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Birthdays today include some dead white slaveholder who needs to be canceled; a guy who must have been a Catholic priest in an earlier life; the answer to “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”; a fellow who had a rather acid approach to life; the best of the early SNL personnel; a murderer blandly described as a “soldier, lawyer, and politician” (and we sure dodged a bullet with this one!); a terrific but forgotten pitcher; the best ever mayor of Portland; and a guy who now swims with the fishes.
On with the Pravda News.
For you Global Warming, errr, Climate Change, errr, Climate Crisis, errr, Climate Catastrophe aficionados, here’s a delightful presentation.
I’m not going to say this brought a smile to my face, but it brought a smile to my face.
Wait until a court gets hold of this. Maximum government intrusion must be upheld, otherwise where are we as a country, amiright Comrade?
“Those grapes were probably sour anyway.”
Trigger Warning: Giant Pussy Alert.
This is how they troll in the Middle East.
Old Guy Music is a theme we can all get behind. So to speak, because those morons are always in front of me in the left lane. This is stunning guitar work, with every trick in the book and a few that haven’t been written down.
Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay!
Metallica sucks!!!
Yes, but I enjoy their first 4.5 albums (not that I’ve listened to them in about 15 years).
It’s very clear,
Battery’s here to stay.
Not for a year,
Forever and a day….
Mornin’ Ted.
Could you imagine how distraught the leaders of Iran would be if we just ignored them. They’d be just like Trump – hey, you can’t do that! Pay attention to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Aren’t religious Muslims supposed to respect other People of the Books’s religious beliefs and traditions, at least in theory?
No, I think they are supposed to be subsumed into some lobbying movement which insists that government must codify various positive rights for them under the assumption that people who disagree with such things are “islamophobic” and are the reason for the lobbying in the first place. The alchemy of identity grievances – how to fabricate something out of next to nothing.
No expert, but I think best case is they let you worship as long as you do it on the downlow and accept your status as a second class subject of a theocracy.
So, for certain values of “respect” and “religious Muslim”, kind of, yeah. Maybe.
Right, as long as they accept second class status they aren’t supposed to be murdered outright.
Atheists, on the other hand…. (makes cutthroat gesture)
You can repeat that hand gesture for all of the nonAbrahamic faiths too (along with some of the Abrahamic ones, Bahais for example).
NYC has a (to me) surprising number of practicing Zoroastrians. In my experience they hate the Islamic domination of the Persian people.
From what I understand, the Iranians, maybe the Shia in general-not sure about that, recognize Zoroastrians as a sort of honorable mention POTB. They still treat them like dirt but it’s not really completely open season on them.
“Right, as long as they accept second class status they aren’t supposed to be murdered outright.”
Yeah can’t proseltyize, can’t repair your places of worship or build new ones, and pay a special tax that only infidels pay.
I’ll pay that tax in lead.
that’s the only way to deal with it. also, of they had nearly totally destroyed my religion I’d be upset to (re: Zoroastrianism ).
And they pay the tax for not being Muslim (jizza?).
They haven’t been very tolerant since the Sack of Baghdad.
Everybody knows it was the Crusades that ruined Islam, even though the dates barely line up and it ignores a half-dozen or so other Islamic renaissances that happened after then.
I wonder, does anybody give the Mongolians half the grief for Genghis Khan that Europeans get for the Crusades?
Betting the Han Chinese might be in on some of that.
“does anybody give the Mongolians half the grief for Genghis Khan that Europeans get for the Crusades?”
It doesn’t seem so but that might be partly because he wasn’t as easy-going with his detractors and they were buried with their grumbles.
“ I criticized ‘South Park’ for spawning a generation of trolls. And so the trolls came for me.”
Translation: I unfairly disparaged a large group of people, they got angry and fought back, and now I’m the victim.
Fuck. Off.
Loved the outrage at “just because you are offended doesn’t mean you are right”.
That sums up todays thinking well. Offense and outrage mean correctness. Claims of oppression and victimhood give moral superiority
Now do Family Guy.
I stopped reading when she referred to Lindy West and Emily Nussbaum.
Is West still tormenting people with her “humor”?
I assume so. I saw she had a show based on her book on Hulu. I’m sure a show about a morbidly obese unfunny white chick blaming everybody else for her problems is just wonderful, but somehow I just haven’t found the time to watch it.
Look at the difference between this and the “free speech has consequences” stuff spewed at people who get assaulted for expressing wrongthink.
OMG, a complete sentence that is a unqualified neutral statement of fact about Trump from NBC News:
Oh wait, we have to offset it with the irrelevant opinions of some self-appointed grievance mongers:
It’s somehow our responsibility to decriminalize homosexuality in other countries? And please explain how the administration is enabling “discrimination and violence against us at home and abroad”.
Aren’t we forcing cultural appropriation – ours onto theirs? Isn’t that cultural imperialism? What of the equality of all cultures and respect for those who are different (darker skinned) than us?
I mean, doesn’t the administration support changing the laws regarding religious exceptions to accommodation laws? (i.e. supports some level of right to association)
“ Bonny said European LGBTQ activists have also questioned Grenell’s decriminalization efforts because of the ambassador’s associations with far-right European political parties that are often hostile to the rights of LGBTQ people and Muslims.”
The de facto alliance between leftist homosexuals and Muslims has got to be one of the stupidest marriages of convenience ever.
What rights are we taking about? The right to force people to associate with you?
Uncle Tom of Finland
Letters to the Local Rag: If You Ain’t Green, You’re Dead
More…
Nevermind that those ethanol engines get rebuilt after every race and they get top-tier fuel that hasn’t already absorbed several gallons of water from the humidity in the air.
Written by not-a-race-fan. Except for drag racing, it isn’t about acceleration nearly as much as top speed, which in turn is limited mostly by aerodynamics and stability.
If electric car racing is going to be better than IC racing, then it should be successful on its own. Telling that the writer wants to eliminate IC racing, not supplement/compete with it.
It can be modified for racing for a range of 400 miles at top speed.
Bullshit. However, taking this at face value, you then have to switch to a second car to finish the last 100 miles. Like they do in Formula E.
Recently, a Tesla ran at Laguna Seca in ludicrous mode and nearly completed one lap before the battery was discharged.
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near those batteries in the event of a large crash.
“They, of course, will now be motorboat races because Florida will be underwater in a few years because of rising sea levels”
Much science. Wow! Very informed. Much intelligent
It’s true. Manbearpig assures us that Miami will be under water by the year 2000.
Well San Francisco did end up an open sewer.
It’s true, as did parts of Santa Monica.
I love motor boating.
PHRASING.
It’s a game you wouldn’t be familiar with, since it requires a certain maturity on the part of the other participant, and immaturity on your own.
The sea level is not going to rise 6 inches in the next 50 years, never mind the 6 feet necessary to sink most of Florida.
SCIENCE DENIER!!!11!!!
How ‘insecure’ are these ‘Not secure’ sites? In the address bar I sometimes see ‘not secure’ next to the web address as is the case with Troy Spencer linked here. I know it’s about encryption with HTTPS/HTTP but my question is it safe to read the link anyway?
Go ahead and read , just don’t offer up your banking passwords.
All it means is that someone could execute a man in the middle attack relatively easily, since it’s not encrypted.
I don’t get why there are still largeish websites without HTTPS.
Author error – the link still works if you put https in front of the URL.
You could argue configuration error as well for not bouncing http traffic to https.
Letters to the Local Rag: Y’all Are A Bunch Of Pussies
I wonder in what part of the country do these people live? In the southwest, even in the cities, there are wildlife that will eat cats all day and night. When I was living in Tucson a neighbor told me how he was outside smoking as the sun was setting – in the middle of the city – when he saw a huge owl swoop down into his neighbor’s back yard and fly off with his neighbor’s cat. And there are plenty of coyotes patrolling the washes as well.
It’s Williamsburg, Virginia.
They’re probably retirees from Jersey.
Two days ago I was burning trash and while I was standing at the edge of the woods I noticed some motion out of the corner of my eye. I turned to discover a great horned owl watching me with great interest from about 50 feet away. The damned thing looked like it was over two feet tall with feet as large as my hands and each toe topped with a damned sword.
Later I had let my two smallest dogs out and heard them barking furiously. I peeked out the window to see what the fuss was and though I couldn’t see what they were barking at I did notice that they were looking up into the trees while they barked.
“Uh Oh”
I let them back in.
We used to let our cats out in upstate NY, city or country, without worry.
What exactly make these cats theirs?
It’s the other way around.
Yeah, that is a real asshole attitude.
*pokes around to check on supply of Beeman pellets*
I have three outdoor cats, too. I also don’t walk them on leashes. Where’s my medal?
Funnily enough, they do come on walks with us. It’s quite a sight to see us walking with an entourage of cats on all sides.
It’d be a shame if some larger animal made those cats its dinner. I mean, their cats are free roaming. So, they just have to accept that.
Letters to the Local Rag: Horny Zeus Is Still Messing Things Up For Humans
Letters from Troy?
In what way is this Demi-god a threat, exactly? What has he done, exactly? What is the damage, exactly?
Specifics please.
You mean, like the 2nd Amendment?
Letters to the Local Rag: It Must Have Been Trump That Helped Epstein Kill Himself
I haven’t noticed Trump getting people jailed, nearly as much as his enemies getting people jailed.
And firing people who disagree with him (and try to undermine/#resist him)? I’m
less than outraged.
These people live in a fantasy world. It was Trump that killed their geraniums.
Trump is in heat because his enemies got off the hook, and he dared ask for the courtesy for his friends.
Yes, its terrible John Bolton no longer has a job.
Politics has become worse than pro-wrestling for face/heel turns.
The Left has always done the Strange New Respect thing with Republican Presidents and candidates. It’s a huge part of their election talking points. The kind of “You know, in hindsight Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Dole/Bush/McCain/Rommney were just so much more intelligent, moderate, and reasonable. The GOP has really sunk to a new low with this guy.” It’s gonna be hilarious watching them do it with Trump in the 2036 or 2038 election.
They read too much Freud – badly.
What president would not fire people working directly under him who commit sedition?
Which enemies has he had jailed?
TDS indeed.
Mike Flynn and Roger Stone got jailed for disagreeing with Trump?
I think that would be news to them.
I always hear Blue Apron ads on Sirius but never quite caught the hook. I get the ‘prepared food because no time’ part not how did they distinguish themselves from already established, albeit less pompous, names like Michelina or Swanson’s or HUNGRY MAN or whatever?
So not sure how Blue Apron tried to distinguish itself. ‘Just the right amount’ is mightily presumptuous if not stupid for $10.
That’s your old man’s stuff. Blue apron is for new people who don’t want to be suck doing what their old man did.
Sooooo….nice packaging is enough?
I’LL TAKE IT!
Nah it’s like all portioned out and set up for you, and done in steps.
So like, for jambalaya, it would say
1. Brown cut up chicken pieces (package 1) in olive oil, when brown, remove from pan.
2. Saute vegetable mix (package 2) in pan.
3. When veggies are well softened, dump in chopped garlic (package 3)
4. After 1 minute, pour in chicken stock (Package 4.)
5. Pour in seasoned rice mixture, stir well, add chicken and juices back to the pan, bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
Its a way for people who have zero idea how to cook whatsoever to cook.
I did consider trying it out on behalf of an older relative that can no longer drive. She wasn’t up for it, even if it was paid for by others.
She said, “It sounded too much like meals on wheels”.
An episode or two of America’s Worst Cooks and you see the market potential.
Paint By Numbers, with a massive upcharge.
I did subscribe to HomeChef for a while when I was traveling heavily and working long hours. I lacked the mental energy and time to do a decent and healthy variety to week day meals. So I picked a “three meals a week (for 2)” option and favored the low carb choices. Every week I could pick the defaults they assigned with those parameters or mix it up and add in an extra if I wanted.
I could see doing it again. i did learn a couple of little tricks that I now replicate using regularly purchased groceries, and the recipes all came on nice cardstock to keep in a three ring binder.
Probably ideal for someone who never learned to cook from a parent and wants to learn in peace.
These days, the way to learn is to watch good instructional videos. The basics are covered well by people like Helen Rennie, Chef John (Food Wishes), America’s Test Kitchen… and of course, the hundreds of old shows from Julia Child and Jacques Pepin that have made it to YouTube.
America’s Test Kitchen still occasionally surprises me with something new I can incorporate.
Love Chef John, but my wife always gets annoyed when I watch the videos because of his cadence of speaking.
“HelLO there this is ChefJohn from FOOD wishes DOT com WITH…….”
It’s not prepared. It’s just the ingredients. For people who want to be “gourmet cooks” with as little effort as possible.
That’s about right. We use HelloFresh from time to time. They’ve got a pretty good shipping system. We try and variety of meals and, if there’s one we like, we just keep the recipe and buy our own ingredients for future use.
My gf was gifted both the blue apron and hellofresh at different times. Meh. Nothing special. I don’t think anything from either of them stuck with us.
We did both as well. Fine for what it is, but really expensive for what you get and not particularly helpful if you know how to grocery shop and cook already.
That’s right. Sorry. Kinda seeing a hook there. But a bit dicey – get it? – nonetheless.
Yeah, I get the hook. I just don’t think the cost for Blue Apron is worth it. Besides, it sure looks like they ran the company poorly.
A friend of mine had a coupon for a few free ones. It was a way to try some new things without buying a whole package of miso, etc. She’s not doing it again though. Too expensive for what you get.
I had never heard of it until now. It was a retarded idea simply because of the logistics.
It might be possible to pull off if there were an already developed drone delivery system.
The whole: just buy enough to meet the immediate meal is just poor home economy though, as buying bulk that will last will almost always be cheaper
I could see using something like that for a one off meal with ingredients I may never use again. I imagine most people have three or four almost unused spice jars that are decades old because they needed 2 tsps for that Indian dish they made that one time.
That’s fair.
That’s me. I just never found enough use for that bag of Za’atar – delicious as it is.
I keep a tight spice rack of essentials that I know I will use now after years of experimenting and trying out spices.
Incidentally, if anyone can throw me a bottle of Lawhorn’s (I picked up in Tennessee) please by all means. I really liked it.
Paczki?
Don’t even know if we have ’em up here. Sounds commie.
How the Hell did this comment get here?
**HEAVY SIGH**
Go ahead… call one of the little Polish grandma’s a commie.
I’ll stand back… way the hell back.
” ingredients I may never use again”
That’s definitely one advantage. Or, sometimes ingredients where we won’t get through the quantity you have to buy in a store.
The cinnamon I bought to make Whiskey punch for St. Patrick’s day 2004 that I never got around to making and just threw out last summer says hello.
*stares at 3 bottles of Turmeric because I never remember if I have Turmeric
Bernie is white, Putin is white. Bernie wears suits, Putin wears suits. Bernie loves the KGB, Putin does too.
Has anyone ever seen them together?
I bet they both use toilet paper too, just like Hitler.
Except neither had to wait in line for toilet paper, even if Bernie thinks waiting in line is good.
I can’t argue with this. It checks out.
https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/02/20/female-inmate-falls-through-ceiling-during-attempted-escape-ohio-jail-video/
LOL, also that’s a rough looking 42 year old.
Would not. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/300474606367683014/
*clicks*
GAH!
I’m far from ‘open borders’ and believe in strong borders but can’t blame Greyhound. That Border Agents were doing that is symptomatic of a failed immigration system that begins at the, you know, BORDER.
It’s private property, stay out without a warrant.
Shouldn’t even come up, unless you’re crossing the border. This 100 mile no-warrant search zone thing is bullshit.
If the bus actually is crossing the border, I think the search is reasonable, you don’t get in without we know who you are.
Yeah, I posted this related Amazon story over Christmas.
Basically it’s a cop having a shitfit because the local Amazon manager wouldn’t let the cops normalize getting stuff without a subpoena.
If only airports would be so bold.
What is with all this banana republic bullshit that now defines national elections?
They want people to maintain the illusion of their votes counting, but in reality, the Puppetmasters fear letting the little people express their preferences.
The statists are starting to realize that miseducating generations of Americans was perhaps not for the best after all.
It’s a combination of higher scrutiny and lower standards.
you mean the democratic primaries?
that’s just a preview for gong full scale.
Personally, I think a fine is insufficient. Executives should go to Federal PMITA prison and the bank broken up and sold off.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/21/wells-fargo-slammed-with-3b-penalty-admits-it-broke-law-116627
I’ve said this before. I worked at Wells Fargo during the time that was happening. The pressure to get sales was high for bankers, and I was reprimanded several times for not trying as a teller.
Seamus at freedom toons hits a solid:
https://youtu.be/A4qV7kf-cpM
I don’t get it.
That’s because you’re humorless, and don’t have a TV to see all the b Bloomberg ads
I think it’s saying Bloomberg had an affair with a fat latina while he was married to skelator or something.
Hi. I’m anonymous libertarian lurker Mike Bloomberg…
GAAAAAH!!!! ::slams laptop shut, flings it across the room::
Good morning, Old Man!
I hope you and all the Glibs are well.
I hate powerpoint almost as much as I hate people who drive slow in the left lane, but that one was pretty good. I think I’ll troll my proggies a little this morning…
Junior’s guitar got stolen recently – I wonder if he ever got it back. It’s not like you can pop down to Guitar Center and get a new one. Fucking thieves.
The sun is shining brightly, the dog is getting impatient and I’ve got some podcasts to catch up on. Off to the taxpayer-funded trails!
Have a great day, people!
I’m sorry for your sons loss,
Oh no, not my kid! Old guy music’s Junior Brown!
That cool double guitar got stolen.
Thats different, he’ll get it back, it’s too rare to sell
Yeah, his Guit-steel got stolen. I haven’t heard of him getting it back yet. Like Yusef says, that’ll be pretty hard to sell without raising eyebrows.
Junior’s guitar got stolen recently – I wonder if he ever got it back.
If the thief was seen pedaling away with the loot, Jimbo is off the hook.
The nice thing about the presentation is that it’s from an honest-to-god accomplished climatologist who spent his career working in academia and government. Whenever his name is mentioned, Good Progs always respond with, “He’s been paid off by the oil companies” (which has been debunked repeatedly, not that this matters) or “He’s a Creationist” (true, but irrelevant- so was one of the best scientists in my former field of quantum chemistry). So don’t expect to convert anyone, but it’s still interesting reading.
They will never change their minds. It’s just nice to toss a grenade once in awhile!
Indeed. Although, I think more than one grenade is needed.
“He’s a Creationist” (true, but irrelevant- so was one of the best scientists in my former field of quantum chemistry).”
*Sigh.* Yeah I have seen this kind of cognitive dissonance before a number of times. I can say that some of the dumbest things I have seen people do were done by some of the smartest people I have known. Oh well, I am not qualified to tell others what to believe.
*turns away from mirror*
Weak sauce Dana Schwartz. Weak. Sauce.
Love the smug WaPo ‘i don’t watch South Park. South Park is for trolls’ comments among some of them.
Shitty little minds.
Good morning all.
I have recommended this before. It is well worth watching if you have any doubts about the natural causes of global warming (facepalm). Well, it is interesting in more ways than that, but pay special attention to that aspect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk5-ynRPfss
Blue Apron: Talk about first world problems. Geez.
I have it on good authority (TOS) that voting fraud never happens. Nothing to see, move along.
“Greyhound to stop allowing immigration checks on buses”
Oh. Cool. Private entities have a say in the matter. If Greyhound can, so can I.
Social engineering for the world, brought to you by the USA. How’s that been working out?
Proggies have no sense of humor. The worst thing you can do is parody them. Remember the proggie student newspaper that was going to prove that they actually do have a sense of humor by publishing some jokes? After they did their readership demanded successfully that they be shut down over those jokes.
I have an idea, lets send Iran a billion dollars in extortion cash so they can buy more weaponry to use in the murder of innocents.
I will be back…..I am about to engage in my favorite activity: Cooking for my wife
English muffin topped with hollandaise, slice of ham, over easy egg, more hollandaise and garnished with tiny green onion tops
Hash browns fried in bacon/butter mix topped with sour cream garnished with sweet basil
Bacon
A small salad of romaine, sweet bell pepper, cherry tomatoes and garnished with a fingerling sweet pickle…sweet gherkins I think they are called
*We live in the greatest time in history. Consider that breakfast. Plentiful cheap energy, technology and the free market brought us that…plenty from all over the world.
Suck it commies.
No one needs a decadent capitalist breakfast like that. Gruel with a pad of oleo and a glass of tap water is more than sufficient.
Tap water?!? Pure luxury, Mr. Rockafella.
I’m having instant peaches and cream oatmeal fresh from the microwave.
I’ll report myself to the proper authorities for my decadence after I take my cold to lukewarm, one minute shower and don my grey pantsuit thingy.
Well now you have altered my recipe.
I will replace the gherkin with a pear half filled with cottage cheese topped with cinnamon.
*Now I am procrastinating because I have to go to the store first and I hate going to the store.
Thanks for reminding me that I want to make up a batch of cheese grits tomorrow. Gotta head for the store and pick up some cream cheese.
My breakfast this morning was very basic: bacon, eggs, sausage, home fries, French toast, coffee.
Tomorrow morning will be better coffee, French fries, and buckwheat crepes with something good in them.
Seconded on the humor to destroy proggies. You cannot reason with people that have constructed their ethos based on emoting and “liking” empty platitudes on Facebook. You cannot and will not teach them history or economics (because this time will totally be different) You can:
1) Mock and deride them mercilessly.
2) Force them to play by their own rules – they made the shit sandwich and tried to force it on everyone, so grab them by the neck and push their face down in it good and hard at every opportunity (metaphorically speaking).
I was thinking along these lines myself yesterday:
Open tag fail.
They believe the current technological age is something happening outside the influence of humans, like an ice age forcing us to produce these items which were not required in earlier times. Following this belief system, putting politics in charge of the great tech engine (envision how early humanoids would view the movement of the sun in the sky) would give us total control over our world.
They’re morons. They think that the Glorious Peoples Innovation Bureau will take over all research and development and things will be even better than before.
It’s amazing when I hear similar statements from people I KNOW are not idiots–I mean, they’re is nothing inherently wrong with their brain function–but they really do think the human race could achieve so much MORE if we just consolidated all research and development into a government led center.
Then SpaceX lands side booster rockets back safely to Earth, and NASA has to hitch a ride with the Russians to get to the space station. LALALALALALA–I CAN’T HEAR YOU!! NASA will get us there!!
I think that, the younger you are, the more you understand where this shit comes from. I’m 30, and the way that the public school system presented the world to us was statist and I guess the word is centralist, as in “everything must be centrally directed from somewhere”. Everything was through the lens of the state directing things. Concepts like emergent order or creative destruction are just completely absent from the public school curriculum, which unfortunately is also the private school curriculum for the most part.
The only reason I was introduced to any kind of libertarian ideas was that one of the English teachers assigned Atlas Shrugged, and he wasn’t even my teacher, I just saw other kids reading it, and a few were taken by the message and mentioned it to me.
It’s very possible, in this country, to get straight As, max out your SAT, go to a great college, graduate with honors, get a job at an excellent company or worse go right into the government and never once be exposed to even the slightest hint of laissez faire economics, or anti-statist political thought. You might read the Federalist Papers, but you never read the Anti Federalist Papers. They’ll have you read Howard Zinn, but not Paul Johnson. The men of the post Civil War era who forged an industrial society, lifting millions from agrarian drudgery are called “robber barons”. The simple fact of “Standard Oil lowered the price to heat people’s homes by 90%” never appears in the textbooks.
Even things which are not political in and of themselves, are distorted. I worked with kids for a long time, so I helped with homework and talked about what they learned in school. When it came to jobs, the highest job, the one teachers always held up as a goal, was POTUS. The other various jobs always lionized are cops, teachers, firefighters, nurses. No teacher ever tells their kids “One day, one of you might create a billion dollar company which makes everyone’s lives better. ”
The single biggest obstacle to liberty in this country is the education system. It is, in a word, evil.
Yes, It reminds me of the article yesterday about Boris Yeltsin visiting an American grocery store.
What the Bernies of the world never take into account is that convincing the population that self-flagellation on bended knee is some kind of moral good will eventually catch up to them.
All for me, none for you eventually means none for me either. Bernie is a moron that I wouldn’t put in charge of picking up dog shit in my back yard.
Greatest time. Agreed. Does the greatest time get followed by the worst time is the question.
History is not a promising ray of hope on that point.
Then again, America has always paved her own way. How many violent revolutions in history have actually ended up IMPROVING things? The American one sure did.
Maybe we can foil the cycle that has plagued great empires through history too.
Morning Hayek. Bit drunk on this end, so … What do ya do?
Pour another and go outside to soak up the views.
How about I just crawl in bed and go to sleep? There’ll be a view tomorrow and we’ll enjoy it for both ends of the planet.
I think of, and mention, you when my husband makes me eggs benedict – cooking for your partner is such a lovely gesture.
“Plentiful cheap energy, technology and the free market brought us that…plenty from all over the world.”
Goddamn right!
I make breakfast for the family every weekend. It’s one of my favorite things to do. The abundance of choices for foods stuff due to a modern market economy, even one as heavily regulated as America’s, is indeed one of the marvels of freedom!
https://officialusadrinkingteam.com/collections/st-patricks-day-mens
Get your ? now.
Missing hockey sweaters for those of us in colder climates.
I gotcha.
I’ve got several Dropkick Murphy’s sweaters, as well as both Jameson’s and Guinness rugby jerseys.
The “two-seater” shirt is hilarious.
Hmm, I need to go buy an orange shirt…
“This is how they troll in the Middle East.”
who knew south park was so popular in Iran?
I’ve mostly been hanging out on the Discord lately (join us!) but noticed someone last night say the last season of Archer was the series finale and had to correct that!
https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Season_11
Next season airs May 6th
What is this Discord of which you speak, and why am I alarmed?
Some chinese spying product.
Its where the kids too cool for glibs hang out. ?
Woot! Thanks, man!
That Esther and Mordecai story boils my blood. What whiney, goat-fucking, little bitches.
So playing Mean Girls will win them hearts and minds, eh? Savages.
I’ve said it before. I truly pine for a Middle-East/Levant/Mesopotamia controlled by a peaceful, tripartite, trade federation comprised of Eretz Yisrael, Persia Major, and Great Kurdistan.
BUT NOT THE EGYPTIANS!
Persia Major would be wonderful. They are NOT Arabs, and were formerly one of the most modern and progressive (in a good way) Muslim societies, tolerant of others. I think not too much time has quite passed yet.
The borders are highly arbitrary and they manufactured the whole “Palestinian Crisis”, meaning Jordanians who were too dumb to move to Jordan after WWI.
Where should Turkey and Egypt go, in your scheme? They were once fairly forward thinking too.
What about the People’s Front of Judea?
No! It’s the Judean People’s Front!
Make it Eretz Ysrael, Kingdom of Cassander, and Nova Byzantia and I’m in.
They want money.
Of all of the countless nasty, vindictive things Obama did giving the Iranians money was the worst.
Yup, like giving a cat its first table scrap—It is ruined now and will never stop trying to figure out a way to cajole another. I steadfastly refuse to give my cat scraps (going on 9 years now) but my husband did, and i tell him HE created the monster, HE gets to deal with it. She tried to meow me into it, but she eventually figured only the spouse was Baracky enough to reward her bad behavior so she leaves me alone in the kitchen.
My cat wanted me to tell you that you are literally Hitler.
My dog wanted me to tell you that you are literally an angel.
Silicone Saturday gives us new appreciation of chemists.
http://archive.li/cKAUL
Most of those look natural.
So much work to do today:
-Check the rifle for reliability after A2 buffer tube install
-Get reacquainted with the M9 for an IDPA qualifier in a couple weeks
-Do a shakedown run with the PCC to make sure its g2g for tomorrow.
Godspeed, NA.
Earlier today I was surfing the ‘net looking for parts to complete an SKS build I hope to finish on my upcoming trip to the US. I stumbled on a gunbroker offering with a number of items I had been not having much success in finding. I hope I over-bid enough to have those parts coming in.
Very much looking forward to being in NM for a gun show – arranging a table and planning to sell off a few items which have really increased in value.
Where and when?
Now it’s raining…..Bummer
Prohibition always works.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/professors-promote-ideology-ignore-evidence-when-discussing-prostitution/
And today is the big day. But it’s gonna be a bit nuts. I’m excited but aware of how messed up this week is going to be. It’s the official starting day of the next big chapter of my life: Returning to Korea Part II: Electric Bugabugaboo.
Flight is from Indy–>NYC (JFK) at 5:50pm today…then I fly from there at 12:05am to Korea…where I will arrive on Monday at 5:15 in the AM. Then I have to go south to Daejeon, where I should arrive at about 9am. Then…holy fuck. I’m supposed to go directly to work from there were orientation starts. Like…I’m supposed to go there with my luggage. Monday and Tues are pretty much just hellos and show-around the school. I’ll try not to be a complete wreck. Then they we’re gonna move into our apartment.
Then actual training (oh god what will that be) begins Wednesday. Then the new semester begins March 2.
I feel very sorry for new teachers who are jumping into this school as their first go-around. It has had a bad reputation for newbies for quite a while; I remember writing about the neg gossip I heard six years ago. Pay on time and a good business, but perhaps a bit too controlling with their rules and how the structure of the school (not the classes nor students; those have an excellent reputation). I
They are paying me much more than normal cuz of my experience; I’m going to hope that I make such a first impression that I’m able to sort of take control over what my wings enclose. They are going to know that I will be jet-lagged and messed up and tired. But if I play that sympathy right and show control over the situation, I think that’ll push my campus stock level up.
The first stage of my rehab is stated to take about 6 months and a full year for ‘total’ recovery. Accident was Sept 22…so we’re at five months in….and I DO feel great. I’m ready. But this will be a big change and the beginning of a new chapter.
Sorry for long OT post just about this—the day has finally come!
Best of luck! Sounds like quite a shift.
A rebirth!
I’d think people would be sympathetic if you are a bit frazzled when you get there after that journey–they’ve all been there on some level. People cut each other slack without mentioning it.
That’s EXACTLY what I’m hoping for! Slack will be cut so I really can’t go wrong as long as I’m not falling over. If I’m OK then they will just treat me normally and will see how I turn out. I didn’t clarify this–I get to my city at 9am and I have to be at the orientation *the same day at NOON.* If I pull that off then I’m going to be golden to them. Mess up and meh. So just a good positive pathway to push for.
I do have a couple of things to hide from them though. I have to do a medical test for them. One of the questions was “have you been involved in a serious injury the last five years?’ Yeah I lied about that one. They replaced my second hip so they should know about my history with their med. system….but I’m leavinIfg that part out. “Let’s define serious! I didn’t think that was serious!” or “I thought it said 5 MONTHS!” are my two go-to’s if that happens to come up.
IT SHOULD NOT COME UP.
I’ve also been getting high a lot and they are supposed to test for that, but have a rep for not giving a shit. I might have to push the test back just to be sure about that one. Last night took a while to get to actual sleep because I was having very fun close-eye hallucinations floating into my auditory playground and normal dreamland.
@Straff: Thanks, bud! (I’m ready to rejoin the Glibby eastern hemisphere/Asian contingent!) I am impressed with my ongoing Marvel origin story and how much better I have done than with rehab than docs thought. It isn’t finished yet, but I’m finally going to be back in a driver’s seat. I’ve been on the DL for too long and 2019 was pretty much a waste even without The Incident. Suitin’ up.
Good luck, Evan. Bet you don’t even know how happy we are that you keep at it.
Just watch out for people proselytizing, I’ve heard they all caught corona virus.
Safe travels, Evan! Please keep us posted as you’re able.
DITTO!
Excellent news. You have every right to be pleased and proud of how you’ve managed your recovery. Sharing that here is good for you as well as us.
If I may ask, what are you teaching? What age range are the students?
Regardless, teaching is an awesome calling, and I’m glad you’re able to get back on that horse and head onwards!
Oh, I’ve just been a simple ESL teacher for about ten years now. In total about 6 in Korea, 2 in Singapore and about 2 months in Thailand. Now back to Daejeon, where I’ve always lived in Korea.
My schedule isn’t finalized, but I’ll be teaching Elementary and pre-school kids. In Korea I’m more used to Elem and Middle school kids, but in Singapore I specifically taught super young kids–I’d say 4-6 years old was 80% of students. Had two-and-a-half year old ones as well, though. Thailand was also pre-school age.
So the elementary kids should be great…and the pre-school kids….those classes are completely dependent on how well you engage with the kids and how they respond. If they dig the class then it’s easy peasy and actually a lot of fun. If (and when) they get riled up and energized then it can be difficult to handle and you can lose control. That part sucks tremendously. It’s why I am very adamantly (now at least) not interested in having a kid of my own!
Very cool. I’ve always taught at the high school or older range. Having baselines at ‘no kids!’ The only path was “NO! KIDS!!”
My loss, but probably their gain 😉
Best of luck with it all! That’s a punishing flight & first day, but you’ve got a plan. Leverage that jet-lagged “I’m new here” to your max benefit!
May the gods smile on you in this new path. At least you know most of the background to your new situation.
God Speed Man!
You will literally be a Renaissance Man.
Best of luck.
I’m so glad you are feeling great. I hope that full recovery comes asap!
Good luck Evan. Have Fun!
Hope it’s a great trip!
I am now pissed… stopped and waited in line to pick up packzi after my work out class because the girlfriend wanted some. After her workout class she decided to stop and bring home fucking Dunkin’ Donuts knowing I had already picked up the packzi.
Maybe she wants both?
She wouldn’t finish both. Her reason was she wanted egg, and the place I stopped had egg, cheese, and bacon packzi, and we have eggs here regardless.
That sounds entirely too delicious for my own good. Are the packzi sweet for those, or more bread-like?
Those are savory. Think more puffed up biscuits.
::discreetly wipes drool off keyboard::
Here you go. People drive in to hit this place up. In the line with me were people from Columbus and Detroit who drove up specifically to pick some up to bring home with them.
I really need to get back up to Cleveland. Be a good stop on the way home:)
Throw them on the ground!
https://youtu.be/gAYL5H46QnQ
Now I’m hungry for packzi and won’t be able to obtain for another week!
I have to go to the bakery soon and pick up a cake for my MIL. Guess I’m going to have to get a little sumpin’ extra!
That makes no sense. They stop being sold at most of the places here after Fat Tuesday. The place I stopped at finally expanded to selling them for a full month before Ash Wednesday instead of just a couple of days.
I forgot about Ash Wednesday – crap. We’re heading back to Chicago next week and was looking forward to them.
You may still be able to find them in the grocery stores and the like. The Giant Eagle near my house started putting them out for sale near the end of January.
You’re pissed about extra treats?
I’ve been counting calories every day of the week but Saturdays. Even with that, I’ve already had two, I don’t need more today.
Ok, I am going to put on a snorkel and dive into this Bluetooth registry edit adventure. Wish me luck.
See you all later.
Good luck!
It’s worse than I imagined. I just learned that not only is there User account vs Administrator account (makes total sense and is good practice on a shared family pc) but there is an “elevated mode” you have to invoke to get to a useful version of CMD prompt, and then there’s some sort of Trusted Installer super user that MIcrosoft wants you not to know about.
Thank goodness for the web and helpers around the world sharing step by step.
It’s still working on it.
Followup on my comment from the other day: Realtor just left the house. She said a number that made us happy (no, not $20), so we’re plowing ahead with a plan to move out of NoVa in late spring. Need to fix up a few things first….
What are the current top choices for Point B?
Congrats!
Awesome! Good luck!
Good news.
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Wells Fargo will pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil charges in connection with the opening of millions of unauthorized customer accounts and has admitted to unlawful and unethical practices spanning 14 years, federal officials said Friday.
Too big to jail.
How does something like this happen in a country with eagle-eyed regulators like Sheila Bair watching out for us?
That’s who my mortgage is through. Going to refinance in the next few weeks.
The fines are looking less like punishment and more like Uncle Sam getting his slice.
Aren’t they always?
Take anyone whos credit score was negatively affected by these fake accounts, divide the fine amount amongst them. That would be justice.
Fun song:)
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I did much searching for answers, and apparently the best I can do is copy/paste the middle finger until Microsoft decides I’m mature enough to have it in the emoji list.
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Mines on my Android phone. Not sure if I can import emojis. But I do have the finger:)
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My Android has it, too…I only just now noticed for some reason.
From what I’ve read, Microsoft was the first to support using it, wanting to beat Apple and Android to the punch, but they left it off the emoji pick list because reasons. Now that both Apple and Android let you pick it, maybe MS will come around in a decade or two.
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Some day all emojis will be the finger.
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. . . or the phrase, “Christ, what an asshole.”
That will be peak awesome.
Much like this ninja cat: ??
Or “Ouch my balls!”
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*edit*
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I am on my macbook, so I copy paste. So a hearty ??good ??morning ??to ??you ??! My iphone has it but who can read a website on a phone?
I do 99.99% of my web surfing on my phone.
I’ll do it occasionally out of necessity, but it drives me nuts. Way too small of a screen. Now get off my lawn!
Ok Millennial.
Agreed. Junior is great.
Finally listened – yep, fun!
we’re plowing ahead with a plan to move out of NoVa in late spring.
Good luck and godspeed.
Team Blue cannot be parodied.
That aint no shit. “End the electoral college!!!!!” I mean um, “Super delegates decide the nominee!!!!!!!”
Linked from the Iran article.
“Comrade, hold my beer.”
https://m.jpost.com/Middle-East/Road-Rage-US-military-runs-Russian-military-vehicle-off-road-in-Syria-618214
Don’t tangle with a tank.
*begins popping popcorn*
They should build the office on top of the tombs. What could go wrong?
Out of the ordinary
Wood.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chevy motor and a Ford rear end? There’s a joke in there somewhere.
They Dodged a bullet?
Excellent build.
Wood, as well.
Literally every single YouTube video I watch starts with a Bloomberg ad. Even the gun channels:(
Only 70?
https://nypost.com/2020/02/21/twitter-suspends-70-bloomberg-boosting-accounts-for-violating-company-policy/
Biden flubbed a line, claimed his deceased son served as Attorney General of the United States. Maybe just stay off the subject of your sons.
More Biden fun times. He claimed a couple times recently at campaign events that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela. This is while he was a US Senator. No records exist of this and he has never mentioned it previously.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/biden-claims-he-was-arrested-back-70s-trying-visit-nelson-mandela-no-one-remembers-it
An Italian buddy of mine sometime around the millennium was in the country illegally. He was working at an Italian restaurant in NYC and planned to stay a year or so working before heading down to South America with enough savings to last six or so months to travel around . His mistake was meeting someone who offered him a restaurant job in Florida. He took a Greyhound down and somewhere in north Florida got stopped by the Feds. They tossed him in a shithole jail for six weeks, which he called the most terrifying experience of his life. He took a couple beatings and was threatened with rape a few times. He had a return open ticket back but they wouldn’t let him use it. They finally bought him a ticket back and agents accompanied him onto the flight with him in cuffs. They waited next to him and only removed the handcuffs and left when the plane was getting ready to leave. Needless to say he doesn’t go Greyhound any longer.