Once a month or so, SP and I have our splurge, a dinner out at our favorite local restaurant. There’s Mask Theatre, of course, but the food and service are ridiculously good, and the wine list isn’t the standard Chard-Cab-Merlot yawner. But the main point is that because we have to drive 40 minutes each way, we keep the alcohol intake moderate, and because of the timing, we miss most of Zoom chat. We had reservations for last night, and I was particularly hot on trying one of their new dishes (the menu changes every couple weeks).
They’re set up for outside dining only, which keeps their “progressive” clientele slightly mollified. Of course, that means that their opening is subject to the vagaries of Arizona weather. As luck would have it, wind and rain were predicted last night, so they pre-emptively closed and let us know (well in advance, unlike airlines) our reservations had been canceled.
We cheered ourselves up by dropping into Zoom, firing up the pizza oven, and having a nice time at home. Our pizza oven needs a continuing feed of wood, and runs over 1000 degrees. These insure a general sense of sobriety in me so as to avoid injury and the ignominy of having the oven go out and cool off during cooking. My drinking was very, very circumscribed.
So I have no hangover, I’m bright and happy this morning. Cheerful, even, and made more cheerful by the smug knowledge that the rest of you are in pain. Poor dears.
Maybe birthdays will perk you up? Today’s include another man-plan guy; the one known for actually being right; a guy who taught the Chinese to drive; a (((guy))) whom I’m predicting is within a light year of being canceled (not joking); a guy who was quite renowned; the creator of a heart-warming family who was an actual asshole; a guy who should have been in 2001; a guy who seems to have been in an inordinate number of my favorite movies; and a guy who was, by and large, a pretty good senator (e.g., his infamous critique of the NSF was milder than mine would be, but scathing enough to enrage all the right people).
Now the news, so we can harsh YOUR buzz.
I don’t often agree with Matty, but this time….
Didn’t I write about this a few months ago?
Totally different than Trump. Totally.
This would be a good look for me, don’t you think?
“AGGGGHHHH, WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!” said Chicken Little.
Old Guy Music honors one of the birthday boys. Sometimes in concert, the Dead were just… on. This was one of those nights.
“the rest of you are in pain”
I’m OK. Just annoyed by DST.
Im not either. But I just got home from work and Im just on beer #3
Cash me around 9 tonight
No hangover and no DST here. HAH-hah.
That’s just mean. After 8AM and the sun just coming up.
At least I wont Melt this Year Old Man….
Yeah, it’s too early for this shit.
No hangover and completely indifferent about DST.
Same.
No hangover, and mildly irritated that I lost an hour.
I actually have something to do today.
I have Regrets, but no hangover,
HEY YUFUS !
Tall (Sabbath) Cans !
Sup Tres, covfefe first then Beer, gotta do laundry, blech,
“our favorite local restaurant”
For me it’s pizza after Saturday morning golf. The weather’s been tough, and I’ve been picking one up to go and taking it over to my folk’s place, but yesterday was almost normal. 61°F, so I get a beer and hit the sidewalk and settle to my favorite table. Folks and NewWife show up, and Tyson comes out to tell us: hey, got veal chops left over from the Thursday special . . . that’s better than pizza, right? Yes, sir, that is better than pizza. We sat and ate and talked and felt normal for a couple of hours.
“When he was arrested the second time, Howard was still wearing the bright, neon-orange colored sneakers he was issued in the city jail earlier in the day.”
And he gets free sneakers?
No wonder Portland attracts drifter commies from around the country.
This time he was hoping for the neon-orange overcoat to complete his ensemble.
“Why Hugh Grant cheated on Elizabeth Hurley with prostitute Divine Brown ”
https://pagesix.com/2021/03/12/why-hugh-grant-cheated-on-elizabeth-hurley-with-prostitute/
SPOILER: It’s because he’s an idiot.
Apparently the stuttering dipshit he played time and again wasn’t an act.
Uh… wut?
Blow-jobs cause AIDS now? Or were we still that ignorant in 1995?
Also because Instagram hadn’t been invented. Chris D’elia claimed to have received ~50 DMs from young women after shows in each city.
Maybe she wasn’t putting out? Still didn’t sound like an explanation in the article.
I mean really, does Elizabeth Hurley look like someone who enjoys giving a nice enthusiastic blowjob? At least with Ms. Brown, you know that you’re getting your sixty bucks worth. It’s like, you can get a competent but uninspired steak at the Longhorn Steakhouse, or you can pay through the nose for a table at the Palm, and get some sloppy underdone piece of crap.
Oh, happy Steak and BJ Day, everyone!
https://skdtac.com
Drunk, he says.
He cheated on her for the same reason that Ethan Hawke cheated on Uma Thurman;
Show me a beautiful woman, and I will show you a man tired of her bullshit.
Remember these words of wisdom.
Better wisdom.
🙂
and the wine list isn’t the standard Chard-Cab-Merlot yawner.
You could already have an Aussie Shiraz instead.
Or maybe a Pinot Grigio if your food goes better with white wine.
/ducking
I could also stick a hot soldering iron into my ear. But I’m not doing that, either.
Shiraz is crap, but Pinot Grigio is great.
*goes and checks on the ’98 St. Henri that’s being saved for a special occasion* It’s all right, baby, he didn’t mean you…
what’s wrong with Shiraz?
I like the extra acid with beef
I think OMWC would say the Aussies have bred it into something too heavy and flavorless.
There are ranges, of course. We could easily find cabs and burgundies that have been bastardized as well.
But the shiraz is famous for being full-bodied, the opposite of flavorless. Weather matters, but finding good shiraz isn’t a challenge at all.
One does not drink wine, one cooks with wine. A splash or two in some Espagnoles and bigger splashes in tomato sauces or just cook the wine down by itself with butter and garlic.
What is wrong with you people?
I’m a complete wine idiot so one time I had a recipe that called for “sherry” and I bought “shiraz” because I thought I read somewhere that they were the same thing.
Narrator: They aren’t the same thing.
“”People need to recognize that they have to take some responsibility for their health and the health of their animals,” Hernandez said. “Also, we’re living in a pandemic at the moment because of a spillover event, plain and simple.””
So don’t let your chickens start a virus research lab?
That’s even worse than letting them grow up to be cowboys.
That’s sound advice.
Pretty interesting moment when a prominent voice on the populist right goes after an overreaching GOP sheriff. Maybe the pendulum is swinging away from reflexive cop worship.
I remember seeing FB friends (who were loosely on the right) post memes during the lockdown that made fun of cops for shutting down innocent people’s businesses. Then people had to have been outraged a few months later that cops let commie agitators burn cities down.
Also nice to see that the Institute for Justice was the authority cited in that article. I used to do a monthly donation to them back when I had an income.
“populist”
“pendulum”
Minding your own business has never really caught on with the descendants of all those folks who escaped over-arching control in Europe. As social media takes over, the leap from having an opinion to wanting to lord over everyone has been reduced to a baby step. Aliens returning to Earth after leaving in 1800 would scratch their heads and wonder how things went so horribly wrong in the US and France, but they would chuckle at the steady filth and nonsense still celebrated in England.
Pendulum was just me being hopeful that a love for liberty breaks out amongst the right. Not holding my breath.
I’m reading a somewhat interesting book right now called Cousin’s Wars about the groups that immigrated from Europe and what religious and political factions they belonged to and how that affected their side in the wars. Some groups, especially Puritans from East Anglia and towns outside big cities were pretty capitalist and entrepreneurial. America today is a very different place. Less religious, for a start.
Oh, I’m all for optimism . . . wish I had any left.
Meanwhile, I’m just playing it out knowing I won’t live long enough to see anything different. The pols and populists (but I repeat myself) here are harmless dickheads: they’re obsessed with outlawing my access to abortion, so they aren’t much of a threat to me. I’m just looking for cheap golf and pretty place to die at this point.
I look at how close the US was to letting FDR go full socialist, as was the fad at the time, and at how Americans came back from that precipice without going over.
Gives me some hope for a pendulum. Unfortunately, public education has nearly destroyed critical thinking by now…
England swings like a pendulum do
https://youtu.be/2I7yAC1Pz6Y
Today’s include another man-plan guy;
I would have preferred Elsa, but her birthday is in September.
I am tickled pink that you made that reference. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/ef/88/71ef888c95a6366f30f20a47667b57ca.jpg
“Undisputed middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler dies at age 66 after one of his biggest rivals Tommy Hearns said he was ‘in an ICU fighting the effects of the vaccine'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-9359529/Undisputed-middleweight-champion-Marvelous-Marvin-Hagler-passes-away-unexpectedly-aged-66.html
yikes!
Meh. 66 years old, chest pain and shortness of breath. IANAD, but more likely than not an unrelated heart attack. Or related. Who knows? I guess, to your point, we don’t know, and we’re conducting medical experiments on the general population. Some are cheering on conducting medical experiments on certain … demographics within the population.
“A Bucks County woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to harass rivals on her daughter’s cheerleading squad, DA says
Raffaela Spone, 50, was charged with cyber harassment and related offenses. There was no indication that her high school-aged daughter knew what her mother was doing,
A Bucks County woman anonymously sent coaches on her teen daughter’s cheerleading squad fake photos and videos that depicted the girl’s rivals naked, drinking, or smoking, all in a bid to embarrass them and force them from the team, prosecutors say.
The woman, Raffaela Spone, also sent the manipulated images to the girls, and, in anonymous messages, urged them to kill themselves, Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub’s office said.”
https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html
pics or it didn’t happen
Hmmm, 50 years old…I wonder how many lives she’s wrecked before now with her psychopathic behavior.
How many daughters does she have?
This is the county I live in. ?
No wonder you are so well armed, Ewwww, you’ve got some Trenton on your feet! 🙂
*wipes feet*
Joisey? Wow, I have a newfound respect for Sean now. My deepest condolences.
Isn’t Bucks County in PA?
Did I just hear Trenton in this conversation?
It is. We are Delaware river adjacent. I can become a felon by crossing a river. ?
You can also come across Joisey peoples, which is even worse.
So, has she been arrested for kiddie pr0n yet?
Follow the money:
It took longer than I thought,
Eggs should cost $12/dozen!
Can’t have that!
“mask theater”
It really has become absurd. I was in Buffalo Wild Wings last night picking up a delivery order. The restaurant is a giant open rectangle. Packed, with several groups waiting for an open table. No one who has gotten past the hostess stage is wearing masks at all and they are mingling as normal. But new customers keep coming up to the hostess unmasked, and she makes them all put them on, walk a few steps through the throng to their table, and then the requirement is dropped for the rest of the night.
As I keep saying, most people wear masks to keep from getting yelled at. Nobody really thinks that they do anything.
THIS
Yes, and you can quickly tell the true believers from go-along-to-get-alongs. The TB’s double mask and they wear a mask when driving their cars.
Spring is far and away the worst season up here. However, it does include St. Patrick’s Day where all the best and most creative Hiberno-Jewish cuisine comes out to play. Typically I go for the corned beef, eggs, and latkes, but this morning I had the corned beef and Kerrygold omelet. It was amazeballs.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/StPaddysMenu-scaled.jpg
I never liked any kind of meat in omelets.
French or diner style? This was a diner style folded over a 3/4″ thick slab of brisket.
Both. Well, there was a Greek diner that made a gyro “omelet” that was great.
The diner style I think is sturdy enough for meat. In this particular case it was less an omelet and more an enrobed slice of corned beef.
Heavy on the carbs.
They do love their potatoes.
I’ve got a tri-tip and a pair of lovely porterhouses to grill today. ?
I’ve got pork ribs that the neighbor will smoke for me. Yumm
Sober ain’t for sissies. Tough waking up every morning and knowing that’s the best you’re gonna feel all day. Nothing to look forward to.
Every. Single. Day.
Why am I bothering with all this again?
Wife, Gone
Dog, Gone,
Even my Kittah,
so Golf and Drink………
and Forget…..
Even though I’m a cat person, I’d suggest you adopt a rescued puppy (of appropriate size and temperament for your current living situation.) Then take it for walks where the people are. Chick magnet.
I wish, GT, and that’s the killer for me, Loneliness, never felt so alone in my life,
Both of you should lift weights. You will feel great when you wake up and keep feeling great all day.
I can’t have a Dog right now, unfair to the little pup, A pair of cats would be fun though, not really a Cat person, but they look cool,
Has a near miss on a road that I’ve never seen deer on before. I was watching the group of three that was crossing the road and missed the two others in the woods on the other side that decided to catch up to their buddies at the last minute.
Deer up here are tiny. They’re like German Shepherds on stilts.
WI and MN produce monsters; no corn in MI?
And what the hell do deer eat in south TX to get so big?
The well-dressed rat is not in MI.
I get turned around. He was talking about a certain fire apparatus firm at one point, and I’ve had Charlotte on the brain ever since.
Charlotte (pronounced sharLOT) is my hometown. I have hit 5 deer over the years, all of which caused expensive repairs.
My hometown has a sharLOT too.
Rats are highly adaptable.
Here in Florida they’re like greyhounds on stilts. I’d always heard they (and other mammals) get bulkier as you move north.
While I do come from hefty deer country, one problem with my observations is that they’re biased by trophy hunting . . . in terms of racks. I can’t promise big racks correlate to dressed weight.
Racks…big racks…
*lights the Q signal*
( . ) ( . )
Yeah, change up over the plate.
https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/content/blogs/dan-schmidt-deer-blog-whitetail-wisdom/deer-pictures-real-slobberknockers
We have plenty of deer running through the utility easement behind our house. They are much larger than you would expect. I wonder if someone is feeding them.
I’m short 2 after this past hunting season.
My neighbor feeds the local herd. Everyone around here hunts somewhere else so the local herd is safe and fat.
The local coyotes approve.
In our little Bay Area suburb there’s been a coyote that bit several different hikers on different days in different locations. They identified from the bites it was always the same coyote. But a couple days ago they found it and euthanized it. NextDoor is evenly split between sighs of relief and animal rights whiners.
Same here.
“Despite their differing approaches, California and Florida have experienced almost identical outcomes in COVID-19 case rates.
How have two states that took such divergent tacks arrived at similar points?”
1. Respond to a situation in the most panicked, idiotic, counterproductive way possible.
2. Deride and question the motives of anyone who points out the stupidity of the response.
3. A year later, write a head scratching article pointing out what the Cassandras noticed from the beginning as if it is a unique point.
I think I was one of the first to predict: virus gonna virus.
But the past 100 days have been weird. I liked it better when the states’ curves were damping together; with the deaths per capita ranging over an order of magnitude, it’s hard to say that the differences are all in the data’s biases.
Lord of war is an underrated movie.
Excellent movie,
Agreed
That ending is brilliant. I think it needs to be required viewing for every teenager.
I’ve only had it once but it wasn’t bad for chain pizza. I’ve had much, much worse.
We used to call the pizza from the government school cafeteria “erasers on a bathmat”.
My son used to like the gubmit cafeteria food, including the “pizza”. Then he started making his own lunch for some reason. I wonder what happened.
Ages ago I did a test for Con-Agra that operated a plant that made those square, flash-frozen, “institutional” pizzas. Just like I had in school that had been re-heated.
Let me tell ya- right out the oven ? Those suckers aint too bad.
I know I’ve had it, but it was a lifetime ago and have no recollection of how it was.
“This is Piotr Patkowski, Poland’s deputy finance minister. He looks *extremely* like a 12-year-old playing dress up as a kid’s idea of a grown man. He’s 29.”
https://twitter.com/basialcummings/status/1370726312432836609
Awww, he looks like Doogie Howser.
*scrolls down the page*
https://mobile.twitter.com/nori_reed/status/1370582209921482754
I posted that last night.
https://youtube.com/c/TexasBeeworks
DHS?
Doogie Howser Syndrome?
Heh. I have a picture of me smoking in my early 20’s where I look about 12. It doesn’t help that I’m wearing a gigantically oversized wool overcoat I found at Burlington Coat Factory.
The neoPuritans come for Scrabble:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14249395/scrabble-bosses-ban-words-farting-boobies-arse/
Also, people still play Scrabble?
According to my phone I spent over 6 hours playing Scrabble last week.
Chickens….blah blah blah blow it out of your ass.
How long before people are arrested for growing tomatoes and peppers in their back yards?
That actually has happened before. Tomatoes look a lot like weed apparently, according to cops, who are EXPERTS.
Well we saw selling veggie seeds banned in MI last year and various HOAs going after homeowners for having garden beds vs lawn.
Them is fightin words.
Since When? I have 30 different types of seeds, just waitin’ for Spring,
Me too. Ordered them all online. They weren’t ever banned here though.
Same here. Round 1 of Lettuce just sprouted while we were away this week. Round 1 of Spinach is starting to break the surface. This is my first year staggering the planting.
That’s just one of the reasons I insisted on no HOA. I now have a front yard garden bed.
Good for you. Now to keep the neighbors, kids, dogs from the pre-harvest. Soon I’ll be starting my seeds inside.
22 apple seedlings growing in the southeast window.
I just started the tomatoes and peppers, they are sitting in the window.
No pain here, bubbe! I took it easy on the booze last night because I’m shooting this morning. I’m going to finish this nice french press of Sumatra Mandheling, jump in the shower, then go convert a hundred bucks or so into noise and smoke (and fun!)
Now tonight, there will be either celebration drinks or consolation drinks. We’ll see how it goes…
$100. That’s like six or seven pistol mags these days. *sad trombone*
Three or four. My pistol mags hold 23 rounds each. 😀
Hopefully that money will end up making holes in places very close to where you want them to be too!
The cash burn rate at a match has reached strip club levels.
“Charlie Hebdo ‘s woke and cancel culture cartoon is spot on”
https://twitter.com/Btaylor74/status/1370817891755421700
The Care Bear getting head from the head got a chuckle from me.
Heh.
Back in middle school, a friend and I made up a satirical organization called SSWA (Student for Slaughtering of Worthless Animals). We also created “SSWA Bears” which were basically evil Care Bears. Yes, there was a Nazi and a Commie Bear. Thankfully, this was in 1980-whatever and there was no woke crowd waiting to cancel us.
“Simon Wiesenthal Center: This “would encourage further terrorism and deny justice and closure for the victims and survivors.”
That really sends a message. The message is ‘If you really want to be left alone, blow shit up and make sure they know you are actually dangerous, unlike those wimps in the DC ‘insurrection’.
I mean, that’s the message that I got.
“You come at the king, you best not miss…”
“Totally different than Trump. Totally.”
And it’s still fake news, everyone in Florida is dead, from the vid.
“Kids detained in overcrowded border facility are terrified, crying and worried, lawyers say”
It’s all part of restoring our democracy. /TMITE
Building Back Better!
You mean “fortifying”.
Fuck daylight slavings time. That is all.
I expect at least three tickets tomorrow from things that were missed due to the DST change.
Happy Pie Day. I’m going to have an apple pie latte when I go into work today. Also don’t forget to change your clocks. 🙁 I hate time change, sucks.
I saw somebody last night I had not seen in nearly a year. He has had his shot, so now he’s safe.
I didn’t have the heart to tell him I had just that minute returned from another state without quarantining myself.
It was nice to spend a few days in a town where the masking was half-hearted even in the most stringent places and nonexistent most everywhere else. Then I got back into town and everybody is still masking despite no mandate anymore.
*begins “will not shop” list*
But he’s not…the gf knows someone first hand who was vaccinated and currently has the vid.
Boogity boo!
That’s not good.
In my news feed this morning was a report from Hawaii about three people who had gotten the vaccine and have since tested positive for the ‘vid. This is the two weeks that’ll never end…
Right now, the Biden admin is doing everything to make it look like the Trump admin had nothing to do with the vaccine. But if there ends up being issues with any of it, you can bet they will pivot in a heartbeat.
The narrative is set and can change according to the narrative.
Good morning
ladies and gentlemenpeoples of undetermined gender, welcome aboard Moderna Airlines, flight C-19A.It is my pleasure to inform you that we have 95 percent chance of arriving at our desired destination.
I thought it’s not supposed to prevent it, just to prevent severe symptoms?
I wouldn’t be surprised when we find out it’s just sugar water.
“…and we’re out of sugar”
Only government is skilled enough to cause a sugar shortage.
The clock downstairs in the shop, which I never bothered to re-set, is now correct.
So I got that going for me.
I leave the unimportant clocks on doG’s time: truck, microwave
Despite their differing approaches, California and Florida have experienced almost identical outcomes in COVID-19 case rates.
How have two states that took such divergent tacks arrived at similar points?
“This is going to be an important question that we have to ask ourselves: What public health measures actually were the most impactful, and which ones had negligible effect or backfired by driving behavior underground?” said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
What lesson can we take away?
We need absolute iron-fisted federal control of public health policy.
I expect the answer will never be reported because it will be the “wrong” answer.
Stayed up to late. Drank too much. Lost an hour on top of that. 1 screaming baby and a troublesome toddler of a night later… her I am at work off assignment dealing with this damn storm wreaking havoc on the Central western US.
Last night was a blast. My apologies for talking too much. Just now getting my feet under me enough to check in.
I enjoyed your train stories.
“Some call it Amtrak others call it The Train”
-2LiveCrew
I see you too are a man of culture.
“This would be a good look for me, don’t you think?”
Not sure if your free candy business will continue to expand.
Needs more tatts, can still see some skin
https://www.foxnews.com/us/west-coast-cities-erupt-in-violence-on-breonna-taylor-anniversary
“Seattle
In Seattle, videos posted to social media early Sunday showed police moving aggressively against demonstrators.
In one video, police on bicycles are seen making arrests, while another video showed police in a van as they followed a group of marchers.
Earlier, a violent clash broke out as police used pepper spray while moving in against a crowd.
A downtown Starbucks shop was seen with smashed windows and spray-painted messages on the outside.
Police were also monitoring a group that they believed had been dragging construction signs and other items into the street in an apparent bid to block vehicles.
The Seattle Police Department tweets about 4 a.m. Saturday ET that they had made 13 arrests.”
The police did this on video. The Police did that on video… Oddly there is some Starbucks with windows smashed in… wonder how that happened. Back to the police just randomly, for no reason, being aggressive to these sweet sweet beautiful protestors!
It’s cute that they pretend this has anything to do with Breonna Taylor.
“Why on earth are they protesting? OMB is gone – what else could possibly be wrong??”
From the comments:
lefty piles of processed food waste
I like it. Stolen.
So were they catch and release like before?
As I said last night, it’s an insurrection.
“From the earliest days of this pandemic, California trusted in science and data, and we met the moment,” Newsom said.
Hearsay, Inadmissible.
assumes facts not in evidence, your honor
Friday night we had a knock at the door. It was ten o’clock. The dogs barking is what woke us up. Typically we are in bed between 6:30 and 8:00 depending on what is on TV. We had had a few cocktails and wife had already taken her ambien so she was a little out of it….I had to warn her twice not to open the door.
I got my pistol and answered the door. I recognized the guy and stepped outside. He was a young man that had been part of a crew that did some work on our house a couple of years ago. He was not aggressive or angry but he seemed to be in quite a bit of distress and he needed help. He said he had been in a fight (I didn’t see any marks on him) and he needed a phone. We are in the middle of nowhere so I have no idea where he came from.
He noticed the pistol and became very afraid. “Are you going to shoot me?!”
“No, I am not going to shoot you. Come in and sit down.”
The guy was in bad shape and obviously stoned out of his mind. He was sweating profusely and having trouble breathing so I stepped out of his hearing and called 911. While I waited for them I was afraid he was going to pull a George Floyd on me and keel over. I was very concerned about his welfare. He kept rattling on and on about…nonsense mostly. He tried calling several family members but each one hung up on him. That is a rather strong clue.
Finally the cops showed up. Good grief, three cars and six deputies. They knew the guy. Of course they did.
Everyone stayed calm and no one was injured, thank god. Finally they took him away. One of the deputies told me “That guy is bad news. We all like him but his life has gone way off of the rails. No matter how sympathetic you feel towards him dont get mixed up with him. Even his family has disowned him.”
How sad is that? I feel awful for him but I have been down that road before and I aint going back. The truth is that the only person that can help him is him.
Man, how is it all the strays end up on your doorstep? I thought your property was secluded?
*puzzled look*
It is secluded. That’s why the dogs show up here…people think they are putting them out where they cant find their way back. I am a bit puzzled by the dude though….where did he come from? I couldn’t get a sensible answer out of him.
How sad is that?
That is pretty sad for sure. Also sad is that everyone can be relieved no one got shot.
So Yusef left Michigan already?
lol!Our pizza oven needs a continuing feed of wood, and runs over 1000 degrees.
I built a pretty simple wood brick pizza oven last fall. It can get 1k+ degrees but I aim for 800. I’m still getting the hang of cooking on it, but it’s been a lot of fun. Had to pause for winter but am looking forward to using it a lot more this spring.
the gf knows someone first hand who was vaccinated and currently has the vid.
But witch doctor magic never fails!
Surprise, surprise!
Ting tang walla walla bing bang.
Something to take away the sting
“A lot of white, working-class Democrats thought we forgot them,” Biden said after touring a union training facility during a late September swing through Westmoreland County. “I get their sense of being left behind.”
Democrats have offered paeans like that since President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the New Deal and cemented an alliance with working-class voters. That bond was rooted in the notion that the Democrats’ policies would improves workers’ lives.
But that relationship has steadily frayed, with working-class voters now casting Democrats as the party of cultural elites who talk down to them and reject their values. Such resentment has even driven workers to vote against their seeming economic self-interest, given that GOP tax policy is often geared toward the well-to-do and business.
Now Biden and his party are hoping that by muscling through passage of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief and economic stimulus bill — with benefits heavily weighted toward lower- and middle-income Americans — they can win back at least a larger share of working-class voters.
Put some ice on those bruises, and cover up that black eye. Here’s five bucks. Go buy yourself a nice new hat.
And for god’s sake quit whining about all my so-called broken promises, or I’ll kick you down the stairs again.
Oh fuck off.
Like doubling the standard deduction and removing the ACA mandate?
It’s impressive, though, that the AP grudgingly admits that a lot of people are getting sick of the Dems’ shit. That had to hurt coming out.
But never fear, we can bribe them back into the fold!
Wow, this is some deranged horseshit:
“Glenn Greenwald started his Substack by inveighing against trans rights and/or ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, is currently using it to direct harassment at a female New York Times reporter, and has repeatedly used his platform to whitewash alleged rapists and domestic abusers. Freddie de Boer is an anti-“identity politics” crusader who became so infamous for harassing colleagues, particularly women, that he briefly promised to retire from the Internet to avoid causing any more harm; he’s currently using his “generous financial offer” from Substack to argue against “censoring” Nazis while pursuing a personal vendetta against the cis writer Sarah Jones. Matt Yglesias, who publicly cites polite pushback from a trans femme colleague as the Problem With Media Today — exposing the woman he named to massive harassment from Fox News and online TERFs alike — reportedly got a $250,000 advance from Substack. It’s become the preferred platform for men who can’t work in diverse environments without getting calls from HR.
Those are just the assholes. Increasingly, Substack is tolerating and funding extreme trans-eliminationist rhetoric: They host Jesse Singal, a high-profile supporter of anti-trans conversion therapy who is also widely known to fixate on and stalk trans women in and around the media industry. I would list Jesse’s targets, but at this point, I don’t know a trans woman in media who doesn’t have a story. Graham Lineham is a transphobic bigot so extreme and abhorrent that he’s been permanently banned from Twitter, Medium, and basically every platform but the one I’m using to talk to you right now. He reportedly considers Substack a major source of income.
I’m not even listing all the problematic bylines here. (Andrew Sullivan! Bari Weiss!) Those bylines themselves are not the problem. Self-publishing platforms can’t control who signs up. Substack isn’t a self-publishing platform, though. It curates its writers. It pays them, sometimes massively, and it makes choices as to who gets paid well and who doesn’t. We’ve seen instances of tech companies allowing hate group leaders to acquire huge followings through negligence, from white supremacist YouTube stars to a President who has to be banned from Twitter for trying to start a civil war, but those were cases where the platforms failed to keep bigots out. Substack is actively bringing the bigots in. Then it’s giving them paychecks. ”
https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay
^ Transphobe! Swarm! Swarm!
female New York Times reporter – jeez they all got the talking points about that cunt
Reading that quote actually hurt my head. I could feel brain cells dying.
“Despite the fact that our sympathies may be with other issues,” Adams said, referring to larger efforts to tackle racism and promote gay rights, “it’s hard to get traction with that with the local population.”
Democrat “strategist”: Those racist crackers don’t know shit about social justice. We’ll just have to bribe them and distract them with shiny new toys, so we can finish destroying everything they believe in.
“Are you going to shoot me?!”
“That depends.”
“MSNBC’s @TiffanyDCross proposes renaming the FBI’s headquarters “The Stacey Abrams Building””
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1370844785091739659
I never won an election either. Where’s my building?
OFFS!
buildings should not have names.
OFFS.
I’m sure this is just a mistake. They meant to say that Stacey Abrams IS a building.
I say go for it. Then invite Antifa and BLM to burn it down.
https://twitter.com/SamAdlerBell/status/1370556293501624329
LOLOLOL
Sometimes I really don’t get youtube recommends.
SEVERELY MATTED 13 YEAR OLD PYRENEES | Severely Matted Double Coat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEL0VRvuIy4
why do I get dog grooming videos? I don’t have a dig don’t google dog stuff etc. the only thing that I can think of is I watched a couple of videos of barbers cutting hair/beards for people who never went to the barber for a year due to pandemic… but it is not at all related
I bough a russian imperial stout and it reinforced my opinion that if I am drinking something 12% alcohol I prefer wine.
“Sam Smith SHUT OUT of male and female BRIT Awards categories after declaring himself ‘non-binary’
Sam Smith, the world-famous singer who identifies as “non-binary,” won’t be eligible for the gendered categories of the Brit awards this year, since they only have “male” and “female” categories.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/sam-smith-shut-out-brit-awards-non-binary
the world-famous singer – you would think world famous would sufficiently soothe his narcissism so he would skip the whole gender bullshit
“But I thought saying this would HELP my career…”
I’m sure I will, after the Brit Awards are harassed into changing their categories to include all 26 genders and non-binary. Then he’ll be an extra special victim and hero.
Nope, I am not playing along with that. Choose a grammatically-correct pronoun that already exists, and I’ll go along. I am not going to alter my language to suit your narcissism. Kthxbai.
Channeling LBJ
“Getting something out of the [tax] code is often harder than getting something into the code,” House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said. “What we did is unlikely to go away.”
The approach suggests that Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan — as historic in size and scope as it is — could represent just the first step in a potentially significant expansion of the welfare state and a major shift toward enlarging the government’s role in helping the poorest Americans.
And that, in turn, could represent a major breakthrough for progressive leaders who have been pushing for more generous benefits for years.
“We have been focused on these issues a very long time, but the moment has met us,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who first introduced legislation to make the child tax credit permanent 18 years ago this week. “We are ready to move forward with a number of the areas that have not in the past been able to get that traction, that universal support.”
Biden said Friday that the bill “changes the paradigm” by moving away from the theory of trickle-down economics and instead putting working people first — the first time that has happened, he said, since Lyndon Johnson was president in the 1960s.
“It’s time that we build an economy that grows from the bottom up,” he said, “and the middle out.”
Let’s punish the productive class in order to create a vast new government dependency.
What could possibly go wrong?
“What could possibly go wrong?”
Unfortunately, I have a feeling we’re going to find out real soon.
Have you all seen that woman? Nearly 80 and resembles Keith Richards with Fun Dip hair color.
Oh that’s fucking rich on multiple levels.
Well now all those unemployed union pipeline labor can just collect their permanent EITC!
They left out the middle part where their policies put “working people” out of work before putting them on the dole.
A friend of mine worked for DeLauro as an LA back in the day. She got screamed at on her first day because she put someone on hold on the phone. That’s not unique to DeLauro’s office, though – that’s just the professional culture on Capitol Hill. You break protocol, even on your first day? That’s a screaming shitfit.
Did he just throw Barry and Billy under the bus?
Original 1957 episode of Perry Mason. Cornor testimony: “body contained point one five percent alcohol. Enough to indicate the beginning of intoxication.”
We’ve become weak.
Yeah, no shit. Now half that amount is the beginning of going to jail for driving.
When I was growing up, drinking an entire giant barrel of mead with no ill effect was what it took to even be considered a man. Then you had to slay at least one dragon. The women could drink half a barrel. The typical level of BAC was called ‘pickled’.
Mega snow = happy. q-ette acting colicky = unhappy. DST = WORST. Tits = BEST.
https://archive.li/6Ug87
So on the whole, we’re pretty neutral on Slutty Sunday.
DST – that is in 2 weeks
Not here, that’s today. They stole an hour of sleep.
I’m on call for work this weekend, and my boss texted me at 9:30am. GAAAAHHHHHHHH
How much snow so far?
‘Bout 18 inches or so and still coming down in buckets.
“It’s fair to say the child tax credit was the most consequential but the least controversial provision of the American Rescue Plan,” Torres said. “So there’s reason for hope.”
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Democrats and advocates also argue that the plan will pay for itself given how much the U.S. already spends trying to combat child poverty each year. And they are focused on moving quickly to lock in programs that they have championed for years.
“Policies like this were good ideas before the pandemic, [and] even more important during the pandemic,” DelBene said. “And it’s incredibly important that we continue this effort in the long term because of the impact we can have.”
They are going to make these payments directly to “families” and shut down all those other programs, right?
RIGHT?
“…the plan will pay for itself…”
There must be a Grifter’s Handbook somewhere because they always use the same language and phrases.
And guess what? None of that stuff counts when they reckon “child poverty” so they keep coming back for more every year.
Funny how that works.
You know, I was just pondering how lucky these spoiled brat kids are these days. Back when I was a kid, there would be a massive celebration in the streets if we go out of one day of school because of a snow day.
Now they get out of an entire year for a cold virus. SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER, SCHOOLS BEEN BLOWN TO PIECES!
Good morning, folks!
Thanks for the lynx, Old Man.
From the chicken article:
420 deaths. From all salmonella cases. Almost 90,000 will die from diabetes, but hey, let’s get worked up over some goddamn chickens.
The world is truly stupid.
But you guys aren’t! I hope each and every one of you has a great day!
One of my favorite Youtubers. A young lady that lives on Svalbard. Her boyfriend has the same job as l0b0t!
Anyhoo, this place is a bucket list item. Due to not needing a visa, I thought I might go there for a year or so once I’m done with my RV adventure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPEA8Redac
damn svalbardians taking l0b0t’s job
Or l0b0t could move there and take the Svalbardian’s job!
I’d be happy to live there.
What’s not to love? No visas and firearms for everybody!!
That should be “No visas, and firearms for everybody!”
there is something in between scorching desert and freezing ice you know
‘Bout 18 inches or so and still coming down in buckets.
It seems as if they have been talking about the Big Dump for a week. I wondered if it was ever really going to materialize.
Upslope, FTW!
No hangover and no DST here. HAH-hah.
Oh you have DST there – Daylight Shunning Time.
HS announcer says he called basketball team N-word because of his diabetes
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1370786754077265923
So, my wife just took her commie flu vaccine and passed out like 10 seconds later. They kept her under observation for about an hour and asked if she’d like to stay for a while or someone to accompany her home, she told them, no that she just wanted to go home.
Jeezus. How’s she feeling now?
She seems to be OK now, she’s making food.
Pfizer.
She’s the 2nd person who I know who have gotten it, at the same location. The other is the wife of a co-worker. She didn’t pass out, she just threw up for 2 days. But there are zero side effects, I heard that on the TV.
well to be fair I know like 10 people including my mom who got it with 0 side effects
But there’s vampire blood in your vaccines, makes all the difference.
(which one did she get?)
Dereliction of duty
Elizabeth Neumann, a former assistant secretary for threat prevention in the Department of Homeland Security, told The New York Times that US officials had not seriously taken the growing threat from the far-right Proud Boys street gang.
In the wake of the Capitol riot, the group has come under pressure from law enforcement agencies, with several members arrested for alleged involvement in the violence.
Neumann told the Times that though the group had committed terrorist violence ahead of the riots, it wasn’t deemed a threat to national security.
“There was a sense that, yes, their ideology is of concern, and, yes, they are known to have committed acts of violence that would be by definition terrorism, but we don’t worry about them,” Neumann told the publication.
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Neumann left the DHS in April 2020, and in an interview with NPR, September warned that the Trump administration had poured “fuel on the fire” of domestic extremism.
She said that the Trump administration largely ignored her warnings about the dangers of rising far-right extremism.
The White House at the time denied her claims, describing her as a “disgruntled employee.”
Just because they are not out there actively trying to burn down federal buildings (like some other mostly peaceful protestors who sometimes get swept away by their enthusiasm for freedom and justice), we ought not pretend they wouldn’t.
If I say they’re terrorists, they’re terrorists.
Round them up.
Maybe because the first clause is a lie?
There have long been accusations that street and city level police forces turned a blind eye to Proud Boys members’ violence. They attacked anti-racism protestors in cities including Portland last summer.
In the US, political groups can only be prosecuted if they are suspected of committing crimes.
FAILED STATE!
“In the US, political groups can only be prosecuted if they are
suspected of committing crimesmembers of an unapproved political group.”FIFY
No mention that it is pi day.
Shameful.