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I got more out of comments here than from Ben's new post about the Canadian shooting. AoSHQ is a great resource. "Live! Happening now! Everything!"

Fuzzy painting thread up, too.

D-Lamp > "It isn't really possible to stop someone from posting here, especially if they are willing to keep changing their nic."

Not so much the nic as the IP. But, yes. You don't have to join up or be approved or verified, and I hope that never changes on AoS. But if it's like that, either you put up with the trolls, or you have a banhammer-armed guard on duty as attentive as the regulars, so the trolling gets deleted practically immediately. That little contest will usually frustrate a troll to quitting, I'd think.

So, obviously, Ace needs to pay for more guards. That stingy old miser.

sven10077 > "It keeps the place lively...."

The retorts and hectorsockers are mighty entertaining. But the frequency of the trolling is not.

Reading would be nicer, quotebacks & replies would be fewer, if trolls could be hammered more swiftly. Just noting.

Impressive how many comments accumulated here while I checked out the previous thread & Vic links. Temporally disorienting, though. Where am I?

Looks like I got here just in time.

Hrothgar > "For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake."

This reminds me, you know which one picture I found jarringly out of place in the otherwise delightful ONT hawties pix link?

(OTOH, I think Barbarella's were my first big-screen nips.)

Since Republicans will always win here in The Land of the Redskins, the real Senate race was decided in the GOP primary. The RINO beat the TEA partier. I feel deflated about the state and the next six years with this guy. I'm sure he'll work with Boener.

Plus, he keeps sending me texts. "Did you register?" "Want a t-shirt?" I can't get them to stop. Wish we hadn't blown it in the primaries. The other guy was someone we needed.

naturalfake > "Just. How. Insane She. Can. Be. There is a sickness in America and it's name is the Democrat Party."

Pretty much what I keep thinking as I've watched her spiral into absurdity and insanity. Say anything, no matter how stupid, then double down on stupid. In a normal society, a dangerous madwoman like that would be legally confined for some serious psychotherapy, but, then, so would half the country at this point.

"Population density and freedom seem to be inversely proportional." -Jean

Hence, Agenda 21's goals of a population exclusively dense. (Yes, both meanings.)

Suburbia, the rural-urban hybrid, is a consequence of the fading of urban centers. It's inimical to urban crowding, so it is the enemy of the urbanizing tyrants. The "factory" city which clustered workers is largely gone. The Internet, the automobile, and timely mail-order mean one can live semi-rurally without feeling isolated. Unless you just have to live close to the Theater District, or you just have a thing for walking streets that smell of bus diesel and urine, then you can practically be anywhere. As a general rule.

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He said as if he had a clue.

OMG I KILLED THE THREAD!

3dashes> "Greg Abbott only wants to ban interracial dildos."

… for the handicapped.

Mòrñíñg, Glôrïès!

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If Milady Webworker were commenting here instead of to me, she might say, "I love that term, 'the jig is up.' My mother used to say that all the time."

Darwin Awards Challenger. I'm sure this fellow had everything tested and measured out and figured he knew what he was doing, but all I could think of is, what if there's just one piece of debris dangling from the undercarriage of any car? I guess because I think that way I'm not this guy.

Nation's #1 rat-infested city, Chicago, not even counting the Democrats. (Although the pic of the Mayor on Breitbart looks pretty rat-like.)

When we lived in Chicago, I visited neighborhoods where you'd see rats, but our neighborhood wasn't ratty. Living by the lake shore with its corridor for wandering wildlife could be interesting, though.

One day, our little daughter ran in, saying she'd seen a rat in the back yard, "this big" (hands more than a foot apart). When I asked if that included the tail, her hands went twice as wide. The janitor confirmed there was an opossum that had taken up residence under a stairway across the street.

One day I watched what I thought was a huge cat walk into the street, and sit up on its back haunches and look at me… with its shining eyes in its little bandit mask. Yup, a raccoon.

One day we had a squirrel get in the house. He kept flying at and smashing into the windows — all except the one I'd opened for his escape. He finally hit the exit, and, we're a half-flight up from the ground, the little guy just sailed out into space like Rocky. Wheeeeee.

For the bat, at least we had a butterfly net.

But no rats.

Good afternoon. Now that I'm at the real computer, some links, today especially in honor of our hardworking Pete and of course his DW.

Attempted purse snatcher learns about Instant Karma in the form of irate bus driver, ends up glad to see cops. (c/o I Own the World)

Cruz’s patient and excellent answers kept me going through a good part of this clip, but Crowly just got more and more annoying, until I hit a point where she sounded like, seemed to be doing, exactly what she did when she interrupted Romney in the debate. I stopped watching.

I’m thinking of editing the clip to just Cruz’s answers, then maybe it would be watchable.

Posting from my cell in the boondocks.

Pete, you really spoiled my image of you having a nice, relaxing day off.

May Jesus hold her in his heart, and keep a hand on your shoulder getting through this, too.

Caught up. Sun's up. Pets want feeding.

Y'all say clever things for me to read when I get back.