Kosh's Shadow 8/30/2020 3:53:17 PM

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lucius septimius 9/5/2020 5:01:36 PM

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This just PROVES the country is raaaaacist and Trump is raaaaacist! Black Lives Matter (but only when killed by police, not by other blacks)!
-- all the leftists and Democrats (but I repeat myself)

I think the timing is perfect.  It comes at a point when people are really fed up.  The pushback will embolden people who've been keeping their mouths shut out of fear to start speaking freely.

midwestgak 9/5/2020 5:02:35 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

Hamsters, gerbils? Hmmm.  Time to fire up the grill.

lucius septimius 9/5/2020 5:04:40 PM

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midwestgak 9/5/2020 5:06:00 PM

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Repost from the morning thread.

Reply to Occasional Reader in 4:

That action by our POTUS is a brilliantly targeted and landed shot into their essential financial organ  . . . stinging . . . memorably . . . bleeding to death . . . preferably.

lucius septimius 9/5/2020 5:07:05 PM

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In #3 midwestgak said: Time to fire up the grill.

I grilled some Korean-style shortribs.

midwestgak 9/5/2020 5:09:58 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 6:

Sounds yummy.  Which spices should I use to marinade hamster meat?

midwestgak 9/5/2020 5:18:10 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:

My #5 post below was meant as a reply to your #2.

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2020 5:20:14 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:
Where I work has added diversity and inclusion BS, but since I don't get paid for it, I ignore it.

I do note they include gender, with an online exhibit of women of the lab.

And a movie "Pioneers in Skirts", which has a photo that I note ironically has no one in skirts.

Fortunately, the Code of Conduct was revised to warn against discrimination, but also that activities that are OK outside, are NOT OK inside, such as "proselytizing for a political cause".

And lastly, I have yet to see anyone take a knee when the Star Spangled Banner blares out on speakers that might date back to 1953. Everyone stops, as required.

midwestgak 9/5/2020 5:26:30 PM

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A local cable station is airing, The Public Enemy.

I ain't so tough."  Face meets gutter.

- - Tom Powers

Movie dialogue.  In real life,  despots/thugs never admit defeat - they simply have to experience it and I am fine with that.

Occasional Reader 9/5/2020 5:40:19 PM

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Little man and I had pizza dinner at his favorite neighborhood pizza restaurant. While we were chatting, he asked me about which countries in the Americas I had visited. He then, without waiting for me to name them, proceeded to quiz me about them, from Canada down to Chile, IN GEOGRAPHICAL ORDER.

The only name he stumbled on a little bit was Suriname.  But he knew it began with the letter S and ends with a E, and that it’s between Guyana and French Guiana.

Occasional Reader 9/5/2020 5:41:44 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 10:

and now I want grapefruit for breakfast.

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2020 5:51:41 PM

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I would like to see George Floyd's killer brought to justice.

They need to find who supplied him with the fentanyl

doppelganglander 9/5/2020 5:56:28 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11:

Little OR is kind of terrifying,  you know.

midwestgak 9/5/2020 5:57:04 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 12:

Tried to find a poem I read many years ago about a grapefruit.  No results.

The poem was about a woman preparing breakfast for her husband and in such preparing cut a grapefruit in half.  No matter their difficulties/hardships/arguments she could never bring herself to give him the smaller half.

midwestgak 9/5/2020 6:05:48 PM

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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: They need to find who supplied him with the fentanyl

Trump. Damn him for all the evils he did before mankind existed and since.

I think that covers it.

Occasional Reader 9/5/2020 6:06:35 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 14:

he would be to me, except that I’m his dad so I know he will only use his powers for good.

doppelganglander 9/5/2020 6:14:53 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 17:

You're a good dad. I hope he grows up to cure whatever I might die of before I actually get it.

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2020 6:17:06 PM

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In #17 Occasional Reader said: he would be to me, except that I’m his dad so I know he will only use his powers for good.

The Zeppelin Tube - a power so great, it can only be used for good or evil, and that choice is left up to you. Let's hope you don't forget your promise.

What promise?

---Firesign Theater, the Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra

Occasional Reader 9/5/2020 6:26:03 PM

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In #17 Occasional Reader said: he would be to me, except that I’m his dad so I know he will only use his powers for good.

Although if he were to use his powers in ways that are, say, morally ambiguous, but that allow him to become the world’s first trillionaire and buy his dear old dad a retirement island in the Caribbean stocked with Victoria’s Secret models, I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to that.

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2020 6:27:30 PM

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In #20 Occasional Reader said: Although if he were to use his powers in ways that are, say, morally ambiguous, but that allow him to become the world’s first trillionaire and buy his dear old dad a retirement island in the Caribbean stocked with Victoria’s Secret models, I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to that.

Just be sure you train his minions on marksmanship.

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2020 6:32:34 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 21:

And he needs to memorize this

midwestgak 9/5/2020 6:34:48 PM

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In #18 doppelganglander said: I hope he grows up to cure whatever I might die of before I actually get it.

That is not a farfetched hope.  We may soon hear about young scribbles on a whiteboard resembling the laws of quantum mechanics, space flight trajectory with mac and cheese as the means to eliminate world hunger as we land on Saturn.  In that order.  I am hopeful too.

Occasional Reader 9/5/2020 6:43:15 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 22:

hey, I said “morally ambiguous“, not “evil“. I would draw the line at “evil“. Probably. (Depending on which Caribbean island we’re talking about, and which Victoria’s Secret models we’re talking about).

Kosh's Shadow 9/5/2020 6:44:56 PM

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In #24 Occasional Reader said: hey, I said “morally ambiguous“, not “evil“. I would draw the line at “evil“. Probably. (Depending on which Caribbean island we’re talking about, and which Victoria’s Secret models we’re talking about).

Well, even morally ambiguous - or for that matter, morally correct - overlords need to deal with a lot of stuff aimed at them.

midwestgak 9/5/2020 6:51:43 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 22:

A fun read.

midwestgak 9/5/2020 6:55:15 PM

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In #24 Occasional Reader said: hey, I said “morally ambiguous“,

Is that Biden quote?

midwestgak 9/5/2020 7:03:50 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 27:

Never mind, please.