We are NOT celebrating this guy.
Ever since I stopped working for the G, I have not really paid attention to President’s Day. A contrived mash up of Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays, it is no holiday to the Swiss. However, it does give me an easy title for the links. Not that I want to mention any Presidents for this set of links, mind you.
- The police protecting and serving.
- And in further idiotic developments…
- Fortunately for us, Fourscore is not in California!
Comments belong to all of you.
Not really.
Are you telling us that turkey can just flock off there, Swiss?
Re: themed music — I was expecting something more from this. But I suppose that would be too obvious.
Or this
I thought Swiss worked for the D.
I thought that was Tonio and Riven.
How do you know I didn’t mean defense?
Because it wouldn’t be as funny?
“Loudermill, who had several drinks on the tragic day, was detained for being intoxicated and not moving away from the crime scene, said his attorney LaRonna Lassiter Saunders, KMBC reported.”
Too drunk to run from gunfire?
Too local news! 😉
(The almond orchard pollination bugs me more because I’m apparently allergic to almond pollen or the chemicals they spray on the orchards this time of year… the migraine rate goes off the charts…)
Retail the bees and accompanying boxes are probably about $300 in one hive. Probably a little extractable honey there so maybe $400. The boxes looked pretty tired, more like scrap.
Smash and grab at a Quickstop is easier, cleaner and you can eat the stuff right away. OTOH the HH would be missed
Sounds like the thieves are renting them out. Not sure what the take is on that.
Haven’t you ever heard of a Bee & Bee rental?
Oh, yeah; I read about those on Buzzfeed.
“Bee rustling isn’t as well-known as cattle rustling, but it’s very real and affects beekeepers and farms throughout the nation, especially in California.”
*invests in tiny branding irons*
It is a serious crime here…if you ever keep bees on your own dime you will see why.
“For theft of items valued between $1000 and $5,000, the offender may be given a prison sentence for as long as five years, a fine of $2,000, or both. In Louisiana, a “felony” is a crime that is punishable at hard labor. So in this state, even theft under $1000 is a misdemeanor, while theft of $1000 or more becomes a felony charge. Purchase of a nuc (nuclear hive – queen and enough honey and workers, drones, guards to survive- is around 200-250. After establishing a hive for a few years you may have easily sunk 1000ish into it. In any case a good hive with added queens can be split into a number of nucs and sold.
First you gotta buy a really small lasso.
Had a vague dream last night about Heart coming to Kansas City on tour. Forgot about it. Hours after I wake up, I look at my phone and see that Heart’s website and tour date list is in my browser.
WTF, brain?
Have you been taking Ambien?
Alternately — I think we found Elon’s guinea pig among us for neurolink (or whatever it was called).
Either that or you talk in your sleep and Facebook or something is listening there, Mojeaux.
FB being helpful, as per usual.
Nope. Tylenol PM is my poison.
“Dozens of Chinese migrants spotted entering US illegally in California border town of Jacumba and say they’re here to ‘take the money’ along with others from Syria and Turkey”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/us-border-crisis/article-13101039/Startling-photo-shows-large-group-Chinese-migrants-California-crossing-border-illegally-Mexico-numbers-continue-rise.html
“Boston’s migrant shelter luxury: State pays $16 for breakfast, $17 for lunch and $31 for dinner as they live in hotels for free after entering the US illegally”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13101037/Bostons-migrant-shelter-hotel-cost.html
Your tax dollars at work.
In complete and perfect honesty — if all the military age men from borderline or fully hostile nations entering our territory are here solely for the grift I’d be quite happy. Beats the hell out of the probable alternative.
Narrator: Some, or many, of them are lying.
That’s literally more than what Hilton offers as a credit for breakfast to its top-tier elites.
If the leftist truly did want to destroy the country what would they do differently?
My take? Round them up and send them home, every single one of them. Send the fucking Dems with them. Prison or one way trip to Leavenworth? Take your pick.
So no rescheduled upgrade
I thought they were trying for Tuesdays… like the tractor beam and photon torpedoes….
Swiss has been posting reminders in the Monday links
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says at least 29,092 people have been killed and 69,028 wounded in Israeli strikes on the enclave since October 7
So… a good start. Keep adding to those numbers until every Hamas sympathizer of military / suicide bombing age is unable or unwilling to take up arms against his neighbor. If that means increasing those (likely highly inflated) numbers by an order of magnitude or going full Dresden on Hamas, so be it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13098329/peoples-choice-awards-2024-red-carpet-arrivals.html
When Macy’s wants to sell something, they put it in the front window.
Sad
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), an outspoken critic of former President Trump, warned of the emergence of a “Putin wing” of the Republican party and stressed the importance of preventing its return to the White House.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Cheney sharply criticized Trump’s recent comments suggesting he would not defend NATO allies in the wake of an attack from Russia and his recent silence following the death of the anti-corruption, pro-democracy opposition leader in Russia, Alexei Navalny.
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In the interview, she did not make any presidential endorsements and said she has not yet decided whether she would enter the race herself. She made clear, however, that she would do whatever she could to prevent Trump’s return to the White House.
She wears her thwarted ambitions like a crown of thorns.
They dissin’ her daddy. But she ain’t no Beth Dutton.
More like a diaper than a crown.
In modern presidential news, a completely unbiased and nonpartisan group has ranked Biden as our 14th best president and Trump last.
Let me take a wild guess, Wilson was in the top ten?
Wilson was immediately above or below Joe, I don’t remember which.
You can guess the top few but I can’t guess at the ten or so they found better than Joe and Wilson.
They left out Mrs Wilson and Nancy Reagan
What, was FRAU DOKTOR JILL in there?
That is crazy.
If we reverse the list, would blur be a more accurate reflection of reality?
Meh…the list is all over the place, so my idea doesn’t work.
Martin van Buren should be near the top. The “Liberty versus Power” podcast made a good case for him. Andrew Jackson should also be up there, but not because of Jackson, but because van Buren had influence on Jackson’s policies.
But van Buren founded the Democrat Party.
And by way of proggy think, that means he’s responsible for the KKK.
These bullshit lists are a great way to get engagement.
List anything.
It always works.
It’s also a handy form of propaganda. Biden mentioned the list yesterday or today.
“Top 10 list of ways to bullshit your readers… number 5 will astound you!”
Get hate clicks with this one neat trick! Website hosting services hate it!
I managed to get the day off today.
Cooked an eight-egg ham’n’cheese omelette for the family.
Made some popcorn on the stove for the first time.
Read through Animal’s “Space Pirate” story.
Had some roofers change the housetop. (I think they will finish today. God bless Mexicans!)
Couldn’t take a nap, though, because of the roofers.
….
Ever notice how Trevor Moore had that video informing everyone that it is illegal to talk about killing the Prez? And then, he played the parts of JW Booth, LH Oswald, and John Hinkley?
That’s some meta humor.
“Had some roofers change the housetop. (I think they will finish today. God bless Mexicans!”
Couple years ago I had El Salvadoreans doing the work. Did you know you can get 7 ES in an F150 crew cab? They came out and hit the ground running. At noontime I picked a couple watermelons, bunch of cukes and tomatoes and some jalapenos, they were eating as the they worked and were very gracious.
Start to stop about 7-8 hours.
Maybe that’s what I have except they work 24 hours a day and are drunks.
(I’ve lived below a drunk before, I know the signs.)
Oh? Any interesting anecdotes?
No, only anger and frustration.
They stomp everywhere, little baby stomping steps but as loud as they can.
They wear shoes. Always. The heavier and clompier, the better.
They run, a lot. For no reason I can guess. The apartment isn’t that big.
But the biggest tell is random crashes that sound like they’re clumsily juggling bowling balls. No, it’s just them falling over again.
Fed up
A cougar attacked a group of five cyclists on a trail in Washington on Saturday afternoon, sending a woman to the hospital, officials said.
The bikers were on a trail northeast of Fall City, located about 25 miles east of Seattle, when they were attacked around 12:50 p.m. local time, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Officers with the department said they “removed one subadult cougar on arrival at the scene.” Based on eyewitness testimony, officers said they believe there may be a second cougar, but it has not yet been located.
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People who spot a cougar should not run because it may trigger the animal’s attack instinct, experts say. Instead, people should group together to appear as large as possible and make lots of noise. If the cougar shows signs of aggression, such as baring its teeth and hissing, officials recommend shouting, waving your arms and throwing anything that you have available.
“The idea is to convince the cougar that you are not prey, but a potential danger,” according to state Department of Fish and Wildlife guidelines.
People who are attacked should aggressively fight back and try to stay on their feet.
Bad kitty! No!
“Edith! Where’s my laser pointer?”
“Why do you need that, Norton?”
“STOP ASKIN’ QUESTIONS AND GIVE ME THE POINTER, WOMAN!!”
I suspect the laser pointer would actually work to distract the cat. It definitely triggers hunting behavior in their smaller cousins.
All you have to do is hold up a pair of toenail clippers and click them a few times. The cougar will run for the hills.
Offer the cougar tea, then ask if it wants one lump or two.
He’d like a lotta lumps!
Geez… I’d heard the dating scene was rough after 40… but baring your teeth and hissing seems excessive.
Subadult cougar? It identifies as very mature?
Needs more OMWC
I was going to say that staying on your feet seems like good advice for dealing with the *other* type of cougar. Aggressively fighting back, OTOH, only encourages them.
Nah, they only do that pre-divorce.
I’d cheer the kitty if it attacked Critical Mass cyclists.
Heh. I can’t wait till that happens to Stop Oil protestors who glued their hands to the ground…
My folks mentioned that a dog got killed by a cougar in the Des Moines area. Seems that the population is doing pretty well of late.
A new Order of the Stick dropped today:
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1298.html
The hell? That poor, poor dragon.
That dragon has some legit grievances, but it must bow to the rule of cool.
At least it isn’t in an Oglaf update, I suppose.
I guess I need to go back and figure out where I left off.
Taxi cab race is about to start.
Daytona’s really gone downhill, apparently.
They should have to race Citroën 2CVXes, like James Bond in For Your Eyes Only.
I care not who you think of on this day, for me it honors Silent Cal.
“President Coolidge, I made a bet that I can get you to say three words this evening.”
“You lose.”
“How could they tell?”
“You lose….comrade…”
+Hey Giorgy
That’s July 4.
Have any of you watched the Tucker/Mike Benz interview? It’s nothing we haven’t suspected, but it is kind of shocking to see how organized and pervasive the censorship complex is. To me the key part is how they change the definition of “democracy” from “giving the people the government they want” to “protecting democratic institutions such as the intel services and the mainstream press.” It is hard to go away feeling hopeful.
Autocracies have a tendency to collapse in on themselves, eventually.
True. I can see they are devoting so many resources to this, so many people, so many organizations, and it all requires total control. AI might make it easier on them, but it does require a lot to keep it going.
98% of domestic bee production is geared towards the California almond crop. I bought a quart of honey at a local place last month and he was prepping 150 hives for the trip.
Sheesh, there are other nuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3COpxKYnjPY
We’ll get our bees off the back of an 18 wheeler in May, comes from CA. They are delivered to a retail bee equipment store (Mann Lake) about 50 miles from here.
Did you just assume the sex of that lake?
Link 1 – What was that dude’s name that, if I remember correctly , went to prison for the Atlanta bombing? I wonder what he is up to these days.
Link 2 – Will not read. Want a pause? A ceasefire? You will get one when the Pali monsters are all pushing up daisys.
Link 3 – I ordered 2 swarm traps. Walmart claims they have been delivered yet I got nothing. I want my fucking traps and they better show up fast or it will be too late.
If they dont deliver in time I will demand they replace them with nucs.
President’s day. Hmmm. I am still chuckling over the political science fuckknuckles who mistook ‘best President’ for ‘most progressive dicksplash’.
I think Richard Jewel died of cancer some time ago.
Close. From the WIKI:
“Jewell had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 2007 and suffered kidney failure and other medical problems related to his diagnosis in the ensuing months. His wife, Dana, found him dead on the floor of their bedroom when she came home from work on August 29, 2007; he was 44 years old. An autopsy found the cause of death to be severe heart disease with diabetes and related obesity complications as a contributing factor.”
Jewel didnt go to prison, he was just wrongly accused by CNN.
The fact that Atlanta hasn’t put up a Jewel statue in Centennial Park is a travesty.
Atlanta tried to make amends a few years ago.
I never tire of pointing out that Hamas had a ceasefire on 10/6. Israel didn’t break it, and it didn’t break by itself.
Eric Rudolph (who actually did the bombing) is still serving multiple life sentences at ADX Supermax in Colorado. He’s still on “Bomber’s Row,” and will never leave prison except in a hearse.
Richard Jewell, who saved several lives but became the national butt of jokes because he was a fat redneck (and was subject to months of harassment by the FBI, etc) died of heart disease complicated by diabetes back in 2007. A docudrama of the events surrounding Jewell came out in 2019.
Eric Rudolph (I had to google, had forgotten his name). From wikipedia:
Mrs. Tree has recently gotten into bees. We have 2 hives with “store-bought” bees and one with some “wild” ones that a friend caught. She also just made 3 swarm traps and hung them up around in our yard and some friends’ yards. She’s gotten very very reluctant for me to do any weed spraying at all (used to occasionally do glyphosate or triclopyr+2,4D) because she didn’t want to risk any of the bees being harmed by poisons. Fine by me.
Here’s what’s interesting to me about that – we have a farm over on the other side of the state, and neighbor rents and farms the cultivated portion. He’s in cotton about 50% of the time, and neighboring farms are in cotton probably 75 or 80% of the time. Just up the road about a quarter mile, and in a few other places, there are spots where beekeepers put out a whole bunch of hives and tend them, right on the edge of the big cotton fields. So there’s tons of cotton flowers all at once, and plenty of things like clover cover crops and red maples in their own seasons. And all those fields see normal levels of agricultural chemical use – which is pretty high. Burn-down on the cover crops sometime, defoliant on the cotton when it’s time, some pesticides and herbicides in-between. So for those bees at least, they have a large potential exposure, considering their hives are literally right beside a 200-acre cotton field. I have no idea where it’s marketed – never heard of “cotton blossom honey” but maybe it’s a thing.
Like I said – just interesting to me as I’m getting more educated on all this.
When I hunt out in western NDak, the farmers have put out a lot of bee hives. Almost every section has at least one place where the farmer has put out 5-6 boxes of bees at the end of a tree row.
No idea if they produce much. Maybe it is just a thing you can do to supply yourself with some honey each year for free? After watching the folks at HH slave away extracting the honey, it seems like too much work.
I think I’ve cracked the code for the most recent totally unbiased and non-partisan presidential ranking list:
1) If a president was a Democrat after the Civil War, they make the top half of the list (#1 thru #22). Unless they’re Grover Cleveland, who was arguably more conservative than any modern day president, so he’s kind of a fake Democrat and gets downgraded to #26.
2) If a president was a war-mongering son of a bitch who ran up a huge body count, they’re moved way up the list. 8 out of the top 10 meet that criteria.
3) Any Republican who was formerly highly ranked gets downgraded over the past decade’s ranking.
4) Except Lincoln. A Republican, but almost unilaterally started the Civil War, which IIRC is the most bloody war in terms of American deaths. So, #1. Plus he’s got a big monument in DC.
Fact not in evidence.
He got elected. The anticipated ban on sweet tea was more than the nation could bear.
You people keep linking to Duran Duran songs as if they are actually good. I Just figured out that it must be a Glib’s in-joke that I have been missing. Someone really needs to update the FAQ page.
Thanks for the music link, Swiss!
Posting Duran Duran videos does seem to be a reflex maneuver.
Its Monday. Is there a New Moon ?
I don’t care what anyone says. Duran Duran could write some cool songs.
Perhaps we should split off and have an election day to decide.
Someone really needs to do something about everyone crossing the Rio.
In an ordinary world, it would have already been handled.
No, it’s not. The name of the Federal Holiday is Washington’s Birthday. As others have mentioned, “President’s Day” honors some real stinkers.
Also on-topic
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/LvtzRuJKSrGG1aJRcH9Q6Q.k0Ps3dNg8qIW4b2_e8gmVr
Pepper sprout update.
Took me a long time to figure out they were saying
“hotter than a pepper sprout”.
https://youtu.be/FPynO42XFRw?si=88Z1svxP5c8uAxGh
Southern Arizona represent!
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46829622/man-steals-semi-chevy-corvettes/
(Sorry to spam this; didn’t realize the dedthred was ded.)
brake line(s) are kaput… hope I don’t have to trash the car. :/
Found out today that my Siberian Husky pup (8 months old and about 50lbs) is not a guard dog.
Our Australian Shepard barks at everything and he always stands behind her and watches whatever she’s barking at.
Today, he was out front by himself and Amazon came.
Poor dog peed on the front porch as he ran off of it, then ran through the invisible fence to get to the backyard.
Was really skittish for awhile, not sure if it was because the man scared him or running through the invisible fence.
He peed all over his tail, so we had to get that clean and it’s more like a mop than a tail.
The joys of dog ownership.
Our Boxer, Liesl, is useless. While not micturating on your rug, she either stands and looks at “strangers”, or wants to make a new friend.
*thinks back on long line of useless pit bulls, nods*
Ours (lab/bulldog/hound mixes – black and brown and big) bark at coyotes and other dogs, but not people. If somebody’s obviously a friend or neighbor then they’re super-friendly.
If a visitor they don’t know comes to the door, they get in kindof an overwatch position just up the embankment and sit there and stare silently while frowning. Doorbell camera has caught a few double-takes and flinches when somebody noticed that.
Once a guy came up asking to borrow a gas can (Mrs. Tree gave him one of ours and away he went). He noticed them watching him and asked “Do they bite?” She said “Well, they’re dogs. So that pretty much depends on you.”
In California’s Fresno County, visiting and local beekeepers can protect their hives by registering them with the county sheriff’s office. A deputy can issue a unique owner-applied number that is stamped onto the hives and recorded in the National Crime Information Center’s directory.
“stamped” onto the hives” – seems easy enough to take care of.
Spicy
The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement.
The Rubymar was in the Gulf of Aden and nearing the Bab al-Mandab Strait when it was struck, security firms said.
The vessel, which is carrying “very dangerous” fertiliser, has been taking on water.
President’s Day
Which president(s) would you actually want to honor with a national holiday? Probably a low-single-digits list.
2…maybe 3. Washington, Coolidge, maybe Jefferson. Ok, maybe 4…Madison wrote the 2A so he gets at least an honorary.
No love for Grover Cleveland?
How about renaming it Javier Milei Day?
Viva la libertad, carajo!
Viva la libertad, carajo!
I still have not had anyone explain to me what was so bad about the Trump presidency that he was vilified on the day after his election. The only thing that I have been able to figure out was that he was The Worst(tm) because he denied Herself her expected adoration.
I’m not a big Trump guy but he had some positive achievements along with his negatives. Biden hasn’t had a single positive act during his entire administration.
To me the one redeeming thing about DJT is that he took everyone by surprise and went to DC and kicked-over their little playhouse.
Dems hated him, repubs hated him, and he never passed any legislation of note because both of them were in collusion against the orange, bloviating, windbag that wasnt a politician.
They’re too stupid to realize that likely the main reason(s) he got elected were that he was well known…..and not a politician.
*and a WWF hall of famer with a wife that has great tits
Also, he broke apart the Bush-Clinton dynasty. For the past almost 3 decades, there was always a Bush or a Clinton on the ticket.
Washington, maybe Eisenhower, and that’s it.
brake line(s) are kaput… hope I don’t have to trash the car. :/
Depends on what that means. Replacing the flex hoses is (mostly) no biggy. A bad spot in a steel line can be replaced with a new section and compression fittings.
STOP LOOKING UNDER MY ENVOY (POS™) !
(Its a robust tapestry of hydraulics: woven with SS, brass, copper, and anything else I could get my hands on)
“robust tapestry”
lulz
Tres’ car is all the better because of the rich diversity of his undercarriage.
Hey- it stops!
Uffda. I can’t even. Where is the nearest Safe Space? Some Republicans in Minnesoda are showing sympathy toward J6 Rioters!
Local commie rag is hyperventilating because a lot of the rubes out in the sticks aren’t down with the way the J6
protestersinsurrectionists are being treated.The Strib is the MSM newspaper of record here in Minnesoda. Them running this story must mean that they are worried about the rural proles and what they are thinking.
For those linguists among you:
Boyd is one of the educated elites. A more common Minnesodan would have said “quite the deal”.
I hope that when the j6 folk are released, they are awarded every bit of money, property, and valuables of everyone who put them there kept them there, and cheered their incarceration.
Sadly, it will end up being like the Rona shysters. “Mistakes were made, why can’t we all just forget entirely about it?”
Anyone play this one?
Blossom Puzzle, February 19
Letters: A D G E I R S
My score: 282 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌺 🌻 💐 🌼 💮 🌷 🌸 🏵 🌹 🌺
Not for a bit. Kinda been neglecting Waffle too.
I’ll say it again, but I appreciate NRO because they feature a diverse set of opinions and don’t parrot any one party line.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/the-case-against-u-s-involvement-in-ukraine-in-plain-english/
Just made Deviled Bones(sort of like hot wings) from 1854.
So good, will definitely make them again.
Mushroom ketchup is intriguing. I can’t imagine the taste. It did look like Worcestershire sauce.
It’s similar enough that swapping it would probably work.
Every year I hope some no name nobody wins Daytona so all the ass licking commentary on the “top contenders” is moot.
“I loved when the violent terrorists respected the velvet ropes in the Statuary Hall.”
-Norm Macdonald
The field has been thinned.
Who dropped out?
Dr. Leary?
“Trans-women’s milk as good as breast milk, says NHS trust”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/18/trans-womens-milk-as-good-as-breast-milk-says-nhs-trust/
Heh, enjoy your free health service Brits.
😂🤣🤢🤮
I’d rather drink arsenic.
Moob juice?
And Old Lace ?
Money is the cheapest way to pay.
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-concerned-that-biden-may-be-too-old-to-complete-the-total-destruction-of-the-country
Started doing my taxes today. With the amount I’m paying I must be supporting a mid-size Ukrainian town. I should at least get some prima nocta out of this.
Is this now a dead thread?
Oh, well…
“It’s a woke firing squad looking to tear everything down by telling us that Native Americans and Americans need to be divided,” social media influencer Maurice the Native Patriot (@lanativepatriot), a Swinomish Indian from Washington state, told Fox News Digital in an interview last week.
“It’s become popular to think that even seeing a Native American image is racist.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/native-americans-fear-woke-efforts-093031962.html