Hopefully Liverpool destroys them…again.
NBA Playoffs: blah, blah, blah. Nobody cares. The Browns are being talked to by the NFL about possibly tanking games. Which I guess is somehow different than sitting most of your starters at the end of the season when you can’t change your playoff position. Liverpool take on ManUre today in (another) must-win game for both teams. ManUre will be without Ronaldo after the tragic death of one of his twins during childbirth. May God have mercy on that poor baby’s soul. And that’s sports.
Now we can all be like Texas Democrat politicians when we fly!
Good. This was bullshit. Now go fire your Dean of Inclusivity or whatever it’s called and hire a Dean Of Individual Liberty and have them explain to all these whiny bitches that nobody in the world is not obligated to call you whatever you demand and that its best to start your adult life understanding this.
So much for at-will employment. Not to mention all of the claims Amazon made can be easily verified by video that the fired jackass had taken himself.
It’s about fucking time. It only took damn near two years for a judge to actually understand how the constitutional separation of powers works. And I fly to NYC tomorrow, so I get to enjoy it right away.
“Shut the fuck up”, the bunny said to the President.
“You know what, there is no Easter Bunny. Over there, that’s just a guy in a suit!” Great line from a great movie. Anyway, it’s not really applicable, although this shit is equal parts hilarious and pathetic.
Good, pay your fucking taxes! I shouldn’t get a lower deduction than assholes from overtaxed blue states. You want to complain? Do it in Albany and Sacramento. They’re the ones fleecing you. I mean, fleecing you more than me, anyhow. I still hate federal taxes. But this isn’t really about that.
I hope his insurance carrier sees the logic in what he’s requested. Because this seems like a no-brainer to me. Both from a cost-savings point of view as well as a potential for bad publicity…which they’re now starting to face.
What do you think of your progressive paradise now, Californians? Your government is absolutely fucking useless. Not to mention they’re largely to blame for the problem with their retarded tax policies, building restrictions, and general governance.
This is the greatest thing I heard all day (yesterday). Now get the tostada back as well, you bastards.
Here’s a gem of a song. Those guys were fucking great. I’ll give you a second dose. This one a very good cover. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this Tuesday, dear friends.
whaddup doh’
Chillin
I’m working!
“It’s about fucking time.”
Let me discuss how we now govern by Twitter. Here in NYC Amtrak decided to follow the law late last night. So no masks now in Penn Station.
However, MTA and NJTransit said hold on there serf. So masks required. I get on the AM cattle car out of NJ where I am admonished at least twice on the PA that masks are still required. My train gets into Penn Station and one of the crew must have gotten something from HQ on Gov Murphy’s Twitter feed and says on the PA that masks are no longer required on trains.
At this point one other person and I remove the masks. Unreal. Although it is at least one thing to make the evening commute home nicer.
https://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/transportation/2022/04/19/nj-transit-mask-mandate-end-after-federal-judge-ruling/7364880001/
the mask has become a badge to identify the other fucking idiots in the crowd, and the idiots are scared to lose that advantage that allowed them to see whom else was an idiot like them and the suffering of those that were not like them because society denied them the ability to function unless they bent the knee to the idiots.
That’s a good thing, though. I’ve always said that stupid people should be conspicuous.
The mental gymnastics needed to both think the ultra rich have to pay more in taxes while at the same time fighting to eliminate the SALT deduction cap is remarkable.
I have come to the conclusion that the people that want to see government as the agent of change, and positive change at that, can never admit how fucked up and inefficient government is, because their entire worldview would be destroyed if they admitted that reality. These are the people that will believe every and any lie told to them by the fucking evil shits attracted to government.
Yes, it’s all about the narrative, right-thinkfulness, and virtue signalling.
Clearly, the plan is to have a regressive property tax where lower valued properties are taxed at a higher rate, so everyone pays more than $10k/yr
That regressive tax is already there: it’s called inflation. And it is the lower middle class and small businesses that pay it and take the brunt of that onslaught.
You misunderstand which tax I’m talking about.
No UCS, I point out that the tax you are talking about will be an additional regressive tax over and above inflation.
Any tax is over and above inflation.
Except inflation is the one tax nobody can avoid, and that impacts the people with the least means the worst.
SALT deductions are one of the ways the rich can support taxing the rich while avoiding being taxed because they are rich. They need to redirect the mob to other targets.
SALT deductions exist specifically to allow high state tax blue states to keep high earners from simply moving to a state without that high state tax. You have no idea how many rich people making good money bailed on these high state tax blue states when SALT went away. When you no longer were able deduct that $80K in state taxes you were paying to your state, because the cap was set at $10K, from your fed taxes, that meant you took a $70K loss to the government that year. That’s an incentive for many people in that range over the allowed $10K cap to move elsewhere. High tax blue states are a fucking racket because of the fed deduction. And I say that as someone currently impacted by the SALT changes that will move as soon as I finally get my ass in gear.
My parents after retirement now live in fancy high rise in downtown Dallas and all their neighbors are all people from California who spend 51% of their days there.
Is it a deluxe apartment in the sky?
Where beans don’t burn in the kitchen?
hells yeah
The “Tax them all because government needs to be the arbiter of where the cash goes and thus who wins and who loses” people always mean do that to others. Not to them. It’s a travesty that people that say they are cool with high taxes do so because they always feel it will hurt their neighbor more, which then makes it acceptable for them. People like this suck.
“I am more than willing to have other people sacrifice.”
It is a deduction not a credit. The amount you are no longer deducting is taxed at your marginal rate. Still a significant tax increase, but not the $70k in your example.
Minnesoda aggressively targets snowbirds to make sure they pay their taxes.
I know a couple retirees who swear that the Minnesoda IRS has a unit that tracks snowbirds. They will check credit card receipts and plane travel to determine if you really spent 184 days outside of Minnesoda. And even then it doesn’t ensure that you don’t have to pay Minnesoda.
Gotta love it when the people who can steal your money and lock you up for breaking the rules won’t even tell you what the rules are.
How is that even vaguely legal? I can see how taxpayer info might be protected, but how do they get to claim taxpayer-funded work product is secret?
It’s the FYTW clause that is clearly laid out in the Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
Right next to the insane “convenience” of the employer theory.
Hey serf, you belong to the land.
“A man’s flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”
SHUH! If they tell you the rules, you can actually do things and prepare to rebut their abusive intent! Don’t you even prog much, brah?
Where is your professional license is particularly obscene. Plenty of folks have multiple licenses, sometimes several.
How many of them however can’t get an ID to vote so asking them to do so is racialist?
NJ does the exact same thing.
I’ve heard MA is strict too. My parents would always argue over it (Dad would gladly have spent more than half the year in FL). Since Dad passed before they transferred residency to FL, we’ll have to go through the fucking nightmare of MA estate laws when Mom passes.
It’s not hard
“Well, not me. I’m not *that* rich’
“I never thought I’d have to pay”
That is what all these people think. They think that they are making a reasonable amount of money. They deserve their loot. It is all those evil people making more than them that need to be soaked.
Look at AOC and the rest of that squad of douches grifting about how unfair it is that they have to pay off their school loans. instead they want people that chose not to incur that enormous debt to get a worthless degree and small business owners to pay that loan off for them,,, That’s a wealth transfer from the less well off to the upper class right there, but they act as if they are the oppressed ones.
How much did Griggs v. Duke Power cost college attendees over the decades?
Politicians in New Jersey bitched about the deduction cap all the time and it always annoyed me. How about you get your insane property taxes under control instead trying to get them written off on federal taxes?
“So much for at-will employment. Not to mention all of the claims Amazon made can be easily verified by video that the fired jackass had taken himself.”
I am conflicted that Amazon got fucked by a woke ruling.
That sums up how I felt this AM when I heard that on the radio.
It’s the same location on Staten Island where his buddy who was also fired is leading the new union there.
Fuck ’em.
`Moobs whining about the SALT cap is one of the most hilariously hypocritical, entitled things he does. And that’s saying something. “Fair” = “stuff I want.”
That’s where you get it wrong. For these supposed progressives, “fair” means they get whatever whim they want. These are the people that scream racism and talk about the evils of slavery but have no shame saying that whatever they want for free is a right, thus obligating the people providing that service and the ones paying for it to do wok under duress and likely at a fraction of what the service is worth.
I think it is a sign that they know who’s buttering their bread, and it’s the folks who make over ~125K and who are affected by the cap. And arguing for the elimination of this cap is more politically acceptable than, you know, cutting fucking taxes.
People who make $15 an hour pay through the nose, too.
How so? Standard deduction should mean you pay almost nothing in income taxes.
Granted I pay less in taxes than the rest of you, but it’s not as if I pay no tax to NYS. They rob *everyone* blind.
According to my dad, you need to crank out 3 offspring and then you’ll get paid by the government instead of having to pay in to it.
“What do you think of your progressive paradise now, Californians?”
I read this as Canadians and was a bit confused when I started reading the article. I guess either works, eh?
You would be surprised how many people can remain oblivious to the fact their plight is directly caused by the voting choices and policies they support so they can remain able to pretend they are better than you or I because they are part of the right group of zealots.
Wouldn’t want the wrong lizards to get into office.
Yup, Fox news is running commercials promoting a show about “Los Angeles’ Suicide” with video of the crime and chaos, and my wife was going on about oh, how terrible it is for the people there. My response was that they voted for this, and now they’re getting it good and hard, so fuck ’em.
Indeed. How much are they paying for things like home health aides, etc? Of course, the bureaucracy is not an adaptable mechanism.
I can’t believe all of you are falling for this insurance scam.
That robotic arm isn’t for feeding himself. The fact that he is also trying to get the insurance company to reimburse him for a Jesse 55 gal barrel of lube should tip you off to what he is really going to use that arm for.
*You would think the home health aides would chip in to buy him that arm on their own dime to get out of that chore.
HEY NOW!
Sorry Alex. I should have acknowledged all the wonderful charity work you do giving handies to the disabled.
You are a saint.
I follow in the footsteps of my pope in the hopes that will get me Nirvana!
Absolutely. In fact, let’s reduce the SALT deduction to zero. Sorry high tax blue states. Fuck you, cut spending.
Can we zero mortgage interest and charitable donations while we’re at it?
Only if we get a flat tax.
deal
Hold on a minute, that’s 3 of us that agree about something. What the hell is going on here?
Ok ok, where’s everyone land on pineapple pizzas and circumcision
I prefer my pizza uncut.
What, there are people who actually like uncircumcised pineapples?
Pineapple on Taco Bell Mexican pizza
I like my pizza with the crust still on.
I like pizza on my pineapple.
Dear god! I thought those were banana pepper rings!
It has to do with the faults that developed in the commentbot code that’s been leading to all the quore dumps.
Word! Do it to them good Esse!
How high are you?
So they are going for the “munchies” demographic?
Maybe those are the old rancid pizzas they can’t otherwise unload, so they’re selling them as a “special” to incapacitated stoners.
(note to their lawyers: I am merely joking)
Dragging over from the dead thread, as I did not realize how late I slept. Also, Sloopy, the Ramones are always a welcome treat. They were my first concert that i attended without parental supervision – 1985, Janus Landing in St. Pete, FL. What an amazing night that was.
HOLY MACKEREL! So, the conversation about housing got me a bit curious, so I checked my neighborhood. Our development is comprised of large buildings divided into 4 duplex town-homes. They sold, brand new, in 2011 for $500K. The construction would NEVER pass inspection in Florida or Louisiana; they are built like vertical mobile homes. Wind blows through the light sockets on exterior walls, the building has settled to the point where a couple doors do not close and a ball will roll across the house on its own, the yard (having the topsoil and my lovely garden washed away by SuperDuperStorm Sandy) is nothing but garbage fill, etc. These units are on Zillow for $1.7 million. I guess I’m renting for the rest of my days.
Link to a house several doors down from me – https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/123-Beach-62nd-St-Far-Rockaway-NY-11692/122031906_zpid/
Even if it were as nice as they are trying to make it look in the pictures, I wouldn’t shell out more than $100-150k on that. Less, if it’s still in proximity to NYC.
You’re crazy. You want a place for under $50/sq ft?
Not under the current pricing schema. But It’s where it should have been.
Kitchen looks nice for a crackerbox palace.
We looked at a couple condos the other day in our community as a potential investment. Our realtor was lamenting that they were $120-135k when you could have gotten them three years ago for $40k or so. They’re just simple condos on the golf course. Not even waterfront.
We put one of our rental properties on the market last week. It is a nice single family home that we have maintained well, sitting on a sizeable piece of land, but with less than 2000 sqft of living area. Within three days there were over 20 showings scheduled. At the end of the 3 days there were 3 offers, one (significantly) below asking, which we ignored, and two that ended up bidding each other up nearly 20% over our asking price.
Weird goings on.
We bought our house less than a year ago. Now the houses in our development with the exact same floorplan, lot size, etc. are listing for 50% more than we paid.
The credit union assessed the purported value of my house as part of the process of deciding whether to issue a HELOC so I can fix the roof. They claim it’s worth more than 150% of what I paid for it six years ago.
I have no lawn. It has never sold for substantially different dollar values than I paid, not even at the height of the early 2000s bubble. I doubt their assessment methodologies.
PS, it’s also not for sale.
Keep saving your money for downpayment/principal and pounce when the bubble inevitably pops.
Weird quordle. Lucky seed word led to a cascade where I had three solved with zero letters on the fourth.
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I’ll show you:
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Wow! That’s the lowest possible score, right?
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Speaking of home prices:
My place almost doubled in value when I sold this year (bought 5 years ago). I did a lot of improvements though. At that time I thought I was overpaying lol.
Now I bought a legitimately overpriced house in Florida, but I’m not sure my area will see a drop. Just heard that housing starts are DOWN this month. There’s a serious supply issue throughout the country.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
This one is for Tundra and his GSD fetish.
I need a dog like that that will help me avoid the slippery spots.
Tundra will get a pool and another dog and practice.
Start growing your hair out Fourscore. Last thing you need is for the rescue dog to chomp down on other dangling body parts.
Yep. That’s a good doggie!
Thanks, Holiness!
I know what Musk is doing this for, but WTF is Dorsey’s agenda here?
Cashing out his shares at a premium?
I read an article that said share price was $75 earlier this year.
Jack may not be able to sell most of his shares yet.
Elon buys for cash, Jack gets a bit ol’ payday.
I saw that, but I think Twitter shares will never again be as high as Musk’s offer if he gets blocked. Dorsey knows this.
Could Dorsey cash out at $75/share? I’m guessing there are some regulations that make it difficult for a board member to liquidate their shares at the height of the market. A buyout offer would be treated differently.
I don’t know enough about corporate governance to say, he’s been off the board for a while, but maybe not long enough?
Anyway, it does put Elon’s offer in some perspective, it’s well above the current price, but nothing near where it was recently.
Jack is still on the board; he’s planning on stepping down at the end of 2022.
Well, according to this, I think Dorsey is just looking to exit with cash in hand..
The salary Jack gets from the board pales in to almost $1B he’d get for his 18M shares in a buyout at the price Musk is offering.
Jack got more or less forced out, no? He may have a bone to pick.
It sure seems like he hates the board.
Last week WaPo writer Taylor Lorenz cries about internet bullying. This week she publishes an article doxxing the LibsofTikTok twitter account. These people are fucking monsters. As one poster put it, this is a gross violation of sacred internet norms that undergird our freedoms.
The battle for free speech is everything.
If we do it it is just, but if you do it to us, you are an oppressor!
There is no greater armor in our culture wars than wearing the robes of victimhood.
Taylor Lorenz was bullying people way before she cried on TV about mean people. She tried to gin up mobs to go after people who said bad things on a private channel.
I would pay cash money to watch a live one on one debate between her and Glen Greenwald.
Apparently she comes from old money in Connecticut and went to Swiss boarding schools, proving once again that woke allegations are only ever used to protect the powerful.
Tmite.
At some point there’s going to be a line crossed
Yeah, it’s so egregious at this point. I am genuinely shocked when I see that some people still trust and admire journalists.
She is an expert on online harassment.
Hasn’t that been her shtick from the get-go? What a useless piece of media shit.
She needs to transform into something less evil.
Yes and yes.
Just drop “media” from your second sentence.
Any Floridians know if I can get a non real ID license here? My Google Fi want working.
That inflation ain’t so bad, yo. Vote for team blue for free shit!
I thought this was great headline for an editorial.
A Crime Scene Where the Victims Wore Masks
WTF is going on with the freakout over Tucker and ball tanning?
Half the stuff I’ve seen has claimed that Tucker is some sort of hypocrite because the promo is totes gay and everyone knows he is anti-gay.
I don’t watch much Tucker at all, but I’ve never gotten the old skool anti-gay evangelical christian vibe from Tucker. Is he really anti-gay? Or is he being labeled as anti-gay because he won’t agree that Universal Pre-K needs to include a lot of trans and gay talk?
I just figure it’s part of the default slate of accusations thrown at anyone outside of the hivemind.
Tucker is hated because he makes fun of them. Nothing angers these fuckwads more than people making fun of them. They have worked very, very hard to make it impossible to use humor to accost and discredit them and their virulently stupid ideas and beliefs, and here comes Carlson and does just that. Death to the infidel!
There’s always some tucker freakout
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for the Middle District of Florida called the policy “unlawful” and ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had overstepped its legal authority by imposing the mandate in February 2021.
Who does this judge think she is? Some sort of virologist?
Someone check the NSA wallet. The global reset types all have their agencies working t make crypto unattractive and unviable because it undermines their plans for us serfs.
I have two things that caught my eye from the links.
1. the unsheltered, and
2. The researchers were told they should not be looking for proof but just enough to “give the base of a very useful narrative.”
I think both of those speak to why we are where we are and why it ain’t going to be easy to change. Too much of our society is too comfortable living lies.
Oops, second one was from another story I had open, not a morning link.
The people that today still believe that still believe the entire weaponized US government bureaucracy of the Obama administration didn’t collude to run a soft coup against a sitting US president for the benefit of one political party will never be convinced that happened. No evidence will make these people accept that they were duped by evil fucking people and that we have a government bureaucracy and political class that is out of control, feels the people they are supposed to serve are the problem standing in the way of their agenda, and needs to be rolled back to the point they can’t keep doing what they do.
Not surprising that 5 people don’t want to commit suicide.
When you are not allowed to correctly diagnose a problem, said problem can be fixed by an insane lucky event. So, because people today, when confronted with a problem/issue – from the insanely obvious and easy to the devilishly complex and yuge – will simply zone out to any discussion/explanation that uses logic, data & analytics, or reasoning, if it leaves them emotionally unsatisfied, we have an entire industry of grifters using lies and stupid appeals to emotion to get them all riled up and willing to accept the dumbest shit you could imagine.
As a society, we have generations of morons inculcated with the belief that good causes and bad causes should be determined by emotional appeals and solutions always need to address nebulous and stupid social criteria rather than be about accurately diagnosing problems and then fixing them driving key decisions. My consolation is that eventually these people will destroy the work of countless generations before them, forcing everyone to get rid of these stupid fucking practices we have today, as daily subsistence becomes priority one.
hard men bring good times. Good times make soft men. Soft men bring calamity. Calamity creates strong men… Rinse & repeat.
if it leaves them emotionally unsatisfied
So I’m curious, since human nature doesn’t really change, how did we ever function more effectively as a society (and govt)?
We didn’t let the gals into the discussions where hard decisions were made?
“Fuck, we don’t have the money to pay for everyone to stay home for six months. Pandemic or not, people need to work”
“Ooooh, no! Why don’t we just borrow money? We can pay it back later. It is mean to make people risk their lives working!!!”
Your great-great-grandfathers shouldn’t have drunk so much?
My “civic duty” is dedicated to cancelling out the votes of another XIX I know.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jeannette-rankin-casts-sole-vote-against-wwii
Of course Rankin was correct that FDR had done what he could to provoke war – moving the Pacific fleet out to Pearl (for two weeks) in 1940.
O H I O
Public official deferred by law.
Always been good to be one of the king’s men.
Looking at the military in the Ukraine brouhaha, so many are just kids.
18 seems so young to have to go off to war
Preceding every “diversity hire” is a weak/incompetent man who never should have been there either. The only way people come to even entertain the possibility that important jobs should be assigned primarily because of the sex or skin color (or other irrelevant factors) of the candidates, is by first being unfit for the position themselves. Systems run by people tend to degenerate because the selection criteria (which are often unspoken) are slowly relaxed until the qualified and capable are almost entirely replaced by the unqualified and incapable, at which point every fanciful notion under the sun can be considered, since no one is left in power who actually knows what makes the gears keep turning.
In my experience, every startup I’ve worked at starts to deteriorate at around six people. After you have six employees, you start to hire friends or friends of friends.
That is also where you start to have enough people to make meetings worthless.
I think that is also the point, where you realize that the company is viable and you can scale up some more to grow and make more money.
WIth the lag though, you start getting people with time on their hands. They use this to “improve” things. And you also have to start settling differences in a professional manner.
That’s close to my experience as well. A team of 4 (including myself) seemed to get a lot more done than a team even 50% larger.
In the case of govt, money is the grease that keeps the gears turning, and turning the gears is the point of spending money. It’s a nearly perfect system.
True, but it wasn’t always this way.
No, but it is our post-WWII ‘success’ as a nation.
It is enabled by that, but I don’t think it was a necessary consequence.
We made fun of people that were unable to filter out their emotional drive. It’s not an accident that the first thing done by this movement was to stop people from ridiculing stupid shit.
So the bit about thymotic desire noted yesterday – about the need to be recognized. That’s something Plato talked about, so it ain’t exactly new. I think the issue is, it is one thing for it to be something that exists, and another for it to be the supreme ruler of behavior. David Brooks talked to it being the latter, and that certainly does explain a lot of our current social dysfunction.
Brooks is projecting here. I would totally believe that thymotic desire rules his world and the worlds of those he surrounds himself with.
We all have some tendency to it, but it’s pathological among his ilk.
The strong were rewarded with power, often that they seized for themselves, the weak (most people) endured what they were left by the strong, and the truly despicable were hanged or exiled. Eugenic effects can occur without conscious design; frontiersmen and warriors existed where there were frontiers to be conquered and wars to be won.
will simply zone out to any discussion/explanation that uses logic, data & analytics, or reasoning, if it leaves them emotionally unsatisfied
Another lens to view this in is the failure of technocracy. Is it at all surprising that people distrust “hard data” when you can find “hard data” to tell you anything? Lies, damned lies, and all that. When eggs are good for 6 months until the next study says eggs are bad and everybody can throw up some number to support their personal agenda, people just tune it out.
Not saying everybody is tuning things out because of this, but it adds to the incentive for lazy thinking.
Most people can’t be bothered, usually because they wouldn’t have a clue how to read the data (not because they are dumb, but often simply because they have not been taught to do that, and that is by design), and these days reason and logic no longer are considered to be signs of thoughtful discourse, but denigrated with labels denoting nefarious intent (racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe, phobophobe) by people that know the appeal to emotion works.
“Joe Biden quickly interrupted by the Easter Bunny after he starts to comment on #Afghanistan and #Pakistan at the White House,” Dillion captioned an 11-second clip.
It’s almost sad. But not really. Fuck that guy.
I can’t think of any other President during my lifetime that would let an underling – much less one dressed in a bunny costume – push him around like that.
Even Jimmy Carter was alpha enough to have told the bunny to go shove an egg up his ass. That he was the goddam President and would talk to whoever he wanted.
The man knows his place. He knows the only reason he’s “president” and gets to have his name in the history books is because he has handlers that allow it. It may collapse soon when a certain hard drive gets leaked and anyone and everyone can start investigating, but he’s going to smile and nod to ride out his charade at the top as long as he can.
Taco Bell taketh away and Taco Bell giveth back: The Mexican Pizza is returning to the menu very soon.
As if you need another way to get the runs.
I get the runs from the filthy soda fountains.
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This is why I couldn’t live in FL.
Giant alligator takes stroll through Venice, Florida neighborhood on Easter morning
That and the crappy weather.
They love jumbo marshmallows. Make a new friend!
How can those things be so common and abundant while still being endangered enough to make them unharvestable?
You can hunt them.
Huh, I thought they were protected.
It’s a short season, and out of staters pay a premium for a permit, but they can be harvested. (August to November)
I’d kind of like to try it, like hunting dinosaurs. Saw a few near my apartment last week.
Now I’m wondering if any of the rennie leatherworkers I know could deal with me dropping off a hide. I brain-tanned a deerhide back in my scouting days, and supposedly “every animal has enough brains to tan it’s own hide,” but I wonder if that’s true for reptiles.
I doubt it.
Do you bait a trap with a stuffed toy dog slathered with bacon? Then wait nearby for a kill shot?
They were between 1973 and 1987.
Isn’t it more human to chase them off? All you have to do is wave your hands and yell, “Shoe! Shoe!” and they will skedaddle.
With the big ones you have to go “Luggage! Luggage!”.
The trick is to say it in an authoritative voice. Any indecision in the tone and they will know that your threat is just a croc of shit.
Holster! Holster!
Shoes! Shoes!
My brother hunted them in GA. Hell, we have them here in SC.
Gator meat is wonderful.
Damn, that’s a big gator. As NA asks, HTF are these still listed as ‘endangered’?
And I stand corrected.
The next conflict is brewing.
The Taliban regime responded angrily to Pakistani airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan on Friday, denouncing the attacks as violations of Afghanistan’s territorial integrity and warning of “dire consequences” if such operations continue.
Pakistan’s uneasy relationship with the Taliban took a turn for the worse on Friday when Pakistani helicopters allegedly crossed the border to launch a pre-dawn assault on several locations in the eastern provinces of Khost and Kunar.
Afghan provincial officials claimed over 40 civilians were killed by the Pakistani attack, including several children.
The Pakistani military lectured the “government of Afghanistan” (the Taliban) to “secure the Pak-Afghan Border region and take stern actions against the individuals involved in terrorist activities in Pakistan.”
It’s a good thing we armed the Taliban.
Until Pakistan goes full Swalwell on them and drops a nuke on Kabul.
Eh Pakistan sucks too. Let them duke it out.
Minnesoda GOP meanies try to steal $6M from blacks
If the GOP were smart, they would play this boondoggle against the light rail boondoggle that is already going on. “Hey, we’d love to reconnect a neighborhood where all the original residents have already moved on, but all that money has to pay for the choo-choo from the suburbs”.
Activists made a fuss about replacing a pedestrian bridge over DC-295 that averaged 6 crossings per day. The alternatives added less than half a mile to the worst case route.
Wtf is this retarded bigot blathering about?
“The formerly bow-tied ‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant’s hyper-masculinity flex is some pretty blatant, fascist posturing. The decline of real men is code for conservative white men who need laser beams to make white babies. And if that all falls apart, that spooky old, great replacement theory is bound to succeed. What is scarier is what the rhetoric translates into, from book banning to abortion bans and laws that regulate procreation in women’s bodies. And what is now an obsession with the false notion scary liberal saboteurs are going to turn your kids, meaning your sons, trans. That fascist posturing has led to fascist tendencies on the American right that worship tough-guy — well, fake tough-guy Trump — who even as a ghostly presence can reign as a party boss.”
Just keep saying “fascist” so everyone knows that you are sooper serial.
The Young Ones did it first: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/5t6uby/so_this_whole_calling_people_fascist_for_little/
white men who need laser beams to make white babies
I know what all those words mean, but not when they are put together like that.
Dude, why would you ever expect to understand what that stupid cunt is saying?
Ukrainian women must be difficult to satisfy.
I can vouch for that.
Glad I wasn’t the only one to pickup on that.
Your tax-dollars at work keeping the military-industrial complex profitable.
The Russians are going to nail anything that can be seen with satellites or drones (too big to fit in the trunk of a car) as it enters the Ukraine. That doesn’t matter to Raytheon and General Dynamics’ bottom line – but will matter a lot to the suckers hired to drive the trucks hauling this missile-bait.
What if we wrap stuff in plain brown packaging?
You get sued by UPS for the vehicles.
That would be racist:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10685999/Talk-radio-host-fired-UPS-joke-Kamalas-monochrome-brown-State-Union-suit.html
They took her joke out of context of course. She was talking about the all brown outfit she wore.
So when you’re 50, and learned everything at the end of the Cold War, it’s still funny to see “Mi-17” right there in the midst of a bunch of US-ian gear.
I was laughing at the 200 M113’s. Now the Russians are going to use them for target practice instead of us.
“The Russians are going to nail anything that can be seen with satellites or drones (too big to fit in the trunk of a car) as it enters the Ukraine.”
HAHAHAHA!
Cheering for that won’t make it happen. What are they going to “nail” this incoming equipment with? Spaceships? Super Dooper Russian Hypersonic Killodeath Missiles of Doom? Chechens? Syrians?
I can’t remember where I read this, so take it as speculation, but I heard that foreign arms are being driven in civilian cars from the Polish border to the front in the east. If true, this is very unlikely to be targeted by Russian missile strikes.
OTOH, if there is a depot of foreign weapons for distribution, this is a potential target. https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1516013596412878858
Gonzalo Lira: Murdered by The Daily Beast?
Looks that way – he has been disappeared.
I can’t even understand what is being alleged/reported there.
He was saying anti-Zelensky stuff on his podcasts from Kiev and the Daily Beast apparently helped locate him for the Azoz guys.
Yeah. He’s probably being tortured right now, or is already dead. And regime-connected journalos are gloating about it on Twitter.
http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira
What if we wrap stuff in plain brown packaging?
Gift-ship it via Amazon.
Does Prime ship same day to the front line?
To Mechanically inclined Glibs: My truck wouldn’t start last night. It’s a 2013 F-150 3.5 liter Ecoboost. The brake pedal won’t depress when trying to start, and the engine doesn’t turn over at all. Voltage on the battery is fine (it’s also under 2 years old), and I went through the relays and fuses to make sure they were all good. It also wouldn’t turn over at all on a jump start attempt. My thoughts are that because I can’t depress the brake it won’t complete the circuit to start, just not sure how to change that. I read that sometimes the anti-theft system will think you don’t have the right key and I did complete a reprogramming of the fob, and that didn’t work.
I left it at work last night, but my plan is to go back today and disconnect the battery to try to reset everything, but I was wondering if anyone had other ideas.
I’m a bit confused why the brake pedal won’t move. Even with no vacuum assist it should still move.
You can try moving the shift lever to neutral. In some vehicles that will bypass brake and park lever safeties.
I did try that as well. I agree that the primary difference that stands out is the brake pedal not moving.
Any aftermarket theft system can cause issues as they decay. One question- one, do you have a push button start, or a mechanical old school key? That determines a possible next step.
Mechanical key.
I should add that it has an aftermarket remote start system that I never use.
Figure out your brake pedal obstruction first.
If the brake pedal won’t go down, that is probably not letting the starter turn over.
Not sure what would cause that, but I would start there.
If it’s still in gear the brake pedal may not go down. Run the trannie handle, may be electronically stuck.
/Not a mechanic
Is it just me, or have chickens gotten huge over the past 20 years? I remember them smaller than these unusably huge birds I see today.
20 years?
I have so many old-ish (40+ y.o.) recipes that call for a 3-lb hen.
I wasn’t cooking 40 years ago. So it’s possible the trend goes back further.
Chickens are evolving back in to dinosaurs!
Tasty, tasty dinosaurs.
I cook meat exceedingly seldom. Maybe butcher shops would have smaller and possibly more flavorful birds, if you’re looking for one, that is.
No, I was just at the butcher’s yesterday and the chickens were almost big enough to be mistaken for turkeys.
Can you find a local purveyor of Poulets de Bresse? What are you aiming to cook, if anything in particular, and if so what’s your budget?
(sorry, Central CA link) https://sunbirdfarms.com/2013/01/poulet-de-bresse/
I generally look to see what ingredients are available and decide what to turn them into afterwards. I had just noticed that almost comical change in bird dimensions from what I remember in years past.
also? https://www.bellandevans.com/our-chicken/chicken/
It’s happened with turkeys too. Commercial growers use a hybrid called Bronze-Breasted turkeys. But it’s much easier for a small farm to raise heritage turkeys. I’m actually getting a shipment of Bourbon Red poults in next week. Just a few to have around the homestead that will hopefully breed, but if we got into the turkey game, I could just let the turkeys free range all year before slaughter for Thanksgiving. Still more expensive than the grocery store, but nothing like the price differential for heritage chickens.
I figure if I ever raised poultry, it’d turn into a pet and I’d never end up processing the thing and have to bury the carcass when it keeled over. Mostly laziness. I’d procrastinate the messy work over and over again.
So big they can’t procreate the natural way.
Western Minnesota is on of the nations largest turkey producing areas. When I was in college there were always jobs in the classified ads for “Turkey Milkers”. Even ramen-eating poor pistoffnick wasn’t willing to jack off turkey toms for money.
I figure if I ever raised poultry, it’d turn into a pet and I’d never end up processing the thing
^ This the story of how I ended up with two pet bulls.
Will not make that mistake again. Or let my daughter name the animals anything except Dumpling, Brisket, Ribeye, etc.
That’s what we did as a kid. T-bone, Hamburger, etc. Still ate Daisy. Butcher would come out, shoot them, and field dress so there were no illusion where the meat came from.
One time I asked the guy to make sure to save the tongue as one of the cuts coming back to us when they were done. He told me to get a pan, and butchered it on the spot. No illusions.
Mmmmm…tongue tacos
Butcher would come out, shoot them, and field dress
All the current calves are heifers, but I’m going to need to figure this out once some steers are born (well bulls turned to steers). I’m probably going to end up biting the bullet on a trailer capable of hauling a full grown angus steer to the closest processing center. They charge something like 50/cents pound hanging weight to custom cut and vacuum seal, which is well worth it to me. FDA licensed facility too, so I could sell individual cuts but would probably just do half shares.
It’s selective breeding. You can get heritage breeds in the 3-4 lb range. Cornish cross chickens get up to 6 or 7 lbs.
(they get much bigger, but start having issues getting around, so harvesting at 6 or 7 lbs is most humane, and also most tender)
They’re called Cornish-Rocs. It’s a special hybrid that has to be bought directly from hatcheries. There is no other chicken that converts feed to meat as efficiently. Hatch to slaughter in 8 weeks. Red Rangers get almost as big but take an extra 4 weeks. A heritage meat bird is much smaller but takes~ 20 weeks to slaughter.
Commercial growers can’t afford the extra months of labor or feed to go with anything but Cornish Rocs. I’ve done Cornish Rocs here and it’s been great to butcher after only 8 weeks of work. We haven’t raised meat chickens in a while, but plan on doing a batch of 25 or 50 next Spring. If we were to sell locally, I could probably get away with pricing whole chickens at $4-5/lb.
We’d need to price whole heritage breeds at $20-25/lb to make it worthwhile.
:/
So for that I’m stuck with birds where I have too much bird.
Can you get Cornish game hens where you are? They are pretty tasty, and tiny.
I haven’t bought one of those in years, mostly for illogical reasons. My first thanksgiving in my own place I figured it’d be funny to roast a cornish hen like a turkey and set the table nice and neat and… it was more sad than anything. The complete lack of guests made me feel pathetic. Now the poor bird is maligned in my memories as a result.
I know it’s just a small chicken.
Ages ago, I went to several “orphan’s Thanksgivings” put on by the sensei of my aikido dojo. It was mostly people from the dojo who weren’t travelling or hosting a Thanksgiving dinner, but there were a few other people as well. A big potluck, basically. I think the hosts would do a turkey, etc. They were great fun, best of both worlds (or even better) – no weird family dynamics, huge spread for the price of a single dish, the whole gathering together vibe – probably about 20 people all told?
Sounds cute to me.
That was my intention when I thought it up. It just didn’t seem that way anymore when it was on the table and I realized I was alone.
They are available at Publix here. My wife likes to cook them every now and then.
When I was young, we used to help our cousins butcher chickens in exchange for a few birds. Unfortunately lunch was boiled chicken – ones we had just butchered.
I wasn’t very hungry that day.
Unfortunately lunch was boiled chicken – ones we had just butchered
Sounds tough. Aren’t you supposed to let them rest overnight?
Weren’t they already at rest?
They are huge
Cash me out
side.Danielle Bregoli, now known as Bhad Bhabie — who launched to internet stardom five years ago when trying to fight Dr. Phil McGraw on his namesake talk show by uttering her famous words “Cash me outside, how bout dah?” — now has something else to add to her name: Property.
The Florida native, whose television interview has since racked up some 14 million YouTube views and who has some 16 million Instagram followers, shelled out $6.1 million for a Boca Raton, Fla., home in an all-cash deal.
That’s right: You can now cash her inside an ultra-luxurious 9,200-square-foot home.
But perhaps her most controversial source of income is her account on OnlyFans, which she joined when she turned 18. The paid subscription platform, which has gained notoriety in the adult entertainment industry, earned her $1 million in her first six hours on the site, shattering the OnlyFans record.
Dudes be thirsty, yo. She’s exceedingly ordinary looking.
You must be stupid or have a particularly difficult thirst to pay.
And yet, pay they do.
I don’t understand people.
The unofficial Glibertarian motto.
Lucy Ricardo’s Friends of the Friendless.
Apparently there are plenty of pervy neckbeards around who are into underage ghetto types.
She does have huge jewbs, but according to some podcasters who viewed her OnlyFans it’s less than softcore and doesn’t actually show them.
See, everything turned out just fine in the end.
I’ll try not to think about this when I drag my ass out of bed tomorrow at 3:30AM. Anyone that subscribes to her should be neutered at a minimum. Not that’s much chance of procreation, but just in case.
I don’t understand any of that.
A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former warehouse employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic, saying the company “unlawfully” terminated the worker who led a protest calling for Amazon to do more to protect employees against COVID-19.
The dispute involving Gerald Bryson, who worked at an Amazon warehouse in the New York City borough of Staten Island, has stretched on since June 2020, when Bryson filed an unfair labor practice complaint with The National Labor Relations Board, claiming Amazon retaliated against him.
I’d have that fucker in a full hazmat suit all day, cleaning toilets and picking up cigarette butts in the parking lot.
“Hostile work environment!!!!11!!! Retaliation!!!11!!”
The brake pedal won’t depress when trying to start, and the engine doesn’t turn over at all.
It sounds like a brake “safety” switch issue.
Why the pedal is mechanically obstructed (if it is) is a different problem.
I’m still stuck on Zillow. This house was built in 1984, by my parents, for $35k. They sold it 1997 for $85k (it was on the market for almost 2 years). Looks like a second garage, pool, and a bunch of ugly architectural details were added in 2005. The current owner is asking for almost half a million.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7353-Bolten-Ln-Pt-Charlotte-FL-33981/71032328_zpid/
Jeez, I thought I was fond of turquoise.
Don’t look back / You can never look back ?
Someday, I want to buy one of those 500 cubic inch convertible Cadillacs and put a deadhead sticker on the bumper.
Whatever happened to empty for-sale houses? Internet, I guess. Do people need furniture for scale or what? What if I said doofy staging is interfering with my imagination more than that or personal photos on the fridge?
Speaking of doofy staging: I assumed Poundtown was like Poundland, a Brit dollar store.
oops, link: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/house-sale-goes-viral-thanks-unique-master-bedroom
The housing market is insane everywhere right now.
My wife and I sold the house in NJ and are sitting on the (rapidly depreciating) cash. No idea if a market crash is imminent or if in a year we’ll be wishing we bought now.
Yup, it’s not an easy choice with inflation this high, but imagine, prices just need to drop, or even start stable assume you get any returns at all, and you could make out, depending on your rent.
The house we were in when I was born, and my parents ditched when they divorced (and was also a money sink) is north of $600k.
Prompted me to zillow the house I grew up in (over $750k) and the first place I owned, a condo I bought for I recall around $70k (now valued at $450k). My place with my first wife is over $1M – we built it for under $200k as I remember.
My first townhouse that I bought for $220K is now listed at over $1M
San Diego sucks
Our San Diego house doubled in value from when we bought in ’99 to when we sold in ’14. It’s nearly doubled again since then.
Our house is up probably 50% in 9 years, maybe a little more.
And still significantly less than it would cost to build new today, especially including the land. We kind of poked at selling it and downsizing, but realized that even a 33% smaller house didn’t leave enough in the bank to be worthwhile.
Wow, that’s a nice place
Govern me harder, daddy.
Who should decide whether air passengers must wear masks: A federal agency staffed with experts accountable to the president, who is accountable to the people? Or a 35-year-old Trump judge in Tampa?
No one is preventing you from wearing your shame muzzle, moron.
You keep using that word like it means something.
We want what we want, and anyone against that or that wants something else is not the people!
When has the president held one of those experts accountable?
Bueller? Bueller?
Even FDR mostly had to resort to creating parallel bureaucracies first and only later was able to gut the ones opposing him when they were made moot.
The TSA could have been good. If we had combined those six (or whatever) agencies into the TSA but only given them the previous budget of one of them, the infighting would have been magnificent.
Many things about my politics have changed since the man was President, enough that the reasons why are quite different now than then, but my contempt for George W. Bush has not waned.
Heathens can voluntarily convert or we will force them!
Now do Obergefell vs. Hodges, partisan hack.
Your mask protects me, Nazi.
Judges can be impeached.
The law, you horse’s ass.
https://youtu.be/q6cyDsuNx_U
The law doesn’t care about me like daddy would. [pouts]
Notably missing from the options on offer: the passengers themselves.
Like the hoi polloi can be trusted with such decisions! They won’t even come to a consensus that benefits the party!
Life is full of them
The White House said the federal court ruling Monday to void the Biden administration’s mask mandate for travelers using public transportation such as trains and airplanes was “obviously a disappointing decision” in light of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending its order for passengers to wear face coverings be extended.
A federal judge on Monday voided the Biden administration’s transportation mask mandate from the CDC, which applies to people as young as 2 years old, and had been set to expire a number of times. The order was recently extended to May 3 before Monday’s ruling.
Poor babies. How dare anyone question their absolute authority.
Why do you think they constantly let it slip how much they envy how the CCP runs China?
The administration is fucked. If they don’t appeal, the crazy left is going to tear into them and make all sorts of stupid noise that won’t help at all.
If they do appeal the normies who are done with this pandemic shit will have a clear target to vent at. They won’t be able to pretend that some scientists at the CDC did it.
Smart people would realize that the crazy lefties are a tiny compared to the normies and should be the ones who are fucked over. In fact, they could gain some popularity back if they not only sided with the normies, but denounced the crazies when they started in on their pandemic bullshit. It isn’t like the MSM would call them hypocrites or anything. But at least the people who don’t follow politics would think that the administration wasn’t insane and evil.
“Now get the tostada back as well, you bastards.”
And the Enchirito.
Meximelt or GTFO!
way back . . . bell beefer . . . the only thing my young kids would eat at taco bell.
Too many people in our governments don’t know the how and why of our government…
Has NBC rushed camera crews to airports to document the effect of voiding the mask mandate? I seem to recall one of their recent stories featured a parade of experts who claimed people would be too afraid to fly if their fellow travellers were permitted to fly unmasked. The planes will be empty. The airlines will go broke.
I don’t know but every story I’ve read has made sure to feature at least one Karxn who’s afraid to reveal their face.
I was on a business trip two weeks ago and made a point of not wearing my mask as much as I could get away with in the airports. I nursed a single pack of preztels for nearly an hour on an airplane.
As soon as I came back, I was exposed to COVID and caught it from a friend (just getting over it today).
I don’t understand people.
The unofficial Glibertarian motto.
“If you couldn’t fuck ’em, there’d be a bounty on ’em.”
Okay Groomer.
Jen Psaki Cries: Anti-Groomer Law ‘Makes Me Completely Crazy’
“Psaki said the laws were “cruel” and did not represent the majority of Americans.”
They live in a different reality. As Scott Adams says, there are two movies on the same screen.
She’s a professional liar. I believe nothing that comes out of her piehole.
“Go away quickly.”
Is that a photographic glitch, or does she really have skin like an orange peel?
I bet it’s just her freckles under a really unflattering spectrum of light (maybe fluorescent or something).
She can’t wait for that sweet MSNBC gig where she can spout nonsense like this and everyone will nod and smile instead of asking her pesky questions.
Like Doc Holliday, her hypocrisy knows no bounds.
So what is the deal with this bullshit? How did the left get in this position?
Did they think that with a clever “Don’t Say Gay” tagline they could win? Maybe they thought the GOP would roll over like they always do?
Seems like they got themselves into this jam somehow and now they can’t figure out how to get out of it. Instead of retreating in good order, they have decided to double down.
Even Disney giving up (because they don’t want to lose their govt goodies) hasn’t deterred them.
Operating a cult means never being able to admit you went too far.
Yes. Disney has folded completely and not a peep out of them for about 3 weeks. It’s great.
The modern Democrat party is the new stupid party. I’m convinced of it,.
“Seems like they got themselves into this jam somehow and now they can’t figure out how to get out of it. Instead of retreating in good order, they have decided to double down.”
That’s always their tactic: double down no matter how obvious the failure…
Make it up in volume!
Instead of retreating in good order, they have decided to double down.
When do they ever do anything other than double down?
I think they have cultivated such an intellectual and social bubble that the coming backlash is going to floor them.
They appear not to realize exactly how unpopular their opinions are.
“Don’t Say Gay” has double the number of supporters as it has people against it.
The so-called racist election laws Republicans favor? The vast majority of Americans favor them too.
Their stance on the border and immigration? Deeply unpopular.
Etc.
These idiots (in that bubble) actually think they are a majority – not just of Democrats, but the country at large. And I agree, the backlash is going to break them – the ranks of mumbling street people are going to soar.
It won’t break them. It will only steel their resolve to prog even harder.
The problem isn’t with their leadership. The problem is bad followers.
We need to be whipped into shape for our glorious march into the Future!
Political consultants who attempt to sell the Dems on scaling back and re-aligning after the 2022 elections will be starving in the streets. The consultants who will tell them that it was all a problem of messaging and racism will be lighting cigars with trillion dollar coins.
We need to be whipped into shape for our glorious march into the Future!
You swing that whip and I shoot you with my gun.
The problem is they’ve fried their feedback loop. The Party has become a circle jerk of the urban gentry class with the dysfunctional poor tacked on as vote fodder. The latter is supposed to just shut up and collect their dole. So, the only voices they hear is other members of the urban gentry class. And I’m sure their ideas there – toddler sex ed, unprotected voting, CRT, open borders, etc. – are very popular in that group.
It’s the little known bug in their strategy. They’ve captured the cultures commanding heights. But, it’s a control that goes a couple of miles wide and and inch deep. That’s why buy-in to the culture is waning rapidly. They run the universities – but ignore the fact that the overwhelming majority of students are just there to punch their ticket and move on. They control entertainment – and ignore the fact that the public is widely cord-cutting. They institute mandatory DIE training in the workplace – and ignore the fact that most employees treat it like an utter waste of time.
They’ve compelled silence from any dissenting voices. But, that doesn’t equal buy-in. The progressives’ control of our culture is something analogous to the U.S. military’s control of Iraq, Afghanistan, or, going back, Vietnam. They control the cities and the government. But, that control is only maintained to the extent it doesn’t dare to step out of it’s fortress.
well said
That’s an excellent analogy – all of those foreign govts we claimed were operating had zero legitimacy with the people they intended to govern. Thus they all dissolved into nothingness.
The progressives’ control of our culture is something analogous to the U.S. military’s control of Iraq, Afghanistan, or, going back, Vietnam.
An apt analogy. The other key aspect is money. Most of what “soft power” entails is just rebranded patronage. Many people work for the USG simply because the USG pays them. Just as true at home as it is abroad.
There is an interesting intersection here with questions about the prevalence of “true believers”. Many would sacrifice their children at the altar of Moloch for the sake of their beliefs. But take away their paychecks and the comforts they afford, and is that still true?
El Gato Malo
The only understand consequences to the extent they can control them. Consequences which are beyond their control are inconceivable.
How did the left get in this position?
A confluence of factors, in no particular order:
The historic anti-family, anti-civil society ideology of the left. Nicely summarized by Mussolini: “All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” That includes the family, if you are a committed leftist.
The logical endpoint of identity politics and the valorization of victimization. Because there is no limiting principle, smaller and more outre minorities get the top of the victim stack, and they are now down to the less than % of thepopulation with mental health issues about sexuality.
The reflexive “own the cons” moralizing – anything the normies are opposed to (or, in the current totalitarian age, not fully supportive of) must be pushed and pushed way past any rational limit. Because every single thing is a moral issue, not only does the ratchet only turn one way, it must be turned and turned.
not only does the ratchet only turn one way, it must be turned and turned.
Auto-erotic asphyxiation en masse.
Leftists coopt the state, but it is not actually the center of their worship. They merely recognize it, as other 20th century political thinkers did, as the nexus of power in the modern secular society. Mussolini’s maxim, while accurate now, was only applicable post-control. If they didn’t control the state, they wouldn’t accept the maxim.
I care about the NBA playoffs! Especially with the T-woofs doing well.
BTW, what’s the deal with Pie? Is he OK? He’d be the other guy who cares about the NBA playoffs.
Not sure he’s been around since he went on vacation in Spain. Hopefully he’s just sick of you people and it’s nothing serious.
(I can’t not hear “What’s the deal with Pie?” in Jerry Seinfeld’s voice)
Probably in a Spanish or Romanian gulag.
What about that Groovus Maximus fella? He was in Ukraine last I heard, which seems less than ideal at the moment.
Apparently he’s like D-Day in Animal House: whereabouts unknown.
Is that a photographic glitch, or does she really have skin like an orange peel?
Redheads, man. Rotten spots.
Looks like digital noise to me.
SugarFree will make the call tomorrow.
She needs to moisturize.
Ya think?
I’m stuck with birds where I have too much bird.
Chicken salad.
You can thank me later.
Curried chicken salad.
Too much chicken seems unlikely to me, sort of like leftover bacon or too much money or too much sex.
death by snoo-snoo
^^^ This guy gets it!
It’s called portion control.
Nothing wrong with leftovers.
Chicken soup is always a good idea.
https://abc7ny.com/newark-road-rage-pepper-spray-robbery/11764034/
“A woman was pepper sprayed and robbed following a road rage incident in Newark, police said, and they’re hoping a surveillance image of the suspect will lead to an arrest.”
Gee – I wonder who she is? Three paragraphs down in the SAME story.
“She is described as a Black female who was wearing an Allied Security uniform and driving a black four-door BMW. Allied Security identified the employee involved and said she has been suspended.”
She was just getting some restitution from the lady she took the purse from for causing her to have to road rage and use her pepper spray…
wearing an Allied Security uniform and driving a black four-door BMW
Two thoughts:
(1) There’s probably only one person who ticks both those boxes.
(2) Allied Security must pay really well.
Only suspended? Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen if she’s ever involved in another incident while working.
Guilt by association
As a growing number of Western companies distance themselves from Russia, the mayor of Moscow says hundreds of thousands of people could soon be without work.
“According to our estimates, about 200,000 people are at risk of losing their jobs,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote in a Monday blog post, according to an AFP translation.
That’s what they get for being Russians.
I myself have switched to Thousand Island dressing.
I do Catalina.
Meanwhile average Americans are wholly blameless for the utter destruction of Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, etc.
a growing number of Western companies distance themselves from Russia
Yeah, they’re just voluntarily doing that. Nothing to do with government action or astroturfed social pressure whipped up by a government compliant media. Just check out on Wikipedia of random companies that have Russian operations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paccar#Criticism
Ward Churchill vindicated.
I don’t get it.
Weapons training for shiatsu professionals.
Two years and a day ago.
Hey, I remember that. Nice job.
Thanks!
When do they ever do anything other than double down?
You can’t very well expect them to renounce their faith.
Once again, the MSM ignores a story involving a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a wizard wand!
Fucking Harry Potter fans are idiots.
“Some shit, Leviosa!” (waving wand around)
Ventilated wizard wannabe…
The idiot in this story wasn’t shot. It seems that after the employee drew a real weapon, he settled down and surrendered.
All it takes is a flick of the wrist.
Dude put himself at risk of a brandishing charge, not smart.
It’s not the size of the wand, but the magic in it.
Not how you flick your wrist when casting a spell?
lulz.
Heh, well done.
Lip-filler injections make women look like they’ve been punched in the mouth.
Self-eliminating…
The worst is whatever Netflix actresses are doing to themselves. They look like fish.
This story has it all…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/furious-liberals-revolt-after-trump-appointed-judge-lifts-mask-mandate-idiot-airline/ar-AAWmMO1?li=BBnb7Kz
Whiny hypochondriacs who demand that everyone else ensure that the world is 100 percent safe for whiny hypochondriacs. Hysteria about children dying at the hands of evil corporations. Science! Confusion over separation of powers. Clickbait story crafted by a digital sweatshop worker harvesting a few tweets. A flaccid White House pronouncement.
I think the majority of Americans agreed with them at this point, it would have taken more than a couple hours for all companies to drop the mask mandates.
*if*
“Nobody I know voted for Nixon”
The whole TMITE thing is more intractable than I had imagined. Scores of journos are really going to bat for these doxx and harass practices. The hypocrisy is just lost on them.
Hypocrisy is for those who are wrong, they believe they are gloriously right (and righteous).
A thousand little Berias
“After a bit of digging, it became clear that FrontPlate.org is owned by 3M, a top supplier of license plates that holds contracts with various states’ departments of motor vehicles and boasts about using prison labor to produce said plates.”
https://www.thedrive.com/news/campaign-that-advocates-for-front-license-plates-is-run-by-3m-a-plate-manufacturer
Shocker.
Putin’s Puppet strikes again.
President Donald J. Trump:
“It doesn’t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren’t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement. If they don’t do it soon, there will be nothing left but death, destruction, and carnage. This is a war that never should have happened, but it did. The solution can never be as good as it would have been before the shooting started, but there is a solution, and it should be figured out now—not later—when everyone will be DEAD!”
This seems very logical to me.
Obviously he’s a fascist.
Did he say that Putin should grovel? No he didn’t – therefore he is Putin’s cock-holster! /smug retard
That’s unironically the best take on the Russian SMO so far.
Wtf does Trump know about making deals?
Yesterday libs were posting Trump saying in 2017 or 18 that peace brokered between Zelensky and Putin would be a tremendous accomplishment. Would it not? They were mocking Trump for the exasperated face Zelensky made in the press conference. Well from my POV that kind of intractable attitude brought war, brought death.
I just don’t get it.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/we-want-you-to-keep-the-war-going/
Good government is not when you prevent bad things from happening in the first place, it’s when you have the right social media response to bad things happening.
At this point, I’m not sure what kind of deal is realistically available. Both sides are stuck in so deep that its hard to see either one giving up much of what it has demanded (or seized).
Even before the war, its not clear what kind of a deal would be acceptable. Russia seems convinced that a subservient Ukraine is required for Russia’s continued existence, and Ukraine seems to want not to be subservient to Russia. Would Ukraine have signed away rights to the Donbass and Crimea? What could Russia have offered that would make that something Ukraine would accept? Given Russia’s repeated aggressions, would Ukraine agree to de-militarize?
Lets just put them both into a single country and put a Romanov in charge.
Listening to The Fifth Column and that was their take, as well – the things Russia would want are totally unacceptable to Ukraine and vice versa.
Almost missed morning lynx!
Good morning, Sloop!
Enjoy them both.
Oh, I did. Enjoy this fine cover!