The one and only Wonder Dog is now playing with my dad, Elvis, and Hitler. This has been a rough week for us, but she exceeded the breed’s usual lifespan and we got her back to her beloved snow for one last winter. She had a last slice of pizza and a cheeseburger on the way to the vet, which I guess is not much different than the last meal requests on Death Row. SP, WebDom, and I all were with her at the end.
She met a lot of you over the past 5 years (Jesus, it’s been that long???) and except for a couple odd outliers, she found all of you delightful, and vice versa. Despite pizza bribes from Los Doyers, she still loved Swiss above all her frens.
So if this seems a bit unfocused, it’s because we’re wrecks.
But besides goings, there’s comings, and birthdays today include a guy whose spirit is alive in current jurisprudence; a rather petite fellow; a guy who was truly opposed to change; a guy whose views were evolutionary rather than revolutionary; a guy who was no fan of live theater; a leading candidate for shittiest carmaker; the spiritual father of Rashida Tlaib; a guy who was a total amateur; a Jewish cowboy; a guy who was anything but normal; a guy reputed to put Milton Berle to shame; one of my personal heroes and profound influences; an apparent clone of Roberts; and the star of a remarkable number of my favorite films.
Let’s get to Links.
Stay. The. Fuck. Out. Of. This.
Oh, a court order, that’s very different. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh noes, foreign meddling! Where have I heard this before?
Please, please, please, please! This will keep SugarFree in material for years.
DaVinci knew many things, but apparently not cunts.
I mean, good, but why is this a judicial decision?
No doubt pining for the fjords.
Old Guy Music is something I’ve used before, but it’s just stuck in my head. This might be one of my favorite songs in any genre ever. I remember having a couple of the guys in this band at a party at our place in Austin and getting into a discussion with the bass player. “It sound to me like you had two songs not completed, then you stitched them together to make one perfectly completed song.” He smiled and responded, “Three.”
Aww sorry
+1 here
My condolences as well.
Agreed. It sounds as if you gave the goodboy the best of lives and were there when needed.
Sorry OMWC, SP, and WebDom. It always hurts.
Condolences on Wonderdog passing.
Please, please, please, please! This will keep SugarFree in material for years.
*hurk*
RIP Wonderdog.
Old guy music is weird. I like it.
Sorry to hear about your wonder dog.
*deletes comment*
The Saturday morning links aren’t showing up when I use my bookmark to get to Glibertarians.com. I had to go through the dashboard. Anyone else seeing this today?
Yes
I just checked and no, it did not show up on the ‘Home Page’
I got to it from the “next article” link on UCS’s Friday night post.
There’s a problem, and of course the only one who can fix it is fast asleep and would be VERY grumpy if I woke her.
It’s now showing on the main page feed thingy.
There is a surprise waiting to be scheduled to celebrate these 5 years.
Thank you!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-hunter-act-taxpayer-funds-crack-pipes
Hunter act.
Grade A trolling.
LOL……….now that is funny.
LOL
You know, you’re free to open your own wallet for this purpose, without dipping into mine.
How exactly will a shiny new crack pipe reduce fatal overdoses?
Windsor police and swat teams are getting ready to bust up protest. Watching it on my local here in Michigan.
That’s the one on the bridge, right? They aren’t going from Windsor to Ottawa to stop that one.
Yep.
Which protest? #thepolicearenotyourfriends
According to Steve Kirsch, he’s being investigated by the DHS for spreading disinformation as act of domestic terrorism.
He’s prone to hyperbole, but if true, we’re in a whole new phase of the Fall.
I don’t doubt it.
They weaponized all the agencies against their political foes. They may know nothing will stick, but the process is the punishment.
It’s right in line with their recent announcement that mis and disinformation is terrorism.
Words. Are. Violence.
Break the silence.
Never heard of him. Found this article right off the bat.
Isn’t that exactly what they did with the vaccines?
The projection is strong in that article, sheesh.
terrorism: we let this word take over, and now the Orwellian effects are in place
hate crime, hate speech, civil rights charges: it’s all levers to undermine dissent with authoritarian prosecutions and double jeopardy where real juries won’t convict on real charges
“murder” and “assault” and “theft” are just to straightforward to work for us anymore
jewish cowboy
I was expecting this
This would also be appropriate.
your guy had the better Yiddish
my guy would win roping and shooting
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10503817/Walmart-stashes-20-rib-eye-steaks-metal-cages-amid-rising-crime-rates-U-S.html
Steak thieves. I warned y’all.
Dad was a grocer: it’s always been like this. An uncut ribeye is 14 pounds, and people can get the whole thing in their clothes and you’d never know
except for the sneaky stupid way that shoplifters behave if you’re paying any attention, but that’s another story.
Shoplifting faves: batteries, baby formula, HBA (health and beauty aids, particularly hair care)
I saw a woman at the local Wegman’s take a full cart, items already sorted in reusable bags, in a self-checkout line.
She scanned a small handful of items and left after paying maybe $15 for probably $150 if groceries.
This was Wegman’s. We’re all struggling a little more than in the before times but this wasn’t someone who was struggling.
We’re in the process of transitioning from a high trust to a low trust society. One way ticket to third-world, corrupt Latin American-style governance. And getting back to high trust from low trust seems nigh impossible.
Of course this works very well for elites who want unchallenged permanent power.
Call her out. Stop her from leaving. High trust societies are built from the bottom up, not the top down.
Citizen’s arrest!
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=citizens+arrest+citizens+arrest+andy+griffith&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDR2CLgszaPo
Councilor Dean gets it. It isn’t even citizens’ arrest, but citizen acknowledgment. That old “If you see something, say something.”
Name them and shame them.
(and yes, use the left’s tactics against them)
Prophylactics.
TikTok, folks.
I’m so sorry about Wonder Dog. She was one of the greats!
You weren’t one of the “odd outliers.” Cough, cough, Gojira, cough, cough.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
“Oh noes, foreign meddling! Where have I heard this before?”
When do the dems and their media handlers get called out for their racism, provincialism, and xenophobia?
A bird stuck in a tree? Where’s Tex Avery when you need him?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/sarcos-guardian-xo-powered-exoskeleton
First gen power armor.
Never got to meet Dog but i hope he was happier his last period getting out of the arizona heat.
Romanian tv showed puck figure skatin us vs canada. I dont usually watch but it is interesting compared to many other sports in that it flows more there are not many interuptions of play.
Beautiful picture.
Sorry for the loss of a beloved family member.
Stay. The. Fuck. Out. Of. This. – look if russia goes crazy the US needs to protect your buddy Pie
Just fly to Mexico City and sneak in, it’s all the rage.
President Joe Biden on his first day in office restored the climate cost estimate to about $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions after the Trump administration had reduced the figure to about $7 or less per ton. Former President Donald Trump’s estimate included only damages felt in the U.S. versus the global damages captured in higher estimates that were previously used under the Obama administration.
When you’re using made-up numbers, the sky’s the limit.
Look, if you don’t use our made-up numbers you are literally breaking the constitution.
Sorry to hear about the Wonder Dog. It’s always hard. The Dean Beasts are past the typical lifespan for their breed, also, and I dread the day.
Sorry Old Man and SP.
Just had a flashback to when I took my Rottie to the vet for the last time.
Dusty in here all the sudden.
The estimate would be used to shape future rules for oil and gas drilling, automobiles, and other industries. Using a higher cost estimate would help justify reductions in planet-warming emissions, by making the benefits more likely to outweigh the expenses of complying with new rules.
Known as the social cost of carbon, the damage figure uses economic models to capture impacts from rising sea levels, recurring droughts and other consequences of climate change. The $51 estimate was first established in 2016 and used to justify major rules such as the Clean Power Plan — former President Barack Obama’s signature effort to address climate change by tightening emissions standards from coal-fired power plants — and separate rules imposing tougher vehicle emission standards.
Alarmist bullshit, with a thin veneer of SCIENCE!
is there any answer to the tragedy of the commons? I got nothing
Don’t know if this was meant sarcastically but I certainly can’t figure one out. I know the standard libertarian refrain is “privatize everything!” and maybe that’s making the best of a bad situation. However, it does seem that complete privatization in some arenas (transportation infrastructure for example) seems to not work very well in practice.
Then again, assigning any work to a government, no matter how limited, appears also to be a doomed endeavor. Asking “how much government is enough?” seems to be like asking “how much cancer is enough?” since government will grow and metastasize out of control regardless of efforts to stop it.
no sarcasm
I agree with what your wrote
I may be using terms incorrectly, but I’m very interested in air and water.
I have always wondered if we would have clean air and water without government regulations. There is no native incentive for factories to clean up their shit without being forced.
I can think of a couple, not sure how strong they are:
Pollution is waste, Waste is inefficiency. Inefficiency is bad for profits.
The people who run factories have to breath the air and drink the water, too. This may only really work if ownership is more local, though.
I thought I saw somewhere that the enviro regulators tend to trail the private sector, that pollution was being reduced before the heavy hand of the EPA, etc.
I thought I had heard that too.
Might be a question of ROI whether it was deemed worth it or not.
Waste is inefficiency
Muda: no doubt that is part of the equation….certainly part of my industrial career. But we will always have situations where process improvement is much more expensive than the cost of preventing fugitives, so there will always be a struggle surrounding the acceptable level of emitting.
so there will always be a struggle surrounding the acceptable level of emitting
Indeed. Regardless of who is making the decision about what is acceptable.
In general people that share the commons work it out. See Elinor Ostrom’s work.
Old Man, SP, And Web Dom: so so sorry for your loss.
That you have always included The Wonder Dog in your stories leads me to believe she was a great dog. Glad she could enjoy a burger and snow at the end.
Peace to all of you.
I sobbed like a little girl each time one of my cats died.
You’re a crazy cat lady? Everything makes so much more sense now.
Conspiracist
“Guaranteeing that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO because if Ukraine became a member of NATO, that would put U.S. and NATO troops right on the doorstep of Russia, which, as Putin has laid out, would undermine their national security interests,” she said.
“The reality is that it is highly, highly unlikely that Ukraine will ever become a member of NATO anyway,” Gabbard said. “So the question is, why don’t president Biden and NATO leaders actually just say that and guarantee it?”
“Which begs the question of why are we in this position then? If the answer to this and preventing this war from happening is very clear as day. And really, it just points to one conclusion that I can see, which is, they actually want Russia to invade Ukraine,” the former congresswoman said.
She’s just a girl. What would she know about complicated stuff like this?
Bigger question: why the fuck would we ever want Ukraine as part of NATO in the first place? Seriously? They are a corrupt basketcase and this would allow them to essentially outsource their national security to the West. Further: it’s the NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organization, not the EASTERN EUROPE Treaty Organization for a reason.
I can think of one reason to have a close relationship with Ukraine. A former employer had outsourced our infrastructure analysis to a Ukrainian consulting group. I was asked to remotely tech out a candidate for a position as a junior statistician. Long story short, she was stunning, as in modelling material. With a Masters in Applied Mathematics to boot. She was hired; fortunately she actually had decent SQL skills. Somehow I never got around to that during the interview.
The objection by NATO to stating Ukraine will never be a member is that NATO was founded on the principle that any eligible state may join. By permitting a non-NATO state (Russia) an explicit veto over membership into NATO undermines that principle.
This doesn’t mean the US needs to fight for the Ukraine since they aren’t a member of NATO.
Just a girl.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H8iTjP5cTcQ
I am so sorry about Wonder Dog. The pain is so vey real.
“Number one, it gives the Biden administration a clear excuse to go and levy draconian sanctions, which are a modern-day siege against Russia and the Russian people,” Gabbard said.
“And number two, it cements this Cold War in place. The military-industrial complex is the one that benefits from this,” she went on.
“They clearly control the Biden administration. Warmongers on both sides in Washington have drumming up these tensions. If they get Russia to invade Ukraine, then, again, it locks in this new Cold War,” Gabbard said.
Gabbard argued that the “military-industrial complex” would make “a ton more money than they have been fighting Al-Qaeda.”
Scare quotes around military-industrial complex. Nice.
That kind of paranoid raving went out of style a long time ago. Now we’ve got a public-private security infrastructure project.
My salary as an associate professor of mathematics at Westminster College, three blocks away from this sign, is $61,500.
https://mobile.twitter.com/sbagley/status/1492211674496962563
Weird complaint. I mean if one is unqualified for any real work 61k seems ok
So go manage the Panda Express then; otherwise STFU.
I thought everyone should make the same? Inflationary wage shifts lift all boats, am I right?
Look, we can get Sterno bums to teach math. It takes someone with actual brains to run a restaurant profitably.
WOW! 61K ain’t bad for someone not producing a cash flow. I know, I know, he’s a doctor.
“Them that can, do, them that can’t, teach”
$69K? Must be six figures for that gig in NYC.
Ernie Capadino: Well, then, this would be more, wouldn’t it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7krYJUfFv4
If you haven’t made assistant professor in 7 years, they’re looking for an excuse to fire you.
I thought Associate Professor was above Assistant Professor?
Yeah, sad. But not for the reasons you think.
Bummer about your canine. Silicone Saturday will ease the pain.
https://archive.md/juHNi
NB: Obviously I have no problem with bolt-on tits as long as the surgeon is competent. However, one thing that consistently mystifies me are the damnable lip injections that seem so popular. They universally look *awful*. Puff your lips up to the size of sausages such that you can no longer close them; yeah that’s sexy. *smh*
I feel rather sorry for the In-n-Out patron minding his own business.
The photographer in that pic had to wait a full five minutes before that In-n-Out patron would stop staring and concentrate on his burger for a second.
How on Earth did the Irish get promoted to top victimhood status??
h/t @DumbLeftyTakes
https://mobile.twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1492177374032674820
Romanians dont even get a mention 🙁 if i come to the US how do i k ow where i stand?
You’re a white male so, subhuman.
But he’s a hardworking immigrant.
Eastern European at #5. Not too shabby
But why are russians and serbs mentioned specially and downgraded
Because whoever created that chart knows nothing.
Because commies and muslims
They can speak and write in English, so they told their own story in the language of the very empire.
I like Ireland, my clans passed through and were part of all that, and I’m not short-shrifting anyone, but good PR is everything.
Finally, we get our rightful place at the top of the victim pyramid.
RIP Wonder Dog. Sorry for your loss.
Just blame it all on the plague
What’s causing inflation today? Number one, COVID-19 created all manner of supply shortages. Number two, trillion-dollar government spending programs particularly in the U.S., plus the Fed expanding its balance sheet. And number three the decline of globalism, which had optimized for the cheapest production of goods.
Where do we go from here? With any luck, COVID and its accompanying trade friction will go away. And government programs are running their course. But both COVID and government programs were massive events. As for nationalism, I don’t think that’s reversing anytime soon. Yes, technology will drive costs down, but I don’t see inflation disappearing overnight.
Those government helicopter money programs may be winding down, but Biden and his Katzenjammer Kommies are clamoring for more of the same.
I say print more and then people wiil.get bored with spending and inflation will stop
Why all the ladies can’t get enough of the Chosen Penis.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17622394/boyfriends-penis-smells-of-fish/
Is this opposit land?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPdHMWVJoS8
Hey lady, I can think of one reason for the fishy aroma. You know what else smells like fish?
My condolences, OMWC, SP, and WebDom.
Also: I’m very sorry to hear about your friend, Mo.
It seems this week has been absolute shit for several of us.
Thanks, TH. She is at peace with her decision and is looking forward to not having to worry about anything.
Amen to that. I had to go to the funeral of a young woman who worked for me yesterday. 34 years-old. Suicide. 2 young kids left behind. I was the last person at work to see her and continue to wonder if I missed something. Amazing how she was able to hide how much pain she was in.
*sigh*
That’s rough. I want to be mad at her for leaving the kids behind to deal with that the rest of their lives but I also understand that some of us are just broken. Sad to hear that.
I missed a classmate’s funeral yesterday because of the fresh snow. Missed the funeral of the wife of an old friend and sister-in-law of a gone classmate today because of the cold weather this morning. Funerals are so often a result of the calendar. Too many lately.
time to privatise the moon, @ASI says in new paper.
plus only half of MPs can answer a simple statistical question according to @RoyalStatSoc research (read more here https://rss.org.uk/news-publication/news-publications/2022/general-news/new-rss-survey-tests-statistical-skills-of-mps/…)
https://mobile.twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1492064712640638976
Oh gosh—sorry to hear about wonderdoggo’s passing Thanks for being her family and for being with her to the very end.
That’s a pretty solid B-Day list.
I’ve been reading quite a bit about Abe Lincoln lately. He’s a far more interesting character than our shit school system teaches. And definitely not at all what the “revisionists” want to portray. He was definitely the right man in the right place during the horrible civil war.
“Loathing Lincoln” was a fascinating, though clearly biased, read.
Many condolences over the loss of the doge. Ive been through the same process….6 times over, including a Pyr. This morning Im taking The Dozer to the vet to get his nails did. Jugsy and I have been discussing another dog (1) so he has some company (2) he’s a 91 lb boxer that’s nearly 11 years old. The facts are, he’s pretty high mileage and time is kinda limited despite him being happy & healthy (for now).
Sorry for the loss.
We know we will outlive our pets (generally speaking) but we can’t help adopting them and loving them. They are happy, we are happy. They aren’t afflicted with brooding thoughts of mortality and meaningless existence or the book of Ecclesiastes. They remind us to enjoy now..
Unconditional love from a grateful animal. That is pure gold.
How we often see a homeless person with a dog, his only friend.
Reciprocal
If I could do it myself, I’d probably never leave the house.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/bloke-suffers-chronic-pain-after-26205632
If it helps you get to sleep at night…
“While inflation is weighing heavily on Federal Reserve policy decisions, our current inflationary environment is unconventional and is caused largely by supply chain disruptions, something the Federal Reserve cannot fix with tighter monetary policy,” according to Nancy Davis, founder and portfolio manager of Quadratic Capital Management.
“Many of the factors driving inflation higher seem to be caused by supply chain constraints and fiscal stimulus and could naturally fade away on their own,” Davis said on Thursday. “However, those factors are taking a lot longer than expected to slow down. At the same time, commodity prices are increasing and further fueling inflation.”
Still transitory. Nothing to fear.
Sorry to hear about Wonder Dog. Has brought many a smile to my sleepy morning face to hear about the latest adventures. Our own puppers is 13 and has thrown up twice over the past two days (not unusual for her) and refused her food yesterday (which is). Have been adjusting her incurin (estrogen for occasional incontinence) so might be just that.
She had a last slice of pizza and a cheeseburger on the way to the vet, which I guess is not much different than the last meal requests on Death Row.
Anyone seen bacon-magic around lately?
Sadly, no. Wonder Dog could never quite figure him out- he’s a sweet and shy fellow, and despite his sharp wit, a guy who radiates “innocuous.” But every time she would see him, she’d act like the Boston Strangler just came up the walk.
I say print more and then people wiil.get bored with spending and inflation will stop
Don’t forget burning it for heat when the power and gas get shut off.
Sorry to hear about the puppy, OM.
A Twoscore kind of got caught up in the Ehrlich moment. Then the results of the Simon-Ehrlich bet taught me something and I began to see things differently.
That’s why we need more central planning. A Gaming Commission czar, to insure all gambling is done fairly. Simon took advantage of Ehrlich
Today in cake
https://photos.app.goo.gl/udECzWC8LCK6aP3d6
There’s a Jackson Pollack vibe to it.
Is it the walnuts or the bitter cherries
Handle doesn’t check out.
Crosssection
https://photos.app.goo.gl/1mk6Jjfk51BNrwkf9
That red wine in the decanter had better be Banyuls or something close to it.
It is a valpolicella ripasso
http://www.vivino.com/wines/154316868?utm_source=app
The wine was for the roast goose not the cake. I forgot to take a picture of the roast goose
I have a picture of the half left over
https://photos.app.goo.gl/h5gpyFXRC4gcAnKk9
Do those things contain any white meat or is it all grease ?
white meat is dry and unpleasant
Good news everyone! The New Yorker thinks they’re funny again.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/valentines-day-cards-for-libertarians
Okay the grenade launcher is a little funny.
Eh it makes em smug let them have their fun
I call truth to all. The New Yorker was rarely funny.
The pig says, “My wife is a slut”?!
I’m so sorry to hear of Wondedogs passing, it’s hard to lose a friend like that,
Rampant discrimination
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing Elon Musk’s company Tesla over racism and harassment toward Black employees at Tesla’s plant in Fremont, Calif., according to a lawsuit filed by the state this week. The company has called the lawsuit “unfair.”
The lawsuit follows three years of investigation into Tesla and alleges that Black and African American employees at the company’s Fremont plant are “segregated to the lowest levels.”
The lawsuit describes multiple instances of racist language and drawings toward Black employees, penalizing Black employees more harshly than white employees and denying Black employees career advancement opportunities and equal pay for work similar to that of other employees.
Elon Musk makes Simon Legree look like an abolitionist.
Love the capitalization game going on there. ?
Fremont
was one of the lowest quality plants ever run by the Big3. Chevy sold their old Oakland site to land developers and started building pickups some time in the early sixties after the C/K series debuted. Drug use and a number of other discipline problems led to world-class labor/management issues, and after building about every badge in the GM catalogue, Detroit pulled the plug in the early eighties.
Thanks to Reagan market meddling (quotas), Toyota went JV with Chevy at the site REHIRING ALL THE SAME SHITPEOPLE. This gave you the craptastic and more-than-a-little Russioisie “Nova.”
It would be impossible for Tesla to do as poorly at Fremont: the bar is just too low.
Reminds me of the joke about country-western music.
Does it matter that Elon Musk is an African American? Or is he the wrong kind?
Some workers at Tesla with tattoos of the Confederate flag would make their tattoos visible to intimidate Black workers, according to the lawsuit. Workers at Tesla also allegedly referred to the factory as the “slaveship” or “the plantation,” in addition to other slurs. “One Black worker heard these racial slurs as often as 50-100 times a day,” the lawsuit states.
Yeah, okay. Uh huh.
Do these people work? Or just slur all day?
“Honey, I’m home! Back from a long hard day of being racist!”
Gee, I wonder what the skin color was of making those “racial slurs” dozens of times each day…
Sounds to me more like a knock on management than on their fellow workers.
The New Yorker thinks they’re funny again.
That “support serious journalism, support the New Yorker” ad was pretty funny.
Would you eat here? Yay or nay???
https://mobile.twitter.com/SvenTystnad/status/1492201651402424324
I dont get it. It looks like some bar
It is.
And no, but mostly because, you know, vegetarian. Their food quality could be excellent, you never know.
I could go for a Jucy Lucy right about now…
Juicy Lucy.
https://archive.md/kobUE/42a20d52380f9b9f03e047567d3e5b90286dde96.jpg
NSFW.
Heh. I put it on the tee and Q knocks it out of the park.
Yay X 1000
That’s because you’ve never had a Jucy Lucy.
I am so sorry to hear about Wonder Dog. May she always have fun things to play with.
Powerline, trucker edition,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/the-week-in-pictures-keep-on-truckin-edition.php
Sums it up pretty well.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/a_color_map_of_the_fronts_of_world_war_iii.html
Taking on the parlance of the article, the way I see it, the Blues assume they’ll stroll to victory once Western values have been eliminated; that their utopian vision of “global good government” will come to fruition. However, the Blues themselves are a cancerous tumor of the Yellows, unable to exist on their own. Their decadence, moral corruption and and spinelessness will easily fall prey to the Reds. The Greens are not a serious threat, mostly just a distraction that can be solved with wholesale genocide; something the CCP will not shy away from once any repercussions and accountability are removed. Nor are Russia and North Korea serious threats to the CCP; Abramowitz has the battle lines and the belligerents well defined, but he’s naive to think that it ends with anything other than victory for the CCP and specifically the CCP.
The smartest move the CCP ever made was finding a way to use the free market against the West by subverting the wealthiest individuals and corporations; turning your enemy’s strength to a weakness is Sun Tzu in his purest form.
Sure, if the CCP doesn’t have any structural problems of its own. I kinda think they do, though.
This “objectively support”/”with us or against us” line makes me itch.
Octopuses are surprisingly intelligent, and reproduce at 1 year old. If we’d started a breeding program 50 years ago, we probably could’ve gotten them smarter than dolphins by now. A disappointing failure of the long-term mad science ecosystem.
https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1492212649941037056
Gordilocks on Laura Ingraham.
Gordi’s a star! Good for him…just hope he doesn’t end up getting disappeared after all this quiets down.
No monocle and formal wear? He’s not representing glibs very well. There better be some orphans holding up the webcam.
Holy. Fuck. When Gordo comes back he is in for a rash of shit about his headgear choice. (he cracks me up. He sounds just like every Canadian I have
overthrown governments withworked overseas with). Good people.Isn’t that the hat he was wearing in his avatar pic?
The same style, at least
I am not around during the week. How is your mom doing?
She passed away.
Dammit. Sorry to hear that.
Condolences……..
Thank you, ‘sloper.
His Twitter avatar is Jerry Reed from Smokey and the Bandit.
My condolences. Seems like this was an amazingly shitty week.
Why tf is the “gay guy bad at drawing vaj” article listed as “Arab Israeli Conflict?”
RIP Wonderdog.
Tangled in the fence
The partisan gap in polling reveals some of the forces driving the Senate Democrats’ reluctance to abandon mask mandates. While a Monmouth University poll released in late January found that 70 percent of Americans overall — and virtually the same figure among independent voters — agreed it is time to “accept that COVID is here to stay” and “get on with our lives,” among Democrats, that number was just 47 percent.
Oxman said he doesn’t believe Democrats championing the rollback of restrictions would convert many voters come November. And candidates would run the risk of upsetting the Democratic base, Oxman said, pointing to recent data showing how differently the issue plays with Democratic voters.
“I think because it’s kind of split in some of these places, Democrats might be avoiding it,” he said. “There are a lot of Democrats who would think, ‘Wait a second, what is this guy? Trump?’ I don’t think you stand up there and start screaming about how Fauci is wrong.”
That monster you created; he’s inside the house!
There are some puppies currently gestating here. I know and really like both the parents. If you’re interested I could get you the owner’s contact info in a couple of months.
Mostly Australian shepherd mutts.
They claim the mom is an Aussie, but she’s too small (<30#) and too cuddly for that to be true. The dad is believably an "Aussie mix" with the right coat and attitude but thinner and taller than a true-to-type example.
I am sorry for your loss of the WD. She was a grand animal.
Australian shepherd mutts.
I saw somebody walking what appeared to be a couple of those dwarfish-proportioned Aussie/Corgi things the other day.
there are miniature aussies
Mater and Pater Dean have had miniature Aussies for years. Wonderful dogs, especially for an inside-the-house dog.
Yes indeed. Fuck the AKC and their “breed” perversion.
Meh. I get the hate if you assume that “breeding” is about snobbery. But there is a legitimate purpose in “improving” dogs. I personally find the “doodle” craze to be stupid, but the Berger Blanc Suisse and other attempts to create dogs more suitable to living closely with humans rather than working for them is an admirable goal. And while I will always champion adopting from a shelter, I will also remember that “you get more of what you reward.”
Their breed standards are garbage. They’ve destroyed the mini-Aussie world with their dipshit Miniature American Shepherd “breed”. Mini-Aussies are Aussies, just a smaller size, and were still being crossed from full size Aussies to maintain genetics. Conformance is not how working dogs, which what the entire Aussie family is, should be judged or bred.
Conformance uber alles is a recipe for disaster, long term. I get trying to knock defects out of the gene pool. but “this dog is half an inch too tall at the shoulder” is BS. We had a vet who was also an AKC judge look at the Big Dumb One before we had him cut, to see if he was legit breeding stock. It was very interesting – she dinged him on stuff that was invisible to the layman, which is fine to a point, but I still think his spawn would have been proud additions to the breed.
My niece has a couple MiniAussie/Corgi mixes. Great dogs.
Damn. So sorry to hear of Wonderdog. May the pooch have an endless summer of chasing critters and finding new smells in dog Valhalla
Well, shit.
I am so sorry to read about WonderDog. All my best to you, SP and WebDom.
Abramowitz identifies a fourth, passive enemy — the Whites (named for the flag of surrender). He also calls them the isolationists, average citizens who live their lives and do their jobs but do not engage with the issues du jour, believing they are immune to political winds and potential threats. They unwittingly aid and abet the Reds, Greens, and Blues.
The neutral. How we hate them!
Deepest sympathy on WD’s passing. We lost Previous Black Cat suddenly and much too soon a couple of years ago, and it was a while before we were ready for Current Black Cat.
Greetings from Hueston Woods State Park Lodge in not-all-that-scenic-at-the-moment SW OH. Am disappoint – supposedly the place was renamed Ickey Woods State Park for the week in honor of the former Bengal, but there’s no visible evidence onsite. ?
not-all-that-scenic-at-the-moment SW OH
The Midwest has its virtues, but late winter/early spring is not when they are readily apparent. Fall was always my favorite.
Huh. I’m supposed to be running a steel shoot in 15 minutes. I guess I should get the muck boots out of the safe and put on my shotgun.
Sorry about your doggy guys. What a handsome fellow he was.
So, so sorry OMWC, SP, & WD.
OMWC, SP and WebDom:
I am so sorry to hear about Wonder Dog’s leaving you. Every dog the SU and I have been privileged to have in our household has taught us something about ourselves and each other, and every one we’ve lost has felt like not just losing a friend, but a patient, gentle and playful mentor as well. God bless, and Godspeed to Wonder Dog.
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My condolences on your loss. WD had some good people.