Awesome Dallas Halloween lawn tableaux is back, this time with a woodchipper. The decorations are so disturbing that people call the cops. Which one of You People™ is responsible?
The wonks at Foreign Policy are having the vapors, again; today about unvaxed cops. But after much hand-wringing, they reluctantly reach the right conclusion, sorta. But note how they are just fine with mandates for non-cops:
Unvaccinated Police Officers Could Become America’s Own Insurgents
Iraq and Egypt show how hard it is to get rid of a militarized security force
[…]
There has to be a better way of dealing with the police. Mandates may be working overall, but like it or not, police officers are—by dint of their training—a special subset of the workforce. Folks who work in Tyson Foods warehouses or fly planes may grumble about vaccine mandates, but most end up complying. Police officers are different not just because of the strength of their unions but because they actually have the means to seek redress and revenge through their guns and training.
This is the militarization of the police coming home to roost. In the short run, it seems the best local officials and police chiefs can do is put a definitive end to military-style policing and continue to try to persuade the resisters with accurate information from trusted sources like their own peers.
This may be emotionally unsatisfying for the vaccinated and outraged, but it is better than producing potential new recruits for those hoping to foment civil conflict. The United States is not like Middle Eastern countries, but it is also no stranger to political violence. Officials should do everything they can to avoid it—even if it means keeping unvaccinated cops on the force.
How to see Uranus.
Buffalo mayoral race – socialist vs Democrat hack. Normal people FITA either way.
Illinois high school student convicted of thought hate crime for joke advertisement for slave for sale, faces probation and mandatory counseling.
Italian airline stewardesses strip to slips to protest flip. No nip slips. English version.
Awesome Dallas Halloween lawn tableaux is back, this time with a woodchipper.
Brutal.
Faake.
It’s a faaaake!
I love it!
[Shatner voice] PRRREeeeeeeeeeeeetttt!!!
I have a culinary question.
If I sknow you can create a quick pickle by sealing the veggie and pickling liquid in a vacuum bag. If I then turned around and put the sealed bag in a sous vide for a while, is it possible to get it sterile enough to store?
In general, yes.
In more detail, yes.
In further detail, it depends on what the veggie is, and what the pickling liquid is.
I was thinking about making more pickled mushrooms, and it led me to thinking about it, especially as I was using the vacuum sealer on marinades and meats.
Theoretically, if the acid level is high enough, it should be safe. But I am not a doctor, nor a food safety expert, nor your manager.
Biggest issue with anything that’s got the chance for dirt on it is botulism (from my limited knowledge).
My pickling liquid was salt and vinegar last time, I don’t know if raw vinegar is acidic enough.
*I’m assuming the herbs had a negligable effect on the overall Ph.
What, exactly, was the “hate crime” here, nevermind multiple crimes? Last time I checked, doing something in poor taste didn’t meet the standard of criminal activity.
Oh… he violated the unwritten FYTW amendment.
Well, I’m not seeing how that’s a felony either, but hate crime laws are inherently stupid.
That sounds like some hate speech right there Count…
We’re citing you for changing lanes without signalling. We are also charging you with felony hate crimes because you were thinking racist thoughts at the time.
Dude should have been an elected Democrat before trying that.
Who the hell was his lawyer?
I think even Lionel Hutz should have been able to pull out his pocket Constitution and get the charges tossed.
Please tell me that this is a deal where the kid plead out just to be done with this instead of fighting it. I’d be too depressed if it actually went to trial and grown adults who passed the bar exam didn’t notice the blatant 1A violations.
Let that be a lesson. Stick to shoplifting, the penalties are
a lot lighternonexistent.JFC – in 1995 I was convicted of DUI. I did not have a lawyer and threw myself on the mercy of the court. I was sentenced to 1 yr probation and 80 hours community service. What I did was inherently more dangerous (although I harmed no one, I was quite definitely blotto). This is ridiculous and a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. And while the article states they had been friends, it doesn’t clarify if this was something the former friend agreed to do or not prior to the friendship souring. Either way, 2 felonies, fuck that court. Run ’em all through the Dallas Halloween woodchipper.
“Flight attendants at the former national carrier Alitalia discarded their old uniforms and stripped to their slips at the Campidoglio in Rome Wednesday in a flash mob protest against what they say is the raw deal they are getting with its new slimmed down incarnation ITA Airways.”
Not sure how that would work.
It probably has garnered them considerable….attention.
slimmed down incarnation
So the old uniforms that fit the chubbies are completely gone and now referred to as pasta tents?
I’m glad to see Michael Totten’s horror story on Alitalia is still on the web.
Man, what a horror story.
Looks like a discrimination law suit, no male, trans, third category.
Demi Rose need not apply, looks like, either.
Unvaccinated Police Officers Could Become America’s Own Insurgents
Jan. 6 2.0. All the unvaxxed and those that disagree with the regime are insurgent insurrectionist enemies of the state.
They are realizing that the carrot didn’t work and there is a sizable chuck that are scoffing at the stick. Gotta keep it moving forward and next logical step is to….
Removal of the officials pushing illegal mandates?
Re: Seether.
Good song, as is their other hit, Volcano Girls. But something that always bothered me about that song. At the bridge, the lyrics go:
Told you ’bout the seether before
You know, the one that’s neither or nor
Well, here’s another clue if you please
The seether’s Louise
So now we know what the Seether is. But dammit, that’s no clue, Veruca Salt, you’re straight up telling us. You need to rework that line.
I’ve been seething about that for 20 years.
Seems like a straight up Beatles tribute. Glass Onion.
Here’s another clue for you all
The Walrus was Paul
Yeah, jokes aside, every damn thing they did was nostalgia bait. The album was called “Eight Arms to Hold You”. Another album was called “Resolver”. Their first album was “American Thighs”. Their name is of course, from Willie Wonka. There’s probably a ton more, if I was more familiar with them. The original ‘memberberries act.
Sorry… my joke meter is broken. I have been explaining plain things to simple people all day. I see it now.
I figured that you, like any good Florida Man, were on meth all day.
Does he get new neighbors every year? Do they not know what to expect by now? Or (most likely) are his neighbors just idiots?
Why not both?
There was a house I used to drive by at the old job that would build a snow sculpture that took up the whole lawn every year (and was usually about 6-8 feet tall). It made the commute suck at times because of rubber neckers slowing down on the street.
I always felt kind of sorry for those streets where several houses team up and decide to do a big elaborate Christmas display every year. Pretty much from sundown till like midnight, for a month every year, their neighborhood becomes a moving parking lot. And right around the holidays too.
Of course, I slow down and gawk too so I guess I contribute to the problem….
There is a neighborhood close to me that is well-known for its Christmas displays. You don’t buy a house there without knowing what you’re getting into.
This^^. Kind of like buying one of the painted ladies in San Francisco.
How to see Uranus.
Use a mirror.
Make sure you only do it on a clear night though. You don’t want to get caught out in a shit storm.
Or near a gas giant.
I wanted to see Uranus, but was mooned instead.
Butt out, you guys
Or, apparently, move to Buffalo.
socialist vs Democrat hack
What’s the difference?
I’m a little surprised that Craigslist hasn’t been charged with human trafficking.
IIRC they were accused of facilitating that, which is why they killed their “personals” sections, which caused the hookup-seekers to clog other threads.
The anti-trafficking people also drove the nail into the coffin of newspaper (etc) personal ads, perhaps a couple of years before their natural death due to competition from online dating services.
Also, they are going after hotel chains claiming that they facilitate trafficking.
Scratch the surface of this movement and you will find anti-consensual-prostitution and anti-porn people.
Yeah I was referring to the slave for sale ad – how did that slip past them with all of the scrutiny?
IIRC they were accused of facilitating that, which is why they killed their “personals” sections, which caused the hookup-seekers to clog other threads.
That’s correct.
Backpage got whacked too, and I think a few folks behind Backpage were arrested over trafficking accusations which turned out to be bullshit.
Speaking of Backpage…
I ‘member.
Thanks, DEG. I couldn’t remember the name of the service.
pleaded guilty Sept. 1 to two counts of felony hate crime and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
That’s some horseshit.
“Hate crimes have no place in a civilized society and will not be tolerated, regardless of the accused’s age,” State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin said in a statement.
Prosecuting for the perceived motive is thought crime and state is assho.
Welcome to the United Soviet Socialist Republics of Canada.
A Christian pastor who grew up under the tyranny of the Soviet Union in Poland is now banned from traveling outside of the Canadian province where he lives, and the judge who heard the case also ordered Artur Pawlowski to read in public a prepared statement on the coronavirus.
Pawlowski and at least nine other Christian pastors in Canada have been charged for opening the doors to their churches for worship services in defiance of lockdown rules in Canada, according to Rebel News.
“Whenever [Pawlowski] says something contrary to government policy, whether it’s in a church sermon or in the media or on Twitter or Facebook, he must immediately read a government drafted script rebutting and rebuking and disclaiming himself,” Rebel News journalist Ezra Levant said in an interview Tuesday on the Glenn Beck radio program. “He must denounce himself immediately after criticizing the government on lockdowns.”
Do not capitulate.
Do drugs fall out of his ass when he makes that statement?
The US should offer him asylum. The bad orange man probably would have.
For anyone who is interested the Rebel News source referenced by Breitbart is: https://www.rebelnews.com/
And I know that you people can look it up on your own, but we are all about reader service here.
The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone
It don’t disagree with the advice, but by the power of my trusty HP-12C this has compounded interest rate of 9.9%. Not exactly a risk free rate.
After about a year, my brokerage account… has almost broken even.
My deferred comp over 10 years hasn’t fully doubled my contributions. Though oddly it has almost doubled from the low point in March 2020 (It had been declining sharply just prior to that point.)
Now do renting from the cellular provider for and extra $50/month forever. Ideally, you buy a model or two behind for cash and keep it until it won’t take a charge or you can’t update the OS version anymore. Or… give up your daily Shitbucks run.
or both
Yeah, I’ve had my cheap sub-$100 phone for six years now, although I’ve been thinking about replacing it for several months.
HAHA! try 100$ year, maybe if I drop it in the toilet,
/true story
Do what I do and blow my corporate credit card points on Apple crap.
you get to keep your corporate card points? lucky bastard!
Isn’t it because it’s Scruffy’s company?
Yeah
It makes up for a very very small portion of the 3% fees I pay on every credit card transaction for receivables.
They’re using the numbers government pensions use.
Today’s handiwork
https://pasteboard.co/XAI0QH4MHokA.jpg
Making the stand or filling the stand?
A worthy effort. You’ll be stacking entire cords in no time!
There’s only a 4lb. maul here. I think I could do better with maybe 6lb.
I suppose a 9lb. would be a little too heavy?
You go, girl!
https://media.giphy.com/media/l2Sqa1saEr2ti2ZUc/giphy.gif
Nice.
Nice.
Nice wood.
Nice wood.
*shakes fist at Ghostpatzer*
If you only posted 9 minutes earlier, you would have beat him. So close.
It’s that whole “refresh before posting” thing I’m bad at.
*Raises middle finger enthusiastically*
Nice wood
I hear there’s nice wood.
I thought it was supposed to be “Nice! Would!”
Feh. I’m not chopping wood. Also, I don’t have anywhere to put any.
^^^ thread winner
Nice beaver… er wood.
How you didn’t visualize that, I do not know.
Who doesn’t want a mask that isn’t USB-C compatible. And it NEEDS LEDs of course.
Razer’s futuristic Zephyr mask is available today, starting at $99.99
I can’t get bacon at the grocery store, but dammit if I can’t get a useless face diaper that lights up for only $100!
Reports of America’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
That’s gayer than two dudes blowing each other.*
*NTTAWWT
This means that mask mandates aren’t going away anytime soon. Designer masks will become the next iPhones; I wonder if Apple will get into the market. Just another tool to create a privileged, mask-wearing class and further isolate the unmasked hoi polloi.
I’ve been in the hoi polloi all my life; I see no reason to stop now.
Old joke:
Why was beer invented? So ugly dudes/chicks could get laid.
I guess beer is no longer necessary.
What came first, Beer or Bread?
It isn’t clear, but probably bread.
But many think civilization is due to beer. Nomads can make bread, but its tough making beer. So you need to settle down.
“It didn’t help Razer’s case that it didn’t initially have any certification to prove that the mask would be safe to use in a pandemic — and it still doesn’t.”
That’s ok neither do the cloth masks and we still use those.
It’s not going to stop until people stop participating.
“You know, the CDC has guidance currently that says even if you are vaccinated, you do need to wear a mask, and that will likely be the case for children until the CDC changes it,” Murthy advised. “But, here’s what we have to remember: When our children get vaccinated, several things happen. Number one, we have a mental peace of mind and comfort of knowing that their risk with bad outcomes of COVID just dropped significantly. The second thing to know is it reduces the pressure to quarantine kids once they are exposed to the virus. We know that if you have somebody in the classroom who is exposed, but if you’re vaccinated, your chances of actually getting sick are much, much less. But finally, you know, I think many parents will likely feel more comfortable with their kids engaging in activities like sports and getting together with friends for birthday parties if they know that all the children are vaccinated.”
As I have been stating for awhile the intention is to never return to normal. Stop participating in the farce.
Quite interesting because aren’t they saying because kids aren’t getting the vaccine is why the mask mandate is in place. Move the goalposts 50 meters to the left of Andromeda please and thank you.
Correct.
Stepping aside that two people died and left 5 children..you ready for a whole lotta ‘shit that never happen for $1000’?
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-couple-died-of-covid-leaving-five-children-16550906.php
Lets count them:
#1 “His last words to my mom were, ‘Mom, I love you. I wish I would have got the shot,'”
#2 He said the Stafford County couple had regularly taken in online misinformation about the virus and vaccines. “He liked to listen to different memes he would see – or different people saying . . . covid is not real.”
#3 “I remember him telling me . . . ‘I ain’t ever going to get it. It ain’t going to happen to me,'”
#4 …almost a dozen people have reached out to tell him they have been vaccinated because they heard Kevin and Misty’s story. Yet he’s also noticed that others online have called the story “fake news.”
#5 Before being placed on a ventilator, according to Mike, Kevin begged doctors to give him a vaccine.
Bull. Shit. for 800 Alex….
Video or it didn’t happen.
Hell, even if there is video, it didn’t happen. I saw video of king Kong fighting Godzilla the other weekend, but dammit that Millie Bobby Brown still ain’t convincing me it actually happened.
Sounds just like me with the exception of 1,2,4 and 5, but other than that it could easily be me.
It can’t be. People from Stafford aren’t as backward as people from Spotsy.
His last words to my mom were, ‘Mom, I love you. I wish I would have got the shot, like Colin Powell’
#6 Then everyone on the bus stood up and cheered.
I thought they were supposed to
clapjazz handsThe Democrat hack is right – the socialist only won the primary because nobody votes in primaries except “activists”.
See: AOC.
This is how the far-left is taking over the party.
“I certainly believe the progressive movement [is] right on the issues,” Nina Turner
that’s an interesting way to say, “I’m stupid.”
The article gave a pretty accurate description of Buffalo politics – it’s about 2/3 blue-collar whites and 1/3 reliable-voter blacks. There is virtually nobody there clamoring for socialism like you see in wealthier cities like SF, Portland, or even NYC.
Under ordinary circumstances, Buffalo is not electing a “socialist” anything.
In the last three years, three different neighbors, at two houses we own, asked me to chip in half to build a new fence a few inches towards their side of a common property border. They made it clear that them building the fence was not contingent upon me paying for half of this improvement entirely on their private property.
I said no to all three. Actually, the most recent I’m giving a strong ignore, since it is at a rental property located in a different county, and I’ve never met the person making the request.
Is this something to do with that subjective “fairness” thing people bandy about, or is it related to the sense of entitlement people develop from successfully voting to force other people to pay for shit they want?
We built a fence when we moved into our place. LIttle kids and dogs to corral. It was one of the first in the development. About 10 years after we installed our neighbor put fencing in as well and actually offered us money because our shared border was already done for him. We declined but thought that was a generous offer.
We put up a chain link fence and I felt guilty because we were the only ones on the block who had one and it did break up a nice straightaway in the backyards of all the houses. But like you, I had kids and a dog to keep confined so I did it.
Fastforward 15 years and we just had two other neighbors put up fences and they are monstrosities. More than head high and solid. Both look like crap.
Wife is sorta upset, but as I told her unless we want to start paying for neighbors’ mortgages it really isn’t our business.
* Seems like a very low rent deal to ask your neighbor to pay half for your fence.
In the farm country where I was a kid, fencing between two properties was generally a cost-split affair between the two landowners, as a matter or courtesy. That’s the way it was between the Old Man and our neighbor to the west, who ran cattle; the guy to the east had no stock and so they never bothered with a fence.
But farm country’s a little different.
Well, you don’t want comingling of the herds. Or their cows eating your fodder.
Or your neighbors eating your cows.
I was only thinking of city/suburban fences.
Of course before I get too carried away about the nobility of ranchers fencing their stuff in, I need to remember the many times I’ve seen ranchers try fencing in land that wasn’t technically theirs and then trying to keep me from hunting on it.
When we were selling our farm as a kid my dad had a survey done to find out that a big chunk of our neighbors pasture technically belonged to us.
Did your neighbor scream “Adverse Possession, Bitchez!” flip you two birds and run off cackling?
Yeah, the Old Man knew of old Hamill’s reputation (the neighbor to the west) for that kind of shit, so had a good survey done when he bought the land. The fence went right down the damn line. He made good and sure of that, and old Hamill just had to suck it up.
In the west, fences that run down the property line are the responsibility of both parties. It is why you see them face in/face out on each side of the property line.
I got one of three offer when we had to replace ours. I would have done it anyways, I didn’t ask anyone to split it, but I did go and inform them what I was doing. The neighbor who split our shared fence also got the shared fence to his house and a new gate done on that side, so it was all good. I was always told that where you can’t tell, whoever has the supports side is probably the owner. You put the smooth side facing out. That was my whole yard.
Correct and Code, and it’s a nice gesture,
/Best foot forward
When I bought my place, there was a falling down fence on one side. When I replaced it, my neighbor came to me and said he couldn’t help. I wasn’t expecting him to, so I just said no problem and went ahead with my plans.
When we built our fence after the electric company destroyed the trees on the property line, I didn’t even tell my (rental) neighbors. In my book renters don’t deserve much consideration.
Tell ’em you’ll put up the whole thing and pay for it. Then start driving steel posts for an electric fence.They probably won’t ask you again.
I love the guy impaled through his mouth with a tiki torch
LOL I didn’t catch that
*rethinks setting up the new tiki bar*
Nothing but net.
On Wednesday, Boston center Enes Kanter posted a video to his Twitter account, calling on the Chinese government to “Free Tibet.”
“My message to the Chinese government is free Tibet,” Kanter wrote. “Tibet belongs to Tibetans. I am here to add my voice and speak out against what is happening in Tibet under the Chinese government’s brutal rule, Tibetans people’s basic rights and freedoms are non existent.” …
“Brutal dictator of China, Xi Jinping, I have a message for you and your henchmen,” he said in the video. “Free Tibet, free Tibet, free Tibet.”
The reaction in communist China was swift, with Chinese streaming service Tencent — which has partnered with the NBA — cutting the live feed of the Celtics vs Knicks game. On Thursday, future Celtics games were marked as unavailable to be live-streamed, according to The New York Times. …
LeBron James weighed in, criticizing Morey for not being “educated on the situation.”
“I don’t want to get into a … feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke,” James said. “So many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, and spiritually,” James continued. “So, just be careful what we tweet and say and what we do even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech there can be a lot of negatives that comes with that too.”
LebRron is (still) assho.
When I want PeKing James’ opinion on anything, I’ll call the Chinese embassy.
No, it wasn’t enough that Erdogan wants his ass, now he’s on Xi’s shitlist too. Got to respect a guy with those kind of enemies.
Nice. I bet the NBA will be having a little chat with Mr. Kanter too.
Last time I checked Kanter was wanted in Turkey for saying I good things about Erdogan. Unlike LeBron, he’s got some big brass ones.
Ungood things, fuck autocorrect.
The autocorrect was for your own good. You need to comport with global standards citizen.
Bullshit. “Ungood” is perfectly acceptable Newspeak.
Not when it’s directed at one of our respected global leaders like Erdogan. Sounds like you need re-education.
I love Big Brother.
I don’t know this Enes Kanter, but I like the cut of his jib. And I will say one thing, if I was ever, EVER, called uneducated by LeBron Fucking James, I would take that as the biggest insult ever hurled at me in my entire life.
Future play-by-play: “LeBron drives the lane and runs his throat right into Kanter’s elbow. Man, that’s gotta hurt. He’ll go to the line for two, after he finishes gagging.”
Of course LeBron weighed in.
What a douchebag…
It’s sick. Lebron has fuck you money, fuck me money, and fuck everyone money. He also has enough talent and clout to be an agent of change. Instead he’ll obey his Chinese masters for a few million more that he doesn’t need or has a use for. Sld on high wage earners and free speech but Lebron is a piss poor human being.
The few times I’ve met Lebron, he has not impressed me for his nature nor his intellect.
The ghost flotilla rises.
Two dozen ships that sank during the Battle of Iwo Jima, one of World War II’s most epic battles and one of the bloodiest in U.S. Marines’ history, have been raised from the bottom of the ocean after tremors at one of Japan’s most dangerous volcanoes, Mount Suribachi.
Satellite photos from Japan’s All Nippon News show the leftover hulks of 24 Japanese transport vessels that were captured by the U.S. Navy in the latter part of the war.
They were moved to the western part of Iwo Jima to form a port, as the island had no such facilities at the time.
The seabed has started to rise due to the seismic activity from Mount Suribachi, in particular on the western part of the island.
Typical Daily Fail.
Say what?
Oh, it would appear the US captured the ships after taking the island and scuttled them. Still interesting, however.
Climate Change!
YOU DAMNED DIRTY DEPORABLES! YOU HEATED IT ALL UP!!!
*pounds black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima*
Who had Undead Imperial Japanese Marines?
Man, this timeline…
Damn, so close. I had Undead Imperial Japanese Space Marines.
It’s only October…
Did they also build a base on the Moon?
No, Venusian Aerostats.
LOL I’m hearing chants of “Let’s go Brandon” at a live tennis match in Antwerp.
The American playing’s name is Brandon.
That’s great!
That meme has got legs. I mentioned in a throwaway idea here the other day it would be cool to start a crowd sourced fund to buy billboards across the country with that message.
In Belgium? I knew they had great beer, chocolate, and cheeses, but this is even better. After 4 years of media telling me how America was losing respect overseas because OMB. Sweet.
It could be his family or something. The place is almost empty and I bet all the Belgians went to bed already.
Could be, but I thought tennis crowds were pretty reserved. “Let’s go Brandon” sounds more like a hockey thing.
Nah, I see rowdy crowds all the time.
You should see the US Open.
Wimbledon might frown on that sort of thing but they are kind of unique in several ways.
I bought Turmeric while shopping for herbs and spices. I’ve never used it before, any recommendations?
I have a chili recipe that uses it I think, let me look.
I only know it as in ingredient in Goya Adobo seasoning mix. No idea what it adds or tastes like on its own.
I think that’s used in curry powder.
It’s yellow enough.
Stains like mad.
So what would be the best response in case of exposure?
To clothes? Urrr, Zout and hot water? Your skin will recover…
What is ‘Zout’?
Don’t snort it.
I used it for some Moroccan cous cous yesterday. Boiled chicken broth with turmeric, added cumin, garlic, coriander, cinnamon, lemon juice and chickpeas. Recipe called for raisins, but I didn’t have any, so I added some mushy grapes instead. Put crushed almonds on top. Oh, and I added roasted pepper, carrots and onion and some fresh tomatoes.
I use it fairly often. It’s great on fish. I put it in chicken gravy.
Anyway, you can look up Hispanic, Indian, Jamaican, Middle-Eastern, etc. recipes.
Yes.
Turmeric “Tea”
Lots of anti-inflammatory properties. It’s awesome!
TT recently added turmeric gummies to his nightly “cocktail” of dietary supplements he takes with dinner. I forget what for. Probably for the anti-inflammatory, since he’s supposed to limit his ibuprofen.
Uffda. We are never going to be accepted by the Cool Cats on the Coast if we can’t get our mind right about forest fires. The answer is always Climate Change.
C’mon man! Drop the worm shit and don’t forget to blame the drought on Climate Change.
I’m sure CNN will get right on that.
“Drop the worm shit ” Great album, I saw that tour…
Independent Worm Saloon was their better album
I was expecting the presence of the worms to be blamed on climate change.
One of the better articles I’ve seen. Overall it’s pretty accurate. Spruce budworm is native and cyclical. The main issue is too much balsam fir due to lack of fire. Balsam fir is also very short lived, 40-60 years at most typically.
My wife worked on that fire doing finance. You don’t want to know how much heavy equipment was used and how much it cost. Many people made more in a few weeks than they make in years.
Well that sure isn’t nice. Give him the (new) maximum! Noor is given a new sentenced of 47 months in the clink after his original conviction of 3rd Murder was tossed.
I remain impressed by our Somali neighbors. After Chauvin getting life, it takes some real balls to pretend that Noor got a raw deal. But they are up to the task.
*Noor will be eligible for parole in 9 months.
Odds the other inmates will adjust the sentence to life?
I wonder how long it takes to absorb American-style racial grievance after immigrating here. And to gin up the nerve to shamelessly employ it.
It’s part of the process. The ones that are here inform the ones coming hope to maximize the return on working the system. Playing the race card is just part of it.
I’ve said it here before, but the Somalis have taken to our grievance culture like a duck to water.
I almost admire the fact that every third Somali has started a community group that gets govt grants. The People’s Judean Front really has nothing on these guys.
DB would you repost your meatball recipe? Thx
The other day I blended four leftover MJ strains: Blue Dream, Apollo 13, Lotus something-or-another, and some bud that my friend gave me.
It was a great combination; strong and just great for kicking back and listening to tubes/records with.
Sweet. Hey speaking of records a couple years back you recommended Whardale Denton bookshelf speakers to me and I got them. They are absolutely fantastic sound for the price and size. They are hooked through my receiver to the tv, turntable and CD player so they have gotten tons of use. Just got some new vinyl from these guys that I discovered on the endlesscrate website.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vTtnevlO4
That’s a great tune!
Very cool, I had never heard of them. Thanks. Some great funk and soul.
Cheers guys. Yeah they are a great band. Their second album is a modern soul classic. Love it.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYUuimjZHnOj0rFFWSC2zq30ETGeMSY0s
OK, got that in rotation now. Thank you!
OMG THAT IS RIGHT UP MY ALLEY!!!
@Ozy, you haz mail.
You can’t fool me. There is only one reason a white female cop pulls over a black man named Roy McPipe and it ain’t for drinking under the influence.
Depressing story about how the court will fail to stop cops from continuing to have the privilege of pulling people over for just about any reason they want. The cops seem pretty miffed that they need a reason to pull someone over.
I just like the poor victim’s name.
*btw, the pretext for pulling McPipe over was because he had whiskey plates, but the cop found that he wasn’t drunk but they still popped him for driving on a suspended license.
There is only one reason a white female cop pulls over a black man named Roy McPipe
Pretty sure I’ve seen a documentary about that.
No, no, not youtube, some other ‘tube.
I see that on a lot of these reports. I’m no expert, but I’m thinking there’s a more than insignificant correlation between having your license suspended and not following the traffic rules.
Not saying it’s always a justified stop, but, I’d wager there was some behaviour that caught the attention of the cop in a number of these cases.
I has to google “whiskey plates” turns out they only have them in Minnesoda and Ohio. Seeing as one of those states is where I keep all my shit you would think I would have known about them before.
Assuming they’re the plates you get for an OVI/DUI, here they’re referred to as Party Plates generally.
It really bothers some out of state drivers when they’re out and about at night. If your state gives you yellow plates with red lettering, you’ll get pulled over very frequently after 21:00 if you’re driving in a metro.
Specifically NY plates. They look like party plates.
I still have my plates from 2007.
I don’t want to change them. They’re blue on white.
How convenient. Those are the default colors for New Mexico plates.
I’m stressed & anxious about going home on Saturday. I don’t want to. IFH DC.
Anyone in BFE want to invite me for a week? I’ll chop your firewood for you.
I remember returning from Disney World to DC a couple years ago (Feb. 2020 to be exact), and feeling a weight settle on my shoulders as we pulled out of the airport. It’s a depressing city.
I’ve only been a visitor to DC on a couple of occasions. I love the brunch places and seeing the architecture and museums but it gets fucking old after a couple of days, especially when your friend who you are visiting surrounds themselves with fucking statists. I remember going out to a bar with my friend and a couple of his friends who work in DC came out with us. My gawd, the fucking arrogance and smugness was little too much for my libertarian ass to handle.
Yep. I’ve done my time. I’m ready to be released for good behavior.
Guess you’re gonna have to stay off the Glibzooms, huh? ?
HAR!
Good behavior in DC has a whole different definition
(I’m 100% serious)
I’ll chop your firewood for you.
These euphemisms.
It’s only a euphemism when applied to certain individuals ?
I’ve been in ladies’ locker rooms…I think it applies equally
I only have the mental capacity for one crush at a time.
Ah. So for the rest it’s just meaningless sex. Got it. ;-)
I don’t need firewood, but I live in BFE, call me, solitude in here,
OK, new project starting in the next few weeks. 6-12 months. Most of it will be remote from my cozy Alaska office, but I will be on site now and then, maybe every couple of months or so.
So, any Bay Area Glibs, watch this space for news of that. This place is in Redwood City.
Rand Paul is putting another beating on Fauci.
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2021/10/21/senator-rand-paul-i-told-you-so-national-institutes-of-health-funding-gain-of-function-research?__twitter_impression=true
That’s great and all but what will it do? Score points for Paul to get more campaign money?
Should remove any question that it was a bio-weapon we paid for. The vaccines are the other half of the weapon based on the link below.
Sure, in our minds and I get that. But it does nothing to stop the leviathan.
This is pretty huge. From Berenson:
This had been hypothesized by some immunologists, but there was no evidence until now.
So what you’re saying is, I need to keep that shit away from me?
ADE – Knowledge people have been warning about for a year. One reason no mRNA vax ever made it out of trials.
Technically not ADE. It’s acting as an interruptor to your natural immune system.
ADE is when your vaccine provided antibodies actually help open the cells to the virus, which is even worse and could still happen.
And if more previously vaccinated people start getting sick and dying we will be told to mask up and get vaccinated. This ain’t going away.
There is a solution to it all…I just haven’t finalized it yet.
So you are saying Alex Jones was right.
Seems that way.
Link please?
I don’t know if it’s paywalled
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-covid-vaccines-will-keep-you
Thanks
Hi Tonio!
Thanks for the lynx and especially the Veruca Salt. Those two girls still make me tingle.
Here’s another.
90’s girls were superior girls.
More proof.
Additional proof
Wow.
Yum.
I rest my case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w2YLdjxS_M
Good God that was like 90% of the girls at my high school. I’ll be in my bunk
Perfection.
I could do this all day.
I wish her before Gwen and No Doubt….they were superior.
Can’t forget this lovely Scottish lass.
Or this Swedish one.
Fun fact #1. I got my first lap dance in Montreal while at a hockey tourney to Garbage #1 Crush and I was…in love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmDUEv939A
(another Scottish lass)
She stole my heart. And that snaggle tooth…like putty.
Dang. Nice addition.
Alone…with only a piano beneath you…either high as hell or know you will nail it.
A redhead for Yusef: https://youtu.be/RQJjUbMrt8w
*Looks a couple of thread posts down at Tundra…shakes head at Jaime….tsk tsk tsk*
Hangs head in shame. Promises to do the work next time.
Great song.
90’s girls
90’s girl
I appreciate both of those.
Susan really needed to reach deep though and she could have hit those runs and knocked that out of the park.
We all have our own tastes about what does or doesn’t slap (as the kids say) but her solo and vocals in that video are pure salt in my book.
Nineties woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJpPdnGjkE&ab_channel=BBCMusic
Heartbreaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60&ab_channel=Today%27sRemedy
A little obscure but I loved her back in the day.
Jane
Haunting
Ooops, I just realized Poe’s album missed being 90’s by THAT MUCH. Oh well, it has that 90’s aesthetic anyway.
Welp, new playlist created thanks to Tundra and KK!
Don’t forget Tanya.
Such a great song.
Think I posted this the other day…but I will sneak in some newer items
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldbA86MZIJ0&list=RDldbA86MZIJ0&start_radio=1
Yikes. I’m scared. And a little turned on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXNEmtf9tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo
.50 cal vs. Human Head
https://youtu.be/BQAfHvpv6uk
What a mind-blowing experiment.
They really are a-head of the game here.
Blink and you mist it.
I read that and all of a sudden realized I was watching Gallagher for an hour. Weird.
How peculiar: Messerspit – The Frankenstein Fighter
Mark Felton produces some really great videos. He’s one of the few reasons I ever visit YouTube any more.
Haven’t seen this before, but Ron DeSantis tweeted out a variant of the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag that I think our Florida Glibs will appreciate.
I am not in Florida. And I still appreciate it.
I want a t-shirt
Proof that capitalism is alive and well. T shirt found.
https://247teeshirt.com/product/dont-tread-on-florida-alligator-t-shirt/
“Biden’s ‘delusional’ claim his spending plan will cost $0: Proposal to increase taxes could hit consumers in the wallet with workers shouldering 38% of costs and the final version of bill remains a mystery”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10117169/Bidens-delusional-claim-spending-plan-cost-0.html
No shit.
It’s unbelievable (but not really) that the media doesn’t mock him relentlessly for his claim that this costs $0. This would be an example of The Big Lie if OMB said it, and rightly so.
Getting ready to watch Dune
It better not suck, it damn well better not suck…
Sorry to tell you, but it sucks.
“Moment a quick-thinking Marine immediately disarms would-be robber who tried to hold up Arizona gas station”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10116741/Former-Marine-stops-armed-robbery-attempt-Chevron-gas-station-store-Arizona.html
He doesn’t even drop his bag, lol.
I love a happy ending.
He basically positioned himself to be disarmed. Not to take anything away from the Marine or his quick thinking.
“The California mother who has been accused of hosting alcohol-fueled sex parties across two states for her 15-year-old son and his school friends was denied bail on Wednesday and was hit with 15 protective orders barring her from contacting the victims, including her own child.
Shannon O’Connor, 47, also known as Shannon Bruga, was extradited from Idaho to Santa Clara County, California, on Tuesday and appeared before a judge the following day.
O’Connor, a mother-of-two, allegedly organized at least a half-dozen large parties and a smattering of smaller gatherings at her home in Los Gatos, but also in Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe, where prosecutors said she would ply 14- and 15-year-olds with vodka, hand out condoms, encourage minors to have sex, and even watch and laugh while the teenagers engaged in sex acts, some of which were said to be nonconsensual.
O’Connor was arraigned on Wednesday on 39 charges, including felony child endangerment, child molestation, sexual assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and ordered jailed without bond pending her next court appearance scheduled for December 17. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10116145/California-mom-47-accused-hosting-wild-sex-parties-teens-denied-bail.html
Damn.
Maybe China really is a paper tiger: As China Crumbles, Progressive Mind Tricks Brainwash U.S. to Think It’s a Mighty Empire
The scarier part of it is that our own government is doing everything they can to emulate them.
Tissue Tigers
Good evening, unwokesters, shitlords, and imaginary libertarian women folk.
I have to tell you, I don’t know how I made it through this day without stoking out or having a massive coronary. My blood pressure was at record levels I’m sure.
I have to start making excuses to not go to any more staff meetings at work.
I’ll just start out by telling you, that without certain events occurring, this nation is doomed.
Some advice from experience. DO NOT under any circumstances ever even consider moving to a blue state or blue city. There is some sort of heinous disease that has infected all the residents and it is at near 100% infection rate and terminal.
You’ll believe me when you get in a meeting with 20 of your co-workers and there is not even a single one of them who is not terrified by the though of the least bit of freedom and who is not some sort of sycophant zombie state worshipping boot licker. If you want to retain any sort of hope for humanity stay in a red zone and never even leave for a visit to a blue shithole.
Today, I realized that I absolutely hate very person I work with. What a bunch of nervous Nelly state worshipping bootlicking scaredy cat cowards.
This has been going on since the lockdowns started last year, but it is getting way worse. Someone makes a comment about how they were in another state and they saw people who were not even wearing masks! The horror. And then others absolutely fall over each other to jump in line and one up the others. I wear a mask everywhere! Even outside! I wear 3 masks! I never want to ever not wear a mask again! I’ll never take mine off! There should be laws! I’m not safe! I don’t want to get something!
And I’m thinking ‘where the fuck am I? Who the fuck are these idiots?’.
I’m serious, after about 20 minutes of that shit I absolutely had a nearly irresistable urge to go into a raging tirade against these idiots and condemn every fucking one of their cowardly asses in the strongest terms possible.
I took a couple of vacation days to look at properties out of state.
Do we work at the same company?
I guess we all do now. It just finally hit me really hard.
7/16 , the day I walked away,
Yep. I can confirm.
You work in the govt?
I see more fear in my gov’t coworkers eyes at our direction than normal people…that should tell you something.
The insanity is coming from inside the house?
Seriously…its fucking bad. Nov 23rd is going to be a blood bath if they don’t give out exemptions.
At this point, let’s just get it over with,
Dude, my biggest client had this great idea that they were going to call/force people back to the office who had been forced to work remotely for 20 months. Let’s just say it went very badly for them. After a totally unexpected amount of retirements and resignations, they dropped that and don’t even mention it now.
All it takes is government-adjacent. It spreads like a cancer.
I thought you already had your bug-out lined up in WV?
I put an extra day on the calendar to extend it. I gotta get the fuck out of here. 2-4 hours is still way to close to these horrible creatures. I think maybe Animal got it right when he moved to Alaska. Just that 1 month of summer a year filled with biting insects followed by 11 months of bone chilling cold is not my idea of a good time.
Move to Texas. We have 11 months of summer a year with biting insects and 1 month a year of bone chilling cold. Is good!
I would consider moving to Texas or Florida except for Texas or Florida weather.
It’s fucking hot in FL. I mean humid you know. That’s my one reservation about moving there.
I thought the Florida pan handle is lovely when I have been there. Around Panama City Beach. The pacific side is absolutely unbearable humidity, I agree. Also tons of those damn No See Ums.
The pacific side…Martini time here.
I guess I’ll let this slide with the tide.
Dude, 2 hours may put you into WV from MD/DC, but from there, you could be days away. Did you hear about the western MD counties that want to leave MD and join WV?
These are not the brave individuals who built this country. They are the cowardly herd who will destroy it.
I live in a red zone in nowhere land, Molon labe applies up here! come visit! stay for the hunting and fishing,
You may not remember, I used to live there, bro.
up here? this isn’t downstate bro, it’s a whole other World, redneck Central, I like it, myself,
Yes, up there. I was a kid and it was only for about a year. I had friends near Traverse City well into my adult hears though.
But after that I lived in Northern IN for a little more than a decade. You’re in a good place, you guys just have to fix the election assholes downstate there.
if the shit goes down, I feel safer here than back in SoCal, for sure,
Well, at least you can afford a home to live in, so there’s that. My wife watches those home flipper shows on HGTV. I sat down with her a few weeks ago when she was watching and they were working on this house. It was 900 sq ft on a lot the size of a postage stamp. The house was totally fucking unlivable in the state it was in. They paid $850,000 for it and the asking price after renovation was going to be 1.21 million. It was a great neighborhood though. Potential buyers said just what they were looking for. A park near by and we can walk to some cafes. Yeah sure, parks and cafes full of insufferable yupster douchebags, totally worth 1.2 million. There is something inherently and at a basic level wrong with those people.
None of that where I work, thank G-d.
TLDR
Since the late 1970’s I have been meeting with a bunch of friends on Thursday nights (we call it the Thursday Night Tradition). About 30 years ago we started playing poker so that we can tell folks that it’s our “poker night”.
Just after the 2016 election things started to turn ugly. Most of “the boys” came down with serious cases of TDS. I generally kept my mouth shut during the “two hours hate” so that I wouldn’t get piled upon. Since the panicdemic started these same CNN aficionados have become hard-core Branch Covidians. I had to stop attending early this year to take care of my Mom but, at this point, I’m not going back. I say, “masks don’t work” and I get piled upon. I say, “COVID numbers are mis-represented” and I get piled upon. I say, “The vaccines are unproven and can be unsafe” and I get piled upon. I haven’t been back since January but I’m sure that if I offered sympathy for the Jan 6 protesters then I would get piled upon. My friends of over 40 years would turn on me like a pack of rabid dogs if I ever actually spoke my mind. So I face the options of saying nothing and internalizing my feelings (resulting in massive stress and sleep loss) or speaking my opinions and getting piled upon (resulting in massive stress and sleep loss). I chose Option #3: Just walk away.
I hate, hate, hate this whole political game for driving a wedge between me and a near-lifetime of hanging out with the guys. They are not stereotypical leftists, per se; most are veterans who swore to uphold the Constitution but they all are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats who (in my observation) are turning a blind eye to the massive un-Constitutional actions by our “elected” masters.
Having shunned 90% of my friends I am now down to my libertarian buddy from my last job, my wife, and all of you fine folks.
Help me Glib-er-won, you’re my only hope!
Sorry, Hobbit.
I’m shocked at how few people around me process this shit like we do.
I have a handful of awesome (including you assholes) and that’s gonna have to do.
The dozen or so Glibertarians whom I have met (including Tundra!) seem to be among the finer folks that I have ever had the privilege of knowing. Personal freedom and anti-authoritarian tendencies seem to bring out the best in people.
#metoo
My experience adds the smug condescention that comes with prog-fascist lawyers. It’s not fear, it’s that confident desire to smash the out group that comes with tasting the little sips of power most top tier attorneys have sipped. “Those stupid yokels and trumpaloes are fucking up our new normal!”
As I’ve posted before, I listen to a lot of international broadcasters, and hearing them have a decided bias in how they treat some low-vaccinated demographics versus others is astonishing: White vs. Maori New Zealanders, or Haredi vs. Arab Israelis are two good examples.
Yaaayyyyy Tonio links. Lets Go Brandon!
Time to light my fire for the evening!
Euphemism? You be the judge.
Come on baby.
Martini time here. Deathgasm is the movie of the week at 6:55.
I lit my fire when I woke up. Some of us aren’t pussies.
That may have came out wrong. Disregard. Carry on.
“Normal people FITA either way.”
Some people enjoy that…
I love this,
“Most likely, the fired officers would simply become private security guards, protecting businesses from the crime wave that would result from a massive shrinkage in police forces. The result would be that private businesses and upscale communities would be protected, but poor and working-class neighborhoods would face even worse crime waves.”
https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/dems-vaccine-mandates-for-police-are-bound-to-backfire/
It’s going to go to private security.
Good neighborhoods will get it. Shitholes will get fucked.
Equity! Isn’t it fucking great! Keep voting for lefty assholes you fucking idiots!
Fritos Scoops and Peanut butter, Yum!
Yer sick, dude!
Saltines may be better but I could see the Fritos working. Would try.
Additionally, Fritos scoops are awesome with chili.
When in the Air Force Mom would send me CARE packages of Fritos and small cans of green chile. I’d eat the chile like a dip and pretend that I was back home.
Im off to work, kids.
Jesus H. Vishnu I have a hangover.
Discovered a new music group on youtube. World folk music
A sample: https://youtu.be/pmP_Mf7UQN8