Since none of us will be able to see a live Dick Dale show, I thought I would draw on my memories and YouTube to take you on a date to the Birchmere Music Hall, circa 2010…
We’re just finishing up our biggie nachos grandes supreme and our first round of Blue Moons when the lights go down. On the stage, we can just make out the silhouettes of Sam Bolle (bassist) and Dusty Watson (drums) on the stage, noodling and fine-tuning. The crowd’s jibber-jabber dies down and the first guitar note, electric and clear, cuts through the last plinks of glasses and silverware…
Shhhhheeeeiittt….that’s the way to start a show!
As he’s inclined to do, Dick starts his first TED Talk of the evening, greeting audience members he recognizes, flirting with men’s wives, and tossing guitar picks to the kids lucky enough to be front-and-center. Now Dick wants to show us why he’s not only the King of Surf Guitar, but also the Godfather of Heavy Metal…
Now Dick is going to bring us back in time, with an anecdote (or three) about his early years on the beaches of SoCal. He tells us about throwing the surf board down, putting on a shirt, and climbing on stage to play a full concert. We also hear about the taco truck that would serve him fish tacos…
We continue with a medley of old songs, including the OG. The audience shouts out the song title…
Suddenly Dick switches gears and launches into one of his classic covers. Everyone in the audience sings at the top of their lungs…
Now Dick wants to slow it down and flirt with some more ladies. He talks about his travels and romance. He tells the audience that this ought to get their partners revved up and ready for some…intimacy…
Without preamble, we launch into the middle program where we’re in for some real Dick Dale genius (this is a mashup of several versions of the same medley – he stopped playing trumpet in his later years). Hey! Bo Diddley!
Time for Dick to take a breather and tell us about his surfing exploits. The spills and hang-tens and cowabungas! We wonder how he doesn’t break all the strings on his guitar at once…
We’re wrapping up our evening with Dick Dale. We’ve seen the versatility and genius of a living legend. We remember Jimi Hendrix, who said on his record “Third Stone from the Sun“, when Dick was first diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the 1960’s: “You’ll never hear surf music again”. Dick takes the time to shout out The Troops. We may even get a little surprise Misirlou in the middle…
We chug the last of our beers as the lights come up. Another Hall of Fame performance by a true legend. We make our way out of the Birchmere, knowing that we never will hear surf music again…
Dick Dale: 1937-2019
So… why the weird gun in the picture? I feel like it’s missing an obligatory gang sign.
Your mom is a weird gun.
You got something against Hi Points?
Yes.
The trigger guard was too small.
Not if you’re looking for a good door stop or boat anchor.
You rich people and your fancy guns!
You got something against Hi Points?
The potmetal gives me contact dermatitis.
My very good friend did a thread on PAFOA parodying tacticool operators by doing a review of a Hi-Point that he buried in his cats’ litter box for a couple of weeks and then hosing it off, lubing it with Crisco, and doing a range test. Not a single failure, and the thing was encrusted with shit and litter.
https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=14726&page=3&p=181553#post181553
Sadly, all the photos have been lost to time.
It’s a simple blowback design, almost nothing can go wrong with it short of actual parts breakage. The reason for reliability issues with rimfire blowbacks is the rimfire ammo, not the guns.
Weird gun.
Ugly as sin too.
Well shit. I didn’t think that’d be a first. Let me try again.
Excellent write up. He’s not someone I’m familiar with. I will definitely be becoming more familiar with his work.
Don’t place special significance on numerical placement.
That’s what she said?
“Of course you’re the first. Why are you guys always asking me that?”
(Lyric from “Things that Make You Go Hmmm”, for you young’uns)
If you saw Pulp Fiction, you’ve at least got a passing familiarity with Dick Dale. Miserlou was the main theme music of Pulp Fiction.
Ketchup.
A Ruger 9mm is weird???
This is weirder https://pasteboard.co/JKHfkAS.jpg
No… that is fun! What women really want when they ask for flowers!
Some youtube vid had a pre-ad that was for the next generation of that “steps of a Navy SEAL” holster.
It had a guy fighting off a carjacker by activating the holster and pulling out a… Ruger MkI.
Later they used it with some lady defending herself with it.
You’d think a holster company would have some actual carry guns somewhere they can use to make their commercials with.
The people make the product are not the people that market the product, who are not the people that make the ads…
Eh, I’m not so sure that necessarily applies to the more disreputable or out-of-the-mainstream segments of the economy.
What do you prefer, .410 or .45LC?
Too many videos – and I have to listen to this work crap in case I have to respond to someone.
At least watch the first Bo Diddley video
I don’t even get the choice. They’re all firewalled for me. Sometimes the golden handcuffs aren’t so golden.
I was under the impression that the whole point of being a civil servant was so you didn’t have to respond to anyone.
There’s a heirarchy of who you can ignore and who you have to answer.
I too am allegedly participating in online training now.
I will share the vids with my musician hubs, and he loves him some nostalgia.
Great approach KK. I’m a big Surf and Space rock fan.
Here is one of my favorites.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGdqpi_CrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps32wFxDY94
Nice I was looking for that video.
Well, I know water won’t affect him, but I’m making myself into a fire extinguisher, and let’s see how he likes this dose of carbon dioxide!
Antimatter Man live:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-XaZS5oe0
Back in the day, Man or Astroman? was something to behold live. One of the best ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=273hbx9U5z0
Last time I saw them was fall of 1995 and one of the guys was wearing a large, homemade robot costume. He had to take it off because one of the lights on it was not grounded or something and he kept getting shocked.
That would have had to been Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard. He is the token stunt performer for the band. Used to wear a hollowed out TV set on his head that had flashing lights attached to it. There’s “high energy performances” and then there were these guys.
They were still playing shows just before the pandemic made concerts illegal, though it’s a bit more stripped down these days for logistical reasons (the space suits and theremin are still in use though).
Sadly, I missed the opportunity to see them when they came to Pittsburgh in 2019. I don’t pay attention to concert venues around here, and so missed that it was happening until my GF mentioned it the day after.
Few bands are as strange as Captured By Robots. Unfortunately, every show after Trump’s election was full on TDS (video is from pre-Trump).
There was a band that recorded at the same studio as the one I managed did, so we often played a lot of the same shows.
It was good, it was called “Dave’s not Here” and it broke up when the frontman went to work full time for Alex Jones.
Managin’ a pop group? Ain’t no job for a man.
I was otherwise between jobs at the time. And it’s a fun life, if not a terribly healthy one.
db don’t ride with nobody unless they wear their seatbelt. It’s one of his rules.
You ever read this? Dioretix, the science of matter over mind.
Jay Vance! I know/knew him!
Dick Dale was awesome to see live. I think I was up to 6 shows, the last of which was at Viva Las Vegas on the Car Show Stage.
Saw him a couple times post Pulp Fiction in the mid 90s. Had a chance to see him roughly a year before he died, but missed it.
I saw him somewhere on the Atlantic shore in the ’80s?? Either Wildwood, NJ or Virginia Beach. I was pretty drunk by the time we got in to the show though, so don’t recall a lot.
Dick Dale?
Dinsdale!
https://youtu.be/A9k6__UFF18
Here’s some of my own footage from The Birchmere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGFI83ke_w
sweet!
Love Dick Dale. He has inspired some really great musicians out there. Some of my other more modern surf favorites are Messer Chups and Man? or Astro-Man?
Have some more Surf Magneto
and Stampede on some turf.
I went to the Birchmere in March 1st to see Hayes Carll last concert I saw, back when we were still making jokes about the wuflu little did I know how in like 14 days the whole world would go insane.
I have two rules in my world. The first is that no human sets foot on my planet. I’m a Cyborg! And second: Anything I repair, I keep!
I have most of their albums, but not this one. It somehow was never on my radar. I fixed that error just now.
I think it’s one of their best.
Fun fun fun!
Dick Dale was an influence on Rick Miller from Southern Culture on the Skids.
I love SCOTS! White Trash is a good example of how they sound similar.
Favorite SCOTS tune…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7SVAQ0dZU
Did y’all click on the Hall of Fame link?
yeah, ain’t that just unconscionable?
There’s a reason I’m not a fan of the Rock Hall…
I’ve been there once for a free event, and saw the Skatalites play outside of it for a free show back in the 90’s.
Democrats Successfully Prevent Military Coup By Occupying D.C. With Military
Space Force Carries Out Coup, Trump Declared President Of Space
Sorry to got OT. But I’m close to having to tap out to sleep (3rd shift can be a drag). So, as you may have seen this week was the last of the Hat and Hair regular cartoon. The characters will continue, but the format will be different. One observation I have was that a lot people asked for the cartoon to be posted as the night article instead of a midday article, because they couldn’t watch it while at work. Paradoxically when we did that the views went from around 120 per episode to around 60 per episode.
So I don’t know if people who would be around to watch or save for later on the midday posts vastly outnumbers people who check in for a night post, or if we just had a decline in engaged viewers for the cartoon.
I’d like to hear your thoughts, since you are my audience. What time slot works best going forward?
I hate change, so….
Keep in mind that at some point things may change post plague.
So, for example, I can watch during the day right now. However, should the powers that be actually let me return to my office that would change.
The time slot change was pre-plague. So the drop in viewers doesn’t have anything to do with that, unless the plague killed somewhere around 60 glibs.
Well, glibs ARE notorious for not wearing their masks…
I got better…
L….. OH…. L!!!
“Left Wing Insurrection”
God bless that intern.
https://www.foxnews.com/
“Authorities said earlier gatherings in Portland — which saw Antifa protesters clash with authorities as they gathered to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden, forcing officers to retreat and taking at least one police bicycle — had ended.”
Didn’t the useful idiots know they are supposed to shut up and behave now that we have the correct president?
“Antifa protesters clash with authorities as they gathered to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden”
Well, the old man has had almost an entire day now. This is going well.
LOL. I mean i expected this derangment from the right already, but i guess Antifa is just in perma-derangment
Antifa are not going to stop this no matter who is president. You either break some heads, or they don’t stop. I don’t see anyone willing to break heads. Maybe the citizens tire of it and take the law into their own hands.
Yeah, the guy who did that is out on bail now, awaiting trial on multiple felonies.
I was going to say that, the citizens who are fed up will be the ones arrested, antifa will just keep getting away with it until eventually they burn down some dem governor or senator’s house, or worse.
I guess that answers the question of whether the DNC was in control of them.
The “Battle of Seattle” was back during the Clinton administration.
If you’re talking about this https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-25-mn-179-story.html, I know someone who was involved.
No, this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
Since it’s wikipedia, it’s written to make antifa, I mean “black bloc” the heroes and noble suffering victims.
Defintely different times:
https://www.military.com/history/time-army-rangers-got-gunfight-crips-street-gang.html
“The Rangers’ weapons were confiscated by authorities, but the Army considered the event necessary for their self-defense.
“From everything I am told by the city police, the Rangers were right,” Maj. Clyde Newman of the 2nd Ranger Battalion told the AP. “They were having a party, and they were attacked.”
For an estimated 10 to 30 minutes, the two groups exchanged intense fire in a “gun battle” on the streets of residential Tacoma. Witnesses said “hundreds of rounds from handguns, shotguns and semiautomatic weapons were fired.” Somehow, no one was hurt.
Somebody sure needed more range time.
Sounds like reasonable policy to me.
RC Dean – yes, that became a running joke.
The left encouraged them, fanned the flames, paid some of them, printed signs for them.
They encouraged the chaos because they could wield it against Trump.
Now they are stunned to learn they can’t turn the OFF switch and make Antifa go away.
They still want to play protester and not work and loot TVs. They don’t give two shits about Biden.
Sure they care about Biden, he’s their new excuse to keep the party going.
Why were the authorities dissatisfied with Biden?
Antifa’s continued rioting will switch over to being “local news,” while being completely ignored by the national press.
And they will be squashed by the new Anti-Domestic Terror laws, as proof that the government isn’t being one-sided.
Excellent. Also, funny how different the response is this time, huh?
Democrats: Look, some anarchists! We can totally control them anarchists, all they want is more government, as long as it’s our government!
I’ve been saying this will bite them in the ass, it’s just even sooner than I thought.
My phone recommended a link to thehill.com about it. I clicked for the entertainment. The comments were full of “Proud Boys False Flag”. I laughed.
TBF they aren’t anarchists, they are violent nihilists.
There’s a guy who live in Portland who has a website. I can’t remember the name right now. But I used to read it because some of his blogs were pretty funny talking abut Portlandians.
What he always said is that they just see it as a party and getting attention, drugs, some looting. The fact the dems and media cover for them makes it all easy.
Hey, cool it Walter.
They thought they could keep that tiger by the tail and let it go. The tiger was still hungry, so it seems.
And they’ll keep getting away with is, so why stop?
Can’t do anything with them when there’s scary libertarians running amok. Got to focus on the real terrorists.
A bunch of weirdos that think that the world is controlled by some star-chamber dwelling cabal is far more dangerous than a group of people that have been rioting for six months and causing demonstrable harm.
The self described anarchists seem to have enough commie like tendencies that the dems can see them as leftist comrades.
Libertarians on the other hand are decidedly on the right.
So there you go, nothing more to know.
Being two days shy of 50 and having grown up in the furthest south part of Northern California, this is an awesome present. I miss my memories of that state, I miss good fun music, and I miss fish tacos!
Wonerfel, Wonerfel!
“Being two days shy of 50”
Get off my porch, snapper!
I miss fish tacos
I know internet dating can be hit or miss, but . . . .
Ah the Birchmere – that takes me back a ways. Didn’t see Dick Dale there, but I do recall quite a few other great shows.
I’ve never heard of the guy. He seems popular so I’m sure I’ve heard some of his stuff. Just reminds me though that there is a disturbing lack of guys named Dick these days. Used to be such a popular name.
Hyperion wants more Dicks. I’m shocked.
Haha! You’re too funny, Broketard. Actually, I’ll giver you credit for that one, it was pretty good.
Dick Dale and other surf rock is on my playlist for one of my books. Got turned on to him with Pulp Fiction.
FYI for those who may care, Tulsi is back on Joe Rogan’s podcast today.
Isn’t she unemployed now?
Her last employer had a hostile working environment.
Are you saying she needs a sugar daddy?
“…[congress] what kind of judgement will you exercise in making decisions that affect literally every single aspect of our lives as Americans.”
I think I see your problem…. But no, it’s really just that we have to be more responsible voters.
:Starts staring at other commenters with suspicion:
Which one of these tulpa is the one sent by Brennan to spy on dangerous libertarians?
All of them.
*glibs in monotone unison* We are all Tulpa now.
Gooble gobble.
Trick question. We all are. See something, say something!
Starts? I figured half of you were moles from various different agencies.
Only half?
The trick is to get hired by competing agencies,; then you can double bill.
Contracting 101.
Good thing I’m not a libertarian. I’m a good liberal that supports free speech, free markets, non-intervention military, and a restricted intelligence community. Team Joe!
I’m they’re going after classical liberals as well.
Well, the classical liberals are the libertarians for the most part. There are a few flower children and hippies left over from the 60s, but they all vote commie, so not much different that the real leftist ones.
There are a few flower children and hippies left over from the 60s, but they all vote commie
Ahem.
I was trying to make a joke but I forget that I am a poor writer and not funny.
According to Brennan, you fall in somewhere earlier on his list:
“religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians”
If your asking whose a fed your probably a fed.
This comment gave Ted’S epilepsy.
Is Brennan in the *Biden admin?
Not me.
Say, fellow libertarians, those Boogaloo Boys sure are groovy aren’t they? Maybe we should go to one of their meetings?
Note: The plural of Tulpa is Tulpae. This was decided in committee.
Committee?!!??
I FOUND HIM GUYS! WE’VE GOT HIM THIS TIM!
Tim? No, he’s Animal.
Some call me….. Timmmmmm
I still can’t believe a guy who voted for Gus Hall was ever installed as director of the fuckin’ CIA.
How do you do, fellow libertarians?
There are no libertarians here.
Going off topic for a moment….how dare anyone question Joe Biden’s mental acuity!
JHTFC
Anything you
put on that telepromptersay over his earpiece,BurgundyBiden will read!omg
Top. Men.
Well, I have this feeling that a lot of people are going to be questioning it, and soon.
Can’t hear the audio (I’m on a conference call now) but the closed captioning says “INDISTINCT.” Can anyone confirm he actually said this?
No. One person thought he said great looking Marines.
I always thought it was protocol that the subordinates must salute, and the superior can opt not to return it. I didn’t see them salute first, so maybe there is a relaxed protocol at the White House, or if he hadn’t yet been inaugurated, protocol would be not to salute him at that point.
Can’t rule it out.
Also, I think its traditional for the President to return a salute from his Marine honor guard. I didn’t see the Marines salute.
So I’ll back down on this one. Put it in the “possible, but unconfirmed” bucket.
It is. Must have been before he took the oath. Didn’t think of that.
On the other hand, who knows if whoever has his hand jammed up Biden’s ass to make the puppet talk knows that?
Or, put it in the “Even in untrue, still accurate…” bucket
Its not superclear, but I think its clear enough.
And, of course, he didn’t actually salute them. Which he should know to do, regardless.
I think its a fairly solid take on what happened on that video clip.
He definitely says “the Marines”. What he says first is a bit muffled. Might be salute, might not be…..but I’m at a loss as to what he would be saying there otherwise.
I listened with headphones and cranked the volume up. Sure as hell sounded like “salute” to me. And, sure, he technically isn’t violating protocol by not returning the salute, but why the hell would he say that?
And I’m sure the Marines saluted. He’s the President, and if in doubt, Marines will salute a traffic bollard.
I have no idea if that clip was taken before or after his oath. If it was before, then he’s still Joe Schmoe the civilian and they don’t salute.
Of course, I wouldn’t be a bit surprise if his handlers didn’t know that, and were telling him to salute even thought it was premature.
There’s no salute visible on the video.
I heard “Laurel.”
Hardy?
The fact that he apparently has minders feeding him instructions through an earpiece is bad enough.
The fact that he can’t even manage that is disturbing.
Appropriate.
Aren’t the marines supposed to salute him first, and commander in chief returns the salute? That’s how we did it back in 1861-65.
That’s what I thought, so if he hadn’t been inaugurated yet, it might not be protocol for them to do so.
The president, as a civilian, isn’t supposed to return the salute. But many moons ago, one of the presidents started doing it t burnish their militaryness and now it’s an insult if the president doesn’t.
As I recall, it started with Reagan.
It was a core part of his personality. He couldn’t NOT salute in return even though he wasn’t supposed to.
You’re a bit older than I thought.
Good lord…
Why didn’t the Marines salute?
I only re-plugged into politics the past couple days and already bumbling Biden has had be laughing my ass off. At least I can laugh until they take me to the gulag. Might have to print out the best memes and cram them up my ass to smuggle into the gulag.
You see, he is really not the president. It was a fake swearing in ceremony. True President Trump has them all caged in DC. That is why the fencing and national guard surround the capitol.
TRUST THE PLAN!!!
That’s how its done. Well played, Plinker.
“I, for one, would like to thank our military for doing its Constitutional duty by protecting the citizenry from the government by putting the Capitol behind razor wire and patrolling the perimeter.”
I knew it!
It’s ALL our fault.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/20/how-libertarians-aid-and-abet-oligarchy/
Ahh. The traditional Conservative past time. Kick and blame libertarians for all the ills of why their crappy candidates cant win in a state that had been solid red for the last 30 years.
Yet another so called conservative that doesn’t understand what a libertarian is. Shocking.
Go fuck yourself, boomer.
A guy from a think tank lecturing us about the real world.
What a useless cunte.
Hey, maybe run candidates who aren’t as shitty as Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Just a thought.
There’s no way Perdue loses without the mail-in tsunami in the general election. Basically a ridiculous margin in Atlanta swung the whole election to the dweeb who decided he wanted to run for Congress when he was in 8th grade.
I love the word “dweeb”
If at first you don’t succeed. Keep spending millions of dollars of other peoples money untill you do.
I think that’s the lesson learned.
The big question is how well can the GOP ramp up their mail-in voting game in the next two years? Because it isn’t going away, and if they ever want to win again, they need turnout like never before seen.
They should hire some consultants from Utah. Been fully mail in ballot for a while and the GOP seems to always win with huge margins.
Yeah, but that’s Utah. I’d be shocked if the GOP didn’t win there.
And they elect Mittens and McMuffn. I’m not so confident Utah is where we need to turn to.
I don’t care. I have no use for the GOP. Turning a flood of fraudulent Dem votes into a flood of fraudulent votes from all sides makes the process _less_ legitimate.
If indeed this stuff is only going to be ramped up, then I care not who pursues what strategy to best game this ridiculous system.
Same here. Both sides of the UniParty frauding as hard as they can doesn’t do much for me.
I mean, there are plenty of empty suits in Congress, but I can’t think of one as hilariously non-accomplished as Ossoff.
Left un-examined was how a two point lead in actual balloting became a two point defeat exactly one month later. Apparently there were a bunch of additional policy disagreements between the first and second votes that cost Perdue the election.
Maybe the one nutter on the Trump legal team actually did convince people to not vote in the GA special election. Trump has the worst knack of picking the wrong people. As soon as I saw Guliani running his trap, I knew it was over.
What the hell happened to Giuliani, anyway? He certainly left a lot to be desired from a libertarian perspective but he seemed like a smart, competent guy. When he he devolve into a total loon?
Sometime after being the mayor of NYC, he lost his marbles. Maybe it’s dementia, I don’t know. I’ve never really liked him, even then he was competent.
All of those people started acting like some Russian agent jabbed them with an umbrella tipped with crazy juice all of a sudden.
California Republican – need I say anything more?
I always appreciate an atta-boy. If you’re looking for things to say.
Just like East Coast Republicans I suppose. That gets you Mittens, Cristy, and Fatty Hogan. IOW, the dems get pissed off at the dems, so vote for the dem posing as a Republican instead.
https://twitter.com/LauraHayesDC/status/1352310948539858950
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@MayorBowser
confirms indoor dining ban lifts tomorrow morning.
Dc dining ban is over.
What new science is this?
Biden has cured the plague and solved the economy!
LOL of course it is
You beat me to it. These bans never end. Has there ever been one that actually ended? It was going to be 3 weeks in MD, and it’s almost a year now.
I mean, it’s “miraculous” that this was announced on Jan 21. Makes total sense.
Yeah, I was trying to think if there was any relevance to that date, but I can’t think of a single thing, just coincidence.
Well i’m glad that they are not worried about appearing transparent about their motives, or else they would have kept it going longer just to keep up appearances.
If the pandemic wasn’t artificially hyped, and the lockdowns not intended to bring down the economy and Trump, what would they be doing different?
Not just Trump. There are a lot of disgruntled deplorables around the world. This has been a tremendous tool for getting the plebes back in their places.
This pretty much explains all of it right here.
https://twitter.com/bergerbell/status/1352323919278063616
The beneficiaries of the lockdowns are largely the democrats voting base. Couple that up with the supped up unemployment and you start to see a lock-down voting coalition emerge that looks suspiciously like the democrats base demo.
I think you mean “if they were” as in, it doesn’t have to be a big conspiracy, all their actions are the same as if they had had a conspiracy about it.
Sure. Like a school of fish. No conspiracy there, just ingrained “herd” instinct and aligned interests.
Same thing as the ‘Deep State’. Just the bureaucracy doing what it does,
Look at the positive case rates in DC, which are pretty close to their peak and higher than they were when the dining ban was put in place just before Christmas, and explain to me the logic of lifting the ban now. Any explanation including “because it was always stupid and never worked” will not be accepted.
25 percent capacity, or up to 250 people. Are there restaurants that seat 1,000 people at a time?
I love this, KK! One of the things I hate the most about the New Normal is the lack of live music.
You can just download that from the internets with your feelies in the Brave New World Great Reset. I mean as long as your social credit score is OK, comrade.
Me too.
I’m optimistically hopeful that Viva goes on this fall. I still need to get in touch with the hotel to confirm that my reservation got shifted to the new dates (it’s supposed to happen automatically… but I prefer to confirm).
https://www.oann.com/n-y-threatens-to-sue-biden-admin-if-pandemic-aid-doesnt-come/
*pops popcorn*
NYC and the other deep blue cities will be buried in tax payer cash in no time.
Is this one of those suits where the DOJ then “caves” and “settles” and then magically all the money is funneled to NY w/ out even having to authorize a bill for it?
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to learn that there actually is a law requiring the feds to give each state its fair share of funding. In those words.
We’re 23,000 vaccines “short” and out of that he determines that we need 15 billion dollars.
Yup, that checks. ?
I’ve been trying to be Optomistic, but this seals it, this Biden admin is going to be worse than i thought. I’m hearing reports that he has removed the red button that summons a diet coke!!!!!
I was reading that they spent a no-shit half million dollars cleaning the White House before Biden moved in. Presumably to get rid of the Trump cooties. I would think the White House is kept spic and span 24/7/365, but I guess not.
You don’t read Hat & Hair, do you?
I don’t think Half a mil would still be enough to clean out the JFK Mutant chambers…
First Cleaner: Did you hear something?
Second Cleaner: No.
First Cleaner: It sounded like “wannafud”? Wonder what that is?
Second Cleaner: AAAHHHHH, what the Hell is that?!
JFK Mutant Bastard shambles toward them. “Wannafud?”
That’s a creative way to payoff a supporter.
It’d be hilarious if they essentially drained the entire annual allocation for janitorial services for the White House with that move.
I guess I’m lucky, There’s never been a time I could imagine it being worse than I already imagine it being.
That actually sounds like an improvement.
Spontaneous combustion.
video of the exploding $tsla in Shanghai
Hey, that looked like Jack Ma in there!
“Biden Administration: Yes, We Are Following Through With a Fracking Ban”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/01/20/biden-administration-yes-we-are-following-through-with-a-fracking-ban-n2583476
*marks Veloster S off list, begins researching Corolla Hybrid*
Man of the people!
Yeah, but those 11,000 people are deplorable like the insurrectionists, so they deserve to be punished.
Ignore the fact that this is the sort of thing that a Putin supporter would do.
That’s right, morons. Keep the pressure on. I’m sure there won’t be any problems.
My heating bill will quadruple.
Feature, not bug.
Time to buy a sweater.
They’ll force coal-powered electric plants offline, and my electric bill will quadruple too.
I am already starting to scope out a geothermal replacement for HVAC and solar panels.
I need to get off the grid sooner rather than later.
If that happens you just won’t have electricity.
It won’t be overnight.
The green new deal will force the transition towards large-scale solar and wind generation while taxing the shit out of coal.
I expect to see federal subsidies go up for wind/solar/geo-thermal at the consumer level.
I see no real alternative but to take the subsidies and get as independent as possible as quickly as possible.
Also a decent fight against inflation for utilities. BUT!!! BUT BUT BUT!!! You need to be in the right sunbelt to really get your ROI on solar panels. There is a good investment in solar even now IN CERTAIN PLACES!
You also want to check to see if you can get paid for the power you feed back on the grid. Some places let you do this others do not.
Getting into overnight battery systems seems to be where you start losing your britches on ROI. Batteries are expensive and need to be replaced.
I haven’t looked at going solar or 24hr solar in a few years, but I do remember the Obama era tax credits and subsidies were pretty enticing. I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like that return.
Federal subsidies on geothermal were 26% last year (under OMB). Solar had similar last year.
I don’t think ROI is a factor at this point. I view this as hedging against rolling blackouts and skyrocketing costs for natural gas and electricity.
I expect batteries will be a necessity. And they are a pure expense.
China loves them some Chiney Joe.
Especially since that Canadian/Keystone oil might now be going to China.
Hey, remember when the newspaper “fact” checkers swore Biden wasn’t going to ban fracking? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Biden said it himself.
I clearly remember him during the campaign saying that he will not ban fracking. I guess all those workers who thought they had to vote Biden because Trump is icky might be realizing they made a mistake now. Oh, I forgot, Green jobs! Sure, suckers!
He said he both would and wouldn’t depending on the audience. Surprisingly, he was not called out on this.
I guess we can expect Dems to proceed with the actual* court-packing.
*Not the faux court-packing they accused R’s for because Trump was simply filling vacancies.
Not only wasn’t he called out, but the media ridiculed anyone who said that he did in fact promise to ban it.
Biden doesn’t remember what he said yesterday. He’s just a puppet for whoever is pulling the strings. They stand him out there and hope he can repeat the words being said to his ear piece without screwing it up. He has no policies and no relevant thoughts about anything. This is why the democrat’s pushed him in. Bernie might do stuff they don’t like. Biden is nothing if not compliant.
LEARN TO GRIFT
“Well, middle class was fun.”
/some episode of Roseanne
S. 4 or 5, where their electricity is cut off.
Well, yes. I wasn’t going to get that specific because who needs to know I’m a huge fan ?
I have the first four seasons on DVD. Holds up pretty well.
It’s on like 4x a night on one of those retro channels. I think they’ve cycled through all ten seasons five or six times in the last year.
Clearly a SCIENCE based move that has nothing to do with leftist environmental* dogma or special interests.
*In fact, it they put the “mental” in “environmental”.
Turkey is 100% gone now
https://twitter.com/thegirdlengr/status/1351790878654951426
Understatement? But i guess the UN does know a lot about leaving victims vulnerable to experiencing more mistreatment from their rapists.
They need to be kicked out of NATO ASAP
Is there a method for removing a member state from NATO?
Yeah no kidding, if they pass it. No excuse for this in a member of the supposed respected world community. If it even gets substantial support in the legislature, serious consideration of censure needs to be taken.
Jeez, that’s some pic.
If her spirit isn’t broken first, he’s a dead man. As he should be.
Not to be trite but that look says that particular girl’s spirit is well on its way if it isn’t there already. He doesn’t look a very nice guy.
Is that a picture of one these “marriages”?
You don’t see many Turks dressed like that. Looks more Central Asia “-stan” to me.
I thought that Turkey was pretty secular. Maybe that’s really changed under Erdogan.
It was pretty secular (see my post from last Thursday). Doubt I could get away with the hijinks I got up to in 1993 nowadays
I think it’s just to illustrate a point, he’s probably Pstan or Astan.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking, but I’m no cultural expert didn’t want to spout off.
I do love in the replies all the good liberal feminists shocked that Joe Biden has betrayed them by destroying womens sports and womens spaces via EO on day one. How could this have happened?
It doesn’t really sound like there’s any downside for the dudes. They can just rape whatever young girl they see and then get them as free house labor as well. I’m sure that will discourage them. /sarcasm
Piker.
Mentos? Bud Light coozies?
THE MONSTER!
American flag rifle hat is evidence? Quick, grab that Chickfila cup!
Crazy how a violent terrorist who wanted to murder legislators didn’t bring any of his guns to the Capitol.
Seriously. That’s some weak sauce.
I hope that when the jackboots raid my place, they lay out the guns and the fetish gear on the same table…
What, that all fits on one table?
It would have to be a pretty big one.
Shit, that remeinds me, I’ve got to check and make sure no spores were carried over on the kangaroo leather.
Kangaroo spores?
From whatever your hateful leather-eating penicillium variety is. My two kangaroo hide whips were (hopefully are) my favorites. They were not stored in the Closet O’ Green Creeping Death, but I’m so paranoid after that incident.
Okies trying desparately to keep STEVE SMITH in Cascadia:
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/oklahoma-rep-bill-bigfoot-hunting-season
Fake News. Those are not pics of OK.
Shooting STEVE SMITH isn’t considered self defense?
NO! WHYCOME U SAY THAT?
STEVE SMITH GO TELL BAD OKIE MAN HIM NOT NICE. BY TELL, MEAN…
It’s like Mongo from Blazing Saddles: it will only make him angry
Where surf music and bigfoot come together…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTDpFLuux3o
Looks like STEVE SMITH has a more varied set of interests than we knew.
LUMBERJACK WENT CHOPPIN’
CHOPPIN’ ON STEVE SMITH TREE
AIN’T NO MORE LUMBERJACK
JUST A FOOTPRINT BY THE TREE
Keto!
https://twitter.com/BOConnell53090/status/1352234335106002947
I think i’ve found the most Blue pilled person around.
Yes, Brennan is explicitly calling on investigating libertarians as domestic threats, but really it’s Trumps fault because he said he was libertarian.
For libertarians who are applauding that the Biden administration will “fIgHt FaSciSm”,
Has anyone spotted such “libertarians” anywhere?
Niskansen Center. I think Spike knows a little what he’s talking about, since he was the VP candiate for the LP this last go around.
I thought they explicitly renounced the label of libertarian?
They’ll be wholly on board with a purge.
What is the actual point of Niskansen? Which donor is paying them to fluff his personal political kinks?
Yep. I thought they disbanded too, but apparently not.
We aren’t lumped in because Trump as the followup comment says, we’re lumped in because we gate government and the deep state. You voted for JJ? They don’t give a fuck.
Brennan is such a fucking lying POS dirtbag.
The simple fact that anyone gives that treasonous pathological liar any airtime pisses me off.
You left out “commie”.
If the insurrectionists used their gallows for him it would have been justified.
Lol any time someoe replies with “libertarians were always going to be targets,” he responds “but Trump made it worse.”
OFFS
If it’s not clear, the government is targeting Trump supporters in general. “Libertarian” is merely a useful epithet to them that they can use to scare middle-aged white women with.
They’re preparing to cross a line that cannot be uncrossed.
And whether or not you voted for Trump isn’t going to matter one fucking bit in their efforts to purge wrongthink.
I hope the writers at Reason are shitting their panties. This is what they wanted.
They won’t mention it. As long as the cocktail party invites keep coming, it’s all good.
Obligatory second.
And then, while they sat helplessly around the campfire … a demented knife-wielding escaped lunatic libertarian zombie mutant snuck up and
Murdered our democracy?
““libertarians were always going to be targets,” he responds “but Trump made it worse.”
These wreckers and kulaks have ruined all true socialists criticism of the Party. That’s why I’m about to be shot in the back of the head. Comrade Stalin doesn’t want it to be this way.
Idea for video conferencing apps: a “walkie-talkie” button that would allow you to speak to someone privately. It would mute your video and audio to the whole group, and the whole group’s audio into your device, except the person you’re walkie-talkie-ing.
I could see that going horribly wrong.
+1 Toobin Moans
In Zoom, you can “chat” (type) privately to a single participant. Like passing notes in class. Not that I ever did that. ; )
I mean visually and verbally – not in text chat.
At my company, a group of us use cell phone texting as a side channel for an unending snark side channel to all of our meetings.
We use Slack for in-meeting snark. But I’m talking visual and verbal.
There’s also Breakout rooms, that allow you to set people into different rooms to discuss other items.
I’d like to just push a button, the other person hits “Accept” and off we go. I’m not gonna ask a host in the middle of a meeting or happy hour “hey – could you set up a breakout for me & [name of guy I want to flirt with]?”
Depending on how the host configures it, regular members can set up their own breakout rooms as well. You could also always request the feature through a request… it could be quite entertaining watching some of the people who can’t even figure out standard phones try to use it.
If a video conferencing app had that capability, I would disable it.
I effing hate side conversations during meetings.
I’m not necessarily talking about work meetings
Got it. Carry on.
It looks like Dale played upside down like Albert King. Maybe that’s been covered above, but I just want to say that posture and attack is where a lot of tone comes from.
Here at the Hi-Tone, there’s an album cover or some such on the wall that Dale signed. It’s an SRO sort of club, so theft would be easy to conceal, but it’s survived for years including at least one move.
He was a lefty, so he played upside-down, but did not re-string a la Hendrix. DD played it fully upside-down
He was playing a left-handed guitar strung like a right-handed guitar. So still playing upside-down with a guitar right-side-up.
Finally an excuse to link to Funky Western Civilization (Dick Dale on guitar).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46EsZR8b7x8
So there are 5 seasons to the Expanse out. 5!
2 days ago I thought there were three and that I was all caught up. Now I can binge good and proper.
I still haven’t finished the first episode of the first season, lol. One day I will!
There were only 3. Then Amazon got involved.
Oh shit, that means after I watch the first 3 seasons, all the other seasons will wind up at one of my neighbors house!
The Birchmere! Fantastic venue!
Thanks for this fun post, Kristen.
I sure do miss it, despite the shitty food. Only ever saw Dick play there.
I’m going to miss a bunch of the local venues if the shutdowns continue. Hell, some of the ones from my earlier days have already closed (or moved to new, less awesome locations).
I love Dick Dale. Coolest post of 2021. Nice once, KK.
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Years ago, I saw this local band at several live shows:
https://www.discogs.com/Orange-Astronauts-One-Orange-Beat/release/14949648
Dick Dale was the guitarist’s hero. He’d break at least two or three strings a performance making that guitar sing Dick Dale style. Fond memories.
The test batch of fruitcake cookies is in the oven. We’ll see how they turn out.
The rum is strong, but vaporous, so it may evaporate some more as it cools.
I missed the original post, but adding cloves would probably also be a good idea for next time.
I donno, I only have two jars of clove.
Oh, I love the silpat already. The cookies came off effortlessly.
Updating management bios on our web site at a furious pace. I asked one guy what the order of bios should be on a particular page between a Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant to the Administrator, and he said “they should be ordered by rank”
How the fuck do I know who outranks who in that word salad?
Easy. Make them both subordinate to the guy you asked, and when they come screaming about it, tell them that’s what he said to do.
LOL
Consult the Newspeak Dictionary….1th Edition if you please.
Lol,
When I took my DHS first responder training, there was an entire multi-hour section dedicated to ranks.
This brings up memories of struggling/whipping out FEMA correspondence courses on ICS and everything else.
Tell him to give you the org chart. Or if you’re on Outlook follow the chain of command up to the Big Guy and see which one is closer.
Make sure you give the Big Guy his 10%
Thanks KK! Need something wholesome this morning. Noticed there was moisture on the inside of the wife’s car when I took the dog out. Figured it was just condensation but decided to check further. Back seat footwell was soaking wet. Five hours later…looks like the sunroof drains got plugged and overflowed. They’re clear now, hopefully that was just it. Now mopping up and drying out the floor pan and carpeting.
OOf. Sorry to hear that Gustave
If you like LOTR, here’s a pick me up for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhmqtoUxqZg
Yikes!!!
BTW, both Sam Bolle & Dusty Watson are/were in the band Agent Orange. Was expecting someone to pick up on that!
* Hangs head in shame *
I do love me some Agent Orange. That’s how I know about Dick Dale.
Y’all watch out for the nighttime post tonight!
Some good music here. Thanks!