Talk about a shitty day.
I think we’re in our third week of +100 heat. I’m ready for a break. Not like the air conditioning break we went through last weekend, which resulted in both air handling systems being completely replaced. Fun times. How about some links!
Now they’re canceling Gypsy’s.
Good thing they’re no longer made out of rubber.
Heh. Get out of the fucking street.
I’d put this in the “E” ticket category.
I could use little November Rain.
Our neighbourhood is full of those “Slow down! Children at play!” signs.
How about you keep your goddamn brats off the street.
They just put up one of those speed detector signs in our neighborhood. Because that won’t encourage teenagers to see how high it goes.
They’ve gotten smart to that and make it say “slow down” when you’re more than 5 over.
Yeah, no more “high scores”. We used to use them to get an idea of how close we had to be before you would get a radar reading on a motorcycle.
That is the sign of a poorly designed street. If the regular flow of traffic is so high you need a speed detector then either the limit is too low or the lanes are too wide.
Also, narrowing the road saves money while speed bumps (which is the obvious next step after the detectors) cost money.
I mean street not road in that last sentence. If I am going to discuss policy, I should use the technical terms correctly.
The problem in residential, of course, is curbside parking. Make it wide enough for curbside parking but in a neighborhood where most people park in the garage, and now you have 4 lanes worth of empty asphalt.
Narrow the street and let people park in the grass.
I grew up right behind a catholic church. Our street was prime parking for picnics/festivals/etc. People would ask if they could park in front of our house and my Mom would tell them, “Yes, as long as you put 4 wheels in the grass.” This greatly confused people, some to the point where they would leave rather than park in the crazy lady’s yard.
But, she was right. With 2 ( or worse 0) wheels in the road, it became a 1 lane road at best.
Get off my lawn
There’s a street around here where the speed limit is about 10MPH too low for the regular flow of traffic, but I’m pretty sure that’s so the city can get their hands on ticket money.
Or…and it is crazy…teach your shitheels to pay attention in the street. You know…mass × velocity and all that. Or is that racist now?
That’s white physics. Definitely racist.
I was really hoping that Biden would back down on the gestapo coming door to door. Now we can only hope some brave governor’s order the state police to arrest them.
For what?
Being douche bags
Well fuck, we’re all going swing.
Littering.
And creating a nuisance.
I’ll need to see the 8 x 10 color glossy photographs to be sure.
Careful, or you’ll end up on the Group W bench.
It’s not like prosecutors can’t be creative if they want to be.
Eventually there will be legit charges of theft and vandalism. The kind of people who would do this door to door thing are gonna be of a lower class with poor impulse control (Not all, of course). After a couple door slams in their faces, they’re gonna get hostile. Maybe some assaults. Maybe some rapes. Nothing good will come of it. At all.
It’s not gonna be your neighbor, they’re flying people in who think you can’t make photocopies.
Human nature and what not.
Considering the early TSA hiring ads on Domino’s boxes? I guarantee it.
$140 Million of any raw material doesn’t sound like much.
I’m too lazy to research this but why do I get the feeling there was no offensive intent behind the “faggotworm”?
It’s because it decorates its cocoon with twigs so it looks like a bundle of sticks.
Thank you for not being niggardly with your reply.
Lol. The woke police are coming for you.
So they’re ok with the “small faggotworm?”
“Florida man ‘sparks security scare and flight chaos by threatening to BLOW UP Fort Lauderdale Airport after missing his flight'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9775993/Bomb-threat-sparks-security-scare-evacuations-Four-Lauderdale-Airport.html
I just like the headline.
That asshole needs to spend some time in jail.
“Moment a FIRENADO rages through California wildfire site as Golden State braces for ANOTHER heatwave: 117F forecast sparks power and water outage fears as Death Valley hits 130F – the hottest temperature Earth has recorded in 90 years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9775643/Moment-fire-TORNADO-hits-California-wildfire-site-Golden-State-braces-heatwave.html
Now I want grilled shark.
What I get…it was hotter last century.
There were more wildfires in California in pre-industrial times.
Bailey said he climbed on the hood of the car out of fear of being run over.
“The reason I was in front of the car was to make sure everyone was safe and to get this lady to stop from running over protesters,” Bailey told 9NEWS the day after the incident. “The reason I got on top of the car was because she accelerated into me and I’m not going to lie down and let somebody run over me.”
Or you could just get the fuck out of the road, you thumb sucking moron.
As though he has the right to block a public road for the convenience of an illegal protest. Sorry asshole. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
This assumes his response is sincere and not outright bullshit.
I haven’t really “listened” to November Rain in years, I remembered Slash’s church yard solo being more epic, It’s actually very ‘Meh’. The last minute or so kinda kicks in, but man, what a lackluster song over all.
It doesn’t have the impact it used to.
Once again the best Guns n Roses is not done by Guns n Roses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNER_PNiOTQ
Yeah, that’s not any good either.
YOU’RE NOT ANY GOOD EITHER!
Back in my early DJing days, I had to talk a couple out of using November Rain in their wedding set list.
“Heidi Klum says she was called ‘way too curvy’ to model in the 1990s – and reveals what she really thinks about the Victoria’s Secret rebranding”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9775623/Heidi-Klum-claims-curvy-shares-thoughts-Victorias-Secret-rebranding.html
What?
“I want my generation to be the last actually sexy and attractive lingerie models.”
Even when she is 70, she’ll still be hotter than her replacements. That’ll crush the patriarchy.
So much this.
“On the same day that workers in Charlottesville, Virginia removed statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, the city council held a lightning vote to topple a monument depicting the explorers Merriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea.
Work crews already out on the job removing the Confederate monuments rushed over with a crane to bring down Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea on Saturday after the city council called an emergency meeting with 20 minutes notice.
The statue of the explorers, which was erected in 1919, depicted Native American guide Sacagawea kneeling next to the white explorers — a position critics called demeaning, but defenders argued was a depiction of her ‘tracking.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9775083/Charlottesville-readies-removal-Confederate-statues.html
Bad people on both sides.
Sigh.
I’m all snarked out
#metoo
It’s just so tedious. A completely meaningless distraction to tide people over until the next completely meaningless distraction.
Sacajawea is fucking amazing. Assholes.
Take Ol’ Saca off the dollar coin. As the dollar depreciates I find it to be demeaning to the entire indigenous community.
At this point, I don’t really care. The more they dismantle of this country’s history, the less reason I have to retain my last vestiges of patriotism. My loyalty is to the principles of the founding and to those who, while imperfectly executing them, gave it the best try we’ve ever seen.
The country, as it is currently heading, is gonna be a second rate euro-socialist shithole in less than a decade.
And a subjugated bitch state in about two.
As the first born of an actual immigrant, I find the dismantling of U.S. history repugnant. It’s hateful. Those responsible deserve bad things – like ass cancer.
Robert E lee was a neo-con before neo-cons were a thing, he never saw a war he didn’t like and got more people killed than John McCain, fuck him and his statue.
You can pick nits all you want. They’re not stopping with someone you don’t happen to agree with. They want to tear it all down.
This is the problem. There is no principle other than wokeness. I believe Confederate statues are a problem but I oppose what’s going on.
Good, governments shouldn’t be in the business of erecting statues. Now as a ‘localist’ I will allow that the people of any particular town/community have a right to erect statues, even is I think they shouldn’t, likewise if the people then later decide to tear them down, even though I agree, It isn’t any of my concern, and my opinion is meaningless. Unless of course I’m a member of that particular local community.
Does that fence you ride cause chaffing?
Nope, the “let people that I will most likely never meet, that live hundred of miles from me and whose action have no affect on my life do as they please” fence is very well padded.
“Why should I worry about that Cultural Revolution? It’s hundreds of miles away in Beijing. It will never happen here or affect me.”
-Zhe Kuā Zhāng
I have no issues with tearing down statues of ALL agents of the stati.
For laying down his sword at Appomattox alone, Lee should have statues from sea to sea. Likewise Chief Joseph. Both great Americans. Fuck the Maoists and their fig leave reasons to destroy this country. Every human is flawed if you examine them close enough.
Lee knew with Lincoln’s re-election that the Confederacy had lost. He should have urged surrender, and resigned if Davis refused, then. Stubbornly, he held on and tens of thousands more died on both sides before he finally gave up at Appomattox.
Terrible things happened at Auschwitz. Having it there just hurts people’s feelings and memorializes the Nazis. We need to tear it down and replace it with a serenity garden.
Remembering even the bad parts of history has tremendous value and Lee is a much more morally ambiguous figure than Hitler.
You know what, I was going to say something snarky, but being part Jewish and having lost a lot of family to that shit, this whole thing just makes me fucking sad.
a second rate euro-socialist shithole in less than a decade
That’s so last decade.
This surprises me. I was certain once you capitulated to them on the one issue, that would be that and they’d leave things alone. I’m shocked they’re coming back for more of the same.
I will say this again, if Liberty minded people wont get into politics then Lefties will. Even George washington gave so much to win militarily and was then asked to serve as president. If he didnt set the tone of a tood president, then someone else might have set the tone as a bad president. Not that we havent had horrible presidents.
Two major plays that worked for Lefties over decades are Lefties sacrificing wealth to be teachers and indoctrinate kids to be woke. Second is Black americans taking a large portion of the federal jobs and then doing everything they can to prevent downsizing of the federal bureaucracy.
Isn’t part of the “charm” of a carny ride the thrill that it might throw you off or something.
Exactly. If there’s no risk of the whole thing coming apart and flinging you into a turkey leg booth, why even bother?
Traction Park
So you’ve been to Coney Island.
I have indeed. The Cyclone (wooden coaster) is delightfully wobbly.
I believe the tuber is referring to the now defunct Action Park in north Jersey.
Definitely. I was responding to Rhywun.
Ah yes, should have taken notice of the indent.
So, I’m home and it’s a Saturday. I won’t promise sobriety, but I will kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Drunken complaining at 20:00 Eastern.
Good! Because I got some shit to complain about! But what the hell, now I have to get drunk to complain about it? WTF man, too many rules!
When have you ever not had shit to complain about?
(I know, I know, pot, kettle, etc.)
I’ve got a lot problems with you people.
I have a serious bone to pick with you Western
Politicize the plague? Who would do such a thing?
“A disservice to the country.” “Inaccurate disinformation.” “Literally killing people.”
For months, the Biden White House refrained from criticizing Republican officials who played down the importance of coronavirus vaccinations or sought to make political hay of the federal government’s all-out effort to drive shots into arms. Not any longer.
With the COVID-19 vaccination rate plateauing across the country, the White House is returning fire at those they see as spreading harmful misinformation or fear about the shots.
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“Now we need to go to community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oftentimes, door-to-door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people” who need to be vaccinated, Biden said Tuesday.
The grassroots component of the vaccination campaign has been in operation since April, when supplies of shots began outpacing demand. It was outlined and funded by Congress in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed in March and overwhelmingly is carried out by local officials and private sector workers and volunteers.
But some in the GOP saw a political opening, catering to the party’s small-government roots and libertarian wing.
“The Biden Administration wants to knock on your door to see if you’re vaccinated,” tweeted Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan. “What’s next? Knocking on your door to see if you own a gun?”
Those rotten old Republicans, playing to their anti-SCIENCE! libertarian base. It downright shameful.
Democrats were restrained and cautious. Republicans pounced and made it political.
Color by numbers propaganda from (hovers over link) the AP.
<em.For the usually reserved Biden White House, which has long harbored private frustrations about some states’ laggard vaccination programs but refused to condemn them publicly for fear of playing up political divides in public health, it was a bridge too far.
“For those individuals, organizations that are feeding misinformation and trying to mischaracterize this type of trusted-messenger work, I believe you are doing a disservice to the country and to the doctors, the faith leaders, community leaders and others who are working to get people vaccinated, save lives and help end this pandemic,” White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said Thursday.
Months ago, the Biden White House refrained from responding when officials criticized its vaccine allocation strategy of sending more doses directly to pharmacies instead of through state health departments after the former strategy proved more effective. It largely kept quiet as it watched officials sow fears of vaccine “passports” and assiduously avoided engaging publicly with fringe lawmakers who promoted vaccine skepticism.
The new public expression of frustration comes amid lingering disbelief that tens of millions of Americans continue to refuse to get vaccinated, needlessly extending the pandemic and costing lives, as government health officials emphasize that nearly all serious cases and deaths are now preventable.
Slurp slurp slurp.
“Long harbored”
So 5+ months is a long time?
That’s like 180 news cycles and story changes.
The new public expression of frustration comes amid lingering disbelief that tens of millions of Americans continue to refuse to get vaccinated, needlessly extending the pandemic and costing lives
The media hates you. They are your enemy. They will gladly sell you up the river.
I’ll admit. This push is really getting under my skin. If they try to stick my kids, I’m going to do something very not nice.
And I hold all of these wannabe authoritarians responsible.
Lol ‘trusted!’
That caught my eye too.
“continue to refuse to get vaccinated, needlessly extending the pandemic and costing lives”
REFUSENIKS
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1413320463145750534
WTF?
“The reason I got on top of the car was because she accelerated into me and I’m not going to lie down and let somebody run over me.”
Too bad the guy lived to testify.
Uh huh. Sounds legit.
I don’t know. After he jumped off she went looking for him.
I am not sure I count that against her.
Spud’s stupendous strumpets of Silicone Saturday!
https://archive.is/5ZceS
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Now they’re cancelling Gypsy’s what?
Are you saying you’ve been gypped of a word?
I just want to know who Gypsy is and why he or she is being cancelled.
I mean, I had a dog named Gypsy once, but she died in 1999, so I doubt it’s her.
You see your Gypsy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwgg1Pu6cNg
I knew a girl of Romany descent who would complain about anyone using gypped or disparaging gypsies.
Aspie.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
How is this plague based doomsday cult anything other than a state religion?
As for the right of the people to peaceably assemble…
something document over 100 years old something white slave owners something something
https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum/secondary-mathematics/courses/mth1w/course-intro
Mathematics is often positioned as an objective and pure discipline. However, the content and the context in which it is taught, the mathematicians who are celebrated, and the importance that is placed upon mathematics by society are subjective. Mathematics has been used to normalize racism and marginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges, and a decolonial, anti-racist approach to mathematics education makes visible its historical roots and social constructions. The Ontario Grade 9 mathematics curriculum emphasizes the need to recognize and challenge systems of power and privilege, both inside and outside the classroom, in order to eliminate systemic barriers and to serve students belonging to groups that have been historically disadvantaged and underserved in mathematics education.
Actual proposed Ontario math curriculum.
“non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges”
Foucault wasn’t a mathematician. Anyway, I’m pretty sure algebra wasn’t European, and the numerals came from India.
“Algebra (from Arabic: الجبر, romanized: al-jabr, lit. ’reunion of broken parts’)”
https://www.livescience.com/50258-algebra.html
I have two fields that total 1,800 square yards. Yields for each field are ⅔ gallon of grain per square yard and ½ gallon per square yard. The first field gave 500 more gallons than the second. What are the areas of each field?
It’s a popular notion that such problems were invented to torment students, and this might not be far from the truth. This problem was almost certainly written to help students understand mathematics — but what’s special about it is it’s nearly 4,000 years old! According to Jacques Sesiano in “An Introduction to the History of Algebra” (AMS, 2009), this problem is based on a Babylonian clay tablet circa 1800 B.C. (VAT 8389, Museum of the Ancient Near East). Since these roots in ancient Mesopotamia, algebra has been central to many advances in science, technology, and civilization as a whole.
1200 and 600 square yards.
Wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong, wrong.
Dry gallon
It’s about 268.8 cu. in., which is about 16% bigger than the US fluid gallon (231 cu. in.).
I concede. I mis-read it.
To the best of my recollection, the modern Imperial gallon is basically an medieval ale gallon (English) and the modern US gallon is basically a medieval wine gallon (French).
And, as you note, the corn gallon was completely different than both of the liquid gallons.
And a pound of wheat is 7000 grains (corns) of wheat.
So that’s where grains come from.
I don’t believe the dry gallon is relevant to the algebra. Two equations two unknowns. The yield rates – and the canceling of units of measure – allow you to determine the size of each piece of land.
And then double-check to ensure all of the relationships hold for those A1 and A2. Dem do.
How many Hunter Biden paintings will I need to buy to avoid being arrested for hoarding?
I’m looking forward to future generations transitioning humanity to base 12 instead of the decimal-supremacist base 10 system.
Dodecimal justice!
Math curricula developed by people who are shitty at math.
. . . . people who hate math and hate that math produces definitive answers.
LOL @ Western Civilization
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/christian-motivational-speaker-starts-bank-in-response-to-the-rise-of-cancel-culture-in-the-private-sector_3895330.html
FFS. Can we just have businesses that keep their nose out of politics?
Or not.
GFY
I’m sure we’ll bounce back.
Won’t matter, gas @ $10 or more will limit driving, thus saving insurance, road repair and car repair. You’ll be able to use the money saved for shoe repair.
We have to look at all the positives. Unintended consequences and all
An abundance of caution
Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s names on the speakers slate for a Southern California “America First” rally scheduled for next weekend was enough for the Orange County venue to cancel the event.
“As soon as we found out who the speakers were we immediately canceled it,” Javad Mirtavoosi, general manager of Pacific Hills Banquet & Event Center, said, adding that when the event was booked, they were just expecting “a gathering.”
“We just want to stay clear of that,” Mirtavoosi told the Orange County Register.
The Laguna Hills hotel canceled the rally originally scheduled for July 17 on Friday, citing the two controversial GOP representatives presence at the event. The venue declined to confirm whether the cancellation was based on political differences, saying instead, “We just thought it would be best for our facility to cancel.”
Nonetheless, Greene’s name began trending on Twitter Saturday with many users speculating exactly that politics had everything to do with it. Gaetz’s campaign denied to comment, but Greene’s team disputes the venue’s story surrounding the circumstances of the cancellation.
it’s not that we’re afraid a bunch of Democrat activists will show up and trash the place. Definitely not that.
Pussy.
Hire security and film everything.
Bake the cakeHost the rally.Breach of contract
What happened to Gaetz’s sex scandal? Obviously he’s been canceled so maybe it’s originators decided that it had the desired effect and directed the media to stop talking about it.
Were Gaetz and Swalwell banging the same Chinese spy?
I dunno but the Gaetz story just kept getting more and more fantastical and suddenly it disappeared. You’d think the media would be more interested in pushing the lurid details over and over again but *poof*.
Assume an italics tag.
Assume proper threading.
“I had unprotected sex to try to get pregnant because I’m so lonely[…]I’m a 16-year-old girl.”
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15539665/lonely-sex-stranger-get-pregnant/
Chavtastic
Someone gets paid to write this stuff. I wonder if it’s just one person or if there is a team who brainstorms ideas.
Right? It’s like the Penthouse Forum. “I never thought it would happen to me…”
Racist stereotype. Cancel my subscription to the Sun!
And Dedrie suggests Cock and Ball Torture to a 16-year-old girl? Well, okay…
I’ll remind my kids/grandkds to never volunteer to be a vet’s assistant at an African Safari animal park. Thanks Spud
people who hate math and hate that math produces definitive answers.
Definitive answers? Facts? Objective reality? NOOOOOOOOO!
Fuck Vroom. If you’re looking to buy a car, skip them.
Last communication to me from the delivery group was at 11:30 this morning giving me a noon to 3pm delivery window. I’ve been trying various ways of getting in contact with them since 4:30, to no avail. Calls go to voicemail. Texts are unanswered. National customer support doesn’t have any way of getting in contact with them and I’ve been on hold for a tier 2 escalation for 2 hours now, which likely means they went home for the night and didnt bother to tell me. I’d love to know where my car is, but nobody who picks up their phone knows and nobody who knows picks up their phone.
/vent
Buy a Car?
/Ducks
Why a duck?
/Chico
https://mobile.twitter.com/VoiceOfFranky/status/1413328595360141313
And if I hear one more whinging , pious petition from soon to be obscure again privacy/civil rights ‘experts’ I will explode. The only opposition in the public is from those not vaxxing , which is why we should move promptly to do this
Head of prominent Canadian polling firm.
Top. Men.
The Sun is Shining, Punk,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP3rAjPOCHw&list=RDMM&index=20
This is your nightly reminder that John Wayne Gacy was a Democratic party apparatchik.
Huh?
Don’t feed the Troll, they keep coming if you do,
Gah! Ever wake up at 7:15 and not know whether it’s AM or PM? My internal clock is curdled.
9:00 is my stalking hour. I don’t really feel alive until then.
:Checks door machete:
Yes. I stumbled into the living room once and my mom was watching Sonny & Cher and I thought to myself, that doesn’t make any sense.
I woke up once in the wrong Century, that was a nightmare getting home, and the Hangover… bleh,
Sonny & Cher doesn’t make sense no matter what time you wake up.
Bill Murray agrees.
24-hour clock is your friend.
The clock is not to blame.
You would know if it is 0715 or 1915.
Or am I missing something?
I drink a lot of beer. A lot of beer.
Yeah. I recently woke up at 8:30 thinking “oh shoot I’m so late”, jumped up, only to realise it was pm. Good 45 mins sleep.
Finally a story with a happy ending.
Fresh out of college I lived with my best friend. We both had crappy jobs. His was working security. He worked rotating shifts and often picked up additional shifts. We lived in a Boston suburb. One winter night my buddy walks out of his room at 5:30. He had no idea if it was morning or night.
Paging Q.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886912005764
Ozymandia tried to post a Tucker clip in the previous thread but I can’t figure out how to play it.
Can anyone help this old woman?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-government-forced-sterilization-vaccines
Works for me. But the text is more-or-less a transcript so you don’t really need the video.
Watched that on my break Thirstyday night. Not good.
We’re vaccine hold-outs for varying reasons ranging from “I don’t need it” to “Approach my Child with a needle and I will Keel you!” The whole family from 60 to 6…
I taught those girls as best I could. A heaping helping of skepticism and critical thought about how the world works. It has served them well. They are thriving.
Don’t even need to go down the side street of sterilization, other than for sensationalism. Jacobson v Massachusetts is pretty clear that they can do so.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
The whole point of a vaccine is supposedly to protect yourself. It doesn’t make a damn bit of sense to compel someone to take it if they don’t want it.
As I’ve said before, what they are arguing boils down to the vaccine doesn’t work.
Somebody quipped a few weeks ago about dart guns. I can envision that.
That was Pie.
Everyone here will be familiar with that decision but he’s talking to a much wider audience. You know, morons.
Sometimes I forget Tucker is a showman first.
No. I think it’s a fair point. He’s asking the correct legal question: if the govt can forcibly vaccinate you – which is what they’re claiming the authority/right to do, no matter how much lipstick they put on that pig – but if the fedgov can mandate that, then what can’t they do to you? The Jacobson decision was specifically cited by Holmes in the later Buck v. Bell decision, which produced the famous quotation Carlson noted. Holmes unequivocally justified the State’s ability to forcibly sterilize the “feeble-minded” on the same logic that justified forcible vaccination in Jacobson.
That’s not showmanship anymore than it would have been for a Jew to have asked: “If you can be dragged from your house and stuck on a train bound for some unknown destination by armed men in the night, what can’t they do to you?”
That’s always where this ends, no matter how hyperbolic it sounds in the lead-up. Once that rubicon is crossed, it’s crossed for good.
Once the govt collapsed small businesses over a bad flu season, what can’t they do next? Once courts closed in response to the govt’s phony pandemic, what justification must the govt use to close them again? You can go on and on across a variety of govt agencies and actions, but none of this is going in the right direction.
Once they used the FBI, CIA, State and DoJ (fairly openly) to go after a sitting President, what can’t they do to you?
The truth of it is that most people – even here – are simply hoping that they’re too small to be bothered with by the forces that emanate from DC. Or that they can wait this cycle out.
But what intervention will follow the pop of the next bubble? In education, for example.
Or the dollar. Who’s going to be left standing when the music stops on that song?
Or for the next pandemic? Or executive order? Is the Supreme Court going to safeguard our Liberty…? Will democrats even observe or follow a decision they don’t like or agree with? Will the next generation of military officers resign rather than violate posse comitatus?
Fuck
.
All I can muster
Right?!
Ouch. Succinct and right at my point, Ozy!
Ouch. Succinct and right at my point, Ozy!
Twice bitten, less shy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz61YQWZuYU
Will the people bother to lift a finger in response?
Y’know, I think I subconsciously assumed that the next economic downturn was gonna purge a lot of this BS, either because tyrants would overplay their hand and get smacked down by the people or because their initiatives would become untenable. I missed the third option of them using it as an opportunity to fully subjugate the mostly willing masses.
Sorry CA glibs
https://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/2021/07/oregon-wildfire-robs-california-of-critical-electricity-supply-from-pacific-northwest-during-heatwave.html
But The China Syndrome! Fucking idiots.
Maybe stop relying on other states for your power.
/signed Nevada
And water.
It’s just one of the scams they use to achieve the minimum amout of “renewable” energy. Imported power doesn’t count towards the total. “See! We’ve acheived our goals!”
Looks like Conor McGregor will be selling whiskey from a wheelchair for a bit.
Got his ass plattered again? I used to know a guy from one of the dive bars that would never back down from a fight. His motto was “You might get dinner but I’ll get a sandwich!” I punched him in the head one time and it felt all punky and soft. Bouncers were there and probably saved my ass.
In the first round he stepped backward, his foot went under him wrong, and his ankle literally folded in half. It was gruesome.
Yuck! Will not view.
In happier news, Judi’s car is tuned and ready for her hiking trip and I only had to add about a thousand dollars to the Swear Jar. Her poor hand still looks inflated but she is bound and determined.
I needed a breaker bar to remove the oil plug and had to send her up to the parts store for a special tool to remove the oil filter. I’m not convinced that the last place she went to even changed the oil at all. 3000 miles and blacker than Ace of Spades it was. They ripped her off. I told her in no uncertain terms that from now on I’ll be twisting the wrenches around here.
A breaker bar on the drain plug? Did they screw it in with an impact ?
Wouldn’t surprise me. Seems to be fairly common at the quick lube places. After all, the next guy is just gonna take it off with an impact gun, right?
Euphemism?
I read that as wenches…
suh’ fam ?
yo whats goody yo
I have no idea.
*points to crotch*
*backs slowly out of the chatroom*
Johnsonville Sausage…STRIPS
Like bacon, only its sausage. Gonna change your life.
That sounds yummy. Our local pizza-pie parlor slices their sausage lengthwise so you get long flat strips on your sausage pies; I like it.
They are a Cornhole sponsor.
Sigh… I had an I’m getting old moment last night. I was watching Freaky Friday and instead of lusting after young Jody Foster (Hinckley was on to something), I was struck by how hot Barbara Harris was.
My moment happened around 15 years ago. I was with the Ms. X (the baby-mama) at a graduation party for her nephew. A fight broke out and I was stupid enough to break up 2 alcohol-fueled teens. After I’d strong-armed her nephew into a corner (some dude grabbed the other guy), I walked away. The kid was mad I may have stolen his glory, and behind me I heard “I just want to know who the fuckin’ old dude* with the 40 oz and flannel shirt was!”
*Spoiler- that was me.
I sense a lot of anxiety and despair here about forced vaccinations and vaccine passports and the like. I know. I feel it too.
But listen to the people promoting it, like in Winston’s link above. They’re desperate, and they’re coming unglued, because they know they are losing.
But they are also in power. Bad combination.
Chip – even while I’m the guy sounding the alarm, I tend to agree with you. We just moved into our new place in a great neighborhood. The neighbors are all (with one exception) broadly speaking ‘conservative’ and know that what they’re seeing is horseshit. They are also likewise a-skeert of what happens with the door-to-door vaxxing. It came up last night over some late night spirits (they asked me – no BS).
Yes, the Biden-Harris Admin (God, how awful is that?!) is unquestionably shitting themselves a pickle because people aren’t running out to do as their told. We don’t respect their authoritah enough yet. I honestly believe that in the Us v. Them it’s more in Our favor than against – BUT, they have control of the organs of the state and the Media.
The question really is will enough people bow up AND will enough watchers-but-supporters be galvanized when that event finally comes where people feel the need to take sides.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rzkoQFbzmOk
Cover ?
Had to stand in a Mall yesterday for a few hours. I forgot how much girls can fit in to such little pieces of clothing.
Are you talking q-approved or landwhales here?
It was a mall, in Arlington Texas. It was all over the place, pun intended.
Meanwhile… back at the Ranch:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-michael-avenatti-prison-sentence-coverage
Reverse nut-punch
https://www.wfmz.com/news/myanmar-caught-off-guard-as-cases-surge-oxygen-dwindles/article_f2e0d287-0aff-5c92-ac05-9aefe67d37b6.html
Oxygen shortages.
Too much CNN?
https://www.businessinsider.com/american-airlines-woman-duct-taped-seat-after-attacking-plane-crew-2021-7
Cause I’m a rocket man!
https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-science-spacex-richard-branson-37fd721264b1421f8a1223ee5e5626e3
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/lTSWdHY9Ny4
Goddammit, that was for Sean.
*lunges for coffee gloves*
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Good morning Cy, Sean, Chip, l0, Tres, rhy, & U (plus late entrant TH! And to any lurkers, come out, come out, wherever you are!) All is peaceful, if a trifle damp, at Tranq Base this morning. Happily, today I have no obligations except Sunday brunch! ::settles in for the morning::
Morning.
☕?
Iced light mocha latte in the “‘Sarcasm’ Queen” mug my sister gave me for Christmas. Use it out here because it’s a little larger than my other mugs, and I won’t mind if it gets broken. (I’m not sarcastic! I have a scintillating wit! ::pouts::)
It’s better than just a scintilla of wit.
😀
G’morning! I’m up at the asscrack of dawn getting ready to go to church. Early service. *sigh*
I didn’t know the numbers got so low on the clock on a Sunday.
Still fuming about being stood up for the car delivery yesterday. Some poor call center worker is gonna get it tomorrow morning.
I’m just glad they put a 5 minute call maze in front of the 10 minute wait time so that you can get adequately re-spun up before you get to talk to some powerless little punching bag.
‘Murica!
*Hat tip*
I dont know if its raining over there, but it was here just a bit ago.
Hiya.
I’m here.
I’ll have to check the radar to see if the scattered showers/storms stay away from here long enough to take the dog for a walk.
There’s a lot of water on the trails from all the rain we had this week, but the dog doesn’t care.
Good morning, Ted’S! If the trails are wet, be sure you both wear your rubbers!