The sidewalk chalk art that preceded the splash image.
Felt like the cops were too ready for your shit in Cyberpunk? Good news for you!
It’s hard for me to pick just one because all their stories seem so obligatory, but I suppose this is my favorite option today.
Life imitates art; grandpas hate it and the fact that I just called a series of video games art.
And that’s all you get from me this week because I’m just ready for the week to be over. Big mood.
I like the avatar pic Riven.
“Federal Government Lost 5x More to COVID Stimulus Fraud Than It Spent on Vaccine Development, New Report Reveals”
Please. It counts as “stimulus” and has multiplier effect. All the cool economists say it so it must be true.
That’s JUST the unemployment fraud.
How much of the Vaccine Development money was government fraud?
All of it?
A multiplier effect in Nigeria maybe.
Now that our house is all put back together, we’re hosting some neighbors for happy hour, which should wrap up about time for GlibZoom – see you all then.
Please. It counts as “stimulus” and has multiplier effect. All the cool economists say it so it must be true.
Exactly. Helicopter money is helicopter money.
And besides, shouldn’t we reward initiative?
“It’s hard for me to pick just one because all their stories seem so obligatory, but I suppose this is my favorite option today.”
Well, Trump wanted to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse. Except it’s essentially the platform of both major parties.
Is this Cyberpunk patch the virtual equivalent of defunding the police?
To put that $200 billion figure in context, it is equivalent to $1,400 lost to fraud per federal taxpayer. (There goes your stimmy check!)
It’s simple to fix. Just make the money machine go “BRRRR!!!!”
Use some of the brrrr for a second printer.
I think you just blew some minds out there. “You mean we can use money we’ve printed out of nothing to buy another printer to print more money out of nothing? END OF SCARCITY!!!!!”
well played
A perpetual money machine?
I like it.
Yo, ho, blow the man down
U.S. President Joe Biden is doing fine after stumbling on the steps as he climbed aboard Air Force One on Friday, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
She suggested high winds at Joint Base Andrews near Washington may have been a factor.
“It’s very windy outside,” said Jean-Pierre when asked about his stumbling. “He is doing 100 percent fine.”
Did Doktor Jill have anything to add regarding Joe’s susceptibility to a good blow?
Did Doktor Jill have anything to add regarding Joe’s susceptibility to a good blow?
I can’t imagine she’d have any first-hand knowledge.
She might have the-other-hand knowledge though.
“On the gripping hand . . . “
Joe can beat you in a stair climber challenge.
There’s an image I didn’t need in my head.
This is a good one.
That was great. Thanks.
I prefer Doctor Mommy as her moniker.
More goodness from GKC today: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm#link2H_4_0036
Hey, I just bought a ’56 edition of that book. Coincidence? I think not!
Better than the recent bill — wasn’t it something like 98% pork to 2% actually (supposedly) helping people affected by COVID?
And apparently there’s a curse if you’re a President(*) after an impeachment… have to go check if Grant ever slipped mounting a horse after being elected. Too bad SNL isn’t going to do a callback, I bet.
And I have to ask — which one of us coded this? I just saw it… but man, that reads like a few articles here recently. 🙂
Well. no idea how I screwed up the link — but fortunately The Late P Brooks beat me to it anyway. 🙂
I’m a Prepper, he’s a Prepper, she’s a Prepper, we’re a Prepper! Would you like to be a Prepper too?
Comrade Just Plain Folks has issued his first Presidential pardon, to a dog.
“White House blames Biden , 78, falling on the steps of Air Force One on the WIND and says he is ‘100% fine’ as new questions over his health surface”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9381191/President-Joe-Biden-78-falls-stairs-Air-Force-One.html
That doesn’t look like wind.
More like the whirlwind.
Honestly looks like the cuff of his pants got caught, or he just missed a step.
Three times?
It looks pretty breezy, but that’s hardly the kind of wind that can take your balance.
I’ve tripped similarly before, but maybe not as bad as that. As for the three times, once you’re off balance, you’re off balance. He’s really fortunate he was able to maintain his grip on the rail. He’s also lucky he didn’t hurt his wrist/arm/shoulder badly.
once you’re off balance, you’re off balance
I’ve tripped on stairs. Occasionally a followup step will be more of a stumble. You’re off balance until you regain your balance. Flailing and toppling like that is not “spry”, or even normal unless you are truly getting old and frail.
I’m not saying he’s not frail, and I do think this incident plays in with all the other evidence of his frailty, but I’ve seen healthy young people take worse falls due to lost balance.
I’ll wait for Rob, Chanel, and Stirling to weigh in on this on the next episode of Ridiculousness.
But Gerald Ford was just a stupid klutz who couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
Shameless Plug:
I know there are a few guitar players in here. I’ve got a Strandberg for sale on Reverb, if anyone is interested.
If you are let me know and we can do the sale off reverb. You’ll not pay tax that way.
https://reverb.com/item/39534785-strandberg-boden-original-7
*admiring whistle*
She is sexy af.
Just not really in to 7 string yet. I’d rather just drop tune a 6.
Nobody’s forcing you to use all seven strings.
No.
But I have 16 others that fill the 6 string role.
And I’ll replace this one. Just not exactly sure which one yet.
That’s a lot of guitars.
That is gorgeous. As a buyer, I would have questions about why the head is hidden in a little hat. I do like the tuning gizmos being located on the body, though.
It’s just modesty. Can’t be letting the nut hang out in public.
It’s a headless guitar. The tuning pegs are on the bridge.
That said, I should put pics up that show it.
“Off to edit listing*
Aaaaaand done.
There are pics of the string locks now.
Bonus: it shows off the wood in the neck, and the serial number. Showing the back is smart, too. Anybody can say “mint condition”, but now the customers can see it.
Suh-weet.
/looks at coronabux
/looks at SP
/decides to keep his genitals in place
I’ll butter her up on the Glibzoom later!
Guitars and Guns: however many?
1 more
Michael McDonald sits in on lylelovett.com/ tonight
The optimal number of guitars is found in one formula:
N + 1
I am inadequate. Only two, plus SP’s bass. No electrics.
I am inadequate.
That’s what I hear.
Also, that you don’t have enough guitars.
Does the little skier hat come with the guitar and will it make me a better guitar player?
Yes.
It depends on how much you have to drink before picking it up to play.
I figured it was so you could rock out with your cock out in venues that require full clothing
This is what I want.
“Louisiana ‘cannibal’, 19, who lured gay men using Grindr and planned to keep body parts as ‘mementos, trophies and food’ is indicted on federal hate crime, kidnapping and attempted murder charges”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9380623/Grindr-cannibal-19-lured-gay-men-app-wanted-body-parts-mementos-food.html
But he doesn’t hate his victims, he loves them, especially with sauce!
I gar-on-tee
+1 Justin Wilson
Dammit, Suthen…
I don’t get the “hate crime” add-on.
Chances are the cannibal is gay as well…a Dahmer type. Creepy-crazy is an equal opportunity condition.
The article says he is.
This is just prosecutorial grandstanding, I guess.
They have to show gays They Care™️.
Oh no! Not a hate crime!
When the psychic told me I’d be killed by a guy who was going to eat my sphincter fried like calamari, I was at least relieved to find out that he’d be charged under hate crime statutes after he got caught.
So you are saying he eats ass?
Who doesn’t, these days?
I knew he was going to say that
Americans should continue wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus transmission at this point in the pandemic, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday.
In the coming months, he said, that guidance should hopefully change.
“We need to be careful this month. I don’t think that this is the time to start lifting … the simpler mitigations like wearing masks, things like that,” the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said on “Squawk Box.”
Gottlieb’s comments came in response to a heated exchanged Thursday between the White House’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. In a Senate committee hearing, Paul, an ophthalmologist before going into politics, suggested to Fauci that advising people to wear masks even after they have been vaccinated against Covid was “theater.”
Who are you going to believe? A career bureaucrat or some kind of alleged eye doctor?
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
Two fists to flatten your nose, Gottlieb!
We need to be careful this month
Fuck you. We all know you don’t mean “just this month”.
Paul, an ophthalmologist before going into politics
He still is an ophthalmologist, and still does surgery. I note they never refer to Fauci as “a primary care doctor before joining the CDC”.
“a primary care doctor before joining the CDC”.
Has fauci ever practiced medicine? Or did he go straight into the federal bureaucracy?
Other than in residency, I don’t believe he has.
My CEO is a big fan. I have so far resisted the temptation to ask her if she would bring on somebody with 50 year old training in internal medicine as a member of our infectious disease team (no, no she would not).
Clicked too soon. Its an example of how we can experience the Gell-Mann effect in our own heads.
He went straight from his residency into the bureaucracy.
He’s proven himself to be the supreme bureaucrat. He’s neither a physician or a scientist.
That’s like working as an applications engineer for a year and then going into sales for the rest of your career. ugh.
I think we can also safely say “Fauci, a [primary care doctor] before going into politics”.
“Paul, an ophthalmologist before going into politics”
Imagine if someone said something like this about DOCTOR Jill Biden.
Are we at another “crucial moment”?
“If every moment is crucial, no moment is crucial.”
At the same time, Gottlieb was sympathetic toward Paul’s view on needing to give Americans something to look forward to once they’ve been vaccinated. Paul said to Fauci, “Give them a reward instead of telling them that the nanny state is going to be there for three more years and you’ve got to wear a mask forever.”
Gottlieb said he’s not sure any public health experts, including Fauci, are suggesting people will have to wear masks for eternity. But, Gottlieb stressed, “There needs to be light at the end of the tunnel.”
Try listening to what they say, Bozo.
They can look forward to shots every year, that’s what they can look forward to. Also, bread lines.
Gottlieb said he’s not sure any public health experts, including Fauci, are suggesting people will have to wear masks for eternity
When you don’t give an end date or the conditions for ending, “forever” is all that’s left.
We were talking today about when we can go back to serving meals normally in our cafeteria. The CDC currently says everything has to be an individually wrapped meal. Our CEO was saying we’d go back to normal when the CDC changed their guidance. My thought (unspoken) was “Why would anyone expect them to change this rule? They can always point to some microscopic reduction in risk, and that’s all that’s needed now.”
If you need to wear a mask, make sure you’re wearing Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/D1c7r
#23’s Model Mayhem page. Her instagram page is private.
Good Lord, she’s fugly.
Do I need new batteries for my sarcasm detector?
Not sarcasm. Hyper reverse fawning.
Got it.
You mean negging?
Huh. Most recent image that I could see was from four years ago, and it doesn’t look like she’s done a lot of shoots. Might no longer be active. Run into that a lot.
Had to scroll all the way to get to #30.
Court says Spotsy restaurant defying mask mandate can remain open
Yep, posted that one earlier. Fox5DC did another article too. I guess right now they don’t have a specific timeline for the next hearing…so good things I guess.
No timeline without injunction definitely better than with. I will have to stop by tomorrow since I will be out anyway.
DARPA is going to have to pick up the pace on developing that Presidential exoskeleton.
Just need a chair lift.
See if they were master trolls they would add one to the tarmac stairs leading up to AF1
Since I see Tundra hasn’t chimed again, I will do the Fourscore update for those who missed it this morning…
Fourscore slipped on some ice at his house last Tuesday and fractured his pelvis. Near the ball joint with his leg. He’s in the hospital now recuperating. I chatted with him a bit this afternoon and he is a bit fuzzy because of the pain killers, but he was still the same guy. He said that the surgeon had been in to see him and wants to let him heal a bit first and if things go well, they won’t have to operate. So maybe that is good news?
I’m working on getting a chromebook up to him in the hospital so he can get online and chat with us. Probably won’t be until Sunday before that could happen though.
Not needing an operation is always good news.
Yes indeed.
Thanks, Jimbo. I didn’t see this before. Hope you are able to help.
I hope he recovers quickly.
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery to fourscore (autocorrect keeps insisting on foursome, but a fractured pelvis tends to put a damper on such things).
Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help out.
Damn, sorry to hear that – fingers crossed for the “no operation” outcome.
Sorry to hear that.
Hope he gets well soon.
Let us know if he needs anything.
Oh damn. Let us know if we can help.
I’ve started a topic in the Forum so we can have a place to keep track of Fourscore’s progress. If the guys don’t add updates there, as well as here, I will make sure the updates are copied over there so people know where to get the latest info, without having to scroll through every post hoping to catch it at the right time.
Thanks. We’ll make sure and update there as well.
You are a damned fine human being for that, Your Holiness.
Non-standard celebratory use
A Washington state woman was part of a threesome, including a former priest, accused of having sex on a church altar in Louisiana last September, according to criminal charging documents filed Thursday.
Mindy Lynn Dixon, 41, of Kent, Wash., and the two others – former priest Travis Jhon Clark, 37, and Melissa Kamon Cheng, 28, of Alpharetta, Ga. – were all charged with institutional vandalism in connection with the case, which made international headlines at the time.
A second former priest in the same Louisiana parish, Patrick Briain Wattigny, was charged separately with molesting a juvenile.
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The altar, one of the most sacred places in any church, is meant to be the centerpiece and sole focus of the sanctuary. It serves as the location at which many significant Catholic traditions and rituals are celebrated, including Mass and the Eucharist.
Archbishop Gregory Aymond described the desecration of the altar as “demonic.” He later had the altar removed from the sanctuary and burned. A new altar was then consecrated.
*standing ovation*
My standing ovation would be for the arch-bishop that burned the old altar. That’s how you show you’re serious.
“A church is where religious people hang out.
‘People’ is another word for ‘humans’.”
What is with all of the bullshit going on here? Cannibalism? Fucking on church altars? Overdosed dopeheads knocking on my door in the middle of the night. Jeebus.
End stages of the republic would be my guess. Toss in millions of people being thrown out of work and going stir-crazy.
Party on Morticia.
I want to know what they did with the altar stone. The altar is just furniture, the real mojo comes from the altar stone which is a thin slab of granite with writing on it. And a first-class relic, although that is often just a fractional gram of powdered bone of a saint, or a cotton fiber from a martyr’s tampon.
See, these are the kinds of things most people don’t think about regarding religion anymore. I had totally forgotten about the relics (grew up Roman Catholic but haven’t practiced since the mid 1990s). There’s a lot of supernatural/mystical stuff that goes into a religion like Catholicism that the Church seems to be too embarrassed to acknowledge these days, but still is fundamental to the belief system. People are scared off by the woo-woo, but what if there’s something to it? Would people be more likely to take their religion seriously if it were talked about more?
I mean, either you really believe in a spiritual world outside this material plane, and the things that go along with it are real, or you don’t.
I guess most of the time that correlates to whether you were raised in it from birth.
I wasn’t, so I have a hard time with that stuff.
Does Kamaula have an alibi?
This time, she does.
The real question is: will she even need one, when it matters?
Nah…she’s U.G.L.Y
So this morning the landline rang and I ignored it like I always do. I heard the machine answer and it said “You have been randomly selected to get the Rona vaccine. Call us to set up an appointment”. I ignored it because I figured that it was a scam. I am too young, too healthy and too good looking (and too white) to possibly be picked to get the shot right?
My wife heard it and ran down and told me to call back and sure enough it wasn’t a scam. So next week I will get my first shot. My wife is beside herself because a) I’m getting the shot and b) I didn’t ask them if she could come along.
As she sat there fuming and wondering how I got picked, she said “It is because you are obese”. Things didn’t improve when I told her she needs to go in for a checkup so she gets credit for the extra lbs she has put on since the lockdowns started and maybe get herself an invite.
*The joke is on her. It is really WHITE PRIVILEGE!!!!
she said “It is because you are obese”. Things didn’t improve when I told her she needs to go in for a checkup so she gets credit for the extra lbs she has put on since the lockdowns started
Even though she started it, that was probably not your best move.
Takes notes furiously on how to get approval to sleep on the couch everynight
I was already in trouble for being selected to get The Cure.
It is better for my sanity to have her grumpy because of something reasonable (I took a cheapshot at her) than because of her own personal craziness.
No we are pretty good. Nothing was said that burned any bridges and it was mostly good faith teasing.
In truth, she’s a little happy that I’m getting the shot because it means I won’t bring home the virus and hill her and the kids. Doesn’t matter that she spends far more time out in public than I do. I’m the one who can’t be trusted to not get infected.
I won’t bring home the virus
The vaccine will help with that.
and kill her and the kids
That seems like a separate issue, to me.
RCD, what’s the take rate among the staff at your hospital been like?
Mid-70s.
Thx. About what I expected.
I was already in trouble for being selected to get The Cure.
So Friday you’re not in love?
Burn.
NewWife gets it
I don’t
probly sum Anglish thang
Was an altar involved?
The Jesuit priest who officiated then-President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural Mass — and has been a family friend for almost 15 years — is under investigation for unspecified allegations and is now on leave from his position as president of Santa Clara University in California, according to the college.
The Rev. Kevin O’Brien allegedly “exhibited behaviors in adult settings, consisting primarily of conversations, which may be inconsistent with established Jesuit protocols and boundaries,” according to a statement by John Sobrato, chairman of the college’s board of trustees.
Sobrato’s statement did not specify the allegations against O’Brien but said the trustees “support those who came forward to share their accounts.”
Sometimes a guy just feels like celebrating, you know?
exhibited behaviors in adult settings, consisting primarily of conversations,
Uh-oh. So it wasn’t just whispering sweet nothings.
It’s a Jesuit college all right. A quick search finds this:
“As a part of the Office for Multicultural Learning, the Rainbow Resource Center (RRC) educates, empowers, and celebrates the experiences and identities of the LGBTQ+ community at Santa Clara University. The RRC maintains an affirming, inclusive, and welcoming environment for people of all identities. In addition, we advocate for those who self-identify within the wide spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions and educate the whole person within the context of Jesuit values.”
https://www.scu.edu/oml/rrc/
Very different school than the one my parents attended.
established 22 years after Mexico abolished slavery, so they’ve got that going for them . . . . this time
This article claims New Hampshire vs. Massachusetts could have nation-wide implications
New Hampshire’s income tax complaint against Massachusetts could have financial repercussions beyond just helping its own taxpayers. More than a dozen other states that lose tax revenue to their neighbors are supporting the Granite State’s case now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
In their joint brief, the states of Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa and New Jersey emphasized “that this issue is of nationwide importance; implicates billions of dollars in tax revenue for state treasuries; and will continue to be of great consequence in the future.”
Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah have also filed a joint amicus brief urging the court to take New Hampshire’s case.
Fauci gave Whitmer his death kiss and said she has done good things over the past year…
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/03/19/michigan-governor-may-have-covered-up-deaths-in-nursing-homes-like-cuomo-n1433778
And then nothing happened. Except she’ll probably be reelected in a couple years.
But did she sexually harass anybody?
My standing ovation would be for the arch-bishop that burned the old altar. That’s how you show you’re serious.
The whole thing is just so spectacularly special…
Sports betting became legal in NH in 2019, and March Madness betting should be big
After a year off because of COVID-19, March Madness is back, and this is the first year gamblers can legally place bets on the tournament in New Hampshire.
The New Hampshire Lottery said the tournament will be a big moneymaker for the state. The lottery is anticipating that more money will be bet in New Hampshire on the tournament than any other sporting event this year, including the last Super Bowl.
NH Senate endorses school voucher bill
The state Senate revived the cause for education vouchers Thursday, giving initial approval on a bill to award school-choice scholarships to students of low- and moderate-income families.
“We do better and work harder when we make the choice ourselves, rather than being told on how to go,” Senate Education Committee Chairman Ruth Ward, R-Stoddard, said.
Get your bobhouses in
According to state law, all bobhouses must be removed from the ice no later than the end of the day on April 1.
“The law is designed to ensure that bobhouses and their contents do not fall through the ice and become a hazard to boaters, or get left behind on shore,” Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division Lt. Robert Mancini said in a news release on Wednesday.
Mancini reminded anglers to use all precautions, including monitoring ice thickness, to ensure safety when removing bobhouses from frozen lakes and ponds. Depending on weather conditions, it may be necessary to remove bobhouses before April 1, he said.
Life imitates art; grandpas hate it and the fact that I just called a series of video games art.
I’m going to have to side with the first comment on that article:
There are hundreds (thousands?) of different Pokemon, surely there are some bug Pokemon that would have served as better namesakes for these beetles.
While I’m travelling, I’ll at least kick off the traditional Zoom/Happy Hour/Cocktail argument at 20:00 Eastern.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81197592540?pwd=ZTJlS2tYODM1TFBpbmo4czlJWlJDZz09
If you Tulpa haven’t saved the link
I aint say’n shit ever again on a zoom. It’s not my fault y’all can’t grasp the depth of my stories. I am going to sit and creep like the Bro.
And thanks Neph.
I’d say don’t let Hype drive you off.
But then I’ve not been on these things for months.
He should be honored as the only Glib with a sign all to hisself, the rest of you just get the ‘NERD’ sign.
Hype is great. You need to recalibrate your sarcasm meter dood.
I gave up on that. It keeps breaking.
I for one like your monologues/debriefs/case reports.
Soliloquies!
Cool story Sloper
Fuck off Tulip.
Sloper,
NM chiles rule.
Gotta say, I’m now a fan of Oral. Oral Roberts, that is.
What is this about? I just got a text from a colleague using this name, and I have no idea what she’s talking about.
Took down anOSU in squeekyshoeball.
One of our regular morning linkers is in the Sloop of Despond.
Ah yes, I see.
Fun story about March Madness:
About 10 years ago, my SIL invited me to her MM poll–she was being polite, since I have no interest in basketball, college or otherwise, but I figured it’d be fun to fill out a bracket and she needed one more in the group for some reason.
I built a spreadsheet model that incorporated the records of all the teams in the tournament that year going back as far as I could find. The model used old data of past head-to-head matchups and scores for each of the teams, and the closer it got to the current year, it weighted in the Vegas odds. I ran two brackets, one with the pure model output and another with the model output adjusted for “realism” (based on opinions about who had a chance and who didn’t). My pure model won the entire thing against a field of about 20 other brackets. The “realistic” bracket worked out badly.
She hasn’t invited me to fill out a bracket since.
The last bracket I filled out, I based it on which teams mascot would win in a fight, I weighted it by having the number of a teams mascots that would be in the fight equal to the seed number of their opponent. Your system seems better.
The Buckeyes couldn’t handle Oral.
Unfortunately, the only way for the Beavers to get Oral is if they both make it to the Final Four. The bracket makers missed an opportunity there.
Wow. Impressive tournament run by Tosu.
Coming up on my last week in the Army. My adventure began when I was fired from a plastic bag factory and ended when I was lured into a psych ward and held captive for 3 days. Man, pimpin’ ain’t easy. I’m no hero. I never shot at anybody and I never got shot at either. I’m glad I did it and I’m glad it’s over. I’m proud of the work I did for my country and that’s all I have to say about it.
Looking forward to a nice long road trip and a dino bone dig this summer.
Almost done with Once an Eagle. The main character is too good to be true (MoH winner, good at everything, no flaws) but otherwise an entertaining read. There’s an amusing part where the villainous careerist officer predicts that the future US will be dominated by a technocratic elite and mass media will control public opinion. Hit that nail on the head. Book was written in the 1960s.
swing by Memphis to celebrate: okay beer, the best barbecue
RIght on! Don’t let Mojeaux use her feminine wiles to trick you into thinking KC slop is better than Memphis BBQ.
I plan on driving through Kansas on my way to visit the national parks in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. Plus visiting any willing Glib along the way, or even out of the way.
freedom + money = happiness
If ya swing through Vegas I might be up for a beer
I was lured into a psych ward and held captive for 3 days
Wait, what?
You think he could dive so deeply into derp and remain sane?
I flamed out bad. Was fed up with the bureaucracy in general and my squad leader in particular and raised hell about it. They had suspected I was suicidal before and the suicide rate in my battalion was already much worse than the rest of the Army. Plus the stress of trying to quit booze. It was a perfect storm. Can’t blame them too much.
The night of my meltdown, 2 NCOs came to my room and said I had to go to the hospital for a mando psych eval. I go and tell my sob story. Doc says he wants to keep me overnight just to be safe. OK, I said. An hour later they say get in this wheelchair, we’re taking you upstairs to talk to a psychiatrist. Once inside, they lock the doors behind me and tell me to strip to my underwear. Bit of a shock that was. Talked to the shrink the next morning while dressed like a POW. Shrink says he’s OK with letting me out in 3 days. Talked to my commander when I got out and decided it was time to move on.
There’s more to the story, so I’m sparing you guys most of the gory details. I went on the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ride and it was not fun.
Oh yeah – to get out in 3 days, I had to sign a form saying I came to the ward voluntarily. A nice polite, face-saving fiction that was. Also sidesteps legal hurdles involving guns.
Sorry to hear that, Derpy.
Smart to sign the form, though. “Involuntary” means you were considered a danger to self and others (ask me how I know). It will avoid more legal issues than just the ones involving guns.
Yeah, plus lawyering up means being stuck in the Epstein suite even longer. It was a long shot for me to be a soldier at all and I beat the odds. No regrets. Some guys join and get an early grave.
Jesus, sorry Derpy. I can remember when you were working on enlisting. Was just yesterday.
Once An Eagle was a favorite of mine as a snuffy. If I remember, he does have an affair a la Eisenhower in a moment of loneliness.
So do I.
Derpy, sorr to read that too.
I’m glad I did it and I’m glad it’s over. I’m proud of the work I did for my country
That pretty much sums up my feelings about my stint with Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children. As I’ve grown older, I’ve also come to appreciate more and more how lucky I was to never had to shoot at anyone or let them shoot at me.
Parasites
Millions of Americans work full time yet are still impoverished, their wages so low that they qualify for federal health care and food assistance programs even though many of them are employed by the biggest and most profitable U.S. companies. Because those companies don’t pay their workers a living wage, taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for daily necessities those employees can’t afford to buy themselves.
In short, corporate America is pawning off the cost of rock-bottom wages on taxpayers.
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Income inequality isn’t merely an academic issue. As more and more workers find it difficult to stay afloat, their purchasing power decreases, which stunts economic growth. It’s also inequitable and inefficient to have taxpayers opening their wallets when the corporate till is filled to the brim.
Bring back wage and price controls!
Letting in a bunch of low wage workers should solve the problem.
Horseshit. Taxpayers could put an end to the scam if they wanted to.
their wages so low that they qualify for federal health care and food assistance programs
Of course, qualifying for welfare and needing welfare are two different things.
A living wage for a family of four in Bessemer, by the way, is $31.40 an hour ($19.22 an hour if both parents are working)
$19 an hour x 4,000 hours = $76,000. I suspect that’s a living-pretty-well income in Bessemer, AL ( suburb of Birmingham). The median family income in AL was under $50K in 2018.
You expect them to work 4000 hours? Then they can’t live!
So let’s throw even more Monopoly money in to the economy and make it all worth even less, further decreasing your purchasing power!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHCVyllnck
Jennifer Bates, an Amazon worker in a fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, did testify at the hearing. She confirmed what has already been widely reported about working conditions at Amazon warehouses: Workers toil under harsh conditions for miserly wages. A living wage for a family of four in Bessemer, by the way, is $31.40 an hour ($19.22 an hour if both parents are working), well above Amazon’s minimum wage of $15.
All they want is a living wage, so they can afford nice things.
Is that really too much to ask?
Don’t start a family of four if you can’t pay for a family of four.
Duh.
Fuck living wage.
*Kicks Kinnath out of the village*
J/K
Dear Free Shit Crowd,
Fuck.off.and.die.
I remember all the jammeren about child slavery and wage rates in the early Industrial Revolution and I noticed: few simply just went back to farming in Fuckallshire or wherever.
That door you begged to walk in: it works on the way out just as well . . . better, really, Life Safety Code and all.
$31.40 an hour is about $65k a year.
Hey, those daily necessities like cable tv and a smartphone don’t pay for themselves.
+1 avocado toast order
Double Latte Factor 3, Mr. Sulu.
If you can’t get the latest Tesla, latest IPhone, have the fastest internet with satellite TV package…is it really worth living?
Wait a second… is she suggesting that workers should be paid on the basis of their marital status?
Curious how she divided that up also…
A little extra for child care and for the retail therapy for being married.
No; she’s suggesting that if both parents are working, they each need to earn less than if only one parent is working.
I’m assuming it’s more than half because of things like child care expenses.
Right, but if the model is paying workers based on their “need”, rather than normal factors, then married worked “need” to be paid less.
Coming up on my last week in the Army.
Good luck. Onward and upward.
I learned something I did not know about welding with flux core wire via youtube, last night. You orient the gun so as to “drag” the puddle behind you. This apparently allows the slag to get to the top.
In tig welding, which is all I have done for about 25 years, that’s not an issue.
My favorite part about GMAW is the lack of slag. Fluxcore wire always seemed like a step backwards to me. MIG is the joy of point and squirt without the chippen und der scrapen mit der chipperen hammer.
If you really want to put down some molten metal, gas shielded fluxcore is the way to go and is what we run for material 1/4″ and thicker.
Got started on TIG this week. Takes some practice to make the proper wrist movements. Should get my certificate (which does zip to get me a job) in May. 6 weeks til I’m one of those Morlocks who was too dumb to get and Ivy League degree.
Spring is here? maybe for the Weekend, I walked 8 miles at work today, then golfed 18 holes, total 10 miles, I’m wiped out and Sunburned, Yippee!
It’s going to be 50s and mid-60s here this week. Really looking forward to that. We’ve had a taste of it in the last couple of weeks and I want more.
I golfed 8 days in a row last week, maybe 5 days this week before rains, I’m digging the Weather,
So let’s throw even more Monopoly money in to the economy and make it all worth even less, further decreasing your purchasing power!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! You don’t understand. Prices won’t change, but they’ll have more money, so they can buy more stuff. JUSTICE!
I’m sure that what the models say.
According to my model, the current output from my model agrees with the past output from my model within a 95% confidence interval.
So, we are Fucked? that’s my belief
We were fucked before most of us were born.
Truth, we just didn’t know….
“Prices won’t change, ”
Economists need to check prices at their local lumber dealer.
Not to mention their local grocery store.
I normally get lump charcoal 15lb bag for like $12 bucks….went to replenish and it is $18 bucks. Maybe season, I don’t know, but it used to never fluctuate that dramatically.
Charcoal is definitely up. I buy an 8lb bag of Royal Oak at Kroger. Normally 7.99, last time it was 10.99.
Holy shit ain’t that the truth. With that sweet, sweet govt payoff money, we were gonna redo our back deck. It’s pretty small, just 9X9ft, and the guy we’re getting a quote from says materials alone are gonna be $3900.
Heheh. Chair Force One
https://mobile.twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1372954985709801475
I like this one.
Why bother?
The judge in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin says he won’t move the case to another venue or delay the proceedings. Chauvin’s defense attorney had sought to change the trial’s location, arguing that a jury pool would be unduly influenced by recent news of Minneapolis’ settlement with George Floyd’s family.
“I do not think that that would give the defendant any kind of a fair trial beyond what we are doing here today,” Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said. “I don’t think there’s any place in the state of Minnesota that has not been subjected to extreme amounts of publicity on this case.”
Just go ahead and hang the son of a bitch.
Seems they are teeing up a pretty solid appeal.
The riots after the verdict is overturned on appeal will be glorious (unless you live there of course).
I don’t think there’s any place in the state of Minnesota that has not been subjected to extreme amounts of publicity on this case
Now that’s how you set up an appeal. The judge basically said he can’t a fair trial anywhere in MN, so there’s no reason to change venue.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/19/psaki-on-corporations-raising-prices-due-to-higher-taxes-biden-believes-people-know-they-dont-need-to-raise-prices/
And I go to bed with Kate Beckinsale and my wife every night if we are going to live in fantasy land from now on.
They won’t raise prices, they’ll shrink product. Totes different.
the Half Gallon Ice cream that’s now 1.75 liters? Clever they are,
That and I see that as a signal from the WH that they will use the full force of the Federal Government against any corp that ‘raises’ prices when they are being raked over the coals.
We are so Fucked, but I said that already…
CoRpoRaTIoNs aRen’T pEOpLe
Corporations are groups of people, and thus are more important.
HEAD——>DESK
Not bad. https://babylonbee.com/video/36
From the Bee – That thread seems….awfully familiar in its title.
Open Discussion Thread: What Are You Reading Right Now?
LOLolllOL…
I would pay hard cash if Kerry Donovan and Lauren Boebert held their debates in jello wrestling.
My money would be on Kerry, she’s got a few pounds on Lauren and her cowgirl schtick seems more honest that Laurens gun-girl image.
Ya, cowgirl my ass. She hasn’t seen a gungrabber bill she opposed. She is my state senator thanks to some creative gerrymandering. Fuck that bitch. She comes from Vail real estate money when her daddy cashed in on the boom of running out all the millionaires for the billionaires, which is fine but she aint no cowgirl. Owning a ranch doesn’t make one a cow person. Especially politicians who own ranches.
Owning a ranch doesn’t make one a cow person.
Drive through the Hill Country around Austin. You’ll see dozens? hundreds? of “ranches”, with nary a cowperson for miles.
Oh her and her husband who works for (according to wiki) the newly elected Senator, and former Governor, John Hickenlooper may own a ranch, but they don’t run it unless they are super people. Also, I hate Vail. It is a scourge on the state of Colorado. They are close to owning every ski area in the state. Locusts just like the people that live there.
I’m just judging them on their physical appearance (as women should be judged) and she’s a more convincing cowgirl than the the bookworm-ish one is as a gun slinger.
lol……ok, point taken
The eruption is starting
Looks like the Elder Gods have decided they’re tired of all this shit.
Good, time to Awaken,
Get up early
Gold:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMiHtAHHg5b/?igshid=1m5bii4u9v7ll
There is no end to the shit being broadcast as “news” these days.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-fine-tripping-times-jogging-steps-air-force/story?id=76561006
Biden ‘just fine’ after tripping 3 times jogging up steps to Air Force One
Jogging? He was gingerly creeping up those steps. The fuck outta here with that.
Meh, he had a little spring in his step until he stumbled, I wouldn’t call it jogging but it wasn’t gingerly creeping either.
He was moving faster for the cameras to show his spryness than a fellow his age probably should and he busted his ass. Probably not more to read into it than that.
Fair take.
He boasted back in the Trump Era about how much more fit he was than Trump because he jogs up stairs. Now he’s stuck with the schtick, because nobody can admit he’s old and getting frail.
I would probably prefer him to Harris – he’s a weathervane, she’s a true believer.
Sounds about right.
Spry, jogging, spring in his step! Such propaganda
Totes Propaganda, You can’t hide his decline, or KH leading the Country to it’s Death,
WE are so Fucked
2nd dose of Pfizer next week. Same with the wife.
I’ll respect private property rights, but…
Karens beware.
I’m taking the family to Palm Desert for Spring Break, same as I’ve done for the last 13 years. Will be eager to point out hypocrisy, and to mock people in general.
Big Boss asked how I felt about it, we can jump the line cause Agriculture, I said only the J and J, because it’s a known protein Vaccine, like Polio,
Still scared though, Boss was very cool about the whole thing, so my job is safe, for now,
/I love my job
Novavax is a trad vaccine that will hopefully be approved in early May. That’s what I’m waiting for although your situation may demand sooner.
I turned it down about a month ago. They’re really pushing it on us now. I have little to no fear of covid and think the old and fat people should get it all first. Anyway, why modify my genes to prevent a disease that only even requires hospitalization in 1% of the people who get it ( which is around 1% of the gen pop)? I might be more inclined to take an old fashioned one like J&J, but I really don’t feel like I need it.
So it seems that an elementary school in Maryland is named after George Fox, a racist from the 1930s, so they want to change the name.
Maybe they can just pass a resolution keeping the school’s name but changing the namesake. Just like King County, WA used to be named after a slaveowner named King* and now it’s named after Martin Luther King.
So in considering George Fox Middle School, let the educators get to work and find out if there was another George Fox worth honoring.
https://www.capitalgazette.com/education/ac-cn-george-fox-racism-renaming-20210318-rkxcziuch5bubixk6qhsmukie4-story.html
*Who was James Buchanan’s man-crush.
They could name it after Redd Foxx.
Or just name it Schooly McSchoolface.
My God that would be awesome.
Cant do it he’s a white supremacists.
Britney Fox Middle School for Young Persons Identifying as Female
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAi8Jc2hrw
George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends. An early abolitionist.
Megan Fox Middle School?
The Catholic Church still isn’t gay enough –
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/3/19/22340810/pope-francis-homosexuality-same-sex-marriage-decree-sin-laura-washington
Been in Panama City all week. Also got my shots. Random tourist groups and waitstaff are the only people masking. Feels good here.
Panama City, Florida, or is it the one here –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKDBPw8wQA
A little levity levits the whole bunch.
“Seagulls”, by Yoda: https://youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E