It’s mid-Hanukkah here, candles have been lit, latkes have been made, heartburn has been delivered. The one thing missing is snow- it was in the 50s yesterday, and at a wine event, Tomb Raider and I actually sat outside to drink. I don’t know whether to blame COVID, Global Warming, or the International Zionist Conspiracy. Hmmm, maybe I’ll just blame Trump. No matter, we’re playing Strip Dreidel (“A great miracle happened here”) and pounding kosher wine.
So as (((we))) celebrate, there’s the usual quota of birthdays today including a guy who never spoke up; a guy who should have been the star of Hamilton; some overwrought chick; a guy who was always on the brink; a welcome addition to any road trip; a guy most famous for falling down a well; an actual pioneer of comedy; a guy who set an example for all Illinois politicians and hair weave distributors; and a fabulously overrated hack cook and asshole.
With that, we’ll Link.
It’s always nice to be sniffed at by a retarded Canadian. To be honest, I didn’t even know that this guy was still alive.
Maybe, just maybe, they’re starting to get the idea.
Maybe, just maybe, they’re starting to get the idea. Well, Bok doesn’t, but at least he’s gone too.
Vielleicht, nur vielleicht, fangen sie an, die Idee zu kommen.
“Mommy, where do Progressives come from?”
When I saw the headline, I guessed “Chipotle.”
The Old Man loves this song, and this may be the second best cover of it. Which ain’t bad considering the best was Leo Kottke…
Woman rushes into her doctor’s office. “Doctor, can I get pregnant from anal sex?”
“Of course, where do you think progressives come from?”
Winning.
Seconded.
Given the cadence of her poetry (Yellow Rose of Texas anyone?), have to wonder if she was just 150 or so years ahead of her time and she should have / could have been a pop song writer and performer with more depressing lyrics.
Now we know what would have happened if T-Swizzle was born too early, I suppose.
Morning all!
If that doesn’t work, I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad will.
The proto-Alanis Morissette? (Open to other suggestions – there are so many.)
whaddup doh’
Good morning, homey! Church or shooting with v. 2.0 today?
Are the best latkes made from shredded potatoes or from “leftover” mashed potatoes?
I won’t ask “served with applesauce or sour cream?” because the correct answer is obviously “both!”
Shred, rinse, squeeze as much water out as possible.
âapplesauce or sour creamâ
The correct answer is âloxâ
They are called hash browns and the only proper sauce for them is ketchup. Served with bacon.
I know, I would make a terrible Jew.
Anyone who puts ketchup on breakfast, hell, anything really, deserves their fate, as they have brought destruction down upon them.
Catsup is good on cold meatloaf sammiches, and on…. that’s about it.
So you put what on your fries – mayo?
Look, there are a lot of weirdos around these parts. It takes some gettin’ used to.
Malt vinegar.
Gravy (various kinds), curry mayo, pindasaus (peanut sauce), vinegar and salt, ketchup . . . the possibilities are endless, really . . .
Potatoes are really good with all kinds of stuff.âSadly, they are also carbs, and bad for my waistline and the generation of epic farts.âSo I avoid.
Now I haz a sad.
Dijonnaise
Mustard. The correct answer is mustard.
Unless by ketchup you mean the Southern liquid seasoning called BBQ sauce, I’m regretfully going to have to repo your Secret Southern Decoder Ring, sir. đ
One would think CNN would be praying for it to try to get some semblance of ratings back.
None of the idiot leftists who are supposedly terrified that Trump will never relinquish power after a potential second term cannot in any way articulate how that might happen. They know it’s an irrational and unfounded fear, but they’re putting it out anyway because otherwise people will look at important shit like the economy.
And they secret dream of such a situation. Article fodder forever!
I expected that link to be about David Suzuki.
That would be a nice miracle for the holiday season (if the Palestinians realized that their government locked them into a losing war and was stealing food, power, medicine and everything else from them and then did something about it). Given human history, you realize why I called it “a miracle” — but one can always hope.
So, like Russia in 1917?
And that is how we get ants commies!
Slight tag fail there.
I wonder if the media will ever realize how much they’ve worn out the “far-right” label especially when it comes to European politics. I doubt it.
I nearly tapped out when the article called the party the “so-called Alternative for Germany”.
That sounds as logical as going after Hooters and/or strip clubs for not hiring the retirees Walmart doesn’t need for greeters anymore.
Which means I fully expect that to be next from PPP admin lunatics.
LOL the outfit that moved me upstate is called “College Hunks”. Nobody tell Uncle Joe.
OFFS!! The whole point of a moving company is you want young, fit people doing it. If I wanted “older workers” I would have done it myself.
these things are less about who you hire and more about who you announce you are going to hire
check out the Hooters home page: doesn’t talk about hot girls at all; indeed, here’s their rainbow, all are welcome to apply, graphic
Morning Glibs
I see Google Translate still needs work.
zOMG they want to take Germany back to the 1980s. ThE hOrRoR!
You just want them to bring back Sprockets, don’t you?
That would be taking the U.S. back to the late 80s/early 90s. Also not a terrifying prospect.
Now is the time on Glibertarians when we DANCE!
Touch my monkey! Feel it… LOVE IT!
ChatGPT does better Japanese.
Give it a try on German.
a guy who never spoke up;
Happy birthday Harpo Marx!
A. Key observation – The corrupt, incompetent establishment is going after Trump tooth and nail. They are not going after any of the other R candidates in the same way because Trump is a threat to them in ways that the others are not.
An older relative of mine told me yesterday he might vote for Biden. I told him I would sue if he did. Sue for what you ask? Stewardship, as that would be proof he is not competent to manage his own affairs.
B. Reality always wins. Create a murderous, evil regime and it will meet the same end as all of the murderous, evil regimes of the past have.
C. It is stunning to me that we have come to this point.
D. Right wing extremism will no doubt lead to murering the Jews. Oh wait, it is the leftists calling for that just like it was last time.
E. Does this mean I won’t be able to hire the nude maids to clean my house anymore?
F. Ok, that’s not creepy at all. Nope, not one bit. *shivers*
G. Meh. We have found oodles of pregnant or full bellied critters fossilized. Interesting but not really news.
Now see, I can do my part to help Israel. That little cutie in the hat looks like she needs a good poke. Keep up morale and all that…
At least, for once, the girl with her top off is the one you want to have her top off.
Astute observation.
I’m pretty sure my wife would be mad at me if I violated neutrality on that front. But you have fun probing her flanks (or is that her battling your bulge?)
Tell your wife that we all have to make sacrifices in this struggle .
They are Jews, so the proper term is “burying the brisket.”
Disregarding Leviticus, apparently.
Those tats arenât kosher, for sure.
Bad jewess, bad! She must be punishedâŠ. A spanking, perhaps.
Guy in front has quite the hamantasch.
It’s only the inauguration of The Great Latin Libertarian Hope today. NBD.
i think he will be defeated by the system, the deep state, the swamp, whatever. this is what happened in romania to anyone who tried real reform.
All those Gadsden flags in the crowd…đ„Č
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https://ibb.co/Sy7sRWw
That mfer is there? Ugh
I understand about every 5th word of Spanish….I need to find an English captioned version of his speech,
Daily ray of sunshine (got the substack edition in my email this morning): https://twitter.com/NoJesuitTricks/status/1733777388545478965?t=-RN2qfYBeZ3i7EiCIX3yPg&s=19
How can I be a curmudgeon with people like you around? Ruined my week end
Damn this dusty house….
Bah Humbug!
I think it is a made up story.
the Goldman Sachs alum would be the first far-right politician to lead Germany since the end of the Nazi era.
Of course they had to get a Nazi reference in there along with the lie that Hitler was right wing. Hitler was a man of the Left.
But he was anti-commie! QED
That is why they hate him so much.
meh the whole hitler was left or right debate is pointless, depends omn the definitions and the definitions have no real meaning. left or right is murky anyways.
that being said, national socialists were not socialists. but antifa is anti fascist, it is after all in the name
Rainer Zitelmann says hi.
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Hellfire and damnation… had a surprise work issue pop up distracting me this morning… I’ll try to get to this at some point today.
Sick in bed all day. The opener might be it for today.
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latkes have been made – are those good for cholesterol?
If you do them right, yes. Olive oil.
are those different from hashbrowns?
Not very. Latkes incorporate eggs while HBs don’t.
(((they))) only added the egg so they can overcharge for the things
Isnât the smoke-point of olive oil too low for proper frying?
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 â September 10, 1851[1]) was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal. When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the “Connecticut Asylum (at Hartford) for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons,” but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf.
the orginal name was way more metal
Working my way through The Princes in the Tower, which purports to examine Edward V’s and Richard, Duke of York’s disappearance methodically like a police cold case. Early on yet, but a couple of observations:
1. Them Brit royals keep using the same names over and over again, which makes it confusing.
2. Them Brit royals also have too many titles, and the convention of referring to them by their titles is also confusing. Took me way too long to figure out that references to “Gloucester” were talking about The Artist Subsequently Known As Richard III.
3. This whole distant(ish) cousin-marrying (or cousin’s widow-marrying) makes the otherwise helpful family trees hard to follow.
Blackadder season 1 shows what really happened in those times.
Are the family trees round as wreaths, or straight as telephone poles?
Depends on whether you are talking about the distaff side or not.
fabulously overrated hack cook and asshole
So you are disappointed with the premise of Beat Bobby Flay?
I was thinking Throwdown since the BBF judges tend to be Bobby’s friends… Throwdown at least had him going around the country a bit and had the normal folks judging (iirc).
I don’t doubt Bobby is more of an asshole than his TV persona (frankly, the type of person with the drive to get on TV probably needs an asshole streak), and I think he over uses chiles in his default mode — but the man does have skills. Whether that makes him overrated I suppose depends on who is rating him and how highly. đ
I don’t get the hate for Guy Fieri either, but boy are there ever people that hate him.
Because he looks like he smells bad
lol
Too many cranium accessories, as Mitch Hedberg would say.
It just sounds rude to the Spousal Unitâą and I / me / (whatever).
No, it is not hilarious.
Gwendolin and Jeremy made a 180 mile round trip for this, paid for tickets and were thrown out, rendering the whole exercise useless.
We are trying to save the planet, why would people want to stop us??
Stupidity, thatâs why.
https://twitter.com/LeonardBriscoe3/status/1733171229815648444
it kind of ruins it when parody accounts need to say parody
What the hell is up with these protesters/glue afficionados wearing safety vests? Is it supposed to protect them from angry mobs?
I’m surprised they aren’t wearing face masks.
Those orange jackets….made from oil.
Re Pie
You are correct. Now and then I fall in the trap of using labels. They are all nonsense and gibberish.
The dividing line is between individualists and collectivists. The labels are meant to allude to one side or the other of that line. Very often they are meant to deceive.
Essentially there are those rare individuals that bleev in inalienable rights and everyone one else. I dont care what flavor of collectivist shit one is…socialist, communist, fascist, progressive, etc. The term conservative is supposed to mean, or allude to, a person who conserves the values and ideas of the enlightenment and the American founders. Republicans purport to be the party representing that. They are anything but. It is one of those labels calculated to deceive.
there is also a flavor of communitarian conservative that i dislike, though not as much as the others mentioned
Since the mention of progressives, this is timely.
The whole thing is as usual an excellent read.
source of all legitimacy
when I was a kid I noticed the American failing of kowtowing to presidents and governors in that regal, old-world way; particularly offensive: BSA having a “charter” from the government. Praise be to Wilson, good sirrah, we will now continue construction of the legitimatized organization under the happy umbrella of your blessing!
Fecking NRA was off the rails from the git go: After being granted a charter by the state of New York on November 17, 1871, the NRA was founded.
The NRA was apparently as aimless as that link.
https://home.nra.org/about-the-nra/
It’s not kowtowing. It’s legal establishment of an entity as opposed to just a group of people.
Bavarian Schweinshaxe, probably the best German food you can get
https://twitter.com/buhashee/status/1733135852497150221
That doesnt say much for German food. yikes.
you can do a lot worse than fatty pork with crispy skin… with some sauerkraut it aint bad
better that eating okra anyway đ
Well, to be fair, anything is better than okra. Rocks, dirt, cheese, all better.
are you an anticheesite? cause those people need hangin
pro tip : Put plenty of bacon or ham hocks or pork neck bones in okra. Eat the little fingerling okra.
That, sir, is a waste of good pork!
Deep-fried, cornmeal batter. Serve with ranch dressing.
Serve with ranch dressing. – no
Well, in a restaurant you’d probably be given a side of the stuff.
Ranch dressing? I did not know that swill is even legal.
We use that around here. Ham hocks are commonly cooked with beans or greens of some sort. I like them just fine. I also have been known to make gravy with beer.
I just dont consider that a top-tier food and the claim is that that is the best the krauts have to offer.
Yesterday I wrapped up some taco seasoned beef with a ton of sharp cheddar melted into it in wonton wrappers, fried them crispy golden brown.
I gave some to neighbors. They were a big hit. Not a gourmet dish but damned good finger food.
German food aint ht e best… or dutch food… most like all Nordic stuff… the good foods bits touch the Mediterranean
The effect of adding together normal distributions is unintuitive.
If there’s a 1 d difference between two groups with equal variances, you might think the result would be a bimodal distribution.
You would be wrong.
Shortđ§”
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1733600038339641548
Hell — if we want to share math that is counterintuitive until you think it through — this was pretty good along with pointing out why sidereal time is important (non-astronomer, obviously).
a once-taboo style of identitarian politics to take it mainstream
Bwhahaha – the taboo is that it is only to be used by one side of the political equation. The fools actually believe it shouldn’t and can’t be turned back against them.
Big titty babes for a Happy Hanukkah Slutty Sunday!
https://archive.is/UehBP
Even on strict diet, one enjoys looking at the menu on Slutty Sunday, Motorboating Monday, Titty Tuesday, etc.
If this is your biggest ethical concern with this war you need a reality check.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-776920
How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama
https://twitter.com/amazingmap/status/1733594492974842118
we rate this post TRUE
of course the Delta is alluvial, but if you plot which counties in MS vote Dem in presidential campaigns, it’s basically a map of where the best places to grow cotton were/are
TN has a tri-star on our flag: it’s three places, I don’t care what they tell you those stars stand for (four if you understand that Memphis isn’t part of any of the three divisions). Again, cotton doesn’t grow in east TN, and they didn’t want to secede: the map couldn’t be more clear
Eastern TN is southern WV. đ
Eastern TN is the smart part of the state. Nashville is govt part of the state.
Memphis? Memphis is the hillbilly magnet. Every yahoo in the AL, MS, LA, AR, MO, and KY who wants to hit the “Big Time” leaves their farm and heads for Memphis.
Yeah, talk about missing the point. Low farmland in the south has more urbanites and contains nearly all of the black population. Hilly rural areas dont have the same mentality at all.
Come on down to Crazy Elon’s Racist Conspiracy Warehouse
Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.
It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, who have fled X over concerns about hate speech appearing alongside their ads, and is the latest divisive public personality to get back their banned account.
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Musk, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, said the move was about protecting those rights. In response to a user who posted that “permanent account bans are antithetical to free speech,” Musk wrote, “I find it hard to disagree with this point.”
The billionaire Tesla CEO also tweeted it’s likely that Community Notes â X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking service â “will respond rapidly to any AJ post that needs correction.”
It is a major turnaround for Musk, who previously said he wouldn’t let Jones back on the platform despite repeated calls to do so. Last year, Musk pointed to the death of his first-born child and tweeted, “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
Does Shannon Watts have a Xwixxer account?
But only for certain values of “hate speech”.
Lots of hate speech is fine – hell, encouraged.
today in ehm what ?
https://twitter.com/me_ijinsan/status/1733710781684830339
also
https://twitter.com/ReallyRadley/status/1733557189984329805
After buying Twitter last year, Musk said he was granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts and has since reinstated former President Donald Trump, Kanye West following multiple bans over antisemitic posts and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was kicked off the platform for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policies.
One man’s misinformation is another man’s conspiracy theory.
Me every time i read about the EU passing new regulations
https://twitter.com/mr_bones_wild/status/1733401465031663954
All that plastic surgery in South Korea will bring about a generation of kids who don’t resemble either parent.
https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1482341190519382016
Why does no one label blacks straightening their hair or asians widening their eyes cultural appropriation?
That crap is slowly infecting Japan, but theyâve got decades to catch up to US levels.
Itâs only been 10 years or so since hair color and eye color are on drivers licenses and other documents.
NOT a Kardashian. In fact, it’s Beyonce. Lots of black people demanding to know why she looks so white. But she’s almost always had straight/beachy waves gold/blonde wigs.
I personally find that black women with natural hair are most beautiful. The straightening looks fake and trying too hard, like old white women with bright bottle-orange or deep black hair. Lots of the braiding looks over the top. The dreads and box braids look painful.
Just like Berlin in the ’30s
The chairman of an Austrian political party founded by ex-Nazis, the conservative Twitter star behind the anti-trans Bud Light backlash and former President Donald Trump all walked into a bar.
Seriously.
On Saturday night in Manhattan, amid butler-delivered bellinis, sequined ball gowns and a five-course French service meal, characters from all corners of the Republican Partyâs MAGA faction gathered for âa night of dinner, drinking, and love of country.â
Trump, the New York Young Republican Clubâs 111th Annual Gala Keynote speaker, delivered.
âWe want to liberate America because weâre in a country thatâs in a lot of pain right now, a lot of hurt,â Trump told the crowd, during his 80-minute long speech. âThis campaign is on a righteous crusade to rescue our nation from a very corrupt political class.â
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The former president also addressed his comments earlier this week where he said he would not be a dictator âexcept for day oneâ if he returns to office in 2025.
â[Peter] Baker today in the New York Times said that I want to be a dictator,â Trump said, referencing an article from the newspaperâs chief White House correspondent.
âI didnât say that. I said I want to be a dictator for one day. You know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill,â Trump said, adding that Democratsâ ânewest hoaxâ is to label him a threat to democracy.
The spectre of extreme right wing totalitarianism looms ever larger.
Most parents use lying as a parenting tool, regardless of their reverence for honesty or their political orientation.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1732282240795611555
Saturday was the first time Trump himself was present for one of the clubâs galas, according to the clubâs 29-year-old president, Gavin Wax, who has drawn ire and protests at past events.
In December 2020, Wax held the clubâs gala without Covid precautions. Last year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was the keynote speaker, with Donald Trump Jr. and PizzaGate conspiracy promoter Jack Posobiec as the two other featured speakers. Posobiec was also an honored guest at Saturdayâs gala.
Oh, horror.
honorary Glib?
the thing I am rank last in is defining the methods and motives of authoritarians, of pro-government types: other Glibs are just better at it
in this link, the commenter captures that other thing I seldom notice: the other side is already violating the rules they’re accusing others of violating
it’s a bigger world out there than I can imagine; for me, you either believe in freedom or you don’t, and what’s going on in the heads of those who don’t just doesn’t occur to me; this guy is saying: if they say the gloves are off, I say the gloves are off
I just never thought of any of that stuff
feck
and I can’t find it now
I donât give a shit about jews. They really arenât that important
By building them up as the ultimate evil, you are feeding into their group narcissism and worse, youâre letting women off the hook
Women are the font of all evil in the world, and jews are just their puppets
https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1733126637233799227
bitches work in Comic Sans
Women are the font of all evil in the world, and jews are just their puppets
Whoa. That’s some unified theory, right there.
And he better not ever forget it. đż
Prior to Trumpâs arrival on stage, Wax celebrated Trumpâs would-be return to the presidency as an opportunity for his political foes to be punished.
âSince I know the deep state is listening tonight, once President Trump is back in office, we wonât be playing nice anymore,â Wax said.
âIt will be a time for retribution. All those responsible for destroying our once-great country will be held to account after baseless years of investigations and government lies and media lies against this man,â he said. âNow it is time to turn the tables on these actual crooks and lock them up for a change.â
Trump then lauded Waxâs remarks.
âGavin, that was an excellent speech,â he said. âThat was an excellent speech, wow.â
And then the pantomime dragon came on stage, and they slew it.
Immigrate to Minnesoda. The land where the streets are paved with golden govt money. Another Norwegian immigrant is caught defrauding the government.
So you caught the guy ripping you off, but you still kept paying bills he submitted? Nice govermenting there Lou.
I’m also wondering how much he ripped off in that 2022 conviction. I bet it was a lot more than the $77K.
Try something he does understand. Like chopping off his hands.
I’m confused. Keith Ellison is Norwegian, who’s the other guy?
Some Amish dude.
Leonard Read channels his inner stoic:
https://fee.org/articles/why-rome-s-best-emperor-shunned-government-schools/
I’m still yo bitch!
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LOL.
Nothing like âcash for clunkersâ I mean gun buy back programs. The NYT is not amused.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/guns-disposal-recycling.html
https://archive.fo/uhtyL
They are appalled that gun parts not requiring background checks are sold without background checks. They word it to imply that functional guns are sold without checks.
Gun grabbers lie ex. 156,712,340,212.
If only there was a bullshit detector…
https://kpic.com/news/local/meet-k9-trinity-the-digital-detective-sniffing-out-hidden-electronics-for-the-lincoln-co-sheriff
Anyone still here? I doubt it. Hrm. First two cents before looking at links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Rettig
^^That chronic well faller-downer had a legit fascinating and brief life. Child actor, to hating how they were treated; had a weed operation and was busted (but later exonerated!) for using coke in the 70s. Then he became a legit pretty big-deal computer programmer. Still acting, he starred w Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum.
Tomorrow’s gonna be an interesting one. Today is responsibility-free and trying to rest in productive ways.