So sorry to disappoint you, but I’m standing in for Sugarfree today. His morning went off the rails.
Little known fact, but in his spare time Sugarfree runs a company renting bouncy castles to adults who have that particular, uhm, kink. Today started like any other day…his morning schedule was packed with back-to-back meetings and customer calls. But, this afternoon he’s busy with the all-important task of overseeing the installation of a bouncy castle.
But not just any bouncy castle. This is the Great Gigantic Gorilla: an inflatable Harambe bouncy castle. And the customer? The underground convention of the little-known PETA Adult Entertainment Union.
The InflatoHarambe bouncy castle is the perfect addition to this convention. Harambe’s air-filled vinyl portcullis raises up enough to get a camera crew and three OnlyFan girls inside.
This evening Sugarfree’s Harambe will be filled with those PETA activists who love animals just a little too much, and by the time dawn breaks, Sugarfree will be busy spraying the bouncy castle out with buckets and buckets of Purell.
Dems are delighted about “abortion rights” (God I hate that phrase)
Of course this British twat had to weigh in the other night before the election.
The majority of my search history starts with “can dogs eat…” and today that sentence is: can dogs eat almonds?
PETA is unhappy with someone who I think makes music.
“Virtually certain” that this year will be the warmest in history.
“I regret that I trapped butterflies who could fly freely in the sky” is perhaps my favourite phrase from the news this week.
Mormons are being sued for misappropriation of tithes.
The Unification Church in Japan set up a fund for their misappropriation relief.
Hope he is OK.
Steve is probably just hungover.
“PETA Adult Entertainment Union”
Those are scarier words than anything he’s written.
They’re called Furries.
SugarFree confirmed.
“It’s also high in fat, which isn’t the best for your dog.”
It’s the best source of calories.
“The Unification Church in Japan set up a fund for their misappropriation relief.”
I was remarking to a coworker this morning about this. The guy got exactly what he wanted when he assassinated Shinzo Abe. I never would have called it.
“Following reports that Pharrell Williams’ collection for Louis Vuitton includes a $1 million made-to-order crocodile-skin bag”
That’s ridiculous.
Not really, the crocodile was killed by Crocodile Dundee and he signed the bag.
“That’s not a bag.”
It also looks stupid.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12721251/Pharrell-Williams-slammed-bag-one-million.html
Because this makes sense. 🙄
All that potential wasted, those butterflies had turned their lives around and were about to start med school.
On the dog meme: When I put on my sneakers on, my dog will come running from a distant part of the house thinking he’s going to get a walk. Doesn’t matter the time of day. I don’t put on my sneakers very loudly.
He probably hears you singing “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.”
Leaving for work this morning, my dog had convinced himself that he was coming with me.
Our dog is very smart. Routine is key. If I grab my backpack and my lanyard, he knows its a work day and its just a quick outside job. If I wake up and never touch those items he knows its a weekend or non-work day. That said, WFH days screw him up.
My avatar would actually start hovering (bouncing back and forth from front to back) if I looked over and said “So whadda ya think?”
Pretty funny for a 165 pound dog to do.
Dangerous if you were in bare feet.
I have been saying for years that what makes the news and what does not fail to paint the picture of the state of our National Airway System. This doesn’t mean it isn’t the safest form of long-distance travel, it just means not everything is being elevated to make even page 40 of the NYT.
I am actually in the making of putting together a piece, that may or may not make its way to a news organization on just how bad the mismanagement is.
Some highlights:
– Technician personnel numbers are by far even worse than what that article states regarding controllers.
– We have been instructed to be selective on what test equipment we get calibrated cause of funding; test equipment we use to sign our damn name to a service saying it is certified for use in the system
– Spare parts are hard to come by, even harder for ‘lessor’ facilities that are not in the top 20 in terms of air traffic numbers. For instance, I cannot order spare parts at CVG, I need to beg from larger sites like Chicago or Lousiville.
For technicians, overtime has to be approved here at ‘smaller’ facilities. Otherwise, you are expected to just adjust your schedule and take time-differential as compensation. Do I need batteries for CMOS? Have to run that through three (3!) managers and have justification. While no forced OT for techs, if we are called back, we are expected to be able to get to work within our normal commute. No one is punished however if you are out of town on days off; just annoyance that you were not available.
I’m hearing the same in pretty much any field.
Like I found out that my town has half the cops it had in 2019. Response times are through the roof and oh, they can’t hire a police chief either.
Same with county EMTs.
The church doesn’t disclose details about its finances. It has denied the allegations that it committed fraud with its “sacred funds” or dipped directly into tithed funds or other pools of money received for charitable purposes to make investments.
This financial opacity has hurt the LDS church before. In February 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission found that Ensign Peak, the church’s investment arm, had failed to make required disclosures of its securities portfolio. The SEC fined the church and Ensign Peak a total of $5 million.
Were I a religious entity, and some government stooges decided to snoop around my finances absent probable cause, I’d be tempted to go all Elisha on them.
And why not. They have found a winning plank & it’s popular across all segments of the population except icky godbotherers. I didn’t see it coming myself but it’s pretty plain to see now.
SCOTUS did them a huge favor.
I wonder why they didn’t push that off to next year. It drove people to the polls. Its done, gone, no more. However I wouldn’t put it past dumbass Republicans to make it a deal in ’24
Ohio Republicans are already talking about working to repeal/revoke the new pro-abortion state constitutional amendment:
If the spread was 49/50 sure, go at it again. It was a double-digit loss. Do people not look at that? I know, wedge issue and all.
I think the Ohio law still prohibits abortion at a certain point. What the Reps need to do is not go crazy with the “no abortion for any reason” talk. Stop being the Mirror World Ralph Northam you idjits.
The state constitution was just amended. That’s what issue 1 was here. There are some restrictions they may still be able to put in place without repealing that amendment, but not much. There’s already talk of which laws to target first to overturn them with the new amendment (which takes effect in 30 days).
And the spread was 57/43, just about the same as the voting for recreational marijuana.
What the Reps need to do is not go crazy with the “no abortion for any reason” talk.
Why? To retain the lovable loser and occasional underdog status in an increasingly illegitimate and irrelevant process? At least they’re standing on principle for the first time in forever instead of throttling the train down to 60mph but leaving it pointed at the cliff at the end of the slippery slope, like they’ve been doing on every issue over the past 30 years.
If R’s want to make abortion a winning issue they need to change the culture to pro family. And that means taking control of the culture, and to do that they need to start winning elections and be seen as cool. Not as a bunch of losers.
Right now, abortion is costing them votes. Making them losers.
And that means taking control of the culture, and to do that they need to start winning elections and be seen as cool
I guess this is where we differ. I see all of that as wholly unachievable in the near and medium term, regardless of any particular policy stance. Maybe the elections thing on a limited basis, but even that is a stretch. We’re entering Progressive Era 2, post-truth Boogaloo.
The Bee thinks the GOP can win on abortion by being honest about it. Show one, say.
I dunno, maybe. But what they’re doing now obviously isn’t working. Absent some radical change, the GOP is never going to win outside of rednecklandia again.
If they cannot take control of culture, or at least turn the culture war into a stalemate, then they deserve to lose.
It has nothing to do with how I feel, but that is just the fact.
Now, on the other hand, no matter how you slice it, half the population is more conservative than the other half. And even if the D’s destroy the Republican party, those people will still be there. What issues will be important to them, I have no idea. But they are just waiting to have someone represent them. Abortion might completely go the D’s way, gun control might completely go the D’s way, but that means only that not enough people care about those two issues in the same way that many people here care about them. But those people will still be to the right of Dem politics, and will either form a new party, or drag the D’s to the right.
Yes, the Dems could fail in the same way, it is possible. But the left has something that everyone in warfare longs for; air superiority. And until the R’s have that back in a firm hand they are on the side of the losers.
I’m pretty shocked since this goes against a lot of the polling I had seen prior. *Sigh*
A: Polls are unreliable.
B: A hot button issue for one constituency in an off-year election will drive a skewed electorate to the polls.
C: We still haven’t cleaned up the fraud problem, so it’s unlikely any election reflects the will of the citizendry.
^^^
To point B, this is what happens when you indoctrinate 3 generations of women in feminism so deeply that obliterating the life in their womb is considered empowerment and carrying an unwanted baby to term is slavery.
Pints with Aquinas (on Locals and YouTube) has a really powerful interview with a former abortionist. It’s broken up into a number of smaller clips, and the one where he finally was confronted with his conscience due to a botched abortion had me misting in the eyes.
Is this where discuss atheists not having a moral platform to oppose abortion?
It can only be opposed for religious purposes just like rape.
On what basis then can we oppose ripping children apart for mocking a bald man?
I have a moral platform to oppose abortion. Abortion is, in the vast majority of cases, the worst of all solutions to a temporary problem. It is immoral. It is the killing of babies FFS.
Athiest does not equal amoral.
Talked about this earlier today…two kinds of people regarding Deus ex machina: First kind has a deep need for deus ex machina to appear and save the day…a savior. The second kind, not believing in magical saviors, realizes that if anyone is going to save the day they are going to have to do it themselves. The first kind comply with mask mandates. The second kind comply with the laws of that mean ass bitch Mother Nature and wear lots of scars.
This. And it’s not even that difficult to arrive at that conclusion.
Well, I made it to Cleveland ahead of schedule.
I’m unaccustomed to typing on this laptop keyboard, and miss my Model M.
*Looks North-ish*…hi!
I keep forgetting…you are at Florence* Intl Airport?
*it aint in Ohio, not giving an Ohio city credit.
Have fun with this:
CVG is named for Covington
It’s considered Cinncinatti International, even though it doesn’t reside in the city of Cinncinatti.
The control tower is actually in Erlanger
The bid for the job was Hebron
The airport mostly resides in Florence.
Most FAA maps actually put it in Ohio.
“Most FAA maps actually put it in Ohio.”
I hope that doesn’t interfere with plane landing.
At least the place has some cool steamboat models. And currently a really cool display of Crosley automobiles.
Heh. Okay not aeronautical maps, but for instance:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Uch2ZORGvM/T-FJa61Lp6I/AAAAAAAAA-I/63NCx9meyeA/s1600/dl_cvg.jpg
Oh good grief.
Its not as easy as Mississippi, but that was bad.
Cincinnati…spell checker didn’t catch it and I don’t care.
Just say Cincy.
Bill Bryson says he was hired at The Times as a youngster because he could reliably spell Cincinnati.
cin-cin-nati
Yeah, I was going to call it Covington Intl first, because of the CVG, but screw that, its in Florence, yall*.
*I remember when the water tower actually said FLORENCE MALL. But they stopped paying for the advertising and the M got changed to a Y. Its been that way for 35ish years now.
Sitting in the Outback inside CVG years ago looking out over the parked planes, you could see all the normal planes and then way out by itself was a 747. Looking more closely, it was …. odd. Like white with minimal livery (some combo of red/green/black stripage). And the leading edges of the wings and the cowlings were very polished, and maybe even chromed. And the only writing was “United Arab Emirates”. Not Emirates Air, but the country name.
So asked a waiter the story, and he said there was a big equestrian thing in KY, and that’s how the sheik hauled his horses. Said the inside of the plane was allegedly all in high-class stables and horse-support functions, and they’d trailered like 24 horses away from the plane.
Not a 747, but you would see his plane parked at Lexington airport all the time, when an event was going on at Keeneland across the street.
Yeah, I wonder what equestrian event is in NKY. Turfway Park wouldn’t be prestigious enough for that.
He has a 787 now, currently having its toilets and tray tables gilded in Bumfuck, E. WA.
I’m unaccustomed to driving for 7ish hours since my last road trip more than a year ago.
I-90 is as boring as ever, but for some reason they’re still doing road work even though the season is supposed to have switched over to winter.
I-64, from one end to the other, is the least interesting interstate in existence.
It’s not the one between me and most of the country.
I-70 from Topeka to Denver laughs at your silly assertion.
I-77 in Akron will forever have construction I think. I don’t recall in my lifetime driving that it hasn’t been under construction.
“Mormons are being sued for misappropriation of tithes”
It doesn’t sound like the plaintiffs have any chance of winning this. Probably just a fishing expedition being orchestrated by someone else?
Off year elections have very low turnouts. This allows a small group of zealots to control the outcome of an election. This is why activists work their butts off to schedule votes for their pet projects in off year elections.
Just saw the lunch links..have we reached the point where we are doing clip shows?
The Jesus/Ice Cube meme…ya..whataboutit! Except now I have hardwood floors and my anal-retentiveness has kicked in.
I dropped a battery pack the other day and it put a gouge into my floors. Every time I see it, I feel my shame.
Links A and B. I hate that nonsensical phrase and also that mealy mouthed fuck.
C. Instantly pops in. my head “If they can’t eat it or fuck it they’re gonna piss on it” – My Grandfather on why he had no dog.
D. Peta engages in histrionics, example 577,341,985
E. 1934 waves. We were predicted to have rain today. It is dry as a bone out there….
F. Every species of moth or butterfly has some plant species they have developed a symbiotic relationship with. Got a plant? It has insecticides in its metabolism but there is one species that has developed immunity. For the passionflowers I plant that species is an orange butterfly that lays copious numbers of eggs on the new, tender leaves. The caterpillars quickly grow fat to about the size of your pinky finger. They will strip the vines of all leaves and flowers in two days if left uncontrolled. I bought myself a Red Ryder BB gun so I can sit confortably on the back porch and pluck the little buggers off of the vines. A little practice and I got where I can splatter them without damaging the vines.
It is fun and I do not regret nor apologize for it.
G and H. Churches misappropriating funds? Imagine my shock upon learning this. Shocked I tells ya’!
“Luana Andrade, 29, dies after liposuction on her knee: Brazilian influencer suffered four cardiac arrests”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12725223/Luana-Andrade-dead-liposuction-knee.html
On her knee?
The knee is not renown for being a reservoir of fat.
Perhaps there was some other medical condition that caused thigh fat to slip down into the joint area?
Article pictures do not indicate the sort of person who would medically need such a procedure. So… “I don’t like how the knee looks, I want it to be more bony”?
Those knees were fat as fuck. Sounds completely unrelated unless on the table she had complications.
From the article it says the procedure led to thrombosis which triggered an embolism, all while she was under for the surgery.
In short… blood clots.
Was she vaxxed?
Nobody ever had surgery related blood clots before the Covid vaccine. It is known.
From the photos she doesn’t look like she had fat knees.
Pays to be a celebrity to get to push to the news what your cause of death was.
“Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina blamed the death of his friend Luana Andrade on ‘Instagram and in the media’ for constantly displaying photos of women seeking perfect bodies.”
Uh, wasn’t that her thing?
I like the smoke machine meme.
Huh… just the other day I couldn’t decide between “semitruck” and “tractor trailer”.
I’ve heard all three in common use. Not sure where that geographic map came from.
This is pop/coke/soda argument isn’t it?
Welcome to pop country.
Idaho is pop country if I remember, Ill survive
Don’t be silly, there is no argument, the only correct answer is Soda.
I’ve crossed the line so many times I’m considering going with “soda pop” from now on.
Stay gold, Pony Boy.
I need to watch that again, it’s been too long.
It’s not often that every hot young male in Hollywood winds up in the same film.
See Rob Lowe’s memoir for details: I suppose the first one.
Soda pop is not an uncommon term here.
Usually it is ‘coke’, but soda pop is used also.
Soda pop works best. Coke works too like Clorox or Charmin or Dawn, you know what people are talking about.
Coke is the correct answer.
But I don’t live in Atlanta.
The dividing line is similar too.
tractor trailer — four syllables
eighteen wheeler — four syllables
semi — two syllables
nuff said.
uw0tm8?
Big Rig.
Acceptable
Truck
Growing up in various places I am okay with calling it: tractor-trailer, big-rig, truck, 18 wheeler, semi, BAT, ITGF?,…
Articulated Lorry.
I was in logistics long enough to have to switch between the three depending on who I was talking too.
“Hillary Clinton compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on The View and claims re-electing former president would lead to ‘the end of our country as we know it’
During an appearance on The View, Clinton accused Trump of wanting to throw opponents in jail and shut down a free press if he regains the White House.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12726353/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-Adolf-Hitler-View-Nazi.html
Oh, fuck off.
So, she’s endorsing his run?
Continuing from this morning…. Trump is literally Hitler, will kill millions and end democracy, but it’s crazy to think anyone cheated in an election to stop him.
And criminally charging someone for saying they lost a rigged election is totally not what someone who rigged an election would do…
The projection is strong here.
To the moon.
So, giver her the old Jackie Gleason treatment? “To the Moon, Cankles!”
Why I oughta..or was that something else?
*taps nose*
I still remember when Disney fired someone for daring to compare democrats to Hitler
Never heard that. Don’t doubt it, but do you have a source?
I think he is referring to Gina Carano?
It would be Gina Carano yes.
I would Gina Carano, also…
What were we talking about?
I do like the strong silent type.
She didn’t compare Democrats to Hitler, she said you shouldn’t hate people and try to destroy them over political differences because that eventually leads to really bad things like the holocaust. Which makes her a nazi or something.
Otoh her costar Pedro Pascal did say Republicans are Nazis, but that’s fine.
Well that’s how they tell it. You can decide for yourself.
wanting to throw opponents in jail and shut down a free press
Irony, thy name is Hillary.
Not mentioned: Her boss was fine with using the IRS against political enemies, siccing the FBI on a Presidential candidate from the opposing party, denying disfavored media outlets access to press briefings, etc.
I had the misfortune of watching that episode this morning and I was loudly incredulous.
Jesus, I can’t imagine that kind of torture.
Q: Who is the evilest most repugnant pol alive today?
Me, afteer pondering for 1/1000000 second: “Hillary Clinton. Hands down, no one else even close.”
Now that the mortgage is “satisfied” I received the first tax bill. The county sent notices before but this time I have to write a check.
You were paying it all along, so it’s bound to be lower than the mortgage, only it’s not hidden by escrow.
Not as hidden is the thing. It was all escrowed as part of PITI. I received notices for tax and insurance (not a bill, no funds due). Now it is a bill. Like income taxes. It would be more noticeable if you had to write a check.
I’ve been paying property taxes directly since the first refi.
Congrats! 🎉
I seem to remember reading books about dinosaurs where much of the earth looked a lot warmer than it is now.
shhhhhhh
we gonna die!
Earth is never changing and our small period here is what it is supposed to be!
Where I live it used to be hot and full of dinosaurs, then there was a huge glacier, but now the climate has settled down and it shouldn’t change anymore, except for the influence of man.
Also we are expected to hit another ice age in the next few thousands years and it will suck ass.
See? The dinosaurs didn’t take global warming seriously either, and now they’re all dead.
yup. Mostly because the world got much colder and the atmosphere had less co2 for a larger ecosystem to support giant reptiles.
Wait a second…
Sorry, did I say global warming? I meant climate change.
Excellent rebranding.
Regarding the “What we haul freight in” heat map:
– I’ve always thought those were entertaining. We even use them as ice-breaker things at work sometimes. NYT did a predictive one that asked you a bunch of questions and then predicts where you’re from.
– This truck one is a new one to me, but being from Georgia it’s dead right that we (nearly alone among US-ians, evidently) don’t use any one single word for this. I’ve never been tri-lingual before.
There’s one phrase that I love that specifically identifies you as being from the Akron area. Their name for the bit of lawn between the sidewalk and the street (which you have to maintain, but the city has control over) is a devil’s strip.
That’s a Margin.
Silly Akronites.
There’s one in Alabama that’s “the devil is beating his wife”. It refers to rain while the sun’s shining. Apparently some people call it a “sunshower” – I’d never ever heard either term. After coming across it in one of those quizzes I asked a friend about it (his parents grew up there) and he was “oh, I’ve heard that all my life”.
Sounds Irish in origin, and might well be.
Devil beating his wife….same thing here.
You’re really missing out if you’ve never heard of a sunshower
Ugh I’ve seen reports on this.
I don’t have a word for that.
The wife, who is from Michigan, uses that term.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1722337916653912095?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Seems like Lindsay doesn’t realize that Second World originally meant Communist.
And it’s looking like fourth world it is…
I wouldn’t pay a million dollars for a whole crocodile.
I would for a psychic crocodile who knew the winning lottery numbers.
This is why I don’t have a million dollars…
And why I ended up with some magical beans that traded for the cow.
Lucky Find at Auction Identifies Man on Cover of ‘Led Zeppelin IV’
https://media1.tenor.com/images/9111e06d08aa93608d5a8c5efffe3ef3/tenor.gif?itemid=16193354
Which scenario is better?
1. Our elections are clean and the people are stupid and the Republicans are terrible?
2. Our elections are rigged and people are just fine with it?
Our elections are rigged, the people are stupid and fine with it, and Republicans are terrible.
Lol! Probably the true situation.
The rodent gets it.
Which is better
1. Raped then murdered
2. Murdered then raped
SIX OF ONE, HALF DOZEN OF OTHER
Why not both? What if people are
stupidbad citizens for a variety of reasons, Republicans suck and are good only in contrast to the Democrats, the election process is rigged in multiple ways to ensure the elites get the result they want, and people are fine with it either because it benefits their team or because it shatters their state worshipping religion.I think most voters only had a pretty shallow understanding of Ohio’s abortion law but that abortion is generally popular.
The rest of last night’s results were neither unexpected nor all that meaningful.
Naturally, the problem is Google Maps.
Although to be fair they don’t seem to fix mistakes despite lots of feedback.
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2023/11/07/hiker-follows-google-maps-to-steep-cliffside-and-gets-stranded-in-canada-rescuers-say
Reminds me of that The Office episode where they drive into the lake because the nav system told them to.
Evolution bumblefucks around and arrives at the correct decision every time. No reason it should stop now. The real question is ‘Did this man reproduce yet?”
I have no problem with defectives being removed from the gene pool by natural causes, stupidity being a natural cause.
Like a paper map, you should only reference it. If your head is down (which makes no sense if you walked off a cliff or cliffside), you aren’t really enjoying nature.
Many years ago we were following Google Maps instructions to the trailhead for Caminito del Rey in Spain (https://www.caminitodelrey.info/en/), and the road was getting ever narrower, ever bumpier and ever more overgrown. Finally my wife convinced me to turn around. Google probably would have gotten us there, but we would have been on the wrong side of the river.
Google Maps claimed that the train station in a largish village near Palermo was in a completely wrong place.
I’ve noticed that accuracy has taken a hit since leaving NYC.
As in, businesses marked on the wrong building and such. They’re probably depending a lot on folks to report shit and it’s just not happening as much in less-populated areas.
Yeah, I stopped used google maps for similar reasons. No, I didn’t almost go off a cliff, but it kept trying to get me to driver over a foot bridge, things like that.
Ban tires
The 13 largest U.S. tire manufacturers are facing a lawsuit from a pair of California commercial fishing organizations that could force the companies to stop using a chemical added to almost every tire because it kills migrating salmon.
Also found in footwear, synthetic turf and playground equipment, the rubber preservative 6PPD has been used in tires for 60 years. As tires wear, tiny particles of rubber are left behind on roads and parking lots, breaking down into a byproduct, 6PPD-quinone, that is deadly to salmon, steelhead trout and other aquatic wildlife when rains wash it into rivers.
“This is the biggest environmental disaster that the world doesn’t quite know about yet,” said Elizabeth Forsyth, an attorney with the environmental law firm Earthjustice, which is representing the fishing groups. “It’s causing devastating impacts to threatened and endangered species.”
The Institute for Fisheries Resources and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Wednesday against Goodyear, Bridgestone, Continental and others.
So deadly nobody even noticed.
I wish the world would quit ending. It keeps doing this shit over and over and now I have lost count how many times. Cut that shit out gaya, it gets very tiresome after a while.
It’s as if the church has NEVER had its tithes questioned before! *gasp*
I’ve talked about this before, but the church’s real asset is its lay clergy, and when you’re an active member, you’re clergy by default. The church wouldn’t be nearly somrich if it were paying all those people.
The worst thing is when the church turns the ipad around during presentation of the gifts and the default value is 20%.
I ORDERED TAKEOUT!
I’m sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians but wearing masks in November 2023…
Those figures come exclusively from Hamas.
I wonder what the actual figures are.
Probably still high but notice no news reports on the figures of the Oct 7th events. Those don’t count. Its all fucked up.
There is no excuse for what is happening there to be tearing apart my country. I blame the fucking media.
Trashy’s TMITE live on.
This is something Trashy and I absolutely agree on.
Bear in mind, the highly suspect count of deaths by Hamas almost certainly includes armed soldiers shooting at Israelis.
I suspect the values Hamas reports to be highly inflated as part of a concerted propaganda effort.
if the numbers aren’t high enough they will be happy to go out and machine-gun their own people to prop up the narrative.
Seeing libertarians complain about masks is pretty funny. I thought they wanted to change the social norms of America?
“Welcome to Non Sequitur Theater.”
Normally I enjoy your questioning of assumptions, Winston, but that is just pathetic.
Eh I posted yesterday Don Boudreaux bemoaning how the likes of Sohrab Ahmari want to keep us in “the vice-grip of tradition” yet when the traditional social more of not wearing masks was undermined Boudreaux (and Ahmari too) was unhappy.
Did you see my response?
I think the masks are about, “I’m down with the cause, but I don’t want anyone identifying me.”
I think you’re right.
That’s for college campus rabble, for sure.
Here, in front of the Capitol, I think it’s just lefty social signaling. Everybody knows who they are.
By those numbers…..ehhhhh…..a decent start.
https://www.aier.org/article/witnessing-lithuanias-1991-fight-for-freedom-from-soviet-power/
I found this comment from an article about Lithuania’s attempt to secede from the USSR very revealing.
How many people today would do that? Lithuanians had a heavy dose of nationalism back then. The classical liberals of old and the socons of today have a heavy dose of religious fanaticism. And many natcons and populists of today do have a heavy dose of religious fanaticism aa well.
We saw thus with Covid: many so-called libertarians and classical liberals went along with it since there was no way our elites would do something so damaging and the cost-benefit analysis seemed to justify it.
And what are the cost-benefit analysis of being a dissident in China right now? Lose your job, your home and might end up in prison?
There is high demand for AI talent in finance and other industries, but I wonder if you are this specialized will it transfer at the same comp?
Crisis At Cruise: Robotaxi CEO Confirms Coming Layoffs Amid Scramble To Rebuild Public Trust
Tech people are something else. They recorded an internal meeting and released it publicly. That kind of shit makes you both get prosecuted and be unemployable in my industry. It also runs afoul of a bunch of securities laws, but again fucking tech people get magic breaks here too.
If that designer had used flies and cockroaches PETA wouldn’t have said a thing.
What is PETA’s stance on the most deadly creature known to humans, the mosquito? Squash them? Love them? Invite them into your home? I mean your stance is the ethical treatment of animals and all that.
Just the cute ones.
Pigs aint cute. They wallow in their own shit.
Clean ones with the little curly tails are cute.
Disagree
They are cute as hell when they are young. They are smarter than the average human. Make pretty decent pets. They also wallow in mud….not their own shit. They will stink a place up badly but the wallow in own shit thing is a myth. Humans on the other hand….
I stand corrected…I was trying to find one of PETA’s favorites that were really not that adorable. Chickens maybe? They are assholes from what I remember on the farm when feeding them.
Not just assholes….idiots. Stereotypes dont exist for no reason. ‘Chicken’ is a euphemism for coward. ‘Bird brain’ means moron.
Chickens are barely sentient creatures. Stimulus response machines much like earth worms or fish.
Fun idea. Spend a bit and make ads for “save the Cockroaches,” and “Roaches have feelings.”
Tell people rather than kill their roaches, they should mail them to PETA.
My bacon sandwiches are very cute.
Also delicious.
PETA….PETA….PETA….where have I heard that name before?
Oh yeah, that’s the bunch that was caught driving around taking donations and dogs they promised to re-home. Instead they were putting the dogs in their van, putting them into a grass sack and smashing their skulls with a hammer. I remember them now.
They came to Toledo Bend once and tried to stop bass fishing. They would go out on the lake and disturb fishermen. They left after only one day because their boats kept sinking. Apparently people were sniping at them from both Texas and Louisiana with their deer rifles.
FIRSTERS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES…
I called Skyline Chili, Italian-style mole and people looked at me weirdly. I brought in a homemade chili made from actual chilies and cooked for hours and they were like “what is that?” Fuck even Hormel chili is more chili than the crap they serve here.
+1 egg noodles with ketchup
(Sorry to hear that, seriously! Just gently tutor your new neighbors in the ways of righteousness.)
I dont even know what you are referring to.
I have seen some dishes made in indescribably awful ways almost on par with that but….*shivers*
You
Italian style mole…as I said. Too lazy to make a good meat sauce or too impatient to make a mole, so they just did that. All on top of spaghetti noodles.
And, ideally, topped with a mountain of finely-shredded cheese.
I like Skyline. It’s fast food, without pretensions to haute cuisine.
I just cannot do it. Im not trying to knock those that like it cause food is what food is to a person or region. I just don’t get it.
::shrugs:: I rag on Starbucks, so fair is fair. Chacun a son gout. (I don’t know how to do all the diacritical marks.)
On another note all household goods are here. I will shower my peeps with cured and smoked meats, chilis, actual Mexican foods (I was graced with receipes from my ex-mother in-law) and of course, my own version of a ‘sorry your family member died’ casserole.
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Fast food is good now and then, sure. If you tell anyone I confessed to this I will call you a liar, but I did recently eat a BK fish sandwich.
If you have the steam at the end of the day and a little motivation there is no such thing as haute cuisine.
It is just too easy to acquire the ingredients and toss them together over a fire.
*country fried steak fingers are on my list of to-do soon. That and a nice gravy.*
Cajun dirty rice:
1lb ground beef
1/2 large sweet onion, chopped finely
1 sweet bell pepper chopped 1/4 by 1/4
1 cap full of kitchen bouquet
1 cube beef bouillon
1 lb giblets ( Savoie’s dressing mix)
*toss all in a pan and fry until beef is cooked, do not drain
1 cup rice
2 cups water
2-3 table spoons butter
2 cubes chicken bouillon
1 hefty dash of sweet basil
*microwave cooker on high 15 minutes
*toss in a hefty dash each of granulated garlic, finely ground cayenne*
*mix all together and then mix in 1 cup of chopped green onion tops*
I made some of that for a couple of my immigrant neighbors recently. They fled Texas and Utah, respectively
Now they are clamoring for more. “I was just going to use it as a side but goddamned, I just couldn’t quit once I started on it. I ate just the rice as a whole meal. ”
No shit bruh…I will make more.
Mrs. Prole: “Whatcha doing?”
Me: (sighting down a painted canvas I’m slowly applying varnish to): “I’m literally watching the equivalent of paint drying”
Mrs. P: “Wow. We’re THAT exciting?”