Here in the Gulch, we had our Team Red and Team Blue caucuses (cauci?) this week to nominate candidates for the village Board of Trustees. Now me, I always think of trustees as some position for squealers in a prison, but here it applies to the elite set of individuals who are supervising the finances as the village swirls down the drain. Given my stories here, it comes as no surprise that the Team Red caucus was… two people, plus the chairlady. The Team Blue caucus filled the room and needed extra chairs. And the Team Red nominated candidate is me. With approximately 450 registered Blue and 14 registered Red, I think the election outcome is pre-ordained; nonetheless, it will be fun to see my name on the ballot.
The most important birthday today is that of the hallowed and beloved SP, who in a just universe would be celebrating her 63rd birthday, and would no doubt be laughing her ass off at this spectacle, while at the same time be inwardly delighted that I’ve leeched into the local ecosystem with such effectiveness. Other less important birthdays today include the role-model for modern politicians; the second-worst president in US history; the guy who taught Dizzy what’s what; a delightful writer and the author of one of my favorite lines: “After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening—on a lucky day—without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.”; a far greater man than the aforementioned president; an actor, who despite great talent and great Yiddish, I will always think of as “that guy I saw on Star Trek”; a guy who would never pick his feet in Poughkeepsie; a guy who showed us what an ideal politician is; a slightly less insane Bobby Fischer; founder of a disgusting dynasty; the best second basemen I ever saw play, and whose firing told me everything I needed to know about the future of the Orioles; an insane woman who had a unique and interesting life; and a guy rumored to be a crypto-Jew.
But this very non-crypto-Jew has some Linky-links.
Lindsey Graham shows once again that she’s a fucking moron. Not because of opposing funding but because of her reasons. Graham pointed to language in the bill that would repeal a provision allowing senators to sue if their phone records were collected as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe. “What senator wouldn’t want notification that they’re looking at your phone?” he (sic) said. How about the rest of us, you authoritarian cunt?
It’s -7° out and windy. I doubt that there will be demonstrations here in the Gulch.
USAID started the propaganda early.
Ironic humor is the best humor.
Ironic humor is the best humor, Part 2.
“Building hotels and facilities only to attract visitors — but where would the people of this besieged land go — with their children and grandchildren, and with the traditions and customs they have preserved for decades?” Bassem Al-Masri said.” DECADES! A shockingly honest statement for once.
So much speculation, so little evidence.
A little reminiscence on something I’m a geek about.
Ultimate nepo-baby? My goodness, this is a thoroughly unattractive person.
The Howard families agree. “Life is short…” “…but the years are long.” “Not while the evil days come not.”
This song was one of SP’s absolute favorites. I can barely listen to it without crying. Happy birthday wherever you are.
I briefly considered working today to counter protest, but life is to short to let idiots control my actions, even as a protest, so instead I am being retired just as hard as possible to show my opposition to idiots. Pants will not be worn!
Nice…
My counter protest will be to go out to eat and maybe do some shopping to prevent my wife’s cabin fever from getting worse.
Fuck the protestors, I hope they lose some toes to frostbite. None of them seem to give the slightest shit about people murdered by illegals.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4433096/where-are-protests-laken-riley-other-victims-illegal-immigrant-crime/
That’s the counter to every stupid shit they say..
The people fomenting the rebellion and their need to create angst for these idiot protestors committing suicide by cop, is all so the left can lamely create another George Floyd moment and riot. This is being done so they can tell Americans they will never allow the country to be run by anyone but democrats, and that they better vote accordingly, or else. It is a bunch of theatre kids doing the dirty work and psyops of a cabal of evil fucks with even more evil agendas.
Every time the leftist mouthpieces act mortified about one of their useful idiots getting in a fight with LEOs and then eating bullets, bring up how many people were murdered by these the illegals they are defending (and then only because they need the bodies to rig the census and the elections), while they did their best to hide and ignore those stories…
Here is some documentation on how to do this: https://x.com/ItsDiamondJoe/status/2016637709167530365
Excellent beat down by Gutfeld. He treats her with the absolute distain she deserves.
Saw that.
She is so repulsively, reflexively awful I have to wonder if she’s a performance artist.
Oh, is today that day?
Nothing will change. These people have fooled themselves into thinking they have popular support or maybe they think if they pretend hard enough all the average Joe people will rise up for the glorious revolution.
In any case it will just be all the same paid useful idiots. Most people just want to throw a brick at them.
best second basemen I ever saw play
Happy birthday Rogers Hornsby!
Very Old Man With Candy! The candy is probably horehound. Hmm or is Candy the whore he hounds?
Inquiring minds want to know..
“So much speculation, so little evidence.”
It was the Aliens!!!
Amazingly, or maybe not, that hypothesis has been put out there numerous times.
Georgio told me they came here to bang the monkeys, create their own slave race, and as their scout trip, and they left all these goodies all over the place on that show he is on!
We really need to speed up the deportations
I think according to the believers they are living under the oceans, in Antarctica, and in hollow earth, but come up to mingle and cause trouble when they get bored..
From what I can tell, the “customs and traditions they have preserved for decades” seem to consist mostly of (a) grifting off the UN, Euros, and misc. Islamic countries, and (2) killing Jews.
2 has been inherited from centuries of jew-killing going all the way back to Mo the bandit.
This is true, but normally there’s a claim of great antiquity, “our culture which has continued unbroken for 3000 years since the Canaanites, before the European Zionist colonizers invaded.” So this is a great improvement.
Bold claim, since their culture today is heavily islamized.
Islam came about from Samael playing a trick on that moron Mohammed.
My nominee for ultimate nepo-baby would be Kamala’s spawn with her modeling career. Although props for picking one who states “I have a lot of mental disorders . . . .”
That’s her step-daughter.
But she’s so beautiful.
Thoughts and prayers.
I appreciate the whimsy of flirting with the piles of stupid that is local politics in towns like yours and mine but holy hell I could not do it.
Here in Ohio, the Libertarian party got enough clout that they’re qualified automatically for all ballots. They’re trying to find people willing to run and donate.
Governor Ilium for the win!
RIP SP.
Indeed, never met her, wish i did.
Every time I was about to be in the area for a visit, OMWC moved her to the other side of the country, preventing the meetup.
Indeed. Celebrating her memory.
Same from me, she was always extremely nice when I would email her about my first articles here.
Still sorry for your loss OMWC.
I met her once and they were kind enough to let me stay at their house. Best cookies ever were provided also. RIP.
an actor, who despite great talent and great Yiddish, I will always think of as “that guy I saw on Star Trek”
Just recently I saw him playing a Latin American president in the mediocre film Guns of Darkness.
Did Lindsey transition while I wasn’t looking and it didn’t make the news…?
Watchu talking about Willis?
I think I have a new record for tapping out of an article. I pull up the nepo baby article and:
In ‘I Love LA,’ she’s a manic TikTok striver. In ‘Marty Supreme,’ she’s a combustible climber keeping up with Timothée Chalamet. In reality, Hollywood’s newest It Girl is a baggy jeans-wearing homebody with three roommates, seven pets and a complicated family legacy.
Tapped out.
It sounds like pure bullshit made up to make someone a gurl boss..
So you didn’t make it to the part where she does her own hair and makeup because of her many mental disorders? Including she can’t stand people touching her?
I tapped out at Timothee Chalamet. Guy comes across as a creep to me.
inorite
His antics are kind of repulsive. Celebrity douchebag dialed up to 11.
I started reading and heard Peter Griffin in my head say, “Oh my God, who the hell cares!”.
Don Lemon in custody
“Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards,” his attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement early Friday. “Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”
Did they go through his boyfriend’s underwear drawer?
Are we sure he’s been arrested? I mean, you did reference CNN. That’s not a reputable source of information.
Everything I can find so far references that statement from his lawyer.
I have found other sources – but I had to get a dig at CNN.
So they are trying to put him in a place where he is gonna have himself a great time?
Single occupancy cell, no cameras, no internet.
Starve him of attention.
Not really. It exists to protect everyone from government persecution for speaking or writing. Not just “journalists” who take certain political stances.
It also exists to protect the free exercise of religion, which his activities were infringing on. There was no reason for him to conspire, tresspass, and harass with the other people who intruded on that church service.
Also has a bit in their about worship which he violated.
I really like how Jonathan Turley put it: This wasn’t speech, it was conduct. Those are entirely different things.
I like Johnathan Turley much of the time. But he has an incredibly punchable face, and often is hard to understand when he’s gurgling on Trump’s balls.
You and your rabble entourage were asked to leave private property. There is no 1st Amendment protection for trespassing.
End of story.
If any of that were true it would be correct.
Bwa ha ha! Filming an illegal act you’re taking part in doesn’t give you cover as a journalist. If he’d have just been there and recorded it’d be one thing but he was advocating for it and maybe even helping to organize. He crossed a line.
“Journalist Don Lemon…” stated without evidence.
A (((trustee))) would negate the suffering of the Palestinians I would not think it to be a good idea.
But it would be fun to have someone at budget meetings pulling a Ron Swanson “slash it slash it slash it.”
And that is so hard to find in Hollywood.
It’s -7° out and windy. I doubt that there will be demonstrations here in the Gulch.
That sounds like a right down uncivilized temperature.
The local BoomerProgs colonize an overpass in Santa Fe to wave signs and hang banners. If I run out of other things to do, I might show up with a banner that says “Deport Every Illegal” or somesuch.
Which reminds me – I need to find out what I need to do to get a concealed carry permit in this state.
New Mexico?
Be a connected member of the party machine I’d wager.
I’ve never bothered with a permit, but I don’t carry on person. There is one advantage that a permit allows you to bypass our stupid waiting period, unless they changed that.
Eeeewwww. 7 day waiting period for a firearm purchase in NM.
“What senator wouldn’t want notification that they’re looking at your phone?” he (sic) said. How about the rest of us, you authoritarian cunt? ”
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“You want to take our guns away but exempt yourself? What the hell Charlie? Why do y ou get to keep your guns?”
“THAT’S DIFFERENT.” – paraphrased Charlie Wrangle Q&A
Similar to the license plate readers and mayors wanting them down to protect against ICE..
Never for the citizen, always to protect their grift/deeds/shitiness
All the shit in Minneapolis is basically theatre to distract the American people from the revelation that we as a country are now close to $39 trillion in debt, because for the last 20 years democrats created a shadow economy that is drastically enriched them to the tune of what now amounts to as much as $2 trillion a year, through massive fraud in the social programs at both the fed and state levels. And they have used a good chunk of that money to prevent the tax payers from interfering with their criminal enterprise.
The republicans are NOT the good guys. But the democrats definitely are a cabal of crime syndicates and the bad guys.
The new Monocle is working well on my iPad/Safari.
That is all. Carry on.
Same. Running variously on Windows/Firefox and macOS/Safari.
I like the new counter.
Molto bene.
W00t!
Are add-on costs for foreign visitors hurting Utah’s national parks?
Philly and Keely Emerson of Northern Ireland have more than 100,000 social media followers who have watched them live the van life through the natural wonders of Europe, Australia and now America.
Things are different for foreign tourists visiting our national lands this year as higher fees target those coming from outside the country. So has it affected Philly and Keely?
“Was it worth it at $80? Yes. Is it worth it now at $250? Yes,” said Philly. “That doesn’t change a percent, you know?”
We didn’t raise the fee enough.
They should be charged exorbitant rates for being influencers, not for being foreigners.
I could get behind a selfie stick/tripod surcharge.
1. Film yourselves living the van life.
2. Check into a hotel.
3. Profit.
It’s not just that lot…the network shows are the same. Naked and Afraid? Alone in the wilderness stuff?
didnt the film crew accidentally get some luxury hotel in the background while filming the Bear Grills show?
It is all scripted
Now wait a minute – you’re saying they aren’t really naked or afraid?
When I was up in Zion last month, the number of MENA visitors was…noticeable.
Yeah, I went to Washington last summer to do all 3 parks and even most of the whities were not speaking English. Same at Rocky Mountain the year before.
But I hear foreigners are afraid to travel to the US.
Who didn’t know this? My maternal grandmother was an active alcoholic and chain smoker her entire life, and she lived to 91, finally succumbing to dementia.
Its canned articles they can regurgitate as needed just before the weekend.
Like seeing “Starship explodes!” with a date on the article being today…though its a atory from 6 months ago.
Its all slop. Through and through
“Who didn’t know this?”
Considering how many idiots deny the reality of the XX and the XY chromosome or that marxism is evil, I can see how a large swath of people might not know that genetics matter…. Shit, we can’t even tell people that all societies are not the same.
“Shit, we can’t even tell people that all societies are not the same.”
We cant? Damned, nobody told me. I do it all the. time. Most cultures on this earth are pure garbage.
Previously thought when? Roman times? Seems that’s been known since the old-timey days.
Who didn’t know this? – look we need to tow the lion and admit that meat is the only thing that lowers lifespan. meat is murder.
My vegan gurl still eats my meat… Does that counter her claims she is vegan?
I think it means you’re a vegetable.
So, Alex, you found yourself a New Age Girl?
I dunno know, man.
All of the people I know my age dried out 40 years ago and either never smoked or quit 50 years ago.
Viewing your wife as goonfuel is infinitely more gratifying and true to the nature of love than viewing her as some regrettable means to “reproduction”, and it’s not even close. Augustine was the worst thing to ever happen to the Western tradition.
https://x.com/gwyrain/status/2016504340588945590
Goonfuel? Is this something like human sperm banks when you see people walking around with swollen cheeks?
i have no idea if you are ignorant or pretending
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gooning
Edging?
Uh, that happens whether you’re edging or gooning or whatever.
point is you need to take sexy pics of your wife and put them on the internet so people can goon to them. Do not miss the point.
I don’t have a wife, and putting pics of all my girlfriends on the web will make them realize they are not the only girlfriend….
They all run off the same AI on the backend, and know you’ve got multiple sessions open.
Sure, gooning has done the world so much good. Isn’t that when a guy jerks it for hours at a time? If it takes more than five minutes, ten if you’re tired, you’re being self-indulgent.
Just my luck, my 250 million year old salt has expired
https://x.com/BobGolen/status/2016688289571340656
comments are saying it is the plastic container that expires… we should use glass to store salt.
What is the Official Glibertarian Opinion on throwing away salt past expiration date?
I am still using salt from that pillar they packaged and shipped to me near Sodom and Gammora.
If has anti-caking agents…I would toss, otherwise, pure kosher salt never.
I still have my stash (I skipped toliet paper during the Vid) of 25lbs of salt
“I skipped toliet paper during the Vid”
Things we didn’t need to know, buddy.
If you skipped toilet paper you may need anti-caking agents.
He had the Hat and Hair model built in bidet…
Europe relentlessly working on local alternatives to US tech giants.
https://x.com/MichaelAArouet/status/2016550929529524623
So they are going with the old Soviet central planning model? I thought the CCP showed them the alternative was better.
OFFS. Will they throw all their iPhones into the Bay of Biscay too?
TDS goes global. A much needed reset of the leeching they have practiced for decades. Surprise, surprise – it turns out most of those countries are not frenz with the US at all.
Countries do not have friends. They have allies based on certain common interests. When those interests diverge, so does the nature of the relationship.
Fine with me, the less incentive American companies have to kowtow to the Frogs the better.
I remember those things!
For those who drool over dead tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
That keyboard looks disappointing. Like something off a ZX Spectrum.
I mean, it was from the ’80s, so…
There were some fantastic keyboards from that era.
EvilSheldon:
When I was in high school (90s), our French teacher would talk about how wonderful Minitel was, and how much more advanced France was than the US.
“So why are you here then?”
Theyre pretty hopeless. Even their solutions are “buy US servers and set up sovereign clouds”, which is gonna be expensive to them and massively improve my year end bonus.
Big opportunity for Proton.
“France will ban public officials from using American platforms…”
Cool. They can knock themselves out. American Tech giants shrug.
The truth about all this is merde, is that the EU is desperate to censor any and all information that reveals to Europeans how criminally corrupt and evil the EU elite are, and that information is coming from X. They, like our libs, HATE X for a reason…
Robert Colvile
@rcolvile
The gold price has hit $5,295/oz. Gordon Brown sold at $275.
https://x.com/rcolvile/status/2016560998312776181
this is an interesting question. Should a politician somehow be held accountable for selling a good chunk of a nations gold at an all time low?
If by “held accountable”, you mean “drawn and quartered”, then yes.
I’m wondering a couple of things about this runup in gold and silver:
(1) Did the previous methods of controlling these prices simply fail (and there was no market more gamed than precious metals by central banks and governments) or
(2) Are there central banks/governments who want gold and silver to have this kind of exchange rate for fiat currency? If so, who and why?
On 1, Coffee and Covid claims that prices were artificially suppressed. His evidence? One chart and a lot of fluffing of Trump. I’m skeptical.
I’ve watched the money supply relentlessly expand for nearly two decades while the price of gold and silver was essentially flat. At a more tactical level, I have read accounts for truly mysterious doings in various exchanges and markets that all seem to go one way. Put that together with the motivation of central banks/governments to suppress precious metals prices to defend their currencies, plus their capability to do so, and it would be absolutely astounding if the markets haven’t been manipulated.
It’s a short squeeze, plain and simple.
Could be. If so, it still leaves me wondering, who had the big short positions, and who is squeezing?
My thoughts:
– The metals are probably overvalued right now. I reserve the right to be wrong on that one, though.
– Much of this is Covid money printing catching up with the market. Sustained price inflation in a low interest rate environment means trying anything to preserve value.
– I don’t know what the equilibrium prices are going to be, but I’m hoping they’re around $3k for gold and $70 for silver.
– I see this also being related to the BRICS coalition and their desire to get off the dollar.
– I should’ve bought more silver when i was seriously considering it at 60. I don’t really have enough gold or silver to start selling, but I would be selling my $19 silver right now if I had an appreciable amount of it.
I’m hoping prices crater to under $70 for gold and under $7 for silver.
I hold $16 silver, but I bought it for the art.
trshmnstr:
I’ve been thinking about calling around to see what trade rate I can get locally for silver/gold.
Neph . . . not enough
The value of gold hasn’t changed but the value of the dollar certainly has.
The value of gold hasn’t changed since the early Middle Ages. What you see is the value of the dollar…which is in fact zero.
An all-time classic
https://x.com/LeoKearse/status/2016506455872930211
heh
Ten minutes later, AP disappeared up its own asshole.
/if wishes were horses
“The French.”
“What is wrong with people who are French” just doesn’t have that same ring.
“Persons experiencing Frenchness”
The AO final is going to be a slaughter….
I’m going to continue referring to them as ‘the politicians’, ‘the bureaucrats’, and ‘the media’.
Anybody who does cryptic crosswords knows “the French” is a clue for LE or LA.
On support for the ICE protesters
They do indeed have support. Propaganda works. CNN is back in full propaganda mode, and they have pulled the wife in. She is watching several hours a day because of the shootings. The coverage is just shy of “they are executing people in the streets”.
Cut the cable before she goes completely down the rabbit hole.
Yeah, the left is gonna push that narrative non-stop all the way to the mid-terms.
It’s really all they have.
“Senator Dick Durbin Falls For AI-Generated Photo of Alex Pretti”
https://www.sashastone.com/p/senator-dick-durbin-falls-for-ai
OK boomer, one of the agents doesn’t have a fucking head.
Missed opportunity for the White House. They should have posted that picture and congratulated ICE agents for continuing with the mission even after being decapitated.
The Dems, of course, universally support the protests. And some Repubs, predictably, are buckling as well. Some idiot Repub just called for a universal amnesty for illegals.
The Repub Congress, of course, won’t do shit, so the next time a Dem is inaugurated, the borders open again.
Here’s my amnesty offer for illegals – Leave now and your most reent illegal entry will be overlooked in the future. If we have to throw you out, reentry becomes a capital offense.
On the Vietnam Nguyen killing: Things were the same back them. That photo was published without any context to outrage Americans. In fact, what happed was the the police had caught a NVA terrorist who had just set off a bomb killing a policeman wife and children. That policeman may have b been the police chief’s family, I cant remember that detail.
The only thing I thought wrong in that instance was that he shot the guy through the brain instead of the throat and spine. BTW, that is a still taken from movie film. If y ou look around you should be able to find the film. I dont recommend doing that.
I’ve seen both the still shot and the movie. Haven’t seen them in decades. Still remember both vividly.
Looks like switching browsers may have solved the never-ending issues that started last night. Brave won;t let me comment from my windows laptop at all, and sporadically from the phone. Trying FireFox at the moment. Heads’ up to anyone else having that issue. I cleared my DNS in Brave, Windows, etc… but the problem kept coming back. It’s a Brave problem.
Testing in Brave again, after shredding all data. Not sure why Brave keeps pointing me the wrong way.
Working for me on an iphone.
Is Brave auto-updating for anyone else?
I don’t know. It might just be a me problem at this point. I cleared everything, DNS, sockets, exited and restarted and now let’s see if this comment posts. I may have to just jump over to FireFox, delete Brave and reinstall. Or just finally kick Brave off the island.
I was using it the other day on my tablet when it suddenly closed and told me it was updating when I tried to reopen it.
I’ve got automatic updates turned off on my devices.
It is not doing that. I get prompts to update. So far in a browser comparison, FireFox is really fast and has no issues. Brave is slower at loading Glibs and keeps trying to jump on the wrong DNS, despite being purged repeatedly. Brave still has issues with YouTube so it is about to get thrown out. Again.
Nole! Nole! Nole!
Holy fuck, that was a ridiculous match.
I’m more interested in the women’s final.
BBC’s football reporters got all excited when Morecambe appointed the first ever Sikh manager.
28 days later: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/national-league
Sounds like nobody is going to Singh their praises anymore.
He woke up to zombie hordes?
It’s a Warsh!
Was this covered? I may have missed it in the whole site chaos.
Shot
Ways and Means Democrats
@WaysMeansCmte
https://x.com/WaysMeansCmte/status/2016905910694650096
chaser
Ways and Means Democrats
@WaysMeansCmte
Author’s Note: this is a JOKE, it does not mean we endorse Thomas Sowell
https://x.com/WaysMeansCmte/status/2016918802798133391
lol They can’t not be dumb as fuck.
Do it over with Das Kapital.
The road to hell is paved with what?
The bodies of socialists?
Do I need to repeat my screed on ‘every scam has this attribute’ ?
Those people dont give a single fuck about elephants in Malawi.
It keeps eating comments.
It hasn’t happened in my experience therefore it’s not happening.
/s Prog
I love it when people with net worth of $100s of millions get into dick measuring contests.
The Crypto CEO Who’s Become Enemy No. 1 on Wall StreetCoinbase chief Brian Armstrong is clashing with Jamie Dimon and other bank stewards over the future of finance
What bank made money by paying it’s customers more interest? That’s crazy talk.
/remembers back when he had a savings account with over 5% interest.
England in 1903. Whoever filmed this had no idea what a beautiful gift they were capturing for the future.
https://x.com/bo66ie29/status/2016998414592954429
Wow, Mary Poppins was pretty accurate.
Where are the singing chimneysweeps with bad affectations of accents?
Huh. Maybe I am too cynical or maybe that is AI. I see some movement in the first part that looks very AI to me.
Getting the old jerky film to display smoothly can make it look a little weird.
See They Shall Not Grow Old for reference.
Seriously though, if you’ve never seen that film and you have any interest in WWI history, it is a must watch.
We all know that correlation isn’t causation, but damned if this isn’t interesting.
We home schooled our last kid and that made us wish we had done the same with the first 2.
I am at the point where it is borderline child abuse to send a kid to public school.
First day of school this year and one of my co-workers posted pictures of her daughter crying because she didn’t want to go to kindergarten.
All the replies were some version of “That’s so cute”.
I saw nothing cute about it and felt sorry for the girl, but at least both of her parents have brand new cars.(they are both Gov workers with military pensions and 100% VA disability)
How do you have 100% disability and a pubsec job at the same time?
Joke answer – you just need a pulse to hold down a pubsec job.
Real answer – because 100% is nowhere near 100%.
Double-dipping is a longstanding tradition among government workers.
100% disability is not 100% disabled.
It is not easy to get, but you can be nominally “normal” and get a 100% rating good for $3,000 a month.
I am of a mind that 100% disability requires something on the scale of locked-in syndrome or a full coma where you are literally unable to act in any way shape or form.
*I know this is far from the case, but I prefer truth in advertiing.
“A little reminiscence on something I’m a geek about.”
Pro tip: use mineral oil on your kitchen knives and they won’t get rusty.
If your knives are getting rusty I have to wonder why you’re not using them. I have to wash mine daily because they get used in food prep.
I have some high carbon knives that rust if you look at them funny. If you cut things that have salt in them it rusts even quicker. A little steel wool and mineral oil cleans them right up.
So, knives that are unsuitable for use in food prep.
The vast majority of people have an understanding of knives, what they are, how to use them and how to maintain them on par with a chimp.
If you want to get stabbed it is very easy to achieve: go in my kitchen and lightly touch one of my kitchen knives with the tip of your little finger.
For folks as cack-handed as myself, I highly recommend the Wicked Edge system. It’s very expensive, but I can use it to keep all my knives literally scapel-sharp with very low effort.
Where do you buy your scalpels? I honestly want to know. I was disappointed with those I got because they were only about as sharp as my x-acto blades. (Ideally, US, German, or Japanese manufacture)
I went with https://chefschoice.com/collections/electric-knife-sharpeners
I know one can, eventually, do a superior job with a manual system but I’m in the “knives are a consumable tool and not family heirlooms” camp, so good enough.
(And they do quite a good job)
UCS – https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90220188/scalpels
Thanks.
Wicked edge is a great system…I am in raffles groups on fb that raffles those and high end knives.
Lapidary wheel = cheat mode.
I do not own one personally, but those years when I worked renfaires and had access to the bladesmith’s one was faboo.
There’s a sharpist at my local farmer’s market that I use to be lazy.
A tool for surface grinding gemstones grinds steel?
Unpossible. Zat tool iz not for ze purpose you have put it to!
Paging Neph!
Oh, Cointreau!
whisky (Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte, – only interesting bit in their portfolio
Remy is one of the good guys.
Cointreau has been advertising hard (at least that I’ve been seeing). It still doesn’t seem to have the halo of Grand Marnier though.
Different boozes I know, but a Margarita made with Gran Marnier just tastes wrong to me.
EvilSheldon:
It would, but there’s plenty of fine triple secs out there at half the cost of Cointreau.
Neph – Cointreau has gotten seriously pricey. What do you like as an alternative?
I had a bottle of Stirrings Triple Sec that was quite good, but I’ve never seen it again in the local government-run booze shops…
“Team USA’s entry in the World Snow Sculpting Championship in Minnesota was banned after turning its sculpture into an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement symbol.
The team was accused of modifying its frozen design to feature hands that spelled, “ICE out,” “unity,” and “resist” in American Sign Language — a change officials said violated competition rules, Greater Stillwater Chamber of Commerce President Robin Anthony-Evenso told the Pioneer Press on Wednesday.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/sports/team-usa-entry-disqualified-from-snow-sculpting-championship-after-anti-ice-message/
creepy
They can’t help themselves.
Politics over everything.
“Fuck off, commies.”
Along the northern Delaware state line over the next two weeks the forecasted high will be 37 Fahrenheit. We will have lows in the teens or below multiple times. Those of you in snow country may laugh at these torrid temperatures, but we haven’t seen anything this down here for decades. Thankfully only a few snow showers forecast during that period. The sleet-topped 6″ snowfall from last week has now set like concrete and is almost as hard to remove. One potential plus is the depth to which the soil will freeze may knock back some of the invasive dwarf bamboo that has taken over much of the former yard.
And it’s killing off bugs!
That was the first thing I was going to post. I’ll miss the stinkbugs for a season or so!
A silver lining.
Fuck them ticks. First winter in a while that’s cold enough to kill a bunch of them off.
I dunno about the ticks. They’re pretty tough creatures. Knocking back the marmorated stinkbugs is definitely a plus, although they’ve not been really that pesty since the initial wave died down. This stretch though is years too late for our ash trees killed by the ash borers, the dead rotting trunks are now falling down all over the place and causing chaos and blocking paths. Thankfully none are near the house.
I was chuckling at the “Extreme Cold Watch” for my brother in North Carolina. Monday will be the worst, with a high of 40 but a deadly low of 13.
It’s 8 here. Up from 4, earlier. We might hit 16, but we’ll be in Vermont by then – currently -2, up from -8.
The granddaughter in New Castle County, DE hasn’t had school all week. The grandsons further north in PA only missed Monday.
True Blue Delaware comes through for the teachers again!
Beth “Science” Mole at Ars Technica never fails to be the elitist of the elite there. I enjoy hate reading her articles.
Having that high-deductible health plan might kill you, literally
Good news Beth. Your sainted savior Obama basically made them impossible to have long term. It’s also 50% of the reason I’m still working – so fuck off!
Agreed. Sadly.
Is anyone else getting “Checking your browser….” over and over again? It’s very nerve wracking.
I am not..
I am however getting a lot of “Go to this site cause she will love you long time”….
Not me
I don’t think I’ve gotten that even once.
At work, I get “site not found” now for this site with Dreamhost as the host. Works fine on my phone
What browser are you using? Brave is Chrome -based and it kept storing the old DNS somewhere. I did solve it, although I will say Firefox is much smoother and faster even after I fixed Brave.
Firefox.
I’m also getting 405 errors eating my comments.
I lost a couple of comments. I posted help for chrome/Brave below, I will see if I can put together basic instructions for Firefox. Are you using Windows?
Also it if really goes South, just email me here: BrusselsSproutHead@proton.me.
The comments are trying to post at the wrong DNS, and vanish. They are lost, screaming in the void. Or at least that is what I think.
To clear the FireFox DNS cache, open a blank tab and put this in: about:networking#dns. Clear it all out.
I can’t see if you can clear socket connections, but on that same menu you might as well refresh sockets (the selection above DNS), as that can cause an issue. Then exit Firefox.
And Windows likes to keep it’s own DNS info, clear that out too by bringing up a CMD line and typing ipconfig/flushdns. Then restart before you open anything up again.
If you are using a Mac, it’s more paperwork to flush in internal computer DNS list. Go to Terminal ands start with:
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
then
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
And enter your password to complete. I seem to remember you said something about using a Mac a while back.
Thanks, I’ll try that after I log out.
Oddly, I wasn’t getting any of this yesterday.
DNS stuff seems like voodoo sometimes. The change to our site hosting location has to propagate through a jillion private networks before it is done, and that is what we have been experiencing the past few days. Some browsers and PC combinations handle it better than others.
“Sydney Sweeney goes bra free while debuting lingerie line”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15513301/Sydney-Sweeney-goes-bra-free-debuting-lingerie-line-making-rare-comments-Jonathan-Davino-split.html
That doesn’t make sense.
More free advertising from the Daily Mail. Makes sense to me.
“Sydney Sweeney addresses ‘MAGA Barbie’ jibes after American Eagle furor as she strips down for racy shoot”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15511091/sydney-sweeney-maga-barbie-american-eagle-jeans-genes-raunchy-shoot.html
Probably shouldn’t have said anything.
At work, I get “site not found” now for this site with Dreamhost as the host. Works fine on my phone
Dreamhost is the old host. Your browser is defaulting to the old DNS. You must clear out everything. Go here (if using chrome. For Brave just put “brave” where it says “chrome”)
Chrome://net-internals/#dns
Clear it, then move up to sockets (it will be visible on a side menu) and clear/close them all. Exit the browser and restart.
In some cases you may need to clear the dns stored in windows, that is a CMD line function of ipconfig/flushdns.
I had to do all of that. It did finally resolve.
A new study in JAMA Network Open found that people who faced those high out-of-pocket costs as well as a cancer diagnosis had worse overall survival and cancer-specific survival than those with more standard health plans.
There could not possibly be any other variables involved here. It’s as plain as the nose on your face.
Sydney Sweeney goes bra free
Was anybody injured?
Three Year Letterman got ’em again.
You’d think people would be on to his schtick by now, but I guess P.T. Barnum was right about one being born every minute.
lol
“A Minnesota man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of his New York jail by posing as an FBI agent in a brazen plot that was ultimately foiled, police said.
Mark Anderson, 36, was charged on Thursday with impersonating a federal agent as he allegedly tried to sneak Mangione, 27, out of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn….
Anderson then allegedly warned staff that he had weapons in his bag, and a search of his belongings found a barbeque fork and a tool resembling a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15510747/Luigi-Mangione-prison-break-New-York-trial-Minnesota-mark-anderson.html
Why is suddenly everything Minnesota?
Someone shut off the behavioral filters for that node.
Sure does seem that way.
Sounds like the nutcases attract each other.
Blaire White said it’s because they are “spiritually Canadian”.
Although I’m sure someone is going to blame Israel.
The new Kremlinology
When President Donald Trump watched a live feed of the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was not in the room. Just two days earlier, she had posted photos of herself on a beach in Hawaii at sunset practicing yoga, sending out a new year’s greeting for “peace.”
That she appeared to be on vacation in the run-up to such a high-stakes, ultra-sensitive military operation seemed to underscore the extent to which she has been sidelined by the administration.
But there she was on Wednesday, at an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, as FBI agents conducted a raid seeking ballots from the 2020 presidential election, which Trump has falsely claimed he won.
Gabbard’s presence baffled national security experts and raised questions about whether she is seeking new relevancy in the eyes of a president who had soured on her.
“Even if there was some criminal activity in the 2020 election in Georgia — despite repeated investigations that show there was none — it’s still a purely domestic problem — not one involving foreign nations,” a former national security official said. “The director of national intelligence has nothing to do with this.”
She was obviously there to whisk away the Russian ballots.
lol
Notice they don’t go with the usual “without evidence”. Funny, that.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has conceded she may have gotten some information wrong in her initial response to Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis ICU nurse she labeled a domestic terrorist.
Some or something more like 80% or more? TW – Politico.
I think he stopped being the sympathetic “ICU nurse” when he quit to focus on street fighting.
But he had to avenge his partner Charlie!
Or is ICE being headed by M. Bison?
He thought so, but it turned out to be Shao Khan.
“MILLIONS of explosive new Epstein files dumped by DoJ in shock release: Live updates”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15513357/jeffrey-epstein-files-trump-doj-documents-released-list-island-live-updates.html
and nothing else happened
Aren’t the walls closing in?
Are they explosive? I’d imagine the damning stuff has been warehoused in a crate next to the Ark of the Covenant.
“We printed these on nitrocellulose”
This is getting fucking tedious.
Over the past year, Gabbard has clashed with two of her counterparts in the administration, FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, in what officials described as a struggle for influence inside the administration.
In October, the FBI strongly objected to a proposal by some House lawmakers to strip the bureau of its authority over counterintelligence operations and hand them over to Gabbard’s office, warning that the plan would sow confusion and undercut national security. In the end, the FBI retained its primary authority over counterintelligence.
Palace intrigue will never die.
Which is a pity, because the FBI fucking sucks at CI.
I suspect that the modern CIA is too afraid of James Angelton’s ghost to have a proper Directorate of Counterintelligence again…
“Newly inaugurated New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D) has announced the creation of a state-sanctioned surveillance tool designed to track, monitor, and harass Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating within the state.
Sherrill, a radical Democrat who has previously smeared federal officers as “Trump’s militia,” unveiled the so-called “ICE Activity Reporting Portal” this week.
The state-funded website explicitly encourages New Jersey residents to act as spotters for illegal aliens by filming federal agents and uploading the footage to a government database.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/outrage-new-jersey-gov-mikie-sherrill-announces-ice/
CWAC
Sensei’s tax dollars at work!
Mentioned that yesterday.
But she flew helicopters! Did you know that?
This is what happens when you can’t just go in and fire everybody
President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president’s tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020.
The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday, includes the president’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs.
The filing alleges that the leak of Trump and the Trump Organization’s confidential tax records caused “reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump, and the other Plaintiffs’ public standing.”
In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. — who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense and national security tech firm — was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking tax information about Trump and others to news outlets.
What the hell, let the taxpayers be responsible.