And now for something completely different. (NSFW)
NONE DARE UTTER THE R-WORD WITHOUT QUALIFICATION: Approaching. Technical. May be headed for… Misery index less bad. Outright denial and lying.
ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA IS… NOT ABOUT TRUMP: That class… [Trump Supporters] must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want.
THE SCIENCE™ CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF: Once-respected publication Scientific American panics about protein in pee polluting planet.
TRAGEDY FOR SOME, I-TOLD-YOU-SO MOMENT FOR OTHERS: Tablet opines on “The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop.” The laptop, and the subsequent denials and embarrassing back-pedaling, served to expose the corruption and mendacity of the national security state and its media apologists. For that we should be eternally grateful.
LYSISTRATA MOMENT: Consistently-awful Slate tells blue state activist husband to STFU and rub it out more when wife goes on sex strike because of SCOTUS Dobbs decision.
“NONE DARE UTTER THE R-WORD WITHOUT QUALIFICATION”
Retard?
Repression
“Help! Help! I’m being recessed!”/The economy
Heh.
[golf clap]
I’m not an R tard,
/Randy Marsh
Rastapasta
Rasta Kraut Pasta.
They all want cake.
Rigger?
Rhywun.
Ruh-roh.
Rebellion
If only.
Recession: what amazes me most is how completely predictable it all is. We know we are heading for a recession, and it’s also an election year, so we already knew the media would redefine recession and play it down so as not to hurt the Dems, and that’s exactly what they did. Yet people WILL STILL VOTE FOR THEM. This is the weirdest fucking dystopia right now. I feel like I’m in a simulation.
My Whiny Proggie Ex: Nobody likes high gas prices, bUt OuR dEmOcRaCy Is At StAkE.
fUcK oUr dEmOcRaCy!
I want to eat and I want my kids to eat. If losing mob rule is the cost, I’ll happily pay it.
So, can I get a ruling on proper intercapping? Does the capitalization reset for each word (Scruffy’s example) or continue the pattern across word breaks (mine)?
I think ideally it should be completely random, with no discernible pattern.
You’re probably right, wisegal, but my mind rebels against the chaos.
inorite?
Not that I wouldn’t love to have either of you visit, but both of you might be happier if you never see my home or my office. 🙄
Do we look like supervisors?
Kneecapping is all I really know anything about.
I follow your practice – continue the pattern!
I briefly misread that as “I want to eat my kids”
bUt OuR dEmOcRaCy Is At StAkE.
Apparently it is also at steak.
Honorable mention.
Q: Did you hear about the judge who was to be executed for practicing witchcraft?
A: His Honor was at stake.
They are using the same excuse to flush billions of dollars down the toilet in Ukraine.
And seem to be A-OK with that.
🤪
It is so blatant. Can you imagine the media running this kind of cover for Trump or Bush? And they wonder why nobody trusts them.
That’s the most infuriating part. It’s right there! Right in front of all of you!
We are really in separate realities. I don’t want a civil war, but unless we take a very hard turn towards real federalism and strong states’ rights, I don’t know how we conduct a peaceful national divorce.
“We know the media lies but it’s ok because they’re protecting us from Trump!”
“Maybe they’re also lying about Trump.”
“But ours goes to 11!”
I remember in the runup to ’92, the press kept saying that a recession had to be on the way. Things had just been too good for too long. Had to be bad news coming. Eventually it sure seemed like they talked HW Bush into a bad economy.
If the regime felt that strongly back then, imagine how they feel now. But you don’t have to imagine. They tell you every day. Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert, has said that the 45th president is literally the greatest threat facing America today—greater than China, than our crashing economy, than our unraveling civil society.
Well the establishment is destroying rule of law and traditional legal practices in going after Trump and his supporters. ///StopMakingMeHitYou
“And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?”
“Corporate tax cuts, deregulation, and bombing Syria: These are all things Trump’s base doesn’t want, but the oligarchs desperately do, which Trump gave them. And still they try to destroy him.”
I don’t think Trump’s base are against corporate tax cuts or deregulation.
They aren’t necessarily gung-ho in favor of them either.
“Biden is enormously unpopular. Harris is spectacularly unpopular. Getting rid of one of them will be hard. Getting rid of both? The first black, South-Asian, and female vice president and heir apparent? Does anyone think the race-and-sex-obsessed Democratic base of 2024 is going to tolerate that?”
Yes, they’ll just get some less unpopular minority candidate. They’ll want to distance themselves from this White House, just like Gore didn’t want Bill Clinton captaining for him after the Lewinsky stuff.
They might as well stop pussyfooting around and just install Michelle already. You know that’s where this is leading.
First transgender President?
My prediction is that the alphabet soup agencies are going to off Harris and replace her with Austin (what’s the Senate gonna do, not approve the black SecDef?) as VP, then pull Brandon out. Austin (who’s already demonstrated he’s totally controllable) ends up as POTUS.
Meh….I can’t see the AOC types going hard for Lloyd Austin, plus his name recognition is pretty damned low.
I can. He’s perfect for them.
To your first point, the ones in actual power know he’s all-in for doing whatever they say. He’s already proven that in his current job.
To the second, that’s a benefit. They’re dumping 2 recognition disasters and replacing them with a black SecDef. It’s perfect: immune from criticism and a few uniform pix will convince all the idiots with Tom Clancy Syndrome that he’s great.
Sean’s pee can burn through solid metal.
Scientific American has been garbage for quite a while. Sadly.
I was blindsided when I first noticed. That was the last magazine I would have expected to woke. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
It was one of the more depressing “going woke” transitions.
That and The Economist.
I used to read that rag religiously throughout the 80s. By ’92, around the time of the Rio summit, I began to detect the awful whiff of the next generation having their way with the editorial content. That was the beginning of the end.
Obviously we are in a Recession. The question for the rest of the year – are we in a Depression?
I thought a depression was a full year of negative GDP?
I fully expect to be in a depression within the next two years.
We’ll know in January.
“Noooo….”
We are in Jimmy Carter territory.
LYSISTRATA MOMENT
That is hysterical on multiple levels. Let’s punish somebody who agrees with and supports my position.
Dude should cut his losses.
Let me guess, they also live in CA, NY, or some other deep blue state that will allow abortion up to and including during the birth?
His letter says no abortion restrictions likely in his state.
He has to crank it until they legalize abortion in Alabama.
If he wasn’t already completely demoralized by years of progressive indoctrination, he would. But by this time, his entire personality is tied up in being a good ally. He almost certainly thinks that it’s his fault, he deserves the punishment for not progging harder. Exactly the same kind of psychological damage you see in cult members and long-term abuse victims.
Just is there is said to be a rise in vasectomies because of Dobbs, I wonder if there will be a corresponding rise in divorce because of acting-out like the wife is doing. This could backfire on them badly if they keep it up through the election.
Protein-packed diets add excess nitrogen to the environment through urine, rivaling pollution from agricultural fertilizers
Fuck. Off. These people want you frail, weak and starving.
I remain unconvinced it’s even a pollutant. Probably about as much as co2, which is not at all.
It seems like they are moving from carbon to nitrogen.
That does seem to be the trend.
Where we’re probably headed.
A good article. I sort of recall the author’s name, Michael Anton. But don’t remember in which context.
I’ve come across him before, I know that much.
Relevant
That’s not at all relevant, you monster.
I figured maybe that was the Anton that grrizzly remembered.
Seconded. Ted’S could have at least given us a Baywatch clip.
He wrote the (in)famous “Flight 93 Election” essay in 2016, although pseudonymously and his authorship wasn’t revealed for a few years IIRC.
Right. That must be it.
Thanks. I had no idea. The link above was provided by someone else, I didn’t have time to do a deep dive.
Here is the “Flight 93 Election” essay.
Thank you for posting that link.
And the one in the links.
It is. I’ve been wondering this exact thing:
#metoo
And I think the answer is that they are terrified of him – and especially of the people who voted for him. Because those people are wise to what the elites have planned for us.
##metoo
I didn’t vote for him either time, won’t vote for him in 2024 either, but I don’t get it. He wasn’t a good President, but, ehh, no worse than any of those before him that I remember.
I still think he could have been the Democrats dream president if they had played it right and “worked” with him. The key is to let him “win” the negotiation and take all the credit as you get moderate versions of everything you want.
This is why I think it was mostly about him not being in the political class. They can’t have people who may not be compromised at that level of power.
Have you ever been driving down a country lane, no one in front of you, but you see a car waiting at a crossroad in the distance? And when you get close, that car pulls out right in front of you, and proceeds to drive about 10-15 mph slower than you were going?
Trump was moving the country in a direction that wasn’t what the left/democrats/liberals wanted. Indeed, he didn’t care about many of the things that animated the left, nor did he bow down to the great tool of the left: the media. He smirked at them, called them out on their bullshit, and, worse, he beat them at their own game and won the presidency without bowing and being anointed. And, after that, he proceeded to actually do his job fairly well despite full-court pressure from the swamp.
That other car did what it did because the drivers cannot see someone doing something, in this case driving, in a way that is different from how they do it. They saw you coming but thought that you were moving at a speed they thought was appropriate, that you were doing something in a way that they approved of. But you were trying to do something else, doesn’t matter what it was, but it wasn’t approved by them.
Sometimes when I’m driving… on the road at night… I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The… flames rising out of the flowing gasoline.
*makes note to call Uber instead of catching a ride with Negroni*
I have to go now, Duane. I’m due back on Planet Earth.
“under no circumstance” can Trump be allowed to take office again.
Wouldn’t that be called a coup?
Not when the Democrats do it, no.
WE MUST PROTECT DEMOCRACY FROM THE VOTERS!
Ask John Bolton.
Fifty years is FOUNDATIONAL. News to me.
Did any state ban abortion in 1776?
Listen, fat. It’s not a recessions. Everyone agrees that the economy is , well, uh, oh. Anyway. *shuffles away*
Biden doubled down on his previous remarks and asserted once again that the US in not in a recession.
“Chairman Powell and many of the um, uh, significant banking personnel and economists say we’re not in a recession,” Biden said.
It wouldn’t bother me if Biden was just attempting to put a positive spin on the economy. Something like “Unemployment is low. The economy has always been resilient. Supply chain issues will be resolved.” Part of the President’s job is to be a cheerleader, but the outright redefining of inconvenient words is infuriating.
This.
WhYcOmE no one trusts institutions no more?
Huh, I can’t imagine why.
All is well! Remain calm!
I still can’t get over the fact that they had the sheer gall to call their giant spending bill “The Inflation Reduction Act”. It would as if I announced that I’ve renamed my Nissan as “the Aston Martin Vanquish”.
Should have been “The Inflation And Recession Act” TIARA
Tiny TIARA. It wasn’t as big as they wanted.
Interestingly they are trying to vanquish your savings.
Denial and gaslighting isn’t a sound strategy?
Biden acting Reaganesque? That’ll be the day.
Unfortunately for this criminal alternate electors have never been a thing and Democrats have never questioned/challenged the results of an election because that is obviously sedition.
The Justice Department revealed on Wednesday that it had obtained a new search warrant to access the contents of attorney John Eastman’s phone, which it seized from the pro-Trump lawyer last month before transporting it to a lab in Virginia.
The development, filed in court via Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Windom, came in response to a legal effort by Eastman to block investigators from “rummaging” through his files. The Justice Department had indicated that it would obtain a warrant that would limit investigators’ access to “evidence of specific federal crimes or specific types of material.”
Windom indicated in the filing that the new warrant — dated July 12 — included a “filter protocol” to prevent investigators from accessing privileged material, and that the details of that process had been communicated to Eastman’s attorneys.
Eastman is a central figure in the investigations of then-President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. He helped lead a team of lawyers that developed a fringe strategy to pressure Republican-run state legislatures to adopt “alternate” slates of pro-Trump electors that could be used to overturn Trump’s defeat. A federal judge in March determined that Eastman and Trump likely entered into a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election, in part by using the false electors to try to reverse the outcome on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Congress was required to count electoral votes and certify the election results.
So the first warrant, to seize the phone, was defective? I’m sure there’s no fruit from the poisoned tree there.
Those poor, poor security agencies. So put upon and abused.
I think mentioning his name on YouTube is an automatic ban.
Boozebag Glibs:
I’m on a mezcal kick; I just had a bottle of Casamigos uh, evaporate, way too quickly, given the price.
Any recommendations?
Casamigos is great – their tequila, too. I too, would love a recommendation.
I dig the tequila, which is why I bought the mezcal.
I found in interesting it got panned here:
https://www.mezcalreviews.com/mezcal/casamigos-mezcal-joven/
but I liked it – but it was almost $70, so I’m looking for options.
“In the U.S., people eat more protein than they need to.”
Because that’s the macro we need to worry about.
“People are too obese!”
Fuck off, slavers.
Sure they do. Granted, it’s a big country, so there likely are some that eat more than necessary, not that it’s anyone’s business. But in aggregate, I’d bet that people eat too many carbs and not enough protein and fat.
+1 Food Pyramid
Damn your nimble fingers!
Top Men will decide how much protein you should eat.
Brought to you by the people who gave you The Food Pyramid.
And the makers of statins!! Talk to your doctor about a prescription today.
I’ll happily go along with laws that outlaw cattle herds, if I can watch the helots that they deport from the city as they attempt to grow food on the empty pastureland.
If you go to western NoDak you can see the farmers growing wheat, corn and soy beans right up to the edge of the Badlands. The Badlands are full of cows that can graze on the side of buttes.
It would amuse me to no end to watch the idiots try to grow crops on the sides of those same buttes. It would make up for all the annoyance over the years at being lectured to by people who have never been to a farm in their life.
Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S.
So don’t eat bugs?
Thot Thursday brining the heat.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8t7w7d
1 and done.
HEAT THE BRINE!
Something something constitutional norms.
The left is at it again, and conservatives need to be on high alert. The left has been pushing for a national popular vote to elect the president of the United States for years. Since 2017, 10 more states have either signed the National Popular Vote bill into law or approved the bill in one state legislative chamber. This should be a grave concern because it directly undermines the electoral system established by our Constitution. If not stopped, the American system of presidential elections will be changed potentially forever.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It has been enacted by 15 state legislatures plus Washington, D.C., and passed in 41 legislative chambers in 24 states. For the proposal to become the law of the land, enough states totaling at least 270 electoral votes would be required to enact the law, and states would then commit their electoral votes to the candidate with the most popular votes nationally, regardless of which candidate won at the state level.
It’s best for CA and NY to represent the will of the country at large.
*eyes pile of P-mags*
Is it time yet?
Disenfranchisement of the citizens of their state. Totally constitutional.
No worries, everyone in those redneck states will just accept that they have no say in anything and accept their fate of being ruled by Cali and NY, forever. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
You’ll also hear the phrase “no votes for land.” It absolutely infuriates them that Wyoming gets two US senators. Most of them can’t, or perhaps choose not to, wrap their heads around the idea that states are not mere administrative subdivisions of the US, but indeed separate and sovereign states who have formed a union.
Hypocrites bitching about Wyoming without a word about Rhode Island, Delaware or Connecticut.
Don’t forget DC. It also annoys them that DC hasn’t a single vote in congress, despite having more people than Wyoming or Vermont.
Check out the bottom of this chart.
And of course, DC should become a state and get two senators.
Federalism is bad and those people who came up with it were racist slave owners. Nothing more to see here, the science is settled. Once we’ve ridden ourselves of that demon, we have to get rid of sovereign nations next, because those are bad and the people who came up with it were racist slave owners. Ze veel own nothing and ze veel like it! You can rent your next living space from Meta and share it with 20 or your closest friends, if your social credit score is good enough. Utopia is almost here!
The constitutional convention considered a third house with number of representatives determined by land.
Democracy means giving the state’s electors to the candidate that lost the state’s election.
That pic with the sign ‘no sex for him’. I don’t even have words…
I bet something came out of your mouth.
My lunch?
It’s from here.
If that’s not more proof heaped upon the existing mountain of proof that no abortion protesters have even the slightest chance of getting pregnant, I don’t know what it takes.
Put that pic next to the Hunter pic and it makes a better point.
How do you think Tres feels?
Aroused?
Nope.
Trust me, plenty of cute, fat, women, hold conservative views. And they’re not tough to find.
You will also note the Senate passed the Pork Chip bill and they released spending bill after that vote. Otherwise there would have been pressure on Team Red and the business welfare bunch.
You sir, are a cuck.
I don’t like that word (and honestly find the fetish pretty gross, which is saying something) but…yeah. He’s a cuck.
Me too and it is overused…but this is not one of those times.
If it walks like a cuck, sounds like a cuck, votes like a cuck ….
Mad props to robc
[takes bow]
Saves me from having to write my promised articles.
The quote was from RC Dean in the past thread.
“Blue Balls in a Blue State”
I’m not convinced that this guy actually has balls. If he does, tell her that she’s purposely breaking her wedding vows and if she doesn’t rectify that situation, he will begin breaking them in his own way with other women.
Either that or just jump to where they’ll end up anyway and call a lawyer.
Scientific American panics about protein in pee polluting planet.
I read that and all I think is “Geez, the supply chain can’t even provide us enough bugs now. I guess we are going to be eating grass and that is all”
BREAKING: L.A. County won’t reinstate indoor mask mandate as cases, hospitalizations see downward trend
I’m an old fart part five million and twenty-two:
At the vet’s office for my cat; the gal tech is nerdy-but-cute and we’re talking cats. She mentions she has a wife.
Part of me wanted to say, “Wife? Don’t you mean husband?” And then I realized it wasn’t 1980-something any more.
*has a wife that always wanted a ragdoll cat
What kind of pussy were you talking about with her?
nerdy-but-cute
That’s my jam!
That seems to cover a lot of the vet techs around here.
The one that gets me is when some youngster talks about his “partner” and I assume he is gay only to find out that he has a wife. But wife/husband are old fogey talk and partner is so much more inclusive.
But virtue must be signaled!
I think my wife had a brief period of trying out “my partner” early on, especially with work people, but she (properly) uses ‘husband’ now.
I don’t care that she didn’t take my name, but ‘partner’ is right out.
A lot of progs use it for that reason, but it also seems like more people aren’t getting married. Either younger people with what are essentially unmarried spouses or older people with a divorce or two under under their belts and don’t intend to ever get married again. Wife/husband isn’t correct but neither is boyfriend/girlfriend. Partner covers it.
It’s not an unforeseeable direction of no-fault divorces and the widespread attacks on marriage.
I guess you could say “partner” is the urban version of “my old lady” that I hear all the time out here in the country.
I prefer “squeeze.”
Yeah, I’m more sympathetic to unmarrieds – I’m just irked by it’s use by people who are actually married.
When I am at work and in the military we use(d) spouse. Fuck anyone that gets annoyed by the assumption that fits 98% of humanity
So you’re saying she likes pussy.
Actual image of her giving baths to the cat
No way am I clicking this link…
Old Skool Minneapolis Police
I was a kid, but I had never even heard of this before. The picture is insane, I can’t even imagine what would happen if something like that happened today.
Minni would be a smoking ruin.
(moreso than it is now)
I fear we are getting to the point, where the citizenry would support the cops dragging a bunch of our wonderful Somali teenagers down the street.
It is a race now to see if 100% of the population gets the Rona or gets carjacked.
CrimeWatch has been amazing over the last few weeks.
My money is on carjacked.
Of course it did.
Hah! There was a band from Minneapolis called Rifle Sport. They were solid.
Lake Superior has dropped 20 degrees in the last month It is actually an interesting article about weather stuff.
Just say “Global Warming”
So the lake trout are closer to the surface this summer? 🤔 🎣
Fun facts about Lake Superior from Google
“Lake Superior’s 3 quadrillion gallons are enough to cover both North and South America under a foot of water. Here’s another (preposterous) way to think about it: Downing half a gallon of water daily, it would take you 16.4 trillion years to drink Lake Superior.”
Challenge accepted
***SIGH!!!*** Here comes the next TikTok nonsense. That’ll ruin our UP vacation. 😒
It will look like this
Rick Moranis did it first.
https://youtu.be/VvoUdhoKLBE
We’ve had cool weather the last week or so in northern Minnesota. Not to mention we’re almost to August, which around here, means less solar heating. I’d bet it’s pretty normal for the lake to start cooling around this time. We’ve also had a fair bit of rain, which may or may not contribute. The one reading at McQuade harbor is interesting. I didn’t know about that effect.
How’s the walleye bite? Challenging?
Fuck if I know. I haven’t been in the boat yet this summer. Two boys playing baseball damn near every night. Plus a bunch of weekend projects, etc. etc. If I was a hardcore fisherman I’d find time, but I have other preferences when I’m free. Last few years I’ve trended more to hard water fishing. Sitting in a small boat baking in the sun for hours is less appealing than it used to be…
A really decent, non-technical explainer of inflation and the problems it causes, for any Normie in your life who doesn’t “get” it (yeah it’s Canada’s National Post, just ignore the Canuck-specific stuff [there’s not much of it in any event]):
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/why-inflation-is-so-high-and-how-not-to-fix-it
The number one culprit for firehosing all this money into the economy is the government.
Wow, somebody’s going to get de-personed for saying that out loud.
“And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?”
They will appeal to Satan’s sense of fair play. Professional courtesy, and all that.
I am drinking cold refreshing limeade. Ahhhhhhh!
*smacks lips, licks lime pulp from mustache*
I am drinking room temperature, refreshing mezcal. Ahhhh!
*smacks lips, ponders the inability to grow proper facial hair in my 6th decade of life*
It’s not a recession till Janet Yellin says we’re not in one and doesn’t forsee one anytime soon.
That’s not [a] real
communismrecessionWholly hell the FAA is in complete disarray. We are closing off FY22 tomorrow. All monies are being pulled back. I am scrambling to make sure my techs can get to their training class and no one knows what to do. Best part is, this is information that people knew 2 weeks ago and are now hair-on-fire mode. Someone screwed up and didn’t remove the forwarded message that has the original date, yet tried to pass off as ‘its last minute’
It is ever thus.
We had set up our own internet registrar so we could protect our important domains (it would be Very Bad if we lost control of them); years of work and many, many thousands of dollars (mostly lawyers doing battle, but still).
Guy in charge of it gives a month’s notice, says “it’s really important we get this operationally handed off”.
Nothing gets done, of course, and 4 days before his final day, the panic button is hit – “we must get this operationally handed off!”.
It’s essentially impossible in that timeframe, so we just abandon what was a multi-year security project and transfer all these super-critical domains elsewhere.
Good times.
I get it…I would have loved to have 4 months lead to take care of this.
That’s pretty standard in the Forest Service due to fire season. I don’t remember a summer where they didn’t pull back and shut down spending about midsummer since all available money had to go to suppression. I figured with the “new rules” whereby Biden just decrees more money be spent that would all be over.
Its not even suppression or we need to count pennies. Its gone. I cannot even ask for emergency funds to maintain equipment.
I just love arbitrary headaches like that.
I should clarify “fire suppression”. It still sounds like what happened regularly. I’m guessing it’s the same idea, but the money’s all going to Ukraine.
Yep. Its all getting siphoned from agencies and into Ukraine. Waiting in the wings reporter would be hailed a hero if they would just dig a bit.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqASrifJy4Y
Rollo is a great character.
As always, thanks for these, Sean!
😉
I’ll keep at it till I run out of clips, or get bored.
Btw. Amazon prime has a Norman Lear turns 100 deal going with episodes from Sanford and Son, Jeffersons, All in the Family, and a bunch of others.
I hadn’t seen All in the Family since I was a kid. Holy shit. It is fucking hilarious. I had no understanding back then.
It was fucking hilarious, even as its purpose (and the purpose of most of his sitcoms) was to wokify the nation.
Well yeah, but times were indeed a bit racist and sexist back then.
I need to hunt up some episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. High school friend who was a fantastic cartoonist created a strip about me and our other friends, substituting my name in the title for Mary’s. (i.e., [GT’s Real Name], [GT’s Real Name].)
Yes, please do. That sounds great.
Tonio – what is Warrenton VA like? Too close to DC?
It is still surprisingly low-population given its proximity to DC.
Don’t know what your exact criteria are.
Write me, or HMU on the Zooms.
For some reason, the usurpation of the term “partner” really aggravates me. Any time I hear somebody refer to his/her partner, I have to stop and ask myself, “So are we talking about a business associate, or a gay lover?”
This one is for Pie:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/antimatter-2
Rarely excited, in any way, about a chain expanding, but I’m pretty excited by this:
https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2022/07/12/alamo-drafthouse-movie-theater-boston-seaport/
I legit LOL’d at this:
https://xkcd.com/2647/
(yes, I’m going through my oft-neglected feed reader)
Always my favorite
https://xkcd.com/730/
Let’s hear it for clean tech
Biden has been recasting his agenda to spend big on clean technology almost since he began talking about it: from environmentalism to job creation to confronting China, and lately to combating volatile energy prices. That’s important because it seems to have helped persuade Manchin to cooperate, perhaps aided by the recent decline in (still high) gasoline prices. It’s also important because, while the logic holds over time as the cost of renewables trends downward, the upfront investment required makes it a tough sell right now, especially if twinned with measures to curtail fossil-fuel supply, which are political kryptonite in the current environment.
——-
Some environmentalists may not celebrate bigger tax credits for carbon capture and hydrogen development. Carbon capture, in particular, has shown little promise thus far in comparison with renewable power and batteries. But the latter get extended tax credits, too. Plus, electric vehicle tax rebates get a new lease on life, including a new $4,000 subsidy for people buying used EVs, expanding the potential market to drivers on lower incomes. There are also incentives for efficiency improvements, such as heat pumps, and clean technology manufacturing, including, importantly, a domestic supply chain of minerals in order to mitigate dependence on China.
Nothing is cleaner or greener than batteries and solar panels.
*fires up steam shovel*
“a domestic supply chain of minerals”
LOLOLOL
yeah, the greenies are going to go all-in on allowing strip mining for cobalt/lithium in the US. The whole thing is dumb, but the willful denial there is something to behold.
He went off the rails on that and no one is going to bat an eye. We are screwed.
Be grateful you little bitches
I am in a salty Western type mood today.
I didn’t get an $8,000 check. Fucking liar.
I didn’t get any of my money returned to me.
Nope. And I paid additional thousands too. FJB and friends.
No one did.
Any money people got were newly minted bills.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen agreed, noting the trillions in government spending boosted the economy, despite the high inflation rates that followed.
“We need to bring down inflation, but we need to preserve the success that that plan achieved in the labor market,” she said.
I need to lie down after that.
At least in the past, government recognized they needed to cut back (well…you know, decrease the % they are spending above baseline). Not here. It is full throttle. Stick a fork in it…we are well over.
“despite” == “then caused”
Maybe next time don’t try to start a panic and lockdown the country you stupid bint.
“Tucker Asks Viewers For Best Alternative Names For Monkeypox”
I’m not gonna lie, ‘Schlong COVID’ is pretty great.
Not a meme that takes the paint huffer and transposes poxs instead?
Unrelated, but I love British humo[u]r
Harry Jenkins is a pseudonym, obviously.
lol
I hate how sites have basically enlisted us to provide widespread image classification via ‘captcha’ for logins. Clever, but still…
Spoiler alert:
Sprite is ditching its iconic green bottle — but environmentalists say it’s not enough
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“Coca-Cola’s recent announcement is yet another blatant greenwashing attempt from one of the world’s worst plastic polluters,” said Kate Melges, who leads the Plastics Project at Greenpeace. “We are in the midst of a massive plastic pollution crisis and we cannot recycle our way out of it.”
Coca-Cola produces more than 100 billion plastic bottles every year, according to data it provided in 2019 to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, making it one of the world’s largest producers of single-use plastic waste.
It’s never enough.
Turn the clock back, to the glory days when people drank murky water drawn from hand dug wells out of a communal carved-out gourd.
Fuck off
See below.
Whoa it’s like choose your own adventure.
In the case the ending is bad.
this case…dammit.
I like it.
“I mean, not me. You people. You people should do that. I’m doing important things here.”
Piss off
but environmentalists say it’s not enough
Ah, the “push this group’s agenda” form of media bias.
and die….
In recent years, Coca-Cola has experimented with bottles made entirely of recyclable PET — also called rPET — along with the use of plant-based material.
“Demand for rPET currently exceeds supply, so the first step to scaling up use of 100% rPET across our portfolio is building a sustainable pipeline of high-quality material,” said Chris Vallette, Coca-Cola’s senior vice president of technical innovation and stewardship.
I wonder what PET is made from.
“meow”
“ruff”
PETA approves
I’m gonna need some details. Is wife young and hot? Does she make at least 79% of what blue balls makes. Is she an active partner, or a dead lay?
Dude is a loser by the sound of it. She has a Chad on the side and has found an excuse to cut his simp beta ass off.
Ok. WTF is going on with my avatar? I did not upload that here.
Sure ya didn’t, piggie lover
Frickin’ Google is evil I tells ya.
Seems to be a lot of that going on.
Don’t look at me, I’m just a “Goth” Cowboy. Yeah, that’s it!
Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S.
Keep trying assholes
So the vast majority of our existence has been protein based.
Them: “You will eat bugs and” *BLAM BLAM BLAM*
Me: “You were saying?”
We already have a ready source of (fatty) protein at our disposal.
Funny you say that in jest…
Was I jesting?
Yeah sure! That’s the ticket! I was jesting!
Tonight’s Menu: Girls on sex strike.
If you cut the fat off and use it for heating and light, is that considered a fossil fuel?
I hadn’t seen All in the Family since I was a kid. Holy shit. It is fucking hilarious. I had no understanding back then.
“Would it make you feel better if they was all pushed outta windows?”
“Would it make you feel better, little girl if they was all pushed outta windows?”
The ‘little girl’ really sells it.