A Peacekeeper for our times?
I am going to keep this short – I am on Day 3 of whatever is going around, Man-Coldwise. I will not allow today to be a downer, sportsball and our Left moving ever further away from what M.L.K sought aside. It is -3 degrees, but I am in 3 layers, next to a space heater and shitpoasting on the net and playing games. If I knew what would be available on a holiday-sick day-indoor day, when I was a kid…I would think the world a marvelous place!
Links;
- And people wonder why politicians are looked down on.
- Never change, France.
- You ain’t seen nothing yet.
- Harmful Swiss beavers!
Music – I like me some guitar.
Comments are open and yours.
I am in 3 layers, next to a space heater and shitpoasting on the net and playing games.
No chicken soup?
Besides the soup, he is doing a good job keeping in the spirit of the holiday.
I’m surprised Illnoise allows you to own a space heater. Those things are one step away from an assault weapon of mass destruction.
Reminds me of this Gary Larson classic.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/96/4f/3a/964f3a85b80eb6549c87500b5adbdf24–chicken-soups-chicken-humor.jpg
That should come with grève consequences.
*narrows gaze*
Labor strife really is an art form in France.
I’m surprised they didn’t just kill all the
gophersbeavers.great big globs of greasy, grimy, beaver guts
The Atlantic: Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
“Of course you know, this means WAR!”
Relevant.
If I thought Trump was actually capable of playing 20-dimensional chess, I could imagine he’s pissing off the Europeans so they vote the US out of NATO.
He’s playing checkers, normal ones. Badly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg
beaver
I haven’t been sick, but I’ve been the only one in the house who hasn’t been.
I am, however, exhausted because everyone else has been sick.
I got a bunch of shots today and now I feel like sleeping for two or three days.
Yeah that’s why I don’t drink much anymore.
Baffling
Five years after the transatlantic automaker Stellantis
was formed through a merger, the business hasn’t necessarily panned out as investors hoped.
U.S. shares of the company — created through a $52 billion combination of Italian American automaker Fiat Chrysler and France-based Groupe PSA on Jan. 16, 2021 — are down roughly 43% in the past five years. Italian-listed shares also are off roughly 40%.
Economies of scale! Synergies!
Take all the shit brands across the globe and wrap them into one company.
Perfect recipe for success. I don’t know why it is struggling.
Belvidere Illinois weeps.
(The old Chrysler Assembly plant went to Stellantis – it never reopened).
There are worse choices than a midsize truck.
https://www.wardsauto.com/news/archive-auto-stellantis-uaw-belvidere-midsize-truck/761449/
Maybe this one won’t have the electrical system of British Leyland products.
The Original Belvedere became the Roadrunner, fuck yeah!
Dad’s was yellow of course
Fiat and Chrysler, a match made in heaven (if you’re a mechanic with an independent shop).
Don’t get me started on my Freightliner/Dodge/Benz project.
Actually I need to get restarted on it. I haven’t worked on it for six weeks.
Seems legit
Should have chosen Che or Pol Pot
+ 1 Mein Kampf
Stalin.
So goddamn self-righteous they feel like they have to authority to dictate who can and cannot be a hero.
Fuck these people in the ass with a rusty chainsaw.
I must be exhausting thinking you’re always right, and the rest of the country is so stupid they can’t see the obvious truth.
Not exhausting enough.
*hug a teacher* 💕
She’s protecting the student from a mostly peaceful debate.
Probably ended up with 12 Patrick Mahomes, 5 Andy Reids, 7 Joy Behars, and 4 Michelle Obamas.
Huh. Kinda surprising in Eureka, KS (population 2,332), I suppose. They don’t have many schools, so this g̶u̶i̶d̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶n̶s̶e̶l̶o̶r̶ thought warden has power over a remarkable number of souls.
Broken people in their broken religion, eagerly given positions of authority over children! Swell.
It goes to show how complete the indoctrination has become at almost every education school.
Yep. My high school, still one of the best in the nation, was fully awash in nascent wokeness in 2001-2005. Our principal was a woman in an three-way lesbian relationship, one of whom adopted an Asian child. It’s weird being that age, their chief demographic, during that time.
I had my political princiPLES mostly sorted around my late sophomore to junior years. I’d drive away during my 90min ‘study hall’ and returning with McDs orders I got for others (I took my cut), and much more hijinks and hookey. I got away with it cuz it was a small school and I was a good student who actually participated in class, often playing the Devil’s advocate with my thoughts. Then I went to the Collins dorm at IU, which was more of the same, but condensed and we lived there. (Goddammit not taking advantage of that remains, legit, by far my biggest regrets. Particularly Hannah Lore [REDACTED]. *deep sigh*)
But… but…
Along with the stop-work orders for projects already underway, the administration also has indicated in court filings that it intends to retract offshore wind projects approved under Biden that have yet to commence construction. The former president had been a champion of the industry, calling for construction of enough turbines spinning off US coasts to produce the same amount of electricity as 30 nuclear reactors.
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill also sped up the phaseout of federal tax credits for offshore wind, where projects need to start work by the middle of this year to qualify. Without such subsidies, offshore wind costs about $199 per megawatt-hour, according to estimates by BloombergNEF, making it a lot harder for developers to justify the economics to their investors.
They told me wind power is so cheap we can’t afford not to build it.
“making it a lot harder for developers to justify the economics to their investors”
LOL. It’s a lot harder for me to justify a new $75,000 car without a $70,000 subsidy.
So really it’s not “Trump winning the fight” – it’s reality winning.
IIRC there is one of these grift-factories moving forward off NY but the rest that were in the works (3 or 4 more sites) withdrew because Kathy won’t allow them to charge reality-based rates for the energy they generate.
I made the comment yesterday (elsewhere) that the left used to brag that reality had a liberal bias, these days it seems reality is just a construct of the right-wing.
Yeah I remember hearing that one a lot but not lately – I think we found the one phrase that defeats their natural shamelessness.
Love the new STEVE SMITH pic.
He looks like he means business.
BY BUSINESS, MEAN…
…PEACEKEEPING. (wink, wink)
PIECEKEEPING
PEACEKEEPER SMITH IMPLEMENT “RESOLUTION”
Relevant
STEVE SMITH IMPLEMENT PIECE DEEP INSIDE CAMPERS
There are worse choices than a midsize truck.
Bring back the Jeep Comanche? Nobody wants a truck like that.
Today’s midsize is probably the size of yesteryear’s half ton.
Even the Toyotas are big, just not on the inside.
Blame the NTSB.
XJ based pickup.
If not for the lack of a man sized cab I’m surprised they didn’t sell better.
” I am on Day 3 of whatever is going around, Man-Coldwise”
#Metoo
Stupid flu
Today’s midsize is probably the size of yesteryear’s half ton.
At least. My ’80s GMC 3/4 ton looks like a mini truck next to the monsters they crank out now.
Our mom mobile, 2016 suburban is smaller than my mom’s 85 suburban and almost on par with my 67-72 Suburbans.
I wish the new Suburbans were 18” longer and a little wider inside.
See, we told you there was no cheating Archive link ’cause NYT
Initial Review Finds No Widespread Illegal Voting by Migrants, Puncturing a Trump Claim
Well, then. That settles things. However, eleven paragraphs in…
The review, which is voluntary for states or local election departments, has prompted complaints from officials in Democratic-run states who have declined to participate.
So the initial review is reviewing states and localities that have made a point to keep clean voter rolls, while the (alleged) cheaters cross their fingers and say “nuh-uh… we’re clean, too!”
Nice bit of obfuscation, NYT.
That’s pathetic, weak sauce even for the NYC.
sometime something you don’t hate the media enough
or NYT which is what I actually typed
I hate both.
No widespread voting. Also, by illegal aliens not ineligible voters (non citizen permanent residents or others, visa holders, voters that don’t live in the voting district, deceased, etc etc).
I remember when the MSM and left claimed there were no fraudulent votes. Now it’s just not widespread. Allegedly. Shifting goalposts again.
Soon it will be “It’s happening, and has been all along, and it’s a good thing.”
Local color
A fire at a homeless encampment grew out of control, burning a nearby restaurant in Northeast Portland early Saturday morning, authorities said.
The fire started next to the Red Robin restaurant on Northeast Grand Avenue in the Lloyd District.
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Fire officials said they determined that a warming fire at a homeless camp had extended to the building.
PF&R is urging people to keep any fire at least 15 feet away from buildings and keep them inside a metal container, not out in the open.
Needs more subsidized burn barrels.
There is a silver lining to the agreement that our urban campers here are allowed to do their business largely undisturbed on a city lot behind the WalMart is that they are not allowed to camp on the streets.
@rhy: Sounds like Hamsterdam in The Wire. ‘Keep it here and don’t take it to normie-land.’
Sucks you live right next to THAT Walmart, on the border. It doesn’t seem the Hamsterdamers are keeping their end of the bargain. Fucking shocker.
“Entitlement” is good shorthand for ‘lack of accountability.’ The responsible, hardest hit.
I don’t live near the WalMart. Some do-gooders went to “The Jungle” where they live and pulled the 49 they deemed most able to function in normal society and put them into “supportive housing” across the street. I assume they regularly top-off with fresh recruits (I did see another OD ambulanced away last night).
Wow. Normalization, indeed. Naked Gun: The Documentary: MSNOW Cameras film Rep. Omar (D-MN) standing in front of an urban encampment’s raging inferno, resident ghouls gnawing on their freshly grilled neighbors, while their spawn rummage for remnants in nearby structures and corpses.
“Move along. Nothing to see here!” And everyone just goes along with it. This will not end well and, as desired, more useful idiots are gonna die for the Cause to maintain the “sanctuaries.” (Gotta keep up the religion.) Until they get The Right martyr, at least.
That feeling when you decide you REALLY need to know the ins and outs of a program you’ve been using since 2009 because discussions on it are confusing and you feel like a right idiot, then come to find out, you’ve been doing it ALL WRONG except…your way is simpler/more efficient AND it works.
Anyhoo, I did get a couple of decent tips out of it I may or may not use.
All these problems I have (and I’ve had them my whole life) is because I don’t know what labels are used for what.
Public hospital debt.
I see two problems here, a public hospital, and government competing against the market.
You can’t leave hospitals to charities/non-profits!!!
Nothing gives you the warm fuzzies like your $300 headphone amp turning on saying “FFT module abnormal”.
Hard power cycled it and it’s working. It’s typical Chinese hifi. No idea if it is firmware or hardware issue.
Similar hardware from a European manufacture is 3x the price. People don’t realize that kind of R&D has a real cost.
So did all the other R&D that the CCP stole over the decades.
In this case it’s an original design. Just done with a very small budget. It’s not a clone of the western device.
But it is known how China respects IP…
There are a couple of hifi pieces of gear that the Chinese can do “okay.”
But most of it is garbage.
Ah, OK. Or, not OK as the case may be.
There is lots of crap from China. However, the boutique brands make measurably high quality stuff.
Problem is longevity is a question and R&D before release is low. But for 1/3rd the cost I’ll punt.
If it was commercial or professional use I’d buy the European (but I believe Chinese made) designed unit.
Piles of branches were also erected on the island.
Erected. In an article on beavers.
Nice.
Inserted that right in!
My favorite safety brief from back in the day was Steel Erection. Whoever wrote it was dropping all the double entendres that day.
So, my neighbor/barn-owner/friend is in hospice care – cancer has gotten the better of him.
Sorry. The whole getting older thing is not all fun.
That for me is the worst part – he’s younger than me.
I mentioned before I went to the funeral of my wife’s friend. She was younger than I am as well.
Sorry
So sorry.
I swapped out my laptop battery and didn’t lose any screws or end up with extra screws at the end. I must have done something wrong.
You’ll know when it puffs up and blows the bottom of the laptop out.
There is no fixing it if the magic smoke escapes.
People don’t realize that kind of R&D has a real cost.
Have you seen the latest “Driving 4 Answers”?
Why do “hypercar” engines cost so much? When Ferrari’s engine R&D department is a Formula One team, the overhead is steep.
No, but it’s on my playlist.
Today was my late brother’s 96th. It really irritated him that he shared MLK Day (some years). He wasn’t a complete racist but he had opinions. I couldn’t help teasing him.
I think teasing works better than outright calling people out.
I thought it pretty ironic today that all the MLK Day public official celebrators (at least the ones jumping in front of the parade to be on tv) are the kind who emphasize the color of one’s skin and not the content of one’s character
And Lysander Spooner.
When I moved to NH, NH had Civil Rights Day instead of MLK, Jr. Day, which the usual suspects said was racist. Then we got MLK, Jr. Day.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
*throws cup of whisky onto campfire*
Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!
…
Poor whisky.
pour whiskey
That’s alcohol abuse!
Thicker oil and sending good feelings isn’t working as expected?
NHTSA Investigating Post-Recall GM 6.2L L87 Engine Failures
LOL. I hadn’t thought of this.
Tesla (TSLA.O) is poised to be one of the first automakers to benefit from Canada’s move to remove 100% tariffs on Chinese-made EVs, thanks to its early efforts to ship cars from its Shanghai plant there and its established Canadian sales network, experts say.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-poised-be-early-winner-canada-opens-door-chinese-made-evs-2026-01-19/
Piles are incredibly painful even if beavers aren’t chewing on them.