Heeyyy guys. How’s things? I am pinch hitting for Riven today. She had real life things to do. Lemme see if I can remember how this all goes… I’ve been busy not sleeping, changing diapers, and generally regretting that particular orgasm. Number 3 son is just about half-spoiled from both ends.
Here is a solution in search of a problem. Who doesn’t drink the ramen broth? That’s where all the salt is.
Can’t decide my favorite home run blooper from opening day: Bellinger or Miggy.
Important health announcement for other Florida Men.
Sanity in a lawsuit decision? Where is bearded Spock?
Second.
Bro is going to be so shamed he won’t show his face under this.
Brochettaward hardest hit
That coke, meth and opiods article belongs in the previous cocktail post.
What ingredients are you using in your drinks?
None of those things taste good. Or like, so I’ve heard.
MLB pulled the All Star game from Atlanta in response to “racist” the voting laws.Local businesses benefit most from all star games, while cities/states typically lose money. 54% of the population of Atlanta is black. So who do you think pulling the All Star game hurts most? The MLB is racist.
Fuck those assholes.
Another reason in the long list of why I don’t watch sports.
I just don’t understand how corporates can keep on alienating customers like this. The people they’re trying to pander to won’t ever be loyal to them. The people they’re spurning aren’t ever coming back. Surely this is just bad business?
There’s a lot of talk about ESG and activist investors, but there has traditionally been a reason for companies being quite cautious about politics.
I think they’ll be absolutely fine.
Yep. I cannot think of any real example when a large company suffered for going all woke.
Depends what you mean by fine. P&G wrote down the value of the Gillette brand by $8bn. That’s not going to break the bank for them but it’s not what anyone with any sense wants. I wouldn’t say I was wildly offended by their woke advert, but it’s very easy for me not to buy their product ever again.
How much in tax savings did that write-down buy them?
God knows. I’d be surprised if an impairment loss is wholly allowable but I’m not a tax guy.
Not a tax lawyer, but I’m thinking “not a frickin’ penny”. That would likely be a loss of “goodwill”, which is not a deductible loss.
I vaguely remember reading about the businesses and local officials who cooperated with the bolsheviks before and during their revolution. Afterwards they were all dragged out of their beds at night along with their families and shot. The author, who was a witness to all of this said “Somehow, they never saw it coming.”
Well they won’t be then. But they’ll be fine this year. The history of political and socially conscious boycotts is mostly one of abject failure.
Every organization in America is scared shitless of the woke mobs. It’s understandable that they are not thinking these things through right now.
And the woke mob can now successfully label anything it wants as racist, to the benefit of the Democratic Party. State voting laws? Sure, those were really getting all of the robots excited before whoever runs the narrative told the robots what to be outraged about.
A lot of people naturally recoil from these moves because every major cultural institution in America shits all over them. For their efforts they are accused of living in a bubble, cloistering, etc.
Relevant
Baseball season just ended real early.
I was seriously thinking about throwing some cash at Rangers partial season tickets after they were getting shit about opening at full capacity. Now, not so much. Maybe I’ll get tickets for the local AA team, maybe not. *shrugs*
Nothing makes me lose interest faster than sports people/teams/organizations going all activist.
I thought about “unliking” and then not following the Rangers but I honestly think they have nothing to do with this and I approve of opening the stadium to all.
I need to go like MLB and then angrily unlike it in a huff.
If you want some tickets let me know as I’m in on season seats with bunch of people.
Thanks for the offer! My wife’s grandfather has season tickets that we get to use a few times each year.
Glibs meetup at a Rangers game? That would be a ton of fun!
I used to get access to cheap ticket voucher plans through work. We’d go to 25 or 30 games a season for a couple hundred bucks, and we’d bring a picnic dinner to the games. I think that went away (the ticket vouchers AND letting picnic bags in) a few years ago.
I looked a few weeks back, and Frisco Roughriders season tickets aren’t too bad. I’m just not sure if we’d make it to enough games to justify the money.
Who doesn’t drink the ramen broth?
Heathens and nincompoops.
My wife gets the Filipino ramen and serves it pancit style. After boiling, you drain most of the water. Then you mix in the coconut oil, powder and other packets.
There are a number of Korean ramens served stirfry style, where you drain the water off as well.
You mean I’m in the minority in draining off the water?
The noodles don’t carry the flavor, the broth does.
For the cheap Instant Lunch stuff, I dump most of it out before I eat. I like the noodles but I don’t want a soup.
I’ve been busy not sleeping, changing diapers,
When did you get hired onto the White House staff?
I seldom make ramen. When I do, I add the salt after I’ve already drained the noodles. (Leaving enough moisture on them to capture the salt and MSG, of course).
The capital attacker was both black and Muslim.
So that ends the story.
Wonder if he killed a white cop? There might be an angle to milk there.
Anti white hate crime
So my first guess was correct. A nut job unhappy that the wrong tyrant is in power…or something.
Figured that was the reason they didn’t show a pic of him on the news while I was at the gym.
I was guessing that it was Matt Gaetz going full Florida Man.
“You’ll never take me alive COPPERS! Top of the world, MA, top of the world!”
As if that story could get even more ridiculous.
Cops deployed to protect the capital from white nationalists attacked by black nationalist. That guy is ruining the narrative.
Important health announcement for other Florida Men.
Only 27 years after Florida Man River Phoenix found this out firsthand.
He’ll never be an Ole’ Man River?
I had no idea that he was a Florida man.
Ruling in favor of BP Plc, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions should be addressed under federal law and international treaties.
It rejected the city’s efforts to sue under state nuisance law for damages caused by the companies’ “admittedly legal” production and sale of fossil fuels, and said the city’s federal common law claims were displaced by the federal Clean Air Act.
“Global warming presents a uniquely international problem of national concern,” Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan wrote for a three-judge panel. “It is therefore not well-suited to the application of state law.”
That’s just crazy.
Bought and paid for justice! Bought and paid for by the wrong people.
“Global warming presents a uniquely international problem of national concern”
The fuck it does.
I suppose the end of the world has been used as a pretense for control and theft since the beginning of time, but now?
Aw, the city will have to find another source of graft.
Back to attacking Donald and Wall Street.
Its amazing to me how often I see articles and whatnot that are purportedly bucking the Narrative, that include the premises the Narrative as if they are just unquestionably true.
The capital attacker was both black and Muslim.
Striking a blow against white colonialism!
Suicide by cop maybe?
Not maybe, probably
Not probably, most likely.
Not most likely, almost certainly.
Black, Muslim, using a knife instead of a gun?
That dude really was a core member of Team Progressive wasn’t he? (More points may still need to be added if it turns out that the perp was a woman->man transitioner).
Testosterone poisoning!
It’s been a while since I’ve heard someone use that.
“DC Police Say Muslim Attack with a Vehicle and Knife on Police by Farrakhan Supporter Noah Green on Good Friday Does Not Appear to be Terrorism”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/dc-police-say-muslim-attack-vehicle-knife-police-farrakhan-supporter-noah-green-good-friday-not-appear-terrorism/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
That is some speedy police work. I assume it was White Supremacists.
Hahahahaha. Hoo boy.
And now I feel terrible for laughing because the policemen died.
*And now I feel terrible for laughing, because the policemen died.
That’s an important comma.
Every comma’s sacred.
Even Commala Harris?
Yup, completely solved. You can close the case and all wrapped up with a neat little bow tie.
Seen, what was done there, by you.
A very important PSA for those of you who have kids and are super anxious about them not being able to get The Cure
Uffda. People who write this shit should be horsewhipped. This article should have been a one liner: “Your kid won’t die from Covid. They don’t need a vaccine. Don’t sweat it.”
I’d argue that anyone under 35 doesn’t need it. Probably could convince to go higher.
“Your kid won’t die from Covid. They don’t need a vaccine. Don’t sweat it.”
How does that service the narrative of “Ooooga boooga boooga, be afraid, be very afraid!”
LJW: I am well over 55 and have no intention of taking it. I finally found a doc I trust but I dont think the people giving him info can be trusted as far as I can spit.
What do you know Suthen? A 14 year-old kid in Milwaukee DIED!!!!!
Are you ready to concede that you were 100% wrong and now is the time to panic?
Ban automobiles.
Why not ban driving? Especially for teenagers!
It’s the first reported pediatric death caused by the virus in Milwaukee. The Medical Examiner’s Office said the boy also had leukemia and had undergone a bone marrow transplant in 2019
Obviously, it was the super-deadly covid! Nothing else explains it.
My doctor was not happy when I told him the best way to avoid the cootie bugs is to set. your hair on fire and run around in little circles.
So, seriously impaired immune system and likely general systemic weakness.
The goal of the media is to reinforce the psychosis and peddle vaccines as the only way out–to the new normal. That’s what they do.
Fuck no. Families with children under 16 should never take them out in public again. No restaurants, no hotels, and definitely no airplane trips. Do it for the community!
Hah! My 20-something kids are all getting The Cure so that they can fly to Japan.
We are hoping to go visit relatives next winter so the family is getting the shot in hopes that we will be able to slip in an visit.
(And my kids are nearly as bad as toddlers when it comes to traveling)
Good luck! With the Olympics closed to foreigners and the glacial pace of domestic vaccination there, I’m not expecting non business travel to open before Summer 2022. I hope to be proven wrong. Again.
At my online happy hour for work yesterday people were talking about hoping to get their kids vaccinated. I told them that they are nuts. I really don’t understand people’s fears.
There are some in the group with some conditions that put them at risk, so in their shoes maybe I’d get the vaccine. My mom is 90, and I’m glad she got the vaccine. But I’m a little over 50, not overweight, no health conditions. I’ll wait. And my kids? They are adults now so they can decide for themselves, but I’m not going to push it.
My wife’s brother’s family all got it, and they are all fine. Many of her cousins got it too, and they are fine. My colleagues seem genuinely shocked that these people recovered. Her mom’s cousin did pass away from it, but she was 80 and the socialized healthcare system wouldn’t take her into the hospital. So sure, there’s a risk of getting the virus and having a bad outcome, and the risk for some is far worse, but there’s a risk from everything.
I wouldn’t bother giving anyone under 16 a vaccine.
I got my first shot today. Mostly, because I’m applying for jobs and will need to travel for them… if and when.
Well, the youngest patzer won’t need it, after testing positive and put in
prisonisolation for 10 days at his uni. Here in Scranton to pick him up (tomorrow, can’t be too careful!). He had not so much as a sniffle. His roommate was sick for a week (basic flu stuff). Me? 67 years old, don’t plan on getting the vaccine – should be fun when the powers that be institute a “green passport” policy wherein you are granted permission to travel and do other normal things only if you have the proper documentation. They are already doing this at Rutgers, which apparently will require a vaccination to attend classes; I’m sure they were not influenced at all by Johnson and Johnson. Must be nice to have the ability to compel purchase of your product (where have I seen this before?)Sounds like it could have been a false positive.
Could be. Could also be that his immune system handled it – rumor has it that not everyone who gets the ‘vid becomes deathly ill.
My sister’s family got it. 7 kids. Many of the kids also had it but developed no symptoms. The only kid who had a high fever is actually 18 now and not really a kid.
Speaking of, didn’t Mrs. Kinnath contract the dang bug?
Yes. Tested positive on Tuesday March 16th. Fever spiked overnight to 102, then went back to normal the next day.
All symptoms gone by the following Sunday.
We have both been taking vitamin C, D3, and zinc since last year. When her friends started testing positive, we both doubled the zinc. The day after she tested positive, she started drinking tonic water. The next day, quinine supplements arrived from Amazon (ordered as soon as she got the positive test results).
All her friends started taking zinc and drinking tonic water after my wife told them she was getting better. They all cleared up quickly.
Stuff works.
Very glad to hear she is back to normal, and that you avoided it!
?
I took quinine and zinc in the same dosage. I had no symptoms at all.
Most people really can’t understand what it means to have a 95% accurate test. 5 out of every 100 healthy people will be quarantined. And 5 out of every 100 infected people will be sent out to mingle.
– 50 year old cousin, who has had a double-bypass & is overweight, got it and is doing fine (some tiredness)
– 47 year old brother & SIL, plus their teenage boys all got it
– 55 year old brother got it, along with his 20 year old son
Yes, people die from it, yes it’s worse than just seasonal flu, but it is not wildly different than the Hong Kong flu – yes, more deaths, but we’re 50% larger plus significantly older.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1968/
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2020/
Somehow, we managed to get through earlier pandemics without leaping into fascism, yet here we are.
But your kid can still give it to Grandma. It is not safe to leave the house until every human on earth has been Cured.
Well, it’s here at last. The
two weekone year anniversary of Zoom/Happy Hour/Variety shows. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.Reminds me of Joe Walsh’s quip about drinking – I was only drunk once, for 17 years.
For the record, I am NOT Joe Walsh. Although that quip is eerily accurate…
And my general schedule has been changed, so I may be starting a couple minutes late tonight. It’s entirely my fault.
What?! Noooooo!
Just kidding, sorry you have to work late.
Nah. They pushed the time of my spin class back 30 minutes.
https://youtu.be/TbjUUG65-7U?t=14
/looks around at fit young women in spandex
Yep. Stay away. Stay far away.
/preps his cycling kit for a long ride tomorrow
Point taken.
You guys lucked out. I saw a wealth envy screed about inheritance taxes (tl;dr- should be at least 125%). CNN, probably.
I can’t find it now, so you’ll just have to get your we-hates-the-rich blood pressure boost somewhere else.
It really is amazing that there is such a large group of people out there that think that Congress could pass an inheritance law that would confiscate the money of the uber rich estates.
They never seem to grasp that the very wealthy will hire lawyers and accountants to shelter their estates and avoid any new laws. The only people who get fucked over by the new laws are the kids of small business owners, farmers and others squarely in the middle class.
Mark “Gov. Mumbles” Dayton, as progressive as you can get, lives off a trust fund set up in evil, tax avoiding, South Dakota. His ancestors were smart enough to set it up so that he is paying negligible taxes while he lives the live of a millionaire.
Too bad. I’m sure if they would have left the money to him in a checking account it would be gone by now.
I’d almost be for that law. Zero estate taxes on any money that was placed into a checking account for 90 days that was solely under the power of the inheritee (or whatever they are called).
How many of the kids would make it through the 90 day period without squandering gobs and gobs of that money?
But that would be an unintended and totally unexpected consequence!
I did the math today, for calculating estimated taxes. The first $82k of income (still have to pay 15.2% Medicare and SS tax) is covered by my kid credit. Laugh at my breeding now!
Suicide by cop maybe?
Maybe one of those cops was fucking his
wifegoat.“Developed alongside Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, the Cup Noodle Remaining Soup Hardening Powder is as easy to use as dumping the powder into the broth, stirring it around, and waiting a few moments for the liquid to thicken into a gel that looks like it has the consistency of a watered-down Slurpee. Nissin doesn’t appear to reveal what the actual white powder is, but more than likely it’s a superabsorbent material like sodium polyacrylate that’s often used in products like baby diapers to contain other messes. Nissin does, however, warn users not to consume the gelatinous broth once it’s solidified.”
Soup Hardening Powder is the name of my new mathcore project.
Anyway, why not make the broth gelatinous with gelatin, or go eat somewhere that has indoor plumbing?
Kitchen sinks invented, sales plummet.
Might also have application in the feminine product market. Don’t give up so easily.
You know
who elsewhat other Asians like to use a “hardening” powder?Human horn?
This’ll be the Tide pods-type eating craze.
Er…*next*
So, hot young female soup?
Dragged over from Neph’s fine article (because I’m so damn late):
I rarely drink vodka, but when I do I like to pair it with the freshly squeezed juice from the following, in no particular order:
1. Honey tangerines, from Florida
2. White grapefruit, from Florida
3. Sumo mandarin oranges
4. Clementine mandarin oranges
5. Cara Cara (also known as Rose) navel oranges
6. Pink grapefruit, from Florida
Now I’m thirsty
Sounds fruity.
Not sure if #5 is the same as blood orange but if it is not….trust me….you want to try that. I squeeze mine and freeze the juice in ice trays. Use those for ice cubes in your other juice mixers. Yum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange
It isn’t. It’s a mutated Valencia.
^Trust the potato.
Suthen: that is a damn fine idea. Usually, the Blood (Moro) orange is one I frequently find in the produce markdown bin, so I can buy them cheap.
Blood oranges are my preferred mixer from the orange clan. Aside from the awesome color, they aren’t as sugary sweet as regular oranges. Why, I even make Blood Orange Old-Fashioneds from time to time.
I made a bunch of those in the last quarter. Good recipe
“PICTURED: Capitol cop who was killed by knife-wielding driver, 25, who is a ‘Nation of Islam follower’ after being mowed down with a fellow officer before the suspect was shot dead”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9431125/Capitol-cops-injured-car-smashes-barrier.html
Nation of Islam and no gun? It won’t even make the Sunday shows.
He used a 90mm!!
He was from Indiana. Why didn’t he have a gun?
I’m starting to think his coup attempt had some flaws.
Most people really can’t understand what it means to have a 95% accurate test. 5 out of every 100 healthy people will be quarantined. And 5 out of every 100 infected people will be sent out to mingle.
Coupe attempt?
All the guns from Indiana sneak out to Illinois, New York, and New Jersey on weekends to get their crime on. They’ll be back Monday.
SCANDALOUS!
At least 55 major profitable companies didn’t pay any federal corporate income taxes last year, according a report by the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).
The group faulted the GOP tax cuts passed in 2017 as well as tax breaks enacted in the first major coronavirus relief bill passed early last year as contributing factors.
“This continues a decades-long trend of corporate tax avoidance by the biggest U.S. corporations, and it appears to be the product of long-standing tax breaks preserved or expanded by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) as well as the CARES Act tax breaks enacted in the spring of 2020,” the group wrote in its report on the findings.
The report follows President Biden’s proposal to pay for a more than $2 trillion infrastructure plan by raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent. Prior to the 2017 GOP tax cut, the rate was 35 percent.
In remarks laying out his plan Wednesday, Biden pointed to a previous year’s report showing that 91 companies paid no federal income taxes.
“That’s just wrong,” he said. “A fireman and a teacher paying 22 percent? Amazon and 90 other major corporations are paying zero in federal taxes? I’m going to put an end to that.”
If A, then rhinoceros.
If reinstating the Trump tax cuts would so obviously bring in that much revenue, then it should be obvious to show that they cut that much revenue in the first place.
The first year of the new tax regime, I did a back of the envelope calculation and found that I saved somewhere between $400 and $500 with the Trump tax rates. And I’m not rich by any stretch of the imagination.
Federal Tax Receipts By Year.
FY 2021 $3.86 (estimated)
FY 2020 $3.71 trillion (estimated)
FY 2019 $3.46 trillion (actual)
FY 2018 $3.33 trillion
FY 2017 $3.32 trillion
FY 2016 $3.27 trillion
Its plain as day that the Trump tax cut stripped out hundreds of billions of tax revenue.
I’m surprised 2020 was that much higher than 2019.
Translation: Biden wants a regressive tax on the middle and lower classes. Either that or he is actually brain-damaged enough to believe that corporate taxes on Amazon are going to come straight out of Jeff’s pocket.
“teacher paying 22 percent?”
Joe is a lying, dog-faced pony soldier. A single teacher making $80,000, taking the standard deduction, would pay $10,860 (still too g.d. much) or 13.6% of her income. Maybe those firefighters in Cal. who were making close to $400K with overtime and 26 hour days would average 22% but I doubt those were the folks Joe was alluding to.
Marginal rate? Still dishonest, but that’s probably what was being referenced.
The key is conflating taxes and tax rates, which is almost universal among politicians and the press. “Reagan cut taxes.” No, he fucking didn’t, taxes went UP. Tax RATES went down.
People are innumerate and politicians rely on that.
“Border crossings were at their highest point in 15 YEARS in March: Shocking data reveals the true surge in migrants coming to the US under Biden – just weeks after he said it’s ‘normal’ and ‘happens every year'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9431153/U-S-caught-migrants-two-decades-U-S-Mexico-border-March.html
We need to open up his skull to see what’s inside.
The “miracle” powder is psyllium, right?
Glucomannan, at least if you believe the advertisements.
Oops. clicked too soon.
If anybody should know the history of the last fifty years’ unending attempts at social engineering via the tax code, it’s Joe.
I’d almost be for that law. Zero estate taxes on any money that was placed into a checking account for 90 days that was solely under the power of the inheritee (or whatever they are called).
How many of the kids would make it through the 90 day period without squandering gobs and gobs of that money?
Yessss! Paris Hilton’s Law. Hunter Biden Inheritance Fairness Act. Talk about your economic stimulus.
Hunter Biden Inheritance Fairness Act.
Stimulus for the Hookers and Blow economy.
Any inheritance tax is a direct attack on property rights and a soviet style seizure of said property. It is driven by envy and greed of the unproductive class.
I say zero inheritance tax. Period.
???
Suthen for God-Emperor!
Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!
You can’t give him my title.
BURN, HERETIC!
North Dakota tourist town evacuated because of wildfire
There’s a tourist town in North Dakota?
They do have some interesting fireworks
Medora, ND is pretty touristy in the summer.
Have some pitchfork fondue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZ0Kdv9Rrg
Interesting history there. This guy named the town of Medora after his wife.
“Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès et de Montemaggiore (14 June 1858 – 9 June 1896), commonly known as the Marquis de Morès, was a French duelist, frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and a politician in his native France.”
…
“He resigned from the cavalry in 1882 and married Medora von Hoffman, sometimes called the Marquise. Soon thereafter, he would move to the North Dakota badlands to begin ranching, purchasing 44,500 acres (180 km2) for that purpose. He also opened a stagecoach business. He named his simple vernacular house in Medora, North Dakota, the “Chateau de Mores”; it is preserved as a historic house there.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Mor%C3%A8s
re the ACFT post Tejicano made this morning – those run times are definitely higher than they used to be – but before the run came right after push-ups and situps, now they have a lot more exercises prior.
The Navy on the other hand got rid of Situps/crunches completely in favor of a 2 min plank and added rowing as an alternate cardio (obviously they try and make all the cardio options – with the exception of swimming – something you can actually do on a ship). In reality, it’s encouraged to try and get it done while you’re in port. Still pushups and a run (think it’s still 1.5 miles). Our PFT got pushed out so that fall 2021 is the first one in about 1.5 years. Guessing a lot of folks will be hurting – but we’ll see.
Bring back galley ships. Then the sailors can get all the rowing aerobics they would ever need.
This looks to be a great weekend. Other than Easter (seeing my folks for lunch after church and hopefully my brother and my new[ish] nephew) – looking forward to going to see Kong vs Godzilla tomorrow for “Lunch and a movie” at the Paragon in Fredericksburg and Park Lane Tavern. Some nice high ABV brews (not to mention great food) and a movie theater I can walk across the parking lot to is the perfect combo.
While many Americans might not have realized it, the CDC has officially discouraged Americans from traveling – until now.
Put another way, while this latest message is couched as the CDC loosening restrictions on travel, what’s really happening is the government is giving private industry the green light to start barring travelers and customers who can’t prove their vaccination status. So instead of granting more freedom, they’re preparing to take freedoms away.
We’ll see soon enough.
This is not going to go well.
Muh MANDATE
White House chief of staff Ron Klain told Politico in an interview Thursday morning that Biden will invite lawmakers from both parties to the White House in the coming weeks to build bipartisan support.
“We want to move forward, if it’s at all possible, on a bipartisan basis, and I think there’s some hope for that,” he said.
Klain said Biden is ready to listen to Republican proposals to pay for infrastructure but at the end of the day the president believes he has a political mandate to get a bold proposal passed through Congress.
“In the end — let me be clear — the president was elected to do a job and part of that job is to get this country ready to win the future. That’s what he’s going to do. We know it has bipartisan support in the country and so we’re going to try our best to get bipartisan support here in Washington,” he said.
Republicans have seized on such remarks, saying they show Democrats are more than willing to freeze out Republicans.
“This is about as partisan as it gets. It’s the opposite of bipartisan, especially if you move it through reconciliation,” the Senate GOP aide said.
One Republican moderate, Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), blasted Biden on Thursday afternoon over talk of moving the infrastructure package under the special budgetary rules that would enable them to pass the measure with only a simple majority in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote.
“A Senate evenly split between both parties and a bare Democratic House majority are hardly a mandate to ‘go it alone.’ The President should live up to the bipartisanship he preached in his inaugural address,” Romney tweeted.
You’re with us, or you’re roadkill.
Poor Mitt must be so confused. He did all the right things. He denigrated the deplorables and neanderthals. He threw his own party under the bus.
And now they still won’t let him into the clubhouse?
SCHIEßE
Shoot what?
That reminds me of a funny story from the first day of my college German class.
Er schießt die Scheiße.
SO EIN MIST
Schieß dem Fenster, natürlich.
Case of ammo on my front porch when I got home. ????
Beats a horse’s head.
No ammo, but I did get all my magazines last week.
I went a lil overboard on mags the past couple months. I’m still waiting on a couple back in stock email notices.
I have some arriving tomorrow. A case of GP-11. I got it for about $1.50/round. I felt like I got a steal given GP-11 usually goes for about $2/round now-a-days.
Remember a while back you asked about whether or not a Schmidt-Rubin was insane? I can top it.
Private sale 1911 rifle
I think the seller is correct about his research for the origin of the gun. Swiss gun retailers would sometimes stamp private sale Schmidt-Rubins with their names. One of my private sale Schmidt-Rubins has such a marking.
I am a little concerned about what is going on with the mucked up finish around the barrel serial number. The P stamp for the serial number looks a little off. It is a valid serial number for a private sale 1911 rifle. According to Swiss Waffen, the seller is way off on the number of private sale 1911 rifles made.
A couple of times in the seller’s listing he calls the rifle a K11. It’s not a carbine, it’s a rifle.
Note the horrendous import mark.
The rifle has been re-blued at some point in its life. Note the bluing on the rear sight. That’s not how the Swiss blued rear sights for these rifles.
Asking price $14,500. Insane.
Looney toons.
How about a $3k reduced capacity mag: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/896480207
Insane.
Friend of mine told me I’ve met the guy that owns these. Cool, but…
Just beautiful.
“If you or anyone in your household identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), including anyone with Abenaki or other First Nations heritage, all household members who are 16 years or older can sign up to get a vaccine! ”
https://twitter.com/GovPhilScott/status/1377605174320099335
I identify as the Governor Of Vermont, so you can just ignore that.
They’re flirting with revolt.
“Global warming presents a uniquely international problem of national concern,” Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan wrote for a three-judge panel. “It is therefore not well-suited to the application of state law.”
This has me concerned that there might be a turd in the ruling.
Question for tech-minded Glibs:
Our new house has a building, across the driveway from the house, separated by perhaps fifty feet. We are using it as an office and have set up our computer hardware there.
Here’s the problem: The wireless access point is in the house, and it gives a very weak signal in the office building. Weak enough that computers are recalcitrant about even connecting.
Is there some kind of booster that will help with this? I have seen some on Amazon but am reluctant to try something about which I have little knowledge.
Directional antenna.
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You can use an antenna, the problem with that is almost all devices that have wifi don’t have antenna connectors. So they make wifi repeaters. You can also try replacing the device in the house with one with more gain.
Boosters work fine, but try to place them on an inside wall of your house closest to the office building, with nothing more substantial than drywall and insulation in the way of their signal.
You could also use a booster on the other end (inside the office building).
Or, Heaven forfend, you could run some burial-grade CAT5 or higher cable from your main house to the office building. (This has been my preferred solution for hooking up the Spousal Unit’s and my office’s rigs.)
But remember: I’m a physical cable bigot. Wireless is fine as long as you can live with lower throughput and higher latency, more missed/resent data, etc.
Running the cable would be my choice – it’ll make a huge difference in the long run.
Good time to make friends with your neighbor who owns a DitchWitch.
And to amplify on my shocking bigotry: the Spousal Unit is less than twenty feet from our Wifi router, one floor down, with no metal in-between to block the signal. When I first plugged in the cable run I made for her, her benchmark speed tripled and latency dropped by 80% or thereabouts. She no longer has visible lag issues with her VPN and her video conferencing. And this is on a laptop that is less than a year old and has every Wifi gewgaw known to humanity built into it.
I don’t know how good/bad your Internet service speed is in your neck of the woods in Alaska, but going physical to your outbuilding is probably gonna be a lot less frustrating for you than wireless.
It’s not bigotry, just the cold facts, a good cable is better than the best radio waves.
It’s not bigotry, just the cold facts
AKA bigotry
Could try this maybe
https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/ceiling-mount-access-point/eap225-outdoor/
You can possible go a couple of directions.
Directional antenna and a point to point link between the two buildings
Run Cat5 between your house and the outbuilding. 50ft is well within the 100M limitation of Cat5. Make sure to use outdoor rated (UV stabilized) cable or run in conduit.
Change placement/type of AP in your house to cover the outbuilding
My opinion is that it’s better to bury a cable between the buildings. If you search Amazon, you’ll come up with some wifi boosters and directional antennas, but the buried cable will probably work better overall. How far a run is it?
I missed that you said it was 50 feet. The cable is the way to go. While you’re at it, bury two just in case, and take the opportunity to pull any other utilities across that you think you’ll need. If you dig a trench, lay in some PVC conduit and leave a spare 2 or 3″ conduit and cap the ends, and leave a pull string in it for future use.
There are a few options.
1) a repeater/booster inside as close to the outbuilding as possible. Cheapest, but least reliable way.
2) access point/repeater outside on your house. More expensive, but will more reliably get signal out to the outbuilding and may improve throughput.
3) trench a cable to the outbuilding. If it’s the kind of project you’re willing to take on, it can be cheap, and you can then put any cheap old access point out there and have strong signal.
2.9) go straight redneck and just leave the outdoor rated cable snaking across the lawn instead of burying it.
2.99) put a piece of astroturf over top so you don’t forget and mow over it.
Is there a telephone line between the house and the barn? If so, you can use a VDSL modem to extend your wired connection across the phone line. I do that to my barn which is about 200 feet from my house. It’s limited to 100Mbps but I haven’t had any problems. I can stream a few youtube windows at once with no noticeable issues.
100Mbps is far more than most people (excluding teenagers, who aren’t fully-human yet*) need.
*BIGOT! I’m a BIGOT! Teen-hostile!
(Hey! Some of my best friends are teenagers.)
Is the building’s electricity from the main house?
I’ve had good luck with Ethernet over power line to my detached garage.
Real world I get consistent 25 mb/s. Ignore the higher hyped specs.
It’s actually on completely separate power. It’s on its own meter and junction, probably because it’s on the adjacent lot and technically has a different address.
I did some digging and discovered one part of the problem. In the old house we had both desktops connected by ethernet cable, which isn’t really an option right now as I need to be up and running ASAP and can’t take time to dig up the driveway and bury cable. We could have a whole separate install for the office, but that would add a lot to the monthly bill.
But, I’ve looked at the backs of the PC cases, and realized there are no wireless antennae attached to the cards, just the threaded nubs. I took out my cell phone and checked the signal strength and it was all the way up, four bars. So I walked away from the house, all the way over to the back of our big storage building, and the signal strength didn’t seem to budge.
So we’re going to Anchorage tomorrow anyway to buy office chairs, so we’ll get a wireless signal booster and put it in our front room where it’s only a pane of glass facing the office building, and put antennae on those nubs. Hopefully that will get us where we need to be.
Thanks, one and all, for the advice. I may seek a more permanent and solid (wired) solution later, but right now I just need to be in operation.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vulnerable-dems-fret-after-getting-a-shock-aocs-campaign-cash/ar-BB1ffpQU?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz
Gaetz’s credit card used to secure services from AOC onlyfans site?
I don’t understand what her game is here. Am I overthinking it? Everything I know about her, and every instance of her speaking I have witnessed indicates that she may be one of the apparently least intelligent people I have ever been aware of.
Republicans pounce!
Journos just can’t help themselves.
That is spectacular writing. Goebbels must be looking up and thinking, Jesus…I was a fucking amateur.
“years of unrelenting Republican attacks.”
Just had a nice phone call with Fourscore and thought I’d give the 2 minute update.
1) He came back from the hospital today
2) He’s loaded for bear when it comes to medical accoutrements (walker, wheelchair, etc)
3) His xray today looked good according to the doc. Everything is healing the way it is supposed to
Now that he is home, he should be back on his own computer and commenting himself very soon.
Excellent!
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Excellent news.
Huzzah!
Super!
🙂
Excellent!
Great news!
Excellent news!
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And he’s got his own porn again!
Awesome!
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Nice.
Really good to hear?
*waves to fourscore*
“Months after it was alleged that a laptop revealed Hunter Biden’s business interests in China and Ukraine, the president’s son tells Tracy Smith that the laptop “could be” his”
https://twitter.com/CBSSunday/status/1377949486329237512
CWAA
“Or it might some totally different guy’s laptop, I haven’t quite figured it out yet.”
His evil identical twin who also happens to have the same name, travel itinerary, acquaintances, friends, business contacts, and drug habit.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Kinnath, are you still around? What dose of the quinine supplement was your wife taking? I didn’t realize those existed (you’re talking about the powdered bark supplement, right?) and I just ordered some to squirrel away.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TDQ14D9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Took the suggested dose of 2 pills per day with food. One with breakfast, one with supper.
Wife said the results were immediately noticeable.
You hot boxed her?
Thanks, that’s exactly what I ordered.
More Lehigh Valley bars cited for Covid violations
Pennsylvania State Police this week announced citations issued in March against liquor-license holders for alleged violations of state measures aimed at stemming the spread of COVID -19.
Seven Sirens Brewing is on the list. Judging by the posts on the business’ facebook page, this is a place high up on my list of places to support when I am next in PA.
“Pennsylvania State Police this week announced citations issued in March”
Hey Republicans, don’t forget to back the blue.
Hayeksplosives and I are FB friends. Not knowing how much she would want to share here, because she has not asked me to do this, I would just like to say her hubster could use some good vibes.
☹️
Boo. I had been wondering how he was doing.
Good vibes going his way, since I’m not the praying type. They could both use a break.
Oh no. This is not good. I hope he pulls through.
Thank you for letting us know
Merde. Again, my phone number is on the forum if she could use local help.
Glad you guys liked the GKC stuff yesterday. Found some more good passages in my reading today – again from Eugenics and Other Evils.
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Friday Funbags won’t take no for an answer!
https://archive.li/LYFZP
Get #1 a cheeseburger stat!
Some Good Friday news – what are future clergy being taught nowadays?
“It all boils down to this: white people are evil, destined for evil; if you are a conservative you can go rot in hell, even though we don’t believe in hell.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/which-god-is-served-at-duke-divinity/
I knew it was bad, but holy shit…
I agree that I’m evil but I disagree that others are not.
Braggart.
Stephen Hicks postulates that the postmodern movement was an attempt to replace the Church because the early Enlightenment had severely diminished it and there were many who severely resented that.
That Foucault is popular in a modern divinity school would seem to be ultimate expression of that trend.
blockquote fail
First sentence is quoted, the rest is not.
Hey there Scruffy…
Top drawer? I don’t see any drawers.
I guess that at Duke Divinity the trend towards postmodernist bullshit filtered over from the absolute fucking abomination of the English department where Stanley Fish upended everything.
Postmodernist thinking is incredibly attractive to these professors because it elevates them over their subject matter. As Fish said “I no longer have to be right, I only have to be interesting.”
It’s a massive exercise in narcissism that is only made even more explicit because it’s theology studies. I’m surprised they’re not openly denying the existence of God.
It raises the question of why they’re even in divinity school.
Evangelism, just not in the way one would expect from a divinity program. These are missionaries being trained to convert mainline Christians into something akin to reform Judaism. Another flavor of mystical Marxism.
Damnit. I just wrote the best comment of all my great comments and then it said I had to be logged in to post when it said I was logged in but had to log in again. Your loss people.
I shall shed a single tear for myself.
A login from Porlock.
Don’t feel bad, that still may be your best comment.
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https://youtu.be/_lK4cX5xGiQ?t=52
AHAHAHAHAHAHA! https://twitter.com/DrJialun/status/1378034780575428609
Earlier I made a tweet, in my misjudgement claiming today’s attack on the Capitol was done by Trump supporting insurrectionists. This wasn’t the case, however Trump and his supporters have denigrated the sanctity of the Capitol building and laid the ground work for future attacks
If Trump supporters didn’t storm the Capitol on January 6th, today’s attack would have never happened. Trump is responsible. Republicans are responsible.
CCP stooge or CCP agent, take your pick.
absolutely a chinese communist who suspiciously has a check mark.
Remember that chunky chica who somehow got her green card fast-tracked so she could testify against Trump?
I expect the CCP has a hotline for getting their people checkmarked.
Goddammit! Motherfucker!!
Fuck!!
Fuck you, Manfred!
The MLB heretofore had been reasonably good with staying out of the culture war. They had a couple of teams protest last summer, but once players realized they had to then go out of their way to make that game up, teams shut it down pretty quickly.
But now Manfred has jumped headfirst in the the pool of wokeness.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1378059367900139525
Tennis is one of the least woke sports at the moment. Perhaps because it’s dominated by non-Americans and they don’t have patience for this stupid bullshit.
I haven’t been able to watch any tourneys this year, but I was under the impression they had fallen off the woke cliff based on some newsletters I get.
Naomi Osaka did at the US Open, but since then, not so much.
Been watching every tournament, and there’s very little woke shit at all.
FWIW I don’t watch the “human interest” crap or any interviews.
I like that, last week, France was making noises about woke culture migrating over to their shores. Yeah, you can have your stupid mind virus back.
“A Miami Catholic school confronted racism after George Floyd died. Parents complained….
“Ahead of the current school year, [Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, an independent Catholic girls school in Miami’s Coconut Grove] took note of complaints about its culture, adopting an inclusion policy and an amended mission statement to include a commitment to denouncing discrimination and tackling structures that perpetuate racism….
“The tension between the school’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the pushback from parents comes as Miami grapples with issues of racism, religion and a deep-seated belief among a wide swath of Miami that the ongoing movement for racial equity is rooted in socialist teachings.”
How did they find out – I mean, where did they get such a silly idea?
“Goal III, titled “Schools of the Sacred Heart commit themselves to educate a social awareness which impels to action,” now includes: “The school, drawing from Catholic Social Teaching, educates students to analyze and work to eradicate social structures, practices, systems, and values that perpetuate racism and other injustices….
“…On some Spanish-language radio programs, hosts said the racial equity movement was based in Marxist philosophies. One host whose comments were picked up nationally accused one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement of being a witch.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article250347191.html
include a commitment to denouncing discrimination and tackling structures that perpetuate racism….
So they’re tackling affirmative action then.
Narrator: “Racial equity” literally means taking from one “race” and giving it to another, is rooted in Marxist principles, and is pushed by the openly Marxist founders of BLM.
James Lindsey on Your Welcome.
These people don’t believe in hypocrisy. Or rather, they believe hypocrisy is a necessary facet of their ideology. Hypocrisy proves their dedication to the cause. They literally cannot be reasoned with. They are cultural suicide bombers.