I am sure you all deserved this the past two weeks.
Taking a bit of a break has helped. So now you are stuck with me for a while more. I am sure the puns were flying free – but I am ready to narrow gazes as appropriate now.
So here are some links for you – double the Switzerland links, because I can.
- Oh noes, delivery! “rudeness, chaos of traffic, gatherings and illegal parking” GASP!
- Next time someone beats their hollow little e-chest about how brave they are posting something or such….point them here.
- Oh, this will be crushing, I am sure.
- One thing to admire about the Swiss…unlike here. So who calls for that to be changed? Economics professors.
I am calling for reinforcements.
I have some errands to run. Back in an hour or so.
Ok, I get back and see what you all did here.
*Mass narrowed gaze*
First they came for the Firsters, and you did nothing because you were not a Firster.
I just have a hard time imagining anybody coming for you.
Winston’s Mom?
She’s faking it. That’s what she’s paid for.
I’ll have what she’s having!
Penises?
No! It’s the most famous line about faking orgasms in history. Sleepless in Seattle.
Um… wrong Meg Ryan movie — or were you being funny and I missed it?
(When Harry Met Sally)
Harry, Sally, sleepless, whatever.
$20, same as downtown.
“No! It’s the most famous line about faking orgasms in history. Sleepless in Seattle.”
———–
And it was stolen from the film “Round Midnight”.
[(in a French bar) Drunken man downs liquor and passes out flat on his back]
Dale: S’il vous plait, I would like to have the same thing he had.
————
The reason I remember this is when the film “When Harry Met Sally”, which came out three years later, Billy Crystal was on a talk show basking in the host’s praise over Crystal claiming he’d written that line.
Precisement, mon ami.
Winston’s Mom?
Leave me the fuck out of this.
That line from Risky Business: Nice friends you have… clean, polite, quick.
Oh snap!
I should have been suspicious at the lack of narrow gazes. You missed some fantastic pun exchanges. Welcome back.
Just glad he missed my Glibfit comment about ” narrowed gays.”
That old chest nut?
There was a story about someone during the Trump trial confusing “cavalry” with “Calvary”. The thread on that was funny as hell.
They also confused protest and armed insurrection.
“Riot” is fair. “Insurrection” is wrong. “Armed insurrection” is right out.
Let’s not resurrect that.
I’m staying Pharisee away from that.
At least the gnomes still believe in hard money.
Raclette for everyone!!!
Red wine and onion marmalade with cheese and crusty bread. Do recommend.
That does sound good.
Work: You need to move your phone from AirWatch to Intune.
Me: Okay, where are the instructions
Work: Here is a three-part instructional video on how to do it.
Me: Just give me written instructions and where to go.
Work: Go to this website
Me: Goes to website that doesn’t have instructions.
Is it 5 o’clock somewhere?
Saw a t-shirt once:
Screw 5 o’clock, it is 4 o’clock somewhere.
The Sun’s always over the yard-arm, somewhere in the British Empire.
Cheers!
I had a similar experience today with PDFs & Section 508 compliance
The Army requires 20-20 full color vision for some MOS. They still get pinged for some specialty software failing 508 compliance.
My barracks mate tried to enlist as a light wheeled-vehicle mechanic but his red-green color blindness precluded him from doing so. He was allowed to join us in the air-defense artillery where we never have to identify friend or foe aircraft by the colored rondelles and livery.
Do you have color palettes for colorblind?
The most troublesome colorblind affliction, red-green, gives sufferers real problems with stoplights, especially those sideways ones. Definitely feel for those folks.
While delivery drivers are not allowed to cross into Switzerland to make the delivery, they wait on the border to hand the orders over.
Just open the fucking border.
Despite mounting criticism that the wealthy Alpine nation isn’t doing enough to support companies, Maurer has repeated time and again that the Swiss government has “no money”.
The government is already borrowing “150 million francs a day, or six million per hour, or 100,000 a minute,” he notes.
Crazy idea: End the lockdowns.
Is it 5 o’clock somewhere?
A friend used to say, “The sun is over the yardarm, somewhere.”
You used to hang out with Blackbeard?
African-American Beard.
While delivery drivers are not allowed to cross into Switzerland to make the delivery, they wait on the border to hand the orders over.
is there a duty fee when it crosses the border?
The Return of Swiss? I canton believe it!
Oh great, here come the cheesy one-liners.
Jura just jealous
This thread will get Bern’d down once Swiss gets back.
Alp! Alp! We’re bein’ repressed!
Some of you may sanction these pun, but Eiger-ee with Swiss.
I’m sure he didn’t even read these puns. He just bleu right through them.
“I’m sure he didn’t even read these puns. He just bleu right through them.”
Your cheesy theory is rife with holes.
I get your joke now. At first it swissed right over my head.
Somewhere, there’s a st. bernard with a wooden keg of booze, ready to rescue you.
Q: Who was that masked man?
A: The Rhône Ranger!
Thanks Scooby.
Bern!
Swiss is back. Use a pun, go to prison.
Haven’t you read “Three Felonies a Day?” A couple of puns don’t even Matterhorn.
I’m going to have to have a Sig and think about that one.
Just like clockwork.
Huh. I thought for sure Swiss would have been along to gaze upon our dog-Pilatus by now.
Welcome back, Swiss.
Two narrowed gazes is like wielding two six-guns… just like Yosemite Sam would have done.
Yeah well, a lot of folks did call him “Two-Gun” but that wasn’t because he was sporting two pistols.
“Sushi smugglers”
Pro tip: If your sushi arrives warmer than room temperature, DO NOT EAT.
Hoping for some insights.
Got the bill for my truck tabs today. The cost is determined in part on the value of the vehicle. It is a 1994 F-150 4×4 that has seen nearly three decades of Minneapolis winters with all of the road salt that provides. And while it runs well, it is as rusty as fuck and has a few minor problems (e.g., the passenger window doesn’t roll down). It is effectively a Minnesota winter-beater. I bought it 27 years ago for $20,000, a good deal back then. Any ideas what my truck is worth? Because the state of Minnesota has assessed its current value at $16,000. This begs two questions:
Since the bill came via the USPS and the truck clearly isn’t worth the state’s fraudulent assessment, which to reiterate, determines in part what I have to pay them for tab, can I sue the state for wire-fraud?
And absent that route, any ideas how I can get the state to buy my winter-beater truck for $16,000?
Look it up on kbb.com.
There has to be an appeal process. Use the info from above. Then lose.
KBB is irrelevant to state assessments for tabs.
The advantage of being a mid-tier top man is lack of accountability.
Find out what the standards are for assessing vehicle values and see if the assessor followed the guidelines or not. maybe you can get around the states lack of liability by going after the assessor personally. They only have immunity if they are following the states guidelines.
They do petty shit like this because they think it is too much trouble to fight. If you have the time and inclination be ‘that guy’.
Well the bill is only for $71.00, but I am retired now so…
Wait, yours is $71? The lowest price is $35 plus admin. Mine have been $35 for years and years, I just renewed today.
That’s more than a little fucked up.
Kelly Blue book (https://www.kbb.com/) says it is worth $1700-2100
I think someone fat-fingered an extra zero in there.
Unfortunately, you probably have to go to the DMV in person to sort it out.
For sale.
won’t work
Sounds like they must be using the labor theory of value to calculate how much it would take to restore it to as new condition
They’re using the tax theory of value.
Offer to sell it to them at $10,000. How can they pass up that deal?
I did a little digging.
It looks like if the MSRP is available, the government must use MSRP adjusted for age. Cite. KBB’s website is bitching about my ad-blocker, so I’m not going to keep digging. If KBB or some other similar service lists the MSRP for when your truck was new, Minnesoda officials have to base the registration fee on that price. Otherwise, the cited law says what they can do to figure out a value for the registration fee.
Expect me to read everything in my own cite? Sheesh. Some people.
My ’99 and ’04 (F-150) tabs are $35 plus 9.25 ‘administrative fees’. MN money. My ’99 will match the rust on your ’94, I betcha.
It’s just another tax scam, since I’ve owned both since they were new and have never been registered any place besides here.
Why do they need to be re-registered every year, since they are already in the data base. Sorry, EAP, we have to pay for the
privilege of being in a blue state but the weather is warming.
Hundred bucks is about the lowest rate here. For anything. It goes up with newer stuff. Also, there’s 9% sales tax when transferring apart from whatever was paid the last time.
Move.
Washington has been using inflated values for years to extort cash out of the tax cattle. It’s gone to court – lost. It’s gone to initiative repeatedly – won, then ignored by the legislature.
You can’t fight city hall.
WaPo headline:
If You Served Trump, You Have No Standing to Criticize Biden
Wut?
Oh, right- dissent is treason.
I’m amazed at the percentage of communications from the Whitehouse to the citizenry via the media is provided by Jill “Dr. Mengele” Biden.
What does that mean?
Oh. Max Boot, of course.
I cant read the article and I am damned sure not giving money to WaPo. That is probably a good thing.
“If you don’t agree with us, shut up.”
While on a hike yesterday I saw a guy wearing a shirt that said “Make Lying Wrong Again.” OK, fine, you don’t like Trump, but let’s not pretend that any politicians are honest, because that just makes you look stupid.
Tha amazing thing was for all their insistence that Trump was always lying, the gymnastics they had to go through to call his statements lies. Any figure of speech or idiom they would take literally and therefore it became a lie. Any bluster or boasts were also broken down in this way, as were his colloquial lines when speaking to an audience. Worst of all was their terming lies what were actually true statements — for example, Trump saying “we’ve tested more people for covid than any other country”. PBS said this was a lie, because although the US had indeed tested more in absolute numbers, we weren’t the leaders in tests per capita. In this fashion, you can decide just about anything anyone says is a lie.
Just wait until they bomb Syria.
Nothing left to cut!
A 65-mile section of California’s bullet train through the San Joaquin Valley that a contractor assured could be constructed much more cheaply — with radical design changes — has become another troubling and costly chapter in the high-speed rail project, a Times investigation found.
The segment runs across rivers, migratory paths for endangered species and an ancient lake bed through the length of Kings County, a fertile agricultural belt south of Fresno. Before awarding a contract for the section, the California High-Speed Rail Authority and its consultants knew about these sensitive issues and prepared lengthy environmental reports aimed at accelerating construction by avoiding legal obstacles.
But in 2014, when the rail authority awarded the contract, it went with the lowest bidder — a Spanish company named Dragados — which promised $300 million in cost savings by altering the design that the authority had proposed to regulators.
Seven years later, these changes have been largely abandoned and have contributed to more than $800 million in cost overruns on the Kings County segment. That figure is 62% above the contract price tag, which the rail authority has agreed to pay, according to interviews and technical and contractual documents reviewed by The Times.
When nothing is a waste of money, everything is a waste of money.
Contract. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It’s more like a participation trophy, with an endless supply of juice.
Dragados? Isn’t that hte name of a Bond villain?
I was thinking either a Pokemon or Game of Thrones dragon.
A few years ago they lowered the cost estimates from $98 billion to $68 billion. I figured that the only analysis they did was to flip the 9 upside down.
[golf clap]
You have any idea how many millions were spent on that?
Bill-yuns, and bill-yuns?
Governor: Controller, I need an estimate on how much this will cost.
Controller: $98 billion
Governor: What if I assumed some things would cost about two thirds what you estimated.
Controller: $65 billion
Governor: Better throw on a few billion for cost overruns.
Never end an estmate with a zero or a five – it looks like you just made it up. Prime numbers are best.
I could have sworn we killed that off in the past year! Holy God, that’s the graft that wouldn’t die….
The Spanish.
Didnt they build a battleship that got loaded down with so much crony contractor bullshit post-design that it sank upon launch? I am sure it was them, so of course that is who California awarded the contract to.
That was the Swedes.
Just wait. When this thing finally starts running in 20 years, Bakersfield and Merced will become the economic powerhouses of the state, maybe even the country.
Heh. I lived in Merced for a few years, ain’t nothing going to make that place a powerhouse.
But in 2014, when the rail authority awarded the contract, it went with the lowest bidder — a Spanish company named Dragados — which promised $300 million in cost savings by altering the design that the authority had proposed to regulators.
Having worked with Spanish construction firms, it seems like they, as a general rule, take a lot more of a lax approach to construction – they’ll build it, and it works, but they have a tendency to jerry-rig things and a distaste for following bureaucratic procedures. In other words, exactly the wrong fit for a California project. They probably could have built it for the promised $300M savings if they didn’t have Cali regulators looking over their shoulders.
I had no idea that dry lake beds were environmentally sensitive.
It was before they drained it.
Everything is environmentally sensitive, depending on how you define sensitive. All human activity creates pollution and disrupts the environment, if you consider humans somehow apart from the environment.
Government is the shit we waste money on together.
I’m glad you are back. It was also a nice surprise to see you on the Zoom mess last week.
Yes, We are experimenting with Morels, yes I will get some, may one or two of you as well,
experimenting with mushrooms, you say?
I assume Joe has a few billion up his sleeve for high speed rails.
any ideas how I can get the state to buy my winter-beater truck for $16,000?
They’ll just say you should have taken better care of it.
It’s because EAP lives in a swanky house in a super neighborhood. Things cost more in the non-truck-deserts.
The fact that it still runs after all these years is indicative to the TLC it has received, hence the value.
Rugby news for Swiss.
Perhaps his best moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Czj2WUdBcA
Bound to happen…but, dang.
Apparently Swiss Romansh is like Modern Standard Arabic — nobody actually speaks it?
My high school German teacher was Romansh, but she looked nothing like the lady in that video.
I’m sitting in a dive-ish bar and grill waiting on a windshield replacement. I’m on the patio, which is full of old motorcycle-riding, draft-beer-drinking, white-long-hair-and-bearded men in cowboy hats. Vaping. Nobody is social distancing, or wearing masks while sitting with their friends. Lots of hugging and handshaking.
The conversations around me have been wide-ranging. Many world problems have been solved.
Lots of singing along with Willie & Waylon, and air guitar playing along with Stevie Ray Vaughn.
And the onion rings are pretty good.
I love America.
Go on…
That made me laugh
This America sounds like a lovely country. No idea how to discover it though.
First, you’ll need a high speed rail…
Yesterday on my walk I saw two young boys, one on a bicycle, the other on a kick powered Razr scooter. As they drew closer I saw that the cyclist had two Nerf “guns” protruding from his backpack, so they were on their way back from playing war. It was like something out of my childhood. I almost cried.
We had these tall spear-like rushes(?) that we used to chuck at each other. That and bb guns and bottle rockets. Good times. *rubs old scars
And, in the parking lot, there’s probably a bunch of handguns padlocked to the rotors of the bikes. Can’t bring them into bars out there. Or, at least, one couldn’t in the nineties, when I lived there.
Drinking unarmed? That’s ridiculous.
Yeahhhhhh, about that. Pretty sure everyone was armed. Lots of long denim shirts and leather vests hanging loosely over waistbands.
It even came up in the conversation.
By the time I was leaving, the parking lot was a 50/50 mix of motorcycles and pick-em-up trucks. Lots of construction guys and a smattering of hipsters wandered in. All regulars and all hugging, shaking hands, and back-slapping their pals.
Any of those guys would have been right at home in my little redneck home area of New York State.
It was like a normal day in the beforetimes.
VAPE NATION!
*barks for pizza and cookies
The only place ive been to around me where everyone was walking around without masks on was a plumbing supply store—made me wish i was a plumber so i had a reason to go in there more often.
This sounds like my type of place.
“Joe Biden cancels Donald Trump’s ‘tougher’ citizenship test saying it created ‘barriers’ to naturalization by doubling number of questions”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9287833/Joe-Biden-cancels-Donald-Trumps-tougher-citizenship-test.html
How many could Joe answer?
Oh noes, a hard test that doesn’t involve your feelings, yet.
America is based in WHITE SUPREMACY.
A) True
B) Duh!
Assuming the answer is in pushups?
Doubled to what?
“Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen release a new podcast series called ‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ where they talk about ‘their lives, music, and enduring love of America'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9288157/Barack-Obama-Bruce-Springsteen-release-Spotify-podcast-series.html
No.
“Born in the USA”? Ok now he’s just trolling.
More like “Glory Days”
Is New Jersey really America?
New Jersey isn’t in the USA?
Are they appropriating the lived experience of John McCain?
Congrats to Springsteen on finding a way to suck even harder.
Not unless Springsteen covers this.
And nobody will listen.
But it will sell a few million copies at MSRP.
Yep.
Sheeeeeit, they’ll get so many outrage addicts that it’ll set records.
“look at what these assholes said!!!”
Maybe Bruce will cover this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuIwKVH1jiU
Hard pass.
Baby, we were born to whine! By Bruce Snivelstien.
The first two episodes were released by Spotify on Monday. The first is titled Outsiders: An Unlikely Friendship and is about how the pair met.
It’s unlikely that either give a shit about American wars.
Nothing says “outsider” like a two-term president and a multimillionaire musician whose career spans decades.
“These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That won this country’s wars
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
Now we’re wondering what they were dyin’ for”
Springsteen, Youngstown.
Fucker mispronounces Monongahela.
Left-wingers feigning effusive patriotism is one of the most annoying developments of the last few years.
How do you reclaim the cocaine “frosting” from the cornflakes?
Pulverize it all to dust and centrifuge it?
Breakfast of Champions.
I do know, that one can grind up a bunch of Total cereal in a ziplock baggy, add some water and extract the iron with a magnet. Saw it on Bill Nye, before he started shilling for the commies.
Solvent
Solvent Green?
I believe Solvent Green was the bass player for Muddy Waters’ band.
Good read here.
My money is on the GOP living up to being the stupid party. However, I still think they’ll win in ’22 just because they can say they aren’t Democrats (who will have really stupidly overplayed their hand from the past election).
I’m sure our D governor has overplayed his hand here in KY.
I’d say a D governor doesn’t have a shot here for a goodly while.
Laws have been passed to neuter the governor, but after his veto was overridden handily, he decided to sue because “My LeAdErShIp Is NeCeSsArY!”
He’s seriously trying to argue that because he was found to have been within constitutional bounds by the state Supreme Court under KY law as it existed last year, that it is unconstitutional for the legislature to change the law.
Man, fuck that guy.
Does KY allow voter referendum? If so, it might be eye opening for the people to directly told to sit down and shut up.
No.
*Scratches KY off list of places to retire to*
My options are becoming limited.
From his lawsuit:
Perhaps the legislature, prompted by their constituencies, decided the negative economic impact of Governor Douchbag’s proclamations were more “grave” than the virus.
Particularly being that it’s clear that lockdowns and government restrictions haven’t shown to have outcomes any different than those few places without lockdowns and restrictions.
And on another note, the governor seems very upset that, despite the gravest of circumstances due to Covid, the legislature has failed to SJW hard or fast enough.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/wdrb.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/12/a12708e6-65af-11eb-85dd-f324e2bed2de/6019e2c257960.pdf.pdf
but after his veto was overridden handily, he decided to sue because he’s an egomanical dumbshit
Good thing he’s not in Texas, that might be grounds for “he needed killin'”.
However, I still think they’ll win in ’22 just because they can say they aren’t Democrats (who will have really stupidly overplayed their hand from the past election).
That would be the safe be, I think. A lot of Democrats are acting like they have a mandate, despite the fact that they lost House seats and the Senate is split (and, fun fact, the Rs technically outnumber the Ds in the Senate, as two of the Senators caucusing with the Ds are technically independents). Overconfidence is often a prelude to downfall.
They were sure a Republican wouldn’t win ever again during the Obama years.
Little did they know that Obama brought about the Rise of Trump.
I’m not convinced they’ll be any happier when the next one comes around and puts them on their asses again.
They’re fortifying against that.
I love America.
So say we all.
Most of the time, anyway.
Even the blue states in the US are less prison-like than England.
Official roadmap out of lockdown
COVID broke English Trump’s brain, parliment’s too.
Yep, they are turning their country into a penal colony.
As for less prison like here, that has always been true. It seems there was a kerfuffle over that a while back.
You think? I don’t envision any of that happening in New York by the stated dates.
In Mass. indoor dining wasn’t suspended since June. Non-essential retail is open, barbers, too. Hotels are open and tourists can stay there. I’m not sure whatever rules are for the number of households to meet. But nobody is enforcing it. Yes, schools are mostly closed for in-person schooling. And there are no fans at sports events. Though I heard that the Rangers will have spectators when they host the Bruins on Friday in NYC.
Yes, 10% capacity and tickets are like a thousand bucks.
Just got a meeting invite for a Black Joy Bash. It tells me to bring my dancing shoes. Somehow that feels problematic.
Dancing Shoes
Dancing fool!
OK, fine, you don’t like Trump, but let’s not pretend that any politicians are honest, because that just makes you look stupid.
Exactly. If you actually want to pretend Biden (or Obama, or Bush, Or Clinton….. you get the idea) is any less of a narcissistic sociopath than Trump, you don’t deserve to be taken seriously.
Yeah, thinking Trump was aberrantly dishonest is an ignorant (deliberate or otherwise) take. He may have been quicker and more obvious with the petty lies, but after Mr. “If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it” and Mr. “Iraq has WMDs” and Mr. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”, to claim that the presidency is cloaked in honesty is itself a dishonest take.
“Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen release a new podcast series called ‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ where they talk about ‘their lives, music, and enduring love of America’”
Will this be the theme song?
Or “Pancho and Lefty”?
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear cases related to last year’s presidential election and Donald Trump’s challenges to its outcome.
The justices declined to take up a case brought by Republicans challenging a Pennsylvania state court decision that extended the deadline to receive ballots in the election by three days due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The court rejected Trump’s lawsuit against President Joe Biden over the counting of absentee ballots in Wisconsin.
And the justices also turned away a Georgia case, brought by Trump ally Lin Wood, over mail-in ballot requirements.
In the Pennsylvania case, the justices turned away appeals by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania and Republican members of the state legislature of the ruling by the state’s top court ordering officials to count mail-in ballots that were postmarked by Election Day and received up to three days later.
Three conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, dissented from the decision not to review the case.
But even they acknowledged the number of ballots received in the state after Election Day would have been enough to overturn Biden’s victory.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9287263/U-S-Supreme-Court-snubs-Republican-appeal-Pennsylvania-voting-fight.html
They refused to hear it because it was now moot – Trump conceded – but the dissenters said they should have heard it anyway so there would be future clarity.
Obviously, I agree with the dissent.
Hasn’t happened yet, no standing; Now that it’s happened and they waited and waited it’s moot. What a joke.
If the Dems do manage to pack the court with whatever number or radical leftist clowns they are planning this court will look honest and sober.
They are trying desperately to make the fedgov illegitimate in the eyes of a majority of Americans.
I think they’re succeeding. Ultimately it’s been this way for a while and maybe it’s good in a way that people’s blindfolds are being pulled off.
LA,LA,LA,LA… I can’t hera you,,,LA,LA,LA!
Well, there it is, fully adjudicated. No need to allow any evidence, witnesses or sworn statements. None of what we saw is real. Now, let’s get back to normalcy, for the good of the nation.
Why even bother with election laws when they can be disregarded at will and the case won’t even be taken up?
One step at a time.
If the PA SC ever does what it did again, the last thing that should come out of their mouths should be their brains. There are simply no lesser solutions that are adequate.
This outcome should surprise no one.
It doesn’t. It should enlighten everyone that voting is a big farce.
Chickenshits
Roberts is such a POS.
Shocking news! Unbelievable news!
1 week after freak cold snap, Texas is warm again.
See? Global warming is real!
AOC turned the heat back on.
It was the friction between AOC and Cruz that done it.
We’re not doing phrasing anymore?
Three conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, dissented from the decision not to review the case.
But even they acknowledged the number of ballots received in the state after Election Day would have been enough to overturn Biden’s victory.”
Wait, what? Am I reading that correctly?
Because it sounds an awful lot like, “He stole it, fair and square.”
I’m fairly certain that’s a typo – from Thomas’ dissent:
“We are fortunate that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s
decision to change the receipt deadline for mail-in ballots
does not appear to have changed the outcome in any federal
election”
Yep.
Why even bother with election laws when they can be disregarded at will and the case won’t even be taken up?
“Too late. You can’t sue for malpractice now, because the patient is dead.”
Helen Keller is trending on twitter.
I hope she sees it.
I doubt if she’ll hear about it at all.
Is it a touching tribute?
She’ll probably get a feel for it, at least.
Anne here come the puns.
Only the deaf, dumb and blind would miss that opportunity.
They’re probably all too busy playing pinball.
LOL!
She’ll get kicked off of twatter soon. In-sighting violence!
What’s next? Dogs and cats interbreeding? Kamala admitting an affair with Trump? You learning how to turn down your mike level on Zoom?
What!?
Swiss will never find the volume button.
And even if he did, it wouldn’t matter. When we hear Swiss on the Zoom, it’s not actually audio coming through the computer. It’s his actual voice you’re hearing, traveling untold distances at unbelievable volumes.
@Grizzly, what was the credit card you mentioned a few weeks ago?
I’m at 50 nights, will hit 75 this year. No need for a Bonvoy credit card anymore.
This one?
It was one where you mentioned 5%.
I’m not sure how much Hilton points are worth. Bonvoy are $.008.
I got halfway to diamond by staying at the Grand Wailea for 2 nights last week.
Then perhaps you mean the cash back cards I mentioned.
Hit post too early. The first two.
Not my day for posting. Here. We have 100k+ with Merrill in an investment account. So, I get 75% more. When they write 3% on online shopping, I get 5.25%=3%*1.75. The other one gives 1.5% on everything, I get 2.625%=1.5%*1.75.
Is there a limit to how much you can get back?
Ah. I see now. $2500 per quarter.
I actually have that card, and I’m BofA preferred. I don’t think I’ve used it in 3 years.
It’s also good for Costco: 2% times the multiplier.
Elite qualification is halved this year, plus rollover from last year. I qualified for Diamond for next year on January something where I’m usually just gold. Another two years towards lifetime and makes up for dropping down with Marriott.
Disclaimer, status is for suckers and hotel status is rarely worth it domestically. Haven’t traveled at all internationally in the last year.
I’m a Marriott guy, so I don’t really know what the Hilton program is like. Hilton matched my Marriott status and gave me gold for 3 months. The only reason I did it is because I knew I’d be staying at a Waldorf for 2 nights (long story; went to Hawaii for a week, but ended up having to leave 2 days early to get free flights).
Was it worth it? Yeah. They upgraded us to a Napua suite. I turned my kids loose on the club lounge, and one of them ate so much tropical fruit that he got diarrhea.
So a good vacation?
Insight From My Mom On Freedom
That’s what I heard from my grandparents about the Stalin era. And I had the same reaction as the author.
Most people don’t think deeply about how the two feed off and even cause each other: behavior and central control.
She said that all that terrible stuff didn’t have much to do with Communism; it’s just that people were being terrible.
While true to an extent, Communism is people being terrible. “From each, according to his ability, to each, according to his needs” requires either total voluntary buy-in or slavery. Since it is impossible to get any large group to voluntarily agree on anything, any attempt at Communism on a national scale will result in the latter.
Those people have a fundamental misunderstanding of why and how our system is constructed. It is constructed to thwart the worst impulses of human nature. Communism is about concentrating power at the top thus giving the worst kinds of people the power to indulge their worst impulses. Our system is (in theory) designed to spread power out as much as possible so that those types cannot do much damage.
It really is not that hard to understand yet many, many people have it go right over their heads. “Elect me! I will get things done!” Yeah motherfucker, that is what I am worried about.
It really is not that hard to understand yet many, many people have it go right over their heads
When it pays to be ignorant, many will make sure not to understand.
It is amazing to me how cheaply many people will sell their souls.
I don’t think it’s a conscious choice. Its what happens when people are taught from an early age that “thinking” involves either memorization or emotion, nothing more.
There’s an Upton Sinclair quote that’s very nearly relevant there.
I remember many moons ago I went on a date with a no shit Communist who is now this Leftist Methodist pastor. She used to refer to herself as a peaceful collectivist but I asked her on one date, if she had her way and banned the concept of private property and seizing the factories and corporations from the owners, what would she do if anyone resisted her measures? She responded that they would be arrested and I pointed that if she had to resort to violence to seize properties from those who resisted than wouldn’t her label as a Peaceful Collectivist be a lie?
She skirted the question but you could see that she didn’t make the connection that her philosophy creates gulags and terror because in her mind everyone would throw off their shackles and abandon their pursuit of wealth if the state took care of their needs and made everything “equal”.
PS: I wasn’t able to hit that.
PS: I wasn’t able to hit that.
Wasn’t able to or wisely avoided?
She was attractive but her lack of curiosity towards other’s opinions and beliefs turned me off. My wife is a Democrat but at least she takes the time to understand my positions and doesn’t think I’m some evil capitalist.
So you are saying that you have your wife fooled?
News flash: They’re all pinko inside!
[blackjack in the end-zone, with the spike and the obscene victory dance]
So, you got lucky.
I lived in Chicago so there weren’t many Libertarian or Conservative women to choose from when I was dating. Every gf I had was a liberal but I got lucky and found one who didn’t and still don’t view politics as some fucking religion. Through my rants or ramblings depending on who you ask, she conceded that paying property taxes for schools when you don’t have a child is bullshit
Baby steps.
Quite frankly, if you are starting with a Chicago liberal that’s less of a baby step and more of a “one small step for man” type of step. Sure, maybe she doesn’t have a coherent political philosophy, but a bunch of the assumptions that underpin the progressive ideology are shattered if you admit that being taxed for no personal benefit is BS. *Tips cap*
I wasn’t able to hit that.
You followed the dictum “Never stick it in crazy,” even if only unintentionally. Good.
in her mind everyone would throw off their shackles and abandon their pursuit of wealth if the state took care of their needs and made everything “equal”.
Adding to my belief that communists are more often than not people with a complete lack of ambition.
in her mind everyone would throw off their shackles and abandon their pursuit of wealth if the state took care of their needs and made everything “equal”.
There is no fixing stupid.
When I was college, it always seemed that those who criticized people’s drive to make money and do well in life where those who grew up in affluent households and have this stupid belief that being poor is noble.
My Mom always drove in me that there’s no nobility in struggling and living paycheck to paycheck.
Yeah, I got the other side of the coin.
“There is nothing wrong with poverty. It is greed I am tired of.”
Me: “You mispronounced ‘prosperity’, and that sentiment is just evil.”
They force that on everyone else by removing incentives to succeed and this is what. you get:
https://dustyoldthing.com/inside-soviet-grocery-store/
Honestly that’s a lot less dystopian than I was expecting. Empty shelf here and there but also people picking and choosing through packages of meat.
It’s a Moscow store. It was always worse outside the major cities.
I’ve had more meat in my freezer than that entire grocery store.
I currently do and not just ‘meat’
I have venison, beef, chicken, pork, rabbit, shrimp, crab and catfish filets. I have various cuts for each except the fish.
Oh, I also have crawfish tails peeled, cleaned and vacuum sealed in 1lb bags.
If you used lighter bags you’d have more room for the crawfish.
You are shitting me, right? Empty shelf here and there, my ass.
https://neonnettle.com/features/1532-russian-leader-abandoned-communism-after-walking-into-an-american-grocery-store
I was remarking on the video you posted. I’ll take free markets everytime, full stop. but that video hardly seemed like a slam dunk condemnation of central planning, I expected people fighting over the last package of rancid meat, not ugly old women wrinkling their noses and finding the price a bit steep.
Yeah, Americans are crying because the store is out of toilet paper. If we got to the level pictured, robberies would start becoming common. People don’t let go of easy living easily. Ugly old people notwithstanding.
And now that I brought that up tight control over food supplies and keeping people on the edge of starvation has always been a favorite tool of the far left. Anything to disempower people and keep them desperate and dispirited.
I dont remember who but within the last few years I saw where a lefty congress critter suggested banning home gardens.
I am waiting. for land reform to rear its ugly head. You know they want to. I think the HUD house requirements and Federal control of zoning is the camel’s nose in the tent.
DeLauro, Food Safety Modernization Act (never got out of committee) but this is an exaggeration. Small farmers, yes would be affected, but not personal gardens. This is bad enough without exaggerating.
Maybe not the feds, but there have been local battles over front yard gardens, even right here in Socal. Zoning is a bitch.
Yes, especially front yards. Assholes
That reminds me of some PA liquor stores back in the days when I lived in PA.
Thank god I live close to MD and don’t have to rely on Fine Wines & Spirits.
people with a complete lack of ambition.
Hey now, I’m not a communist!
PS: I wasn’t able to hit that.
What? Her ideas of socialized property didn’t extend to her stuff (and body)?
That’s only the communists with daddy issues.
Most people refuse to accept that the entire purpose of leftist politics is to permit people to be terrible to each other.
Progressives are, universally, horrible people. This is not a coincidence.
This is what drives me nuts about the current left; they sincerely believe that whatever they are trying to do will work out this time, as their intentions are pure gold. And to be fair this was the feeling on the right went they had the whip hand back in the eighties. But no one ever seems to realize that this road has been gone down before, and is why we have the system that we do. That this is why we have the 1st, why we have the 4th, and so on.
But, it will be different this time. Honest injun.
And when it isn’t – we need to do it harder!!!!
There’s a drooling moron rambling on tv. WTF is wrong with this country? I’m ready for President Harris administration. Fuck it, the camps would be better than this.
I’ve been out in the sunshine enjoying the nearly 70° weather. Some geriatric leftist ain’t gonna ruin my day.
Drizzly and high 40s. Waiting for a solid break in the sprinkles so I can go pick up some drywall sheets. I’m already in a foul mood.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Dopey Joe is far preferable to anyone waiting in the wings. And as he deteriorates, I will get a perverse pleasure in watching the media’s increasingly futile attempts to cover for him.
Agreed. Kamala is as bad as Hillary but in a slightly different way. I dont think she has the contempt for the citizenry that Hillary does but she is a naked sociopath that only seeks power and she will wield it with a heavy hand. I think Hillary really, really wants to punish the deplorables in ways that will make Obama’s efforts to do so seem like a time-out.
I don’t, but only because my father died of Alzheimer’s last year. What the D’s and Frau Doktor Biden are doing with him is unconscionable.
Joe Biden is on the teevee giving a breathy, highly emotional address to the nation about COVID.
I think I prefer the loudmouth, asshole, lunatic style better. And I couldn’t stand to watch that last guy actually speak.
And holee shit are the newsreaders slobbering over Biden’s piece of theater.
I’ve been wanting a cheesesteak for I don’t know how long. Finally had all of the ingredients today.
I ate too many of them, but they were so tasty.
The beef was a roast fed through a deli slicer raw rather than the molded steam-ums style, which does change the texture a bit (and the price more).
You are making me hungry.
Hmmm….it’s carry-out night for dinner, and a local sub chain here has a yummy cheesesteak salad..
What’s the dressing?
Your choice. I usually go for ranch. It’s been a while since I had a real cheesesteak, so I don’t know if something else would be more authentic/appropriate.
I’m sure any philadelphians would say my cheesesteaks aren’t real either.
I used colby jack.
A favorite at Chez GT/TT. It’s the only variety of house brand sliced cheese that comes in “reduced fat.”
Cheese is my weakness, maybe even moreso than chocolate.
I admit it, cheese is on the list of things I try to keep well-stocked at my house, and I’ll let myself run out of almost any food product.
Colby Jack?
Sold.
What cheese did you use? I looked up a few recipes and each one had a choice is cheeses…cheez wiz or (mostly provolone)
I must take issue with this. Cheez wiz is NOT cheese.
I cant imagine that a little sour cream would be a bad addition to any of those recipes.
The whole recipe was:
Onion, bell pepper, and mushroom saute.
soft grider roll.
Shaved beef, salt and pepper, colby jack.
I have to get a deli slicer
Of course, Garland’s top priority is to snuff out the fake insurrection. Never mind the actual leftist insurrection for the past year. Fuck him and the rest of the traitors occupying positions of power.
He’s probably just following orders.
Of course he is but doing so gladly
Then Mai does he Lai well.
If any motherfucker has a chip on his shoulder, it’s this one.
Garland is the type that truly believes in the power and righteousness of DC.
In short, he’s frightening.
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1363224533759574016
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I looked through the TikTok channel referenced in the video.
I think the guy in the video doesn’t like Democrats.
I saw that a few days ago. As he gets more and more addled he is going to start slipping up and saying the worst racist shit you can imagine. Leftists really are raging racists. They are going to have to hide Joe back in the basement or he will have an unfortunate accident. My money is that he has zero chance of making his whole term. Then we are in for Kah-mah-lah ‘we shouldn’t be ordered to release prisoners, the state needs their labor’ Harris, a straight up slaver.
Now that’s funny. I want to buy that guy a beer.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Essay-Houston-is-a-cheap-place-to-live-if-15966458.php
I recall now why I don’t subscribe to the Chronicle any longer. But this essay does bring up a salient point, not the one the editor meant to, but a point nonetheless. It’s easy to get complacent. I’m learning some lessons about being prepared and being responsible for myself and my family that I haven’t had to really think about in the past. I have to make some changes, especially when it comes to being prepared for electrical outages.
I dont think everyone is learning these same lessons. I see a lot of bitching and moaning, of people expecting thr government man to come riding onto the scene to save the day. To me that’s a problem. We voted for a lighter government touch (though not anywhere near as light as this article portrays). We need to be prepared ourselves to take care of our home, family, and to an extent, our neighbors and community. My hope is that these other folks take the lessons to heart and do these things themselves. I dont have high hopes for it though, I think the lesson most of these folks are learning is to pay the government man and never have to worry again. (Until the next disaster comes, the government man leaves you high and dry and you look for the next scapegoat).
Government only ever acts in ways that serve government interests.
No one could make me live in Houston, not even at gunpoint.
“Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It’s a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys…”
Are they trying to get me to move there?
I’m thinking seriously about starting an old fashioned type root cellar. I don’t expect things to get awful here in Idaho, but my ability to see the future has been thoroughly falsified.
Also, since ammo is so hard to come by, I’m thinking about a compound crossbow.
My guess is that bolts will soon be as hard to find as ammo. You arent going to be the only one to think of that.
It’s easier to carve a new bolt than to make a new primer.
Tsk tsk. Not so. You cant use wood to make a bolt for a compound crossbow. They are too powerful and will shatter any wood you try to use.
Primer: remove old anvil, use punch to remove primer dent, use razor blade to remove the phosphorus sulfide from the tip of a self striking match head and crush into powder, put powder in primer cup and replace the anvil. It is a common practice in places where ammo is nearly impossible to get.
Not sure what you’ve been using in terms of wood/crossbow combos, but that’s not been my experience.
Airgun.
Yes, or a good old fashioned recurve bow.
“Government isn’t going save you. The only person who is responsible for you is yourself.” -Dad
I have to make some changes, especially when it comes to being prepared for electrical outages.
Yup, I have some equipment on order that should fill some of the cracks. It would’ve been uncomfortable if we had lost power for days at a time instead of an hour at a time. Not dangerous, just unpleasant. A couple hundo later, and Amazon will be delivering the lamps and heaters required to fix that issue next week.
Always a learning process. Always something to do better.
Oh, and I told all y’all Texans to get a bunch of bottled water not even two weeks ago! I hope y’all listened! ?
Dammit. Son’s high school is going to random surveillance COViD testing. I was afraid they would. Now I’ve got to go toe to toe with them and fight it. So utterly fucking stupid.
In their effort to try to get compliance, they’re going to shut themselves down because of the false positive rate. Idiots.
Yeah, UC Berkeley is forcing kids to stay in their dorm, no exceptions even for exercise. So fucking stupid.
It’s like 100 years of risk management have been tossed out the window.
A nation of bureaucrats