Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful day it always is!
Durham (remember the guy investigating the Russian collusion hoax for what feels like an eternity) seeks indictment against lawyer at Steele dossier-linked law firm.
Former Sec. of Defense says he did not approve calls to China, Milley should resign.
Half of Americans believe January 6th protesters are political prisoners.
Democrats look to cut half of NY’s GOP House members under gerrymandering.
Cruz to Filibuster any Democrat bid to raise the debt limit.
Business expectations for inflation climb to new high
America is short more than 5 million homes.
Mortgage demand from homebuyers jumps to highest level since April
Restaurants close dining rooms again.
This story just keeps getting delightfully more bizarre.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Milley’s going nowhere, except Hell,
howdy Kids!
I believe Biden’s people wanted to punish him for fucking up Afghanistan but couldn’t without scoring a dozen own goals. So they decided to use this shit to get him while putting out the narrative what he did was heroic (to cover their own asses) for doing this. Everyone tells you how noble it was that he subverted the chain of command to give a US opponent/enemy an assurance that there would be no nuclear attack on them without a warning from him. This is at a minimum a coup, and likely rises to the level of treason. And Pelosi was part of this. I am going to bet it will take a while, but we will find out Milley talked to Pelosi before he did this shit.
Here is my big question: Why did Pelosi & Milley think Trump would nuke China? They claim the guy was unhinged, but what would unhinge someone enough to want to nuke China (specifically)?
I semi-frequently joke about nuking China, specifically. These people are unhinged maybe they take a lot of the idle banter as statement of intent.
Information that corona was deliberately released into the US.
We have had a policy that a biowearpon=chemical weapon=nuclear response.
[passes ceremonial roll of tinfoil to the druid]
I would rather have lead foil, thank you very much.
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It’s ceremonial, bro. Just like you don’t get to keep the chariot or the wreath-holder after your tribute.
$40/sqft?!?!!!
Offers a 100% tin foil hat protection warrantee, bro… It’s an investment!
Can you really put a price on peace of mind?
I thought we kept the ceremonial role in the safe with the carburetor that makes 70’s gas guzzlers get 200 mpg. You know, the one the auto companies refused to use even though fuel-efficient Japanese cars were gobbling up half their market share and driving them to bankruptcy.
I think this is definitely a big part of it. But this happened right after the 1/6 media declared “insurrection” and the election everyone not part of the mandarinate and the sheep they assign their opinions to felt had some really fucked up shit happening that overnight changed the results of the election. There seems to be something more there that they felt would piss Trump off enough to then really make him want to nuke China. Cause I guarantee you they worried because someone not part of their cabal of CCP sellouts would have felt it amounted to an attack on us by China….
“Why did Pelosi & Milley think Trump would nuke China?”
CLASSIFIED!
^^^THIS^^^
I think that’s what we will be told when people finally ask the question…
It would compromise sources and methods. /deep state
Yes, I imagine it would compromise many things.
My objection to the “Biden’s handlers are scapegoating Milly” theory is that would have required these interviews to have just happened within the past two weeks. Is that even possible?
You don’t think like they do. They are constantly committing or encouraging criminal activity to get their way, so they always have something they can fall back on when they decide one of them needs to be dealt with (or even be sacrificed to distract others from something they don’t want them to pay close attention to). And Mielly knows better than to fuck with them when they tell him he is up.
“Why did Pelosi & Milley think Trump would nuke China?”
They didn’t. That’s BS for the domestic audience.
This is kowtowing to the ones who’ve bought them, and simultaneously attacking the deplorables.
If they didn’t, why would Milley feel obliged to make the call?
Kowtowing. It’s theatre on both ends – always has been.
He’s a political animal and they’re his masters.
To expand: He knows what he says is not true. They know what he says is not true. But saying it is a the cloak to cover up that it’s a demonstration of his fealty, and a declaration that the Americans are the real joint enemy.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/trumps-military-record-makes-milleys-reported-intervention-even-more-alarming/
He seemed like a good egg at TOS.
Yes he was.
His gun book has some problems, but those are related to getting facts of history wrong.
He’s pretty libertarian – great interview on Thaddeus Russell’s podcast a while back.
I’ll have to look for that interview. Thanks!
One of my faves.
And I’m glad he made it into the “intellectual conservative” club over at NR. There’s a lot of schmucks there and more liberal (libertarian) writers need to be driving them out.
“Why did Pelosi & Milley think Trump would nuke China?”
They didn’t. It was the best excuse they could think of for a coup.
Plus, nobody is discussing this but there is a procedure for a President who an empty suit. Impeachment with removal and/or the 25th Amendment.
These traitors skipped VP Pence completely.
I suspect Pence was in on it.
Why did Pelosi & Milley think Trump would nuke China?
They didn’t. It’s political theater.
That Murdaugh story is just a gift in these trying times. Morning Banjos!
‘In a statement to Fox News, Miller said the alleged calls were a “disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination.” Miller added that the chairman should resign “immediately.”‘
Insubordination/Treason. Tomato/Clamato
The absolute best outcome for which we could hope under the current administration is a conviction on a non-capital charge, followed by an immediate pardon. The most reasonable outcome… is he announces his retirement.
Kinda pathetic that the best we can hope for a situation like this is the offending party resigns then gets a tongue bath from the media, elites, and a cushy gig as a consultant or talking head.
Our leadership is so corrupt it’s sickening
Milley belongs to the right team – the woke ones that feel laws exist to punish their enemies, and not for any of them to follow – and because of that he will walk away without any real consequences. Now ask General Flynn how the law works for you when you are an enemy of the deep state and the DNC crime syndicate…
I do not ever expect the system to treat me fairly or deliver justice to me whether I am the plaintiff or have been forced to take action against some statist asshat. And I am not alone. Eventually people will decide to take the law in their own hand to get justice.
He resigns and gets a huge payraise from his new MSDNC show.
Stuff the remainder into cities or “downtown areas”, where they’re forced to become part of the urban, non-car-owning “creative class,” and eventually they’ll learn to vote Democrat.
Yup — that was my first thought too: “Feature, not bug”.
The already learned to vote democrat in every single educational institution from Kindergarten to Doctorate. The commies have won.
Yep. New apartment and condo construction is booming here. Also the conversion of old warehouses and factories to apartments and condos. The move to WFH will only accelerate the conversion of commercial space to residential. It’s all coming together, Shpip.
Ban forming new households without proof of housing availability. Duh.
You can’t drive without a license and proof of insurance. Why should forming a family be any different?
Special counsel John Durham reportedly seeks a grand jury indictment against Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer at a Democratic-allied law firm closely linked to British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
You really expect this to produce anything but a fluff report that lets them hide the criminality of the Obama administration and the role of all the people now manning the ramparts (meaning asleep at the wheel, really) for Biden?
Morning, Banjos.
Hah! All pups do that! Calm kittehs too.
That little dachshund as cute as heck!!
‘In a letter last month, 46 Republican senators warned Democrats that they will not vote for an increase in the debt ceiling, according to Bloomberg News.
“We will not vote to increase the debt ceiling, whether that increase comes through a stand-alone bill, a continuing resolution, or any other vehicle,” the letter said. “Democrats, at any time, have the power through reconciliation to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, and they should not be allowed to pretend otherwise.”‘
Yeah, sure. I’ll believe the Republicans have a one set of balls amongst themselves when I see it. I’ll just assume this is grandstanding now only to reach a compromise/knuckle under later.
“If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.”
Weenie dog! squeeeeee!
*looks at your avatar then Roat’s…giggles*
They can just add it to reconciliation. If amnesty is budgetary, how can the debt ceiling not be?
We went out to eat this past weekend with friends who were all in on Covid craziness.
*shrug*
Shout out.
The food was good and the service was excellent.
Dining out could also be seeing a decline because prices have jumped up…just sayin’.
Did they wear their masks from the front door to the table, just to make sure they were extra protected?
Don’t forget to wear between bites.
THERE—IS—NO-INFLATION!!!!1!!eleventy!!
Ok… there’s inflation, but it’s not that bad:
Here’s why your food prices keep going up
Expect to see higher prices in the last quarter of this year in a number of grocery categories. After that, some relief is likely, experts say.
Translation: They are paying higher prices, they are charging higher prices, higher prices are everywhere.
Businesses don’t absorb those costs? But they will absorb tax increases, right?
I went out to a nicer restaurant a few weeks ago. They seem to have retained their entire staff, while only using about a fifth of their available seating. It’s not a surprise that they’ve jacked up prices.
Haven’t noticed prices that don’t match the menus here in Lake Placid – and I havent once been asked/told to out on a mask but nearly every business I’ve seen is hiring. Some places have reduced hours or just not running the kitchen on certain days. I mean, I got used to mixed up hours not matching the websites when I visited in October before (in between seasons) – but they just had the marathon on Sunday and most of these places are really scrambling.
The local brewpub dropped its prime rib special because of increasing meat prices.
My football game watching local has shifted their standard wing prices to Market Price. Thankfully, they still have the Sunday special of $6 for a pound of wings and fries (but I’m willing to bet the ratio of wings/fries will slowly shift as needed).
Market price for wings?
Yep. They were known for giant cheap wings before, so a bit of a shock. They do have boneless wings for the old prices at least (and the Sunday special, which used to be $5/10 wings).
Half of Americans believe January 6th protesters are political prisoners.
And the other half are just fine with it. Because they don’t understand the Iron Laws.
Much of the other half want more.
When Biden said he wanted to unite the country after they fortified the 2020 election, he sent his lemmings the following message explaining what he meant by unite: “To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to sniff their lamenting women’s hair”
/shaves head
whaddup doh’
Hey Tres, Mikhaila Peterson has your avatar behind her.
Former SecDef Miller says he did not approve calls to China defense chief; says Milley should resign
Mandarin Milley should be prosecuted for treason.
But he won’t. He’ll retire on his fat pension. He’ll write a book for the right people and get paid millions for it, by the right people.
Justice is dead.
Have you seen how the people that felt a guy without a shirt and a Viking hat and a bunch of other LARPer buddies being allowed into congress was an insurrection, but Milley’s circumventing the chain of command was something heroic? To them the act is good, even when illegal/destructive, as long as it helps them and their agenda…
The data, from a new Rasmussen poll, reveals that 49 percent of American “likely voters” either strongly or somewhat agree with the concept that the U.S. government is holding political prisoners. Forty-two percent are in disagreement, with nine percent “unsure”.
51% are propagandized lemmings.
Not even that. 42% disagree, 9% unsure, 49% either strongly or somewhat agree. People know what’s going on but realize that the next crackdown will involve cops firing on protesters.
I am still a little giddy from the SpaceX launch yesterday, the first completely private (non-government) space mission. 3 Days in orbit. (Netflix “Countdown” is the 4 part documentary series about it–highly recommend.)
They will be doing video feeds throught the mission, check here often,
https://www.youtube.com/c/SpaceX
That was awesome. I got to watch the livestream and I was amazed it was happening in my lifetime. The view inside the cabin was really cool. May Elon continue to succeed!
And the outrage from the left over “rocket dicks in space” is just the cherry on top.
It’s definitely pretty cool! I love Elon’s optimism. I’m not a fanboy of his, but he’s doing the right thing in his own way, and that’s a lot more than can be said about most business leaders or politicians.
https://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=49220&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
just change the lat and long params in that URL to your own to get passes over your location.
Thanks!
“Half of Americans believe January 6th protesters are political prisoners.”
I’d like to take hope from this, but I can’t.
Just because the publics know they’re political prisoners doesn’t mean they disapprove of locking them up.
What else would you call a bunch of Americans who protested and entered a public building during a Constitutionally mandated counting of EC votes and then were hunted down, arrested, held without bail, and then charged with crimes?
Obviously, the people who committed theft or vandalism should be charged with misdemeanors. The very few people that did.
The trespassing charges are utterly indefensible, given that so many were allowed in by the cops. I suspect many were never even asked to leave, or if so, they left peacefully when asked. Traditionally, trespassing doesn’t occur unless (1) there is a sign that you disregard or (2) you are asked to leave and refuse.
I think the reason so many are still locked up is because there are no good criminal charges against them, and now the state is doing what it does – digging in rather than admitting error.
‘admitting error’…so like the past 19 months..
These people should have demanded speedy and public trials.
I bet their defense attorneys (I heard that many are federal public defenders) told them to hold on and they would have charges dropped once people move on to a new story. Horrible advice.
These protesters were going to be made examples of. Only juries could save them from the DC tyranny. Even then it was not guaranteed.
If successful, the proposal would cut the number of GOP House members from the Empire State in half — from eight to four — because it also eliminates the district now represented by Rep. Tom Reed (R-Corning).
“It’s ok when we do it.”
Maryland is still trying to get rid of their last Republican.
Maryland has been trying to get rid of Republicans since the 1860s. *rim shot*
Like it’ll matter. How long has California been a one party state? How frequently do they still blame the Republicans for all the issues?
Democrat votes are easily whipped up by invoking Republican bogeymen. And works in reverse too. We are run by two stupid tribes of voters.
It’s in reference to Maryland Democrats gerrymandering House districts to go from 4-4 as late as 2003 to 7-1 today. They got rid of 2 after the 2000 Census and another after 2010. Will they be able to get rid of the last with the 2020? The last time I looked, proportionally based on registration, it should be a 5-3 split. Maybe, depending on distribution, you could go +- 1. But look at their districts. Look at the history from the 70’s to present.
KY does a lot of dumb shit, but the state supremes did something smart 30 years back. They require minimum splitting of counties.
You can still play lots of gerrymandering games (and 10 years ago when both parties each controlled one state house, they both did) but you can’t get districts like that. The Ds got to play state house games and the Rs state senate games. The D games slowed down, but didn’t stop, the Rs taking control of it too.
Although with a D governor right now, the Rs won’t get to go too crazy this time around.
If the 2020 election results are anything to go by*, then it won’t be difficult. Every county (even deep red far Western MD and north/central Eastern Shore) turned in more votes for Biden than Obama. According to the 2013 CPVI listed on Wikipedia, we’ve got D+29 and D+27 districts against the only Republican district at R+14. Take those down to D+15 and you can flip the R+14 to D+12. And likely nobody in the press will bat an eye (except to run interference).
* = If you trust these results, I have a couple bridges for sale
If you think it’s bad now, imagine how bad it’ll get if the Republicans are in charge!
“The Rethuglikkkans gerrymandered in 2010! This is just restoring the way things should be!”
/actual NYD talking points
I figured they would try to eliminate Stefanik’s district.
I’m not surprised they’re going after mine (Malliotakis). Low-hanging fruit. Every ten years her district expands to include more of Brooklyn and therefore diluting Staten Island.
Democrats look to cut half of NY’s GOP House members under gerrymandering.
Wait until Democrats lose even more seats in Texas and Florida because of Gerrymandering.
HAHA. Democrats know what is coming and they hate it because there is really nothing they do about it.
All that nonsense was stopped in Wisconsin in may of 2020, except national chains and some of those still haven’t reopened inside dining and it is drive-thru only. I’ve never heard a any complaints about that from global warming alarmists though. Probably because they tend to be the same people who think COVID-X is going to kill all of humanity.
I mistakenly thought that the financial sector on the East Coast opened at 8AM EDT so I got up at 5 AM PDT. Now I see I’m a day early.
My entire goal is to finish liquidating one of my investment accounts so I can buy a freaking house outright. I don’t trust the gov’t not to raid my accounts eventually, so I want to convert to land ASAP and just be done with mortgages. When my Cali house sells eventually in a month or two, I don’t even know if i’ll put the proceeds in a Roth or just keep it in a regular investment account. I don’t trust these guys not to go back on any promised “tax exempt” conditions.
I mean an “hour early”.
Though I could believe these effers would make it another day…
Zero reason these transactions should take so long to execute.
I hear you. I’m not at all confident that my various government–what’s the right word here? “sponsored?” “protected?” “assured?”–accounts will remain in any way protected or assured by the government that created the laws allowing their specific protections.
I fear that not too far down the road, holders of these types of accounts will be told “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.”
“This deal is getting worse all the time!!”
Good old Billy Dee!
I hear you. It seems that the best way to deal with this would be to buy “raw land” and make enough camouflage improvements. Look destitute on paper, but able to thrive somehow.
I still think part of this is moving out of the cities, somehow have enough space for your own power.
My problem is that my SO doesn’t believe it, and probably won’t be able to be convinced until it’s too late. Very hard to make important decisions and life changes when you need another’s cooperation, and they have the blinders on.
very true there
Uh, ya married? she asked cynically.
“The Millionaire Next Door”…
Le sigh. I hear you, bro.
The saving grace is that she is interested in vacation rental properties as investments for retirement income, so that might be one way to finagle some bug-out options.
That sounds like a good idea to me.
It does sound like a good idea until you realize she’s drawn to the Finger Lakes region in New York. Although I’m having some luck getting her to look at beach properties in MS, FL, and NC, and also consider some stuff in TN.
If I could find a suitable place in WY or UT close to some good vacation spots, it’d be a slam dunk. The problem is they have to be likely to produce good income, as well as be in places that aren’t, say, NY, MA, CA, etc.
Heh-heh-heh – this is exactly how I got my spouse on board.
Finger Lakes? You will be within spitting distance of a certain glib we all know and love. Hide the women and children. Especially the children.
JI–do you have any recommendations for places to look? Not that I want to directly compete…
@db
As strange as it will sound to our Old Dominion Glibs, I am in process of buying in SW VA just off the Blue Ridge Hwy. I’ve looked in many, many places and the locale is hard to beat. Proximity to Roanoke and Winston-Salem means city amenities when needed are within an hour drive. The climate is agreeable (far enough south to reduce winter’s bite, high enough altitude to keep summer from sweltering). The place we’re under contract on is almost 25 acres with a nice stream (brook trout) and a good spring (which I intend to feed into a pond) and a 3 BR, 1 BA cottage (in good condition) plus some outbuildings. We’re getting in under $200K (though we will be investing in some upgrades – new roof within a year). When we cash out of our current domicile my plan is to build (when the cost has come back down) and use the cottage as income property.
That is some seriously beautiful country, JI, and that sounds like a sweet spread at a very good price. If/when I could find something comparable in AZ, I’d be hard pressed not to spring for it.
You will be within spitting distance of a certain glib we all know and love.
“That’s not spit!”
Note on new roofs: Homeowners insurance typically covers weather damage to roofs. If you have ANY weather damage, have a roofing contractor come out in winter for asphalt shingles (they are less flexible) meet your insurance adjuster to determine if you qualify for a new roof.
It will save you $$$$.
Same same.
Just gotta keep hammering. My wife has told many friends as of late “I thought he was a bit nutty for being prepared and talking about the system being fragile. Now I’m really glad he did all that.”
I fear that not too far down the road, holders of these types of accounts will be told “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.”
There are too many people with too much to lose.
If we hit that point and there isn’t a rebellion, then we’ve long gone past the point of no return.
Having said that, I should have talked to some of the land investment exhibitors in the FreedomFest exhibition hall. Sure, some of them might be scams but I don’t see the harm in talking to them and picking up literature.
Argentina has done it multiple times now.
Different culture, not as many guns in private hands, probably nowhere near as money at stake.
Argentina is a very different culture than us.
“If we hit that point and there isn’t a rebellion, then we’ve long gone past the point of no return.”
He says from a country that is about to force medical treatment on 80 million people.
Looking at the push back and the lawsuits ready to go, Biden’s mandate is going to turn out to be bluster.
Hmm, but people in congress also have investment accounts.
People in congress also have carve outs and protections against insider trading etc.
I read increasingly of Donkeys referencing the large amount of investment and retirement accounts that “we Americans” “collectively” hold snd how that’s a bulwark against inequality and inflation.
That sets off major alarm bells for me.
They’re coming for our retirement accounts. I never would have thought they’d have the nerve but I’d have never predicted Americans would so passively give up our rights for a new flu bug either.
Democrats are systematically destroying America. The sooner Americans realize this, the better.
Democrats must destroy traditions.
Democrats must destroy the US economy.
Democrats must destroy savings and retirements.
Democrats must take over the military.
Democrats must take over the government.
Democrats must take over education.
Democrats must take over information outlets.
Democrats must destroy the family.
The wife and I are taking money from 401Ks to buy a little house to rent to my brother.
Physical property. Hedge against inflation.
Oof… mixing investment and family. That’s a thicket full of sharp thorns!
I just want to hold the property for 10 years and then sell it.
My brother is far less risk than having strangers in the house who can’t be evicted because fedgov says so.
Hey it’s me I’m your borther. Can I have a place to live…in rural Iowa.
Watch your tax liability on that 401k withdraw.
Taking money out of a 401K during peak earning years — generally a dumb idea.
Leaving money in a 401K while hyperinflation destroys it or while the government decides to steal it — even dumber.
It’s a small amount of money at this point. We’ll get all the purchase money back in rent in about 10 years and still have the house.
Diversification — we should all celebrate diversity.
Not sure of your financial situation but if youre under a certain age then a 401k loan to do what you wanted effectively sells your portfolio at the high and no taxes. If youre over a certain age, then 401k withdrawals are income and you can use tax strategies to keep your tax bill low.
I agree that hyperinflation will be a destructive problem soon but it will affect everyone, including politicians.
“Delta driven infections spread”, Really?
Now that summer is about over, the theater is ramping up – but are infections?
As I expected. Someone here claimed they were going to push out AOC. I scoffed.
Schumer is worried she runs against him..
The two are not mutually exclusive.
It’s all about numbers. They are not going to push out one of their own.
^^^This. She is definitely a troublemaker for them but her appearance at the Met Gala already shows they are making inroads on controlling her.
Plus she is now the face of the party. Pelosi might have been worried that The Squad was going to drag the party too far to the left – well, too late. It’s already happened.
From the side bar on the lawyer thing:
Cruz to Filibuster Any Dem Bid to Raise Debt Limit
*yawn*
Wanna read something delightful? Here is a breakdown of how members of a dead radio shows forum trolled @sasimons
so badly that he spent months writing an article full of misinformation. You would think @newrepublic
would have done their due diligence.
https://twitter.com/luisjgomez/status/1438220982267916296
America is short more than 5 million homes, and builders can’t make up the difference
Curious. I work in the industry and business is booming, despite all the other economic problems. Of course, I design subdivisions that I cannot afford to live in. So maybe the cost is a factor for lower income individuals.
market failure
A few more regulations ought to fix it.
Well, I have two hours of work tomorrow. No morning gig–teachers are getting vaccinated so I’ve got that off. Just essay writing classes at my main gig. Pretty stupid, in my and me predecessor’s opinion, but it’s what the boss wants us to do on Fridays.
Then I have a 5-day weekend. Korean Thanksgiving (Chuseok) is next Tues and everyone has Mon-Wed off. I have no idea what I’m going to do. My friend, a lady that I’m quite interested in and have known/been friends with for several years has invited me to go to the beach and she also plans to go to Seoul to eat out one of the days off. HRM. Very confused. She has never expressed any romantic interest in me…as it were, but I tried before and I’ve had it on the back-burner of my mind but I’ve not acted on anything, as she previously rejected my advances years ago. But last few times we’ve hung out I’ve given her foot/leg/back massages and she paid them back. But it was just so friends-being-friends, but that’s a very odd thing for friends to be doing…HRM. She’s a strange one. Very smart, legally-trained and versed, short-and-cute with German/Indian roots but raised in Minnesota.
I think it would be foolish to not go along for the ride…but she’s always given me the “I’m not in relationship-mode” vibe. But those massages…so strange. I might have to make another move, but they always were turned down in the past. We get along philosophically and I’m trying to get her to come to our little spot here in space. She’s def a Glib. It’s why we intelligently get along so well.
Sorry for long post, that isn’t at all related to anything! It’s nearly 10pm here and I don’t have work until 3pm tomorrow, and even then just for two cushy hours of relative nonsense. No early work tomorrow, which means I’ll be up later than usual tonight. My Chicago Cubs suck and it bothers me tremendously.
Yay for Evan!
An Evan sighting!
I thought you had a girlfriend. Evidently I am behind on news.
I did and we are actually still legit friends. She is no-joke still in love and I don’t think I’m good for her. It is a weird balance of trying to be extra nice by shielding her from my…many faults.
I am not surenhow to politely proceed with her. Would love to keep being legit friends, she broke up w me!, but I think I cause her more harm being around more. She is depressed and is seeing and is seeing psych tomorrow. I think this is largely due to my absence in her romantic life. Ummm….that’s a hard one for me to navigate. She was there when I needed her most but really do think my presence hurts her more than I add. Eek.
Aw, gee.
(I remember 30.)
Hey! I’m 35 in Korea! (born? You’re 1 year old. And ya gain a year at Jan 1. So born on Xmas and in a week you’re 2. Thankfully it’s just a cultural thing. Hospitals use your real (to us/reality) age.
Hey youngin! I’m 35 in the USA, that makes me your elder!
Let those who love you care for you. It’s a blessing.
I care for her, but think I am actively bad for her. Keeping her away from me is IMO helping her so she doesn’t have to deal w me. I am very conflicted about all of it. She broke up w me 3 months ago but when we talk she still says I love You.
I feel very bad about it all.
So talk to her about it. Don’t make her decision for her.
Suggest to her that your freshly dented skull would make a comfy saddle.
I keed, I keed!!!
I’m always rooting for you, my friend. Good luck!
Last evening, I was watching the SpaceX launch feed, and after the SECO I had to walk away to eat dinner. When I came back to the computer, the live stream was still going, but it was a supposedly live interview with Elon Musk, but inset into a red background with a bunch of scammy-looking text about how if you send bitcoin or ether to an address, Elon Musk will send you back double the amount. It included what seemed an obviously fake tweet from Musk to that effect, along with some likely bogus quotes from him about the future of the price of crypto. It contained a text web address (but no link) to ms-gives dot net, also probably bogus.
I mentioned it in the comments to Creosote’s post and someone mentioned it’s a long running scam.
What I’m interested in is how it even happens. How is it possible to take the URL for a legit live stream and have a scam video run on that URL after the original livestream has (presumably) ended? All the metadata around the stream appeared to be legit, such as the channel name etc.
This morning I looked for a video coverage of the launch and found another one, which is also doing a similar thing (bordering a Musk interview with crypto giveaway crap).
How does Youtube manage to miss crap like this? It seems more than capable of cutting out other messages it deems “inaccurate.”
Sound like the account was hacked. Same thing happened last year to Today I Found Out, which lead to all it’s subsidiary channels being taken over to. It took them several days to get the account back.
Thot Thursday will help you win the ejaculation contest.
https://archive.li/rJ88L
I have to admit, the quality of Realldolls is impressive.
Good Heavens, Banjos! Did you really need to spike this old man’s BP just before dinner and bed? Are you wearing a leather corset and a strap-on… Fuck! I hate this shit and freedom is crumbling away like a Chinese dam.
a leather corset and a strap-on
Must help sloopy recover from those tOSU losses.
Heh.
Far more accurate than these people would like you to know….
Jacque Designs | Resort 2022 | Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwiwIHerPQ
Sourwood Mountain by The Carolina Chocolate Drops: That was fucking badass. Strongly similar to Old Crow Medicine Show, who are absolutely fantastic. I don’t listen to that style frequently, but these guys and OCMShow bring it fast, hard and loose. Simply tremendous.
The only problem is that as a drummer I don’t have a drummer to hear/listen and learn from. Kinda tempted to post the demos that one of my bands “released.” Recorded on our own in a basement studio and traveled around Korea on weekends just playing at ex-pat bars. That one was a lot close to rock/metal. But my last band was just me and a pianist. No vocals or anything else. I’ve been in seven official bands but have performed jamming countless times. One of my favorite aspects of my reality. Damn COVID has pretty much shut down all music over here. Curfew now is at 10pm and everything’s gotta close by then. Fucking stupid as hell.
First they blocked covid treatment with hydroxicloroquine, then Ivermectin, now Health and Human Services made the announcement earlier this month that they were taking full control over Monoclonal Antibody drugs (mAb) in order to begin rationing.
They really, really do not want any effective treatment for covid out there. And I’ve lost all respect for the 90%+ of doctors who played along. No more getting better fast like Joe Rogan.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/15/covid-politics-takes-a-dark-turn-biden-administration-takes-control-of-monoclonal-antibody-drugs-in-order-to-block-treatments-in-red-states-and-ration-equitable-treatment/
Old and busted: “First, do no harm.”
New hotness: “First, support the Cathedral.”
“And I’ve lost all respect for the 90%+ of doctors who played along.”
Here’s how I think that worked. At first the average doc reflexively supported what was coming out of Washington, because it was fellow doctors saying that. Nobody questioned the research, the narrative, or anything else. Why should they? Their fellow MDs could never lie, or be wrong. Of course there was no way those yokels could be right about treatment options. Then as the realization that they had been played slowly dawned they realized there was no escape. The entire medical industry was marching in lock-step with Fauci.
It’s just like when docs collude to cover each others asses for botched treatment or bad diagnosis.
I know many here are skeptical of Truth and Reconciliation commissions, but we need these people, the rank and file docs, to go on record and say they were wrong. The unspoken bargain is that they never open their mouths in public again.
Some of this comes from professional standards where the holders of licenses are prohibited from reviewing or criticizing another license holder’s work. As I recall, in PA, licensed Professional Engineers are prohibited from this activity–they’re allowed to talk about professional standards and whether a particular solution met those standards, but, as I recall, not specifically denigrate another’s work. I’d imagine the licensing boards for medicine have similar requirements.
It’s been a while since I sat for the EIT, and I never bothered to get the PE (it’s not useful or necessary in my particular line of work), so I might be a hair wrong about that.
Yes, they do. It’s completely inappropriate to trash another doctor’s work unless it’s done through a formal process. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of backbiting and Monday morning quarterbacking. Often, I’ve gotten a patient who said their doctor wanted a test that made absolutely zero sense to me. Once I called that physician and they explained their reasoning, it all made sense. If I had trashed the other doc to the patient, not only would I have been needlessly wrecking that patient’s relationship with their doctor, I’d also end up looking like a fool when I finally got the call from that doc.
I don’t have any particular loyalty to other physicians and a lot of the doctors I know don’t (not that I speak for all or even most of us), so I have no idea where the idea of some medical code of silence came from. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen that. Usually when there’s a case of a really and obviously bad physician, it’s been the hospital management that has shuffled them off to another facility like the Pope used to do with the pedophiles. The other doctors will refuse to send patients to that physician or decline to work with him.
Unfortunately there are a lot of cases in medicine where the obvious thing is only obvious once all the information is laid out after the bad outcome, or when a reasonable approach just turns out to be wrong. A plaintiff’s attorney can make the most careful physician look like Hannibal Lecter. As an example, I’m an ER doc. Last night alone I had a patient who came in with a headache that has been present for many years demanding that I perform a CT scan that was already going to be ordered by her outpatient physician. She’s been to the ER for the same headache multiple times in the past month and had a CT less than six months ago. I refused to order the study, because basically she didn’t want to wait for her doctor to get prior auth from her insurance company. Now yes, there’s a tiny chance that there’s something really wrong that would have been uncovered by me doing a scan last night, but it’s dishonest to defraud the insurance company that way and a waste of our resources. If it does turn out that there’s a bad outcome, I’m going to have to defend myself. I’m sure there are some doctors that will take my side and some that will take the patient’s. That’s how it works with damn near anything.
Thank you for that info.
I’d love to know what kind of latitude you have. A patient shows up a few days into a covid infection…. Could you prescribe the Joe Rogan cocktail if you thought it best, or are you limited?
Yes and no. You’ve got to find a pharmacy that’ll fill it and often there are edicts from the Board of Pharmacy that make that very difficult. Also State Medical Boards are starting to threaten to suspend or discipline physicians for “spreading misinformation” which includes prescribing the “wrong” medicines. Also, as an ER doc I work in a hospital who often mandates that we order certain things (they say they don’t, but they’re completely full of it). Further, a lot of insurance companies won’t pay for many of the treatments and patients are always shocked that this stuff actually costs money if they have to pay cash. Rogan could afford basically whatever treatment he wants.
What’s the current approved standard for early treatment of COVID, if there is one?
So, are the states suing or are they being the typical Republican pussies who complain to high heaven without doing a goddamn thing?
When are people going to admit that everyone needs to be exposed to SARS-Covid?
Either you build a natural immunity, you die, you already died from Democrat tyranny.
Restaurants’ plans to return diners to indoor tables are unraveling.
Chains such as McDonald’s Corp. and Chick-fil-A Inc. are slowing their dining rooms’ reopenings, given the Delta-driven surge in Covid-19 infections. Other restaurants are again losing customers, and trying to squeeze more diners into outdoor patios while weather still allows.
I predict a virus theater resurgence with the return of flu season.
Meh. I think they’re keeping dining rooms closed because they don’t have the staff to run and keep them clean.
I saw this hiring bounty at a local beer store a week or two ago.
Wups! that didn’t work. Try this.
CFA’s keeping them closed (mostly – some are open) because:
– they’re making plenty of money with the drive-through and pick-up business, and
– (even more important) until the culture is stable, they don’t want to be open-close-open-close etc., so customers aren’t feeling jacked around
At least locally, several also reported that they were keeping the dining rooms closed for exactly what Translucent Chum said. Staffing issues.
The local Taco Bell (not that I go there/*looks at ground*) now closes at 7pm.
not that I go there/*looks at ground*
Why do you hate yourself?
I’m here aren’t I?
Fair point.
*resumes reading the comments and cutting on self*
I hear Del Taco is coming to Virginia.
And of course there will be no seasonal cold and flu cases, because they will all be counted as covid instead.
I’ve been predicting lockdowns in the fall since April. We’re not quite there yet but there’s still time and it seems inevitable given the increase in tyranny in many places.
You have. I figured they were a definite worse case scenario, but then again it looks like most of my worst case predictions from March of 2020 have come to pass. I think with Newsom’s Kim Jongesque win this week we will have the national Dems taking the win as proof that they can get away with any COVID hysteria they want. Mask mandates are not ending for years, and we will likely get “lockdown lite” this winter at some point. Utterly fucked.
I know many of you live in lockdown areas but here in Georgia, most fast food restaurants have had indoor seating open and not restricted for distance for most of 2021.
We have been back to normal most of 2021 and even in 2020, its was hit and miss on which companies did what with distance seating or other restrictions.
I also suspect that corporate food chains are using revenue from open states to subsidize their restaurant’s Kabuki theater in lockdown states.
Playing up that Georgian by the grace of god privilege, aren’t you?
Our Governor Kemp was doing well fighting lockdown tyranny which is why Georgians voted him in. Then he went and fucked up with certifying the fraudulent election results from 2020/2021. He thinks that he still has a political future, so he is going to keep Georgia as unlocked as possible.
Houses are flying off the market in <4 days. Business is booming. Commute traffic to/from Atlanta was back to normal back in late 2020.
This is kinda the thing that I think might be able to make inroads on the restrictions in other (read: my) states.
At some point, people will see that GA, SD, FL, et al, aren’t dropping dead, and start passively or more vocally exploring non-compliance, right?
Ya, prolly not. I just can’t move right now, and am not looking forward to the next round of doubling-down that I’m pretty sure is coming here.
Lefties get around the facts about states like GA by just ignoring us as much as possible. All we hear about are CA, NY, and other states that have tyrannical restrictions.
I feel for y’all but the water is just getting hotter around you.
“Restaurants close dining rooms again as delta-driven infections spread”
Based on phony PCR case rates? Are hospitalizations and/or deaths actually up? If I legitimately tried to answer that question, would I be able to find any reliable data? (NB: These are all rhetorical questions)
2 weeks to flatten the curve.
Flattening curves is a trigger phrase for you isn’t it?
Straightenin’ the curves
Flattenin’ the hills
Well someday the mountain might get ’em
But the ‘vid never will
Amnesty International’s definition of a prisoner of conscience.
“Any person who is physically restrained (by imprisonment or otherwise) from expressing (in any form of words or symbols) any opinion which he honestly holds and which does not advocate or condone personal violence. We also exclude those people who have conspired with a foreign government to overthrow their own.”
Seems to fit the Jan 6 “detainees” pretty well. Of course AI itself has been thoroughly skinsuited by now so don’t expect any actual support from them; but the definition seems valid.
They were working with the Russians, problem solved.
Greetings, Glibules.
It’s Glibronis brah..
Globs.
Glibunkys
[Gg]lobs?
So what are you poor people up to? Did I miss anything important?
I’ve spent the last week sturgeon fishing in Wisconsin and hunting sharptailed grouse in North Dakota.
Haven’t been online much or watched TV for a week and I feel great. Mike S tried to bum me out via email, but I just ignored him (like normal). I’ll give him a wedgie at the Honey Harvest for his trespasses against me.
Trump had to be heroically and physically detained from pushing the giant red nuke button if the news is to be believed. Other than that, the usual.
He just wanted his Diet Coke!
Oops, that was the wrong link. Alt-Right Link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ
I’m more amazed that the idiot general admitted to his treason than I am that he did it. All he had to do was deny it and a lot of people would have said “Woodward doesn’t have the best track record on this shit…”.
So either he thinks (and he may not be wrong) that people will actually think he’s a hero for resisting Trump or Woodward has some damn incriminating tape of him talking to that Chinese general and he really doesn’t want that coming out.
He was in the position of “of course it’s gonna come out”, so he’s hunting for support. The deplorables already despise him, so they’re out and he’s left with the proggies. OMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is pretty much the only tool in his box there, and it usually works, so he’s going that way.
He appears to be dumb as a rock, just willing to do what was necessary to get ahead in the ranks.
There are a ton of people out there who are dumb as rocks but are wildly successful because they have single-minded focus on climbing the corporate ladder.
While smart people around them are working their asses off trying to solve important problems, these types make sure that they send the right memos, go to the required training programs and kiss the right asses.
Later when the company has survived the crisis because of all the work the smart people did, they will find that they were edged out of the next promotions because the drones had more checkmarks on the sheet that HR uses to give out promotions.
They are stupid as fuck but they understand how to work the system.
The difference between “Doing” and “Being.”
According to Jack Posobeic, one of his intel community sources said one of the FVEYs agencies had some intelligence on this call and sent a, “WTF IMI”. to Fort Meade. So the cat may already be out of the bag.
If I legitimately tried to answer that question, would I be able to find any reliable data?
You’re a caution.
I had an excellent steakburger in a restaurant in Pocatello last night. Hardly a mask in evidence.
I’m still trying to get my remaining junk out of my ex place. Somehow or other, I accumulated a lot of stuff in he last 7 years.
I’ve heard of people saying it’s so long they have to reel it back in, but that’s just absurd.
I ran around western NoDak for 5 days and didn’t see a single mask. Of course I didn’t see many people either.
Had dinner one night at a brew pub in Beach, ND. Except they hadn’t set up their brew room yet. They are hoping it will be going by next year. They were a nice family who is running the only restaurant in Beach so I’m thinking they will make some money. Unless those cocksuckers in
YanktonMedora take away all their business.I had lunch in Medora on my road trip.
Interestingly, one of the waitresses there grew up in New Hampshire.
North Dakota is a made-up place, so of course, no one lives there.
I remember that from the alt.conspiracy days.
“North Dakota doesn’t exist. Do you know anyone from North Dakota? BECAUSE IT DOESN’T EXIST!”
All but one county in Indiana under highest 2 Covid alert levels
In a cruel bit of irony, that’s where I live, buy my family still has a few more days of quarantine.
Cuyahoga county (the one I live in) just announced a mask advisory starting today. No mandate behind it yet. Why am I suddenly imaging something like the ozone warnings, thunderstorm warnings, and the like for Covid for the rest of my life.
“Weather today is going to be in the upper 70’s, with a low chance of rain and mostly sunny skies. We’re in the yellow on the Covid scale, so make sure to bring your masks with you.”
As I read your first sentence, I was thinking of the old terrorism color risk scale. I see you did too.
No.
Not 7- 17.
I was listening yesterday to Vivek Ramaswamy’s “Woke Inc”, and one of the things he brought up was how team blue circumvented the fact congress would not let Obama and his people raid the US coffers with the impunity they wanted to pay off their vote buying machine, by concocting a scheme that allowed them to both claim they came down hard on the evil Wall Street entities that they accused of causing the 2007 housing crash their political class had caused by forcing lenders to provide loans to people very likely not to be able to pay them back, and steer huge gobs of cash to the entities they wanted to pay off. So we all heard how they “punished” the lending entities with some record setting fines (billions of dollars) and how they claimed they took a strong stance against the machine. What they really did was steer money to the entities they wanted to see survive, while they gobbled up the ones they didn’t want to see survive, and then came up with a scheme where the fines they imposed on the survivors, the fines collected never really got repaid to the treasury.
The scam allowed these entities fined, if they chose to do what Obama’s people wanted instead of paying off the treasury, to donate money to charities (all picked by Obama’s people) and then claim tax deductions for those donations, while the DOJ counted the donations as anything from double to triple the money donated towards the fine payments. For example, Bank of America, fined some 11 billion by the “though” Obama admin enforcers, donated about $3 billion to a bunch of Obama connected “charities” (read near criminal entities), deduct that amount from their taxes, and square away their obligation to the US treasury, all without giving back a single penny of that money to the US tax payer, while then getting some real cool PR from those donations. This racket allowed Obama’s admin to rip the US taxpayers off – on top of the $2 trillion the “too big to fail” racket parceled out to chosen entities after they came calling on the fact government promised to bail them out in return for them not caring about the risk of loaning money to people highly likely to never be able to pay it back – to the tune of billions of dollars, all while funneling huge amounts of cash from Wall Street to some of the most corrupt entities in the country, with nobody in the know.
Every time I think I understand how corrupt our government is, and how evil and vile the Obama admin was, I find out that we have not even gotten close to seeing the depravity of that entity. No wonder they were so fucking pissed Trump cock-blocked their plans to let Hillary have her turn fucking the US tax payer in the ass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual
Pay to play or get eaten.
The BOA settlement should have ended up with half of the Obama DOJ in prison.
That’s when I realized how bad it had become and that we were headed for collapse in the long term.
Mornin’
Christopher Miller, who was Donald Tump’s acting Secretary of Defense at the time of the calls, said he “did not and would not ever authorize” the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to hold “secret” conversations with the Chinese defense chief. In a statement to Fox News, Miller said the alleged calls were a “disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination.” Miller added that the chairman should resign “immediately.”
Since he’s Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense, nothing will happen.
I know, I’m going out on a limb here.
Peaceful protesters caught in the maelstrom of the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol are being held as “political prisoners” and are being persecuted by law enforcement, says a plurality of American voters.
And nothing else will happen.
If successful, the proposal would cut the number of GOP House members from the Empire State in half — from eight to four — because it also eliminates the district now represented by Rep. Tom Reed (R-Corning).
Pretty soon they’ll be like Massachusetts.
Chains such as McDonald’s Corp. and Chick-fil-A Inc. are slowing their dining rooms’ reopenings, given the Delta-driven surge in Covid-19 infections. Other restaurants are again losing customers, and trying to squeeze more diners into outdoor patios while weather still allows.
The local brewpub is still pretty busy.
I can go to a brewery in town, get a great pizza and two drinks each for my wife and me for about $35. Fast food is nearly $10 for a combo. That brewery is always packed…
We just lost another brewery here in Cleveland. Not a huge loss, since they were mediocre and surrounded by (to my tastes at least) much better breweries. Still sad to watch a business that people poured their heart and soul into need to close due to government policies and issues.
The song is excellent. I’m going to look for more from that band.
Thinking that I should up my “Better Man” game. Start wearing horse blinders while out and about. Maybe start duct taping hockey gloves on before bed. Not a thought, just a sermon.
It’s 6:36 and I need food and sleep. Fare well, Glibs!
Night-night, F.
Where did JATNAS go, speaking of?
Now that Milley has basically confirmed that he bypassed the chain of command and directly called a Chinese general, what’s the over-under on how many of the US brass resigns if he isn’t punished?
I’m going to put my money on somewhere between zero and zero.
Between -0 and +0?
zero point zero zero zero zero zero percent
GOFOs? None.
Some O-5’ers and below might.
Afghanistan has made it crystal clear that they are all responsible for nothing. Honor, shame, justice, accountability and freedom mean nothing to these people. They are our rulers and we are their chattel.
As Alex pointed out earlier, the enemy is some idiot larping in the capitol at a demonstration, not a commie Chinese general or a child raping muslim fundy.
When you commit crimes to protect the deep state, or you do so as part of the machine that condones & protects the deep state (see Clinton, Obama, etc..) you never have to worry about consequences. When you become a threat to the deep state, then they will make up shit to throw the legal system at you (ask Flynn).
In a world over-saturated with CGI Phil Tippett is bringing back the old school to melt our minds.
holy shit that’s some excellent stop motion
But, unfortunately, Kathleen Kennedy praised it, so I am doubting if it is good.
She praised him, at some point. The quote says nothing about the movie. In fact, I think the trailer is making fun of the quote, as one comment said it:
That looks neat.
I’m reminded of some old school Heavy Metal.
Sweet. I need a break from the bullshit they’re putting out.
Pre-Covid, office workers used commutes to decompress after a stressful day. Now we’re immersing ourselves in TV drama to detach from job dramas.
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1438280230494474240
Given the average commute in Bucharest decompress may not be the word, unless one swallows the little book of calm
Are Bucharest commutes particularly rough? I thought all Europeans lived in neat little cities and could take efficient public transit to work.
We are not in the good part of europe. Also that works as long as you live near the subway. But even so in paris or london there can be a long time spent in a very crowded subway
That doesn’t sound like the utopia American urbanites have been describing.
Your millage (killometerege) may vary
Personally my commute aint bad. But i am the 1%
My commute has been great since March 2020. There is a silver lining to Covidiocy.
fewer people on the train? Less food scraps but lower chance of being stepped on I suppose
Most people give me room
Who are you gonna believe- Pie or Rick Steves?
My commute is more stressful than my job.
*clicks link*
I’m not alone.
In my life I really need to find a new place to live, a better job, and a SO to make it worth it. I’m having trouble prioritizing this. I’m also having trouble pretending to have center-left views for the purpose of dating. Do any of you esteemed glibs have any advice? Right now I’m bored and frustrated and have enough cash to make good on that bored frustration. Thanks!
I personally drink successively larger quantities of scotch, if that helps,
On a school night? Or do you mean during the day? I cannot afford alcoholism due to cultural and health.
Both? But not before lunch.
Seconded, except I stick to beer.
+1
It sounds like you’ve got your priorities straight.
Re dating: Begin as you mean to go on. Don’t settle, don’t pretend.
My advice is identify your minimum standards. Don’t compromise on those. Quickly assess those and move on if they aren’t met. Don’t go on for long thinking you can change someone. Dating isn’t about going out and having fun. You do that with friends. Also, if you meet someone that meets your standards, don’t hold out for your ideal candidate. You are unlikely to ever meet your dream match.
This is good advice.
This is very different from what that Sky Captain guy on MTV advised.
“Dating isn’t about going out and having fun. You do that with friends.”
So much this.
Interestingly, women seem to instinctively understand this much better than men do.
Our dick has other plans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIoPlLEXM2Y
Don’t compromise too much on the philosophical. You do not want to find yourself tied to a SO that sincerely disagrees with your philosophical/political outlook. At the bare minimum you need someone who is legitimately not devoted to a party and is open to discussion. You can’t censor yourself for the rest of your life without being miserable.
Anyway when it comes to dating i have no advice as i know my lane
I’m also having trouble pretending to have center-left views for the purpose of dating.
I never pretended to have such views, but I was quiet about many of my views. No longer. Which means in New England, lots of women are uninterested.
Yeah. Don’t do that.
You will regret it.
My standard was
Physically attractive (not a model or anything, i just didn’t want kids that fell out of the ugly tree)
Her family was somewhat supportive and around.
if anything ever happened to me, she would be able to take care of the kids.
The “take care of the kids” was my biggest one and wound up ending a few relationships with some really awesome, beautiful women who just couldn’t get their shit together, whether mostly financially. Let’s face it, all women are crazy, they just happen to be different kinds of crazy. In a 10 year hind sight, thank god I had no exceptions to that rule.
Intellectually, my SO is a hardline authoritarian who bases her views of sound bites, in other words, she’s one of them. I occasionally point out her bullshit but I do my best to keep it civil between us and around the kiddos. She’s smart. She’s just intellectually lazy or perhaps just too busy to deep dive into why she believes what she believes. That and cognitive dissonance is a really addictive drug.
Hey! I take exception to that remark. GT seems pretty sane.
You’re some of the good ones. It’s the non-Glib broads who are nuts.
Also, the non-Glib dudes.
TBF, some of the Glibs are nuts too.
But not me.
*re-adjusts pants on head*
Glib broads seem to have tempers. Not in the bunny-boiling sense or even the vase-smashing sense, but…
Hm. Litmus test: invite your date to the range or an axe-throwing place.
There is an axe throwing place in Green Bay…that also has a bar. Sconnies, we never do anything dangerous while sober.
/tries to imagine the girlfriend throwing an axe
/gets behind a safety shield and is still waiting to get hit
I took my pre-wife shooting. She isn’t afraid of guns, but is afraid of shooting them. She has no problems with guns in the house or my parents giving our kids guns.
You’re calling a redhead sane? That’s definitely crazy. 🙂
I know and readily admit I’m crazy, but I like to think it’s in a Mostly Harmless kind of way, and I mostly keep it under control.
Despite the red hair, I think I’m pretty even-tempered. There’s photographic evidence of me throwing a tantrum as a toddler, but my mom cured me of it. I hardly ever throw myself to the floor and start kicking and screaming anymore.
You seem to be the model of sweetness and decency, Sherry Bobbins.
Read that as Lorena Bobbitt and raised an eyebrow
Aw, thanks,sweetie! :: remembers own screen name:: I’ll betray you last! ?
for GT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NkYlelUUck
Love it! Had a CETA grant summer job in HS performing children’s theater bits in city parks. Included several FTB,YAM sketches. Integrated cast, and almost got in the middle of a race riot on the east (white trash) side of Dayton. Good times!
You’ve met my wife….she cray-cray
a new place to live, a better job, and a SO to make it worth it.
Depending on your priority on place v job, I would put one of those first. There’s a definite possibility that a new SO won’t want to up stakes and move not too long after you get together. IOW, get your life settled first and then look for a partner. But this is one of those things with no Right Answer, so [insert shrug emoji].
I would agree that pretending to have certain views/attributes etc. is not a good strategy for anything other than a shallow hook-up.
While I can appreciate the ability for some (many?) to commit to a long-term relationship with someone that doesn’t share fundamental philosophical values, for me that’s a no-go.
Not talking about giving a political exam to the other person – that’s equally distasteful no matter what “side” does it – but evaluating whether there is enough overlap for fundamental compatibility.
What constitutes that compatibility is the criteria that is will shift pretty radically among different people, and that’s fine. You just need to determine what those non-negotiables are for YOU.
Socialism is when cool-looking bridge
https://twitter.com/RevisionistsSay/status/1438480432610295813
Good news for all you haters out there. Minnesoda Supremem Court says 3rd degree murder charges can’t be brought against someone who just hated one person.
Mohamed Noor had his conviction for 3rd degree murder reversed because the judges said you can’t have general depraved indifference to a person’s death when your hate was directed at one particular person. Seems like some arglebargle to me, but I’m not a lawyer.
Noor still has a second degree murder conviction to serve out, so it isn’t like he is going to walk out of prison. The interesting point will be to see if Chauvin also gets his 3rd degree conviction tossed too. The way I read the ruling, I don’t see how he doesn’t.
Isn’t it 2nd degree manslaughter not murder?
Look at the sissy who is all into facts and details!
Did you mean cissy?
They’re talking about Biden on the teevee. At this point, the only thing I want to hear about President Shit-for-Brains is, “…apparently suffered a massive stroke, and was rushed by air to Bethesda Naval hospital, where he was pronounced dead.”
Followed immediatly by extended 15 hour special fawning for the first black woman prez
Don’t settle, don’t pretend.
No fat chicks, no Democrats. Got it.
Deffo the latter. The first is subjective.
Subjective – Not here where we use the metric system
I laughed. But seriously compromising on looks is damn near impossible. Physical attraction is insanely helpful for smoothing over a bunch of annoying stuff (to a degree).
Remember: “For every beautiful woman, there’s a guy somewhere who’s sick of her shit.”
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ZJiBHh-Yw
For every beautiful woman, there’s a guy somewhere who’s sick of her shit – yes because that guy is usually rich and handsome and can get many more like her.
Not necessarily. As someone who frequently bats way out of his league, there is no woman so hot you can’t get sick of her at some point.
She big as a linebacker, but she’s mine.
Wow, I love this one.
I’m hoping this is what you linked to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD7UqK2GZko
If not, Obligatory!
No love for the Reverend?
Physical attraction is insanely helpful for smoothing over a bunch of annoying stuff (to a degree).
Early on? Sure.
5 years in? That annoying stuff is all still there, and your nerves are worn down from it, while the looks may or may not be there, but even if they are, they are “normalized” and their magic powers reduced.
Kilograms do weigh more than pounds.
Tres begs to differ.
Just the facts
“When I came to office, our first job was to stop the economic bleeding, and it was the worst bleeding since Roosevelt [in the Great Depression]. We passed the American Rescue Plan. That delivered shots in arms and checks in pockets, and provided that extra breathing room for working families,” Biden said at an event at the White House recently.
Savior-in-Chief.
We’d all be dead if not for him.
Pro tip: When you do a bunch of stuff, and the situation keeps getting worse, you might not want to brag about those things as “accomplishments”.
FDR was anointed God-King for doing that. So it is a proven strategy.
Fuck. Off.
Welfare does not stop economic bleeding.
Tres begs to differ.
To each his/her/its own.
One game played every December between the men and women. Winner take all.
Actions have consequences.
President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to require millions of American workers, including certain healthcare workers, to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The plan requires those who work at hospitals and other types of medical facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Brownfield (Texas) Regional Medical Center, a rural hospital, will lose up to 25 percent of its employees if the vaccine mandate is enforced, CEO Jerry Jasper told KCBD.
Losing those workers would probably shut down the hospital because some nurses have already quit to take jobs with nursing agencies that offer higher pay, according to the report.
Not complying with the vaccine mandate and losing Medicare and Medicaid funding isn’t an option for Brownfield Regional Medical Center. About 80 percent of the hospital’s funding comes from Medicare and Medicaid, Mr. Jasper told KCBD.
“Not complying with the vaccine mandate and losing Medicare and Medicaid funding isn’t an option for Brownfield Regional Medical Center. About 80 percent of the hospital’s funding comes from Medicare and Medicaid, Mr. Jasper told KCBD.”
Ain’t fascism grand?
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Just wait until they roll out the edict that you’re not allowed to quit your job because of the dire economic situation. Wreckers!
You think the kitchen and wait staff can cause you trouble if they aren’t happy? Just wait until you get unhappy nurses and techs.
“Oops, forgot to deflate the balloon on that catheter before yanking it out. Oh, well. Its out now.”
That’s awful, but why would they deliberately harm their patients? That sounds like an easy ticket to unemployment town.
why would they deliberately harm their patients
Because they are pissed off that they are forced to go to work every day (this is in response to the edict that you’re not allowed to quit your job). Getting fired, if that’s even allowed, is what they want.
I suspect it will be the same here at ATC..a lot of malicious compliance. db, don’t expect friendly controllers when you ask for that shortcut or airspace clearance
“I’m declaring an emergency.”
The old “work to rule” technique is probably the optimal way to throw sand in the gears, especially since rules/policies have proliferated, and will likely see a comeback.
Of course, that can work both ways.
“Center, N12345, requesting 10 left to avoid weather”
“N12345, unable.”
“Center, N12345, there’s a really heavy buildup ahead and I request a deviation 15 degrees left for weather avoidance”
“N12345, would you like me to declare an emergency for you?”
Not to mention, an incredibly unempathetic thing to do. That’s practically sociopathy.
That’s practically sociopathy.
In a sociopathic system, you should expect more sociopathy.
I used an extreme example (that I really don’t think would happen) to make the point that you really ought to think twice about fomenting resentment and unhappiness in health care workers.
I get you, I just got hung up on the extremity of the action.
Sociopathy is what you get when society starts abusing people.
Republicans are arguing that inflation and rising prices for things like gas and groceries are a result of the nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill that passed in March, largely along party lines.
More Republican disinformation.
Republicans are arguing…
I like that they’re portraying inflation due to massive printing of money as some sort political spin vs. widely understood basic economics.
Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ checking account statement?
Just a variation on a theme of the ‘Republicans Pounce’ schtick.
Expanding a money supply has never, ever, in the history of the world, led to inflation!
It’s straight from the corporate media playbook: If Democrats look bad, focus on the reaction from the Republicans, and frame it an insane overreaction. Remember the key phrase, “Republicans POUNCE!”
Does anyone have a clue why Plymouth decided to rebrand a Japanese car with the name of a Japanese city?
For Sale: 1983 Plymouth Sapporo in North Royalton, Ohio
The Chrysler and Mitsubishi alliance is well known, but I wasn’t aware of this particular variant. Wasn’t the whole point of this badge engineering to allow Chrysler to claim you were buying ‘Merican made?
Not in 83.
By then, Japanese cars were taking over the market.
“IMMACULATE UNDERCARRIAGE!”
Hey, just like me. It’s not anywhere near $21,900 immaculate though.
You get a lot of compliments on your taint?
There’s nothing quite like a shorn scrotum. It’s breathtaking, really. I suggest you try it yourself.
I thought Plymouth was part of the whole K-car thing at that point.
The were also selling some rebranded Mitsubishis to pay off that big loan Carter gave them.
That’s my first car! That exact car ’83 with a manual and 2.6l. I’d buy it for about half that much.
I assumed it was made in Sapporo – or somebody at Chrysler liked the beer. It was the Mitsubishi Lancer everywhere else.
Good car and unbelievably easy to work on compared to a modern car. The only problem – the iron block / aluminum heads sometimes expand or contract at different rates. Blew the head gasket once and got it fixed. At about 190k the heads cracked and that was it for my car.
Per Wiki w/o checking the footnote.
“…named for the Japanese city of Sapporo, which was considered to have positive international connotations after having hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics”
That aluminum head was a problem on cars through the 90s.
I always wondered about the Sapporo as well.
That’s right down the road from me.
I thought they named it after a beer.
Judging from the comments above it seems SO is really the big one. Maybe I had my priority list inverted. I think the general happiness of being in a relationship can take a lot of the edge off of current events and make planning for the future seem better or more hopeful. Maybe. Thanks for the words, glibs.
Friend, good!
The model of befriending someone temporarily and then discarding or being discarded seems weird to me. Kinda writes off half the population. Unfortunately I can’t think of a better one.
Public service announcement to Glibs. If you are in a parking lot and see a Chevy Bolt avoid parking next to it.
AUTOS GM advising some Bolt EV owners to park 50 feet away from other cars in case of fire
Because I’m sure these poor owners in urban areas are going to be able to find exclusive parking spaces while they go about their daily lives.
Serves them right for not getting the external halon fire suppression system option.
No one cool drives a Chevy anyways
Hey, Johnny Carson loved his Corvette. I do hope you know who that is.
Wasn’t he a psychic who advertised on television?
The one with the Jamaican accent?
https://www.axios.com/afghan-refugees-each-state-data-bea47ca4-0212-4a41-98bd-a2ea9f15a5bc.html
LOL @ Alabama & Mississippi
LOL
NYT- Commifornia recall election results
Its funny that the Commies in MSM are declaring a landslide for Newsome. He probably won and we expected Democrats to make sure their Commie leader for Commifornia won.
Theyre still counting votes and only some 10M votes came in so far out of ~22M registered voters. The longer they count, the closer to yes for recall they get. They are at 63.8% to 36.2%.
Newsome is only 13.8% from being recalled. I would call that a win but not a landslide.
If it keeps him from higher office…
He’ll use anything bigger than a squeaker to say his leadership style and policies were given a mandate and he’s justified in doing so. Hopefully it ends up being a lot closer than that.
Newsome – “Because at the end of the day, it’s not just about formal authority of setting the tone and tenor on masks — on vaccines and masks. But it’s the moral authority that we have: that we’re on the right side of history and we’re doing the right thing to save people’s lives.”
Coming from any politician, that is a damn scary statement.
The Democrat Party is the Party of slavery. The Democrats said shit like that back in the 1860s just like they do now.
They are liars and always have been. Luckily, less and less people believe their lies.
Any margin over 10% is traditionally a landslide.
I have to admit, I’m shocked at the margin so far.
Maybe. I mean the Founders has 3 standards for Legislative acts: Simple majority, 2/3 majority, and 3/4 majority.
I just think in what most Americans consider a solid Democrat state like Commifornia, 13% from Newsome being recalled is a serious problem.
Maybe it gets to 60/40. It really doesn’t matter as no matter what he is going to use this as proof that all of his COVID hysteria was correct, if anything he should have locked down and masked harder. The national Dems are also going to see it for the same way, if you live in a heavily blue area then expect restrictions to continue and to get worse when they want them to. I didn’t have much hope that he would be recalled, but I did think it would be a lot closer, which may have given the commies some pause. Now the brakes can really come off.
Thats the thing. I think Lefty brakes have been off for years. Their momentum has just picked up but so has pushback to slow them down. I really think America is the clown car speeding along with Democrats in the drivers seat, RINOs like McConnell in the back seat, in denial Americans hanging onto the mirrors and side, and American Patriots waiting down the road at a roadblock.
Oh and there is a fork in the road that leads to the cliff of hyperinflation.
Democrats get to choose to run the car off a cliff or into an impassible blockade that will stop the car forever.
Which direction will they choose?
A look inside Australia’s Lil Rona Concentration Camps.
Thanks anyway for your $1000 (1100?), DEG.
You’re welcome!
I think with the money I kicked in for the recall petitioning, it was more than $1100 total, but oh well. I’ve spent more money on things that went even worse than this.
I expect the Recall Newsom folks are going to morph their organization to take on other fights.
Wonder if I could use the words of the Commerce Secretary when she said ‘Nobody is Being Forced’ to get a vaccine. While technically true and I know that is how they will spin it, I am in fact being forced to get vaccinated under threat of losing employment.
Other than that, it is a good day. I have sealed my fate here at work and come the 22nd, my boss will be forced to hound me on why I haven’t attested to my status. She will then have to initiate disciplinary procedures. At that point, I have to see if I can retire early by Nov 22nd.
Good morning, Banjos!
Don’t you hate it when life intrudes as soon as you get out of bed and you have to wait to check out the lynx?
The homes article in interesting. Supply chain we’ve heard about ad nauseam. I don’t recall the labor shortage being so prominent.
Oh well, the markets will shake out (unless they crater, of course).
Have a great day, everyone!
Another young person killed by the ‘vid.
Wendell and Eskew wanted to start a family as soon as they got married, Eskew, a correctional sergeant, said. The couple, of Grand Rivers, Kentucky, hoped to eventually have three, maybe four, children.
So when the Covid-19 vaccines came out, and some of Wendell’s co-workers said the shots caused infertility — an unfounded claim that has gained ground despite top reproductive health groups refuting it — she “just kind of panicked,” Eskew, 29, said.
Wendell decided they should hold off on their vaccinations. It was a choice that cost her her life: Instead of attending her wedding, which was supposed to be on Aug. 21, her family is now planning her funeral.
And she had absolutely no comorbidity known to make the disease worse…
No shit.
top reproductive health groups refuting it
Why would abortionists know anything about it?
She made a choice. You can go left or you can go right. That’s freedom. This is supposed to be the land of the free.
She made lots and lots and lots of choices.
*clicks*
Oh JFC
If the vid gets me, I hope they find the fattest picture of me for the obituary.
This happened to my acquaintance from college recently. I saw on the Facebooks that he was on a ventilator. I thought he was a goner. The posts said he was fully vaccinated.
Admittedly, this dude had type 2 diabetes, had become morbidly obese, etc. He is not the pillar of health.
He’s off the ventilator now thank Allah.
But to his credit he never tried to blame the unvaccinated for his plight.
He is lucky. Diabetes and the Vid are not a good combo. Coworker died because of it and *get out your shock face* he was vaccinated.
“Like anyone can even know that, Napoleon.”
I’m keenly interested in this. It looks like last month — of the serious hospitalizations — 20% were fully vaccinated. It’s going up.
I’m not sure what to “root for” exactly because you know that’s going to be used to justify getting boosters under the unproven assumption the vaccine is weakening over time and not over the assumption that the virus is getting resistant.
Or, that they never really worked in the first place. There is a reason why we don’t get Cold shots every year.
CPRM:
I figured you would have a cold (or at least chilled) shot at least once a year.
In my case it would have to be a picture from 12 years ago when I was over 200.
Or I guess what I really want is for someone to face swap me onto a large body.
Like this?
This is perfect.
The beauty is MSM works this from both angles.
In her obituary, a family says a mother’s Covid-19 death could have been prevented if more people were vaccinated
So if you get the vaccine you die, but you still have to get the vaccine.
THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE.
It makes perfect sense if you believe ‘if only…’ The president laid the ground work – its unclean vs. clean and he has mobilized his people to make sure to shame the unclean and TMITE will ensure it is carried across the land.
Logical deduction is just a form of misinformation.
Memo to self: compose my own obituary, then CC relatives.
Lucy van Pelt: “A man was born. He lived and he died. The end!”
Until the reruns I’d forgotten how awful she was.
Rerun was their little brother, wasn’t he?
Yeah, the Rerun years, meh.
I kinda dug the 5 kid though.
And apparently Calvin is animated now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckYcuiKAN8
Was she wearing a mask though?
OFFS.
These people are mentally ill.
She was preceded in death by more than 4,531,799 others infected with Covid-19.
Unless this is the global total, its a complete lie.
was infected by others who chose not to be
And they know this, how, exactly?
Because they said so that is why…it is the marching orders to blame any COVID death of a vaccinated person on the unvaccinated, regardless if true or not.
I’d guess there’s some intrafamily drama there. Nothing classier than trying to shame your brother-in-law or whomever through a relative’s obituary.
Stand proudly on that corpse.
About the infertility thing… I mean I think it’s bullshit. It probably is.
But..
Understand I was in the Pfizer phase 3 trials. I signed up immediately when I could. It meant I had a moral duty to not wear my mask and go expose myself to the virus and be free. I was already sick of COVID last summer.
When I signed up, not only could you not be a woman trying to have a baby… you could not be a man trying to have a baby with a woman.
It was one of the test requirements. You were trying to have a baby (or were pregnant)… you were out. They explained that they didn’t want to have to deal with all that.
Now it’s possible that they’ve had more tests since then. It’s possible that they’ve collected lots of data on people trying to have babies.
..
But why not admit early on that they have no clue what their drug would do to fertility or pregnant people because they didn’t even study it?
I was concerned about the possible fertility effects as well. Still am, but a little less now.
Anecdote: An employee of mine just told me recently she is pregnant. We offered a vaccine clinic back in April (Moderna), and I know she got the vax then, and the second dose in mid May. By the timing she told me, she likely conceived in late June or early July, and has made it around 11 or 12 weeks. So, I’m hopeful for her and others that there is no fertility effect.
If anyone has actually studied this, I haven’t heard about. I suspect this is yet another pronouncement ex rectum by The Experts(tm).
To expand:
If, as I suspect, nobody has studied it, then “the vax will make you sterile” and “the vax has no effect on fertility” are equally unfounded. We just don’t know. Which means a decision not to get vaxxed because you are concerned about its effect on fertility is perfectly rational and valid.
There are no valid excuses for not getting vaxxed /FedGov managers
On the Bret Weinstein podcast with Robert Malone and the guy whose name I can’t remember, one of them showed data on where the spike protein accumulated in vaccinated person’s bodies. I remember in women there was a huge amount in ovaries, but not a similar accumulation in men in testes.
That’s the extent of actual data that I know of concerning fertility and the vaccines.
You mean like the news stories that were hitting my feed about Invermectin (sp) causing sterility in men?
Just randomly found out (after posting a link to his music) Saint Dog, a founding member of the Kottonmouth Kings died last year. Was a big fan in my younger days.
When the Sun Goes Down
Damn, that sucks.
cranks Bong Tokin’ Alcoholics
Psalm 70:1-5
Perfect for my day. Thanks, trashy!
Thanks to everyone that participated in my post last night and all the kind words.
Lackadaisical: Responding from dead thread re: Chain. usually if chain is used cuffs are as well. I’ve seen chains used as restraints straight to the skin but not the way rope is used. Chain is pinchy and that kind of pinch is usually considered bad pain.. There’s also “The chain trick” but that’s not so much bondage as using chain to induce (rather intense) orgasms.
Damnit, I knew I forgot about something last night…
NHExit
On Monday afternoon, New Hampshire Representative Mike Sylvia officially submitted language to the Office Of Legislative Services for a constitutional amendment concurrent resolution (CACR). If the amendment passes the House and Senate with 60% of the vote in each chamber, it would be placed on the ballot in the November 2022 statewide election. If 66% of the voters choose to accept the amendment into the NH Constitution, it would immediately be added to our state’s governing document, and the Live Free or Die State would officially sever all ties with Washington DC, becoming a self-governing nation-state.
Clearly racist.
Godspeed
With the state of the world, I need some music to cheer me up.
That Demo version is better than the one that made it on their label album. I hate how that works out. One of the better examples is Staind.
Here is Mudshovel off their independent release.
Here is Mudshovel off their label album.
Of course, Fred Durst produced their label albums. And everyone wants to beat the shit out of him.
From the article comments:
BMW: (Makes ugly AF front end)
Public: “Ew, we don’t like that”
BMW: “Yes you do.”
Public: “No, we don’t WTF is wrong with you?”
BMW: “Look how progressive this styling is!”
Public: “It’s not progressive, it looks like two Edsels had a threesome with a mutated beaver.”
BMW: “Okay, Boomer! (That’s what the kids say these days)”
Public: “Screw this, I’m buying an Audi.”
BMW: “…. uh. Look! We have classic BMW styling again! Please forget all our mean tweets making fun of our customers for not blindly gobbling down whatever crap we throw a rondel on.”
The Refreshed 2023 BMW 3 Series Won’t Have the Giant Grille
Ugh. Still awful. The squared off outer corners are just . . . not right. Better, I guess, than the giant nostrils, but still.
Yeah, I prefer the ugly one to this one.
Sigh. https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/gallery/BMW-2002-1635_15.jpg There’s one rusting away down the street.
This man gets it.
Pssssst. TO’G has no Y chromosome.
She’s still the Man.
Who are you to proclaim how they self-identify!?
Meh, I myself forget.
Zero improvement. If BMW was listening to its loyal customers, they would bring back the round headlights.
But then it wouldn’t look like every other car.
Yeah, so since the news is depressing and y’all’s cynicism is starting to rub off on me in ways displeasing to My Dude, I’ve taken to watching farm videos. One is a cow hoof trimmer in Scotland, one is a bison farm in Oklahoma, and one is a poultry farmer in Vermont. Very soothing.
Life does go on.
“Life does go on.” That is how we are looking at it.
I forgot the koi farmer in Florida.
Aw, sorry, hun. I am trying to avoid pills of any color or hue.
Yeah, my pill color changes on a daily basis.
Look up the border collie herding competitions.
Oh, I haven’t watched those in forever. Thanks!
She made a choice. You can go left or you can go right. That’s freedom. This is supposed to be the land of the free./em>
You’re not truly free unless you’re free to be wrong.
Re housing. We’re starting to look for a place to rent soon. Last year, the available places with 3 bedrooms, at least 1 bathroom and allows cats in my zip code and a neighboring zipcode (not a lot of land coverage) were in the single digits, but their prices were commensurate with our mortgage payment.
This year the prices have gone up by at least $200/month, but there are 31 of them. I’m not sure how a sudden surge in supply ALSO goes with a rise in price.
Maybe supply is lagging price? People see the prices going up, and decide its worth it to rent out their property? Then, there’s a glut, and prices come down.
Like anyone can tell. Economics is all about the Animal Spirits that control it through mystic powers.
I’m stealing that.
I don’t know. It doesn’t seem like they mind that the listing has been up for 4-5 months.
Maybe landlords are pricing the risk of deadbeats more highly now? I know that’s one of the things that has got my usually more liberal SO upset this year–the eviction moratorium cuts right at her ideas about real estate and rental property investing.
Possibly. This is a higher-end area to begin with because of the good schools, but there are lower-end rentals too (every municipality has its form of “blight” relative to the surrounding area). Even these are asking for proof of net income 3x rent. Gross? Sure. Net? That’s new from last year.
lolwut GTFO
I hate to see the kind of neighborhoods around here I would have to settle for if they pulled that around here.
Right? The most run-down shacks in the KC school district are asking for way too much money also.
Renting is risky for homeowners and this is amplified depending on which state. Some homeowners looking to rent try to raise rent to get a certain type of renter. I would bet insurance to cover loss from renters has gone up just like everything else. We had to bump our homeowners insurance by 20% this year to cover rebuild costs if a total loss.
Also some local jurisdictions use HOAs to limit the total number of properties that can be rented at any one time.
That’s what we did after a particularly difficult eviction. We raised the rent to what we weren’t sure would get a tenant, but we wanted to make sure any tenant who wanted in was willing to pay for quality rather than trash the place. It worked.
Or just claim it’s haunted and charge per night. (this is the route my uncle has gone on several of his properties)
Put that clip from “Ghostbusters” where the ghost goes down on Dr. Stantz on the listing.
God damn, Norm was handsome.
No one went with the best headline possible: “Norm MacDonald fights cancer to a draw.”
I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OehYqaHXJs
Did he try to negotiate? Hey cancer, if you kill me you die. I’m willing to cede some territory that way we may both live. Covid is our mutual enemy.
A bit late for this, but, on the days preceding 9/11, did anyone else see on apple news or just anywhere, “The attack on January 6th was much worse than 9/11, and its not even close”
and think, what in the hell?
One hijacked 4 planes. Crashed 3 into buildings. Destroyed 2 buildings. Killed 3,000+ people. Intended 4th plane to crash into the White House or Capitol.
The other LARPed around the capitol. Destroyed 0 buildings. Killed 0 people. Took some photos. Committed some vandalism.
How do you not see it?