GREAT GRANDPA SMITH HAVE FUN WITH OLDE ENGLISH SHIPS!
SEA SMITH HAVE SPECIAL TALENT. OK, TWO SPECIAL TALENT. FIRST ONE RAPE. SECOND ONE, MAKE SHIP DISAPPEAR… HE NOT NORMAL DO GOVERNMENT WORK, BUT THEM OFFER GOOD CASH.
CHA-CHING!
SEA SMITH MAY, MAY NOT HAVE ANYTHING DO WITH LINKS STORIES. HE POST, YOU DECIDE!
SO HERE LINKS. NOW. FROM SEA SMITH.
- STUPID SEXY SHIP IN GREEK WATERS. IT ASK FOR IT, WITH SEDUCTIVE ENGINE TROUBLE!
- SPEAK OF GREEK OOPS…
- WHYCOME STOOPID LAND HOOMANS BOTHER BUFFALOS?
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
“Tensions between the NATO allies have risen this week after Turkey sent a survey vessel to the region, escorted by warships, to map out sea territory for possible oil and gas drilling in an area where Turkey and Greece both claim jurisdiction.”
How many years have these people been fighting?
“The Greek frigate manoeuvred to avoid a head-on collision and in the process its bow touched the rear of the Turkish frigate, the defence source said, calling it a āmini collision.ā ”
It’ll buff right out.
Steve Smith touched its rear. And by touched . . . .
“A poem is a mighty frigate”.
Thousands, all the way to Cyrus,the Great at least
Thousands, all the way to Cyrus,the Great at least
Technically, this is Turk-Greek rivalry, which is separate from Persian-Greek rivalry. The Turks have only been in the area about 1,000 years, when they decided to insert themselves between the two rivals and take up their own rivalries with each.
I don’t care what kind of badass bike you ride. Do not fuck around with Mama Buffalo.
āShe was apparently saved when her pants came off”
Is that when the drugs fell out of her ass? Another Darwin award winner.
She survived so she is only eligible for a Darwin Honorable Mention.
WHYCOME STOOPID LAND HOOMANS BOTHER BUFFALOS?
Because fuck you, that’s why.
And by “fuck you”, mean….
Bulk carrier fire, Greece
Greek fire? The Byzantines rise again!
The Greek frigate manoeuvred to avoid a head-on collision and in the process its bow touched the rear of the Turkish frigate, the defence source said, calling it a āmini collision.ā
Ramming is SO 6th century b.c.
But also very Greek.
Especially when you ram into the rear.
The Greekiest.
A friend texted me about depression, and I told her… it’s a sinking feeling you get when the ground gives way beneath your feet.
I keed, I keed.
I’ve had feelings for her for years, so it’s funny that she texts me about depression when hearing from her suppresses mine. She gives me a momentary wriggle of life whenever I hear from her.
Now I’ll have to reconsider. She’s clearly damaged goods.
” She gives me a momentary wriggle of life whenever I hear from her.”
I got one of those, drives me nuts, intentional I’m sure
Send her dick pics. That’s clearly your best next move.
Unless, somehow, you could set it up where she can see you doing handbrake slides in your car.
Such the Romantic, I mean, what Woman doesn’t like Hand brake slides?
Exactly!
Do those count if they are in reverse because your car is front wheel drive?
Whatever gets you around………
My Z24 did them quite well. It was so light in the back end.
Is that covered in the advanced cycling course?
Sheās clearly damaged goods.
Aren’t we all? Or at least seriously used and worn out?
Damage and average share an etymology:
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late 15th century: from French avarie ādamage to ship or cargoā, earlier ācustoms dutyā, from Italian avaria, from Arabic āawÄr ādamage to goodsā; the suffix -age is on the pattern of damage . Originally denoting a duty payable by the owner of goods to be shipped, the term later denoted the financial liability from goods lost or damaged at sea, and specifically the equitable apportionment of this between the owners of the vessel and of the cargo (late 16th century); this gave rise to the general sense of calculating the mean (mid 18th century).
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Damage is a Frenchyfied form of damn.
Is it unsurprising that so many words seem to persist by dint of trade documents?
Writing was invented to keep track of business deals.
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First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations in clay tablets. Later scribes would chisel cuneiform into a variety of stone objects as well. Different combinations of these marks represented syllables, which could in turn be put together to form words. Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years. The scriptānot itself a languageāwas used by scribes of multiple cultures over that time to write a number of languages other than Sumerian, most notably Akkadian, a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires.
***
Whenabouts were priestesses using it to mind control their supplicants? I read that in a history book once.
Tobin’s Spirit Guide?
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Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
***
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Dr. Egon Spengler : It’s not the girl, Peter, it’s the building. Something terrible is about to enter our world, and this building is obviously the door. The architect’s name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin’s Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then, in 1920, he started a secret society…
Dr. Peter Venkman : Let me guess: Gozer worshipers.
Dr. Egon Spengler : Right.
Dr. Peter Venkman : [to Ray] No studying.
Dr. Egon Spengler : After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive.
[He pauses, glancing uneasily at the rest of the holding cell crowd]
Dr. Egon Spengler : And he wasn’t alone. He had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals up on the roof, bizarre rituals intended to bring about the end of the world. And now it looks like it may actually happen.
***
I was making a Snow Crash reference, because of course I am, it’s all I know.
“I was making a Snow Crash reference, because of course I am, itās all I know.”
Fuck you, I’m pulling out my Wakazashi now, I’m a cut ya! I’m the greatest sword fighter in the Metaverse!
So Joe Biden is the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?
Can you sing any show tunes?
The CDC put out a study this week showing 11% of people in a random sample of 5,000 had contemplated suicide during the pandemic. Barely any press, as they’re too busy shaming people who aren’t wearing masks.
But these are extremely stressful times. Give your friend all the support you can, and reinforce there’s nothing to be embarrassed about seeking help.
What’s the “normal” number?
Serious: There are drugs for that.
If she does a little something for you, maybe give her a chance?
You could begin by saying what you said to us. “You lift my depression.”
Maybe she’s worth the hassle.
The eternal footman took my coat, and snickered.
I’m no one, nor was meant to be. I’m done for. I’m done.
Or, yeah, you could quote Eliot and see if she swoons.
If not Prufrock, than for whom will she swoon?!
I was trying to answer that question, but I can’t think of anyone better than Prufrock.
If I knew her better I’d sing a song lovelier than Mr. Prufrock.
But I don’t. For both our sake I wish I could.
The mermaids, Moj, he can’t escape the much-dreamt-of-reaches the mermaids can
Indeed.
Can confirm.
WHYCOME STOOPID LAND HOOMANS BOTHER BUFFALOS?
Charles Darwin, you are wanted at the courtesy phone.
It’s an SF double header!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293722878882598914
LOL
Nice to see the President retweeting som3thingwicked, not that it’s “presidential”.
https://twitter.com/som3thingwicked/status/1288689068214288385
Still sucks that Carpe Donktum and so many others got banned, though.
Trump Announces Plan To Replace USPS With Fleet Of Carrier Eagles
Kamala Harris Sneaks Into White House To Plant Weed On Mike Pence
Study Finds Most Americans Trust Dr Pepper Over Dr. Fauci
Dr. Pepper has lied less often.
Dr. Pepper has a less punchable face.
Brazilian son-in-law just sent me this linky.
US progs bigger threat than CCP
I pray that Comma-la never becomes president.
,la
I like it
Commie-luh
/what’s-his-name from TOS
It would be kind of cool if she could retract her limbs and fly around like Gamera.
Gamera loves the children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRk6wBfOLc
I like the way they pronounce it on Globo News (Brazilian CNN parroting commie network), Camela.
In Brazilian, that sounds exactly like ‘Pamela’ with a C. I assume the C is for cunt.
I’m thinking of all the ways Biden will mangle that name:
Plaster of Paris
Panda pal terrace
Cannibal Eris
Camera Squarepants
Mandible Menace
Candle and Spare Ribs
In any case, I doubt she’ll ever be elected president. Not that that is much consolation if she takes the wheel from Biden.
If she’s at the top of the ticket in 2024, I’m betting the R’s respond with either Nikki Haley or Kristi Noem.
The GOP, forever fighting yesteryear’s war. They’ll surely win with the a identitarian warrior.
Mitt Romney will only be 77.
*it’s happening!*
Whenever I make a prayer like that, God counts it as a vote for the fucker.
Any one familiar with the Route app? For tracking your ordered packages.
Is it just more spyware? Or do you recommend it?
I assume any app is spyware.
I really hope this great scene from a great movie doesn’t get memory-holed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3GMBVAb7iY
and later the bad Union soldier redeems himself somewhat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQjUHR8j7tg
Churchill Denounced by Left-Wing Loonies
Don’t talk Shit about Churchill, he was more a man at 20 than most will ever be,
and he liked, Tall Cans!
I’m a little over halfway done with my Sherlock Holmes anthology. Some of the old-fashioned expressions are amusing as are modern ones I never expected to see.
Holmes says “what’s up” in one story. In another, a guy says something like “and let my daughter be treated like a slut?”
And then there’s all the casual old fashioned bigotry. Doyle evidently did not think highly of the Welsh.
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Blackadder: Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick?
Baldrick: No ā but I’ve often thought I’d like to.
Blackadder: Well, don’t. It’s a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough, sinewy men roam the valleys, terrifying people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place name! Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick; you’ll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.
***
And then thereās all the casual old fashioned bigotry. Doyle evidently did not think highly of the Welsh.
You mean casual old fashioned buggery, as in sheep.
There’s a bit in a Sherlock story where he mentally calculates the speed of a train by looking out a window and timing how long it takes to pass telegraph poles. The calculation is simple, you see.
It’s like that joke where Sherlock counts a flock of sheep with an old schoolboy trick – why, just count the legs and divide by 4.
Normally you divide the legs in two. It’s elementary, my dear.
/sheep buggerer Sherlock Holmes
Ah! The joy of vintage Sherlock Holmes. My first saved-for purchase as a 12 year old I guess it was: bought the $55 Annotated Sherlock Holmes edited by William S Baring-Gould. 56 short stories and 4 novels, with plenty of great annotations that help the reader with understanding English coinage of the time, theories on who was based on whom, the tale of how Conan Doyle began to dread writing Holmes storiesāgood fun!
I learned hansom and a bunch of other old timey words for horse drawn carriages from my anthology. It only has 44 stories and 4 novels though.
There’s a fair amount of plot recycle – long separated lovers suddenly reunited, secrets kept for decades, animals from India being clues/plot points…
Oh yeah, and then there was the story where Sherlock was bored, so he got high on cocaine and shot a VR (Queen Victoria abbreviation in Latin) into the wall with a revolver.
Dr. House is basically a ripoff of Sherlock Holmes.
Dr. House is a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes. House lived in apartment 221, House/Holmes, Wilson/Watson, the guy who shot him at the close of season 1 was named Moriarty…there were a ton of references.
I never watched the show, but the resemblance seemed clear.
James Bond is similar too. In the books, Holmes travels the world, uses gadgets and disguises, and gets in lots of fights.
House was great. Would be cancelled if made today.
Yeah, it was an homage, not plagiarism.
My favorite Holmes pastiche by FAR is āThe seven percent solutionā by Nicholas Meyer.
Tell them my math teacher did it. (to the best of recollection).
Huh, so in that one Sherlock gets the Batman treatment. Today I learned that detective fiction is older than I thought:
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The One Thousand and One Nights contains several of the earliest detective stories, anticipating modern detective fiction.[4] The oldest known example of a detective story was “The Three Apples”, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). In this story, a fisherman discovers a heavy, locked chest along the Tigris river, which he then sells to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. When Harun breaks open the chest, he discovers the body of a young woman who has been cut into pieces. Harun then orders his vizier, Ja’far ibn Yahya, to solve the crime and to find the murderer within three days, or be executed if he fails in his assignment.[5] Suspense is generated through multiple plot twists that occur as the story progressed.[6] With these characteristics this may be considered an archetype for detective fiction.[7] It anticipates the use of reverse chronology in modern detective fiction, where the story begins with a crime before presenting a gradual reconstruction of the past.[4]
The main difference between Ja’far (“The Three Apples”) and later fictional detectives, such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, is that Ja’far has no actual desire to solve the case. The whodunit mystery is solved when the murderer himself confessed his crime.[8] This in turn leads to another assignment in which Ja’far has to find the culprit who instigated the murder within three days or else be executed. Ja’far again fails to find the culprit before the deadline, but owing to chance, he discovers a key item. In the end, he manages to solve the case through reasoning in order to prevent his own execution.[9]
On the other hand, two other Arabian Nights stories, “The Merchant and the Thief” and “Ali Khwaja”, contain two of the earliest fictional detectives, who uncover clues and present evidence to catch or convict a criminal known to the audience, with the story unfolding in normal chronology and the criminal already known to the audience. The latter involves a climax where the titular detective protagonist Ali Khwaja presents evidence from expert witnesses in a court.[4]
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I can’t remember who wrote it, but my favorite Holmes pastiche is an extremely dark psycho-fantasy called ‘The House that Jack Built’. It did not have a happy ending for Holmes, but (no spoilers) it took his mutually destructive relationship with Professor Moriarty in a very interesting direction.
In one of my other anthologies there’s a story (maybe by Gaiman) where the “Red” in the title is replaced by “Green” – I’m drawing a blank right now – basically Holmes in a Lovecraftian setting. Its not too bad.
From ‘Fragile Things’, I think. That one is in my intake pile.
Ozzie pre senility was pretty badass, Hail Lucifer:
https://youtu.be/MiY2JsGXrtM
Fast forward a few decades and you end up with this gem:
https://youtu.be/0TPYI_Y3pWw
Oh JFC! that was so intentional!
Drugs are bad, mkay?
?
Brochettaward has a soft spot for Fido.
No one has any respect for property rights anymore.
He is wearing a mask while swinging an axe, but none of the cops are wearing any face covering.
Maybe its a bit staged.
We were leaving today to go to the beer store and we ran into one of our neighbors outside. She’s one of our more likeable neighbors… well, maybe the only one, except for the single guy next door and he’s very quiet and keeps to himself.
So we talked for a while and she made the most bizarre comment, or maybe not. We were talking about this whole clusterfuck commie flu and lockdowns. Then her and my wife were talking about a vaccine and then she says ‘I guess it all depends on who wins in November’. I guess that was a ‘are you guys commies like me?’ feel out. So my wife just looks at me and I stayed stone faced on that one. Although I felt like saying ‘Yeah, I know, we’re voting for Trump, you too!?’. But I didn’t have the mood for it. So I think the neighbor chick felt the cold in the room and made an excuse and scurried off.
Maybe she is “normal” like me and I quote myself: The only good thing that would come of a Biden presidency is that the Covid theater would go away.
Yep.
There’s no chance there’d be anything like this pretense of international pandemic if a Dem were in office. It’s entirely a media fabrication.
Oh, we might have deaths, maybe even an outsized death toll, relative to the normal things that kill old people.
But no, there’s no chance that a Dem would have to shoulder any blame for Covid. It’d just be a thing we all have to suffer through, like the wars Hillary and Obama started.
Yeah remember when H1N1 happened Obama ruled out a shutdown because the economy was already very shaky and he didn’t want it to get worse. Which was the right decision of course, even if he probably mostly made it for political reasons.
See that’s my opening up to possible Trumpers. The Trumpers seem to mostly share the belief that once Biden wins, the pandemic will magically end, everyone get back to work chop chop the taxes need to be paid. Send your kids to school, no we’re not making any cuts.
I just remember back around the turn of the year a lot of seasoned political pros saying “the economy in Q2 of the election year is the economy people tend to think of when voting” and a lot of the lefty commenters being real glum that they couldn’t run on a bad economy.
Hey Sean, I want to follow up on the laying off people. I have the opposite problem. People don’t want to come back to work because they can’t work full time. It’s bullshit. They (senior management) says we need you, but… I had to tell someone to report to work in two weeks. He did not like it because 600, now 400 bucks per weeks is better dough.
Well that extra 600/400 is gone, at least for now, I took my Census job, losing money, but I’d rather work than suck the Gov Teat,
Me too, M-F. Not happening. Soon, hopefully.
Census job
Gov Teat
*blinks*
Figure Rothbard’s rule applies: if it would be done in a free society, it’s not entirely wrong.
Not wanting to work is a myth, or so I’ve heard from top. economists. at. top. universities. By Jove, I bet if we added $5,000 a week to unemployment checks, we’d still hear that all those getting it were really just chomping at the bit to get back to work in the morning.
My wife took a job that is a paycut from unemployment, especially with the $400, mainly because she doesn’t want such a gap on her resume. Also because the unemployment website is a PITA to navigate.
Gaps on resume sucks. Well, we both know that, I’m sure. I cannot remember how many interviews I have sat in on, and it’s not good. I mean it’s not insurmountable at all, as long as you have a legit excuse and updated skills to sell.
I’m getting to the point in my career that I don’t want to be forced into a management job, because that’s what most people my age have happen to them. Oh God, please do not do that to me.
And my wife is retired and she’s in a blood feud dispute with her brother going on 10 years now, where the guy is finally going to have to settle an estate suit where he fucked his two sisters out of his parents substantial business enterprise inheritance. It’s all sorts of fucked up and now the guy is playing the victim and it’s causing him health problems and now he’s going to have a heart attack because his sisters want what he fucked them out of. So my job now is to console her because she’s causing pain to her brother, the fucking jackass.
The gap isn’t really insurmountable in her profession either. She has to be certified, so up-to-date certifications go a long way towards overcoming any gaps, but she has a sense of pride in her work, and it was a good opportunity that will be nice after the baby comes, so it was a good move, despite cutting off the cash flow from uncle sugar.
That sounds like a legitimately shit situation. One of those times when you need to be able to emotionally pivot on a dime. You can be exactly as mad as she is at the dill hole, but not one iota more. Still, he’s making an affirmative choice every single day that he doesn’t pull a chair up to the table and compromise on the issue like family does, and as much as a part of your wife feels responsible for what’s happening to him, he could make it all go away tomorrow.
(apologies for the shit grammar and the extra commas)
Amazingly, we had none of that nonsense. Zero.
And The VP Pick Is…
I’ve had enough beers now to listen to Razorfist, so be it…
āProsecutorial dildoāāsnort.
Tulsi spanked Kamala pretty hard there. /Cheshire Car grin.
Does it have Cat fur interior?
Jeebus, I didn’t even realize how badly Tulsi destroyed her until now. Did that hurt, bitch?
I remember seeing it in real time. Shortly after, NPCNN started cutting Tulsi off.
“TRUMP INTERVIEW” ā A Bad Lip Reading
That made me lol a few times.Do they end all their videos with Bushes of Love now? Because that is a great song.
In former times the company I worked for would often book us into a hotel in Dubai that had a Chinese hooker that would jump out of the bushes to proposition you when you returned after a night on the town.
10 Signs You Might Be A Secret Racist
ā Truly enlightened non-racists know that everything is about race.ā
Yup.
If they make everything about race, then everything is about race. It’s like MacBeth’s self fulfilling prophecy and will turn out about the same.
Vanilla ice cream? Can I get some chocolate syrup on it? I mean the dark chocolate. Not that lame milk chocolate stuff. I want the nearly black, slightly bitter stuff. Like a puffy black nipple you just want to hold in your mouth. And…sorry what was sayin’?
I mean the dark chocolate. Not that lame milk chocolate stuff.
My only sweets these days are Lindt 85% cocoa dark chocolate.
Just clicking around; did not know Lindt owns Ghiardelli.
And here I was thinking I was divesting from Ghirardelli….dangit.
But Lindt 85 is vastly superior to G. 86, so idk what they thing they bought.
think*
I really hate Lindt.
I stick to Ghirardelli. It’s not bad.
I really hate Lindt.
You have a right to be wrong.
I stick with 75 tops
You’d be ok with Ghirardelli 86. Too much sugar makes it too sweet and not bitter enough.
Like my coffee, I take my chocolate like my women…
85 is a bit much, I stick with 75 tops,
/BITTER!!!!!!!
I take my women like my coffee- cold, black, and half full of booze.
HEY YUFUS!
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, I miss Cognac beans.
It’s not a secret, I’m a racist, whatever that means, now shut the fuck up, can we move on now?
Admission is simply the first step in your rehabilitation.
The last step is incineration.
No, the next step is I pull out my HellFuckDeathBringer mk 5.
The thought of a motion picture in which a man guns down his PC assailants is incredibly attractive.
As a matter of cinema, of course.
I just ordered a bandalero for extra HellFuckDeathBringer mk 590,
They get incinerated
Glibs meet-up? Two protests tomorrow.
The Karen Testerman campaign is holding a 100+ person protest in reply to The Clown Prince’s edict that people at gatherings of 100 people or more must wear masks. Organizers will be held responsible. 9 AM Concord, NH at the State House.
A no mask ordinance protest will occur in Keene, NH starting at 11 AM/noon (depending on whom you ask) until about 4 PM. Keene, NH passed a mask ordinance last week. This is a protest against the ordinance.
I plan to be at both.
The mailbox/mail truck conspiracy theory going around left wing circles is one of their poorer efforts. Up your game, guys.
I donāt know, as a well respected moron my plan would be to steal mail trucks and blue boxes in broad daylight.
“If we’re not allowed to send 100 million votes through the grubby fingers of a union that endorsed Biden, then Trump is stealing the election.”
Just imagine, for a second, if Donald Trump was calling for 100 million votes to pass through the hands of a group that endorsed him for the Presidency. The appearance of impropriety alone is absolutely insane.
They are immune from observable conflict of interest.
Ah, something something Hatch Act?
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Widespread allegations that local Democratic Party politicians used employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the congressional elections of 1938 provided the immediate impetus for the passage of the Hatch Act. Criticism centered on swing states such as Kentucky,[6] Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. In Pennsylvania, Republicans and dissident Democrats publicized evidence that Democratic politicians were consulted on the appointment of WPA administrators and case workers and that they used WPA jobs to gain unfair political advantage.[7] In 1938, a series of newspaper articles exposed WPA patronage, and political contributions in return for employment, prompting an investigation by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, headed by Sen. Morris Sheppard, a Texas Democrat.[8]
Despite that investigation’s inconclusive findings, many in both parties determined to take action against the growing power of the WPA and its chief administrator, Harry Hopkins, an initiate of President Roosevelt. The Act was sponsored by Senator Carl Hatch, a Democrat from New Mexico. At the time, Roosevelt was struggling to purge the Democratic party of its more conservative members, who were increasingly aligned with the administration’s Republican opponents. The president considered vetoing the legislation or allowing it to become law without his signature, but instead signed it on the last day he could do so. His signing message welcomed the legislation as if he had called for it, and emphasized the protection his administration would provide for political expression on the part of public employees.[9]
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I think that if the Dems commit fraud/obstruction in November, and they will, it’s game on. i also think we will not lose our Nation to civil war, will there be one? probably, but the winner Write the New Rules, and the Dem/Commies aren’t going to be around to vote on them, They will be killed.
I still can’t believe the Commies think they can win against a heavily armed populous,
Yusef, look at the talent that the dems are wielding, you know that I’m saying? To say they are not the sharpest tools in the shed is a gross understatement. They are in no way prepared to win an actual 3D civil war, they will get slaughtered. They’d better stick to their old game of handing out free shit until they can make everyone a helpless sheep. As it is now, the non-helpless weapon bearing sheep will slaughter them.
“Theyād better stick to their old game of handing out free shit until they can make everyone a helpless sheep.”
Funny, I just had this discussion with my (d) neighbor tonight. I concur with you.
There are too many individualists/ Gun owners for the Helpless sheep scenario to work,
Ballot Box Boogaloo!
If things are to devolve to that point I think the aptest historic analog is ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland. I see states/communities bifurcating along political lines different businesses and organizations aligning themselves with one political faction or another, god help you if you were to wear orange into the wrong pub in Belfast.
Wife has discovered OAN and is watching Daily Ledger. Is giving the channel high marks for having original thoughts. In the past, she’s called me a little wacky in my political views and get upset when I say something loony.
Ooh… racist history of gun control is on!
I’m not sure what I just watched but I’m pretty sure I liked it.
You’re off by 20 years. I still like it tho.
Maybe if you saw him, you’d change your mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzBd41NuZw
Heritage Rough Rider 45 Colt
Well I am all about budget guns.
FFS.
https://reason.com/2020/08/14/former-drug-warrior-kamala-harris/
TOS;dr
So people can’t change? As someone pointed out the other day, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell and a handful of other “conservatarians ” were once marxists. She was a shitty DA or whatever but if she’s for legalizing pot now I don’t see why that’s a FFS.
Normally when you do something morally reprehensible you apologize and make retribution to the victims. Flipping to a more moral position without doing those steps, while better than staying an immoral slaver, is still disgusting.
They’re just meaningless, empty campaign promises until she actually does something. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Why does the devil get the absolutely SHITTIEST advocates?
It’s after 8 PM and it’s still 94 degrees out. I’m at my parents and it’s almost as warm inside since they don’t have AC. Bad childhood memories of not being able to sleep because of the heat are coming back.
The AC just caught up here. it was running 3 or 4 degrees warmer than the setting all day as it got up to 103 or 104. It’s 93 now, which is still unpleasantly hot, even with the sun down.
Once again, the unbaited snap-traps caught the mouse.
The bad news – there was another mouse in the house.
The good news – the direction it was facing in the trap says it entered from the outside.
The other bad news – because I wanted to make sure it was dead, I shot it with the pellet rifle and now have mouse blood to clean up.
Um ā¦
Can’t you just pick up the trap and throw it in a trash bag? It’ll die soon enough and no weapons need be discharged and no blood need be cleaned up.
These traps cost money. Besides, if it wriggles free, then I have a mouse loose in the house.
I personally don’t like reusing traps that have killed mice, but that’s just me.
Seems a bit inhumane not to kill it if the trap didn’t do the trick. Also a legit excuse to make a gun go bang.
Not that that’s fun or anything. ::glances at a certain fairly crowded locker in a closet::
I had a mouse get one of its back legs get caught in a trap a few weeks ago. I just took it outside and opened the trap while flinging it as far into the street as I could. The mouse ran off pretty quick so I don’t think it was badly hurt.
Well, I’m not too concerned about that with mice. I thought it was cute when my cat mutilated a jay before she hit the ground with it. But surely there’s a more efficient way to do that than shooting it? I mean, teeny mouse, big gun seems like *puts on sunglasses* overkill.
A jay is asshoe and deserves whatever it gets at the
handspaws of a cat.I have no experience with these, but my understanding is that a pellet rifle is only about a step up from a BB gun. (Them as what knows, please correct me if I’m mistaken.)
The air rifle is hardly a big gun. It has enough power to kill mice, but not enough to damage my floor.
Did unbaited actually seem to work better than baited? If so, surprising.
Sorry ’bout the blood.
No baited trap has caught a mouse. But I have traps on known entry routes (I don’t know exactly where the entry point is but they have a bottleneck where the traps are) so there’s no alternate path for mice trying to enter the house.
Dude get an electric mouse trap. no mess, no bair, no touch.
But the snap traps work.
You have mice, I don’t. who’s traps work?
Well, then can I interest you in my supply of surplus tiger-repelling rocks?
I don’t have any tigers either.
For now, maybe. They’re too busy eating mice.
“Sort by Price: Low to High”
Ooh, this one’s got an app.
A larger flat head screwdriver might work better to crush / stab the mouse. Usually not much blood.
But I already have the pellet rifle and pellets.
When I found evidence of mousery in my place, I first tried the snap traps. However, the little bastards must have been smart because they managed to grab the bait (raisin slathered up in peanut butter) without setting the trap. So I bought some glue traps. That caught it within hours.
To be humane, I took the trap outside, put a piece of wood over it, and stomped on it. Dead instantly, and no mess inside.
And to all my acquaintances who lambasted me for killing it, I said: “Well fine, next time I have one, YOU can buy one of the expensive live-catch traps, then release it in YOUR house, and see how cute it is when it’s taking a shit in YOUR silverware drawer.”
Did anyone mention that Pete Way just died?
UFO – Lights Out
Fastway – Say What You Will
That blows. I liked UFO.
Anyone else remember Batteries Not Included?
Was that the one with the alien robots fixing a condemned apartment building?
You put it so lovingly.
They’re spaceships from a very small planet!
Elizabeth Pena, the super attractive one from Batteries Not Included, died from liver problems, RIP.
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Freak on a leash
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfMTJdyUwAAdKKe?format=jpg&name=large
NSFW
What prompted that?
Well I’m off, tomorrow is more Census work, Saturdays are Good!, Fuckers,
If I survive I’ll get back to Y’allins
‘night, Yusef. Be careful out there.
Thankee, 120 tomorrow, Bring water,
I’ll post this here since I dead threaded it. It was in response to Hyperions last post in the previous thread.
Iāve heard the same sentiments echoed by my liberal acquaintances. They hate the race baiting, the deliberate grouping and generalization of people, and virtually everything the government (federal mostly, since our state doesnāt have any mandates) is doing. But its like they cant make the leap. Theres still this pervasive idea that āsomeone must do something!ā and its never, ever them.
I was talking to my mother today (Im stuck at her place for now since I need to work and I have no power) and I heard something very disturbing come out of her mouth. She said, āIāve lost faith in people. It was a mistake I wonāt repeat.ā It took me a moment after she said it, but if Iām honest with myself, I feel the same way. How many others feel like this? How far apart are we now, as a nation? Ive been walking around this year looking at various people, saying to myself, āwhat an idiot.ā a lot. If a majority of people feel this way, it canāt be good. I have to reel myself in as well. I have to remember, most of these people have been indoctrinated their entire lives, and when that includes family members, it gets much more depressing.
I have seen a ray of hope recently though. We got hit with a massive storm early this week, and I have seen many people just helping others out because its the right thing to do. No politics. No BS. Just, āHey, do you need a hand?ā.
Anyways, thats my rambling. Sorry, it got long, but thereās a limited amount of places/people to vent to when you can see the propaganda that others havenāt woken up to yet.
Crises can bring out either the best or the worst in people. I don’t know if there’s a way to predict which it will be.
Well, I only need one more achievement to 100% Skyrim.
Lets see what do I have to do? “Slay a Legendary Dragon.” Okay, where do I find them? *checks wiki* “Appears in leveled lists starting at level 78”. And my character is… Level 51.
Son of a…
I need sleep, staying up all night will ruin my weekend.
Night, Glibs.
‘night, UCS. I should probably try to sleep, too.
I should probably NOT have chugged the last of my morning coffee when I got home from work.
The products I ordered from Scottsdale, AZ, which the USPS inexplicably routed through Kent, WA, have at least passed through Cincinnati and are “currently in transit to the destination.”
I just hope they’re not on their way back to WA.
Oh, no, they’re looping by Maine.
Oh, crap. There’s a Dayton, Maine.
Whew! It just arrived in Dayton, OH.
Your package needs to pick up some ballots on its way!
Not in this town, I hope – too blue!
Good evening/night, Glibs!
Had a long, brain-frazzling work day again today, got home at 7pm and had to zone out a while. Then ate dinner (no time for lunch) and watched some Burn Notice and Just Shoot Me.
I didnāt see just shoot me when it first aired but Iām enjoying it quite a bit now.
Oops; my comment was not meant as a reply.
Sad brain is tired.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Pearl-clutching figure caption on California Covid: ā… reached a grim new milestone, with the state now having more COVID-19 cases than most countries across the world. ā
Whatās āgrimā about having a populous state with lots of testing available? These are cases, not deaths or even asymptomatic cases.
But if it bleeds, it leads.
I linked this once, but if you hadnāt read itās well worth a gander. For once I think we should have followed the damn Swedes.
(Funny too that the proggies canāt seem to stand that they didnāt go full authoritarian.)
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/08/04/how-bad-is-covid-really-a-swedish-doctors-perspective/
Gah. SP and Wifey just got done with a zoom chat. Rusty tin can lids?
Tonight at work, two girls were loudly complaining about some guy on Facebook who was saying that there was violence going on at the Black Lives Matter protests and that nobody should be supporting them because of this.
One of them said, “Let him say that shit to me – I’ll punch him in the fucking face!”
Says someone that has never been punched in the face. It hurts. A lot.
Eh. I’ve been punched in the face and I have to say, it has not played a big part in influencing whether or not I would consider punching certain other people in the face, in the instance of particular and immediate NAP violations. Being a sappy libertard means I prefer peaceful resolutions, though.
Apropos of fuck all, I really dig this tune – https://youtu.be/1qahZ-whM6o
This was in the sidebar https://youtu.be/EEzWuT1RyQk
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/nyc-police-union-endorses-president-trump-at-his-nj-golf-course/2568882/
I need something for the thought bubble.
https://i.imgflip.com/4bjpxa.jpg
Heh.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ffs_OMG/status/1294592439290912768
“Oh Harry, my best best and brightest…”
The last couple days I’ve listened to Scott Adams’ podcast. He strikes me in a couple of particular ways. Some antifa (?) goon threatening him at his own home really got him spooked and through all his posturing and talk about hunting people down and killing them it’s pretty obvious he’s just giving them what they want and it unsettled him. I get it, anyone would feel unsettled being threatened by people who know where they live. He’s apparently been a tireless fighter in trying to expose the “fine people” hoax which seems to be a cornerstone of the Harris (oh yeah, and Biden) campaign and made a good point in this being the test that tells the Democrats who in the media is willing to completely abandon fact and go all in to do something with toes and a lion (along with everything else for the last 4 years, I suppose). Also he strikes me sometimes as the epitome of someone who’s been a “liberal” their entire life and has come to the stark realisation in the past few years that they’ve been completely abandoned and betrayed by the establishment/party they’ve supported for their entire lives, and is somewhat bitter about it, understandably.