We’re between snowstorms and the temperatures have been hovering just above freezing. So of course, the trails are pure muck, my back yard is a marsh, and Dog is rolling in it, then coming back in the house and jumping on the furniture. Oh, and besides the numerous (now mud-filled) craters he created, he has also decided that all shit must be deposited in one spot of about 2-3 feet in diameter. The spot, of course, is chosen for maximum visibility and odor transmission to my front door. I’m praying for snow to come back.
Birthdays today include a sweet guy from the south; a songwriter who was one of (((us))) but wouldn’t admit it; a guy who was too old to be a westerner; a woman who stopped to smell the roses; a painter who might win the award for Most Parodied; a guy who might have been able to help Lamar Jackson; and speaking of Lamar, his spirit animal; an excellent singer/songwriter whom I had fun hanging out with some years back; a woman whom I just recently honored; my wife, whom I’ve seen naked; a guy who was far worse than Zero Mostel; my favorite basketball player who would smoke a cigarette between quarters; an infamous member of a crime family; and the queen of Fake It ‘Til You Make It.
Let’s wipe our feet and start the actual Links.
And war boners continue to be stroked.
I was surprised to see this in the NYT. And since WebDom and I have a friend who is a prominent detransitioner who gets frequent death threats, it all rings true.
Is it possible for both of them to lose?
Proof that most people don’t understand math.
Back in the early days, these guys did a very different style of music than in their glory years- and I think this was better music. A fun cover of a great Irish tune with an iconic guitar solo. Old Man likee.
Morning, Old Man.
Mornin’ all
Sometimes it’s TMITE.
Sometimes it’s the internet.
Why not both?
I think back on my childhood and wonder how it might have messed me up if I had been subjected to constant propaganda telling me that “I’m a girl.”
It means that the narrative is falling apart. They would never have printed this otherwise.
I’ve watched a couple of recent NYT videos that were surprisingly good. Kinda shocking, isn’t it?
I think back on my childhood and wonder how it might have messed me up if I had been subjected to constant propaganda telling me that “I’m a girl.”
Music link
I had guessed this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zItRFUywI
https://youtu.be/wGqCROvjXrI
I must say, I rebelled against the propaganda I was presented with as a Child and mocked it loudly. This would be no different for me. I guess not everyone has a decent bullshit detector or the brass to speak out.
I am who I am, always knew exactly who and what that is. No one could gaslight me into believing otherwise.
And I’ve always heard that if you *do* transition, you kill yourself.
The suicide attempt rate for post-op is hovering around 50%.
It’s more damaging to have the surgery.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089606
As much as it pains me to recommend plastic covers on sofas and chairs… 😖
slipcovers?
If made from the finest petroleum byproducts to prevent soak-through,
At first I thought OM was talking about my kids…
People understand math a little, journalists understand it not at all.
Yes, but they really understand propaganda!
They don’t understand propaganda but they sure do believe it.
And generally people don’t understand macroeconomics. I believe by design (govt schools).
What is there to understand? It is voodoo statistics.
Yes, I can recall numerous times where if a tax went from 2 percent to 3 percent it would be reported as “a 1 percent increase” and not 50 percent.
Proof that most people don’t understand math.
And that most journalists are mendacious POSes.
I have to admit to being more a fan of Sam Phillips than Shawn.
I would have thought this was your fandom.
Nice harmony, too sappy.
A Rite Aid recently closed in the nicer part of my old neighborhood in NYC leaving one open in the less nice part so this racist clown and the racist clowns who jump on her racist bandwagon can fuck right off.
I bet even the Dems think she’s a bit of an embarrassment.
Didn’t Rite-Aid recently file for bankruptcy?
Aw, but the ice cream!
*deletes comment*
Suffering is good for the soul. Embrace your pain.
Thanks, Mother Theresa.
Mornin’, TOG. Mother Theresa? I identify as a cisgendered shitlord. But to be fair, I’ve been called a Mother on more than one occasion.
Nah, I was indirectly referring to Christopher Hitchens’s polemics about her. No offence meant, m8.
None taken. I’m dealing with an abcess, with the help of Vicodin. Drug warriors can fuck off and die.
I remember. Wisdom teeth.
My preferred Walgreen’s recently moved from it’s lovely, large corner lot with plenty of parking, relocating just a block or two up the street in a much smaller building with a hugely scaled-down inventory on a much less convenient mid-block parcel. I haven’t even gone in.
There’s finally activity at their old building. My money is on Dollar Tree, as it’s the only “dollar” store we don’t already have multiples of within a very small radius.
I’m sure you’ll find out soon; the usual suspects hate that franchise.
Businesses are there to make money. Community support doesn’t come into it. When a business stops making money, it has to close up. Any other viewpoint is tainted with commie red.
If the community is shattered by a business leaving, maybe the community should address the reason the businesses leave. Not that commies ever will, but I can dream.
*cue desperate attempts to hand-wave away the smash-n-grabs*
And there’s the comment in the article that the closures “aren’t arbitrary”, as if that’s a bad thing.
No shite, Sherlock. If 3% of your stores aren’t turning a profit, you don’t throw darts at a map to pick out which 3% of your stores to close. And you don’t close 3% of them based on the average skin color of the neighborhoods, either.
Ayanna Presley didn’t understand a word you wrote. If she did, she would burst into flame.
Honestly, they can close even if they are making money and it happens all the time. Maybe they feel they could make more money in a different location with less effort.
See Oakland In-n-Out.
Not very Minnesoda nice.
Ten bucks says the DOJ can still blame it on the “far right”.
SOW: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/the-week-in-pictures-psy-op-edition.php
Does anyone else get its main page redirected to weird crap?
I do whenever I click on a picture. But not from your link.
All the time with Brave.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/02/IMG_3813.jpeg
I can live with this so long as they don’t stick Eastern Iowa into Chicagostonia.
So, Walz across Minnesoda. ?
Uh-oh, when you’ve disappointed The Intelligencer, you’ve got problems.
TBH, though the case is clearly bullshit, I don’t see how her fucking one of the other people on her team somehow makes it a questionable prosecution.
It’s like when I talk to my rabid anti-Trump friends: “There’s so much real stuff to criticize, why do you have to make shit up?” It’s a shit case because it’s a shit case, not because of two of the players bumping uglies.
The claim is that she was funneling money to her honey. That doesn’t speak to the case itself, but it does suggest that she is nit fit for the job, and if she were gone, the case night go away.
Because the prosecutor’s ethics are very much in question. On the merits, the case is questionable. It may not survive at all because it appears the prosecution itself is tainted.
it’s not the fucking. It’s the money.
Wade settled his divorce to avoid Willis being deposed. That says there was more than some bedroom shenanigans.
Birthdays today include a sweet guy from the south
Happy Birthday Uncle Remus!
Happy birthday, indeed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHIhsq9qHPk
Delayed Friday nutpunch.
It isn’t the amount of course, it is the idea that even one collective penny from us went to that fuckfest.
“At least”
Yeah.
JFC
“Proof that most people don’t understand math ”
Alternatively, proof that many economic indexes have been politicized into irrelevance. See unemployment percentage for reference.
Politicized and used to manipulate markets. Trading Places. The right people always seem to know which way the economic winds are blowing.
What do you mean sitting on the couch collecting benefits doesn’t count as unemployed??
Yep. Deliberate distortion of any market benefits only the very few to the detriment of the rest of us. Employment’s UP!!! (until revised next quarter). Grocery prices give you the side eye. Wheelbarrows are about to become a commodity.
Nah, the wheelbarrow makers won’t even benefit since too many people use plastic.
We’re hitting the same note here. I think the wheelbarrow makers are the purveyors of plastic. Who benefits the most from forcing consumer spending onto credit cards? They’re upping credit lines without the customer asking. So they keep throwing into that wheelbarrow. Customer keeps spending or a mindset of “Oh look, I can’t be out of money, I still have checks.” Props up the whole deal. Customers locked into a cycle of just paying inflated interest simply out of economic illiteracy. Debit cards? That’s data mining and a chance to charge processing fees for every transaction. Of course, that’s just like my opinion, man.
Dwarling, don’t you have your own herb garden? And sheep to mow your lawn?
Now I can see the USAF getting behind this proposal.
They’ve wanted to rid themselves of these planes for more than a decade.
Probably. Of course the idea that the next wonder weapon will turn that disaster around is absurd.
The idea of the A-10 as a wonder weapon and not a tired old relic is absurd too.
It is the same idiots who swear that the M14 is better than the M16 (and variants) and is what is needed today!
You keep your hands off of my M1A. While you are at it get the fuck off of my lawn.
B-52 is also a relic. It’s also still effective.
What’s the CAS replacement for the A-10?
(The answer is “nothing” because the Air Force is still run by the fighter jet mafia and they’re not interested in CAS at all. But the Army can’t be permitted to fly fixed wing aircraft, so we’ll kick the can down the road some more).
I would say at this point – drones, owned and operated by the Army. Low speed, plenty of loiter and no pilot to risk.
Sounds good but such drones are purely theoretical at this point AFAIK.
The A-10 is effective at CAS, the Air Force brass hates it, and no real replacement is in the pipeline, so we’ll keep them flying for now.
20 GOTO 10
Theoretical? What just killed 3 Americans in Jordan?
Not sure you can compare suicide drones with a CAS mission.
TBF, I’m guilty of thinking we need something with the survivability comparable to the A-10, flying low and slow with a long loiter and lots of firepower, including anti-armor.
If there’s a version of CAS that doesn’t need all those things, so be it.
The only valid replacement. Cheaper to operate, long loiter. You need air superiority but that is no different that the current solution.
Fixed wing for for CAS. Flying around human cargo and a few other purposes is ok for Army.
Is it still effective? Maybe as a platform for launching cruise missiles – could probably modify a 737 to do that.
They took big losses flying over Hanoi in the early 70’s. Now, they’d all get shot down.
Not just airframes, but any and every loss, they’ll be going “See?! No longer cutting the mustard, gotta get rid of all of them,”
‘We don’t need your flying trash’
The Ukrainians turned down Australia’s old F-18s. No amount of old planes piloted by half-trained Ukes or suicidal NATO pilots will make any difference.
Who *hasn’t* covered WITJ? 🥃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlxcyd_7x90
I like this song about stuff in a jar better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=S8sgbPYaAnQ&ab_channel=HayseedDixie
Preferable In a Jar song…
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War boners…they are getting exactly what they wanted. Everything going on in the ME right now is squarely on Obama/Biden. If it hurts Amaericans you can be sure the left is up to their eyeballs in it.
Since I cant have my way and shoot every parent, threrapist and surgeon involved in the Mengelesque mutilation of children’s minds and bodies I would settle for life in prison. I would bitch about it but I could live with it.
Trump/Unions? Whatever. He has dealt with them all of his adult life. I will stay out of that one.
Damned right it is discrimination. They are discriminating in favor of the law-abiding. Those bastards, how dare they close down stores being robbed blind in high crime areas. High crime, by the way, that their detractors deliberately created.
One dude? One dude at one rally? Holy shit, we better throw the borders back open.
The vast majority of people, economist and pols included, dont know what the word ‘inflation’ means. The citizenry keeps demanding free shit, pols are more than h happy to bribe the public for votes and the govt keeps inflating away the debt incurred by providing it. Crazy train indeed, few of us are innocent in this.
It’s not hurting Americans. It’s hurting the icky unwashed flyover staters serving in the military. They don’t count.
“Inflation has fallen. Why are groceries still so expensive?”
If you need an article in WaPo to explain this to you, you
1. Won’t get it even with an article.
and
2. Shouldn’t have the vote.
Maybe the mystery would be solved if an editor correctly rewrote it as, “The currency isn’t being devalued quite as quickly as last year. Why are the devalued dollars still being exchanged for groceries at prices reflecting that these dollars continue to be devalued, because no deflation is occurring?”
War Boners: Leave underprotected soldiers where they aren’t wanted and the locals are varying degrees of hostile-sound like sacrificial lambs to allow a casus belli to be generated to me.
It’s called cannon fodder for a reason.
It’s so cynical. It’s amazing to me that people take the development of this story at face value but I guess most of them miss it for the same reason they need a WaPo article to explain inflation to them.
“Biden Reportedly Is Planning To Unilaterally Mandate Background Checks for All Gun Sales”
https://reason.com/2024/02/01/biden-reportedly-is-planning-to-unilaterally-mandate-background-checks-for-all-gun-sales/
Covered here? What a crock of shit.
Covered here? Booted down the road anyway.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-blocks-california-requiring-background-checks-buy-ammunition-2024-01-31
What was that I read the other day? Oh, yeah. “Joe Biden has done more to save democracy than any dictator in history.”
Wish me luck!
Good luck!
Ummm….any particular reason?
I think she drunk-dialed RV guy. 😉
I just want to tell you good luck, we’re all counting on you.
Everything’s gonna be just fine, ’cause you’re you.
No pressure KK, if you fail the world will end, that is all.
Would a break a leg suffice?
Well, she is a skier…
painter who might win the award for Most Parodied
Happy birthday Grant Wood!
While a signficant portion of UAW members may vote or Trump anyway, the former president has a steep hill to climb with union brass. Even when courting the UAW’s endorsement last year, Trump claimed rank-and-file members were being “sold down the river” by leadership.
Trump further rankled UAW leadership when he traveled to Detroit l to deliver remarks at a non-union shop during last fall’s strike.
They’d be going against their own best interests!
Trump has never been popular with union brass.
The rank and file? That is a vote that he can split and carve off a decent chunk. Especially now that those “green union jobs” Biden sold them never materialized.
I bet more than a chunk.
Absolutely. Biden has pissed them off to no end. he will either carve off votes, or they will abstain from voting all together.
My brother is a teamster for UPS. You are correct based on what he tells me. That and employed Somali’s are more conservative than one might guess.
What’s The Matter With
KansasDetroit?Fain, for his part, appears to be a key piece of the Biden team’s strategy in reaching UAW workers and working class voters more broadly. The UAW president accompanied Biden on a trip to the Detroit area on Thursday and has been a willing and capable surrogate for the president’s reelection effort.
“We know who’s been there for labor, and we sure as hell know who hasn’t,” Fain told UAW members on Thursday. “We’re going to fight like hell, and we’re going to ensure Joe Biden is the next president.”
“Joe Biden’s asshole tastes just like strawberry ice cream. I’ve been there. I know.”
Good Lord.
Update on Mann v. Steyn (and do click through on Steyn’s motion for bad-faith sanctions – yowser).
“…Plaintiff’s falsification of key damages testimony. . .”
This is ‘Stunning’? To whom?
The mendacity of the watermelons, Mann especially, knows no bounds. Why would it be stunning that like his scientific work his arguments at trial are a fiction.
Also, what is the point of broadcasting the trial to the public if it is selectively edited? That reeks of the supposed objective party, the court, attempting to have the public arrive at a pre-determined conclusion.
Because unlike his scientific work, knowingly giving false evidence to a jury has meaningful sanctions. At least in any court that hasn’t abandoned entirely the rule of law.
Good point. That he pays no price for his fictitious academic work is the root of an awful lot of big problems not just those involving Mann.
Still, once one is in the habit of being thoroughly mendacious it should surprise no one that that carries over into their every endeavor.
Just saw Carl Weathers. RIP. The grim reaper is taking my memories.
He’s beating up a retarded Italian guy in heaven now.
We need more democracy! Send in the new arrivals! Bonus for multiple ID, bus is outside and running.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Biden/Trump show up in the same clown car. Apparently this is the best we can do. I’m glad I’m old.
Mexican standoff
The park, made up of playing fields and a boat ramp at the end of the downtown business district and next to a golf course, is closed. U.S. Border Patrol agents are denied entry.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that the governor’s actions were “unconscionable.”
“It is unconscionable for a public official, to deliberately refuse to communicate, coordinate, collaborate with other public officials in the service of our nation’s interests, and to refuse to do so with the hope of creating disorder for others,” Mayorkas said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Eagle Pass, with about 30,000 people, has become a major corridor for illegal crossings in recent years, making it a target for Abbott’s enforcement. The community lies in the Border Patrol’s Del Rio, Texas, sector, which is often the busiest of the agency’s nine divisions on the Mexican border. In a record-high month of nearly 250,000 arrests for illegal crossings in December, Del Rio tallied 71,095 arrests, second only to Tucson, Arizona. San Diego in California was a distant third.
Unconscionable.
Now do sanctuary states and refusal to allow cooperation with INS.
In the service of our nation’s interest? You aren’t doing that you lying slimebag.
A few weeks ago I ordered a whole mess of trees for spring delivery. I assumed they would show up in March or April. 15 bareroot trees were delivered on Wednesday. Now I get to spend the whole weekend planting.
Luckily it isn’t pouring rain like last weekend or bitterly cold like 2 weeks ago.
What did you get? I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of 75 paw-paws.
It’s about time, much interest is revived in paw-paw and at least one state uni is developing hybrids (Kentucky).
Paw-paw is easily the most under appreciated fruit there is.
75 paw paw! Are growing them commercially?
Sitting in my garage right now are:
2 Paw-paws
6 Apple
2 Fig
2 Jujube
2 Mulberry
1 Pear
What zone are you in? The only one of those I cant have are the apples.
I am in 8 but can throw a rock over into 9. It’s kinda screwy. I have to experiment with various species to see who is rated for each zone will actually live here. It is an expensive hit-n-miss game.
7b
The northwest edge of South Carolina which is also screwy since the Blue Ridge Mountains are so close. Certainly adequate chill for at least some apples. Can freeze hard one week and be 60 degrees the next.
Ever notice the warnings on the back of artificial lure packages? My favorite is an articulated minnow with three treble hooks on it says “Do not eat”.
I guess it is a good thing that fish can’t read.
Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an early spring.
I have 10 apple trees growing in pots in my basement. They are called MN apples ’cause they’ll not make commercial quality but will make fine pies, juice, and apple sauce. I have given a lot away over the past couple years and I hope to give these away. ‘Course it will take several years for apples to show up but I have the time.
I planted 6 nursery trees in the protected garden, had a few apples last year.
Don’t worry, you’ll get them in the ground, in the mean time keep them in a bucket of water. Keep them watered and you’ll see buds/then leaves and your wife will be proud, your neighbors envious and coming to you for advice.
With regard to last night’s convo about commenting, the 30-minute “rule” was put in place because Q was posting titpix immediately after a post went up.
@MikeS, thank you. I do know I’m filling the Friday night slot when no one is around, however. That’s why I asked for it. I know my stuff’s filler. IMO, posts should not go up at all during light traffic (the way we do Sat and Sun is better). Anyway, Bro is right that there re only so many times people can say “great story” or “you suck.” Which is a way of saying I knew what would happen when I asked to fill Friday night.
@NotAdahn, no, Marina isn’t pretending at all. She didn’t tell Dot she needed the sweet tea. She also doesn’t know Trey’s giving her sugar.
Thank you Moj. Do appreciate that you’ve let your work be serialized on Friday nights.
I do wish the weekends were a little bit more evenly spaced. Particularly Sunday. If it’s only two, push the horrorscopes back to noon.
I’m grateful for those doing any work. MikeS is my good friend but I’m still waiting for an article. It’s tough to complain about someone else when many us are free riders on the articles. I’m not on the night shift ’cause old guys need more sleep, the techie stuff is beyond my comprehension and I’m not into the SFiction but I do appreciate the writers and I know there are many that can appreciate that more than I.
Thanks, Moj and everyone else, Glibs are the best. Now get out there and go that extra mile.
On Friday, there were no migrants to be found on the grassy fields of Shelby Park as Texas National Guard members unspooled razor wire atop train containers dotting the riverbanks. About 200 migrants arrived Thursday, according to the mayor, a sharp drop from December.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Border Patrol to cut razor wire that Texas installed, for now, but the state continues to erect more. The federal government argued the wire impedes its ability to patrol the border, including aiding migrants in need.
The Biden administration told the Supreme Court that “Texas has effectively prevented Border Patrol from monitoring the border” at Shelby Park. The state has defended the seizure, with Attorney General Ken Paxton saying he “will continue to defend Texas’s efforts to protect its southern border” against the federal government’s attempts to undermine it.
If by monitor you mean provide open and unfettered passage, that makes sense.
If they just wanted to monitor, they could get a few RC planes with cameras mounted on them.
including aiding migrants in need.
Kick their asses back into Mexico – that’s your job.
JFC – hard lesson to figure out apparently for the mainstream media and I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but, as a business owner, if inflation slows (not goes down, as has been incorrectly reported), my prices are still rising, just not as fast as they were 2 years ago. I can’t afford to lower prices, I’m just not raising them as quickly. The only price I’ve seen go down (since going up 2 years ago) in the auto parts/supplies world is anti-freeze. 2 or 3 years ago, store brand Dex-cool 50/50 pre-mix went from 12.99 a gal to 17.99. It has since throttled back to 14.99. My before times retail price was 13.99. I can’t sell a product that costs 14.99 for 13.99 and remain in business very long. I know because I saw GM doing this very thing with automobiles leading up to their bankruptcy over a decade ago. The only surprise then was how long it took for them to go broke.
Even if inflation reverses (hah!), there’s still so much eating costs in the pipeline to work through, too.
Having watched a mining town go from full retail to full junk stores, now struggling to become a tourist destination for bike riders (which is short summers here) is tough for an old guy. The two big employments are the schools and the hospital with the associated nursing home and old people apartments. Government money.
As a kid I could look down main street and see 7 different car dealerships, now it’s tough to find a shade tree mechanic that isn’t overwhelmed. One car parts store but he recently opened up part of his building to a wine tasting cafe. About 5-6 restaurants/brew houses but they won’t all be here in a year or two either.
I like that song but was more into Thin Lizzy once they perfected that double-lead guitar sound like this.
https://youtu.be/ODJP56YfWXY?feature=shared
This….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXM3zCestm8
These animal crackers I got the other day are a big disappointment. You can’t tell the baboons from the buffaloes, or the jackals from the jackalopes. What has become of pride in craftsmanship?
But do they protect against scurvy?
I can’t sell a product that costs 14.99 for 13.99 and remain in business very long.
Blah blah blah greedflation. Profits are immoral.
But volume!
“Kanye West channels Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th as he bizarrely wears a hockey mask to son Saint’s basketball game in Los Angeles”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13040447/Kanye-West-channels-Friday-13th-hockey-mask.html
LOL
Save those in comas, is there anyone that hasn’t figured out that West is bark at the moon crazy?
Pinterest thinks I’m spamming. No, I’m REARRANGING. Just because it looks like I’m throwing a lot of pins into a different board doesn’t mean I’m spamming.
Then again, this is the same Pinterest that thought cupcake pans and loaf pans were sexual fetish material, so…
I probably shouldn’t go searching for Rule 34 cupcake pan and loaf pan material
You and your muffins know. 😉
“…thought cupcake pans and loaf pans were sexual fetish material”
If you had met an old GF of mine you would understand.
Then again, this is the same Pinterest that thought cupcake pans and loaf pans were sexual fetish material, so…
Listen, Cupcake, they know what they’re doing.