This was not a bad week for working out until today. I tweaked my back and have no idea how. Getting old is no fun but it beats the alternative.
It has gotten hot here in inland Southern California. Maybe not Arizona hot but days in the low 100s is hot to me. I managed to get my ass out of bed two mornings for a workout and run respectively. One night a got a workout in when I got home from work. I was not going to let the day pass without getting it in.
About a third of the way through I was sweating like a mofo and felt unusually hot. I couldn’t understand why because our air conditioning was on and I wasn’t out of breath of experiencing anything else unusual. Finished up and was sweating like a pig.
I was puzzled when youngest daughter came in my room to ask why it was so hot. I knew the house was a little warmer than usual but we had a hot day and it was slow to cool down at night. Then it hit me, the power company had shut off our compressors due to the local power load. I was not on the cusp of a stroke. Huzzah.
I’m cutting this article short because I have to find a way to loosen up my back before going out tonight. We are celebrating my dad’s 83rd birthday and I don’t want to grimace through dinner. Google “Sweden covid statistics” if you want to see what I otherwise would have blathered on about.
This week’s music. And for anyone who needs it, something to make you feel good.
Speaking of umlauts, none of you commented on last week’s music choices. So, you get them again. I can only assume MikeS is MIA and Sir Digby is asleep. As for the rest of you, I’ll just assume you are dead inside. You can select a song that tells your local tyrant you are going to take your chances, you will fight back, or you don’t believe them.
I managed to get into a class on Friday evening, and was able to recover from the last lackluster one. New max wattage of 956, and I learned that the gearing on the stationary bikes goes over 22. I was able to keep my average wattage up at about 200 through the class as well.
Weight is still going slightly up. I’m giving myself another week before setting some smaller goals to start bringing it back down to where it was in the before times. The local restaurants are doing the Cleveland Burger Week starting tomorrow. $6 burgers and drink specials.
About a third of the way through I was sweating like a mofo and felt unusually hot.
You sure it wasn’t Lil Rona?
I hope dinner and your dad’s birthday go well.
The Judas Priest song is good.
I’m transitioning to one day a week of physical therapy. I’m getting a little more hamstring flexibility. Weight inexplicably went up. 274.8 to 276.8. I went to bed hungry almost every day last week. I picked up a body fat analyzer. I will start using it to track my body fat.
I’m transitioning
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
At this point I welcome the Rona the same way I welcome SMOD.
Dad’s dinner went well.
Priest kicks ass. I’m a little hurt Rhywun hasn’t given me devil horns.
I’m on Day 14 of strict plant-based life. It seems much easier than the last time I tried to do it.
86 days to go! (Or maybe forever.)
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Chafed, I’m so very sorry to hear about your loss.
Thanks SP.
Despite being on the road all week, I managed to eat healthy (meat and vegetables) dinners, and lunch was cheese, hard boiled eggs, apple slices, grapes. I ran alot. Feeling good, looking good.
Man, I swam through a river of shit this week. Glad it’s over. I’m self-soothing by buying a new Vox ac15c2 amp. And what the hell, I’m gonna get a new compression/sustain pedal too.
You deserve it!
Get a wah-wah pedal, you damn hippie.
Music for our new normal
Chafed- re your question in the change in tactics. I dunno what happened behind the scenes. My observation is that PPB is not waiting for antifa to position themselves in attacking the various buildings, but are intercepting them en route. Of course this has been denounced by the local antifa supporters such as Hardesty as PPB ‘attacking’ ‘innocence peaceful protestors’.
My guess is some residual of Portland’s old money, business interests, and power brokers are exerting more pressure, while the actions of the state police (ultimately controlled by the governor) and the governor have been to leave the turd in Portland’s lap. I also suspect, based on how hard the media has been suddenly pushing ‘residents tired of cops invading their neighborhood’ stories that residents, are in fact sick of the riots themselves (but probably quick to say how much they support the loony leftist racist agenda because they’re right thinkers). Further factor could be the lack of prosecution in what was already catch and release, may have prompted PPB to head off the riots sooner than letting them fester for hours and then arresting the most violent ones.
Thanks GL.
Thank you! For this edition to Glibfit and that feel good story today. Someone must be cutting up onions for dinner already.
HI Chafed, Thanks for another edition. Sorry to hear about your cat.
FWIW for your back..if it lower back. I would try to open up your hips with some yoga stretches like the pigeon and frog. They will really hurt if there is tightness.
Thanks. I know from past experiences that a combination of stretching and hanging on Teeter Hang Ups will put everything right over the next several days.
That’s good you have a fix. I know that one time I was sweeping and tweaked my back. Another time, I was putting oil in the car. Both times there was something traumatic that happened…
prior.
Sorry about your kitty, Chafed. Little predators we love to spoil…
So true HS. Thanks.
My condolences about the kitteh. As others have said before, you gave her a good home and life and euthanizing her was the right decision. No need to prolong her pain.
Suburban resurrection update:
Yesterday, I tinkered with it a little more, got it rolling over on the starter more or less as normal. Cranked it for oil pressure; we haz it. I cleaned and bead blasted the plugs and wound them back in. Dumped some gas in the carburetor, turned the key and
it
fired
right
up.
I was immediately enveloped in a thick cloud of white smoke from burning off the ATF in the cylinders. Repeat multiple times, just for fun. It won’t run because Zod only knows what horrible substance the gas in the carb has turned into. The carb is off and almost clean enough to disassemble.
The old small block 350s are near bullet proof.
Mine is near death though at 300k miles. Oil pressure is climbing, presumably due to clogged ports. And the 4LE60 transmission notoriously overheats on long high speed drives.
The repower will feature extra tranny cooling.
small block 350
I grew up that way and still miss distributors in back. I will say they don’t make ’em like they usedta; they’re better: the later generation Chevys are beasts with BSFC that the original can’t get close to. So much about Gen1 was right right out of the box: it’s a design right up there with the 1911, Sunbeam mixers, and the N tractor.
I didn’t lose any weight this week, but my stomach measurement is down a quarter inch and I’m lifting a little heavier, so I’m considering it a successful week. My wife and I also got in a 23 mile bike ride, which was a new high distance for us.
Almost at the quarter century mark, good job!
Most of my long distance rides are shelved this year, with not knowing if a place is going to be allowing in restaurant dining, and the water fountains/restrooms shut down through the parks. I’m pretty much done with the concept of the “virtual rides” at this point.
We’ve mostly had good luck finding open restaurants and restroom facilities. These last few weeks we’ve been driving over to the Xenia station/hub. There are five paths you can take from there. Xenia has open restroom facilities (“use at your own risk” sign, which I wish more places would use vs. closing their facilities). We have been checking online for an open restaurant near the “turnaround” destination. In Yellow Springs it was Peach’s Grill; in Jamestown it was Kelly’s Cafe. In Xenia itself there’s Nick’s Restaurant. We previously drove over to Spring Valley and biked down to Corwin where the Corwin Peddler is open for lunch. And all these restaurants cater to the bikers: bike racks, restrooms and offer to refill water bottles. It’s really worked well for us.
Up here in Cleveland, the Metroparks (which is a huge ring of parks around and inside the city) have turned off the water fountains, and closed the restrooms (with them setting up port-a-potties outside the closed restrooms in some locations). The issue with checking online up here is that places will say they’re open, but neglect to mention it’s for takeout/pickup only. My really long distance rides are usually through the city, with rest stops in those parks.
There’s a decent 30 mile loop I may try to get in the next weekend when it’s not raining. It’s along the towpath trail, with a couple of restaurants at the turn around (Peninsula).
Progress is progress. Put a chalk mark in the W column.
In the last 60 days Massachusetts has had 931 COVID-19 deaths. 87% of them occurred in long-term care facilities. The test positivity rate is around 1.5%. A test with specifity of 99% is usually considered very good–that translates to 1% of false positive results. What share of positive tests in Mass. are true positives? Yet, the governor just recently made regulations on gatherings, restaurants, etc. even more onerous. And two-legged sheep keep wearing their filthy masks everywhere indoors and outdoors.
Can’t let NY and NJ lead the way…
Liberty Doll on the edicts.
I was just about to repost that here. Great rant.
Brooks and I may complain about our commie gov but, damn I’m glad the mikies left Massholeistan.
I just watched the video. That is infuriating. And yet most people passively accept it.
Gyms still closed in Arizona despite the court ordering otherwise. So once again I’ll be running tomorrow instead of lifting. This is getting _real_ fucking old.
Gyms have been closed in Arizona for roughly 60% of 2019. I’m sure there’s no health consequences to that at all.
Here’s some good news.
EoS Fitness is “approved” to reopen
FUCK OFF, SLAVERS
State of AZ: “No we’re not arbitrarily picking which businesses can and can’t stay open. How dare you accuse of us such a thing!”
Also State of AZ: “At close of business Friday, 95 bars serving food, 89 gyms and five movie theaters had submitted proposals for reopening. Thus far, two have been approved and four have been denied.”
They’re forcing EoS customers to schedule appointments to come work out and to wear masks AT ALL TIMES. Maybe the first time somebody crushes their chest cavity after passing out during a heavy bench, we might finally be rid of these things.
Another COVID death!
Ain’t that the truth.
Mexican Sharpshooter passed this GoFundMe on concerning Arizona gyms being closed.
*cough* some gyms in Tucson are business as usual *cough*
Gyms reopening in NJ isn’t even discussed anymore.
This week, I took a mini vacation..decreased work time and didn’t work on Friday. I decided to do a 48hr fast Tue-Thurs with just salt water. It worked out pretty well. Lost 5# from start to finish but I screwed up my refeed and ate something that didn’t agree. I gained 2# back for a 3# net loss. That is pretty typical for me.
Weather in NoCal has been freaky. Gale force winds last night and T-storm this morning. Very unusual for rain in Aug and we never get T-storms. Hot and muggy now..like Florida.
Nothing new on the trails but I picked up some poison oak. Great! With the hot weather, we will get out super early to hike, which means no masks cause there is no one.
Miracle mouse had vision restored in blind eye and is currently on the wean.
I followed all of this except Miracle Mouse.
I hear you on the freaky Aug weather in Cali. Storms produced dry lightning that torched a few spots around SoCal yesterday. Led to more rolling blackouts.
So far I haven’t been hit by blackouts. I need a Tesla wall battery unit to store up some of my daily solar panel output.
Re: Mouse. We bought a mouse (pinky day old) to feed our son’s lizard. The lizard wouldn’t eat the mouse for days and the mouse would not die. So we recuperated the mouse and it was doing fine except one of her eye’s was all white. We thought since it was so traumatized, it might have been the cause. Anyway, the eye changed this week from all white.
Re T-storms: Last time we had real them in the summer, Arnold was gov. It caused 300 fires in NoCal and mountains. It took 4 months to put them out with the winter rains. My hope is that this storm has more humidity and rain.
I was thinking about your sodium imbalance and how when the sodium goes.. all the other salts like K go with it and that can really make you feel like shit. I really don’t know why doctors are so fanatic about salt intake if your kidneys are functional. I think most people are under salted which may make them salty.
Re: mouse. Yay for little Algernon! My pet rat Foodur was meant to be food for a savannah monitor lizard, but I bought her from the hand of the pet shop owner. That little rat was incredibly bonded with me and was great fun. Mice aren’t as smart as rats but they are much smaller and tend to freak people out less.
Re: T-storms and fires. From you lips to God’s ears.
Re: Sodium. I hear ya on the potassium salts being important and linked to sodium salts too. But my problem really is a salt one, albeit a newish one for me. If I get too much, I immediately retain a bunch of water and feel terrible.
1000mg sodium per day is my target. Not impossible; just needs counting and a little planning.
I’m going to pick this song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUidR6Fkhw
“it
fired
right
up.”
The sound of a long-dead or once-busted engine lighting up is so satisfying and glorious.
For you “Rick and Marty” fans there are two new short episodes done in anime style in Japanese to boot.
I’m guessing the plague has set the new season on hiatus.
I can give a thumbs up to both, but the subtitles on the first really strayed from the actual dialogue. They went for more of the way the show dialogue is instead of what the story was.
Well, there’s some complaints out there now that Dan Harmon may have made some off-color jokes in the past…
I thought I had read that they were getting some good work done on the new season, but there’s no release date yet.
I read that too. Meanwhile Polanski soldiers on while Woody Allen may have made his last film.
Where are they available?
Mine popped on my DVR. So I can’t tell you about online. Although I’m sure they are available from “questionable” sources.
Thanks, Chafed. Glibfit is one constant in a changing world.
I have managed to lose weight after several months of see-sawing and having to make dietary changes for medical purposes.
So I’m doing ok for now but want to find exercises that are friendly to very bad feet (osteoarthritis, traumatic arthritis, edema when sodium is unbalanced).
I will start with google then talk to a doctor if I can ever see one again, but if any of you with some experience easing back in after an accident or illness, I’m all ears.
Swimming is still making me happy. Haven’t had to share a lane so far at closest-to-home Y. ::knocks wood, crosses fingers:: Weight holding steady but not dropping, so I’ve cleared a bunch of papers I’d intended to sort & file off of the treadmill and charged up the tablet to prepare to start walkies again. Current plan: walk before shower tonight.
Wonderful feel-good vid. It’s always a good day when critters get a forever home. Watching them explore their new digs reminded me of when we brought home Current Cat: unlike Previous Cat (who’d been born outdoors and only recently socialized) who panicked and raced around, finally cowering in the fireplace, Current Cat calmly checked out each room of the house then picked out a semi-hidey-hole and made himself at home.
I hope when you’re ready, you’ll consider giving another critter a home.
My song of choice.
Tom certainly didn’t back down from the drugs.
Are you talking about his accidental overdose that may be due to a prescription error?
Only two walks this week, since I had to work Saturday. Actually saw a couple walking after dinner Saturday, and with the overcast weather today, only saw one walker in the distance; we didn’t cross paths.
One of the trails I walked this weekend for the first time since Isaias, and saw two big oak trees that had been cut off near the top, one right near a trail and the other a bit off the trail but you couldn’t miss it.
The couple I passed were on a part of the trail that detours around a fallen tree, and the dog and I went over the tree to keep our distance. The couple still insisted on putting on masks even though they were well over six feet away…. [rolls eyes]
It’s sad how many people are in such a state of anxiety.
Truly, TMITE.
Walking through the indoor farmers market yesterday, there were no fucks to be given. Crowded with shoppers.
Yes, mask wearing is near universal. Many noses poking out and sometimes masks moved off to consume food, drink, and ice cream while walking.
I saw no freak outs.
Nate Silver with the “data driven” take on the exodus from NYC
I feel more retarded for having read those two tweets.
Good lord…
You’re a flake.
Can I still be a flake if I’ve never been?
CWAA
What a tool. Doesn’t take much effort to make a claim that can never be proven or disproven.
And which sounds remarkably like sour grapes, too.
Yeah, if you won’t tolerate our world’s worst pandemic performance, increasing crime, and corrupt/incompetent rulers, you’re a “flake” who’s not “hardy”.
Chafed, you know it’s easy to bypass the Edison box on the Condensers? All low voltage, very safe to do,
Yusef the only thing I know about electrical devices is not to tinker with one until I have double confirmed the power is off.
I ate one meal today, same as last Sunday. I want to try to spread that habit to the rest of the week – 1 big meal to get all the nutrients with 1,000 calories or less. And also I’ll take another swing at staying booze free. Weekends seem to be the new hurdle, but hopefully I can stay booze free this whole week.
In another news, Shark Week is back. Behold: big scary shark with big scary scar rams plastic box containing one very bold man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LaDXFUERgc
Turns out Great Whites have been killing a bunch of sea otters, so this guy decides to pose like a sea otter and see if the sharks come. Which they did.
Try not buying any booze.
^^THIS. Works a treat for me.
I quit drinking in Feb. No tapering, no cheating. Just asked myself “Do you control your actions and what you ingest or not?”
It hasn’t always been easy, especially around others who are drinking, but I get myself a nice tea or fruit drink.
Compared with when I quit smoking 12 years ago: that was way tougher, and I let myself make excuses for not quitting yet. Hell, I kept chewing the nicorette gum for another year after that.
But quitting drinking is more important for your long term health, appearance, budget, etc.
Good luck!
I didn’t drink for ten years, but, like a lot of things I haven’t enjoyed, I could always train myself eventually to get a little endorphin rush out of small wins, just the sheer thrill of winning in my mind. I discovered this when I was 12 and finally quite biting my nails.
But poker night still sucked for a decade.
Hat tip to SMU chick who reminded me that some of hero postures were for a bygone damsel (which reminds me of the old joke about alimony being like buying hay for a dead horse).
When I gave up my heroin addiction I simply swapped it out for a sex addiction. Unfortunately, not being female means being a sex addict really has no practical real-world effects. And when I was a heroin addict I really couldn’t afford drugs or anything, so I never actually took heroin. Well, I did take a tramadol that one time. It was when i had a kidney stone, but still…..
Ok. My recovery stories are kinda lame.
I’m also really bad at the church “testimonial” where you talk about how you used to do all these terrible things but then you got saved. I was always the nice guy. Makes for really boring “born again” stories.
But I did litter that one time and they made me write a letter of apology and pick up the garbage. Ok. Actually, that wasn’t me either. That was Arlo Guthrie.
Are you sure you want to go that low with calorie intake?
my favorite David vs Goliath match up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_TkJcMZm6s
God help me, I’m running traceroute on a Sunday evening.
I should be drinking instead.
27 miles on the bike today. It was much cooler outside which was nice.
Running traceroute is fun!
“Oooh, look. 7 hops to get to the nearest city only 30 minutes away, then only 3 hops all the way to Sydney, Australia! How the heck is that possible?!?!”
Ok, so I was curious after that semi-joke. So I ran a trace to australian hosting company http://www.digitalpacific.com.au
I’m 3 hops to get from my laptop to the comcast backbone. Then a stop in Miami before hitting the fiber to Australia at the Nap of the Americas. Only one more router before hitting their web server – they must be sitting in the colo at the other end of the fiber. So 7 hops from my laptop to their web server in Australia, including my cable modem and their web server.
That is crazy.
Wait. Maybe a little too crazy.
14 ms ping?
Huh.
Not possible all the way to Australia.
Nope. They must have a closet in the Nap of the Americas here in Miami. Or maybe they are on a service like Konami.
Either way, the Nap of the Americas is amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAP_of_the_Americas
I took a tour once when we were considering buying some services there. It is well worth the tour. There is something oddly hypnotic about standing 10 feet away from the top level domain servers. Just the thought that by pulling two power cables you could make the top story on CNN that night was pretty cool.
Why yes, I am a nerd. Why do you ask?
14 ms ping?
How much is the ping to all the
governmentdeep-state contracted data collectors?*eyes heavy duty Reynolds Wrap*
Sick people collecting data to make themselves feel better about themselves while collecting a taxpayer funded paycheck.
The hops are only where it’s exposed in band. There’s a lot of connections that aren’t where the traffic is moved transparently.
“Why are there so many hops???!! Can we reroute this so there’s fewer hops?”
“The traffic is going all the way through but hop 4 (of 7) is timing out, please fix”
(alternately: “hops 1-3 and 5-7 have response times of around 10ms, but hop 4 has a response time of 400ms, please fix”)
I snort-laughed.
alternately: “hops 1-3 and 5-7 have response times of around 10ms, but hop 4 has a response time of 400ms, please fix”
“trb leaving ok; closing tkt”
I’m sorry to hear about your loss, Chafed,
As far as Glibfit, I’ve dropped 10 pounds over the past two weeks and have 15 more to go. I’ve gone carb-lite (don’t count but probably less than 30 or 40g/day) except for a weekend cheat day, and also have cut out lunch. We also bought a rowing machine, stationary bike, and under desk elliptical. The under desk elliptical doesn’t do much, but it at least keeps me moving some as I’m at my desk 12-14 hours/day between work and and school. Rowing machine has been great.
Walked with my wife to our range in our woods and went shooting today. That definitely was a hike and while carrying our gear. The VR-80 performed well. Shells failed to clear with the first 9 round magazine, which had me worried. But it cycled flawlessly when I swapped with the second 9 rounder. 9 shells as fast as I could pull the trigger. I paired it with a reflex sight, magpul pistol grip, and padded adjustable stock. Quite a kick though even with that stock. I think it was the mag and not the gun itself. Still need to try out the 5 rounders, and I have 19 rd mag already shipped and on the way.
One of the major complaints is that these are being shipped out of Turkey covered in some sort of thick anti-rust grease to the point that the gas ports are blocked. I broke it down to clean before taking out and the grease protectant was minimal. It may be RIA has heard these complaints or maybe I just got lucky.
I want one. I just haven’t talked myself into following through on it.
No regrets here. I’m looking forward to breaking it in more. They are had to find though if you end up pulling the trigger. I ordered 5 times from different retailers and the first 4 all were cancelled by the retailers. Finally had success at Grab A Gun. I used this site to see availability:
https://gun.deals/search/apachesolr_search/868042198037
Which sight did you use?
For the AR, I went with this from Primary Arms with 1/3 co-witness
https://www.primaryarms.com/primary-arms-slxz-advanced-rotary-knob-micro-red-dot-sight
For the shotgun, I grabbed the Feyachi RS-30 Reflex Sight ($50 Amazon). The price was right with an already blown out budget, and I have iron sights ready in case of failure. I planned on upgrading to a nicer sight as able, but I have zero complaints with it so far.
Came very close to getting the ROMEO 5 for the AR, even had in the cart to checkout, but the lifetime warranty for PA’s product swung it. I like that PA stands behind their optics. Sig Sauer had some weasel wording in their optics guarantee.
I sprung for the batteryless trijicon. Still waiting for my stock and frowned before I decide how to mount it. These backorders blow.
Fuck a duck. “Foreend”.
Nice!
Their tritium/fiber optics sights work really well. The no batteries thing ranks really high with me. It costs, though.
That’s funny. When I was a kid, everything had tritium powered glow paint on it. Watches, exit signs, toys….
We loved our radioactive paint.
A sight on a shotgun?
Get about ten boxes of light loaded #7-1/2
Shoot all of them in one day practicing raising the gun and shooting as fast as you can.
When your shoulder heals do it again. And again. And again.
Buy buckshot in bulk.
A brass bead is all you will need and any duck inside of shotgun range will be a dead duck in the blink of an eye.
I’m not shooting ducks with 00 and slugs.
Thanks SSD.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1295095640028925952
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Well, that made my day. ?
I particularly enjoy how the brave and woke protestors, including those that speak in all seriousness about a new revolution, become whiney bitches when they lose a job or get arrested or basically face any negative consequences for their actions.
Guessing they didn’t Mutually Pledge To Each Other Their Lives, Theur Fortunes And Their Sacred Honor.
I know I keep flinging this out, but how many of these useless shits are being enabled by commie mommies?
The vast majority, I assume.
These people…sheesh. What would they do with actual hardship?
I have a feeling we’re going to find out. These people and organizations want nothing short of an upending of existing American institutions, public and private.
They saved him a felony assault on a police officer charge. He should send them a thank you card as soon as he gets that capsaicin out of his eyes.
Minnesota nice: https://mobile.twitter.com/AlphaNewsMN/status/1294736792856535040
Jeebus. Does the MN left really support this display?
Well, we’ll find out come election time. If the voters of that district put that nutjob in office, we shall know what the people stand for.
Funny, I was just talking with a business owner who has 3 restaurants just outside Minneapolis. He was talking about selling out and leaving the area. He was completely fed up with the leadership in Minnesota.
And that was just some random dude I ran in to while vacationing.
There are a lot of people who have had it with all of this. But if they don’t take it to the voting booth, it is only going to get worse. Much worse.
Sad to see MN going nuts. It’s been under the surface for a while but now… I guess all bets are off.
MN still has had the recent ability to elect a GOP governor and US Senator (in the early 2000s) and even the MN House and Senate.
But when I was there, whenever the MN house was won by the GOP, as in 2010; they squandered the opportunity by immediately ignoring campaign pledges on fiscal responsibility, and instead passing Defense of Marriage acts and abortion limitations.
Add in a scandal involving the married GOP majority leader having an affair with a GOP party operative, and that sealed the MN GOPs fate.
I’d guess Libertarianism has a better chance in MN than GOP does. And for good reason!!
Those kind of conservatives remind me of the BLM idiots.
I’m a huge civil libertarian police reform guy in the Radley Balko / PINAC / Puppycide area of thought. We had things going the right way with Balko’s “demilitarization” language. People were thinking about criminal justice reform, drug war dissolution and forensics accountability, along with rules of engagement type stuff. Then along comes BLM to tell us that it is all because of racist police. And then the whole thing was over. Thanks guys! Stay off my side….
That’s what these idiots do. We have a whole limited government philosophy, but they think the anti-abortion red meat is the actual agenda. So they introduce legislation to put pregnant single mothers in jail or outlaw gay partnerships….. thanks guys! Stay off my side…
I have had to lift heavy shit at work for quite a few weeks now. Last week I noticed I could lift heavy shit easier.
#metoo I’ve been working the water aisle. Eight pounds per gallon really adds up quick when you’re shifting almost a ton per pallet X6 pallets per night.
Waking up and trying to catch up on the site. Chafed, no truer friend in man or beast; I’m so very sorry for your loss. A very happy birthday to your father.
SP, this morning’s links were the most beautiful I’ve ever seen; thank you for your work, it’s most appreciated. You’ve set a very high bar.
You’re quite welcome.
Thanks I0bot.
No one likes an ass kisser l0b0t.
Fake news.
Fair enough, I forgot about HM.
Dated, but still relevant-
Kamala Harris Forced To Rely On Prison Labor For Struggling Campaign
Sorry about the kitteh, Chafed.
Thanks Tres.
Bad time of the year for me. The garden has come to fruition and I love the fresh stuff. I love the corn picked a few minutes before eating and corn requires butter, right? I don’t eat potatoes often but I planted a few and now they are to be eaten, requires a little butter, right? Big salads, watermelon and got to have some protein too, just plain eating too much, picked up 3 lbs this week.
I’m not to going to stop ’til the frost says its over, then re-evaluate and make some tough choices.
A guy in a brown fur coat visited last night, inventoried my crab apple trees. Broke the apple bearing limbs off, the trees were heavy with apples but we leave them for the deer anyway but I’d rather trim them myself. They were in decline anyway but still. The new trees I planted this year are inside a chain link fence. Moved the game cam out to cover the trees, see what happens tonight. Blue jays showed up this morning to eat the crabs so the apples will get used.
“…inside a chain link fence…”
Good luck with that. My figs are inside a chain link fence. The guy with the fur coat can eat every single fig in one night. Fig branches are much more rubbery and springy than apple but he still manages to break them.
Is this some sort of chastity hotwife thing?
Sorry Chafed
Happy Birthday to your Dad, Chafed. I know from experience that the 83 year old guys enjoy their family and want to see them more often. Some families are scattered around and makes visiting tough.
You are a good son.
My son’s birthday today as well but he’s only 58 and lives far away, I didn’t get to take him out for dinner but he’s threatening to come for Honey Harvest, I’ll put him to work.
Wife is watching a movie about WWI
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5314190/
People didnt learn then. Just a few years later they were at it again.
I had to go out and about today. Fucking masks everywhere and not one single one of them effective. Goddamn people are stupid. They never learn and the tyrants never quit. I getting pretty fed up with this horseshit. If we dont put our foot down we are going to end up doing it all over again.
This time maybe I can convince everyone to get out of the trenches, go home and hang every politician they can get their hands on.
WWI was a family affair among royals, and a matter of habit among European countries. Add in a few entangling alliances, and shake well.
Only they didn’t figure on 20th century weapons.
“The Sleepwalkers” is a good book on how they basically stumbled into a war that became a horrific destroyer of generations.
A couple of years ago, I asked myself if modern whiney spoiled young and old adults would cooperate with wartime orders like turning off lights so it was hard to find cities to bomb. Or food rationing.
Now I see that people will comply about masks, which serve no purpose, yet it doesn’t give me hope that it means people are tough and resilient. Quite the opposite.
As I have been saying since the beginning:
Biden leads Trump on most issues, except a chief one to voters
The NBC News/WSJ survey suggests that as of right now, the economy is the main issue on people’s minds, and on that issue, Trump leads Biden by 10 points.
Bill said it way back when. “its the economy, stupid”
James Carville
Yeah, something about the economy of stupid people in trailer parks dragging a $20 bill around.
Every single plank in the democrat platform is ‘we are going to take ______ away from you’.
I dont care what the polls say, I find it hard to believe they lead on any issue.
Biden leads the “Government wouldn’t let anything bad happen to me” demographic and the “I feel guilty for being white, so this vote is my absolution” crowd.
Voting for an old white guy?
The left really has managed to fill peoples head with shit.
Yup. And their votes count same as yours and mine.
If the ____ is “poverty” or “inequality” or “injustice” or “oppression” or “racism”, that is going to be mighty appealing to a lot of folks.
*Not saying that they (or anyone) is actually going to do that, but that is their message, and it resonates with a lot of people. People are dumb.
I have to agree with this.
Which is why every news outlet has been pushing the politics of personal destruction for the last 4 years and is now pushing the idea that the voters want “anyone except Trump”.
And I have listened to the libertarian podcasts where journalists tell me what they are thinking. The libertarian press is almost unanimous…. anyone except Trump.
I’m astonished that TDS runs that deep with these folk. Trump now has a record. And except for tweets and a few statements, he’s done a solid job for us libertarians that did not vote for him.
Biden and his team absolutely swear on a stack of bibles that they will do everything in their power to destroy liberty in every area except for transgender bathroom use. I don’t see how it is even a question for a libertarian between these two choices.
We have no party. End of story. Trump sucks, but everyone else, including Gabbi, can fuck off and die.
If she’s planning on fucking off and dying, I have a suggestion on where Gabbi can handle the first bit…
I agree.
Trump is a no-brainer choice among the candidates.
Voting for a Dem would reward their awful behavior, and you get more of what you reward.
Man, when you’re behind Donald Trump on the issue of ‘mental health…’
LOL.
A couple of years ago, I asked myself if modern whiney spoiled young and old adults would cooperate with wartime orders like turning off lights so it was hard to find cities to bomb. Or food rationing.
Now I see that people will comply about masks, which serve no purpose, yet it doesn’t give me hope that it means people are tough and resilient. Quite the opposite.
Masks are an ostentatious display of public-spirited-ness, requiring zero effort or sacrifice. Would the people wearing masks jump on a boat to go fight in some smelly, steamy jungle? I doubt it.
I will say again. What we have now is not “fighting together to overcome adversity”. It’s abject, unconditional surrender. To a fucking germ.