“I didn’t suck Willie Brown’s herpes-riddled dick for two years to be told no!” Kamala screamed into the phone and then snapped it shut. She threw it at a patch of tastefully exposed brick in her campaign showroom and it shattered, the pieces raining to the floor. The aide behind her tore open the package of another burner and set it on the desk.
“Alright, get them in here,” Kamala grumbled.
The aide waved the campaign’s social media influencers into the room, grimacing as they fell over each other like puppies: eager, bright, blonde, and prone to pissing when excited. They gripped their phones and tossed their hair about trying to take the perfect selfie.
“Sit down,” Kamala ordered. “No selfies in here, dammit. I told you that already.” They whined with disappointment and finally sat down and started scrolling on their phones
“What’s happening,” Kamala demanded. “Give me information.”
“Instagram followers are up,” said Astra. “And I have a yeast infection.”
“Just stick to business,” Kamala said, squirming her seat, echoes of yeast infections past.
“#yeastinfection is trending,” Kayleighburrow said brightly, widening her surgically-enlarged irises. “Twitter will be talking about discharge all day!”
“How is Black Twitter?” Kamala asked.
Seresto, her thin blonde hair in sloppy bantu knots, looked up. “Demands for bikini shots are way up. Way, way up. But they might be Russians pretending to be white people pretending to be Black people on Black Twitter. Massa Dorsey said he’s looking into it.”
“Goddamn it,” Kamala said. “Those better not leak.”
“I bet you look fierce,” Astra said.
“Oh, and I don’t have a yeast infection,” Seresto said and make a show of moving her chair away from Astra slightly.
“I don’t either!” Kayleighburrow protested loudly into the higher octaves.
“Can we at least take a mask selfie?” the three asked.
“What about the shoes? Did they work?” Kamala asked.
“Shoes?” they asked.
“These stupid things!” she said, slamming her pair of signature Converse on the table.
“Fashion,” Astra said knowingly. “So fashion.”
“A good bump in the favorable demos,” Seresto said. “White female journalists under 50, gay Black men in Florida, the Chinese factory where they are made, White female journalists over 40, divorced suicidal fast-food workers, all up.”
Astra’s hand shot up.
“Yes?” Kamala asked archly.
“I have a lot of discharge,” Astra said. “Can I go to the bathroom?”
“You don’t have to raise your hand.”
“It’s like cottage cheese down there,” Astra said.
“Go, just go,” Kamala said wearily. Astra clattered out of the office on wood-soled mules.
“What about cop memes?” Kamala asked, “Are we keeping on top of the damn cop memes?”
“Three hundred accounts banned over the long weekend, two hundred more pending,” Kayleighburrow said.
“Everyone of them, I don’t want to see another one!”
“Yes, ma’am,” the two influencers mumbled.
“Don’t call me ma’am!” Kamala screamed, throwing the unused phone against the brick wall, and then held her hand up for another.
“Out!” Kamala yelled, “Out, out, out!”
They stumbled away, crunching phone pieces under painfully high heels, and beginning to cry.
Ew. Thanks, SF. My sides hurt as usual. Definitely a side effect worth the risk.
Cottage cheese craving suddenly wanes
Hmmm. Sounds dare-worthy to me.
Just make sure and go with the full fat version.
Always!
Why would anyone crave cottage cheese?
Tasty with an excellent fat profile?
I don’t remember it tasting of anything.
*obnoxious gagging noises*
Nothing with that texture will ever be tasty.
Astra is crushed.
Get that girl some Monistat! Then she can check back in a week.
Delicious lumpy milk. (Large curd only)
Add fruit and viola healthyish breakfast.
Of course, I will think of SF from now on.
Cottage cheese on avocado (avo sprinkled with a little lemon juice)
Cottage cheese + beaners & weens (wieners & beans for those of you not from my family)
Cottage cheese straight outta the carton
cottage cheese + lowry’s seasoned salt
cottage cheese + pineapples
cottage cheese + fried lo mein noodles.
Cottage cheese + homegrown tomatoes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QzLIjL1u4
This lady gets it. Actually good on peaches, pears, etc (and good for you)
I’m partial to Mrs. Dash over seasoned salt, partly because there’s a lot of salt in cottage cheese anyway.
cottage cheese + pineapples
Nixon’s last meal (lunch) as President. Also, delicious.
I enjoy cottage cheese with a splash of pickle brine.
It makes an excellent dip for triscuts. Also ridiculously high in protein.
That’s the only reason I choke it down. And it’s casein protein, which digests very slowly and keeps you full for a long time.
The one way I actually like it is smeared on some wholegrain toast with Marmite.
I like to add a big dollop to baked mac & cheese, or a big dollop to a pancake batter. It’s also delicious topped with a little honey.
Yea, I could see how it could be good as an ingredient in other things with strong flavors. I even tried using it in place of ricotta in cottage cheese (with watery results, unfortunately – I may need to blend it first and then add egg whites for binding).
lt’s one of the most god awful things ever. Right up there with rice pudding and green jello with carrots. Blech!
You know how to hurt a MN guy.
Growing up faves
Jeebus, 4score, I’m sorry you had to eat public school lunches, no one deserves that.
I like it but I have to load it up with spices/salt/pepper/etc.
Pineapple on pizza isn’t half as gag inducing as that gawdawful dairy abomination.
There are 2 things that should not be on pizza. I mean there are a lot of things that should not be on pizza, but I’m talking about things that are typically put on pizza that should never be. Pineapple and broccoli, not for pizza.
Broccoli is a perfect topping for pizza, and improved with the addition of sausage.
Ewww. And I love broccoli, just not on pizza.
It’s like broccoli fra diavolo, only handheld.
The only good broccoli is Chinese stir-fry broccoli.
On the topic of cottage cheese, is it just me or has Breakstones gone downhill? They were my go-to for a while but now it just tastes… off. When I can get it, Daisy is good, and sometimes store brand is good, but it used to be that Breakstones was a solid if somewhat expensive choice.
I have a definite preference for Safeway brand (Lucerne) and Giant brand. Breakstone’s is grainy
Oddly, there are no Safeways anywhere near me. Just local (Giant) and regional (Food Lion) chains. As far as national chains go, there used to be a Shoppers nearby but it’s moved.
Of course, Walmart is probably more people’s grocery store now than any actual grocery chain.
I don’t trust food from WalMart.
Of course, I don’t trust any products from WalMart.
Walmart has two big deficiencies, they have a fuckton of turnover and indifference in the bottom ranks, and they are really terrible at automatically managing inventory. When I go to my local Walmart for hygeine supplies, they are always out of stock for at least 2 of the body wash, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, and floss I like, whereas target always has them all in stock. As a consequence of nearly always being out, when they do get them in stock somebody comes by and buys them all at once, so they then stay out of stock for another few weeks. A simple inventory check should catch this, but alas that requires people to have the time and concern to do an inventory check.
I worked for Walmart for a couple of years. They’re generally no worse than any other retailer as concerns food safety. However, every store is different, and even different teams within the same store are different. The day team for food took food safety seriously. The overnight team, on the other hand, thought nothing of leaving pallets of frozen food in the middle of the aisle all night.
local (Giant)
Try international. Owned by a Dutch-Belgian multinational.
And Food Lion is owned by the same company.
True, but talk to somebody from the Midwest or New England about going to Giant or Food Lion and they won’t know what you mean.
IIRC – my Dutch overlords own 1305 supermarkets on 3 continents and had a net profit in 2019 of around $1.5 billion.
I’m sort of an expert on grocery stores in more ways than one. So, I’ve heard of them.
True. Other than Walmart and Aldi, we have Price Chopper (local chain, not the other one) and HyVee. Not a Kroger, Food Lion, Giant, Safeway, etc etc etc to be found.
Those are my Dutch Masters as well (I toil for Stop & Shop). About a third of the stores in the US are Giant, and a third S&S; S&S is fully unionized, Giant is not. Board meetings must be fun.
The other Giant, Giant-Landover, the Maryland one, is unionized (UFCW). Surprisingly they’re not terrible.
I only buy Friendship – possibly local since it’s from upstate NY. Same with sour cream.
Happily, they’re both better than the more well-known brands.
Always go with the large curd, 4 %
ayup…or, in Minnesota-speak: you betchya
Daisy is decent, but like their sour cream, lacks flavor. The problem with cottage cheese, like most processed dairy products (ice cream, sour cream, cream cheese) is most now have additives and fillers- guar gum, carrageenan, locust bean, etc. All crap and ruins the traditional flavors and textures.
Daisy is my preferred brand because it’s ONLY cream
Daisy had a phenominally annoying ad campaign, so I put them on permanant boycott.
We only buy Daisy.
(preferred sour cream brand, that is. Never tried their cottage cheese)
I heard (or maybe read) something about how cottage cheese consumption is way down as yogurt consumption has gone up, but that dairies are fine with this because yogurt is much easier to make than cottage cheese.
Look what Cardi B has done to Kamala’s Social Media Team.
Now if ever anyone had a lot of discharge…
lol. On another note how am I just finding out today ben shapiro has a sister?
Did you know his wife is a DOCTOR????
Is she Canadian?
Giant breast implants?
/trying to keep it family-friendly around here
“I have a lot of discharge,” Astra said. “Can I go to the bathroom?”
“You don’t have to raise your hand.”
“It’s like cottage cheese down there,” Astra said.
Ew.
Dated that once or twice…
Ah yes, the tuna melt. No thanks.
Dayum, limey.
Our best. Our brightest.
They stumbled away, crunching phone pieces under painful high heels, and beginning to cry.
I have no idea how you do it, but your closes are fucking sublime.
Way to other Astra there Seresto.
“echoes of yeast infections past”
How Dickensian.
Good thing I didn’t order cottage cheese for breakfast.
So they have Disney in the bag.
*golf clap*
“Michelle Obama Gives Dating Advice: ‘You Can’t Tinder Your Way into a Long-Term Relationship’”
https://twitter.com/people/status/1302688072530907141
Mike met Barry on Grindr.
Long-term physical, sure.
Long-term financial relationships we leave up to the justice system. But you have to start somewhere.
I’ve known quite a few people married from tinder michelle. How bout sitting the fuck down instead of pretending you know everything because you married well.
I’m in a long term relationship from Tinder. But I guess I need to end it because Michelle said so. It started with a message exactly one year ago today.
Happy anniversary!
And the message was…?
Always, always eat before a new H&H.
Particularly the Expanded Universe.
C’mon, you can choke it down.
Kamala did!
BING!
Underwater knife fight between Kammy and Michelle – who wins?
Toss-up. Michelle is stronger, but Wookies don’t swim well.
They get weighed down by all the fur.
The United States.
Only if neither one surfaces.
I believe that’s what he was alluding to…
also, underwater fight.
SEA SMITH LIKE THREESOME!
Underwater? Why not use the old rules from the WWWF Grudge Match between Tarzan and Aquaman?
What species of sharks are nearby?
Hilary is the ref.
Relevant.
Poor Astra.
Her parents didn’t hate her enough to just name her Star?
My Kamala drawing is pretty basic, cuz I just made it for the enemies board. Kind of scary I might have to redo it.
Kind of a Michelle vibe
Or a darker-skinned AOC
The skin tone needs more morgue grey in it. And the face needs a little more bitch-ass horse.
But we need a DNC ticket graphic for our projects.
Can I get a character explanation for some of these side characters? who is astra?
Third paragraph. Insta-whore.
Extras. Redshirts. You know, nobodies.
“What’s my last name?!“
The past is always changing.
CNN appears to have altered a widely-seen photograph of Joe Biden with his young son to remove the logo of the Washington Redskins.
The Democratic nominee and former vice president initially shared the photo in June to commemorate Father’s Day.
I WAS PROMISED APPLES BEING CALLED APPLES!
Yesterday Tucker was talking about some soundbites they had from CNN talking to Michael Cohen and Jeff Zucker. Zucker was telling Cohen that no one gets to be president without CNN. It really explained why CNN hates trump so bad.
The old saying was never get in a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. Those rules don’t apply anymore as Trump has completely blown up that model. It explains in part why legacy news in general hates him so much.
Trump leveraged social media, which is killing the previous media gatekeepers.
The media gatekeepers should have already died off. They found a wellspring of funds somewhere and have been living on life support for about a decade. This has also allowed them to exert pressure on social media and Internet infrastructure to reduce competition.
He did, and he was also in a unique position given the pervasive name recognition he had prior to running for office. People who don’t follow politics knew who Donald Trump is.
Man, I can’t wait to watch Football Team play the Browns on the 27th.
Browns? RACIST
Next do the history books!
Yerzhov says ‘sup?
They didn’t want to have to pay Cartman the royalties.
Have CNN’s ratings done anything other than slide under Zucker’s leadership?
How the hell does that asshat still have a job?
Someone could have seen that injun image, been triggered and seriously injured while running around in a panic. CNN are responsible news that you can trust, trigger free news.
That’s why the new name should be “Washington Bluespins” Seems apt.
DAMN those russian white black white russians!
*adds Kahlua to shopping list*
Willie Brown’s herpes-riddled dick
God I love a power start!
I knew there was a reason I hated cottage cheese.
So this is really setting up for a full blown Downfall denouement in early November, isn’t it?
These are the true stories I have to come to love on Wednesday.
Rings utterly true.
Didn’t her aides shut down any questions yesterday?
Aides? Or controllers?
Yes, and every other day.
was this sourced by people with first hand knowledge
Today at Bring a Trailer, my favorite sports car design of all time.
Yum.
Something I never knew (until now, I suppose) – Dimebag Darrell Abbott owned a DeTomasio Pantera, and the band was named after the car.
I did not know that, but that makes sense. Pantera is not a word that you come across very often.
There used to be a Euro car Sunday, or something like that anyway, but the one time I went, someone had an early Pantera with a Paxton supercharger on the FoMoCo V8. Damn if that didn’t make a glorious noise.
Restomod. Not a huge fan of the hood, but it’s functional as cooling on the original design sucked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPHTPskrjhs
Very nice.
I recall a poster on my dorm wall of a statuesque blonde bikini model soaping down one of those.
I’m a fan.
A buddy of mine has one. There’s one serious Achilles heel you have to watch for. When these cars were built they made a bunch of bodies, which were then stored outside, to be brought in as they got orders. Some of them sat outside for years and were rained on many times. There’s a spot in the body near the engine mounts that can get water in it, but there’s no way for the water to escape, so this spot rusts pretty badly. To fix it you have to remove the engine, transmission, and rear suspension, cut out the rusted bit, weld in a new piece (with a weep hole this time!) and then put it all back together. If this has already been done, the car is a delight. If it hasn’t, it’s quite a bit of work to fix.
I just bought a Saturn Sky Redline. After a downloaded tune, it’s around 310 HP and only 3k lbs. Big fat tires, 4 wheel independent suspension, effective brakes, and a 5 speed autobox trans. It’s pretty fun, so far and it gets low 20’s mpg. I will save enough to pay for it in three years, compared to the Trailblazer ss, just in fuel costs. I’m enjoying it, except for the cramped quarters. It’s faster than the 2002 z28 I have and more comfortable.
I’m continuously astounded at how long the algo-traders can sustain the current short squeeze.
Total number of shorts on the market is at an all time low.
The aide waved the campaign’s social media influencers into the room, grimacing as they fell over each other like puppies: eager, bright, blonde, and prone to pissing when excited. They gripped their phones and tossed their hair about trying to take the perfect selfie.
I love this paragraph.
Are Kamala’s social media team in this scenario from Cali or DC? Because bright, blonde, high-heel-wearing does not describe what you see on Capitol Hill.
We have hostile, abused, indifferent brown pony tails, unflattering skirts, bulky sweaters, and Aerosoles flats.
Finally
Except for the remade Pink Floyd song, I think this has potential.
Hope springs eternal. I’ve seen Lynch’s version plus the miniseries.
In the right frame of mind Lynch’s version works as long as you block out Sting.
Lynch’s version got the visual details correct.
The SciFi version got the surface plot correct, and had an excellent
ripoffhomage to The GodfatherLynch owns the visuals at this point, but the miniseries has a nice Mobius feel to it.
Those visuals look a lot like Lynch. He kind of defined what it should look like. The miniseries looked like Lawrence of Arabia.
I don’t think there’s a chance that shows up in the actual movie outside of the credits.
Most likely Hans Zimmer pseudo-music sound effects.
Wait, is that Franco?
Or again?
I have hopes that they won’t shoehorn “woke” into it but instead rely on the original text.
this
That looks great. Will it be 3 hours long or a trilogy for the first book? Is Bautista playing the Beast Rabban?
Supposedly two movies.
Shit. That story doesnt translate to film well. Wife will want to see it and I will have to sleep through it. Is this version less than six hours long?
They’ll just have a guy whispering all the background info in your head.
Yeah, having a major part of the worldbuilding being voluntary control of your endocrine system doesn’t translate to a visual medium well.
at 2:23, was that a deliberate Waste Land reference?
SF, great stuff as usual. Fortunately and unfortunately your writing is very easy to image visually.
By the way i’m hooked on Agent Carmack. I burned through Gridlinked in about 2 days an have the next two novel in the mail.
Awesome! I’m glad you like it. Asher is my favorite author to turn people onto.
Where should I start with Asher?
Gridlinked, the first Agent Cormac novel, is a good place to start. There are 5 novels total in the series. The story arcs can be read independently from the Polity Universe as a whole.
Gridlinked was his first novel. It’s a bit clunky but the world building is great.
Thread about Asher from last month’s What Are We Reading:
https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/08/what-are-we-reading-august-2020/#comment-1659397
I’m still trying to figure out how he will justify bringing back one of the largest and fiery characters in the later books.
I’ve discovered Orange County’s library sucks. I searched for some of the books from what we are reading and over half are unavailable, including works by Asher. TBF I didn’t go in person and ask a librarian so it maybe just their online search function sucks.
See if you can access their Interlibrary Loan system. They will order it from another library for you.
Or send in a request for the books themselves. Collection Development in public libraries are often out-sourced at this point, and knowing that a taxpayer wants some specific, in print, and cheap, they will often just buy it and put you first on the reserve list.
Good advice. Thank you.
What SF said. In my anecdotal experience the Sarasota and Leon County systems were both Johnny-on-the-spot about procuring things from other branches and systems in the State. Leon County would even lend 16mm projectors and films from the Florida State Archives.
I heard Billy Ocean interviewed on BBC local radio this afternoon. The presenter tried to tie in his new album as a part of the BLM movement and was falling over himself to say how “good” BLM is, and Billy was like “no, that’s just a coincidence… it used to be ‘whatever whatever’ then it was ‘I’m black and proud’ and now it’s ‘black lives matter. All lives matter“, and was somewhat critical of what BLM has become, going on to say that if black people had their own strong economy, “like the asians, or the europeans, or whoever”, etc etc, which I felt was kind of reminiscent of Larry Fishburne’s stirring speech in Boys ‘N’ Tha Hood. Anyway, separate economies aside, he seemed pretty in tune with the fact that BLM is bullshit, and productive and free exchange of goods and services is good. I felt somewhat uplifted to hear someone as legendary as Billy Ocean make some sense.
They shut down the interview and went to a jingle pretty quick after that. I wish I could find a clip but they don’t have it up, and I don’t imagine they will.
Here is some Billy Ocean to celebrate the little rays of sunshine and common sense he brought to my afternoon. That performance is from ’97, and he hasn’t aged a day since.
ps – it looks like they accidentally go to the wrong camera at 1:44, lol
Billy Ocean unfortunately gets tagged as a two or three hit wonder and that’s pretty much all that gets played, but he’s pretty good. Not that his megahits are bad either.
He’s from Trinidad. I imagine that had an impact on his work ethic. All the people I’ve met from there in the US have always had some kind of gig going on.
A black man whose opinions weren’t vetted by well-off white feminists? CANCEL HIM.
Ha I either forgot or did not know that was his song. These guys eighties’ed the shit out of it.
This Friday, Saraspa Rod and Gun Club (Greenfiled Center, NY) will be holding a free Steel Challenge shoot from 14:00 to dusk. Donations will be accepted and given to the “Tunnel to Towers Foundation,” whoever they are.
can I borrow a gun? I cant bring one on the plane.
Of course. But you can totally fly with guns in the US, you just have to declare it in your checked luggage, and never land in NYC.
Tunnel to Towers is a 9/11 related charity.
My heart says “yes”. Google Maps says “no”.
How much lube should I bring, for when the NY pigs catch me with a 23-rd. magazine?
You don’t have a Production or Limited 10 setup?
Not one with pinned magazines.
I could shoot my Glock 48, I guess. I could also show up on a moped.
I wouldn’t advise the latter, the road to the pits isn’t paved.
It occurs to me that if it takes:
CZ75, Beretta 92 or Glock mags, I actually have piles of NY legal versions of those. Also AR mags, but those aren’t appropriate for steel.
Ben Sasse says something useful for the first time ever, calling for a repeal of the 17th Amendment and a restoration of state legislators selecting senators.
Sasse a is a moron if he thinks repealing 17A would do that or fix things. It was a lagging indicator, as was 19A. Repealing it means states can and probably would still use elections to select their senators, with a rubber stamp from the legislature. Thanks to Reynolds v. Sims in the intervening years, legislatures are not bastions against populism either.
I still don’t understand how the U.S. Senate is perfectly cromulent but a state legislature similarly organized was a blatant 14th Amendment violation that had to be stamped out even if it somehow meant the U.S. Supreme Court could rewrite nearly every state’s constitution by fiat. Also, apparently, it took 100 years for anybody to understand that this is what the 14th Amendment meant even though the people who wrote and passed the damn amendment intended no such thing.
Legislative intent? The legislators have no right to tell the judges what the meant. The Judges will tell the legislators what they meant.
Critical legal theory in a nutshell.
PROGRESS man! PROGRESS! Like as Progressives decide it is.
What’s up glibs? State is on fire, and surprisingly antifa isn’t to blame.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhfHad-UcAE0VYm?format=jpg&name=medium
https://twitter.com/NOAASatellitePA/status/1303679122967728129?s=20
Power and internet just came back on after being off since yesterday morning due to fire danger. Generator was humming until late last night when it wouldn’t stay running. Worked on it this morning when there was light and turned out to be a bad electric start battery. Operating circuit apparently goes through it and was killing the spark circuit. Of course the “battery store” doesn’t have the exact replacement and new one didn’t fit in the housing. Grrr… We still have our house and land, so we are blessed. Just smoke and ash like Mt St Helens and a flamingo pink sun.
Stay safe!
Thanks! Main fires are well away from us. Had a brush fire three miles away down at the end of the road yesterday afternoon but the RFD got it extinguished with maybe an acre or two burned.
So one problem that could possibly solve their other problems?
When did the fires in Oregon become a thing? In California, sure. I always thought Oregon was a Northern state where it always rains. At least that’s how my only weekend there looked like.
Hope the fire is contained before it gets anywhere close to you.
The rainy parts of Oregon and Washington have a dry season, and I think they’re in the middle of it. I remember on one of my trips to Seattle during the dry season noting brown lawns.
There is also a rain shadow effect from the mountains.
Yeah, when the local eco-system is used to nearly daily rain, it doesn’t take but 8 or 10 straight dry days to turn a lot of stuff into tinder.
Yeah. Very dry summers.
Forest fires were really bad in the 1930’s and sporadically afterwards. It goes through cycles.
Masked today, masked tomorrow, masked forever
Vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris said late last month that a nationwide mask requirement would be one of the administration’s first orders of business if successful in ousting Trump.
In that same NBC “Today” show interview, however, Harris (D-Calif.) said, “It’s a standard. I mean, nobody’s going to be punished,” when she was asked how the order would be enforced.
“Nobody likes to wear a mask, this is a universal feeling, right? So, that’s not the point,” she said.
“The point is this is what we as responsible people who love our neighbor, we have to just do that right now. God willing, it won’t be forever.”
You’d have to stop making shit up, for that to happen.
So, get comfortable, everybody. Pick a snazzy pattern. We’re all in this together; for the loooong haul.
?
Unless they turn off your electric and then decide to starve you into compliance by cutting off all your credit and bank accounts. I mean, no one from California would ever think up stuff like that, so we’re safe. Anyway, Joe has got it all under control, it’s not just like he’s going to let a bunch of starry eyed far left power hungry tyrant wannabes roll over him. No siree, not on his watch, he’s sleeping with one eye open and he’s focused like a laser. Nothing to worry about here.
Harris and Biden need to coordiante their talking points.
She knows damn well how the law is enforced. The double-talk is in full force. The Democrats simultaneously want to pass a bunch of new laws and also pretend that a cop holding a gun to your face is not how those same laws get enforced at the edges of society. Only racist cops ever shoot anyone, and the only people who get shot or threatened are black, and as long as don’t look too deeply at anything that makes some kind of sense.
I don’t love my neighbor, nor am I responsible for them, and I have no desire whatsoever to be a good citizen. Go fuck yourself, Kammy.
So we’re going to need mask mandate starting in four months? No matter what the ‘Vid actually does?
It’s not supposed to make sense. It’s supposed to get you talking about covid again rather than the riots.
Mask mandates have no effect on the virus. Their role is to reinforce the mass psychosis among the public.
And seatbelt laws will never be an excuse to pull someone over.
And Social Security Numbers will never be used for identification purposes.
And the federal income tax will only be a tiny tax on huge incomes.
stealing!
One more good reason not to vote for Biden.
State is on fire
It surprises me to see the smoke going from east to west.
Totally abnormal. That’s part of why the fires took off. Desert low humidity being fanned by winter storm/hurricane force wind gusts. Those have died down, humidity has gone back up, and wind pattern is more scattered and trending towards normal.
Related. Environmental Quality was warning people about the unhealthy air (duh) and stressed that facemasks can’t protect you unless they’re N95. And those are in short supply still so don’t use them. Sounded familiar… anyways, procedure masks work just fine to provide a certain measure of relief. The Japanese ones are stated to be good for PM2.5 particulate and definitely blocks ash chunks.
Why did I envision whole segments of ash trees floating on the air and striking people in the face?
Chinese Ash Borers?
Chinese Ass Borers 3 was probably the best one.
Oh, ASH borers. Never mind.
nobody’s going to be punished
Not if they OBEY, anyway.
CNN photoshopped out a Redskins logo on an old photo of Biden and his kid:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=390099
Not that big of a deal I suppose but it’s definitely water carrying.
Is that the dead one, or the crooked one?
Correction – according to CNN, Biden’s campaign did that themselves, which is hilarious.
The double-talk is in full force. The Democrats simultaneously want to pass a bunch of new laws and also pretend that a cop holding a gun to your face is not how those same laws get enforced at the edges of society.
This just exposes the depth and breadth of heir mendacity.
The
single
best
law
enforcement
reform
is to stop making everything under the sun illegal. But they don’t actually care about reform. They just want kontrolle.
OT: I am very likely the victim of identity theft. This week one credit card company told me a new credit card application was received from me (it wasn’t) and the Employment Development Department sent my employer (me) a letter requesting information related to my claim for unemployment benefits due to be stricken with Covid-19 (I’m self-employed, never filed a claim, and healthy). I have already locked down my credit. EDD is getting a letter telling them this is a fraudulent claim. Any other advice from the Glib hive mind on what to do?
Contact your bank, change your passwords, consider credit monitoring.
Oh, and contact Five Oh….I know, some sort of law enforcement might be in order here.
Will do. I’m waiting to receive a copy of the fraudulent credit card application. They will only send it by mail.
Thanks. Any recommendations for a credit monitoring service?
Contact the three major credit ratings firms and freeze your credit. Do it now.
Equifax
Equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services
800-685-1111
Experian
Experian.com/help
888-EXPERIAN (888-397-3742)
Transunion
TransUnion.com/credit-help
888-909-8872
Thanks Scruffy. I already did.
And definitely talk to your bank.
I read in the news
Sigh. premature post.
…about a spate of erroneous EDD notices in CA. Don’t know if #1 is connected.
e.g.: https://www.cbs8.com/mobile/article/news/local/unsolicited-edd-letters-arriving-at-wrong-addresses-unemployment-california/509-6478510b-415e-4311-8ab0-048774d6432d
I hadn’t heard about that. Thanks Toxteth.
Well, you can’t control every avenue by which someone can piece together enough of your ID to impersonate you and trick others into giving them stuff (credit cards, UI), but you can certainly review some of the things you’re doing.
If you haven’t already, invest in a decent paper shredder (one that cross-cuts and creates “confetti”); nothing with any identifying info (either about us or any financial firm we deal with) leaves the house unshredded. We even shred “branded” envelopes, since a miscreant can infer that you deal with so-and-so bank by seeing the bank’s envelope in your garbage. If in doubt, shred that puppy.
I don’t wanna sound like an ad for them, but AMEX has invested a metric shit-ton of time and money building expert systems that watch your credit usage patterns and flagging stuff that’s at all unusual; I once got an SMS from AMEX about 60 seconds after someone tried to use my number to buy some gift certificates on Amazon, asking me to phone them at once and verify. When I said it wasn’t me, they cancelled and re-issued the card pretty much instantly, and of course denied the transaction. Colour me impressed. None of my other cards can come anywhere close to that level of service, and unsurprisingly, I hardly use any of ’em anymore unless the vendor I’m dealing with doesn’t take AMEX. (Bonus: your AMEX points can now be used on Amazon to buy stuff, and there’s no restrictions — your points are cash on Amazon).
Which brings me to a related point — if you have a lot of credit cards, winnow ’em down into a few nice ones, and get rid of the rest. The extra exposure to potential fraud, not to mention the complexity of monitoring all of them, isn’t worth the increase in convenience, IMNSHO. I have one Visa, one Mastercard and my AMEX, as well as the (for Canadians) near-ubiquitous debit card.
And BTW, you might be able to get some credit monitoring for free. Turns out a lot of big retailers have had data breaches over the last few years, and as partial mea culpas have told their customers that they can get free credit monitoring for a period of time (one to five years, depending) paid for by those same retailers. Might be worth looking into (we’ve got a monitoring deal through Home Depot because of some massive data breach a couple of years ago).
Good luck. I’ve had my identity stolen once when I was much younger, and although it hasn’t affected me for decades, there’s still the occasional contact or reminder from various financial entities that ask me to explain that curious incident almost 40 years ago. It’s amazing how long they hold on to useless info.
Chase and Citi are fairly aggressive in monitoring fraud. Particularly Chase.
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I had no idea. I have like a thousand “reward dollars” sitting around, if that is the same thing.
I have Chase too. Agree that both seem pretty good on this stuff.
Uh-oh – THIS time Schiff totally has the goods on Trump!
Look, i get where hes’ coming from. I don’t get how after 4 years of this exact same charade by the dems you still get people saying this:
https://twitter.com/ViewsPlusNews/status/1303763533679583232
Since Congress is on recess until the election, when is Schiff going to hold his secret hearings on this one?
A lot of well-adjusted, reality-dwelling people in that thread.
No, wait. Scratch that. Reverse it.
Completely unsubstantiated unverifiable claim made two months before the election by a known lying shitweasel. Quelle surprise.
What a COINCIDENCE – this whistleblower has the same attorney as he-who-must-not-be-named!
Holy crap, are mortgage rates low. We’re going to refi after all, once I heard we could get a 2.25% rate. With the lower principal (7 years into a 15 year loan) and the lower rate, we’ll save $1600/month on our mortgage. Since I’ll pay it off with a lump sum in 2027 regardless, I don’t mind the starting over on a new 15 year mortgage.
We refied towards the end of last year, and did pretty good….but damn I’m kicking myself now.
Same here.
1600/ month, what is your rate now???
3.325%. A big chunk of the savings comes from the lower principal that will be financed.