Mmmm….
I got knocked off track this week, with SEA SMITH going all poet yesterday. So looks like I have to fill in for the Cryptids. A link or two, and a thought or two…
China – I am kind of worried with how bad things are getting there – pre-famine is a comin’ warnings against eating too much or wasting food, picking a fight with India, squashing the Golden Goose that is Hong Kong. I think Xi is turning out to be a Mao/Stalin type figure. Lots of human misery is in store.
China or Twitter?
Observations from a far suburb:
Middle and (pre-16 yoa) High Schoolers (no DL) gather and hang out at our two parks nearby – no masks, no distancing. They. Don’t. Like. That. Stuff. Gym has a must mask policy. Nobody follows it, staff does not say a word. People understand they will have to engage in mask theater at the store, they do so, then remove them when they leave, to not use them again until such a place needs visiting. Traffic is about back to 95% pre-martial law time.
THE @#$%ing CURVE IS BENT. I CAN HAZ NORMALCY NOW?
I’ll take India over China.
Not my prediction on who would win, but my prteference
Do the Indians get hungry an hour later too?
No, you just get a case of IBS.
Jk, I love indian food.
I like Thai. But it often comes back to haunt me.
I prefer Indian over Thai.
#metoo
*fond memories of office potluck days*
Ugh. I love every rice based cuisine except indian. Not sure why. Office pot lucks at Fruit were a crapshoot.
I like Thai too but not very familiar with it outside the food truck that I frequently ate from some days outside the office.
But Indian home-cookin’… wow. Better than most of the restaurants I’ve tried.
It’s probably more of a distraction than anything. China has had a bang an intern so blow up an aspirin factory policy for a very long time. Just like every other country.
So will I. But India is in trouble. China’s economy is now 5X larger than India’s. I doubt India can last in a sustained conflict.
So they will have to go nuclear? Yay, 2 billion dead…
“I CAN HAZ NORMALCY NOW?”
No?
CAN I HAZ POTATO AND BACON?
Yum
*shakes magic 8 ball*
“Try again in 2 months.”
Every time I do that, it says ‘It worked for me, reboot’.
Normalcy? Here?
Large Turnout At Memorial For Hans Gruber Who Was Thrown From A Building By A Police Officer
“This video is private.”
Odd… Perhaps YouTube removed it? It was a Bee parody relating Diehard to current events.
Well, there you go.
That is really fucked up. Do you think Google is going to be so bold as to ban more and more relatively innocuous channels or their material as the election approaches? The way things are going I would not be surprised by anything.
Yes.
This already seems to be happening.
Anything that relates to covid and does not conform to the WHO is getting removed.
A science channel I watch had a video debunking something that someone said related to the covid. YouTube took it down, saying that even mentioning that guy was enough to get a takedown and a warning.
There is no chance that such a mechanism will not be abused. I mean, it already is abusive as intended, but you put some intern in charge of deciding if my critique of Biden is “fake news”?
Re: Navalny, it certainly isn’t going to affect Merkel and Nordstream 2.
Which is a shame. Merkel seems willfully blind to who Germany will be paying.
Didn’t get to say so earlier, because work, but very much enjoyed KibbledKristen’s article today.
Inorite? My kid is adopted and my wife and her brother were both adopted. We gave a child to adoptive parents when we were younger and now have a good relationship with him. My wife has worked in adoption facilitation. I have been around a whole bunch of adoptees/adopters. I’ve seen this family finding thing play out a few times too. I love almost everything about it.
Agreed. I think it’s beautiful that children are able to find the families they need and that some are able to make relationships with their birth relatives later. Plus, reading something so positive and life-affirming after this week was desperately needed.
I just read the earlier post. Wanted to share this funny story. Went to a wedding last Summer of wife 2’s college sorority sister. She had recently learned after 23&me that Her dad was not her biological father. Her mom told her that they had tried to have children and ended up using a sperm donor. Well the girl found her biological father via 23&me and contacted him and invited him to her wedding and he accepted. She also found 8 half siblings (via the sperm donor) that she got to know and also invited to the wedding. Her dad didn’t know a thing about it, but was curiously observant of this side reunion of “school friends” that looked eerily similar to her daughter and this older man “associate”. For those few of us in the know it was delightful to watch all of these people discover their half siblings en masse and celebrate the beautiful wedding if their sister.
omg, that’s awesome. Love it.
It was a truly magical moment of joy! As a side note, it was fascinating that some of these half siblings had similar mannerisms even though they we raised by different parents all over the country. Nurture meet nature!
That had to be kinda weird, though, seeing complete strangers have the same mannerisms? It’s crazy the power genetics holds over us…. or at least our ability to draw comparisons based on small similarities and physical similarities. I look at old pics of my maternal grandmother and think ‘shit, that could be me if I did my hair and took the time to put on a little makeup.”
Same if KK is reading.
I took the day off and unplugged.
#metoo
I was happy to visit in 2001. No fucking way now.
Right? I was hoping to go there with my son, since he’s the same age I was when I went and he’d love all the new buildings in Shanghai and Hong Kong
But no.
Was there in 1996. While walking across the huge Tiananmen Square was asking the scientists I was with what they thought about the protests and response several years prior. They all just went silent and changes the topic. It was a shocking moment to me and after that I couldn’t wait to leave.
I worked with a guy who was hired by the company I worked for as a translator because they were building another plant in China. He told me he was there as a protester at Tiananmen and he saw someone get ran over by a tank. I’m not sure if he was telling the truth or not. That was in 95 when he told me that.
I think Xi is turning out to be a Mao/Stalin type figure. Lots of human misery is in store.
It is amazingly sad and scary how much our lives depend on some power mad asshole who got to the top of the heap. It is frankly one of the biggest failings of libertarianism as a philosophy that disengaging from politics leaves you exposed to this crap.
“It is amazingly sad and scary how much our lives depend on some power mad asshole who got to the top of the heap. ”
But, enough about governors…let’s talk about that big meanie Trump.
Do not even get me started on him right now… That CDC thing really bothers me, and I am hard pressed to differentiate between him and the overt commies when he issues orders indistinguishable from their ideological desires.
The CDC eviction thing would not be necessary if governors reopened their states. I feel for service industry people. It might be a sucky play, but I still can understand it without liking it.
The thing about that response (which is happening every where amongst Trumpists, I am not singling you out) is that it is utter bullshit and divorced from reality. There are 8 million small property owners in this country, and probably 5 million of them are a couple /three months of uncollectible rent away from foreclosure. This is flat out Marxist crap seizing the wealth of the middle class to prop up those who already get a disproportionate share of Government largesse. TDS is real, so is Trump worship syndrome, and excusing this is nonsense. Trump just did something that is utterly evil and completely inexcusable and trying to excuse it should e a giant red flag to you that you have switched from a principled position to a principaled one.
It’s also going to have huge knock on effects for a long time. This is going to be like Cash for Clunkers x1000.
Trump is less evil than many state governors is my stance.
My job of 21 years is at stake due to covid insanity. Yes, insanity.
I haven’t suffered yet personally (financially), but I can feel for those who have – including landlords.
Our business can’t pay our bills because we’re not getting paid either. The whole thing is fucked and I know who is to blame.
I don’t like it either but the landlords will likely be compensated too before this is all over but you’re right, it was a gross overreach of governmental power.
Even if they are compensated what we have done is force people who were self reliant ontio government assistance. I’m sorry but this is the worst thing he has done by far. If you still think he is better than Biden fine, I agree, but excusing this is saying that evil is ok if the person doing it is someone you like.
True, but he is playing a rigged game. He needs to forestall the massive eviction crisis and show economic gains in the near term. As a libertarian, this all sucks. Strategically, it’s probably the perfect move in that arena. He’s positioning himself as the guy who tried to help the little people in the face of all the governors and mayors who caused this fiscal insanity. It only has to work for two months. Biggest scare is that the power starts appealing to him and he ratchets it up after it’s done it’s work.
Strategically, it’s probably the perfect move in that arena. He’s positioning himself as the guy who tried to help the little people in the face of all the governors and mayors who caused this fiscal insanity.
I don’t buy this as a strategic move. The vast majority of those this screws were his supporters and most of those it ‘helps’ are never voting for him. But beyond that I do not excuse evil simply because it is expedient. Doing that is simply wrong.
I have to say that the thing I find most infuriating about this event is that people who claim that they are principled are repeatedly saying “Yes it is wrong but…” No, it is just wrong, full damn stop. It is not excusable. I am not saying don’t vote for him. I am not saying he is worse than the alternatives, but I am saying that if you excuse this you forfeit all right to ever claim you are more principled than those we all mock. This was wrong. It was evil. Full stop. Adding a modifier after that is a more extreme and more clear version of the equivocation we love to mock Robby for.
To be sure.
I’m not excusing it. I’m merely saying that I can understand the impulse. It would be a hard call if I knew that just winning this election would afford me the ability to counter this craziness to a much larger extent, and all I got to do is appear to be the opposite of the lockdowners. I’m not even asserting I would do it. I just can see the time travel/killing Karl Marx aspect. I agree that it’s likely the worst thing Trumpenfuherer has done. I still hope it gets him reelected. I’ll gladly disavow my “one true” status.
Cancelled – I agree, I think it’s wrong, full stop. As were some of his sillier executive orders, like deferring payroll tax collection; they’re publicity stunts designed to draw attention to the misery governors are causing, but they’re still wrong. I disapprove, and I’m still going to vote for him, because the alternative is Biden or not voting, and I think this year, it’s probably best not to sit this one out.
I have to say that the thing I find most infuriating about this event is that people who claim that they are principled are repeatedly saying “Yes it is wrong but…” No, it is just wrong, full damn stop. It is not excusable.
Now do mask mandates. I don’t own rental property, so it doesn’t affect me directly. But I’m certain each of us has a face. Welcome to the club where people you thought would be on your side tell you that it’s not their hill to die on.
I feel bad for landlords who won’t be able to evict known deadbeats. And for taxpayers who will have to cover those losses. ?
If I was a renter my incentives would be to stop paying rent, bitch about how on Jan 1 my asshoe landlord wants to dump me so I will need rental assistance starting Jan 1. Otherwise I’ll be homeless. It’s a very similar program to the unemployment scam when the incentives to not work are way better than getting up early and going to a productive job.
Trump’s rambling dialogs are laughable but sleeping with Navarro and the Fed guy is plainly inexcusable. Even Pence has bought into it, at least as an administration mouthpiece. It’s like they are either economically stupid or in collusion with the other Marxists.
Printing green paper only works until it doesn’t.
I wonder how many people told their landlords they couldn’t make rent because of ‘rona, and at the same time were collecting the bonus unemployment benefits, or working from home no problem? Agreed.
At least SCOTUS slapped down Truman in the steel mills.
Everybody (not here) keeps saying it’s necessary to forestall millions of evictions but nobody seems to recognize that landlords don’t stand to make any money if they evict the tenant and nobody can afford to replace them.
Yep, the other part is this is going to forestall real price discovery.
Fuck all this. I became a land lord in January of this year. I have one rental property and it makes me about 150 bucks a month if things go right.
If im not getting rent, it costs me 700 a month. Im no rich man. Thats gonna hurt if I quit getting that check.
I feel sorry for you and all the landlords out there. How can a person plan the future when the financial goal posts are constantly being shifted by the government.
They can’t. When this is over, watch how little rental property gets built and how many SFRs get pulled from the rental market.
I feel bad too. That’s why I’ve been paying my exorbitant rent this whole time, despite my landlord being a conniving scam huckster. I owe the money and that’s that. He’s been thanking us profusely each month.
The battle against power mad assholes is not only how I feel after Taco Bell, it’s also the inevitable state of mankind. Ideas first, organize second, fight third.
I can’t tell if that’s a Demolition Man reference or you have indigestion.
Cedar Rapids Derecho Live Camera Aug 10, 2020
Oh my! Serious weather
None of those pictures is food:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/26/de/2126dec3e8825e53aefece18731dd7b0.jpg
&^%$#@!)*(!!
That was food.
Yeah that looks like food to me. In fact it looks tasty
I’m craving pulled pork and cowboy cookies.
Going to have to settle for BBQ brisket whilst I peruse the posts I missed today.
*sigh*
Life is hard, like the ice in my pineapple mango cocktail.
I am eating duck with rice and artichoke bottoms, and rolls with sour cherry preserves, washed down with bulleit rye and soda (cheat day is nice)
I just bought Bulleit rye!
No duck or artichokes or rolls or cherries or soda, though.
Sweet! Bulleit Rye is tasty.
That sounds delicious!!
I have a steak in the oven, redneck Hollandaise sauce in the microwave, and Uncle Nearest Tennessee whiskey in my old-fashioned glass. Things will be okay.
“confirmed cases”
Yeah, pull the other one.
As pedantry seems to be a virtue on this site I thought I might point out that the photo above was not China but most probably Khmer Rouge.
It may not be a virtue, more like a comorbidity.
Or at least a chronic illness.
I have a good description of what I think it is, but I’m not sure I can word it 100% correctly so I’ll pass.
Looks like a pic of Mao in the background with Khmer writing elsewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePU561Y9pKo
BWHAHAHAHAHA
Does anyone else remember USA Up All Night? That brings me right back.
I do vaguely remember it, it was risqué but that’s about all the recollection I’ve got.
Gilbert Gottfried hosted for awhile and then some blonde chick with big hair whose name I can’t remember took over, but the format was: they showed B movies, and made jokes about them or did stupid skits bookending the commercial breaks. Biggest bonding experience I had with my little sisters was staying up to watch Up All Night. I remember it fondly.
I remember USA Up All Night! That’s where I saw the scene from Evil Dead 2: Dead Before Dawn in which the guy’s possessed hand beats the crap out of him. One of the funniest movie scenes ever.
My father introduced me to the Evil Dead trilogy, and even took me to see Army Of Darkness when it opened in theaters. As an army brat with AFN and rentals for entertainment, my father did the rental selection and he had a thing for bad B movies. Every time I watch one, it makes me reminisce about him.
“Does anyone else remember USA Up All Night?”
Yes. I used to work overnights at a group home. Up All Night was usually the only thing that kept me from sleeping on the job.
My sister and I would sneak back into the living room (where the TV was, we weren’t rich enough to afford multiple) after it looked like our parents had retired for the night, and put on Up All Night. So many nights watching stuff like 976-Evil (edited for broadcast TV) at the lowest volume where we could still hear it, but it wouldn’t make the ‘rents come back up and make us go to bed.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/09/oregon-governor-disputes-sheriffs-accounts-of-plea-for-portland-protest-help.html
Gov Kunt is now saying her (soon to retire, but definitely wasn’t pushed out) state police superintendent contacted the two neighboring county sheriffs in advance. Aside from the actual statement (which will no doubt hinge on technicalities or interpretations, unless the sheriffs or OSP superintendent were flat out lying), why would it take an entire week to respond? Why wouldn’t they respond on Monday?
(Yes, I can imagine why they did so and it has nothing to do with the actual dispute)
Oregon police just protect the protesters from white supremacists and prosecution. If you want to go persecute a nazi killer, you’re gonna need to send the feds.
She seems to obviously be full of shit.
“Woman glued up her own vagina in attempt to frame ex-boyfriend for crime”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-glued-up-vagina-attempt-22621636
I guess it didn’t stick.
it was a fairly tight plan, but she didn’t quite close all the holes.
She’s crazy and vengeful but I give her a A for originality.
*taps out*
Everything we need to know, we learned in kindergarten. My kid thinks glue can fix anything too.
The duct tape and/or WD-40 fix-all would be more appropriate here.
At least she wasn’t clingy.
That’s Krazy.
Rico, 36, spent several days on remand in prison before the shameful attempts by Gesto, who was dubbed the ‘Glue Liar’ in Spain where the crime took place, became apparent.
Probably more time than she’ll
A court in the northern Spanish city of Leon convicted her of two counts of making up a crime and jailed her for 10 years.
Oh, shit!
+1 Spanish justice system
On the downside:
So that’s how they handle Jussie Smollette over there…..
She was sentenced to ten years’ hard labia.
Thread winner!
Sounds like an elmer-gency
What made her think squirting superglue up there would make her story more believable?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhGNZ_ZXcAMC3Cz.jpg
But is there something you’re trying to tell us?
Seems racist.
I hope the other side of that sign reveals xer sex.
But doesn’t give up the P for some black D? Racist for sure.
I love Blue Oyster Cult, but I never really figured out the lyrics of this song until today when I heard a line I had never noticed before (for some reason I have a real problem puzzling out song lyrics–not the meanings, but the actual words–so I often just hum along with “dee-dee-blah-blah”). While I was listening I suddenly thought “is this song about the Ayatollah Khomeini?” I checked the actual written lyrics and found out it actually was. I had thought for years it was about some televangelist or other who had denounced BOC. Nope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-hyOnScZhw
Love BOC. Best band I’ve seen live, twice over.
I’ve seen them too. Not the best metal I’ve seen live. I’d say Slayer and Voivod were better.
Are they proper metal? I’m no anatomist of the genre, or any genre. I don’t know shit about music, really. But I never thought of them as metal.
They’re considered one of the original bands whose music was described as “heavy metal.” The defininition has changed.
They were considered metal at the time. So was Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin (although Page said he hated the term).
I never thought of Zeppelin as metal, but Deep Purple and Sabbath were definitely considered metal back then.
But then you got Megadeath, Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer and all those guys, sort of changed the definition.
Yes. Those bands (and Iron Maiden and others) were considered metal. BOC was hard rock soemtimes and maybe prog rock or soft rock others. There was metal and Zep, Sabbath, BOC and that kind of stuff was not it. It was called Hard Rock.
Now that you mention it, I do remember that we used the term hard rock back then and not metal.
I don’t like too much of the later metal, although I do like Megadeath and Iron Maiden were good also.
I forgot about Judas Priest, how can you forget about Judas Priest?
“But then you got Megadeath, Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer and all those guys, sort of changed the definition.”
That’s exactly what happened. I remember reading old articles in Creem or Hit Parade or whatever where Jimmy Page complaining about the term around when Presence came out. That was 1976.
Judas Priest, UFO, AC/DC, etc. were all considered metal.
Boc fits the early eighties term “hard rock” sometimes. Metal, probably never. I miss hard rock. The mighty MET, KMET was a primary source around here.
I saw Black and Blue in 1981. Was impressed by BOC, but I really went for Sabbath. BOC seems to have something everyone should like, somewhere. Almost no two songs alike.
Sabbath is one of the few bands I wish I’ve seen.
Sabbath and Bob Seger was the first concert I ever saw. What a strange combo.
LOLWTF?
Yeah, no shit, a weird mix but that’s what it was.
Three times with Ronnie and once with Ozzy. Ronnie is way better, but nobody beats Ozzy for sheer rock star absurdity. I’ve always loved Heaven and Hell at least as much as early Sabbath. It’s a world class album and the soundtrack of my later youth.
Best Ozzy was with Randy Rhoads.
I saw Ronnie solo. What a voice. Blew me away.
First song I ever heard by them is Wings Wetter Down, which is also the first time I ever smoked weed.
Reading through some of the comments above, I am moved to wonder: will somebody take a shot at a governor? Is there somebody smart enough to see who is really responsible, and desperate enough to just not care anymore out there who is willing to go all the way?
When you have nothing left to lose…
I think that would backfire badly. Giving them a martyr might keep them from getting the electoral beatdown they so richly deserve.
After the election … if none of them loses their job … well, concentrate on yard work instead. Cut down some brush and chip it into wood.
How many of the worst ones are up for (re)election though? Quite a few like Cuomo and Newsome are safe this year (which is I think part of the reason they’re so willing to tank their states).
So perhaps, if someone was really desperate and they know there’s no chance of voting the bastard out, … maybe? Just takes one who loses everything to decide to go out and take a gov with them.
The NC Governor is up this year. Murphy is next year – although I’m sure the mail in system will be fully rigged by then.
If Ted Wheeler gets reelected then Portland is getting what it deserves. Just let it burn.
Entering into our Hampton Inn room for the night:
“Mrs. Prolefeed: “The room doesn’t have the sticker sealing the door.”
Me: “Yeah … so?”
Mrs. P: “That means it might not be clean.”
Me: “I don’t think viruses are deterred by a glorified sticky note.”
Mrs. P hustles downstairs to get a staff member to assuage her fears.
Staff guy to me: ” Sorry to bother you, sir.”
Me: “It’s OK. I’ll be outta here once she quits sullying me for sex.”
They put a sticker on hotel doors? Had no idea. I do have to remove the police tape at most places I stay, though.
Returning to the scene of the crime?
I need a trophy.
Just the Hampton Inns. To provide a false sense of safety for those like my wife.
Which they then undercut with a sign in the elevator saying that if someone with a “case” of COVID and someone not, both unmasked, get in the same elevator, there is a “100% chance” the second person will get “infected”.
I don’t think they know what 100% and infected mean.
It’s Hilton’s CleanStay marketing gimmick that they’re actually cleaning the rooms in between guests, as if they weren’t before.
https://www.hilton.com/en/corporate/cleanstay/
Yeah, but all the house cleaning girls are now drinking fish tank cleaner.
Hampton inn does. And they don’t clean or replace towels.
Clarion doesn’t do that crap.
I had to go to Urban Dictionary and then interpret the examples. I’m probably wrong too but good answer, P, in case I’m right.
Nothing is real anymore
The Hitler animation is just incredible. Stalin is about 95% great, but there’s a few issues.
If he was alive back then, you’d have to assume that Hitler had Mark Davis’s hair stylist.
Saw some wise-ass the other day with thousands of signatures to build a monument to the guy who killed Hitler.
The number of relatives I have who sincerely told people they killed Hitler: Two
Two people I am related to told strangers and relatives and everyone else they killed Hitler.
It’s hilarious stock.
ACLU approved.
https://twitter.com/DashingChrisBey/status/1301677576100827137
Who’s that exactly?
No idea. Just put it up for the comments. Even if it’s fake, the bloodlust in the comments is disturbing.
Well the legitimate answer for speech one doesn’t like is a skateboard to the face, it is known.
Or a bullet. Rights are for goodthinking people.
The guy with the skateboard has a name and address.
Just another reason to despise skateboarders.
That guy is about as big a moron as walks the earth. He filmed a vicious assault because he thinks the drunk guy mumbling a racial epithet is his get-out-of-jail-free card. Not the way the real world works, sparky. Don’t drop the soap.
Plot thickens.
https://twitter.com/DaRedestElefant/status/1302059960503738372
Well, there are serious limitations on developing this plot now. Unless the story goes metaphysical and explores afterlife in hell.
That Antifa asshole had his hand on his gun the whole fucking night.
And now he gets to protest the fascism of the lightbringer, for ever.
Charging documents. Apparently the Portland cops care a little bit bout an actual murder. Who knew?
Mr. Blobby’s gon give it you ya
LMAO! I have no idea why I’m laughing. If I didn’t click the link first, I’d swear that HM posted that.
Oh, yeah.
Swiss, that McRaclette looks awesome.
a sign in the elevator saying that if someone with a “case” of COVID and someone not, both unmasked, get in the same elevator, there is a “100% chance” the second person will get “infected”.
They should just put a suicide booth in the room.
Yeah, that’s bullshit. Higher maybe but come on, keep the lies plausible.
I doubt even 2 girls one cup gets to 100% chance of infection.
Looked it up … falling from a 47 story building does not give a 100.0% chance of dying (a window washer survived such a fall in 2007).
I’m guessing being in an elevator for one floor with an asymptomatic person with COVID who does not cough on you, would give you less than a 0.1% chance of getting the virus transmitted.
Some people in charge of stuff are bad at math. Or lying.
Probably handed down as a mandate from corporate who’s lying and knows they’re lying.
You can survive spending 40 minutes stuck inside a thunderstorm in a parachute. Almost nothing is a guaranteed death.
Or this chick.
Wow, thanks CS. That took me on a bit of a rabbit hole on the highest fall survivors. Incredible stuff.
Took an evening bike ride out by the lake. Pulled the neck gator up over my mouth and nose. Not for the ‘vid or even the Govenor – the damn gnats. Need to wait for the first frost before I ride out there again.
It was a lovely evening though. Still some smoke from the fires to make a nice sunset.
https://imgur.com/a/BKtY7p4
Beautiful!
Gotta beware o’ them neck gators, though. They’ll bite your nose right off.
Sorry the gnatsies were terrorizing you.
very nice
very nice
Nice pic.
Got a notice from the issuer on one of my credit cards that they were changing the agreement to limit cash advances to a smaller percentage of the total credit limit. Maybe it’s nothing but my gut says either they’re seeing more people taking advances or they’re worried about the risk of it.
Interesting. I haven’t noticed such things recently. Citi is bombarding me with 0% interest purchases/transfers offers for existing/new cards. But it’s normal for this bank.
Card issuer is a credit union, so maybe a bit more conservative? Still also getting the balance transfer and sign up begs from the usual suspects, particularly the branded cards.
I know some people seriously convinced the god emperor Trump will issue a debt jubilee when he wins in a landslide and are spending accordingly. Which, yes, he’s destroying our financial systems by printing billions of dollars. but I don’t think he’s doing it with the intention of crashing the economy to the point of a reset and a return to the gold standard. It’s just what politicians do: spend any money they can until it runs out and then blame the ‘takers’.
Bingo
I read that issuers were lowering limits but now I can’t remember where or find it. WSJ?
Hello? Anyone there, zoomies?
Not all of us have webcams like the boomers in the Zoom meeting.
Tulip’s in charge and she’s BRB
And just like that, the rioters give up in one city, temporarily.
https://twitter.com/bipocliberation/status/1301753982776414208?s=21
What city is that?
Eugene.
Funny, twenty years ago there were anarchists rampaging through the downtown there.
They were also supposed to
riotprotest in Fredericksburg, VA today but I haven’t heard anything about that.Apparently, some in Rochester, NY decided to go out for a Friday night dinner.
https://twitter.com/scootercasterny/status/1302060108898357257?s=21
Interfering with (by threatening…) a bunch of presumably middle-class people trying to have a nice night out (which is something they probably have not had in awhile) is an interesting strategy. Let’s see how it plays out.
Wow, that is disgusting, repellant behavior. Hope it doesn’t work out well for them.
What a bunch of assholes. That’s going to turn off a lot of people.
Gotta be Park or Monroe Avenue – literally the only two streets where this could be happening.
*googles*
Okay, three streets.
As a native, I can tell you there is only one reason they chose that particular route. And that was to find a bunch of gentrifiers trying to enjoy a night out on the town.
When did Rochester go woke?
It’s just a microcosm of every other city in current year United States. Some nice parts, lots of ghettoes, and a shrinking everyone else.
Got it
“make art”
*snort*
I might drive to Mount Washington in NH on Sunday. I did it once 14 years ago but back then it was cloudy 100% while the forecast for Sunday is sunny and small cloud cover.
WTF is it with waiting for the very last second to make filings for something that’s known well in advance?
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/09/04/bad-week-for-oregon-gop-continues-party-missed-deadline-for-voters-pamphlet-by-29-seconds/
This is worse than me turning in a college paper.
I, too, am notoriously last minute. I just put the 3-yr renewal stickers on my car for the registration that expired last month but I renewed in the middle of last month. I guess that means I am forgetful and late.
You know what people like? Petty bureaucratic fights over rules no one cares about.
Talking about Firsting again?
The only rule to Firsting is that there are no rules.
That’s incredible. They make the LP look competent.
Embarrassing state of affairs for the state GOP no doubt.
But frankly I’m happy to hear that the GOP failed to get a gubernatorial recall on the ballot.
I don’t like recalls. It’s just sour grapes. The election was held, your guy list, get over it.
If the governor has committed a crime, there’s already an impeachment process. If the election was proven compromised, there is a legal process for that too.
But calling for a do/over of an election is not a good look. And if it succeeds, it WILL be wielded by lefties against their enemies (for that is how they think of them) in nearly every state election of consequence.
Unless the legislature is complicit in the crime/steadfastly partisan.
I don’t see how voters having a more opportunities for choice in who abuses them is a bad thing- but things are so tribal now you can literally be responsible for thousands of deaths, and it won’t even matter (Cuomo).
This, please. Here in Ohio, who knew our (R) governor would go all in on the ‘VID restrictions like the hardest-core (D)? And state law allows for recall elections at the local & county level, but not statewide.
Isn’t that convenient?
I’m leaving, headed for safety and peace, out at 5 AM pdt, headed to the Northlands, will be I touch, peace out!
Please be careful!
Yea, plea….eh…
I’m hoping to find some Glibs on the way, Party!
If I recall your destination correctly, you won’t be passing through Ohio. Too bad – you, Tres & I could lift some Tall Cans. (In my case, a Small Can would probably be plenty.)
I could detour, small states and Glibs yippee!
Wonder if it was the owner of the sign that did this after reading the LP’s twitter.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhHMe-UWAAAgJxW?format=jpg&name=large
The Bro feels like you all are exploiting The Bro’s emotional labor when he Firsts. The Bro don’t feel appreciated. The Bro feels like his tank is running empty.
The bro needs a Gatorade.
Or a Snickers.
Or a Midol.
Why not all three?
Plus a hot bath.
Followed by a massage.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/09/04/i-hate-to-break-it-to-you-lib-journo-charlotte-alter-drops-ice-cold-politics-reality-check-on-her-colleagues-who-likely-wont-listen-to-her/
I wonder how much longer she will have a job.
I know this wasn’t the point of your post, but what a smug bitch.
She corruptly points out that journalists don’t understand how the average American thinks, but then in tweet after tweet she goes on trying to explain that the superior thinking and awareness of journalists is why journalists don’t understand why voters don’t vote they way the journalists think they should.
Oh do enlighten us!!
And
Smug AF
Fatties are screwing it up for everyone.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/04/obesity-link-coronavirus-america-severe-illness/
Haven’t they heard of GlibFit?
Darn fatties need to glibfit. That reminds me of a conversation a couple years back with a good lefty learning friend. He wanted specifics of why I didn’t like George Bush Senior and besides the foreign adventuring I mentioned the passage of the ADA. He was aghast. We ended up in an argument about the reach of government to force private decisions. At one point I mentioned that if you took his view to it’s logical conclusion that the government could try and “protect” you about the most basic decisions of what you did in your daily life. And here we are now in 2020.
I don’t even know anymore, this whole fat thing is so distressing. I was thinking the other day that the diet industry really has no incentive to actually get people to a healthy and maintainable weight. To keep the money coming in, they need people to lose and gain in a repeated cycle.
I don’t think so, they’ve got a pretty big potential clientele. That is like saying doctors have no incentive to actually treat their patients.
2/3rds of this country are overweight.
That’s some pretty utter nonsense.
People who gets motivated by diets will have plenty of effort and dollars to spend maintaining. And if one company doesn’t do what they need, there’s an entire market of other companies to compete with.
The overwhelming majority of deaths remain among the elderly. It takes more than obesity.
Yup. But lets keep kids out of schools.
This is an impressive political campaign against Trump with the military quotes. Almost Daisy level in its effectiveness. Hell they are even bringing up quotes against McCain from 2015 and Cohen is claiming he will start a war to stay in office.
Color me impressed.
Not sure if my sarc meter needs to be calibrated…
We are seeing the absolute desperation of the media as they try to simultaneously drum up fear of Labor Day coronapocalypse and that Donnie T said terrible things about dead soldiers. I can’t decide which one is more bullshit. Surely it will fool some, but the media hopefully will find itself utterly distrusted by Joe and Jill Normal. It’s already somewhat happened, but it needs to be widespread. If one thing that Glibs can give the body politic it is a healthy disdain for media manipulation and top men.
And if the media’s main thrust with this latest bruhaha was to make current military and veterans less likely to vote for Trump I seriously doubt they will even make a mark with that group. The very first time I read about those purported comments I gave it no credence whatsoever.
While I can’t say I completely believe Trump really has a deep and abiding respect, deep down in his heart, for those who wear/wore the uniform I know he prefers to be seen as if he does so he wouldn’t say something so cavalier and damaging to his image.
It’s not that surprising to anyone that pays attention that the media has grabbed onto this like a life preserver. It’s utterly fake, but they will put it out as hard as they can. We can expect another pussy grabbing allegation any day now.
Leaving aside the anonymous sourcing and general credibility, I can see Trump making those sort of comments. Between his lack of personal self control, phoniness, pettiness, and other issues, it fits right in. But that describes a lot of public figures.
But at the same time, this story makes Trump sound even better.
Demonstrating a level of inquisitiveness beyond the public school indoctrination of “Kaiser and hun bad”.
Parents who publicly sought the limelight on the political stage and used their dead child as a prop to attack Trump, but somehow they’re supposed to be immune to criticism.
And this is a good fucking question. Nearly a decade after 9/11, what did Robert Kelly’s death serve to achieve? After nearly two decades, it looks awfully like throwing American lives into an endless meat grinder. Yet somehow, the supposed correct response is to mutter platitudes while ordering up another cycle and continue on.
Its horrible we don’t have a president who gleefully sends our troops to their deaths while making nice speeches about them. /media
The biggest problem for Trump is he doesn’t seem to listen to his own instincts regarding war. End ’em Donny, you dumbass.
SP is a wonderful person.
*hears rusty tin can lids tinkle in distance*
What did you do?
Talked face to face for an hour and a bit.
Locally, the public school board cancelled school for all kids who chose the fully virtual learning, because 90+/- teachers resigned and another 80 refuse to work.
Ironically, the kids who chose to go ‘hybrid’ will continue to get an education.
There hasn’t been such a good promotional opportunity for private schools in a 100 years.
Saturday morning.
Who’s going to play with me?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fr9_MaqlsAY
Nice! I’ll play! I’m out on my back porch at just after 7:30 a.m. EDT.
(Play as in a game or play music?)
Bet you got a hoodie and some long pants on. It was chilly when I left earlier.
You’d win that bet. Came out at first with just a lightweight cotton shirt (long-sleeved) over my jammie top, but went back in and put on my Hueston Woods hoodie. (Already had on the long yoga pants.)
I did another overnight. BREAKFAST BEERS CHEERS!
I wish. We just came in from a walk – 90F+ and 90%+ humidity. Maybe 15 minutes after we got home it started pouring rain.
Only 51 degrees F at 7:54 a.m. EDT per Local Weather Goddess Ms. FriedEggs.
…and the sun is just starting to peek through the trees in the far corner of my back yard.
Saturday evening. I’m about to get a bath then read bedtime stories to my kids. By the time I get back the new post should be started.