Sloopy might have ingested a few bad bits of meat yesterday, so you get me again today. Ho joy. At least my office is theoretically closed so I can spend the day in the great outdoo… what? It’s 107? Fuck, where’s my beer?
Birthdays today include a guy who was just a shadow of himself; the true spiritual father of Donald Trump; a guy who could have been Kelvin; a guy who said, “I think I Kann, I think I Kann!”; another of the hereditary morons who dominate New England politics; one of my personal heroes (and obligatory reading if you want to understand anything about biology); the best parts of Brazil and Soap; a fine actress who was wonderful in the most infuriating film ever made; a guy whose fielding was so bad, his nickname was Clank; a guy who would be happy to string you along; and arguably the greatest comic strip auteur of all time (“Imagine Walt Kelly, but actually funny.”).
Links are imminent.
Club rules: replace your divots. We’re serious about that.
The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. What is it now, the twentieth time?
I have a newfound respect for golf.
This is good, but I fervently hope the US stays far, far away from it.
Old Guy Music is also imminent. Another Peter Green song you thought was written by someone else.
“Links are imminent.
Club rules: replace your divots. ”
Gaze narrowed.
Thank you.
For what?
“…killed by the driver.” If he was in the sand trap, he should have used his wedge.
I have a newfound respect for golf.
Relevant.
Terrible, but relevant.
I thought we were getting this….
Fauci is an insane old woman with an udder fixation.
/Blackadder II
Another Peter Green song you thought was written by someone else.
Frankly, I didn’t think about that song at all.
WTF is going on at that country club?
It sounds like a murderous lunatic just happened to wander onto it. They cant understand why it happened? Guess what. They never will. When you are dealing with the insane you can never know what they are going to do, then when you find out what they did you cant understand why. The world in their heads is not the same one you live in.
Yup. You’ve lived the way of the unhinged. It makes no sense to anyone but themselves. I’ve done the loony-bin but I just acted up one night. Most of the people there were just really depressed, not crazy. Three weeks is three weeks, same as downtown. Some of those poor people were really disturbed, though.
I haven’t lived it, I just saw it up close. I had an enormous amount of empathy for most of our patients but I can also tell. you that insanity and evil are not mutually exclusive. This story sounds like we are dealing with one of those cases.
How well I know that. Married for 12 years to someone who was totally unpredictable but predictable in her unpredictability. She could always be depended upon to do the outrageous, unexpected and unbelievable.
Now my wife has a niece with the same problems, living on the street somewhere. There is no help for some.
Those guys voted to let (((them))) in. Fuck. You always bury the bodies in the sand trap or feed them to the gators. Amateurs.
Sleep Inequity
The sandman is racist.
Maybe if they turned the fucking TV and tablets off.
Sleep is largely a function of habit. And habits quite often define our capacity for success.
But since showing up to work on time is racist, I imagine going to bed early and getting eight hours is racist too.
Getting a state ID and voting on time in person is also racist.
I might be anxious and sleep-deprived too if every power center in the US was telling me that I was incapable of lifting myself up without their “help”.
Bingo.
The powers that (want to) be shovel soul crushing rhetoric 24-7 to the “lesser” groups in the name of helping.
I see this happening to my nieces. They’re apparently terrified of men because they keep hearing about how evil men are.
There has to be a limit to this stupidity and how much people will tolerate, right?
Oh…I forgot – “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.” – That old guy with funny hair
Rip Taylor?
Don King.
Don King?
Crazy Hair Giorgio?
C’mon y’all, I was referring to the “I am not saying it’s aliens…” guy.
We want people to sleep more so we need funding for more parks. Sounds legit.
Is that why you have people sleeping in parks?
Golf clap.
Being poor sucks. Get out!
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I can believe that poor neighborhoods have more nose complaints. As you say, get out!*
*Unless you’re white, then that’d be racist
Actually that was a “Get out!” as in “No way!”
Whites moving out of a neighborhood = white flight (bad)
Whites moving into a neighborhood = gentrification (bad)
Well, obviously multi-use zoning will help with this.
I mean, corner boyx standing out by the mini-mart are always so, so quiet.
The obvious solution is to get rid of zip codes.
There is an old saying it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and ill. So yeah it is…
I’m at work trying to catch up while everyone else is on holiday.
But I’m commenting on glibs instead.
It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it.
I’m off today because we get Independence day paid and a day off even if it falls on the weekend. I, too, will need to catch up on things right before being off most of next week to go to the beach with the fam. Long work days are in my immediate future.
Crazy, right?
As health authorities sound the alarm on the dangers of the fast-spreading Delta COVID-19 variant, up to 73 percent of unvaccinated Americans said they believe the risk is being exaggerated, according to a new poll.
The survey, which was conducted by ABC News/The Washington Post and released on Sunday, found 30 percent of Americans saying they have not gotten a coronavirus vaccine and definitely or probably will not get one in the future.
Among that group, 73 percent said they believe the risks of the Delta variant are being overstated by the government, while 79 percent felt they have little or no risk of getting sick from the coronavirus. In contrast, as many as 61 percent of vaccinated Americans believed the government is accurately portraying the risks of the new coronavirus strain.
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President Joe Biden on Friday echoed that concern and warned people to take precautions while celebrating the Fourth of July holiday. In parts of the country where vaccination rates remain low, Biden said he fears that “people will die” as a result of attending large holiday gatherings.
“I am not concerned there’s going to be a major outbreak, in other words, that we’re gonna have another epidemic nationwide, but I’m concerned lives will be lost,” Biden said.
In response to the Delta variant, White House COVID response coordinator Jeff Zients announced the deployment of COVID-19 surge response teams to contain the virus and help increase vaccination rates across the nation.
“We’re messaging our asses off, but those dumb hicks just won’t listen to us. Why are they so stupid and disobedient?”
*Survey shows people who trust government do what government tells them to do. Revelatory.
The Dems put the worst two people possible in the White House. Now they are complaining that there is no honeymoon? They didnt even bring the vaseline, of course their voters find them repulsive. They are both real pieces of work.
They won fairly the same way I won the Powerball, as in I didnt.
In actuality, they put Susan Rice and Obama back in the White House. And they’re free to do whatever they want because Biden and Harris are going to take the fall for it.
I can’t think of a more fitting end to that corrupt fucker’s political career other than something that involves street lighting.
Which one? All four names you mentioned are corrupt fuckers.
Which one?!
The only one whose career is ending because he’s about to enter a memory care facility.
The fellah that can’t even walk across a lawn with grace anymore.
‘Harris, as a Black and Asian woman, also is subject to racial and gender prejudice that neither Biden nor her predecessors faced. Women in public or private jobs, especially women of color, are often judged more harshly and held to higher standards than white male colleagues in high-level positions.’
Citation needed.
Seriously, where are the stats that support this assertion?
Asking aggrieved people to support their assertions is racist.
It just could be that she is a horrible human being.
Didn’t Obama and HRClinton teach you that the ONLY POSSIBLE REASON you might not adore and worship a non-white non-male is because you’re racist and sexist??/prog/DNC
Well… since I can’t hate them for being loathful humans, I guess I got to take what’s available.
You have to take the new religion on faith.
If you love American Independence, thank the blacks that opposed it.
I got about halfway thru before giving up. There is literally no part of American history that doesn’t revolve around slavery to these nitwits.
Harris, as a Black and Asian woman, also is subject to racial and gender prejudice that neither Biden nor her predecessors faced. Women in public or private jobs, especially women of color, are often judged more harshly and held to higher standards than white male colleagues in high-level positions.
Still, some Democrats are beginning to worry that her sluggish approval numbers are indicative of a bigger problem for Harris, who as vice president ranks as the party’s potential heir to Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history at 78. They have many of the same doubts that have long dogged her, and contributed to her failed campaign for Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination — about her style, political instincts and treatment of staff.
Or maybe she’s in over her head because she is an affirmative action token “black” “Asian” “woman”.
Give the poor woman a break, she doesn’t know who to suck off to get ahead anymore.
OH NO YOU DI’INT!!
I did. I did.
*insert Willie Brown laugh here*
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, standing room only…
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/07/04/donald-trump-holds-rally-in-florida-as-second-stop-of-save-america-tour-n2592015
as a Black and Asian woman
Only racists care about these immutable characteristics. The fact is that regardless of the way she looks she is a vile, tyrannical, inept cunte.
You don’t say.
It must pain them to even have to write those words.
They thought everyone would forget about that fizzle of a presidential campaign.
Fauci changes tune again, says vaccinated should wear masks in parts of US
Fuck. Off.
Seriously, where are the stats that support this assertion?
Stats are racist, you woman-hating racist.
I have a newfound respect for golf.
A murder mystery does make golf more interesting. Condolences to the victims and their families.
And in soccer news….
I am sure everyone snickered at this but, hey, have you ever been up close to a sea lion? They look cute on film but in person they can be big, scary and aggressive.
Yeah, I laughed too.
They smell really bad, too.
They saw all the flopping and decided to join in.
Winner
Thanks to Sean, Im now a card-carrying fan of Priscilla Block.
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“The administration needs to give her real authority, where she can hold a press conference and say, ‘Here’s what I think and here’s where I’m going,’” Buell said.
Yes. Do that.
*sound of knives being sharpened*
Yes she needs even _more_ exposure into that evil heart of hers… ::Hillary cackle::
I thought real authority for the VP is that proscribed to the VP by the constitution. Silly me.
the constitution
That old chestnut…
I agree. It will be a painful but necessary lesson to America.
What is keeping her from holding a press conference? When your handlers say sit on your hands, you sit on your hands.
Her hands are double-fisting right now.
An image I could have not had this AM. That just might make me go work.
Mad Maxine is so oppressed.
July 4th… & so, the Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal. Equal to what? What men? Only white men? Isn’t it something that they wrote this in 1776 when African Americans were enslaved? They weren’t thinking about us then, but we’re thinking about us now!
Further, the Dec. of Ind. says we hold these truths to be “self-evident”… yet:
– 17 states have enacted voter suppression laws
– Supreme Court gutted Sec. 5 of the Voting Rights Act
– George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice
I do not draw any of the connections that she does. Likewise, she takes the institution of slavery, even in the context of the American colonies turned States, way out of context.
race war imminent!!! or not. The shakedown will, however, continue.
Marion Ross is still alive and so is Maxine Waters. It’s a Yin-Yang thing.
What a hateful creature. She is living proof of the power of embracing both stupid and evil.
Shameless liars lie? I am shocked. I had my fainting couch around here somewhere…
Maxine always reminded me of a duskier version of Howdy-Doody.
Everything is racist and history has no context.
An essay published in the Nation on Friday accuses Americans celebrating independence of failing to “reckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,” with American “exceptionalism” and foreign policy being “grounded in racism,” adding that issues such as climate change and “racist policing” are the “greatest existential threats” while global terrorism and threats from China, Russia, and Iran, are merely “imagined threats.”
The essay, penned by the Center for International Policy’s president and CEO Salih Booker as well as board member Diana Ohlbaum, carries the title “The Willful Self-Delusion of American Independence Day,” and claims that despite endeavoring to do so, the U.S. has “rarely lived up to ideals.”
“Enough is enough,” the essay asserts.
I find some common ground with them on our overseas meddling, but I doubt I’m going to find much to agree with on the domestic front.
As far as colonizers go, it always seems to escape these fuckwits that colonization and slavery were the norm for the entirety of human history up until just recently. For some reason, they expect utopia should have sprung forth fully formed from the tribes.
“Enough is enough,”
indeed. Stop trying to shove this narrative down everyone’s throat. Y’know the 4th July is a day of parades, BBQs, and blowing shit up all while getting drunk. Not everything is a fucking race studies class.
Hell is truly other people; and the bottom rings of hell are filled with people like Salih Booker and Diana Ohlbaum. Can you imagine them running a re-education camp? Why yes I can.
Enough certainly is enough
Yeah I think increasing numbers of Americans have had “enough” of talk like this and it’s only making the elites ramp up their rhetoric.
Almost everyone ever was a colonizer. I think many of the native American tribes displaced by Americans had displaced other tribes themselves. Not to say the Europeans didndo nuffin, but hell everyone was shitty back then.
The progjection was upfront in the title: “The Willful Self-Delusion …”
Fireworks happened last night – it sounded like a full on battle had erupted in my neighborhood.
The noise reduction headphones – listening to “city rain” via the Rain Rain app – helped enough that I was able to sleep okay. That and the copious amount of weed I smoked in the afternoon with my friend as we listened to music via vacuum tubes.
The next street over was having quite the display including numerous aerial fireworks. My daughter loved it.
I have the “Rain rain” app too! Currently listening to a blend of thunderstorms and crackling fire.
I thought you couldn’t hear sound in a vacuum.
/ducking
Ha Ha! The only two retail establishments that I visited yesterday had no mask mandates. IT’S HAPPENING!
I don’t have to wear when walking to a table anymore. Also, the county failed to live up to Xiden’s expectations. We didn’t even make it to 60%.
We’re at like 80%, but almost no one wears masks, and it’s been that way for months now.
I had to turn down work in B.C. this week. It’s not that big of a deal, but it kind of is. I’d like to have earned the money. But 14 days quarantine on arrival is pretty fucking stupid.
Fauci, who is also the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “there would be good reason” to wear masks in those areas “because, as we’ve said so often, vaccines are not, even as good as they are and highly effective, 100 percent.
Masks, however, have been proven to be completely (1000% per cent!) effective at eliminating the slightest risk of contracting this deadly disease.
We know this for a fact: anyone who does not wear a mask will DIE.
It’s true. I died last year.
Me too but I got better!
Some of us more than once.
You’ve got nothing on Jack Palance.
How about Abe Vigoda?
I am pleased to report that things were popping off pretty well last night around these parts. While I did not do my patriotic duty of setting off colorful explosives myself, plenty of neighbors did. I heard everything from firecrackers to fountains, to many, many mortars, many of which were visible to provide a decent show. In a way it is reassuring that there are so many that remain defiant (illegal fireworks…) as it is the American way.
I was happy with it until it started up again right outside my window at 1:30 AM for another couple hours.
Rain is racist because black people don’t like to swim.
How’d I do?
+(((They))) are seeding the clouds!!1!!11!
I slept right through the rodeo fireworks.
Fireworks don’t really do a lot for me.
Back when I was a kid I was a pyromaniac – and my brother and I would load up on illegal fireworks bought in Tennessee (god bless that state!). Lots of bottle rockets, M80s, etc. Along with some shrapnel, burns, and ringing ears as we found different containers to blow up or modify to “fly”.
But now that I’m an old man they just don’t do anything for me. I don’t buy ’em and get a little grumpy when they are still being lit at 1AM in the morning.
Me neither, they just freak my little doge out. Speaking of which, have a chance at a pure-bred French Bulldog pup for free.
Behold the NYPDs brand new Game Truck, coming soon to a block near you. Bunch of video game consoles inside.
https://twitter.com/GwynneFitz/status/1411709470237986817
Candy is so last century
I thought that they just rode around in a dump-truck and let loose a few hundred basketballs in the problematic neighborhoods.
“It’s grooming on the go!”
and we’re done here.
Manic Monday: This business will get out of control…
So I bought some tops from an online outlet a few weeks ago without knowing the damn things were coming from China. One of them arrived with the edges of all the hems – neckline, sleeves, and bottom hem – sewn, but then trimmed off, leaving raw edges. I think I can salvage the shirt by sewing on seam binding, but damned if I’ll order anything else from this place. Even if all the things I’d ordered had arrived intact, I don’t want to risk supporting the CCP in any way.
I followed the link in the latest e-mail so they won’t bother me any more. The page says, “Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from [string of Chinese characters]auto?”
Hell to the yeah, I’m sure.
My T-shirts do not last the way that they used to. Neck wear, sleeve wear and smell-up potential is way up from twenty years ago. Once stained, done like dinner. I’d like to own a shirt that would last more than a dozen wears.
Wear a bib?
In his armpits?
Cotton is getting thinner and thinner; all to save a few production bucks?
I’ve had really good luck with Emperio Armani t shirts; they stay black after multiple washes, remain comfortable, and still hold their form. Best to buy them on sale since the normal $52 for a three pack is a bit rich. But they could be worth it in the long run???
I’ve had reasonably good luck with Duluth Trading Co. pocket tees. They are not cheap though.
Those are likewise TT’s tees of choice, in the “Longtail” variety. Gotta hunt & wait for sales & lower totals for free shipping.
My logo tees are made by Sport tek (in Ghana, for what that’s worth) I got ten for about 60$ (not including the embroidery) 2 or 3 years ago. I wear them nearly everyday and they are holding up remarkable well, no fraying, no rips, no out of shape necklines or sleeves. Other than the ones I’ve gotten thinset, paint, stain, various adhesives and whatnot on they still look brand new.
So I bought some tops – is the try on haul video on your YouTube channel or on your onlyfans?
😉
Good morning, friends!
Thanks for the lynx, Old Man. I love the golf course mystery. Former employee gone postal?
Old Man lynx! Goddammit, it’s a work day!
Former employee gone postal?
As bad as it sounds, I kind hope this is the case. If it’s a rando killing spree, it can be much worse.
XX lives pretty close to the campus.
I love the golf course mystery. Former employee gone postal?
“Now correct me if I’m wrong, but if I kill all the golfers, they’re gonna lock me up and throw away the key.”
“Big hitter, the Lama.”
A Cinderella story…
Audacity and it’s super-nice-except-fuck-you-dude project leader seem to be getting ahead of schedule on the ruination.
our personal data collected goes to Russia? Check.
Your personal data collected goes to the cops? Check.
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1411728251437846530
never heard of it
Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems
meh who needs that
Instead of twitter, why not find a source that can provide actual details?
to lazy?
First google result on Audacity
Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/04/open-source-audacity-deemed-spyware-over-data-collection-changes
No idea if that is a reliable source
Feeling better this morning, I hope?
I think my fever broke, but the acid reflux definately came back. So I’m still generally miserable.
And I have work tomorrow.
🙁
South Korean Feminists Are Joining No Dating, No Intercourse, No Marriage, No Kids Movement
https://www.femalista.com/south-korean-feminists-are-joining-no-dating-no-intercourse-no-marriage-no-kids-movement/
>>The 40-year-old Lee, who lives with her dog in Seoul, said that she’s always felt that there are more disadvantages than advantages to being married as a woman, and she has now embraced the nation’s radical feminist movement called 4B.
Old maid finally gives up?
What is a spy cam epidemic?
seems self explanatory… there are contagious spy cams
“Enough is enough,” the essay asserts.
Meaning what, exactly? Ban change? Lock everything down forever?
Those progressive types fetishize stasis something fierce. Every day must be just like the day before. Change is bad. Growth is bad. Everything is bad.
Anything that might put the tiniest chip in progressive’s power much be smashed.
“Everything that makes me even slightly uncomfortable is racist.”
Except when they’re constantly advocating for “radical change!”
World
Mud volcano causes large explosion in the Caspian Sea
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2021/07/large-explosion-in-the-caspian-sea/
You know as reasons for grift evaporate one would expect the grifters to become more outlandish and shrill and shit being womanism lgbtqwx or race, but one would not expect the population to buy it.
Also why the fuck is grift not recognized by the spell checker? I am almost sure it is a word. There was even a movie grifters …
I am fairly certain it is a word also, you’re just not supposed to say it.
Smells like a spelling con to me 😉
Holy shit.
This is grotesque.
To top it off, the question was obviously planted and he still couldn’t handle it.
And millions still just don’t care. As long as OMB is not in the WH, it’s all good to them.
Many seem to think Obama is pulling the strings. I say BS. Zero is just an overpaid sock puppet shilling for the Cabal, promoting global communism. If Commie-la gets the title of Dick-Sucker-in-Chief, she will just do their bidding too… or else.
I don’t know if it’s Justice, but it does seem fitting that this man has no one left that loves him enough to put a stop to this abuse by his wife.
Jill will certainty have to answer for her actions.
Joe’s been an abrasive domineering asshole his entire public life, and I’d take either side of a 50/50 bet that he used to smack Jill and the kids around back in the day.
Jill is certainly enjoying her time on the throne, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some part of her is getting revenge.
“…but it wouldn’t surprise me if some part of her is getting revenge.” Like demanding you be called Dr. because your husband has a prestigious title? Nah, she is just the faithful and loving wife. On second thought, I think he treats her like they are still in the 50s ““She said, ‘I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.’ That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,” he said.”
Amazing how there is a huge culture war going on and this need to shift and yet they cling to Biden who talks, walks and acts as if America should use passive bigotry and treat his wife as second class. So yeah, I think it is revenge. Interestingly enough, Cheney’s wife didn’t demand the title as she had a doctorate in English and her husband was Darth Vader.
that he used to smack Jill and the kids around back in the day.
I’ll bet he did.
I tweeted about Uighurs having white privilege almost exactly a year ago. Today someone kindly educated me on how they are proximal to white supremacy, so it’s actually worse than I thought!
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1411982345180045314
The sad thing is that Emily probably isn’t even getting a check from the United Front Work department. She’s the best kind of agent of influence – the kind who doesn’t know what they are.
She’s a useful idiot.
She only knows that we, in the west, are supposed to hate each other and that class didn’t seem to work so now it’s going to be because of race.
Based on searching xer’s other stuff, I’d say Emily is a Chinese dude sitting in a windowless room pumping out bullshit for the CCP.
Forgot to post to glibfit
Chips with everything
There is a way to serve pasta and potatoes — with garlic
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-2021/chips-with-everything/
There are some combinations — such as kippers with marmalade or kimchi with corned beef or cocoa with Cambridge sausages — at which one can only wonder non-judgmentally. Unpalatable pairings of carbohydrates, like chip butties, beans on toast and other such abominations in working-class England, have historical justifications: attempts to shovel cheap fuel into the exploited and oppressed metabolisms of the victims of early industrialisation. As with other monuments of vanished supremacy, the wise tolerate them as historical relics, and avert their eyes.
On the other hand, the idea of trying untasted combinations — dishes yet unattempted in prose or rhyme — is a good game and a stimulus to culinary imagination.
What made spaghetti and chips repellent was texture rather than essential incompatibility.
I thought you guys had to avoid garlic?
kimchi with corned beef
Why is this strange? Pickled cabbage is pickled cabbage.
Just don’t call it a vendetta
The Manhattan district attorney’s office and the New York attorney general’s office have been probing the Trump Organization for several years, and the prosecutors’ work isn’t ending with the charges announced last week.
“This investigation will continue, and we will follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead,” New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said in a statement Thursday.
Many observers suspect that the charges were brought against Weisselberg, who has worked for the Trump family for decades, in an effort to get him to cooperate with prosecutors’ investigation against Trump.
A big question going forward is whether Thursday’s charges are strong enough “to convince Weiselberg to negotiate,” said Philip Hackney, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
She’s merely hunting for
the truthher own personal White Whale, no matter how long it takes or how far she has to go. That’s what public servants do.Obligatory, because the book is TL;dr.
If we had courts worth a damn they would say “…it has been several years…this is not how our system works, goodbye.” I don’t think Trump is dirty except for probably process crimes that probably all gigantic corporations deal with. He isn’t wrong to call it a witch hunt.
There are a hundred lawyers and accountants between him and the govt.
Taking responsibility is what they get the big bucks for.
Meanwhile, didn’t a New York resident delete something like 30,000 e-mails, some of which may have been classified info, from a government server just before an “investigation”
but never had to appear in court to justify using her “cloth?”
The depths and reach of the vast right-wing conspiracy and their lapdogs in the media no doubt.
Dogs were good except for the one fire truck that got our Schnauzer/Scottie to start doing patrols around the house. Seriously went to each of the kids rooms and sniffed and scratched at their doors, checked the main bedroom and then engaged his terrier stance at the front door, stiff as a board. It was fun to watch but ultimately we had to reassure him everyone was okay.
sounds like a fearsome beast
At 15 lbs, not fearsome, just loyal. His ear piercing bark is enough to get people to think it isn’t worth it. He definitely has fallen into the night watch dog role quite naturally.
I was mauled by one in a park in Glasgow
Mauled? Or loved to death. They are like 11 inches tall…as long as they aren’t the giant breed of course.
We have a Pom cross and she is the most “aware” dog that I’ve ever seen. Knows too many hooman words…
Well I was lying on the grass and one wondered about and I said “how’s it going scotty dog” and then it licked my forhead
The horror.
It was surprisingly quite here (CT) last night so dog was fine.
The town fireworks were pushed back to tonight, so we’ll see how she does.
quite what?
quite quiet so quit it.
OBE gets me.
I blame the phone.
Quiet the phone.
Aw, brave loyal terriers. Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6lQISMZpcY ?
Good thing the missus is a groomer!
Heh. I knew that would the KITH skit. Some days he is annoying but things like that last night reminds us he is just protecting us and the home in the way he knows.
Could have been the Best in Show song…
Should have been.
FINE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rZq3oKuI
I find Lands’ End good for thick durable t-shirts.
Soviet director and actor Vladimir Menshov passed away on Sunday at age 82 from coronavirus, according to a press release released by Mosfilm. “We have lost a dear friend at Mosfilm, a man who used all his creative powers and rich talent in his work at the film studio,” they wrote.
He is best known for his directorial work. He debuted in 1976 with “Practical Joke”, and following a warm reception, released his best-known work, “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” (1980). The story follows three young women in Soviet Moscow and the trials and tribulations they face in their work, romantic, and family lives.
It broke Soviet box-office records but was met with mixed reviews from Western critics. Despite this, the film was awarded an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981, and Menshov was given the State Prize of the U.S.S.R., one of many awards he received for his work.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/05/oscar-winning-director-vladimir-menshov-dies-at-age-82-a74425
I cannot remember if I ever saw that movie. It probably was on tv when I was young so I might have seen it.
“The story follows three young women in Soviet Moscow and the trials and tribulations they face in their work, romantic, and family lives.”
I would be doubly surprised if it was realistic and allowed to be released.
For anyone who watched “The Americans” I believe that is the movie that Claudia and Elizabeth watched with Paige in the final season, no?
I never finished the final season. Really enjoyed that show for the most part.
It cured my infatuation of Keri Russell.
How felicitous.
Crazy person says crazy stuff
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Sunday denounced as “absolutely unacceptable” the scores of deaths in her state as a result of the recent record-setting heat wave in the Pacific Northwest.
During an appearance on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Brown told host Ed O’Keefe that her administration’s biggest concern “is that this is a harbinger of things to come.”
“We have been working to prepare for climate change in this state for a number of years,” she said. “What was unprecedented, of course, was the three days of record-breaking heat, and it was horrific to see over 90 Oregonians lose their lives.”
She added, “We literally have had four emergency declarations in this state at the federal level since April of 2020. Over Labor Day last year, we had horrific wildfires. They were historic. We lost over a million acres, over 4,000 homes and nine lives.”
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At least 95 deaths have been reported in Oregon as result of the heat wave, and Brown said that “our communities of color, our low-income families are disproportionately impacted.”
She called for an increase in federal resources to combat the problem, including for more firefighting equipment and training for National Guard members.
“It also means that agencies like FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] who do not aid our undocumented families, we need to make sure that that happens,” she added. “Of the families that lost homes in southern Oregon last Labor Day fire, several hundred were undocumented. FEMA does not provide aid or assistance to these families.”
“It is absolutely unacceptable. These families are so much a part of our communities. They’re the heart and soul of our culture and they are the backbone of our economy. They deserve the assistance, and they need it,” she added.
There is no problem which cannot be solved by slathering federal money on it.
Maybe she should send the Oregon State Police to arrest the sun.
“…They’re the heart and soul of our culture and they are the backbone of our economy. They deserve the assistance, and they need it,”
I’m sure actual citizens are happy to know illegals are the true heart of the community.
“funny” when Texas had people die from uncharacteristic cold, the buck stopped at the governor’s office. When Oreagoners die due to a heat wave, it’s everyone else’s fault.
She and the rest of the establishment want to build more empires of government services. When it comes down to it, they are arguing that government should force people into government run cooling locations, hell call them cooling camps, for their own good. Particularly the homeless and seniors. And shut down employers unless they’re in air conditioned offices.
Zero blame will be attached to the bum activists who have normalized vagrancy and made it an acceptable lifestyle.
Cooling camps?
Maybe we can rent some land in Siberia for it.
As long as they’re there, they can provide society with some productive labor.
Crazy woman yells at sky.
News at 11.
Up to about twenty years ago, the NG was being trained and used for fighting fires. At some point, they stopped being used in favor (semi-)professional wildland firefighters and now seem to be used just for perimeter traffic control and support service. Another one was using prison crews. They were used again last year and suddenly they were so out of the ordinary that Gov Shitstain commuted several of their sentences.
Meanwhile the leftist controlled legislature rammed through sweeping legislation at the end of the session to vastly increase the costs of homebuilding in the name of “preventing” future destruction. I’ve worked in the areas burned over for the past year (and twenty before that). Defensible space is a myth in the face of a conflagration like last year’s fluke fires. They move so quickly and with such force, the only homes untouched are ones that were passed over by geography and fire direction. Totally luck. If the direction moved, they would have been toast.
Also, fuck her in the ass for her continued handouts to illegals of my money. They aren’t citizens nor are they even residents of Oregon. They are foreign nationals living here illegally.
Joe Biden sounds like me when I’ve been drinking heavily for a few days and it’s about 2 Sunday Morning.
Yep. He sounds like my FIL after a long day and the functions just don’t hold up cause of age. FIL is sharp, witty and full of life in the AM but by 3pm, words and thoughts become muddled and confused.
To adopt the French Bulldog pup or not? Free dog just because the breeder loves Judi or tiny pain in the ass?
We talking dog or rifle? Cause either of them, get it!
The AKC sure has a lot of good things to say about them, but I’m not sure whether the same would apply to the Canadian ones (especially French Canadian ones.)
I snickered at that.
They’re damn cute. I understand that they can be stubborn little guys.
And flatulent.
yes – neighbor has one and it’s a farting festival.
Of course greyhounds are also good at stinking up a room.
I though the current view is that breeding French Bulldog should be discouraged.
Nope. Just woke up to the mid-level marketing idea. Breeder will pay all the vet bills but retain rights to breed the pup four times. How could I be so dumb? Probably because I said “No!” initially. Fucking Tanya…
In plain words, it wouldn’t be my dog, I’d just be boarding it. At my expense. God she’s a piece of work. I hated hated hated that she was the middle daughter’s best friend when they were teens.
Ah..then good call. Fostering a dog is a pain especially if they plan on breeding it. All the responsibility to you and then they can turn around and say you screwed up when it doesn’t breed the way they thought.
Too bad cause Frenchie get top dollar in the states.
$4500 up here. The breeder was just trying to take advantage of us. I’m pissed off that I didn’t realize sooner but when the offer came it was 2:00 am Sunday. “Oh Please please please, look how cute!” No fucking way! A day later to feature it. How fucking cruel and greedy can you be?
Loves-loves Judi? ‘Cuz they’re normally quite expensive (see recent bulldog thefts and Gaga’s ransom), and have the health problems ofbrachycephalic breeds, though I don’t know if they overheat like pugs.
Upon refresh: never minnnnd.
It’s mid-level marketing but with dogs. It’s not selling soap, it’s evil.
A rap artist I follow collects/breeds French bulldogs.
1. He’s rich
2. De gustibus
3. They’re ugly little motherfuckers
Hands were waved
It’s an old tactic employed by opposition parties to blame sitting presidents when fuel prices rise on their watch — and one that Republicans unsuccessfully tried to wield against Barack Obama during a recovering economy a decade ago. This time, they are pointing to Biden’s ambitious climate change plans, his pause on leases for new oil wells on federal lands, and his cancellation of the permits for the Keystone XL pipeline as the culprits, although none of those steps have had any immediate impact on what motorists pay at the pump.
Experts largely agree that the White House usually has little to do with short-term moves in gasoline prices, which are a factor of global oil prices, U.S. refinery operations, and — especially this year — a sharp jump in demand from drivers as people emerge from lockdowns and travel resumes.
But that hasn’t kept the narrative from spreading across conservative media, where pundits are drawing comparisons to the Jimmy Carter administration, and trickling down to viral social media posts pinning gas prices to Biden’s climate agenda.
“The Biden administration’s strictures on federal lands production have no direct connection to today’s pump prices, but in messaging, a president who is restricting oil production renders himself vulnerable to criticism anyway,” said Kevin Book, managing director at advisory firm ClearView Energy. “So never mind physics or economics. Communications is a totally different world.”
Jeanette McGee, an AAA spokesperson, said the primary reasons for the price surge are the reawakening economy as the country grows more optimistic about vaccination against Covid-19, along with increased global oil demand and a surge in leisure travel.
If anything, the rise in prices is one sign of a boost in economic activity that the Biden administration is all too happy to take credit for. McGee also added that though prices may be on the rise, they haven’t reached levels where Americans typically start making lifestyle changes to accommodate them — generally around $3.25 to $3.50 per gallon.
Don’t worry, be happy.
Signalling that you would impose tariffs and we get slew of articles how it will drive up the price of a product versus signalling you are not expanding oil and gas production doesn’t translate.
A natural market rise is expected, but I think we would be $.50 to a $1.00 less right now if Joe didn’t immediately go out and try to tell the companies we aren’t dealing anymore.
This is just it. When a president takes specific actions that can be directly linked to rising fuel costs, then he is going to get blamed.
I’ve been paying > 3.25 since at least April. This propogandist can take his words and shove off.
Yep – and with two cars that prefer premium, I’ve been paying in the $3.70+ range
So far my wife has had to increase prices twice in 6 months cause of it. Most of her customers know why and they all grumble at the doddering old man that sits in the highest office. So if it is actual policy driving it or messaging, either way, their ire is at him so it seems.
French Bulldog
Sounds like insensitive cultural appropriation.
According to my model, my model is correct
Dale Durran just endured a historic heatwave in Seattle, and perhaps more than most residents, he’s got good reason to be confident climate change had something to do with the regional madness that proved especially extreme next door, in Oregon, where dozens died.
The professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington told The Daily Beast that this past week’s monstrous stretch—which topped out at a blistering 108 degrees on Monday—was “so outside the range of previous hot spells in Seattle that it really stretches the credibility of anyone suggesting it is simply natural variability.”
Durran isn’t someone who blames climate change every time he breaks a sweat. But he does think about this issue: of accurately attributing seemingly insane weather events, like an entire village being on fire in Canada this past week, to a heating planet.
Last year, in his jargon-heavy paper “Can the Issuance of Hazardous-Weather Warnings Inform the Attribution of Extreme Events to Climate Change?” Durran closely examined something called the “probability of detection” and the “false alarm ratio.”
“The point of this article,” he explained, “is that demanding scientific certainty in the face of an event such as our recent record-crushing heatwave in the Pacific Northwest before accepting the need to take action to stem global warming is as ridiculous as demanding 100 percent certainty before issuing a tornado forecast.”
He’s not alone in thinking the doubters have run out of room—that events have overtaken any shred of sane skepticism.
According to legendary Princeton geoscientist Michael Oppenheimer, scientists are no longer guessing when it comes to tying extreme events like this to climate change, because a whole new field now exists that aims to tie a nice neat bow around these very questions.
“There is now a well developed science of ‘event attribution’ which deals with uncertainty,” Oppenheimer told The Daily Beast. (His own research over the years has focused on what the specific hazards of climate change will be, not necessarily event attribution.)
Here’s Oppenheimer’s explanation of how event attribution scientists do their jobs: They use Fractional Attribution of Risk (FAR), which he said is “the fraction of the intensity of an event (like a heatwave) that can be attributed to human-made greenhouse gases.” For example, event attribution scientists calculated the FAR on 2017’s Hurricane Harvey—after the fact—and it had, Oppenheimer explained, about two times what would have been the case without the greenhouse gases at 2017 levels. That gave Harvey a FAR score of 0.5.
“Why won’t you just accept our claims at face value?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/13/caught-inconvenient-u-s-wildfire-data-has-been-disappeared-by-national-interagency-fire-center-nifc_fire/
tl;dr version: wildfires were actually worse during the last 2 major drought periods in the west — both the the 1970s drought and the 1930s drought.
Globally, wildfires have declined steadily for 100 years.
No way would we suppress data that doesn’t fit the narrative! We are Science!
They will get their time-reset, just don’t know when.
What does Fauci think, as he is SCIENCE!!
Robert L. Park is rolling over in his grave…
Previous hot spells being only 100-150 years of record keeping.
Top 10 Hottest Young Female Celebrities (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLH1t_JUGA
Yeah no way Kate Upton is number 1
So many sharp knees…
She is #1 for two reasons I suspect — and that is just a subset of models.
She gets bonus points for going into zero gravity for our entertainment.
Leah Gotti the porn star made the list? Interesting.
I don’t mind Kate Upton being number one on this list.
If you can’t pack it, neuter it.
Matthew Igel, an atmospheric scientist focused on clouds at the University of California Davis, told The Daily Beast that now that we’ve filled our atmosphere with greenhouse gases, “We will always lack a realization of Earth without climate change regardless of how excellent our models are or become.”
According to Igel’s explanation, you can think of each attribution study almost as a science-fiction story about someplace called “Earth 2,” where anthropogenic climate change didn’t occur—perhaps because humans don’t exist there. And it’s only by creating a model of Earth 2 that we can understand why it’s so hot here on Earth 1, a.k.a. the only Earth that actually exists. “Our statistical knowledge of truly extreme events from some baseline climate will always be poor,” Igel said. “And regardless, just because we have never observed something before, doesn’t mean that it was impossible, only that it didn’t happen.”
By no means did Igel dismiss the usefulness of attribution science—he’s just hesitant to call it conclusive. “These are the questions that keep me up at night,” he explained.
But the attribution scientists can offer about the connection between climate change, and, for instance, your house being burned down in a wildfire, is good enough to be used in court. At least according to Michael Burger, Columbia Law professor, and executive director at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, which cooks up legal techniques to be used in the fight against climate change.
“There is nothing new about courts, or policymakers, making decisions in the face of probability calculations and varying degrees of scientific uncertainty. That’s the nature of the beast,” Burger explained. “As a lawyer, you have to deploy the science to make your case, and fit it to the relevant standard for the particular legal issue you are addressing.”
Make shit up. As long as it is unfalsifiable, you’re good.
SCIENCE!
To deny Mammary Monday is to deny the very nature of reality.
https://archive.li/Hm8WV
Not bad.
There’s a lot of batshit crazy in there.
Gene Siller, a 41-year-old pro golfer, was shot and killed on Saturday while on the golf course at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Uh-oh. Kennesaw requires every head of household (trigger warning: CNN) to own a gun. It must have been one of those Indiana Guns I hear about sneaking in and giving all the other guns a bad name.
White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Sunday that fully vaccinated Americans should “go the extra step” and wear masks when traveling to parts of the country with low vaccination rates.
Go fuck yourself. I’m leaving on a road trip later this week. I will not wear a fucking face diaper. Fuck off asshole.
“As an Israeli, as a Jew and as a human being, my heart aches seeing the images of people going hungry on the streets of Lebanon,” he wrote Sunday on Twitter. “Israel has offered assistance to Lebanon in the past, and even today we are ready to act and to encourage other countries to extend a helping hand to Lebanon so that it will once again flourish and emerge from its state of crisis.”
This is interesting. I wonder how Hezbollah will react? I actually, I shouldn’t wonder. I should go back to not giving a shit about the Middle East.
It was the kind of moment that has even supporters questioning her political acumen — underscoring why Harris, nearly six months into her term as a history-making vice president, consistently lags in polls behind President Biden, has failed to get the same honeymoon with voters, draws more critical media coverage and stands as a bigger target for Republicans.
Poor baby.
Old Guy Music is interesting.
Kennesaw doesn’t enforce their law. And pretty much everyone there had one before the law. It was passed to taunt a town in Illinois.
A good start to the morning:
Eggs, coffee and herb/cheddar bagels for breakfast.
All the posts are in the ground. Ones that were supposed to have been delivered on the 3rd still haven’t arrived. Another 100′ of fencing up. I need another roll (and a couple of posts) to finish the east fence. North and south are done. West (pretty) fence still waiting on the contractors. Uncertain what it’ll take to finish the whole thing once it’s up but nothing more than a small roll and a couple of hours.
Locust tree gone. No injuries from it, minor scrapes from the fencing. A cat came in the yard, I introduced Lily to him and he skedaddled.
Time to cook some burgers.
what gives you the right to fence in land that should belong to everyone equally?
The tragedy of the commons?
Plant brambles and poison ivy instead?
He put the fence up to keep Kamala from dropping by.
https://youtu.be/MxRkHeQ7-B8
Imma go pet my mongrel doge and kitteh. Thank God nobody is forcibly breeding them for filthy lucre.
My kitteh was glued to us large land whales in bed this morning. Now he is in the kitchen demanding tribute. Guess I better go serve the little beggar.
Imma go pet my mongrel doge and kitteh.
🙂
I saw the news about Judi after the threads died. I hope she heals up quickly.
Land of milk and honey
Target Corporation executives said they will begin closing all six of their San Francisco stories earlier than normal because of the city’s rampant crime, particularly shoplifting and thefts.
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Most of the thieves who are stealing from the Target stores in the later hours of the night are never apprehended by San Francisco police, several managers told KGO-TV. One security guard, Kevin Greathouse, said management has instructed him and other employees not to physically engage the shoplifters.
Greathouse said he carries a handgun, a taser and pepper spray on him at all times when at Target. He described one alleged shoplifter recently threatening him with a knife.
“I don’t have any intention of getting stabbed for $60 worth of stuff,” he said. “It’s going to be lawsuits, obviously they don’t want ourselves or anybody else to get injured while we’re out here attempting to make these apprehensions and leave it to law enforcement.”
So why are you there? Why are you taking their money?
Why are people leaving San Francisco in droves?
Such a waste of a beautiful piece of Earth.
https://youtu.be/4_wQ322HgAo
You know, that was the city of my father’s birth, my great grandmother’s birth. It was, as you say, so beautiful.
And they have gone and fucked it all up. So sad.
Almost a half century of lefty rule here has done a number on it for sure. My hood has thankfully so far avoided most of the shit, I hope that continues.
Security guards are like locks: they are there to keep good people honest. Everyone knows that most are not willing to put their lives on the line for anything, and so if you already have ill intentions, they aren’t an obstacle.
Elect more radicaler DA’s then. That ought to fix it.
Steve McQueen leaving Sand Francisco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJZ-BHBKyos
Classic scene. It was filmed in Bernal Heights, Nob Hill, Telegraph Hill, Potrero, Portola and then the mountain scenes which are just outside the City on San Bruno Mountain. The early parts of it they are rapidly switching between completely different areas of the City. Still one of the best chase scenes.
I laughed.
https://twitter.com/RetroFirearms/status/1411721108408221698
Gun Jesus on the FN P90.
Shooting the FN P90.
Yikes!
Blue Jackets goalie Matiss Kivlenieks dies at age 24
Fireworks, booze and hot tubs are a deadly mix, kids.
Oh man. 24 yo.
That sucks.
Oh shit…. Horrendous!
It’s almost like…. She’s a piece of rancid shit who embarrasses what little pride this country has left. Welcome to the party guys!