Yay for baseball!
Another weekend in the books. And what an amazing sports weekend it was. The Astros moved on to the ALCS. Their opponent will be determined tonight when the Yankees and Indians face off in an elimination game. And the NLCS is set with the Phillies (surprise!) taking on the Padres (huge surprise!), which just shows money isn’t everything. Alabama got taken down by Tennessee for the first time in a long time. And it was a crazy ass game. USC ain’t quite ready for primetime yet. And That Team Up North beat the snot out of Penn State. In soccer news, Real hammered Barcelona in El Classico and Liverpool got a shock win (they’re all shock wins for them this season) over Man City in a match that will hopefully jump-start their season. And there were a ton of NFL game yesterday but I wasn’t really watching so y’all can tell me what happened in the comments. And that’s it for sports.
Idiots
It’s time to start treating these assholes appropriately. Which means throwing them in jail. Also, there’s breaking news that its also been discovered that they threw soup at a Jackson Pollock painting, but nobody realized it for a few days because it still looked the same.
I hope this dumbass said this six months ago. Because if he just did, he’s more out of touch than I thought. Or he’s just another lying, partisan douchebag gaslighting Americans.
Reporter asks loaded question, gets headline. What the hell is she supposed to say, other than what she did? But they think this is some big gotcha.
I’m shocked, shocked! Well, not really shocked. After all, this is basically the entire point of being in politics in the first place, no?
He did the meme!
Remember this the next time the admin says only big investors are getting hurt. Oh wait, never mind. Nobody asks those questions of them, save Peter Doocy, and they just lie to him and move on.
Aaaaand more inflation is coming. Although this won’t really effect anybody since nobody really uses the mail anymore.
Tenth verse, same as the first. This is basically a weekly thing at this point. But don’t worry…there’s nothing to see here.
I’ll see your political stunt and raise you. Because that’s all this is. I sure hope they and the DOJ try to use this, because it’ll open a floodgate of House hearings next year, with different people in charge.
This was such a great song. Especially for the genre. And I quite like this one too. Even if the lyricist missed his mark by a mile. And since the words are hardly understandable, it’s even better. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends. It’s cooling off here so I’ll be starting to wear pants out of necessity for the first time in months.
The government will tell you when we are in a recession. Economic indicators are too complex to understand by anyone but the clergy.
Those Heretics wouldn’t know the truth if it split them in twain.
Mark your words…
*narrow your gaze*
I guess there’s no clemency for puns today.
So ironic that a Pope like me is so religiously inept that I can’t even come up with pun to contribute here.
I feel like such a nave.
Only for the pius.
We live in a world where the inept, corrupt, and evil fucks want you to believe that the problem isn’t their policies and beliefs, but you being stubborn and not being open to their explanations. They want you to believe the lies they tell you, not the real world experience you have…
The peasants don’t appreciate all Brandon has done for them. They don’t deserve such a glorious leader.
It’s D SOP. They are doing good but the message isn’t getting through to the people. That is why they need to criminalize misinformation.
Lived experience for the win.
Not your lived experience!
The rubes are just too stupid to understand how wonderfully Democrat policies have affected their lives.
The other day I was thinking of the things this administration is purposely destroying:
– the currency and economy
– our immune systems
– our kids
– law enforcement and equality before the law
– all international relations
– energy sector
– food production
– freedom of speech
– race relations
But sure, the problem is they don’t communicate it well enough.
Point one: President can’t get his message out – The press is at least 85% owned by democrats. If they can’t help get the message out, the message sucks.
Point two: Muh democracy – we don’t have a f*cking democracy. Get it right.
Piss on them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z11pQzzEYUU
Probably only when we are leaving a recession, so they can take credit for it.
Kari Lake refuses to say whether she would accept loss in Arizona election
I remember the fuss raised about someone’s response to that question in 2016 and how people refused to accept the results.
She CoNcEdED.
To be fair she was drunk and mad when she conceded. She sure has done a lot of Election Denialism since then.
The answer is that nobody has looked into the clear and obvious discrepancies that happened in very specific key locations, and only there- remember they admitted they fortified the election – and proved there was nothing problematic there. And in an age where everyone is aware that the entire government bureaucracy, fed or state, is basically a hallmark of ineptitude and abuse, broken, whycome we keep getting told that the electoral system is above that problem.
“Lake pivoted to attack her Democratic opponent, state Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.”
Who, let’s not forget, is in charge of running the election. And who failed her last audit of election integrity.
The cyber ninja one? I thought that was a big nothing burger.
They failed the audit. It’s not the auditors’ job to prove your numbers are bad, it’s your job to prove they are good. And the State (really, Maricopa County) failed to do so. Hence, failed audit.
“We would look into the circumstances surrounding a loss and if they pointed to the loss being legitimate it would be accepted.”
There you go, easy peazy.
Yeah, I was thinking Lake should jave said she’d accept it to the same extent the Democrats accepted the 2016 result against Trump.
“It’s time to start treating these assholes appropriately. Which means throwing them in jail. Also, there’s breaking news that its also been discovered that they threw soup at a Jackson Pollock painting, but nobody realized it for a few days because it still looked the same.”
Demand they give up their phones, clothes, shoes, and any other implements that have plastics or other oil products in them if they do not want to spend time making license plates. That will stop these trust fund asshats and their stupidity in seconds.
Don’t demand, take them away and make them perform subsistance farming with wooden implements.
It looks like the fucking morons are actually split now and their messenger has caused a religious schism amongst the true believers about actually going to using candles for light and wood for heat instead of actually electricity…
In re Thunberg, I thought this was mildly amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75y5EKe3Emc
LOL! Germany has long been uniquely stupid when it comes to nuclear. Greta, of all people, slapping them down is richly rewarding.
It’s Britain. Time to reform them with a bit of the old Ludovico Technique.
It makes sense, no? Every time one of them starts blathering about the environment or how fossil fuels are killing the planet, they can start retching like the rest of us do.
One starts to sit down on a highway to stop traffic: they double over in pain and have to be removed to the sidewalk.
One starts to grab a can of spray paint to deface something: they turn the can on themselves and huff the paint until they’re sedated.
One begins to chain himself to a tree to stop construction: they cut the tree so it falls on them and ends their stupid life.
It’s a win-win.
Van Gogh is well known for his petroleum investments. Seriously, wtf?
Also, mornin’ to our TN glibs, I am in Memphis and Nashville this week.
They heard “Oil Painting” and were to ignorant to realize it was Linseed Oil. /snark
they want publicity, and attacking western culture is a way to get it.
Why won’t people join our crusade? Disrupting peoples commutes hasn’t worked. How about we vandalize something unconnected to our cause?
It was an OIL painting!
One of them strayed paint all over the facade of the Aston Martin showroom in London as well then made some rambling statement.
Although he did use orange, so it could have just been a McLaren fanboy.
Or the Dutch!
Yeah, attacking western culture is a big part of their commie playlist.
So since these people came onto federal property with the intent to damage and destroy priceless artifacts on the site of a national museum, I assume they will spend the customary 20 months in prison without being charged since that’s how things work now, right?
Good morning robc. Hope you have a pleasant stay here. I can provide some recommendations on things to do and where to eat if you’re interested.
Stamps don’t affect me much, but the First Class Mail parcel rate going up hurt a bit. I’ve kept my shipping rates the same for the last 5 years and eaten the incremental cost increases for the sake of my customers, but I’m finally going to have to raise my rates. When I first started this rinky dink little business 12 years ago, the Priority Mail Small Flat Rate Box with a 2-3 day delivery window cost exactly as much as a 2 oz. first class mail parcel with a 7 day delivery window costs now.
If you had your way, these brave, selfless postal workers would all be starving just so you could get your mail delivered cheaper.
-leftists
That was Spooner’s plan, obviously.
I would like to punish them by design. My mail seems to be nothing but junk and bills.
I was gone three weeks and barely had any actual mail. I think one pay stub.
There has been way less junk mail since covid.
I received one of these the other day, addressed to the guy who previously lived at this address.
There are so many little commissars out there: “We’ll be reviewing public records after the election to determine whether or not you joined your neighbors in voting.”
That outfit would be getting at minimum a sternly-worded response from me.
That might just draw more attention. I could see a sociology grad student on my doorstep telling me what it was my civic duty to vote.
“I will be paying you a visit in return.”
My guess is that is directed at immigrant Hispanics who don’t know better. It’s obviously a thinly veiled threat to get out and vote the right way.
Don’t worry. If you didn’t vote we’ll do it for you.
Based on the name of the intended recipient, and other DNC mail I’ve received with his name on it, I’d guess you’re right. Although, from the (admittedly unreliable) recollections of my neighbor, the guy was supposedly a physician with the local VA clinic. I’d like to think somebody who sat in university for 8-10 years might know better.
8-10 years of university would break any man.
I see that address is a PostNet mailbox.
Some skeevy organization really showing the courage of their convictions
“Reporter asks loaded question, gets headline. What the hell is she supposed to say, other than what she did? But they think this is some big gotcha.”
There is no news media – especially in the legacy set of moronics – in these days. We have a machine coopted by the most evil and insane cult of idiocy to have been foisted on man desperate to program the lemmings with lies and bullshit to let them keep doing the evil they are doing.
Anyone not part of the lying cabal should treat anyone from that cabal’s propaganda machine as an enemy and not play their game. Also always have your own camera crew so you can debunk their obvious tactic of faking shit to make their political enemies look bad.
“I will accept the results just as readily as Democrats accept the results of every election they lose.”
Or “I’m not even going to dignify that with an answer. Ask my opponent.”
I watched clips of that interview this weekend and I thought the pol crushed the poor interviewer. I can see why the other gal in that race wants nothing to do with any debate. She’d get crushed. That Lake gal knows how to do an interview.
How the fuck does one get “certified” as a “crime victim”? Because when I reported the theft of a $700 parcel a few years ago, I couldn’t even get the local sheriff’s department to drive over to the house of the person who ripped me off and was trying to sell the goods they stole from me on eBay.
Was equity involved in this transaction?
In the sense that the thief received an equity interest in the rare paintball gun that was sent to me for refurbishment, I guess.
Thankfully, one of the members of the online paintball enthusiast community for this brand of paintball guns was generous enough to purchase the gun from eBay on credit and then threaten the seller with both civil and criminal charges unless they refunded the transaction on behalf my good friend who had sent the gun to me for refurbishment. Somebody had to step in, buy the gun, pay to have it shipped to their address, then pay to have it sent back to me, when the gun was within a 20 mile radius of my fucking house because the sheriff’s department was too lazy to send a subpoena to eBay to get the address of the person was selling stolen property, with full photographic documentation.
Sounds like typical government work…
And they wonder why I do not want to have to depend on the police for my personal safety..
Mind you, if I had doxed the guy and driven over to his house armed with a firearm to demand my property back, who would be in jail?
Look, you’re supposed to quietly get your property back and dispose of the perpetrator. Doxxing them only draws attention to your dispute and makes you a prime suspect.
I had a non-running motorcycle stolen from me once (if the fuckers had spent 10 seconds looking at it they would have known, idiots) and when I spotted it disguised on the street a week later, I made sure to pick it up in broad daylight with the title in my back pocket (along with a 15oz ball pein hammer handy), and this was after the only thing the police did was say “we will get to it…”
So now that the sheriff has stepped up and granted these “crime victims” the status they need for a special visa, is his department on the hook for them all showing up to their hearings?
If they fail to show up for their next immigration hearing, what happens? Will the sheriff have to burn his budget tracking them down?
“Tenth verse, same as the first. This is basically a weekly thing at this point. But don’t worry…there’s nothing to see here.”
At least not until after the November elections…
“Remember this the next time the admin says only big investors are getting hurt.”
This is a coordinated destruction of wealth targeted ad leveling the middle class… These people want a two tier system we used to call feudalism.
What’s the cutoff point?
As some wise man told me, “You haven’t lost anything until you sell”.
Makes sense. Sort of, but I had already paid tax on the same money.
The cutoff point is that my retirement planning went from being 3-5 years before this assault on our economy started to now requiring over 10 years – at a minimum – to get the level I was aiming for after my 401K lost 30% of its value (so far).
This makes me sick. I just looked,
Your Contributions $8,411.22
Employer Contributions $5,046.73
Loan Repayments $1,779.64
Fees/Credits -$15.00
Change In Market Value -$53,094.77
Current Balance as of 10/14/2022 $130,344.89
Vested $130,344.89
Personal Rate of Return as of 10/14/2022 -30.27%
Down 50+ thousand dollars and what is left in there is becoming less valuable by the day. Years and years of contributions are gonna be all for naught. fucking assholes destroying our currency.
This is why I’m not looking. I know it’s bad, I just don’t want to know how bad.
Since we live in an economy controlled by the FED and, and the FED will always and forever inflate the money supply, there is no choice for us save in any meaningful way unless we invest in their casino. Game is rigged against us.
Precious metals and speculative crpypto.
hard to get employer matched contributions in the crypto market. i take your point though. Gold, guns, and land. Those are about the only safe investments at the moment, and the land one is looking kinda shaky.
I wish I hadn’t been such a fuckup for the last 10 years, I have a feeling we’re going to be looking at some incredible opportunities to become a landlord in the near future. As it is, I’ll barely be able to afford a place for myself.
I wasn’t going to look but now I have to – it’s like ripping a band-aid off to check out the wound.
-16.88% (4/1/2022 – 10/17/2022)
Well, then.
I made the mistake of looking last Thursday… I shan’t be doing that again anytime soon.
We have been deliberately not looking, but as we have a minimum distribution from one of the accounts that we use to pay the property taxes on our rental, I am not looking forward to seeing the loss.
I haven’t looked since pre-covid. I don’t want to know.
I look once a month or so. Strangely I don’t check the real estate market to see what kind of deflation my property is in. I do check the price of honey every time I go to a big box store, I need to invest in grocery futures.
The price of honey is nuts.
Are we back to bartering already?
Who has wood for my sheep?
I haven’t seen Winston in a while.
Ask the welsh
Some guy in a kilt?
That’s none of your beeswax.
Yep. I swapped 2 lbs of pistachios for 8 Oz of clover honey the other day.
I was hoping for some clever honey, but it outsmarted me.
I have a guy dropping off a hundred pounds of honey this week at the same price as two years ago.
I was quite surprised when they hadn’t changed the price.
I do check the price of honey every time I go to a big box store
I comb through online ads for honey. Good news is if you buy online the real high tech sellers will have a drone deliver the honey.
wokka wokka!
For giggles, i checked my ROR for every year the last 5 years. During Trump, it was consistently over 20% return. Now…down 40% this year. I was doing really well, over 4x annual salary by 40, now its practically half. Good news is I dont get to retire for another 30 years, so either it will recover, or we will be in a burning wasteland anyway.
Sounds like you took a loan out at one point, at least you probably sold high and are buying back shares low on that money. Not much, but some consolation.
I made my last payment on that about 2 months ago. At least i have that $100 bucks per pay period back.
Your Rate of Return (year-to-date): -9.15%
Just what you want to see at age 65.
This is why I am not retiring this year.
its disgusting. -9.15% plus about another -20% due to inflation and you have had a third of your retirement knocked off in the past few years.
I am now thinking about how long I can actually continue working as an engineer. If I don’t get Alzheimer’s, I could work will I’m 80 without problems. And that is starting to look more and more like a requirement.
“HelloFresh, a Berlin-based company once considered to be the largest meal kit provider in the nation, has announced plans to shut down its huge Bay Area production facility“
I think I see where they went wrong.
Texas is icky.
Hank Hill: I think I found a route where I don’t have to drive through Oklahoma. 😉
(episode and context forgotten)
🙂
I’ve been here 22 years.
Its nice.
Never expected it to pass medical marijuana.
My favorite KOTH quote:
Bobby: With that attitude, you’d never make it in L.A.
Hank: Make it in L.A.? I hope I never make it to L.A.
They probably got a sweet deal to move in there and were rewarded with their workers agitating to unionize.
Hah! You should read the Wikipedia entry for Hello Fresh, especially the section “Union Drive.”
I can only imagine. 🙄
SO I posted this with 10 min left on the last posting….
Salon of all places is worried about Biden’s war plan with Ukraine.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/17/joe-bidens-broken-promise-to-avoid-with-could-lead-to-armageddon/
When you’ve lost Salon… yeah, that was sobering. The Dems should be shellacked in November for all of this if for no other reason.
Even if they are, the war effort will continue. This is a deep state effort. A motley crew of populists and RINOs won’t change a thing.
Aren’t the Republicans just as much in favor of it?
Yeah, most of them it seems.
Except fir that terrible Congresswoman that was born there.
The question is whether anyone at State is listening, because Biden doesn’t know what the fuck is going on in his own bathroom, let alone Ukraine.
The oil painting discussion reminded me of how frustrating it is to find that most of the product marketed as “boiled linseed oil” is actually raw linseed oil with chemical additives to accellerate drying. This is not the same thing, and it behaves differently.
So here’s a question for you lot – how would you deal with a non-life or death product labelling question between fast-drying raw linseed oil and boiled linseed oil? I know you’re not a fan of ‘there aught to be a law’ as a rule. So when it’s economically infeasable to sue over blatant mislabelling, what’s the recourse?
Ask for your money back. If they don’t give it back, start a campaign to embarrass them publicly. When that inevitably fails, threaten a class action lawsuit. When they ignore you, actually start a class action lawsuit – some shyster attorney will take it up on contingency. 8 years later, accept your $30 check while the attorney cashes in for half a million bucks and the rest of the class members get their $3 back. It’s the American way.
There’s too many different suppliers. It’s not exactly a monopoly product.
Bonus points if you accuse them of racism.
On a side note, if you ever play around with BLO (boiled linseed oil) make sure to soak any rags or brushes used in water afterwards. The stuff can spontaneously combust. I know a guy in MA who had a major fire with the stuff, lost his garage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linseed_oil
Now I have this mental image of using oily rags to intentionally light a coal forge.
A pile of rags soaked with just about any oil can spontaneously catch fire.
The oil painting discussion reminded me of how frustrating it is to find that most of the product marketed as “boiled linseed oil” is actually raw linseed oil with chemical additives to accellerate drying.
That’s what boiled linseed oil always was. It’s never been anything else.
If you want raw linseed oil, you have to go look for it.
I’m going to need to see some citations on that assertion regarding the chemically treated linseed oil.
The wiki link above says that in medieval times linseed oil was boiled with lead oxide to shorted drying times. There are citations there.
It also comes up very often on gun collector’s boards. Lots of military surplus guns, and probably old commercial guns, had their stocks finished with raw linseed oil. There’s always posts correcting those that think boiled linseed oil is the same thing as raw linseed oil.
Again, boiled linseed oil has never been anything else.
So now we’re up to four types of product that might be in those cans. (Though I doubt any contain additive-free raw oil)
Some sources for raw linseed oil here.
‘Orning ‘ordles — preliminary round went well enough… and then I chumped the main event because apparently I can think of 4000 obscure words before one that should be patently obvious. Always shafts me when I have a “4 out of 5 green, but so many possibilities for the last one!” like LL.
Daily Duotrigordle #229
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 06:34.31
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Daily Duotrigordle #229
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 03:21.69
My new goal is to get my average time under 4min it’s a 4:40 now
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Meh
🌎 Oct 17, 2022 🌍
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.65
🟩 = 1
#globle
I haven’t play this in months, played on a whim today and nailed it. I’m buying extra Powerball tickets today.
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I walk the line.
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LL was actually on my mind, so got lucky there, i could have guessed all day otherwise. LR js the one that felt icky to me, that’s barely a word.
I think LR is a repeat but yeah that is not a word for me.
Good enough for RUN-DMC good enough for me.
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by the skin of my teeth
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Shitty start to the week. Hail Mary to narrowly avoid a trip to Chumptown.
Maximum score without a chump. Well done.
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That USC was the first complete college football game I’ve watched in a few years – and the probably the last. I’m not stoic enough to watch college officiating for 3 hours. They stopped the game 3 times for “targeting” reviews, none of which turned out to be targeting but was an extra 15 just because.
Kayne vs. Elon
Kanye West agrees to buy conservative social media platform Parler
The only thing that stops a bad billionaire with a gun is a good billionaire with a gun?
Given up trying to understand that nut.
ADHD.
Cocaine is a helluva drug
Sitting here at the mechanic awaiting inspection and they have a gorgeous fish tank https://ibb.co/ChKHFcn
Gilmore’d
If a mechanic has a fish tank in the office, you’re getting robbed. You want the sort of place where you can’t sit down without getting axle grease on your pants.
Better than Firestone…
No, I’ve been coming to this guy for >20 years. I had a jalopy once he just refused to work on anymore. “Get a better car Mojo.”
2 out of 3 cars inspected. Not bad for a couple of hours on a Monday morning.
“Good policy is good politics. And we have been doing the right thing for the American people with proposals and achievements, legislatively, that are popular because they make sense,” Buttigieg said.
Mayor Petey has the same speech writer as Kamala?
Either they’re that dumb or they think we’re that dumb.
Or most likely some of column A and some of Colomb B
Say nothing and claim credit. rinse and repeat.
“In some ways having achieved so much legislatively makes it hard to talk about all at once because there are just so many,” he said.
Helping ’til it hurts.
The new lawlessness gripping America
As long is this shit keeps happening in blue urban areas, I am not going to care much other than to make fun of the fact team blue voters are getting some sweet team blue love. If it comes my way, then I will make sure my claymores are facing the right way to cover my driveway and my ammo supply is high enough to hold out for a long enough time.
Same here – but making our cities unlivable for normal people and untenable for businesses seems like a bad long-term plan for the country. (If there is a long-term for the country)
Why? Businesses and people relocate all the time. Those cities can suffer the same fate as Detroit. Fuck em.
For one of many reasons we can’t afford it unless we wall them off Escape from New York style and stop sending welfare or anything else in there.
Self inflicted shit… I can’t be bothered if the idiots keep electing the fools that fuck them over this bad.
Even a dumb as monkey would learn that if they kept sticking their dick into the electrical socket they will get shocked by now.
“As chaos reigned, a young woman twerked on a counter.”
So you’re saying it was the Amish?
They parked the horse and buggy out front.
The Amish youths and young people are well known for their wilding.
+1 Rumshpringe
And then they elect more Dems by 80- or 90-point margins.
https://www.fff.org/2022/10/14/can-you-see-now-why-they-had-to-regime-change-kennedy/
Today, should total war ever break out again — no matter how — our two countries would become the primary targets. It is an ironic but accurate fact that the two strongest powers are the two in the most danger of devastation. All we have built, all we have worked for, would be destroyed in the first 24 hours.
Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable–that mankind is doomed — that we are gripped by forces we cannot control.
What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.
Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need to use them is essential to keeping the peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles — which can only destroy and never create — is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war — and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.
This guy is in jail awaiting trial for noticing.
And once Afghanistan went away they set their sites on Ukraine to keep the grift going.
Immediately.
JFK also cut taxes.
“That’s why they had to remove President Kennedy from office and elevate Vice-President Johnson to the presidency.”
*sigh* No, just no.
No, really! I can chart it out for you!
I highly recommend Caro’s 4-book biography series of LBJ.
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Power-Years-Lyndon-Johnson/dp/0679729453
I didn’t believe it either until after reading that.
Mike Caro’s Book of Poker Tells is good, but I’m not sure how reliable he is as a political commentator…
LOL. Pure fantasy.
His dramatically different vision included escalating our involvement in Vietnam.
Myth Busted.
Yep. And while he showed some desire to de-escalate, removing 1000 (actually not quite) personnel, we still had over 15,000 in country. The later events that led to expanding our involvement would have been the same whether Kennedy was President or not. People always seem to forget that it was Congress that escalated the war by passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Here’s a good (although long) piece doing an even-handed analysis of what Kennedy would have done post-1964: https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2020/11/without-dallas-john-f-kennedy-and-the-vietnam-war/
Conclusion: “Without the murder of Kennedy, the most likely scenario is that the United States would not have gone to war in Vietnam, thereby preventing the damage to US credibility on the world stage that did occur as a result of Johnson’s misjudgments”
It seems a fair summary of things. BUT, he’s only writing about Vietnam. Kennedy escalated his covert intervention in Cuba which I think, having read a bunch on this, was what got him killed. Not by a conspiracy, but Kennedy’s attempts to off Castro pushed Oswald over his own mental instability edge.
Attempts to off Castro were like Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.
JFK would be smeared as a Putin lover today. They might even make up some sort of conspiracy theory about him and Putin being in cahoots.
I don’t know what took so long, but over the weekend I finally got the official official letter that my mortgage was paid in full, as in a copy of the original contract stamped as such and a letter saying they notified the county. I can’t really celebrate as hard as before, since the balance has been $0 for a while.
I also made my first tax payment directly 🙁
Someone put the South Park Indiana Jones “Watcha doing in our neck of the woods?” meme here for UCS to show support for the government taking their taste of his earnings to cover his right to own property….
That’s the one drawback about paying off your mortgage — you have to remember to pay your property tax on time (twice a year for us). I haven’t missed it yet!
No escrow account when I refinanced. So, I’ve been paying my taxes directly for years now.
I didn’t escrow for my first mortgage and I think the first refinance. I don’t like paying taxes, but it was no problem to cut a check twice a year.
The third refinance I had to escrow because I had to get PMI. House values in my area had dropped enough that I was below the magic number.
After my last refinance, I kept escrowing because the mortgage company offered a lower rate if I escrowed.
The interesting thing is that assassinating Abe actually had the effect the crazy guy wanted.
Japan’s Fumio Kishida to Probe Church Targeted by Suspect in Abe Assassination
So here’s a question for you lot – how would you deal with a non-life or death product labelling question between fast-drying raw linseed oil and boiled linseed oil? I know you’re not a fan of ‘there aught to be a law’ as a rule. So when it’s economically infeasable to sue over blatant mislabelling, what’s the recourse?
In theory [pause for laughter] one or more supplier who understands the distinction will aggressively identify and market their product as the Real Thing, providing a clear option in the market.
I found one and only one so far.
Perhaps you are the proprietor is to destined to corner that part of the market?
Good god…
“Perhaps you are the proprietor *who is destined* to corner that part of the market”
Tell them what their competition is doing. Perhaps they’ll spend their time and effort siccing the government watchdogs on the people doing the mislabeling. And maybe you’ll get some free shit out of the deal.
I expect an article on boiling linseed shortly.
I’d have to point you to the last knifemaking article. It’s for sealing the handles
Or, lighting forges!
Guys – you weren’t supposed to say this until after November.
Economists Now Expect a Recession, Job Losses by Next Year
We’re already in a recession, been in it for half a year at least.
They mean a recession they can’t cover up or change the definition of.
Most economists play for Team Blue, even the intellectually honest ones.
We may eke out one quarter without a drop in GDP resetting the system for another recession next year.
I don’t buy it. I think the number will be negative when it comes it out or when it gets revised…
You can play partisan politics, or you can be intellectually honest, but not both.
Google the phrase, “Why did the definition of recession change” and check out the avalanche of fact-checking “nuh-uh” links.
Same same, but different, but still same!
Like Antifa, “recession” is just an idea.
I haven’t bought a new gun in like 4 months.
Are you OK? Should we start a GoFundMe?
You don’t buy a new one for every steak?
Steak and Sidearm is a pretty expensive meal, I don’t think he has quite that much money.
It’s not a recession until it has been six months.
Depression sets in.
They also could have headlined this as: 37% of economists still have their heads up their behinds.
Aside from dismal inflation, shortages and back to back negative GDP numbers, I also already know of several layoffs from friends, family and clients. Also, wife got a notice that her company is offering early retirement to interested parties, which means they’re getting ready to sack employees. Other than that, things are great if you leave out the sabre rattling going on in Ukraine. What recession, we’re in a goddamned depression.
From a Forbes web page:
In 1974, economist Julius Shiskin came up with a few rules of thumb to define a recession: The most popular was two consecutive quarters of declining GDP. A healthy economy expands over time, so two quarters in a row of contracting output suggests there are serious underlying problems, according to Shiskin. This definition of a recession became a common standard over the years.
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is generally recognized as the authority that defines the starting and ending dates of U.S. recessions. NBER has its own definition of what constitutes a recession, namely “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.
So two consecutive quarters of reduced GDP is not necessarily the gold standard of definitions. It’s certainly one measure, but hasn’t been universally accepted for quite a while.
The NBER indicators have not called it a recession yet. The NBER recession history.
Speaking of GDP, an interesting article on how world GDP growth was stagnant until recently.
Speaking of cars and car people-
I watched a “Late Brake Show” youtube video the other day which was a walkaround/chat with Gordon Murray in one of his collections. Very good. Lots of small nimble lightweight cars. My faves.
The Phillies have the 5th highest payroll and the Padres are 6th.
Mammary Monday fun fact: pigs of 10 minute orgasms.
https://archive.ph/GCm1o
Today, in missing penis news
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11316093/Iranian-boy-born-WITHOUT-penis-one-30million-medical-oddity.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11322933/Woman-comes-whales-penis-Magnetic-Island-northern-Queensland.html
Lorena Bobb-Whale!
So sad that even whales are letting their boys transition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQBPgJQhQHc
https://youtu.be/h1dxZ8srDM4
Daily Ray of Sunshine
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-63279800"Venezuela crisis: 7.1m leave country since 2015
Sounds like a clear case of “bad luck”.
More than seven million Venezuelans have left their homeland since 2015 – and not one Venezuelan woman made her way to Bucharest massage parlors. Then again the money is better elsewhere
To be fair, Bucharest is a lot further away than other places, and they’d have to learn a new language, whereas fleeing to other spanish-speaking countries nearby makes it easier to adjust.
But we need more diversity of tits & ass
Maybe you should sponsor a few to immigrate.
Not one? And you’ve checked all of them?
Pie:
There was a man who didn’t meekly accept election losses.
Of that sort of news spreads fast on the forums
What we should do is let them all move hear and vote in our elections. What the worst that could happen?
Nothing more fun like translating and old and poorly implemented runset in a new technology, getting differences and having no idea if the new or old values are correct and if it matters.
ASTRA has new information on the mass shooting in Belgorod.
– 30 Russian soldiers killed
– LT Andrei Lapin (right in pic) crossed Muslim soldiers by calling Allah a coward
– The Tajik attackers had earlier complained about not being allowed to pray on set times.
The shooting happen 1.5 hours after the first verbal conflict.
The shooting took place at a gun range & LT Lapin was the first one to be killed before the Tajiks turned their weapons on the rest of the soldiers.
The Tajiks had warned others, Dagestanis, Azeris etc to stay away
The three Tajik attackers are Senior Sergeant Bikzot, Private Anushe and Junior Sergeant Ami.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1581721998824087552
Nice friends Russia has. The Dagestani and Azeris didn’t warn anyone? Lol.
Also, very short time from insult to murder…
“Work place violence”
Fuck Nidal Hasan directly in the ass.
Should have denazified them harder.
If I were some ethnic minority in Russia I would be less than thrilled about being called up to fight a war over the Slavic homeland.
*sigh* No, just no.
So many things I once dismissed out of hand…
OK then…start naming names!
“I’m not saying it was Aliens… because it wasn’t. This time.”
I understand that but, in the case of JFK, no.
If you really want to get into the weeds, read Bugliosi’s “Reclaiming History.” Warning: it’s a monster, 1500+ pages and then another 1000 on an included CD-ROM (when I bought it; don’t know how that material is included now).
He seems a bit unstable.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11322669/George-Floyds-family-threaten-SUE-Kanye-West-saying-died-fentanyl-overdose.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11322137/Kanye-West-claims-Kim-Kardashians-fireplace-romp-Pete-Davidson-spurred-Jewish-Zionists.html
Ye said he was going to buy Parler.
Didn’t the autopsy confirm the cause of death was Fentanyl overdose? And there’s really no damanges to be claimed. Can you even defame a dead person?
No matter how he died, I haven’t seen any evidence it was because of racism.
Look at Alex Jones.
They didn’t actually prove defamation, they had a biased judge cheat past the jury stage.
Exactly. And that will continue. Biased judges are everywhere, and will take that as a sign to approve any frivolous law suit.
Didn’t the autopsy confirm the cause of death was Fentanyl overdose?
No.
George Floyd tried several times to defame himself, still somehow managed to get elevated to sainthood. Hell, he put the ‘hood’ in sainthood.
We just celebrated the 49th birthday of St. George here this weekend.
No, his death was never “proven” to be an OD. It wasn’t disproven either.
This too local news about King Walz should get Fourscore’s heart pumping this morning
* Jensen’s “narrow” avoidance of the draft wasn’t because he pulled strings or anything. It was just that the Vietnam war ended before they needed to draft him.
** Fourscore, don’t read the comments! They are 99-1 in favor of King Walz.
Always retire and leave your Soldiers, right before they deploy!
Jump before being pushed.
I could almost forgive him for abandoning his troops just before they deployed, but not when he then brags about those 24 years of service in all of his campaigns. If he had just shut up about it all, sure, it is a non-issue. But that fucker talks about how awesome he was for being in the Guard for 24 years.
Also, if you were so proud of the men you served with, you wouldn’t denigrate them in public like this
Not really surprising. That attitude and contempt by senior enlisted isn’t unknown.
Now you can understand why he didn’t want to go to Iraq! How can you be safe if you are surrounded by young and dumb cooks?
*I always got the contempt vibe from officers way more than senior enlisted.
Walz will continue to serve, unless another George Floyd episode comes along and hostile fire erupts on University Avenue when the light rail is shuttered.
I hope the walleyes will continue to boycott Walz at next year’s Opener.
Yeah, I didn’t get that comment. That coward Jensen was born late just to avoid the war 18 years later.
‘Tenth verse, same as the first. This is basically a weekly thing at this point. But don’t worry…there’s nothing to see here.’
There. Is. No. Recession.
𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙺 𝙲𝙰𝚁𝙽𝙸𝚅𝙰𝙻.
https://twitter.com/draculangelica/status/1581653529814368258
I mean probably would
I went to a Cirque Du Soliel type show that was gothic. Lots of girls like that performing. It was pretty wonderful.
Only probably?
Maybe he’s trying to avoid incest?
dat ass looks intimidating
In all the good ways. The second pic I could do without, but based on that behind… My God.
Also, Venezuelans would be wasted on you.
Do you think he is more of a Brazilian guy?
That’s a whole nother level up from where he seems to be.
I want all the Brazilians to myself.
Lady, put on some gorram pants already. You’ll catch your death.
Thicc?
Report says Missouri elementary school contaiminated with nuclear waste
Maybe reintroduce the duck and cover drills?
Nuke trsting, in Missouri?
Stupid phone keyboard
Which means throwing them in jail.
Or, perhaps better yet, hold them and their parents jointly and severally liable for the full value of the painting. Wanna throw soup on a painting worth hundreds of millions? Fine. And your parents will lose everything and you’ll spend your life in indentured servitude. But, go for it.
The nice NPR liberal I’ve been dating finally got around to asking me political questions. I gave her about 2%. The part that shocked and appalled her the most is that I didn’t approve of the US “supporting Ukraine against the Russian takeover.” She ended that line of conversation, then asked me about WebDom, hoping to find out that a pierced and elaborately tattooed 30-something would be more palatable. “She is waaaaay to the right of me.” The look I got was priceless and thankfully she changed the subject.
Back in NYC next weekend. Hopefully the derelict has nutted and moved on.
I gave her about 2% – just the tip?
I tip 20%.
If you were a woman or a passable tranny, why I’d kiss you right on the lips…
“Passable Tranny” is going to be at Day 2 of Lollapalooza this year!
Yeah, but second stage.
So, the leisure suit worked?
How could it not?
OMWC is really Larry Laffer?
I’m trying to figure out which installment of the weekend links I missed. I better keep up, I’m missing all the good stuff.
That’s hysterical.
I can’t imagine being that desperate.
She will eventually tell him no matter how much she wants the relationship, he threatens the bubble she lives in, so she chooses that over him.
60-ish Jewish women run NPR liberal about, oh, 100%.
I worked with one. Very nice lady. She loved NPR, Hillary, and thought Thomas Friedman was super smart.
She also told me something I thought was very interesting, that the people in her Jewish circle of friends and family had all said that they wouldn’t vote for GW Bush for a second term, but in the end, most admitted that they did. And of course they were Democrats.
So find yourself a nice shikse already! What are we, chopped liver?
Wait, I thought they like chopped liver?
My mother, Jewish and pushing 80, was an NPR dj. Volunteer, obviously.
all good liberals support pushing the USA and Russia toward a nuclear holocaust.
The look I got was priceless and thankfully she changed the subject.
Ouch.
Best wishes.
Amouranth has revealed that she has a husband, along with revealing his abuse
He has threatened to kill her dogs, take all their money, and forced her to stream.
He forced her to continue saying she was single and commit to being a hot tub streamer.
He threatened to leave her with only $1M, and to burn everything on crypto
The terrifying part is that he has control over all of the accounts
https://twitter.com/HUN2R/status/1581568136691666946
1. No idea who this is
2. Those are Q level tits
3. He should get her army of simps to save her
4. This of course does not mean she has not had a rough time of it
5. I mean should have done something about it long before…
“Those are Q level tits”
Approved.
She shows up often in The Chive galleries you post.
Generic tittystreamer #4098761
TBF, she is the pioneer in hot tub bikini gaming. I feel like a moron typing that out.
You should.
I don’t understand being a simp, but the economy for it is lucrative. It is only costing her mental health.
wait I think this was the chick who was stepping on simps at twitch con I saw that online . Either way the problem with this world is obviously to much rugged masculinity
yup
https://twitter.com/OMGItsBirdman/status/1579303469223383041
The dominant picture doesn’t bother me. The guy wearing a mask the whole time bothers me.
He threatened to leave her with only $1M
No one has ever threatened me like that before.
Right?
The poor thing.
“He threatened to leave her with only $1M“
*staggers to fainting couch*
Shouldn’t that be Hot Tub Steamer?
I suspect kayfabe.
“REVEALED: Squad member Cori Bush has spent $500,000 of campaign funds on PRIVATE security in two years but STILL insists on defunding the police”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11322969/Defund-police-advocate-Cori-Bush-spent-500-000-campaign-funds-PRIVATE-security.html
CWAA
Speaking of chaos and urban decay-
At the family gathering last weekend, I was talking to one of my dad’s cousins. We were making small talk about how so many people are moving to the west, and she of course brought up the plague (which was an amazingly, to me, popular topic of conversation; practically inescapable). I said, as circumspectly as I could, something about:
“Everybody talks about the plague the plague the plague, but there are a lot of other things happening in metropolitan areas which have induced people to GTFO.” That pretty much ended the discussion.
Just about everybody else in the extended family is a hard core True Believer Democrat. I about lost my my shit at one point, when the wife of one of my cousins started whining bitchily about all the hicks and troglodytes who don’t appreciate everything the public health expertverse has done for them. I kept my mouth shut, however. I do not doubt for a second that she would have come unglued when I called her idol Foochy a fucking quack who should be hanging upside down from a lamppost.
One of the few relatives I like is a True Blue Democrat. For the most part she is an old school Dem (union member, etc). But the plague is a point of contention so we mostly avoid it. The last time we got into it a bit was when she approvingly told about her old vet deciding to retire in 2020 when the Rona was first ramping up and moving to New Zealand.
I thought she was telling the story to illustrate how dumb her ex-vet was, and I snorted and said that yeah that was a super dumb move to go somewhere with even less freedom than here. I then got lectured about how NZ was so much better/smarter than here by multiple relatives.
Uffda.
Just about everybody else in the extended family is a hard core True Believer Democrat. I about lost my my shit at one point, when the wife of one of my cousins started whining bitchily about all the hicks and troglodytes who don’t appreciate everything the public health expertverse has done for them. I kept my mouth shut, however.
Lose your shit next time. Outside of work, I don’t keep my mouth shut any longer. Not discussing politics in mixed company is good manners so I won’t bring it up first, but I consider it fair game now once brought up. I think politics didn’t really use to affect anyone’s day to day lives, but no longer with the vax mandates, curfews, masking, and all of this other bullshit that was forced onto us. If family or friends don’t want to associate with me after having their echo chamber shattered, I’ll consider that a win in my life and move on. Maybe just a few of them will start taking note though and reassess their own positions.
Everybody talks about the plague the plague the plague, but there are a lot of other things happening in metropolitan areas which have induced people to GTFO.
The irony is that, to the extent people did leave the major metro areas due to “the plague”, it was much more likely that they left because of the major metro areas’ reaction to said “plague”, a reaction it sounds like they supported wholeheartedly, than to COVID itself.
Thanks for the songs. I did enjoy me some Pearl Jam back in the day, and for me a lot of the songs still hold up.
I saw them in concert when they were having a big fight with Ticketmaster. It was on, it was off, then it was on again. They were at Soldier Field, and because it was the last minute they had to borrow the stage the Grateful Dead had used that week. Then Jerry Garcia died a few days later, and so it turned out I saw the last stage Jerry Garcia had ever played on. /Sir Buzz Killington story
Not your fault. Every silver lining has a touch of a gray.
STP > The entire grunge movement.
Standard Temperature and Pressure?
What do you take me for?
That was my other guess.
20º C, 760mm Hg
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German inflation soared to double-digit levels for the first time in more than 70 years, underlining the precarious state of Europe’s largest economy, which leading economists warned could shrink by up to 7.9 per cent next year in a worst-case scenario.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz responded to soaring energy costs on Thursday by announcing plans for a €200bn cap on gas prices, which he described as a “defensive shield” to be financed by extending an off-balance sheet fund set up to provide aid during the coronavirus pandemic.
Consumer prices in Germany rose 10.9 per cent in the year to September, accelerating from 8.8 per cent in August, according to a flash estimate published by the federal statistical agency on Thursday.
https://www.ft.com/content/877ecb30-b884-42d0-afc4-17b7d404a5a1
Venezuela, here we come!
Meh.
word
Things must be dire for you to not have a ray of sunshine to spread.
Shitty night’s sleep. I’ll regroup shortly!
Me too. The super was out in the courtyard sawing wood at 7am. WTF, dude?
I just got in an hour ago after working all night. Rub some dirt in it and get to work, sissy!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11322783/Madonna-64-puts-raunchy-display-sheer-lace-bra-corset-TikTok-performance.html
Someone should take away grandma’s phone.
No, just no.
Gah!
That weird time of the year when in the morning it is 1 civilized degree and in the afternoon it goes to 20 which means annoyingly needing to wear layers
From Pat’s Venezuela link:
More than 80% of those who have left Venezuela are living in Latin America and the Caribbean, in countries which often already struggle to provide health and education to their own nationals.
And never in a million years would it occur to that intrepid BBC reporter that those countries should just get out of the way and allow all those people to provide for themselves.
I was at a scotch tasting Saturday evening. A young man started up a conversation with the group I was in. He lead with “We dropped nukes on Japan to end that war. Maybe we should be do that to Russia.”
Some young people are so ignorant they are scary.
He needs to quit drinking.
in 1945, sure
“Boy, you must have been born after the cold war. You try to nuke Russia and your world ends in nuclear hellfire.”
I was tempted to go with “Can you say Mutually Assured Destruction?”
But, I decided not to ruin my evening by arguing with someone younger than my kids.
“We dropped nukes on Japan to end that war.”
More like we dropped nukes on Japan to signal to the soviets that we had them and weren’t afraid to use them.
Also, nuking Russia would make us unequivocally the baddie in that cluster, which is impressive given the other two main actors involved.
Tell them this:
About 6 million people died worldwide due to COVID, which no doubt terrified the healthy young person.
A little over 30 million people died in the Pacific Theater to get Japan to surrender. You cannot wear a shitty cloth mask and avoid being a casualty if you are drawn into a conflict like that.
I wish could convert that to percentages, since COVID was less than one percent. Pacific Theater would have a significantly higher death rate.
It’s real
https://twitter.com/myunclesmemes/status/1581293410832379905
How the blocking of a road in Shoreditch for over an hour by eco-loonies ended. The police never turned up.
https://twitter.com/MarkHiggie1/status/1581536209171795969
Was that the one where the general public gragged the idiots out of the road.
Should have beat them bloody.
B A S E D
A
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I thought it would end with “Tha-bump, tha-bump” but that was much more satisfying.
oh fuck, this hurts…
“They can barely dance”
Article linked in the comments mentions “indigenous Latinos”. Huh?
Spanish speaking Indians?
“Per Aspera” had a free weekend on Steam, so I figured I’d try it. I bought it after 6.6 hours and probably put thirty or more over the weekend. That is to say for certain strategy game fans it is addictive, but not perfect. It is a strategy game and not a sim, despite the objective being to Terraform Mars. The gameplay centers around bade building, resource gathering and adjusting the climate and biome of Mars. Your biggest opponants are the building cap and your worker.repair drone AI. The building cap is the easiest to explain, because whenever I hit it before I’d finished researching the next increase, I was stuck twiddling my thumbs until the research finished, because I didn’t want to tear down part of my base to build something else.
As for the drone AI, there were two branches of the problem. The most catastrophic risk would be the ‘maintenence spiral’ where is your buildings got too degraded, the repair drones would prioritize power at the expense of the logistics chain, when that logistics chain is needed to keep making drones to repair buildings. The worker drone AI problem is subtler. It does not like to take resources away from a building. This seems sensible enough until I have a rapidly depleting ice stockpile and six ice drills with work stoppages because their output is full. By default the drones only want to move resources towards a building which uses it and is short. I mention ice because it is a key ingredient in two processes that keep colonlists alive, so I like to have a good buffer. You have to manage your storage faciliies carefully to coax the drones to move extracted materials out of the way for the extractors to keep working.
*begin spoilers*
The biggest opponant that actually talks is… yourself. You play as a terraforming AI that’s as crazy as a box of SHODAN, but not half as entertaining. She has a split personality where half is a genocidal anti-terraforming nutcase that builds secret bases to attack your main colony (but not more than three plot-triggered times) and the main personality is both naieve and insufferable. I was tempted to let the earth base trigger the kilswitch to erase both of them, but I’m also worried that would be a game over. I want to see my work finished before I test that option.
*/end spoilers*
8/10 if you’re a strategy gamer.
I almost got that, but trying not to spend money this month…
It has been a massive time sink in the sort time I’ve had it.
But I’m in a few % of converting enough CO2 to O2 to let humans walk outside unprotected.
Hm, I tried it for about ten minutes and went ‘meh. Victoria 3, however, looks intriguing.
Ten minutes seems a bit quick. Usually I’ll only abandon a game that fast if there’s a serious issue like camera controls making me dizzy or somesuch.
Yeah, for me it just didn’t tickle my fancy the way I thought it would.
A young man started up a conversation with the group I was in. He lead with “We dropped nukes on Japan to end that war. Maybe we should be do that to Russia.”
The possibility of action without consequences is a very popular delusion these days.
Oh that sweet summer child.
Never learned about consequences from parents or teachers, so…
Also doesn’t know Russia has more nukes than we do.
“How many nukes did Japan have, vs. how many does Russia have?”
NATO’s annual nuclear exercise gets underway
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_208399.htm
Happy Monday. Hope there is a Tuesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YgdrhrCM8
Obligatory Dr. Strangelove.
TBF, she is the pioneer in hot tub bikini gaming.
*prostrates self, prays to SMOD*
Just make sure you wear a mask while doing that.
I almost got that, but trying not to spend money this month…
You’re what’s wrong with the economy!
All my bills going through the roof is what’s wrong with the economy.
How the blocking of a road in Shoreditch for over an hour by eco-loonies ended. The police never turned up.
“Bloody Hell, there’s trash strewn about in the street again. If nobody else will clear it away….”
Those poor people are obviously brain damaged, and endangering themselves by being in the road. He was just being a good samaritan by dragging them to safety.
Bad faith
Federal prosecutors want Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to former President Donald Trump, to be sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of Congress, according to a recommendation filed Monday.
In addition to serving time, the government is seeking $200,000 in fines.
“For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment – the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines’ range – and fined $200,000 – based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Office’s routine pre-sentencing financial investigation,” prosecutors wrote in their court filing on Monday.
In ye good olde days, he could have been drawn and quartered for such insolence.
If contempt for Congress is a crime, we’re all in trouble.
🍌🌎
Prosecutors added: “The rioters who overran the Capitol on January 6 did not just attack a building – they assaulted the rule of law upon which this country was built and through which it endures. By flouting the Select Committee’s subpoena and its authority, the Defendant exacerbated that assault.”
This insufferable affront must not go unpunished!
For any Glibs out there who want a baller LPVO* for their assault rifle, EuroOptics is blowing out the Vortex Optics Razor 1-6×24 BDC. Check it out.
https://www.eurooptic.com/vortex-razor-hd-gen-ii-1-6×24-riflescope.aspx
* – LPVO = Low Powered Variable Optic. A scope that works well up close and at a distance.
Then I’d have to buy a new rifle to put it on…
Not quite seeing the problem here…
Rifle and Ribeye is not quite the winning combination it sounds like. 😛
Cattle hunting is legal in Hawaii.
Don’t know about you, but I don’t have the room to store a full cow of beef.
Trade some for linseed oil.
Ackshually, now that I think about it, I should investigate whether it is feasible to get a chest freezer into my basement.
I kept lamenting how there was no room in the house to put it, but the basement is largely empty. The main problem is it’s only accessable from outside the house. But it’s got a concrete floor and at least one outlet. I’ll have to see what that outlet is rated for.
“This is a rehashed blood libel against LGBTQ people that’s being used all over social media. They just blatantly accuse every LGBTQ person supportive of trans youth of “mutilating” and “butchering” kids. When the accusation is that heinous, it inevitably incites violence.”
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1580390163275870208
CWAA
Except you’re literally mutilating them. It’s not a libel if it’s true.
She’s also a Harvard lawyer attacking an 18-year-old girl.
Par for the course.
Of course that also means that we can scratch Harvard grads off the people to hire as lawyers now, if she can’t even define Libel.
Are the LGB and maybe Q really in favor of mutilation? Because it seems to me it’s just the T.
It’s not even the T.
The activist set – e.g., people who routinely throw alphabet soup into their tweets – is on board with any loony tunes stuff that wants to attach itself to the team because “progress”.
The silent majority, not so much.
https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1581490035060543488
Do not click on that.
I’ve seen that before. Also, you did warn me.
NSFW tag might help some.
So long, sucker!
U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss is facing calls to resign from within her own Conservative Party just six weeks after entering Downing Street.
Truss and her former Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng announced a fiscal package – a so-called “mini-budget” – on Sept. 23. The measures triggered market turmoil, from a plunging pound to pension panic, and a rare public rebuke by the International Monetary Fund.
Did she really think she was going to be in charge?
I’ll never get the British ‘conservatives’ they’re worse than the Republicans.
It’s the public schools.
I hope she burns every bridge on the way out and emigrates to some country that does NOT want to tax and spend itself down the toilet. And if she finds such a country, lets us know where it is.
if your are pissing off the IMF, you are probably doing something right.
Agreed. I liked everything she said in her first statement about cutting taxes and energy independence. She should like like Hell to stay there and show up the sad fake conservatives that English socialists skin suited years ago.
Citi went further and questioned whether Truss’ party was capable of navigating and surviving the current economic crisis.
“The fundamental question here is whether any Conservative leader can offer credible economic direction. We are increasingly unsure,” an analysis note from the bank said.
The only possible solution is shovelling more money into the furnace.
The key is to get the right people in charge. Definitely makes one question the see bank’s leanings.
She had exactly the right approach. Sadly it would cause the end of the carpetbagger’s plans. So she must go.
I shouldn’t be surprised.
And really, I’m not.
We’re way overdue for that nuclear war the “experts” said would cause.
*said “Trump” would cause
Must be the same foreign policy experts who put in writing that 100% for sure that Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
Ugh. So stupid.
Meanwhile, in France.
I don’t get why people don’t want to make major sacrifices to support a millionaire influencer who’s on all the TV shows.
The French are always protesting. Wake me when they oust Macron and/or start breaking out the guillotines again.
Party like you read about..
Today is the last day for our medical/dental/vision open enrollment, so naturally coworkers are calling ME with questions for which they might have known the answers if they’d bothered to attend one of the THREE Zoom meetings our benefits consultant scheduled. At the very least, they’d have known to contact him, not me (and certainly not our PEO!) 🙄
Meanwhile, in France.
Europeans don’t want to starve and freeze for Zelensky? Those monsters!
Heh.
“Kevin Spacey Lands Major Blow Against Sex Assault Accuser”
A federal judge dismissed part of a $40 million lawsuit against Kevin Spacey on Monday, moments after actor Anthony Rapp finished his case arguing the A-lister sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager.
I wonder how Cap’n Jack has managed to keep his name out of the headlines all these years after being involved in that sordid scene.
This seems to be a bad idea.
Don’t know why.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11323677/Outrage-Boston-University-CREATES-Covid-strain-80-kill-rate.html
Sounds like something that would burn out quickly.
Didn’t want to shit all over Animal’s thread.
I made a thing. https://ibb.co/tCTgVq2
Cool! 😃 It’s (virtually) done already? Who will get the privilege of wearing it? 🧶
Oh, me, natch. I’m thinking about putting pockets on it.
Pockets are rarely a bad idea. 👍
Put a couple numbers out of place just to see who’s paying attention.
LOL!