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First on the first midnight article.
Watching 1984. There’s a scene where O’Brien says the Resistance isn’t an organization. It’s an idea.
I always thought it would be possible to have a future that was like a combo of 1984 and Brave New World. Unfortunately we are hitting way too close to that mark.
Attica! Attica! Attica!
https://twitter.com/repthomasmassie/status/1349786803147075586?s=21
Ok, did he meet his future wife at prom, or is that a wedding photo and he just looked 15 at the time? I guess the second, because no way does he look 50 now.
That’s gotta be prom or some other high school dance. Even in the ’80s I don’t think that would qualify as a wedding dress.
It looks like he is posing with his mother. That’s not a shot at his wife. She looks young. He looks prepubescent.
Pic is from ’89. Still baby-faced but fatter.
Love you guys, and the nitpicky QA engineer in me has two notes: 1) the copyright notice in the footer should be updated to reflect 2021, and 2) the /donate page oughtta be easily linked somewhere in the header or the footer. I had to think to give you guys money.
I’ll get to all that in my spare time for this strictly volunteer gig.
I did say that it was nitpicky.
I AM LAZARUS COME FROM THE DEAD, COME BACK TO TELL YOU ALL, I SHALL TELL YOU ALL
if one, settling upon her pillow, should say: That is not it, at all. That is not what I meant, at all.
It all gets so broken up in my head, it gets so broken up, I forget all the lovely patter
I’m singularly single. I’m singularly single. I’m single because I can’t be otherwise. I’m obviously single.
Don’t kill me yet, let me find you a decent prodcution of Tom Stppard’s Arcadia…… it’s the saddest thing I know.
At least somebody resopond
I love Arcadia because it’s desperately sad.
UOK? Must be good scotch indeed.
Is any of your scotch left?
Irish whiskey is better than scotch.
Uische beatha
Water of life
I am Lazarus, back from the
nah, I’m awake again
Fucking cat vomited on the floor again…
Nobody tell the owner, but I’m putting this thing out for good. He can live with the chud Trump voters.
“Well, whaddaya think? This ought to be the right kind of place for a tough guy like you. Garbage cans, rats galore. I said take off! Beat it!”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054698/mediaviewer/rm972734209/
I must have missed something about that movie, because Hepburn annoyed me so much.
¡Heresy!!!11!!
(Nah, ‘s OK: she was wrong for the part.)
She’s a beautiful temptress, but the character annoyed me to the point of being fearful. She seemed like the sort who’d claim rape just to see a guy trussed up. I didn’t read the book and maybe didn’t watch the movie too closely, but I really hated her character.
Hey CS: read the novella. It’s darker than the movie but still a brief breezy read. TC envisaged Marilyn in the character but she would have been too old even when the novel was published.
PPS. It’s set during the war, and she’s a rather amoral blonde teenage hillbilly, and Paul is more plainly gay. IDK, you might not like the book either. Easy and often funny IMO though.
WELL THANKS FOR THE SPOILERS
I ordered a copy off Amazon.
Actually I pulled up the text on html.
Man, that scenario from Seinfeld would have been so much easier if George had just used his phone to pull up the Breakfast at Tiffany’s book dot html.
KS: Temporary avatar is a rubbing I made from a water mains cover in Dublin.
Sweet! I like it. Do you have family there? I’m really looking forward to getting back there within the next few years to visit mine. Where have you been around to?
Only really Leinster, some time ago (pre-euro); no family there in probably two centuries.
Whoa.
All is fun and games.
I liked him in The Swamp too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9151685/Lankford-apologizes-black-voters-trying-overturn-election.html
Dude stepped in a pile, and is now apologizing for tracking shit all over the living room floor.
Yup. This vote is biting a bunch of them in the ass.
That was great SP. I knew that Massie was a good egg, but he has risen in my estimation. Love the farm they made.
Great video, SP! Thanks for sharing it.
I’ve seen some of his Youtube vids on making his home battery storage using salvage from wrecked Tesla’s.
I have an odd windowless 10×10 room off the garage that I am eyeballing as an energy storage and power conversion room…
Or orphan dungeon. Tomato, tomahto.
Orphan dungeon:eh? I would have to seal the odd little wooden door/ window that opens up underneath the house.
There’s another, bigger of those access doors off the garage that opens up under the house. I like it because I can see how the house is built directly onto the granite boulders of the hill. There are also support posts that have a midstructure that I assume is to allow a little flex in an earthquake.
I’m not in Kansas anymore.
This is making me root for antifa. Just burn it to the ground already. Then salt the earth.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/01/portland-to-lobby-feds-on-reparations-for-black-indigenous-communities.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
Tis will be amusing to watch. I’m curious about the logistics of pricing which darker skinned people are , as the pro-reparations state is their intent, descendants of enslaved people and which ones aren’t.
So if a guy whose parents come from Nigeria in the 50s asks for reparations, do you think any libdem would turn him down?
What about the descendants of African people who were owned by members of the “5 Civilized Tribes”? Plenty of Cherokees owned plantations and slaves prior to the Trail of Tears.
Why do I get the feeling that no matter what the details of who owes whom what, if at all, that Whitey will be doing all the paying?
From the 50’s? Somali refugees from the past 20 years will get a payoff.
I could probably find a price I’d be willing to pay to shit these racist whiners up about their continued suffering from the “legacy of slavery” but I won’t write that check because I know those jigaboos will never shut up, nor will their pimp daddies like Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Sheila Jackson Lee, etc.
Thought experiment:
Sharpton and Jackson claim to be on a noble mission saving blacks.
Fauci claims to be on a noble mission saving everybody.
In both cases, will the “helpers” be unimportant and unemployed if their stated missions were ever achieved?
Next obvious question: what are their incentives for neutralizing the threat or removing the oppression?
“‘Shut up,’ he explained.”
You’re an Oklahoman; you know about tribal license plates. (Do they really date only to the late ’90s? Huh.)
“Portland’s annual federal policy agenda”
offs
How about this, commies? You take out a 20 dollar bill – it’s got Jackson on it, so you probably want to get rid of it anyway – and hand it to the next black person you see. Ta – da, now you feel virtuous, and some random Kenyan immigrant just got 20 bucks!
I am about to embark on what for me is a new culinary adventure: making sourdough starter from the wild yeast in the local atmosphere.
I could’ve bought some shipped from San Francisco, but I want to taste what San Diego North County sourdough has to offer.
Also, I’m using “heritage wheat”, a pre 1950s variety that some folks say is easier to digest, even for gluten sensitive people. For the water, I’m thinking the local tap water, which is from a well (treated). It’s what I drink and cook with every day.
I plan to take lots of pictures, so in the end if it turns out nicely I can write it up.
I figure if I can maintain the family’s Amish Friendship Cake culture, I should be able to keep this sourdough thang alive too.
Good Luck! Sourdough isn’t magic. You will be fine. I was making it long before 2020 and when that hit I became a bread hipster. Anyway, oldest kid got diagnosed with straight up Celiacs in August soooo haven’t made any since. (plus not keto so I SHOULDNT be making it anyway)
Pro Tip: If you have a Crusette dutch oven with lid, use that to bake it in for a tough chewy crust (lid off after 20 minutes), be sure to put rock salt on the outside for extra awesome.
Thanks for the cruissette baking tip!
I love the smell of baking bread…Now that I’m low sodium girl, I like to bake mine just a bit less salty, so I won’t be trying the rock salt crust though.
I other news, my hubby ordered a Walter Williams book and left it on my home office desk to surprise me.
Yay! Weekend reading. 🙂
What is up with Bill Fates lately? We didn’t hear a peep from him after he retired from actively running Microsoft, aside from the occasional Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation providing computers to needy kids around the world.
But in the past few years, Microsoft has been looking to expand and merge with entertainment media, then Covid came and he really started flexing his influence, the way he talks about disease and the environment and his plans for controlling them are truly alarming.
Now he’s bought up a helluvalot of US farmland.
What the fuck is he up to now?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9152789/Bill-Gates-biggest-owner-FARMLAND-buying-242-000-acres.html
I miss the days of when I played hockey hearing my name called when I scored or part of the scoring.
I expect that gets amplified at Gates level of not being in the limelight…even for an introvert like me.
It’s worse, a combination of there’s a ton of money to be made and he believes in what he’s doing whatever the hell that is. The farmland stuff is strange.
You can’t make more land.
It’s an investment.
Gates is signaling that the stock market is over valued in the long term
^Probably this, Occam’s Razor and all…
I’ve apologized for my Ben Shapiro joke. If the intent of the backlash was to make me feel bad and shameful, mission accomplished! Maybe I’ll just start using “/s” at the end of of every other comment. I need you folks more than you need me and if I’m no longer welcome I can live with that. It will hurt, though. A lot.
Hey F!
I saw all that in retrospect only. I would never take you for an anti-semite. Unsure what else to say…
Meh, it was just a not so great joke followed by a bunch of overreactions.
It was a throwaway quip but I forgot the sarcasm sign. It’s all I could think about at work last night. I get that Swiss White Knights but really, I meant no harm. Jesus Christ. I’ve been here since the site was born.
We all know you Canucks are hopeless. You poor benighted creatures. 😉
I just never thought that cancel culture would come for me here, in my one safe space. The whole world’s gone mad.
I see your words, so you haven’t been. But you know the founders’ orientation.
Least said, soonest mended, I imagine.
I’m trying for “Better Said”.
Sounds as if you’re overworked lately.
Also white nights
Say Poo, Say pee
Rough day at the salt mine?
I’ve Zoomed with Swiss and a good portion of you. I needn’t have to defend myself over a stupid joke. If I was a virulent racist it would have bubbled to the top by now. I shouldn’t care what strangers say about me but when it comes the Glibs, I do.
Wait, is this a bit?
Dead serious.
We kicked John out for being an obnoxious twit (“we” yeah) but Festus is catching shit for a misunderstood post? He has to go on joke parole for it?
I don’t know if I meant an and there, or but, or rather, but
Festus, I’m sorry, I’m not the greatest attorney.
Don’t apologize, don’t admit any wrongdoing, we’ll get you through this
hashtag free Festus hashtag innocence hashtag linwoodsucks hashtag gofuckyourself
Tensions are high. I get it. The snowball-effect was pretty enlightening. Hell, I didn’t even get a chance to defend myself because I’d already left the site and went to bed. I get up this afternoon and find a cat butt. No time to explain, just a cat hanging from a tree and a bunch of “Tut, tuts”. Cancel culture must be catching.
What we really need is Swiss here to explain why he wrongly assumed my client is wrongun. And then I indict Swiss. I think that’s how this works.
The unibrow avatar laying on a bed of guns guy? Recall that what he was banned for was blatant and unambiguous.
That was …memorable.
“Oh, you remember the awful things they said about what’s-her-name before she jumped out the window? There. You see? I can’t even remember her name so who cares?”
(Sorry: only Ted would recognize this.)
I think I’m getting the names mixed up, the unibrow avatar guy was banned for, um, inelegant criticism of Jussie Smollette if I recall correctly.
I don’t recall, I thought he was banned for being obnoxious and a twit. I don’t recall blatency or unambiguity. I feel like you’re dredging up these words merely to soil my client. Nobody brought up this villainous John until you mentioned him.
Naw, I think I do vaguely remember something egregiously icky.
Only Ted will remember my quote, that is.
“Remove the Stone of Shame! Attach the Stone of Triumph!”
Pretty much.
Aw, hugs, as much as J will allow.
I didn’t take you seriously. FWIW.
Mornin.
Thanks, Friend!
Ni moi nonplus.
Merci beaucoup.
I’ve gone over the line. Your clarification is fine by me.
Also Thanks. I can’t believe that this is happening here.
I have to go into NJ today. ?
Remember to take all your guns with you and drive in excess of the speed limit to attract attention.
#lifeprotips
I get my day off today. Everybody better stand at arms length for the next 24 hours.
You got the Rona?
That’s a two-arms length problem.
Nope. That’s leave me the fuck alone for a day thank you very fucking much day. The happiest day of the week!
If you need a quality attorney for representation I am, in fact, occupied.
I always represent myself in legal proceedings using Yahoo searches for reference. It’s cost efficient and effective.
#lifeprotips
Listen prick if you give away any more of my secrets you and me we’ll have problems
Would you like to buy some punctuation?
I apostrophed, I didn’t mean well at all
Wife is angry so I don’t wanna go home. Options?
My schedule is open, my last client was cleared of all wronguns, you, however, are in the deep. How keen are you on these supposed children, and are you sure they’re yours? They look awfully Chinese to me.
I feel like these things land, but maybe I’m wrong. It’d be super helpful if you’d say whether or not? I go on stage in a couple minutes and it’d be great feedback
Leave her with her parents?
I don’t have a Twitter account. There were some people who I had opened tabs on their Twitter pages in my kindle. There’s a bunch of them that have been suspended. None of them were offensive. Twitter cancelling conservatives is very real.