“The college kids are now mad about Yemen,” Kamala said to Karine.
“What’s a Yemen?” Joe asked. Finnegan patted him on the hand and he smiled.
“Don’t they know I’ve got to look tough?” Kamala asked.
“Tough!” Joe barked. He shook off Finnegan’s hand and shadow-boxed, wincing and grinning.
“Yes, Madam Vice President,” Karine said, the words sour in her mouth.
“I don’t know why we’re bombing Yemen,” Hunter said, yawning. “They’ve never given me a dime.”
“What’s a Yemen?” Joe asked again.
“It’s a country where Iran-backed Houthi terrorists are attacking merchant’s ships in the Red Sea,” Karina said absently, automatically.
“What? Hooties! I’d love some chicken wings!” Joe and Hunter said in inhuman unison. Karine shivered all over and bit the inside of her cheek until she tasted blood.
“Houthis are pirates, Joe. They have been firing rockets at commercial ships,” Kalama said.
“Don’t tell him that!” Finnegan hissed.
“I love pirates!” Joe said, animated for the first time in weeks. “They say stuff, like, ‘Avast!’ and have cutlasses!”
“They sure do, Daddy,” Hunter said, sitting up on the couch. “They are bad guys.”
“I have, uh, you know, been against bad people. That’s what I’ve always said,” he said. Hunter giggled.
“You get him wound up and you are going to have to babysit him the rest of the day,” Finnegan told her father
Hunter yawned and took a few quick licks of Cracky before slipping him into the pocket of the ratty robe he had found down in the fud-tunnels. “If the Big Guy wants to talk about pirates then he should talk about pirates,” he said, eyes red, nose chapped, jock strap elaborately stained.
Hunter slid past Karine, making sure his half-erection rubbed across her pants-suited buttocks. He grinned and she bit her cheek harder.
“The Houthis are going to be my pirate problem,” Kamala said. “I don’t want the situation to get out of hand while I’m running for President.”
Not even Karine could keep herself from laughing; Hunter and Finnegan guffawed. Joe laughed because everyone else was laughing, his confusion complete.
First of all, I’m doubting that FJB has even eaten a chicken wing, much less entered a lower-midscale purveyor of same.
Second of all, with all of this concern about the Houthis, why is everyone overlooking the responsibility of their allies The Blowfish in all of this?
Not another damned firster.
SF posts enable all sorts of temporal anomalies, allowing multiple people to all be first.
Houthi and the Blowfish. It’s already a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YA8PwU0TP0
I’d be pretty pissed if I got killed by those clowns. Look at those outfits.
A man wears a hat like that, you know he ain’t afraid of nothin.
Ha! No shit. Wow.
Pakistan-India border. Nothing to do with Yemen.
Still funny.
That… is an impressively elaborate mating ritual. How do they have any energy left for the fornicatin’?
The Ministry of Silly Walks is real!
Poor Karine.
ack-phlbt!
Is Berke Breathed still running Bloom County, or did he give up on it once he satisfied his TDS?
Updates had become sparse and sporadic. Just checked the URL I had, and the last update was from June of 2020, talking about masks.
Oh, that’s right, I forgot he went COVID nuts.
He really had it out for The Donald in the late ’80s, IDKY.
Yes he did.
This was great: Joe and Hunter said in inhuman unison.
This was better: Not even Karine could keep herself from laughing…
Pardon the early OT
Code Pink really is just a lesser shade of red.
Maybe Karine can join up with Code Pink in her post-administration life? She’s a natural.
the west was to successful it created a class of idle imbeciles with money
Haley, one other reason why Code Pink is cheerleading for the Houthis, ignoring their terrorism and brutality and appalling human rights abuses, and painting them as responsible opponents of an alleged genocide committed by Israel: Code Pink is effectively supported by the Chinese.
Leftist love the people that hate them. And they hate the people that would be otherwise indifferent.
The ideals this country is founded on, particularly inalienable rights and freedom of conscience, are unique in history and in all the world today. The human tendency towards authoritarianism creates a lot of strange bedfellows.
I thought everyone knew code pink was a steaming pile of totalitarian trash.
“What? Hooties! I’d love some chicken wings!”
I thought they were going to lust after Hooties and the Blowfish.
Poor Karine.
She knew the job was dangerous when she took it.
“To the Super Coop, Fred!”
bok bok bok bok!
…jock strap elaborately stained.
ew.
“What’s a Yemen?” Joe asked.
And Joe pulls a Johnson.
Ewww!
Of course the Biden’s like Hooters (mildly NSFW – language).
They have no foothold here anymore.
They are still touring apparently.
Living through the ’80s was a transcendent blessing
I had to watch that all the way through. Amazing song.
Not wrong.
No. I was 13 or so when it came out.
Didn’t like it then and haven’t changed my mind yet.
I got talked into going to see them and Bryan Adams in concert at Hampton Roads Coliseum in ’87?
That was about the only song they had worth a fuck at the time.
Bryan Adams was already hackneyed by then, but actually put on a pretty good performance.
I haven’t heard that in ages and I don’t think I ever saw the video.
“I don’t want the situation to get out of hand while I’m running for President.”
It’s not going to be you. It’s going to be Big Mike.
No.
Perfect.
I think that was my favorite line too.
Maybe that’s why we’re bombing them, they didn’t pay the protection money.
This is what I sometimes look like after reading SUGAR HOOMAN. I’m not sure if I’m more like Sharon or Ozzy or both.
Ozzy has gone tranny?
What a shocker.
I guess nobody told you about Boy George.
Hooties and the Blowfish – how do you people know these obscure bands
Darius Rucker?
They weren’t obscure 30 years ago.
well this is the first time I heard of em
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootie_%26_the_Blowfish
Their mainstream debut album was Cracked Rear View (1994). Released in July 1994, the album’s popularity grew after its release, becoming the best-selling album of 1995, and was one of the fastest-selling debut albums of all time. The album was certified platinum in the United States in January 1995, and incrementally rose to 12× platinum by January 1996, and 16× platinum by March 1999. In May 2019, the certification was updated from 16× platinum to 21× platinum.
They were big league for a while.
I guess he didn’t make it past the Iron Curtain unlike Boney M.
Boney M is quite well known
Never heard of them.
Not here.
You mean Lebo M?
Or la vie boheme?
There’s funny. My mother in law likes them too.
I know them from having lived in Germany.
Euro-disco
They even went to a Hootie concert on an episode of Friends.
Hootie was Huey Lewis for the ’90s.
Verdad.
In junior high I had to have surgery, and in the hospital my parents gave me a tape deck Walkman, with Sports on tape. Don’t judge.
Marty McFly liked them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvuweztG4Q
“Now a question of etiquette, do I give her the ass or the crotch?” – Tyler Durden
In the movie the Narrator says ‘I am Jack’s’ but in the novel it is ‘I am Joe’s’.
Does this mean Hunter doesn’t exist, and everything he does is in fact Joe?
Mind. Blown.
Forgot to add that puzzle piece above.
The first rule of President Club: We don’t talk about Beau.
Outrageous
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley claimed the US has “never been a racist country” during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.
Haley’s remarks were in response to MSNBC host Joy Reid’s comments on whether Haley could win the GOP nomination as a woman of color. Haley suggested Reid “lives in a different America than I do,” pointing to her own rise from the daughter of immigrants to governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations.
“I mean, yes, I’m a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town in South Carolina who became the first female minority governor in history, who became an UN ambassador and who is now running for president. If that’s not the American dream, I don’t know what is,” she said, a day after she came in third in the Iowa Republican caucuses. “You can sit there and give me all the reasons why you think I can’t do this. I will continue to defy everybody on why we can do this. And we will get it done.”
When asked by host Brian Kilmeade if the GOP is a racist party, Haley made a broader point that the US has “never been a racist country.”
Why are they asking her? They should ask the Obamas. They know about racism. Barack and Michelle have been the victims of ceaseless racial oppression their entire lives.
Since when is she a brown girl?
I had to go look at her site. She is claiming Indian-American, which will backfire spectacularly. Also she had an article that leads with this headline:
“Nikki Haley endorsed by Sununu family, ‘America’s coolest political family’”
She is claiming Indian-American
Why can’t we* all just be Americans.
*American citizens, that is.
I know. Drives me nuts. Also I think she would have had less votes than Vivek if the democrats hadn’t turned out to boost her numbers in Iowa.
Back in late 2001/early 2002, the Dropkick Murphys went on tour. They called the tour the American Pride tour. The shirts for the show (which I still have one of) were gray, with a shamrock colored like the American Flag, and the phrase “Try Burning This One”. During the show, they called out into the crowd to see how many were Irish, how many were Scottish, and the like. After getting the crowd riled up with that, they said, “Fuck that! You’re all fucking Americans and you need to remember that!”.
Nice.
And if nobody had called out?
I guess this is why I rarely go to shows anymore.
Toxteth:
That’s generally not a big risk at a punk show with a large mosh pit.
Nikki Haley claimed the US has “never been a racist country”
Everywhere on the planet is racist. The US, despite the lefts best efforts, is the least racist. GOP candidates should not even validate this topic. That said, fuck neo-con Nikki.
^This^
That said, fuck neo-con Nikki.
Not proud of it, but would.
Would Nikki from 8 years ago. Now she’s too old.
You’re kidding, right?
Of course he is. The real answer is 30 years ago.
Now she’s too old.
False, the chance of her breaking a hip only adds to the woodiness.
She keeps whiffing on softball questions.
Hey, it’s a 2 man race (according to her), what do you expect?
Please permit me to post this!
Top Man stuck at Top Man Conference thanks to everybody’s current punching bag Boeing!
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/17/blinken-davos-boeing-aircraft-error
where is Jeff E when you need him…
Ha! Made my day. Only thing better would be a little Atlas Shrugged -style disaster. And we all know that is coming.
Why is that dopey fuckhead being ferried about in a 737? Put him in the cargo hold of a C-130.
Is that what Kerry does? I can’t imagine anything other than a C-130 could get off the ground with his swollen Easter Island head on board.
Not to be a pedant, but the plane you are looking for is the C-17.
Carry an M1.
C-130 is for carrying 64 dummies on a one way trip.
After its rollin down the strip….
Because the AF has fleet of pilots and aircraft for the express purpose of carrying Top Men to Top Places to do Top Things.
Canadians making fun of PC culture on TV? The world is gone nuts!
not great but not horrible either
Top Man stuck at Top Man Conference thanks to everybody’s current punching bag Boeing!
They should send an Osprey to rescue him.
Elon should send a private jet to rescue him. That would be the cherry on top.
Malicious legislation is malicious.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is urging the Legislature to adopt several gun control measures, including the gun permitting bill and a proposal to ban guns in places such as parks, zoos, libraries and transit stations.
The mayor also wants the Legislature to stop bulk sales of firearms by letting dealers sell a maximum of one gun to the same person in a 30-day period.
Those bills are scheduled for public hearings this week. …
What they’re saying: Democratic leaders told reporters last week that they’re interested in finding additional ways to reduce gun violence, after passing a law last year banning the sales of so-called assault weapons.
“It is important that we continue making progress,” said state Sen. Manka Dhingra (D-Redmond), who chairs the Senate Law & Justice Committee and is a deputy Senate majority leader.
Yes, but: Lawmakers are less likely to advance another measure sought by Seattle’s mayor, which would allow cities to enact their own local gun control measures.
There should be one national standard. 2A means what it says. If your state does not like it. Feel free to leave the union. Otherwise you are restricted by that witch you ratified. The end.
by that witch you ratified
Constitutional voodoo?
I figured Karine would be down for some chicken wings. That could be her first date with Hunter.
That was a fowl euphemism.
We need more plane crash deaths for diversity’s sake.
CEO of @united says he takes race and gender into account when hiring and laments that there’s too many white males in the airline industry.
The massive flaw in this bullshit (well one of them) is that black people or women actually WANT those jobs. Women are vastly overrepresented in nursing – maybe men just don’t want to be nurses?
I can think of one way he could reduce that surplus of white males by one (1) white male.
There needs to be a bet between a couple of rich white stockbrokers as to how they can transform a pair of lives.
Interesting
“Tesla recommends using Trip Planner to navigate to a charging location for at least 30-45 minutes before arrival to ensure optimal Battery temperature and charging conditions,” the company says in its Model S owner’s manual. “If the drive to the charging location is less than 30-45 minutes, consider preconditioning the Battery before driving.”
Go drive around aimlessly in the snow for 45 minutes before plugging in?
Note: My BMW 2002, when it had twin side draft Weber carburetors on it, was almost impossible to start when the temperature was much below 40. But the Dunlop tires had no traction whatsoever if there was a visible accumulation of snow on the road.
Once again. No.
It just charges more slowly. If you and Suthen want to crap on EVs be my guest. It will take the available energy at the charger direct some of it to heat the pack and some of it goes in the battery. So hypothetically adding a 50% charge takes 30 minutes instead of 15 with a warm pack.
You should know by now I love ICE and classic cars, but spewing half truths about EVs doesn’t help in spreading the legitimate issues with them
Fair enough.
Electric cars are a niche that fills a small void very efficiently. If you have a dedicated space to charge your expensive vehicle and can avoid long trips or have multiple vehicles then have at it.
There is no plan upgrade the grid enough to make the use of electric vehicles ubiquitous.
There isn’t enough rare earth minerals and may not even be enough available copper to outfit the United States, let alone the world, and the drive to force electric vehicles is the drive to restrict our freedom.
I’ve not read about the copper issue, but on everything else I concur.
Some cars are more suited to being sole mode of transport than others.
Speaking of federal departments that should be dissolved because they have zero constitutional basis for existing…
DHS used a grant program intended to combat terrorists, called the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Program, to pay activists to write blog posts that criticized Donald Trump and other conservatives under the guise of “media literacy,” the Media Research Center found through public records requests.
In its funding application, the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab declared that “propaganda and misinformation concerning topics including immigration [and] racial justice” had become “disruptive.” It asked DHS for funding to run “community-created counter-propaganda.”
“Propaganda can also be used for socially beneficial purposes. Indeed, because the public has long been recognized as being suggestible, the United States has long made use of beneficial propaganda during WWI, WWII, and the Cold War,” the grant application said.
It’s for you own good,
subjectcitizen.That’s not even surprising.
Now, let’s see if glibs dot com (it’s a nonprofit) can get some money to do the same thing.
Javier Milei just address the WEF. He set them on fire in person. Interesting.
https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/special-address-by-javier-milei-president-of-argentina/
I assume he was provided with hookers and kompromat obtained. But blackmail only works if you don’t want the tapes released.
Dude was a sex trainer, right? He’s got nothing to hide there.
WTH is a sex trainer?
I might need to employ one.
He’s some kind of tantric sex trainer.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/20/javier-milei-argentinas-new-president-former-tantric-sex-coach-19849280/
Look, if he made money at it, fantastic. Beats sitting at a desk.
Best. Line. Ever.
The life-long bachelor, who has also revealed his penchant for threesomes, previously vowed to make his sister, Karina Milei, the First Lady if he was elected to office.
When a political opponent branded him a ‘dishevelled panellist who screams on stage and sleeps with eight dogs and his sister’, Milei simply replied: ‘I don’t have eight dogs’.
Zose are not mah eight dogs.
Who hasn’t slept with some dogs?
This goes a bit back to our discussion on Republicans visiting the WEF.
I was disappointed hearing that Millei went. But it turns out he just went to lay into them.
That’s fine with me.
I’m not disappointed in him so far. He’s a really sharp guy. He knows his stuff. It’s worth going to the end to hear the translator say “Long live freedom dammit!”
I think this is the end times. I just agreed with every single thing an a head of state said.
I am sure Milei and I probably disagree on most things when comes to personal life, but that is the greatness of liberty where the personal is not political.
Please tell me you mean LITERALLY set them on fire.
“Propaganda can also be used for socially beneficial purposes. Indeed, because the public has long been recognized as being suggestible, the United States has long made use of beneficial propaganda during WWI, WWII, and the Cold War,” the grant application said.
Funnel their native hate into politically useful avenues.
Using government propaganda against a political party in your own country is exactly the same as propaganda against a country with which you are at war.
We’re at war with both of them.
And Eurasia
“The Houthis are going to be my pirate problem,” Kamala said. “I don’t want the situation to get out of hand while I’m running for President.”
“Get out of hand” – well, what’s your mouth for? It worked well early in your career.
She is running for POTUS? I will be POTUS before she will.
… Not if Biden kicks the bucket you won’t.
‘It was just a mess’: DC residents clean up after sewage spills into their homes
I thought most DC residents WERE the sewage.
Hoarders
More than 90% of current homeowners with mortgages have rates that are 6% or under, according to ICE Mortgage Technology, a mortgage data firm. With the current average rate for a 30-year, fixed loan hovering around 6.6%, nearly all but the most recent homeowners would be taking on a mortgage rate higher than their existing rate if they were to sell and buy another home.
While that is surely keeping some Boomers in their home, said Bokhari, it is only part of the reason.
“Half of these Baby Boomers own their home outright, so the rate lock-in doesn’t even apply to them,” he told CNN. “They just aren’t downsizing. Even if it is just one or two people, or a couple. They love their big house.”
For those who own their home outright, the median monthly cost of owning a home, which includes insurance and property taxes, among other costs, is just $612, according to the report.
“Logically, empty nesters are the most likely group to sell big homes and downsize,” said Bokhari. “They no longer have children living at home and don’t need as much space. The problem for younger families who wish their parents’ generation would list their big homes: Boomers don’t have much motivation to sell, financially or otherwise.”
We need to give those people an “incentive” to vacate, like a big tax on unrealized gains on real estate. Those geezers should all be living in old folks’ homes.
Just wait for an excessive bedroom property tax.
It’s not empty nesting if your kids don’t leave. There are definitely situations where the kids stay and pay rent. It’s cheaper and easier than trying to find a place in a big city.
Slab foundation here.
I can see how it could easily work with suitable people and property.
It is what we are doing. They pay for the base mortgage, get a house with lots of rules, and they don’t have to live in a hole for 1000/month.
It’s what I plan on doing, unless the daughter wishes to go. Might be the only way to pay for the taxes on this place post my 65th birthday.
The kids were long gone when we built the big house. And we are never leaving it.
My parents’ home is not big, but bigger than these planners probably think it should be. In my dad’s last year we talked about moving him to a home, and he told us that if we did that it would kill him. It’s easy to tell them their home is too big when it’s theoretical.
3 bedrooms is 3 too many.
That said I have a lot of sympathy for young people, housing costs are stupid right now.
If you’ve got rooms you got rooms for
illegalsmigrantsasylum seekers.*racks AK*
You know- morons
More than 250 billionaires and millionaires on Wednesday reiterated their call on elected representatives of the world’s leading economies to introduce higher taxes on the very richest in society.
In an open letter to political leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the rich signatories said they wished to deliver a clear message: “Tax our extreme wealth.”
“We are surprised that you have failed to answer a simple question that we have been asking for three years: when will you tax extreme wealth?” the letter said.
“Our request is simple: we ask you to tax us, the very richest in society. This will not fundamentally alter our standard of living, nor deprive our children, nor harm our nations’ economic growth. But it will turn extreme and unproductive private wealth into an investment for our common democratic future.”
Nice humblebrag. We’re so fantastically wealthy we could piss away vast sums on government boondoggles and it wouldn’t hurt us a bit.
It’s just a damn shame it’s illegal to voluntarily overpay your taxes, or just write a big fat check to Uncle Sam or Uncle Pierre out of the goodness of your heart.
Well, that is a steaming pile.
Idiots. If you have extreme wealth and no brains, give out some entrepreneur grants. At least then you have a chance of improving people’s lives.
Fuck it. People suck.
Taxing is not enough, IMO. They should be drone striked and all their shit seized by any .gov with the balls to do so.
Oooh…. millionaires. A million dollars. What an inexhaustible supply of wealth.
Heh.
*Cries*
But I will only pay what I am required and no more.
extreme and unproductive private wealth
If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?
Was this phrase born here in the last few days? If so, watch out, because the leftists might steal it.
“unproductive private wealth”. That’s about as obnoxious as “unearned increment”, which coincidentally is what my dad named his boat.
Better than ‘unearned excrement ‘.
You know I haven’t seen Gustave Lytton around in the past day or so…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/man-bites-flight-attendant-tokyo-plane
I have a friend who comes from serious money. One of the things the trust or foundation or whatever it is does is an involvement (I have no idea what the actual structure is) with a large vocational technical school in the Chicago area. I’d say that is an infinitely more productive use of wealth than just giving it to the government.
Burning it in a trash can to keep hobos warm in the winter is more productive than just giving it to the government.
No.
“We make sure that for all these vaccines, there’s enough capacity; there’s competition. So the prices keep going down, and we will have new vaccines,” said Gates.
“We’ll have a TB vaccine, malaria vaccine, HIV vaccine, and even the things like COVID vaccines; we need to make them have longer duration, more coverage. And we’re going to change instead of using a needle to use a little patch. So the pandemic really highlighted that we’ve been underinvested in those innovations, and our partners in India are part of how we’re going to get these breakthrough products done,” he added.
No-o-o-o-o 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEyWqVfY4vo
I think that skidmark has gone full-blown malthusian, hasn’t he? I won’t touch anything he had anything to do with.
‘And we’re going to change instead of using a needle to use a little patch. ‘
Then make it IOT so you can update to the latest clot shot without a new consent and having to go to the doctor, etc.
Was this phrase born here in the last few days? If so, watch out, because the leftists might steal it.
It’s old. A twist on the slightly older saying, “If you’re so mart, what aren’t you rich?”
I guess I don’t get out often enough.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E14/289672
I guess I don’t get out often enough.
Neither of those sayings are exactly widely used.
I knew the first one. I thought the inversion was Wilde or Parker clever.
Trey or Dorothy?
“Billionaires are wielding their extreme wealth to accumulate political power and influence, simultaneously undermining democracy and the global economy,” said Brian Cox, a signatory to the Proud to Pay More letter and an actor who played fictional billionaire Logan Roy in HBO’s “Succession.”
“It’s long past time to act. If our elected officials refuse to address this concentration of money and power, the consequences will be dire,” Cox added.
Time to clean and oil Madame Guillotine. To the barricades!
Marchons!
Then just pay your self-assessed due to that address in WV if you like the idea so much.
I read about 15–20 years ago about a (childless?) European couple who did just that, so grateful were they to their adopted country. 🙄
Er, left their estate, that is.
If our elected officials refuse to address this concentration of money and power
Who wants to tell him?
I’m not really a millionaire, but I play one on TV!
OT: But this may be of interest to some of the people around here. Humble Bundle is currently running a bundle of Discworld eBooks ($1 – 3 books; $10 – 9 books; $18+ – 39 books leaves out Rising Steam and the Last Hero, includes all other books at a brief check) to be fulfilled by kobo.com.
If you haven’t read them, I highly recommend them.
That’s just what an ultra-MAGA extremist would say.
Jamie Dimon just went on CNBC and said people are voting for Trump because he was right about the economy, immigration, and China:
“I don’t like how Trump said things, but he wasn’t wrong about those critical issues. That’s why they’re voting for him. People should be more respectful of our fellow citizens…I think this negative talk about MAGA will hurt Biden’s campaign.”
Emergency signal flair sent up in hopes that the Biden campaign will maybe layoff calling half the population shitheads?
I hope they double down on denigrating voters. That is how you win elections, right?
Imagine the level of hatred it takes for an elected official to openly do so. It is like some kind of collective borderline personality disorder.
It’s insane. I remember noticing this with Hillary. She didn’t even try to win anyone over, she just demonized anyone who didn’t support her.
Why aren’t I winning?
This was the administration that was going to return us to normalcy, bring us all together, etc. But the stubborn people went and let the White House down.
Needs more flair.
Biden campaign will maybe layoff calling half the population shitheads
And in typical Biden campaign style, they up it to two/thirds a[shit]head.
Some knucklehead on Twitter was comparing that to the way the establishment talked about Hitler in 1932.
Biden and his team really painted themselves into a corner with this. While they can proclaim they are aiming at Congresscritters and politicians, there are people behind those ideas, especially if they are populist ideas. People have taken note…you want us expunged from the political process is all they can take away from it.
Bidenomics hard at work.
Anyone have a recommendation for a good quality soldering iron/soldering station?
First a juicer..now a soldering station…*thinks of how the teen was setup to join ISIS recently….*
I accidentally dropped my phone in the juicer
A euphemism for “I had to go to the emergency room to have electronics removed from my butt.”
That reminds me – the “will it blend” (Blendtec) videos on Youtube are good for a few grins when you feel like it.
I loved those from way back
Hakko seems to be the gold standard. You will pay for it.
However, there are Chinese clones that folks claim are just as good or even better, but you need to do your homework.
I want one, but don’t have the space or need it enough to justify the purchase.
I have a basic freestanding pencil iron and a Ryobi “station” that adjusts temperature. My needs are not super-high tech.
I have several inexpensive pencil irons, but really want a station that will hold the heat steady.
Problem is the space on my bench and that I only really need something with that kind of constant power into a some heatsinking ground plane once or twice a year.
My problem exactly. If I used it even monthly I would have one. I do not.
Weller WES51 will get you 95% of what you want to do without costing too much. ~$35 locally on craigslist
Thanks for the reccomendations!
People should be more respectful of our fellow citizens…I think this negative talk about MAGA will hurt Biden’s campaign.
Crazy talk.
Basket of deplorables
Honestly, I think that’s when Hillary lost the election.
Biden’s handlers seem to think they can split the Republican party by denigrating “MAGA Republicans.” This would work if the MAGA Republicans were a small subset of Republicans. Or that the policies they were espousing were diametrically opposed to standard Republican policies. Neither of these are true.
Yet the media just keeps hammering the philosophy. And Biden based his whole campaign around it. Blows my mind. They don’t even engage on policies. Just on divisive hatred.
A foreign aside, but:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/15/leading-german-politician-calls-afd-supporters-flies-on-a-pile-of-shit/
“The bigger the pile of shit, the more flies are on it!”
True. And Germany is a pretty big pile of shit…
Hoping somebody points that out to xer.
Germans should not be dehumanizing people.
It is what they do best isn’t it?
It sounds better in it’s original form, reverberating through a toothbrush mustache.
Democrats Warn That Republicans Plan To Steal Election By Blocking Democrat Efforts To Steal Election
Trump Promises Vivek An Administration Position Running The White House 7-Eleven
“Vivacious Vivek, I call him. He reminds me of my primary care physician. I’ll make him the head of IT in the next Trump white house.”
Good.
Today the state of Texas must allow the federal government access of the riverfront park in Eagle Pass or face a DHS/DOJ lawsuit.
I just talked with Texas DPS who says they are not granting the feds access today—They have had access to the boat ramp since Friday and that’s apparently the only access they’re going to get barring a medical emergency.
Defiance is as American as as
apple pieshooting tyrants.Wooo! Big, scary lawsuit.
Let’s try this before a jury of Texans from the local area.
Good point. Venue is everything.
DC, it must be in DC!!!!
I may have to add this to my obnoxious T shirt collection.
Viva La Libertad Carajo! – Javier Milei – Peluca Milei T-Shirt https://a.co/d/dfgJeba
Biden’s handlers seem to think they can split the Republican party by denigrating “MAGA Republicans.”
Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Depends, do they sink?
The party is already split. Based on the Trump vote last night, MAGA won. The dems can have the smattering of globalist Bush holdouts. Might take years to completely purge the globalists from the republican party, but this is a big step to shattering the uniparty.
This. They also need to worry about a split in their own party as more and more people who aren’t young single women* realize that their party hates them and wants them dead.
*real or manufactured