This one time in the Air Force, I was at a tech school waiting in line to speak with an NCO. He and a few other NCOs had gathered in the office as an Airman needed one of them to sign off on a hotel waiver that weekend so he could attend a concert in Dallas. The NCO, a MSgt nearing retirement that had a distinct inability to relate to us damn kids, asked me for my opinion:
”What do you think, is this guy going to make me regret letting him go see Brad Paisley?”
”Who the hell is Brad Paisley?”
*Entire room in unison* “Are you serious?”
This is my review of Kloster Andechs Weissbier Dunkel:
My exposure to country music in the military has at least left me numb to concept, which is better than when I was younger when I would just ask people to turn that shit off because I didn’t get it at all. So when everyone around me wants to complain about a song with a video depicting burning cities in front of a courthouse is somehow racist, I did the sensible thing and listened to the song (linked here).
No I’m not linking it, not because its offensive its because the song sucks ass. I don’t want to circulate awful music and allow it to gather any more clicks. You know what the name of the song is if you want to look it up yourself. If that’s your jam, its cool, its not mine.
I would like everyone and everything involved with this to pound sand. The modern formulaic approach to country music, people pretending to be cowboys, people pretending to be offended for social clout, people cashing in on reactions to their faux outrage, people thinking THIS IS BASED, people pretending to like it for social clout….The only redeeming quality this shit song has, is the reaction and promo code from this website.
Promo code: ALIENWAGYU for 35% off your order.
And so, in our search for something to promote the individual’s wellbeing brings us to back to Germany. Where medieval top men have them producing an identical product for hundreds of years. For once I’m glad they did. In a world where everything and everyone wants to promote societal upheaval in every facet of our lives, somebody is willing to just do it the way we always have. Its has benefits for your life and soul. Kloster Andechs Weissbier Dunkel: 3.5/5. 5.0% ABV
Some of it is good. The new commercial grid shit is crap.
That’s okay. I don’t like metal. Or rap. Or techno.
That’s just sad.
https://youtu.be/yfB7vF7nCdA
Two out of three aint bad
Its has benefits for your life and soul. Kloster Andechs Weissbier Dunkel: 3.5/5. 5.0% ABV
A bit lower than I’d rate it. I like Kloster Andechs’ stuff. I’ve even been to the monastery. Their brewery was closed to tours when I was there unfortunately, but it was a nice hike up and down the mountain to the monastery.
I agree; I’d rate it higher than 3.5/5.
There are two Andechser restaurants that sell their beer (until it runs out) and one is in Frankfurt.
That place is divine. I used to skip breakfast and lunch while doing my Christmas shopping so that by around 3 pm, I was ready to eat, and eat well. They had a Bavarian platter that included various schnitzels, sausages, and the best schweinshaxe ever.
They had all kinds of meats turning on a huge rotisserie racks over the fire. You could probably get nutritional value by just breathing the air in.
Now I need to find a German restaurant…
Maverick had it, but Weissbier Dunkel sounds awesome.
Reminds me of Salzburg. We had dinner at the beer monastery there every night. Great beer, and the food was from a number of little carts around the big beering room (if memory serves,it’s been over 30 years).
Fuck autocorrect. “Never had it”.
Okay I was going to say the closest Maverick station I think is in Prescott.
No I’m not linking it, not because its offensive its because the song sucks ass.
I have not heard it, but I do not doubt this in the least.
Try this sentimental ballad on for size
South Park gets it.
Where were you?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2xFnKWSxdQ&pp=ygUbbGFkZGVyIHRvIGhlYXZlbiBzb3V0aCBwYXJr
I used to go to a Salvadoran restaurant in my NoVA neighborhood that catered to Central Americans. Fuck, that music sucked.
Lol. I have no idea what Salvadoran music sounds like.
I’m not fond of the music playing in Mexican restaurants. If I were exposed to it for a while, I might grow an appreciation.
However, no matter how much I exposed myself to Chinese music (humanities class), I am never going to gain an appreciation. The girl who plays covers of popular songs on the Guzheng even rubs me the wrong way. I really just don’t like the little warble on some notes. https://youtu.be/8RosDxQIjf8
Tonal language.
I have as more Chinese speaking friends than Japanese, but the language grates on my ears.
Not even…Freddy Fender?? 😉
The biggest ordeal with the flight fiasco that we encountered was straight up lying by gate attendants and Spirit customer service.
Plane was there (can see it and FlightAware confirmed). When I went over to the window I can see pilots doing flight prep. So the issue was no flight attendants.
We got told: the plane isn’t here (picture of that sent to Spirit), no pilots available (picture of them departing thr plane they were sitting on for 4 hours waiting for other crew), FAA issue (that one was funny but I can’t use my position to refute), weather (we all have apps that said otherwise).
If in the beginning they just said they didn’t have flight attendants due to whatever I would have understood.
Just don’t lie to me. Though we did get full flight credit + an extra $100 per passenger in more flight credits.
I know its Spirit. They aren’t as bad and well, it’s expensive right now to take a better airline and we are going to be holding down two households until teems start paying rent.
It’s too bad Michael Totten’s piece on Alitalia no longer seems to be on the web. The best I could find was this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120410042329/https://michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/03/the-worst-airli.php
I’ve read that before, it’s hilarious/horrifying (hilarifying?).
Spectacular.
straight up lying by gate attendants and Spirit customer service
Welcome to the passenger side of ops.
Sorry you are stuck flying Spirit.
From the morning links about RFK and the secret service (and apologies if this was already discussed): apparently he sent out a tweet that included references to 14 days and 88 days. One of my wife’s insane progressive friends instantly texted this to her because it showed RFK is a Nazi because, apparently 14/88 is a secret Nazi code.
Oh, and he’s one of those guys who KNOWS he’s smarter than non-progs because he deals in reality and non-progs are all dumb conspiracy theorists.
The funny thing about losers is that they desperately want to believe they’re on the side of the angels.
👌🏻
Gold Coast and Adelaide did Collingwood two big favors last night.
😀
Did you ask him how the weather is in crazy town?
Its fun how all these people can speak Nazi code.
Better than actual Nazis too!
They have an Enigma machine. That’s how they do it.
I know, how’d they find us out?
Love, loss, redemption
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3g9yLvd7G5M
Just because I like the song.
Awash in untraceable implements of mass murder!
The administration asked the justices to halt a Texas-based federal judge’s nationwide ruling that invalidated a Justice Department restriction on the sale of ghost gun kits while it appeals to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The administration warned that allowing the judge’s ruling to stand would enable an “irreversible flow of large numbers of untraceable ghost guns into our nation’s communities.”
The Justice Department rule, issued in 2022 to target the rapid proliferation of the homemade weapons, bans “buy build shoot” kits without serial numbers that individuals can get online or at a store without a background check. The kits can be readily assembled into a working firearm in as little as 20 minutes.
The rule clarified that ghost guns qualify as “firearms” under the federal Gun Control Act, requiring serial numbers and manufacturers be licensed. Sellers of the kits also must become licensed and run background checks prior to a sale.
Several plaintiffs, including two gun owners and two gun rights advocacy groups, challenged the rule in federal court in Texas.
U.S. Judge Reed O’Connor on July 5 blocked the rule nationwide, finding that the administration exceeded its authority in adopting it.
OMG! Numbering possibly in the dozens! Assembled in twenty minutes! Chaos! Anarchy! Murder on an industrial scale!
Yeah, go ahead and prove that. I’ll get my stopwatch.
Oh, and you – lawyer – YOU have to do it, not some tech or specialist.
I can kind of see that, if you do it a few times and get really good at it, and your hands aren’t shaking from your last hit.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision to strike down a regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms known as “ghost guns” that are difficult for law enforcement to trace.
That’s notorious right wing uberMAGA justice Alito, to you.
It’s in the suspect’s hands, but dammit we can’t TRACE IT!!!
Fuck you, Alito. Where were you when federal judges were blocking border control as soon as it was tried?
Nitpick: »Leib und Seele« means “body and soul”.
[/pedantic bastardry]
https://babylonbee.com/news/conservative-dismayed-to-wake-up-and-find-out-he-has-to-defend-jason-aldeans-music
That’s perfect.
Nation’s Wives All Announce They Too Have To Get To A Prayer Breakfast
I used to hate country music, then I ended up listening to it from a buddy and then the army. Still love 80’s/90’s and appreciate 70’s pop country but the Twizzle era isn’t doing anything for me. Actually I’d say it’s pretty much everything post 9/11. The ultra patriotic crap became dated as soon as the records were released.
I dislike songs without substance be they pop, rock, country…
And most music now lacks substance. The songs aren’t about anything other than signaling that they are ‘genre’ song.
That’s why the joke of Wheeler Walker Jr works, the parody sounds almost exactly the same as the actual genre stuff,
The musicanship w/ WWJ is top-notch.
One of OMWC’s links referenced this WSJ interview with Justice Alito. It’s a good read.
Nepo siblings behaving badly
Let’s review:
* Jackson Mahomes (Patrick Mahomes’s brother) was making trouble in a bar.
* Owner took him back to her office to discuss.
* Mahomes wrapped his hands around her throat and forcibly kissed her.
* Owner called cops.
* Cops arrest Mahomes.
* Mahomes is charged with a bunch of assholery.
* Bar is vandalized.
* Bar loses 75% of its business.
* Bar closes down.
* Owner regrets calling the police because now HER life is ruined because SHE got assaulted and called out the perp.
What kind of people would vandalize a place where a woman was assaulted and the asshole perpetrator was called out just because he’s the brother of KC’s favorite son (who, by the way, is a stand-up guy himself)? That’s vile. Evil, even.
Also, Patrick’s wife and mother are on the edge of trashy, although they’ve been lying low, so Patrick must have said something. He’s not responsible for his brother. I get that. But at some point, his brand is going to be damaged.
Patrick’s father, though, is a class act and taught Patrick well how to act in public. Joe Jackson, take note.
He also raised Patrick’s brother too, no?
Well, I don’t actually know. I got the impression that Patrick was the Golden Child because he was so athletic and Jackson doesn’t seem to have a talented bone in his body.
THAT SAID, I know very well that parenting only goes so far when you get the will of the child involved in your parenting. I’ve got a darling and I’ve got a hellion, and I’m not sure our parenting had much to do with either. I keep saying that if I don’t take the blame for the hellion, I can’t take the credit for the darling.
Sadly, I know exactly what kind of people that would be.
Hangers-on and other assorted loser pieces of shit. Thug Life.
Yep. Hopefully there’s a GoFundMe for the bar owner.
* Owner took him back to her office to discuss
I guess this Majomes privilege showing.
Every bar I’ve been in, someone that makes trouble gets thrown out by the bouncer and/or the management. There is no going “back to her office to discuss”.
Exactly. She may have meant well but there is a reason bars have bouncers.
Wonder if Patrick will step in to help out the owner?
As far as I can tell/remember, he stays as far away from any fray as possible.
Sounds lots worse than what Eagles fans get accused of.Every city has asshole sports fans and it looks like KC is no different.
Yeah, I would not have expected it here. I guess I thought we were special.
Narrator: You’re not.
@RJ: The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula movie poster just popped up in my FB feed.
What kind of people would vandalize a place where a woman was assaulted and the asshole perpetrator was called out just because he’s the brother of KC’s favorite son
People suck.
What kind?
Raging assholes who deserve a hospitalization class beatdown.
Country’s usually what I have the radio in the truck tuned to. Sometimes classic rock. So I hear a lot of it and usually like the whole range. Everything from (broadly speaking) old, like Hank Williams and Patsy Cline or Dolly or Conway, through the more “Western”, like Marty Robbins, through today. I even like the young guys like Luke Bryan that people like to complain about – he’s frankly as legit of a normal country boy as you can get. A bunch of ’80’s pop-country all sounds alike to me.
But the main thing I’ve noticed is that there are some fantastically popular country singers who I just CAN”T STAND. Music, voice, lyrics, everything. Obviously I’m in a tiny minority, but I can’t bring myself to listen to Reba McIntyre, Zack Brown, or Tim McGraw.
You’re 1/3 right in the last.
The country section of my iTunes consists of: Johnny Cash + some recent more “Americana” acts like Turnpike Troubadores. I don’t dislike country—say, the way I dislike all forms of rap—but I don’t dig deep either.
Does Blackberry Smoke count as country?
I like them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_tQDCgeJg&pp=ygUXd2FpdGluZyBmb3IgdGhlIHRodW5kZXI%3D
Country music. *sigh*
I listened to and “liked” the 80s stuff because my compatriots did. I convinced myself. I really don’t like it (at least, not now anyway). Maybe some Reba (“Fancy”). I can tolerate the ones that tell a story. Don’t like Dolly Parton’s voice, but I do love her stories. Tell me a story, I’ll forgive your voice.
I do NOT like any country music before 1978-ish. Except Glen Campbell. Glen Campbell is King, though. He makes every day better.
I like the country-pop of the 90s and early 00s, mostly just the women. I’m terribly pedestrian. Shania Twain’s wardrobe was absolute perfection. Why, yes, I DO like the Dixie Chicks. Trisha Yearwood gave me “Walkaway Joe,” which spawned 11 books, so there’s that. I got mad at Chely Wright for coming out of the closet because her entire oeuvre is about liking boys, so thanks for that betrayal (had a friend who resented George Michael for the same reason). People aren’t homophobic, honey. Your career tanked because you were deceitful. See: kd lang, whom everybody loves. Deana Carter was also a fave. Why do I shave my legs for you people.
I like some recent-ish stuff, also mostly women. Miranda Lambert, I’m looking at you and, oddly enough, a song written by Taylor Swift, performed by a group whose name I can’t think of and I’m too lazy to google.
Kathy. Mattea.
OMG OMG OMG HOW DID I FORGET HER???? ❤️❤️❤️❤️
For pure vocal beauty, I’d put her right up there with…
…yes..
Karen Carpenter.
Hrmph. I wouldn’t go THAT far.
Karen Carpenter adjacent: Rumer.
Lovely! But I stand by my words re: KM.
In a more lighthearted vein, that Rumer tune reminded me of TT’s current fave rave: MonaLisa Twins. Austrian, actual twins, and actually named Mona and Lisa,
https://youtu.be/WgWh3BDCw3M
*looks in music library*
Yeup. Got it.
Now I’m remembering a whole lot of the country music I loved back in the day. Almost all women, too.
My now wife gave (and still gives) me crap about my chicky music tastes.
This doesn’t count, but “Back in the Saddle” reminded me: https://youtu.be/n26hAOmkmFE
I actually contacted Imani Coppola (thru MySpace, of all things) and asked her if I could quote her lyrics in my first book, and she was like, “Sure!”
Awesome!
I’d say it was less deceitful and more because she changed direction in her music, although it didn’t help. Same with the Dixie Chicks. Huge Chely Wright fan for years, had every album up through Metropolitan Hotel and was glad to see how successful she had become, but then her music changed. First more generic popish, then rah rah post 9/11, and neither worked.
Is a bit funny to see, in retrospect, Brad Paisley as a beard.
No reasonable prosecutor
The office of San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Friday that it would — at least for the time being — drop the charges against two people whom police say stole the white sedan that went careening down the Sanchez Street steps in the city’s Castro District last weekend.
Police arrested a 31-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man Tuesday on suspicion of multiple charges, including carjacking, reckless driving and conspiracy. But the district attorney’s office said in a Friday statement that it would be dropping those charges “at this time pending further investigation and witness unavailability.”
Reached by email, a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office would not elaborate as to why the two suspects who were arrested by police would not be facing charges at this time. The spokesperson also did not say directly whether charges could be brought at a later time or explain what “further investigation and witness unavailability” meant in the context of this incident.
According to police, the white sedan was stolen on the evening of July 22 at the intersection of 19th and Dolores streets. Moments after, the car plummeted down the Sanchez Street staircase and landed on 19th Street, just blocks from where it was allegedly stolen. The dramatic crash was captured on surveillance footage, which quickly went viral.
This was merely a case of youthful tomfoolery, I guess.
Three women walked down that staircase just one minute before those morons went down it.
View from the top
The only reason I’ve heard of Brad Paisley is because he sang “You’ll never leave Harlan alive”, and the only reason I know that song is because I watched Justified. But it’s truly a great song, so I guess not all country music is crap, even though it feels that way.
“Country music” is a big category. It probably dates back to about 1924 when Vernon Dalhart (who trained to be an opera singer) recorded “The Wreck of Old 97”. It sold a about 7 million copies and recording companies realized there was gold in them thar hillbillies. Every decade or so it transforms itself into something else. Who knows what it even is from one year to another.
Good point. And in all of that there has to be a bunch of great songs, even for non-country fans.
Of course, Sturgeon’s law applies here as well.
I didn’t realize he was such an accomplished guitarist.
The reaction from the metal guys when the country guy starts jamming is pretty great:
https://youtu.be/6i0a7RDPkM8
Paisley’s song are a little too pop for my Outlaw!!! Country taste but I saw him live once at a festival and I gotta give him credit he can really play the guitar.
As far as I can tell/remember, he stays as far away from any fray as possible.
Knowing, as I do, absolutely zip about this story, I still kind of wonder if it would have helped or hurt if he had stopped in the bar for a hamburger at some point.
Easy to say.
Kathy Mattea
I hate streaming.
Provider – “Here is a show you might like”
Looks – They have Episode 2 of season 1 and episodes 8 and 9 of season 2.
That is fucking pointless.
What service is that? Usually it’s just the first episode free as a teaser, or full seasons with some free and some paid (or split between services).
I like using JustWatch.com to figure out where to watch things.
I’ve seen it with all of them. This specific example was Discovery+, but the same thing happens with other services where even if you’re a paying customer they have a scatterplot of random episodes.
Yes, I know your frustration. Different episodes of Hoarders are all over the effing place.
“Here is a show you might like if you have a very short attention span.”
*perks up, wanders off*
Never seen that on Netflix or Amazon. You do get weird stuff like that on Hulu sometimes, when it’s a show they where can only show the last x number of episodes aired. They sometimes jump around because they include reruns in that. Maybe Discovery is similar.
That’s a reply to UCS.
I see it on Amazon all the time. Maybe we’re looking for different content.
(Don’t watch netflix, so can’t speak for them)
Could be. I immediately cross anything with commercials off the list, so I don’t bother with subs that include commercials or anything on Freevee.
That’s not a difference. I avoid adverts in anything.
Shouldn’t “I got friends in low places” be our Glibs national anthem?
Only on an exceptionally drunken Glibs-Zoom-karoake.
You remember the singing bass thing that got really popular? The Walmart I worked at briefly in college had a version of it as a deer head that broke out in that song whenever someone walked by the sporting goods counter.
Sorry to stay on topic but I need an explanation from our beer experts. The weissbiers I’ve encountered are light colored. I know there is a range for dunkel. How is this beer so dark?
Dunkel means dark. That’s how.
They roasted the malt longer than you’d find in a “typical” weissbier.
Thanks
First sentence probably should have had a 😉 after it. Re-reading it sounds more asshole than snarky. Fine line I guess.
I’ve seen a dozen or so country shows. Dierks Bentley was fun. I have seen Brad Paisley a bunch, he’s a hell of a guitarist, once I saw Taylor Swift open for him. She was 17 and had 2 songs out.
“once I saw Taylor Swift open for him. She was 17 and had 2 songs out.“
*drops panties*
I like Lucinda Williams and Lyle Lovett, but I don’t know if they qualify as country.
SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel plays them both. Lucinda more than Lyle.
If he’s a bar next to Dwight Yokum with his hand on Mary Chapín Carpenters thigh, he’s country.
The Bee absolutely slays it!
Well I found the Yellowjacket nest.
*ow*
*ow*
RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY
Make them regret messing with you.
Cleansing fire seems appropriate
*Nerfherder uses Flamethrower*
*House Catches Light*
*Nerfherder is now Known as Sooty Nerfherder*
An entire can of Raid ought to knock them back a bit
Wait for the temperature to cool. They won’t be so active.
I found a nest of yellow jackets when weeding the yard as a teenager. I got about 10 stings and puffed up like the Michelin Man. Not fun.
Evening.
For ground nesting dusting is recommended. My exterminator wears a bee suit.
Sorry, there’s now waiting when it comes to yellowjackets. The only delay before merciless chemical death is the time needed to lay hands on the insecticide spray.
RCDean is correct. We waged neverending war on the wasps in our yard every year.
One time there was a wasp nest in my car door. I got stung and that wasp died a horrible death.
Whuuut…!
I smashed him on my arm as he was stinging me. How dare he.
No, I meant I wouldn’t expect one in a car door.
“RCDean is correct.”
You’re forgot the “as usual”. “Again” is also acceptable.
I will happily add “as usual.”
“For once”?
/obligatory contrarian
OK, “Hyperbole” (if that’s even your real name).
I called pest control to deal with one last week. So far so good.
Neighbor was working on his porch earlier today when he came across one next to it. Seemed to take care of it with gasoline and an electric swatter. Seems to risky to try to kill ’em during the day.
Little bastards got me on the ear.
Now I look like this guy.
Judas Priest. Those fuckers are the worst.
If you play a country song backwards it is about a guy getting his wife/girlfriend, parent, dog, truck and/or boat back.
Classic.
Ozzy man reviews Meg2
https://youtu.be/0_qaMKJYnbQ
Yellowjackets: go at night. Place. Flashlight a bit away fron nest enterance and illuminate entrance. Circle around , big circle, to enterance in the dark. Put about 1-2 tbl spoons of seven powder on thier landing pad at enterance. Make sure no wasps buzzing around your light . Circle back, retrieve light and go to bed.
They will track poison into nest and kill all of them.
Ortho ant powder works really well also.
Red wasps: usually in a shed or eves in attic. Crack opening, door, whatever and put 1-2 flea bombs in and shut enterance. Go have a beer.
I was unable to care for my bees for 2 months. The fuckers killed all of my bees and stole all of the honey.
It is WAR now motherfuckers.
Yellowjackets and paper wasps aren’t the ones that concern me. I’ve dealt with them plenty, I just don’t usually step onto their nest with a weedeater in high grass.
Bald-faced hornets on the other hand… I’d like a solution for those bastards. They make yellowjackets look like domesticated housepets and getting anywhere near their nests is treacherous.
Suthen, I’d love an update on your situation. We’ve missed you. I’m sure your usual perspective would make a good top-level post.
Hear, hear!
Director Oliver Stone declares he ‘made a mistake’ when he voted for Biden, says he may start ‘World War 3’
“You have to look at the reasons for this war, and whenever you do, the Americans like to simplify and say it’s a question of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. That’s very simplistic and very black-and-white,” he said, recounting how he produced “Ukraine on Fire” which he argued, “explains the origins of this war in the coup d’état of 2014 which was sponsored and supported thoroughly by the United States, it was a very deep plan to penetrate the Russian Federation.”
He then slammed the “Neoconservative movement who started the war in Iraq” who yet remain “deep inside our government,” citing prominent figures like Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He went on to add that “Biden is an old Cold Warrior, and he really hates the old Soviet Union which he confounds again with the Russian Federation, which is not communist.”
Stone warned that unless the United States changes its “suicidal” course, it faces a “potential World War 3” and then slammed Biden’s leadership.
Blind pig . . . . .
You know, Stone could have looked at who was on Biden’s team and maybe have noticed that Joe isn’t in charge of anything. Then maybe he wouldn’t have made that mistake.
Fuck him and all biden voters.
“ oh i didnt know!” – the fuck they didnt
“ but donnie two scoops worse than hitler!!
Oh? NK, china, russia, iran cooled thier heels. Peace agreements breaking out all over ME Including palestine/israel. Unemployment down record lows, energy independence….on and on with all of the ‘oh we are tryng so hard to fix xyz!’ Yrt never will.
Fuck that turd and his ilk. No excuse for that.
An entire can of Raid ought to knock them back a bit
Back in the good old days, you could knock a wasp out of the air with a shot of brakleen, and the shine would be off him by the time it hit the ground. They changed the formula (fuck you, California!), and now it barely annoys them. Carburettor cleaner, too.
Stone warned that unless the United States changes its “suicidal” course, it faces a “potential World War 3” and then slammed Biden’s leadership.
Nice work, Ollie. Now do Taiwan/China.
I don’t know why every human in Taiwan isn’t making plans to GTFO now.
It would be interesting to get a local perspective on the matter. I wonder if the CIA owns their newspapers and media like they do here.
Curious situation since we have an interest in Taiwan remaining Taiwan but zero* interest in Ukraine.
*Our rulers obviously do for some reason.
Do the Taiwanese consider themselves Chinese?
Just curious.
As in part of China? No.
Taiwan is the American version of Chinese food to Chinese food.
Not a country guy, but I support the right of You People to enjoy it.
The song in question sucks, as does the anti-gun bullshit attitude of the singer, but whatever.
My question:
DO you like American music?
YES!
American music
I love that. Thank you.
American music
San Francisco finally found something to try to prosecute.
Douchebags.
Investigating what? It’s there. You can see it.
San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection is investigating Elon Musk’s recently rebranded Twitter for installing a large X sign on the Market Street headquarters roof without permission.
Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the department, said that approval from the planning commission and a building permit are required to make sure the sign is structurally sound and installed safely. The city’s permit database had no records of any recent applications at the headquarters at 1355 Market St.
Ah…
Let’s check on LA!
Ewww.
Hmmm. They are fucked, too.
NY?
The official song of redneck funerals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iExsbDuVqeE