So, I went to the gym a little late this morning because my wife wasn’t awake at my usual time of 6:30am to watch the kids, it was her day off to sleep in. And there were all these, these people in the gym. I wonder, is it like that every 10am, or did the Resolution Fairy sprinkle people in my gym to bother and annoy me. Also, my first nap of 2020 was epic. 100 minutes of dead-to-the-world sleep. And now if Alabama would lose, all would be excellent.
Florida Man shot (by himself or his buddy) celebrating New Years.
I did not realize there is an Order of Chinggis Khaan (Genghis Khan) in Mongolia. New life goal, unlocked.
I’ve heard that Amazon Women were actually the first on the Moon.
If you ever wanted to read the Talmud, I hear they’re starting over again soon. I think that’s a cool tradition.
Lets do some throwback rock.
First on the 1st! Yeah, baby.
There goes my resolution. Thanks a lot buddy.
I aim to please and shoot to kill.
I just accidentally dropped a new roll of toilet tissue into the toilet. On the upside, I’ve managed to go my whole life without doing that until now. Does it dry out OK?
Just keep flushing until it goes down
I pulled it out so it’s only half wet.
Oh, how many times have I used that line?
Lol
Microwave on low for 12 minutes, it’ll be perfect.
Was it quilted?
Not as far as I can tell.
Squeeze it.
I’m leaving it alone on the back of the toilet.
To properly dry it has to be unrolled first, re-rolled from the big end right onto the holder, sans the cardboard insert.
Then I guess I’m just throwing it out.
Are you really in such financial dire straights you need to “waste not, want not” your toilet tissue?
Spray with jalapeno juice and let it dry.
The jalapeno juice will keep the fibers intact.
^^^ This is the correct answer.
I lost all my bets today. I need better analytics.
You’ll just need to double your bets tomorrow to get back up, easy.
Actually, if this keeps up, they’re rock solid. Just run them and bet the opposite.
Are you spying on me? I watched that same Devo video this morning.
“I did not realize there is an Order of Chinggis Khaan (Genghis Khan) in Mongolia. New life goal, unlocked.”
Weird they use first initials instead of first names.
I lost all my bets today.
Let that be a lesson to you.
Yup.
Cancel kkkapitalism
The hyper-revving of the engine of mass-market consumerism arguably made life seem easier for some families. Free shipping, fierce competition among mega-retailers, the rise of online shopping, and money-losing delivery start-ups: These trends assuredly made “stuff” cheaper and more accessible for millions of customers, particularly relatively rich ones in urban areas.
But lower-income consumers have faced higher rates of inflation than upper-income consumers. Retailers pivoted to the one-percenters and left the 99 percenters behind, and who could blame them? Businesses go where the money is. The cost of services—elder care, preschool, veterinary care, dentistry, a college degree—sucked up every penny working-class families had, and more. Cheap baby clothes are nice, but publicly financed day care would be nicer.
The 2010s were a decade that left families fragile, unequal, and divided. These years made clear, if it wasn’t already, that the system is rigged for big businesses and the already-rich. They demonstrated that even a very good economy does not necessarily work for the middle class. The 2010s showed how bad everything could feel when everything was going great. This decade, we made it to late capitalism. We became late capitalism. We are late capitalism.
Maybe you think capitalism is a successful and efficient system for producing and distributing goods and services.
Well, you’re wrong.
The 2010s were a decade that left families fragile, unequal, and divided. These years made clear, if it wasn’t already, that the system is rigged for big businesses and the already-rich.
I don’t disagree about the fracture in the system. My generation is very split between successful and… erm… not. However, this class struggle bullshit is exactly wrong. The split is between the thinking and the unthinking. You can achieve whatever the heck you want. All you need is enough drive to get off your lazy ass and do the required legwork.
Eh. There’s a real problem with leverage in the current American economy. If you are in the right position, you can keep yourself more or less immune from competitors (both at a business and individual employee level) by leveraging that position to crowd out competitors.
You can essentially develop something worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but if you are in the wrong position, the vast majority of that value will accrue to someone else with more leverage than you. What you’re “worth” and what you get are two different things, because there are substantial artificial barriers to entry in most markets.
The rent-seeking and regulatory capture and graft are real and legitimate barriers to a more fee market growth economy. Socialists are often not that bad at identifying problems. They just tend to come up with truly horseshit solutions.
Socialist internal monologue:
“The sand is slipping out from between my fingers……..
I know, squeeze harder!!!”
Is he actually arguing that Amazon only serves the one percent?
She and yes.
A minimum-wage increase should fix that.
I’d like to see the citation for this “fact.” I suspect she pulled it out of her ass.
lower-income consumers have faced higher rates of inflation than upper-income consumers
I’m not even sure how this would be measured. Are lottery tickets and malt liquor prices rising more than imported sedans?
Their income as a multiple of the minimum wage is shrinking?
“In a landmark discovery revealed earlier this month, archaeologists unearthed the remains of four female warriors buried with a cache of arrowheads, spears and horseback riding equipment in a tomb in Western Russia – right where Ancient Greek stories placed the Amazons.
The team from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences identified the women as Scythian nomads who were interred at a burial site some 2,500 years ago near the present-day community of Devitsa. The women ranged in age from early teens to late 40s, according to the archaeologists. And the eldest of the women was found wearing a golden ceremonial headdress, a calathus, engraved with floral ornaments – an indication of stature.
The discovery represents some of the most detailed evidence to date that female warriors weren’t just the stuff of ancient fiction, according to Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World.”
Being buried with weapons might be a sign of stature, but it doesn’t mean they were warriors.
This ain’t the movies, female warriors would have been crushed in up close and personal combat so I have my doubts. Maybe they could fight with bows but the men would have been able to outrange them there too.
Not necessarily a warrior, but hella points for style.
https://youtu.be/KaF37B0skNA?t=67
Am I on a list now?
That’s pretty damn impressive.
Hawt!
You’re assuming they would have been front line. There are many historical examples of societies that used women as rear-echelon troops or irregulars (e.g., the onna-bugeisha, etc.), in part, to tip the cost-benefit analysis of rape and mayhem away from the invaders’ advantage.
Also Scythian’s didn’t, to my understanding, engage in phalanx style fighting like the Greeks. They were primarily light cavalry and mounted archers…..something a woman trained at from childhood could be quite adept in. Women aren’t at a huge disadvantage as equestrians and archers.
IIRC, equestrian sports are the only olympic sport where men and women compete in the same grouping against each other.
Equestrians maybe, archers? I am skeptical. Combat archery involved bows with a draw weight of 80-120 lbs, and before the compound bow, the hold weight was the same. It takes pretty significant upper body strength to be able to draw, hold the draw while aiming, then repeat.
I detest Jim Harbaugh, therefore I root for Alabama.
Sweet SMOD please
And ‘Bama is going to win.
There’s still 2 minutes for a space rock to be guided down by Mr Lizard (PBUH)
Wow, classy Bama ?
Saban doesn’t like Harbaugh either.
I did not know who was in the Rose Bowl until I went to the grocery store this morning, and then it became painfully obvious.
This hotel is directly across the golf course from me, and it’s at 100% capacity with Rose Bowl fans. I probably shouldn’t go out to dinner around here tonight.
It’s Wisconsin. Just stay clear of Applebee’s or the Olive Garden and the crowd will be smaller.
I hope they enjoyed the 2-hour journey to the stadium.
And there were all these, these people in the gym. I wonder, is it like that every 10am, or did the Resolution Fairy sprinkle people in my gym to bother and annoy me.
I figured it is a little early for the Resolution Fairy people and instead it was regulars that slept in.
The sheriff’s office says two man were firing guns off Gandy Beach around 1:20 a.m., when one of the men was shot.
Sounds like a duel to me.
Today, December 30, The Hu band members, who recently arrived home, received the Order of Chinggis Khaan in person from Head of the Office of President of Mongolia Z.Enkhbold at the State House.
I think this is one of their songs.
The team from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences identified the women as Scythian nomads who were interred at a burial site some 2,500 years ago near the present-day community of Devitsa.
When I started reading the article, I suspected Scythians. Yep. Also, from the Amazon women article:
They found she died from battle injuries. Their report in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology noted that she had an arrowhead buried in her leg and that her bone and muscle structure indicated she was a horse rider.
These euphemisms.
The Talmud is divided into 37 volumes, known as tractates, each of which deals with different aspects of Jewish law, from vows to marriage to the logistics of offering sacrifices in the ancient Temple.
Anything about busty Jewesses hooking up with weirdo Gentiles like me?
Rabbi Yosef C. Golding, an organizer, told The Record newspaper that he has worked with more than 50 law enforcement agencies on security for the event, and that more than 300 uniformed state police were to be in the stadium. The event was broadcast internationally.
I thought they wanted to be safe?
Catherine the Great?
Ouchie.
This song of HU’s has subtitles and is kinda cool.
I jog daily. It’s funny how crowded the jog paths are in January. It dwindles pretty rapidly until it’s the same 15 or 20 people you see every morning.
Then, at the beginning of June it gets crowded again. This time the paths are filled with school teachers on Summer vacation. They tend to run in groups of 2 or 3, and just cluck, cluck, cluck the whole time. By the end of June, they too disappear.
That’s why I schedule my workout resolution for March. That way when March comes and goes it’s not as obvious that I broke it.
The resolutionists are coming! The resolutionists are coming!
“The New Year’s Day event celebrated the completion of the reading of the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud, a process that takes 7 1/2 years.”
They should make a podcast.
If you think YOU had a bad 2019:
Man’s penis turns black after sex partner accidentally bites it
That article is a treasure trove of winces
Did it get bigger also?
And here I thought vagina dentata was a myth, like the Loch Ness Monster or the female orgasm.
Links related music
https://youtu.be/pzmI3vAIhbE
In case you wondering if the new decade was going to be stupid
https://twitter.com/dualiitys/status/1211495937669025792
Quick Twitter twats, let’s ruin these ninth graders’ lives.
Instant recall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em9NDCgkybA
You can say it but it has to be in the right context!
I am equal parts disgusted with the lack of etiquette and social propriety in saying the n-word (i.e., “know your audience”) and the fact that teenagers, who are stupid, can’t do vaguely stupid things without ruining their lives.
Indeed. Why is this a thing that people are discussing?
Because they have nothing meaningful in their lives. They are husks, empty, fragile, waiting to be filled with meaning and purpose yet collapsing under the weight of vaguely uncomfortable ideas.
What you said plus they get accolades and affirmation for hating on people for the “right” reasons. Twitter is the worst social media format by far.
I’m asking why we are discussing this.
Outrage porn?
Being bemused at outrageous outrage is about 1/2 of this site.
I know and it pisses my off.
So much for the proofreading resolution.
Hyperbole is outraged at our outrage over the outrage of the outraged.
So much for the proofreading resolution.
16 hours and 8 minutes, that might be a personal best.
It was presented for discussion.
We’re also talking about wet toilet paper, so clearly our standards are quite low.
Masturbation Wednesday was on topic.
Masturbation Wednesday was on topic.
Masturbation Daily would be a better topic.
Because they are hot?
The post was from another 15 year old girl. I, for one, am shocked to discover that teenage girls are nasty, mean, gutter sniping bitches. Shocked.
This is my shocked face. ?
Speaking etiquette, when did public spitting become acceptable?
In the U.S. or … ?
It’s gross, but a lot of people do it, especially if they chew tobacco.
In the US. It’s mostly not chewing tobacco, which is not that common around here compared to other tobacco products contra other part of the country. It’s just hocking spit whenever.
I have allergies. No way I’m swallowing that nasty stuff.
https://twitter.com/gay_wrath
“She even said Pence is a good man and wears a “reclaiming the rainbow shirt” to school often. The only think keeping me from decking her is the fact that she’s a child.”
The peace loving, tolerant left everyone.
I disagree with what you’re saying
but I’ll die defending your right to say it.so I’ll violently assault you for holding the wrong beliefsNo, I wasn’t wondering.
Naggers?
Tweetz protacted.
Also, every decade is stupid.
Bill De Blasio rolled out of bed this afternoon and said to himself, “What do I want to be ignorantly and paternalistically wrong about today?”
How dare you try to turn a profit by providing a good that’s instantly available in a high demand market!
I at once hate gouging, but appreciate its necessity and opportunity. I have, in fact, done it myself.
To me ‘gouging’ is often used really out of context. I break down in East Buttf***k and have no choice but to get my car fixed at the only mechanic shop in town and the proprietor charges me an exorbitant rate; that’s gouging.
Someone offering a good or service at a high price because they’re selling in a high demand market where I’m at liberty to go without isn’t much of a gouge IMO.
I very much like that disinction.
I dont see the distinction.
1 can be very high demand in East Bumfuck.
Last night our 7pm Uber ride into San Francisco from the suburbs was $31. The exact same return trip at 2am was $116.
After original disbelief and my wife saying ‘should we take public transportation?’ I said no, it was worth it to get home in 30 minutes rather than the two hours public transportation would take, and what’s 90 minutes of our life worth when we want to get safely home and asleep sooner than later? But also, that I believe in the laws of supply and demand rather than considering this to be gouging, and if $116 is what it costs now to entice a rider to drive us all the way to our front door, that’s what it costs.
‘
I agree. Also, while I consider gouging (as described above) to be unethical, I in know way thing “there outta be a law”
Yes, higher price based on momentarily high demand and low supply is not “gouging”.
Agreed and if I hadn’t been so lazy and stayed home, I would have been facing the same choice myself last night. Last time I took the subway home at 2am but… ugh that choice is less and less appealing as I get older.
How much would the pizzas have sold for at auction?
“Despite the added cost, Banik did brisk business with hungry tourists who were waiting in holding pens for the annual New Year’s celebration, with one saying, “It’s absolutely worth it.””
waiting in holding pens
Being herded into a “holding pen” by armed men is is just peachey. It’s been offered the opportunity to buy a pizza that’s evil.
Yeah, this. And it’s the price of the pizza that’s the problem?
Meh, that’s part of the deal. If you have an alternate plan to manage a willing crowd of one million people within a few square blocks I’m sure they’re all ears. It’s not for me but let’s not make it out to be some sort of “police state” thing that it’s not.
Except it is. NYE in Times Square was a thing long before 9/11, and they just let people roam around — no pens, no searches — people managed themselves.
*faints*
🙂
Yeah, look at the sexual assault that used to occur before then
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Legendary_kiss_V%E2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square_Alfred_Eisenstaedt.jpg
Yeah, I remember when that guy got me-tooed a couple years ago.
I feel sorry for all of those people who were forced to buy pizza.
Papa bless.
At $14.49, they are gouging at the regular price. But that is almost assuredly due to NY taxes.
If there’s something New York isn’t known for, it’s expensive meals.
But Rhy, it’s the only thing he’s good at.
REZZOS GHAAAAAAH!
…But without them to subsidize the gym with their annual membership, I’d have to pay more than $50/month.
If nobody posted THIS today, I haz much disappoint.
Nobody want to listen to U2, so no it didn’t get posted.
Correct.
Seconded.
Fourthed
I’m in. Hate ’em.
It’s all quiet on new years day.
Kkkiller Kkkapitalism
Billionaires, CEOs, and even the financial press have joined intellectuals and community leaders in a symphony of laments about rentier capitalism’s brutality, crassness, and unsustainability. “Business cannot continue as usual,” seems to be a widespread sentiment even in the boardrooms of the most powerful corporations.
Increasingly stressed and justifiably guilt-ridden, the ultra-rich – or those with any sense, at any rate – feel threatened by the crushing precariousness into which the majority are sinking. As Marx foretold, they form a supremely powerful minority that is proving unfit to preside over polarised societies that cannot guarantee non-asset owners a decent existence.
Barricaded in their gated communities, the smarter among the uber-rich advocate a new “stakeholder capitalism,” even calling for higher taxes on their class. They recognise the best possible insurance policy in democracy and the redistributive state. Alas, at the same time, they fear that, as a class, it is in their nature to skimp on the insurance premium.
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Confronting rentier capitalism and fashioning firms for which social responsibility is more than a marketing ploy requires nothing less than re-writing corporate law. To recognise the scale of the undertaking, it helps to return to the moment in history when tradable shares weaponised capitalism, and to ask ourselves: Are we ready to correct that “error”?
The moment occurred on September 24, 1599. In a timbered building off Moorgate Fields, not far from where Shakespeare was struggling to complete Hamlet, a new type of company was founded. Its ownership of the new firm, called the East India Company, was sliced into tiny pieces to be bought and sold freely.
Tradable shares allowed private corporations to become larger and more powerful than states. Liberalism’s fatal hypocrisy was to celebrate the virtuous neighborhood butchers, bakers, and brewers in order to defend the worst enemies of free markets: the East India Companies that know no community, respect no moral sentiments, fix prices, gobble up competitors, corrupt governments and make a mockery of freedom.
Kill the rich.
Shares, banking, insurance, trade, all that, existed long before the dawn of the 17th century. Merchants. They were a thing. They made the world go round—or at least, they made Marco Polo go halfway around it.
Except not really.
This book made the claim that Capitalism began in 1492.
Yeah. Right. Uh-huh.
Yeah, look at Ancient Athens. Banking and co-op style insurance to finance and protect shipping trade along the Mediterranean coast. It’s been years, decades really, since I looked at this, but I remember the striking number of ‘capitalist’ forms were created.
So it’s not so much really new stuff, it’s yet another try, with variations, and this time caught on. Why that variation at that time?
And the left-wing dog of collectivism manages to reach around and bite its ‘alt-right’ national-populist tail.
Well, the good news is they don’t preside over society. They preside over their companies.
And some more good news: it’s pretty easy to be an “asset owner.”
Pfft. I’ve been told that only rich straight white males are able to own ‘stock’. The barriers to getting stock are just too high for everyone else.
Even worse, they would tell you, with a straight face, that saving money and not spending every available penny is a cultural tic of western culture.
I bet this is something Paul Krugman unironically believes.
Hey, I made the cut !
1598. Great idea. Lets adopt 1598’s sanitation standards as well, and we can all die of plague while we’re at it!
Yeah, that’s pretty much the threat they’re trying to whip up.
In this system, calls for a gentler capitalism are mere fads – especially in the post-2008 reality, which confirmed the total control over society by mega-firms and mega-banks. Unless we are willing to ban tradable shares, first introduced in 1599, we will make no appreciable difference to the distribution of wealth and power today. To imagine what transcending capitalism might mean in practice requires rethinking the ownership of corporations.
Imagine that shares resemble electoral votes, which can be neither bought nor sold. Like students who receive a library card upon registration, new staff receive a single share granting a single vote to be cast in all-shareholder ballots deciding every matter of the corporation – from management and planning issues to the distribution of net revenues and bonuses.
Suddenly, the profit-wage distinction makes no sense and corporations are cut down to size, boosting market competition. When a baby is born, the central bank automatically grants her or him a trust fund (or personal capital account) that is periodically topped up with a universal basic dividend. When the child becomes a teenager, the central bank throws in a free checking account.
So THAT’S what they mean by post-scarcity economics.
All we need now are warp drives and replicators.
What this describes is, quite literally, Fascism.
You look around and see a great deal of poverty in pockets around the country, but not nearly the poverty that existed just a handful of decades ago. Even setting aside the dismal records of fascism and communism, wouldn’t a reasonable person prefer to use a proven system for eradicating poverty to clean up those pockets?
(To the extent it’s possible to direct society toward eliminating poverty without creating more poverty.)
Tell me, I grew up dirt poor in the 70’s. 70’s poor is nothing like present day poor, trust me. I can only imagine 1930’s poor. or 19th century poor, for that matter. Of course, I’m only talking USA here, not the third world.
“every matter of the Corporation” phrase proves their utter ignorance. Thousands of decisions are made every day in a big corporation. We’re gonna vote on every one of them?
“…all-shareholder ballots deciding every matter of the corporation – from management and planning issues to the distribution of net revenues and bonuses.”
Funny, but no mention is made of the disribution of losses.
That’s when you execute the wreckers and saboteurs, and reallocate their shares.
There actually are corporations that have something of this model, and they are partnerships. I work as part of one, with about 3,000 partners.
But every partner is not just a shareholder and a voter, but actually responsible for all aspects of the company, including losses and liability.
In this author’s mind you only get to say how the company is run without any responsibility. What could possibly go wrong?
The ignorance baked into this is astonishing. There is no accounting for incentives or the lack thereof much less the creation and destruction of enterprises. It’s a completely static model. Smh.
I’m asking why we are discussing this.
Whaddaya mean WE, (off)white man?
By asking that question, you have entered the discussion.
I’m going to write a paper about that and call it Brooks’ Paradox.
What this describes is, quite literally, Fascism.
The guy’s a Greek, so…
I noticed that. The only difference I could see between his platform and Golden Dawn’s is on the “JQ” as they call it.
Jesus Quist?
The guy’s a Greek, so…
Be wary accepting gifts from him?
I’m going to write a paper about that and call it Brooks’ Paradox.
Oh, shit, now I’m stuck to the Tar Baby.
*looks vainly for briar patch*
The moment occurred on September 24, 1599. In a timbered building off Moorgate Fields, not far from where Shakespeare was struggling to complete Hamlet, a new type of company was founded. Its ownership of the new firm, called the East India Company, was sliced into tiny pieces to be bought and sold freely.
Tradable shares allowed private corporations to become larger and more powerful than states.
*Cue spotlight- Medicis wave from their private box*
*pan left to the Templars stolidly guarding their vaults*
The second most famous jazz lick after ‘The Lick’
“Colorado City Council Decides 11-Year-Old Girls Can Now Walk Topless In Public
All six states in the 10th District – Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma – will no longer be able to enforce bans on female toplessness, after the legal battle.”
https://nationalfile.com/colorado-city-council-decides-11-year-old-girls-can-now-walk-topless-in-public/
Ugh.
“Stunningly Brave Victory For Equality” LOL
Oh, they’re serious?!
I guess New Soviet Man has no interest in the female breast.
Leering at breasts is patriarchy. It must be the result of male privilege and in no way ingrained in the male psyche. Once we get true equality up and running men won’t care about boobs anymore I suppose.
There are no boobs in the grave.
Not quite as poetic as His Coy Mistress.
There’s a theory that male fascination with boobs is because they replace looking at the buttocks during sex. IDK about that. I’m definitely an ass man, and really don’t usually care about breast size.
Discovery channel had a documentary on this. Other reason dudes like boobs is they indicate fertility.
But they did call them a butt for the front.
How many decades ago was that?
I actually don’t think there should be laws against topless children because who gives a shit? They are non-sexual.
If I read the article correctly, it’s already legal for 10-and-under. There is a law for 11-and-above.
I actually don’t think there should be any law in this area – but the notion that eliminating that law is going to stop the sexification of boobs is patently ridiculous.
Gotcha.
I actually don’t think there should be laws against topless
childrenpeople of any age/gender. becausewho gives a shit?self-ownership and liberty.Would you draw the line at bottomless though?
Nope, now obviously property owners can make whatever ‘no shirt, no shoes, etc, etc..’ rules they want. But on my property if I wanna mow my yard while shirt cocking that’s my business.
“Government has no end, but the preservation of property.
Except whereas it concerns prominently displayed dongs”
— John Locke
Damn it. I was sick for that class.
Get back to me when I don’t need to wear pants
The problem is if no one wears bottoms, it ultimately makes people who aren’t myself feel inadequate or depressed.
11-Year-Old Girls Can Now Walk Topless In Public
*cough* parents *cough*
I can’t wait! First yoga pants, and now this. This really is the best timeline.
On the steppes of central Asia, you can see for miles and miles.
DHS is dirtboxing the Rose Bowl. I would love to know what the legal basis for the warrantless search of half a million people is. FYTY?
I am trying to google “how to block dirtboxing” and variations thereof amd the front page is filled with nonsense.
?♀️
Try searching on Pornhub
Nothatsokthx.
Challenge accepted.
Also accepted.
/searches
Hmm….. I don’t know about you, but I’m unimpressed with the results.
I imagine dirtboxing is equivalent to Dale Gribble’s pocket sand, but I’m not going to confirm that.
Ya, dirty feet is not my thing. At. All.
Turning your phone off is the only way.
Throw in a helping of “you have no rights if your devices broadcast the data & 4A doesn’t apply to business records”. Also, judicial rationalization of unconstitutional actions.
Prior to the fire, a man was found naked with a camel would be a good headline.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7842475/Demi-Rose-goes-steamy-midnight-swim-pals.html
“Lori Loughlin reportedly ‘practising martial arts’ so she’ll be ready for prison”
https://torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrity/lori-loughlin-practising-martial-arts-so-shell-be-ready-for-prison-source/wcm/0ec59619-2fb4-495d-8339-c0f378994dde
https://twitter.com/TheTorontoSun/status/1212098632658362369
Pretty sure Martha Stewart just gave knitting classes.
That’s a helluva shiv tho.
Martha Stewart will cut a bitch.
There are a lot of things about her I don’t particularly care for, but I admire the hell out of her.
Didn’t she do time for dong the exact same thing Critters do all the time with their extra-legal exemption they gave themselves?
If I remember correctly her case wasn’t even remotely as cut and dried a case of ‘insider trading’ as what the congress critters get away with all day long.
I thought they ended up giging her for perjury cause the insider trading wouldn’t stick.
Official reason:
I seem to recall thinking that part of the problem was that she refused to snitch on somebody.
It’s a good thing.
I’m not sure why, but I find watching her cooking shows very relaxing.
OFFS. Like she isn’t going to one of the country-club style prisons.
Maybe it has less to do with self-defense? And more to do with “strong mind/strong body” kind of Bruce Lee stuff?
Intimate moments with a Glib:
I recently mentioned my grandfather (maternal). He passed away Christmas 1996.
Here is a photo of me on his lap in 1977 at Christmas, after having received the gift of the (toy) gun.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Ek98r-U9TraIWVoGTJNaaQ.YoLVSwjju_G0VAVRAE41yG
The dude with the rocking moustache is my dad.
Fun story, some time in the following decade, the town was launching 4th of July fireworks in the field across the street from his home. Pa saw some smoldering remnants land on his roof. The young firefighter he alerted got smart with what he perceived was a cranky old man. That smart ass got taken down to the ground with such ferocity, I bet he still feels it to this day. My mom rushed me out of the line of sight of the altercation. ?
Though I don’t remember grandpa having any ill effects from issuing an ass whooping, and the fire company did spray down his roof.
That is indeed a rocking mustache.
I like the picture and the story.
Similar story: My dad called the fire department when they smelled something burning (possible electrical fire) at his local gun club. The firefighters came in and wanted to do demolition style methods to try and find where the electrical problem was. My dad tried to intervene in the interest of not having the clubhouse torn apart unnecessarily. The fire chief went instantly cop-authoritarian on him to where it almost came to blows. Petty tyrants are everywhere.
Grandpa was born in the 1920s, and busted his ass his whole life. He did hard outdoor excavation work well into his 60s. WW2 vet, etc. Seriously old school. He didn’t mess around. When he passed, there was no warning signs, he went in his sleep from a massive heart attack.
Thanks guys.
I have boxes of awkward photos. I may do more of these.
Also, it might be fun if other Glibs did some too.
I have one of me sitting in my deadbeat dad’s lap from the early 70s. It looks pretty much exactly like yours and every other pic from that era.
Deadthreaded this:
Thinking about VA gun legislation.
Needs to be detailed out, but I would be happy to buy guns at $1 apiece, or perhaps hold guns as collateral for loans, in the event there is a need to extract firearms from a tyrannical state. Your could always redeem the loan or buy them back later.
Repo market in guns?
They will all be extracted by unfortunate boating accidents.
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1212461583311335424
Wasn’t that debunked decades ago?
Nothing’s ever really gone.
How’s 2020 going?
Meh. Spent most of the day painting or prepping for painting. Not very satisfying — in fact, it’s almost the perfect combo of slow, messy, exacting and tedious that makes me wanna either scream or fall into deep somnambulence. The only upside is the rooms we’re painting will indeed look better when we’re finished, and for a lot less money than the restoration folks wanna charge our insurer to do the same work on an even more inconvenient schedule.
Slow and tedious is what should prevent messy.
Holy shit this guy is stupid:
Mayor Bill de Blasio
@NYCMayor
Jacking up your prices on people trying to celebrate the holidays? Classy, @dominos.
To the thousands who came to Times Square last night to ring in 2020, I’m sorry this corporate chain exploited you — stick it to them by patronizing one of our fantastic LOCAL pizzerias.
https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1212427695595905024?s=20
Stick with what you’re good at, arresting churro vendors and turnstile jumpers….
Savage.
I don’t care about the churro vendors but the turnstile jumpers are thieves and deserve to be treated as such.
That’s fair, but I dearly hope Comrade de Blasio goes to his grave knowing that, whatever his national and global ambitions, his horizons never really expanded outside the city. Two-bit has-been mayor of just another corrupt Dem city.
Agreed.
I’m just very familiar with the thinking behind the sentence you quoted (which boils down to something like “the poors have no choice but to steal train service and sell food down there”) and it irks the shit out of me.
There’s a million things to go after Comrade Bill for without resorting to social justice BS.
Did guns fall out of DeBlasio’s ass?
Or the pizza’s ass?
Supply and demand: What is it?
A capitalist conspiracy against the People.
I want to be a geologist so I can find some artifact and create an entire fake mythology around it.
We’re in the process of desensitizing the 2 year old to Bucky Badger. She screamed the first time he came on screen.
I think we should create an entire mythology around Bucky Badger, what ever that is….
I had to search youtube to figure it out and all I can say is Bucky Badger videos need moar cheerleaders.
Steve Smith’s effeminate 3rd cousin?
I am going to cue up Joe Vs Volcano
I love that movie so much
“Who won 2019 in politics?
According to @DrJasonJohnson, Stacey Abrams won the year and has a bright future ahead.”
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1212373669206515713
Now they are just making shit up.
Now?
Stacey Abrams didn’t win shit.
Now, that’s a wife!
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-31/carlos-ghosn-escape-questions
Sad to say, I don’t think my wife would arrange to have me smuggled out of a foreign country if I was facing charges.
Paging Mark Chestnutt…
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/01/woman-shoots-her-own-cell-phone-sends-bullet-into-neighbors-bedroom-police-say.html
How did this end up here? It was supposed to be by itself.
Nice job, Brooks
or is that an anti-Brooks?
Gilmored.
Gilmore.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/millennials-support-socialism-because-they-want-make-america-great-everyone-ncna1109191
Here is some fun Socialism is just sharing derp.
“Sanders was criticized when he said that inmates should be able to vote. But that was an admirably socialist thing to say: some rights should not have exceptions.”
Now do the first and second amendments.
That Nathan fellow seems like a nice, caring guy. The More You Know™.
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This is why I argue that, while the fall of the Soviet Union was a boon to those behind the Iron Curtain, it was disastrous for the future of the West. Remember when people used to say things like “what’re you a communist?” or “what is this, Russia?”.
Make the USSR great again!
Agreed. Roaches are thriving without getting a light shined on them. Of course, they’ll argue that the USSR, like North Korea/China/Cuba/Venezuela/Bolivia, isn’t real socialism.
No shit. The TSA has tuned airports into East Berlin.
Great avatar btw. I loved that show
#metoo
Interesting trivia: