November 29, 2021

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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Mop 'N Glo
Edith Vonnegut

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The Morning Report - 11/29/21

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning, kids. Monday and I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving holiday despite the dissolution of our world which continues mostly unimpeded, and taking on even more alarming dimensions, as the dash towards the Christmas holiday begins. I better not use the word "Christmas" for the benefit of any Brits who might be reading the blog since UK lawmakers have now banned the use of the "C" word as it is deemed offensive to certain minorities. Westminster Abbey is going to become the Hagia Sofia in a few years time, for sure. But I digress.

The main battlefronts in our societal dissolution are mass looting sprees across the nation and the perpetual mass insanity of Chinese COVID fear porn. This time, it's the Omicron variant. The "Xi" variant was nixed by the Chinese-run Word, I mean, World Health Organization for some unknown reason. Hmm. In any case, over the past few weeks the consensus, at least around here, was that poor man's Mengele, Anthony Fauci, had seemingly outlived his usefulness to the junta as the confirmation about the origins of the Chinese virus actually was - gasp! - China, and that Fauci and company used American taxpayer dollars to actually funded the Chinese lab in Wuhan and who the hell knows where else in that G-d forsaken accursed land to conduct research in weaponizing coronaviruses for biological warfare purposes. Mission accomplished.

I view the leadership of that country as power-mad, amoral, soulless G-dless fiends willing to do anything and everything to quite literally conquer the world. And isn't this really the story of the Democrat Party, and Islam? Ironically, the actual Chinese COVID-19 virus has proven to be about as lethal to the general population as the most virulent strains of seasonal flu. Something like 0.06% IFR or thereabouts. I don't give a flying fuck about how fast it can spread, infection rates, the case numbers, and most of all the death statistics. We know for sure that the WHO as well as our own corrupt HHS, CDC, NIH and all the rest of these bureaucracies and sadly greedy hospitals and healthcare providers are counting those poor souls who died WITH the virus as having died FROM the virus.

The virus itself is relatively harmless; yet another cause of death among the litany of things natural or manmade that potentially can kill you (especially for the elderly and immunocompromised). What it did do was, in effect, create a global societal upheaval that truly evil people here and abroad have used - and continue to use - as a pretext to destroy our freedom and then remake society in the way they think it should be organized. Naturally with them at the top.

So, Psaki-Psircling back, the usual suspects with their willing mouthpieces in the agitprop media are doing the Chicken Little boogaloo about Omigod Omicron! Yet it's still Fauci being trotted out in front of the cameras to proclaim himself Minerva (with the teeny-tiny penis) and anyone who dare challenge him as a blasphemer. The fucking gall of this criminal is radiant, and yet still he persists.

If you just look at the science, the longer a virus persists in the environment, the weaker it gets thanks to, wait for it, herd immunity as well as the natural resistance of those who were infected or even became symptomatic. As it mutates into other variants, it gets weaker and weaker with each passing one, until over time it's essentially gone from the environment. This has been the case since long before even Lucy tripped the light fantastic in Olduvai Gorge as she and Moonwatcher took windy walks to gape at the Monolith. Perhaps hundreds of millions or even a billion years before primordial cellular life started to diverge.

But Anthony Fauci is not to be questioned since that is blasphemy against science, or something. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, a massive crime wave of evidently organized looting is sweeping across the Democrat paradises-on-earth, i.e. urban nightmare shit-holes, as people can't seem to comprehend what happens when you defund the police.

Though the so-called "experts" suggest people shouldn't call flash mob looting "looting" because it's allegedly only used to describe "people of color or urban dwellers" who are engaging in such behavior (it's not), that is indeed exactly what's been happening at an elevated level especially in states like California over the last couple of weeks.

Unfortunately, things took violent and deadly turns last week when security guard Kevin Nishita, who was providing armed security for KRON4 on behalf of Star Protection Agency, was shot Wednesday as an assailant(s) tried to steal the news crew's equipment while they were filming from the scene of a prior flash mob looting incident in downtown Oakland. Sadly, Nishita died early Saturday morning:

The victim is Kevin Nishita. He leaves behind a wife, two children and three grandchildren. Nishita worked as an armed guard for Star Protection Agency. Prior to working as a guard, he served as a police officer at the Oakland Housing Authority, Hayward Police, San Jose Police, and the Colma Police departments. A reward of $32,500 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest.

In another violent incident, a security guard was assaulted Wednesday after a flash mob of looters crashed a Nordstrom's department store at Topanga Mall in Los Angeles . . .

. . . The incidents are too numerous to mention in one piece but they all have one common denominator: The vast majority are happening in Democrat-run cities/states. In California in particular, some are blaming the spike in crimes involving "smash and grabs," other robberies as well as the rise car break-ins on "woke" District Attorneys who tend to take lenient approaches towards the accused/convicted that other prosecutors have acknowledged have only led to more crimes and more victims.

This is what happens when insane Marxist ideologues are "elected" as district attorneys and attorneys general; they unleash hell on the general population, up to and including Darrell Brooks who last week committed an act of mass terrorism with nary a peep out of the media. Or worse, the media blaming the SUV and not the cancer behind the wheel. Meanwhile, Kyle Rittenhouse has had his life destroyed because, remarkably considering the brainwashing of the past 2-3 generations of our children, decided to go to Kenosha last year not to Burn Loot and Murder, but to defend the lives and property of the citizenry from this wave of terror, ultimately having to use lethal force to save his own life.

And make no mistake; that wave of terror if not organized by the highest echelons of the anti-American Left including the Democrat Party, was cheered on as a means, along with the lockdowns and the evisceration of the wafer-thin election integrity laws on the books, to destroy Donald Trump's re-election chances.

I'll state it right here; This current crime wave is either directly organized or at the very least approved of as a weapon of political terror. They want another Kyle Rittenhouse to defend himself or property as a pretext to grab weapons, make mass arrests and so on. Not only because they fear not just 2022 and even 2024, but they fear that everyone sees who and what they really are and what their intentions are. Worse for them, that in the wake of the 2020 election theft and everything that came after, more and more of the general public are slowly realizing that when Democrats are in power, the world - their world goes up in flames. And that pairs will with "Omigod Omicron! The sky is falling! Mask up! Shoot up! Lock down!"

Yes, the Dems fear an election wipeout but the real fear now is the frog not only trying to jump out of the cauldron, but if it does, it will grab the nearest knife or AR-15 and shove them into the pot, slam on the lid and crank up the heat. The question is, considering the absolute stranglehold the left has on the levers of power and mass communication, as well as the instrumentalities of power disguised as legitimate governmental institutions, do we as a mass of people have the ability and crucially the will to overthrow them, regardless of what that might require and the consequences?

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Daily Tech News 29 November 2021

—Pixy Misa

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (11/28/21)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

"We've just moved from lots of confusion where most people were not aware, could not figure out, if they were eligible for a booster," Jennifer Kates, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation

Quote II

"Across the board, retailers are getting more concerned with this growing trend. … It is definitely a tough problem to solve, given the organized nature and number of people involved in many of the incidents," Chris Walton, a former Target executive

What is needed is deterrence. A fatal gunshot wound I think is a good start.

Quote III

That’s OK, I’m just going to do my job and I’m going to be saving lives and they’re going to be lying. Dr. Anthony Fauci


Quote IV

“I’m sure… we would be forced to have people of different colours and different sexes and a trans person – but life doesn't have to be like that,” “We can be separate and different. Our generation made a lot of mistake, but not everybody in our generation was wrong and not everybody in this generation is right. A lot of people from our generation who are being called out have actually done a lot of good in their lives.” Queen's Brian May


Quote V

“At its core, Hanukkah recounts a story at the heart of the human spirit — one that is inherently Jewish and undeniably American,” Resident of The White House, Joe Biden

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The T-Shirt of The Week

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Belated Comment of The Week


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Gun Thread: Three Days After Thanksgiving Edition!

—Weasel

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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

So what's up? Did everyone have a nice Thanksgiving? Did you have a nice meal and remember to give thanks? I am extremely blessed in life and I take every opportunity to give thanks for all that I have. Despite all of our problems, I sincerely believe I hit the jackpot on Day 1 simply by being born in this country. I also think I'm pretty damn lucky to have the opportunity to write the Gun Thread every week and to hang out here with so many of you. Yep, very blessed, indeed.

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Food Thread: Give Me A Twist In My Martini, And As Long As It Isn't Peppermint, All Is Well!

—CBD

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That's a lousy photo of an empty martini glass with an orange twist.

Heresy! Blasphemy! A crime against all that is good and fine in martini-land!

Well...yeah, but it tasted good so I drank it anyway. Because that is all that matters. Was it as good as a classic martini with a nice oily lemon twist? No, but it was certainly interesting and different and definitely good enough to have another the next night.

It reminds me of a friend who used to be a bartender (a damned fine one). He would love to try to embarrass me with weird drinks and stuff with feminine-sounding names and kids drinks spruced up with booze.

But most of them tasted great, because he couldn't help himself, so I would happily guzzle chocolate martinis and Cosmos and fruity drinks with umbrellas.

The first rule of Food Club is: If it tastes good...enjoy it!

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First-World Problems...

—CBD

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In retrospect I should have used my Speed Square, or at the very least marked out the correct angles with a knife before I cut the pie, but I was frantic, and the drool was getting out of hand.

Yet three days later I am left with a chaotic piece of pie that is embarrassing in its asymmetry. That is not to say that it didn't taste wonderful...the recipe calls for chopped pecans in the filling, which adds a wonderful texture and flavor!

Next year I will do better!

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If They Can't Take Away Our 2nd Amendment Rights To Possess Weapons, They Will Take Away Our Right To Use Them In Self Defense

—CBD

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The year-long persecution of Kyle Rittenhouse is merely the latest and most compelling example of the multi-front war against the 2nd Amendment and every American citizen's right to keep and bear arms. The pro-forma weapons charges with which Rittenhouse was charged were a triviality, and it is entirely possible that they were brought incorrectly (or maliciously).

The real charges were the conflation of legitimate self defense with first degree reckless homicide. The message is clear and unambiguous; do not use your legal weapons in self defense, because the full weight of the law will be brought to bear.

The McCloskeys got a taste of that in St. Louis last summer, courtesy of a Democrat apparatchik who was so over-the-top with her charges and political rhetoric that she was barred from prosecuting the case...but the case was not dropped!

The strategy is smart and chilling. It is clear that the multi-generational drive to demonize guns and the 2nd Amendment has failed in the short term, with constitutional carry becoming more and more popular and the civil unrest fomented in part by the enemies of the 2nd Amendment has driven an unprecedented interest in guns as a defense against that unrest, especially since the government has demonstrated conclusively that it cannot and will not protect its citizens from violence.

So the next step is to make any use of a gun in self defense so incredibly expensive and potentially life-altering that people will think long and hard before acting in their own or their community's defense. Read Andrew Branca's excellent book for a sense of how difficult the defense of even a clear-cut case of self defense can be.

But it is entirely possible that the rapid breakdown of our legitimate legal protections by the progressive elite will yield unintended consequences. Imagine the Kenosha riots, but instead of Kyle Rittenhouse doing what he did, there were several hidden shooters whose goals were less noble. Instead of merely protecting life and property, perhaps they would be playing a more punitive role...well hidden and almost impossible to to discover.

Rooftop Koreans indeed...

Addendum: From Andrew Branca!

If anybody would like a FREE copy of our book, "The Law of Self Defense: Principles," just cover the S&H, I've set up a special free book offer just for the horde:

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--Andrew

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Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-28-2021

—OregonMuse

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Cărturești Carusel Bookstore, Bucharest, Romania

Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes, wine moms, frat bros, and crétins sans pantalon (who are technically breaking the rules). Welcome once again to the stately, prestigious, internationally acclaimed and high-class Sunday Morning Book Thread, a weekly compendium of reviews, observations, snark, witty repartee, hilarious bon mots, and a continuing conversation on books, reading, spending way too much money on books, writing books, and publishing books by escaped oafs and oafettes who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read. Unlike other AoSHQ comment threads, the Sunday Morning Book Thread is so hoity-toity, pants are required. Even this morose twink, who's obviously not looking forward to getting the hose again, would be allowed.



Pic Note:

Apparently, the building used to be a bank:

This wonderful building was built in 1903 by a wealthy family of Greek bankers, only to be confiscated by the Communist regime in the 1950s. It was turned into a general store and later abandoned and left to decay as Communism collapsed.

The grandson of the banker, who originally bought the building back in 1903 requested that it would be returned to his family, as legal heirs... It took 24 years of battles in court, untangling bureaucratic loops, and finding the proper documents in archives, but he finally took possession of the decaying building in 2007. He then began its remarkable transformation to the Cărturești Carusel (“Carousel of Light”) bookstore that stands today.

The extensive renovation went above and beyond, creating a stunning shop considered to be one of the most beautiful bookstores in Romania, and even the world...The store’s three floors spread across more than 10,000 square feet that hold as many books. There are elegantly curved balconies on each of the upper levels, a large open space in the middle, and a teahouse on the top floor that offers a great view of the entire bookstore.



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“Excuse the interruption,” said the elf on his left, spitting accurately into the dwarf's left eye, “but I couldn’t help overhearing your conversation with Gabby Hayes. Are you in fact the boggie with the bijou?”

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11/28/21 EMT

—krakatoa

Happy Sunday

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Daily Tech News 28 November 2021

—Pixy Misa

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Saturday Overnight Open Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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The Saturday Night Joke

Biden finally breaks down and visits a remote northern native village. With news crews following him around as they tour the place, Biden asks the chief if there was anything the people need.

"Well," says the chief, "We have three very important needs. First, we have a medical clinic, but no doctor."

Biden whips out his phone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes and then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive in a few days. Now what was the second problem?"

"We have no way to get clean water. The local mining operation has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for thousands of years. We've been flying bottled water in, and it's terribly expensive."

Once again, Biden dials a number, yells into the phone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "The mine has been shut down, and the owner is being billed for setting up a purification plant for your people.

Now what was that third problem?"

"We have no cellphone reception up here," the chief says.


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Moar humor. November 22nd was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Rodney Cohen. (H/T Isophorone Blog)

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [Moviegique]

—Open Blogger

When I was a boy, the greatest of the secular holidays--if you'll forgive the oxymoron--was Thanksgiving. It sat defiantly on a Thursday and, fortified by the mythology of America, simultaneously closed the stores and clogged the airports and the bus stations. Gourmandizing aside, it was--and still is--a holiday that defied commercialization because its elemental substance was gratitude. So it is perhaps unsurprising that, encroached on one side by the increasingly commercialized Christmas and on the other by a Halloween metastasized from ever -expanding childhoods, Thanksgiving has not been a font of pop culture. Or, as Loudon Wainwright III put it:

Suddenly, it's Christmas right after Halloween
Forget about Thanksgiving, it's just a buffet in-between

(Wainwright's thoughts on Thanksgiving can be found here.)

Up until a few years ago, when John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles emerged from the cinematic soup of the '80s as a modern Thanksgiving classic (and setting aside the second best Peanuts special), the film I most associated with Thanksgiving was The Best Years of Our Lives. So ingrained was this in my head, I was rather surprised on a recent viewing to discover Thanksgiving makes no appearance in the film whatsoever--though it was released one week before Thanksgiving in 1946.

No Thanksgiving, but a whole lot of giving thanks.

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Saturday Afternoon Chess thread 11-27-2021

—OregonMuse

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GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR)

The perspective in that photo is kind of odd. Those chess pieces look ginormous.

Moviegique will be along later with the movie thread. As always, the chess/dress pr0n thread is an open thread, so there is no such thing as an off-topic comment.



Beginner Problem - Black To Play (1321)

Goal: Black can force mate in 2 moves
Hint: It's another kind of smothered mate


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The Ace of Spades Pet Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thank you for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

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Thanksgiving Weekend Gardening and Puttering Thread

—K.T.

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Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to all you gardeners, putterers and nature enthusiasts! The photo above (and one below) are from The Famous Pat*:

This is my 'Autumn Blaze' maple, nicknamed Eric the Red, caught at its peak on Oct. 31st. It's silhouetted against my northside neighbor's "French Blue" house.

That tree is breath-taking.

This is my silver maple, nicknamed "Jupiter" (for the King of the Gods, and you can see why), on Oct. 31st, with my house dwarfed in the background. It's past its best color, alas. I'm standing by "Eric the Red", at left.

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Some history you might be thankful you didn't live through

—K.T.

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Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! I thought it might be interesting today to consider a little history, and maybe think about some aspects of it that we might be thankful that we didn't have to live through.

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There is a lot we can learn from it. But sometimes we forget how difficult the Revolutionary War was, not only for George Washington's troops, but for teenagers and even children.

. . . childhood in Colonial America meant growing up fast. New Mexico State Historian Rick Hendricks says that "the concept of teenager is something that is relatively new. In the 1770s, at the time of The Revolution, nobody would've really understood the concept of 'teenager.' You were young, and then you were an adult."

According to Kirk Ellis, who wrote and served as co-executive producer on HBO's 2008 miniseries John Adams, "Children [in the Revolutionary era] came into their maturity much sooner than they do now. John Quincy Adams was only 13 when his father packed him off to Russia as secretary to our ambassador to the court of Catherine the Great. John Quincy was already fluent in several languages by that time, including French, the language of the Russian court."

Teens were involved in the American uprising against British colonialism even before The Revolution. Ellis said, "A teenaged apprentice named Samuel Maverick was one of the five people killed in the so-called Boston Massacre, when British soldiers fired into a crowd of angry protesters on the night of March 5, 1770 -- one of the initial sparks that would eventually flare into the American Revolution."

The comparably accelerated adulthood of colonial youths came in handy for both sides when The Revolution began. Rebel militias took in fighters as young as 10, while the British military drafted men ranging from 16 to 60 years of age. It was expected that the youngsters take on the brunt of the fighting and marching while the older men stayed behind to defend their hometowns.

Children and teenagers not involved in battle took on other roles. Because of their seemingly innocent appearance, boys and girls were able to spy on the enemy and relay information back to their sides. University of New Mexico history professor Richard Melzer explains, "They had these big cloth buttons, and sometimes they would sew messages inside the buttons on their coats. And then they would wear the coats and deliver the message. When they got there, they would just pop the button and there it would be."

Smallpox affected them, too, on top of the rigors of war.

Compare the fighting teens of the American Revolution to the Petrograd Women's Death Battalion of the Russian Revolution, before the Bolshevik takeover. Setting an example for the men.

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Saturday Morning Coffee Break

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

—J.J. Sefton

Good Saturday morning. Another fun hobby thread yesterday and thanks to the commenters who so graciously offered their help with my project.

Time for some breakfast pie and coffee.

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Daily Tech News 27 November 2021

—Pixy Misa

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  • Gluten-free chicken nuggets acquired. After my fifth grocery order in three weeks.

    I also have bread and rice, so now it's just gluten-free breakfast cereal that's out of stock everywhere. Well, the crappy brands are readily available, but inedible. The good brands, which are Kellogg's and no-one else, are not to be found.


  • Correlates of Coddling: How an entire generation of college students came down with brain worms. (PsyArXiv)

    It's a psychological study following up on the 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind. Only problem is psychological studies are barely in a better state than those college students:
    A total of 812 participants began the study. After removing the data of participants who did not finish the study, the final sample consisted of 786 participants (653 female, 127 male, 6 other/unspecified).
    Yeesh. No selection bias here.


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There Stands The ONT Like A Stone Wall! Rally Behind The Morons!

—WeirdDave

Happy Friday Horde! Thanksgiving is behind us, which means that we're now starting Christmas season. That means that Christmas memes will begin making an appearance on the Friday Meme Madness!

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Football Toys Of Yore

—Buck Throckmorton

Pro football used to be something I took interest in (before NFL football fields became a showcase for anti-American tantrums), especially when I was a kid. My buddies and I had all the games and toys. Thanksgiving weekend was always the apex of the season, with NFL games on TV all day on Thanksgiving, followed by the Texas-Texas A&M game that night. There were more college “rivalry games” on Friday and Saturday, followed by another full day of NFL on Sunday, wrapping up with a Monday Night Football game.

And we had football toys to tide us over during the other days of the week.

Watching kids of my day play with this toy looked very much like people of today furiously typing on their phones. Thumbs were flying.


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Did any of y’all have electric football sets?


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Electric Football always looked so fun on the commercials. It was also very exciting setting up all the pieces for the first play…which always ended in a big scrum moving in a slow-motion circle. Then we’d spend a lot of time putting all the players back in place for the 2nd play, with the same result. The average game lasted about 4 plays as I recall.


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Here’s a vintage commercial for NFL Electric Football.

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Happy Fun Thread: Day After Thanksgiving Edition!

—Weasel

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Howdy, Y'all, and welcome back to the Happy Fun Thread, Day After Thanksgiving edition! You can stop eating now! Well, right after you make the post-Thanksgiving sammich I invented.

Weasel's Turkey Sammich
2 slices squishy white bread with every possible nutrient removed
Some leftover turkey
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S&P

Turkey, mayo and S&P go betwixt the bread slices. Prep time: < 2 minutes. Enjoy!

Welp, another Thanksgiving is in the can. Friends and family are thankfully gone, the kitchen is clean and the extra dining room table leafs are back in the hall closet. Did I forget anything? Is your refrigerator jammed full or did you send stuff home with any guests you may have had? Inquiring minds would like to know in the comments, below.

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Coming Soon To An AoS Near You!

—WeirdDave

I've been doing pop culture all week, and I thought I'd finish the week on the same theme. My first offical job as a teenager was in a movie theater. I started as a doorman and usher, then did concessions and box office, finally working as a manager. One summer I worked as an operator (non-union projectionist) when I was living in Ocean City, Md. Always in demand were old posters (one-sheets) from movies that had left the theater. I've still got a big box of them somewhere, I always thought they would make a dandy wallpaper for a game room or something, but I never had a house with such a dedicated room. In any event, the first question of the day is, what are your favorite movie posters? Doesn't matter how good the movie was, I'm just talking about really good posters themselves. Here's mine, I have it framed and hanging on the wall of my office:

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Last Embrace was a 1979 film starring Roy Scheider about an ex-CIA operative. His wife had been killed on his last mission, and now people around him are dying. Is he going crazy, or is he the target of some nefarious plot? It was a pretty good movie, but I just love the one sheet art. (BTW, I'm pretty sure the picture above is of an insert ( 14” x 36” ), not a one sheet( 27” x 40” ), but it was the best picture I could find).

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Sefton's Thanksgiving Edition Hobby & Craft Thread (no, not actual thread, although...)

—J.J. Sefton

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Hey kids. Hope you're all enjoying the long weekend and as we begin the Christmas season, it's time to start thinking about trains, planes and automobiles - of the model variety.

So, make like you're a kid again and press your nose up against the hobby shop window while dropping the not so subtle hint to mom and dad about how that Lionel Blue Comet would really look great circling under the tree.

As always, use caution with the chemicals and materials you use. Now let's head down to the basement, garage or craft room to be creative and have some fun!

PS: Still in search of someone who can help me with a miniature machining/engineering project. Reach out at admin@cutjibnewsletter.com

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What Won't The Left %#@* Up

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

I grew up in a traditional Midwestern home. My brother and I served as remote controls for our father and mother. TV viewing consisted of 3 major networks and PBS.

After the Thanksgiving holiday Christmas shows started hitting the airwaves. They were wholesome shows without a political agenda. Those were the good old days.

Leave it to the Woke Left to %#@ up Santa Claus and his lovely bride. Santa is gay.

A new ad for the postal service in Norway portrays the story of a man falling in love with Santa over the years and ends with them kissing to celebrate the decriminalization of homosexuality in Norway.

The nearly four-minute long ad, entitled “When Harry Met Santa,” begins with a shirtless man wandering downstairs and discovering Santa dropping off gifts before vanishing up the chimney.


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Media: Biden’s Devastating Inflation Is A Good Reason To Eliminate Beloved American Traditions

—Buck Throckmorton

Your Thanksgiving meal was a lot more expensive this year. As Clay Travis notes below, wholesale turkey prices are up more than 300% from Thanksgiving 2020 (when Donald Trump was President) to Thanksgiving 2021 with Joe Biden as President.


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Our despicable media, which has been doing everything they can to make excuses for the Biden administration’s wage-destroying inflation policies, is finally acknowledging that inflation exists. (And the inflation rate is a heck of a lot higher than the transparently dishonest 6.2% the Biden administration is reporting.)

The media’s solution? Eliminate the wonderful traditions of the holiday! They tell us you can do simple things, such as eliminating the turkey. Or no longer gathering together with family and others you care about.


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The hate-America left, which includes the media, are unrelenting in their quest to destroy every tradition that makes this a great country. Inflation is not only destroying the purchasing power of average Americans, it is another weapon to destroy everything you love about this country, by the ruling-class elites who despise normal Americans.

My wife and I hosted a delightful Thanksgiving dinner, with several of her family members joining us. The food and fellowship were wonderful, and we had numerous conversations about our many blessings, for which we repeatedly expressed our gratitude. We never discussed politics or the divisions in this country.

But now that Thanksgiving is over, I can revel in knowing that our day of thanks was greatly offensive to the political and media elites who seek to destroy the beautiful tradition of Thanksgiving.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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So How Is That Vaccination Working Out?

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

I'll be honest and upfront, I received the Moderna jabs in May. I have no plan on following up with any more jabs. Well, not at least until I visit the ER and have an updated Tetanus shot. Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor has nothing on me.


About the time I was vaccinated so was a close friend of mine. He came back from an overseas trip a week ago and two days later he was diagnosed with the Chinese Kung Flu.

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The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

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A FEW RANDOM OBSERVATIONS

Lin Wood is the Gloria Allred of the right. Fight me.

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Because I was focused so much on the Rittenhouse trial, I did not follow the Ahmaud Arbery case. Apparently, three white guys killed a black guy and all three were tried and found guilty of murder. They all are now facing life imprisonment. The disappointment on the left over this outcome is palpable. It's like, "damnit, the jury system worked. The white guys got what was coming to them. What are we going to do with all of these pallets of bricks, baseball bats, and Molotov cocktails? And somebody get Soros on the phone and tell him cancel all of the buses."

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Whether vaccines and masks are effective is not important. What's important is that they're mandatory.

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Here's a biology lesson for our friends on the left:

A dude in a dress is not a woman.
A dude in a dress and a wig is not a woman.
A dude in a dress and a wig and lipstick is not a woman.
A dude in a dress and a wig and lipstick and fake breasts is not a woman.
A dude in a dress and a wig and lipstick and fake breasts and no penis is not a woman.

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Looters loot because the cost of looting is low. They hardly ever get caught, and if by some chance they are, they will either be released or pay some minimal penalty. The only way to stop looting is to shoot looters while they're looting. This sounds harsh and barbaric, but the alternative is worse: mandating that business owners to be perpetual victims, and abandoning law-abiding citizens to mob violence. That's the real barbarism. We're on our way to this, and, eventually, this.

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This is pretty stupid:


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I remember my mother both reusing aluminum foil and saving bacon grease, so I was about to write a big screed about how fact-checking nowadays is garbage. then I realized it's probably fake. The evidence, both contemporary and historical, that reusing aluminum foil and saving bacon grease are both common practices, is abundant. So someone is having a bit of fun with Photoshop here. Regardless, I still think fact-checking nowadays is garbage.

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The headline of an article on the site of a local TV station reads: Local Churches Give Back To Families In Need This Thanksgiving. This struck me as odd. What, exactly, do they mean by give 'back'? Did the churches somehow steal food from some poor families? Are they making restitution? Because when you give something back to someone, that implies that person had prior ownership. And he either gave it to you previously, or you took (i.e. stole) it from him. "People are poor because things were stolen from them" is a very poisonous view and leads to all sorts of mischief and injustice.

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I spent some time on Thanksgiving doing what I haven't done for in a long time, that is, watching an NFL game. In this case, it was the Raiders-Cowboys game, played in Dallas. Notably absent were the usual audience shots I was used to seeing, cheering crowds, fans decked out in goofy attire, faces painted with their team's colors, and holding up signs and props (like that 'D' fence thing), etc. I knew the stadium was full, because sometimes I'd see the crowd in the background, like when the camera would have to follow the ball kicked on a punt return, but I thought the lack of close-up crowd shots was just odd.

The game was in Dallas, in the free state of Texas, and by 'free', I mean no mask mandates, and people generally don't wear masks. So the stadium was filled with happy, unmasked people enjoying themselves, living normal life. Somebody at the network made the deliberate, considered decision that close-up shots of happy, unmasked people enjoying themselves would not be shown to a nationwide audience. Why his decision was made I leave as an exercise for the reader.

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Now any 17 year old will feel free to cross state lines. Heckuva job, America.

Note she's a lefty but apparently mocking the "HE CROSSED STATE LINES!" obsession of the shitlib media. She's even making fun of righties who are making fun of her for saying this. But, you know, can you blame us? We're literally hearing this seriously offered as Real Crime by every shitlib in the media and by ever shitlib on Twitter. And this is quite a subtle parody.
But this particular leftwinger sees the absurdity of it all and is mocking the shitlibs. Honestly a lot of the farther-left leftwingers are not buying into this at all. Unlike, say, the National Review "conservative" neoliberal types. "He shouldn't have been there," you know.
It is very eye-opening to see the " " " conservatives " " " trying to hang this kid and far-leftwingers grasping, against normal tribal interest, that he's completely innocent, and no, "crossing state lines" doesn't change that, and no, "he shouldn't have been there" doesn't make him a villain.
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I'm seeing freeze-frame introductions of the villains, "IL PEDO"/"Short-Eyes," "IL BIMBO SULLO SKATE"/"Skater-Boi," and "MANCINO"/"Lefty."
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