OK, is this theme juvenile enough?
Birthdays today include a screenwriter who was also a damn interesting person; a brilliant and ultimately foolish genius; one of (((us))), one of (((us))); a remarkable cartoon artist who presaged Bob Kane; an immunologist was was everything that The Fooch isn’t; a remarkably over-rated defensive end; an exemplar of Big Science, for better or worse; a guy known for being three of a perfect pair; and last but not least, the guy whose name Winston’s Mom calls out late at night when she’s jilling off.
Next, the results of all those tips.
There’s data. There’s contrary data. Either way, it’s Global Warming. (tip from Playa Manhattan)
So many nice folks in this story. (tip from Heroic Mulatto)
Andy’s not only dead, they’re buggering the corpse. (tip from Warty)
Cry harder, pussy. (tip from SP)
We really should try to be more Scandinavian. (tip from WebDom)
Old Guy Music is another of the endless delights from Roy Haynes. This clip is 50 years old, but “Pop Pop” is still doing concerts today at age 95. I mean, this guy was in Charlie Parker’s band, easily the last survivor of that era. Bonus: Richard Davis on bass, one of my all time favorites and the prof for a jazz history class I took some years back. He’s also still playing, but he’s only 90.
waddup yo
#TallCans
I wonder if Coumo’s going to have have his Emmy revoked. That shit looks especially silly now, kind of like giving someone a Nobel Peace Prize and finding out he’s got a bunch of dismembered hobos buried in his basement.
Being a member of the media means forgetting yesterday even existed
Only if you are a member of the “right” group.
If only that was the worst thing Obama did in eight years.
Or the dude with a Peace Prize sanctioned the extra-judicial killing of an American citizen, and during his last year in office dropped something like 26K lbs of munitions on the mideast, killing upwards of 15K civilians.
Nice prize ya got there, champ,
So many nice folks in this story.
Love how the AP make the mugshot grainy.
“Danish children’s television is not unlike an LSD trip: “Everything is possible in that universe,” he said, loosely quoting a friend, “and people won’t complain about it.”
At least it looks better than Calliou.
According to my model, I need a much bigger budget.
The science is settled.
hHad said that he was open to relationships with women in their 20s — comments she interpreted as clear overtures to a sexual relationship.
Oh youre open to that? What a swell guy you are.
I can only hope Cuomo burns everyone to the ground during his takedown.
Not all of us.
I’m not referring to you. I’m referring to the Democrat party “elites.”
And it burns…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfCOJLRk2D4
Relevant
The media might even take all the rest of his corruption seriously.
Ha, I slay me.
Nothing will happen to Caesar. He knows where too many bodies are buried.
“The First Amendment does not protect those who choose to engage in criminal activity based on hateful beliefs, but a jury of Christopher Cantwell’s peers found he did exactly that, and with today’s sentence he has now been held accountable for his violent threats,” Joseph Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division, said in a statement.
I, uh…
Begum was 15 when she and two other London schoolgirls left Britain to join the caliphate. Her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds in 2019. It’s believed the other two were killed in the fighting.
Something something ’til death do you part.
When is der Michigander Fuhrer getting her Nobel prize for her courage in the face of the “mob” who were doing “white supremacy and misogyny” by asking for their basic natural and constitutional rights to be respected?
If Cuomo can get one in spite of (for?) his ‘Aktion T4’-style geriatricide program, what about Whitler’s unconstrained efforts to grind her beleaguered state’s economy further into dust just to spite Bad Orange Man?
Oh, she got into geriatric as well. There’s some ground-level opposition, but so far her regime is more-or-less stable. Sadly.
sigh *geriatricide
Cuomo doesn’t have a Nobel – yet.
Think they’ll give him a peace prize for actively trying to fix social security?
Old man music great, as always. Speaking of Richard Davis, I was listening to this on my way to the park:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2-oiGMJgM
Elvin kicks major ass on that album!
Elvin was fabulous. Saw him at the Vanguard in the 70’s, leading a sextet with Dave Liebman on reeds and Lew Soloff on trumpet. I’ve never seen anyone as happy as he seemed to be doing his thing. Sheer joy.
“His schlong graffities walls, digs up gardens, lassos a moving caravan, and even coils itself into a bobbing, seaworthy boat—not always with Dillermand’s permission.”
Huh.
The penis. Is there nothing it can’t do?
can’t hide for long (not a euphemism)
as Michael Wilbon says: Father Time’s batting a thousand
+ mushroom stamp
Make grain?
That sounds less offensive than most of the other junk mentioned in that story as typical Danish children’s television fare, to be honest.
Not a darn thing wrong with our usual fare of waffles and turkey sausage patties, but now that I know it exists, I want this for Sunday brunch.
I hope to Yahweh that SP doesn’t see… this.
Just remember your vial of insulin.
“Fong’s Pizza in Des Moines has introduced….”
Thats about all I needed to read.
do get by Bombay Pizza in Houston
You ever try Brother’s Pizzeria? My friends say it’s the best in town, but I have yet to check it out.
Best breakfast pizza I ever had was a little Italian place in downtown Austin. Sat on the patio on a nice spring day, with bottomless mimosas. The thin crust pie had thick cheese, roasted potato chunks breakfast sausage, a light drizzle of country gravy, and 4 sunny side eggs planted right on top.
?
As mentioned last night, there’s at least one place up here that does a brunch pizza with poached eggs, ham, and hollandaise sauce on it.
I love a breakfast pizza. Just drop a few eggs onto the pie about 2 or 3 minutes before it finishes in the oven; the whites will be cooked and the yolks will be perfectly runny.
Another local tops their meat lovers pizza with three eggs. It’s glorious. I checked this morning, and it looks like the hangover pizza has been pulled off the menu during this, our time of Covid Crisis.
You’d think folks would need the hangover pizza “now more than ever!”
Petulant footstamping children
House progressives may delay Congress in passing Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package—which includes the highly-anticipated $1,400 relief checks—to keep the $15 minimum wage hike in the sprawling bill.
Progressive lawmakers on Friday warned Democratic leadership that they could withhold their vote for the legislation if the Senate removes the wage increase. Their opposition could send the package back to be renegotiated, which would further stall the passing of the bill.
“There are progressive Democrats that have that muscle in the House. If we as a party decide to stand down on our promise of elevating the minimum wage, I think that’s extraordinarily spurious and it’s something that as a party we could have a further conversation about how to fight for it,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, after suggesting that progressives should pressure party leaders by withholding their votes in the same way that moderate Democrats have done in opposing the package.
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Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, indicated to reporters that Democrats could lose support from progressives if they fail in finding a way to include the wage hike.
“I don’t think we can go back to voters and say, ‘Look, I know Republicans, Democrats, independents support this; we promised it, but because of an unelected parliamentarian who gave us a ruling, we couldn’t do it,'” she said. “There’s a lot of great things in the package, but if it’s watered down, that’s a whole different issue. So we just have to see what it ends up as.”
Either we get what we want, or we hold our breath until we turn blue. That’s what DEMOCRACY! means.
Maybe one of them will self-immolate on the Capitol steps, in protest. I’ve got my fingers crossed.
“Gimmie my check.”
/the only reaction you’ll get from 95% of any of the Americans who are even paying attention to this stuff
Apparently, with the Parliamentarian’s ruling, any one senator can now now strip the minimum wage increase out of the bill just by stating so. There is no way it will be kept.
Some Dems are now proposing they use tax manipulation instead so it falls within the budget, same as Obamacare. Roberts will fall over himself in the rush to uphold it.
I can’t remember the exact numbers but it’s something like large employers (over 500 employees) will have to pay a tax of 5% of their revenue if the minimum wage at their company isn’t at least $15.
EVERYBODY supports this but they can’t get 60 votes. Got it.
So much this. Just like Biden’s bullshit the bill is widely supported.
Sure. He doesn’t know anybody who is against it.
Spurious isn’t the word you want there, sweetheart.
Jayapal has pushed for Harris to overrule MacDonough. While the vice president has authority to override the parliamentarian’s decision, she is not expected to do so.
Nothing says DEMOCRACY! like total commitment to Rule-by-Decree.
(Recycled from yesterday)
Charles Darwin: Strange new *dis*respect?
“…I’m angry with him and don’t want to give him a part of me”
https://www.dw.com/en/what-darwins-descent-of-man-got-wrong-on-sex-and-race-and-why-it-matters/a-56661400
Beating up on dead people that lived 10’s if not 100’s of years ago? Those assholes should seek help.
If the book is as shallow and content-free as the review, it’s not worth reading.
I’m particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech.
Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish…it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age!
Admittedly, I’m of average intelligence and I am a bit muggled, but I’ve read that article three times and can’t for the life of figure out what they think Darwin got wrong. It was all moralizing and handwringing about social justice twaddle.
You perfectly understood it.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/28/970877930/why-republicans-are-moving-to-fix-elections-that-werent-broken
“Rather than celebrate the massive voter turnout that we saw, they want to dial that back,” said Charlie Sykes, a writer and conservative talk show host. He left the Republican party, and was ostracized, after he criticized Trump.
That is a loopy alternate reality that NPR inhabits.
That’ll learn him
Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, tweeted on Friday that Biden should “ensure that repercussions for the brutal murder of Khashoggi go beyond those who carried it out, to the one who ordered it.”
“The Crown Prince has blood on his hands. The blood of an American resident and journalist. We must have accountability,” Schiff wrote. He also told CNN that Biden should “shun” the crown prince.
Maybe I’m a monster, but I’m a lot more concerned about how “dissidents” in this country are treated, these days.
Try bin Salman in absentia for conspiracy to improperly dispose of human remains and fine him two hundred bucks.
https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-arizona-discrimination-lawsuits-voting-rights-c9ab7a4b332667f2858936f5cc133748
“The high court’s consideration comes as Republican officials in the state and around the country have proposed more than 150 measures, following last year’s elections, to restrict voting access that civil rights groups say would disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic voters.”
They always say that! About everything!
“restrict voting access”
Yes, like requiring proof of residence and ID. I guess that does restrict access. But supposedly black and hispanic voters just can’t figure out how to get IDs. Luckily civil rights groups, who could spend their time helping them get IDs, are spending it instead making sure they don’t need one to vote (although they sure as hell need one to buy a gun).
“Civil rights groups think that Black and Hispanic voters are too stupid to figure out how to vote.”
/if AP were honest
Disenfranchisement
Another bill, SB 67, would strengthen ID requirements to request an absentee ballot. The sponsor, state Sen. Larry Walker, argues that 97 percent of voters have the necessary identification; he told NPR it’s a basic reform as mail voting expands. But Democratic Sen. David Lucas said some voters would be disenfranchised, and in a tearful speech on the Senate floor he told his Republican colleagues: “Every one of these election bills is [because] the election didn’t turn out the way you wanted, and you want to perpetuate the lie that Trump told.”
If your majority is so legitimate and overpowering, why are you so terrified of stronger voter ID rules? They would keep illegitimate Trump votes out out of the count, too.
I read that as Bob Crane and went digging for salacious tales of Caniff’s tawdry sexual adventures.
I misread it as the guy who created the Family Circus.
Lois
Prolly would
Jugsy hardest hit.
http://www.nietzschefamilycircus.com/
Not me!
Myrna Pérez of the Brennan Center describes “a very discernible and disturbing pattern” to reduce mail-in balloting — for example, by adding requirements to request a ballot or changing the rules for drop boxes. She described the bills as “attacks on methods of participation that had been used by older, white voters for a very, very long time.”
Mail-in balloting is only questioned now, Pérez said, because non-white voters have taken advantage of it. “There was very little attempt to hide the racialized nature” of the attacks on mail balloting in 2020, she said, noting that Trump allies constantly claimed corruption in big diverse cities such as Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit.
Racism. Got it.
I love the current use of “diverse” to describe cities that are predominantly mono-racial. But only if that race isn’t white or yellow.
O RLY
Is there some reason “Mass inoculation sites” are not considered potential “sooperspradder events”?
Because those people are together for the right reason. You know – like last summer’s “mostly peaceful protests.”
“sooperspradder events”
What, like, Debby does Dallas?
The local one here (my wife went to due to her status as a healthcare worker) she said was actually really well put together with multiple locations in an arena with adequate distancing. It wasn’t some large overwhelming crowd. But that is just one instance.
Scandinavian
NewWife is of mostly Norwegian extraction, but, even though my favorite client ever is Swedish, I’ve never been north of, say, a Dublin-Krakow latitude.
As America is becoming, western Europe has been a very mixed bag for a long time. I watch it like I watch California: what terrible idea and unexpected consequences will they douse themselves with next. Europe is my soap opera of a sort.
Get to the point! I recommend a couple of series.
Occupied is set in Norway and is a bit fantastic, but the politics and cultural tidbits are spot on. Every character is so reasonable, calm, and self-assured, but why would essentially rich people carry themselves any other way; what’s funny to a libertarian is how Norway has a Department of Fucking Everything. So there’s money for everything, a bureaucrat for everything, a cop in charge of everything, and very decent characters slowly and calmly and politely running this and that by the PM, getting approval from the supreme court, updating parliament, etc etc . . . money and time for everything. There’s some good old militia tidbits to get your Glib motor running, but I watch it for culture. And I’m fascinated by how easy it is to pick up the language: tak is dead center between thanks and danke, and, while I’m no expert, it seems like Norsk is closer to English than hoch Deutsch.
The Investigation has been picked up by HBO: apparently the real story of the Kim Wall investigations, a thing I had never heard of. Again, they have the rich, slow government approach to everything, and everything is polite and checking in with the mayor and deferring to strict and, in many ways, very attractive approaches to defendants’ rights.
The other thing that is so European and more than a little desirable is how most bigotries are so long gone. Various racial traces show up, but, as long as you pay your taxes, no one cares at all that you’re a octoroon or even black as midnight amongst all these towering, melanin-deficient types. Women discharge their jobs without a hint of sexual tension or notice: cops, managers, whatever . . . everything so natural and modern and foregone that only an American would remark upon it.
Last, of course: everyone’s skinny. I could lose a few, but it’s too early for GlibUnFit moaning yet. They’re so much more comfortable and mobile and look fantastic in clothes. So the actors aren’t devastatingly beautiful or handsome, but they really are attractive in a way that almost every American has lost by 14.
Most bigotries are so long gone….
Not true in Europe other than on TV. Just like US TV advertising shows so many multiracial families. See, for example, soccer games with fans throwing bananas on the field. Last time I was at a conference in Germany, all PhD s, I heard more blatant racism than I had ever heard before, even when working for a construction company in Texas. It was directed at Turks not blacks.
I assumed Don was being facetious.
You’d think the constant bombardment of “anti-racism” messages at soccer matches would have accomplished something by now – you know, except the opposite of its supposed intent.
Oh I know what you mean. None of us intends to paint with a broad brush. And, in terms of progress, it’s just as easy to make the same generic claims about the US.
I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea what soccer fans think about anything . . . and that might matter tremendously.
“it seems like Norsk is closer to English than hoch Deutsch.”
Hint: It wasn’t the continental Germans who colonized the British Isles…
-1 Angles and Saxons
The Norse contribution to English is minimal compared to Germanic.
Norse IS Germanic.
It’s closer because the Norse changed the language dramatically hundreds of years after the Angles became Anglo-Saxon English. The Norse ruled parts of England for 200 years.
When evolution happened in English during the time of the Norse, it happened because they changed it. Those changes happened from North to South. It went on this way until the Normans.
True. I meant Germany-Germanic 🙂
I watch a Youtube channel of a young lady that lives on Svalbard, and she often speaks Swedish to her dog. It sounds remarkably like English.
Sure it was.
At least in the 400-550 period.
After that it was the Norse.
……gratuitous flatulence, cursing, casual nudity, or cross-dressing puppets.
Sounds like a Glibs Zoom happy hour.
We’re thinking of a number
President Joe Biden on Friday restored an Obama-era calculation on the economic cost of greenhouse gases, a step that will make it easier for his agencies to approve aggressive actions to confront climate change.
But the administration stopped short, for now, of boosting the cost figure to higher levels that economists and climate scientists say are justified by new research.
The interim figure — $51 for every ton of carbon released into the atmosphere — is well above the $8 cost used under former President Donald Trump, who declined to factor the global impacts of climate pollution into his calculation. It’s on par with a price based on analyses undertaken between 2010 and 2016 under former President Barack Obama, whose administration was first to calculate the figure known as the social cost of carbon.
The price point is temporary. A new Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases is required to issue a final number by January.
“A more complete update that follows the best science takes time. This is why we are quickly restoring the prior estimates as an interim step,” Heather Boushey, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, wrote in a blog post.
1) Pull number out of ass
2) Conjure SCIENCE-y post hoc justification for number
3) ?
4)
Profit$6/gal gasoline!Oh, somebody’s profiting.
But that gasoline will be sold by the “Biden New-Gallon” to make it sound cheaper. Rejoice citizen!
More concentrated so more energy in every cup. Will be far superior to the old Trump gas.
The gallon, like a Snickers bar, will just get smaller.
Referendum: revert to the imperial gallon, a full 4.5 liters!
Add more ethanol, make farmers much happier.
Don’t hear much about that anymore but surely the program needs expanding and done right.
The social cost of carbon is an effort to quantify the economic and societal damage from greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. The figure will be baked into the administration’s number-crunching on the costs and benefits of a wide array of regulations.
Externalities!
Economists and environmentalists had pushed the Biden administration to fundamentally change the climate modeling that’s used to calculate social costs in ways that would increase the figure and thereby make federal approval of fossil fuel projects harder to justify.
No shit, Shirley?
My friend from Maine is on board a private plane bound for Sloan Kettering. THAT’S how you kick some cancer ass! Or ass cancer, as it were.
Spring must be here, I’ve seen my first chipmunk (fat and very unhappy) and first rabbit. Non spring-related, but I’ve had the largest flock of turkeys yet mosey through the backyard (thirteen) this morning. I should enjoy watching the wildlife while I can — I imagine there will be a lot les of it once the pup gets here.
Interestingly enough, the squirrels were treating the turkeys as if they were a threat.
Squirrels sure are fun little bastards. You grease the bird feeder pole yet?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powermoneywomen.com%2Fsgvirals%2Fsquirrel-having-a-really-bad-day&psig=AOvVaw3rT1_IhnxpJFJLzAm3yssW&ust=1614611741258000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAMQjRxqFwoTCMj4sczvjO8CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
My yard is full of crocuses. Lots of purple, a few yellow, but so far no white ones. I blame the squirrels
Joan can go pound sand with her daily 7″
“Pound.” Heh.
Is Foochy an employee of NBC? He’s on every fucking week.
WE’RE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS! CLING TO YOUR FEAR! BE AFRAID!
Herd Immunity?
No such thing, apparently. Only vaccines (and Public Health Expertism) will save us.
“Only vaccines (and Public Health Expertism) will save us.”
And masks. Don’t forget the masks. (as if there was any way you could at this point)
Sherrod Brown:
Free munny is bipartisan! Everybody loves free munny!
Ohio is not sending its best and brightest to DC.
But is she wrong?
Point of order: he.
And no, but TANSTAFL.
Income inequality!
Structural racism!
America is a shithole!
Fap fap fap!
I have recently been experimenting with a recipe for buckwheat crepes (for the low glycemic index). It is basically one part buckwheat flour, one part almond milk, one part egg, with dark cacao powder and stevia to keep it from being too bitter.
The topping has either been a) plain yoghurt with chopped strawberries, or b) one stripe of sugarless hazelnut-chocolate spread and one stripe of sugarless peanut butter.
Would you prefer a) or b)?
a, as long as it’s full fat yoghurt.
Yeah, sorry I wasn’t clear. Has to be full-fat yoghurt.
I would need to try both, several times each, before being able to render an informed decision. They sound great either way.
Yup – that’s where I am right now. Just looking for input on other possible variations.
b) – it’s a (relatively guilt-free) Reese’s crepe!
…now that you mention it, I hadn’t realized that.
In this case the peanut butter is home-made. I just threw a bunch of plain peanuts into a food processor and held the button down until I had peanut butter. Too easy.
A. Maybe some lemon zest too?
Sweet crepe Breton? Sacre bleu!
Yup. That’s where this was inspired. The fact that buckwheat is the flour used for Japanese Soba noodles and thus available here was only one stepping stone to where I am now.
Six trillion dollars? Only six trillion.
Why so skinflinty, America?
Just don’t call it propaganda
The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously approved paying six social media influencers to spread city-approved messaging and updates throughout the upcoming murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged in George Floyd’s death. On Friday, the council approved $1,181,500 for communication with the community during the trial, CBS Minnesota reports.
The city says social media partners will help dispel potential misinformation, and that the influencers will intentionally target Black, Native American, Somali, Hmong and Latinx communities with their messaging. Each influencer will be paid $2,000.
The goal is to “increase access to information to communities that do not typically follow mainstream news sources or City communications channels and/or who do not consume information in English,” the Minneapolis City Council said in a statement. “It’s also an opportunity to create more two-way communication between the City and communities.”
Sounds legit. If an internet influencer says it (on behalf of the government) you can take it straight to the bank.
Post the influencers in front of Target, pay them with a debit card and save time.
I’ve been assured that not slavishly listening to MSM is a sure sign of white supremacy.
That’s the Prime Minister of Canada? He sounds like a barely competent second grade teacher.
I’ve somehow missed the link that you’re referring to, but yes, The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ does sound like that — or, more correctly, he sounds exactly like what he was in his last full-time job before becoming a parliamentarian and eventually the PM of Canada: a snowboard instructor.
Take another hit on that bong before you talk to the media yet again, Justin baby.
Ha ha. Americans only elected our own Beta O’Rourke to Congree.
Troubling
“Over the last few weeks, cases and hospital admissions in the United States had been coming down since early January, and deaths had been declining in the past week, but the latest data suggests that these declines may be stalling, potentially leveling off at still a very high number,” she said in a briefing.
I can’t help wondering how those new numbers compare with a normal flu year.
An interesting article positing why the COVID diagnoses and deaths are falling:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-new-covid-cases-are-crashing
“ Well, on January 13th the WHO published a memo regarding the problem of asymptomatic cases being discovered by PCR tests, and suggesting any asymptomatic positive tests be repeated.
This followed up their previous memo, instructing labs around the world to use lower cycle thresholds (CT values) for PCR tests, as values over 35 could produce false positives.”
I was already thinking this and it conforms to my presuppositions (not to mention it’s likely to be right) so I’m going to go with this, probably in combination with a number of other factors like seasonality and partial herd immunity through both infection and vaccination starting to rear its head.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!
On the global warming horseshit, I’ve said it before and I’ll place a steak dinner for anyone who cares to put the wager out a decade, but the planet is going to get colder – much colder – in the coming decades. The Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain has a model that appears to accurately capture our sun’s internal cycles (the paper uses the words ‘double dynamo’ to describe two separate cycles within the sun’s core). Unlike the AGW frauds, the RAS ran their model backwards against the known temp record and got remarkably accurate results. Not long after the paper came out, the RAS was attacked publicly by the Cultists because they didn’t include AGW in their calculations and they had to issue some mea culpa and acknowledge the Supremacy of the AGW God. I wouldn’t care about the grifters and morons in the AGW cult, or the fact that they have it exactly backwards (as the commies always seem to), it’s that they’re flirting with the destruction of the human race by trying to drive the CO2 in the atmosphere further DOWN in pursuit of their grift. We’re at about 417 PPM right now. “LOWEST IN HUMAN HISTORY!!11!!1!!! AAAHHHHHHH!!1!1!!” Except anyone who’s grown weed or anything else commercially knows that plants thrive in the 1200 PPM range or so – that’s why greenhouses have CO2 pumped into them. All LIFE on Earth depends upon plants and the miracle of photosynthesis. All plant life ceases at about 150 PPM. If these fuckheads get us below 200 PPM, ALL of US – everything organic on Earth – will be fucked beyond repair.
From AGW to Muh Racism to PANDEMIC to Economics to, well, everything, the commie-socialist grifters not only never get it right – they get it exactly the polar opposite of reality. A stunning bit of coincidence, that.
“A stunning bit of coincidence, that.”
I dunno. Anybody who believes that a human society can progress based on the expectation of the average level of altruism to produce everything it requires, rather than the assumption that everybody will put in to the system to the degree that they can get out of it, is not only deluded but more probably evil but counting on profiting from the former.
Even if the planet doesn’t get cooler, our homes surely will. Cost of green energy will insure that. Remembering Carter’s attempts to make us uncomfortable via the thermostat wasn’t welcome in most houses.
My elderly neighbor said she was going to keep her thermostat at 75, when all the propane was gone she would rather freeze quickly than space it out longer with the Carter rules.
I view being able to control my thermostat and being able to afford to be comfortable as one of those things that seriously contributes to my happiness. Anyone that threatens that is my enemy. I’m not kidding.
Jerry Brown did something like that in his first go-round as Governor. He had all the state buildings set their thermostats to 65* to lower energy usage, which worked on the first day. On the second day, every state worker brought a space heater to work and ended up using twice the energy.
It’s Malthusians riding turtles all the way down.
I can only conclude at this stage that that’s the point. They are literally a death cult.
Holy crap! I just got my new property tax estimate. My taxes are up 11%. I will be paying more than $6500 on a less than 1400 square foot house. I gotta move.
I’m paying about half that on a house that’s about the same size. And I live in an area that’s considered to have high property taxes (for CLE).
Yeah, metoo, even less in over taxed MN. I look at tax vs assessed value, we’re paying about 2/3 of a percent of assessed value.
Good lord. Where are you, Tulip.
Fuckin Virginia. I once wrote a letter to our State rep, asking her to look into putting a cap on real estate taxes like they have in other states. I got a reply about the transportation bill. I hate politicians.
I’m in VA too. It depends where you live.
We pay $400/year for a 2800 sq ft house, a garage/workshop big enough for 4 cars, and 30 acres of land. I think our bill increased this year by ten dollars or so to ~$410.
Yeah, the bill is from the county. But restricting real estate taxes (most states restrict it to increasing by no more than a certain % per year) would be at the state level.
Tulip – come to SD with me!
Right, I’m just pointing out that Nova is more similar to NJ than the rest of VA. Get out of that shithole and real estate taxes are fairly low elsewhere in the state (Richmond and Tidewater excepted).
Of course Nova voters are seeking to remake the entire state in the image of NJ, so I doubt that I’ll be safe from those tax levels for much longer.
Crap-a-rino. Tulip’s taxes are higher than mine and I’ve got a decent sized lot, a pool, and a almost 3000 sq foot house.
Sobs
My tax estimate is sitting on my table, unopened. Now I’m afraid.
Our property tax bill arrives in October with a Nov 15 due date. Paying taxes right before an election does squat to dissuade the voters from increasing property tax levies and other increases.
Less than 1/2 that on a house 3x the size sitting on 5 acres.
Holy crap! I just got my new property tax estimate. My taxes are up 11%. I will be paying more than $6500 on a less than 1400 square foot house. I gotta move.
Godfrey Daniel!
CPAC
Cult of TRUMP!
Sheep!
Losers!
*not mentioned: Republican strength at state and local level.
Made a starter yesterday, and just mixed up dough for chewy crusty dinner rolls. King Arthur calls them “Crusty European-Style Rolls”. I call them “24-Hour Dinner Rolls”. I’m going to try them in the toaster oven.
Went to the bike store yesterday to pick up some new shorts since my ass got fat over the winter. Or more specifically, traditional shorts bite me in the gut and I’m switching to the bib style to avoid the issue.
While I’m there I notice they have a cobblestone bike in my size which is somewhat unusual (58). My bike is 30 years old so I’m like “Ok, can’t hurt to try it, just for fun”
It was like the difference between a Model T and a Porsche. Wow.
Unfortunately, I can’t swing the $7K price tag.
’86 Trek here
with ’65 gut
The Model-T was designed so the average Joe could buy one.
That was never a design criterion for any Porsche.
True, but they made the 911 safer and more predictable so the average Joe could drive them.
Yeah yeah… whatever man
Thankfully, I’ve got shorts from when I was both fatter and thinner. So I’m set for a while.
I will admit to having some “aspirational” jerseys that have been hanging up since last spring.
I used to have enough muscle in the midsection to wear the traditional shorts comfortably. Now they just give me a muffin top.
Oh well…
“Andy’s not only dead, they’re buggering the corpse. (tip from Warty)”
Cuomo is scum, but that’s pretty weak stuff. I mean, he didn’t even try to grab them by the pussy.
“Cry harder, pussy. (tip from SP)”
No worries, Chiney Jo will let her come here.
Gonna’ smash into this giant cinnamon roll at breakfast this morning. https://twitter.com/egould310/status/1366059927869947908?s=21
Bacon, eggs, coffee and that monster.
Don’t forget your insulin.
The justification for BNSF’s Maltby Turn suddenly becomes clear.
Was curious and discovered it was discontinued 14 years ago. Wtf?
That thing looks scrumptious. This place was a childhood favorite, cinnamon rolls and the best strawberry milkshakes on Earth. http://www.knausberryfarm.com/index.html
If ever in SW OH and can make your way to the Miami U campus in Oxford, be sure to stop in at the student union and indulge in a longtime local tradition, the Tuffy’s toasted roll.
After the dancing links last night, I went back and looked at some of my favorite dancers from all styles.
Here’s two of the best legs in the world. She’s Russian, of course….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWVeWRoYwqU
She’s Ukrainian. Or at least, her name is.
Born in Russia on the Ukrainian border. I probably know too much about her, but she’s phenomenal.
What this country needs is more prissy sanctimonious schoolmarming
Sasse sees the party’s efforts to condemn him as the latest act of performative outrage in American politics. He wishes he could do more to explain to Republicans that promoting and protecting Trump is not what being a conservative means: “You can’t redefine conservatism to mean conspiracy theorism.”
“I’d like to persuade more people,” Sasse said. “We should be trying to be able to explain a Madisonian view of conservatism: limited government, the First Amendment, local community is primary.”
With the former president out off office, albeit still exerting serious influence, Sasse now has that opportunity as one of the most prominent anti-Trump politicians in a party that lacks a clear leader. He said he would help Republicans take the Senate back but is looking for “candidates that want to do something more than Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
Before long, Sasse will certainly be in the presidential mix for Republicans seeking to turn the page on Trump.
“He’d be a great candidate,” said Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who is retiring next year and mentored Sasse as a senator. “I would just caution that 2024 is a lifetime away. And you don’t know where he positions himself relative to the field, if he does run.”
“He’s the kind of guy that gets deep into the weeds,” said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who voted to convict Trump. “He has a very important and constructive voice for the party.”
Ben Sasse should be the new face of the Republican Party. We need his kind of preening bipartisan doubletalk. A 21st century Neville Chamberlain.
Gun Grabber Pat can fuck right off, along with Alan Gottlieb and his sensible gun control.
“I’d like to persuade more people,” Sasse said. “We should be trying to be able to explain a Madisonian view of conservatism: limited government, the First Amendment, local community is primary.”
It’s possible to support this viewpoint without succumbing to TDS. See Rand for example. It’s such a ridiculous notion that any politician who voted to impeach Trump based on his speech is a proponent of limited government and the first amendment.
Like the other RINOs and Rockerfeller Republicans before them, they mouth words but desperately crave to be worshipped as center left “statesmen” while compromising in only one direction.
More red necks in the mist? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/dining/two-refrigerators.html?smid=url-share
LOL, there it is.
Never change, The New York Times.
When I was a kid, the second fridge was in the garage and it was often a lower class sort of thing. A separate freezer without fridge was a more middle class thing.
For drinkin’ beer and gettin’ away from the ball’n’chain, right?
Yup.
My dad and uncles called that ‘the beer fridge’.
I do love the labeling of the history professor as “Dr King”, while leaving off the same for her father. Incidentally, what kind of medical clinic does he run that requires patients to come from long distances and can’t stop at a Denny’s? Does the NYT think they still use horse drawn wagon trains there?
do they cover garage temps? standard fridges don’t last long in the garage and chew up some electricity in the summer
/HVACR is fun guy
We unplug ours in the winter and just use it for drinks.
My great-grandmother kept a fridge on the back porch that was always filled with drinks and treats for us kids. It was an olde timey beast, with coils on the top and a latching handle, the outside festooned with decades of Easter Seals stickers.
SiL keeps a proper Glaat Kosher kitchen; she has 2 fridges and 2 freezers in the kitchen and another one of each in a side room.
Ahhh, the death traps! I remember campaigns to get rid of them in years gone past and it wasn’t for energy efficiency.
Yeah, that was huge thing when I was a kid, there were often filmstrips at school warning of the death that awaited any child who climbed in one while playing at the dump.
Ersatz preppers with 2 deep freezers without backup generators are ersatz.
How about one 72″ SubZero?
You know the copywriter knew exactly what he was doing with that Joan Crawford quote.
The same thing with the Leave it to Beaver writers with their in-jokes. People just didn’t start being crude 20 years ago.