This is not how he was expecting to spend the day. “What do you mean, I was dead?”
Poor bastard. Trying to get his soccer on, and the Grim Reaper reaches in a gives his heart a squeeze. Totally uncool.
The Links!
She doesn’t seem to be very good at this.
Damn you man made climate change, crisis, catastrophe!
I am so glad I don’t live someplace like, Arizona.
Here we go. So long to personal control over your money.
A classic that would cause outrage today.
A classic that would cause outrage today.
Isnt that all of them?
Libertarian wanted to change society and it did yet why are we still unhappy?
Because change is a vector, not just a magnitude, which means there’s one change you might like, and an infinite number you might hate.
“Hope and change” was sinister, not inspiring.
Rope and Chains
“Hope you can survive my change.”
“Hope and Change” was alarming; “ We are 5 days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” was sinister.
Something I dont understand is the entertainment industry cow-towing to the leftists. Jeebus, talk about shooting yourself in the dick.
How much incredible works of art were produced in the 20th century by the US? How much by the USSR?
Was it Solzhenitsyn that said when the bolsheviks rounded up all of the artists, business leaders, journalists and local officials that had supported them and had them shot “…they never saw it coming.”
Useful idiots indeed.
Well, the Soviets made liberal use of brutalist architecture. So … there’s that.
Hey Mo, how are you?
Did you ever make use of the story of my grandfather and the wildcat in the suitcase? That is the funniest story I know. I would love to see it make it into popular culture.
I have not yet and put it in my ideas folder, but then, I am not writing right now. I’m gearing up to go back to school for art.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/suicide-of-the-liberals
The big problem with classical liberals and libertarians is that they worship progress and are snobs so the possibility of educated urban progressives being awful people is too much for them to handle.
And considering the that the Chicoms, the woke University professors, the watermelons and public health officials have been very blatant about what they have been planning for decades and libertarians are constantly shocked that they are actually doing it is a perfect example of that.
What are you talking about?
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.” – Calvin Coolidge
There’s also the fact that the backwoods yokels might have some legit criticisms of modern society is something that classical liberals and libertarians have difficulty dealing with.
I dont know who you are talking about when you use the word ‘libertarians’. The kooks in the official party or this lot?
The Party and the cosmotatians mostly.
Speaking of, see below.
I’ll take socialist realism over postmodernism.
“Fortify”? Like how the they “fortified” democracy in the recent election. Oh crap!
I am so glad I don’t live someplace like, Arizona.
Me too. It is only 102 right now. 2 deg above perfect!
/blinks
westernsloper, I didn’t know you were touched in the head.
We’re in the upper 70’s with 60% humidity, and I’d be happier if it was about 10 degrees cooler.
It’s a dry heat.
Don’t even remind me. I have to go to Florida next month.
It is definitely not a dry heat there
Yeah, I’d take 15 more degrees if it was in AZ’s “Valley of the
firesun.”Just checked and it is down to Perfect with 3% humidity.
66º and 66% here. Nearly perfect.
Fun stuff today. Changing the water pump in a forklift.
I put a new alternator back into the pos Nissan today. Tomorrow the radiator and the rest gets put back together and next week it goes to a dealer as a trade in. Fuck this car. It was designed by morons.
A forklift that drives around a gravel yard gets pretty dirty. It is weird changing a water pump from the back of the motor. The counterweight blocks access the normal way.
Do you work on propane lifts?
This one is propane but I haven’t had to work on the fuel system yet.
My place of work has a hinky propane forklift. It is a dog but usually gets the job done and none of us know how to deal with it when it goes on the fritz. The skid steer is way more useful but doesn’t have the lift height or lifting capacity the forklift does.
There is another propane forklift at work and it runs like shit. I was told it is most likely the regulator. Runs ok when just warming up. If it is cold or hot, it keeps quiting.
Don’t fuck around with forklifts. If it quits while some heavy shit is up in the air, it’s gonna really suck.
Check the fuel filter. On propane rigs they are a devise that looks like a flying saucer with a bunch of screws around the edge. Turn the fuel off run it till it quits and open it up. The filter is a piece of fabric that you can blow out with compressed air.
A suburban I have used to be propane powered and that was 99% of the issues I had with it.
I hadda do a water pump on my Sky. Talk about a pain in the ass. They get about a grand for labor at the dealer. I hope I never have to do it again. I used an OEM Delco pump. It runs much cooler and there’s no more water in the oil, but it still loses a quart of water every 150 miles. I really don’t want to have to do a head gasket on it too.
What does it have in it for an engine?
Ecotec 2.0 turbo. The water pump drives off of the front chain. It has a rigid tube that goes back to the rear of the head for the thermostat. All buried deep behind the turbo. It’s because the pump shaft goes into the front chain housing that it let water into the oil. There’s a special tool to hold the sprocket in place while you switch out the pump.
LOL. The LP of NH just exploded.
The Mises Caucus (call them anti-Sarwark) took over almost all of the executive slots in the state, but agreed to a compromise where by the chair would be held by a prag (think pro-Sarwark).
It appears that the chair conspired with Sarwark to change the bylaws in secret and just expelled all of the Mises Caucus from the executive committee on the grounds that they were Republican operatives (because Tom Woods is such a Republican).
This is happening in real time in their Facebook and Google groups right now. It’s getting rather ugly.
This action pretty much guarantees there will be no compromise between the caucuses going forward. It’s going to be a fight to the death of sorts.
Republican operatives………..That is worse than being called a racist Nazi.
The other day I was listening to a Jordan Peterson interview or Q&A or something and one of the questions was “what can one person do [to address all these issues, CRT, censorship, etc]?” The response was something along the lines of “get active in a political party. They’re always looking for young, enthusiastic people to get involved.” Neverminding the fact that I fail on both the young and enthusiastic fronts, I read stuff like the above and there’s nothing I can think of that I am less willing to do than to get involved in the political process.
Political parties are typically populated by the kind of people that I imagine most of us hate to be around. However, I’ve come to the conclusion that unless I’m willing to get involved on some level and fight for the right to be left alone, they’re not going to leave me alone.
The other option is total disengagement. Unfortunately, I don’t have the funds to flee to South America just yet.
I love what the Mises Caucus people are doing around the nation. I might even join the LP if this keeps up.
They are the only reason I got involved again.
It appears that the Sarwark Brigade is even worse than anyone thought. They’re shaping up to be petty, vindictive, and wholly tyrannical.
“Once they’ve seen power, how ya gonna keep them down on the car lot?”
A backhoe, a 4′ x 6′ x 6′ hole, then filled in and covered with asphalt.
/whistles innocently
petty, vindictive, and wholly tyrannical.
So Republicrats. Got it.
I think they’re disaffected Democrats and Republicans who want to be big fish in a small pond. The kind of people who love committees.
Political involvement is an important path for opposition, since politics is one of the main avenues such things are advanced, but it is not the only option, since it is not the only avenue. Being an advocate or an entertainer are also options, as those are also avenues being taken to push such things, and are other ways that opinions can be changed.
I’m curious how the Chair can unilaterally change the bylaws.
From what I saw, the chair declared them excommunicated, then took over the social media presence and website, but actually had no such authority.
So instead, they are being told that they must join a new libertarian party headed by the chair of the old party… And you must sign a personal loyalty oath.
The old committee retains control of bank accounts and other assets, apparently.
So basically, this is theft… If this version is to be believed. And it is supported by at least one staffer at the national party.
Apparently none of this was voted on in NH, and none of this has been voted on at the national level… But they are currently saying the LP of NH is essentially disbanded and recreated anew, with support of the national party. From all outward appearances, this involves a very limited number of officials and no actions that are legal at all.
It seems to be related to a campaign by the Misses folks to be more provacatice online. In the last week they have called for an end to child labor laws. This is indeed a strange hill to choose to die on, so perhaps there is something more than a naked power play behind the naked power play described above.
Any advice on talking to a close family member about them drinking and smoking to much weed? They went from a stable lifestyle to one of depression in about one year. Going to talk to him now with other family but don’t have high hopes.
Sorry for the circumstance, but I have no advice. People have to be self-motivated.
Just tell them you are there to help if they want it. Often times it is the depression that causes the drinking and drugs and not the other way around and they feed each other. In my experience people will not change unless they want to but knowing someone cares is a big deal in most cases. Coming down on someone when they are down rarely comes out good. Recommend exercise to deal with the depression. Getting a big endorphin kick worked wonders for me a couple decades ago when I was in a certain place in my life.
^This^
Make sure they know you’re there for them. No passive-agressive stuff, don’t throw judgement. Just be there and be willing to listen.
You cannot help someone that doesn’t want to be helped.
The only thing you can do is keep showing up.
Nah, the only thing you can do is not save them from themselves. People do the most damage by saving addicts. Let them suffer, because suffering is the only thing that’s going to prompt them to change. No money, no place to sleep, nothing. Just, go away until you get yourself straightened out. Nothing else helps, assuming they won’t go into rehab or something.
Thanks for the replies everyone. Pretty much what I was thinking but it is easy to doubt yourself when you are so close to the situation.
And take care of yourself, too. The feeling of powerlessness as a loved one goes through shit is corrosive and eats at you.
My advice isn’t really advice, just stating the obvious… If they are depressed and drinking and smoking weed, the causation arrow runs from depression to self medicating. So treating the underlying depression is the way to go.
How old is this person? Is it related more to the circumstances of the past year, shutdowns, lack of contact with friends/family, etc? If it’s not a matter of a full blown addiction, then I’d agree with Neph and Western, just let them know you’ve noticed they are starting to get themselves fucked up and you are there to listen and help.
I’d start first with the drinking too much weed. That seems like something that shouldn’t happen
Not this shit again.
Get a job. Get a bank account. It’s not that difficult.
So they can go in to the local branch and have loud arguments with the manager too.
You need an ID to get a job and a bank account, so of course Black people don’t have either of those, bigot!
Hey I’m not one of the banksters sytemically racisming against them.
They changed a bunch of banking regulations about 25 years ago, meaning that it can be difficult to get a checking account with bad credit.
When I was a kid, you could open an account for free with $50 in a savings account.
It is much tougher today. Time was, only kiting bad checks would interfere with getting a free checking account. Today they want fees, minimum balances on accounts that effectively pay no interest and a credit check.
This can indeed be a barrier to the young and poor who screw up their finances out of high school
Where’s Tres?
Btw, here’s the song for this one.
I still proclaim this as the ultimate Tres theme song.
Dropping comment without reading due to the late(ish) time. I’ll be kicking off the Saturday Zoom/Happy Hour/Bitching about Branch Covidians at 20:00 Eastern.
Lobster diver has a great story to tell at the bar now. That is something, and so is that lobster he is holding in that tweet pic. That thing is a monster.
My brother in law and one of my dad’s friends recreationally dive for lobsters. We had a monster lobster claw at home that was caught by a diver. I’ve was told that the big lobsters get the prime spot, so after catching a big one. You can go back to the same spot and find the next in line.
Love the motorcycles in the Black Betty video. I’m going to look at and hopefully buy a Superglide tomorrow. Because I don’t have enough motorcycles, of course.
Do you have a, “Harley Electra Glide, in Blue”?
I haven’t had an Electraglide for few years. I like sportier bikes. I have seen the movie though. It was hard to make it all the way through, like so many other 70’s movies.
WKC show is on now. Let’s see how long the little one tolerates it.
https://www.kcrg.com/2021/06/12/man-who-stole-gun-fleet-farm-cedar-falls-sentenced-federal-prison/
In his plea agreement, Culp admitted he stole a Smith and Wesson 9mm pistol from Fleet Farm in Cedar Falls on February 27, 2020, and fled from the store.
Five years for stealing something worth less than a grand.
I remember when making a federal case out of something was a big deal, not for petty theft.
But he stole a GUN!!!
That sounds a bit excessive.
He should move to California where they* don’t care if you steal anything worth less than a grand.
*for some definitions of “they”
HA!
I bet they would care if you stole a gun
Unless your name is José Inez García Zárate.
There’s no parole in the federal system, but this guy has to serve three years supervised release. That’s how they make lifers out of people. The hooks never get pulled out. Plus, he’s got the mark of the felonious beast. He can’t vote, own a legit gun or ammo, way harder to get a job, etc. Seems like there oughta be a way to finish one’s sentence reasonably.
Get rid of imprisonment, bring back public flogging?
Imprisonment is fine, just tell them what day it ends and end it on that day.
For certain crimes, corporal punishment is far more humane than imprisonment.
A couple of insanely busy work weeks on top of a busy year in general. Today had to get the house ready for some work to be done while we are gone, some electrical and the entire inside is getting painted. We are pretty much packed up and ready to head to the East Cape of Baja in Mexico for the next twelve days. Cant frigging wait. We have a house rented on the Sea of Cortez that we have rented before. The beach out back usually has more goats than people. It’s a few miles on a dirt road out of a fishing village. Gonna spend the time there swimming in the sea with the wife and kids, surfcasting for the massive yellowtail I lost last time, and at least one day out on a panga to hunt for tuna and marlin.
That sounds awesome! Send pics so the rest of us can live vicariously.
Thanks, will do. Maybe if I get off my lazy ass I will write an article on the East Cape and how it came to be. It’s one of the premier sportfishing areas of the world. It’s one of the places where you can get big pelagic fish just a couple miles offshore.
Clarkson’s Farm on Prime is fun. Jeremy Clarkson runs a farm.
Here we go. So long to personal control over your money.
Seems like a bad idea, although perhaps they can work out the details. I would like to know how they plan to secure it against theft and counterfeiting. Because I’d imagine they want to have their hands in it, meaning they are going to have plenty of back doors and other exploitable weak points. In any case, I’m a firm proponent of there always being physical, untraceable currency. Even if most things are going digital, it is always good to have options for privacy.
Word to the wise: when you’re as naturally pale as I am, do not spend 30 minutes in the pool on your first swim day of the season.
People are looking at me in alarm at the Moose Lodge tonight. My lobster skin is giving off heat that people next to me can feel.
Hawt.
Literally.
Thankfully the leaves are in on the trees, so for my rides through the woods I don’t need to put on the sunscreen and can build up the tan lines that upset the girlfriend.
If I ride along the lake shore, I need to put on sunblock.
I lucked out and got genetically darker skin. I just get browner and browner in the sun. I might a burn on my feel, but it heals quickly and turns brown after a day or two. I get really dark after a week in the desert.
I turned red this week after returning to the office and a couple sessions of having to take vape breaks outside now.
I don’t like the sun very much.
I looked up the latitudes of my hometown in OK and of my current residence.
I’m only one degree further south here, and 500 ft higher in latitude.
I would still burn in Minnesota but it took hours.
I’m back to my childhood sun limits now! Going to have to wear a t shirt and floppy hat in the pool tomorrow. (Not a big fan of sunscreen).
Is that you Pie?
I’m happy to say I saved my Arizona Tan, I look Fucking great, here’s my Tiny deck, for my tiny house, under construction ,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/iNG8Z4HWFwPEN38D7
I like it.
My Tan thanks you!
Perfect spot for a cold beer and a vape! Enjoy, Yu!
My Tan thanks you!
Lil slice of heaven right there. Very nice, Yusef!
My Tan thanks you!
No, really, thanks to all for the compliments, You will dig it when I finish,
I too have a tiny deck.
Fun day on lake Mead. Wife is drunk, I only burnt the tops of my feet. Met some Air Force slackers who we shared the joy of service and much…much booze and food.
Overall, great damn day…by the dam.
What did the fish say when it swam into a wall ?
DAM!
I’ll be Damned, it was 75 here today, did you break 100?
108 by the water. Water was 78-80 degs. So perfect
Sounds perfect for this lizard, Good Times Bro!
Yepper! Still sad we couldnt meet up and float the river
Someday, I still travel,
Not really in the mood to deal with surly union assholes but I’m off to work, kids. Play nice.
Ein volk, Ein Reich, Ein KROGER !
Ein Meijer!
Ein fette Frauen!
My Tan thanks you!
End of another day. Groceries are shopped, chop suey and fried rice for dinner, and the picked strawberries for desert. Might be the last bucket for the season with the heavy rain. Two batches of jam in the freezer.
Yummy! Homegrown food is so satisfying. Part is the taste, and part is the connection to it. The literal fruit of your labor and the earth.
Farm down at the bottom of the hill are the ones who did the dirty work. I only picked the berries. Well, and ogled the fruit stand girls.
Farm stand girls like to serve you their baskets?
GL keeping it real.
I don’t know if MI is right, too many bugs,
If it gets worse I will leave, my feet are a mess, fuck this. I bought tick collars for my legs, maybe that will help.
Hairspray and a lighter.
Welcome to the Midwest. We take blood.
I know, the blood flows…
I miss the Earth so much,
I miss my Wife,
It’s lonely ouyt in space,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/F7h6c8WyZsJUqQFP7
on such a timeless flight,
You holding everything together?
Yes, pretty well, just remembering my Wendy, good and bad, what a great Lady, i miss her so much,
Good to hear.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
overall, meh, odd my friiend
Busty Redheads!
https://archive.li/FwN1v/4f686c77dd01e3aa7339c16a6a9926f4c8c9ba1b.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/j37EV/503e92bdd201b64c9520f6f6063126d73c33376d.jpg
NSFW.
Like a thicc, bustier early seasons Sansa.
ohhh,
Indeed
LOL one of the clowns running for NYC mayor just aired a commercial in which he claims the job is his because “he led the call for affordable housing”.
+1 The Rent Is Too Damn High
Other than the stupid ass deer and the bugs, Michigan is an awesome place to live, it’s a giant sandbar surounded by water.
It’s strange for me here, it’s so small ,I already know everyone,7000 paople, damn small town.
Not talking shit, Manistee rocks! A great place to retire, or chill,
I really screwed the pooch with my lounging in the pool today. It was funny at first, but as the evening went on, the full extent of the damage continued to manifest. Now, damn, I’m red, blistered, and it is painful. This is going to be tough on my kidneys to process the damaged cells.
What an idiot I am.
I hope I remember this next year.
This, but dipsomania.
Greek yoghurt helps on sunburns.
This action pretty much guarantees there will be no compromise between the caucuses going forward. It’s going to be a fight to the death of sorts.
From what I can tell, it looks pretty much like embezzlement. She pulled off the coup by forming a new organization and transferring the old organization’s assets to it. Then removing the committee members when they wouldn’t sign on to their platform.
It’s become all too obvious that the LP as a vehicle for libertarianism just doesn’t work. It would be great to see uncompromising libertarianism in practice. But politics tends to be the art of compromise. The same LP telling me I shouldn’t compromise with conservatives in the GOP is happy to tell me I have to compromise with woke “libertarians” whose libertarianism seems to go right stop at the point of ever disagreeing with progressives. Then, even if I win the argument, they’ll play silly high school games to keep themselves in control.
I guarantee they call themselves ‘pragmatists.’
suh’ fam ?
yo whats goody
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Right there with ya!
Woken up early by drag racers again. ?
Still drunk me just envisioned screaming trannies running the 100 meter dash outside your window.
*giggles*
+1 Ru Paul
Put the bass in your walk
Head to toe let your whole body talk…
Loud enough to wake up rhy.
Make. It. WORK!
That might be less aggravating; not sure.
Hiya, all! Don’t you just hate it when you wake up drunk, realize you still have beer in the house, say to yourself “fuck it”, and crack one early in the hope to pass out again soon? I don’t.
*burp*
Anywho, changed the rotors and brakes on my Park Avenue yesterday…screw in calipers are the Devil’s Dick.
I need to do a brake job soon on the truck. Im anticipating lots and lots of PB Blaster, marinating overnight, and lots of impact wrench.
Or the torch.
Have fun!…without some WD-40 and a good breaker bar by my side it could have been a real headache. Still took me well over two hours to do it….I’m not particularly mechanically inclined.
Tres Ver. 2.0 has expressed an interest in turning wrenches, so it’ll be a father/son project.
And least I can send him in to bring me a beer.
Before OMWC links something from his vaudeville days, have some Sammy Sabbath !