“Joe, I want to tell you something,” Kamala said, climbing onto his desk to sit with a settling whomp.
“You can talk to me about anything, Karine,” Joe said. He leaned back in his chair with casual confidence and almost fell backwards, barely catching himself.
“I’m Kamala Harris, Joe… your Vice President?”
His botoxed brow tried to wrinkle; his face creaked like an ancient saddle.
“Oh, yes, of course,” Joe said, “You’ve been a wonderful Press Secretary.”
“Joe…”
“You were great with that whole, you know, whatever.”
“Joe, I’m the Vice President, and I’ve drafted my resignation letter.”
“You’re leaving me? Strawberry left,” Joe said petulantly.
“Claudine Gay has been forced out of the Presidency at Harvard by evil Republicans and I have to be ready for when they call,” Kamala said. “They’ll want another Black woman and I’m a Black woman so I’m perfect for the job.”
Joe nodded, pretending to understand.
“Are you my Vice President?” Joe asked.
“Yes, Joe.”
“And you’re leaving?”
“Maybe. I just want to be ready. I have the main things they will be hiring for, no penis and a Black father.”
“You’re Black?” Joe asked, his hand going subconsciously to check to see if he still had his wallet. But Jill hadn’t let him carry cash since he demanded a bank give him 49,900 one dollar bills for one of Hunter’s “rent” checks. (The rest was a 100 he could wrap around his wad of cash to look like a high roller.) Kamala glared until Joe reset.
“But if you leave for Harvard, what’ll happen to me? Where am I going to find a new Vice President?” Joe trembled on the edge of dementia tears.
“There are other Black women out there,” Kamala said, patting his hand, inadvertently wiping away the foundation covering a cluster of liver spots and carcinomas. “Most of them have the same qualifications I did for the job.”
“Will she be pretty?”
“She will be a strong female character, Joe.”
“But you said she won’t have a penis!”
Oral skills?
Whew! When she plopped down on the desk, I saw sexual horror about to occur.
Only if Hunter made one of his magical appearances.
*cackles louder than Hillary
“You’re Black?” Joe asked, his hand going subconsciously to check to see if he still had his wallet.
It’s the little things.
Yeah, OMG
And honest to God, if she’d go, I’d contribute to Harvard for hiring her.
Whew! When she plopped down on the desk, I saw sexual horror about to occur.
“She placed her feet over his shoulders and drew him near.”
This is not the real SugarFree. This is the work of an imposter. Just like with Fetterlump.
Beat me to it. How do we know this is the real SF? where did he go and why did they replace him?
Well I did learn a new word. carcinomas. That’s a point in favor of it being the real SF.
Here I thought you were an MD.
Only on Glibs. IRL I’m really not that smart or accomplished.
General rule, if it ends in ‘oma’ it’s not good. Carcinoma, sarcoma, blastoma, Oklahoma, etc.
>.<
Carrrrr -ci- noma, where the wind goes rolling cross the plain ♬
He’s got an EdD, just like Frau Doktorin Jill.
I don’t think the ‘d’ belongs in that statement.
*horses panic and shriek*
There is no replacing Sugarfree. Although we did manage to feed enough into an AI generator to give you something that vaguely resembles Sugarfree.
So much goodness. The “rent” check being my favorite.
Same.
I had to reread the first line, because initially I thought it said, …”I’d like to smell you something…”. Made my eye twitch.
I do like the idea that maybe Blackberry will move into the VP slot. Nah, that’d be too porny.
Welcome back. SF. Hope STEVE SMITH was… gentle… when he found you.
Wait, if she left, wouldn’t the Speaker of the House become VP?
The LULZ would be most number one!
I’m sure the resignation date hasn’t been filled in yet. It’ll be added on the day she gets the Harvard offer.
Following the rules is supreme-whiteness and therefore toxically racist.
No. How did Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller become VP?
*squints* Cause the 25th Amendment didn’t exist…not sure if serious.
Wait..erase! erase! EDIT!!!
Meant to say cause the 25th Amendment existed, that is why. It still would fall onto the president and you sir are correct, Good Ol’ Joe can nominate Blackberry for confirmation.
What’s AOC, chopped liver?
Don’t yuck my yum!
“Will she be pretty?”
Thin ice, Joe. There is a lot of cultural baggage to unpack before you can call a black woman pretty.
The perfect replacement–another strong black woman.
At least he only likes to sniff female hair rather than touch it.
At ER. Baby seizure kinda. Normally don’t remember trips here. This one was totally avoidable, but def warning signs.
One Code Blue here so far. Two corpses. No place for sick people, hospitals. Especially when I’m the most well person around.
Sigh. Onward and upward. Should be able to leave soon. Friend is picking me up. Phew.
Fuck
The stress of being around people who ARE dying is powerful.
I want to get the fuck out of here. Patience, patient. Soon.
Was is a complex partial seizure or a simple partial seizure?
In October I warned my boss that I was feeling preictal and that he needed to let off the gas and let us rest. He didn’t. 4 days later I had my total blackout car accident.
That’s why the company has been paying my Uber tab ever since.
Anyway, take care of yourself Evan—eat well and rest up!!
Follow up to this mornings conversation:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lead-in-Medieval-Times.jpg
It’s good to have friends and acquaintances with hobbies:
I’m relatively confident it’s one of the big, built-in open kettles that were pretty common in kitchens and other facilities at the time. They would have a fire-box under them for boiling, which makes sense in context.
Later in the text he says this: “As for the generall obseruations to be respected in the Brew-house or Bake-house, they be these: first, that your Brew house be seated in so conuenient a part of the house, that the smoke may not annoy your other more priuate roomes; then that you furnace be made close and hollow for sauing fewell, and with a vent for the pass•ge of smoake least it taint your l•quor; then that you preferre a copper before a lead, next that your M•sh-fat bee euer neerest to your leade, your cooler neerest your Mash-fat, and your Gul fat vnder your cooler, and adioyning to them all seuerall cleane •ubs to receiue your worts and liquors:”
He uses “lead” and “leade” interchangeably in the section you quoted, so we can guess that he did the same here.
So, he does appear to distinguish between a “copper” and “lead” kettle. But I still think it is unlikely that it is actually made of lead.
I dunno. Prior to figuring out lead was bad for you, it was used to generate sweet compounds. Wort boiled in lead might have tasted good.
This is not to say that sugar of lead can’t be lethal. When Pope Clement II died in 1047, no one was exactly sure what killed him, but a 1959 examination of his remains clearly indicated lead poisoning. No one knows for sure if it was accidental or intentional, but one thing was for certain: the man liked his wine, especially those from his native Germany which were sweetened in the ancient Roman manner. And while a number of theories have cropped up concerning Ludwig van Beethoven’s cause of death, ranging from syphilis and coronary disease to lupus, lead poisoning by way of wine has also been suggested as a contributing factor to his demise.
Lead is so soft it would be constantly subject to dings and impossible to scrub clean without damaging the kettle. That and the weight, seem to make it undesirable for a kettle.
My guess is that it would be some type of cast iron if it wasn’t copper.
Lead also has a very low melting point, so it would melt over a high flame.
The text on the original beer recipe talks about pewter things later on. So, it seems to me that “lead” is a functional description not a material description regarding the boil kettle.
Still, this will keep bugging me until I get a definitive answer.
Poison and a mixture or two
They call it sugar of lead
If you drink bootleg ‘shine
You’ll sure have an achin’ head
…”Prohibition Blues”: Clayton McMichen as sung by Jorma Kaukonen
One thing to remember, that may apply in this case, is that people sometimes called things by the wrong names back then, just like today. So while it may have been Pb, as unlikely as that seems for a pot, he may have just been writing “lead” when the real device was something like pewter or tin (or something else).
A modern common example is to refer to metal roofing as “tin”. It’ s not. At one point some of it probably was, but it’s been virtually all galvanized steel for ages now. But we still call it “tin”.
Historians like primary sources, of course, for their first-hand proximity to the events, but even then we have to remember that people make mistakes, or use colloquialisms that can confuse us.
SF is back with one of his set ups. Great imagery and good lines -“you’re Black (capitalized even)?” -but nothing to lose one’s lunch of -the sound of Velcro. I’m Worried what happens next.
“Kamala glared until Joe reset.”
Reset. Perfect.
This is a good example of restraint on the part of the author, avoiding unnecessary bloat.
‘Brevity is the soul of wit’, and all that.
As a mental exercise, I pictured the scene in my head, then typed out, “Kamala glared, flaring her cavernous nostrils until Joe visibly reset.” -1 not succinct. I just can’t imagine Kamala as anything but a hideous Cave Troll.
“Kamala glared until she could reach out and hit the reset button on Joe’s defibrillator?”
And then you have to go into the whole diaper changing scenario and it kinda derails the whole narrative.
But it does add some color; mostly some browns and a little blood red.
I know, right?
If you don’t keep it short and sweet it becomes a whole descriptive narrative, full of slimy fangs and intense putrefaction.
At least 103 killed in blasts near Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani’s grave
At least 103 people were killed Wednesday and 141 injured in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani, in what officials called a terror attack.
IRINN, another state television channel, reported that the first explosion near the grave of Soleimani was caused by a bomb placed in a suitcase inside a Peugeot 405 car, and appeared to be detonated remotely.
Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the first explosion happened at 3:00 p.m. local time (6 a.m. ET) during an interview with Iran’s state news channel IRIB. Vahidi said the second, more deadly blast took place 20 minutes later, when other pilgrims came to help the injured.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blasts.
Terrorists vs terrorists. Mad Magazine updated for the new millennium.
NPR’s reporting on the Beirut drone strike started off by saying “Israel has not claimed responsibility” and then reported the rest of the story as if Israel did it.
“…Not claimed responsibility.” What? That is an… odd… turn of phrase. It’s what you say after the IRA did a bombing, or is suspected of such.
A roll of ones with a single one hundred dollar bill on the outside is called a Chicago Roll.
And if Harvard hired Kamalamadingdong (working the pole is as legitimate as chocking on someone else’s junk science), I would laugh from here to the election.
The problem is, nobody can offer her anything that is better than what she’s in line for.
And that, for you folks playing along at home, is the crux of the D’s problem.
Just have to convince her that what she has isn’t going to last.
I would love for it to be a trans woman.
RuPaul?
I thought a Chicago Roll was cream cheese, carp and asphalt?
In my younger days it was known as a Puerto-Rican Roll.
Probably not politically correct.
Ex-Con Busted For New Year’s Day Dildo Battery
Not a Guy Ritchie film.
“No weapon was seized by investigators.”
You don’t say.
That title confused me.
I was thinking that if it needs a battery, it’s a vibrator and not a dildo?
That is where my sordid mind went as well.
Not all dildos vibrate, some have other actuating functions that would not be considered vibration?
SF days make some weird conversations
Combines two infamous football events, involving the Bills and the Eagles.
Where do the bottles fit in?
Sorry to let you down, but that is the Browns.
Sounds like someone failed Biology 101
/starts watching Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels again
“The woman also told police that Nurdin punched her in the left eye”
Someone’s been listening to NWA. https://youtu.be/w–iwi7Y5sk (NSFW)
Also, retrieving your marital aid and turning it into a martial aid is hardly disproving her point.
“Additionally, if he secures his release on bond, Nurdin will be fitted with a continuous alcohol monitoring device.”
That seems unnecessarily intrusive.
” The woman also told police that Nurdin punched her in the left eye “while she tried to push him off.”
If I wrote that I totally would have said “beat him off”.
Quite the way with words.
This sounds plausible.
TPTB: I wrote a simple article on cocktails that is ready for publication.
Cool, I’ve been getting into very basic ones lately.
Heh…looks like someone forgot Joe on the beach
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-leaves-st-croix-104721136.html
Didn’t he just have skin cancer?
If they’re trying to get rid of him, they need to do something that works faster.
At this point, a bad sunburn would probably do the trick.
They’re gonna get him reelected first.
Not melanoma though. The really harmless kind that everyone survives.
Still an ancient dude should probably not be sitting in the sun without sunscreen.
You have stumbled onto the Dem’s insidious plan to get rid of Joe via skin cancer…
They tried to turn him orange, to lure away some of Trump’s supporters.
Uhm, could backfire, cause Dems to panic.
Surprise
These five states had the smallest influx of one-way U-Haul rentals, according to the company’s list:
California
Massachusetts
Illinois
New Jersey
Michigan
You don’t say.
U-Haul charges three to four times more for one-way truck rentals going from San Francisco or LA to Houston or Dallas than vice-versa…
Wonder if there’s interesting alternatives available like round trip with TX pickup or transfer rentals in AZ.
Now the lawfare on other candidates begins.
https://www.newsweek.com/scott-perry-insurrection-lawsuit-pennsylvania-1857365
This won’t end well.
They got a court to make a finding of fact, regardless if it fact or not. They will run with it and why someone said this morning SCOTUS should be in session right now to squash this.
Also Congress should be convening and put in legislation that clarifies this and make Biden veto it.
The Dems still control the Senate.
Just as good (if the Repubs want to win).
I’m looking for a water cooling block for my GPU. A quick search suggests there’s only two makers (at least for my GPU, Radeon RX 6950 XT): EKWB and Alphacool. Anyone 1) know of any others, and 2) have any experience with either of those manufacturers?
I used this site for something on my old box a while back.
Mostly Alphacool, but some “Watercool” (might be same brand?) and a couple others.
Thanks for that, that’s very useful. Particularly pricing in dollars, Alphacool’s website is priced in Euros. I (hopefully) just need the block and fittings for 1/2″ OD flexible tubing. I’ve got an ancient Zalman Reserator pump/reservior/radiator I’m going to try re-use.
Wow – those are pricey!
I knew there was as reason I stick to air. However, I may finally relent and use an AIO on my next CPU.
And you thought covid was over.
Just in time to see the large influx of illegals entering hospitals without masks and not being turned away I hope.
Sinking
…Musk ended 2023 with a flurry of new headlines about how his erratic management style was damaging not only Twitter, now “X,” but his other businesses as well. According to Fidelity, one investor in Musk’s social media gambit, the company is now worth just a fraction of its purchase price (and that’s assuming Musk could find a buyer for his tattered, unreliably functional mess).
One thing can be said for Elon Musk: the guy works fast. He’s managed to lose 71 percent of X’s value in just over a year, while alienating major brands and mainstreaming a 105 percent surge in neo-Nazi and antisemitic hate speech — an explosion of unmoderated hatred without precedent on any other major social network.
Now it looks like Musk’s financial hangover has finally arrived.
It’s no secret that X is in financial disarray. Musk himself has often alluded to the real possibility of declaring bankruptcy unless the platform can replace its evaporating advertising revenue. Most of that money is likely gone forever, after Musk’s targeted bullying of advertisers, with Musk at one point urging the companies who keep his lights on to “go f*ck yourself.” Despite goofy schemes including wanting to turn X into a bank and charging users for verified checkmarks, Musk hasn’t come close to replacing that lost revenue.
They sure are pissed off about twatter.
A couple of years ago, he walked on water.
105 percent surge in neo-Nazi and antisemitic hate speech
See? The left didn’t leave the platform after all.
As far as numbers pulled out of your ass go, 105 is a pretty good one. Over 100%, but just a little.
Translation: We lost our sound board and we want it back!
And just how was the current valuation determined?
It’s unclear how Fidelity arrived at its new, lower valuation or whether it receives any non-public information from the company. Fidelity declined to provide a statement, saying it doesn’t comment on individual investments. X didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Well they just aren’t going to say. MSM – OK let’s just run with it!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-x-value-cut-another-023750235.html#:~:text=Fidelity%20said%20in%20a%20recent,has%20also%20fallen%20by%2072%25.
So, out of the 6000 employees Musk let go from Twitter, none can build a social network site for the echo chamber?
Seems somehow relevant.
This piece is amazing.
OFFS!
Well, after Kendi showed the blueprint, we all knew it was coming.
I looked at Twatter stock performance over 5 years. It’s higher than it was in 2019, before all this began. You have to rule out the bubble which happened during COVID/Elon buying it. That was all speculative buying. Overall performance is level if you exclude that crazy spike. Through no action of Elon’s, advertisers pulled a ton of ad revenue. If he had not cut staff back significantly, that would have tanked it right there. That will recover given time. It will include a broader set of advertisers instead of depending on just a few large advertisers who could bully Twatter around.
Enough on that, I am glad Sugar Free is back and relatively unharmed.
He’s unharmed, or we’re unharmed?
This is, like, the fifth time this week I have heard how Twitter is damaged goods.
Funny that.
Someone must have a lot of shorts to cover.
[Tesla] also landed itself in hot water with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for creating a culture of what the EEOC alleges to be “widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees” and punishing employees who speak up. The EEOC sued Tesla in September, adding yet another case to Musk’s mounting courtroom dance card.
According to the EEOC’s filing, it was commonplace for Black employees at Teslas to face slurs including “monkey,” “boy,” and several too offensive to print. They encountered swastika graffiti in public spaces, reported nooses placed on the desks of Black employees, and found Tesla management unresponsive and even dismissive of their concerns. Unsurprisingly, the office culture at Tesla looks a lot like the social culture on X: unapologetically and even defiantly toxic.
Controversy even risks engulfing SpaceX, long the standout endeavor in Musk’s portfolio. Back in August, the Justice Department sued SpaceX for alleged anti-immigrant discrimination, another trend on ready display over on X. If it’s true that executives take their lead from the person at the top, Musk has done a fantastic job introducing X’s poisonous and anti-social culture to previously functional businesses.
Hearsay, insinuation and innuendo; that’s some high grade journalisming.
For the umpteenth time – FedGov frequently requires it’s defense contractors to not allow foreign nationals access to anything many things defense related. It doesn’t matter if they can legally work in the US or not.
This means that the immigrant can’t sweep the floors where SpaceX is putting DoD’s latest space toy in orbit.
But, surprise, the MSM doesn’t want to actually do it jobs and report that.
LOL what bullshit.
They even put them back in chains.
Follow up to this morning’s J6 conversation: George Washington Joe Biden will be speaking at Valley Forge on Jan.6 regarding how important it will be in November to elect someone who respects our democracy and the Founders’ ideals. I wonder how far Sean and I and a few others would get if we blocked the PA turnpike that day? “Let’s Go, Brandon.”
I ain’t playing in traffic. PA drivers are nutz. I know, cuz I are one.
The left lane is the only lane!
Those are the drivers from Ohio, and they’re going 55.
That is why you pass on the right!
Everyone knows the right lane is the fastest.
Oh, I’m going to be working the Area 8 match in Bulger PA 6/7.
You and/or the GF can come shoot it, though it’s pricey (any time the match fee > ammo costs is pricey in my book).
Never even heard of Bulger.
*Googles*
Still wrong side of the state. >.>
One of these days you might get me out somewhere. 🙂
Los Angeles County over the weekend confirmed that has reinstated a mask-wearing mandate for staff, patients, and visitors at licensed health care facilities, citing a recent increase in COVID-19 cases.
Fucking cargo cultists.
MANDATE!
Without the power of the State or FedGov emergency powers, I would hope people would just ignore. But, we have evidence to the contrary.
OT – Looks like the Japanese Coast Guard failed to hold short.
Look, everybody already has it this year. Just go drink out of somebody else’s tea glass and get it over with. It’s not so bad.
It was too tame until here:
“But you said she won’t have a penis!”
and then… the implications.
He was having Michelle flashbacks.
For the umpteenth time – FedGov frequently requires it’s defense contractors to not allow foreign nationals access to anything many things defense related. It doesn’t matter if they can legally work in the US or not.
A while back, somebody linked a job listing from the (I think) Interior Department. Some sort of Montana/Idaho grizzly bear research project. Featured prominently in the job description: MUST BE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
FedGov gets to play by rules that the private sector can’t!
This one:
Even better. Look at this:
Individuals assigned male at birth after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
How DARE they use someone’s sex at birth!
I identify as being assigned female at birth.
Speaking of that twatter “valuation” story-
Didn’t Musk end up paying a huge premium (like more than 50%)? That is going to skew the number significantly. But why would business journalists feel any need to add context?
Yes, that accounts for the giant peak in stock value on their 5-year chart. Anyone who bought then would definitely lose a lot of value. That person would also be a moron/ democrat who doesn’t understand buying in the valleys.
Not to mention that, due to the sheer amount of bots, false advertising/slush funding, and general weirdness of Twitter pre-Elon, no true value can be ascertained.
Awkward…
MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez found herself in an awkward position on Tuesday — breaking the news of her embattled father’s latest legal troubles.
Indicted US Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was hit with fresh allegations that a wealthy businessman pal showered the lawmaker with fancy gifts — including Formula One race tickets and a Patek Philippe watch — in exchange for an investment deal with a Qatari real estate firm.
Alicia Menendez was filling in for Nicolle Wallace as host of “Deadline: White House” when the Department of Justice slapped the senator with the superseding indictment.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/03/media/msnbc-reports-on-new-bob-menendez-indictment-during-daughters-guest-host-gig/
Oh my god. The three o’clock post is late. See I said it was an SF Imposter!
FIRST!