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by Burning Petard
Fri Mar 06, 2026 3:50 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: They're stealing our jobs!!!!!
Replies: 5
Views: 45

Re: They're stealing our jobs!!!!!

Oh for the good-old days when Sugar Creek Missouri was the geographic center of Midwest Crystal Speed. The constant smell from the Standard Oil refinery in Sugar Creek covered up the smell of meth cooking and the only problem was the occasional clumsy chemist blowing up the dilapidated 20's former c...
by Burning Petard
Fri Mar 06, 2026 3:46 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 35
Views: 489

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

Stop spread of Nuclear weapons? Why would one think the present USofA Commander in Chief can be trusted with them?

snailgate
by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:40 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Revisiting the standard time vs. daylight saving time debate
Replies: 2
Views: 57

Re: Revisiting the standard time vs. daylight saving time debate

That works for China, and the US military have been doing it for many decades--they call it Zulu Time. (the same number is called Greenwich time for civilians) Simultaneity for meetings is easier to arrange, and local time is whatever the locals find convenient. One adjusts to using two different re...
by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 05, 2026 10:54 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 35
Views: 489

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

From my time as an enlisted man when officially we were not shooting at anybody, just 'preparing', I perceived there were two types who stayed and made a career of the military: Very stupid who recognized the formal procedures of the military organization gave them a security and a release from pers...
by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 05, 2026 1:14 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1491
Views: 241791

Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

Andy, could this 'memorial garden' been his graduation project as an apprentice of the Trump?

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Wed Mar 04, 2026 11:01 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 35
Views: 489

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

Mr., Liberty, you need to do a little of your own research as to what fundamentalist christians have been doing at the US Air Force Academy since before the beginning of this century

snailgate
by Burning Petard
Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:13 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 35
Views: 489

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

Just a few moments ago I awoke on tv (not live) CinC Trump in the White House explaining his latest war. Among other things, he said this will make certain the Iran will never have nuclear weapons. He did not say anything about how he would end the possibility of The Russian Empire just selling or e...
by Burning Petard
Mon Mar 02, 2026 2:33 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Isky Cams are in the history books.
Replies: 1
Views: 51

Isky Cams are in the history books.

From the NY Time Obit headlines" Ed Iskenderian, Hot Rod Pioneer Known as the ‘Camfather,’ Dies at 104 “His influence can be felt in every form of motorsport today,” Car and Driver magazine wrote of the man who powered some of the fastest cars of his era with his innovative engine camshafts. for car...
by Burning Petard
Sun Mar 01, 2026 12:30 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 35
Views: 489

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

Sorry, I guess I miss-understood. I thought the stable genius, who knows more than all the Generals, had already totally destroyed their nuclear weapon capabilities with the bunker-busting, penetrating everything bomb attack, the most successful aerial attack in all of history.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Fri Feb 27, 2026 2:58 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: SOTU
Replies: 18
Views: 288

Re: SOTU

Recent testimony in congress indicates to me that my local county government gives more screening and training for school crossing guards than ICE gives to new agent hires.

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Wed Feb 25, 2026 9:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: SOTU
Replies: 18
Views: 288

Re: SOTU

BB, I agree with your post above. completely. That is why, shortly after Delaware's only Congress critter, (who is also the only member of Congress who is trans and out of the closet) was sworn in, I wrote her a brief letter telling her I had (a faint) hope that she would have the backbone join othe...
by Burning Petard
Tue Feb 24, 2026 8:30 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Should I be worried?
Replies: 2
Views: 65

Re: Should I be worried?

Are points similar to numbers? Have we not already established there are an infinite number of numbers between one and two? Perhaps you should consult some manifestation of IA with this formulation of when you may redeem your points. I am guessing your reply you quote above was created by some form ...
by Burning Petard
Tue Feb 24, 2026 5:20 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: This doesn't sound like North Korea at all
Replies: 2
Views: 82

Re: This doesn't sound like North Korea at all

"Starting each day with the Pledge of Allegiance. I repeat my self, but why? Does that not imply that something happened last night to free me of the obligations of yesterday's pledge?

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Tue Feb 24, 2026 5:15 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
Replies: 529
Views: 164117

Re: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...

I have not tried confirm it, but Sunday in a zoom discussion of Hitler and the collapse the Weimar republic, the statement was made that in Vanity Fair in 1990 there was an interview with Trump's first wife (as they were in a messy divorce) in which Ivana claimed Donald always cared around a book, s...
by Burning Petard
Tue Feb 24, 2026 5:05 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Raymond Loewy, designer
Replies: 3
Views: 92

Re: Raymond Loewy, designer

Still lust after the Golden Hawk. I think if you have a big enough sack of money, there is an outfit in Texas that will build you an new Avanti. snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Tue Feb 24, 2026 5:02 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Music recommendations
Replies: 931
Views: 300913

Re: Music recommendations

Blessings of college radio. This morning I was introduced to 'The Kings of Mongrel Folk' with their wonderful rendering of a Sophocles drama made famous by Siggy Freud and they recreated it as a cowboy shootout ballad. https://mongrelfolk.com/music-ala-mongrel I love the refrain: Oedipus Rex. Oedipu...
by Burning Petard
Tue Feb 24, 2026 3:20 am
Forum: News & Suggestions
Topic: Happy Birthday Scooter!!!!
Replies: 4
Views: 100

Re: Happy Birthday Scooter!!!!

My life is better because Scooter posts here. Thank you. Snailgate
by Burning Petard
Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:23 pm
Forum: Lifestyle
Topic: Colcannon
Replies: 3
Views: 106

Re: Colcannon

So, tell me more. I love boiled carrots. What/how is the beef included? snailgate
by Burning Petard
Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:21 pm
Forum: News & Suggestions
Topic: Up to you.
Replies: 12
Views: 201

Re: Up to you.

Me too, Meade, but I would prefer to send an old fashioned personal check, if you would post a personal message to me with your snail-mail address
(quick, before the current general post master decides to end retail service.)

snailgate.
by Burning Petard
Fri Feb 20, 2026 10:30 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Wish I lived in Illinois so I could vote for her!
Replies: 2
Views: 58

Re: Wish I lived in Illinois so I could vote for her!

If she wins, Trump will have the FBI seize the ballots because she obviously stuffed the boxes (all over the state of Illinois) with votes from invaders from Greenland. Snailgate.