The best part is the wailing.
This is my review of Karl Strauss Brewing Wreck Alley Imperial Stout:
With the government currently under siege by a troupe of unelected billionaires using their largess and influence to shape the federal government to suit their personal agendas—wait just a minute here, they’re just mad these aren’t left wing billionaires using their largess and influence to shape the federal government to suit their personal agendas.
As I read this, I assume this guy is wearing a pair of tidy whities while he presses firmly on his .gov issued laptop:
I currently serve in the Senior Executive Service of one of the larger federal civilian executive branches of government. I have been working for the federal government for nearly 25 years, and believe, just as President George H.W. Bush is credited with saying, “public service is a noble calling.” I have dedicated my entire adult life to serving my country in one capacity or another. I spent my formative adult years serving this country in uniform, even spending time deployed overseas in support of multiple military operations like Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Upon exiting military service, I spent some time in the private sector and truly felt as though something was missing.
”Damn you people, I just want to get back to fucking off!”
Make no mistake my fellow citizens, the efforts that are currently underway are going to be catastrophic to our very way of life as U.S. citizens. The complete and total overreach by the executive branch, at a speed and ferocity unseen by the federal government, has led to a state of confusion, failed service delivery and a complete and total breakdown of morale of the federal workforce.
My first job at the VA was at a call center. The building they leased had a small gym, and locker room that I would use before work. It kept me in shape for a time. I would run into a senior employee from time to time and he sId something that stuck me as odd even for 28 year old me: “they keep up with this shutdown stuff society itself will breakdown into chaos.”
This is a unsurprisingly common viewpoint among .gov workers. Without them, how will we ever wipe our own ass? Then what hits him?
While the merits of shrinking government or even working to obtain efficiencies in what is arguably an overly bureaucratic environment are indeed worth discussing, doing this kind of surgery with a machete when a scalpel is required is not only foolish, but also cruel.
LOL. So cruel.
Among my federal employee peers, I would consider myself one of the good ones. I’ve spent my career slowly gaining the knowledge, experience and skills needed to change things for the better. I’ve been in the Senior Executive Service for three years now and, in that time, I really do believe I’ve made a positive impact on my agency, my team and our services to the American people. It is because I believe that public service is a noble calling that I cannot (or will not) stick around to watch good, hard-working people get fired with nowhere to go, or worse, be replaced with political appointees who are borderline zealots to this President, this administration and this fundamental dismantling of our government.
Judas titty-fucking Priest. THEY ALL THINK THEY’RE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES. Federal performance reviews are based on a 1-5 scale. Like many employers there is an obvious issue with inflated performance review. The trouble is to give someone anything below “fully successful” (4) a manager will need to have to document when they pointed out where the employee went wrong, when the employee was coached/trained, on an OPM sanctioned format filed within the reporting period, with the response to all of this from AFGE.
I know what you’re thinking: this sounds an awful lot like basic managerial work. The trouble is the manager wants to get back to what he was doing: fucking off.
Karl spelled with a K might be red flag (no pun intended). However I will assume many of you hold me in high enough regard that I can vouch for them. Its okay, this Karl is cool. The problem is some of you will also tell us other Karl’s are cool, and then it gets to the point where even Carl is cool. Carl is not cool. Carl is just like all the other Karls out there.p, except for this one that I vouched for. The beer is good, very good. Extremely heavy on the roasted coffee, and at 9.0% doesn’t need help from a bourbon barrel. Drink it slowly, maybe even with a cigarette. Karl Strauss Brewing Wreck Alley Imperial Stout: 4.7/5. 9.0% abv
Why am I picture this being said by Steve Buscemi?
Gordon’s is orange, Tanq is lemon/lime, Beefeater is grapefruit.
That sounds intriguing. I’ll have to make myself a reminder to check the next time I’m at a “big city” liquor store.
I’ve noticed that increasing the size and scope of government never seems to require quite the same level of precision and measured contemplation that reducing it does.
The scalpel is required in order to stall the process as long as possible until a friendlier administration can set things right.
Truly a fine Stout, local brewery, good stuff, look for Tower X if you can
I’ll see what I can do.
Jeez, I don’t understand the lack of love for Carl. Carl gave us something very special.
https://youtu.be/F1909yNawx0?si=W95f_NJU9YIb4xHp
I was cautiously hoping for this.
I was hoping for this: https://youtu.be/JhGPqjduR8s
Damnit Carl!
“X is one of 13 children fathered by the billionaire, the latest child was born to MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair (pictured) five months ago, it was reported last night”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14399407/The-tragedy-Elons-special-relationship-Mini-Musk-billionaires-four-year-old-son-X-non-negotiable-entourage.html
Good for him. What’s the point of being a billionaire if you only have 1-2 kids like a prole.
Also, someone has to stop Idiocracy.
Huh, guy with poor choice in women leaves a string of illegitimate offspring with moronic names. What a shock.
Good thing he can afford it.
Dude’s a modern-day Genghis Khan. He needs to be spreading those genes. I dare say it’s a moral imperative.
I’m still not convinced about Ashley St Clair. She announced it the other day on X, with no other confirmation. She does work for the Babylon Bee, after all.
The article seems to exist just to get the tranny in and show what hateful bigot Elon is.
“4.7/5”
This must be one hell of a beer.
We need to start up glib beer again things we did before again.
I can vouched for Karl.
Nothing within 100 miles of me. Q.Q
Won’t someone think of the children?
The BIFs (Beer It Forward)? If there’s interest, we could do one here in the spring. Fair warning, shipping costs have gotten a lot more expensive. Shipping prices have gone up ~250% in the past 5 years (at least based on several shipments I’ve made recently).
“tidy whities”
I believe it’s “tighty whities,” and I suspect that this person’s briefs are anything but tidy at the moment, IYKWIM.
Incidentally, I do not.
I believe the implication is that bro is shitting his proverbial tighty whities about theoretical personnel cuts.
Yes, Pat is correct. I was dinging on the bureaucrat.
I love how the 800 billion bean counters in the FedGov are ‘on the front lines’ and indispensable.
*Insert Clemens quote here*
Bean counters? Fed Gov accountancy seems to consist purely of making payments and never, under any circumstances, asking for a receipt.
They aren’t counting beans, my dude.
Your beans. They’re counting your beans and guess what?
You have too many.
Just in case …the quote is “Cemeteries are filled with indispensable men.” – just in case someone is unfamiliar with that one.
“A Mississippi woman was arrested and jailed after she was convicted for having intercourse with a dog.
Denise Frazier, 21, was charged with unnatural intercourse and sentenced to four years in jail on January 24 after outrageous videos showed her in the sickening act.
A judge also ordered her to serve five years of probation and pay $2,615.51 in fines….
Three separate dogs appeared in multiple videos, according to WJTV. They were rescued and received veterinary care…
Fraizer was previously arrested in another Mississippi county in 2023 for the same offence at age 19.
She was caught on video that spread around on Snapchat depicting her engaging in unnatural intercourse with a male canine.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14400211/denise-frazier-sickening-act-dog-mississippi.html
I’m guessing she was selling the videos.
Not being an expert in veterinary medicine, I wonder what veterinary services are necessitated by kujo getting a bit of cross-species strange.
If at first you don’t succeed?
I thought the dogpill was just a r9k meme…
One of the dogs is a German shepherd that Frazier referred to as a ‘service dog.’
I mean, it serviced her, so… PoliFact rates this “mostly true.”
Ugh don’t get me started with that shit.
For every actual “service dog” I now see about a dozen “emotional support dogs” and they all belong to homeless derelicts bringing them on the bus and shit with no leash or crate and of course you can’t say anything about it because reasons.
“Fraizer was arrested in Hattiesburg in 2024 with one count of attempted unnatural intercourse and one count of unnatural intercourse.” Uh. They’re mammals at least. Kinda natural. I’m not big on animal-cruelty laws. In a sick sense, I don’t give a shit if she gets fucked by dogs as long as she didn’t torture the pups into it. (I highly doubt the dog would otherwise complain.) Pretty much, don’t apply human law to animals, BUT. If used to demonstrate the wantonness of an individual, showing they need to be away from other humans, I certainly agree. Red Flag laws that I agree with. “Your whole existence is a Red Flag, John Wayne Gacy+. You go in that box now.”
I guess some things never go out of style. There was a lot this stuff prefaced with “You gotta check this out” passed around my office during the early days of the Internet.
I am guessing the complainant was not one of the dogs.
One of the bitches that wasn’t getting any.
It is because I believe that public service is a noble calling that I cannot (or will not) stick around to watch good, hard-working people get fired with nowhere to go
Smart talented hardworking people always have somewhere to go. What does that say about you and your accomplices?
The problem is that the only other businesses that do the things the feds do are organized crime, and they have this prejudice against hiring feds.
Not completely true. There’s always HR.
Yeah, a lot of from prog friends are losing their minds over this, but they still seem to have trouble reading the rest of the country. Yes, I’m sure there are “good, hard-working people ” in the FedGov. But it’s not a jobs program for good hard-working people.
“I cannot (or will not) stick around”
So he took the severance?
“noble calling”
You might say “religious”.
Funny how the size of the government workforce keeps increasing, and it ballooned under Biden, but none of us recognizes any resulting improvements in our lives. I guess if I went to the SS office and filled out a form 1985-BULLSHIT-584784(f) it might get processed in 6 days instead of 7.
Watching this ARCA demolition derby. 80 laps or until all the cars have been destroyed.
Cleetus was taken out by somebody who spun in front of him.
Man, I love demo derbies. Used to go to ’em around Haupstadt, Indiana. Such fun. I’d prefer to go to ’em over racing, but the fairgrounds had plenty of that as well. Good time had by all. Best bit of Evansvillle: Hydroplane racing on the Ohio River in the last week of June. Fucking Budweiser, Coors, etc racing at fucking 150mph. I remember one year when the lone piston boat, which obviously never one, actually did. Mostly cuz of mechanical shit for other racers, but I think there was an accident as well, IIRC. (This is likely 20-years ago.)
That and the 4-H Frog Follies for old cars were our two biggest yearly events. We *did* get Casino Aztar in ’95, the first in Indiana. They had to keep on the river, and fun shenanigans were had to keep it docked instead of going on regularly scheduled cruises, as they were ‘required’ to. Didn’t take long for it to become permanently moored.
Who wants to tell him that he’s part of the executive branch, and not some unelected 4th branch of government?
He’s an SES so is functionally braindead. The SES’s like to compare themselves to being the General Officers of the civil service- with much the same perks. I have worked around many FOGOs and SESs and while the level of self-serving dumbassery is very high among the FOGOs it pales in comparison to the SESs.
SES positions are supposed to be supervisory leadership positions, yet in the recent years have seen multiple that supervise zero people, or at best 1-2 secretaries. The is even a worse group out there, the “Highly Qualified Experts” (HQE) scam. These people get paid SES wages and are employed solely for their “expert skills” which are often dubious at best.
Hahahhahahhaha!
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/02/15/carville-dems-arent-this-stupid-it-must-be-sabotage-n3799853
Who wants to tell him?
” Pointing to the gender rules that were enumerated during a recent Democratic National Committee meeting – that went viral due to their woke nature – the longtime Democratic strategist suggested that someone was sabotaging the party from within by suggesting these policy points.
“And it’s like, there’s a, a plant somewhere in quote, progressive, unquote America, that just to seize how many jacka–, stupid things that they can embrace, it’s stunningly stupid. Both of them.””
So it’s all the fault of one person?
They just made David Hogg a key member of the DNC. Yes, yes they are that stupid.
I’m not the only one who made that connection.
Every hard core progressive I know is in fact that stupid.
“The 72-hour “cooling off” period was a provision of a broader gun-control bill Democratic lawmakers passed through the House and Senate in response to the Oct. 25, 2023, Lewiston massacre, when an Army reservist opened fire in a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston, killing 13 people and injuring 18 others. The mass shooting sparked a fierce debate over gun control in Maine, a blue state with the nation’s lowest crime rate and a record of resisting firearm restrictions.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/federal-judge-blocks-maines-firearm-waiting-period
I’m going to take a wild guess that the shooter got the gun more than 72-hours before the shooting.
Carl from the Simpsons was fun. (First 10 seasons, really 2-9.) On Musk’s flock: (Ashley St Clair has nice hips.) “The death of his son Nevada, by first wife Justine Wilson, from sudden infant death syndrome in 2002, wounded him deeply, as did the decision by his second child, who was born Xavier but transitioned to Vivian, to disown him upon turning 18.” I’d forgotten that first one, but wasn’t aware of part two. I’ve never wanted *any,* but I s’pose if ya have the resources, why *not* have 13+? (I can think of 13+ reasons not to. I love children, even teaching ’em. I just don’t want to go *home* to one. OMWC’s mileage varies.) Musk’s a decade older than my bro, a (far lesser) programmer and biz developer. (A decision comes soon on $2.2M his ex-biz partner fuckered with.)
As for me, time for Finland v Sweden in NHL’s ersatz all-star series. (Finland just tied at 1 with 9 left in the 1st. I prefer Finland to Sweden, in general. Winter War. Damn. Great drivers, also, the Finns. Sisu, ‘Finnish courage.’) I feel far better mentally/psychologically than I did yesterday, but fuck I’m still at 113BPM. Ain’t none of that normal. I reckon/hope stress is jacking it up instead of something else of import underlying it. There was a TBI group meeting Mom found that meets once a month, but ’twas yesterday. Possibly a good place to make outside contacts, ‘specifically on the work front. The disability legal folk are supposed to get in contact with me, as well. That could go in curious directions. A place for me to regularly go and be productive is by far the best thing for me. Hopefully my salvo of apps to Aldi, Kroger and Walmart go somewhere.
Tanquaray> Gordons> Beefeater.
“As of now, Elon Musk has not responded to St. Clair’s declaration.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/conservative-influencer-ashley-st-clair-shocks-internet-claims/
Looks like he had twins (2004) and triplets (2006).
Musk has like 50 kids with like a dozen different women or whatever. Who cares?
Their mothers, perhaps. The biological strategy for these women is clear and is a helluva play. (I’d put out for Musk if he’d accept, and me no go that way. (I’d be gay for say, not for pay, for Clint Eastwood, for example.)) As for him, the ‘reproduce as much as possible’ play also makes sense. Unless one or a few are evil? (“THEY’RE 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐊’𝐒 CHILDREN! They are ALL EVIL!!” <– Hello there, Deranged Lefty.)
"St. Clair, known for her outspoken conservative views and children’s book “Elephants Are Not Birds,” made the announcement late Friday night in a post on X. The post was captioned with the Latin phrase “Alea iacta est”—meaning “The die is cast”—signaling what she may see as an irreversible turning point in her life." <–Yeah. You're legit set up for life, or at least ~20 years. 'M̵u̵r̵d̵e̵r̵ S̵h̵e̵ Jealousy, I Wrote!'
Make no mistake my fellow citizens, the efforts that are currently underway are going to be catastrophic to our very way of life as U.S. citizens.
And by “our” I mean “my”.
Yeah, your way of life as an agent of the state isn’t the same as that of its subjects.
And it’s the self-aggrandizement. I just saw a cartoon on social media that has a man holding two shopping bags standing in front of a line of Cybertrucks, a la “tank man.”
Yes, firing government workers is totally the same as slaughtering unarmed civilians calling for democracy.
I do like an Imperial Stout.
As far as Saint PubSec’s complaint, we’ve tried it with a scalpel, and gotten political prisoners, a censorship regime, trillions of debt, etc ad nauseum. DOGE is making it plain that even the most jaded skeptic was a pie-eyed optimist.
So fuck you. I don’t have a violin small enough for the pubsecs getting dumped into an economy they wrecked.
Yep. As a pubsec fedgov take a hatchet it it.
not gunning for present company
The US has spent a century normalizing military service and teaching every child to hope for some sort of federal sinecure. After VietNam the former seemed to dry up, but it’s back in spades. Now there are, what, 5M of these fuckers clamped onto my tit, and I’m supposed to stand up and clap for their perfectly useless endeavors? This guy isn’t evil: he’s the typical spawn of our paternalistic, deferential, centralized culture; we begged and raised him to think this way…..we happily paid for him trillions of times over to be who he has been.
Deadname Karl with a K
Husband had brunch with his dudebropal who is in Susie and Millie’s congregation, and his view of it is that the fighting is all window dressing. The property has to be sold to pay for Mom’s care and that’s the only thing that matters. He was pretty certain that most of the reasonable people in that congregation would see it the same way. And nobody wants to take sides, but it can appear as if Susie’s the chosen one because Mom lives with us now and we’re in a different congregation, so nobody sees us regularly.
I hope your man’s right and Aunt Susie McCunty finds herself soon on the list of highly DISfavored folk.., certainly by humans. (Perhaps doG as well, though ‘my’ relationship with Him is highly ambivalent.)
Kinda plays in to the Carville and bean-counter hubaloo above. People just feel so damn *special* about themselves. Undeservedly, and inertia simply keeps the mass in motion, a growing snowball rolling down the hill. Sometimes it hits a barn. I continue to be impressed with Trump 2.0 continually pulling the rugs, rugs all the way down. Must be both fun and immeasurably satisfying to join the trivia ranks of Grover Cleveland, though sucks for the latter. (Not that he cares.)
Overwhelming opposition
The Utah Education Association, the state’s largest public education employees’ union, criticized Cox for ignoring the many workers who urged him to issue a veto. The union is exploring a possible ballot referendum to try to overturn the law, though the effort would come with a high price tag.
“Despite overwhelming opposition, Governor Spencer Cox and the Legislature ignored the voices of thousands,” the union said in a statement. “This is a blatant attack on public employees and our right to advocate for the success of our profession and students.”
I wonder what the citizens of Utah who aren’t members of the teachers’ union think.
Utah has been Californicated.
XY drove to Denver for a pilgramage to the original Chipotle. He’s as obsessed with that company as he ever was with school busses and Ford F350s. I just hope they don’t throw him under the bus while he’s in the throes of his love affair, as corporations are wont to do.
Yay. All the best for the spawn.
If they were smart, they would bring him into corporate ASAP as a brand ambassador or something
I relayed this to him. He said it required a bachelor’s in marketing, which he doesn’t want to do, and to live in California, which he can’t afford to do.
Those requirements are dumb…smart companies identify outstanding employees, no matter their education, and bring them into the fold and (for lack of a better word) groom them.
Agreed.
Ha! I built the energy management system for that Chipotle
The Democrats I know are really losing their shit. I believe I made a mistake in commenting on one of their FB posts this week. She’s a good friend but has terrible TDS. She reposted something from Bernie Sanders saying how Musk and Zuckerberg’s net wealth increased by x amount this year. I commented with a screen shot of an article stating Musk’s net worth went DOWN this year because Tesla stocks took a dive. And I said Bernie should stick to shouting about onesies.
She finally replied with something like, “HE’S THE F’ING PRESIDENT KEVIN”, so now we’re supposed to believe Trump the dictator who would never share power, has now given up all his power to Elon Musk.
Surprisingly, Mom and Dad have been very quiet and sound kind of happy about the border being closed and criminals being deported.
Ask her how much pharma money Bernie got.
“Surprisingly, Mom and Dad have been very quiet and sound kind of happy about the border being closed and criminals being deported.”
I think there’s a lot of that. People have been ‘forced’ to kowtow and keep silent for so long. One reason I didn’t vote for Trump was in case of family ostracization. (If I weren’t in Trump-safe Indiana, I woulda been out to make a statement.) As people see things move in directions they *needed* to, people will again feel comfortable being honest, or I hope so. Just vid of Trump signing EOs and spitballin’ with reporters was remarkably impressive, such a change from Dementia Joe folk felt the need to defend. Should be interesting to watch. I suspect and trust Trump has given Musk the power to provide extra, indeed better, security detail. Any Prez has gotta be careful, but damn so many would love to get another crack at him. I won’t be surprised if they eventually succeed. Vance in the wings, and Musk as well, provides some ‘safety.’ The replacements inflame TDS to a perhaps greater extent, somehow.
*Vance glance at camera*
Finland v Sweden 3-3 going into OT. Even NHL teams have bad habits of being far too careful near the end of regulation. A loss gets you 0 points (duh) but an OT loss gives you some in the tourney. Good game, regardless. Distraction Dust and all. Canada v USA at 8pm on ABC.
Mom and Dad live right on the Illinois border and for the last few years have complained about retail theft near them. I guess people come over the border, rob the shopping center, and skip back to Illinois. There have also been assaults and fights. A lot of those caught have been illegals.
It’s shocking to me, and probably to them too, to see Trump in his first days do what Biden could have easily done in the last 4 years. We all knew it was his choice, but now everyone else sees it.
It is like asking the scorpion to not sting.
Everything he and his friends do is calculated to cause maximum chaos, because that is their nature.
Smash burgers with handout fries and homemade buns. It’s a good day
What’s a handout fry?
I have teenagers boys…they want handouts.
I’m Short Fry and I applied for a handout on Friday. Gears are theoretically turning, though I’m far more interested in meeting employment folk. My vocational rehab appointment isn’t until March 20. I’m oddly charming IRL, in my own way. I’d like to think I can ingratiate myself into work, though that hasn’t worked so far. Still pissed the doggy daycare folk turned down this non-corpse.
Things *do* always get better. Just frustrating, but such is much.
I’m sorry I didn’t try the smash burgers near us prior to it closing.
It’s a style of cooking, you can make your own.
David McKeegan offers rebutted to a moon hoax promoter:
https://youtu.be/03x2MC3wv5Q?si=5fjfabUjSvtUzQ6F
I’m currently listening to this documentary on Apollo 12:
https://youtu.be/02iHPsBA1gI?si=SIpJSFuLwb4hSeI0
Thanks for the link!
Vintage porn at the 44:12 or so mark. Someone stuck playboy bunnies in the astronauts’ instruction book
For the Dixie Alley residents, Ryan Hall Y’all is live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqjd6xoRDIQ
whatever- it’s your money
Country music star Sheryl Crow said she will donate funds from selling her Tesla to NPR amid President Trump’s intensified calls to slash federal funding for public broadcasters — calling out tech billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the administration.
“My parents always said… you are who you hang out with,” Crow wrote Friday in a post on Instagram, sharing a video of the vehicle being towed. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
The post comes as Trump has turned up the heat on public broadcasters, arguing outlets such as NPR and PBS have a liberal bias and should not receive federal funding — which makes up a small portion of its financing.
Earlier this month, Musk, who helms the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, called for the federal government to “defund” the public media outlet.
“It should survive on its own,” the Tesla CEO wrote on the social platform X.
Do it quick, before they make it illegal to give your money to NPR.
I’m mildly surprised she isn’t having it crushed, just to prove her disdain.
Whatever are leftists going to use for virtue signaling now??
You can donate to NPR? Imagine that.
Holy shit. I just now looked at the dog girl article. The photo…that is priceless. Dog – “Yeah buddy, I am hittin’ that. Yes I am.”
testing…I cant seem to reload the page.
🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
I applied for a job with Margaritaville At Sea 😂
Bartender on a cruise ship?
Fuck. No.
I’m at a loss then.
Well, they have a website and they need people to run it
So… not a career change.
KK:
But then you could make all the Miami Vices you wanted!