It’s OK to be jealous of my dad’s sweet chops.
My father passed away two years ago. Not one day passes where I don’t think about him. He struggled for years with his health, and I’m thankful both for the time we had and that he isn’t suffering anymore. Still miss him, though, and all the things we never did and won’t do together.
But you didn’t come here for all that. You came here for links, and links you shall have!
I’d probably pass on attending this wedding, myself.
I don’t necessarily agree with the headline, but this was interesting, nonetheless.
Can’t get enough Witcher in your life? I get it. Maybe this will help.
How about some sad-ish local news? Good news: you can help if you want to. I did because they’re all good dogs to me.
I hate cancel culture and I love Gina Carano. Fight me her.
There is still time to pick up some chocolate for the weekend. Consider it.
Alright. That’s enough of all that.
Sorry, about your father. It gets easier as time passes.
Thanks. It’s better now than it was then, but it’s still hard.
Riven, my dad has been gone 52 years now, I had hardly seen him in his last 13 years . He sits with me in the deer stand, he’s in the front seat of the boat when I’m fishing. I miss him after all these years.
It’s easier but the feelings never disappear. Unfortunately death is part of life. I totally understand your attachment.
Thank you. I figure I’ll never not miss him, but I’ll try to find him in quiet moments like you do.
My old man passed away about 8 months ago, from the effects of Alzheimers. So, after that horror story I wasn’t sad when he passed, as we were kinda waiting for it. But I do miss him every day.
My FIL dropped dead in a Costco, and that has been very hard on my wife, especially after losing her mom 9 months before that.
It is just hard, any way you look at it.
My mom died in 1991. I feel for everyone who loses a loved one. At least we had them while we did.
I love that you love your Pops. Trying to be a good one myself, but not always nailing it.
“”My sister basically wanted my wife (my wife’s pregnant btw) to lose weight by following this diet so she could look ‘fit’ at the wedding.””
I’m no obstetrician, but that doesn’t even make sense.
Your sister should fuck off. Not her wedding, not her business.
Misread that. Disregard.
It would have been easier to just add to the invitation engraving “no fat chicks”.
I love that the left is going balls-out commie now. It should be impossible for the American public to ignore at this point.
I think you are underestimating the American public. Or overestimating. I was never sure how that works.
lol, look at the optimist over here.
No, they know what’s going on, but they went along for too long and now they realize they will be next in line for cancellation. Something is going to happen and it’s not going to be pretty.
No, I think people are going along because they agree.
Just a FB post where some random dude apparently said something unseemly to some random woman, to which many of the comments were “they need to let his place of work know so he can be fired.”
It’s fucking horrifying.
The venn diagram for Americans is only overlapping among the truly ignorant. I have no idea how this shakes out in the end, but the lefties seem to be pissing people off in real ways, as opposed to the fake outrage they drummed up for Trump. I have some slight hope that truth will win out and they lefties rue the day. It very slight.
I think the best case scenario is a national divorce. I know a lot of people hate that idea, and it would be messy as there are not clean lines, but I don’t see how you keep together a country with millions of people who want to subjugate others and millions more who would not want to be subjugated by the former. There’s not really a compromise position between those two, so agreeing to disagree and going separate ways is the only workable solution. Otherwise, one faction is going to subjugate the other.
Even with no alimony I’ll be moving in with the NoDak boys if MN is blue. Only the metro areas are blue, maybe NoDak will take us country kids if we leave the TC to IL.
I have friends in TC who are pretty blue, but the rabies hasn’t developed full flower yet. I’d go and visit but passing through so much blue gives me the willies.
America needs its head examined.
As the control group.
lowest common denominator. It’s sweet, it’s simple, and it’s ubiquitous. Milk chocolate was my favorite for 25 years until I had good dark chocolate.
Even the best dark chocolate is still the inferior flavor.
It’s okay to just not like chocolate.
Just like people who need 2 creams and 3 sugars in their coffee. Just admit you don’t like coffee and find a different way to get your caffeine.
Now you’ve wandered off into just plain wrong territory.
trshmnstr is right. Your lack of taste buds is well documented here.
You misspelled “is an oft-repeated lie”
I’m with UCS on this. I drink Major Dickason’s blend with a tiny bit of raw sugar and a tiny dollop of 1/2&1/2. I love coffee. It’s just better that way. Oh, and extra strong, too.
It’s not that a bit of cream and a bit of sugar doesn’t improve a cup of coffee. I’m more targeting those who can only drink coffee if it’s so adulterated that it tastes like sweetened milk.
Just admit you don’t like coffee and find a different way to get your caffeine.
But some people like coffee-flavored candy.
I like my sugar with coffee and cream.
Fair enough.
***GASP!!!*** I just can’t even! ::faints::
Iz we talking candy coffee or chonklit here? Inquiring trolls in the next room need to know.
Oh, hi there! Talkin’ ’bout the dark chonklit!
I was just braggin’ on ya down below.
Milk chocante used to be just “chocolate” until you dark chocolate hipsters ruined the joint. Now it’s crap like salted caramel.
Mmm… milk chocante.
Hmmm. Unhappy anniversaries — my SIL got a catastrophic brain aneurysm on this day two years ago. She lingered in ICU for another 12 days, but never regained consciousness.
Sorry ’bout your Dad, lass, but it sounds like you had a good relationship. That’s always a positive to take with you through this life.
Sorry about your sister-in-law.
She was quirky and had a will of iron, and would fight for her kids (and other people’s kids!) like the dickens. She was also a real “pet person” — dogs, hamsters, an African grey parrot, bunnies, she just couldn’t get enough feathered/furry creatures in her life. Drove the rest of her family crazy. My bro hasn’t been the same since she died.
Some day, death will be an option for us all, rather than an inevitability, and we’ll face it on our own terms. Here’s hoping, anyways.
Damn. I’m sorry to hear that about your SIL, too. Tough time of year.
We had a great relationship; loved to argue with each other. Lol.
“I hate cancel culture and I love Gina Carano.”
I think they were looking for an excuse because of her other views, or they were planning on firing her anyway and it was a publicity stunt.
That’s kind of the vibe I got.
They kept reiterating “she’s not under contract with Lucas Films and won’t be in the future.”
That says to me that they’re virtue signaling.
They didn’t get rid of her before, and are now only saying something to satisfy the tards, but without actually doing anything.
I’m thinking her arc in the story is over, and she wasn’t coming back anyways. Her character ran its course.
I also don’t believe they had a series lined up for her but decided not to, as is being “reported” through the various rumor mills.
I don’t believe anything anymore.
Seriously.
That’s a valid stance.
I don’t really either, and that’s a scary proposition. Not being able to place any trust in any source leaves one reeling in the wind.
The big sources say I can’t trust anyone but them, but I know they’re as big a liars as they come, so they can eat a bag of dicks.
We’re witnessing a battle for control of information. The gov and media used to have full control. Now knowledge is very decentralized, and they don’t fucking like it one bit, hence the continuous fact checks and desire for a mono-reality or whatever the fuck bullshit they called it recently.
They desire more than anything again to control all information , and as a result I’m not able to believe anything at all.
Welcome to the information age. The superhighway is right over there. Good luck!
Extreme skepticism is the healthiest attitude right now.
I’m not so sure about that.
Related to the chocolate story, local place had to announce that for the first time in many years, they were unable to source enough high quality strawberries to do chocolate covered strawberries this year.
Those chops don’t go down to the jaw line!
I’ll still allow it and refer to it as “pimp,” like the hip kids do. 😛
OMG, I saw a 1968 Cadillac Eldorado the other day – in awful sh*t brown. Still pimp af.
He got a custom Continental
He got an Eldorado too
He got a 32 gun in his pocket full a fun
He got a razor in his shoe
He was Bad!
‘Cause he be bad…
Like Cornpop?
.32 ain’t bad these days. It’s what you can get for cheap.
Now the girls would turn the color of an avocado
When he’d ride down the street in his Eldorado
He could walk down the street, girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
That was my thought as well
Don’t hate on him just because they’re better than yours.
I’m not hating.
I have a full beard, not just the chops.
And it is a bit janky. I should shave.
One of the SHARP’s I used to know had the a shaved head, shaved lip, and shaved chin. Everything else grew in. He of course, was known as porkchop.
He sounds like someone people tend to avoid,
Riven, sorry about your father.
A man has revealed that his sister sent his pregnant wife a diet plan along with the invitation to her wedding.
Assuming this story is true, that is quite a bitch move to send a woman you know is pregnant a diet plan.
Conspiracy theories are seemingly everywhere, disingenuous grifters rile gullible audiences up for likes and notoriety, and the majority of Americans spend their days in an echo chamber with few voices to correct disinformation.
Enough about Democrats.
Back to Gina Carano: Would.
When searching for sweets, Americans tend to prefer milk chocolate over other cocoa choices.
More dark chocolate for me.
Sounds like the diet plan was packaged up with all of the wedding invites, so it wasn’t just targeted at the pregnant wife. That said, who the hell includes a diet plan with their wedding invites? What kind of tacky bullshit is that?
Someone who doesn’t want guests at their wedding, or ever again.
Just reminding the guests to eat before they come to the wedding ’cause there’s only gonna be chips and dip after wards
People who cheaped out on the food for their wedding?
It would be a bitch move even if she wasn’t pregnant.
Is there a more odious individual than Max Boot?
It is a rhetorical question.
That like asking if there is a peak derp.
You mean the walking penis with a fedora?
His name is Max Boot. Thinking about Orwell, it really tells you all you need to know.
Suggestions were made
Harvard University researchers studying ways to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission during air travel endorsed the idea of rapid testing of passengers in a report released Thursday.
“Viral testing is an important public health screening mechanism that can quickly and efficiently identify those with infections and stop them from undergoing activities that could expose others, including potential travel,” Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said in a summary of the 262-page report.
Requiring testing for all travelers would not guarantee a plane full of virus-free passengers but may serve a “critical need” in identifying asymptomatic passengers and keeping them off planes, reducing the risk of transmission.
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Airlines are vehemently opposed to the idea of domestic testing, citing logistical issues, limited testing resources and the impact mandatory testing would have on already depressed bookings. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said Tuesday that domestic testing would set the struggling travel industry’s recovery back by at least a year. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly wrote a letter to Biden on Tuesday, saying a mandate would be “counterproductive, costly, and have serious unintended consequences.” Earlier, Kelly called the idea “wholly impractical.”
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The Harvard scientists did not make any policy recommendations on mandatory testing for travelers, he said, because the technology and testing capacity for widespread, inexpensive testing is not yet available.
You can’t let random niggles like that stop you, Shirley. Full speed ahead!
Meanwhile, we’ll all just wear some of those imaginary super-effective multilayer masks which stop the wily little critter dead in its tracks, until the magic tests are ready.
Or maybe we could do “Eeny meeny miny moe” to decide on a strategy.
Seriously. I can’t even fathom how many trillions of dollars we’re going to blow through until, well, the end of eternity because isn’t that convenient.
Also, liability. If they get a false negative and that passenger infects others they’ll sue the airline.
Or how about a false positive which keeps you off the plane, and instead of your tropical vacation you get two weeks of mandatory quarantine in a TSA windowless cell?
Meanwhile, we’ll all just wear some of those imaginary super-effective multilayer masks which stop the wily little critter dead in its tracks, until the magic tests are ready.
How does it feel to be such an optimist?
Harvard University researchers studying ways to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission during air travel
Not mentioned: the number of people who have caught the ‘Vid during air travel.
And why test anyone if masks are mandatory during air travel? You’d only need to test if the masks didn’t work, right?
Thinking about you on the second Jahrzeit of your father’s passing.
Danke, Tonio 🙂
“Nobody ever
went brokelost an election underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”Sorry Riven. It does get easier.
Thank you. It helps that I have friends like you. Still have the card from the flowers y’all sent on my dad’s memorial shelf
Sean, about Schmidt-Rubin prices: That price is crazy for that 96/11 (it’s a 96/11, not a 1911, the seller doesn’t know what he has) even with the ammunition and bayonet.
GP-11 is going for about $2/round right now on Gunbroker, but that ammunition is FNM 7.5mm Swiss. I still have some of that around. In my opinion, it’s junk. The Portuguese government did the world a favor when it shut down FNM.
If that 96/11 is on a pre-1898 receiver (my 96/11 is), I could see it going for more than $1,000 in this environment. No paperwork. I looked up the serial number. The rifle was made in .
Even in the before-times, some Schmidt-Rubin variants went for more than $1,000. The Zfk-55 and the other scoped variants. Some private sale variants. My 89/96 private sale I acquired, strangely, for less than $1,000, but my K-31 private sale I acquired for more than $1,000.
Whoops.
I fucked that tag up. The rifle you linked in the last post was made in 1901. Conversion records aren’t on the swisswaffen database.
a K-31 for over $1000? Holy cow. I bought one for $160 maybe 10 or 12 years ago.
My military contract K-31 I bought in ’03 for maybe $200.
The private sale K-31 I think went from the factory into some sort of stasis field. It is a beautiful rifle.
I never looked up my serial number to get any details on it. Maybe a project for this weekend.
Damn! I got my 1950’s K-31 with a Swiss Industries scope mount, soldier tag, numbers matching bayonet and all accessories for something less than $400 maybe 8 years ago. If it wasn’t easily the most accurate rifle I own, I’d pay off both cars and all the plastic.
And yeah, the real-deal GP11 is the shiznit, everything else ranges from pretty good to garbage.
Thanks!
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema effectively vetoes the Democrats’ $15 minimum wage stimulus push
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D), the senior senator from Arizona, voted with her caucus to advance a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan that can pass with a party-line vote in the 50-50 Senate. But she won’t support adding a federal minimum wage hike to the package, she tells Politico, effectively killing the push to include a $15 minimum wage in the legislation. That’s one reason that Sinema, Politico said in its Friday profile, is “the most influential Democrat you never hear from.”
“The minimum wage provision is not appropriate for the reconciliation process. It is not a budget item. And it shouldn’t be in there.” That goes for other Democratic wish-list items ruled out of bounds for budget reconciliation by the Senate parliamentarian. “There is no instance in which I would overrule a parliamentarian’s decision,” she said.
A glimmer of hope.
If they try to primary her, it’s going to be hilarious.
Following up on a comment from the other day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_senators
Sinema is easily the most do-able senator and the one you want answering your tantric sex guru ads.
the senior senator from Arizona
Cracks me up. That’s got to really grind Mark Kelly’s gears.
And Sinema is one of those people who is at least as attractive in person. I do wish she’d lose the oversize glasses, though.
She’s been surprisingly not-terrible.
I was expecting her to be full proggie when I first heard about her – I confess it was the “openly bi” that set that expectation – but she seems to be a ‘D’ in the Tulsi mold – someone I have serious disagreements with, but who isn’t totally insane.
(and I dig the glasses – I find they vaguely porn-y, in a good way)
Rare case of someone drifting right after being elected. I mean, she’s still firmly a Democrat, but no longer the hysterical leftist she was prior to running for office.
#betterthanFlake
Riven, sorry about your father. We lost my Dad suddenly over 20 years ago and my Mom just over 2 years ago. It gets easier, but there will always be times that a memory catches up with you.
I believe it, definitely. Sorry to hear it; the suddenness is a lot.
Sorry.
Tomorrow is an anniversary of sorts, it will be a year Since Wendy died,
Riven, sorry about your Dad, it’s hard to lose them, been 15 years on for my Pops,
It’s really been a helluva year for you. Thank you for the kind words; hope this year is better for you.
Sorry.
Man, we lose a lot of loved ones this time of year, don’t we?
Glad you fought through and are still with us, Yusef.
Sorry, Yusef. These kinds of anniversaries stink, but also offer an opportunity to remember the best things.
Sorry 🙁
Brother, I hope you’re staying warm and are doing well. I have a video of my 3 year old throwing the disc you sent. I’ll forward it to you over email. She has claimed it as her disc now, LOL!
Thanks to you and all the Glibbies for being there this last year, things are finally getting somewhat normal,
Today we worked outside, 11 degrees and Sunny, removing icicles, 40 foot tall, like this, very fun,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FJHxzDqsKnRWxkvv6
Yeah, those’ll definitely kill someone.
How are the ‘maters doin’? The frigid weather has brought some sunshine, baby apple trees are enjoying the southeast window.
‘maters are cruising along, they should be ready by spring,
“The minimum wage provision is not appropriate for the reconciliation process. It is not a budget item. And it shouldn’t be in there.” That goes for other Democratic wish-list items ruled out of bounds for budget reconciliation by the Senate parliamentarian. “There is no instance in which I would overrule a parliamentarian’s decision,” she said.
But think of the additional taxes those chumps will pay.
“Donald Trump’s defense unveils epic troll of Democrats showing video of party leaders and Joe Biden saying ‘fight’ over and over, accusing them of being ‘hypocrites’ and alleging they edited tweets to make their case – then rests after three hours”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9254633/Donald-Trumps-lawyers-start-defense-presidents-speech-wasnt-incitement-riot.html
Excellent. It’s too bad they didn’t also play video of Democrats (including Obama) questioning previous election results. The Dems are literally throwing a fit that other people are using their tactics against them. Turnabout is fair play.
It’s too bad they didn’t also play video of Democrats (including Obama) questioning previous election results.
Last 3-4 minutes.
Good.
The Repub Senators should offer a deal: they will vote to convict Trump, if every Dem Congresser who “incited violence” (by the standards of the Dem impeachment managers) is removed from Congress.
Really good comments from one of the lawyers:
From the article;
He ridiculed the managers for repeatedly saying ‘reportedly’ in their presentation, and played tape of a skein of managers using the term – having skipped the hearing process and electing not to call witnesses who could provide official testimony.
He called the word ‘reportedly’ a code for ‘I have no real evidence.’
Sorry, Riven. It gets easier at some point. My dad died almost 10 years ago. Less than two weeks after my aunt (my mom’s sister).
Thank you. Man, that’s a hard time line, right there.
“Gina Carano strikes back: Fired Mandalorian star announces new movie project with Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire saying, ‘They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9254935/Fired-Mandalorian-actress-Gina-Carano-develop-film-Daily-Wire.html
Ben could play baby yoda.
Biden can play Jar Jar.
See, she’s already teaming up with a Nazi, that just proves her tweet was antisemitic!
I sent that Biden/Shapiro spoof interview video to a Labour lefty friend, thinking it’s fairly innocuous. Bad idea.
Translated into plain English:
For the many…
Shapiro pisses me off. He’s like 60% of the way there. He can argue really well some times. He just goes stupid when it counts. He’s a perfect fit with the “conservatives.” He talks about good stuff sometimes, but can’t quite make it to actually advocating any of it in reality.
I have very little exposure to him. I’ve never watched his show but I’ve read a couple of articles by him over the years. He’s the low hanging pinata hanging out there for lefties to whack, especially when he acts like the poster child for the white privelege garbage, telling people they shouldn’t take low paying jobs and just go get another one.
“Joe Biden says he’s waiting to see if his ‘Republican friends’ in Senate ‘stand up’ to Trump as he makes surprise visit to White House lawn to see Jill’s Valentine’s Day message”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9253991/Joe-Biden-says-hes-waiting-Republican-friends-Senate-stand-Trump.html
Was he standing out there with a boombox?
Hopefully washing his Trans-Am.
Like his friend Mitt Romney, who Biden claimed wanted to enslave black people? Biden is such a duplicitous dope.
How do you make a surprise visit to your own lawn?
Every moment is a surprise to Joe.
WOO-HOO!! WSU!
That’s where I was born baby!
(and my old man got his doctorate)
Just like people who need 2 creams and 3 sugars in their coffee. Just admit you don’t like coffee and find a different way to get your caffeine.
Some people like coffee flavored candy. As far as that goes, I like coffee ice cream, every once in a while.
*whips up another White Russian and raises a toast to Brooks*
It’s the final exam on my baked mac and cheese. I have to bring it to my mother’s to share with the family. Since it will be compared with my mother’s baked mac and cheese, I must make it perfect.
The water is on. We’ll see how well I do.
Sodium citrate added to the sauce completely stops it from breaking or getting greasy. If you don’t have any, you can get the same effect by using citric acid and baking soda.
I’m actually making mac & cheese tonight myself. #notvegan
Thanks for that!
I’ve never had that problem with the sauce. My biggest problem is always impatience.
But now it’s all composed and in the oven for the final baking/browning.
What kind of cheeses do you use?
Cheddar and mozzerella.
My process has alwyas been – melt butter, add flour, cook roux, add milk. Incrementally add cheese, melt and stir, add milk, melt and stir, add cheese, repeat until milk and/or cheese is incorporated.
Out of the oven… Oooh…
Oh my!
Send me some of that, and I’ll forgive you for dissing dark chocolate.
It would be easier to visit and cook some fresh. I mean the ingredients are butter, flour, milk, pasta, and cheese. The cheese is the most expensive element.
You can only visit if I’m around. That way I have a chance of maybe getting a spoonful before she does that “Dyson Disappear” on it.
Fair enough.
“Since it will be compared with my mother’s baked mac and cheese, I must make it perfect.”
Stop trying to live up to someone else’s standards.
“NY State Assembly considers removing Governor Cuomo’s emergency powers after his top aide admits they covered-up true scale of nursing home deaths amid fear of Trump DOJ investigation into them
The New York State Assembly Majority is considering rescinding emergency powers granted to Governor Andrew Cuomo to manage the coronavirus pandemic after a top aide admitted their administration hid damning information about deaths among nursing home patients, according to a report from NY1.
In a remarkable confession made during a conference call with state Democrats, obtained by The New York Post, Melissa DeRosa, secretary to Cuomo, admitted that officials ‘froze’ in August when former President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked for the data, before rebuffing the request.
DeRosa told lawmakers: ‘We were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9254511/New-York-State-Assembly-looking-RESCINDING-Governor-Andrew-Cuomos-emergency-powers.html
They’re considering it?
WTF does Fredo have to do to actually get them to at least say “we’re cancelling his emergency powers.” Fuck me.
The machine will never cancel the powers of an office it controls.
At most it will force the person out of the office.
Nothing like some good old-fashioned self-criminalization after you know the political powers will block your prosecution.
top aide admits they covered-up true scale of nursing home deaths amid fear of Trump DOJ investigation into them
For us little people, that’s called tampering with evidence.
CONSIDERS?!?! After hiding no shit evidence specifically to avoid a federal investigation and admitting it publicly? Fuck all these people!
Cuomo left the repurposed Javitz Center and the big hospital ship empty while he moved all those covid patients into NY nursing homes. Because he didn’t want to use all those empty beds instead…that would have made Trump look good, helpful and responsive to NY. What’s several thousand deaths when scoring political points is more important?
BTW my wife’s mother is in one of those NY nursing homes, her floor has been on lockdown for a year now due to Cuomo’s policies. Her Alzheimer disease is progressing even faster as a result, so when/if the day comes my wife can actually visit her in person, her mother may not even know who she is anymore.
But ask a typical NY person, and they still haven’t heard about the nursing homes and they will tell you what a great job Cuomo has been doing.
For those who didn’t catch the link in the last thread, Zoom/Happy Hour/testing the speed of the mute for the weekend. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
This might give you some good practice with the mute button.
Thanks, Neph. We’ll pop in for a bit, as is our custom.
Will be late tonight, but will be there.
I have crush on Gina Carano. She seems like fun. Her interview with Ben Domenech recently is worth watching. I got the impression he sat through it thinking “I wish I could trade in my wife for you”.
Does anybody know how to turn off video autoplay in Brave permanently?
Especially Youtube, since the turn off autoplay option isn’t there? The tiny little one at the bottom of each video doesn’t work on the next video, and the global one isn’t there.
I dug through the brave bug database.
Autoplay blocking has a lot of open bugs, and a few close/fixed bugs that folks say weren’t actually fixed.
I’m so sorry for your Dad’s passing. It doesn’t seem fair. And the anniversaries are always difficult. We’ll have a toast to him tonight.
Thank you. I’m going to be looking at the last bottle of Coors Light he bought here when I have my first drink tonight. Just goes to show, as good of a man as he was, there was no accounting for taste 😛
You’re right. You turned out pretty OK, so I’ll forgive him for drinking beer. ?
A proposal aimed at keeping transgender students out of girls’ and women’s sports is attracting enough interest in the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature to worry LGBTQ advocates.
The LGBs need to get the T out of their movement.
At this point the movement needs to be dissolved, as it is well past equality and into special priviledges.
Equality is out. “Equity” is in.
Fuck equity.
I am certain that I will get myself fired the first time we are required to do DEI training.
Retard your outrage, pal
The father of a child with Down syndrome confronted Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday over previous comments she made which many deemed to be offensive, using the r-word and referencing Down syndrome.
Shaun Holmes, who is a Republican, spoke to Greene at a meeting of the local GOP in Whitfield County, Georgia. Holmes is the father of 10-year-old Gavin, who has Down syndrome and autism.
Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district, had drawn criticism for saying: “It’s stupid simple, but we have retards—I’m sorry, I know that’s an offensive word, and I’m not trying to talk down on people with Down syndrome—but that’s what these people are.”
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“I just want a response from you. To call people retarded and then say no offense to people with Down syndrome. I mean that’s bullsh*t,” Holmes said.
“Just being a regular person, a lot of times I use slang word and using that term,” Greene said, but Holmes interrupted her, saying: “No, no, that is not acceptable.”
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“I do apologize for that being offensive to anyone and I certainly don’t mean that at all,” Greene said.
“I’m sorry you’re such a thinskinned bitch.”
An entire fucking generation, her generation and mine and many of those here, was taught that “retard” is the correct word over idiot or moron or imbecile.
Now we’re being pilloried for using the word we were taught was the correct word.
Fuck these retards with a goddamn rusty chainsaw.
Meh. They hate her for a million other reasons. An apology ain’t getting her out of that, so why bother.
Yup. She shoulda called the dad’s complaint retarded.
It’s what T would have done, that’s for sure.
Which is why they hate him. He doesn’t care what those fuckers think.
The better response would have been “Don’t worry ‘scro. There’s plenty of tards leading really kickass lives.”
Mongoloid! He was a mongoloid!
Happier than you and me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-nFSUXcuM
My first wife was tarded.
Also, is there no monocle/eyepiece equivalent for Brave?
It works fine on desktop brave (download tampermonkey from Chrome store, download userscript from the appropriate link), but not on mobile brave. They’ve made noise about supporting extensions on Android, but I haven’t heard any updates in 6 months.
I’m using Brave, and Monocle. Works fine.
I can’t find the monocle script anywhere. And with the relevant articles being in the glibs archives, I haven’t been able to find that, either.
Forum Topic about this.
Direct Link to original Monocle article
Vielen Dank!
No one did it last thread. I guess I have to this time. I feel a little bit like Ted’s every time I do this.
Ted’s what?
Ted,S. I just thoughtlessly always include an apostrophe every time I type his name, for some obscure reason.
I do it on purpose. He is forever Ted`S.
*Shhh! So do I!
*taps nose and nods*
Save us, Comrade Biden!
The White House said Thursday administration officials are working to address a growing shortage of semiconductor chips that has slowed auto production around the world.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration is “currently identifying potential chokepoints in the supply chain and actively working alongside key stakeholders in industry and with our trading partners to do more now.”
The issue is one reason Biden plans to sign an executive order in the coming weeks to direct a comprehensive review of supply chain issues for critical goods.
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A White House official who declined to be named because the person was not authorized to speak publicly told Reuters it “is in active conversation with all stakeholders – from auto companies to semiconductor firms, as well as congressional leaders and diplomatic partners – to see what actions can be taken to make sure American workers are not being negatively impacted by this shortage.”
What could possibly go wrong?
As long as they don’t start double dipping them. That’s just gross!
That sounds like a plan that might take five years to achieve.
The Big Guy will make sure SMIC and the CCP are the real winners here.
As soon as the word “stakeholders” pops up, everything can go wrong. And probably will.
TIL there’s a dude named Chuy in the House of Reps – and he’s not even from California. Will wonders never cease.
(I hear ‘Chuy’ in Cheech Marin’s voice)
I imagine it as being pronounced like хуй.
In a Jan. 19 letter to Biden adviser Brian Deese first reported by Reuters, the United Auto Workers union and the heads of associations representing automakers, auto dealers and parts manufacturers asked the Biden administration to consider “urging major silicon wafer foundries to ramp up production of automotive-grade wafers.”
The letter added that the shortage would result “in production loss of hundreds of thousands of vehicles, if not more, in the first quarter alone. These losses, combined with a larger expected economic impact in Q2 and Q3, require urgent action.”
Maybe the price of those chips is too low to justify displacing other, more lucrative chips. Letting the government set production schedules will fix this problem.
When you join a team meeting expecting only your immediate boss and team members, and the VP of your department and an HR guy are in it you don’t need to hear anything else – you know what the meeting is about.
Our team survived 4 restructurings from department to department (IT, finance, marketing, IT) over the last 11 years but we finally ran out of luck.
Goodbye regional support, hello functional support, minus 3 people. (11 of us get to interview for 8 ‘new’ positions if we choose to do so)
Feel bad for my coworkers as they still live in the expensive suburbs of a a basket case state (IL), and at least one is the sole means of support for their family.
For my own circumstances I ain’t exactly happy about it cause it was a really sweet gig (FT WFH), but I ain’t exactly worried as we are well prepared for lemons.
Could be the kick in the pants I’ve been needing to create my own gig.
Damn, sorry to hear it.
We just had a 2% RIF following a big re-org of the business units, but, due to the ‘vid they’re doing a _minimum_ of 6 months severance plus a lump sum to (optionally) pay for health premiums for a while.
What do you do? We’re always hiring and we’ll probably be FT WFH for almost all positions for the foreseeable future…
Thanks. Still may not be out a job yet – there are 8 positions to fill if I decide to give it a shot.
Operational reporting, dashboards (tableau ugh) that sort of thing
Get data from different places, put it all together in one place for the bean counters and sups and managers to figure out how their people are doing.
The real danger is if I don’t get one of the new positions that I might get too comfy being at home and not working.
Sorry.
I had one of those, kind of. I was the only attendee from my department.
Guess who got some funemployment out of it.
“Then I am happy and sad for you.”
Seriously, it sounds like you jave it under control and I wish you the best on getting one of the new positions.
Thanks
We do have responsibilities managed for a while, more a “something big happened and I want to tell somebody” thing
Don’t have much of an IRL social life so lurker though I be, you guys are the social life.
We just got a 2024 Republican front runner.
“Gov. DeSantis Tells Biden: “Go Fuck Yourself” after asking Fauci how much he’s making off this bullshit.
https://realrawnews.com/2021/02/gov-desantis-tells-biden-go-fuck-yourself/
* I hope it’s real *
It’s fan fiction.
If it were real, it would be all over certain channels. So I figure it’s composed in-house.
The action photography in the 1st and 3rd Bourne flicks are awesome. The second flick stands alone as an example of absolutely awesome action direction. Shaky cam is never necessary – so many HK and other Asian flicks show how to do ALL the action in frame.
dammit.. The second bourne flick had “awful/abysmal” action photography.
But without shakycam you’d have to spend money on an actual fight choreographer and training the pretty faces
Shakycam is an abomination.
I wonder if Hollywood is still using it.
Man, I went to see Saving Private Ryan after working about 14 hours straight. We got there late, for the latest showing and it was packed. we had to sit in the front row. I almost passed out from the first section of shaky cam. It was brutal. Really added to the desired effect, though!
The difference is that the camera there doesn’t make it difficult to follow the action in the same manner as it does with small, close quarters fights. Part of any form of storytelling is knowing when and how to use the tools correctly.
Jackie Chan.
’nuff said.
One of the very few acceptable uses of shakycam.
Montana governor ends mask mandate.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) lifted a statewide mask mandate on Friday that had been put in place by former Gov. Steve Bullock (D) last July amid the coronavirus pandemic
Woohoo!
Thanks, DEG. I hadn’t seen that yet.
Joe Biden will tackle global chip shortage with executive order
“President Biden “is expected to sign an executive order directing a government-wide supply chain review for critical goods in the coming weeks, with the chip shortage a central concern behind the probe,” the report says.”
In other words Biden will funnel millions to a buddy of his and 2 years from now long past the shortage they will determine that demand outweighed supply.
HAH! I finally found the button to turn off my touch screen. When your laptop touch screen cracks, it inputs all kinds of strange stuff, zooming to 300% and hitting the back button or whatever link buttons are on the page. You have to keep it perfectly still, and even then the tiniest bump fucks it all up again. I guess I’m going to buy a replacement screen and a power jack and a fan. The new version of this computer goes for a grand and the last prices for this exact one were 750 or so. Used ones go for 6 or 7 hundred. Screen costs 130 plus about 50 for the rest.
Riven and everyone in this thread that has lost loved ones, I am sorry and believe me I understand how difficult it can be.
If I ever run across that magic lamp I will only need one wish, not three.
Thanks Suthen, stay dry down there,
Hey Yusef. Looks like ice storm weather for a few days. It is hard to understand just how miserable and damp the weather here can be if you haven’t been in it. I have been in much colder climes that were far more tolerable than a Louisiana winter at its worst. Hell, sub-zero was less uncomfortable. This BS just soaks into your bones.
No worries though, I have plenty of firewood and plenty of food. We are hunkered down and comfortable. The dogs are snoring on the couch oblivious to what is outside.
You stay warm too.
So sorry about you dad, Riven. Love the little Coors Light anecdote 🙂
My Ma died 8 years ago this year. I want to try to do all the things she would have wanted to do if she hadn’t gotten married & had kids like a good soldier (I get the feeling she would have done differently if she thought she could). She was one of my best friends.
Here she is with Iditarod champ Martin Buser
https://pasteboard.co/JO4NrmY.jpg
pretty Lady, cool picture KK,
Here’s some good hypocrisy, 2 minutes,
https://youtu.be/tNMtyoSibG4
For all y’all space nerds who aren’t already following him, spaceXcentric is my favorite YouTuber on the topic and his last video is certainly not woke. Something something Starbucks HR reps with blue hair and pronoun confusion ?
Checking it out…I wonder why YT hasn’t recommended it to me
Shaky cam is never necessary – so many HK and other Asian flicks show how to do ALL the action in frame.
I fucking hate the shaky cam bullshit. It ruined that Lauda vs Hunt movie for me. Stupid terrible “race” sequences.
But a great movie none the less,
“Hunt, it rhymes with Cunte”
The overt camera moves (shakycam, crash zooms) in Rush destroyed the movie. The racing action is already good enough.
How do you make a surprise visit to your own lawn?
He’s getting top the point where everywhere he goes is someplace he’s never been before.
I see he’s adapting to the Aricept™ injections faster than I thought.
The Bourne movies are crap. Read the books instead.
Do I have to shake the book during the action scenes?
I’d been in a lot of the places that the first movie was filmed in, so I found it fascinating to watch. Had the same experience with the movie Ronin.
The books weren’t great either. Robert Ludlum was probably the most overrated espionage writer of the cold-war era.
On the other hand, his comic stuff was pretty good. The Road to Gandolfo was a hoot.
Years ago I picked up one of his books at a truck stop on a long road trip, I only knew he wrote thrillers, it was one of his comedies and it was horrible, the satire and jokes were so obvious and tropey, it was as if the Babylon Bee wrote a novel.
Speaking of inflation-
Those Mister Coffee bare bones coffee makers that cost 16 bucks at Target a few years ago are now more like $25, based on some cursory internet window shopping.
Still impatiently waiting for my Mr. Fusion Home Energy System. Must be part of that chip shortage that President Puddin’ Cup’s gonna wave his magic pen to save us from.
Mr Fusion didn’t happen when the Japanese didn’t take over the world after all.
‘Member when everything was made in Japan?
Man, those were good times.
‘Member when things were made in this country?
No, but I do remember when things were made in Canada; like ’em or hate ’em, the Japanese showed our industries that if they didn’t radically up their quality game, the Land of the Rising Sun would be quite happy to eat our lunch.
Now we just get Chinese crap (although they’re perfectly capable of producing quality, they just can’t be arsed).
I hate how hard it is to suss out where something is made before I buy it.
I also hate the false economy of low prices for shit that just breaks and needs constant replacing.
I would argue that Americans et al. like paying less and China took full advantage of that.
I bought a steel security door from Home Depot for $206 in 2015. I had to look it up yesterday to order a new glass panel and saw the door is now $350. ~75% increase in 6 years.
It was the strangest thing. The tempered glass window panel cracked and shattered without any apparent reason. I’d have guessed someone might have taken a hammer to it, but there were 3 large GSDs in the yard and nothing on the camera.
Inflation is getting harder and harder to hide. I’m tracking all of our grocery trips, and I can see prices creeping up. Aldi pulled a fast one, though. They kept the sliced Swiss cheese at the same price, but shrunk the amount from 8oz to 7oz without changing the package. I didn’t find out until I entered it into the spreadsheet.
Wow. Reading over the comments and I see KK lost her mom 8 years ago. I am sorry KK. I remember that like it was yesterday, in fact it seems it was. It just hit me I have been talking with some of y’all for probably 15 years from here and TOS. You all have been a remarkable positive influence in my life. Thank you all.
2013 – can you believe it?? At least she’s not around to see all this bullshit. She would have cried along with me when I had to cancel my UK trip last year.
I think the same about my mom. Gone 13 years so she missed a lot of the recent enstupiding of everything.
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1360265922146091014
LOLOLOL
“I’m sorry you’re such a bunch of thinskinned bitches” pt 2
KPMG’s UK chair, Bill Michael, has resigned after telling staff to “stop moaning” during a virtual meeting about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, where he also called unconscious bias “crap”.
Michael, who has headed the company since 2017, was speaking at a virtual town hall meeting on Monday with members of the firm’s financial services consulting team when he made the comments.
The 52-year-old Australian, who told staff to stop “playing the victim card” and described the concept of unconscious bias as being “complete and utter crap for years”, apologised and said on Friday the scandal over his comments had made his position at the accounting giant “untenable”.
Michael said: “I love the firm and I am truly sorry that my words have caused hurt among my colleagues and for the impact the events of this week have had on them. In light of that, I regard my position as untenable and so I have decided to leave the firm. It has been a privilege to have acted as chair of KPMG. I feel hugely proud of all our people and the things they have achieved, particularly during these very challenging times.”
Pressure on Michael over his comments had increased during the week, as more details emerged of what he said to staff in the online meeting, which was attended by about a third of the 1,500-strong team.
What? You can’t say, “Stop moaning and get back to work,” anymore?
What a gyp.
The inmates are running more and more asylums these days.
When are people going to learn? Never apologize and do not resign. Make them fire you and go out the door with double middle fingers.
BTW I dont know what ‘unconscious bias’ means.
It means you’re racist. If you say you’re not racist, that just proves you are and don’t know it.
Judge a man by content of his medulla oblongata not the color of his skin.
Unfortunately most people won’t let you crack open their skull to check on that.
BTW I dont know what ‘unconscious bias’ means.
Yet another nugget of truth that the progs have wrapped in a cubic mile of manipulative lies.
The nugget of truth is that there your subconscious impacts your intuitive response to things. Everything beyond that is bullshit.
Seriously. How hard is it to say, “The people that I “hurt” are a bunch of weak bitches who all need twenty minutes at the bottom of a rugby maul to get their heads unfucked…” What the fuck are the weak bitches going to do, cancel you twice?
It’s essentially that there’s really no such thing as overt racism anymore, but the race card industry needs to keep its funding, so now they can blame you for being racist in a way you can’t possibly prove true or false.
Well, I fixed the dishwasher that wasn’t draining. I didn’t actually fix anything. I went through all the troubleshooting steps, found nothing and now it works. Now I won’t trust it until it breaks again and I actually find sometning to fix
Reset the garbage disposal?
Back when I was renting, that’s where the dishwasher drained, and if the built-in breaker for the disposal was tripped, the dishwasher wouldn’t drain.
You checked the thermostat, and that was it.
I went through all the troubleshooting steps, found nothing and now it works
You turned it off and turned it back on?
He changed the filter,
“Teen reunited with pet rooster lost at Alabama Cracker Barrel after Civil War reenactment”
https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/teen-reunited-with-pet-rooster-lost-at-alabama-cracker-barrel-after-civil-war-reenactment.html
That doesnt sound redneck at all.
It was the strangest thing. The tempered glass window panel cracked and shattered without any apparent reason.
Was there a big temperature swing?
No, it was a nice day… about 55 degrees. Before it shattered, I was able to see the entire window cracked with spider webbing. There was a small hole about the size of a quarter. The panel is about 2′ x 3′ of heavy tempered glass so it must have been some force to crack the entire panel. I initially thought it might even have been a stray bullet from someone’s home shooting range but there was no sign of anything inside the house.
A security door….a hole the size of a quarter and spider web cracks. Hmmm.
I found a bullet hole in my mother’s house last week. A year or so ago she complained that she had heard gun shots in her neighborhood. The bullet struck the outside wall a quarter of an inch underneath her wall mounted mailbox next to her front door.
It entered her guest bedroom immediately next to some trim. After that I saw no trace of it. It was really difficult to notice.
Perhaps you should replace that glass with 1/2″ lexan.
The panel is about 2′ x 3′ of heavy tempered glass so it must have been some force to crack the entire panel
AFAIK that’s how tempered glass works you crack any of it and the entire panel shatters.
My dad passed away last week. Your post is bringing tears to my eyes.
Oh, so sorry 🙁
Sorry for you, guy. I’m glad, though, that you have the kind of positive thoughts and experiences of him that allow you to feel his loss. My father died just over 3 years ago (another February death!) and I didn’t feel anything.
I envy people who have parents that they miss. As odd as it may sound, you’re all very blessed.
That’s a good way to look at it. I’m very lucky. I chose my parents well. I’m thankful for the time I had with him. The camping, the hunting, the fishing, the bike rides, the adventures. He’d been bedridden for the past several months after his prostate cancer came back with a vengeance about a year ago. He didn’t have any pain, or at least none that he’d admit to. It was time, because his quality of life the last couple months was crappy. No energy, no appetite no hope of getting better, and completely dependent on the kids and the caregiver. To some degree it’s relief, as cold as that sounds, but it still sucks when it happens.
I’m also thankful that we didn’t let Covid change what we did. We still went hunting last fall. We still went to a pig roast at the home of his Tongan caregiver. He still went on a road trip with my brother. Without that stuff to look forward to he wouldn’t have lasted as long as he did.
yikes, sorry Sir…
So sorry MJR
Sorry.
Damn, sorry royal we/us. You too Riven and everyone else who has mentioned a personal loss in the 300+ comments here. Don’t you people work?
*Sincerely I trust peace will replace sorrow in your lives. Loved ones leaving us is never an easy thing.
You have my condolences. It’s good that you have good times to look back on and cherish!
Riven, sorry I forgot to mention, my condolences on your father. I lost my dad a few years ago, too. It’s tough.
More KPMG idiocy:
In the video, Michael said: “There is no such thing as unconscious bias, I don’t buy it. Because after every single unconscious bias training that has ever been done, nothing’s ever improved.”
Employees shared their shock at his comments in the app used to run the event. The Guardian has seen screenshots of some of these comments, where several staff expressed their disappointment at Michael’s words.
One worker wrote: “There’s no such thing as unconscious bias?! Are you joking? Please do your research before just making such statements. Check your privilege.”
KPMG said that it would undertake a “leadership election” to replace Michael in due course.
OMG WUT?!
That “leadership election” sounds like drawing for the short straw. “Oh, drat, I didn’t get the job. How disappointing.”
They sent him packing…sounds like they did him a favor.
Several workers expressed the socially-acceptable opinion in this matter. Zounds!
My birthday is in a month and 1/2. Just sayin https://www.etsy.com/listing/935955510/croc-balls-3d-printed-gift-personalized
(I don’t own Crocs)
“(I don’t own Crocs)”
and you shouldn’t………
Michael’s departure was no surprise, after he failed to meet the standard required of leaders, said Gemma McCall, the chief executive of Culture Shift, a software business that helps organisations to monitor and prevent bullying and harassment.
“Leaders really do need to take heed and exceed expectations when it comes to creating safe and supported environments for all employees,” McCall said. “Organisations should absolutely be putting equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of their practices and this should be coming from board level down.”
Oh for fuck’;s sake.
Fuck you and the broom you rode in on, you dime store grifter.
Yummy wedge salad in my tummy!
Since it’s a death post – (sorry Riven) – my dad died a year ago on the 14th. Because he’d had a stroke the year before, he would’ve had to be in a care home during all this bullshit and so we’re both actually glad that he didn’t have to go through all that. He would not have survived being isolated like that, since he was unable to advocate for himself to get the care he needed.
So at least to me it was something of a blessing, but it’s hitting my mom esp hard because it happened on Valentine’s day morning. 🙁
I feel that way about Wendy, this CCP crap would have killed her, it just would have been worse, and the day Before Valentines, I feel for your Mum,
Yep. The state interfering with how we deal with death of loved ones is one of the most tyrannical things it does.
Sympathy to all the Glibs who’ve lost loved ones at this time of year. Tom T lost his next-younger brother suddenly on Valentine’s Day several years ago. Sadly, his family has a knack of doing that sort of thing on holidays. ::ponders Tom T’s own Christmas stroke::
In good news, Tom T “graduated” today from physical therapy for the aforementioned stroke. He has the option of requesting more sessions if he feels the need, but he’s doing great. I think he only uses his walker occasionally as support while doing his “homework” exercises.
Good to hear about Tom T, GT!
Tom T “graduated” today from physical therapy for the aforementioned stroke.
Good.
Even better, I’m welcome to come back to Therpy College for an advanced degree if I like. I’m calling this a sabbatical to work on my guitar playing, such as it is.
Good news is great to hear!
We need to step our game up. We always seem to fuck these up.
https://twitter.com/TessaDuvall/status/1360351512598351878
“extremists… called me a lard ass”
I couldn’t help but laugh at that.
lol. They really don’t know how to read the room.
I have no idea who that is. She needs to step up her game if she is going to be a super villain.
N
“Fetish models are selling vagina-scented masks and charge double if stained with urine”
https://telegraf.id/fetish-models-are-selling-vagina-scented-masks-and-charge-double-if-stained-with-urine/
People pay money for that? Geez. That’s dumb. I just wipe my mask over the girl’s bicycle seats at the local school.
That, was funny,
Just curious. Are you wearing the mask while you do that? And if so, where?
Outright, prolonged laughter
The White House announced Friday that President Biden hopes to shut down the prison at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a tall task that the Obama administration failed to do nearly a decade ago.
Sure they will. Where will they stash Former President Cartoon Villain when they disappear him as a threat to national security, if they shut Gitmo down?
It will be rebranded as the Guantanimo Rest Resort for Austere Religious Scholars.
Obumbles did not shut it down, he just released detainees so that they could go straight back to killing American soldiers.
What a POS that guy is.
Group B ralley racing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvsXUDnWYH8
people standing on the road, with babies………
I noticed that. Idiots.
Europeans… same thing,
Group B ralley racing!
The pinnacle.
https://twitter.com/MKUltraMoney/status/1359992376417275904
WTF??
FedSoc hosting a debate on fusionism at 8 eastern.
Neph is hosting Glib Zoom at 8 Eastern, just say’n,
My condolences and thoughts to everyone here mourning loved ones.
Probably covered, but holy shit.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/illegal-raid-wrong-home-family-thugs/?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rssfeednewsletter&utm_content=The+Free+Thought+Project+Newsletter
Props to Riven, I lost my dad 25 years ago, a great man, IMO. I still do the “pick up the phone to call him” boo boo now and then. He didn’t pass on or near any important holiday, an unusual thing in my family. I, on the other hand, could have left the building on Christmas and didn’t because The Frabjous GT is my hero and all that and more.
You don’t get much rest in a hospital or in intensive inpatient therapy. But you do have time to think, since, suddenly, none of that shit out there matters. We’re just surrounded be creatures that have rabies, either Type 1 or Type 2. There’s very little differentiation twixt the two. So, beyond letting a little of the major stuff through, I quit obsessing over a lot of the crap being slung back and forth through the ether. This coming from someone who watched the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates very carefully and listened back to the tapes afterward. Keep your socks on, no need to count your toes, it was 60 years ago. I learned early on about the junk science and political machinations behind fluoridated water. It’s all nothing but induced rage with an agenda.
Takeaway #1, on the more immediate, pressing issue of the moment:
In January of 897, in what is called the Cadaver Synod, Pope Stephen VI accused a predecessor, Pope Formosus of perjury and of having become pope illegally. Trouble was, Formosus had been dead for 7 months by that time. It should be noted that during this period, the Catholic church was averaging a pope a year, such was the corruption and political intrigue of the day.
So Stephen whipped up some support from the College of Cardinals and yep, had Formosus dug up, tied his corpse to a chair and put him on trial. It was largely an excuse for Stephen to get rabid on Formosus in an attempt to legitimize his own papacy. Subsequently two popes annulled the whole deranged, pathetic affair. And the trial turned a lot of the populace against the church.
From where I sit, that is exactly what Impeachment Hoax Mk2 looks like.
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Takeway #2: I’m glad I’m old, have had more fun than most folks could ever hope for, have cancer and am well armed. I can shoot my way out of this without fear of the consequences while you bastards have to live through it.
? This guy gets it.
Glad you are doing well!
Inorite??? Isn’t he dreamy?? #smartboyzarehawt
Your not old until you are dead, Congratulations!
DHL customer service is maddening. My wife’s christmas present never showed up and has no tracking info outside of being scanned in Frankfurt.
The book sellet even sent a second book…and same…last scan Frankfurt.
Calling their customer support and giving tracking number I have been bounced to 4 different ‘divisions’, each saying they don’t handle that type of shipping.
Sounds like you have found an Agency front operation!
You got your wife a book for X-mas?
Soap opera
White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo was suspended for one week without pay on Friday, the administration said, after a report surfaced detailing allegations that he verbally harassed and threatened a female reporter from Politico in January.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Ducklo’s suspension following a report from Vanity Fair that said Ducklo had threatened the reporter after he learned that Politico was planning to publish an article on his relationship with Axios reporter Alexi McCammond.
Ducklo is expected to return to work after the suspension. Ducklo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
President Joe Biden campaigned on a message that he would restore respect and civility to the White House, frequently criticizing the behavior of the previous president and his staff, including how the press was treated.
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Politico said they reached out to the White House in January with questions about Ducklo, a former employee of the NBC News communications department, and McCammond, who is also a contributor for NBC and MSNBC.
Vanity Fair reported that Ducklo then called Tara Palmeri, a Politico reporter, on Jan. 20th and made “derogatory and misogynistic comments” and threatened to “destroy” her.
On Jan. 21st, Playbook, Politico’s flagship morning news letter of which Palmeri is a co-author, hinted at Ducklo’s attacks. “Serious question on our minds this morning: Does this standard apply to how mid-level press aides treat reporters?,” the authors wrote of Biden’s commitment from just the day before to fire aides who step out of line.
Politico said they then informed the White House on Feb. 8th that they intended to move forward with an article on Ducklo and McCammond.
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“I take this very seriously,” Psaki told reporters Friday afternoon. “He [Ducklo] is the first to acknowledge this is not the standard of behavior set out by the president nor is it the standard of behavior set by me.”
Psaki said that while she was not excusing Ducklo’s behavior, the story he discussed with Palmeri was about his personal life and not an issue related to White House policy. Psaki said that she had not discussed Ducklo’s behavior with Biden directly but had addressed it with White House chief of staff Ron Klain.
When asked how female reporters outside of Politico were supposed to feel comfortable working with Ducklo when he returns, Psaki reiterated that Ducklo’s behavior was “completely unacceptable” and that she had been clear “this will never happen again and is not going to be tolerated here at the White House.”
If I understand correctly, his personal relationship with a person he deals with routinely on a “professional” basis is nobody’s business. Sure. Whatever.
Leftist women expect men to be assholes because leftist men are assholes. You’d think they would figure that’s out eventually.
But then they probably wouldn’t be leftists anymore.
Tag fail. Stupid fingers.