Back end of a Front, Rain Sideways straight at us, 70 mph winds, and still 110 degrees
The shore is different,
Tides not normal,
Variation erratic, But a change,
Coarse grain sand,
Pebbles of many hue,
Exposed in Ultraviolet,
A hazy sky,
Turns Red the Sun,
Dark smoke from the West,
Quality of light,
Has become different,
and somewhat cooler breeze,
Still the Blue Green,
Shimmers in Silver,
and Golden aqua light,
Thunderheads,
in distant views,
But none in the Ditch,
All we get,
Is Clear Life Blood,
Flowing from the North,
But She serves us well,
This Quiet Lady,
This River,
The Queen of the West,
Giver of Life,
Life amidst Desolation,
A place to call home,
Not the easiest ,
But it will do,
*Pretty Cool place to live if you can get the rhythm of life here,
But it’s still Hell.
Editor’s note: this piece was submitted before Yusef’s cross-country relocation.
Hell to Hell huh?
The rhythm of love
Keeps me dancing on the road
The rhythm of love
Got the groove that hits the bone
The rhythm of love
Is the game I’m looking for
The rhythm of love
Is the heartbeat of my soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFAf_29KYTs
Rhythm of time
/this thread is really going to fuck with my workflow which often consists of searching for the first three letters of my handle
Rhythm auf deutsch
Georgia Rhythm.
I forgot how much I like that song.
https://youtu.be/MHXmS-e0RRo
Yes!
Very nice. How could I have missed Yes?
You must not be a good Sound Chaser.
Hell is a small town in Michigan, not far from Climax. Make of that what you will.
It also resides on Grand Caymen. I liked it but we had a cooler of beer for the drive there so my opinion may be skewed.
The Caymens would generally be nicer than Michigan I suspect 😉
Not sure. I have never been driven to Hell in Michigan with a cooler of beer at my side so I am not prepared to pass judgement.
I once rode a horse back from the bar in Hell, through the woods in the dark, drunk. Still not sure how it worked.
That is a way better story than the XO of our USCG patrol boat driving part of her drunken crew across an island that requires one to drive on the wrong side of the road. You need to expand on your story. Mine ends with me and the BM1 singing Highway to Hell because we had the beer cooler between us and we were drunk af which makes XO a great XO for letting us get to that state.
Walking? galloping?
I hope you are well, Yusef.
Thanks for this!
+1
I expect a Lake version next.
/taps foot
I’m actively working on several, My new actual camera just arrived, YAY!
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very well indeed, gotta love it, 70, 35,60,32, wonderful weather, never know what to wear…..
“6. Biden-Harris can declare the climate crisis a national emergency to start marshaling resources toward addressing this challenge.”
https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1326903362479136769
CWAA
This’ll be tied up in courts but I’m quite sure they’ll try.
$15 an hour is so 2018. We can do better than that. At least while we’re in fantasy-land here.
$76/hr is more patriotic
Citation needed for these workplaces where people are experiencing serious harm and death.
Oh, come on. You know it’s most efficient to keep killing your workers and training new ones. It’s like you don’t even capitalist.
Old but wtf:
“KFC birthday party in Melbourne costs $26,000 in Covid-19 fines after police track order
A run for KFC in Melbourne has led to a $26,000 (£14,360) lockdown fine for a group of birthday partygoers.
The infringement of stay-at-home directions was discovered after two people ordered about 20 meals at a KFC store in Dandenong about 1.30am on Friday.
The large order raised suspicion among ambulance workers at the store, who notified police of their concern.
Police followed their car to a townhouse in the suburb where they found a group of people who then tried to hide in the backyard, garage and under beds.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/10/kfc-birthday-party-in-melbourne-costs-26000-in-covid-19-fines-after-police-track-order
Snitches get stitches.
Australia has a great standard of living and wide open spaces but this kind i of suit makes me worry it’s already too late.
Narrator: it’s too late.
LOL what’s that guy’s name who narrated Chapelle’s Black White Supremacist? I just heard this in his voice.
He was also the neighbour (married to Edie McClurg) in “Small Wonder”.
Sadly it seems he passed away in January.
And since like a true asshole I didn’t even answer your question (sorry), his name was William Bogert
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091722/
Went school with a guy who ran a small boat for the navy in Western Australia. He told me all kinds of stories about search and seizures that blew my mind. He said cops do whatever they want down there. This was early nineties.
that’s everywhere but the united states.
This is what happens when they take your guns away. This is the exact kind of bullshit they’re emboldened to do when they know that they won’t be confronted by uncle cleetus and his 12 gauge when they make a nanny call and levy a life ruining fine.
Cops in Minnesoda:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmoE_aqXUAEUeeX?format=jpg&name=900×900
You already did this.
And I bought two.
I’m coming to your house! And I’m bringing the turkey fryer and some Wild Turkey.
*sets place for nick*
Dear Australia:
I am disappoint.
Like, severely.
Beautiful picture, Yusef! How’s the new digs treating you?
Still outfitting the place, I got here with guitars, clothes and tools, so I’m recreating a life,new pots and pans, dishes, a broom, you know, everything
Nice!
I AM STUNNED, I had no idea this would ever be posted, I forgot I wrote it, I like it, That said, I like my new Hell, and I think I’ll stay,
at least I can afford to buy a home instead of rent…
Hell is for children.
This is the second one that I knew what it was before I clicked.
Thanks for the two tunes.
If this is hell, then let me say
It’s heavenly
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49eRyugjCSs
Go to Hell
Go to Hell
Go to Hell
Straight to Hell
That said, I like my new Hell
So, your old hell was hot, like the Hell of the Christians, while your new hell is cold, like the Hel of the Pagans. I don’t know what kind of thematic tale could be pulled from that observation, but it feels like there’s something there.
Pagans can get into the housing market?
https://twitter.com/DamnitPreme/status/1326904890925453313
damn
HA!
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Didn’t expect that.
Cats are natural born killing machines. I had a yellow and white Tabby, we called him the little cheetah because of his destruction of the natural fauna in our area who were any smaller or slower than him.
I was sitting out in my garden one day working some soil and I hear this sound and it’s a squirrel that came down out of a tree about 30 ft away and decided to fuss at the cat, who appeared to be sleeping about 3 feet from me. It was like one of those episodes of Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom I watched when I was a kid.
Kitty sprung into action and that spelled end of mr squirrel before he could even start to decide ‘oh shit, I fucked up, better get back up the tree!’. It was one of those things that needed to be recorded in slow mo to appreciate.
LOL!
I need to borrow a cat. There is a rat in my attic very smugly avoiding all my traps, but we can’t keep a cat because of allergies. Our friends’mighty hunter passed on unfortunately or i would do this.
Kittens need to be exposed to a killing cat at an early age. They teach it. It’s amazing to watch. The older cat looks over at me with an exasperated expression when ever the kitten does something stupid. Our tiny maine coon learned from our old cat. She’s really good at it now. Birds, mice, lizards, you name it.
I’ve wondered how that happens. It’s almost like magic. Like, I’ve never observed this teaching in action.
But this might explain why my cats only ever played with their prey.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a0lXCLUJOtg/T-46OCdmerI/AAAAAAAACf8/y2QYKXZFVtA/s1600/kissmecat+(21).jpg
LOL
The older cat used to lay under our fig tree. When the figs get ripe, every creature from all over show up to eat them. The cat would lay at the bottom for hours and hours, waiting for the first bird to get low enough. Then she’d leap up and grab it like lightning. The little cat would jump the gun and scare the whole tree bare. Sophie ( the old cat) would look over with an expression that said ” look what I have to deal with here!” It was fascinating to watch. The other cat can’t catch her tail.
Live trap mice. Put mice and 4 month old kitten(s) in enclosed area with water bowls. Walk away. Check on kitten(s) after about 4 hours. If any mice are still alive, walk away. When mice are dead, you have a mouser
The easiest way I’ve found to turn (outdoor)cats into hunters is to simply undergrad them. Not enough that they’d starve, but enough that they’d be rather skinny without supplementing.
Sure enough, I’ve never had a skinny outdoor cat.
Underfeed*
Yeah, I’ve only had indoor cats. Spoiled rotten indoor cats.
Kittens need to be exposed to a killing cat at an early age.
They don’t actually have to be in order to develop into killing machines, although I’m sure it helps. The cat my mother owned when I was a kid was a natural born killer. My dad rescued her and her sister when a litter of newborn kittens from a stray cat were being eaten by a pack of dogs, so the two kittens only had themselves to influence one another growing up. Nevertheless, the surviving cat (the sister was killed by a truck at age 2) developed into a killer that would take down mice, birds, and even snakes – and this, despite the fact that my parents had her front claws removed to keep her from destroying the furniture. She was a ferocious fighter, but also extremely personable and sweet to anyone my mother liked.
I do feel bad for the people (and the squirrel). Pretty traumatic to lose a pet that way.
I don’t. Squirrels aren’t pets.
I have a friend who has an irrational hatred of red squirrels. He keeps a loaded .410 shotgun behind the front door.
I cooked one up for him once. Dredged it in flour and spices. Fried it in bacon grease. It still tasted terrible. But he was happy to have one less red squirrel.
LOL
Hey, my first avatar (middle pic). http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/3620/3850/1600/squirrel%201953.1.jpg
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Have never had squirrel. Just thought the illustration was funny.
A neighbor killed a squirrel in my tree. Many months later I was invited over for beer and gumbo. After several beers and a bowl of gumbo “remember that squirrel I killed in your tree?”. It wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever eaten
I hate gray squirrels. I used to wack them with my BM-59. I nailed one as it ran full speed along a tree branch. Also had one hide in a hollow apple tree. A 20 round mag dump put the end to that one. As many as I did manage to shoot, we had a small feline that got many more than I did.
Tree rats
I hate mice, but I still felt bad for the half dead one my cat brought me. The squirrel in the video squeaked. That’s the part theft me.
The part that got me. WTF autocorrect?
That is fucking awesome.
My ex girlfriend (like from 1997) is a veterinarian. Back in the day people would bring injured animals in and she (as a vet tech) would take them home and nurse them back to health. Birds, squirrels, even an owl once (in violation of all kinds of raptor protection laws here).
She hated cats and hated that they always came after her charges once she set them free.
I love cats.
Rhythm is a dancer. It’s a soul companion.
You can feel it everywhere.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8mm1Qmt-Y
Counterpoint.
My college years are flashing before my eyes tonight.
My condolences.
Right? Those years sucked. Or why else was I drunk and/or high the whole time.
Here let me redeem the
FFS (drunk af) 90’s for ya. I didn’t look through the playlist I love the first song though.
I had to scroll down to #20 before I found a song I liked. Some I recognize, most I don’t, a few I actively hate.
TBF, it’s the same when I see a list of eighties “one hit wonders”. I hate most of them. And none of my favorites are anywhere on there.
If you don’t like Bittersweet Symphony you are dead to me Rhy.
That’s the song that Nike used without permission. The Verve sued and the judge determined it was a sample of a Stones song and made the verve pay royalties to the Stones. Good times! Not quite Fogherty getting sued for plagarizing himself, but still good.
LOL……hadn’t heard that BlackJack but I was inebriated for most of the 90’s.
Here’s a decent nineties song. It was all over the alt station out here.
Seems a bunch of ex-addicts in the comments there. That makes a good song.
“parently, I got the urban myth version. Stones just sued and won. Nike had permission. Oh, well.
Well, this is the rhythm of the night.
For fellow fans of the great Amazon show “Patriot,” I bring you the L.G. Claret Podcast.
me right now
Claret is an engineering and sales God
I just watched that episode before bed last night. Second time through the show because it’s so awesome.
I need to memorize that speech. It’ll make a great party conversation.
Kurtwood Smith rocks because that monologue is hard af.
Sperv plinfs? Girdle jerry?
I mean cmon.
Yeah, that had to be hard to memorize. Same with the later speeches to win the contract.
has a lot of views and deservedly so.
Leta Powell Drake slaps hard.
As someone commented, it really does seem like something from a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
Savalas fucks, though – that much is true.
Here’s the Labyrinth in Scottville last weekend, we still have pine trees,
Hole 13,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/c7JBCT9CN8jD5uHj8
We are finally at peak fall in NYC this week. Leaves everywhere, every color. It’s wonderful.
But I like evergreens a lot too. Lots of them on my street.
Somber is my next theme, I drive to work at a very cool time, dawn/ sunrise, a lot of light effects, just wait, I’ll show you,
I’m turning into a morning person and it’s scaring me. Especially now when the sun sets at like 4:30 I’m ready to pack it in at 8 or 9.
I’m going to write music and grow weed all winter, sun goes down early here as well
Has this been shared yet?
https://www.aafnation.com/products/first-blood-aaf
no, but that was advertised to me while
browsing the internet and i lol’ed
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MngX53etUvc
2020. The musical.
So, I keep reading these news articles about the Donald starting a new media empire.
I’d sort of support that, but a few reservations.
One, the Donald I assume will either not listen to anyone or if he does decide to take advice, will take it from the worst possible people.
Two, he doesn’t have that sort of money. We’re talking about Elon Musk sort of money here. Elon could totally be red pilled and that will become more likely as the incoming anti-capitalist dumbshit idiots try to steal his wealth. But again, even if that’s possible, Trump would probably listen to Guliani and instead of going for money, go for Sean Hannity as his anchor.
Why can’t there be any smart people with money? It’s like a fucking curse. Only the dumbest luddites can be in charge. We’re witnessing reverse-evolution. Yeah, it’s a thing, I have no doubt.
Interesting. I could kind of imagine Elon starting a media empire that maybe doesn’t suck.
I would throw 25 clams at that.
Elon’s like the only Magellan, Christopher Columbus, Leif Erikson, or anyone like that left. They’re all cancelled now and no one in the future will even know that they even existed. We’re done as a species, we’re beginning the long decline back into being non-sentient fungi at best.
Hey! us Sentient Fungi have rights too!
Not according to non-sentient human scum like the Biden admin, you don’t, white boy.
Where have all the Vikings gone?
“Where have all the Vikings gone?”
Diggs went to Buffalo.
Everson Griffen went to Detroit.
Xavier Rhodes went to the Indianapolis Colts
Marcus Sherels(who went to my wife’s high school, long after she graduated) is a free agent.
Eric Kendricks (my favorite linebacker) is still there.
Dalvin Cook is still lighting it up.
Harrison Smith is still kicking ass.
Meh. We’ll see what happens. I switched to Newsmax this week.
Hannity is a huge “change the channel” for me.
Trump 2020.
Yeah, Hannity is unwatchable.
Hannity has always sucked. He’s the new purty boy for the establishment good ol boy GOP. Fuck all those pussies.
The only good ones on Fox now are Carlson and Ingraham. And Kennedy, is she still on there?
Kennedy is back but seems to have the Reason masthead as guests. Meh.
Well, I do have to give Sean the dickhead credits for calling Brian Stelter, Humpty. That’s pretty damned funny.
I’ve always hated Hannity, but most of Fox was OK. Now, the TDS is almost to Reason levels. They were at the tippy top and said, ” You know we need? We need to start doing what all the loser networks do! Fuck winning!” They’re dead to me, notwithstanding Gutfeld and Tucker.
Gutfeld is pretty good. And Laura Ingraham, I’ve always liked her. She looks exactly like my sister, lol. That’s not why I like her, you pervs.
Fox was shifting already. Since, or before, they dumped Ailes. Not that they were ever right wing, but the current heads and middle management seems to be garden variety Corporate America (aka center-left) that wants to be taken as Serious News Organization instead of Faux News.
OAN still has the put cute young (mostly) girls on TV, even better if they’re smart or have credentials.
OT: I just jumped over here and I can seemingly confirm YouTube does indeed seem to be auto translating video titles.
I’m using the tv app on android and recommended titles are auto translated, but if I jump to the channel it’s still in the original.
Sigh…
Yeah, I was seeing in the preview box on the right versus when it came up in the player.
I guess its their attempt to increase the number of videos that someone might click on. Kinds of smells of a little desperation to continue the revenue growth beyond natural organic rates.
Plus as we both know machine translation on certain languages sucks.
But can have humorous results!
This was the channel that I discovered using it.
https://youtu.be/u5MTVPVCAuA
Kayano Ai’s channel about sake. Voice actress who likes to drink. She’s just a sweety. Her guest, the taller woman, Uesaka Sumire is another voice actor, but also an idol. She is big Russiaphile and loves vodka
The pair are perfect given their love of drinking.
Her channel name combines her name and nomi meaning drink.
I can’t decide if the drinking is worth the high pitch!
Talk shows that you like are an awesome source of listening practice.
Highly recommend if you find one you like.
She usually does two videos per guest. They are pretty well lit by the end. Particularly when Kayano san takes out her photo book.
I like to put on things like FNN on sort of the background and just let them play.
https://youtu.be/p2QYO03Rv7s
Of course, my weakness is 80’s aidoru
https://youtu.be/LgeLfaezgzw
I also love the Solari boards they used for the weekly hits.
Of all the right wing hate radio personalities out there, Hannity is the worst. The idiot can’t not repeat himself. If he didn’t repeat himself he would have nothing to say and hence why he repeats himself. I don’t do TV because I don’t have it, but his radio show is pathetic.
You should meet my boss. I deserve hazard pay.
I see you’ve never heard Bill O’Reilly?
You mean De-Evolution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1DNzg0LWs
The masks were a sign.
Thanks, now I’m remembering Jeffery Mattson and his Country Squire wagon.
Yep, that’s it. No more evolution. Survival of the wokest == extinction.
Goodbye comrades.
2020 for sure
So, how long do y’all think the site will be up after the 4th Reich takes control?
Anyway, it was nice chatting with all of you before the new arbiters of the intertoobz, facebook and twatter assume control. And see you in the camps.
it’ll stay up. nobody cares about us.
Yet. Eventually there are crumbs to pick when your dumbfuckery cannot be cured.
They can try to strike us down but it will only make us stronger.
Oh yay. Our beloved governor has called a press conference tomorrow to announce “new measures” for covid. One can hope it’s ritual sacrifice of herself to “save” the state.
at least you don’t live in australia. hell if you order enough kfc for 30 people that’ll just be considered normal here and not a red flag at all.
I’m still puzzled about what the ambulance crews were doing at the KFC.
Have you ever seen The Wire? It was that level of stakeout. Pretty obvious some lowly schmuck would eventually order a bunch of KFC for his family and friends. Yup. Only a matter of time.
Where’s my shocked face? Democrat governor and AG call for racist programs to continue and will defend them in the courts.
Maybe Gov Kunt can practice “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” next.
We voted on a prop to reinstate affirmative action. It went down in flames. No matter, we’re using AA to decide who gets out of covid jail.
We voted on a prop to reinstate affirmative action. It went down in flames.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that California still had some sense. Although it does make me wonder, since the same people who voted against that also by and large voted for the people who put that on the ballot (I think I read a while back that it had near universal Democratic support in the State House).
Like I said before, this ship sailed decades ago. We tend to think the woke started recently but no, it’s been around since the seventies in one form or another.
It’s nice of them to openly state it is racist.
Racism is totes ok, if it’s for the benefit of everyone involved. Come to think of that, that’s the same justification for Jim Crow laws.
They don’t want to be racist but they have too because those minorities are incapable of helping themselves.
I paid $160 for a cord of wood delivered today that is really like maybe 2/3 a cord but what do you do? Am I going to argue about it and get the tape measure out or just go along and ridicule them for thinking that was a cord. I went with ridicule and not buying wood from them again. They dropped their price if I wanted another one which tells me they know they are cheaters. People make me not trust humanity.
Well, at least tomorrow…
It’s as if Q made a music video, right?
Yes, that is a very watchable video.
*tunes up the Stihl 038 with the 32″ bar*
I’ll drop ’em, you limb ’em, I’ll chunk ’em, you split ’em.
Looking at Fourscore’s woodshed, I gotta think splitting wood might be the fountain of youth.
Seriously. How much does he have? 50 cords? MOre?
Ya, I have a chainsaw but I am lazy and my free time is worth more to me than the people that sell me shady cords. To get a cord of wood around here would take me a day. Then to split it is another day. Two days iof not doing that s worth 160 clams to me. I am all about using other peoples labor for the exchange of money even if they short change me on the wood quantity. I will just never call her again and call the other person. No shortage of people wanting to sell wood at the moment.
You have an axe to grind.
People suck.
My wife doesn’t.
*sad trombone*
Uh, you sure?
No, but I don’t think you suck, either.
Not the shakuhachi you were hoping for.
We’re paying $170 for what is reputed to be 1/2 cord in the Philly suburbs. Still in all, a cozy weekend fire, some wine…might get lucky with the missus.
I know a guy who was selling a cord for 3fiddy in the closest ski town. A market is a market. I am warm at the moment but have no chance of getting lucky with anyone so you win.
Just filled the oil tank for $1.95/gallon. Unreal. I remember paying over $4/gallon a decade ago.
We have a wood furnace and acres of forest but I need to replace the chimney flue before I’d trust using it.
Liner…not flue. It’s been a drinking night.
“It’s been a drinking night.”
So any night that ends in y?
Fresh batch of gulyás is on the stove bubbling away. Pictures have been taken, I’ll write up the recipe tomorrow and submit it. Should see it soon-ish.
Fuckin’-A, yeah!
I look forward to it.
From “not widespread” to “most secure ever”.
https://mobile.twitter.com/fox5dc/status/1327042785694920705
That is, the fraud is the most secure than it ever was?
! This claim is disputed!
-Tech Overlord
Jimmy Carter using his experience in Venezuela says, “yes”.
Man does the Colts Offense fucking suck .
But the officials do seem to be freaking ignoring every foul against the colts.
Phillip Rivers should’ve washed out of the NFL a decade ago. I remember watching him play in college and not being particularly impressed.
At least the defense makes up for it.
“I will miss my colleagues”
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffreyToobin/status/1326644658991140866
He has taken a leave from CNN. They haven’t canned him, but I wonder if shows up there again.
Nah, he’s shot his load.
The left really circle the wagons around their own.
Does anybody remember this?
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-26-mn-36348-story.html
He was back in just a few years.
I still don’t get why he was so important. Multiple people going out of their way to talk about how important he was and that we shouldn’t get over worked on a “simple mistake”.
It’s less that he was so important and more that he was probably well connected. The left don’t have principles, remember. It’s about who you are.
They fired him because nobody wanted to see him take a shot, much less hit one of them. So, yeah, he’ll certainly miss them now.
I haven’t seen much follow up on this but CA voters defeated the Amedment that would allow the state to discriminate.
Here are some great reactions:
Vincent Pan, executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action
– University of California Regents Chair John Perez
And one good one:
-Yukong Zhao, president of the Asian American Coalition for Education
Californians like their free shit, but are generally opposed to the woke bullshit that comes from the left.
It’s a little weird how the woke, true blue electorate refuses to go along with this, but whatever, I’m glad it failed. Fucking legislature keeps trying and we have to keep saying no. Just wish they had this much sensibility on all the other ways they fuck us over. Can’t win ’em all, I guess.
Californian voters have routinely rejected the left’s pet social policies when put up to vote. I mean, they even rejected gay marriage.
Yup, and the angry Left reacted by canceling the founder of Netscape because he backed traditional marriage (back when Obama and Clinton also opposed gay marriage officially).
The Dem party doesn’t have to worry about breaking laws regarding harassment or discrimination against political opponents as long as they have a volunteer army of lefties to do the canceling dirty work for them.
I know the reason is because TEAM and principals, but it is crazy that not only are Obama and Clinton forgiven for that but “Well they were secretly for it while publicly against it.”. Shouldn’t you be more critical of someone who didn’t have the courage to stand by their beliefs when it was hard.
They have to go center to win the mixed electorate, but their reality is what they tell their base.
The slippery slope is real.
Remember when Hillary and Bill said that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare”, arguing that it’s a tragedy but occasionally it’s the only way and it’s better than a back alley abortion.
20 years later and it’s “Celebrate your abortion”, which is simply abhorrent to anyone who believes a fetus is a living human.
Secure a spot toward the left of center, let that establish the new baseline, and in a few years, push further toward the left.
i.e., “move the Overton Window”
Oh, and your future Vice President was a supporter of the Amendment.
Sorry to keep harping on this, but the idea of “Money wins all politics” has got to be dead. yes you need money, but it isn’t everything. The supporters of this amendment raised and spent 20:1 and it still handily failed.
Citation needed.
Ha. The Beanie and the Tinfoil live.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7qNyXIENac
Yeah this is epic. Alex Jones, Tim Pool and Malice.
Hi, Yusef! Thanks for the musings on surroundings.
I hope Michigan suits you better 🙂
Yusef,
Thanks for submitting this.
Being from the (such as they are) mountains of central Pennsylvania, I have for some reason always loved the desert. It is Hell to some, and it can kill you quick, but the draw is strong to me.
I love the forests of my hometown, but the desolation of the desert always clears me.
I guess I need to go camping, somewhere.
One of you assholes got my youtube stream to do the Police and it didn’t do this. My favorite police song. But I like hookers so it is expected.
Phil Rivers appears to be the one coaching the Colts defense. It figures; he can see what the Titans offense is about to try.
Well, I made it to 50 today.
I really though I was going to retire at 45 and sail around the world – and possibly off the edge of it (it’s better to burn out, than to fade away).
But my stock picks didn’t do shit (thanks, Clinton and Bush).
And I had a kid, then adopted one, then had another. (Chil’ren are expensive)
And I have a job I kind of like (as long as the workplace politics don’t get any worse).
And I kind of look forward to having grandkids.
Guess I’ll stick it out a few more years, see what happens.
‘Night, yall, this old codger has to get to bed.
Welcome to the club and happy birthday!
Happy birthday.
I kind of figured I’d die younger too. Now I am going to work til I’m dead.
I am not even that enthusiastic about my 401k since I know the Dems are going to try to grab it to distribute “fairly” when the time comes.
I always figured I’d die much younger as well. However, I’ve got a wildly pessimistic streak and saved like I wasn’t going to, on the off-chance I didn’t; worst-case, my nieces and nephews would enjoy the money.
I, too, am expecting them to come for my 401k; then the taxable accounts, no doubt.
Pussy.
I yam what I eat!
Welcome to over 50!
Welcome to the half century club.
Happy birthday!
Looking at my watch it seems like I just reached 43 myself. My present is going to be getting to see my mother and older sister spend time together this weekend for the first time since February. Should make it easy to smile through whatever Angry Dad Doug Ford has planned.
Welcome to the club – I hit that particular milestone in June.
It was supposed to be Napa Valley and the French Laundry. Take-out Cuban food in the neighbor’s back yard was almost the same thing.
(it was still a pretty great night)
Happy birthdays all you guys.
Happy Birthday
It finally clicked tonight:
Philip Rivers looks like Luther from The Umbrella Academy
I don’t know who those people are.
One is the QB for the
ChargersColts, the other is an actor in the Netflix series “The Umbrella Academy” (who was also in Game of Thrones, and Black Sails, apparently).Does Luther look like a guy who reliably makes bad decisions when under pressure?
That character does indeed make bad decisions – the parallels are there…
Gustave Lytton I have been meaning to ask you if the protests/riots/arsons have subsided since the election?
Not really. Still have regular “protests”. What has changed is almost zero MSM coverage of them now. If a tree falls in the woods and all that.
I was hoping the rains would start washing them out. But like the bum cities that used to go away when winter approached, that isn’t happening.
Hobos and migrant workers no longer have to move around due to government handouts.
I would also think that there wouldn’t be much left to burn in the “protest zones”
The burning doesn’t seem to have been actually destructive. Mostly small stuff like flags, dumpsters, debris, or quickly put out. The downtown core looked like pretty much everything was plywooded up when I was last there a couple weeks ago. Even businesses that were open. Still, lots of windows outside of there to smash. Like the local Democrat Party offices.
And despite months of that, it’s really not affected the vast majority of Portlanders or their lives. What’s really noticeable is the trash, litter, graffiti, and homeless encampments all over the place. Not just under freeways or such, but on the planting strips of businesses or homes.
Not to worry!
https://twitter.com/pdocumentarians/status/1326236454880645121?s=21
https://twitter.com/pdocumentarians/status/1326241391958061056?s=21
In a just world, there would be consequences for those people actively trying to tear society down. Direct, personal consequences that have been lacking so that these people have become ever more detached from reality.
It’s the same misguided efforts to stamp out bullying and hazing. People need to learn to deal with that sort of thing and bullies need to get their asses handed to them.
I would think that Cascadia Fall/Winter would be the worst place to be an arsonist.
*Thinks back back to Ft. Lewis and days of a low of 44 and a high of 45 with a misty rain all day and shudders.*
I got out of Army concurrent with my 7th ID (Light) leaving lovely Ft. Ord and moving to Ft. Lewis. I’m very happy to have spent my time in California.
2 questions:
1. How do the locals feel about it continuing?
2. What is the point? Biden isn’t radical enough?
1. I don’t think most are directly affected still. I also think a good chunk is sympathetic to them and an even larger chunk is sympathetic to the stated and purported reasons for the protests.
My sister and brother live there, but no one is going through their neighborhoods, they live life like they do normally. Or as normal as 2020 allows. Neither one seems to be concerned or trying to get out. Further out of Portland proper, there’s even less impact.
2. Nope. https://twitter.com/ndpendentpdx/status/1325678036407128065?s=21
I have been cooking a marinara sauce for most of the day because I like to cook a sauce for most of the day because it should be and it smells good. It has now been added to some pasta and baked with too much cheese. Have a great night!
Aren’t there some ingredients that go terribly bitter when simmered for too long?
Anyone else around? Insomnia sucks.
Yeah. It blows. One of my meds give me twichy legs when I am falling asleep. Normally its not that bad but tonight its both legs. So I have to wait until I am fall down tired before I go to sleep.
I just can’t shut down the brain.
Sipping some Jack and having a few peanut butter pretzels.
I used to have that problem too. I would lay there and think about all my fuck ups (hence the meds). Fun times. I had to train myself to do a quasi-meditation where I would do a nonsensical mantra In my head everytime I exhaled and do progessive relaxation starting at my feet an working up. Took awhile to get it down but it did help immensely.
I have a nightly ritual with a few drinks early in the evening, sleep meds alternating so that I don’t get too used to one or the other, and a hot shower to relax just before going to bed. It works about 50% of the time. Didn’t work as well tonite.
Will polish off this shot then try bed again.
Where do you hail from, Snorkel?
Hi, Gustave, in case you’re still around.
It’s not even 10 o’clock yet.
Are you still in Alaska?
Howdy TBH.
I cut out alcohol myself since Monday. Beginning to feel like I was drinking it too regularly, particularly before I went to bed and portions were increasing. Can’t say my sleeping has changed or improved since though.
I’ve managed to hold steady so far. Two highballs and two beers between 5 and 7 and no more. Breaking my own rule tonight because I’m just laying there with my eyes shut in the dark and it’s not working.
Yup. We are putting the test load on the ski lift tomorrow. If all goes well, I’ll be flying back on Saturday.
Hear from Sodium? Haven’t seen her on the site since our IRL visit. I hope I didn’t scare her away.
Not since early October when we had lunch with Threedoor.
You too?
I worked rotating shifts in the Air Force, 3 Days, 3 Mids, 3 Swings, 3 off, for over 3 years. Near as I can tell it hosed up my sleeping patterns for life.
My last year in the AF I worked swings and loved it. Not many higher brass around.
If it wasn’t for work, my sleep schedule would slowly work its way around the clock.
Fixed shift would have been wonderful. I would have jumped on mids. Seven hours long (days were 9 and swings were 8), midnight chow at the beginning and out the door before the zebras showed up at 8.
Never worked that way.
looks like y’all bailed. See you later.
Yeah, I hate bailouts.
That schedule you mentioned above sounds like my last week
Good morning glibs. I’m going to assume the avian equivalent of the 2020 Presidential election was covered here. World leaders are still standing by their early calls to congratulate the kiwi on his completely legitimate victory.
::looks it up:: Oh, for heaven’s sake! It IS actual birds! Shouldn’t the kiwi concede for the sake of the country?
Happy Friday! all you Glibbish ones out in the rest of the World, remember, your shitty day is someones dream day, act accordingly……
A new one to me, but good point.
I just thought it up, it’s a truism however,
Hola!
‘…remember, your shitty day is someones dream day, act accordingly……’
Fair enough.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOSxM0rNPM
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Sup Glibs?
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/11/11/philadelphia-health-officials-worry-about-covid-19-spike-after-large-crowds-celebrate-election-results/
Covid.
Covid.
Covid.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/11/12/heroic-rescue-captured-on-video-after-man-drives-into-newark-bay/
“Gas pedal may have malfunctioned.”. Uh huh. Sure.
That’s pretty far into the water.
Also, nice face shield, dork.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1327067385489186816
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What the? I recognize the event, but ?
“He really seems to care. About what I have no idea.”
the daylight is so short here, I have become a night person, I go to bed at midnight, and wake at 5 am, and it feels normal now, sleep when you die!
It is normal. What is abnormal is living under the tyranny of the daystar.
I can’t even sleep in when I’m on vacation.
Good morning, Yu & U – and Sean & TO’G, if still about.
One workday left here.
I’m rereading “On Unknown Shores” to try to get my mind back into the story. Dug just saw his first Pygmy Dragon.
I left off with Zakegos in the arena.
In the copy I have, the Morotua was introduced and the fight started. So not much further along.
I keep fretting over whether I should aim to get Dug home in this book, or if it needs to be a true trilogy and I have to come up with some capstone threat that won’t make the third volume an anticlimax.
I tend to think that there’s nothing sacred about trilogies. Two should be fine – “There” and then “Back Again.”
I’m worried about what content to include and what to trim from the stack of ideas. Then again, I’ve always been a poor judge of how long some ideas turn out to be.
Morning.
At work now. ?
Morning, GT.
Morning, TH! : )
I need to get out of my city. Which one of well to do bastards needs a handyman/painter?…free boxing lessons!
I need a handy-person/painter, my boxing skills are fine but alas I am not well-to-do… The border is still closed at any rate.
Drat!
I remember seeing Hyperbole saying a few days ago he needs someone who can finish drywall so maybe him.
Good catch.
Seriously, Bob has inspired me. I wanted to start my painting company by the end of this year but the whole Covid thing kinda screwed that before it really began. Been in a rut here for years now and it’s time to move on…
I hung drywall for a couple of different contactors but we’d just do the scut work and they always had a guy that would come in later for the mudding and taping. Probably just as well but it might have been nice to learn that skill. Much too old and broken for that, nowadays.
I can do the whole process but I’d be lying g if I said I was great at skim coating the joints. A banjo is nice and fast but messy and my hand application is a little underpraticed. However, a great trick for a smooth application, easy sanding, and getting bubbles out of your joint compound is to add a healthy squirt of dish soap, a couple cups of water, then mix.
Makes it smooth as cream frosting.
I’m hiring. North of Philly.
Handyman/painter is very trainable for what we do.
I’m a better boss than the Hyperbole.
How much to stay in a cheap motel there for a week, on average? I only have so much money right now and couldn’t do a first month/deposit for a place right off.
There’s a close one ~$70 a night. I don’t know if they discount for longer stays.
If you’re serious, hit up SP for my email and we can chat.
I am. No joke. My work is sporadic and being the scofflaw I am, my living situation is easy to part from.
Duh. I already have a way to reach you. I just sent you an email from the gofundme thing.
Most of your craigslist rooms for rent are cheaper and don’t require a deposit.
You know, the few times I’ve tried that in the far past, it was a scam. The contact on CL never would call you back, just send you texts demanding personal info.
I’m sure there’s reputable websites that list rooms for rent, just need to look.
Hyperbole is a much nicer feller than his comments would lead you to believe. I have little doubt that you, Sean would be a great Boss and better-armed than most.
Good Morning, Nighthawks. They changed the configuration of the production line at the big site again. My finely calibrated system has been thrown out the window once more. Ah well, give me a week and I’ll adapt. Sure do hate that mini Mao that they hired on a few years ago. He’s a company man that has ideas of making it it big in the rough and tumble arena of Canada Post management. He’s a cunte.
Current titty status: calm.
Mornin’ ya’all
Mornin’ I thought the girls you prefer would have ones that roll like the tides. 🙂
He hasn’t waked her up yet. The calm before the storm.
I’m akshually into large women with small t0ts. Good luck finding that unicorn.
They’re almost all factory-equipped with D-cups it seems.
Then you’d love my best friend’s wife…maybe…pretty sure she’s about twenty pounds short off 200. Still too small?
Tres and I go way back on the Zoom. He doesn’t look anything like R. Crumb.
If she’s 5′ tall, I could make it work.
5’8, sorry bud.
5’8″, 180 lbs, and small b0bs?
/briefly considers bunk
She assures me the black gents love her…she’s all ass and hips.
It’s like you guys didn’t even read the first stanza of Bob’s poem.
This place has articles?!
I’m just here for the pictures. Norman Mailer’s latest claptrap about his waning libido gets disregarded.
‘monrin!
Good morning Cy. I keep staring at that cheap boat ad. I really want a small liveaboard.
If it’s still there when my brother gets down here with my whale skull, I think we’re going to go check it out. My other option is one a few houses down from my parents place. It’s an old formula, you can tell they’d never took it out because there isn’t a single scratch on the lowers, not even the bottom fins.
I’m not saying it was the Russians, but….
Voter fraud caught again in Bird of the Year competition
So voter fraud exists for a bird election, but the idea that it could happen here is silly.
How on Earth do you have a thread of “rhythm” songs and not include the absolute best – Rhythm Of Life
Full disclosure, I played the part of Big Daddy in the 1993 Venice Little Theater production of Sweet Charity.
I remember a choral arrangement of that – must’ve been when my older sisters were in our HS choir, because I never sang it. I suspect the lyrics may have been changed a bit.
You are an interesting man, Lolbot.
I love theater, particularly the little, community, or school variety. Broadway shows are amazing, and should be seen at least once, but for my money, there is nothing like volunteers working on shoestring budgets and donated materials to make a work shine.
Day 3 of not being paid. I REALLY hope they work out their computer problems soon.
Yikes! That sucks, man. Anyway you can do a gig job in the meantime?
It hasn’t gotten that bad yet. It was weird and was worried that I was secretly fired and nobody told me. My log-in for the company websites stopped working, my employee discount stopped, I was already on a mandatory vacation (I have to use up 2 weeks before end of year), and then Direct Deposit never showed up. I admit, I was a bit panicked. Turns out, it’s a global computer issue with our Dutch masters.
Too busy flipping votes?
I was about to say…your name isn’t Milton is it?
He’s got a red box cutter.
Heh.
LOL… AKSHUALLY, I have a wee Gerber EAB Lite attached to a retractable lanyard on my belt. I’ve been scolded a few times because the blade doesn’t automatically retract (as required by NYC code) but I’ll never give it up; I love this knife.
https://www.amazon.com/Gerber-Lite-Pocket-Knife-31-000345/dp/B002RILCLY
When I took over these contracts many moons ago there was a steak knife sitting on the shelf. Some Karen grabbed it and threw it in the trash. Yep, my leg got sliced by a steak knife… Shit that people throw into the black bag still leaves me nonplussed.
Sean’s new business venture?
Philadelphia Is Now Home to a Yarn Vending Machine
Mine will stock paracord.
With the death of fabric stores, that isn’t a bad approach. Walmart for generic stuff, vending machines for niche.