*looks around* *sees corporate hangout*
Oh my goodness they’re letting me do links!
Something different tonight. Not news. Oh no. I don’t do news. I do Deep Thoughts.
An analysis of what went wrong during the 1970s Kansas City School District desegregation experiment by judicial fiat that bankrupted almost every other school district in the state while we got maritime law libraries in a high school. The KCSD is still not accredited, nor is St Louis’s. They’re mired in politics and graft by the same kind of people who turned Detroit into a shithole.
The concept of high born and low born fascinates me. This guy’s nuts. I used to follow him, but I faded away because time and busyness and all.
I’ve linked this before in comments, but I will share again. Here’s to us, baby busters!
The arts and money. Left-Eye breaks it down on VH-1 when that was a thing and Harlan Ellison is here to tell you to pay up or fuck off.
Speaking of art that paid … rape by engraved invitation.
A vastly underrated voice but criminitly the chick is also utterly bonkers.
“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat.
You lost control of your life,
so you bought sweatpants.”
—Karl Lagerfeld
Probably sliding safely into second.
*sniffs around new thread*
*shrugs*
*settles in to read the links*
A new moderator? Was is a coup? Huzzah to our new overlady!
Plus the CATO paper looks interesting.
Sadly, no. *hangs head*
My coup attempt failed.
?
It might have been interesting if at the end the judge had been removed from the bench, tarred and feathered.
Alas, such was not his fate. He got to retire, enjoy his pension and die in peace.
Cato paper? Does it show that 90% of Americans are libertarian and hate paulistas?
No, it says Hellenism is degenerate and not to adopt Greek customs.
It also says Utica is great for a short vacation.
Belch–no steamed hams.
There’s nothing funny about your uvula.
Well….
I’ve actually short-vacationed in Utica. Well, my older bro was student teaching there and I visited him so… yeah. Utica.
Left-Eye breaks it down on VH-1
Relevant
Re-posting, ’cause it’s so awesome..
That was great. I’m surprised it doesn’t have a million views already.
Huh. I’m a “baby buster”. I never felt affiliated with the traditional bay boomer generation. I feel more like a Gen X. I don’t think I had heard of the baby buster breakout of generations before.
I was born in 68, the lowest birth rate year in decades.
I was born in ……FUCK OFF SLAVER! NOT YOUR BUSINESS!
Am I being detained ?
I think “baby buster” IS Gen X?
Yes and no.
The years of what we are now calling GenX start earlier (1960) and end quite a bit earlier (I forgot and I’m not going to go read my own link).
So “baby bust” and “GenX” have a big overlap but their starting and ending dates are wider apart.
I usually recall Gen X starting around ’65.
I could be biased because I have three brothers born between ’61 and ’63 and in my mind they are NOT Gen X. (I’m ’69.)
I’m like, totally, in Gen X.
Whatever.
Meh.
*puts on flannel shirt and flops back down on couch*
You mean, like, Generation X ?
(William Broad was quite young then)
Refusing to read your own link! That’s how you Glib.
Like @Annoyed Nomad, I don’t feel an affinity with Boomers, but I also don’t feel much of an affinity with younger GenXers. I don’t know why. It’s like baby bust is this tiny little island of time, basically 1960 to 1974 or thereabouts.
It says ’68.
60-70 is my timeline, me in 63, sister, cousins and Wife, 68-70
Amused that the tail-end boomers are so desperate to not be boomers. Though I suppose if your parents weren’t Greatest Generation (long before the term was invented) maybe you aren’t.
No, “buster”/ early GenXs parents are the ones born just as their fathers were going off to fight in WWII.
Thanks for the lynx Mo. I enjoyed the high/low family thing and the Left Eye description of how money gets taken until you have little left. A few years back we had our own experience of that happening. I found a distressed house that hadn’t been occupied in years and the woman who owned it was not interested in traveling to look after a wreck anymore. We got it for a good price. The wife and I took out an equity loan on our house to buy it, but we couldn’t afford to pay the mortgage and fix it up so my parents split it with us. We spent 3 months of so everyday over there fixing it up after working our other business as well. When we did the math it made more sense to hold on to it for at least a year do to capital gains taxes. We kept our construction costs low by doing a lot ourselves and subbing out a couple things, it was about 35k in materials and subs. We sold it for 375k more than we bought it, which was great. But after splitting it two ways with my parents and then all the associated taxes, fees, costs we got less than 65. Which is great, but really shows you how taxes eat your profit. We used most of that to pay off the debt we had from remodeling our own old house we bought.
I like Wendy McElroy and I will read that sometime – but not now 🙂
Same here.
I haven’t seen her stuff in quite a while.
Meh, I was just throwing out some links of my pet interests I thought y’all would find interesting. None of it’s light reading, either, so go at your own leisure.
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None of it’s light reading, either
Truth there.
But it’s good. And, hey, you’re stuck at home, might as well read something enlightening.
I am not stuck at home, they just won’t let me go to work.
Well, read something enlightening anyway.
Don’t tell me what to do!
Libertarians, sigh.
I also like Wendy. Hers is a website I check almost daily.
it was a free weekend for ‘theHunter: Call of the Wild”, so I figured I’d try it out.
As far as I can tell 90% of the game is walking along searching for any sign of the animal you’re hunting; 8% following tracks that lead nowhere; 0.1% shooting; and 1.9% chasing a wounded animal because the game’s unsteady hands simulator threw the aim off and it was hit in the rump.
I think that’s reasonably accurate
Since we sit in a stand its more like 90 % sitting, with freezing as part of that. 0.5 % shooting, 10 % dressing out the deer, 10-15 % dragging the deer back to where you can load it, 25% recounting the story to your bored friends. YMMV but the math is pretty accurate.
I didn’t have the patience to sit in a stand in a video game. It’s an option, but I forewent it so far.
Apparently the best way to find deer is to hunt Coyote, becayse I can’t find the damn coyotes, but there’s now more deer than I care to chase. (they were noticably absent with ample coyotes when I was after deer)
*barely restrained profanity*
I finally found a coyote track, followed it halfway across the map and just lost it. No more tracks, no more signs, no Coyote.
he’s a wily one.
+1 Acme Track Coverer
+1 GT: SUPER-Genius
Check any nearby ravines. Or so I’ve been told…
“Oh my goodness they’re letting me do links!”
This is how they break you in. Like prom night.
News that’s too local.
Oh, those wacky (PubSec union) firemen!
Oh….TW- autoplay.
The breakfast in the picture on the front page looks good.
Hell yeah breakfast!
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile; Continental Breakfast https://youtu.be/pYHfXFyhd9g
Live on KEXP
Huh, I’m still a Generation X
Mojeaux links! Ass Wednesday!
http://archive.li/2eRoM
Did you wait 30 minutes? No, you only waited 20, disrespectful. Mojeaux shouldn’t get only 2/3 of a wait for your off topic links compared to the men. Jerk.
73%, I think
/girls cant math amirite?
MISOGYNY!
THANK YOU!!!!
I noticed the time stamp, Q. Oh yes I did.
[golf clap]
I guess I need to start being more disrespectful of the male-links.
That could be the wrong take away.
Or not.
Whatever.
HM and the anime of the dude in love with the fish.
I think that covers it.
Are..are you whining? Really?
*snort*
I had to do a double take on #6 because it looked like the picture was taken at my gym.
I’ll enjoy #3, #13, #22, and #31.
Going to travel out of my house tomorrow for the first time in a week so I can go to the dispensary. It’s an essential business and I need my medicine.
I want work-from-home to go on forever.
I’ve been out every single day. You’re not Libertarianing properly.
I’ve been out, but just to walk my dog. I have plenty of food and otherwise have nowhere to go and I don’t like anyone except the people in my own house.
Not gonna lie – I’m a little freaked out here in NYC. I haven’t left the house since Sunday and have no intention to until probably the weekend – depends on what I run out of first. It looks like milk. I don’t like black coffee so that might be what gets me out of the house.
I got a little weird at the UPS store today. I didn’t know how to social distance properly in a more confined space.
I would be a little freaked out in NYC too. But then again I get a little freaked out in large cities and other crowded places when things are not in freakout mode.
Being in NYC would terrify me right now. South Florida is one of the worst hit areas but we’re a long way off from that.
#metoo
Granted, I had reason to.
What I’m finding the most sad about the current situation is myself. The only real discernable difference so far in my day to day life is less traffic and shorter lines.
It’s been great.
“ It’s been great.”
AS MILLIONS die in the streets!? YOU MONSTER!!1!1!
*Goes back to free-loading and watching Tik-Tok videos*
The less traffic thing peaked last week. It’s been a steady increase since, though still below “normal”.
Slow ass people in the left lane are coming back daily. Grrrrrr….
I’ve noticed there is a lot less laundry needing to be done at my house.
My submission- Basia!
AKA Barbara Stanisława Trzetrzelewska
Man, I loved that woman back in the late 80s – early 90s. Fabulous voice.
“London Warsaw New York” was the first album of hers I owned. Did I mention her fabulous voice?
thicc, too
Now? Yeah. Not back then.
The glories of youth.
Oh, dear…..poor lady. I would legit think I was near a Wal-Mart if I saw her in an adjacent car.
The homepage links pic instantly reminded me of this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HrIeP798hiQ
Kennedy Center tweets about thanking Congress for the $25M in pork they just received. The replies are uhhh… not very supportive lol
The Kennedy Center
@kencen
A Message from the Kennedy Center Regarding the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
https://twitter.com/kencen/status/1242946870382559234?s=20
That’s a bad look…..
The replies are beautiful.
What’s funny about the Cato article is that it’s twenty plus years old and little has changed. The disaster that is the KCSD also has unintentionally, I think, created it’s own bizarre form of segregation through incompetence. If you’re a kid with healthy, moderately stable and productive parents, you move to the suburbs or the country before you reach high school. If you’re a kid with upper middle class to wealthy parents, or are an exception athlete, you go to private school when you enter high school age. It’s mostly the lower-middle class, working poor, and layabout’s kids who are unable to escape that system. There’s exceptions, of course.
Not sure I really had a point, just throwing that out there.
No, you’re right and the fact that nothing has changed IS the point.
I’d love to live in the city (Mr. Mojeaux is OHELLNO!), but the school district–no. We can’t afford Pembroke.
Holy, misthread, Batman. Ha!
Comments are good. Much schad.
The Kennedy Center has been a DNC circle jerk for decades now. They award themselves honors and then use it to promote their own reputations.
That’s a firestorm. A beautiful, beautiful firestorm of vitriol.
Unfortunately, it won’t translate into any kind of political introspection. It’s a firestorm that burns too fast.
Echo buster. I don’t think that name will catch on. ’90s kid’ is familiar but it seems silly now as we are 20-30 years old.
Ecto Cooler or bust!
^Never had it, but, I know he’s correct on this.
That is a very clean table.
Song for the times.
True to expectations, my employer is going out of his way to make sure I don’t get hurt by our government mandated shutdown ?.
I may end up ahead of where I should have been without the CV. And I promise to spend any extra funds on Sean’s Glib Army equipment. ?
Saw this coming….
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/nevada-gets-an-a-for-social-distancing-1990839/
Italy’s the winner. They all stay 6 feet underground away from each other.
Ouch.
That’s cold, d00d.
The dead usually are.
*golf clap*
You make me laugh! Thanks.
My county got an F.
The way they measure seems to penalize rural areas or areas where people were already pretty distant.
Nicely done, Mojeaux!
Thank you!
+1
Yeah. I like your style. Gonna save the reading material for when I’m less buzzed.
By the way, those music links–there are 3 of them.
Is this to be an empathy test?
Well, are you a replicant, or, a lesbian?
/asking for a, uh….and, you know–keeping an aquatic….for, uh….
These links are like a reading assignment.
We expect your essays on each by Friday.
Fuck you, pay me!
Better song for the times.
Now THAT’S a Doors fan.
“Warden, Warden, Warden
Wont’t you break your lock and key”
Brings back memories of being on the wrestling bus, spittin’, tryin’ to make weight.
I almost believed that I was the Lizard King
And that I could do anything.
Sadly, time has worn me down, I’m just trying to survive until I have grand kids.
(listened to a lot of doors during high school)
The Doors are the only group over my life that I like every single thing that they recorded. Can’t say that about any other group.
I can’t even with that stupid fucking meme.
I just assume you can’t even with anything since all your avatars are flipping the bird.
Well, rubbing it in to 49ers fans almost 2 months after the fact is impressive.
Also, thanks for noticing the avatar theme!
“Also, thanks for noticing the avatar theme!”
I can’t even. It’s like you think you’re subtle, or something.
Also, cool links. I’m still exploring them.
Thanks! ?
MikeS thinks Mojo’s links are a wonderland.
That’s wondAland.
In keeping with your theme, here’s another music link that you might appreciate.
https://youtu.be/wL7qdqcTjL8
I love you forever and ever and ever.
It’s a personal favorite album of mine. Not something I would have guessed I would like if you had told me upfront what it was.
Reminds me of this. If I’ve given you this link before, forgive me.
Vanessa Daou has the kind of chick voice I really dig, alto, smoky without being scratchy.
Well, that makes me want to link to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpe_KHDEfgw
Which makes me just want to link to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hDJFuR9-8Y
Reading the McElroy article now…
Consider a previously described scene of sexual ‘violence’ in Atlas Shrugged, between Dagny and Rearden: “She found herself; in terror, twisting her body to resist, and, in exultation, twisting her arms around him” (Rand [19571 1985, 600). Here, Dagny implicitly expresses consent by embracing Rearden’s sexual attack.
Sounds a little like “they let you grab them by the pussy”.
I’m whatever generation is old enough to remember when Ben Affleck had dolphin teeth.
The 4channers?
Its nice to see a woman’s touch on the Glibatarium, Mojeaux. Lends both credibility and civility to what otherwise could be a chaotic and raucous frat party. You and SP and the other ladies bring dignity to our lives that some of us so urgently need.
What ladies? There are no libertarian women.
Right?!
Thanks, 4×20.
I don’t think I’ve told you how much your steady wisdom and observations sooth my mind and soul.
Fine links, m’lady.
Thank you! Just want to share some of my pet interests.
I need to find the link on a girl who sneaked into Pripyat with a Geiger counter and camped out.
There was a book, a best-seller in Canada during the mid-to-late 90s, called “Boom, Bust and Echo” written by David K. Foot, a Canadian demographer; he ended the Boomers birth-year at 1964, but didn’t believe that was a “cultural” cut-off date.
The spousal unit and I are both “Boomers” by birth-year, but neither of us identify with the Boomers at all, because none of our experiences in primary or secondary school, University, or work-life after University match up with those of the “typical” Boomer. We were “Busters” all the way, and after the Boomers sucked all the oxygen out of the room, we fought our way to where we are now in ways my two older brothers never really grokked. Talking to either of them about the lack of opportunities we faced, along with the enhanced requirements we faced in the marketplace for qualifications well in excess of what we should have needed to get started in life, is an exercise in frustration.
I haven’t had to explain this to anybody but my kids, but I feel the pain.
And I’m willing to bet that your kids won’t “get” it for a fairly long time, either.
Hopefully they won’t have to.
College is a non-starter for XX. Unless she’s STEM-bound, I’m not interested in putting her through the misery and I’m not going to subsidize a non-STEM major. She’s going to trade school and she’s doing very well at Walmart and I am not going to sneer at a career with Walmart.
XY will likely work until he can buy a mower and a truck and then get back to his lawnmowing business. He has expressed interest in going to college for landscape design, which I support wholeheartedly. Now whether I can help support him financially (as in, the only thing I CAN do is let him live at home for free), well, that remains to be seen how his behavior does or does not improve.
All XX’s friends are going to college. They are stressing because they KNOW they’re going into a shit-ton of debt to do it, but their parents are insisting. Meanwhile, there’s XX giving them the side-eye because to her, doing that’s a bit stupid.
Smart girl.
Seconded.
How old is your son? I think I seen you mention before that he does lawn mowing on the side.
I’ve been doing this kind of work for 33 years, so if you ever have questions or if he ever wants any advise, let me know. I started working at really nice gold courses when I was 16 and did golf course management for 10 years. I started a landscaping and lawn care business after that and have been doing it for 23 years.
Working on a golf course through HS was a great job. Pay sucked and hard work, but I loved it. It’s a great way to get some experience and sometimes they’ll start hiring at 15-16 depending on state law.
And, I hope that you take these experiences and understand the plight of millennials/GenZ – they are literally paying for the Boomers.
Don’t I know it. I’ve already told my favourite Millenial niece and her husband that the best thing that could happen for their generation is for most of the Boomers to die off, quickly and without fanfare.
that’s what sucks about the quarantine. ..
I’m finding the early-to-mid career credentialing in my field and the advanced degree requirement to be the road block for a lot of my peers my age and experience. Many of them want to move on to bigger ‘better’ jobs but the hiring committees won’t even look at someone without a masters or xyz industry credentials. These are talented people who looked at the cost of taking two years off to attend school full-time or slogging through part time while having a day job and said, “Nah, fuck this. Not a lot to learn in the courses that I won’t learn on the job”. But hey, nobody ever got fired for buying from IBM.
Actually, we had a CTO that got fired for directing purchasing to IBM, when he failed to disclose he also owana heap of IBM stock from his previous career with that company.
*owned
Well, okay, make that ALMOST nobody ever got fired for buying from IBM.
Did he at least get fined? Ain’t no bureaucrat going to jail for that.
“Left to pursue other opportunites”
If you use the word grok you are a boomer.
If you’re deriving meaning from how you think your elected officials feel about you, you belong in a padded cell.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/opinion/coronavirus-trump-economy.html
When you don’t have a God, but still desperately want one…
Everyone has a God. Not everyone thinks he’s a 2000 year old Jewish carpenter, but everyone has a god.
It’s a good thing that they’re too stupid to be self-aware. If they understood how pathetic they were, they would have to kill themselves.
How about none of the above?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/25/will_trump_become_the_new_hoover_or_roosevelt_142753.html
Listening to Vangelis right now. Blade Runner soundtrack.
Still beats most of the crap these days.
Had that soundtrack on cassette back in the day. Great ‘track. Wish I had it on CD, actually.
It holds up very well.
How about Terminator?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIRQQjVYQ78
I love that theme.
Vangelis and space. Conquest of Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zbQnKvwaBg&t=125s
or from the original Cosmos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYRtwjFnjgM
*squee*
I can’t find it, but Tangerine Dream scored the same footage in a movie I love. They had to use a different narrator for rights reasons.
???
My favorite soundtracks are – Last of the Mohicans, Barry Lyndon, and Once Upon a Time in the West.
I suppose that says something about me?
Not “Thief?”
Actually drawing a blank
So’s Crusty.
Tangerine Dream
I’m more of a soil festivities kind of guy.
The great Joe Bob Briggs on Lifetime movies
Everything he says is absolutely correct. The difference between the older and newer movies are night and day.
I will take your word for it!
They’re good movies if you accept them for what they are. Two hours long, some good looking broads, ridiculous plot lines and most importantly – no moralizing or lecturing.
I know! I’m just twistin’ nips, babe.
I liked the movie where the MILF-esque substitute teacher slept with a teen boy on the baseball team and then ran him over in a fit of rage and framed his girlfriend.
Heh, that was good.
+1 “Multiple aardvarking”
Benadryl kicking in…..
Believe it or not, New Jersey used to be one of the lowest tax states in the country as recently as the 70s. What really got the tax and spend game going was a similar scheme for the Newark school system. The NJ Supreme Court hijacked the new income tax that was passed to lower everyone’s property tax and poured it all into “Abbott Districts” like Newark and Camden. Results – the most expensive terrible schools in the country, the rest of the state has some of the highest property taxes in the country on top of our income tax.
Ball is in your court, boomers
“Boomers”? May be in their socks…
Ah, the boomers. So much to hate. Born from ’46 to ’64. One uniform collection of people who act in unison to fulfill a common vision.
Link said 40-57, which is the dumbest definition of the baby boom ever. It is literally a post war event, starting it pre-war is dumb.
40-57 would also skip the peak of the boom which kinda loses the meaning of the name
When I was a young lad, people talked about the baby boom which started after the war, peaked sometime in mid-50s, and ended in the early 60s. The “boom” was defined by the number of births — that’s it.
The early boomers hit adulthood as Vietnam was picking up. They rebelled, became hippies, and defined a counter culture. This cohort, born in the 40s and maybe early 50s, became the face of the baby boomers. And the poor souls born on the declining side of the boom had no cultural connection to that cohort, but we’ve been tied to them ever since.
People have been using “generations” as a short hand for cultural cohort for the last 50 years or so. People move the boundaries of Boomers, GenXers, Millienials, and Zoomers to achieve what ever definition they need exult or disparage a given generation.
I am a boomer, born just past the peak, and I generally hold the hippy-dippy first-half boomers in contempt. My kid brother, born in the last year of the boom, has almost no cultural connection to me, let alone the fuckers who started the boom.
I am pretty much tired of the whole topic by now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom#/media/File:US_Birth_Rates.svg
Wikipedia says the boom is 1941 to 1964. The US Census Bureau defines it to be 1946 to 1964.
According to the figure, 1940 to 1957 isn’t as stupid as it first sounds.
Shaved the beard I have been sporting for the past 3 years…its weird. Also now I look like my grandpa.
I did that once – scared the children!
I broke both my arms about 13 years ago. My wife (bless her heart) spoon-fed me, but she didn’t shave me. When my beard grew out, she loved it. I have warn it since, although I would prefer to be clean-shaven.
Good job Mo.
Too much good stuff in the links for quick snarking.
I did see this in the intro to the KC school article.
“The money bought higher teachers’ salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic‐sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25‐acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal.”
Looks like they had a brainstorming session on “What stupid stuff could we spent money on if we had lots and lots of it.” and all the stickie notes were accepted.
is your favourite moment from the Bible?
The true human hero of the Christian story is Joshua.
Break the wall down!
Mary
Shameless self-promotion
I know Magdalene wasn’t a whore. I was playing with the myth.
I thought you would be more into this literally true story.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A30-38&version=KJV
Better version
https://youtu.be/pywGKaNMAaU
Ezekiel 23:20 “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”
Seems legit
It’s nice to see STEVE SMITH make appearances in the classics.
This is just….I can’t even, right now.
Francisco deviates from Roark and Galt in one big way:
“Don’t you want to see me crawling before you? Tell me what form of it you’d like and I’ll submit.”
Nice paradox.
And that Ayn article is one hell of a slog, but worth it. The idea that consent can be obtained solely through understanding the inner thoughts of a woman is terrifying. Gimme a wink or a “iiiyada” (nooo) that is pregnant with some sort of “Go for it, Big Boy”.
We had BLTEs for dinner tonight. Yum.
Bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, and? I don’t know E
Entemann’s coffee cake?
I think I might have to make coffee cake in the morning.
Hey sailor.
Egg. Fried egg. Also, mayo, salt, and pepper.
He listed the egg last.
My God.
Well if I called it a BELT, no one would know what I was talking about.
that’s because they are Midwest trash unworthy of being flyed over
I’d belt one of those down.
Spaghetti carbonara take II – considerable improvement over last time.
commodious spittoon on March 25, 2020 at 9:09 pm
Mmm… carbonara.
Weeeeeeeeeird.
I used angel hair, though.
H/T to Suth for the idea of a cherry tomato topping – pairs brilliantly.
PS. no cream. Problem last time is I didn’t reserve the bacon fat for mixing.
No cream. I wasn’t sure about the rawish egg thing the first time I tried it, no so much for salmonella but because I imagined mucousy pasta the way soft-boiled eggs sometimes turn out. But then and now it turned out fine. I’ll try cherry tomatoes next time. I added mushrooms to cook with the bacon but I wish I’d fried em down and crisped them.
Burn.
https://strategypage.com/on_point/20200324224015.aspx
We should call it the communist virus, or for our leftie friends, the Democratic Socialist virus.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8147153/A-dachshund-happy-owners-home-sprained-tail-wagging-much.html
Aww, that’s sweet. I think my cat can’t wait until I go back to work.
Mmm… carbonara.
Today is the 4-year anniversary of the film “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” What do you got?
GO!
Memory loss?
Never heard of it.
Today is the 4-year anniversary of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman debut.
Ooooh, that’s good!
A $1,200 check addressed to you arrives in your mailbox tomorrow. The memo line is “spend it.”
What do you buy?
I’m not getting a check, but I’d buy new doors.
PRETEND YOU ARE IT IS PRETEND FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE
True. Let me guess what she would’ve bought. New doors.
Oh, BULLSHIT!!! He cheated!
Who’s it from? It is just my own money coming back to me?
Rent
^this
I’ll pretend:
https://www.subzero-wolf.com/store/wolf-gourmet-countertop-appliances/elite-countertop-oven
So, a …. toaster oven?
No – RIF.
$1,200
Toilet paper.
You’re only getting a couple of rolls for that.
Just paid a stack of cash to have ribs, potato salad, chicken, beans and cornbread delivered. I feel like this check from heaven won’t even pay for my food/beer costs of hibernating. Uncle Andre’s is the best BBQ you can get around here, though, so there’s that.
I just bought an enclosed 5’x10′ enclosed trailer for less than that. I probably need to spend $100 in paint and wiring to make it worth a place in my yard.
Duh? Hookers and blow. What’s left I’d probably fritter away on useless stuff.
Do Y’all even shitlord at all?
S&P index fund
Try to find one of those Palmetto State Armory Daggers.
With the rest, I’d make sure I was all stocked up on french ticklers and space helmets.
I’d start a punk/indie record label. Vinyl lo’s and 7” singles, t-shirts, stickers, catalogs, etc. Living the dream if 1985.
Good news, my wife says we can use some losses to offset our tax liabilities. I can guarantee this record label will run at a loss. In fact, I’m willing to drive this label into the ground. And profit??
I don’t need the money. I plan to spend it on a single bottle of booze.
Regarding the Lisa Lopez story of music industry finances, Steve Albini wrote a great essay about this very thing back in 1993.
https://archive.org/stream/TheProblemWithMusic/TheProblemWithMusicBySteveAlbini_djvu.txt
I remember that, good article,
I hate to go to CV again, but one of the things that is bothering me about this is I never hear numbers of hospitalized. I tried to find numbers and even used the google which I never do. I found a cnbc article with the headline,
(sorry forgot to grab the link)
Hundreds? Anyone come across any real numbers of people hospitalized? I see lots of social media using the word “over run” but I am not finding any evidence of this.
There is 182 in Ohio. Who knows how many are critical though. I’m sure every state has some official CV website.
https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/
Ah, yes CO does have one, but it won’t load like just about every other website the state operates when you try to access them. I am sure it is high traffic now, but it is not uncommon for their pages to just stall out.
I give up. I am going to eat reverse seared tri-tip and creamy roasted cauliflower. Enough computer today. Buenos noches all!
147 in CO
https://patch.com/colorado/across-co/coronavirus-live-colorado-updates-591-cases-7-deaths
I linked to the National gov association website, the have a PDF they update daily giving all the cases and actions from the GOV
Florida has an amazingly detailed dashboard https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429 but no state-wide hospitalization count (though it’s in the county-by-county numbers).
One thing I would like to see more info on is the deaths. Basically, how old each person was and their health condition before they got sick. Media wants to highlight the stories about the young of course.
NY as of yesterday.
“There are at least 2,850 people hospitalized. Of those individuals, at least 660 were in the ICU”
https://www.pix11.com/coronavirus/latest-coronavirus-updates-in-new-york-sunday-march-22-2020
“Page not found”
But I saw this:
?♂️
He’s well into cartoon villainy at this point isn’t he? “I’ll keep those kids from having fun yet!”
Cartoon something. The guy is a fucking joke.
We’ll see if this one works. Numbers are now higher.
https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/new-yorks-density-control-plan-appears-to-be-working-as-hospitalization-rate-slows-cuomo-says
“About 3,805 people have been hospitalized, with 888 people in the intensive care unit, Cuomo said.”
Slowdown seems encouraging.
I get the feeling the the NY numbers were more spread out than they were reported. I don’t know if that’s correct, but it just seemed liked there was no build up at all. Just a sudden spike.
Part of me wants them to fail because I don’t want them to be able to point at the measures they took and use them in the future. That part of me is evil and childish, though. So, I’ve gotta root for the enemy (Cuomo) of my enemy (virus).
Define “them”.
I see whatever is happening here is happening despite Cuomo. I mean, fuck him. He isn’t doing shit except grandstanding.
“Them” being all the governments that are using the hammer. If you don’t have freedom when it counts, you don’t have it at all. Right now the debate is between the spring break idiots and the take-my-rights-away idiots. There are some sane voices out there, but the masses are split between those two groups.
I am in neither of those camps. I’m in the “I am voluntarily staying inside because shit may be getting real” camp. I kind of want to be a spring break idiot, though.
Problem is the sane voices get treated like the spring break idiots when we try to speak up. You’re either a good citizen or a granny killer.
Me too. I’ll just watch from a distance. It’s like watching some guy tell a cop that is harassing him to fuck off. I’m not gonna do it, but I get the impulse.
granny killer
Good thing my two are already dead or I’d be going over to visit every day. All day. And cough a lot.
Straff, I’ve bee thinking the same thing for a few weeks now. When this is over, and the tigers are kept at bay, virtually everyone with a public voice will be praising the tiger-repelling rock of Big Gov.
And how many billions to put them back later?
Am wondering the same.
I guess it might be a bit hard to pin down and keep track of. You could categorize by “seen, not treated”, “treated-released”, “kept overnight”, “ICU”, but that makes the number crunching and tracking more complex. And some of that might be influenced by hospital capacity rather than some objective difference.
Lawyers and other law talking guys, why is Aunt Becky on trial in federal court in Boston? Singer and USC are in LA and she’s from somewhere around there.
I’m not entirely sure. I think the payoffs extended to schools in Boston. In theory, the alleged crimes took place there. I assume they have alleged a common scheme giving them some ability to consolidate cases there.
Okay that makes sense.
I’m not sure why any of this is a crime but I’m not looking to take scalps of the rich and powerful on my way to a higher political office.
I’m supposed to be a boomer but my experience has been scrambled across a salad of languages and cultures that I don’t really identify with any specific era.
Mojeaux,
Have you posted any sheets on Ayn Rand before? If you did, I missed them. I was just wondering, because I did not enjoy either Atlas or Fountain. After reading part of the Wendy piece, it may be because I don’t understand women. I’ll want read it over again, but work is sucking right now and I’m too tired.
By “sheets” you mean like white papers or essays or something? If so, not really. Off and on, a bunch of us have a late-night, deep-thread discussion of her books and I participate a lot in those.
But if you’re trying to understand women via Ayn Rand, yer doin it rong.
I do have in my head a muddy concept: Howard Roark as a Christ figure. *evil cackle @ Rand’s grave*
Sheets are just what some of the website blogs I have frequented called each new page of discussion or article. As in, this is your sheet.
But if you’re trying to understand women via Ayn Rand, yer doin it rong. Well, that’s a relief. Heh.
: Howard Roark as a Christ figure Go on. See, now you are making want to reread Rand, and I don’t want to.
I’ve been thinking about it for some years now. I got banned from an Objectivist FB group for saying it. LOL Someone here countered my elevator pitch quite neatly but I forgot who and how.
I’ll have to go back and re-read it to make a good paper, but I will. I’ve been thinking about this too long not to.
I got banned from an Objectivist FB
Now I’m even more curious.
make a good paper If you submit something, I hope I don’t miss it.
I’ll make sure to give you the head’s up.
BTW, part 2 of my demon hunter is dropping tomorrow at 11.
Links??? I’ve missed this too, apparently.
You would think that with half (or less) as many people to supervise you would have more free time. But no, now everyone has a million questions.
Where is Rufus when you need him?
I actually re-read Anthem recently (that and The Fountainhead are the only two of her works that I can really say I enjoyed reading). Er, enjoyed is too strong a word. “Didn’t hate”?
Justin Amash posts link to the latest Senate bill, apparently. Only 880 pages, who volunteers to read this?
@justinamash
Here it is:
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1243003381674901505?s=20
No one in Congress does.
‘Cept for the parts that pertain to their biggest donors.
They wrote those themselves
Lunatic.
https://twitter.com/handleyzo/status/1242985531119632385
I don’t understand where the meme of “poor people are going to get less” came from or the logic behind it.
I don’t either. He’s doing the “Republicans want you to die!” thing turned up to 11. Just the type of flame fanning you want during a pandemic.
They’re basically feeding off of this, which fell right into their lap. The facts really don’t matter.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senators-oppose-coronavirus-bill-error
Mo the CATO paper is interesting. It’s also from 1998. Do you know if there is a follow up?
I don’t know if there’s a followup, but nothing has changed.
The KCSD goes through a new superintendent about every 2-3 years. He promises to whip everything into shape and regain accreditation.
Nothing changes.
At least you can get rid of yours. The Broward County superintendent is entrenched in his job despite Parkland because a segment of the community will come out and scream every time firing him is even mentioned.
Good to know.
On the high born / low born article….
Ok, just to get this out of the way, douche.
But to the substance… I think he has it ass backward. I know some people born of wealth. They do indeed have some of the expectations he describes. They expect things to “work out”. Actually, they expect things to go their way. So they don’t think rules apply to them, whether those rules be serious economic rules or they be simple rules of social interaction.
Waiting in line isn’t for the high born. I went to a downtown festival with one such dude… he pulled up to a nearby country club and told the guard he was meeting his dad. A couple of rounds of BS later, and he’s parking in a lot he’s not supposed to be in, taking a space from someone who payed for it. Pretty ballsy… but not “being nicer than the lowborn”.
Go to any school… private or public, matters not. Who is doing the helping? Who are the room moms? Who are the dads working with after school clubs? Who is coaching little league? Hint, it ain’t the high-born. There might be some rich folk in there… but they are self-made. And if it is the high-born family money people… the volunteer is the hot wife who wasn’t high born.
This dude is a moron.
(disclaimer – I got tired of reading that douche, so if he flips it on its head at the end, I missed it.)
My deer hunting group are almost all silver spooners except for me. It is interesting to hear them talk.
Yeah, so I canvassed for clean water action for a while. It was much easier to get donations in the poor areas. Now, going into professions that lead to wealth and power, yep. Rich do that,poor don’t.
That’s about where I checked out.
I’m guessing that’s what it looks like when you’re highborn.
ERMAGERD!!! YOU DID THE LYNX!!!
Sorry it took me so long to get here. Forged in Fire night, don’tcha know.
You wanna talk about desegregation? I survived Dayton’s first feeble attempts at court-ordered desegregation, which is more than can be said for the man tasked with designing the plan for the district – He was murdered in his office in the Federal court building. I remember the local TV news coverage (probably on the other, more dominant news station in town.)
The first half-hearted attempts at part-time desegregation – “science centers” fucked up my early science education in 6th through 8th grade and soured me on science for years. The next – part-time “magnet schools” – through sheer dumb luck gave me the best class I’ve taken in all my years of education, elementary through grad school – a Humanities class I’ll never forget. I came of age in a “changing neighborhood,” so my schools were not included when the district resigned itself to full-time cross-town busing, so I can’t speak to that experience. (I think it may not have started until right after I graduated anyway.)
AFAIK, Dayton’s schools still suck.
Oh, yeah – the Janell Monae video segued into a “Fun ft. Janell Monae” video, which reminded me that Fuck any & all of you, I LIKE this song! It might even help me keep going through all the current crap.
When I got gas today at “my Kroger” (wink) I went to the kiosk to get a tin of snuff. There was a woman in front of me with a natural, and she had the FIST hair pick in there.
Oh, how I love this area. Drexel, too. But thats another story.
My mom worked at the Elder-Beerman (local dept. store, for you non-Daytonians,) then as a bookkeeper at a little tool & die down Klepinger from where OUR Kroger (wink) is now. My first job after college was at a subs & pizza joint right next to Cinema North – both of which are now churches.
My only problem with that Kroger is that since they closed Crack Central Kroger, I have a hell of a time finding a place to park.
Jugsy dont get it when I say Cinema North was once a….cinema>
And the bowling alley, too
Cool German sword, right!
I’m afraid I nodded off during the new episode. Didn’t get my afternoon nap. ; )
way to ruin it, whitey
FWIW, I attended a ghetto magnet high school that also happened to be a top school nationally at the time. It took me a couple decades to realize that my experience didn’t necessarily translate across time and space. One of the factors was intensive private sector support from the likes of Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch and Lomb – companies that had a big presence then & don’t now.
The half-day magnet high school where I took the Humanities class my senior year was for advanced academic courses – the ones for which there wasn’t enough demand to offer them at our “home schools” – Math IV (maybe even V?), physics, third & fourth year foreign languages, etc. In my experience, that and some other voluntary magnet programs may have been one thing they did right during that period (late ’70s.)
My HS had two tracks, STEM and humanities. I went to the STEM school which is why I had six years of computer science etc. etc. Now it’s an “international baccalaureate” school – not sure what that means exactly but I don’t see any of the science/tech focus that was there in the past 🙁
IB is supposed to be pretty rigorous and well regarded. There’s a high school around here that offers it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IB_Diploma_Programme
11 PM and I’m still working. All I want is to get finished so I can get stoned and go to bed.
So the high born and the low born article:
I haven’t read it in years, but that’s irrelevant because it’s the CONCEPT that intrigues me, that there is a state of mind.
Well, that’s true. Sort of. But here’s the cutting-off point for me:
Low-born: Wins lottery, broke in 3 years.
I used to work in the specialty finance arena… among other things, we bought lottery payments.
Now, it is true that you take a 45 year old paycheck-to-paycheck person who maxes out every credit card and can never get ahead and dump a million dollars on them, they’ll be broke in no time. They literally go out and spend like they are getting the whole thing, not just the payments. So if they win “a million” they spend like it is a million… even though it is 50k for 20 years. So they buy a big house, two expensive cars, a boat… and the payments end up being more than 50k per year. And they also have to pay taxes out of that.
But, the same is true of the trust fund crowd. Many of them spend their whole life trying to figure out how to squeeze more out of dad, or more out of the trust. Those guys would burn the million every bit as fast.
The people who would grow the money are not the high born, but the self made. Whether that be a wage-earner (could include doctors, lawyers, advertising executives, etc) or a business owner. They know the value of a dollar and won’t waste it.
That is an interesting cycle. I did not realize that you get payments if you didn’t sign up for the annuity option.
As you may know, Mr. Mojeaux wins stuff. Lots of stuff. If he bought lottery tickets, he’d probably win.
So we have discussed what we would do and the first thing we would do it … nothing. Go to work, keep it to ourselves. Coupla days pass. Find a lawyer and an accountant, still keeping mouth shut. We would take the annuity because we may not be able to control ourselves.
Regarding self-made. So I write rich characters. I have to. I’m poor enough without reading and writing it too. Makes my stress 13x worse.
Anyway, I have a self-made billionaire. An acquaintance beta read it and she said, “This isn’t how rich people talk.”
I’m around rich prople constantly and they do not talk like this.”
That bothered me (still does), but I said, “How many of those grew up poor and were self-made?”
She never answered, which was a good thing because she wanted me to critique her draft of “this story is HIGHlarious!” Far be it from me to tell someone they’re boring.
I hope y’all win something even remotely close to ‘the lottery’ That said,
I think, is out of order: keep mouth shut, immediately find the attorney and accountant, then go claim the money. Having a plan in place, is the first step to keeping that sh-stuff, and using it wisely.
I may be wrong, though.
I probably should have mentioned in my list that we would not have actually cashed in the ticket yet.
Doing nothing, then getting a lawyer and accountant, is BEFORE claiming the cash.
It never made sense to me to have late 40’s and early 60’s people in the same category. I definitely think 58-68 makes more sense.
Vietnam splits the boomers into two groups.
Born in 46; turned 18 in 64; passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Born in 57; turned 18 in 75; the collapse of Saigon.
Yeah, I was born in ’63 and didn’t even know the war was going on because we didn’t watch the news. Later on in school when it was talked about, I thought it had happened long before I was born.
Not sure that I agree with your split. I graduated high school in 1971 and the draft was a HUGE factor in my options.
You see these striations throughout all of the groups. I’m a millennial born in ’88. My brothers were born in 95 and 96. I used a rotary phone as a kid, first saw the internet using aodem measured in baud attached to a commodore64, and was an expert at adjusting the rabbit ears and recording my favorite song on cassette. My first experience with social media was getting on Facebook back when you needed a college email address.
My brothers had access to cell phones in middle school, broadband internet, HDTV and ipods. Social media was ubiquitous by the time they were in high school.
The reality is that cultural cohort happens in much smaller segments, probably in the 3 to 5 year range. Even then, it’s not a very useful metric because people the same age have such very different experiences by region, clique, etc.
Agree. Which is why I feel little to no cultural connection with my brothers who are only 6, 7, and 8 years older than me.
Funny, because a good work buddy was born in the early 60’s, I’m on the other end of the 70’s, and have quite a bit of cultural connection. Part of it is just experiencing the same things at different ages but also the flood of reruns and rise of classic rock stations. Less connection with a brother just four years younger, and really none with siblings about 10 years younger.
My personal definition for Gen X is Reality Bites in theaters.
http://archive.li/YnFfT/d1cdfb9335f970bee4be547bed6995dc6c01127f.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/SgaZm/ba7a99ab4700d171d1ca575a07e933d819717b9b.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/ah9fv/2ff762cf2f9258a2f4e91131ef2ce8911d89d400.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/2n31W/b479c186c3375560228c82f107e6e3528e392dbd.jpg
NSFW.
Fine. Here’s my credit cards.
Well, the threading ruined my fun.
Hideous
Gross.
Great links Mo!
Thanks!!!
I just got a wild hare day before yesterday, slapped them up and asked SP if it was okay to post.
Just my little pet interests.
I like them, but it’s just too much read.
Less is more sometimes.
Oh, that was the entire point. ?
I’m going to bed now. Tyrant.
Was gonna go with Ruby Ridge, but y’all with get this one, I think.
Wait, I thought the branch covidians want the government to force them and everyone else inside?
That’s another way to go with it. “Social distancing will save us.”
Very groovy, Mojeaux.
Groovy?! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!
I needed a break from the world some did some vidya gaming today, finally put in the time to finish Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. Turns out that was like only 45 mins. Downloading Assassin’s Creed: Origins right now, should be ready in two days when I have 4 days off thanks to Panic! Virus. And if this keeps going I’ll have something to do when I get laid off as well.
Somehow I posted this as a reply way at the top so excuse the second posting of it.
Thanks for the lynx Mo. I enjoyed the high/low family thing and the Left Eye description of how money gets taken until you have little left. A few years back we had our own experience of that happening. I found a distressed house that hadn’t been occupied in years and the woman who owned it was not interested in traveling to look after a wreck anymore. We got it for a good price. The wife and I took out an equity loan on our house to buy it, but we couldn’t afford to pay the mortgage and fix it up so my parents split it with us. We spent 3 months of so everyday over there fixing it up after working our other business as well. When we did the math it made more sense to hold on to it for at least a year do to capital gains taxes. We kept our construction costs low by doing a lot ourselves and subbing out a couple things, it was about 35k in materials and subs. We sold it for 375k more than we bought it, which was great. But after splitting it two ways with my parents and then all the associated taxes, fees, costs we got less than 65. Which is great, but really shows you how taxes eat your profit. We used most of that to pay off the debt we had from remodeling our own old house we bought.
Somehow I posted as a reply to the top of the comments. I meant to have it down here. Good job on the links Mo.
Sorry for the half double posting. Computer skills failing,..
Being funny doesn’t mean you can make good videos by your lonesome.
Is Norm ill with…anything? I know he ages, and all, but, he looks elderly now.
I thought he didn’t look well, I put that up to no make-up crew. He never looked healthy. but yeah, he looks real old here.
Sad!
Also, when you depend on Chevy Chase tomake a ‘good video’…
*clicks*
I didn’t recognize him.
Did this get talked about already, or, is there an anal drug thing going on?
/”anal drug thing” is mine! I’m trademarking that bitch….
as the brave FBI agents encouraged him to come up with something
that would get them bigger promotionsthey knew he was going to do.Yeah, very much this. I hate having that this feeling, as I want any terrorist dead (preferably) or jailed, but, I don’t trust tha fucks.
“having that this”….?? Hate having this feeling. I must have CoronaHands.
“Hold on a minute–I just got a message from my voice teacher….”
Speaking of–Chafed, check your email.
/on second thought….
C’mon man!
Ooohhh….right–The Blaze.
You make me sound like some crazy guy just for pointing out that things directed at a right-wing audience can be as biased as things pointed at a left-wing audience.
? No, there’s nothing inherently ‘-winged’ about the “prestigious college’ comment, and your noticing of such.
Consider it like Critical Drinker–you gave your observation, and I paid attention.
But I did talk about my thoughts on the quality of The Blaze ‘journalism’, so I assumed that is where you were going. But yeah, this just seems like shit writing.
Oh, that comment about UM is directly related to the quality issue, fer sher. But, no, not my attempt to poke fun at a ni-at your observation.
Oh–a bit of a call-out to you (sort of) in the Night Shift.
FYI.
Race Cars and Goth Rock.
Sorry for the lateness, Mojeaux–Excellent post, especially for a hump-day evening.
My senior year of HS (I think I even saw them live.)
Also my senior year of HS. I have diverse music interests.
I’m pretty sure I saw Crue and Warrant the Fall/Winter after graduation. Pretty good, but, I’m not a live music person.
Even Trump’s Easter date won’t stop the shit-staining of the economy. If this craziness isn’t over by April 4th I get laid off. Working in a county with 0 cases in a state with 6 deaths. Too bad our current gov used to run the teacher’s union, otherwise this math stuff wouldn’t be so foreign to him.
I think you have just inspired a link for Saturday’s post….kudos.
HOLY MACKEREL! SO one of the the Tom Hanks Disease perks my union negotiated from our employer was unlimited, no repercussion, doesn’t count against regular accrued, sick time. Guess who is the supermarket working by himself because he is the only schmuck who didn’t call in sick. Fuck me.
Unions are designed to reward the worst workers and punish the best. It’s only fair.
If Jennifer Connelly is around, you have the makings of a semi-fun 90’s movie.
Still–alone in a grocery store (correct?) should bring out your creativity even further.
The music video that should have been
https://youtu.be/mcMh6GZoFC8
AWE-SOME!
Well, ain’t that a little time capsule. Targets of the early ’90s looked basically the same as they do now, apparently.
Does anyone know if HM worked in the service industry at any time?
Morning, Glibs
Morning evening glibs.
I actually woke up in time that I could be sitting around a bit before a normal commute.
With a work from home commute, I’m not sure what to do besides have breakfast.
If I were a hobbit, I would recommend 2nd breakfast. Maybe an Irish coffee?
/yeah, I got nuthin’
I think I’m going to set another alarm and lie down again.
Sounds like a good plan.
Morning.
Morning. I’ve made it to “work”, but I still feel like just going back to bed.
Stayed 3 hours late at work. Only managed to singlehandedly unload and break down a 20 pallet truck, and pack out 2 aisles (out of 10) during a 9 hour shift. Damn… I never want to work a solo shift there again. Store opened at 6am for elder shopping and it was PACKED. So very many old people crammed into a smallish store; nobody was keeping 6′ apart but, hey, many of them wore masks of varying kinds. Oh, and one of the old guys (been working at the store for 30+ years, never calls in sick) on my crew is home very sicky-sicky, after being ordered by the manager, awaiting the results of his THD test (for real, not like the other 4 who called out tonight). Maybe I’ll take advantage of our new THD sick-out policy tonight and devote my evening to cheeseburgers and Bourbon.
I’ll join you in spirit, since driving 2+ hours downstate is not something I can do today.
I don’t have any cheeseburgers. And I think the bourbon I have is pretty bottom shelf. But I’ll still find something.
https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/pennsylvania-grocery-store-out-more-than-35000-after-woman-intentionally-coughs-on-food
WTF?
Now that’s something worth criminal charges.
Agreed.
And a serious ass-kicking
It sounds like this woman is well known as a local crazy person and/or douchebag. Please crazy people and/or douchebags, stop coughing on food.While you’re at it, stop licking toilet seats while filming yourselves too, that shit’s gross.
Can’t sleep. I blame it on anxiety from Wubonic Plague. It’s the new Climate Crisis, donchaknow.
The plague itself Is not as bad as all that, it’s the panic that’s the problem.
Ghost town here at night but there was a heavy police presence. The King’s Men were out in force it being Welfare Wednesday and all. Saw a dozen cop cars on my commute in when normally I might see one round trip.
People are now queueing to get into supermarkets with sparsely stocked shelves. Welcome to Venezengland.
You didnt’ even get bombed to rubble first this time.
Huh.
I wonder if there’s some difference in the population or culture these various states of de-stocking can be attributed to. As I said yesterday, local grocery stores here in Edmonton seem to have all-but-completely recovered from the panic (such as it was — it was never serious here). People I’m talking to locally seem quite calm.
I’ve no idea how supply chains are affected here, but I know there have been lots of out-of-towners incoming doing tours of supermarkets and farm shops around the county and loading up their cars with all they can buy. Maybe that’s why there’s a new policy. I figured this would balance out sooner rather than later, and that many people would have extra shit that meant they didn’t need to shop for weeks, or that they were finding it hard to shift if they were selling it on. Whatever the real situation, the media are working hard to erode any trust and good faith people might have had for each other and ensuring that they all consider martial law, suspicion, and good old gubmint taking charge of every aspect of their lives as the only option.
The media here’s trying some of that, but everyone I’ve been talking to isn’t biting. ’Course, Alberta’s basically the Texas of Canada, with a lot deeper cultural reserves of self-reliance coupled with old-fashioned neighbourliness. I’m certainly enjoying being back here a lot more than I “enjoyed” the Lower Rainland™.
What is the more commonly recognised name for “Lower Rainland”?
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia (basically, Vancouver and points east until you get to the coastal mountain range, the gateway to which is the small city of Hope, B.C.). Mostly composed of the Fraser Valley and the Fraser Delta.
Thank you.
Happy news! Made a new enemy tonight. The trainee Supervisor didn’t check the entry points at one of my sites last night so naturally shit hit the fan when the alarm went off for the day shift crew. I have one access door, the rest of it is up to them. Shit comes raining down on old Festus like Noah’s flood this afternoon. Somebody called head office and complained then I had to put up my “Not my job” umbrella. Get to the site and had it out a bit with the trainee and the guy that is supposed to be teaching her the ropes. She was aghast, like “Why are you speaking to me like this? You’re just the Janitor!” Snide remarks and dirty looks for the rest of the evening. Fuck you, Lady. I warned you to check the doors but you just wouldn’t listen. /rant off
Hopefully this tension soon boils over into hot sex?
In the janitorial supply room! YAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS! /bow-chicka-wow-wow chicka-wow-wow
Festus just puked a little in the office waste basket…
Uh, No thankee! She’s two inches taller than me, not conventionally attractive by any measure and probably out weighs me by forty lbs. I’m nearly 6 foot and go about 180.
Rule 34, my man. Rule 34.
Even if she looked like Eva Green I don’t think my supply rooms are very romantic, even in an animalistic lust sorta way. Eva Green bent over the conveyor is a different tale that you have infested my dirty mind with though so thanks for that!
https://youtu.be/xhQ3qV8uiI4
Oh My God
Gorilla Girl