This is the least sexy Pride Parade ever.
Chants of “we will not comply” from gun rights protesters in Richmond. pic.twitter.com/BjEfniwMKP
— Gabe Gutierrez (@gabegutierrez) January 20, 2020
There’s just no pleasing Australia, the PMSing step-daughter of continents.
Australia Is Being Devastated By Both Bushfires And Flooding After ‘Super Cell’ Dumps 300mm Of Rain
Also, 300mm? Is that like a little under a foot or something? Fucking metric system.
Meerkat and Catkat are best friends
Despite the oblique and mysterious title, the movie is about a bed that eats people. Eats them… TO DEATH!
You know what most modern music is really lacking? Voiceover intros about sunken continents:
Present!
Let your Nays be Nays and Your Yeas be yeas. None of this Present bullshit.
Thppt!!!
A “Present” is a “Nay” wrapped in cowardice. It has exactly the same effect as voting “Nay”.
Universally, a motion/bill/whatever passes when the number of votes in favor crosses some threshold (50% +1 for a majority, etc.). If there are nine people voting, and four vote “Yea”, the motion fails, regardless of whether the others vote “Nay” or “Present”.
Are you throwing shade on Tulsi? She totally owns that affirmative ambiguousness.
Present!
A “Present” is a “Nay” wrapped in cowardice.
Yup. Let your Nays be Nays
This is the least sexy Pride Parade ever.
Even with everyone rocking out with their guns out?
This is your rifle; this is your gun; this is for fighting; this is for fun.
Glibs meetup accomplished!
I didn’t know you like Dr. Pepper.
What kinda heathen doesn’t like Dr. Pepper????
Some of us don’t like carbonated beverages.
Diet Dr Pepper is pretty good.
No way you guys are libertarians, real libertarians enjoy real pop. Like root beer.
Absolutely. Diet DP is royalty among popular soda brands
Relevant
Cool.
(I chickened out on shooting the guys’ ARs, but I got to hold it LOL)
Shooting an AR is simplicity itself. Plu0s, since it is a small caliber there is no real “kick”.
^
It’s probably the easiest thing to shoot.
I may try a long gun again at some point, but I really love my pistol
Yeah, if you’re used to your shotgun-pistol crossbreed, an AR won’t be any problem.
I don’t shoot that thing…. I shoot my Ruger 9mm
Lighter recoil than the 9mm even. Louder though…
Phrasing?
I recognize you, who are the other guys?
They can identify themselves as they see fit 🙂
Hmmm. The ones I know in your area are JW and Tulip, and it’s definitely neither of them…
Are you denying Tulip’s lived reality?
I shoulda smiled a little more
I should’ve worn my Mr. Pibb shirt instead.
Someone’s going to turn an ankle with all those shell casings on the floor.
It was really busy (not surprisingly)…we must have swept our lane 4 or 5 times
Also, 300mm?
Someone needs to convert this to freedom units.
About a foot
Yup. fun fact: US fabs refer(red?) to 150mm and 200mm wafers as 6″ and 8″. Although I’ve never heard of 300mm referred to 1′. I tried getting 450mm wafers referred to as “pizzas,” but I couldn’t get anyone else to go along with it.
Well it’s a 1/3rd of a meter which is something around .164 fathoms
0.00149129 furlongs
The speed of light is just so much more satisfying when it’s expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
Which is?
1,802,617,757,855
Never mind, I’ll do it myself: 2.2xe18
Or 0.0016 cables
I thought it was about 1/66th of a chain.
2/3rd of a cubit
“What’s a cubit?” *said in Bill Cosby pre rapey voice*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA
0.3 is not a third, as much as the decimal-fetishists like to pretend it is.
20,000 cunt hairs
I believe 300mm is about the same as the lenghth of three Chesterfield 101 cigarettes minus 3mm.
Re: Pride Parade — Much to the disappointment of grabbers and progs there was no violence today. No arrests. And surprisingly little off-message speech.
Richmond newspaper photos of 2A rally today. Of particular note – Black Guns Matter, rainbow Gadsden flag, and dudes staying after the rally to scrape stickers off the pavement.
https://www.richmond.com/news/local/photos-scenes-from-capitol-square-in-richmond-on-monday/collection_9dba409a-4f0d-57ee-93eb-5da72a50ebbe.html
Crap. Thanks.
SMDH. Maybe they would have been sitting around in a garage anyway, but that is crazy. Ya’ll don’t have cones?
It’s to keep other crazies from driving into the crowd. It’s a good solution – inexpensive and effective.
What always impresses me about these protests (vs. usual lefty protests) is that all the signs are home made. None of the pre-printed by a union signs in evidence.
Black Guns Matter’s founder, Majoure Toure, was disinvited from speaking at the LP convention after a funder disagreed with his statements (not fake news).
Which is in line with the LP’s new slogan “Mind Your Place, Boy”.
This is the top story on Yahoo:
‘F— You!’ MSNBC Reporter Heckled at 2nd Amendment Rally
Clearly they are all the menaces to society the media claimed.
Did Breitbart ever have to pay out on his bounty for evidence to support what that Congressman said?
The reporter probably deserved it.
Good. Well deserved.
I think it is horrible how all those white supremacists keep dumping on brave, heroic Manu Raju. (and why is it only women casting shade on him? Does he have a problem with strong women?)
I’m sure you all won’t be stumped for even a second about who that is because you remember the non-stop condemnations from all the Journalos when it happened.
Governor Northam: ‘Virginia Will Be Kept Comfortable While Lawmakers Debate Whether To Kill It’
“The state will be kept comfortable,” he said in an address, “and the state will be resuscitated if that’s what we desire. And then a discussion will ensue between us politicians over what course of action to pursue. It’s really the most compassionate way to handle this kind of thing.”
“It’s the government’s constitutional right to choose.”
Northam reminded everyone that Virginia is his state, his choice, and that it’s not a state full of American citizens with God-given rights unless he declares it to be so.
He was frightened, however, to learn that Virginians own guns and can defend themselves if threatened by callous governments, unlike unborn babies.
Qld Fire and Emergency Services warned people that fast-moving water can be extremely unpredictable and dangerous, they wrote on Twitter: “If it’s flooded, forget it”.
It worked ok for this guy.
wowza. Gotta let the truck sink some so it can get traction on the bottom.
Damn! and then they open the doors at the end…
Way, Down!
Howdy everybody!
Hi, Yusef!
HEY!
HEY YUFUS!
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
Spoiler: It’s McGinty’s Murphy bed.
OUTRAGE
Nicola Shanks was browsing the aisles of an antique store in Cortez, Colorado, last week when she noticed several signs that took her aback.
“Public Swimming Pool — White Only,” one read.
“Colored Seated In Rear,” another read.
“We Serve Colored Carry Out Only,” read a third.
Shanks, a stay-at-home mom with an African-American daughter, was angered by the Jim Crow-era racist signs, she told CNN.
“I think it was disbelief at first, that I was actually seeing these signs in a store. It’s something I would expect to see at the Jim Crow museum, not in a local antique store,” she said.
That anger pushed Shanks to confront a store employee about the signs, and days later, she returned to the store to speak directly to the owner about removing them.
But the store’s owner, Cheryl Dean, refused to back down over the course of a 15-minute conversation, Shanks said. Dean, who did not respond to CNN’s request for comment, said the signs were not racist in nature, according to CNN affiliate KDVR.
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In the past few days, Dean has faced a torrent of criticism and threats online, she told KDVR. She also said that the signs had sold out, and she did not plan to replace them.
Shanks said she did not condone threats to Dean and that she wanted to find common ground on the issue with the owner.
“My hope confronting her is that she would have a change of heart and hear what people of color have to say and how this affects them, not from me but from information I would share with her,” she said.
Let’s have a conversation. I’ll tell you what a horrible person you are, and then you get down on your knees and beg my forgiveness.
And then agree to do exactly as I say, from now on.
Perhaps Gov Northam bought them for his private collection of memorabilia.
He probably didn’t, but Alan Page would be very interested.
It is a bit tedious of a story. It is probably more tolerable to the average Minnesodan because we’ve seen a lot of interviews of Page and he seems a lot more reasonable in real life.
You don’t condone violence, you just set off the course of events you knew would lead to her receiving violent threats.
Kind of like the moral panic over bullying — except when you use the state to bully people doing something you don’t like, which is considered virtuous.
Something about unintended Consequences?
pssst [not really unintended]
Yusef was referring to RC Dean’s Iron Law, “Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.”
Thank you Ted…
You have to be a little more naive that I would expect of anyone hanging around here to believe that those consequences were unintended or unforeseen on the part of the malicious idiot that set it all in motion.
Lighten up, Francis….
/all in good fun
It’s a good book.
She’s white. So how is what she says “what people of color have to say “?
the signs had sold out
I hope the store owner thanked her for the free publicity helping to move some merch.
Florida woman
Does Florida Woman know you’re not allowed to meet your husband/boyfriend/lover at the gate anymore? It’s a shame, I know. Because if there’s one thing better than being greeted at the door by someone wearing nothing but a smile, it’s being greeted at the gate after a long flight by someone wearing nothing but a smile. And a couple of garters.
…and shes not even a fatty or tatted up, nothing? Wow.
She looks quite good.
I love that the vid has everyone looking as she walks past….
Donovan sings background vocals with Alice,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2kBG5dcVtU
You used to only get hairy palms from doing that in bed. The bed didn’t eat you for it.
Because I hate myself I ventured to DU just now and they are incredible silent about the VA rally…except to state it was either A: An attempt at Mob rule by gun owners or B: Inimidation tactics.
Projection is a fun tea to drink
An attempt at Mob rule by gun owners
You think the Democrats would like democracy….
It’s wrong when THEY do it.
If people that leftists disagree with have a demonstration to voice an opinion it is intimidation. If leftist have a demonstration it is just what democracy looks like.
^Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
And if a few deploranazis get clubbed with a bike lock, oh well.
So, like democracy then
Not quite DU, but is has a derp all it’s own.
Sometimes silence speaks volumes.
Oh, oh. Maple Leaf Food CEO is very angry! TRUMP’S FAULT PLANE SHOT DOWN!
I’ve no more words. TDS is like the Bubonic plague. And the comments…..
https://twitter.com/MapleLeafFoods/status/1216529701407207426
I still don’t know what chicken and foreign policy have to do with each other, but McCain sounds like another dipshit bored billionaire gone woke.
That is the dumbest take. You’d think we had airplanes over Tehran or something.
No that’s not right. Bad Orange Man failed to send supplies because he hates brown people.
Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced fired the island’s emergency manager, hours after a warehouse filled with supplies was discovered.
The emergency aid is believed to be from when Hurricane Maria hit the island two years ago, the governor said.
Carlos Acevedo, director of Puerto Rico’s Office of Emergency Management, was dismissed Saturday. The governor appointed Maj. Gen. José J. Reyes, the adjutant general of the Puerto Rico National Guard, to replace him.
Earlier on Saturday, numerous pallets of water and other boxes with emergency supplies were found at a warehouse in the earthquake ravaged city of Ponce.
Saw that earlier. Pretty amazing.
Trump was throwing toilet paper at them!
By now, if you’re still vulnerable to the crap they say about Trump, I think you’re useless fool who probably clicks on Nigerian prince emails thinking ‘this time it’ll be different and I can make my money back!’
My uncle was telling me he’s happy to watch Alex Cora fall because he has TDS.
I think you’re useless fool who probably clicks on Nigerian prince emails
Princes who adore you?
2 of them?
or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7vRSu_wsNc
Again??
It isn’t their fault, Trump made them do it by sending the supplies as part of his racist plot to prove that Puerto Rico is corrupt.
+1 article of impeachment
Worst nightmare?
The House managers, who are led by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., reiterated the Democrats’ main arguments as to why Trump should be impeached and removed from office – namely that Trump abused the powers of the president’s office for personal gain, threatened U.S. national security and tried to influence the country’s elections. They also accused Trump of attempting to block the House investigations into his actions.
“President Trump has engaged in the trifecta of constitutional misconduct warranting removal,” the managers wrote in replication to Trump’s brief. “He is the Framers’ worst nightmare come to life.”
I’d like to think the Framers would chain the doors of Congress shut and set the place on fire.
It’s true, Trump is attempting to influence the next election just like he did the last one – he is trying to win. I can kinda understand why Democrats hate that.
“He is the Framers’ worst nightmare come to life.”
He’s a Slave Revolt?
He’s a Scots-Irish backwoods, liquored up Revolt?
He’s a flare up of Smallpox in your town?
He’s a ….
Awesome!
The Framers rebelled for less.
That cat has a unique face.
I sincerely apologize for OT and that this is really long. I can’t help it or myself right now. This is where my friends are and I need a therapy session. My thoughts are with the others going through something similar. My heart is out for Wendy.
I am taking my meds. Recovery has been amazing but confusing. The best way to explain the last couple of days came to me an hour or so ago: “This is how NORMAL people feel ALL of the time?! They aren’t tied down by all these ropes of anxiety all of the time? How fucking amazing is THAT?!” I then hallucinate for three days in a row.
I took LSD twice, and hilariously the second time was on MLK Jr. Day in 2006, my first year at Indiana University. It was an incredibly strong batch, with me tripping for at least 52 hours by my count. Hanging out with Georg Harrison in ‘67 strong.
That’s how I feel now, without the intense visuals (the auditory stuff is still constant). It makes me kind of nervous to feel so high, but everyone I talk to (when I have Family Therapy Sessions, not strangers) says I sound more lucid and stable than I have in my life. I feel on the edge of something, and I although I’m trusting the Good, the Ugly does remind me of the potential of the Bad poking out.
I’m starting a new job in a month. I have to keep this psychological and physical rehab going forward as I have, but keep it in check, as I currently feel is a lot of (mostly really fun) work. I feel out of control but apparently am IN it.
How can that possibly be? I’m afraid I will break or transform into something truly horrific. I literally feel like I am not sane. That’s what Evan is telling me. But there are so many Evans and they are all leading me. Possibly astray.
I am sorry. I could not stop typing. But I will force myself to now. Thank you for listening.
Never OT when you come on board Evan, and Wendy prays for you as well, she was horrified at what happened and pleased you made it out.
God Bless you My man
That wasn’t very long.
Are you back in the states, and still in Thailand?
No I’m in Indianapolis right now. Korea comes up in a month.
Where to this time?
NM, found it further down.
Hang in there, Evan. Surf the strange, and ride it safely back into shore.
We need to hang man. I’m in Carmel. It just is hard to get out sometimes.
I’m in Seattle. So don’t sweat it.
Sounds like you’re in more than one place at a time.
Reminds me of Moe Greene to Michael: He was banging to chicks at a time!
Good luck and get well!
I made the fatal mistake of reading this from DU about the rally in Virginia.
I cant drink fast enough to stem the eye/brain cancer.
Sanity is overrated. Go with happy.
Sorry 🙁
What are you on?
I am on Gabapentin. It is a lot stronger for me than most other people apparently.
I took that for headache prevention. It didn’t work. It maybe had a slight calming effect, but it was very subtle. I’m on lyrica now. Which is a similar drug. It seems to work better.
Yeah those two are VERY SIMILAR. Pretty much the same, really, but Lyrica is more stable. I have both of them.
I am convinced that the doc’s impression of my problem is wrong. It isn’t a form of epilepsy. I am not a doc but weird things happen (too long to type) and I think a part of my brain was torn….but actually in a way that will turn out to make an interesting version of a human brain.
It’s complicated! And I’m insane and have brain damage!
If you are not comfortable or 100% on board with your Doctor’s diagnosis or prescribing >>get a second opinion!! Indy ought to offer some decent choices.
But are you washing y our hands after you go to the bathroom now?
No, you filthy beast.
How fucking hard is it to hold one’s tremendous sexual sausage with ease? You pathetic, yo.
Keep typing.
You have a lot that you’re wrestling with. Talking, writing things out, has always been helpful to me, and, I think, most others.
It’s the life-hack version of “the best debugging aid is describing the problem to somebody else.”
Finding the words helps in finding the meanings you are after.
And fwiw, the best sign you’re not going to turn into a monster is how concerned about it you are. Real monsters don’t care. Second best is the positive feedback you’re getting. That combo is pretty damn robust. Trust yourself and your support groups.
I have been writing everything I feel for about a week now. I honestly feel like I’m on a Tom Wolfe binge and can make something truly fascinating and amazing.
You guys are the best.
Journaling can be wonderful therapy, or therapy adjacent.
In my impressionable 20s i was exposed to the Diaries of Anais Nin. They’re quite amazing, certainly one wonders how she both lived her life and managed to document it.
If you have time & inclination to read, I’d say start with vol 3 or 4 of the original, highly edited, release. Not sure where they come in the later unexpurgated versions, but unless you want to wade through husband and lover on top of everything else, the old edited versions are probably more interesting.
I’d also recommend you take a look at David K. Reynolds, Playing Ball on Running Water. A non-Western psychologist’s views on ‘living with oneself’ or ‘how to get on with your life.’
Regardless:
Go for the fascinating and amazing!
Hang in there.
What’s the new job? Very very curious!
The Lady and I are going back to Daejeon in Korea and teaching again! Kindergarten and elementary kids starting their March semester!
My 4 and 7 year old nephews just showed up at the house and I’m so comfortable with them. It’s so much fun! Teaching in Thailand sucked so hard—the school didn’t care at all about actually teaching. Education in Korea is fucked in its own way and I can rag on it as much as the next teacher can, but it does work and the structure will help me.
I should write an article about the pros and cons of Korean schools. Pro: Great at memorizing. Cons: Shit at improvising.
^^Can play Beethoven perfectly but can’t play a goddamn thing of their own and frequently doesn’t even understand the concept.
I would LOVE to read about that!
Hang tough, buddy.
Seconded. I’ve done a lot of pro and amateur teaching, but high school and adults. This would be very cool.
Identity can be a surprisingly hard thing to change. Even “normal” people who are trying break a bad habit can find themselves resisting change because of it. The person who’s trying to give up drinking but sees themselves as the party animal can’t give up drinking. The person trying to be on time more fails because that’s “just the way they are.”
You have a harder challenge in this regard. Just keep plugging away at it and do what’s right for your health. Your new identity will be someone who does what they need to for their health.
I have so many comments about this and I really do agree with you so heavily.
Here’s what I found the most telling…I THINK MY PROBLEM CAME FROM MY DRINKING. Every day filthy drunk for over a decade. Starting as soon as I could in the day. Broke my brain. Actually runs in the family. Dad. Grandpa, etc. Now I’m off booze and haven’t had a drink and haven’t thought about it in over a month. It may not be the biggest thing, cuz brain surgery was. But it def plays a role and I am very curious about how big it is.
I am off that shit. It wrecked me. Wouldn’t mind a joint, tho.
I’ll chime in on that identity thing. I have many identities. American. Mormon. Fat.
My grandma told me I was fat when I was 5. That’s who I was. Fat.
Fast forward many years later I have a diet that works for me and I’m working it and I’m losing weight like crazy. I’m a lot thinner and I’m attracting men’s attention in ways I thought I wanted but that are uncomfortable for me because I don’t know how to handle it and it’s something I should’ve learned in high school.
I meet up with a fellow low-carber from the internet while he’s in town on business. He’s big into NLP and trying to get me into it, too, but I’m not even sure it’s a thing I can do, if it’s not some sort of cult brainwashing thing.
Anyway, we’re at a steakhouse and chatting about food and the diet and identity and all that.
I don’t remember his question. But I remember blurting out, “Well, if I’m not fat, who am I?”
Deadlift moar
Hang in there Evan!
I literally feel like I am not sane.
Nobody is. Don’t sweat it. The key is to be functional.
And it feels like…I AM!
It’s such an overpowering amount of emotion that makes my hands shake and makes me feel like a panic attack is coming up soon. That’s what used to happen. Such an amount of change and my brain literally re-wiring to work ‘properly’ again.
Just a lot at once to take. Somehow actually terrifying and amazing at the same time. But I’m getting better. My goal is to keep getting better and I am. It’s a huge turning point in my life. It will always be. And that is a crucial thing for me to remember.
I went through a brief stint of panic attacks some 20+ years ago. They are fucking terrifying. Somehow they worked themselves out. I am not sure how but probably due to a self induced attitude adjustment and an I just don’t give a fuck what someone thinks perspective on life. I do my best at everything I do and if that isn’t good enough for someone, well, they can fuck right off. Getting older helps too. With age comes confidence I did not have when I was younger. Keep getting better, it sounds like you are on the right track.
Glad you’re back stateside, and wishing you continued recovery.
Keep moving forward, Ev. Sounds like you’re on a good path.
Twentieth !
Beer today?
Century Fox?
/Tall Cans!
John Can’t-act waxes moronic.
The 53-year-old actor declared that billionaires were “getting nervous,” while the corporate media were “confused” about Sanders’ campaign.
“And, it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we’re still here,” he said.
He then decried a form of capitalism he dubbed “predatory capitalism,” which “takes our lives… our labor, our spirit, our air and water, even our earth.”
He continued, “Bernie respects us enough to tell the truth, the hard truth: We have a 10-to-12-year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all.”…
“We have never had a movement candidate this close to power with a revolutionary movement he’s led and built, ready-to-go, all the way to change the country and help heal the world,” he said.
He then decried a form of capitalism
Look i might get when a unsuccessful artist decries capitalisim. Even though capitalisim has provided the artist way more opprotunities to sell his skills than would be available in other systems, i can get when the artist gets mad. But highly successful actors? You can right fuck off. You’ve got yours so now you want to make sure no one else can? GDIAF
I think it is all guilt. They realize that what they have made zillions doing something pretty easy. No outdoor work or heavy lifting involved. They see us normies working way harder and not being paid the same and they feel bad because they are insecure enough to feel like they don’t deserve it.
So they get out there and signal away that they are “one of the guys”.
But we can still live in a world where actors make millions,right? That sort of capitalism is good.
You can’t say that
A day before the opening of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is issuing a pre-emptive strike, sending an unusual open memo to the media warning against disinformation pushed by the president and his defenders.
The memo, first obtained by NBC News, is also a shot across the bow of Republican senators as they consider whether to entertain Trump’s demands to call Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, as a witness in the trial.
Trump’s attempts to withhold nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine while pressing it to investigate Joe Biden, a chief political rival, led Trump to become the third president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
Among the issues addressed in the memo is the past targeting of Biden’s attempt as vice president to sideline Viktor Shokin, a Russia-aligned Ukrainian prosecutor general, at a time when Biden’s son served on the board of Burisma, an energy company in Ukraine.
Trump has been “spreading a malicious and conclusively debunked conspiracy theory” that “Biden engaged in wrongdoing when he executed official United States policy to remove a corrupt prosecutor from office,” the campaign said in the memo sent by Biden’s deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, and a senior adviser, Tony Blinken.
The Ministry of Truth is doing everything they can to memory hole anything which does not conform to the official narrative.
Joe Biden is trying to obstruct the trial!!!!!
Russian bot confirmed.
Since I have no idea how the oil and gas industry works (and my dad wasn’t clever enough to become a politician worth buying off), I’ve never been to a board meeting of a Ukranian Oil and Gas company. But I’m assuming that there are some basic questions you could ask anyone who was qualified to be on such a board.
It would be funny to put Hunter on the stand and ask him those questions. Even better would be if you used the actual board minutes to come up with the questions and see if Hunter remembered what the answers were.
What is stunning is that the Dems and the media keep repeating that the allegations have all been debunked, but I have never seen any definitive debunking that shows how Hunter warranted that $50K/mo to be part of that company.
But Trump appointed his kids to high positions what is the difference between what he’s doing and Biden? /Actually question by SIL. I didn’t answer, it was the Christmas family dinner after all.
what is the difference between what he’s doing and Biden?
Kennedy appointed his brother as Attorney General. Was that wrong? Should he not have done that?
Trump appointing his kids to positions in his own administration is nepotism. Which is not generally a good thing, agreed. However, it is not the same as bribery, which is what Biden arranging for his kid to get millions of dollars from corruptocrats in Ukraine and China was all about.
Kennedy appointed his brother as Attorney General. Was that wrong? Should he not have done that?
I’m not imputing or guessing on your opinion on that, but i actually don’t think he should have done that.
I can kind of see the nepotism though. Any time he doesn’t use a family member (or special close friend like Rudy), whatever is going on is leaked to the press.
Nepotism being considered bad or not is also very cultural.
Trumps kids aren’t making money off it.
HA! good one.
I mean government salary. Doesn’t qualify as nepotism.
If you have to support them anyway, might as well put them on the payroll
Trump’s attempts to withhold
Didn’t happen. But if we say it enough, then it must have.
Trump’s attempts to withhold nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine while pressing it to investigate Joe Biden
Err, not really, or perhaps, not entirely. The only “favor” he asked was that Ukraine investigate whether there was Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. Later in the convo, he mentions Burisma. This was also a new government, and we understandably had concerns about whether it was as corrupt as the last one before we sent them hundreds of millions of dollars.
The fact that Biden is on record as boasting that he explicitly threatened to withhold humanitarian aid unless they stopped investigating Burisma would, you might think, lead the Dems to drop this talking point. I can hardly wait for that clip to be played during the trial, and will be bitterly disappointed if it is not.
But I’m assuming that there are some basic questions you could ask anyone who was qualified to be on such a board.
Questions like:
Did you attend any board meetings?
What language were the board meetings held in?
Do you speak Ukrainian?
Tell us how you contributed to the governance of Burisma.
Did you attend any board meetings? No,
What language were the board meetings held in? I wouldn’t know. I wasn’t there.
Do you speak Ukrainian? About five words.
Tell us how you contributed to the governance of Burisma? I provided the hookers and blow to the other board members.
Do you speak Ukrainian?
Trick question. If the board meeting was not held in English, they were speaking Russian.
I honestly didn’t know if the Ukrainians spoke their own language. As a trick question, though, I’d still ask it. Because no way Hunter Biden knows, either.
Here’s a scandalous video of a meeting of the Ukrainian government in 2015. Every single word spoken is in Russian. Ukrainian politicians and people in power in general know enough Ukrainian to give prepared official speeches but not much more than that.
The current president is famous for his TV series The Servant of the People. The entire TV series is in Russian, only the TV news and official speeches are in Ukrainian.
Uffda. The stories about how Climate Change will Affect You get sillier and sillier.
Because everyone knows that if there wasn’t any ice, us Minnesodans would just sit at home burning our pile of ice fishing money. No way we’d think about spending it on our boats and fishing from those on our iceless lakes. Or even on other things to do. Because everyone knows that once you’ve budgeted money for ice fishing that is the ONLY thing that it can be spent on.
*Also, from the story, they seem to base all their numbers on one winter (that was an El Nino winter).
I notice that they didn’t bring up last winter when there wasn’t a lot of ice fishing because there was so much snow that it was nearly impossible to get out onto the lakes. There were some die hards who braved the lakes but for the most part people missed most of the year because it was just too hard to get out on the lakes.
Maybe they should watch some Tony Heller and learn to read a graph,
Re: Donovan / Atlantis
The neighbor boys across the street street are in a band. They’re not that bad. In fact, they’ve played First Avenue and the local papers like them. Anyway, I was talking to their mother yesterday. She said one of the boys had just written a new song that reminded her somewhat of Donovan’s music.
Point him to the Alice song above, it sounds like Donovan too, and good on the young ones for still playing real music
Donovan collaborated with the Alice Cooper band on the album “Billion Dollar Babies”, which is only work by Donovan that I am familiar with. So, he sounds solid
Oh, they’d like that!
Umm, I left a nice link above^
Surprised no one has yet mentioned that today’s old guy tune,Donovan song “Atlantis”, was the inspiration for “Stonehenge” in Spinal Tap.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7901289/Demi-Rose-flaunts-jaw-dropping-curves-sexy-swimsuit-Audrey-Hepburn-inspired-shoot.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7903023/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-tiny-pink-bikini-having-famous-derriere-contoured.html
Finally saw “Baby Driver”. Good film, but it reminded me a lot of “21” in that both films were about Kevin Spacey exploiting young men. Which kind of makes sense.
Great music in the movie.
Try Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Same ‘exploiting young men’ thread.
OT:
Hi all. I mentioned last thread that I’m dealing with the death of my FIL. My wife and MIL are doing the best they can, but I’m going to have to wrangle my BIL to keep my wife from punching him during the lead up to the funeral.
I got to have the chance to spend time with and talk with my FIL before he was too far gone. I cut his hair for him prior to a final visit by his church group. I was able to let him know I’ll be there to take care of the family and he can let go.
I was due to travel last week but my trip was cancelled due to natural disaster. I would have missed his last days had my trip gone as planned.
Sorry for the brain dump.
Sorry 🙁
Sucks. Sorry
the FIL was hard to see go, but lots of Brothers to fight amongst themselves,
My parents were easy, we three kids just took care of business and moved on, sad really.
Vaya con Dios!
Sorry to hear of your loss. Having that extra time to wrap things up is priceless though. I got two months with my mom last fall when she went into hospice. Several times we had great conversations about things.
That was important to everyone. There is little family to deal with, but one big PITA brother-in-law.
Sorry
Sorry, Timeloose.
You sound like a good dude and your family is lucky to have you around.
Thanks y’all for your support
No need to apologize for the “brain dump.” It’s yet another testament to this virtual community that you feel you can confide in us and know you’ll get support.
I gather your BIL is a case in which a major stress event brings out his worst? Best of luck in dealing with him – I hope you can keep him from upsetting your wife and MIL even more than they already are.
He’s one of those fake emoters. Lots of talk about your feelings and no action kind of guys. My wife is the opposite so they clash. He also had issues with my FIL and used Access to the grandkids to punish them.
Sorry, bro. You are a good man for being there for your wife and in-laws.
Sorry Time. Good man for being there for the family and letting the old man know that. I’m sure he appreciated it.
Sorry for your loss, Timeloose.
Hang tough, Time. Sorry for your loss. *And get your ass back to Tokyo sometime.
Thanks Straff. I’ll see what I can do.
Sorry to hear that.
I’m actually surprised that Minneapolis hasn’t already banned selling of furs, but it looks like they will fix that soon.
I’d like to believe we live in a world, where you could challenge the law because of its carve out for Indians. But I know better. No judge in the country would dare strike the law for treating Indians differently than anyone else.
“Breaking: The New York Times’s editorial board has endorsed two candidates (@AmyKlobuchar and @SenWarren) for the Democratic presidential primary.”
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1219107997097570312
Tulsi Gabbard hardest hit?
Klo-mentum!
Or Scissor Sisters
Your choice.
Or Scissor Sisters
*barf*
What if I told you that they were pinking shears and not really scissors?
Don’t pinking shears have those little . . . teeth?
Lesbia dentata
What would you rather listen to?
Someone dragging their nails over a chalkboard?
The sound of those two old snappers scissoring each other? (just the genitals rubbing together, moans of ecstasy will be filtered out?)
Like this? The lead singer bared his ass at the end of their only concert that I attended.
2004?!
Damn, time flies.
Yep. I don’t think I listened to them after 2006-07.
The NYT would never endorse someone like Tulsi or Bernie that actually challenge the fundamentals of a corrupt system that NYT readers disproportionately benefit from.
I hate Bernie, unlike Tulsi, but the fact that all the organs of the Democratic Party (NYT, WaPo, and CNN) are aligned against him is revealing
Yes, the NYT, WaPo, and CNN should be viewed as much as representatives of the Democratic Party as the NBA should be viewed as an extension of the Chinese communists
Warren and Klondike Bar both give off the “I’d bomb a Hospital, so that the other nations don’t think i’m weak” vibe.
I think Warren would strangle her own mother in the bathtub if that’d get her the presidency.
I think Warren would go so far as to deny her heritage and try to pass herself off as white if she thought that is what it took to win the presidency.
So….. why are they bothering endorsing someone for the primary? I mean i guess the General is a forgone conclusion, and this is their only chance to do it… But then why so early, and on such poor candidates?
I also think that they endorsed Special K as a prank just to see if they could keep her on the campaign trail longer. They were worried she’d finally give up when she came in 5th or 6th in Iowa.
Some of that flooding is my home town. Looks like both major routes to the airport flooded.
People should jeer and mock corporate press journalists. They don’t like you, they’ll never tell the truth about you, and they could care less if you died. The feeling should be mutual
Something something Tobacco salesman.
You are me, leon
And we are all together?
I was picking up what you were putting down. I enjoyed his interview with Kmeele but thought Kmeele was too lenient in his assessment that journos were not quite like tobacco salesmen.
Mike S, I found your next avatar.
It’s Old Jeanine Garafolo!
I think that may _be_ Jeanine Garafolo
A 60/40 mixture of diet coke/coffee is the best non-alcoholic drink ever.
You meant Coffee, I think you need more you, typed some weird shit about diet something…
Delete this
Nope. It is unfair of me to keep this wonderful drink a secret from the masses. I’m giving away my IP for free.
Look who’s on board cancel culture now?
Is that really a thing?
It is in my cube. The mixture ratio is somewhat changeable. It depends on how much coffee is left over from the last cup from the morning.
how much coffee is left over
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse.
Those of us who truly love Mother Gaia don’t willy nilly waste stuff. We use every part of the coffee bean.
I’ll give it a try because my dad accidentally bought a twelve pack of Diet Coke that he gave to me so why not? I assume you drink it cold?
Uffda. Only a weirdo would drink it hot.
I assume you drink it cold?
Probably room temperature or even a little warmer. Definitely after the Diet Coke has gone flat.
Because this is obviously an exercise in horribleness.
I don’t know about that (not Diet Coke but similar):
http://retroramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Dr-Pepper-Hot.jpg
Right?!
To jazz that up I would add several ounces of prune juice and a sardine for garnish.
Nah, 50/50 Diet Coke and cheap(-ish) red wine.
Served in a dirty ashtray, right Chet?
I’m gonna tell Mom and Dad you said that.
Due to my oddball 2½ shift schedule, one of my standard coffee times is about 10 PM, or just when people are starting to show up when I have a weekend get-together. A while back, I discovered the innovation of putting leftover espresso in a dark beer. Get my buzz going and a little energy boost at the same time without the fucking nasty taste of FourLoko or other canned alcopop drinks.
It’s really not bad, especially if the beer is already some kind of coffee stout.
Well, I guess we know how to keep antifa away. Although there were a few people calling for a communist revolution. Evidently it didn’t take.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/01/20/gun-rights-rally-virginia/
Probably a lot of the same people who went to the Tea Party rallies and there weren’t many problems with those. But media gunna media.
Funny the antifascist socialistdogmom was telling her thugs to stay away from a bunch of armed 2nd amendment supporters. Seriously gave me a lol.
“$19,500 raised in one day for Target employee shamed by lunatic journalist
Some stories do have happy endings. Yesterday, we reported on journalist David Leavitt’s mean spirited attempt to shame an innocent Target employee over a mislabelled toothbrush. He even went so far as to call the police because the electric toothbrush wasn’t $0.01.
Well, shortly after the viral moment, Twitter user and notorious meme-maker @CarpeDonktum decided to set up a GoFundMe page to give the Target employee, Tori, a much-needed vacation.
Today, we’ve learned that the fundraising endeavour was a massive success, with over $19,500 raised for Tori to take a break and put this nasty incident behind her.”
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/19500-raised-in-one-day-for-target-employee-shamed-by-lunatic-journalist/
It’s actually over thirty grand U.S. as of 3:42 MST. Not bad at all.
Nope, not bad at all. She’s on twitter now.
So what will the spin on today’s nonbloodbath be? My guess is it’ll be some version of “Genius Governor’s Prudent Steps Prevent Violence from Right Wing Gun Fetishists” or something along those lines.
Shush, comrade. We don’t speak about that. Soon will be un-event.
One in a million chance that it went off peacefully. Not worth pushing our luck. ;). From the AP:
When that event was canceled, students from March for Our Lives, the movement launched after 17 were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in 2018, decided they had to do something. A group of about 15 college students and one high schooler slept overnight in the offices of two Democratic lawmakers to ensure they could make it into the Capitol area safely. The lawmakers, Hurst and Del. Dan Helmer — who’s sponsoring a bill that would block the National Rifle Association from operating an indoor gun range at its headquarters — camped out as well.
Dem lawmaker has sleepover with high schooler.
I’m sure much fun was had by all.
What threats, exactly, were they were concerned about?
Ya, I want this guy in charge. Kudos for calling out the Davos “Elite” for their hypocrisy, but you can fuck right off with the rest.
Remember when hanging out with the publicans got you shamed?
One of his tweets: “So this is Rupert Murdoch reading my book on universal basic income, the 15-hour workweek, etc”
I’m actually pro UBI but a fifteen hour work week would be a recipe for disaster even if we could afford it which we can’t. Too many young men with too much time on their hands inevitably leads to disaster.
Lemme guess, we could magically afford UBI and a 15 hour work week if only billionaires would just pay their “fair share?”
Well the money is all just sitting in their vaults and have nothing to do with mark to market valuation.
I’d take 15 hours right now, it’s better than nothing,
You’re in Nevada now, right? I’d guess business will pick up for you big time around April or May.
When my previous cushy life fell apart with the drop of the price of oil I signed up for a temp agency. They just want people who will actually work and you can pick your days. That led to my current job which while it does not pay what I used to make it pays the bills.
I think the problem is the necessity for Yusef to travel back and forth from Bullhead City to Vegas where Wendy is and can’t establish himself as a regular worker yet.
Temp agency’s will let you pick your days. The work will most likely be well below Yusef’s skill level but it’s a pay check.
I temped most of my single adult working life and I was not able to choose days once I was placed.
However, that may be the natire of the work. I did admin and bookkeeping (office) work.
Blue collar grunts choose days. Score one for blue collar grunts! When I started as a temp at where I now work full time I was not allowed to choose days either but I chose that placement. If I needed flexibility there were other options.
This, but like WS said, i can pick days to a certain extent, still hard to earn a living that way…
Full disclosure- I tried to go my own as a cabinet shop but FAILED. No builders would talk to me since I haven’t had history in the area for over 30 years. Then a short stint as an OTR flatbed driver. No thanks, most boring thing I have done in my life. Current job is not my dream job but at some point dreams must be put off until later.
I’m done with dreams, I just want to rest and relax, but that aint happening yet…
Anyone still bringing up the “90% top marginal rate during the 50’s” without the caveat, “of course, no one payed anywhere near that rate” can safely be ignored.
In the 50’s there was no Medicare or Medicaid either. Do the people who want the sticker price 90% tax rate want that too?
Fun fact I learned today: more than one-third of New Yorkers (city and state) are on Medicaid, and the cost of it is of course rising far faster than inflation.
Totally sustainable.
And yet its reimbursements are so low most doctors won’t even accept it.
The dumb ones who throw around that figure can be ignored, the smart ones can’t be trusted.
My thoughts regarding kings and other authoritarian leaders remain in effect.
However, here is a link to one King that I respect for advancing liberty.
This is relevant given that the man is recognized in the United States on this particular day.
What is not relevant is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4IiRR__DWg" this .
Generally I do not enjoy covers of songs yet I thought Melissa Ethridge performed well.
Ahem… The second link as intended.
Generally I do not enjoy covers of songs
Hyp,
Do you not like Ehtheridge’s version?
I was pulling an “ackchually…” because I assumed you didn’t know Janis’s version was a cover.
I like ’em all.
Hyp,
Upon many occasions when I am commenting here or elsewhere there have been coincidences.
For an example, at the time that I was typing the comments to which you responded I was listening to Aretha Franklin.
Relevant
“The difference between the VA gun rally and the Democratic debates is that minorities are welcome at the gun rally”
Michael Malice is a national treasure
DAMN….that wasnt a reply to Evan. Though Im just a couple hours away (hint) #FullHomo
Reading this likely gave me eye and/or brain cancer.
So, in the annals of insirance commercials, the Geico gekko, Progressive Flo, Allstate mayhem, Farmers wacky claims, State Farm’s stupid Mahomes commercial I don’t understand, I’m not sure how I feel about the Liberty Mutual emu commercials. The dude is stupid, but the emu’s kinda funny when he does something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_(TV_series)
I remember that.
I like the one with the struggling actor. Bonus – no ’emu’.
Ha, it just aired as I was typing this.
PS. How is it there are so many insurance commercials?!
People are insuring lots of things?
Because they’re trying to reach everybody, and there isn’t much to distinguish one insurance company from another except through their commercials.
I don’t know but they all seem to be competing to out-clever each other. We’re talking about them, right?
I did struggle to remember which ones went with mayhem, wacky accidents, and Mahomes.
Yeah, and a surprising number of them succeed at it.
Nobody talks about car commercials* or drug commercials.
*Yes, I am aware of the obvious exception around here.
They’ve got nothing on Vern Fonk.
Nothing.
“These Guys Just Drove an E63 AMG Across America in a Record 27 Hours 25 Minutes
The Cannonball Record has been broken again.”
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a30085091/these-guys-just-drove-an-e63-amg-across-america-in-a-record-27-hours-25-minutes/
“The plain Jane-looking silver AMG sedan was custom-built for the record attempt, and not just by being fast. Sure, it puts down about 700 horsepower to the wheels (according to Toman), thanks to an ALPHA 9 package with upgraded turbos, downpipes, intercoolers and intake (the brakes and suspension are all factory AMG stuff and work just fine at any speed). But there was also a built-in Net Radar radar detector, a windshield-mount Escort Max 360 radar detector, an AL Priority laser jammer system and an aircraft collision avoidance system—a bit of gear usually used in airplanes to help them avoid hitting other airplanes. In this case, the technology was meant to help the trio find highway patrol aircraft. The car was equipped with brake light and taillight kill switches, and Toman had all of its flashy carbon fiber trim covered with silver vinyl, which he also used to change the appearance of the taillights. At first glance, the AMG looked more like a mid-2000s Honda Accord from the rear, not like a car that would be cruising at 160 mph or faster.”
I believe this is a “and then drugs fell out of the ass of the car” situation.
It’s still a cool story.
Looking through the lobby day photos. Which one of you is this?
How do the plants hold the guns?
With their skunky fuzzy buds?
MMMMM, stinky, fuzzy Buds…..
Clearly a fake, those beings are purely mythical.
I saw this when perusing the socialistdogmoms twitter linked above and thought the same thing. Which one of you is holding that?
LOL
*Sensible chuckle*
I did my taxes today, not bad for a poor man, you guys get to give me more money!
AZ cost me 100$ so much for Red states……
Suthenboy on January 20, 2020 at 8:02 am
…To call it a sham is not really doing it justice.
invisible finger on January 20, 2020 at 8:19 am
A traveshamockery
*traveshamockernanigans.
Sheboyginans…
Leave Wisconsin out of this.
The dems are doing some strategernasticalnanicifacation. The ultimate 5D chess move.
These people really just don’t get why Trump won, do they?
(No, I didn’t RTFA.)
I have to think it’s denial more than a lack of understanding.
It’s lack of reading the art of War, know your enemy, I could be a rich Left wing rabble rouser, I know their shtick so well,
#meneither
It seemed to be heading into “let’s massage our questions to get closer to the result we want” and I can’t be bothered with that.
Government in action:
I’ve been asking my local alderman / city tree services to remove a city-owned tree for almost a full year; it’s way too close to the house and the roots have already popped the slab on the side of my house up a good 4 inches. My fieldstone foundation is clearly at risk.
The alderman (my local rep – each ward has an alderman) is just useless and not that interested, the city tree people will barely respond and, after weekly e-mails for almost a year, came back with “yes, it’s too close and doing damage, but we don’t cut down healthy trees. We have to have a tree hearing and we only have those a couple times a year”. Joy. “Get me into that next hearing and tell me when it is” – radio silence.
Text from my neighbor from last Tuesday: “Looks like you might get approval to have the tree cut down after all. ?? We did have a talk with the deputy arborist! And you know how convincing [X] can be”
That very night there was a removal notice on the tree and a “hearing” scheduled for the 27th. Oh, and it now apparently has “suspected Elm borer pest”.
My silver-tongued British ex-pat neighbor accomplished more over a pint at the local bar than a year of going back and forth with my elected official plus city employees.
Surely there’s a lesson there.
Beer makes everything better.
This^
I had a similar problem so I just secretly cut down the tree and hired illegal immigrants from behind Home Depot to remove the stump. They were pissed because they knew it was me, but it was way too much effort to prove it.
My next move was to kill the tree and force their hand. But that still would have taken forever.
It’s on a very public footpath and quite large, so secretly removing it wasn’t an option.
Slum, I wouldn’t be able to stand that kind of behavior. That’s exactly the reason I live in the woods. The county and township waste a lot of time and money but leave trees up to the home owner, as far as I know. I cut and burn a lot of them, also plant a lot of them. We have a lot of other rules however, to keep out the poor folks.
I looked at two houses in southern NH which had deed restrictions on tree removal. I read the deed and said nope.
Upthread, Spud, Hyp, and 4×20 are discussion nepotism. Fourscore said:
I worked for a lawyer once (I was the 17th admin he’d had in 2 years; wish I’d known that before I took the job) whose kids were on the payroll but they didn’t DO anything. Then came tax time and I was making copies of the kids’ tax returns fresh frm the accountant. I windered if this was how rich people did things.
And then I felt marginally superior because I had been doing my own taxes since I was sixteen and did not have to have my daddys accountant to do them. Genuinely superior, not telling myself I was superior.
I remember talking with my dad when I got my first job about what I needed to do for taxes. He said, “You get the forms at the library or the post office. You’ll probably need the EZ form. Either way, you should be able to figure out how to fill them out.”
That was the only assistance I received on my taxes until I started buying tax software when I was in my 30s.
Oh. I got my first job with an actual paycheck and tax withholding when I was 16.
Me too. Worked at Shoneys for a while.
Same. Started out with 1040EZ.
There was a period of time I had a tax dude, a couple of years, I think when I did a small stint as an independent contractor and couldn’t be arsed. But then I a) got married, b) had a baby, c) turned into an independent contractor for good, d) filed jointly. Without a thought, I just sent everything to my guy. He came back to me with a tax bill of $2,000.
W.T.F.
So new husband says, “Hey, let’s have my boss’s guy do it.”
He came back with one marginally higher, but THAT asshole had already gone ahead and electronically filed them!
I was PISSED. Now, my aunt’s the tax guru in the family and I only happened to be venting while she was around and she told me a few things about being an independent contractor I didn’t know.
So. I got a booklet and all the forms I needed. I read the booklet, went through every single line of the schedule C and schedule A and MEMORIZED what went where. Ever since, I have organized our financial life around the schedule C.
Anyway, I did an amended return at my aunt’s urging. Took our tax bill from >$2,000 to 41¢ which the IRS generously forgave.
Ditto
I had my kids on the payroll but they were actually productive. On the other hand the owner (my boss) had one or two of his kids on the payroll and they didn’t come to work, for which we were all happy to leave them quietly at home.
I fired my my son once, even though it meant I had to pay his full support going to school. He wasn’t being productive and was hurting morale of other employees. Later and on his own he convinced another supervisor to hire him and did quite well.
It’s back to Vegas tomorrow, they are supposed to move Wendy to a long care facility, we’ll see how that goes. I looked up a few courses to play while I’m there,it seems callous, but Wendy would want me to have fun if I can. She’s doing “OK” but it’s still touch and go IMO,
Best wishes dood.
Best wishes.
Great song pick, SF. This song has the rare distinction of teaching me a word: antediluvian.
Don’t leave us in the dark, MikeS, tell us what it means so we can use it correctly.
The period before the great (Biblical) flood, or any great flood event.
Also, I just want to clarify; when I say “the rare distinction of teaching me a word”, I wasn’t bragging about my vocabulary. It’s just that listening to pop music isn’t normally a vocabulary building exercise.