Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967
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7 hours ago, bgavin said:
My every day carry is a small bottle of nitroglycerin pills....
I used to carry that li'l brown bottle.
And then, when I had my annual physical a few months after the divorce was final, the doc said "Ya know, Hardpan, you really don't need those anymore!" And now, over twenty years Nitrostat free!
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12 hours ago, Yul Lose said:
The 2028 Summer Olympics are going to be held in Las Angeles. I wonder where they’re going to hide the estimated (now) 100,000plus homeless individuals that are making most of LA a toilet. With 4 years to go I’m pretty sure that number will double at least.
"They" have done it before ~ last year, San Francisco, for the Chinese visitors:
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-of-San-Francisco-s-cleanup-in-preparation-for-Chinas-visit
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2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Oh ...
Geee.....
I'm having to force myself to watch Women's Beach Volleyball!
The horror!
I watched the US / Canada match yesterday - outstanding athleticism! The US team of 5' 6" Kristen Nuss and 6' 4" Taryn Kloth was quite impressive.
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That movie creeped me out. I think I was seven when my two teenaged aunts hauled me to the theater to see it.
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1 hour ago, Trailrider #896 said:
What I would like to see would be a law or amendment that would prohibit campaign contributions to any candidate outside of where the contributor lives. The exception would, of course, be for presidential elections, but that might be severely limited in the amount that could be contributed by some of these multimillionaires to influence an election. I'd also like to see a prohibition of one representative from leaving his/her district to run in another in the same state just because the polls showed that individual losing, at least until two terms had elapsed! I don't like carpetbaggers, even if from the same party I am registered in!
1 hour ago, El Chapo said:I don't agree with any of your proposals, but if you really believe that contributions from outside that person's constituents ought to be legal, join me in criticizing people who live in state X and love to trash on state Y's representatives. Because it is foundational to republican government that we have NO say in who represents OTHER people who live somewhere else, and that's a feature, not a bug. Do I think foreign states pick crazy representatives? Sure. The solution is to send sane ones from your state.
El Chapo, I think you may have mis-read Trailrider's post - he is NOT saying that "contributions from outside a person's constituents ought to be legal" - just the opposite.
We see a LOT of that here in california - the "reigning party" very much plays monetary contributions like pieces on a chessboard. The party is known pay heavily to influence elections in other states. Also, they will make significant contributions to the minority party's weakest candidates within california, with the intent of ensuring that their own candidates will not have to face better qualified opposition at the polls.
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I'll watch! At least, I'll watch the events that interest me ~ and perhaps "peek in" on a few others.
I enjoy good athletic competitions; the debacles of the opening ceremonies (and as @Subdeacon Joe pointed out, it was only a small part of the ceremony) were not the fault of the competitors. And THEY should not be made to sacrifice their years of hard work because of some misguided sponsors or organizers (or politicians*!).
*Under order of then President Jimmy Carter, the U. S. boycotted the 1980 Moscow olympics. I worked with a fella who was on the Track and Field team - don't recall which discipline - who had worked for years to make the team. He was downright disgusted.
Now, there was a reference above to new "non-traditional" sports. Again, folks can do like I do - watch those that interest you, and ignore the others. Regarding "new" or "traditional" sports, I'd remind all that there have been a BUNCH of historic events that no longer exist; these include such "time honored" sports as steeplechase... standing high jump... 100-meter running deer and dueling pistol shooting events... and dozens of others.
As long as they don't allow any Lia Thomas's, I'm okay with the "O's."
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16 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Not biased politically at all.
The people proposing this should be tarred and feathered and run out on a rail… out of the country.
Reuters: Biden will announce Supreme Court reform plans on Monday, Politico reports
AP: House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court’s immunity decision
I doubt that either was thought up by the President hisself... but hey, there's something calming about the fragrance of boiling tar accompanied by the squawk of chickens being plucked.
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Well, today's news sez that we may soon be seeing not one, but two proposed Constitutional Amendments: One would set Supreme Court term limits; the other would remove immunity for presidents and certain other officeholders. The second follows in the wake of the court ruling in July that presidents cannot be prosecuted for "official acts" during their time in office.
Wow.
BTW - The last amendment (27th) was passed in 1992; it basically said that Congress could not give themselves a comensation increase - any raises approved could only take effect after the next election.
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Well... we HAVE been invaded. The number of people here who've illegally crossed our southern border is the equivalent of aproximately one-third the population of california.
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Yeah, that'd do it~!
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11 hours ago, Duffield, SASS #23454 said:
GLOMAR EXPLORER II?
The Glomar Explorer was a totally different ball o' wax. She had huge doors in her hull that opened onto a "moon pool" what allowed cabled equipment to be lowered through her bottom.
I drove past her hundreds of times when she was mothballed in Suisun Bay near the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, with the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in the background. There used to be literally hundreds of "retired" Navy ships stored there - anchored and rafted for as far as you could see when motoring along in a fishing boat. As of last year, all but seven have been scrapped.
Glomar Explorer
Portion of Suisun Bay Reserve "Mothball" Fleet
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3 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:
'Cept mebbe in california....
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On 7/24/2024 at 5:03 PM, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
On my front porch, in the shade, slight breeze wafting through at 1645 (4:45 PM) this afternoon: 🥵
But I ain't worried. Nope, now worried one bit. 😊
Gov Gav sez he's gonna save us all from the climate! Invest in sweaters and muk-luks NOW!! 😃
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On my front porch, in the shade, slight breeze wafting through at 1645 (4:45 PM) this afternoon: 🥵
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
My daughter and her boyfriend came to visit me one year, and we went to the Olive Garden for supper. There was a crowd and we had to wait, so he suggested we wait in the bar.
I told him I couldn't go in the bar.
Why, he wanted to know, could I not go in the bar.
I can't go in the bar.
His voice is now rising. Why can't you go in the bar?
Shut up. I can't go in the bar. Now the little light bulb over my daughter's head comes on, and she grins and says yes, he can't go in the bar.
Now he's really starting to get loud. What have you done that they won't let you in the bar?
Shut the f*** up! You can't carry a gun in a bar in Florida.
YOU'RE CARRYING A GUN!!??!!!?
A little louder next time. I don't think they heard you back in the kitchen.
So did you fire the boy...?
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Thass sad news indeed....
Hardpan's allus been a fan ~ since getting a Wiener Whistle from Little Oscar hisself when I was five!
~ Little Oscar and the 1952 Gerstenslager-built Wienermobile ~
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7 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:
I don't think he should resign. He should be FIRED.
C'mon, Cyprus ~ surely you can think of something more imaginitive than a simple firing...!
For instance: Suspended by the ankles from an overpass over a busy freeway... just high enough for his fingertips to barely brush the tops of passing semi's, sometimes facing incoming traffic, sometimes away. Reel 'im in every hour or so for a drink of water, then rotate and back over.
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We need a sticky cartoon thread
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