In Florida we know how to do VD right. Monkey herpes, antibiotic resistant syphilis…. what? Oh. Valentine’s Day. Meth and/or new teeth are always appreciated by your sweetie. Random acts of senseless criminality are also a hit, but you gotta make sure to get it in the police report and/or press release. “I did it for my baby(mama)!” My wife and I are staying in tonight, but as the MIL is in town, we will be able to get out tomorrow when the restaurants take their price gouging conveyor belt meals off the menu. None of this should be taken as disliking or disagreeing with the restaurants for this. Go get ’em! Finally, I hear rumors that jesse.in.mb is actually jesse.in.fl this week. Welcome! Sorry I can’t make the drive down the coast for a meetup this time.
Deep-state fallout: Flynn case to be re-examined at Barr’s demand, and McCabe will avoid charges. I especially like the McCabe one, because the formal statement include a “totality of the circumstances” statement. Which we all know means, “he’s guilty but we don’t prosecute our own”
“based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed.”
Exercise makes people happier than money. Of course, you have to have enough leisure time to exercise.
This NYC couple qualify for honorary Florida citizenship.
Chances for SMOD, rising.
And now, Florida Man’s Valentine’s Day song.
First?
Disqualified for failure to comment on a link.
YOUR MOM IS DISQUALIFIED FOR FAILURE TO COMMENT ON A LINK
OOOOHHH, touchy today…………….
No titties.
At least grace us with the lovely ladies of Valentines Day.
Does that mean heart-shaped rear ends?
“based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed.”
Laws are for little people.
Did anybody really expect anything else? Rule #1 is to protect the organization, even if it shortsighted. This just further confirms “law” is only for the deplorables and the little people.
Look, all he did was lie to the FBI. They’d never put somebody in jail for that, right? Right?
And let’s be clear, he did lie. He admitted it himself: https://nypost.com/2020/01/02/andrew-mccabe-said-he-lied-to-fbi-about-wall-street-journal-leak/
And I’m sure that this fact will be mentioned in all the MSM articles about how he’s not being charged.
He can still be charged for lying on the FISA submittal regarding Carter Page though and that’s a big one. Ah who am I fooling, we all know that’s not going to happen.
What makes people happier than money
Using it to buy a Waverunner?
Is that you, Kenny Powers?
The benefits of routine exercise have been well documented. Blaring headlines tout weight loss, muscle gain, lower cholesterol, improved mental health, sharper focus, stronger bones and a stronger heart, among other improvements.
What about beautiful people at the gym?
I remember the controversy over that Guns ‘n Roses song when it came out. That was part of the reason I eventually bought the album.
One in a Million should really play at Trump rallies.
Heh
I’m not sure why….
Uh, Ted, that song is One In A Million You
I’m sorry you have such philistine taste in music.
–Discworld
“have 35 days of poor mental health a year”
Hell, I have that every month.
36 days for Leap Years ?
“have 35 days of poor mental health a year”
That’s about how long women are having their periods, isn’t it?
/this is why there are no female libertarians….
All the female libertarians are pro-menopause.
RE: McCabe.
Kinda funny Barr chose this week to start chastising Trump over the tweeting about the DoJ. Well, Billy Boy, maybe he wouldn’t tweet if the DoJ wasn’t so fucking useless at policing its own. The guy knowingly signed false FISA documents fer Christ’s sake. If that’s not worth prosecution, I don’t know what is.
Heh. How much you wanna bet Barr has done the same or similar?
Yes. There’s probably more than a bit of self-preservation involved here.
Video Shows Man, Woman Threatening Each Other With Knives
At least no one had a gun.
Also, would Valarie Castro.
College roommate was present for a Bourbon Street stabbin’ back in 89.
Old dude is knifing away at his fat wife in the middle of the street while she continued to cuss his skinny ass out.
Post-stabbing sex is the best.
So many more holes to play with.
Like Jooz, Asians are racial chameleons; PoC when convenient, otherwise white.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/20/ocasio-cortez-joins-de-blasio-call-punish-asian-students/
Bingo.
Yeah, but just think how much better the crappy schools the Asians will be forced to attend will start doing.
Dems to Asians: “Just lie back and think of diversity”
Cut those poppies down.
Krugnuts is on the case!
https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/02/14/hilarity-ensues-after-paul-krugman-claims-admitted-socialist-bernie-sanders-not-a-socialist/
Looking forward to what Winston’s Mom has to say about this.
He’s so much smarter than we are.
Tune in later, darling. ZARDOZ needed a hand
jobthis evening.Zardoz is so old fashioned.
Good thing you struck out the “job” because otherwise I might wonder what caused Zardoz to turn over a new leaf.
Leftists love poor people so much that they want to price them out of being able to defend themselves.
State Rep. Jillian Gilchrist is the author of the proposed tax increase, and she tried to shame anyone who would question why only gun owners are being asked to pay for programs to reduce violent crime across the state.
An emotional scolding from State Rep. Jillian Gilchrest (D- West Harford) when asked whether her proposal to tax gun ammunition by 35% is a punishment on lawful gun owners.:
“Shame on you, those being punished are the victims of gun violence from Hartford to Newtown,” she said.
Gilchrest said there has never been a comprehensive plan to fund gun violence prevention programs, and her proposal would do just that.
An estimated $50 box of bullets with a 35% excise tax would result in about $17.50 being paid to the state.
In total, Gilchrest expects the proposed tax to raise $7 million for programs to diffuse violence.
CT is a small state.
dOn’T yOu CaRe AbOuT vIcTiMs Of ViOlEnCe?!?!
Make the violence less intense are spread across a larger population?
Sure. Everyone gets a purple-nurple instead of a few gang-bangers being shot down in the street.
“programs to diffuse violence”…..in other words, graft.
There was a Supreme Court case from way back where somebody was trying to impose a heavy tax on printer’s ink. The Court struck it down, saying “The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
If stare decisis wasn’t also part of the one-way ratchet, this tax would be struck down as well.
That was my first proto-libertarian moment. We were taught, I’m guessing 5th grade, that churches weren’t taxed because the power to tax was the power to destroy. I was fairly religious at that point and it still struck me as deeply wrong.
“Diffuse.” They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Morans with no ragrets.
Woke Illustrated
Sports Illustrated has introduced its next slate of finalist models for its upcoming swimsuit issue, and a plus-sized model, a 56-year-old model, and a bald fitness trainer will be among them.
The magazine introduced the six finalists that the magazine touted as its most diverse ever. The finalists were winnowed down from seventeen hopefuls unveiled last October, the Daily Mail reported.
Before this year’s winner is announced, the magazine is set to send the finalists to a photo-shoot conducted in the Turks & Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory southeast of the Bahamas.
The finalists include Philadelphia native Christie Valdiserri, a 25-year-old fitness instructor and dancer whose personal style includes are bald head.
“I was inspired to attend the Model Search in Miami when I finally had enough strength and confidence in myself as a bald woman,” Valdiserri recently said.
Valdiserri added that she wanted to “educate the next generation that beauty comes from who you are, not from what you look like.”
Of course, it doesn’t hurt to be fit and have nice tits.
#preach
I thought you said “#peach” at first.
Also, where’s the Friday funbags at? 😉
Why do they need three gals to fill that punch card? Why not just take a few pics of some fat, old bald gal and be done with it?
If I were to tuck and squeeze my arms just right I could be an SI model too?
Sports Illustrated has introduced its next slate of finalist models for its upcoming swimsuit issue, and a plus-sized model, a 56-year-old model, and a bald fitness trainer will be among them.
In other words “we don’t really want to sell magazines.”
To be fair I wasn’t going out of my way to buy the swimsuit edition before they went woke.
Hey, growing up in an era without internet porn, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was required reading until everyone at my school found the magazine place nearby that would sell Playboy to teenage boys.
I can confirm that. By senior year of high school, I had all the Swimsuit Issues from 1989-94 under my bed.
They did have Cheryl Tiegs in it one year when she was around 50…..but she still looked like Cheryl Tiegs.
I guaran-damn-tee you every one of those fat girl models fantasizes about the likes of the Rock or Vin Diesel, not pre-weight loss Jonah Hill.
I’m loath to start shouting “RAYCISSSS!” prog-style, but it’s kinda hard not to go there…
https://apnews.com/8cbb1fafbb4faf01e8d9571363979501
““It’s been well documented that the 2008 crash was caused by unethical, predatory lending that deliberately targeted communities of color,” said Debra Gore-Mann, president and CEO of the Greenlining Institute, a nonprofit that works for racial and economic justice. “People of color were sold trick loans with exploding interest rates designed to push them into foreclosure. Our communities of color and low income communities were the victims of the crash, not the cause.” ”
It can be both.
To be fair to her position, poor people just wanted to own a house because a lot of intelligent people told them it was a key to not being poor. The banks all thought they’d found a way to never lose money on a loan again. It was the loan repackaging that nearly froze the market, not the loans. Those loans would never have been offered if the banks didn’t think they were immune to the inevitable blowback.
Not exactly.
What happened is more complex… and simpler.
There was the redlining issue – the Feds insisting that loans be made everywhere. They backed this up with support from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy up the loans. Buy and hold had become a thing of the past quite a while earlier. The savings and loan crash kind of put the nail in that coffin.
But the big deal was Enron, SOX and Mark to Market pricing.
When they introduced Mark to Market pricing, the rule became that you had to value your assets by the market, all the time. Banks have very strict rules about asset ratios.
So, there’s this real estate bubble. People are refinancing all over the place to take equity out. One day, it has to end… as all bubbles do. And when that happened…. suddenly there is uncertainty. How bad will it be? How much of this portfolio is going to become bad debt?
Those were unknowns. And what that meant was that nobody wanted to buy Mortgage Backed Securities. Not because they were worthless, but because they were impossible to fairly price.
So what happens now? Well, if you are an investor you just hang on for a while and wait for things to settle out. Your portfolio of mortgages is still paying. It will continue to pay for the most part. And your losses will be limited by the value of the underlying real estate. You would never sell at this moment, because you’d never get enough money to make it worth it to you to let go of that asset.
But here is where Mark To Market comes in and fucks all of us. Really hard.
Because now the bank has to price those assets. Well, what is the price? The rules said it is whatever people are willing to pay. So if you have $600 million in a portfolio of loans that is paying off just fine and someone offers you fifty cents on the dollar, what’s the price? It damned sure isn’t $300 million. Because you would be a fool to take that offer. You’d just hold. But not with mark to market. Now you have to mark down your assets by $300 million. Which means you now don’t have enough assets to cover your ratios. So you have to sell.
Right in to the teeth of a bear market. You have no real losses. You only fail to have willing buyers. And only because of the uncertainty. But now banking regulators are insisting. You suddenly make that $300 million loss real. 100% because of regulation.
And what did that do? Well, it further depressed the market, that’s what it did. And scared the crap out of everyone. So now when the other banks come around to find their market price, it drops another 50%. Now things are worth twenty five cents on the dollar. And then banks start going under. The feds come in and force big banks to buy out little banks. Several were perfectly solvent on Friday, and out of business on Monday, without so much as a blip of a warning. All because of a visit by the regulators. I had a bunch of cash in transit at Netbank at the time. Lost a bunch of it exactly that way…. they came in on friday, started selling assets, it spiraled out of control and on Monday my money was gone. Poof. They had to liquidate it to save it, apparently.
That is why mark to market is such a crock. It requires 2 things to make a market. A willing buyer. And a willing seller. Mark to market doesn’t work when the market stops for some reason. But in regulated industries like banking, you still have to abide by that price.
It would be as if you had a prized Winchester 1886 in .50-110 and someone offered you $3k for the thing. You wouldn’t sell it at that price – even if you put it on ebay and had no other bidders. You’d be nuts to sell the thing for ten times that amount.
But Banking rules say that you would have to value it at $3k if you had no other offers. And then if you needed to raise cash, you’d be forced to sell it at that price, instead of holding on to your $60k rifle until a suitable buyer showed up.
Thank you for that clear & concise explanation!
Well, I dunno about concise. I tend to bloviate on this issue. It is personal. I lost a whole lot of money because of that. Our company was collateral damage in that nonsense. Because of the lack of liquidity in the markets, raising capital was impossible for about 2 years. And our company required hundreds of millions in capital markets investments every year.
But we were still doing fine… poised to take over the market, in fact. But then our investment bank was shuttered because of the exposure of doing investment banking. Regulators told the bank to close up their investment bank, so they did. They sold off all assets at a loss. The fire sale turned a merger in which we were buying out our biggest competitor who was undergoing bankruptcy restructuring into a merger in which they bought us out for pennies on the dollar. My stock options went from a few million to zero in a matter of hours. All because of banking regulators and the capital markets crisis.
Yeah, I’m a bit pissed. I lost more that day than I’ll ever have. And not a single jot of it was our fault. Well, except for accepting the offer for the investment bank to take us private. We were a $700 million public company. They took us private with promises of access to capital that would help us grow. If they came through with their promises, we would have been worth $2.5 billion within a year, no question. The only thing limiting us at that time was access to bridge loans for our new markets (hundreds of millions required).
The financial crisis hit mere months after that deal. And 2 years later… pooof. all gone. We were literally weeks away from starting the process of going public. Initial estimates already had us at $1.5 billion, and they hadn’t come across with the new funding yet.
But at least the guys on the inside got to ride off in their big yachts. Sure, they were set to make hundreds of millions and only made tens. But there were a bunch of us who were all in for a long time at below market rates and got nothing.
So thanks, Washington. I’m really happy with you guys.
Ouch.
I saw interesting (insert scare quotes as necessary) carnage in the merger/takeover by Qwest with/of USWest. It was ugly and a whole bunch of people got royally screwed.
That, btw, is where my 5-degrees of separatism from the pointy-haired boss happened. A fun story, but yours is more meaningful and more impactful.
I’d seen ‘mark to market’ tossed around, alternately praised and blamed, but I’ve never before seen a cogent explanation plus vivid illustration of the meaning and the follow-on impact. It’s appreciated.
And then banks start going under. The feds come in and force big banks to buy out little banks. Several were perfectly solvent on Friday, and out of business on Monday, without so much as a blip of a warning.
And here I thought it was because drunk Uncle Billy lost the deposit money.
I will join Shirley Knott in a heartfelt thank you for the explanation. I can usually figure out what’s going on around finance, but back then, I had my head in the sand, working at home, taking care of two babies, not interested in watching TV, and generally doing everything I could to avoid going out of the house. I genuinely had no idea any of this was going on or how bad it got. I basically checked out.
Home mortgage debt forgiveness!
Enough of that for now.
*scurries off to the Hallmark store because ain’t no minute like the last minute to get a valentines gift, ensuring I get some tonight.*
https://invidio.us/watch?v=ojqW8-M3Qk0
This is your mistake. I got some this morning. Less opportunity to screw it up.
But I kinda thought that was the point?
I stopped at the local super market after lunch and got card, candy and flowers in 10 minutes. They have the system purring.
I went to stock up on the Brachs candy hearts, and they were sold out.
Just buy chalk they won’t be able to tell the difference.
Maybe it’s his way of dieting…
“I’m a bit hungry, why not a piece of candy?”
/opens cupboard, sees it’s full of candy hearts
“Well, I’m not that hungry.”
/closes cupboard and walks away
Am I the only one thinking of Chief Wiggum when I read this headline?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/border-patrol-will-deploy-elite-tactical-agents-to-sanctuary-cities/ar-BB100Ejr
Makes me think of the Saddam’s ELITE Republican Guard. Its more of an internal elitism than a universal one.
Break em away, toys!
-Don’t you mean take em away, boys?
Er, yeah, what the kid said.
If the Border Patrol and ICE want to play COINOPS, then the locals they are inflicted upon should do them the favor of acting as insurgents.
It’s really not that hard to assemble an IED.
w00t!
I beat Tundra back from our lunch so I get to claim victimhood of some sort of transgression on his part. I feared for my life!
Show us on the doll…
LOL
Great minds…
Show us on the doll where Tundra touched you.
I can’t! It is too triggering!!!!
More importantly, what did you have for lunch?
Good point. What was lunch?
I’m sitting at the McMenamns lounge at Port of Kalama. Sippin an IPA. Waiting for my chicken Caesar salad. Heading back to Seattle.
Excellent question. Burger and beer at a neighborhood joint. Something called a Bloody Mary Burger with a Surly Furious.
Quite good!
Such drama! The only thing you feared was that bartender who was giving you the eye.
So you thought that was a glass eye too? I didn’t want to say anything because I was worried she’d overhear.
Took my first trip to a legal dispensary here. Jesus Christ stuff is expensive here ($53 for 3.5g of flower and $94 for a 800mg vape cartridge). But we’ll see how this goes. Hopefully I can wean myself off the klonopin totally.
What’s your delivery system? Do you have a vape?
I have a vape. I ended up getting the vape and a concentrate syringe to try to start. May get the flower and cook with it at some point. Florida doesn’t allow edibles, which is a shame.
Florida doesn’t allow edibles, which is a shame.
What? Why? Most “medications” are taken orally.
Even John Morgan can only buy so many government functionaries.
No clue.
This is what’s at your disposal in FL. Trulieve controls most of the market. https://www.trulieve.com/shop
That’s ridiculous.
Preheat to 135 degrees for 5 minutes to active the oils or it won’t work as well,
Have fun!
How much was the concentrate syringe? Over in my hood, it’s $65 (Surterra).
It’s all relative. Back in the 80’s sinsemilla was going for $10 a gram.
Cocaine will blow your brain, but the sinsemilla is irie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Dy95C7pPU
1980, indica, 10$/Gram
2020 Indica, 8.50-25$/Gram
But the weed today is so much better, both in terms of high for the buck and lack of stem, shake and seeds.
Indeed. I only get a couple seeds per year, whereas in the past, I could fill up a peanut butter jar with seeds (that I gleefully planted surreptitiously anywhere I found the opportunity).
In NYC, top-notch flower is $300 per ounce, pre-rolls are $15 (Tarantulas, pre-rolls coated in hash oil and kief, are $30), vape cartridges are $40, wax/shatter is about $60 per gram, brownies and rice cereal treats are $5.
Shatter here in MI seems to run ~ $25 – $85 a gram, with bulk discounts at quantities of 5 to 8 grams.
I used to wonder what happened to hash. Then I got the vape pen and shatter. Ohh…Myyyyyy………
Have you tried the inhalers yet? I just got one last week and it is AMAZING! I can use it right out in the open at work.
I0b9t, thanks! Intriguing, I’ve bookmarked it. I like the idea of metered hits.
$424 / once isn’t all that expensive.
Heh. I remember paying that for a quarter pound in the 70s.
If this stuff were to be legal-legal instead of fake legal, you could move that decimal over a space or two.
No kidding.
Yes. In Chicago suburbs in 1976, a “lid” (ounce) of “Mexican” pot was $15, while the higher quality “”Lumbo” (Columbian) went for $20. Although as said, potency was far lower then, and those ounces had a lot of stems, seeds and shake to clean out (usually done in the center of analbum cover of a double-album record).
No Stems
No Seeds
That you don’t neeeeeed!
Alcupolco Gold is
..pppppphhhhhhtttttt….
mmmbaddasss weeed……
A “lid?” Seriously? What are you, like eighty years old or something?
A lid is a hatful of demon weed, right?
Database With Sensitive Plastic Surgery Photos Exposed Online
Sign here to have pictures of your goods stored online for umm errrr research? Yes research that’s it.
In all seriousness what legitimate reason do they have for storing these images? Protection from potential malpractice lawsuits?
“No, it’s not what you think, it’s much worse. If you do not reveal the combination to me, we’ll give your daughter back….HER OLD NOSE!
Howdy. I wanted to do a humor warm-up before I started my weekly post submission.
[throat spray, “me-me-me-me” noises]
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Trump Suggests Clinton Should Identify as Trans-President
TOLEDO – At a rally Tuesday, President Trump spoke at length about his views of trans-genderism. Below is a partial transcript of his remarks.
“I keep hearing about this trans stuff. Well you know what folks? I support the trans. I am the most LGBT president ever. The most. It’s not even close, not even close. I’m so LGBT that I support *all* the trans stuff. Women want to be men and men want to be women and bleed out of their whatevers and Pocahontas wants to be Indian, great. Crooked Hillary wants to be President? Fine, she can be trans-President. See how is easy that was? Everybody’s happy now. But since she’s trans-President, she only gets trans-Secret Service. I
signed an executive order that her current Secret Service detail will start getting paid with trans-dollars. So things should sort themselves out there quickly. This trans stuff sure is great. All you gun owners should just have your A-15s identify as trans-squirt guns. I’ll sign an executive order for that today. Bing, bing, bong, bong, problem solved. I tell you what, this trans stuff can solve everything. Young people should just identify as trans-college graduates. It would save them a hell of a lot of time and money. And if they do go to college and get bad grades, they should just identify as trans-passing. Brexit? Just let The UK identify as trans-EU. And if those sons of bitches in the Senate want it badly enough, I will happily identify as trans-guilty. God bless you, God bless Ohio, and God bless America. Build the wall, drain the swamp, and make America great again! Outta my way Acosta, you shitdick fuckface! Melania, get me a diet Coke.”
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Oh, fiddlesticks. It looked all lined up when I clicked reply. What you see is what you get? Bullshit!
Ha, ha. WordPress is a cruel mistress.
My wife and I are not in the same state today. I’m considering finding a prie fixe menu for two and eating it all myself.
Prix fixe
Eh, Zombie Mike can fly direct to Tokyo and have a setto meal.
If you’re in different area codes it doesn’t count…
Same here, except Schrodinger’s Cat style, Simultaneously alive, and Dead
Trump is uniting our country in ways I never thought possible. Look at the Asians and Blacks coming together in an entrepreneurial effort!
Maybe next time they will work on the followup.
Friday Funbags promises pulchritudinous pillows of pleasure.
http://archive.is/HdUhM
Nice collection, but #5 looks especially fun. I’ll take her with a side of #30.
Lucky #13
“Mr. Chen’s parents had been told that their son had been quarantined”
https://dnyuz.com/2020/02/14/they-documented-the-coronavirus-crisis-in-wuhan-then-they-vanished/
Yeah. “Quarantined”.
STEVE SMITH QUARANTINE LOTS OF HIKERS, AND BY QUARANTINE, MEAN….
This is starting to echo “World War Z” in a most unpleasant fashion.
in a most unpleasant fashion
Because it makes you think of World War Z?
Oh, how I laughed:
musical moments from Seattle city council meetings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30C84DQKSh4
How Trump Got Elected, Exhibit 11B
I’m sure these people don’t think of themselves as crazy.
Michael Avenatti was convicted on all counts today in the Nike extortion case. I’m sure we’ll be seeing Trump tweet about it before long. Still has his trials to come in California for stealing from his clients.
The amount of schadenfreude on Lawyer Twitter is incredible.
Guys, just a reminder that there’s a GoFundMe active to help Yusef Drives a Kia out with the legal & funeral expenses related to his wife’s passing.
Many of us have donated already. However, the amount we’ve given only takes us about half-way.
I ask those of you who haven’t to give serious consideration to helping him out.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/bobs-farewell-to-wendy
Didn’t know that was running. Just threw in $50 (anonymously on GFM).
Here for you Yusuf (yes I know that’s not his real name but still).
Thanks for posting the link. All the condolences for Yusef in the world.
You know, you can put your nom du Glib in. Pseudonymous is better than anonymous, in this case.
Yeah, thought of that after I had closed the window.
Bob I cant swing anything financial but I will be back in Vegas tomorrow and if you want a hot meal let me know. Ill whip something up and get it to you.
I wasn’t sure what to say, but I wanted to say something.
Bob, you were a very lucky man to give and get so much love. We are here for you. Now and always.
I’ve never met you, but I consider you a close friend.
Tall Cans, buddy.
Done. Yusuf, I don’t know you personally, but I am truly sorry.
Thanks for the heads-up, I’ll throw my piece in when I get home.
Been off work again for over a month. Things are just way too tight at this end. It’s pretty wonderful what you guys are doing.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’m sure the overlap between these people who think that “nature” should be given legal rights and people who sneer at the idea that a corporation has 1A rights is nearly 100%.
Rousseau held that this third savage stage of human societal development was an optimum, between the extreme of the state of brute animals and animal-like “ape-men” on the one hand and the extreme of decadent civilized life on the other.
EDIT: The above is a quote from Wikipedia’s article on Rousseau. I was too ranty to cite it.
Everyone else uses their time machine to kill Hitler the first time, JJR is first on my intertemporal hit-list. This Rousseuvian view that moral progress peaked when everyone was equally poor is at the heart of modern Western Socialism and the reason why so many progressive causes (gender, race, ecology) are red on the inside. It is fabricated, utterly without substantiation and has become a just-so story in intelligensia.
I’ll grant you that it is complete hogwash that European primitives were something that we should be patterning our society on. But my article clearly states that we are talking about Native American elders! Those guys are totes awesome*! Clearly they are superior to Euro-elders because they never developed any of that icky capitalism or civilization here in North America like they did in Europe.
*There is a class of elders I do have tons of respect for. Usually they were complete hell raisers/bad asses/outlaws when they were younger. Then one day they decided they were sick of being in trouble all the time and get clean. These guys are also pretty good about throwing a lifeline to younger Indians who are also thinking of getting out of the lifestyle. And they are totes hardcorps about it. Backslide once and they cut you loose. No excuses. And the younger guys respect them because of their history of living the life when they were younger.
Uffda. Say what you will about giving nature legal rights, it is way less silly than these solid citizens of Seattle.
If I were a city councilperson in Seattle, anyone who stood up would have their property taxes doubled.
“Ilhan Omar’s husband discovered she was cheating on him with her chief fundraiser when he walked in on the lovers in pajamas – and now the congresswoman is paying ex $250,000 for his silence”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8004745/Ilhan-Omars-ex-discovered-cheating-walked-lovers-pajamas-D-C.html
Wait, why were they wearing pajamas?
Wait, why were they wearing pajamas?
Rule 34.
Next we’ll be hearing about how she shot an elephant in her pajamas.
I thought she was skinny…
And, of course, she also was shoveling hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions to her boyfriend’s company.
Is there anything about this bint that isn’t crooked?
Don’t forget that Ilhan Omar baby daddy fired from his Minneapolis City Council job to get more financial leverage on him.
I’ll have to go buy the Saturday edition of the local paper so I can read all the details in their hard hitting deep dive into this issue…..
It’s against her religion to be naked with a guy that’s not her husband, duh!
something something slit in a sheet…..
It was OK ’cause it was her husband’s jammies the dude was wearing. Its possible Ms lham had had a drop of the golden elixir and got the two fellers confused.
Because she’s a good Muslim and she didn’t want to reveal too much?
This story has it all: Campaign corruption, 38-year-old staffer divorces his 55-year-old wife to take up with Omar, Daily Mail relentless stalking to obtain photos, one such photo shows new paramour taking beer to Omar’s place, which pisses off the MN Somali population, payoffs to ex-spouses, primary challenges…
“Significantly one of her challengers, Leila Shukri Adan, 39, is Somali herself. She describes herself as a progressive Bernie Sanders supporter, ‘but to the right of Ilhan.’”
Speaking of Omar…..
Her Valentine is the best of a funny lot.
LOLOLOLOLOL
Yes.
So…. I’ve been wondering and speculating about what the DNC establishment was going to do. I mean, we all know that there is no way in hell they are gonna give Bernie the nomination. They were locked in on Biden, so it seemed. But he’s imploding. Impeachment fired Trump’s wad too soon on that one. So who? Mayor Pete?
Well, I think we may have the answer. Here in Florida the Billionaire has been in heavy rotation on TV for well over a month. It is 24/7 now. Almost no other political ads either, so it really stands out.
And today they announced a new poll. I heard it on the radio announced as “Bloomberg takes the lead in Florida”. They went on about Bloomberg for a bit, then said he was in first with 27% of respondents. Biden is in second, with 26%. They didn’t report a margin of error, but a google tells me there were 3,000 likely voters. So +/- 5%. So dead heat, not actually Bloomberg in the lead. But they reported it as Bloomberg surging – and also reported that Biden had a 46% lead in January. Of course, he hasn’t been running ads so far.
But there was another shoe that let the cat out of the bag. In the last 24 hours Bloomberg’s ads have changed. They used to feature Trump and only Trump, and Bloomberg is going to defeat Trump. Now, there’s a new voiceover.
Our voiceover actor? Barak Obama. Giving a personal testimonial to the greatness of the man, his work, and what he’ll do for the country.
So they are no longer on the sidelines. Apparently Bloomberg is the chosen one. Grab your popcorn, because this should be interesting.
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I believe that Obama audio is old stuff he said before, not anything new he did for Bloombug.
That was my impression.
Bloomy is trying to associate himself with Obama. Cheesy as fuck.
If that’s all it was, I would think Biden’s old pal and boss would come out and say something along those lines. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that.
No, it didn’t sound like newly recorded messages. But I doubt he’d risk it if Obama hadn’t given the OK. This way Obama still claims he has not endorsed anyone, while having endorsed someone.
Mini Mike is coming for your Big Gulp.
No one needs high capacity sodas.
/Mayors for Common Sense Soda Control
As long as they don’t come for my high capacity beers or high capacity porn streams.
Trump should do an ad “Tiny Mike is coming for your Grape Drink”.
..and menthols, while we’re at it
Lil’ Mikey is also busy inventing nonexistent Texas sayings:
Mike Bloomberg: “Now if I were from Texas, I might say Donald Trump is scared as a cat at the dog pound. But since I’m from New York, I put it this way. We’re scaring the living hell out of him, and we’re just starting right now.” pic.twitter.com/HmNwKuTPZL
— The Hill (@thehill)
Bloomberg is all hat, no cattle.
If Mike were from Texas he wouldn’t be in such a rush to ban handguns.
Also, fuck Mike Bloomberg.
Gun grabbing New Yorker sounds like a winning line. Where’s Pace?
So the fix is now in. That didn’t take long.
That’s my early supposition.
They were in the tank for Hillary in ’08 until the winds shifted and Obama got hot. And the party turned on her like a stingray on the Crocodile Hunter. (see, I can Texas better than Bloomberg)
They were luke-warm for Biden. They’ve been flirting with Mayor Pete, but not happy about it. So the Billionaire it is, I suppose.
I think they wanted Biden to be the front runner for the impeachment thing. Part of the sell was he was Trump’s “political enemy”.
Yeap. Old, White, Hetro, ex-Republican, Constitution hating, 1%’er who ordered cops to shake down black men in poor neighborhoods. Sounds like the perfect Democrat candidate!
Oh, God, I saw the new ads. It sounds like Obama’s literally phoning it in, on a train, going through a tunnel. Or maybe they just got some sound guy to piece together bits of audio.
Now that would be funny. Do an Obama endorsement of Trump, South Park “death of chef” style.
Dave’s not here man.
https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/windham-police-charge-man-with-slapping-teen-assaulting-trump-supporters/article_d045937f-f5f9-5b32-b02c-656da1b5513d.html
Let’s face it, he sure looks like he could be an Amish terrorist.
I find this equally appalling:
“My 8-year-old was holding a sign an hour before that,” Lewandowski told Fox News
The left isnt the only side to exploit kids. They just do it more.
Weekly post submission ideas
NRA Announces Politician Buy-Back Program
Sanders Distracts Biden with Room Full of Wigs
Florida Sues Iowa for Breaching Its Copyright on Screwing Up Elections
Remaining Democratic Candidates Form Giant Fighting Robot
Budget Watchdogs Slam Plan for Solid Gold Aircraft Carrier
Trump Says AOC Can Be President If She Sits in the Corner of the Oval Office
Army Private Identifies as General
Buttigieg Regrets Not Spending More Character Points on Charisma
Trump to Forgive $1 of Student Loan Debt for Each Brick Placed on Border Wall.
Space Force Struggles with Drill and Ceremony in Zero Gravity
You need to apply for a job at the Bee.
Yeah, those are good.
“Trump Says AOC Can Be President If She Sits in the Corner of the Oval Office”
This one is the winner for me!
She’s found days later, emaciated and dehydrated, behind a ficus. A clear trail could be seen along the base of the wall, multiple footprints and drag marks, around and around, were visible.
That poor ficus will have seen things… Too many things…
Every one of these is a winner.
On TV this morning was a commercial talking about Tom Steyer surging. That’s a phrase I never want to hear again.
Lol
I don’t even think his wife wants him to surge.
““A straight politician in a gay man’s body.” He’s straight because he isn’t a hard leftist. I kid you not.”
https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1228044496270712837
“The Queer Opposition to Pete Buttigieg, Explained
Buttigieg embodies the second kind of gay experience and the second kind of gay politics. In a beautiful essay published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Greta LaFleur, a professor of American studies at Yale, analyzed a photograph of Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, that appeared on the cover of Time magazine in May of last year. “This photo is about a lot of things,” LaFleur wrote. “But one of its defining features is its heterosexuality. It’s offering us the promise that our first gay first family might actually be a straight one.” Time had captioned the photo “First Family.” How can a family that consists of two men be heterosexual? LaFleur’s use of the term is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but she explains that the “unmistakable heraldry of ‘FIRST FAMILY,’ alongside the rest of the photograph—the tulips; the Chinos; the notably charming but insistently generic porch; the awkwardly minimal touching that invokes the most uncomfortable, unfamiliar, culturally-heterosexual embrace any of us have ever received—offers a vision of heterosexuality without straight people.” And without women.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-queer-opposition-to-pete-buttigieg-explained
Word salad is word salad.
I thought Lincoln was the first gay president. Just like Bill Clinton was the first black president.
Trump is the first woman President.
I thought it was “confirmed bachelor” Buchanan.
Do you have to be a retarded asshole to write at the New Yorker?
Not a requirement, but it helps.
No, they’ll train you.
Just smug.
Well, maybe if the photographer had gotten there earlier he’d have caught them rollerskating down the street in banana hammocks waving sparklers. Also, I get the impression there’s some projection and a little bit of jelly from Greta. What the hell is it with Gretas?
Who. Cares.
For a different kind of delusion, from the Twitter thread:
Yeah, sure. First, somebody would have to get standing. That’s going to be very difficult to do. Then they’d have to get the case appealed all the way up the chain. That’s going to be even more difficult to do. Then, finally, they’d have to get Chief Justice Squish to agree to overturn it. Not going to happen. In fact, I’d be surprised if they could get a majority even without Roberts.
The “worst” that could happen is more religious carve-outs for things like cake baking.
The “worst” that could happen is more religious carve-outs for things like cake baking.
Where’s Gary when you need him?
Who the hell names their baby boy “Chasten”? What the fuck did you think would happen?
“Chaz”
Chastity?
Seems like schools are either one extreme or the other. Either they call the cops for petty shit or the inmates run the asylum.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/02/14/san-francisco-middle-school-descends-lord-flies-environment/
The former superintendent there is current working the same magic in NYC.
Spreading incompetence, like herpes.
He’s competent at imposing toxic identity politics.
Huh.
There was a principal during the 1980s at an inner-city highschool here in Edmonton — big motherf*cker, no nonsense — who used to carry a baseball bat around the school with him every day. Disruptive, disrespectful students, drug dealers, wannabe pimps, didn’t matter. They straightened up and/or effed off or they got a taste of the bat. Even the police (who’d normally charge in that situation) wouldn’t touch him.
He almost single-handedly turned that school around, and it’s an inner-city magnet now for academics and media training.
We had one like that in our school. He never turned the place around but he maintained some semblance of order.
Well it’s not like those kids learn it at home or anything. *rolling eyes*
“Happy #NationalPizzaDay to everyone EXCEPT those who make pizza:
a) With cauliflower crust
b) With any topping from the ocean
c) With arugula
d) With white sauce
e) In a deep dish”
https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1226584523405545472
I’m no marine biologist, but I’m pretty sure anchovies are from the ocean.
And they don’t belong on pizza, so that doesn’t exactly disprove these claims.
^
I’ve some awesome Fruitti de Mare pizza is Tuscany. I would not trust any American pizza maker to make it.
I generally don’t like seafood anyway so there’s that.
“And they [anchovies] don’t belong on pizza…”
How can one man be SO wrong?
We’ll continue to investigate your wrongness until we figure it out.
This self-awareness is a good step on the road to recovery.
You know how fish sauce makes pad thai pad thai? Anchovies, for me, do the same thing on pizza. Salty umami.
Yeah but putting anchovies on pizza is like dumping a half-gallon of fish sauce into a noodle dish.
Traditionally, pizza marinara is made by tossing on a few anchovies after it comes out of the oven.
Local neopolitan pizza place makes a good pizza with arugula on it. Also a nice fig salad with the same.
b) With any topping from the ocean
Incorrect. So very, very incorrect.
Hell, I had arugula on my prosciutto pizza a couple nights ago.
I had a Mashed Potato, Bacon and Scallions pizza in Owensboro, KY once that was pretty damn good.
The cauliflower crusts can actually turn out pretty well, particularly with white pizzas.
I had a prosciutto and pineapple pizza the other day that was . . . sublime. The prosciutto had crisped up in the oven, and the pineapple was partially caramelized. Got-DAMN but it was good!
I would try that.
Henrico
@henricehrenblad
Feb 9
Lucky anchovies come from cans.
Mmmm… cheese curds.
OK we agree on that.
Fun stuff,
Grandson #2 is having his 9th Birthday and party Tomorrow, and with our loss, Destine( my daughter) and I decided to have it anyway, the kids would wonder what the heck happened.
Gson is Autistic, but a very sweet young man, and He asked about Bob the Builder.25 or so years ago, someone Bought Wendy and I a pair of talking Dolls,
Bob the Builder,
and his assistant Wendy,
He remembered? Wow, so he’s getting them, as well as a Monitor of his own, for his Birthday, and some video games of course.
Those are the gifts and memories that last. That’s an awesome birthday gift.
It’s just a bit dusty in here. Or allergies… Yeah, that’s it.
It’s good your grandson will get those dolls.
they are kind of stuffed, and they still talk, but its sweet he remembered, i was considering going to be with my Sister in Michigan, but no,
I’m needed here,
/Thank God
I agree, staying there and being with your grandkids is the right thing. They’ll have a rough time, but you’re there which will help.
They love the shit out of me, I’m Silly, they laugh, it’s Wonderful….
I miss my wife………..
Interesting proposal.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/14/white-house-considering-tax-incentive-for-more-americans-to-buy-stocks.html
No. Just lower taxes across the board.
Seriously.
Shout out to Hayek! shout out to all the Glibs!
Hope it helps brah.
Seconded.
You’ll heal, it will just take time.
I have a ways to go, but I’m going to mourn for a bit, a few days or so, then on to figuring out what to keep, relatives, it’ pretty complicated,
But my friends here, you have lifted the burden of How can I pay for Burning her, Ashes will be dispersed, She is at peace,
“Ashes will be dispersed”
Check the wind first. /Walter
I’m sorry for your loss Bob. You are a good nut.
I did Laugh! thanks Nick!
We laugh together, we mourn alone.
I am amazed at your 24 hour turn around, Pardner.
You done good
*raises glass of bourbon*
Has anyone seen JoJo Rabbit? Considering watching it tonight, but if it’s a Wes Anderson style knockoff I’m not interested.
I watched it two days ago on a flight. It had moments and the use of AH was a twist that didn’t always work. It is very Wes Anderson-esque. I am very wary about recommending it because I did not enjoy it.
“Just completed SEVEN marathons on SEVEN CONTINENTS in 81 hours, 38 minutes and 46 seconds! Ready to sleep and take a break from running for at least a week!”
https://twitter.com/kvogt/status/1228067025135603713
Damn.
Cocaine is a hellofa drug?
Hang on to your hats, everyone: Bill De Blasio feels the Bern!
Take your time.
You guys need to put those invisible fence dog collars on your mayors. They keep escaping the yard.
Sometimes fences are built to keep people out.
Tall fences and wide gates when Straff’s avatar is involved.
Quit looking at my butt! *Peeks back over shoulder*
*sigh* it was ever thus…
VDay dinner post-attorney meeting: Sams Club hotdogs. $3. Woo hoo.
Do you feel better?
Nah. If it were just the bk, I’d be all, “Meh, we were stupid and we deserve the shame.” Combined with our kid issues, though, I’m kind of a wreck.
I can speak to finances, I can’t speak to parenting.
Lots of tension in the house between everybody.
Sorry to hear, Mojo. For us it will be leftovers and Wifey editing her morning photo shoot, Festus Glibbing and not much else. You’ll feel better going forward after that bandage got torn off today.
Sorry.
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Is anyone familiar enough with Audacity to tell me how to merge multiple Label tracks? Everyone that turns up in a search seems to care about audio tracks.
Did you check the thermostat?
It’s working as far as I can tell.
Ok….
First…. What’s a label track?
#NotHelpful
It’s a track where you put labels so you can do all sorts of things with the information stored in the audio tracks.
Labeling gloves are shot?
Oh the labels are there, the problem is they’re on more than one track, and export multiple only reads the first label track.
*manually moving ninety labels to another track is a bit of a chore.
You’re a good sport, UCS.
Isn’t this the sort of thing you make a quick Python script to do?
/not a coder
It’s the sort of thing that should be three clicks in the application.
Why would you want all of the labels from all of the tracks if you are collapsing down to a single track? Wouldn’t you want to label that track as its own thing?
Or did I once again totally miss something?
You missed something.
I get an audiobook from audible. I want to play it on a device that isn’t slaved to amazon. I convert it to mp3, but it’s one giant file. To easily split to multiple smaller files, I load the one giant file into audacity and create labels at every half hour, then do an ‘export multiple’ which splits it at the labels into smaller files.
But… the “regular interval labels” tool has some odd problem where it won’t go past 14 hours at a time. It also creates a brand new label track for all the labels it creates for each run.
So when the audiobook is say, 42 hours long, I get over ninety labels on three separate tracks that need to be on one track to do a clean export.
There are workarounds, but this should be something easy to do.
*I forget the exact numbers.
Oh….
So you don’t actually need labels. What you need is something like chapter breaks for your audio books.
So. I asked google.
https://www.epubor.com/split-audiobook-into-chapters.html#sma
It seems this is a common issue. But these folks address it different. They split the big file into individual files for chapters and leave it like that. Seems a bit of a pain.
There are instructions for audible and audacity though. It seems there should be a metadata that includes markers for all chapters, like there is for video.
Ok, this seems to be the tool designed for the job
http://id3v2-chap-tool.sourceforge.net/
Puts chapter markers into MP3 file metadata.
And this seems to be a source for how to do things the right way for audio books: https://7labs.io/tips-tricks/create-audiobook-from-mp3.html
Let’s keep the fundraising for Bob going:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/bobs-farewell-to-wendy
Heh. According to GoFundMe, my new handle’s “But Enough.” If only they’d tacked an exclamation mark onto the end of that . . .
There are some people in my FB timeline who have/want to donate (one only has Paypal and GFM doesn’t have a Paypal option). They don’t know Bob from Adam, but they are good people. Lots and lots of good folks out there.
It’s a bug. Refresh the page to see your whole name.
That’s not how you fix it. Keep hitting the “Donate” button.
I see what you did there.
I think I fixed that ugly bug I was working on last night.
“I know it is in this area. No, that’s not it. That’s not it either. It has to be in this area. Nope, nope. OOOohhhh… that’s it. I knew I was in the right area.”
These euphemisms.
I’m out for some dancing. See you all later!
“The DEGMan! Cutting a rug!”
“I’m out for some dancing.”
Speaking of euphamisms:
“Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”
Swing dancing. More like a topsy turvy expression of wanting to ride a rollercoaster/ferris wheel but having none available.
I’ve always envied the dancers. I’m more free-form wherein someone gets their drink spilled and I crash to the floor, hopefully before I catch my date with an errant elbow. Yeah, pretty White.
Stayed late at work today to try to fix a new Dell Win10 machine that apparently bricked itself when trying to install Win updates.
Boot up goes straight to “Starting Automatic Repair” then there’s no option that will break that loop, tried everything. Eventually went to command prompt, copied a few files to USB drive, then went to “Reset this PC”, which is akin to a fresh windows install, I guess. Then, even that spit out an error “There was a error resetting this PC…” wow. Great work Win10, so glad I had to ditch Win7.
Going into work tomorrow to ship it back to the vendor we bought it from, then they can complete the dell warranty process. Fun with computers!
If they’d released Winodws 9, we might have had a good product. Maybe Win 11.
In any case, I will most certainly be checking all the rest of my work PCs tomorrow to ensure they have system restore enabled. That was one option I imagine could have helped me, had it been enabled.
You still bitching about 10 because of the settings your employer chooses to enable?
Because the interface is crappy, inconsistant, and the whole thing runs slower, even with better hardware. That’s before we get into the telemetry debate and the frequently destructive patches, etc…
You appear to be using a different Windows 10 than me.
Check the logo, maybe you got XP or Vista.
Vista was an absolute shit show.
I guess I use it differently. I haven’t really run into any major issues with Windows 10. Now windows Vista was a pain in the ass.
#metoo
Why would she be?
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/7391432/1564621664/1080×360
Because President Warren is threatening to steal her stolen wealth?
That’s her Injun name.
Forgot the red banners in the background. CPRM could make something of that.
I hate everyone in this story, especially the Libyan comedian grants asylum who is filing a false arrest lawsuit because he was detained for 20 whole minutes. Asshole is damn lucky he’s a guest in this country, instead of having a bayonet shoved up his ass.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/greyhound-doesnt-have-to-let-border-patrol-agents-on-buses-memo-confirms.html
We both got dead threaded by Winston’s mom. I kinda liked it.
“Dead-threaded” by Winston’s Mom… Hard pass!
Dammit. Maybe repost on the other side.
More hate, except for the felon
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/02/cops-can-seize-oregon-womans-354k-home-following-meth-dealing-conviction-jury-rules.html
She pleads guilty to $10k worth of meth. Somehow this entitles the government to steal $400,000 of the house and cashiers’ checks. Horse thieves, and that includes the jury blessing this theft, used to be strung up. Go fuck yourself Preet.
Holy everloving shit!
They were specifically tasked to find on the facts of “proportionate” and found nearly half a million to be “proportionate” for a $10k sale? And this, on top of 6 years in jail?
Screw every one of them in the neck.
No, scratch that. Oregon is the state that has the law that allows this. So screw every single person of voting age in Oregon, in the neck. You ass-wipes need to get your heads right and fix this crap.
And so do the rest of us. It seemed like a decent idea back in the 80’s when big time drug dealers were getting caught on small potatoes charges and getting out in a couple of years, but retiring to their multi-million dollar mansions on South Beach that were entirely paid for by the illegal drug trade. After 30 years of watching immigrant farm workers having their life savings stolen by the state as they pass through on their way home…. yeah… F that.
Kittah, in my lap, she’s 20 years old, and still killing mice, Good Kittah,