COME BACK, STEVE SMITH NOT GIVE ADVICE YET!
STEVE SMITH GLAD HIM HAVE ADVICE TALK TONIGHT. NO MANY CAMPER AND HIKER – FIRES AND RIOTS ALL OVER. NOT LOOK LIKE QUOTA GET DONE THIS MONTH TOO. BUT STEVE SMITH NO BE SAD, HIM HAVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE HERE TO GIVE SMART WORDS TO!
HERE BEST ADVICE AROUND!
Q: My fiance and I have begun planning our wedding for next year. We have both been married before, so family doesn’t think we should have a “big” celebration. Mom actually told me that it can’t be as special as my first one.
While lying in bed the other night, we were discussing how to address people’s opinions because we don’t want our wedding day to be full of people complaining about being there, choices we made regarding our celebration and thinking they need to give us a gift. We would like to include a “disclaimer” saying something like, “If you’re not truly happy for us, stay home!” I realize that etiquette would not allow us to do it. Do you have any suggestions for our situation?
A: STEVE SMITH HAVE ANSWER. COME HAVE WEDDING AT STEVE SMITH FOREST CHAPEL!
WE GOING TO CHAPEL, AND WE GOING TO GET …
STEVE SMITH GIVE BRIDE AWAY, NO NEED HATEY PARENTS. AS EXTRA SERVICE, HIM CAN UPBRAID ANY CRITIC. BY UPBRAID, MEAN RAPE. MAKE YOU WEDDING AS BIG YOU WANT, PLENTY ROOM IN FOREST!
Q: My father is an elderly man now, and his health, while quite good for his age, is nonetheless not what it once was. In this knowledge, my younger brother is agitating for information about Dad’s will (I have been named executor).
Our father is not a wealthy man, but he does have an amazing lifetime’s worth of goods, and there will probably be a modest estate.
I have no information about the contents of the will, and have not asked. (I figure if Dad wants me to know, he’ll tell me, since he’s been very matter-of-fact about the funeral he has planned and other arrangements he’s made.) Nor will I use the set of spare keys given to me to go snooping, as my brother suggested; I found the very idea outrageous.
My brother has also suggested that I start getting valuations on some items and asking directly about Dad’s will so that he can do “forward financial planning,” which I think is code for “figure out how much I’ll have when the old man pops his clogs.” He says he wants me to do this because I see Dad more often, whereas he is “too busy.”
He says that since I have a reasonably well-paid career and no children, whereas he has a girlfriend, an ex-wife, two children and a mortgage, that he deserves the lion’s share of any bequest. He says he “needs it more,” and expects me to “do the right thing by family” and hand over a goodly portion of anything that might be left to me.
I am utterly horrified by this idea that my father’s modest worldly goods are our ”property in waiting” by some divine right, and I told my brother so (Miss Manners would probably not have approved of the language I used).
Brother claims that he is being level-headed and sensible about a difficult topic, and that disposition of a deceased relative’s estate is a matter of business and there is no room for my soppy sentiment.
My own view is that this man has already spent a small fortune on raising us to adulthood, and that we should have no expectation of any post-mortem windfall. I feel that Dad should A) spend it all on himself before he dies; B) leave everything to the worthy medical charity in which he has been very active for the last two decades; or C) basically do whatever he wants, seeing as it’s his money.
I cannot believe that my brother’s self-proclaimed “hard-headed and practical business sense” is anything beyond the most ungrateful greed.
A: THAT NOT RIGHT! STEVE SMITH SHARE IN NO LIKE EVIL BROTHER. STEVE SMITH THINK ONLY ONE SOLUTION THIS. HIT ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK.
“HOPE YOU WILL UPDATED, BAD BROTHER!”
NOW HIM ESTATE PAY MORTGAGE, GIRLFRIEND AND EX-WIFE! HA HA HA! STEVE SMITH LIKE IRONY.
Q: I have several friends who, in most ways, have good manners and consider themselves polite and refined. We all use cloth napkins, of course, when we dine at each others’ houses.
I was chagrined, however, to see that if they happen to sneeze during a meal at my house, they use the nicely starched and ironed napkins as a handkerchief, blowing their noses in them!
I am revolted by this, but feel uncomfortable asking them to refrain from doing so; nor am I inclined to place a box of tissues in the dining room in easy reach of the guests. What would you suggest?
A: THAT AWFUL. YOU FRIENDS PRIMITIVE. NOT HAVE GOOD MANNERS, LIKE STEVE SMITH. YOU NEED HAVE SEVERAL BUNNY NEAR TABLE. THEM BETTER THAN NAPKIN OR TISSUE!
BUNNY NICE AND SOFT!
…THEM ALSO GOOD IF RUN OUT TOILET PAPER.
FREE CASCADIA!
Zoom seems to have sucked all the people out of the room.
The greedy brother needs to be shot down, shut down, and shut out. Nobody in the family but him is responsible for his burdens.
My gf is still handling liquidating DeadAunt’s estate. Her sister has been a useless beggar the whole time.
It’s been more than a year.
Maybe hire someone to deal with the estate? Takes the emotional baggage out of play.
Sister won’t let her or some shit. It’s a mess and I stay out of it.
That’s why goD made probate lawyers.
*waggles ears*
People like that are more common than I would have guessed before I assisted with funeral plannings at a church where I volunteered.
I heard and saw the vultures and hyenas at work.
For the most they tend to congregate in elected office
Agree. Brother is asshoe. And lying.
Re: the greedy brother. Maybe the father raised him to be an entitled little worthless shit? one is one’s fathers son after all.
I thought ‘Wow, they all went to Zoomland?’. I didn’t realize that Steve Smith would be penning an article on Friday eve.
STEVE is wrong.
You don’t use a rock, you use a donkey jawbone.
Gotta keep it properly biblical.
Is this the before and after Delilah comparison?
AND IF HAVE RIGHT COMBINATION, NEVER RUN OUT!
Do you have any suggestions for our situation?
Nobody cares about second weddings. Suck it up buttercup.
Open bar? I might care…
Sean gets it.
Yep.
A relative’s second wedding involved an open bar. It was a good time.
Trashy gets it. Just get married. Seems like you are already married, except for the paper. Invite your best 3-4 couples/friends for a dinner at a restaurant, pick up the tab and get drunk.
My sister had her second wedding at a Caribbean resort that apparently handles all the American paperwork for such things.
Have the wedding and party separately.
My second time around was a visit to the local JP, went home, took kids and bride out for pizza, back to work the next day. That was 46 years ago, still take the kids and bride out for dinner when the kids show up.
Ours was similar to that as well. Got married at the courthouse with a judge, no witnesses needed, then went out to dinner after. Told everyone else later. We’d been shacking up for several years prior so NBD.
We eloped, I guess. Went to TN and got married, didn’t invite anyone. No kids, no kids when got back home, yay! Freedom!
We had a big ordeal despite it being my wife’s second go round. My family would’ve been disappointed if the oldest of my generation (by 7 years) didn’t have a wedding. Frankly, my grandparents probably won’t see another one. Wife would’ve eloped if it was her decision alone to make.
My second was an open bar at the Kalamazoo Air Museum, right under the wing of an SR-71. Less than 4K for the best party ever for 100 people.
I like this, but ultimately it’s up to the bride and groom and whoever is paying for it (and it should be themselves). If they want a lavish wedding, sign here. Still can’t control the guests. Either invite them or don’t. Ultimately, just learn to ignore what other people say and don’t reward them for bad behavior.
I don’t see why a second wedding would be any different for a guest than a first, frankly. It’s the same bullshit. No one should care about first, second, third, fourth, fifth or even sixth weddings in my book.
You show up to make the couple happy.
I would think that using a little grey bunny rabbit as ass wipe would give you a terrible case of dingle bunnies.
I’ll take the second question for $2.37, Steve. One of my kids wrote that letter about the will and estate, didn’t he/she? The correct answer is C, as written. Have Dad put the estate in a living trust. He will still have control. He may want a different executor, seems like when there is money involved families can destroy themselves. I was the executor of my step-father’s will, not much money but a house, car, a few bucks. Anyway, he changed it and named his housekeeper as executor and primary beneficiary. I appreciated that because it took me off the hook but my 2 brothers weren’t concerned as I wasn’t. In addition the housekeeper had earned every bit of anything she got.
Also, I want to say my step father was a funny and great guy, treated my mother right and had he been my father I’d have been OK with that, from all I saw. I was grateful to have him in her life for a few years.
Our will has a clause that says if you contest the will, you’re out of the will.
Good thinking
You can do that in the States?
I suspect that if anybody tried that in Canada a judge would make a finding that said clause was “void for reasons of public policy” or somesuch.
Yep. It’s a pretty standard clause. As for “public policy”, it’s my money. Then again, I’ll be dead.
Biden Supporters Accost Elderly Woman Outside of the RNC
They are not necessarily Biden voters or voters at all, Fleccas. But nice compilation.
I laughed at hit bad brother on head with big rock, lol.
“We have both been married before, so family doesn’t think we should have a “big” celebration.“
Methinks this must be about the parents getting put on the hook for part or all of the wedding. If it’s their own money, go for it, if that’s what you want. You can have anything you like if you can pay for it yourself. And yes, Sean is correct, there should be an open bar for the entire duration of the event.
Get married in the bar, save time. Open bar hour earlier than wedding
Excellent idea, four. With age comes great wisdom.
But if you do that, you may want to skip the “speak now” bit.
Wazzu sayta mee?
Sa *steadies self against Maid of Honor* saaid, Ahh Ojjbetch to yore face!
The damn cat always wants to sit in front of the fridge. I get that it is where the fridge exhausts so it is warm but daddy needs to grab a beer and you need to move. And my other one* is attacking the Gadsden flag on the wall in my
man-cavehome office. Fucking monsters, these felines are.*The one who recently costed me a lot of money to save and this is what I get.
Terminate with extreme prejudice.
But they’re so cute…
Looks like shit’s getting real in Kenosha. The Mrs saw a convoy of military vehicles and buses full of guys in uniform heading that way today.
Trump wanted a bunch there, maybe the gov got tired of listening or hearing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/arizona-sends-national-guard-to-kenosha
Yep that’s them.
Apparently…the WI National Guard is too small – did they even all get called out? That’s why they’re bringing in folks from AZ, AL and MI???
Guess it’s an MP thing (stupid article says 100,000 troops, not 1000).
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/08/27/guard-troops-from-3-states-heading-to-wisconsin-to-assist-with-unrest/
The NG has compacts that enable them the “loan” personnel and units and have them remain under the other Guv’s control and retain Title 32 authorities.
This would less a requirement except it is a consequence of the “off site agreement” at the end of the Cold War. That is when the NG won the fight to retain the “sexy” combat units (Infantry, armor, SF, combat engineers) and the Reserve received the combat service (military police, horizontal and vertical engineers, signal, troop lift helos) and service support (medical, logistics, transportation) units. So the very units a state needs in a civil or natural disaster the NG does not possess in large numbers.
As well they should have. Stripping combat units out of the Guard would have neutered any semblance of a state militia. Support, particularly institutional training and such, is a natural role for the reserve.
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Too much words. I need to see this in game form. For smartness purposes. Definitely not recreation. For a friend.
I bet there is enough armed citizens in WI to take care of this quickly and decisively.
If only they had a well regulated militia.
Yeah it takes MP units to restore order… just like only they can perform their wartime role of convoy security.
The other thing is what are MP’s legal status and authority under WI law? We had that problem during floods where the MPs got their dicks slapped because they basically had zero authority over civilians. If that’s the case, warm bodies are what’s needed to create an overwhelming presence.
I hate the entire estate thing. It draws out the slimiest weasel vultures ever.
I have a co-worker who’d dad passed away last year and he was telling me about the ordeal with his brother. So the only children were him and his brother. His brother hadn’t come around for years, hardly ever had come around for years. But then the dad passed away, the brother shows up and just zooms right in on the estate and wants to go over there right away, I mean right after the funeral, to stake out what’s in the spoils he can pick out for himself. Felt bad for my co-worker and friend, seems it was an ordeal dealing with the brother.
Then I remember back many years ago when an ex-gf dad was seriously ill. Her older sister’s husband would come out there all of the time and snoop around the property. I remember once when we were out there hanging around one of the barns drinking beer and the guy was at it again saying stuff like ‘well, when the old man kicks off soon, I think I’ll have that piece of equipment for me, I could use that, and those tools there…’. I have to tell you, if I were the son, who was standing right there, I would have punched that asshole right in the face.
And my own sisters and brothers. When my mom passed away last year, they were already claiming all of my parent’s stuff to divide up. I said ‘My dad is still alive, you vultures, none of that stuff is yours.’. Last time it was brought up around me. I hate people, smash with big rock.
I have stuff I want to go to particular people but the same people seem to be giving me their excess now. For example, I have a trailer in my yard that belongs to my buddy, he rarely uses it, I never do, but its there in case… My friend and his wife are both in declining health, I’m guessing I’ll end up with the trailer by default (they have no kids). Before the boat sunk I had some ‘equipment’ that I’d give to family members but it would be sold before the sun went down because some things are icky and dangerous (well, yeah, if mishandled). Too much stuff, 1sr World problems.
Glad my daughter got divorced, her husband would almost come with an inventory sheet, he was the worst, made Nikki seem canonized.
You really need to worry when he starts asking to check your heart… Or even worse your prostate.
Glad my daughter got divorced, her husband would almost come with an inventory sheet, he was the worst, made Nikki seem canonized.
“Before the boat sunk”
Hey Fourscore, it’s only Glib like to leave the coordinates here on Glibs to
all those gunsthe sunken boat, in case something happens to you.Smash with big rock is right. I hate that type of vulturey behavior. I just rekeyed a mansion a month or so back for the lawyer of a woman who was getting close to death to keep a son out who had started putting stickers with his name on different items around the place to claim them. The idiot in his zeal to get some old furniture and stuff lost out on getting the mansion as the old lady had the lawyer write him out of the trust and gave it away to charity. We noticed that in his stupid sticker placing stunt he didn’t put one on a Margaret Keene original painting that was worth tens of thousands of dollars while putting them on fairly worthless crap. If he had just held onto his greed a bit longer he would have had a good chunk of a 10 million dollar house.
*Nelson laugh*
Yeah, maybe some things are better than smash over head with big rock. Poetic justice, I love it.
My wife’s family puts claim on things very early. Wife has her name on her grandmother’s dining room table, for example. Tradition, when the matriarch dies, is the “great granny giveaway”, where everybody shows up with trailers and hauls off the stuff that they claimed. After a short period of mourning, of course. ?
If the person who owns it is cool with it, I don
Somehow that posted too early.
If the person who owns it is cool with a pre death doling out of the goods that’s quite fine.
With my Dads parents we did something like that about 15 years ago – 5 siblings plus the grandkids. Both grandparents were still alive but because of all the things they’d picked up overseas over the years (30+ yrs in Ecuador as missionaries) there were lots of sentimental items.
My dad was the oldest and went first, followed by others. I’ve got a carved stool, and some other art pieces. I did get a large [old] box from my aunt and uncle, but passed it on to another cousin- who will hopefully be able to get it restored.
My grandmother is still alive, but not in great shape in the nursing home – almost 96 now I think. I think given the space distances between all of us, handling all of that while everyone was present for a family reunion was definitely most equitable- no hard feelings (at least none evident over this time so far).
My mother was the typical hoarder and lived amongst towering piles of newspapers, books, etc. Twice during my lifetime I had to intervene, each time spending about week, my mother and myself alone, to sort it all out. As she was getting older I realized that I had a significant amount of stress building up about having to do that again after she would eventually pass.
Finally, I simply decided that I wouldn’t be the one to handle that chore (my 3 sisters had always been too busy to help in the past). I had to give up on a couple family heirlooms which I would have liked to have but they were not worth it. I let my sisters take care of the final chore when it was time.
Hey Tej, there’s some of that in my family. See Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast #22 (May ’18) for a (delayed-start) interview with a fun and sympathetic declutterer.
(Not that it helps practically now but as far as understanding the mindset. That is, IIRC: most hoarders are intelligent, reserved, traditional, etc.)
You can’t punch a vulture. They just flap back 6ft and make you look stupid.
Now, anybody know if you can successfully punch deer, groundhogs or rabbits?
No deer, they run too fast and asshole too high.
World’s most expensive sheep sold at auction: ‘Obscene amount of money’
I know nothing about sheep but do giant balls increase the value of the ram? Because that ram has some giant balls.
Pshaw, our buck growing up on the farm had bigger nuts. They almost drug on the ground.
My brother and I had a game where we would sneak us behind him and kick him in the nuts. then run for the fence before he could head butt us. OK, ok, I, had this game…I ran faster than my brother.
We never ate any of the sheep we raised., I have found out later in life that I kind of like the taste of lamb (especially with garlic and rosemary)
When was about 15-16 my uncle gave me a billy goat. I wanted my dad to put it in the back seat of the car and bring it home for me. One whiff and my dad said “Ain’t gonna be no billy goat in my car” while that’s not a direct quote it conveys the message. Turned out my dad was a lot smarter than me.
I ate a whole goat’s head once at an authentic Mexican restaurant in Dallas. It was delicious, but I was a little unnerved by it looking at me while I ate it.
Probably would be less unnerving if it wasn’t still alive.
What the fuck is that thing!? It’s looks like some sort of sheep/rabbit,bull terrier frankensheep! Gah! WTF!!!
:clears throat: RIOT!!!
Quietly?
Ballroom Blitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFBuYHldeY
She can kill you with a wink…of her eye.
How Did War Become a Game?
This Friday evening is most welcome. Exhausting work week.
Now I get to hang out with my fellow glibbies.
Cheers!
Yes it has been an exhausting week.
Today was an 11 hour day. This week I put in +65 hours.
I gotta think there is an easier way of making money.
/not so glib….I have to go in to work tomorrow and probably Sundee, too.
I even survived Vice President Pence’s visit to Duloot. I didn’t have to go out on the tarmac at all today.
Still a bit peeved that some lowlife politician can shutdown an entire area
*looks at Obama, who ruined my once in a lifetime Hawaiian sail plane experience*
My father is an elderly man now, and his health, while quite good for his age, is nonetheless not what it once was. In this knowledge, my younger brother is agitating for information about Dad’s will (I have been named executor).
This sounds like a letter a friend of mine could have written if my friend was a spineless twit, which he is not.
Kyle did his work with a borrowed rifle, and no spare mags. Antifa is not sending their best.
Trust me, they’re sending their best. That’s it. Combat ready, they are.
The kid probably could have done more damage with a pistol at that range.
Rifles>pistols, always. The only good thing about a pistol is you can carry it around everywhere without it being a pain in the ass.
Agreed. But in that situation I feel like a pistol would have been easier to maneuver and harder for them to grab.
Also does less damage, and is way harder to shoot accurately. Even a good, full sized, service caliber pistol tricked out with a red dot is harder to shoot accurately than a rifle. Plus, honestly, he never should have let them got that close. He was extremely lucky throughout the encounter.
Turned around and quickly acquired a close pursuer, dropped him. Later on, he trips, falls, and the first guy who attacks him both fails to land a damaging blow and also declines to continue the fight after nearly getting shot. Then skateboard guy fails to land a debilitating blow, and hes able to actually put a round into him from an awkward angle. Then the final guy hesitates to kill him, and he manages to shoot him right in the arm. If he had missed that shot, who knows what happened.
Pistols are great if hes close enough to grab you, but the idea is to never let them get that close.
I don’t recall the guys name and can’t find the vid now, but I came across a video online awhile back in which this old, sailor-mouthed hardass was teaching a rifle class. His entire premise was “Pistols are fine but rifles are better. So I teach rifles.” I wish I could take that class.
A pistol is what you use to shoot your way to your rifle.
The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. ‘Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?’ ‘No Ma’am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.’
No one needs 30 rounds*.
*Except me. I’m a terrible shot.
My 40 round magazines haz a sad.
When I found out I had a long lost Nigerian uncle who passed away leaving me $25 million, my obnoxious brother tried to get in on the inheritance without paying the $5000 finder’s fee. Told him to piss off… I’m still waiting on that inheritance. It’s been 2 years now, must be an issue with Nigerian customs.
We must be related, my uncle too, although checking with 23andme seems that he must have been an uncle by marriage. Hope they get that customs thing cleared up, I need to pay the bank for the loan.
Active Measures: Demoralisation
I’ve been perusing different literature in pondering about what led up to the current decline of Western society. There seems to be a lot of people who believe that it started way back in the 19th century when the entire idea of materialism or naturalism started to take hold and was made prominent in academia. I wonder how/if that entire premise ties into the Marxist movement?
short answer: liberal theology, generally starting in Germany in the mid-1800s
slightly longer answer: Pick up J. Gresham Machen’s “Christianity and Liberalism” (1923). He makes the case that what was then the “modernist” movement of liberal christianity was no longer Christian at all, but an utterly different religion. His 1920’s-era indictment catches the liberal theology movement about halfway between its birth (Germany in mid-19thC.) and now. By the time he wrote, the mainstream churches in the US were succumbing to modernism (as opposed to historical Christianity) and in the decades since the culture has followed suit. It’s material (to reference back to your post) instead of spiritual, and man-centric instead of Christ-centric, and “progress” instead of the gospel. It’s no coincidence that the “Progressive Amendments” that wrecked much of the original Constitutional framework were of this same era. Modern Progressivism is the current incarnation of that religion.
Well, progressivism, leftism, Marxism, communism, socialism, whatever term it takes on, is definitely a religion. I picked that up a long time ago. If you tell a progressive you don’t accept the premise of some accepted dogma they have adopted, say global warming for an example, and think it should be challenged and more research is needed, they will attack you as if you told a Muslim that Allah does not exist. The science is settled. That is not science, it’s religion.
Yep. Totally agree. I’m talking about its origins. Basically started as Western Christianity being stripped of the fundamental elements. Then it was “Liberal Christianity” (or Modernism) which turned into Progressive moralism, inventing its own gods along the way (man, the State, and itself) to replace what it had chucked up front.
“I’m talking about its origins.”
That’s what I’m wanting to learn more about. I’ll definitely check out your book recommendation.
What I’ve mostly heard so far is details how Darwin’s theory was embraced right away to reinforce the ideology of materialism, modernism, naturalism whichever term. It’s not that the theory of evolution is not able tot b challenged or that it’s completely bullet proof even to this day, but it’s a perfect way to enforce their ideology to insist that it must be taught in the school system as if it is completely without question in any way, and anyone dissenting or even challenging it in any way, will be driven out of academia as a fraud and heretic. I’m not challenging anything myself, just saying how this all came about.
And then it’s easy to see how global warming just mimics that type of behavior.
its the welfare state. There are very few degenerates among those who have to work to survive.
Well, there’s a part of it, of the decline. The welfare system, having lots of people not working , all of the time, lots of able bodied young men. Would we have all these full time activists causing trouble every day in the street if they had to work? Obviously, no.
For anime fans I can definitely recommend Dropkick on My Devil! (邪神ちゃんドロップキック, Jashin-chan Doroppukikku)
I think my favorite surprise was a 10 minute elegy to the main character’s time spent in a particular neighborhood – jinbocho elegy 神保町哀歌
Song popped up on my playlist and reminded me how ridiculous the anime was.
Related, Season 3 of Aggretsuko is out or will be out soon on Netflix.
Looking forward. I saw that. My favorite thing is figuring out what specific animal each of the characters are.
Sum 41 is still a thing?
It would seem so…
I call it “geezer rock”. Thanks to the internet music has fragmented its fan base. Finding new bands and acts to fill large halls and stadiums is much tougher than it used to be.
“geezer rock”
Geezer? I liked them back in the day (and still do ///nostalgia) and I’m not even 30!
Though I will be thirty shortly after Trump’s second inauguration.
Also, speaking to punk rock, ‘Dookie’ is Green Day’s** best album. Fight me.
**I may or may not have initially emulated Tre’ Cool when learning how to play drums.
I actually like Dookie.
Like many albums it just takes a few decades for the chronic overplaying for you to be able to listen to it again.
I’m a bit older and Peter Gabriel’s “So” album did that for me. I had to wait 10 years to buy it and listen to it again.
Although I prefer the “melting man” – Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers
Kerplunk is Green Day’s best album
“Dookie is Green Day’s only album”
FTFY
Looks like the former Mr. Avril Lavigne is doing alright.
I hoe my dad leaves everything to a stranger. My 4 brothers have been my best friends for 30+ plus years and I’d rather see nothing at all then have finances ruin that. Not that I think we would have a problem, but money makes people do stupid shit they otherwise wouldn’t do.
Unreal. Were already getting ready to blame Facebook (and I’m sure the Russians) again.
What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?
Because when I think “right wing” I immediately think of Facebook!
Right wing influencers are dominating Facebook? really?
Right wing Facebook, from a few days ago.
Right wing Facebook, from a few days ago. http://imgur.com/a/xqWzRqT
The right dominates the meme wars.
Facebook is more resistant to the now default of Big Tech to actually delete content because of “misinformation”.
Dealing with evil brother right now, myself. Prior to the death of my father in law, my husband and his brother made an agreement that we’d take care of Dad and he’d take care of Mom. We moved dad in, he died, we took care of everything, and a few years passed. Mother in law is clearly ailing, has all sorts of health issues, but not only do they resist letting her visit them, but they’ve taken out a tremendous amount of money in loans in the past few years, as if they figured she was close to dying anyway, and they’d be able to afford it. They don’t seem to realize that woman is too damn mean to die. And now we’re looking at having to take care of her, because no matter how I feel about her, she’s my husband’s mother and she needs help and they aren’t stepping up like they were supposed to. Frustrated? Yes, and planning to insist she make a few changes to her will if we have to move out to her state to help her.
Sorry LG. My mom and her sister fought over my grandma’s meager estate (and before that) when my mom tried to cut her sister out of it. Ugly ugly ugly. I tried to stay out of it as much as possible.
Sorry.
Eh, on the plus side mother in law in such bad shape she can’t fight with me any more. We’ve developed a peaceful relationship, which is something I never expected, and I doubt would have happened if my brother in law weren’t such a twat. I’d be perfectly happy if she spent everything she had left on a nice comfortable retirement community that would handle landscaping such and such for her, but she’s as determined to hold onto her money as her youngest son is to get it. All I can think is “your husband worked his ass off his entire life to make sure you wouldn’t have to deal with nonsense like this, use the money he left you when he died!”
Sorry, LG. 🙁
Not quite same complex circumstances but a guy friend’s brother (#2 of 2) was useless in probate, always had a hand out (was not executor, obviously). Conclusion: many people suck.
Too many people seem to have as a last resort “well to do relative dies” as their retirement plan. I may be more foolish for dreaming of winning the lottery (even though I don’t play) but at least I don’t feel like a vulture.
I have no well to do relatives.
I guess I have to fund my own retirement.
Unless I win the lottery.
Ditto. Well, at least in the sense that I’m counting on money when they die. I guess I should actually start playing the lotto.
Chadwick Boseman has passed away due to colon cancer at 43.
2020 really does suck.
I just read that a few minutes ago. Yes, 2020 has sucked.
Wonder if Marvel regretted casting him after he was diagnosed.
Gone too soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX__MVidgeo
What a wonderful sport.
Fun to watch (woomen), but more fun to play. She has a killer smash serve, but I prefer the floater that fakes out the other side.
CTD shipped my PDX rounds today, contrary to other peoples thoughts,in stock Baby!
Pleased to hear it and that rumors I’ve heard elsewhere weren’t true for you!
Maybe because they are insanely expensive, but I got them just the same, Mean Shot,
With the Rittenhouse thing, the most obnoxious aspect of the left’s talking points is the insistence that because he was armed, he was aiming to shoot someone. He only went to Kenosha to kill.
These are people obsessed with the notion of correct thought. The worst thing a person can do isn’t any particular action, but to engage in wrong think. Intentions matter, and they have the power to divine them regardless of any particular actions you may or may not have taken.
Someone around here asked why the left so vehemently hates Trump. Well, there’s a big part of it.
They wanted a story of white guys attacking a minority. Unfortunately it didn’t happen they way they wanted it to.
“White kid defends himself against white attackers” does not have a good narrative ring to it.
“White-Hispanic” kid
I’m trying to avoid politics on Facebook, but one little cunt I have on there (one of like two or three lefties I have on there) keeps posting on this. To him, the video is “clear” and it’s not self-defense.
There are, as I’ve said, two different realities right now.
Avoid Facebook, then you are truly number 1,
I use Facebook to arrange snowmobile rides with other locals.
I would only take issue with the first shot as being borderline. The other two were clearly in defense.
He had just been kicked in the head (or kneed) before engaging Huber, who came toward him with a skateboard. He was certainly in fear of his life in those instances.
The most obnoxious part of the narrative to me is-
He was 17 her dur.
He wasn’t legally allowed to carry a rifle hur dur
Therefore everything he did was illegal derpity derpity derp.
Whether he did the right or the wrong thing, seeing leftist use legal minutiae to convict someone is infuriating to me.
According to that logic, Eric Gardner was slinging loonies, so fuck him for breaking the law. He got what was coming to him.
+1 George Zimmerman
I’ve seen legal interpretations that it was legal for him to carry a rifle at his age in WI. The Marxists will completely lie about every aspect of this incident to justify their narrative.
I dont know Wisconsin law. He was probably legal, but I don’t know. Either way it doesn’t matter.
In my mind, you don’t lose your right to defend yourself just because you are violating a law that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
agreed
How is the voltage conversion going?
I just finished installing a diesel engine speed controller for a 600hp Cummins running a gondola lift.
Finished it today. Its running well. The voltage conversion was the easy part. All that was necessary was dropping in a transformer bug enough to carry the and wiring it up.
The tricky part was getting an ABB soft start to give the correct feedback to the proprietary Ingersoll rand air xompressor controller.
The old motor had a 4160 volt across the line starter. It had CTs and aux contact that fed fed back into the IR controller. I had to do a bunch of thinking and wiring to make the ABB soft start give that same feed back to satisfy the IR controller that everything was OK and that it can continue to run the motor.
I love my job because I get to do shit like that.
I know the feeling. Ripped out an old Barber-Coleman fuel control system and replaced it with PLC control panel and stepper motor throttle actuator which I designed and built. This week we tuned and tested it for smooth speed control for starting and speed changes. For some reason, people don’t like to be in a wildly swinging gondola when suspended 50′ above the ground.
suck. is the way to go. I have earned my keep for a decade by being pretty damn good on plc programming.
Proprietary controls suck.
Grnyed you can get a redneck uneducated country boy like me to program your plc, then you have an effective controller that is infinitely modifiable.
That’s why people pay me money.
PLC, not suck. My phone hates acronyms
http://imgur.com/a/4Z8B94b
Hypocrisy at its zenith.
Talcum X is piece of shit that should have been flushed.
I can’t imagine going through life being that person.
He seems to agree with that.
I saw ‘friends’ on facebook with the gall to post links to fundraisers for the people Kyle (apparently) shot in self defense. It made me do some ineffective screaming at the monitor. But I’m not going to break cover before the election is over.
We’re lucky in that all my parents’ crap is so old and poorly maintained that nobody wants it and their portfolio is easy to split up. We’re also lucky that we three siblings get along.
On my wife’s side in the old country it’s much more complicated. They are fairly wealthy peasants, but the plots of land keep getting split up between siblings so over the generations each plot of land has dozens of owners, and which means it’s nearly impossible to do anything with the land. My wife is pretty sure that her brothers screwed her out of part of her inheritance because she was over here.
Urban Disc Golf
This is not going to end the way they think it will.
Meanwhile lefties are just aghast that people might be bringing GUNZ to these peaceful protests.
https://twitter.com/popmobpdx/status/1299520093915721728?s=21
Ted Wheeler or Jacques de Flesselles?
Related, two of the three city commissioners (the craziest two naturally) and Wheeler are renters, not homeowners. Whether that’s a cause or symptom, I’m not sure. But it’s not healthy for those positions to be held by transients who live at the sufferance of others.
AnTiFa Is NoT oRgAnIzEd!
https://twitter.com/portlanddsa/status/1299569546626363392?s=21
If only it was boiling oil.
Buried lede is apparently Wheeler is out of town. I guess the riots have become so mundane that there’s no need to remain in his supposed job when there’s traveling to be done (*covid guidelines don’t apply to Top.Men.).
Can’t Ted call some social workers to get them out?
Golf Muthrfuckers!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ro2XerwGSWCu1H8U8
Where’s my shocked face at again?
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1298744684928364545?s=21
Frum is useless.
I hate to bring this up again, but how’d you let her get away from you? She’s so impossibly hot she makes me ache.
If this is science then what’s dogma?
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/08/28/and-there-you-go-cnn-invites-doctor-on-to-explain-why-covid-19-spread-isnt-as-big-of-a-concern-for-todays-massive-dc-march-as-it-was-for-trumps-acceptance-speech/
Who are we to deny his lived science experience? It’s gotta be the masks, they hold the key.
I pretty much dismissed the Science™ establishment when there was that open letter stating that you’re killing grandma if you go to the beach, eat at a restaurant, drink at a bar, or go to religious services, but going to a BLM
riotpeaceful protest is A-OK.And I do fucking love science, meaning the mode of thought based on observation, hypothesis, testing, and conclusion. What I don’t love is the highly politicized government priesthood that uses science as an excuse to eliminate our rights.
I’m right there with you brother.
1) https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0004/8132/9204/files/cherry-clan.jpg
Or
2) http://www.studioglyphic.com/images/blog/cx_cherrychan2.jpg
Where did you find these?
Also, what’s burning in Portland tonight?
She got lucky.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/08/28/mooove-btch-commentary-makes-footage-of-antifa-rioter-getting-blasted-with-a-cone-the-funniest-damn-thing-youll-see-today-watch/
Reading CA Governor Newsom talking about a three tiered color coded system for easing back into opening on a County by County basis.
He explains why there’s no Green Tier:
Fuck off, slaver.
(Side note: he makes a classic “tell” for people who know that what their peddling is untrue—he says “we don’t believe.” If you pretend to be stating facts but then preface them with “I believe” or “in my opinion” or “no doubt in my mind” , you’re basically admitting that what you are saying is debatable and that you’re not quite convinced yourself.)
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1299612605661589505
Fuck Ted Wheeler.
His neighbors don’t deserve it though.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1299486643779522560
CPRM needs to up his game. ?
No matter how much The Hat and The Hair coach him he still doesn’t get the ‘mostly peaceful’ joke.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/08/japans-flying-car-gets-off-the-ground-with-a-person-on-board.html
Flying cars have arrived.
Where’s my robot maid?
No way to fake that in 2020, take their word fore it.
Longest Zoony Happy Hour Ever! Thanks to everyone who participated and kept me company at work.
So Marvel/Disney are screwed – Black Panther just died after a long battle with colon cancer.
The ere done with him anyway, he as the first Black comic book character
to get a movieto be in the MCUthat whites likedthat white liberals liked.Illicit pharmaceuticals emerge.
Sad as it is, I think it plays fine for Marvel/Disney as they make Shuri the focus, give her the Black Panther status or something. It solidifies Wakanda as the ultimate technocracy with the top scientician/enginerd in charge.
T’challa is dead. Long live T’challa.
ps – it occured to me that a hostile reading this site with no context might parse the “drugs fall out of your ass” thing wrong and assume I’m making some sort of unverified claim about T’Chadwick. oMg RaCiSt, etc. Well, anyway I still haven’t seen that Jackie Robinson biopic he did and it’s been near the tip of my list for a long time, and I am very much in the mood for a baseball movie since actually baseball is now godawful junk.
A limey who knows what baseball is?
Just when I dared have a peek and see what was happening in MLB, the Tatis Jr. 3-0 grand slam “controversy” was blowing up and I triple face-palmed my way back out of the proverbial room at how stupid the “unwritten rules” thing is, in addition to them riding the woke train now.
You guys are still zooming?
We were, but I wanted to cook my T-bone, if you know what I mean.
Gotcha, ran out of Hamm sandwiches did ya?
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/kyle-rittenhouse-working-lifeguard-kenosha-day-shooting-went-clean-vandalism-school-work/
End the charade. Drop the charges.
We’ve all seen the videos.
Abandon all intellectual humility, politicize the entire affair, and work tirelessly to make sure that The Narrative trumps careful investigation and due process. It’s the Travyon Martin approach, and the Michael Brown case approach, etc. When the original jury didn’t deliver the “correct” verdict based on facts and evidence, the outrage machine went crazy and made it the number one goal to obfuscate anything remotely helpful by spewing out as much ad-hom and cynical speculation as possible via the usual channels. Everyone has an opinion on George Zimmerman but few have actually studied the case, and the same goes for the cop who was charged by Brown.
If they were smart they would say they made a mistake and drop the charges. Instead, it will probably play out in court and then we get more riots when the kid is acquitted.
Meh, it won’t go to trial for another 2yrs, that speedy trial some other white racists thought he should have.
Interesting article.
A key point it makes is that the rifle which Rittenhouse used did not cross state lines – which means he did not go armed to Kenosha. The article says he armed himself there – without going into any detail about how that happened or exactly in the course of events that happened.
If this point can be substantiated to the satisfaction of the court it paints a different legal picture – much in Rittenhouse’s favor.
That certainly changes the equation.
Festus, thanks for turning me on to CODCO. Many of the episodes are on DerpTube and I also found this delightful interview with Scott Thompson. https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/scott-thompson-on-codco-the-hidden-gem-of-newfoundland.html
Cool! Still somehow awake for one beer more…
1 for you and 1 for the mustache ?
Mornin’ !
Mornin’, homey! Rain didn’t seem to last long, did it? Sunny now, probably steamy soon.
Good morning, gentlemen! And you, too, limey/JD! ; )
Our local art museum had to cancel their annual Oktoberfest, possibly their biggest fundraiser of the year, due to the ‘vid. Thus they’re trying to make up for the losses with a “Virtual Oktoberfest,” but the swag they came up with depicts their beloved mascot, Leo the Lion, a majestic beast who once stood guard over a long-gone downtown Dayton high school, wearing a mask. (I won’t even dignify the image with a link.) I just can’t even.
I’m happy to support them by buying something else from their museum store, but I’m appalled that their webmeister/webmeistress apparently thinks that notecards, writing paper, et al, are “stationary.” (Yes, I know they don’t move of their own volition, but really!) ::shudders::
Oktoberfest was always too many people for me. Ive attended the one at Alter a few times tho.
Greek Fest was always a nice time to get drunk and eat gyros.