That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
Yep, it’s August. That means smoke in the air. Air quality is 102 here at the cabin. So it goes. There’s still fish in the river and birds in the forest to be gathered and eaten.
Links?
The Cracker Barrel saga takes a dark turn.
Kilmar is not getting good legal advice.
This is just as much about keeping Maduro from attacking Guyana, as it is drug interdiction.
Another judge thumbing his nose at SCOTUS.
Womp, womp. Go to jail, and stay directly in jail. You do not get a succulent Chinese meal.
Okay, that’s it for my. Ima going fishing. Peace out, Glibbies.
There can be no consensus without US
The Trump administration halted construction on a nearly complete offshore wind project near Rhode Island as the White House continues to attack the battered U.S. offshore wind industry that scientists say is crucial to the urgent fight against climate change.
Danish wind farm developer Orsted says the Revolution Wind project is about 80% complete, with 45 out of its 65 turbines already installed.
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Scientists across the globe agree that nations need to rapidly embrace renewable energy to stave off the worst effects of climate change, including extreme heat and drought; larger, more intense wildfires and supercharged hurricanes, typhoons and rainstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding.
Clap, or Tinkerbell’s a goner.
I don’t believe any of “nearly complete”, “crucial”, “extreme”, or “more intense”.
There is a reason New York’s offshore fantasies can’t get off the ground – nobody wants to pay the massive cost.
I was assured all of NYS supported Hochul’s climate “leadership.” Surely higher electricity prices are worth it to support the Supreme Leader.
From the dead thread.
Glad you are okay Evan.
Car accidents suck, no matter how minor.
Sorry about the car.
Wait what? I missed that
Sounds like he bounced his car off a curb pretty good. Maybe an ambulance ride too
βThis arbitrary decision defies all logic and reason β Revolution Windβs project was already well underway and employed hundreds of skilled tradesmen and women. This is a major setback for a critical project in Connecticut, and I will fight it,β Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Make the gravy trains run on time.
lol They don’t even hide the grifting, do they?
But re-wording the back of the peg game, so idiots don’t get offended when they inevitably suck at it? Come on. Sucking at the peg game is as American as apple pie. It’s a rite of passage. It’s tradition. That game made us all stronger as kids growing up. And it challenges us still to this day.
YES
the back of the peg game
Not sure if want to inquire further or click link….
I clicked but I’d rather have that two minutes back.
PM – form a mental image of the CB clientele. Got that in your head? Hold on to that, and now think about your kinky allusion.
[Mr. Haney voice] Well aren’t you in luck, I just happen to have a barrel of brain bleach in the truck here.
JI – Rule 34
moar Mr. Haney
Have we reached the point where Trump can just ignore that ruling? If the lower courts are truly defying the SC then I would think the answer is yes.
Just for fun I will mention this in passing………YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE POLICING YOUR OWN. DO YOUR GODDAMNED JOB.
Power and money are at stake. Law, order, and public safety are completely unimportant.
Honey Harvest is 4 weeks away, Sep 21st
Make your plans accordingly. Time is of an essence.
I won’t be able to make it since I burned all the time I could take off on road tripping to and from FreedomFest.
And getting swole in that amazing gym.
Your gym was pretty good.
There were other good ones on the trip, but yours was pretty good.
You folk visit each other and work out together?
Talk about gay.
yawn
Sadly, I am out. I am dropping 10K+ on rebuilding my front porch, and this has put the kybosh on any travel.
I’ve dropped probably 5K on home improvements this year and last, and there’s more to go. It has really cut into my fun budget (particularly shooting) but I’m trying to console myself that it’s an investment that will come back one day when I sell the house, and a $1300 of new siding could mean the house selling for some much greater amount.
Yeah, my shooting buddy and I were commiserating on how much both of us were spending on home improvements this year. Between the two of us, I has gotten rather pricey. And that definitely cuts into shooting fun.
House improvements including furniture have been budgeted around 10k a year.
Last summer it was the patio at 12k. Iβm in process on the deck and itβs a minimum of 6k just for the materials. Damn you ca and or for ending redwood harvesting.
I’ll be there. I can’t let Pope Jimbo take the lead again.
Now I have an image in my head of His Popeness blessing all the honey.
All I got was a jar of pagan honey.
Mrs kinnath and I will be there. We have the correct weekend reserved at the hotel this year.
US District Judge William Orrick expanded an injunction that he initially issued in April covering 16 cities and counties including San Francisco, where he is based, to cover a new batch of local governments that recently joined the case and sought to be protected under his court order.
A septuagenarian Obama appointee comes out of senior status to stick his thumb in the eye of the administration, contra recent SCOTUS precedent. As tiresomely predictable these days as the sun rising in the east.
Since there’s no sanction on this type of behavior other than a sternly-worded Supreme Court opinion, when does the administration just tell the judge “Yep… check is in the mail. No idea why lawless cities aren’t getting federal tax dollars, nosiree.”
https://centralbucksnews.com/news/2025/aug/23/breaking-one-person-dead-in-fatal-car-crash-dublin-borough/
I have an alibi.
According to reports, a driver allegedly hit a pedestrian with their car, turned around, and then ran over that person another time, causing a significant head injury.
Sounds personal.
Yep
Or Chinese.
From a purely financial point, hear me out / devil’s advocate, it makes sense. Cheaper to pay for a wrongful death once than to pay the victim for their injuries the rest of their life.
Hey, ya gotta work it flat. Y’all don’t feel the knead for speed.
Proof of why ya never rise to the occasion.
I’ve been craving Waffle House a lot lately….
Waffle House > Cracker Barrel.
For the food or the entertainment?
I hate being sick. I feel like Iβm just wasting time laying around. Thankfully it seems isolated in my sinuses, no cough or anything.
Eat more hot peppers.
Heck yea. My go-to sick food is some really spicy soup. Clears the sinuses and wakes me the hell up.
I had the hottest shishitos tonight. Normally one in ten is a bit spicy but 3 of the 6 were jalapeΓ±o+ spicy.
Get well soon
Open air campfire in C Oregon last night. Throat is still itching.
Canada must have finally made a deal with Trump and no more smoke, at least no until the wind changes. Fall is in the air, mornings are cool, humidity down and days only in the 70s.
Flappy headed fuckers.
Amen to that.
Bit of discomfort today but it looks like a pleasant week is coming.
Madres area?
Big fast growing fire SW of Madras burning towards Sisters. I was well south of there to Klamath but still thick enough to set off a smoke detector in an entryway.
Air show is having an unplanned encore featuring tanker drops.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09#success
I didn’t follow any of that case. Too busy being a college freshman or sophomore.
How much of a railroading did they get?
I don’t remember much. It was premeditated, but the brothers claimed physical abuse from the parents.
It’s the first sensationalized trial in my vague memory. I suspect it drew attention more because they were rich and handsome than any other details.
They’ve been on vacation for 36 years, doing life.
Went into Flint today to eat at The Torch. Took the old lady’s car, because I have no desire to have my suspension broken. It’s always interesting visiting Flint. There is so much history and neat old buildings, juxtaposed to burned out houses and empty acres where GM used to be.
Give Michael Moore a wedgie for me!
Oh and don’t drink the water.
Did not know he is a local. The water thing was fixed, ny which I mean they are buying water from somebody who knows how to clean it (Detroit, I think). I think they’ve replaced about half of the lead pipes that were supposed to be replaced by now. It’s so strange, once one of the richest small cities in America, it has so much poverty now. And the lead pipes… there is a lot of crazy in Flint. The fiance quit Flint Public Schools last week, and will be doing more at the University, thank God. Those kids in Flint…
Lucy Connolly freed from prison after hate-tweet jail term
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lucy-connolly-released-prison-tweet-b2811545.html
Keir Starmer Is a cunt.
As if it would be any different with someone else as PM. The rot is incomprehensible.
βI am strongly in favour of free speech, weβve had free speech in this country for a very long time and we protect it fiercely.” What a liar.
He really is in a league of his own. Their system is really fucked up if that is the rotten cream that floats to the surface.
rot
the point of NATO was western liberal democracy vs communism
at this point, why should my son die defending Westminster? Vlad can ‘ave ’em
Rhywun, some Glib once pointed out the scum also floats to the surface.
The western Euro insistence that Vlad is gonna roll tanks across Europe is one of the more delusional things I have heard in recent years.
Exactly. Vlad can’t even roll his tanks across Ukraine. You think he’s gonna roll them across Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France — while leaving his flanks exposed to air strikes from Sweden / Norway to the north and Italy to the south?
It’s not 1974 anymore. Ivan’s not sending sixty divisions through the Fulda Gap.
Never apologise.
Liar.
I repeat, you are a liar.
Spudz Salacious Silicone Saturday Slootz.
https://ddc22fij2yms6x.archive.is/zoCp9/550d39fcefcfe7c9d08ddf095a9d78c4793069f0.jpg
NSFW.
https://dgn1i6smch7v57.archive.is/OiBEd/c1f284ebb5f3d4ae6c387d3836cd14817fbf7d78.jpg
NSFW.
https://d045r0irp3103w.archive.is/jTa3n/c05b8bc32fb87cb7b318b1a8b4b5cd05cadee22a.jpg
NSFW.
https://forum.xnxx.com/attachments/spec739-jpg.2861636/
NSFW.
I know that last one, thats her alright.
She got puffy majora?
Perfect she is.
AI.
Yes. Number 1 and Number 2 wins for face.
I may have gotten distracted in my bunk, but my numbers are in order, methinks. (Yes.)
@Gunslinger: Thanks. I’m all fine and no other car or person was involved, thankfully. Full story:
Well. I got in an accident on the way home from work. No injuries and no one else involved. Hit a curb. Likely broke an axle.
It’s likely to be totaled, I’d imagine. Warning lights on in the lane, pushing the pedal in Drive didn’t connect any power to the engine. It did reverse. Fuck me. Police and fire took me in an ambulance to make sure I was OK, which I was. I up-sold the reality that I’ve been exhausted, the most obvious negative physical symptom I experienced. (This was not entirely true.) I still haven’t boiled down all my thoughts on it, but today was scary. Not at all in the moment, but from 30,000 feet. I didn’t have a (grand mal) seizure, I do know that. But right before it happened, I did realize I needed to pull over. (I think I did too soon, into the curb instead of the entrance road.)
Work was productive (for what it is) and I was gonna start my notes on my piece about it. I hope to still jot bits down, but I admit I’m rather distracted at the momo. Driving the mini-van to work tomorrow, as my ’13 Malibu awaits its fate in a tow-shop lot.
Me no likey. But I’ll be just fine. Life has no business being perfect. (Dammit.)
The fire folk brought a medic team and I got into their vehicle. I wasn’t driven anywhere, and it was fun to sign the release confirming I didn’t wanna go to the ER. I never thought I need to and I didn’t.
Full disclosure, cuz I’m not sure if I can to others: I noticed beforehand that I *may* be feeling the slight shimmy of an aura. Nothing strong, but I could tell something slightly suspicious was happening. [REDACTED.] I decided to pull over as soon as I could. I went to soon and turned into the curb instead of the proper entrance.
That’s crazy. You may have thankfully saved your life and possibly other lives. Hope your condition improves and the car is fixable without too much financial pain!
@Akira: Thanks. I’m incredibly happy *I* saw the signs so *I* took the brunt rather than anyone else.
The car issue will suck, but it’s resolve-able. I really hope the damage isn’t as bad as I fear. We have a really good mechanic.
*crosses fingers*
That could have been orders-of magnitude worse. Much to think upon. Time to shave and get on that. No euphemism, this time.
Wow. Glad you’re OK. Damage may not be as bad as you think. Control arm will need replaced, but the transmission thing may just be a broken CV joint.
Is there any cosmetic damage? If not, probably just lower control arm, strut, sway links and tie rod end. Maybe a new wheel and tire. Probably about $1,500 installed.
I just realized AC/DC is the rock version of Vivaldi, 245 versions of the same song, and they are good.
Personally, I could never get past the singer’s voice (in addition to me not really being a rock & roll guy).
But people make some real funny faces at my music, so to each their own!
Which singer?
They have been through three so far
Bon Scott
Brian Johnson
And W. Axl Rose
Heh
I like lots of rock but I could never stomach them.
You’re not alone.
Hmmm β¦letβs try voting on covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
Option 1
Or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
Option 2
Vote, Glibs.
The absolute best AC/DC remake:
Thunderstruck by Steve’n’Seagulls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
Thunderstruck – 2 Cellos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
Damnit Sean!
Neener neener.
You didn’t just realize this, and also they have three songs, the straight up rockers (Whole Lotta Rosie), the slow burns (Night Prowler), and the Tongue in check romps (Can I sit next to you Girl).
And every band has the same “problem”, Fuck sake, the Stones have only 4 songs, the Kinks have six and that’s about the limit. Even “Avant-garde” artist like Zappa or the incomparable Mr. Waits only have a handful of songs.
I should add that in ACβ‘DC’s case it’s probably 85/12/3 ratio wise so it’s understandable that the casual listener might think they only have one song.
Listening to that Purple Rain: Fuck, Jack White ripped that off hard. (See also: Music .. but I wasn’t expecting that.) And *LORD* that song itself directly steals from led Zep. (See also: Music. Jokes.)
Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin both formed in 1968 in London. Zep was originally a blues band.
Duh duh duh, duh duh duh DUH was the first song I ever learned on the guitar.
It’s the first song l’il Rhywun recalls hearing in endless rotation on the classic rock station that was always on in my house.
I enjoy Jack White’s music alot.
To say that he is single handedly keeping straight up Rock-n-Roll alive is a stretch, but not that big of one.
Can’t stand him/them. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
See my comment below.
He’s a remarkably talented, influential musician with several albums of really powerful music. Plus 4/4
Hey, I gotta question for readers and writers: Does my style make sense? (Particularly the parentheticals, where I sometimes add a side-thought within. I want it to read as if the author’s talking, adding his own conversational notes along the way. (Like ya know, whatever.))
My use of *this* is my lazy way of bolding, emphasizing things, but I like the visual, as well. I certainly wouldn’t use these in print, but just asking if my thoughts on how it should sound makes sense and if we’re on the same page.
(Fuck. That’s a hard question. Curious, and appreciated. Thanks in advance. And no worries. Also me just thinking. (Not just of Q’s cuties.))
It took way too long to think of examples to write in, just to give direct examples, when not warranted. Take these with a shaker of salt.
My main thought on your parentheticals is that they’re too long. If you get past a sentence inside the parentheticals, switching back to the main thought becomes more difficult for the reader, and more so when you start nesting them.
I greatly appreciate that. I’ve found myself making them too long, then realizing that that thought needs to be its own thing. It’s hard to self-edit.
Kurt Vonnegut has a great ‘Rule’ for short story writing: “Kill your babies.” (I don’t think he had any orphans…)
I (unconsciously, I think) styled my writing after Tom Wolfe, with long complex sentences and lots of parentheticals.
It works for commenting on the site, as it seems a bit more organically stream-of-thought — at least as far as my scribblings have any resemblance to coherent thought.
For an article, I try to pare it down some, make the prose punchier and more pithy. But I’ll never be Ernest Hemingway. Too damn much work.
Thanks, and roger on the punchy /pithy. I make conscious efforts to try to pare down AP brevity and style. Far too many SVO sentences. It gets tedious.
Unless you *are* Vonnegut, especially in Slaughterhouse Five, where seemingly every simple paragraph ends with a short sentence of profound insight. Such a crazy book, definitely my favorite novel. The most creative way of dealing with abject trauma I’ve ever read or seen. Damn.
I don’t strive to be someone else, though I do occassionally notice turns of phrase that soaked in from people I’ve read. (side-eyes Douglas Adams)
I think UCS just gave some of the best advice re creativity; just be yourself and don’t try to be imitative.
Also, there are only so many ways to arrange music, and we’ve been making music for a long time. I wrote a few songs when I was young, and later realized I had just put lyrics from Robert Johnson songs to music from Kansas or something.
I dunno who Robert Johnson is but I wore out the Kansas “Best Of” cassette they put out in the 80s. So, nice! I think?
From the other day:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/soundtrack
Much like Koyaanisqatsi.
I do like Koyaanisqatsi the album.
Robert Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEht5PbNWN4&list=RDoEht5PbNWN4&start_radio=1
Speaking of: The White Stripe’s cover of Stop Breaking Down on their first album Is fantastic.
Certainly not my favorite musician, but perhaps my most respected. His work with Loretta Lynn is a solid. (“Portland Oregon” on that album is catchy and good. And a good example showing respect for predecessors, and throwing some of his reputation into her wallet, making sure she’s ok.)
It is remarkable the bass line for Seven Nation Army is now an international sports-chant in any tense situation. That’s a remarkable cultural achievement, to be responsible for that. He said he wrote that as a semi-joking James Bond theme idea. Woulda been great.
Have you seen this? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1487275 Poor Meg!
Glad you’re OK. π
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eJHKjV1ecs
Lloyd Cole’s Heartbroken
and the response video by Camera Obscura, my heartache band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gnsWamIB4s
Pure candyfloss
Crush, with eyeliner
What about REM?
Cubs note: Rookie Cade Horton has pitched 4 1/3 so far. He’s thrown 39 pitches. Only 3 balls.
Damn. 6-0 us over the Angels.
Fuck off
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/feds-missing-out-15-billion-tobacco-tax-revenue-gao-report-finds
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Odd question: As a kid in the 90s, having an earring on *one* ear alone was a ‘Gay Flag.’ I forget which ear it was. I wanna think only one in the right earlobe was the signal.
Pete-Crow Armstrong (PCA), center fielder and DAMN-good rookie for the Cubs, I’ve noticed has always had only one in his left ear. Media says he has a hairdresser girlfriend. *shrug* I get a vibe from him. (I do wonder how that works in clubhouses. Most likely? Remarkably chill and never comes up.)
I think it was right is wrong and left is right or something.
Left ear is the heterosexual ear.
I had three in my left ear before I put one in my right ear. Haven’t worn any jewellery whatsoever in a couple decades at least. Now I’m the rebel just like with no tatts.
I should add that the left/right rule is a couple decades out of fashion by now. Soccer players are among the most tatted up and blinged douchebags on the planet and it’s mostly both ears for that lot.
Thanks, and I’m glad I was ‘right!’ And totally true, that 90s shit.
As for no ink: Again, I’d say 50%+ of Millennials have ’em. Odd and fitting that I ‘stand out’ *without* having any. I don’t understand the temptation. (See also: My admission that this former editor wants a current editor. How’d I ever be happy with a permanent ‘mistake?’)
In the day of windjammers sailors would get an earring for rounding Cape Horn. The ear was determined by whether you rounded the Cape to your starboard (against the prevailing winds) or to port (with the prevailing winds).
Neither way is easy.
Dudes should not get piercings.
Not on purpose. Machine shop incidents donβt count.
Chicks dig scars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_scar
ISTR right ear was “gay”.
(It was all pretty gay. NTTIATWWT.)
No piercings for straight guys unless you also have a parrot on your shoulder and a hook for a hand.
LOL if I have learned anything over the past few decades of unrequited luv it’s that vibes don’t mean a damned thing.
Yep. I think it was the right ear.
Yβall are weird. I had (left) double hoops for a bit.
I am watching Warwick Davis be a physical comedian in Leprechaun.
That movie is underated.
Sleep in, kids. Grandpa’s watching his stories at work. I forgot my vest. Don’t rattle me!
I wake up early every morning.
Iβm still awake n
Good morning all.
I am putting forward an effort to learn more about the financial world and it is very eye opening. I thought I was cynical before. My cynicism seems to be increasing exponentially.
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“No matter how cynical I get, it’s never enough” — Lily Tomlin
Happy national waffle day!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEH4eqtK8SU
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Free fights at the Waffle House?
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS
Good morning, homey, Ted’S., Beau, Sean, Suthen, Threedoor, and EfE!
Mornin’!
How are you today, Beau?
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Doing well all in all. Just finished the week’s laundry. I’ll probably settle back into bing watching The Blacklist for the rest of the day π
Speaking of Seven Nation Army… this.
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I bring up the money thing because of something Akira said yesterday about the woman he knows whom is always begging money and after she gets some squanders it. It reminded me of this conversation with a friend of mine some years ago (we are no longer friends) –
Friend – “That insurance money I got was 70K”
Me – “Cool. That is a serious leg up for you. What are you going to do with it?”
Friend – “I put it in the stock market. I went to New Orleans to do some day trading”
*my suspicions go up sharply*
“That is good. It is impossible to lose money in the market if you are prudent. How much do you have now?”
Friend – “Ah….I think the others were watching me. I developed a method. I could see what they were doing and I would have done great but they ganged up on me.”
Me – “I am confused. You went to town with 70K, outsmarted them and left with zero dollars? Now I have to ask, did you buy stock on margin?”
Friend – “Of course, you get twice the stock that way. It would be stupid not to. It’s like free stock man”
*me – facepalm*
Me – “You didnt leave there with zero dollars, did you? You left with negative dollars….how much….”
Friend – “Well, that’s what I came to talk to you about. I was thinking maybe you….”
Me – “NO”
Some people canβt help themselves. π€·πΌββοΈ
Oversized all day.
I’m livin’ Tres’ dream.