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Hump Day!
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Dave, you can’t kill a blog this early,……..”Hold my Beer” 😀
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1948 GMC FC101 1/2 ton Campbell Highlander.
Starting as “depot hackney” type trucks in the 20s, the wood body passenger carrier was produced for three decades until the steel version, the GMC Suburban, replaced it with a more practical body for maintenance and service. The GMC Suburban will begin its 82nd year of production in 2019…one name, one style, for 82 years. Amazing really.
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SCHWEET Woody!
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Never cared for the woodys for some reason. Just out of place to me.
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This is great and was produced by an Aussie accounting firm.
The tax system explained in beer !
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Well, my back is not in bad shape this morning, considering the bounce involved in my shuffle dancing class. I guess I can go forward.
It does make for a good workout.
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You want an example of the Deep State at work ? This is golden.
The chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr R-NC, along with ranking minority member, Mark Warner D-VA, authorized the funding of this study. I don’t know if there were objections from other Republican committee members, but this committee has a huge staff and operating budget. I suspect the senior staff recommended this leftwing outfit and Sen. Burr is either too clueless or doesn’t care about the integrity of these people. Possibly, the staff hired by Republican leadership are undermining those members – who knows ? Now they get their extremely biased, anti-conservative, anti-Trump “fake news” agitprop entered into the congressional record as an official, government document.
A new study has claimed Russia’s online interference tried to aid the conservative movement and Donald Trump. There’s a big problem with that assessment. It comes from a left-wing operation that previously classified more than 11 different conservative outlets as “junk news.” And two of those authors were also involved in this report.
The study was released by the Oxford University Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika. It argued that fake accounts, ads, and tweets “all clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically Donald Trump”
The Oxford University Computational Propaganda Project had attacked several conservative outlets as “junk news” in previous studies. Those targeted outlets include Drudge Report, NewsBusters, CNSNews, MRCTV, Breitbart, the Daily Caller, Free Beacon, LifeNews, National Review, the Federalist, and the Red State. (Three of those are operated by the Media Research Center, which runs NewsBusters.)
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Morning gang. Heading out on a road trip tomorrow so gotta start thinking about some of that stuff. And on top of that we now may have to add mh menu planning to our daily activities list, but hopefully phil has that under control for now. Not much else to report on today. Mason plays New Deal at 11:00AM today for the state championship in football, so I may try to find some way to keep up with that game off and on. OK, I’m off to start my todo list for my trip. Meanwhile, you all have a great day.
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Man, this girl is breathtakingly beautiful. I’m glad she won. Brunettes rule.
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They picked a female??
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Are you people assuming xir gender?
I didn’t realize you were such transphobes.
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Oops, I’m a day off. State football playoff games don’t start until tomorrow.
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On that note, if someone is biologically female but identifies as a male but wears wimmin’s clothes, would that person be a trans drag queen?
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#13mh42
Whadidyuh have for breakfast?
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#11 Texpat, no argument from me, very attractive lady.
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Somebody mention that the NY house rep was dumb as a bag of hammers, but did you know that we have Smart Hammers out here at the Rocket Ranch? They are used in modal testing so we don’t often need them, but the other day, a NASA Puke was looking for one but after the move, none could be found. I was digging through one of our 49 cabinets and found three of them from 8 Oz to one pound.
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I read his analysis but I ain’t buying all of it.
Yes we know about the McTurtleDove, the @$$ kissing, Deep State Uni-plant but the buck stops with the president and he needs to veto if no funding for the wall.==Just do it.==He told the NY Mayo Stain he would do just that.
Two more years of the illegal alien invasion and the Stoopy GooPees will become extinct and that’s the way they want it and like it.
The Deep State government of the Deep State by the Deep State and for the Deep State is heading the USA train straight for the cliff and it’s going to go over and take us with it.
I bet that blows Mr Potato Head’s spud wad right off his pooped back Mako shark’s butt.
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Whadidyuh have for breakfast?
My mundane diabetic’s breakfast: cottage cheese with cut grapes — out of bananas for days now — an oat breakfast bar, washed down with sugar-free Crystal Lite.
I am working on my week-before-Christmas grocery list, just about to wrap up and head out. If bananas and milk weren’t so perishable, I’d go to the store a lot less.
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Before I go, in case I haven’t told this story Over Here, about our Santa Claus for-hire at the d-r-e-a-d-e-d HOA Christmas party last Sunday… I know I posted a link to his pic, but this story is about what happened at the end of that event…
Here’s a story about him from the Sunday event. It ran from 2 pm to 4 pm. At the end, he said goodbye to residents and board members who were still hanging around, then walked to where he had parked his car down the block. He was just driving away when another family walked up at 4:15. Mom & Dad were disappointed that they had arrived too late, but as Santa drove past the house that had hosted the party, he spotted the new family, stopped, put his hat back on and got out to greet them and pose for pix. Perfect ending for the event.
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The part they didn’t show
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It took me sixty-three and a half years to discover that people – perhaps billions of people – actually cut their grapes.
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The only gadget Mom never had.
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Po’ man’s grape cutter:
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Mom never said a word when we kids would compete to see how many grapes we could put in our mouth.
Was she secretly hoping we’d choke to death?
We’ll never know.
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Very healthy breakfast.
Very non hoi polloi.—unless it’s Grey Poupon cottage cheese.Whadareyuh having for lunch?
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It took me sixty-three and a half years to discover that people – perhaps billions of people – actually cut their grapes.
The Grapes of Halves.
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I’m always amazed at the infinite ways humans find to waste time…like cutting grapes in half.
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Cut grapes. Seems unnecessary to say or do.
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#30
Ha!
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I’m thinking a half grape could get stuck in your windpipe just as easily as a whole one.
Probably easier.There ya go. Mom really was looking out for us by not cutting the grapes.
Thanks Mom,
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I’m always amazed at the infinite ways humans find to waste time…like cutting grapes in half.
Maybe they try and shape the half of grape into a SpyDuck figure before consuming it.
I bet that’s kind of fun. I may try it.
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If the president signs the Omnibloat extension bill with no wall funding provided then I’d have to say the NY Mayo Stain kicked his political @$$.
I think he should go all out since he may only have 2 years left.
Veto the bill.
Fire Ferris the Truth Impaler.
Fire Rosenstein.
Release all the classified Docs.
Dump some chives on Mr Potato Head’s spud butter.–Oh wait. That’s what Mika the Mako’s sushi is for.–🦈 🦈 🦈I’m not talkin’ about pleasure boatin’ or day sailin’ Mr President! I’m talkin’ about bustin’ @$$ for a livin’, I’m talkin about sharkin.’
Porkers? You talkin’ bout Porkers, Mr. Potato Head?
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If I am eating grapes as a snack, I don’t cut them. If I add grapes — and these were big juicy black grapes — to a fruit salad or to my breakfast cottage cheese — I like for the juice to mingle and flavor the dish before I eat it.
Simple answer. Doesn’t bother me even a little bit if anyone thinks that’s a waste of time.
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Now that I think about it, isn’t it a waste of time for some a youse to criticize everything I do? I usually have a well-thought-out reason for most of what I do.
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Critical thinking is never a waste of time, we are improving humanity one blog member at a time.
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We must now discuss the proper way to cut a grape in half. I see the conflict as being roughly analogous to that of the proper way to cut a peenbutter sammich: lengthwise, widthwise, or diagonally. Talk among yourselves.
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And we learn as well, I may add something like “cut grapes” into my vocabulary, say like, “chewed cereal”. 😛
/just razzin you MH, you know you can handle it
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Hear, hear.
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I anticipate there will be additional discussion among the diagonally cut aficionados debating the direction and angle of the cut…..
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Speaking of cutting sammiches, I just made a big ham-&-cheese sammich on lightly toasted cheese-&jalapeno bread. Now that bread was baked in a loaf pan so it has big “muffin tops” hanging out on both sides. The slices aren’t even close to being square. When using regular square sammich bread, I cut width-wise but a little above center, so I can give the larger “half” to Hubs. With this bread, I cut top-to-bottom making 2 halves that each have the silhouette of a pregnant woman’s torso.
Note this also answers phil’s question in #28.
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Whadareyuh having for supper?
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Plenty of time to figure that out after my nap…
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Yup the prison reform bill is the biggest reason why I voted for President Trump. I wanted more criminals released into our streets and neighborhoods.
Losing.
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How long do yuh nap?
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WAKE UP!! What time do you want us to wake you?
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Fitty
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I don’t bother cutting sandwiches in half. Just jam it down the old pie-hole.
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WAIT A MINUTE!!
Am I the only person on the couch that noticed the cartoon woman in the OC pic looks like she is laughing maniacally? And the gun. Is that silencer on the front end?
Off scene is a grizzly setting of her family members shot because Christmas fell on the first day of her week.
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Prolly a good thing that week only happens once a month.
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Texpat
Man, this girl is breathtakingly beautiful. I’m glad she won. Brunettes rule.
Catronia Gray, Miss Universe.
Compared to what? I found a picture of her without makeup.
PFFFFTTTTTTT what ya gonna do with that anyway? Sit and stare at it? one touch and the illusion of beauty will be broken anyway.
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What about the crust. Does anybody still cut the crust off them sammiches? OK, so far in preparation for my trip tomorrow, I’ve moved the cooler from it’s storage spot in the hall where I left it when I returned from the last trip in anticipation of eventually putting it away back to the kitchen table. I haven’t decided to use it as a suitcase or to put ice in it and use it to take leftovers since I don’t like leaving stuff in the fridge for 2 weeks while I’m gone. Other than that, nothing. Maybe I’ll get inspired here shortly and get organized, or maybe I’ll take a nap although it’s getting a little late in the day for that. Back in the good old days, I could just leave home and stop at the Walmart for any clothes that I might need once I got there, but things have tightened up since then. OK, gotta get crackin’.
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A federal judge on Wednesday took the extraordinary step of ordering that asylum seekers who sued after their deportation be returned to the U.S. to have their claims heard anew, ruling against the Trump administration’s revised asylum policies.
Republican lawyers are the stupidest in the world.–US Code 1182, shipdits.
it continues courtesy of the Deep State.
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Is the Fed Chairman Powell (rhymes with Mao) part of the Deep State too?
He comes on tv and tanks the market. An 850 point swing.
The Hell?
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Going on?This guy is messing with millions of people’s dough.
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Won’t see the light of day on the Mr Potato Head Newspeak Media of the Mobs and Mako Shark sushi airwaves.
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MARK ROBER is my hero.
This guy is not a prankster, he just got tired of people stealing his packages and exacted his very funny revenge. The vid is about 15 minutes but well worth the time to watch. I mean what else ya gotta do? Work? C’mon you are on sittin here on the couch waiting for the next comment.
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It’s hardly surprising that the Fed Scum would step up and do their part to destroy this President.
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Leave it to an engineer to figure out the perfect foil for the package thief. A similar deterrent device is also making the email rounds likewise created by an engineer sick of having packages swiped from his front porch.
However the one above has the advantage of spewing glitter all over the perp, and that is darned hard to brush off, especially when the perp opens it inside his vehicle….
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It’s hardly surprising that the Fed Scum would step up and do their part to destroy this President.
The mudder puddger obviously doesn’t know what the Hell he’s doing.
I only listen to one talk show now in the afternoon and the callers on that show are 100x smarter than anyone in congress when it comes to wall funding.
But then again the people calling in actually want a secure border and country unlike congress.==The reason congress likes the prison reform bill so much is because they themselves are criminals they just don’t want their criminal brethren they’re releasing inhabiting their hoi polloi neighborhoods,
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The glitter bomb was featured yesterday, and then I pointed out that there was a solution involved expressed fecal matter of various breeds of canines, and a timer.
Frankly, I like the poop bomb better. People may be willing to chance glitter a second time, but rarely will they take a risk on a poop shower.
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Merry Christmas to me. As part of online shopping found the parts to put the Evel Knievel long stalled project pinball machine back together. Pretty sure the technology is old enough to be spyduck safe.
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What I want for Christmas, just saying, not asking. https://www.guitarcenter.com/Regal/RD-05-Resonator-Bass-Guitar.gc
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Bit of history on Dobro and National resonator guitars. Before they went electric all the sound came from the instrument. Those were a way to keep up with the horns.
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Ok, I had a nap, fed the cats, spent the 6 pm Family Hour chatting with Hubs — actually 42 minutes — and NOW I can reveal that I made what I call salad starters. I take out 4 salad bowls and cut up the right amount of leaf lettuce into them. Next I cut some slices of cucumber and green onions into the bowl. I buy pre-shredded carrots in a bag that lasts me for maybe 16 salads, and add some of that to each bowl. Making a salad starter takes about half of the time to make a complete salad, so it’s much easier for me to have a salad for supper almost every evening.
I put each starter bowl in a plastic bag and close it with a twist tie. These easily keep for a week in the fridge, and I like the efficiency of NOT getting out all those ingredients every time I want a salad. I just take out a starter bowl and add on the toppings I want. Tonight I added foil-pack tuna, grape tomatoes, Tillamook’s farmstyle shredded cheese, some croutons, and a Ken’s low-fat dressing. Watched a tv show I had recorded while I ate my salad and washed it down with skim milk.
So that’s my story.
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Now it’s time to load the dishwasher, and then I can do anything I want to for the rest of the evening.
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Whud are you gonna have for breakfast?
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Phil, just skip all that and meet her at Ihop.
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Phil, just skip all that and meet her at Ihop.
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Am I the only person on the couch that noticed the cartoon woman in the OC pic looks like she is laughing maniacally? And the gun. Is that silencer on the front end?
Ya know, at first I was gonna taker issue with you becuase I thought all moms laugh maniacally. But then I thought we may have stumbled over an explanation of some of the things in my childhood……
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Crazy Mom Syndrome
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I asked her if she played slide with a Craft-mans socket like Lowell George, she answered no, they make those things for that.
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78 gto
Ain’t she just a honey.
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#66 – They HAD me until digressing into the frenetic Allman-Brother-ish-jam-without-near-the-level-of-talent-to-actually-sell-it at the end…………..
It’s possible to produce a crescendo without merely cranking the volume for goodness sakes!
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#65 – HoleeSCHMIDT a Dobro Bass?
sign me UP!!!!!!
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Think she is playing a Dobro here.
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#83, looks a lot have. Shipping dates are back to February.
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Let’s get moving. It’s a travel day. Winds are NW up to 40 mph, so I’ll be bucking headwinds most of the way. You all have a good one, and I’m going to be scurrying around here trying to figure out what all I need to take with me.
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Mornin’ El Gordo!
Where we going?
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Off to Dallas, then maybe a swing through east Texas and the Lufkin area later. I’m pretty well stuck in Texas and don’t have any need to go outside the confines of our beautiful state.
I did have a stroke of luck when I decided to start packing. Seems I never actually unloaded my bag from the Thanksgiving trip, so most of the stuff that I need to take (but will probably never use) is already ready to go. Being lazy does have its benefits after all.
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I have two Ditty Bags that stay pretty much loaded, one for road trips and one for hunting, each one loaded appropriately, I.E. the hunting one always has heavy socks and long johns in it. That way, all I have to do is add a few items and go. Speaking of which, I’ll be heading to Alabama on Saturday, my wife is already there, along with Lil’ Dawg.
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