In the news since the CARES Act was passed, several businesses qualifying for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans discovered their employees asked to be laid off because for the time being, they would make more money collecting from the dole. This is a good example of perverse incentives and an ample opportunity to criticize Justin Amash for supporting for the idea temporarily due to the quarantines…
…but I get the feeling there will be plenty of time for virtual ink over what we don’t like about that guy, or that he isn’t libertarian enough to vote for him over Trump, so let’s discuss something equally frivolous!
This is my review of Four Peaks Kilt Lifter.
The Centaur: a creature from Greek mythology defined as a human torso on top of a horse’s body. Various myths often made them lustful, whimsical creatures. Others were depicted as wise, and sometimes immortal. For a total rabbit hole article, see this link here.
Why focus on such a creature? An unusual question crossed my path, not long ago.
Obviously, the answer is genitalia would necessarily have to be from the horse. By definition the Centaur is a horse from the waist down. A better question is if a Centaur would be sexually attracted to horses, humans, other Centaurs, or a combination of all three?
This is supposed to be America after all, and if a Centaur wants to wave a freak flag out on the farm who am I to judge? So long as the interested parties like the horse, horse’s owner consent to an arrangement there shouldn’t be a problem. Similarly if somebody is into Centaurs, they shouldn’t be anything stopping them. Centaurs also solve the consent problem for people into horses, as the human half has agency and can therefore give consent.
None of these people should be called freaks, this is after all, supposed to be America…
Kiltlifter is Four Peak’s flagship brew. Its a brand local to me; given the climate, one might think an 90 schilling Scottish Ale would not be too hot a seller. This is incorrect, as it is quite chuggable. It is also close enough to be called a clone of Bellhaven Scottish Ale. I’ve had both side by side and can confirm they are similar but not identical. It is fairly light, malty; I like this with a roast beef sandwich. When cold reminds me a bit of Oktoberfest, but not quite, because thats crazy. It is a safe bet for a ballgame or when you are otherwise uninterested in the available options. Four Peaks Kilt Lifter: 3.5/5
I cant get into Kilt lifter, it’s OK I guess, Their Hopknot is quite nice
I like San Tan Moon Juice if I am in the mood for an IPA. Which isn’t often.
I am no more interested in Justin Amash than in Justin Bieber.
How come none of you told me about adding relish to a tuna fish sandwich?
Relish? No you need chopped water chestnuts, mayo, mustard and Louisiana hot sauce
#1
sweet relish
onion powder
garlic powder
mayo
salt
pepper
#2
hard-boiled eggs
grated extra-sharp cheddar
white onion
mayo
paprika
chili powder
cayenne pepper
black pepper
salt
parsley
Both of those sound yummy.
The next tragedy as the lockdown continues. Unfortunately, Scottish ales are not to my tastes, too sweet for the most part.
What??? Turn it into beer batter for deep fried cheese sticks! (Fond memories of eating these, not so fond memories of making them at my first job out of college.)
An earlier article I posted had a line that really made it hit home how much the lockdown has effected breweries:
In happier news, a restaurant that was supposed to open on March 18th has decided to open for takeout next week in Tremont.
An earlier article I posted had a line that really made it hit home how much the lockdown has effected breweries:
In happier news, a restaurant that was supposed to open on March 18th has decided to open for takeout next week in Tremont.
(sorry if this posts twice, but it looks like me first attempt got wiped out)
An earlier articleI posted had a line that really made it hit home how much the lockdown has effected breweries:
(editing comment to see if I can post even this much; earlier attempts appear to post, but don’t display, and don’t show in the pending moderation area).
At least they aren’t just dumping it down a drain though. Still a sad read.
Here’s another ray of sunshine.
I’m under the impression that the Centaur rape of human women was quite common in Greek mythology. A STEVE SMITH role model, if you will.
What happened that started you down the path of centaur sex?
He was just horsing around.
Neigh means neigh.
Well, after being turned into a Centaur, he gained an acute interest in the subjet.
Ezekiel 23:20.
LOL
Ya ain’t wrong
Sometimes you just find weird things on the internet.
You’re killing me smalls.
Please don’t bring up baseball.
*stares into the distance*
…I miss baseball.
At least you may have the ability to watch games live, if they open up. Of course, no games until July…
Do they plan to let fans attend?
That I don’t know. There’s been a couple of different plans floated around, but nothing definitive yet.
Speaking of shit flinging howler monkeys
Anyone who thought that the COVID-19 crisis would produce lasting respect for low-wage service workers should feel like a chump, as certain states roll out their return-to-work orders.
That’s because the subtext of those orders, such as those issued by the governors of Iowa and Texas, is coercive. Workers who refuse to return to work at businesses that have been cleared to open will lose their unemployment benefits.
In other words, in economic terms they’ll have no choice between losing pay and placing their lives at risk from a coronavirus infection.
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Coupled with the threats of lost unemployment are efforts by Republicans in Congress to immunize business owners from liability for exposing their workers to infection. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has drawn a line in the sand against enacting another coronavirus stimulus bill without legal protection for business owners.
“Imagine you are a businessman thinking about reopening, and you’ve heard that the trial lawyers all over the country are sharpening their pencils getting ready to sue you, claiming that you didn’t engage in proper distancing or other issues related to health and safety,” McConnell told Fox News, as the Hill reported.
These efforts together have the effect of placing the onus of reopening the American economy on the shoulders of employees, typically low-wage workers with few options other than to deal with customers face-to-face in service establishments or work in industrial plants shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow employees.
It’s no accident that hot spots of COVID-19 infections are such facilities as slaughterhouses in states with relatively few infections outside those facilities.
Nor should we overlook that medical experts are heavily opposed to premature reopenings in Iowa, Texas or other states, citing the likelihood that they will lead to a recrudescence in COVID-19 cases.
Coercion. Oppression. SLAVERY.
We’re all in this together!
?
Seriously. My friends who aren’t Karen’s but have none-the-less drank the COVID kool-aid did a big “we’re all in this together” mural in their driveway. It was really hard for me not to ask:
“Why not ‘Everyone belongs to everybody else’?”
For some reason, the people I know who are the most well off are the ones saying things like ‘we have to stay locked down, people can’t work if they’re dead!’ and ‘there were too many bars and restaurants anyway, we don’t need that many, I don’t eat out much anyway’. Their complete lack of awareness about how this is affecting many people and the economy as a whole is just astounding.
Fuck. I’ve been eating out more during the lock down to try to support the local businesses.
You want people to die!
Don’t lose faith yet.
There are people going out and doing stuff, yet keeping their thoughts to themselves. Even if they weren’t you’re not going to hear them kvetching in the line at Home Depot where they’re doing curbside pickup. You might hear them kvetching while they’re out playing or in the grocery store, but you can’t know the breadth and depth of the silent majority who really CAN’T do anything.
How can you defy orders when there’s nothing to defy it WITH? You can’t thumb your nose and go to a bar if the bar is closed on pain of losing its liquor license.
This is a bit similar to the Trump win in 2016: if the vocal world tells people their opinions are “beyond the pale” and they need to shut up or else, you may change a couple of minds, but mostly they’re just going to shut up but continue to hold them. So simply listening to what people are saying is going to skew what you think the actual percentages are.
Yes. As usual, the people who believe they are “on the right side of history” are the vocal zealots and they beat down anybody who dares contradict.
I sincerely hope so. I know that’s exactly the effect it’s had on me (to shut up). Ninety-nine percent of the people at my company are in full favor of the lockdowns and full of praise for the governors that really ground the bootheel in. Every time I check facebook, I nope right back out, because it’s just as bad over there. Outside of my home, this is the only place where I’m allowed to break cover and be mad. Anywhere else, I’m treated like a monster who would traipse through piles of corpses just to selfishly go camping.
“Non essential’ retail are opening their doors around here, against Douchebag Wolf’s orders. Good for them.
It’s happening, folks.
Ive been noticing that too. Bedford County (24 cases/1 death) and Blair County (21 cases/0 deaths) arent allowed to re-open, but Centre (96/2) and Erie (90/2) Counties are?
My dad recently died and we were going to auction off his farm equipment in April to help pay off his estate. That got put on hold. The auction is back on for May, according to the auction site – “whether its legal or not”
Sorry to hear about your dad.
Did you do a burnout on it?
Nah, they are good people and they mean well. They aren’t red-pilled but they aren’t freaking out either. They don’t wear masks and still are willing to congregate. I think their attitude is, ‘this sucks but we gotta just get through it.’
How, exactly, is the world supposed to work if everyone is supposed to sit at home, doing nothing for the benefit of strangers in return for remuneration, while collecting increasingly worthless pieces of paper from the government?
I made the comment to one person yesterday who is totes OK with this lockdown because he can work at home, and so there’s not any problem going on, ‘so what do you think we should do with those people who can’t work from home, send them a check for 50 bucks with a note attached that says ”learn to code”‘? The person’s reaction to that was nothing, it just sailed right over his head.
I didn’t care much for people in general before this shitshow, but now what little faith I have left in the human race is almost completely gone.
Working from home is going to be real tenable when there’s not enough food, or clothing, or other necessities because nobody is going in to work to make them, and doubly so when all of the infrastructure that enables work from home crumbles because nobody is going in to work to maintain it.
WFH is a temporary and partial solution that does not scale.
My next statement to the guy was ‘Sure, you’re working from home right now, but what are you going to do when your clients have no money coming in? Do you think they’re going to keep paying you when they have no money?’. Again, silence, people are just clueless about economics, completely clueless.
I even had a person once tell me ‘I’m a socialist’. And the person would vote for Bernie in a heartbeat and I’m sure he did in his state’s primary. This person owns like 3 high priced sports cars and has a house with a 6 car garage. I said ‘OK then, how many cars do you own? When we get socialism, can you just give me, say 2 of those, so that the government doesn’t have to redistribute them for you?’. He does this little chuckle he always does to show that I’m not being serious.
‘so what do you think we should do with those people who can’t work from home, send them a check for 50 bucks with a note attached that says ”learn to code”‘?
Our fourth-generation imbecile governor did exactly that.
And if you ask me if I want people to die, I’d respond that his mother is expendable.
because he can work at home,
It always is. Amidst this irritating cultural infatuation with the concept of “checking privilege,” I can’t think of a better example of hypocrisy.
I am with the old Jew woman from the previous thread.
I cant believe people are falling for this horseshit.
Even if it wasn’t horseshit, there wouldn’t be any difference in the reactions by anyone. Incompetence and knee jerk reactionism would rule the day.
“low-wage service workers” – most people have no idea how many workers never shut-down across wide range of sectors beyond grocery/healthcare including manufacturing, service, transportation,etc.
Yes, employers are champing at the bit to instate mandatory doorknob-licking policies to ensure their workers get fatally ill as soon as possible! Curse you, crafty leftist navel-gazer! You’ve adroitly seen through the filmy veil that covers our nefarious plot to immediately have to retrain our entire working staff right after the government deigns to let us reopen our doors!
In the worlds of our eternal inspiration, Darth Vader:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Someone at TOS used to link to boytaur porn.
Come to think of it, the word “porn” might be redundant there. Although people do say “futanari porn” and “ATM machine.”
And UMB Bank, where UMB = United Missouri Bank.
United Missouri Bank Bank.
I guess the real question is, has there ever been a non-porn use of a boytaur or a futa? Does rule 34 have an reverse?
Can’t prove a negative.
The Los Angeles Angeles = The The Angels Angels
The California Angels of California.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode for the win!
(Well, technically not, since better technologies prevailed.)
What’s wrong with “Any Time Money machine”?
Relevant
FedEx Express or Federal Express Express?
The photo of the lawyers….Glenn Lerner is a grade A douche bag here in Vegas.
As if we couldn’t tell from their commercials on daytime television.
Posted in the dead morning lynx so I’ll repost here as relevant to the first paragraph.
On my third cup of coffee here and going for number four after 11 hours of sleep that was sorely needed. I did seven jobs yesterday all around the city. Everyone but one was not doing the mask thing and highly fed up with the bullshit. The first one the old owner even shook my hand when I arrived, which was the first time that has happened in two months. Second job featured a guy who was laid off from his restaurant job. I told him I’m sorry for his troubles and he laughed and said he is making an extra 300 a week now from the unemployment increase. The third job I got into a wall safe of a guy who died. Massive diamond ring in there, I’m always surprised when people leave me alone to open those, I’m never going to take anything, but still. I saw a bum taking a shit on the sidewalk in front of my sixth job, next to a filthy encampment next to a building. The mayor and the governor can close businesses, but can’t order vagrants to not camp, shit and shoot up on the sidewalks. The seventh job was for a regular customer, a Polish woman in her 90’s with a series of numbers tattooed on her left forearm. “This is all stupid, ridiculous, I can’t believe people are falling for this.” I couldn’t agree more ma’am.
Also, as a Sagittarius, I will make the vote that centaurs have two dicks, a human one and a horse one, each placed where they should be.
Replying from the dead-thread also
The naive idiot side of me wants to think we are on the edge of the tipping point, not that people are going to rise up in rebellion, but that they are going to ignore all these petty tyrants and simply resume their lives.
But then the realist in me says ” you know that won’t happen.” Even among the most discontented everyone is afraid to be the nail that sticks up. No business owner wants to be the first to open and be made an example of.
The foot stamping on our faces is wearing loafers at the moment and nobody wants to risk it being switched out for the golf spikes.
On my most optimistic days during this shitshow, I have thought maybe this will finally wake up more people to the tyranny of government and to not place so much trust in experts, especially the ones that predict the end of the world (looking at you climate change modelers). Then most days I realize how many people give so little a crap about liberty and just want daddy to keep them safe. I got called a “liberty freak” the other day by a close friend, and while I take that as a point of pride, I realize way more people think like him than think like me. I was ready this weekend to get cited and/or arrested if Newscum actually went through with his idea to close beaches here (I’m a few blocks away from a huge one and plan to fish it). That is my Rubicon, I won’t stand that without a fight.
The Elvis Costello song “Radio, Radio” is about 45 years old but this line could describe perfectly how people are currently approaching the lockdown:
Some of my friends sit around every evening and they worry about the times ahead,
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed.
^^^ state has already revoked the liquor licenses of two places that continued dine in/drink in service.
You’re in OR, GL?
Yep.
State – You arent allowed to do business!!!
“I am doing business anyway”
State – We are revoking your license to do business!!!
“Uh….ok. “
Good luck operating a bar or restaurant in a liquor control state. I guess you could buy liquor by the bottle at retail and get fucked on the margins. Aside from the lack of a permission slip so any inspector or cop can fuck with you.
This is what the black market is for–to correct such supply-demand imbalances.
Every time this gets discussed the goto answer is the black market. The problem is that black markets do not just step in and do the same things legal markets do when legal markets are closed. Black markets mean competition in the dark, against competitors who take market share at gun point. Ordinary competition takes place along the axes of price, quality, service, and exposure. Black market competition adds the axes of force and ability to corrupt the authorities. At the end of the day force, both direct and by turning competitors in to the police beats quality and price. Black markets are not libertarian dreams.
You’re right. Black markets are the inevitable result of totalitarian fantasies given form.
What, was I not supposed to do that?
Here in Ohio, from my understanding, liquor prices are the same regardless if you’re a consumer or a bar.
I don’t know if it is still the case here but the mafia used to control all of the bars/liquor distribution here. As long as you pay them you’re good. I dont think they give much of a shit about governor’s ‘orders’.
When the mafia king (Joe Korn) in Lafayette died it was discovered that he owned an interest in every single bar in the state of Louisiana.
Prohibition didn’t exist here in Kansas City. Boss Tom Pendergast made sure of that.
…and a new NASCAR was born…
Great!! The old one was turning into ridiculous Calvinball on wheels.
I don’t know. I’d much rather watch moonshiners outrunning revenuers than watch a bunch of cars go in a circle for hours upon hours just waiting for a crash.
You don’t like racin? You ain’t from round here are you? /Hoosiers
I agree wholeheartedly about the dual members. In the Narnia stories, centaurs are said to eat prodigious amounts of food because they first must fill the man-tummy with human food and then the horse-tummy with oats and such. I think Lewis was just being modest by not getting into anatomic detail.
Since we are in to the inappropriate section of the discussion….. I’ll bring up Sportsball!!!
I heard a clip from Charles Barkley last night that cracked me up. Apparently Dremond Green took a run at him and said that Barkley was jealous of his salary and that Green was a more valuable player than Barkley.
Now, for those who don’t know, Barkley is one of the all-time greats. On the “top 50 of all time” list. But Dremond Green won championships with the Golden State Warriors, playing with Steph Curry, Clay Thompson and Kevin Durant. Barkley never won a championship.
So here’s what Barkley said that cracked me up:
“Dremond Green is like the worst guy in a boy band. He’s on stage and he gets hit in the head with a pair of panties. He thinks it’s all for him. But it is because he is standing next to Justin Timberlake.”
Classic.
Were you the person wondering about quantum tunneling inside a black hole?
Everyone wonders about quantum tunneling inside a black hole…..
Yeah… the idea was that it is the schwarzschild radius from which stuff cannot escape, not the singularity. So if the universe contracts inside the schwarzschild radius, the schwarzschild radius no longer exists… therefore, big bang.
This was a time when everyone assumed the universe would expand and then contract in a big crunch. But dark energy has taken care of that….
So these are the things I pondered as a young man. But I never got hit with a pair of panties destined for Justin Timberlake and assumed they were for me…
It’s been a century since I’ve done the math, but IIRC…
The deal with black holes is that they change the shape of space to the point where there is literally no direction that points out from them. I seem to remember that inside the event horizon there is literally only one direction in which travel is possible (whether this means all the other directions cease to exist, or they just all point the same way I no longer remember).
So you could tunnel, but only inward.
I am so using that in a book.
Don’t forget about Hawking radiation. Stuff can — sort of — escape from black holes. With enough time, all black holes will explode. It is just a lot of time.;
Hey man, Barkley may be dumb, fat, and incapable of controlling his impulses, but he’s not a hole.
And off topic, but in memory of a better time.
Today was supposed to be Free Comic Book Day. A day for my nephews and I to hang out and do shit, which isn’t happening this year.
And found a video of the daytime event from last year.
I got my Bruce Campbell portrait at a free comic book day.
A video that doesn’t start with someone telling you how pleased they are with themselves and how much they love the sound of their own voice. Instead you will love the sound her her voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMbbTQrC41o
Goddammit. I have to go out. Low on smokes and vodka. I hate going out.
Sounds like a good time to quit smoking and drinking.
I was on the wagon for a while. Aint nuthin easier than falling off of a wagon when you are under house arrest.
As a friend of mine says “Drinkin’ n’ screwing’? Aint nothin’ else to do so why not”
Stop yer drankin and smokin, Suthen. / The Karens
A bit of low-budget Zen: Mr. GT cut the grass this morning and afterward remembered to finally put The Brave Little Whirligig out on our “pitcher’s mound” (former site of huge tree that was long gone when we bought the place.)
Tranquility Base is now complete.
The mayor and the governor can close businesses, but can’t order vagrants to not camp, shit and shoot up on the sidewalks.
!!!!!
Because the rules only harass the normals.
Tge question isnt Amash vs Trump, it is Amash vs Hornburger.
Who’s the Green party candidate this time? Or did they endorse Biden and decide to not run anyone?
Convention is in July. Three candidates;
https://www.gp.org/2020
They’re all white guys. Who knew the Green party are sexist and racist.
I guess Jill Stein had enough fun last time.
This is airing on CNN right now, right?
China is Asshoe
Q: Why is the fatality rate running 7% in my county? O.K., lots of infecteds never had symptoms worth reporting or had no symptoms at all. But isn’t that true of the “regular” flu too? From my own experience, lots of people got the regular flu and never went to doctor or even reported it. Yet they keep throwing stats that the regular flu has death rates of only .2% or something low. If they could count all those unknown and unreported cases of flu, the fatality rate would be next to nothing.
Most people do not go to the doctor for the flu, I would say the percentage who do is very small.
I took my oldest once but that was after all the passed down home remidies failed to break the fevor and he woke up delusional.
I define being woke as delusional.
That was my question yesterday. Someone posted CDC stats and they estimate the number of flu cases to get the flu mortality rate, but for the Vid they only count positive tests and then add any number of excess deaths with no test to the death column. Hence a big number when there are up to 50x (by some studies) of Vidites roaming around.
If an Olympian juices like that, he’s permanently disqualified.
Let’s assume it is 50X. That’s probably true for the “regular flus” too. Therefore, this virus would be far more deadly, even if the fatality rate is only .2%, than regular flu. I’m betting some of that is because there is no existing immunity and no large % of the pop. that has been getting flu shots for years. So this CCPVirus will continue to be more deadly until vaccines are found or herd immunity is achieved. Then let’s get the herd immunity over with as soon as possible instead of dragging it out for a year or more.
I think the flu death percentage thing is based on the assumption that half or more of the populace gets it in any given year. If we assumed one-fourth the population has or had COVID already, and discounted the death rate for the made up cases, I’m guessing well below 1% fatality rate.
I like this with a roast beef sandwich.
Did anyone else think of a mare when you read that?
I need a haircut. My hair is halfway to my waist and I don’t like it this long.
/gripe
Give your hubby the scissors and let him take a whack at it. There’s never been a better time to learn new skills.
Hubby is vehemently opposed to cutting it at all. He’d be happiest if I could give Crystal Gayle a run for her money.
Don’t that make your brown eyes blue?
But I never had brown eyes to begin with…
That’s my daughter. We both have rather long hair, but she won’t keep hers maintained, and refuses to let me cut it shorter. The only time I can get her to do a decent job combing her hair out is if I threaten to chop it all off.
My daughter also has very long hair that she didn’t want cut but wouldn’t take care of it. I also threatened to chop it off if she didn’t take care of it.
Somehow, around 9th grade, she got a clue. It’s very heavy and very thick, but also very straight and fine and won’t hold any curl whatsoever.
We did have to chop some off when we were trying to figure out why she was having so many migraines.
Mine is very heavy, very thick, very coarse, kinda curly, and very flyaway. My curls pop when it’s shorter, which is what I like. My hair’s so heavy it just pulls it all out until it only looks unruly.
I’m hoping she’ll grow a clue soon, too. Her hair is awesome, which is why I’ve never actually followed through with the threats to bob it, but the constant battles over brushing it are tiresome.
Mine isn’t nearly as fantastic, but I keep it long because everyone told me I was going to cut it short after I had children, and I don’t really have to do anything except brush it when it’s really long. Anything shorter than a few inches below the shoulders, and I have to drag out styling tools.
My daughter let her’s go too and wouldn’t brush without a big battle. So we stopped nagging. It wasn’t long until some kids laughed at her in school and she came begging for a cut.
I hadn’t thought to let peer pressure do its thing. Now that she’s out of school til August, and the only kids that haven’t been locked down in the neighborhood aside from mine are just as savage, I’ll have to wait for school to begin again to try that.
Thanks for sharing the daughter hair stories. I have two… 10 and 7 … and the quarantine is killing us. The tomboy has brushed her hair approximately once per week – and only with a fight. The first time was maybe 10 days and she had the beginnings of dreadlocks. Apparently it is a thing.
We have a friend with 2 daughters just a bit ahead of ours, and they both went through this phase. But nobody had no public commitments for months like this.
I took detangler and a brush to my middle child’s head last night – it was a 15 minute battle to get the giant nest out of the back of her head. She literally has no fucks to give.
Her sister is more of a princess…. so she’ll do her own hair when properly prompted. Thank the lord for small favors…..
If you don’t mind a little advice…
Unless they’re stinking up your house or you have nothing better to concentrate on, choose not to see it.
It will reduce your frustration level considerably. Nobody’s going anywhere. If they have no fucks to give, don’t take that burden upon yourself.
If it’s a trainwreck and you just can’t look away, well, that’s something different altogether. LOL
I took photos of some of the nasty snarls mine had sprouted on the back of her head, just to shame her with later. Some of the messes she’s made of her hair have been thirty minute fights to undo. The only silver lining of the lockdowns is that I no longer feel compelled to just do it for her; she’s got nowhere to go, so she can take as long as she wants to get it done right.
In the past, when Mr. Mojeaux has made noises about his displeasure at my cutting my hair, I say very pointedly, “I don’t see you playing with it or combing it.”
Therein follows about a week of getting my hair played with and combed.
Back in medical school a classmate had hair all the way to the floor. She put it all up in a mesh shower-cap style thing in any lab or clinical situation. It was bizarre but I think she liked being unique and how everyone was always asking her about it.
She was at our 30-year reunion and was now a pediatrician sporting a very short page boy haircut. I said I remembered her having super long hair. She replied that she remembered me and (fellow classmate) getting caught screwing in one of the shower stalls of the women’s restroom on her dorm floor. Funny what sticks with people, I guess.
And the man with the divorce will be along shortly thereafter…
I trimmed my wife’s hair a couple of days ago. She had had a couple of drinks so I didnt let her trim mine. I will do it myself eventually.
The hubby finally bullied me into cutting his for him. He continued to leave the house afterwards, so I guess I must have done an okay job. I was pretty nervous, though.
Wifey does our haircuts but we all come out looking like poodles for some reason…
Hawt.
Shave it off and go for the Sinéad O’Connor look.
BTDT and Mr. Mojeaux was unhappy with me for quite some time. Not even the gypsy look with bright head scarves and gaudy earrings could make up for it.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
That’s all you’re gonna get.
Gypsy woman!
She’s never out of makeup
I have that one!!!
Heh. The first time I showed up at church like that, the bishop took my husband aside and asked him if everything was okay.
“Yeah, she just declared hair bankruptcy.”
Haha!
I assume you meant that as a reply to Mojeaux, since I keep my hair looking like my avatar.
If this shit goes on much longer, I’m going to have to start thinking about a man-bun.
Ponytail, yes. Man-bun……no. Please, just…..no.
The fact that I’m considering a man-bun should give you an idea of how bad I look with a ponytail. Think Simpsons Comic-Book Guy meets unemployed jazz saxophone player.
Maybe try altering the height or location of the ponytail. Low ponytails look terrible on me, but a nice one close to the crown of my head looks great. At least, try that, before you resort to the man-bun.
I will say something controversial: a man bun is acceptable if you are a gladiator or a samurai.
Hawt.
Some advice.
I’m kind of liking my longer hair. It’s just a matter of keeping it in check. I just switched to this: https://smoothviking.com/pages/smooth-viking-hair-forming-cream
I’m close to 6 months without a hair cut. Previously I would average one every 4-5 weeks.
I think my wife is setting up black market haircuts for the kids this weekend.
We are thinking of smuggling my neice in from Cali to do neighborhood haircuts. What a fucking mess
SNL centaur skit, with Christopher Walken – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_gG2kDbNw
As for scotch ales, I like the wee heavy ones. Robert the Bruce by 3 Floyds is my favorite. Had a milk porter called Honorary Girl Scout by Pontoon Brewing. I liked it.
random thought – There are hazing deaths at colleges every year. I forget the school, but after one particularly nasty death, hazing was banned and the school decided all fraternity activities had to be chaperoned by someone over 25. Well, the fraternities had a shit fit and that was the end of that. The deceased pledge got hammered and then was abandoned on a freezing mountain without warm clothes and told to walk miles back a night. He fell down a cliff and died of hypothermia because he couldn’t move. There’s something to be said for surviving danger. It makes one less prone to panic. We could use more of that now.
Portable generator question
We use ours a lot since it powers the grooming trailer. The past week it starts up fine cold, but on the next job it doesnt start up or it takes a few minutes to turn over.
Keeping up on extensive maintenance, new plug, new oil every 25-30 hours of use. Drain carb reservoir every two weeks (thinking might need to clean it soon).
Any mechanically inclined folks think of anything else? Choke maybe?
Takes a few minutes to turn over or fire?
yes
Battery? It either cranks and cranks with no fire or batt is shit and nothing. Maybe some heat sensor not allowing crankage since it has been sitting in a hot enclosed compartment.
Cool some good suggestions for me to look into
As WS said, not turning over is electrical issue. Sometimes the starter relay is affected by heat. Does the relay click when you try to start it? Turning over, but no firing is either spark or fuel mixture issue. Probably vapor lock if it only happens hot.
Manual choke or auto choke?
Do you run clear premium or regular ethanol laced gas?
Good point. That ethanol stuff fucks small engines nothing flat.
That beer sounds good. After polishing off some flat Red from my wife’s growler, I’m onto Miller Lite. Getting ready to go pick up more. Pork Butt probably has another couple hours on smoker. Wife made some tater salad to go with.
Leaving for my last day of work before layoff 2.0. Don’t burn the place down kids.
Any mechanically inclined folks think of anything else? Choke maybe?
Is the weather hot enough for vapor lock? If you shut it off and it sits, hot, for a short time maybe it’s “boiling” the gas out of the carburetor float bowl.
Does it live in an enclosed compartment in the trailer?
for transport its in the trailer and pulled out for use. Yes this started creeping up when the heat started to come. Hmm maybe vapor locked is it.
If the fuel cap vent is clogged it might be making a vacuum in the tank as fuel is drawn out. See if loosening the cap helps.
Damn Brooks and his threading issue…
Thermostat?
I was queued up outside a restaurant a bit ago, and the woman behind me in line (who is about my age) said “Im really sick of this shit. And our governor, too.”
It was quite refreshing to hear. The rest of the people in line (n=5 or so) seemed to be 20-somethings, masked and gloves, and I felt kinda sorry for them. To them this is normal and perfectly acceptable.
More and more are vocal in the supermarket lines with that same sentiments here in Vegas. Most are wealthy given our area so it is refreshing to here even the well-oft begin to rumble.
There’s something to be said for surviving danger. It makes one less prone to panic. We could use more of that now.
I won’t bore you with the whole story, but some jackass barely missed t-boning me on an icy icy road, one morning. I could see him coming, and I said to myself, “He can’t possibly make the corner.” He somehow or other managed to spin off back to the inside of the curve, into a stand of trees. I kept right on going. I was in a pretty darn good mood for the rest of the day.
Someone posted CDC stats and they estimate the number of flu cases to get the flu mortality rate, but for the Vid they only count positive tests and then add any number of excess deaths with no test to the death column. Hence a big number when there are up to 50x (by some studies) of Vidites roaming around.
There’s a CNN thing about “If you think Covid is just like the flu, YOU’RE WRONG!”
They start out by saying the last flu season killed some where between 25 and 65 thousand (something like that- nearly 100% plus-or-minus from the midpoint). Then they go on To quote some precise number ~68 thousand or so covid kills. Totally convincing. irrefutable.
This is the question that nobody with a microphone is asking the smart people. Would someone with a microphone please stop playing politics and get some decent explanations for us?
Two years ago was a bad flu season. Killed 80k in the US per CDC numbers. But killed nearly 900k in China. That’s a number that this thing might not reach globally. Yet everyone is in “sky is falling” mode over this, and nobody even knew that was a bad year until after the fact.
Is it because this one puts a bunch of people in the ICU before they die, but that one killed more quickly? I don’t know. Because nobody is asking the relevant questions.
Instead, they are asking Fauci to call Trump stupid and asking Trump to accept responsibility for being the biggest mass murderer in history.
“Would someone with a microphone please stop playing politics and get some decent explanations for us?”
They can’t because they dont know. The panic is being whipped up for political advantage and I am more than fed up with that shit. I am hoping I am not the only one.
#METOO
Add me to that list.
If you had told me back in March that people would be cowering in place through the end of May, I would have called you an insane idiot. Ahhh… to be that happy, motivated, ignorant fool again.
Yup. Strangely though, I heard from my boss back in February, who got it from her boss, who got it from much higher up, that they were planning on having us all WFH until *at least* August. So that was a justification to spend $300-500 per employee to let them kit out their home offices with new monitors, keyboards, spare power supplies, etc. For > 20,000 employees.
I’ve been working at home as part of my job for over 25 years so I already had a real desk, a room to work in with a door (very important), the ergo chair, triple monitor, UPS, KVM switches, blah blah blah, but all the goobers who just discovered that “work” is something you do instead of place you go got a bonus. Whatever, my stuff is mine so I can do what I want with it.
Still, it’s strange that at my large multinational company, the higher ups knew in advance.
I’ve seen through this shit from the beginning. There was maybe a couple of days right at the beginning when I thought that maybe the infection had a high mortality. But once it got out of China and we saw the infection/death rates in Europe, I knew it was just another Dem/Op/Media complex manufactured freakout.
Let me ask a silly question. I know people all over this country and all over the world. I talk to them all of the time. How is it possible that I don’t know one single person who even knows a single person that has had this killer virus? How is that possible when it’s killing almost everyone? Because if it is not as deadly as the Spanish Flu was, then these lock downs are pure non-sense, motivated by purely political reasons, while the media fans the flames 24/7.
My sister is an ICU Pulmonologist: literally the front line of front lines for this. If there’s anyone that would have a cognitive bias toward security vs. liberty in this case, it would be her. And even she says it’s overblown.
I know a guy who knows someone who had it. She is a nurse and tested positive. He said she had a bit of a fever felt kind of shitty and not much else. She went home for two weeks and that was the end of the story. It went away.
We don’t know anyone with it, but my MIL is in a nursing home down in Wisconsin that has about 20 cases (11 residents and 9 staff) but no deaths that I’m aware of.
The mother of an acquaintance, elderly, dementia for many years, died of it. As far as I know, that’s it for my circle.
My two cousins had it. Just getting over it 5 weeks later. They said it was like getting hit by a Mack truck. One is in his 40s and the other in his 30s.
This plays into the different strains are afoot theories. Some people get nothing some get slammed. I am still sticking to my thoughts this rolled through here in December and the two guys I know who had something that wasn’t flu according to their tests got laid out flat for a couple weeks. I had a cough that made my lungs hurt but just waved it away. I hate going to the doctor.
They live in NYC, for context.
Aaaaah. Daily subway users?
My MIL (Arizona).
My wife and I both had something that caused a cough and your chest to ache. Her cough was pretty bad and I was really worried, but after a couple of days, she just got better. My cough wasn’t as bad but my chest just ached. It lasted about a week and I had an on/off fever and chills.
Could have been anything, but we both wonder if we had it. That was back in late Feb/early March right before all the craziness happened. But I was visiting a client 3 times a week and I would walk through a large hospital on my way to get lunch and just to take my noon walk. There would always be a lot of foot traffic, so I wonder if I caught the corona and brought it home? I guess I’ll never know.
The biggest problem is not even the governors, it’s the media.
The real test is going to be when they have to inevitably lift these lock downs. Because when they do, they’ll already be planning their next move for this fall, because the media will go into overdrive trying to whip up more panic about ‘the next wave’ which will of course be way worse than the first one, no real evidence of such a prognostication needed, and it will occur right before the election and this time, it’s really going to kill everyone if they don’t stay inside and especially if they even think about going to polls to vote. They want this election to be paper ballot only so they can cheat. And when they get caught cheating, they’ll just say ‘Well, you know, turn about is fair play, they cheated and stole the 2016 election, so we had to do it’.
If people don’t resist the next lock downs this fall, then we’re in for this becoming a permanent feature where they can just lock you in your house anytime they want, for as long as they want.
The economy cannot possibly survive that, and when that happens, our experiment as a free and prosperous people will be over forever, we’ll get a dictator and surveillance police state just like China.
That’s what scares me the most, and why I’m researching real estate in South Dakota. They’ve done it once, the only question is when they’re going to do it again.
I’ve been picking out spots near Fairbanks, AK for a couple of years now. I have been putting off buying anything, but this may accelerate that timeline.
The wife and I were looking at real estate in Anchorage last night. Good grief, it’s way more expensive than MD.
Anchorage itself is pricey. If you want to be in South-Central AK, try looking down the Kenai or in Mat-Su. Otherwise, interior AK is cheap, cheap, cheap.
We’re looking at the arc from Big Lake to Palmer. Maybe out as far as Willow or Chickaloon if we find just the right place.
There was a time when they were giving away free land in North Dakota if you would move there. That clime is a little harsh for me, but I suppose I can grow stuff there about 3 months out of the year. Some greenhouses might be in order.
You don’t have to wonder, they’re going to do it again next flu season, so sometime in October.
It’s not like the flu. The flu kills thousands and thousands of kids and babies. This, not so much.
It’s not the flu! It’s eleventylevenest11!!111!!!ty times worse than any flu ever! You want people to die!
Good Lord. I learned to cut my own hair 35 years ago as I could not get a satisfactory hair cut in a barber shop. I also have the advantage of not giving a shit what it looks like as long as it is out of my eyes.
Y’all need to buy yourselves a good pair of scissors and a mirror.
Methinks that’s the more important piece of information.
I spent nearly all of my time with trees or a woman who already married me ….and here. Y’all cant see me. Trees dont care. Mrs. Suthenboy knows that no matter what my hair looks like I will step in front of a bullet for her.
My hair isn’t a big deal to anyone.
Yeah, we went down that road a couple of weeks ago. I had the same experience. Couldn’t stand making time to go to the barber, waiting in line, shelling out a bunch of cash…. and then getting a mediocre at best haircut.
I had shoulder length hair one Saturday and just said screw it… grabbed a pair of scissors and cut it myself. It turned out better than the professional cuts I’d been getting…. so that was it. A couple of years later I bought one of those Wahl clippers for $14 and never looked back. Any idiot can cut guy hair. I do my son’s, and he gets complements all the time. (which drives my wife nuts. She’s morally opposed to my do it yourself attitude, having worked in the service industry. She’d rather I pay $20 for a cut and leave a ten-spot as a tip.)
I need my professionally cut, perfectly coiffed hair though, Some of us still need to attract a mate 🙂
Robbie…is that you?
4 times Ive cut my own hair. Twice I was toilet-hugging, falling-down, shit-face, drunk. The other 2 I was absolutely sober.
Guess which times it looked decent ?
Silicone Saturday will lift your kilt.
http://archive.li/GAs1C
RE: Centaur phallus.
What makes you think he doesn’t have dicks in both places?
(That sound like a SugarFree/Mojeaux collaboration in the making)
Are you TRYING to break the internet?
“The Cod, The Cunte and The Government-Created Killer G-Spot Vibrator: The Story of How a Beautiful Young Princess Drowned in her own Vaginal Secretions”
O.
M.
G.
Alternatively.
LOL. I have a few friends who would appreciate that as a gift.
Ok, that seriously cracked me up.
Despite what you might think, it’s a really sweet little story. It’s not read-it-to-the-kids G-rated, but it’s cute.
Something boys of my generation did not understand because of the mores of the day was that girls are just as fascinated with sex as boys are.
The psychological implications of that…..made me laugh.
Years ago, there was a story about a guy who got arrested for having sex with a horse. He said he was trying to make a centaur.
A lot of people talk about centaurs, but he *did* something about it.
Anyway, the taur in centaur means bull, not horse (Taurus is the bull constellation) . The cen part means pierce. Minotaur means man bull.
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The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world, to nomads who were mounted on horses. The theory suggests that such riders would appear as half-man, half-animal. Bernal Díaz del Castillo reported that the Aztecs also had this misapprehension about Spanish cavalrymen.[16] The Lapith tribe of Thessaly, who were the kinsmen of the Centaurs in myth, were described as the inventors of horse-back riding by Greek writers. The Thessalian tribes also claimed their horse breeds were descended from the centaurs.
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Derpy, I want to tell you how much I appreciate these little asides you post. I really enjoy them.
I like to share tidbits I find interesting. This is a great place for that.
Autohippus would be he-horse or horse man, using the same construction pattern for echidna (she-viper, a half woman half snake creature).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)
What makes you think he doesn’t have dicks in both places?
Already done, including human/centaur sex in Wizard IIRC.
Reading weird shit like that as a tween probably explains a bunch about the man I’ve become.
He’s prepping for his new role as an anchor on CNN.
https://alphanewsmn.com/sven-sundgaard-fired-kare11/
They need to learn the difference between channel and network.
My sister and mom have a crush on him. He used to work in Duluth.
Seems the loading… is nearly complete
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/495580-a-hillary-clinton-barack-obama-ticket-to-replace-joe-biden
Best. Timeline. EVER.
PS: Can King Zero be VP?
What’s even funnier: the comments are all “tHe HiLl iS rIgHt-WiNg PrOpAgAnDa!!!11!!”
1) You have be Stalin himself to think The Hill is right-wing
2) Even the Commies know running Herself is a terrible idea
The Hill are slightly right of The Guardian, if that puts it into perspective.
I don’t think so.
A ticket is possible, an election win….not so much.
I really do hope they try to replace Biden at the convention and that the Bernie Bros riot and burn the entire place down, literally. I’m stocking up on popcorn.
I dont own a lot of CDs but if that happened I would want it on CD so I can watch it over and over and over and over…..
I lost count of how many times I watched CNN’s election night 2016 coverage. It never ceases to amuse me again.
Same here. What is funny is that they still dont get it.
I seem to remember them having a very brief moment of self awareness, but the next day they’d went batshit crazy and forgot all about that.
I still have people ask me how anyone could ever vote for Trump.
“He ran on putting America’s interests first. They ran on tranny bathrooms. Trump said Americans are good people. Herself called Americans deplorable. Do I really have to explain this?”
I usually get blank stares. Useful idiots except they arent all that useful.
Do you think this entire lockdown has been a cover to cancel the convention? Lol.
On the one hand, I don’t want to judge a man by his father. On the other hand, the apple does not fall far from the tree.
Obama Sr was crooked Kenyan bureaucrat. In a time and place that was notoriously corrupt, he managed to stand out. He once wrote a paper in which he seriously proposed a 100% tax rate. He showed up at conference and lied about being a famous economist only to end up bumping into that economist later.
About the only thing he did that was noteworthy was managing to father 2 more kids after having his legs amputated from a drunk driving accident.
You what I’d like? Some consistent baseline for spending. Say the fedgov spent $10k per person in some year. OK, that’s the limit. Keep it there. The budget would balance automatically if spending increases were kept below the rate of inflation.
They’re going to stop spending as soon as we run out of other people’s money.
Constitutionally speaking, it seems like it would work. There’s no legal limit on the number of times a person can be elected Vice President. Hildawg/Barack could win, Hillary keels over, Barack assumes the Presidency, and in 2024 Michelle Obama runs with hubby as VP again. Michelle wins and resigns on Jan 21, 2025, Barack assumes the Presidency…
I thought I remembered a comment on this site that pointed out that the VP needed to meet the eligibility standards for president, in which case BO is right out.
The article posted quotes part of the 12th and 25th.
I’m just a simple man, but it seems the “ineligible to be president can’t run for VP” thing in the 12th would pretty much ice it. But I guess if “shall not be infringed” can be misinterpreted…
Nothing to stop it from being Hillary and the Wookie, though.
Warren will be on the ticket regardless, because it’s what the top democrat donors and the DNC want. The fix is in. I still think it will be Biden/Warren. They’re not going to allow an in person convention OR anhy debates OR voting at the polls. So it doesn’t really matter if Biden is brain dead before the election or not, no one is ever going to see or hear from him in public again. If there needs to be any post election press conferences, Warren will do them.
Warren is hated by Wall Street where a lot of the money men work. If they pick her it will because they think they don’t need them and I doubt that will ever happen.
It’s all rhetoric. You can’t really believe that Warren is going to go after the fat cats on Wall Street. She’ll go after the middle class good and hard. The rich are not going to pay more taxes, because they’re too much of a moving target. If you really want more tax revenue, you take the easy road and squeeze the life blood out of the poor payroll tax slaves.
It’s going to be Klobuchar, I think. Milquetoast personality from a possible swing state(not likely, but you never know). I don’t think Biden’s handlers will make a VP pich from an already solid blue area.
I think it is going to be fought over behind the scenes. Biden is a puppet at this point, so who selects the VP? The various factions in the Party will have to figure it out. Too bad no one smokes any more because this calls for a smoke filled room.
As much as that ticket would make for some great material for SF, those two hate each other, and you really can’t blame either one for it. At least they both got that right.
By definition the Centaur is a horse from the waist down. A better question is if a Centaur would be sexually attracted to horses, humans, other Centaurs, or a combination of all three?
I have a vague memory that Piers Anthony wrote a bit about the romantic proclivities of Centaurs in his Xanth series.
The beer sounds good.
I’m back from the Rally to Reopen NH. It was good. I will write up a report for a mailing list I’m on, then write up something for Glibs.
“I’m back from the Rally to Reopen NH”
Any hot babes?
It’s New Hampshire in early spring, so…
Of course DEG was walking around with his camera saying ‘show me your tits!’.
I saw a few attractive women.
“I’m back from the Rally to Reopen NH. It was good. I will write up a report for a mailing list I’m on, then write up something for Glibs.”
Thanks, that would be great.
You’re welcome!
Jugsy has a part-time employee that participated in one of the rallys in our state capitol.
She’s a 30s-something woman of color, which I found surprising.
The NH rally was very white. On the other hand, NH is very white.
I’m not surprised that in states with more diverse populations, that we’ll start seeing more diverse protests. Unemployment and businesses collapsing suck not matter what your skin color is.
I would have been there if I (as well as my mom) weren’t one of the high risk people who actually should stay indoors.
You do what you need to.
No matter what, they’re going to make sure the only impression of these rallies will be a bunch of white men with confederate flags gathering around, and contracting coronavirus.
The weather is finally starting to break here in MD. I just had to water my maters, they’re getting loaded with blooms. Hopefully with the weather getting nice people will start wanting to get outside and start revolting against this lock down bullshit.
RE: NM sealing off Gallup.
I sense some kind of lawsuit that will ultimately be dismissed. Then we can have checkpoints going into every major city in which you’ll have to show your permission slip for travel.
Related:
https://www.axios.com/future-air-travel-coronavirus-bcee181c-1d3a-4305-992d-053d5c80a909.html
Blood tests before boarding? Fuck. These. People.
They want a complete technocratic police/surveillance state, like China has. The Constitution will not be worth the paper it’s written on, the first and second amendments will be null and void, but you know, they have our best interests in mind, they have to keep us safe, we might get a cold or something.
In the days of yore, a deadly disease with no cure sprang up. First it was called GRID (gay related immune deficiency) because it seemed to affect gay people the most. Health officials in San Fran proposed closing the bath houses, but that was met with howls of protests. No social distancing in those days.
It’s interesting that a group that at the time was far more unpopular was able to successfully resist that restrictions on their freedom. I guess if you’re already a criminal, you don’t have much to lose by breaking more laws.
“I guess if you’re already a criminal, you don’t have much to lose by breaking more laws.”
Absolutely this. The suburban indoor cats have a life of comfort and “too much to lose” to push back. Gays at that time were a stigmatized, marginal population that didn’t have much to lose by fighting.
Makes me want to watch “The Ritz” again.
And what a wonderful movie that is. Always worth a watch, a great cast and filmed in a real bath house in NY.
You probably like Treat Williams, don’t you?
It really depends on the role. I’m a big fan of Jack Weston, Rita Moreno is great when she’s chewing the scenery, Kaye Ballard is always fun, and let us not overlook F. Murray Abraham 😉
I am not a fan of either of the Stillers; I’ll concede this may be Jerry’s finest role.
Whoa, Treat huh? Someone mentioned him today, Ozymandias looks like him….
Give up sports and take up modeling full time.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/other-sports/worlds-sexiest-athlete-alica-schmidt-21963535
Michelle Jenneke has competition.
apologies if this has been posted already – Hillary endorses Biden
the like/dislike ratio is a faint ray of hope in my dreary world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRkxlPE-ZaQ
I just realized there might be meat shortages by the 4th of July.
No burgers for ‘Murka Fuck Yeah Day?!
OUTRAGEOUS!
I saw signs all over the meat section that there are currently no restrictions on ground beef. Perhaps I should consider a Strategic Beef Reserve.
Time to stock up, no doubt.
Done and done, make sure your freezer works well…
The Giant Eagle I went to earlier this week had a limit on their advertised ground beef special (3 lb bulk packs of 80/20 ground beef at $2.49/lb) of two per person. I’ve also noticed the ad flyers have finally caught up to the current crisis. Instead of 6-12 pages of lowered prices, they’re down to 3 pages (with one being an ad for their reward program).
Estimates:
If you brought me a car to fix, and I said it will cost somewhere between $20k and $100k (maybe more, maybe less, depending on the breaks), what would you say?
How can anybody take these “experts” seriously?
“So, what you’re saying is, you don’t have a fucking clue,” should be the bulk of any transcript of 92.4% of the interviews held to date.
We talking lifetime ceramic pads here, or that cheap Chinese shit out of Wuhan?
There’s a DIlbert comic about how estimates become facts:
First, some dope makes a wild guess: I dunno, could be anything from 1 to a million.
Next, an expert weighs in: It could be as high as a million.
Then the media reports it: Experts say one million.
Apparently, the origin of all this hysteria was some guy in Britain who is a climate change alarmist. He predicted millions of deaths in the UK alone. That alone started the entire hysteria ball rolling.
Wife is asking for me to cut her hair now. We’ll see.
DON’T, nothing good will come from it, unless you are Harry and Caesar,
/ Gay hair stylists I knew
All male hair stylists are gay. A guy who used to be my stylist was named Walter. How’d I know he was gay? Not that I would have suspected it, but he would tell you in the first 5 minutes if you were a new client. Serioulsy, ‘Well, I’m gay you know and…’ Really? I never could have guessed.
Be careful there.
20 years ago, I knew a guy who owned a salon. Despite it being the early 2000s, he looked and dressed like an 80’s rock star. Yet, he was banging every single hairdresser that worked for him, as well as some of his clients.
Just make sure you know who your wife/girlfriend’s stylist is, is all I’m saying.
Sorry dude, I didn’t know you’re a gay stylist! No offense intended!
If I were, I’d be getting laid right now instead of hanging out in this place.
Well, you have a point…
shampoo
I sense some kind of lawsuit that will ultimately be dismissed. Then we can have checkpoints going into every major city in which you’ll have to show your permission slip for travel.
Already been done, in Michigan.
The court ruled the governor’s political interests outweigh your freedom and economic interests. Shut up and OBEY.
Federalism for the win, we are wide open in BhC AZ, other parts of AZ? not so much from what I have heard,
/Small town, different rules..
I really hope there’s an appeal on that abomination of a ruling.
The Hero we Need.
It’s happening!!!!
libertarian moment?
We only get one, so savor it.
Oh shit, I blinked and it was over!
Um….that happened in 1776.
I had a libertarian movement this morning and 2 yesterday.
At this rate, I’ll outshit a flock of geese.
From Yes, Minister
It’s the oldest fallacy in the book. We must do something. This is something, therefore we must do it. All cats have 4 legs, my dog has 4 legs, therefore my dog is a cat.
QED
For the children!
That GPS track got a good lol.
There it is. Love that talking point.
The new Dem talking point is “more deaths than Vietnam” – I’ve seen it multiple times today including this article. Coincidence?
Not really. Moral equivalency to war is a fairly standard tactic to justify statism.
While the GOP fight a war on women, the dems are fighting a war on everything. For the children.
Enthusiastic consent
He’s not perfect, but he’s not Donald Trump. If Biden is elected, he will surely begin to mend this broken country, renew our standing in the world, stop the demonization of immigrants, expand access to healthcare, appoint judges who put people over corporations and try to save us all from climate change.
Which, at this particular moment in history, is good enough for me.
“Look, we all know Beelzebub is not universally well liked, and he may have done some bad things along the way. What’s the point of digging up those old skeletons? We just have to look forward. If it’s him or President Cartoon Villain…. Our choice is clear.”
Biden is absolutely the evilest person alive today in US politics. Of course he has absolutely no idea what he’s going these days. Which is why they’ll use Warren to achieve all of their freedom killing agenda and Biden will just sit there like a drooling idiot and sign whatever it is. If you put a bill before him authorizing the execution of 200 million Americans, he’d sign it.
Biden is absolutely the evilest person alive today in US politics
Ok, get serious. He wasn’t even top 15 in the Democrat primary.
He helped write the ’94 Crime Bill. Which drastically increased police abuses, ramped up the drug war even harder to increase incarceration, made minimum sentences and three strike rules mandatory, put hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people in prison over the last twenty-five years or so….that alone means has caused more human suffering than almost all the other people on that stage combined. It makes him even worse than Harris. She’s just an acolyte spawned from the mindset ingrained in that bill.
I’m dead serious. He’s the worst piece of human dung in politics today, the only one even close is Hillary.
Look fat, every candidate the R’s nominate is literally Hitler and every candidate the D’s nominate is literally Stalin, and every election is the most important election ever.
Sounds like something that imbecile Frank Bruni would write. Hillary is like a sprig of dill on a grilled salmon you know. Hillary is Biden in a pantsuit.
most libertarian song ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XOtDaWN_RQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFqqNROdPg
This one actually uses the word ‘libertarian’ in it.
I think this might have been written as a critique of the “greedy libertarian” but we can own it and make it ours.
I’m disappointed in all of you. The Plan.
That’s good but it doesn’t say anything anything at all about grass, or ass-sex, or mexicans, or prison or getting drunk. see if they can sit down and write another verse.
Analysis
It was the classic play to the base that Trump has mastered, stirring the fealty of his most loyal supporters and stoking the controversy that he thrives on — even if it meant ignoring his own administration’s recommendations on social distancing to support a demonstration where few wore masks and even fewer stayed the recommended six feet from one another. In the past, his gambles have had few political consequences — most memorably when he described a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville as having “very fine people on both sides.”
But these are very different, somber times and Trump seems to believe he doesn’t need to adapt his political strategy, even as he looks toward a difficult reelection campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running as a uniter rather than a divider.
A pandemic is sweeping the globe, taking the lives of more Americans in just nine weeks than were killed during the Vietnam War. Many people are scared, desperate for steady leadership and grieving the losses of neighbors, loved ones and the medical professionals sickened while caring for coronavirus patients. As the death toll continues to climb, it is hard to imagine that voters will have as much patience this fall for the trivial quarrels Trump incites — though his resiliency surprised us before.
Does the Biden campaign have to assign a cash value to this political advertisement and declare it as a campaign contribution?
They should.
I went to the drive through liquid store today. I asked the guy for a bottle of Espolon and handed him my money. When I got home I opened the bag and found this. I am not sure how that happened but I’m good with it and it is not bad at all. I usually buy much cheaper so this is me splurging.
Looks like you were given a cheaper product instead of what you paid for – I’d be cheesed off, although it’s not a huge price difference.
Funny how those mistakes never leave you with an unexpected bottle of Grand Patron or Pappy Van Winkle.
Nah, he rang up the bottle he brought to the counter. He just must not have understood me , and I was even sober, or did not know the tequilas on the shelf. I used to drink Espolon all the time but the price doubled in about two years. I am usually buying the cheapest bottom shelf. Two Fingers. Not something you are going to sip but with enough lime and soda it works well enough. I have dropped the coin for Don Julio and the Patron’s before in a prior life, but those days are over.
interesting: West Point graduation gets the go ahead
I’ll give you minute to guess how the media spins it.
Ready?
Trump forcing West Point graduates to risk coronavirus for his ego disrespects their work
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-forcing-west-point-graduates-risk-coronavirus-his-ego-disrespects-ncna1195576
It’s literally in the Hot Take section.
Best timeline ever!
Are we 100% sure that none of them want to do it, unless they are forced by the orange fuhrer?
I know, among the civilian population, 97% favor staying locked down forever. But I’d just like to get some numbers on the West Point graduates, just for curiosity’s sake.
If they’re like other college grads, they want to go. Anyone with a perspective on risk is tired of this gross over-reaction.
They’re also young and healthy and at near zero risk from this. But we have to keep them locked inside anyway.
“To function ethically demands that you never function outside the law.”
Any thoughts on this statement?
I’d assume that means you need to stop breathing right now since everything is against the law if they decide to make an example of you. 3 felonies a day, that’s the rulez.
Tell it to Sir Thomas More.
Depends on the state of the law in your society. Ideally I think there would be truth in this. Unfortunately we have never realized an ideal state of law.
Yes, very idealized. And I wonder if the writer actually believes it.
It is both wrong and evil.
Many many, many laws are evil and I would be as well if I adhered to them.
The law is more often than not intentionally immoral and unjust, so that is a profoundly stupid statement.
Needz moar hate crime and terrorism
A Texas park ranger advising revelers at a lake to practice social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic was shoved into the water.
The ranger, identified in an Austin police report as Cassidy Zukeran Stillwell, was telling a group of parkgoers at Lake Austin to spread apart when he was pushed. Thursday’s scene was captured on video and shared on social media.
“Disperse yourselves,” Stillwell can be heard saying in the video. “You’re not engaging in that six feet of distance with each other.”
“I got you man,” a reveler responds. “I got you.”
Shortly afterward, a man pushes the ranger with one hand, and, as the ranger begins to fall, he grabs the man but slips and becomes fully emerged in the water.
Brandon James Hicks, 25, was arrested on suspicion of assault on a public servant and damaging city property, the ranger’s emergency radio. Officials said he could have “caused the Ranger to strike his head on the dock as he was falling, and render himself unconscious in at least three feet of water where he could have drowned to death,” according to a police report obtained by NBC affiliate KXAN.
It’s like bombing a government office building.
“Cassidy Zukeran Stillwell”
He should be pushed into the water just for having that name.
“he could have drowned to death”
That’s some mighty fine articulating right there.
I saw the video. He did not strike his head.
But he could have stiked his head and drowned to death, and drugs could have fell out of his ass!
The pushbacks articles are giving me a glimmer of hope. I’ll wait for the next announcement from our governor to let the hope get crushed again.
Park rangers and conservation officers, etc, have been turning into petty little tyrant wannabes for a long time.
When I was in my 20s, you know back when dinosaurs still roamed Pangaea, I was canoeing a stretch of river with a friend. When we got to our destination, we were portaging the canoe to my truck and this dude walks up to me and I note his hat and uniform. Conservation officer. So I’m thinking, oh, he’s going to check my fishing license, only we weren’t fishing that day and there was no gear in the canoe or in my truck.
So I looked at him and smiled and said ‘hey’. Only the guy was not smiling, he looked angry, so I started wondering ‘what the fuck?’.
So he says ‘You boys been trapping today?’
I said ‘Trapping? Umm… no, we just floated a stretch of the river, enjoying this great weather’.
The guy looks even more agitated and starts looking through my canoe and in my truck frantically and says ‘You guys have been trapping!’.
At this point, I’m just looking at the guy…
So he starts rattling off these fine numbers and possible imprisonment numbers for ‘trapping’ on the river.
I just turned around, my friend was already in the truck, walked to my truck and got in, started the truck and drove off. Fuck that guy. He didn’t look to be wearing a gun, but he sure had a big stick up his ass. My friend says ‘What the fuck was up with Wyatt Earp there?’.
I hate to think how bad it’s gotten these days.
So… catch anything in the traps that day?
I’ve never seen a fucking trap in my life. I wanted to punch that little fucker right in the mouth, and the only thing that stopped me was that I would probably get a criminal record and jail time for it. So I did the next best thing and just ignored him. He was still talking as I drove off.
It’s happening!
Mobile Phone Data Show More Americans Are Leaving Their Homes, Despite Orders
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/01/849161820/mobile-phone-data-show-more-americans-are-leaving-their-homes-despite-orders
The graph shows *more* Americans were staying home *before* the emergency was declared. It turns out that declaring an emergency is a great way to get everyone to flood the stores and panic buy.
Unintended consequences, feature not bug.
“To function ethically demands that you never function outside the law.”
Any thoughts on this statement?
Bullshit.
Would context change your response?
When working in a health care setting–To function ethically demands…
The statement hurts my head a little. It seems like a great leap of faith to believe that “the law” is always ethical, just, moral, or right.
“to believe that “the law” is always ethical, just, moral, or right.”
War on drugs. Nuff said.
I assert no system of law has ever been completely ethical, moral, or right. Prove me wrong. Until then, the claim that ethics requires full adherence to the law is incorrect and evil.
That is a short and to the point thought.
If you behave ethically, the law is either irrelevant or seeks to punish you.
If you are behaving unethically, either the law seeks to punish you or is irrelevant.
“he could have drowned to death”
Don’t leave out “becomes fully emerged in the water.”
I think the word you’re looking for is “immersed” you dummy. I guess it would be racist and ableist for NBC to restrict themselves to hiring literate english speakers.
<em. It seems like a great leap of faith to believe that “the law” is always ethical, just, moral, or right.
It’s a palpably preposterous assertion.
I spent an evening with some Tea Party folks when that was a thing. Anyway, I met a guy who immigrated to the US from Germany. He was about 50 at the time. He was expounding on the importance of the constitution and the rule of law. I asked him what he thought about Prohibition. Alcohol went from legal to illegal to legal again all because the constitution said so. My point was that if it’s possible to make dumb laws that are constitutional, that’s a serious flaw in the thing. If the law is the law, as he said, and the law can change, then what good is the law?
I like Heinlein’s rule of something like a 10% vote to repeal a law and a 90% vote to make one. Others have said that would have prevented slavery from being outlawed.
If you start with a set of laws that 90% of people agree on, you get a pretty short list of laws that are hell of a lot easier to enforce.