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As another year comes to a close, the 10th for The Burning Platform, I want to offer my thanks and gratitude to everyone associated with the dysfunctional family we’ve created on the interwebs. First, and most importantly, I want to thank TMWNN for his dedication and commitment to free speech. If he hadn’t rescued the site in May 2014 from a massive denial of service attack, you wouldn’t have seen five years of Wal-Mart freaks and thousands of Friday fails. As many sites that started in the same time frame have gone commercial and sold out to the mainstream fake news media, TBP has remained a bastion of free speech, sticking our finger in the eye of the Deep State.
I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has donated some of their hard earned money to the site. I know that everyone who contributed, whether it was $2 or $2,500 (yes some people gave $2,000 or more), gave what they could. When I set a goal of $40,000, I didn’t think it was possible to get anywhere close to that figure. Well, I was wrong again. TBPers are truly generous and appreciative of a place where they can say anything and/or contribute through articles or commenting. I’m amazed the donations were able to fill the gap left by all those advertisers who pulled the plug on TBP because we tell the truth.
The establishment media advertising platforms (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, and many other spineless companies) think they can destroy small time bloggers by denying them a revenue stream. Every major advertising platform has banned TBP because we refuse to buckle to their politically correct bullshit. Hate speech isn’t speech that special snowflakes are offended by. My whole purpose with this site is to offend as many people as possible. And I think we’ve succeeded. Your contributions, whether financial, intellectual, or spiritual, have meant the world to me.
Personally, 2019 was an extremely disruptive, stressful year. I had gotten my second asshole boss in a row at Wharton. Two years of dealing with total dickheads was too much. I decided to move on in July and now have a less stressful commute, work for a boss who appreciates my efforts, and among people who aren’t assholes. Still, after working some place for twelve years and having to learn new systems, people and procedures is stressful. At the same time I blew out my back and was in constant pain for a couple months. My wife has had a serious medical issue for the last couple years, but it has improved tremendously in the last few months. This type of mental and physical stress has not been conducive for writing. But I think I’m starting to get my mojo back.
I’m off for twelve days and look forward to spending quality time with my family. The house is decorated. We’re preparing for our annual Christmas Eve party where family, friends and neighbors will party until the wee hours as Santa Claus makes his rounds. Meatballs, sausage, Philly soft pretzels, roast beef, chicken, snacks, dessert, booze and beer will be consumed in large quantities.
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Jim – My thanks to you as well. I am so happy to be a part of your TBP family.
I love it here…
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I particularly look forward to some of your comments. You seem like a decent sort. A real TBPfag, some might say…
Some?
Haha… sensitive much?
When I have made a comment that brings me back and I see you’ve chimed in, I will read your comments and not ignore them completely.
And now that I think you look a bit like Captain Kangaroo thanks to you know who, I will probably read them all!
Enjoy your break! Life ain’t so bad if you don’t take it too seriously (when you’re off the computer, at least!)
Merry Christmas to you and yours Jim!!! Merry Christmas to the rest of the TBP FEMA CAMP too!!
…and Jim, I know ya probably won’t make it down to my state of the Alpha/Omega, but if ya do, my offer still stands.
Jim, thanks for giving us this bastion of freedom to throw shit at the establishment twats – and each other. God bless you and yours, and have a peaceful, Merry Christmas.
AOC – Where ya been son?
Planting/Transplanting trees, installing a fence, moving mulch, wrapping up “real” work for the year, and enjoying two weeks off.
Hopefully will wrap up my self-imposed schedule by the 26th. I am pushing to have everything food-wise in place in the coming year. Thanks for asking, and Merry Christmas!
I was afraid that maybe you had gotten trapped into an endless loop of scrabble with Mrs. AOC…
I think that I might have a solution to your ‘Scrabble’ problem too.
Offer to play one game of regular Scrabble with your better half for every game of what you can call “Mark Twain Scrabble.” In this version, the words MUST be misspelled. Zeero poiints for koreckt spilling.
“…I don’t give a damn for a man that can spell a word only one way…” — Mark Twain
What can she say? It’s Mark Twain…
Best not to let EC know when you are playing or he will appear out of nowhere to try and korrect yor propor spilling… Damned spelling Nazi that he is…
LOL! No, don’t I wish. I am aggressively pushing myself before NOV 2020. Any day >= 45 degrees is a day I do something outside.
A Plan for the Improvement of Spelling in the English Language
By Mark Twain
So, while the real TBP moran may think Orwell’s words profound, he should consider what Twain could do with a few letters.
Oh, you said EC?
Mark Twain’s spilling improovements woold soot badd spillers lik mee jest finne.
Probably make EC crazy.
Sounds like a win-win…
1 sed u cld lrn a kd 2 rt rt n nvr spl 1 werd rt.
czek the maff b4 u laf
cuk t gus wt t jus and srv wt fgy pdng.
Almost Funny…
I said you could learn a kid to write right and never spell one word right.
Check the math before you laugh.
Cook the goose with the juice and serve with figgy pudding.
Mr. Confederation is married to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez???
Dahum.
Looks like the gang’s all here. I thought it was a personal note to admin but it looks like it’s turned into a group hug.
The gang is NEVER complete unless YOU are in the room. Thanks for all you do here on TBP, especially the smiles you put on my face.
Frohe Weihnachten Mein Freund
Was wrong. This is 100.
That’s awful nice to hear, bro man. You know, I have not had my share of women, the average for guys is close to 50 over a life time. But what I have had my share of is getting kicked out of places. The topic came up and I was shocked at how often it happened to me. Like how many times is normal for a person? I’m thankful to admin for letting me stay. It means a lot.
Stucky, how are you and your better half??? Hope all is well and you have a very blessed Christmas!
And NO, I am NOT married to that piece of shit. Although I WOULD bang her with your dick.
Somebody remind me next time not to mess with Steve Grizzly Bear C.
You know we love you EC.
You’re TBP’s own personal spell-check.
Merry Christmas….
Jim, I am a newbie here, having followed a link to FF and feel like I have found a home among the disjointed characters you have brought together. I especially enjoyed your Dark Side of the Moon essays and loved the way you wove the story around the songs of that beloved album. Your writings, as well as many others who contribute is extraordinary at times, humorous at times and heart wrenching at times.
Many times, I skim the linked articles just so I can get to the comments to see what some of the old timers think. There is a vast amount of wisdom in your followers, many of them with ideals similar to my own and I appreciate getting to learn from them, as well.
BTW – Thank you for showing Creepy Uncle Joe in his Santa suit for your closing picture.
Hope you and your family have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
U fit in too well to be very new. Who popped your cherry?
I was chastised a little early on, but mostly my positions have been honed over a lifetime of arguing with idiots.
I was blessed to have some really great parents, grand-parents, aunts and uncles who were hard working, conservative minded people. They did not bother others and they did not want to be bothered by others. When they saw someone in need, they did all they could to help and when they saw someone who was milking the system, they would shake their heads and tell us to not be that person when we grew up. I also had some really great teachers and learned how to think for myself while solving problems.
As I said, I feel like I have found a family here at TBP, even with the various characters who post some things I consider to be a little far out there. i.e. flat earthers and the anti-semitism is carried much further than it needs to be, but the overall content and comments fit well within my basic understanding of the world.
Well, we take our flatearthers seriously here, but your credentials are adequate
I was once told “Opinions are like a-holes. Everybody has one and some people are one.”
Hope you had a great Christmas, my blogging friend and almost neighbor.
I truly enjoy lurking and randomly posting here Jim. Any opportunity to unload the dice is good to go in my eyes. Keep up the fire. IGY6.
Thank you for being exactly what you say you are… a champion of free speech. Thank you also for your tolerance of the rest of us along with the best of us in this strange little nest of us.
It is a privilege to say I support your efforts and I think your insight and writing is more riveting than when you were driving the thirty dirty blocks. But, my attention is more focused now due to the drastic changes in the rules and norms in society growing more obvious by the day as well as a general sense that the charade really cannot go on forever.
I couldn’t help but link Dave’s comment in his year in review about you… you are Almost Famous!
Something has to give. I’m glad TBP supporters are givers.
You and the Man With No Name deserve to be reimbursed for at least part of the time you devote to putting up with people like me and all the odd characters I tend to call friends, but whom my husband calls my “blog buddies.”
Thank you.
Merry Christmas!
Good Night, Gracie!
Am hoping to see that donometer cross 34K before Christmas Day!
Seriously, folks, Admin does NOT put us up to this. We really have found this blog to be a community of very intelligent (sometimes misguided and/or drunk) people who collectively have experienced just about every tragedy and comedy mankind can experience.
The community, over the years, has come to know one another, as some of you new TBPers have discovered, both in philosophical meaning as well as in real-time and real-world space.
TBP folks have met in person and continue to exchange information and ideas respectfully online. You know what? We even have big nasty fights and some of us know how to get over it. Even emerge from them with a greater empathy, perhaps.
The analogy to Cheers is appropriate, I agree.
I also think Admin is more kidney-worthy than a shepherd, German or not.
I stick by my own assessment of Admin of TBP as the fireman of Farenheit 451, salvaging all the bits and pieces of truth he can salvage for reasons only the Author and Finisher can possibly know. I think “we” here at TBP are on to something and I sense that many of us feel it. In the same way great authors and philosophers sometimes reach out across space and time to “meet” and share ideas and knowledge, blending those ideas into a shared understanding of human existence, the TBP discussion is a similar smorgasboard of viewpoint and experience served in an eclectic buffet that offers both sumptuous morsels of rare wisdom simmered in experience as well as hot and spicy nuggets which delight and surprise the palette as well as the palate, and help when using the pallet.
I hope, if you are a noobe or a newbie here, you realize you’ve found a very special blog created by a very special man (and his wife) who really believe one man with a principled idea can make a difference. He’s supported by a Man With No Name who helps him with the electronic gadgets and coding required to make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people to read his blog and try to make some sense of the increasing chaotic happenings and prepare for what they portend.
What do you say? toss a tenner Quinn’s way! And you can be one of the gang before next gathering day!
(I missed the first opportunity at a bar in Philly? or was it NJ, Stucky? My son was interning for Mordor on the Potomac, so I actually might have made that one, had I tried harder. Hindsight.)
Portend… that’s a non-funny word.
A Christmas miracle!
Seriously…I am emailing Doug Casey so watch for a big donation soon!
Really enjoy TBP and all that make it what it is. Are your Christmases like Drop Kick Murphys?
It’s closer than you might think.
Merry Christmas From The TBP Family!
That was awesome. Could be a new TBP tradition.
Please post it… that is wonderful!
Reminded me of the time a friend of mine from South Carolina told me her brother got drunk Christmas Eve, broke their mother’s jaw and dumped Grandpa’s ashes in the fireplace by accident and they tried to vacuum them up with the Hoover and set the whole trailer home on fire and spent Christmas in the hospital.
That was hilarious. Kinda looks like my daughter’s house after a family celebration. I’m sending that to her.
If you have time, please think about my questions regarding Rachel and the idea of the Four Founding Mothers: Eve, Sarah, Rebecca and Rachel/Leah (is interesting how each of them bring sibling rivalry to mind, even poor old Sarah blessed with child long after she should have been in a nursing home. Abe was 99? You think yours and my husband didn’t help with babies?
I am being very reclusive this Christmas. In spite of great hopes for this Christmas, it descends with the same sad memories as the last few.
I continue to pray, knowing all things are indeed possible.
My brain is so cold addled I can barely put together a coherent sentence. So I doubt I can make a coherent paragraph in reply to your post. I did read it. It left me a bit puzzled as to what you where getting at. See what I mean? And now I need eye bleach to get that Santa picture out of my head.
Am thinking about the lamentations of ALL mothers.
Rachel left to weep until the saints come marching in.
Was Abel Eve’s favorite? As Jacob was Rebecca’s and Isaac for Sarah.
Would Rachel?
Merry Christmas to all….
She’s got a special voice.
And a big Thank You to you as well!
TBP is an amazing place and defies description. As it should be. It reflects you, Jim, in all it’s humor, splendid shit-throwing and deep reflection.
May the flames on This Burning Platform not go out until the last smidgeon of life and liberty’s oxygen is sucked in on that last final breath.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Jim,
I have an easy job commenting on this because I can echo all those who have commented before me, and especially TN Patriot’s comment. Will send some more bucks in the new year and wish you and yours and the entire TBP family a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We have to keep on keeping on with TBP. It is the greatest blog available!!
Toss in my 2 cents worth of thank you for a great site and the opportunity you provide via the internet. Merry Christmas to all, the greatest of hope for the New Year and a fantastic time for all.
Jim, sincerely, you are the man.
Merry Christmas.
Thanks for TBP, Jim.
And thanks for the reminder that all of the music of the 70’s wasn’t disco. I hate disco.
I don’t care what Roger says, I like disco. But one of my favorites from the 70’s isn’t even disco, it’s Motown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaMX0Cs5Bc4
Jim
Thank you and Merry Christmas.
Bob
Hey RG! You Too!
TBP is has become a favourite hangout of mine. Thank you for your time and effort dedicated to making it a success. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Jim,
Thanks for an amazing year of news and enlightenment. Merry Christmas to you and yours’
PS,
At the FEMA camp, we’ll all meet at the northern most point on odd days. We will know each other because we’ll be the only ones without wild eyes of confusion and disbelief.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Keep up the good fight, it means everything. I consider this one of the three most important sites online.
If the bastards control the narrative, they win. That cannot happen.
Glad your back is recovering Jim, and thanks for allowing my awkward self to comment. To everyone at TBP may you all appreciate this time of year with your family and friends, we never know when it may be the last. For anyone who is interested, here is a true Christmas story I read every year, left it at another post also. https://gunblast.com/JimTaylor_ChristmasEve1896.htm Times were tough back then and they are going to be again, I can see these very scenes playing out once more, and even worse. But it is how will we react that will make all the difference. Thanks
Thanks OT for a fine old story and as I wipe away a tear, for I too had figured out the ending, because a similar thing happened to me many years ago, and she is still with me, fussing like an old mother hen. And she too came to me for a reason it is now clear – I can never second guess the Grand Master, that higher power of the universe, His miracles to perform.
It reminds me of another story https://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem.html
Have a great Christmas time and a roaring New Year!
Thanks for the link, Peter. I used this story as my strength on the lowest day of my life. Immediately, after I asked Jesus to pick me up and carry me, the weight was lifted from my shoulders and I have been making footprints with Him ever since.
Good to know, TN Patriot, and thank you for sharing. TBP has been an amazing source of strength for me and given me a reason ‘to be’ in my twilight years, thanks to Admin’s faith in my poor scribbling.
May the New Year be prosperous and peaceful for you and yours; go well in your earth walk.
Thanks to the Lord, I have found a great church family with a wonderful pastor. He is a true believer and encourages all of us to read the Holy Bible every day, along with praying to the Father. As a church, we have read the New Testament this year, 1 chapter a day, 5 days a week. Today was the fall of Babylon in Revelation 18. Christmas Day we will read and study about the judgement of Satan and Friday, we will have finished our 1 year journey through the New Testament. I am so blessed.
I wish the best for you and your family in the New Year and may it be full of great things, including cutting ties with the EU.
Thanks TNP and we are all very excited about leaving the EU and looking forward to freedom and liberty away from that bastion of thieves and cabal of vipers! The EU people are lovely and the culture is wonderful but the bureaucrats and ECB et al are a disaster.
“TBP has remained a bastion of free speech, sticking our finger in the eye of the Deep State.”
Admin,
Your indomitable defiance, complete and total lack of towing any line, bawdy take no prisoners (while suffering no fools) attitude and work…owns my admiration.
I find great consolation and hope in realizing there are so many others who fearless add their voices and opinions against the sons of bitches and daughters of witches of the invisible hand.
There are many different opinions here on everything but there is an overriding consensus on liberty, freedom, free speech, and telling the Deep State and all their flying monkeys to take their New World Order and shove it up their ass…and that is as American as a musket ball or a 7.62 round in center mass.
The best to you and your family and everyone on the Platform that Burns fueled by unabashed, unbowed FREE SPEECH during this Christmas celebration.
Spoken like a true Pioneer and Patriot: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down”. The classic quote form a British film of the sixties: ” Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” and inspiration to us teenagers at the time.
Thanks Peter! Merry Christmas!
The best to you and your family keeping writing and posting buddy.
Thank you so much for your support, Mark, it is always appreciated. Have a great Christmas and let’s make it a wonderful New Year with UK and USA now closer than ever with our Boris in charge!
Jim, Merry Christmas to you and yours, this site keeps me sane and is a bright light of free speech. So nice to meet you and the lovely Avalon at the 1st annual farm event. Hope it happens again this summer, and if so will again give time to make it happen. Will give monetarily when both boys are outta school, if not sooner, hopefully. Peace be with you and all TBP brothers and sisters during this Christmas season and the coming year.
Your a little shit, wtf do you know about keeping sane? Try being 60 and experiencing memory gaps and losing your train of thought.
They say that the memory is the first thing to go.
I can’t remember what the second thing is…
The second thing is your hearing, Steve; say what?
That the great EC is picking on me I consider a badge of TBP honor. Now if I start losing my libido approaching 60, well that is another story. Merry Christmas to all TBPers. Thanks again Jim.
I’ve got a couple jars of that oil in the root cellar.
Wait, you had more? Damn.
I’m only great in my own shower. I saw a sex doll for sale on the FB marketplace. The dude wanted almost the same amount that new dolls go for. The Salvy Queen remarked that his doll was also all stepped on. I said she must not have made him happy like he imagined. She said it would be like making love to a dead chick. I can’t imagine who would buy that doll.
https://video.fslc2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/81135044_517638645763447_4893965919253954560_n.mp4?_nc_cat=104&efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoic3ZlX3NkIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=qYfJJ-vrkFkAQkMYO1QrvXDlK8boRRhs60uYqCOqxSwe2hhztwnJbWt3w&rl=300&vabr=159&_nc_ht=video.fslc2-1.fna&oh=86b7106e6a66fde1d46587608bf0cd7d&oe=5E0278C4
It’s the bunny broad! What a treat it is to see you, Maggito! Old habits die hard, I ran outside and got in formation.
A Ten Hut!
If you are taller than the person in front of you, tap them on the shoulder and move forward.
Right face!
If you are taller than the person in front of you, tap them on the shoulder and move forward and that does not require any discussion, airmen.
Left face!
Once again, if you are taller than the person in front of you, tap and move.
Flight! Road Guards Out!
Forward, Huh!
Two three four! Right and right and right left right.
I realize now that one of the road guard’s (basic training) name was Rebecca. She was the oldest “gal” in the flight (I was 22; she was 26), she was very short and minded her own business. The other one was a National Reserve/Guard troop from Guam who had hair down to her ankles. She spoke broken English and her hair was always everywhere in the damn dorm. It is a good thing there were not any real traffic dangers facing the troops because she was dumb as a post. She is also the one who got constipated and sent me to ask the TI what she should do about it, much to my chagrin and horror. Because, if you think I was embarrassed when the mean T.I. publicly lambasted me about two or three girls’ in my squad having the crabs from trysts at the garbage dumpster (who knew?), well, having him mock me for asking him about another girl’s bowel movement issues was at least equally humiliating. He was a mean man.
I heard a rumor about there being a huge “bust” of a bunch of T.I.s at Lackland who were basically coercing young girls into having sexual relations with higher ups. All the way up to guys with stars on thars.
What a mess.
hey… if I can whittle it to around 2000 words, am thinking of posting an old fiction story I wrote long ago… is a really good one if I do say so myself. I suspect you would like it and I think if I keep this thread active just a bit longer, we will see that donometer move up a bit more. Just a little intuition…
dunno if you can see the anonyfagvideo below but that’s me and my bunny crew saying Merry KissMoose to you!
EC picks on people for sport and no real reasons except he feels like it. What’s a libido?
You get me. If you weren’t a redhead and I wasn’t an asshole, it might have worked out.
EC: Here’s to us….
Before I burned Scrapper’s innards I got a picture. I will save it.
You’re. Haha, I just upped the EC grammar Nazi.
EC:If that’s all that’s wrong with you then consider yourself fortunate ( I suspect there’s more than what you let on) and….it’s you’re as in: you are. How many times do I have to keep pointing that out?
It’s just noob bait. I know it’s youse, yore, yourn.
Damn and here I thought you wuz ignerent….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQ5sEOhbjQ
He looks like a young Doc Pangloss who said, “Life is a marathon, not a sprint.”
Urine … see?
R & R is now on the must do list, Sir.
All the saws need to be sharpened, especially when used heavily.
Thanks Jim for your good wishes and me and my family return ours to you in spades. I am so proud to be associated with such a fine group of freedom-loving, real human beings, a rarity these days as most have caved to the mighty dollar.
May you all go well as we enter yet another exciting year.
You’re up late.
Working on installment 84 of your Financial Jigsaw?
Hi Steve, I’m up early; it’s 0515 here in UK, getting ready to answer all your lovely emails and sound advice on how to survive TBP! And yes, I will post the political compass, should be good for TBPers and a New Year laugh!
Bah humbug.
Admin – Thanks for everything! May you and yours be safe and happy this Christmas.
And to all TBPers – Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Down Under!
By the size, top row third from right must be the Admin. That would make bottom row third from left is Stucky.
As many noobs as you’ve burned over the years, I would expect you had forgotten more butts than CO2 will ever know.
EC is short chubb butt far right bottom row!
TBP is the petrol I need to keep my engine running.
Nice job on keeping this site going thanks!
The Deep State gets a GREAT reality review.
http://thesaker.is/proof-that-americas-deep-state-exists-and-controls-the-government/
Thanks, Jim. Keep up the good fight – so many appreciate it.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
You my friend are like the rest of us here at the TBP.A true American. We soldier on in the face of life’s adversities. I once heard that life can be like a baseball pitch. “Sometimes you expect the local,and get the express.” Merry Christmas.
From the bottom of my redneck heart… for all you do, many thanks to you.
Merry Christmas
And now lit.
When seen with own eyes, it looked 100x better.
Is awesome.
Sad to say, rednecks are a dying breed. They are being replaced by soy boys and hipsters, but then I repeat myself. It truly has become a bitches’ world.
Rednecks are alive and well in my neck of the woods….get out of the cities and burbs, they don’t like it there.
Thanks Jim for keeping TBP going. Merry Christmas everyone… Chip
Who knew I’d grow up to be a proud shit flinging monkey?
Happy Holidays and be safe all.
You’re third grade teacher, Mrs McJuvey.
Your.
Mid-shelf, maybe.
My family Christmas was yesterday. So I have been very busy the past week or so. It was small, thank God, because I came down with a terrible cold. I took a bunch of cold meds and pushed through the day. We had a good time, even me, or I…which is it, EC? About 8:30 I hit a wall and paid dearly with a fever all night. Screw the leftover dishes and boxes everywhere. I’m not doing anything today.
So my wish is for you all to have a wonderful, cold-free, Christmas because it sucks to be sick anytime but the holidays are the worst time to be sick.
And, no, I don’t want to sit on that Santa’s lap, thank you very much.
Thank you Admin for having a BIG part in waking Me up to the REAL world.I hope your health gets better. I’ve had my own share of health problems so I can relate. God bless and once again THANK YOU.
Good to see you comment bb. You don’t comment as much as you used to …. and that’s something I have really missed. I know I jump on you more than I should but, it’s all in fun. You’re a good egg … a hard working American … and you love your cat and mom. That’s a great person right there.
This might be 100.
And his ex. He supports both his ex-wife and his mom. Now Paula is trying to get on the gravy train.
Hey, Paula comes with her own fully funded pension AND Veterans Pension. She is the financial asset… no brideprice, either.
Hey – I’m available.
Probably not very desirable, but available…
Paula is a Navy chick and you live in Texas, not very promising.
There are these things called cars that help to travel distances….also planes, trains and Greyhound buses but you must REALLY want to explore libidos if you have to ride a bus to get it.
Sounds like a hot asset. I’d jump on that if I was you, BB.
Who doesn’t like a hot asset?
She’s very demanding, she dropped me like a hot potato once she found out I’m married.
Well, I guess that leaves me out in the cold, again.
At least you can count on Rosey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ELnhjGw4Zs
how about really white feet and banjo?
They look like they have fun, don’t they?
Palm?
I would like to correct the impression I gave of Paula during my cyber war with imaginary figments of someone’s malicious mind. She’s a real person and while she did grow up on or near a reservation, she joined the US Navy, got educated and raised two really great kids, one of whom has a cute kid named Otto, for whom I named the lop-eared buck. Who may or may not have impregnated the killer rabbit with no name because I’m not keeping her.
Paula dropped you, EC, because you are short and a mestizo. Being married had nothing to do with it.
Well then it look like Steve C. is a shoo-in, he is neither short nor meztizo. Another TBP success story.
Did I misspell mestizo? Is it a racial slur?
El Coyote it sure feels like it sometimes. I and the X are getting along so much better then in previous years that’s for sure. I have to say I’m proud of her for the changes she has made in her life.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Happy trails, bro!
Thanks Stucky . I will be commenting more now that I finally figured out what to do with my truck . I hope everything is ok with you and your family . I’m still praying for you. God Bless.
Thanks Jim, Merry Christmas to you and yours & may your 2020 be incredible!
Thanks to you Jim and all of the low rent truth speakers of TBP. My first stop every morning. I love the reality that I find here.
Merry Christmas to Everyone !!
and ALL the Best in 2020 !!
Peace
Who you callin’ “low rent?”
Most of us at TBP have fully realized the American dream of owning our own home and property.
(Isn’t this photo magnificent? Isn’t the house?)
Low rent, he means we ain’t top shelf. We’re the generic stuff at the bottom.
Well, don’t be getting all sensitive about not being “top shelf.”
Most of our shopping is done from mid-shelf and below.
I’m short and top shelf is out of reach unless I get some tall stranger to help me out. I always go for the tall guys but a tall girl will do in a pinch. As to EC being short and a mestizo? Some of the finest loving can come from short metizos. You think those lil’ latin babies happen by accident?
Did you Identify which bare ass is yours in the greeting to the grinch down under? Mine is the half-flat ass top left… I assume you are one of the short round assers.
Sometimes they happen by Sancho Clos who works overtime to deliver on those wishes for baby brothers or sisters.
Thank you Jim and TMWNN for keeping the site going. Looking forward to the continuation of kicking ass and taking names with 2020 vision.
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all the monkeys.
Once again, I would like to call dibs on bottom bunk at FEMA camp. It’s just that I get up at night a lot more than I used to. Thanks in advance.
In the meantime: Although I’ve sworn off late-night comedy of late, I made an exception on this one below since it was sent to me by one of my offspring. Even with the obligatory MAGA hat, it’s funny because of the…. shall we say… all-too-familiar accurate fundamentals therein?
May all your fishbowls be clear of algae and your lilypads be frogless.
Looking forward to your next piece, whenever it is ready.
TBP is one of the few places left on the internet where you can openly comment about anything and not get insta-banned or worse. That said, what makes TBP truly great is the pursuit of truth over partisan dogma and narratives, as anyone peddling bullshit gets quickly eviscerated by the shit-throwing monkeys. For the most part, dialog stays honest because anything less gets called out. For this little island of sanity in an insane world, I thank you Quinn and fellow monkeys for keeping it real. Merry Christmas!
TMWNN rescued this site and is dedicated to free speech. Each and every one of us owes him a debt of gratitude which may not be easily repaid. But, he’s more than just that.
A short time ago he sent me a long heartfelt letter regarding Ms Freud. That’s all I can say about that.
TMWNN is a truly decent and kind human being! A real Mensch!!! Thank you, sir, for everything.
GRAZIE MILLE! Jim, Avalon and bellissimi fuorilegge!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBHf9QqO-BE
Da casa mia a casa tua….
Merry Christmas to you and your family Jim (and to all the STM’s here on TBP). I’m not around as much as I used to be (for a variety of reasons) but I’m still lurking pretty much every day and appreciate what you do here. Have a peaceful/restful holiday.
Hi Jim,
When Ms. Freud’s kidneys failed for 10 days after the heart operation I told the doctor I wanted to be tested to see if I was a compatible donor and, if so, that I would give one of mine to Ms. Freud. I wouldn’t even have to think about it for a split second. (Glad to say that her kidneys simply decided one day to “restart” on their own!)
There’s one other person I know I would do that for. You. I am not kidding. I believe you’ve saved my life by making TBP what it is, so why shouldn’t I return the favor if called upon?
Many blessings to you, my friend.
Greater love hath no man than that he would lay down his kidney for a friend.
I heard that somewhere.
I would like to point out I did pressure cook and store that beef tongue (until Nick said Yuck) and I have a frozen beef heart, in case you need one of those.
No kidneys. Am thankful for Mrs. Freud’s resilience and the Lord’s faithfulness.
I admire your persistence on her behalf. Is why I will pester the ghost more than most.
I’ve been told the heart, if sliced thinly, fries up nicely.
Does beef heart taste like chicken heart? Cuz I love chicken heart. Really!
Very similar.
I’ve got a beef tongue and a pig tongue in the freezer, don’t know what to do with them except give them to the dogs. Heard they were excellent if cooked right though. I’ve read a bunch about the Lewis and Clark expedition, and when they killed a buffalo, all the men clamored for the tongue first. Anyone got any good recipes for beef tongue? How about smoked? Just gave a raw HSF kidney to the older shepherd. She of course loved it.
I would like to point out that while Stucky is willing to give one of his very own kidneys to Jim Quinn for his integrity, you are bragging about giving one of dear HSF’s precious organs to a shepherd, presumably German.
What’s with that?
Beef kidney, beef kidney. And yes, German. Germans seem to love those organ meats.
What is with you people and this fascination with offal?
My husband and I just gutted and skinned old Scrapper (an unfortunate Christmas Eve accident with our Pyrenese, who was really only retrieving him!)
I had to refrain from going and taking a picture of his guts. Okay, I didn’t refrain but I won’t show it here where Admin is trying to thank decent people.
Photo held for a later date!
I repeat….what is this fascination with offal? Pictures? Why? Gack!
As mark or fleabaggs or ec can tell you…getting rid of food aversions is vital to survival.
Sometimes u gotta eat the worm.
That doesn’t mean you have to document the entrails in photos….BTW: Where is Flea? Haven’t heard from him in awhile.
A joyous Christmas and a healthy new year to Y’all.
I am hoping to become a regular poster in 2020 and
add some content, as well as cash.
I am grateful that this site does not use “the evil censor”
known as Disqus ! I will no longer read nor join any site
which uses this platform for its comment section.
To the founders of The Burn Platform, thanks for sticking
to your principals and ethos, in maintaining your integrity
and independence !
God bless you all and your families.
May God also bless this great nation and only
because we have accepted Lord Jesus as our savior!
I salute you, JQ, and my fellow primates herein, that ramble around this digital zoo, swinging from tires, and flinging projectiles occasionally at worthy targets.
Grunting out noises, and grooming the ones who need some help from time to time.
Gazing from within, at the delusioned outsiders, with mocking derision and scorn, sprinkled with occasional compliments, and a healthy dose of laughter.
And though seen here before, I’ll close with this well known tune, because it fits so well.
I love the ‘digital zoo’! I would like to reuse that, with your permission Suds. Many thanks and seasonal greetings to you and yours.
Run with it, Peter.
Couple of words strung together in a little bit of creative phrasing that sometimes come forth from an aspiring writer.
Very gracious of you to ask.
Carry on.
And Merry Christmas to you and yours, as well.
Cheers
Many thanks Suds, most generous – look out for it sometime, Cheers
We don’t do the Christmas thing here in our home but me and mine pray the incredible freely offered grace of God finds each and every one of you, whoever you are and wherever you happen to be!
The gcp’s… ?
Interesting, there are not many true faiths that don’t do Christmas, Pastor.
Luke 12:51 KJB… “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:”
And that’s the red letters! Hmmmm…
Very true Pastor; my understanding is that the Bible does not support the celebration of the birth of Christ; in fact the nativity, as it is practiced today, confuses the shepherds coming at the birth (Luke) with the wise men some 18 months later (Mathew). I am but a poor student at present so much to learn.
Best wishes anyway to you and yours.
It is death, burial and resurrection we are to remember and celebrate daily.
Grace and peace to you and yours AP!
That’s why I sassed the Nativity article. I don’t cotton much to the worship of “Baby Jesus”. Paul says he preaches Jesus – and him crucified – not aborning.
Amen
There is simply no better place on the Internet to encounter other people who care about the truth.
I hope I make it to heaven because I will miss the rest of you if I don’t make the cut.
Merry Christmas and I hope to see you all on the 4th of July!
If you don’t make the cut at least I’ll have company…
A lot of brain dead people repeat the mantras of the world; I’d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven, shit like that. The flames of hell will preclude much socializing. And heaven is a place where we shall be overjoyed to see the creator and wonder at his works too much to have any time or concern about ‘other people’.
Hey, Steve C could very well be Catholic, in which case, he could be planning on slipping in the purgatory holding tank.
As I understand it, Catholics have an afterdeath loophole called Purgatory, where they have to go and sit by the most annoying person they could imagine having to sit by in life (um, for you that might be me) until some very devout and devoted prayer warriors count out enough beads and enough dollars to make good on their sins and give them a ticket past the gate guard, Peter. That’s how Purgatory works.
In case you wondered.
No, I knew that. I also knew that the Mormon version of that is where you sit in hell until Joseph Smith says you are free to go to heaven. In the Scientology version, L Ron Hubbard presides over your detention, I do not know if he ever lets you leave.
In the bible version, you go one way or another, there is no exit from hell, hence the short story – No Exit – where hell is an eternal freeway gridlock.
Luke 16 has a Word or two on that…
The Rich Man and Lazarus
It’s great line, isn’t it? If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!
Maggito, Sgt Pangloss said that illustrations are for people who can’t read.
If they won’t listen to the Prophets, they ain’t gonna listen to someone who is dead!
How about that? No illustration?
None of us make the cut. That’s why the gift is so precious.
Truth. No matter what you’ve done, no matter what’s been done to you, Jesus loves you as much as he loves me. Merry Christmas TBPers. Oh, and Epstein didn’t kill himsefffff.
Did you mean his seffff?
Thank you Jim for being our Gray Champion into this Fourth Turning, granted your trips around the sun do not exemplify your wisdom. Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year. We’re going to need you more than ever.
K
I guess he failed to choose the ‘Live Free’ option.
Nice NH plate AC, but in my parts of the state, all the squirrels were killed in squirrel-magedon last fall. Did you take him out of the freezer?
And all I have to do is thank you Admin..thank you Admin for doing all the things that you do……the things that you do! My apologies to the Beatles. I need to send money to Admin which I will do…I promise! I am a full time lurker and sporadic commenter. I cannot write an essay for a comment as may of the TBP regulars as I am a crappy typist. Plus so many say what I am thinking better than I ever could…oh and Merry Christmas everybody!!!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
https://vimeo.com/86941295
(go on, open it…!)
Reminds me of one of my favorite songs:
Thank you, Jim, for continuing to manage the digital village pub where vigorous and entertaining reflections and commentary by the locals are freely enjoyed. It has been interesting to see how TBP has evolved over the years, although your commitment to free speech has never budged. 2020 should be a humdinger around here.
Have a wonderful Christmas with your family.
Merry Christmas, Mr Quinn. Your Pink Floyd articles have had me thinking about what those guys wrote so long ago, and how it fits in with today. They are one of the few great bands I never saw live. That generation of rock stars will be immortal. We were fortunate to grow up in that time. I was sitting outside the other night away from the holiday hustle and bustle, and I put on “Breathe”. I closed my eyes and listened, it’s a masterpiece, and when I opened my eyes I was surprised at where I was sitting. The music had taken me away, transported me to somewhere else. That hasn’t happened to me in a long, long time. Here’s wishing a happy and healthy New Year to you and yours.
Best wishes to you and yours and thanks for everything.