Not quite where I will be driving…
Tomorrow morning I hit the road. Off to see some Glibs. I will get to drive the Indiana Tollway and the Ohio Turnpike. Please pray for me.
Links;
- The Kamala Harris School of Speechifyin’ is still in business.
- The state of IngSoc in Airstrip One – “5 year plan?! No, we need twice as long.”
- Insert own joke here.
- Canada – note what Switzerland is doing.
Music – inspired by this absolute improbability.
Comments are all yours.
Watch for construction and randomly working toll booths on the Indiana Tollway. From recent experience.
Indiana may be the worst state to drive through (could be Illinois as well) — nothing to see and shit roads.
You had our prayers at “Off to see some Glibs.”
“Off to see the Gliberd, the wonderful Gliberd of Odds!”
Also watch out for all the feral guns in Indiana. I don’t recall when their mating or migration seasons are.
The narrowed gaze isn’t working. Switzy is delivering PUNishment in person now.
He should try standing aggressively with his hands on his hips while narrowing his flinty gaze.
And now let’s define the “basic dignities of life,” just so we’re not, you know, building one non-definition on another.
That threshold of who has to pay the wealth tax is easier to slide when you never nail down who is considered “wealthy”.
It is always more than the person talking has.
Every American is wealthy when you compare them to world poverty.
Tax the Rich!
I’m still not seeing a shred of evidence of the supposed “charisma” I keep hearing about.
Not only that, but the guy is a fucking moron too.
My opinion of Obama the speechifier in chief.
No thrill up your leg?
How sharp is the crease in his pants?
You don’t see the rizz because you’re not an AWFL who gets all moist at the thought of an exotic yet safe male.
They don’t see him as a moron because they all believe the Capitalist/Greed/Patriarchy narrative, and he panders to their irrational belief systems.
Sciatica goes down my leg.
A crease in your pants tells me work is not your forte and BS is your trade.
I find him swarmy and gross – I’d love to wipe that fake smile off his face.
He should not do sit-down interviews. His strong suit is going places, doing things (like jumping the pool) and making off-the-cuff comments here and there. He is a pretty good retail politician (no Reagan or Clinton) who ran a surprisingly good campaign.
So basically none of his supporters.
“I work just as hard making my crappy mud pies as the top baker at Lysee. Therefore I should be able to sell my pies for the same amount as he sells his delicious creations.”
Per Mamdani’s Labor Theory of Value.
…And that’s okay!
Just like their dear Papa!
+1 pressed wild flower
Well played, lads. Well played.
I’m not a lumberjack ( don’t count the occasional axing of fallen trees blocking trails that) nor am I gay, but I do press wildflowers.
I just looked up those standings today. My wife suddenly started asking about going to a game, and of course now the prices are up.
Chicago can hit the crap out of the ball. The pitching is a bit sus.
My team (Cleveland) , on the other hand, can’t hit worth shit* but has good pitching.
*- as I type they’ve hit 6 HR tonight.
If there’s one thing that local bureaucracy is known for it’s the efficient and economical management of life’s essentials.
It’s sickening that we live in a world some cunt saying he wants to put life’s essentials under state control survives to the end of that speech.
Sadly this is prime time for someone to peddle that trash. We had high inflation without a rise in wages. Gas prices are still up. The economy isn’t having that YUGE recovery we were promised. And we now have an adult generation that spent their entire education being indoctrinated.
This guy is terrifying. It’s impressive that an even worse commie than Starmer has somehow failed his way to the top.
I mean, the younger generation of voters I encounter are mostly all-in on that shit. At least online.
Ran into someone who literally said government does *everything* more efficiently to include running grocery stores. I argued for a bit and they ran along as they usually do. There’s like complete ignorance of history and magical thinking that those things can’t happen here because we already have all the moneys.
I’ve met that opinion for decades.
People always bring up the military too.
I’ve been in the military and frankly it’s bad at its job and overspends like drunken sailors.
That’s Lumber Jill to you!
And do the Swiss not know how to drill wells? Mine is 1200’ I have a neighbor whose well is 1400’ and some of the big municipal ones in the area are deeper.
I have 2 wells in the front yard that are about 18′ deep and I put them in myself.
Admittedly, that was a few years ago.
Who the fuck are the Cleveland Guardians?
Some guys who genocided the Indians.
Do they do an acknowledgement before games stating that Indians once owned and played at the site.
The Crow Indians enter the conversation . . .
I notice we still see the words “formerly known as Twitter” but AP style guide doesn’t recommend “formerly known as Indians” or “formerly known as Redskins.”
Here’s a radical idea: dig a hole in the alpine meadows, along with some small ditches that direct snowmelt to fill them with water every year. That way you have plenty of the stuff in reserve. You could probably even name it “reserver,” or something like that.
Of course, the people making big francs helicoptering water to parched meadows wouldn’t be to fondue that solution.
They would fill every spring like clockwork.
There would be more spring holes than cheese holes!
They might mar the landscape. They should heidi them out of sight.
That would be cuckoo.
“The Kamala Harris School of Speechifyin’ is still in business.”
Indeed it is. It looks like AOC has been in attendance, as I have seen a clip of her giving a speech to black folks in the style of black preacher.
She ain’t no ways tired?
Pronounced “tarred”
AOC isn’t just a president wannabe, she is a member wannabe!
“giving a speech to black folks”
I think I will avoid that situation because I’d be afraid of doing exactly that by accident.
Kind of a rite of passage on the Democratic ticket. At least she’s a shade darker than Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
https://i.imgflip.com/2/1yohw0.jpg
I wouldn’t want to attend the Trump School of Speechifying either.
Lordy lawd, she sho nuff was. I was waiting for her to break into a verse of Mammy.
Man politics is just the dumbest thing ever. Who goes to a rally and cheers for this shit? What is wrong with people?
TIL in local gov’t efficiency, that the two men in charge of my town parks and recs both retired in January, leaving only a bunch of 20yo’s in charge, who know nothing about what actually needs to be done.
To be fair, Ron Swanson had to be getting a bit long in the tooth for the job…
Will anyone notice?
Some comment Mojeaux wrote a few years ago stuck with me, so I saved it:
The still-working boomer and GenX middle and upper management is spending its time appeasing the greedy little twats in the workplace, and the twats aren’t workers worth their salary. They haven’t been taught much in high school or college, so they can’t really do the jobs anyway.
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And then everything collapses because the people running it are empty shells of human beings. They make nothing important, they contribute nothing of value, they know nothing of worth.
This is only the beginning.
Counterpoint – a bunch of my young co-workers are excellent.
However, they are also Costa Rican.
(The Poles are surly, the Indians lack any sort of initiative, but the Ticos rock)
Make of that what you will.
That you are a gardener?
It seems that few businesses are hiring people to take over the management rolls when those Gen X ers and younger boomers retire.
I see it in the companies I work for. Guys retire and the bosses haven’t had anyone shadow them for the last two years or so so they can step into the middle management rolls.
It’s bad enough that in one case I know of the new guys that do get promoted up won’t know where to source the critical parts to keep a hundred million dollar business functioning.
Later-stage Gen Z and Alpha will save us. They hate Millennials (and early Gen Z) with a rage I’ve never seen before. They will strive to be the antidote.
I want everyone to know I worked at home today and was not in the Army.
Ex-Army Soldier Ignited Gasoline Outside a Federal Building in New York, FBI Says
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ex-army-soldier-ignited-gasoline-outside-a-federal-building-in-new-york-fbi-says-cfcae44d?st=Xs2RWN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Doesn’t he know he’s supposed to pour the gasoline on himself first?
Even the airforce guys get that right.
More MAGA terror. When will the far right leave the rest of us alone??
Plus gasoline, plus an airsoft rifle. Someone’s been playing too much Skyrim…
Aside – how big a loser do you have to be, to be unable to procure a gun for your terrorist attack?
In fairness, he bought a P320 but left it at home because it was more likely to shoot himself than someone else.
“He was just having a bad day.”
/Tim Walz
A better question: did he roast coffee beans?
Why television isn’t funny anymore
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Lol, misplaced my href tag apparently.
Heil Honey, I’m Home was canceled by that same broadcaster 10+ years prior.
I hate The Office so much.
Still, the point stands that you can’t do anything edgy or even just frivolously stupid anymore. Watching the metamorphosis of shows like South Park and It’s Always Sunny that have been limping along more than a decade past their expiration date is illustrative for US TV.
Does anybody watch network tv anymore? I can’t tell you the last sitcom I had even heard of, let alone watched.
The censurousness is part of it, but I think a bigger part is that the high quality talent went elsewhere. Oh, and it all became quite derivative.
Take Big Bang Theory as an example. The first season was decent. The second season was just okay. Then they became Friends with nerd references, and it sucked. Yet it went on for what? 7 more seasons?
On the rare occasion I try watching a new sitcom, it is all rehashed jokes and plots from older sitcoms.
Also, the office wasn’t that great. I never got why it was so beloved. It was okay.
Parks & Rec was better. And probably the last (live action) sitcom I have watched, and only that in reruns years after it ended.
There is much better going on in animation – even if some of them are way past their sell by date.
I think the only thing we ever watch on the legacy broadcast networks anymore is sporting events. We’re old fogeys who still have cable. (Love that high-def tier of channels!) More often than not, we start – and usually stay – on the “smart channels”, basically the “Discovery Family” of channels, especially History. (The only good thing about spending 10 hours in the ER with TT a week ago Friday was that they stuck us in a “room” with a TV and we got to watch a couple of episodes of What on Earth? on the Science Channel, which we’d given up a while ago when scaling back our cable package to reduce the ever-more-ridiculous cost.)
I will always have cable for sports and reruns and ease of use. Turn it on and let it run. Streaming is for families and young people who have more inclination to pay full attention to the screen than I do.
The UK Office is better than the American Office. There. I said it.
If people didn’t like me yelling at them, then they shouldn’t be doing stupid things.
Like A Boss
He may be Cynical, but I’m not going to say he’s wrong.
I don’t care for soccer for the same reason o don’t care for any sport.
I find it as boring as watching the game of golf.
They can be fun to play. But watching them is a completely different story to me.
That is closer to the real answer. We just find it boring.
Golf and sex are two activities that one can really enjoy without being any good at it.
TOK I think his answer has some weight to it. I think there is a lot of Home town Heroism in sports. People that used to play at the Jr high and High School level see themselves in the game and can see themselves being sportingly heroic. I think we all have some of that in each of us. We want to think we would be the hero in some bad situation or a triumphant moment.
I think the self selection bias is where the “my team” people come into play with sports.
Little bit of past glory, wannabeism, tribalism, belonging.
And with scoccer its roots don’t go deep in the U.S.
And you can do both by yourself.
However, foursomes are much more common in golf.
Bravo CP.
I meet up with old classmates every couple weeks for coffee. Seems all the guys were varsity q’backs (funny, I don’t remember them) and the girls were cheerleader captains (I would have thought I’d remember something like that.
We must have had a bench full of varsity reserve q’backs, lucky I never got hurt
/#1 spectator
My favorites are from hockey. Duncan Keith spitting out a hand full of teeth, getting stitched up, and playing the rest of the game.
And this one: https://deadspin.com/andrew-shaws-bloody-face-is-the-face-of-the-stanley-cup-571205060/
Just like the good old days, when there were only six NHL teams and you got to fight the same guys ten times a winter not counting playoffs. I’ve read some accounts of the on-ice battles from those days. Pretty brutal.
And, of course
Troll is trolling. Film at 11.
The greatest ever troll?
Troll in chief?
He’s exceptionally correct. The number of whistles over… NOTHING, and players routinely, and yikes, frequently, just falling to hope to get a ref’s attention is just, well. “Childish” is a very polite term to use. And fans *expect* them to. Like. They *want* their own players to be bitches cuz that’s a better long-term way of getting goals? Uh huh.
Yeah. And they’re trained to do it from youth. In America, that’s how you get made fun of until you have the sense to not be a fucking baby when you’re playing a ball sport. That’s kinda the entire fucking point.
Culturally? When ya get hit by a pitch? Ya don’t fucking rub it. If it fucking breaks a bone or your face, to where all you as a human can DO is to react, that’s okay. Otherwise? Bitch? Hit the bench. And don’t even bother trying to sit on it next game.
All of the things posts like this criticize soccer for can be seen in those other sports that people who claim soccer is somehow un-American like.
There’s flopping in basketball, and heaven knows embellishment is a penalty in hockey.
The NFL had to institute timeout rules for teams faking injuries to try to get the clock to stop.
NFL wide receivers are just as bad when it comes to trying to goad the refs into throwing a flag.
Baseball has long stretches with no action.
But somehow all these things only suddenly, magically become a flaw when they happen in soccer.
aHA! There’s no flopping in baseball! The AMERICAN pastime! They corked bats and juiced to Marvel proportions, but ya don’t rub it! (Well, emery-boarding on the ball was FUN cheating!)
“The three best things America has given the world: Jazz, the Constitution, and baseball.” ~ T Sowell.
My son played soccer and it can be very physical and brutish. I don’t love the flopping and there is more of an effort than ever to get that under control. I like that outside of the dumb hydration breaks, the action keeps going (yes, there’s stoppages for injuries and penalties and set pieces) and almost anything can happen at any time.
It’s harder to do than it looks, especially the cross pitch passes and playing perfect passes into space. Even getting the right touch on a pass can be difficult to do unless you’re well practiced.
Not sure if true*. Things could get interesting down there if it is.
(Apologies for stepping on Sharpshooter’s Tuesday schtick)
Nicaragua’s momento libertario?
Well, boss and manager had a sit-down with me, and separately with the new guy, to be fair. I’ve noticed, and they did too, that Other New Guy is picking it up quicker than I am. So they’re gonna try and help me, and watching trainer and new guy tomorrow will be part of it, a good idea, methinks, to get viewpoints of two folk doing the same thing I ‘am.’
Telling ’em about how I learn and pick up things, “If there’s a thing to think, I *will* overthink it” was another truthful bit, but after asking if I should or not… I did tell them about the brain damage and how it can take me longer for things to click in. Not sure if that was wise, though I don’t think it stupid, but I s’pose that’s out there.
Got me feelin’ jumpy, though I’m also aware this is how things go. I am confident, regarding this, but another stress slap, nonetheless. (I’m not concerned, but I’m more ‘Bad Nervous’ than the Good variety.)
Not too much to “Onward and upward” if ya never hit a divot or several. *shrug* It’ll be just fine, methinky.
Tough call on whether or not that would be a good thing to tell them.
Seems a bit quick to be culling someone. It’s been what just one work week?
Most of what we worry about never comes to pass.
Relax, Evan, worrying won’t change anything anyway.
Yeah, and only a bit of Thurs and Fri doing what we’re doing now. I brought up the weekend break and how that isn’t Memory’s friend first starting out. I almost asked if they needed the two people, cuz it might be like they could be culling, but I’m not that dumb, but it did weigh on my mind. However, New Guy 2 (Luke) is gonna be one of the people I watch tomorrow, and Manager did suggest he might have more direct experience.
I don’t get the impression they’re cutting one of us, but they do mean business and I got much more to learn and put together. We’ve only done basic basics. It’s absolutely a system I can figure out with enough experience, but I really don’t have much of that, yet.
Biggest impression? Well. It’s not govt, and they expect much work to be accomplished for $22/hr. I agree with them. I also know I’ll be taking extra Thinking Pills with me tomorrow, and I have a great conversation point with Psych on Wed w the talk to get a refill /figure out Rx dosage.
I’ll also admit, after wavering to bring it up, though it did seem fairly germane, my quick description still gave me inner jitters, when saying it out loud *to* people. Nothing of consequence, but that was curious.
Mentioning the TBI now that you’re hired isn’t terrible – it’s such a PITA that they’ll work with you rather than cutting you loose if they think you can pick it up.
That thought did enter my mind. (Especially in True Blue Carmel, IN.) They also pulled Luke into the room for a chat before I went in. I’m sure he got more praise, but I’m sure a big bit was asking him if he’d be cool showing me how HE wields the reins, tomorrow.
That does bring something to mind. I’ll post below.
They also have to tread lightly due to ADA accommodation rules and so forth. If they fire you without having made a reasonable attempt to work with you they’d be opening themselves to liability. The company I work for had one of our chat agents fail 5 basic first-level evaluations within 6 months (normally it’s a 3 month probationary period) for that exact reason.
Here is hoping that this goes the right way. And glad the pilot lived long enough to see his day in court.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/one-six-pack-beer-could-significantly-alter-how-constitution-regulates-law-enforcement
“Alaska, however, argues that confiscating the planes of those who facilitate illegal imports is the only way the state can meaningfully prevent the problems caused by alcoholism in its remote regions.“
Here’s an idea, alcoholism isnt any business of the state. It’s a personal decision.
Ridiculous
“Here’s an idea, alcoholism isnt any business of the state. It’s a personal decision.”
When the state makes healthcare a public issue, then guess what?
Dammit.
I have Sushi Glory Hole stuck in my head now.
She has a name, Shitlorde!
Watchamazog?
Mammary Monday rolls on.
https://archive.is/NnM5l
Number 3 is really leaning into trying to look like a RealDoll.
They’re all really a little too much, TBF.
I have definitely drifted towards “built for speed” as I’ve gotten older.
Built For Comfort – Howlin’ Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoO1q5KSi6w
Built for comfort all the way baby.
@TPTB: MY (incredibly) NSFW submission is in, and I think it’d help if we can push up the publishing date. In my NSHO, it’s a very fun read, though not fun to look at. (Interesting as fuck, though.) I spent a lot of time on it last week and finished it over the weekend, so my story (and pics!) about my brain surgery are living heavily in my head.
Especially with that meeting today, it would be best for me not to dwell on the publication. Thankfully, and naturally, it’s not a ‘forced fun’ story, but quite funny, and a legit grand slam of survival. Most wouldn’t have gotten to first, let alone home. (“And to be SAFE! I hope I’ll be safe at home! Safe at home!…”) With this new universe I’ve jumped into, I note in the piece how it reminds me so much of moving to Korea in Dec., ’09.
I think it’d be healthy to ‘show off’ what I’ve been through and how my current Big Thing is a tremendously promising leap. It’s good for me to read, write and share my adventures to remind myself of all I’ve done to right myself in America. It has not been easy, but fuck if I don’t play hard. I really am naturally, persistently chipper, but it can be easy to get lost in that.