The people I feature never look at my links. Rude.
A fabulous new technique for the folks you can’t trust with knives at parties! Why? Because FYTW.
Oh, well, this is awkward…
Speaking of awkward, this is the sort of thing that has become my local news lately.
More trouble in paradise in the time of corona…
How about a little something to help you and/or your favorite “cool” friend calm down?
Whoa, everyone slow down… Here’s some akshually breaking news in my links for once.
This afternoon’s fine musical selection is brought to you by the complete lack of snow here right now.
No snow here, either.
Theres never snow where I live. Sad.
It never snows in our part of California,
But the girls, don’t they warn ya.
Still melting down up here. This was Tuesday mid-afternoon, it didn’t stop snowing until after midnight.
Boo-hoo. You live at the wrong end of a lake.
Then again, when Toledo gets it, its all the trash from Lake Michigan.
Hey- at least you’re not Buffalo !
I’m out of the snow belt. I live on the west side of town, we usually get a lot less snow then the east-siders.
The city of Buffalo gets a lot less snow than the Southtowns (the southern suburbs).
And the parts of the state east of Lake Ontario get way more than anyone.
Quit hogging it all!
/hides a snowball in the freezer with Riven carved into it
I ‘member that. Looks like a scene from A Christmas Story (yeah, snow drought during the shooting schedule, I know).
Speaking of that…
‘A Christmas Story’ House offers virtual tour in case you can’t visit for the holidays
Aww. Have seen it on pedestrian G-view. I wish to visit your state someday.
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It isn’t the snow that is important. What we need is enough ice so my fat ass can go fishing again.
Saw some kids skating on a pond a couple days ago. I also took one step out onto a local lake and didn’t break through. Building, building, building.
What sucks about this time of year is that ice near shore can be thick enough to walk on, but it thins as you walk out further. So you have to be extra careful. Spring is the exact opposite. If you can get onto the ice, you are fine, because it will be thinnest next to shore.
And if you are going to be out on the ice, 1) always look for someone fatter out on the ice than you and 2) make sure you bring some of these along (they don’t need to be that fancy). If you ever do break through the ice, the biggest problem you will have is getting out of the water. Ice with water on top isn’t the easiest thing to pull yourself up onto. Those spikes will save your ass.
Saw 2 fisher people out yesterday. Podunkville put up the boards for the skating rink today. Ice is good but lack of snow means you’ll need clamp ons to skitter across the ice.
How chubby were the fisherpeople? You don’t want to get tricked into going out if it was just a couple 98-lb betas out there fishing.
Ain’t no 98 lb Finlanders. Elsa makes some fine cinnamon rolls.
I really hate ice fishing. At least in the old days when I tried it. That was back in the old days when you didn’t even have a shack. My dad would go out on the ice all day long with no shirt on, no bullshit. I had so many clothes on I could barely move and was still freezing my ass off. I don’t enjoy cold. Anything under 50 F is too cold.
But these days… how many bedrooms and bathrooms does your ice fishing house have? Gourmet kitchen and 10 80 inch TVs no doubt, with wifi. Seems to be the standard now.
Your dad is Vladimir Putin?
I wish, then I could move to Russia and avoid the impending doom of wokeageddon.
Before god invented ice augers fishing in winter took a looooooooooooog prep time.
And then after you drill your first hole, it comes a gust of wind and your line freezes to the side of the hole.
If I was sitting in my 5000 sq ft ice fishing McMansion at room temp in my underwear, watching TV, and drinking a beer, I’d probably really enjoy it.
I always liked ice fishing as a spazzy kid because I could go run around outside for a bit when things got boring. Stuck in a boat during the summer you can’t do that.
One of our favorite pastimes when I was a kid was to throw the first perch caught out onto the ice. Later when you got bored, you would set up a couple goals on the ice and then play Frozen Perch Boot Hockey.
I do really love the yellow perch and bluegill filets, all fried up.
Especially when there was no snow on the lake.
Hand augering through the ice when standing on glare ice was a bitch and a half, even if you had some sort of clampons.
My only problem is that my gas auger keeps starting. If it would die, I could justify buying one of the new fancy electric ones all my buddies have. Those are really slick.
Can’t you bribe Tundra into sabotaging it for you?
Normally I’m death on any small engine. Once it realizes it has been bought by me, the engine will sputter a few times and die. Never to start again.
But my auger by some perverse turn of fortune continues to run well enough I can’t talk myself into spending $500 for a fancy new electric auger.
Notice I didn’t say it runs like a champ. Its favorite thing to do is start right up and then instantly die when you press the lever to start the auger turning. It will do that 5 times or so before it finally runs long enough to cut the hole.
Buy new gas. You kept the gasoline in it from last year, didn’t you?
*kicks chainsaw over to drain the tank*
Nope. I drain the gas each year. But it could use a tuneup.
I have been good about using the non-ethanol gas for the last several years too.
We used to ice fish on a lake where the water was so clear, if there was no snow, you could see the bottom 20-30 ft down. That was sort of weird.
Yup. In the winter there is so much less algae that you can see a long way.
When it is dark in the fish house, you can see a lot down there.
I just have a portable flip up house. I have a buddy who has an ice castle and it is nice. I go there once or twice a year to drink and play cards. His setup is not a serious fishing enterprise.
One of the biggest changes in the last 5 years or so are the underwater cameras. I didn’t think much of them, but borrowed one from my buddy and it changed everything.
With one of the cameras you can see the fish (hopefully) come in. There are times you see a ton of fish and none are biting and you realize you better change bait or your jig.
For the casual fisherperson it is a game changer. My wife would get bored in about 2 seconds before. Now if she can use the camera, she is enthralled for hours.
“One of the biggest changes in the last 5 years or so are the underwater cameras.”
Heh, I was going to mention that…
This is the one I bought. It works as well as the $800 models from Macum.
The only problem was trying to replace the battery pack when mine died.
Now you’re making me want to ice fish again just so I can get my ice fishing house and one of those.
Thing is, I don’t and will not live anywhere it’s cold enough to ice fish. Maybe I can get a winter home for that.
Rent one of those ice castles!
It is an easy two hour drive from the airport up there. You can pick up Tundra, Leap and I on your way. We’ll meet Nick and Fourscore there.
I just might take you up on that.
My favorite news story from when I lived in Wisconsin was some dumbass trying to move their house across Lake Mendota. It snagged on something and the truck pulling the house came to a stop. And the house broke thru the ice, they dragged it out, broke some more, repeat some more. By the time the truck got to shore, the house was totalled.
Men-do-ta!!
/angry McBain
It is almost alarmingly beautiful out, today, and I’m glad.
Global warming ain’t all bad. I don’t care what anybody says.
We’ll probably get 100 inches of snow in February and March, so I’ll bask in a little sunshine, now.
We’re getting rain now, then no precipitation as the temps drop over the next week. I still suppose I should put the snowblower on the Cub (and take the mower deck off). The snow will get here eventually.
It’s 55 and not a cloud in the sky here. We’re at the local playground surrounded by unmasked people. I could stay here all afternoon
If you’d put the picture to the left of the links…
Blockquote fail.
🙁
Get out here with that logic!
You do you, Riven!
That you took the time to get everything lined up with no weird wraps is a feat unto itself.
xD I do my best. I can never format the featured image correctly, but at least I can do the rest
“The survivor, identified as E.L.C., told a Laurel detective at the hospital that he met Lancaster on a phone app. He said the two met in person previously, but Oct. 16 was the first time he was at her home. Charging documents say that E.L.C. brought acid with him, which Lancaster took, while she gave him pills and marijuana.
While he was smoking marijuana, E.L.C. told police that Lancaster asked him whose pot he was smoking. When he answered that it was hers, she became angry and asked him to leave. He said Lancaster eventually calmed down, but after taking her trash out and coming back into the house, she again told him to leave.
Court documents say that while he was putting on his shoes by the front door, Lancaster “started hitting him in the back and rib area.” She then allegedly locked the door and left the room, returning with a gun that she pointed at E.L.C. He told police that after 30 seconds, the first round struck him in the shoulder. While trying to unlock the front door, he said he was shot several more times, with bullets striking him in his back.”
Could happen to anyone?
Who HASN’T that happened to?
In Florida that wouldn’t even be a crime would it?
So that lady unloaded a .40 cal into some guy’s back and he’s neither dead nor paralyzed. For a guy who’s unlucky enough to get shot his luck’s pretty good.
She was on acid, so she was probably shooting at his trail.
It is remarkably hard to kill someone by shooting them with a handgun. The vast majority of handgun ‘stops’ are psychological.
I have read that if untreated, any gunshot wound is likely to be fatal from sepsis if nothing else.
This is true, but it’s also true of any other kind of major penetrating trauma.
Assuming that you have access to reasonably modern medical care, and assuming that you don’t get shot in the brain, heart, or aortic region, your chances of dying from a single handgun wound are tiny. I’ve read as low as 2-3% for a single handgun wound.
I have my class notes on this topic around somewhere…
I’m fine with no snow. While I don’t have practice now, my youngest just started travel volleyball so I’d driving her 40 minutes each way to her practice, twice a week. Snowy roads would be adding insult to injury.
Fauci’s mistake is one of arrogance, not malice
False.
Fuck that evil little homunculus.
Seconded.
Thirded.
I’m in.
My mom wishes he was President.
I am not making that up.
It really bothers me when people do that. Even assuming for the sake of argument that he’s right, his prowess as a medical doctor and public health weenie does not make him suited to run a country.
To be fair, how is that different than the 47 people in the Democrat primary?
He’s probably more suited than Biden is to do that, so there’s that.
I have scraped things more suited to run the country than Biden off my shoe.
T: I care not a jot that you are the son of a certified sauerkraut-sucking loon!
G: Ah, thank you, sir.
T: It minds not me that you dress like a mad parrot and talk like a plate of beans negotiating their way out of a cow’s digestive system. It is no skin off my rosy nose that there are bits of lemon peel floating down the Thames that would make better Regents than you.
G: Well, bravo!
T: The fact is, you *are* Regent…
G: Yes, I am…
T: …appointed by God, and I shall stick by you forever, though infirmity lay me waste and ill health curse my every waking moment.
Brother? Is that you?
Would she make Dr. Jill Biden Surgeon General as well?
I can see why Trump hates him – he can change his position just like Trump and the media ignores and continues to fawn over him.
Arrogance, malice, incompetence, old age etc.
Stupidity knows no bounds.
Whoa, everyone slow down… Here’s some akshually breaking news in my links for once.
I think they passed something in San Fran where you cant smoke cigs in your own apartment now–but smoking weed is ok. Who comes up with this shit?
Politicians in California?
You think correctly.
I think they passed something in San Fran where you cant smoke cigs in your own apartment now–but smoking weed is ok. Who comes up with this shit?
Borrowed from Amsterdam?
When I was last there, you couldn’t smoke tobacco in a restaurant, bar, or coffeeshop, but you could smoke weed inside one.
The word ‘demoralization’ is very poorly understood outride of the leftist bubble.
Every year our local newspaper runs a story on the ratings from the American Lung Association. The tone is always “Our city lags behind some other city in anti-tobacco legislation. We need to do something!” That gets people worked into a frenzy to pressure the politicians.
Never change, SF.
For a bunch of potheads, that leafly site is awfully uptight about visitors.
Too many probings, man.
STEVE SMITH SAY, NOT POSSIBLE TO HAVE TOO MANY PROBINGS. BY PROBING MEAN RAPING.
Turns out the nearest seed store is 2000 miles away……
I’m fine with no snow; however, like with a lot of things, I won’t get my wish. Snow is supposed to come in here tomorrow.
But while Fauci is currently correct in his findings and recommendations, he is incorrect when he asserts that this has been his consistent position.
He will pay no price for his flip-flop. It’s good to work for the government.
He will pay no price for his flip-flop.
As we know for a fact given his about-face on masks.
First DDG result on Fauci / AIDS: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/fauci-fun-facts-dr-faucis-aids-predictions-also-way-off-mark/
(Wish I could be more scholastic, but life compels.)
“Making predictions is hard. Especially about the future.”
*Faucci is an idiot. If he were any good as a doc he would treating patients. Fuck that guy. I wouldn’t take his advice on tying shoes.
But he’s America’s doctor! The most beloved doctor! /TMITE
C-Koop has a sad….
+2 epaulets
Flip flopping is ok when new information comes to light that shows your position is wrong. That’s isn’t the case here though. He had the information before, or at least he should have.
That little cocksucker signed off to support China working with the cootie bugs.
Now it comes to light that blood donors were infected with the stuff in December last year. I will be shocked to find out it did not originate here and that Faucici was up to his eyeballs in it.
Very true. And whether he had the information before, or should have had it (which he should, that’s literally his job to go find that out), he’s incompetent for not flipping to the right call sooner.
he is incorrect when he asserts that this has been his consistent position.
No snow is good.
https://twitter.com/kallllisti/status/1334513865778978823
It looks like the bars are open in DC.
Has anyone noticed that that kooks eyebrows and drawn on with a pencil?
She can’t go away fast enough for me.
Old Plastic Face. They’ve done stretched her face so far that her natural eyebrows looked more like sideburns instead of eyebrows. So she has to shave those off and draw on new ones where they were at 20 years ago.
Of she gets one more face-lift she’ll be sporting a curly Van Dyke.
“Judge Questions Whether Trump’s Pardon of Michael Flynn Is ‘Too Broad’
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said his colleague Emmet Sullivan could find that “the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon.”
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/12/04/judge-questions-whether-trumps-pardon-of-michael-flynn-is-too-broad/
OFFS!!
Pardon him again. Pre-pardon him for kicking the shit out of a federal judge.
Judges seem to have forgotten their legitimate role because Orange Man Bad.
*checks investments*
It’s not unpleasant doing so lately.
*suspicious bubbling noises*
Lincoln, NH tavern owner angry about fines
The owner of White Mountain Tavern is challenging a $1,000 fine he received after a guitar-playing couple performed there in violation of COVID-19 regulations.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office alleges that on Nov. 21 David Culhane and his business hosted a musical performance, a video of which posted online Nov. 22 “clearly shows two guitarists performing indoors close together.”
In a Nov. 25 letter to Culhane, Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards wrote that no bands are allowed to perform indoors at restaurants or function halls. Only “disc jockeys and solo artists” may perform inside, she said.
Culhane said the guitarists are a couple and the social distancing language in the governor’s order is ambiguous and arbitrary.
Feature, not bug.
Also, I pulled my truck inside to do a couple of things to it, like replace the windshield wiper motor. It’s easier to get in and out when there isn’t a snowdrift in the way.
Ripped from the headlines: Friday Funbags.
https://archive.li/aehCU
#21, or if you’re dyslexic, #12 is great too.
18
37’s the bunny boiler.
We’re at the local playground surrounded by unmasked people. I could stay here all afternoon
Nice Does it feel like you fell through a time warp?
Time warp
Too easy.
Easy is good.
Take it easy. If you get it easy, take it again.
Easy is good
Time Warp
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tajdHgg6TF8
Little bit. People haven’t really masked up outdoors here. Even in the summer, it was like 20% masked at most. They bitched us out at 3 year old soccer for not wearing masks, but that lasted all of one week before people told them to shove it up their ass.
Indoors, churches have led the way for us on unmasking, but more places are mixed company anymore.
“‘Star of Bethlehem’ to appear in the sky on Christmas week: Jupiter and Saturn will conjoin together as a brightly-shining ‘double planet’ for the first time in 800 years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9018575/Jupiter-Saturn-appear-brightly-shining-double-planet-Christmas-week.html
Who had The Second Coming on their 2020 calendar?
The Anti Christ is on mine, Timing?
That would be more appropriate for 2020.
It has been interesting watching them drift closer and closer together over the past few months. I may try to snap a picture or two through thr scope when they conjoin.
Good idea, Thanks!
On Dec 21st Saturn, through a telescope, will appear closer to Jupiter than some of the Galilean moon. If the clouds cooperate it will be a good show.
Goddammit Daily Mail, don’t scoop me!
So I guess I have Vermin for pets, one of them snuck past me and Ate all but one of my Seedlings, the best ones as well. I can’t punish them but now I need to source more seeds until Cloning time,
/
Vermin?
Rabbits?
My Dog, or My Cat, happened last night, and I didn’t see until @pm when they wake up, the plants that is,
Weird, I’d figure they would be carnivores.
Lotta cats love to eat pot. It’s similar to cat nip. I’ve had two that have eaten some.
Yep, a buddy of mine always had plants going, had the big aluminum-frame-movable-reflective-panels-grow-light-things and everything, he had to constantly keep his cat from sneaking in and eating his plants.
I used to have an Aussie and his fav foods were broccoli and brussel sprouts. And he’d drink beer, as much as you would give him.
I have an Aussie and she eats EVERYTHING.
Carrots, grapes, jalapeno slices, ghost pepper chex mix, or bananas, it doesn’t matter.
Vermin ?
Sorry.
Why I’m not a conservative:
“House votes to decriminalize marijuana and expunge federal pot convictions, letting states set own laws – but move will be killed by Republican Senate”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019467/House-votes-decriminalize-marijuana-federal-level.html
why do you get news from a UK news site? I never got that…
He likes big butts.
But can he lie?
All you other bruthas cant deny.
He can’t lie, some other brothers might deny, but when she walks into the room with a itty bitty waist and a big thing in his face, he gets…
STEVE SMITHIAN?
The Republicans aren’t bad for trashing this bill (it deserves to die) but for not offering an alternative, like a straight up repeal. The repeal championed by the Democrats here seems to actually make the government more powerful and invasive, which is the opposite of what any decriminalization bill should be doing.
They’re using this to score not-racist points. The same assholes cheer on laws against tobacco. They can go fuck themselves.
“Facebook ‘de-prioritizes’ removing slurs against white people, men and Americans and will police them less aggressively than anti-black hate speech – with 10,000 fewer posts now deleted every day”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019539/Facebook-prioritizes-removing-slurs-against-white-people-men-Americans.html
SMITE
Are they just presuming that white American men aren’t identifying as something else? Are they policing one black person calling another “nigger”? Love to see the algorithm for all of this.
Fuck the ADL, they were skinsuited a long time ago.
I would call absolute bullshit on this if I hadn’t dropped FB a couple years ago and thus lack proof.
I still find it unbelievable.
Shut up, cracker.
Are there any good anti-white slurs I could appropriate for my latest hip-hop album?
“Georgia’s GOP secretary of state says he has already investigated ‘bombshell’ video Rudy Giuliani claimed proves voting fraud and says it shows nothing out of the ordinary”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019125/Georgia-secretary-state-investigated-bombshell-video-Giuliani-claims-proves-fraud.html
Vote counters always sneak legitimate ballots in suitcases and count them in secret.
Well OK then.
Frank Drebin:
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, PLEASE DISPERSE!
To be fair, I don’t really know what video of a legit vote-counting operation looks like.
It probably stopped happening before video was invented.
it shows nothing out of the ordinary
I can believe that, unfortunately.
It depends on if they normally keep ballots in a box that looks like a wheeled suitcase, and if they normally keep said box under a table. If the box is loaded with paper, it would be heavy, so both those things sound plausible.
The corruption in Washington and every state capital is “nothing out of the ordinary”.
Weasel words are fun!
*unzips, begins pissing on Brad’s leg*
Hey dude. It’s raining.
You don’t allow people out until you’ve counted pretty much all of the boxes.
As you’d like to have a maximum of people in there to make sure nothing fishy is going on. Not just 3 of your friends.
You don’t hide ballot boxes under a table. You put them always in plain view.
Only the affected scrutineer can open it and touch the ballots. Only the affected secretary can count them. Nobody else gets to touch them.
You open all the boxes at the same time, not when everyone is gone and the observers are out of the way.
The observers can also go around at look at anything they want.
To me, just the way they behaved was illegal or should be, even if there was no fraud involved at all. Those people deserve to be in jail for a long time.
/ 2017 Absentee Ballots Election Supervisor
shows nothing out of the ordinary
Because election fraud is the norm.
And The Bee scores again.
https://babylonbee.com/news/white-smoke-rises-from-capitol-building-signifying-marijuana-has-been-decriminalized
Lolol
It’s Friday, so here’s the link for the Zoom/Happy Hour/conspiracy hour. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Now to figure out the best way to get from where my car will be parked to the spin studio in workout clothes. Because allowing people to change in a room, or hang up coats spreads the ‘vid.
My new fetish is half-asian women who drop commercials like Paul Harvey:
“New video about the Left’s WAR on Women!
Ellen Page is now Eliott Page & identifies as a “non-binary trans person,” but will still play female roles…
Yet another example of the progressive effort to throw women who identify as women under the bus
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1334906291421057026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDEMGTMO7zM
Your last link is the most appropriate.
Confirmed: It is still stupid out there and I hate everyone.
I am going to go pour a vodka.
What a coincidence. The time they were counting suitcase ballots matches the time that a massive spike in Biden “votes” appeared.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1334943817418600448
But AG Barr told me there was no fraud, and the DHS said this was the most securest election ever–so thats impossible.
I like when UPS delivers guns and ammunition to my door.
If I had a C&R, my house would look like a cold war Combloc armory. Which is why I never pursued it.
All but two of my Mosin-Nagants are on antique receivers. No paperwork or FFL required. They came right to my door.
Unwrapping Early Christmas presents to myself part one
Top to bottom: SMLE Mk III* made in 1953 at Lithgow, two boxes of FN 5.7×28 ammunition, SMLE Mk V made in 1923 at Enfield.
Unwrapping Early Christmas presents to myself part two
L42A1 with transit case.
Fedex,,,
/ many PDX rounds
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA TO IMPOSE SHELTER-AT-HOME RULES
If the Rona was truly a deadly disease wouldn’t SF be jam packed with the dead bodies of the homeless junkies?
The bad hygiene, poor health and terrible living conditions would all seem perfect to ensure that these people would be reaped in about 10 seconds flat by any disease that was even half ass deadly.
Truly the most disappointing thing about this new plague is that we didn’t even get to get rid of the homeless. And even 200K of dead geezers isn’t going to solve Social Security’s problems.
Aren’t they using hotels to house bums? Or are they “essential people” too?
Suuuuure.
“Speaking of awkward, this is the sort of thing that has become my local news lately.”
Somebody ain’t telling the whole truth there.
Checked out the welding school today. Hopefully I can get started with evening classes next week. They said there’s a serious shortage and jobs are guaranteed.
In other news, I got tapped to be an OPFOR role player because of my jive-talking prowess. Should be fun. With my light country twang, I’m Larry the Cable Guy of Arabia.
Yalla, y’all
(Yalla basically means get r dun in Arabic, sorta like davai in Russian or ikimasho in Japanese)
A cultural theory of warfare
European – keystones are maneuver and logistics; favorite game is chess
Asian – keystones are deception and using enemies’ strengths against him; favorite game is Go
Islamic – keystones are piety and martyrdom; favorite game is backgammon
Backgammon has a large feature of chance which makes sense given that Muslims see chance as actually being Allah’s will.
I’m a sucker for military jock jams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYXaKTzaXFk
comment gold
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When ur only 13 and clear ur kitchen with a airsoft gun and ur dad asks what are u doing
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Oh yeah – I forgot the icing on the cake:
I had a paperwork question and the answer I got was “do whatever you think is logical, sergeant”.
Me doing what I think is logical in the Army?!
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s still hope to make a career of this.
How long does it take to become a welder?
18 weeks with 2 4-hour classes per week. Should be a snap.
If you are me, at the US Army Ordnance Center & School…the answer is “not in this lifetime”. Worst welder ever.
My grandpa made a shit ton of money back in the day as a welder. Went from marginal farmer to very wealthy guy (would have had a ton more money if he didn’t have 10 kids) because he joined the union and was really good at welding.
The only drawback was that he was working at the Hamm’s brewery for most of his career and was dog loyal to them. Which meant if you were stealing a beer from Gramps, it was going to be a Hamms.
My childhood
https://youtu.be/8njwKklop_w
Hamm’s was the first dual purpose beer I ever ran into – it gave you headaches and acted as a laxative!
A gun-gamer friend of mine did OPFOR for a while, and loved it. His nickname was ‘Warcrimes’, which may or may not have had anything to do with his OPFOR shenanigans.
(When a security exercise is on, make double-sure that the wardroom hatch is secure. Triple-sure if the entire chain of command is having a meeting…)
“Whoa, everyone slow down… Here’s some akshually breaking news in my links for once.”
Biden would veto that even if it passed the Senate. Not sure about Trump, but at least with Trump there’s a chance he wouldn’t.
Trump’s a teetotaler, no way he legalizes recreational intoxicants.
I don’t really think Trump thinks that way. It’s a political issue that everyone in politics is still afraid to touch. That’s why you get ballot initiatives instead of legislation, then you can blame it on the sheeples. If there was a national ballot initiative, it would pass by at least 60%. Biden OTH is a long time drug warrior. There’s never been anything to ever exist that Biden wouldn’t love to ban.
It’s mostly a token issue by dems because they think it will not pass the senate and then they can blame the GOP. If they thought it would actually pass, they’d never do it. And if it ever passes and they get enough power, they’ll send you to a fucking re-education camp for even thinking about smoking some dope. Want to know how the dems would govern with one party rule? Just look at China. Is weed legal in China?
” no, big time Reeducation camps for possession
No idea what this new E.L.C. drug is but it sounds dangerous and we should ban it.
A bit more on the effect of culture on military theory:
Most westerners have heard of Sun Tzu, but there are many other military manuals from the Asia, and very few westerners even bother to look at what Muslim military thinkers write.
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The Quranic Concept of War The Quranic Concept of War, by Brigadier General S. K. Malik of the Pakistani Army provides readers with unequalled insight. Originally published in Pakistan in 1979, most available copies are found in India, or in small non-descript Muslim bookstores.8One major point to ponder, when thinking about The Quranic Concept of War, is the title itself. The Quran is presumed to be the revealed word of God as spoken through his chosen prophet, Mohammed. According to Malik, the Quran places warfighting doctrine and its theory in a much different category than western thinkers are accustomed to, because it is not a theory of war derived by man, but of God. This is God‟s warfighting principles and commandments revealed. Malik‟s attempts to distill God‟s doctrine for war through the examples of the Prophet. By contrast, the closest that Clausewitz comes to divine presentation is in his discussion of the trinity: the people, the state, and the military. In the Islamic context, the discussion of war is at the level of revealed truth and example, well above theory—God has no need to theorize. Malik notes, “As a complete Code of Life, the Holy Quran gives us a philosophy of war as well. . . . This divine philosophy is an integral part of the total Quranic ideology.”9
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https://securitypolicylaw.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MyersJoseph.Quranic-Concept-of-War.pdf
Do the stones always tell you where the enemy is hiding, or is that only when you’re fighting Jews?
Spray and pray?
1. Level AK towards enemy,
2. Depress trigger until 30 round magazine is empty,
3. Insh’allah my enemy will fall.
I’ve got a buddy who uses the same technique to take pictures of wherever he’s going. :-/
Speaking of leafy crimes (or spot the Korean adoptee), Minnesoda has a booming business of Spruce poachers!
I blame the NoDaks for providing the illegal axes and chainsaws used by these criminals. The are the Indiana of the timber industry.
For some reason my phone wont let me leave a comment that isnt a reply to someone else. Sorry.
I watched crazy Rudy and the Army colonel that is the computer specialist testify at the Arizona hearing. The colonel was claiming that he saw what looked like udobvious vote dumps in the charts, and if allowed to study the machines would definitely be able to prove if fraud occured. So i think this is good.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/arizona-legislature-calls-for-immediate-forensic-audit-of-dominion-voting-machines_3605367.html
Checked out the welding school today. Hopefully I can get started with evening classes next week. They said there’s a serious shortage and jobs are guaranteed.
Nice. Civilian, or Army?
civ
Whoa, everyone slow down… Here’s some akshually breaking news in my links for once.
While the decriminalization is a good idea, there’s a lot in that MORE act that is terrible, to the point where I think voting against it is the right call, even taking into account that the perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of the good. First, does the federal government even have the constitutional authority to institute a sales tax? A special tax on marijuana is a bad idea, but not bad enough to trash the bill, but having it be a federal sales tax, seemingly regardless of whether it is part of interstate or international commerce, is a very bad idea. Also, it’s not just a tax, the tax is specifically to be used to fund a new “Cannabis Justice Department”, which like all new programs with vague, redundant, and dubious goals is a bad idea. Also, it includes federal oversight of state licensing boards, and on top of that the oversight commission has the specific task of injecting racial quotas into the marijuana industry. A bad bill that does a few good things, IMO.
Having never looked at the bill, those are indeed terrible features.
Yeah, I haven’t looked at it either (who has the time?), I was just going by what the linked article said. Checking in with Thomas Massie’s twitter (he’s usual pretty astute in his judgement of bills) confirms that my assessment based on the article is correct.
For those who don’t twitter, his assessment is this:
Pretty much exactly the same thing happened in Canada when weed was legalized. The Feds stuck their snout into every aspect of growing, transporting and selling the Devil’s Lettuce for the express purpose of controlling who smokes it and how much they’ll pay in taxes and fees. My nephew and two nieces didn’t believe me when I told them, years ago, that exactly that would happen. They’re pretty rueful about it all now.
Oh, spoiler alert: the actual quality of the “legal” weed has degraded quite a bit, and many people who used to smoke don’t any more. So I guess it’s a win-win for everyone ‘cept the people who actually wanted to smoke weed in the first place.
I’m sure they won’t abuse it the way governors and mayors have been enacting EOs about COVID.
I’m really hoping that the Rs will come around on decriminalization before the Ds manage to get their terrible version of it through. A faint hope, but otherwise we are getting exactly what you describe Canada got, or worse.
We will NEVER allow Canada to be worse than us! We have California as an example – where the state is now going after growers for operating without a state license.
The GF, which has been smoking for 20 odds years, tells me the same.
Don’t know about other provinces, but here, there is a few legal stores in some place where it’s cheaper and better quality, and the government won’t go bother those businesses.
You know… those feather not dot type of places.
…those feather-not-dot type of places.
Hey, those are the best places to get fireworks! (And, let’s be honest, the only place to get decent fireworks these days…)
You can also apparently get OTC stuff to eat of the psilocybin variety there. The professionally made type, not homemade.
If it wasn’t for the damn racist and communist laws and ways by which those communities are run, I’d say that would be as close as a libertarian paradise we can get to.
Don’t they tax cigs and liquor?
I don’t know, but thinking about it more they do tax gas, and I guess that counts as an excise tax, which Congress does have the power to pass, so I guess the tax is OK, even if not a great idea. So, fewer objections to the bill, but it still seems to be larded up with bad ideas.
Bad ideas are what they specialize in.
If it’s longer than this, you know it’s larded up with bad ideas:
“Using, possessing, or selling marijuana or any derivatives is an unenumerated right under the Ninth Amendment, and thus any and all federal laws, rules, or regulations that prohibit, restrict, regulate, or in any way whatsoever infringe upon this unenumerated right are unconstitutional and hereby repealed.”
Chosing what substances you will ingest or refuse to ingest is an unenumerated right under the Ninth Amendment, and thus any and all federal laws, rules, or regulations that prohibit, restrict, regulate, or in any way whatsoever infringe upon this unenumerated right are unconstitutional and hereby repealed.
Marijuana is not special, pretending it is special cedes the actual important issue. I understand incrementalism, but far and away the bigger problem with prohibition is that enforcing it pits the police against the citizenry and leads to informers, no knock raids, stop and frisk, and a variety of 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment infringements.
If Democrats didn’t have bad ideas, they wouldn’t have any ideas at all, and then they’d be Republicans.
LOL
YOU’RE GOD DAMNED RIGHT THEY DO AND THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO THINGS I LIVE FOR!!!!
This is the actual goal of the thing. Shoveling more dollars into “social justice” crap. The weed is beside the point.
For y’all gamers, I gotta say, AC Valhalla is the best RPG in a very long time. I love the loot, the combat, the story, and the atmosphere and graphics are the best ever. I was really getting into it last night. I would have still been playing early this morning, but I had to get some sleep because work today. Gonna get back in tonight, just a couple more beers and the mood will be perfect…
Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine
“School of Public Health”
You have to understand what you are dealing with there, then you’ll get it.
I’d like to see this kind of survey done in other professions. It’s good to identify those career paths populated by the insane.
So, epidemiologists are germophobes. Imagine a mask smothering a human face — forever.
This is my fear.
Like psychology draws nutcases epidemiology draws OCD germophobes…no fucking surprise there.
Good. Die off and let the rest of us get on with our lives.
We have snow in the mountains. A couple ski areas are open and I’ve been snowmobiling twice already.
I don’t understand anything after reading this story except that the govt has decided to pour more money down a hole and hopefully it will become a permanent hole soon and not just a pilot hole.
I don’t even think it is bad journalo-ising. The whole idea is so incoherent that no one can figure out what the fuck a mobility hub is or what possible benefit might be derived from having them.
Copying progressive initiatives from California – who cares what is actually means as long as it makes them feel good?
And “helps” your donors.
Good choice of music, Riven. Me an Ol’ Elvis, circa 1955. Good times, radio was a helluva invention, Del Rio after dark
Finally! Our national nightmare of Orange Man Bad: Dairy Dept is finally over!
Reminds me. I need to order some non organic pecans.
https://mopecans.com/?product_cat=conventional-pecans
I never liked mope cans myself.
And now begins our new actual reality nightmare, yay!
I can’t think of many larger scams than the “organic” food movement.
Yeah! Fresh seeds on the way! you can’t stop farmer Bob,
“Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double they’d be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift bc someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling”
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334654123652886529
So what don’t you want?
Wow. Bit of a major self own there.
I also like that the first reply that shows up for me is Sarah Palin taking her to task.
outrage porn!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-trump-stereotypical-macho-style-young-black-voters
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Still, Obama’s theory that men of color might be attracted to Trump’s masculinity is not new. The Los Angeles Times recently published an op-ed entitled “A ‘man’s man’: Why some Black men are drawn to Trump’s toxic masculinity.” The New York Times published another one: “The Macho Appeal of Donald Trump.”
“While it is not inherently bad for Trump, and other men, to espouse confidence and strength, these traits can quickly devolve into toxic masculinity — suppressing emotions, flaunting a tough exterior and seeing violence as an indicator of power,” the LA Times’ op-ed reasoned. “Trump’s form of masculinity appeals to a small minority of Black men who think such masculinity is their best way of making their own way in the world.”
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Quelle horreur!
I’m going to go ahead and say that is even more true of Latino men. I’m saying it because I know it’s true, machismo is a real thing.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EobDNVIXMAYzhR4.jpg
I knew it!
Lol, well we knew that white supremacists were going to pop up amongst the copycats sooner or later. I mean because there are so many white supremacists.
Oh, that’s where all the white supremacists have been hiding!
Needs a 45 degree offset, that’s obviously a Hindu obelisk.
I read you guys quoting articles by Lead Stories earlier, which is one of Facebook’s partners in ”Fact Checking”.
Lead Stories was co-founded by a dude that was editor for CNN for 26 years as co-founder.
By doing their ”Fact Checking” they’re basically redirecting traffic from ”False News” websites to their own, and then get the advertising revenues from them.
Candace Owens lawsuit accuse them of doing it at least : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE3OqxWSXlA
So yeah, it has as much to do with politics as ”Our revenues goes down because we keep peddling BS, we’ll say you do it and steal your money.”
It’s quite evil. Not only are they attacking your character, they also steal from you. Yup… Lamp posts, wood chippers.
And Facebook is directing tons of traffic to their web site any time anyone mentions Fulton County.
I am still in disbelief that a government official saying something is considered a “fact check” over the word of multiple witnesses who say otherwise.
Technically it is a fact check, just not an adequate one.
The fact checks have been weighed, they have been measured, and have been found wanting.
Do people really not get that social media has always been a bunch of giant advertising agencies? I thought that this was common knowledge?
I’ll be honest, I knew they were making some money out of the advertisements and selling my data.
But Candace Owens claims that she lost revenues of around 1 millions $ per month by the Fact Checker having Facebook demonetize her.
Same with my Yahoo Mail account that just asked me to sign up for 5$ a month if I used ad blocker. I’m pretty sure that’s not what running a cheap email account costs them.
I always knew that people made money from advertising, but I’m a bit shocked that someone could make so much by what is pretty much just eating my bandwidth as I rarely buy anything from the internet.
And I see why idiots losing it from CNN would want to cheat you out of it. One thing is sure, it has convinced me this has absolutely nothing to do about ”Facts” nor even ”The Narrative”.
Were you all aware that, according to the Surgeon General (on Fox news this afternoon) it is our fault that various Gauleiters are imposing lock downs again?
It is because we “have forced their hand” (actual quote) by misbehaving not wearing masks, social distancing, and staying the fuck in our basements where science experts say we should be.
I have a rock that keeps the Covid away.
FYTW
No, this doesn’t sound anything at all like a religion
The fact that people’s behavior hasn’t changed at all never seems to factor into these scoldings.
King Walz in Minnesoda loves blathering on about how he was forced to dial things back because we are bad children. It hurts him more than it hurts us. Honest!
Hasn’t changed = We are wearing masks at least as much as we did back in the summer when we have very low cases/hospitalizations/deaths (if not more mask wearing now).
It is almost as if it got cold and cases spiked. But I’m sure moar mask will solve that problem.
We have disappointed them again.
“I’m sorry baby, I didn’t mean to hit you, I love you so much that you just make me crazy sometimes…”
“It’s just this Covid and that lying son of bitch Trump!”
I found my collection of WW2 Army language and culture guidebooks. I got them from my Grandpa. I’m pretty sure he made the illustrations for them. It’s hilarious how they are better written than most of today’s Army manuals.
The comments on the Japanese are delightfully un-PC. According to one guide, the evil Japs are distinguished from our wonderful Chinese allies by their lemon yellow skin and buck teeth.
I have my grandfather’s silhouette book: shoot down the Luftwaffe, not the AAC.
We should have joined hands with the Japanese after their surrender and driven on Chungking.
Raccoon feeder’s neighbor sics DNR on him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6saD4Om6lFc
I assume his entire property is covered in raccoon shit.
He claims not.
The problem with that is that those coons don’t just stay in his yard. If I was a neighbor who ended up with one of those coons digging into my attic and setting up residence there, I’d be a bit upset too.
I might go have a talk with him myself before I called The Man on him though.
https://twitter.com/catshouldnt/status/1334445958134829064
transhamster?
Usually they lick themselves clean. I take it cats are evolving.
Joe’s Resignation Plan
Sounds like he’s getting used to the idea.
Anti Christ/Harris! 2024!
As Kamala De Vil looks on with an eager grin…
A fabulous new technique for the folks you can’t trust with knives at parties!
Or just a wino mom that wanted cake. I’d like to see her trick and quickly making sammiches.
Just because she has a bunch of wine glasses doesn’t make her a wine mom. Thinking wine glasses caked on the outside in cake aren’t going to be a problem makes her a wine mom.
Fauci’s mistake is one of arrogance, not malice
Or it is malice because he is a mouthpiece for the WHO which is part of a demoralization effort in preparation for the Great Reset. ///BuildBackBetter
*adjust tinfoil*AMC Theaters Slams Warner Bros’ HBO Max 2021 Movies Release Plan
Open the damned theaters. I don’t even like going but I’d go to bite my thumb at the wannabe king of a governor.
How Democrats Think Election Fraud Ended
Note how Google felt the need to “fact check” this…
For those of you following along at home:
1) My mom came home much sooner than expected and is sore (plus chronic aches and pain) but can breathe better.
2) The 30something DIL of my husband’s dudebropal who had a stroke and emergency surgery just died. She has a 3yo.
Unrelated:
Went to LJS for dinner and there was a sign up, collecting $$$ for their cook whose wife died.
2020. SMH. 2021 will be as bad or worse.
/NegativeNancy
2) So sorry! ❤️
Good news on the mom front. Hard to process on the friend’s DIL front. That’s rough. Friend’s son is gonna need some men in his life to prop him up.
Prayers for both situations for very different reasons.
Yeah, we didn’t know her but Dudebropal’s leaning on my husband a lot, which he is happy to be leaned upon.
Also, Dudebropal’s 5yo granddaughter (different kid) has myeloplastic leukemia that has returned after remission. Now they are looking for another bone marrow donor. She is probably not long for this Earth, either.
Here’s their Gofundme, FWIW.
https://babylonbee.com/news/2020-rated-worst-year-ever-provided-you-never-lived-at-any-other-time-in-history
That is supposed to make you laugh. And think. And realize things really aren’t that bad. Like I said in the earlier thread, its a disease of cultures that are rich, fat, and old. Which is not a bad thing to be, considering the options.
Nah, but we’re talking about a 30ish year old with a 3yo kid who had a stroke and died.
Yeah, that one sucks in any year.
Also, as Jarflax pointed out once, the Plague may have ushered in the Renaissance, but it probably wasn’t fun to go through.
My great grandfather came this country to flee the Armenian Holocaust. He had to escape a Turkish prison first. They captured all the men there by promising that the women and children would be unharmed. Then they murdered them all.
His son, my grandfather, had polio as an infant. Polio is that disease that’s like 100x worse than covid. remember? luckily he was crippled for life from that so didn’t have to serve in the war that saw like 85 million people die.
My central European grandfather, on the other hand, was forced to go shoot young people in that war for years.
Hey I’m not saying I like what some of these governments are doing right now, but please don’t try to tell me it’s a bad year.
Just because it isn’t one of the worst years doesn’t mean it’s not bad.
It mean it could be better. And I will fight for things to stay good.
But as i sit here in my comfortably heated house eating a ribeye steak I just grilled while typing on a hand computer my younger self would’ve thought magical. I have to admit it could be way worse .
That’s something I needed to hear, thanks. I’ve been having a really hard time thinking in positive terms about anything this week.
“This was the worst of all years… except all the others”
— Ben Franklin
This week was such a long slog I had an Amazon package arrive two days ago and didn’t even know it until after work today.
It could absolutely be worse, but this is still a bad year. I’m all in on recognizing my blessings and I think reminding myself to be grateful is helpful, but this is still a bad year.
Your difference of opinion infuriates me.
Ok i’m over it.
Strokes are the worst. It’s the apparent randomness that gets me. My brother’s wife (three weeks away from retiring at 65) had a stroke about 18 months ago. Dropped her like first period French.
He’s been a wreck, and an asshole, ever since.
Very glad to hear about your Mom, though. Huzzah!
2021 will be as bad or worse
Come on now, let’s be optimistic. At least Trump won’t be president to soak up all the bad news. Now we get to farm out blame to all the angels and demons in the firmament. Maybe Newsom or Cuomo get to share in the ignominy, now that it’s no longer an option to blame it all on the president.
It’s all gonna be because Republicans refuse to make Washington DC a state.
Looks like McConnell is going to be Designated Satan for 2021.
If there’s a plan to dump Biden, then it will still be an option to blame it all on the president. Only time will tell.
Good about your mom.
Sorry about the deaths.
Sorry Mo.
A stroke with kids is rough.
2021: Masks, lockdowns, forced COVID vaccinations (come on y’all, you know it’s coming), and vaccination ID cards…Biden’s gonna whip this virus like a boss so it’s good times ahead.
Sorry 🙁
Observer testifying that every voting machine in his precint was connected to an internet router.
https://gab.com/M2Madness/posts/105306806649844755
You don’t even need to be connected these days. You just stick a little dongle in the back.
That’s what she said.
“Observer testifying that every voting machine in his precint was connected to an internet router.”
Is that even disputed?
Yes.
Don’t even need a router nor an internet connection in the place. CPAP machines can use cellular transmission.
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk00_wv3aznyW6Dmu_J8whBejvSDidA:1607131366500&q=How+does+CPAP+machine+transmit+data%3F&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizlNTx1rXtAhWAF1kFHWLsD7QQzmd6BAgTEAU&biw=1745&bih=852
Every breath you take, every move you make…
The Police
takes on a new menaing doesn’t it?
Freaky thing is that being in the socialist constitutional monarchy of Quebec… mine comes from the government.
And I know for a fact that it goes thru a lot of social workers and other bureaucrats before it reach any kind of medical personnel.
Can’t wait to afford my own.
Transition Team Begins Installing Life Alert Buttons Throughout White House
Does their priest / pastor know about them?
Lurker!!! Mole!!!
Was it you that was looking for graphic novels/sequential art/comics?
My personal favorite .
Yup – that was me. Thanks! That looks like fun!
I watched kooky Rudy and the computer psi-ops colonel who sounds like he knows what hes doing, at the hearing in Az the other day. He said there were what looked like fradulent “vote dumps” in the charts of the voting. He said without a doubt if he could examine the mschines he can tell without a doubt if there was any fraud committed. Hes going to get his shot. We shall see.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/arizona-legislature-calls-for-immediate-forensic-audit-of-dominion-voting-machines_3605367.html
So it appears that Texas (or at least one of its school districts) believe in collective punishment.
I won’t condone the lad’s actions, as that’s a very bright line that doesn’t get crossed due to both written and unwritten rules. Still, there were a few times when I was a kid… I’ll be waiting for the “totality of the circumstances” (HTH, smooches) to come out.
Sports are kind of inherently collectivist, and the punishments likewise. Hell, you can get penalized for what the people in the stands are doing.
Not for me though because I’m usually the seeker.
In fact I’m not quite sure why the rest of the scoring system exists. Seems irrelevant.
You also get punished for what a college program did ten years ago.
I thought it was pretty clever when a friend (who works in a dentist’s office) used dental floss to cut a sheet cake. Wine glasses? Not exactly their highest and best use.
I saw someone actually use a knife once.
I was all “weird, you don’t just stick your face in it?”
I use dental floss to level cake layers. Easier than using a knife
I use icing to level the layers. LOL
Which is tastier than using a knife.
Right?!