I had mentioned that WebDom and I are having a bit of a competition involving the Fitness app on our respective Apple Watches. Over the course of a week, the app totals up fitness points resulting from our activity. It also announces the daily winners. It’s a ridiculous thing, but we’re having fun with it.
So the other night, it’s getting toward midnight. Spud and I are sitting in the solarium having some alcoholic beverages. I check the status of the competition; the margin is slim but I am ahead, and the day is about to close out. WebDom and her boyfriend have gone up to her room to watch TV. I look again and she’s gaining points and the margin is shrinking rapidly. WTF? Suddenly it hits me. “THAT LITTLE CUNT IS KEEPING HER WATCH ON WHILE SHE’S FUCKING!” Since I am currently and perhaps permanently without a partner, I do the only reasonable thing: abandon my drink and start running around the block.
Cheaters never prosper. I won. Barely, but I won.
Anyway, let’s do the obligatory. Birthdays today include a guy who was creative but not a singer; a physicist who had his own ideas about relativity; a cartoonist whose portraiture is… classic; a guy whose roster of PhD students pretty much defined modern physics; a famous hatchet man; a now-dead warmonger; a guy who may have accidentally impregnated a hat; an impish fellow who was a real cut-up; the first female senator from South Carolina; an actor whose presence in a film is a slam-dunk guarantee that it will suck; proof that Amish chicks have amazing breasts; proof that fucking your way to the top is a viable strategy; and the star of the best cartoon show ever made.
Let’s get to the core of the issue, to wit, Links.
There is not one sentence in this that isn’t packed with unintentional irony.
“Well, if he just went trans, I could do something.”
When you’re a hammer, there’s nails everywhere.
Every year, someone tried this in California. And every year, they were shot down quickly.
Anything which decreases respect and trust for the judicial system is a-ok in my book.
“I’ll take ‘Idiot laws that will get knocked down immediately’ for $400, Alex.”
Don’t know who she is but… #metoo.
Spud and I spent yesterday at one of my favorite wineries. Driving home, this song (which I hadn’t heard in years) came up in my Old Guy rotation and reminded me of how much I liked it.
So we actually know a lot about civil wars — how they start, how long they last, why they’re so hard to resolve, how you end them.
There’s one big chair, and more than one dude wants to sit in it. The dudes’ factions shoot it out until one wins. The end.
LOL
Bachelor Party was good, but it was no Jaws.
Is that the foot long?
And then some.
I killed a mule!
WP;DR – It’s Trump causing Civil War II, isn’t it?
The man is magic.
And of course it was recognized by a lifelong Republican voter who emigrated from Germany after WWII, so he totally knows what he’s talking about, yup yup.
““I’ll take ‘Idiot laws that will get knocked down immediately’ for $400, Alex.”
That is a pretty stupid law.
AZ politics be weird. I don’t pay that much attention, but we have a pretty rock solid Repub-controlled state government to remind us what idiots Repubs can be, while we send a Democrat delegation to DC to keep us current on how stupid Dems can be.
How very… balanced.
NoDak had that for decades. Then all three of our Dem congress-critters voted for Obamacare, and none of them made it through their next election. But they all got sweet consulting gigs, so win-win I guess.
Oh, fucking hell. Not more of that stupid circus.
They need a reboot to hold the yokels over through midterms.
whaddup doh’
Mornin’
Sometimes I wonder if the “journalists” assigned to that kind of garbage feel any sense of shame. Like, “What the hell am I doing with my life?” shame.
They remember Heinlein’s adage about the most beautiful words in the English language to a writer.
Most of that kind of shit is handed to them by the person’s publicist.
Bob’s Burgers > King of the Hill
Change my mind.
You monster.
Also, red-headed girl > ’52 Vincent
::ducks and runs away::
I was married to a red headed girl with the same first name as yours.
The bike would have been MUCH better.
I tried to watch Bob’s Burgers once.
Don’t tell me – it was Linda’s voice, wasn’t it? “Bob-eeeeee!”
The original pilot episode is epic thought
Hm. That’s a tough one. I like both.
Bobs burgers doesn’t have Dale Gribble. Glad I could help.
It must suck to be so wrong. I’m sorry.
Speaking of King of the Hill. Are we 100% sure that Cotton Hill isn’t the one that shot Abe?
THEY TOOK MAH SHINS!
Were both the gun and shooter sawed-off?
And the days win goes to Gender Traitor.
I thought you might agree!
I have tried watching Bob’s Burgers. I don’t get the appeal.
Anyone who thinks that is irreparably broken, so no way can I change your twisted mind.
https://youtu.be/RjJkKn8WI6w
Cannibal version. Kind of wish this had been green lighted.
Lol, well it would be an improvement!
“EXCLUSIVE: Clinic Funded By Biden Administration Distributes Crack Pipes To Addicts Outside A ‘School’”
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/07/harm-reduction-grant-biden-crack-pipes-heroin-drugs/
Remember when they threw Tommy Chong in prison for selling bongs?
I can understand the reason for needle distribution but what’s the justification for free smoking equipment?
Hunter lobbied for this.
It’s like a one-stop shop for vice.
LOL, some pigs really are more equal.
“PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: What would Barack say? Malia Obama risks the ire of the woke mob by paying a visit to famously Christian fast food eatery Chick-fil-A – before burning off her sins at a SoulCycle class”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10996299/Malia-Obama-enjoys-Chick-fil-despite-fast-food-chain-run-conservative-bashed-gay-marriage.html
Also, fried chicken.
Some people don’t do a detailed political analysis of the businesses they buy stuff from beforehand? Heaven forfend!
So, you have never been to a leftist encampment like Berkeley, or Oberlin, have you?
She looka likea man.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pKyUwJh6A0U/maxresdefault.jpg
OFFS.
I keep waiting for the left to disappear up its own asshole and leave the rest of us alone but it isn’t happening fast enough. *taps foot*
Not enough lube yet
Mister, we could use a man like Jesse.
She also drives a gas powered SUV.
The WaPo article: All we want to do is suppress your political viewpoint and demean your accomplishments while praising everything that’s antithetical to your existence as a free person. Why are you getting all antsy?
The obvious answer is that they’re trying to provoke a radical response so they can initiate a radical crackdown. They know exactly what they’re doing, the shotcallers do at least. They’re playing with fire though.
I didn’t think they were going to go with Trump is Hitler, but sure enough the article went right to Nazi Germany.
Trump served his purpose of working up the progs in a frenzy, and now they’re moving on to the next stage of defining half the population as being essentially white Hamas. I definitely didn’t see the pivot coming in the same article.
Trump is Hitler moving the US into a Nazi Germany structure at the same time every non-prog is a leaderless terrorist in disguise.
So the proposed solution to the Amber Heard jury fiasco is requiring showing valid ID before they get to vote on the outcome of the trial. Makes perfect sense. Sounds racist though.
Or, Best 2 out of 3, 3 out of 5, whatever it takes to get the right results
Mornin y’all.
Shout out to Hype for compiling the hot Quordle stats this week.
@whiz, what a good week! I still had the lowest score. Neener neener.
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Yeah, Thanks Hype. You’re a hell of a guy.
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“Thank you for your service.”
😉
It’s truly amazing how often I hear that.
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@Sean Of course that means you had more worse ones for us to end up tied. /jk
Also, today I had a 22 today (score posted in the overnight thread). I missed once on a 50/50 and twice on a 33/33/33 — could have been any thing from an 18 to a 22. There were no common unknown letters, so none of the guesses on the 50/50 helped the other. Some days are like that.
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I agree with the pregnant chick and I hope she prevails.
I don’t. The only reason to have an HOV lane is to get cars (and drivers) off the road. There should at least two people eligible to drive per vehicle. It shouldn’t be a daycare lane either.
https://twitter.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1545125082560733184
*sensible chuckle*
https://mobile.twitter.com/ASo1omons/status/1545629511986909185/photo/1
Right back atchya.
Decent account, what’s the over/under on how long until they’re banned?
Heh
I spend too much money on food and drink on holiday… This is why i am.poor i assume i overspend. This morning i paid 16 dollars for eggs benedict for breakfast which is a lot. With coffee and beer and tip basically 25. The bacon was thick at least… I also found a nice wine bar in brussels loire red, alto adige pinot noir, a few non standard wines by the glass
Thick bacon
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4dXkCquTexRcaoPK9
I don’t even want to think about our bar bill this week.
Also the wine bar had babeasca neagra from romania which i found surprising did not see that before outside romania
Why Brussels, of all places?
Based on my recent travels i am ready to name bucharest as one of the top cities for coffee in the EU… It is behind on most things but the coffee game is top notch
All this talk about Pamela Adlon, and no one mentions the cinematic tour de force of The Gate or Gate 2?
You people…
*double checks imdb*
My bad, she was only in Gate 2.
But, she was on the Red Fox show, The Jeffersons, 21 Jump Street, ST:TNG, and Night Court. Just to name a few…
Lucky Louie ftw.
Auto correct…
Redd Foxx show.
Ha, I remember that character. Did not make the connection to Bobby Hill.
In other news, Blaire White posted a video of herself firing a pink flame thrower on Instagram. I guess that’s to go with her pink car and pink AR-15.
Kinda gay really
Just make sure the balls don’t touch and you’re good.
Between Saint Martin, covid, and now Block Island, I haven’t really worked in 3 weeks.
Monday is going to be rough.
I might need to call in.
*lights Rufus signal*
Whatever happened to him?
He’s busy working.
(He sticks his head in now and then)
‘WebDom and her boyfriend have gone up to her room to watch TV. I look again and she’s gaining points and the margin is shrinking rapidly. WTF? Suddenly it hits me.’
Glad you’re able to take this in stride. Gave me a chuckle.
I predict that my post will mortify her when she gets up and reads it.
Good.
😂😂
Well, at least we’ll know the reason for the site outage later today
I’m hoping for some Johnny Depp style photos of Old Man.
Not me…
Mission not accomplished. 🤷♀️
Good morning all.
The lords of HVAC are at casa Time this morning putting in a mini split AC.
I’m very excited.
Climate control FTW!
I’m paying two industrial HVAC guys to install it on their day of. It will take them 1/4 the time it would take me and it will be done better.
Sadly, I won’t be doing any fucking anytime soon, but I’ll get my Glibfit in this morning- gotta unhook everything on Vivian to go get the ball installed in her rear end.
So she can tow, you prevents. Damn.
Same, so I’m expending my energy fighting gravity by mounting steep hills.
NOT A EUPHEMISM!
Say what you want about Courtney Love, but she was one of the few that called Weinstein out as a predator years earlier. It probably cost her career.
The White House successfully secured the release of former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed from a Russian jail earlier this year through a prisoner exchange. That development came after Reed’s family secured a meeting with Biden after protesting outside the White House to demand his attention.
Did they bring a trash bag full of hundred dollar bills to the meeting?
So- first morning after first night in new house. This could work out okay. There are three or four magpies strutting around making a racket, as they are wont to do.
RV life: flushing out your shitter tank on a Saturday morning, watching the poo & TP flow, just so you can take it to the mechanic to get the hitch installed
My local rag (and hundreds of others, I assume) picked up the Reuters story OMWC linked to, but left out the link to the Reuters story about their poll that derived the supposed 71% are in favor of abortion number. Here’s the rest of the story:
How much you want to bet that removing life of the mother, incest, rape changes that 71% just a tish? Lying liars gonna
liespin numbers.Also, 20% of Dems saying abortions are too easy to get is interesting. The blood hungry ghoul faction better keep them in mind lest they start pealing off to the other party when they’re in the voting booth.
Oh look, it’s one of those days where they pretend “democracy” matters.
The rest of the year, they force their desired results despite whatever “democracy” says.
Up your FitBit score with Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.ph/VCPmi
Really like the “natural” composition of #2, and her eyes.
Another amish chick with great ta tas.
I recognize that shot — that’s got “David Dubnitskiy” written all over it. Instagram photographer/portraitist who does great nudes and erotic stuff. I’d kill just to get access to his locations, much less his models.
Thanx for the lynx, old man!!
I didn’t realize that Rumsfeld had kicked it. Also don’t care.
The Graham joke elucidated a snicker.
I went on a Norm MacDonald SNL OJ Simpson spree last night. Awesome. You young’uns have got to check that out.
His Clinton is a murderer lines are great as well.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/14/norm-macdonald-clip-saying-bill-clinton-murderer-the-view/
Bawbwa Wawa couldn’t take it!!
Right after he died I found a video compilation of every OJ joke he did on SNL. Maybe that’s what you watched. Hilarious. And IIRC around 30 minutes long. Just one after another after another.
Hitting her stride
“Her wheelhouse is fighting and drawing distinctions whatever they may be,” Cedric Richmond, a former White House senior adviser now at the Democratic National Committee, said in an interview. In the months ahead, Richmond said, Harris will continue to “prosecute the case on how extreme this party is and how far from the norm they have deviated to strip people of their rights.”
In the view of some Democrats, Harris’ background as the first Black, female vice president, 22 years younger than the president and with experience in elected office as a prosecutor, makes her a more natural messenger than Biden on issues like abortion and guns. And she’s drawn on that experience in delivering a more energized version of the administration’s message on those issues to audiences outside Washington in recent days.
Her efforts are a test of whether recent attempts to improve the relationship between her office and the West Wing can bear fruit in ways that have eluded the White House so far. It’s too early to tell if the dynamic will work or last longer term.
She’s really good. Honest.
“But enough about the Democrats.”
She’s really good. Honest.
Something about how she can’t even convince DEMOCRATS of this.
Narrator: It won’t.
Musk cancels Twitter buy out. The fraud is exposed.
Too many bots for the price.
Joel Goldstein, who has long studied the vice presidency, said the internal preoccupation over Harris’ policy portfolio has been a “mistaken quest.”
“With the vice president, the question ought to be: How can this person add value given the administration’s strengths and weaknesses? And one of Vice President Harris’ perceived strengths is a public communicator,” Goldstein said. “The idea that when you put all those things together — that she’s an effective communicator and that she really represents the idea of inclusivity — it makes sense that she would play an important role in grabbing the megaphone on these issues, and perhaps adding strength in an area where the admin needs help.”
How very interesting. Please continue.
Choice is important, because it’s choice, which we all know is important, and better than that other thing, which is not choice, and not as important as choice.
Guns are bad, because bad things are done with guns, which we know are bad and dangerous.
By whom? Deaf, illiterate people?
5-year olds?
5 year olds are smarter than you think
Clearly, our Vice President is an excellent communicator. Clearly.
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1545536560648560642
“While this analysis remains ongoing, all indications suggest that several of Twitter’s public disclosures regarding its mDAUs are either false or materially misleading.”
Say it ain’t so, Shirley.
On the one hand, I’m sure this is true. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure Tesla is following a similar “business model”.
I think elon may just be trolling on another level
OMWC- just buy a rock tumbler and put your watch in it.
My old Fitbit traveled plenty of miles in the washer & dryer.
Good morning Old Man!
Great story. Nothing like a little competition (as well as your daughter getting laid) to get you off the sofa and out of the house!
I haven’t listened to Richard Thompson since the last time you linked him. I should listen more.
Have a great day, people! Gonna be a scorcher here today.
Gonna be 79* here today. Junuary is extending into July.
Are you in the PNW, Zwak?
Yep. Oregon’s Willamette valley. I am about an hour south of crazy town.
Nice!
I love it there. My buddy is in Sisters, which is also fantastic. Pretty much everywhere that isn’t crazy town is groovy.
The war comes home
Last year, Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its natural gas imports. Germany has since been able to reduce that number to 35%, but with Russia seemingly prepared to further cut gas shipments to Europe, German officials are having to make some difficult choices.
This week, a city official in Hamburg—Germany’s second-largest city—warned that “warm water could only be made available at certain times of the day in an emergency,” forecasting the possibility of a severe natural gas shortage. And on Friday, residents in the eastern German state of Saxony were told by their housing association that they could take hot showers only between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day, the Financial Times reported.
It’s for a noble cause.
It is for a noble cause. The noble cause being get on nuclear. It is just europeans are too fucking dumb to get it. I work with a lot of german and austrian engineers and most seem anti nuclear. Sad.
On the beer front gruit made with mugwort pepper sumac and something else is kind of meh. I dont seem to get sour beers.
Also what is the deal with lambic aged 1 2 3 years then mixed. Why go through all that trouble to get meh beer
I am with you on gruit, but a well made lambic is amazing.
The weather here has been good 23 and sunny every day. Though it was a tad warm in the sun, the shade was cool.
Why does the cockrail bar only open at 17 30? I want a cocktail now goddamnit
I wanted to go back to the wine bar i liked but i changed hotels today and i aint walking 6 kilometers just for a glass of wine…
Cockrail bar? Is that next to the Manhole?
It is relatively close to “homo erectus” and “all the men i love”
“Squeegee workers?
Family in shock after man shot to death while confronting squeegee workers with bat: ‘He should have just kept driving’
WTF? The debasement of language continues. Soon it will be nothing but grunts and squeaks.
It isn’t?
Uh-uh.
Only because everyone has to walk on eggshells because woke.
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What is a sqeege worker? A guess would be people wasing car windows for money? But that cant be it, it was a thing in the 90s and 2000s in Romania but i have not seen one in more than 10 years so would not expect them in richer countries
It’s not a richer country; it’s Baltimore.
Its an aggressive form of panhandling/begging. Only works in cities with bad traffic so there are lots of cars trapped on the street.
All purpose incantation
Musk has for weeks expressed concerns, without any apparent evidence, that there are a greater number of bots and spam accounts on the platform than Twitter has said publicly. Analysts have speculated that the concerns may be an attempt to create a pretext to get out of a deal he may now see as overpriced, after Twitter shares and the broader tech market have declined in recent weeks. Tesla (TSLA) stock, which Musk was planning to rely on in part to finance the deal, has also declined sharply since he agreed to the deal.
You keep using that phrase…
The new cloak of the Emperor is the most beautiful cloth we’ve ever seen!
What’s CNN’s evidence that his concerns are without apparent evidence?
Twitter has repeatedly said it has cooperatively shared information with Musk in order to close the deal at the originally agreed upon terms.
There is is, in black and white. The unvarnished truth.
Well, today is Decision Day. Pretty much the goal is to officially start in August. Boss is leaving on vacation soon and relocation/training/apartment/car/etc needs to be sorted. I am setting myself up to shadow my boss for as many days as possible starting soon. He’s training someone else he hired for his Marion, IN paper to do what I’m gonna do in Peru. Watch and learn as much as I can about their systems and how they operate.
This message will be spitballed with boss to what we can work on. He was the one that first suggested August. He starts training that other person on Monday.
This will hopefully give me time to learn and also adjust to all the big, bouncy juggling balls that are no longer in my lap but are now up in the air.
Lunch time with family. Maybe the nephews later. Shall see. Kinda want to disappear, and that’s not helping. See ya later! Food time now!
the big, bouncy juggling balls that are no longer in my lap
Dude . . . .
The check is in the mail
The Biden administration is set to announce a security assistance package worth $400 million for Ukraine.
A senior Defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to share new details of the aid package, said the latest security assistance will be a mixture of systems already deployed to the fight and new capabilities.
The official said that the latest tranche of weapons will include additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, more ammunition for HIMARS, 1,000 rounds of ammunition for howitzers and three tactical vehicles to tow equipment.
Whatever it takes. We’re with you all the way.
He saved Ukraine you ungrateful heathen!
What’s good for Lockheed Martin is good for the country! No way this could turn out badly! 😃
Dude, the huge and important project I’m working on in the DoEnerhy to ensure our nuclear weapons stockpile is safe and functional if, heaven forbid, we need to use it is a $2B program over the next 20 years.
We just got told to pump the brakes and not spend anymore until next fiscal year. Over a few million overrun on the only capability of its kind on a military/deterrent thing that is very relevant to US interests.
But we can just hit the print button for BILLIONS more for Ukraine, no biggie??!?
Ya gots to look at da big pick-cher. All part of a much larger master plan…
Last week was an excellent F1 race at Silverstone. Looking forward to the action in Austria tomorrow. I think the sprint race to determine grid order for the GP tomorrow has already happened. Those have been fun, I’m gonna check it out now over breakfast of a tortilla Española.
I really enjoy the sprint as well. Austria has an amazing track and the race tomorrow should be fun as well.
Yup, glad they added it, it’s a nice feature several times a season. The Austria track is probably the most beautiful of all the circuits.
Speaking of rednecks in the mist. Google news sidebar has a NYT headline about the bizarre and baffling phenomenon of young women who are somehow or other opposed to abortion.
Inconceivable.
I don’t know if that story is GlibFit or GlibCrazy.
“Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights”
Those poor, deluded, misguided victims of false consciousness.
It’s not their fault. There are probably some old patriarchal bastards living with them. The bastards are probably married to the young women’s homebound mothers too.