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[Threadkiller]

JOM is a small world, fdcol63.

[Narciso79]

Ok institute ginger game rules already

https://nypost.com/2019/04/24/team-trump-didnt-try-to-stop-un-from-cracking-down-on-wartime-rapists/

[Jack is Back!]

Does anyone besides me think this Dem primary is another version of Hollywood Squares?

[Old Lurker]

That too, Jack. The KY branch did coal mines in WV, and Dad's branch did chemical companies in the Kanawha Valley post WWI. So I spent Gr 6-12 in Charleston. Mom spent the war years at the farm, commuting to your alma mater to get her masters in Aeronautical Engineering, and then to Goodyear until Dad came hold and had us kids.

Remember the story I told about Mom: "That's MY wheel!" when I took her to Dulles to see the Enola Gay at the Air & Space Museum?

[Buckeye]

Porchlight,

You would love the Lexington area, and there is NO way it is anyway Libtard like Austin.

They just don't tolerate much of that in KY:)

Kinda like West By God in that respect.

[Old Lurker]

"JOM is a small world, fdcol63."

And judging by just today, some of us are probably cousins even if the Family Bibles don't document the details. Thank God.

[Captain Hate]

This is great!

Remember that judge who let the illegal alien slip out the back door and avoid ICE?

Indicted today!

(Seems DOJ is working again too!)

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y3lz5hvz
Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2019 04:24 PM (NtglE)

[Narciso79]

More like Rubix cubes,

[henry]

CH, Southern Comfort is blended on the banks of the Mississippi in St Louis. Always considered it our revenge on the rest of the world.

[Narciso79]

So supervillain Christopher hasson was released on bail,

[Extraneus]

Count me in the Southern Comfort disgust club. All it took was one bad night, long long ago.

[MissMarple2]

I ran out to the store eto get a few things, and the afternoon guys were making fun of Biden.

His campaign manager is a black gal who is on tape saying that they need minorities in charge of the party and no more old white guys!

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

OL: "the guy in the street just remembers all those doctors in white coats in the Rose Garden cheering Obama on."

Weren't those just staffers and guests? They brought a bunch of white coats and invited the people in the audience to put them on.
At least, that's what I remember

[Old Lurker]

I think you are right, Jim. But it worked.

[Porchlight]

After petting one and moving on to the next, Mom casually said "That was Secretariat...when you get older you will know how special that was."

Holy cow. Really? I'm in awe.

I know that if you told that story before, I didn't see it. I would remember. I was four in 1973, so Secretariat has always been immense in my mind.

[MissMarple2]

I love it when people bring up his old tweets. Democrats, beware!

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
18 Jun 2014

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't" --General George S. Patton

[Old Lurker]

Every word was true, Porch.

[JM Hanes]

Is there anyone who hasn't had at least one bad night with bourbon?

[Porchlight]

I will just put this out there.

If you've run out of nice things to drink and there is a dusty bottle of Southern Comfort on the top of the fridge and you just happen to have a few lemons and limes around, a Southern Comfort sour with plenty of ice (and no extra sugar added, since the stuff is already sweet) is not that awful.

[Buckeye]

OL

The Secretariat story is special.

The same US Senator cousin I mentioned, Mrs. Buckeye's grandmother and John Galbreath were lifelong friends. Adjacent farms as kids, went to Ohio State at the same time, and the guys were best buds as adults.

John kept horses both in the Columbus area and Darby Dan farms in the Lexington area.

Mrs. Buckeye spent several Sundays checking out the stables here as a little girl. Not far from her childhood home. Grandma would take her and her sister.

She said the stable hands treated them very well, let them feed and brush the horses and pretty much get the full experience.

[Old Lurker]

I threw up a little in my mouth just reading that 5:12 Porch.

[Melinda]

((Waves!!))

[Porchlight]

It's not that I don't believe you, OL, just that it's so exciting.

BTW I just ordered some real Ky country ham, so once I get some more bourbon, I am fully prepared for Derby.

[Extraneus]

Weren't those just staffers and guests?

How about the doctors in Madison, WI, who were handing out sick notes to the protesters so they could take the day off? Btw, were any of them disciplined by the AMA?

[Melinda]

*Everything else, just not bourbon.

[Porchlight]

You gotta be creative, OL, when you have small kids and can't just dash out to the liquor store. :)

My kids are big now, though, thankfully.

[Old Lurker]

Buckeye "John Galbreath"

Now there is a giant from that corner of the world.

[Porchlight]

Buckeye, good to know about Lexington, thanks. Mr Porch said he didn't talk politics with his friend in Lexington, but he got the impression he and his buddies were pretty conservative. They in turn probably assumed the band were all lefties, which is true, except Mr Porch.

[JM Hanes]

Porchlight:

It seems like you having babies just yesterday!

[Porchlight]

The baby just turned nine a couple of weeks ago, JMH! He's heading off to camp for four weeks in June up in Minnesota. I will send away a boy and get back a little man. *Sniff*

[Old Lurker]

But Porch. It should be illegal even to possess a bottle of SC. The Man could take your kids away from you if you got caught.

[Beasts of England]

The worst hangover I've had in the last ten years was from drinking Woodford Reserve (St. Regis, Atlanta - private barrel). It was, however, marvelous. Thankfully I was traveling with a young nursing student who helped assuage my hangover. And yes, that was a humblebrag. :)

[Buckeye]

OL

Mrs. Buckeye remembers him sitting in the kitchen of her Grandma's modest house drinking coffee and chatting. He and Grandma would have been well into their 70s or 80s.

Rumor has it they went on a date or two in high school.

[Porchlight]

It's well-hidden, OL, behind the lunchboxes.

[Gentlejim]

JiB,
I’d forgotten you’re solo for now. That would make it a challenge.

I also have a seat on the bad night on SoCo express. I may have even had a monthly pass.

:)

[MissMarple2]

Reuters Top News
‏Verified account @Reuters
7m7 minutes ago

At marathon news conference, Macron launches fight back with tax cuts https://reut.rs/2IGApuL

[James D.]

Off to see Avengers Endgame. I promise no spoilers!

[Extraneus]

Speaking in a gilded hall at the Elysee Palace, seated behind a white desk with the French tricolor and European Union flags flanking him...

That must piss off some Frenchmen.

[MissMarple2]

Pam 2 Retweeted
Joey #NoCollusion
‏ @JoeyNoCollusion
9m9 minutes ago

Joe Biden had 28 years to call Anita Hill and only decided to call her a few weeks ago to smooth over for his Presidential bid. The man is a sleazeball. I don’t personally care about the whole Anita Hill debacle and support Clarence Thomas, but let’s play on this to divide Dems!
========================

Exactly right. For someone who opened his campaign with a lie about President Trump being a racist, I have no scruplesabout stirring up trouble for Biden. And really, to only call her a couple of weeks ago? Pretty shabby, if you ask me. (I didn't believe her, but that's beside the point.)

[MissMarple2]

Extraneus,

It seems to me that the EU is really only good for the Germans and maybe Belgium.

The French have always been proud of their national identity and I think you are exactly right.

[James D.]

MM @ 5:43

Is there anything about Biden that ISN’T shabby?

[Porchlight]

What was Biden supposed to apologize to Anita Hill about? That Thomas was confirmed?

She walked into that with eyes wide open. It was rehearsed, for goodness sake. She is where she is today because of her testimony, and everyone knows it.

These people are so mendacious, every last one of them.

[Extraneus]

Has Romney endorsed Biden yet?

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

"How about the doctors in Madison, WI, who were handing out sick notes to the protesters so they could take the day off? Btw, were any of them disciplined by the AMA?"

Yes, some doctors side with dot Gov now. I took one of our kids in to Urgent Care once and the doctor started asking about guns in the house out of nowhere for no reason.

[Extraneus]

Due to Grassley's reluctance, Blasey Ford will be like St. Anita 30 years from now. Both liars who should have been fully slimed.

[Extraneus]

It's not for no reason, Jim. They apparently have a checklist of required questions and that's on it. I tell them, "None of your business," and they back off immediately.

[Gentlejim]

Jim,Sunnyvale,
Those questions popped up years ago at my doc. I told them I’d only answer questions directly related to my health and they could stuff the other questions where the sun don’t shine. They haven’t been asked again. I imagine my permanent record reflects that I’m a touch uncooperative.

[Gentlejim]

I forgot to add that schools are also asking about firearms in the household. I believe those questions are holdovers from the 404 era.

[Buckeye]

That is a question I never felt bad about telling an untruth.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Not all doctors ask about guns. In my experience most do not. I assume the ones who do are pro-Dem and favor big Gov't

[Jack is Back!]

The one Doc who asked that of me when giving Frederick his exam was told to mind his medicine, not my personal proclivities. He was young and hammered and yawed until I told him that "you have a weird set of questions for a kid who needs a physical". His response, "I need to know". My response, "No you don't and you won't now just get on with the physical."

He did and in the end, apologized. I asked him if he carried. It was like asking an Owl if he was silent at night.

[henry]

Guns at home? Here in rural WI they quit asking that one. Now they do the “are you depressed?” questions at each visit. Are you a nurse or shrink? Just tell me to exercise more often, eat more vegetables, and cut down on fats (I did say rural WI) and let me out of this dump.

[Jane]

How do you throw 4 strikeouts in one inning?

[Porchlight]

I tell them, "None of your business," and they back off immediately.

And then they mark "yes" on the form. :)

Seriously, I just lie and say no.

[henry]

Jane, first you randomize the batters’ eyeglasses, then your catcher has to drop a strike three and not throw the batter out at first (for one of the first 3 batters that inning).

[Jack is Back!]

Jane,

Happens a lot.

You throw a strike 3 but its a wild pitch or missed catch by the Catcher. Runner advances to first base. Next guy up is struck out. 4 SO's. Happened a number of times.

[henry]

Technically, if they ask if I have a gun at home, I’m not lying if I say no.

[Jack is Back!]

henry,

Mine is in the car. Not at home.

[Captain Hate]

Clarence Thomas despises Biden, if that paste eating piece of shit is pretending to make amends.

[Gentlejim]

I like this post by Tito:
https://gab.com/media/image/bz-5cc1dd96429c3.jpeg

[henry]

JiB, I wasn’t counting the carry piece. Just the several scary black devices, plus fine woodwork devices In the safe at home list in a tragic canoe accident far from home.

[Jack is Back!]

henry,

I only have my dad's 30.06 he used to accidentally kill a moose in Newfoundland. And the training weapon he brought back from Germany in WW2. It's a small .22. Never fired it but I may let Frederick after we clean it up.

But if that piece had a load in it, I would not want to be an intruder to face it..

[clarice]

When the doctor's forms ask race or ethnicity (I think a federal requirement) I always write none of the government's business on the form.

[MissMarple2]

Edgar the cat has gone to live with my son and his girlfriend. He is going to have a 20-mile car ride in a cat cage, which it only took us an hour to get him caught and inside. LOL!

It is pouring buckets here. We are supposed to get 2.5 - 4.3 inches of rain here. Just what we need!

[Jack is Back!]

clarice,

Same for me on the Census form. Never had them come to the house to challange me.

[Another Bob]

“Is there anyone who hasn't had at least one bad night with bourbon?”

Wild Turkey 101 was mine.

Wasn’t as bad as it could have been due to the presence of a brunette.

[Jack is Back!]

since the Caps have crapped out, I am going with the Blue Jackets. have no idea why but they seem to be a team on a mission.

[lyle]

My one bad night was scotch not bourbon. Cutty Sark. Still can’t stand any scotch. Even the expensive single malt stuff.

[anonamom]

WHOA! Professor Althouse and I are on the same page---and is SHE EVER PISSED!
Her cruel neutrality is all gone today--in its place, oh so righteous anger.
She is more articulate than I, and she is spot on:

How dare Biden rest his campaign on a blatant lie — a lie that has been used to stir up fear and racial discord?! The hypocrisy of offering to bring us together and embrace lofty values when he is either repulsively ignorant or just plain lying!

I could not finish watching that video. I tried, but I couldn't force myself. It's utterly toxic bilge.

If Biden does not come forward and retract this video and apologize and commit himself to making amends, I consider him disqualified. He does not have the character or brain power to be President.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/04/bidens-announcement-video-is-anchored.html

[henry]

JiB, I have a piece of wood in 30-06, lever action. Lots of hello in those. Another piece of would is a semiautomatic 22LR. Fine for plinking and varmints. A fine trap gun made in Italy, a 870 Rem, and a semiauto duck smacker all in 12g. Plus the scary black ones (308). A chair trap for clay fun, zombies for self defense, spinners for plinking, and bowling pins for the reach out and touch (500+ yards). Then there is the artillery (trebuchet and friends). All modern (post 1980).

[Captain Hate]

Since rich won't be here, I'll have to have a bierfest for him:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/64/382383/

[Captain Hate]

Father Hate used to drink that Cutty Sark swill for whatever reason. I don't even think they should call it scotch.

[henry]

I did have a census person show up on my doorstep to do the long form in person. 2000 census. Almost ran out of beer before the govt finished. I never got an answer on how that squared with the 4th and 5th Amendments.

[Another Bob]

“Lots of hello in those.”

Gotta remember that line Henry. I like it.

[MissMarple2]

My son's girlfriend is A-OK. I wasn't sure about her because she is an elementary teacher, but tonight she asked me if I was going to see Trump downtown. I told her no, I would if I could, but parking is going to be bad and I cannot walk up to the nosebleed section at Lucas Oil Stadium due to my knees.

I told her I had gone to see the one here in the fall with one of my sisters, and how great it was. She said she has been a fan of his even before he ran for president, and she thinks he's great. YAY!

So we got to talking about all that is going on, and I told her about FBI 302's and how those are the ONLY records of witness interviews and that they are done afterwards from the agent's memory and impressions, and boy was she shocked!

Then she remembered that we NEVER see any videos of agents interviewing witnesses or suspects with the FBI, and she thought it was BS as well.

Hardly anyone knows this is the procedure, so I suggest telling everyone about it. Even liberals will find that a bogus way to operate.

[Jack is Back!]

henry,

You're armory more impressive than mine but if the shit hits the fan, I know how to fly a Buffer:)

[MissMarple2]

Paul Sperry
‏ @paulsperry_
3h3 hours ago

DEVELOPING: It is now looking as though there is more evidence that Obama had a heavier hand in interfering in the 2016 election than Putin

[Extraneus]

I always write none of the government's business on the form.

I told my tale about resisting the American Community Survey before, but that was probably almost 10 years ago (!).

Almost none of the questions were valid government business. They hounded me on a land line, threatened me with legal action if I didn't fill it out, until I spoke to one guy and told him I thought it was an unconstitutional invasion of my privacy.

He asked if he could ask me a few of the questions and promised he'd record my answers verbatim. I said ok and he ended up getting almost all "None of your business" answers. I don't know how he abbreviated that in his system, but that was the end of it.

I hope I'm not singled out again this time, 'cause I'm a lot less cooperative now than I was 10 years ago.

[Buckeye]

I have several newish shotguns, but also one that dates to the late 1890s. Family hand-me-down.

It is fired on occasion, but only with a light target load shell.

No it isn't worth anything, they made hundreds of thousands of them.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2019/04/25/shocker-cnn-exposes-bidens-plagiarism-calls-him-poor-quality

How about that!

[JM Hanes]

Clarice:

On the last census form where they asked for race, I wrote American.

[Narciso79]

A throwback to how drudge used to be:

https://www.whatfinger.com/

[Captain Hate]

Obviously Kurt is unacquainted with the parking ticket fixing brilliant legal mind of Patterico:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/04/25/what-do-the-never-trump-losers-do-now-n2545203

[Jane]

If you are spending that much on the homeless, why not just give them the m9ney ?

[Neo]

Had a tooth extracted this morning.
Boy! I had forgotten just how painful that can be

[Tom R]

Off to see Avengers Endgame. I promise no spoilers!

Thanos is a Black Hat.

[Beasts of England]

I'm bored...

[Extraneus]

Take up another instrument, Beasts. I've been playing bass for days, always had one but never spent the time before.

[Another Bob]

Beasts, I suspect you’re a guy who bores easily.

No babe or boat tonight?

[Extraneus]

Catherine Herridge:

Strzok-Page texts suggested using post-election briefing to gather information on Trump team

Text messages between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page indicate they discussed using briefings to the Trump team after the 2016 election to identify people they could "develop for potential relationships," track lines of questioning and "assess" changes in "demeanor" – language one GOP lawmaker called “more evidence” of irregular conduct in the original Russia probe.

Fox News has learned the texts, initially released in 2018 by a Senate committee, are under renewed scrutiny by congressional investigators reviewing the genesis of the FBI's counter-intelligence probe that was opened in late July 2016 by then-agent Strzok.

It was not clear from the messages whether Strzok and Page merely sought to build bridges with the incoming administration, or wanted to engineer the briefings to investigate Trump and his associates.

“This is yet more evidence that the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation was filled with irregularities," Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said. "The more we discover about the true origins of the investigation, the more abnormal it appears in every conceivable way.”

Late Thursday, citing the same text messages and other incidents, GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security Committee chair Ron Johnson sent a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr inquiring about the DOJ's review of "FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign," and seeking more information on the transition counter-intelligence briefings as well as media leaks.

"Were these efforts done to gain better communication between the respective parties, or were the briefings used as intelligence gathering operations?" Grassley, R-Iowa, and Johnson, R-Wis., wrote. "Further, did any such surveillance activities continue beyond the inauguration, and in the event they did, were those activities subject to proper predication?"

[Momto2]

JIB -
It's just me here. Hard to hold her and do the procedure.

This is what I've done in the past. Try putting her on a table that has some nearby spot to leash her (Like a sturdy light fixture or ceiling hook. Picture something like a groomer's table set up. I would hang the fluid bag from the same place.

Then, use high quality treats to distract her and keep her still. Something she normally doesn't get (I use rotisserie chicken or good luncheon meat pieces.)

Once you get the needle inserted, you can just hold her still until you've got enough fluid under the skin. Good luck~

[Narciso79]

Well what else Is new?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273561/6-dem-senators-sell-out-jewish-terror-victims-daniel-greenfield?fbclid=IwAR1yYxnR7QgG_GTeih9F7ND4JKECRtkgeFX3BMjLDrDkiWtQUDG29lk5bog#.XMH0SmQisQM.facebook

[GUS]

If any DR axes me if I have guns. I'll say YES, HUNDREDS. Would you like to see one???

[Narciso79]

I thought they were in the capsized canoe gus?

https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2019/04/25/morning-consult-politico-poll-showing-biden-8-over-trump-is-suspect-just-look-at-who-responded/

[Beasts of England]

I'm a nerdy introvert so I'm rarely bored, Another Bob, but it's an off night! lol

~ ~ ~

Sad to report that I don't own a bass at the moment, Extraneus - even though it was my instrument in bands and in the studio. Glad you're enjoying it - there's a lot more to it than first glance!

[JM Hanes]

I saw a poll somewhere with results like the one Porch posted w. Trump at 38% -- might even be the same one. When I looked at the breakdown of respondents, the poll included something like 250 Republicans, 369 Democrats and an even higher number of Independents. The last figure was the one that struck me, even though I can't recall it precisely. I suspect there are a lot of Trump voters hiding in the Independent number!

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Posted before? But take a sec to check this out if you didn't view it.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/328809/

Biden's logo ("is it just me, or do the red stripes look like fingers grabbing a boob?")

And the logo for the Virginia Lt Gov (accused of rape) "We Rise To Get Her" along with a phallic symbol.

[JM Hanes]

Beasts:

I've always thought people don't get bored because they have nothing to do. They just don't want to do anything because they are bored to start with. In any case, here's a little antiquarian guessing game for distraction.

Can you identify the following mystery items?

Mystery #1:

Mystery #2:

Mystery #3:

[Beasts of England]

Those sample biases will only get worse as we move into 2020, JM Hanes. If Trump leads in a single poll I'll be stunned. He has no path to 270 - it's gonna be an early night!! ;)

[Beasts of England]

The top photo is a boiled artichoke, the middle is Biden's campaign, and the bottom photo is an abacus. How'd I do?