Not sure there’s any sports worth reporting on this morning. If there is, I sure can’t find it.
GOAT…probably.
If you’re born on this day, you share it with General DouglasMacArthur, automotive engineer Bindo Maserati, gangster Frank Costello, communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, actor Paul Newman, baseball player and actor Bob Uecker, rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, tv personality Ellen DeGeneres, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, and…that’s pretty much it. A top-heavy day today.
Anyway, let us move on to…the links!
Come on, India. Get your shit together. Seriously, what the fucking fuck?
I agree. It’s a scam.
Guess who will ultimately pay for this? If you said “the consumers who are forced to use SoCal Edison because California imposes a monopoly”, you’d be right. Although you wouldn’t win anything because I’m cheap and lazy.
I really don’t know who to cheer for here. Ooh, I know. I’ll cheer for none of them because everybody in the story is an asshole.
Lol, this is hilarious. Being rich is no guarantee of intelligence. Also, these dumbasses should have just flown to a private airport in the US and gotten vaccinated nearby without all the red tape.
Slimy fucks.
Man, that’s an awful lot of “professional services”. Also, in what universe would $75m have been an ok amount to keep his job but $148m not be? He’d have still even paying $75m to a child sex peddler.
Let me put your fears to rest: they are falling behind. And it’s the union that’s doing it to them. Now, go do something about it.
This should surprise nobody. California government couldn’t run a freaking lemonade stand.
Man, I feel bad for this dickhead’s kids. But I don’t feel sorry for him. He sounds like a complete asshole.
Here’s a solid musical selection. Hope you enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, dear friends!
Indian court rules that groping without removing clothes is not sexual assault
*Gropey Joe perks up.*
I almost made a “Biden quickly schedules state visit to India” joke but I don’t want twitter to track it down and ban me.
Meh. You’d have plenty of excellent company if YouTwitFace lowered the banhammer on you.
Trump and the Mypillow guy?
I thought that was more of a repressed Japanese guy riding the Tokyo subway thing than an Indian thing.
Repressed Japanese guy gets off at the next stop instead of gang-raping the victim.
How, exactly, did they put the community at risk? Did they bring some COVID-infected blankets along with them?
Why, it seems they are asserting a right to control who travels into, and out of, their community. And that it’s okay to deny services to people they don’t like.
The silence from all the right-thinking people who normall start shrieking about small-town people (theoretically) not selling gas and groceries to gay people is deafening.
how are the small town folk going to identify the gays? Especially at the self-service gas stations?
They drive Subarus?
That’s just the lesbians though.
Ahem!
Oh, fine! I was just stating the obvious stereotype.
[cough] 3 series BMW [cough]
It’s the hair.
A good point, of course. And in that scenario they’d also definitely be sold gas to get them on their way.
But I think that scenario assumes the community freezing out gay residents, not denying services to random passers-through. Of course I’ve never been in the position to actually question anyone advancing that argument.
Acktually, there is a severely remote northern settlement with a new outbreak after getting the first dose of vaccine. Rumors run wild regarding poisoning of the people and chips.
They poisoned the chips?
They could have just made them sour cream and cheddar flavor. That’s the same as poison.
Hmmm…
Sour cream is not a thing is it?
. . . and chips.
It’s the salt-‘n-vinegar flavour what done it.
“All Dressed” is the same thing as “BBQ.” Change my mind.
Nah, All Dressed reminds me of Ruffles Cajun Spice.
lolwut
Oh right, they’re higher in the hierarchy.
“Scheduled castes.”
Best interwebs comment of the day?
Portland Mayor Wheeler pepper-sprays man who confronted him as he left pub
Wheeler threw a bottle of water at the man so he could wash his face
He IS the Antifa mayor.
I figured in honor of Portland, this would be the song for the day.
He IS the Antifa mayor.
The Quit-the-shits Had-enough – the one who is offended in many places at once. [Who was that over at TOS that coined this – Heresiarch?]
“Come on, India. Get your shit together. Seriously, what the fucking fuck?”
Isn’t it cultural appropriation to demand they behave like westerners?
Somebody needs to appropriate a fist upside that dude’s head.
And that could apply equally to the person who sexually assaulted a child or the judge who just enabled more of it.
Not appropriation; that would be if *we* started doing it. It’s straight-up cultural imperialism.
Sounds like they need some olden days British military coronel to help them see the error of their customs/ways..
You know, like telling them if your local custom is to burn the widow on the funeral pyre, we have a custom where people that commit murder end up hanging from the gallows.
British Imperialism wasn’t ALL bad! You fine folks get to put up with my nonsense come the morn…
And the roads. And the sanitation. But they were still imperialist scum.
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace.
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!
Why do restaurants keep permitting Wheeler to visit? It seems like he’s bad for business.
Well if they don’t, he’ll just shut them down.
They should just always conveniently run out of everything he’s ordered.
Appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
I prefer this take on that gag.
That aggrieved Cali-Texas transplant article is hilarious.
“Not enough public spaces!”
“It’s hot!”
“Not everybody agrees with my politics!”
“The schools are tough!”
Somebody didn’t get smacked enough as a kid.
And that’s all happening in commie-topia Austin no less. That place might as well be SF, Portland, Charlottesville, or Asheville.
I like how he moves to Bee Cave and then bitches that it costs the same in Texas for a 4000SF house as it did a 2000SF house in San Diego.
Motherfucker, you found the most expensive place in Texas and you still got twice the house for the same money.
And then he whines about the expense of having a pool guy and a gardener.
Cry me a river, douchebag.
Yo, California expat: remember, you’re coming to Texas as a refugee, not a missionary.
Two things: first – ya’ll got rid of him, count your blessings. Second – I’ll bet $100 that mofo ain’t a native Californian.
I couldn’t be bothered to read that far. That is absurd.
Do pools in California clean themselves?
As much as the streets.
Apparently Texas Mexicans don’t come as cheap as California Mexicans. Go figure.
Tex-Mex isn’t real Mexican.
Yo, California expat: remember, you’re coming to Texas as a refugee, not a missionary.
Consider this stolen
There are a fair number of Bay Area transplants in the Pittsburgh area–who are driving real estate prices up in the areas near the Google offices. Some of them roll in with a fistful of cash from selling their home in CA, some just with overinflated expectations of what they will have to pay for housing, and plunk down 2-3x what the house would be worth absent their influence. Their salaries are plenty to cover the mortgage payments.
Of course, things are worth exactly what people will pay for them, but we’re talking about 250-400k houses selling for 500-$1M. It’s getting crazy. People who are willing to sell are loving it, and of course the local realtors do nothing to disabuse the transplants of their notions of “reasonable” housing costs.
I was farting around on Zillow yesterday and looked up my old homes. Speaking of absurd prices, my house in Portland is now worth $1.1M and is in the middle of surburbia (when we built, that little development was the only set of homes in sight). Second place went to San Diego and third to Annandale, VA. My current domicile, which is by far the nicest of the houses I’ve ever lived in, only ranks fourth.
I bought a townhouse in San Diego in 2000 for $220K
In 2004 I sold it for $530K
It now lists at $700K
For a 1700 sqft townhouse.
Jeebus. I own a property in western PA that has a 1700 sqft house on 20+ acres that is on the books at $205k.
When the GF got a job offer at a major tech firm that would have required a move to Silicon Valley, she countered with the amount they’d have to pay her to afford an equivalent home and lifestyle in that area. Just try to find 5+ acres, 4000 sf house, with a commute less than 1 hr out there. It can be had, but at a price. They were not amused.
When I was in San Diego, my employer asked what it would take to get me to move up to L.A. and my reply was more than this company is worth.
My wife lived in Washington County for much of her childhood. Had a horse and rode it through what is now that suburbia.
Yeah, we were Washington Co even though it was a Portland address. NW 147th vicinity. Hard to believe how much that has changed.
I used to live on the edge of town in Hillsboro which is now the center of a metropolis. Sad to see all that good ag land used to grow houses.
Unfortunately that sentiment is what has been used to sell the odious state land use planning.
Several years ago for class, I looked up the usage by acreage/percentage for the state. Farming/cultivation was essentially the same as it was in the 1950’s. The loss of farmland is the Big Lie. The largest category increase was park land (Like múltiple total percentages) with urbanized/housing land being relatively flat. Public ownership of land (both state and federal) continues to massively dwarf private ownership to a degree that would be foreign in older, eastern states. It basically crowds people into a very limited area and land use planning goes even further. What should be lots of low density small acreage (5acres or so) just doesn’t exist. You can’t subdivide rural land and anything inside an urban growth boundary is better off turning into postage stamp lots with cookie cutter homes.
I have to admit, that’s sort of what Mrs. Animal and I are doing. The price of the house we still own in Colorado has tripled since we bought it; once we sell this place we’ll have the new Alaska property paid off with cash to spare.
At least damn few Californians are coming to Alaska. They can’t hack the winters.
And shit, I just Zillow’d the first house Mrs. Animal and I bought right after the war. Zillow lists an approximate value of $386k. We paid $89k for it in 1991.
I remembered wrong. Not $89k. $69.5k. Holy shit.
That was $124,464 in 2020 dollars. Still a significant price hike.
Where in Alaska? I spent a couple years at Richardson. Those were great times, even in winter. The short summers are beautiful. I remember hiking through Eagle Valley picking wild raspberries while watching eagles fishing in the river.
A few miles outside Willow, in the Sustina Valley.
I drove past there a few times. Once in January convoying between Richardson and Wainwright. Just a lot of snow. The other time when I had to put a minimum number of miles on a new vehicle before we could mount a shelter. Wild flowers as far as I could see.
Yeah, the summers are gorgeous. And, yes, lots of snow. But hell, that’s just a good reason to break out the snow machine.
The mosquitoes up there, I could do without. We have mosquitoes here, but they don’t attack in packs. I will give California the win here.
Strangest coinky-dink when we moved back to Alberta from the Lower Rainland™: while looking for a home in Edmonton, we ran into another guy also house-hunting. I casually asked him where he was moving from, and he said “Pitt Meadows” (same as us). His reasons were the same, too — the social problems there were really starting to get overwhelming, the coast was becoming impossible in terms of owning a single-family dwelling, and he didn’t want to buy one of the many filing cabinets for people that pass for homes in the Vancouver area. He couldn’t believe the value he was getting here, not to mention the choice.
Winters also keep a lot of the grifters, and their social problems, away from here.
Yup. That’s definitely a plus.
LOL my mom bought this house in the eighties for $20K.
How can it give a $106k estimate when the last sale was $25k back in only 2010?
It even overestimates what my house would resell for.
Hell, the place across the street is up for sale, is bigger with more amenities and only got a contingent bid of $89k, there’s no way my house would move for $102k
Holy crap, that’s bad even by Rochester standards.
Here’s a house for $2.5 million… 60 Bedroom, 44 bath. oh, wait, that’s an apartment complex.
They do the same here but don’t budget another 1/3 of their mortgage for our high property taxes and end up in apartments after a couple years. But at least they’ve driven up my taxes in the process.
I bought my house for $52k. Will sell for about $200k. Enjoy, DC fuckfaces! I’m out!
Congrats KK.
California weather is only nice in a narrow band. The beach cities are nice. The inland empire is hot. I was fortunate to live many years a few miles from the coast. I happily gave it up, exchanging the nice weather for twice the house on ten times the land for about two-thirds the cost. Utilities and gas are also less expensive. The trees and wildlife are a bonus.
Our place in San Diego didn’t have air conditioning because we were close enough to the coast to get a nice breeze all but maybe two weeks a year. You only had to go one or two miles more inland and you would die without air in the summer. California is a million micro-climates.
We had air conditioning, but only used it a few days a year. Normally we left the windows open and got the onshore breeze. You are correct about differences over short distance. The marine layer only reached inland a few miles. I remember going to a game at the Big A. It was in the 70s when we left our house. The stadium was a few miles away and about 90. Visiting fans thought we were crazy for bringing jackets. They understood after sundown.
I remember driving from Atascadero to Morro Bay once. It went from 95° to 45° in about 10 minutes as I crossed the hill.
That’s just crazy.
When I lived in Long Beach, it was like that. Coming from the Southeast, I despaired when I found out my new apartment didn’t have A/C – how the hell do you live without A/C?? But the air was dry and, being about eight blocks from the water, there was always a nice cool breeze. We had a fan but rarely was I ever hot enough to need to turn it on.
I don’t miss much about California but I do miss that particular weather.
Isn’t one of the possible origins of the name “California” something like the old Spanish for “hot furnace?”
“I will agree with him that it get hot in parts of Texas but then I have had some California BBQ and I would rather have the heat.”
Ha!
His Op-ed should be required reading for anyone thinking of leaving CA for TX.
Austin may not be CA but Willie and Bob Wills don’t live in LA either.
(Bob Wills still lives in TX, just not an active participant.)
I’ve been gone for nearly 40 years but I miss some of TX but not enough to move back
Wheeler said he became concerned for his personal safety and of contracting COVID-19.
I can’t wait for the day I read a news story about how somebody was killed by being poked with an umbrella tip infused with the Chinese snifflecooties. It’s just that lethal.
“I was concerned about getting covid”…
…but not enough to have simply stayed home.
Fuck anybody that voluntarily/unnecessarily goes to a business and complains they felt unsafe because someone else there was in close proximity to them. And fuck then twice if they’re a politician and do it.
“While the union and district work out their issues, our kids should not suffer as a result,” a parent petition says.
Teachers unions act solely for the benefit of the children. It is known.
You know because their lips are moving.
TeH ChilDrun R R FutUrE!
I stumbled across a Sugarfree childhood photo this morning
https://i.redd.it/7v27eyogxnd61.jpg
Want
There’s a certain Dadaesque symmetry to the story. A man being berated for potentially spreading the Paranoia Flu uses his fear of his antagonist infecting him with the Paranoia Flu as a justification for pepper spraying him.
Wheeeee!
I like the way his parents didn’t gender him and put that bow in his hair…
You’re hired
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Damn shame his pilot didn’t get picked up. He really committed to the role.
How is that not medical malpractice?
If he did it himself . . . (there’s not enough whisky on Earth to help me do something like that to myself).
France apparently.
Meh. His money, his body, his choice. I assume he was an adult when he started down the body modification path, and it would be really hard to argue that he was unaware that it would limit his job options…
I’m pretty sure that keeping your gums exposed to the air like that is bad for your periodontal health.
Bitchez dig that though…
I’m sure surgically implanting metal spikes in your head and removing the soft part of your nose isn’t good for you in the long term, same as the people who split their tongues. I’m not saying he should be a role model for good decision making, but (other then himself), who’s injured by his choices?
The French taxpayer who will pick up the tab for his myriad of illnesses and conditions?
Why would the taxpayer have to pay? Healthcare is free there!
Which shows the issue with having the government pay for health care.
*Yellow Vest mob burns tires in street*
“Free, my ass! What are you, a Commie? I don’t allow no Commies in my car!
No Christians either!”
Woe unto me for clicking on that link.
The moral of the story, Alder wrote, was that it’d take a lot of money to buy a “California-like” lifestyle in Austin. “It was an expensive mistake, but my family and I now see California in a completely new light,” he added.
I’m gratified to see he at least had the decency to run back home to the Motherland. Kind of like the millions of Cubans who decided Miami was a dystopic shithole and swam back to Havana to beg Fidel’s forgiveness.
Did he kiss the ground when he got back, and promise to never ever leave? I hope so.
A personal apology to Gavin would seem to be in order.
Don’t forget the mandatory tongue-bath.
“Eeeeeew!”
Good morning, Sloop!
Boy, Texas came out the winner in that last story.
Sounds like someone might be a tad insecure about his masculinity. Bay Area should help with that.
I did laugh about the Portland mayor, though. It’s too bad what has happened there. It used to be a nice place.
Cold as hell here today. I hope it’s warmer where you are!
I’ve “networked” in all kinds of circumstances; the activity doesn’t really matter. Oh, and if you don’t like football, find a brewpub, or a wine-and-cheese social, or a volunteer group, or a church, or . . . well, you get the idea. It’s a lot like dating.
Mid- to high-60s today. I may put the top down for part of my drive home this afternoon.
I haven’t put the top down yet in January. And I want to use the convertible 12 months a year.
74 today.
A couple years ago, I was able to drive the Triumph from March to the week before Thanksgiving. 8 months in the wasteland that is Minne! I loves me some global warming.
Oh, and I think 99 is the GOAT. He disagrees, however, and insists that 9 is the best who ever played.
It’s okay – both you and The Great One are entitled to their mistakes… it will always be #4.
Next time someone wins the Hart, the Conn Smythe, the Art Ross, and the Norris, I’ll consider their case.*
*I feel obliged to note that Gretz’s autobiography won me over. It’s fantastic. Especially the chapter about why he doesn’t fight; it was fucking hilarious, as I recall. BUT, Mr. Orr could do it ALL – including giving one of the toughest guys in the League at the time (Keith Magnuson, RIP), what Magnuson later said was the worst beating of his life. Bobby Orr was so far ahead of his time, and so changed the game, that it’s never been the same since.
I’ll still by you a beer when I see you, Tundra, and maybe we can settle on the Hockey Trinity of 9 (Father), 99 (Son), and 4 (the Holy Ghost).
I don’t think we will disagree too much, but I am looking forward to that beer.
“Effectively what they did was they put our community and our isolation team at risk,” Yukon Community Services Minister John Streicker told the outlet on Monday.
Seriously? I’d say the snifflecooties is not your most pressing health issue. Seek professional help.
I guess it is as meaningful as the office of the president-elect.
“The Office of the Former President” will be responsible for managing Trump’s “correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities,” according to a statement released on Monday.
The office will also seek to “advance the interests of the United States and to carry on the agenda of the Trump Administration through advocacy, organizing, and public activism.”
“President Trump will always and forever be a champion for the American People,” the statement concludes.
I thought we banned Titles of Nobility?
But then we couldn’t call you the Grand Emperor of Raclette now could we?
I never heard that before.
That information is above your security clearance, citizen.
Says the infrared prole. You don’t even know what my security clearance is.
Have you ever seen me wearing black?
That’s not black, citizen.
When I get home, I’m going to loiok up the minimum security level for a slugthrower.
*Title only recognized in the Helvetian Confederation
They are like non-hereditary peerages, so all’s good. Can we get a ruling from Judge Napolitano or any other judge who no longer holds office.
In other words, he’s still trolling the libs.
So Trump is now a “community activist”? That is some Grade-A trolling.
He needs to self-identify as a “community organizer” just to piss off Barry.
I can’t wait for his Styx-style disclaimer on every video pushing alt-tech sites.
how are the small town folk going to identify the gays? Especially at the self-service gas stations?
Gyadar.
duh
Or perhaps even gaydar,possibly.
Stupid cold fingers.
She’s going to make a great mom.
Why?
She will set a great example with tricks like that for her kids to become productive SJW moochers.
Uecker ranks #41 out of 47 baseball birthdays today, with a career -1.0 WAR.
And he is still far and away the most famous guy there. The list is marginally better than yesterday’s dreck. If a list topped by George Blaeholder can be said to be better than anything.
*ugh* Another jumper off the bridge on the way home last night. If he/she survived hitting the water they would probably be dead within ten minutes. Fuck. The cops were just showing up as I drove past and the “funny bit” is that they leapt out of their vehicles and started looking upstream. I shit you not. To dumb for cop-work? Poor soul.
You’re in Prince George, right?
Yep. It’s a harsh place but most of the people are okay. We got a huge influx of indigent people when the forests burned and they won’t leave. Our downtown is mini Portland. It doesn’t help that the Correctional Center (prison) is about a mile and a half up the hill. Where will they go? Right downtown where the free shit lays.
Titty Tuesday wonders if hand bras count as clothes in India?
https://archive.li/r1ksb
Okay, I said I was done posting GME stuff, but one more thing: Melvin Capital, a hedge fund, just got $2.75B in loans from other hedge funds and may be getting another $1B soon. That is about equal to their losses shorting GME so far.
I’ll hold this atomic-hot potato for a little and see what happens. Better odds than lottery tickets, probably.
Anybody researched Panama as an ex-pat destination?
I had no idea Panama City had gotten that huge. It’s a first world city now.
Panama City population is only 36k. Oh, you mean the other one?
477k is huge?
1.5M in the metro.
And the skyline looks like something out of a new city in SE Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_City#/media/File:Panamacity.png
That is pretty densely built for a 1.5MM metro area.
Well, it’s Mariano Rivera’s home town, so that’s a big point in its favor.
Pulled in there a bunch of times during our 2011-12 deployment (wow…didn’t think it’d been that long).
Impressions on my end – interesting contrast of free market and state. The buildings going up look great and great stuff inside, but the streets just outside them were absolute trash – definitely 3rd world potholes (at the time).
I referred to Saint Foochy as a senile quack, last night. It didn’t go over too well with one person in particular.
I like her, but fuck it. If you’re that scared of the Paranoia Flu, what are you doing at the bar, where any old germ factory can happen along?
As long as you wear a mask when you’re having unprotected anal sex with strangers you’re safe.
OK OK, I shouldn’t have said that: he’s not senile.
Last night my wife told me how the local Bay Area news reported that the percentage of black people in California receiving the vaccine was lower than they’d like, so of course the reason was systemic racism. In the several minute long story, no one bothered to bring up how a lot of blacks are declining the vaccine, saying they don’t want to be guinea pigs or Tuskegee airmen (heard this a lot at our hospital). Nope, the only possible reason is white supremacists denying them lifesaving vaccine access.
Gretzky GOAT? Maybe. It was a different league then. Enforcers enforced. I’d pick Bobby or the Rocket.
Still gotta put the puck in the back of the net. He controlled the game like no one else.
I’ll give you that but he was given free reign by the likes of “Cement-Head”. Dudes puck-sense was other-worldly.
Anze Kopitar has that puck presence but not the goals in net sense.
How about Pavel Datsyuk? There are hundreds of players for whom you could make the case that they had the best skills.
99 might not be the best, but he was the greatest.
I agree with you..I wasnt saying Kopi was the only, just someone that has that hockey presense, which there are a lot more to add to that list.
Hell, Gretzky himself said that he was in awe of Kent Nilsson’s skills.
Plenty of players were more skilled than Gretzky, but none of them had his hockey IQ.
I think drop 17 year old Gretzky into todays game and he still breaks records…as long as he has my GOAT Jari Kurri with him to feed him all his goals.
Jamie, you dishonest cunte.
Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the point of impeachment was to “protect the Republic” from former President Donald Trump and prevent him from holding federal office in the future.
Raskin said, “We intend to show the worst presidential crime against the Republic in American history. The violence was terrifying and overwhelming. Five people died, police officer hit over the head with a fire extinguisher, police officers beat up, grabbed, pushed, shoved, jostled.”
Three people died from preexisting conditions (lie by omission), officer died of a stroke later on (ditto, unproven at the least), woman murdered by cop (ditto again). Looks like mob violence for thee but not for me.
We truly live in the age of cowardice as virtue…
“terrifying and overwhelming”
Our ancestors weep for the feminized pussies we have become.
Andrew Jackson goes WTF
“We intend to show the worst presidential crime against the Republic”
I think every single American President had a crime against the Republic worse than anything Trump did.
Including the previous one, assassinating American citizens without due process, among other things.
People stampeded, and cattle raped.
Bring forth the magic hat
President Joe Biden on Monday appeared to boost his goal for coronavirus vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, suggesting the nation could soon be injecting 1.5 million shots on an average per day.
Why not ten million shots per day?
If all he’s doing is watching what independent jurisdictions are doing and then reporting on the trend, why is that “his goal”?
Why isn’t it “my goal”? Where’s my Nobel?
Joe Biden already achieved his goal. Somehow, he’s actually President.
Heh. I think I was reading Kurt Schlicter (sp?) last night, wherein he referred to Biden as “The * President.”
I’m still partial to “Puddin’ Cup” myself.
I dropped that in the office the other day. Got a couple laughs.
Is that an asterisk or an anus? Because either one works.
“His” goal…they’re ramping up production FFS.
Raskin said, “We intend to show the worst presidential crime against the Republic in American history. The violence was terrifying and overwhelming. Five people died, police officer hit over the head with a fire extinguisher, police officers beat up, grabbed, pushed, shoved, jostled.”
“Don’t make me sit in the comfy chair! Anything but that!”
Jostled? JOSTLED?!?
Sir, you go too far!
Apparently we have become completely disconnected from violence and turned into total pussies.
Nobody who is ranting about the violence in the Capitol Building should ever be voting on sending troops into harm’s way. It is obvious they have no idea what it entails.
When you approach it from the angle that they’re being disingenuous it all makes sense.
Oh I know, I just like to point out that if I take them seriously, it does not reflect well on their manliness.
I suspect that it’s some of both.
Progressives are hysterical chickenshits, and they have a gut-level sense of when a situation can be exploited to their benefit. The character traits go together.
Yeah, the stupider ones probably really are worked up but the smarter more dangerous ones are cynically exploiting it to nefarious purpose.
Apparently we…
We? Just because a cock-sucking piece of shit Democratic Congress-critter is a whiny snot-ball of insecurity and mendacity is no reason to impugn everyone.
What about the officers who have permanent eye damage from being shot with lasers, and the ones who had to be treated for burns? Oh wait, wrong coast.
Five people died,
To my knowledge, two of them actually at the Capitol, and one was killed (wrongfully, in all likelihood) by security. To be perfectly honest, I still don’t have a clue how or where the fifth one died. By my tally, its the woman killed by security and the cop hit by a thrown fire extinguisher at the Capitol, and a heart attack and stroke a good distance away at the rally.
police officer hit over the head with a fire extinguisher, police officers beat up, grabbed, pushed, shoved, jostled.”
Grabbed, pushed, shoved, jostled? Oh, the humanity!
Jostled?
Is there no end to your heartlessness and callous disregard for the suffering of others, sir?
Was looking at 5 states, covid deaths over time, and see 3 patterns.
Group 1: CO and IL (and New England states mostly) – Spring peak, and winter peak in December.
Group 2: SC and CA – Summer peak, although CA was mild, and winter peak in January (CA is at their peak now, so Feb could be absolute peak, but probably mid Jan).
Group 3: KY – basically nothing until winter, they are still rising, this is their first peak and they still haven’t hit the top.
If you are using any kind of data to determine things, CA shouldn’t be reopening yet. Not that they should have closed to begin with, but you know what I mean. Same for NY, they are still at or near the top for their winter peak.
I see a 4th group, SD is like KY except they peaked in late Nov/early Dec.
I wonder how those peaks align with other disease “seasons” such as common colds and flu?
Other than the initial spring/summer hits, I would guess dead on.
Mostly the winter peaks align with weather. SD is cold. CO and IL less so, but still cold. SC and CA warm. KY is a bit of an outlier, they should fall between the CO/IL group and the SC/CA group.
I would expect FL/TX to have a late winter peak. Off to check.
And yep. FL/TX both had the summer peak and are still on the rise for their winter peak,
TN looks like KY shifted up, so slightly higher death rate all along. Must be something about horizontal geographic alignment.
I wonder how its progress tracks with itinerant workers?
Biden signaled his increasing bullishness on the pace of vaccinations after signing an executive order to boost government purchases from U.S. manufacturers. It was among a flurry of moves by Biden during his first full week to show he’s taking swift action to heal an ailing economy as talks with Congress over a $1.9 trillion stimulus package showed few signs of progress.
Biden reiterated that he believes the country is in a precarious spot and and that relief is urgently needed, even as he dismissed the possibility of embracing a scaled-down bill to secure passage faster. Among the features of the stimulus plan are a national vaccination program, aid to reopen schools, direct payments of $1,400 to individuals and financial relief for state and local governments.
“Time is of the essence,” Biden said. “I am reluctant to cherry-pick and take out one or two items here.”
When everything is essential, nothing is essential.
Go take a nap, Pops.
I think he has the essential meaning of “cherry picking” inverted here.
…aaaaand this is why I’m against “open” adoptions.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13822449/my-adoptive-daughters-birth-family-causing-problems/?rec_article=true
We have an open adoption for our youngest. However, it was private and we made it clear that if there were any funny business, we had the legal right to cut off the birth parents. It has worked out very well for us. However, our older 2 were adopted through foster care. They went to great lengths to keep us “anonymous” to the parents, and we were 100% behind that. To put it kindly, both kids were taken away for a reason. Their family situation was a shit show.
The birth father of our adopted daughter accused us of physically abusing her. That set off an intense investigation (the process is the punishment). After we adopted her, that was pretty much the end of our foster care days.
Last I heard, he was in prison for trying to sell meth to an undercover cop.
Wanted too much from the UC?
I’ve heard people complain about kids getting taken away for questionable reasons. While I’m sure that happens, I know that here in Indiana the system is full and under a lot of stress, and you can be pretty confident that if a kid was taken away, it was for a good reason, and they gave the parents multiple chances to get their shit together.
Teacher’s Unions are full of Assholes, Example #a lot:
Worrying about Suicide is White Privilege
Wilson also dismissed claims that children are depressed because they cannot see their friends and are not able to compete in athletics.
“They complain their children are suicidal without school or sports. As a father, daily surviving the suicide of my son, I find these statements ignorant and another expression of white privilege.”
Wilson adds, “No one wants remote learning but it is the right thing to do.”
Apparently news from two weeks ago. #flashback Wednesday.
Today is Tuesday, article was first posted on a Wednesday.
*pours cup of coffee, chews on coffee grounds*
I’m not saying that beating him to death is the right thing to do. I’m just saying that if he were found so murdered, he’s so self-evidently an asshole it would be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt which one of his enemies wut dun it.
It’s the poorer households with two working parents that are hardest hit by this bullshit.
But that doesn’t factor into their narrative.
What an asshole.
Clear a path, let the experts through
Health officials are “extremely” worried about the new Covid-19 variants that have been detected in the US and what they could mean over the coming months, one expert said Monday night.
“We’ve seen what happens in other countries that have actually had coronavirus under relatively good control, then these variants took over and they had explosive spread of the virus, and then overwhelmed hospitals,” emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
——-
“If there is something more contagious among us, if we thought that going to the grocery store before was relatively safe, there’s actually a higher likelihood of contracting coronavirus through those every day activities,” she said.
“Wearing an even better mask, reducing the number of times that we have to go out shopping, or in indoor crowded settings, all of that will be helpful,” Wen added.
Dr. Anthony Fauci told NBC Monday wearing two masks is likely more effective in stopping the spread of the virus.
“If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,” he said.
Totally not a quack.
Why don’t you people listen to Him?
We need to re-film all the old movies and change them to “Is there a public health expert in the house?”
Fauci really should just start marketing distilled water as a homeopathic remedy. He could make billions.
He actually said that, and people still take him seriously? Sweet drunken Enkidu…
Thats what happens when you haven’t practiced in your field and you rake in half a million of government pay.
Plus royalties.
You don’t get to be in that top position without being the very best in your field, right? Why is everyone laughing?
We see it everyday even at lower levels of government. Our laziest and most ignorant technicians in the FAA are all pulling in 120K and couldnt turn a wrench or tell you basic electronics theory.
“Those who can’t do, teach. Those who can’t teach work for the FAA” -A&P teacher
He makes less than a mid-level private anesthesiologist; which should really tell you everything about the pinnacle of government medical experts.
He opted for the long game. Govt service pays off at the end.
“…explosive spread of the virus,…”
Why, it was almost viral!
“If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,”
Ten bucks says this dude has slid his car into a snowy ditch at least once in his life.
it just makes common sense
SCIENCE, BITCHEZ!
I’m guessing Saint Fauci has got a double blind study supporting that.
Breakfast query: was going to scramble some eggs this morning. Gordon Ramsay prefers to continuously stir his over low heat, adding a little crème fraîche toward the end. You wind up with small curds and a very creamy, almost custard-like texture. Sour cream works as a substitute for the crème fraîche.
Alton Brown, OTOH, adds some ordinary mayonnaise to his, with a touch of harissa, and on higher heat. Bigger, fluffier curds.
What say y’all?
Break ’em. Stir ’em. Fry ’em. Serve with bacon, and plenty of it.
I like the Ramsay method. I’ve been using that technique for a while. Very smooth.
why add anything? Salt and pepper and any other seasonings, of course, but I don’t see the mayo/sour cream/etc point.
I use the French method (it’s my background, yo) — stir continuously over gentle heat until the eggs are just set. Plate and serve immediately.
Takes a bit of practise (gotta get the heat and timing right), but doesn’t require any additions.
1 tbsp heavy cream per egg, plus a pinch of salt and white pepper. Heat on the low side of medium, stop stirring as soon as the curds start to form and start folding them over on themselves. Take the eggs off the heat sixty seconds before you think they’re done.
Take the eggs off the heat sixty seconds before you think they’re done.
This right here is the key.
Considering it takes me less than sixty seconds to cook them, that would involve drinking them.
Fried in butter. Serve with meat.
You spelled bacon fat wrong.
Nah, butter. Save the bacon fat for searing steaks.
If you only have enough bacon fat for steaks you need to eat more bacon
What about fat-washing bourbon? And stir-frying broccoli? Something has to give!
My experiments with fat-washing bourbon were underwhelming.
Same here.
Eh…i omit the cream but do slow and low with constant stirring. Add some chives or garlic scapes at the end with a pinch of salt and fresh pepper…
mayonnaise is lower class unsophisticated. Don’t do it.
Hi Pie, how was your break?
Pie! Long time no see! Hope your Internet break was refreshing.
I did not take an internet break per se just did not comment anywhere
We have a pile of Feteasca Neagra in house for our party this weekend. Plan on being toasted.
Something new and interesting?
Sadly, no. Availability here is very spotty, so what we can find is the high volume industrial stuff. But still, it’s Romanian and thus appropriate for the group of Glibertarian misfits who will be descending on us.
Well cheers then. I know people who ship stuff cheap from the US to Romania but not the other way around.
Some of us are lower class unsophisticated.
Off course. The classy people stayed at the old site
So you admit to being as classless as we are?
I was never over there in that I never commented. I was pot committed to this place when I realized where the class was and stayed out of inertia.
That’s not a classy attitude.
Just admit it, you’re one of us.
One of us.
I realize it’s not the blood of virgins, but most of us non-vampires tend to like it.
sscrambled eggs should have larger, fluffy ‘curds’ seasoned by salt and pepper, not any of these other chefy ingredients. To achieve fluff, at most you need water or milk.
The correct answer is just don’t cook them in margarine.
I don’t like moist eggs. If anything, just a touch of milk.
No milk. The secret to fluffy eggs is… a pinch of baking soda.
The secret to fluffy eggs is just a touch of water. The water turns to steam and creates fluffy eggs without adding any extraneous flavors.
I realized while the taste is superior, it is not enough for me to have the patience to make fancy eggs most days. I make scrambled eggs and omelets as simple as possible. I add nothing but salt and pepper.
In general, if I’m making eggs for breakfast, I’ll bust out the small skillet and do a small frittata. About three eggs (depending on which skillet I grab), some diced meat, some shredded cheese, and some vegetables.
I’ve mostly been doing eggs as an omelet. The stuffin’s get changed up to keep it from becoming routine (I don’t care so much but my wife does). Some days it’s just ham and cheese. Some days it’s chopped up & fried bratwurst. Some days I fry chopped onions, bell peppers, ham, and mushrooms.
Fry them sunny side up in bacon grease. Put a lid on toward the end to cook the tops of the whites.
Enjoy the thickened but still liquid yolk. Which is the whole point of eggs.
Thats the great thing about eggs…so many ways to make them so delicious.
That’s good, because the grocery store just told me that they were out of half dozen packs of eggs and subbed a whole dozen. I don’t go through eggs that fast.
Sure you can. They aren’t just for breakfast…
Mmmm… carbonara.
I make scrambled eggs in the microwave.
There I said it.
Also, I use heavy whipping cream and occasionally shredded cheese.
*clutches pearls*
*faints*
I’m not a huge fan of custardy eggs. Salt, pepper, cholula, and a dash of milk. Medium heat, constantly scrape across the pan until you start getting curds. Chop with spatula if the curds get too big. Take off heat and out of pan as soon as there is no more liquid.
High heat, butter. You’ll need to start the toaster before the eggs hit the pan.
Medium heat. Ranch dressing instead of milk, etc. Green Tobasco sauce.
Opened up another can of worms there. Well done.
I have a family secret (to the best scrambled eggs known to man) to protect, so I ain’t sayin’ nuthin.
I do the Ramsay method (lots of butter, on and off of high heat), but haven’t tried adding creme fraiche or sour cream at the end.
Word.
I object to this unconstitutional sham of an “impeachment” trial and I will force a vote on whether the Senate can hold a trial of a private citizen.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 25, 2021
Republicans should reject any process that involves a partisan Democrat in the chair instead of the Chief Justice.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 25, 2021
If Rand doesn’t manage to take a senior role in the party leadership after this is all over, the GOP is done for among common voters, IMO. Why would anyone continue voting for the current leadership, who have
nearlyjust as much contempt for the republican base as the Democrats do?Of course, what matters is not the voting base, but the money and who sends it their way.
It’s not so much that you have a “judge” who is already on the record in declaring that Trump is guilty and should be removed from office.
It’s that in addition to all his other odiousness, that loathsome motherfucker was in Batman Forever.
among common voters
Winston Churchill recommends a five minute conversation with the average voter.
A California man moved to Texas, then moved back to California.
As much as some may want to trash him, I’ll say “Good for this guy.”. He moved somewhere, found out it wasn’t for him and moved back. It’s a lot better than staying and trying to turn the place into another California. Hell, I’ll even take it a step further and say it’s terrific that he’s trashing the place to all his progressive friends. Yeah, all those red states are horrible and terrible. They’re nothing but COVID-infected, Christian fundamentalist, KKK members shooting off their AR-15s randomly! The last thing you ever want to think of doing is to move there. It’s too late for me. But, for God’s sake, save yourselves!!
Kinda my take.
Also, if you move to Texas, maybe plan on having more of a Texas lifestyle? Just a thought.
Breakfast query: was going to scramble some eggs this morning. Gordon Ramsay prefers to continuously stir his over low heat, adding a little crème fraîche toward the end. You wind up with small curds and a very creamy, almost custard-like texture. Sour cream works as a substitute for the crème fraîche.
Cream cheese.
Nothing.
Continuously stir, yes. Anything added, no. Learned that from a line cook when I worked at Shoney’s. His scrambled eggs were the lightest and fluffiest I’ve ever had.
Based Glen Greenwald.
I once again humbly submit that this would be a bridge too far even for North Korean State Television, which is usually a bit more subtle and discerning than this:
And as usual, Greenwald’s detractors have nothing better to do than reply to his tweets. Man, do they hate him.
Isn’t that pretty much the whole reason for Twitter existing – to express hatred of the people you insist on following?
As a father, daily surviving the suicide of my son, I find these statements ignorant and another expression of white privilege.
Wait, whut? Forget about the White Privilege dodge, for a moment. He “survived” his son’s suicide? How does that work? Did the kid use dynamite?
Epic shamelessness.
Did the kid use dynamite?
At the dinner table?
Hell froze over for the 2nd time in 3 years. Not as much sbow as was being predicted but dogs love running in it.
I lived most of my adult life in California. Moved to Austin after a brief stay in Montana.
I would go back to Austin. I would never go back to California.
I would prefer New Mexico or Arizona. But as long as it’s not El Paso there is a lot of Texas that I could enjoy.
If the only place I could go to in the US was California, well, I’d probably just stay in Japan. I’ve just got no use for it.
Cockatoos are excellent mimics
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1354021069712203776
I hate walking in a cold winter rain. I prefer snow.
Yeah, I’ve done both, and I agree with you.
I concur. I’d rather it be 30 and snowing then 40 and drizzling.
Pie!!!!!
Everybody likes pie, amirite?
I thought that was cake.
Welcome back.
About the coldest I’ve ever been was a high school football game at Fork Union. It was about 35 degrees and pouring rain. Since I was a benchwarmer, I spent 95% of the game standing on the sideline, drenched by freezing cold rain. To add insult to injury, we were blown out in that game, lost something like 38-0.
My parents used to threaten to send me to FUMA when I acted up. At some point I got the bright idea to check the price of FUMA on their website, and then the threat lost all its sting.
Very clever of you!
A kid in the class behind me at STC got expelled and ended up at FUMA. He was less than pleased by that turn of events.
I had a similar experience in Jr High football. 32* and drizzling
Grrr, stupid phone.
32* and drizzling, after rain/sleet for the last few days. The field was barely frozen to the point that if you stepped, the ice broke and water seeped up. The mud was like superglue, and I was the center. After 3 false starts cause by the ball getting stuck in the mud, I had to switch up my snapping technique. I remember trying to huddle behind some other players when I was off the field, and the wind cutting right through the jersey. Not pleasant.
PIE!!!! <#
Valentine’s Day is coming up: Uncle Joe’s Rainbow Coalition Death Cult
Cancelled by the Federation of Small Businesses for questioning BLM
‘I was hounded out of an organisation that is supposed to be pro-business by advising against celebrating a movement that wants to dismantle capitalism’
https://thecritic.co.uk/cancelled-by-the-federation-of-small-businesses-for-questioning-blm/
Why would anyone think any such federation is not skin suited ?
I looked up the Federation for Small Businesses leadership. About half of them only have small business experience as consultants. Effectively, their leadership looks like it’s heavily weighted to the professional non-profit, NGO class.
https://www.fsb.org.uk/corporate-information/fsb-board-directors.html
Neat.
Nerf’s got a new trick up its sleeve: Hasbro’s latest foam-flinging sidearms can curve their shots, possibly letting you hit targets you can’t even see. (Think Angelina Jolie or James McAvoy in Wanted but with bouncy balls instead of bullets.)
That’s because each of Nerf’s three new Rival Curve blasters has an adjustable barrel you can twist to change the angle of your shot: left or right to shoot around corners, up to shoot straight, or down to lob balls over cover.
I could seriously terrorize the cats with that.
Cool. The Germans, Russians, and I think the Americans all experimented with rifles with curved barrels for shooting around and over obstacles. Models included the StG-44, PPsH43, and M3 “Grease Gun” among others.
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/krummlauf-curved-barrel-stg44-at-ria/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rifles+with+curved+barrels&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefirearmblog.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F08%2FPPSh-Curved-Barrel.jpg&t=brave
Demolition Ranch shooting curved barrels.
The results will surprise you!
When I first saw that video, I did make an incorrect prediction about the results. So, I agree that the results surprised me.
I have a vague memory of seeing a German firearm with a curved barrel, captured in the Second World War, at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum.
I was nine or ten at the time, so my memory might be playing tricks on me.
That was just superman adding insult to injury.
No, it was there.
/OBC and OAC there.
This guy is impressed.
https://twitter.com/HotPaperComics/status/1353678938254487553
Pie!
Where?
In the sky? Glad to see you back.
Oh my, that’s pretty high.
I did not realize my presence was missed
You’re interesting and a good conversationalist, you were absolutely missed.
And gives a very non-American perspective.
(Sorry northern commentatours, you’re too close to the shitshow below the hat)
Absolutely was.
Missed, and many of us were seriously concerned.
We talked behind your back on Zoom.
In a good way.
I mean I did get an email from SP about it…
Are you kidding?
Muchly. Bigly. Tremendously. Very missed. Wow
Yep. Welcome back.
This should surprise nobody. California government couldn’t run a freaking lemonade stand.
Right out of the gate:
Yeah, I’m sure the mouth breathing goons that broke your systems are highly sophisticated. What else could have possibly facilitated this? Oh, yeah…
WTF. Did this system not exist prior to the pandemic?
In fairness, it’s not just California that’s been getting hacked. One of my favorite news stories was that Mike DeWine himself was targeted by an unemployment phishing e-mail.
I’m watching “Cheddar” News. It is apparently an all female news network (Ballgag Joe would love it). Unfortunately, despite their mostly pleasing outward appearance, these females have incredibly annoying voices, compounded by really obnoxious mannerisms of speech. It’s like listening to the girls at the cheerleaders’ table in a high school lunchroom reading stories they do not fully comprehend. Maybe I should just turn the sound off.
But enough about LeShow…
“Considering the stringent nature of punishment provided for the offense, in the opinion of this court, stricter proof and serious allegations are required,” she wrote. India’s Protection of Children From Sexual Offenses Act 2012 does not explicitly state that skin-on-skin contact is needed to constitute the crime of sexual assault.
Justice Ganediwala acquitted the accused of sexual assault but convicted him on the lesser charge of molestation and sentenced him to one year in prison.
I read the linked law code. It looks like a stretch to say skin-on-skin contact is necessary. Though, he is going to jail and I’m certain he will be treated well there.
Edison, which acknowledged no wrongdoing, said the agreement covers all claims in pending lawsuits from insurance companies related to the Woolsey fire, which blackened 151 square miles (391 square kilometers) of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Three people died in the November 2018 fire, and more than 1,600 homes and other buildings were destroyed.
Is this one of those fires that started because the government prevented power companies from trimming trees around power lines?
“He accused me of sitting in a restaurant without a mask,” the report said. “In fact, I was in the tented area of a restaurant sitting at a table, and I informed him the current Covid regulations allow people to take their mask off for the purpose of eating and drinking.
Here’s a wild and crazy idea: Get rid of all the Covid regulations.
Meanwhile, a petition signed by almost 200 parents urged CTU and CPS to come to a resolution that best suits families and specifically asked the district not to lock out teachers from remote work.
How about disbanding the public schools and going to all private schooling?
California Labor Secretary Julie Su told reporters in a conference call Monday that of the $114 billion the state has paid in unemployment claims, about 10% — or $11.4 billion — have been confirmed as fraudulent.
I’m certain people will be held accountable.
Alder found the locals to be rude, lacking in integrity and terrible drivers
Sounds like projection to me.
Serious question. Have any of you oldsters ever felt a “clunk” in your lower back before? I’ve been going overboard lately and it was both frightening and gratifying.
Not yet. That would scare the shit out of me.
Er, during exercise, you mean?
It used to happen when I golfed. My back would feel bound up and then it would let go. That was 15 years ago so I’m less happy about it, now. Bah! No worries. When I get tuckered my legs start deserting me, though. Weebly-wobbly. I start falling down.
I had a “pop” once and I did not like that at all. Hooe all is well Festus
i bought a fish and did not realize it still has guts and scales and shit. Goddamnit. Fish I buy is usually cleaned.
Well I’ll just have to throw it away and go buy something else.
Stupid golden grey mullet
“Stupid golden grey mullet”
https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/fdd/441/c471889a8bc88a9071586eac7b263d2313-26-tiger-king.rsquare.w330.jpg
Liza aurata if it pleases you more
Tackle your fear and clean the fish.
*blink*
It’s not that hard to clean a fish. Especially if it’s large enough to be cut into fillets.
Whatever you do, do not nick the gall bladder with your knife!
No faster way to ruin a fish.
…you’re joking right? You never went fishing as a kid?
Not really. I fished a few times but rarely caught anything.
I tried to clean the damn thing but after I took out the guts it seemed to have the black membrane thing on the inside and maybe it should be scraped off with a knife or something but I can’t be bothered. It was cheap anyways.
Come to think of it, I guess I’ve never cleaned a large fish. If the process isn’t “cut spine, tear head off pulling entrails along with it” to start, I”d have to look it up too.
True story:
When I impulsively decided to go deer hunting while living in Southern Wisconsin, a buddy of mine and I were at the bar and I asked him “Say I get one. How do I go about cleaning it, exactly?”
He thought a minute and said “You’ve cleaned fish, right? Its basically like cleaning a big hairy fish. Just remember to cut around the asshole so you don’t cut the intestines.”
That was pretty much my instruction on field dressing a deer. Went just fine. It was a little more complicated, but not much.
Do you want to keep the bones for any reason? Or do you just want to get the filets off the fish?
Fileting a fish is stupid easy. Some fish like northern pikes will still end up with bones (because they have tricksy y-bones in them), but for most fish getting the filet is simple.
This video shows the basic fileting technique I use.
You don’t need an electric knife. But this guy shows the basics of pulling the meat off of a fish.
The whole body cavity with the guts never gets touched and you are good to go.
Looks like this guy is fileting a mullet with the same basic technique.
* Don’t cut toward yourself like this moron. I’m surprised he still has all his fingers based on how he slices toward his hand.
* I fish with dandies who cut up and over the rib cages like this guy does. There really isn’t enough meat over the ribs to make that worthwhile. I can clean 5 fish to every 1 my dandy buddies by simply cutting through the ribs like the first video. If you really think there is that much meat over the ribs, you can still trim the ribs out after you remove the whole half of the fish.
Totally agree. On a walleye it’s simple enough to make the big cut and then quickly remove the ribs.
You don’t need it, but electrics are really nice. Especially when you have to clean a bunch.
Still need the trusty filet knife to get the walleye cheeks, though.
YouTube “clean a fish”. Learn a valuable skill!
Why should I enact a fish’s labor? Their personal hygiene is their own responsibility.
Fine… “Fish seppuku” then!
Cultural appropriation. For Shame!
Su also faulted the Trump administration for failing to provide the state with the guidance and support needed to foil sophisticated fraud rings.
You admit your incompetence, yet you cling to the position.
Double Standard #573,674,285: Everything bad that happened during Trump’s term is his fault, basically as though he personally ordered it to happen, but bad things during the tenure of Barack “I Read About It In The Newspaper” Obama are wholly unrelated to him being in charge.
So if impeachment goes forward, who will impeach former government officials or private citizens to bar them from office forever first, Rs in revenge or D’s? I can see the case going forward to impeach Clinton over her conduct while SoS under this new metric.
Impeachment has already happened. Twice, in fact. Trump already holds the record for “Most Impeached President”.
This is the trial. See, when you commit to “unity and healing”, the best way to go about it is public show trials of your enemies that are obvious farces.
I know better and still used it sloppily for the whole process.
Part of it I think is a desire to nail Trump as the first convicted president. Until the 90’s, Andrew Johnson’s ignominious legacy was being the only impeached president. That is a tempting prize to hang on Trump. Along with the other “benefits” of a conviction.
Still, only a matter of time before it gets weaponized just like the removal of the filibuster rule.
I think the supermajority for conviction is in the Constitution.
So Mittens and a bunch of other Rinos can be statesmanlike.
Prediction: bargain is 2/3 vote for conviction but Trump isn’t removed from office. Toss up on whether he’s permanently barred from offices under that clause or they celebrate with just a conviction.
Now I have some other “news” channel on: One America?
Bannon is on. He said something about focusing on signal over noise. Hear, hear.
And then he said Gulag Barbie is saying she won’t say she’s not going to primary Schumer (in two years, I presume). Senator Neiman Marxist CWP- NY?
I don’t know whether to laugh or kill myself.
New Zealand’s borders may stay shut for most of the year, PM Ardern says
It’s a big island–even two–to stay put for a few years.
I look forward to Dear Leader Ardern announcing her Five Year Plan committing to Juche.
Y’know, I wanted to visit NZ and Oz. That was before I saw how they treated their citizens during the pandemic.
I’m no longer interested. Better places to spend my cash before I shuffle off this mortal coil.
NZ used to be near the top of my list before the COVIDs. It’s been shuffled down to below Juba, South Sudan
Damn cat brought in a cardinal this morning (still alive–Mr. Mojeaux made him drop it and it flew away).
“CHUNKY YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CATCH THE CARDINALS!”
But cardinals are smart. They’ll know to stay away from now on.
And Pie is back! Yay!
Hrmm… should I make a St Louis Joke or a Vatican Joke?
St. Louis?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals
Oh, duh. I should not post before noon.
In the Vatican the Cardinal catches you. If you are a little boy.
Y’know, I wanted to visit NZ and Oz. That was before I saw how they treated their citizens during the pandemic.
I have a friend who was born in England and lived in Australia for 25 years or so. He told me, a long time ago, “There’s no such thing as a Bill of Rights in Australia, mate.”
I took an around-the-British-isles cruise a few years back. Chatting with a fellow lounge patron one evening, he mentioned that he was from Australia.
So I asked him, “When you got off the plane at Heathrow, did anyone say ‘Welcome back?'”
He took it in good humour. A lot of Aussies get a bit testy when you make convict jokes.
Oh sweet holy fuckballs. That Bay Area D&I consultant that my company hired is going to give a lecture to open Black History Month.
Record it so we can point and laugh.
I liveglibbed xer last preso. Maybe I’ll do this one too.
This D&I Consultant is creating a hostile work environment.
Current plans will give me about a six month window (after deferred comp vests, but before I retire) to speak my mind. Depending on how our D & I goes, this could well be one of the things I say once I get written confirmation on vesting.
Oh, and if I get really lucky, I’ll get fired but without the requisite “good cause” in our severance agreements (defined by, ahem, me), so I can cash in my severance benefits as well.
Perverse incentives are perverse.
And so it begins.
My work just sent out an e-mail that the DI&U (Diversity, Inclusion, and Unity) training deadline has been extended (it was mandatory and had to be completed in December). The new deadline is the end of February. This indicates that too many people skipped it to punish. Now, as a reference, my team has people from four different countries (India, Malaysia, Costa Rica, and the US), I think we’ve got this down already.
I have to attend in-person sessions. We had one. The second was supposed to be in November, but got “postponed” due to the ‘Vid. I haven’t heard a thing about it since.
My SIL, who is firmly in the lefty/liberal bubble, has this at her work, which is infested with lefties. She says everyone just rolls their eyes, and said its just the current management fad. I think she’s probably right. I’m hoping that having our backs against the wall for months will introduce a little perspective about what’s worth spending cycles on, and what isn’t.
Did you point out that was a perfect example of her white privilege showing itself?
Nah. She’s just a product of her information environment in many ways. I found it interesting that she, and so many of her lefty colleagues, think its all bullshit.
I just smiled and nodded through our session. I did “neglect” to give my pronouns. Hey, they served lunch, so it wasn’t a total waste.
It went a lot faster once I realized I could skip to the end of the videos, and test out. If you got an answer wrong, they provided the “correct” answers and let you retake it.
I think I took the ~3 hour course in 15 minutes.
Yeah, we started this place with pepple from 58 different countries.
No, no, no, you don’t get it, that’s fake diversity. You need tokens from the ever changing list, and perfect conformity of thought, with wrongthinkers banished.
Ancestry.com tells me i am 1% Nigeran.
How far can i use this?
Depends, are you a prince or a peasant?
this is not that bad and I like the low avb
https://www.brewdog.com/uk/dead-pony-club-4-x-can
I tried to clean the damn thing but after I took out the guts it seemed to have the black membrane thing on the inside and maybe it should be scraped off with a knife or something but I can’t be bothered. It was cheap anyways.
Just put it in the blender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l69Vi5IDc0g
One of the few hopeful points I was looking forward to in the case where Trump loses the election was an expectation that TDS would begin to taper down. Maybe it is too early to say for sure but I’m getting the feeling that for a lot of people TDS is a chronic affliction. Even with Trump no longer in office they search for and find Trump supporters everywhere.
I do have to admit that I get a few jollies watching Pelosi et al stealing Biden’s inaugural thunder with their impeachment theater. I expect that even if they cluster together enough votes to convict the result will get shot down on the basis of Trump now being a private citizen – but that might just be the scotch talking at this point…
MAGA hats might as well be swastika tattoos, comrade.
That’s been the official position of a whole lot of organizations for years now.
A lot of people are addicted to Trump hate.
And I haven’t doublechecked this, but Glenn Greenwald said that most corporate media outlets were financially suffering before Trump gave them an excuse to run 24/7 panic porn and recoup their market share.
When you get yourself worked up for so long, it’s hard to just stop. During the Obama years I remember unfriending someone on FB because she called Republican congress-persons traitors who should hang. But Trump hate is on a completely different level. It’s hard to imagine they will be satisfied going back to hating on someone else.
I had a friend who was a raving crunchy leftie and felt free to say the Unsayable in our little s00per-sekrit internet club of, like, 7 people. Even though I wanted it to be free of politics, she didn’t have a problem not respecting my decision. (I am the one who runs the thing.)
Anyway, during the tea party business, she went off off about the tea baggers and I’d had enough of her insults and bluster and said something like, “You know, I agree with some of their points and I am hardly a ‘tea bagger’. Do you even know what you’re saying?” Someone else chimed in and agreed with me. I said it as gently as I could.
And then she went off on how she couldn’t believe I was a follower of Michele Bachman (!) (?) (wut?) and how awful a person I was and she had misjudged me all these years and how did she not know this and how could she be my friend?
That was it for me. I booted her out of the club without trying to defend myself. Don’t assume shit about what I believe and then insult me for it.
That’s the thing I hate worst. I can’t say “Trump didn’t actually say that” without being accused of white supremacy, Naziism, and, worst of all, a Trump supporter. So I say nothing at all. I can’t debate in good faith because they won’t, so what’s the point?
“Stop lying. It makes you an even worse person.”
I had a close friend who cut me off cold, forever, because I refused to go along with her Chick-Fil-A boycott. We had always had diametrically opposed political beliefs, but it just meant that politics were something we wouldn’t discuss. Then about ten years ago, CFA turned into a political football and she started ranting on Facebook crazy nonsense about how the sauce at CFA was the blood of gay teenagers who committed suicide, something hysterical and insane like that, and how anyone who would eat at Chick-Fil-A wasn’t a friend of hers. I very calmly and politely replied to say that I don’t make purchases based on the politics of owners, that I don’t believe in boycotts, and that was enough for her to immediately “unfriend” me. Never heard another word from her – not on Facebook, not via email, not another phone call (she lives in San Diego so I hadn’t seen her in many years). This is someone who I had known for fifteen years, whose home I often drunkenly crashed at. It was all very sad and depressing to see an otherwise normal person let her leftist politics turn her into a complete psychopath.
Yeah.
I cut my friend off because she went off full-cocked, assumed what I believed, and was calling me names based on her assumptions, not because she had a different opinion.
The assumptions get to me. I have a real knee-jerk reaction to not being allowed to speak before someone assumes what I think or am going to say.
Yeah, it behooves the big networks financially to keep the Trump stuff dialed up to eleven. It’s part of the reason I wish Trump would be a behind the scenes guy and fade into the background but I guess that’s just not in him. In short, the man’s an attention whore.
Consider that Trump is a symptom, not a cause. He merely acted as gathering point for tens of millions who are dissatisfied with the Left and political leadership of the Right.
The Left hates everyone who is not them… Trumpian, Republican, libertarian, apolitical, doesn’t matter. I mean truly viscerally hates them. The vitriol that spews out of my school colleagues and professors’ mouths is unbelievable. It would not be an exaggeration to say there would be widespread celebrating, reminiscent of the Arab world after 9/11, if the police had gunned down after every last protestor at the Capitol.
This is only going to ramp up.
Those other people are icky.
Yep, I work at a nonprofit, and this woman I work with was absolutely gleeful that Ashley Babbit got shot, but of course Jacob Blake was an innocent, blameless angel who didn’t do a thing wrong. Hating the wrong kind of white people is the only acceptable hatred left in polite society. This woman, BTW, has two postgrad degrees. But hey, those populists are coming to menace us any day now. Be on your guard.
The Left hates everyone who is not them… Trumpian, Republican, libertarian, apolitical, doesn’t matter. I mean truly viscerally hates them. The vitriol that spews out of my school colleagues and professors’ mouths is unbelievable.
This is why the Democrats can’t overplay their hand. We’re in the planning phases of a crusade, and the footsoldiers are chanting the progressive equivalent of “deus vult” while their bishops give rousing speeches to motivate them to send their loved ones off to war.
Some see the left acting like a cornered animal. I disagree. They’re acting like a pack of wolves who just came upon a wounded deer.
The weather cleared in Churchill. The aurora is still strong, but not like yesterday (seemed like it was cloudy everywhere where the is a live cam). Hopefully tonight
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
Well, you see, Joe is a devout catholic.
“When President Trump was imposing travel restrictions in March, specifically on China, then-candidate Biden called it ‘xenophobic’ and ‘fearmongering,’” Doocey told Psaki. “So now-President Biden is putting travel restrictions on people coming in from other countries.”
“What word do we use to describe that?”
The press secretary took issue with the reporter’s question, asserting that the framing was inaccurate.
“Well, I don’t think that’s quite a fair articulation,” Psaki responded. “The President has been clear that he felt the Muslim ban was xenophobic. He overturned the Muslim ban.”
“He also, though, has supported … even before he was inaugurated — steps, travel restrictions in order to keep the American people safe to ensure that we are getting the pandemic under control,” she continued. “That’s been part of his policy.”
“ Hey hey hey, it’s different when we do it.”
She glibly ignored the question about China and shifted to the “Muslim ban”.
The one that didn’t apply to the majority of Muslims?
Stupid Trump. Can’t even bigot right.
Progjection thy name is Eric.
“It is painfully clear Democrats and progressives are uncomfortable with the acquisition and use of power, while Republicans and conservatives never have been,” Holder said during a virtual conference on judicial reform hosted by the Brookings Institution. “Our courts badly need reforms.”
“The Republicans have abused their power to give themselves an unfair advantage,” Holder later added. “It is necessary and totally appropriate to add seats.” …
“In response to a question, Attorney General Holder said that given the unfairness, unprecedented obstruction, and disregard of historical precedent by [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans, when Democrats retake the majority they should consider expanding the Supreme Court to restore adherence to previously accepted norms for judicial nominations,” said Patrick Rodenbush, spokesperson for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
Previously accepted norms, like stacking the court with activists to get your way.
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The Republicans have abused their power
By adhering to the Constitutional process regarding vacant SCOTUS seats. Those monsters!
I’m sure many lefties experience actual, physical pain at the thought that Ginsburg’s seat was filled by Republicans. I hope so, anyway.
previously accepted norms for judicial nominations
What norms would those be? The Dems get their way even if they don’t hold the Presidency or a Senate majority?
I think I’ve been off FB for about a week now. It gets easier every day. I do spend more time here, and I’m checking out Q’s Chive links a little more often. Also hockey season has started so I have those things to read too.
Whoop dee fucking doo
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was confirmed as treasury secretary Monday, with the Senate voting 84-15 to make her the first woman to lead the department.
Yellen steps into the role with some advantages: She is well known and well respected among lawmakers of both parties, and she has experience with enormous economic challenges. Yellen had been expected to be confirmed easily after her nomination passed the Senate Banking Committee on a 26-0 vote Friday.
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Yellen’s tenure is sure to be a marked change from that of her predecessor Steven Mnuchin, the investment banker who oversaw the Treasury under former President Donald Trump.
Yellen, the product of a middle-class upbringing in the New York borough of Brooklyn, has cited the critical — if often unseen — role that macroeconomic principles play in the day-to-day well-being of American families. At the Treasury Department, she is expected to target the roots of the nation’s growing inequality, along with the factors that aggravate it.
Yellen spoke about economic inequality and the “K-shaped” recovery in her hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, making the economic argument that facilitating broader access to financial stability doesn’t just benefit individual Americans but that it also strengthens the economy as a whole.
Ministry of Plenty, FTW!
I’m pretty sure I read something from The New Republic recently that admitted that the economic boom under Trump benefitted the working class much more than his predecessors’ economies.
Republicans are useless, example # too many to count
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said: “Secretary Yellen will be all about using muscular fiscal policy to support strong economic growth that will benefit even the hardest-pressed low-income and minority households. She has long been an advocate for addressing the income and wealth distribution, and now she will be able to act on it.”
She is also expected to be an advocate for President Joe Biden’s other long-range policy goals, such as increasing green energy production. Yellen, a member of the Climate Leadership Council, an international policy institute, has expressed support for a carbon tax and has testified before Congress about an economic rationale for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
When we run out of magic beans, we can eat that goose over there.
Mark Zandi’s predictions are second only to Krugman’s in the consistency of their inaccuracy. Why people continue to listen to him is beyond me.
strong economic growth that will benefit even the hardest-pressed low-income and minority households
You mean, Yellen will try to preserve and extend Trump’s legacy?
income and wealth distribution
how long before the commie shitbirds start crowing about land reform?
Today’s American communists don’t seem to be under delusion that the proles long to spend halcyon days tilling the fields.
The Left hates everyone who is not them… Trumpian, Republican, libertarian, apolitical, doesn’t matter. I mean truly viscerally hates them. The vitriol that spews out of my school colleagues and professors’ mouths is unbelievable. It would not be an exaggeration to say there would be widespread celebrating, reminiscent of the Arab world after 9/11, if the police had gunned down after every last protestor at the Capitol.
Religious zealotry. Burning heretics at the stake is completely justified.
to be fair, I have some visceral hatred for some collectivists
Why people continue to listen to him is beyond me.
If they said, “So we know what NOT to do” I would find that to be an acceptable answer.
“McConnell Caves On Preserving Filibuster After Two Democrats Signal ‘No’ On Eliminating”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mcconnell-caves-preserving-filibuster-after-two-democrats-signal-no-eliminating
Controlled opposition…
His ridiculous demand that a rule adopted by every Senate to date also be adopted by this one.
Maximum obstruction meaning, enforcing the Senate filibuster rule as adopted, I assume.
We’re fucked.
That chinless sack of dogshit is giving away the store for free. The Republican Party needs to be thrown on the ash heap of history, they’re worse than worthless.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/535887-mcconnell-sinema-told-me-she-wont-nix-the-filibuster
What are the chances that “California man” is actually from California originally? I’d put it at a 10-1 shot. While we certainly have our homegrown proggies here the ones that are the loudest and the proggiest are generally from elsewhere. I work in about 1500 homes per year here and get to see a inside peak at the lives of people here. It’s hard to estimate how many times I have heard “oh your from here, I don’t know almost anyone else like that.” As much as the tech industry has been vaunted as having some kind of libertarian streak that has not been my impression from the vast amounts of techies I have encountered here. They are from somewhere else and think just a bit more progressivism should fix this place up just fine.
I work in about 1500 homes per year here – burglar?
“Locksmith”
Don’t that sound just like NYC, where so many of the looniest lefties are transplants from Bumfuck, Nebraska and other such places.
^This
The natives are all over the map in a way that is not reflected in, say, vote results.
It’s what I’ve gathered from my relatives who still live in the city or, at least, the metro area. They’re all natives, and while most of them are Democrats, they’re more like the old-style working class union Dems. They have nothing in common with the Womyn’s Studies grad from Wisconsin who immediately moved to Manhattan after graduation and now acts as if she had never lived anywhere else.
Lou Rosetto and the “Wired” guys, back in 1970, saw the internet/social media age as being a boon for libertarianism sweeping the young folks, etc. etc. Didn’t work out that way, no matter how “libertarian” the techie guys were in those olden days.
Heh, don’t give the game up UCS. Yep, C Dub, the coasts are fertile grounds for picking up the educated idiots from near and far. Once they’ve lived here for two years they become a “Californian”. Dude in the article went to BYU. I’d put his chances of being a native at 50-1 now.
I think I’ve been off FB for about a week now. It gets easier every day.
Well did, man.
Piers Morgan comes out as gay.
*golf clap*
Manchin and Sinema signaling that they won’t vote to kill the filibuster essentially allowed McConnell to save face.
On Monday, Manchin told reporters that he “does not support throwing away the filibuster under any condition,” while a spokesman for Sinema said she was also against getting rid of the rule.
If the Democrats don’t have the vote to force the end of the filibuster, why give it away?
What am I missing? Is this some sort of, “Ask me to stay, and then I’ll leave” maneuver?
What’s the totally-not-Faustian bargain?
What am I missing?
You’re doing the math as 50 + 2 but that 50 is not guaranteed. My guess is Romney would flip and a couple others too.
You’re doing the math as 50 + 2 but that 50 is not guaranteed. My guess is Romney would flip and a couple others too.
Ahhhh, danke.
how long before the commie shitbirds start crowing about land reform?
I think they’ll start with “housing inequity”. That house you live in is too big for just a couple of people. We have assigned a deserving family to live there with you.
I never forgot the part of Dr Zhivago where he finally makes it back to the ancestral home to find a bunch of random strangers camped out in it.