ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FRIEND STEVE SMITH IS BACK HOBOING. FRIEND SEA SMITH IS BUSY. THUS, ZARDOZ HAS BEEN ASKED TO IMPART WISDOM TO THE CHOSEN ONES, BY DESTROYING BRUTAL ADVICE GIVERS, WITH FACTS, AND LOGIC. THUS, WITH THE CERTAIN TRUTHS OF THE VORTEX (THE PENIS IS EVIL, THE GUN IS GOOD) AT YOUR SIDE, GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
FIRST UP, THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY“.
Q: My girlfriend and I have been separated for nearly a year. Prior to this we dated for nearly four years.
After her mom passed, she fell into a depression and was grieving deeply. I went to see her and she said it was over. We’ve had some contact, but it has dwindled to nothing. I brought my cat into the relationship, and now she won’t give it back. She isn’t answering my phone calls or texts. I’m blocked. I’ve tried letters and had friends try to talk to her. It’s just mind-boggling.
She’s 57 years old. She’s not a spring chicken. I will have to go to small claims court to get my cat back. I’d like to salvage the relationship and try to avoid all this.
A: SHE MUST BE CLEANSED! SHE MUST BE CLEANSED AT ONCE! KITTEH MUST BE RETURNED HOME… ZARDOZ ONLY TOO WELL REMEMBERS HIS OWN KITTY, MR. WHISKERS. WHO WAS THE BEST KITTY EVER.
….
THE TABERNACLE HAS INFORMED ZARDOZ IT IS BEST TO CEASE RUNNING THE MEMORY CIRCUITS ASSOCIATED WITH HIS KITTY, MR. WHISKERS. WHO WAS THE BEST KITTY EVER.
SO, ONCE YOU HAVE ANNIHILATED THE CATSTEALER, LIFE WILL BE BETTER.
NEXT, THE MEWLING BRUTAL AT SLATE, DEAR PRUDENCE.
Q: Five years ago my best friend, “Jane,” started dating “Scott.” Eventually Jane and I fell out because I didn’t support their relationship. He was rude, often undermined her, and was a passionate Trump supporter. (Jane and I are not Trump supporters.) Recently they broke up, and Jane and I were subsequently able to make up. She told me that he’d been “acting bizarrely,” and discovered he frequented white supremacist forums online. Jane is Black. She learned he had claimed to his racist buddies that he was only with her for the money (she paid for everything), that he was disgusted by physical contact with her, and that he would never have children with her because it would taint his bloodline.
I decided to submit an anonymous tip to the FBI about Scott’s online involvement in white supremacy, hoping someone would keep tabs on him in case he ever escalated to violence. I stand by that decision and don’t regret it. But when Jane found out, she was furious, saying I should have trusted her to make the call. She has cut me out of her life. I’m disappointed because I truly value her friendship and did not do this to undermine her. I want to support my friend. Did I make the right call? What should I do?
A: AH, ZARDOZ HAS FOUND A WOKE, ULTRAKAREN! THIS MUST BE REPORTED TO THE ETERNALS IN THE VORTEX. REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE, MS. STASI OF THE CURRENT DAY. YOU WILL BE PICKED UP BY THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS, AND EXAMINED AT THE VORTEX. CERTAINLY THEY WILL WISH TO SEE HOW YOU MANAGE TO BREATHE WITHOUT CONSCIOUS EFFORTS.
YOUR RIDE IS APPROACHING
P.S. ODDS AGAINST THIS ONE BEING REAL ARE BEYOND THE TABERNACLE’S ABILITY TO DETERMINE.
Q: When leaving the house, am I under an obligation to “look good”?
I’ve had family tell me to cover my head during a bad hair day because “you can’t go out with your hair like that,” or to throw out clothing with minor flaws because “that’s the way you are supposed to do it.”
I find rather offensive the idea that I should wear a hat so that persons on the street don’t have to look at my “ugly hairdo,” and it is extremely wasteful to throw away clothing merely because a thread caught on something and it created a tiny hole. (My budget also won’t allow for this.)
Am I under an obligation to give strangers something nice to look at when I am out running errands, or am I allowed to stick to the standards of “my clothing is decent, and is daywear” and “I washed and brushed my hair”?
A: ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS. YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT SOME OF THE ETERNALS STUMBLE AROUND LOOKING LIKE.
IS THIS A CIRCUS TENT?
IF YOU CAN MANAGE TO LOOK BETTER THAN SOMEONE WHO PUT A TERRYCLOTH ON THEIR HEAD, AND USED A MARKER TO PEN ON A GOATEE – YOU SHOULD BE FINE.
THIS IS NOT STYLISH, ARTHUR FRAYN!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
All hail ZARDOZ!
Dear Zardoz, the grey lettering is back and it’s a bit of an eye-strain. Whom at WordPress must I cleanse to finally end our Glibertine nightmare?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN EYE STRAINED ONE. ZARDOZ CONCENTRATES ON CLEANSING BRUTALS,INSTRUCTING THE CHOSEN ONES AND DELIVERING GRAIN TO THE VORTEX. ZARDOZ WILL HAVE TO TRANSMIT TO TECH SUPPORT AND OPEN A TICKET. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Thank you four calling Technical support. Hour hours are Ten AM to Two PM Indian Standard Time. Remember your call is important to us. Goodbye.
If it’s “Kevin” from “Indiana” I’m going to be super-pissed. I can’t afford the flight right now.
The Z-man understands about platform vs theme vs plugin updates in WordPress. He’s a benevolent Z-man.
Please don’t take my comment as a form of personal criticism. I blame WP, not SP.
Me too. And I wish to join TH and Z-rok in visiting WordPress HQ to help things along.
I am officially tacti-cool.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/iPHOkMRORESzsjZ6omowUA.MbX2jb2sj-ouBQVjYD_I8L
Yes…I also bought the matching hat. ?
🙁
Funny bit is that I actually really like the hat. And I usually hate hats.
…my pistol is still at my mother’s.
Nice!
Is that MC Black?
Yes.
PSA: FXX is currently running The Simpsons Season 9. Episode on right now is The Movementarians.
na na na na na na na na, fishing!
I forget which book, but The Wizard of Oz mentioned his long name. The first 2 names were Oscar Zoroaster, which he later shortened to Oz.
Oscar means “spear of god” in old Germanic and Zoroaster means “whose camels are old” in Persian.
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The name appears to be literally “whose camels are old,” from *zarant “old” (cognate with Greek geron, genitive gerontos “old;” see gerontology) + ushtra “camel.” As a noun
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Now I want King Oscar anchovies…
Zoroaster is Zarathustra. I don’t know the age of your old camels etymology, but the religion is roughly contemporary to the foundings of Judaism and thus I speak that it is effectively ultimate source material for every current belief system.
Yeah, off the top of my head I thought Zoroaster was a god worshipped by the Phoenicians.
Zoroaster is a prophet. Zoroastrianism the faith of the Persians is the religion he preached. Ahura Mazda is the God.
See what happens when I comment off the top of my head. 😉
Hmm, I pegged Uhura to be more of a Volvo lady, personally.
Hmm, I pegged Uhura
Should have stopped the sentence right there.
Stop destroying my childhood.
+1 australopithecus smashing a skull with a bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WufKsOhkTL8
It’s heavily influenced all the flavors of Abrahamic religions. The Dharmic religions have been pursuing solo projects for a while.
Without checking, I’m going to assume 2001.
One of the greatest cut away scenes of all time.
If you haven’t watched 2001 in a great while it is worth a relook. Almost all the assumptions are incorrect, and none of the giant corporations even exist. Plus the moon Kubric modelled died as he was editing the movie (the sharp versus rounded Moon debate) but many of the themes Kubric nailed. Plus space stewardess time.
I remember being bored trying to watch that movie.
If you like it, good on you, but it doesn’t seem worth the hyperbolic praise it gets.
Finally someone else… but then I’m not the biggest fan of most movies. Most are boring.
I liked the parts with ape men. The rest was a yawn fest. It inspired some good parodies though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15qlP1REMIk
The first time I made a fire by rubbing sticks together, I celebrated with a beer and watching the Dawn of Man scene from 2001.
It is best enjoyed in a theater. Because I have good taste I watched it in an IMAX 70mm a few years back.
Breathtaking as a mug.
Some movies absolutely need a big screen and 2001 is among them. I never watch past HAL being destroyed. The entire “Stargate” thing is meh to me.
But I still think the movie up until the Obelisk in Clavius is remarkable.
‘She’s 57 years old. She’s not a spring chicken. I will have to go to small claims court to get my cat back. I’d like to salvage the relationship and try to avoid all this.’
Not sure what is sadder: The crazy late middle-aged cat stealer or the person so desperate that they still want to salvage the relationship.
YES.
Fourth installment of the Keanu series: John Cuck.
He wrote her letters with a fucking pencil!
The guy who cares about a cat?
Some guys will do anything for pussy. Don’t judge!
KITTEH MUST BE RETURNED HOME
Word. Speaking of cats, I took mine to the vet for their yearly checkup today. Both in perfect health. But they had some Covid theater going on. Had to text some info to a number for check-in. They reply and send someone out to get the pets. Then the vet calls to discuss the exam and such as would normally happen in a visit while in the exam room. I touched the cats. I touched the cat carrier. Both are always in the house and around me. The vet and assistants touch the cats and cat carrier. How exactly are we stopping the spread of anything?
“It’s an illusion Michael. A trick is………uh candy!”
Zardoz! I’m spending too much money on toys! I bought this,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4yzeXgwVPxjZoYYe7
and needed new electronics, so I bought this,
https://www.amazon.com/EMG-SYSTEM-Prewired-Telecaster-Control/dp/B01DCG3BCW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
I’m not in debt, but Ill a Homeless guitar player soon, HALP!
Go back and reread trshmnstr’s article.
he frequented white supremacist forums online.
“White-supremacist” forums such as Daily Wire and Breitbart?
Glibertarians.com…………
Hey, we’ve had 1 1/2 black commenters for three years strong now!
Ed Wuncler and HM are 3/5 ths ? I didn’t notice,
Oh, you.
*ruffles Bob’s hair, darts away while giggling*
/Gambols off into the Desert…………
Jobs.com
Dnc,org
Welcome to the Covid Plandemic.
In case you were of the opinion that alligators were the only lizards that you had to worry about in Florida.
“ODDS AGAINST THIS ONE BEING REAL ARE BEYOND THE TABERNACLE’S ABILITY TO DETERMINE.”
I’m with the tabernacle on this one.
Way to perfect to be real. It’s a proggie wet dream.
Great Advice as always.
Cat guy is particularly jarring, grow a pair nancy!
Why do women think it’s ok to keep talking on their cell phones while using the bathroom?
It really is a turn off during a peeping tom experience, ain’t it?
No one should do that.
All bathrooms need to be retrofitted with faraday cages.
Agreed.
Some of us like the sound of the tinkle stream hitting the water.
You can tell which one of them is a goer.
“She told me that he’d been “acting bizarrely,” and discovered he frequented white supremacist forums online. Jane is Black. She learned he had claimed to his racist buddies that he was only with her for the money (she paid for everything), that he was disgusted by physical contact with her, and that he would never have children with her because it would taint his bloodline.”
Ummm… completely made up bullshit?
Maybe, maybe not. About ten years ago I was chatting with my dad’s neighbor and at some point he started in about some “mixing bloodlines is evil” bullshit. I retorted that without mixed bloodlines there would be no Jessica Alba. Who wants to live in a world devoid of Jessica Alba? Not this guy.
I misread that the first time as you were cheating with your dad’s neighbor.
Heh.
Not a bad looking dude I guess but, the plumbing’s all wrong…or I assume it is…(coughs)…yep, an assumption.
Yes.
Sounds like it.
That’s why you do anal. It would only blood her taintline.
*slow clap*
Hey look, everybody! Straffin made a funny, funny joke.
??
Yep, completely made up.
I worked with a drafter who was a former model. She was black and gorgeous. He boyfriend was lily white with very short hair and had a penchant for wife-beater shirts that showed off his tattoos. They used to get tons of stares.
Friday Funbags sez HAIL ZARDOZ
http://archive.li/H6VKs
You busted out some Swahili the other day. Fun facts: matiti means breasts.
A woman with an enormous rear end is called wowowo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABUcGNtJ68
We have some well established wowoworshippers here.
Anayejisikia aibu kuhusu uichi wake hatazaa watoto.
This is the way they say you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The literal meaning is one who is ashamed of his nakedness will produce children.
I translate it as you can’t have a baby without taking off your clothes.
will not produce, that is
typos – I make them
Ha!
There have been women who looked like the Venus of Willendorf:
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Sara Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; also spelled Sarah, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje ([ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie and Bartman, Bartmann; 1789 – 29 December 1815)[1]:184 was the best known of at least two[2] South African Khoikhoi women who, due to their large buttocks, were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus—”Hottentot” was the name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term,[3] and “Venus” referred to the Roman goddess of love and fertility.
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Hottentot means stutterer in Dutch and is a reference to the clicking sounds of the Khoikhoi language.
“Every Hottentot and every Eskimo! When the air becomes uranious, We will all go simultaneous! Yes, we all will go together.”
There is, however, no earlier attestation of a word hottentot to support this theory.
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Hottentot (n.)
1670s, from South African Dutch, said in old Dutch sources to be a word that means “stammerer,” from hot en tot “hot and tot,” nonsense words imitative of stammering. The word was applied to the people for the clicking, jerking quality of Khoisan speech.
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/hottentot
It’s of like how the word barbarian comes from Greek people thinking foreign languages sounded like the baa baa of sheep.
for no reason at all – Katy Perry singing in the nonsense language of The Sims video game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyW6AJ-yIk
The creators of the game wanted to avoid having to pay to translate it for foreign markets, so they made a nonsense language to avoid that.
You bring the lyric and I’ll link the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
This song of his resonates with me a lot of late:
It Makes a Fella Proud to Be a Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQb7JT6_zU
Army Strong, Army Smash, Army Sentence Fragment
Whatever. The Big Green Machine has treated me better than all my other employers.
Google collusion to influence and election because democracy or something.
Discussing Google’s efforts to suppress conservative content, Marlow states: “None of this is gonna come as a surprise to this audience but I don’t think a lot of people by and large understand exactly how much they can manipulate you, Google can, with just a slight tweak to search results or search suggestions or their algorithm… Everyone knows by the Breitbart leak of the Google TGIF meeting in 2016 right after the election that they said they wanted populism to be a blip in history, they wanted to basically use their power to make sure populism doesn’t have long term effects, what does that mean?… Since then Breitbart’s reach has wildly diminished within Google, this cannot be a coincidence.”
Dr. Epstein replied: “I doubt that it’s a coincidence because it’s so easy for them to suppress content of any sort. I published a big article on this in 2016 called The New Censorship, I focused on nine of Google’s blacklists, this is without ever seeing one and without the company admitting they had such things. But last year, Zach Vorhies left the company, quit the company and took with him 950 pages of documents and a video and two of those documents were Googles blacklists.”
“People don’t understand how big this threat is, you mentioned that leak, that video that you exposed which was quite astonishing. One of the things that was said there by one of their top executives is ‘we’re going to use every means at our disposal, all of Google’s power to make sure Trump isn’t re-elected’ so if they’re using every single means at their disposal, then they’re using all of the techniques that I’ve discovered and probably more that I haven’t discovered yet. That’s enough to shift roughly ten percent of the voting population of the United States with no one knowing they’re being manipulated and no paper trail for authorities to trace.”
I don’t doubt that Google is doing everything in their power to elect Biden but at the end of the day I don’t have much pity for folks who are so easily misled.
Except that you have to live there too.
Kinda obsessed with Kate Bush tonight.
?
Amazing song.
The sort of improbable beauty that just makes you gawp.
It’s me, your Cathy
In the 80’s I was obsessed with her.
There is thunder in our hearts!
Who are you, anyway?
https://twitter.com/OANN/status/1281694777600143360
I suspect there are going to a bunch of Trump supporters with food they don’t know how to cook.
I’m a Rosorita, Tapatio, Sun valley beans kind of guy Goya is the TJ’s of Mexican food IMO,
They aren’t Mexican, though.
Trader Joe’s stuff can be pricey, but some of their stuff less expensive than the supermarket.
Is your county or state mandating Chinese Lung AIDS cosplay? If so, have no fear, Krispy Kreme is here!
I had a sudden urge to throw a disc through my Monitor, it has passed,
No what does a truly great job of covering your face? Putting your head in a five gallon bucket full of water. Do that for a few minutes and nobody will ever need be afraid of you breathing on them ever again!
So Rhywun, did you see Blood Machines yet? Just watched the digital version while I wIt for the blu-ray – got my OST last week (although apparently it’s been screened on Shudder a few times already).
A little less conventional than I was expecting – although clearly a direct successor to Turbo Killer visually. A little more nudity than I wxpected…..but graphically/thematically quite in line with Jodorowsky/Gimenez (Metabarons) or similar Euro SF.
I’d certainly say one of a kind in terms of that kind of visual intensity for the moment.
I have only listened to the soundtrack. I figured I would wait for the Blu Ray since I don’t like watching stuff on my computer.
Yeah…wasn’t sure about the timeline for delivery and since they’ve already been playing it on tv.
Similarly…no estimated delivery date at all (if ever) for the blu-ray for “Iron Sky 2”, but it is on Netflix…and fairly entertaining if you want to check something really weird out.
I don’t stream, so that makes some of these decisions easier.
I’ve never gotten bluray working. Probably because I only watch on my computer.
I watch on my laptop sometimes – for streaming, youtube, etc. But I VASTLY prefer blu-ray on the big screen with my surround sound. (Blood Machines will really benefit from that).
“#BREAKING: White House confirms President Trump has commuted former adviser Roger Stone’s sentence.”
https://twitter.com/jennfranconews/status/1281740145117417472
I was thinking today that if an American time traveled here from the 1950s, they would probably not be able to tell who won the Cold War.
+1 Austin Powers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et-s_GnUNBw
Both sides lost.
Think I found a video that makes “Imagine” more listenable.
https://kapwi.ng/c/64xkYTeq
Should be the official video.
That is a big improvement.
Side note, I did just create a Letterboxd account to cover my reviews – will probably start by using the texts for all my youtube reviews before working onwards updating as I watch stuff in my collection and new items separately.
I can post a link to my dvdprofiler page in the future if anyone wants to request flick info, etc – don’t plan on retroactively adding my collection to Letterboxd because it’s better to revisit titles on their own merits.
TedS- do you or anyone else here have an account there yet? I’m using the same isername.
You put the links on Twitter?
Not yet…waiting for a few more reviews. You can search by my name though.
I plan on leaving many inappropriate comments! Thanks!
I noticed – sock doodie man.
random satire idea
Indiana Jones Will Destroy Statues in New Film
“This *doesn’t* belong in a museum!”
I remember reading the comments section in the Sunday NYT around 2003 and some dude was lamenting the destruction and looting of art, statues, sculptures and ancient artifacts from Iraqi museums and historical sites during the war. I was along for the ride with his statements until he said that the loss of bits of stone and canvas was more tragic than the combined loss of life from Saddam’s reign and the ongoing war. I wonder if this person is still alive and if so, would they be cheerleading the destruction of the American bits of stone and canvas? My gut says they would be but who the fuck knows.
FDA warns against five hand sanitizer products containing dangerous amounts of methanol after adults and children are hospitalized, blinded and even KILLED
I drink it and I’m fine.
See what happens when you don’t listen to Trump’s advice that only drinking bleach kills the commie cough.
She learned he had claimed to his racist buddies…
How do “learn” that? Siri gets stitches, too.
Hey, KSuellington. Sorry it took so long (I had to directly upload the whole thing) but here is a link to a complete run of <a href="https://mega.nz/folder/AOAmCSwK#t1OZsVeJn6ERmzvfdUn5eQ" title="Magnum P.I.” target=”_blank” >Magnum P.I.
Something tells me that link isn’t quite right….
Jumpn’ Jimminy! My linking has been terrible today – https://mega.nz/folder/5ShijA7R#OLB5fm_EOrM5uy8LRS43yg
Now, if you had threaded properly, I wouldn’t have commented on your last post.
New York diners are being attacked by RATS while eating on the sidewalk as restaurant owners beg the city to deal with sanitation problems
Look at the size of this living nightmare
Can’t we just set a bunch of evil cats and rat terriers loose in that hellhole?
None of that image is all that good for scale.
What’s a scale gots to do with it? Look at the ass on that thing!
That’s a dude rat, Crusty. Just so you know.
Wowowo.
Allcapping RATS adds a nice touch to the headline.
Republican Antisemite Terrorist Supremacists
The city’s “sanitation problem” is largely a people problem. IOW “begging the city” to fix it isn’t going to solve anything.
I see it’s hinted at in the article. But it isn’t often appreciated what disgusting pigs most Americans are.
YORE PRO RAT
GIT OUT OF HEAR RAT LOVER
What comes around goes around
I’ll tell you why…
Look at the size of this living nightmare
The thing built a door to its house.
JFC, the rat isn’t wearing a mask!
Listen, I know that NYC rats are legendary, but I worked in a couple of midwest grain elevators in my younger years and I have seen rats that shrug off .22LR like they were nerf darts.
GFY Jo Jorgensen.
Jo Jorgensen
@Jorgensen4POTUS
It is not enough to be passively not racist, we must be actively anti-racist.
#BlackLivesMatter #VoteGold
https://twitter.com/Jorgensen4POTUS/status/1281638042315489284
Welp, she just lost any chance at my vote.
Yep, that my friends is your Libertarian party. Burying its head up its ass so it can pretend that liberty is some how compatible with leftism.
We knew something was coming. She had been decent up till now as far I could tell. But….of course.
Heard an interview with her vp the other day: he was pretty solid.
Spike is fine.
Anyone else hear the sound of libertarians shuffling to Kanye’s corner of the room?
And that followed her rebuttal.
And how in the holy fuck can she not know BLM are a bunch of fucking marxist’s? JFC and I am accused (and agree) of living in a bubble.
There is nothing in BLM’s list of goals any libertarian should support.
You mean that Marxist organization the name of which you just hashtagged?
Rules for earning my vote:
1. Don’t support BLM
2. Don’t backpedal
Say it ain’t so Jo?
Yeah, I’ll take the guy who says “We will never be a socialist country” over her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKF_590azfw
I understand why people don’t like him. He’s been just as bad if not worse on spending as every other president since Wilson.
I’ll a guy, however flawed, who means well and makes the right moves over a spineless people pleaser who tries to be all things to all people.
Coolidge came after Wilson.
Good point. Coolidge was one of the best. I regret the error.
“Anti-racist” means being racist against the pale skins. I’ll stick to just being not racist.
I refer everyone to my article yesterday.
So the “libertarian” candidate just told me how I should think while supporting a Marxist front organization. Nice. My vote in NJ doesn’t mean much, but she isn’t getting it.
Zombie.Almanian.
Gov. Gary Johnson
@GovGaryJohnson
Replying to
@Jorgensen4POTUS
Absolutely Jo.
*shocked face*
And why is that asshole still calling himself governor? The title goes with the office, asshole.
The Libertarian Party making sure Donald Trump is the most pro liberty candidate in the race yet again.
GayJay just thinks VoteGold is the latest weed strain.
Libertarian Party
@LPNational
Replying to
@Jorgensen4POTUS
As a reminder to many, there is indeed a non-profit organization called “Black Lives Matter” that espouses itself as Marxist.
There is also a nationwide movement of millions seeking policing and justice reform that goes by the same name. One matters far more than the other.
Oh, well, when you put it that way . . . shove it up your ass.
Obviously only a fool would think the organization and the people protesting in support of said organization are identified with each other
So there are two organizations named “Black Lives Matter” – and only the non-profit version is bad? A reminder to all regarding the importance of licensing domain names.
Is the Constitution Party putting somebody on the ballot?
Malice (who is a mixed bag for me) was on point with the reply:
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1281648630013685760
“Libertarianism: The party of “we” and “must””
Rachel Maddow, 5 minutes ago in 2020.
‘This is a list of the things that Trump did to cover up all of the actions his campaign took with Russia.’
This, in response to move to commute Rodger Stone sentence.
Then she introduced Adam Schiff Azhar honoured guests to discuss what they can do about Trump’s treason
Pure. Propaganda.
And how is the president treasonous for doing something the president has the constitutional authority to do as the chief law enforcement officer? ///rhetorical
They were referring to his Defiance of the Schiff committee. Stone was convicted of lying to the committee, therefore any action to prevent such punishment is obviously high treason.
I was mostly reacting to their reality defying claim that Trump was obstructing justice prevent us from knowing the depths of his collusion with Russia.
I mean, it is 2020. We have 30 million dollars worth of Investigations behind us. We know for a fact that Not only was Trump not colluding with the Russians, what does the entire thing was a scam in order to spy on Trump and then an attempted coup led by Obama administration officials. Proclaiming Trump guilty is like the guys standing around the pinball machine screaming it Jodie Foster for wearing that sexy t-shirt.
CNN says, “Hold my beer”
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1281758698214391808
#moveon
Rachel Maddow, you say?
“Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form, to MUM RA, the ever living!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzVL8PtpWm0
warning: stage 5 derp
When I get backing for my Thundercats movie the Hulkster is gonna be the best Mumm-Ra you ever saw 😉 Brother, whatcha gonna do when the ancient spirits of evil run wild on you?!
Snap into a Slim JIm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxp_3000h_U
I’ve never watched an episode of the Impractical Jokers, and I never will.
For some reason that statement makes me want to go find some of those eyeball speculums from Clockwork Orange and pop in a video just for you.
^
I was forced to watch one episode. By the end of it I wanted to punch everyone of those disingenuous, braying jackasses in the face.
“PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Detectives in Portland and Vancouver are investigating 3 disturbing letters sent to local people, including a woman KOIN 6 News interviewed for a story last week.
Two of those letters were sent to people in Portland, one to a person in Vancouver. All had the same name and return address. But investigators don’t think the man whose name is on the return address actually mailed them.”
https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/black-businesswoman-receives-racist-threatening-letter/
Another hoax?
Why is “nigger” blurred? Whatever. Looks like it was written by a 5 year old.
Look, we need to be investigating the 401,543rd instance of a hoax hate crime while the guy right down the block is being murdered right now, because we gotta have priorities, and nothing is more important than fake hate crimes.
“Say, son. That wouldn’t happen to be some BLM road paint stuck on your tire tread, would it? That’s a hate crime, right there. Feelings were hurt, outrage was signaled. I’d hate to have to ruin you and your family’s lives over five seconds of immaturity.”
*unzips*
“Now suck my cock.”
I still don’t see how it is ok for them to cover up the actual street striping that is necessary for navigating said street.
Only white drivers lose road traction, duh.
Oh, striping.
*burp*
Well, this is getting sloppy fairly damn early. Ha!
I may have to call it an evening soon before I make a bigger ass of myself than I normally do.
http://archive.li/LWn94/84068539e1d8ce83cd33276443d0846c55b59635.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/4g5uz/2799bd933fd61316455f317d95c60758e4ebaa5a.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/gM1CT/6b0420996f90f6617bd1239248bcecfff8d10cfb.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/aekun/74e919b5fb36354336ad19ba6e2defe4c581ac0b.jpg
NSFW.
Winner or really high quality doll?
Winner.
What It’s Like Having a Pregnant Wife
She becomes a real fan of being on top, in addition to a revved up sex drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDy7cjjUyag
Not a fan of Slipknot, but pretty amazing what kids today can record over the internet.
It’s startling how rapidly things have fallen apart; I guess it just goes to show how supremely powerful the totalitarian elites in the bureaucracy, media and academia became when no one was looking. In the past three months we’ve got:
1) People being locked up on house arrest initially over a flu bug and now for no reason at all
2) Corporations openly supporting a Marxist organization that want to see them destroyed (BLM)
3) Rioters and looters being treated as heroes by a major political party
with all of these being orgasmically cheered on by the propagandists in the media and a good portion of the country clapping along like seals.
Goes back to what happened in 2018 when Trump supporters stayed home allowed the enraged Blue Wave to flip the House.
Dunno what steps 4,5,6 and 7 will bring, but you can bet one of the 12 steps to sobriety includes the wrong pigmented ones saying, “Fine, guess I am racist. So?”
Well everyone to the right of Stalin is considered a racist now so what’s the point in arguing with them.
Why am I watching Charlie Chan movies?
You just sprayed on some High Karate and the wiminz didn’t show up yet?
No.
I think it’s because no Harryhousen movies were included in Prime.
Of course they bring the annoying “comic relief” character to the climactic scene to ruin the atmosphere.,
Zoom sucks fucking ballz. My work PC is a quad core i7, but apparently it’s not fourth gen, it’s only 3rd gen. So it can’t do Virtual background without a ‘green screen’. Despite the fact that both Skype and MS Meeting can do this flawlessly on the same computer without a ‘green screen’, which I have to buy from Amazon for $100 or more. Like I need more clutter around the house.
No, just fuck no. No wonder my main client is getting rid of Zoom and going with MS Meeting instead. I have only one Zoom meeting for work left. Not that it’s really a problem, the view behind me is out the patio doors behind me and it’s beautiful out there. But just fuck zoom, up the arse.
you might well be right
but I always have the cheapest crap and it works for me
I don’t get it. My work PC is an i7 quad core processor, Windows 10, and the latest version of Zoom. Works fine on my home PC, which is a 10 core i9. I’m not using my home PC for work, fuck no they are not nosing around on my personal PC, or getting any access to it.
You know, I’m just pissed since my wife wants to walk half naked around the house while I’m having a Zoom meeting and my virtual background will not work. Totally justified!
Thing is, why can Skype and MS Meeting do this and Zoom cannot?
I have the same processor and the background works fine for me. Mac, though.
Soviet WW2 movies are wild. The German tanks shown were probably captured in the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmeh-Yf9_s8
Probably easier to do realistic action scenes if you don’t mind killing a few actors.
Notice the equivalent of a .50 cal sniper rifle? And pristine looking Tigers.
Yeah. I forget where I found it, but it was a Soviet WW2 movie clip and and sure looked like they were using live ammo. It was Shturmoviks strafing a German tank column.
In the s1936 film version of the Charge of the Light Brigade, dozens of horses were killed. They used trip wires to make them fall. Poor horseys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKchwAWMpDA
Plywood.
“We have more people in jail per capita than any country on Earth! End the incarceration state!”
“What about Flynn and Stone?”
*Morphs seamlessly into law’n order man*
fun fact: lawn comes from the French word l’awne, which means the awn.
BTW, sorry about the poor luck with girlfriends, Derpy. You’re a catch, and you’re right not to settle.
“Archie, do you speak Italian?” 😉
I appreciate the kind words. Nothing in my life has come easily.
Better alone than with bad company, I say. Plenty of guys I’ve met are single dads who went through messy divorces.
The only short guys I can think of off the top of my head who cleaned up with women are Picasso and The Artist Fomerly Known As Prince. I guess I need to by a multimillionaire and a world famous artist.
That actually might be easier than some of the things I’ve done.
Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole.
I had a boyfriend the same height as me. I didn’t mind; I could borrow his clothes.
I got your reference!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras
Kelly Loeffler: I don’t think sports is the appropriate place for government-related politics.
WNBA: This divisive rhetoric will not be tolerated!
“At the WBNA we are about inclusion”
…
“She need to go!”
~The same person
Who has to work tomorrow? I do. Have a great night all!
Working now. Talking to a bunch of Eastern Slopers. 🙂
What was done there was seen.
Maybe. It’s weather dependent.
See ya!
I got called into a work issue. I’ve been on it now for over 2.5 hours.
After this ends, I’m going to bed.
I told my staff to call me because we have a tropical storm, but I plan on having a nasty hangover, so…you know…not me.
Yep.
Light weight!!
Yay!!!
Hail Zardoz and his bucket shaped head.
Stop with your fake news! Zardoz did not have a bucket haircut!
Re Stone: I’m glad the weirdo got pardoned, he was convicted of a crime thats selectively prosecuted and the jury make up, specifically the foreperson, was extremely shady. Considering the prevalence of the coof in prisons it could have been a death sentence for his old ass and what he did certainly didn’t warrant that.
Trump Promises ‘Road to Citizenship’ for DACA Illegal Aliens
There is some rambling in Trumpian fashion but Dems will be onboard with this, right? Right???
The road is the Pan American highway and the citizenship is in Honduras but…
IS… is he trying to lose?
Sometimes I feel like the world is a real place with discernable rules, then something like this comes along and I remember that the entire world is a sham created by some hostile being to make me doubt my senses and reason.
Yes, the world is disappointing.
If he actually does he’s going to be finished as it’d be the ultimate betrayal of his base (good or bad policy aside, his avid supporters very much don’t want this). Who the fuck is advising him?
He’s turned into every republican ever.
Talk a big game and then totally fuck it up, for no reason even.
We’ll see, it has to be a misquote or taken out of context or something because he can’t be this stupid. Can he? This would be political suicide, it’d be over.
something to do with the recent Scotus decision?
Yeah, it’s related but he could also address the guidance the Supreme Court laid out and try to end it again along those lines. If he’s really doing to do this and basically fold he stupider than Biden. Way stupider.
https://twitter.com/AidanSmith2020/status/1281643924256260101
They might actually look better like that?
Who are they?
AOC and Ben Shapiro
News you can use.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/health/five-things-coronavirus-doing-your-22328097
“Five things your vagina should NEVER smell like”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/health/what-normal-vaginas-smell-like-16983601
Well that was a disappointing reveal when I clicked.
Not useful to you? LOL
suggested candidate for Profiles in Toxic Masculinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_R._Kouma
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On the outbreak of the Korean War, Kouma commanded an M26 Pershing tank in the 2nd Infantry Division. While fighting during the Battle of Pusan Perimeter along the Naktong River, Kouma commanded his tank as it single-handedly fended off repeated North Korean attempts to cross the river after units around it had withdrawn. Wounded twice, Kouma killed 250 North Korean troops in this action.
After receiving the medal, Kouma served as a recruiter and remained in the Army for 31 years, retiring in 1971. He lived in Kentucky until his death, and is buried in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
***
I don’t have a burning desire to be a recruiter, but I’d do it to get the pension. I like to think I could sell the Army to guys who otherwise would not consider joining.
I tend to yell back at people who yell at me. Probably a career limiting move in the
Armyany military branch. I don’t like being yelled at.I used to give my friends names to recruiters as a prank.
I have pushed back a bit from time to time. I basically LARPed Stripes. My experience is that old soldiers respect a guy with courage, despite his other flaws.
You know you’ve broken a Drill Sgt’s spirit when they stop yelling at you and start saying “please”. Making Drill Sgts walk behind a wall so they are not seen laughing is an achievement too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7DRC9I5boA
The money’s been good and I like the work a lot, but the thing I like the most is all the funny stories I’ve gotten out of it.
I didn’t get to pick my language, but I got the one I wanted anyway. If I had showed up to DLI a week earlier or later, I might have been in Korean class. Which is OK, but not my first choice.
My Plan A was to be a military linguist. I didn’t start on that path til I was 30, but it still worked out and I’m happy for that.
” military linguist.”
Cunning ?!?!?
[arched eyebrow]
Oh yes. So much so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21ZN1MTIIw
This is so good, Tim Pool, but reaaly worth it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mV2pANrmk
I am a master baiter (my kids won’t touch worms or leeches)
Hey, Yufus! Tom T. just showed me the perfect pedal to go with your new axe!
I don’t get it.
Well, it’s a guitar player thing, so I don’t entirely get it myself. But it seemed timely.
BTW, I’ve read through Part 2 of the story you sent me, so…almost half way. Should finish it tomorrow.
Any opinion so far?
Yes – I like the protagonist, grumpy attitude and all. One passage I had a little trouble following. I’ll shoot you a quick e-mail right now.
EVERYTHING IS RACIST!!!
If CHAZ had been right wing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiTxia1Gzo
hint: hut! hut! hut! hut! hut! hut! hut! hut! hut! hut!
Hut hut hut hut
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Atks5rRqQkg
The current governor of my home state of WV is morbidly obese. I refer to him as Bubba the Hutt.
Funny so is my Gov. I’ll have to start calling him JB The Hutt.
fun fact: Huttese is based on Quechua.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVMzXq4ewg
The language of the Ewoks is based on Tibetan. They got a Tibetan lady drunk and just told her to say whatever.
So everything the Ewoks say is basically the Tibetan equivalent of: I’ll tell *you* when I’ve had enough!
Hooteenee! is a very useful phrase in Jawa. In corresponds roughly to marklar in Marklar.
One of my linguistics professors was a Quechua nut.
Quechua this, Quechua that. Sheesh. Enough with the Quechua already.
One In 10 People Have Caught Someone Masturbating In A Public Bathroom
For those of you 9 out of 10: head to the Stewart’s Shops at 7 Zena Road in Woodstock, NY. this coming Sunday, 7/12, and you will no longer be one of the majority.
I want to be a stereotype. I want to be classified.
I want to get the fuck off this 3 hour call that is barely involving me except for keeping me up.
…see you Sunday…I guess…?
sorry dewd
Still on it, and getting ready to just ask if they still need anything from me before dropping to get some sleep.
Just cancelled my spin class that was scheduled for tomorrow morning. Still waiting for an end to the call.
oofda
Does catching themselves count in those numbers?
✊Boss Betty✊ Newsletter: Where’s all the federal aid for women-owned firms? — Tampons, an origin story — A big exit at Sleeping Giants — & more
Daddy has a new favorite horrendous website.
My greatest accomplishment this week was asking someone to print a sticker with a particular part number and affixing said sticker on a test article.
Never mind that I worked 50 hours, or ran two landing gear drop tests. or four fuselage tests (one of them an ultimate test to 200% loads that should ever be seen by a fuselage) – the most important thing was that sticker.
FML
Who made that determination?
My Chinese masters
I see.
You have terrible corporate superiors.
Yes, if I had money I would buy this company away from the Chinese.
But I’m just a farm boy with empty pockets and high fucking opinions.
How much do we think the company
is worthwould sell for?$1/4 B
Remember after school specials? Name one thing an after school special inspired you not to do.
Angel dust.
I ain’t jumping out of no windows!
Obligatory:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pl7-fxVnDZw
when The Onion was funny: 13-Year-Old Drinking Prodigy Accepted To Ohio State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDiggEp-hw
The Onion’s video series Porkin’ Across America and Lake Dredge Appraisal are two of the funniest things ever produced.
… But yea, they’re from many years ago.
““If TikTok gets banned, TikTokers are taking over YouTube. TikTokers are the ones in the headlines right now. TikTokers are the talk right now. If TikTok gets taken away, these people aren’t just going to disappear.””
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1281714172250726404
They would disappear under real communism.
Anyway, Taylor Lorenz and TikTok are both cancer.
Fun fact: there is a private elementary school in India where for a fee, the kids will say any phrase. My favorite is the time they got paid to say “feminism is cancer”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Z7e6ZyfY0
They were all on Vine until Twitter killed it, and then moved to TikTok. They’ll find something else. It’s not like a platform for “short form videos” is that tough a concept.
It was kind of nice having a popular platform that isn’t Facebook or Google controlled – guess I shoud’ve known there was a reason for that.
CANCEL DOMINOES
https://twitter.com/dominos/status/1281645611675074560
I wanted to like Domino’s as a decent chain pizza place for when I have the drunchies and don’t feel like cooking, but I am now having doubts.
Just pack the freezer with some.half decent frozen pizza.
Domino’s gives me that drunken fix for garlic, grease and salt that Digiorno’s can’t quite match.
I’ll reserve judgement until I find out what Trump’s position on pineapple is.
Well, fellow travelers, here we are in a world where Zardos advice is as good as any.
I’m in my native state this week/weekend for my father’s funeral. He passed away somewhere between Sunday night and Monday morning. He’d Been living in a VA memory care facility and passed away in his sleep.
Not a bad way to go, really. He was 82 and had Alzheimer’s, so his passing is a mercy in that he didn’t have to suffer the worst of the disease.
Due to COVID19 theater, the funeral is going to be unconventional: very intimate graveside service and then back to quarantine, no large gathering at a church or house..we will have a military honor guard scheduled. I’m here with my mother and my sister and brother (and their spouses and offspring), staying in my sister’s house.
It’s not exactly festive, but we are sharing memories and some good laughs. My bro was the one who introduced me to the term “libertarian” years ago and helped foster the glib in me by recommending TOS back in the day.
Even though I need to go to sleep soon due to need for a bit of a drive early in the morning, my mind is restless, pondering life and the big questions.
Such is the human condition.
My condolences. Sorry for your loss.
Honestly for me such an event should be a small affair. But I was never the one for who long religious services as is the norm here meant much.
My Dad would have approved the plans we’ve made. Cremation and interment of the ashes. Into the family plot.
We will play Amazing Grace by Elvis (his choice) and Bob Seger “Old Time Rock and Roll” as we recede. We will have flowers on a table with the urn and a framed photograph. The honor guard for the 20 years in the Army was my one request, and to our delight, they are able to be there tomorrow.
Condolences HE. I recall several mentions of him in the past and am glad you’re able to be with family now.
Thanks, G.
Peace, lass.
And *fuck* Alzheimer’s.
Thank you.
And I second the Fuck Alzheimer’s. It took all his older siblings too, except his brother who died of emphysema instead.
Sorry to hear about your father.
Thanks
Sorry 🙁
Thanks, Rhy.
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks, Salty.
I’m sorry to hear. It’s never easy even when they’ve had a full life. Take care.
Yes, that is true. We began a sort of grieving as we lost him bit by bit to Alzheimer’s.
I think I’ll sign off now, so if I missed your condolences, thank you all. You’re a good community.
I regret missing this last night, hayek. Sorry about your Dad and fellow soldier. Its just possible, unlikely though, that our paths passed along the way.
Today I am walking my youngest grand daughter down the aisle, giving her away to what appears to be a nice young man.
My condolences on your loss but sometimes things are for the better and they always work out, not always to our liking, but always work out. You’ll be with your family, to share those funny memories.
“Remember when Dad…?”
Sorry to hear.
Very sorry for your loss h’splosives. Alzheimer’s is such a motherfucker, I hope that all goes well with the service and you are all OK.
Shit. HYKEXP, my condolences.
Hayek, I offer you my heartfelt condolences. Embrace the time with your family and remembering your father. And F A.
Thank you, my good sir.
I’m sorry for your loss He. I realize, in a way, it happened years ago.
My condolences. My uncle passed away earlier this year, and nieces and nephews weren’t considered close enough family to even be permitted to attend his funeral, due to Kung Flu concerns.
Very sorry for your loss.
top o the mornin to ya glibz
morning Pie
Just what we need, an Irish vampire.
I am not a Rush Limbaugh fan, but he makes a good point:
meh. if an economy grows in time any past leader would have presided over a smaller economy
And the stock market was overheated anyway.
Yep. O’bummer should be ashamed of himself, but that would require a capacity for self-reflection/introspection which I suspect the man does not possess. He’s America’s Justin Trudeau.
I remember Obama boasting of the record high number of people on government assistance during his administration.
It occurred to me then that there is no bargaining with a political view that openly celebrates dependency on welfare.
“Hi, I’m with the government. I’ve brought you a bucket to pour on the fire we set to your house. Don’t thank me for the water; just doing my job as a public servant.
Good lord, really?
Except it’s not water, it’s a bucket of kerosene.
I like how Justin stepped in another cow pat this week. What a fucking imbecile. Got his Mom’s looks and unfortunately for her Brains too.
meant to read “for us”.
For those not in the know, he tried to award a billion dollar “recovery” contract to a “charity” that his family has deep ties to and has enriched his Mother by 100’s of thousands of dollars. His Finance Minister’s daughter is also employed by the same outfit. This is banana republic shennanigans.
if Rush wants to wants to talk SP500, he’s flatly wrong
I think Rush was mostly referring to the unemployment and underemployment. Pre covid, Trump admin relaxing some executive branch edicts of the past did in fact help employment.
Anyone link this up yet?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-warrant-served-on-st-louis-couple-who-defended-private-property-guns-confiscated-report-says?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
WTH? All of the things going on and this is the ‘law enforcement’ we see?
It’s just a message being sent. If leftist rioters rampage through your neighborhood and you try to defend your property or yourself you’re in deep shit.
Yep. Look at all of the arrests of drivers in confrontations with criminal mobs on freeways and streets. Or use of force. Or of the organizers of covid protests. It’s totally one sided.
power is for cops, citizen
Missed Glib-chat. Got called in on my day off to baby-sit a maintenance crew because they didn’t have security clearance for the site. It really messed up my drinking regimen. This was a sucky, rainy day.
No kidding. It’s too chilly for AC and too humid for fresh air now. Trying the fresh air route but now everything in my apartment is covered with a film of moisture.
Clammy is the worst but you probably agree with that sentiment 🙂
It’s too chilly for AC – shouldn’t AC have a dehumidify function in which it does not change air temp but takes put moisture? I think mine does.
Sure, make me dig out the instructions.
how does one find the link to glibchat?
Neph posts it in the afternoon links every Friday and Saturday. It has been ending earlier of late. Too many television and sofa mishaps I’d assume. Starts too early for me and too late for you but at around 9:00 PM Pacific time it still has a few bitter clingers.
For the last couple of weeks or so I’ve been pretty snippy at some of you fellow Glibs. I don’t know if it has been the pandemic theater, the unrelenting rain or some work troubles mixed in for good measure but I assure you, that ain’t me. Everything just feels, I dunno, off? At any rate, I’ll don the scold’s bridle more often in the future.
Don’t sweat it Festus. We live in strange times and effects many of us in unexpected ways.
I know that intellectually but I’ve struggled in the past with harnessing my emotions. I don’t need to alienate my friends here the same way that I’ve self-quarantined from society at large. This place means that much to me. Thanks, Chafed!
I can’t recall a single time that Festus’ mustache caused any kind of problem. It’s a pretty benevolent mustache.
See above. I’m kind of hyper-sensitive to other peoples’ emotions. Just not a very good shit-lord when it comes down to brass tacks.
The “Oppo-Autist”, if you will.
I’ve said many words in anger before and likely will again. Sometimes people get ornery, that should be an accepted part of life. We are living in sensitive times. It can be tough for those of us that get a bit uncouth and can’t follow the herd.
I used to have a day-timer wherein I wrote THINK ABOUT IT on the cover page of the phone # section in black sharpie 🙂
And it gives one hell of a ride… I… uh… hear.
I’ve got this one move that I call “The Plunger”.
Here is Jimi doing outtakes playing a 12 string. Wish I could find the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P701paKEMXs
Nice! I’ve kind of zoned out on all of my favorites but it’s good to see something fresh. Thanks!
My favorite blues tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M
Man, I really hope that Turkey doesn’t turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Turkey will go the way of Iran, Egypt, and Afghanistan and go from forward thinking societies in which women could get degrees and wear Western fashion, into 11th century Sharia hell holes.
https://www.politico.eu/article/from-museum-to-mosque-hagia-sophias-erdogan-ataturk/
I saw a comment from a brit suggesting a compromise: turn it into a Wetherspoons.
What happens to the mosaics? Hopefully just covered over by cloth or the like. This is a great big FYTW from Erdogan. “NATO member”…
Yeah, Erdogan is just giving red meat to his base and thumbing his nose at the West.
When Turkey uncovered a Christian mosaics in the Hagia Sophia within the past 10-15 years, the mosaics were carefully uncovered and cleaned for viewing.
This case is a big moment for Turkey. Fingers crossed.
I’m glad I got a chance to spend a week or so in Istanbul at the beginning of the millennium.The Hagia and the Blue Mosque are stunning buildings, the old parts of the city are utterly amazing. Words don’t do it justice, I’ve been to many cities and that one is something else. They were on the softer edge of Islam and it has been looking like that is getting rapidly ditched, which is not a good thing.
It sucks that some of the most significant ancient places in the world are in places where it probably won’t be safe for Western tourists for half a century, best case scenario. I’d love to see the ruins of old Mesopotamia, but probably not in this lifetime :/
Oh well. Greece is very tourist-friendly.
Found this fascinating. I’m a huge WWII geek and did not know.
lovely linkage
I give up. https://youtu.be/39BhaqucJzg
That was weird. The first three attempts showed failure but two of them now show as successful.
I had no idea. That’s all new to me.
The Italians hearts weren’t into it. Every time their Navy was challenged they turned tail and ran back to port. They were the “Fredo” of the Axis.
They built aesthetically beautiful ships but their guns didn’t shoot straight. Fiats…
Of course he would.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/07/09/president-joe-biden-would-rescind-contraceptive-exemption-for-little-sisters-of-the-poor/
A better idea might be to make oral contraceptives over the counter medication. Nah, that’s way too crazy. It might cost as much as aspirin then.
What’s his policy on the War on Drugs? Same as it ever was, I assume. Up here, the Chiefs of Police are calling for decriminalization of all simple possession drug charges. That’s big. Cops don’t want to deal with junkies and junkies just want to be left the fuck alone. Problem being, it is criminal code and has to go through Parliament. There are enough Kens and Karens there to stop it in its tracks.
I read that a lot of things like contraceptives and antibiotics are sold OTC in Europe. Funny how the Left wants to emulate Europe’s healthcare system, but they always leave out the parts that don’t give the government more control.
contraceptives – yes, antibiotics I would doubt it. In Romania there are no OTC antibiotics and I would doubt the rest of the EU having them. Albania, probably.
I like how one needs to show I.D. to buy liquor, tobacco or Sudafed but no such restriction applies to voting in many districts. Can’t drive a car, can’t board a plane, can’t get a fishing licence, can’t open a fucking bank account but just send in your ballot, no questions asked. This is why we are fucked. We’re more clever but they are more wily. “Rules? Stupid LiberTARD!” Reminds me of battling the thieves on the Rez. Escalating warfare until I was about ready to chop off some brown fingers, grasping…
Just for enlightenment, I lived seasonally in a motor home based on a an Indian Reserve. We went to great lengths to protect our belongings but they always found a way. The most clever one that actually made me give up the ghost was when they lifted a tiny child atop the vehicle and had her break the skylight open with a rock, drop down into the interior and open it up. They stole my fan and some cigarette butts. It was then that I realized that they didn’t really want my stuff, they wanted to send me a message. Fuck you Whitey! Go away!
Belaboring the point, these were the same guys that I couldn’t roust out of bed to make 70 bucks an hour. We had one contract that I did solo. I’m a good boss, always have been but those Native guys were incorrigible.
^this
And now for something completely different https://youtu.be/chprwPfP7xY
We the only ones awake? Am I the only one awake?
And what in hell was that?
I’m still here and not queer. Get used to it. That’s Pepunia. She was a joke account from quite some time ago. Blame HM.
My grey boy is losing weight. Fuck. We’ve been trying to fill him up with wet food but I’ve seen this scenario play out too many times. Wifey won’t realize.
Aw, I’m sorry. Teenager? Had a slowly cachexic teenage cat. Renal failure in his case.
Yeah. He’s thirsty all of the time and can’t keep down dry food. Problem being he gets sweeter as he fades. He’s only 12 but his litter mate died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. Yoyo disappeared for a week and then we found her dead form in the hide-a-bed. I don’t know what to do except try to make him a happy kitteh.
Aw, sorry 🙁
Same with my Betty.
I think (((they))) call that being verklempt. I am verklempt.
Ooh, I’m sorry to hear that about your handsome kitteh, Fes. Our previous boy didn’t live long enough to waste away – just sudden extreme respiratory distress, then after Tom T. got him to the cross-town emergency vet clinic, George Kitteh went into cardiac arrest. Remembered later that the first time we took him to the vet, the doc had detected a heart murmur. Our best guess is that it finally caught up with him. (About seven months later, we brought home a lookalike with a very different – but still goofy – personality. While previous kitteh was Daddy’s Widdle Man, this one is definitely Mama’s Boy.)
I hope your guy still has plenty of time to get cuddles & scritches from you.
Thanks guys. He is my previous avatar and my namesake. Maybe I’m making a mountain out of a molehill but I love that little shithead. Christ, when we lost Pistol at 19 it damn near broke us.
Yeah, those pesky critters know how to worm their way into our hearts.
But we keep doing it. Gotta have critters!
I can see how you might not want to shell out a lot of money for tests and bad news, but maybe you could eke out more time with him that way.
From Merck Vet Manual: “Measures that may slow this [renal] progression include dietary phosphorus restriction, dietary fish oil supplementation, antihypertensive agents (for hypertensive dogs and cats), and administration of ACE inhibitors or ARBs.”
And it could be adrenal and thus perhaps more treatable. (I am learning as I go!)
You’re right. He needs to go to the vet. I just fell into a small pile of cash so the timing is right.
I just want him to be happy and comfortable. It’s not that I’m a skinflint but I’ve done this dance before. I’ll insist to Judi for a vet visit. What’s a few hundred bucks? We all gotta go someday.
Behold! https://youtu.be/POhs9I7BfNw She’s really good.
Wow. Better than most actors who are getting paid.
That was serious commitment to a character.
G’ Mornin fellow rebels.
Hey, Cy!
Good morning! Hopping in the car to drive 1,800 miles with 3 kids, a dog, a wife and her sister.
Wish me luck.
May god have mercy on your soul.
Pornhub links or it never happened.
Must be a big car! May St. Christopher look out for you.
Early morning or late night?
“The Aristocrats!”
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Mornin’