Get the point?
Yeah, my feelings for this year, and the last week in particular, is that 2022 can screw itself right in the pucker. Let’s see if we can find some happy, positive links!
There’s gonna be some frustrated circuit court judges.
I am so looking forward to getting on an airplane tomorrow.
Sorry buddy, your invention is their life.
Head on desk. Why was he invited in the first place?
Okay, enough of that shit. This is Independence Day weekend, so let’s end with something pleasant. Turn up the volume, ease the seat back and crank the ho…er, enjoy the music.
Oof, good luck on the travel, Spud.
I’m feeling really glad we did our summer flying last week (and, even then, both flights were late).
I’m flying in two weeks but I don’t wanna go. Maybe they’ll cancel my flight and the airline will pay me money!
Free hotel + food vouchers, and free change to shift the return flight back a day (plus the resort shifting our stay back by a day) was truly the best possible outcome, once we missed that connecting flight.
I’ve heard many terrible stories since then. We got off lightly.
Read your airlines’ contract of carriage. For a delayed/cancelled flight due to the airline, the above is the minimum.
Oh, yeah, I know – I should have mentioned that we were late out of BOS because they needed a start-cart. But, we were also routed far to the west due to weather in NY.
I suspect the weather alone would have been enough for us to miss the connecting flight – and that’s just act of god & not covered.
The nice people at the service desk not so subtly emphasized “and you were late because of a mechanical issue as BOS, correct?” – I’m kicking my wife in the ankle as she starts talking about the weather we ran into…
That, and the resort was under no obligation to just reschedule everything back a day like that – could have made us pay for the day we missed and charged again if we wanted to stay an “extra” day. They were great.
That is nice. Last time we missed the first night, ended up paying because it was cheaper and preserved our rate for the entire stay. No stay credit for that night thought. 🙁
Assuming they’ll admit its their fault.
I’ve had a situation where the airline denied it was their fault… it was “weather”. Hmm… I remember the pilot making an announcement about the ground crew not loading bags in a timely fashion before we left. Nothing about the weather.
In Spud’s case, he at least has some excellent beverages waiting when he arrives.
I’m flying on Monday. But it will be on Swiss. The Swiss are still reliable… right?
They reliably narrow their gaze at puns.
Oof, good luck on the travel, Spud.
Seconded.
It’s part of why I’m driving to FreedomFest.
force Texans into pregnancy
How’s that?
STEVE SMITH SHOW HOW
Don’t you know?? All women of childbearing age are going to be shipped off to The Best Little
WhorehouseHandmaids-in-Training Center* in Texas./prog*Disclaimer: I have not read and have no intention of reading the book, so I’m just guessing as to the terminology based on a quick perusal of the online Cliffs Notes.
It’s a mediocre post-apocalyptic book that uses caricatures of religion to make an evil empire. Revolt in 2100 had a better theocracy.
It’s amusing how titillating it is for proggie females – since they are the prime audience.
It’s too bad because she actually wrote some very fine novels.
It’s the buses hitting all the women folk. They can’t plan for that.
EU level abortion restrictions = American theocracy. Literally, the handmaid’s tale.
In local news that entertains me:
Cleveland Clinic sees significant rise in vasectomies after Supreme Court ruling
I struggle to find the problem with this.
But of course abortion wasn’t being used as birth control.
I thought I was forced into pregnancy. It was horrible. Turned out I ate too much pizza.
Stunning and brave. How do you cope?
Lots of laxatives. Totally legal and over the counter. No one controls my body but me!!
So sorry you’re having such a bad time, Spud, but thanks for the MM music – always appreciated. Gives me a cheap, tawdry excuse to post once again my favorite of hers – heck, listen to the whole album, starting off with a lovely cover of some Smokey.
lovely cover of some Smokey
Related (since I recently used the Captain and Tennille’s version of “Shop Around” recently.
Currently sitting in a diner in DeSmet, South Dakota waiting on my roast beef platter.
GT, I gotcha sumpin!
Oooweeeoooweeeoooweeeooo! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! ::jumps up and down waving arms around::
Did you get the open faced sandwich or the mashed potatoes, brown gravy and green beans?
Never been to DeSmet but it’s a good Midwest favorite of mine. Enjoy your meal, Moj.
Open faced sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy.
/Homer “mmmmmmmm”
That AP story about our government cocoon is weird. Are those journalists on our side? Or does all that shit make them happy?
“Are those journalists on our side?”
Trump got at least one thing right. The MSM is an enemy to the American people.
Thanks Spud, I put my camel to bed and now it’s just Maria and me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWlqoeyreXU
I’m setting myself the lofty goal of putting together a post on the weird world of desert flora here in Nevada.
PlantSnap app has been helpful! There is wires shut out here.
Yesterday, I thought my cat was watching a ghost in the living room. Eventually it became obvious it was a GIGANTIC moth!! Brown and orange and quite lovely. At least 4 inches across.
I got the little pool net and managed to get him outside undamaged.
Moths are awesome. The Luna moth kicks the ass of all butterflies for beauty.
“Wires shut” should have been “weird shit”
How this phone doesn’t know my vocabulary by now is baffling.
The desert is shockingly full of cool shit. I’d love to see a post on that!
That sounds awesome! +1 Would read.
We get Hawk Moths visiting the flowers in the evenings. Very cool.
Those are so cool. I saw a giant moth once on the side of the house. It was fabulous. So furry.
Don’t forget the scorpions, Jerusalem Crickets, and various other nighttime arachnids. You are in an interesting area where multiple deserts have some influence, Plus every day you get a bit farther from NYC and Mexico. Of course, given enough time after you pay off your mortage your current lot will be under an ocean. (Same as my lot, but my lot will be underwater more rapidly than yours.)
One time sailing between the islands a person asked me why wasn’t I concerned about pollution because I ripped an empty beer can open and tossed it overboard. I said no, from a legal standpoint we were far enough offshore to not be an issue. From a pollution standpoint I simply explained we had over 6000 feet of water under the keel. The can would drop to the ocean floor where in the fullness of time it would either A) be encased in ocean sediments- or- B) have enough calcium over it that with pressure it would be a small inclusion in limestone. Either step was an intermediate end because the heavy odds were that it would eventually be subducted into the Aleutian Trench and remelted into basalt. So no, I was not concerned about pollution. I received a confused look similar to a sleepy sloth watching a session of laser “Dark Side of the Moon” show.
I used to have a sphinx moth that found its way inside the house once or twice a week. Damn thing drove the cats bonkers, flittering tantalizingly just out of jumping range, landing near shelves with crystal vases where a cat’s leap would lead to breakage and a severe scolding (and the cats knew it).
I finally named the insect April, for April is the cruellest moth.
Big Luna Moths out here this time of year. The locals freak if one land near them or on a window because they are said to foretell death. I think they are kewl.
Ah, that song was popular when I was dating a young woman and those are some fine memories evoked hearing it.
How to let people from the south know you aren’t from the south? Ask for unsweetened tea.
Asking local business where best spot on the lake to watch the gigantic firework show and I get a feeling they don’t like this no accent feller asking questions.
Ask for “iced tea”, no-modifier, at your peril down there.
I think I got the diabeetus just from the accidental mouthful I swallowed.
Found a hole in the wall BBQ place that had both! The sweetened wasn’t overly. Buffet style out of a side house basically
Bob’s Pig Shop. Oklahoma.
Bob’s Pig Shop. Oklahoma.
Nice – you still in NC? Or SC already?
SC now.
If you ever find yourself down in South Florida, Shiver’s in Homestead is some damn fine BBQ
It’s so gross.
“Y’ain’t from ’round these parts, air ya?”
I’m fond of saying that I was born farther south than Atlanta; it was just way out west.
Not true. I am a true Texan, son of OKLATX and I want unsweetened tea.
Yeah I was just joking. The Cali/Nevada accent is our dead give away. Now off to see if we can find some parking.
I’m from the South and I ask for unsweetened tea all the time. I don’t want to develop the diabeetus and super sweet iced tea tastes nasty if you can manage to lay off of it for a while.
Thank yew. I perfer UN-swaet tae. All y’all diabeetis walruses can screw raght owf!
Love that song.
Safe travels, Spud.
Just flew earlier this week. My own experience was fine. I could see that there was a lot of potential issues. The peak time of departures for families going East were a mess. Several overbooked and delayed people at the aid counter.
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
(The ‘Pew Pew’ Edition)
#159
Champs
Grosspatzer 19
Grummun 19
Not Adahn 19
whiz 20
QuordleBot 21
Ted S. 21
Sean 22
Grumbletarian 23
one true athena 23
Dr. Fronkensteen 26
JG43 26
MikeS 26
trshmnstr the terrible 26
Tulip 26
rhywun 28
TARDis 28
The Hyperbole 28
Chumps
SDF-7 118
Tundra 118
Doing this a bit early and a bit rushed today. NoDakMatt and his family are on their way here to shoot guns and then fireworks. Beef will be cooked and beer will be drank (after the pew-pew).
Not Adahn did his part to delay The Singularity by beating QuordleBot for the Championship. Per usual I can’t recall who won the last tourney, but they will be defending their title tomorrow.
Gone Shootin’
Shoot To Thrill
I posted mine in the morning lynx: 28.
I looked pretty quick and I guess I Hype’d it and missed you. I’ll get your score added.
Anyone else I missed, or if you play later, go ahead and post your score here and I’ll get you added to the The Spreadsheet.
MikeS, Hyp — whomever is planning on managing it… while it is doubtful I’d make an impact on the tournament anyway, if I was supposed to go in this week, don’t. I’ll be driving back to the Left Coast soon and I don’t Quordle on the road. Thanks.
Safe travels.
I was late getting mine in.
Daily Quordle 159
9️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
whiz is the current champ. Not Adahn vs whiz for the belt. Since SDF-7 can’t play for a while I guess the next tourney is postponed indefinitely.
Yes, I see that NA beat me 4 times out of 6 during the current bracket, so it will be a tough fight.
I assumed you’d just reshuffle not pause indefinitely. Give someone a bye or something! Don’t wait on me… I suck anyway! 😉
Case in point, today’s — though I’ve done a lot worse.
Daily Quordle 160
6️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
Just now getting to my computer.
Daily Quordle 159
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Did Tundra proud today.
I’m not posting scores regularly, but I did want to note that I earned my first 30 today.
I have no idea why I chose to go to work today.
‘Cause you’re a real go-getter?
::ponders this::
Nah.
Yeah, I have no clue either.
Because fuck you, that’s why?
I did four hours, too, and then went to the laundromat and did some grocery shopping for my lunches next week. Have to do more shopping for Dad’s stuff tomorrow.
Eight hours of spraying oil based paint to make up for Monday.
Fun fact: Applying excessive amounts of paint thinner to clean the few exposed areas of your skin plus a respirator that doesn’t quite seal up around your nose and mouth properly tends to make a man feel loopy.
Two weeks ago I overheard our painter asking accounting to buy a fan for our paint booth
not XP
not even TEFC
fucker was going to frag himself
I wouldn’t be shocked if I fraged myself via work and lifestyle choices within the next decade or two.
If he were wearing tyvek
it would be less frag and more shrinky dink
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://youtu.be/mSW2KD-TI-8
🙂
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vpvh8a/a_recent_video_of_a_hippo_charging_through_water/
Those hippos really move.
It was probably just hungry (hungry).
3 extra mags and a range bag, through the end of August with any new striker pistol.
https://www.springfield-armory.com/gear-up-2022/
Yet another all-weekend Zoom reminder
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I suppose it’s bring your own alcohol.
Did you bring enough for the rest of the group?
Would there be enough for this group?
If he brings enough, then yes!
Things are getting wild (middle aged folk definition of wild), with Swiss, CPRM, nw, and Rockabillly Girl all in the same room
Also OMWC, Webdom & L0b0t in the same room
Yay! KK’s live blogging the Zoom! 🥳💃🏼
It’s anarchy.
I wanna grab Booty Judge by the shoulders and scream “you did this!!!!!!! GAAAAAAHHHH!”
🚩
🏁
$100 rebate on a new Berreta APX A1 carry.
https://www.beretta.com/en-us/beretta-apx-a1-carry/
That looks tiny.
It’s small for sure, but not tiny. I haven’t shot mine yet, but I plan to mount a red dot on it.
I can just get all my fingers on it with the small may extension. Even better grip with th 8 rd mag.
*mag
I’d like a P99c
It’s on my list.
↖️
There’s a guy playing guitar at the fire pit across the way. But not motherfucking Kumbaya. He’s playing flamenco.
Awwww fuck now he stopped.
FFS
https://getstraight8.com
I wonder how many people go there and get disappointed.
Was expecting Alfa Romeo 158,
Has disapoint.
1954 Chieftain
https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/450×253/filters:upscale()/stories/2018/08/111824.jpg
Ah. Those kind of Libertarians.
I think DEG is going?
Si.
Yes.
Full agenda. There are some good speakers lined up, and some not so good ones (Jo Jorgensen, ENB). I like how the article just cherry picks a few.
Why are people wasting fireworks when it’s still light out?!
I am just now getting online. I don’t know if this has been discussed ealier.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/google-erase-location-info-abortion-bans-expand-86126731
Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics and other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies
So, it google stating publicly that is plans to collude with criminals to destroy evidence of their crimes?
I’m just amused that all of a sudden now Google cares about your privacy. 🙄
I wonder if they similarly cared about antifa privacy at riots.
Google says they’ll delete tracking data of people that visit abortion clinics. Guess I’ll stop by planned parenthood every weekend now!
Dammit kinnath
haha
Also I don’t it’s illegal anywhere to get an abortion. It’s illegal to provide one.
Jay-sus, this Stranger Things dialog is heavy-handed.
I couldn’t take it. Went back to my B movie cave. The wife didn’t even finish it.
But I’m so close to finishing…
Plus I’m enjoying the adult’s storyline. Murray is great.
I’ve got the last episode to finish. I dislike Murray.
I’ve got a soft-spot for Brett Gelman since Eagleheart.
Plus, Murray had the funniest line in the series
Dialogue is all on-point, cliched, by the numbers. The plotline is repetitive. The entire season is bloated. It feels like there are almost no consequences for the main cast after they went ahead and brought back that prog-fuck from the dead. They spent 90% of the season fucking around getting Eleven her powers back. So, basically, two of the major plotlines of the season were just about undoing the things they did at the end of last season. Did I mention how fucking repetitive every season is? And how many times are you going to delve deeper into Eleven’s past and pretend it’s progress for the character?
I don’t want to spoil things, but at least when it comes to her powers, she’s basically Rey fucking “Skywalker” now.
To top it off, most of the characters are not aging well as actors. They were good for kids, and now a couple of them are just fucking obnoxious. Lucas is as dry as a piece of cardboard. The kid who plays Will doesn’t do anything believably besides cry over his unrequited love for Mike (and this show gets a free pass for its woke bullshit), and Mike is annoying, obnoxious little shit. Maybe that’s why they basically sidelined his character this season.
And then they keep adding fucking characters who have next to nothing to do. They basically just have them say and do shit for plot convenience that one of the nerd kids would have done in the earlier seasons.
Nothing you said is wrong (jay-sus, is Will terrible).
I’m a completionist, so I’ll finish the season. But I can’t imagine I’ll keep going if there’s another one.
I understand the completionist thing. I will probably watch a fifth season if it’s the final one. I’ve made it through 4, so I might as well. Don’t think I’ve particularly cared for any of them outside the first one, and even then I found it highly overrated. It helps that I don’t pay Netflix anything, and they haven’t gone too preachy on the show itself with the woke bullshit.
There’s always a chance in a final season they’ll be willing to take more risks, maybe actually kill a main character off. The show has gotten increasingly violent and I did like the horror movie villain vibe Vecna had going at first. Before they made him generic, sophomoric megalomaniac guy.
…Nancy is still cute.
Though to honest, she would look a lot better if she put on an extra 15lbs of fat. I like thin women but goddamn, soften up the edged.
*edges*
Piss off, autocorrect.
My 12 year d loves this show, and loves her. Every time she makes her first appearance, I say “she still needs a bisquit” and my daughter tells me to shut up.
It is kinda our thing.
The biggest mistake the founders of this country made was marking July 4th as a holiday. Who celebrates things on the 4th? It should have been July 1st. This country would be far better for it.
January 1 haz a sad.
His year starts on April 1st.
That *would* explain a lot, wouldn’t it?
Firsters do not suffer fools.
All set for some fireworks on the lake
https://pasteboard.co/K6hhL8ncmqEs.jpg
Good evening, dear friends. Seeing as some of you are bored as shit with my constant whingeing I shall henceforth only post positive news. Judi talked her son into a family outing for the first time in years and I just discovered that my vacation pay-out won’t be held against my unemployment benefits. I don’t know when this rule changed but it was a fair chunk of change and probably would have set me back at least 3 months. Fuck the Government and fuck that kid too but a win is a win and I’ll take it. Huzzah!
Huzzah!
Very glad to hear it, man. You’ve been through enough bullshit over the last few years that the odds have to eventually begin to level out soon. Glad to know it’s beginning.
I’m due.
Great news, Festus. If you need some investment advice, avoid me.
I needn’t invest in money.
Yay Festus!
Texans came up with another way to make myomer style electromuscles, but the article is behind a paywall, so I can’t read it. 🙁
Myomer style electromuscle was was my nick-name in junior high.
Sorry, Battletech reference.
*burp*
I may change my handle to Tequila Mockingbird. Ya know, just to piss off Swissy.
*hits bowl*
Happy early 4th, everybody.
I made enough run punch to drown a mockingbird
Rum
Fun fact: I went to a Senior party as a Freshman during High School. My friend and I drank copious amounts of rum. My buddy managed to crawl outside before vomiting his guts out. I did so in the living room. After passing out the Seniors decided to award my lack of effort by shaving my eyebrows off…this was the day before Thanksgiving dinner with the extended family.
You probably looked better without the eyebrows.
But, he was going for the David Lynch Mentat look.
It is by will alone I set my body in motion. It is by the juice of sugar cane that thoughts acquire speed, the t-shirt acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my body in motion.
*checks 1994 Freshman JV Basketball photos*
Nope. Had a better head of hair back then though.
Could’ve been worse. Customary here is a bunch of penises drawn on the face with a Sharpie marker.
…I did that to some drunk dude at a New Years Eve party after he passed out.
Not proud of it. I was in my early twenties and high on meth. No excuse but it seemed pretty fucking funny at the time…the room received it well, I guess.
I recently found some old pictures from college where that had been done to someone.
ISTR he pissed in on the bookcase at some point, so I still don’t feel that bad about it.
Ha!
Word.
Up here about 5% of the population hate the flag, 20% hang it up-side down and all of the rest could give no shits.
There’s still around 40% of us who still actively love our country. To be honest, the older, more informed and wiser I get with age the more I become jaded with the anniversary ritual. The twenty-first century has been an extreme disappointment in regards to the potential of the post Cold War 90’s.
Yet still, many of my neighbors are currently breaking the law by setting off fireworks within city limits while their small children are stranding nearby. I’m sure a few of them are at least half drunk and/or stoned as well while the local law enforcement turns a blind eye.
This warms my heart a few degrees.
Just don’t fly the Red Ensign.
Have a nice summary of the sloppy and unconstitutional “thought” process behind the dissents in the recent SCOTUS decisions.
It is instructional, for me at least, to see them all laid out like this in a manner that highlights just how dishonest the left is.
The scary thing is that these setbacks for the left are only temporary. Once they regain the court, all will be reversed. And they will regain the court in due time. They now control all the institutions outside of government and don’t even pretend to have the slightest pretense of neutrality. Upcoming generations are fully and completely propagandized. Look at what the GOP has offered to younger generations – Bush the Lesser and then we had 3 years of Trump before everything went to shit because Democrats shut down most of the country. Under Trump, there was wall to wall negative coverage of everything the guy did – he was painted as a fascist.
I would have said that 8 years of a booming economy under Trump would have done a lot of good in showing younger generations a nice contrast between the squishy socialism of the progressive left and the more pro-growth policies of the right. But covid and the hysteria the media could whip up was too great. We may get 8 years of relief after Biden falls in 2024 if we are lucky. But expect every last dirty trick the left used under Trump to be used on his successor.
And like it or not, as a libertarian, the R’s are the best you got. And I say that as a non-voter.
“I would have said that 8 years of a booming economy under Trump would have done a lot of good in showing younger generations a nice contrast between the squishy socialism of the progressive left and the more pro-growth policies of the right.”
Nope. It would have been painted as another example of the rich getting richer.
I think enough people would have experienced the reality and would have been able to compare their lives under Obama to Trump. And now we have 4 years of Biden, as well, which is even worse. So the question becomes will the R’s put up a non-establishmentarian who can get the job done.
You know that answer as do I. No they won’t.
Depending on the desired effect the president
– is in charge of every nickel
– has no sway over the economy whatsoever
– is benefiting from policies from president 22.7 years ago
– is still suffering from policies of president of 14.2 years ago
– is responsible for the inelastic demand for oil, healthcare, whatever nonsense I choose
These are the opinions down at the Blue Plate held by the guys who can’t spell GDP
A lot of those fully propagandized generations are going to be starving and homeless at this rate.
Capitalism always wins in the end, but if you’re not careful it sometimes kicks over the board…
Just watched tow truck company mop up 15 cars for illegal parking. SC cops are asshoe
They looked at the street and went “Cha-Ching!”
Lincoln Towing Service has expanded beyond Chicago?!
Second attempt at this comment. FU comment eating squirrels!
Tonight I will rewatch “Gettysburg” since we are in middle of the anniversary of the battle. On this day in 1863 LTC Joshua Chamberlain demonstrated a case of world class toxic masculinity. The unit he commanded was the extreme left of the Union line. If he and his men failed in their mission the Confederates could roll up the Union line and cause the retreat of the entire Army of the Potomac. Six times the CSA charged and they held the flank. As the Confederates formed only a few hundred yards away Chamberlain was informed his unit was out of ammo. Most people would think, “We did our best, but we need to pull out of the line.” Not Joshua. He told his men to fix bayonets and as the Confederates charged developed he gave the order to “Charge” and led his men downhill into the face of the Alabamians. They btoke the charge and captured hundreds of prisoners. Joshua save the Union on that field, that day. He was recognized for his valor with the Medal of Honor. But Joshua was not done and a year later would kick death in the balls leading a charge at Petersburg. Even being shot though the intestines and bladder couldn’t kill Chamberlain. US Grant so admired Chamberlain (now a Brevet Major General) that he selected Joshua to accept the surrender of Lee’s army.
Gettysburg was the first of a one two punch that helped to doom the rebel cause. Pickett’s Charge would fail tomorrow cementing Lee’s loss. The next day, July 4, 1863, Grant would accept the surrender of Vicksburg and an entire CSA army. After July 4, 1863 the momentum would remain with the Union, despite some horrible days ahead.
Vicksburg would next celebrate Independence Day in 1944.
“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.”
I met Sheby Foote
tiny man
walked past my office in 2000 most days
I only wish most historians could write like he did and had the same grasp of what they were writing about.
In three years, 1944 will be further away from present day than 1944 was to 1863.
While Chamberlain is deservedly a hero (and he publicized himself for decades after the War), in some sense it was Brig. Gen. George A. Custer who saved the Union’s bacon at Gettysburg.
Not much attention is paid to Custer and his charge, “Come On, You Wolverines,” as he led 400 men of the Wisconsin Cavalry against 6,000 of Jeb Stuart’s vaunted cavalry. Custer brave charge blunted Stuart’s move around the Union right flank and into their rear. Had Stuart arrived in the rear as Pickett charged the wall, the Union Army may have collapsed in chaos.
This was much more significant than if Chamberlain had collapsed and the 15th Alabama had turned the Union left flank.
You make a good point creech about Custer’s Michigan cavalry blunting Stuart, but I think day 2 is more vital. The cav fight was far enough away and there were unengaged reserves. On the second day the Union was more tightly stretched.
Custer was an inspiring leader during the Civil War. He shows up at critical points throughout the war up until Lee’s surrender.
Cluster’s legacy would be entirely different if Little Big Horn had turned out differently.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/8z9ntoTwQfc
https://youtu.be/_kHHEexaW8o
I’m a big picture guy and a Southerner, so I outgrew that what-ifs of combat at some point: as a kid closely and demonstratively outclassed and outspent in every way, I lost interest in any fantasy that little people like me who are tough and great shots would eventually bring the huge, fat north to the bargaining table. As a native Mississippian growing up in battleground Tennessee, I knew the power, technology, and logistics of Grant’s dive to Shiloh and Vicksburg, the blockades, the retreat from the bluffs at Columbus KY and capitulation of Memphis with barely a shot, and I came to feel and continue to believe 1862-63 was much more Hitler crushing France than battle of equals.
But I also know Agincourt, Yorktown, and San Jacinto should not have happened, either.
I’m hearing a mournful fiddle just from reading that.
That would be this one, now with more fiddle! 🎻🎻
I got to spend the evening in the lazy river at the local minor league ballpark. Man, that’s the way to watch baseball!
So jelly! The only lazy river near our ballpark is the actual one a block away. 🙁
I’m trying to watch Doctor Strange, but I can’t help but pause every few seconds. Like, this shit is beyond retarded. Just really lazy writing, there’s some prophecy now that the Scarlett Witch will destroy or rule the cosmos (which has never been mentioned before this, somehow) and she is made out to be the biggest badass that ever was even though while she was strong in past movies…she sure as shit was never that strong. Only 25 minutes in…
My daughter loves the MCU. She really enjoyed the first Doctor Strange movie. She saw the second one when it opened. She came home enraged. She hated it. She went off for nearly an hour and then again the next day. It sounds like the writing is flaming garbage.
It is fucking awful, and nothing I had heard about it really prepared me for just how lazy it all is. Like, seriously, there idea of character development is Strange and the little Hispanic girl stepping on a device that shows their most important memories. It’s somehow even cheaper than just an exposition dump. The Marvel thing has succeeded because there was always a plan and they were patient, built things up over multiple movies. There sure as shit does not feel as though there was a real plan for this movie, outside shoving in as much woke bullshit as they possibly could.
We get lesbian Moms, American chavez (who hasn’t annoyed me as much as most diversity castings), a black captain Marvel who is somehow even more hateable than the real one, female captain America…did I mention the lesbian Moms?
If I had paid to see this shit, I’d have walked out.
I’m ok with this.
https://twitter.com/manceraymond/status/1543413085037379584
I’m not. Someone took advantage of them.
Yup. “Fuck grooming the little ones, let’s get the retards too!” Despicable.
I really can’t tell if that’s a batshit prog who thought that would be making some sort of statement, or if it was from conservatives mocking the entire notion of gender identity.
I have to admit, I laughed. They are being used, as chafed said, but they’re happy and couldn’t care less.
https://youtu.be/KreUinWX6xM “I know you’ll be the best of us! It’s time to ride the shorty-bus!”
“ I have to admit, I laughed. ”
Bro gets it. Wrong or not, that’s some funny shit.
I see the still preview for the video and tapped right out.
ESPN is still doing this shit?! How is it still on the air?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/02/espns-elle-duncan-pushes-fathers-to-be-pro-abortion-to-support-their-daughters/
I think it’s funny that she starts off talking about Title IX. I wonder what her reaction would be if you brought up trannies competing in female sports?
And there are no pro-life women. It is known. Supporting women means agreeing with the progressive hive mind.
When the pro “choice” changed chicks start hyperventilating about women’s rights, I like to ask them if those rights to choose extend only to female fetuses or also to male.
They typically undergo a brain reset (you can see it happening) and then blunder on about how *those* female lives don’t matter.
Or ask them if women should be allowed to chose to smoke marijuana.
I was always amused by profiles of women on OKCupid that answered yes to “Do you support a woman’s right to chose?” and no to “Should marijuana be legal?”.
“You should have pushed your wife to have an abortion years ago, to really support your daughter”
This is one of the reasons why I don’t watch game-ball at all anymore. Highlight reels but that’s about it. I used to be a huge sports fan.
Styxy brings the hammer down – https://youtu.be/o4aRrwdS-j0
Gas stations make pennies on the dollar. Their big money-makers are chips and coke. Fucking Biden is the worst President, ever.
My grocery of choice also operates gas stations with “rewards” for customers- if you spend $100 in the store you get $0.10 off a gallon, up to $1.00.
Knowing that profit margins in the grocery biz are razor thin, and they dont really make money on fuel sales, Id love to see how that math works out in their favor.
Daily Quordle 160
8️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
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Daily Quordle 160
8️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Daily Quordle 160
6️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
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⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
A lucky guess on the bottom right, but I actually considered “wasting” my fourth guess on what would have been the correct word in the top left.
And Rhywun will be thrilled to learn I didn’t get Worldle in one:
#Worldle #163 2/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜↘️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Oh hell, I’m not even going to try that blob.
🌎 Jul 3, 2022 🌍
🔥 46 | Avg. Guesses: 5.63
🟨🟧🟩 = 3
#globle
Daily Quordle 160
6️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
Had to use my third seed word after getting the first two, and it fell into place after that.
Mornin’
Head on desk. Why was he invited in the first place?
Old news. The short answer I heard is that the film in question concentrates on what the Feds did to Fuentes with nothing about his views. The Anthem Film Fest (part of FreedomFest) didn’t know Fuentes and didn’t dig into his background. They approved the movie and invited Fuentes for a panel discussion. Then the reason/CATO crowd got involved. The Anthem folks pulled the invitation and the movie.
I just heard today about Witzke. I don’t know much about her or what is going on there.
I think the Anthem folks should have kept the film as part of Anthem. Despite my thinking Fuentes is a piece of shit, he did nothing to rate the treatment the Feds put him through.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
Overnight I heard the original version of Jet Airliner performed by the guy that wrote it.
How did I come this far in life and not know about Paul Pena ?
Off for the gym.
Im doing my post-workday 24 oz curls.
Don’t you just hate when you hear something crash in the middle of the night, but can find what happened the next morning?
house alarm went off 12:30
I’m dead asleep but suddenly up clearing the house on the way to the panel
to find some battery status that the tech was supposed to fix last month
Mornin Glibs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnO_-Xm5-A
Sports!
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/07/02/fourth-of-july-salute-to-america-independence-day-parade-philadelphia/
Sure, there’s a lot to complain about in America these days, but there’s no where else I’d rather be.
Ymmv, based on your state/region. I’m in a pretty good one (AFAICT).
This is interesting. This scientist — and he has chaired a commission looking into it — says COVID may have originated in a US lab of biotechnology.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/2d/26/2f2d261f35f588d8cd9b7fee0e65df27.gif
Not a scientist, an economist.
Hmmm…. is it possible to download vids from YouTube – you know, before they (and the speakers) get “disappeared”?
There are gray-market sites that will allow you to do it, although they come and go as I presume Youtube tries to stamp them out.
I use this one.
https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloader
Good morning, Sean, Don, NA, homey, DEG (::waves at his retreating rear as he jogs off to the gym::), Ted’S, Tulip, Festus, and hayek!
Now it’s a nice SUNNY morning at Tranq Base, not too hot (yet) at a lovely 69 degrees (::braces for the inevitable jokes::) and I have nowhere to go until noon – and that’s just into the house for turkey sausage and waffles. In the meantime, iced mocha latte, of course.
I do love the Independence Day selections on my favorite SiriusXM choral music show – now playing “American Psalmody – 1770-1840.” Magnificent! 😊🎧📻🎶
now playing “American Psalmody – 1770-1840.”
Have some Supply Belcher.
Remember that spendy lil knife I linked to before?
They make a version in a different steel, and made in Taiwan. I bought one.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T36AR7S
It’s small, very carryable, way more affordable, and overall pretty nice.
Very nice! But… it sure doesn’t LOOK as if it folds, despite the term “folding knife” they use more than once. 😕
Nope. Not a folder.
Nice little blade ya got there
…and here’s a first for me: a fox just ran by – not along the back of our lot but perilously close to the patio and then around the corner of the house! 🦊😲
Morning party people! Time to trek toward tropical storm whatsitsname. On the way hitting up Rodney Scott’s original BBQ place. Some Food Network guy.
Just done with breakfast with the most pretentious people near by. “Biden is going to forgive loans and I’m telling my daughter don’t pay yours” Followed with “he will put a salary cap so only those who shouldn’t take loans will get it, she took hers out for medical school”
I get the sentiment but seriously you sound like a snooty bitch.