I was compelled to talk to a friend of mine on Sunday. While I merely served two tours in Iraq, he had multiple deployments to Afghanistan, the most entertaining of which was one where was embedded with an Army Special Forces unit as an engineer. I just wanted to make sure he was doing okay. So when I asked for his take his response was actually fairly helpful:
”Have you considered not giving a shit?”
My friend is doing just fine. Now for the links!
This probably says more about the state of both countries economies rather than Bitcoin mining costs, but I am not about to do the math on it.
So this is a shark encounter, not an attack, right?
5th Circuit: “Maybe that Orange guy was onto something.”
NBC: “Experts say the COVID surge isn’t due to migrants.” On the exact… same …NBC …homepage: “18% of migrants leaving CPB custody are COVID positive.”
Sadly, it has nothing to do with squirrels. Fear not, Mexico is sending aid so we don’t have to. Wait, what am I saying?
A real dictator wouldn’t have an election at all.
Here’s some tunes. Have a great day.
“This probably says more about the state of both countries economies rather than Bitcoin mining costs, but I am not about to do the math on it.”
I’m sure Brazil sinks more carbon.
bitcoinnuclear solves this.The same people who protested against nuclear power protest against climate change.
Fossil fuel companies too.
It should also be noted that Brazil gets most of its electricity from hydroelectric sources (a smart choice in a country with so many rivers), which AFAIK does not produce carbon dioxide as a by-product. Hydroelectric power is the unsung hero of the “green energy revolution”, as almost all countries that produce over 50% of their annual power consumption from green sources get the majority of their power from hydroelectric and geothermal power plants.
Except the greenies don’t see hydro as a “renewable”, because it kills fish.
They don’t see it as renewable because it actually works.
”Have you considered not giving a shit?”
So say we all
I still give a shit.
“Look around, see for yourself.
He led us down and at the water’s edge we knelt.
Petals in the lake and red upon my face,
She’s crying as we pray.
And it all comes down to money, again.
How could you forsake the love of god that way?
Don’t fade, you’re staying here with me.
Don’t fade, I need to know that someone still believes.”
I understand still giving a shift for friends and colleagues or humanity in general. So this is a genuine question (I may have missed as I sometimes skim through stuff); What’s your opinion on what should have been done? I mean if we assume we can’t change the past, so we’re in the situation in Afghanistan that we’ve been in for the last year. What’s our out, assuming we need an out?
I am not going to stop caring about Waheed, my ‘terp and his family. Zabiullah and Jaweed, my Kabul guys. Kabir Ahmad, my Afghan lawyer friend. SGT Jalill, outside Bagram. Aziz, the guy who had me in for tea at noon during Ramadan, and I asked him – “Won’t this be trouble?” and he replied “Pffft. Mullahs.” while making a dismissive hand gesture. General Syed Kahli’s family (he got blowed up by a suicide bomber a while back). Engineer Zarar, who just wanted to build an 8,000 person stadium in Charikar so people could see sports and music and such?
I can’t find out about any of them.
I will give what I can to help get them out, one way or the other.
I. Give. A. Shit.
I’ll admit to vaccillating between giving a shit and not giving a shit. I don’t think that “not giving a shit” is exactly right, though. More like detaching myself from a horrible situation over which I have no control or appropriate context. On the other hand, the casual tossing away of so many lives is brought into focus in a way I haven’t seen in a long time. Foreign policy matters. I know I’ve discussed why I put it way down on my priority list in the past, but I’m re-evaluating.
You give a shit about specific people, not the country as a whole.
“So this is a shark encounter, not an attack, right?”
It’s a “boneless fish event”.
Band name.
Shark Encounter or Boneless Fish Event?
Boneless Fish Event
Canoe with float bag and paddle?
Who doesn’t like a solid boat with some steady outriggers?
Some people like monohulls. I don’t judge.
Whitewater paddlers?
HEY NOW.
NBC: “Experts say the COVID surge isn’t due to migrants.” On the exact… same …NBC …homepage: “18% of migrants leaving CPB custody are COVID positive.”
New narrative. Don’t worry about them, it is your unvaccinated scourge that is what we need to purge
“‘F*** that. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it in Vietnam’: What Biden told Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan he thought of America’s obligations to the Afghan people”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9901577/F-k-Biden-told-Obamas-special-representative-Afghanistan-obligations.html
CWAA
Meh…like all reports, I find it suspect. Though someone’s name is attached to this one.
I think I actually believe them. They want us out, they don’t want people in country who would be unhappy or prone to working against them, and they do not want to give anyone an excuse to roll back in hot on them.
It’s in their best interests to ensure the smoothest and quickest evacuation possible.
I do not believe them.
What do you think their motivation would be to lie about it?
I am torn. I don’t think they want us there but if they sense weakness…well…why would they worry?
The Biden admin reeks of weakness.
They’re gonna show off some might, get some street cred as it were.
I think they just want us gone and the quickest way to make that happen is to let us leave unmolested and not to provoke us for a while.
*shrug*
Vengeance. From the Taliban’s point of view, they have been in hiding from a foreign occupier for 20 years. Collaborators don’t typically fare well after their protecting occupier leaves.
See: The Scorpion and the Frog
Maybe US citizens…but what about “collaborators”?
I think the Taliban leadership is smart enough to realize that revenge killings are the quickest way to invite a foreign intervention. Maybe I’m wrong, but they have to realize the smart play is to let everyone go and consolidate their power for now. The US has publicized that they intend to evacuate a bunch of people on special visas, which is as much a message to the Taliban as to the evacuees.
Is the smart play to be murderous Islamic fundamentalists? I hope I am wrong, but the “collaborators” are dead people walking in my mind.
I guess what I mean is that they’ll allow whoever wants to leave to leave with the Americans. They’ll spend some months consolidating power. A year or so down the road when all the thinkpieces have been written on how it wasn’t so bad, the retributions will come. They won’t take their eye off any collaborators who stay behind. At that point, the political calculus in the US will be preparing for the midterms, and no one is going to want to put troops back in at that point, nor will anyone campaign on it seriously.
You’re giving these goat fuckers a LOT more 3D chess cred than I think they deserve.
Nixon wasn’t in power when the North steamrolled the South, and if not for Watergate it’s entirely possible if not likely that he keeps his word and bombs the shit out of the North’s forces.
“Gal Gadot pumps breast milk as she gets glammed up in the makeup chair… less than two months after giving birth to baby number three”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9902413/Gal-Gadot-pumps-milk-gets-glammed-makeup-chair.html
To be honest, I’m sure there are plenty of people happy to do that for her.
Count supplying us with all the gossip trash we can endure.
“Squad member and cancel rent advocate Ayanna Pressley received up to $15,000 in rental income last year from a Massachusetts property, financial disclosure reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9901843/Ayanna-Pressley-received-15-000-rental-income-year-Massachusetts-property.html
Squad is asshoe.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/17/poll-support-afghanistan-withdrawal-plummets-double-digits/
…as planned
Interesting take, seriously.
So clearly, people that are polled on this subject tend not to think logically about expected consequences, and/or are woefully uninformed about history and/or the current situation.
Oh, by the way, scroll to the bottom of the article and watch the video comparing what Biden said yesterday to what he said in 2003 about nation building.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/17/poll-support-afghanistan-withdrawal-plummets-double-digits/ I’d link to the video itself if I could figure out how.
Do you want to be perpetually be one of the cool kids and always have the latest in electronics?
Nura
Starting at just $5/month you can rent a set of wireless earbuds. Want to step that up? For only $9.99/month you can get a pair of wireless headphones. (Note there is a $19 one time fee as well.)
But wait in just 24 months you can get a completely new device as well. What a deal. Act now Glibs!
No thank you.
I’ll remain uncool, as is my habit.
So Rent-A-Center is rebranding?
It sure looks like their business model.
‘Exploiting stupid people’ is a tried-and-true way to get rich. I can’t really criticize.
Their business model took over software.
“You will own nothing, and be happy.”
Uhh, can’t you do this with all of the cell phone providers? They won’t even charge the one time fee.
The natural progression of the insta-gratification/on-demand crowd.
FFS, one of the local t-shirt shops has on their website the option to get a payment plan. For a t-shirt…
Financial literacy is dead
Are they selling expensive T-shirts? Why would anyone even think of getting a payment plan for an article of clothing? The payment plan is the credit card you charge it to.
$28 at regular price. Or four easy payments of $7 through someone else (who I’m sure has no convenience or payment fee). I checked some of their sale price shirts, and they also had the payment plans offered on them. They do have some moderately expensive things (jackets, windbreakers, and the like), but nothing that would require a payment plan.
That’s crazy. I can only assume the customers who go for that are people who are really bad with money, to the point they can’t even get a credit card.
It’s the return of layaway. Plus the old tv offers
Thanks for the lynx, Señor!
That’s some fine journolisming there. Although props should probably be given for ‘rumor’ versus ‘a source familiar with the situation’.
Your song selection brings back good memories. Thanks!
Sounds like a covid death to me. I blame DeSantis.
Your song selection brings back good memories
Thank you, I wasn’t up for men in boxes, snuffing roosters, while sitting on angry chairs.
Good choice MS. I saw them about 4 years ago. They put on a great show.
I saw a video last month about the last few years of Layne Staleys life, just rotting away in his apartment. So sad.
Yeah thats why I tend to avoid Alice in Chains.
NBC: “Experts say the COVID surge isn’t due to migrants.” On the exact… same …NBC …homepage: “18% of migrants leaving CPB custody are COVID positive.”
Ship them to New Zealand / Australia.
L0b0t posted this in the previous thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qaTRwq-IRc
Worth some discussion. Very nice rifle.
I’m probably alone in my opinion that the U.S. Rifle M1 was kind of a piece of crap, even by the standards of WWII battle rifles.
Ian’s Tanker is a nice example, though.
I’ll say the M1 Garand is not the greatest battle rifle of all time, but I think it was better than the other main battle rifles in the Second World War. Only the Lee-Enfield had comparable sights (yuck on notch sights), and the Lee-Enfield had more rounds. But the M1 could shoot faster than any of the others, especially in the hands of less well-trained troops. Quantity is a quality all its own.
Sherman agrees
If we’re talking greatest battle rifle of all time, I’d make the case for the FAL. It came at the end of the era of the battle rifle, though, so it saw most of its action in small scale warfare. They’re still out there being used.
FALs are weird. They’re mediocre guns by every metric, even compared to other Vietnam-era 7.62mm battle rifles. But for some reason, they’re just so much fun to shoot, that the metrics just don’t matter.
I wouldn’t say they’re mediocre by every metric. I think they beat the M14 ergonomically. I have one that prints a half minute of angle with the right ammo–and that’s not even custom. They’re cheaper to manufacture than an M14 (probably not cheaper than a G3, but maybe). Built like a brick shithouse and AFAIK, quite reliable if cared for, which also applies to the others I’ve mentioned.
Dude, if you have an FAL that will print 1/2″ groups at 100 yards with *anything*, hang on to it. You have a unicorn. Most FALs are 3″ guns on a good day.
I agree with you about the ergonomics – the FALs are excellent. But I don’t think that ergonomics are all that important, obvious abominations like the G3 charging handle to one side. Anything has great ergonomics if you practice enough with it…
When I say it’s not custom, I mean it’s a *little* custom–I did some trigger work on it and re-crowned the barrel. Simply putting a good crown on the barrel took it from 2″ to an 1″, no joke.
I was shooting my friend’s 03 Springfield last week at the 500 meter gong. Excellent trigger. Horrible, horrible sights. I don’t know who thought it would be a good idea to graduate them all the way out to 2700 yards. And if you tried to set the sights in combat conditions, god help you. I could barely see the tiny markings well enough to judge between 400 and 600 yards, way down at the bottom of the ladder. No detents, so as soon as you started tightening down the thumbscrew, the sight changed position. What a mess.
Otherwise, the rifle was great.
If the enemy would huddle up and stand still, 2700 is possible with iron sights.
I know it’s possible, but it’s not terribly practical. It’s area effect only in that era with open sights.
That’s basically what the British did with the volley sights on Lee-Metfords and early Lee-Enfields. The idea was the rifles had a dedicated volley sight so the soldiers, en-mass, could shoot at long range with the rifle on their shoulder, and the unit would act like an artillery unit.
I checked mine which have volley sights (Lee-Metford Mk II, MLE Mk I, CLLE Mk I*, SMLE Mk I***). All are marked to 2800 yards.
I have a vague memory that the British actually put these sights to use in Africa. I want to say in Sudan and firing at about 2500 yards with the Lee-Metford (black powder rounds).
If we’re talking sustained fire, I bet a decent shooter with a SMLE could keep up with an M1, at least. The SMLE is also lighter, more accurate, and more reliable in very austere conditions.
I wouldn’t call the SMLE more accurate than the Garand. The No. 4 maybe, but not the SMLE. The SMLE is just too finicky and too tough to tune. That was a big motivator behind the design of the No. 4.
Both were main battle rifles in the Second World War. The Brits didn’t start making the No. 4 for widespread troop use until after the war started, ’40 or ’41 if I remember correctly. In the Commonwealth only the Canadians used the No. 4 during the war, and then only after they started production. Many of both the Brit and Canadian troops continued to use the SMLE during the war. The rest of the Commonwealth only had the SMLE because it is what they, at Ishapore and Lithgow, were producing. The Brits didn’t give the rest of the Commonwealth the No. 4 until after the war.
Bloke on the Range has a series of Mad Minute videos using various rifles. The SMLE Mk III and No. 4 are up at the top for the bolt action rifles, but he said the No. 4 (and I think the SMLE would be the same) was actually quite tiring to shoot fast. The Schmidt-Rubin K-31 was about as fast as the Lee-Enfields, but he said was much easier to shoot fast and much less exhausting than both the Lee-Enfields. The M1 Garand? Trivial to shoot fast and nowhere near as tiring as the bolt action rifles.
Bloke brought Lindybeige in for a Mad Minute run. According to Bloke, Lindybeige had hardly done any shooting before this, and so Bloke had to give him some pointers. The after-shoot analysis shows a huge difference in rate of fire between the M1 Garand and No. 4 for Lindybeige. If I remember correctly, the difference between those two rifles was bigger for Lindybeige than it was for Bloke, hence my “less well-trained” comment.
Well, I don’t think it was a piece of crap, but it was the best they had at the time. The Johnson rifle would have been better, but it came too late.
The M1 has its major issues, but, hey, it was developed in the early to mid 1930s. It was way ahead of its time.
That is an amazing picture from Haiti.
By amazing, mean sad.
Nice city.
There has to be a BIPOC who isn’t a Dem bootlicker who is willing to sue this thing into the last century because racist. Who will be that BIPOC?
Oh, they’ll let the BIPOC in. They’ll just have to use a separate entrance.
Lol
I’m expecting a study to come out soon showing that Covid is mostly spread by unvaxxed wypipo, and unvaxxed BIPOC are not a significant factor in the spread because
reasonsScience™.Pretty sure this won’t stand up in court.
Justice Penaltax would like a word with you.
From what officials could see, the body was that of a bearded man with tattoos.
That narrows it down.
Professional Chef?
Greaser?
Punk?
Brewer?
Im going with brewer
Making oyster stout?
I need to know hat size to be certain.
And is it a fedora or trilby?
There’s a difference?
heathen
Former Clinton associate?
Oh, well then. Nothing to see here.
Then how did he get elected? *mindsplodes*
NBC: “Experts say the COVID surge isn’t due to migrants.” On the exact… same …NBC …homepage: “18% of migrants leaving CPB custody are COVID positive.”
How difficult is this for anyone to understand. Nobody really believes the “surge” is driven by immigration. It’s the utter disingenuousness of demanding absolute adherence to the “experts'” policy dictates while they permit things that they like that run directly counter to their stated aims. It’s comparable to the “COVID doesn’t get picked up at BLM protests” nonsense they were touting last year. Any sane person knew the protests were no medically different from any other large gathering. But because they approved of them, meh.
Viruses don’t spread while on siesta. That’s just Science. Hail Science!
NBC News is worse than CNN in a lot of regards.
Time to convert to Islam and move to Kabul.
LOL they’re learned how to throw our BS back at us just like every other tyrant on Earth.
Back in the seventies there was this sense that we had to do better about things to conspicuously prove to the Soviets and their clients that we were better than they. I think we could work the “Be better than the ‘Ban” angle.
Sometimes I wonder if the fall of the USSR destroyed freedom because the West no longer had an existential threat.
The American liberals before WWII constantly attacked Britain.
The classical liberals, especially the English ones, constantly attacked France, Spain, Austria, Italy and the Catholic Church.
During the early 20th century it was common to attack Tsarist Russia. Then we had imperial Germany and later Nazi Germany.
And after the USSR, nothing comparable. Food for thought…
Complexity Theory argues that the most universally beneficial systems are those dominated by two equally matched competitors. Add a third, it crumbles. Likewise if one of the two wins.
The West had no existential threat prior to 1914 – it still managed to self-destruct.
Facebook banned Trump but not them…
Based.
Why Haiti is prone to devastating earthquakes
Near a fault line and shoddy building construction?
Shhhh. It is because of our HAARP network and our seeding the clouds with C-130s out of Biloxi
Mother fucking squirrels!
Stolen from a DerpBook friend (who’s not derpy)
Think of ABBOTT AND COSTELLO’S “WHO’S ON FIRST.”
Bud: ‘You can’t come in here!’
Lou: ‘Why not?’
Bud: ‘Well because you’re unvaccinated.’
Lou: ‘But I’m not sick.’
Bud: ‘It doesn’t matter.’
Lou: ‘Well, why does that guy get to go in?’
Bud: ‘Because he’s vaccinated.’
Lou: ‘But he’s sick!’
Bud: ‘It’s alright. Everyone in here is vaccinated.’
Lou: ‘Wait a minute. Are you saying everyone in there is vaccinated?’
Bud: ‘Yes.’
Lou: ‘So then why can’t I go in there if everyone is vaccinated?’
Bud: ‘Because you’ll make them sick.’
Lou: ‘How will I make them sick if I’m NOT sick and they’re vaccinated.’
Bud: ‘Because you’re unvaccinated.’
Lou: ‘But they’re vaccinated.’
Bud: ‘But they can still get sick.’
Lou: ‘So what the heck does the vaccine do?’
Bud: ‘It vaccinates.’
Lou: ‘So vaccinated people can’t spread covid?’
Bud: ‘Oh no. They can spread covid just as easily as an unvaccinated person.’
Lou: ‘I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore. Look. I’m not sick.
Bud: ‘Ok.’
Lou: ‘And the guy you let in IS sick.’
Bud: ‘That’s right.’
Lou: ‘And everybody in there can still get sick even though they’re vaccinated.’
Bud: ‘Certainly.’
Lou: ‘So why can’t I go in again?’
Bud: ‘Because you’re unvaccinated.’
Lou: ‘I’m not asking who’s vaccinated or not!’
Bud: ‘I’m just telling you how it is.’
Lou: ‘Nevermind. I’ll just put on my mask.’
Bud: ‘That’s fine.’
Lou: ‘Now I can go in?’
Bud: ‘Absolutely not?’
Lou: ‘But I have a mask!’
Bud: ‘Doesn’t matter.’
Lou: ‘I was able to come in here yesterday with a mask.’
Bud: ‘I know.’
Lou: So why can’t I come in here today with a mask? ….If you say ‘because I’m unvaccinated’ again, I’ll break your arm.’
Bud: ‘Take it easy buddy.’
Lou: ‘So the mask is no good anymore.’
Bud: ‘No, it’s still good.’
Lou: ‘But I can’t come in?’
Bud: ‘Correct.’
Lou: ‘Why not?’
Bud: ‘Because you’re unvaccinated.’
Lou: ‘But the mask prevents the germs from getting out.’
Bud: ‘Yes, but people can still catch your germs.’
Lou: ‘But they’re all vaccinated.’
Bud: ‘Yes, but they can still get sick.’
Lou: ‘But I’m not sick!!’
Bud: ‘You can still get them sick.’
Lou: ‘So then masks don’t work!’
Bud: ‘Masks work quite well.’
Lou: ‘So how in the heck can I get vaccinated people sick if I’m not sick and masks work?’
Bud: ‘Third base.’
Nice. That is exactly what we’re dealing with.
<3
That’s basically what they’re calling, “The Science.”
Copy/pasting shortly
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has suffered a defeat in Congress, after his plan to change the current electronic voting system in elections to one with a paper trail failed.
The proposal fell well short of the three-fifth majority required for a
This attempt at election integrity is white-supremacy.
Mr Bolsonaro, who is planning to run for a second term next year, says the current system is open to fraud.
The electoral tribunal has dismissed the allegation as “disinformation”.
This sounds familiar. . .
It is somewhat amazing to me how quickly the hive mind have settled on the idea that untraceable, easily hacked electronic voting = Democracy while tried-and-true, easily traceable paper votes = Fascism.
You can’t reason with the unreasonable.
This was supposed to go under comment 20…
Same as downtown brother
Hey Comment 20 is Comment 20!
I’ve received the mail-in ballot for the recall election for a friend who has moved to Europe and has had his mail forwarded to us. A few more of these and I’ll be able to swing the election.
So who are you going to swing it to?
STEVE SMITH
WHEN STEVE SMITH WIN, YOU RECALL NOTHING. AND BY WIN I MEAN…
Is NYC’s vaccine passports proof of the inherent libertarianism of urban life?
Some people call these strawmen, but I prefer to think of Winston as a modern day Don Quixote and libertarian cosmopolitanism as his windmills.
How about a strawman, seated atop a windmill, that Don Winstonxote is leveling his lance at?
Now THIS ^^^ whole exchange is why I come here.
Anywhere else you’d have to pay at least as much as they do downtown for this.
https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/1427435010387189762
CWAA
After seeing a real insurrection unfold, somehow they are even more convinced that 1/6 was one too.
One of these things is not like the other…but people are sheep and believe what they see.
Now do Antifa and Al Quada.
He’s running interference, getting the left primed to develop talking points ahead of all the right’s memes saying the opposite.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/17/joe-biden-and-the-american-malaise/
Interesting take…
The take that we don’t put our dick in every foreign townie doesn’t mean we don’t have a presence.
What’s wrong with sticking one’s dick in townies?
I assume they’d be less likely than co-eds to claim rape afterwards.
Isolationism, lol, sure…
Flag-waiving grannies and minotaur loons protesting for election integrity are the exact same as violent Islamofascists who’s goal is world-domination and global sharia law.
Their Taliban, our Taliban, everybody’s got a Taliban. They’re at their best when they confiscate the halls of power.
Because taking a pic with
Pelosi’sthe people’s lectern means you get to be speaker of the House…LOLOLOLOL
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@RogueSailor
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@MMFlint
These guys are their
Corporal Radars. Smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes
Smooth. I will follow you to the ends of the earth.
The rules of the US government are arcane. Did you know the size of the gavel you bring to the House floor determines how much authority you wield?
New Zealand is undergoing a new lockdown thanks to one case. Man that libertopia label held up well.
Down goes Strawman! Down goes Strawman!
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country
Top of the Freedom Index…
Holy Fucknuts!! WorldPopulationReview.com owns this site? That’s so wicked, I never knew!!!
https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/2020
Lol, here comes booster #1
So another conspiracy fact now?
I thought immuno-compromised people were not supposed to prick-up at all?
It depends. My thoughts are if you are on a general immuno-suppressant or a targeted immuno-suppressant for a respiratory condition, then you may be at greater risk from Covid than the vaccine.
For those on non-respiratory targeted suppressants, I’d be much more worried about an interaction with the vaccine than the risk from Covid. There have been reports of cytokine storms when people with autoimmune or autoinflammatory diseases receive the vaccine.
Apparently “immuno-compromised” covers a lot of territory. I know of somebody who got a booster (third shot) because he has a chronic heart condition.
Uhm… Errr… What?
If at first you don’t succeed try, try again because why the fuck not. They’ll be giving booster number two in six weeks.
Is Afghanistan bad within the normal parameters?
https://twitter.com/WorIdStarComedy/status/1426913017233563650
Impressive.
Natural answer
When I saw “World Star” in the URL, my mind went to this.
https://twitter.com/RealYungCripp/status/1426986833985015809
LOLOLOLOL
This new Twitter thing is annoying. I don’t want a goddamn account.
What’s the purpose of this?
I just hit the X and close it and can still see them. Or is it something else?
No, I can see the front page of tweets, but clicking on an individual tweet, it brings up the box, I click the X and it bounces me back.
Opening in a porn window (incognito) has been working for me
Yeah, that’s new.
I don’t see that (adblocked?) but I also can’t scroll up or down.
Shrug, no great loss.
I have had no issue viewing the twits posted here. So I don’t know what people are talking about.
Restarted the browser and it’s back to normal.
Yes, don’t keep cookies.
Joe Biden has not spoken to a single works leader since Kabul fell?!! Sounds like confirmation of his senility to me…
*single world leader*
TBF, all that the other leaders would learn from him is that he likes cake, so it’s not a big deal.
You know who would have taken a raft of TMITE shit he if had pulled that stunt. “Disrespecting our loyal allies, etc. etc.” But didn’t Joe speak to Boris this afternoon?
Titty Tuesday continues!
https://archive.is/vwOUm
Whenever i see Hope Solos name i think back to the “Fappening” when all the famous peoples phones were hacked.
I just wish i could ask her why she had so many close up pictures of her own asshole on her cellphone.
I can see one pic just to see what it looks like, but she had a bunch and i remember it being a little hairy too.
And Meghan Rapinoe is the worst ever.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/16/megan-rapinoe-hope-solo-anthem-protests-comments-almost-bully/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&tpcc%3D=newsletter&pnespid=lLh9rfVJBBONlztmylqGibPMNGqM4dQfxfN626BK
I’m feeling the need to look into this just to make sure you aren’t spreading fake stories.
Xhamster has the gallery. I a!ready fact checked him.
Did i remember right? Bunch of pics of her own anus right?
Certainly had multiple shots.
Okay. As much as I hate to admit it, THIS ^^^^ is also why I come here.
I couldn’t have gotten that information – or even known it existed – in an eternity on my own.
The GlibMind delivers… just not always in the way one might intend.
You go on OANN network and knock it out of the park, i keep you up to date on female soccer players assholes. We all play our part!
It looks inflamed…poor girl.
Chick has a pic of her asshoe put on the internet, and everyone piles on.
I mean, how can you be sure that it still looks the same? It could have changed while you weren’t looking…
Schroedinger’s starfish?
Now that I think about this, if you were going to take a picture of your own brown eye, you’d probably use the autodrive function on your phone. Just because most people wouldn’t know exactly where to hold the phone…
See, completely innocent explanation!
I think of her domestic violence case.
I guess I just assumed that she enjoys it in the backdoor and whomever the pics were initially intended for enjoyed giving it to her in the backdoor?
Not if it’s hairy. Having those little hairs pulled during penetration hurts.
Of course, there’s always the possibility that it was someone else’s pooper…
I take it you know this from experience?
Don’t say, “…take it,” around me, it’s triggering.
Rapinoe a bully? I’m shocked.
I watched one English game over last weekend – they’re still kneeling to BLM there. Shit’s never going to go away because only a racist would not kneel to BLM at a soccer match.
Damn the long knives are out for Biden.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9901577/F-k-Biden-told-Obamas-special-representative-Afghanistan-obligations.html
I’m really beginning to think they’re prepping for his “I need to step down for health reasons” moment.
Just waiting for the first disastrous fuckup maybe and this definitely fits the bill.
Never let a crisis go to waste, right?
What’s the timing around when Harris can only run for one additional full term as opposed to two if she becomes President prior to ’24? Isn’t there a cut-off date sometime?
Around the midterms I think.
The cut off is 2022. She becomes President before the 2022 inaugurations for Congress, she can only run for one more term. After 2022 inaugurations, she can run for two full terms starting in 2024.
Amendment 22. Kommiela can’t run for more than one additional term if she becomes president before Jan. 20, 2023.
That presumes the Dems want her around for 10 years.
“The BlackRock Investment Institute sees the pandemic accelerating a rewiring of globalization, with a bipolar U.S.-China world order at its center. We believe investors need exposure to both poles of growth.”
https://twitter.com/blackrock/status/1351961686857699330
https://mobile.twitter.com/BernardKerik/status/1427624668303876116
Redcon1 pulls money from Arnold’s events over the screw your freedom comments.
“Fuck you, asshole.”
“While Colbert’s commentary, as usual, is just warmed-over Pelosi-speak with an invisible veneer of “comedy,” it’s also revealing about liberalism:
They do believe the War on Terror should not end but be transferred to domestic politics, with Trump voters treated like Al Qaeda.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1427655349742538756
Colbert’s plugging some new show with that guy whose middle name is “Tha”, promising more “conversations about race”.
Warmed-over, indeed.
So, an idiot.
Not *an* idiot, *tha* idiot.
Fully-vaxxed Texas governor joins the casedemic.
Predictably, Twidiots are gleefully screeching “karma!” while every TMITE outlet mentions that Abbott signed legislation banning vax passports and mask mandates, because non sequiturs are fun gotcha moments if you don’t think about them.
Does this mean we can make fun of those who get sick in vax passport required states?
Somewhat related, I was listening to a talk show host yesterday morning (he’s moderately liberal type) raging about some woman who let her unsymptomatic son go to school two days after he tested positive for chicom-19. “And he came in contact with 80 fellow students. And the school board refused to bring charges!” No report on whether or not it is illegal in this particular state to allow your kid go to school if he has a cold or flu or something else contagious. Nor whether or not the 80 kids came down with chicom-19 or were seriously ill.
After a few back and forths with callers, the host recommended a class action law suit to “show the parents we mean business” or, and this started out humorously but soon became a
serious proposal “that we bring back the guillotine” for folks like them.
How exactly does the motherfucking SCHOOL BOARD bring charges against anyone?
In Woke postmodern America, federalism means school boards hold trials and judges create laws.
*L&O dun dun*
Abbott reportedly told others that he had received a booster shot, according to NBC News.
LOL. Triply-vaccinated!
More rain expected. However, if this had to happen, it’s perfect, least damage possible. Just need it fixed.
The rain may finally be stopping here tomorrow. We’re at rain 7 out of the past 9 days.
There have been no bike rides.
We’re at the time of year up here where it rains until it starts to snow.
How low is the termination dust?
I haven’t been up north in a few weeks, so couldn’t tell you about anywhere north of Talkeetna. We went down to Anchorage yesterday and I thought I saw a little on the Chugiaks, way up high.
I need it to stop, so I can fix water getting into my house. Very weird, coming through bottom two concrete steps in basement. I suspect I know where, but what a mess.
Area I’m in, most people have had basement floods and the like. Thankfully, place we’re at is at the top of the hills, but even then we need to get the sewer lines augured out about once a year (which is surprisingly covered by the city) to avoid some nasty backups in the basement. There’s a reason that even finished basements out here have industrial carpeting or tile floors.
first problem I’ve had, and it couldn’t have happened in a better spot. Concrete stairs with a drain at the bottom.
A lot of people have said on here for quite some time now that the military – and particularly its senior leadership – had likely been picked and promoted for their politics. And had been going that direction for a while.
I can’t say I have confidence in the truth or falsity of that statement personally; I just don’t know… BUT…
After what just happened in Afghanistan, it’s hard to argue that anyone at the JCS should still have a job after what just happened. I mean, HOLY FUCK.
The drawdown’s been coming for some time now – long past the time when there should be plans in place for some kind of contingency.
Which suggests to me that something else is going on here. Even those morons at the top have enough competent people around them who would have prepared for all kinds of departures, slow or hasty —- unless they never expected to be leaving.
I can’t help but wonder if what we’ve witnessed is evidence of something far… I don’t know… but probably worse, going on behind the scenes.
Careerism rules all. I still fear this just a foretaste of the dregs we haven’t yet gotten down to.
Re: the poor souls who fell off the C-17 taking off from Kabul.
There’s already some dark, twisted, too soon humor about it.
Damn… that’s tough.
Ima guess that dude wouldn’t have gone for the “Twin Towers” version the day after 9/11, but whatever. This is why we have the 1A. I laughed, too.
Me too. But only here where everyone knows and mostly accepts I’m an uncaring heartless asshole.
I got the email from the school district tonight with COVID-19 protocols. Masks will be required. Fuck me I’m in a foul mood now.
I told my three daughters that if schools require masks this upcoming year that they can be homeschooled until the madness stopped. Only one of them said theyd take me up on that idea.
My wife has proposed home schooling if the school returns to virtually learning.
So I was looking around just now for a new place to get a haircut and stumbled across this.
whut
Franz Joseph Gall would like a word.
I’d be interested to try it out. I have some unfortunate cowlicks that make for a tough time for the cosmetologist.
That’s probably the problem. You’re going to a cosmetologist instead of a barber…
I have a great deal on haircuts. You can’t beat the price, and I can flirt with the gal who cuts my hair and not get in trouble.
Yes, Mrs. Animal cuts my hair. I still wear a basic GI haircut, so it’s not too hard.
Mrs JI does my hair (what remains of a once luxurious mantle), cut with a #1. I suppose I could shave it but that seems like more maintenance.
Dennis Miller used to do that joke about what a MFer he would be when he lost his hair – yeah, that’s me.
When the girlfriend was trying to get a job at a hair salon, she asked to practice on me.
I pointed out that I shaved my head by myself, and would be a pour test case.
Jesus… I read that as “get a jab”.
I hate current year.
I’m cheap, and the barber has the same problem but costs twice as much.
That tatt-bump pic is a huge red flag for me.
But meh I’ve been cutting my own hair for decades anyway.
Posting again. Deadhead will be in DC later this week. I have made a 1pm reservation (which can be adjusted) at True Food on Saturday. DC and NOVA glibs, please contact me through the forum if you’d like to go.
As opposed to False Food?
Offers variety of vegan and vegetarian dishes. Adjusted for number of people above, I’ll keep 1pm.
And non-vegetarian
Okay, I have to ask – what is Deadhead? Aside from an empty truck, a fan of the Grateful Dead, or a particular strain of Cannabis Indica?
A glib. The long distance race competitor.
Oh. OH! I remember now.
Well, I feel like kind of an idiot…
Picked jalapenos today. Time to start the hot sauce
I’m doing jalapenos, onions, garlic and bell peppers. One green and one red.
We have a surprisingly good crop of tomatillos coming up (some are ready now), and the Early Girl tomatoes are doing well, but the Red OxHeart never did much of anything and the Manitobas all have blossom-end rot on them (and we did everything recommended to try to avoid that). Also a decent crop of basil (sweet and Genovese) for our pesto supply.
Damn. Makin’ myself hungry.
Hundred days not forever
TSA extends mask rule for airline passengers into January
*rummages around in junk drawer looking for shocked face*
My shocked face still hasn’t come back from major overhaul. Wore it out in the last few years.
Did I say 15 days to slow the spread? I meant 1500 days. Unless you let me down.
January of which year?
I’m tempted to poke the masknauts over at the other place but it’s fruitless. They’re so convinced of their righteousness that they are blind.
Florida Woman.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-arrested-lewd-jail-visit-inmate
+1 Midnight Express
A/C guy came today. He had a mask on. I said, “You don’t need to wear a mask here.” He said, “Oh, THANK you!!!”
Good on you Mo.?
The cleaning ladies keep wearing masks when they visit. I never told them anything. Too late now. Who knows, maybe they believe a mask protects them. They obviously see that I don’t wear a mask at home, unlike probably most of their clients.
I had a handyman in earlier too, looking at a plumbing issue. I didn’t say anything but now that I think about it, the mask did slip by the time he left and also on his second visit. Which was good because his English is worse than my Spanish – and I don’t speak Spanish at anything more than a 5th grade level.
I said, “You don’t need to wear a mask here.”
Good. I do the same thing when contractors come around and they’re wearing masks. So far, only one has kept his mask on.
Top five countries on the Freedom Index. WTF?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country
Uhhhhhh…*blinks* …hhhhhhhhhhhhh
Did the Reason Foundation buy them?
FWIW…based on discussions this afternoon (and because I was thinking about it after some previous discussions the last few weeks) – created a thread in the forum about church recommendations – for anyone interested.