Spoiler alert: the past always catches up
Always get it in writing. (h/t mexican sharpshooter)
Friday Afternoon Fantabulous Links
About The Author
Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
August 23, 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”
Huzzah!
suh’ fam
2.8 miles.
I only got 2 miles yesterday because my left leg started to hurt along the outside of the lower leg. I switched to a route where the pavement was not sloped from side to side today and that seems to have helped avoid recurrance.
I got zero (0) exercise this morning. Mrs. Dean being out of town bollixed up my morning routine.
Back when I used to akshually “run”, I had that same issue due to the crowning of the roads. Unless I stayed on trails or dirt, streets would give me disabling shin-splints.
Smart move.
Steel on Sunday. Making plates ring is good for your mental health.
Sunday is Deadlift Day at the Dean Gym. It will be rescheduled for tomorrow, because I am heading up to Front Sight on Sunday for a two day tactical shotgun class. 220 rounds over 2 days (175 Birdshot; 25 00 Buckshot; 20 Slugs).
I am not looking forward to the slugs. Given how light the Beretta 1301 is, I’m expecting some pretty stout recoil on those. The 00 will probably not be a lot of fun, either.
Much bruise
Such hematoma
“DOGE has skyrocketed 13,529.56% since the beginning of 2021”
so roi much lunar
I bought some a few months back at 2 cents just for fun. I remember reading comments saying $1 here we come! I said you people were crazy and got out, boy do I regret that.
Insane to think that buying $10K of dogecoin just a few months ago would make you a millionaire.
And even less than that if you had done it a year ago.
IKR?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9551237/Sports-Illustrated-does-Jersey-Shore-iconic-Swimsuit-Issue-takes-Atlantic-City.html
I think a woman’s breasts should be bigger than her eyebrows. I’m old-fashioned that way.
Between the tats and the chunks, I’m sorely disappointed.
Give me back Paulina, Elle, Kathy and the other members of the bikini dream team.
At this point you should just be happy that most of them probably don’t have penises.
OMG that’s funny because it’s true.
Elle had no equal. And she didn’t look like she’d blow away in a stiff breeze or need someone to open a jar for her.
Allow to nominate Christie Brinkley for the Had No Equal prize.
Cindy Crawford for the girl-next-door look.
The models from that generation are a tough field to pick a winner from.
I keep getting Gia Carangi* suggestions at de YouTube, IDKY.
*Cindy C = “Baby Gia”
Anji Jolie biopic wasn’t bad.
Paulina was my jam back then.
I never did “get” the big deal with Gisele. She has some weird thing going on with her hips and torso that’s more “adolescent male” than sexy woman.
But she’s a multimillionaire so what do I know?
Androgyny is where it’s at, apparently
Models are living coathangers. Outshining the attire is bad form.
Plus in the case of this individual, she opened additional business ventures on top of that original career.
+1 David Bowie
This.
Nice tuck.
Wait… I thought they were using trannies now?
Phew those ARE some severe eyebrows.
Its like Brooke Shields had a baby with Groucho Marx.
I might have a few hundred sitting in me e-wallet.
*cheese eating grin*
I have a confession to make: at one point in the not so distant past, I had around DOGE 40k. I sold it to fund another purchase, and while that modest investment has seen returns, its not a pleasant thing to look at.
Ouch.
I’m still kicking myself for not getting into bitcoin when I first read about it at TOS.
#metoo
I might have bought Bitcoin ten years ago if the first person I heard about it from wasn’t Glenn Beck.
Nah. You can never coulda woulda shoulda with investment opportunities. As with mex, even if you do score a pile of some obscure crypto for pennies, you will very likely sell it when it shows a decent return anyway.
I know me well enough to know that if I had pulled the trigger on BitCoin at $20, I would have sold it off long before it even got to $1,000, made a decent profit, and not made stupidly outrageous profits by holding until it hit $25,000.
#metoo
See: Mojeaux and her dogecoin score, i.e., not enough of one.
True enough, and probably why there are fewer crypto millionaires than people think.
Years ago, a broker told me the “cure” was to sell off enough of your profitable investment to cover the initial cost, and then let the rest ride without worrying if it would soar or go to zero. Buy a thousand shares at $10, sell 400 at $25 if you are concerned about it topping out, and let the remaining 600 ride.
I am playing around with telcoin at the moment.
Remember this when it is big. Forget it when I lose it all.
Looks interesting. The website looks like they are trying to create a remittances platform that would compete with wire transfers? Is that what attracted you to it?
I have a couple hundred in XLM right now. It has grown by 50% since then, but is still a bit unstable. I’m gambling on it becoming a preferred medium for cross border financial transactions.
As am I. I liked the idea of Mexicans using it.
Hey, that XLM ain’t exacty going down…
Dear Doctor: Should I double up on COVID-19 vaccine doses?
A glimpse of what it’s like living in the world of a person who thinks Covid kills 99.9% of people who get it. Why didn’t the doctor call them out for being a moron?
I’m thinking of the Invader ZIM episode where he’s stealing all of the organs to become the healthiest!
“Get it twice a day! Three times if you can take a long lunch break!”
You can’t be too careful.
Safety 1st !
“You know how much condoms cost when I was in school ?”
“No, I dont.”
“Me either- we never used them.”
(paraphrased from Willie Nelson’s bit in “Half Baked”)
Two reasons, 1. Doctors deal with a lot of morons and calling people morons is bad for business. 2. Doctors are often morons outside of their speciality.
An oft overlooked piece of wisdom.
Amen to that.
O Lord.
DoctorsPhDs are often morons outside of their speciality.FIFY
HEY!
25 new movies that are really, seriously, finally coming out this summer
Mostly meh, but:
CRUELLA
Might be worth it because Emma Stone.
She was really good in that movie that we’re not supposed to like or talk about any more.
(the one in which Jessica Chastain eats poop)
I thought it was little Opie Cunningham’s kid who ate the poop.
I have carried handguns for decades now, but finally in the last several weeks I bought a really small carry pistol. I started off with a 5″ 1911, moved to a Para P-12 .45 for about 15 years, then bought a Glock 27 because of some reliability issues that had developed with the Para, but didn’t like the weight or the feel of the rounded grip on the 27. So I decided to go for a really small gun since I had never tried one before.
I picked up a Kimber Micro 9 on the advice of some friends and I really really like it. I have a Galco IWB tuckable holster for it that conceals it extremely well (same type of holster I had for the Glock), and it’s wonderful for warm weather carry.
I’d never tried an ankle holster before, but this gun is small enough to make it work and so I picked up a Galco “Ankle Glove” for the Micro 9. I’ve been wearing it since before lunch time and have forgotten it’s even there some times. For warm weather carry when I’m wearing long pants, I can see this option being a really good one.
The ankle holster really improves accessibility when seated, which is really important when driving, obviously. I talked with an elderly guy a few weeks ago who was involved in a road rage incident in which he was ambushed and punched through the window of his car, then dragged out of the car and thrown on the ground. While he was seated, his carry piece was pinned by the seat/center console and he couldn’t access it. Once the attacker got the first sucker punch in, and a couple more blows to the head, he said he couldn’t think straight enough to grab the gun even once he got dragged out of the car. The assailant ran back to his car and took off, no one has identified or found him yet.
So I think the ankle rig will be a good choice when driving in cool weather.
I really like mine. It’s a solid choice and carries easy.
I’m not an ankle holster guy.
I think it’s going to have been a great choice. I’ve never been a fan of the 9×19 as a defensive round, but I’m a good enough shot and this gun is easy enough to shoot that I should be able to make shots count. Even though I practiced a lot with the Glock 27, I couldn’t make double taps work well enough to feel right. It was a flippy gun for me, and the rounded but just didn’t feel right. Plus, no matter what I did to the magazines or grip, my fingers always got pinched between the magazine base pad and the grip, which was really annoying, and distracting, and kept me from being able to shoot the gun comfortably.
I have nothing against Glocks in general (I shoot a 35 in Production division) but the 27 just is a little too big for deep concealment and a little too hard for me to shoot well. If it had a grip with a straight lower back, it would be a different story.
The Micro 9 is superior for me, at least in terms of concealment and shooting. I still love the bigger bore rounds, but the size makes it.
I used to wear an ankle holster when I carried at church in Minnesota.
I ran the A/V booth so I had a good view of the place, and there are growing tensions within the different Muslim communities adjacent to and encroaching on my former suburb.
Anyway, I converted an ankle holster into a “calf holster” just below my knee. Easy to get to in a dress.
pics or it never happened
HAWT
I have the Sig p938 and the Springfield 911. I like both of them. Both are easy to carry in a pocket.
For road trips, I use a shoulder harness. The seat belt does not restrict access in anyway.
My day-to-day carry is a Glock 48 in a DSG appendix holster. Works beautifully from behind the wheel.
This state is going to hell in a handbasket.
Like I’ve said before. I support DC statehood if they take Fairfax County and Arlington County with them.
As long as it saves one child, no price is too high to pay.
Hilarious. If they want to explore power and privilege then they can ride the Metro into DC. That’s some real power and privilege.
Youtube keeps serving me ads in Spanish. I don’t know if I should laugh pero yo soy el gringo mas blanco and I’ve successfully fooled their data collection or if I should be paranoid that maybe someone has hacked my account.
YouTube ads?
*points and laughs*
I get that too. Toyota Camry ads are just as boring in Spanish .
Yeah, but given your screen name it makes sense.
Hm. Given my screen name it kind of makes sense too, now that I think about it.
I got zero (0) exercise this morning. Mrs. Dean being out of town bollixed up my morning routine.
Euphemism in a humblebrag. Bonus points.
In Jugsy’s absence, Ive learned to take off my FitBit before browsing the pr0nhub.
One day it thought I ran 8 miles, and I never left my desk.
[logs a quarter mile sprint on fit-bit by doing golf clap for Tres]
China is going to eat. our. lunch.
History was made on Friday with the first ever all gay @USNavy helicopter crew.
I was under the impression that the military is supposed to fight and win wars, not parade around about their immutable sexual preferences.
Gotta start the indoctrination young.
#BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors compares her own book to Mao’s Little Red Book & encourages youth to buy her writing. Cullors was recently revealed to have a multi-million dollar home empire. She said those news reports promoted white terrorism.
Like Mao, but now with more violence and death?
That wasn’t supposed to go here. . .
It works.
“That wasn’t supposed to go here…”
I’m sure you just slipped in the shower while you were all soaped up.
“It was a million to one shot, doc !”
“She said those news reports promoted white terrorism.”
CWAA
Exactly. Citation needed (by her.)
So the Village People were prescient with “In The Navy” ?
Its the Navy, an all heterosexual crew would be news.
the first ever all gay
Isn’t the word openly missing there?
Our bombing runs are FABULOUS!
Amazon sends me an email whenever I download a new free app to my Fire TV. At least it did until recently.
One more reason to use a different provider.
“A mother was arrested after her four year-old daughter suffered a head lice infection so severe she almost died and could barely walk after her blood oxygen levels plummeted.
Shyanne Nicole Singh, 26, was arrested earlier this week after the child was admitted to hospital in Scottsburg, Indiana last month. Police in the city, which sits 83 miles south of Indianapolis, were called to the facility by doctors horrified by the girl’s infestation, according to The Lexington Herald Leader.
The girl was unable to walk and needed four blood transfusions because the parasites depleted the oxygen in her blood to dangerously low levels.
Her mother, Shyanne Nicole Singh, 26, has been charged with several counts of neglect, including neglect of a dependent, neglect of a dependent resulting in bodily injury, and neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury. She is due to make her first appearance in court on Friday.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9554875/Mother-charged-daughter-4-got-infested-head-lice-died.html
Is that even possible?
I’m going to doubt. There has to have been a secondary medical condition.
Reading the article, I’m doubling down on “You don’t get that anaemic just from lice” There’s an undisclosed comorbidity at play. If I had to wager, malnutrition.
A couple bottles of Sunny D, a few packets of Ramen noodles, and that kid would be right as rain !
Either way, “mom” failed her due diligence.
I’m not exonerating the mother, I’m condemning the journalist for failing to reach their due diligence.
I used to have a client in Scottsburg, and it was known as the “heroin capital of Indiana”, so I believe the horrid living conditions.
Im pretty sure that’s also where Erin Moran (Joanie from Happy Days) died in a trailer of an OD, and other medical conditions. Primarily poor health from being a smack addict.
Wikipedia says she died from throat cancer.
And Michael Douglas got throat cancer from eating pussy, not decades of smoking and drinking scotch.
I’m going to say that she’s guilty based on the consistent use of duck-face in her social media pictures.
The sad thing is that she may get her kids back some day.
Even sadder, she’ll find some guy to knock her up again.
Find = won’t even think about it.
More stupid, loaded journalism. Saying Scottsburg is 83 miles south of Indianapolis instead of more accurately calling it a suburb of Louisville.
Experts
President Joe Biden said Friday that April’s lower than expected job growth reveals that the U.S. economy is still struggling to recover from the Covid pandemic, and that his massive infrastructure and family support bills are needed now more than ever.
“This month’s job numbers show we are on the right track,” said Biden. “But we still have a long way to go. My laser focus is on growing the nation’s economy and creating jobs. My laser focus is on vaccinating, and my laser focus is on one more thing: making sure that hard working people in this country are no longer left out in the cold.”
Hours before Biden spoke, the Labor Department reported that hiring slowed dramatically in April, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by a much less than expected 266,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1% amid an escalating shortage of available workers.
Dow Jones estimates had been for 1 million new jobs and an unemployment rate of 5.8%.
Many economists had been expecting an even higher jobs number amid signs that the U.S. economy was roaring back to life.
It’s no wonder you can’t see anything, with your heads jammed up your asses like that.
Yay, 4 more years of Recovery Summers.
I… can’t even.
Pro-tip, Joe: You are not “creating jobs”, you are killing them.
You aren’t laser focused if you are focused on three things.
Does the entire Biden administration not see the irony in a rising unemployment rate due to a shortage of available workers?
I expect doublethink from government. We’re beyond hope because journalists are incapable of spotting it.
I see we’re back to the Obama-era “unexpectedly” when the entirely predictable, monthly economic bad news comes out.
My laser focus is on growing the nation’s economy and creating jobs.
Then why are you flooding it with funny-money and strangling it with regulation and restricting energy production and . . .
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘Your doggy chain necklace is waiting for you.’ Flirty messages from Hunter Biden’s Chinese-American secretary, 29, who worked for him when he partnered with the ‘spy chief of China’ are revealed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9522591/Hunter-Bidens-close-relationship-Chinese-American-secretary-revealed.html
Are there any Democrats who haven’t fucked a Chinese spy?
Imma guess Nadler hasn’t fucked anything since 1970-something.
Besides America, of course.
Maybe not pitching…
To be honest, it’s probably for the best that the rest of the world always knows what the knuckleheads in our political class are up to.
And that the Daily Mail exists to report it to Americans.
LOL, yeah.
So much this.
If it weren’t for those fine foreign journalists, we’d never hear about most of the shit our politicians get away with.
Will the land of the free be different?
Saudi Arabia to require all workers get vaccinated
Workers in both the private and public sector must receive the vaccine before returning to their workplaces, according to the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Development.
“All workers” means it doesn’t apply to Saudis.
Yep.
Magic 8 ball says too soon to tell.
I missed the knife sharpening thread, but here is my advice:
Lapidary wheel. 1/4 hp is fine.
You can use abrasive belts if you want to micro-serrate your edges, and jeweler’s rouge if you want to mirror polish them. Plus you can sharpen your knives and swords on the same rig.
How many swords do you own?
I’ve had a bunch of machetes and a couple of big knives, but never a sword.
2.
Or, at least, they did until yesterday—when a federal judge ruled that the CDC’s so-called “eviction moratorium” is illegal.
Good the judge did the right thing.
My god, the wailing is going to be epic.
And Congress just got an excuse to extract another couple hundred billion from the rest of us.
Soaring NH tax revenue means the state should cut taxes
New Hampshire has once again beaten its own fiscal expectations, and House Republicans want taxpayers to benefit from that success.
On Wednesday, the Department of Administrative Services announced it took in $434.1 million in revenue in April, more than $84 million than projected. That news came fresh on the heels of the department’s March report, where the state took in nearly $25 million more than expected.
In fact, the state has exceeded its fiscal expectations every single month of 2021.
Republicans in the New Hampshire House see the extra dough as evidence their proposed business tax cuts are the right call.
“It is clear from this report that we are collecting taxes from hardworking and struggling New Hampshire small businesses that the state never intended to receive, and we may not need,” said House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R-Auburn). “This is the perfect time to keep those dollars in the hands of business owners so they can focus on coming out of this pandemic, driving our economy, and creating jobs.”
“Our state budget is on track to lower taxes for businesses and all New Hampshire citizens, and we believe this will enhance our economic recovery,” Osborne added.
NH State House mask mandate ending, State House should also open soon
A requirement to wear masks in the State House ended Friday over the objection of Democratic legislative leaders, who said it could put State House staff at risk until more in the state were fully vaccinated.
House Speaker Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, and Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, said the building remains closed to the public, but that too will change “shortly.”
“The fact of the matter is, it’s time. At some point, this has to end, we have to come back to the chamber,” Packard said, referring to the historic Representatives Hall where the House met before COVID-19.
“It is the peoples’ building, it is not our building, and it is time to let them back in.”
The Joint Committee on Legislative Facilities took this action on an 8-4, party-line vote. All Republican were for it, all Democrats against.
The party-line politicization of all of this is the prime evidence that none of it is based on science or ignorance.
Sad News
No one was injured when a man crashed his truck into the front entrance of the New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlet store Thursday morning in Merrimack.
Numerous bottles of wine and shelving displays were damaged in the incident, according to police.
Somewhat related.
Somewhat related.
I’D RATHER A CHURCH BURNED!
Op-ed on NH state of emergency
As the era of mandated COVID-19 restrictions comes to a close today in New Hampshire, it is important to recognize that the threat to our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms remains within the executive branch so long as the governor’s declared and extended state of emergency continues to be renewed.
For more than a year, we have lived under a system of government that would horrify our founders; one in which a single man has claimed the authority to do whatever he pleases without any oversight. The chief executive has violated the N.H. Constitution on numerous occasions and the Superior Court has opined that this is lawful.
“A former Oregon high school teacher and basketball coach has been sentenced to seven years in prison after admitting to repeatedly having oral sex with her underage female student.
Lisa DeFluri, 31, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of second-degree sexual abuse and on Thursday was handed a seven-year prison term, which will be followed by supervision. She will also have to register as a sex offender for life. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9554935/Teacher-31-sentenced-seven-years-prison-having-oral-sex-female-student.html
I’m thinking if it was a boy the sentence would have been way less.
I think I know her cousin, McFlurry
“DeFluri was arrested again last month for violating the conditions of her release from jail by secretly meeting with the victim and communicating with her over the phone. ”
I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU !
“think I know her cousin, McFlurry”
I think she knows the ‘McFurry’.
I wonder how the husbands feel? Like it has to fucking destroy your ego and sense of self worth that not only your wife is cheating on you but they are cheating on you with a teenager.
The fact that she was a girls’ basketball coach should have been a warning sign.
I guess softball would have been too obvious….
They didnt have a golf team.
Teenage girl
All the young girls love Alice…
Honestly, cheating on me with a woman wouldn’t hurt my ego in the least. That’s just not anything I can compete with.
But, it’s the violation of her (presumed) commitment. Unless he’s gay, too, and they had that relationship just for cover.
+1 beard
They met at a “pray away the gay” bible group.
“Its not so bad once you get used to the smell”
I’m thinking that if both of them would have kept it quiet the sentence would have been zero. WTF is it with these people that make bad decisions and then can’t shut up about them?
WTF is it with these people that make bad decisions and then can’t shut up about them?
Selection bias. We’ll never know about the other situations.
She’s in luck, there should be plenty of rug munchin on the inside.
It’s Oregon so I’ll just assume her defense involves fighting white supremacy and the patriarchy.
As is the new tradition, it’s a Friday, I’ll kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Glib Salon at 20:00 Eastern.
Glib Salon? Well I do need a haircut and a shave.
That’ll be
two bitseleventy billion Newbucks, Sir.How did I not notice this was going on? I knew landlords (and prospective new tenants) were getting screwed but I assumed it was city or state level.
Not a frikkin government lab. I’m surprised they had the nerve to even make that pronouncement.
What’s the point of having absolute power if you don’t abuse it?
To get the sugar?
Jugsy, who manages rental properties, has had a LOT of tenants milking that for everything its worth.
The poor and the downtrodden tenants would NEVER do something like that!
Its tough for me to (say) type this w/o sounding classist or racist, but it astounds me how her HUD/Section-8 tenants that likely never graduated high school, and are only functionally literate, know HUD rules and policy better than she does.
That is their profession. they live by their knowledge of the rules and have a long apprenticeship in the craft.
???
One property she had near Cincinnati had FOUR generations living there. I popped in the office for lunch, when she was signing up a (pregnant) 18-year old. Great Grandma was there to walk her through the process, since she’d lived there rent/utilities free since the place was built in the 1970s.
What a proud legacy.
Nice work if you can get it.
Well, they DO, in fact, work at it. There are classes on how to milk the system and they spend time jumping through hoops that would make me dizzy. It’s not effortless by any stretch.
Barracks lawyers and jailhouse lawyers never went to law school, either.
Why? There is absolutely no personal penalty for bureaucratic overreach. No bureaucrat will be fire, reprimanded, or have their pay docked for this. Their intentions are good. And government lawyers will also not suffer any penalties for telling them that this was A-OK.
This is how you get tumbrils.
Tumbrils are what comes out of the woodchipper, right?
Landlords who violated the order faced potential penalties up to a $100,000 fine and a year in jail.
We seriously need a Constitutional amendment that explicitly states that no citizen shall in any way be punished for violating any rule or regulation that has not been specifically codified into law by Congress. The bureaucracy should not have the power to legislate anything, at most they should be advising the legislature.
The weak jobs recovery also reflects what many economists say is a labor shortage across multiple sectors.
“I think this is just as much about a shortage in labor supply as it is about a shortage of labor demand,” Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University and a former Obama administration advisor, told CNBC. “If you look at April, it appears that there were about 1.1 unemployed workers for every job opening. So there are a lot of jobs out there, there is just still not a lot of labor supply.”
They all died.
And that’s why we need to extend the unemployment bonuses further!
Why not? If we can expect the dead to vote, it only stands to reason that they will spend those unemployment checks!
If not Friday Funbags, then what could it be?
https://archive.li/gGcj8
If not Friday Funbags, then what could it be?
Booze?
#3 is Kendra Sunderland.
#14 looks like Monica Huldt.
#39 is YayForCosplay who shows up often in Chive galleries.
No face diapers. Good.
“Final nail in Liz’s coffin? Cheney ‘secretly orchestrated Washington Post op-ed by all ten living former Defense Secretaries – including her father – warning against Trump’s efforts to politicize the military’, new report claims
Rep. Liz Cheney secretly masterminded an extraordinary Washington Post op-ed authored by top military leaders just three days before the January 6 Capitol riot, it has been claimed.
The letter she helped assemble for the Washington Post contained a stark warning from 10 Defense Secretaries from both parties – and came just three days before the January 6 Capitol riot.
Now, the Wyoming Republican could be within days of losing her elected leadership post amid a clash with Trump that came to a head with his claim that the 2020 election was a ‘BIG LIE.’
The letter stated that the time for questioning election results ‘has passed’ and said involving the military in electoral disputes would take the nation into ‘unlawful and unconstitutional territory.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9554985/Liz-Cheney-secretly-orchestrated-Washington-Post-op-ed-ten-living-former-Defense-Secretaries.html
Huh, so that’s what all the press was about.
“Liz Cheney secretly masterminded an extraordinary ”
I stopped reading right here, fake news.
Hey, its DC. It doesn’t take much to be a mastermind there.
I am curious, though. In what way did Trump try to politicize the military? Nothing comes to mind, but I ignore DC palace intrigue as much as I can.
Progjection.
Mini-threadjack to say thanks for the congrats on last night’s thread. I’m flattered you remembered the pre-course prep I did (looks at calendar) holy shit, it’s been three years ago now! Damn. Will definitely keep the anti-ivy lotion handy at Ft Lewis.
“…warning against Trump’s efforts to politicize the military…”
So Trump is the one behind the maternity flight suits, fixation with transgenderism, etc. Got it.
Both sides can be wrong.
“Maternity flight suits…”
Pregnant
womenpersons probably shouldn’t do high-altitude, high-G flying. Just saying.Trump’s efforts to politicize the military
*rolls eyes*
These people cannot stop projecting.
“Michelle Obama admits she ‘worries every time Sasha and Malia get in a car by themselves’ in case they ‘play their music too loud and someone makes an assumption’ as she details her fears as the mother of black children”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9554413/Michelle-Obama-details-fears-mother-black-children.html
Oh, bullshit.
She left out the part where the tax-funded SS detail is either in the car with them, or following behind.
If she was that concerned she should insist the SS detail be made up of only white men. The police would never bother them. Right?
What a glorious world it would be if everyone would just stop caring what these fake pompous windbags dream up.
No, no. She’s a real pompous windbag.
OK. I really want to know when this trend started or exactly when it became the overwhelming norm.
Every fucking science article I read now is plagued by this. I mean every single one. It’s like if every Glib article suddenly would include ‘but surely, Trump is Satan’.
It’s this: every time I see a science related article that I think is worth a read, the entirety of the text is bogged down with statements like: But experts say, but experts don’t agree, but experts warn…
WTF? Who the fuck are these unnamed experts? Have any of these ‘experts’ ever actually done any sciency stuff in their entire life, or anything at all for that matter? Or do they just sit around on the sidelines waiting for someone else to do something, anything, so they can pontificate on it?
Columbus could have never sailed the ocean blue because experts would warn: I don’t think he can make it, sea serpents, other experts agree.
Can someone please stop this spinning rock, I want the fuck off.
I prefer the UK articles, where they use “boffins” instead. You just can’t take somebody called a “boffin” too seriously.
I really, really, cringe at the word “boffin.” I mean, as soon as I read it, I usually quit whatever article it’s in. Stop being cute, fuckers.
^Look at this git.
Wanker.
Chumsnorkler
Yobbo.
What about the poffin boffins?
When they die, are they buried in poffin boffin coffins?
No love for “moppet” ?
Such a prat.
Once you quit do you go out and smoke a fag?
What’s a bloody boffin?
British scientician.
Toodle pip.
And I’m sick of the “experts say” stuff too, however, I don’t believe it’s anything new. “Experts” have been saying to journalists that certain things can’t be done at least as far back as James Watt, and probably all the way back to Archimedes and maybe Urg, the inventor of flint knives.
Yeah, it’s not new, but it seems way worse than before.
I wrote an article here on “experts say” and its overuse in 2018. It was old hat back then, and relied on a decade worth of experience and impressions. I guarantee the phenomenon is much older than even that, and that’s narrowly restricting it to the literal phrase “experts say” or “Such-and-such, PhD at Blah blah university, an expert in aboriginal mating rituals, says”
According to their Boy Scouts leader?
Do people really prefer that bland version of “Moondance” better than Van’s? Hell, I like Van’s raspy live renditions better than his studio one, and any of them are better than whomever this latter day crooner/milquetoast Dennis Day wannabe’s attempt is. That’s damn near as bad as Ska/Punk or Beach Boys music.
“The new Central Park Karen? Cyclist who found two black women’s phone charger on the ground refuses to give it back and calls 911 to claim they’re beating her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9553877/New-Central-Park-Karen-Cyclist-SMIRKS-calling-911-claim-black-women-threatening-her.html
Seems staged. Who would admit they are racist?
48 hours.
“two black women’s phone charger”
At least we now know it’s true that black people cannot get their own phone charger and have to share it.
“Derek Chauvin and three other Minneapolis ex-cops involved in George Floyd’s death face LIFE in prison after they are hit with federal charges for violating his civil rights during his arrest”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9554137/3-ex-cops-involved-Floyd-death-appear-federal-court.html
Now do all the other cops.
Im off to bed, kids. Its way past my bedtime and I work tonight.
Im anticipating Jugsy’s return to Chez Tres, aka “The Palatial 2X-Wide”.
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck?
Howdy folks. I’m not exactly new, but it’s been a while.
Fuck off Tulpa.
Good to see that the ceremonial greeting hasn’t changed.
The secret handshake has though.
STEVE SMITH WILL BE BY TO SHOW YOU.
Exactly what Tulpa would say.
It is an old joke and possibly triggering. Just make sure you refer to the masses as ‘they’ or ‘them’ and call everyone a commie rat fucker.
“a commie rat fucker”
Wait, I’m confused. I thought you only call people who don’t agree with you that?
Fuck off/hello, Tulpa.
Good morning, and thanks for the kudos on Deb and Baby Gator!
You’ve always been the caretaker here, sir.
Not a vaccine passport, a wristband.
These new wristbands are a wearable way to prove you’re vaccinated
Let me know when they make it as a cockring.
I’m waiting to see a “Woke A’hole On Board” sign for the car’s rear window.
Living With A Road-Legal Kids’ Car
For you beer geeks: https://www.pahomepage.com/news/armored-yuengling-truck-leaves-pottsville-with-secret-recipe-headed-for-lone-star-state/
*fires off six-shooters in celebration*
I don’t hate yuengling for what it is. Not as good as shiner, bit a decent cheap-o beer.
Ziegen > Shiner
It’s good they are expanding.
Now if they could just expand into New Hampshire. In these crazy times I don’t want to go into Massachusetts, and PA is a bit far to drive for me to get my fix.
It’ll depend on Molson Coors, who’s Yuengling’s distribution partner.
Yuengling’s products are fine but nothing to get all crazy about if you can’t get it. There’s a certain mystique about beers that aren’t sold in your state.
Years ago, a colleague, who happened to be in Wisconsin’s Air National Guard, said the weekend warrior pilots would file flight plans for training flights to Texas or Colorado, buy up cases of Coors and load up the cockpits for the return to Wisconsin. With all the good beers in Wisconsin, why go to all that trouble for Coors?
Yuengling is that beer that…
When I first moved to MD, I was just getting settled in and didn’t have a lot of money, so one afternoon I walked across the street to a carryout I had noted existed over there. Went in, looking at what’s in the cooler and… what’s this? Some Chinese beer? Never heard of it, probably made of rice. $14.99 a case? Cheaper than any of the other beer in the cheap swill section.
So I asked the guy working in there ‘What about this Chinese beer, any good?’. He looked confused and walked over and I pointed at it. ‘Yuengling’ he says? You’re not from around here? I said ‘nope’. It’s from PA, that’s pretty good beer, better than Bud. So I bought a case.
I was pretty pleased with my purchase, he was right, better than Bud. So long story short, it became my goto beer and now I can’t drink it, haven’t been able to for a long time, drank too much of it.
I thought the same. Maybe they sell it in NY, I don’t know. I’ve never noticed it.
Did any of them look like Slim Pickens?
No Natty Bo?
The only time I drank it was at a Orioles.
*Orioles night game
Yuengling’s products are fine but nothing to get all crazy about if you can’t get it.
??!?!?!?!??!?!
The First Guy To Ever Go To Prison
Damn, it’s Friday. I am freeeeeee for 2 days. I stopped drinking, so what the fuck am I supposed to do? Happiness fading…
Smoke some hash?
I don’t see any sitting around. You’ll go to the gulag for even thinking about it here in the People’s Republic of Murland.
I guess I could continue to torment my poor wife. Today a bird got into the dryer vent and got stuck. I got it out, but now she’s afraid to go into the laundry room. ‘Can you go in there and check?’. So I go in and start yelling ‘Ahhh, owww, goddamnit, it bit me!’ and run out. She freaked out, now she’s mad at me and won’t go in there again, lol.
LOL
Hold up. You let her out of the laudry room before the laundry was done?! You at leatst had her go to the kitchen and make with the sammiching?
Jeeze its like you don’t even shitlord.
meh, it’s the weekend. Don’t need laundry today, ordered Chinese
Well, in some good news, today I got a notice that there’s going to be an in person beer fest happening downtown (associated with MLB, but still), and that the Memorial Day rib cook-off around the corner from my house is happening in person this year after cancelling last year.
A farewell party for the team name? I’ve been thinking. Maybe they could do a Rays style sidestep into making it mean a completely different thing. Instead of shifting from nautical creature to sunshine, they could shift from Native American folks to south Asian IT technicians and revolting farmers.
Nope. The team also banned headdresses and face paint from all games as well (but Chief Wahoo gear is still permitted). The new name isn’t supposed to be announced until last year. At which point, the drop in ticket sales and attendance will be blamed on the poor season this year.
In person is good. Hopefully no face diapers in sight.
How would one do a remote beerfest?
Oh, right, GlibZoom.
Yep. Pay for shipping, and get a curated mix pack of beers sent to you. Then invite codes to virtual conferences and the like. The problem is that shipping beer (as those who have done the BIF’s can confirm) is expensive. So you wind up paying over $100 (in most cases) to get a mixed 12 pack of beer, some trinkets, and access to some video things.
Needless to say, I haven’t participated in any.
DEG:
I searched on the rib cook off site, and there were zero mentions of masks on the page, which I take as a good sign.
I searched on the rib cook off site, and there were zero mentions of masks on the page, which I take as a good sign.
Good.
I went to Sly Fox’s virtual BockFest. It was…… sad.
Addendum: That was the 2020 BockFest, just after the insanity started.
They did not have either an in-person or virtual BockFest in 2021.
WaPo headline:
“Where Have All the Uber Drivers Gone?”
Gosh, Shirley, that’s a real poser.
Wait til Joe signs the “infrastructure bill” that just happens to have a kill-Uber clause in it.
Funny story my son was just telling me. I guess in the Indiana, they can’t get any food or alcohol delivery and when you call an Uber, there’s no drivers available. Seems that all those stimulus checks and extended unemployment checks have made low skilled peeps unwilling to work.
Anyone who says Disc Golf is cheap is an idiot, a 10 dollar bet turned into 50$ in lost discs, and my 2 favorites that must be replaced, Fucking Tree!
That is exactly why why I golf with one dollar balls from the clubhouse.
I don’t have that option, shit happens sometimes, today was bad, I lost Both of my Go to Approach discs, I ordered another already, and have to suck up for a week,
The whomping willow ate your discs?!?
Damned Evergreens!
Imagine losing your 5 and 7 iron, in one round,
Obviously in the same family as this tree.
The Trees hate us, and want us to die….
And to think we sometimes bring them into our homes!!
A great one! once upon a time I was known as Landshark, for my greetings,
Uber life. I currently have two methods heads who handed me 300 dollars to take them around for a few hours while they run scams on big box retailers.
Its going to be a long couple hours, and I suspect I’ll want a shower after.
How is everyone else’s moral dubious Friday?
I played fair and lost a few bucks, my Morals are intact,
so are my Morels, Success!
What kind of scams? Do you know?
Wait til Joe signs the “infrastructure bill” that just happens to have a kill-Uber clause in it.
A national version of California Prop Five, or whatever it was, that basically banned gig work.
A “Bill”? He just E.O. it.
No, it doesn’t ban it. It just makes all of those contractors employees, and subject to full employment laws, and regulations, and PTO, and NLRB, and unionize, and…
Any Zoomy happening tonight?
See Neph’s comment (#23) above.
Thanks, Red!
How quickly it goes from Mr. Ilium to Neph. 🙂
If there is, I might drop my and annoy everyone,