Lazy Sunday morning and it’s almost tolerable outside. So I’m sitting on the back porch, drinking coffee, getting ready for my regular weekend morning hike, and trying to not wake the neighbors with my laughing as I read through the news in search of the outré and grotesque. There was a pack of coyotes earlier, all chased off when they got a sight and whiff of Wonder Dog, Vanquisher of Canids.
Many interesting and assorted birthdays including a famous villager; a guy who could always catch up; proof that even a great president can make shit judicial appointments; the woman who paved the way for Nancy Reagan and Michelle Obama to fuck things up without being elected; one of the very few exceptions to the rule that drummers make shitty bandleaders; a guy who did follow that rule (but was still a brilliant drummer); a contestant for the dumbest senator, amidst incredible competition; one of the very best baseball play by play announcers EVER; a comic actor whose style I admire; and an amazingly fun-to-watch linebacker from the days when the NFL was actually about football (mostly).
News, yes, let’s do that.
C’mon, it’s not like it’s a MAGA mural.
Wait, are they re-running a four year story?
I detect the fine hand of STEVE SMITH.
“I have a good mind to send a sternly-worded letter!”
Something tells me that this will die down by winter.
Old Guy Music is just something I ran across yesterday that amused me.
Morning all.
Talked to a person last night who was ranting about how Trump endangered 2000 people with his rally yesterday.
I left before I said something that would start a fight, like “people have the capacity to make their own decisions concerning tolerable levels of risk.”
I would argue that we need the people who make mistakes in order to refine the gene pool further.
Darwin can’t do his work otherwise.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0535/6917/products/mistakesdemotivator_grande.jpeg?v=1554328460
All elected officials have the capacity to make decisions for everyone
I would have agreed by saying “ yeah, only BLM protests are safe”.
They were drunk and loud. It would have been pointless.
If I had really wanted to get things going, I would have pointed out that perhaps someone who is chugging vodka while wearing an insulin pump on their arm isn’t that capable of evaluating actual risk levels.
OFFS!
I mean really. Vodka? Is he a teenage girl?
Obviously a Russian bot.
Middle aged female
Yeah, well it’s gonna sound pretty shitty if they don’t follow the drummer while they’re playing, now isn’t it? ::crosses arms, pouts::
Now see, this is whatI always wondered when my mom always yelled at me to follow the chorister, who was in charge. “But people actually follow the piano, Mom.”
I was rocking out this song last night, which was written as a tribute to Charlie Parker with an ornithological theme / title. It’s an unlikely pairing of musicians that sound good together.
https://youtu.be/D2VUSqq3jls?t=796
Very cool! Thanks!
The gift that keeps on giving and won’t stop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54436575
Hard pass.
Flaccid pass too.
“The cage wirelessly connects to a smartphone via a Bluetooth signal, which is used to trigger the device’s lock-and-clamp mechanism.
But to achieve this, the software relies on sending commands to a computer server used by the manufacturer.”
What could possibly go wrong?
If Commie-La wins, all white males will be issued these after having their firearms confiscated.
But how do you get it into that tiny cup? (Obviously a Chinese model, right?)
Just what are the mechanical aspects of Jewish conspiracy? I’m curious.
Morning OMWC, how was the morning walk? I’ve moved inside to the treadmill and listening to some country tunes on the tune box. Low 40s in the morning but getting cooler (colder?) in a couple days.
The birds have mostly left for sunnier climes so not many bird songs left in the real world.
but the Color is nice, howdy 4×20!
Just on my way out. 70 degrees, sun barely coming out, dry as a bone. Hour Two will be less comfortable.
Good Morming Everybody! another nice day in the works, go have some fun!
Hey yusef! Did you pick up a snowbrush/ice scraper to keep in your car? You’re going to want one.
Oh yeah. Being a local means forgetting that those from southern climes aren’t used to that.
This shit is never going to end, is it?
November 5.
The problem with a possible Harris-Biden administration calling off their minions is that we’re left with a Harris-Biden administration.
Biden is a minion with Alzheimer’s, Harris is an ordinary minion. If we’ve learned anything in the last four years we’ve learned that the Executive Branch is not really run by the person elected to do it.
Well, if I didn’t want to go to class and could find an untraceable e-mail addy…
Not until ZARDOZ rises to power.
The Denver shooting really bothers me. The level of violence these people are agitating for is not acceptable. How do we reverse this course?
We do not. The least unpalatable solution is to outsource our side of the violence to local cops, which, frankly, they don’t seem interested in doing.
I’m not an optimist like OMWC. I don’t think this vaporizes overnight once Biden is elected.
Denver shooting? Sorry, I’m losing track.
Conservative gathering. News reporter’s hired security wound up shooting an attendee. Apparently mace and 2 guns were involved but there have been little details. Also of note there was a counter protest in the area.
Security guy was literally a Pinkerton.
I thought that the shooter turned out to be a Pinkerton security agent for local media?
“TV crew’s Pinkerton security guard shoots ‘Patriot Muster’ protester dead after he fired mace at him amid angry clashes between BLM and right wing demonstrators in Denver”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8827241/Protester-shot-seriously-injured-Denver-demonstration.html
I enjoy hearing Jon Miller call a baseball game.
Chris Spielman was my favorite NFL linebacker.
Already walked the dog, hung the spare tire back under the truck and put winter wiper blades on. Now it’s really ready for winter.
All these euphemisms…
I just hope that none of that involved wireless devices from China, if you get my drift.
It’s supposed to get up to 94 here today. Fuck that bullshit. I’m almost about to move north just because of today… A “hot” day in October is like 88. 94 is fucking summer weather.
Unless we sink into the teens or something – fairly rare here – I am now in the happy position to not need to bitch about the weather for the next six or seven months. ?
While not quite north, VA anxiously awaits your return. Leave your icky guns behind, shitlord.
https://kyrnews.com/if-we-do-not-win-in-pennsylvania-we-are-so-screwed-biden-insider-says/
“Prepare to get screwed.”
-Love, PA
Can’t copy the text, but this was clearly written by a non-English-speaking writer. “All summer time lengthy….path to the White Home.”
How many times was that article run through Google Translate? Yikes.
All summer time lenghty, Joe Biden surrogates in Pennsylvania lived in worry of a rerun of 2016’s Nightmare on Election Evening, when the Democratic candidate for president, after main within the polls for weeks, misplaced the state to Donald Trump by lower than one proportion level, clearing his path to the White House.
Was this ran through google translate a few time?
Damn it, refresh Hype, in my defense I had to write out the quote, no copy paste.
I pray nobody links them again – what a dumpster fire.
Still better than BBC pidgin. ?
“We’ll in all probability win right here, But when we do not, we’re so screwed.”
Then stock up on lube.
Philly election officials will be working overtime to generate extra ballots.
So they will do the kindly?
Enthusiasm.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/miami-pd-estimates-30000-cars-participated-anti-communist-latinos-trump-caravan-south-florida-video/
I see things like this and can’t imagine how Biden can possibly win.
I have multiple money bets that Biden will indeed win.
Enthusiastic votes count the same as “I’m tired of all this noise” votes.
Yup. Biden is consistently outpolling trump. Anyone hoping for a repeat of 2016 forgets how hated Hillary was.
LALALALALALALALA…. I CAN’T HEAR YOU
In 2016 Hillary vastly outspent Trump and he still beat her. Now we’re going to find out if he can beat someone that’s hardly trying. Trumps message is “America is great” and Bidens message is “if you don’t vote for me you’re dead to me”. It should not actually be close.
“Build Back Better” is pretty bad.
How ’bout “Better Believe Biden & the Witch Be Buildin’ Back Better”
Build back together that stuff we broke through direct action or by standing by and letting rioters at it!
It’s a nice neighborhood. Be a shame if something were to “happen” to it.
Oh yeah? Well, Hitler talked about how great Germany was! How’d that work out!?11!1!1111
Worst presidential campaign in history, a senile old guy who can barely try, cannot remember anything from yesterday, gaffes galore, some of them serious and not just funny, and a VP who everyone hates. Compared to a guy with more enthusiasm than Obama had in his first term.
Trump is going to win and there won’t be enough ballot box cheating to make up the difference.
“a senile old guy who can barely try, cannot remember anything from yesterday, gaffes galore, some of them serious and not just funny”
People who get their news from MSM aren’t seeing that though.
Shy Tory+deliberate slant equals a Trump popular vote loss and electoral college win once again. Thank God we’ll know one way or the other in less than a month whatever the outcome is.
Honestly, I don’t really care. Eventually team blue and the zealots will get control of the govt be it this election or the next. Going to hell in a hand basket at 70 mph or 110mph doesn’t really matter.
You’re correct but I see it like death: Inevitable but I want to delay it as long as possible.
Thinking that you can vote your way out of a problem that was created by democracy is like drinking Vodka to cure your alcoholism. Delay if you want, but it means other, more effective options are being overlooked. *No Mr. Fed monitor, I’m not talking violence*.
Do you have any ideas as to “other, more effective options”?
You’re preaching to the choir re democracy Straff but I’m interested in a short term delaying action for the time being. Now that people have weaponized the fact that a democratic system allows people to vote themselves other people’s wealth were most assuredly fucked.
Yes. Agorism. Off the gridism. Do everything in your power to plant the seeds in people’s minds to live a life as disconnected from the govt and it’s corporate/media allies. Creating black market is the only way to avoid a bullet war. Right now too many people are dependent on the govt for survival directly or indirectly. Let’s get the dependent on a system that the govt hates.
If you’re stuck living here, it matters. Also matters for everyone when insane dems start WWIII.
“Biden is consistently outpolling trump.”
At this point, I’m shocked anyone believes the polls.
Trump was so hated that Gary Johnson went from a million votes in 2012 to 4.5 million in 2016, and some unknown putz named McMullin got 800,000 votes simply by shrieking “I’m not Trump!” Neither of them are running this time. Jo’s going to get the same million or so that voted for GayJay in 2012, and the rest will go to the guy who didn’t start any new wars, is bringing troops home, is lowering taxes, is cutting regulations, and is driving the left insane.
“I have multiple money bets that Biden will indeed win.”
No offense, but I hope you lose.
I mean, not a great bet. What value will money have if the Dems take control? (As opposed to the slower collapse of the economy offered by Trump.)
My money has still been on Trump because of the “meep meep” factor. Dude is straight up Road Runner over every single crafty scheme the coyotes come up with. Do I know exactly how, despite standing on a giant “X” surrounded by acme missiles, it’s going to be turned on the Dems? Nope. I just know it happens. (I mean, I have some theories, but I’ll wait for evidence)
If there was that kind of turnout for Biden you would see it on all the networks non-stop. But because it doesn’t help them you don’t see a word about it.
Some thoughts regarding the Denver thing: So of course the first thing in the news headlines was like “…shooter was not affiliated with Antifa…”. Totally credulous and delivered with no sense of irony. But you know how some of the riots have evolved to having “approved” media…
What do you think is the likelihood that the media element had been in contact with the lefty organizers (prog/Antifa/whatever) to be on the “approved” list before showing up?
What do you think is the likelihood that the “private security contractor” was actually commercially functioning in that role 2, 6, or 10 months ago, versus being a heavy in the proggie club with a history of participation in the riots, and hooked up via that contact?
If he does have a history as a participant, do you think that’ll be reported, or will it still be straight-facedly “he’s a private security contractor for a news station – nothing to see here”?
And it will be interesting to see what the elevation of the conflict actually looked like.
From a cursory look at the photos, which is all I need to make a final armchair judgement of course, it appears that the shooter had plenty of room to retreat. He’s toast.
https://mobile.twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1315188453240233986
This will be memory holed quickly and not reported as representative of a larger trend in American society.
That doesn’t necessarily mean Antifa but it wouldn’t surprise me at all given this. There’s definitely some overlap on the Venn diagram as far as ideology goes.
“The shooter is an Antifa.
Getty images – Matthew Doloff carries an American Flag during Occupy Protests”
Just because someone was at an occupy protest doesn’t make them antifa. Also, why would an an antifa carry an American flag?
Looks more like a Berniebro type…some overlap but not necessarily the same thing.
I though he was a Pinkerton, sure he could have been a antifa guy who just happened to be hired by the Pinkertons but being that the news station hired out through a legitimate security company the no-relation to antifa seems plausible.
Wait, was he hired by the news as security?
That is my understanding.
Antifa is an idea, do you think the background check for security checks ideas?
Checkmate conservatard.
From what I read the police stated that the two were engaged in a verbal confrontation – which is exactly what professional security is not supposed to do. Had he been working as security there should have been no reason he got into something which escalated to the other guy pulling pepper spray on him.
He was either just some dude posing as security or he was criminally undertrained for the role.
^ This. In the pics and video I have seen I do not see a news crew that this supposed security was protecting. I got money on he is antifa posing as security. The Pinkertons may have shitty back ground check procedures and never looked into maybe the guy was a violent protestor in the past. Either way, shooting someone in the face for spraying mace in the air is going to be hard to defend.
He was just an idea, let him go!
Am I seeing the timeline correct: verbal confrontation…security guy trys to take mace, mace guy slaps security, security pulls firearm, mace guy maces security, mace guy face shot by security.
Seems that way. Security guy is screwed. Responding to mace with a bullet when you have room to retreat probably isn’t going to fly as a defense.
Especially if the escalation from verbal diarrhea to physcial was initated by the security guard. Looking at some of the footage, there are large amounts of LEO and I think national guard 100′ away.
Looks like the blue shirt guy immediately behind the security guard is the news producer. That may be why the security guard didn’t immediately retreat.
The police initially arrested the tv news station’s producer as well. There’s an earlier twitter video that looks like the police had two men together.
The “shooter is not antifa” is likely because the initial reports incorrectly said it was a antifa/whoever they were confrontation. 9News said the shooter was their contract security guard.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/10/denver-protests-saturday-civic-center-park/
“Olivia Munn shows off massive bruise along her left thigh as a result of her intense fight training in recent weeks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8827763/Olivia-Munn-shows-massive-bruise-left-thigh-result-intense-fight-training.html
I don’t remember her being in X-Men. Then again, most super hero movies cause amnesia.
She was Psylocke in Age of Apocalypse.
Maybe I didn’t see that one?
It showed off both of her…talents.
Nice.
I think it was just called X-Men: Apocalypse, at least in the UK. I hope it was better than Dark Phoenix. That was disappointing.
It was not.
“Biden says ‘the only way’ he can lose in November is through ‘chicanery’ at the polls and accuses Trump of ‘putting people with rifles in polling places’ – increasing fears that NEITHER side will accept an election defeat”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8827729/Biden-says-way-lose-election-chicanery.html
Not this shit again.
Malarkey.
“Stimulus talks stall AGAIN as Pelosi rejects Trump’s new $1.8trillion proposal as ‘insufficient’ while Republicans slam it as too expensive”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8826911/Trumps-stimulus-proposal-draws-opposition-congressional-Democrats-Republicans.html
I’m not sure what to think about this. I’m against government spending, but I’m also against government shutting down businesses in the first place.
The proper answer is to take the boot off the neck of the economy.
How do we manage that without shooting the Commies wearing the boots?
I don’t see how either. Seems it will be inevitable.
This is the obvious solution but if government is forcing you to keep your business closed/not go to work they need to compensate you to some degree. Forcing people to stay home without compensation is insanity.
The difference between this compared to the Soviet famine or the killing fields, is only a matter of degree. It’s government killing people, it’s a start.
When productivity suffers, it’s not going to matter. All the printed money in the world can’t offset a loss of supply.
I agree but people need relief now, we can jump off that other bridge when we get to it.
It’s never going to end with Nancy offering up one bill after another larded up with progressive wish-list and election-stealing nonsense.
They need to bail out the bluestates
The Republicans wouldn’t sign this Bi-Partisan Bill to end the epidemic!
*Reads fine print*
-Republicans any party other than the Democrat party are hereby outlawed, anyone who doesn’t agree the Party will be subject to summary execution.
That’s crazy-talk.
“Donald Trump ‘is furious’ after Kim Jong Un unveiled ‘monster’ ICBM that ‘could hit ANYWHERE in US’ and new submarine launched missile – which show he was building powerful weapons while talking peace
President Donald Trump has reportedly expressed his fury over what appear to be sophisticated new missiles unveiled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a military parade on Saturday.
‘Trump is really angry about [North Korea’s] missile parade’ and is ‘really disappointed’ in Kim after fruitless peace talks, an unnamed source told Vox national security reporter Alex Ward.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8827513/Donald-Trump-furious-Kim-Jong-unveils-massive-ICBM.html
An unnamed source told Vox? Journalists are the retarded kids of the school playground.
I don’t know what’s dumber in that, Korean missiles that won’t work, or Vox.
“what appear to be sophisticated new missiles”
Furious is probably an overstatement but I doubt he’s happy about it.
And he never got his Big Mac while he was over there either.
They had a sub in a military parade?
The subtext being Trump is stupid for trying to make peace. He should have continued the same policy that failed to stop Kim from getting nuclear weapons in the first place.
He should have at least sent a few dump truck’s full of dollars to Kim. That works every time.
It’s also Kim reacting to the possibility of a Biden victory. The Dems aren’t interested in negotiating with him, he’s aware, and this is a show of capability for preemption.
Nobody cares! Assuming NK could even make a decent missile I’d be surprised if they could make more than a dozen, and they’d never be dumb enough to send them anywhere that might start a war.
Kim Jong-un says socialism saved North Korea from Covid-19, with not a single person infected — RT World News
https://twitter.com/Praveen_K_Kumar/status/1314927096985124865
kim 1 trump -200000
“We’ve got the emails”
What about the pee tapes?
Asking for a friend?
What’s going to be in the emails that couldn’t be spun by the media into something harmless? I’m not holding out any hope. Remember Durham and his nasty ol’ goatee that was gonna lock everybody up?
There won’t be anything and even if there is, it doesn’t matter at this point and won’t affect voting.
Trump fucked up by not declassifying this shit two years when all of this stuff was at its height. No one really gives a shit now.
As much as I hate to say it but what difference, at this point, does it make?
The evidence that I know about shows the attack on Benghazi had to be state sponsored which points to not only a small handful of countries that would do that but is clearly due to the state department’s complete lack of on-line security which told them who would be there at that time. It’s an ugly truth but I don’t see anybody doing anything about it so far down the road.
It just reminds you that some people get away with crimes every day and others get busted quick. You gotta have the right friends.
Bomb threat.
https://twitter.com/SirCamCarter/status/1314675341168910337
LOL.
That actually happened at my work too. A co-worker announced over the PA that another co-worker had made the same “threat.
LOLOL
Reminds me of this guy
https://youtu.be/X9yX4wpAAbQ
Jim Brewer threatens to blow op his own Sears.
Long live paint!!!!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24obmm
That. is. awesome.
Florida Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdntHAhTv0
h/t Scruffy
Needs more cowbell!
You can skip to the 1:10 or so mark and see the stupid look on Hickenlooper’s face.
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1314727239431401472
How can you not look stupid when your name is Lickenpooper. Duh, muh name is Lickenpooper and I’m runnin for tah president, durrrr!!!! /juvenile
Notice the subtle shift of rhetoric that filling vacancies is “packing the courts”. Bidens team has him spinning that line and Dem foot soldiers are flooding the socials that the Republicans already packed the courts and “it needs to be balanced!”
Yep, saw that line making its way through blue checkmark twitter this morning. Tom Brokaw maybe?
Aaaah, as the Potato pointed out below it was Rather.
?
Jon Miller is second only to Eric Nadel.
“What’s the first species humans drove to extinction?”
We can just hope that ‘journalists’ are next.
“Update Matthew Doloff has been charged with first degree murder. He was there as security for @9NEWS
, but social media activity suggests Denver police’s tweet that he had no other affiliation was premature. That obviously raises questions about @9NEWS
’ vetting.”
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1315288356859916288
“With lightning speed, the Associated Press adopts Democrats’ language on SCOTUS: adding members is now “depoliticizing” the court, only “critics” refer to it as “packing.””
https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1315254934812659712
TMITE
Just basically said the same thing up thread
That guy was just an idea, let him go!
Needs a bump up a notch, edit fairy.
“Republicans / conservatives have so deeply internalized the idea that they have some God-given right to pack the courts with their ideological partisans, they have convinced themselves, and frankly the media, that undoing their obsessive court packing is what’s “radical.””
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1315132240871985158
OFFS!!
Yep that went into full swing with the media and dems using the same “logic” and rhetoric.
It allows dem candidates to be asked about court packing under the guise that repubs packed the courts when they filled vacancies. It is propaganda, it is evil.
People just refuse to see that happening.
Turtles migrate in the Everglades? Again, huh. I daren’t google that acronym incase it’s a wHiTe SuPrEmAcIsT thing.
They can use whatever terminology they wish but the fact remains that once they start adding justices the nation is done and states will start peeling off (which is actually fine with me, we need a national divorce).
“Can we at least recognize that “Court Packing” at all levels of the judiciary has been the Republican playbook for decades? Asking for Merrick Garland.”
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1315098585470386177
They move like a school of fish.
I’m having trouble keeping up with all the aquatic fauna.
Has wikipedia already been edited?
Probably.
I’m going to stop calling it packing the court and start calling it further deligitimizing the court.
I suppose it escapes him that Garland’s nomination was basically the same thing as what the Reps are about do here only they have the means to do it? Actually it doesn’t, he knows exactly what he’s doing.
The president who nominated Garland Wasn’t Even Up For Re-election. Even if the Dem candidate won, it wouldn’t have been Her choice.
We all know that the Dem’s have a lot of experience packing! They have parades about it!
Biden just endorsed Trump.
My favorite recent Biden moment – lowering his face mask to cough in his hand, because he trusts SCIENCE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8svZ_FZ5tU
He just didn’t want to be stuck smelling his Alzheimer phlegm for the rest of the day.
“This Is What The Northern Lights Look Like From Inside a U-2 “Dragon Lady” Spyplane”
https://theaviationist.com/2018/03/07/this-is-what-the-northern-lights-look-like-from-inside-a-u-2-dragon-lady-spyplane/
Woah.
1. That looks the same, but closer.
2. We still use the U2?
Yes we do use them. A lot.
I would have thought those drones we spend all the money on would have taken their place. What, with not having to take a meatbag’s vulnerabilities into consideration.
Skirting airspace in the U2 nowadays is more a show I would suspect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72
You’re not wrong!
Apparently so:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/lockheed-martin’s-u-2-dragon-lady-getting-upgrade-future-battlefields-146482
Surprised me too…
SR71 has been retired for over twenty years. 🙁
F-117 has been “retired” for 15ish years and they still fly out on the range.
Huzzah! I still have a soft spot for that ugly beast.
Nicked named the Wobblin Goblin for a reason.
I wouldn’t be surprised that they are able to keep the that aircraft flying for a fraction of what it would keep to keep the SR71 flying.
The thing awesome, but you may as well just take piles of $100 bills and burn them instead of the all the specialized materials and fuels.
Seriously even the Buick motor in the starter cart is a PITA to get parts.
https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/startercart.php
odds and ends
great banjo song: Mean Mary on fast banjo – Iron Horse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNB5OLUPM0
In early GlibFit news, it seems that you can build muscle by doing many reps of light weights, but only if you do it to the point of muscle failure. It’s sort of like walking to improve your run time. That can work to the extent that walking leads to weight loss, but if you can lose weight from walking, your run time was probably not great to begin with. Anyway, all the old timey strong men got that way by lifting very heavy things.
On NPR the other day, I heard a story about the Toronto Stork Derby. Some crazy lawyer who died childless left in his will millions of dollars to whichever woman gave birth to the most kids in the 10 years following his death. There were several hopefuls, and this led to court battles about whether stillborn or illegitimate children counted. It may have been the only time in NPR’s history where they had a pro-life perspective.
***
The Great Stork Derby was a contest held from 1926 to 1936. Female residents of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for an unusual bequest in a will.[1] The race was the product of a scheme by Charles Vance Millar (1853–1926), a Toronto lawyer, financier, and practical joker, who bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in the decade following his death.[2]
It is one of many unusual bequests in the will, along with giving a vacation home in Jamaica to a group of three men who detested each other under the condition that they live in the estate together indefinitely, brewery stocks to a group of prominent teetotal Protestant ministers if they participated in its operations and collected its dividends, and jockey club stocks to a group of anti-horse-racing advocates. Litigation over the validity of the will was resolved when the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the clause’s validity.[3] The Court further held the clause did not encompass children born out of wedlock, or stillborn.[3]
***
On Meet the Press, they were huffing and puffing about the “domestic terrorists” plotting to usurp Governor Whitmer’s totally legitimate and caring attempts to protect the people of Michigan from the plague. Government good. Ungrateful, unruly subjects bad.
Thanks, geniuses.
Nothing says grlllll power! like this.
made of 20,000 organic, hand-painted tampons
Nothing accents fine dining like tampons.
Two pictures speak a 1000 words.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkAodXBXsAILang?format=jpg&name=900×900
So wrong.
But funny.
Looks exactly like my front door a few days before Brazilian guests show up at my house.
I don’t get it.
People with Parkinson’s shake.
I still don’t get it.
So it would be a bunch of clicks.
It would make more sense if all the packages were the same size.
Also anyone familiar with one-click buying knows after you click it you are sent to a “thanks for your purchase” page so multiple clicks aren’t possible. /joke pedant
Depends on when you click, and what’s sent to the server. You could easily script something to send multiple purchase requests.
/pedant
Holy fucking LOL that’s going to be sent to all my shitlord friends.
Balkan Gypsy Music – who knew it had such great beat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJEUxVGQIuk
Been reading a book called Guts by the author of the classic young adult survival novel Hatchet. It’s about a teenage boy who survives a plane crash in the wilderness after the pilot has a heart attack. Little did I know that the reason it’s such a great book is because it’s based on the author’s actual survival experiences. Gary Paulsen was racing in the Iditarod and decided to call it quits because of a fierce blizzard. A bush plane rescued him. He somehow gets all the sled dogs into the plane, and because the engine scares them, all 12 50 pound dogs hide in the tail section of the Cessna 410. So the tail sinks and the wind from the blizzard causes the plane to take off with Paulsen’s legs hanging out the plane and the door open. The pilot yells at him there’s too much weight in the tail, so Paulsen spends the rest of the 20 minute flight throwing dogs to the front, where they bite the pilot and then immediately run back. It’s just a racket of barking, swearing, and roaring the whole way. When they land, there’s blood, dog hair, and feathers, from ripped up parkas everywhere. The pilot charged him $800 and told him to get lost.
He also hates mooses. He was nearly killed by one at various times, including one which knocked him off a moving dogsled and kicked and stomped him until he stopped moving.
gypsies like all oppressed minorities have a knack for music.
What about the Tiger Lillies?
So, let’s say a nightmare scenario occurs, and Biden wins. We know he can’t go four years as POTUS. So we get Harris. How long do you think she can last as POTUS? Then we have Nancy next in line? It’s hard to imagine such a clusterfuck. Predictions? They pack the courts and get rid of the electoral college by executive order?
Harris will do just fine. Her political career indicates that she will do whatever the party leadership wants her to at any given moment.
Why else would they have chosen her for VP? Nobody else was going to be quite so compliant.
She won’t be fine, it will be one clusterfuck and scandal after another.
One unreported scandal after another.
^This, exactly. Two days of Page 2 as a fig leaf, then dismissed.
I don’t know what works you’re living in, but since when does the media or the administrative state hold Democratic administrations accountable? Particularly when those administrations are doing exactly what the various agencies tell them to, like invade some shithole country?
Good morning, Glibs.
For those who like the old school analog synth Tangerine Dream-ish sound I have two links for you:
Harald Hrosskopf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1It-MkYodM
and
Michael Hoenig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuM_vOBIc6s
*Grosskopf
Well those are trippy.
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These sound great. Will check out later.
Departure… is a superb album. Such a shame that nearly everything else he did was appallingly bad.
“Trump Is Letting Down His Side
Consider, on the other side of the ledger, how Trump, by and large, leads on the top issue of the election, the economy. Still, there has been no sustained case against Biden’s economic program. On what should be his foremost advantage, Trump has turned the famous James Carville adage on its head, “It’s everything else, stupid.”
If the time eventually comes for recriminations after a defeat in November (not a certainty, even at this late date), Trump’s hard-core supporters will have plenty of places to point — a once-in-a-century pandemic and an overwhelmingly hostile media, among other things.
Be that as it may, Trump won’t have been stabbed in the back; he will have committed a form of political hara-kiri because he found it easier and more enjoyable than exercising a modicum of self-discipline.
506
If Trump loses, the story isn’t going to be what was done to him, rather what he did to himself.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/trump-is-letting-down-his-side/
Just National Review preparing the field with I told you sos for running McCain II or Jeb Bush in 2024 if Trump loses. They’re nothing if not predictable.
He has a point though. Trump should have been much better in the debate.
Will there even be another one?
He should have but it made sense if they were trying to motivate his base who loves that kind of stuff. Trump looked like an asshole, sure, but Biden looked weak and the only thing that saved him was extremely low expectations.
Esp. coming from Lowry.
Has anyone heard from Southern? Hope he and his are all right.
Not for a few days.
I gotta say that returning to my job, even as a contract employee, was a mistake. Sure I’m getting paid double what I made as employee but it hasn’t been worth the stress.
Amusingly the two people who were the cause of my departure are staying out of my way, especially after being shut down by senior management. They are, of course, now washing their hands of the whole EDI project but there is still no plans for my replacement. Someone is going to have to handle the day-to-day support … and it sure isn’t going to be.
At least I’ll be done on Tuesday and will have made some money for our upcoming vacation to Charleston.
And today I’ll be painting the trim on the front of the house. EF keeps me busy. If I’m not the servant to the dogs, it’s something else 😉
That’s too bad. I was hoping that would work out for you.
My shocked face is getting tired.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kagan-montana-mailing-ballots-to-all-voters
Governors can suspend laws at will now. That’s comforting.
“Kagan, who has jurisdiction over the case based on geography, denied the request without referring the case to the full court.”
What?
Huh?
I gather appeals go (at least at first?) to a single justice, and which Supreme gets it depends on what state it’s coming from?
Never heard of that before though. One would think something like Dred Scott would never have come up then, as it was a territory issue.
As I recall, they don’t actually issue a ruling, they just do or don’t agree to send the appeal to the full court.
I seem to remember the Supremes had some sort of rule over specific territories back in the day but I didn’t know they still do.
Yeah, I didn’t know SCOTUS members have reign over different states? WTF?
This is how it works.
Rule of law doesn’t matter, only of men.
So last night I discovered that I greatly dislike a stout. So I stuck the other three cans on a bottom shelf and went out today for something to take its place.
Yesterday I lied and said there isn’t much in cans. Well I took a closer look today and there are lots of things in cans now – mostly local indie stuff I was unaware of. And even cases of cheap shit on the floor that I had never seen before. Today I selected “Five Boroughs Brewing Co. Pilsner” in glorious cans.
In my defense, the store shuffled all the aisles last month so I’m still catching up. The end result was a greatly expanded beer and others section. The loser was the cereal aisle. And all the beer is cold now which is kind of annoying because I’d rather save a few pennies and cool it myself. Oh well.
If beer is meant to be consumed the same day it should never be purchased at room temperature. But, you’re more into that European shit than me.
I drink maybe two beers at a sitting at the most. It would be impossible for me to meet your stipulation that I’ve never heard of.
A proper beer temp is 35 degrees. 38 is the standard for bar draft systems. If it starts out room temp it takes a while to cool off.
I drink it cold. I just don’t store it cold because I like to have a variety on hand and I don’t have a lot of room in my fridge.
I don’t have a lot of room in my fridge.
What kind of top hatted shitlord doesn’t have a dedicated beer fridge?
That is Two links in the two different sentences. One for beer temp, one for how long to cool a room temp beer in a fridge.
Ah. Well, I have developed a system. I keep a rotating cast of different beers in one six-pack box in the fridge. Everything else sits on my makeshift “bar” while it waits its turn.
You need a second refrig. Close to your recliner and remote.
And a home theater to go with it.
I thought a proper beer temp was cellar temp
Depends on the beer. Lagers (particularly American Light Lagers) should be served colder then a stout or a porter would be.
So maybe my Guinness was too cold.
But I suspect I just don’t like it.
Rhywun:
Fair enough. Guinness isn’t my favorite, but it’s got a spot of nostalgia around March every year. It was also a go to back in the day before the second craft revolution, when people would say they didn’t like stouts like Guinness because “they were too heavy”. It fucking floats on other beers, it’s light!
Yeah, I found it very “thin”, on top of the fact that I don’t like the taste.
I like my Porters ice cold as well. Stouts, they taste too much like coffee for me, which I don’t drink.
I did not know you like cans so much.
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re: polls
I’m having a hard time reading through all the noise so I have no prediction for this election. Back in 2016 I thought HC was going to win but had a nagging feeling that Trump, given the size of his rallies, and his non-stop campaigning just might pull a surprise.
I think, like 2016, this is going to go down to the wire.
Charge: It’s a 2-point race, not 16, pro-Biden media polls trying to suppress Trump vote
The Romanian online press had a long article today voxplaining the US elections.
That, and a number of smaller outfits, are showing Trump ahead in Florida.
ie
Pollster Who Shows Trump Ahead Nationally Says Florida Is Almost Out of Reach for Biden – Trump is Doing Great
but as I said, too much noise so I’m not going to make a prediction either way; to the point I’m no longer going to pay much attention to the race. Out of my hands!
My favorite Crazy Scenario? Trump wins, but the Republicans lose enough of the Senate majority and the Dems retain the house. Trump ends up being impeached and removed from office.
Now wouldn’t that be a fun start to 2021?
“There is even a shy Trump vote in MD-7 (Kim Klacik district)”
She’s getting a vote from wife and I. But her prospects of winning in this district are zero, none, forget about it.
Trump gets impeached. Immediately after, a quick vote, and Pence gets removed.
Nancy Pelosi becomes a president via coup.
It’s a bad strategy. Given the enthusiasm of Trump voters, they’re not going to be discouraged from going to the polls. The more likely result is it will make dem voters more complacent.
#meneither
I don’t trust the media, I don’t trust one goddamn poll, and I sure as hell can’t read the “mood” of the country right now.
Yuan Yi Zhu
@yuanyi_z
My great-grandfather had the right to freedom of expression. That he was shot by the government for using it is neither her nor there, apparently.
https://twitter.com/yuanyi_z/status/1314913721060331522
Responding a Labour MP and proudly self identified socialist. Airship One continues to be fucked.
“whoa. a seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture of “Medusa With The Head of Perseus” will be installed across the street from 100 Centre St., Manhattan’s criminal courthouse this weekend, a commentary on the #MeToo movement”
https://twitter.com/rachelholliday/status/1314580135350337536
so stunning much brave
Medusa should hit the gym more, it is 2020… oh wait…
Mystery Babylon.
Isn’t Medusa considered evil?
Our long national nightmare is over.
Zombeavers is available to watch for free with Amazon Prime.
I hate how people talk about sex work as “selling your body” when all work under capitalism is exactly that. Corporations rent your mind for ideas, your body to do labor, your time to make them profit. Under capitalism, you sell your body for the right to live
https://twitter.com/MadeganM/status/1313961120403795969
Under socialism, the state owns your body.
There is a massive inflation of New England IPAs from Romanian craft brewers. And unlike the Stone stuff, which I like for low abv, it is also 7%+ which I don’t like.
Just say no to IPA before that hipster juice swill ruins your country forever.
HEAR! HEAR!
Fucking hipsters and their shitty beers.
It’s part of the style. I’m not a big fan of the NEIPA’s, though I’ve had a couple I’ve enjoyed. Most are just lazy attempts to catch one of the trends currently running through US craft beer.
Just heard a Biden commercial on the radio calling for mandatory masks nationwide “in public” and the “same” Federal guidelines for all. This fucking shit can get so much worse.
Yes, it definitely can. The main Dem voting base is Karens so of course they’re going to be pushing this shit.
I’ve been thinking for a couple months now that the election is going to be won or lost on masks. It’s just how stupid this fucking year is.
Even though it’s probably the most frivoulus rights violation (in this year if abhorrent rights violations)…in many ways it’s the most aggregious if not the most consequential. It affects everyone, every day, all day. And it shows no signs of slowing….more and more it seems that they are leaning toward masks outdoors, masks while exercising, masks everywhere all the time. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if I start seeing chin-stroking pieces in the NYT about wearing your masks in your own house if you really want to end covid.
Fuck this noise, it’s thought control. One can only hope that they overplay their hand and even the lefties get worn out from mask mania. But based on my observations there is a long way to go before that happens.
Maybe. But they’ve been studiously avoiding what I think is the fact that most people catch it from their family at home. Pushing masks at home would contradict the bullshit, months-long narrative that it’s too dangerous to walk around outside without one. Of course, they have no shame so no big deal.
If that asshat wins, you’re going to get a national lockdown and travel ban, just to show the deplorables who’s boss. The dumbfucks really are going to start a civil war.
“Red” state economies will be decimated – sorry, close all those colleges/universities or no Federal aid, union rule, mandatory paid leave, increased minimum wage, etc.
But he just said he wasn’t for a national mask mandate. I mean, I know he’s senile, but do his puppeteers not know world wide media exists? Who am I kidding? This won’t be talked about by the Pro or fake and Anti wings, so it’s just us glibs…
The entire campaign is fake, how can he remember what he’s supposed to say, even if he wasn’t senile?
Saudi prince denounces Palestinian leadership
This is interesting, maybe.
Only
HitlerThe Anit-Christ can bring peace to the Middle east! -new talking point from 2 million atheists.a top manager with local admin on their workstation
#infosec #devops
https://twitter.com/0K_ultra/status/1315269298651357186
It’s OK when the right people do it!
‘Too Complex to Break Up’ Is the New ‘Too Big to Fail’ Facing hostility from would-be trustbusters in Congress, Facebook argues it’s too late to unscramble the egg of its many acquisitions
I don’t get how facebook is a monopoly and even if it was it is a fucking social media company who gives a fuck?
Agreed. The issue is, as usual, the uneven application of the BS rules in the first place.
And to stay on topic with this post one of my favorite was one Nestle acuired Haagen-Daz there were all kinds of antitrust concerns about monopoly on the “super premium” ice cream segment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/business/ftc-moves-to-stop-2.8-billion-ice-cream-deal.html
I don’t believe in ‘Trust Busting’, but what a bunch of bullshit.
That ice cream flavor looks good. Occurs to me that that recipe is in the B&J cookbook, which I have. What I don’t have is an ice cream maker.
You don’t have a bucket and a stick?
I always wanted an ice cream maker but now rarely eat ice cream so need/want are 2 different things.
Whatever happened to bread makers, 30 years ago they were the red hot item. Are people using them still?
16 years ago I had a female friend who was getting married. She said the only thing she didn’t want as a wedding gift was a ‘F**cking bread maker!’. So I put her gift in a bread maker box.
I was listening to a podcast the other day that claimed Ben & Jerry’s is right behind Soros as the biggest corporate sponsor of left-wing social causes. Not sure how factual that is, and always knew they were a lefty company but I wasn’t aware of how much cash they were funneling to commies.
Ben and Jerry’s is now owned by Unilever, so maybe in a round-a-bout way?
I won’t buy those woke bastards’ stuff. Book dates to 1987 and the recipes of course don’t call for guar gum.
Oops, it’s a sundae recipe. 3 scoops French vanilla, half a chopped apple, 2 T each honey, raisins, and walnuts.
“Does anyone know where or when this was?
A young student was bullied, spit on, and had his hat stolen by some little monster for being a Trump supporter.”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1315083648677425153
I have no idea, but that girl looks like she fell out of that Negative XP song.
It maybe unmanly to hit a girl but he should have decked her. Spitting crosses the line and is assault, by my definition.
The girl was trying to steal his property.
Given the video quality and acting, I’d say 2016 on a Nokia..
The NFL is now running “Get out and vote” shit.
Fuck off, NFL.