I sometimes feel like an addict, helplessly, hopelessly, and fatally drawn to the poison that’s destroying me. And that poison is women, and at my age, it’s yet another round of, “Hold me, touch me.” But unlike Max Bialystock, I don’t get a check at the end. And yet another one today. Why am I doing this to myself? Just so I won’t have to do it to myself?
Birthdays today are pretty lean, but include a classic case of projection; a guy who has fed generations of college students and Mexicans; the more expensive version of Ted Knight; a guy who was a suave fuck; a guy who disappointed all of us; and a guy who has had a fun and frightening history.
Let’s link before another old bag shows up demanding a piece of me. That’s at noon today.
Of course it’s about race. Everything is.
Team Red is soooo getting creamed in 2024. Practice saying, “President Harris.”
Oh no! They mocked her on Twitter! This show is getting old.
“Wait until *I* get hold of the purse!”
She is soooo entertaining. Too bad she’ll be disappeared.
Old Guy Music is not for people who hate amazing flatpick guitar and soaring vocals.
Good morning!
Target sticks cut for this afternoon, Finishing ups my delicious breakfast of bread cheese and coffee and pondering that humans must have evolved from scavengers since fermented food tastes so good.
Then Lily to the park!
Wonderbread and Velveeta is truly the breakfast of champions.
“Wait until *I* get hold of the purse!”
Sexist!
https://media.tenor.com/KzBWXthQCiIAAAAC/bobby-hill-thats-my-purse.gif
You’d rather she get hold of the murse?
Its a european carryall!
So THAT’S what all the “women” are for!
Old Man With Dresses.
If she shows up carrying the tote bag from her local NPR affiliate, just buy her a drink, apologize for your sudden attack of sanity, and go home. Alone.
They’re all Progs. Literally every single woman I’ve met, not a single exception.
Were you expecting something else?
Hoping, maybe. The three women who have been closest to me in my life are the opposite of Progs, but one’s dead, one’s married, and one’s my daughter.
I get it. I feel blessed to be married to my wife. I could have easily made other choices in my twenties that would have been “sub-optimal.”
I can’t imagine going back into the dating pool now. All I can do is wish for you to have luck and a good sense of humor.
^this
A good woman is worth her weight in gold, maybe more.
Lighting the Tres signal?
That would be lead, not gold.
I could have easily made other choices in my
twentiesforties that would have been “sub-optimal.”Amen.
What’s the minimum size of garden you’d need to be eligible to sign up at FarmersOnly.com?
Hey there…..how YOU doin’ ?
Maybe use a different dating site than “onlyprogs.com”
Tonio had suggested a site called Grindr. Haven’t checked it out yet.
May as well keep your options open.
Choose carefully and you can double your wardrobe.
From the baggage carousel?
Ouch, GT, ouch.
Something far more boring — I’ve acquired clothes from an ex who outgrew them (because I’m a good cook), and passed on clothes to another ex when I outgrew them (because he was a good cook).
And by options, he means butthole.
(re)Posted recently, but a classic from The Onion.
On my bumble profile, I had to put in a line “I know that people have strong feelings about guns, so you should know I’m a competitive shooter. Last week — I shit you not– I got the following (first!) message at 4am:
“If you need an AR15 to go to WalMart, you have too many enemies and I’m not interested.”
Possible reply: “If you feel compelled to share your wild, baseless leaps to bizarre conclusions with someone who’s never even communicated with you, you have too many psychoses, and I’m DEFINITELY not interested.”
Tit-for-double-tap!
You should be able to meet some nice nonlib older ladies at your local church if you’re…wait, nevermind…
Isn’t the “gender gap” in politics really more between men and single women rather than just men and women in general?
The thing is, there can never be just one gender gap. While the media harps on about how Team Red has less than half the female vote, they oddly never mention that Team Blue has less than half the male vote.
Of course the female vote is the only one with a gap.
Your word choice is interesting, and commendable if intentional.
Completely intentional, so thank you.
They have their own designation AWFL – and that’s from their allies.
Either her fingers are moving too fast for this early or I need more coffee.
Or both. Amazing, eh?
You gotta love it when judges get all philosophical and start giving sermons… not.
Not this?
Or This?
Nah, this…. https://youtu.be/6eD-H3a8D6E
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9694K85Xc8&pp
Just tell her you’re not going to enact her labor.
Tres wins.
At least it’s the correct version of The Producers above.
“President Hairball”
“President Hackjob”
“President Hardon”
“President Horrible”
“President Horrific”
Damn. I need more practice.
President Hair-ass
No.
lolwut
*spits coffee*
Unfortunately that’s actually true. They’ll unite behind whoever they’re told to unite behind and defend him like he’s the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Yeah, if and when the desperate search that seems to be currently underway for somebody, anybody but Biden yields nothing.
I’m not sure there is an actual search going on. Both parties tend to stick with incumbent presidential candidates (including running a sitting VP) whenever possible. Marianne Williamson just crawled out of the woodwork. I’m sure she has supporters among the woo and green constituency, but even the “squad” radicals are going to support Biden/Harris because they want to win. Power over principal, every time.
I’m hearing noises that Dems don’t want to Biden to run. I figure there’s gotta be a search going on, even if behind closed doors. The MSM sure isn’t going to talk about it until it becomes too obvious to ignore.
And while the part about Biden may be true, they are going to have a hard time dumping Harris given how many ways she qualifies for diversity “firsts.” And we all know how obnoxious firsting is.
They sure are in a pickle.
It is going to be somewhat entertaining to watch.
What will really be fun is the 100% narrative shift in the MSM and the 100% memory-holing of everything that came before.
I’d have thought for certain it was going to be Newsome. They might stick with Biden – I mean, they crammed hi through last time.
War is the wild card. Sitting presidents – even dementia riddled, unpopular fuckheads – pretty much always win during wars.
George HW Bush nods sadly – never finish a war before the election.
Good Lord, but that Molly knows how to finger.
After 5 minutes of Trump-O-Mania yesterday I switched over to watching PBS begging commercials.
Good luck, OM, with your forays into the Dating Game, you may have to have an advice column here for the bachelors/bachelorettes. Not a “How To” but a “How Not To”, with your lived experiences.
Ive taken that approach with Tres Version 2.0. “Look, your Dad my not have all the right answers, but by G_d I can tell you what NOT to do.”
“Sometimes the greatest contribution one can make to mankind is to serve as a warning to others.”
“Wait until *I* get hold of the purse!”
WHAP! over Trump’s head.
Rufus!!! 😃
Don’t you ever work??
President Harris will giggle America into war.
“cackle”
You needed to qualify that with “maniacal cackle”.
No doubt. What is it with the power hungry women who laugh like the head priest from Temple of Doom when he catches the heart on fire?
The lizard people haven’t really figured out how to emulate human females, so the vocal programming on the skinsuits is off. Also explains why they all have the exact same condescending 3rd grade teacher delivery.
‘nuclear winter is a winter that is nuclear and we will be doing our best because we’re are trying our best.’
-president Harris’s last speech before the Russians nukes arrive
MSM headlines – nuclear winter combats climate change
You know you’re living with teenage daughters when it’s only 8:30am and you’ve heard the word “gross” five times already.
“Like, gross, ya know”
Some day you’ll look back and remember these days as being the best.
Like, totally, ya’know?
Gag me with a spoon, totally.
https://youtu.be/R5Q1yVLSR3I
That seems to be a word that never goes out of fashion, for teenage girls.
Cheese is a product not a place
The court said the French and Swiss groups “cannot overcome what the record makes clear: cheese consumers in the United States understand ‘GRUYERE’ to refer to a type of cheese, which renders the term generic”.
I will celebrate with some Irish cheddar.
Paired with a nice Iowa Bordeaux?
Onions, on the other hand, are definitely a place
Let’s get sloopy to defend the virtues of the Texas 1015 sweet yellow onion, dbleagle to talk about the Maui Sweet, and our Wa. based Glibs to wax poetic about the Walla Walla Sweet.
We could call it ‘Onion Wars’. It will bring a tear to your eyes.
A complex tale with layers that will bury the root of the conflict.
It would be a complex war, with many layers.
House for sale
I thought of this.
A truly stunning revelation!
-The FBI’s Washington Field Office requested the Boston Field Office open investigations into 140 individuals who took buses from Massachusetts to D.C. on Jan. 6.
Have mercy, talk about a fishing expedition. As for agents provocateur amongst the crowd, well duh.
Has the Boston SSA been replaced with someone loyal to the party?
For a socialist, Gulag Barbie seems to have quite the princess complex.
No, it’s pretty normal for socialists.
Sorry about your troubles, OMWC. Sucks to be a Prisoner of Love.
Thank G_d that wasnt the horrid Bob & Tom show bit.
Former President Trump delivered a preview of what to expect in next year’s presidential election in his address to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, framing the contest as an existential battle for the future of the country.
“We have no choice. If we don’t do this, our country will be lost forever,” Trump told a crowd of diehard supporters at the conference in National Harbor, Md.
Where have I heard that before?
Every election, from every democrat since Bush v Gore.
Mark Geragos and other discussing the Murdaugh trial verdict. Picking up a few things from listening to an old defense attorney like him. In retrospect – I recall hearing a ton about the Scott Peterson case pre-trial on the radio back when I was commuting after college – but not much during the actual trial when actual details were coming out – ie. public pre-judicial arguments.
Seems more relevant to the Murdaugh case – particularly in such a small town where they couldn’t shift venues or anything else – as opposed to the Idaho case which is a little weirder – but I guess we’ll see wrt that one too.
(Adam is taking a break from Reasonable Doubt and a couple of his other side podcasts even though he’s still doing ACS and Adam and Drew since he’s got a lot of other stuff going on – prob related to divorce and looking seriously at moving out of state).
Tonio, OMWC or other TPTB, I have finally answered the call and submitted a new article for review and posting; after a 3 year absence.
Thank you. I’ll have a squint at it tomorrow.
Is it about boobs?
An interesting bit of engineer hubris that I just learned about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
“Oops.”
lolwut
More derp: ‘Previous models had hardware interlocks to prevent such faults, but the Therac-25 had removed them, depending instead on software checks for safety.”
What could go wrong?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-faulted-for-starliner-software-errors-that-marred-test-flight/
Meanwhile, down on the plantation
Now, however, that expansion has effectively ended for all 50 states as the last enhanced SNAP payouts were issued in February, and the program officially ended on Wednesday.
Allowing this lifeline to expire was unfortunate and will, in the end, cost the federal government money.
Research shows us that economic hardship is a key driver of child welfare system involvement, as highlighted in a thorough review by experts at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, where I am the executive director.
Imminent risk of abuse and neglect shouldn’t be the linchpin for families in need to get help and it doesn’t need to be. Preliminary evidence suggests even modest economic support can stabilize families and alleviate the need for more intensive intervention. And we know that across all developmental stages, children in families that have economic stability and have access to concrete services like SNAP, stable housing and health care, do better.
The only thing standing between those people and starvation and squalor is an army of well meaning bureaucrats and nonprofiteers.
Won’t you help?
OFFS.
It’s like the last 50+ years never happened.
Yep. Tax funded housing, food, medical care, cell phones, and various other things. These have been ongoing for decades. It is anything but modest.
Good morning, Old Man!
I hadn’t read anything about that Murdaugh trial, but the whole thing looks pretty shady. My thought is that he stole from the wrong people and they whacked his family.
And that judge is a piece of shit.
Good luck with the oldster today! I hope no one breaks a hip or anything!
Yeah, 2 weapons used – neither located (shotgun and rifle), all kinds of jury and prosecutor shenanigans….
As Dr. Drew was saying – (opioid pills, but not intravenous) – the drugs excuse and behavior distinctly covers everything up to – but not – the murders pretty clearly.
db had followed it closely and is convinced that it’s a complete railroad job.
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division straight up lied to the Grand Jury and then pulled some 11th hour nonsense with one of the jurors who was then dismissed. Dude probably did it, but the case and trial were a mess.
In January, Northwestern Professor Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach released a policy brief on her research that addresses ending emergency allotments of SNAP benefits. She found that, on average, EA payments reduce the likelihood that a household experiences food insufficiency by about 9 percent, with larger impacts for Black and Hispanic households with children. The inclusion of aggregated data for Black and Hispanic families is critical as they are disproportionately affected by poverty due to systemic inequities which, as previously stated, increases the likelihood of child welfare involvement. As Schanzenbach points out, food insufficiency baseline rates are already significantly higher for Black and Hispanic families than for White and Asian families.
Blah blah fucking blah.
Take up the white progressive’s burden!
You know, if they wanted to shoulder that burden on their own, I’d be okay with that. It’s the retards like the one stunned by Obamacare – I didn’t think I’d have to pay for it. Those are the ones that deserve feet first into the woodchipper.
Thank G_d that wasnt the horrid Bob & Tom show bit.
I have never understood why people like those jabbering retards.
I saw the Jabbering Retards on their first US tour in ’74.
People seem to like jabbering retards in general. See; podcasts, shock jocks, The View, etc.
Understandably, concerns about the fiscal repercussions of expanded social programs have been posed, but it is wrong to write them off as wasteful. In fact, they are investments that yield good returns. Figures for 2017 show that just a 13 percent increase in each state’s investment in public benefits programs would have reduced the number of child maltreatment reports by nearly 200,000 (nearly 30,000 fewer substantiated cases), lowered foster care placements by over 4,000, and saved the lives of 130 children.
In the long term, researchers estimated that the additional 13 percent state investment (which would total $46.5 billion nationally) would save up to $153 billion due to reduced maltreatment-related costs
According to my model, the more you spend, the more you save!
Love song
Not this touching I take it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1btg3mpEOc
I saw the Jabbering Retards on their first US tour in ’74.
Didn’t that 45 minute bongo really solo knock your socks off?
Hungary’s Orbán: Europe Should Distance Itself from the United States
It’s becoming clearer why he is so vilified by the cathedral.
It does seem curiously uninterested in what happened to those pipelines.
I don’t believe I had heard anything by these guys before, but the YT algorithm coughed them up for me. Just absolutely fantastic upright bass playing, by the end of this tune the dude is smoking hot and sweating profusely as that takes some serious physical effort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOO42RbEvPw
Agreed. Fantastic. The song is also one that might be enjoyed by non-jazz fans.
I am not a jazz guy and I thought it was brilliant. That bass, though. Dang.
Perfect
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-catch-up-on-todays-news-man-just-reads-conspiracy-theorists-2-year-old-blog-posts
Momentum? Like a runaway freight train!
“Folks, you all know how much we’ve gotten done, but a lot of the country still doesn’t know it,” Biden said. “That’s why the big job in front of us is implementing the laws we passed, so people start to see it in their lives — all the benefits that are there because you produced it for them.”
Biden ticked through a list of legislative accomplishments, including the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in nearly 30 years, legislation to boost the domestic manufacturing of semiconductor chips and a sweeping climate, health care and tax bill.
“We just have a buffet of accomplishments to offer, and he just rolled them out in such a way that it can really resonate with the everyday person,” Ohio Rep. Shontel Brown told NPR.
——-
“How do you make that real; how do you tell that story?” she mused. “It’s by working together, having Cabinet members and officials from the government come to our districts.”
As an example, she points to visits in her district from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg showing new bridges under construction and White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu highlighting a new interstate interchange.
“Those are the kinds of stories that people stop to think ‘Oh, I have a better commute’ or ‘Oh, I’m working from home because I have better internet service.’ And we’re making that connection to your precious tax dollars, hard at work making a difference in your life.”
Who could possibly turn their backs on that?
Executive action agenda doesn’t sound at all authoritarian.
If she said it was to present to committee then sure, you are trying to drive the Presidents agenda. These are going to be items that pen and paper will solve for them.
Jayapal is already on record that the president can do whatever they want, Congress be damned.
During his speech, Biden brought out a mock-up of a sign for an infrastructure project in Baltimore to rebuild a tunnel. At the top in all caps are the words “President Joe Biden.”
“We’re going so far as to print signs to let people know who is bringing this project and why it’s happening,” he said to applause.
Brown said this is all part of the strategy to keep the impact of Democrats’ votes in Washington top of mind for their constituents.
Isn’t there some sort of rule about that?
I’m sure Baltimore is on the brink of flipping to the Repubs.
Gotta rally the faithful.
Shouldn’t THE TAXPAYER be at the top? That arrogant prick is neither the how or the why of any project they use our confiscated money to fund.
They did the same shit when Obama was president. Every little construction project or whatever had a sign with nifty looking pictograms and featuring in big letters “President Barack Obama,” like he’d personally given us a nice little present.
I got tired of passing one of those every day on my commute on East River Road in minneapolis, so one day I pulled over a smacked a big “Worst President Ever” bumper sticker on it, with the “O” in worst being his ubiquitous sunrise/flag weirdness.
A couple of days later the whole sign had been removed. I guess they couldn’t get the bumper sticker off the sign.
You are a hero.
All such signs should also carry a line about the size of the Federal deficit and how much it is per citizen.
“This headline is libelous, and I demand a retraction.”
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1632168780628471813
It’s a misleading headline in response to thoughtless language.
It is libelous, he in no way said any such thing. The language was confrontational but I have no problem with it in the proper context and when quoted, you know, correctly.
Gee, and Rolling Stone is usually so careful about fact-checking and verifying their published stories. 🙄
No doubt, the replies indicate that some of the stupidest people on the face of the planet are swallowing that hook, line, and sinker though. Well, them and the others who are smart enough to know better but are just lying their asses off.
IANAL, and exaggerated clickbait headlines are common, but he also knew that was the reaction he was going to get.
Old Guy music was a fine and pleasant choice.
Reminded me of the late great Tony Rice, which always brings me joy.
Controversial
Construction began this week on a controversial lithium mine in Nevada after a federal appeals court denied an 11th-hour attempt to halt the project.
In a decision issued Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court denied an appeal filed Monday by Western Watersheds Project, longtime opponents of the mine, that would have temporarily halted construction on the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada. In a press release, the project’s owner, Canada-based Lithium Americas Corp, announced that it officially broke ground on Wednesday.
The mine site covers one of the largest deposits of lithium in the U.S., and General Motors this year invested $650 million in the project, which will become North America’s biggest lithium mine. Lithium is a crucial component of electric vehicles and batteries; experts expect demand for the material to skyrocket in the coming decades as the world transitions to clean energy. The Biden administration has made expanding the domestic supply of clean energy minerals a priority.
But lithium and other clean energy materials come with a host of problems, including concerns around the environmental degradation that comes with mining as well as overseas supply chains rife with child and forced labor. An analysis released earlier this year calls some of these demand models into question, finding that centering public transit and smaller vehicles in the clean energy revolution could significantly reduce global reliance on these minerals.
Can’t we just get it from somewhere else?
Can’t store nuclear waste but can strip mine. Sounds legit.
Trust me, there is plenty of nuke waste trucked into the Nevada National Security Site from all around the country. It gets entombed and buried at the RWMC–Radioactive Waste Management Center. AKA, Area 5. Not a big deal.
No idea why the phrase Yucca Mountain gets people all uptight; it’s not like we’re not already doing it in the general vicinity.
Just like any failed DoD project – rename it and keep pumping money into it.
I agree not a big deal. Just curious if the same asshats will come around to protest
Why would we worry about nuclear waste? It isn’t going to do anything and cannot be used for anything. Plus, it is really heavy and small, just keep it on site.
Western watershed? Well that area used to drain into Lake Lahontan (which was an endoheric basin) – know better known as the Black Rock Desert.
I got tired of passing one of those every day on my commute on East River Road in minneapolis, so one day I pulled over a smacked a big “Worst President Ever” bumper sticker on it, with the “O” in worst being his ubiquitous sunrise/flag weirdness.
A couple of days later the whole sign had been removed. I guess they couldn’t get the bumper sticker off the sign.
Most excellent.
While OMWC is whipping it out left & right, I’m sitting here dumping my sewage all by my lonesome.
I did take a lovely drive this morning – all by my lonesome. Which was awesome.
https://ibb.co/jvVLh31
Wow nice!
Lovely!
It looks like no one is talking about foreign interference in Arizona elections. I thought foreign interference in our Democracy was the worst thing ever.
https://twitter.com/MichaelPDeacon/status/1631913140286902275
I AM FULLY SELF-AWARE!!
Last night’s “I Do Cars” teardown was truly impressive.
Catastrophic failure hardly begins to cover it. I bet it made one hell of a racket.
“A Sacramento dildo saleswoman was secretly unmasked as the leading propagandist behind a neo-Nazi network that encourages acts of far-right terror and celebrates the people who commit mass shootings”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dallas-humber-terrorgram-narrator-mass-shootings_n_64010e78e4b0d14ed6a6a545?qah
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1631636808084733952
Again?
Stossel on the stupidity that is the Jones Act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QExJbWWwXDc
…if you can stand the smug woman who’s trying to defend the Jones Act. Sheesh.
Know what movie I felt needed a remake? Road House.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/jake-gyllenhaal/article-11822565/Shirtless-Jake-Gyllenhaal-shows-jaw-dropping-muscles-filming-Road-House-remake.html