And hot chilies; there’s a surprising number of things actually vulnerable to hot peppers like habaneros, I want to see how they do with a Carolina Reaper!
That would depend a lot on which cryptid. I think Bigfoot would need a different set of seasonings than, say, the Flathead Lake Monster or a chupacabra.
I feel that this is an appropriate place to mention that one of my dad’s friends has a working mini-cannon on his front porch. He invited us up the canyon a few years back to sight it in, which was a real blast. :D
If it’s immune to bullets, try bigger bullets. Try silver, fire, salt, acid, explosions, all kinds of stuff. Pack the cannon with silverware (actual silver) and line it up. Little bit of this, little bit of that…
I remember a list that went around, way back in the early era of the internet, about “Why horror movies don’t have guns?” I only remember a couple of those, but:
Signs: “The world is being invaded by a bunch of unarmed aliens? Grab the shotguns, boys! We’re goin’ huntin’!”
Cujo: “There was this rabid dog that had me trapped in the car. I could have been in trouble if it weren’t for the .44 Magnum I keep in the glove compartment.”
XKCD had a similar one involving a zombie virus in a lab movie. “I’ll hold the door shut while you go get the shotgun out of my car!”. The final panel notes that the remaining runtime of the movie is a romcom.
Something really weird happened to me about that. I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday and I saw some saccharinne kids book about Mexico’s “first female president” on a prominent shelf being promoted, thought “huh that’s weird” and forgot about it the rest of the day. Then last night I dreamed about it, and a voice telling me that “every public figure who gets one of those stupid kids books is evil and doing and evil things, especially her.” And I woke up to the news of rioting in Mexico. Now I have to research those kids books.
One take I saw was with the border less porous, Mexicans have to live with the situation there….and they don’t like it. She’s seen as working with the cartels.
You missed part of the judge’s order to Sydney Sweeney: “…and dye your hair a garish shade of blue, and stick half a hardware store in your face.”
Politicians get money to fix the roads. But fixing roads is not glamorous, doesn’t get them in the news or signal any kind of virtue. So they spend the money on those other things, and say they have to raise taxes to fix the roads. If they get the higher taxes, they find even more ‘worthy causes’ to spend them on and the roads still don’t get fixed…
They’re not vaccines, they’re still not approved after 5 years, they’re not safe, and they’re not effective. But other than that, they’re fine!
I never cared if your beliefs were different, until you said mine were evil, and so was I, and I should be murdered for being so evil.
Vlad: “You only have to impale a few dozen. The rest will get the message and run away.” 🤣
Capitalism is a reward system based on voluntary exchange of value for value. Socialism, fascism and communism are punishment systems based on taking value from people by force.
The origin of ‘Nazis are right-wing’ is propaganda made up by Josef Stalin. Why do so many idiots still repeat Stalin’s lies?
Regarding roads, it is also a problem of redistribution in some locales. As in, you pay your taxes into one big pot (not the whole pot, or the Pol Pot). They then get split up to counties, towns, cities, districts and whatnot based on how your good representative was at fighting for a piece of that pie.
The pot shrinks when the rolly pollies above them decide that the money is theirs to play with first, and then they spend it on “raising awareness,” or climate shenanigans, or to put up more traffic cameras, or to pay off a bad lawsuit one of their employees screwed up and created, or whatever else the idjits got in their tiny heads would make bank for them Underpants Gnome style.
You missed part of the judge’s order to Sydney Sweeney: “…and dye your hair a garish shade of blue, and stick half a hardware store in your face.”
Would anyone with insight into this puh-LEEEEZE explain how tats and piercings on (formerly) pretty women came to be A Thing? Has ANY man who likes women EVER said “if only she slept face-down in a tackle box, she’d be kinda cute!”
My best just-so conjecture is that a man who expected to feed & protect her and his(?) kids might want to mark her as his…? Women who were already tattooed/pierced/scarified would be showing their willingness to be so marked…? and might therefore attract higher-value men…? who might give them more (and healthier, and higher-status) kids…? hence more and better grandchildren…? so a self-sustaining cultural “beauty” standard emerges…?
Talk about Strange Attractors! >rimshot<
When I’m elected Despot, there shall be Grand Juries to determine tattoo eligibility. Nobody over a “3” gets one.
Got a Swiss Colony catalog in the mail, saw the, “gifted,” meme and now I’m a little down.
Why? Well, the SC catalog had sugar-free candy, which was my go-to gift for Dad, and cheese and sausage boxes, which were my, “Oh, heck, at least he’ll have something nice to eat,” gift for my brother.
And my best college friend, who I visited now and then for years, was chosen for the “gifted,” program in CA, back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when CA actually had gifted programs. Not that it did her much good in the long run. But she would have been totally down with having a gift from the Fae.
So now I’m in, “Three people I don’t have to get Christmas presents any more,” mode, and it sucks.
Just got back from a ‘Grief Share’ surviving the holidays workshop at a local church. The first time around without the loved one for the holidays. So many stories…
POG*s is a long standing tradition, that much like its prerequisite of long hair, simply requires more effort than most guys are wiling to put into it. This is a flaw in those individuals, not in the POG or manbun.
*ponytails on guys; first introduced to me via a Highlander fanfiction. :swoon:
Regarding the woman who was happy to be single at 42 and able to go to a bar on Thanksgiving without needing a babysitter. Why did she have to add “the right hates this.”? I couldn’t care less about her life choices and, given that she appears to be stuck on “left/right”, I’m OK with her not having children to indoctrinate. A year later when she got “baby fever”, for the sake of any potential kids, I hope she recovered before finding a donor.
Because in her mind the Right is inflamed by hatred of “strong, single, independent women.” Remember, we all believe The Handmaid’s Tale is an instruction manual and yearn to see all women -especially progressive women- chained to the kitchen between rapes.
How can she be the brave heroine of her inner story without an evil villain to justify her choices?
Because as everyone knows (/rolleyes), the Right hates strong, self-empowered women. Which she obviously is if she’s going out and partying all night at 42.
That’s a belief held by many on the left, since as they know the Right wants all women barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.
Door to what? A Cadillac Eldorado, a Lincoln Continental, a Chrysler New Yorker? No matter. When I was growing up, a car like that was something old people got after they retired. Hey, they worked for years, carted families cross-country in huge station wagons (with fake wood sides and jump seats), and slogged to the office and back in Pintos or Malibus. The luxury barge was a reward, and well-earned, too.
But now I’m at that age, and they don’t make ’em like that any more. I feel cheated.
The big SUV or truck, with 4×4 that most do not use.
At least when we had 4×4, in both rigs, we used 4×4 regularly. Wasn’t “required” when we used it. But it sure made certain situations a lot easier. Like the weekend when *camporee got a lot of rain when at a certain council property that sits in a small valley down a single access, um, “gravel” road. Non-4×4 rigs did get out, but they had to make a “run” from the short stretch that was flat and straight. Some even made it with out help at the top. Those of us with 4×4’s chose to pull out first. At least our rigs weren’t tearing up the road.
(*) May in Oregon, so wet camporee was not unheard of. Just certain planners did not take into account the relevant property characteristics. Our troop regularly used that property in winter months. But the requirement was 4×4 for transportation.
When I had a 4 x 4, some winter days needed the 4 x 4 engaged, plus studded snow tires, and a running start. That was just getting it into the garage (N side, decent slope, lots of ice.) Winter can be interesting!
(Two Subies, one Honda Ridgeline, all AWD. I’ve got studded snows on Subie 2 (2016 Forester, my main vehicle), and once my left knee lets me put weight on it, Subie 1 (2012 Forester, now the backup) will get stud service. I’ll take the non-studded snow tires to the tire shop for the Honda. I can (usually) be picky when I go out
The roads came up from Columbia Heights, onto Hillcrest (getting hints?), turn left on to Canyonview, which split into ***East and West Canyonview, at the top of the actual canyon. House sat on the upper side of the southwest corner of the Y, the third large lot down from the top. I’ve mentioned before we used to clear the driveway, putting the car on the north side of the house (graveled), and hiding the pickup (4×4) in the garage. Why? Because Canyonview coming down the hill is not only steep, but it has just a slight bit of a west to east *curve as it comes down the hill north. Two things either happened, well 3. Drivers could actually come down and make the slight turns west (easier, “straighter”), or more sharper turn east. More often than not they either came down and missed either turn, ending up stuck in the upper part of the canyon (which is why the 4×4 was hidden, we got asked too often for tows out) or they **slid straight into and across our driveway (which is why the car was on the side of the house, where it couldn’t be hit). Also their were two houses just to the north of our house, that were on a “private” road, that meant they had to stop at the Y intersection and turn west and take that semi-steep climb.
(*) We found out what the curve meant by getting our car sideswiped by the great pumpkin our first or second Halloween season. Kids rolling pumpkins from Hillcrest. Suppose to go straight into the canyon. Oops. Pumpkins when rolling don’t follow road curves, they go straight.
(**) That is how we got our car into it’s spot when it got snowy or icy when we came home. Trust me, no matter how slow the car came down that hill, it was NOT stopping to make the left turn into the driveway. Just slide on through the driveway to the gravel, they friction allowed parking alongside the house. Truck even in 4-wheel was get it onto the gravel, back it up, pull into garage. Getting out with the car? Back up, back down, make a run up the hill. Repeat until you make it. Oh so much fun with a clutch.
(***) East Canyonview ends in a big loop, a big loop where both sides are even steeper. Never watched the residents there navigate those sections. Wouldn’t surprise me if they parked at the top. We had a front room view of the traffic navigating Canyonview to Hillcrest.
Current owners (same ones who bought 36 years ago ???) let the evergreens get huge. Lot smaller when we owned the house. The evergreens on the upper side of the driveway would catch pumpkins now.
Oops. Pumpkins when rolling don’t follow road curves, they go straight.
Why aren’t roads laid out more like luge runs, so cars and pumpkins do tend to stay on them?
Once upon a time I just cruised right on into the most lab-grade perfect black ice possible, and the Lord, still obviously pissed off at my guardian angel, had him make sure I was going at the only speed that would have kept me on the road as I hockey-pucked around the curve. A little slower woulda stuck me in the ditch up against the mountainside; a little faster and it woulda been a long way down.
Tho the curve had (obviously!) a proper bank to it, the road surface still had a convex crown. Why??? A concavity could still drain, and keep pumpkins and dumb kid drivers in their lane.
Road (then anyway, it has been 36 years since sold, and 40 since moved out) does not have sidewalks or curbs. At least coming down from Hillcrest until one hit the Y, just the lots and lawns on the west side and most the east side, until hit the southern retaining wall on the property across from our house. No wall to hit, but the drop between the two adjacent properties was a sudden “ouch” if they went over that. Even the top of the canyon itself was less dangerous. At most they’d get stuck, maybe wheel or undercarriage damage. Most skewed towards over skidding on our side even if that meant also skidding across the apposing traffic lane. At least no one would be coming (can see what is coming, don’t start downhill if another is starting to run up the hill).
There are sooo many homes built right under Streets of Damocles. Someone told me she’d bought her place because “there’s no across-the-street neighbor so you can see all the way down that street!”
There is a house in my suburban neighborhood that has a curved concrete wall with several large decorative boulders in front of it. This happened after the second time a car entered their living room.
I wouldn’t have waited.
(Also note that I can count no fewer than three cars into houses along a half-mile stretch of road, which is posted at standard suburban speeds and is flat, plus two cars into fencing/landscaping features on an adjoining road. LEARN TO DRIVE, PEOPLE.)
The torrent flowing ’round the curve would tend to stay in the groove until it hit one of those “cow-strainer” grids over a drainage trench whose bottom tilted outwards.
We had a super-wet Camporee (as in not only was there continuous rain for 12+ hours, radar showed it was CIRCLING over us and wouldn’t leave us alone.) Parking area was dirt. Our Scoutmaster, having decided that since every tent failed its waterproofing, it was time to go home a night early, pulled the trailer up to the paved road first before loading, on the theory that he wouldn’t be able to pull it out fully-loaded. So that was extra trek distance, including a brand-spanking-new scout who had never been camping with us before.
And who, when asked how the sopping wet day had been, proclaimed it “awesome!”
A lot of the cars who left the next morning got stuck in the mud. Honestly, we’d done a bunch of old-fence-board signs for that one, should have left them for the mud pit. It would have helped.
Super wet camporees are a normal event. It is in May, in western Oregon. Usually in the Willamette valley or coast range. The odds of it NOT raining the entire weekend is zip to none. The first thing we teach the newbies be they youth or adult, is how to not pitch a tent in a low spot, whether there already be pooled water there or not. How to properly use ground cloth under a tent (you do not want it visible even with decent drainage).
It is just the camporee described was a poor choice because of the steep “road” (insulting roads) down into the small valley. I mean there is a reason why Baker Youth camp has so many nice big trees and tall underbrush. Note, Cascade range is used for Klondike. It usually is good for snow camping. There was a year where it was reported more mud than snow, but usually good for snow. Note, “reported”, because I don’t snow camp.
I have snow camped once. As a 12 year old girl scout. One of the local boy scout troops invited the girl scout troop to partner on a snow camp hiking in on snow shoes. Five youth, three 12 – 14 year olds, two 17 year olds, three adults. I was the only girl scout to follow through. Snow cave. Had fun. Didn’t get wet or particularly cold. On the wet side, well was wearing dad’s uniroyal raingear (you may be young enough to know know those). Swam in them, but they kept me dry. But still, count me out on snow camping.
Our tents all failed waterproofing, and it wasn’t particularly user error. You have to buy specific styles to get them fully waterproofed, and those aren’t common to our area troops, because that also makes them with a lot less airflow, which is critical.
“buy specific styles to get them fully waterproofed, and those aren’t common to our area troops, because that also makes them with a lot less airflow, which is critical.“
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I can understand that.
Tents son’s troop used were 3 season tents. They just didn’t hold up to any snow load. Could handle rain, and some snow. When can it snow in Oregon, in particular the Cascades? Hint: Any day of the week that ends in “y”, 365-366/year. It was hilarious listening to scouts at drop off telling parents how it snowed on the campout, in August. Doesn’t stick around, but happens, while it is happening the unprepared will be wet and cold.
My sister found our grandparents’ wedding license by walking into a townhall in Vermont and explaining that her grandparents had married here and she didn’t know the year but it was the Fourth of July and it snows.
People are amazed.
Some are amazed that it snowed.
Others are amazed that you could narrow down the year from that.
Buy a pickup. Power, heated leather seats that recline, heated steering wheel, big sound system with satellite radio. Automatic climate control w/ AC. Navigation system with self-steering, cruise control, and collision avoidance. 4 doors with cushy rear seats with their own heaters. Weighs a ton, big V8. What’s different from the old luxo-barge?
In early 2012 I parked next to one of those 10-ft-tall trucks; the driver, way up there on the bridge, tried to drive away, didn’t see my car way down there and mostly tore off my front left quarterpanel.
And, to his credit, he was still on scene dealing with it when I found all this, and was everything you’d hope a USAian would be.
Two total-stranger men both saw The Job and just got to it. The little communication needed happened mostly in grunts and head-points and one-syllable laughs. We got my car driveable enough, swapped info, shook hands, and that was that.
Today? TBH, it would probably have gone just as well. It just doesn’t FEEL like that.
The other little problem is that Vlad’s methodology was wholly dependent on not having a 1st Amendment.
You can have an effective methodology for dealing with Islam, or you can have a First Amendment. Dearborn MI is Exhibit A, and NYC is Exhibit B. Choose.
But what about the poor neglected Third Amendment, Hmmmm? Nobody ever even notices it. There’s ever been only one decision interpreting it at the Supremes (Engblom v Carey, 1982), and other than that it only really got sideswiped en passant for a drive by penumbra by Justice Douglas in his 1965 Griswold v Connecticut decision. But it was not pivotal at all, just another emanation of the spirit of rights he wanted to exist where they actually didn’t.
Is there a Constitutional issue (beyond “cruel&unusual”–dammit, Thomas! No adjectives!) with a mandatory death penalty enhancement on conviction for any serious crime, if a jury finds no reasonable doubt that it was religiously or ideologically motivated, regardless of religion or ideology?
Like, arson, vandalism, blocking traffic–whether to express $PoliticalCause or in obedience to $Deity–gets you hanged ASAP. You know, while your Virtue’s still fresh.
It might not directly deter sooie-side boomers, but it would chill the lesser actings-out from nutbags of every ilk, which might indirectly cut into the supply of booms.
As Uppity pointed out, several courts have already said that “culture back home is no defense” in murder cases, where the defendant claimed that honor killing was not murder, and so he was innocent. Skip the motivation and focus on murder, assault, domestic assault, breach of the peace, riot, arson, and all those things that are already illegal. Calling for the violent overthrow of the government isn’t exactly illegal, but if the means are present, then it can be prosecutable. [I’d have to do some digging into the exact federal and state statutes on that one.]
Now, can you find someone willing to push the point and focus on the criminal part, not the ideological motivation? There’s the difficulty in Dearborn, et cetera. In Vlad’s case (and Matias Corvinus), I’d say invasion, et cetera would be considered justifiable causes.
As Uppity pointed out, several courts have already said that “culture back home is no defense” in murder cases…
Someday I might make a worthwhile point so clearly. But thanks.
But I was at least hemisemiserious about an explicit focus on motivation–an Ideology Crime enhancement. If Hate Crime can be A Thing, why not Ideology Crime too? It’s fine to advocate the overthrow of whatever-it-is-now, but if you try to amplify your advocacy with a criminal act? That’s an IC enhancement.
And if Mandatory Minimum Sentences are allowed for other crimes, why couldn’t the MMS for an IC be Immediate Mandatory Hanging upon conviction–gibbet on the courthouse lawn? Be it for an Honor Killing or for spray-painting a statue.
Sure, it would be busy at first, maybe for a week or so, and sure, the Usual Suspects would scream at the sky about it.
Okay, I was just looking at these again, and on the “Married couples trying for a baby…” one – is “teenagers” a not-allowed-word on social media now so they had to asterisk it?
For to turn up the uncertainty. To get us all a little more twitchy-flinchy-gunshy, a little more stressed trying to anticipate what’s gonna be the next <profane intensifier> harmless, ordinary thing to suddenly spontaneously combust.
For to give us eschatomoicheuontesachyrophobia — “fear of the last adultery-committing straw”
According To Hoyt 
Gifts from the fae. Yep.
In that vein, we all might appreciate this….
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MbAVitlg-y4
Okay, the flour got me. Amused
Europeans and Americans. Amused “Why Southerners aren’t in Horror Movies” clips on the Tube of You….
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F*ck yeah! We goin’ MONSTER HUNTING, BOYS!
(gets out the good ammo to feed the beast, hauls out the Revolutionary War cannon, starts welding steel sheets to the tractor)
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I’ll bring the reference books and garlic!
And hot chilies; there’s a surprising number of things actually vulnerable to hot peppers like habaneros, I want to see how they do with a Carolina Reaper!
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I just want to know what cryptid tastes like with honey jalapeno glaze. Deep fry, stew, sear, bake? Lots of culinary experiments to try out.
Rightward of bang, of course.
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Let’s run a tox and parasite screen first. After all, the whole point of cryptids is you don’t know where they’ve been! ;)
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That would depend a lot on which cryptid. I think Bigfoot would need a different set of seasonings than, say, the Flathead Lake Monster or a chupacabra.
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We’ve worked at a camp on Flathead Lake several times and never heard of the Flathead Lake Monster.Gee, what were missed!
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‘Tastes like chicken’? 🤣
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I give you Baba Yaga’s house. Of course it tastes like chicken!
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I have some issues with this… as you might well expect.
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I feel that this is an appropriate place to mention that one of my dad’s friends has a working mini-cannon on his front porch. He invited us up the canyon a few years back to sight it in, which was a real blast. :D
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Or the movie pulls some supernatural bs and makes the Monster immune to bullets.
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Son, you ain’t from roun cheer, ’cause that’s whut home-brewed nitro is for!!!
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If it’s immune to bullets, try bigger bullets. Try silver, fire, salt, acid, explosions, all kinds of stuff. Pack the cannon with silverware (actual silver) and line it up. Little bit of this, little bit of that…
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Silver, like The Brigadier vs The Destroyer?
“Get off my world.”
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Leading to Brigadier’s comment to the Third Doctor: “Just once, I wish we would encounter something that’s not immune to bullets.”
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Love it. Hiding within the banality is just so perfect.
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I remember a list that went around, way back in the early era of the internet, about “Why horror movies don’t have guns?” I only remember a couple of those, but:
Signs: “The world is being invaded by a bunch of unarmed aliens? Grab the shotguns, boys! We’re goin’ huntin’!”
Cujo: “There was this rabid dog that had me trapped in the car. I could have been in trouble if it weren’t for the .44 Magnum I keep in the glove compartment.”
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XKCD had a similar one involving a zombie virus in a lab movie. “I’ll hold the door shut while you go get the shotgun out of my car!”. The final panel notes that the remaining runtime of the movie is a romcom.
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There is in fact a book, ZomRomCom, that looks interesting on Amazon….
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For those who haven’t heard, massive and very unruly protests at the Mexican Presidential Palace today.
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Something really weird happened to me about that. I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday and I saw some saccharinne kids book about Mexico’s “first female president” on a prominent shelf being promoted, thought “huh that’s weird” and forgot about it the rest of the day. Then last night I dreamed about it, and a voice telling me that “every public figure who gets one of those stupid kids books is evil and doing and evil things, especially her.” And I woke up to the news of rioting in Mexico. Now I have to research those kids books.
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One take I saw was with the border less porous, Mexicans have to live with the situation there….and they don’t like it. She’s seen as working with the cartels.
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I have no problem with other countries being unable to export their problems to us.
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Yup, we stop being Mexico’s pressure safety valve, revolution erupts from contained pressure.
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Sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind.
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Oh, that was so funny!
Specificity really is the soul of all good communication.
(Middleman!)
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Add a few rednecks and most horror movies would be over in 20 minutes. Guns and duct tape! 😄
Seriously, the victims in most horror movies are doing the whole human race a favor by getting their stupid asses killed. Darwin Awards!
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I’d love to see some of those 20-minute movies. G
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What’s up with Word Press and emails?
I didn’t get this post via email?
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Please see #12 above and press “13579*14117938” for WordPress technical support…
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The aardvark says that the blue mice got into the brandy from the third door on the left, and the pink elephants found out later.
He’s still cleaning up the mess.
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SFBS!
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Guy in “You are hated” meme is NOT acting like it.
You do NOT walk down the road in Indian country. At worst, you move on the verge of the road so you can quickly move to concealment and cover.
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You missed part of the judge’s order to Sydney Sweeney: “…and dye your hair a garish shade of blue, and stick half a hardware store in your face.”
Politicians get money to fix the roads. But fixing roads is not glamorous, doesn’t get them in the news or signal any kind of virtue. So they spend the money on those other things, and say they have to raise taxes to fix the roads. If they get the higher taxes, they find even more ‘worthy causes’ to spend them on and the roads still don’t get fixed…
They’re not vaccines, they’re still not approved after 5 years, they’re not safe, and they’re not effective. But other than that, they’re fine!
I never cared if your beliefs were different, until you said mine were evil, and so was I, and I should be murdered for being so evil.
Vlad: “You only have to impale a few dozen. The rest will get the message and run away.” 🤣
Capitalism is a reward system based on voluntary exchange of value for value. Socialism, fascism and communism are punishment systems based on taking value from people by force.
The origin of ‘Nazis are right-wing’ is propaganda made up by Josef Stalin. Why do so many idiots still repeat Stalin’s lies?
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Regarding roads, it is also a problem of redistribution in some locales. As in, you pay your taxes into one big pot (not the whole pot, or the Pol Pot). They then get split up to counties, towns, cities, districts and whatnot based on how your good representative was at fighting for a piece of that pie.
The pot shrinks when the rolly pollies above them decide that the money is theirs to play with first, and then they spend it on “raising awareness,” or climate shenanigans, or to put up more traffic cameras, or to pay off a bad lawsuit one of their employees screwed up and created, or whatever else the idjits got in their tiny heads would make bank for them Underpants Gnome style.
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Don’t forget counting rocks and trees in the Census to boost shares of free gubmint money. Census foolery is yet another frontier of big time graft.
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Would anyone with insight into this puh-LEEEEZE explain how tats and piercings on (formerly) pretty women came to be A Thing? Has ANY man who likes women EVER said “if only she slept face-down in a tackle box, she’d be kinda cute!”
My best just-so conjecture is that a man who expected to feed & protect her and his(?) kids might want to mark her as his…? Women who were already tattooed/pierced/scarified would be showing their willingness to be so marked…? and might therefore attract higher-value men…? who might give them more (and healthier, and higher-status) kids…? hence more and better grandchildren…? so a self-sustaining cultural “beauty” standard emerges…?
Talk about Strange Attractors! >rimshot<
When I’m elected Despot, there shall be Grand Juries to determine tattoo eligibility. Nobody over a “3” gets one.
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I must steal, er, LIBERATE, that line.
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Or ‘Face-planted into a tackle box’ 🤣
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I prob’ly saw it and thought the same ;)
Memes, man. Why’d it hafta be memes? Those other critters get by FINE with just genes, but nooooo, WE hadda get all extra…
Like thumbs weren’t bad enough.
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Also, should that be a Little Goldstein Book? If you’re gonna meme, you gotta go all the way.
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Bwahahaha, yes!
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Why we need semiautomatic guns with large magazines: Because sometimes shooting the monsters once or twice is ineffective.
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Definitely my favorite of the week.
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Yeah. Like the old saw, “What did communists use to light and heat their homes before candles? Electricity.”
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And mine: “Jesus wasn’t a socialist; He actually fed people.”
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Communist flashlight:
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Got a Swiss Colony catalog in the mail, saw the, “gifted,” meme and now I’m a little down.
Why? Well, the SC catalog had sugar-free candy, which was my go-to gift for Dad, and cheese and sausage boxes, which were my, “Oh, heck, at least he’ll have something nice to eat,” gift for my brother.
And my best college friend, who I visited now and then for years, was chosen for the “gifted,” program in CA, back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when CA actually had gifted programs. Not that it did her much good in the long run. But she would have been totally down with having a gift from the Fae.
So now I’m in, “Three people I don’t have to get Christmas presents any more,” mode, and it sucks.
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This year. So many people. Each a still open wound.
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They’ve all been gone at least two years but grief hits when it hits.
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Just got back from a ‘Grief Share’ surviving the holidays workshop at a local church. The first time around without the loved one for the holidays. So many stories…
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Hugs.
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Hugs.
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Hugs.
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Seconded on the hugs.
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Anybody considering getting a nose ring should look in the mirror. Ask yourself “Am I a cow?”
If the answer is “No” then you should not get a nose ring. 😛
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Similar self evaluation for guys doing their hair in a man bun:
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And for another Toshiro Mifune meme:
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I’d take that for young Obi-wan, sure!
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I think that’s the original source. 😄
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Regarding a man bun, I would also accept this:
“If I am sufficiently skilled with a katana to behead with a single stroke anyone who would mock me for having a man bun, I may have one.”
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Dan Vasc looks dang good with a manbun.
POG*s is a long standing tradition, that much like its prerequisite of long hair, simply requires more effort than most guys are wiling to put into it. This is a flaw in those individuals, not in the POG or manbun.
*ponytails on guys; first introduced to me via a Highlander fanfiction. :swoon:
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Being (semi) bovine does NOT aid this. I refuse to have a “lead around by the” nose-ring.
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Necessary conditions need not be sufficient conditions.
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I think pigs are allowed to get them, too.
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The first one reminds me of:
Q: How is duct tape like the Force?
A: It has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.
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Regarding the woman who was happy to be single at 42 and able to go to a bar on Thanksgiving without needing a babysitter. Why did she have to add “the right hates this.”? I couldn’t care less about her life choices and, given that she appears to be stuck on “left/right”, I’m OK with her not having children to indoctrinate. A year later when she got “baby fever”, for the sake of any potential kids, I hope she recovered before finding a donor.
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Because in her mind the Right is inflamed by hatred of “strong, single, independent women.” Remember, we all believe The Handmaid’s Tale is an instruction manual and yearn to see all women -especially progressive women- chained to the kitchen between rapes.
How can she be the brave heroine of her inner story without an evil villain to justify her choices?
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Main Character Syndrome.
Everybody has to react to her choices because she is so central to everything. The truth is more Mad Men:
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From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand:
Ellsworth Toohey: “What do you think of me, Mr. Roark?”
Howard Roark: “I don’t think of you.”
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From Casablanca:”You despise me, don’t you.””If I gave you any thought, I suppose I would.”
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Now that needs to be a meme.
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I found this: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ed/b6/49/edb649ecd7ade543b9e37239f910fbd5.jpg
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Because as everyone knows (/rolleyes), the Right hates strong, self-empowered women. Which she obviously is if she’s going out and partying all night at 42.
That’s a belief held by many on the left, since as they know the Right wants all women barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.
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Re: The Car Door
Door to what? A Cadillac Eldorado, a Lincoln Continental, a Chrysler New Yorker? No matter. When I was growing up, a car like that was something old people got after they retired. Hey, they worked for years, carted families cross-country in huge station wagons (with fake wood sides and jump seats), and slogged to the office and back in Pintos or Malibus. The luxury barge was a reward, and well-earned, too.
But now I’m at that age, and they don’t make ’em like that any more. I feel cheated.
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The big SUV or truck, with 4×4 that most do not use.
At least when we had 4×4, in both rigs, we used 4×4 regularly. Wasn’t “required” when we used it. But it sure made certain situations a lot easier. Like the weekend when *camporee got a lot of rain when at a certain council property that sits in a small valley down a single access, um, “gravel” road. Non-4×4 rigs did get out, but they had to make a “run” from the short stretch that was flat and straight. Some even made it with out help at the top. Those of us with 4×4’s chose to pull out first. At least our rigs weren’t tearing up the road.
(*) May in Oregon, so wet camporee was not unheard of. Just certain planners did not take into account the relevant property characteristics. Our troop regularly used that property in winter months. But the requirement was 4×4 for transportation.
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When I had a 4 x 4, some winter days needed the 4 x 4 engaged, plus studded snow tires, and a running start. That was just getting it into the garage (N side, decent slope, lots of ice.) Winter can be interesting!
(Two Subies, one Honda Ridgeline, all AWD. I’ve got studded snows on Subie 2 (2016 Forester, my main vehicle), and once my left knee lets me put weight on it, Subie 1 (2012 Forester, now the backup) will get stud service. I’ll take the non-studded snow tires to the tire shop for the Honda. I can (usually) be picky when I go out
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All youse are thinking in terms of the utilitarian, the practical. I’m thinking of a 1977 Chrysler New Yorker:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1978_Chrysler_(3563704469).jpg#/media/File:1978_Chrysler_(3563704469).jpg
By Don O’Brien from Piketon, Ohio, United States – 1978 Chrysler, CC BY 2.0, Link
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Well, rats! That didn’t work. You were supposed to be treated to a picture of a huge, wasteful Americana luxo-barge. I give up…
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Thanks! I was hoping someone would do that!
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The term Dean Ing uses (used?) is, “two-ton turd.”
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Hah! Take that, WP!
The trick was to truncate from the octothorpe to the end of your link.
*crosses “use ‘octothorpe’ in a post without it feeling contrived” off Bucket List*
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*rereads post*
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*grabs crayon and re-adds item to list*
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Well, now I know what an “octothorpe” is, and my life is immeasurably enriched.
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Not at all immeasurable! The convenient unit is the atto-boy.
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Our Longview house on Canyonview.
The roads came up from Columbia Heights, onto Hillcrest (getting hints?), turn left on to Canyonview, which split into ***East and West Canyonview, at the top of the actual canyon. House sat on the upper side of the southwest corner of the Y, the third large lot down from the top. I’ve mentioned before we used to clear the driveway, putting the car on the north side of the house (graveled), and hiding the pickup (4×4) in the garage. Why? Because Canyonview coming down the hill is not only steep, but it has just a slight bit of a west to east *curve as it comes down the hill north. Two things either happened, well 3. Drivers could actually come down and make the slight turns west (easier, “straighter”), or more sharper turn east. More often than not they either came down and missed either turn, ending up stuck in the upper part of the canyon (which is why the 4×4 was hidden, we got asked too often for tows out) or they **slid straight into and across our driveway (which is why the car was on the side of the house, where it couldn’t be hit). Also their were two houses just to the north of our house, that were on a “private” road, that meant they had to stop at the Y intersection and turn west and take that semi-steep climb.
(*) We found out what the curve meant by getting our car sideswiped by the great pumpkin our first or second Halloween season. Kids rolling pumpkins from Hillcrest. Suppose to go straight into the canyon. Oops. Pumpkins when rolling don’t follow road curves, they go straight.
(**) That is how we got our car into it’s spot when it got snowy or icy when we came home. Trust me, no matter how slow the car came down that hill, it was NOT stopping to make the left turn into the driveway. Just slide on through the driveway to the gravel, they friction allowed parking alongside the house. Truck even in 4-wheel was get it onto the gravel, back it up, pull into garage. Getting out with the car? Back up, back down, make a run up the hill. Repeat until you make it. Oh so much fun with a clutch.
(***) East Canyonview ends in a big loop, a big loop where both sides are even steeper. Never watched the residents there navigate those sections. Wouldn’t surprise me if they parked at the top. We had a front room view of the traffic navigating Canyonview to Hillcrest.
https://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?panoid=0h2Xnd29lfCJ9r2_B8DOTg&cb_client=search.gws-prod.gps&w=408&h=240&yaw=300.4721&pitch=0&thumbfov=100
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/111+E+Canyonview+Dr,+Longview,+WA+98632/@46.15997,-122.9366336,19z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x54946cde86a3316f:0xa67ff01a834e4c37!8m2!3d46.1603434!4d-122.9361311!16s%2Fg%2F11c25_mn7r?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTExMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
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Current owners (same ones who bought 36 years ago ???) let the evergreens get huge. Lot smaller when we owned the house. The evergreens on the upper side of the driveway would catch pumpkins now.
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Why aren’t roads laid out more like luge runs, so cars and pumpkins do tend to stay on them?
Once upon a time I just cruised right on into the most lab-grade perfect black ice possible, and the Lord, still obviously pissed off at my guardian angel, had him make sure I was going at the only speed that would have kept me on the road as I hockey-pucked around the curve. A little slower woulda stuck me in the ditch up against the mountainside; a little faster and it woulda been a long way down.
Tho the curve had (obviously!) a proper bank to it, the road surface still had a convex crown. Why??? A concavity could still drain, and keep pumpkins and dumb kid drivers in their lane.
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Road (then anyway, it has been 36 years since sold, and 40 since moved out) does not have sidewalks or curbs. At least coming down from Hillcrest until one hit the Y, just the lots and lawns on the west side and most the east side, until hit the southern retaining wall on the property across from our house. No wall to hit, but the drop between the two adjacent properties was a sudden “ouch” if they went over that. Even the top of the canyon itself was less dangerous. At most they’d get stuck, maybe wheel or undercarriage damage. Most skewed towards over skidding on our side even if that meant also skidding across the apposing traffic lane. At least no one would be coming (can see what is coming, don’t start downhill if another is starting to run up the hill).
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There are sooo many homes built right under Streets of Damocles. Someone told me she’d bought her place because “there’s no across-the-street neighbor so you can see all the way down that street!”
Drawing on my mastery of English, I said nothing.
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There is a house in my suburban neighborhood that has a curved concrete wall with several large decorative boulders in front of it. This happened after the second time a car entered their living room.
I wouldn’t have waited.
(Also note that I can count no fewer than three cars into houses along a half-mile stretch of road, which is posted at standard suburban speeds and is flat, plus two cars into fencing/landscaping features on an adjoining road. LEARN TO DRIVE, PEOPLE.)
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Comment in moderation. Wonder what I said.
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Because then the water stays in them, too
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The torrent flowing ’round the curve would tend to stay in the groove until it hit one of those “cow-strainer” grids over a drainage trench whose bottom tilted outwards.
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We had a super-wet Camporee (as in not only was there continuous rain for 12+ hours, radar showed it was CIRCLING over us and wouldn’t leave us alone.) Parking area was dirt. Our Scoutmaster, having decided that since every tent failed its waterproofing, it was time to go home a night early, pulled the trailer up to the paved road first before loading, on the theory that he wouldn’t be able to pull it out fully-loaded. So that was extra trek distance, including a brand-spanking-new scout who had never been camping with us before.
And who, when asked how the sopping wet day had been, proclaimed it “awesome!”
A lot of the cars who left the next morning got stuck in the mud. Honestly, we’d done a bunch of old-fence-board signs for that one, should have left them for the mud pit. It would have helped.
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Super wet camporees are a normal event. It is in May, in western Oregon. Usually in the Willamette valley or coast range. The odds of it NOT raining the entire weekend is zip to none. The first thing we teach the newbies be they youth or adult, is how to not pitch a tent in a low spot, whether there already be pooled water there or not. How to properly use ground cloth under a tent (you do not want it visible even with decent drainage).
It is just the camporee described was a poor choice because of the steep “road” (insulting roads) down into the small valley. I mean there is a reason why Baker Youth camp has so many nice big trees and tall underbrush. Note, Cascade range is used for Klondike. It usually is good for snow camping. There was a year where it was reported more mud than snow, but usually good for snow. Note, “reported”, because I don’t snow camp.
I have snow camped once. As a 12 year old girl scout. One of the local boy scout troops invited the girl scout troop to partner on a snow camp hiking in on snow shoes. Five youth, three 12 – 14 year olds, two 17 year olds, three adults. I was the only girl scout to follow through. Snow cave. Had fun. Didn’t get wet or particularly cold. On the wet side, well was wearing dad’s uniroyal raingear (you may be young enough to know know those). Swam in them, but they kept me dry. But still, count me out on snow camping.
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Our tents all failed waterproofing, and it wasn’t particularly user error. You have to buy specific styles to get them fully waterproofed, and those aren’t common to our area troops, because that also makes them with a lot less airflow, which is critical.
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I can understand that.
Tents son’s troop used were 3 season tents. They just didn’t hold up to any snow load. Could handle rain, and some snow. When can it snow in Oregon, in particular the Cascades? Hint: Any day of the week that ends in “y”, 365-366/year. It was hilarious listening to scouts at drop off telling parents how it snowed on the campout, in August. Doesn’t stick around, but happens, while it is happening the unprepared will be wet and cold.
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My sister found our grandparents’ wedding license by walking into a townhall in Vermont and explaining that her grandparents had married here and she didn’t know the year but it was the Fourth of July and it snows.
People are amazed.
Some are amazed that it snowed.
Others are amazed that you could narrow down the year from that.
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Buy a pickup. Power, heated leather seats that recline, heated steering wheel, big sound system with satellite radio. Automatic climate control w/ AC. Navigation system with self-steering, cruise control, and collision avoidance. 4 doors with cushy rear seats with their own heaters. Weighs a ton, big V8. What’s different from the old luxo-barge?
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Height to get into?
The big trucks are huge steps for me, even without people lifting them (why???????).
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In early 2012 I parked next to one of those 10-ft-tall trucks; the driver, way up there on the bridge, tried to drive away, didn’t see my car way down there and mostly tore off my front left quarterpanel.
And, to his credit, he was still on scene dealing with it when I found all this, and was everything you’d hope a USAian would be.
Two total-stranger men both saw The Job and just got to it. The little communication needed happened mostly in grunts and head-points and one-syllable laughs. We got my car driveable enough, swapped info, shook hands, and that was that.
Today? TBH, it would probably have gone just as well. It just doesn’t FEEL like that.
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One problem with the Vlad meme is that the Ottomans won and Vlad lost. ☹️
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Depends on whether Vlad kept up the fight after his “Death” date. Extend the fight long enough and they lost, he won.
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Good point.
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Sharp points!
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The other little problem is that Vlad’s methodology was wholly dependent on not having a 1st Amendment.
You can have an effective methodology for dealing with Islam, or you can have a First Amendment. Dearborn MI is Exhibit A, and NYC is Exhibit B. Choose.
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But what about the poor neglected Third Amendment, Hmmmm? Nobody ever even notices it. There’s ever been only one decision interpreting it at the Supremes (Engblom v Carey, 1982), and other than that it only really got sideswiped en passant for a drive by penumbra by Justice Douglas in his 1965 Griswold v Connecticut decision. But it was not pivotal at all, just another emanation of the spirit of rights he wanted to exist where they actually didn’t.
Pity the poor Third Amendment.
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Not content with shredding the 4th Amendment, Alexa races toward true AGI to take out the 3rd
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Is there a Constitutional issue (beyond “cruel&unusual”–dammit, Thomas! No adjectives!) with a mandatory death penalty enhancement on conviction for any serious crime, if a jury finds no reasonable doubt that it was religiously or ideologically motivated, regardless of religion or ideology?
Like, arson, vandalism, blocking traffic–whether to express $PoliticalCause or in obedience to $Deity–gets you hanged ASAP. You know, while your Virtue’s still fresh.
It might not directly deter sooie-side boomers, but it would chill the lesser actings-out from nutbags of every ilk, which might indirectly cut into the supply of booms.
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As Uppity pointed out, several courts have already said that “culture back home is no defense” in murder cases, where the defendant claimed that honor killing was not murder, and so he was innocent. Skip the motivation and focus on murder, assault, domestic assault, breach of the peace, riot, arson, and all those things that are already illegal. Calling for the violent overthrow of the government isn’t exactly illegal, but if the means are present, then it can be prosecutable. [I’d have to do some digging into the exact federal and state statutes on that one.]
Now, can you find someone willing to push the point and focus on the criminal part, not the ideological motivation? There’s the difficulty in Dearborn, et cetera. In Vlad’s case (and Matias Corvinus), I’d say invasion, et cetera would be considered justifiable causes.
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Someday I might make a worthwhile point so clearly. But thanks.
But I was at least hemisemiserious about an explicit focus on motivation–an Ideology Crime enhancement. If Hate Crime can be A Thing, why not Ideology Crime too? It’s fine to advocate the overthrow of whatever-it-is-now, but if you try to amplify your advocacy with a criminal act? That’s an IC enhancement.
And if Mandatory Minimum Sentences are allowed for other crimes, why couldn’t the MMS for an IC be Immediate Mandatory Hanging upon conviction–gibbet on the courthouse lawn? Be it for an Honor Killing or for spray-painting a statue.
Sure, it would be busy at first, maybe for a week or so, and sure, the Usual Suspects would scream at the sky about it.
But not after 10:00 PM
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Funny how nothing about Epstein was released during the 4 years the Democrats occupied the White House and ruled both houses of Congress.
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Or during the 2024 election. Not a peep.
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Your coffee memes are hysterical. And were can I get the little golden Jewish conspiracy books? This was you out doing yourself.
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Okay, I was just looking at these again, and on the “Married couples trying for a baby…” one – is “teenagers” a not-allowed-word on social media now so they had to asterisk it?
For why?
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For to turn up the uncertainty. To get us all a little more twitchy-flinchy-gunshy, a little more stressed trying to anticipate what’s gonna be the next <profane intensifier> harmless, ordinary thing to suddenly spontaneously combust.
For to give us eschatomoicheuontesachyrophobia — “fear of the last adultery-committing straw”
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I also like the version (same picture) where the condition is, “If you can’t read this: (line of Kanji characters), the answer is No.”
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Rats. This was supposed to be on the man bun meme. 😡
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“They said Smile Things Could Be Worse, and I Smiled And Things Got Worse.”
I was gripping about not getting emails (from here) but this morning I got over 500 emails (from here & elsewhere). 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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WP: “What? I sent them.” or “Teach you to gripe.”
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Did I annoy someone with the blog keys? A whole bunch of my posts have disappeared.
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I’ll go ping Holly.
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She’s having some internet issues today, and I know someone else mentioned they saw a post they’d made, which later vanished, as of yesterday.
Might take it from WDE to an “upgrade went bad.”
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Thanks.
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No. We can’t figure it out either. WP hates you? I have no idea why
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the kid in the red sweater looks like the protagonist of 28 Years Later.
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