We’re enjoying a string of rainy days here. Quite nice. It’s keeping the nighttime temps in the upper 50s, and the daytime temps below 120. 😉
When I started writing this, it was raining. Now it’s back to the usual relentless sunshine, just in time for me to do some errands.
I’ll apologize to WebDom now since she’s arriving Monday and it’s supposedly going to be rainy and chilly. Well, for certain values of chilly.
Know what? I’m sick to death of political BS, so I’ll provide links to other BS this afternoon.
This is very similar to something that happened to me. The handwritten first drafts of some of my early published writing found their way back to me 20+ years later.
I still wouldn’t call this man a liar.
I’m good with it as long as they didn’t let this man sing.
This is just too cool.
Aww. This is nice, too.
And some music.
Have a great rest of your day, kids!
(Also, I forgot to mention it’s one of my favorite kinds of days, palindromic, if you do it right. 1.21.21)
I still wouldn’t call this man a liar.
I’d be the first to do so.
Looks like Bruschetta had a failure to launch.
Don’t encourage him.
I got nothin’.
Yes you do, you’ve got an incoming NSA tap.
That won’t happen to me – my handwritten work went up in a housefire.
Pictured
https://www.yourtango.com/201173194/girl-goes-bachelor-party-my-strip-club-orgasm
I do love it when Instapundit throws up some PG 13 titillation links.
Spring? We’re forecast to get 6 inches of snow Mon into Tues.
Saturday into Sunday here.
Spring doesn’t start until March (officially) or April (Meteorologically)
Spring doesn’t start until the robins show up.
Pictured
what’s that?
the robin I remember most was a natural blonde (blonde curtains and carpet) and didnt wear a super hero outfit, but I promise she was a super hero, 100%
Most of the country is in the Robin’s Year-roung range (Green).
I’m in the yellow part of the map but I see robins year round these days.
I’m in the green, but we definitely have robin/no-robin seasons.
No robins now.
Yes, around here, year-round, they rock in the tree tops all day long,
hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singing their songs.
A family of them actually have a nest right outside the window in front of me right now.
Just because robins. (What was someone saying earlier about guitar playing? “How hard can it be? Just press the strings down with your left hand and strum with the right.”)
Closest relative is the European blackbird (a thrush not a blackbird in the sense of your new world blackbirds) I believe. Very similar. You can sometimes see the pattern, especially on the females. Very similar behaviour, and the birds we get here in the spring are not the same birds that come in for the winter, which I believe would be breeding in Scandinavia or thereabouts. Birds.
71 and sunny.
IMO, winter should last from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, and then spring should come and stay until June.
I like your style. How can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Seconded.
And I don’t like Winter, but I’ll put up with a Winter from Thanksgiving to New Year’s in order to have six months of Spring.
I could handle a deal like that. I think I might idle my car a bit this afternoon to pump some more CO2 into the atmosphere.
“…forecast to get 6 inches…”
TWSS (*Beavis laugh* heh,heh)
Dems are aiming to take down anyone and anything that might challenge them.
“The chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday asked the FBI to conduct a ‘robust examination’e of the alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege of Parler, the now-disabled social media site that bristled with violent chatter before and after rioters stormed the Capitol in a rampage,” the Washington Post reported Thursday.
“Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), the chairwoman, said the request is a step toward opening a formal committee investigation into sites that may encourage violence, including Parler,” the outlet continued. “It became prominent last year as a freewheeling alternative to Twitter, gaining popularity in particular among conservatives.”
The letter.
If parler were smart, they’d nuke everything and restart from scratch. Of course, with everything archived, it doesn’t matter much. Expressing wrongthink publicly eventually ends with goons busting in your door at 3am.
The reporting I saw that the “siege”* was planned on Facebook and Twitter. It’s almost like the Dems are shutting down companies that compete with their campaign funders.
Sieges, BTW, involve starvation. Until Nancy Pelosi is gnawing on the leg bones of an intern, it’s not a siege.
Oh that’s a fun one: lock all of Congress up, last one standing gets to rule the country. Who wins, and to make it interesting I’m gonna say AOC seduces Dan Crenshaw and cuts his throat while hes asleep. Otherwise he’d probably win walking away.
Agreed, No way Massie keeps his Congressional homestead safe from Crenshaw.
My money is on the hottie with the gun.
violent chatter?
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is a private business and can do what they want
Violent conservatives, SMDH.
UPI really doesn’t like when I open their site in incognito mode.
Take that, Nazis
U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein sided with Amazon, which argued that Parler would not take down posts that threatened public safety even in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and that it is within Amazon’s rights to punish the company over its refusal.
“The Court rejects any suggestion that the public interest favors requiring AWS to host the incendiary speech that the record shows some of Parler’s users have engaged in. At this stage, on the showing made thus far, neither the public interest nor the balance of equities favors granting an injunction in this case,” Rothstein wrote on Thursday.
Parler’s looser rules of engagement also attracted far-right activists among the some 15 million users who, the company says, posted messages before Amazon pulled the plug.
That anything-goes philosophy ran headlong into demands that social media platforms be held accountable for allowing rioters to discuss plans to storm the Capitol on the day Congress was certifying President Joe Biden’s election.
Nice work, NPR. You’ve got those rats dead to rights.
Now do the people who organized BLM “protests” on social media.
All the safety valves are broken. The boiler will eventually flatten the Overlook.
“That anything-goes philosophy”
Twitter has one of those too, but it all depends on who’s doing the posting.
Your attempts to shame the shameless are akin to trying to convince a jaguar to go vegan.
Fucking 82 year old Jimmy Carter appointee.
She probably has her secretary print out all her emails for her.
I’d say it’s a shame people like that make decisions about the Internet, but then again younger people seem to think the Internet is equivalent to social media.
Viva Frei is gonna have a field day with this one
It’s chilly here in Nashville, too. So my son and I were supposed to take a break from winter and go to my Dad’s in Florida for a long weekend, driving out after work today, but…
So I’m out to dinner Tuesday and my ex calls, which is strange cuz we’d not spoken in months. Turns out my son had some congestion last week. But he was fine when I saw him Saturday at the range. Regardless, the ex is all paranoid that he might have had the vid and could now give it to my dad and/or his wife. So she convinces my son to get rapid-tested and he’s positive. I let step mom know and she cancels our visit. No respite from the winter 🙁
I tried, ya’ll, really really hard to talk everyone down from The Fear. Logic did not prevail.
People are very fortunate I can’t give them scabies through a webcam. On a big call, dozens of people. I work in a very proggy industry, so I knew someone would drop some bullshit, but the passive aggressive and backhanded way this particular Zoom Prog communicated made me roll my eyes so hard I pulled a muscle.
“I think it’s going to be a much better year than last year, in the last couple days just so much as changed and gotten better than it was before. Just in general.”
Look, honey, I’ll bet you 50 bucks I’m the only one on this call who didn’t vote for TEAM BLUE. You can just come right out and say “man am I happy Trump isn’t POTUS anymore.” and it wouldn’t offend anyone here at all. Just go ahead and say “I am happy my TEAM is now in control again, because I cannot be happy if my TEAM isn’t fucking over the people I hate.”
^^^ so much this ^^^
Purge the wreckers.
“I’ve called for a 9/11 kind of commission to do a thorough investigation of this. This is the most serious thing I’ve seen here in the Congress. Whether or not you are sitting on the floor with people who invited an insurrection, who were trying to overthrow the government, you’re supposed to be here to protect and preserve. That’s a very serious charge, and it’s been made. We need to investigate to find out the extent of any members’ involvement, if any. I believe you cannot be any more serious than that.”
I’m 100% sure it was not a coordinated attempt to overthrow the government, but I’m also 100% sure that a commission tasked with finding an insurrection is gonna find an insurrection.
Just like the FBI looking for white nationalists. I’m sure there are a handful of them out there, but I’m also sure the FBI is not going to find anything less than a huge network that will require a huge increase in their staff and budget.
Keep stoking that fire.
It would seem to me that an attempt to overthrown the government would require much more weaponry.
Like, more than Viking horns?!
Well, he did have a spear too.
Oh, I wasn’t paying attention. You know, because this shit is so stupid.
It was an assault spear! It was black and even had a thing that goes up!
Disinformation researchers said Amazon’s shutdown of Parler eliminated a key gathering place for the sharing and discussion of the election-related conspiracies that Trump has often fanned.
“The reason why we’re experiencing this corporate denial of service is because there are really no other levers possible to stop this group of people from reassembling and either trying this again or trying something else that’s just as dangerous,” said Joan Donovan, an expert on online extremism at Harvard. “It’s going to be really important that when they make these decisions, they stick and that they don’t walk them back once the heat is off.”
Banishment is too good for them. Off with their heads!
Let’s cut to the chase already. If there really is a huge terrorist network out there, start rounding them up. Making it harder for them to Tweet isn’t going to stop them.
It has nothing to do with making it harder for the real extremists to tweet, It has everything to do with using the broadest possible brush to paint anyone who even partially agrees with the extremists as extremists themselves. It’s about conformity. It’s about knowing who your betters are and staying in line. It’s about punishing as many people as possible.
The palindromic with was asked if she could cure warts by rubbing them with straw. She said.
“Straw? No! Too stupid a fad! I put soot on warts.”
Palindromes, you say?
Able was I ere I saw St. Helena.
A man, a plan, a canal: St. Lawrence Seaway!
L.A. Cigar? Too tragical!
Is Mask-Slipping the New Manspreading?
I am left with the conclusion that man slippage is like manspreading. We — some of us — do it because we are, well, men. And you know what men are like.
I don’t let my mask slip, but it’s not because I’m pure at heart. It’s because I’m terrified. I’m scared of the virus and of breaking rules. I grew up Catholic, and I know what it feels like to get smacked with a steel-edged ruler if you smile at the wrong time, let alone risk the death of others in the community. I don’t actually see any nuns around me, most of the time. But wearing a mask is a small price to pay just in case.
Science writer indeed.
“And you know what men are like.”
Save some chicks for the rest of us bro.
Hard pass
ugh. I haven’t felt fear since my early 20s and that was because people were trying to kill me
wife: “your face was blank. you didnt make a sound. I would have been screaming my head off”
me: “I was busy fighting for my life, and yours. I didnt have time for that”
OFFS!!
Y’know, I’m probably one of the least “manly” men you’ll ever meet, but I got a feeling that, next to this guy, I’m Conan the Barbarian.
Publishing this kind of shit should be a giant “holy shit stay away from that crazy” warning to everyone. In fact, this dude should be forced to wear a laminated printout of this on a string around his neck forever.
Sandwich board.
This guy is what we used to refer to back in the day as a “pussy.”
Thanks for the happy linx!
Another happy link: Banzai Pipeline live cam. Winds are east today, so don’t think the waves will be super tasty, but still fun to watch. Seems to me like surfing would be the ultimate all-around workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY5RYp4sxYc
Hi SP!
Now those are excellent lynx! I really needed that positivity this afternoon. And to close them out with the fabulous Ramones – fantastic!
It makes me happy that people go to such trouble to reunite strangers with their lost property. Not everyone is shit, apparently.
The sun is out here and, for the first time in a long time, I can feel the heat. This has been a very mild winter, so everyone just keep doing what you are doing!
I don’t let my mask slip, but it’s not because I’m pure at heart. It’s because I’m terrified. I’m scared of the virus and of breaking rules.
Hahahahaha, go die in a fire, you pathetic hypochondriac.
go die
in a fire,of secondhand smoke you pathetic hypochondriac.If he’s scared of the virus, he should realize that the mask isn’t there to help him. At least that’s what The Science says.
I’m calling a lid.
President Biden replies “give me a break, man” to a reporter asking about vaccine rollout
That question was a bunch of malarkey.
BIDEN: “Our entire administration will always be honest and transparent with the good news and the bad. We’ll level with you when we make a mistake. We’ll straight up say what happened.”
You have such a great track record in that regard.
This has been a very mild winter
Same here. I have no complaints. None at all.
There’s a little bit of snow in the air right now, but nothing meaningful.
Re: Oil and Gas Permit ban and KeystoneXL cancellation.
Honestly, the scariest thing about it is not that they did it, but the speed at which they did it. It was a Day 1 thing for them. They didn’t even do the figleaf of “A thorough study of the pros and cons and consultation with stakeholders.” They treated it like the Mexico City abortion funding thing. Just get into office and boom shoot energy prices up with a stroke of the pen.
That’s one of the more insane things about the canoninzation so far.
All the media: ” Biden gets right to work, signing 17 executive orders!”
How the fuck much work is it to sign your name to pre-written documents? This is a sign of a busy go-getter? RUFKM?
The Canadian government is pissed. Hopefully there is a big lawsuit. This is the type of thing they were all over Trump for – “Destroying relationships with our closest allies.” And now, eh, whatever.
The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ won’t do jack shit about it.
And it’s exactly the kind of thing that benefits Russia.
Collusion!
Lena Dunham
@lenadunham
I cannot wait to spend holidays at the White House when I am Hunter Biden’s beautiful wife.
Aim high.
They can exchange STDs
Maybe you can share your kid sister with him.
She was probably the only thing not on his laptop.
Just don’t have a kid with him, you don’t want to know how hard it is to get child support.
She’s got a much better shot at being his wife than she does of ever being beautiful.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
I just threw up a couple of teeth and a piece of gum I swallowed as a kid.
Even Hunter Biden can’t smoke enough crack to make her look beautiful.
Rule 34 implies there’s Lena Dunham porn out there and that it’s somebody’s kink.
Out on the dark web, where it’s dark because everyone closes their eyes… as hard as they can.
Will DOCTOR Jill be pissed or pleased?
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she’s making a joke.
I’d guess that she is lost in several layers of nihilistic irony, and doesn’t really know whether or not she is joking.
That’s quite civic minded of her, to desire to remove those two people from the dating pool.
He’s too busy fucking his sister-in-law and molesting his niece. He’ll never fit her in.
Related to the article last week on sauces:
Tasting History: Béchamel & the Death of Monsieur Vatel
Now that we’ve got Uncle Joe, the
workingunion man’s friend at the tiller, we can assume the War on Independent Contractors will return to full intensity.This occurred to me this morning: after they get Uber and Lyft drivers classified as employees for tax and regulatory purposes, how long will they wait before they go after Etsy and Ebay sellers?
Sorta related:
From Etsy:
The state of Missouri now requires one of my credit card processing companies to provide me a 1099K for any and all sales over $1200.
I expect Paypal next.
They don’t really have to classify us as employees. They just need to make sure all the documents are in place and they will squeeze the threshold until it’s $1 instead of $1,200 or $20,000.
“EXCLUSIVE: Trump-loving MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell had secret romance with 30 Rock actress Jane Krakowski and wooed her with flowers and champagne in relationship that BAFFLED her friends
MyPillow CEO and beleaguered ‘Stop the Steal’ Trump champion Mike Lindell had a secret nine month romance with 30 Rock star Jane Krakowski, DailyMail.com can reveal.
In recent days Lindell has been threatened with legal action by Dominion Voting Systems and dumped by a host of big box stores, as Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s and Wayfair have all dropped his product in the wake of the crack addict turned CEO’s continued promotion of false claims of election fraud and apparent enthusiasm for martial law.
Now, DailyMail.com has learned that Lindell, 59, was let go rather more personally last summer when his passionate romance with Krakowski, 52, came to an end after a weekend together at the actress’s rented Hamptons beach house.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9164471/MyPillow-CEO-Mike-Lindell-secret-romance-30-Rock-star-Jane-Krakowski.html
That is totally something Jenna Maroney would do!
Well, Cousin Vicky did say that daddy said she was the best.
Baller
I think the biggest shock of that story is that Mike Lindell is younger than I am.
“Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee asks FBI to investigate Parler’s role in Capitol riot and the app’s ‘foreign connections’ including founder’s Russian wife”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9173127/Democrat-controlled-House-Oversight-Committee-asks-FBI-investigate-Parlers-role-Capitol-riot.html
RUSSIA!!
McCarthy for Retards
You have to admire their dedication to the bit.
Wait…
O yes i forgot to put my rose colored “Dem is in office” glasses on. I was thinking politically motivated Justice department was something wrong.
Parler is still down as far as I know.
People had better take my Facebook, Twitter, Google as the sole owners of the web tirades seriously. It’s already happening.
It was nice chatting with you guys, for realz. Maybe we can do some crossword puzzles in the gulag, make paper airplanes or something.
Unless the US goes full commie and institutes a great firewall, there will not be sole owners of the web. Parler is supposedly transferring to Russian servers, and it should be obvious that there will always be some foreign country willing to do business with people who are disfavored by the American elite. They can keep the calls from coming from inside the house, but they can’t stop them unless they get the ISPs to filter all traffic, which would be a tall order.
“including founder’s Russian wife”
Earlier this month, DailyMail.com revealed that Matze met Mukhutdinova in Las Vegas while she was on a two-week vacation in the U.S., though no suggestion has been made that she has improper oversight at her husband’s company.
She wears a t-shirt that says TRUST ME I’M A RUSSIAN SPY.
Better to be married to a Chinese spy.
Poop Nukem said you shouldn’t buy the cow.
Another positive bit of news, trust in the media has continued to drop and is now at all time lows. Let’s see how far down it can go. Not having BOM in the Oval Office is going to be bad for the bottom line of legacy corporate media.
https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-9069-e26b21c283a9.html
The punchline is a bit weak. “Rely on the CEOs to turn this around” misses the core issue. As the CEOs embrace this bullshit, their trust factor will plummet. What has kept their trust factor so high is that the whole companies diving headfirst into politics thing is a recent phenomenon that is still permeating the system.
Fixing the issue is simple. Stop lying. Stop blatantly manipulating. Stop the double standard. Of course, it’ll never happen
Trump was a cash cow for corporate media. Soon, he’ll be largely out of the conversation, and they’ll have to find another schtick, which they won’t find.
Corporate media has lost virtually all conservative viewers. They can’t survive that long, thankfully.
They can’t survive that long, thankfully.
There are niche markets, so if they right-size they can survive, fiscally. Now, whether they can survive emotionally, knowing that they are not the center of attention and don’t get to act as gatekeepers, that’s another matter.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Nice tweet Sen. Cruz! Quick question: do you also believe the Geneva Convention was about the views of the citizens of Geneva?
Asking for everyone who believes US Senators should be competent and not undermine our elections to incite insurrection against the United States
Sick burn.
Seth Rogen
@Sethrogen
Replying to @SenTedCruz
Fuck off you fascist.
The guy that wants to go through the constitutional process to formalize and make enforceable a de facto treaty is a “fascist”.
Nice tweet, “AOC” (if that’s even your real name). You do realize that the Geneva Convention was ratified by the Senate, yes?
Yeah all the various “Deals” and “Frameworks” and “Roadmaps” and “Agreements” are blatantly unconstitutional and I don’t care which one it is.
Well, yeah. Remember when Obama was negotiating the Iran deal, and some Republican senators said, “Hey, you know, this still needs to be ratified by the Senate,” and the left called them all traitors?
What stops the senate from taking it up on it’s own? The text of the agreement is there, the Senate can take it up and refuse to ratify it. It’s not like they need the presidents intern to bring it over to them personally.
Maybe because the GOP has 22 senators to defend in 2022 and the Dems only 9? One can imagine how the impartial media would make it look if these senators voted to destroy the earth by not signing the Paris Accords.
Those numbers don’t give an accurate depiction of the map. In a push year, the Ds are defending 3 seats while the Rs are defending 2. If it looks like the Ds are going to be popular and have a good year in 2022, then they could get more than 2, but if the Ds get unpopular then the Rs could get more than 3. Sure, the left-wing media would tout “destroying the earth”, but they are not the entire media and unless the economy strongly improves between now and 2022 that won’t be a winning issue. Swing voters only care about the environment when times are good.
Just like the guys who wrote a letter to the state legislature in accordance with state law to ask them to impeach Governor Useless (D) are now “terrorist insurrectionists trying to overthrow an election.”
Tell me you don’t want to shoot this.
Not until the ammo shortage is over.
How else can you blow through $500 in 3 minutes?
I have a Lakeside Guns LM-7, which is a belt fed .22LR upper for the AR platform, based on the original Tippmann design for their .22LR Browning MG clones. Slap it on a full auto lower, load a 250 round belt, and hold the trigger down, baby. 1100 round a minute. I actually cut a small weed tree down with it once.
by “weed tree” I mean an unwanted “Tree of Heaven,” which grow like damn weeds and stink.
Here’s some shit that didn’t happen.
… and then immediately proceeded to piss off Canada.
And every nation in the Middle East not named Iran.
White progs only care about white progs. When they say “nation” they mean “the people in a nation that I approve of.” Donald Trump having 100 million rapid fans in India means nothing, whats important is that the ~10,000 uber lefties from Britain on Twitter hated him.
“10,000 uber lefties from Britain on Twitter hated him”
Sure, why not. And why not love a guy who’s going to destroy the energy sector, causing fuel prices to skyrocket and put you out of a job?
OFFS, that had better be the Daily Double of shit that didn’t happen, Alex.
I believe it. The vast majority of people in Western countries know about America through the US media. It’s translated in non-English countries by their own media. If your only source of information about America is CNN and NYT, how else would you react on the day when the evil departed the White House and flew to Florida?
I agree.
Plus if she’s been there more than once, she’d make sure everyone there knew she was Amanda Palmer.
https://twitter.com/Monster_Dome
That was brilliant mockery, which one of you is that? If it’s not one of you, invite them here right now. Check out their bio
“Freelance writer, uppity bogan, Sea-Eagles supporter, free speech extremist, libertarian. My pronouns? I/me. Speaking for myself only.”
ONE OF US ONE OF US WE ACCEPT HIM
Certainement. All two-year-olds talk like that, regardless of the language employed.
I was just over at TOS to check and see if they’ve managed to say any libertarian stuff lately. They seem to be starting to admit that Biden is going to be worse than bad orange man, a LOT worse. Geez, who ever would have imagined?
The funny thing, Tony is still there posting and OMG that dude, xe, whatever, is 3x dumber than he was when I left there. Jeebus, he has to be someone’s sock, no one is that stupid.
The couples time I’ve looked, both John and Tony had gotten dumber. Granted, John had more to lose.
John hasn’t commented there at least since the election, maybe longer.
There are a whole tribe’s worth of assholes over there now, all affected by TDS in one way or another.
I think hitting myself in the head with a ball peen would be a preferable way to induce brain damage.
Tony’s not as bad at that Rev. Arthur Kirkland character. As much as that asshole prattles on about “your betters”, you just know he’s a night manager at Denny’s or something.
I was under the impression that he was a sock of someone from here, lol.
How many does shreek have now? Geez, when I left there, he already had three. AddictionMyth, which as there today, Buttplug, and Djal. He even made his own website, where at least 3 of his socks argued with each other. Dude is mentally ill.
Wasn’t he also Bo Cara, Esq. ?
Bo was his own form of crazy
Rollo and Rev. Kirkland are definitely the same guy. It’s just an accident Kirkland migrated with Volokh over to reason.com
I cannot wait to spend holidays at the White House when I am Hunter Biden’s beautiful wife.
Hang on, Shirley. I see a couple of obstacles in your path. One really significant one.
“Today is the day America was readmitted to the society of nations.”
Fuck.
Dude, c’mon man. Every 2 year old says shit like that all of the time.
And in every almost 100% white English speaking nation, they immediately recognize white Americans when they see them, without them even speaking a word!
Talking about a golden opportunity though. If that would have happened to me, I would have said, not to the child, but all the jubilant workers, ‘What the fuck are you all on about? I voted for Trump, can we trade you senile Biden for some sheep? Can I order now?’.
That second reply is mocking the original post. That’s been a thing on anti-woke Twitter for a while now.
“Today I was happy to get my stimulus check until my three year old tugged at my sleeve and said ‘Dad, isn’t it true that by running the printing presses overtime, the government is really just stealing from my future earnings in order to purchase your support in the here and now.”
3 year olds do say some cute stuff. But I thinks it’s pretty easy to tell what is real and what parents are making up.
A few weeks ago, my wife was on video chat with her daughter and our 3 year old granddaughter was playing at her little desk. You know, mommy works at home, so she has to have her own desk. She has a little plastic computer and other office stuff on it and a little phone.
Her mom says ‘Hey, grandma is talking to you’.
Our granddaughter says ‘Mommy, don’t bother me, I’m in a meeting!’.
He mom says ‘Yeah, well can you take a break to say hi to Grandam?’.
She says ‘No, mommy, not right now, this is a very important meeting’ and points her finger and looks very stern. LOL.
Cute.
What do you call the grandfather, Grandprix?
Grandsire.
She prefers English, so ‘grandpa’. Her parents speak mostly Portuguese at home, but she learns English in her school and somehow prefers it. Even if someone says something to her in Portuguese, which she understands, she’ll reply in English. I find that interesting, just don’t really understand it. I don’t think my wife does either, she just says ‘she likes to talk in English’. I remember when they had her 3rd birthday party, we got on video with them, her parents and my wife spoke in Portuguese the entire time, but she spoke in English the entire time. Maybe it’s the other kids in her school who also speak English, not sure.
We live in a bilingual home (English/Portuguese). My (Brazilian) wife speaks to our kids exclusively in Portuguese unless she needs to make sure I understand every word (which I normally do, but sometimes miss nuance).
Our kids both understand Portuguese fully, but neither speak beyond the most basic phrases, and neither can read a lick.
This is common in bilingual homes, we’ve found. Every friend we have that has a bilingual home has the same thing.
Kids tend to speak the language of whatever country they live in, regardless of what’s spoken at home, unless only 1 language is spoken at home and is not the native language of wherever you live.
Interesting.
I have a co-worker who is a native Italian speaker and they only speak Italian to their kids at home, even though they live here and the kids learn English at school.
I finally just asked him. They don’t want the kids to completely lose their Italian.
The different thing about our granddaughter, mom’s Brazilian like her mom, he’s Portuguese, so Portuguese is their native language, but they live in Germany and speak all 3 languages, but her school only teaches English as a primary language, and their employer only speaks English in the workplace.
Heh, I just now noticed the type-o.
see?
I believe that was the point of the tweet. He’s mocking the original tweet by making up something equally as likely to have happened.
It’s totally believable, my two year old’s biggest fear is unauthorized international thermonuclear proliferation and that’s a quote.
It’s sunny and warm out.
I want some goddam snow. WHERE’S MY GODDAM SNOW????
It’s been delayed because of Covid19. We’ll let you know when the snow lockdown is lifted. Maybe in 3 weeks, just to flatten the snow curve.
About 2 – 3 hours north?
I’m about 14 hours north and we’ve had almost zero snow this season.
It’s not too common here, but sometimes we get these really heavy snowfalls that take a week to melt off. We had one a couple of years ago, and in 2010, about 4 ft. It closed everything here for a week.
Last year, nothing.
This year, we had a few inches before Christmas, nothing since.
3 official blizzards in the winter of 2009-2010. Gawd, I loved it.
That was a nice week off work. It took me about 2-3 hours to shovel the snow to get my jeep out. But once I was out, I was on the road! I remember looking out my window and I could barely tell where my jeep was buried. I could just see a little bit of green on the back panel near the back window.
Daughter was born in December 2010, during the worst blizzard NYC had seen in decades. Hospital parking/visiting was rough in our wee Honda Fit.
Final missing episode is in the R&R history folder. Also, here is an IMDB page for the PBS/BBC series; the first comment has a good episode breakdown. I REALLY want to find it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291656/
Woooot! Weekend binge!!
Stay away from the roads of Las Vegas…two teens snagged their learners permits. I am going to hate my insurance bill aren’t I?
My teen t-boned a landscaping truck a few summers ago. She was 16 years and 5 months old. THAT was a nice bill.
*currently have 3 teen drivers on our insurance*
My Z3 was hit three times, in three different towns but each time by a UT student. The third one totalled it. I loved that car.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
“We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured,” Biden said.
Biden said that? Was that before or after he fired Foochy?
“Facts” like how Trump praise neo-nazis and white-supremacists?
Facts like how his first wife died? Or how Romney was going to put blacks back in chains? Or 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted a college?
Great.
When does he start?
I want some goddam snow. WHERE’S MY GODDAM SNOW????
Try Buffalo.
We’re locked out. Fucking Blue state.
Second test batch is in the oven. Current recipe is –
1 pound dried fruits –
1/4 lb unsweetened dried cherried
1/4 lb unsweeted dried blueberried
1/4 lb golden raisins
1/4 lb chopped dates
1 bottle spiced rum
1 1/2 cups bread flour
1 stick butter
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup whole milk
The night before, weigh out the fruits into a bowl. Add the rum until fruit is covered. Cover bowl and set in fridge overnight.
Preheat oven to 350.
in a bowl, add dry ingredients and spices, mix.
add butter and integrate.
add milk and eggs and mix until dough forms.
strain fruit from excess rum. Return excess rum to container and dispose of in preferred manner (it’s now fruit-infused spiced rum)
Add fruit to bowl and mix until well integrated. Dough will be wet.
form two inch rounds of dough and space on parchment or silpat on a baking sheet.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Should make about 18 cookies.
And if you bake, you need a silpat. It gives up the cookies with zero effort. It was $25 but is so worth it.
+1 (or, in our case, +4 $5 knockoff silpats)
Covid Cake?
Fruitcake Cookies.
It’s soaked with enough rum to sanitize the finished product.
People actually eat fruitcake and/or variations thereof? I thought they were just passed frantically from one person to another like the bottle imp.
(Disclaimer: I do not recall whether I have ever knowingly eaten fruitcake.)
We have some, my wife buys one every holiday. I prefer Poundcake muhself.
Pound Cake
These guys make a delicious fruitcake:
trappists.com
Plus eating it reduces your time in purgatory.
I happen to like fruitcake.
I’ll have to try it some time.
This recipe needs some tweaking still.
It’s tasty but lacks some of the essential characteristics of a proper fruitcake.
If you get the piece with the little plastic mask in it, what do you win?
Reminds me of the wife made me a pizza on my recent birthday and put a candle in it and make me pose for a picture blowing it out. Next day I was having cold pizza and I suddenly bit into something hard. I was like ‘WTF is that’. I pulled this little plastic daisy shaped piece of yellow plastic out of my mouth. I said to my wife ‘What is this?’. She laughed and said ‘your candle holder’. Geez!
Niiiiiice.
Bread flour? Won’t that make them tough?
never has before.
I’ve been making cookies with bread flour for years.
Mind you I prefer chewy, cakey cookies. I’m sure all-purpose will work too.
People have been making chewy toll house cookies out if bread flour for a long time.
well, it’s off to dinner and beers at the speakeasy. later!
So finally we know what ‘db’ stands for.
dinner and beers
what else?
My 3 year old is throwing out the Halloween candy that she doesn’t like.
1) how the hell does she still have candy from October?
2) she’s throwing away like 2/3 of the candy, including everything non-chocolate.
Definitely not my child.
Not your child? Do you live anywhere near Web Hubbell?
Ryan posted photos of the journal to Reddit in the hopes of getting help tracking down the journal’s owner, who appeared to be named Nick.
Redditors suggested the names in the journal could be the members of an Auckland-based band called Ziko, but the group had last released an album in 2012 and had very little online presence.
Reddit is good for something other than porn?
Aldrin, whose birthday was Wednesday, tweeted a video Thursday showing how he celebrated with a cake and 91 lit candles, which the second man to walk on the moon blew out with multiple breaths.
🙂
His run is pretty good.
“Molecularly-woven fabrics may be able to clean water, by filtering out bacteria and unwanted ions and molecules. They may be useful for making fabrics that are breathable (allowing through oxygen and water) but blocking toxins or bacteria or viruses,” he told iNews.
So a mask that works? MASKS FOREVER!
Smith recently received a phone call from his daughter, Laura Winkles, who lives in Georgia. Winkles told him his long-lost class ring was being mailed to him — along with two letters.
Nice!
The Ramones song is good.
The first music link on Kristen’s Dick Dale post is good. I’m just getting to that post now. Gotta type up some stuff then I’ll put the rest on in the background as I wrap up some stuff for work.
“No more waking at 3 AM full of existential dread. Tonight we sleep like we used to when we were 5 & we fell asleep in the backseat of the car knowing that Dad was in charge & nothing bad could happen. Good night, America!”
https://twitter.com/MelanieBen/status/1352065453443735553
Well, you’re still a child.
Huh….I get filled by existential dread when I have to worry about not being able to pay my electric bill and put gas in my truck because the costs quadrupled. But yeah, mean spirited tweets are much scarier.
“put gas in my truck”
Trucks are fascist white supremacy.
Meh, Trump was the dad that let you sit in his lap and steer down the interstate. Not as safe certainly but a helluva lot more fun.
What in the hell could have happened to her, that she could say something like this publicly and think it’s okay?
Parents who didn’t believe in spanking and talked to her college profs when she got a bad grade.
I’m sleeping like a child in the back while Susan Smith drives.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsLzsHxXUAAh_3b.jpg
The ammo shortage will continue.
Hey, I thought tear gassing protestors was the greatest crime ever committed by the American government?
Whoa. Is that real?
https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1351910821929091072
Wtf
I think that’s a sarcastic jab (note the drones) but it’s hard to tell. It most certainly is real though.
Just noticed that only the earthbound meek are wearing masks.
What is wrong with some of your fellow Americans?
Jacobin is a very leftwing magazine. I think they are mocking the proggies who are lionizing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as some kind of progressive saviors.
Thank God
I really enjoyed a lot of the actual leftist commentary during the primary and even early on in the general election. Exhaustive detailing of why exactly Joe Biden is nothing but a tool of the big corporations who’s never in his life pushed actual progressive policy, and thorough breakdowns of the awfulness that is Kamala Harris, the chief cop of California. Just real good hard hitting stuff that always ended with “But of course, Donald Trump is a lot worse than Biden and Harris.”
I’ve been staring at this for a spell now and I can’t grok the blouse shading on the bottom center figure. Single giant, saggy tit? Tumorous growth on torso? Shading to indicate motion?
Shitty art?
I can’t find Kamala on it either. Certainly Bill, Hillary and Barack, and Moobs and Pelosi, but where’s the saintly new VP?
Fortunately, I don’t care about women’s sports.
“Can we just take one moment and note Hillary’s dignity and class through the last four years and into today?”
https://twitter.com/ilyseh/status/1351923586085363712
When did that happen?
Public hearing on appointing NH AG Gordon MacDonald to the NH Supreme Court
The Concord Monitor article dwells on one Executive Councillor’s interrogation of MacDonald, but barely covers other Councillors’ questions or the public comment period. The Union Leader’s coverage is a little more thorough.
I listened to about three and a half hours worth of the public hearing. Joe Kenney, as mentioned in the Union Leader article, did refer to MacDonald’s enforcement of the governor’s orders as “strong arming”. He also questioned MacDonald about the source of the governor’s authority to issue such orders.
MacDonald’s responses on the enforcement amounted to “I’m just following orders”. MacDonald repeated that he wanted voluntary compliance, and that only a handful (eight, or less than 1%) of complaints to the “snitch line” (not his description, mine) resulted in fines. A quote from MacDonald on enforcement, “Everyone in our office lives in New Hampshire. We know how much this pandemic and the economic consequences have been felt by the people of NH. Businesses have been closed. Employees have lost their jobs. Some businesses are hanging on by a thread.”
On the source of the governor’s authority, MacDonald talked about the emergency powers law.
Neither news article talked about questions from Kenney to MacDonald about investigations into possible voting irregularities in Windham, NH. A hand recount of votes in Windham, NH showed significant changes for certain candidates. MacDonald’s office is supposed to be working with Windham officials and the NH Secretary of State to investigate. Since MacDonald has turned over day-to-day running of the AG office to an underlying while his nomination to the NH Supreme Court is pending, MacDonald has no recent information on the investigation. Interestingly, I’m not sure why folks are dwelling on Windham when I know of other towns in NH where something similar happened.
Neither article talks about the questions Wheeler asked MacDonald, which had to do with cases concerning religious freedom and the governor’s emergency powers. In the religious freedom case, MacDonald argued before the court against religious freedom but defended his actions by stating he has to argue in defense of the law as it stands. About the emergency powers cases, MacDonald said again that he has to argue in defense of state actions unless they are “patently unconstitutional”, so therefore he has to argue in defense of the governor’s emergency powers.
During the part of the public comment period I listened to, the Council had members of the public alternate. One in support spoke, then one in opposition spoke. The ones in opposition mostly talked about MacDonald’s role in investigating voter fraud.
I dropped off at about 2 PM for a work meeting, so I didn’t hear the end of the meeting.
The Council votes tomorrow at 10 AM on whether or not MacDonald gets on the NH Supreme Court. I am not sure what will happen.
I’m not saying I did, but if I were to have procured a new bang stick, it would have been this afternoon, and it would have been this one, though I wouldn’t have paid nearly as much as the MSRP.
“One of Biden’s first Executive Orders should be to prohibit the airing of FoxNews, Newsmax or OANN in any federally owned property or any military unit or installation, and to remove it from any cable plans that are offered in government owned business or housing complexes.”
https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1351545333034192900
CWAA
Do a lot of federal government buildings broadcast Foxnews?
During GWB it was playing in the lobby of State Annex 44 every day LOL
I’m assuming army barracks would fall into that.
Most of the responses explain why we’re screwed.
We have to kill democracy to save democracy.
“If only we could have all news be the same, then it would always be the Truth, none of those lies from right-wing stations.
The Soviets had the right idea, their news source was even their word for Truth — Pravda.
Amen, A woman, and praise-the-government.”
Ooops. Guess I shouldve scrolled.
“Twitter refused to remove child porn because it didn’t ‘violate policies’: lawsuit ”
https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/
“Lawsuit: Twitter States that Child Porn Video ‘Didn’t Violate Policies’”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/21/lawsuit-twitter-states-that-child-porn-video-didnt-violate-policies/
It is indeed 1.21.21 through and through!
Must be Frabjous Day!
Just be happy all those 5 numbers add up to be 7, not 6 numbers adding up to be six. We’re saved, or something… *pops another beer*
I shaved my head and saw a tatoo there, it read 667, so close….
Yeah, dude, you’re lucky that lucifer won’t be surprise confronting you on the disk golf course to claim your soul you sold him on that night.
Pam Keith, Esq.
@PamKeithFL
·
Jan 20
One of Biden’s first Executive Orders should be to prohibit the airing of FoxNews, Newsmax or OANN in any federally owned property or any military unit or installation, and to remove it from any cable plans that are offered in government owned business or housing complexes…
It’s a matter of good order and discipline of our units & of national security to tamp down the political heat and remove radicalizing influences. I am fine w/the list being just:
CNN
C-Span
ESPN
Food Network
History Channel
Discovery
Animal Planet
Weather
Nat Geo
https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1351614178503647232
“I’m afraid that the military rank and file might not support my administration, so I’m going to start mistreating them and impugning their professionalism. What could possibly go wrong?”
Nothing, once Biden has purged the military of all those fine young fighting machines and replaced them with obese blue haired Xe’s that have only been out of their mum’s basement to grab another bag of glazed donuts.
Putin and Xi are having a fucking cocktail party orgy.
Those fine young fighting machines are gonna be fighting for someone. More likely, they’ll be fighting for someone who doesn’t treat them like the help.
If they want to reduce radicalizing influences they need to shitcan all the news channels. Every one is filled with hyperbolic garbage. Maybe just Turner Classic Movies (is that still a thing?) and the Weather Channel.
Maddow hardest hit.
I’m sure we can whittle that list down to, oh, I dunno… one, if we try harder.
Because CNN has never engaged in political histrionics…
You can watch how to make a Lemon cream pie on two channels.
My sister got me some goodies for Christmas including something labeled “Blueberry Lemon Jam.” It’s not jam. It’s whole blueberries in a thin sauce.
It is also delicious on this Indian pudding recipe I just invented. I’ll put the recipe in the forums.
“Over the last 24 hours I’ve realized a functioning government led by capable adults is my kink.”
https://twitter.com/AdrienneLaw/status/1352345221762150400
*buys alcohol stocks*
Sorry dear, but if you’ve been waking up at 3AM full of existential dread because of who is president, you don’t get to call yourself ‘capable’ or ‘adult.’ You’re a weak, useless child somehow inhabiting a grown-up body.
Yeah, I mean unless they’re promising to come after you because of your political affiliation or who you voted for. Good thing that has never happened before.
It’s going to be funny when these people begin realizing that they’re still fucked up and that Trumpenstein wasn’t really the root of their problems.
Doesn’t the UK left still blame Margaret Thatcher for all of the country’s problems?
That’s why I only date women that were severely abused by their exes. My corrective behavior therapy seems gentle.
Yup, just watch this season of The Crown, according to my wife. Thatcher hated the poor, the entire country despised her, and her foolish ideas caused Britain to go into a Depression, until Queen Elizabeth saved the day in the nick of time. Also, I think back then, according to the Brits, Reagan had two buttons he could press next to his bed, one labeled “Nurse” and the other labeled “Nukes”.
I’m so glad she doesn’t make me watch that show with her.
Yeah, even the Guardian panned it for being a bit “loose” with history.
Kid Rock 2024?
I think he already figured out that politics is a mistake. He’s sitting on a bunch of acreage in TN and has not a worry in the world. Why would he do it?
“Given all we’ve heard about the threat of insurgency, a healthy media would inform the national populace of coordinated riots that occurred across major American cities, particularly when it resulted in the destruction of the state headquarters of a governing political party.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1352263621280202753
Reporting the news is an idea.
But a subversive idea that must be banned, because muh ‘democracy!’.
Andy Ngo is #fakenews.
*turns on CNN*
*Spits out coffee*
Maybe my favorite tweet of his.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1352373651690180610
Heh…
What does it say? (he has me blocked)
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
· 12h
Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah bid adieu to Trump: “America just got a brand-new dad”
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
half of his kids died
And the other half are crack addicts
The Official State Press is Back
That’s something else isn’t it? Being obsequious used to be frowned upon.
Today is a day that I’m glad all the Twitter links are blocked. Even the excerpted derp is giving me a palsy.
If, after 4 years of Biden, the GOP can’t russle up somebody who can win an election, we’re done.
Are the votes legitimate and being counted fairly?
*sad trombone*
That would be racist.
yes.
Lolololol
You make me laugh.
Go to gulag.
The best is yet to come. They’re trying their hardest to hide the fact that the economy is crippled. Eventually the psychology of the economy will catch up to the fundamentals, and Biden will be seen as Jimmah Cahtah 2: Weekend at Joe’s Boogaloo.
Thing is, you could fix it with some hard political choices. But that would involve actually making the hard political choices. It would mean everyone taking a haircut, and it would mean dismantling the corrupt system of DC.
Massachusetts is the top ranked state in GDP (PPP) per capita, at 65k. DC is at 160k. It’s just truly astounding how much wealth and power is concentrated in that place.
DC is not going to relent, ever.
McConnell has made that very clear.
Glib forecast struggle
> worst: Dayton
> median: Portland
> winner: Tokyo
link to psychrometrics
Lauren Southern on Michael Malice
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1352294170241724419
https://youtu.be/sF2jXcBnOlU
Listened to part of that yesterday. She says that because of what happened last summer, the right has learned that rioting gets you what you want. I’m thinking that is the last thing the right has learned. Every time they even come close to that line, they get crushed by public opinion.
Public opinion is what everybody thinks everybody else is thinking. It’s a commodity manufactured for people who believe what the media tells them. 70+ million people are noticing the disparity between what they’re told and what they see.
The center right is not going to embrace the far right going violent which is unlike what the center left did regarding the far left. At least not yet.
It doesn’t take 50% of the country to kick off a revolution. The far right could cause enough trouble to bring this country to an existential crisis on their own.
She’s the daughter I never had. {pouty face}
WebDom is the one I did.
It was excellent. I didn’t know much about the chick, but I thought she was tremendous.
The inside baseball was really compelling.
Mike Rowe ?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3977993328877447&id=116999698310182
I, too, have a wholesome man-crush on Mike Rowe . . .
Kristen? Why did you just head for your bunk?
I’m not gay, but if he was so inclined, I’d at least give him a handy while he delivered a stern lecture about whatever.
The Grifties are on live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xElNbHVUbG0&feature=youtu.be
Excellent!
This is just too cool.
That is cool. Now I’m just wondering what a set of sheets made out of that fabric would cost.
Just sign here for your equity loan.
We’ll also be requiring monthly blood donations and your firstborn. Oh, and there’s some d00d who smells vaguely of burning sulphur who wants to talk to you about “your immortal soul” or somesuch. Sorry, I really wasn’t paying attention.
I feel like it may be time to get a VPN. Recommendations? I hear you should use a paid service unless you want your data mined & farmed
unless you want your data mined & farmed
Hawt.
unless you want your data mined & farmed
Hawt.
Well, that’s interesting. The squirrels even thought it was hawt.
It depends on your needs. Nord is very popular. Surfshark is very fast and lets you use unlimited devices.
That sounds good – I’ll look into it. Thanks!
check the forum.
there is an on-going discussion.
Brave has Tor built in for private browsing. That’s about as secure as you’re going to get.
I am a new Brave user and tried it. Seems it doesn’t like some websites.
Some websites don’t like anonymous browsers.