Maybe I woke up in a bit of a haze this morning thinking, “did I volunteer to cover Sloopy this morning?”
Yes. Yes I did. Bah! Okay here’s a few links.
Juan Guaidó “manhandled” by protestors. Maybe he smelled like he had food on him or something.
Total border apprehensions down in January, which is odd because January is the busy season.
The Pope rules in, wait—a manner consistent with Church Doctrine?
FARC Radio. Sounds terrible.
Tunes. Have a great day!
I wonder if they’ll still do the Marxist soap operas, or whether that market has already been saturated by the D primaries.
Yes?
Joke about real G’s. Joke about 5 grams of coke. Joke about nobody is doing real 5G for another 10 years anyway.
*gazes out the window waiting for a 5g router in order to ditch Comcast*
He did visit the US recently. I figure the whole country smells of fried food and sugar, so people picked up on that.
There might be something to that. Some anecdata suggested to me that Chinese people can smell the dairy in a westerner’s body odor.
And some of us can confirm that the Chinese ladies have their thing sideways?
It’s a myth. Chinese ladies have their thing any which way but loose much of the time, geometry irrelevant.
I’m drawing from a small sample, but would agree on the not loose thing. Goodness.
I was being facetious. When I did my tour of Asia dating I found out that it was not true. Your assertion however is absolutely correct. Leads to a lot of that whiny “eeee eeee”ing during coitus.
Of course the one doctrine he decides to stick to is the ‘no married priests’ thing. The only one with absolutely no biblical foundation. The one that arguably contributed to an environment that disproportionately attracts kiddie diddlers.
Right?
My guess is that Francis would have passed it had Ratzingburger not published a paper against it and one-upped him.
Correct – and the one doctrine where there are already loopholes.
I didnt realize that loophole was so recent, I thought that had existed forever.
“Eastern Catholic Churches have allowed the ordination of married men as priests for centuries. In 2014, Francis quietly lifted a 114-year-old ban on married Eastern Catholic priests serving outside their rite’s home country, opening the door for them to serve in the U.S.”
If it’s fine for eastern Catholics, why not everyone?
Because it’s consistant with their rites’ rules. It is a weird technicality where non-roman rite priests can still be regarded as catholic because they have an unbroken chain of bishops back to Peter or somesuch, I’d have to find a reference link from a canon law site I’d read it off of. They’re Catholic, but not Roman Catholic.
“The only one with absolutely no biblical foundation. ”
Render onto Caesar what is his – in this case, render onto the church – is in the bible. Not as a good thing, mind you, though.
That no marriage thing has nothing to do with anything religious, and everything to do with the church wanting to hold onto properties & wealth. It still does.
I never thought of it that way but that makes sense.
Thought the same thing, except for the word “arguably”.
I miss big beat.
Also, that crab is probably dead now.
I miss underhanded anarchism on the radio. It dies with the crab.
I don’t have the link at hand but I recently saw a headline about the CIA having read encrypted communications of enemies and allies during the cold war. My reaction was “That’s the job they’re supposed to be doing.”
Maybe the person who wrote the article was surprised that part of the agency was actually doing the intended work of the agency.
Here’s one such writeup.
It’s disturbing inasmuch as there’s probably no such thing as a non-pozzed encryption solution.
Well don’t send information over electronic or paper formats you don’t want people reading.
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You’re looking for room five, down the hall.
This is insults, you malodorous, toffee-nosed pervert!
I don’t think anyone’s cracked the number stations yet. But there’s a good chance they’re using one time pads as RobC mentions below.
“Oh, we put those up just to fuck with western intelligence agencies.”
Yeah, I was thinking if I was into shortwave, I would set one up just streaming (pseudo)random numbers.
Or they ARE the one-time pads.
That was what I was thinking, a good way to transmit them, BUT leads to the problem of the enemy having your 1 time pad and figuring out how to apply them.
Publicly transmitting the 1 time pads seems like a bad idea…there is some security thru obscurity problems.
The use of one time pads was standard for SF. If using the adjacent security measures they are a very secure method of communication.
Even if the pads are compromised you “should” still have secure commo as long as the base station follows their part of security measures.
If not, like the SOE failed to do in France and Belgium the enemy can play “funkspiel” on you to grave effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkspiel
One tome pads.
Typo, but appropriate for a long message.
This,
Now they read everyone’s, just for practice. Sort of like cop stops of attractive ladies. Purely professional, know what I mean. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink
mornin’
Morning, Tres.
I apologize to everyone for my spleen venting last night. Spouse just wok me up in the guest room to apologize and to swear off drinking.
Should improve things.
I don’t think anyone here is much bothered by venting.
Depends on what gases are being vented.
Glad to hear that, but in vino veritas.
I’ve said some shit when I was drinking that I shouldn’t have, but the drinking wasn’t the real problem, because I couldn’t deny what I said when the filters went down.
Maybe it was just a hissy fit and nothing more. I hope so for your sake.
“Maybe it was just a hissy fit and nothing more. I hope so for your sake.”
^this!”
That’s why I drink a lot less these days. That, and the liver.
On an unrelated note, I was slammed at work yesterday so couldn’t say Happy Anniversary! To Glibs! In celebration, I have made a small donation toward paying the server goons. Now I just have to explain to my wife that I spent all the VD flower money on a bunch of heartless jerks I’ve never even met.
“That’s why I drink a lot less these days”
That’s why I don’t drink at all. I was a real jerk and wouldn’t remember. Now I’m just a jerk but I remember.
It’s more fun when you remember.
Speaking of being a jerk, I have to go now and prepare for this afternoon’s meeting when I get to handout/revoke bench space in our labs. Definitely gonna wear the flak vest for this one.
That’s why I only drink when I’m happy, and not when “I need a drink”.
I generally drink when I’m thirsty.
Oh, you mean alcohol.
What you say when you’re drunk probably sounds like truth to you, but it enters the ears of the other person as gibberish, angry nonsense. I don’t buy the, “What you said when you were drunk is how you really feel” stuff. You may have said something resembling truth, but you were drunk. You don’t articulate well when drunk.
Strip out the emotions, but remember the issues. The booze amplifies the drama, but it usually doesn’t manufacture issues wholecloth.
“Will ya stop spinnin the room around me?”
It makes mountains out of mole hills. Sometimes you’ll get Walter Mitty drunk a few martinis and he’ll try to set the record straight. Not usually the case. The loud voices and screaming “idiot!” is bad. Most of the the time it’s just the booze talking.
Trashy put it better; that’s what I was getting at.
Plus, y’all are some mean drunks.
*breaks bottle*
Whaddidya say?
*brandishes broken glass*
Fuck you! I’m a Happy Drunk!
Some of us are mean sobers, too.
same.
I knew he would. Don’t hold him to that “swear off drinking” part.
They always do that. And then fail.
My mom has been a drug and alcohol counselor for the state for over five decades. She’s seen it all. Her advice was simple when I was in high school: If you want to drink go ahead, but stick with beer only. I followed that advice and it’s worked as far as I’ve never done anything over the lines I drew when I was sober. Unless you’re pushing 300lbs, most people will get bloated before they get recklessly drunk on just beer.
My worst (best?) drunks have always been on beer. I’m never mean, but with beer I can get loud and obnoxious and go long enough that I will do damage.
With hard stuff, when I over-do it, I just get up and find someplace to lay down.
Caveat: I have drank 151 rum probably 3 or 4 times. Every time I did, I got black-out drunk and would hear legends from the natives in the hills about the things my body did while I wasn’t in it.
I’ve come across people who are absolute monsters as soon as they hit the bottle, like a Jekyll/Hyde transformation, but maybe that’s not entirely the answer in your case. We always hurt the ones we love. I hope this only makes y’all stronger.
Me too.
I think I might have persuaded him into counseling.
I think he needs “alone” counseling to deal with his lack of purpose, and then also couples counseling with me.
I suspect you have put your finger on it – lack of purpose.
When I discovered my purpose in life is to extract money from sick people, I became a happier camper.
Seriously, lack of purpose is probably the biggest issue a lot of people face. It can be a tough one.
I just become asleep. I’m immensely less interesting when I’ve had too much.
Good luck HE. Remember he had to leave the greatest place on earth. Maybe point out that it is -13 right now with wind chill of -31.
I shouldn’t be teasing though. I have to go repair bridges myself. I made a joke about getting a dog yesterday and my wife flipped out. To the point where I’m now just as furious. We also went to bed mad last night.
Aggrieved Spouses of the world
unitevent!Trust but verify.
Relationships are about being mad at each other….
Was the joke replacing her with a dog? Because I thought it was a frog in the original.
Nope. When I had the last dog, I came home and he was doing the typical doggy happy dance when he saw me and she said “you love that dog more than me”.
My response was “maybe if you shook your ass and shoved your face in my crotch when I got home, you could be #1”
I thought it was hilarious, but she still doesn’t think it is funny.
Ha ha yeah so funny. ???
I like this one:
Put your dog and your wife in the trunk of the car. Come back in an hour and see which one is happy to see you!
I have a hatchback.
But I also don’t have a wife or a dog.
UCS with a hatchback? Really?
I never took you as someone who would voluntarily pick the worst of both Vans and Sedans.
And driving gloves, dude…
It is comfortable to drive, Leon. I make no appologies for my choice.
Honda CRX hatchback, front wheel drive and manual transmission. Best. Car. Ever.
I just took you as being a Hot or Cold person, not one who likes to be lukewarm.
Are you saying you didn’t expect UCS to get the moderate, Nay, bland choice?
The dog probably loves you more than she does as well.
Well, there’s that whole sex thing, unless that doesn’t apply anymore without Vitamin V.
🙂
Hmm, I wondered how emojilink would work. Now if only I could think of situations where a secret link would be cool.
I think you should get a dog.
Just tell her it was my idea.
Unless you want me and the dog living on your couch, Tundra, you may want to rethink that statement.
Unless you live in the country and need a guard dog, don’t get a dog. My wife wanted a dog and now we have 2. Monthly medications are expensive. Annual exams are expensive. Having to hire in home dog sitters because one has become aggressive at the kennel is expensive. I committed to take care of these dogs, but once they are gone I have a very firm “NO DOG” policy.
/vent off
I have never not had a dog. Some of what you say is undeniable, but when I do the math the benefits far outweigh the costs.
Actually, I prefer my dog to the vast majority of people I know. Present company excluded, of course.
I grew up red neck. Dogs lived in the yard and got an occasional pat here and there but they were security. Now as a suburban hipster, dogs are a huge financial and time drain. If I had just the one in my avatar it would be fine, but the boxer mix needs constant management with his anxiety/aggression issues.
NO DOGS.
Ugh. We are totally cat people. We are okay with petting dogs here and there if we must, but that’s it.
Max thinks that’s crazy.
[Insert totally polite but utterly insincere “Oh what a cute doggo! Good doggo!”]
No way. We have 4 German Shepherds and it’s not that expensive. No annual exams. I buy vaccines and invermectin from the farm store. Costs me 20 bucks/year for monthly heartworm preventatives for all 4 dogs. I do have the vet come out to the house every 3 years to give rabies vax, since it’s required by law for a vet to do it. So I’m out maybe 120-140 every 3 years for that, including the add-on for the home visit. A house sitter is a fraction of the cost of a trip. My biggest cost was Advantix 2 for flea/tick protection but their patent just expired and cheap generics are available now.
I’ll grant feeding about 400 lbs of dogs does add up. No way around that one.
Well, let me take that back. Dogs can be ridiculously expensive. I spent close to 5 grand trying to treat a horrible, full-body skin rash on my old Doberman. I took her to multiple vets and tried every medication. Nothing worked. Finally healed her by switching foods, which not one of the vets recommended.
After that experience, I came to the realization that most veterinary needs for dogs are a $$$ racket, barring actual illness or injury. From that point on, I started taking care of everything I possibly could on my own.
I just went back and read that (I’m rarely on here after PM Lynx). Venting was totes legit, hon. Sorry you’re going through all this.
While it’s good that you want to take care of him financially, it is also important for you to take care of yourself emotionally.
Thanks. To you and to all above for words of wisdom and for support.
I think everything will improve once he gets meaning in life. That’s the underlying problem.
If you’re thinking about financially supporting a man living in another state, is there some sort of form I need to fill out?
Sorry about that. Spouse fights are the worst (yes, we have them). ?
You may have said this somewhere before, but is there a reason he doesn’t work? Disability or something? Is there a reason he hasn’t bestirred humself to get a hobby? Is he waiting for the magical day when he can move back to MN and refuses to put down roots?
Can we call Mexico a failed state? Or would that be racist?
But then they’ll be held back a grade, and our performance raises will be cut.
Will it go on their permanent record? North Korea wants to know.
I took a shit in Mexico once.
“We came to work and leave the rest, to do what is necessary to accomplish the goal” of ousting President Maduro, Mr Guaidó said.
Even though he appears to be just slightly less socialist than Maduro, it takes balls to go back to Venezuela after talking all the smack he’s been smacking.
These Latin American coups depend on winning over the military. If they defend the incumbent, he will survive the attempt.
But if the military opposes the incumbent, then they seem to back the “new guy” who will then be beholden to their corrupt military leaders.
Thank goodness that England colonized most of North America. English common law is a far cry from perfect, but the culture beats the crap out of the 3rd world graft culture.
Since sloopy didnt do the links, I will mention that GT beat #5 Louisville last night, leading wire to wire.
Good on her! I had no idea we had such an athl-
Oh…wrong, GT.
I didn’t know Gender Traitor was playing.
Well, I didn’t want to brag…
(Umm…what was I playing?)
Men’s basketball.
Well duh! If there were wires involved of course GT beat Louisville.
More vintage Prodigy
Rule of law
Former Memphis City Schools Board President Tomeka Hart revealed Wednesday that she was the foreperson of the jury that convicted former Trump adviser Roger Stone on obstruction charges last year — and soon afterward, her history of Democratic activism and a string of her anti-Trump, left-wing social media posts came to light.
Hart even posted specifically about the Stone case before she voted to convict, as she retweeted an argument mocking those who considered Stone’s dramatic arrest in a predawn raid by a federal tactical team to be excessive force. She also suggested President Trump and his supporters are racist and praised the investigation conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which ultimately led to Stone’s prosecution.
Meanwhile, it emerged that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson had denied a defense request to strike a potential juror who was Obama-era press official with admitted anti-Trump views — and whose husband worked at the same Justice Department division that handled the probe leading to Stone’s arrest. And, another Stone juror, Seth Cousins, donated to former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and other progressive causes, federal election records reviewed by Fox News show.
Call me crazy, but that sounds like Roger might not have been fairly tried.
“Hart even posted specifically about the Stone case before she voted to convict”
Aren’t jurors warned by the judge not to discuss the case, not even will fellow jurors? Grounds for a mistrial? Inquiring minds…
with
Yep, mistrial. And judicial discipline, but of course you’ll never hear about that or about the outcome.
And then nothing happened.
Related.
Warren said, “I have to say I know everybody wants to talk about the horse race, but the thing that is really getting to me right now is what’s going on over at the Justice Department. The whole notion that we have people in our Justice Department resigning because Donald Trump’s inappropriate influence and the attorney general overturning a sentencing of Donald Trump’s cronies. You know, right in front of our eyes, we are watching a descent into authoritarianism. And this just seems like a moment to me everybody should be speaking up.”
She added, “Understand we should all be calling for the Attorney general to resign. What Barr has done should mean that we are demanding a resignation, and if that guy won’t resign, then the House should start impeachment proceedings against him.”
AG exacting control over justice department. Totally authoritarian*. Impeach!
*Says the woman that wants government reps on the boards of corporations.
Sorry, I haven’t been keeping up on that story, but when it popped up, I thought I read that the lawyers who were running the case told their bosses at the DOJ that they wouldn’t be asking for anything too harsh, but then went and filed charging papers that asked for the harsh multi-year sentence.
If that is true, they should be fired just for lying to their bosses.
Also, why is Stone being sent to jail for lying to Congress when Clapper is still walking the streets?
Prosecutorial discretion is sacred. But jury nullification is abhorrent to Justice.
Nope, nuthin’ authoritarian about ruling by pen and phone. Nuthin’ at all wrong with that.
She also wants to create bureaus with heads that can’t be fired by the president
Unless we elect her?
I can’t believe she wouldn’t immediately fire the head of the consumer board she created with the supposedly 100% independent head bureaucrat if it was being run by a Trump holdover.
She wants to create bureaus with heads that can ONLY be appointed & fired by democrats. These entities will act as ways for the democrats to deny the other side any chance at actually being in charge when the fucking stupid unwashed masses make the mistake of not electing the candidate the democrats want.
Mexico looking to add 5G.
5 gringos?
A knockoff burger chain resembling five guys.
Except with 200 guys, because everybody’s esse needs a job, esse.
Yeah, but they’re paid mexican wages, so it’s a wash financially.
Pesos on the dollar.
Do they rustle the cattle from rancheros?
“Mexico is facing a tremendous challenge with respect to violence against women,” said a woman’s institute.
I think Mexico had a violence in general problem… I seem to remember a family being massacred a few months ago, but I guess because they were weird they don’t count.
Yeah, but men are subhuman, defective women, anachronistic overmuscled beasts of burden. Violence against men is of little concern.
The revelations came as Trump has called the handling of Stone’s prosecution “ridiculous” and a demonstrably unfair “insult to our country.”
Without evidence. Trump made those accusations without evidence. Did you lose your official media style book?
I’m waiting for:
Trump asserted, without evidence, that his sons favorite color was blue. This is contrary to a 2015 report where Barron Trump told journalists that green was his favorite color. It is clear that Trump is a neglectful parent and it is only curious why CPS has not initiated an investigation on the first family.
.
Needs more “sources familiar with the situation”
Can you imagine thinking, “My life will be better if Roger Stone gets 7 years in prison”? That’s a hell of your own making.
The only way Stone getting jail time makes my life better is if it is used as precedent for Clapper getting a long sentence in the clink as well.
Don’t forget Brennan, Comey, McCabe, HRC, BHO, Eric Holder, and a bunch of other real fucking corrupt and criminal asshats.
You guys are both right. The people that need to go to prison won’t, though. Sad.
Is that a lot? How is that compared to the number of men killed daily?
So 60% pissed off complete strangers. Seems a bit high if you ask me.
Well, people who weren’t their “partners”. Still, it’s a damn shame Mexico has such a dearth of gun control. But, they can always count on their local po-po…
I no longer believe anything “the authorities” say.
I have moved from Republican to Libertarian, and now I am a Cynicistarian.
This is why govt should have as little power as possible.
When did the divide between revolutionary greats like Franklin, Adams, Washington etc. give way to “We congresscritters and bureaucrats are humble public servants, and you mere mortals should be grateful for our leadership and sacrifice.”
Barf.
When did the divide between revolutionary greats like Franklin, Adams, Washington etc. give way to “We congresscritters and bureaucrats are humble public servants, and you mere mortals should be grateful for our leadership and sacrifice.”
Woodrow Wilson. The president who was openly hostile to the constitution and undermined it in every way. A case could be made for teddy Roosevelt.
Adams as President of the Senate?
This matches well with Kissinger’s great book “Diplomacy” first chapter.
I’m not a fan of Kissinger, but his writings have taught me a lot of the inner workings of government.
Diplomacy starts off with Wilson and Teddy beinging in “progressivism” to the mainstream.
A cloudy thought re “How is that compared to the number of men killed daily?”
Would it be a corollary of identity politics principles that anything that happens within a particular identity group is ok? …like violence that is women on women, black on black, gay on gay, etc. is ok? …that it’s only outrage-worthy when it’s one group against another? The given exception: anything done to white men is A-OK, and by white men allows outrage bonus points.
I think there’s >40k homicides every year in Mexico, so at least 100 men/day?
*numbers totally made up
Total border apprehensions down in January
Soft. on. illegal. immigration. – Ann Cunter.
In seriousness, I’d assume fewer people are making the effort.
I’m guessing the US economic boom is fueling jobs in Mexico too (lots of stuff says “Hecho in Mexico” on the label), so they aren’t so desperate to get in.
Plus they are starting to suspect we might enforce our well-known laws.
I’m guessing that housing’s in another gigantic bubble and because fundamentals are actually incredibly weak despite roaring equities there’s not much in the way of the construction jobs that typically draw a lot of illegal laborers over the border.
All of the landscapers around here are Latin American but none that I’ve met are Mexican.
No idea bout housing, but even in Minnesota, all the construction and roof repair guys were Hispanic.
More or less the entire construction industry is Hispanic, but that’s the thing – you don’t usually get a large influx of new workers unless there’s a lot of housing upstarts. Las Vegas and Phoenix from the late ’90s to the ’08 crash, for example. There was a fair amount of attrition after the crash for the same reason.
I heard it’s because Mexico is blocking Central Americans at their southern border.
That, and the new “remain in Mexico” policy for asylum applicants. They used to be detained before being cut loose in this country under “catch and release”.
Speaking of encryption
Man who refused to decrypt hard drives is free after four years in jail
Which judge? Name them so we can bitchslap them off the bench for violating the 5th amendment.
I am pretty sure he was lying, but what if he really had forgotten his password? How can that be contempt? And how can a judge discern the difference?
“I don’t remember” is the great unarguable loophole.
My question is, if they found child porn on his phone, why couldn’t they charge him with that?
I’m not sure they did. But “we found three pictures” makes it easier for the defense to pass it off as an accidental download than “we found three thousand pictures and a pile of videos.”
*reads more closely*
Oh. They have evidence from his phone that that was what he might have been doing. I see.
Assholes.
My question is, if they found child porn on his phone, why couldn’t they charge him with that?-
Because they can add a year for every picture found. Crack that drive and send him away for 10,000 years!
They didn’t find any on his phone. My understanding is they found a record that he downloaded something from his laptop onto the external drives. They probably have a record of where that download came from, but not what it was.
Enough to convict? Not if i was on the jury.
“I forgot armed robbery was illegal.”
–Steve Martin
How gutted the fifth amendment has become. Fuck the judges.
Woodchipper.
Agent: We’ve got good news and we’ve got some bad.;
President: Hit me.
Agent (slaps President.)
President (mocks punch in retaliation): Tell me the news you stupid immigrant.
Agent: Oh. Right. Which do you want first?
President: Just tell me before I call ICE.
Agent (makes Bull fighter bow): Migrants from Elll Salva-Doorrr is down!
President: What is that?
Agent: It’s a bull fighter.
President: They bull fight in Elll-Saaaaaalvay-dor?
Agent: No. It’s Elll Salva-DOOOOORRR.
President: What’s the bad news?
Agent: They’re coming in from Mexico now.
President (face palm): Get me the Mexican Head Honcho.
Mexican President: Hola.
President; Are you the head Taco?
Mexican: Yes señor. Faster than Slow Poke Rodriquez at your service!
President: Very good. We had this migrant (migraine to me) problem from (looks at agent) El SalvaDoorrrrr.
Mexican: Ah. Ellll Salva-Ddddoooorrrr!
President (sighs annoyingly): Except now they’re coming from your country after we asked you to stop them at your border.
Mexican: Was that wrong?
President: Of course it’s wrong. I have an election coming up and walls are closing in. The biggest.
Mexican: Ah señor. I see your problem. Maybe you can send in the Magnificent Seven, eh? (roaring laughter in background). You owe us for that.
President: Funny guy. So you won’t stop the flow?
Mexican (talks Spanish to colleague): We’ll see what we can do.
President: What are you gonna do?
Mexican (in Speedy Gonzalez voice): Never mind what we’re gonna do señor. Arriba, arriba Andale!
Hangs up.
Agent: Whadhesay?
President: He’s going loonie tunes.
*i KNOW IT’S LOONEY TUNES.
You stole that from a 3 Stooges movie, didn’t you? Funny and I laughed
Andele, andele! My very Celtic mother chanted to us kids frequently.
When you say ‘very’ do you mean extra ‘Cel’ or ‘Tic’?
I mean not a drop of grubby Mediterranean or Latin American genes.
Vesuvius should have turned all of the Mediterranean into Pompei!
I’d charge big bucks.
If I can make ONE person laugh…or cry my day is a success and I can go back to staring at my neighbours.
Wasn’t sure if I should end it with a ‘He’s going…./dons sunglasses….looney tunes’ as he walks away like David Caruso in CSI or if he should turn and grin at camera.
Uffda. NoDaks really hate autistic scolds.
I think the part of this story that urinates me off the most is that the owner of the building had to ask for city permission to paint a mural on their own building. Fuck that noise, they should be able to paint whatever they want.
“Commemorate a moment in North Dakota history — not to make a political statement about climate change or the oil industry,”
What moment?
She is nothing but a political statement at this point. At least have the balls to tell the truth about what you are doing.
With a photo of Thunberg?
HOW DARE YOU DRIVE BY THE BEST BAKERY IN THE STATE!
Could be a great ad campaign?
Then across the street from the Scoldilocks mural they could put up a David Hogg mural.
A match made I the depths of Hell.
Grown adults revering a child is about as retarded as it gets.
Her 15 minutes are almost up and all that’s left is the crying that’s about to commence.
-1 Joan D’ Arc
The Beeb is gonna make her a star!
Is it the business owner asking for the mural? Reads more like the artist was getting permission to put it on someone else’s building, because ‘public space’ (which is even worse).
Didn’t read the article, just what you quoted, because it wanted me to let them break their own site (turn off adblocker).
The artist and the building’s owner were the ones who were part of this plan. But the person speaking for the bakery was identified as the co-owner. The journalo doesn’t say whether the other co-owner of the bakery was also the building owner.
If the bakery is owned by people who had no say in what is painted on the side, I feel for them.
Generally businesses like that don’t own their own building.
While Dems are focused on Iowa and New Hampshire, Cocaine Mitch keeps the pushing through federal judges.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/02/while-you-were-focused-on-new-hampshire-more-trump-judicial-nominees-were-confirmed/
I wasn’t focused on new hampshire.
Will these judges keep gutting the fourth, fifth amendments?
well they are amendments not suicide pacts
…that is an unusually deep understanding of American cliches.
So when will bigger primaries come to make things clearer? I assume the Big Tuesday one will be it
Super Tuesday should make it clear the if Dems are going to rig, sell, or broker their convention.
This I believe.
So how are we doing on Covid-19? Any in your neck of the woods? Romania ain’t got none yet
It’s Wuhan.
-24 right now, not a covid in sight.
Mine are flocking. Over the weekend 12 Blue Jays showed up at the feeder simultaneously.
That’s brisk!
-21 deg F here. I sit between a hangar door and the dock. When they have both doors open, that north wind just swoops right through carrying with it (what’s left of) my sanity.
Somebody got quarantined in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago. No updates on it. The WHO is running interference for China, so I don’t expect to hear much until the death toll tops a mil.
No confirmed cases in Ohio yet. Of course, we’re also not a hotbed of Asian tourism in the best of times, let alone winter.
The needle on my sarcometer just moved a little.
An old friend of mine worked as a translator for the Army in China, and came home with a Chinese wife. When my girlfriend met the wife for the first time, she suggested the wife go to Cleveland’s AsiaTown.
The rest of us just kind of turned and stared at my girlfriend after that…
Don’t forget to take in Hymietown! And while you’re out, make a trip to BrownTown.
It is no secret that Sajid Javid had become known as “chancellor in name only” – or “chino” – but he had won a couple of key battles.
He wanted to be an old fashioned Conservative chancellor, who actually looked after day-to-day spending and tried to balance the books in a fiscally prudent way.
But that is not what No 10 is looking to do.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-51487171
A judge ordered Rawls to decrypt the hard drives. In its recent ruling, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals described what happened next. Rawls “stated that he could not remember the passwords necessary to decrypt the hard drives and entered several incorrect passwords during the forensic examination.”
Is this just something from the movies, or can you program your drive to effectively self-destruct (overwrite itself?) after some set number of incorrect login attempts?
Most drives don’t have the logic capacity to do that. And if the law enforcement had any brains (big if) they’d be making you put you password against a forensic copy of the original.
You could easily set up a script to do that.
But it wouldn’t help in the law enforcement situation unless you got extra dumb cops.
It would almost assuredly get you nailed for obstruction for destroying evidence.
Laughs in Hillary Clinton.
Best practice on this sort of thing is to clone the drive ASAP using a stand-alone drive duplicator. While a kill-switch drive wiping program is certainly possible it would take awhile for the drive to do the multiple overwrites required to even begin to stymie the recovery technology known to be available.
No, that’s not a thing.
Now the French also have a 16-year-old girl who speaks her mind about current issues. I doubt she’ll get nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Outspoken teenagers are not in short supply.
But few have a book deal
Well she better not be a total hypocrite and ride an Arabian flying carpet to NYC to address the UN.
wow.
You know who else in France “asked for it”?
‘ Islam is violent and sucks’
*predictable response begins *
“We’re not violent! Take that back or we’ll kill you!”
A teenage TERF taking on Islam.
*grabs popcorn*
Swallowswell
Host Jake Tapper asked, “Might you impeachment him over this, over Roger Stone and the sentencing?”
Swalwell said, “You know, we’re not going to take our options off the table. We don’t wake up in the morning wanting to impeach him.”
He added, “We want to work with him on prescription drugs, background checks, and infrastructure, but we’re not going to let him just torch this democracy because he thinks that he’s been let off once and we’re not going to do something about it.”
Could have fooled me.
Scott Adams talks about how people actually say exactly what they are thinking when they answer a question. They don’t mean to, but they can’t help themselves. Kind of a Freudian slip. So, yes, you do wake up every morning wanting to impeach him. I listen to Adams because in between his foolish ideas, he comes up with some gems.
Agreed Adams has some real stupid sometimes, but he does get a bunch of things right.
Wanna see the way Trump wins? It’s right here. Everything Duke Nukem said was a reaction to the SOTU. Trump painted them into a corner by going on the offensive, and they’re stuck defending themselves against his charges.
Musical taste is thought to function as a social “badge” of group membership, contributing to an individual’s sense of social identity. Following from this, social identity theory predicts that individuals should perceive those who share their musical tastes more favorably than those who do not. Social identity theory also asserts that this in-group favoritism is motivated by the need to achieve, maintain, or enhance a positive social identity and self-esteem (i.e., the “self-esteem hypothesis”). The findings of the present study supported both of these predictions
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735619899158
In highschool at least people did use to congregate based on musical tastes
And that’s about where the phenomenon begins and ends.
In my case I actually loathe(d) most of the people who share my musical taste. I’m too old to be going to shows now anyway, but even when I did it was 90% reddit hipsters who I wouldn’t have minded seeing Bataclan’d.
Depends on the music scene. There are definitive subcultures associated with some genres (punk, ska, rockabilly, etc.).
“Where bikers stare at cowboys who are laughing at the hippies, who are praying they’ll get of there alive.“
Please don’t do that hippy dance when we’re about to rock.
Shocking ?
I have lot of friends who love pop country. I don’t hate them for it.
But I do judge.
“But I do judge.”
https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F0%2F3%2F9%2F1%2F20391501%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D
;^)
Johnny Cash does not qualify as pop country in my book. He’d have to add a clap track first.
I was looking for the video but it seems to have been DMCA’d off of DerpTube. Johnny Cash singing the Laverne & Shirley theme song in a car commercial treads dangerously close to pop-country, however, any man who writes stuff like Austin Prison can be forgiven for most anything.
ditto
Pop Country is neither pop nor country. It’s garbage.
When I was in high school my grandparents were asking about the social structure – who hangs out with whom. By socioeconomic status, race, etc.? They were shocked and confused when I told them it was mostly by musical taste.
We are tribal creatures. If you break down the tribes we just form new ones based on whatever distinction is at hand.
-24 right now, not a covid in sight.
Seriously. Ravens and magpies are too smart to go out when it’s that cold. They stay inside, watching Heckle and Jeckle reruns.
“caw, caw” [touches wingtips together twice]
I’ve been talkign to others in the healthcare industry about this – pretty much all of our basic medical supplies come from China. If production is disrupted or used up in China. AND we have a medical crisis here – we’re screwed. Forget pharmaceutical ingredients, we don’t make IV bags, tubes, needles, catheters, etc.
Start hoarding I would say
Probably too late. “Just-In-Time” inventory systems are going to be the death of us.
And people called me a mercantilist for wanting to onshore manufacturing.
While I am a mercantilist, that has nothing to do with it.
Juche now, Juche forevah!
We recently implemented the just in time stock system. It has not gone smoothly. As to the “everything is made in China” isn’t really true. There are a fair amount of domestic producers For plastic products and pharmaceuticals, PR does a lot of packaging, Germany/Pakistan does medical instruments, I’m sure there are others I’m not thinking of. I know Japan makes our epidural kits.
There’s quite the juggling act between ‘just in time’ and ‘stock’ up’ patterns in stocking. Sole source of supply is risky regardless.
Even tougher for small businesses whose volumes aren’t enough to split between multiple sources.
That said, we make all our stuff here. I’m getting some tooling made in China, though.
I don’t like government regulations in general, and would like to let the markets work.
BUT the US needs to invest in growing and producing our own integrated circuits (microchips) without Chinese kill switches or backdoors for spying, and we do need to produce our own medical basics.
*breathers on fingernails, buffs them on cleanroom suit*
Shouldn’t you be wearing gloves?
Fun fact — the microcontamination group is losing their minds because apparently they can’t resupply the face mask supply due to 2019 crows or some such thing.
Fortunately, I took advantage of the chaos of startup and got the lab hoods on a separate supply such that we got comfy polyester “veils” sewn into our hoods and don’t need to wear those godawful things
In reply to your question yesterday, 3rd Sunday in Sep. This year the 20th.
Approximately where? Were I planning a road trip / local accommodations, where would I aim?
Roger that, adding to the calendar. Don’t know if I can make it yet, but it will be there fore reference.
Emily, MN. Emily has a motel, Cross Lake has B & B, motel. Some of the folks stay in Nisswa, do a pub crawl. MikeS.
Tundra has all the info and is the PR guy.
Look at Crosslake or Brainerd. Both have plenty of accommodations and are reasonable striking distance to Fourscore’s place.
Thanks!
Tyvek sucks and smells like pampers.
Tyvek is for peasants. We get the good stuff, woven with conductive carbon fibers for ESD protection.
BUT the US needs to invest in growing and producing our own integrated circuits (microchips) without Chinese kill switches or backdoors for spying, and we do need to produce our own medical basics.
Does the US government require their purchases of these things to be made in the US? Because that would be a good way of encouraging domestic production without regulating the market. I imagine the gov purchases a large volume of these things.
Who makes our lube supply? I need plenty of that so the ladies don’t get hurt…
Throwing their backs out trying to force the oversized peg home?
This has long been my problem with “comparative advantage.” The relatively prosperous island should never abandon production of bananas entirely for orange production even if that’s the mathematically most profitable way to do it. Because things change, and when they do if you’ve lost the ability to produce bananas, you’re royally screwed. Off-shoring _most_ of our low skilled production made some sense, off-shoring all of it was a disastrous mistake.
Yup. Especially to a country that demanded you give them all intellectual property only to set up a competitor that then drove the original company out of that business.
Such a demand would be a “Walk away” point in any negotiation for me.
At the point where you’re putting a factory somewhere else, your company is its intellectual property.
Police arrest Elecam official wey ‘vote 89 taims’
Police don gbab one Elecam official wey tori pipo say ‘vote 89 taims’ for Kumba, Southwest region of Cameroon.
One resident for kumba confam give our tori pesin say di Chairman for polling station C, official for Elections Cameroon, dey for security dia hand.
According to report, wen pipo reach de polling station, 89 pipo dem bin don vote, but deh no see even one man for de place and no signature.
Tori na say opposition party Social democratic party kumba 3 district chairman Um Rufus’ catch e wit box weh deh don flop’am wit ballot papers even before voting start.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/live/tori-51432243?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5e4035bc722c30067b9d5997%26Police%20arrest%20Elecam%20official%20wey%20%27vote%2089%20taims%27%262020-02-09T16:39:25.092Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:0548a595-33f0-45b7-89e0-69f8cd9035f6&pinned_post_asset_id=5e4035bc722c30067b9d5997&pinned_post_type=share
Please don’t bring back Pidgin Post.
Eh I haven’t seen it in a long time it ain’t coming back 🙂
I mean, do whatever makes you happy, but I have an irrational hate for pidgin post.
It is not irrational. Pidgin post was annoying.
Patricia Heaton✔
@PatriciaHeaton
I don’t understand why pro-life people want to know if they are “welcome” to join the democrat party. Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason through all nine months funded by taxpayers?
Canceled.
They’ll be happy to have you vote for them, just don’t expect anything in return.
Raymond’s wife said that?
She’s been outspoken about it for a decade or more.
Good for her.
Yesterday, I watched a CNBC (Closing Bell) interview with Ivanka Trump related to her global “women” initiatives. The interviewer asked how the public was supposed to react to this given the anti-woman stance of the Trump administration, specifically given the appointment of pro-life judges.
So, pro-life is not only unwelcome in the Dem party it is culturally accepted as anti-woman.
But killing a female fetus is pro-woman. Got it.
“Sex is assigned at birth, there’s no such thing as a female fetus!”
/progic
Well! There are quite a few progs and socialists who are not down for the trans struggle. Because reasons, I’ve been hanging out on radfem fora lately. They know the left is selling them out, they hate that conservatives are bearing the standard and they feel forcibly allied with people who are odious. They want to speak up more vociferously, but some have been threatened by MtFs to rape them with their female dick, but “femtards” and “libtards” are on board with the trans agenda. And the trans agenda is doing its best to quash the rising DEtransition wave.
FtM: “I found out I wasn’t really trans. I was hiding because I had been sexually assaulted/I’m a tomboy but felt pressured into believing I was trans/I’m actually just a lesbian/I needed to lose some weight and then I felt better about my body.” Number one regret after hormones: “My voice changed and it won’t go back.”
MtF: “I’m not trans. I’m gay with internalized homophobia/I actually have autogynephilia/I’m still ugly, only worse as a woman/I can’t pass/I didn’t think it was okay to be a feminine-ish straight man so I thought I was trans/I’m into futanari and figured out it’s a fetish/I was more unhappy as a woman than as a man/I have underlying depression/I wanted to be someone else because I don’t like who I am and transitioning didn’t cure all my problems.”
So, how long until the rifts burt through to the surface and the isolated incidents of eating their own become full blown schisms between factions?
The bathrooms were the first skirmish.
Women’s sports will be the war zone and it will probably start in earnest with the Olympics.
Idaho just banned biological males from competing in women’s sports in high school. Just wait till there’s a critical mass of female athletes’ parents and the lawsuits will roll.
The biggest complaint (here in the US) is that every lefty candidate they have to choose from is with the trans movement. In the UK it’s worse because both sides are.
White gay men are now the white men of white men. And lesbians are utterly loathed.
The “trans agenda” is really nothing more than the same far-leftist takeover they pulled on women, minorities, and gays in earlier generations. Divide and conquer, use and discard, repeat. I wonder who they’re going to go after next.
Don’t underestimate how anti-homosexual the trans movement is. People (and children’s parents) would rather be the opposite sex than admit they’re gay.
It really is weird.
Homosexuality is a behavior. If a man says he like to bang dudes, that a statement of fact. It requires nothing from me. The same can be said for transvestism.
But if a man says he’s actually a woman, I’m now put in the situation where I have to agree or disagree with the statement (or suppress my opinion).
I have to assume that’s part of the agenda. To make you repeat a lie or become a social pariah. It’s totalitarian.
Oh, I don’t. My sense is that’s a large factor driving this. “Effeminate” is out and turning yourself into a cartoon stereotype of a woman is in. And similar for females. It’s breaking my brain.
I wonder if some pro life hay could be made from the fact that the end result of China’s abortion
on demandate was overwhelmingly dead girl babies?I wasn’t focused on new hampshire.
And that’s why America is going straight down the tubes. You don’t appreciate your duty to preserve democracy by choosing which socialist authoritarian you think can save us from President Cartoon Villain.
It’s an interesting strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.
“Thanks to Iowa, there’s so much riding on this primary,” host Trevor Noah said.
“I don’t get the difference. It sounds like the state is just a bunch of white people,” Noah replied, puzzled.
“Wow, Trevor. Just a bunch of white people?” Kosta asked sarcastically. “That is so insulting. First off, it’s not ‘a bunch.’ The collective noun for white people is ‘a gluten’ of white people. And, second, white people are not a monolith. We are a rich tapestry of ethnic diversity.”
Kosta pulled out a “caucasian color wheel” that was mostly one shade of white. He pointed to different areas of the wheel to determine what shade Iowans and New Hampshirites are.
“White is not blank, Trevor. Zero is not nothing,” Kosta explained. “‘Free to go’ is not ‘innocent of all charges,’ although you do hear that a lot when you’re white.”
Later in the segment, Noah asked how Kosta would “respond to the criticism that these predominantly white states aren’t the best states to kick off the primaries because these candidates could be starting in a more representative states of the country, like California or Florida.”
Kosta said he understood what Noah was saying but “Iowa and New Hampshire are boring as hell.”
“And that’s what we want,” Kosta explained. “We don’t want candidates going to fun states like Florida or California. If you gotta spend a year campaigning in Miami, everyone would be running for president. But if you’re willing to spend a year eating bland food in sub-zero temperatures, pretending to care about how big a pumpkin is, that’s how I know you really wanna be president. And that’s why the road to the White House has to go through here.”
That is not the quote
Please keep helping.
White people are the worst. I mean after reading that it makes you wonder why there are any white supremacists at all. If it weren’t for White people there would be no racial animosity.
I remember when it was racist to believe that whites and blacks have different brains or something.
Buenos días, señor!
Thanks for the lynx and the Prodigy. Not normally in my wheelhouse, but I like that one a lot.
Tough shit, people. Don’t forget, Jesus preached building a strong guild and the importance of exclusion. Nice work, Catholic Church. This should go a long way in stopping the bleeding.
Make it a great day, people. It’s -12 (feels like -30), so I’ll be the guy huddled next to the fireplace.
Sigh… late to the party. Happy 3rd Glibiversary everyone.
Bob/Yusef – My heart aches in sympathy with you. I’m hoping for the best.
hayeksplosives – I feel your pain. I’m kinda on your hubby’s side of the equation, I HATE NYC but don’t want to move away from my kids. Wifey is the breadwinner, I’ve been a househusband (by her fucking request) for 9 years (leaving a rather nice job because I needed to stay home with the kids) and now she is very bitter and resentful and keeps throwing in my face how much money I don’t make. The 50+ hours per week I spend taking care of the kids and cooking and cleaning gets short shrift in her angry calculations. I’m sleeping on a recliner in my study and trying to brainwork a way to afford to stay in NYC on my own (I really don’t want to move back to New Orleans).
KibbledKristen – I’ma switch directions on ya and offer up 2 tracks from the Circle Jerks – their cover of CCR’s Fortunate Son and I’m Alive, both from their 1987 album VI.
-book – Who has time to read? I’m about a third of the way through a book by Mojeaux and a book by UCS.
-podcast – EconTalk is my weekly go to, also Dan Carlin (but he releases things so slowly)
-movie – I’m slowly working my way through the hundred or so movies Red Letter Media has featured on Best Of The Worst.
-tv show – I don’t really watch new tv; I only get it by osmosis from wifey’s terrible televisual tastes. So I guess Below Deck, Big Brother, and whatever shows involve horrible slutty young people trying to sleep with one another in a tropical location. If left to my own devices, I’ll binge watch Northern Exposure, Soap, or Wagon Train.
-song – stuff by Gorillaz (my 6yo son is obsessed with them) also Willie Nelson’s I never Cared For You, and most of the works by the Louvin Brothers because my life is falling apart.
-artist – My kids. Daughter (9) has a great art teacher; she is learning to use color gradients to create shadows AND object oriented lighting (something I didn’t grok until my 30s). Son is straight up gifted; he draws the most expressive faces. Still obsessed with horror/monsters/Halloween, so there is a monotonous theme running through his work. They say the artistic talent skips generations, I can paint models quite nicely but that’s about it. My father, however, is a very accomplished painter. He does Western stuff, has a gallery in Scottsdale, does all the Western art shows, has works in a museum of black cowboys in Calgary (IIRC).
Where are you binge-watching Northern Exposure? I love that show and can’t find it anywhere.
Why, from my hard drive of course. I’m uploading them to my Mega account right now, should be ready in about 30 minutes. Here is the link, it expires on the 29th. Enjoy! https://mega.nz/#F!pD52WKqB!kLbxiTdNy_bh49082EFUng
Thanks! God, I love Glibs!
But is the drive encrypted?
-movie – I’m slowly working my way through the hundred or so movies Red Letter Media has featured on Best Of The Worst.
You’re actually watching the movies featured on that show? Like 90% of them seem absolutely garbage. The humor of that show is seeing how much watching those tortures the hosts.
My OCD gets the better of me sometimes. A user was sharing a huge pack that he gone to the trouble of tracking down. I couldn’t NOT pick it up. Most of the films I abandon after about 10 minutes; some, a few are decent.
Word of the day
https://www.wordsandphrasesfromthepast.com/bull-blog/minniminny-monifeet
I posted last night, but it still blows my mind – The Navy Now Wants To Retire The First Four Of Its Troublesome Littoral Combat Ships.
I can’t bring myself to look up how much we spent on this program.
Why do you hate the military?
I’ve been trying to keep my giddy I told ya so! chanting to a minimum. This might be the biggest procurement blunder of my lifetime. It needs a film treatment like the Bradley AFV in The Pentagon Wars.
Let’s wait and see how many F35s fall out of the sky before we rush to judgment.
My thought exactly.
My dead friends from the Osprey would like a word.
The Osprey was always my go-to example of procurement stupidity and sheer bloodyminded waste of life. IIRC, a whitepaper issued after one of the incidents pointed out that the Osprey was, in the event of power loss, aerodynamically shaped so as to “immediately roll inverted, pitch nose downwards, and fly at high speed into the Earth.”
As punishment, Congress should force the Navy to upgrade the USS Salem to modern standards as a replacement. If they bitch, make them commission the battleships again.
Such a littoral failure.
I’m still just here giggling about “Littoral”
Anniversary of the 1689 Declaration of Right today. Worth looking at to see what the Founding Fathers improved upon so much.
Take the seventh clause:
“All Protestants have the right to bear arms for defence. These the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law.”
It’s striking how that wiggle room is completely absent from the Second Amendment.
Reading about the thing, overall, seems reasonably sensible for the time.
I doubt that what is now Romania had much notion for the rights of most people aka the serfs
I think it’s based on the same sort of Enlightenment principles as the USA was founded on. The key difference is the assumption that the interests of parliament are synonymous with those of the people it represents.
The great triumph of the founding fathers was to recognise that threats to freedom could come from internal and democratic sources as well as absolutist monarchs.
The Brits had a Constitution but couldn’t keep it.
I haz a sad.
Maryland Senate OKs ban on releasing balloons into the sky
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/public/ap/maryland-senate-oks-ban-on-releasing-balloons-into-the-sky/article_4c7e46d9-e53e-518b-b9b1-7fa34ded399a.html
Somebody tell Nena!
“Harvard University and Yale University are the targets of a new federal investigation, an ongoing probe that claims schools across the U.S. have failed to disclose some $6.5 billion in foreign funding.
The Department of Education, in letters to the two schools dated on Tuesday, demanded records detailing any foreign contacts with a number of foreign countries and entities.
‘This is about transparency,’ said U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in a statement. ‘If colleges and universities are accepting foreign money and gifts, their students, donors, and taxpayers deserve to know how much and from whom. Moreover, it’s what the law requires.’
Department officials accused the schools of actively soliciting money from foreign governments, companies and nationals, who are known to be hostile to the U.S. and potentially seeking to steal research secrets and ‘spread propaganda benefiting foreign governments,’ according to a document reported by the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the probe.
The department also noted that although foreign cash appears to flow to the nation’s richest universities, ‘such money apparently does not reduce or otherwise offset American students’ tuition costs.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7997599/Harvard-Yale-come-federal-probe-hiding-millions-foreign-funding.html
‘such money apparently does not reduce or otherwise offset American students’ tuition costs.’” – why would it if the students are willing to pay?
I’m really surprised to see that Fargo has become so urbanized that they now engage in silly virtue signaling just like they were a real city or something.
Sorry, but getting bent out of shape about a rule that was used once? And to “help” people who won’t take care of their kids? That is peak stupidity. The next phase will more of the poorer parents to stop paying because they don’t have to worry about a collections agent. Then after that the middle class parents stop paying because who wants to be a chump who pays when no one else does?
I’d love to see a spreadsheet that lists how many of the kids that have delinquent lunch accounts also have their own cell phones.
Taking care of your own kids is for suckers. Make people who don’t have kids pay for them.
” who wants to be a chump who pays when no one else does?”
We’re still talking about the light rail, right?
I make lunches for both of my kids, mainly because they are finicky jerks. Last year, NYC decided that there was too much stigma attached in giving free or reduced price lunch to poor kids so now it’s free for all kids. NYC schools offer free breakfast and free lunch during the school year, and free breakfast all summer long. They STILL however badger me to no end because I refuse to fill out the shockingly intrusive income verification forms to qualify for free or reduced price lunches.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
If it’s free for all, why do you have “qualify” for it?
“Ve didn’t change the procedure, ve just moved the income cap. File ze forms, pheasant.”
?
“Don’t talk back to me. Zat ist verboten!”
That is something nobody has been able to explain. Therefore, I’m not filling out these damn forms.
My guess is that if X% of the people in the school qualify for free lunches the Feds (or state) will give them even more money.
Local town near where I grew up offered to waive student activity fees and give kids free entrance to games if they just filled out the free lunch application.
Those stupid proles don’t even realize Big Daddy is willing to give them money for lunch. They just waste their own money on their kids.
Bologna and mayo Woneerbread sammiches, alternating with PB&J.
I survived.
Gotta cost less than the income tax even a low income family would pay to have the schools feed the kids.
My kids like their toasted bagels, or PB&J, or cream cheese and dill on toast with a bag of homemade cookies or pretzels (I’m a great househusband, damn it.). Maybe some Entenmann’s if I’m too busy to bake.
Amy is a fucking dope.
Klobuchar: Mandatory gun buybacks is not gun confiscation
But you all knew that.
Compulsory sexual gratification is not rape.
So, there’s hope for the two Ohio State football players recently kicked off the team?
My wife watching a news show and seeing her for the first time: “She seems like an annoying bitch”
Me: “Nailed it on the first try”
What was Todd’s intro? “Sen. Klobuchar, the Iron Range, I’m curious…..”
Why tread lightly? Just go full on condescension and say “Sen. Klobuchar, Lake Woebegone, I’m curious….”
I’m sure Todd thought it made him think he is super smart about Minnesoda because he was able to name on small region. But it made no sense at all. Now all my parochialist feathers are ruffled.
Gus Hall for the win!
The original – accept no substitute – Commie presidential contender. And he never let someone cheat him out of his party’s nomination.
I don’t give a shit about your retarded uncle and his deer stand. That has nothing to do with my right to self-defense.
Could you point, Amy, to the part of the second amendment that mentions “hunting”?
I don’t give a shit about your retarded uncle and his deer stand. That has nothing to do with my right to self-defense.
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I don’t encounter as many Fudds as I used to, but when you do encounter them they’re fucking godawful. Your deer rifle will become a “military grade sniper rifle” the second they take away the ARs. Your shotgun will be “far too easy to convert to a sawed off assault shotgun”.
“Well, that’s not gun confiscation because you give them the offer to buy back their gun,” Klobuchar said.
I’ll happily sell to the US gov’t any firearms that I purchased from the US gov’t.
“I look at these proposals and I say, ‘Does this hurt my uncle Dick and his deer stand?’ coming from a proud hunting and fishing state? These ideas don’t do that,” she added.
Because that’s the point of 2A.
A quick driveby of CNNPC. There was some guy on there who appeared to be on the verge of open, disconsolate weeping. President Cartoon Villain has harpooned the very concept of justice! How can the nation survive if Roger Stone doesn’t spend his twilight years in SuperMax? What sort of monster would deny the right of career DoJ prosecutors to hang that scalp on their belts?
I haven’t paid much attention to it because I’ve regarded Stone as a political prisoner. Anyone refusing to see that is beyond the compassion needed to mend society.
Obviously – A 9-year haul in federal prison for a made-up investigation process crime.
Marc Rich says hi.
The Virginia House just voted to disenfranchise the state’s voters.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/482766-virginia-house-passes-bill-to-award-electoral-votes-to-whoever-wins-the
This ticks me off even more than the gun control bills. It’s a giant middle finger to the people they’re supposed to be representing.
I find it strange that they can do that
They can but I’m not sure it’d hold up to a court challenge if it ever had a meaningful impact.
In a rational world, it would get them run out of the state capital and lead to burning effigies of them on their front lawns.
Legally, they can’t.
But as with the ERA, which had a clearly defined sunset, they will just ignore the actual constitution.
If Trump manages to win the popular vote this time and Virginia goes blue at least it’ll be worth a chuckle. Seriously though, Virginia’s legislature have lost their damn minds.
Please. The electors from Virginia would trample each other in an attempt to be the first and most brave faithless elector if that were to happen. And the press would need a drip bucket when talking about how absolutely wonderful they were for “voting their conscience”.
I think that’s what they are into. IYKWIM
my idea of a perfect crime? I’ll show you
https://twitter.com/blakemessick/status/1227365237785059332
no jail time necessary. just a quick beating with a rubber hose out back.
Bazinga!
Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had some very tough words for the “offensive and atrocious” language that has come from a certain rich person from New York who has problems with women and African Americans.
SPOILER ALERT: It wasn’t her former boss.
Sanders joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity Tuesday night to react to Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) victory in the New Hampshire 2020 Democratic primary. As she proclaimed President Donald Trump to be the true winner of the evening, Mrs. Sanders went on an aside in order to bash Bloomberg over his unearthed stop and frisk comments.
“If he continues to rise, he’s gonna have serious problems with women, with African-Americans. His record, his language is offensive and atrocious. Then again, maybe he can buy at the DNC just like Hillary did and steal it from Bernie like they did in 2016.”
This was said with no acknowledgement of any past controversies with women and African Americans that might involve Sanders’ former boss.
+1 Super-predator?
It was pretty controversial when Jesse Jackson said trump was a huge supporter of the African American community.
Good news everybody!
So weight loss is paying off, I can now fit into shirts that I haven’t been able to wear in 5 years (including some of my favorite bowling shirts). Which was one of the goals for this years Viva… speaking of, I’ll be in Vegas Easter weekend if any locals want to meet up. Saturday is really the only day that’s full up (that’s the day of the car show, and Royal Crown Revue playing).
The shell of the European vacation has been booked. July 1st through 17th the girlfriend and I will be over in Europe, current plans include Reykjavik, Brussels, Cologne, and Amsterdam.
Well done, Neph!
I’m finding it annoying how much leather stretches. While I have gotten thinner the number of holes I’ve had to punch in my belt is about 3-4x larger than my actual waist reduction.
I’m failing my glibfit goals by about 12 pounds at this time, but I’ve finally lost the Christmas and Thanksgiving weight. Almost back to where I was before I had a friend come and visit in October. The local Fall delicacies up here are heavy.
I’ve heard good things about the holeless belt.
I have a cheaper model with the same mechanism. It is very easy to use and the smaller increments make it easier to find a comfortable spot.
I love mine. Never thought I’d be impressed by a belt of all things, but it’s just very usable.
I wear this.
Really nice belt.
I had to use a drill on my gun belt.
March is going to be tough for me. Looks like I’m going to be traveling for work for a week, and then there’s St. Patrick’s day week. But as of today, I’ve got ~11 pounds to go to hit my goal by April, so it’s still in sight.
I would trade out Cologne for Dortmund, but that is just me. The Altstadt is beckoning.
Seriously? I haven’t been to Dortmund – because it’s generally recognized there’s little to see there – but Köln is amazing.
My entire purpose would be to drink as much Altbier at the source as possible.
Kolsch is one of my favorite styles. The current plan is to fly into Brussels from Reykjavik, then using train transport to move around Europe, then fly out from Amsterdam. So day trips are definitely a strong possibility to check out other areas. As it stands, the only things written in stone are the flights into and out of Iceland. We’re still playing around with how long we want to stay in each area to at least see most of what we want to.
I knew that, I am just not a big Kolsch fan.
Do they still serve whale in Iceland?
If they have reservations…
Based on the menus that I can find, yes they do (and I’ve heard the horror stories about the fermented shark dish). Iceland ain’t cheap. I’m mildly entertained that the entire country has a smaller population then Cleveland proper (not the metro area, just the city).
Canada has a smaller population than Tokyo.
My Icelandic buddy loves him some ?. It’s pretty funny to see people’s shocked faces when he mentions that. That fermented shark shit is one of the only foods I would never consider putting near me. It stunk to high heaven when he brought it over to my house after a trip back home. Luckily his girlfriend made him open it outside on my porch instead of my kitchen.
My parents brought home some whale sausage from Norway. I think I’m going to unleash it on my coworkers.
Did they use whale intestine for the casing? That would be a big sausage.
If you really hate your job and coworkers you could always serve it up before telling them what it was.
Free Willy jokes optional.
My thought exactly.
“Hey, what’s the problem? Its just a big fish!”
Nice! Congrats on the loss and that sounds like a damn fine trip. I highly recommend renting a bike for your time in the Dam and taking some trips outside the city to ride on the canals that go through the small towns and farming areas. I biked through a fair portion of the NL when I lived there and it is flat as a pancake so you can really cover some miles. Bike paths are everywhere.
Maryland Senate OKs ban on releasing balloons into the sky
That would never fly in Indiana.
That would never fly in Indiana.
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Go on Google Maps for the Indy Motor Speedway, click reviews, and then sort by negative reviews first.
The eco nuts have been beating on that tradition for a few years now. IMS will eventually cave.
On a side note, I’m pretty sure I’ll be at the 500 this year. If anybody else is going, we can do a meet up.
Best review I came across: “Never been they need a black driver maybe I will go”
Multiculturalism doesn’t include whiteys, dumbass
Congratulations on your title VI violation!
Also, how hilarious is it gonna be when some whitey decides they won’t give up their seat to a POC…
Well, I have one nonrefundable fixed point in my trip. I’m going to be in Vegas on the 31st. No plans on gambling, I’ve already lost enough money on the show I’m taking my Dad to see. (Blue Man Group.)
UCS: While you’re in Vegas, I would recommend hitting up Downtown if you can. Low priority, but I think you would find it more to your liking then the Strip.
I may not have enough time. On the day we arrive in Vegas, we’ll have started in Flagstaff and paused at the Hoover Dam for the tour, plus the show in the evening. On the next morning we need to drive thirteen or fourteen hours to Colorado.
No worries, I figured you’d be staying in Vegas as short a time as possible.
Dont forget to ask them if it is a God Dam. I am sure they never get tired of that.
He’ll probably wind up at the municipal building watching land-use permit hearings
The 31st is a Sunday. They won’t be having any hearings then. And we’ll be out of town on the 1st too early for them to start.
Try Mon Ami Gabi at the Paris Hotel if you can. The food is excellent.
Avoid anything with Guy Fieri in the name of the restaurant.
I made the mistake of looking at the price tag so soon after having looked at the ticket prices for the show. The more money I have recently spent, the more adverse I become to the thought of spending more. I’ll have to check back some time in the future.
I’d rather grab a Double Double from the In-N-Out on Tropicana and Dean Martin than eat anywhere on the strip tbqh.
I have to coordinate dining choices with my Dad, since he has more limitations on what he can eat than I do.
Going off strip reduces the cost of food dramatically, but you also need a way to get there. The streets just off strip get sketchy real quick.
We may just stay in the pyramidal arcology and eat the added expense. It depends on a lot of factors I can’t know before we get there.
pyramidal arcology
Nicely put.
Well, it’s the Luxor, and they do try to keep guests inside.
All the hotels in Vegas try to do that.
Reviewing the dining options available, I am reminded once again that “Sin City” is a well-deserved moniker. The whole place is like a shrine to excess – and I’ve still not seen it in person.
I was there once and personally found nothing to recommend it. But we didn’t go to Battlefield Las Vegas so I’ll leave that out there. The food could be great, but not anything you can’t get in any major metro any more. In the 80’s and 90’s I would imagine that wasn’t true, but that says more about the other major metros than vegas.
I couldn’t drive to within a few hours of the city and not stop in. It’d be like wisiting Buffalo and blowing off Niagara Falls when you’d never seen it in person.
That’s only because you haven’t had the egg, bacon, and cheese crepe.
Or the charcuterie.
You and your dad should get matching face tattoos!
No.
No Amnesty Amy?
Unearthed footage of a 2006 U.S. Senate candidate debate at the University of St. Thomas reveals Klobuchar once held similar views on illegal immigration as Trump, policies she now avidly opposes as she runs for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination.
“I do believe that we need more resources at the border and that includes a fence,” Klobuchar said. “What we have now, we have people waiting to come in legally. Thousands of people waiting to come in legally to this country, and we have people coming in illegally. That’s not right. We need to get order at the border.”
Klobuchar went even further, touting her support for nationwide mandatory E-Verify to open jobs for Americans and prohibit businesses from hiring illegal aliens:
“But we also have to stop giving amnesty to companies that are hiring illegal immigrants. Under this administration, the number of prosecutions of companies [hiring illegal immigrants] has gone way down. That has to change.”
I’m sure you unearth the same kind of tapes for the whole clown-car, except Sanders.
Oh, Sanders was against immigration on a pro-union labor basis, and changed this election cycle.
Sanders was positively “Trump-like” on immigration until he needed the woke vote.
^^^THIS^^^
I’d love to see a spreadsheet that lists how many of the kids that have delinquent lunch accounts also have their own cell phones.
Hates teh childrun.
*checks box*
There’s Section 8 subsidized housing down the street from my business. There are at least a couple of newer Cadillac CTS sedans parked in there.
Elizabeth Warren✔
@ewarren
A young girl came up to me tonight and said, “I’m a broke college student with a lot of student loan debt. I checked and I have $6 in the bank—so I just gave $3 to keep you in this fight.” We’re staying in this fight for the people who are counting on us.
Warren 2020: I’ll only take half.
Do we really want to be supporting people who make clearly poor financial decisions through the public dole?
A really good photo op would be if she responsed by taking a $5 bill out of her pocket and giving it to the college student, saying something like “You’ve already paid more than your fair share”.
I’d BS, but it’d play well. Better than draining the last few dollars from a deluded girl’s bank account.
“You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.” – Warren 20:20
I don’t thinks Liz has any comprehension of what good optics are.
Well-Played, sir.
If that really happened, why the hell would you brag about it?
You’ve got to work hard to establish victim cred.
Do high school counselors not advise kids that most liberal arts degrees end in financial disappointments? Shouldn’t an HS counselor write a letter to the parents, explaining the ins/outs of student loans? Its like borrowing a lot of money to restore a Mustang, only to find that there are a lot of them already out there, that look better and are cheaper.
Kids have been fed a bunch of BS since kindergarten, many parents are lacking anything more than high school and want their kids to succeed, do better than they did so a kid gets a 5 year degree in Soc and beer drinking with lots of student debt. Its not only the kid’s fault but the debt ends up on the kid’s back.
Do high school counselors not advise kids that most liberal arts degrees end in financial disappointments
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No, they do not. They do just the opposite. They shove kids into the pipeline.
The kids are not the customer, they are the product. The education system in this country is straight up evil, and should be destroyed root, branch, and stem.
Does anyone know how to easily migrate ebook content from one Amazon account to another?
Have you contacted Amazon support? That’s where I’d start.
Wuhan Quarantine, The Reality
I like how he preps them before putting the clothespins on.
*honk honk*
Which one of you is that?
“Michael Bloomberg’s guide to success.
“Make sure you’re the first one in there every day and the last one to leave. Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom. You keep working.””
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1227664578659717120
No wonder he is full of shit.
Back to the Stone-Trump-Barr sentencing “scandal”-
If any of the shrieking numbskulls currently so over wrought about this think no President ever discreetly inquired about the status of a case, they’re nuts.
Trump just did it openly, via the twatterz, which probably is what makes it so offensive to them. Muh facade of decorum, and all that.
This is driving me crazy because underlying it is the roots of destruction of the entire system. The President is THE Chief Executive Officer of the United States. He is the only person in the entire US govt that is elected by a vote of all of the people of the various states.
If prosecutorial discretion is a real thing, then He – the President – is 100% within his rights to set guidelines for HIS prosecutors, to have opinions and ideas about how cases should be handled, to ensure that the “discretion” isn’t being wielded in such a way that a federal prosecutor in East St. Louis is going after people for terms of years for petty offenses while across the river another prosecutor gives probation. (For just one example).
IOW, Trump has every right in the world to stick his nose in there – and accept the political consequences of that being made public. To argue otherwise would mean that somehow a US Atty is somehow above the President, and the Constitution itself. Hell, Trump could always pardon anyone he wants – the courts have consistently held it as a unique power of the office. Every other asshole has done the slew of political pardons for their boys on their way out the door so they didn’t have to suffer the political consequences; Trump has the balls to use his authority right out in the open.
It’s amazing, really. Because Trump is actually exercising the authority of the office in the way in which it was likely meant to be used. Of course, Nixon’s actions led Congress to attempt to overthrow the Constitutional order and everyone in the Swamp acts like the AG is somehow supposed to have this power that supercedes the President’s, even though he is picked by the president and works for the fucking President. It’s mind bending how fucked up are Constitutional order has become so fucked over time that now people are acting like there is something illegal about the President having an opinion about what an attorney is doing in a particular case: he is 100% within his rights to do so, he just has to accept the consequences of doing so in cases where he can be ‘tagged’ with having some ‘interest.’
our, not are
Yeah….
I’m not well versed in the history of it all but the Bureaucratic state has gotten out of control to where they see themselves as an end. They are all part of the executive branch, but seem to act like they are the executive. Or at least that is how we are supposed to look at it because the person the icky masses chose to elect is so bad.
I mean Bill Marr sid the other day that the deep state were “The people who make sure government works”. And i think this is a common opinion on the way government employes/bureacrats are. They aren’t silly politicians elected by silly people. They are the serious professionals that actually do the government, and actually set policy, and actually make the laws. The Elected officials are all there to just rubber stamp what they say and get votes, and maintain the facade of democracy while the “Real” professionals do the actuall work of the government.
In otherwords we have a monarchical administrative state. The exact thing the founders didn’t want.
If that really happened, why the hell would you brag about it?
Elizabeth Warren: she only takes money from poor people!
“Bloomberg has said he will spend the $ to defeat Trump even if he’s not the nominee. We need that. We don’t need him in the White House.
PS he spent $5 mil to help me win my seat – I’m not trying to be ungrateful.
You don’t have to BE the candidate to help them win (ahem ?♀️)”
https://twitter.com/KatieHill4CA/status/1227714872290480130
Principles.
But will he spend the $500 to replace the upholstery you ruined with your bare ass?
Billionaires are scum of the earth bastards except for the ones that agree with me. That applies to both sides but still.
They conveniently ignore the fact that HIllbot ran the most expensive campaign in history and still lost.
My anti-Trump wife rather nervously asked me if I thought Bloomberg could win in November. She’s trying to figure out who to support in the primaries. She knows that Sanders and Warren, at least, would be crushed in a 1984-like manner.
I told her “probably not”, but he’d have a better chance than some of the crowd. IF (and that’s a big if) the Sanders crew doesn’t have a temper tantrum and stay home.
The Bernie Bros wouldn’t vote for Bloomberg if you paid them.
I see now…. See i thought there was no way to be redeemed in the eyes of the evangelical left. But now it seems that Money is the great sanctifier.
Nice.
Get your little tushie over here and brush my hair.
He talking about spending $2 Billion this year to buy elections. So much for getting money out of politics.
foreman of Stone’s jury was hyperpartisan Trump hater and former Dem candidate. judge Amy Berman Jackson refused Stone’s lawyers when they tried to strike her from the jury.
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1227817454178590720
Nope, enough of your distractions, Stone not dying of old age in a maximum security prison is a sign of a broken justice system.
They didn’t try and strike her. There are problems with her being on the jury, but that’s all on his lawyers. They didn’t even bother to do a simple google search.
Judge Jackson denied the appeal after the fact.
Is it somehow incumbent on a potential juror to reveal such a blatant conflict of interest or is it all on the defense team?
She did reveal it. On the questionnaire.
They chose to ignore it.
Ah, gotcha…a major screwup on their part then.
A screwup…. sure. 😉
Just remember, most defense attorneys depend on the good will of prosecutors and the judges to practice their trade. The dynamics are little better than the public defenders supplied by the Soviet Union to defendants that were charged with crimes against the people (e.g. publishing works critical of the Soviet government).
I haven’t seen where that’s been written. I did see a couple of claims that Stone’s lawyers knew about her but not that she answered truthfully on her questionnaire.
It was known to the point that the media was reporting on it during jury selection.
https://twitter.com/GScottShand/status/1227970691833704449
did they not file for change of venue? that’s Matlock 101.
Her tweets during the trial probably create a mistrial situation though.
Saw somewhere online the suggestion that they had already used all of their allotted strikes.
“After striking the SEIU head, the climate justice attorney, the Moms Demand Action chapter head, and Chelsea Clinton, Mr. Stones attorneys are out of strikes.”
in DC? yeah that’s reasonable assumption.
In addition, it was revealed that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson had denied a defense request to strike a potential juror who was Obama-era press official with admitted anti-Trump views — and whose husband worked at the same Justice Department division that handled the probe leading to Stone’s arrest.
sounds like the judge denied their request with a different juror. good grief. how stacked was that jury?
that crazy ol fox is the source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/roger-stone-jury-forepersons-anti-trump-views-surface-raising-new-questions-about-his-trial-and-conviction
Which one of you is this?
That is actually impressive. The big guy needs flexibility and balance to pull that off.
I posted this at the end of a links thread yesterday, but this is the greatest campaign ad of all time. I donated.
Hard to understand why we don’t get a better foothold…
Some in the party want to give him the boot.
He plays the heel pretty well
Sitting in the ICU, staring at the crash cart, waiting for the Doctor, they brought her back, after 5 minutes, not good
Sorry man. Good luck.
Stay strong. We’re here for you.
Shit.
Sorry, Bob.
Damn, I’m sorry Yusef.
I’m sorry, Yusef.
Holding you in our hearts.
Thank Jim for getting me here, she just looks sooo tired, it breaks my heart
All the best, Yusefus. It puts my tiny problems into perspective.
Damn. I’m so sorry Bob.
Hang in there. As others have said, we’re here for you.
Prayers are with you all.
Yikes. Good luck.
Prayers sent your way.
Prayers for you and Wendy, brother. We’re here for you.
Oh, man, you have my sympathies. That sounds like a horrible situation.
I am sorry Bob. that sucks.
I’m so sorry!!!!
Praying for a good outcome!
Sorry, Yusef.
It’s hard to stay strong at a time like this. Know that you have a lot of friends for aid and comfort. We all have a hand on your shoulder.
I’ll pile on.
You are now smack in the middle of my worst nightmare. I would rather be dying of a rattlesnake bite in the middle of the desert in high summer than live through that.
This lot will help as much as internet people can; don’t be shy about leaning on us.
Uffda. So sorry Yusef.
Here we go again.
Nancy Pelosi✔
@SpeakerPelosi
By tweet @realDonaldTrump engaged in political interference in the sentencing of Roger Stone. It is outrageous that DOJ has deeply damaged the rule of law by withdrawing its recommendation. Stepping down of prosecutors should be commended & actions of DOJ should be investigated.
The president stating an opinion and the DOJ acting within its authority is “damaging the rule of law”.
I hope they impeach him again, it’ll be good for reassuring re-election and a few laughs to boot.
Is “political interference” a special kind of crime in Title 18? ‘Cuz I can’t find it.
Stepping down of prosecutors should be commended
Always and everywhere.
& actions of DOJ should be investigated.
Knock yourself out. Let’s get the story of how they lied about their recommendation, and why DOJ withdrew it because it was indefensible, on the record.
A friend is a leader of a small civic-organization (not cub scouts!) that is going through a serious crisis. It turns out that one of the volunteer is DUN-DUN-DUN A SHITLORD ON THE INTERNET and posts pictures of scantily clad anime girls and gothy sadbois. One of the pictures of said sadboi had a tagline that may conceivably be interpreted as DUN-DUN-DUN mysognystic.
Now a number of bubble-dwelling soccer mom basic bitches making my friend’s life hell because “they don’t want their daughters put in danger by being exposed” to said shitlord. never mind the fact that said shitlord is the fucking web administrator and doesn’t see anyone in the group face to face and the basic bitches contribute nothing to the group. So they are trying to kick out the shitlord for being insufficiently inclusive (which is a goal of this civic organization).
It must be terrifying to learn for the first time that there are people out there who think differently than you. All are welcome! Now get the fuck out!
Silly broads should take a look at their precious snowflakes’ phones some time. I guarantee you that it will be orders of magnitude worse than amine titties.
Fuck this shitty, damp, dreary, wet, windy, miserable little pile of shit that’s wedged up here in the NE Atlantic, and upon which I stand, screaming at the fucking sky like that androgynous person in the yellow vest. I FUCKING HATE THE FUCKING WEATHER. FUCK IT. I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO IS HOLDING BACK RESEARCH INTO WEATHER CONTROL. The Met Office (British Soviet Ministry of Weather and Climate) says 10% chance of precipitation. It has been fucking chucking it down and ruined my paint.
Now, I guess I gambled somewhat on painting outside with anything more than a <5% and sunny, but FUCK OFF, WEATHER. JFC I F HATE WEATHER.
#fuckthursday
Tell us how you really feel.
Does it ever not rain on Airstrip One?
Only long enough to trick me into thinking it might be okay to go outside and paint something.
Some good comfort food should make you feel better. How about some nice blood sausage and a kidney pie?
Mlaaaaaaaa no thanks. If I did eat aminals I’d be too much of a pansy to eat the piss factories and vampire vino.
Fish are vegetables. Get some fried.
I think the categorizing of living things as animal or vegetable ignores the essential unity of life and is mobility supremacist! All life is dirt +water+solar energy. And it is all food!
No, there are some things that should not be eaten.
Most invertibrates for one.
They are bird food. Unless they are lobsters in which case they are people food.
If you’re going to be that generic, the remark loses any significance with regards to JD’s need to eat something reassuring.
I regard each comment as its own universe. Your divisiveness and insistence on consistency to your patrioheteronormative tyranny will not impede my truthiness!
Translation – You don’t want to admit to your mistakes.
Got it.
You know the hot/crazy matrix? The tasty/cute matrix is the food equivalent.
What about the ortolan?
The French have odd tastebuds, but not quite as out there as the Chinese.
My fiancee is always urging me to eat more vegetables. So I finally told her that, under my classification system, anything that grows in the ground is a vegetable. And herbivores are second order vegetables. So hands off my dark chocolate, sweetie.
Oh, yay. The wind is spooling up. I don’t really want to run the snow blower in ground blizzard conditions, but I kinda need to make a supply run.
On the one hand, winter mostly waited ’til February to appear, but on the other hand, I could still do without the drift-bashing.
You and me could go into the anti-weather business together. Man’s long struggle against the big, murderous rapist called nature has been fought since life first sparked into existence, and nature always wins, ultimately. It’s time to take control, make weather our bitch, and finally have a global network of weather control satellites and supporting infrastructure.
Think of the shitshow that would start if weather control was possible.
Greenpeace would be suing your ass off because using weather control to create a lush, green paradise out of the Sahara desert would cause the Desert Dung Beetle to go extinct. Better keep those losers living in a hell hole than let any animal die out.
Likewise, women would be rioting because the daily high of 75 was just too cold and was obviously set by the Patriarchy, just to force them to spend all their money on sweaters.
I’d bet that within 3 months, the people running the weather satellites would convert them into solar death ray platforms and do nothing but blast whiners into ashes all day long.
Win Win Win.
Even with your driving gloves, then solar death ray would come right through the windshield and burn your hands off. That’s no win.
If it’s not powerful enough to destroy the whole car, it’s useless.
So they are trying to kick out the shitlord for being insufficiently inclusive (which is a goal of this civic organization).
Nothing says “tolerance and inclusivity” like banishment of the wrongthinkz.
To be honest, I’d rather be banished than be asked to listen to a bunch of whining harpies telling me I need to get my mind right.
You cant Tolerate Intolerance, In fact you must be 100% intolerant of Intollerance and destroy all intolerant thought. Otherwise the Nazis might win. Karl Popper said as much.
I don’t think Popper was worried about anime titties.
Theory: the reason the economy and the stock market is doing so well is because Congress has been so distracted by President Trump that they haven’t done their usual crap that depresses the economy.
If so, we need more Trump!
The markets love gridlock (me too).
I think the Federal Register has also shrunk by about 30%.
No, its still growing every year. The acceleration has decreased, but the rate of growth is still faster than it has ever been.
https://cei.org/blog/trump-regulations-federal-register-page-count-lowest-quarter-century
Obviously page count is a very very very rough metric, but it’s something.
The Federal Register is where new regs and misc. agency pronouncements are published.
The Code of Federal Regulations is where the actual regulations in effect live.
A smaller Federal Register is probably a good thing, but the game is shrinking the Code of Federal Regulations. There hasn’t been a single significant regulation of health care repealed to my knowledge, although they are giving us more safe harbors, which is nice.
And that answers my questions below.
13 volumes (750 page per volume) in 1950. 235 in 2013. Don’t know about today.
All I can find is “approximately 200”.
Whether that is more or less than 235, I dont know.
Are rules “new rules” or “total rules”. I think it is the former, which means things are still growing. Same question about pages?
He talking about spending $2 Billion this year to buy elections. So much for getting money out of politics.
You must have misunderstood them. They want the “wrong people’s” money out of politics. Contributions to Democrats are democracy at its best.
I thought it was hilarious that HIllary, who was always banging on about getting the money out of politics, lost to somebody she outspent 2:1.
It’s time to take control, make weather our bitch, and finally have a global network of weather control satellites and supporting infrastructure.
In order to make any of that happen, job number one is carving a passage through the waist-high drift between the front door and my truck. I must prepare my mind (and put some pants on).
Upper 70s here today, but dropping rapidly with rain and wind coming in tonight. Might be in the 50s tomorrow.
Sounds awful. You have my pity.
I don’t think we’re getting a winter this year. Two snow events for a total of 3″ and it maybe got into the single digits once.
That sounds like Cincinnati this year. And the 3 inches included a 2 inch snowfall that was melted by 2 pm last week.
Climate change obviously.
Thing 1 is home sick from school. He’s playing Chronotrigger. I may not be a perfect dad, but I know I’m doing something right.
I wrote a good portion of Cods & Cuntes to that soundtrack. I will link it when I’m not on my phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP6cySSEk98&feature=emb_title
Lemme enact that labor for you
Thot Thursday wants to seize your means of production.
http://archive.li/tpWzF
the punchline is:
…the babysitter said “Hey that’s not my means of production” and the boy said “yeah well that’s not my invisible hand, either.”
Youtube removes video of Rand Paul speaking on Senate floor because ERIC CIARAMELLA’s name is mentioned.
The ends they are going to “Protect” Eric Ciamerella is more revealing than anything. Never has a whistleblower recieved such protection, and that is because Eric is not a whistelblower. He’s a spook that has often participated in thinking about performing a coup against the elected president of the united states.
That, like the way Roberts behaved, only confirms that Eric is the “whistleblower”.
The funny part is that Paul never referred to ERIC CIARAMELLA as the “whistleblower”.
Can any of these people define the distinction between the terms “whistleblower” and “accuser”.
Part of it is to ensure that there is no information about the guy. You don’t have to say he’s the whistleblower. If you say his name it is enough to get the content censored.
I wonder where the order to scrub his name from the major sites comes from.
I can’t imagine how that doesn’t take them out of being a CDMA “platform”.
Absolutely ridiculous bullshit and blatant political bias.
Asking cops the hard questions ok the same questions they ask us and posting it on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55BFO9ZVaM&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3TBv4eFujQbczvujVC1FERJJsUsLsFyqW4_Ixcy2FYVFIRZAsekRBKXZs
That’s pretty funny
LOL That’s awesome.
I find I get irritated with that tone of voice regardless of who’s speaking. I couldn’t finish the video.
There is some old coot (Good Citizen of the North on the utoob) that does “First Amendment Audits” here in town. Our work security did very poorly with him. It was embarrassing.
Would.
With extreme prejudice.
“best piece of tail [Lewandowski] will ever have”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms2x7hVqghs
“Rush Limbaugh is one of the worst people to ever walk this planet. He is a scar on this nation, deserving only to be plucked out and fed to eagles. Medal of shame. Badge of dishonor. Death, thou too shalt die!”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-wishes-death-on-rush-limbaugh-attacks-republicans-on-social-media/
Pol Pot ain’t got nothin’ on Rushbo!
From his bio on Bucknells website
“He is interested in Critical Race Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Marxist criticism.”
Shocking.
I will assume he doesn’t actually criticize Marxism.
Or study races critically, or submit to psychoanalysis.
Critical anything Studies, that’s all I need to know.
I still think Twitter is cancer but I have to admit it’s useful when unpleasant people identify themselves so willingly.
He said something mean about that slut, Sandra Fluke, once. Totally deplorable.
Interesting anecdote this morning:
My boss is a committed Democrat. For the first time since before Trump’s election, she asked me a couple of questions about politics (which had come up indirectly). She has a pretty good idea where I stand politically.
First – what about the Roger Stone prosecutors resigning? I said that apparently they had lied to the DOJ about what they were going to propose, so DOJ never approved it, which is why DOJ immediately withdrew it, which they never do. She had not heard about that.
Second – what about the Vindmans? I said the NSC serves at the pleasure of the President, and if he decides he can’t trust somebody, I didn’t see anything wrong with losing that position. I noted they weren’t fired, but basically transferred. She had the idea they were unemployed, which I don’t think is true.
Third – some apparatchik came out and said they thought the Ukraine phone call was illegal. I said I had read the transcript (she hadn’t), and my takeaway was that I was embarrassed by rampant ass-kissing on both sides, but I guess that’s politics.
The most interesting data point: no anger, the sort of good-humored back and forth about politics that used to be routine.
Office prog has dialed it way back. Asked me the other day what I thought of Dershowitz defending Trump. I said it’s nice to see someone with principles. He actually agreed.
I think even nominal progs are starting to get uncomfortable with the Hard Left Marxist wing.
Because they’re still conscious enough to know that they’re next on the intersectionality execution line.
Don’t feel too good about it yet. Give it a week to see if you get a pink slip or reassigned to an office in the basement next to the furnace.
Mandatory 12 straight weekend sensitivity training!
And they’ll take your red stapler!
I have a vintage Swingline. The thing could be used as a weapon. NOBODY touches that but me. It is sacrosanct, like my fabric shears.
No worries. When she’s mad at me, trust me, I know it. She had a pretty good idea that I wouldn’t be on board with her narrative when she asked. All in good fun, which I thought was the most surprising thing.
She’s seen me break the window out of a wrecked car to check on an unconscious driver and get the door open so the actual nurses on hand could do their thing, when nobody else thought to/was willing to. She knows I have my uses.
Moving furniture, when she doesn’t want to get maintenance involved?
“RC….what’s happening? We’re sort of….reorganizing? So I’m gonna have to ask you if you could go ahead and put your stuff into a box and move it down to subbasement D? Yeah, that would be greeeeeat, thanks!”
On Vindman, since he is a one-trick-pony with only a very small, specific area of expertise with no remaining trust in that area, he’ll be given “additional duties” like handing out towels at the gym until he retires.
On Vindman
Lt. Col. Vindman…
Not for long I suspect.
Someone’s going to make him a full bird?
Someone is likely cooking him a Big Chicken Dinner
My wife asks me these types of questions (in fact, she’s asked all three, the first two just a couple of days ago) because she’s learned to be skeptical about the media narrative. Sounds like your boss might be getting that way, too.
I don’t think so, not yet. She’s deep in the DemOp bubble. Who knows? If she keeps raising these questions with me, there’s a chance.
I still think Twitter is cancer but I have to admit it’s useful when unpleasant people identify themselves so willingly.
That’s my position on (most) tattoos, and facial piercings in particular. You could never get away with forcing the mental defectives to hang some sort of warning sign around their neck, but if they want to voluntarily warn me off, I’m thankful. If I see a woman with a fish hook in her nose, or some sort of upholstery fastener stuck through her eyebrow, I know as much as i need to know about her.
Small, “tasteful” tattoos concealed by clothing, I am willing to overlook. Facial tattoos, sleeves, and such?
HardSoft nope.I got a not-visible-to-anyone tattoo way back in the day as a trophy for a major accomplishment. Not-yet Mr. Mojeaux was okay with that but asked me not to get any more. I saw no reason to, so I agreed.
There is a certain physical “high” you get when you get a tattoo. I assume it’s like a runner’s high but I don’t run (not even when chased), so I wouldn’t know. People get addicted to that.
I have one. (You’d hate it – it’s my old GSD 😉 ). My wife loves it, but I have no interest in getting any others. I was in my 40s when I got it, so I knew why and I have zero ragrets (not even one letter!).
See, when I see “GSD” I thought, “Getting Shit Done”? It took me a couple of seconds to realize you meant German shepherd dog.
I did write a dog into a story once. A GSD, highly trained guard dog. I also killed him. Yes. Yes, the worst thing an author can do–kill a dog in a story.
Reminds me: Beta reader for Cods & Cuntes: You’re not going to kill the dogs and the horses are you?
Me: OH MY GOODNESS NO I WOULD NOT DO THAT THEY ARE ACTUAL CHARACTERS!!!
Her: But you’re going to kill the baby.
Me: Well, yeah. The reader is not attached to her yet.
Her: Kill the baby but not the animals. So authorly of you.
Spoilers!~
Warn us.
I do not believe in trigger warnings, so no deal.
Oh, you meant spoiler warnings. Sorry. My readership here is in single digits.
Besides, it doesn’t happen in Cods & Cuntes and it may not happen at all. I am very attached to those dogs and horses. It may or may not happen in Witch’s Tit (otherwise titled A Babe in Winter, thanks to Henry VI).
Same here. One and done, although its old enough it could probably use a refresh. There’s a good Japanese-style tattooist here in town that I keep thinking I should drop in on and talk about getting it touched up and maybe colored, but I haven’t had nearly the motivation to actually do anything.
I dig dragons on the back. I just don’t want to see it constantly. It loses its specialness.
That’s when the back hair comes into play.
My wife, who has more tattoos than I’d prefer, said the same thing. I have three that are only visible at the beach and I never got any sort of high from them. I just thought in my stupid younger days that they looked cool. I wouldn’t say I regret them, but I’m not getting any more, that’s for sure.
ditto
The most interesting data point: no anger, the sort of good-humored back and forth about politics that used to be routine.
Excellent.
Another thing about the Stone sentence- they are only at the “recommendation” stage, right? There has been no “revocation” of an actual judicial action, if I understand correctly, but most of the yapping boneheads are behaving as if Trump ordered the jailers to set him (Stone) free.
Best review I came across: “Never been they need a black driver maybe I will go”
*Willy T Ribbs kicks pebble, mopes*
Have you seen that doc on Netflix.? I watched it last nite and enjoyed it.
There is a certain physical “high” you get when you get a tattoo. I assume it’s like a runner’s high but I don’t run (not even when chased), so I wouldn’t know. People get addicted to that.
I have heard that before. Judging by some of the people I see, nd the massive coverage, I can only assume they are “addicted” in some way, to the tattoo needle.
And now I must link to this
It is real, just like the G-spot.
just like the G-spot.
If I ever had any doubts, my last girlfriend made a believer out of me. Let’s just say she would situate herself on top of me in such a way that after a couple of minutes her eyes would start rolling like the wheels in an old-timey slot machine. Many jackpots were won.
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