Sadly, it’s not this smoke(there is no truth to the rumor that this photo is from a recent Glibs get together).
Yeah, August wildfire smoke is here, but we aren’t under an inversion layer and it’s supposed to rain for the next three days. I’ll take it.
Shall we link?
Get your money ready to put into the “Alex was right” jar.
Had he hunched his back, he might have survived.
Burning Man goes establishment.
Okey, doke. I’m done. Have a great evening!
Good song
For bonus points, what was the original band name?
Soft White Underbelly
Agreed.
Had to g00gle some BOC history to learn the original band name. Very cool.
Rick Beato has a video or two on BOC. Made me appreciate their music that much more.
Wildfires aren’t just for Hawaii. The house of one of my worker bees burned down in one last night. Luckily our emergency services got the evacuation orders out in time for most people but unfortunately it sounds like there is at least on death. Currently there are fires west and north of Spokane.
I was thinking of your guys when I heard about the fires near Spokane. Stay safe.
Ever hear from Sodium? She stopped posting around the time of our meetup.
I know she lurked for a while and we had one more Spokane area meetup after. Haven’t heard anything in a while.
We had high winds on Friday which kicked things up. Chance of rain on Monday and Tuesday. 185 structures lost near Medical Lake so far.
“They were told it was not a matter of “if” but “when” official Covid numbers will go back up and they expect by mid-October a return to forced-masking policies that the Biden administration previously only reluctantly ended after massive pressure.”
They can fuck right off.
My immediate thought was “fortification”.
I don’t remember any ramp-up last year.
I can’t imagine lockdowns will work in their favor this time.
please relax
masking TSA employees in mid-September
won’t happen
next week they will receive new guidelines
won’t happen
martial law
won’t happen
Covid lockdowns were…run by….the Pentagon
no reason to believe it
Deep State is getting desperate
right: the great machine that even uberlibertarian DJT45 couldn’t overcome suddenly worried while Biden is in office?
I suppose if I wrote a rant with 20 crazy ideas and one of them came true then I could jump up and down pointing and screaming toldjaso
There are still new “booster shots” being developed and vaccine mandates. It ain’t over yet.
Don is on the money.
agreed
The Biden admin trying to reramp up covid hysteria so they can ram through mass mail in ballots for the 2024 election?
Didn’t need to read Infowars to surmise that the Ds would try to “win” elections this way – again – civil liberties and the economy be damned. 🙄
Who’s going to stop them?
Back in “sunny” San Diego just in time for the rain. Chilling at Coronado Brewing Co. (Gonna have to pick up a few crowlers for the road just in case).
Yeah…no way they’ll be able to enforce any masking for covid going forward.
Please go to Not Not Tacos and report is it is as good as I’ve heard.
I don’t have a rental this time and North Island/Coronado is further away…but if the weather clears up Mon I may try and take the ferry across to downtown.
Since I don’t vote I won’t have to wear a mask, right? Right?
Your vote has already been cast.
I swore off voting around 2018 but after the 2020 election I realized that if I left my ballot empty someone would fill it for me. So I went ahead and cast my ballot in 2022 and once again, to no surprise, I “scored” a 0.0.
Damned if I do, damned if I don’t.
Good point I hadn’t thought of.
I unregistered to avoid that.
You’re still on the rolls at least three times.
I’m not sure that is an option in NM. I think you have to miss a large number of elections before your name is pulled.
I think that my granddad has been casting votes for Democrats ever since he died in 1972.
https://www.sos.nm.gov/voting-and-elections/voter-information-portal-nmvote-org/voter-cancellation-request-form
I stand corrected.
I haven’t registered since Reagan’s first term. I hold a grudge a long time
Just for you! This is this gentleman’s second year of keeping bees.
Harvesting 68kg of honey – full process from beehive to jars + candle making
About 50 3lb (1 quart) jars. If that’s one hive that’s excellent. We give the wax to a lady that was going to make beauty products, I’ll ask her at HH as to how she did. We have given to a lady that makes soap, to another that made candles.
When Alex Freaking Jones seems reasonable and thoughtful… the world is a strange place.
Regarding the covid stuff, there would have to be another emergency EO in place as all those rules were based on that…
Not that it won’t happen, but that is what it will take.
Legally? Sure.
But haven’t we moved past that?
I know my agency went by the EO…but of course that was put in place by Trump. So yeah I guess anything could happen
These days Presidents can declare national emergencies if they lose their car keys.
HQs in DC may follow suit but the field was in full rebellion. During height of masking I think we had a decade dozen? But they were dedicated to themselves not the rule. No one switched, no one wore.
Of course TSA and pilots are a different story.
Er..no one switched on those that didn’t wear…I blame Elon
If RJ is around, I just noticed that The Apple is available on TubiTV.
OMG is it hilariously bad.
Zoom zoom zoom zoom
The world is in a mess
With politics and taxes
And people grinding axes
There’s no happiness
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Oliver Anthony is that you?
Deadhead and I are in there waiting on y’all.
I’m watching football with my honey.
Nice musical choice.
Grrr.
Someone just backed into a sign in front of my house and knocked it down. I don’t want some city busybody to blame me for it and present a bill. But there’s no info on how to report damage to city property on their darn website.
Advice as to which department to try to talk to? I just don’t want to be billed for some asshole’s bad driving.
Here it would be the Public Works Department.
That was my first guess. I just have no direct contact information foranything other than “Request a trash pickup” which they can bill you for.
“streets” or “transportation”?
Neither shows up as a department of the city.
File a police vandalism report?
I don’t talk to cops.
Do it in writing, leave it in a donut box.
I don’t suppose I would either if I lived behind enemy lines.
Location, location, location!
Less bruskly, I am loathe to get them involved in these sorts of things. I would have to tell them that I saw the car and that it has identifiable features. I just want to make the problem go away.
Call public works/roads dept phone number on Monday. Or the non emergency police dispatch line. Either one will take the report or refer you to the correct/specific dept. shit like that happens all the time, I wouldn’t give it a second thought about being pilled. Unless you live in Maoist China.
If you can’t find the number for either of those, call the main number for city hall or the mayors office.
Had he hunched his back, he might have survived.
BOOOOOO!
BIES!
Not quite Sugarfree level (good or bad?) – but a good effort: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/waiting-for-barack/
Also..Animal posted about Chinese fraud earlier – here’s a good update on the ridiculous flooding in China: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6MANCW9yWA&pp=ygUKQ2hpbmEgc2hvdw%3D%3D
Sorry for shitty link – having issues on phone.
I still have a standing prediction that when the Three Gorges fails, the CCP will fall.
That’s a When, not If.
Is there a summary that is less that 1’15”?
“China fakes a crapload of stuff, including the storm drains”
I can’t even imagine why they’re faking storm drains. Just typical commie shit?
Pretty much.
“Real drains are expensive, just put a grate in the ground, no one who matters will notice.”
Is that their version of the old Soviet “We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us”?
Swedish meatballs…just cannot get my grandma’s receipe down. Still good and tasty but hasn’t lit that nostalgia point. Yet.
Add more grandma.
I smirk at the Ikea Swedish Meatball fanbois.
Mine are miles better, but My Grandma was Dutch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUs5X9glCc
Surprised nobody else posted this yet.
I think he meant this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRgoxWap-M
I have been quoting that bit for years. Usually nobody gets/remembers it.
…which makes me sad.
Recipe from both, please.
I am amused at the Canadian government’s pleading for Meta to allow links from Canadian news organizations.
I knew about the removal, but didn’t know about the government whining.
That’s great.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/08/18/canadian-government-demands-facebook-and-instagram-lift-ban-on-canadian-news-amid-wildfires/?sh=1b9c7ea75a46
Back in tha’ (937) after a hellish week in (North) Las Vegas. Ive been told I ship out again on Monday for Dis-gusta, GA for the week.
whaddup doh’
tall tumbler
Enjoying a three-day weekend.
Whaddup? In too-local news, the better the weather, the worse folks in the Miami Valley drive.
On second thought, that’s not news.
I want to counter that argument with observing our fellow citizens in snow…..but we do seem to at least slow down for that.
I miss snow. Because the planet is cooking we haven’t had a proper snowfall here in NYC in… a couple years.
I can’t wait to see some real snow when I move north this year.
Whahappen and I are in the zooms…
I am lame. Just got back from the Texas Rangers game. Tired. I do miss all you folks on the Zoom.
Is there titties?
*whips off shirt*
*looks down, nods sadly*
#metoo
As a rule, I’m against breast reductions…unless it’s my own.
Just got back from a benefit for my wife’s cousin. It raised about $3100 for him. It was a fun day. This was one item we donated and it brought in $260. 🤑
Better pic
Better pic
👍👍
What did you use to do the cutting?
Plasma. I have this table with a Hypertherm plasma torch.
Well, that six grand got you some clean cuts.
Neither were that much when I bought them, but yeah, with the PC for the control and other miscellaneous items and consumables, I have close to 6k into it.
Am I supposed to feel bad about that? Not 100% sure where you were going with that comment.
Why would I be trying to make you feel bad?
I just spotted the price tag. I have no idea if that is cheap or expensive for plasma cutters.
Sorry. I’m drinking Irish whisky so…
The table is basically a well-equipped entry level table. Hypertherm is the top of the line plasma brand; this cutter is their entry level unit.
Sorry, just what you see here pal.
*golf clap*
Chain hooks? Love it!
Thanks! I’m proud of that touch. And it forced me to learn to use my new import TIG welder. It was fun.
Two thumbs up! I suck at welding.
Oh, I still suck at welding, too! Haha. But, I suck a little tiny bit less.
It’s a steeper learning curve, but so far I really like TIG. All the other welding types I know of seem sort of “violent”, if that makes sense…noise and sparks flying around. TIG is very quiet and very little sparks. Once I got into a groove welding those chain links, it was really fun and almost sort of relaxing.
Oh you made that?? Nice!
I did. Thanks.
Indeed, that’s a beautiful piece. Do you have to get permission/license from Harley if you were to sell stuff like that?
Can I commission a Rush sign?
No, I don’t…until I get the first Cease and Desist letter from their lawyers. 😉
Yes. You can. 🙂
Further proof we’re just in a simulation ran by someone with a sense of humor
https://www.reddit.com/r/TimDillonShow/comments/urb1rp/this_is_chrese_evans_a_51year_old_buddhist/
Her alternate career choice was working for the IRS.
lol
She’s obviously a very serious and committed person.
🙄
This wild blonde punk’s granddad was one of the most DANGEROUS dictators in the WORLD
While I doubt we’d want her in our little club, it sounds like maybe, just maybe, she isn’t all bad.
My grandda was Pol Pot.
Can I haz photospread?
I had a NCO in the Army who was Cambodian. His grandfather was a monk when Pol Pot took over. He said he converted with a quickness before fleeing the country.
I’m listening to a 9 hour interview with Your Movie Sucks – the guy who criticized The Drinker. It’s frustrating because while they slowly break down how stupid his criticisms are, they refuse to just call a spade a spade. The guy’s big issues with The Drinker are:
1. The politics. It’s the fucking politics. The guy is a little proggie dweeb who looks down on anyone who comes off as remotely right leaning.
2. Jealousy. The Drinker is actually influential and has developed real contacts in Hollywood.
It’s all background noise while I work out some kinks in my Firsting motions. I get why the interviewer doesn’t dive into the politics, but it’s frustrating. Let’s all just take the masks off. The ones who aren’t explicitly anti-woke at this point are left wing. That’s all that’s left. They won’t acknowledge it because it would show how cancerous their political beliefs are to everything they touch.
Mornin’
I wasn’t sure which music to link today, so I went with these old favorites:
Ultravox,
The world’s first synth-pop song
My anthem some (most) days.. Live. One of the two most beautiful drummers in rock (the other being Bill Bruford, who has aged much better than Mr. Cann)
Good morning!
*searches around kitchen for cofefe*
Good morning, Shirley, Ted’S., and NA!
It’s choral music morning here at Tranq Base, but I’ll pause Vox Choral on SXM’s Symphony Hall to give your selections a listen, Shirley. In return, I’ll share with you what VC is starting with this morning – a lovely piece by my favorite choral music conductor/composer, John Rutter. This performance is conducted by the composer himself in the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence: For your friend. (If you can’t spare the time for the entire piece, please at least listen through the Requiem aeternam.)
Alas, choral music leaves me cold. One of the very few genres/styles I’m deaf to 🙁
Y’all sleeping in apparently.
I was up 3 hours ago. Sitting down to start work now.
So I’m shitposting on glibs instead.
Well, it wasn’t really sleeping this morning…
Jerking off?