I don’t see an AM links post being edited by anyone so I’m going to go out on a limb here and put one up for you people.
Sorry, no actual links. You can supply them yourselves as you always do, and the thirty-minute guideline is suspended.
Be safe out there, people.
TPTB UPDATE: TX still having electricity issues. Somehow today fell through the cracks. Thanks to Tonio for staving off a no-post insurrection.
Anarchy! Anarchy!
Guidelines? What are we pirates?
Pirates?
Being a pirates is all about branding.
But to be good at it, you need a solid business plan.
Can we raid some corporations?
My exact thought! I love the old dear serving tea to the boys. Cracks me up every time.
Except for you, you’re Tulpa.
That’s me. Thanks for the musical suggestion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmWs6Jf5dc
More Anarchy!
Ska for the MF’ing win. Thanks.
Looking through my audio on the local computer, it looks like that was one of the albums that got lost in the great car break in of the late 90’s.
While we’re at it…
I am dissapoint. I was expecting this to continue the thread.
Dancehall > Ska
Fight me
Neph,
Did you see the lineup for The Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival for 2021?
https://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/music/2021/feb/16/punk-rock-bowling-devo-nofx-circle-jerks-vegas/
No. But I’m already going to be in Vegas a couple weeks before that for the rescheduled Viva this year. The girlfriend and I were contemplating starting to switch up between Viva and Punk Rock Bowling in the upcoming years.
Man…$170 for punk rock show…really sticking it to the man.
I can’t hear “Punk Rock Bowling” without thinking of Ben taking a dig at Mike et al. And the $170 price tag fits this song too 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSnpRkL0hwg
In fairness, it’s not just a single show, it’s a full weekend of shows and events. Besides, we’re all old now.
Yeah well I want to get my son and his girlfriend (both punkers) to the show but $340 gets me my meat slicer and grinder…decisions, decisions.
Its not anarchy until images can be freely posted.
Blink Tag!
Combine with the marquee tag for maximum enjoyment.
Please, no.
It was the best day in the history of TOS!!!
(and I missed it)
I was there. It was glorious! And probably got several people put on watch lists.
I had something… but I forgot what it was because I’ve been answering work emails, and those numb the mind.
Weren’t you asking about this one on the Zooms?
https://images.app.goo.gl/MiSgVyjPMdGKSPx36
Oooooh. Thanks, hon.
Good job taking up the slack Tonio.
He didnt call YOU “hon”
Bacon is usually less about honey than maple.
The true sweetness lies within the meat.
Go ‘way! Bastin’!
ASS WEDNESDAY ANARCHY!
https://archive.li/9gxUk
For some reason, I thought of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4JmMbu9oo
*puts on Joker mask*
We’re all nihilists now!
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FX390lONS8TQ%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
Thanks, Tonio!
For you.
Better version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0gBfUje1t4
Nice. THanks.
You’re welcome. I’m exceeding my authoritay by doing this, so if I disappear for a while you’ll know why. Last time I did something like this I had to spend a day down in Typesetting, sorting the commas from the periods.
Nah. It’s a good catch. Look, given the conditions around the country right now I dont think any of us would not understand if things got gummed up and the links were late or missing.
Global warming cooking the country, power outages….dogs and cats…we understand and appreciate your efforts.
Glad to see you Suthen, I was wondering how you and the rest of your fine state were managing.
You are a Rebel Rouser!
Not a Rabble Rouser?
I though that was me.
You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U16Xg_rQZkA
It’s none of the company’s goddamn business to be practicing “social responsibility” or “diversity and inclusion”, and the fucking mandatory survey didn’t have an answer to tell them this isn’t their job.
What about the field you choose ‘fuck off’ in the drop down?
Well, this here link is a little thought -provoking.
OFFS. The Dems are trying to pull off a coup. Their tactics, rhetoric and goals are indistinguishable from those of the Bolsheviks. Uncanny parallels?
Ya’ dont say.
Shut up, kulak!
Or are you a wrecker?
Either way, “Shut up”, she explained.
I am not usually a multi-tasker but in this case….
The coup is done. Now it’s the purges.
^
Holy crap! A good article.
“The establishment view has not shifted one iota even with the emergence of evidence debunking the narrative.”
And it’s not going to. It’s not about facts or truth or anything like that. It’s about the narrative and that’s the media’s job, to spin the narrative hard until everyone accepts it. Those who refuse are dangerous extremists.
The current political climate has prompted people to report their family and friends to the authorities—the FBI received more than 100,000 such tips
Former senior intelligence officials talk about dealing with Trump supporters (“religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians”) as if they were overseas insurgents. A large-scale “de-radicalization approach” must be taken to “deprogram” President Trump’s “political cult members,” who believe “Joe Biden didn’t win the election,”
We have a target on our backs here at glibs. We may not be the first or biggest target, but they see us as a domestic version of those chat boards Al Quaeda used to release Bin Laden videos.
Winston learned to love pineapple on pizza …
We have a target on our backs here at glibs. We may not be the first or biggest target, but they see us as a domestic version of those chat boards Al Quaeda used to release Bin Laden videos.
Yes. I’ve been very careful in what I’ve posted here lately. We’ve had some big life events recently, including a death in the family (not immediate), that I’ve avoided mentioning because it I’m worried about being doxed by someone who makes that connection.
I was especially concerned when my wife was still active on Facebook and timelines could easily be matched up. I’m much less concerned now that she has seen the light with social media and deleted all such accounts last month.
I’m already way too “out there” on glibs, so, were somebody motivated, they could probably dox me.
To be fair, I’m a member of FedSoc, Christian Legal Society and a variety of other wrongthink groups with much bigger targets, so I’m not so worried about glibs being my downfall.
Yeah, me too. I’ve been a quasi-public figure since I got involved in combating PeTA and the various radical animal rights kooks back in the mid-Nineties, so screw it – if they want to come up the valley looking for me, well, I’ve got only one high-speed avenue of approach and good fields of fire all around.
It’s probably important to point out that regardless of who won the election, it’s not a secure process, and it’s wide open to fraud and manipulation potential. Until the US takes real steps to ensure free, fair, and auditable elections, the trust in the system will be badly strained.
Reposting from last night:
Person I dislike bitching about other people I dislike in a transcendentally bitchy way
boom
You have to understand: most writers are losers, or at least, they secretly think of themselves as losers. They were losers in high school and never got over it and were surprised to learn that they couldn’t get their novel about Facing Adulthood with My Multiracial Friends in Bushwick published and so didn’t get the literary celebrity they felt they deserved. So they dive into the media ecosystem where they are delighted to find exactly what they were looking for: a new high school, a replacement for the one where they were a fucking loser, where this time they’ll be the quarterback, they’ll be the head cheerleader. And so they get up every morning and jockey for rank. They horse trade. They seek favor. They amplify work they don’t really respect because the person who wrote it is more popular or successful than them or both. They pretend that terrible, terrible jokes told by terminally unfunny people are entertaining, because they know the other person will reciprocate.
Anyone with the audacity to write from outside of that world is a target.
Wasn’t there a study not long back that a lot of people exhibit Impostor syndrome — i.e. the actually competent feel like they aren’t as competent as those around them, and some day someone will notice? Be interesting to compare the relative weights of the two issues between writers / artists versus engineers.
Eric Hoffer and von Mises both covered the sentiment extensively among anti-capitalist movements and their adherents.
If I can do it, it’s because the task is easy.
+ 1 and eleventy
The past 18 months have been absolutely ridiculous. There has to be some kind of theorem that proves we’re just living in a video game or something. I think we all know who the NPC’s are.
TULPAE!
Be safe out there, people.
You can’t tell me what to do.
Ooh, Tsitsipas came from two sets down to beat Nadal.
[celebrates]
So…what do folks think about Nevada as a location? My buddy moved down there last year (got a place near Tahoe since his wife works just over the CA border at a hospital) and some of the land in Washoe county does look pretty nice. It seems like a good deal for taxes as well. Not sure it’s quite as good for me as WY or MT or AK but pretty affordable.
Isn’t it in the process of turning deep blue?
It’s Cali adjacent.
It’s California with gambling and hookers.
Without a coastline.
They’re naming an airport after Harry Reid.
^ mic drop
My buddy has been in the same place as ownbestenemy for many years. He loves it.
It really is nice here, if you can weather the 3 months of hellish heat. Other than that, we get two times a year where its 70s with light breezes. Just a lot of city dwellers are buying up real estate like crazy and turning our politics.
There is a lot of spillover from CA. If it were me, I would opt for the vicinity of Elko – which puts you closer to SLC than SF.
Looking at the landscape/weather – I’m thinking Washoe or Elko. My buddy is getting radicalized (I’m helping) – but he seems to think it’s a good place. He showed me the boxes of ammo yesterday that he picked up at the local gun shop with 0 box restrictions.
Crap. More precipitation through the afternoon. The roads are even worse than they were yesterday as if that is possible.
Sorry, bro.
I’ll trade some sun and 10 degrees for what little good government you can spare.
Sure, why not?
I have what may be a silly, drug-dropping ass, every-Glib-should-know-this question, but what’s with the “I Am Lame” category/tag/whatchamacallit?
*shrug* I donno.
If the person writing the post doesn’t select tags, that’s the default one.
^I think this is the correct answer.
Also, if you’ve saved a draft without tags, it auto-selects and you have to remove it.
Who would save a draft without the metadata filled in?
[glares balefully at UCS]
It was meant to be a jab at my own compulsive nature.
I see how it was poorly phrased.
Mine was also a joke. We’re good.
IDK. It’s apparently the default tag for some reasons. I’m a mere initiate, that knowledge comes with master of the lesser mysteries.
To engourage contributors to tag their posts so any of TPTB who have an organization fetish don’t have to go back and add them?
Yes, it is an SP shaming tactic.
Exactly this. The default category for WordPress is “uncategorized.” Which is silly.
When I changed it, more people did pay attention and started selecting an actual category so the posts could be, you know, found again.
The default category for WordPress is “uncategorized.”
Reminds me of the “This page intentionally left blank” we used to have to put into prospectuses. Well, its not blank any more, is it?
I’m so very bad at that. I’ll blame it on the fact that I draft most my articles by phone.
I self-selected “I Am Lame” for my Liz Lemon article LOL. Such a Liz Lemon thing to do!
Supposed to get Ice Storm 2: Frozen Boogaloo tonight and tomorrow. Local guy, DT, is less pessimistic than the local news stations. Idk who to trust anymore.
But lost power for about 17 hours as a result of the one last weekend. Gf didn’t like it but I was having fun with the temporary “hardship”. Got to use a heater I bought a couple years ago and my oil lamps. Main concern was the possibility of losing any of the frozen food, primarily the meat. Should be fun again. Prepare responsibly*.
*food, booze, heat. (In that order. ///kidding)
My coworker whom I am slowly turning to libertarianism told me yesterday that he was pleased to see that a Dutch court had thrown out the COVID curfew and lockdown edicts on the grounds that those measures are for limited emergency use only. And that COVID didn’t count.
Later on, I searched for a corroborating article, but by that time, an appeals court had reinstated the curfew at least until a hearing on Friday.
So much for that.
Courts playing smackdown with each other, just like here.
BBC, so of course the “crisis” is attributed to the ruling ending the curfew, not to the higher court overturning it:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56084466
Remember, everyone agrees with libertarians on *something*. Agree with them heartily on that issue, then slowly introduce another issue on which you think they’d agree with you. Stick to the issues themselves, not the framework of rights. After two or three of those, start talking about the framework. /Uncle Screwtape
I find that, when discussing libertarian ideas, it’s pretty easy to sell folks on the “nobody gets to tell you what to do” part. It’s the “you don’t get to tell anyone else what to do” that people balk at.
The tide will turn. Freedom will win.
Word. I’ve found some very positive forecasting in George Friedman’s books. “The Next 100 Years” was my introduction. Currently reading “The Storm Before the Calm.” Great stuff. It’s been really interesting to be concurrently reading “The Anatomy of Revolution” by Crane Brinton. All that’s really put 2020, Trump & Biden into perspective. Things are going to be just fine 🙂
I like Peter Zeihan too, who used to work for Friedman.
Looks good, thanks. Got a particular recommendation?
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY!
“My coworker whom I am slowly turning to libertarianism”
Extremist! Insurrection! Killing our democracy!
Baseball birthdays looked boring at first glance:
1. Ed Brandt, a mediocre (121-146) pitcher of the 30s. I noticed his 1 career stolen base, then I noticed he played in more games than he pitched in. He PH 12 times and PR 17 times in his career. Not much of a hitter, .236 career, but he did have 4 triples so maybe he ran the bases well.
2, Wally Pipp, most famous for being replaced by someone who was irreplaceable.
3. Josh Willingham, someone those alive may recognize.
Pretty mediocre, but the top 2 had over 30 WAR each.
Willingham has a solid career.
For those having the blues by the cold and the snowy stuff, here is some insane existential weather from our local nutcase weather man.
https://wnep.com/embeds/video/523-78b10263-fcdf-477d-b29c-86fa1aebfc45/iframe?jwsource=cl
The man is a local treasure.
We’re gonna need a bigger magic hat
A devastating winter storm that has plunged Texas into an electricity crisis offers warning signs for the U.S. as the Biden administration seeks to prepare for a future in which extreme weather is a greater risk and America is almost entirely powered by renewable energy.
Energy generation is one challenge. But an equally daunting task centers on storing power from renewable energy for extreme events like the one hammering Texas.
In Texas, the center of a wave of outages across the Southern and Central parts of the U.S., the primary electric grid suffered a one-two punch wrought by the deep freeze: off-the-charts demand for power as Texans tried to heat their homes and power plants that simply failed to produce power when people needed it the most.
Wind and solar, still fairly small slices of the state’s energy mix, played only a minimal role in the sudden power shortage, utility officials said — contrary to a wave of conservative critics who tried to falsely pin blame for the situation on renewable energy.
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Electric grid regulators said the U.S. will have to develop vast supplies of power storage — such as gigantic batteries — that rely on emerging technologies that have only recently started becoming economical and feasible on a large scale.
“For batteries to play the ultimate backup system, we’re so far away from that it’s not funny,” Jim Robb, CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a regulatory body, said in an interview. “To really make the vision that we like to get to, a highly decarbonized electric system, you’re going to have to have batteries deployed in many orders of magnitude beyond what we have now.”
We need to shift even more production into “renewable” sources, with no way to stockpile production capacity for completely predictable high demand events. Because global warming.
We obviously need the universities to start offering degrees in Energy Studies to remedy this critical lack of magic energy.
*Ahem* Critical Energy Studies.
I have a 5VDC device that identifies as 120VAC. It also wants to use a gender neutral plug.
Critical Energy Equity Stuides.
“Wind and solar, still fairly small slices of the state’s energy mix,”
Yeah. 25% is a small slice.
There is reality and there is this steaming pile of shit.
If only there were a magical substance that we could burn and was easily stored, transported and abundant….
Hmmm….
Someone needs to do an article like the Hydrogen Dioxide only about coal and it’s benefits. See how many idiots can connect the dots.
That’s pretty radical.
HO2?
Ahem… Dihydrogen monoxide
It is dihydrogen oxide or oxidane according to the IUPAC Red Book (table on page 306)
Precursor to FOOF
And probably not a single mention of nuclear.
Every report I’ve ever seen says are footprint is meaningless towards carbon emission in comparison too india and china on scale. So figure virtue signaling is more important than actual results.
I pointed that out to my proggie friends on FB when the French court found the French govt had failed to meet Paris Accord levels, whereas we had withdrawn from the Accord and exceeded the required emission reductions. Come to think of it, none of them had anything to say on that.
Same damn thing happened with Kyoto – which the US exceeded because of the dreaded fracking. Meanwhile have the G20 signed Kyoto and failed to meet it because virtue signalling and taking the US down a peg is the real goal.
Calling for more ice and more power outages here. For the past 5 years, I’ve been lugging my 250lb generator out of the steel toolshed and across gravel and then hauling it back uphill across the gravel. Don’t have an enclosure so can’t use it while storms are ongoing. I’ve been considering for years to build an enclosure for it to reside permanently but never got around it.
Had a duh moment yesterday that I could just buy a couple more genny cords and leave the damn thing running in the tool shed. There’s plenty of ventilation with the doors open and it’ll be sheltered during storms. There’s already a ground pipe sunk in right next the shed too. It’s so obvious in hindsight and I feel stupid it never occurred to me over all of these years. Wife is on the way to HF right now to get the cords.
LOL. I have those epiphanies a lot!
Jokes still on me. Wife drove an hour to find all the cords are sold out. Same with every place in a 2 hour radius.
I didn’t figure generator cords would be in high demand. Generators and extension cords to plug appliances into, sure, those would be wiped out. Genny cords are for a generator outlet wired directly to your panel though. I didn’t think that would be a DIY project the typical homeowner would take on right before a storm.
Should take on? No.
Would take on? Uhh. . . . .
Are you hooking the genset into your house wiring?
Yeah, I have an outlet on the side of the house with an interlock on the panel.
Out of professional curiosity, what is the breaker size and what gauge/length are your cords?
30 amp double pole breaker and 75′ 10 gauge cord. I calculated a ~2% drop.
You’re should be ok, however I would recommend oversizing the cord. There are plenty of 6/4 cables on the market for backup genset setups. It will put you well outside the margins.
The usual problem with generators and active loads is damage to the equipment you’re trying to run from instantaneous voltage drops.
For example, my mechanic just cost me $2800 by hooking up an inverter driven 7-1/2 hp motor to a 7kW generator. Blew out the capacitors in the inverter within seconds. It was a “teaching moment”.
I rent/sell/repair generators as part of my business, so I see just about every problem imaginable.
Word.
I’m a two male plugs and an extension cord kind of guy.
Ahh, the suicide cord approach. And into the dryer outlet right?
Nah. We isolate the main breaker and shut off the non-vital breakers. We’re only pushing 1kw off the genset.
😉
Several years ago: My brother (an engineer) is running some stuff hooked up with cords off of a generator. He smells hot plastic, reaches down and touches cords.
“Damned. Those cords are getting hot”
Me: *sips drink, looks over at cords* “Well, you have them mostly coiled up”
Him a few seconds later: ” Oh shit. I didnt think of that.”
Be careful with those cords. Very careful.
Wire gauge/amperage is definitely a thing.
Inductive coils are as well.
Generally best to not have AC wires coiled up.
If I understand you correctly, you’re extending the run length of cable? Be careful of that; make sure that you don’t exceed the acceptable voltage drop with the cords you are using. You can’t assume that a particular gauge wire is appropriate for a particular current at any length.
You can check that kind of thing here: http://wiresizecalculator.net/calculators/voltagedrop.htm
also here http://wiresizecalculator.net/calculators/circuitdistance.htm
Right but it should be fine. It’s only about a 2% drop.
Got it. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the need.
You could also use a collapsible canopy. Maybe.
Yeah, I thought about that. Or even just putting a sheet of plywood over a couple sawhorses. It’s still a pain to lug out and back though so extending the run by just a bit will solve that.
Omar AI-Juburi, a partner at Ernst & Young who consults on energy markets and grid technology, likened the fast development of large-scale battery storage to that of solar panels, which for years were exorbitantly expensive before costs came down dramatically. From 2015 to 2018, the cost of utility-scale battery storage dropped by almost 70 percent, the Energy Information Administration has said.
“Every indication is that it will continue to increase in capacity, decrease in cost, become more commercially viable,” Al-Jaburi said. “Storage won’t solve all your problems by 2035 or any date, but it will be a major player.”
Assume a battery.
105s or 155s?
242?
Reminds me of a time a guy came up to me to ask me about the bumper stickers on my car (there’s an Aperture Labs one, a 50.0 half century one, and a 62.1 metric century one). He said, “I know the 50.0 one is for a 50 caliber, but what’s a 62.1 caliber?”
That’s a long barrel
/artillery joke
A 20 gauge, more or less.
“We do what we must, because we can.”
He should know that if the number is greater than 1 it is millimeters not inches.
I did see one of those numbers in a circle stickers with “3.14” in the center.
They do sell stickers with 0.0 in the center as well (usually with a tag line of “I don’t run”).
300
?
As I recall, 105 is pretty much obsolete. Mammoth Mtn used them for avalanche control and they were going to have to replace it because ammunition for it was running out (and no new production).
They are used, with blanks, for ceremonial purposes.
Pretty sure they’re still with all the light units – 3-6 FA was 105 when I was with them. You want road mobile, air-mobile artillery options for the fast folks.
https://unofficialnetworks.com/2017/12/27/video-how-to-use-avalanche-howitzer-cannon/
Library staffer fired after being accused of burning Trump, Coulter books
Cameron Williams was suspended in December after he allegedly posted video to his Instagram page showing him pouring lighter fluid on the Ann Coulter’s “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)” and Trump’s “Crippled America,” before burning them in his backyard. Williams at the time reportedly blasted “FDT,” an anti-Trump rap song by artists YG and Nipsey Hussle.
Williams, a local Black Lives Matter activist, was asked by the Chattanooga library late last year to clear the shelves of any old, damaged or untruthful books.
“Untruthful”?
That’s not the library’s job to decide.
If they don’t how will they keep the reference section separate from the fiction section?
Also, I got a card at my local library.
It is three stories tall.
There are books on part of one floor. There is mor square footage devoted to A/V materials.
The entirety of one of the floors is dedicated to “community meeting rooms.”
Eh, I don’t have a problem with meeting rooms in a library. I’ve had book clubs that met in the library, I know of a D&D group that used the library, etc.
In the long ago, before the fear of the ‘vid got into them, there was a monthly board game meetup at one of the local libraries.
Our library is mostly set aside for indigent people to come in from the cold. I don’t mind that but the constant screaming could go away. It is a Library, after all.
That’s a big library card.
If it were gold, it would be a Trump card.
The worst part is having to pay the overdue book fines with Triganic Pu.
You should see the condom he keeps in his giant wallet.
That’s a big card.
Damn. Three minutes late.
Yeah, this whole idea that we need information gatekeepers is regressive as fuck.
They need to read them some fucking
Areopagitica, though I suspect Milton would be cancelled too.
For some reason, every time I copy a link, it gets garbled. Need to figure that out.
Areopagitica
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html
““Untruthful”?
That’s not the library’s job to decide.”
Good thing that in the glorious future when the Biden admin establishes the Ministry of Truth, we won’t have to fear these untruths.
The mistake was publicizing it. I imagine the library would have been fine with it otherwise.
Keep your voice *down* young man.
“…asked by the Chattanooga library late last year to clear the shelves of any old, damaged or untruthful books.”
So the library is encouraging book-burning. The problem is that they got caught.
My truth is more important than Shakespeare’s truth, Bigot! I weep for what this is becoming. My Grandkids will never breathe free air for their entire lives. America (and Canada to a lesser degree) was founded upon a giant middle finger and we’ve lost that.
There are still plenty of crevices and crannies for people to recede into, given their willingness to sacrifice their convenience and tight-knit connection with mainstream culture.
The “old, damaged” was just eyewash for the “untruthful”. You don’t ask a radical activist to evaluate whether a book is old or damaged.
The spinsters weaving this administration’s story are more dangerous than Biden and Harris ever will be.
Not where I wanted this … but okay
She was just protecting our democracy. Maybe Biden will call her to the Whitehouse to give her one of those medals.
Relevant to the discussion from yestreen:
Not one of the worst meals I have ever had, but I spent some time in Newfoundland, specifically the area around St. John’s. Knowing that their economy is heavily based on fishing, I expected to have some really great seafood. Every restaurant I went to had the same basic menu of breaded deep fried fish. I was pretty stunned. Later in life I noticed that a lot of towns that have industrialized fishing industries often don’t make very good seafood outside of their finer restaurants.
One thing I did pick up on in Newfoundland was Cod Tongue. What a great little appetizer/bar food!
The worse meal I ever had was just a cheeseburger and fries from a local hole-in-the-wall diner. Think more Open House than Waffle House with maybe 5 seats and residential stovetop comprising the kitchen. It was inedible and I ended up throwing both out uneaten.
I’m not picky with burgers and fries. It’s not easy to make a great burger/fries but it’s pretty damn difficult to make them inedible. That’s the only time I’ve thrown out a meal like that. I’m guessing the beef sat in a freezer for months and was freezer burned to hell and back. They probably never changed the oil for the fries.
Not a viable restaurant. It was a money laundering operation that some schmoe wandered in to. Don’t feel bad, happens all the time.
Is it bad that I’ve sort of refused to go to Newfoundland because it’s populated with the ancestors of loyalists?
Now that’s how you hold a grudge.
And I’m not really the grudge holding type.
I didn’t realize that Loyalism was such a big thing in the Maritimes until I took a cruise that included stops in Halifax and St John and saw several memorials to the colonists who fought against the American Revolution. Fuckin’ Canucks…..
I mean, unless your point is to point, laugh, and call them all losers, why even go?
If you’re really into odd styles of drag racing, sit in the terminal at the St. John’s airport and watch a pair of huge snow plows race each other down the runway and taxiways in an endless loop, only pausing to let an airliner land once in a while.
Something tells me that Sloopy and Banjos are having power issues this morning.
Daughter #4 on the way. Will they name her Glibby or Randi?
Malice.
Oooh! Nice!
I’m still hoping for R. C.
Clearly Banging if the best name, and it’s unisex!
*is . . . why do I always see typos after I hit post?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/ford-invests-1-billion-in-german-electric-vehicle-plant.html
Virtue signals mean nothing. We’re upgrading to virtue beacons! What could go wrong?
What the grid could really use is not only less reliable green energy sources but also an electric car in every home plugged into the wall, when we are on the precipice of in all likelihood a cycle of global cooling. I assume we are on the precipice of global cooling because the people pushing global warming are always 100% wrong in the opposite direction on nearly everything.
Could be, but this is ultimately how energy usage will change — not through government edicts but by evolving markets. If Ford wants to stick their money there, more power to them. They are more likely to have it work in Europe anyway where average drives are much shorter. We’ll see.
Okay, kids. We’re expecting an ice storm here tomorrow so I’m going to itty off to the supermarket before the mob hits.
Mob hit?
Hey, he’s got a busy schedule, and wants to get his errands out of the way, OK?
I think you meant “capisce?”
Yeah, I’ll probably run out at lunch to get a few things
Grab all the milk and Wonderbread you can. Push down an old lady. Punch a 3-year-old. Panic the Kentucky way!
There’s some other way?
[rams Muzzled Woodchipper with cart]
Tonio is sure to whip this site into shape in no time. Sexy, sexy Tonio for the win!
Obligatory: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S13E17/673965
You are in my brain, Sweet Lady Toxteth.
From last night’s post courtesy of Sean
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/dumpster-fire-joe-biden-ever-believe-five-years-ago-every-second-third-ad-five-turn-biracial-couples-video/
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, indeed.
“They’re not like us.”
Did he just admit to being racist?
You mean “…for the 5000th time.”?
He is basically saying that the culture of today is more accepting of different races in advertising than in the past. Trying to paint the man as a racist based on this sound bite is a pretty weak. There are plenty of things about him and his presidency outside of race that should be pointed to as problematic.
Dagnabbit, we succeeded where that dang Trump failed.
Biden says the COVID vaccine didn’t exist when his administration came into office.
Fact check: false.
Also false: The claim that there was no plan whatsoever for vaccinating people. Nope. Apparently they were just dumping vaccines by the side of the road or something.
Local news fun time:
Apparently the problem with Schenectady is that it has the wrong nickname. So the city council has begun the process of changing it from “The Electric City” to… “Schenectady Metro.”
I’ve been there. There’s nothing “metro” about Schenectady. Don’t get me wrong, it’s charming in its own way, and there’s a great hot dog stand just off the highway.
Small city syndrome. They need a professional sports team to put them on the map.
The Electric City is so much cooler.
I’m sure Nancy wants this investigation to do exactly what the 9/11 investigation did – cover up all ties to the prime movers (House of Saud money and Wahhabi dogma).
Or perhaps the Benghazi investigations, where we never did learn – hell, no one even ASKED – what Amb. Stevens was doing in that location, or the need/nature of the safe-house there.
No need to ask why there was a safehouse there when everyone knows it was to facilitate the shipping of surplus arms from the recent Libyan civil war to various “friendly” groups in Syria.
No one ever told her to be careful what she wishes for?
If they’re creating a commission to find a conspiracy, you can rest assured they will find one.
I’m thinking a new Iron Law:
You see what you are looking for, and don’t see what you aren’t.
Something like that.
A correlary to “you get more of what you measure and less of what you ignore”?
Sooo… KK should invest in a tape measure?
Something something perverse incentives
Apparently the problem with Schenectady is that it has the wrong nickname. So the city council has begun the process of changing it from “The Electric City” to… “Schenectady Metro.”
“Brought to you by General Electric.”
I miss you guys on the Zoom. Been working too much and never see a friendly face no mo.
Likewise, you’re greatly missed there. But you’ll be back.
Thanks. That actually means a lot to me. Now I’m all verklempt!
Happy Ash Wednesday. If you do DIY ashes, make sure you cool them off first.
Yesterday my 8 year old niece thought the day was called “National Fat Day”. I like how that kid thinks.
I finally finished watching the latest episode of BattleBots. They announced the playoff brackets. It’s going to be good this year.
The Cleveland Diocese has changed the ash distribution this year, due to the ‘vid.
Are they making the ash distribution more equitable?
FTFA:
I’m picturing them using something like a glitter cannon next year, so they can blast the whole church at once.
That would actually be pretty great.
https://images.app.goo.gl/XHUwnatYK5KCm4Rg9
“Shameful flirting with blackface.”
This is satire, right? We suffer from historical and cultural amnesia.
I would say willful disregard of context in service of The Agenda.
That…I need a drink.
Someone was outraged a year or so ago about some historic bar that had antique photos of coal miners stopping at the bar at the end of their shift.
Again, it was about “blackface” horseshit.
Huuuuuuuuuuge!!!
I say the final will be Tombstone v. Copperhead
So the question is “trust fund, zero savings or both”?
Manhattan Couple Ditch Apartment, Buy RV. Was It Worth It?
always a trust fund.
It’s $700/month until you get that first Tier IV emissions repair bill.
Emissions regs will cause electrification of all kinds of cars and equipment more effectively than direct “green” subsidies.
It’s amazing the crap that is now attached to diesel engines that both decreases efficiency and reliability.
Tell me about it.
I loathe to think about the tens maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars I’ve spent on lousy diesel emissions systems.
And it usually decreases the fuel efficiency as well.
Tiffin Phaeton
That thing is huge. WTF are they parking it that for even $700 /month?
Walmart and the local casino let you park for free.
Daddy’s driveway?
$412,000 – That is not the true van lifestyle
The basic idea isn’t too bad. Getting out of Manhattan does save you a huge amount of money. I’d only quibble that they could have done a hell of a lot better than an RV. For what they’re paying they could have a really nice house elsewhere.
“But the virtue signaling, Moe! Think of the virtue signaling!
They could buy a nice house next door to me with a pool and 3400 square feet for $412k.
Some of my other favorite bits:
Now I hate this asshole .
If they’d decided on a house, DeRose wouldn’t have had to quit his job. I can’t fault them for wanting out of NYC. The lockdowns really were an eyeopener about what NYC has to offer. But an RV really does seem like it’s setting themselves up for failure. All the crap that made living in New York repulsive without the restaurants/theaters/crowds is still there with them. They’re still cramped in together in a little space. They still don’t have a lot of options to enjoy life without leaving their home.
You’re…not supposed to pay as much for an RV as you would for a house. Did no one sit them down and talk to them about the facts of life, such as depreciation?
I’m hoping to get into my (used) RV for about $100k or less.
No way they aren’t upside down on that loan.
Yeah, and I’ll be paying cash for mine.
Half? They’re doing something wrong. They can get a new 6000 sq ft home with acreage for less than $5800 a month in most states.
Rough numbers, including taxes, insurance and utilities (I’m assuming their rent included utilities), that’s probably about a $600,000 (possibly more) house with 10% down. This is what $600K gets you in Tucson in a good neighborhood (not far from where I live):
https://www.longrealty.com/ListingDetails/3900-N-Hillwood-Place-Tucson-AZ-85750/22102295
Here’s what $700K gets you:
https://www.longrealty.com/ListingDetails/11394-E-Prince-Road-Tucson-AZ-85749/22103110
Both listings chosen pretty much at random.
Another cookie-cutter McMansion in the “countryside”.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1611-Emerald-Ct_Robins_IA_52328_M72841-93507?view=qv
6 beds
4.5 baths
5,550 sq ft
1.0 acres lot
TMITE
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
I have no doubt Mr. Iraq War Veteran – who joined with Liz Cheney to prevent a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan — knows *a lot* about zip ties.
He knows little about how to read journalism, since the reference was to the false story that the protesters *brought* them with them
So that guy snatched those from the fuzz? Why the fuck isn’t that being reported (rhetorical, don’t bother answering)?
The shitstains of Congress.
The problem of corporate woke (see the Ford story above for the latest example) is the result of the market for corporate control being made a hash of. Hell, we’ve reached a point where the Business Roundtable is even out-and-out saying that they consider shareholders just one “constituency” to be balanced against the others. What that means, in practice, is that the companies are effectively ceded to management, because management can pretty much always find another “constituency” that agrees with whatever management decides it wants. In that sort of situation, management is inevitably going to be closely tied to the interests of the state. Because the state remains the one “constituency” that still holds power over management. Reform of the market for corporate control strikes me as a one of those little niches of policy that could produce huge gains for libertarianism.
That one is at least a self-correcting problem.
Unfortunately, it’s going to cost all of us a lot of pain and money.
The money shot:
Although it is extreme winter, not warmer temperatures, that is affecting Texas, some climate analysts believe that climate change may be playing a role, as well, in the intense cold and storms ripping through the Southern U.S., a phenomenon that could continue or worsen. Rising temperatures in the Arctic may be diminishing the jet stream of air that serves as a sort of buffer for the polar vortex, keeping the frigid air from plunging south.
But grid operators can plan only for peaks and surges that they see coming, a task of analyzing past trends and extrapolating predictions that is only growing more difficult, said Michael Craig, who teaches energy systems at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability.
“We are in a nonstationary world. Climate change means that it is not stationary,” Craig said. “The last 40 years might not be reflective of what’s coming down the pike the next 40 years.”
Obviously, we need more and better computer models, which will verify our dire predictions and justify unlimited government control of the electric grid.
Planning based on real world observations utilizing known reliable technology is just not sexcy enough.
“some climate analysts believe that climate change may be playing a role, as well, in the intense cold and storms ripping through the Southern U.S.”
So some climate analysts believe that climate change might not be playing a role too, no?
The green energy scammers coming back out of the woodwork after the Trump admin has been vanquished are the most insidious malevolent force of evil we face as a species second only behind the branch covidians.
Point taken but the Venn diagram on those two groups is pretty much one circle.
“We are in a nonstationary world. Climate change means that it is not stationary,”
It’s like climate changes as the weather changes.
https://wtop.com/local/2021/02/report-if-widespread-remote-work-becomes-the-new-normal-in-dc-a-lot-of-people-would-be-left-out/
Never in my entire life has it been more abundantly clear how stupid, dangerous and moronic people are. This economic was obvious and clear in april, and made permanent in in december. Noone is going back to the office, in the dc metro area in december 58% of the workforce is working remote full time this doesn’t include the part timers who are going into the office when they have to a couple of times a week. These fucks have decimated whole industries and only now when they are starting to see a possibility of the reits and bond markets taking a hit from their grand experiment do they even pretend to give a shit.
I plan on never sitting in my cube again. Ever. I’ve had a couple of colleagues collect my shoes for me. I suppose I’ll eventually need to go there to get the rest of my stuff.
The food court in my office building made most of their money from tourists. They’re fucked. The building is a block from the WH. No way they’ll let tour busses park on the street & let massive groups off to wander around.
Welcome to the capital of FWEEDOM
I always go to this when I see FWEEDOM
Oh, fuck off.
They will solve this unfair dilemma by taxing those working at home and redistributing their money to create equality/equity!
I used to work at home frequently even in the Before Times, and people I met would say “Oh, jeeze, must be nice!” (jealous much?)
Yeah, it is nice. That’s why I made the choices I made and set up my career path as I did for 20 years, motherfuckers.
I don’t have a problem with people who work from home really. My problem is something like 30% of the economy is predicated on people working in offices buildings across the country. And 30% of the economy collapsing eventually effects everyone.
They took this course of action without any thought or plan of what the short term and mid term ramifications of an economic shift like that is. it was always going to happen slowly, also companies have experimented with this concept since the internet with varying results.
PolitiFact
@PolitiFact
President Biden did not manipulate the weather to create a winter storm that left millions without power in Texas
Thanks for informing us.
Did they bother checking the vaccine claim?
Was it Putin?
Trump did it on Putin’s orders.
Did anyone claim that he did manipulate the weather?
They’re debunking some random asshole on the internets.
That’s their job.
No
I really shouldn’t but Imma have another beer just like Lizzy.
I swear, it is tempting at times to dive into 4chan or whatever, just to make up totally stupid, random shit and watch the monkeys fly (both the ones that believe it and the idiot fact checkers).
Well, if the President can stop the seas from rising and the planet from warming, why can’t he call down a winter storm?
Also from the last thread worst dining experience I’ve ever had was at a Toby Kieth branded bar, ordered ribs which tasted like rubber, the beans were cold and they tried to serve me a $4 beer in a fucking solo cup,
Both of my stories about the worst experiences have to deal with drinks.
1) Bennigan’s (TGIFriday’s with an Irish theme pasted over it) had just opened up in the area, and several of my friends wanted to check it out. So we went, and laughed at the menu and the faux Irish dishes. After the meal, I saw they had Irish Coffee listed on the dessert cocktail menu (along with Bailey’s and Coffee and other such drinks), so I told our poor waitress I would risk it. After she left, I explained the two quickest ways to identify a bad Irish Coffee. First, canned whipped cream, instead of a think layer of gently whipped heavy whipping cream. Second, green creme de menthe, because green = IRISH! Never before that day did I think I would have to add a third item to the list. The drink came out, with both of the warning flags, and the cherry on top? A cherry on top. There was a cherry on top of the whipped cream and creme de menthe.
2) A hole in the wall Irish pub that had survived prohibition, but didn’t survive the ‘vid lockdowns. A friend of mine had just really gotten into the Big Lebowski, so he was drinking White Russians as his go to. This place was a beer and a shot kind of place, maybe a two part drink. It was my shout, I walked up to the bar, ordered the pints for the table, and a White Russian. Bartender looks at me, I gesture to the guy who wanted it and shrugged, and the bartender shrugged back. He starts pouring the pints. Then he gets to making the White Russian… he looks lost. So I kindly mention, cream, Kahlua, and vodka. Bartender thanks me, pours the Kahlua and vodka into a glass with ice. Then he grabs a Sysco container out of the fridge, takes a sniff of it, and tops it off with Orange Juice. He goes to dump it, and two old guys sitting at the bar start giving him grief about dumping it, “It could be good!” they say. The bartender takes a sniff of the concoction he had made, tosses it into the sink, and says, “No. It couldn’t.” Turns back to me, and says, “We’re out of cream”.
To me “Irish Pub” means red-heads in short skirts with a bad attitude. The food and drink are tertiary.
Then we a place in Vegas for you, though it is a British Pub but that is how they dress.
Something similar to Mad Dogs in San Antonio?
“Family Fun!”
https://www.crownandanchorlv.com/
Good shot of its atmosphere
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=crown+and+anchor+las+vegas&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reviewjournal.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F06%2F8672879_web1_britreax-jun06-17__003.jpg
Nice
For me, it means that they will have Guinness, Harp, Smithwicks, and Bass on tap. They will have shepherd’s pie, stew, and fish and chips. If you’re lucky, they’ll have boxty.
Here, the bartenders are usually males and either them, or the manager have recently come over to the states.
And hurling on the TVs.
I used to go to an Irish bar exactly like that, only it was in Okinawa.
Of course it was exactly like that, they almost all are. No matter where in the world you go, you can find an Irish Pub. There will be nights that are for trad music, and the crowd will sing along. They’ll watch soccer there, and whatever the local cheap lager is on tap as well.
I suspect that most “Irish” restaurants in the US are like most “Mexican” restaurants in the UK.
From my time over in Ireland, the main differences is better service in the US, better chance of bangers and mash in Ireland, air conditioning in the US, and bathrooms in the basement in Ireland. The Irish ones also open earlier and do the full breakfast (several of the Irish pubs in my area also do the full breakfast all day as well).
Hmm… full breakfast.
We had some ex-pat Irish open a bar in Lexington in the mid-90s. It was a really great place to hang out until the frat guys showed up.
I don’t begrudge them the money, but I’m not going to a bar to stand in a crowd of yelling idiots singing Dave Matthews’ songs.
The Guinness is also better in Ireland, but that probably goes without saying.
Agent Cooper:
Tasted the same to me.
They’re saying 8-12″ for DC. I say 0″.
It’s up to you to figure out if that’s a euphemism
lmao. The dc listening area expands to like fucking Harpers ferry and Frederick md when it comes to snow totals.
I have seen upwards of that for Shenandoah, not for DC.
Though I am sure a reliable and effective 6″ is always appreciated.
There’s a “your Mom” joke in there somewhere.
something something slippery enough
I thought they were saying 2-4″.
The Weather Channel last night had 8-12″ for DC proper. Like I said, I say 0″. This thing won’t materialize just like 99% of the storms the forecast for us.
They told me 8-12” too.
We got 2” if freezing rain topped by sleet, then about 4” of snow.
How nice! The old low-status religion and the modern high-status religion side by side.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1361742119019372546
The railroads of the world – and only the railroads.
https://twitter.com/randal_olson/status/1360999180911607809
Ha Europe is clearly superior
Pharaoh Joe will make Amtrak run on time.
*deleted joke about why they were all built in the early ’40s*
Trains….no thanks.
Commies and their goddamned Choo-choo’s.
They love to pull that train, don’t they? Can I sneak across the border and live in a shack in your back 40? I know my way around saws and like dogs and cats. I will be ever so good! Asking for a friend.
Venezuela turning to privatization
Early in 2007, after winning a second six-year term as president, Hugo Chávez announced his plan to nationalize Venezuela’s largest telecommunications company, CANTV, hinting at wider nationalization plans to come.
“All that was privatized, let it be nationalized,” announced Chávez, who had run under the banner of democratic socialism.
Nearly a decade and a half later, on the brink of mass famine and a growing energy crisis, Venezuela is now moving in the opposite direction.
According to Bloomberg News, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has quietly begun transferring state assets back into the hands of private owners in an effort to reverse the country’s economic collapse.
Maduro is ruining Chavez legacy. Sad day for socialism.
“transferring state assets back into the hands of private owners”
They misspelled ‘cronies’ and there is no mention of how much he is keeping for himself. I predict no recovery for Venezuela for at least a generation.
Wow is that full of zingers.
“Venezuela’s plight is the most unlikely of stories.”
By unlikely they mean ‘completely foreseeable’.
“growth began to stall in the mid 1970s, however, after it nationalized the petroleum sector”
Who could have seen that coming?
“However, Venezuela’s flirtation with socialism would eventually turn into a love affair.”
Tocqueville puts on his surprise face.
I tire of this. I could spend an hour parsing that.
It’s the Russian model of privatization.
Also Romanian… and probably a lot more.
Ex-intelligence agents turned into mob bosses will hold all the wealth?
Reposted from last night….
Greenwald laying waste to the “InSuRrEcTiOn” meme being played by the media on a 24/7 loop.
Yep, the point I made to a neighbor and they still refuse to see that BLM, by their very words, are just that. Antifa “idea” even more so.
Your whiteness is blinding, bigot.
A city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’ who “dismantle institutions,” education officials confirmed to The Post on Tuesday.
The “woke’’ offensive at the East Side Community School in Manhattan features a ranking list titled “The 8 White Identities,” which ranges from “White Supremacist’’ to “White Abolitionist.”
The curriculum, written by Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, claims, “There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities.
“People who identify with whiteness are one of these,’’ Hesse writes above the eight-point list.
How about if I identify as human?
Dismantle institutions you say? OK, I game for dismantling the public school system that employs you!
https://twitter.com/TheCensoredRock/status/1361773406228795393
and here I thought the cat meme was no longer popular
I think the only cat memes that have died off are “I can haz cheezeburger” and “Itty bitty kitty committee.”
MEMES NEVER DIE!
*unzips, flops it out for Harambe*
Unrelenting idiocy
A group of public health experts, including several who advised Joe Biden on Covid-19 during the presidential transition, is urging the administration to enact stronger mask requirements to protect workers as a growing number of allies raise concerns about the new administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter sent late Tuesday to the administration’s top public health officials, the group said that current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on masks don’t go far enough and that all health care workers and those at high risk of getting infected should wear medical-grade N95 masks or similar respirators rather than standard surgical masks or cloth face coverings.
“Stronger protective measures are needed immediately to limit exposure and transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to control and end the COVID-19 pandemic,” the group wrote. “Action is needed to better protect workers and the public against inhalation exposure to the virus.”
They’re pissed because the death toll isn’t in the millions, as originally predicted. So disappointing.
Nothing is stopping you from donning a N95 anytime you wish, assholes.
Remember inauguration, when they announced anyone in the White House had to wear an N95? How many have you actually seen being worn by White House staff or visitors?
I have a former colleague that works in the WH. I would ask him about masking there, but he’s probably still on telework, and he’s also one of those unprincipled lefties who loves whoever the Dems tell him to love, so he’d probably say it’s an exemplar of masking obedience over there.
Triple masking is coming.
This just popped into my head-
The reaction of the public health mafia is like a bomb squad sent out to investigate and “disarm” a suspicious package, when at the end of the tense, highly dramatic First Responder kabuki, all they eventually end up with is a soggy peanut butter sandwich in a mislaid Hello Kitty lunchbox.
MUH HEEEEEROIZM!
+1 Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Nice. And then the media will parade experts who discuss the explosive dangers of soggy peanut butter sandwiches and how Hello Kitty is a symbol of white supremacy.
You know it.
Yes!
This contemptuous cunte.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says that local businesses being vandalized in antifa/BLM riots over the summer is not equatable to the Capitol building:
“No, jackass… I’m not going to confuse a taco stand with the United States Capitol.”
Pwnd:
And then bring on Roderick Reynolds, Detroit father of five who had his home burned down during the riots, so you can explain the difference to him @JoeNBC
Its as if they do not even acknowledge that people actually attempted to setup their own government inside the United States and publicly declared they are not subject to its laws this summer.
These people never targeted the top men directly, and in fact these rioters and insurrectionists served their agenda of telling the rubes that the bad orange man was responsible for the things they promoted. There is a reason they told us this was not going away (Hello KOMMIE-LOH) and then resorted to paying their bail every day (out of funds from the dnc and other political entities supported by the dnc) so they could riot again the next night.
The fucking Trumpsters had the temerity to go after the top men on their own turf, and for that crime, regardless of the fact the severity was all in the mind of the top men and the fake news peddlers, they now want to implement the ame protections that the CCP has for themselves here.
And here I would think, for people who do not worship The State as their god, it is obvious that if your issue is with government you should protest at the center of government not burn random people’s shit/.
This thought has been running through my head since day 1.
Antifa has problems with government policy. Their response was to take their grievance to the streets, burning or otherwise destroying or damaging private property.
The iNsUrReCtIoN Crew has problems with government policy. Their response was to take their grievances directly to the seat of government power.
One side is demonized, the other minimized as unimportant, or even good.
One side was about two dozen semi-crazy dudes who got carried away and tried to break down a couple of doors while a couple of hundred people followed behind with cell phone cameras.
The other side was a bunch of useful idiots who think that they are destroying society in order to remake it into a communist/socialist paradise. They have no idea that they only exist to do the bidding of their masters in the DNC establishment and create an impression that life in America under Trump is violent, repressive, and racist.
It was always theater, they just didn’t know it.
One burnt taco stand is a tragedy. One million is a statistic.
Scarborough is truly a despicable human being.
I’m not going to be shocked at all when it turns out that he’s a kiddy diddler or some other low life.
Finding meaning in the small things in life is terrible for you, but it does help pass the time
https://twitter.com/malnote/status/1361807592360726529
Why China is terrified of Christianity
From destroying churches to jailing priests, the Communist Party is bent on eliminating religion
https://unherd.com/2021/02/why-china-is-terrified-of-christianity/
far less known is the brutal, and intensifying, repression of China’s Christians. For while the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has always repressed religion in general, Christianity has always been its biggest target. This is partly a result of the Party’s promotion of atheism, as well its nervousness towards any gathering of people that it does not control. But it is also rooted in its fear that Christianity represents a “foreign” threat to its way of life, albeit one that the CCP hasn’t quite worked out how to deal with.
Huh. Where have I seen that before….it seems so familiar….
Lottie Moon is one of the big missions that our church supports. So we get to hear about repression in china frequently.
“No, jackass… I’m not going to confuse a taco stand with the United States Capitol.”
Right you are, Joke. A taco stand is constrained by the voluntary and innately mutually beneficial nature of its relationship with the public.
Any random taco cart is more valuable and productive than the United States Congress.
Thank you. State worship is pathetic. Cringing, servile bootlickers.
A random taco cart certainly causes more joy and less harm on any given day than the US Government.
But what color socks did he wear?
United States *President Joseph R. Biden made his first trip to Camp David with his family over the weekend. Located in western Maryland and operated by the United States Navy, Camp David has long served as a country retreat for the President and their family; as well as a place to host foreign dignitaries and officials. One of the amenities at Camp David apparently includes a working arcade.
It was at this arcade that President Biden played his granddaughter Naomi at Mario Kart. She posed on Instagram about the trip. According to her, despite being “a little rusty,” President Biden was still able to win “barely.”
Scranton Joe is just like you and me.
I play Mario Kart on a console though like a poor person.
If you’re the President shouldn’t you be playing games on WOPR?
played his granddaughter Naomi
This seems endearing until you realize she’s 26.
The Balkan Federation as imagined by Greek revolutionary Rigas Feraios (1757-1798).
He even wrote a constitution for the proposed revolutionary state, based on the French, and envisioned it as a multinational entity with Greek as the lingua franca.
https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1361764849118765057
I’m sure that would have worked just great.
Frivilous.
The House Homeland Security chairman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.
The lawsuit from Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson is part of an expected wave of litigation over the Jan. 6 riot and is believed to be the first filed by a member of Congress. It seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages. It also names as defendants Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, extremist organizations that have had members charged by the Justice Department with taking part in the siege.
“All I wanted to do was do my job, and the insurrection that occurred prevented me from doing that,” Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters Tuesday as he recounted his harrowing experiences as Trump loyalists broke into the Capitol and disrupted the constitutionally mandated process of certifying the election.
A Trump senior adviser, Jason Miller, said in a statement that Trump did not organize the rally that preceded the riot and “did not incite or conspire to incite any violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6th.” A lawyer for Giuliani did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
The suit, filed in federal court in Washington under a Reconstruction-era law called the Ku Klux Klan Act, comes three days after Trump was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial that centered on allegations that he incited the riot, in which five people died. That acquittal is likely to open the door to fresh legal scrutiny over Trump’s actions before and during the siege. Additional suits could be brought by other members of Congress or by law enforcement officers injured while responding to the riot.
That’s some mighty straight reporting there.
Oh, we’re using lawsuits as political tools? Let me know when I can join the class action lawsuit to hold the congressional shitstains personally responsible and liable for defrauding the government by their work.
Isn’t Trump playing golf somewhere? They just cant get him out of their heads but it is really people like us, even if you didnt support Trump, that they are after. They cant tolerate the idea of a boot not stomping on a human face forever.
Keep your powder dry.
Morning news was all about the imploding of the Trump casino in AC. Something about poetic justice or some nonsense.
They just can’t help themselves. Honk honk.
This just makes the fungi grow.
That case isn’t going to see the inside of a courtroom. The Dems were pretty successful at portraying Trump as engaged in a criminal act with a lot of support from their friends in the media. What they really can’t afford is for the case to go before a jury and get laughed out of court. And I really doubt they want to risk the possibility of Messrs. Trump and Giuliani conducting discovery.
Lahana Swim Resort 2020 Paraiso Miami Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feDp62oEZC8
Did you know that the Irish delegation to USA seeking American help in the 1920s met Lenin’s delegation seeking the same and the Irish took the Russian Crown Jewels as security for a loan of $20000?
https://twitter.com/timbrophynenagh/status/1361672490313998336
that does not sound true
Well, yeah.
“I think what people want is a Republican Party that actually follows through on what they say they’re going to do, that actually puts forward and enacts the policies that we say we believe in,” she said. “We talked for years about doing health care reform, repealing Obamacare, and we haven’t done it. We’ve talked about doing immigration reform, making sure that we’re welcoming people legally to this country, and we haven’t done it.”
“So, that’s what I think the last several years should teach Republicans, is that we’re tired of politicians,” Noem continued. “We’re tired of people that stand up and give speeches and never take action. That’s what the last administration did, is they took action, and people realized that they liked that, and they liked the benefits of people who actually were public servants.”
Actually representing constituents is so passe.
Who could have guessed that Scotland had a white-supremacy problem?
On Monday, the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum, which was founded in 1807, announced the creation of the post on social media, tapping left-wing activist Zandra Yeaman to head up the woke project.
In a blog post explaining the Curator of Discomfort position, Ms Yeaman said that it would focus on “looking at ways outside of traditional museum authority to explore the interpretation of contested collections and to design and deliver a series of museum interventions that takes the museum out of the institutional comfort zone”.
Yeaman added that she will embark on “exploring white supremacy as an economic and cultural system in which white western ideals control the power of the text, the material resources and ideas of cultural superiority”.
“Superiority”, such as Scotland being Scottish.
looking at ways outside of traditional museum authority
See, also, libraries burning books.
I sure hope Scotland keeps making decent scotch among the ruins
Remember that words mean what they want them to mean. ‘White supremacy’ is their code for ‘western enlightenment’ and the notion of individualism.
They are attempting to bring back feudal totalitarianism.
This.
Exactly fucking right. They’ve already admitted with their “multi-racial whiteness” bullshit that “white supremacy” isn’t about race at all, but about believing and upholding for radical concepts such as “a nuclear family” and “hard work.” The “problem” is framed in race because it’s politically useful, not because it has anything to do with race. It’s a tact to pin unapproved political thought in to terms of good vs evil.
Essentially, believing in anything but the primacy of the state is WhItE sUpReMaCy.
Fuck these people in the ass with a goddamn rusty chainsaw.
Noem, serving the public by pissing all over the results of a referendum she didn’t like.
That definitely softened up my Noem boner.
Although it does fit with her saying she is going to follow thru on the policies she believes in. Is bending to the will of the people better than bending to the will of the media? Well, yes, but it is still bending.
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays you instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” –Edmund Burke
If Noem flames out it will be because of petty grifts while she was gov.
I’m sure every SoDak gov used the state planes as their own personal vehicles, but Noem is dumb to do this if she has national aspirations.
I think the Dems are worried about her in 2024 because you can’t go a day without reading about her lying about SoDak’s Covid response (FACT CHECK: They did not do well) or shit like her using a plane for politics.
*googles Zandra Yeaman, follows results*
Yep, just what I thought:
https://twitter.com/zandrayeaman/photo
..it would focus on “looking at ways outside of traditional museum authority to explore the interpretation of contested collections and to design and deliver a series of museum interventions that takes the museum out of the institutional comfort zone”.
I don’t suppose it ever occurs to them that the museums are making themselves the most expendable part of the budget when times get lean. Or they just don’t understand the notion of lean times.
Oh, joy, a Reply All storm at work.
Now my inbox is flooded with people telling people to stop replying to all.
could be worse you could have been the initiator.
I trade you that for my wife calling me at work to complain that Sling isn’t working on her phone and that I’m paying for a non-functional service that I need to fix for her right now.
Lol
You’d think there’d be a prompt to dissuade that… “Hey, do you know you’re about to email ten thousand people all at once?”
on the other hand… the same people would just click Yes without reading.
A couple weeks ago Malwarebytes prompted me to restart while I was working in a model and I clicked yes without registering. And it just did it! Just restarted, like it asked and like I told it to! The gall! I lost an hour’s worth of work. /shameface
Exchange has that in some incarnations. I know I get a prompt on some of the replies I send that say “You’re about to send this to X people, are you sure?”
We used to have those occasionally, and I work for a tech company where people are supposedly intelligent. I think IT figured out a way to short circuit the replies.
Now my inbox is flooded with people telling people to stop replying to all.
They might be worse than the original reply all-er, especially when they are 10 minutes after the first person telling everyone to stop replying all.
Should I buy a condo in FL, gulf side; yes or hell yes?
No. Storms both natural and political will destroy it. Also, since that is expected most of the construction there is really bad.
Find somewhere a bit inland and private. Buy a really good shotgun and a pair of rottweilers.
Buy a really good shotgun and a pair of rottweilers.
That’s solid life advice in general. Tangentially, I think we’re going to get a pair of rottweilers after the GSDs pass. I’ve been looking at bull mastiffs, but the wife has her heart set on rotts.
Speaking of really good shotguns, finally got the Benelli 1301 to the range. Me likee. Fast, fast, fast. Its lightweight, so its got a recoil. It will take some practice (oh, darn!) for me to get the muscle memory to “set” properly for maximum speed.
I need to practice the manual of arms on it; it wants to load a little different than my Remingtons; among other things, you’ve got to really the shells in the tube for them to “catch”. Fortunately, I scored some dummy rounds for just that purpose.
The dummy shells I used to teach myself to dual load (not quad-loading yet, but working on it) are somehow 1/4″ shorter than normal low brass shells.
Hmm. I’ll have to check mine. Never thought of that.
Interesting… Although I already have a shotgun and a fierce guard cat. (!) Although I prefer my M1 Carbine for my home defense weapon. Of all my firearms, I feel the most comfortable with it.
I’m looking for hunting land on the gulf side without much luck. I want to be near Chassahowitzka. Lots of nice homes at reasonable prices there.
Come to Iowa. Terrible weather and schizophrenic politics (a deep purple state). What more could you ask for?
Iowa gun reviewer:
The Five Best Guns for Cold Weather
Bad Link
So cold, the link froze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcL9ZUQAzf8
Thanks for the link
I’m already in Ohio… so, no thanks! (haha)
Not interested in a lateral transfer then?
Haha no… trying to escape the weather. I also appreciate how Desantis seems to be fighting hard for his state.
I’m hesitant to start another career in a state with weak-ass leadership. Obvi these things can change, but still, FL seems to have made good decisions in terms of pro-business attitude.
I was eyeballing cocoa beach. Disney world, Cape Canaveral, the beach and good deep sea fishing all not too far away.
My brother likes that area, I have never been yet. I would think the gulf side would be slightly more insulated against hurricanes, but I could be very wrong on that thought.
My parents survived Hurricane Charley pretty well, despite living in downtown Punta Gorda at the time. 😉
(the central FL Gulf coast is generally less susceptible to hurricanes than the Atlantic or northern Gulf)
You are very wrong.
I am sorry to tell you but the gulf side is very beautiful and a great place to visit…or used to be…but it is very much NOT insulated against hurricanes. It is not a matter of if but when. Whatever you put there will be destroyed. Life there is more or less a constant process of rebuilding.
Move inland a hundred miles or so and build solid. There is a lot of real estate more than 5 feet above sea level, relatively inexpensive and private. Take a week or so vacation to the beach as often as you like but don’t put your money in real estate on the coast.
More than once I have looked at really nice places on the coast (Pensacola, Fort Meyers, Mexico Beach, Destin) with picturesque views only to return a few years later and find nothing but slabs or pilings. If you haven’t been in a hurricane it is impossible to describe. I have ridden out at least a dozen of them and I assure you they are no joke. What you see on the weather channel really doesn’t do it justice.
That is not possible in Florida, as the furthest point from a coast in Florida is less than 90 miles.
Hello Alabama
Worst restaurant experience: Some years ago, I was in Beaune with a girl on the faculty of Paul Bocuse’s culinary school, having a delightful time. We popped into one of the bigger restaurants in the main square. Scanning the menu, there was nothing vegetarian (not unusual in France). But normally, any decent restaurant will whip up something. My date said to the waiter, “My friend here is a vegetarian, would you please make something for him?”
“No, we have nothing.”
“You have no vegetables in the kitchen?”
The waiter grimaced and went back to the kitchen. Returned a minute later. “We have nothing for him.”
At this point, I pointed out that they had oeufs en meurette on the menu. “So you have eggs. Can the chef make me an omelet?”
The waiter grimaced again and went back to the kitchen. Returned a minute later. “No, we cannot.”
I asked sweetly, “Perhaps I can go back to the kitchen and teach the chef how to make an omelet?”
The waiter’s expression was memorable.
My date then said to me in English, “We need to go elsewhere and quickly. If you get any food from them, there will be a bodily fluid in it. I do not know which one, but you don’t want to be eating that.”
You American tourists going to France with your weird ass demands.
In Romania, such a demand will get you cut.
Waiter were important people in communism, it took 25 years to get decent service in this country
Dang…I was hoping she would whip out her Bocuse ID badge in the maitre’s face or something.
I’d still get jizz in the butter.
But at least you’d have the satisfaction of a sick, sick burn. Totally worth it.
Now whose fault is that? You went to France for FFS. It’s full of Frenchmen.
99% of the time *outside of Paris*, I have found the French to be kind, generous, friendly, and accommodating. This hilariously bad experience was memorable because it was so exceptional.
Paris is un autre chose.
During my brief jaunt to Nice decades ago, I, too found them to be very nice.
Never been to Paris. Likely never will.
Lyon was just delightful, even with my atrocious minimal French and aggressive Ugly-American manners. I smiled a lot, they smiled a lot, and one woman almost died laughing when I got out my Euro-coin change purse that says “WEED MONEY” on it.
So my family’s 1988 sojourn in Paris was delightful. The Parisians were all very nice to us.
Now, it might be because we are very well behaved people.
It might also be that I ATTEMPTED to speak my little one year of high school French. They smiled, practically patted my head, and spoke in English for me.
My brother learned French in Quebec and has a master’s in French literature (ikr?!). When he goes to Paris, they think his accent is adorable.
I suppose it is not fair for me to single out the French. Western Europe has a shortage of almost everything except arrogance. I had a similar experience in Belgium. And England. And France.
*The Spanish stood out to me as especially warm, friendly and jovial. I like them. The rest of them can pound sand.*
The Irish people I met were pretty nice, at least once they realized I wasn’t going to be the standard American tourist and start putting on a fake accent, start asking about leprechauns, or start talking about their lucky charms.
We spent two weeks in Ireland.
We visited 6 towns in 2 weeks. We stayed in small Manor Houses / Hotels in small villages/town. It was great. They were thrilled to have American tourists instead of the busloads of Europeans they normally got.
The girlfriend and I were mainly in Dublin, so they were used to ugly American tourists. Of course, the tourists having their children pose with the potato famine memorial caused a passerby to me to complain about, “Fooking tourists”, she seemed pleasantly surprised when I concurred with my American accent.
My aunt went to Ireland and Scotland a few years ago. She absolutely loved the Irish and totally hated the Scots. Said the Irish were friendly and warm while the Scots were sullen and nasty.
Weird. The Scots were nice to us.
We went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner one night. It is strange hearing a Scots brogue out of a Chinese face.
We did not go to Ireland, so can’t compare.
I’ve never been to either, so I’m only passing along her opinion.
Now, the fact is that her side of my family is VERY Irish may very well have slanted that opinion.
I have only spent a few hours in Ireland (on a layover) but there is something about a woman with an Irish accent that just makes me melt.
This is my experience too. The French are lovely people. Parisians, on the other hand, are mostly awful, and the French from outside Paris generally don’t care much for Parisians either.
If you want the Paris experience without having to, y’know, actually go to Paris, I highly recommend Bordeaux. A couple of hours by high-speed train from the capitol, and very laid-back, with excellent food.
Honestly, I’ve found that pretty much anytime someone’s been “rude” to me it’s been becasue I’ve fucked up some local convention and they were trying to enforce it.
It happened three different times in England, and each time after I apologized they backed way the fuck down and were super-nice afterwards.
Lady at The White Horse – “Hey, you can’t be here if you’re not a customer!”
Me – “I’m sorry, I ordered lunch and am waiting for it to arrive, is that OK?”
LaTWH – “Oh of course, I apologize for coming at you like that.”
Most of the french outside of Paris have at least some history of not being French. The north was British, the east was Prussian, the south was Moorish.
Paris is un autre chose.
Can confirm. My French rellies in Normandy do not even consider Paris to be part of France. And if you want hilariously cringey stories about traveling around Paris, my rellies could keep you entertained for days. They hate that place. Especially my one rellie who worked as a chef there for 30 years.
Good grief…I make one joke about the Frogs….
You should know you need to start roasting them, and then start slowly turning up the heat.
I asked sweetly, “Perhaps I can go back to the kitchen and teach the chef how to make an omelet?”
That, sir, is brilliant.
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2021/02/gina-carano-shocked-by-social-media-firestorm-mandalorian-firing
Shocked? Was anyone? Are there still pockets of people left who think this is only happening to someone else?
Theoden: I will not risk open war.
Aragorn: Open war is upon you
“Carano, who became known for spreading unfounded conspiracy theories last year,”
This is her tweet about “spreading unfounded conspiracy theories”:
We need to clean up the election process so we are not left feeling the way we do today.
Put laws in place that protect us against voter fraud.
Investigate every state.
Film the counting.
Flush out the fake votes.
Require ID.
Make Voter Fraud end in 2020.
Fix the system. ??
I can see why the above is so controversial.
I threw in the towel at work today. Might as well use some of those 100 hours of vacation time (I usually end the year with only a couple hours’ vacation time left).
Mental health day..
The Bee is relentless:
Biden Loses Another Mario Kart Game After Trying To Sniff Peach’s Hair The Whole Time
Op-Ed: This Adorable Picture Of Biden Picking Up His Dog’s Poop Is Exactly What America Needs Right Now
Hey all!
If you could do ME a favor (because Ozy has not asked me to say this and in fact, doesn’t know I’m doing this), if you have read Ozy’s Anthrax book, could you go here and leave a review? It would be lovely. Thank you!
or you could pay Chinese review farms to leave reviews like normal people
You are indeed correct that normal authors do that. I, sadly, am not normal and depend on the goodness of readers to leave reviews. Shit, people who pirate my books don’t even leave reviews. It’s the least they could do for getting it free.
Bigly book good fun. Ending emotions have tears. Great value. Buy go.
I hope it was supposed to be a good one…
I purposely didn’t ask for good ones on purpose. Sometimes Amazon cottons on to those and thinks they’re Chinese-farmed reviews and will delete them.
Also, things that some people don’t like, other people do like. I don’t know if that works for nonfiction, but it does for fiction.
So off topic. My first Xterra (that I gave to my daughter) had a head gasket failure (minor) at about 135K miles. So we replaced the gaskets on both sides at that time.
My new Xterra has 113K miles. So it is about time to replace the timing chain (and the water pump at the same time). Should I do the head gaskets while they have the engine taken apart?
you should buy a new car
Why? It would just be full of electronic shit that I don’t want.
The old one was still running great at 180K when it was totalled in last summers Derecho.
Why? It would just be full of electronic shit – that is precisely why
I hate all the shit that is in the new Rogue we bought for my wife a year and a half ago.
I don’t expect to ever buy a new vehicle again.
but think of my bonus
Well, I won’t be buying Romanian. 😉
the multinational corporation i work for is not romanian
Ae there any multi-nationals HQed in Romania?
Ae there any multi-nationals HQed in Romania – I would think none of any note
Absolutely.
Bitcoin about to hit $51,000. Missed my guesstimate by about 3 days. Dammit.
I think it touched peaked at $51.7k around 0500 EST and drew back a bit.
I was sleeping, but it doesn’t matter. I’m still gonna ride this ride and see where it goes. Almost all the money we had in Bitcoin for a couple of years, Mr. Mojeaux had won, so this is free.
I had said it’d hit $50k over the weekend but it didn’t do that. It must have done it late last night because I checked before I went to bed and it was $49.7.
That market is fixed as hell. The guys making money run the price up and down. It is just like the stock market thus the recent “Fuck you back” given to the big players with Gamestop stock.
I wouldn’t touch Bitcoin.
Should I do the head gaskets while they have the engine taken apart?
Have you overheated it? Like run it without water?
No
you should buy a new car
Buy a Mahindra.
Fuck these people in the ass with a goddamn rusty chainsaw.
Can we get the saw red hot? At least run it WFO with no chain lube.
Also, re Kinnath’s head gaskets-
Have them check torque on the head bolts to see if there’s any evidence of loss. If the head bolts pull up in a significant way, it might be worth thinking about.
thanks
I am planning to put another 100k miles or more on this vehicle.
So I am comfortable doing preventive maintenance in parallel with scheduled maintenance.
a tesla will be much more reliable in the long run
Horseshit.
The Xterra is paid for. It runs beautifully. It tows my trailer just fine.
The “cheapest” solution just happens to also be the “greenest” solution which is to keep the thing running as long as possible.
He’s trolling you.
People have discovered the Xterra. I should have bought a couple years ago
My sarcasm meter was so badly broken, I just chucked in months ago.
When Biden has a meeting with a leader of another country, do you think the real powers sit in?
I can’t see how you could keep up the pretense that Joe is President and running things in a meeting like that. You know he couldn’t sit alone with Xi for a couple hours and come back and accurately report on what was said and agreed to.
Personally, I don’t think Kamala is in charge either. I’m not sure what Swamp faction is running Biden, but I bet if you were able to find out who was in the room with Biden when he called Merkel or Putin you’d be able to figure it out.
I’d love to get an honest answer from some world leader on exactly what they thought, when James Carville entered through the back door and gave Biden a pudding cup to distract him while the adults talked. My guess is that it would be “whew! Sure am glad some not senile person is actually in charge”
I misplaced this comment but it fits for your thoughts:
The spinsters weaving this administration’s story are more dangerous than Biden and Harris ever will be.
The two questionable assumptions here are those meetings aren’t highly scripted kabuki affairs and that other world leaders aren’t also drooling morons.
“whew! Sure am glad some not senile person is actually in charge”
Yet they are wildly corrupt and incompetent for different reasons.
Something cool and apolitical
4K video of Mars from the rover.
Thanks!
I have often been fascinated by Mars. There are obvious signs of plate tectonics, volcanism and erosion. Those are the same forces at work here yet they seem to be dormant on Mars. It is further out from the sun so less heavy metal and the planet has burned out? I would be stunned to find out there is no evidence of past life on that planet.
The Perseverance rover lands tomorrow. The primary mission is to look for signs of past microbial life. There’s also going to be a little helicopter that flies around, which should be cool.
RIP Rush Limbaugh
Watch the left go apeshit with glee.