IFLA: The “Well…” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of August 30

by | Aug 30, 2020 | Advice, IFLA | 206 comments

So we’ve gone from a time of no alignments to one with a very clear indicator of bad news.  We’ve talked about all the bad blood between Kronos/Saturn and Zeus/Jupiter and why when they’re together things are just downright catty.  And how that they are both in retrograde making everything worse.  And of course, part of retrograde motion is it makes you hang out in a particular sign longer which is why Capricorns have been having a really shitty time of it and will continue to do so for the next couple of weeks (though things will start getting better in mid-September, I promise).  Well that giant pile of suck slots into position this week with… Mercury.  The planet of luck, change, news, disorder, chaos, potentially for the good but come on now you really should know better by this point. Be ready for the gang aft a-gley.  It will be a particularly terrible time to make your living on the water, with the degree of fuckitude increasing with your dependence on other people.  Fishermen might experience some electronics failures, navigators on CVNs or SSBs would be better served by being on shore.

Having said all of that, it will still be an excellent week for Virgo and a decent week for Cancer.  The rest of us will experience an unusually capable or unexpected ability to deal with the aforementioned nonsense.  The actual readings are dealing with shelter (passive protection) warding (active protection) and expeditious retreat.

Virgo:  8 of Cups – giving joy, Mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence

Libra:  3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion

Scorpio:  5 of Wands – Imitation, strenuous competition, gold, gain, opulence

Sagittarius:  2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.

Capricorn:  Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive, triumph of the deserving side in law

Aquarius:  King of Wands: – Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious

Pisces:  Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude

Aries:  6 of Cups reversed – The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.

Taurus:  Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

Gemini:  2 of Coins –  Gaiety, recreation, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.

Cancer:  Queen of Wands reversed – Economical, obliging, serviceable, opposition, jealousy, deceit, infidelity.

Leo:  3 of Coins – Métier, trade, skilled labor, nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory

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206 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    They say there’s nothing like your first First. But I tell ya, every First feels like my very first time.

    • Surly Knott

      Shut up, ya cunt.

      • Brochettaward

        That’s my line, you sloppy cunt.

      • WTF

        It’s “cunte”, you twats!

      • Surly Knott

        Yes, I know, and it works as well as you do.
        But to show there are no hard feelings, how about I buy you a toaster? For your bathtub.

    • Fifth Knight of the Derp Table

      A minute man, eh?

    • KSuellington

      I’m pretty sure that Brochetta is making a commentary on the silliness of First! It’s an existentialist cry on the futility of human efforts to win in a hostile and indifferent universe.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m pretty sure he’s just trying to irritate people. Because all of the first nonsense had stopped on this site until he decided to start this.

      • KSuellington

        I am not discounting that either.

      • Lackadaisical

        He’s the guy who won’t stop doing that from Hyperbole’s comics.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, then I’m okay with the outcome.

      • Lackadaisical

        XD

        I would actually be sad if he stopped now, dunno why.

      • Threedoor

        The only reason I’m still with my wife.

      • UnCivilServant

        She’d leave you otherwise?

      • Lackadaisical

        The only reason I’m still with my wife.

        Right in the feels.

      • Mojeaux

        She’d leave you otherwise?

        I laffed.

    • R C Dean

      His schtick amuses me.

      • Mojeaux

        #metoo

      • leon

        I’m more amused by the people butthurt over the shtick.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m annoyed at their reaction because it only encouraged the continuation of the schtick.

      • Mojeaux

        Except some people find it amusing and thus, don’t mind the continuation.

        If that was ALL Brochettaward did, that would be one thing, but it’s not. He engages civilly and intelligently on a variety of topics. He’s not a one-tricky pony.

      • UnCivilServant

        So what about it is amusing, because I don’t get it.

      • Mojeaux

        There’s nothing to get. It’s a running gag that you either like or don’t.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.

    If it weren’t for false hope, I’d have no hope at all.

    • Rhywun

      The poles have been “about to reverse” ever since we got flying cars.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, I’ve been hearing that since I was little.

        Also, it was awesome to get to see the glacier NP signs a few years before they took them down. Fuck doom and gloomers, just a special kind of grifter.

    • DEG

      Yes.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Twitter agrees. They’ve got it tagged with “Manipulated Media” already.

      • Rhywun

        I’m not going to dive into that morass but instead just wonder why would they need to resort to “fakery” when there are so many examples of Democrats not faking their demands to “defund the police”, and examples of Democrats actually doing it…?

      • westernsloper

        Ya, they did not need to alter that. It stood on its own for the gist of the question. Stupid party indeed.

  3. Fifth Knight of the Derp Table

    Taurus: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

    Taste: No. I’m always tasteless, regardless where bits of rock and gas are in the solar system.

    Inclination: I guess I’m inclined to certain things.

    Attachment: Hopelessly single and misanthropic… I’ll check for ticks later this week.

    Seduction: *flat stare* Sure.

    Deception: Par for the course, my good man.

    Artifice: You flatter me or curse me, we’ll see.

    • Count Potato

      Chicks dig lyme disease.

      • Lackadaisical

        It really ticks me off.

    • salted earth

      Let me know if you want some help with the tick check 😉

  4. Ted S.

    We’ve talked about all the bad blood between Kronos/Saturn and Zeus/Jupiter and why when they’re together things are just downright catty

    I’d thinks things would get cattier when it’s Hera/Juno and Rhea/Ops together.

    • DEG

      He’s assuming many of the people pushing vote by mail have that much cash.

    • commodious spittoon

      A vote isn’t worth five bucks, let alone five thousand.

      • Rhywun

        And I wouldn’t try to mail myself five bucks either.

      • UnCivilServant

        The postage on five deer is brutal.

  5. DEG

    Leo: 3 of Coins – Métier, trade, skilled labor, nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory

    I think you mean merde.

  6. Tundra

    Leo: 3 of Coins – Métier, trade, skilled labor, nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory

    Bow down, bitches.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    SPLITTERS!

    A Republican student group at Arizona State University is receiving backlash for donating money to the 17-year-old gunman who fatally shot two protesters in Wisconsin.

    College Republicans United announced this week that half of any funds they raise during the semester will go toward paying for the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse.

    “He does not deserve to have his entire life destroyed because of the actions of violent anarchists during a lawless riot,” the group said in a tweet.

    In a statement Saturday night, the ASU College Republicans denounced College Republicans United “radical, far-right extremist group.”

    ASU College Republicans called for an investigation of the group.

    College Never-Trumpers?

    • Viking1865

      College Republicans: Guys who look like Ben Shapiro: shrimpy, shrill, high pitched voices. They meet every Tuesday night, its a total sausage fest with maybe one or two “she’s a six, at best” women in attendance.

      College Republicans United: MAGA Chad and Todd throwing a fundraiser that will be attended by lots and lots of hot and tight ASU coeds who will both make your head spin and also give you herpes.

      • Rhywun

        It’s funny because it’s probably totally accurate.

      • Lackadaisical

        Especially this part:

        hot and tight ASU coeds who will both make your head spin and also give you herpes.

      • Chipwooder

        Back when I lived in Yuma, I used to love when we’d go to Phoenix on the weekends and hit up the bars around Tempe. Whole lotta talent around there.

      • Sean

        I believe this. Thanks for mansplaining!

      • Ted S.

        hot and tight ASU coeds

        For some reason, I read that as “tight” in the 1950s sense of “drunk”.

    • Lackadaisical

      ASU College Republicans called for an investigation of the group.

      jesus.

      That is one way to get rid of your competition. Wouldn’t be surprised if they do well in politics though.

      • Viking1865

        The fissure in the American Right is this

        1. People who actually believe the Left is seriously for real about tolerance, injustice, racism, and inequality. These people spend lots and lots of time assuring the Left that they are “one of the good ones.” They believe that when the Left says “End Racism” they mean “End Racism.

        versus

        2. The people who understand that the Left hates the broad basket that is The American Way of Life. They actually, no shit, no lie, hate business, and they hate religion, and they hate gun rights, and they hate free speech. They understand that when the Left says “End Racism” they really mean “End Freedom”.

      • Tres Cool

        People’s Front of Judea vs. the Judean People’s Front ?

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin, say Rittenhouse shot and killed two people and severely wounded a third with an AR-15 rifle Tuesday. The victims were part of anti-racism demonstrations occurring in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, who is Black, by a white police officer.

    Just minding their own business, singing songs and holding hands, when the gunman appeared out of nowhere and sprayed the crowd indiscriminately with gunfire.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Demonstrating against racism and trying to push a burning dumpster into a gas station. Ah well, six of one, half a dozen of the other.

  9. KibbledKristen

    The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.

    Stop teasing me

  10. commodious spittoon

    It was bound to happen sooner or later but today feels like fall for the first time this year.

    • Tundra

      I love it. The sap is running, IYKWIM…

      • Lackadaisical

        EWW! /sixteen year old girl

      • Rhywun

        Biden?

    • KibbledKristen

      YAS

      it’s weird watching the Tour dee france instead of pre season hoofball, though

    • Lackadaisical

      Agreed, though it is a beautiful day, it is sad to see the passing of summer.

    • Lackadaisical

      Agreed, though it is a beautiful day, it is sad to see the passing of summer.

    • UnCivilServant

      You mean my electric bill will go down now?

  11. Count Potato

    “My mentor and father figure died alone in a hospital room on July 28 and saw no visitors for the last 2 weeks of his life, but throwing a block party is perfectly fine. I’m so sick of all of this.”

    https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1299731483230384130

    I am too.

    • DEG

      Fuck. I agree with this commentator:

      “Every single COVID restriction needs to end now.”

      • UnCivilServant

        And the people who implemented them prosecuted for violations of constitutional rights.

      • DEG

        Yes.

      • Threedoor

        And hanged in public.

  12. LCDR_Fish

    A few new questions for the gardeners, etc.

    After getting rid of some weeds/vines in my yard this week (and picking up another rash – that does not appear to be poison ivy for once) – I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to scrap all the shrubs around the house and just replace them with simple perennials and a few herbs (for keeping bugs away, etc). It seems to me that the best time would be around late winter/early spring while things are still “dead” – but the ground isn’t really solid (here in VA). Any tips/suggestions for digging them up and getting rid of them completely? Plan to clip first and then dig around the roots, etc. Still need to scrap a few more vines – need to spray a little more round-up and pull these stupid things out of the gutters – got too wound up around some cables, etc. (appears mostly dead now).

    Not too worried about big root structures since the house is only 7 yrs old and base is fully concrete.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Also…while I won’t be financially prepared for a few years yet, I am getting more interested in buying ranch land out west in the mts – delaying this year’s vacation and hopefully will get to look at some other areas next year. Guess it varies by state, but anyone here have personal experience with driveway/road paving, water/mineral surveys for wells, etc? Anyone ever set up a geothermal system for home use?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Those are important and tough questions. I’ve only had passing experience with them thru family.

        I’m guessing Suthenboy might know a bit.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I bought 30 acres in VA and can offer my general experience.

        Our well was already in place but is only about 100 feet deep, which is relatively shallow but is common for the East Coast. I’ve heard wells out west may need to be hundreds of feet deep. You are charged by the foot for drilling and line placement. There’s usually no guarantee of the drilling being successful or the depth at which they’ll need to go. You need to find a reputable, experienced company.

        We looked at paving our driveway. The conservative quote came in at 10-12 grand. Right now we’re just dumping a full dumptruck load of gravel every 2-3 years. The truck spreads it evenly as it dumps. I think it’s about $350.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Yeah, paving vs gravel does look like a decision point – found a few estimates for driveway paving online – wonder how much it varies from state to state or county to county – guess it depends on the company and distance to travel as well.

      • Viking1865

        I manage a rural property. Gravel is an order of magnitude cheaper than paving, and I have a property that requires lots and lots of gravel every year to resurface due to it being decently hilly. Truck comes in, drops the gravel at a couple key locations, then my jack of all trades dude comes in and spreads it all over. We paved one stretch of road so the fish stocking truck could come in safely. That cost more by itself than two years of gravel, and its already got some heaving from tree roots.

      • R C Dean

        If you live in a snowy/icy climate, paving your driveway makes a big difference. Much easier to clear, and the sun keeps it from refreezing when it hits the black asphalt.

        Big. Difference. When I lived in WI, it made the difference between being able to easily get out of my driveway whenever I wanted, and . . . not.

      • Threedoor

        As for wells always check with the states department of water resources. They can and will ruin your day. Or in my case three years. It’s best to buy and drill inside of an Indian reservation as most times the DWR can’t stop you from drilling. Go 100’ or more than you think you need. Call drillers and not geologists as they know the water table and the morphology better from experience.

        I know a bit about roads as it’s the industry I’ve been for almost twenty years now. Make sure your grade is less than 8%. Here in Idaho that’s the subdivision maximum and it may make resale hard if it’s over that. A good base is important, there are some standards out there to look at. Pitrun, base course, 3/4 or 5/8 minus for the top. Actually paving a drive or road is massively expensive.

      • Threedoor

        Drainage is important as well. Remove the topsoil and replace with your pit run or base course. Go wider than you think you should as well. Standard lane width is 12-14’ but the base is wider yet. You can get a lot wrapped up in a road but if you want to pave it later you need to have it built right in the first place. The roads in my neighborhood arnt, what asphalt was on them is crumbling because the developer went fast and dirty, literally the roads have too much dirt in them and they didn’t remove the topsoil before putting the base down. When they are wet the ground moves as you drive on it.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Thanks. – I was thinking I’d need to check with the state geological survey for water table verification, etc – prior to trying to drill a well – don’t want to inadvertently create a wetlands. I guess the drilling company would generally know the local areas and regulations by trade/legal purposes already.

        Guess I’ll see what kind of location I wind up getting, but I guess dirt/gravel would be better in the long run – and more affordable. I certainly wouldn’t want much of a grade if I could help it just due to personal driving preferences, especially in bad weather.

      • Threedoor

        The less the state knows what your plans are the better. They will F with you.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Figured some were a little better than others, but I agree as a general principle. Advice is appreciated – just don’t want to get shafted after the fact if something is completely avoidable.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Related question – would it be advised to go to a financial advisor for planning for a land purchase – particularly in a state I’m not currently a resident in – and for long term planning even if I’m not ready just yet – or is there a different person (just a realtor? or a specialist)?

      • Threedoor

        Beats me. Wife and I paid cash for our place. Check local taxes. We’re in the second highest taxing district in Idaho. If we were 2500’ east we wouldn’t be. And would have been able to drill a well without a hitch.

      • Threedoor

        Another one. Both of these are a bit much for a driveway or personal use. You can do without the road cloth and probably get away with using much less base course and pitrun, gravel 3” on top is a good start. You’ll end up bringing more in over time and grading snow will make it around a lot and expose your base course from time to time.
        https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADB595.pdf

      • Threedoor

        Move it around. Not make it.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Gracias

      • Threedoor

        No say.

    • Sean

      Tannerite.

    • Lackadaisical

      Not that familiar with your climate, but up here, it would be fall or early spring, though depends a little on the specific plant, usually past the last frost day for spring.

  13. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Capricorn:  Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive, triumph of the deserving side in law

    FUCK YEAH

    • Count Potato

      It’s actually “side of cole slaw”.

      • leon

        The oracles need to enunciate better.

  14. Animal

    Libra: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion

    My phrenologist would like a word.

  15. Count Potato

    “Let me repeat this for those inventing the idea of “Black Lives Matter riots.” BLM doesn’t “riot.” They march against police violence. And note that those caught setting fires, assaulting and shooting people are consistently of the RIGHT, not the left.”

    https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1299775888385605632

    This thread is just ridiculous. Alex Jones is Edward R. Murrow compared to this lunatic.

    • Lackadaisical

      And note that those caught setting fires, assaulting and shooting people are consistently of the RIGHT, not the left.”

      Yeah, right.

      • leon

        (She said without evidence)

    • Animal

      The only proper response to that is “You’re an idiot.”

    • Chipwooder

      Did Joy ever get to the bottom of who it was who hacked into her Twitter and left a bunch of insulting tweets towards gays dated like ten years prior?

    • westernsloper

      Not quite the same story but, yep.

      • Raven Nation

        She’s the one that owns Shooters, right?

      • westernsloper

        Ya. She got famous for telling Beto he couldn’t have her gun to his face.

    • westernsloper

      And to carry on the convo from this morning whether or not the Trumpistas were just macing rioters blocking them or not, this is the video I was talking about. This shit helps nothing. I hate the fuckers on the sidewalk, and I hate the fuckers in the trucks. I found it because Vermin Supreme retweeted it and that is how it showed up on my feed. I am confused as to where he stands on all this idiocy.

      • Brochettaward

        So, should the left be able to engage in political violence with impunity? Because that’s basically what’s happening with the cops taking their hands off approach.

      • westernsloper

        No, I don’t think that at all. Shooting paintballs at assholes from the back of a pickup truck doesn’t help anything though.

      • Chipwooder

        Yeah, defending businesses is one thing, but forming a caravan to drive in search of confrontation in the belly of the beast strikes me as a really bad idea, honestly.

      • Sean

        Or it’s a legit “mostly peaceful” protest.

      • Brochettaward

        What would help?

      • westernsloper

        There is nothing that can help until the mayor of Portland handles it. It’s his town, his job. The best course of action is to do nothing and paint them all as the violent marxists they are. The country is sick of this shit and right up until you give them what they want, which is violent confrontation with a bunch of people with Trump flags on pickup trucks it is all on them. Now it’s not. I am not one who gives the left what they want and will continue to stay away from protests. Come to my town and fuck with my neighbors? Different story. My take is these people assembled in the burbs and then drove into the city looking for shit.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m not convinced that the country is sick of this shit. My guess is roughly 1/3 of the country is in strong support. Even dropping that to 1/4 or 1/5 is tens of millions of people.

        Doing nothing to push it back may end up with innocents being lined up against the wall. Appeasement didn’t work for Chamberlain and I doubt it will satiate Antifa.

      • Viking1865

        They absolutely did.

        But my thing is this: In a free society, people should be able to convoy through the streets with Trump flags flying, and the commies can jeer and flip them off. But they cannot block the streets, and they cannot throw objects at passing cars because they hate the flags and signs.

        The streetscape of Portland is by law a public space. It’s not Antifastan. It’s completely legal to drive through with signs and flags designed to piss off the commies, and if the commies initiate violence against them, it is still a crime. Speech is not violence.

        Like, thought experiment: Big old crowd of gay people trick out their cars with rainbow flags and go drive through whatever bumfuck town that pack of morons called the Westboro Baptist Church lives.

      • westernsloper

        I get it Viking and totally agree and I could probably be swayed to agreeing with the truck caravan people, but again, I am not convinced that helps right now. Why fight an enemy that is shooting himself?

        SSD I think it is way less than 1/5 of the country that supports the rioters, they have destroyed numerous business and livelihoods but I don’t think we are at Che Guevera checkpoints yet. I could be wrong, I don’t know. I struggle with this to be honest. At what point does an impending civil war become a civil war?

      • prolefeed

        If Antifa supporters think that getting to straight up murder people on video, and cheering the killing, is playing into their hands, they may get a rude shock in early November.

        That kind of masked, mask dropping, is gonna antagonize lots of swing voters.

      • Sean

        It looks like the crowd on the right was spraying something at the truck too, maybe that’s why the paintballs?

      • westernsloper

        I think they were throwing water bottles at them.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The water bottles are usually filled with frozen water or urine/feces. Then when Antifa’s victims defend themselves, the MSM and Antifa cry about how the response was overproportional because it was just water.

      • Viking1865

        Uh, at :03 someone in the crowd on the sidewalk throws something at the truck. It goes through the top right corner of the frame. MAGA in white Tshirt is not shooting paintball at the start of the video, then something (looks like a soda or beer can to me, its trailing liquid) flies at him, then hes shooting his paintball gun.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Look at the beginning of the video where the sidewalk antifa is trying to light something. It’s part of a Trump flag, which they had been pulling off the vehicles, among other activities like filming the participants and their license plates to dox them later. And more physical actions such as throwing objects at the trucks or in front of them to stop them.

        There was nothing peaceful about the counter protestors. They were there to block & disrupt the convoy and physically confront a lawful activity. That’s what they’ve been doing for several years now. And they’ve gotten away with with and have support from the media in covering for their criminality.

      • westernsloper

        No I get it, there is nothing peaceful about anybody on the streets in portland night after night for over three months now. I just am not convinced going in and antagonizing the idiots is the best course of action.

      • R C Dean

        Compared to what? Letting them control the streets?

        If there is another option on offer, I’m all ears.

  16. LCDR_Fish

    Oh yeah, for anyone like me disappointed with the disappearance of Rebeller Media, Sonny Bunch has a new movie podcast called “Bulwark at the Movies” – the 3rd show so far has a really excellent discussion about Chinese gov’t enforce censorship and some of the behind the scenes issues.

  17. UnCivilServant

    🙁

    Nitrile gloves are still twice their beforetimes prices. A box of 100 used to run $9.99.

    And of course they’re all made in china.

    • Rhywun

      I still have a full box from my hospital stay in May. I guess I was supposed to use them.

      • Rhywun

        And they were made in Malaysia. 😛

      • UnCivilServant

        Made in Malaysia is ok, who’s the manufacturer?

      • Rhywun

        “Innovative Healthcare Corporation” – box of 200. I did use one. Same boxes that are stocked in every hospital room in multiple sizes. They go through those things like candy now.

      • UnCivilServant

        There appear to be at least four companies that still make them in this country.

    • mikey

      At our local pharmacy hand sanitizer and cloth masks have gone from not available, to limited # per customer and now yesterday a display of both for 30% off.

    • Nephilium

      There was a story a couple weeks back from a local restaurant claiming that stores were gouging restaurants on supplies such as gloves and sanitizer.

      I was interested in checking out the restaurant before I read that article.

      • UnCivilServant

        Somehow I don’t think the restauranteur would not raises prices if constantly swamped with demand beyond their capacity to cook.

    • Threedoor

      My wife uses them to clean around the house. I always manage to tear them so I do everything bare handed except packing bearings. You see me elbow deep cleaning a toilet I’m not wearing gloves.

      • UnCivilServant

        Have you tried getting a box in your size of higher thickness?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not to do things around the house, but to protect people from your hands which are too far gone to ever get clean.

      • Threedoor

        Nah. Gets the funk out from under my nails and the bowl clean at the same time.

  18. leon

    Gemini: 2 of Coins – Gaiety, recreation, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.

    I like to read this as sequential events where one lead to the other.

    • westernsloper

      That’s how I read it.

    • Viking1865

      Sweatpants, Nikes, and an AR15. Big Dad Energy.

      • Ted S.

        No Zubaz?

    • leon

      I mean ewe but…. I thought incest was only a crime if it could actually result in a child.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They might be going to Hell for that but they shouldn’t be going to prison. Also, yuck!!!

      • Lackadaisical

        ^this.

        Let God sort them out.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder
    • Threedoor

      Is that the MFr trophy he’s got there!

      • Gdragon

        OMG there goes my coffee! Hahaha caught me totally off guard, so funny

  19. Ownbestenemy

    Dropped the car off to get a wash and across the street at the bar grabbing a pint. The 4Runner was a trooper on the dirt trail we took to our weekend camping by the Colorado.

    The trail to Fire Mountain Cove is recommended 4×4 but we chanced it anyway. There were two spots that we could have gotten in trouble but she powered through it with on a couple of undercarriage scraps on some soft sand.

    It was supposed to be sunny with a fee clouds but first night came some monsoon tstorms late in the night. Dogs stayed up all night cause of the coyotes howling but overall was a great getaway.

    • westernsloper

      ?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Pictures please!

  20. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Just watched the link of the Trump guy getting shot in Portland. Straight up murder there, no doubt. This is going to get very ugly, maybe it is time to send in the feds before there’s open warfare.

    • commodious spittoon

      I’m glad I live in a diverse city without all these murderous white kids rioting and burning businesses to the ground. There were a few demonstrations at the start of this business, but I just don’t think we have the concentration of entitled white millennials to sustain any real disruption.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Any rioting in my roughly half black and half white town would be over inside of ten minutes. Ain’t nobody around here putting up with that shit.

    • westernsloper

      Oh it sure looks like it. They were looking for Trump supporters, found one, shot him and then ran like mice. I imagine it won’t be the last time that happens.

    • prolefeed

      Sending in federal troops in response to violence being ignored by local and state authorities would let leftists blame everything that happens afterwards on Trump. Plus, unconstitutional if doesn’t occur on federal property or to a federal employee.

      Should be a hard pass by Trump if he’s less stupid than his detractors imagine. Let Biden own the chaos.

      • Viking1865

        The precedent for federal involvement, at some point, is the 1960s South.

        https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1300151810137550849

        A right winger was murdered on the street explicitly because he was right wing, and the local government authorities continue to side with his murderers. At some point, it’s exactly like the KKK and the good ol boy sheriffs and mayors down in Mississippi, it’s the local government conspiring and colluding with violent, murderous, organized masked radicals to deny people their rights.

        I don’t know what that point is. But it’s closer than it was yesterday.

    • Lackadaisical

      The anonymous message board 4chan may have, once again, beat the media to identifying a violent rioter.

      *flagged as misleading news*
      That implies the media was trying.

    • leon

      This is actually kinda scary. Finding where Shie LeBouf has his dumb flag? Funny. Possibly misidentifying a murderer and being sure of who it is? Especially in a time when people are not convinced the cops will do anything? Dangerous.

      • LCDR_Fish

        4chan has a better record than most of the lefty groups trying to id hate crimes, dox folks, etc.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I agree, things can go badly if they’ve misidentified this guy but this is the social media age and people are going to play detective like it or not.

  21. Hyperion

    “Capricorn: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive, triumph of the deserving side in law”

    Libertarian moment?

  22. Mojeaux

    Taurus: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

    I can’t even with this. I am totally unable to even.

    As mentioned above, only Stockholm syndrome can explain that collection of words.

  23. leon

    What Kind of Libertarian Are You?

    Everyone knows that libertarianism is deeply fractured and factional. It can be hard for a person new to the movement to know who they should align with and who they should cast out as heretics. Now, in 10 easy questions and you can be slotted into the right ideological sliver and start slinging mud.

    Lol

    • Grumbletarian

      Your Result:
      Glibertarian

      Some might call you a right libertarian, others call you a fascist. You just want to be left alone, and are willing to do the same to others. You enjoy goring sacred cows, just for some laughs. You might be guilty of unironically saying “Donald Trump is the most libertarian president ever”. You don’t trust government, but are skeptical of anarchist schemes. You think that as long as we have a border, it should be secured. You will not tolerate bad faith arguments, and any level of communism. You also know what true dangers lurk in the forest.

      Well I’ll be…

      • Mojeaux

        Oh fuck them. They said I was an LP Libertarian. I don’t fucking think so.

      • Mojeaux

        The test was flawed. They asked about alcohol preferences, but failed to have “NONE” as an option. Also, their vacation choices were whack.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve been to Yellow Knife. I don’t recommend putting your tent behind a DC3 when camping at the airport.

      • Mojeaux

        My only experience with Yellow Knife is Ice Road Truckers.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s more than I know of the town. I just know it’s a spot in north canukistan.

      • Rhywun

        The “none” option was also missing from question one, so I tapped out.

      • leon

        Well excuse me for trying to make a silly Quiz. 😉

        Honestly though the alcohol question was one i thought about nixing.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, YOU wrote that quiz? Hrmph.

      • UnCivilServant

        How else would one of the results be Glibertarian?

      • Rhywun

        Oh, snap.

      • Grosspatzer

        Nice one, but I am in the same boat as Mojeaux WRT alcohol and vacation destinations. Somehow got glibertarian in spite of this.

      • commodious spittoon

        lol, Dave Smith. Have you tweeted this at him?

      • leon

        No, but one of you should.

      • R C Dean

        Same here, Grumbles.

    • Lackadaisical

      Bow down lesser libertarians:

      One True Libertarian
      You are the One True Libertarian. Only you are completely consistent, and you make sure everyone knows where they are failing in being consistent. On the rare occasion where it may appear that everyone else is being consistent, you make sure they know they aren’t being nuanced enough. Your understanding of the principles of liberty give you deep and hidden knowledge. Thankfully the heavens have allowed us to partake in just a part of your intelligence.

      • prolefeed

        I got that one, too, despite being a bit wary about disbanding the U.S. military and hoping private citizenry could prevent foreign invasions.

    • Threedoor

      I got glib. I know the difference between Sasquatch and Dave Smith.

    • UnCivilServant

      Not a libertarian. And not going to give you the information you’re trying to harvest.

    • RBS

      I am THE ONE TRUE LIBERTARIAN. I guess I’m going to have to pick up my slack commenting so I can educate you people.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Glib.

      *looks around anxiously*

    • l0b0t

      I knew it!

      Your Result:
      One True Libertarian
      You are the One True Libertarian. Only you are completely consistent, and you make sure everyone knows where they are failing in being consistent. On the rare occasion where it may appear that everyone else is being consistent, you make sure they know they aren’t being nuanced enough. Your understanding of the principles of liberty give you deep and hidden knowledge. Thankfully the heavens have allowed us to partake in just a part of your intelligence.

  24. LCDR_Fish

    Anyone else getting absolutely shitty service from USPS the last few weeks?

    I was out of town for 5 days the week before last – had a hold order on my mail and got back to have “0” pieces of mail waiting for me (not even junk mail). Then this entire week, I’ve only received one piece of junk mail and nothing else (although I am tracking a couple pieces of mail). The stupid “mail preview” emails I’ve gotten – even listing census documents – haven’t shown up in a couple weeks now (nearly 2 weeks since the last actual expected mail received).

    • UnCivilServant

      Around here, I’ve gotten everything I expected around the time I expected it.

      I don’t get much mail.

    • leon

      Trump is attacking the post office man.

    • Mojeaux

      I haven’t been getting shitty service, but I have noticed that if I go to the post office to ship something from my Etsy shop, they charge a lot more than the service desk at HyVee OR the kiosk in the post office lobby. I have no idea why I can ship a package at HyVee for $3.80 but it’ll be a full $5 at the post office. “That’s the rate it goes at, ma’am.” “Why is it cheaper at HyVee and at the kiosk?” “It is?!” “Yes.” “I don’t know why.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Dimensional weight not being charged?

      • Mojeaux

        Don’t know. At HyVee and the kiosk, I still get tracking and it gets where it needs to be in the time promised.

      • UnCivilServant

        The clerk is putting it in a different shipping class than the kiosk or the hyvee.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Assuming you’re mailing books – should always be media mail – but may not be available from some other locations.

      • Mojeaux

        No, I’m mailing embroidery fabric and threads.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think through Etsy she’s selling some form of needlework related product.

      • Rhywun

        LOL you tried to ask them a question?!

      • Mojeaux

        I succeeded in asking, but did not succeed in getting a satisfactory answer. Therefore, I now only go to HyVee to drop off and the post office to pick up.

    • Threedoor

      Normal for us. We have a rural contract carrier and she is a moron. Sometimes the post office will have to run a regular Grumman out because she “didn’t want to take the packages today.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      All I know is anytime I get a shipment notification for an order and it’s from the USPS I start cursing.

      • Threedoor

        It’s Fedex for me. They manage to destroy every package and it’s conten over five or six pounds.

    • Rhywun

      During my last visit to the PO (failed attempt to buy stamps), the only thing I heard from the one person servicing the long line was him gasbagging to some unfortunate customer about how he’s “put in thirty years” and he’s “finally out of here next week”.
      ?