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Open thread 2/22/23

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  • ghostsniper February 22, 2023, 8:55 AM

    Priced mayo lately?
    Kraft – $5
    Hellmann’s – $6
    One more thing I’ll learn to live without.

  • Joe Krill February 22, 2023, 9:17 AM

    I looked at this beautiful picture of a boulder and it made me think of our United States. Majestic in beauty and strength, emanating a brilliant light, a light which if it were on top of the ridge would be a beacon to the stars. Upon closer look it appears that the boulder is about to topple over.

    • Bareclaw February 22, 2023, 1:06 PM

      Not in my lifetime —-ain’t gonna happen without taking a whole lotta veterans out of the picture

      • ghostsniper February 23, 2023, 2:43 PM

        Veteran or not, you’ll change your tune when a loaf of bread costs $100.
        Maybe by years end.

  • Anne February 22, 2023, 9:33 AM

    OK. So I must admit that it is probable our president is stumbling around eastern Europe. I jumped to quickly to the probable and was mistaken.

    Second item: Ok. It’s winter, we have ice and blowing snow.
    I offer this up in memory of Gerard’s good humor.

    https://allpoetry.com/The-Ballad-Of-The-Ice-Worm-Cocktail

  • Casey Klahn February 22, 2023, 11:39 AM

    Great photo of this glacier and a moraine as a black, looming ridge of teeth. It’s late summer or early fall; you can see that the ground is black and warm and won’t hold new snow, but the ice does. After late July in the Pacific Northwest you see scenes like this where the glacial ice is bare and all of the crevasses are visible.

    I’m placing “Biden in a Wheelchair” on my WTF Bingo Card for the remainder of 2023.

  • Geo February 22, 2023, 12:10 PM
  • Lounge Against The Machine February 22, 2023, 12:33 PM

    Open Threads are a construct of the white male patriarchy? (honk!)
    Nature scenes and snarky memes can never go wrong.
    The scenery desktop view boosts your morale and lowers BP.
    Put something uplifting on your telescreen as you control the programming.

    • Casey Klahn February 22, 2023, 4:54 PM

      Please allow me to say: go away.

  • John Venlet February 22, 2023, 12:46 PM

    I’ve been up at my trout camp/cabin the past few days, and I have to tell you that none of the alleged “news” which has transpired over the past few days interests me in the least. The stories the MSM keeps putting out remind me of the old Merrie Melodies cartoon Holiday for Drumsticks, where Daffy is fooled by a turkey, Tom Turk, to jump in the stove in place of the turkey and the old hillbilly asks his wife “Is that duck cooked yet, Ma?,” and she responds by saying “No, and it don’t look like it ever will be. I keeps alightin’ the matches and he keeps ablowin’ them out.” The MSM keeps alightin’ stories up, and most folks keep ablowin’ them out on the internet as if they have real impact and truth to them, which is as big a bunch of baloney as that old Merrie Melodies cartoon, though at least the old Merrie Melodies cartoon is funny.

    The complete movie “Holiday for Drumsticks” can be watched here (runs 6:56 on YouTube), and it’s much better viewing than anything on the news.

    • Casey Klahn February 22, 2023, 4:56 PM

      Ha ha. Agreed re: “the news”.

      Stay warm.

  • ghostsniper February 22, 2023, 1:00 PM

    Take a look at this creature.
    She is 30 years old going on 12.
    Someone deemed it appropriate to put her in a position of power.
    This sort of thing may very well be in your future.
    Her name is Emily Kohrs.
    I’m going to make my bolt hole a little bit deeper.

    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/02/22/emily-kohrs-georgia-trump-recommended-indictments-jan-6-intv-ebof-bolduan-vpx.cnn

  • John A. Fleming February 22, 2023, 3:00 PM

    Lovely. An ice block pushed up through the glacial till cover, lit by starlight. Man, I can still feel it, I have been there, it would be nice if there are still a few more days like that for me. The chill moist breeze flowing down the mountain, the hard twinkling stars far above, the pale orange glow from distant cities below the horizon, the pale westering moon dimly lighting our way. The crunch of crampons into the frozen dirt and rocks and ice, the quiet movement and talk as we wend our way upwards, watching out for crevasses and trail signs, each of us in our own pool of headlamp light, sometimes our only connection to our friends the gentle tug of the ropes. At 2 or 3 in the morning, nobody is in a talkative mood, our minds concentrating on the difficult passages yet to come. It’s the time to be calm and confident and happy to be there. All else falls away, and we are Homo alpinismus. Nothing else matters but this journey upwards into the sky.

  • Terry February 22, 2023, 3:16 PM

    Something educational, interesting (to say the least) and guaranteed to make you a stronger human being. Yes, we are all in this together and only we can fix what is happening.

    https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-mainstream-straddler?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

  • jwm February 22, 2023, 3:55 PM

    Here’s a pointless story about me and a big black bird.
    Raven in Wyoming:
    JWM

    https://catsofruatha.blogspot.com/2023/02/raven-in-wyoming.html

    • ghostsniper February 22, 2023, 5:47 PM

      Neat little story. A glimpse at the past.

      I did south dakota one time, a long time ago, along I90.
      The car blew the left rear tire about 60 miles east of Rapid City.
      Got the jack and spare out and set to it.
      SNAP!
      The first of 4 lug nuts snapped off.
      DAM!

      SNAP!
      The 2nd one snapped off.
      Scared, I twisted number 3 and it came off.
      Shwew.

      SNAP!
      The 4th one snapped off.
      This car was small and only had 4 lugs per wheel.
      Now what am I gonna do?
      I’m gonna do the only thing I could do.
      I put the spare on with 1 lug nut.

      This was March so it was getting cold as night creeped forward, gotta get moving.
      So we took off with that one lug nut and stayed in the service lane, flashers on.

      After a few mins I heard a thump and saw that tire pass me going down I90.
      WTF???!!!
      Now we’re deadlined and the cold night was almost on us.
      DAM!

      Ed, the dood that was with me took the first turn at trying to flag someone down.
      Traffic was sparse.
      We broke out the big coats and finally an old couple stopped.
      I gave them a $20 bill and asked them to go to the next city and have a tow truck come out and get us.

      It turned out the old couple were honest and after a couple hours the tow truck showed up. By midnight we had dropped the ride at the fixers place, chowed like animals at Denny’s, grabbed a 12 pak of guzz and landed in a cheap motel til we could get the ride fixed the next day.

      • John A. Fleming February 22, 2023, 9:39 PM

        Yeah, when most people are young, we do stupid stuff like that, keep rolling on one lug nut, yeah we are invincible. “What, me worry? What could go wrong?” A few guys never learn.
        Out there on I-90, the farm land is fading into ranchland, and there’s little around but the ever-present billboards for Wall Drugstore.

      • John Venlet February 23, 2023, 7:33 AM

        Ghostsniper, maybe you should’ve used super glue to fix the lugs. I mean if super glue was good enough to fix a few bolts and nuts on a British nuclear submarine, it should’ve been good enough to fix a mere lug nut on a car. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Good enough for government work.

      • jwm February 23, 2023, 12:24 PM

        Four lug nuts. Van or Beetle?

        JWM

        • ghostsniper February 23, 2023, 2:46 PM

          4 lugs usually indicates 13″ rims. I believe the ride was a 1980 Chevy Monza. Surely coulda used a van cause we had a lot of equipment we were dragging with us.

      • Kristin February 25, 2023, 2:58 AM

        Just thinking about this:
        did you ever think of taking one lug of two other tires so most tires had 3 lugs to continue?
        Or maybe they could have snapped off too…..
        We’ll never know….

    • Anne February 22, 2023, 9:36 PM

      Maybe pointless but enjoyable nevertheless!

  • Anne February 22, 2023, 9:38 PM

    whoops–still learning this new system. My comment above about “pointless” was in response to JWM

  • Anne February 22, 2023, 9:39 PM

    Sorry to hear about the lug nuts! Glad you had the good sense to have big coats and a friend with you!

    • ghostsniper February 23, 2023, 3:41 AM

      We were on our way to Alaska to hunt, trap, and fish.
      We were prepared for anything, except stuck lug nuts.

      • John A. Fleming February 23, 2023, 12:15 PM

        Well, with 3 out of four studs breaking off, and you all being young and on an epic road trip, it sounds like the typical young man thing of buying the cheapest car you could find for the money you had, which means you were driving a small beater midwest environ’ed rustbucket. Yeah, good times that, good times.

        In the old days the young men had to go out alone into the wilderness on a vision quest. Today, they drive the AlCan to go hunting and fishing. I envy you sir, well done.

        • ghostsniper February 23, 2023, 1:20 PM

          At that time, 1980, I had sold my 1970 Camaro SS that I had purchased in 1974 before I went in the army. Looking for the least expensive way to get to alaska, we found a company that delivers vehicles nationwide and hires people like us, me and my friend, to deliver them. We drove a brand new Cougar for an old lady from Ft Myers, FL to Rochester, NY where my friend used to live and where all his trapping equipment was located. From Rochester we got another car to drive to Ft Lewis, WA for a woman married to an army dood and she was not capable of driving that far. That car was a small chevy, I don’t remember the model, and it too was brand new. I think they paid us $200 for the first ride and $400 for the 2nd one, and we had to pay for the gas we used, which was about 40 cents a gallon.

          From Seattle we rode a jet to anchorage, AK on $99 tickets.
          A couple months later we flew back down to Seattle on $99 tickets and that was the last time I was on a commercial flight. Between my friend and I we had 2 rifles, 2 shotguns, 4 pistols, hundreds of rounds of ammo, and many blades, all of that stuff in the cabin with us piled up on a couple of empty seats. The idea of hijacking the plane never crossed our minds. Imagine that!

  • ghostsniper February 23, 2023, 3:46 AM

    On Wed, Feb 22 2023, a 19-year-old male negro, Keith Melvin Moses, shot and killed several people in Orlando, Florida. Moses also has prior firearm possession charges, including attempted first degree murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, burglary, grand theft and armed robbery with a firearm. Why was this person not in jail already?

    https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/02/23/heres-what-we-know-about-the-suspect-in-the-deadly-pine-hills-shootings/

    We see this sort of thing over and over and over.
    What good are MORE gun laws when the old gun laws are not being enforced?
    Whomever purposely allowed this feral animal loose in society should be brought up on charges.

  • Casey Klahn February 23, 2023, 12:14 PM

    Speaking of being one lug nut short of a wheel assembly, your favorite POTUS and mine has a big fat bruise on his forehead where he kissed it hard against the steps on AF1. Maybe he didn’t cannonball down the steps of AF2 earlier, but it sure feels like it belongs to the Biden oeuvre. His handlers are saying that’s not a bruise, it’s an Ash Wednesday marking that some Polish priests christened him with. Well, far be it from me to deny a blessing to our dear leader. Don’t the Polish Catholics know Biden’s a Jack Catholic, and on the outs with the Pope?

    Yesterday the conservative House voted for a resolution to make the Ar-15 “America’s Rifle”. That’s good politics, because next thing you know old Balls Biden will be trying to ban the America’s Rifle. I’m a little rusty on my legislative knowledge, but would it be possible for the House to attach a rider to the rifle ban that would require the ATF, FBI and DOD to also divest itself of the M-4 and AR series? Put that on Biden’s desk and compare nads.

    I want: the GOPe House members on Twitter and on the air talking shit non-stop, and making The Left very uncomfortable. 24/7/365. I want them to make Trump look nice by comparison. It’s got to happen, before the shitshow goes South and we have to fight our way out of a Communist America. Trump was too harsh for you? Boy, you need to cometoJesus, and fast. We need to cleanse the temple outer court, and whip the money lenders like cur dogs.

  • ghostsniper February 23, 2023, 1:07 PM

    Papa mole sticks his head outta the hole and sniffs, “Ah, I smell spring in the air.”

    Mama moles sticks her head out beside him and says, “Oh, smell the earth waking up.”

    Baby mole tries to get by the two to stick his head out and there is no room.
    He finally sits down and says, “All I smell are molasses.”

    • Kerry February 24, 2023, 5:43 PM

      Pure cornball! Love it and will use it on some unsuspecting person!

  • Anne February 23, 2023, 4:48 PM

    Oh. . . Geez Louise! 🙂

  • Anne February 23, 2023, 4:53 PM

    In 1965 my baby was about 6 weeks old when I got a job driving this brand-new thing from Long Beach Harbor out to the various dealers who were beginning to sell the. It was almost unheard of–selling Japanese cars in America. We had an older man who would assign us to which dealer we should take the brand new Datsun Pick Ups and then he would come by in his big car and pick us up and drive us back to Long Beach where we picked up our own vehicle. I mention my little girl because I took her with me–one of the few ways to make some good money and not have to pay a baby sitter!

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