My preferred Christmas Tale
I’ll get into the spirit later this month – right now, bah. I’ll back up my “humbug” with some links. These will let you know why I am grumping along today.
- A deal just anyone would get, right? Where is ZARDOZ to send him to grain slavery for life?!
- She married him for (her) money… remember, pay those federal income taxes with a smile!
- Pie
hardest hitmostly amused? - *sigh* or should that be *Gallic shrug*?
OK, those were only moderately bad. Looks like I will be fine in just a day or two!
Bah Humbug! Firstest!
I gotta say, for recent immigrants who would ordinarily take some time to assimilate, Ilhan’s family seem to be remarkably adept grifters.
Believe it or not, many other countries are even more corrupt than the US.
*falls out of chair*
But I thought Somalia didn’t even have a government to be corrupted. I feel lied to.
In the immortal words of Moe Wanachuk, “That cunt is no good.”
Was that wrong? I mean what I’m saying is that where she came from, I think it’s just considered business as usual. That’s why the dems love them some 3rd world grifters. You get enough of them and then it looks par for the course here also.
If you believe the rumors, she got here because of her family’s ability to grift.
A fairly plausible theory has been floated that Ilhan and some of her family were granted asylum in the US after falsely claiming to be from the Omar family.
One of the Elmi siblings sent to the UK instead of the US? Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Mystery husband #2.
“I learned it from you Dad!”
The Omars allowed
Sure, “allowed.” No payoff or other debt involved, I’m sure.
“She married him for (her) money… remember, pay those federal income taxes with a smile!”
I bet that’s top of the first page on CNN.
You go look first.
I’m a pass, Swiss, I waste enough of my time everyday as it is.
Here, let me check… nope, top of the page is:
Top result searching for Ilhan Omar is:
No results for her husband’s name. He’s just not a newsworthy guy.
“Melania Trump cheers new White House tennis pavilion amid ongoing pandemic”
Now that, I would have believed.
Is she in a tennis outfit?
“Melania’s supreme court! First Lady turns the Presidential tennis court’s outhouse into a mini-White House”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9026993/Melania-Trump-unveils-legacy-tennis-pavilion.html
LOL never change, CNN.
I wish y’all would quit that. You are just encouraging them. You are probably the total of all CNN clicks for the day.
I share your Christmas tale preference. What a joy those shows were.
“Can I get you some tea?”
“You wouldn’t have anything a bit more…medicinal would ye?”
“Oh, sorry. All I have is this bottle of Nurse McReady’s Surgical Bruise Lotion.”
“Ooo! Nothing but the finest at this house!” *swigs off bottle*
Is that Rowan Atkinson?
Ebenezer Blackadder, the kindest and loveliest man in all England!
As long as he doesn’t wear Baldrick’s posing pouch, I don’t care who he is.
Wait, the Romanian PM is Orban and the Hungarian PM is Orban? That guy gets around.
I’m picturing Orban & Orban as a Central European reboot of Simon & Simon, complete with the same theme music.
GOLD!
The Orban the Hun gets to be the Simon that was the Marine right? The Romanian Orban can be the pretty-boy Simon.
Yes. Viktor Orban is the Rick of the show, Ludovic Orban is the AJ character.
What would the Hungarian equivalent of a beat-up old Dodge Power Wagon be?
I loved Simon & Simon as a kid, but it amazes even me that the show actually ran for eight seasons. It’s almost totally forgotten, never shows up on TV Land or similar channels, yet lasted a lot longer than most.
Where is Pie these days? I was going to ask him exactly how much gastonglockstyle.com had jacked up some shirt prices. But at 75% off (50 lei,) I bought a few. Now I own Romanian shirts.
NA is going native, watch out.
They have some excellent hunting pants
https://www.gastonglockstyle.com/hunting-apparel/mens-hunting-clothes/hunting-apparel-pants/excellent-hunting-pants-darkgreen.html
But WTF Europe? Sizing pants with a single number? That nonsense is strictly for the wimmens.
Also, waxed cotton? That’s a thing?
Yes. It is waterproof. Mostly. I bought a waxed cotton hat and the accompanying mosquito net from an Australian company….good stuff. It’s been known to rain a bit around these parts and we have a few mosquitos around here too.
But for pants? Wouldn’t the wax wash off if you used detergent?
Uh….I don’t know. I have never washed the hat.
*hides hat behind back*
Considering that their coat coat prices are $700, maybe you’re only supposed to wear the pants once and then have your valets use them for fire starters.
Unlike cast iron, that right there is a crime.
Brush debris off or damp cloth and air hang.
Oh, the waxing makes the ball and crack sweat roll right down the legs and off onto the ground!
Frogg Toggs, Alabama Company, you Will stay dry,
He was here just a few days ago.
For more than a year Romania had a PM with the same last name as his Hungarian counterpart and I learned about it only when he resigned. Not so long ago both the president and the prime minister of Romania were of German descent. This prime minister is Hungarian. Do they have any actual Romanians in the country?
The undead are not eligable to run for office on account of being dead.
They should come here, at least then they can vote.
Great. You’re NOT supposed to invite them in.
Back when they united Romania out of Moldavia and Wallachia they couldn’t agree on a leader because the Moldovans didn’t want a Wallachian and vice versa, so they gave the job to a German. At least that’s what I was told by some Romanian colleagues a couple decades ago. I’m sure Pie could correct me.
Sweden recruited a frog to be king. Britain imported Germans, and then exported them to Greece Russia and Germany.
“‘Kraken’ lawyer Sidney Powell’s ‘election fraud’ cases are thrown out in Michigan and Georgia: Detroit federal judge slams her for trying to undermine democracy and ‘ignore the will of millions'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9026665/Federal-judge-accuses-fired-Trump-lawyers-Kraken-suit-trying-undermine-faith-democracy.html
He’s not wrong. It was the will of millions of Democrats to get rid of Trump no matter what it took, legal or not.
As we all know, democracy works best when we all clap our hands and believe, and the fewer details that are investigated the better it works.
And we ignore the will of those other millions.
They are insuring that all of these cases go to the SCOTUS. Fucking booger eating, foam at the mouth idiots.
The Swamp ignored the will of millions in 2016, and that was peachy keen.
It appears that “Fuck you” passes as legal reasoning these days.
Turns out, FYTW was not really a joke.
“Hundreds of black vultures invade Pennsylvania town where they spew vomit that smells ‘like rotting corpses’ on sidewalks and homes – causing thousands of dollars in damage”
ttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9026929/Hundreds-black-vultures-invade-Pennsylvania-town-causing-thousands-dollars-damages.html
God is angry.
Ooh that’s one of the new plagues!
Turkey vultures common in NJ and PA. The states never seem to clean up the roadkill so they serve a useful purpose.
Also common across the South.
And the west.
Turkey vultures are my favorite birds. Love watching those guys in the summer riding thermals.
PA used to use contractors to pick up dead deer off the side of the road.
They were paid by the carcass and only if dispatched by police/PennDOT.
I remember seeing some information about how much they got paid on average. Mid-$30K in the 00’s if I remember correctly.
Eh, could be worse
Oh FFS. They are fruit bats. They dont attack people. They are very cute and easy to tame. They are a lot less dangerous than children.
I just meant that, with 300,000 of them, they’ll be shitting on everything, thus being more disgusting than a few hundred vultures.
Used to see trees loaded up with sleeping fruit bats in Okinawa. Those ones are enormous. First time I saw one flying at night, I thought it must be an owl or something.
The Ryukyu flying fox, if you’ve never seen one.
Sex mad bats? So now the problem isn’t with the younger teachers, the old ladies want in on the action too? Now they want to be stiffed, even as they are union members in good standing.
*narrows gaze*
That was fun (depending on your definition of fun). just spent a couple hours cleaning up a bunch of scrap/trash lumber which has been lying around outside for years. Cut it up for the woodstove in the shop.
It is a beautiful sunny day.
I’ve had a wood pile in the back yard full of some logs from a russian olive tree I cut down years ago. The stuff is insanely hard to split. Last weekend I got so bored with the lockdown I bought a hand log splitter from Harbor Freight and reduced most of the pile to split chunks that are stacked in my garage.
Like you Brooksy, I feel so good about myself. Too good to ponder all the months and years, I completely ignored that pile and my slothfulness that kept me from doing anything about it.
In Soviet Russia you don’t split olive trees, olive trees split you!
I posted it recently, but Hug an olive tree
C’mon man, Ol’ Fourscore’s mighty particular about his firewood, not just anyone can cut it the way he likes it but he is a compassionate, generous and forgiving person so with that in mind, he probably ‘low you to cut a big bunch up, even if you cut it a little long or short, just so you could feel good about yoursef. You would really, really feel good after you cut, split and stacked about 5-6 cords in the wood shed.
It would be good for your body, mind, ego and your missus would be very proud, knowing she’d choose the right manly man.
It’s a deal but only if after I split the wood I get to whitewash your fence.
My Pa had a wood-burning furnace installed when he had our house in VT built. The wood was the primary furnace. My Pa could hear the oil auxiliary start up from the 3rd floor from a dead sleep, at which time he would run to the basement to add more logs to the wood burner.
Anyhoo, when he realized how much wood he would need, he set up this contraption with his tractor and some sort of conveyor and a splitter and did about a 4 cords an hour.
Of course, then we had to stack it.
The burn barrels at the range seem to be putting out more heat this winter. Don’t know if it’s what we’re filling them with or becasue they’re elevated on pavers this year. It was a fiasco getting them out of the ground last spring after all the melt/freeze cycles.
*sigh* or should that be *Gallic shrug*?
“Le sigh”, of course, just like Pepe le Pew.
I wonder how Omar will fuck up her taxes this time? Do you think she will continue to file jointly with her husband #1 (and #3) ? Why wouldn’t she? I’m sure it would help with her overall tax burden and it isn’t like she got in any legal trouble last time she filed five years of fraudulent tax returns.
So when are going to get corona fatigue? I was sick and tired of hearing that horseshit about three days before everyone started setting their hair on fire over it.
I am certain the panic was drummed up to crush the economy to get Trump out of office but now it has turned out to be more profitable and power grabby than they anticipated. I have even heard some loons talking about permanent lockdowns.
I’m there. Everyone I talk to at the gym is there. I talk to most of my neighbors like normal. I haven’t really watched any news and have limited my browsing to avoid a boiling rage at what’s being done to this country.
They told us to get ready for a Thanksgiving surge. Still waiting on that surge, our daily cases have been dropping. They tried to cover their asses by saying reporting would be misleading the few days after Thanksgiving. It’s been over a week and the numbers are still dropping.
In MD, cases haven’t been dropping but they’ve been going up since the beginning of November, so still kinda hard to blame on Thanksgiving.
Isn’t the surge a good thing, since recovery is almost a guarantee? The quicker we can get herd immunity the better? WTF is trying to slow it down gonna do, except prolong the infestation. Bring it on!
Precisely. By letting it hammer the least vulnerable we actually protect the most at risk. All this curve flattening fuckery is actually killing more people.
Two weeks to flatten the curve, comrade.
I was done with it before it started because I could see where/why it was going.
I was done with it before it started because I could see where/why it was going.
#metoo
“Private NYC COVID-19 testing company says up to 70% of its positive tests in a week were linked to ‘superspreader’ Burning Man-style Art with Me festival in Tulum”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9027167/NYC-private-testing-company-says-70-COVID-positive-tests-linked-Tulum-festival.html
Compared to the conquistadores those are rookie numbers.
Compared to smallpox, this is the biggest wussy virus ever.
This wussy virus can’t stand toe to toe with the Champion.
The Merck Manual reports that the mortality rate for smallpox in the 20th Century is 30%. Even then the only people the MM calls for isolating are the actual patients. “Isolation of people with smallpox is essential. In limited outbreaks, patients may be isolated in a hospital in a negative-pressure room equipped with high-efficiency particulate (HEPA) filters. In mass outbreaks, home isolation may be required. Contacts should be placed under surveillance, typically with daily temperature measurement; if they develop a temperature of > 38° C or other sign of illness, they should be isolated at home.” (Note what is not recommended- closing the economy.)
The first known outbreak in Europe was the Antonine Plague, which swept through the Roman Empire in 165–180 CE. Returning Legions brought the disease to Syria and Italy, where it raged for fifteen years and greatly weakened the Roman empire, killing up to one-third of the population in some areas.
The Japanese smallpox epidemic of 735–737 is believed to have killed as much as one-third of Japan’s population.
In the 18th Century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year, including five reigning monarchs, and was responsible for a third of all blindness.[3] Between 20 and 60% of all those infected—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease.[4] (~40,000,000 Euro in 100 years). Smallpox was a leading cause of death in the 18th century. Most people became infected during their lifetimes, and about 30% of people infected with smallpox died from the disease.
Unlike current COVID deaths- there was no mistaking smallpox deaths with something else.
Smallpox killed 300-500 million in the 20th century alone. The last known case was in 1977 in Bangladesh.
“Americans’ mental health sinks to a 20-year low: More than 25% of US adults say their emotional wellbeing is just ‘fair or poor’ in 2020, poll reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9027307/Americans-mental-health-sinks-20-year-low-poll-finds.html
Shocking.
Public school, nothing to do with the vid, it’s the public school braindeath virus.
Hundreds of black vultures invade Pennsylvania town
Hinkley, Ohio’s not good enough for them anymore?
George C. Scott is my favorite Scrooge. Maybe I’ll watch that one tonight. I watched 3 Christmas movies on Saturday, so I’m kind of running low on options already. A Christmas Story and It’s a Wonderful Life are reserved for Christmas Eve.
Bad Santa or GTFO.
For once, you and I like the same movie.
My favorite xmas movie is Planet of the Apes. If AMC plays it on xmas, it’s an xmas movie.
Already watched
Hallmark has a huge supply.
I hate those fuckin things
Have you watched Die Hard yet?
Yep…a couple years ago. Wasn’t Christmassy enough for me.
My favorite is probably Bad Santa, or maybe Polar Express
Muppet Christmas Carol
Remember the Night
The Bishop’s Wife
Bush Christmas
Santa Clause And His Old Lady.
A Great White North Christmas.
The Ref is a funny one, unless you’re one of those people that really hates Denis Leary.
I like the one where Tiny Tim says “I’ll buy my own damn crutches.”
Christmas Chronicles is pretty good one.
A former Michigan deputy charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy he was assigned to mentor has been sentenced to six months in jail, prosecutors said.
I read this opening paragraph and said, “I beat he was officer of the month/year or something like that.”
I couldn’t find any evidence he was.
I guess I’m a bit cynical.
Tim Mynett’s E Street Group LLC was given $134,800 this year as part of the Paycheck Protection Program; he was also given $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans.
Nice work if you can get it.
The organizers of the iconic Paris Air Show said Monday they were grounding the event because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, saying it will return in 2023.
Fuck.
And Farnborough was retired pre-COVID. * sigh *
I hope Sun n Fun happens next year – at least it’s in FL
I really want to sell these AKs to Mexican cartels, but I don’t want to get in trouble. I know, I’ll tack the purchases onto the 4473s of my legitimate customers!
I’m going to stick my neck out. I fucking hate Mr Bean. it is the least funniest “comedy” I can think of.
Blackadder was pretty good.
Brit humo(u)r is hit or miss for me. Bean is a miss.
Have you watched any prime time “sitcoms” this year?
Or watched any late night ‘comics’?
I laugh at Rowan Atkinson in movies, but never liked Mr. Bean.
Yeah, his brief appearances in Four Weddings and a Funeral were funny.
the Holy Spigot….er Spirit.
I laugh at Mr. Bean sketches on YouTube because they are short (and I don’t watch them very often).
I’m not sure I’d be interested in watching an entire show, but 3 minutes? Sure.
His live show is great too – saw it on comedy central a couple times and got the DVD.
Other good Brit stand-up – Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran, Lee Evans.
Dylan Moran is one of my favorites. Plus he did Black Books, the funniest show ever.
It’s funnier than Red Green.
So is a sucking chest wound.
Correct on both items.
Though I think Rowan Atkinson is a big car guy.
Rowan Atkinson on Top Gear.
Same interview, Rowan discusses the hilarity of the name Bob.
Linksie oopsie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOdfNwD9cEA&lc=UgzrktmZRNlCoJtvb5N4AaABAg&ab_channel=RyanPaulsen
I could probably think of 10 comedians I find less funny off the top of my head, but the Mr. Bean sketches are middling, at best, IMO.
My first welding class starts in an hour and a half. I’m stoked. Whole course is only $9500. Remind me again why so few people try skilled trades?
The website said steel-toed boots are required, but when I called and asked if my Army boots are OK, the guy said yes. When I said I didn’t fill out the online application because the Army has me burned out on paperwork, he laughed long and hard.
I have a great feeling about this. The downside is I won’t get to see the reaction to my latest satire until late tonight. Oh well. It’s something to look forward too.
Because skilled trades are grubby. It’s much better to run up a bunch of debt for a useless degree.
Money doesn’t stink, if you ask me. In the words of the great philosopher Frito Pendejo, I like money.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
-some fucking white male whose invention became the universal symbol of a good idea
You sound deplorable.
That and decades of telling kids they will be worthless unless they take on that debt for that useless degree.
Welding is a skill I really wish I had. And machining. And finish carpentry.
I didn’t have enough room for electives in high school. I took art, photography, and drafting. I wish I could have also taken all the shop classes.
I have good friend who is a skilled carpenter, he makes it look sooooo easy. I can’t even cut a 1×2 in a straight line with a circular saw.
I can’t even draw a straight line. I appreciate the trades precisely because I am so bad at them…
I’m a terrible welder, poor machinist and decent finish carpenter.
Seriously, my welds are just fucking embarrassing. I should see if one of the local CCs has a class for dipshits…
Huh, you only say that because you haven’t seen my welds.
My son, on the other hand, is a fucking artist. He took 3 years in HS and then another year in a trade school. He could easily be hired as a fabricator, yet he choose to pursue business, started his own and hasn’t looked back.
That’s funny. I am a pretty decent carpenter as well. Makes me wonder.
Oh, in case anyone is wondering a fabricator is the guy that designs, draws up the plans and tells the welders what to do. Last I heard some of them were making mid-way into six digits.
Don’t skimp on PPE. No one will give more of a shit about your remaining good eye than you.
Same thing when you’re welding anything with chromium in it (stainless steels, some aluminum alloys). Don’t breathe those fumes!
“Remind me again why so few people try skilled trades?”
At this point I’d rather be in a skilled trade than slaving in the word mines, but I’m laughably bad with my hands. I’m basically Helen Keller when working with tools. I know practice makes perfect in these (and other) endeavors, but it just seems to not be one of my natural talents.
Seems really pricey compared to the ones listed in VA (and that’s even before I use the GI Bill) – are you still in CA?
Welding is actually kinda fun to me. I miss all the welding I used to get to do when I worked on custom bikes. I have a pretty nice multi process setup. I still do a little here and there. I also have a mill and a lathe.
I kind of hope that this map somehow gets inserted into some school district’s geography curriculum, what with all the remote learning going on.
I’m sort of ashamed it took me so long to figure out which ones were missing. I got most right away, but two of them took me several minutes.
Most of them were flyover country anyway, so are they really missing? /NY Times Fact Checker
I only missed by 16, that’s a “B” if you’re taking it remote.
I figured all of them out except one. Considering that state’s likely impending “gift” to the US, I think I was repressing it.
There are 42 states on the map. Not 41.
It’s tricky to count the ones that are there, but I count seven missing.
i think you miscounted because there are 7 missing. Delaware, Pennsylvania, N and S Dakota, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska
LOL I missed Delaware and Kansas.
There are 7 missing, so the states appear to be reproducing.
You’re right. I counted twice and both times got 42. Then I missed NM.
Running joke in my home state is that “one of our 50 is missing.” Not so much lately but in the past there was a lot of “oh, we don’t ship out of the US” or “do I need to get a passport to visit?”
That triggered my ocd.
I hate you now.
Rebuild NH (formerly Reopen NH) had a legislative summit on Nov. 30th concerning Lil Rona Panic measures. They decided to open up the summit the general public. A recording is now available.
They had some sound problems, so the audio quality isn’t that great. Audio runtime is about 55 minutes.
Speakers are:
– Minnesoda Sen. Scott Jensen
– OSHA PPE specialists Tammy Clark and Kristen Meghan
– Dr. Martin Kulldorff and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of the Great Barrington Declaration
The info packet going along with the summit just came out.
https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1335976353854844928
Troll Level: Over 9000
First response self-description
“Democrat• LGBTQ ally• Bravoholic• ALL Trump-trolls are blocked”
I bet she’s fun to be around.
“LGBTQ ally”
What does that even mean?
Straight.
She set afire the top of Amon Dîn to signal her support in the coming Cultural War in the Final Age of Man.
“Some of my best friends are gay.”
Is that like have a black friend?
My lawyer is a Jew.
I thought everyone’s lawyer was a Jew and vice versa?
FagHag
lolright?
I hadn’t used that term since HS in the ’80s, but it seemed to be just right.
Have you watched any prime time “sitcoms” this year?
I might be crazy, but I’m not stupid.
Trump One-Ups Obama, Bush, Clinton By Publicly Taking 21 Doses Of Vaccine At Once
Newsom Issues Double Stay-at-Home Order Where You Have To Stay In A Smaller House Inside Your Original House
Whole course is only $9500.
Does that include equipment?
Someone, somewhere, sort of did something and sort of got in a tiny bit of trouble. The guy who led the “protest” in St. Paul to tear down the statue of Chris Columbus just accepted a plea deal where he got a bit of community service. He avoided a felony rap by doing so.
Two things irritate me about this
I’m not a fan of this judge. It wan’t an “unfortunate” incident. It was a planned provocation. This isn’t some deal where a freak accident happened, everyone was well aware of what they were doing.
And fuck the State Patrol in the neck for knowing what would happen in advance and doing nothing. They don’t deserve any praise for chickening out. Them wimping out led to a lot more “mostly peaceful” removal of monuments here in Minnesoda. If they had thumped a few heads or locked up a few people, none of that would have happened.
I’ll grant that I’m sure the govt estimate of damages is way too high, but still he should pay some sort of restitution.
Why should it matter what a state panel says about the future of monuments on the Capitol grounds? Should I begin preparing myself for the eventual story where this guy gets paid by the govt for his work removing the Columbus statue after they decide to remove all the problematic monuments?
He’ll probably be employed at a public school or college soon, if not already.
Ooops, this was supposed to a reply to my other linked story about the Chris Columbus vandal.
Speaking of which, since the perp is a native american, can we accuse him of cultural appropriation?
Everyone knows that the Noble American Indians would never have defaced someone else’s tipi. They stole that concept from the Vandals! That is OUR culture and it isn’t just some prop for you to use to make yourself feel more important.
“he should pay some sort of restitution.”
Why? If college kids are getting their loans forgiven I say chalk this mistake up to a learning experience and let the guy walk. To me, it’s the same mentality.
/I’d put the guy on the bill for the entire amount. Wanton disregard of tax payer money. Maybe his helpers could pitch in.
I found Paul Krugman’s illegitimate daughter:
https://twitter.com/FlorioGina/status/1335988447698440193
Wut?
A lot of people don’t get that money is not equal to wealth. It’s an easy mistake to make, given that in a stable, advanced economy money is a good proxy for wealth, since the two things are related. Someone should sit that kid down and explain it:
Wealth = usable goods and services
Money = promises for goods and services
The value of money changes based on the ratio between the two.
*Looks sadly at my gold coins pile before I go swimming it in* So true.
I’m pretty sure she’s joking. I hope.
I didn’t get that impression.
Yeah, I’m voting for “dumb as dirt”.
Unless you have a suitcase full of “joking” ballots and a way to run off the poll watchers, I don’t think you are gonna win this vote.
Oh no she isn’t
https://www.tiktok.com/@paigelayle
Claims to be autistic, therefore doesn’t understand social constructs like “gender”
Not autistic, just a needy attention whore who thinks she’s beat the progressive stack by claiming to be autistic and therefore has special insight.
I’ll give her credit for poking the Gender Bear though.
Sorry, not clicking on a tiktok link.
Pussy
Thats the PronHub link…
You underestimate the immense vapidity of the (improperly educated) female* teenage mind.
*-also male, but manifests more in stupid behavior.
Wow…
Trying to figure out if she’s really that ignorant / stupid, or a genius at poker faced parody. Probably the former.
“Friends in NY who have businesses are straight suffering. Do people who tweeted that NY is open really not know a single business owner? Do they think everything is fine because their stupid pajama job is still paying them?”
https://twitter.com/karol/status/1335267535168692227
“Do people who tweeted that NY is open really not know a single business owner?”
Probably not. They’re mostly in government jobs or academia. I read somewhere a while back that nearly 99% of all tweets come from the same 10% of the users. And you can guess who they are.
We’ve basically allowed the dumbest people, with the least real world experience in the country to make the decisions for all the rest of us. Is there anyway that can turn out good? Nope.
I dont know what these people…***oh hang on my postmates delivery just showed up. There I am back***.
Like I was saying, everything is fine…***oh shoot, my Amazon delivery is here! I have been waiting hours for this!***
Ok, back to what I was saying. I don’t see the big deal in these shutdowns! I am still getting paid to do my job from…***oh wait, looks like my kids stupid teacher is complaining about something or another, they are soooooo needy***.
Back! Like I said, nothing has changed and life is great! I did hear about this one guy who owns a little shop…who would have thought, my new Netflix show is on…I don’t have time to tell you how everything should shutdown to save JUST ONE LIFE!
It’s not the people who’ve gained the pandemic 15 who are against the lockdowns. It’s the people who’ve lost the pandemic 15 (and much more) who are against this. If the “party of unity” doesn’t understand this, They’re in for a rude awakening.
Yep. I have two nieces and my son out of work. Not because there are no jobs, there jobs were shutdown by the government. They are young and at first were on the page of “we have to do this! 2-weeks…I mean 30 days!” Now they are looking down the barrel of what the hell am I going to do.
She should curse like a sailor in her NY Post columns. I like it.
“Pajama Jobs”
Though I think Rowan Atkinson is a big car guy.
Yes, he is. I think he’s a fixture at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Take away someone’s livelihood, they begin to do stupid shit.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/06/new-york-bar-owner-covid-19-rules-hit-deputy-car/3848927001/
The lawyer is claiming they did not identify themselves as cops and were chasing him. In the video, one of them clearly steps in front of the vehicle like he’s gonna stop it or something. Bar guy did not “hit” him or attempt to “run him over” that I could tell.
Not that any of that matters. Dude will do serious jail time and Cuomo will double-down on “enforcement”.
More fucking LEO overkill. There are at least 12-20 cops there to arrest one guy.
We both called it yesterday, without seeing the video.
Man, I missed the car thread. Well you all will just have to wait until the next car thread to read all my cool car stories. I turned 16 a good time (1974), 64-70 muscle cars were plentiful and cheap. However the gas to fuel them was hard to find at times.
I bought my Xmas present last night – a nice integrated amplifier and a pair of nice bookshelf speakers for my basement man cave.
In local news the city cops shot and killed a suspected burglar. Everything is OK, our local media quickly identified the suspected burglar as white. Also a cop in a local municipality was struck and killed by a car during a traffic stop. The odd part – the car that struck him was driven by a cop in another patrol car.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/moline-acres-officer-mourned-for-his-willingness-to-help-tried-to-evade-police-car-that/article_ca53b355-04a2-5c8d-8826-720bb063a1c8.html
The earliest sunset of the year is tomorrow.
Huh, I didn’t know that. Just checked and yep, my sunset is one minute later by Sunday. That’s good news. I don’t care when the sun rises but I hate the early sunset.
If you plot the sunset times for a place like Sankt Peterburg starting at the spring equinox, you get what looks like a sine wave.
Do it with a place near the equator like Quito, and you get an undulating wave with the earliest sunsets in November and the latest in February.
Basically, if you set up a sundial, you’d find that when it shows local noon (ie when the sun is highest in the sky and due south if you’re in the northern hemisphere) is not exactly 24 hours and zero seconds from one day to the next and varies in a predictable manner. The more dramatic change from November to February is because the earth is closest to the sun then and moving in its orbit at the fastest speed.
Nitpick: that should be due south if you’re north of the Tropic of Cancer.
Got that info from EarthSky.com. One of my favorite daily websites.
https://twitter.com/FlorioGina/status/1335944230057992194
“I’M A FUCKING TEACHER!!!1”
Lol so worked up and forgot how to work her car.
Fire ’em all.
She seems nice.
Huh, Oregon plates. I bet it was in Bend, seeing new buildings with protesters.
Winner winner chicken dinner! Wall and Greenwood/Newport.
Someone needs to calm their tits.
Notice how she wasn’t afraid of the actually peaceful protesters not blocking the road.
“D.C.’s newest private museum will be dedicated to the victims of communism”
https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/12/07/victims-of-communism-museum-coming-to-d-c-in-2021.html
Good. I’ll go.
I wonder how long before it catches fire?
You mean Communist victims of capitalist imperialism, surely.
““I am not Jewish” writes this woman who does not plan to celebrate Hanukkah.”
https://twitter.com/melissaeweiss/status/1335695599077912582
?????
She’s dropping her Jewish traditions but obviously feels guilty enough about it that she has to write an entire article to the world.
Ummm… ok?
Why does anyone care? You’re an atheist. BFD.
Late to the party, but thanks for the lynx, Swissy!
They really weren’t that depressing and the Omar story made me laugh.
Mostly because Rufus has the hots for her!
WTF, Canada?
https://www.nj.com/sussex-county/2020/12/pair-charged-after-teen-stabbed-at-nj-castle-police-say.html
Gingerbread castle? What?
Yes, it’s real – https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gingerbread-castle-franklin-new-jersey
It was at White Castle, it would be believable.
https://abc7ny.com/mystery-illness-india-unidentified-in-mysterious/8583737/
Oh, good…another illness for 2020.
Thicc?
Mask TW: #15
https://thechive.com/2020/12/07/girl-youre-thicker-than-a-bowl-of-oatmeal-35-photos/
or
https://archive.is/hNzyP
Except for the face diaper, that’s a good gallery.
For Kristen
#3 and #10
I like them looking like actual people.
Chipwooder:
Some years back I had spent sunup to noon swinging a machete and running a saw. I got tired, ate my peanut butter sandwiches, drank my Gatorade and then just laid down on the ground in the woods. It took me two seconds to fall dead asleep.
When I woke up there were about a hundred buzzards in the trees all around me, all staring intently at me. One of them had walked over to ten feet from me. You should have seen the look on his face when I sat up. Hell, you should have seen the look on mine. His said “Oh shit! He’s not dead!”
I think I shot my pistol in the air and yelled something along the lines of “Fuck off. It aint time yet.”
Oh, and my response to the bat story was aimed at the chickens scared of the bats…not you.
* In the story I told above I think I remember some of those buzzards wearing bibs.
I speak fluent vulture. He undoubtedly said, “Sorry, sir, as you can see, we made an honest mistake!”
“I speak fluent vulture. ”
Then can you address congress for us?
Just got a UPS delivery, driving a U-Haul truck. I’m thinking, “What’s up with a U-Haul? “Guy must be lost but I see Mrs F has been busy again. It appears she has a pen AND a phone.
” What Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Election Money Doing In Georgia?
The biggest question the Georgia legislature should ask is whether a California billionaire should be allowed to waltz into the Peach State and finance aspects of their elections.
Imagine if a billionaire of conservative or libertarian leanings—Charles Koch, say—had given $350 million to a nonprofit run by Republican operatives who previously worked at a “dark money” outfit tied to Karl Rove where they trained digital activists and campaign workers.
Then imagine this nonprofit group re-granted the millions of dollars to local election officials to “help” them carry out the 2020 election—buying drop boxes for ballots, hiring temporary staff, conducting “voter education,” and the like.
Finally, imagine that in 2020, a state that usually voted for the other party in presidential elections narrowly flipped to the donor’s preferred party, and counties receiving “help” were disproportionately ones that helped the Republican win the state, with many counties shifting dramatically from their historical patterns in a red-ward direction.
Even supposing there were perfectly ethical and legal reasons for all this, because of the appearance of election influence from private parties with deep pockets, it would be front-page news. The New York Times would be outraged a nonprofit gave the appearance of acting in a partisan basis in an electoral process. Elected officials in the disfavored party would be loudly objecting, threatening lawsuits, demanding investigations of the election officials who accepted the funds, and insisting election laws be changed to prevent any such effort in the future.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/07/what-is-mark-zuckerbergs-election-money-doing-in-georgia/
Zuckerberg seems desperate to be appreciated by lefties. First the Newark debacle, now this.
I wonder how much his wife is involved.
I could see it as he is still young and idealistic and has notions of being civic minded, which makes him an easy mark for the grifters. He’s never really been in a position to get the sand knocked out of his eyes.
Trying to find my “give a fuck” for what Mark Zuckerberg does with his money….nope haven’t found it yet.
^^this
#metoo
This isn’t a billionaire problem, it’s a stupid voter problem.
I think you missed the Count’s point.
Probably. What was it?
That had this happened in reverse the outrage from the establishment twats would be hotter than the sun.
I am making a distinction between team purple and those ticks embedded in power for a reason.
“Agents Raid Home in Maricopa County in Voter-Data Theft Investigation — Confiscate 8 Hard Drives, 3 Computers and a Bag of USB sticks ”
https://thespectator.info/2020/12/07/agents-raid-home-in-maricopa-county-in-voter-data-theft-investigation-confiscate-8-hard-drives-3-computers-and-a-bag-of-usb-sticks/
“Seattle social worker stabbed to death by her client as city pushes to replace police with social workers”
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/seattle-social-worker-stabbed-to-death-by-her-client/
I don’t see how “more cops” would have prevented this.
Morning, Banjos.
I Larfed,
Howdy!
Once upon a time, Mammary Monday.
https://archive.li/rEbR6
#1 – RealDoll?
Good iChive galleries – #2, #6, #20, #47, #48
I like #4
#5 – another RealDoll
#17 looks a little too inviting.
#22 looks good.
#28 – another RealDoll
I want to like #32, but those nails. They stand out in a bad way.
#52 looks a bit young.
#56 – Another RealDoll
Wait… no face diapers?! YES!
What makes you think those are Real Dolls?
They all looked a bit off to me. A bit too unreal, fake.
The knees on #28 look a bit too complex in shape and color for a Real Doll, and the tits are too small and proportionate. And a Blasian Real Doll? Doubt it.
If that’s a fake person, they’ve slipped past the uncanny valley into almost impossible to detect in a motionless picture.
Blasian RealDoll? I think that’s someone’s fetish.
Twice upon a time. I’m sure they have experience two-timing.
In case you thought the hacks that Biden is bringing on board are some kind of “moderates”, let’s just dispel that notion once and for all.
Too bad for Kerry that Paris doesn’t “require” shit. It’s a blueprint for the US to destroy its economy, sure, but it’s nothing more than a blueprint.
“Kerry later argued that the Great Reset is necessary to impoverish the United States’ citizens and enrich his cabal of cronies”
FIFH.
I spend about 2/3 of my time here stopping myself from making comments that would potentially cause SP grief with the authorities. I am feeling very Patrick Henry these days.
*Raises glass*
Don’t feel alone because you are not.
Ditto, although my concern is equally for my own potential grief with the authorities. I figure it’s coming someday, probably sooner than I imagine.
At some point (one that has already passed in my opinion) the grief will be for the authorities instead of with them but I know that time is coming, maybe sooner than they imagine.
Yeah, in your case it is a more serious worry. Here, at least for the time being, we still have the vestiges of free speech
Hi, Preet!
Woodchipper go brrrrr?
Lurch loves running his arrogant fucking mouth.
Those motherfuckers don’t have to live with the grief they inflict on everyone else.
*censors further comments*
I will say that I hope I never meet that POS in person, for my sake.
The stench of bad chronic wanting through the vent/down the hall, and the so far three hours of loud sex interspersed with obnoxiously loud and moronic conversion in the next room has kept me awake and I’ve only got a few minutes of wifi left to say that I am pretty sick of this place and these chavs.
*wafting
Contact high, seen it a hundred times.
*conversation
Hostel in Amsterdam?
Was the sex good?
Just bought my kid a Z-flex AND a Dogtown skateboard for x-mas, last night. For good measure, I bought a Dogtown set up for myself. Then, today, my brother texts: I just sent Vinny a skateboard.
Just bought my kid a Z-flex AND a Dogtown skateboard for x-mas, last night. For good measure, I bought a Dogtown set up for myself. Then, today, my brother texts: I just sent Vinny a skateboard.
Brought to you by the department of redundancy. I guess I two-timed that one!
I believe it’s named the Department of Redundancy Department.
You can say that again!
I believe it’s named the Department of Redundancy Department.
under which is indented the Bureau of Dispensable Tautology
LOL
Department of Redundancy Department. And the Natural Guard.
/Firesign