortunately, the Bill Clinton Generation is loud and proud ... Situation Normal ... AFU
1578.) bluecat - 03/23/2021
Driving in to work I was wondering how the press would somehow spin the Colorado shooting. Does the truth even matter any more. I also wondered how long it would be before gun control was brought up.

Not long apparently.

[url]https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/biden-gun-control-colorado-atlanta/index.html[/url]
1579.) DParker - 03/23/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63473]Does the truth even matter any more.[/QUOTE]

Not for quite some time.
1580.) bluecat - 03/25/2021
Are you going to grow some stuff this year?
1581.) DParker - 03/25/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63475]Are you going to grow some stuff this year?[/QUOTE]

{Steven Wright} What do you need? {/Steven Wright}

But seriously folks...

Yeah, but I'm not going to put quite as much effort into it as I was initially planning (was going to build raised beds, put in drip irrigation, etc), since we're toying with the idea of buying a place a little more on the outskirts of D/FW and we're not sure exactly when that's going to happen...but we'd like to do it sooner rather than later. The problem is that we couldn't have picked a worse time to want to buy something new while keeping and renting out our current house. The market for existing houses here is just nuts right now, and places are getting snapped up for more than the asking price. While we initially wanted to avoiding building again (we did that with this place >26 years ago), we might be much better off going ahead and just finding a nice ~1 acre already subdivided somewhere and do it again.

That said, I haven't had a chance to work the ground yet (and it rained like hell last night, so it'll likely be next weekend before I can), but I picked up some tomato plants at the local nursery and I already have a bunch of seeds that I saved from last season's plants that were either heirlooms or F1 hybrids (okra, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumbers and lima beans), so I'll at least plant all those. Probably some more corn too.

You?
1582.) bluecat - 03/26/2021
Definately.

I'll post up some pics of my grow bags in the veggies thread you created. Doing lots of potatoes in the bags and hopefully I'll have a lot of tomatotes this year. I need to check my little milk jugs to see if anything has sprouted in them. I've got spinach in there that hopefully is doing okay. We haven't had much sun lately and it's been chilly so things are a little behind. I'm ready for spring weather and maybe a gobbler. Can I say gobbler?
1583.) Swamp Fox - 03/27/2021
You can say gobbler, but we'll never let you live it down.


I'm only interested in potatoes at this point...
1584.) bluecat - 03/27/2021
So is that what your calling it now?
1585.) bluecat - 03/27/2021
You know they grow "potatoes" on huge tracts of land.
1586.) DParker - 03/28/2021
This spud's for you.

1587.) bluecat - 03/28/2021
+ 10 :beer:
1588.) Swamp Fox - 03/30/2021
There's something faintly wrong about all this, but I just can't put my finger on it ...


:-)
1589.) bluecat - 03/31/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;63481]This spud's for you.

[/QUOTE]

If you plant those in your garden I'm betting the cucumbers will attain maximum size.
1590.) Swamp Fox - 04/21/2021
Jim Crow On Steroids :re:

Setting aside that it is asinine that there is any such thing as a federal hearing with a congressman from Utah or anywhere but Georgia to "investigate" the minutia of Georgia voting regulations, this is pretty good:

[url]https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/04/20/burgess-owens-eviscerates-democrats-jim-crow-narrative-on-election-integrity-n1441302[/url]


[QUOTE]“I grew up in the era of actual, legalized institutional racism. I grew up in the Deep South in Tallahassee Florida in the 1960s during the days of the KKK, Jim Crow, and segregation,” Owens explained. He became the third black athlete to ever receive a scholarship to play football at the University of Miami. He went on to play in the NFL, found businesses, and serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.


“I sit today before you as someone who has lived the American Dream, as have millions of other Americans of all races from every background. This is due to our country’s mission statement that all men and women are created equal,” Owens said.

He gave examples from his own life to illustrate “what Jim Crow laws actually looked like” and explained why the Georgia law is absolutely nothing like Jim Crow.

“At the age of 12, my father allowed me to participate in a demonstration with college students in front of the segregated Florida state theater, where because of our color, we could not enter. I was the youngest participant there,” he recalled. “In the seventh grade, my school never received new books. Instead, we received books from the all-white school across town.”

“At service stations, there were white-men-only restrooms, white-women-only restrooms, and a filthy restroom in the back of the restroom for black Americans designated as ‘colored.’ In addition, Jim Crow laws like poll tax, property tests, literacy tests, and biased intimidation at the polls made it nearly impossible for black Americans to vote,” Owens said.
[B]
He then turned to the Georgia law, which President Joe Biden called “Jim Crow on steroids.”

“The section of the Georgia law that has brought so much outrage from the Left simply requires any person applying for an absentee ballot to include evidence of a government-issued ID on their application,” Owens explained. “If a voter does not have a driver’s license or ID card, that voter can use a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or any other government document that shows a name and address of this voter. If a voter somehow cannot produce one of these above forms of ID, that voter can still vote and cast a vote through a provisional ballot.”

“By the way, 97 percent of Georgia voters already have a government-issued ID,” he added.

Owens explained that Democrats do not do black people a favor by suggesting these laws target black voters.

“What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the Left that black people are not smart enough, not educated enough, not desirous enough of education to do what every other culture and race does in this country, get an ID,” Owens declared.

“True racism is this: It’s a projection of the Democratic Party on my proud race. It’s called the soft bigotry of low expectations,” he explained.

Owens excoriated Biden for calling the Georgia law “Jim Crow on steroids.”

“With all due respect, Mr. President, you know better,” he said. “It is disgusting and offensive to compare the actual voter suppression and violence of that era that we grew up in with a state law that only asks that people show their ID. This is the type of fear mongering I expect in the 1960s, not today.”

“And, by the way, literacy tests and poll tests were initiated by the Democratic Party. The intimidation of black Americans by the KKK was initiated by the Democratic Party. Jim Crow that I grew up in in the South of segregation was initiated by the Democratic Party,” Owens continued. “The soft bigotry of low expectations now projected on black Americans — not Italians, not Asians, not Polish, not Jewish, but only black Americans — is being done by the Democratic Party.”


He noted that “black misery thrives and is prevalent” in areas controlled by Democrats where black American suffer due to “lack of education, lack of jobs, high crimes, [and] the call for defunding the police.”

“We’re seeing 18 percent of black men turn away from the Democratic Party because they’re seeing that their vote can count and their future can matter,” Owens said. He noted that black women, Hispanics, Asians, and members of the gay community also moved away from Democrats in the 2020 election.

Owens said black Americans should be able to expect “fairness, security, [and] to walk away from the poll booth knowing that my vote counted. If we didn’t win, we work harder next time to make sure our message resonates.”

“But to call this Jim Crow 2021 is an insult, my friends. For those who never lived Jim Crow, we are not in Jim Crow,” he insisted.[/B]

Earlier this month, Georgia State Rep. Wes Cantrell pointed out that Georgia’s voting laws are far more relaxed than the laws in Biden’s home state of Delaware. Yet the narrative that Georgia’s law is “un-American” or “Jim Crow on steroids” has led CEOs to condemn the law and Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game out of the state, costing the state an estimated $100 million.


[/QUOTE]
[url]https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/04/20/burgess-owens-eviscerates-democrats-jim-crow-narrative-on-election-integrity-n1441302[/url][QUOTE][QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
1591.) Swamp Fox - 04/21/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63479]So is that what your calling it now?[/QUOTE]

Looking back, this might deserve an up-vote that I missed....


Let me no if I need to play a sea chanty to conpensate...
1592.) bluecat - 04/21/2021

Nah, you're good.


Went out Wednesday of last week and had a hen come through the decoys. No sign of any boys.
1593.) Swamp Fox - 04/21/2021
You're prolly doing it wrong ... :wink

We had a record turkey kill here last year with everyone having lots of free time on their hands:re: during the damnpanic (TM Luv2).

I can't remember if it was N or S C that had the high jake kill ...I'll see if I can look it up ... But that's always good news for gobbling ... :re:
1594.) Swamp Fox - 04/21/2021
Is that forsythia or pink dogwood in the background?


"People" (outdoor writers) say it is ON when the dogwoods bloom (for turkeys and crappie).

This could be right in Ohio or Canadia ... I don't know ...

In the Carolinas, it's "Welcome to the party, pal!"



1595.) bluecat - 04/21/2021
Redbuds

Forsythia is yellow and the dogwoods are white. Both are starting to bloom now as well.

Redbuds always bloom in mid April here. I associate them with turkeys.

Yesterday it snowed 4 inches and covered all the redbuds. The pink blossoms illuminated the snow and it looked like pink cotton candy. I didn't get a picture unfortunately. By 10.00am is was all melted.
1596.) Swamp Fox - 04/21/2021
Unclear why I didn't think of redbuds.... Lack of sleep is what I'll go with, though.

We have pink dogwoods here, in addition to the standard white ones which are the state flower of NC.

Also, Dogwood, SC is the fictional location of my upcoming novel ... Stay tuned :wink

(I checked a while back to see if there was a real Dogwood, and didn't come up with anything....But who nos now with all the building going on and all the fine people coming down on the bus ...)

Also, pink and purple forsythia. Purple forsythia were a favorite of the only grammaw I knew. I'm gonna call them purple, anyway. Not a Minnesota Vikings purple but a bluish purple. It creeps quite high and strong and eventually blocked a mostly unused entrance to my house growing up.

No one ever had the heart to cut it back ... LOL
1597.) Swamp Fox - 04/22/2021
Also, what's the story on that stone block in the middle of the creek?

Missourians?
1598.) bluecat - 04/22/2021
I didn't realize there were pink dogwoods and pink forsythia. I bet those are beautiful.

The stone in the creek came from the cliff. You can see the cliffs in the picture. The area is in the center of the flinthills. That stone is natural and just happened to be squarish.

It's a pretty neat area with no agriculture - nothing can penetrate that soil really. So when you see or shoot a deer there, you feel like you have really earned it.
1599.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63589]
The stone in the creek came from the cliff. You can see the cliffs in the picture. The area is in the center of the flinthills. That stone is natural and just happened to be squarish.
[/QUOTE]

I thought maybe it was from an old mill, or part of a long-gone bridge, from when hardy settlers had to cross the rain-swollen creek, climb the cliff and trudge the rough trail into town each time they ran out of avocados and oat milk.

Pretty disappointing that it just fell off the side of the mountain (small hill). :wink:-):grin:
1600.) bluecat - 04/23/2021
There's a lot of history around the site, but I don't know most of it. Your scenario is possible.
1601.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2021
If you dig into it, you'll prolly find that it was a favorite meeting place for young lovers, until two of them were found with their heads chopped off and their horses BBQ'd (in the non-pork sense) ... Some will say it was the ghost of an old Indian chief that done it ...


Or something like that .... :wink
1602.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2021
The ghosts of old Indian chiefs get blamed for a lot of stuff, at least around here ....
1603.) bluecat - 04/23/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;63595]The ghosts of old Indian chiefs get blamed for a lot of stuff, at least around here ....[/QUOTE]

Well, duh!
1604.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2021
The question is whether bluecat will ever be able to return to this spot without giggling ... or some anxiety ...
1605.) bluecat - 04/23/2021
Funny you should say that because about 20 yards from that spot I found a bunch of hair. It was long with some curls. I immediately thought I was at a crime scene and looked around for bones. I marked the spot and intended to drop the sample by the police station when back in town. While sitting in the blind, I got out the hair and started my examination. The hair was a little too coarse for human hair. I think it was the hair off the tail of a black Angus.

But yeah, I'm betting on the Indian Chief for sure. They had a lot of time on their hands and access to the peyote when everyone else was hunting and making stuff.
1606.) bluecat - 04/23/2021
And I frequently giggle for no reason.
1607.) bluecat - 04/23/2021
One time I burst out laughing but that was remembering your post on the horse thread. So I have that going for me, which is nice.
1608.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2021
Those were the days ....
1609.) DParker - 04/23/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;63625]Those were the days ....[/QUOTE]

...my friend.

[video=youtube;aUsIYDcDo28]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUsIYDcDo28[/video]
1610.) bluecat - 04/24/2021
Lyric quoter
1611.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2021
LOL ....



I'm going through a nostalgic period ...
1612.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;63626]...my friend.

[video=youtube;aUsIYDcDo28]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUsIYDcDo28[/video][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;63629]Lyric quoter[/QUOTE]

LOL ....



I'm going through a nostalgic period right now :wink...
1613.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63623]One time I burst out laughing but that was remembering your post on the horse thread. So I have that going for me, which is nice.[/QUOTE]

I'm glad I could contribute to your eternal well-being ....
1614.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2021
1615.) DParker - 04/24/2021
[video=youtube;0d8FTPv955I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d8FTPv955I[/video]
1616.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2021
Just thought I'd check in ....


1617.) bluecat - 05/12/2021
Here's to the next 100 days, cheers.
1618.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63769]Here's to the next 100 days, cheers.[/QUOTE]


LOL ...


It's fine ... Nothing to see here.


1619.) DParker - 05/13/2021
Well played, Oklahoma. Well played.

1620.) Swamp Fox - 05/16/2021
LOL ....


I can't express how many ROTFLMAOs...



:beer:
1621.) DParker - 05/16/2021
Thank goodness the well-educated adults are back in charge. Biden's economic advisor attempts to blame the bad employment report on, among other things, Easter happening in March this year.

[URL="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1393257316401782789?s=20"]https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1393257316401782789?s=20[/URL]
1622.) Swamp Fox - 05/16/2021
I thought her boss was the only one capable of hiding his own Easter eggs .... :re: :bang:

[QUOTE]
"Really, Grampa Joe? Easter was on April 4th ... :duh:"[/QUOTE]


1623.) bluecat - 05/25/2021
Incentives are being put in place to take the vaccine?

:bang:
1624.) Swamp Fox - 05/26/2021
If I'm gonna feel like shit for two or three days after the shot (or at least run the risk), yeah, you need to enter me in the lottery or something.

... 'cause so far I've been doing pretty good on my own ...

[QUOTE]

I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm [B]luvvin'[/B] it![/QUOTE]
1625.) bluecat - 05/26/2021
I took both shots and never missed a beat - no pain, no soreness, nothing. I just think that the incentive of not getting a potentially deadly virus would be enough to motivate, even with side effects.
1626.) DParker - 05/27/2021
We got the Pfizer series. A little arm soreness for a day, but that was it. I wasn't crazy about being one of many canaries in the coal mine, and if we were significantly younger we might not have gotten it. But at 60 years old the math made it the lesser of the two risks.

No mutant superpowers yet though, which is disappointing.
1627.) DParker - 05/27/2021
Gary Larson was a prophet.

1628.) Swamp Fox - 05/27/2021
LOL @ Gary Larson ...

I'd say a good seven out of ten people I know well who've gotten vaxxed have had issues serious enough to lose time from work. That's a no-go for me.

Most are women. I'm woke enough not to discount that out of hand.

Obviously you don't hear stories from people who don't have stories, so I take my findings for what they are.

I've probably had the damn stuff and didn't know it. The Magic 8 Ball says All Signs Point To Vaccination... But my lizard brain says [I]mañana ...
[/I]
1629.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2021


1630.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2021
......
1631.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2021
^^^^

Breaking News:


Just because you can't spell doesn't mean you can't post videos on Youtube ... LOL
1632.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
Really?


No points for the Muppets video?


:tap:
1633.) bluecat - 06/07/2021
Maybe mañana.
1634.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
LOL ... +12....


:grin:
1635.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
950 souls on line right now ...

Wait 'til I post my thoughts on the media's coverage of the D-day anniversary ...
1636.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
962 while I posted ...

Good to know people are reading ...
1637.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
980 ...


I'd like to think it's guys searching for historical information ...
1638.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
1003 ...


While NPR was airing (worthwhile) stories about poetry, geography and entrepreneurship, they ignored the anniversary and sacrifice of the American effort to liberate Europe from REAL Nazis:




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1639.) bluecat - 06/07/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;63912]950 souls on line right now ...

Wait 'til I post my thoughts on the media's coverage of the D-day anniversary ...[/QUOTE]

I'm sure it was just an oversight.


Joe has been asked a lot of tough questions lately about ice cream so give the guy a break will ya?
1640.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63916]I'm sure it was just an oversight.


Joe has been asked a lot of tough questions lately about ice cream so give the guy a break will ya?[/QUOTE]




Soft ice cream?

Yogurt, really?

I haven't really been right on top of what's going on with him ..... He's kind of a more impotent version of ED Jimmy Carter ...
1641.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2021
Tell me Joe is anti-yogurt ... Please ...
1642.) bluecat - 06/07/2021
Is yogurt an American invention?
1643.) Swamp Fox - 06/08/2021
I was thinking it might have been a Viking thing ... :wink

I can believe *frozen* yogurt is American.

I admit to not paying attention to this, but a willingness to learn the history ,,,
1644.) bluecat - 06/08/2021
Well then Joe would for yogurt but against any sort of home-made creation. For example, he would be against cheese curds or "squeekies" for you Packer fans.
1645.) Swamp Fox - 06/10/2021
Keeping 902 souls interested about something ... 12:09 AM Eastern .....


Hopin' y'all don't have porn on the split screen ...
1646.) Swamp Fox - 06/10/2021
Maybe it was all just a big misunderstanding ...


[url]https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/england-fans-tiocfaidh-ar-la-12882985[/url]
1647.) Swamp Fox - 06/10/2021
.....
1648.) Swamp Fox - 06/10/2021
This is for bluecat ... LOL ...


:poke::poke::poke:


1649.) Swamp Fox - 06/10/2021
I can't believe that at 4:15 on a Thursday morning, none of you bastards wants to play Irish rebel songs, or even sea chanteys ...


I say again: BASTARDS! :wink


1650.) Swamp Fox - 06/10/2021
....
1651.) Swamp Fox - 06/10/2021
This has GOT to be better than current current events ...

And if you don't think so, I'll fight you for it ....
1652.) DParker - 06/10/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;63920]I was thinking it might have been a Viking thing ... :wink[/QUOTE]

Speaking of which, this Danish PSA is pretty good.

[video=youtube;0m-c4GixUpg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m-c4GixUpg[/video]
1653.) Swamp Fox - 06/11/2021
LOL!

+11

Very interested in how your life caused you to find that ... :-)


I did notice that while his wife gave him permission to loot and pillage, rape was right out, presumably ...


[I]Different times, different times ... [/I]
1654.) DParker - 06/11/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;63930]LOL!

+11

Very interested in how your life caused you to find that ... :-)[/QUOTE]

A) I was doing research on bicycling through Denmark.
B) It was forwarded to me by a former co-worker with whom I stay in contact.

I'll let the reader decide which is the more likely explanation.


[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;63930]I did notice that while his wife gave him permission to loot and pillage, rape was right out, presumably ...


[I]Different times, different times ... [/I][/QUOTE]

To us married guys, it's always comforting to think that even powerful Viking chieftains had to take crap from their wives. In fact that's what made the "Kicking Bird" character from [I]Dances With Wolves[/I] so relatable. He was a man of great stature within his tribe, which was an inherently patriarchal warrior culture...and he still got nagged.

1655.) Swamp Fox - 06/13/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;63931]A) I was doing research on bicycling through Denmark.
B) It was forwarded to me by a former co-worker with whom I stay in contact.

I'll let the reader decide which is the more likely explanation.


[COLOR="#800080"]That's too bad. I think you would have liked Denmark, even with bike butt ... [COLOR="#FFD700"]Skol[/COLOR] to your friend, though ... Go Vikes! .... LOL [/COLOR]




To us married guys, it's always comforting to think that even powerful Viking chieftains had to take crap from their wives. In fact that's what made the "Kicking Bird" character from [I]Dances With Wolves[/I] so relatable. He was a man of great stature within his tribe, which was an inherently patriarchal warrior culture...and he still got nagged.





[COLOR="#ff33cc"]We all know why no one opens his mouth about the matriarchy ... [/COLOR]


[/QUOTE] .....
1656.) Swamp Fox - 06/13/2021
I did notice that Jeff "Tubin" Toobin is back on CNN, though ....


I'm sure he'd rather have people call him "Jeffrey" ...


And especially not "Mr. Toobin'" ...
1657.) bluecat - 06/14/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;63931]A) I was doing research on bicycling through Denmark.
B) It was forwarded to me by a former co-worker with whom I stay in contact.

I'll let the reader decide which is the more likely explanation.




To us married guys, it's always comforting to think that even powerful Viking chieftains had to take crap from their wives. In fact that's what made the "Kicking Bird" character from [I]Dances With Wolves[/I] so relatable. He was a man of great stature within his tribe, which was an inherently patriarchal warrior culture...and he still got nagged.

[/QUOTE]

My wife, "shops with a fist", agrees. lol
1658.) bluecat - 06/14/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;63933]I did notice that Jeff "Tubin" Toobin is back on CNN, though ....


I'm sure he'd rather have people call him "Jeffrey" ...


And especially not "Mr. Toobin'" ...[/QUOTE]

Hell, I bet he got a promotion. Notice I didn't say raise. He's perfectly capable of that on his own.
1659.) bluecat - 06/14/2021
Biden, "Mr Putin, you have three last chances."
1660.) DParker - 06/14/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;63941]My wife, "shops with a fist", agrees. lol[/QUOTE]

I'm going to award this one the rarely seen double two-snaps-up.

1661.) Swamp Fox - 06/15/2021
lol


I'LL GO ALONG WITH THAT, IF ONLY BECAUSE THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISAGREEMENT COULD BE SEVERE ...
1662.) Swamp Fox - 06/16/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;63931]A) I was doing research on bicycling through Denmark.
B) It was forwarded to me by a former co-worker with whom I stay in contact.

I'll let the reader decide which is the more likely explanation.




To us married guys, it's always comforting to think that even powerful Viking chieftains had to take crap from their wives. In fact that's what made the "Kicking Bird" character from [I]Dances With Wolves[/I] so relatable. He was a man of great stature within his tribe, which was an inherently patriarchal warrior culture...and he still got nagged.

[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;63941]My wife, "shops with a fist", agrees. lol[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;63944]I'm going to award this one the rarely seen double two-snaps-up.

[/QUOTE]


Y'all better watch yer backs ...







[url]https://allpoetry.com/Get-Up-and-Bar-the-Door[/url]
1663.) bluecat - 06/17/2021
Looks like Hunter has found a new use for a straw.
1664.) bluecat - 06/17/2021
1665.) DParker - 06/17/2021
So Jackson Pollock was reincarnated after all.
1666.) bluecat - 06/17/2021
Hunter needs to moisturize.
1667.) Swamp Fox - 06/18/2021
Should I know Hunter The Elephant?

Remember, you're talking to someone who never bothered to see [I]Star Wars[/I].....
1668.) Swamp Fox - 06/18/2021
Let's not tie this into the NRA's Wayne LaPierre's elephant hunt ...

(You're welcome, Alex .... )
1669.) bluecat - 06/18/2021
Unless the elephant in the room snorts coke, gets kicked out of the navy, marries his brothers widow, works for Russian and Chinese companies and gets paid a large salary for doing nothing but providing access to his father, commits a felony by lying on a gun purchase and then throwing the gun in dumpster near a school, knocks up a stripper and then blows paint through a straw, then no, this is a different elephant.
1670.) Swamp Fox - 06/18/2021
LOL ...

Now I'm on board ...


Imagine Shotgun Joe naming his son "Hunter" ... Not that there's anything wrong with that ...



(I feel like straws are being oppressed here, though ...)
1671.) Swamp Fox - 06/23/2021
Only three-and-a-half years to go with this nonsense ... max ...


[url]https://twitter.com/i/status/1407811027379621890[/url]
1672.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2021
LOL:

[url]https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/23/kurt-schlichter-gives-journalists-some-questions-to-ask-the-president-after-his-comments-about-needing-f-15s-and-nukes-to-fight-the-government/[/url]
1673.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2021
Let me know if those last two posts don't appear as something other than mere links ... That's all they are on my end.
1674.) bluecat - 06/24/2021
Those are funny.
1675.) DParker - 06/24/2021
He's right though. I really do need an F-15.
1676.) bluecat - 06/24/2021
F-15, F-16, whatever it takes.


Do deer really wear kevlar vests? I may need an extra quiver.
1677.) DParker - 06/24/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64051]F-15, F-16, whatever it takes.[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna' give that a +31.
1678.) Swamp Fox - 06/25/2021
LOL ...


:tu:
1679.) Swamp Fox - 06/25/2021
My guess is that Joe has been sheltered from the cannon information arriving at the White House by the minute, but I'm looking forward to Kamala picking up the flag when it's time, and teachin' us 'bout History and such ...


(BTW, this is not the first time he's made this claim about cannons. There are two possibilities: Either he's not in the loop--see above--or he doesn't learn very well. Or, I suppose, he's just a rank propagandist.)

Okay, there are THREE possibilities ...


(I'll come in again ... )
1680.) bluecat - 06/25/2021
+ 3



We used to dream of having cannons.


btw, it's not the cannon that kills people, it's the cannon balls.
1681.) Swamp Fox - 06/25/2021
If you outlaw balls, only outlaws will have balls ...

:wink:hb:
1682.) Swamp Fox - 06/25/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64067]+ 3

[/QUOTE]

You miserly Scots git! Given the explosiveness factor and the long range of the reference, I appeal to the judges ...
1683.) Swamp Fox - 06/25/2021
[SIZE=3][QUOTE][B][SIZE=2]A Short History of Joe Biden’s Insanity on Guns[/SIZE][/B][/SIZE]

---David Harsanyi

[B]‘'Why do you need a gun when the government can just murder you at will?” is almost a perfect Bidenism. [/B] [Emphasis mine. --SF] It’s no exaggeration to say this is the argument Joe Biden made at a crime-prevention press conference this week:

"From the day [The Second Amendment] passed, it limited the type of people that could own a gun and what type of gun you could own. You couldn’t own a cannon … Those who say the blood of Patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have to move against the government. . . . If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons."

First, we should acknowledge that it’s bonkers for a president, even as a theoretical, to bring up the idea of scrambling fighter jets and deploying nuclear weapons against other Americans. Yet, only last year, Biden offered a slightly more coherent iteration of the same argument:

"Those who say ‘the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots’ — a great line, well, guess what: The fact is, if you’re going to take on the government you need an F-15 with Hellfire Missiles. There is no way an AK-47 is going to take care of you."

The Jacobin-ish quote Biden is looking for comes from a Thomas Jefferson letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, in which he wrote: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” (Biden likes to leave out the last two words.) But who says this? I’m pretty involved in this debate, and I’ve never heard any gun proponent rationalize support for the protection of the Second Amendment by offering assurances of sporadic revolutionary bloodletting.

[B]Biden’s ideological argument conflicts with the rationale for all constitutional rights. After all, the president could just as easily have said: “The First Amendment? Let’s see how your television station holds up to a tactical nuclear strike” or “Really, what chance does due process have against a cluster bomb?” The citizenry isn’t conferred rights by the state or by force. When men in Massachusetts grabbed homemade muskets and powder and revolted against what was one of the most powerful military forces in the world, they weren’t ensured a victory. Arms are a bulwark against tyranny, not a guarantee.
[/B]

[Emphasis mine. --SF]


In the real world, of course, modern armies often struggle with insurgencies that are equipped with little more than small arms. There have been countless such deadly struggles around the world, including ones against Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s ironic, indeed, that Biden points to the Kalashnikov, which happens to be the favorite weapon of the world’s most successful terrorists, revolutionaries, and guerrilla fighters over the past 70 years. And if the U.S. government wouldn’t drop a nuclear weapon on al-Qaeda, why would it obliterate Kansas or Montana?

Americans, by the way, could absolutely own cannons during the Revolutionary Era — and long after. The very idea of any federal gun policy would have been incomprehensible to Americans at any time before the 1930s. Even then, no specific types of firearms were banned from use. It wasn’t really until 1986 when fully automatic guns were effectively restricted. Then again, Biden — who once asked, “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9-mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?” — seems to believe that any firearm outside of a shotgun is a military-grade weapon.

“You give me a 9 millimeter Glock,” Biden once told Charlie Rose, “and you have a thirty-eight revolver, I’ll kill more people quickly in here. You’d shoot as many, but I’ll kill more.” Not long ago, Biden also suggested that cops who are rushed by an “unarmed person” with “a knife or something” should be trained to “shoot them in the leg instead of the heart.” Biden seems to believe everyone has his imaginary Annie Oakley–like abilities.

Anyway, Joe Biden doesn’t trust you with a Glock, but he really wants you to own a shotgun. Here is the then–vice president in 2013:

"Well, the way in which we measure it is — I think most scholars would say — is that as long as you have a weapon sufficient to be able to provide your self-defense. I did one of these town-hall meetings on the Internet and one guy said, “Well, what happens when the end days come? What happens when there’s the earthquake? I live in California, and I have to protect myself. Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.”

First, please do not fire your shotgun through the door. It could be a neighbor or a Girl Scout selling Peanut Butter Patties. Life isn’t a movie. Second, any “scholar” who maintains that the Second Amendment only allows for weapons “sufficient” for personal self-defense is making things up. Though it’s somewhat of a mystery why, if shotguns are as deadly and effective as Biden claims, Democrats are intent on banning AR-15s.

In 2013, the vice president also told Parents magazine about the time he advised his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, to engage in a felony — aggravated menacing and reckless endangerment:

“I said, ‘Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, walk out and put that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house.’ . . . You don’t need an AR-15 — it’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!”

This, needless to say, is also exceptionally bad advice. Just ask Jeffery Barton, a Vancouver, Wash., man who was charged with aggravated assault after illegally discharging a firearm that same year. “I did what Joe Biden told me to do,” Barton explained, after pleading not guilty. “I went outside and fired my shotgun in the air.”

[B]In both practice and theory, Biden’s gun rhetoric is dangerous nonsense.[/B]
[Emphasis mine. -- SF]


[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/a-short-history-of-joe-bidens-insanity-on-guns/[/url]

[/QUOTE]





Reprinted in full, so sue me.
1684.) Swamp Fox - 06/25/2021
I could have bolded a lot more of Uncle Joe's nonsense, but it got to be too much .... C'mon, man!
1685.) bluecat - 06/26/2021
It's a full time job. You've done well my son. Get some rest.
1686.) Swamp Fox - 06/26/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64074]It's a full time job. You've done well my son. Get some rest.[/QUOTE]


LOL ...



No rest for the weary ... or the wicked.... Whichever version you prefer ...
1687.) DParker - 06/28/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;64071]I could have bolded a lot more of Uncle Joe's nonsense, but it got to be too much .... C'mon, man![/QUOTE]

When you're a Dem and even WaPo is calling you on your gun-control B.S....

[URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/28/bidens-false-claim-that-2nd-amendment-bans-cannon-ownership/"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/28/bidens-false-claim-that-2nd-amendment-bans-cannon-ownership/[/URL]
1688.) bluecat - 06/28/2021
I saw a clip of Joe walking across the White House grounds. Horrifying. Looked like a zombie.
1689.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2021
LOL ...


Every once in a while there is hope for WaPo, even for their fact checker.

The NYT, though, seems irredeemable.


Four Pinnochios?


I would have dialed it up to 11 ....


1690.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2021
[QUOTE]Biden’s false claim that the 2nd Amendment bans cannon ownership

By
Glenn Kessler
The Fact Checker
June 28, 2021 at 3:00 a.m. EDT



“And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon.”

— President Biden, remarks on gun violence, June 23

The president offered this aside as he made a litany of his regular points about the need for background checks and what he says was the effectiveness of bans on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines that expired.

Parenthetical asides from a prepared text often trip up presidents, especially Biden. In this case, he repeated a claim — that Americans were prohibited from owning cannons — that [B]has already been fact-checked as false[/B] when he made it during the presidential campaign.

The Facts
The cannon element is what mostly interests us here, but we should also address Biden’s framing about the Second Amendment, which was part of the Bill of Rights adopted in 1791.



The meaning of the Second Amendment — “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — has long been debated. But experts said Biden especially mischaracterized it.

“Everything in that statement is wrong,” said David Kopel, the research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute. After 1791, “there were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own.” Not until the early 1800s were there any efforts to pass restrictions on carrying concealed weapons, he said.

“I think what he’s saying here is that the Second Amendment was never understood to guarantee everyone the right to own all types of weapons, which I believe is true,” said Kermit Roosevelt, a constitutional law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “As phrased, it sounds like the Second Amendment itself limited ownership, which is not true.”

[...]

Interestingly, during the campaign, Biden had asserted that the cannon restrictions happened during the Revolutionary War. “From the very beginning you weren’t allowed to have certain weapons,” Biden told Wired magazine in May 2020. “You weren’t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.”

[B]Historians at the time told PolitiFact there was no evidence this was the case. The Biden campaign could not point to any laws but seemed to suggest Biden’s point was more metaphorical than grounded in reality.[/B]

[B][SIZE=2][COLOR="#008000"][LOL....This is a complete shit-show understanding of metaphors. Metaphors are grounded in reality. Reality A is like Reality B, but not literally.

Nothing that Shotgun Joe is saying is reality.

What the White House spokesman and the author are trying to say (or should be saying out loud) is that Joe is spouting complete bullshit, but trying to sound clever, intelligent and historical while he does it. --- Ed.-- Swamp Fox][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]


[B]Now Biden has moved the cannon metaphor to some 20 years after the Revolutionary War — and it’s still wrong.
[/B]

In fact, you do not have to look far in the Constitution to see that private individuals could own cannons. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 gives Congress the power to declare war. But there is another element of that clause that might seem strange to modern ears — Congress also had the power to “grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.”

What’s that? These were special waivers that allowed private individuals to act as pirates on behalf of the United States against countries engaged in war with it. The “letter of marque” allowed a warship to cross into another country’s territory to take a ship, while a “letter of reprisal” gave authorization to bring the ship back to the home port of the capturer.

Individuals who were given these waivers and owned warships obviously also obtained cannons for use in battle.

The White House did not provide an explanation of Biden’s comment.

The Pinocchio Test
Some readers might think this is a relatively inconsequential flub. But we disagree. [B]Every U.S. president has a responsibility to get American history correct, especially when he’s using a supposed history lesson in service of a political objective. The president’s push for more gun restrictions is an important part of his political platform, so he undercuts his cause when he cites faux facts.

[COLOR="#FF0000"]Moreover, Biden has already been fact-checked on this claim — and it’s been deemed false. We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on cannon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim.[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Four Pinocchios[/B]

[/QUOTE] ....
1691.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2021
It's possible that I did not do a perfect job noting breaks in the text between my quote and the original.



I just got tired of working around the Journalist-Democrat story-telling complex.


Please see DParker's link for the whole pile.
1692.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2021
I feel like I might have to play some sea chanties and pirate songs tonight, but I'm running low on data ...
1693.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2021
I'm editing as I'm going along, tryin' to keep a lid on it ....
1694.) bluecat - 06/28/2021
All I know is you have to have really big balls to shoot a cannon.
1695.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2021
You need to register your balls ... Wait for it ...
1696.) Swamp Fox - 06/28/2021
.....
1697.) Swamp Fox - 06/29/2021
I guess if I were on the Amtrak all the time, I wouldn't no what's going on in the rest of the country, either ....

:re:
1698.) bluecat - 06/29/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;64095] .....[/QUOTE]

It was authentic that they had one of the surviving members from the civil war there to help light the cannon. No hearing protection needed for him.
1699.) Swamp Fox - 06/30/2021
There wasn't anything civil about it .... :wink

He's so well-preserved because he's from the land of ice and snow,
From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow ....

The hammer of the gods, etc,, etc., .....

[Go, Vikes! :wink]

The cold temps and having nothing better to do than watch the wheat grow are keeping him upright and breathing ...

Down here we are a bunch of hot-blooded fightin' rascals, dodgin' bullets and eating a lot of lard and things that had faces ...

So that should explain a lot to some people ...



:wink


:wave:
1700.) bluecat - 06/30/2021
Has Kamala found the root source of the problem at the border yet? Has she figured out why they are coming? Apparently that needs to be solved first before the fire can be put out.

Psaki said it was because of the violent weather. Has that subsided?

So many questions.
1701.) DParker - 06/30/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64109]Has Kamala found the root source of the problem at the border yet?[/QUOTE]

Mean tweets.
1702.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021
LOL ....
1703.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021
Tell this kid he can't have a cannon...




[I]The Queen Anne's Revenge[/I]

1704.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021



So, the morals of the story are:

Do not return to piracy [boo-hiss, thumbs down]

and

Never trust the government ... :duh: :tap:

I'll let y'all sort it out:

Coded song about Blackbeard?




Or this... :wink:wink:wink


1705.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021
It would prolly be better if the English looked past the Middle Ages ... in many ways ...
1706.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021
[B][B]I certainly hope history posts[B] arrrgh [/B]part of Current Events, or otherwise we're all phucked ....[/B][/B]
1707.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021
Do I need to replay how you twist tobacco for a journey on a ship?

God bless the phuckin' English for knowin' how to set a sail....:re:
1708.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021
LOl ... I can't find it on YouTube at the moment. It's a few ancient Britishers rolling and wrapping a store of tobacco for an historical but fictional voyage .... I've posted it previously....

It's worth searching further for ...

If you're interested in tobacco, or long-gone British sailors .... :wave:





1709.) Swamp Fox - 07/02/2021
What do you mean this isn't Current Events?






Don't make me play rebel songs ...
1710.) bluecat - 07/02/2021
[in unison] "We're all individuals"
1711.) bluecat - 07/02/2021
Has Cackala been to Europe yet? I really want to know.
1712.) DParker - 07/02/2021
Everyone: "Trump sure tweeted some dumb stuff."

Biden Admin: "Hold our beer..."

[URL="https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1410709115333234691"]https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1410709115333234691[/URL]
1713.) bluecat - 07/02/2021
The economy is in a pickle.
1714.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64129][in unison] "We're all individuals"[/QUOTE]

You're a lOOney ...
1715.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;64131]Everyone: "Trump sure tweeted some dumb stuff."

Biden Admin: "Hold our beer..."

[URL="https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1410709115333234691"]https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1410709115333234691[/URL][/QUOTE]

Is this the one that is is actual malarkey, but claims that it isn't?

My malarkey setting has apparently made it nearly impossible to view Twitter on my unsupported brassiere ... um, browser... Yeah, that's what I meant ... Browser ...
1716.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2021
639 viewers like malarkey ...

Wait til I show them my autobiography ...
1717.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2021
Oops ... Shouldn't have mentioned my autobiography, I guess ... Down to 620 ...

19 viewers wouldn't know a good time if it was free ... :wink
1718.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2021
Let me try something:

Trump economy pickle

Trump economy pickle


Trump economy pickle ....
1719.) Swamp Fox - 07/04/2021
Nope .... down to 577 ... The pickle has lost its snap, so to speak ...
1720.) Swamp Fox - 07/12/2021
I've often thought I would like the power to duct-tape my audience to their seats, like American Airlines does ...



[url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/a-duct-taped-flier-hands-on-heads-order-e2-80-98offensive-e2-80-99-clothing-american-airlines-had-a-bad-week/ar-AAM1TSO?ocid=uxbndlbing[/url]



1721.) Swamp Fox - 07/12/2021
But to be honest, the Dallas-to-Charlotte trek is a journey between two hell-holes, so I don't really blame her for wanting to bail mid-flight ...
1722.) Swamp Fox - 07/12/2021
And this article is worthless without pics:

[QUOTE][B]American Airlines bars woman bodybuilder from DFW-to-Miami flight for ‘offensive’ clothing[/B]


[url]https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2021/07/09/american-airlines-bars-woman-bodybuilder-from-dfw-to-miami-flight-for-offensive-clothing/[/url][/QUOTE]


(if we ever used to have an emoticon for that, we need it back .... "Hey, Alex! Wake up!" ..... LOL)
1723.) DParker - 07/12/2021
I've been on more than one flight with passengers who desperately needed that treatment.
1724.) Swamp Fox - 07/12/2021
LOL ...

Babies are the worst ...
1725.) bluecat - 07/12/2021
Duct taping babies? Oh man, this should be good.
1726.) bluecat - 07/12/2021
86 viewers, maybe not.
1727.) DParker - 07/12/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64186]Duct taping babies? Oh man, this should be good.[/QUOTE]

I'm more of a cat-juggling guy myself. Roll the ugliness...

[video=youtube;fEs6O2NGdrs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEs6O2NGdrs[/video]
1728.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64186]Duct taping babies? Oh man, this should be good.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;64187]86 viewers, maybe not.[/QUOTE]


Let's try this:

[B][I]Trump Suggests Duct-Taping Babies On Planes And At The Border[/I][/B]

[B][I]Media and Journalists Hostile To Duct-Taping Babies ... Republican Adults OK[/I][/B]

[B][I]Trump Calls Reports He Supports Duct-Taping Babies "Fake News"[/I][/B]

[B][I]Lawyer May Have Recording Of Trump Encouraging Duct-Taping Babies in 70s

[/I][/B]
1729.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
105 as I post that ...
1730.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
109 next minute ...
1731.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
111 .... Minute two ...

We're trending ...
1732.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
116 ...

This is how you go viral, boys and girls ....
1733.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
116 ...

This is how you go viral, boys and girls ....
1734.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
Hit a high of 119 there, dropped back to 115 ...

This is how you boost readership (or at least eyeballs) 10-20% if you know the magic words ...


It's a sick, sick world we're living in ...
1735.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
Based on this market research, if I were in the adhesives industry my next new product would be called Trump Baby Duct Tape...


I don't know if it's a better name than Tar Baby Duct Tape, but prolly less headache for the company ...
1736.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
88 .... 1:30 AM Tuesday.
1737.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
97 at 2:30 ...


Yeah, I'm up late/early ...


Catfish ... :re: ... They're the worst ...
1738.) bluecat - 07/13/2021
Can we try juggling babies?

CNN: Adam Schiff explosive bombshell: Trump baby juggling ring exposed. Mostly peaceful protests scheduled. Jugglers, circus clowns, street performers subsequently cancelled.


105 viewers at time of posting.
1739.) bluecat - 07/13/2021
1021 guests...Yeah baby, what do I win?
1740.) DParker - 07/13/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64199]Can we try juggling babies?[/QUOTE]

No, but apparently we can throw pre-sliced individually-wrapped American singles at them.

[video=youtube;0ZNOiP6Tbp4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZNOiP6Tbp4[/video]

Remember, it's only child abuse if it doesn't work.
1741.) bluecat - 07/13/2021
lol, +5 or so
1742.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;64201]

Remember, it's only child abuse if it doesn't work.[/QUOTE]

Lol....
1743.) Swamp Fox - 07/13/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64200]1021 guests...Yeah baby, what do I win?[/QUOTE]

lol ..... 1018 of those are Adam Schiff trying to boost his profile with sock puppets ...
1744.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
We're prolly 10-15 years away from everybody's heads exploding ....

I prolly won't be around to supervise ...

Thank Gawd!
1745.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
.....
1746.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
Texas Dems in the State Legislature seem to approve of filibuster-like approach to legislating ...

Hmmm...



What else shall we talk about? ...
1747.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
Chuck Schumer discovers States' Rights and an additional opportunity for taxation ....



:pop:
1748.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
I wonder what Adam Schiff is smoking?


[OK, yeah ... Shameless SEO plug, but this Schiff seems to work :wink ...]
1749.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
109 ... Go!
1750.) DParker - 07/14/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;64209]Chuck Schumer discovers State's Rights[/QUOTE]

Or at least is pretending to have done so.

[URL="https://reason.com/2021/07/14/chuck-schumer-says-he-wants-to-legalize-marijuana-his-bill-suggests-otherwise/"]https://reason.com/2021/07/14/chuck-schumer-says-he-wants-to-legalize-marijuana-his-bill-suggests-otherwise/[/URL]
1751.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
That's what I'm on about!

:wink :beer:


[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2021/07/14/senator-schumers-bill-to-end-federal-cannabis-prohibition-would-regulate-pot-like-alcohol-and-tobacco/?sh=46c7f27d18e9[/url]
1752.) Swamp Fox - 07/14/2021
I sometimes wonder how Chuck Schumer finds his way out of the house in the morning ...
1753.) Swamp Fox - 07/15/2021
fer you slow learners, read DP's link above ...


Howdy Ho! ...



:dig:
1754.) bluecat - 07/15/2021
I heard this on the Chris Plante show and thought I'd pass it along.

If you can't vote at 3:00 in the morning on a Sunday in your car with a mail-in ballot that's not yours with no id and in a precinct that is not yours - it is racist.
1755.) DParker - 07/16/2021
Your feel-good story of the day.

[URL="https://www.ktvu.com/news/detroit-woman-tracks-down-stolen-mercedes-suspect-dragged-from-barbershop-by-dreds"]KTVU: Detroit woman tracks down stolen Mercedes, suspect dragged from barbershop by dreds[/URL]

I like her style. Urban warrior woman who takes no crap. I'm dubbing her "Detroit Lagertha".
1756.) bluecat - 07/16/2021
It warmed the cockles of my heart. Can I say "cockles"?
1757.) DParker - 07/16/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64218]It warmed the cockles of my heart. Can I say "cockles"?[/QUOTE]

Only if it doesn't involve any gender-assuming.
1758.) Swamp Fox - 07/17/2021
He prolly thought no one would look for him in a barbershop, with dreds...


That might not be how this works, tho... I admit I don't know how any of this works ... :p:wink
1759.) Swamp Fox - 07/17/2021
It was a bold move, in any case:

First the Mercedes, and then the barbershop ...



1760.) Swamp Fox - 07/17/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;64219]Only if it doesn't involve any gender-assuming.[/QUOTE]


[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]"No one under the age of 9 expects women to have no heart!"[/B][/I][/FONT]


1761.) Swamp Fox - 07/17/2021
1762.) Swamp Fox - 07/17/2021
We'd better switch off to the music thread before we go off the rails here ... LOL
1763.) DParker - 08/17/2021
Here are some clips of Pres. Potato and his Sec. State demonstrating how to be the two most confidently wrong human beings in the history of confident wrongness.

[URL="https://www.thewrap.com/president-biden-mocked-for-highly-unlikely-prediction-that-taliban-would-overrun-afghanistan/"]https://www.thewrap.com/president-biden-mocked-for-highly-unlikely-prediction-that-taliban-would-overrun-afghanistan/[/URL]
1764.) bluecat - 08/17/2021
Is this the cone of incompetance Swampy talked about?

Now they have all of our equipment too, HumVees, drones etc.

I like how he talks about getting Osama Bin Laden and yet he voted against getting him.
1765.) Swamp Fox - 08/17/2021
The last two clowns set a flaming bag of shit on Biden's doorstep, and his solution was to fire off a pump shotgun into the air from the balcony...

Epic fail of American foreign policy, but after Vietnam I don't know why anyone trusts Americans to stand by their allies anymore, anyway ...

"Best hope for liberty" was long ago replaced by "Bug Out" ...
1766.) DParker - 08/18/2021
I was 14 at the time, but I still vividly recall watching the coverage of U.S. forces evacuating Saigon. This was like.deja vu, but with turbans. The scenes of people so desperate to escape that they're running along with a C-17, grabbing the landing gear and then falling hundreds of feet to their deaths when it gets airborne were tough to watch.
1767.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2021
If we hadn't mined the harbors, fought the enemy across borders with zeal, and bombed Hanoi back to the stone age, you could have been a tank commander at 18 ...
1768.) DParker - 08/18/2021
Yet another missed opportunity. Oh well...I was too filled with negative waves back then for that job anyway.
1769.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2021
LMAO .... :applause::applause::applause:

Like, at least a 12, man ...


1770.) Swamp Fox - 08/22/2021
Thanks, Uncle Joe ...


1771.) Swamp Fox - 08/22/2021
"> .....
1772.) Swamp Fox - 08/27/2021
You think Biden phucked up the Afghanistan withdrawal?

Democrats offer alternate scenario:

[B][FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=2]Man dies after having sex using epoxy adhesive instead of a condom[/SIZE][/FONT][/B]

[url]https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/man-dies-after-having-sex-using-epoxy-adhesive-instead-of-condom/[/url]
1773.) Swamp Fox - 08/27/2021
In that context, what Biden's done is not that bad ...
1774.) DParker - 08/27/2021
[video=youtube;viV24hMLcjY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viV24hMLcjY[/video]
1775.) Swamp Fox - 08/27/2021
LMFAO .... That makes my day!

:grin::grin::grin:
1776.) bluecat - 08/29/2021
Good one DP.
1777.) Swamp Fox - 08/29/2021
I'd say he stuck it ...
1778.) Swamp Fox - 08/29/2021
[B][SIZE=2]The State Department Said *[I]What[/I]*? [/SIZE][/B]


[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-state-department-said-what/[/url]
1779.) bluecat - 08/29/2021
It was a very sticky situation.
1780.) Swamp Fox - 08/29/2021
It always is ...
1781.) Swamp Fox - 09/11/2021
LOL ... "University" ...

[B][I][SIZE=2]They took it: UTSA abolishes 'Come and Take It' football chant
[/SIZE][/I][/B]

[QUOTE]“The matter has become a distraction from our mission and is likely to continue shifting our focus away from our work yet to be accomplished," he continued. “I especially recognize that this decision will be unpopular with many of our loyal fans. The phrase — as well intended as it was upon inception and adoption — has increasingly become incongruent with UTSA Athletics and our institution’s mission and core values."

[url]https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18135[/url]

[/QUOTE]


[SIZE=2][COLOR="#EE82EE"]Translation: The progs on campus don't like it ... [/COLOR][/SIZE]



BTW, the link supporting the connection of the phrase to the Alamo (!) goes to an offer to buy a coffee mug ....


"Journalism" ... :re: ... Good job, kids ... ^^^


[url]https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/03/15/texans-want-alamo-battle-flag-returned/[/url]


Also good job, pro journos :re: ^^^^
1782.) Swamp Fox - 09/11/2021
Maybe should have put that in the Journalism thread, but I'm tired ...


[QUOTE]
I seen you today, you was standin' on the corner, leanin' up against the post ...[/QUOTE]



1783.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2021
Basket of douchebags:


1784.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2021
Was that too harsh?
1785.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2021
[QUOTE][SIZE=2][B]The Falling Man[/B][/SIZE]---
[I]An Unforgettable Story[/I]


[url]https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/[/url][/QUOTE] ......
1786.) bluecat - 09/12/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;64670]Was that too harsh?[/QUOTE]

Definately not.
1787.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2021
I think you meant defiantly not ... :wink
1788.) Swamp Fox - 09/12/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;64672]Definately not.[/QUOTE]

I think you meant defiantly not ... :wink
1789.) DParker - 09/17/2021
I'm pretty sure this is one of the signs of the apocalypse....

[URL="https://people.com/food/bud-light-seltzer-seasonal-flavors-pumpkin-spice/"]https://people.com/food/bud-light-seltzer-seasonal-flavors-pumpkin-spice/[/URL]

1790.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2021
Even worse:

[I]Buddy The Elf[/I] peppermint mocha Christmas coffee creamer is in the phuckin' grocery stores here right now: DOB 9/14 ...

The Halloween shit hasn't even started selling ... (Though it is out.)

Who do I write to to complain?


It's like they don't care ....
1791.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2021
I don't know about you Federal assholes, but summer ain't over here just yet ...
1792.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;64712]I'm pretty sure this is one of the signs of the apocalypse....

[URL="https://people.com/food/bud-light-seltzer-seasonal-flavors-pumpkin-spice/"]https://people.com/food/bud-light-seltzer-seasonal-flavors-pumpkin-spice/[/URL]

[/QUOTE]


What's wrong with flannel?


1793.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2021
It *is* possible that someone at Bud needs a beating tangentially related to old-school flannel ...
1794.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2021
....
1795.) crookedeye - 09/19/2021
remember hill 58 in vietnam
1796.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2021
1797.) Swamp Fox - 10/22/2021
Art History 101 :

[url]https://twitter.com/i/status/1451232601134489611[/url]
1798.) Swamp Fox - 10/22/2021
[url]https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1451232601134489611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1451232601134489611%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt-3136%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Fheres-rep-ken-buck-absolutely-ripping-into-hunter-bidens-art-sales-and-other-means-of-income%2F[/url]
1799.) Swamp Fox - 10/22/2021
Let me know if either or both of those are unviewable, because I have problems with Twitter links .... Beyond the problems I have with Twitter in general ... LOL
1800.) DParker - 10/22/2021
Both are viewable links to the same tweet. That was particularly entertaining, though I have to view Twitter stuff from an "incognito" Chrome window after having been banned from the platform about a year ago for telling someone that they were an asshole, which was declared a "threat" by some pencil-necked Tweet Nazi.
1801.) Swamp Fox - 10/22/2021
You're a thoroughly dangerous man... :wink





[QUOTE]

[...]


Just when I thought I'd get outta there with my skin
These five big dudes come strollin' in
With one old drunk chick and some fella with green teeth.

I was almost to the door when the biggest one
Said, "You tip your hat to this lady, son!"
And when I did, all that hair fell out from underneath.

Now the last thing I wanted was to get into a fight
In Jackson Mississippi on a Saturday night,
Especially when there was three of them and only one of me.

They all started laughin and I felt kinda sick,
And I knew I better think of somethin' pretty quick
So I just reached out and kicked ol' Green Teeth right in the knee.

Now he let out a yell that'd curl yer hair,
But before he could move I grabbed me a chair
And said "Now watch him, folks, 'cause he's a thoroughly dangerous man!"

[...]

[/QUOTE]




:grin:
1802.) DParker - 11/11/2021
Anyone following the Rittenhouse trial who isn't thoroughly disgusted and angered by the corruption of the Kenosha DA's office (and associated local .gov apparatus) and the even-worse-than-usual depraved dishonesty of most of the MSM's coverage needs to be disconnected from life support.
1803.) Swamp Fox - 11/14/2021
Andrew Sulllivan has a recent piece on the phenomenon of the MSM's "mistakes," reporting later in need of correction, and false-narrative storytellling, all mysteriously leaning to one side.


I'll see if I can dig it up.




I can live with a lot of biased press. Some outlets (or sub-outlets) should be above the fray, though.

What is aggravating is that the outlets that consider themselves "guardians of journalism" are infested with partisans and fellow travelers who won't admit that their coverage has a slant.


The NYT had two beauts recently .... (I know, right?) ... Let me see if I can remember what they were. They kinda went together, and I thought about posting them but punted .... My guess is that first was a non-apology for idiocy over their shoddy, muckracking 1619 Project, and the second was their laughable coverage of the stout Republican win in Virginia's governor's race (including the black female Lt. Gov., as long as the whiny Left is concerned about counting quota points) ...

This last is only notable because the piece focused on local people's attitudes in the general area of the failed proposed [B]Blue-Gray Bow Hunt[/B] of BowCountry's yesteryear, while also managing a condescending tone to go along with getting the name of the the town and the history of the area's largest employer completely wrong.

Let me not mention the caption writer and possibly the photographer and others on the crew who got the vapors about a local landmark.

The correction (still waiting for the apology) notes that the author is "New York-based." ---

As Gomer Pyle said: "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!"

1804.) Swamp Fox - 11/14/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;65066]Anyone following the Rittenhouse trial who isn't thoroughly disgusted and angered by the corruption of the Kenosha DA's office (and associated local .gov apparatus) and the even-worse-than-usual depraved dishonesty of most of the MSM's coverage needs to be disconnected from life support.[/QUOTE]

I have seen one honest recantation on the left, and a few measured liberal voices have recently weighed in on Rittenhouse's side who probably were not full-throated in the wrong direction to begin with, but by and large it has been a Journalism Shit-Show (TM) ....


One concern for Rittenhouse is this fuzzy drone footage and its manipulation, allowed to be entered on Friday, I believe.
1805.) DParker - 11/19/2021
[URL="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/582394-biden-on-rittenhouse-verdict-the-jury-system-works"]Biden on Rittenhouse verdict: 'The jury system works'[/URL]

Alternative headline: "Joe Biden Refuses to Condemn Killer He Himself Identified as a White Supremacist!"

Let's go Brandon, indeed.
1806.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2021
Even a broken clock is right twice a day ...
1807.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2021
When All The Media Narratives Collapse

In Case After Case, The US MSM Just Keeps Getting It Wrong

[url]https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650[/url]
1808.) DParker - 11/22/2021
I don't know that "getting it wrong" is accurate because it implies a desire on their part to tell the truth, which is clearly not the case.
1809.) Swamp Fox - 11/25/2021
Good point.
1810.) bluecat - 11/29/2021


Look what showed up on my trail cam.
1811.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2021
I'll take two kittens ... Two girls, preferably...

No pressure.



:beer:
1812.) bluecat - 11/29/2021
You'll get nothing and like it.
1813.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2021
LOL ...

You're turning into your father ...


1814.) bluecat - 11/29/2021


:-):wink
1815.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2021
LOL ....

I missed that one ... :applause:
1816.) DParker - 11/30/2021
Cool. All I've caught on my pasture cam is the neighbors' cows.
1817.) bluecat - 12/03/2021
Listening to Alec Baldwin's interview he casually said that he didn't fire the gun or aim it at anybody.

:pop::laugh:
1818.) bluecat - 12/03/2021
My initial thoughts were: In order of appearance

1. Hmm, lawyers got to him and they are trying to blame it on the gun.
2. If an accidental shooting occurs where the gun "somehow" shoots someone with no user intervention, aren't those the first words out of your mouth rather than months later?
3. Being a single action revolver, Alec pulled that hammer back. No question, no argument, no debate. The amourer did no do that when he handed Alec the gun.

Jesse Smollet is saying that finally there is a story more idiotic than his own.
1819.) DParker - 12/03/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;65148]My initial thoughts were: In order of appearance

1. Hmm, lawyers got to him and they are trying to blame it on the gun.[/QUOTE]

I'm thinking that if he were listening to his lawyers he wouldn't be doing interviews, and instead just enjoying a nice hot cup of STFU. Every time he opens his mouth he damages his own case.

[QUOTE=bluecat;65148]2. If an accidental shooting occurs where the gun "somehow" shoots someone with no user intervention, aren't those the first words out of your mouth rather than months later?[/QUOTE]

You'd think.

[QUOTE=bluecat;65148]3. Being a single action revolver, Alec pulled that hammer back. No question, no argument, no debate. The amourer did no do that when he handed Alec the gun.[/QUOTE]

*DING* *DING* *DING* Winner.

[QUOTE=bluecat;65148]Jesse Smollet is saying that finally there is a story more idiotic than his own.[/QUOTE]

And bonus points.
1820.) Swamp Fox - 12/03/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;65148]My initial thoughts were: In order of appearance

Being a single action revolver, Alec pulled that hammer back. No question, no argument, no debate. The amourer did no do that when he handed Alec the gun.

[/QUOTE]



Either that or it doesn't have a transfer bar and he hit it with a hammer or otherwise gave it a sharp blow while it was lowered in the uncocked position.

I don't see Alec ever having used a hammer.
1821.) bluecat - 12/03/2021
To decock the hammer you would have to use the trigger which Alec said he never touched.

Can you just pull the hammer back before it clicks and let it go, would it fire?
1822.) bluecat - 12/03/2021
[QUOTE=DParker;65151]I'm thinking that if he were listening to his lawyers he wouldn't be doing interviews, and instead just enjoying a nice hot cup of STFU. Every time he opens his mouth he damages his own case.
[/QUOTE]

I don't think his lawyers are that smart. They've already filled him with some bogus narrative that will end up being his undoing.

He is throwing around terms around like "misfire". He also said he didn't know for 45 minutes that she'd been shot.

It's kinda like the blind leading the visually impaired. They are coaching him and are making things worse and he is too dumb to know the difference.
1823.) DParker - 12/03/2021
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65153]Either that or it doesn't have a transfer bar and he hit it with a hammer or otherwise gave it a sharp blow while it was lowered in the uncocked position.

I don't see Alec ever having used a hammer.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;65157]To decock the hammer you would have to use the trigger which Alec said he never touched.

Can you just pull the hammer back before it clicks and let it go, would it fire?[/QUOTE]

According to the few sources I can find on the revolver that was used it was a Pietta 1873, which is an Italian-made reproduction based on the Colt 1873 SAA. The only descriptions I can find of it say that it came in two different models, one with and one without a transfer-bar safety, with nobody seeming to know yet which variant was being used. In either case, even we accept Baldwin's version of events and assume that he did not pull the trigger, and the pistol fired when he released the hammer because it lacked a transfer-bar...he still pulled back the hammer and released it while the weapon was pointing at someone. And I think it pretty safe to further assume that, given his own protestations about his firearms ignorance, he didn't know jack about transfer-bars, and had no reason to assume there was any such mechanism in place to save him (and those around him) from his own stupidity.
1824.) Swamp Fox - 12/04/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;65157]To decock the hammer you would have to use the trigger which Alec said he never touched.

Can you just pull the hammer back before it clicks and let it go, would it fire?[/QUOTE]

This would be a Bozo No-No on any single-action I've ever touched, because it COULD fire.

There's a reason you carry single-actions, especially without a transfer bar, de-cocked on an empty chamber. On some modern guns, there's a half-cocked position without a transfer bar that's considered safe with a round in the chamber, because that hammer is not lowered on the firing pin waiting for a sharp blow. You'd have to pull the hammer back to full-cock and pull the trigger, or the hammer would have to slip.

I have owned one rifle without a transfer bar that had a slippy hammer. I got it fixed PDQ.
1825.) bluecat - 12/06/2021
It would be interesting to find out if he has already admitted to pulling the hammer all the way back to the locked position. If so he is locking in the possibilities of how it happened. He can't claim the hammer dropped on its own.
1826.) bluecat - 12/06/2021
He is guilty either way.
1827.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2021
I didn't watch the interview and haven't really kept up with all the details.

My impression is he's going with "The gun just went off on its own."



1828.) DParker - 12/07/2021
He claims that he pulled the hammer back with his thumb and then released it, presumably before it reached the locked-back position.
1829.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2021
I missed that.

So I have some questions ... :shocked::bad::bang::re::tap:
1830.) bluecat - 12/07/2021
Okay, so if he released the hammer like that without a full grip on the gun. I'm thinking the recoil would have been significant. Like hit your head significant.
1831.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2021
Sounds like he had a full grip. See the script supervisor's statement etc. He was demonstrating a scene/scenario, apparently off-script. No reason to think he did not have a full grip.

I take this, below, to mean he had the revolver at full-cock and then just let the hammer slam without easing it down. But of course for that to be true, he would have had to touch the trigger momentarily, at least on a functionally-sound gun.

If he didn't have it at full cock and just let the hammer go, we're back to the other Bozo No-No we talked about before.

[QUOTE]“Interviewed immediately after the shooting and subsequently by the Sheriff’s Office, the Emmy winner has been asked to not comment on the shooting beyond condolences as the police’s investigation continues – requests Baldwin has acknowledged, but is clearly ignoring as he lays out his version of what went down that terrible day,” one source said.

Among other things, Alec Baldwin claimed during his interview that he did not pull the trigger when he shot Halyna Hutchins. He also said he feels no guilt over what happened.

[B]I cock the gun and I go, ‘Can you see that? Can you see that? Can you see that?’ And I let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off,” said Baldwin.[/B]

“I mean, I honest to God, if I felt that I was responsible, I might have killed myself,” he also said in the interview.

[url]https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/12/06/alec-baldwin-nukes-twitter-account-after-da-floats-criminal-charges/[/url]

[/QUOTE]

Emphasis mine.
1832.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;65166]It would be interesting to find out if he has already admitted to pulling the hammer all the way back to the locked position. If so he is locking in the possibilities of how it happened. He can't claim the hammer dropped on its own.[/QUOTE]

The assumption here is that the gun is functionally sound.
1833.) bluecat - 12/07/2021
You can't have a full grip if your thumb is on the hammer.
1834.) Swamp Fox - 12/07/2021
It depends on what the meaning of "full" is .... :wink


Was his thumb on the hammer? When was it not? If it wasn't on the hammer, where was it? :fire:
1835.) bluecat - 12/09/2021
I'm curious why the jury is still deliberating the Jussie Smollett case. Anything longer than 2 1/2 minutes seems crazy.

Question, did he put the noose back on for the trial?

I will give Jussie the "double down" award of the century though.
1836.) DParker - 12/09/2021
Often times it just means that they're working their way through figuring out some less-than-clear part of one or more of the charges. Of course, it could also mean one of them is a "you'll never convince me he's guilty" jack wagon who is trying to make some stupid statement.
1837.) bluecat - 12/09/2021
Swampy, clean out your mail.
1838.) Swamp Fox - 12/10/2021
Done, sorta ...
1839.) bluecat - 12/10/2021
Looks like the jury didn't buy his lame attempts to paint America as racist and homophobic.


Damn, so close.
1840.) DParker - 12/10/2021
My favorite part of the whole thing:

[URL="https://twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1467968018399604736?s=20"]https://twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1467968018399604736?s=20[/URL]

[QUOTE]Jussie Smollett testifies Bola Osundairo called him the night of the attack to talk about Smollett's training and meal plan. Smollett says Bola told him he had to eat 4 eggs.. so Smollett talked about going to Walgreens to get eggs.[/QUOTE]

So he was supposed to eat eggs, for a high-protein, low-carb physical training diet. A foot long hunk of bread from Subway with enough carbs for a week? Totally the same thing.
1841.) bluecat - 12/10/2021
And the 3,500 was for Nigerian steroids...
1842.) DParker - 12/10/2021
[QUOTE=bluecat;65201]And the 3,500 was for Nigerian steroids...[/QUOTE]

He'd better be careful. I'm pretty sure that's how that rich General's wife became a widow.
1843.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2021
A lot of strange stuff goes on in Nigeria ...

It's like they're the most intriguing Africans ... As far as I can tell ...

Not sure where that comes from ...
1844.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2021
It's almost exactly like Florida Man ...
1845.) bluecat - 12/11/2021
Did the prosecutor ask juicy how he was able to hold on to his Subway sandwich throughout the violent attack.
1846.) bluecat - 12/11/2021
Was he trying to protect it from the bleach?
1847.) bluecat - 12/11/2021
Bob's Bigboy is a much better value.
1848.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2021
Anybody who eats Subway deserves what she gets ....

That's my final answer.
1849.) Swamp Fox - 01/22/2022
[QUOTE][SIZE=2][B]CNN calls out Madison Cawthorn and Charles Barkley for what they were caught doing on camera. Who wants to tell them?[/B][/SIZE]

[url]https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/01/21/cnn-calls-out-madison-cawthorn-and-charles-barkley-for-what-they-were-caught-doing-on-camera-who-wants-to-tell-them/[/url]


[/QUOTE]



:laugh:
1850.) DParker - 01/22/2022
I've always called mine "the bore snake".
1851.) Swamp Fox - 01/22/2022
1852.) Swamp Fox - 01/24/2022
[QUOTE]Secretary of State Blinken, speaking in Berlin on Thursday:

[QUOTE]It’s fair to say that the United States has no better partner, no better friend in the world than Germany.[/QUOTE]



Diplomats sometimes have to lay on the flattery, even when they know that it’s nonsense. But there are occasions when that flattery conveys a clear sense of weakness. This was one of those times.

[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ukraine-and-our-german-allies/[/url][/QUOTE]


Really? Germany? Really?

Anyone who’s been paying attention for the last 50-some-odd years (much less the last 150) would kno that’s knonsense.







Executive summary, in case of ein schortage von zeit to read das linck: The issue is Germany’s obstinacy to allowing Estonia to send weapons “of German origin” to Ukraine for her defense. Finland would also have to sign off, since she owned the weapons for a time.

[B]Holy European Union kluschterphuck, Batmann![/B]


["Insert yer own umlaut, Fritz ..." --- LOL]
1853.) Swamp Fox - 01/24/2022
I would have said that America has no better friend than Ireland, once you discount the Unionists, the Marxists, and the dead-enders shouting "Plastic Paddy!"
1854.) Swamp Fox - 01/24/2022
So, basically, we're on our own ...


LOL
1855.) Swamp Fox - 01/24/2022
Gotta luv this exchange from the comments section of the live video :


[QUOTE]jack newman
jack newman
3 days ago
Gotta admit, even though she's speaking gibberish she's got the crowd going.[/QUOTE]



[QUOTE]Philippe Georgiades
Philippe Georgiades
10 hours ago
It's called German.[/QUOTE]
1856.) Swamp Fox - 01/24/2022
Somebody dial Philippe in ....


LOL
1857.) DParker - 01/24/2022
I got "Kaptain Kirk" out of it.
1858.) Swamp Fox - 01/25/2022
I got a funny feeling in my pants, and an urge to march in Paris in the shade ...
1859.) Swamp Fox - 01/25/2022
I just noticed that unless you go to dutube to sehen, you don't get the Englisch subtitles ... at least on meine tablesurfassfurstudierenoderofficewerkcommputenmechanisher...
1860.) Swamp Fox - 01/25/2022
I just noticed that unless you go to dutube to sehen, you don't get the Englisch subtitles ... at least on meine tablesurfassfurstudierenoderofficewerkcommputenmechanimism ...
1861.) Swamp Fox - 01/25/2022
Wenn Sie zu Youtube gehen, können Sie die englischen Untertitel sehen.

Ja?
1862.) bluecat - 01/25/2022
How 'bout them Chiefs? lol
1863.) bluecat - 01/25/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65602]Wenn Sie zu Youtube gehen, können Sie die englischen Untertitel sehen.

Ja?[/QUOTE]

I'll take a shot. When you go to YouTube, would you like to see English subtitles?
1864.) bluecat - 01/25/2022
I'll mention this. I seem to have maybe solved one of the riddles that have been plaguing us for ever. When you attempt to edit a posting with an umlaut, you will not be able to see any of the previous text.
I think this is also true for single quotes. This is an html programming error where these special characters are not escaped (fancy word for addressed) and so they 'Klüsterfuche' everything up.
1865.) bluecat - 01/25/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65599]I got a funny feeling in my pants...[/QUOTE]

They make this little blue pill, you might want to investigate.
1866.) Swamp Fox - 01/26/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;65606]I'll take a shot. When you go to YouTube, would you like to see English subtitles?[/QUOTE]

Very close. I was going for [I]When you go to youtube, you *can* see English subtitles. [/I]

"Would you like" would be [I]möchten Sie[/I]

So that's the lesson for today. Back to the marching ...
1867.) Swamp Fox - 01/26/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;65607]I'll mention this. I seem to have maybe solved one of the riddles that have been plaguing us for ever. When you attempt to edit a posting with an umlaut, you will not be able to see any of the previous text.
I think this is also true for single quotes. This is an html programming error where these special characters are not escaped (fancy word for addressed) and so they 'Klüsterfuche' everything up.[/QUOTE]

When you enter 'Klüsterfuche' in the German to English translator,, it asks you "Did you mean 'Klosterfüchse'? --- Which if you investigate, translates to "monastery foxes" ---- LOL



Verrry interrrresting ....


:wink
1868.) bluecat - 01/26/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65610]Very close. I was going for [I]When you go to youtube, you *can* see English subtitles. [/I]

"Would you like" would be [I]möchten Sie[/I]

So that's the lesson for today. Back to the marching ...[/QUOTE]

Believe it or not, I knew that and tried to edit but as you no, you can't edit when umlauts.

konnen vs mochten (can could, would like)
1869.) Swamp Fox - 01/26/2022
So the umlaut editing thing is news to me but I saw it in action last night (or rather early this morning).

But I don't know what you mean by "single quotes."


Like this? : 'yada yada yada'
1870.) bluecat - 01/26/2022
Yes, I believe that is a culprit too. Leave one of them off so it is unenclosed. I'll try it.

'Yada

Hmm, I couldn't replicate it here.
1871.) bluecat - 01/26/2022
Yes, I believe that is a culprit too. Although I couldn't replicate it. Even unenclosed single quotes like this,

'yada
1872.) Swamp Fox - 01/27/2022
Well, we'll figure it out ...

The important thing is that we've discovered you know a little German .... LOL


1873.) bluecat - 01/28/2022
1874.) bluecat - 01/28/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65625]Well, we'll figure it out ...

The important thing is that we've discovered you know a little German .... LOL

[/QUOTE]

I'm also a small liar.
1875.) Swamp Fox - 01/28/2022
Waaaas?!!?


Sagen Sie es ain't so! ---LOL





(But aren't we all... :wink)
1876.) crookedeye - 01/30/2022
remember that time dino posted a pic with his shirt off? and bullzi was madly in love.. it was like he was his hero or somthing.
1877.) crookedeye - 01/30/2022
bullzi kept talkin to dino, and ignoring me about the sts.. sure i was a little jealous
1878.) crookedeye - 01/30/2022
bullzi was always a sucker for a smooth talker..
1879.) Swamp Fox - 01/31/2022
[QUOTE=crookedeye;65681]remember that time dino posted a pic with his shirt off? and bullzi was madly in love.. it was like he was his hero or somthing.[/QUOTE]


LOL ....

Too graphic for the kids ... :shocked:


frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>">



:beer::wave:
1880.) DParker - 01/31/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65685]LOL ....

Too graphic for the kids ... :shocked:


frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>">



:beer::wave:[/QUOTE]

I remember those. They were a pretty entertaining ad campaign. I think this was the first one, and even had an educational message.

[video=youtube;Cqi8-HlHmLU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqi8-HlHmLU[/video]
1881.) Swamp Fox - 01/31/2022
LOL ... I never saw that one. :tu:
1882.) DParker - 01/31/2022
It's like a more fun version of Grammar Rock.
1883.) Swamp Fox - 02/01/2022
[I]Shanking[/I] is probably more Saxon/Germanic. [I]Shivving[/I] is prolly more Moorish/Spanish.

Both are verbs.


Don't @ me ... :wink
1884.) Swamp Fox - 02/01/2022
1885.) Swamp Fox - 02/01/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65700]
Both are verbs.
[/QUOTE]

1886.) DParker - 02/02/2022
Well, there goes my nearly 61-year streak of never encountering the term "contraband bologna".

[URL="https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2022/01/31/243-pounds-of-contraband-bologna-seized-at-texas-mexico-border/?amp"]https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2022/01/31/243-pounds-of-contraband-bologna-seized-at-texas-mexico-border/?amp[/URL]
1887.) bluecat - 02/02/2022
Did they check the insides for Fentanyl...? Lol
1888.) DParker - 02/02/2022
Of course bologna is just how it starts out. Then you move on to things like mortadella and pepperoni, and before you know it you're all strung out on prosciutto and sopressata.
1889.) DParker - 02/02/2022
Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!

That is all.

(I just thought I'd be proactive and get ahead of things.)
1890.) DParker - 02/03/2022
1891.) Swamp Fox - 02/03/2022
LOL ... ^^^

[B][SIZE=2]
Everybody just calm the eff down....[/SIZE][/B]



Next thing you no, they'll be rioting at the Golden Corral over I don't no what ...


Oh, wait ...
1892.) Swamp Fox - 02/03/2022
The Golden Corral is supposed to be a happy place ...
1893.) DParker - 02/03/2022
Ironically, I think the breakout of a violent melee would actually improve the dining experience at a Golden Corral.
1894.) bluecat - 02/04/2022
Although, nothing can improve the flavor of the translucent Brussel Sprouts that have been sitting under the heat lamp for 8 hours.
1895.) bluecat - 02/04/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65701][/QUOTE]

[Comment removed as not suitable]
1896.) bluecat - 02/04/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;65723][/QUOTE]

"Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that Girl you know that"
1897.) bluecat - 02/04/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65702][/QUOTE]

"Soup is not a dinner!"
1898.) Swamp Fox - 02/05/2022
I'm having soup for dinner right now .... Campbell's Jambalaya, which of course isn't really jambalaya ... but it's good ...

Not Smucker's "gotta be" good, but good nonetheless ...
1899.) Swamp Fox - 02/09/2022
1900.) Swamp Fox - 02/25/2022
The 80's called ...

Remember when the MSM thought that was super clever?


1901.) bluecat - 02/25/2022
Has Biden threatened to poke Putin with the soft cushion yet?
1902.) bluecat - 02/25/2022
What about the killing joke? Maybe we should wait on that, might just be too dangerous and there could be collateral damage.
1903.) DParker - 02/25/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65837]The 80's called ...[/QUOTE]

I'm thinking more like the late 1930s. The excuses used for invading the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia are nearly identical to the ones being used for invading Crimea and now more of Ukraine.
1904.) bluecat - 02/25/2022
....
1905.) DParker - 02/25/2022
Ah...I'd forgotten about that one. Well, that aged like fine milk.
1906.) Swamp Fox - 02/26/2022
.....
1907.) DParker - 02/27/2022
That was the only acceptable response.
1908.) Swamp Fox - 02/27/2022
I predict a sudden rise in sales of sunflower seeds ...

(I have learned in the last few days that the sunflower is Ukraine's national flower, and that Ukrainians have a flair for poetry and death imagery.)




[QUOTE][url]https://twnews.it/us-news/telling-russians-to-f-off-to-their-face-is-ukraine-s-new-national-pastime[/url]

[B]Telling Russians to f' off—to their face—is Ukraine's new national pastime[/B]
[/QUOTE]



I'm trying to find video or audio for the "Turkish drones" episode ... That would be a score.
1909.) DParker - 02/27/2022
I wasn't aware of the sunflower thing. Interestingly I have 125 sq ft of my garden-in-progress...enough for 25 plants...earmarked for the Mammoth Gray sunflower seeds I bought along with everything else. I sense a business opportunity.
1910.) Swamp Fox - 02/27/2022
The T-shirt market might already be cornered ...


Capitalism: "You gotta be quick..."

1911.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2022
[QUOTE][B]Jennifer Griffin Once Again Brutally Fact-Checks a Pro-Putin Fox News Segment[/B][/QUOTE]


[url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jen-griffin-goes-off-on-putin-e2-80-98apologist-e2-80-99-guest-on-fox-news-e2-80-98so-many-distortions-in-what-he-just-said-e2-80-99/ar-AAUoqJz?ocid=uxbndlbing[/url]



1912.) bluecat - 02/28/2022
The sunflower and the Snake Island clips are very inspiring. I'd like to think I would act the same.

When hours count, waiting to see if "crippling" sanctions work are just a month away.
1913.) DParker - 02/28/2022
Regardless of what point anyone might be trying to make, making any sort of comment that bears any resemblance at all to being anything other than unambiguous condemnation of Putin at this time is political idiocy. That might not be "fair", but it's a political reality that anyone who made it past middle school should understand.

That said...

As much as Trump loves to make himself a target for legit criticisms, the attempt to claim that Putin is invading Ukraine over a year into the Biden presidency because...Trump...is pants-on-head stupid as well.
1914.) DParker - 02/28/2022
I'm also enjoying watching so many "journalists", talking-heads and so many other pro-gun-control types who have spent years peddling the "2A is no longer valid as an anti-govt-tyranny measure because armed civilians would be helpless against a major military that has tanks, jets and nukes (on it's own soil, no less)" argument now uniformly gushing over not only the courage...but the effectiveness of the small arms-wielding Ukrainian civilians for their role in preventing the Russian military from making good progress in the invasion.
1915.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;65865]I'm also enjoying watching so many "journalists", talking-heads and so many other pro-gun-control types who have spent years peddling the "2A is no longer valid as an anti-govt-tyranny measure because armed civilians would be helpless against a major military that has tanks, jets and nukes (on it's own soil, no less)" argument now uniformly gushing over not only the courage...but the effectiveness of the small arms-wielding Ukrainian civilians for their role in preventing the Russian military from making good progress in the invasion.[/QUOTE]


You know they're gonna want a congressional investigation when all this is done over how Ukraine will recover all the "machine guns" they're giving out to all the shit-kickers ...
1916.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;65864]

As much as Trump loves to make himself a target for legit criticisms, the attempt to claim that Putin is invading Ukraine over a year into the Biden presidency because...Trump...is pants-on-head stupid as well.[/QUOTE]


Can you clarify this for me, please? Are you saying there are folks saying Trump invited this? I haven't seen that. (Not that I'm ultra plugged-in.) If so, that certainly is stupid. Or, if you are saying folks are narrating that this couldn't have happened during the Trump administration, I think that is trickier.

I don't see why Putin couldn't have rolled all over Trump if he'd wanted to ... except for the wacko factor.
1917.) DParker - 02/28/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65867]Can you clarify this for me, please? Are you saying there are folks saying Trump invited this? I haven't seen that. (Not that I'm ultra plugged-in.) If so, that certainly is stupid.[/quote]

There have been numerous examples from the left in general (as you might well imagine...everything is Trump's fault to them), but also at about the 1:25 mark in the video clip you posted above:

[I]".....when he (Doug McGregor) was in government he was the one advising President Trump to pull all U.S. troops out of Germany. That kind of projection of withdrawal and weakness is what made Putin think that he could actually move into a sovereign country like Ukraine, Trey."[/I]

Now she's not directly blaming any action on Trump's part specifically, but on what happened during his administration....as though Putin and his cronies suddenly said in a meeting, "Hey, you remember a couple of years ago when that guy was telling the other guy who hasn't been POTUS for over a year now to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany? I think that's a good reason to invade Ukraine right now."
1918.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2022
Gotcha. :tu:
1919.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2022
Speaking off which, I just noticed this:

[QUOTE][url]https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/02/28/democratic-socialists-you-know-whos-really-to-blame-for-the-ukraine-invasion-right-n451835[/url]

The title question may turn out to be a bit of a trick. When I heard that the national Democratic Socialists of America had put out a statement on how things wound up turning out so badly in Ukraine last week and who should bear the brunt of the blame, I had an immediate guess. I’m willing to bet that at least a few of you thought they were going to say, Donald Trump, right? So did I. And I suppose he could be lumped in with their actual answer at some level, but the group is spraying a much wider blast of blame than any one person. The party that counts both Bernie Sanders and AOC as proud, card-carrying members is actually blaming America as a whole, along with NATO. (Man, that’s a lot of guilty parties.) And they are specifically blaming the “imperialist expansion” dreams of the United States and the rest of NATO for bringing us to this juncture. (NY Post)


The Democratic Socialists of America blamed US and NATO “imperialist expansion” for helping trigger the Russian invasion of Ukraine — provoking criticism from local political leaders.
[QUOTE]
“DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict,” the DSA said in a statement.

“While the failures of neoliberal order are clear to everyone, the ruling class is trying to build a new world, through a dystopic transition grounded in militarism, imperialism, and war. Socialists have a duty to build an alternative.”[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]


Not sure they're thinking about the Russian imperialism.

Blame America first, and all that.

Someone should ask them ...
1920.) DParker - 03/01/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65869]Gotcha. :tu:[/QUOTE]

BTW, her claim is doubly odd when you consider that Putin already thought he could "move into a sovereign country like Ukraine" in 2014 when Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, which was a part of...Ukraine.
1921.) Swamp Fox - 03/01/2022
That's a good point, although it could be said that that was a much sneakier usurpation: a further testing of the waters after previous toes in the drink such as Georgia, etc.

And "appeasement talk" and "projection of withdrawal and weakness" regarding NATO and Russia has been around a lot longer than misguided Trump advisors, so I think she covered her bases there.
1922.) bluecat - 03/01/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65872]That's a good point, although it could be said that that was a much sneakier usurpation: a further testing of the waters after previous toes in the drink such as Georgia, etc.

And "appeasement talk" and "projection of withdrawal and weakness" regarding NATO and Russia has been around a lot longer than misguided Trump advisors, so I think she covered her bases there.[/QUOTE]

You said usurpation.
1923.) bluecat - 03/01/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;65868]There have been numerous examples from the left in general (as you might well imagine...everything is Trump's fault to them), but also at about the 1:25 mark in the video clip you posted above:

[I]".....when he (Doug McGregor) was in government he was the one advising President Trump to pull all U.S. troops out of Germany. That kind of projection of withdrawal and weakness is what made Putin think that he could actually move into a sovereign country like Ukraine, Trey."[/I]

Now she's not directly blaming any action on Trump's part specifically, but on what happened during his administration....as though Putin and his cronies suddenly said in a meeting, "Hey, you remember a couple of years ago when that guy was telling the other guy who hasn't been POTUS for over a year now to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany? I think that's a good reason to invade Ukraine right now."[/QUOTE]

Afghanistan much?
1924.) DParker - 03/01/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;65874]Afghanistan much?[/QUOTE]

Not as often as I used to.
1925.) bluecat - 03/01/2022
I hear it's beautiful this time of year with the sun glinting off all the military equipment.
1926.) DParker - 03/02/2022
What a cool income tax issue to have...minus the whole having your country invaded and people killed thing, of course. I now pronounce all Ukrainians "Honorary Texans".

[URL="https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-authorities-citizens-dont-declare-063528451.html"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-authorities-citizens-dont-declare-063528451.html[/URL]
1927.) bluecat - 03/02/2022
Income Tax Form

Do you wish to contribute to the Chickadee Checkoff Fund to help wildlife? []
Do you have any Russion tanks or anti nuclear missiles that you've acquired? []
1928.) Swamp Fox - 03/06/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;65879]What a cool income tax issue to have...minus the whole having your country invaded and people killed thing, of course. I now pronounce all Ukrainians "Honorary Texans".

[URL="https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-authorities-citizens-dont-declare-063528451.html"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-authorities-citizens-dont-declare-063528451.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

Saw that when it was published, and knew y'all would luv it ... Intended to link it myself, but my cell phone and thus my hotspot disappeared Monday or Tuesday ... I blame early leprechauns ... So I am just now re-joining civilization after trading precious wampum with Verizon...

We're not done yet, though ... Let's see how many hours of my life it takes for them to show me whether my old data has been lost or not ...

Can you say "Customer Service Vindaloop" ?
1929.) Swamp Fox - 03/06/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;65873]You said usurpation.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;65874]Afghanistan much?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;65875]Not as often as I used to.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;65876]I hear it's beautiful this time of year with the sun glinting off all the military equipment.[/QUOTE]


LOL ... +11's all around ...
1930.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2022






[video]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/ukrainian-girl-sings-let-it-go-frozen-in-a-bomb-shelter/100894342?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web[/video]
1931.) bluecat - 03/09/2022
A bright star in all this mess.
1932.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2022
The video and the audio at the link is better than the embed, so check that out if you are inclined to put that video on "replay" --- or a loop.

Kind of amazing that the whole room went quiet a few bars into her song. I also like the dog in the baby carriage... (is that what they're called anymore?)



[COLOR="#FF0000"][B]God Bless the Polacks[/B][/COLOR] ... :wink :wave: :pray:

[url]https://www.aol.com/news/moms-poland-leave-strollers-ukrainian-190303162.html[/url]



1933.) DParker - 03/09/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;65928]





[video]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/ukrainian-girl-sings-let-it-go-frozen-in-a-bomb-shelter/100894342?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web[/video][/QUOTE]

She's actually pretty good for a little kid of whatever age she is.
1934.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2022
1935.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;65931]She's actually pretty good for a little kid of whatever age she is.[/QUOTE]


Well, I always discount grade-schoolers singing anything, but Good Luck to her ... She is a cutie-pie.

The songwriter's response is worth noting if you have a few moments to surf ...


[B]Glory to Ukraine.[/B]
1936.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2022
[QUOTE][B][SIZE=2]Ukrainian Medieval Armorer Contributes To War Effort[/SIZE][/B]

[url]https://adnamerica.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero/public/2022-03/FB%20art%20of%20steel%20hedgehogs.jpg?itok=46Ma0o-X[/url]




The Art of STEEL is based in Rivne, about two hours from Ukraine’s border with northern neighbor and Russian ally Belarus. The forge is popular amongst cosplayers and re-enactors for the high-quality arms and suits of armor they produce, which it often posts to Facebook.



One of its blacksmith told The Telegraph that forges across Ukraine were contributing in some way.

“Such spikes are made in all cities of Ukraine, we are not the only ones,” said the source, who asked not to be named.

“Many [forges] create anti-tank barriers, some make stoves to heat the military,” he added. “All the masters who know how to work with metal are trying to help the army in some way.

When Russia’s invasion began on Feb. 24, it wrote to followers that “Ukraine is under the fire” and apologized that it would have trouble fulfilling orders for “some time.”


[QUOTE]Workshop "ART of STEEL"
about 2 weeks ago
Ukraine is under the fire.
We are safe. We are very sorry, some time we won't have opportunity to work. But for sure we will find the opportunity to make our obligations.[/QUOTE]





VICE reports that Ukraine’s wealth of minerals had properties that were ideal for early blacksmiths.

“The country is lucky enough to have Precambrian metamorphosed sedimentary rocks rich in iron ore that are easy to refine,” said Jordan Newman, a Texas geologist and amateur blacksmith. “It's mostly hematite in quartz so when you smelt it you end up with slag that is easy to remove and won't contaminate your bloom. The silica also creates a glassy flux which further protects the refined iron from oxygen in the atmosphere. If you're a blacksmith in the early iron age when metallurgy was trial and error this would have been a blessing.”

Newman said that this is what made Ukraine a powerhouse of iron production, but added that this was a “double-edged sword” because “when you have resources someone else is going to want them.”

The Art of STEEL’s vehicle spikes are a smaller version of the anti-tank barriers being churned out by steelworkers in Kyiv.

"We build things. We do not know how to fight, but we knew we could be useful," Zakhar, a Kyiv construction foreman turned resistance coordinator, told Reuters.


[url]https://adnamerica.com/en/ukraine/ukrainian-medieval-armorer-contributes-war-effort[/url][/QUOTE] ,,,,,,
1937.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2022
[COLOR="#0000FF"][FONT=Comic Sans MS]While gaps pspricing is alwayps more complicated than either the left or the right make it out to be, there'ps no doubt that democratps make it worpse...
[/FONT][/COLOR]

[QUOTE]

[B][SIZE=3][I]Jen Psaki Is A Lying Liar Who Lies: Insane Gas Prices Edition[/I][/SIZE][/B]

[FONT=Arial Black][I][SIZE=2]President Joe Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki tried to evade White House responsibility for soaring gas prices Monday, casting blame solely on overseas turmoil in Ukraine.
[/SIZE][/I][/FONT]
Gas prices hit a national average of $4.06 a gallon, according to AAA, this week reaching a new high not seen since 2008 when prices reached their all-time peak at $4.11.


“The increase,” Psaki said, “is a direct result of the invasion of Ukraine,” adding “there was an anticipation” of rising prices.


In anticipation, however, the White House has only exacerbated a self-inflicted crisis by doubling down on the administration’s war on domestic energy production in the name of climate change and environmental justice. As the impending invasion of Ukraine foreshadowed turbulence in global energy markets, President Biden’s Department of Justice reinstated the administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands through a legal filing in Louisiana.

Despite Psaki’s blame on Russian aggression for the spike in energy costs, gas prices began to soar upon Biden’s first days in office after the president’s inaugural orders shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and unilaterally suspended new oil and gas leases on public land.

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), American gas prices eclipsed an average of $3 per gallon by May as President Biden unleashed a cascade of taxes and regulation on the industry while moving to lock down lucrative reserves. In other words, gas prices have been rising since Biden took office, not since Russia launched its invasion of neighboring Ukraine.


Biden’s suspension of new drilling on federal lands, while temporarily overturned by a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana mid-summer, killed incentives in the capital- and labor-intensive industry for operations to keep up with demand, suppressing production. Producers require long-term planning and assurance their operations will remain in place before they pledge billions in new capital to drill in a particular area. That means new leases must always be on the horizon.

Cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline alone axed some 830,000 barrels of Canadian crude flowing to Gulf refineries while the U.S. simultaneously doubled imports of Russian oil. Last year, the U.S. welcomed an average of more than 600,000 barrels of Russian crude and related petroleum products daily, financing the Kremlin war machine. As the world’s third-largest oil producer providing more than 10 percent of global supply, Russia raked in $119 billion in resource revenues.

Biden is reluctant to sanction President Vladimir Putin’s energy sector, with the White House claiming the solution to rising prices is to pivot in favor of cleaner energy sources that are often unreliable and more expensive. Russian gas operations, meanwhile, produce 30 percent more methane than American operators. Iran, where the administration is hoping to lift sanctions and welcome its oil, hosts operations with 85 percent more intense methane emissions than their U.S. counterparts.

Biden could have brought down energy prices at any point in his presidency but instead has continued to escalate the administration’s animosity towards domestic production and the American worker. An enhanced regulatory regime combined with Wall Street pressure to restrict investment in the capital-intense industry has limited diplomatic options to counter Russian aggression by limiting domestic capacity to supplement supply shocks.


In Alaska for example, Democrats have sought to lock down decades worth of oil and gas reserves stored under a fraction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) with reinstated environmental protections poised to become permanent.

Instead of unleashing American energy potential to reclaim the independence once briefly achieved under the Trump administration, Biden officials are now pleading with authoritarian adversaries in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to ramp up production abroad.

[url]https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/07/jen-psaki-is-a-lying-liar-who-lies-insane-gas-prices-edition/[/url]

[/QUOTE]
1938.) DParker - 03/10/2022
C'mon, man!
1939.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2022
LOL ...
1940.) Swamp Fox - 03/11/2022
LOL:

[QUOTE][B]NYT's Matthew Rosenberg caught knocking 'the left's overreaction' to Jan. 6 Capitol Riot[/B]

[SIZE=2][/SIZE]
[url]https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-matthew-rosenberg-overreaction-jan-6-riot[/url]

"I know, I know. I'm supposed to be traumatized," Rosenberg joked. "But like all these colleagues who were in the building, and they're young and are like, ‘Oh my God, it was so scary.’ I'm like, ‘F--- off.’ … It's not the kind of place I can tell somebody to man up, but I kind of want to be like, ‘Dude, come on. Like, you were not in any danger.’"



In a separate instance, Rosenberg slammed "these f---in’ little dweebs" who "keep going on about their trauma, shut the f--- up," but conceded, "I guess it was scarier inside."


When asked who he was referring to, Rosenberg name-dropped reporters Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Fandos, appearing to call them "f---in' b----es." The video features several abrupt edits.

When confronted by his remarks, Rosenberg told Project Veritas, "Will I stand by those comments? Absolutely."[/QUOTE]
1941.) Swamp Fox - 03/11/2022
Queue the delusional peace plans for Ukraine proposed by mainstream American journalists....

I saw one particularly unhinged outline on Slate.com this AM.

As long as you're Russian and don't care about Ukrainian sovereignty, it sounded perfectly reasonable ...
1942.) Swamp Fox - 03/15/2022
1943.) Swamp Fox - 03/15/2022



LOL ...
1944.) Swamp Fox - 03/15/2022
Did she say something?

I've watched this seven times so far and can't hear a thing ...


The White House told the TikTok influencers who were invited on the zoom call to blame the high gas prices on Putin. pic.twitter.com/qBCEA6r2C7

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 14, 2022 ">
1945.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2022



[url]https://twitter.com/i/status/1503231084737277953[/url]
1946.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2022
It's nice to see the British stepping up in support of a small sovereign country struggling for survival ...
1947.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2022
Wanna fight about it? ----:wink:grin:
1948.) Swamp Fox - 03/19/2022
Really?

Really? ...

The [I]NY Times[/I][COLOR="#FF0000"][FONT=Comic Sans MS] *EDITORIAL BOARD*[/FONT][/COLOR] fundamentally misunderstands free speech in the United States ...














[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html[/url]


I try to be judicious and conservative in my use of the term "libtard" versus "liberal" or "progressive" but here on display are libtards:

[url]https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/03/18/ny-times-editorial-america-has-a-cancel-culture-problem-n456305[/url]
1949.) Swamp Fox - 03/22/2022
[COLOR="#3366ff"]oo[/COLOR][COLOR="#FFFF00"]ff![/COLOR]



[url]https://twitter.com/i/status/1505624148931981320[/url]
1950.) Swamp Fox - 03/22/2022
Watch the video.


Couldn't figure out how to embed it directly.

But, ooff!
1951.) Swamp Fox - 03/22/2022
The message and the contrast of "was" vs. "will" is brilliant.
1952.) Swamp Fox - 03/22/2022
A simple werb?

A simple worb?

Good thing we have Joe Biden to sort out the meaning of things ...
1953.) Swamp Fox - 03/22/2022
......
1954.) Swamp Fox - 03/24/2022
As far as I can tell, this website selling anti-woke razors has been crashed for two solid days since the grand opening ... LOL


1955.) Swamp Fox - 03/24/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66098]Watch the video.


Couldn't figure out how to embed it directly.

But, ooff![/QUOTE]


I persisted:


1956.) Swamp Fox - 03/24/2022
1957.) Swamp Fox - 03/24/2022
1958.) Swamp Fox - 03/24/2022
[QUOTE][B][I]Remembering Obama’s ‘Russia Reset’: Hillary and the ‘Skolkovo’ Misadventure[/I][/B]

Ah yes, let’s remember the Obama-era “Russia Reset.” It was announced with great ceremony by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, brandishing a red plastic “Reset” push-button that she presented to her counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Oops: The button was mislabeled Peregruzka (the Russian word for “overcharge”) rather than Perezagruzka (reset). As investigative journalist Claudia Rosett observes, the Kremlin still keeps the button on display in a museum at the Foreign Ministry, “less a souvenir of U.S.-Russia camaraderie than a symbol of American folly.”

Even as Putin continued his occupation of Georgia — having annexed about a fifth of that former Soviet territory in 2008 — President Obama kicked off the Reset by shelving Bush’s plans for missile-defense installations in Eastern Europe. Further courting the Russian dictator, Obama in 2010 revived the U.S.–Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (Bush 43-era foolishness that had been scrapped after Putin invaded Georgia). The president insisted that, somehow, the pact advanced U.S. national security.

That was just the beginning of the administration’s promotion of Russia’s key industrial sectors, improving our declining but dangerous rival’s military and cyber capabilities and fortifying its capacity to extort the European nations and former Soviet republics that rely on Russia for their power needs.

Why? Because “Trade with Russia Is a Win-Win.” That was the headline of Secretary Clinton’s June 2012 Wall Street Journal op-ed, applauding Russia’s formal entry into the World Trade Organization (which her husband, President Bill Clinton, had championed even though Russia’s corrupt economic practices undermine the market-based norms the WTO is meant to fortify). Prioritizing trade was crucial, she explained, because Russia was just a great place for Americans to do business, and our commerce could now blossom since the Obama administration had made Moscow “a normal trading partner.” Sure, the Putin regime posed many challenges, but Clinton maintained that “it is in our long-term strategic interest to collaborate with Russia in areas where our interests overlap.”

Collaborate? That sounds almost like collu—well, never mind.

[...]

Why would our government do such a thing? At the time this was all going on, Clinton’s State Department issued its annual country-by-country findings on the state of civil liberties. Russia was found to be using technology “to monitor and control the internet.” The State Department elaborated that official corruption was rampant, security services engaged in sweeping surveillance of communications, journalists were under siege, dissidents were arbitrarily detained — and some even tortured and killed.

What was Secretary Clinton thinking?

As we’ve seen, most of the time, she was thinking about the Clinton Foundation, and money (I’d say not in that order, but it’s pretty much the same order). Putin’s regime dangled billions of dollars to invest in Skolkovo companies. Secretary Clinton immediately went to work attracting both corporate contributors and businesses deemed worthy of Russian investment.

The investigative journalist Peter Schweizer has done yeoman’s work exposing the grimy interplay between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. By 2012, the last year of Secretary Clinton’s tenure, 60 percent of the “key partners” identified for the Skolkovo venture (17 out of 28) had “made financial commitments to the Clinton Foundation, totaling tens of millions of dollars, or sponsored speeches by Bill Clinton.” Russians tied to Skolkovo also gave to the Clinton Foundation, including Viktor Vekselberg, a billionaire confidant of Putin’s who was chosen to run the Skolkovo Foundation.

There is symmetry here. Again, no one would sensibly say that Secretary Clinton wanted to make Russia a more capable adversary — and as things turned out, I’d wager that strengthening the regime’s cyber proficiency would be something she’d regret (if she were given to that kind of introspection). But it is like the irresponsible mishandling of top-secret information, and the storing and transmission of any sensitive government information, classified or otherwise, on a non-secure server system: it’s not that Clinton did not know what she was doing or that she didn’t apprehend the risks; it is that she had other priorities and threw caution to the wind — pretty much the textbook definition of gross negligence.

She wasn’t alone: this was not Secretary Clinton’s administration, but President Obama’s. He calculated that abetting and appeasing Russia was a price worth paying for “help” on the Iran deal and in Syria. How well that all worked out, no?


[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/remembering-obamas-russia-reset-hillary-and-the-skolkovo-misadventure/[/url][/QUOTE]


Noteworthy:
[QUOTE]
[I][B]Collaborate? That sounds almost like collu—well, never mind.[/B][/I][/QUOTE] ---- LOL
1959.) bluecat - 03/24/2022
Swampy, do you drink coffee?
1960.) Swamp Fox - 03/25/2022
Well, yes...Yes I do.

Why do you ask?


LOL ....
1961.) DParker - 04/04/2022
Vanity Fair soon to be labeled by the left as a right-wing QAnon conspiracy site: [URL="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-nonprofit-at-the-center-of-the-lab-leak-controversy"]“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy[/URL]
1962.) Swamp Fox - 04/04/2022
It really is fun to watch them eat their own ... Almost predictable.

However, I maintain it is more fun to suppose the virus came from a bat, or from some weird crawlie that may or may not go well in a stir fry...

I mean, I can come up with a lot more poems about that than about a lab full of geeks... or can I?
1963.) DParker - 04/04/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66215]It really is fun to watch them eat their own ... Almost predictble.

However, I maintain it is more fun to suppose the virus came from a bat, or from some weird crawlie that may or may not go well in a stir fry...

I mean, I can come up with a lot more poems about that than about a lab full of geeks... or can I?[/QUOTE]

[I]There once was a geek in a lab
Who said of gain-of-function, "Let's give it a stab."
From a bat he did take
A virus, a mutation of which he did make
And when it got loose he cried, "Nobody blab!"[/I]
1964.) Swamp Fox - 04/04/2022
[QUOTE][B]Expert Say[/B] ...
---by Swamp Fox

[I]There once was a lab full of geeks
A little too Zen about leaks.
Their research went viral
Which led to a spiral...
Now we'll have to wear masks for two weeks. [/I][/QUOTE] .....
1965.) Swamp Fox - 04/04/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;66216][I]There once was a geek in a lab
Who said of gain-of-function, "Let's give it a stab."
From a bat he did take
A virus, a mutation of which he did make
And when it got loose he cried, "Nobody blab!"[/I][/QUOTE]


LOL ... Beat me to it.

Plus many feathers from a wet market ... :tu:
1966.) bluecat - 04/04/2022
There once was a hot golfer from China...
1967.) DParker - 04/04/2022
[I]Take a bat virus
Screw with its DNA some
Oops, this test tube broke[/I]
1968.) bluecat - 04/04/2022
That's gold, Jerry, gold!
1969.) Swamp Fox - 04/04/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;66219]There once was a hot golfer from China...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]
[B]
Second Opinion[/B]
---by Swamp Fox

[I]There was a hot golfer from China.
Her boyfriend, a bit of a whiner,
Said her skirts were too short
And she snapped in retort,
“Handsome doctor say really a cute angina!”

[/I][/QUOTE] .....
1970.) Swamp Fox - 04/05/2022
[QUOTE][B]Asia Was An Okay Band[/B]
---by Swamp Fox

[I]Ling loved the hot outfits she wore.
She met Steve in Old Bangalore.
They had a cute baby
But she always thought maybe
He wasn't of Asian persuasion no more.[/I][/QUOTE] ....
1971.) Swamp Fox - 04/07/2022



The one on the left (my left) is a girl mouse.

Ask me how I know ...
1972.) bluecat - 04/07/2022
Because you're a biologist?
1973.) Swamp Fox - 04/07/2022
LOL ...

I could be ... I'm not really sure any more ... I lean that way ... :shh:
1974.) bluecat - 04/08/2022
Isn't it strange how life imitates art? Cue the scene from Life of Brian where Stan wants to have a baby.
[url]https://youtu.be/R79yYo2aOZs[/url]
1975.) Swamp Fox - 04/08/2022
If elected to the Senate, I promise to bring this up in a hearing at my first opportunity ...


1976.) DParker - 04/08/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66273]


The one on the left (my left) is a girl mouse.

Ask me how I know ...[/QUOTE]

That Asian woman is really a mouse? What a great costume.
1977.) Swamp Fox - 04/08/2022
That's up to her ... LOL
1978.) DParker - 04/08/2022
I want to believe. I'm not sure that I do...but I want to.

1979.) bluecat - 04/08/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;66278]That Asian woman is really a mouse? What a great costume.[/QUOTE]

You said Asian.
1980.) bluecat - 04/08/2022
Does anyone else scratch their head when more sanctions are levied against Russia? What more does Russia need to do to be fully sanctioned? And why all this talk about whether he is a war criminal or not?

Let's not argue and bicker about oo killed oo.
1981.) bluecat - 04/08/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;66282]I want to believe. I'm not sure that I do...but I want to.

[/QUOTE]

DP, tell me you look at that and wonder about all the great knives and weapons that could be forged from all that steel?
1982.) DParker - 04/08/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;66286]DP, tell me you look at that and wonder about all the great knives and weapons that could be forged from all that steel?[/QUOTE]

Eet weel keal.

1983.) bluecat - 04/08/2022
A Bloody Haiku
by bluecat

Zen of blood and blade
and the glee of destruction
and death, eet weel keel
1984.) Swamp Fox - 04/08/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;66282]I want to believe. I'm not sure that I do...but I want to.

[/QUOTE]


LOL ... Big, if true. :grin:


There are some Americans fighting over there, and the Ukrainians themselves seem pretty savvy about storytelling and gathering allies, so between the two ...

Bonus Round:

Here's a blast from the past I just stumbled upon :

1985.) Swamp Fox - 04/09/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;66285]Does anyone else scratch their head when more sanctions are levied against Russia? What more does Russia need to do to be fully sanctioned? And why all this talk about whether he is a war criminal or not?

Let's not argue and bicker about oo killed oo.[/QUOTE]

I'm on the edge of my seat anticipating the U.N. response ...

What we need now is a massive heavy weapons supply effort, and there still seems to be time to flood the civilian zone with small arms without yet resorting to air drops ...

But air-drops and wide-scale smuggling should be next unless the Russians fold their tents soon.
1986.) DParker - 04/09/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66292]I'm on the edge of my seat anticipating the U.N. response ...[/QUOTE]

There's nothing a murderous dictator fears more than a sternly worded resolution...that he can veto.
1987.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
He sent a message to Biden that he'll have more flexibility after the resolution ... :re::wink
1988.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
....
1989.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
So, Wolverines really is a thing in Ukraine, apparently, with a Ukrainian civilian resistance force named for the movie guerilllas, and some more tagging showing up:




[url]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10698953/Wolverines-sprayed-knocked-Russian-tanks.html[/url]
1990.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
Wow... That was fast:


1991.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
This competes for one of the best photos from Ukraine:



[B][SIZE=2]
The phrase "happy warrior" comes to mind ...[/SIZE][/B]
1992.) DParker - 04/10/2022
They must be going to retake the Green Midget Cafe.
1993.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
The Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce is of strategic importance ... Plus there is the Spam ...
1994.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
Once you cross the River Spam, you're in a whole new territory ...

1995.) Swamp Fox - 04/10/2022
....
1996.) Swamp Fox - 04/12/2022
This appears to be a different vehicle from the last one:

1997.) Swamp Fox - 04/12/2022


The caption reads:
[I]A Ukrainian soldier stands in front of a destroyed Russian tank in an abandoned Russian army position in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, April 9, 2022. Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters[/I]
1998.) DParker - 04/12/2022
Well then, I guess that really is a thng after all.
1999.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2022
So, it looks like the Russian warship that called on Snake Island to surrender and was told "Russian warship --Go **** yourself" has been sunk by a Ukrainian Neptun missile.

And, oh by the way, it was the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet ...

Coincidentally, the postage stamp came out today.




This is the one and only time I've ever been interested in stamp collecting ...
2000.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2022
An early report:

[url]https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russias-black-sea-flagship-has-exploded-off-ukraine[/url]
2001.) DParker - 04/14/2022
I saw reports about that earlier, though the Russians are claiming that the damage was the result of an ordnance magazine exploding due to an on-board fire, not Ukrainian weapons. That has the fishy aroma of Russian propaganda about it, of course.

It'll be interesting to see if any real evidence one way or the other emerges, as this would be a major embarrassment for the Russians if true. IIRC, no navy has lost a capital ship to enemy fire since that little kerfuffle in the Falklands.
2002.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;66336]I saw reports about that earlier, though the Russians are claiming that the damage was the result of an ordnance magazine exploding due to an on-board fire, not Ukrainian weapons. That has the fishy aroma of Russian propaganda about it, of course.

It'll be interesting to see if any real evidence one way or the other emerges, as this would be a major embarrassment for the Russians if true. IIRC, no navy has lost a capital ship to enemy fire since that little kerfuffle in the Falklands.[/QUOTE]

It would be major embarrassment even if it were an "internal munitions explosion" LOL .

"Internal munitions explosion .... "


2003.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2022
[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/massive-blow-russian-credibility-explosions-warship-win-ukraine-expert-rcna24376[/url]
2004.) bluecat - 04/15/2022
It didn't sink, the ship also functions as a submarine. Pretty cool eh?
2005.) DParker - 04/15/2022
AND an artificial reef for marine life. The Russians are nothing if not eco-friendly.
2006.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;66341]It didn't sink, the ship also functions as a submarine. Pretty cool eh?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;66342]AND an artificial reef for marine life. The Russians are nothing if not eco-friendly.[/QUOTE]

:applause::applause:



It's an ocean-floor decoration AND a dessert topping!
2007.) bluecat - 04/15/2022
And shame on those Ukrainians for stopping those bombs and missiles with their buildings like that.
2008.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
,,,,
2009.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
:hb:

This is from Sofia, Bulgaria, in support of Ukraine a few years ago during the Crimean take-over,



and several years before that the monument's Red Army figures were painted pink with graffiti which read in Czech and Bulgarian "Bulgaria apologizes" in a nod to Bulgaria's role in aiding a Soviet put-down of the democratic surge in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

It seem that old Soviet monuments just don't get any respect ...
2010.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
2011.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
"What have the Bulgarians ever done for us?"

:grin:
2012.) bluecat - 04/15/2022
I think I found the one-armed man.
2013.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
LOL ... You can see it better in the first picture, if I know what you mean....
2014.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
Uh-oh! --- Now I'm getting the urge to vandalize some monuments ...

(I Googled some vandalism history that should have turned up --- an old high school rivalrly with political undertones--- and I got nada, zip, zilch ....Maybe some things are just too far back, LOL )
2015.) bluecat - 04/15/2022
Why do we need history? Isn't all that crap in the past anyway?

What have historical monuments ever done for us?
2016.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
bluecat, you ignorant slut ... :grin: :wink

What if some Goth kid just went around smashing all the busts of Roman gods and generals sixteen hundred years ago?

Hmmm...?

Oh, wait ...


:wink:wave:
2017.) bluecat - 04/15/2022
You said busts.
2018.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
Because it's the goddesses that have bazooms ...
2019.) bluecat - 04/15/2022
Don't oppress me!
2020.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
Sorry ... Sorry ...

You can have a baby if you want to ...


LOL
2021.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2022
Not me personally, but ...


2022.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2022
Slow Joe:

Let's see what happens after Blinken's visit with the Ukrainians, considering Uncle Joe's posturing speech (hot air?) about the Armenians over a century ago, with the (intentional?) miss of a specific address to Ukraine.

[url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-remembers-armenian-genocide-with-seeming-nod-to-ukraine/ar-AAWxm5P?ocid=uxbndlbing[/url]
2023.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2022
Did she just appropriate hoop earrings?


[url]https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1518259680853827584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1518259680853827584%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj-3930%2F2022%2F04%2F24%2Fmuch-stunning-so-brave-taylor-lorenz-tells-cnn-potato-brian-stelter-she-doxed-libs-of-tik-tok-because-she-couldve-been-a-foreign-actor%2F[/url]
2024.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2022

Discovered it wasn’t

Published anyway

��

— Burn the servers, salt the earth (@inthewolf) April 24, 2022 ">
2025.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2022
If you've been monitoring pics from the war in Ukraine, you've seen plenty of the Jack-in-the-Box effect of Russian tanks, specifically their turrets..

(No, nothing to do with the delicious American food chain...)

You'll have to listen to approx. 2:25 minutes of Chinese propaganda to get to some stunning video:

[url]https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/05/11/the-case-of-the-flying-tank-turret-n468708[/url]



Plus there are some other interesting tidbits in the main post.
2026.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2022
Bury them loud and deep...


2027.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2022
Related? Unrelated?

Don't know.

Saw the latter pic a few days ago and it stuck with me, and then remembered it when I came across the video.
2028.) bluecat - 05/12/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66707]If you've been monitoring pics from the war in Ukraine, you've seen plenty of the Jack-in-the-Box effect of Russian tanks, specifically their turrets..

(No, nothing to do with the delicious American food chain...)

You'll have to listen to approx. 2:25 minutes of Chinese propaganda to get to some stunning video:

[url]https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/05/11/the-case-of-the-flying-tank-turret-n468708[/url]



Plus there are some other interesting tidbits in the main post.[/QUOTE]




I much prefer Bob's Big Boy. There you can still get wholesome food at a reasonable price.
2029.) bluecat - 05/12/2022
Would it be safe to say at this point that the crippling sanctions have not worked? More time?
2030.) bluecat - 05/12/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66709]Related? Unrelated?

Don't know.

Saw the latter pic a few days ago and it stuck with me, and then remembered it when I came across the video.[/QUOTE]

It's an illusion. It's the new Urban Destruction Camo pattern.
2031.) DParker - 05/12/2022
So now those sneaky bastards are hiding their artillery under the streets.
2032.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2022
"Urban Destruction Camo" ...


I like it ...
2033.) bluecat - 05/12/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66358]Not me personally, but ...


[/QUOTE]

Drinking said milk.
2034.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2022
LOL ...

Well, we boy babies don't have much else in the way of commendable character ... :wink:re::wink
2035.) bluecat - 05/12/2022
We are basically drones. The girls kick us out when we have served our usefulness.
2036.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2022
if I hear one more time about how women are oppressed ...


:re:
2037.) Swamp Fox - 05/12/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;66710]
I much prefer Bob's Big Boy. There you can still get wholesome food at a reasonable price.[/QUOTE]


Sadly, we don't have either Jack In The Box or Bob's Big Boy.

JITB is a western Carolina thang if it's a thang at all here, and the last I saw of B'sBB was the statue at a Shoneys in Raleigh (mid-state) a looong time ago .... It's prolly an Applebee's now ...

We're stickin' to national suburban glop in our franchise restaurants, and leaving good food to the little guys ..

There's no middle ground.


[url]https://www.strangecarolinas.com/2020/02/bobs-big-boy-statue-hudson-nc.html[/url]










2038.) bluecat - 05/12/2022
The only time I've eaten at Jack in the Box was in San Antonio and it was absolutely filthy.
2039.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2022
Try the one between Denver and Chadron, Nebraska ...
2040.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2022
Also, JITBs in north Texas ... Highly recommended, even if they don't know anything about iced tea or BBQ there ...
2041.) bluecat - 05/13/2022
After my experience. I could never eat at a JITB again.
2042.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2022
One rule to live by: Never let the burger construction engineer out of your sight ...
2043.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2022
But I also believe in the ten-second rule, so we might be on different wave lengths to begin with...
2044.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2022
But seriously ... Try that JITB on the road to Chadron.

LOL

:grin:
2045.) DParker - 05/13/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;66736]The only time I've eaten at Jack in the Box was in San Antonio and it was absolutely filthy.[/QUOTE]

Hey, [i]you[/i] try keeping a place the size of San Antonio clean, what with all those people dropping in to see if their bicycles are in the Alamo's basement.
2046.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2022
LOL ... There's the joke I knew was in there. :applause:
2047.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2022
....


2048.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2022
Porn In The Airport ....

It beats CNN.


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/rio-airport-screens-show-porn-184756393.html[/url]
2049.) DParker - 05/28/2022
Having a root canal while waiting for your flight would beat CNN.
2050.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2022
Well, maybe with anesthesia ...


2051.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2022
.....

Bill Hader Celebrity Impressions
2052.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2022
.....

[I]The Departed[/I] ---Cranberry Juice scene
2053.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2022
....

LOL


[I]The Departed[/I] ---Irish Neighborhood, Dirty, Dirty People, Sell Potatoes I don't know... What, you deliverin' cannolis or somethin'?

LOL
2054.) DParker - 05/28/2022
So...who gave Bluecat the weekend off?
2055.) Swamp Fox - 05/29/2022
When you need better armor, or just want to roast marshmallows at the end of a long day of rape and pillage...


2056.) Swamp Fox - 05/31/2022
I saw this a couple of months ago and the second piece today. Just FYI.

[QUOTE][B][SIZE=3]When asked whether they’d flee or fight an invading force, far too many Millennials and Gen-Zers give the wrong answer.[/SIZE][/B]

As part of a recent survey of attitudes toward Russia’s execrable invasion of Ukraine, the polling firm Quinnipiac asked Americans whether they would stay and fight if the United States were invaded by Russia. The results make sobering — and often disgraceful — reading. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans said that they would “stay and fight,” with 25 percent indicating that they’d run away. Among independents, those numbers are 57–36. Among Democrats, they’re in negative territory, at 40–52. Among 50- to 64-year-old men and women, the stay/leave numbers are 66/28. Among 18- to 34-year-olds, they are 45/48. Or, to put it another way: [B]A majority of the prime-aged Americans whom the United States would need were such a crisis to arise imagine that they would flee if that crisis ever came.[/B] [Emphasis mine.]

[...]

I can conceive of only two reasons that an able-bodied man might tell a pollster that he would run away in the face of a foreign invasion. The first is that he believes America is not worth fighting for, because it is less worthwhile than dictatorial rule under the invader. The second is that he believes that, if he flees, someone else will do the fighting on his behalf. Neither is acceptable. To fail to grasp one’s extraordinary fortune as an American is to be guilty of historical ignorance and chronic ingratitude, while to believe that America is worth defending while you remain unwilling to pitch in is to be guilty of cowardice as most perfectly defined.

[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/yes-if-america-is-ever-invaded-you-must-take-up-arms-and-fight/[/url][/QUOTE]


[QUOTE][B][SIZE=3]God Bless America: Land That I Loathe?[/SIZE][/B]

Students’ increasingly cynical views of America come as no surprise when one notices what they are being confronted with on their college campuses. The University at Buffalo’s Intercultural and Diversity Center held an event last year called “The Real History of Thanksgiving” in order to highlight America’s homegrown holiday’s “whitewashed history” and “the impact of settler colonialism on Indigenous people.” This past January, literary theory and cultural-history professor Tao Leigh Goffee of Cornell University tweeted that capitalism is rooted in slavery, writing, “Chattel slavery transformed modern finance into what it is, and thus every subsequent act of financialization must be understood as a racializing one.” Many colleges host and praise the work of Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 Project, which presents an inaccurate version of American history focusing on slavery as not just the centerpiece of America’s Founding but also the very reason for the American Revolution. Some professors teach the tenets of the project outright in their classrooms. The fact that Hannah-Jones’s work is celebrated on campuses is disturbing and another way in which students receive anti-American messages.

Polling of young adults nationwide suggests lack of patriotism is not restricted to the college campus. A July 2021 poll by the Pew Research Center asked what statement best illustrates respondents’ view of the U.S. It found that, among people ages 18–29, only 10 percent said the “U.S. stands above all other countries in the world.” This age group chose that response at the lowest rate of those polled. Forty-eight percent answered that America “is one of the greatest countries, along with others,” while 42 percent said “other countries are better than the U.S.” — the highest percentage choosing this response of any age group polled. These numbers do not reflect a great deal of patriotism among the youth in America.

Patriotism often comes into play when America is attacked, such as after Pearl Harbor or 9/11. It was incumbent upon the nation’s men to comply with the draft and dutifully serve their country in World War II. After 9/11, 181,510 were inspired to enlist in active duty. Twenty years later, it’s a different story.

[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/god-bless-america-land-that-i-loathe/[/url]

[/QUOTE]
2057.) Swamp Fox - 05/31/2022
I've decided that my favorite military rank is colonel.

Not only do you get to sit on a veranda and supervise the cooking of fried chicken to your taste while sipping a few mint juleps, but you also have the power to discombobulate a lot of captains just for the fun of it while expressing your opinions freely because you know you'll never be a general (or don't want to be).
[QUOTE]
[B][SIZE=3]Two high-ranking Russian officers have been caught blasting Moscow’s failures in Ukraine and railing against military leadership, according to a new report.[/SIZE][/B]




Allison Quinn
News Editor
Updated


Two high-ranking Russian military officers have been caught shit-talking Kremlin leadership in unimaginably colorful language. The two colonels blast the defense minister and lash out at that “mother****er” Vladimir Putin for his poor strategy in Ukraine, according to a leaked recording of a phone conversation.

While Western and Ukrainian intelligence agencies have routinely reported on plunging morale among rank-and-file Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, many of whom have been heard complaining of dysfunction in intercepted communications, the latest audio appears to be the first to expose frustrations among high-ranking officers.

[...]


The pair’s expletive-laced venting session has surfaced as Western intelligence reports more and more mutiny by Russian troops on the battlefield. The British Ministry of Defence, in its latest assessment, said Putin’s soldiers are likely going to be even less effective going into the fourth month of the war, due to the “the loss of a large proportion of the younger generation of professional officers.”

“More immediately, battalion tactical groups which are being reconstituted in Ukraine from survivors of multiple units are likely to be less effective due to a lack of junior leaders,” the ministry said, adding that the shortage of “experienced and credible platoon and company commanders is likely to result in a further decrease in morale and continued poor discipline.”

In line with that assessment, Ukraine’s Security Service on Tuesday released audio of what it said was a Russian soldier telling his wife about his unit’s recent rebellion against a Russian general.

After troops refused to follow orders to go to the frontline, he said, the general “started waving his gun and shooting,” threatening to fire at those who wouldn’t follow orders.

But another guy in the unit quickly whipped out a grenade and threatened the general right back, saying, “Come on, shoot me! We’ll blow up together!,” he said.

“The special forces guys also started pointing their guns at us. So, we pointed our guns at them. Basically, we almost shot each other, for ****’s sake,” he said.

[url]https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-russian-military-brass-caught-venting-youre-****ed-putinmother****er?source=articles&via=rss[/url][/QUOTE]
2058.) bluecat - 05/31/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;66852] .....

Bill Hader Celebrity Impressions[/QUOTE]

I had no idea he could do so many great impressions.
2059.) DParker - 05/31/2022
Plus you look mighty spiffy in that white suit.
2060.) Swamp Fox - 06/01/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;66885]Plus you look mighty spiffy in that white suit.[/QUOTE]

Well, that's a given. Almost anyone looks spectacular in all-white, but not everyone can pull off the tie... That's the key...
2061.) DParker - 06/02/2022
2062.) bluecat - 06/02/2022
:-):-)

lol
2063.) Swamp Fox - 06/05/2022
There is a pestilence upon this land ...
2064.) Swamp Fox - 06/05/2022
Roger McGuinn & Chris Hilman live (studio recording)

[I]You Ain't Goin' Nowhere[/I]

2065.) Swamp Fox - 06/05/2022
It might be time to reassess our reluctance to assassinate (Go ten levels down):

[QUOTE][url]https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-government-and-politics-e98d1d788e132c2a1f2c8ead7ae58761[/url]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia took aim Sunday at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad. Ukraine said the missiles hit a train repair shop. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to Ukraine would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck.”

The cryptic threat of a military escalation from the Russian leader didn’t specify what the new targets might be, but it comes days after the United States announced plans to deliver $700 million of security assistance for Ukraine. Those weapons include four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, as well as helicopters, Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, radars, tactical vehicles and more.[/QUOTE]


Considering that there aren't many Ukrainian areas Russia hasn't yet shelled, one wonders what this means.

And it seems obvious --- to me at least--- that Putin will not be satisfied with just a piece of Ukraine ...

[url]https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2020/08/assassinating-sovereigns-and-american-foreign-policy/[/url]
2066.) bluecat - 06/06/2022
612 lurkers on right now. I can never find any thread with them.

I think there is website code that randomly adds a few hundred visitors at odd times.

:wink
2067.) bluecat - 06/06/2022
....
2068.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2022
LOL ... That Radio Shack ad was killer ...
2069.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2022
And the Audi ad was no schnauzer ...
2070.) DParker - 06/07/2022
I'm going to have to deduct 5 points from Cookout Dad's score for dropping the burgers just to save his kid. Priorities, man...priorities.
2071.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2022
Gun Control Genius #1

[url]https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/05/30/voice-actress-suggests-biden-set-up-an-ar-15-buyback-program-and-send-them-all-to-ukraine/[/url]
2072.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2022
Gun Control Genius #2 (actually vying for #1):

[url]https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/06/06/blue-check-suggests-a-5000-a-gun-buyback-for-three-months-no-questions-asked/[/url]
2073.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2022
Gun Control Genius #3 ... Not contending for # 1 because she's already a known idiot:


[url]https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/05/27/new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-posts-photos-of-gun-buyback-haul-including-20-assault-rifles-and-a-pellet-gun/[/url]
2074.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2022
I don't mean to beat up on Tara ... She means well.
2075.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2022
You think HuntingCountry has drama?


Wa ha ha WaPo! :


[url]https://www.mediaite.com/online/wapo-editor-admonishes-staff-to-treat-each-other-with-respect-as-kindness-as-numerous-messy-feuds-play-out-on-twitter/[/url]


[QUOTE]After several days of various Washington Post staffers dragging internal feuds into the public square of Twitter, Executive Editor Sally Buzbee sent a memo to Post staff admonishing them to “treat each other with respect and kindness.” And of course, because we live in the year 2022 and that sadly seems to be how things work, Buzbee’s missive spawned newly tweeted vitriolic spats.

The kerfuffle began when Post political reporter David Weigel retweeted a tweet by YouTuber Cam Harless that said, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.”


Weigel’s colleague Felicia Sonmez took a screenshot of Weigel’s retweet and posted it on Friday with the comment, “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!”

“I just removed a retweet of an offensive joke,” Weigel tweeted later that day. “I apologize and did not mean to cause any harm.”


That did not end the controversy.[/QUOTE]
2076.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2022
If this reminds you of high school girls, I envy you.

It follows on the heels of the repeat serial journalism disaster named Taylor Lorenz, who--if she is not fired forthwith--will eventually cause several major lawsuits against Bezos' baby ...

[url]https://nypost.com/2022/06/04/washington-post-adds-two-corrections-to-taylor-lorenz-piece/[/url]
2077.) Swamp Fox - 06/07/2022
[I]The Hag At The Churn
[/I]


2078.) bluecat - 06/07/2022
Those were a hoot. Can I say "hoot"?
2079.) DParker - 06/07/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;66958]Those were a hoot. Can I say "hoot"?[/QUOTE]

Whooooooo is going to stop you?
2080.) bluecat - 06/07/2022
:-) ...
2081.) Swamp Fox - 06/11/2022
Washington Redskins defensive coordinator fined $100k for answering reporter's political question.

This just in: [B]Reporter Promoted To Social Justice Beat; Mother Glad He's Not 'Just A Sports Reporter' Anymore[/B]


[url]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10905219/Commanders-fine-Jack-Del-Rio-100-000-saying-January-6-insurrection-mere-dustup.html[/url]
2082.) DParker - 06/11/2022
Who needs an oppressive government when private industry is so eager to do the job?
2083.) Swamp Fox - 06/17/2022
Hot diggity dawg! :grin:

[url]https://www.instagram.com/p/CehVuU7DAem/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again[/url]


[url]https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/life/2022/06/10/northeast-louisiana-man-ambushed-stray-kittens-viral-video/7573004001/[/url]

[url]https://sports.yahoo.com/viral-video-louisiana-man-rescued-225450126.html?src=rss[/url]
2084.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2022
.....
2085.) DParker - 06/24/2022
Alright...who let slip the dog of war?
2086.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2022
LOL! --- :tu:

Mighty Mouse?

Glory to Ukrainian wiener dogs .... :pray:
2087.) Swamp Fox - 06/24/2022
Never trust anyone who doesn't love dogs.
2088.) DParker - 06/26/2022
Well, that was surprisingly fast compliance. NJ is now officially a shall-issue state.

[URL="https://www.anjrpc.org/page/NJDropsJustifiableNeed#:~:text=June%2024%2C%202022.,to%20prove%20%22justifiable%20need.%22"]NJ Atty Gen issue directive[/URL]
2089.) Swamp Fox - 06/26/2022
Wait 'til Shannon Watts hears about this ...
2090.) Swamp Fox - 06/26/2022
Meanwhile, in New York, Kathy Hochul seems like a gem, too:
[QUOTE]
One moment of Hochul’s speech – around seven minutes in – went viral. The governor stated, "I’m sorry this dark day has come, that we’re supposed to go back to what was in place since 1788 when the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified. And I would like to point out to the Supreme Court justices that the only weapons at the time were muskets. I’m prepared to go back to muskets."


[B][COLOR="#000080"][SIZE=2]Twitter slams Gov. Hochul’s anger over SCOTUS gun ruling: ‘Sorry the Constitution happened to you’[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]


[url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/twitter-slams-gov-hochul-e2-80-99s-anger-over-scotus-gun-ruling-e2-80-98sorry-the-constitution-happened-to-you-e2-80-99/ar-AAYNOvC?ocid=uxbndlbing[/url][/QUOTE]
2091.) Swamp Fox - 06/26/2022
Took two or three days for the [I]News & Fishwrap[/I] to put the 2A decision on the front page ...No lie .... They're prolly so traumatized by [I]Dobbs[/I] that it might not make it til Tuesday ....

Journalism ...


I dodged a bullet there...
2092.) bluecat - 06/27/2022
Kathy's prepared to go back to muskets as long as her body guards continue to use semi-automatic pistols.
2093.) bluecat - 06/27/2022
I'm still not sure why they are saying that citizens are losing their right to protect themselves.
2094.) DParker - 07/05/2022
I don't think anyone can deny that Trump tweeted some really dumb stuff over the course of his admin, but it looks like Creepy Uncle Joe is saying, "Hold my beer..."

[URL="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1543263229006254080"]https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1543263229006254080[/URL]
2095.) DParker - 07/05/2022
Then again, I don't know that it holds a candle to this blast from the recent past:

[URL="https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1479465304795324422?"]https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1479465304795324422?[/URL]
2096.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2022
They're both Morons with a capital "F". If they're that economically illiterate as political leaders, they should each step aside and let a couple of college seniors take their places .... Oh, wait ... :re:

Of course, the possibility remains that they know better but just don't care how much bullshit they spread. That makes them lower than morons.

In the Basket of Deplorables, what's lower than a Moron?

Nominate in the box below:
2097.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2022
I'm holding back a couple of links in case some econ/business/common sense geeks need a quick fix because they are under considerable economic stress at this period in history ....
2098.) Swamp Fox - 07/06/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;67282]I don't think anyone can deny that Trump tweeted some really dumb stuff over the course of his admin...[/QUOTE]



[QUOTE]"Wait... Hold my beer. i gotta respond ..." [/QUOTE]


:shocked:---LOL
2099.) DParker - 07/25/2022
I don't know about y'all, but I know I'll sleep better knowing that this terrifying weapon of mass moisture is off the streets.

[URL="https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPD121Pct/status/1550629306686136320"]https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPD121Pct/status/1550629306686136320[/URL]
2100.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2022
You can have my Super Soaker when you pry it from my bathwater-temp, probably urine-tinged wet hands in the deep end near the diving board ...


Come and take it. [Insert image I am too lazy to create, here]


2101.) DParker - 07/25/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;67453]You can have my Super Soaker when you pry it from my bathwater-temp, probably urine-tinged wet hands[/QUOTE]

You forgot "wrinkled-like-a-prune".
2102.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2022
I try not to stay in the urine-tinged bathwater that long ....
2103.) bluecat - 07/25/2022
You didn't mention your frightened turtle thankfully.
2104.) Swamp Fox - 07/25/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;67461]You didn't mention your frightened turtle thankfully.[/QUOTE]


I didn't mention him at all, actually ... :wink
2105.) DParker - 07/25/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;67461]You didn't mention your frightened turtle thankfully.[/QUOTE]

He was in the pool!!!
2106.) bluecat - 07/27/2022
[url]https://deadline.com/2022/07/tony-dow-alive-death-announced-in-error-1235078184/[/url]


I'm getting better...lol
2107.) DParker - 07/27/2022
Gee, Wally.
2108.) bluecat - 07/28/2022
Did he come back to life again or is he really dead now?
2109.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2022
Lol ....
2110.) Swamp Fox - 07/28/2022
Eddie Haskell's fingerprints are all over this ....
2111.) bluecat - 07/29/2022


It's amazing what they can do with CGI and robotics nowadays.

Every time he blinks you have to do 10 pushups.
2112.) Swamp Fox - 07/30/2022
Consider the alternatives ...
2113.) DParker - 07/30/2022
Alright, who's the arsehole who won my $1.29 billion?
2114.) Swamp Fox - 07/31/2022
And does he have a younger sister?
2115.) DParker - 08/01/2022
Remember when building the wall was racist and made whoever did literally Hitler?

[URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-fill-border-wall-gaps-yuma-arizona-rcna40567"]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-fill-border-wall-gaps-yuma-arizona-rcna40567[/URL]
2116.) DParker - 08/01/2022
([URL="https://i.imgur.com/krXSKgt.jpg"]Full-sized original[/URL])


Well played, good sir. Well played.

2117.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2022
LOL ...

Looking forward to Uncle Joe's comments on Hunter's BATF background form and the gun-free school-zone nonsense .... At some point ...
2118.) DParker - 08/01/2022
I've missed out on a real revenue opportunity here. You can buy DIY printers for as low as $99 and print those "guns" (generally non-functional even) for about $5 in materials each. It takes about 6-8 hours per print, unattended. So figure an outlay of $1K for a small farm of 10 printers turning out 30 copies per day (including the occasional print failure, which the cops wouldn't even recognize). If you know about the "buy back" a week in advance you could print yourself ~$29,450 in profit, minus your time spent starting and ending each print (refilling filament, etc).
2119.) Swamp Fox - 08/01/2022
As an English major but otherwise normal human being, I never used to like math before, but ...

[url]https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.60851af2e7fc52780b733c39ba23f3a2?rik=Dm%2f8TwzspmtGwQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0[/url]


Perhaps we could band together and split the costs of a multi-state printer conglomerate.....
2120.) Swamp Fox - 08/03/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;67577]I've missed out on a real revenue opportunity here. You can buy DIY printers for as low as $99 and print those "guns" (generally non-functional even) for about $5 in materials each. It takes about 6-8 hours per print, unattended. So figure an outlay of $1K for a small farm of 10 printers turning out 30 copies per day (including the occasional print failure, which the cops wouldn't even recognize). If you know about the "buy back" a week in advance you could print yourself ~$29,450 in profit, minus your time spent starting and ending each print (refilling filament, etc).[/QUOTE]

I saw something on this today. A piece by someone close to the episode noted a manufacturing cost of about $3 each and a "non-functioning firearm" brought a bounty of $50. So, no five-figure payday this time, but still a tidy profit. Pays for a very nice rifle.

Speaking of which, according to this account a working handgun brought $150, but an "automatic" firearm was only worth $200.

Someone will have to rethink their economic model, or perhaps re-learn some terminology.

Oh, and ---Bummer! ---After this farce, the geniuses behind this "buy-back" have decided to exclude 3-D printed menaces from their future do-gooderism ...
2121.) DParker - 08/03/2022
So much for their harping on about how they want to get "ghost guns" off the street.
2122.) DParker - 08/18/2022
Southwest Airlines in 1972...when air travel was still an enjoyable experience.

[URL="https://i.imgur.com/0EN7XP0.png"]Full-sized original[/URL]
2123.) bluecat - 08/18/2022
Are you in the upright and locked position or are you just enjoying the flight?
2124.) bluecat - 08/18/2022
Dixie: "Dammit, Bridgette always gets the old rich guys."
2125.) Swamp Fox - 08/18/2022
Lol... plus 9 to you two ....
2126.) Swamp Fox - 09/02/2022
Spank this little weenie right now.

This is the problem right here.

[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/reinstating-paddling-in-schools-is-dangerous-and-must-stop-rcna45728[/url]


Perhaps if she had been paddled more we would have more creative output ...

[QUOTE]S.C. Beckner
S.C. Beckner is a freelance writer, essayist and MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is currently working on a book-length memoir project. Her essay "Kein Baby" was a finalist for the 2020 Iowa Review Award in nonfiction and her essay "Inheritance" won the Blood Orange Review 2021 Creative Nonfiction Award. She resides in Wilmington, North Carolina where she writes, hikes, and walks the beaches with her two dogs.
[/QUOTE]
2127.) Swamp Fox - 09/02/2022
[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/reinstating-paddling-in-schools-is-dangerous-and-must-stop-rcna45728[/url]


I deleted a post in response to the above that might have been a bit over the top .... Let me no if I should charge ahead .... I welcome the green light.

Some people just deserve a paddling.
2128.) DParker - 09/02/2022
These days you have to pay extra for that.
2129.) Swamp Fox - 09/02/2022
LOL ... I want to rip her MFA a new one ... Don't crank me up.
2130.) Swamp Fox - 09/02/2022
The next time I see some douchebag sign his or her name [B]PhD[/B] in my email, I'm asking for a diagnosis of my shoulder problem ...
2131.) Swamp Fox - 09/02/2022
"Oh, you're not a real doctor ....."


Can't wait.
2132.) Swamp Fox - 09/04/2022
I just heard Barack Obama won an Emmy for narrating some narrative...


Well, good for him. That's what he was good at.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;67902]LOL

....



I say again: LOL[/QUOTE]
2133.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2022
This is excellent. I recommend it for anyone interested in history, or who is alive today.

Bill Maher on [I]Presentism[/I]:



2134.) Swamp Fox - 09/18/2022
Forgot to mention: Listen to the very end ... LOL
2135.) bluecat - 09/19/2022
Oh snap! :clap::tu::applause:
2136.) DParker - 09/19/2022
It looks like we both get the same suggestions from YouTube.
2137.) Swamp Fox - 09/20/2022
I wouldn't doubt it, although you probably get more techy, gardening, and homemade prune juice prompts ... :wink


But in this case I saw the Maher item on one of the news aggregator/blog sites I surf. It was less click-baity than other items, so I clicked on it ... LOL.
2138.) DParker - 09/20/2022
Maher is a lefty dipshit whose arrogance is only made possible by his profound ignorance, but every now and then he manages to perceive the more blindingly obvious stupidity coming from that side of the aisle and actually calls it out. But it has to be really, truly and incontrovertibly egregious for him to do so.
2139.) bluecat - 09/20/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;67992]Maher is a lefty dipshit whose arrogance is only made possible by his profound ignorance, but every now and then he manages to perceive the more blindingly obvious stupidity coming from that side of the aisle and actually calls it out. But it has to be really, truly and incontrovertibly egregious for him to do so.[/QUOTE]

It's like he has a rare moment of clarity and then back to being a dipshit.
2140.) bluecat - 09/20/2022


Don't know how to cut if off after the first interview but that is all I was interested in. There is more to the interview that got clipped here but you get the jist.
2141.) DParker - 09/20/2022
Speaking of dipshits...
2142.) Swamp Fox - 09/21/2022
[I]"Interesting"[/I] .... LOL ... I saw that today and thought of this thread ... LOL ... Thanks for posting.

Some of the reaction to the queen's death from the left and the chattering class (but I repeat myself) was completely unhinged.

I'm no fan of the British on many different levels but not opposed on all.

[B]So, may the road rise up to meet her. [/B]

No, wait... That sounds like she's headed in the wrong direction for eternity. :shocked:






Timpani ...










Okay ... Ah, sure ...


Let's go with the last line of the famous (manufactured?) blessing:

[B]"May God hold you in the hollow of His hand."[/B]


R.I.P.
2143.) Swamp Fox - 09/21/2022
Not sure how Don Lemon got or retained his job ...
2144.) bluecat - 09/21/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;67997]Not sure how Don Lemon got or retained his job ...[/QUOTE]

"comments removed by moderator"
2145.) DParker - 09/21/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;67998]"comments removed by moderator"[/QUOTE]

LOL! +69
2146.) Swamp Fox - 09/22/2022
Oh, be[B]have[/B]!


:wink
2147.) DParker - 09/28/2022
If 9mm will "blow your lungs out of your body" I guess .223 will just vaporize you like a phaser set to "disintegrate".

[URL="https://reason.com/2022/09/28/president-biden-lies-about-guns-again/"]President Biden Lies About Guns. Again.[/URL]

Also, being dead is no excuse for not showing up for a POTUS speech:

[URL="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-where-jackie"]Biden appears to ask if dead congresswoman is at White House speech[/URL]
2148.) bluecat - 09/28/2022
Anything he says or does is hard to watch.
2149.) Swamp Fox - 09/29/2022
First of all, I don't wish dementia or Alzheimer's on anyone.

But Joe was never the sharpest cracker in the barrel to begin with.

I'm waiting for him to come out with a [I]Whip Inflation Now[/I] button ...




Are we missing Gerald Ford yet?
2150.) Swamp Fox - 09/29/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;68047]
[URL="https://reason.com/2022/09/28/president-biden-lies-about-guns-again/"]President Biden Lies About Guns. Again.[/URL]

[/QUOTE]


This is a good reference if ever you need it. :tu:

I just wish the author had kept his pistol in his pants.

This was unnecessary, and unsupported:

[QUOTE]The drug war was largely based on lies, year after decade. So were many wars including those in Vietnam and Afghanistan. [/QUOTE]



To paraphrase Bill Clinton: "It depends on what the definition of 'based on' is ..."




[B]Movement Libertarians[/B] >>> [I]This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things [/I]


:tap::wink
2151.) bluecat - 09/29/2022
Any "shout outs" to dead people? Wait, sorry.
2152.) DParker - 09/29/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;68051]This is a good reference if ever you need it. :tu:

I just wish the author had kept his pistol in his pants.

This was unnecessary, and unsupported:





To paraphrase Bill Clinton: "It depends on what the definition of 'based on' is ..."




[B]Movement Libertarians[/B] >>> [I]This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things [/I]


:tap::wink[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it's a shame. Reason used to be an actual libertarian entity. Now it's mostly liberals pretending to be libertarians.
2153.) Swamp Fox - 09/30/2022
[QUOTE=bluecat;68054]Any "shout outs" to dead people? Wait, sorry.[/QUOTE]


If you've ever been in a big box store or a fast food restaurant, you've prolly noticed it's hard to distinguish the living from the dead ... and I'm not just talking about the customers ... LOL
2154.) Swamp Fox - 10/01/2022
I know what I'd doin' the next couple of days if I had the time:
I'd be sittin' on the high ground near some food.





That was a little rough.
2155.) DParker - 10/03/2022
2156.) bluecat - 10/03/2022
Outstanding!
2157.) Swamp Fox - 10/03/2022
LOL .... At least he's aware (for the moment) that she died.






He's not looking for her to have a push-ups contest or anything right now ...






LOL:
[B][I][SIZE=3]
Joe Biden's Worst Gaffes Of All Time [/SIZE][/I][/B]


[url]https://nypost.com/article/worst-joe-biden-gaffes/[/url]
2158.) Swamp Fox - 10/03/2022
There's a much better version of that picture above, but damned if I can find it. It was hard enough to find that one.

[Insert left-wing media conspiracy theory here :tap: ---No, really ... Insert left-wing media conspiracy theory here. :wink]




[B]A pound of NC's best BBQ to the man (or biological woman) who can post the image I'm looking for in a format I can save. :grin:[/B]
2159.) Swamp Fox - 10/04/2022
OOOF!



[B][SIZE=3]Adam Kinzinger Is a Dishonest Clown[/SIZE][/B]


[B]Over the weekend, in the sort of Twitter episode we typically associate with a blood-alcohol-level that disqualifies a person from operating heavy machinery, Representative Adam Kinzinger decided that our own Dan McLaughlin was a stooge for Vladimir Putin.
[/B]
Why? Well, that’s not really clear. “Here is what’s amazing,” Kinzinger wrote on Twitter. “In Ukraine they appreciate life, in Russia Putin gives you a car (lada) for your son. But he won’t spend time appreciating your sacrifice. Keep this in mind pro-lifers.”

So far, so incomprehensible. Then, somehow, it got worse. When Dan asked, “WTF does any of this have to do with pro-lifers?” Kinzinger responded: “I’m pro-life. But you all defend Putin for some reason.”

To make matters still worse, Kinzinger added:


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[Really? Dan McLaughlin “defends Putin”? Dan McLaughlin has been silent on Putin and his invasion of Ukraine? The Dan McLaughlin whose judgments of Putin have been — without exception — that he’s “a James Bond villain . . . who has invaded his neighbors before”; that he’s a “dictator” and a “strongman”; that he’s “the bad guy” who runs a “repressive state” on “brute force and bluster”; that he heads up a “revanchist Russia” that “seeks the extermination of the Ukrainian state”? The same Dan McLaughlin who has written that “Putin is the bad actor here; he’s what drives the war. If you’re morally indifferent to that, you’ve elevated neutrality above virtue or order”? The same Dan McLaughlin who has complained that, while most Republicans back Ukraine, a “fair number of Trump partisans in the media to see Putin as a friend in domestic American political squabbles”? The same Dan McLaughlin who has said of Zelensky that he “is everything you could ask from a man whose country is against the wall: emotional, determined, and specifically evocative rather than windy and general”? The same Dan McLaughlin who wrote: “Godspeed to Zelensky and his nation in this hour of need”? The same Dan McLaughlin who has observed of Ukraine: “Ukraine today is the face of how democracy, liberty, & national self-determination look in much of the world in 2022: fitful & flawed, but deserving of more chances to survive & improve. Russia is the face of the ancient enemy of all those things, bent on extinguishing them”? The same Dan McLaughlin who has proposed that “if your sympathies are visibly not with Ukraine against Russia in this war, expect people to lose respect for you”? The same Dan McLaughlin who has contended that “Putin’s regime is malicious and a malignant influence on the politics of the U.S. and other democratic nations”? That one?


...]

[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/adam-kinzinger-is-a-dishonest-clown/[/url]
2160.) Swamp Fox - 10/04/2022
[QUOTE]But, of course, there was no mistaken identity here. There was just an incoherent statement, a desperate attempt to rescue it, and then the sort of weak, petty, characterless, monomaniacal refusal to admit error that Kinzinger seems to believe that he is above, but which, increasingly, he personifies all too well.[/QUOTE]



I say again: Oooof!
2161.) Swamp Fox - 10/04/2022
Charlie Cooke really is a national treasure, even if he IS a limey ... :wink
[QUOTE]


[B][I][SIZE=3]A Week in the Life[/SIZE][/I][/B]

Or: How every political story now unfolds
TOP STORIES
Stacey Abrams’s Very Bad Day in Court
Kamala Harris Finds Her Level of Incompetence
EV Trucks Are Not Trucks



On Day 1, a no-name opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times writes a piece arguing that you should probably cancel your plans for the coming weekend and cut off your foot with a hay sickle.

Initially, this essay is overlooked, until, on the morning of Day 4, it is discovered by a Twitter user whose other output makes his account un-retweetable. Within an hour, the column has become the top trending topic online, and thereby the source of most of the conversations among journalists, politicians, and the terminally plugged-in.

By midafternoon, the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh has critiqued the piece in a mini-documentary that is released on, and then pulled down from, YouTube. In response to Walsh’s work, a blue-check propaganda account that obtained its large following from its stint as a Taylor Swift fan-feed claims that the documentary is in violation of the Geneva Convention. This claim receives 92,000 retweets, is endorsed by Laurence Tribe and Ted Lieu, and forms the core of the next six weeks of programming on MSNBC.

Arriving first to the hot-take punch, a Vox writer who has neither read the column nor watched Walsh’s video weighs in to explain with confidence that all opposition to cutting off your feet with a hay sickle is a “social construct” that “emerged” in about 2018. At Salon, Amanda Marcotte backs this theory but complains that, while this is probably true, she can’t help but notice that the discussion about cutting off your feet with a hay sickle is being conducted “mostly by white men.” At the Atlantic, Adam Serwer repudiates the Vox piece by proposing that the most racist people on the 1957 Little Rock School Board were against cutting off your feet with a hay sickle, and inviting his readers to “think hard” about what “that tells us” about the practice’s “contemporary critics — which include Republican Senator Tim Scott.”

Serwer’s Atlantic piece is promptly read by the sort of people who produce afternoon TV. On CNN, Jim Acosta interrupts an urgent report about a terrorist attack in Canada to remind viewers that hay sickles are dangerous and to reassure them that, despite this, he is brave enough to proceed with his story. On The View, Joy Behar gives the impression that, despite her strong opinions on the matter, she doesn’t really know what a hay sickle is, while Ana Navarro tells the audience that, as a “proud Latina,” she personally likes to call sickles “sicklelôs.” Seeing this, AOC immediately begins an Instagram livestream in which she indignantly explains that opposition to cutting your foot off with a hay sickle is “the historical linchpin of the capitalist-privilege campaign against workers’ rights.” Halfway through AOC’s spot, Marjorie Taylor Greene walks past and shouts that sickles of all sorts are “Communist.” At the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre tells Philip Wegmann that the president is monitoring the situation from Delaware.

On Truth Social, Donald Trump contends that Mitch McConnell and “his Asian wife ought to cut off their feet with a hay sickle!” This prompts Breitbart to suggest that, while cutting off your foot with a hay sickle is a bad idea “in general,” Trump “has a point.” Horrified, the Bulwark runs an editorial calling for former presidents to be arrested if they even “discuss hay sickles.” At the Dispatch, David French assiduously splits the difference, proposing that if “Americans of good faith” are determined to cut their feet off with hay sickles, they must ensure that their “souls remain intact” throughout. Here at National Review, we all disagree mildly with one another. I write that I “don’t like the idea at all, of course” but that, in a free country, it’s ultimately up to an adult and his doctor whether he cuts off his foot with a hay sickle — and that, besides, “under the Constitution this is clearly a question for the states.” MBD dissents, arguing that this isn’t a question of “neutral liberalism” but of “moral integrity.” Phil Klein wants to know how much cutting your foot off with a hay sickle is going to cost the taxpayer, and if it’ll be covered under Obamacare. Dan McLaughlin writes two 20,000-word pieces: one on the legality of cutting your foot off with a hay sickle, the other on the history of hay sickles in the Austrian Empire. In the Corner, Jack Butler wonders if hay sickles were ever mentioned in a Tolkien book, and Jim Geraghty asks if cutting off their feet with a hay sickle could plausibly help the coaching staff of the New York Jets.

...


[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/a-week-in-the-life/[/url][/QUOTE]
2162.) Swamp Fox - 10/04/2022
2163.) Swamp Fox - 10/04/2022
Scranton Jet, Molded By boricuan Sharks in Delaware:

[B][SIZE=2]Biden claims ‘I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community’ in Delaware
[/SIZE][/B]

[url]https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/biden-claims-he-was-raised-in-the-puerto-rican-community/[/url]
2164.) Swamp Fox - 10/04/2022
Just shoot me now...
2165.) Swamp Fox - 10/04/2022
......
2166.) DParker - 10/04/2022
How bad is it that I felt the urge to verify whether or not the hay sickle thing was actually parody?
2167.) DParker - 10/04/2022
RIP, Coal Miner's Daughter.

[URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/loretta-lynn-coal-miners-daughter-country-music-icon-dies-90-rcna42483"]https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/loretta-lynn-coal-miners-daughter-country-music-icon-dies-90-rcna42483[/URL]
2168.) Swamp Fox - 10/05/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;68077]How bad is it that I felt the urge to verify whether or not the hay sickle thing was actually parody?[/QUOTE]





There's your systemic Western Civ showing right there ... :dig:
2169.) Swamp Fox - 10/05/2022
[QUOTE=DParker;68079]RIP, Coal Miner's Daughter.

[URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/loretta-lynn-coal-miners-daughter-country-music-icon-dies-90-rcna42483"]https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/loretta-lynn-coal-miners-daughter-country-music-icon-dies-90-rcna42483[/URL][/QUOTE]


She was something. :tu:

And I highly recommend the movie, even to folks who are not country music fans.
2170.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2022
Dad Joke of the Day:


[url]https://twitter.com/karol/status/1577692110731579392[/url]
2171.) Swamp Fox - 10/07/2022
Does it come as a surprise to anyone that Corporate --not Dad -- are the re-tards?
2172.) bluecat - 10/07/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;68068]

[B]A pound of NC's best BBQ to the man (or biological woman) who can post the image I'm looking for in a format I can save. :grin:[/B][/QUOTE]





Here ya go. This was taken at Bubbas in Arkansas a few months ago and a Key Lime Pie for dessert.

And if you were wondering, I ate it all.
2173.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
LOL ... To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: "Not the image I was looking for, but it's the image that I got ..."


That looks like my kinda place. Were the senoritas pretty?
2174.) bluecat - 10/10/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;68090]LOL ... To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: "Not the image I was looking for, but it's the image that I got ..."


That looks like my kinda place. Were the senoritas pretty?[/QUOTE]

Again, this was in Arkansas.
2175.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
:laugh:

Okay, so there were plenty of senoritas, but they had no teeth? (Not that I should talk...)

Arkansas is the West Virginia of the ... south-central U.S.[?] --- ?
2176.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
Before you answer, remember Arkansas R kansas, just with a twang ... :wink
2177.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
Try the pork chops...


I'll be here all week ...
2178.) bluecat - 10/10/2022
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;68093]:laugh:

Okay, so there were plenty of senoritas, but they had no teeth? (Not that I should talk...)

Arkansas is the West Virginia of the ... south-central U.S.[?] --- ?[/QUOTE]

Let's just say this, there is a reason why they call it the [B]tooth[/B]brush.
2179.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
LOL ...

The absence of dentistry is not ... Wait ...




:grin:
2180.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
...."the dentistry of absence" ...?



C'mon, boys ... Help a brother out ....
2181.) bluecat - 10/10/2022
Come in again.
2182.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
Not helpful ... LOL ...


What's the tooth ratio like in the not-R kansas ? All I ever hear about is the scale-busting weights ... Not that there's anything wrong with that ... :wink
2183.) bluecat - 10/10/2022
We all have our teeth.
2184.) Swamp Fox - 10/10/2022
Oh, sure... in the college towns.

How about up near Nebraska?