You know what, seven hours in the car to see a rocket launch yesterday would have been okay. Seven hours to eat a mediocre dinner and have some ice cream in Cocoa Beach feels wasted. I was pretty sure the launch was gonna be scrubbed, but if you gamble on that and are wrong, you feel like an even bigger asshole than putting your family in a car for seven hours. We’ll watch the weather this weekend and see about going back out there.
Florida Man finds alligator chillin’ on his alligator floatie in his pool. Just another day.
Florida Woman leaves child and dog in car to go get high and/or steal shit to get high. In true Florida Woman fashion, the news had an old mugshot to run.
I’m not sure a rodeo in Cheyenne is really COVID central. That just sucks. Gonna be a lotta hungry rodeo folks.
I’m really digging the Senator Bluto act.
December 7th, you know, D day
At least he didn’t give us VD day.
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
I thought that was the day we put men on mars?
*There is no IQ or competency test required to run for any office*
Animal House’s D-Day’s full name was Daniel Simpson Day.
Whereabouts unknown…
STOP MAKING FUN OF BIDEN! IT’S NOT RIGHT!
But it’s fun.
And it’s right, too.
Cheyenne wants to be like big boys: today Boston canceled the 2020 marathon previously postponed until September.
Having the marathon would be good for Trump, therefore no marathon.
That’s what half the bullshit with the masks is – “I must wear a mask because Trump failed us.”
Is there any way to turn off the overlay so we can select the pictures on the front page?
Probably not that we can do. What are you asking exactly? Are you doing an article and trying to use the “featured” (aka feed, front page) illo in an article?
I’m asking if there is a way to select pictures on the front page, to view them larger, save them, etc.
Click and drag to the desktop works on my Mac.
Nope.
That just gives a web location document.
“an old mugshot”
That’s one blurry picture.
In Florida, the mugshot is also used for the dating app, so you might want a blurry picture.
Was the camera drunk too?
They put vasaline on the lens.
Learned it from the cameraman on the Moonlighting set.
didnt Bob Guccione do that, too ?
Yes.
Is this tweet an accurate summation of the new data? I don’t know.
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1265795882953379841
A strong tweet without links to any evidence. Where’s a link to the report?
It is, except for places such as NYC.
We’ve gone full Monty Python.
one way hallways
My next class is 3 doors down, but I have to walk all the way around the building to get there.
That’s by design, to replace the PE classes.
“here’s your ball, keep walking”
It’s like they’re using Kryptonite against you.
Good luck with those rules.. they will make prisons look like playgrounds.
I really hope things get much back to normal by then. It would be hilarious to see about 4 states still on complete lockdown when the rest of the country has been going about their business for months. Kind of like one of those lone Japanese soldiers they found on a remote island who thought the war was still going on 10 years after it ended.
It’d be even more hilarious if some of them held out for thirty years.
At least they can play with their balls.
From thatguy’s feed:
“Norway health chief: lockdown was not needed to tame Covid”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/norway-health-chief-lockdown-was-not-needed-to-tame-covid
“The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.”
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-cdc-confirms-remarkably-low-coronavirus-death-rate-where-is-the-media
As the testing has been ramped up, the infection rate keeps dropping too. So the left is no longer kvetching about not enough testing. And to distract from the blue-state mistake of sticking infected people in nursing homes against the wishes of their families, now it’s just the existence of the virus is a failure of Trump.
I would love to think there’s tremendous backlash stewing. I mean, let’s grant that the lockdown was necessary assuming the original models were accurate… these people have guaranteed that we will never obey another quarantine, at least not with major unrest, if we ever truly need it. If you’re a quarantine supporter, that should piss you off as much as quarantine resistors are rightly pissed off.
Of course, this will break along political lines for a good many people, so the lockdown deadender and covid doomsday cultists will continue screaming bloody murder over lifting restrictions.
not without major unrest
And even with the rest of California starting to open up, the six Bay Area counties are ‘taking their own measures’ and are still in full lockdown, saying it’s ‘not safe to reopen so fast’. And unbelievably enough, in this solidly Democratic area, seemingly no one is making the slightest complaint about it.
Wyoming is already social distancing.
“Choking up as he reminisced about his own involvement in rodeo as a youth, Gordon announced he would ease up on public health orders to allow outdoor gatherings of up to 250 people but no more.”
That makes no sense.
The rodeo organizers don’t need to say “we can’t risk exposure”. At this point, just say “we can’t put it together at short notice and nobody knew on any given day what new idiocy the government would bring about .”
RC Dean’s knives are the best Chinese steel you can buy and his boxers have a dickhole in the front and back.
que?
Shhhh…I’m just trying to continue the cool knife discussion.
Resolved: That knife people make gun people look flat fucking normal by comparison.
Say you bought a hi-point in a gun group and post the replies.
You can at least use it to keep your door open.
The replies would all be along the lines of, “Stop fucking lying, Sheldon, you didn’t buy a fucking Hi-Point.”
Corona steel?
Commie tin
*sigh*
German or Japanese steel, bub. Say what you want about the Axis, they make good knives.
Boxers? I don’t even have Boxers. And if I did, I wouldn’t put my dick in either hole. But you do you, bacon-magic.
A sobering glimpse at the state of America, courtesy of John McAfee.
MY EYES!!!
That looks like a cartoon character on one of the current stupid cartoon channels.
(Looney Tunes was the best)
*pours bleach in eyes, scrabbles for a silver lining*
Looking at the chalkboard, that’s not ‘murica. The googles says it’s Portugal.
“I want to remind you that Delaware used to be part of Pennsylvania,” Wolf laughed.
“That’s right, but we declared our independence on December the 7th, by the way,” Biden replied.
Delaware actually declared independence — both from Pennsylvania and British colonial rule — on June 15, 1776.
“That’s not just D-Day,” Biden continued, still laughing.
“You should have been there for the independence pool party on September 11. It was great fun. You know, the kids love the hair on my legs because it moves like seaweed in the waves.”, added Biden while chuckling heartily.
Andy Ngô
@MrAndyNgo
At the Target in Minneapolis that was being looted tonight during the BLM riot, a woman in a wheelchair was attacked.
A few repliers say she was attempting to stab some of the
rioterspeaceful demonstrators, which seems… courageous.Yeah if you scroll down it does appear she had a knife. Why she took it upon herself to stop a riot is beyond me.
Courageous…more like stupid.It’s incredibly dumb.
It’s a fine line.
Between love and hate, no doubt.
Others would sit there and do nothing, but she wasn’t going to roll over.
Don’t try to spin this.
Violence begets violence. Round and round we go.
The wheels of justice are turning.
How’d she end up in the chair, roller derby accident?
Coulda been self-defense.
Relevant
TIME Names Karen Person Of The Year
LOL
I like the line about Greta Thunberg being the Climate Karen.
Donald Trump supporters, outraged by Time’s snub of the president, wrote letters to the editor and threatened to call the police.
*applause*
Went in for bilateral hernia surgery today. Doc decided second one was too minimal and risk of doing it was higher than danger from it, so only did one. I am hepped up on goofballs right now.
I like this doc. He is like a young doogie howser.
Or maybe I am old.
Doogie Howser was 14 years old. A young Doogie Howser would be 7 years old.
Yes, I am aware. This doc is freaking young. But good.
Bilateral? A bilateral inguinal hernia?
Yikes. Did your doc do an “own-tissue” repair, or did he use a tensionless mesh? I got a mesh repair for a right inguinal hernia about ten years ago, and it’s held up like a charm.
Oh yeah, take your pain meds. Don’t be a hero. It’s a lot easier to keep pain under control than it is to get pain back under control. If they’re opioids, try to limit solid food, unless you like being bunged up. I survived on a case of Boost drinks/day (around 1500 calories), and had no problems with constipation once I didn’t need the opioids any more (about three days).
Mesh. Right. Iguana ( I cant spell that word).
Make sure to gently move around as much as you can. Otherwise the mesh will scar over in such a way as to make it very stiff, and you don’t want that. I started the day of the operation, just gentle walking to and fro in the house, between naps. By the end of the first week, I was outside, doing half-klicks, and by the end of the second week, multiple klicks per day.
Good luck!
Mission accomplished….. dryer put back together, no extra parts or screws and it works. I’d rate that at about 2/5 screwdrivers for degree of difficulty.
Good job! My dryer motor needs replacing, but I don’t really need one right now, and I’m too lazy to pull it out, it’s a stackable Washer /dryer thingy
1.5 minutes in the Bullhead sun. Dry up anything.
A month ago I posted a link to the study of the relative effectiveness of different regulations on covid.
Lockdown and school closings were completely ineffective.
Congrats to the CDC for catching up.
Trump Announces He’s Leaving Twitter For Myspace
Shooter Released After Authorities Determine All Victims Died Of COVID
Was the alligator trying to mate with the alligator floaty?
I bet he was serenading that sweet floaty with sexy alligator ballads like “These boots were made for walkin”
Crocodile Rock
1 in 5 teachers are unlikely to return to reopened classrooms this fall, poll says
In an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos poll, 1 in 5 teachers say they are unlikely to go back to school if their classrooms reopen in the fall, a potential massive wave of resignations. Though most teachers report working more than usual, nearly two-thirds say they haven’t been able to properly do their jobs in an educational system upended by the coronavirus.
A separate poll of parents with at least one child in grades K-12 finds that 6in 10 say they would be likely to pursue at-home learning options instead of sending back their children this fall. Nearly a third of parents, 30%, say they are “very likely” to do that.
This means we can do education with less money now, right?
I call bullshit. Teachers aren’t quitting and walking away from pensions over this crap.
Exactly. More “I iz scared of everything becuz Trump!!!”
They may not quit, but I bet the union would file some pretty heart-wrenching mental distress claims.
The other 40% of parents have jobs.
I really doubt that by August most parents are going to feel the same about not sending their kids back to school.
It’s not even so much about myself. My daughter’s miserable sitting at home. All she wants to do is get back to school so she can see her friends again.
Sorry, friendship is illegal becuz Trump.
It’s going to be interesting to see whether there’s a homeschooling Renaissance or not. The pieces are in place.
I think there will be to some degree, but the universities are going to take a big hit.
I remember about 5 years ago or so Salman Khan (of the eponymous academy) said that in about 15 years (which would’ve been by 2029) he didn’t think that in-person college education would really be much of a thing anymore, and that most education would be online.
I really think we’re heading that way. Why go to one school and pay all those fees? You could take an economics courts from the University of Chicago and an engineering class from Stanford in the same quarter. It would be great.
Helping kids with online school can suck. But in general the high school and college kids are doing this all on their own and I’ll bet for the most part they like it.
Yeah, mine is in 5th grade and it’s been difficult. If she was 5 years older I’m sure it would’ve been a lot different.
All she wants to do is get back to school so she can see her friends again.
Doesn’t she see them during the summer?
This means we can do education with less money now, right?
I broke a rib laughing.
I’m strongly considering homeschooling our kids. The hardest part is missing friends and my boys play sports. I’m pretty sure they can still play, but it may be awkward, especially at first.
Frankly I’ve been thinking about it or a while anyway, but getting a closer look at what’s being taught, I’d rather they get a real education. I’ve looked at a few places. Ron Paul homeschool is at the top of the list, with a few other curriculums as fillers.
The beauty of Ron Paul homeschool is it’s self taught, video based and has regular writing assignments. The self taught allows less work from the parents’ standpoint and my kids are old enough that both my wife and I can work and the kids can be home alone during the day.
The toughest part is getting the wife on board. She’s still skeptical and thinks the friend thing is a deal breaker. I think they’d figure it out fairly quickly.
My son played lacrosse with a homeschooled kid in elementary and middle school. The kid then ended up going to the local HS.
He was a good kid and participated in a lot of stuff.
Go for it.
My kid has learned triple in the last few months, compared to the rest of the school year. I assume it’s because , well, he’s a spirited kid and the teachers give up and let him refuse to do the work. I make him. I have to go back to work June 8 and my wife is going to have to try and work it out by herself for awhile, but I would love to continue otherwise. I’m probably going to do some extra teaching after work, when I can.
She’s still skeptical and thinks the friend thing is a deal breaker.
What do the kids think?
I mean, there is value in being socialized into the prison-yard milieu of public schools, I suppose, but I would hope that good friends get together outside of school. Being homeschooled wouldn’t step on that.
Two points to add to this:
1) friends need not all come from a 12 month cohort. I think one of the massive disservices that modern schooling does is silo kids by age. I think it has massive social, psychological, and emotional impact, nearly all negative.
2) kids arent being shown homeschooling at its best. Parents are scrambling, the world is locked down. No question in my mind that there would be a massive increase in resources and social opportunity to meet the demand in the long term.
I think one of the massive disservices that modern schooling does is silo kids by age. I think it has massive social, psychological, and emotional impact, nearly all negative.
So much this. It was something of a revelation to have friends spanning a wide range, once I hit college and beyond.
In retrospect, the division by age is surely unnatural.
Agreed on both points. The main reason my oldest got into baseball was because an older boy saw he had potential and took him under his wing.
The kids are not in favor, but they don’t get a vote. They see it as they will never get to see friends. Obviously that is not the case and kids are terrible at seeing the big picture and anything past the short term.
I agree that as long as they can play sports they will be fine. We live out of town, so friends getting together is already a chore. Nothing much would change there.
Let slip the dogs of war?
The Chinese army must step up combat readiness, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said, as the country increases defence spending to tackle “security threats from Taiwan independence forces”.
Xi told Chinese military officers on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had performed well in helping to contain the Covid-19 outbreak but should explore new ways of training during the pandemic.
“It is necessary to explore ways of training and preparing for war because epidemic control efforts have been normalised,” Xi was quoted by state news agency Xinhua. “It is necessary to step up preparations for armed combat, to flexibly carry out actual combat military training, and to improve our military’s ability to perform military missions.”
Xi, who chairs the Central Military Commission, said the pandemic had created challenges for the military, but China’s integration of the civil, military and political spheres had been an advantage during the crisis.
I hardly consider Taiwan a military threat to China.
Neither does China, which is why they’re considering military options against Taiwan.
China angling for a false flag, perhaps?
Taiwan is just sitting there, right in the middle of China’s ocean.
How can they let that stand?
Taiwan needs to trade with the Mainland to bring peace.
Let the Taiwanese buy a thousand cruise missiles, kitted out for anti-shipping or land-based targets. Bonus for nuclear-capable (if there is such a thing).
Problem solved.
Most of the cruise missiles started as nuke only and then were converted to conventional.
I really need to get to the dispensary this weekend. I’m out and my stress levels have been through the roof lately.
“EXCLUSIVE: Stressed out frontline nurses admit they are at a breaking point with 68% planning to quit their jobs, while 50% say they can’t concentrate on patient care due to unprecedented levels of anxiety and emotional strain, shocking new survey reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8363259/Stressed-frontline-nurses-breaking-point-69-planning-quit-new-survey-reveals.html
Maybe make fewer tik tok videos?
I’ll bet you’d get exactly the same results regardless of occupation. The anxiety and emotional strain is result of the lockdowns and non-stop panic pushing.
Good point.
Maybe RC can chime in here. Are hospitals getting back to normal nursing shifts or are they still mostly doing the longer-becuz-risk-of-infection shifts they implemented in Fed/March?
We never had longer shifts. We are slowly bringing our nurses back to work as volume creeps up. Early on in the “crisis” we paid a full ICUs worth of nurses to stay home and not work for two weeks, to make sure we had a set that could work if we saw a lot of sick-outs from the ‘Vid. We didn’t.
The biggest complaint we have had is we put all our ICU-capable nurses on ICU rotations. Some of them had taken other positions, because ICU work is damned hard. We were running essentially two new ICUs to deal with the ‘Vid patients, but we’re almost back to normal on that front now.
I couldn’t tell from the article in a British paper if those were American or British nurses.
Quit their jobs and do what, for nurse pay?
And 3 12-hour days that count as full time?
68% planning
Work through the virus and then quit? That makes sense.
Also, that mini-van ain’t a gonna pay for itself.
Is this one of the polls we believe because it confirms our biases?
“Staten Island tanning salon is shut down by the NYPD after defying lockdown orders to reopen – as hundreds of small businesses quietly open their doors despite warnings from de Blasio that they’ll be fined for disobeying him
Catone told DailyMail.com: ‘The problem is they don’t give you a date. Now it’s phases. It went from flatten the curve to now I’ve got to wait a little longer.. we did that. Everybody did that. We were willing to sit in, make no money – it’s not healthy to stay in, first of all, after a few weeks people started realizing this isn’t really making much sense.
‘We did our jobs. We trusted you. Now you’re not trusting us.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8359399/Small-businesses-defy-shutdown-order-reopen-NYC.html
You fucked up… you trusted them.
Doesn’t he know only Cuomo gets to murder granny?
Like Nixon going to China?
Wouldn’t a tanning salon kill the virus with UV radiation plus vitamin D by default? Maybe that’s Trump’s secret.
only if it’s aimed at your * hole
NTTATWWI
You do NOT want to separate a Staten Islander from his or her tanning salon.
Waiting for the UPS dude drop off my thousand rounds of 308. It’s like waiting for Christmas to get here.
I’m waiting for UPS to deliver a SIM card for my burner phone.
I’m waiting for UPS to deliver some workout supplements. Their online tracker said they were supposed to be delivered yesterday.
Make sure and keep an eye out for the Feds when you take your crate of anabolics…
And it’s here!
What did you get? ( mean, brand, bullet weight, etc.)
In case you happen back here:
308 Win – 150 gr FMJ – Federal American Eagle (AE308D)
I got another case of GP-11 today.
Busy weekend planned?
Hi Brett.
Sorry about the failure to launch. Quality time is quality time, though.
Very disappointed to see the rodeo folks bail. I suppose it makes more sense than trying to put together some convoluted clusterfuck (looking at you, NHL).
I wonder how much of this is lawsuit terror. My law firm just emailed me an article about “avoiding lawsuits while reopening business”. What complete bullshit.
I have an idea! How about we just open the fucking world and try to rebuild what these cunts have destroyed!
Trump as civil libertarian.
Government surveillance bill withdrawn in U.S. House
Trump recently turned against the legislation, resurrecting assertions that Democratic ex-President Barack Obama had improperly conducted surveillance on his 2016 campaign.
Fuck you, Reuters reporter. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
At least they didn’t use “without evidence.”
resurrecting assertions that, with uhh OK, maybe just a smidgen of possible evidence, Democratic ex-President Barack Obama had improperly conducted surveillance on his 2016 campaign.
I thought those assertions were resurrected by records showing that Obama knew all about it and gave it the green light.
Uh no, you racist Russian stooge, we have an email from the White House itself saying that The Lightbringer himself ordered the investigation be run “by the book”. Direct quote. Facts. Science.
*grumbles*
I finally sorted out the AV issue, so enough with the reboots for today.
I don’t want to turn my attention back to the AC issue, but I also want to be able to sleep tonight.
Robert Weighton, 1908-2020
Dumitru, of course, is a vampire, so part of the undead.
Weighton on World War I:
Another coronavirus casualty
“People are dying and you want your rights…*scoff*” – Don Lemon
“Traditionally, that role, the role of pushing back hard against censorship was reserved for reporters,” Carlson said. “Their job was to safeguard the First Amendment, which is designed to protect the weak, not the strong, the weak are protected by the freedom of speech and journalists are supposed to care about the weak, about the public — their readers and viewers. They weren’t supposed to be simply thugs hired to protect the powerful, but that’s what they become.”
“‘Stop hiding behind the First Amendment,’ says Don Lemon,” he said. “In the annals of cable news that must be the most unintentionally hilarious line ever uttered by a script reader, as if exercising your God-given inborn right to speech and thought and conscience is somehow wrong. It’s immoral. Don Lemon demands that you stop thinking for yourself, fall in line, get on board, obey. Tow the party line, or we will hurt you. That’s his message. And it’s the mirror image of what journalists should be saying. The only reason we have a free press, there’s only one, and that’s to fight back against authoritarian power structures that demand we read from approved scripts.”
“And now CNN is writing those scripts,” Carlson continued. “It’s terrifying. And all of a sudden, it’s everywhere. Throughout April and May, YouTube, part of Google took down any video that, quote, ‘explicitly disputes the efficacy of global or local health authority recommended guidance.’ If you dared to question the decrees of the politicians, some of whom are impressive and wise, many of whom are dumb and making it up as they go along. But if you criticize them, you are censored, and many were censored for doing that.”
Well he may be a NatPop but he is correct to distrust the media and the globalists.
If the police murdered Don Lemon, I might engage in looting as a celebration rather than as a protest.
“YouTube, part of Google took down any video that, quote, ‘explicitly disputes the efficacy of global or local health authority recommended guidance.’ ”
That is totally fucked.
Not sure how you square that with Section 302 immunity.
Okay, people. Now is the time to opt in or out of the acknowledgments of Cods & Cuntes.
Well, I didn’t exactly help with the book, but I am a loyal customer!
Me? Wow, I am most happy to have helped,
She mis-spelled YUFUS
TALL CANS !
Awww…Im not worthy
Disclaimer- in those days, CL got me laid quite a bit
I’ve hated authority since decades before 2018.
I’m totes jealous of @banginglc1
@banginglc1 wrote his own acknowledgment.
I remember
C’mon. The more ridiculous the better. Nobody reads the acknowledgments.
@The Glib Formerly Known As BEAM didn’t do sweet FA but rather gazed upon the entire process with studied bemusement.
“gazed upon” should be “regarded”
Oh Lord, now I’m editing my own crap.
Done.
You should throw in Agile Cyborg as your muse or something
Done.
Excellent.
I’m honoured for the opportunity you offered.
I have a few times.
I love it the acknowledgment! But I am still disappointed mackerels may not make an appearance along with the cods.
What, no love for walleye and salmon?
Okay then. @dbleagle was a known dis-respecter of authorities since he was a mere qtreagle
Done.
Will I show up in a background check?
Depends on how far up the bestseller list I get…
What did banginglc1 do?
He requested to be memorialized thusly.
He asked for those exact words. Mojo obliged.
I once read a few pages of a romance novel someone left behind at a garage while waiting for an car repair. I read a few pages and then decided to walk to Burger King. For some reason, there are often heaps of romance novels lying around in laundromats.
You know what you never see on the cover of a romance novel? A guy writing equations on a blackboard. Not too many astronauts either. However, unlike werewolves, astronauts actually exist.
Most popular love interests of romance novels, in no particular order: nobleman, billionaire, werewolf, vampire, lumberjack
There are quite a few “beauty and the geek” type romances.
There’s a whole lot of nothing to write about a guy who’s married to his job and spends a lot of time away from home. Also, it’s hard to get experts to interview about astronautism.
Soldiers (the more elite the better) get lots of love.
Then why is there so much dinosaur erotica? No one can interview or even observe a dinosaur.
I … I … Um. Hmm.
Nope, I got nothin’.
Can’t get enough dino-porn!
When the new issue of Barely Reptile comes out, I jack it so hard that the next day I’m a totally dick-o-saur
Ooh, scaly!
-1 barney pedophile actor
What about the classics, like lickalottapuss?
There’s a whole lot of nothing to write about a guy who’s married to his job and spends a lot of time away from home
+1 term of endearment
You forgot military.
I read that first word as “Mutants” and now I miss it.
“There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
By definition all mutants are prototypes. The mass produced ones are to phenotype.
WHERE AM STEVE SMITH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT?
HIM MOST ROMANTIC GLIBBER
?
Some of us were truly despicable before it was cool.
Look, I’m uploading this fucker in 8 more hours. I’ll post the open call in the next thread too.
Oh, so the mutants have gone away? Or was the opener retained unchanged?
I added mutants, but otherwise the beginning paragraph remains unchanged.
😀
@Tundra will be playing Boss Tom in the movie version of 1520 Main.
*Orders 3 pizzas*
*calls and tells them “no pineapple”*
What? Am I being shunned because I dare speak truth to power?
Well, I won’t sell out: Memphis BBQ is way better than that KC slop.
@PopeJimbo thinks Memphis barbecue is better than Kansas City barbecue but he is despicable for this opinion and also wronger than wrong.
Dunno, but around here, Uncle Andre’s is far and away the best. They have killer potato salad and always sell out of it. Sauce before during and after, a little spicy and blackened some. It’s good! My 7 y/o eats a half rack of babybacks from them.
If the Pontiff thinks I’m going to slag on KC bbq in my acknowledgments section, he has another think comin’. LOL
When it comes to BBQ, when in Rome…
@Ted S., the sexiest man alive who everybody knows has the best taste in music
Done.
“@trashy is generally a jerk who thinks I’m evil, but he lives in a trashcan and gave the gift of the permalink, so I guess I can tolerate him.”
Done.
“…and @Spartacus, who demanded to be prominently included despite doing absolutely nothing whatsoever, sort of like Chuck Schumer.”
Done.
@slumbrew’s comments made me dumber for reading them
Done.
The thing about self-publishing is that you’re never finished.
I can add to this list any time, but I’d like it to be comprehensive by the time I’m doing the print version.
This book is a rush job, sorry. I just got tired of it malingering in my hard drive.
@RCDean’s demand that I use a nonstandard spelling of “Cods” was summarily rejected.
Done.
*waves at Mo*
I added nothing, don’t add me…just waving.
*waves back*
Ooh! Ooh! I most enthusiastically opt IN to the acknowledgments, but I can’t think of any specific dedication off the top of my head, and I just got home from the Y and we have to go pick up dinner. If I think of anything before it’s too late, I’ll let you know. Or you can leave it as is. Or surprise me!
Thanks for letting me read the story in advance! It was an honor and a privilege!
You are already mentioned as your IRL name, as is @Cannoli and @nw.
Imma be famous! : D
I’m just jazzed to be on the show man ?
Knight Rider theme, in cello form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYf595EJAc4
ah, how I love surprise free time
She looks like Ashildr.
Pomplamoose uses that technique, putting a visual to each track.
The other day you asked about the Russian word for bear. Yes, medved медведь indeed means a honey eater. Apparently it’s a euphemism cause ancient Slavic people were so scared of bears their original word for the animal became a taboo.
I was familiar with medved медведь being the word for bear, but didn’t know is was essentially a euphemism.
Is it a kenning like Beowulf?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenning
Thanks for the reply. In many places and times, there was a belief that “if you speak of the devil, he will appear.”
Other euphemisms occur for the sake of sectarian tranquility. In Tanzania, pork is called kiti moto, which means hot seat. Most other meats are just called “meat of [fill in the blank]”. Tanzania is about 1/3 Muslim. In Swahili, mnyama means animal and nyama means meat. I thought that was funny. Kuku means chicken, both the animal and its meat. Nyama ya ng’ombe means beef (“meat of cow”) and nyama ya mbuzi means goat meat.
I was lucky to live in a mostly Christian area. Most Fridays I’d dine on fried pork and boiled starchy bananas or fried cassava. Tasty!
the word for pig is nguruwe, but I only ever heard it from people who kept pigs
I thought it meant Golden Turkey..
Michael Medved and his worst movies book? Good job. Took me a while to untangle that one.
Battle-sweat for blood is my favorite kenning.
fun facts: the Latin word for bear is ursa. It comes from the Greek word arctos, which means “thing from the north” basically. The name Ursula means little bear in Latin.
I hope you enjoyed this journey into the land of learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqpmSWwuGk
Reading Rainbow, Captain Planet, Carmen San Diego – it’s a wonder I can think at all
The word “bear” is also a euphemism as there is evidence that the proto-Indo-Europeans were also bear worshippers. We don’t know the actual PIE word for “bear” because they used the euphemism so often that there is little evidence as to what the word was.
We don’t know the PIE word for bear?!
Oh, bother!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ktmU3nl5I
I recommend this short video.
For once, I do not regret clicking on one of your links. That was great!
A lot of good stuff on his channel. Particularly on cross-cultural swearing and profanity.
Russians don’t seem to be too scared of bears these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlxdnyfkWKQ
Hah! I hadn’t seen this before.
Bear is drunk. Had too many sidecar.
It seams that med is a quasi cognate with the English word mead. Mead is made from honey.
*mind blown*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRWbIoIR04c
It’s interesting how the cognates work out. Kholodny is cold. Sneg is snow. Krug is circle. But loshad is horse and subak is dog and chelovek is man. How did that happen?
seems, that is
Good. Burn it all and make sure get that original wrecker and kulak who called the cops on Floyd when he tried to pass a counterfeit bill.
Be in interesting twist if this turns into a black vs muslim thing.
I thought the Muslims in MN were very disproportionately black.
Anyone who is Muslim is an honorary minority. This is known
What will probably happen is that the community will die and turn into a wasteland.
Well that way you don’t have to worry about the cops if no one lives there…
Then gentrification….it’s a plot by whitey.
We play the long game.
Y’all gentrified my genes!
That’s what I’m talking about. We worked on that for generations.
Trump trying to strip CDA Section 230 liability protection from social media.
This seems huge. My kneejerk reaction is it’s antithetical to 1A. But could it put a stake in the heart of editorial fact checking and just let people post without censorship? Turning Twitter et al into just dumb publishers?
It would do one of two things:
1. No moderation at all. Anything goes.
2. Much, much heavier moderation than we see now. Anything remotely questionable is removed.
The odds are far more likely that the result would be the latter rather than the former.
we’ll all be equally uninformed.
I think the one positive may be that Twitter will crack down on insane Twitter lynch mobs. Think Covington.
So, death of tweeter.
I wont lose a minute of sleep.
Just 280 characters of sleep.
Yep, that’s the way I feel about all the businesses that I never went to that won’t survive the Fallacious Flu Freakout, Fuck ’em.
What authority does he have do this? Commerce Clause? General Welfare? FYTW?
just copied this from a David Harsanyi piece…
Have conservatives forgotten Citizens United or the IRS scandal?
“Maybe they’ll remember when Attorney General Kamala Harris is overseeing the White House Office of Digital Strategy and regulating online speech.”
/shudder
TOP MEN will save us…
Was she top or bottom? Or both?
Wait—I don’t want to know. Carry on.
Trump trying to strip CDA Section 230 liability protection from social media.
Didn’t read the whole thing, but it looked like the guts of it was calling for rulemaking to define who qualifies for the statutory immunity. In principle, I don’t like rulemaking at all. But he inherited the administrative state, so there’s a certain goose and gander thing here. Downside: one day, the lunatic Dems will inherit this and turn it to their advantage.
Trump says he’d like to leave twitter but he can’t because he needs to get his message out there and the fake news media won’t let him.
Which is one of the reasons I said the other day that Trump needs Twitter a lot more than Twitter needs Trump.
It’s a symbiotic relationship. If Trump left Twitter it’s not like most of his haters and journalists wouldn’t also set-up accounts on the other platform. How else are the going to complain about the shit he says? I like to think that he won’t leave Twitter, because he doesn’t know how to download a new app on his phone
I’d like to think that new apps on the POTUS phone get vetted first by cyber security experts.
Our former Secretary of State couldn’t even keep her email in the right servers.
Well, maybe. All those Clinton Foundation “donations” were paying for something.
fun fact language fact: the celebratory trilling that women in east Africa do is called vigelegele. I don’t know if the they borrowed from Arabs or the other way around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCGRlhJvFY
and yes, every Tanzanian music video has a minimum of 500 backup dancers
wiki sez
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Ululation is commonly used in Middle Eastern Weddings. In the Arab World, zaghārīt (Arabic: زغاريت) is a ululation performed to honor someone. For example Zaghrit are widely performed and documented through out Egyptian movies showing traditional Egyptian weddings where women are known of their very long performed and very loud ululations.
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Among the Lakota, women yell lililili! in a high-pitched voice to praise warriors for acts of valor.
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Shakira, who is of Lebanese descent, ululated during the 2020 Super Bowl halftime performance.
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And of course, there is Xena’s battle cry.
I do not know of any group where men make such sounds.
South Sudanese women do it in church settings after a hymn or other time a person might shout “Amen!”
80s Hair Metal Bands?
I stand corrected. [puts gold star on Yusef’s Book It! button]
4 more and you can get a personal pan pizza.
I got a star!
Women also did it during Greco-Roman prayer and sacrifice rituals.
Does Trump’s executive order now allow Joe Scarborough to sue Twitter for allow Trump to allege that he killed that one intern? Did he just play himself?
I mean fuck Twitter and other social media outlets that censor for the Chinese, but God damn how can you be the craziest SOB on Twitter and then say “hey, we need to allow people to sue this platform for the crazy shit people post here”.
32 Dimensional Hungry, Hungry Hippos
Not 33rd degree Hungry Hippos? So no Masonic involvement yet? /jk
I think Trump understands that the only thing keeping these sites somewhat neutral right now is the threat of losing their safe harbor protection.
Interesting. Go through the rulemaking process, publish proposed rules and take comments, but never quite get around to publishing final rules.
I just hope he remembers to cancel the rulemaking before he leaves office.
What the FBI did to Flynn, and how.
TW: Stefan Molyneux.
I don’t hold any brief for Flynn. I don’t know the guy, but I’m sure he’s a bog-standard bureaucrat and lobbyist, which is to say: a scumbag. But the FBI needs to be dissolved.
3 star general who managed to not be corrupt enough for the Obama administration.
When people like Glenn Greenwald and Stefan Molyneux agree on a topic you know that the FBI fucked up. The only people who think Flynn got what he deserved is basically the press (who have been wrong on literally everything about the mentally challenged brand of John Bircherism) and Democratic partisans.
Thanks for the link. Very good summary.
This is why I could never be on the city council. Having to deal with petty disputes like this would make me go home and kill myself. A story about a dude who wants to build a community garden in his front yard.
Bonus journalo-ism for putting fundamental liberties in air quotes. Everyone knows those are made up.
“Community outsiders”
But I thought we were in this together?
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2020/05/103-year-old-great-great-grandmother-survives-coronavirus-celebrates-with-bud-light.html
The least they could do is give the man a decent beer.
Congrats to him. I guess.
I know “Did you just assume their gender” is a running gag, but it was a woman, and I’m guessing she picked the beer in question.
Don’t Deadname…
You misgendered her!
*faints*
So Bud Light Lime?
Ah the heady days of 1996…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace
What went wrong?
Oh, I see…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_in_Cyberspace
Huh, can’t see what went wrong!
This is why I make “wanker” hand motions when someone expresses wide-eyed prophecies over the coming age of crypto-currency. I was there at the beginning of the cypherpunk movement. I saw how government lost its shit and worked to neuter the internet, crypto, and telephony for that reason. It’s already started with cryptocurrency.
You can’t escape from the state in cyberspace as it was a creation of the state.
Fuck, aren’t you Mr. Sunshine.
If I’m understanding your posts today, everything sucks!
Now you’re getting it.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
Then there was the overly optimistic belief that Big Tech will always agree with us and the assumption that as the internet went mainstream then mainstream politics would not enter the internet…
As if governments would ever give up control of currency.
Exactly. Like borders, what regulating what is legal currency and the possessing the legal monopoly to mint new currency is a essential power of the state. Take away that power and you threaten the very legitimacy of the government.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-china-52829176
Is Xi the new Abraham Lincoln? They are seceding at the behest of white supremacists after all.
And I love the “backed by parliament” because the Chinese Congress is known for their independence.
Before this is over the ChiComs are going to make Hitler look like a piker and all of the enablers and sympathizers here will swear they had nothing to do with it.
Are you including the libertarians who thought trade with China would liberalize it?
No. They were just dumb. That is easier to forgive.
I am talking about the people that endorsed and carried water for them with their eyes open. See Thomas ‘we should be more like China’ Friedman. See Joe Biden. People that took money and did their bidding. That is unforgivable.
Include anyone that sucked Chinese dick to have access to their market. Include anyone who actively endorsed the Chinese govt because they love authoritarianism and are envious of them.
That includes both Trudeaus of course..
In one situation, the parties agreed to a “perpetual union”, in the other, “50 years”.
About that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
I still maintain that adopting the Constitution over the Articles was largely injurious to liberty in the same way the EU’s “ever closer union” clause was.
Cosigned
Yeah the second they set up a central executive and central taxation power, they were doomed in the long run. I remember learning in school about the Articles, and every thing they taught me as a bug, even then I saw as a feature.
“There was no centralized taxation! They had no way to enforce national policy!!!!”
The Anti Federalists were right.
In order to protect themselves from being conquered by an authoritarian govt, they set up an authoritarian govt.
There’s got to be a happy medium between North Korea and Somalia. I think the US is close to the sweet spot.
I’d be fine with restricting the right to vote to people who are net tax payers. That would fix a lot of things. I know people in the military who don’t vote because they see it as a conflict of interest and/or believe the military should be politically neutral.
I would be interested in a rebuttal of all the claims advanced by the Federalists. You know Shay’s Rebellion, taxes, state debt, currency, foreign policy etc.
The Anti Federalist Papers would be a good place to start. Interesting thing: The Federalist Papers were written by Jay, Madison, and *spits* Hamilton. Hamilton wrote 51 of the 85 Federalist Papers. The Anti Federalists, in contrast were not a trio of men writing under one name, but an actual widespread network of people. Patrick Henry probably the best known.
The Constitution, bottom line, was put in place so that the wealthy men who had financed the American Revolution could get their money back from a central treasury. They may have even thought that the limits they had constructed would hold, long term. Although I would argue Hamilton knew from the start what he wanted, and got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_peer#Scotland
The thing about rioting that I don’t get is that they burn their own crap to the ground. The building the rioters burned to the ground? It was going to include 38 “affordable” apartments.
If I was in the govt, I’d be very tempted to tell the usual whiners about affordable housing, that the units that were burned up were not going to be replaced.
The free-shit brigade was whining about fucking ‘food deserts’, before.
Just wait, fuckers.
that’s a good point . . . politically . . . after a fashion
and ironic, so: funny
but I question conflating unprincipled rough-riding with the social justice leadership (however disingenuous or unprincipled these latter folk are in and of themselves): individuals are responsible for their behaviors; intellectually, we must maintain clearheadedness on this or we’ll be forced to treat whole swathes of only tenuously-related persons as a collective. Of course, if it is found that the free-shit leadership fomented, led, or sponsored any pillaging, then that is another matter . . . but I have not heard of such.
It isnt their own. They go one neighborhood over. ( Source: Rodney King riots)
But not two – the Beverly Hills cops stood in a line with rifles and shotguns on the border on Wilshire. They were perfectly willing to kill rioters who approached.
Even in their own neighborhood the businesses aren’t ‘theirs’. Yes it’s stupid to shit where you eat, but it’s not like they are burning the shed out back that they keep their shit in.
And we’re off!
https://www.startribune.com/flash-looting-spreads-to-st-paul-maplewood-urges-people-to-avoid-retail-areas/570836872/
Coming to a suburb near me!
I’m told that a pawn shop one suburb over just got hit.
Reminds of the late 1960s when a brick was called a Selbydale credit card.
Don’t worry you ought to be happy for the social justice being enacted.
From my SIL in Farmington:
“Here’s an update in our world: looting in the streets in Minneapolis and st. Paul, some burnsville, called flash looting, son is on overnight at fleet farm and they have a huge line for gun sales…but are also putting all guns in lockdown in case of looting. 2 YMCAs evacuated today because of looting. This shit is crazy.”
She works at a YMCA there. That’s why she mentioned that tidbit.
Democrats – helping gun sales yet again. ?
There was around the block lines here, at the local gun stores when this first started. Well in Burbank, anyway. LA only has a few and I don’t really see them. These fools thought they could trade money for guns, LOL. It’s a ten day wait, one gun per month, safety certificate (10.00) tranfer fee (35) mandatory lock (going rate) and the background check.Then, you gotta do it all over again to buy ammo. The lines are starting to form again to pick them up now. Those “reasonable restrictions” ya’ll voted for? You got them!
I feel bad that some Americans don’t have similar freedoms to their fellow Americans. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
You and me both.
My son just got home from his job at Fleet Farm in Brooklyn Park. They closed at six and he and the other guys in sporting goods put up plywood over the glass doors and locked down all the guns.
Most of the stores in my suburb are shutting down.
This shit is getting stupid.
Where are the rooftop Koreans when you need them?
Well, we know summer’s started- we’re getting our daily thunderstorms here in Florida. I’m surprised I can still access the Internet, since I made the stupid decision to have satellite wi-fi.
Oddly enough, that’s pretty much how we know summer’s started here, too, even though we’re 4000 klicks apart.
Here in Iowa, it’s the tornado warnings.
“These guys say they support the protests but not the looting. Showed up to help this tobacco store owner stop people from breaking in”
https://twitter.com/maxnesterak/status/1265834786037223424
The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club, by Larry Niven. I think I got the title right.
“When the State kills a black man.. setting Autozones on fire and looting Targets is high on the list of dumbass ways to respond
Imagine being so much of a brainlet that you can’t actually direct your frustration to the actual aggressors”
“The State Kills Black Man… so set Autozone on fire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm0oZKadPnI
Somebody doesn’t realize that they don’t see just the cops as the enemy.
Autozones are capitalist exploiters…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.macleans.ca/opinion/canadas-left-have-failed-hong-kong/amp/
Yep. The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ never met a principle of the left that he couldn’t abandon whenever it suited him. ’Course, he has plenty of company here in Canuckistan.
It seems STEVE SMITH has been writing his own versions of some of my favorite tunes: Big Rock Candy Mountains, King of the Road…
Maybe he could do a cover of Man of Constant Sorrow, I’ve Been Everywhere, or 16 Tons next? Extra credit for The Gambler or Big Iron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw
The New Normal Version.
[golf clap]
+1 The Wreck Called Hillary Clinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOwSaSl_PGk
Jesus that’s horrible, stock Clinton -hate stuff* plus bad, bad singing and rhyming. A good parody song has to be able to stand on it’s own, from a production and a cleverness standpoint.
* not that she doesn’t deserve the hate but it should take more than ‘The Clinton’s kill people and steal money-HAHAHA’ to rate a quality parody cover.
better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDNYYMK29AU
When your life can be made into a parody of a Gordon Lightfoot song..
And when multiple people make the same parody…
No, just No. Good god man did you listen to that, are you tone deaf? seriously that singing and the singing in the one before is absolutely atrocious. If you can’t sing just write it out as parody lyrics we can then imagine someone with at least some chops signing it, But that is painful, I feel sorry for the dude who thought this was a good idea, he probably makes many bad decisions in life.
I agree the singing was poor. Bad singing made it funnier for me.
A lot of music has poor singing in my view, but I still like some of it.
Bob Dylan is painful for me to listen to, but lots of people like it. Ditto for Josh Groban.
How does it feel? To have your nose stuffed up for real, like a congested groan….
That’s only proof that the world deserves to burn.
Scruffy as a judge on American Idol, artist’s depiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juc69G6F-q0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_pFL-dCug
ACTUAL DIALOGUE:
Somehow Palpatine Returned!
Dark Science…Cloning…Secrets only the Sith knew!
“Now imagine if these protestors were open carrying semiautomatic rifles and handguns like white gun extremists are at statehouses across the country…”
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1265467882722390017
Yes, imagine.
Is she saying that black people can’t be trusted not to murder people when they have guns? It sounds like she’s saying that.
If so, she’s not alone. Check out Chicago’s gun laws.
Check out pretty much the entire history of the gun control movement.
♫ Imagine there’s no pinkos…it’s easy if you try. No reds among us…commies get a helicopter ride…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rH13rWIEN4
Like these guys?
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1266131437436231681?s=19
Now imagine if these protestors were open carrying semiautomatic rifles and handguns like white gun extremists are at statehouses across the country…
You mean, like this?
Or this?
If only this Mom Demanding Action wasn’t completely ignorant of the Black Panthers and their history of protesting-while-packing. There’s no need to imagine it. Its actually happened.
It was only white people protesting at the statehouses.
“What this pandemic means is we just can’t come together,” Orr said. “We really have to stay apart so we can come together again sooner rather than later. It’s clear that we just aren’t going to be ready for this.”
Go fuck yourself.
Former Vice President Joe Biden mangled his history in a strange mash-up of D-Day, Pearl Harbor Day and the day that Delaware declared independence from Pennsylvania.
That’s an easy mistake to make.
Op-Ed from the Reopen NH folks
Science and experience has demonstrated that governments worldwide overreacted to the COVID-19 threat and perpetuated misleading information to manipulate the public and consolidate power. Despite these revelations, Gov. Chris Sununu is poised to extend his no longer “State of Emergency” order yet again next week so he may continue acting as the state’s new supreme autocrat.
In His Excellency’s mercy, Sununu has now allowed you to have a workout class with others and stay-six-feet apart, but you can’t use the rowing machine by yourself that was already six-feet apart from everything else before COVID hit. You can eat outdoors under a tent if the restaurant owner is lucky enough to have the space, but you can’t eat indoors in a large banquet hall with the same distance between tables. Your hair stylist can see three clients back-to-back for one hour each, but Gov-forbid you have one appointment that lasts three hours. And these are just some of the arbitrary dictates.
The governors aren’t designing these mandates. It’s the twenty something staffers and public health “experts” that are getting their shot at power.
The governors should be shutting their lackeys down but instead are cowards that fear being accused of letting someone die.
Go NC Dinos!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY5CVofXYAEBd2-.jpg
OK
Nurses can one of two ways: bitter and cynical or truly nurturing.
Both seem equally cock hungry however.
I too cannot survive without a floral print cock pillow.
Floral Print Cock Pillow would be a great band name.
The t-shirts for their first big tour are already printed!
I have that tatoo
My buddy supervises a parking garage at one of the local hospitals. He regularly finds empty vodka bottles after each shift.
He also found a nurse sleeping in her car because she didn’t want to risk her compromised family member and arranged for one of the local hotels to put her up (they were doing that for others) – he’s a mensch.
I thought the failure to launch this week was the worst thing that I would experience this week. It wasn’t.
I got beyond sick of ink cartridges for ink jet printers printers, because either you pay more for the ink than you paid for the printer or you get the cheap cartridges from Amazon and half of them fail because the printer does not recognize the cartridge and you waste part of a day trying different ones.
So I thought, I’ll get a laser jet. But guess what, probably better quality, but toner cartridges and they’re expensive, and the cheap ones on Amazon may be you the same grief.
So, I bought a Tank printer. No more cartridges, yay! Or at least I hope it’s good news. They are not cheap.
Anyway, I went to set it up and I pulled out the quick start instructions.
Step 2: Fill the tank with ink. Do not drink the ink!
OFFS, it’s going to take a damn miracle to save the human race from extinction. You do not tell the idiots to NOT drink the ink, you let them drink it and clean out the gene pool! But we’ve lost our way and now there are more idiots than people with a functional brain, and they vote! We.are.so.fucked.
If you’ve been bested by people that drink ink then you deserve what you’ve gotten.
* hears whoooshing sound*
Well, we did elect them to office.
Shouldl we call you Wonko the Sane?
I’d prefer Supreme Shitlord, but that works.
I get the cheap Brother laser printers. The toner cartridges still work out cheaper than ink and don’t plug up. I also need waterproof drawings because I usually get coolant on them when using the mill. What really hate about inkjets is that they use the color ink when printing black and white.
Just got my first Brother printer for the office. So far so good.
I bought a laser printer a couple weeks ago since I was sick of inkjet expense and drying up. So far I love it. Yes, the toner is spendy, but I should get a couple thousand pages per set of cartridges ($200 for the set) vs the 50 or so I was getting for $40 in ink cartridges.
I’m still running on the original toner cartridges for my color laser printer. 6 years later, and a few of the colors are showing the first signs of needing replacement. Never again will I get an inkjet.
Inkjets are the Gillette Mach 83 razors of printers.
I feel kind of guilty that work pays for the ink (and the printer itself). Kind of. But not really.
relevant skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAZnGeBcgg
Spishak Mach 20 Razor
Oh, how I *hate* shaving. Can’t I just look like Sweetums from the Muppets?
Wow. A reporter in Ohio actually criticized DeWine. About time.
https://www.wmfd.com/article/governor-dewine-suppresses-data-disproving-covid-19-policies/3899
DeWine reminds me of a Jeb Bush clone.
Court orders Karl Manke to close, he will continue doing business. Not all heroes wear capes.
A local judge has been ordered by the Michigan Court of Appeals to issue a preliminary injunction that would immediately shut down Owosso barber Karl Manke.
Shiawassee County Circuit Judge Matthew Stewart had previously ruled against the state of Michigan’s request for the injunction to close Manke’s shop, a battle that has drawn nationwide attention and become a rallying point for those frustrated by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order requiring certain businesses to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manke, 77, told The Associated Press Thursday, May 28, that he got the news while cutting someone’s hair and said he doesn’t intend to comply with the order.
Time for the trial judge to step up and . . . just not get around to issuing that injunction.
Who do they expect to enforce the injunction? Are they gonna raid with a swat team to arrest this old coot? I’d love to be his lawyer if they get video of that.
They’ll give him the Roger Stone treatment.
The authorities wanted the video of Flynn getting arrested, they’ll do all they can to keep there from being video of Manke getting arrested.
He threatened to kill someone’s dog?
I don’t know why I like this weird cartoon, but I do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzUjCPt6Kck
Sadly, it does not feature eastern Europe’s favorite cat and mouse team, Worker and Parasite.
ENDUT! HOCH HET!
In a private dining room at the Mandarin Oriental, Hyde Park, Late May 2020.
Well, our little epidemic appears to be fizzling out. We launched the campaign a bit too soon, I fear.
It would appear so. Any other ideas to keep the muppets distracted until the Yanks have their little election?
Hmmmm. It’s a bit evergreen, but why not try the old “white cop kills a black citizen” gambit again? With a bit of luck and encouragement from our friends, it could spin into a full-on race war. Then we could have the papers politicize it heavily. Divide and conquer and all that, what?
Evergreen, indeed. It could be that too many people have had that tired old “race card” played, usually unfairly. They may not cooperate willingly this time. They’re not racist, they know it and they aren’t going to fall for the ruse again.
But the youth have not yet been exposed to excess, their rage is easy to excite and they are so gullible. That could well carry it.
Let me make a few calls.