Another week, another month, another year, another decade. What does any of this actually matter? It doesn’t. Nothing matters, all is shit. But that’s OK, the news has been vastly entertaining.
But we need to look at birthdays first, because after all, what is life without ritual and consistency? Today marks the birth anniversaries of a guy who apparently pissed off the Clintons; one of the few adults to fuck Michael Jackson; a chick who could kick your ass and not even exert herself; a chick who was inspired by Mary Jo Kopechne; a guy who… wait, didn’t he just croak?; a very, very underrated drummer; a guy with great hair and a delightfully deteriorated liver; a guy who made some really fun movies; and a guy reputed to have the smallest dick in Hollywood but didn’t give a damn.
News!
“Why bother? She’ll be committing suicide next week anyway.”
It’s fun seeing shit like this. No pretense.
This is the kind of thing that makes life worth living.
Old Guy Music today is just… delightful. One more example of bad vocals that somehow are perfect, along with the expected insane playing.
Well that’s the fastest breakfast has gone down and come back up.
Geez, those gifs — not enough eye bleach in the universe.
What gifs?
/disabled browser animation
Hillary’s ubersexy come hither wink.
Rawr
It’s the last thing Epstein ever saw.
Yeah, that’s a week’s worth of nightmares right there.
I know he’s a pig and all but anyone who doesn’t feel just a little bit sorry for Harvey Weinstein after that testimony is a heartless bastard.
“a guy reputed to have the smallest dick in Hollywood but didn’t give a damn.”
Frankly, there is nothing bad about having a small dick.
Or good…
She: Who you gonna satisfy with that little thing?
Him: Me.
“ Roberts emerges unscathed from bitter impeachment trial”
On the contrary, I’d say he was scathed, quite in fact.
No shit. You’d have to be in the DemOp bubble to think that. He was pretty thoroughly exposed as a partisan hack, which is impressive considering he had nothing to do other than read what was on some cards.
I couldn’t even say because I haven’t seen 1 minute of the “trial”.
“He does not have testicles, and it appears that he has a vagina”
Then what was he using to rape and beat off into a shrub?
Paging SF….
The sex-maniac eunuch doesn’t really make much sense. I wonder if she is just trying to get him to submit himself to a medical exam to further the case.
LOL Somebody on Reddit posited that he’d had some sort of futanari surgery that went a bit awry.
Hillary got boozed with Tlaib? Nah, I think she was like that when she came in.
What? No Coronavirus news? The Apocalypse is nigh! I may have gone all bonds in the 401k…
“ What does any of this actually matter? It doesn’t. Nothing matters, all is shit.”
Yep. Nothing matters but you. https://youtu.be/FY1loPT6C24
I’m an old Everly Bros fan but never heard of that “new” album.
I’m still waking up, Little Susie and Dream, Dream, Dream sort of guy
Thanks, I’ll look for that album
Yeah. Everly Bros are essential. Foundational.
Aren’t they just 2 Buddy Hollys?
Court watchers said that approach was well suited to Roberts, a mild-mannered 65-year-old jurist who famously said judges should simply “call balls and strikes,” and who has sought to shield the courts from being unduly politicized.
That’s our boy. Scrupulously apolitical.
They can probably thank Roberts’ refusal to read Paul’s question for the ultimate failure to convince enough Republicans of the need for further witnesses. He’s a political weasel just like all of the rest of them.
Opera singer, 30, is arrested after Secret Service opened fire on her when she ‘danced on the roof of her SUV and then crashed it through two security checkpoints at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
It’s 1968 all over again!
She looks nice.
Crazy eyes. She’s got them.
Honorary Florida woman, at a minimum.
It looks like that Peter Strok pic
She didn’t fall in the fountain though.
I am an opera singer
Underrated band.
Could someone please turn off the sidebar?
If the images didn’t do it…
As the trial ends, Roberts may face questions from Democrats and their allies over whether he should have done more to allow for new witnesses. Polls showed a large majority of Americans backed witness testimony in the trial.
“Democrats are working out a narrative on the trial that suggests it was a kind of cover up and a sham,” said Ian Ostrander, a political science professor at Michigan State University.
Anything short of removal proves the trial was a sham, in the minds of the people who have refused to accept the legitimacy of the election from the beginning.
They wuz robbed!
“ Polls showed a large majority of Americans backed witness testimony in the trial.”
Ooh, now do a poll on whether witnesses from only one side should be allowed.
Experimental new drone program can use swarms of up to 250 air and ground vehicles to coordinate military raids
Time to use this technology on ciggie smokers and climate denialists!
250 seems wrong.
256 is the proper power of two, minus two for gateway and broadcast, 254 drones.
Two redundant gateway drones are holding unique addresses and sharing the gateway address in HA. Still short two drones.
Those are the classified secret reserve drones they’re not allowed to report about.
Uh, what secret reserve drones? ::tugs nervously at collar::
I’m thinking a billionaire could do better.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7954197/Elon-Musks-girlfriend-Grimes-confirms-pregnancy-struggling-second-trimester.html
THAT’S his girlfriend/baby mama? Good lord, talk about being reckless with your finances.
So not what I expected. Yikes.
She looks like someone where the question is “What drugs are you not using?”
Huh. She looks like the kind of girls I date, and I’m a few bucks shy of a billion, believe it or not.
That’s my type looks wise too. There’s just something about the heroin addicted stripper aesthetic but she looks particularly unstable.
“I can SAVE her!”
God, I’m such a fucking sucker…ha!
She looks like some form of demon, what is with the scars? Those look like cutter scars, but I’ve never seen a cutter who did it on the abdomen.
The scars are caused from the inside out.
*shudders*
Agreed, she looks like the type of chick you could get with a handful of MDMA at a Sasha and Digweed show.
Most billionaires, yes.
A mercurial scam artist like Elon? Not so much.
Seriously, no normal woman would put up with his shit. The gold-diggers recognize that he is a fellow scammer and that he’s not likely to provide much of a meal ticket in the long run. So all that is left are the trainwrecks to whom planning for next month is about as far ahead as they think.
*pops up*
You rang?
Second!^
Huh.
WaPo headline:
The Senate impeachment trial was rigged!
Flabbergasted, I am.
The CNN story is so blatant. The masks came off.
Gabbard is the only woman in the race that I would even consider voting for. Her policies are the standard democrat party line from 10 years ago. Her only good position is her anti war stand, but she is intelligent and principled.
A few days old, but impressive derp from Mr. Hogg
Gauleiter Hogg misses the spotlight, and goes with his superpower (stupidity) to grab a few fleeting minutes.
However, if it wasn’t for the internet, and reading the comments on this twatter, I never would have learned about “Stagecoach” Mary Fields.
I’d have a drink with that broad.
I’d want to stay on her good side.
Apparently progs have been indoctrinating schoolchildren since the 1880s.
Or, upon further reflection, maybe that quote has more to do with the editors at Wikipedia than the mindset of 19th century schoolchildren.
What life was like before Trump’s America
LOL
Whoop that’s a lot of links old man. Think I need to go lie down.
Hey! fuck Off!
That really proves something.
The stopped clock is probably right here. “Bernie Bros.” were always blown out of proportion as one of the first attempts to brush aside criticism of Hillary as coming from “fanatics” and “haters.”
In reality, everybody from all political stripes should hate Hamilton Nolan.
The last time Gabbard appeared on CNN during one of its special events was at a Democratic debate in Ohio last October. It was then that the Iraq War veteran addressed allegations made by the New York Times and a CNN commentator that she was an asset of the Russian government, an allegation launched (and unchallenged) by 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
“Just two days ago The New York Times put out an article saying that I’m a Russian asset and an [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad apologist and all these different smears,” she said. “This morning a CNN commentator [Bakari Sellers] said on national television that I’m an asset of Russia. Completely despicable.”
Sellers actually called Gabbard a “puppet for the Russian government” without presenting any evidence to back up the claim.
“There is no question, there is no question that Tulsi Gabbard, of all the 12, is a puppet for the Russian government,” alleged Sellers, a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
“There is a chance that Tulsi is not just working for the United States,” he added. “That’s not just an allegation.”
And the Russians are merely sock puppets for Rupert Murdoch.
And now you know the rest of the story.
Spouting fake news like Gabbard not being an agent of the Russians needs to be criminalized.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warren-plan-would-criminalize-election-related-online-disinformation
You better watch your back Brooks.
Her sin is not supporting the thoroughly discredited Trump/Russia narrative.
They’re hell-bent on continuing the lie.
And just like Bernie, she will bitch and moan for awhile, then bend over and take this like the good little party operative that she is. Sorry fanboys, she’s a female cuck.
The news I learned from that article was that Tulsi is a “woman of color”.
You learn something new every day.
(if you didn’t already know that CNN was part of the Machine and not a news station… well, you must be new here. And by here, I mean the USA)
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1223413811408859136
At least Gotham City is safe for now.
Deblasio had to seek medical attention four hours later.
This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books. We may not know all your names but thank you.— David Hogg
Thank a teacher!
I really enjoyed that one…. entirely made up out of whole cloth… yet shared thousands of times as hefty wisdom.
Little did he know, that the 2nd amendment was extremely important to exactly those groups of people.
Well, I don’t know about the non-binary bit. I don’t think that ever reached a critical mass.
Jimmy Page y’all
Never forget.
I wonder how big the check was that convinced Page to allow them to mangle Kashmir like that. It’s not like the man was hurting for money.
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/jimmy-page-net-worth/
The need to feel relevant after culture has past you by.
That’s the only reason I can think of.
I’m sure it gave him an appreciation for working with an actual singer as his vocalist.
What the fuck was that?
Pretty sure that was P Diddy.
And I’m pretty sure I saw Page’s soul leave his body in that video.
That is just awful.
I believe that was on the Godzilla soundtrack. The Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer Godzilla.
“CNN’s Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta join MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Jennifer Rubin in ‘Liberal Hack Tournament’ Final Four”
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1223447325038739456
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-brian-stelter-jim-acosta-msnbc-rachel-maddow-jennifer-rubin-liberal-hack-tournament
I can’t believe Lemon lost to Acosta, TBH.
That’s a hell of a matchup, though.
Get thee to a fainting couch
HBO’s Bill Maher declared on “Real Time” on Friday night that “we lost Democracy this week,” with the progressive host adding that he “feels like he’s standing over a casket” as President Trump heads toward acquittal.
The commentary comes as Trump’s impeachment trial looks to be wrapped up next week after a motion to allow additional witnesses in the president’s impeachment trial failed in the Senate by a 49-51 vote on Friday evening.
“OK, I’m going to try not to cry during the show because we lost Democracy this week,” Maher said. “I feel like I’m standing over a casket and thinking: ‘Hmm I should have been nicer when it was alive.’”
“It’s a done deal. This is going to happen,” Maher added later in the show. “Trump will be acquitted on Wednesday. Republicans have nothing left to do but dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and f— the u’s.”
The staunch Trump critic also alleged that the president and the GOP-controlled Senate is “corrupt.”
“We always knew Trump was corrupt but now we found out the Senate is too,” Maher charged.
Good gravy, what a drama queen.
So I’m out of town with the son. I’m supposed to drive back home Sunday night and catch a flight to Vegas on Monday for a convention.
I call the wife this morning to find out the middle child has the flu.
Should I just drop the son off at home and flee? I’ve had the flu in Vegas before, it was a highly unpleasant experience.
Was it the flu in Vegas, the Vegas Flu?
Unfortunately no. It was norovirus that kicked in on the flight from JFK to Vegas.
48 hours of non stop vomit comet.
Take your son too, and forever be the favorite parent.
Stay out of Vegas right now, it’s turning quarantine, for real
I’m only aware that they have one potential coronavirus case in isolation.
The Hospitals are in panic mode, CCU is Moonsuit only, all the staff are quiet, odd vibe….
‘Another week, another month, another year, another decade. What does any of this actually matter? It doesn’t. Nothing matters, all is shit.’
I see somebody’s channelling their inner nihilist this morning.
Nice adaptation of the name.
Based off a conversation between CPRM and I last evening…I might owe him money soon.
*checks bank statement*
Heh, looks like this my handle until Thursday.
At least it’s an ethos.
How do I make an arena fight where the narrator is a spectator exciting?
Plot requirement – The reader needs to see Drea fighting to set the baseline for her magical/martial abilities.
Storytelling requirement – no fight should bore the reader.
Additional elements – Drea is a Venatrix in an arena fight in a fantasy setting so the opponant can be any dangerous beast less impressive to the audience than a frost wyvern (plot point is that the frost wyvern is being saved for the emperor’s birthday celebrations, so it has to be the most impressive thing in the stables at the moment).
What is a spectator exciting?
an exhibitionist?
I don’t think UCS writes kink.
Do I have to include the implied parentheticals for you?
Probably, but you’d also have to explain to me what an implied parenthetical is.
Write it in Dick Vitale’s voice ?
Have her not do much but duck and cover, then slay the damn thing with one shot.
Is she dressed in Dark Sun style gladiator outfits? Exerting herself, with lots of heavy breathing and heaving bosoms?
Now that you mention it…
The Al Pacino show where he hunts Nazis looks so stupid and I can’t wait to give it a watch.
They combined a Jewish vengeance story with Cleopatra Jones.
Straight up ripoff of Cleopatra Schwartz.
You better watch your back Brooks.
Be it known to all here present:
I am not currently contemplating suicide.
Sure, whatever you say.
Isn’t that what everyone contemplating suicide says ?
It’s fun seeing shit like this. No pretense.
World’s greatest deliberative body my ass. They’ve got the maturity of a convention of insurance salesmen. You know they tell poop jokes in the cloakroom.
Who doesn’t?
You know, it is a surreal experience to wake up with morning wood and the first thing seen is a Hillary Clinton gif.
I don’t know whether to be aroused, repelled, or to immediately start drinking.
Booze.
If today was a day off, that would be a good choice.
Since it is a work day, I decided to take a cold shower, drink coffee as black as HC’s butthole, and listen to my least favorite Black Sabbath album, Born Again.
I think I’m going to have a seizure.
Warren plans to crack down on “digital disinformation” by working with social media companies to address false posts, having them label certain content, ban accounts trying to interfere with elections and alert users who have interacted with content determined to be disinformation, among other things. She would also lead a charge to criminalize the mere spreading of false information about the process of voting in U.S. elections.
“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote,” she says on her campaign website. Warren’s plan says this criminally punishable false information would be “about when and how to vote” in elections.
Let me guess: Elizabeth Warren telling people their legal debts can be wiped out with no adverse consequences is okay, but putting up a billboard with the message “There is no such thing as a free lunch” will land me in the pokey.
Did Warren get all her ideas while watching this Austrian lady reminisce about the 1930s?
I met Yeltsin once. He was drunk.
Your second sentence is redundant.
From the FOX sidebar:
Hillary Clinton claimed Friday that Bernie Sanders didn’t do enough to help unite Democrats in 2016 after she became the party’s presidential nominee following their divisive primary battles.
“Unfortunately his campaign and his principal supporters were just very difficult and — really, constantly — not just attacking me but my supporters,” she told Emily Tisch Sussman on the podcast “Your Primary Playlist.”
Clinton said some of the behavior of Sanders’ supporters at the Democratic National Convention that year was “very distressing,” specifically mentioning how speakers Rep. John Lewis and then first lady Michelle Obama were booed.
“All the way up until the end, a lot of people highly identified with his campaign were urging people to vote third party, urging people not to vote,” she said.
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Clinton said she can’t imagine how any “caring, smart, concerned American” who identifies on the party’s left would want four more years of “destructive” President Trump.
“That cannot happen again,” she added. “I don’t care who the nominee is. I don’t care. As long as it’s somebody who can win, and as long as it’s somebody who understands politics is the art of addition, not subtraction.”
Clinton also made news earlier in January when she told The Hollywood Reporter, “nobody likes” Sanders. “Nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done,” she claimed.
Set blamethrower on wide dispersion. How statespersonlike.
“as long as it’s somebody who understands politics is the art of addition, not subtraction.”
But not those icky deplorables and irredeemables in flyover country. They need subtracting.
She has a point – he’s a DINO. And the fact that the youth are swooning over the old commie is eating her up inside.
“I coulda been a contendah”
/Hillary 2020 bumper sticker/
If I were the DNC I’d make being a member of the party kind of a non-negotiable requirement to be the party’s candidate.
*Kermit drinking tea*
Even better would be if they made that rule right now, booted him from the debates and caused the party to split.
Noble selfless public servant hounded from office by huckster and thugs
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch — a highly respected career diplomat who unwittingly became one of the central figures in the impeachment drama — has retired from the State Department.
Yovanovitch leaves after more than three decades in the foreign service. She was described as “someone who has never been hungry for the spotlight,” by one former State Department official.
It is unclear when exactly Yovanovitch retired, but the official said it was sometime in the last two weeks. She had most recently been serving as a senior State Department fellow at Georgetown University.
She was removed from her post as the US ambassador in Kiev in May 2019 after a targeted campaign against her led by allies of President Donald Trump.
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In her public testimony in November 2019, Yovanovitch offered a strong defense of the work of career foreign service officers — and warned of the impact the attacks were having on the diplomatic ranks.
In her opening statement, Yovanovitch sought to defend her work and that of her colleagues in the foreign service and called upon the leadership in the State Department to do the same. Her eloquent and forceful assessment of foreign service officers’ service and sacrifices earned praise and pride from the more than half a dozen current and former State Department officials who spoke to CNN.
“We take our oath of office seriously, the same oath that each one of you take, ‘to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic’ and to ‘bear true faith and allegiance to the same,'” she told the lawmakers.
Take a moment and weep for her.
Good riddance. She ran interference for the Bidens. What’s worse, she probably didn’t even get paid for it, but did it out of pure sycophancy.
Deep State parasite moves on to lucrative CNN analyst position.
How tragic.
But she’s never been hungry for the spotlight.
With a Biden victory she could have been SecoState.
moments up
????
Of course she is!
…by other career diplomats.
Remember when Rip Torn hit Normal Mailer with a hammer and then Norman Mailer bit a chunk of Torn’s ear off in front of Mailer’s wife and kids all for some pretentious slop of a film?
Rip Torn was so awesome.
I always confuse him with Rip Taylor.
#metoo
Taylor just passed away.
Rip Torn or Rippin’ and Tearin’?
“Can we all just be honest?
The GOP no longer believes in fair elections because fair elections gave us a black president.
It’s really NOT more complicated than that.
That’s the heart of Dersh’s argument that 45 can cheat if he thinks it’s in the national interest.”
https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1222661170219319298
Democracy is sacred! …except for the Electoral College …and Brexit …and Senate representation …and…
Democracy doesn’t mean rule by the unwashed masses, it means the rightthinkers get what ever they want.
That is, of course, a gross misrepresentation of Dersh’s argument. Probably not quite actionable defamation, but not too far off.
Silicone Saturday also slept with Clark Gable.
http://archive.li/FvFX2
I thought #3 looked familiar. I ran a google image search to see if I was correct. I discovered I was wrong. The first hit amused me – a link to Nordstrom Dress Rack. But, I endeavored to persevere and discovered #3 is Jessica Bartlett.
I’d happily split that milkshake concoction with #7 despite her dagger fingernails.
#24 is strangely intriguing.
Good collection overall.
So I have been offered a job that sounds significantly more interesting than my current one. Comparable pay and benefits; the main sticking point is that the position is a “term” position for 3 years with a possible 3 year extension. I have interrogated the recruiter about what that might mean and she says that this is part of a pilot program that leadership wants to try out and it can be converted to a permanent position. Off the record, she said her crystal ball says it will probably be converted but there are no guarantees.
What say ye?
What do you have on the line in case it doesn’t work out in 3 years or, heaven forbid, you don’t like it at all? And how much do you hate your current job?
I’m pretty sure I would land on my feet if I got chucked in 3 years; my skill set is (currently) in pretty high demand. It would be annoying, however, to have to go job searching without already having a job. I’ve only had to do that once and it sucks.
I don’t hate my current job at all. Actually, it’s quite nice; however, this other job offers a rare opportunity to help build a new department from the ground up. It’s very compelling.
It sounds like a lot more responsibility and opportunity, which is great,…but the role is just comparable pay? That would be a major warning flag to me.
That was part of my thinking too.
Would your current job be a good fall back after 3 years if it doesn’t get re-newed? Does the job open you up for a new position in your field after 3 years or provides additional contacts and prospects.
“Would your current job be a good fall back after 3 years if it doesn’t get re-newed?”
Unknown.
“Does the job open you up for a new position in your field after 3 years or provides additional contacts and prospects”
Probably.
Just take the plunge. Follow your bliss. Move to the San Fernando Valley and start Q Continuum Productions, offices on Van Nuys Blvd.
Too much overhead. I’ll just film from my dungeon in the basement.
Not wanting to be a negative nahoob but… If you don’t have your career on track at 40 things begin to change. Employers, tech and age begin to be a factor in consideration of employment.
Competition gets tough(er). Just sayin’. Do what you want though, follow those dreams, its the ride that’s fun, the destination is the same for all of us.
Bravo! this is why I left HVAC, and it was my Career track…..
The A stands for ‘adapt’ !
I loved starting up this place. If I had gotten a promotion here, I would probably be dodging Coronavirus starting up our Chengdu fab right now.
Guaranteed for three years, with some kind of payout if they term early? Or just “we’ll probably fire you in 3 years”?
I had a similar thought. If they’re going to give you say, a couple of months heads up that the position won’t be extended then you could still be employed while looking for your next gig.
Now *that’s* an excellent question to ask :). Thanks for the tip.
Middle ground, at least if the recruiter can be believed. Basically, “we *can* fire you in 3 years if the department you’re heading up is crap, but we won’t if it doesn’t. If it is really good, then you’ll get a permanent job.”
The incentive is all on the front end as they’re giving me a sizeable signing bonus.
It’s a risky proposition, but this might be a good move.
My experience is that recruiters should never be believed.
What job is really “permanent,” anyway?
A world torn asunder
Brexit has happened. After 1,316 days of political turmoil, the UK now stands alone as the first nation to have ever left the European Union.
It has ended the careers of two Prime Ministers and left the very future of the United Kingdom in question. Scotland’s case for independence is becoming harder to ignore while Britain’s perceived selling out of Northern Ireland has played into the hands of those wishing to see Irish unification.
That’s just the politics: Britain’s economic future and place in the world have not been this uncertain since the end of the World War II.
Speaking to the nation an hour before Brexit finally happened, Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged that the country was divided: “For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come. And there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss … I understand all those feelings, and our job as the government — my job — is to bring this country together now and take us forward.”
Rushing headlong into the abyss.
“left the very future of the United Kingdom in question”
Worse than the invading Roman Army! The Sceptered Isle is DOOOOOMED!!!
I thought Meghan and Harry already did that?
Maybe they’re smarter than the rest of the Brits. Get out early, take what you can carry.
This is what I don’t get: Everyone is reporting (yeah, yea, I know journalisming) that the UK would “have” to put up a border wall between NI and RoI. What if they just… didn’t? They just said, “sorry about that, but we really couldn’t be bothered. If you chaps in Brussels want to start up The Troubles again, that’s rather your business isn’t it?”
We’re gonna build a big, beautiful wall, and the EU will pay for it!
Are they afraid of a flood of drunkards coming across the sea and filling up all the pub seating?
They’re not sending their best.
I never followed that nonsense. I don’t see a wall between Norway and Sweden, or a wall around Switzerland.
Doesn’t much matter because NI will be majority Catholic soon and likely vote to leave UK and join ROI.
I’m running around screaming incoherently and waving my hands in the air, apparently without pants. I’m drenched in blood. I don’t know where the blood came from. It’s not mine. I see others tearing flesh from the corpses of those that have perished. Everything is burning. The sound of screaming, sirens, and distant explosions fills the air, as does a thick cloud of black smoke. Some sort of volcanic ash fallout drifts down like a hellish snowfall, leaving all with soot-blackened faces. Where are my pants? Whose blood is this? When was I shot in the leg? It looks like I managed to cauterize the wound somehow, but the bullet has gone clean through. So much adrenaline courses through my body that it feels little pain, and that which it does is overwhelmed by a kind of emergent savagery, born of fear and raw instinct. WHY DID WE LEAVE THE E.U.? WHHHHYYYYYYY???????!!!!!!! THERE ARE CHILDREN GNAWING EACH OTHER’S FUCKING FACES OFF FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!!111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
Various localities leaving the UK and governing themselves? The horror.
What say ye?
Does it require moving to California, or Massachusetts?
No relocation required.
So Roberts is a nightmare. There’s a lot of conspiracy stuff flying around Hate Radio et. al. about how he’s been “compromised” by the Dems and they “own” him or have threatened him in some way. I know those theories go back to the Zerocare decision.
I think it’s more likely he’s just extremely vain and is far more concerned about appearances to the cocktail party crowd than he is with actual judicial substance.
Who knows what his true motivations are but the end results are the same: He sucks.
I think it’s more likely he’s just extremely vain and is far more concerned about appearances to the cocktail party crowd than he is with actual judicial substance.
“How will History (as in- a bunch of snooty Ivy League historians whom I desperately want to love me) judge me?”
This is supposed to be surprising?
https://prospect.org/power/washington-left-flocks-to-google-policy-conference/
Schmidt is a piece of work. I’d like to know how many “favors” he’s done for Democrats in general and Clinton in particular.
*snort*
OFFS
By “taking the right”, they mean “not being wholly and completely co-opted by the left”
Any straying from the progressive narrative is HITLER
Zuckerberg actually TALKED to Trump! That makes him complicit in his atrocities!
I think Hitler penned a great deal of the progressive narrative.
I see the people posting awful things going on in their lives, and completely sympathize and empathize with all. Although I don’t post much, I’m here daily, and y’all bunch of miscreants are the closest thing I have to friends. So, just wanted to throw this out there. My first heart attack was at 36, open heart surgery at 40, multiple stents in heart and both legs. 4 years ago I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. It was a rough 4 years. EF of 25%, figured I was coming to the end of my road. Fatigue, complete sedentary lifestyle, got up to 308lbs (at just under 6′) lots of extra complications. Now 57, had an echo done last week to see how much worse it had gotten. I HAVE been losing weight, trying to eat better, but still not able to be too active. Am down to 220, about 40 more pounds to go. BUT. Somehow my EF has increased to 50%!!! Don’t know how, I still drink(too much) The only thing I really changed was to start smoking pot again , so I’m gonna give that the credit. There is always hope.
“My first heart attack was at 36”
Holy shit. Do you have a family history of heart problems?
yes, all males in my family have died from heart issues
Damn. I used to work with a guy who had a heart attack in his 30s. He ended up getting a heart transplant. He’s now in his 50s and eats this ultra-restrictive diet and walks constantly. I guess it’s working for him.
They gave me a pacemaker/defibrillator to avoid sudden cardiac death, its gone off a few times on the pacemaker side, kinda tickles a little, if
I’m awake i feel it. No shocks from the defib (thankfully). My heart rate drops to under 24/min when I sleep, but has done so most of my life. I came to terms with my mortality years ago. Now its all just interesting medical science to me. I do low, but not no carb, restrict calories when in weight loss mode, but not really as health conscious as I probably should be. Whatever I’m doing right seems to be working. 10-12 shots of bourbon a day, MJ when I can afford it 🙂 I’m still giving the MJ the credit because I like it
So….we’re related?
Do you have the background of generations of inbred Mennonites too?
baptists
Wow man, hang in there.
Sorry 🙁
Hope you get better.
am actually much better, just not sure why 🙂
Probably the weight loss. Your heart has to work a lot harder to keep circulating on a 300 lb body than a 220 lb one.
I would agree with that, but, i was at 150 with my first heart attack, and below 200 when diagnosed with CHF, so, while I understand weight is important, there’s something more at play here I think
CBD helps, quit with the carbs and walk as much as possible, preferably on grass not pounding pavement.
Be smooth and don’t get hurt,
Welcome, and
Fuck Off!
yeah, I fucked off my whole life, regular dabs have CBD too right? cuz I likes the THC more
oh, and, as a former AZ res, I’d kick your ass at disc golf 🙂 haven’t played in a while though
Awesome, I’m always willing to learn from the big boys…..
as far as weed goes, smoke Indica and get both….
Cheers!
I get it, a joke about my weight gain haha “big boys” indica, sativa, hybrid, what ever, I’m not a weed snob, I smoke em all
no, not at all, if you’re better than me, your in the Big League, Size does matter….
You’ve got my family beat, then. My dad’s (male) cousin died at 42. My dad died at 51. My grandpa died at 63. So I guess each generation gets closer to the grave.
My dad’s sister had a bypass (don’t remember how many) when she was 48 (I’m 51). She is now 70-something. Another of my dad’s cousins (female) I THINK has heart disease, but her big problem is diabetes.
I grew up believing I would die before I was 50 so I didn’t make any plans. Now I’m 51, heart’s right and tight, don’t have diabetes (I credit a very long stint of very low carbing), my bp is marginally okay, as is my cholesterol.
I still think I’m going to die tomorrow and so I don’t make any plans or look to the future. This is no way to live.
agreed, after the first heart attack my focus was on making things easier for those left behind, not on my future, didn’t believe I had one. now, 20 years later I just realized that I DO actually maybe still have a future, it’s a different realization. haven’t yet figured out how to deal with it
Hookers. Lots and lots of hookers.
and blow
It’s awful.
It’s like, how do I get this time back that I thought I would never have? How long am I going to live? Yeah, the two paternal females in my family are still alive and kicking at 70-something and 80-something, but… Now what do I do? I’m 51. I’ve been out of the work force for 16 years. I have no marketable skills anymore. What would happen if I had to get a job for some reason?
I did not plan. I have no plan. It’s caused me no end of issues my whole life. Sometimes I get to where I’m like, I wish I’d die just to get the suspense out of the way. I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Hang in there. I’m sorry to hear about your health trouble. I’ll credit the combination of smoking pot and losing weight for the improvement in your health.
No relocation required.
Sounds like a good opportunity to expand your skills and expertise. It also sounds like they6 like you, and would make an effort to find a spot for you if the position doesn’t become a long term gig.
Way to creep me the f’k out OMWC!
Dig the Mike Gordon tune.
I’m a longtime Phish fan. Gordon doesn’t sing lead but that depth and timbre is crucial in some of their vocal harmonies.
There’s a glitch in the Matrix.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/02/01/dnc-plotting-sanders-avoid-brokered-convention/
To some extent, I get it. Bernie isn’t even a member of the party.
But it’s going to blow up in their face.
There were a lot of yutes pissed off about the DNC shenanigans last election. This is a good way to get them to stay home in the general if it appears the establishment is hand picking the candidate like last time.
^^^This.
If you look at the numbers, Trump’s victory last time around was almost completely due to Dem defections to Third Party (whether that be Stein, or write-ins for Bernie).
Why wouldn’t they screw him again? They did it to him last time and he still endorsed the hag.
Watching a recording of the local city council meeting on public cable and some buttoned down douche nozzle is speaking about his desire to making not wearing a seat belt a crime on par with criminal negligence.
blood.pressure.rising.
Well actually, only stupid people don’t wear seat belts. Who WOULDN’T want to be safer?
Yeah, okay. Whatever.
You know that was sarc – we had a seat belt debate awhile back. I grudgingly wear mine and hate every minute of it.
No, I did not know that.
It’s been said here before, in complete seriousness, and that is why we’ve had the debate before.
I remember – and why I used that phrasing. As I said below in-response to Mike S, this is what happens when I don’t tag my comments appropriately!
No, what I said is not wearing a seat belt is stupid. That is not remotely the same thing as saying only stupid people do not wear seat belts. There are many stupid actions, all of us do stupid things sometimes. I did not jump on this that hard at the time because I like you and Mike and felt it would be counter productive to fight back about this but it is a bad faith argument. It is demonstrably a bad idea to not wear seatbelts. Pointing that out is not a personal attack and it is not the same thing as saying only stupid people don’t wear them. Smoking is stupid for example and I smoked for 37 years, but do not regard myself as stupid because I did so.
I wasn’t thinking about what you said when I answered RAHeinlein. I completely forgot who was in on that argument or on which side.
It is very difficult to NOT to hear “only stupid people don’t wear seatbelts” especially when one disagrees with the premise that it is objectively stupid not to do so, and never mind government interference.
The dead guy I cut the belt off of because his car flipped over in a flooded storm ditch and because he was hanging from his seatbelt he couldn’t release it while his head was underwater?
Right. Not having a seatbelt on saved my life.
I am fucking sick and tired of being called stupid for not wearing a seat belt.
I wear them, and did before the LAW went into effect, You can Fly,
or you can Burn/Drown, your choice
I don’t even know what that means.
It means that many people are killed by being ejected from their vehicle in a crash.
it is really a toss up. Seat belts increase your chances under most circumstances but you can never know what those circumstances are going to be. You cant anticipate the unexpected, or as Eisenhower said “Make all of your plans carefully but remember, as soon as the battle starts they all go to hell. “
ever see a person fly through a windshield? it ain’t pretty,
if your car burns and you get trapped due to a seatbelt, you burn,
You pick…
Oh, I see.
Well, it appears I am in a pissy mood today.
I will put myself in time-out until I’m ready to play nicely with others.
Seatbelt saved my life.
I’ll pass on getting clobbered by an airbag.
^ this is why you should disable it
?
How do you do that?
Very carefully.
Actually, I have no idea. I assume it’s as easy as unplugging the correct connection, but it’s not something I’ve ever looked into.
Yeah, that’s a real fear of mine. As in, how hard do I have to be tapped for it to go off and completely total my car?
Sometimes I don’t wear a seatbelt. Usually I do, but there are times when I don’t.
I am fucking sick and tired of being called stupid for not wearing a seat belt.
I haven’t had many people call me stupid for not wearing my seatbelt on occasion, but if they did, I would tell them to go fuck themselves.
Well actually, only stupid people
don’t wear seat beltsleave their house. Who WOULDN’T want to be safer?My comment was sarc – this is what happens when I don’t tag appropriately!
I assumed it was, but I decided to take the opportunity to make a different point. ?
Now that I cant really argue with.
*lifts slat in blind, peeks out, checks pistol*
Funny thing is, I wear my seat belt every time. If for no other reason, just not to be hassled.
Regardless, this irritates me to no end. Whether you wear your seatbelt or not should be an issue between you and your insurance provider. If you get injured while driving and not wearing your belt and that is a requirement in your insurance paperwork, then tough shit for you. Insurance pays out to the other driver, and you get canceled. The local government shouldn’t have a goddamn thing to do with it.
this guy gets it
sorry for assuming your gender 🙂
Fuck off, Tupla.
Welcome!
I agree 100%
I put seat belts in my car in ’62. I’m uncomfortable if I don’t have them on. Like wearing glasses, I’m missing something.
I don’t want a law however, as TH said above. I been in a few fender benders but wouldn’t have needed the seatbelts. OTOH a few close ones that after I quit shaking I was glad I had the belts on, just in case.
Remember when they were peddling the seat belt requirements and promised it would be a non-moving violation and not a stand-alone violation? They wouldn’t stop people over it and citations could only be in addition to moving violations? They pinky swore.
I remember.
What’s a little mission-creep if it saves us from ourselves?
I drove taxis for a couple of years back in Oz. One day, I’m taking this guy into the city and a cop steps out and waves me over. I’m like, “WTF, I didn’t do anything.” Roll down the window and the cop asks me to pull over so he can write a ticket for the passenger for not wearing a seatbelt. Once we’re done, guy turns to me and says, “well, that was an expensive cab ride.”
In the back seat?? I don’t even know what the law is here for back seat passengers. I don’t buckle up in cabs except when it’s one of those minivan types because otherwise I get thrown around.
Nah, he was riding in the front seat. Although, it does give you some idea of the dick-ishness of the Queensland police force at the time. Sitting around at 8am looking to write tickets for seatbelts.
I remember when they passed “click it or ticket” seat belt laws in Michigan
The day after the law took effect, one of the Detroit news stations sent a crew out checking out the drivers. Literally the only drivers they saw not wearing the seatbelt/shoulder strap were cops. 100% of whom were not belted in.
El oh el.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/01/31/students-demanded-disinvestment-fossil-fuels-professor-offered-turn-off-heat/
‘It is all too easy to request others to do things that carry no personal cost to yourself. The question is whether you and others are prepared to make personal sacrifices to achieve the goals of environmental improvement (which I support as a goal).” The best part of the story is the response from the organizer of the protest:
Students demanded divestment from fossil fuels, a professor offered to turn off the gas heating
Fergus Green, the organiser of the wider protest, who is studying for a master’s degree in physics and philosophy at Balliol College, said: “This is an inappropriate and flippant response by the bursar to what we were hoping would be a mature discussion. It’s January and it would be borderline dangerous to switch off the central heating.”’
*howls with laughter*
What an absolute dildo. You just know the professor will be the one to catch serious heat for this, though. HOW DARE YOU!
I honestly think these people are wishing for the return of the medieval Europe political system. You know the one where the important (and that means rich too) get to do what they want, when they want and where everybody else gets to work hard under harsh conditions.
I ran into some student climate change protesters and asked if they would be willing to give up driving a car until they were, say, 25. “That isn’t helpful” I was told.
It’s always an out group that must make the sacrifices, shitlord. Do you even prog?
Like “Africa” and “Asia”.
Some American tourist chick at the bar was bragging about how she does crossfit. Someone tells her, “I bet you can’t squat that guy” and points at some drunk oyaji sitting at the bar. We go out in the street, she puts her head between his legs and tries to squat him up. She got a few inches up and her face goes beet red before she and the old dude go tumbling backwards. Split her jeans in the crotch wide open. Can you keep these idiot chicks out of my country?
Why? Sounds like great entertainment.
No kidding. Also, we’re missing a crucial piece of information: would?
Well it’s Straff so we’ll need a pic:)
Bleached blond with a lumpy body stuffed into tight jeans. Not a would for me. All yours, Q.
Were these lumps in the appropriate places?
Colon and intestines.
True. Still cringed, though.
That’s fantastic. I wish you’d made a video but my imagination is doing just fine, too.
Can you keep these idiot chicks out of my country?
Look, if JNTO is going to hit its 40M goal this year AND on top of coronavirus, you’re just going to have to accept some filler.
Well if Kamala couldn’t get past shit like this, I don’t see how buchie does. of course the CILF won’t be at the debates to point it out.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/01/28/election-2020-amy-klobuchars-role-myon-burrell-sentencing-questioned/4597961002/
White Privilege.
Wypipo are supposed to put PoC in jail. Kamala was a race-traitor.
CILF? That’s an easy one. Lexa Doig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ZQytOqmCk, I don’t know how to do the link thing 🙁 (ok boomer) new music I don’t hate
hmm, guess I do know
Gibson guitars and Orange amps. Can’t go wrong there.
Sounds like some Cage the Elephant and Chili Pepper influence.
Enjoyed that.
to all Glibs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng7QrYgdItQ
Thank you. Awesome tune. Love Godsmack.
Chasing tail
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-praised-for-hilarious-nsfw-wrong-answer
Pat Sajak is looking weird.
Tons of make up caked on an old dude will do that.
Always a good time,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-week-in-pictures-celebrexit-edition.php
Those were funny:)
Seconded.
And shockingly, there are a lot of political cartoons lampooning the left. Who knew?
Good batch this week. I giggled at the Rosa Parks one.
I’m gonna say the Kobe cut grass tribute is a fake.
That Dominic Frisby vid is excellent!
Very good.
Ok, for those who did not make it to the bottom…
this one was fantastic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2zJ8vaB5jo&feature=youtu.be
On the prior one…. if the reading of the resolution gets old… skip on a bit… it is worth the wait.
And then, let the Iron Lady show her prescience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tetk_ayO1x4&feature=youtu.be
those frustrations are not expected to mar Roberts’ reputation.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
“Excuse me, here, pull my finger.”
Under the heading of “Oh, good lord!”….
That wikipedia article about Ronda Rousey said she was voted “Best Female Athlete of All Time” in 2015 by ESPN.
Now, she had a pretty great run, don’t get me wrong. But best female athlete of all time? Better than Venus Williams? Or Stephie Graff? Or Martina Navratilova? And that’s just tennis…
Then you have Katie Ledecky, Janet Evans, Summer Sanders, Natalie Coughlin…. Just from swimming…
Wilma Rudolph, Babe Didrikson, Jackie Joyner, Florence Griffith, Marion Jones, Gail Devers…. Just from Track and Field
Mia Hamm, Abbie Wambach, Alex Morgan, Christine Lilly….
Heck, in her own field of Judo she isn’t near the top…. Ryoko Tani is the legend.
Most famous MMA fighter…. that’s her actual title.
Also… would.
W0t?
And something’s off with the sound, it doesn’t have the… auditory impact that piece is supposed to carry. It’s like they wasted dozens of voices.
That bassoon player wouldn’t be wasted on me…. if you know what I mean…
Nudge, nudge… wink, wink…