No, not a Dead reference, though a great song. This is more literal. Yes, we knew it rained here, but holy shit, it’s truly been a day-in day-out thing. We had six inches of standing water in the shop basement, and some significant puddles in our home pantry. The hiking trails are mush. On the other hand, everything is green and beautiful, the weather is cool, and we can sit in our little solarium, sip adult beverages, and enjoy the sights and sounds. Most of the latter emanate from Wonder Dog, who is seeing deer, stoats, and woodchucks for the first time and feels an imperative to guard us by chasing them off with loud and angry sounds.
Speaking of loud and angry, there are a few birthdays today, including one of (((us))) whose work lives on at nearly all college campuses; a weird example of a celebrity musician being an incel; a fascinating guy who blurred scientific boundaries; another one of (((us))) whose work memorably lives on; a guy whose… diction was… famous for random… pauses; a guy who slept with Elizabeth Montgomery; a guy whom everyone thought he was good, but he was just a pretender; a Dr. Phil wannabe (at least Dr. Phil’s money) and might be one of us; and a guy who don’t play that.
So let’s, then, play Links, shall we?
How often can you keep dragging these stories out?
Flying needs to be even more onerous.
Jet fuel won’t melt steel beams.
Getting creative on tanking the economy.
Old Guy Music is from one of my favorite of the big bands, whom I saw for the first time live right around the time this video was made. And it also features my favorite jazz bassist, who taught a course in jazz history I was lucky enough to attend. Damn!
including one of (((us))) whose work lives on at nearly all college campuses;
Bob Scantron?
*clicks link*
Damn!
Speaking of water. We may end up with more claims in NY than LA from Ida.
I don’t doubt it. NY does have more ambulance chasers than LA.
I didn’t know Ida made it all the way to the Pacific.
“impose a $.20 per pound fee on the sale of virgin plastic.”
This won’t affect me. I generally prefer gently used plastic.
Mornin’, Old Man. Way too much water in that basement, hope you’re drying out. And what the fuck is a solarium? Asking for a friend
what the fuck is a solarium?
I’m picturing a greenhouse for people.
Pretty close. It was built onto the side of the house as a greenhouse, but we moved a small table and two chairs in.
I was picturing something like that, perched on the roof with windows on all sides and the top. Nice set-up.
Airplane Bungalow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_Bungalow
Sun room with a glass ceiling.
Glass ceiling? It must be broken.
Shut the fuck up
SloperGhostpatzer!Right back atcha, Neph. And thanks for hosting.
Fuck you. Cut spending.
h/t JsubD
I only go with 100% full-on Whore Plastic.
“Oh, shit!”
Vegan propaganda. ?
Eat more steak.
The three dead farmboy brothers story was local news around here. But by golly, stand on those bodies to condemn their way of life!
‘And if you crave social justice, as we all should, skipping animal products helps alleviate inequities, too. While marching for equal rights implies you care, ditching cheeseburgers and bacon shows you care even more.
Forty-five percent of front-line meat-processing workers in the United States are low income, 80 percent are people of color and 52 percent are immigrants—and they work in an industry plagued with horrific and often underreported injuries.’
Alleviate inequities for the poor and people of color by leaving them jobless, destitute, and dependent on government handouts for survival.
CWAC
And nothing is more important than “showing you care”. ?
Just had a talk with a lefty friend this week regarding masks and while he acknowledged they don’t really work, that was the gist of his argument – “if it makes your neighbor feel better, why not do it?”
That would make my blood boil. My response would be quite rude and crude. “You know what would me me feel better right now?”
And it is such a fucking wonder why progressives so often present as mentally ill. They’re expected to sacrifice everything they have and everything they are – body, mind, and soul – for the benefit of people who don’t know that they exist.
They remind me of the golem from Sir Terry’s accidental libertarian polemic Feet of Clay.
But I don’t care.
That’s the spirit!
Bacon.
Don’t mind if I do!
So… my bacon, egg, and cheese peirogi helped to kill the planet? Good.
Pan fried in ghee to add levels to the culture appropriation.
I’m cutting back. I only had a 14oz. ribeye last night.
I couldn’t watch Dan Rather during the 9/11 coverage – despite what the article says, I found him too emotional. Don’t remember if I checked out Brokaw, but to me Peter Jennings was the calmest & steadiest and therefore the most tolerable. WTF did he care? He was Canadian.
No journalist or news anchor was or is my “moral authority.”
Didn’t it all happen during the morning shows? Shouldn’t it be Matt Lauer and competitors rather than the evening news guys?
/didn’t get to see it live because it was “too scary for Jr high students”
I mostly watched coverage later in the day after I got home from work. ::feels incredibly old:: By then it was non-stop “XXX News Special Report” stuff.
They shut down Cleveland, after the second tower fell. I was working on the West side and still living on the East side. It made for one hell of a commute home
I was driving to the Franklin license bureau, and listening to Howard Stern’s play-by-play. They had TV’s on in the bureau. Why was I going to the license bureau? Cause in typical TresCool fashion, my birthday was 10 days earlier, which meant my license and registration had lapsed. Which in those days was a mostly annual event. I had to meet a client in Bellefontaine that afternoon, and driving up Rt. 4 I saw one of the real/decoy “doomsday planes” flying over Wright-Patt with no other air traffic. Kinda eerie.
I was listening to that recently but now I can’t find it for you. Gah!
I had my shortwave radio on at the time since a lot of broadcasters were still on SW. The first I heard was from the German-language broadcast of Deutsche Welle.
I was listening to the Howard Stern show as it was happening. Much different Howard Stern then. There was a lot of tough talk about going to get those “towel heads”.
At the time RA had slammed my ass hard. I was stuck in bed barely able to move….so watch TV was all I had to do. Yep, I saw it real time as it happened. I remember cursing the idiot newscasters.
“Yes, it is going to collapse. Ooops. There is another one. This is no accident. Holy shit there are people jumping out of the windows.
The heat is going to ruin the temper in the frames and yes, they are going to collapse……aaaand there they go.”
What a horror show that was. We have completely botched the response to it. I don’t know how we could have fucked it up worse.
That bunch, or their networks at least, were also cheerleading us into A’stan and Iraq. The mainstream press in general yearns for the return of their role as gatekeepers though and will always talk up the old days.
…yeah, Afghanistan was a fine war at first, what is your point?
I was a city block away working on Maiden lane. Watched some poor souls jumping from the building from an office window. I still remember the screams coming from some of the girls that were watching with me. Went outside, watched the first tower collapse, shit myself because the cloud of dust that rushed over everyone made me think all of the buildings were being taken down with it. Walked home over the Manhattan bridge, got high as shit and listened to my asshole Turkish girlfriend at the time while all she worried about was how everyone was going to hate Muslims now.
I didn’t make it to the office (120 Broadway). Was standing outside with my coffee and smoking a cigarette before going upstairs when it all went down and I walked home to Queens.
Yeah, I was in a 9 AM “National Defense Policy” poli sci course at Chapel Hill. Professor started the class saying that his wife had just called about a plane hitting a tower. He brought it up on the projector and we sat in that class the entire time.
At the end of that period, I think they canceled classes for the rest of the day. Think we saw the second plane hit during that first class and then walked over to the Journalism school where they had a wall of TVs and watched a few more hours before going back to apt.
I started watching it right before the second plane hit. My girlfriend came in and yelled, “We’re under attack!” all panicky. One of my good friend was in Boston and had to leap frog her way all the way back with rental cars. I think it took her all week. She might have been better off just waiting for the flight ban to be lifted.
BTW, the media was heavily biased back then, but they would report the facts and had some desire to avoid direct lies. They would just try and spin what happened with weasel words and insinuation. Once it was apparent to you, it was obvious how bad they were. Ask Stossel.
Yeah, all the guys I work with now – mostly retired at this point – have those stories…..”We were called in and the ships pulled out 2 hours later – and we got home 6 months later.”… or in some cases – stuck on the ground in Italy waiting for a week to get a flight home…., etc.
We were in a meeting room at Ft Bragg (HQ, US Army Special Operations Command) waiting for the Colonel to inform us of our shortcomings. One of my Majors came in and said a plane had hit the World Trade Tower so we turned on the TV while we waited. It was a clear day and we were speculating on how a pilot could have fucked up so badly when we saw the flash of a plane and the second explosion. We knew the country was being attacked and just looked at each other and the screen. A few minutes later the Colonel came in and said, “Gentlemen, we are at war. I don’t who with, but make no mistake, we are at war. Go prepare your people and this command.” Then we all left the room and started getting ready.
I lived near Raleigh and driving home that night I was struck with the fact in the approximately 50 miles I passed maybe three vehicles heading the other way.
I was not there, so my “where were you?” story seems self-indulgent.
Yeah, I was affected, but totally removed from the terror, so I really have no right to it.
The idea some news anchor is my guide or moral arbiter is ridiculous.
“At the meeting, Kim called on officials to “attain without fail” the planned grain production goal for the year and said it was necessary to “fully mobilize the labor force.””
Workers paradise !
“the planned grain production”
Trofim Lysenko approves.
He knows a good grift when he sees one. Though, I don’t know how many of his starving subjects can afford to double or triple their utility bills right now.
“Most Americans were guided through the unimaginable by one of three men: Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Peter Jennings of ABC and Dan Rather of CBS.”
Really? I don’t seem to recall seeing them downtown that day. I must be having a Biden moment
Most Americans don’t need guides. The wording shows the contempt.
If I needed a guide, I wouldn’t pick some useless media talking head.
OFFS!
When I finally made it home, I wasn’t watching any of those clowns. I was watching the local clowns.
See, I don’t understand how shakshuka isn’t a perfect short order dish at a place that’s already serving eggs.
While I don’t know the particulars of the kitchen at [redacted], assuming you don’t have the capability of having a pot of the sauce on a back burner…
1. Premake the sauce.
2. When an order comes in, nuke it, drop in a couple of eggs, stick under the salamander.
3. At worst, drop a couple of eggs for poaching, nuke the sauce, combine the two.
We have exactly two burners, in a tight space. No salamander. And both the flat-top and assembly stations completely swamped with assembling wraps and bowls, no way to run over to it every few seconds to check egg done-ness. This is not a restaurant, though sometimes we pretend to be. My ideal menu additions will be things that can be pre-prepped and then sold out of the case.
I did two experiments, which were well received: a curry flatbread with garbanzos, tomato, and feta (sold out quickly) and Szechuan cold peanut noodles. The latter never made it for sale yesterday- when I had the staff taste it to get feedback, it vanished in minutes.
If you can’t afford more burners you shouldn’t be in business.
/I’m sure some prog will come up with that argument.
Grab and go from a case is a good idea. Especially if you’re busy, that way you can get more through
Listen to the economist!
It’s delightful how fast the staff has latched onto the idea of simplification, logical workflow, and 80/20 for all our operations. We have a staff chatroom on Telegram, and in response to an inquiry about a customer request to add black beans to a breakfast burrito, one of the girls I work with regularly answered, “if u give a mouse a cookie he will ask why he can’t have a focaccia.”
I should add, besides no salamander, there’s no broiler. And the kitchen layout was designed by a masochist. I moved a round the few things I could, but unfortunately stuff is plumbed in and it would take at least $25k to redo the flattop and cold table the way they should be done. Far too much need for turning around and running back and forth from the ends of the prep and cooking areas. Oh, and no sink for handwashing, we need to use the dish sink. No space to put one in, either.
Don’t think restaurant, think food truck.
I’ve had shakshuka from a food truck. It was yummy. And not like those crepe/dosai food trucks where you place your order and wait a half hour for your food.
Now I’m wondering why shakshuka pizza hasn’t been a thing I’ve encountered.
Because it’s not pizza?
eggs on pizza is totally a thing
The slobbering over Brokaw, Rather, and Jennings was pretty vile.
Also, my keyboard is fooked. Bourbon and ginger ale do not mix well with wireless electronics.
“Bourbon and ginger ale”
Uh huh, sure.
https://c.tenor.com/hi0KjBC1zawAAAAd/randy-south-park.gif
That’s a lot of ectoplasm.
Mechanical keyboards FTW. Pop off all the keys, rinse it out (or wash it), wait for it to dry, and put keys back on.
I rinsed it off and buried it in silica gel overnight. Works, but produces wrong letters.
Membrane keyboard? Another couple of rinses may bring it back to working order. However attempting to pop off and replace the keys on a membrane keyboard end poorly. I have learned from personal experience.
logitech k800
Yeah. It’s a membrane, there’s still probably sugar/minerals that are causing input issues.
I have a lovely Lenovo Y70-70 touch (i7, 16 gb) that Jugsy has spilt things on far too many times. Now it operates off of a wireless keyboard.
Since it was her ‘gaming computer’, it was just replaced with a new MacBook Pro 16″. Wanna guess what the sticker is on that little gem ?
+1 America’s Mayor
Virgin Plastic: Trust the Dems to propose a hidden tax that’ll just be worked into the price of the various products that won’t be noticed by Joe Sixpack. Sleazy, sleazy, sleazy…
Oh, they’ll notice. They already can’t fail to notice what’s happened to their grocery bill this year.
The real question is will it affect their vote.
No, they’re sticking it to those greedy, fat cat, plastic manufacturers! They certainly won’t pass the cost on, would they?
Not just Joe Sixpack, don’t forget Susie Socialist.
For commodity plastics, that’s basically a 20% tax. And so much for “we’re only increasing taxes on people making over $400k.” This will hit every product used by us poors.
Just use virgin wood instead!
That’s what she said!
“and then the guy said, “its not so baaaaaaaaad!” “
“That’s wood, Emily. WOOD.”
“Oh. Never mind.”
The kind of wood that doesn’t float, amirite ?
So, Natalie Wood?
Robert Wagner knows.
I used to have a dumb web site slutwool.com. The tag line was “sweaters from sheep so hot and sexy that everyone wants one”
Was it big in Wales ?
Made from dust bunnies? Meaning of slut’s wool.
Stock up on dildos now!
Those aren’t plastic, they’re silicone!
That’s not a dil-do…its a dil-DONT.
For five cents a pound, I promise that I will make sure that your plastic is no longer virgin, and I’ll provide the pictures to prove it for the IRS. Just call and ask for the STEVE SMITH service.
That entire Americans for Tax Reform article is terrifying.
Newsweek has become complete trash. It used to be a sorta half-way decent rag.
I somehow had a subscription to that in HS. I can’t imagine that today.
I was gonna make a “Boy’s Life” joke, but Ill let it slide.
“Three Ohio brothers in their thirties died of asphyxiation while working in a manure pit last month.”
You got me, very sad indeed.
“And amid the raging pandemic, when those who have the least chance of surviving COVID-19 are those with underlying health conditions, now’s the perfect time to evaluate if it’s necessary to consume any animal products at all.”
Ah, and there it is. Go fuck yourself.
“Factory farms produce over a billion tons of this waste each year.”
That struck me as intentionally misleading, as if they were on a “factory farm”. I know the area, and the were on a large-ish family-run farm.
Most likely, some mega-farm run by a corporation would have had better waste control practices.
Then again, that’s just how I took it.
It’s all part of a plan to reduce meat consumption which is being driven by an alliance of animal welfare groups and greens. What they’re ultimately going to do is drive the price of meat sky-high through regulation. Meat will become a weekly luxury for many people.
Yep, and the 60% who pay no income taxes will get their ration for free.
I really wish we could at least chose the dystopian novels they were trying to use as guides. Why does it always have to be 1984 and Make Room! Make Room!?
Can you even imagine how woke a remake of Soylent Green would be?
I want my Soma and my orgy porgy.
Oh noes, a big number! That’s terrifying!
You have stoats?
That undoubtedly cuts down on the smaller wildlife.
Sorry for your poor drainage. The ground here is so sandy, the only time rain puddles form is in the spring when the ground is frozen.
“a guy who slept with Elizabeth Montgomery”
You are going to have to give us more than that to narrow things down a bit.
Her ? Or Him ?
It.
Yes.
RE: the header image, where was that taken? I thought the bigger Pride organizations were banning public displays of Judaism.
They’re rainegades.
I think that image was from Boston, a rally by an organization called “Keshet.”
so can we combine the two (hah!) into (((dykes))) ?
That pr0n has to be either the hottest or dullest available. Strap-ons through a sheet ?
She’s so nebbishy, yet so deviant. Ooh, la, la
How can you tell when a jewish woman has an orgasm ?
She drops her nail file.
/be here all week
Ooh la la
Relevant
gases from millions of gallons of urine and feces strewn with growth hormones, cleaning chemicals, blood, stillborn animals, random body parts, pus and vomit.
They should mandate masks in manure pits. Fixed.
SCBA, or at least pressurized masks.
Yeah, I think Doug TenNapel on his Audio Mullet podcast (somewhere in season 1) talked about his worst summer job – cleaning out rendered fat from a tank under some processing plant in the middle of the summer. Basically hell.
“Apple has delayed the rollout of the Child Safety Features that it announced last month following negative feedback, the company has today announced.”
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/
Sounds like they’re just going to try marketing this from another angle and maybe try some kind of incremental approach but good (for now).
^this is what will happen.
Good grief. Old Man WC. I woke up in a pretty good mood, but now you have tanked it by linking to motherfucking human stupidity and hamfisted power mongering.
On the other hand, I really like this place and (please God) might be able to bid on it next week.
https://click.mail.zillow.com/f/a/MQ7pYjL-o-x7PWWEpPxYHQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjFP0jP0UZZW1vLWNvc2hvcGhvbWVzYXZlZC1pbWFnZQRXBnppbGxvd0IKYTAjeDJh-OK941IYanVsZWlnaC5wZXJvbmFAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zillow.com%2Fhomedetails%2F62704702_zpid%2F%3FcoShoppingInviter%3DX1-ZUw2dtjg4hia6h_2dooi%26coShoppingInvitee%3DX1-ZUwgnmw0352qrt_a9fjw%26utm_source%3Demail%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Demo-coshophomesaved%26rtoken%3Db74f7c39-5fa8-41ce-9a06-ea0af6a5ae2f~X1-ZUwgnmw0352qrt_a9fjw%26utm_content%3Dimage
“{ “errors”: [ { “message”: “permission denied”, “code”: “1100” } ] }”
Sure has nice views.
Plus plenty of room for turret mounted shark launchers.
I dig the out buildings.
AKA orphan barracks.
For some reason, my first nerd impression was that it reminded me of a scene from GTA V.
I do not understand the first portion of your comment.
But yeah, I want a fucking mountain view if I’m living in the desert.
I wuz being sarc. The first time I clicked on the link, that’s what was returned. Now I’m getting the real deal and it does in fact have nice views.
The Zillow price history suggests its overpriced. Hot housing market?
Yes, very hot, but so is where I’m moving from which is why timing is everything.
I’m in process on a Zillow 360 application wherein we sell instantly to them and they implement the new house offer fully underwritten (good as cash) so we can pick a house and get er done.
Very nice.
That place looks awesome, good luck. I would kill for a covered front patio like that.
The thing I love about that town is that it’s not a town at all.
It’s something like 36 thousand people, but they refuse to incorporate. The council has tried to bring a measure over snd over to become a “city” and have a mayor and city board, but the residents overwhelmingly vote “Get Bent” and thus they remain a Census Designated Place.
They also sport a famous gun range and 2 semi-famous brothels.
America.
“2 semi-famous brothels”
Now we’re talking.
Are you semi-“retiring” or do you have some kind of work lined up there? How does Mr. Splosives feel about the move?
Dude, I ain’t retiring. Quite the contrary; I’m getting back to real work.
I’ll be on the Scorpius project, goal being to make sure America’s nuclear weapons stockpile is in good shape.
It’s remote work in the Nevada desert.
I’m pretty sure that this job is what God made me for.
https://www.nnss.gov/
https://www.nnss.gov/pages/News/news_JulySept2020.html
Awesome all around.
Did you have the sharp rusty can lids talk with Mr Splosive?
Scorpius project?
Ermgrghrd.
No.
Very nice, a little pricey, but nice. Do you have any idea what 400K would get you in Louisiana? I am not gonna tell you.
That’s a sweet looking place. I wouldn’t consider it “private” like the description claims, but everything is relative.
The “census designated place” feature is really cool.
Looks a lot like my cousin’s (relatively) new place outside of Prescott, AZ. T
They have horses and some other animals. Lots of land.
The airline industry has to be at the top of the list when it comes to businesses that bow and scrape to the govt whims. Of course they expect the govt to pay them dearly for enforcing their stupid diktats.
From their point of view it might not be a bad business strategy. All the airlines were losing money hand over fist before 9/11. After that, the govt subsidies put some real money in their ledgers. TSA and now mask bullshit pays.
It would be nice though to see the comeuppance of those flight attendants if airlines lost their govt grift and had to do something crazy like treat customers well.
Two words. Just 2.
Yune. Yuns.
Southwest still tries to be decent.
My favorite airline by far
I have to fly United to Vancouver this month. I haz disappoint.
Eggs Benedict for my birthday!
I think they’re making a cheesecake next.
Happy Birthday, DOOMy!
Reminds me – I have eggs left over from my batch of zucchini brownies, and TT won’t eat ’em. Might just have to scramble myself a couple.
Happy birthday, fellow September-tarian.
Happy Birthday, fellow Virgotian.
Bonne anniversaire, Virgo! I know a lot of Virgos, though apparently Libra is the most common sign.
CHEESECAKE FOR THE WIN!
Happy birthday.
I thought you preferred beefcake.
Eggs Benedict are always a good idea. And Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Sounds yummy and highly caloric, but cheesecake is worth every calorie.
I’m still underweight, so I could probably use seconds right?
“now’s the perfect time to evaluate if it’s necessary to consume any animal products at all”
Fuck. Off.
Factory farms are largely horrific I agree; but get off your damn soap box about it. “Let’s care about these poor brothers! I care about them so much that I’ll climb on their excrement-laden bodies to spout my political bullshit! (see what I did there?)”
“And if you crave social justice, as we all should”
I do not crave Communism, and neither should you.
Amen, Q .
How do they even square this with their openly racist PRO ABORTION views? Not pro choice; I’m being deliberate in that language. They are PRO. ABORTION, particularly for brown people.
I got one will be enjoying a tasty cow this weekend. I do pay more for Free Range because I grew up in Oklahoma where free range is standard. I only learned about feed lots when I moved to Minnesota.
That shit is evil. God entrusted Adam to take care of all the animals, including using then for food but also caring for them.
Animal husbandry has that name for a reason.
I have completed my evaluation. Now off to get more bacon.
Anybody notice the supply chain problems getting worse?
Yeah, wait times at work are getting longer. Lots of “well let’s see what shows up”
Yep. Outages and shortages are back at the grocery stores. One of the places I stopped at yesterday was almost out of bottled water. Which, if we were in the path of a hurricane, may make sense. Hurricanes rarely strike in northern Ohio.
“In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes rarely happen.” Sorry…
er, hardly ever. /blushes
We are now months out on Kraft paper.
Kraft paper, for Pete’s sake.
I’m a painter and my whole metro area is shockingly low on stock. It’s gotten to the point where my employer has to drive to multiple stores to hunt down particular types of base in order to keep us working. Hell, even getting something as simple primer is a challenge. He’s been reduced to going to places like Home Depot and Lowe’s to find a few gallons of it if he’s lucky. Not to mention that things like trim boards and wood panel siding are also getting more difficult to obtain for jobs and the price of both paint and lumber has increased at least twenty percent since last year.
It’s changed my shopping habits. I don’t even try to plan ahead any more; instead, whenever I am in a store, I buy anything that can be had at a reasonable price. Today’s prize: Bottom Round roast for $3.49/lb. Glad I bought that upright freezer before the apocalypse.
We effectively live in an Eastern Bloc country.
Yes. Steel is totally screwed.
Yeah. We’ve been fighting steel supply issues for months. One week it’s 1/4″ sheet, next week it’s 1′ round, on and on…
Galvanneal, strut, fittings.
I just got another 18% price increase from my strut supplier. FML.
Yep. Massive price increases. The tiny silver lining is that everyone from COO down to assembly line worker is getting a live education on how the global supply chain works and what it takes to make “stuff”. One that caught many of us off-guard was resin. We make attachments for Bobcat and many have electrical harnesses on them. We couldn’t get those harnesses for over a month because our supplier couldn’t get the resin they needed for the connectors. We had completed backhoes and stump grinders sitting there, just waiting for a stupid wire harness.
One of our resins went from a two week to three-month lead time.
This sucks.
Yeah…still got those insanely stupid tariffs going on for Canadian, Korean, etc Steel. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Re: 9-11. Are we sure Donald Trump wasn’t behind it? Columnist David Shribman’s musings today include the slam that, during the day of 9-11, Trump did a radio interview with a New York station and bragged that his 71 story building at 44 Wall street ‘was now the tallest.” While it sounds like something the Hat or Hair would say, knowing Shribman’s politics, he probably took it out of context.
It finally feels like fall, which means Itll be 90 again next week.
Refuse to let the phrase “Indian summer” get canceled!
Don’t you mean Guardian summer?
Looks like I’ll be dealing with upper 90’s to lower triple digits next week. At least I’ll be in a desert.
*throws rotting fruit*
“Indigenous People’s Temperate Season”
My dear husband was a bartender for decades and once was telling a patron a story in which he said “That guy was drunker than 700 Indians.”
A woman customer clutched pearls and said “You can’t say that!” To which my husband replied “I’m sorry. I meant that he was drunker than 700 native Americans.”
Embarrassing, I bet his face turned red. And, how.
?
Double pun. Nice.
We’re only hitting 80 once in the next week. ?
Silicone Saturday is as amazing as Radiohead sucks. Which is a lot. Like asymptotically infinite.
https://archive.li/yTjQk
I just saw someone exiting the shower. I may have some wood from that FUPA.
For Tres: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9955673/Lena-Dunham-strikes-pose-bikini-takes-advice-late-Nora-Ephron.html
Eye bleach.
https://archive.li/tvpYh/f1f1c8d989d040ae12b82b21edc7312ee2f805ec.jpg
To be fair, this is legitimately charming, if you know what/who Eloise* is, and brief. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4322280
*helps to be a straight woman or gay man
“Eloise” is unfamiliar to me.
I was expecting Cathy Guisewite.
gaaaak!
God, that strip was awful; ditto Sylvia. And CG was an attractive lady, judging by her Carson appearance.
Maybe twee, but funny. She is mischievous (likes to pour water down the mail chute). https://www.eloise.com/
Not always.
More eye bleach
https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/0656c022902759.5631a2ac2eef6.jpg
That gap up there? The space you can see through adjacent her “stench trench” ?
Thats called ‘factory air’.
Boner killer…..
Bless her heart…
Would, even tho she’s kinda petite for my tastes. Just vacuum her brain out.
Or a laryngectomy, as long as Ive had 3-4 shots and a couple of beers.
The other day I saw a woman so fat she had shoulder-blade boobs, and was wearing animal-print Lycra. But she was very friendly to my dog.
Did you get her number ?
/asking for a friend
She must have been four or five hundred lbs. I was wondering where she got said Lycra.
Sofa covers
This falls under the category of “why the fuck are you writing a tabloid about this?”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16045505/sick-hearing-husband-force-friend/
If nobody sees you suffering, are you really a victim?
His manhole can take a surprisingly intensepounding
Psalm 35:19-27
That’s a good one for Sabbath contemplation.
Thank you.
It’s almost as if the writer were divinely inspired…
CVS just refused to fill my prescription for ivermectin. The order came down yesterday to stop.
Apparently Rite-Aid and Walgreens are doing the same.
!
It was everything I could do to not utter a long string of profanities while standing at the counter.
I got a friend who’s cousin knows a guy @ Farm & Fleet……
I have a SHTF bottle. I would prefer not to have to use it.
wut
Relevant:
https://i.imgflip.com/5lveh3.jpg
“Yes, you finally made a monkey out of me…” ?
I saw the other day a post (not here) that read, roughly, “it is an indisputable fact that the United States is less corrupt today than it was in the 1800s”. As far as I can tell, this was meant seriously. I could not even muster a laugh at the bald-faced absurdity of the statement, because a glimpse into the mind of the average person is frightening in its implications.
King George’s England was less corrupt than the current US.
At least you knew who to blame in a monarchy. All the major pharmacies act in tandem, but there’s no law compelling them to, and no obvious force uniting them, so who can you blame? Who is there to be held accountable?
I’m going to assume that it’s the conglomeration of Pfizer, the FDA, and the NIH.
Nope. it’s the entire left. They are the ones who seized upon this virus to wrest control of everything. There’s a multitude of hangers on who are milking it too, but the first blame is on the dems and the deep state. This is their Reichstag fire.
Samuel warning of the depredations of a king that he’d take 10% in taxes.
Dr. Drew is not any kind of libertarian. He was on local radio for awhile and all he talks about is conservatorships. He wants the government to take over people’s lives. That’s his answer to homelessness. And he wants to forcibly put all drug users in rehab. I kinda liked him before I got to listen to him opine on these subjects. He thinks the homeless are just normal people who have a simple mental illness. No, they are mostly drug addicts who prefer getting high and laying around in tents on free property to working. Nobody should give any of them a dime, it’ll only make it easier to stay right where they are at. Stop letting them steal land and property and stop giving them free shit and I bet 90% of them will straighten out and get their act somewhat together. Keep shoveling money at them and you will just get more of them.
Oh, and even though there may be an occasional conservatorship that does some good, it’s mostly a scam to steal the wealth from people who are weird enough to qualify. Sometimes, they aren’t even all that weird, just really unlucky. Either way, everything they own is consumed by the conservator and they end up as inmates in an institution with nothing. It happened to my grandmother. She pretty much deserved it, but the people who did it to her were slimy lowlifes.
The conservatorship system is absolutely corrupt, particularly in states like California and Nevada where the fiscal and medical guardians can be the same person.
Drew, like Phil McGraw, is a performer more than a student of medicine. With the LA demographic, his insinuation that he isnt a dem/lib make him avant-garde, and open to conflict.
It draws them in. Any media is good media.
He seems kinda squishy. Fun to hear him curse though. And they don’t accuse callers of having been molested anymore (maybe they don’t take those calls these days).
Wouldn’t he agree with you on the addict part?
One of Doug Stanhope’s funniest and most savage bits is his absolute destruction of Dr. Drew Pinsky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYmiYnFg4M
BTW – similar to Hayeksxplosives post – not sure if anyone is planning to move to the FT Bragg area, but my aunt is trying to sell her old farmhouse there so she can retire to her cabin – not a great bathroom selection for a century plus old house, but she’s done a ton of work on the rest of it.
Maybe the forum is a better place to post the zillow link – might be another fun thread concept for that site portion too.
LOL @ Ted Wheeler
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9956947/Portland-considering-BANNING-Texas-imports-abortion-law.html
You would have to look pretty hard to find a more pathetic loser of a public figure.
I wonder if they realize that, of all businesses, Toyota Motors (TMMTX) has an assembly plant there. I dont know what the logistics/distribution is, but they could be cutting themselves off from some new cars. Not that grandstanding politicians care, but Toyota Dealerships may have a say.
Too bad Antifa didn’t immolate him
They have not thought through the logistics.
Typical DailyFail hyperbole. It’s just the usual ban on travel and business with Texas companies by the city government. Which will be loopholed if they need something bad enough or the supplier bribes enough.
No petroleum products? Gonna need a shitload of windmills.
National divorce is the only long-term solution.
Ya know, I’ve been pooh-poohing this notion since the TOS days, but… I’m coming around to it.
It’s much more plausible than ever.
(plausible in the sense of “only long-term solution”)
OFFS!
Well, I am off to the little city to view some street art and consume adult beverages. A little later than planned, but whatever.
What the fresh Hell is this shit?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3991322/posts
They want violence so that they can turn the low information masses against liberty once and for all.
ADL seems not to be in touch with (((their))) community. I worked with any number of (((them))) who had lots of entrepreneurs in the family. The complaints were always about the schwartzes stealing stuff, doing holdups, calling them filthy names, etc. Don’t remember any complaints about other white folks.
Nothing’s shocking anymore.
Max Delbrück, Son of Hans Delbrück: Scientist and Saint
The plastic tax, I can’t even….
Plastics have saved more lives and prevented more sickness than almost any other invention. Let’s make it harder to get.
I’m late to the show, Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/the-week-in-pictures-interwar-years-edition.php
Nice gallery, lol. “World’s most expensive nursing home”, indeed.
Brutal.
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/09/pe79bs8ppck71.jpg?w=640&ssl=1
This one is my favorite, right here.
Double brutal.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/09/RACISM-AMERICA-4.jpg?w=500&ssl=1
As expected, this Texas abortion thing is bringing out the worst on FB. I went there to post about my kid’s volleyball game and it’s all “We need to regulate men! Men should have no say i this!”
Everybody gets to have their own personal laws sounds great until you realize it’s a “for me but not for thee” scenario and the question is really one of power not personal autonomy.
Fortunately, I’ve already blocked most of those idiots over Trump and COVID.
The illegible caption on my New Yorker cartoon avatar is “I’m making a list of all the friends we’ve learned we can live without.”
No social media, no problem.
I quit social media for the same reason I quit smoking.
This is the only social media I use, You guys are my friends and family,
Yup. I had been giving Gab a try, but the signal to noise ratio is just as bad as Facebook, only with GOP morons and anti-semites instead of prog-fascists and anti-whites. Some moron blocked me for calling Republicans “paleo-progressives” ?
Premature submission.
I meant to add that the experiment lasted about 2 weeks, and I gave up this morning after yet another morning of sifting though garbage click bait to find that one interesting article/comment.
Those last two stories…wow. The last one really caught me off guard. The way it started out, I thought it was going to be some sort of heartfelt plea to stop and think about others who have befallen tragedy or some-such thing. Nope, it went full retard pretty quick. I made it 9 paragraphs in. I dare any of you to go further than that.
|At the meeting, Kim said that protecting against the effects of climate change was “more important than anything else.”
Kim is getting wise to the grift. I can see him being the Honorary UN Climate Ambassador or some shit. “You all talk the talk, but this guy walks the walk, just look at the climate progress he has made in North Korea. We could all stand to learn a thing or two about how he has made North Korea one of the least energy consumptive places on the planet!”