The Return
18 years, out and and back at High Gee, we found the planet, surveyed it, and sent the data back to Mars, by the time we get back, the colony ships will be halfway there.I dream of my sweet Gwendolen, in stasis back home, we may be forty when we meet, but we will be rich.
I get a call from the first mate, an old friend and even older sailor, telling me we have a problem on Mars, and what may that be, I ask? “Mars is gone” is his answer…….
Setting a fast course to Mars involves an Earth flyby, so we set course, as We rounded the planet there was a soft voice in the back of my mind calling to me, stay, as we left Earth’s gravity well I couldn’t escape the voice.
“On station Sir” I heard but wasn’t really thinking about much more than the devastation below, our Planet, 500 years to build, independent, an entire planet, gone, who did this?
(memory access, date, 2211)
After the CCP blew up enough satellites that we Couldn’t launch, creating an almost impenetrable barrier to space, Elon kept flying, losing one in twenty Marsliners, better than any government, and Mars was reborn, as an independent colony. After the War of 2105, the Earth had had enough, a small SMOD came down in The English Channel, and Albion was finally lost, to the sea.
(close access)
“Do we go down?” I’m not sure, or ready to see, but I set the coordinates for Gwen’s stasis Unit, and after a moment’s hesitation we head in to atmosphere, Damn I wish we had Buffeting Tech in these old machines, the Atmo stresses the hell out of this old bird, but we’ll be fine..
“Skimmers out Sir!” as I climb into the lead boat, the silence is deafening, my city, gone!
Of course the Stasis building still stands, it was built that way, so it’s part of the story, anyway,
As I approach I hear a voice, help me, please, is that Gwen? Or am I mad, losing your planet can do that you know. As I search through the rubble, I find what’s left of her chamber, her Dead inside, and weep.
All these years gone,
Wasted as fairy tales,
Of lives never lived,
And dreams not shared,
Nuclear Winter had closed all but Kazakhstan,Boca Chica and of all places Auckland, we chose Palmdale, hoping for civilization, and a place to rest. We soon found out that the bikers had overrun the town, so we launched, maybe you could say greyer pastures, at this point we are lost, the Belt? Maybe they won’t blow us out of the sky, I won’t risk it. We don’t have the Fuel or time for Centauri Proxima, so we are stuck in this Gravity well, what to do? I decided the Cylinder at L5 would do and we set off, when something strange appeared on scope.
The Chase
Damned if it didn’t look like that thing from the old Kubrick movie from the 20th C, remember? The one with the monkeys who took over the Earth? God I love those old movie chips, I digress,
“Sensors, what the hell is that thing?” “Dunno Sir, we can only detect it through the IR spectrum, and hot for a Black body, lot’s of energy in it I’ll bet” I turned away as he stated the obvious, and plotted the things course, turns out it was headed to the same place as us, so we make chase.
We matched course and speed, keeping out of what we thought was sensor range, and waited, and at this rate it would be two and a half weeks before we even get into signal range to warn L5, then the shit hit the fan. “Captain, they are painting us” Damn it! “Any weapons systems detected?” as if we could tell, “not that I’m aware of” I walked to the forward port and sat down for a smoke, and some thought, my crew knows what they are doing, calm, cool and efficient.
I woke up under emergency lighting, aching from the increased gravity, What the Hell? “First Officer, what’s our status?” “ not quite sure Cap, I need to stop this infernal spin, and we are accelerating” I pick myself up and get into a grav chair,”get it done First, and would someone tell me where we are pointed?”Sensors pops up cheerily, too cheerily with, “oh, that’s easy Cap, we are on an impact course with Tycho City”
To be continued,
WTF?
“Skimmers out Sir!” as I climb into the lead boat,
Oil spill?
Land skimmers, it’s called Space Opera,
Ok, I am going to need a dictionary for this.
Sci fi reading is a large Thesaurus, beware!
I’m just messing with you. Thanks for the post.
I know Bro, I’m doing the same, you old Fuck!
That was fun. Read it in David Bowie’s voice.
Ground Control to Major Bob.
Take your protein pills and put your helmet ob.
Ob? What the hell is an “ob”? Who’s writing this crap?!?!
i’m writing it, but ob? I can’t say,
Audio tales? I can do Bowie, sounds intriguing,
“I can do Bowie”
You’ll have to fight Mo for first dibs.
I am Bowie, she gets first dibs,
And they work at the factory doing the double stuff.
https://twitter.com/Oreo/status/1365038991469281280
Wut?
I’m just being transfatphobic.
Curses. Too slow.
Oreos
I can’t be objective about Streisand because she’s such an insufferable piece of work, but I think she’s overrated.
She sounded downright flat in that piece.
She had a legitimately lovely voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWX_LO84UgY
I don’t care for her politics, but her early work was beautiful.
My older bro had a bunch of her records so I have a soft spot for some of that stuff. I liked her “Life on Mars” long before I knew it was a cover.
I never considered it until now, but is it unusual to have two or more gay kids? I can’t think of anyone I’ve known or any famous examples right off the bat.
LOL my three brothers are straight but nice try.
As for your question, multiple gays are more common than you might think. I’ve seen it many times – including one example of three gay brothers.
Also, an aside – gays are often the youngest child. I’ve seen that so often that I think there’s gotta be something to it.
My FIL had two gay brothers. They were apparently much older than him, but one raised him after his parents passed.
I continue to be amazed at Ted’s command of obscure music.
All their trans are skinny.
They’re going back to trans fat?
I am more smug than ever in my preference for Hydrox. Suck it, Oreo.
Wow, such racist language.
Hydrox cookies were discontinued quite some time ago, and supposedly the new formulation isn’t like the original Hydrox at all.
RIP Sunshine Biscuits.
Figures.
So you missed both the Lady Gaga and Rainbow Oreos?
Next thing you are going to tell me you live in Bay Ridge with your wife and two kids 😉
Yeah, now that being gay isn’t an advantage any more I might as well give up the pretense.
*scratches crotch, belches*
Ah, Mars. We hardly knew ye.
I like the premise! Keep the installments coming!
I shall, if TPTB make it so, thanks!
Tucker has been on a rant roll.
Link?
Sorry, wife has it on live. His commentary segment has been extremely snarky.
Reality is so fucking stupid lately you’d think it was custom-written for him.
Now he’s going after that warmonger Cheney. Attack! Attack!
War.
Next up, Iran.
Can Tycho City be far behind?
It’s a Tarp!
/you been reading ahead?
If we must, then why not them?
Except the Persians I met are cool as Fuck,
Persian ladies?
*waggles eyebrows*
Persians are not Iranians…at least from what I gathered from my wife’s former boss when she worked in dental.
About half the people living in Iran are Persian, not the mullahs, those are Shiite Muslim assholes.
Well, the mullahs aren’t really Persian, they’re just the chosen oppressors of the Persians.
Probably the most libertarian person I’ve met in the past 2 decades at one of my current clients, was Iranian. I can tell you that his opinion of the mullahs is not good. I’ll leave it at that because I can’t fit enough swear words on this here blog.
It’s all a “proportionate military response” according to DoD.
It’s what we do, Straff. Kill people. Lots of people.
Well it appears we just did in Syria. Bombing an Iranian backed militia should have noooooo long term effect.
We could bomb an AQ group instead- but they’re the ones we’re supporting.
Yes, I’m reading Horton.
HF we are screwed up
Are we waiting for some pretense to accidentally on purpose bomb the Russian advisors and their puppets?
Well, fuck, that didn’t take long.
I expect the leftist anti-war contingent will join me in protesting this aggression by the USA.
Guys? Guys? Hello? Is anybody here?
It has already been spun as a measured and proper response.
I’m sure they’ll be here soon. Probably whipping up a few papier-mâché protest figures.
Any time now…
I am sure Psaki will circle back on this one
ahem. Not war. Disciplined reactionary response with measured goals of de-escalating the tension. /CNN
Straight outa the Obama/Bush playbook.
This fookin’ prick! He aint got no original ideas. I guess 48 years as a politician does that to a person.
Although I think this decision may destroy the Biden Presidency, it still makes me so sad. I don’t really have much room to get any sadder, TBH.
LOL. What’s gonna destroy the Biden presidency is when he has a full on stroke and there ain’t no faking it anymore.
Yeah, does he even know about the airstrike yet?
Mr. Mojeaux: So we’re going to war again.
Me: Of course.
Mr. Mojeaux: Oh, you know about it already?
Me: No, but I knew it was coming.
Gwendy, you’re a fine girl. What a good wife you’ll be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTqTE7aNjZQ
Close, but not quite,
Quite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdN8sAhvw0
Just knew it would be that. Not sure why, but just knew.
Because I’m fucking predictable?
Predictable?
Great update by ADV China in the weekly podcast. COVID highlights start around 30 min. Worth a watch/listen with the details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTCW0p62ZSE
I’m going OT to complain: Where the fuck does the monocle link keep disappearing to? The sidebar link doesn’t work and in the recent guide to Glibs post, that embed is not found.
I want a flawless Glibs experience, damn it!!
*Glibsperience
Found it in the forum. Thanks for nothing you pikers!
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gxxw-pUivo“>Tanks for nuttin!
Good one! We must be around the same age because you post a lot of shit I relate to. 50ish?
“Oh God, dat’s all I neeeeed!!! I don’t wanna get married, Danny!”
I used to do Maggie’s lines to great laughter from friends.
It was archived somewhere so the link is broke. Trashy might have it handy.
we chose Palmdale, hoping for civilization
From what I’ve heard, that’s a bit of wishful thinking.
/brother works in Palmdale
Fuck Gamestop. I’m going long on Raytheon.
Hehe.
Jen Psaki
@jrpsaki
Also what is the legal authority for strikes? Assad is a brutal dictator. But Syria is a sovereign country.
11:27 AM · Apr 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/850173258540474368
oh FFS!
Wrong answer Saki lady! You were supposed to say, that Assad is a bad dude, after firing both barrels in the air as a warning, I had to shoot him. At least I shot him in the legs.
Oh, and I took him out back of the gymnasium and shot him there!
We should have just parachuted in guys with chains.
Nice callback…like it will matter, but still a good reminder of how their principles are what they say they are. There are five lights.
“”First and foremost, the first pilot who launched the airstrike is a non-white trans woman.”
snerk
She’s circling back so furiously, she’s about to go full circle.
Everybody knows you never go full circle.
Aha! That…I see that…
LockMart!
Before the 2020 election I suspected a “return to normalcy” so I bought Raytheon stock. I made a pretty penny and then felt dirty so I donated the earnings to the Libertarian Institute
Raytheon is so 2010s. L3 Harris is the up and coming…
The Main Squeeze — Hotel California
I saw a guy at the gun store this evening who was a dead ringer for their guitarist.
This is fun Yusef.
Thanks, your positive comment, I will keep the story going, I have more,
Fun read Yusef. Also love the new avatar with the smiling face!
Clean face FTW! thanks OBE,
Happy picture!
I guess I should put up an unmasked one.
I’m just pouting because my employer is mandating COVID tests starting next month.
and you can’t quit, Fuckers
We’ve been every other Wednesday since last May. At least it’s just the highly unreliable spit stick type.
What’s the reasoning?
You’re so funny.
L.A. has cheap and easy testing. The accuracy is questionable, but they can test huge amounts of people. They’ve had a few positives, sent them home for quarantines. Not sure what the motivation is other than liability avoidance.
Fiddlesticks.
Rue, Britannica?
Britannia ‘neath the waves
You go First Bredda,
I guess we’re back to being ISIS air support. Very cool
Universal draft now, with zero exemptions for college. We need body bags coming home to SoHo and Lincoln Park for this madness to end
The connected are still going to get out of the draft.
Yes the Bezos, Trumps, and Bidens of the world will find a way out. The vast majority of upper income people would not be able to avoid the draft. Suddenly the people in Lincoln Park will have to, for the first time in their lives, seriously consider the policies they support and whether it’s worth sacrificing their child because of one of the ever changing excuses for why we must be in Syria
I applaud your optimism, but that just isn’t going to happen.
American foreign policy, like shutdowns, continue because the wealthy are insulated from the consequences. Make them bear the consequences
Agreed, but it just isn’t going to happen. Who in Congress is going to vote in a draft bill that sends their protected ties to war?
Biden still has one left.
If that coke addled whore could find the business end of a rifle, no one would cry.
I know it’s a pipedream. But, witnessing congressional opposition will only crystallize the “us vs them” reality of American military adventures
Cornpop’s kids will all be there.
The same applies to organizational policies. They get thrown out as soon as they impact management.
Tom Woods had a good series last week with Scott Horton on the Iraq war and the “war on terror.”
It was tough to listen to, knowing how I felt about it 20 years ago and knowing how badly @
“We” had screwed up.
Here’s the link to the first installment https://tomwoods.com/ep-1836-the-roots-of-the-war-on-terror/
You can listen to the others after clicking “podcasts” snd scrolling down.
‘It was tough to listen to, knowing how I felt about it 20 years ago and knowing how badly @
“We” had screwed up.’
This.
I can’t speak from an insider’s point of view here but, I can say I was in my early twenties and still very much the Neo-Con/American Imperialist at that point. By 2006 I was blessedly wise enough to know it was principals over principles in the two party system and opted out.
…Hate to say it…”9/11 Was an Inside Job” doesn’t sound so damn far-fetched anymore.
In light of the last year’s actions by our government, I gave the ruling class far too much credit in regards to having any connection to the rest of humanity than I should’ve.
American Exceptionalism, my ass.
As they should, service equal Citizenship!
/at least it should,
I ain’t no fortunate son.
It aint me, it aint me.
I aint no senator’s son.
Didn’t the SC just rule an all male draft was unconstitutional? If not I see a lot of transgendering going on.
“Yeah, I’m beginning to feel all feminine. No draft registration for me”
If they didn’t, they should.
Not yet.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/539575-supreme-court-asked-to-declare-the-all-male-military-draft
It is unconstitutional, but under the 13th Amendment. Not that the hooded ones will ever acknowledge the plain wording of the amendment.
Also, fuck that liar Reagan. No, not just a liar who broke his campaign promise but let his administration prosecute those who refused to register.
Too local, not the SC
https://time.com/5536407/all-male-draft-unconstitutional/
You’ll see more females in the NFL draft.
The warmongers and cheerleaders might shed a tear for their lost loved one, but it won’t change their opinion nor their support overall. That was eminently true during Vietnam where there was an age disconnect in opinion about the war.
Fair point. I’d counter that we haven’t seen antiwar protests nearly as large as the Vietnam era, because we eliminated the draft.
Selfishness is a powerful motivator.
Bringing up WWII, there were several examples of others happy to throw their fellow Americans into the meat grinder if they themselves didn’t have to serve- married men, men over the age cutoff, etc.
Lewis Hershey enslaved the most Americans by far over the course of his career, far more than any other single man. I hope he’s nice and toasty now.
Married men were subject to being drafted in WWII. There would have been a shit ton of marriages of convenience had marital status gotten one out of the war.
The draft was barely needed in WW2. There were lot’s of guys lying about their age to enlist. Different kind of people back then, although a lot of people were feeling similar after 9-11. There’s a bunch more enthusiasm when we get attacked. Hell, I almost tried to go, but I was aged out already (just barely).
https://blogs.shu.edu/ww2-0/1942/06/26/married-men-to-get-draft-deferment-for-now/
61% of WWII servicemen were draftees. The 39% that volunteered is probably overstated with the threat of a draft behind it. The fact is, WWII was fought with a slave army and FDR started the enslaving in August 1940, well over a year before Pearl Harbor.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-us-military-numbers
I stand corrected. In ‘Nam it was 70% volunteer and 30% draftees. Despite that, the backlash against the draft was far higher, which maybe makes my first point in a roundabout way.
Funny how that is. Similar to WWII, there were some incentives to enlist. Possibly choice of branch, MOS, or avoiding Vietnam. My pops did ROTC and four years as an officer rather than roll the dice.
Conversely, a good buddy left college to enlist, served in the 101st (including at Dong Ap Bia), and later served in Iraq. Most humble and impressive man I’ve met.
The VN war protests basically dried up after Nixon ended the draft (too late for me).
What’s the age cutoff? Asking for a friend.
As far as I’m concerned they should just staple the draft card to the high school diploma. Before they go off to college they’ll just have to survive the meat grinder that their parents supported when it was just the poors dying
I registered for selective service in basic training.
4A discharge…unless Congress passes a law, I will never don the nation’s uniform ever again.
Let’s Have a War
Jack up the Dow Jones!
Let’s start a fire.
Second time Let’s Have a War appears in the comments today – what are the odds?
Several years ago I did a back of the envelope calculation. Something like 15% or less of the population actually donned a uniform at *any* point during WWII, and 85%+ didn’t. The percentages for the current conflicts wasn’t that far off, maybe 10 percentage points then. That difference would be even less today.
I read in some history book that Nazi Germany had less than 20% of its military-aged male population under arms. The highest percentage in the U.S. was probably during the Civil War.
Remember when Trump said he could shoot a guy on 5th Avenue and he’d still have support? This is Biden’s version, except he’s actually doing it. He’s fucking up everything he can, just to prove that the media will still fawn all over him. It’s crazy to watch.
Except I don’t think anyone who didn’t want war voted for Biden. Biden was pretty explicit that he wanted more war.
Of the 40 million people who voted for him, there’s at least some who wanted to bomb the shit out of people who don’t matter to us at all. There’s probably a similar amount who voted against him and wanted the same. When you have the world’s biggest gun, it’s tempting to shoot it off once in a while. At least it is for all the assholes of the nation.
“When you have the world’s biggest gun, it’s tempting to shoot it off once in a while.”
You know who else had the biggest gun?
The inventer of the gonne?
Does he rhyme with Puff Daddy’s real name?
Gregg Valentino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEHxCAR2suM
Two-Gun Corcoron?
For sure. No doubt warmongers voted for Trump too. It’s not like he was the peacenik candidate. From my limited experience, though, I know two guys who voted opposite of one another. One guy voted Trump and thinks that the Syrian War is the dumbest shit in the world. The other guy vocally supported Biden and thought that Trump tried to pull troops out of Syria to appease Russia. Guess which one has a kid serving in the military?
And that’s where the universal draft with zero exemptions come in. You really think the one guy would spout such asinine talk about ending war being bad if his son were on the chopping block? He needs to see his neighbors kids come back in a bag with a sticker reading “parts missing” in order to think clearly. I want him to think clearly.
I get the point of what you’re advocating, but given the draft is immoral, that solution is fighting evil with evil. I can’t go there.
“I guess we’re back to being ISIS air support. Very cool”
Look, we’re only supporting the good terrorists against the bad terrorists… wait, that’s not right, all the terrorists are now right wingers here in the USA.
So, let’s bomb the shit out of em and bring the ones left here as refugees. It’s the American way! Plus, jobs! Why do you hate the military industrial complex workers?
Killing energy jobs = baaaddddd!
More jobs for pentagon cronies = goooodddd!!!
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the cops.
https://twitter.com/INVESTMENTSHULK/status/1365052786677800965
https://twitter.com/Vodkalimonhielo/status/1365061762094157828
“That’s Argentina. My country. It’s no Spain. It was 2016.”
“What were they protesting?”
“The goverment at that time try to index the retirement money but they are the communist opposition. Very complex to understand. They prefer be poor but not to allow the rigth improve peoples life.”
OK. I still love the imagery of it.
They can’t be Spain because all the folks down there is good peoples of color. /says good lefties who’ve never been there
I had a Spanish office mate in grad school who claimed WOC status.
My Brazilian wife laughed at her, asking how a country that once dominated massive chunks of the world via colonialism and the slave trade could now claim minority status.
Here comes the hail….
Figurative or literal?
Literal. After 3 years in VA, I had forgotten what it was like when a thunderstorm rolls through here in TX.
I miss the sound. As an Oklahoma girl, I took thunderstorms for granted.
I often sleep with a thunderstorm track playing .
They aren’t wrong.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/02/25/china-our-concentration-camps-are-just-like-us-community-correction-centers/
Wait, we have deliberate organ harvesting in our correction centers? And I thought we haven’t rounded up whole ethnic groups since FDR kicked it.
Maybe not organ harvesting, but we as a whole, have turned a blind eye to the extra-judicial nature of the American prison culture. I wouldn’t want to end up in either because my punishment of losing my freedom is near guarantee I will lose much much more.
When we go back to rounding up whole communities with the intent of exerminating them in a sytematic ethnic clensing crusade, I’ll concede a parallel.
Okay.
We do some fucked up shit, but nothing anywhere near the level of fucked up many others do. CCP seems like it’s in a hurry to cement itself as the world’s most evil. Good thing for them, they have Biden to give them cover.
“CCP seems like it’s in a hurry to cement itself as the world’s most evil.”
And Chiney Jo is blowing dictators both great and small as fast as he can to help them succeed.
The CCP won 2020 in a big way. By all rights they should have lost that year, but they have gotten the West to behave almost like they do. They must have had lots of laughs over how easy it was.
Sure, except for now, they aren’t in there for committing crimes, they’re there for their identity. Soon though, here, they’ll be there for the same.
Chinese Uyghurs == mostly hetero white male Christians or Trump voters.
GUN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uhSaksiYqI&list=RDMM&start_radio=1
Between keeping the “kids and cages” (now with new branding!), not abiding by the negotiated Afghanistan withdrawal, and the increase in troops in Afghanistan- there are no bigger clowns in American politics than the “libertarians for Biden” bitches.
I guess some “libertarians” just love using government to impose federalized pee pee rules more than opposing wholesale murder.
Libertarians should cede the anti war high ground to the populist right.
Pretty sure that’s already happened, unless the Mises crowd were to take over the LP. Normies think of Reason and CATO when they think “libertarian” and all they see is “ah, war is totes libertarian so long as you support federalized pee pee laws. Sounds dumb.”
Judging by Twitter, those Biden libertarians are vastly outnumbered.
Well at least whatever this bullshit is, it isn’t Cardiac Arrest Part 3.
“World Ends – Women, Minorities Hardest Hit”
Sorry, that was a Washington Post-Apocalyptic headline.
Eye toll of grudging appreciation…
Uh hmmm, you mean:
“World Ends – Women, Minorities, Xes Hardest Hit”
I haven’t heard from my husband’s doc today. I suppose no news is good news.
The mister is still in the hospital, almost a week now. He sounded a bit more like himself today, so that’s good. His best quality is his sense of humor, but it’s been absent lately so its return is a good sign.
I still have a bunch of questions for the docs, but I will be patient.
I hope he gets better. Sorry to hear about the long hospital stay. The separation from loved ones that they are imposing at these hospitals is inhumane.
As someone who’s only sitting in the ER for 3 hours with my wife having to wait in the car, I concur.
It’s inhumane.
Wait – wut?? Whahappen??
I’ve had 2 heart attacks by age 40. The first when I was 33.
When something doesn’t feel right for enough time, I’ll go to the ER to get checked out in an effort to stem off heart attack #3. Somehow I don’t get the impression that the “3rd time is a charm” works with heart attacks. And things haven’t felt right for a couple days. Weird dull pain. Sluggish. And it wasn’t getting better after 2 days. So once I told my wife that I’d been feeling bad, she told me to get ready to go to the hospital.
When we got there we were told she couldn’t go in with me.
Forget that she’s sitting in the car freaking out that I might be in the throes of a third heart attack, or that I might be freaking out about it while I’m by myself in an ER getting poked and prodded, hooked up to machines, xrays, and the rest of the bit.
Forget all that. Forget that I could have greatly used her comfort, or that just being there would be reassuring to both of us.
There’s Covid to worry about.
Get better. I’m sorry to hear that. And I hope you are reading this from a hospital room, rather than the waiting room. What a heartless world we’ve created
Yikes! I hope it turns out to be nothing serious and that you get to go home ASAP.
Are you in CA? Hearing about their hospital visitation restrictions, I’m reminded of how lucky I was to be able to stay with Tom T the entire time he was in the hospital with his Christmas stroke. [Side note: two months to the day after the mild stroke that affected his left side, Tom T went to his favorite local Open Mic and played guitar better than anyone else in the room, if I do say so myself.]
Please feel better and keep us posted as you’re able, Muzz!
All is well, or at least there isn’t anything amiss with my heart.
EKG was fine. The bloodwork came out like it should. Xrays didn’t show anything going on in my chest. BP and pulse are all well within normal range.
Still that weird feeling in my chest though, so I’m still in recon mode, but feel better about all the important stuff checking in okay.
I’m thinking maybe stress has set in a bit. All of us are under tremendous amounts of stress these days, and it’s just not letting up. People can only take so much before it starts to manifest in any number of ways.
So glad to hear the tests were clean! I hope you can get at the source of the problem and feel better quicker.
I’ve always been able to make sure the nurses don’t ignore a request, like for a glass of water or another blanket.
He’s on his own now, but says they’re taking care of him.
Let’s hope all scenarios are best-case.
Yep.
Ditto. Hang in there, HE.
Wait, what? When did he go into the hospital and for what?
Fingers crossed for a speedy discharge.
Man, that’s a long time. I hope he mends up soon.
Sorry to hear he’s in there. Hope he gets better soon and gets out of there. Those places are not good. Last time I was in there, I couldn’t get any sleep because the nurses would wake me up every couple hours to take another pill or poke me with needles.
Wow, I’m sorry to hear he’s still in the hospital. It has to be difficult. Are your questions about the future or the history of what happened?
The future. History I understand.
But for the heart damage. When do we look at heart valve replacement? He will have to be healthy for that. How much time off work will I have to take? Or do I pay a nurse?
Etc.
I feel for you. All of that will get worked out. You don’t have to make any decisions until the time comes. Just do your best and know we all care. You’ll be fine and hopefully, so will Mr. Explosives.
You don’t need to hear it from me, but make sure they know you’re engaged and needing to know the process. I know what it’s like, trying to balance that need to know without asking too many questions you know they don’t have answers to, yet. But you expect there will be answers and want to know the plan.
Even after COVID craziness is gone, the weaknesses in our state governments remain.
The legislatures need to pass laws to restrain “emergency powers” and to ensure people’s rights are not infringed in an emergency.
And we can’t be calling every damned thing an emergency either. “Crisis” and “emergency” are loaded with emotion snd clearly are ripe for abuse.
We must be vigilant. I’m going to try to avoid staying too specific to lockdowns and medical “emergencies”; we need to think a few moves ahead and treat our Bill of Rights as not open for negotiation, no matter the situation.
“ensure people’s rights are not infringed in an emergency.”
Yeah, sure ain’t going to happen. They loves their newfound emergency powers. Look for a vast expansion of said.
They can try, but if people want to limit them, they have to try. To simply accept it is to, well, accept it.
You read Twitter any? Around half the people living here will cheer for more.
Knock it off with those negative waves.
Tell them to knock it off. I ain’t the one doing it. And I ain’t the media cheering them on. And I ain’t the democrats propping up the dummies.
He’s hard hung my mellow, dude!
Harshing
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(Facepalm)
Hey, Hayek, don’t be too down, listening to doctor’s first opinions on these things. Doctors in my opinion are nothing if not doom mongers and they will often, always, try to sell a surgery when it’s often not the best alternative or even needed. I have real life experience with heart damage, so I know a little about it. Always get a 2nd or 3rd opinion from any doctor.
But you know, I’m also a cynical asshole, so probably, definitely don’t listen to me.
I wish y’all the best, I know how scary this can be and doctors and babbling nurses seem to find a way to scare the bejeebus out of you right off the bat.
Rhywun for the win!
My eyebrow rose.
No need to raise eyebrows! Rhywun is a man of much intuition!
hard hung + hospital = Garp?
ther’s something to hard hung, hmmm
It’s time to to change your posting name to ‘Yusef got a job’. Congrats, buddy, told you it was going to work out.
Good luck stopping this. The govt looks at the upper middle/lower upper class and thinks, “Lotsa money left for us to take.” And they will in one form or another.
Our state legislature has passed several laws.
Gov vetoed.
Legislature overrode those vetoes.
Gov sues because “But muh powa!”
Now in court.
File under ‘Crock of horseshit’.
Chiney Jo SCIENCE!
TMITE
Pass the barf bag, please.
Media confirmed as number one marketing campaign for barf bags.
Thank God that Biden created the vaccine!
Biden: stupid or evil ?
https://fee.org/articles/biden-s-proposed-tax-hike-would-have-3-huge-consequences-study-finds/?fbclid=IwAR3FW2kmFQRSVPGwUlRZVK5qj1R75Xl9zkTGOT73kyy1tQ3hJOShyjVX8SQ
Looks like, by costing 159,000 jobs, it would only be about 10% as stupid and evil as the proposed $15 minimum wage.
But the important thing is that Biden’s family will be ok. That’s what counts.
Same exact problem we discussed above about the warmongers being insulated from the consequences of their decisions.
That number seems low to me for such a huge change, but what do I know.
Oh, and the answer is both stupid and evil.
Yes.
HE, you were talking about watching videos about the collapse of civilizations. Were you watching some of theses?
Yea! Those were recommended by one of our fellow Glibs.
To my embarrassment, I don’t remember who it was.
I’ve had this discussion with some of my investing partners.
Any income/capital gains tax increases will HAVE to be retroactive to the beginning of the year.
If people know the hike is coming, it will pop the bubble. Investors are sitting on trillions of unrealized capital gains, and they’ll start dumping before January first. It will absolutely crash the stock market.
When will the bill come due for this year they pulled? Can they push it out many more years in the future? When the lockdowns started I made some predictions, they all have mostly come to pass, but I thought the social unrest we would see would be more focused on the lockdowns themselves, that has not drawn as much protest as I had thought.
In blue states, the public school teacher’s unions are going to get absolutely reamed. They have a lot to answer for, but it will mostly happen at the ballot box.
Man I really hope that you are right. This has been an utter shitshow of terrible government over the past year. I’d really like to see at least a couple positive things happen as a result of it. It feels like this state finally has taken it over the brink.
How’s the recall going?
Very well. 1.5 million signatures are needed to put the recall on the ballot. Currently there are 1,8 million signatures. Drive organizers are shooting for 2 million to make sure they clear the bar after signatures are disqualified. Newsom is in deep trouble and he knows it.
It sure as hell does. But I don’t think much will change because the state isn’t (yet) experiencing a financial crisis. If that hits then anything is possible.
What do you mean?
This isn’t terrible government. This is NORMAL government.
It’s terrible all of the time.
From your lips to doG’s ears.
#metoo
Then I remembered that Antifa has a habit of hijacking, well, everything.
Yeah, I am happy that at least Greasy Gav is getting a bit of heat. I think they will get past the threshold of the Dems being able to toss signatures. They are going to slow walk the recall election though. They are going to try and put it as close to next fall as possible. At least this is a small pushback to the lockdowns though, I view it as that. On my most positive day I still don’t think California is salvageable, but at least we can plug a leak.
I’m six months away from be able to enrich my own uranium.
based
Would you like your pallets of cash in 100s or 50s?
Insomnia is a motherfucker
Love the profile pic Chipwooder! I grew up in the town where they make Cheerwine, and it is pretty much the only soft drink I will drink! Now I just need to get a slushie machine so I can freeze some of it…
+1 glass bottle
I pity the poor bastards outside of the Southeast who have never tried the nectar of the gods.
It’s available at some hipster locations here in NYC. It also plays nicely with Bourbon.
It’s the best carbonated cough syrup flavored drink you can buy. In seriousness though, it is a pretty damn good soda.
True dat
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/02/25/fourth-bucks-county-resident-raechel-genco-arrested-for-alleged-role-in-capitol-riot/
Local news.
At least they called it what it was instead of an insurrection.
It wasn’t even a riot.
I’ll take what I can get.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs
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I missed the genealogy post yesterday, and I am another one of the long line of racists. I am a mix of English/Scottish immigrants that came over well before the country was founded and Germans that came over right around the time of Bismarck. First recorded ancestor was on my father’s side, and he got married in Jamestown in around 1620. We had some large landowners in the colonial period in NC, and married into Thomas Jefferson’s extended family. Despite all this time over here when there weren’t that many eligible options for mates, I still have 0% Native American or African ancestry showing up in DNA.
My father did find someone who had done tracing of the family of the father of my ancestor who was in Jamestown back to the Norman invasion of England, but I have no way of knowing whether that is correct or not. But it would prove why we ended up with our surname.
Last thing I find interesting in the DNA – both my wife and I did the DNA test. My wife is the product of a German national and a US serviceman that was stationed in Germany, and she grew up as a German. But when we got our DNA results back, they identified more German DNA in me than they did her. Not sure if the DNA testing is all just a big guess or whether the German side of her family was just all sorts of mixed up (her grandfather did come from the Sudetenland, and she did have a lot of Eastern European showing up in the DNA).
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/phoenix-homeowner-digs-up-a-duffel-bag-full-of-rusted-guns-and-magazines-in-his-yard/
*gets shovel*
Someone forgot to use cosmoline.
exactyl
wtf?
Is that a Galil? What a shame but the MACs tell me the stash isn’t smart to hold on to even if salvageable.
Was Sarah Connor a previous resident?
Morning, Glibs.
Sup U, are my writing skills horribad?
To be honest – I’ve been distracted with real life things. I haven’t read the article yet.
suh’
And a tall can for you Tres,
HEY YUFUS!
Got one opened in fact
Foook ewe.
https://twitter.com/AngloLolbert/status/1365271271181811712