Okay, its never peak crazy, but hopefully it is a personal local maximum. Mrs. L’s bionics are taking well, she’s walking with a cane and did a full lap around the block. As slow as she walked, she complained about it for longer than it took. Enough new floor got installed that they are going to put our furniture back in and let us live in our own house again. Translate that as: Brett is going to be moving furniture under Mrs. L’s watchful and grumpy eye for the whole 3 day weekend. And in any spare time I’ll be tasked to cleaning to her satisfaction. I sure hope everyone else’s life is getting back to normal, or better than ever.
The LA bomb squad blew up their own truck trying to dispose of illegal fireworks. My days of thinking the bomb squad are more likely to kill me than save me are definitely coming to a middle.
I expected more giantism from Japanese-nuclear-disaster-mutants h/t Playa Manhattan
I assume that like the Minumum Wage, the true Global Minimal Tax is zero. Maybe I spent too much time listening to Art Bell in the late 90s, but a Global Minimum Tax is straight out of black helicopters, New Word Order rants by the tinfoil hat crowd.
“I sure hope everyone elseâs life is getting back to normal, or better than ever”
Well, the heat broke, and the rainbows disappeared from the internet.
Who’s pride month is it now?
It’s greed month now.
With the heat waves? I would have expected Sloth. Cultural appropriation siestas….
The LA bomb squad blew up their own truck trying to dispose of illegal fireworks.
That’s some explosive breaking news.
Mission accomplished. Those fireworks are completely disposed of now.
Medals for everyone!
Yes, really a bang-up job.
Oscar worthy movie in the works. The Hurt Fockers.
But they wanted to dispose of them later, at their homes.
Was Frank Drebin there? Nothing to see here…
Well, he was LAPD, wasn’t he?
Well, Portland has decided that now is the time to ban fireworks. I’m sure the concept known as Antifa will respect that.
“Good job.”
/Mayor from Drop Dead Gorgeous
Jason Pierre-Paul says better than losing fingers!
Slow and stubby golf clap.
Countries including India, China and Switzerland have agreed to a broad framework for reform set out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Paris-based group said Thursday that 130 countries and jurisdictions were on board, representing more than 90% of global economic output.
All you need are one or two first-world holdouts. Look for a bunch of companies to be headquartered in Anguilla, or somewhere similar.
The article specifically says Ireland looks to be out. Considering they’re already popular for that reason, and assuming they don’t get Bjorn Borg-ed by the EU, that would probably do it.
That and I find myself wondering if (like other Paris agreements), the Administration remembers that this would be a treaty and subject to the approval of the Senate and all. Of course, the country club eGOP probably loves the idea, the weasels.
Do the other countries remember that executive agreements aren’t binding? We can make all kinds of deals if they don’t care if they are binding.
In public? Definitely not — witness the wailing over the climate agreement.
In private? 5 years ago I would have assumed so. However, the sheer malicious incompetence of the “elite” over the last few years makes me wonder if most of them (and their “experts” and staff) can find their hindquarters with both hands and a map, so who knows…..
“A decade after the Fukushima disaster, wild boars have been mating with domestic pigs in the nuclear wasteland and creating a new mutant species”
Mutant? I think that just bad journalisming. Otherwise, the Japanese will have to big giant robots to destroy them.
A mutant boar-pig? Get back to me when they get to man-bear-pig.
Doesn’t Japanese kink run more to tentacles than woodland critters?
My Friend Kinkero.
It could work!
Every wild pig in Amerca is the same form of mutant, be cause they all have some amount of Yorkshire in them.
Is your name Yorkshire?
‘is name’s not Yorksha! it’s ‘amish, theur girt girl’s blouse!
Teachers are heroes.
They’re so so lucky I’m not Dictator For Life (hmm… maybe I should play Tropico this weekend…) — Reagan and Air Traffic unions leap to mind.
I like the idea of the Tropico series, but the problem is that I just never have fun playing them.
^^^
Best one sentence video game review ever.
As soon as they can come up with safe vaccines, I’m on board…
The NEA will call for mandatory safe & effective COVID-19 vaccinations & testing for all students and staff
Of course, “effective” COVID-19 testing requires that everybody be tested on a pretty tight cycle – ideally, every day. Are the union members really signing up for that?
I suppose they could go for only testing symptomatic teachers, but that would kind of put the lie to the “ermagerd, asymptomatic transmission” thing that they have made such use of so far.
Why not? It’s not like they’re paying for it.
I just have serious doubts that the teachers are going to be excited about getting tested every day. If I was running a school and they brought this to me, I’d probably say “Daily anal swabs it is, then! Also, for any confirmed test, we will need a comprehensive list of every place you’ve been and every person you have had contact with for the past week.”
They wanna play COVID theater? Then let’s play COVID theater.
A decade after the Fukushima disaster, wild boars have been mating with domestic pigs in the nuclear wasteland and creating a new mutant species, DNA researchers have determined
Godzilla vs The Wilde Boar should be good.
Snarky response: I know she wasn’t spectacular in Tron: Legacy but I don’t think Olivia Wilde is all that boring. And I doubt she could take on Godzilla well…
Less snarky response: Swiss can just fly in and take them both down. Gamera is good turtle!
What caliber for mutant radioactive boars? 7.7 Arisaka?
.50 BMG
Better not be too many mutant boars though, that shit is expensive.
Joe Biden, healer of nations.
First Lady Jill Biden â who is featured on the August cover of Vogue after the fashion magazine broke a decades-long tradition by snubbing former First Lady Melania Trump during her four years in the White House â says people can âbreathe again,â now that former President Donald Trump is out of office. Mrs. Biden said President Joe Biden came in and âheal[ed] this nation.â
âDuring the campaign, I felt so much anxiety from people â they were scared,â Jill Biden told Vogue. âWhen I travel around the country now, I feel as though people can breathe again.â
âI think thatâs part of the reason Joe was elected,â the first lady added.
Jill Biden claimed âpeople wanted someone to come in and heal this nation,â adding that her husband has accomplished by âgetting shots in everybodyâs arms.â
Savior Joe is absolutely flawless and he loves us. He could probably walk on water.
George Floyd can’t.
Yeah… all 30 people in their cars who showed up, right Frau Doktor Jill?
And much as I don’t want the jab personally, the Biden group trying to take credit for the vaccination plans the Trump Admin left them is just sickening.
I’m amazed that someone could write that without vomiting.
It’s like not having a gag reflex – some folks are just born that way.
You may be right…
âRather, it appears that disgust sensitivity is related to a conservatism across a wide variety of cultures, geographic regions, and political systems.â
âPizarro and other groups suggest that the readily revolted are more likely to hold stable political views at the conservative end of the spectrum…”
–Kathleen McAuliffe
Itâs like not having a gag reflex â some folks are just born that way.
Its really handy in some professions. Including, apparently, journalism.
And vice-presidentialism too.
Not to get too SugarFree — but they write like they’ve practiced suppressing their gag reflex. So this batch of slobbering comes naturally.
I can think of at least two apt emojis that AFAIK don’t exist but should.
“Iâm amazed that someone could write that without vomiting.”
Obama has only been gone for five years. How soon you forgot the halo pictures and the knob slobbering. The left are creepy cultists.
Oh, I haven’t forgotten. I was amazed then, too.
Build Back Bitter!
lol
“I feel as though people can breathe again.â
Well Joe isn’t using a great deal of oxygen, that’s for sure.
The Nation certainty feels healed
Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever
“At this point, Wikipediaâs defenders might well fall back on their notion that only âreliable sourcesâ are permitted, and, gee, no reliable sources thought much of the above-mentioned video or laptop. âBut,â you might well observe, âit was big news for a time. And Wikipedia thought there were no reliable sources at all? Why not?â The reason is that the sources that provide mainstream coverage of conservative points of view, including Fox News, The New York Post, and the (U.K.) Daily Mailâas well as pretty much all of newer conservative news media sources, which are the only outlets doing any reporting on many important storiesâhave all been added to a list of sources âdeprecatedâ for their coverage of political news. This is not a joke and not an exaggeration. Republican-favoring sources, even quite mainstream ones, simply may not be used on Wikipedia, not even to explain a Republican viewpoint. (I will discuss this more in the last section below.)”
https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever/
It’s beyond lost. Who knew the early 2000s were a golden age?
I sure didn’t at the time, but looking back — the difference in attitude and security focus of coworkers astounds me.
The tail end of the golden age of the Slacker.
Gen-X had its brief and shining moment of glory.
A week or so ago, I was reading some page (I can’t find it now, since all the relevant pages have been edited since) about Bill Cosby’s sordid business, and it mentioned his wife talking about how there had been some kind of agreement that Cosby shouldn’t have been prosecuted. As we now know, that was exactly the case. However, at the time, the Wikipedia article dutifully continued, noting that according to many reliable sources, Cosby’s wife’s statement was “bizarre” and without merit, and furthermore her views were out of touch with the views of modern women or something to that effect; the relevance of this latter observation was not immediately evident to me.
Apply Hanlon’s Blunt Instrument as I coined it earlier today, the problem with Wikipedia’s current reliable sources policy and blacklist (RACIST!) is that the editors of Wikipedia are both stupid and malicious. The malice is obvious, they would not know good faith if it came up and saved them from eternal damnation. But the stupidity should not be discounted. Wikipedia is a massive bureaucracy, and in any bureaucracy, diligent incompetence is dutifully rewarded.
The United States has won international backing for its plan to overhaul the global system for taxing companies…
Pardon my ignorance, but WTF?
10% to the big guy.
Corporate cartels bad. Government cartels good.
China is going to eat our lunch.
the Air Force raised some eyebrows on Monday when it announced upcoming changes to its physical training test that would allow airmen to choose their own adventure for demonstrating physical prowess.
The new test, which the service will begin to experiment with in January 2022, will allow airmen to choose between running, shuttle run sprints, and walking for the aerobic portion of the test. Shuttle run sprints involve sprinting back and forth between two markers about 25 meters apart. They could then choose between planks and sit-ups for the core strength measure. And for the final portion of the test airmen would be allowed to choose between push-ups and raised-hand push-ups.
Instead of going up and down like a traditional push-up, the raised hand push-ups allow airmen to alternate lifting their hands up while in the push-up ready position, said Lt. Gen. Brian Kelly, the deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services at Air Force headquarters, when he discussed the upcoming changes to the physical fitness test in a live chat with Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass on Monday.
Oh c’mon, the chair force doesn’t have more than a handful of folks that need to be physically fit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2e2csDIPMw
Weren’t the old Air Force standards pathetically low?
Yes.
/ex-AF
My standard (good-humored) snark for those who tell me they’re former Air Force: “Oh, Air Force? That’s almost like being in the military.”
(I keed, I keed)
If you told me that….
I’d agree.
/ex AF
I used to tell my former Army boss that we all got a ribbon for being smart enough to walk past all the other recruiters.
“You weren’t in the military, you were in the Service!”
“Yep, and unless there’s a shitload more aircraft carriers getting built, you ain’t gonna win a war without us.” Unless it’s a submarine nuke war, of course.
Mrs. Biden said President Joe Biden came in and âheal[ed] this nation.â
Kiss my ass, Doc.
I thought dementia wasn’t contagious.
Was that one of those mutant super pigs jumping out of the truck a couple of mornings ago?
Scientists investigating the effects of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster in 2011 on the region’s animals report that radiation has had no adverse effects on their genetics.
So no actual mutations. Just closely related species interbreeding. But there must be nuclear scaremongering!
But of course — how else can they get government pork for their research? The swine….
Come on man… don’t boar Swiss.
All right, stop hamming it up.
Tusk-tusk, that was unnecessary!
I think they’re just towing the loin.
Not to mention wallowing in self pity.
You punsters are so opporktunistic.
Like they’re going to admit it.
Thank god Cuomo shut down the nukes feeding NYC – just in the nick of— *pop*
In case you were wondering, Swallowswell is still al lying pos.
On Wednesday MSNBC’s “Reid Out,” Swalwell repeated his sharp attacks on Republicans after anchor Joy Reid asked him how Republican lawmakers could look away from the “horrifying attack on our Capitol” that occurred on January 6.
“This is a party now that Kevin McCarthy leads that is pro-slavery, a majority of their members voted to keep the Confederate monuments at the Capitol,” Swalwell insisted. “Instead of siding with the police, theyâre rolling with the cop-killers. Instead of standing up to end gun violence prevention-instead of standing up to end gun violence in America with gun violence prevention, they are supporting mass shooters, like the shooter over last summer they are raising money for and holding up high.”
What a loathsome excuse for a human being. A politician in the worst meaning of the term.
But enough about Joy Reid.
This is a party now that Kevin McCarthy leads that is pro-slavery
“Rep. Swalwell, could you identify when the Democrat Party stopped being the pro-slavery, pro-Jim Crow, and pro-segregation party?”
That’s Rep Swalwell (D-Beijing).
The idea that he is still in congress is an absurdity. It’s like at the top of the list of shit you can’t do. He is hopelessly compromised and everybody knows it, but because congresscritters are no longer subject to any consequences for bad actions.
Sometime after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Republicans got the bill through, figured they were done after getting rid of actual systemic racism and then decided to keep the Black man down.
In a statement, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called the agreement a “historic day for economic diplomacy.” Yellen secured the support of the Group of Seven nations, including Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, last month.
“For decades, the United States has participated in a self-defeating international tax competition, lowering our corporate tax rates only to watch other nations lower theirs in response,” Yellen said. That “race to the bottom” is now “one step closer to coming to an end,” she continued.
The OECD’s framework includes a global minimum tax of at least 15% on multinational companies. The plan also holds that the biggest companies should pay tax where they generate sales
and earn profits, and not just where they have a physical presence â a move that could have major ramifications for top tech companies like Google (GOOGL) and Amazon (AMZN).
Establishing a global minimum tax has been a top priority for President Joe Biden, who wants to boost government revenue to help offset the costs of his proposed infrastructure package.</strong.
“Where’s my cut?”
So are these international profiteers now supposed to pay 15% of corporate earnings in every country in which they operate? That could get expensive.
Strong words there, Brooks.
I guess the rest of the world got jealous of the civil war the Biden wants to start in the US and decided to join in the fun.
So the real question… who gets the first 15% cut?
Or do they all get an equal cut? So what if you’re operating in 7 countries, pay each of us 15% of your earnings!
And for the final portion of the test airmen would be allowed to choose between push-ups and raised-hand push-ups.
Jazz hands pushups?
The old PT program.
Soon it will be performed on an X-box.
hand-job push-ups?
So, what’s with Frau Doktor’s wardrobe? It looks like she buys her fabric from an upolstery shop. Her dress materials look like they came off Great Grnadma’s davenport.
Meow!
She has been raiding another first lady’s wardrobe.
Defund the Police? Or Libertarian Moment?
That’s effed up, but I think it’s the same rationale as that an unlocked door is an invitation to walk in. I hate the law.
The short skirt exoneration.
I hate new laws, but how about forcible trespassing?
How bout criminal trespass? If its not B&E, at least get the fucker for criminal trespass…
It’s a misdemeanor in MN if somebody
occupies or enters the dwelling
or locked or posted buildingof another, withoutclaim of right or consent of the owneror the consent of one who has the right to give consent, except in an emergency situation;It might be one of those deals where the prosecutor knows that the criminal is already on probation, has no money and that no judge will send him to jail/prison.
So why go through the effort? He isn’t going to jail or having his probation revoked. He can’t pay fines or restitution. And it wasn’t in the prosecutor’s neighborhood.
That might require work.
Traditionally “breaking and entering” means using force to enter. I don’t see any other definitions in VA law. However, VA has several statutes against merely entering a residence with intent to commit a felony, which would sure seem to apply.
Today in NYT: Maybe Trump Wasnât the Worst President Ever?
Soon they will treat Trump like GWB.
Somehow, at the moment I’m subscribing to the NYT, WSJ and the Boston Globe. Okay, the most expensive subscription is $4 a month. But still.
Hey man, we were just kidding when Trump was president. Can’t you people take a joke?
Prepping for the next GOP presidential candidate. “THIS GUY’S WORSE THAN TRUMPENHITLER EVER WAS!”
STEVE SMITH APPROVES THIS MESSAGE!
STEVE SMITH REPLIES THIS MESSAGE!
Good news, there is no more crime in NYC!
“Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg is paraded through court in CUFFS and pleads not guilty to charges he evaded taxes on $1.7m in income and on company perks after five-year investigation that’s cost New York millions”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9746895/Trump-CFO-Allen-Weisselberg-paraded-court-CUFFS-face-charges-unpaid-taxes.html
“EXCLUSIVE: Kimberly Guilfoyle told GOP donors how Don Jr liked it when she wore a cheerleading outfit and called him a ‘naughty boy,’ new book reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9737731/Kimberly-Guilfoyle-told-GOP-donors-Don-Jr-liked-wore-cheerleading-outfit.html
pics or GTFO
Is it weird that I like Don Jr. better now?
She said he ‘was a “naughty boy” when she “let him out of his cage.”‘
I read that and wondered if he was into cuckolding/wearing chastity cages.
Whatever floats your boat, but I wonder about people with those fetishes.
Sounds like he has normal interests, unlike Hunter and his freaky shit.
‘Cause somehow that’s worse than fucking your dying brother’s wife.
OK, sure.
That was just a momentary slip!
Since then he has been a paragon of the community. Well except that stripper momma. But I’m sure that kid will turn out fine even if his grandpa refuses to acknowledge him. Gives the kid some grit.
Man finds women in sexy outfit, sexy. News at 11.
Not the messiah? (sorry)
+1 Rachel Greene
On second thought, what was Gavin into? On third thought, never mind. Pleh.
“Cashing in on campus: College athletes rush to ink ‘six-figure’ endorsement deals one day after NCAA lifts rules against profiting off name, image, and likeness”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9745271/College-athletes-rush-ink-six-figure-endorsement-deals-one-day-NCAA-lifts-NIL-rules.html
“Miami condo rescue efforts are halted INDEFINITELY amid fears remaining structure might topple on rescuers – as tropical storm heads for disaster site”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9745421/Miami-condo-rescue-efforts-HALTED-amid-fears-structure-toppling-tropical-storm-heads-site.html
yikes!
Then he challenged them to pushup contests, finally wandering to a local 7-11, where he ordered a slice.
This stopped being a rescue days ago. Its body recovery now.
Mrs L. Wood.
Hope she gets better sooner rather than later.
My kids friends mom just told me im getting a $4,500 check from Joe Biden this month because i have 3 children. Is this true?
I don’t have children. Where’s my bribe?
You created no minions for Gozer??? You get nothing!
As most things dealing with taxes… it depends.
/has no children, but starting to get real sick of funding them.
Yeah theyve been robbing my paychecks for almost 30 yearsâany time i can get any type of refund on that-iâll take it
Not blaming you, but I do think this credit is an early refund type deal. But I will vote down every single school levy they try to pass in my neck of the woods, or anything else “for the children”.
Shit my kids use the schools and i vote against any âfor the schoolsâ bullshit. Im paying over 12k in property taxes as it is.
âCause somehow thatâs worse than fucking your dying brotherâs wife.
He was consoling her, you heartless monster.
He was definitely doing something to her “console”
It’s good that Mrs. L is getting better.
LAPD Bomb techs trying to safety dispose of several Improvised Fireworks inside the Dept Total Containment Vessel miscalculated and resulting blast destroyed containment sphere and blew out windows for blocks. At least 3 people transported.
Without government, who would improperly dispose of fireworks?
Every 14 year old boy across the entire country?
See… 14 year old boys don’t have the training (i.e. grifting opportunities for “trainers”) that the government has leading to sub-par improper disposal of fireworks. We wouldn’t want the grifters to do witho… errr…. sub-par improper disposal of fireworks do we?
Curb your attack dog
Nearly 40 House Democrats are demanding House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy take what they call “immediate action” to address the behavior of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, whose actions, they say in a Thursday letter obtained by CNN, “could lead to violence against members of Congress.”
The group chose to take this step after Greene spoke as a warmup act for former President Donald Trump at his rally in Ohio last weekend, an aide familiar with the letter’s origins told CNN. Greene, without evidence, repeatedly claimed Trump won the 2020 election and viciously attacked Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Greene described Ocasio-Cortez as the “little communist from New York City,” and nodded in agreement with the crowd when they started shouting “lock her up.”
Ocasio-Cortez has signed on to the letter, which is led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and is signed by a diverse list of House Democrats, including fellow progressives like Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and more moderate members like Reps. Gerald Connolly of Virginia and Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania.
The Democrats write that they believe Greene’s conduct has reached an “unacceptable level,” referring to several incidents from her short tenure in Congress, including Greene’s posting of an anti-transgender sign outside of her office, directly across the hall from another lawmaker who has a transgender child.
“Rep. Greene’s conduct does not comport with what we expect from a member of the House of Representatives,” the letter reads. “Moreover, we are extremely concerned that her conduct is creating an unsafe work environment for members, and that her actions could lead to violence against members of Congress.”
Poor things. Their delicate sensibilities are under assault. Who could ever have imagined Congresspeeplz would fight over the toys in the sandbox?
her conduct is creating an unsafe work environment for members, and that her actions could lead to violence against members of Congress.â
Wouldn’t that be true of pretty much all 435 members? Also, fuck their pseudo aristocratic pretensions. You’re the hired help, you should be fear of getting your asses kicked and your necks stretched for what you all have been doing. Excerpt Omar. The brother fucking undeported illegal alien can be repatriated to her own country at 20kft.
I’m perplexed.
After all the love and support that The Squad has showered on Marjorie Taylor Greene, you would think she wouldn’t attack them. Doesn’t she understand that comity is a two way street?
Steve Scalise should write the response.
We need a special committee to investigate Jan 6 because some Congress people soiled their suits, but no one needs to look into what radicalized the guy to shoot up the Republicans.
He was radicalized by evil Republicans trying to steal his health care so they could give money to billionaires, duh.
https://twitter.com/FalconryFinance/status/1406792672736530434
LOLOLOL
I gotta say, as a confirmed gun pervert… The idea of having a trained anti-drone falcon doing my top cover is getting me going a little bit.
I have an owl that is nearby. I just want to see it. I hear it often, but can never locate it. I would love to see an owl fuck up a drone.
I was walking through a patch of woods in my suburban slice of heaven one night this spring and I finally saw the owl that I heard for so long.
Of course, I saw it as it swooped a few feet over my head which wasn’t the ideal way to see him. Had to go home and do a load of laundry because I didn’t want the wife to start asking questions about how my grundies ended up like that.
Click through to the original tweet and scroll down. He’s got drone POV footage of the bird taking one down.
“NFL Clarifies That The Entire League Isn’t Gay, Just The Dallas Cowboys”
https://babylonbee.com/news/nfl-clarifies-that-the-entire-league-isnt-gay-just-the-dallas-cowboys
*snicker*
I know who to send that to.
Found some .223 ammo at the local sporting goods store, $0.65 per round. Prices coming back down from the troposphere.
Grrr.
Even when you try, you get put up against the wall
You have to read a long way into that story to read that the store had lots of shrinkage and crazy security expenses. The first 3/4 of the story is all about how great the store was and how everyone loved it. So glowing the only reason Target closed it just had to be racism.
I was about to say that the shoplifting was probably off the charts.
But itâs not kosher to say that.
Well, none of the shoplifters used bikes.
âWhen the store closed, it was like saying, âYou are not worthy after all.’â
If you dont like being called an asshole, stop being an asshole. This isn’t hard stuff. Kudos to Target…there is a reason there were no stores there in the first place. Ask the war-mart in kingwood, Texas. Oh, that’s right, you cant because they are gone.
“If you dont like being called an asshole, stop being an asshole”
Or, you know, don’t attach your self-esteem to a shopping chain.
Baltimore City is “struggling with crime and poverty” like Kim Jong-Un is “struggling” with being a totalitarian dictator.
High alert
The White House is deploying Covid-19 response teams across the United States focused on combatting the highly contagious delta variant, the Biden administration announced Thursday.
The teams, comprised of officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies, will work with communities at higher risk of experiencing outbreaks and will focus on increasing the rate of Covid-19 vaccinations, White House Covid czar Jeff Zients said during a White House news briefing on the pandemic.
The teams will also increase testing to expand detection of the virus, facilitate contact tracing and provide therapeutics to help treat those who become infected, he said, adding the government is ready to provide additional personnel.
There are 1,000 counties in the U.S. that have vaccination coverage of less than 30%, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said at the briefing. These counties, primarily in the South and Midwest, are the most vulnerable to the variant, she said.
âTo be clear, the federal government stands ready to meet the moment and work with our state partners to respond to the delta variant,â Zients said.
We’ll have our PR people ready to jump in front of the cameras at a moment’s notice.
Spare me the bullshit. Itâs more virulent, less pathogenic, which is exactly what we want.
Itâs more virulent, less pathogenic,
Its not more virulent, its more infectious. “Virulent” means “makes you really sick or kills you”.
Correct.âIt’s more transmissible, less virulent.âWhich is what we want.
BahâŚ.
Whatever
OFFS.
TREMBLE IN FEAR, AMERICA!
I am fairly certain that space aliens have sprayed the earth with some kind of retard-inducing chemical agent.
I have noticed they don’t even try to toss out any cases or hospitalizations with this one…just BEWARE! They are targeting with fear those silly unrepentant hicks that just won’t get vaccinated it seems.
DARPA is working on Pie’s dart gun suggestion.
Of course they drop this bullshit right before the holiday weekend.
Man company trainings are so droll. Every time it’s Dumb guy being set straight by intelligent woman.
So… like in the entirety of American popular culture for the last 30 or 40 years?
The man.
One second.
It sells….
https://youtu.be/DOGdgvbX5Ls?t=27
Kimberly Guilfoyle told GOP donors how Don Jr liked it when she wore a cheerleading outfit
Like this?
*cough* NSFW *cough*
She forgot her panties???
Mildly, but yeah, probably not something in this climate for a boss to happen upon. I’ve seen more cheek on news sites.
*cough* NSFW *cough*
Oops.
I did not read the hog story because of the ridiculous pop ups and the page jumping around. I hate that shit. Who is designing web pages these days? Do all of the publishers contract that job out to schools for retards?
From the comments I get the notion that the story is that there are no mutations. The rest seems to be a big nothing burger. Developmentally pigs are odd critters. If you separate siblings and raise half of them in a pen then set the other half loose to grow in the wild the pen half will be fat, have sparse hair and short snouts with a steep brow. The wild half will be lean, long snouted, no forehead slope and have lots of shaggy hair.
The story here is that all of the hysteria over the nuclear meltdown was for naught…as hysteria usually is.
Yes, I canât stand websites like that one for more than thirty seconds viewing. Itâs almost like they are designed to repel people. A far as the feral hogs, they look quite like typical feral hogs. Mutant my ass, that is pure clickbait.
One of the suburbs of Cleveland is coming down hard on an establishment. From their objection to renewing a liquor license:
Sounds like a normal bar.
Chuck E. Cheese definitely would not be my first choice of a drinking establishment.
Dads gotta do what Dads gotta do though. Sugar pizza and watered down beer is not all that bad.
LePage files paperwork to run for governor
Former Maine Governor Paul LePage has filed paperwork to run for governor in 2022.
The move is not unexpected. The Republican has hinted since before leaving office that he would challenge Democratic Governor Janet Mills.
A post on his Facebook page says. Exciting news to share soon. Please visit the new site and sign up to be the first to know.
That website comes along with a countdown ticker that ends Monday morning at 11am.
LePage registered as a candidate for governor today with the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices.
The filing allows LePage to begin raising money for his campaign.
He still needs to file paperwork with the Maine Secretary of Stateâs Office to gather the signatures required to appear on the ballot next year.
LePage served as Maine governor from 2011 to 2019 and was prevented from running for a third consecutive term in 2018 due to term limits.
LePage served as Maine governor from 2011 to 2019 and was prevented from running for a third consecutive term in 2018 due to term limits.
The FedGov is really working hard to curry favor with its employees. This will be the 2nd early release with 3-hours of paid admin leave (not charged to other like annual or sick) in conjunction with an upcoming holiday. I have only ever seen this done for Christmas Eve in the past 10 years.
Granted I am considered essential and mission critical, so it doesn’t apply but still. Seems like buying good times to me.
I want my tax money back. I’m not getting anything for it. ?
But the roads! And the regulations! And the police!
Government is just violence done against us in all of our names.
*ahem* that is airways to you, good sir!
I mentioned that in relation to constantly raised property taxes, has a good friend shout at me and say âI was selfishâ for not wanting to âpay my share.â Share of what? Endless union fees and other peopleâs pensions?
AND THE ROADS!!!!
I think ‘friend’ is feeble minded and given in to the brainwashing.
Razor does endzone dance on Cosby verdict.
https://youtu.be/lJvijmbWOvk
The Norm McDonald and Gloria clip….good god.
I dont know what to make of the Cosby case. I do know that he was outspoken about black communities assimilating into the civil society by having good work ethic, nuclear families and not committing crime. Suddenly he was persona non grata and all of the accusations surfaced.
Absent the act that he is accused of, what to make of it is someone railroaded for a ‘social’ movement. Now we need to see it for the normal people caught up in that bullshit.
I have never ever heard all the details in that case because I really didn’t give a fuck. Maybe I should have. That was some bullshit there. The fact it took so long to get thrown out is a bit disheartening.
TMITE
Thanks dude for agreeing with my infallible position on this.
Here’s a thought experiment. Within this science fiction setting, you have two human societies separated by scads of light years.
One is a large and wealthy region stuck in internicine wars of varying intencity. In these wars anything short of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons with whatever tactics or strategies would prove most effecatious being employed in any given theater. However, these wars are mostly isolated to known border regions with large swathes of planets which do not see fighting for centuries. It has a thriving capitalist economy including interstellar trade, even cross-border trade.
The other is a smaller resource-poor area ruled by an authoritarian warrior caste who settles disputes in almost ritualized flower wars whose aim is to minimize damage and loss of materiel. Right to rule is determined by personal skill in these ritual combats. It has a socialist command economy, and all children are raised in communal heavily ideological government schools with no interaction with their parents. The idea of trade is derided and looked down upon by most of the people with any real influence.
Assuming they started at a similar tech level, after a few centuries, which of these societies would be more innovative and technologically advanced?
The capitalist trading economy. Especially with areas of the planet that are not touched by occasional violence.
This is what I thought too, but these are descriptions of the Inner Sphere and the Clans in Battletech, and for some reason, they made the Clans more advanced and better at ‘real’ war, despite having little practice at it and discarding their more experienced leaders when they lose their fast twitch reflexes with age.
I wouldn’t take the word of fiction writers who don’t understand economics as being accurate on matters of economics.
I didn’t want to call it out. đ
That’s also a fictional setting where during the Clans exodus the Inner Sphere was already losing the ability to understand the technology they were using, and couldn’t replace it (thanks to Comstar going into full cult religion mode). There’s also the point that the Clans used heavy genetic engineering on their offspring to provide better genetics.
Yet if you read the exodus lore, there’s no reason the clans would have any special ability to understand the tech either.
But Comstar’s monopoly was only on HPGs. In terms of development for military equipment, there was a ton of competition, and potential sources of new competition.
There is literally no incentive for the clans to have innovated.
I seem to recall that the Clan placed an emphasis on knowledge as well, with their scientist/scholar caste being right below the Mechwarriors in terms of status. Once the Inner Sphere got their hands on some of the Clan tech, they improved it and made it better as well. Of course, the world also had to be designed where Battlemechs were rare heirlooms, and to craft a reason why they were better then swarms of vehicles.
When you grow up in an indoctrination factory and glean no benefit from developing something new, both the ability to innovate and the incentive are lacking.
I don’t mind the setting. I mind the stupidity of the clan culture and ongoing infestation.
The Battletech world is a world where you go for fun, not things that make sense.
Were all clanners raised in creches, or just warrior caste? Since giftake only come from warriors, I can’t believe that any other caste is anything other than freeborn.
The Clans weren’t better at real war. That’s why they lost at Tukayyid.
Their mechs were vastly superior pound for pound, so initially IS tactics were based on faulty information.
Never forget – they lost to the Phone Company.
I stopped following the lore once FASA went under, but didn’t the IS annihilate Smoke Jaguar and reconquer everything they lost?
Yes and no.
Most recently they decided to make clanners head of the Third Star League – the least legitimate iteration of that name yet.
When Germany was split between the socialist east and the nominally free trade west German companies were split as well. When Germany was re-united so were the companies. What the west German companies found was that their East German counterparts were still using the same tools to make the same things in exactly the same way as they did in 1945. Nothing had changed, they were frozen in time. No innovation whatsoever in products or methods.
A buddy of mine worked for one of those companies…I want to say it was Zeiss…and his reaction was “Hell, we dont even make that stuff anymore”.
It isn’t a thought experiment, it actually happened.
Again, I congratulate all of the booger-eatin’ morons that helped get OMB out of office.
The hell you say!
That should’ve included the quote “No innovation whatsoever in products or methods.”
The Trabant says ‘Hi!’
It’s probably a toss up.
?
Trabant would like a word.
It seems a consensus is forming.
Interesting that the cars have a similar heritage in common.
There’s a guy down in Wasilla has a Yugo. We see him driving it every now and then. If you thought they were pieces of shit new, you should see one that’s spent 40-some years dealing with Alaska winters.
Well….
When you have the succession wars being so brutal that tech families having to hide in bunkers….
And ROMstar working on sabotaging continued research…..And family dynasties….
Hard to say how anything could get done.
There is no way comstar could kill enough potential sources of innovation period.
And the period after the secnd succession war was centuries without that degree of free for all. Nevermind the fact that there were still plent of entire bloody plants left unscathed.
Oh I agree that there should have been some surviving tech. Just going by the lore…..
“its just a game”
<person who had all the source books, and still have the "grey death legion" books as well.
Never could get into AEROTECH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC2lsZU_Y4A
I’m currently playing MW5 on the other monitor and have Price of Glory paused on my walkman waiting for the next audiobook time.
I’m still going to criticize something I like when it’s being stupid.
A Griffin IIc has a higher damage output than a pre-lostech Awesome, and can easily solo an Atlas from the same time period. When your gear is that OP, it covers a lot of flaws.
Ever since they took out the backward facing lasers, I’ve seen plenty of lights/mediums taking apart unsupported assaults by staying in their blind spot.
Always support your heavies.
None of my designs ever had a blind spot. Your main weapons go on the arms, not the torso.
I’m talking about the stock models.
UCS:
Stock models? What’s the fun in that?
I got annoyed when the video games went to the hardpoint model instead of just space and tonnage. My goal with every mech I designed was to be able to do an Alpha Strike heavy enough to take out a heavier weight class’s max armor without needing to immediately shut down due to heat.
So, you’re using the MechCommander model.
When we get into customizable hardware, of course the player designed ‘Mechs will be better than what rolled off the assembly line.
I used the lore (and thus the stock models) as a frame of reference because I’d been ranting about lore.
*rips SRMs off salvage and dumps them in ‘for sale’ bin*
UCS:
/pushes his MechCommander and BattleTech books under a bed
The addition of stability was something I actually enjoyed quite a bit in the Battletech game. It added some decent options for adding missile boats and physical attacks.
Half my assaults I got by knocking them over until the pilot was senseless.
UCS:
Called shot to the head with an AC/20 was my go to. Until I got Gauss Rifles.
My SLDF Highlander got nicknamed “Ablative Meat Shield” because I realized the objective for the mission before getting it didn’t require getting the whole lance out alive. So it was positioned to soak up more of the hits to get the client out.
After I started driving it personally, I could take the head off an atlas as soon as I had line of sight.
SRM >> A/C 5
but a Global Minimum Tax is straight out of black helicopters, New Word Order rants by the tinfoil hat crowd.
Who wants to start a company in Barbados with me?
I’m waiting to see what the Cayman Islands and Liechtenstein will do. There is Ilse of Man but I don’t think the climate is all that good.
Liechtenstein is where Men can change the stars!
Oops. From Wikipedia Liechtenstein is out.
In October 2015, the European Union and Liechtenstein signed a tax agreement to ensure the automatic exchange of financial information in case of tax disputes. The collection of data started in 2016, and is another step to bring the principality in line with other European countries with regard to its taxation of private individuals and corporate assets.
Dumbasses.
I have been to Grand Caymen a few times and it is a fun place. Especially if you are a diver which I am not but the beer was cheap. (granted we are going back late 80’s early 90’s so that really means nothing) I have never been to Barbados but I like that neighborhood.
From the post above.
“Target invested in a struggling area, but the outcome was almost more disheartening: The company ultimately decided that, despite its social goals, the store was not financially successful enough to keep open. The closing is a sobering reminder of the realities of capitalism”
Ok now do the realities of communism
There would be no shrink, because everyone would be lined up and shot. But there would be no Target. You would have a chance to get a slice of bread if you lined up at the local community store early on Monday morning.
Let us lighten the mood
?
I am so grouchy I thought nothing could lighten my mood right now. Despite the awful music that did lighten my mood. Thank you.
well, I cursed myself yesterday by saying my eye surgery today would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. It got canceled. So now I’m bummed. Two more weeks, when I was supposed to be home with a new cataract-free eye right now.
Sorry they canceled. Worth the wait though. It is awesome.
Sorry.
That sucks. Well, it’ll be worth the wait.
Spoiler alert, Japanese pron is actually blurry for all of us too.
“President Biden wins global support for massive tax overhaul”
Unconstitutional and DOA. Who’s going to enforce that?
We need more lampposts.
Simple me thinks something like is a treaty and would need the consent of the Senate….but that is simple me.
A head of state unilaterally setting taxes. The founders would disown us.
One of my favorite bits from Sleepy Hollow (first season was decent, it went downhill quickly) was the person who was woken up in the modern day learning about sales tax, and ranting about it.
And you’d be absolutely right. It’s almost like these assholes are just seeing how far they can push anything, no matter what.
They ‘proved’ that the country doesn’t care, State and people, that they don’t need consent for a treaty with the whole Iran deal in Obama’s term. That was written off as “He had to! It is a do-nothing Congress!”
That’s how people treat something they stole. Put it all on red, it was free anyway.
^this^
If they try and pull that it will last as long as Biden lasts, which will be one term. DeSantis will win 2024 decisively and that is absolutely one thing that would get immediately ditched.
It’s official: Newsom recall election Sept. 14th, 2021.
When is that cockroach’s term up? I guess it doesnt matter. Trump was impeached after he was out of office.
California voters got what they voted for. Dumbasses. Now we are getting what Biden voters voted for. 10 bucks says if the R’s take the house and senate they won’t impeach Biden. Or maybe they will right after they repeal Obamacare.
It’s a win for gruesome. He want’s it to happen just as all the bribery checks are being cashed. I have faith that he’ll do something exceedingly offensive before then anyways. He has a knack for being a giant douche. A man’s gotta have some kind of skills.
If we have some big fires, Herr Newsom’s big lies about fire prevention will dominate the news about them. That might be enough right there. Exaggerating the acreage being cleared by 690% while simultaneously reducing the fire budget by 150 million and, also simultaneously spending 100’s of millions on the homeless plague, that’s going to leave a mark while the forests burn and the power is being shut down so we can’t charge our EVs.
How does it work? Is it D v R or multiple D’s against each other…?
I would put money on whoever the Dem party machine seems to be propping up.
It’s two parts. Question one is, do you want to throw the bum out. Question two is, which bum do you want to replace him with.
Personally, I want to see him kicked out and I don’t care much who replaces him. We can always kick that asshole out too. This dumbshit needs to get jettisoned for the good of anyone who might one day be subjected to his kingly whims in the future. Trust me, he plans on moving up.
Oh, and I believe there’s about 79 contenders so far. The entry requirements are very small and it’s a rare chance to win a huge office with little experience or effort.
The comparisons draw themselves.
So far there are zero other Dems that have signed up. That may change, but as of now there are no other Dems on the ballot. The best of the lot is probably the ex mayor of San Diego, that is milquetoast at best, but an improvement. Gavin needs to be ditched before he tries and make the next jump up.
It would be great to get an improvement, but it’s not all that important. What’s meaningful is showing him and the future mini Il Duce’s that we can kick them out. That and stopping him from moving up to the next round.
And Sept 14 is gonna be after school restarts, so we’ll see how he handles the teachers as well. They’ll campaign against his ass if he tries to make them go back. Well, without a massive cash outlay. So he’ll probably dump a bunch of $$ on them in the summer to prevent this.
This, too. LAUSD is pushing hard for mandatory vaxxing for ALL kids. I see a bunch of parents refusing to jab their 5-6 y/o’s with an experimental drug they’ve been told all year is not safe for anyone under 16. Empty seats mean less dough from the golden goose.
I liked how his dumbass chief of staff didnât file the right paperwork and so now he may not have a D next to his name in the recall election. Of course they are suing to change that as no way he wants to just run on his name. I donât have too much hope that his ass will be sent packing, but anything is possible. If the summer sees a lot of rolling blackouts then all bets are off. Oh, how I despise that greasy fucker.
Don’t count him in just yet. He’s so offensive to normal people that it will motivate them to hit the gong. They might elect his political twin, but I think there a higher than not chance he gets extricated from his throne.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
This is where I’m at.
You turned hipster?
Wait.. you’re saying there was a time when Sean wasn’t hipster? Get outta here!
I do not have a beard.
You don’t need one if you have any of the other hipster accessories. Skinny Jeans? Man purse? A vest? A small electric vehicle? No facial hair at all. Apple anything? Seen drinking a soy latte?
You don’t need one if you have any of the other hipster accessories. Skinny Jeans? Man purse? A vest? A small electric vehicle? No facial hair at all. Apple anything? Seen drinking a soy latte?
I think this is the first time I’ve ever double posted anything. It’s a sign! Sean is a hipster!
So what you’re saying is that you’re cleanshaven before it was cool?
I’ve met Sean, and he never struck me as a hipster type.
You’re ruining the fun.
Wife had her first customer demand to know her vaccination status. It was a good thing I was not there. She handled it like a businesswoman and saved the customer. I would have, in much more words, told her to fuck off.
The answer is always, “of course I am vaccinated”. (my shot record is a multi page book but let’s not nitpick about any particular vaccine)
My thoughts exactly.
Yep – polio, small-pox, tetanus, even shingles. I’m immunized against all the truly dangerous stuff.
She was much more diplomatic. I would have told the customer that they have been dealing for over a year with a vaxxer and I could potentially be the harbinger of death but you didn’t care about that now did you?
I tattooed my status on my ass, want to see? *stands up and loosens belt*
I like it.
The crowd all says, ” Wow!” in unison, only to be corrected by you, “No, it says Mom!”
Dude, you’re so much like me that you get on my nerves. Stop that!
It is just amazing to me how many people are chickenshit cowards.
Agreed. Know what eased her addled mind? Wife agreed to, while picking up the dog in a dog pen where the owner leaves it, to wear a mask. That is it.
Never mind the fact that for the past 4 months, this woman, prior to her vaccination apparently, had no issues with standing next to and talking with my wife until the deadly Delta variant has reared its head!
Like I said, much more diplomatic than me. Guess that is why I married her.
Not just cowards but idiots as well.
I would struggle to value such a person’s continued business relationship over the desire to get them the hell away from me.
Fighting to keep news of inflation, the WH announcing your backyard BBQ is going to be $0.16 cheaper….TMITE is running with it.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/07/01/huge-economic-news-white-house-tweets-that-the-cost-of-an-independence-day-barbecue-is-down-16-cents-this-year/
I won’t click twitchy links. I don’t know what nefarious deeds that they are up to, but the site invariably kills my browser performance.
Usually about 20-25 embedded Twitter links to show their story.
Will my chocolate rations be doubled from 10 to 5 also?
I bet the “decrease” in costs is due to unit sizes going down.
“White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained, Americans are actually paying less for gas âin real termsâ these days.”
And Lori Lightfoot is enlightening us all with the truth that crime is down.
More “Believe me and not your lying eyes” crap from authoritarian assholes. As the citizens of the USSR were fond of saying “We listen to the press and authorities so we know what not to believe.”
WTF is real terms?
Weasel words so they can later claim not to have technically lied.
‘After you extract the massive inflation we’ve pumped into our money supply’.
Instead of putting $50 in the tank, you put $30 because the other $20 went into higher grocery costs.
Compared to the price of lumber?
Her theme song.
Whatever we decide it is today.
Because no one has actually been to a supermarket lately?
The Leftie policy setters certainly havenât.
They employ the serfs for that so that they themselves can hole up in their dachas and make important decisions for the Greater Good.
You just think that inflation and shrinkflation exists. But it’s another right wing lie. You need to ask the experts, they’ll set you straight.
Maybe if you walk to the butcher shop.
Was late to the party, just wanted to comment about Westernslopers Water article; Awesome!
Thanks SM, and thanks to those who also said they liked it. I didn’t want to be a loser and late comment on my own post to say thanks to everyone but I was working when it went up. And a correction to the story. That trip would have been in the early 2000’s not the late 90’s. Math is hard.
It was a good story. I saw it after this post went up.
Good story WS, I enjoyed it for a lunchtime treat.
I thought I saw fraternal Downs twins at the grocery. I didn’t know they come in twos, I thought. I think they were a midget couple, though. Cute pair, waddling through the freezer aisle.
Im off to work early, kids. Hold things together while Im gone.
The upside is that Ill be able to enjoy my TallCansÂŽ an hour earlier in the morning.
https://www.naval-technology.com/comment/railgun-potentially-cancelled-went-wrong-us-superweapon/
hayeksplosives hit?
It apparently isn’t diverse enough.
Needs more development in the graft department?
They shouldn’t have let the LAPD bomb squad be consultants on that project.
actually yes, that was a project of hers,
/said too much, Ducking now….
That story is from 2017. It says the project could be wound down as early as early 2019.
Navy railgun is done-zo for now. Itâs always come in peaks and troughs.
The technology made a lot of progress in this latest 15 year stint, but it isnât time yet.
This isnât a surprise to anyone in the community. Army has a few bucks left still.
The article is Dec 2017
Article from today
https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-ditches-futuristic-railgun-eyes-hypersonic-missiles
Plus Iâll add this since Iâm evil too.
https://youtu.be/q_sQUK418mM
“Plus Iâll add this since Iâm evil too.”
I don’t get the point. Why else would you be here?
Required for all libertarians Iâve been told.
Holy crap, that’s a lot of storage batteries! Surprised it’s in close proximity to the gun unit.
My guess is if it goes pear shaped the plasma ball takes out everything in a wide radius.
OT I just realized unless I make a very conscious effort I canât say âyorushiku onegai shimasuâ without bowing my head. Pretty much the same for all the polite words at this point.
I was thinking about potential outgassing from the cells.
Hah hah! I’ve caught myself miming mannerisms from shadowing a little. Your head bowing though, earns you this Dogen: https://youtu.be/Qmfipv-H4_o
I canât say anything useful or interesting.
I will say everything that is in the public discussion is public because itâs not particularly useful, novel, or surprising.
I remember when hypersonic missiles were a big thing in the late 80s.
There was a railgun project adjacent to the laser fusion project I worked on at LANL in the late 80’s. I wanted to transfer over but ultimately it didn’t matter; both were cancelled in the early 90’s.
Back you into a corner, wink wink
Run, Joe, run, you were warned. She’s going to try to put the dried up old crinkly dust mop on you! Run!!!! Gah, the horror!
Jeebus, even SF could not write such a horror.
You are tempting fate.
This is the shit that happens when deep red states re-elect a D senator, and Repubs completely screw up their chances in Georgia. The electoral landscape for the Senate in 2022 looks even bleaker for the GOP.
If I move to WV, I’m going to help get Manchin’s sorry ass primaried. You trust that guy? LOL, umm, just say no.
The trouble with HVP is that range is limited. Because increasing the speed of any vehicle/projectile increases the need for exponentially more energy (air resistance increases exponentially) the projectile slows down very quickly at high speeds. I am just spitballing here…really, no sarcasm…I wonder if heavier, more aerodynamic projectiles would be the better strategy. Also…you know…rockets. Rockets are always going to have more range, precision and speed.
Itâs all about money at this point.
We are mostly in asymmetric warfare. Looking for something cheaper than missiles to counter other missiles.
Since Tres has left for work and
NephMr. Ilium is upthread discussing….some sort of…gaming thing (?) I’ll take a chance that no one else has mentioned Guv DeRino’s latest middle finger to Ohio businesses.How you say in your (abbreviated) language? CWAA?
He’s like the Heartland Mittens.
I was disappoint that there were no more Grinch who stole Summer shirts in Put-In-Bay last weekend. But Fuck DeWine was still a regular toast.
In mild amusement for me, Holey Moley (ridiculous over the top mini-golf) has returned. They lean into the absurdity of it all, which entertains the girlfriend and I.
Godzilla in the sand trap?
Here’s an idea of their greatest hits. So many people getting hit by windmills.
I had no idea Wipeout had a mini-golf spinoff.
You don’t want to win the golden putter and the plaid jacket?
Are you speaking of the TV series or an actual course where you can play? (Please say there’s a real course somewhere in Ohio!)
Seriously? No mini golf? Iâm surprised.
Itâs like a staple of the NJ seashore. Too many places to count.
Cali is the same, I love Mini golf, almost as fun as Disc, and waaaaay better than ball golf,
You and me, bro. We need to get together and play some disc and mini golf.
Someday Bro, my latest Gal is better than me, and we plan on touring together, she is as serious as me, so we are going to journey, even down Texas way,
Oh, we have mini golf….somewhere around here. I was just hoping we had honest-to-goodness EXTREME mini golf.
I was a big fan of the tilt-a-whirl when wee. All those other ones scared the shit outta me. Bakelite seats with nothing to hang onto.
This is the TV series. There are a good half dozen courses around the girlfriend and I, but not that over the top.
Besides, she wouldn’t do the over the top stuff, she was afraid to do half the rides I went on at Cedar Point.
Is the TV series as much fun – and as cathartically violent (or would it be violently cathartic?) – as BattleBots?
…and now that you’ve mentioned amusement park rides, I went to take a ride on a Ferris wheel. đ
I managed to get this ride in with an under 5 minute wait earlier this week. Later that day, there was a 10 minute wait for this one later in the day.
The girlfriend was unwilling to ride either with me.
I’ve done some coasters at Kings Island, but haven’t been there for ages, and coasters aren’t so much my thing. Give me a double Ferris wheel any day.
Ferris wheels terrify me for some reason.
Love roller coasters.
I’m sorry – what’s that you just said?
LOL I haven’t thought of Wolfman Jack in decades.
Ferris Wheel, of DEATH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21h0G_gU9Tw&ab_channel=DavidLee
Probably less violent, as there haven’t been any serious injuries that I’ve seen.
However, the real selling point is ABC Sports pulling the mustard yellow 1970’s jackets out of storage and having Joe Tessitore (straight ABC sports guy) and Rob Riggle (comedian) as the color commentators. Lots of face plants and people getting knocked into water, as well as much mockery. The grand prize is usually something like $100,000, but the winner of each match gets the plaid jacket and the golden putter.
Is it a(nother) stain upon my character that I find Rob Riggle annoying?
That’s kind of his character in the show, the completely ignorant moron commenting about sports.
I may not be the best judge of Americans’ funny-sports-guy preferences. I think I’m the only person in the US of A who liked it when Dennis Miller was on MNF (and when I could look up all his references on the Britannica website’s Tuesday morning “Annotated Dennis Miller.”)
Now, children, the lesson of the day is:
How do you say barf?
Letâs not forget Vogueâs loving piece on Asma al-Assad.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/the-only-remaining-online-copy-of-vogues-asma-al-assad-profile/250753/
LOL
All of the politicians, and all of the people who voted for them, and all of the judges, and military, and cops, and government employees: when you add them all up, they’re still a minority.
https://archive.li/QTGqe/a63aaa7aa9de70c593816f798d05b3fd2a1ba3f7.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/XTAqJ/e8850a315c89ebe9ff7f01cfae2201cf305e0425.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/39yuT/a081fd503296e5139cff12b958632a7eff6892aa.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/sruPc/311b98ebe093aa06fdffb78f307ad0138da27d1a.jpg
NSFW.
Just got back from trivia night at the local pub.
The âdouble or nothing questionâ was âIn which Anne [her pronunciation] Rand novel is the protagonist an architect named Roark?â
The double or nothing add-on was âwhat Ayn Rand dystopian novella published in 1938 concerned the elimination of the individual?â
These were fill in the blank, not multiple choice. Needless to say, i wagered the max and got them both right.
That gave us an insurmountable lead so we won the whole game. The irony is that the prize is $200 at some beauty shop where I can buy makeup and shit.
Still kinda proud.
When the trivia gal announced Fountainhead and Anthem as the answers, I said Woot! and clapped like weâd all been doing during the game. I was greeted with stony silence on that one. A lonely life we libertarians must leadâŚ
Nice! We “l’s” are good at knowing things. Our brewery gives out 50$ gift cards for first place, and it’s multiple guess.
I would gladly trade $200 in beauty products for $50 in brewery bucks!!
haha, that’s awesome!
Thanks, Goddess of Wisdom!
Rock on HS.
You should use that certificate. Get your balls gilded!
I have three young step-grandkids.
Should I start education IRAs for them? Regular IRAs? Plain old savings accounts?
Any advice is welcome. Iâd probably be opening them through USAA.
If college is the plan then open a 529 account.
Thatâs a great question though isnât it? What will college mean in 15-20 years?
If college is crap by then, or itâs been socialized by the US govt, what happens to the 529s?
I suppose it would do my heart good to pretend college will still mean something good in the future.
I think if the money isn’t used by the time they are 26, the kids get to keep it
Nah, let them take out loans and wait for President AOC to cancel their debt.
Exactly my fear.
Still, I canât help feeling like they will be able to get classic university education somewhere.
There is a radon the US is THE destination for graduate degrees. Somewhere along the path to wokedom, money will take the route of what the market wants.
They donât want degrees in Critical Race Theory. They want engineering, medicine, law, etc.
There is a radon.
There is a reason.
Meh, Iâve heard it both ways.
Put money into some kind of neutral account and watch the children grow. If they seem worthy, transfer the money to an education fund, if not, get drunk and get daily pedicures for a year.
The voice of wisdom right here, ladies and jellyfish.
Oh great, some Slovenian dude typo’d his email address when signing up for some Slovenian version of Uber, so now I’m getting his ride receipts.
Come on Konstantin, your University is only a mile and a half from your apartment, you can just walk and save yourself 2.50âŹ
That’s pretty damn funny.
Just buy yourself a gigantic orthodox cross and a 1980s tracksuit and prettied you are a big wheel in Slovenia. There could be big bucks to be made if you take his next Uber ride.
Or you could be hogtied and tortured to death before being pushed out of a moving car.
50/50.
Wait, it’s Slovakia, not Slovenia. Unless those are the same country, idk how Europe works.
Nah, not many Eastern orthos in Slovakia.
Pass.
Nor in Slovenia. They’re Catholic.
There are still a few Russian and Serb orthos in Slovenia. Just 5% or so, but they are over represented in the âdisappear you in the middle of the nightâ crowd.
I donât claim they are actual believers; itâs more of a tribal colors thing.
Now that you mention it, I do remember visiting the Serbian Orthodox Church in Ljubljana.
Relevant
https://i.imgur.com/pLS6Nxx.jpg
Good thing it’s a charter school. The teacher can be fired.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/07/01/newsletter-much-of-what-will-be-taught-in-kindergarten-will-be-foundational-thinking-about-being-anti-racist/
USAA dumped their IRA accounts over to Charles Schwab last year, if that’s of any use.
Really? I thought they were still with Vanguard. I like Vanguard and Fidelity. Pretty reasonable fees and conservative investing.
I’m with Fidelity for my traditional IRA and Mrs. Shpip’s Roth.
Here’s the answer to your question re: not using a 529. Fortunately, the accounts can be used to pay for more than just traditional four-year college.
Thank you!
Is that sweet doggo in your avatar your real-life furry friend?
Heâs quite lovely & darned cute.
The 529s moved to Victory Capital Management.
Thanks guys. This is good info.
I am going to invest with the âslight edgeâ philosophy. A decent start to each, then an add on every birthday and Christmas. Maybe even quarterly. Let it ride. Not telling the parents.
They are pretty far out from needing it now.
The world crumbles but this is best we can elect to lead. https://youtu.be/mnC5JVwcpWY
Muh cultural appropriation!!
Did he reprise his blackface look?
Nope. Shaved his Covid beard and now the Press is gushing about how clean-shaven Justin is just like the one we knew in the before times. In the long, long ago… It’s beyond parody.
Sorry to read about the sax-splosion at your Hubby’s gig last night.
Ermhgrd! There is no Emily Post, ZARDOS, or STEVE SMITH guidance on what to do there!
Itâs open night and fun for all skill levels at 6 string and bass. But two fucking horns?? What are ya gonna do? Try to take charge and suggest a different timeslot for âopen instrumentsâ and one for âguitars tuned to 440â or what?
I think the only thing to do is quit going. We donât wanna spoil some self centered cootâs time.
One of my least favorite parts of 80’s music was that blaring sexophone. Springsteen’s band was the worst. Loathe it.
“Springsteenâs band was the worst.”
This one speaks truth. All of that electronic crap was pretty awful as well.
Springsteen sucks.
“Electronic crap?”
Hateful. ?
/Huddles with Sloopy & Rhywun.
https://youtu.be/8TToLgW7zuc
You’re both wrong.
Springsteen might be an asshole, but sucks is a strong word. He’s just not all that and a bag of chips. Overrated is a much better description.
Also, a lot of the electronic music is lame keyboard masturbation. Synthesized beat music for white girls who can’t dance to wiggle to for free drinks and some dick.
/Sits alone in corner
I liked a-ha when I was a young lass of 8 years. Plenty of terrible synthesizer there.
I will grant major props to tears for fears for being synthy but awesome at it.
Tears for Fears, Head over Heels
https://youtu.be/CsHiG-43Fzg
Synth use that does not suck at all – The Stranglers – Toiler On The Sea
Yah, there are so many counter-examples one doesn’t even know where to begin.
I would mock Canada, but…Biden/Harris.
On the other hand, I know our election was rigged. You Canuckis actually voted for that twink.
*Nelson laugh*
In unrelated news, the natives are even more restless than ever. At least eight Catholic Churches burned down in the last couple of days. Just a matter of time before one of them tries to punch me in the nose for being me. Good luck with that.
I saw it earlier, didn’t realize it was up to 8. Unbelievable. Whoever is doing it is damn lucky they haven’t killed anyone so far. Not that they would care.
Whut? Where? What is going on?
Ah. Never mind, I looked it up.
“At least four Catholic churches on native land in Canada have burned down in the last week, following nationwide grief and outrage over the discovery of human remains in unmarked graves at so-called âresidential schools.â
Ouch. I am not willing to jump on one side or the other. If anyone should know that chickens always come home to roost it should be the Catholic Church.
What in the�
All we can hope (and pray) for now is rational, non political investigation, adjudication, and resolution.
I am going to just go on a rant here about the American sprinter Shacarri Richardson.
The woman just dusted everyone in the competition but sheâs being ruled ineligible for the award and more importantly the Olympic competition because she failed her drug test.
Not for steroids, or coke, or meth, or anything you think might give an edge.
Cannibals. Look, if the girl can smoke weed and still run her ass off, how is the weed smoking material?
If you want to pick nits, the Olympics are letting trans women (XY women) in if their testosterone is less than cismales but still 10x higher than XX women.
Cannabis gives serenity, which can give you an edge, IMO
True, but is it a âperformance enhancingâ drug?
A nice glass of sherry in the evening gives some people serenity.
What about Tylenol for pain? Without it, maybe ankle pain would have held an athlete back.
Itâs all rather fuzzy but they put regulations on it.
Iâd be more sympathetic to the Olympic committee âNo to any drugâ policy if they didnât admit transcritters (who MUST take various hormone drugs) in.
“Itâs all rather fuzzy but they put regulations on it.” By design maybe?
Ya think? Itâs almost as if itâs a political pageant and not a sport!
I don’t think it’s nitpicking to say XYs should not be competing in women’s sports. It’s straight up BS. I’m still waiting for the for the first big XY in the XX bathroom event here at work. It should be fun. I can’t wait for mandatory CBT that follows.
As far as pot smoking goes, it is BS too, but it’s a condition of employment. Choose. I can choose pot, or my job. They can do the same.
“I canât wait for mandatory CBT that follows.”
Cock and ball torture is mandatory? Yikes.
I’ll pass.
>>locks in coordinates<(
You vill enchoy it.
LOL I know I will.
We don’t drug test at work, we would lose most of our employees if we did. The running joke is Gourmet Mushrooms inc. is powered by THC.
This, except that the Olympics are funded by a tsunami of taxpayer dollars.
We should have a say what the rules are.
Shut up peon! You have no say, its taxpayers money,
I was trying to figure out why you are asking anthropophages about why they’re making their food smoke pot.
Yay! Autocorrect!
This came up on the zoomy last week (in relation to the Td’F) . I posit that the World Anti Doping Agency, WADA, is an evil on par with the BATFE.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHtJPrzUFEU
?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd_72Uo4CZo
Sports!
Heh.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/disaster-nyc-elections-corrupt-even-insane-far-left-mayor-de-blasio-calling-audit/
*falls out of chair*
It is a delicious scandal.
Good morning, gentlemen (and lady, if hayek is still about.) As expected, before the end of the work day yesterday – the first day of the month – my boss was inquiring how far I’d gotten in month-end reports. It didn’t help that I was finding more mistakes than usual in the data I use to compile our monthly report on charged-off loans. I think the Collections Manager is sorely feeling the lack of the Collector gal who’s on maternity leave right now.
Morning.
How are atmospheric conditions in your corner of the world? Has it cooled down yet? It’s only 61 degrees F here at the moment, with a predicted high of 76. Should I send some of the cool your way?
It’s 62 with a predicted high of 70
Monday it jumps back to the 80s
70 here but 100% humidity all day.
…and speaking of smart financial decisions, I finally made a point of doing enough debit transactions on my checking account last month to earn the higher rate of interest, such as it is, instead of putting them all on my credit card (which I pay off in full.) #StartWithAPenny?
Interest bearing checking account?
does not compute.
0.75% APY if I meet the conditions – e-statements, DD of at least $500, and 12 debit transactions per month. Otherwise it’s 0.02%.
That’s an awesome account; is this at your CU? I recently fled BofA for USAA after some new account rules were introduced.
Yup. My primary financial institution and longtime employer. Good for you for fleeing BofA. From what I know of them, they’re bad&evil.
Wouldn’t you get at least 1% back from any decent credit card? Or do you get a discount when using debit instead of credit?
I know our credit card has an OK rewards program, but it seems geared more toward merchandise, so I haven’t paid much attention. I’ll see if they’ve added a cashback option. No discount for debit AFAIK, just the chance for the higher interest – excuse me, DIVIDEND – rate.
I get 3% on groceries. I have a pretty eye-opening amount in there which I haven’t used yet.
The Capital One I have is a meager .1% APR, but no conditions.
Their Savor Card is pretty good for groceries and restaurants.
Howdy to all yallins, I hope you have great weekend, looks like perfect bbq weather ahead,
*looks at radar*
Got more scattered storms rolling through.
Mornin’ y’all. Just home from work, sippin’ a cocktail, and waiting for the kids to awaken so I can make pancakes. It rained all night, still sprinkling, and oppressively muggy.
Fun fact: we put raspberries in our waffle batter before mixing it up. The hand mixer pulverizes them better than it does blueberries. Adds a nice pink to the batter.
That sounds scrumptious, and the kids would love it. thanks.
Try to find the biggest berries you can – the little tykes slip between the blades of the beaters. (You can put those in a bowl of oatmeal.)
(The small berries that is – not the beaters.)
Here I was thinking you were going to put the little tykes into a bowl of oatmeal.
perfect bbq weather ahead
Yes, sir. Sunny and warm.
My wife is a bit peeved that I have not opened last year’s father’s day gift which is still sitting in the box in the garage.
I told her she she could re-wrap it for my birthday. She was not amused.
wut
Hey buddy, stop doing that.
Well, freedom means freedom to take risks for oneself. This guy did do, Natural Selection.
Thus ends the lesson .
Didn’t even have to tell him once.
I gotta get moving people, I’m out of town today. Later, Glibs
Have a safe trip!
Take care, be safe.
What with not making the annual trip to Florida last Summer, I have no fireworks so as to celebrate the birth of my nation by blowing up a small part of it. My pyromaniac heart aches.
đ What’s the nearest state where you could procure pyrotechnics?
I’ve always gotten them in Alabama or South Carolina; I really have no idea if any place here in the NE likes freedom, but I doubt it.
Tangentially related – the angriest I’ve ever seen my dad was 04 July 1976. We were living on the sailboat in the anchorage of Coconut Grove (South Miami). It was an amazing night for fireworks, being the Bicentennial. However, some genius in the anchorage started shooting signal flares; one of which landed on our deck. After extinguishing the conflagration, dad hopped into the dinghy and set off at a frantic pace. Luckily, as the asshole was using red flares, the USCG and Grouper Troopers were there first.
Was there at least big fine in lieu of an ass whuppin’?
Pennsylvania allows you to buy fireworks. I think NJ as well if you have a out of state license.
Correction, NJ only sells fountains and cakes that donât shoot rockets.
PA you can get mortars and the like. Bottle rockets and fire crackers.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/07/author-of-pennsylvanias-fireworks-law-says-get-over-it-its-not-going-to-be-repealed.html
Since I felt no patriotism last year, I bought no explodies.
I doubled up this year to make up for it. $400 easy.
When my wife complains, I’ll tell her she always complains I don’t do enough with my son.
Good Fireworks were illegal here until a few years ago. It didnât matter much as everyone had a guy.
That guy used to be an uncle of mine. He would get the really dangerous stuff like quarter sticks. Dammed things looked cartoonish. Looked like a red toilet paper core filled with flash or black powder.
Same her. We used to load up twice a year in TN on the way north. Now, in addition to year round super centers, there trailers and tents in numerous strip mall parking lots to peruse during peak days.
“Dumb question: Why wouldnât you throw the Stingray back? I mean, what the hell are you going to do with it?”
There’s a recipe where you use a cookie cutter to essentailly turn a bunch of the meat into scallops. There’s also another delicious recipe that involves a slow cook to tenderize the meat, mostly in butter. The ‘cleaning’ of the fish and harvesting of the meat takes more effort than usual, but I’ve heard it’s well worth it.
I believe a lot of fake crab meat is punched rays.
That was the SW Florida high school rumor I grew up with; sea scallops are real, bay scallops are just punched ray wings.
When I was in England, the chip shops sold fried skate, which is related. It wasn’t filleted, and I didn’t like it any better than the usual.
Mask police.
Infuriating.
I hope there is a reckoning against these abominations some day.