SP has departed for a trip to the East to visit family (especially her father, The Professor), leaving Wonder Dog and me to fend for ourselves. The house is eerie when it’s empty like this. Not quiet, mind you- this is an invite for me to turn the stereo up to concert levels. And cook lots of usually-forbidden dishes with cilantro and poached eggs (not necessarily together). Maybe I can drop into the site during the week a bit more than usual. And have house-call strippers come by… oh wait, I wasn’t supposed to say that out loud.
I will say birthdays out loud, though, because today is the birthday of a guy for rent; an actually interesting lawyer; a guy who we could judge; a strong argument for term limits; a guy who was almost a parody of Ivy League political “scientists”; yet another actor who thinks his political opinions matter; a Canadian dude with shrunken kids; and some dude with a big head.
Let’s move on to stuff happening now.
This is the beginning of a David Lynch film.
Common sense regulation needed, right?
New Yorkers apparently love this murderous piece of shit.
Wasn’t this a David Bowie movie?
No wonder that woman looked abused.
Old Guy Music today is short, but much fun. Jack Lancaster is not well-known, surprising given his history, but he’s basically a clone of Ian MacDonald, which is a great compliment. Most “let’s do a rock version of a classical piece” are pretty lame. Lancaster’s isn’t.
I get to meet SP – and Tres and annoyed nomad – on Wednesday!!! I’m so excited I can hardly stand it. I’m also terrified, fearing the restaurant I picked out will not be all that (remember – NOT a foodie!) and that I’ll be my usual boring, introverted self. But I wouldn’t miss it for the world!
P.S. – any Miami Valley Glibs who haven’t heard about this get-together yet, please check out the discussion under the Meetups topic in the Forum.
oh well, I’ll be working Wednesday, I never meet anyone IRL,
/Except Ozy, who was an honor to meet and hang with,
Maybe once we get unmasked down here (by late June, I hope??) you can come down on a weekend? We’ll let you sample Skyline Chili and pizza cut into little squares, and I’m sure Tres can set you up with some TALL CANS!!!
I do plan on headed down to visit you both, maybe June?
That would be fantastic! Our only potential conflicts – don’t know when our Dayton Dragons tickets will be, though we’d be happy to take you along, depending on their capacity limits at that point, and we HOPE to take some kind of trip for our 25th anniversary if we can find an unmasked destination.
Nice!
I’m pretty sure Tres will keep things going.
We’ll ask for a table away from any large-screen TVs.
“and consent to sex with five strangers”
Kinda specific.
With six you get eggroll?
I assume this is from the article that I did not get past the headline.
Who would consent to that? I see a lot of people walking around out there that I would not have sex with…you know, like all of them.
From the “Gross but correct” link.
That is what I thought. I read the headline and thought….another attempt to destroy the culture and tapped out.
The law, like politics, is downstream from the culture, changing the law is just catching up to where the culture is.
After the 5th, you get a free subway sandwich.
Which is gross also.
So the reward is a loaf of bread with a small flake of meat hidden inside it? That isn’t worth the effort.
*sad trombone*
I don’t believe that it’s actually a foot long.
I don’t know who that is but I tapped out in record time so there’s that I guess.
As I’ve said, when sportswriters say they want athletes to stand up for what they believe in, what’s really meant is that they want the athletes to stand up for things they the sportswriters believe, not they the athletes.
The controversy over the China comments at the start of the 2019-20 NBA season (before the coronavirus shit) or Drew Brees should serve as sterling examples.
Stand up for what you believe in if it agrees with me, otherwise shut up. I wish they’d shut the hell up whether they agree with me or not. Adult men tossing around a ball and politics should be distinct circles on the Venn diagram.
Agreed. If a bouncy ball player says “My political opinion is…”
I cut them off right there with “I don’t give a fuck”
This Shalise character can blow that out of her ass somewhere else.
Unfortunately the left will incorporate their politics because that’s just what they do and the right, or nonleftists more accurately, will react so they don’t cede the field. For people who care about sports it’s unfortunate but it’s here to stay.
Dear Yahoo “News”,
Please turn your comments section back on. I miss seeing your “journalists” getting fried , roasted, smoked, and flushed down the toilet.
I dont think any left-leaning sites have comment sections anymore. The have all gotten embarrassed too much. I am sure they tell themselves those comments were all bots and trolls.
The heat was too hot for our local nonsense: I cancelled my online paper subscription: they turned subscribers’ comments off, so I turned them entirely off.
The only reason I tolerate Faux News is they still have theirs on.
13%!
?
And have house-call strippers come by… oh wait, I wasn’t supposed to say that out loud.
I’d have guessed they’re too old for you.
Cilantro…I think OMWC is trolling me.
Trolling SP. She claims that even photos of cilantro destroy the food.
I have to go with SP on this one.
Genetic defects.
Not quite cilantro
Tom T is convinced that our treadmill – NOT a Peloton, bought used at Play It Again Sports – is trying to kill him, but I suspect the problem is something about his gait. (Maybe has it set too slow, and he’s pulling on the belt with each step?)
It’s been tempting to put the big fat floof of a cat on the thing, but I can get him to exercise just by walking up and down the basement stairs – he invariably follows me. Of course, then I’d have to keep going up and down the stairs.
he invariably follows me. Of course, then I’d have to keep going up and down the stairs
I call that a win win. I keep the booze in the basement so I have to go down and get it. I try to get 30 flights per day. I’ve been failing because of the stupid masks at work. (excuses… excuses, I know)
We had a treadmill that my wife damaged because of her gait. The belt cut into the side of the case.
“I keep the booze in the basement so I have to go down and get it. I try to get 30 flights per day.”
Yikes.
When I think of treadmills I always picture Arnold Schwarzenegger portraying Conan the barbarian shackled to a horse mill.
If you need exercise swing by my house. You can cut, haul and split wood all day long. Oh, I have some grow boxes and beds that need weeding as well.
This year’s gardening got set back but hopefully by June I can still get some stuff in. Had 2/3 of of my wood cut but it’s still in the woods. I may be heating with gas but need to wait and see.
Every day now is better than yesterday.
::two enthusiastic thumbs up::
Every day now is better than yesterday.
Good!
*cough* grease the belt *cough*
It’s been tempting to put the big fat floof of a cat on the thing
Sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
I thought the only exception to free speech on this site was posting cat videos.
That looks like a trick the little black cat would pull. He’s a master of passive resistance – like when I’m pulling him out from under the bed before I turn in for the night. Gandhi and Dr. King would have been proud.
I don’t think Fredo killed anyone but assuming you’re referring to his brother, the love for even that prick was restricted to 59.62% of us last go-round.
The problem is that some of those 40% think the problem is that he wasn’t murderous enough toward the wrong-thinkers.
When’s that douchebag up for reelection? It looks like he’s going to manage to ride out all the killing and the molesting and the mismanaging he’s done recently.
Next year.
I suspect the machine will just back a different Democrat and the goodies will to continue to flow as usual.
And that’s the reason for any sane person to get the hell out of New York.
The truth is most of the city were all too happy to lionize him as The Great Hero of the Pandemic right up to the point where he was a useful target of other members of the Party. And they were told to hate him and they happily comply. And told to hate him for precisely the accusations (that he was sending COVID patients to nursing homes) that they were told to ignore as just crazy right-wing talking points just a month earlier.
With people like that, there’s no point in even trying to argue. You can present them irrefutable evidence and they’ll simply ignore it. And it’s just as, if not more, common with their “educated” population as it is with the less educated.
“…it’s just as, if not more, common with their “educated” population as it is with the less educated.”
I would say more so. I have told this story before but here it is again. Talking to a brain washed, useful idiot who has a masters in english I said….
Me – ” You voted Obama? The guy looked your right in the eye and told you explicitly he was going to fuck you to death. What is wrong with you?’
Her – “No he did not.”
Me – “No? Here he is on video. Have a watch.”
Video of Obumbles – *Under my plan energy prices would necessarily skyrocket*
Her – *speechless*
Three weeks later she denies ever seeing the video. I show it to her again. A month later she denied seeing it again. I show it to her a third time. Ten bucks says if I mention it today she will deny knowing anything about it.
“Once they are demoralized you cannot fix them. No matter how much authentic information you give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion.” -Yuri Bezmenov
It truly is breathtaking to behold the impenetrable mind of the brainwashed.
Oh, and then there is this: The same person told me in exactly these words – “no matter how many facts you show me, no matter how reasonable your arguments are I will never change my mind”
I replied “Ah, so you cant be reasoned with. Got it.”
Again, she was speechless. Ordinarily I would not ever speak to such a person but she is family. It is true….you can choose your friends but you cant choose your family.
Re talk the other day about people thinking uncritically because of lowered educational standards, that could explain Millennials and below, but what about dull Xers, Boomers, and (whatever ’45 and earlier are called)?
My mediocre public-school education would be at least a Catholic school one these days. That would be another good forum topic: Glib homeschool curriculum.
I have been reading GK Chesterson recently. I remarked to my wife how well reasoned he is and how articulate his writings are. I read a sample to her. She remarked how poorly educated out educated class is now compared to the educated class of the past. My response was that Chesterson was a piker. Try reading some George Washington when he was writing to his peers and not the general public.
I can’t understand the politics there.
Yesterday I had to go to the pharmacy and the grocery store. The guy in front of me at the pharmacy was foaming at the mouth and said “If anyone comes around here and tries to take our guns away they are going to learn a hard lesson.”
The guy behind me in the grocery check-out line was ranting the same thing. People around here are really steamed up about the commies gun control efforts. I cant imagine the sheriff here attempting such a thing. The feds will have to come in and do it themselves and I dont see their chances of success being very good. It will be a bloody mess.
Once again I would like to congratulate every idiot that voted democrat.
“But Trump!”
It doesn’t matter whose name is on the office door. You aren’t voting for a person, you are voting for policies, moron.
if nothing else, there is safety in a small town like Manistee, no crime, tons of weapons, and everyone is so nice,
the Fed would have a hard time even finding guns around here, many lakes, many boating accidents,
It is the same here. We are the most heavily armed jurisdiction in the US, average of 48 guns per person in the parish.
I mentioned to my neighbor once “I hear gunfire every day around here somewhere.”
Since she shoots a lot she asked “Are we bothering you?” I answered “No, not at all. It makes me feel at home”
With a big smile she said “Well, we (she and her husband) have to shoot more often”
the Range is down the street from my Golf course, and I hear some, shall we say, interesting weapons being fired, some go very quickly,
quite pleasant,
LOL!
The Sunday morning after I moved into my new home, I heard a rooster crowing and, about an hour later, a few gunshots. I got a big smile on my face.
You made a good choice…Sounds like my neighborhood. When I don’t hear those things I worry about the other folks.
Someone shot the rooster!?
That’s a pretty emphatic snooze alarm.
What if you don’t want to wake up at 0500?
Get up at 0400?
(love the new avatar, I got it immediately)
Thanks, zwak. I think it might be affecting my commenting.
(stickers from Street Rebirth, possibly via Etsy, if anyone wants one)
Sorry for the misspell. ‘Moran’.
For those that dont get the reference: http://www.lolwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/10-ironic-and-hilariously-misspelled-protest-signs-1.jpg
that’s pathetic,
You haven’t seen that before? Probably needs more caps and exclamation points but it is still worth a good laugh and facepalm.
I was at a shooting class about a year and a half ago, and was chatting with a couple of cops about gun control and such. One of them said something that stuck with me, “Here in Virginia, once you get away from I-95 and I-81, there are places where if a Fed shows up, he’s just never gonna be seen again.” This was a VA state trooper saying this.
The government can drive the gun culture underground, at the cost of a functioning economy and anything resembling social trust. But they can’t go door to door, or town to town, and even a couple of high-profile raids on high-profile gun owners is still going to end up a bloody nightmare. The Aussies and the Kiwis and even the Brits haven’t tried large-scale general confiscation, if that tells you anything…
There are absolutely places in this country where anyone of government authority is in danger for their life, not just feds. As a federal employee working in the field (forestry, wildland firefighting), there were always places we just didn’t go.
Brings to mind what I’ve heard about places on Navy ships where commissioned officers don’t dare go.
In an election, 60% is a landslide.
Sorry, I can never keep my Mafiosi straight.
In the current climate, I think ‘murderous’ is a fair characterization of most of the talking heads. They foment wars and race-based hatred and profit off the fallout.
On a viseral level I feel like they need helicopter rides more than most politicians.
Leftists always cull the herd. Where better to start than the most expensive citizens? After they are out of the way they will start on the wrong thinkers.
I’d have a hard time mustering much sympathy if Fredo ended up being rounded up in the first wave of purges.
The bastard helped attract a 48% turnout, too. But I choose to interpret that as only getting the support of 30% of us.
Even the guy who wins in a landslide is working with a plurality. As usual, democracy is just a facade to get public buy in on things that would otherwise have them storming the Bastille.
^This^
Disc Golf Every Day, I’m out,
Carpe Discum!
Severed finger article:
As someone who has had his vehicle vandalized and looted twice this year, that makes me smile.
Twice this year? That blows.
Oops….my post below was supposed to be replying here
Spokane has become a homeless inflected shithole thanks to our ultra-woke local government.
The cops couldn’t give a shit either, got transferred to a subcontractor who gave me a police report number and hung up. They are johnny-on-the-spot with parking tickets though.
Nonenforcement for the favored, strict enforcement for the productive class aka anarcho-tyranny. It’s the worst of the worst.
^Also this^
Looks like I’m not the only one who 2020 radicalized
I have come to view all but the most local, accountable government officials as illegitimate. I pay no attention to anything they have to say. They can stick their edicts up their own asses.
Agorism FTW!
I think I’m fairly good at pointing out problems, I just wish I had more solutions.
Two…uh….one word. U-Haul.
Yeah, a soon as I can. I’ve lived here twice in my life and im shocked at how much it’s gone downhill in the last decade.
We just want to be like our big brother Seattle!
I was planning to flee to the Silver Valley but the I-5 assholes have bought the place out.
Yeah. I’m not sure where to go now. The plan was always North Central MT but with real estate costs I will probably end up living in a camper
Check this out…
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-least-populated-us-counties.html
The plan was always to escape to somewhere very remote. Problem being it seems that the Fed, the blue states and the banks have colluded to make property ownership impossible for anyone but the wealthy and those willing to take on massive amounts of debt. I’ve saved my entire working life for a big down payment….meanwhile real estate has outpaced what I could possibly save up. I’m begining to think it’s by design. I’m waiting for someone smarter than me to write a book that can break how exactly I’m being fucked over down for me
Sorry to hear that. I’d heard Spokane was sane. Emphasis was, I guess.
Seattle is in the process of colonizing it.
The department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms conducted a trace on these two firearms and learned both were purchased legally by Hole in July and September of 2020.
A trace? Just like in the movies?
Since ATF isn’t supposed to keep records of background checks, how did they trace them?
Meh. I’m not pulling out the tin foil this early in the morning.
This almost seems like one of their legitimate jobs.
Don’t gunshops have to store all 4473 forms for a set time period? I assume the ATF could just visit the local gunshops, demand the records, and set some interns looking for the name.
Yes. That’s the way it’s set up. Of course, now most 4473s are electronic, which brings about all sorts of privacy issues. I’m not privy to what the “rules” are on the eforms regarding privacy.
Yes.
The Feds keep records on their end which they are supposed to destroy after a period of time. I don’t buy that they destroy those records.
If it’s new, the manufacturer can tell them which distributor took it. The distributor can say which store has it and so on.
Twenty years record keeping requirement and anything less must be surrendered to the ATF if the shop closes. Any records turned over are not destroyed at 20 years. Same with any records over twenty years that the shop turns over. The ATF has been busy digitizing those out of business records.
They start at the manufacturer and follow the chain of custody via the serial number.
How did he get them if he had been sectioned months earlier?
(And at least two victims were there to pick up their paychecks? I would think a big company like that would insist on direct deposit.)
Maybe those employees don’t have deposit accounts? And the company hasn’t gone the route of paying via refillable debit cards? Just a guess.
There’s a plasma donation center close to one of our CU’s branches, and I believe they pay the donors with debit cards. IIRC that got us some “customers” – don’t know if they actually became members – coming in to cash our their pay.
Not everyone has a bank account.
Banking deserts!
True.
Final paycheck? I don’t see a company of that size still handing out regular payslips on prem anymore. Direct deposit, reloadable prepaid card, or mailed check & stub.
Oh wait, paid under the table.
The story is really about us
What DeSantis lacks in name recognition from time on the national stage, he has made up for in his ability to attract media attention. In the last year, DeSantis has been criticized in the press for his handling of his state’s efforts to control the coronavirus.
Most recently, DeSantis was the subject of a “60 Minutes” piece over Florida’s vaccine distribution. The segment was itself criticized for being unfair to DeSantis and subject to backlash.
Through it all, DeSantis has fought back and defended his handling of the pandemic — and a lot of GOP voters seem to like what they’re seeing.
This shouldn’t be too surprising because being anti-mainstream media is a big part of the GOP brand now. As Meredith Conroy of California State University, San Bernardino wrote at FiveThirtyEight, trust in the media among Republicans is at its lowest level since at least 1997.
At the same time, DeSantis has done a good job of getting a lot of media attention from the places Republicans tend to trust such as Fox News and Fox Business. A search of “DeSantis” turned up more than 1,500 mentions on those two channels since Biden’s inauguration, according to the TV News Archive. That was more than either Cruz or Pence had on the two channels.
Never mind the part about DeSantis being right and you being wrong. That’s irrelevant.
It’s just media mentions and name recognition.
You’d think this would be a cause for some self-reflection by the likes of CNN.
Ha, JK.
“The segment was itself criticized for being unfair to DeSantis” Also because it was doctored, which I guess is “unfair”.
Isn’t incest frowned upon because it tends to create inbred children? Theres something more complicated than “punish the icky brother fucker” going on there. Something strikes me as horrifically wrong about intentionally creating deformed/disabled children.
I agree with Suthen, I doubt the author has thought it that far through. It’s about destroying the family and the culture. Full stop.
This.
BLM, marxists that give not one single fuck about black lives, stated explicitly that one of their goals is to destroy the nuclear family. They finally removed that from their site but it is still one of their goals. All of the marxist govts. have done that. If you have a family you have someone that has your back. Racism isn’t the only tool the evil fucks use to divide people.
That was certainly the case before effective birth control and whatnot and it also kept fathers/brothers from murdering each other over mating rights with their mothers/sisters. The social taboo upon which the laws are based is very useful even now. Whether it should be encoded in law is another matter.
I’m inclined to agree. But, if “Love is love” and “If you don’t approve of XYZ marriage, don’t get XYZ married” are our new social standards, I don’t see where opponents have grounds to fight acceptance.
It’s the problem I’ve always had with the claim that something is the “slippery slope fallacy”. Yes, there can be such a thing as a slippery slope fallacy, when there’s no logical connection between the things being discussed. But, the “slippery slope fallacy”, as has become common, argues against examining the logical consequences of underlying principles of an argument. Yes, if you accept underlying principles for one thing, we implicitly endorse those principles. And if we endorse those principles, there’s not really a lot of grounds to reject them for things we decide we don’t like.
Someone here speculated that there’s a financial reason these types want to tie the knot. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was more common than “tru luv”.
Getting rid of inheritance taxes rather than legalizing incest is the obvious and best solution, so of course that is not being discussed.
What is the justification for outlawing incest where no reproduction is possible? Say same-sex incest or where one party has been sterilized?
Not advocating and will will echo SW that it’s certainly a useful social taboo.
What is the justification for outlawing incest where no reproduction is possible? Say same-sex incest or where one party has been sterilized?
I don’t think there is one. That said, most of these laws are on the books from well before either of those things were much of an issue.
Either way, I don’t think legalizing sterile sister fucking is going to be very high on my libertarian wishlist. It’s down there with PCP vending machines and mail order nukes.
It’s down there with PCP vending machines and mail order nukes.
This reminded me of the below article on firearm vending machines in Chicago. A friend fell for it and send it to me when it was published.
Chicago Introduces New Citywide Gun-Sharing Stations
https://www.theonion.com/chicago-introduces-new-citywide-gun-sharing-stations-1819577357
And, of course, if you accept “it could lead to inbred children” as a sufficient reason to ban incest by law, why stop there? If that’s an overriding principle to justify government action, well, there’s any number of behaviors that can have adverse effects on any offspring. Should we enforce alcohol prohibition on expectant mothers? Mandate their diets?
DNA testing for everyone and sterilization for anyone carrying an undesirable gene. Wait…has that been tried before? Isn’t there a name for that….it is right on the tip of my tongue but I cant seem to recall…
*Woodrow Wilson’s ghost faps furiously*
I nearly referenced that piece of cheese earlier regarding the decay of education. God, I hate that fucker.
Inbreeding can result in high incidence of some pretty nasty genetic disorders. Mrs. Animal’s grandmother lived on a farm in Delaware; there was only one tom in the area, and after a few generations the local barn cats started dropping kittens with no eyes. They resolved it by killing the tom cat.
Yeesh. And drowned the kittens in a sack? Never mind, don’t tell me.
Barn cats aren’t pets. They’re feral little beasts, only staying in the vicinity because of the high numbers of easy prey and the occasional big dish of kibble tossed out by the farmers. To immunize/spay/neuter them, you usually have to catch them in a live trap and handle them with big leather gauntlets. They’re wild. Not Fluffy the puffball who sleeps on your pillow.
I know, plenty of feral cats around here; hard to catch for neutering.
Mmmmmmm, cilantro!
Good morning, friends!
Pass the chimichurri!
Flank steak with chimichurri sounds pretty damn good!
Have you had TJ’s chimichurri rice? Not low-carb obviously, but good.
No, but now I feel I must!
Morning Glibs!
Ey up!
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What a surprise. The Washington Post says America’s mission in Afghanistan remains unfinished.
I’m sure the WaPo editorial board will be delighted to send their sons and daughters over there to keep the peace.
*I only read the headline
As long as there are contracts to be had for defense contractors the mission in the Middle East will remain unfinished.
I’m sure the WaPo editorial board will be delighted to send
their sons and daughtersthemselves over there to keep the peace.I’d send all the officers working at the Pentagon over there. And not replace them at the Pentagon.
Yeah, I’ve never liked the whole “I’m sure they’ll be glad to send their sons and daughters over to (insert name of war-torn Third World shithole.)” None of these troops were sent by their parents. None of the parents have any authority to “send” their kids anywhere once the kids reach the age of majority, which you have to do to join the military.
The soldiers are adults, and they volunteered, for whatever their reasons may have been.
‘The host of “Cuomo Prime Time,” who just last month claimed on-air to be “black on the inside,” claims to have the answer on gun and police reform.’
JFC
Bitch you, hail from the most powerful family in the state, you couldn’t possibly be any whiter. What a raging douche bag.
He’s bleck an’ he’s proad.
He needs to slow his Mustang down.
What’s the opposite of an “Oreo”?
Milano?
Seems especially appropriate for a Cuomo.
Now I want cookies.
Pour toi, cherie: https://www.amazon.com/Pepperidge-Farm-Cookie-Collections-Chocolate/dp/B016S52XNM/
::grabs car keys to race up to the grocery. Remembers GlibFit posts later today. Set down keys with a sigh and returns to Mocha Light iced coffee::
Wigger?
All the girlies say he’s pretty fly for a white guy.
Chuck Todd is distraught about vaccine hesitancy. WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
And now- Saint Foochy will address the faithful.
The NYT subhead makes me want to puke. “Fended off” generals? Wtf? That’s not how this is supposed to work…
Why does a vaccinated person have to wear a mask?
Asymptomatic contagion!
Masks forever. Lockdowns forever.
Is this a White Pill?
Masking forever seems like a losing strategy and a way to eventually have the tide turn against the prevailing faction in the culture war.
Then again I underestimated what a ? your average person is prior to last year.
Went into two independent shops in the posh zip code yesterday. I guess they are not up on the latest research because they were still heavy on sanitizer and “don’t touch unless necessary!1!!” signs. Yes, fomite transmission is known (see link from Wikipedia below) but not with Covid.
https://www.gasdetection.com/interscan-in-the-news/magazine-articles/never-heard-fomites-youd-better-learn/
I’ve never seen that. Geez.
People here are mostly terrified sheep outside (a big change from last summer) and while the businesses are full-on mask theater + the occasional appearance and disappearance of whatever measure The State is demanding on some particular day thanks to Karens, they’re pretty half-hearted about it. I just stood next to a maskless freak at the bodega to pick up my week’s supply of vapes and him and the shopkeeper were chatting away like in the before times. The chains are worse, as you can imagine.
I have completely quit wearing masks. I’m not going to be a dick about it and if a place wants to kick me out that’s their prerogative. So far I’ve gotten exactly zero flack from anyone.
Further: when I go to the grocery store now about 25% don’t have masks and that gets higher every time I go.
They’re still everywhere here. I see maybe one other person not wearing a mask in some places. There are a few establishments that are essentially ignoring it, but most are still masked up.
That said, the only flack I have had is when I walked into the (very busy at the time) local grocery without one and a 20 year old at a checkout yells “Do you have a mask? You need a mask in here!” I wheeled around and left, haven’t been back since.
Now that Sununu has ended his mask order, we’re building lists of businesses in NH outside of municipalities with mask ordinances. Does the business require masks? Does the business not require masks? The former get no business. The latter get business.
Some chain stores have mask policies from corporate, but we know of stores in the chains which don’t enforce the requirement and some which will. We’ll give business to those stores in the chain that don’t enforce.
rekt
Take that, Rand Paul.
Now that stupid cunt from Michigan is on.
OBEY
Holy fuck what a retard.
“The virus can be contained by the simple act of wearing a mask”? Open your eyes, you blathering cunnt.
Now she blames Florida.
Ooh, I am eager to miss this.
If she can. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291580/mediaviewer/rm2979736320/
WTF
That’s eerie.
You never saw Behind the Candelabra? It’s good: very funny but sad too. Rob Lowe stole the show.
Militarized policing is all Ronald Reagan’s fault.
150 mass shooting this year.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.
Considering we never heard about any of this stuff while OMB was President I guess the only solution is to reelect him.
Other than the media losing their minds every other day and the last year they were pretty good times.
Que up Op Ed about how lockdowns curtailed mass shootings…..they really do solve all our problems!
Wait until they start advocating them to combat climate change. Not kidding either.
That happened just a month or two into the lockdowns. There was all this gushing from environuts about the lowered emissions from having no cars on the road. The irony is that the temperature this year actually went up due to fewer particulate pollution.
Incredible. How many did we have in the dark days of Trump?
Now that prissy whining bitch Boner is on.
“I tried to save the Republican Party from itself.”
Why do he, Graham, et alia hate Ted Cruz so much? Some thanks for having represented Boehner once.
Cruz beat a GOP establishment candidate.
Would?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/model-aspires-to-become-first-woman-with-down-syndrome-in-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue_3748906.html
Would not.
A person’s worth as a person is in no way diminished by their genetic undesirability as a mating partner but there is a direct correlation between their desirability as a mating partner and their physical appearance. There is a reason models are models.
We are drowning in an ocean of stupid. I have seen this kind of moronic behavior in backward countries but I never dreamed it would come here. It is worse than I have ever seen in my lifetime.
Prost! ?
Aren’t Republicans and libertarians inherently racist?
? Sunday, Slutty Sunday ?
https://archive.li/jbRTg
I hope the trip goes well for SP.
Wikoff believes the tire slasher cut her back tire then cut his finger off on accident.
That’s a new level of incompetence.
The department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms conducted a trace on these two firearms and learned both were purchased legally by Hole in July and September of 2020.
Background checks aren’t backdoor gun registration boys and girls. You can trust the government.
Twenty years without Joey Ramone. Glad he missed 9/11.
“College educated voters”
Now sort them by discipline.
I notice they have the comments turned off in that Yahoo sports article. Don’t feel like getting a tsunami of people calling out your bullshit eh? It’s so much easier when you can just stay in your echo chamber.
‘“Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons. Oh, I know when they’ll change,” said the anchor. “[When] your kids start getting killed. White people’s kids start getting killed.”’
“Your kids”? Tacit acknowledgement that CNN’s audience is solely made up of White upper-middle class Woketarians or just garden variety racism?
Don’t forget pig-ignorance.
I think it is both. Progs are the worst racists of all and not by a little bit. Few of them are even aware of it.
Speaking of…I was recently speaking with a proggie relative and I mentioned the unbridled white-flight occurring in a local city. Her voice changed completely and she said in a dead pan voice “I am trying to figure out how racist you are”.
“Let me get this straight….you….the person who had a black neighbor that helped you with chores around your house…cooked a dinner to thank him and you cooked fat-back, turnip greens and uh…I cant remember what else. He walked in your house expecting dinner, took one look at what you had cooked and did not say a word. He turned around and walked out then never spoke to you again. You cooked what you thought was nigger food. Why didn’t you just put on black face and do a little jig across the dining room flapping your elbows and saying “Yassah masahh!”
He was extremely insulted. He’s just a man. He likes steak and potatoes with brown gravy like anyone else. What the hell is wrong with you? I am the racist for stating a fact? ”
She hasn’t spoken to me since. Good riddance.
One of my Star Trek pet peeves. The Federation is so multiculti they bend over backwards to feed aliens alien-food any time one shows up.
Deep Space 9 was the first time I saw a character call them out on it. Pair of Cardassian ladies look at each other and one says, “We don’t like Cardassian food.” I LOL’ed.
-some Romulan Ale in Star Trek VI
Aren’t most of the recent mass shooting victims white?
Most non-gang related mass shooting victims are white.
It’s the result of the demographics.
I notice they have the comments turned off in that Yahoo sports article. Don’t feel like getting a tsunami of people calling out your bullshit eh?
You shouldn’t give ignorant bigots a platform from which to spew their ignorance and bigotry!
Now- outraged huffing and puffing about the White Power Caucus.
Republicans are inherently racist. They are irredeemable. We should round them up and expunge them from society.
I don’t know why you do this to yourself every Sunday. I’d rather have a weekly root canal than watch that agitprop trash.
It’s good to know what the enemy is thinking. Their disinformation game is weak.
Plus laughing at the derp is a nice relief valve but yeah, I’ll let someone else dig it up for us.
“Brooksie, thank you for your service.” ::salutes::
Yes
So he can post here and do it to us.
Outrage addict.
I have completely quit wearing masks. I’m not going to be a dick about it and if a place wants to kick me out that’s their prerogative. So far I’ve gotten exactly zero flack from anyone.
Further: when I go to the grocery store now about 25% don’t have masks and that gets higher every time I go.
When the governor dropped the mask mandate here, usage dropped noticeably, but a bunch of county health officers, being petulant politically motivated bitches, decided they needed to stick a thumb in his eye and impose mandates at the local level.
Mask usage is back up.
I just say I can’t wear one, if asked.
It’s good to know what the enemy is thinking.
This.
Of course I am utterly baffled at the number of people who can convince themselves to swallow the transparently false narrative without gagging on it.
Thank a teechur!
@ Fourscore: It is a shame we live so far apart. If it were remotely feasible I would be cutting and stacking your wood for. you.
You could pay me in coffee.
Or honey?
I have my own bees. I give my excess honey to a local apiary. The owner is too old to do the work anymore, his son that was taking up the task committed suicide two years ago. Old man was so distraught he never does any work anymore so wife and daughter have taken up the slack. They sell in all of the stores here. What am I gonna do with 200 lbs f honey every year? How much honey can one person eat? All of my friends and family are well stocked so….I give it to the apiary. Never hurts to have the political capital.
Besides, I have never turned down a cup of coffee in my life.
Make mead?
(Have never had mead; doubt I would like it.)
doubt I would like it.
Cut me to the quick.
Aw, sorry. I’d try a little. Just don’t have much of a sweet tooth.
Bone dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet, desert sweet — I make it all different ways.
😉
Avatar checks out.
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The sweet meads tend to give all other mead a bad name. Dry meads can be sublime. (They can also knock you ass over teakettle if you’re not careful and drink too much, but because there’s almost no congeners in ’em, hangovers are rare…)
Maybe spring has finally sprung
A Montana man seriously injured from a grizzly bear attack Thursday afternoon has passed away Saturday morning.
Carl Mock, 40, suffered a massive stroke and was unable to make a recovery in an Idaho Falls hospital, according to a GoFundMe page set up for Mock.
The grizzly bear attack occurred near Bakers Hole Campground, about 3 miles north of West Yellowstone.
A group of seven investigators, including FWP game wardens and bear specialists, as well as Forest Service personnel, revisited the site Friday to assess ongoing public safety risks and continue the investigation.
They yelled and made continuous noise as they walked toward the site to haze away any bears in the area. Before they reached the site, a bear began charging the group. Despite multiple attempts by all seven people to haze away the bear, it continued its charge. Due to this immediate safety risk, the bear was shot and died about 20 yards from the group. The bear was an older-age male grizzly.
Investigators later found a moose carcass cached within 50 yards of Thursday’s attack. This indicates the bear was defending a food source during the attack.
Grizzlies are out and about. Keep an eye on your pick a nick baskets. They’re hangry, this time of year.
Will this be counted as a COVID casualty or another tragic result of the Capitol insurrection? (I know, I know – “why not both?”)
Brown bears see humans as their natural food. My guess is that they have been eating us for as long as we have shared territory
Black bears are out around here. Not sure on the grizzlies.
Poor Mrs. Q.
Found out last week that due to how banged up she got during the birth she’s actually going to have to go in for a touch up on the undercarriage. Since I’m back at work, she’s gonna be stuck recovering from surgery and having to take care of q-ette by herself. Hopefully the recovery won’t be too bad.
Poor thing! 🙁 No chance you can get any more time off or work from home? If not, any family available to come help out?
My parents might be able to come out and help, we’ll see.
Congrats on the little one!
Thanks broski.
Windows 10 is telling me I desperately need to install security upgrades. What I really need to do is switch this box over to linux. Or at last put a linux partition on it.
Rhy:
I forgot that MLS started yesterday. Did you catch any of it? I might have to smash a few beers and watch the games today.
Watched a couple. NYCFC still suck, in case you were wondering.
Found out last week that due to how banged up she got during the birth she’s actually going to have to go in for a touch up on the undercarriage. Since I’m back at work, she’s gonna be stuck recovering from surgery and having to take care of q-ette by herself. Hopefully the recovery won’t be too bad.
Bummer (for her, not you).
I guess this is partly why C-sections have become so common.
I guess it’s a question of what variety of shitty recovery you want. If she had gotten a C-section, her figure and the rest of her body would not have bounced back nearly as fast; going the old fashioned way you always run the risk of prolonged and difficult labor. If q-ette hadn’t been mal-presenting Mrs. Q would probably be 95% better at this point but whaddya gonna do?
Question for the communal knowledge bank:
Is there a Quicken-style open source accounting program out there for linux?
Somehow I knew there was a glibs meet-up when I saw this headline.
Ooops… supposed to be a new thread.
Libre is an open-source version of the office suite if that helps.
https://www.gnucash.org/ has been around for a long time. I’ve never used it.
Somehow I knew there was a glibs meet-up when I saw this headline.
That has to be somewhere in Louisiana.
That Yahoo! writer is the only person on earth who wasn’t able to intercept something Brett Favre threw out.
I guess it’s a question of what variety of shitty recovery you want. If she had gotten a C-section, her figure and the rest of her body would not have bounced back nearly as fast; going the old fashioned way you always run the risk of prolonged and difficult labor. If q-ette hadn’t been mal-presenting Mrs. Q would probably be 95% better at this point but whaddya gonna do?
I am totally and blissfully ignorant on the topic. I have “heard” people going on about the rise in C-sections. I thought it was partly to do with preserving the territory, so to speak.
We just went with what the OB recommended. In retrospect, a C-section would have been better for everyone involved. When it was clear that q-ette was positioned wrong he said “There’s no point in trying to just push anymore. We’ll give the suction cup a try and if that doesn’t work we’ll do a C-section.” Given what we know now, I think Mrs. Q would just say “fuck that, do the C-section.”
If you plan to have more, then you probably made the right choice.
Hope Mrs Q recovers quickly and fully.
Thx dood.
Encouraging peaceful pursuit of justice vs. Trump’s treasonous incitement to insurrection.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maxine-waters-urges-minnesota-anti-police-crowd-to-stay-on-the-street-if-chauvin-acquitted-in-floyd-case
::shrugs:: Not in her district – or her Capitol office. Why should she care what damage is done?
“Trump’s treasonous incitement to insurrection”
All projection all of the time with the commie shitbirds.
I am convinced that running the loyalists out of the country after the revolutionary war was is one of the main reasons for our success as a country. I am not advocating a purge but I wouldn’t be very vocal about opposing one. I think a divorce would be a better solution but that won’t happen as the progs would never tolerate anyone slipping their chains.
All treadmills are dangerous for children, and they also all have a key that has to be used to turn them on, which can be kept out of reach when not being used. Is there some reason Peloton is being targeted in particular?
Big target.
Huh. Our treadmill doesn’t have a key. Is this a recent requirement?
All the ones I saw in 90s had them, maybe a recent non-requirement?
I don’t think so. I think most have a ‘key’ that attaches to a cord that can be strapped to your wrist and if the cord gets yanked too hard when falling, it cuts the motor. Similar to a jet ski or whatever.
It’s definitely not a recent thing, they’ve had them for years. They serve two purposes: To stop the treadmill if you fall or can’t keep up, and to keep the treadmill from being turned on by children.