Get some, Oral!
::Looks at a few sports websites. Winces at lack of news::
Well, the NCAA tournament is back today, thankfully. We’ll have some sports next week to report on.
Lovely woman, lovely voice.
Birthday celebrants for today are poet Robert Frost, first South Korean president Syngman Rhee, restaurant guide Duncan Hines, fashion pioneer Guccio Gucci, Puma founder Rudolf Dassler, playwright Tennessee Williams, actor Strother Martin, pioneering jurist (whose achievements the left ignores) Sandra Day O’Connor, actor Leonard Nimoy, grifter/terrorist-enabler Mahmoud Abbas, power-mad asshole Nancy Pelosi, tiresome biologist Richard Dawkins, lovely singer Diana Ross, rocker Steven Tyler, Canadian funnyman Martin Short, baseball players Jose Vizcaino and Shane Reynolds, and the lovely Keira Knightly.
That wasn’t a bad list. But now its time for…the links!
“Could” mean, they say? “Fuck off,” I respond.
Seems legit.
“Thorough questioning”, you say? “Fuck off twice,” I respond. That was about as probing and thorough a press conference as one Kim Jong Un faces. The picture book with who to call on and in what order added a nice touch to the propaganda session.
Damn, who the hell gives a bank teller their phone? What a scumbag.
Oh no! Not a photo ID! You monsters!!! And we see the soft bigotry of low expectations rear its ugly head, as prominent leftists claim black and hispanic people are somehow incapable of figuring out where the DMV is located and getting there.
Good!!! Now go back and prosecute the sonofabitch.
The alternative never even occurs to these assholes, does it? Just cut spending, you dumb, greedy bastards!
This hasn’t made the national news yet. I suppose they learned their lesson from Boulder and are going to wait to find out the race of the assailant before deciding whether it’s worth running.
Imbecile
::Shits on mayor’s desk:: ::Asks for monthly stipend:: What? I’m a performance artist.
Gee, who couldn’t have seen this coming? I myself will read this as a cautionary tale and be a little less obvious when I decide to get free government money to continue upgrading my fleet. What cars would you choose should you find yourself wanting to run this scam? Answer in the comments.
Here’s a nice, light, happy song. Enjoy it!
Now get out there and have a great Friday and an even better weekend, friends!
Interesting how government and their media sycophants are conflating “more infectious” with “deadlier.”
Actually, it’s not interesting, it’s infuriating.
CNN’s job is literally to terrify the nation.
Assholes.
Maybe we can get a variant of CNN.
No. We need to permanently eradicate CNN
There’s nothing but variants. MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.
More infectious and more deadly? Nah, they don’t say which is by design of course. Considering viruses will tend to flow into characteristics that enable self-replication less deadly is much more likely (although bad luck of the draw can result in a bad mofo circulating around for a bit).
A selection of headlines from my local rag:
DOOM! DOOM!
The only headline on my local rag was “Stayfree”.
Better than “SugarFree”… followed by pages of Subaru Horror Theater.
Nyuck!
Was expecting a narrow gaze, but will take Curly.
sloopy found 2 more baseball birthdays than I found worth mentioning. Not a good day.
One of these things is not like the others.
If it’s a Macan Turbo S, then you’d be right. It’s an outlier as far as performance goes. Because it’s soooo much better than the other two. I recently got a Macan S that’s tuned out like a GTS and it drives like a fucking rocket.
On the car question, I’ll give my answer (not including my current Macan or Boxster):
Porsche 992 Turbo S Cabriolet
Porsche Cayenne Turbo S
Porsche 993 Turbo S
Porsche 982 Spyder
and for the enviros a Jaguar E-type Zero
That’s it. That’s the list.
Ferrari because I’m greasy Italian/Eruo trash.
I’m absolutely certain I will buy nothing but German cars from here on out. Unless I’m buying a classic.
This statement is the Sloopy equivalent of, “Hold my beer. Watch this!”
I don’t think I have ever voted without showing a photo id. Maybe in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin was weird — even back in the early 90s, they had same day registration. I was able to vote based on having an electric bill with my name and address. I don’t remember if I also had to show my ID to prove I was that person, but probably not.
The poll workers in NY got angry that I wanted to show ID.
I live in a place small enough that the elderly poll workers recognize me.
Ditto.
I’ve never had to show ID. Just sign on the dotted line and hope that it sort of looks like what’s on file at the DMV.
It used to be required in Virginia before the Democrats took over.
Never shown ID to vote. Have to show ID every time I buy pistol ammo.
Unpossible. I’m assured that Getting a Gun is easier than Voting/getting and Abortion/[Whatever thing the left things i need to pay for on someone elses behalf]
I hear you can walk in, put cash on the counter, and walk out with a fully semi-automatic assault weapon. They come pre-loaded with armor piercing ammunition in 200-round magazines.
I’ve always had to provide some form of ID to cast a vote – voter registration card, utility bill, or a drivers license are among the the forms of ID they will accept. I’ve been “carded” every time I’ve voted. I thought that was the process everywhere.
Dangerous Covid-19 variants could mean all bets are off on the road to normalcy, expert warns
Go. To. Hell.
I notice the term “permanent pandemic” has popped up. Another term for that is “endemic”. You know, like every other flu. But one wonders why the word games…
We have been endemic since at least September if not last May.
Meanwhile, monthly figures released by the state Labor Department on Thursday showed that unemployment in the city ticked up slightly, to 12.9 percent in February from 12.6 percent in January.
Even the fake number seems high. Dayum.
OFFS! How is any of that legal?
It isn’t but that doesn’t matter anymore. Your long national nightmare is finally over! Welcome to the bright, shiny future of President Dumpling!
Hey, the local political class’s cronies gotta eat too. The multi-million dollar contracts barely cover their beach side mortgages.
Sorry, gotta have standing to sue. Oh, and having your taxes frittered away on unconstitutional shit sure as hell isn’t standing.
I’ve had no desire to move to California, but if they pay me to paint all day, I suppose I could play sled hockey for the Ducks or the Kings.
Who gives the bank teller her phone? One of Q’s cuties.
President Joe Biden faced some of the most thorough questioning in his presidency Thursday when he answered just over an hour’s worth of queries from the news media during his first formal press conference since taking office.
“Some of the most”… More like “the only”. And it was anything but thorough. He answered a question about guns with a canned infrastructure response. Someone must have gone out of turn or he lost the cue card. And he walked away from the podium as if it would help him hear a question better then started answering before getting back to the podium. No mic on your suit, jackass. It was just awful.
You trumptards are just angry that Trump was so incompetent that he didn’t know how to run a Press Corps like a well oiled do nothing grinder.
It’s funny to think of what the media’s reaction would be if Trump had ever held a “press conference” like that.
Cheat sheets and tiny handwriting on the inside of your wrist.
I can’t wait to see all the late night show hosts mock Biden. *holds breath* *turns blue* *passes out*
You should have bet on late night hosts mocking people that don’t believe it was the greatest press conference in history.
“John Oliver Rips apart people making fun of Joe Biden’s amazing press conference, Hillarious”
I don’t think we can call a birthday list with Nancy Pelosi on it “not a bad list.”
Hey Bill!
She was probably a sweet baby. Not sure when she decided to turn evil.
Hey hey, leon! How are things?
I was trying to think of a way to relate her to the Grinch, but it’s too early for that, and I’ve been awake too long.
Things are great, you? Besides getting up to early?
Yep, I’m getting along. The 9 month old decided to be angry at 5:00 and it was my turn to wrangle him.
Oof. I didn’t know you had a little one though. Congrats!
Thanks. Yep, spawn #3. He’s been the easiest, but far, but seems to be going through a bit if a sleep regression.
Pelosi was never a baby.
Remember that charcoal briquette looking thing at the end of Time Bandits? That’s a Pelosi egg. That’s where Pelosis are hatched from.
True story.
It was actually a humiliating display to the rest of the world. Spin,spin,spin.
Which one of you is responsible for the Suez Canal? Looks like my wife trying to parallel park.
It was me. I successfully parallel parked once. It was my Driver’s test.
It’s not that hard.
/flaunts his Mini Cooper privilege
A woman I dated (OG-2X-OG) had a Ford Ranger. Me, with my Ram2500 quad cab with full 8′ bed. I could parallel park the Ram a thousand times easier than messing with her tonka truck. I felt like a moron trying to get it into a parking spot.
The girlfriend got… irritated… with me once when I drove us up to the West Side Market. I was driving around the side streets looking for some street parking, saw a spot going the other way, and U-turned into the parking spot.
Her car is a bit… larger.
I recall the parallel parking portion of the driving test. It wasn’t in a controlled environment. It was between two cars parked on a residential street. I took the test in my father’s car, so I was extra worried about catastrophically failing any portion of the test.
Parallel parking is a sport.
In some areas, it is a contact sport.
**Looks innocently skyward**
? But you’ll always know your neighbor
You’ll always know your pal
If you ever navigated on the Suez Canal
Don Boudreaux at cafehayek.com had a funny take on it. All of the anti-trade people should be cheering it on, recommending we send the army in to stop those trying to clear the canal. After Suez is closed permanently, they can go to Panama and work on it.
It will make us all richer!
SEA SMITH.
New Character? SUEZ SMITH?
“What cars would you choose should you find yourself wanting to run this scam? Answer in the comments.”
Well, classic Barracuda or Challenger, of course. Catalina convertible ca 1968 for those Go-Go’s moments with SP, Riven, KK and Tulip. The current 911 Carrera S looks nice, so that. Tacoma 4D TRD Pro off-road, for hauling kayaks and bikes. Meticulously restored Subaru SVX in pearl white with sunroof (shout-out to my buddy Carlos).
69 Lincoln Continental for moi.
Pimpin’
Cadillac DeVille or GTFO
That’s really odd. The last car I owned in the US was a yellow 84 Sedan DeVille.
Not a bad list. Not bad at all. I was looking for new-ish stuff, so I’ll amend mine now with a 63 Stingray and a 356 Spyder. .
I got laid in an escort once.
“In” or “by?”
^ “Tea Room” Nice, Animal!
I fell for the old banana in the tailpipe trick.
Yes.
Something similar but I was much younger and bendy back then. “Bring back bench seats!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PkgXArxRxy8
Dang!
Was it expensive? I could never aFord an escort.
I have occasionally indulged, sometimes went out on an Expedition looking for such things. But back when I was young I was something of a Maverick. These days I have to Pin-to the line.
It is your Civic duty to support local business women though, isn’t it?
Citation needed.
I banged a fat girl in a Ford Pinto. Summer, no a/c, and vinyl seats. The sweat percolating up from her fat rolls covered everything, and the seat was like a Slip-n-Slide.
Great, now I have a nostalgia boner.
And I have less appetite than Wednesdays at noon. urgh
There was a bitch waitress that drove a Taurus at the bar I used to work at. Somebody …ahem… taped the letters “Cli” in front of the lettering on the back of her car.
And then her boyfriend could never find her car again?
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run.
Vote by mail is horseshit and, yes, state legislatures control elections. I like the use of “restrictions” in lieu of “integrity measures”.
Among other things, the law requires a photo ID in order to vote absentee by mail, after more than 1.3 million Georgia voters used that option during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also cuts the time people have to request an absentee ballot and limits where ballot drop boxes can be placed and when they can be accessed.
Ballot drop boxes are horseshit and you should 1) prove who you are and 2) have a valid reason to vote absentee. I fail to see a problem.
Democrats and voting rights groups say the law will disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color.
Why? They don’t know “how to get online to get in line”? They can’t obtain an ID? Who are the racists again?
The Dems know full well that blacks and Hispanics are perfectly capable of obtaining photo ID but that it impedes fraud. It’s not that they are bigoted, against those folks anyway, but that they have to pretend certain groups of people are incompetent in order to enable their schemes.
This. They don’t believe the bullshit, but claiming racial disparity is the quickest and easiest way to get the courts to rubber-stamp and Dem election
fraudfortification scheme.It’s that they don’t have the time and resources to do those things. None of them has the money for a computer or smartphone. They all work four jobs and put in 26.5-hour days. They don’t have cars so have to rely on informal, unreliable transportation networks and spend another four hours each day waiting for the bus. The one hour a day the man lets them take off is deliberately timed for when the registrars and polls are closed.
Hey now! That old nag ain’t gonna shoe herself!
They’re all Jamaican??
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtfdH3-TQ4
A survey involving the bellwether restaurant industry this week found that 75 percent of more than 400 city eateries reported their annual revenues had plunged by more than half last year.
So you are saying it is the perfect time to raise taxes.
And the minimum wage
Classic Corvettes up to the C4 and definitely a couple of modern Z06’s.
1996 Ford Bronco Centurion 7.3 powerstroke
2021 F550 crew cab with a custom hauler bed
2021 F750 flatbed with a crane
1967 Lincoln continental convertible
1967 Impala
1971 Ford Mustang Eleanor
1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt
2012 Ford Mustang GT500 Convertible
1967 Cuda Convertible
1978 Crew cab F250
Another fan of the pimpmobile.
I’m not a small man. I need room in the back seat to switch. A bench front seat is pretty awesome too.
All wonderful. I’d add Skyline GTR to that.
If I had the money, I’d only own one expensive car. Whatever is fastest at the nearest road course, but less than $500K. I would do short term leases for daily drivers.
“Hey Cy, how much to borrow all your cars for one week each?”
Pontiac GP 69-73
Dodge Monaco 66-67
Any Torino up to mid 70’s
Buick Riviera 2nd to third gen
Early to late 70’s Dodge pickups and Ramchargers
68-68 Dodge Coronet 500 and R/T or Plymouth equivalent
71 Dodge Demon 340
I’d definitely get a modern Demon. Those are some great choices. But after what Dodge did to my family in my childhood I’ll never touch one.
This is the only correct answer.
That certainly is not a wrong answer.
Weird that it has 3 spd transmission.
I don’t know what my daily driver would be, but my weekend ride would be a 1967 Sunbeam Tiger II.
There are a lot of cool and beautiful fast cars that I can’t drive because I’m not a midget.
That’s why the Tiger is the weekend ride. The daily driver would be something nice and fast, but also more comfortable.
Eight people were shot, one fatally, in a mass shooting at a gathering in Chicago’s Wrightwood neighborhood Friday morning, police said.
The shooting occurred in the 2500-block West 79th Street at about 12:08 a.m., police said. The victims were at a gathering when police said two male suspects opened fire inside.
A “gathering”. 12:08am. Chicago. This one ain’t making national news.
When I saw Chicago I knew that it wasn’t going to be news. Can’t pimp gun control using one of the most controlled jurisdictions.
It’s odd that they leave out a bunch of details that normally would be in the headline..
Odd…
So odd…
Details are RaCiSt.
Chicago’s “gun control” got mostly knocked out by courts some time back. You may remember the small case of “McDonald v. City of Chicago”?
Do you need to get Sheriffs Approval to get a CCW?
Nope – State cops do all the paperwork. And IL is Shall Issue.
No one in custody yet either. Top notch police work.
If “in police custody” is white and “dead” is black, what race gets to elude the authorities?
Asians.
Birthday girl music
I hate/love you teds.
Last night I heard some stuff on the radio about some new police atrocity in Minneapolis. Looking at it this morning, it is weak sauce.
From the video I saw in that story, I see a bunch of cops taking someone down and a cop throws a punch. I’m no copsucker and it looks to me like the punch was while they were subduing the guy. Cops beat people way too often, but unless there is other video that I haven’t seen, this isn’t one of those times.
This story is going to be huge on the woke left though. Why? The “victims” were violent thugs not some drunk or otherwise harmless guy. Also CAIR is involved. They are always around when shit is going to go sideways.
Like the kids are wont to say. “Fuck around and find out.”
Apple doesn’t all far from the tree. Took the 12 year old to her piano lesson today. They took my temp with the temperature gun at the front desk and the kid says to me, “Looks like the IQ tester is working.” Ouch. And it was in C not F. Double ouch.
Did you tell her she should be thankful. If you were smarter she would have been abandoned in the hospital?
I’ll holster that for next time.
I raised one of them too. Expect the burn to continue for at least the next 5 years. Cherish these moments, Straff! When the youngest (who is the smart-aleck) saw “Oz” for the first time she blurted out “Don’t drop the soap!” She was about eleven. Where she heard that term escapes me but it was side-splittingly funny. Now she’s a Karen. sigh
Wonder if she knew what it meant.
“The arts are truly critical to our local economy and are an essential part of our long-term recovery,” Breed said in a statement. “If we help the arts recover, the arts will help San Francisco recover.”
Your shits all retarded and your priorities are fucked.
Emphasis on the last part
We won’t let you work, but look at this the canvas covered in feces that your taxes paid for. Well, you taxes would have paid for if we allowed you to work.
As for the number of daily infections, Walensky said, “What worries me is the steady flow of 50,000, 60,000 — and we continue to see that even today.”
“If we get to herd immunity through infection, I won’t be able to strut around on this stage, preening and bossing people around. That would be bad.”
Not stated is how many are asymptomatic and how many tests are being administered daily (affecting the total number of false positives)?
Don’t forget the hospitalization and death rates which are now buried in the stories (if they’re included).
Death rates…buried. You slay me.
Ugh, wish I could remember where I heard this, but I read that PCR tests can pick up illnesses you had years ago; anyone here know how far they actually go back? Last time I caught anything was a cold five years ago.
The reliability of the PCR test is dependent on the number of cycles they put the sample thru replication.
IIRC, Germany has limited the cycles 25 because higher than that gets into asymptomatic and in some cases false positives from other previous coronavirus infections.
My understanding is that the US testing facilities is putting most of them thru at 40 cycles, or there is simply no stipulation on max/min cycles.
The testings will continue until moral improves?
Jesus, my grammar….
Need more covfefe…
Might have been from Tom Woods’s OH epidemiologist lady the other day. I knew about the hypersensitivity, just didn’t know it could go years back, if true.
Rutger’s makes vaccine mandatory.
Rutgers wasn’t on my son’s list of possible schools, but it’s definitely on the “NO FUCKING WAY” list now.
Probably also a bunch of branch Covidians at most schools too
I talked with my wife’s uncle who is the vice president of a small conservative Christian university. Evidently even they have to deal with a bunch of mask nazi students. The kids aren’t alright.
I live in a small MN town with two local colleges, and I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen college kids walking through the neighborhood or around town – by themselves! – with masks on.
Theory: there’s so much ideological conformity and progressive shariah browbeating going on in colleges that students avoid any social faux pas, even something nominally unrelated like wearing the stupid mask, to avoid making themselves a target.
Off the top of my head:
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-51 Mustang
Embraer Phenom 100
Extra 300
I could probably secure a P-38 for you.
I would love to fly a P-38. They’re pretty damn rare, though. I wanted to put it on the list, but I’m not even sure $24 million would get you one.
$24 million? You could get a lot of P-38s for that.
Yeah, and I know some friends who have P-51 time in their logbooks.
P-38s were/are my favorite warbird.
Never seen one in real life, even back when I used to go to airshows around Atlanta. Would still love to.
P-61 made it on my list as an odd cousin of the P-38.
And Catalinas just because they’re gorgeous.
There’s one on display at the Udvar-Hazy center. Also, one at the EAA Museum (in the back room collection–they also have an F4U Corsair, a DeHavilland Mosquito, and Paul Poberezny’s personal P-51. I got to climb around in the Mosquito, and sit in the P-51 cockpit on a private tour, but the P-38 was not open for sitting in, unfortunately.
There’s a DHC Mosquito at Paul Allen’s museum in Everett. My girlfriend decided it was going to be her favorite airplane, and she doesn’t even like airplanes.
I’m happy for the Mosquito that it’s somebody’s favorite….
I tried and tried to like them, and lots of things about them should make that easy, but the visuals just never did it for me.
Oh, and yes, the P-61 is a really cool airplane as well. It had like 4 or 5 20mm cannon, plus a battery of .50 cal MGs in a remotely aimable turret. What a gunship that must have been.
Psh… P-51 Twin Mustang or you’re just one of the plebs!
CNN’s job is literally to terrify the nation.
Hate, fear and fascism. It’s what’s on.
In that sense it’s pretty similar to Fox circa November 2001 thru the Iraq invasion.
“They hate us for our freedoms!” That feeling 20 years later when you realize the “they” in that sentence is DC.
Pretty much
It’s a path to the dark side.
By all means, feel free to leave. No one has a gun to your head.
“I don’t think we can any longer equate freedom with the unfettered right to own assault rifles,” Hostin said. “That is not freedom. Because I feel like a hostage right now. I feel like a hostage to the selfish people who insist on owning these types of weapons. That is not freedom in the country.”
She turned to those Americans holding her “hostage” and added, “You are not a patriot because you feel you have the right to own these types of weapons. You should be taking care of your fellow Americans.”
She concluded, “It is time to start talking right now about gun control.”
“Unfettered”…
Hostages have dedicated makeup people, get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, etc… etc…
Hey lady, how bout you put your money where your mouth is and personally come over to my house and try to take mine away. I’ll even make you a coffee and tell you where it is. It’s on you to access it, identify it, and take it. Good luck. By the way, my AR is simply pedestrian compared to some of the other guns you’ll be passing up.
Oddly enough, “I feel” doesn’t negate my natural rights…
Exactly. A lunatic might “feel” like he’s Napoleon Bonaparte. That doesn’t mean it’s the rest of our responsibility to bow down to him as our Emperor. My owning or not owning any type of gun I want to has no effect whatsoever on her life. Her feeling to the contrary is an irrational one supported by no evidence whatsoever. She has no right to impose on my rights to indulge her irrationality.
Talk about missing the point. The whole reason that I own an assault rifle is to discouage my ‘fellow Americans’ from ‘taking care of me.’
As always, the projection is strong with the left.
I would not buy anything with a curb weight in excess of 2500 pounds. How much does a Lotus Exige weigh?
https://notthebee.com/article/prepare-to-gouge-out-your-eyes-as-you-watch-this-woman-sing-a-disney-song-about-bidens-stimulus-plan
I wonder if she’s “educated”
Also is this another like 6k page bill?
Nothing says “competent leadership” like printing and spending into oblivion.
It’s straight from the Rich White Woman Cult.
When I think “Joe Biden” I think “morality and decency”.
Trump’s fave, I remember. (Did I slightly misquote him yesterday? Was it “You are really something”? I know I laughed my ass off watching it live anyway.)
NPR, ’nuff said.
They’re an embarrassment to journalism. Sean Hannity does more actual reporting than they do.
Some excellent trolling by a Minnesoda legislator.
His map is pretty epic and also a good illustration of the political split in Minnesoda between the Metro and Greater Minnesoda.
Crystal Lake? Not a prime camping spot I’d imagine.
I’d lean the opposite. Probably a very popular camping area… I mean people kept going back there.
Of course it’s no Springwood, Ohio where the palm trees sway in the wind.
“The” South Dakota? As opposed to “a” South Dakota?
Journalism may be a step up from illiteracy, but if so it’s a tiny, tiny step.
We’re going to have more South Dakotas.
I read it as “the southernmost Dakota”.
Maybe I’m missing something. I hear a lot of stuff about how we need to continue restrictions because of potential variants. Strictly though, “potential variant” means “disease that hasn’t come around yet”, doesn’t it? And restrictions around a disease that hasn’t come around yet means restrictions for a non-existent, but potential, disease. If you’re doing that, it strikes me that you never lift restrictions. There’s always a non-existent, but potential, disease out there. I mean, if you accept that (I don’t, Preet), it’s certainly possible that there’s aliens who will blow up the Earth unless we throw the political and bureaucratic classes into woodchippers. Wouldn’t that possibility dictate similar precautions?
This is the public health version of “You’re all going to die unless you cede your freedoms to us.”
Previously it was terrorists.
I’d say it’s worse. At least there were actual terrorists someone could possibly point to as a threat. This is like saying “You need to cede your rights to us to protect you from terrorists that we know don’t exist, but might possibly exist in the future.”
“Thank you for keeping us safe!” ?
I already have my rock. No other measures needed.
Where did you buy your rock?? Did they have any left?!
Apple doesn’t all far from the tree. Took the 12 year old to her piano lesson today. They took my temp with the temperature gun at the front desk and the kid says to me, “Looks like the IQ tester is working.” Ouch. And it was in C not F. Double ouch.
Awesome.
It’s seasonal, like the flu.
So in 48 hours we’ve gone from “There’s no migrant ‘surge’…” to “The migrant ‘surge’” was predictable. That’s a big change. I realize that authors often don’t write their own headlines but in this case the headline reflected a claim in the story itself. In the original version there was a paragraph saying there was no migrant “surge or crisis.”
Word games are fun.
*Dons tin-foil dunce cap*
Strictly though, “potential variant” means “disease that hasn’t come around yet”, doesn’t it?
aka “nameless faceless bogeyman”
Has this video from the press briefing been debunked?
Uffda. Please tell me that is a fake news video. I don’t have the ability to look through the actual video myself to verify it. If it is true, we are so fucked. Not so much because Biden is a drooling idiot, but because our “watchdog” press refuses to cover it.
Trump walks slowly down a ramp and there is nonstop speculation that he is about to die. Joe can’t make it through a sentence and everything is fine.
Speaking of which….
Powerline has an excellent collection of Joe vs Stairs memes
I love the updated campaign logo.
What he obviously meant was “Everything that you hold near and dear, Truth, Justice and the American Way!” He just has a little stutter. Fuck me dead.
No i’ve seen it elsewhere in different layouts. It is real.
Just the old stutter coming to the fore again…
(Note: it’s not the old stutter coming to the fore again)
The worst is that he seems to look in his book for who to call on for a question. How is that amount of coordination between him and the press not a huge scandal?
If OAN had coordinated with Trump on a question and answer, the defenders of journalism would have written how many millions of words about what an abomination that was.
Look fats. It can’t be a media collusion scandal if the media isn’t covering it. That’s just how scandals work.
Ahh yes the “Faux-Scandals”. Another era of a “Scandal free admin”.
[waves hand] This is not the scandal you’re looking for…
How do his handlers get him to cooperate and read his sides as best he can? Do they threaten him or what? Ick, not sure I want to know.
Instead of those plastic tabs in his briefing book, they tape locks of hair instead.
Also, it is bad when a guy needs a briefing book to remember what his long held convictions are. It wasn’t like he needed to access the book for minutiae either. He had to glance at it for everything.
Oh, surely in his lonnng political career he’s evolved on issues, even recently.
NBCBLK
@NBCBLK
Sesame Street has two new Muppets, a Black father and son, in an effort to help children understand racial literacy.
In the promo, Elmo asks why Wes’s skin is brown. His dad Elijah explains how “the color of our skin is an important part of who we are.”
I guess SS is teaching racism now.
As MLK said, judge not by the content of a person’s character but by the color of their skin, or was that Elijah Mohammed?
WOW. That is the exact opposite message that the show sent when they wheeled the TV into my first grade class back in 1969. We got to watch half and the other class got the second half. Someday I’ll show a pic of Miss MacDonald. Mini-skirt wearing teacher to farm boys.
Betting Miss MacD probably didn’t know much better than you farm boys, if she was young enough to prefer mini-skirts.
Harper Valley Elementary?
We’re entering the new Age of Racism.
Meh… In the early 1970s, Roosevelt Franklin (avatar of our beloved Rufus) and his Hispanic friend named Abecito, were Communist. Roosevelt admonished us to share everything – our food, our juice, and our work. Abecito sang a song about being forced to give half his candy to the collective
Sesame Street also has bright red, purple, and blue muppets. I’m not sure how important their colors are to them but it’s cool because they’re, you know, puppets on kids’ show.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
We already knew about never apologize. Read the whole thing, it’s the best thing you’ll read today.
Does “Cower like a pussy and demand gun control” fit in their list too?
Sure. Why not? Supreme Court of Canada just ruled that carbon taxes are indeed “constitutional” so everyone gets to pay 10 bucks a gallon for fuel. 6-3.
I’m hoping that doesn’t take effect for the next week? We’re leaving tomorrow morning to drive to Alaska.
I was just commenting that NYPost can go fuck itself after their horrendous Editorial on the need for Gun Control.
Ancient
ChineseAfghan secret.Afghans developed this method of food preservation, which uses mud-straw containers and is known as kangina, centuries ago in Afghanistan’s rural north. Thanks to the technique, people in remote communities who can’t afford imported produce are able to enjoy fresh fruit in winter months. But even in villages like Ahmadi’s, near the capital, the tradition is kept alive for good reason. “Have you ever seen another method that can keep grapes fresh for nearly half a year?” Ahmadi asks with a laugh.
Despite the practice’s generation-to-generation longevity, it has barely been documented or studied, explains Murtaza Azizi, Acting Director for Tourism at the Ministry of Culture and Information. But the clay-rich mud, whose seal keeps out air and moisture like a Tupperware or ziplock bag, protects the fruit from the winter cold, and works best for certain types of grapes.
“Usually, farmers who use kangina as storage choose the Taifi grape, which has thicker skin and is harvested at the end of the season,” explains Rajendra Aryal, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s Country Representative.
At least Afghans won’t be sour grapes.
The Afghans will lead us into the new Climate Friendly Future!
All we have to do to save Gaia is have everyone live like Afghans.
I’ve got a 1/4 acre lot. Wonder how many poppies I can grow?
“A million Poppies” enough that it, “going to make me sleep”
Like some distant cosmonaut!
displaced! gah!
Wouldn’t expect a Muslim to know but yes there is another way to keep grapes for a year. It’s called wine.
Maybe San Francisco could convert a disused warehouse into an “arts collective”. I hear that works really well.
https://youtu.be/t4fDCwDiWJQ
I could use a small truck like an old Ranger or even an El Camino as a second car. Thanks, CAFE! ?
You don’t need a PPP loan for a $3k ranger.
Oh right, duh me. Only if I could also wangle maintenance costs out of PPP could I afford an expensive car for free.
I do support old Ranger ownership though. I have a boring car lineup: wife has minivan and I have a Civic for commuting and Ranger for dump/house projects. I get new car envy a lot, but everything runs fine and we haven’t had car debt in over 10 years.
Yay for cheap old Nihon cars.
I have another boring answer though for what I would get if money wasn’t a factor…a 2021 Ridgeline.
Huh. No long bed for you?
Uh, addition or instead?
To me, it’s the perfect suburban dad truck.
The bed is wide enough for sheet goods to lay flat and with the tailgate down I would be good.
I’ve bitched about this before. Those old small trucks would be perfect for my situation but they don’t build them for our market no mo.
SpaceX Starship news: they performed a static fire test (may only have been one engine) this morning about 20 minutes ago. There is an unlimited altitude TFR in effect today, so it’s possible a SN11 flight could happen.
Mercedes Benz Unimog, troop carrier converted into off road camper
Custom Newell motorcoach
WIllys Jeep or International Scout for daily driver
Toyota Hilux
M167 Vulcan Air Defense System
Now that ^ is a list.
Dornier 335 “Arrow” That is all.
“”Really? No Republicans voted for this thing?”
It’s got direct relief to American families.
It’s got a path to reopen our schools.
Cost of childcare?
Tax credits baby!
It’s like they care!
It’s a big [flowerbed] deal!
But wait there’s more!
Don’t you wanna be where the people are?
Don’t you wanna go out dancing?
Having convos with those – what are they called again?
Oh yeah, friends!
Some folks thought we could reopen bars,
but good strategy is required to reopen safely.”
https://notthebee.com/article/prepare-to-gouge-out-your-eyes-as-you-watch-this-woman-sing-a-disney-song-about-bidens-stimulus-plan
I already made a post about this but I’m going to add more.
“Really, no republicans voted for this thing?”
Yeah it’s a waste, instead of just sending in and printing money, how about everything open back up? How about all restrictions go away?
But no, since the politicians, sending kids to private school, selling stocks before everything went to shit so they wouldn’t they don’t have to worry about a thing.
Um, but then how do they Blue states get their pound of flesh for tanking their economies to kill Trumps Re-Election?
Don’t forget those ticking time bomb pubsec pension plans. Those needed bailing out big time too.
You think CA and IL are hurting from the pandemic? That is chump change compared to their unfunded pension plan obligations.
God, people like this are stupid. They probably consult the weather report to see in which direction the sun will rise tomorrow.
But they can sing a Disney Song about it.
You know, I could forgive their stupidity. If they ever learned. I mean, even a little child, if they touch a lit burner on a stove, will figure out not to touch a lit burner on a stove. But, you know, when the consequences of this madness present themselves, this silly bint won’t say “Wow! Gosh! I really screwed the pooch! Maybe I should start listening to the people who said this was going to be the results. Maybe I should look to people offering very different policies.” No, she’ll just demand the same lunatics implement even more damaging policies and cause even more chaos. Honestly, there’s a part of me that wishes that there was some sort of group that recorded these idiots’ pronouncements for the express purpose of humiliating them into silence when their policies have the results the rest of us predicted.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E03/339388
(bad habit of mine)
In order for that to work, the people making the pronouncements would need to have avoidance of shame and/or having integrity as something of value to them. For fucks sake, look at how many people writing books about global cooling in the 70’s kept getting published and referred to as experts through the 90’s.
I’ve been working on an argument against this big voting bill. It would allow people to just walk up and vote without registering, and if they don’t have ID, they just sign a paper. What’s to keep me and my buddies from spending the day driving to polling stations, saying we don’t have ID, claiming an address close by, and signing fake names on that paper? We could vote for a Republican candidate 10 or 20 times if we drive fast.
I know they were going to go easy on Biden, but having the whole thing scripted, with photos and everything… wow.
Good song choice. My friends and I used to change the words to “I just can’t get it up.”
Monster
A loophole in the state’s hunting and trapping licensing system allowed Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte to buy a license to trap a wolf without first completing a state-mandated course.
Officials with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks confirmed Tuesday that the governor had received a written warning after he’d trapped and shot a wolf outside of Yellowstone National Park on Feb. 15. The news was first reported by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between regional public radio stations.
Gianforte reported the harvest with FWP in accordance with state procedures. He had all the necessary licenses and tags. He contacted the department to have the wolf’s hide and skull inspected, as required. He didn’t, however, complete a mandatory wolf trapping certification course.
“After learning that he had not completed the wolf-trapping certification, Governor Gianforte immediately rectified the mistake and enrolled in the wolf-trapping certification course,” a Gianforte spokesperson wrote in response to the incident. “The governor had all other proper licenses.”
According to FWP, he did everything correctly, despite lacking that magic scrap of paper.
The usual suspects are outraged.
I can’t help liking the guy. I hope he has that wolf skin cured, so he can wear it as a ceremonial cape when he delivers next year’s state of the state address.
City folk get outraged about anytime a “sweet cuddly” [Insert Apex Predator] get’s taken.
I believe it was tradition for the head of the O’Neill clan of Ulster to wear a wolfskin cape.
I’d be a bit outraged, if there weren’t a decent population of wolves now running around. It’s amazing how many people think some animals are still endangered that are doing quite well.
50 Years of indocrination will do that. When was “Silent Spring” published?
The environmentalists have been kicking ass in the culture war. It’s sad how many people feel shame and guilt for things they didn’t do and never will do. It’s also dumb how fragile everyone thinks nature is and what everyone’s idea of what is ‘natural’ and what is manmade is so heavily skewed.
Organics = good, Pesticides = bad, is a huge fallacy.
Crude oil destroys entire ecosystems, except that it used to naturally flow in rivers and lakes before man decided to harness it. The Deep Water horizon thing was pretty funny too. People need to learn what a ‘seep.’
I’ll huff, and I’ll puff…
“It’s surprising to learn that it’s even possible to violate Montana’s lax rules for killing wolves,” said Michael Robinson at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The mandatory wolf-trapping class that the governor skipped before setting a trap warns how to avoid public controversy in the course of committing extraordinary cruelty.”
Amanda Wight, program manager of wildlife protection at the Humane Society of the United States, wrote in a statement that the governor “just spat in the face of millions of people who come from all over the world to see wolves and other wildlife in Montana. Not only is trophy hunting wolves, especially a beloved wolf from Yellowstone National Park, ethically wrong, but economically and ecologically it makes no sense.”
Everything I don’t like should be illegal!
Herein lies the Urban Progressive worldview. Exotic and foreign places exist purely for the enjoyment of Liberal Tourists from the city. Fuck the locals who have to deal with the wolves taking their livestock, it’s a spit in the eye of the people from NYC who want to visit and treat your home like a fun open air fencless zoo.
see also: How every Democratic President in the last thirty years has sectioned off more and more of Utah as a “National Park” against the desires of locals.
See also… Europeans insisting that Africans learn how to farm organically.
“Oh, that’s what we’ve been doing wrong, we’ve been planting salt and pebbles.”
According to her LinkedIn, Ms. Wight lives in the Washington D.C. metro area. So, I’d like to offer her a little compromise. How about the Governor submit to whatever penalty the Humane Society proposes. Only she has to spend a night alone in wolf country. Covered in beef drippings.
Or when she’s on the rag.
Everything those icky ranchers do makes me mad.
I look out my downtown condo windows and cry at the idea of a wolf being trapped way out there in the sticks.
Have those ranchers even thought about going outside and singing a whimsical song to the wolves? That seems to work almost all the time in Disney movies.
Like Polar Bears, Wolves are majestic, noble creatures . . . that will tear you limb from limb.
Shit sake, lady, if Michelle can write a kiddie book, then so can you. “Wally the Beloved Yellowstone Wolf and his Pal Bobbie Bison show the kids from Brooklyn how to be friends with all the other delicious tasting creatures.”
Something like this
The Converse sneaks make the look.
The Constitution is a relic that blocks progress so we are going to shred it.
“Well, he’s moved, and we’re happy to see that. You know, the Progressive Caucus, and I’m leading a letter right now with moderates and progressives around reforming or eliminating the filibuster. Because it’s very clear to us that it is a relic and that it is going to block any progress on anything that we committed to voters that we would deliver. He has been moving. If you might remember, just a month or two ago, he said he didn’t believe in any filibuster reform. Today, he’s saying he believes in reforming a talking filibuster. But he also didn’t close the door to something more, and I thought that was significant as well. It’s going to take a little bit of time, I think, just from a practical perspective, to get to the place where all the Democrats are ready to do this and to really make the arguments to everybody that no progress is possible and we cannot go back to voters and say, you know what, you gave us the House, the Senate, and the White House, but because of some arcane procedure, we couldn’t deliver. That’s just not going to work. And so, we may see some bills going up and then failing, and then that helps us to create the momentum to get all our Democratic senators on board.”
And fuck those dirty deplorables and their representatives. Our slim majority is clearly a mandate.
This is most certainly a racist and sexist observation, but the there appears to be a preponderance of Indian women currently in politics that desire to implement all of the the policies that failed spectacularly in India.
I’ve worked for and with dozens of South Asian women. The caste system is still a thing.
But it says here India is a Sub Continent…
Cup your ball-sacks America! Shit’s gettin real!
Democrats have a mandate, even when they are the minority.
The original progressives were on a mission from God. The current crop has the same holy fervor, just with govt being their diety.
What’s the point of power if you don’t use it, and Use it as much as possible when you know you are most likely going to lose it soon.
I really do think, if you are going to filibuster, you should have to stand up and talk to wear out the time. This, ‘WELP, we don’t have 60 votes, so lets close it down’ shit is just lazy.
Eh. I’m in favor of any policy of practice that makes it harder for Congress to do anything.
“You think I’m licked. Well, I’m not licked.”
I don’t hear much about Mr. Smith much lately from anyone. Teds needed at white courtesy phone.
My daughter, with her new car and newly minted license, has been out and about happily running all sorts of errands for me. She has just discovered how physically demanding driving is. Experienced drivers don’t notice, and I realized when she said it that she was right. Certainly cross country drives waste me, but tooling around town also has its tiring parts.
Congrats on the DL! Sorry to hear about your aunt though.
Thanks. Memorial for both aunt and uncle (uncle passed away about 6 months ago) will be April 24. My mom and I are driving to Charlotte from Kansas City.
Good to hear! Fledgling leaves the nest! What up with the ne-er do well?
He’s been a dream. Grades are up, attitude is down. So…not a lot to report. He’s a lot more settled now that he can go to in-person school 2 days a week and a week from now it will be 4 days. He’s in intense therapy, has a new shrink he likes, and basically seems to be settling into his skin. We’ve banned him from social media which has had a profoundly good effect on his mental state, and he’s taken up reading actual books again (I let him use my Kindle and buy him mostly whatever he wants, but I draw the line at Chiltons. Also, the school library is his source.).
That doesn’t mean he isn’t planning something and has learned not to give his plans away, but I’m trying not to borrow trouble.
I too forgot, but yeah Driving when you are new at it is very exhausting, especially as you are always on high alert, and haven’t developed the experience to know what is important data and what is just noise.
Also no muscle memory.
Driving has always been invigorating to me. I love it, no matter where I’m going. It’s the things I do when I get somewhere that wear me out.
You’re going to a Doctor, right? Something weird happened to me about 2003 and I started dragging one of my feet. I got over it but was pretty young and incredibly fit at the time.
I am planning to make a doctor’s appointment to get my meds re-upped, but I don’t plan to mention the feet stuff. I’m too depressed already, confirming my suspicions will just mean I have to worry about them. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
And leads to worse results. Tell. Your. Doc.
Just some friendly advice – please reconsider. If you’re talking about what I think you are, options have come a very long way in a short time.
With all due respect , on-line Friend – FUCK THAT SHIT! Get checked and maybe they can nip it in the bud, whatever it is. You owe us about forty more years of fantastic cartoonery.
What Festus said.
I am as anti med-establishment as you can be, but please don’t fuck around with this. Sometimes they are right and can help.
I have a friend who is well on his way to being blind because he refused to do anything about latent diabetes for a decade.
Seriously. Don’t Be Stupid.
We already had one JsubD at TOS, we don’t need another. TALK TO THE DOC.
foot drop?
My youngest (16) has her permit and she’s working on her driving hours. She loves driving at night because there aren’t as many cars. I thought that was strange, most beginning drivers prefer daytime driving. But the other day we were in slow traffic for 15 minutes, and she was about to jump out of her skin.
The History of Star Blazers. And he even mentions one of my favorite Marcy Playground songs, Wave Motion Gun.
Rock on! My favorite MP song as well.
Wow, Rock and Roll Heroes from 2018, they’re old! I’m old! Fuck!
I loved that show as a kid! I don’t know how that show got put onto television. I mean, it was a show with a drunk ship’s doctor, a love triangle between two friends and a female peer, and a dying captain.
The level of death and despair in that show’s first couple of episodes was hard for a kid to grasp, but possible. I was an Japanese anime fan.
I have a great picture of my wife and I as Speed Racer and Trixie for Halloween.
It was much more interesting to me than Hanna Berbera’s stuff.
I always kind of thought the programmers just saw a couple of bits and thought “Oh, cool, a Star Wars style cartoon for the kids”, not realizing what they’d signed off on. It was a show that was produced in Japan for an adult audience.
(Squeals with delight) I watched it on my shift this morning. That show was my first exposure to televised anime. My aunt’s brothers came to visit from Tokyo in the mid-1970s and showered me with comics and toys from Popy and Bandai and I was hooked for life.
Heh.. When my last phone kaffed you were on the contact list on the new one! Strange times.
Good morning, Sloopy!
I’m afraid I’d have mostly old cars.
1981-1983 911SC
Austin Healy 3000 Mk11
Jaguar XK120 Drop Head Coupe
I’d also probably get the new F150 hybrid.
I’d have a 1976 Corvette Stingray.
Lotsa cars I’d like to drive with newly acquired hat and gloves but you know what? I could give a shit. Driving is a chore that I don’t enjoy much. Keeping them running is less fun unless you’re totally set up. I’m a shade-tree mechanic and getting pretty old.
Jaguar XK120 – nice choice.
WTF would you want a hybrid, let alone one in a truck?
Power your house mains when there is a black out?
Look it up. It can power a fucking welder. 7200 watt on-board power.
Pretty goddamn slick.
Cool….
https://shop.ford.com/build/f150/#/config/Config%5B%7CFord%7CF-150%7C2021%7C1%7C1.%7C301A.W1E..D4.SM7..XLT.AWD.99D.CCAB.47W.60P.43V.477.RETAIL.53C.CLO.89S.SS6.%5D
“Really, no republicans voted for this thing?”
Yeah it’s a waste, instead of just sending in and printing money, how about everything open back up? How about all restrictions go away?
I just had to listen to somebody bitch about how complicated the PPP paperwork is. So many forms. So many websites. So many questions.
I didn’t bother to say he would have been better off just staying open and using the cash flow from his business to pay the bills.
And here is where Milton Friedman’s monetary theory goes clank. Not that this vindicates either Keynes or Kelton (as the stand-in for MMT).
The velocity of money is assumed to be damn near a constant. It appears real life is burning a large hole in that theory.
And it only took the government smothering it with a pillow like Scalia…
Oh, well that’s just dandy then. I mean as long as it’s not Hyperinflation, its ok. What i love (ok actually hate) about MMT is that it’s proponents are such snakes about it. They talk out both sides of their mouth and then loudly proclaim that you are a fool who doesn’t understand their arguments, if you point out that their proposals are incoherent. They claim to “understand that inlfation is a limiting factor” but then ignore it wholly. They choose to act like every epsiode of hyperinflation never happened and could never happen here.
Fractions can be multipliers too…
Am not understanding at all under which laws of physics negative interest rates make sense (paywall): https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-negative-rates-homeowners-in-europe-are-paid-to-borrow-11616664600
I seem to be earning -6.53% on my investments since the start of the year.
The ones you made or your employer’s 401(k) fund?
My Schwab account.
Damn Cyberpunk, sent my CD Projekt stock through the floor.
Are you playing, just to get some trading experience? Or are you trying to pick something long-term, like, say, long-ago Apple?
I only buy for long term holding. I have yet to sell a single share of anything.
Unless I’m convinced the company is about to go belly up, I’d certainly not eat the loss on a stock that’s dropped 40% or more. No, once they sort out the Cyberpunk mess and get a release that’s not a fiasco, the price will go back up.
I also didn’t invest any money I couldn’t afford to lose (though I’d rather not lose it.)
Even Krugman can’t stand the MMT people.
This is good.
So is this.
We’re throwing an ever increasing amount of money at an economy that has not gone thru a proper deflationary cycle to wash out the bad debt and malinvestment.
When it comes apart at the seams, and it will, it will be fast and brutal and the Fed will have exhausted all of its tools.
@juris
Assumes the Fed has a set of relevant tools in the first place.
According to her LinkedIn, Ms. Wight lives in the Washington D.C. metro area. So, I’d like to offer her a little compromise. How about the Governor submit to whatever penalty the Humane Society proposes. Only she has to spend a night alone in wolf country. Covered in beef drippings.
We could always drop a few mating pairs in Rock Creek Park, or on the Manassas Battlefield, so she could get the Wolf Magic Experience up close.
Might not be a good idea. Isn’t there a place called Wolf Trap in the vicinity?
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/03/25/the-marine-corps-amphibious-assault-vehicle-that-sank-and-killed-9-should-never-have-left-the-motor-pool-slides-into-investigation-show/
This kind of thing pisses me off so much. I know they fired the BDE CO, but they sure as hell better fire any NCO who signed off on that craft being seaworthy.
Awful to read about that. I’ve ridden in amtracs several times – but thankfully never during an amphibious landing. I still remember the name painted on the side of one of them – Grunt Grinder.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/kangaroo.jpg
Speaking of brain dead city folk:
https://twitter.com/SecretaryPete/status/1375176073722408966
This is brainless progressive blather: “You should not have to [X] in this country, no matter what kind of community you’re living in”? really?
Of course. If you live in the middle of nowhere in Montana, you should still be in walking distance of a light rail station.
“Other countries have done it, so why can’t we?”
An actual response on the twitter thread when someone pointed out that it is not possible. I guess i forgot about the light rail line in Yellowknife, and on the island of skye.
It could happen! We just need to concentrate the population. Permanent housing sounds so cold and unforgiving, so well name it something fun. Like camping! Who doesn’t like camps?
“Beulah, peel me a grape.”
I wouldn’t write it off so innocently. He seems like just the type to try to push “the new urbanism”, backed by a bunch of government mandates packing people in to “walkable” cities with a “progressive, green” infrastructure. COVID and the lockdowns has amply demonstrated the fragility of the blue city model. I suspect a lot of blue city mayors and bureaucrats are just salivating at the opportunity to drag back the tax cattle.
I read an interesting article recently that referenced New Urbanism, in the context of resiliency and decentralization. It was pretty not-stupid to my mind.
https://massconstruction.org/2021/02/04/building-resiliency-learning-from-covid-and-everything-else/
“SecretaryPete”?
What kind of childish nonsense is that? Fucker should be fired for that level of unprofessionalism.
Speaking of unprofessionalism, from the sidebar of Fish’s link
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/03/23/navy-board-former-commandant-agree-marine-colonel-should-not-have-been-fired/?utm_source=clavis
I hope Whitman at least got a hummer from the broke dick snake in the grass WM.
Yes, yes, you absolutely should. It is perfectly reasonable that tool-using primates should need to use tools to ‘prosper.’
The progressive wet-dream is to eliminate personal transportation – leaving you dependent on means (other than your feet) that they can control.
But when Congress manages to kill services like Uber, you will need to own a car.
We shouldn’t have to vote either, if all the pols in our community – no matter which party they represent – were adhering to their constitutional duties.
It might be the weather, but I am in an amazingly good mood today! Yay!
Yay! Enjoy! I’m running downstream from that attitude but happy to know that you are doing well!
I’m stoked because i’ve overworked the last two weeks, i’m going to take off early today!
Fuck you! Today sucks, tonight will be Great Again though, as at some point I’ll be able to Zoom.
Tulip is Happy!
Enjoy your day!
I wore a jacket while walking the dog this morning and it was too warm for that. Then we’re off for a road-trip this afternoon for the weekend. I’m in a very good mood.
We had our run of good weather Tuesday. Today was wind gusts up to 60 MPH. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the mid-60’s, so I’m contemplating looking at a decent 20-25 mile bike ride tomorrow afternoon.
Warm ‘n’ windy here. Loving it.
Friday Funbags: Two scoops of sexy ice cream with nipple cherries on top.
https://archive.is/K1jGy
Judi’s up. Not gonna look Not gonna look Not Gonna look!
Don’t worry, Q’s not sending his best today.
Just about to meet with my bosses about my future plans. Cross all your fingers & toes
Good luck!!
Knock ’em dead, kid!
So jelly!!!! Good luck! I think about you now every time I see a dually pulling a fifth wheel.
Weird, when I pull up the site on my iPhone this doesn’t show up even when I clear cookies, only the article from last night. Even when I open another page on my browser with the iPad I’m commenting from. Are y’all commenting from PCs or mobile?
PC.
Strange things afoot but I suppose they’re still messing with the site like yesterday.
Stacey Abrams
@staceyabrams
What’s likely to come for SB 202: quick passage by GA Senate & a speedy signature by Kemp. Why? To avoid actual analysis + public awareness of how SB 202 hurts voters of color, increases taxes on struggling families & steals power from local governments. Today’s GA GOP.
It’s been debated for weeks. And I guess “ramming through” legislation is only ok when Dems do it.
But she is the champion of HB 1? Fuck that mendacious lying bitch.
Soon to be Vice-President Mendacious Lying Bitch?
Don’t even THINK such horrid thoughts.
I’ve heard that.
Revenge, Ken!
I can’t imagine that sort of shamelessness. A lot lizard is of more use to the nation.
From Biden yesterday: “What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick,” he said. “I’m convinced that we’ll be able to stop this, because it is the most pernicious thing— this makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.”
I finally got what this means and from now on will be referred to as Jim Falcon. Or perhaps Jim Hawk.
I’m slim and trim. Call me “Jim Kestrel”! I’m out folks. I need to work tonight.
Buona notte, F!
I like how the completely reasonable thing the vast majority of Americans want (over 75%) including the majority of Democrats, blacks, and Hispanics is un-American.
You mean the way the election was run last time was so fraught with mistrust that a lot of people don’t want to do it again?
Or how pretty much every other country that holds elections requires some sort of ID. This would be a giant step backward.
Jim Budgie
What? Is it like a dog-faced pony soldier?
I’d buy a corral of old muscle cars with my pilfered loot – one for drive each day of the week.
69 Z/28
70 Boss 302 Mustang
67 L-88 Corvette
66 GTO
70 GTX
70 Boss 429 Mustang
68 RS/SS Camaro like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtrXKrEgRXA
Excellent.
Freedom. Horrible horrible freedom!
At least four organizations canceled conferences or conventions in Austin, citing health concerns after Texas ended its statewide mask mandate earlier this month. The cancellations cost the Hilton Austin hotel $350,000 in revenue, according to Austin Convention Enterprises, a city-created corporation that owns and manages the hotel.
“These were rooms that were already on the books, and largely what we saw was fallout, ironically, from the governor opening the economy,” said Joe Bolash, Hilton Austin general manager, during a March 16 Austin Convention Enterprises board meeting. “It was groups that were not comfortable returning to a fully opened economy where there was no mask mandate in place.”
Gov. Greg Abbott ended the statewide mask mandate and capacity limits on businesses on March 10, pointing to fewer COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases in the state. Public health experts and political opponents lamented the move, saying it was too soon before the majority of the state was vaccinated against the virus or even eligible for a shot.
Jimmy Flannigan, ACE president and former Austin City Council member, said these cancellations are the latest blow to the hospitality industry in Austin, which has already suffered severe losses due to the coronavirus pandemic
Please don’t take your boot off my neck, Massa. I won’t know how to live.
Sure, some business will be lost but much more will be gained.
Happiness is overrated, and searching for it is futile. It’s organic and occasional and to be cherished.
Contentment is where it’s at. Also, boredom is underrated.
Happiness is an acquired skill and not the same for everyone. I still think cultivating it is a worthy goal.
Definitely agree about boredom.
Now for me, boredom is what gets me in trouble, not the least of which is snacking too much.
Snacking, You tube, television, video games. I manage it all. Of course all of my “cures” for boredom are like junk food cures for hunger. I need to get control over that.
It is organic. *hits bong
LOL
Boredom might be fine for the individual, but it is bad in the aggregate.
I certainly got into the most trouble as a kid, when i was bored.
Underrated: Concupiscence.
F250 with a 7.3 for the daily driver
Land Rover Wolf 90
FJ40 Land Cruiser
M35A3 for yard work
and whatever the missus would want
Nuissance money.
Michael Flynn’s brother and sister-in-law have sued CNN for $75 million, according to documents filed in New York federal court. The former national security adviser’s relatives, Jack and Leslie Flynn, accuse the cable network of defamation and invasion of privacy. They claim that CNN falsely painted them as followers of the QAnon mass conspiracy theory in a segment titled “CNN Goes Inside A Gathering Of QANON Followers.”
Starship SN11 update: locals being notified to evacuate by noon today; inspection team headed to pad to inspect after static fire; decent probability of a launch today.
Dream vehicles: All I want is an A-liner trailer with a shower & toilet and whatever model of Subaru is big enough to pull it (likely the Ascent?)
I’ll take a Showhauler 4×4 Super C
National treasure.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
@AskDrRuth
You’ve seen the news reports about the tanker stuck in the Suez Canal? When a penis gets caught in the vaginal canal it’s called Penis Captivus. Just stay calm, he’s bound to lose his erection and that will end his captive state. Much easier than getting that ship unstuck.
https://twitter.com/AskDrRuth/status/1375463850854780930
It might be the weather, but I am in an amazingly good mood today! Yay!
Bueno!
But when Congress manages to kill services like Uber, you will need to own a car.
That’s just silly.
They won’t kill it. They’ll nationalize it.
They’ll just build more trains. That will solve the problem.
The left and their damn trains.
I like trains. They’re the only reason I want grand kids. I’ll break out my son’s 1,000 piece Thomas the Train wooden set and cover the entire floor.
Real trains? Keep ’em.
I like trains too, but I don’t expect others to subsidize my fetishes.
cue Tangerine Dream
I think you mean Kraftwerk.
I meant Tangerine Dream
This seems important.
BOHICA
Appalachian Regional Commission.
A grifting operation extraordinary.
Uh oh. A deal has been cut for something.
Look for Manchin to vote to kill the filibuster now.
Management: “You need to write up a report on the proof of concept we’re implementing.”
Me: “Got it.”
Management: “We need it by close of business Tuesday.”
Me: “But we’re not done implementing the proof of concept, and might still be working on it Wednesday.”
Management: “We need it by close of business Tuesday.”
They’re on to your lazy ass…pick up the pace slowpoke.
Just for that, you now have to use MFA to use anything, even MFA token pages.
And the MFA token expiration has been set to 1 minute.