OK, I admit that I’ve fallen into a rut. I see the super-clean work of others who get right to the news, then look at what I do. I tell little stories, drop a funny picture in, do birthdays, and only then get to the news. It’s like I have a pattern of stalling. I eventually get there, but still, I seem to take my time doing it. Ahhh…. time….
Birthdays provide a cove for time’s flow as flicks of consciousness ignite and (in the case of these people) influence the div, curl, and grad of the current. Those influences include the first paparazzo; the progenitor of a scientific dynasty; a fascinating polymath; the white George Washington Carver; a guy who was quite a square; a guy who was something of an exhibitionist; the original and creepiest Ronald McDonald; one of the true greats of American music; my inspiration as a chemist; and a woman who used to regularly send me to my bunk.
Now the long-awaited news.
Back off, man, this is MY grift!
That’s the fucking POINT, you piece of shit.
Kids taught free market economics in class, Karen is enraged.
She has learned the PR lesson well. Props.
Old Guy Music today was inspired by C. Anacreon’s post this week. “Cruelty” is one of my all-time favorite albums, and this was a song from it that I liked enough to learn to play. Knew the lyrics cold. But until I read CA’s post, I had no idea that the first two lines were a reference to a Springsteen song. Still, a delightfully bittersweet piece with an ambiguous ending.
“He has been unmotivated and now only talks about wanting to leave NYC.”
He obviously learned something.
From the end of the previous thread:
DON’T TELL ME I’M STILL ON THIS FECKING ISLAND
That elicited a hearty guffaw.
Yes, Father Jack. You’re still on that fecking island, with all those fecking eejits.
Reposting from last night for a wider audience. The only good thing left from TOS. What Should Have Happened At The Gamestop Hearing
OMG! 5:07. DeefpFuckingValue for president!
Kids taught free market economics in class, Karen is enraged.
I’m on Karen’s side here.
Just the wrong rap for econ class.
I knew it!
I can’t view videos where I’m at, I can only hope it’s “Fuck Bitches, Get Money!”
Classic.
I approve.
I think the econ aspect of the song is great. But, on the flip side, it is going to fuck over a bunch of kids who will now think it is OK to say nigga, get filmed, and totally fuck their chances in life because some little asshole is going to hide that film for a dozen years.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/andrew-cuomos-accusers-women-whove-made-sexual-harassment-claims-against-ny-governor
Reading through that, over a 20+ year career, there are some definitely creepy moments, but are they over the top? I REALLY don’t want to defend the guy, he should be fired for killing peoples grand parents and probably even thrown in jail, but… this? This is what is going to be his downfall?
They got Capone on tax evasion.
Meh. He proudly signed some legislation making all sorts of new stuff sexual harassment, so hoist away, petards!
I didn’t know that. This then seems fitting.
He should have been hauled off to jail years ago for corruption but being the principle representative of the machine means you get a bunch of flunkies to do your jail time for you.
So, I really don’t give a crap if this is what it takes to bring him down.
But I get your point.
The allegations are remarkably weak. The reporter’s whining gets rolled in to “sexual harassment/assault” even though she’s only said he/his staff were mean to her, as near as I can tell.
I think this is a distraction/coverup for his terrible governance.
I am really starting to believe the theory that they are doing this to cover up the nursing home deaths.
That, and when there is blood in the water, the grifters start to circle.
They’ve got to, or others like the spunky up and cummer Whitmer is going to get her day in the spotlight as well.
That and more people will start to agitate for a functioning gov’t or something.
Maybe vote for the wrong guy.
We’ve seen this movie before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBl8GG1e-8o
whaddup fam ?
and a woman who used to regularly send me to my bunk.
Pardon me, do you have any Grey Prepon?
I did not know she is a Scientologist.
I’m told that has a lot more to do with money than actual religion.
It’s basically a Hollywood hook-up club* at this point. Notice the guy from that show that she dated is one too.
*No joke. Hollywood is their main target for new recruits.
I saw a Rogan episode once with a guy who escaped their de facto enslavement after a few decades. He claimed that recruitment is hurting in recent years because people can now easily Google the reality of the organization before they join. The celebrity participants, otoh, get treated approximately like Egyptian pharaohs.
The celebs live well and they victimize the normals who get suckered in. As you say, it’s getting harder to find those suckers now when people can just google Zenu and they know to stay the hell away before the “church” can get their claws in.
It’s no coincidence their monthly magazine is called “Celebrity”. They continued to mail that shit to the previous occupant at an old residence for years and my roommate and I would laugh at the contents and play silly games like leaving it on each other’s bed when it arrived.
This is true. They have numerous buildings in Hollywood and a crew of recruiters trolling Hollywood BLVD.
Meh. To me, religion is just faith… monetized.
She’s a hardcore Scientologist
a fascinating polymath;
His father had a pretty broad range of interests, too.
OM, your links are perfect as they are. You have a style, not a rut. Your lynx are perfect for slow weekend mornings. I admit that I do often go down the rabbit hole, as it were, with your birthdays and do enjoy the fact that the people are referenced indirectly and cleverly. Also, songs about D-cup girls for the win.
+1, OMWC is a solid linker!
You have a style
SP puts it in a slightly different way…
Usually I don’t get to the comments til Beer Reviews or Horoscopes are posted because I get stuck on the birthdays and the rabbit holes into which they lead.
Mostly a lurker but I vote “if it ain’t broke…”
I get up early on week-ends too, so much appreciated OM.
Yeah, I am not usually here in time for the AM comments, although I am up early enough. But OMWC’s are damn good. Even if we have different tastes in music.
Cold Blood!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9m6IuRuIHk
A least 100 people gathered in front of the Idaho state capitol on Saturday to burn masks, in a protest against measures to limit infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
They just love the feel of that boot on their necks at the Guardian. Makes ’em all tingly deep down inside.
They think they’re the ones putting the boot on everybody else’s necks.
Relevant
They pretend to give a damn about children participating in a political gesture when it has to do with asserting freedom.
If the kids were doing an Earth Day thing, we’d all be told we could learn a lot form these innocents.
But since all they want is to get the boot off their neck, that means the poor moppets are just pawns.
So true.
+1 Fweedom!
I hate this level of stress where I go from task to task without actually getting anything done on any of them. “I need to do this. I should be doing that. I should be doing that…”
“task to task without actually getting anything done on any of them.”
*Insert joke about goverment*
?
Seriously, sorry it stresses you out.
This doesn’t even have anything to do with work.
My brain just automatically associates the word “task” with employment related duties.
Amid reaction on social media, the political scientist Ian Bremmer said: “Ritualized mask burning in Boise wins this week’s award for acts of symbolic stupidity.”
The pious outrage of the bootlickers. So pathetic.
As long as they’re not trying to burn his mask what does he care?
There is no such thing as a political scientist.
Sure there is! Think of how many scientists have gone political. Of course, they’ve also stopped being scientific.
Pound the wedge in deeper
President Joe Biden is on the cusp of a major legislative victory. If all goes according to plan and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is signed into law, Biden will have scored an early triumph in his presidency. The Covid-19 relief bill will provide a wide range of benefits, from direct payments to American families, money for vaccine development and distribution, small business relief, more substantial subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, a child tax credit, a higher Earned Income Tax Credit, federal funds for state and local governments and much more.
Given the scale and scope of this measure, it is an accomplishment that will cement Biden’s historic role in overseeing the country’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite last minute concessions to appease moderate Democrats on Friday night, as journalist Ezra Klein tweeted, “This still looks like the most ambitious and progressive economic package Congress has passed in my lifetime. It will do more to cut poverty, and push full employment, than anything else I’ve covered.”
So far, it looks like Biden has learned some important lessons on how to deal with the modern Republican Party. After Biden watched congressional Republicans obstruct the agenda of his former boss, Barack Obama, he saw Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, whose presidency was capped off with a violent insurrection against Congress, expose the radicalization of the GOP.
While Biden has repeatedly touted the importance of unity and bipartisan cooperation, he has not granted Republicans much time to play their “Lucy and Charlie Brown” football game. The President is focusing on issues that command strong Democratic support and building pressure for their passage. He appears to understand that in many cases, turning to Republican interests would only stymie his efforts to pass bold legislation and leave his own party frustrated.
Unity and healing? Fuck that.
Divide and conquer.
Hey CNN, put in a comments section. Let’s see how bad the ratio gets for you, evil wimps. Sickening.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the steaming pile of horseshit.
Pretty sure we had as full employment as possible before the fortifying scheme went into effect. Hard to imagine this pork fest even helping at all, much less topping that. Especially sad when it’s so clear that they can just stop all the mandatory cowering orders and everything will be fine(ish).
That’s what bother me the most about the $1.9T this is going to be their on going ‘new’ solution. They get to pick the winners and losers. They’d rather rule a hellscape than be disgruntled in a heavenly paradise.
Intentions are outcomes, says the party of science. If they’d only been allowed to pass their minimum wage law too they would have got exactly what they aimed at and nothing else.
You see, back when unemployment for minorities was at record lows and the economy was cruising along nicely, Ezra was busy covering mostly peaceful protests, the Jussie Smollett hate crime, and the horrifying news that Trump called white supremacists very fine people to cover something that insignificant.
I remember when the deficit was in billions and only the debt total was in trillions.
Now we have a single bill in the trillions.
I’m pretty sure we didn’t get that much more wealthy.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/07/974443597/biden-signals-support-for-voting-rights
“As Republicans in statehouses across the country introduce hundreds of bills raising barriers to vote, President Biden is issuing a new executive order signaling his administration’s commitment to expanding, not shrinking, voting access and rights.”
Voting rights and making sure that the democrat party isn’t caught committing voter fraud again are not the same thing. But, you do you NPR, oh wait, aren’t you government funded?
“In 2020, NPR released a budget for FY21 anticipating revenue of $250 million, a slight decrease from the prior year due to impacts of COVID-19. The budget anticipates $240 million in operating expenses, plus additional debt service and capital costs that lead to a cash deficit of approximately $4 million. The budget includes $25 million in budget cuts. If the impacts of COVID-19 worsen, more significant budget cuts are forecast”
Apparently they’re standing on their own 2 feet for now. $250 million in revenue? WTF did they get that?
The tax money goes to individual stations which means when they pay NPR dues or buy NPR programs with it, it’s no longer tax dollars. It’s totally private money.
The ‘quasi’ government entities out there need to be destroyed with prejudice. The revolving door from executive boards and high government appointments is a whole nother ball of bullshit we have to swallow every day.
Yes.
Twitter, Facebook, and Google need to be destroyed.
The voting bits should remove any doubt that those fuckers cheated their way to power.
My impression was that the main audience for NPR was liberal and moderate commuters. I would have thought that the last year would have been really bad for their audience count since most of them would be working from home. Are they mostly streaming it now in the background while they work from home?
I haven’t listened to NPR regularly ever, and every time I hear it, the tone of the announcers and the content just make me shut it off if I’m in control of the radio.
I absolutely love the NPR show Radiolab but I listen on podcast now.
If it’s the same crap they tried to shove into the ‘vid “relief bill” while nobody was looking, much of it is unconstitutional AF.
Briefly, elections are controlled by the states. Not Joe or Nancy.
That’s where this voting rights bullshit will get interesting. Let’s hope the SC sees it our way.
Yeah, covid has crushed the news business, LOL. Forcing people to stay home while we deal with an “unknown” virus has a way of keeping people from caring about the news, amirite?
How is it that NOR is full-on lefty pro-government, but PBS still puts on content that is neutral or even pro-libertarian, like all the “Free to Choose” Media funded content?
I think it really depends on the station. In southern Oregon/far NoCal there is Jefferson Public Radio, with is pretty libertarian, which is still to the left of the people who live in the area, but far-right when considered against the standard of NPR.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/boom-in-somaliland-a-miracle-on-the-horn-of-africa-a-c7fb91cc-4b0a-4561-977d-dd985cf48256-amp
Whereas Somalia is failing to get back on its feet despite billions in international aid, Somaliland is home to more-or-less functioning tax system along with a police force and an army.
Hard pass.
And that has left Somaliland largely cut off from international aid. What sounds like a curse, though, has actually appears to be a blessing. In a book they wrote on Somalia, German journalists Marc Engelhardt and Bettine Rühl write that international aid has actually helped to fuel the violence rather than bringing about an end to the conflict. Indeed, they write, aid goods have become one of the most important resources being fought over.
Again and again, governments fuck things up, and (with somewhat less certainty) places that were former British colonies fare better than places that were colonized by Latin races (Somalia:Italy::Somaliland:Britain) and their particular approach to legal systems.
President Biden is issuing a new executive order signaling his administration’s commitment to expanding, not shrinking, voting access and rights.
Text your favorite candidate to #MYPREZ now! Let your voice be heard.
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https://apnews.com/article/health-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-carnivals-switzerland-131b4130766ad37fa5faa27d096c8b09
It’s a strange world out there.
I’m instinctively against Antifa committing anonymous public terrorist acts, coerced wearing of surgical masks AND government bans so I’m not sure where to go on this one.
What happens when someone points out the the Covid masks are worn for religious purposes too?
THAT’S DIFFERENT!
I think a government ban is the worst of the lot but it should be noted that there is a “health” exception in this proposal so it won’t do anything to address mandatory face diapers.
Cy just mentioned voter fraud. Someone shared some recent Steven Crowder episodes with me where he visits addresses on Nevada voter rolls. None of them exist. (https://youtu.be/iNGf7XYtU2Q) Starts around 22:00 minutes in. He ended up doing several hours on this which I haven’t seen all of, but at some point Crowder mentions that one of the names voting from a fake address was a lady from a Project Veritas video who worked for the Clintons and has since disappeared.
I watched most of those. For a while there I made the mistake often made by human beings, I had hope.
Eventually I had to shut all of that stuff off. I think it was when the judges started throwing everything out. There are literally thousands of affidavits. That’s not nearly as enraging as the blatant video evidence of “curing ballots”, covering windows, and people walking in with tens of thousands of ballots after everyone else had been sent home.
The numbers side of things was pretty infuriating too. Whole wards at over %120 voter participation. The early morning ‘bumps’ for Biden. The massive anomalies in incoming data, always slanting for Biden. The media burying with prejudice, the Corruption for Dummies stories in China and Ukraine,
I need to go back to shopping for fishing poles and boats. My blood is starting to boil again.
Yeah, fuck it. I just thought it was interesting counterpoint to the propaganda. Let’s enjoy life. I need to go fishing soon. Drive down to the coast last week for work and it was shockingly beautiful. Been too long!
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to all the rest of you knaves, miscreants and shysters!
I’m aroused.
I wholeheartedly support the burning of masks. Good on you, Idahoans.
*sad trombone*
Nice Old Guy Music this morning. I like that album – I believe you shared them before. A Mandoline Orange show was up next. Looking at all those happy, unmasked faces in the crowd makes me a little wistful.
Oh well. Another gorgeous day here in the PRMN. Mostly sunny and 60 today!
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!
Better than a Clockwork Orange show, at least if you’re on the receiving end.
While Biden, who understands the nature of the modern Republican Party, appears intent on moving forward by relying on the support of his own party, he still faces very serious challenges. Keeping Democrats together is not easy when moderates like Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema command immense power.
Fucking “moderates” are nothing but traitors to the cause. They’ll get what they deserve, once the dictatorship of the proletariat has been established.
“stirring poem… national sensation…”
It’s really weird reading the NYT sometimes. Like “liberals in the mist” weird. A strange and frightening universe I can’t pretend to understand.
Well, we all know that blacks are terribly under-represented in entertainment fields like music, acting, comedy, and sports, so it’s necessary to give them a PR boost to help out.
Definitely. They’re nowhere near their government mandated %13 representation.
White trash president Kennedy had a poet at his inauguration, and the Kennedy-obsessed Boomers have gone ga-ga over poets at inaugurations ever since.
“Liberals in the mist”
Hearty guffaw from me.
Walking around the streets of Ellicottville, NY last evening, I was pleased to see many unmasked faces on the sidewalks (in the shops I visited it was 100% masked still). The ratio was about 9:1 masked:unmasked but at least there were the 10% who looked happy. I witnessed no mask shaming.
Babylon Bee has been on a roll lately. For starters: “Progressive Surprised To Learn He Can Still Wear Mask Even Without Government Forcing Him To”
As long as they’re not trying to burn his mask what does he care?
Any deviation from the teachings of the Mandarins of the state is heresy. It’s treason.
“You got to get yore mind right, son.”
I’ve been treated with suspicion by shopkeepers on a few occasions despite having the almighty protection of “white” skin. It’s really unfortunate that we propagandize some blacks to really dwell on those types of incidents and let it affect their lives and view of their place in society. It can’t be fun to see yourself as a particular victim of the system all the time.
*Referring to the well dressed female poet who had her first run in with an asshole security guard.
The amount of people who give a shit what some rando thinks of them is staggering. It amazing how many people I can dismiss out of my world view of myself by saying “fuck that guy, he’s a piece of shit!”
Maybe I need to carry a camera with me at all times to record it and show the world how horrible my life is. I’m like %3 black… and I accidently started into a gay porn once. So, I’m like borderline Jewish death camp victim level.
This demands further explanation.
The Serbian Film
See: Gibson’s Bakery
Crazy, a few sentences in their website goes “if this is about the lawsuit…”
One of my few hats is a Gibson’s hat. I bought it to help support them during the suit. It lasted longer than the baked goods.
I have a t-shirt from them
When I was young, the cops hit me with flashlights, arrested me for nothing, lied in court to convict me, stole my shit, chased me around to do it all again, and they did it regularly for about 10 years. They ruined my life on a short term basis, probably 5 times. I have spent months in jail because of my appearance. Fuck this entitled bitch and her whining.
So as we roll into warmer weather, will we see riots this spring and summer or we we all have sufficiently come together over Biden to see a new age of peace and unity?
Riots.
I expect er the Chauvin trial regardless of the outcome, unless he is dragged out of the courtroom and executed on the courthouse steps.
Are you kidding? The fucking Chauvin trial starts this week. I expect my city to be on fire within days.
On the upside it could use the warmth.
Minnesota warm… And friendly!
Ozzy Man Reviews: Goats!
Will he review goatse?
Hmmm, what’s that? Dear god, nooooo!!!
Your class, as always, never ceases to amaze me.
Party on, children
The University of Colorado sent this statement to FOX31:
We are aware of a large party on University Hill on Saturday evening and allegations of violence toward police officers responding to the scene. We condemn this conduct. It is unacceptable and irresponsible, particularly in light of the volume of training, communication and enforcement the campus and city have dedicated to ensuring compliance with COVID-19 public health orders. CU Boulder will not tolerate any of our students engaging in acts of violence or damaging property.
CU Boulder has made it clear to our student body that following county public health orders is required under the student code of conduct.
Sounds like the natives are getting restless. Uppity, even.
Maybe there’s hope.
They should call it a Black Lives Matter party.
It’s UC Boulder – it they ALL are BLM parties.
“University of Colorado”
locus parentis is bullshit; if the state can’t get out of the education business, it should at least learn to fuck off in affairs that are none of its business
I went to school under the double jeopardy of dueling jurisdictions: it’s tyranny. All these years later, on a related subject, after hundreds of speech and behavior codes have been struck down at public universities, my own University of Tennessee is still burning through my tax dollars to defend their terrorizing a woman because they do not favor her social media presence. Inane, spendthrift, incompetent, overweening, abusive, autocratic, and, of course, tiresome.
You gotta fight for your right…
But you can ignore those laws passed to protect property.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-vehicles-are-the-u-s-auto-industrys-futureif-dealers-can-figure-out-how-to-sell-them-11615113000
Car Salesman. That’s their fall guy? Car Salesman? Has anyone at the WSJ every actually met a Car Salesman?
I’m gonna guess they’ll never realize people don’t really want EVs.
So, how many trillions are going to get shovelled into the automakers as they make cars no one wants this time around?
I’ll consider an EV as soon as they can figure out a way to charge it as fast as you can fuel up a gas powered car.
Those fuckers are putting the Mustang label on one. Did they think we were just going to forget what they did to it in the 80’s and 90’s? I feel like Ford’s marketing team is a bunch of high school nerds in the gardening club.
Mustang related.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ugDVeqOIWI
Definately not EV related.
Also, boobies.
Please vote for my national road-installed induction charging
griftproject./Elon
I just drove up I-5 and saw the Tesla charging stations. They have like 25 or 30 slots. It takes an hour and a half to charge them. There’s people just standing there, in front of their cars. We went through the drive through right next to them. Behind us, some lady walked through the drive through while her car charged. It was pathetic. I had just pumped 350 miles worth of gasoline in about 3 minutes, LOL.
Fuck that noise, until they can address the charging issue EVs are going to be largely nonviable.
Working on safe Hydrogen combustion and an economical way to harvest said Hydrogen would be the best way if you were serious, IMO. EVs reliance on batteries instead of a chemical fuel will always be slower and need more heavy metals.
We’re six years past having a Mr. Fusion to power our flying cars.! I am disappoint.
Except, we had a Hydrogen combustion car already…
The real kick of hydrogen fuel cells is the cheapest/easiest extraction of hydrogen tends to come from, wait for it…petrochemical processes.
I’m not talking about fuel cells, combustion. Fuel cells are even worse. To create the reaction you need Platinum, yeah, that one was doomed from the start.
Hydrogen can be created via electrolysis of water, which could be done in sunbelt regions via ‘renewable’ energy, but then it also has to be super-cooled and delivered. A conundrum, but for a long term quick-fuel solution, seems it’d be an easier nut to crack given some lead time. Thinking we have more nickel and cadmium we can extract than fossil fuels without endangering the environment is a pipe dream.
EVs are fine as a vehicle you use around town and can charge every night in your garage. Taking one on a road trip seems….short sighted.
Lol. The market cares not for “industry enthusiasm”.
EV market is another isolated urban idea that doesn’t understand the needs of flyover country.
You say “doesn’t understand”. I say “DGAF about”.
Neither sounds profitable.
But I have been repeatedly told that consumers are so easily manipulated by advertising – they simply can’t resist it.
Projection by people who make their living off being Google’s bitch
The reality is electric cars are “performance cars”. The metrics are different than most performance cars by putting the emphasis on economy vs. the traditional metrics of speed/corning/looking good. And the issue with performance cars is they only typically account for 3-5% of sales.
What the hell happened last night? people hanging up, drunken Zoom, Girls, I cant remember shit….
I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last night. I was old enough in 1969 to remember what it was like and I felt they did a pretty good job representing it. The one point I have a question about: in 1969 the war in Vietnam was still on-going and on the news every evening but there wasn’t one even passing reference to it in this movie. That in itself could be taken as commentary but I think it should have been alluded to once or twice to get a better feel for the time.
A great movie, best I’ve seen in years. There are a couple of mentions of Vietnam playing over the radio when they’re riding around and whatnot.
I missed that. OK, then I rate it higher than I had at first viewing – and I thought it was pretty durn good at that point.
Probably a conscious decision to not stress Vietnam too much on Tarantino’s part.
Please help:
ace.mu.nu/archives/147229576_4412071342141585_2449793999420338212_n%20(1).jpg
fix the link and I might
So picky.
Bravo! thanks for the laugh Tundra, is it sunny over there?
It is! Spring is trying hard.
Reposting from the previous article:
Dumbest fucking thing you’ll read all week?
https://www.complex.com/life/top-who-official-covid-pandemic-has-led-to-more-mass-trauma-than-after-world-war-2
Got that? CommieCough has caused more emotional trauma and mental suffering than the biggest, bloodiest war in world history…
P.S. The majority of the “trauma” has been caused by government shut downs and media hysteria.
Given what pussies people are now, we may very well be reaching max trauma.
This wouldn’t really matter if these idiots would just go catatonic and leave the rest of us alone.
The only way that makes any sense is to say that COVID caused more “trauma” in 2020 than WWII caused in 2020.
Considering the number of people the leftists label as the enemies from WWII, I’d doubt even that.
“Job done.”
/MSM
Got that? CommieCough has caused more emotional trauma and mental suffering than the biggest, bloodiest war in world history…
In WWII, they at least acknowledged that the war would end some day.
Covid didn’t cause the “trauma”. The overreaction to Covid caused the “trauma”.
Those fuckers are putting the Mustang label on one. Did they think we were just going to forget what they did to it in the 80’s and 90’s? I feel like Ford’s marketing team is a bunch of high school nerds in the gardening club.
You don’t think turning the Mustang into a Pinto in drag worked? What are you, some kind of John Bircher?
Mustang induced giggles: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUmCSDJRmk
I think they started making Mustangs with 4 cylinders again too.
“But it’s got a turbo!”
Fuck off commie.
I just rented one. 310 hp. Not slow, but no hot-rod.
0-60 is 5.1, quarter mile is 13.7. Faster than a BMW 2, Audi TT, and the Challenger.
Of course the 1968 Mustang “hot rod” from back in the day did 0-60 in 13.2….
So, yeah. No hot rod.
I didn’t look up the specs, that’s pretty impressive. I had a stroked TBSS that got stolen last year and now I have a 300 hp Sky that weighs around 2900 lbs., so I might be a bit jaded.
https://www.boats.com/sailing-boats/1999-custom-alex-simonis-catamaran-7705216/
Who wants to go halvsies?
Which hull would I get, port or starboard?
And who gets the mast?
You can have the mast, but only if agreed upon freak flags are allowed to fly.
I’m in, badass boat, I can sail Cats,
Lol. The market cares not for “industry enthusiasm”.
“Stupid customers. What do they know?”
Bitcoin has a limit simply because the Fed is not going to allow a real competitor to the US dollar. There’s simply too much at stake.
Consider that we’re willing to bomb the Middle East into the Stone Age in order to preserve the petrodollar. What do you think the government is willing to do to Bitcoin?
The only thing that has kept them at bay so far is that Wall Street isn’t done making money off of it yet.
Kaddafi agreed to stop going after nukes and stop supporting Islamic terrorist groups after 9/11. All the ‘intelligence’ we had says he did both those things.
But then he decided to try to have a gold-backed currency which might have taken over from the petro dollar, and he didn’t last long after that.
Well, that was a disturbing dream I just woke up from. * shudders *
That was just life fucking with you KK, happens to me all the time,
Given the actual world you woke up to, compared to 18 months ago, I’m afraid to ask what kind of dream it was.
That wasn’t a dream that was last night’s zoom call.
I ask, what did I do on Zoom last night, hungover minds want to know…….
Don’t laugh. SP tends to do the all-night thing and come to bed around the time I’m getting up. So I get the full rundown on drunken antics.
Apparently, Nephilium won last night’s competition.
How many beads did he get in?
Lol!
cool, at least it wasn’t me, I should quit drinkin for a while, I got into several arguments, but don’t know who I argued with,
By a country mile.
Unless stumbling around the room when he tried to get out of his chair, landing on the desk, and falling asleep in fetal position on the floor can be topped.
Narrator: It wasn’t topped.
I’m going through my texts to see who it was and still can’t remember,
/90 minute Dogfish Head will bite you,
Were any TVs harmed in the process?
I mean, pissing oneself could give that a run for its money.
I feel like it’s a good thing I didn’t join last night, and chose to watch a replay of an old police chase in OKC instead
For sure. This was just last night’s winner.
He required 3rd party assistance to make it from the desk to the floor.
Poor Chai Girl LOL
An old police chase in OKC? Sounds delightfully random!
LOL – I enjoy police chases for some reason. The TX & OK po-po are eons more aggressive than the Los Angeles cops & CHP. It’s just that there aren’t as many chases out there.
Anyway, the one I reviewed last night was a 2-hour chase involving a pickup truck, a trailer, an armed Samaritan, barbed wire fencing, donuts in pastures, a water landing, a Facebook Live video, and a taserin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xUKT4JLhsU
Also, a drive-by of the police shooting range
(not a drive-by shooting, just the alleged perp choosing to turn down a dead end road where the police range was located)
That’s done fine police work, Lou.
Y’all are a bad influence. Somehow I managed to get drunk 3 times today.
And I wasn’t even there! You could have been drunk 5 times!
5x the hangover outta make Monday morning fun.
You never get hungover if you never sober up! #BeersForBreaksfast
Naked at work dream again? I hate those.
I wouldn’t mind a KK naked at work dream.
It involved me begging a man for emotional & sexual intimacy. For fuck’s sake. As it were.
begging? You? yeah, that’s a weird dream all right,
SO, you dreamed you were married?
Sick man, sick,
LMAO
“NYT columnist resigns from Aspen Institute after failing to tell readers he receives a second salary from the think tank on a project that was funded by Facebook – despite continuing to write about the tech giant”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9334363/NYT-columnist-resigns-Aspen-Institute-conflicts-involving-Facebook.html
CWAA
Seems like the Times would shitcan him for that, not his only sidegig either apparently .
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There was a discussion on Tom Woods this week about that issue. very few disclose conflicts of interest any more. And it’s particularly bad in DC.
Well, THEY don’t feel conflicted, so what’s the problem?
DC?
Sounds like Ottawa — due to the limitless incestuousness, anyone with a second gig is simply assumed to be in a conflict of interest.
All service for the same cause – so what conflict?
That’s what their job at the NYT is for!
Please help:
That reminds me of the old joke about
“My wife got pissed off and loaded all her stuff in my pickup truck and left me. I miss that truck.”
“The Plague, one year on.”
Fap fap fap.
TWO WEEKS!!!
Chuck Todd is desperately trying to keep fear alive.
“Vaccine EQUITY!”
Osterholm is on today.
I guess they like to rotate their quacks, to keep them fresh.
Re the fund manager who hates bitcoin link, “In this sense, bitcoin is the spearhead of a particularly extreme form of libertarian anarchism, which is presumably why it is so popular in Silicon Valley,” he said.
Dude clearly doesn’t follow the news. Silicon Valley is many things but libertarian is no longer among them.
The guy’s a submoron. Stay far away from that outfit.
Your comment got me to read the article. He’s really upset that mining bitcoin is increasing carbon emissions.
As if printing presses don’t?
Built like a beast: https://www.boats.com/sailing-boats/2011-custom-watercats-46-ph-6962879/
STOP! the boat porn is killing me!
/I have a private dock, hint hint,
How are you going to outrun the feds in a sailboat?
Good point. See: Mcafee!
Cy, find me a Sunfish in MI, Please
https://www.boats.com/sailing-boats/1985-pearson-303-sloop-7232109/
My wife has one sitting at her mom’s place on a trailer. It’s been sitting for 20 years but It looks in pretty good shape.
I just noticed the Rope burn scar from my Prindle Cat, ahh the good old days,
Note my Prindle behind me,
Lots of high risk people still out there. They’re all gonna die when the next surge comes.
People aren’t taking you seriously anymore?
You don’t say.
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/trending/see-inside-this-incredible-1940s-era-art-deco-home-that-just-hit-the-market/
Looks like a diner from a film noir.
The Keith Haring in the bathroom kind of throws off the vibe
Yeah, ‘s not right.
And — ahem — Streamline Moderne, not Deco.
Damn, Toxteth. You’re right about the Streamline Moderne.
Keith Haring’s not my style. But it is modern art, and I think it fits in the modern(e) space. I mean, we wouldn’t expect the homeowner to walk around all day in an olive green mohair suit and fedora. Or drive a 1934 vintage auto.
The colors and style of the Haring don’t go in that bathroom
The Haring is fine in the bathroom. It’s those suitcases that ruin it.
Also, can you spot the Che Guevara in the house. How edgy and cool. Communism is cool!
Oh, I dunno; some people do. Daily Mail is good at finding retro immersionists like this dude: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4714052/Brighton-Jane-Austen-fan-real-life-dandy.html
Zackly
I know it’s highly collectible in some circles, but I just don’t dig the “mid century modern” furniture craze.
I’ll take English colonial, but maybe I’m a fuddy-duddy.
“Chinese Toilets are Wild”
https://odysee.com/@serpentza:5/chinese-toilets-are-wild:6
Bonus points for the restaurant with a kitchen/bathroom combo.
I may never order lo mein again.
It would be a struggle.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Lemmy’s touring slot machines. Long video. Nerd stuff and fucking Lemmy #Pinball!
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All praise to Joe Biden!
Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty in defining move of presidency https://t.co/MrzjVkZBEd
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 6, 2021
Jeez, that’s verbatim. I thought you were kidding. What a sad joke WaPo has become, they’re nothing but a propaganda rag.
Derp couldn’t match that tweet sadly. The big news agencies are catching onto the Bee and our own and realizing there is a market for utter bullshit.
Heh, utter Bullshit indeed,
” sharply cutting poverty” for a bit, then Weimar…….
For a bit like maybe for a month and then back into the ditch. Fourteen hundred smackaroos isn’t going to sharply cut poverty unless you’re homeless.
Even the homeless beggars are looking at it and saying “I make that in a week on the freeway off ramp”.
2800$ pay off my only CC, and the rest into my mortgage,
I don’t need the money, but I’ll spend it wisely,
I don’t think the CEOs of Raytheon, Pfizer, Capital One, etc. were in poverty to begin with.
Biden Make It Rain, Yo! #hiptothehop!
Biden showering on anyone should induce a flight response.
“1 in 3 people knows someone who died of the plague”
Why do I assume this is complete and utter nonsense?
Because if it looks like a duck , moves like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.
“No one I know voted for Nixon.”
^^^thus.
People who’ve walked themselves in with fellow travelers don’t even get an inkling that other people might not share their opinions.
How would you tell either way? It’s too vague to be testable. One might even call it misinformation: neither definitively true nor false, but designed to elicit a certain response.
aka “journalism”
It is worth remembering that clickbait saved “journalism”. The people who weaponized base psychology to drive page views and ad clicks are now going around setting the narrative of public discourse. At least Hunter Thompson was entertaining and mostly not sanctimonious; nowadays it’s (almost) all petty retards flinging shit around.
I may have missed a comment, but I can’t help but ask – that picture up top, is that a woman-owned business?
Could NY possibly go from bad to worse?
And they’ll vote for him
Only if the machine backs him. I don’t get the sense that the state party machine is very enthusiastic about him.
That is always the fear. California is in the boat too if the recall actually happens. You might just get something worse.
Luckily, New York is probably the only place in the US where a mayor (of NYC) actually had more power over people’s lives than the governor.
He’s probably honestly safer as governor.
I don’t know about that. The governor has a surprising amount of control over everyday NYC affairs. He controls all the bridges, tunnels, airports, and subways – and everything else related to traffic – for example.
Why not? Anything can happen now. I mean, look at GA. We suddenly have 2 PoS lefties in the U.S. Senate. And it’s so strange that the Rs have a clear majority in the General Assembly.
My fellow Californians and I have been subject of late to a supremely annoying (and kind scary) ad by Blue Shield California.
It has a slide show of happy moments with text: “GET IT FOR SMILES. GET IT FOR THE BIG MOMENTS” etc etc. Could be an ad for a nice camera.
Then the penultimate one says “GET IT FOR YOU” and you start to realize it’s less of an option, ALL CAPS and everything.
And finally “GET IT FOR ALL OF US. GET VACCINATED”
It’s creepy and most unwelcome the way they use the collective language to assert some overarching right to your physical person that negates your self ownership.
Do not want.
https://news.blueshieldca.com/2021/02/22/blue-shield-of-california-encourages-californians-to-get-vaccinated-for-covid-19
It’s gonna happen whether you like it or not. So you might as well enjoy it.
-Democrats 2021
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
Tom Wolfe was in California last night or the night before where he rejected that phrase strongly, and in the context of Covid.
It’s a speaking engagement, so not his usual format, but I enjoyed it immensely:
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1849-my-speakeasy-talk-in-california-covid-and-the-two-americas/
Great listening. Thank hayek!
As an ‘essential worker’ I was told last month I could get vaxxed. I don’t give a shit, let someone who is scared get it. I’ll die of something at some time or another, no need to worry about. I’m not pro or anti-vaxx, I just don’t give a shit. ‘An old man turned 98, won the lottery and died the next day’. #AlannisPhilosophy
A respectable position.
I absolutely don’t begrudge others getting the vaccine. I resent that they feel entitled to make me take the vaccine for the greater good.
Yes, that is exactly why it will become mandatory. Mark my words.
This was never going to be about “my body, my choice”.
“The greater good”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/mediaviewer/rm2478414080/ (Couldn’t find an apt one, soz.)
The evolution on this has been funny.
Pence says we’ll have a vaccine in under 18 months = he’s a liar and a fool.
Trump makes “Operation Warp Speed” and suspends a bunch of regulatory hurdles to get it done faster = he’s endangering all of our lives
Vaccines start coming out in small runs = who knows what effects it will have, it’s not going to be enough
Vaccine rollout doesn’t turn into a total shitshow = vaccinate all the teachers and black people right now!
Now = everybody has to get vaccinated, and if you don’t you’re QAnon
It’s proof of their sheep like following of the narrative.
But I have to hand it to them, it’s got to be exhausting flip flopping like that or even trying to keep up with the sources pushing the flip flopping.
Hopefully it’s more tiring than listening to them. If you wanted to inspire confidence, you could hardly do worse than this. And the shit they believe about COVID could be piled up on a misinformation landfill, but hey dubious claims are okay as long as they stoke more fear.
Biden is in charge now! It’s a different vaccination than Drumpf would have done!
Yeah, Cuomo was saying in, what December? That he wouldn’t trust the Drumpf! vaxx, then Drumpf said he might withhold the vaxx from NY, then it was a Hitler move! Now NY has the vaxx and screwing up the roll out, and it’s all about #MeToo.
I don’t understand why so many people want to be led around like this. It makes them look like fools. But I guess since they don’t look like fools to each other, and it keeps life interesting to never know what you’re supposed to be saying or believing each day until someone on your screen tells you, there’s no self-correction mechanism (yet, anyway).
We got invited to take the vax ahead of whomever else is waiting. I skipped it. I just don’t really have any fear of the ‘vid and I would rather someone else, who is worried get my shot. Anyway, if you politicize something this much, I can’t really trust the whole thing anymore. “specially knowing that most of this “panic” revolves around regaining power for the party that’s too stupid to know they’re fascists. It’s just too convenient that this virus gave them everything they could ever dream of, all at once. I remember back in March last year thinking this wasn’t really that big of a deal, based on the numbers we had back then. Half a percent of those who get it might die. I lived through the HIV scare. That one was one hundred percent. I watched all the panic and the testing and wailing/gnashing of teeth. Later, it turned out that most of us had nothing to worry about.
*dons foil hat*
I think this virus was manufactured.
There will be a “real” pandemic soon, also manufactured.
Those who were obedient and took the current vaccines will likely survive.
Those who did not, will likely die.
That will teach the masses not to disobey.
*removes hat, tosses a grain of salt*
Most pathogens that are that deadly die out before they can spread that far. There’s generally an inverse relationship between transmissibility and virulence. And that much of the world’s population dying would result in such great upheaval that the observation “the virus isn’t the only thing that can kill you” would seem apropos.