Yes, the annual ritual is here. Sun is shining, life is emerging from a cold winter, colors abound…and every piece of pollen in the valley seems to have gone up my nose. I want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.
Links?
Um, how can I put the delicately? Oh, go fuck yourself.
“I’ll go back to slaughtering you on Monday.”
“You know your Holiness, commies get the rope.”
We’re still missing something here. This kid doesn’t fit the profile at this point.
Okay, I’m done. Lots of wind the last few days, and willow trees like to self prune. Peace out, Glibbies.
Morris is part of a small but vocal and growing group of American professionals — those so appalled by their employers’ accommodation of President Donald Trump’s orders on diversity, gender identity and other issues that they have resigned and denounced what they see as capitulation.
“I don’t really care, Margaret.” Thanks for having your tantrum on your own time.
I hope they didn’t leave their Klan hoods behind. It would be totes embarrassing to have to go back and get it.
I am calling horseshit. This widespread passionate support for DEI is just as fabricated as the institutionalization of incompetence. The economy is fan-fuckin-tastic, you just dont know how good you have it. Diversity is our strength. There is no difference between men and women. The commie has a 150% chance of sweeping the election! Biden is sharp as a tack. Obama is a genius. Trump is worse than hitler. Most secure election in history.
Blah blah blah every fucking thing these people say is pure gaslighting.
Interesting for WaPo to admit that.
Their job is after all to gaslight us into thinking this is some huge groundswell that will finally put Trump in his place.
If you did enough cocaine before the pollen hits the air, your nose wouldn’t care.
Science!
+2 Stripper-Salt
*takes notes*
From an adjacent article on Mediaite-
David brooks: It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement.
Yes, David rally the troops of the Real America. Raise an egghead army to crush Trump and scatter his deplorable Nazi sycophants to the four winds. Organization Man will save us.
You can pick your nose, and you can pick your friend’s nose, but your nose picks your friends.
I like the surprise ending.
Nonetheless, he said, “I have seen it over and over: A kid comes on campus as a freshman, inquisitive but unformed. By senior year, there is something impressive about her. She is awakened, cultured, a critical thinker. The universities have performed their magic once again.”
WHEEEEEEE!
“I have seen it over and over: A kid comes on campus as a freshman,
inquisitive but unformedused to parroting back what she’s been told by artificial authority. By senior year, there is something impressive about her. She isawakened, cultured, a critical thinkerthe most bigoted adherent of the Party, the swallower of slogans, the amateur spy and noser-out of unorthodoxy. The universities have performed their magic once again.”Fixed it for him.
Oh you had a purpose at Accenture, and you never had a problem with it.
A GoFundMe has been created for Morales’ family, raising more than $31,000 as of Friday afternoon.
An online fundraiser for Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old Texas high schooler accused of murdering fellow student Austin Metcalf at a track meet on April 2, has reached $453,283. The accused’s bond was recently reduced from $1 million to $250,000
I am interested to see how much the Morales family’s fundraising raises when it has had the same amount of time as Karmelo’s.
So husband is taking me out for an early bday dinner (Monday; I’m a Taurus, dammit!) at Buck Tui, KC BBQ + Thai fusion. The Zoomies talked me into this last night and I’m already in love with the brisket rangoon. https://www.bucktuibbq.com/
Entrée has yet to come.
I am taking the wife out for dinner tonight, for her Monday birthday. https://www.sybarisbistro.com/
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!
Maybe you and Mr. Mojeaux were separated at birth.
We are taking our neighbor out for his birthday tomorrow.
https://www.littlewhaleboston.com/
Coincidence? It’s a conspiracy!
(It’s largely an excuse to go to our favorite restaurant)
(His birthday is Monday as well)
Happy Early Birthday, Mo
That looks like a fantastic mashup cuisine.
Happy birthday!
Lost in all the kerfuffle about the repatriation of criminal illegal immigrants is the anniversary of Tim McVeigh telling the feds that they can’t kill Americans with impunity.
To mark the occasion, Oklahomans invited the guy who blamed Rush Limbaugh for the bombing.
Bill Clinton called on Americans to put aside “whose resentments matter most” and issued a defense of government employees as he returned to Oklahoma City on Saturday
“Sure, we burned down a church with a bunch of children in it, but then one guy blew up a building where we’d stuck a daycare next to the ATF offices. Time to let bygones by bygones.”
God bless the government monopoly on force!
I am sure that McVeigh and Nichols were correctly convicted. It does seem odd that it took only ~4 years to go from conviction to a Fed execution when there were many waiting decades for their executions.
A message needed to be sent.
“Six days prior to his scheduled execution, the FBI turned over thousands of documents of evidence it had previously withheld to McVeigh’s attorneys. As a result, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced McVeigh’s execution would be stayed for one month.”
Huh.
“Our firm faced an existential crisis,” Karp wrote. “The executive order could easily have destroyed our firm. It brought the full weight of the government down on our firm, our people, and our clients.”
Now do you see?
Probably not.
That’s what happens when you put all your crabs in one bucket.
I wonder, are all of their clients in the govt – which has lawyers in every department PLUS the DoJ; or are their clients all suing the govt, and thus they need access for discovery, etc.?
That is one giant nose, Mister.
I have a Sycamore tree in my front yard, it’s about one hundred years old (plus or minus) according to the city arborist, and spent three hours raking up the windfall. It was a nice day for yard work, and the little tree rats were everywhere. Something, don’t know what, got into a birds nest and ate the eggs. Little blue shells littered the ground.
And now for linkses.
Probably a squirrel.
Nobody cares, John Morris.
As above I am calling horseshit. I remember the guy who, even though he was a gun owner, sawed his AR in half cuz common sense. Heeeey…maybe I should look that old story up. It might have been John Morris.
I’m sure you’re right. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of that story was fiction.
It does make me wonder if any of the wokies I work around would rage quit. A guy can hope.
It was Joanna Gambolputty.
I want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.
Just make sure its not a spork. Those can get messy.
Vance should have told commie pope that he was converting to Greek Orthodox.
Wouldn’t that be unorthodox?
You’re thinking of Romainian Orthodox. Ask Pie.
I’ve been binge-watching the Cracked After Hours show. The most recent episode that I watched (it may actually be one of the first episodes they did) was about Back to the Future. They pointed out that George and Lorraine named their kid after some guy that showed up for a week during their high school years, that they hired the guy that tried to rape Lorraine to detail their vehicles, and that Marty basically invented rock’n’roll and civil rights.
They didn’t mention, however, the matter of the tragic, second Marty.
Spoilers.
At the end of the movie, the Marty that we’ve just spent two hours with gets back to 1985, and watches “himself” get chased by Libyans and then go back to 1955.
Except, it isn’t him. The Marty *we* know is a different person than this second “Marty”.
The Marty we know grew up in a slightly disfunctional home, with a dad who is a pathetic loser, and a mom who is a drunk, and siblings that are struggling with how to navigate the world.
This second Marty, though? He grew up in a home with a successful dad, a good-looking mama, and siblings that are successful.
What kind of shock will Second Marty get when he finds out his dad was (initially) a peeping-tom loser who was bullied? That jolly ol’ Biff was a violent rapist? Does this Marty “fix” history, or does the timeline cycle through with George growing up to be a loser “again” because his son doesn’t help him build self-confidence? Does the time line wobble back and forth between loser George and successful George?
Also, Wilson was mayor at the start of the movie, so he clearly got the idea without Marty giving it to him.
Also, I looked it up: Johnny B. Goode was released on 1958, three years after Marty “fixed” his family history. I don’t have a point, I just thought it was interesting.
I feel like I’ve brought this up before…
Probably because you’re a time traveler.
Cracked used to be great. But like 20+ years ago, when I was in high school /early college. They were nascent wokesters before the TDS hit ’em hard. Thankfully, I stopped watching /reading before then.
But that shit was *good.* Cleverly done. Michael Swaim used to be funny, for certain. Clever (and accurate?) view of BTTF, one of my Top Three films. It’s fucking perfect. A legit Perfect Movie. Clever and executed beyond imagination. Hats off.
A look at the pitch meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWjJxeAsruo
Not saying it wasn’t a fun movie, but there were some things we willingly overlooked.
I was always bothered by Marty’s mother wanting to bang him. My daughter also brought it up when she saw it, hit she still loves the movie. For me, Zemeckis best film is Used Cars – cinematic perfection! *chef’s kiss*
DrOtto, it actually fits with human psychology of attraction. The baseline circuitry causes people to me more attracted to someone the more genetically similar they are. This is counteracted by a filter that excludes people you have grown up with/seen grow up that removes those just a bit too closely related. Since the first part is hardcoded and the second part is softcoded over time (for lack of a better set of terms), a time-shifted Marty would set off all the genetic attraction factors without triggering the as yet undeveloped “not this one – too related” filter.
With that kind of bafflegab it’s clear that he wants to be the next Obama so bad.
The democrats have become such a freak show it is hard to say who will come out ahead in the weirdo olympics.
YES!
There is a bit of a learning curve to overcome, but OpenSCAD is much better suited to my use case and my brain than Fusion 360. In the past 2 hours I managed to design a prototype bracket and create a printable file – and that’s before having really learned the software.
The printer is warming up so I can see if my design needs tweaking. I anticipate two potential problems – Not fitting, and needing something to prevent rotation.
Vance, a Catholic who has clashed with Pope Francis over US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, and his chief deputy.
Francis is an AntiPope.
SSPX agrees.
What got left out of the Forrest Gump movie:
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While recuperating, Forrest develops a talent for ping pong, eventually playing in a tournament in China and inadvertently saving the life of Mao Tse-tung and meeting President Lyndon Johnson. He reconnects with Jenny and is arrested and institutionalized after a peace demonstration. When the doctors realize he has a talent for doing math in his head, he is recruited to be an astronaut for NASA. When “Sue”, a male orangutan on the flight, wrecks the ship, they crash land in New Guinea and end up captives of a tribe of cannibals, whose chief teaches Forrest to play chess. After returning to the US, Forrest meets President Richard Nixon and runs into Dan, who is now homeless. They travel to Indianapolis to look for Jenny, and find her working in a tire plant. Forrest begins working as a professional wrestler, fighting under the moniker “The Dunce”. When Dan hatches a plan to rip off Forrest’s manager, Jenny leaves in disgust. Forrest, who dreams of starting a shrimp business like his friend Bubba wanted to, decides to head for Louisiana. Before he can go, he meets a chess champion who realizes his talents and enters him into a competition. This doesn’t pan out, nor does working alongside Raquel Welch in a remake of The Creature From the Black Lagoon.
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump_(novel)
Sigh. When an editor is needed.
I rather like the film, though it’s been a while and I’m aware of its many ‘oddities.’ But create a character, of unusual means, to be serendipitously ’round for major events of that generation? Can be an interesting take. Hanks did his job well, with the material he was given. He’s very good at his job.
But the novels I haven’t read? He *does* go to space with Welch. WTF is that other than lazy writing? Ya gotta be fucking *clever* to pull that segue and story off. I doubt it does. However, I’m the last to judge. Not like I’ve written fiction. (Yet?)
I kinda would like to spitball my semi-autobiographical comedy idea to folk. It’s got an idea to it. But for now, I’ll kinda cuddle to bed with fond thoughts of The Boys’ sleepover and my time w ’em today. The youngest and I had natural pictures taken, a showcase of my time as a father-esque figure to the one who most resembles my entire personality. I was abroad or out of commission when his siblings were his age.
He accurately used ‘momentum’ in a sentence to describe his struggles getting himself into his child seat. *Gushes*
Read this is Forrest Gump’s voice:
“Houston … we have a problem.”
I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.
Judging by the book cover, Forrest Gump should have been played by Vin Diesel. He wouldn’t have even had to act retarded.
TOTAL POWAH!
I had to get that out of my head.
Double Shock POWAH!
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4r4qkz15fsoe1.jpeg
Lol.
🍍🍕🤣
Moscato > Champagne
Blanc de blancs FTW.
https://vinepair.com/good-wine-reviews/gruet-sauvage-blanc-de-blancs/
‘merica.
If I’m not drinking French bubbly, I’m bringing the smoke.
Just swallow a straight razor. Ugh.
Back in my day, we used to scrape our rusty razors against curbs and cut honkies we caught calling us Esther Williams. My street name at the time was Corn Pop. I was a bad dude.
Mornin’, y’all. Here’s to hoping for a chill Sunday before I have Mon, Wed-Thurs off. It’s very good for me to have a make-up shift on Tues.
I hope yours is as calm as I hope mine to be. Kill reality and do Big Things.
Happy Easter!
🐰🐇🐣 ✝️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY
🎶🎶
Happy Easter, Sean and EfE! It’s even Eastern Orthodox Easter! How often does that happen? 😃
😀
…I mean how often do they fall on the same day? (Yes, I know Eastern Orthodox Easter happens once a year.)
Four centuries later, Easter’s date remains divisive. Some church leaders want that to change
That’s interesting! Thanks, Roat! Personally, I wouldn’t blame the Eastern Orthodox Church(es?) for wanting to maintain their separation from the Western church. If that includes keeping their own calendar, that’s fine.