This is cool- (((we))) are now actually in control because you’re all so goddam busy. And we’re going to make the most of it. maybe with kidnapping, organ theft, deicide, and usury. Meantime, SP and I watched the second-best Christmas movie ever made while pounding some French wine (that immediately surrendered).
But (((we))) at least have to acknowledge birthdays, which today include a guy with some gravity; the star of Naughty Nurses: The Original; a woman who was made up; the progenitor of many generations of shitty cars; an actor who was typecast and did great with it; another guy I’d be happy to do some lines with; a guy who did great and was rewarded for it as expected; a short guy with an outsized impact; a quarterback who was always amazing fun to watch; a Team Red piece of shit who still plagues us; a contender for the best all-around baseball player since Ruth; and a bearded Zoolander, who got his father’s ethics and his mother’s intellect.
Now news that no-one will read.
Yeah, yeah, I’m a libertarian. But still, I have to commute and these people are a fucking hazard.
I admit it: I’m enough of a geek to want to try this.
Old Guy Music today is not Christmas music because, well, fuck that shit. This is a great live version of a signature tune.
Merry Christmas to OMWC and all the other non-Christians out there
Was expecting this.
Guess who’s not getting bail.
To be fair, what he’s accused of doing shouldn’t have been illegal.
He was a known New York politician.
It isn’t illegal. The state is the criminal party in this story.
POUND OF FLESH!
I guess the state he fled from are now arresting people for bb guns.
Old Lady Music
I’d like to wish all of you degenerates a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Damn your nimble fingers! I was hoping for a First, Second, Third, AND Fourth!
Maybe don’t use a Biblical curse at the guy who left us to get closer to God.
Of course, I’ve never even gotten in first, much less gold, silver and bronze.
Heh, I’m probably still going to hell, but I’ve always been at least nominally Christian. Admittedly I’ve been feeling a bit more spiritual since my mom’s cancer diagnosis. I want to believe. At any rate, it can’t hurt to remember the actual reason for the holiday for historical reasons if nothing else.
Wasn’t it you who recently said you were taking a long, maybe permanent, break from here to devote yourself to following Christ? I gotta cut down on my drinking. Memory is shot.
That was Digby.
And thank goodness. Pat does a stellar job screening Q’s links for the svelte minxes for me.
Merry Christmas, Pat!
To you as well!
Am mentally reading that in Linus’s voice. “That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown!”
Merry Christmas and just..a new year. Being new, it has no real choice but to be happier, Imma guess.
There’s still time to get your wife something for Christmas
Sure, why not? Last year, we got his and her colonoscopies for a wedding anniversary. Or was it the year before? I can’t remember.
*shrugs*
What a shitty present.
But the farting is epic.
Meme going around says if 2020 was a beverage, it would be colonoscopy prep.
lol
Don’t get scammed!
HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS!
Dildo and a pair of shoes…
So if she doesn’t like the shoes she can go fuck herself?
Ladies it works for that special guy in your life as well…
Merry Christmas morning Glbs.
And back atcha, Sean. Cold this morning but what else is new in winter? Need to clean up the snow later when it warms up a little.
Hope all of the Glibs get to enjoy a few days’ rest and avoid your neighbors, unless they are friends.
Heh, rain we got yesterday wiped out all of the snow on the ground here. Another year without a white Christmas.
A very Merry Christmas to you Sean, Fourscore, and the rest of the lot of ye.
Same to you and yours, Sean.
And Merry Glibmas to the rest you lot!
Merry Xmas!
Merry Christmas to all of you as well.
‘According to the text of the law, unless a motor vehicle is parked or stopped, a person may not operate a motor vehicle on a street or highway if the person does either of the following:
1. Physically holds or supports with any part of the person’s body either of the following:
A portable wireless communication device, except that a person may use a portable wireless communication device with an earpiece, headphone device or device worn on a wrist to conduct a voice-based communication
A stand-alone electronic device’
Here in the Mixed Bag of Misery you can still legally text and drive(I almost never do. I think it’s a dumb play for the most part), or could last time I checked. A year or two ago, I got a kick out off telling a cop to “Piss off! I don’t have to!” when he yelled at me from his motorcycle when I checked a message on my phone while stuck in a traffic jam. He didn’t like that one bit but hey, fuck him.
Sometimes it’s the little things in life that make it worth living.
Merry Christmas, all!
Oh frabjous day!
Ho ho ho!
Caloo callay, motherfucker.
Is that from Die Hard 7, Die Jabbering?
All those birthday folks got cheated out a lot of gifts, OM.
I laughed at Shabbos guy because I know somebody who fulfilled that job for his very Orthodox neighbors.
He needs some kind of cape, like a superhero:
Never fear; Shabbos Goy is here!
Merry Christmas! ? Thanks to everyone for joining the zoom last night and the night before. You guys always make me laugh.
I came back after our annual family viewing of White Christmas. I made a beverage, sat down, and promptly passed out. I think I came to at about midnight. I really need to start drinking later if I want to hang out with you people.
Sorry I missed PrimeTime. But if you read my previous comment, I did make the overnight. Then made cookies. I need a nap.
maybe with kidnapping, organ theft, deicide, and usury.
I nominate Saint Foochy. Kidnap him, collect the ransom, and then sell him for parts.
Morning everyone. Merry Christmas.
We had a great Christmas Eve dinner with my family last night.
This morning I’m sipping coffee and eating https://www.thespruceeats.com/polish-poppy-seed-roll-recipe-makowiec-1136412
As is my people’s tradition
My mom makes kolach this time of year. Similar but the filling is walnuts and raisins. I prefer to make a filling of orange, cranberry and pecons, but that’s because I don’t like raisins very much.
We appropriated another people’s tradition last night and had Chinese.
#ustoo
mmmSpringroll.
Fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra!
Christmas treacle
In the past, when the government was about to shut down around Christmas, presidents and lawmakers stayed behind in Washington to figure it out. Even Trump skipped his Florida vacation two years ago as agencies shuttered.
So, too, have the country’s leaders typically attempted some form of in-the-trenches solidarity with their constituents when the going gets tough — like, for example, when health experts advise against holiday travel and gatherings with family.
But conventional practices have mostly disappeared in the four years Trump has been president. And no one really thinks twice anymore when Trump — despite claims by the White House that his schedule is packed with phone calls and meetings — pays another visit to one of his golf clubs while millions of Americans go hungry at Christmas.
Oh, ignominy! Oh, shame!
An entire nation lashed to the railroad tracks, squirming and struggling in a weirdly erotic manner as the Super Chief locomotive, with President Cartoon Villain himself at the controls, bears down on them.
Those people going hungry are the fault of state governors who singlehandedly put millions out of work.
“…millions of Americans go hungry at Christmas.”
I just knew that had to be CNN.
Guess what motherfuckers. Even if Harris gets to be president Section 230 is still going to get the bullet. Spew all of the gibberish you want. It is still going to happen.
“The poor you will always have with you” (Matthew 26:11)
Trump’s the guy that’s trying to get the public bigger payouts when the Dems were happy to settle for 600 bucks and pork for the already well off movers and shakers. Regardless of what you think about the payments that’s an unfair characterization but, hey, it’s CNN.
$900B is enough for about $2600 for every man, woman, and child in the US. If the Stupid Party weren’t in on the grift, they should point this out and point out that TEAM BLUE only voted for a $600 tax credit because they actively want the rest of the money to be graft.
Pelosi called $1200 or so “crumbs” not so many years ago…
ha ha! I nearly posted about the crumbs the other day.
Six hundred isn’t even crumbs, it’s more like getting to smell the food while it’s cooking and is a slap in the face, especially considering the amounts they are happy to dole out to other countries and the like. Sorry about you not being able to work for the past eight months largely due to policies we encourage, here’s six hundred bucks.
$600 spread evenly across all the months since I lost my job in the entertainment industry is just enough to keep me supplied in Panko. They do know bills aren’t one-off events, right?
You assume they fucking care about a peasant like you that actually has to work for a living..
Standard libertarian disclaimer, I obviously don’t think the feds (nor the Fed) should be handing out any money.
“But what about the————————–”
Fill in the blank with your favorite unfavorite. If I was politically incorrect the blank would need to be longer and with commas.
Every dime of it should go to individuals. Trump should demand that or veto the crap. Of course he won’t, but he should.
[cite fucking needed]
I haven’t had made my breakfast yet, I’m hungry at Christmas.
FoOd DEseRt!
I also haven’t proofread a damn thing today. I’m illiterate at Christmas.
Millions? And do share the roll of the federal government with me.
Black Treacle
What a dishonest take. That could be written about any president in my lifetime.
Yeah, Trump isn’t the one who created the favelas on the countries left coast.
Good morning and Merry Christmas to everyone.
I had a wonderful evening at my Son’s house last night. My Grandchildren (cutest kids ever) had a blast. I think Mrs. Suthenboy got them the best gift. She has a talent for that.
Today is traditionally a food day so…about to whip up a couple of grilled cheese with bacon sandwiches for wife and myself. That will get us started.
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday.
Merry Christmas, Suthen! So what did she get them??
A very nice, professional quality karaoke machine. Very cool.
They told us that Granddaughter loves to sing and Grandson also but to a lesser extent. It only took us a minute or so to get it set up and going and they went to town.
Wonderful!
Merry Christmas.
Bah! Humbug!
*hugs Pie*
Nice. Now Pie has the ‘rona.
Plus now he smells like sex too.
I was wearing a mask!
And nothing else?
Google Car will take you where it thinks you want to go rather than where you tell it.
But first it will slowly drive past sponsored sites and other locations “you might enjoy.”
Well done…bravo
Bah! Humbug!
Back atcha, furriner.
Will of the people
Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff each brought in more than $100 million in a two-month period, setting a blistering fundraising pace in their quest to topple two Republican incumbents in Georgia and seize control of the US Senate, new filings show.
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The frenzied fundraising underscores the high stakes for the narrowly divided Senate. If Ossoff and Warnock win both seats in the January 5 runoffs, their party will control the chamber since Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can break ties in the Senate.
Money in politics isn’t all bad. Just as long as it’s on the side of Truth and Justice.
Even leaving aside the shenanigans, the Republicans seem intent on throwing those elections anyway. Their behavior since November has been abysmal and almost seems designed to make people stay at home.
Battered wife syndrome perhaps?
I am considering staying home myself. I just can’t even anymore. They are just giving us the illusion of free choice.
Are you a Georgian? Please don’t!
With Trump gone, the need to actually deliver to the people that elected you vs. the people that financed your election has all but evaporated from the republican party and they are back to business as usual (being the less criminal of the two criminal syndicates).
Unless they are paying money directly to voters, I don’t see anyone changing their minds. Are they using the money to “register” new voters? Osshoff better win, or he be labeled the biggest waste of money ever.
Don’t Bloomberg and Steyer pretty much have a lock on biggest waste of money ever?
Wasn’t he already the biggest waste after his failed bid for that House seat?
I’m sure all of that money is from Georgians and not wealthy, out of state leftists seeing as senators from Georgia are supposed to represent Georgians.
This. Almost all the money wasted on Ossoff last time was from out of state. Probably a lot of it from China. The dude is a CCP puppet.
Just for fun, I looked up the birth rate per thousand for this country. It’s roughly twelve.
Death per thousand from the chinee plague seems to be just about one.
At this rate, we’ll be extinct in
Wait a minute…
I was told there would be no math.
So I’m 12 times more like to be a new father rather than dying, right?
Despite me being difficult about holiday gifting, my gf got me a TLR-1 HL and a BFG sling and some miscellaneous small things. She didn’t think it was right I had nothing to unwrap Christmas morning. Heh.
I was advised to figure out what else I wanted. Yes, I already got “that” this morning. ?
Sean got his Christmas goose!!
And there was no one to gander. Or was there …
Vickers sling from BFG? I like mine. Still getting used to it from an iron sight guy.
Mornin’ and Merry Christmas to all!
I’m surprised the 3 year old had the patience to wait in her room until her alarm went off. Then again, we did threaten her enough times last night with phone calls to Santa that it snapped her back in line. ?
Wife’s homemade cinnamon rolls are going in the oven shortly, and the ham will go on the Weber in a few minutes, as well. Low key Christmas this year because people were exposed to covid last minute, but I like the low key years. The less we have to schlep across the city to see ten different groups of family, the better.
Peace, love, and joy to all on Christmas!
“(((we))) are now actually in control because you’re all so goddam busy.”
That usually means seeing a movie and/or getting Chinese food.
Meantime, SP and I watched the second-best Christmas movie
Yeah, you can’t go wrong with Bad Santa.
That was the BEST one. We went for Second Best.
It is a day too early for “Sink the Scharnhorst” so you must have watched “Stalingrad” (1993 version).
Nikulturni.
“Jan. 1 marks first day Arizonans can get pulled over for phone use while driving”
I think we have the same thing in Va. now. I should probably look up the law to see how strict it is.
America: the Trump years
“Google’s self-driving company, Waymo, introduced a fully driverless ride hailing service to parts of the East Valley this fall. Arizona in Focus looks at how today’s decisions will shape the future of autonomous vehicles.”
Pass.
“the delivery drivers at the heart of the pandemic economy say that the boom has left them working brutal hours”
Required or by choice?
There is no “hardship” so trivial that someone won’t publicly claim martyr status for it these days.
“predicted in Biblical prophecy”
Also, Jesus comes back and saves us. Or we just make our own super soldiers using Mexican immigrants.
Shoot, you hardly need to do anything to turn Mexicans here in the US into super soldiers. Those guys can already run, jump and swim like motherfuckers.
You learn that when running away from Conquistadors with steel armor and weapons, while you’re wearing your cotton and have wood and stone weapons. That makes you able to run, swim, and jump really fast and hard.
Merry Christmas. Working from home so no boozy coffee for me to warm me up. I don’t mind low key Christmas days. We will head over to the inlaws for dinner.
I think some bacon and egg sandwiches are in our future also.
Merry Christmas everyone. It’s been an early 5:30am start at the SSD household. The kids got a Nintendo Switch from Santa and have been tearing up Mario Kart. My parents and sister will be coming over with Chinese food for a (((Christmas lunch))).
Has anybody ordered from Crowd Cow? Am thinking about picking up an A5 Wagyu strip steak (the real deal imported from Japan, not the American knock-off). Crazy expensive but have some major milestones to celebrate.
I have not.
I will expect steak pics.
Just pulled the trigger. With 50% fat content, it should be like meat butter.
Worst part of Christmas: getting dumb gifts
Best part of Christmas: overindulging on food and alcohol, giving gifts, spending time with loved ones. The ex is letting me see my son later so I’m happy.
The best present of all…”The ex is letting me see my son later so I’m happy.”
Merry Christmas and I do not miss those days
I’m envious of OMWC or any other AZ Glibs. You are on deck to get tons of “fun” local news stories about cops pulling phone stings. You can see them do all sorts of entertaining things to nab those people who are using their phones while driving.
When Minnesoda got their fancy no phone laws we were shown cops renting a schoolbus so they could see down into nearby cars as they drove by. We were shown undercover cops at stop lights who would pretend to be beggars, but were actually looking into cars and nabbing people who were stopped at a light and using their phones.
I can’t tell you how proud it made me to see my taxes being used so wisely. Instead of throwing money down a rat hole, the governments, turned that money into even more through the magic of thousands of tickets/fines.
Yeah, people will just start holding their phones low and out of sight and further out of the natural field of vision when driving which will only make the problem worse which will naturally lead to the cops doing idiotic shit.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis cops stand by and do nothing with violent protests and looting.
“Because that’s where the money is.”
—Willie Sutton
Kinda seems like you’d want people to use their phones (to change the song or podcast or whatever) at traffic lights instead of while they’re moving.
But it is hard to catch people driving along breaking the law. It is easy to catch them at stop lights.
For about a month people were putting their phones down. Since then enforcement seems to have gone away and you see the same amount of people driving badly while holding their phones.
The phone law is the government investment you heard so much about. Like seat belt laws, OK? If it saves just 1 life it’ll be worth it.
Funny how these fuckers looking to collect cash always claim to do it in the name of safety while endangering everyone huh, your holiness?
My advice is to always plead not guilty and take it to court. The fines associated with these sort of things usually are small – on purpose – to encourage people to just pay them and move on. You want to break that cycle by assuring the state it will cost them far more to collect from you than the fine (hence the court appearance). T
Not sure WTF this was as I got an error right before I posted and had to retype it….
Damned Christmas ruining Jewish squirrels!
Converting (((squirrels))) isn’t as hard as you think. The squirrels don’t care about getting trimmed, as long as the mohel stays away from their nuts.
My advice is that you simply return the ticket with a not guilty plea. The fine usually is low so people feel compelled to just pay it and move on. Kick them in the teeth by making sure if they somehow manage to collect from you, it cost them 10 times or more to do that. I have not had a ticket stick for 4 decades because I have always gone to court to make sure it costed them a couple of thousands to collect a measly couple of hundred from me. Now I just plead not guilty and they dismiss it.
And take note how these fuckers pretend they do these sorts of things for safety while then endangering everyone to try and cull the sheep…. This is a money making, extortion racket and nothing else.
I don’t quite have your batting average, but I do this as well. I’ve earned a few NGs on my own and once had a cop talk himself into a conflicting statement on the stand, prosecutor requested a recess for lunch and the cop “was nearly killed by a drunk driver over lunch and we need a continuance”. I rejected to continuance and case tossed. Small jurisdictions can be a bitch though.
I can’t understand the thought behind this prohibition. Yes, some people are more dangerous when driving/using phones, but others are just fine. Most of us have used a phone while driving at least once and not hit anything. We proved that it’s possible to be responsible about it. This way, if you use the phone while driving, you get jacked. Meanwhile, if you’re just dumb and crash into someone because you were changing the station on the radio, no biggie, it’s just an accident. The lady that hit me was just fucking stupid. Not drunk, not on her phone, just fucking stupid. My back hurts just as bad as if she’d have been breaking these laws and the same damage was done. Why is phone use special? She could have legally been applying mascara and killed someone with max consequences of higher insurance rates. There’s nothing fair about phone use prohibitions. What’re we gonna start outlawing every possible distraction?
I agree with you completely. It pisses me off that instead of people being held accountable for the harm they cause, the state wants its filthy lucre from responsible people. I had this argument with some nanny statists over it, and their response was predictable. If it saves lives….
Dollars to donuts, that’s why the statute bans devices being supported by any part of one’s body – car mounted computers are a-ok!
I’m assuming this law doesn’t apply to the cops themselves since they’re constantly looking at their computer screens while driving.
The above comment was meant as a reply to you, sir.
Merry Christmas, fellow misanthropes!
The Splosives household is having a low key Christmas too.
Nothing on the agenda but unwrapping a few gifts and making a few phone calls to my siblings and remaining parent. I made a cheesecake last night but otherwise Christmas meal will be like any other.
I’m not even out of bed yet; just lazily browsing.
Merry Christmas to all!
You are missing quite the White Christmas here in your old stomping grounds Splosive.
We had no snow Wednesday morning, then we got 8″ in an old time blizzard. The winds managed to put that 8″ of snow in some pretty big drifts. We got most of the stuff shoveled yesterday, but then some shear pins broke and I’m going to have to take apart a lot of the snow blower to replace them. Yaaaay.
I heard you guys made up for the nice weather of the past 3 weeks or so….
I’m dying for some cold. I want to go ice fishing and need moar ice.
Yesterday I was checking on a few things and noticed that our 40 day on Tuesday melted enough ice that one of the lakes I want to fish now has open water! This shit has to stop. I’ve got a new electric ice auger that needs to be used.
Did you also get a lot of extension cords?
So my Facebook feed reminds me! Lots of photos and comments on the snow. I’m ok with just having the photos to reminisce upon the frozen charm of the Mini Apple.
Stay warm and safe. Good luck on the ice fishing, your Holiness!
White Christmas in Cali means you went to the beach and saw white sand.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/rDw6_jvBS_yIj5M7AJv6Tg.sQDqIUSQziefL669VuJuYt
Our singing, dancing penguin.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/rDw6_jvBS_yIj5M7AJv6Tg.sQDqIUSQziefL669VuJuYt
Dunno why I double linked that.
Another exhibit in the Trump can do no right campaign.
Local proggie columnist is outraged.
If Trump had paid Pfizer a shit ton of money to lock up millions of doses of its unproven vaccine, you can easily see the same people howling about how he was giving Big Pharma undeserved money. Or that Trump was dooming people in other countries to horrible deaths just so he could vaccinate all the rich white people in the US.
More of this, please.
Yes.
Remember how Shithead Cuomo didn’t want a “Trump vaccine”?
Wait, wasn’t there mouth breathing about how Trump was trying to ensure Americans got the vaccine first?
Yes, yes there was;
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/12/10/watch-melinda-gates-incredibly-disappointed-trump-put-americans-first-in-line-for-vaccine-n2581375
They don’t even attempt to hide their lying anymore. Why should they, when they can rig elections nationwide and get away with it?
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Being stuck at home, I’m lazing around in my bathrobe with an English muffin and a cup of coffee with a little Applejack.
In a little while, I’m gonna call the parents and little bro’s family.
Then I might bundle up and run down to Prince William Park and go for a short hike.
The day is looking better already!
Uffda. I’m oncall today (and even had to fix a minor incident already) but I do believe it is time to have a glass of eggnog.
Both the Altar Boys are home, so we’ll spend the day doing nothing but watching a few movies, playing cards and eating. Mrs. Holiness is beside herself with joy having all the kids here.
* We made eggnog yesterday and one of the Altar Boys who loves eggnog just realized he is drinking raw eggs. He wasn’t too happy, but then I pointed out to him that he liked everything about it before he made this discovery so why should that change things?
Victim-blaming
When it comes to vices during the pandemic, simply put, it’s been difficult to say “no.” Drinking an extra glass of wine here, eating half a birthday cake in one sitting there — whatever it takes to escape the constant strain of life under lockdown. That seemed reasonable in March, anyway.
But nine months on, when experience has demonstrated that chain-smoking a pack of cigarettes doesn’t compensate for human interaction, why do bad habits continue to compel us?
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One thing that was widely wanted during the pandemic: alcohol. Women, in particular, were more susceptible to stress drinking in quarantine. As a group, they experienced decreased job security and increased social isolation — factors that historically have driven alcohol consumption.
In April, with nearly all Americans under stay-at-home orders, online alcohol sales increased by more than 500 percent over the previous year. Online sales dipped after the panicked early days of the pandemic as surviving bars and restaurants temporarily opened, but even in October, online sales of alcohol outperformed sales of most other consumer goods categories, according to Nielsen.
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“Buying new material possessions just simply doesn’t make us as happy as we think. In fact, we’d be better off spending money on other people. Doing nice things for others seems to be actually a thing that makes us happy over time,” she said.
Those poor feebleminded women, so weak-willed and susceptible to self-destructive cravings. Why won’t they listen to the people who know what’s good for them?
Instead of buying another case of red wine and comfy new flannel pajamas to mope around in, why don’t you do something which will benefit society, and donate that money to Stacy Abrams’ Professional Angry Black Woman PAC?
A friend and I were griping about the whole “this is your chance to write that novel, get in shape, etc.” Fuck off and let us deal with it without guilt about not doing enough.
It enrages me how we get stories about the stress those poor goodthinkful teachers are u see and we’re supposed to have sympathy for them, but for the rest of us it’s “suck it up and OBEY, and here’s how to make gulag easier on you”.
‘Under’, not ‘u see’.
Dang. It’s 10 AM already here, and we are still waiting for His Reverence, Prince Aspie to honor us with his presents. 🙂
I can’t wait to see what I bought my wife for Christmas. I outsourced the shopping this year.
That is gonna cost ya…
I set a limit, and it was adhered to fortunately. I did well. I have much better taste this year. Nothing is getting returned or given away. Mrs. T. was supposed to pick out some diamond solitaire ear studs with a 1.0 to 1.5 tcw. She cancelled the order. “I barely leave the house, what do I need expensive jewelry for?”, she asked.
*smiles*
I have too many dishes left over from yesterday. And I have to vacuum and sweep at some point so this dump (not really) is presentable. On the plus side there is a bacon quiche in the oven.
The lady got me a robe. I got her jewelry. Go figure. It’s a nice robe though. I guess that means I have to start wearing robes since I don’t usually.
The cats were being ridiculous about hovering around us in the kitchen so they can hoover up any morsel that happens to fall. And they wouldn’t stay off the counter. So they are locked away in the bedroom for the foreseeable future. But I gave them their new toys.
Merry Christmas!
I didn’t get my cat anything this Christmas but she has entertained herself playing with wrapped presents under the tree for a few weeks.
I’ll probably give her some catnip later.
The relief maps of SoCal and San Diego county will not arrive for Christmas. Maybe by spousal unit’s Jan 6 Bday if we are lucky.
The stuff under the tree is mainly silly, like a Field guide to Dumb Birds of North America, and a true crime “page a day” calendar.
He will get the Fiery Ferments book today too, and that should be a total surprise.
Having just eaten Christmas lunch, I think “fiery ferments” is about accurate for what’s occurring in my stomach. Merry Christmas, hayeks.
I sent my sisters’ gifts (DVDs) out on the 12th, and USPS tracking says they languished in Rochester NY for a week.
Lucky them. I languished there for nineteen years.
Just two years for me. It reminds of one of the worst weeks of my life. I spent it trapped in the college dorms; broke, hungry, no car, and all alone. It was between quarters and everyone was enjoying Easter with their families.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Titsmas!
https://archive.li/nR9Nk
Isn’t that the good Count’s favorite pinup at #8?
Merry Christmas, Q.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Mopery
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s appointment to fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ Senate seat has been both praised and criticized for its broader implications about racial representation in politics.
While Padilla will be the state’s first Latino senator—a milestone for California, where nearly 40 percent of the state’s residents are Latino—his appointment also means there will no longer be any Black women in the Senate.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the replacement a “real blow” to the African American community and an especially “unfortunate situation” in light of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that swept the nation this summer.
“The sad reality is [Harris] was the only African American woman in the Senate at this time,” Breed said during a virtual press conference on Tuesday.
“And when you think about the history of this country and the challenges that exist for African Americans, especially African American women in the Senate, definitely this is a real blow to the African American community, to African American women, to women in general,” the mayor said.
That’s some authentic frontier gibberish. Be proud, San Franciscans. Be proud.
Too much stupid and evil to unpack.
Race to the top of that diversity totem pole!
“[Harris] was the only African American woman”
Despite having no ancestors that were slaves in America or immigrated to America from Africa.
That overfed idiot was the least lefty candidate for mayor in the last go round. She is so out of her element it would be laughable if not for the permanent damage she is doing to the City.
Merrye olde Christe Masse from olde Englandshire, ye pilgrims and strangers of the New World colonies.
Merry Christmas to you too, Limey!
I just finished watching the Queen’s Christmas Message online.
Now I’ll just need to read The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle to round out my Anglo-Saxon menu for the day. Or maybe I’ll watch the Jeremy Brett version from the 80s…
Nice. I’ve missed the Queen today, not that I ever tune in anyway. It’ll be a long time (if ever) before Jeremy Brett is surpassed as Holmes.
I always picture Brett as Holmes when reading the originals or pastiches.
He was the first to go back to the source descriptions (with a few discrepancies) instead of the cliches used for decades by lazy script writers.
Sheesh, you prompted me to go find it on YouTube. The queen was fine. But the NHS choir? In scrubs with stethoscopes round their necks?
Yeah, that was eyerollingly awful. They sounded good though.
I appreciated her emphasis on hope and the fact that she mentioned that all some people want is human contact, and that we must go on living. None of this “new normal” crap.
It’s nice that she takes her Church of England role and personal belief seriously. Needless to say, I won’t be tuning in to see “King Charles” give a Christmas speech, if indeed he outlives the Queen.
2020 Speech: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbCRN3C_Hs
He’s never going to be king. William will before he does.
If you haven’t watched the comedy series “The Windsors” on Netflix, I highly recommend it.
I’ll put it on the list, thanks. My Netflixing has been curtailed due to an uptick in business. YAY!!!
BBC America just interrupted their Dr Who marathon to show it.
Yeah, the worship of the NHS was predictable. Remember the dancing hospital beds during the opening ceremonies of their Olympics? They probably didn’t count on the rest of the world finding that performance a bit… odd.
Are they showing good ones, i.e. not the current Doctor?
^^^ this person gets it
It’s been a mix of Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi. Only the Christmas episodes, natch.
I haven’t seen the new Doctor. I’ve heard that is a good thing.
I like this! Forgot that the Blue Carbuncle is a Xmas story.
Careful you don’t overdose on figgy pudding! Merry Christmas!
Merrye Christe Masse to you too! Sorry about your country, though.
(maybe we can have a Glib UK meetup if your government ever gets its shit together)
Merry Christmas everyone!
My family continued its Christmas Eve tradition last night of baking pies and caroling for the neighbors. We even had some snow flurries at the beginning of the caroling.
After that was done we drive to Birmingham to spend Christmas Day with Mr. Cannoli’s parents. It’ll just be the four of us, so we’ll have a very relaxed Christmas.
Someone blew something up in Nashville. No one know anything yet other than it appears intentional.
…
Before he cheats.
Okay, bad joke. Very much hope noone is hurt or dead. Sure reads like it was a fairly big one, all things being relative. Also Fox embedded a tweet with an F-bomb in their rush to get the story up.
Do we have Nashville Glibs? Please check in, if so!
There’s a couple in the area I believe.
We live a few miles away. Wife says she heard it go off and felt a rumble. I am in Oregon so pretty much heard nothing. Wife says the RV meth lab is missing though. Will need to look into that when I get back in town.
It’s a mostly peaceful protest, like Antifa.
I’ve been saving this Christmas song for today.
Merry Christmas you magnificent bastards!
Someone blew something up in Nashville. No one know anything yet other than it appears intentional.
3… 2… 1… White Power!
Yeah, the “white supremacist” talking points, approved by the CCP handlers, have already been circulated to the useful idiots.
It was Roger Stone. They tried to warn us.
Its been a while since a jihadist has hit the homeland. Terrorism being the price of empire and all, wouldn’t surprise me if it was an Egyptian, or a Saudi.
If they hate us for our freedoms, shouldn’t they be down to a mild dislike for us now?
LOL
It was the mini skirts that really set them off.
Sets me off too. Well, it used to anyway
That’s a valid point.
I see burned vehicles, broken glass and a few bricks knocked down but the trees and power poles are still standing. The woman three floors up just had her windows knocked out but inside the Xmas tree was still standing and lit.
I am guessing not a very big bomb and not high explosive.
Unless someone was in the vehicle it appears no one was killed.
Merry Christmas to all you merry reprobates! Christmas ain’t what it used to be around here, the wide-eyed boys have grown up. Time for them to go out and make a few babies so we can have a proper Christmas.
And this is the official Christmas soundtrack.
Merry Christmas, Jews.
I think we found the Nashville bomber. //Jk
Merry Christmas to you wacky Polacks!
“TRUMP TRIED WARNING YOU!”
Meh. They don’t need any super anything. They’ll just walk across the border somewhere and Biden will surrender.
Happy Christmas, wokesters.
XX informed us she will not be able to move out in July as per her plans because none of her friends are willing to move out and she is not confident in her ability to pay all her rent unless she can get a job at Cerner. I would rather she live at home than with some random roommate, so NOT the last Christmas she’s here. Yay! Would I like her to move out like she wants? Sure. Until it’s Christmas morning and she’s not here. ?
Spa gift cards went all around the living room this morning. That, and kielbasa (yes, we all got kielbasa in our stockings).
Merry Christmas everybody! I am grateful to have you in my life.
Merry Christmas Mo, enjoy the holidays with the kiddos. Some day, one day, they will be gone and/or you will have to share them with strangers. Christmas/holidays are not good times for a lot of old(er) people.
In addition the government is not our friend, as we have repeatedly learned these last few months.
Cherish these days, there is no dress rehearsal in life.
Thanks, Fourscore, we will, and merry Christmas to you!
Indeed.
My youngest stepson and his girlfriend have a baby in the oven currently. She is a sweet-natured thing, but as is typical of young women educated in public schools, she’s a complete liberal Dem social justice warrior.
We don’t say one word to them about politics. We are mutually aware of one another’s leanings, due to Facebook, but we don’t comment on their political posts and they don’t on ours.
Life is too short, and my spousal unit wants to meet his latest grandkid when he/she makes an appearance on this planet.
Phone use while driving – I never cease to be amazed by idiots driving their new Infiniti, BMW, Audi, Lexus… while holding a cell phone to their ears. Are there any cars sold today without bluetooth?
I can talk on the phone while I drive but I do NOT text.
My car is old. Bluetooth is a radio receiver shoved in my cigarette lighter. I can hear over the Bluetooth, but there is no microphone.
The law will not work. They passed the same thing here in MD years ago. Want to know how many people obey that? None of them. I won’t drive holding one it’s just common sense. My car’s navigation system will pick it up so I don’t have to. But even before, if I’m in traffic and get a call, I don’t answer it.
Sure it works. Like seatbelt laws, it’s a legal excuse for a cop to pull you over.
Lately nearly every single cab/uber/whatever driver I use here in NYC has either headphones of some sort or the more old-school ones have a phone taped to their head and they talk on it the entire trip. It annoys me but I don’t say anything. But mostly I just don’t get what is so damn important that one can’t take a break from yakking on the phone for a few minutes or hours.
They have the fear of missing out.
Just got off the phone with my sister, she called to wish us good tidings and such. Also to inform us that our brother has tested positive for the vid, thoroughly disrupting their plans. Not that he’s in terrible shape (aside from the sinus infection which prompted the doctor’s visit in the first place), but now he can’t be around people, you know. Also my nephew no longer has a car after a collision with one of Santa’s reindeer. Oh well, I’ll give my bro a call in a little bit, and now off to open our gifts.
Merry Christmas!!
In five hundred years, will “Trump golfs while America dies” be as well known as “Nero fiddles while Rome burns”?
In 500 years, it will be a moot point.
In the long run, we’re all dead.
The Christmas before I got married sucked. It was just me and my mom.
I said, “This Christmas sucks.”
Mom said, “Yup.”
I said, “Next year, let’s go to Australia where I will learn to surf.”
She agreed heartily.
Then I got married and it didn’t suck.
Then I got married and it didn’t suck.
Q: Why is every bride beaming as she walks down the aisle?
A: Because she knows she’ll never have to give her husband another blowjob as long as she lives.
*obscures screen from wife’s wandering eyes*
Something something gift horse something something in the mouth.
(lots of women enjoy blowjobs, and sex in general!)
I like giving blow jobs. TMI? You brought it up.
I survived!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
So I see Shonda Rimes (sp?) is doing a Regency England period series with, you guessed it, black people in the nobility. It IS fiction, after all, amirite?!
Is “her history” like “her truth”, where the truth is more important than facts?
The 8 year old got his first real rifle this morning. Savage axis in .223. 4x12x44 simmons glass on it.
I took him out this morning and he was able to get within 2 inches of the bullseye at 100 yards. Tomorrow morning is the Christmas deer hunt. Im gonna have to make more freezer space.
The guy who used to hunt on our property fled NY in 2019, not having bagged a deer in years.
The new guy stopped by to give Dad a gift card yesterday and claimed to have gotten an 8-pointer here this year.
Hunting season is over, but it’s too wet to take the dog for a walk.
You are a good man, Lach, your son is a lucky kid. Good shooting, did you zero the scope for him first? Teach him to hunt and you’ll never have to wonder where he’s at and never go hungry. Don’t forget the daughters though, they want to learn to shoot, too.
Merry Christmas, Lach and family
I took it out a few weeks ago and dialed it in. Its pretty well spot on. I put about 15 rounds through it and it seems to be a quality gun.
I’ll get to the daughter. She is just a tad small at the moment.
Merry Christmas, fourscore.
It is my understanding that the current Savages have excellent triggers and are some of the most accurate rifles around. I only have one in 308 and it was manufactured in the mid-’50s. It is a solid gun.
Excellent choice Lachowsky.
Nice rifle.
I got the same for myself last year in .30-06 and I love shooting it.
Merry Christmas.
(((we))) are now actually in control because you’re all so goddam busy
but the governor closed all the Chinese places
regarding Jews: a Texan finally gets something right
ugh: proper link to Kinky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSWm67IhDU
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9086993/Demi-Rose-feeds-two-giraffes-hand-sun-soaked-Africa-trip.html
Nope. Sensational curves.
“‘Looks like a bomb went off’: Blast that rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas morning WAS intentional say cops as FBI are called in after ‘vehicle’ detonates outside bars sending three to hospital”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9087589/Bomb-squad-called-RV-explodes-Nashville.html
“2020 strikes again: Tens of thousands wake up to NO power on Christmas Day as vicious storm barrels into the East Coast with 65MPH winds, bringing snow and torrential rain having already killed three in the Midwest”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9087113/Three-people-killed-including-four-year-old-Winter-Storm-Harold-batters-East-Coast.html
‘Looks like a bomb went off’
The area is full of bars and restaurants which are all open for indoor dining and would have attracted hundreds of people in the evening.
An angry Karen?
An ambassador of the new Covid Cult?
A white supremacist?
The media are hot on the trail of the last option. Reports are that a white male dressed like a Nazi and wearing a MAGA hat has been spotted in the area.
I thought Trump was supposed to be in Florida.
White supremacist, guaranteed. Regardless of race or political beliefs.
Or race or ethnicity. CNN has already decided on the facts for you.
Supposedly a message was sent from the RV over loudspeaker to clear the area before the blast. Interesting, if true, suggesting that the goal was property damage and not casualties. Also interesting that it eas at the AT&T transmission center and our AT&T service has been down. Disgruntled customer?
Astonishing new discovery!
Two new studies give encouraging evidence that having COVID-19 may offer some protection against future infections. Researchers found that people who made antibodies to the coronavirus were much less likely to test positive again for up to six months and maybe longer.
The results bode well for vaccines, which provoke the immune system to make antibodies — substances that attach to a virus and help it be eliminated.
Researchers found that people with antibodies from natural infections were “at much lower risk … on the order of the same kind of protection you’d get from an effective vaccine,” of getting the virus again, said Dr. Ned Sharpless, director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
“It’s very, very rare” to get reinfected, he said.
No shit, Shirley?
They also have figured out that many Asians have some resistance to Covid-19 if they came down with SARS several years ago.
“It’s very, very rare” to get reinfected, he said.”
But that’s only if we wear a mask, stay locked down forever, give up all our rights and get in the train cars when we’re told.
WTF? Do these people even know what a virus is? How the immune system….Oh fuck, never mind.
There’s nothing like the sound of a b0ng gurgling on a quiet Christmas morn…
Also, there’s nothing like facetiously Tweeting at Neil deGrasse Tyson on a quiet Christmas morn…
“Neil deGrasse Tyson”
You’re talking about the greatest scientist of all time. Many woke, much brave.
CWAA
Two German WWII graves bearing Nazi swastikas have been removed from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery and replaced with new headstones.
The pair of headstones had become a long controversy over whether they were historical artifacts worth preserving or emblems of hate that should be destroyed, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
The headstones each showed a modified Iron Cross, which depicts a swastika within a cross. Also carved on them were the inscription, “He died far from his home for the Führer, people and fatherland.”
“Clearly, it took a long time for this to happen, and it’s obviously the right thing to have been done,” said Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which advocates against unwanted religious proselytizing in the armed services.
After learning about the gravestones last May, the foundation demanded that Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilke order them removed. The group also wanted Wilke to make “an immediate and heartfelt apology to all United States veterans and their families.”
Doin’ right ain’t got no end.
Why leave those bodies in ‘Murica? Exhume them and send them back to Jerryland.
I see that over 2 million Georgians have already voted in the senate race.
One party rule, coming to theaters near you January 20.
And that one party also owns mainstream media, education, social platforms, and the unchanging unaccountable bureaucracy.
We’re going to need a new opposition party.
If Christian conservatives would give up on trying to legislate people into “moral” behavior, the GOP could appeal to the broad center of the population.
It shouldn’t be difficult to point out that men are imperfect and thus govern imperfectly, so we should leave government out of our spiritual lives just as we leave our spiritual lives out of government.
If Christian conservatives would give up on trying to legislate people into “moral” behavior, the GOP could appeal to the broad center of the population.
Exactly correct: keep your opinions on my private, consensual behavior to yourself, and I might listen to you for two seconds. I was raised to be a conservative; all the pieces were there except one: an principled leader. Or they could try actually doing something other than flap their gums about small government.
How long has it been since SoCons were driving the Repub bus?
On the one hand, those homo hatin’, ‘bortion bannin’ social conservatives make up the republican base. If the GOP refuses to toss them an occasional bone, they might just stop voting, and at that point the republicans can just toss themselves on the ash-heap of history.
On the other hand, where else are the socons going to go? The democrats certainly don’t want them. They can stay home on election day, but the desire to have even the illusion of control over one’s political representation is a strong one.
For some reason the Democrats don’t seem to have this problem. There is no earthly way that the deep environmentalists who want to reduce the global population to a few hundred thousand, should be able to make common cause with the welfare statists who want to reward repeat public-assistance breeders. But somehow, they’ve managed to do just that…
sure, but I ain’t no Democrat, so who cares
one measures principle in absolutes
“I see that over 2 million Georgians have already voted in the senate race.”
Some of them more than once, and their dead relatives too.
Xmas morn and I have coffee, awake long before the wife, listening to John Zorn.
I always forget just how good of a sax player he was, check the 32-minute point. Not to mention Marc Ribot just ripping it up on guitar.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/12/10/watch-melinda-gates-incredibly-disappointed-trump-put-americans-first-in-line-for-vaccine-n2581375
As far as I know all Nashville Glibs are good. We are all well away from the location.
Surprised they haven’t cut out the Chinese restaurant scene in A Christmas Story I guess it’s OK, though, because Asians are just basic white people now.
Unless they are CCP spies and usurpers, in which case the entire Democrat-Media machine will bend over backwards to cry “racism!” at the mere suggestion of impropriety. Swalwell should be withering in ignominy from the revelations about the CCP military operative who was playing him, but he won’t, for the same reason he was put on the House Intelligence Committee. They know, and they either don’t care, or the leverage goes so high up that the CCP gets everything it wants. Now that the CCP will have unprecedented influence in the White House, and a very real chance of tipping the Senate, I suggest Donnie moves quick to freeze all CCP-linked assets and detain and banish all known CCP-affiliated persons within the USA. I mean, I guess that’s probably somewhat difficult, or something. I dunno. #tangent
“My fragrance–“Success”– is flying off the shelves @Macys
. The perfect Christmas gift!”
9:53 AM · Nov 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/268365877664182273
“My fragrance–“Success”
It’s on the shelf right beside the ‘White Privilege’ and ‘Toxic Masculinity’, our best sellers.
Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel, and happy Jews Go to Movies day! Though I suppose the last will have to be celebrated non-traditionally.
For some reason the Democrats don’t seem to have this problem. There is no earthly way that the deep environmentalists who want to reduce the global population to a few hundred thousand, should be able to make common cause with the welfare statists who want to reward repeat public-assistance breeders. But somehow, they’ve managed to do just that…
Cognitive Dissonance- it’s like the Democrats’ Eucharist.
So stealing that.