Go ahead, look it over.
I am here to remind you, things suck in a lot of the world. While it may be getting worse here in Americaland, you should count yourself lucky you aren’t in one of these places…
- You could be in the EU.
- One word. Lebanon.
- Oh…Canada. (Yeah, I know…stones, glass houses, yada yada yada).
- National Guard member in DC? You could be in the Army in Equatorial Guinea.
Maybe we should just go help STEVE SMITH out with that Free Cascadia thing, right?
I’m here to First out with my cock out. And my cock is already out.
No matter how bad things get, you can always count on that.
Third post of the day and the rooster thinks the sun just came up because of his crowing.
Ignore him. He’s never got anything to say.
But he has his little brochetta hanging out…
As long as he doesn’t touch you with it, it’s easy to ignore such a little thing.
UCS hasn’t seen his cock since Carter was in office.
STEVE SMITH’S HARD TO MISS. LIKE THIRD LEG.
I *thought*I heard toast burning!
Is that how you count to one?
I had to sit through a demonstration of our own vaccine pass system without shouting in disgust at the upper management people on the call facilitating the horribleness.
All non-presenters were muted, so I’d have just been shouting at my monitor.
I shout at my monitor every day; it makes me feel a little better.
But were you visible? Also, you just *think* you’re completely muted. HR be listening, yo…
No camera. And HR is so tech-illiterate that they wouldn’t be able to figure out such a system even if we set it up.
I’ve hinted at my boss that I ain’t going in until sanity returns. My company doesn’t seem to be in any hurry, thank god.
Your company isn’t in a hurry to get back to sanity?
In any hurry to drag us back to the office.
You could be in a country that doesn’t know what to do with sidebars.
As long as we keep our responses terse, no one will notice.
I just nuked it with uBlock Origin. I haven’t figured out how to make the space it used to take up shrink, though.
I got rid of it by just waiting for the problem to go away.
That’s what I usually do. Wanted to test it out. I love the power to disappear troublesome parts of pages. Now if only it work on #$!@$#! videos.
doG I laughed hard at that
your warped humor catches me off guard more than any
We don’t need to listen to a bunch of whiny peons, say John Roberts
The Supreme Court on Monday revived a lawsuit brought by a former student seeking to hold his state university accountable for violating his First Amendment rights when it barred him from speaking about his religion and distributing religious literature.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for an 8-1 majority, allowed the lawsuit to continue even though the student, Chike Uzuegbunam, who has since graduated, was only asking for $1 in damages and the school’s policy has changed.
Thomas wrote that it was “undisputed” that Uzuegbunam’s rights were violated and that he could proceed with the case even though he was only seeking nominal damages.
Chief Justice John Roberts, in an unusual lone dissent, said he thought the dispute was now moot. Roberts stressed that the student had graduated and that the challenged restrictions “no longer exist.”
“If nominal damages can preserve a live controversy, then federal courts will be required to give advisory opinions whenever a plaintiff tacks on a request for a dollar,” Roberts wrote.
Oh, no! Asking the courts to explicitly uphold the Constitution, even in the absence of quantifiable damages?
What an insufferable burden.
Roberts is still a fucking idiot. Imagine that.
That has been his go to now. It is moot! We don’t have time to smack down those politicians and agents of the state that violated a person’s constitutional rights! Look, they said they were sorry!
Roberts learned a new word: “moot”
I’m sure he is in lurv with “moot” since it allows him to dodge cases that might cause him discomfort.
Nice avatar.
Since I’m avatar-curious, I thought I’d switch it up after the Avatar Disruption of Ought-Twenty-One.
Kind of like those election lawsuits – no standing before the election and moot afterwards.
Gosh thanks, George W, for that fine pick there. Bush the Younger is a gift that keeps on giving; without him we would have never gotten Obama.
No shit.
He could have chosen literally any other conservative and we’d be better off.
I think the adoption on non-pharmaceutical interventions as a response to a pandemic is the worst thing done by the W admin. Worse than Roberts, Iraq and Obama.
I’m starting to suspect Roberts isn’t that bright.
I’m starting to believe the conspiracy theory that somebody has something on Roberts or is threatening him with Bad Things Happening to him or his fam.
We need Raymond Reddington.
I understand the mootness doctrine, But under John Roberts, he has really taken it to mean “Fuck You, you don’t get justice”. Is there anything more clear than that the other 8 justices can get on board with this case, but he can’t? It really seems that he is using mootness to ignore cases too touchy, or “beneath him”.
Some of those 8 justices might take the state’s side. Roberts is too dim to even play one dimensional chess.
It isn’t an insufferable burden, but it is expressly against the text of the Constitution that establishes the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and all subordinate federal courts. You just got Thomas writing for the living constitution – proving that no one ever truly adheres to a philosophy consistently.
My copy doesn’t say “except for the moot ones”. Mootness is itself a judicial doctrine, and one that contains exceptions.
“Asking the courts to explicitly uphold the Constitution is a novel approach” – Sotomayor
Is Lebanon actually worse than Portland?
Which one?
Lebanon, PA and Portland, ME.
Lebanon County, PA was the center of a lot of defiance of Wolf’s Lil Rona Panic edicts.
Mmmm….bologna.
There is a town called Lebanon about an hour south of Portland OR. One of the mill towns destroyed by the greenies.
So you get the best of both worlds.
Destroyed is a bit harsh. Lebanon was never any great town to start with.
I lived in Lebanon in the mid 60s, from 1-4 years old.
Hey, Howard Hesseman is from there!
There is a Lebanon SW of Portland ME. And one in NH. Which reminds me of how I miss the rural north country I grew up in NH. Industry was farming, paper mills, winter sports and leaf peepers. I’m getting sick of living in a city.
Portland was nicknamed Little Beirut over thirty years ago.
You know what sucks? Leaving the sidebar.
Drugs falling out one’s ass must suck, too. :-p
What a bout being firsted by Ted’s?
It didn’t get rid of the sidebar.
Rai has called for an U.N.-sponsored international conference to help Lebanon.
I wouldn’t recommend that. Just blame the Jews.
It is a time-honored tradition. The UN has complete chapters on it.
The Drakkar building is unavailable.
I was a fan of Drakkar Noir back in the ’80s. 60 percent of the time, it worked every time.
Rai has called for an U.N.-sponsored international conference to help Lebanon.
And by “international conference” mean RAPE.
I think we have a Glib on retainer who would be more than willing to take that on.
STEVE SMITH, ESQ. PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER AT YOUR SERVICE!
Well done, Brooks.
She-sign your position Trudeau.
Did they find out motherhood can be more rewarding than paper pushing?
racialized women
What the hell does that mean?
It’s a category on pronhub.
Rachel Dolezal hardest hit.
Would someone translate that to American? I have no idea what that means.
Type it into a Pornhub search and see what comes up.
How strange, it referred me to the BBC.
You beat me to it.
Are we still doing phrasing?
That depends. What do you mean by “doing”?
We Canucks have no idea what it means, either. The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ has been speaking in tongues for most of his adult life.
Oh, and…
OFFS!
“White supremacists are trying to join the ranks of law enforcement and US military so they can ‘terrorize minorities’ and ‘initiate a collapse of society’, FBI warns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9339107/White-supremacists-trying-join-law-enforcement-military-terrorize-minorities.html
Yeah, OK.
‘terrorize minorities’ and ‘initiate a collapse of society’
“‘That’s our job!’, the FBI spokeshole continued.”
Hey, they totally stopped Insurrection 2.0 last Thursday. I would take their warnings very seriously.
You know who else had to stop an insurrection…
The Weimar Republic?
Cornwallis?
Kathleen Kennedy?
STEVE SMITH?
STEVE SMITH MORE “START” INSURRECTION. FREE CASCADIA!
FBI is on a roll. Don’t stop now. We’ll get that Trump yet!
More BlueAnon conspiracy theories.
At oral arguments, the chief justice at one point suggested there was no longer a live controversy that would allow the lawsuit to continue.
“The only redress you are asking for is a declaration that you are right,” Roberts told Waggoner.
I, uh…
No shit, Shirley. Are you prepared to claim there is no substantive value in that?
Beyond being shown “right”, it ALSO sets legal precedence, which means that no other university will be able to (legally) pull the same shit on someone else.
And there is DEFINITELY substantive value in that.
Which is exactly why a case that is technically moot can still be ruled on if the controversy is likely to be repeated.
Which is also exactly why SCOTUS were such gutless cowards in not taking up any of the elections cases.
Especially if the decision bars the school from doing the same thing again (not that they’ll pay any heed to such an order).
“Susan Rice burns sage in her West Wing office to ‘purge negative energy’ in space last occupied by Stephen Miller
President Joe Biden’s domestic policy advisor Susan Rice has been burning sage in her new West Wing office previously occupied by hardline Trump immigration advisor Stephen Miller.
And Rice, a lightning rod for conservative critics during the Obama Administration, appeared to confirm the symbolism of the act by retweeting an image of her office following a brief mention in a New York Times story about her.
The pictures shows a brightly colored Haitian painting. In the foreground is a round table with a bowl of burning incense. The picture also features a lone feather.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9338735/Susan-Rice-burns-sage-West-Wing-office-occupied-Stephen-Miller.html
Let me know if they find a blowfish.
Party of ScIEnCe! ! elevenses!!
How is that not cultural appropriation?
Or is Rice also 1/1024th American Indian?
She went to the Pedro Cerrano School of Public Policy I see.
Then fuck you, Jobu!
G*d D*mned H*ppies.
“Biden prepares to sign two executive orders on International Women’s Day to combat sexual harassment – yet refuses to comment on allegations made by five women against Governor Cuomo”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9338509/Joe-Biden-sign-executive-order-reviewing-changes-Betsy-DeVos-Title-IX.html
1. Shave your head.
2. Stay away from me.
Your company isn’t in a hurry to get back to sanity?
Ahh, you crazy! There ain’t no Sanity Claus.
Google And Urban Dictionary Team Up To Censor ‘Blue Anon,’ A Term Describing Liberal Conspiracy Theories
Nice.
Bing still has it.
I saw that the guy behind the Brave browser is working on a search engine, and not one that fronts for Bing or Google. Fingers crossed!
Maybe he can get on Brave not being glacially slow on the phone.
Why not partner with duckduckgo? Their browser works great on my phone.
It fronts for Bing/Microsoft. I gather he wants to make a browser that is not Big Tech.
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
It’s barely news at this point.
“This is the new conspiracy-theory group called Blue-Anon. We believe the Moon landing was real, but the Moon is not. We believe Joe Biden is working with a secret cabal to combat shape-shifting mimes who are silently taking over the government. We believe that Christmas is run by a big Eastern Syndicate (aka Lucy-ism). We believe the only way to protect yourself from all forms of mind control is to post funny memes. And finally, we believe that Dr. Who’s real name is Pat MaGroin, which is why he keeps it a secret. ”
https://blue-anon.com/
Gosh Damnit
*squints*
I am not sure it is the same thing.
https://blue-anon.com/
John Roberts is a used tampon.
… dangling from a car’s rear view mirror…
There are people who pay good money for used tampons. No one is willingly paying good money for John Roberts.
No one needs to pay for him. He’s already the Cabal’s bitch.
Tube Porn
Tube Porn II
This was the Eico ST-70 that I rewired to use 6AR6s. Tubes sure clip nicely; it “sounds” more powerful than I expected. Of course it is more sensitive so it could be my ears playing tricks.
Imgur appears to be acting up.
https://i.imgur.com/tLXCcKD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bb9Gll5.jpg
bah!
Q’s Tube top Porn is much different than your version.
I think my ST-70 has 7 tubes, two input, four output, and power supply.
El Dynaco 70?
Yes, Dynaco
The amp that spawned a thousand DIYers. Those dern 7199s were rare-ish back then.
Moar feedback.
I haven’t messed with the circuit yet – it does need some work there; take the FB from the 8-ohm, balance the phase-splitter, etc. But I was just happy to get the thing working again, especially after the cludgey power supply and relocation of the hum pots, etc done by the previous owner.
I’m trying to remember if it used the old Mullard 5-20 circuit for the input/driver, but with the 12AX7 in place of the EF86? If so and you feel ambitious, you can drill two new holes, slip in a couple of dual pentodes as drivers, then run a local loop from the 6AR6 plates to the driver pentode plates. It will dramatically drop distortion and lower output impedance.
6360 would work nicely.
Oh, and replace the 6SN7 cathode resistor with a CCS. Then you can just set the plate resistors equal and remove the adjustment pots. That’ll give you room for the new drivers.
Should have used DuckDuckGo or even Google when researching how to safely handle explosives. Like the old saying goes “Bata Bing, Bata Boom”.
*narrows gaze*
I came home to this on my monitor,
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/biden_gas_prices_3-8-21.jpg
Ho Lee Fuk!
Yikes!
LOL I hope that’s real
As part of the behind-the-lines resistance, I can say it most likely is. Most of us are pissed. We just get steamrolled by vote harvesting and all the other tricknology they use. The blue wave here is more of a reflection of their ability to cheat than any reality.
I wonder how elections would go if they were fraud free.
You know who else had to stop an insurrection…
Captain Queeg?
+1 Strawberries
Douglas C. Neidermeyer?
George III?
Governance is serious business
In an executive order, Biden directed the Education Department to examine rules that the Trump administration issued around Title IX, the federal law that forbids sex discrimination in education. Biden directed the agency to “consider suspending, revising or rescinding” any policies that fail to protect students.
Biden also signed a second executive order formally establishing the White House Gender Policy Council, which his transition team had announced before he took office.
“The policy of this administration is that every individual, every student is entitled to a fair education — free of sexual violence — and that all involved have access to a fair process,” Jennifer Klein, co-chair and executive director of the Gender Policy Council, told reporters at a White House briefing.
We don’t care if you tell them 2 + 2 = 5, just don’t misgender them, or allow them the assumption of innocence.
That’s a nice bit of doubletalk, AP.
They are selling this as a reversal of Devos’ policy, yet alls she did was reverse what Obama put into effect.
More evidence that AP is just another arm of Minitru.
Nice URL trolling:
https://whitehousegenderpolicycouncil.org/
DeVos’ policy made sweeping changes to the way colleges respond to sexual harassment and assault, with provisions that bolster the rights of the accused and narrow the scope of cases schools are required to address. It was seen as a swing away from Obama-era guidance that focused on protecting victims of sexual misconduct.
Among other changes, DeVos’ rules narrowed the definition of sexual harassment, reduced the legal liability of colleges investigating sexual misconduct claims and gave accused students the right to cross-examine their accusers through a representative at live campus hearings.
The horror.
The HORROR.
focused on protecting victims of sexual misconduct
ALLEGED misconduct, you evil fucks!
Something that they would be afforded if the case were being handled by the justice system.
The EU link doesn’t like my ad blocker, but from what I can see it is about vaccine passports. WHO’s position on vaccine passports is that it still opposes them. I wonder how long until that changes?
President Michel Aoun issued the call to open up the roads across the country after a meeting with top officials while the army’s top commander held a separate meeting with military commanders at which he stressed the right to peaceful protest.
Their ROADZ are closed? Is this the beginning of a libertarian moment?
Canada on Monday unveiled an all-woman task force to ensure that its upcoming budget, set to include billions in post-pandemic stimulus spending, includes measures to get women working and address gender inequality.
I tapped out here.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the accident had occurred after local farmers allowed a fire in the area to burn out of control, setting alight explosives that had been badly stored by soldiers at the military camp.
We now know what could possibly go wrong.
For several weeks of not months last year the WHO opposed face masks for healthy individuals in public, while the CDC, the airlines and numerous governors in the US were already demanding masks. The WHO is just slow, it will catch up sooner or later.
They had a page that I had bookmarked that specified why asthma sufferers shouldn’t wear masks. That’s long gone.
The Lebanon
Wyoming Governor lifts most Lil Rona Panic restrictions.
We just might get the same, if the recall keeps building steam. He’s already softening some.
It was only a matter of time. Wife texted me a couple hours ago that she went to check on an alcoholic friend and found him dead. He left behind two beautiful girls.
Sorry.
Damn, that is awful. Sorry.
I’m sorry man. That’s a tragedy.
That sucks. Sorry to hear that.
That’s terrible.
Awful!
My wife tried to help him, but like many drunks he wouldn’t be helped. I told her he’d end up dead and she’d find him, though that’s better than one of his daughters finding him. If anyone is struggling with addiction, please get help.
^THIS^ plz
*deletes joke; too soon*
That really sucks.
Sorry 🙁
I am really sorry to hear that.
Lots of that going around.
Sorry, brother.
I’m really sorry to hear that.
I am sorry to hear that. Unfortunately there’s still a lot of stigma to seeking professional help, and few people can do it in their own.
That’s messed up. Hate to see that stuff. My nephew is still getting dialysis and surgeries for his compartment syndrome he got from ODing on fentanyl. I’m hoping he sees some light and gets it together. Sorry about your friend.
So sorry. We had a former bandmate (whom we’d fired because of his drinking) eventually drink himself to death. (Pro tip: Gastric bypass and alcoholism don’t play nice together. As I understand it, the procedure – at least early forms of the procedure such as our bandmate had – affect the way the body metabolizes alcohol.)
I hope your wife is able to work through what must have been a horribly traumatic experience, and I hope her friends daughters have a strong support system to help them cope.
Oh shit. I’m so sorry. I can empathize.
That’s too bad. I’m sorry.
Which is exactly why a case that is technically moot can still be ruled on if the controversy is likely to be repeated.
Which is also exactly why SCOTUS were such gutless cowards in not taking up any of the elections cases.
And also why the same gutless cowards dropped that NYC gun transport case like a hot rock.
Arrests for placing anti-mask stickers near Manchester, NH city hall
Three men are facing criminal mischief charges after police say they stuck multiple stickers critical of New Hampshire’s COVID-19 mask mandate in and around Manchester City Hall last month.
#3 needs to work on his beard.
It seems like they might be able to get them on a charge of something like littering or graffiti by putting stickers on stuff, but I’d say if the content is even whispered at trial it should get thrown out for a 1A violation.
Vandalism, is vandalism, fine ’em just like any tagger. I don’t think simply describing what the stickers were should lead to a dismissal but it certainly shouldn’t lead to any tacked on charges/fines/etc.
Selective enforcement FTW.
I see lefty stickers everywhere and for some reason The Man doesn’t give a shit.
Mac and cheese is in the oven. I’m pretty sure I cooked the flour long enough this time. I mixed the pasta and sauce properly, so now half mac half mac and cheese mixups. Now I just have to not burn it…
Oh c’mon yoi got to burn it a just a little bit around the edge, that’s the best part.
That’s not burned.
Burned resembled charcoal.
^This^
And stir in just a little bit of chopped jalapeño.
I can’t. I’m making it for my mother, and she’s allergic.
I captured “ooey gooey” with this batch. It’s pretty much perfect.
😀
UCS, what did you make with your anchovies?
Nothing yet, I haven’t opened them.
Might I recommend spaghetti with anchovy sauce? Topped with Pecorino Romano not required but strongly suggested. Can be kind of assertive, depending on your recipe.
Not fair!
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in a public broadside that could rally progressive opposition to the effort.
“Right-wing Republicans in CA are trying to recall @GavinNewsom for the crime of telling people to wear masks and for listening to scientists during COVID. Extremist Republicans have done enough to undermine democracy already. We must all unite to oppose the recall in California,” the Vermont senator and progressive standard-bearer tweeted to his 15 million followers.
Those damned right wing Republicans have a stranglehold on California politics.
Pissed off voters want a do-over. That’s not DEMOCRACY! that’s insurrection.
The left has done more to sour Americans on the term “Democracy” than people like Hoppe could have ever hoped to do
Democrazyᵀᴹ, noun 1. Mob rule, controlled or influenced by the totalitarian elite media, academia, bureaucracy, and foreign powers. 2. People who demand free shit. 3. Slavery.
Telling people to FOLLOW THE SCIENCE™️ lest legal action would follow, then turning around and doing just exactly what you’ve told others they will be fined, jailed, or closed down, not mentioned.
Fuck Sanders.
Right-wing Republicans in CA
Both of them?
More people in CA voted for Trump than did in Texas.
The science says masks are worthless, so no, that is not what he was doing at all.
That doesn’t even matter, it’s not like you could go anywhere in California even if you were wearing a mask.
But bureaucrat “scientists” who haven’t dealt with anything but paperwork for the last 2+ decades told us so.
That’s good enough.
If you are still around RC, check your email.
I’ll check when I get home.
Doktor Jill Biden, to you
Jill Biden sees a teachable moment in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.
The first lady sat in a socially distanced circle in the library at Fort LeBoeuf Middle School in Pennsylvania, listening and taking notes as parents expressed relief that the school had reopened and their kids were back in the classroom.
——-
“We’ve been through really tough, hard times, but I think the one good thing about educators that I love — and that includes the cafeteria workers, the bus drivers, the teachers, everyone involved — is we’ve all learned from this,” Biden said of the pandemic and its emotional, social and human toll.
“We’re all going to take everything that we’ve learned and are going to turn it into opportunity to make things better for students as we move forward,” she said.
Good one, Jill.
They have learned how to exploit people’s fears.
Whose fault is that?
I was going to ask what exactly they’ve learned, but now I really don’t want to hear the answer…
They learned how to depose any republican president from now on. Aids was 100% fatal and most people thought you could get it from being thought about. Ain’t nobody even thought about hiding at home for a year and wearing panties on their faces over that. There was a different motivation for all of this.
I don’t see how “socially distanced circle in the library” and I’m sure tons of other fear-theater isn’t just as damaging to kids as sitting at home ignoring Zoom.
Since leftists have an uncanny ability to never learn a gd thing from history or experience and make it all worse, I’m gonna guess she’s wrong.
So, let’s see what’s in the New York Post
“Supermodel Kate Moss’s sister poses nude on X-rated subscription site, upsetting her family–but she says she’s ‘living her best life'”
No, you wouldn’t be interested in that.
“Meghan and Harry…”
No.
“Hubby takes my sexy OnlyFans pics — here’s how it’s impacted our marriage”
Nah.
“People with a lot of time and money on their hands have bid $2.5 million to “buy” Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first message on the platform.
“The winner of the auction will get a digital certificate allowing them to lay claim to the 2006 tweet, in which Dorsey wrote “just setting up my twttr.””
What?
https://nypost.com/2021/03/06/bids-for-jack-dorseys-first-tweet-reach-2m-in-online-auction/
Claims, without evidence
The coronavirus pandemic appears to be in decline, but the US is actually in the “eye of the hurricane” right now, according to a leading epidemiologist.
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“Four weeks ago, the B.1.1.7 variant made up about 1 to 4% of the virus that we were seeing in communities across the country. Today, it’s up to 30 to 40%,” he said. “What we’ve seen in Europe, when we hit that 50% mark, you see cases surge,” he said.
——-
So far, the agency has reported more than 3,000 known cases of the variant across 47 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. About a quarter of those cases are in Florida. But the CDC has said that likely does not represent the total number of such cases in the US — but rather just the ones that have been found by analyzing positive samples, with the help of genomic sequencing.
Muh FUDGE FAKTOR!
Fuck you and the broom you rode in on.
But muh subsidies! Muh sweet spotlight! Muh authoritay!!
The pandemic must last forever!
I want someone to write a story about this being all about a racket run by a big Eastern [mask] syndicate.
My company said I could order a logo branded mask to wear. Kill me.
I kind of wanted a mask with the Dont Tread on Me snek but I couldn’t take the irony of the fact that I’d be wearing it under compulsion.
I would get this one on a mask: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/051/611/d28.jpg
Needz moar jackboot.
Lol.
I understand the irony. In my “safe” spaces, I will wear it upside down just for fun. What’s ridiculous is we have been paying people big hourly bucks to make plain black masks in house. Insane.
Because of Covidsizingᵀᴹ, I’ve managed to secure a small vacated office where I don’t have to wear a mask. My new boss hasn’t objected so far.
Mine sent the same to every employee. I’m not wearing that.
As Upton Sinclair observed:
It’s down when we’re at 30-40%, but once it’s hits 50%, hang on?
GTFOH
If numbers will go up because they hit 50%, they will necessarily have to rise, even if only a little, while they’re slightly lower. If they’re falling dramatically at 40%, there’s no way that reverses course to a dramatic rise when it’s at 50%.
Amusing if true…our betters at play –
“Accused sex pest Andrew Cuomo kept his ‘single-and-ready-to-mingle’ status by using his religion to avoid marriage to live-in girlfriend Sandra Lee for more than a decade, DailyMail.com has learned.
“The New York Governor told anyone who asked that as a divorced Roman Catholic he did not feel he could marry again, one close friend said.
“But all the time, Lee was pressing him to tie the knot and make her New York’s First Lady. She was so determined to get hitched that she even had a picture of the ring she wanted….
“Cuomo, now 63, divorced Kerry Kennedy — Bobby Kennedy’s seventh child — in 2005 two years after he discovered she was having an affair with his close friend, polo player Bruce Colley. They had been married for 15 years and had three daughters.
“Even during their marriage he was known as a womanizer….
“‘[Lee] really wanted to be First Lady of New York,’ said the former friend. ‘I always felt she was jealous of Andrew’s close relationship with his mother Matilda — who of course had been First Lady when Mario Cuomo was Governor.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9326655/Andrew-Cuomo-used-Catholic-faith-avoid-marrying-long-term-girlfriend-Sandra-Lee.html
The New York Governor told anyone who asked that as a divorced Roman Catholic he did not feel he could marry again, one close friend said.
Of course, he conveniently ignores that Jesus called that sort of remarriage “adultery”. What else did He call adultery? Sleeping with a girl you’re not married to.
*looks at avatar*
*scratches head*
*wanders off*
To fix the loss of avatars due to WordPress, SP had to change the component. It references an older collection of avatars.
*but you can update it if you like
Cool. Thanks for the explanation.
NO.
I miss my doggie!
<<<
“If you like”
I’m not telling you to do anything.
Sorry. Emotional reaction. Fingers typing without supervision. 🙂
I don’t even think I have a copy of that librarian one of mine anymore.
I’ll update it eventually.
help: new laptop
can I get Monocle or Eyepiece somewhere?
Glibs old-style sucks
Yes sir. If you ever need the link again, it’s posted in the forum: https://www.glibertarians.us/community/website-issues-requests/eyepiece-monocle/#post-755
As a shortcut, here’s the link to the original article with the instructions:
https://www.glibertarians2017.link/2017/02/27/monocle/
I’ve never used them. Perhaps I should try…
I use Glibs almost exclusively on iPhone though.
Phones are tough. I’ve thought about doing an app to get around all of the lack of browser functionality, and I forget who else was thinking about trying to put together an app, but it’s a learning curve that I haven’t really started climbing yet.
I forget which browsers (if any) on iPhone allow add-ons to be installed, but that’s the main requirement to install Eyepiece on mobile. I’m running Kiwi Browser on Android because everybody else has killed their add-on support.
Our betters sure are a depraved bunch.
SP takes that as a compliment.
What were the Italians doing that far south?
crying Fowl.
Every time I shut the bathroom door on the doge, I feel like Al Neri closing the door on Kay.
Aww
Saw a Comcast van on the way home tonight. It had a sticker on the back “Thank you for respecting social distancing.”. With a lil diagram of two stock figures with arrows denoting 10 feet. 10 fucking feet. I fucking hate peop!e.
I dont pay any attention to that nonsense.
Everybody around here is so over it it isn’t even funny.
Why did they even stick the word “social” in there? There’s nothing social about an enforced isolation bubble.
How else can we get doublespeak accepted as everyday course?
Then why would you want to get closer than ten feet to them?
10 feet? That’s peanuts. The distance requirement in my county was 30 feet. Allegedly the idea was that if two people were walking toward each other they would be within six feet by the time they get their face masks on. It’s like an algebra problem. Gavin is walking east at 3 feet/second and Kamala is walking west at 2 feet/second. If they start 30 feet apart, how close will they be by the time they get their masks on? Hah, trick question. They are royalty and don’t need to wear a stinking mask.
Elk it looks like the recall of Guv Greaseball is going to be out to the vote. With a week left to go for signatures they now have 1.95 million (1.495 million needed). They are going to try and delay it as long as possible as having it while things are still closed would spell doom for them. Hope we don’t end up with someone even worse, which I know is a possibility.
Yep. I cant wait to see who replaces Cuomo in NY.
It’s greasballs all the way down.
Hope we don’t end up with someone even worse, which I know is a possibility.
California Glibs, correct me if I’m wrong, but I read that the referendum is a two-fer: they vote whether to recall and vote who to replace at the same time. This means that potential candidates have to pick a side, either campaigning against the recall or campaigning for gov, so big figures in the Democratic party have to decide whether Newsom is done before the election, because if they want to succeed him they have to stab him in the back, publicly. If Newsom is not obviously toast, it could clear the field of the next-in-lines, leaving the succession (if the recall wins) open to renegades, Republicans, and other outcasts.
That’s exactly what it does. It’s a single vote for either yes or no on the recall. If you vote yes then pick one of the candidates to replace him. If the state GOP was not in such a terrible state it is a huge opportunity for them to pick up a governor seat.
Hope we don’t end up with someone even worse, which I know is a possibility.
I try not to think about this. I’d like to have at least a few wins across the country.
I’ve said it before, but I think a Republican winning the recall wouldn’t be good. All it does is offer cover to the Dem supermajority in Sacramento to pretend everything terrible is his fault, even if the gov has very little power to actually DO anything on his own. Arnie said as much back in his day, and it’s far worse now.
No, the only way this state gets cleaned up is from the bottom, and shift the legislature back and, given the election rules, I’m not sure that’s even possible.
I mean, they already try and pretend that everything is the fault of Republicans so…
If the folks behind the recall are smart, they are organizing to accomplish more than just the recall. This is a perfect networking opportunity.
“In August 2020, an obese 69-year-old was admitted to Dayton, Ohio’s Miami Valley Hospital with a bad case of the coronavirus.
The anonymous man, who eventually died from other complications of the virus, was experiencing severe breathlessness, inflammation, and had fluid buildup in his lungs. Medical personnel sedated him before placing him on a ventilator, but his condition continued to deteriorate.
After 10 days, his lungs began failing, and the man was turned face down — an emergency technique used to help air better move throughout his body. After 12 hours, when medics turned him face up again, the nurses noticed that his shaft was erect.
After three hours, unable to fix the situation with an ice pack, medics drained the man’s penis of blood with a needle, successfully fixing the bout of priapism. The man was unconscious throughout.”
https://nypost.com/2021/03/08/covid-gives-man-a-3-hour-long-erection/
I really did not need to know that.
I guess that’s what it takes to get reporters to include details in articles the days.
A fine article on Lysenko’s primary rival in the Soviet Union who was starved to death in a prison camp in 1943:
https://www.damninteresting.com/a-blight-on-soviet-science/
Alternate working title: “Politicized Science Sucks.”
Thankfully…one of the few ribbons that didn’t transfer when I joined the Navy.
It’s International Women’s Day! Make a sandwich for the woman in your life.
Or maybe skip the day altogether if you’re some kind of American with a hangup about corporately-rebranded communism:
“Due to its ties with socialism and communism, perhaps it’s not surprising that International Women’s Day didn’t catch on here in the United States the way it did in other countries. Recently, however, international digital marketing campaigns have brought the holiday (in its less-political form) further into American culture, complete with corporate support from PepsiCo and other brands.”
https://www.history.com/news/the-surprising-history-of-international-womens-day
I thought as much. And yes, suddenly it’s everywhere as if it’s something we have all been celebrating every year rather than the vast majority of us not being at all aware of it.
Also, my entire developer team in Belarus was off today which kind of clued me in as well. They never get days off.
Since it’s March, the month that we used to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll angle towards celebrating dark haired, pale skinned Irish women. I tend to do that anyways but putting forth much more effort than that is beyond me.
Hooray, Women. No joke.
…Why do I get the feeling that any and all TV programming this month will be nearly as insufferable as February’s group of the month’s TV programming…
Preach, Woke Cathedral, Preach!!!
God, I hate my skin and cock.
Good enough for ya?
You don’t have to make me a sandwich. Just make me laugh.
::ponders whether to change avatar::
I charge 3 sandwiches per laugh. And I expect the crusts to be cut off and the bread toasted.
I celebrated International Women’s Day by letting by Eastern European wife do a bunch of yard work. Just like during Communist times.
Need to listen to that one more. Another lefty one I enjoy is “Blocked and Reported”. I follow Katie and Jessie on twitter already and it’s fun because you can see them Neeeeeeaaaaarly getting the point (they’re good on some stuff)….but can’t quite commit. Still more honest on it IMO than the 5th Column guys lately.
I was just at NAPA, sans mask. I would say about 25% of the people in there had one on.
/ray of hope.
Are Japanese tools better?
Well, I wouldn’t know, but according to what I’ve heard…oh, wait, never mind, I misunderstood.
Probably.
Now do Germany.
Hazet is OK, so is Stahlwille, but WERA or many of the other German tools are just OK.
But, BETA from Italy or Facom from France are just as good. Snap-on bought Bahco from Sweden and has dropped the quality, Urrea from Mexico started as a Proto subsidiary and is now pretty damn good.
And oh, yeah, I am a certified Tool Dork.
I have a hard time believing that tools made in Italy or France are quality. Those aren’t people known for their work ethic.
But they look great.
Ferrari’s and Alpine Reneaut’s laugh all the way to the podium.
They don’t work fast, but they turn out decent product. Craftman used to have a French made hose clamp pliers that the “new” Craftsman folks are unaware of. The down side is it had a small cable that has to be replaced from time to time, but I can’t find it anywhere. I go through the clumsy Chinese made knock off about twice a year.
Fucking hate those cable clamp pliers!
Anyway, nothing is the quality of 1990’s and earlier Snap-on. The euro stuff doesn’t need to be. The fasteners are mostly all smaller and torqued less. When I work on motorcycles, I rarely use anything but 1/4″ drive stuff. I try to find used old stuff when I buy tools anymore.
Old school Proto is great.
There are some decent Japanese brands, like Ko Ken and Hozan, but they seem to be as good as Snap-on or Proto, not better or worse.
Some dorks go crazy for Japanese woodworking tools, but again, more different than better.
Japanese joinery is pure sorcery, so I get the appeal.
This guy loses me real quick with the ‘Block insane yo mamma’-ish bit, yes he’s not being political but having a vaguely Canadian? accent and mispronouncing words is just as lame.
Just be a contrarian in defense of our contrarian, I agree.
That phrase is a played out, dead in the water, social signaling eye-roller.
An Instant “No Thanks”.
To be clear he never says “block insane Yo mama” (as far as I know I only make it about thirty seconds into any of his videos) but he makes the same kind of non-clever puns and I just can’t listen to that inanity, it’s a shame because some of the videos he has are on subjects I’m kinda interested in.
If the sentiment is basically the same, my statement still stands.
Basically: Grow the fuck up.
1982 and 1983 were good years for video games
80 and 81 weren’t too shabby either. I must have stopped hanging out in arcades by 84 because I haven’t played any of those. Didn’t watch past 84.
#metoo. After the first dozen or so, nope, never seen them.
No Castlevania and no Tecmo Bowl?
There are some good games in there.
It’s hard to overestimate the impact Dragon’s Lair had when it came out. No one could believe a Video Game could be like that. It was beyond revolutionary, despite what were ultimately fairly simplistic game controls.
Yeah, it was pretty impressive. IIRC they charged 50 cents for it, too. I sucked balls at it, like most of them.
Meh – if anyone cares I have a music review youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcX_RpQ9Iss6FEcp_50UrbQ
Snake Corps ?
“This doesn’t make the point they think it does.”
https://twitter.com/CasuallyGreg/status/1367857263193452546
Real stats, but fake graphic?
Avatar check…
Not my worst. At least it isn’t my STEVE SMITH dancing with Justin T garbed in Indian apparel Gif.
That caused a few epileptic seizures, I think.
“Andy Ngo threatens to sue far-left rioter John Sullivan over false claim he participated in Jan 6 riot
Journalist Andy Ngo has threatened to sue far-left rioter John Sullivan who falsely accused Ngo of storming the Capitol building on Jan. 6 and then fleeing the country to “avoid prosecution.” The alleged photographic evidence that Sullivan pointed to pictures another Asian man.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-threatens-to-sue-far-left-rioter-john-sullivan-for-defamation
I’d threaten to countersue for expecting me to be able to differentiate Asian men.
Angled face, Japanese
Round Faced, Chinese
Squared off Blockhead, Korean
…Anyone else I can generalize? Please chime in.
Uh… wasn’t Sullivan actually there and instigating violence…?
Nice try, son.
See? Even a paragon of wokeness like this Sullivan fellow is racist. Imagine how racist the deplorables must be!
Look at me.
With the Older English D.
It was free.
As you can plainly see.
Older = Olde. Stupid autocorrect.
The Cowboys just gave Dak Prescott over $40 million a year.
That’s slightly better than paying Kirk Cousins all that money a few years back.
You think Dak’s heroin addicted psychopathic wife may fake his suicide then steal his music for a sizeable payout?
Heh.
Cobain, Cousins…I’m an asshole…and freshly stoned…mostly an asshole.
“New editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue accused of anti-Asian racism after old tweets resurface
The incoming editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue is facing accusations of racism after old tweets of hers have resurfaced that expressed anti-Asian sentiments.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-editor-in-chief-of-teen-vogue-accused-of-anti-asian-racism-after-old-tweets-resurface
I’m all for them eating their own, but the tweets are pretty light.
“…gave me a 2/10 on my chem problems…”
I think that is a clue.
Also, they have destroyed non-lefties for less.
I hope they cook her.
I had a great pun, but someone else came up with it years ago:
https://amzn.to/2PHtHJH
I’ve got an hour to kill. Anyone want to attend a Weekend Recovery Zoom?
Nope, but thanks, I have to start dinner soon. Did Neph recover?
Yes, he’s fine.
Welp, not many takers. So I’m out and going to start dinner preps.
Maybe Wednesday night would be good. Will revisit.
Thanks for the links Swiss. Indeed we suck but we suck a lot less than some places. At least that has been my experience.
Tonights dinner: Smoked corned beef and sour kraut. Good chance some mustard will be involved.
Yum!
I think we’re having Beyond “Brats” also with sauerkraut and mustard.
I cooked tomorrows breakfast earlier. Scrambled eggs with some diced up yesterdays grilled brats/hot italian sausauges, colby jack, cilantro, a few spices, siracha and then stuffed into a (claimed) low carb pita. I like my 0500 drive to work when I have that to eat.
Cilantro.
*facepalm*
Why would you ruin such a delicious meal?
Good until you got to the soapweed.
“1982 and 1983 were good years for video games”
I think the entire 80s were great for games. Mario 1-3, Ninja Garden, Excitebike, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out, The Legend of Zelda…
Ninja Gaiden… Autocorrect
Interesting….
I recently recounted my experience with a blister beetle and how it caused a painless but severe blister on my finger. That has been 2 months (?) ago, maybe three? The spot where it got me has not felt right since. It healed up but left a mark and feels slightly numb. I just noticed that a small blister, much less severe than the initial one, is rising in the center of the site of the first one.
If you see a blister beetle….run.
You sell moving to Louisiana quite well some times. This isn’t one of those times.
Be cautious. There are thousands of species of them and they live all over North America. Take a gander and beware…they are not aggressive and unremarkable looking but they can punch waaaaaay above their weight. Chances are, like me, you have seen them before and paid little or no attention.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blister+beetle&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images
Welp.
XX just bought a car.
Oy.
So you will no longer have to cart her around? That’s good.
Yep, but now I’ll spend all that energy worrying about her on the road by herself.
Cuomo’s Covid-19 book (I think it’s called My Struggle Against the Pandemic) earned a 7-figure advance last year, but now shows lagging sales.
‘“We can confirm that the title’s sales have dropped in the last five weeks, and for context, this is not reflective of a larger market trend,” a rep for BookScan told me.’
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/andrew-cuomo-pandemic-memoir-fetched-seven-figure-advance
*snort*
Politicians writing books is a money laundering operation. Sales are lagging because the dozen people bribing Cuomo already bought all of the copies.
“Evangelicals For Biden ‘Feel Used And Betrayed’ By Biden Fulfilling His Radical Abortion Promises”
“…more than 5,000 “pro-life evangelicals” endorsed him for the presidency in October 2020. The coalition noted that “we disagree with Vice President Biden and the Democratic platform on the issue of abortion” but still claimed “Joe Biden’s policies are more consistent with the biblically shaped ethic of life than those of Donald Trump.””
We are shocked, shocked! to see abortion going on in here.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/07/evangelicals-for-biden-feel-used-and-betrayed-by-biden-fulfilling-his-radical-abortion-promises/
“Joe Biden’s policies are more consistent with the biblically shaped ethic of life than those of Donald Trump.”
Oh? In what way exactly?
I was raised on a farm. I know what it looks like when someone is shoveling horseshit.
“And the Tweet is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the Tweet among our social media, that it defileth the whole country, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”
/James 3:6 (updated KJV)
Just posting this to see what my avatar looks like…
Ah, the second majestic corgi picture.