Back to a full week…it is going to be over 90 degree temps the whole time, and my wife is traveling Thursday, so I will be alone for the weekend… Meh.
So here are some links to mull over.
- “Hey, AOC, shaddup’a you mouth!”
- This guy is in deep kimchi.
- Oh WNBA, you are becoming roller derby.
- Something is going on…
Music – Meh, you will have to supply it today.
Comments, open and all yours.
“I would never intentionally try to hit someone with a shoe, especially while they’re not looking,” Laney-Hamilton said, according to the New York Post. “Teammate was without a shoe, so I did my best to try and get it to her. Unfortunately, it did hit someone.”
Hothead, liar, throws like a girl… or all three?
What kind of a retard do you have to be to think that anyone would fall for that excuse?
The girl who got hit says she’s buying it. Soo….
It offers just a hint of plausible deniability which is all they need to pretend.
Fem-jock? It isn’t like all of those years in school were spent learning anything.
“especially while they’re not looking”
LOL
Should have said their a Muslim and that throwing shoes at people they disagree with is part of their religious expression.
Also, I genuinely think the white WNBA players are intimidated to say what really goes on with their black counterparts. Like that shoe came right at the white girl. There’s the only real storyline anyone pays attention to with the WNBA which is all the nonsense aimed at Clark.
Black people don’t have much. They get to be good at basketball and they won’t have whitey taking it from them.
Throwing shoes is ridiculous.
The only proper missiles to be thrown at WokeBall games are green dildos.
Much higher likelihood that I’d watch roller derby than WNBA.
I’m biased, but I find roller derby much more entertaining.
Indeed. Though the inclined-track professional leagues of our youth have been replaced with amateur flat-track leagues of woke tatooed fat women (and trans).
Since it’s probably the hottest day of summer thus far (I even broke down and turned on the A/C), I decided to go outside and run some gas through the mower.
I did the same but not much gas or mowing but I like to be outside in summer weather.
At UBS in particular, the number of vacancies is at a very low level, with currently not even 50 jobs advertised. Compared with June 2025, there are currently 60% fewer vacancies listed on the website.
Trimming the fat, or clearing the way for our new AI overlords?
It is probably just Newman setting up an alibi
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywFiNpSInlo
,em>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she knows why socialism is on the rise: Blame it on the Boomers.
Those stupid old meanies don’t believe in sharing.
So next opportunity she’s going to get into Bernie’s face and scream at him?
Bernie/Trump/McConnell and a host of others are proof there needs to be a mandatory political retirement.
Age 60. If it saves just $1 it would be worth it.
“Yeah, but she started it”
/Fourscore’s kids
I mean, they are a ridiculously selfish generation (sorry if that applies to you) and they kind of did run the country into the ground whether that was by voting for team blue or team red.
Shit is a mess and most of the boomers say they don’t even care about leaving an inheritance to their children. Like as a child you should want your parents to enjoy life, but as a parent you should probably want to keep doing what you can to help your kids succeed.
Everyone kind of sucks. But boomers inherited the golden goose and they kind of killed it. Not all of them, but enough of them and especially the elites of that cohort.
The baby boom was 18 years.
The people born in the first half of that boom were the idealists that drove social change then later sold out and cashed out.
The people born in the second half of that boom have spent their lives living the consequences of the actions of the assholes in the first half of the boom.
I’ve told people in the past that growing up in the second half of the boom was like following behind a horde of locust that consumed everything in sight and left nothing but destruction in their wake.
The best thing about GenX is their understanding that generational stereotypes are stupid and cringe.
My parents were that pre-boomer generation. They saved and invested heavily and now they can afford to do what they want, and good for them.
They also spend their entire lives voting blue no matter who because “muh benefits”. Thanks mom and dad.
Most stereotypes have some basis in reality and we all stereotype in all kinds of ways. There are always people who break the molds.
Every boomer wasn’t responsible for shipping jobs overseas to save a nickel (or Shekel, if you’re so inclined). But when I look at the perverse incentives exist throughout the economy, many of them stem from the baby boomers. And the top brackets of baby boomers most definitely did strip the country. The mindset very much looks like “I gots mines and now fuck you!”
What is it, 60% of boomers who say they don’t care about leaving money to their children?
And I’ve never heard much push back from anyone here when it comes time to trash the youngin’s. I can trash Gen Z or even Millennials all day. If I posted that the kids in school are dumber than rocks no one would bat an eye. `
Yeah, boomers (god, I hate that shorthand) inherited the golden goose
Vietnam
70’s stagflation and malaise
Failed welfare state
Fucked up cronyist fascism lite
The fucking greatest generation kept a lock from basically post war to early 90’s. Fuck you, Tom Brokaw, for that shit label.
You and I are of like mind, GL.
For pretty much everyone under 30 now, ‘boomer’ just means ‘someone older than me.’
As an aside, I predicted some years ago that as the Boomers started to die off, the losers would shift the blame for their sad lives down to the GenXers. And wouldn’t you know it, they have! I do hope I live long enough to laugh at the Millennials getting the same treatment…
So to summarize, you can talk all the shit you want about the younger generations. But don’t direct it at the older generations.
Or in threading or proper html tags…
Oh WNBA, you are becoming roller derby.
Hey now, that kind of behavior will get you ejected from the game and the venue in today’s roller derby.
I just uploaded an article on building a New York compliant AR rifle and its first test run. It can go wherever the schedule needs something.
Hey now, that kind of behavior will get you ejected from the game and the venue in today’s roller derby.
Getting clobbered with a roller skate would hurt.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: I’m trying to wrap my head around getting a Toyota Yaris to 107 MPH
Read wasn’t zipping to the State House on the afternoon of Dec. 2. 2024, when a deputy clocked her Toyota Yaris going 107 mph in a 65 mph zone on I-93 in Windham, N.H., according to authorities. In fact, she was driving away from the capital.
RATO engines strapped to the rear bumper.
Victims
Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump administration’s investigation of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, three people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and Justice Department policies, the people said, adding that the couple was escorted out of their office. The FBI neither confirmed nor denied that the two analysts were fired.
Fleas want to run the circus.
What the fuck are a husband and wife doing working together in the office?
Super common in government service, especially in law enforcement and intelligence.
The Captain and Tennille worked together….
They started single and realized that you could have the office romance and extra Bennie’s.
The only restriction on marries couples working together at New York State is that one cannot manage or supervise the other. They can be peers, or they can work in different departments, but you can’t have one reporting to the other, even through intermediate management.
I’ve watched enough cop shows to know by season 3 the couple with unresolved sexual tension will end up together, and will get married by season 6.
Their love grew out of their shared oUtRaGe at Donald.
I know a couple who both work together at ODOT. They are both engineers.
Something is going on…
Yes there is….
What’s Goin’ On? – Marvin Gaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M
That’s a banger.
Since today is Monday… Say Cheese!.
チーズ
You would say cheese. You’re a rat.
If it was a GR Yaris 107 should be easily doable.
The punchy engine and four-wheel drive together enable the original GR Yaris to reach 62mph from rest in just 5.5sec. Top speed was an electronically limited 142mph. With the power and torque bump in the new car, those figures improve marginally, with 0-62mph arriving in 5.2sec, on the way to a 143mph.
Why?!
An extremely light AWD six-speed manual that gets 0.62 in 5.2 seconds? Yeah, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to thrash that down Skyline Drive…
I suppose you could rebody it to look cool.
If ugly cars couldn’t be cool, no one would ever buy a Lotus or a whaletail Porsche…
They also spend their entire lives voting blue no matter who because “muh benefits”. Thanks mom and dad.
FDR saved the republic.
That’s God King FDR, lord and savior of government largess.
Hey, they put money into the system their whole lives, the least they can do is get more out of it than they put in, with annual raises.
Or as my grandparents said with derision, “That man”.
Went camping.
Unplugged for a couple days.
Did I miss anything?
I was at a gym-related event and was also off my phone for 3 days. Lindsey someone died, I think the one from Disney’s Parent Trap?
Stirling, the violinist?
My son would be terribly saddened.
Hayley Mills?
Lindsey Buckingham?
What up with that?!?!?!
Nope.
Did you see STEVE SMITH frolicking through the woods of Cascadia?
STEVE SMITH no let hiker be unplugged.
STEVE SMITH caused Lindsey Graham’s heart attack. And by heart attack, he mean…
Two deer woke me up snorting by the tent this morning around 4.
Mmmmm, venison for breakfast!
Saw some mountain blue birds, a cedar waxwing, yellow finches, a couple flickers, white tail deer, two does and two bucks in velvet, a bevy of chipmunks and a sage grouse.
Some elk sign not none fresh. Does were without fawns dominant to assume that Bill Clinton’s Canadian wolves got them.
What were they snorting? Doe-caine?
Honestly I’d rather have the wolves than the deer. Wolves are generally smart enough to keep out of the way of my truck.
We did leave them a pile of trail mix on a log round.
Also counted the rings of a tree that had blown down and then cut at the saddle where we camped. ~280 years. It had a good run.
https://ibb.co/LhprxWtx
Two deer woke me up snorting by the tent this morning around 4.
Did they share their coke with you?
Cocaine Bambi
Where did you go camping?
Up the 301 Road out of Clarkia ID, about three miles past Crater lake. We were going to camp at the campground there up in the woods 150 years but there was a snag within falling distance of the campsite.
47.04439° N, 115.94516° W
Did Elk Cr falls on the way up from lewiston and then the long way home through Sandpoint for lunch.
Unplugged Mitch for a few days?
Larf!!
Why?!
Why the hell not?
Went so see Shakespeare in the Vineyards last night. They decided to set Hamlet in 1990, because of…Climate Change. Apparently it has become too warm to wear costumes from the period in which the original play was set.
The Lazy Shakespeare Repertoire proudly presents Hamlet: 1990.
They decided to set Hamlet in 1990
Was Bill Murray in it?
First day on the job went well. I got to use the forklift a little. One of my coworkers speaks Arabic so it was fun to practice with him. He was impressed with my knowledge. Rafa’ah shokeh (lifter-forky) means forklift in Arabic. Another was 19K (armored vehicle crewmember) in the Army. Later he did demo. He calls C4 “angry playdoh”. It seems grungy, smoking, swearing blue collar losers are my tribe. Or at least the group most accepting of me.
Things are looking up. My mantras include:
-Focus here and now
-Step by step
-One day at a time
-It’s over, they’re gone (I use this one when I start getting wound up about a bad memory)
15 days booze-free too. Yay me.
Fun fact: In Italian, Costanza means constancy, steadfastness, or firmness. Kind of the opposite of the character.
Oh yeah, the Arab coworker taught me that saalib (negative) means a bottom gay and mujib (positive) means a top. The same terminology is used for battery terminals.
I work mostly inside, which is nice. It gets pretty dusty, but that’s a brick factory for you.
Watch out for the Arab on Thursdays. Protect your cheeks as they say in the black community.
I’m pretty sure he’s straight. He’s divorced and has a daughter. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGAyQAkXajg
Oh yeah. His name’s Mohamed. He goes by Mo. Yemeni dad, American mom. He said he probably has cousins who’ve joined the Houthis. It turns out a lot of their recruits are in it because the lost their jobs when the last government was overthrown.
It’s not gay if you are the top. It’s Islamic science.
Huh, government workers turning feral when they get kicked out of their sinecures? Imagine that…
I hope it goes well for you, Derpy.
Brickmakers are composed of a finer clay.
Suggested Venture Brothers clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81vLH7ITNbE
Oh yeah, I might get to do some welding too. Although the guys they already have are probably better at it than me.
I absolutely love the synchronicity. My first day didn’t include too much of anything, let alone ‘work,’ but it was my first day ‘in’ real estate. It’s my first time *not* clocking in since the Tribune, three years ago. (We do have weekly time sheets, though.)
I’m envious of the forklifting, cuz I really did think about it. (I love the ‘can take this skill wherever I go’ aspect. But nephews take precedence, for the moment. And I’m gettin’ (professionally) lucky as it is. I believe I’m quite wise to have never gone down it. Woulda been another bold, and dangerous, phlebotomy-esque detour.
“Rafa’ah shokeh (lifter-forky)” I love how German that is, but without the brevity. Seems to fit.
How ’bout some German gals doing a Xhosa pop hit from almost sixty years ago?
My suggestion for the Switzy one
https://youtu.be/zqmLXFBhYbI
My suggestion is another Makeba song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjo8h5qLpU0
It is more challenging to sing.
Looking it up, supposedly the most downvoted Reddit post ever is some shit defending a scammy Star Wars game released by EA. -214k votes.
I’ve only ever gotten a few hundred downvotes for wrong think.
I hit Super Bigot, but I don’t know if I can manage to get to Ultra Bigot let alone the super elite “Giga Bigot” tier. It’s a fine line. You can’t just say shit that gets banned or removed. It needs to walk the line.
Glad to again see Korea really don’t fuck ’round with heads of state. “A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to two years in jail Monday after he was found guilty of receiving illegal polling services, local media reported. Yoon is involved in eight legal cases and is currently appealing a life sentence linked to his attempt at leading an insurrection with his martial law declaration in 2024.”
Just add it all on. Hopefully, that’d lead to others being tried for executing Yoon’s plans. I highly doubt Yoon would turn ’em in. Lose much face. All face. Seems like ratting out your criminal boss would happen far more often there, but, again, it’s not like Koreans haven’t been going after ’em. I imagine being outed as a snitch would be devastatingly dangerous. Weiguk English teachers got put on Black Lists if they got a bad rep. Something tells me, nah.
“Come at the king? Best not miss.”
Accident? Betnijah please!
I made a joke in a joke post about being alarmed that women were deciding aspects of my Pokemon battles and people lost their shit.
The funny part is one of them went on some rant about how stupid/dumb my post was because women have made countless contributions to mathematics and science/computing. I instantly planned to make a reference to Hidden Figures. Only for them to end their post with: You can read or watch the book/movie Hidden Figures to learn more about it.
I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time.
Hidden Figures does not seem to have inspired much math excellence. Almost every named idea in math is named after a white man: Pythagorean Theorem, Pascal’s Triangle, Riemann Hypothesis, etc.
No one gets bent out of shape when someone notes that blacks dominate the NBA. Why is it a big deal to point out that mathematics is almost entirely the result of European men?
It’s taboo to say the races on average are not equal in ability or temperament even when the evidence is obvious and overwhelming.
I guess the reason is rejecting egalitarianism would require a painful and unpopular overhaul of the American system.
I actually thought about responding with name me a theory or equation discovered/name after a female let alone a black one. But just went with the more sarcastic “black girls are magic.”
The way things are going, I expect a successful campaign to replace the US flag and anthem.
https://www.change.org/p/the-white-house-changing-the-american-flag-and-national-anthem
Team Red got 86% of its votes from whites in the last election. Team Blue has become the party of non-whites.
Libertarians have been going nowhere, and the GOP is circling the drain. I was surprised that Bush the Lesser’s latest project is painting immigrants. I guess he’s hoping that his family and library will be spared when the angry mobs come.
https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/out-of-many-one-portraits-of-americas-immigrants
Meh, the Puerto Rican flag is nice. It’ll probably be the next flag. Old Glory will become the new Stars and Bars.
George and Hunter sitting ‘neath a tree
Painting pictures for you and me
Walz keep bouncing off the rim, can’t seem to score
https://alphanews.org/in-rural-minnesota-cabin-country-the-new-state-flag-isnt-flying/
This is 75% of the reason mass migration is allowed.
The other 25% is Koch-brothers/Chamber of Commerce Republicans looking for cheap labor.
And then they paint themselves as the kind and compassionate ones.
I’ve seen that assertion before. Is Koch Industries a leading employer of minimum wage workers like, say, Tyson or Perdue?
As are the Donks.
The only faction not circling the drain are the Democratic Socialists and once they gain widespread power the US will be circling the drain.
Alone for the weekend eh? I shall Zoom then, and see you there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndwmNLu4ti4
Moana – An Ugly, Soulless, Pointless Disaster
The actress in that looks like a mongoloid.
It’s time for Disney to reverse by making crappy animated versions of live action films.
Kurt Russell can voice his old character in the cartoon version of this cinema classic!
What’s the ROI on US military investment. What’s the last war the US “won”?
2. I’m glad Lindsey Graham is dead.
3. Not ripping on US military veterans here.
Gulf War I which only encouraged us to stick our dick further into that hornet’s nest so, in a sense, we lost that one too. The good news is a lot of terrible people got filthy stinking rich off of the ongoing debacle.
I would score that one as a draw, because Saddam was still in charge for another decade.
He was left in for a good reason and was completely marginalized but we managed to fuck that up too.
Desert Storm was about keeping oil prices stable. That went out the window with the current war with Iran.
If America is the world’s police, the sheriff is Barney Fife.
Yep, it’s a mess Derp.