Mother Nature Versus The West

Between COVID and wildfires, if this was a fight the ref would stop it. I'm puzzling over the residential real estate model for San Francisco: a bunch of people earning lots of money from companies that are urging them to work remotely are paying outlandish rent to live in a city that has gruesome air quality each summer and a year-round homeless challenge. Sustainable?

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[hoyden]

This week TWIP is smoking. Turns out I'm not just a slow reader, I'm a slow viewer too. Third cuppa and not nearly done yet. At some point I will get caught up JOM too.

[hoyden]

Preaching the White Woke Liberal narrative of victimization, grievance, and entitlement does the same thing to people's minds.

[sbwaters]

Does decapitating a poisonous Brown Snake with a machete while swimming as a 16-year-old in a northern Australian river count?

[Robin, eff 'em all]

Spengler with a curious column;

At first I thought that was going to be a parable with the US standing in as the beautiful woman, but alas, it wasn't that interesting.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

sbw, I think you win the snake story award.

I've never forgotten the bit in Lonesome Dove where the group is crossing a river and the second horse stirs up a nest of water mocassins and the young man is bitten multiple times. I still have trouble wading into water where I can't see the bottom, which is pretty much everywhere.

[hoyden]

Heh.

[hoyden]

Who can tell me where I read this?

"It's axolotl season. Pickle them while they are at peak flavor."

[hoyden]

I keep saying, no more!, and then...

[hoyden]

Dang!

[hoyden]

At Insty, ASOFB,

“Charges of Imperialism would be more supportable if America regarded the world as a prize to be won rather than a nuisance to be tolerated.”

[anonamom]

Flight 93 re enactment with powerful interviews of family members who were on the phone interspersed.

Warning: you will have no problem imagining you are on the plane, or on the phone, with these courageous people, who determined what they needed to do, and did it.

https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/09/11/flight-93-its-up-to-us-now-i-think-we-can-do-it/

May be a re post from years past.
I can't find the production details--but from the age of spouses, it was produced not too long after the event. I do not recall ever viewing it though.

[anonamom]

This week TWIP is smoking.

BEYOND smoking!
May be best collection EVER!

SO MANY spot on!

Reposting so a link is on this page too

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/the-week-in-pictures-far-turn-edition.php

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

TWIP spot on with so many!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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ALERT: So now we find out that the entire Mueller “hit squad” illegally wiped their phones clean just prior to the investigation of them, all using the same really dumb reason for this “accident”, just like Crooked Hillary smashing her phones with a hammer, & DELETING HER EMAILS!

....It has now been determined that the Mueller Scam should never have been set up in the first place, there were no grounds. It was all an illegitimate Witch Hunt, & a big price must be paid. How different my life would have been if this fraud on America was never committed!!!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Was Andy McCabe ever forced to pay back the $700,000 illegally given to him and his wife, for his wife’s political campaign, by Crooked Hillary Clinton while Hillary was under FBI investigation, and McCabe was the head of the FBI??? Just askin’?

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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NORTH CAROLINA: To make sure your Ballot COUNTS, sign & send it in EARLY. When Polls open, go to your Polling Place to see if it was COUNTED. IF NOT, VOTE! Your signed Ballot will not count because your vote has been posted. Don’t let them illegally take your vote away from you!

[Melinda]

Nice job growing snowflakes:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8724409/Wealthy-white-BLM-protester-20-inspired-Stalin-wanted-occupy-luxury-homes.html

(Hiding out at her parent's weekend farmhouse in Litchfield, CT.)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Better post one on the new page too, amom.

[hoyden]

I think I'd try this on a back thread before doing it live :) :)

Posted by: Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA | September 11, 2020 at 08:56 PM

Jim, simply announce, "This is a test of JOM New Thread Announcement System. If this had been a real test you would have been instructed to click on the pic. This is only a test."

[hoyden]

I'm embarrassed to confess that I have turned on the gas fireplace twice so far and it's not even the second week of October. I'm getting soft in my old age.

[boris]

Who wants to give it a go ???
<a href="https://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2020/09/kind-of-a-big-deal-one/comments/page/1/#comments">
<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/63LJV8bq/22-F54803-E245-4-DFC-954-B-A60-D2161-D7-C4.jpg"></a>

[boris]

Easy PZ, just cut, paste, and post.

[peter]

Was scratching my head as to why I remain here in a blue hell, and now want to thank all who posted for helping me to remember. Long Island has no poisonous snakes!

[peter]

New? so Boris' 10:20 wasn't just a test? confusing!

[Captain Hate]

Here goes

[JimNorCal]

New