Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a fantastic day it always is!
Biden signs temporary funding bill to prevent government shutdown
Yellen calls for ‘very destructive’ debt limit to be abolished
Biden fails to break the Democratic stalemate, and key House infrastructure vote is postponed
Is it unexpectant when the President called on the firing of the unvaxxed?
Great, we’re going to have a ton of Bundy Ranch incidents again.
National School Board Association calls on Biden to use the Patriot Act against angry parents.
Drunk man spends hours with search party looking for missing person. He was the missing person.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and mosey along.
Good Morning, Banjos.
I’m afraid I’m going to sleep through the lynx today.
G’night Glibs.
Night, UCS.
My body clock will be way off today too.
Is there an epidemic of people not sleeping well?
I’ve been at the ER since midnight.
Ugh.. What’s cooking?
A whole lotta testing so far. Abdominal pain and stiffness, rapid heartbeat.
So far blood test, urine test, ultrasound, CT scan. Now I’m just watching NFL network in the waiting room til the doctor has gone over all the results and decides what to do with me.
Ugh. Sorry to hear that. Hope it is nothing serious and you can go back to normal as soon as possible.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
Thanks y’all.
My wife went in when she woke up with abdominal pain, turned out to be appendicitis. I hope your issue is just gastritis or such. I’ve had that, unpleasant, but passes without major treatment.
California doesn’t want to let you go?
Rat, yup it’s just gastritis.
The doc said she wanted to eliminate pancreatic issues, abdominal bleeding, gall stones, liver problems, even heart attack (my heart started racing inexplicably yesterday when I was just lying down—I kinda panicked at that feeling because it was accompanied by the pain that radiates to my back).
So as a byproduct of the night’s adventures i got a really thorough checkup and she says everything else looks great.
I’ll call that a win.
Good that it isn’t something worse. Sorry, because it can be “curl in fetal position” kind of hurt.
Yay!!!
Hope things are looking better at this point.
No idea. But I am high as a kite now, so there is that.
#GoodInsurance
#winning
Are you still in pain? I hope not.
Morphine just makes me sleepy and dopey, but the pain stays.
Sorry, I hope you get well soon.
Yo!
It’s Covid, duh.
They did ask if I am fully vaccinated.
Presumably they would have made me take it if not.
I am wondering if they can get away with that.
A year ago I would have said that’s ridiculous but now I’m not so sure.
They could actually, you know, do a test to see if you have antibodies. But these are only doctors, not likely to be highly intelligent humans.
Doctors make mistakes, too.
“The nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, failed to win a single Republican vote amid accusations she lied to the Senate Energy Committee over her involvement in the 1989 Clearwater National Forest tree-spiking case. All 48 Senate Democrats and the two independent senators who caucus with the party voted in favor of Stone-Manning’s nomination to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which oversees 245 million acres of public lands.”
OFFS!
If they are willing to put a Soviet educated marxist that thinks the way to run banks was how the USSR did it (think that through), why not this? The agenda now is to put the most destructive and evil people possible in charge of all the bureaucracy. I ask: if your goal was to destroy a well functioning and successful & prosperous society, what would you do different than what team blue has been doing for the last 15 years?
I try not to think about this because it makes me despair.
I can only surmise that Biden is pranking us with these nominations. The rogue’s gallery he has working for him is unbelievable.
Who is pranking us? You know it ain’t Joe.
As a ginger, I am sad to say it might be Strawberry.
She is the Mouth of Sauron, not the actual power in the tower.
The Mouth of Sauron was one of my favorite characters and scenes in the books, and fuck Jackson for lopping that off.
It was in the extended version. I don’t believe Aragorns cuts his head off in the book like he does in the movie though
Is this like the motion of the ocean or the van is rocking so don’t come a knocking?
The drunk dude in the search party story makes me smile.
No harm, no foul.
I’m picturing an hour or two into the search party, drunk guy asking, “So… who the hell are we looking for anyways?”, getting an answer, then responding, “That’s funny. That’s my name too!”
LOL!
“What’s he look like?”
“Well, he’s about your height, your age, last seen wearing—-heeeeyyy, wait a minute!”
Mick 1 (hoisting shot glass): Here’s to Ireland!
Mick 2: Hey, I’m from Ireland too
Mick 2: Here’s to Dublin
Mick 1: Hey, I’m from Dublin!
Mick 1: Here’s to St. Bonafacious High School
Mick 2: Can you believe this, I went there too
Mick 2: Here’s to the class of 1967
Mick 1: You aren’t going to believe this….
Bartender: Someone call a cab the McCoy twins are drunk again.
Asians all look the same.
I’m not surprised, I still haven’t found myself.
*skims links*
The continued decent into a authoritarian hellhole, got it.
Have fun, kiddos!
You’re not my supervisor!
I think it’s indecent.
“Biden signs temporary funding bill to prevent government shutdown”
I guess the corruptocrat’s agenda to force team red to vote for insane spending because otherwise team blue – who could pass any funding without a single vote from team red because of numbers – fell apart when they saw the public reminded that they didn’t need team red votes to keep the government pissing away tax payer lucre…
…and past his bedtime, too…
And Good Morning, Banjos!
As school boards across the country have faced increasing backlash from parents over the past year, they have asked President Joe Biden to step in, suggesting that those parents who oppose their curriculum and Covid-safety mandates are like domestic terrorists who are guilty of hate speech.
OBEY
This should frighten everyone. The fucking school system feels parents that resist them fucking over kids are not just bad people, but enemies of the state…
I kept telling these perpetual-warfare domestic-security-state knob-polishers that their turn in the barrel would arrive before they knew it…
“”First,” Psaki said, “let me say we take the security of public servants and elected officials across the country very seriously. And obviously these threats to school board members is horrible, they’re doing their jobs.”
Doing their jobs? I guess that includes completely ignoring the concerns of the parents they allegedly work for.
They are certainly doing the jobs that people that want to destroy America and our future want. I think that’s what Ginger Bagdad Bob means to say.
If they were doing their jobs they wouldn’t be threatened.
An Alabama woman wore a space helmet to a school board meeting to protest mask mandates.
Nice.
Orwell was right…
It amuses me when I se libertarian on the internet opposing masks being told stuff like “that is like opposing seatbelt mandates because accidents are rare” and are generally surprised libertarians oppose seatbelt mandates
I think the seatbelt problem was solved by cars excessively annoying the shit out of people who don’t wear them.
+1 liberaltarian nudge
There may be some regulation that requires cars to do that though. I have no idea.
Otherwise the market has said it’s ok.
Almost every aspect of a car is heavily regulated. That’s wht they all look pretty much the same and run pretty much the same. There’s only minor wiggle room after compliance.
I assume the producers were regulated into that it was not their idea
My wondering as well.
Although for something that’s regulated there sure is a wide variety. Every one of my cars is different.
The worst are cars that have weight sensors that can’t tell the difference between a person and a box full of stuff.
Yes. I have actually put a seatbelt over a package before to stop the beep.
I have one car that beeps even when I’m parked. This is annoying as hell.
Can’t be too safe. Open containers while parked is a serious offense. I would like to think a closed container would be more seriouser.
A few minutes with the owner’s manual can usually clear that right up.
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I remember being snapped out of my shock and grief over 9/11 when I first heard the terms “Patriot Act” and “Homeland Security.”
And here we are. Angry parents arguing at school board meetings are clearly not trying to use “terrorism” to advance their cause; they are verbally addressing specie issues with the specific people with whom they have a bone to pick. How is that terror?
Is it terror when the debate team from one high school competes against the team from another school?
If I had read a dystopian novel a decade ago with this plot I would have shaken my head and thought the author had used a Deus ex Machina step to move the plot along. Now it is really fucking happening and too many people seem to not only not have a problem with this evil assertion, but they agree that parents that don’t want their children fucked over are the problem.
ex Machina – I liked that movie
Yeah, I would have considered all this to be rather implausible back in 1999-2000, but after 2002, nothing surprises me, and it all looks bad. The cheerleading for the police state from both sides for decades has made this inevitable.
It is if the wrong school wins.
They were considering Fatherland Security, but rejected it over gender concerns.
Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), tr. Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnost
Committee of State Security. Who can oppose that?
Won’t someone please think of the poor government apparatchiks?!
A teacher and a preacher have the same job but if you disagree with the preacher you can change churches or no church and nothing bad happens nor does anyone really care.
No sloopy links but for some reason the bleacher report app I have on my phone for NBA informed me that the Astros qualified or something. Most comments were variations of “cheaters” and “fuck the astros” for some reason.
Which led me to a dilemma. I know little of MLB and NFL, but since I am a Lakers fan in the NBA should I be rooting for the Dodgers / Rams? And do these teams have a shot at winning?
I have a Romanian friend who watched baseball and was rooting for the team in St. Louis, Missouri, as some of his cousins moved to America and settled there, and he went to visit and attended a baseball game.
Those are the Royals, named after the famous Lourde song.
You mean, the famous Puddles song.
Google says Cardinals. Are you trying to fake news misinform me?
Yes, it’s the St Louis Cardinals. They are on a 17 game win streak right now and have a good shot at a wild card spot in the championship playoffs.
And as a lifelong Cubs fan, I despise them.
(I don’t really hate them, just natural rivalry. Seeing prime-Pujols 18 games a year was…absolutely barbaric. (Read: Insanely impressive.) It was a shame to see the Cubs completely dismantle this year. I knew it was going to happen, but such is life. At least we still have Hendricks, my absolute favorite current pitcher. And Contreras.
Well. I will always remember ’16, which is IMO the greatest World Series of all time. I don’t even care that my team won. Game 7? OK, well that’s big no matter what. And extra innings in Game 7 to take it home?! (Just looked it up. Only 5 Game 7’s in the WS have ever been won in extras. Hat tip to the Marlins over the Indians in ’97 and especially to the Twins over the Braves ’91, with a 1-0 finish. DAMN. The other two are from the ’20s.)
How can ya not love baseball?
Sure… dredge up the loss to the Marlins in the World Series as well, when Sunday is the last game of the Cleveland Indians.
At least we have the Browns now.
I loved that Game Seven. Emblazoned onto my brain forever.
Cardinal fan here, and the winning streak is over (and they started a new winning streak last night), and clinched a wild-card spot with the last win in the 17-game streak. The only unknown is whether they play the Giants or the Dodgers in the wild card game.
The Dodgers are Bernie Sander’s team if you want to know who you’ll be rooting with.
He has warm memories of taking his grandkids to see them at Ebbetts Field.
Lol
As Romania is outside the claimed territory of any team, you are freer to chose whatever team you wish.
PS: Fuck both Baltimore and Washington. I’m not your property.
you are freer to chose – I know I can the question was whether I should
Fuck the Scrams. They are as bad as the Traitors when it comes to abandoning a fan base. The Dodgers I don’t care.
so Chargers it is ?
Another owner who screwed the fanbase.
Really the only ownership that won’t do that is Packers.
I went to Rams games before Georgia Frontiere gained control after her husband’s death and betrayed the fans. I started following the Chargers, but stopped after they screwed their fans. I stopped caring entirely as the NFL went downhill.
As a child of two Bay Area parents and who mostly lived in NorCal, I hate the Giants with a cold fury, and only root for the A’s, the Tigers (wife is from the D) or, now that I live in the PNW and was born here, the Mariners. And, obviously, anyone playing against the SF junkies.
And that is how you root for teams.
Nobody should root for the Dodgers.
How about Wood Chipped Wednesday? Surely he can root for the Dodgers.
In local news, the infection rate is climbing and all sorts of new restrictions come in play.
In the past at these levels, schools were closed and moved online. Recently the government decided to allow each school to decide for itself instead of having a government policy. This led to parents protesting for and against keeping schools open. I am unsure which group is more numerous.
“And, if to finance those spending and tax decisions, it’s necessary to issue additional debt, I believe it’s very destructive to the president and myself, the Treasury secretary, in the situation where we might be unable to pay the bills that result from those past decisions.”
Who gives a shit about the country? It makes her job hard. And poor President Biden, how will he reshape the national culture if Republicans keep throwing these bogus roadblocks at him?
Remember, Republicans tried to make Obama a one-term president! The obstructed the chosen one!
“America’s public schools and its education leaders are under immediate threat,” the letter begins. As such, it goes on, the National School Boards Association “respectfully asks for federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats and violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation.”
Examples?
“The NSBA “believes immediate assistance is required to protect” students, school board members, and educators who, they write, “are susceptible to acts of violence affecting interstate commerce because of threats to their districts, families, and personal safety.”
Oh, bullshit.
Washington-based lobbying entity lobbying federal govt, film at 11.
Susceptible. In other words, they have no proof of an actual threat.
Yellen calls for ‘very destructive’ debt limit to be abolished
Uhm, fuck you, cut spending.
She doesn’t mean it though. The debt ceiling fight always has the same result.
Democratic lawmakers also ripped Republicans for tying their willingness to keep the country solvent to political concerns.
FUCK YOU CUT SPENDING.
Well this does explain why Biden won and more Democrats down ballot didn’t. And so much for the vaunted Democratic unity.
Trump really did polarize the electorate, and the negatively were just as charged up as the positive.
….And now the drunks are showing up at the ER.
This guy is calling everyone who makes him wear a mask or comply with any other rules (reasonable ones like getting in line) “Gavin Newsom Jr.”
He’s actually being a little scary, spoiling for a fight. Fortunately there are 3 security guards.
It must be nice to have a fellow Glib to keep you company.
No, this asshole is insane. And loud. And keeps telling everyone he’s the best looking guy in the room and referring to his modeling career.
Oh shit—it might be Brochettaward.
LOL
That’s sounds like dunphy territory. Ask him if he’s even bench-pressed Morgan Fairchild.
JFC.
That fucking guy? You reached in the way back machine for that statist asshole.
I wouldn’t mind seeing someone create a similcrum of Dunphy (like STEVE SMITH) here.
Dunphy was so fucking goofy that he was almost entertaining.
Wait till they start forcibly injecting patients against their wishes. That’s when things get “interesting”.
Is it Random Drunk Guy from SNP?
Slurring, “Hey it’s first day of boobies month, so….”
Gimme the keys! I’ll drive!!..
I can’t recommend a Taibbi subscription highly enough.
Oh, I finished Lasch’s book and I’m writing up my next article on it and Gurri’s book.
We should stop calling the old media “mainstream’. Their readership/viewership/listenership is down so much they can’t even be considered mainstream anymore.
For example, the Chicago metro is roughly 8 million people. Been that way for about 20 years, pretty stagnant. The #1 local news program is the same now as it was 10 years ago. But viewership is down 50% from 10 years ago. The local CBS station’s news programs have such low ratings they cancelled 33% of them; there was a rumor the entire news department was going to get cut because their highest rated show can’t beat Seinfeld reruns, but CBS corporate shovels money at it to hide the failure.
They are mainstream in the same way that Catholics were mainstream after the reformation took place. Part of Europe cared, part of Europe said fuck you, and the peasants kept starving.
Financial and economic experts also say a default on the national debt could be catastrophic to both the U.S. economy and global financial system given the world’s reliance on the U.S. dollar and Treasury bonds as bedrock for international commerce.
And when the destruction of the currency is complete, what then?
the rival Church of the Mainstream, which describes itself as the (literally) true faith and exclusive arbiter of such things as “fact” and “science,” preaches a coming fascist apocalypse.
For, or against?
Yeah, I was thinking “Fascist Rapture” would have been more appropriate.
“Democracy dies in the darkness”
Against the wrong sort of fascists, for the correct sort of course.
ding-ding-ding
When I buy a head of lettuce in the marked, it is always better than the prewashed stuff in the bag. But i have to wash it and that is a hassle. The way I do it is I turn the tap on low and then wash each individual leaf, and that takes time. I saw online some people fill the sink or a large bowl with water and slosh the lettuce ion there to rinse / clean it although I am unsure that is hygienic.
My question is what is the Official Glibertarian way of washing lettuce?
Tear the amount you need, place in a screen bowl and rinse under tap. Make sure to flip it around a bit so every surface get rinsed.
If by “screen bowl” you mean “colander”, this is the correct answer.
Don’t wash it at all.
Also do you people use salad spinners to dry the thing? I generally don’t just shake off the excess water
That doesn’t work. The only way to get the lettuce to where it doesn’t sog your sandwich is to roll it in a paper towel. This has the added benefit of keeping it fresh in the crisper drawer.
That’s what I’ve been doing wrong…
I find that dizzy lettuce is much less tasty.
We have one. We never use it, though we generally get the premade/washed salad kits.
I’ve never seen someone give their lettuce a bath. That method doesn’t make much sense.
Two words: amoebic dysentery.
Little pockets os water get caught in the interior of the lettuce head and nasty bugs grow in there. Always wash lettuce.
This is why COVID is killing us.
We cannot handle the Germs.
This is why I drink hard liquor – to disinfect. Yeah…that’s it.
ISTR that lettuce is the #1 cause of e. coli outbreaks.
Wash your lettuce.
And, yes, we use a salad spinner. It gets almost all of the water off – I’ll still roll it in a clean dishtowel if I care about getting it really dry.
I remember when “Dysentery Is Patriotic” was a thing.
If you shake it more than once,you’re playing with it.
Feed it to the livestock.
“Scientific studies have demonstrated that washing produce in cold, chlorinated water will reduce microbial
populations by only 90 – 99 percent.”
https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/Commodity-Specific-Food-Safety-Guidelines-for-the-Lettuce-and-Leafy-Greens-Supply-Chain-1st-Edition-%28PDF%29.pdf
I was under the impression that washing is to get rid of the chemicals only that they spray on the plants.
It’s prone to listeria contamination. Tough to rinse out all of the nooks and crannies.
fda? how very unlibertarian
Use a BNCS.
Official Glibertarian way? You all don’t tell me what to do.
Wait, you guys EAT the lettuce? I thought it was just for decoration.
Lettuce is not food, lettuce is what food eats.
Except hearts of romaine, those are okay.
New arithmetic palindrome just dropped
61 – (8+8+8+8+8) = (8+8+8+8+8) – 19
fascinating
Communist strategy –
Step 1: Wipe out small businesses to make Amazon more dominant.
Step 2: Nationalize Amazon by taxing unrealized capital gains.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1443390749941321731
How does taxing “unrealized capital gains” nationalize Amazon?
You must not be familiar with the underpants gnome school of business.
Profit!!!
I mean if you put a 50% tax on rising stock prices the stock owners would not be owners for long
So the missing piece is a purchasing side: when the stocks are force-sold at firesale prices on tax day, the government (via which arm?) buys them up.
treasury?
Perhaps, seems a bit too bold/out in the open though. I’m not really sure why this would even be necessary, it’s not like the retirement funds that own Amazon and every other major publicly traded corporation are working against the government.
Of course that would create enormous tax write-offs when stock prices fall.
unless you get rid of those
Close the loopholes!
The garrote tax!
That’s adorable – you only’ll pay taxes on unrealized gains, you won’t get breaks on the losses, silly.
Damn. I have a lot of unrealized losses around the house.
Amazon workers should quit in mass and use their experience to create a new, worker-owned alternative!
Purple prose
As the Democratic agenda verges on unraveling, thousands of trees have been slaughtered to write lengthy analyses about the mind of the Democratic “moderate” — a mislabeling of these political extremists who do the bidding of 1 Percent millionaires and billionaires over the middle-class voters who elected them. I’ve read tortured explanations of the political strategy behind Sinema’s stranger-than-fiction, lifelong evolution from Green Party anti-capitalist radical to Napa Valley hedge-fund hobnobber. She now sees herself as an independent “maverick” like her home state’s Republican legend, the late Sen. John McCain.
But the reality is that Simema seems to be acting on a political death wish: The Democrats who once supported her are looking to primary her out of office in 2024, and even if she survives that, Republicans who now applaud her anti-progress stance are sure to vote for whatever Trump-fried wackadoodle comes down the pike in the general election. Sinema’s relentless rise to a place where she can single-handedly blow up the nation’s politics seems explained by an easy willingness to chuck any principles for rank, careerist narcissism — and that narcissism is now drawn like the proverbial vampire squid to Big Money.
He seems a bit overwrought.
How dare she behave exactly as voters hoped she would!
Democracy is when elected representatives do what they’re told
Is he one of her constituents? If not, why do his words have any impact? Impotent sack of shit.
Any elected representative, either house or senate, should have two overlapping sets of political drives; theirs and that of their voters. They should espouse a platform that tells voters how they will vote generally, and specifically on set issues that matter to them, as long as they stated those views clearly in the run up to the election. They should take the words of their voters seriously, at the same time, and represent them to the best of their ability, even if they personally disagree as they are hired hands, nothing more.
Politicians top 3 priorities:
1. Get elected/reelected.
2. Fucking getting elected/reelected.
3. Telling idiot voters the right bullshit to get elected/reelected.
Remember that and you won’t be too disappointed by them ever…
This guy gets it. Elections have consequences (for the candidates, not the voters, they already know what to expect.). Past performance is indicative of future performance.
Hunkemöller Fashion Show 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxCzUSRggH4
That’s the weirdest game of chess I’ve ever seen.
Quite an array of pieces. Where can I find a set like that?
Hayeksplosives: Regarding your work boot question, I have worn Carolina logger style boots for many years. I buy the 8″ upper ones because my left ankle rolls easily and the extra support is good. I find them comfortable, but YMMV.
The quality has gone downhill a bit over the years since they started making them overseas, though they’re still OK. I may switch to a different US made brand next time I buy a pair.
If you can find a boot shop with a competent fitter, it’s amazing how comfy work boots can be. It’s really hard to find anyone who actually knows how to fit shoes anymore.
Thorogood 9″ loggers are great. Still made in the US. Union made in Wisconsin so $$$.
I hear they are comparable to the Carolinas, or what the Carolina boot used to be. Once you break them in they are very comfortable.
I wear redwing 1412’s on weekends and get about 5 years out of a pair.
If I wore them daily they definitely would not last more than 2.
They are extremely comfortable once broken in and very waterproof.
I wear Redwing chukkas about half the year, as I am in the PNW also. Super comfortable. But when I was with the phone company down in the bay, I wore linesman’s boots, as the climbers would tear up your legs in normal hight boots, so 16″ers were best, Carolina’s or Whites.
I wear my Justin Ropers almost daily, they’re over 15 years old, on their third set of soles, and are still in good shape.
I have a couple pairs of square-toed tooled Chippewas for going to town and so on.
I think I’ll try Thorogood next time. My employer covers up to $200 a pair for boots, so it’s not much more for me to pay.
I just bought and are breaking in a pair of Thorogood Moc Toe Work boots. Mine are not steel toe, they are available.
https://www.thorogoodusa.com/american-heritage-6-tobacco-safety-toe-moc-toe-maxwear-wedge-804-4200/
There’s a new work boot shop that just went in around here recently that’s a Thorogood dealer, I’ll head down and have a look sometime soon.
I have that exact pair. They’re great. My bunion disagrees, but it always does…
None of this is meant to offer a free pass to Republicans, whose pro-business, pro-billionaire policies are embedded in their DNA, and whose burn-it-to-the-ground brand of obstructionism is what forces the Democrats to struggle for the unanimity they need to pass virtually anything. But the fact that narrow, wealthy special interests control a working majority in both houses of Congress is proof that our tolerance for Big Money in American politics is our original sin, and this has been going on for decades now.
KILL THE RICH
Good news. They eliminated the potentially scary stuff and I will be able to home treat with some prescription medications.
Now to wait on the discharge paperwork and order an Uber (they won’t let me drive on Vicodin) and I’d like to let the hubby sleep.
Great!
if you are not driving might as well have a nice scotch with the Vicodin 🙂
Don’t mix alcohol with tylenol.
What Tater said.
Besides, I don’t drink anymore aside from a rare glass of wine.
How very unlibertarian but i respect your choice
So is the medication for you or the hubby?
+1 QOTSA
“Nicotine, valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol. C-c-c-c-c-cocaine!”
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60n05
“Anabolic steroids, Novocaine, Nyquil, Darvon, and some sort of fish paralyzer.”
dammit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
I’d watch those Olympics.
“So far, one hundred and fifteen world records have been shattered!”
That is good news!
Excellent.
Letting the hubby sleep—you are a good woman. Bless your heart.
Thumbs up!
After Wednesdays all 19th century baseball birthday list, today’s is hyper-modern.
Top of list is HoFer Rod Carew, who is old guy on the list. Then Mark McGwire, Matt Cain, the active Xander Bogaerts, Roberto Kelly, and Jeff Reardon.
Damn. Missed last night. Helped the wife with a call center outage in Mexico until midnight. Then Hayekplosives is in the ER? Glad you are getting discharged soon.
For last night’s article it always felt like the last episode of the Prisoner was totally winged rather than produced. The public thought ill of it at the time and McGoohan had to go in hiding for a while. So I felt some of the decisions made during that last episode were more due to haphazard than carefully planned, despite numerous volumes written about it over time. Crazy idea? Maybe not as crazy as that ending and McGoohan’s explanation.
Also crazy tire is crazy. The very first comment points out the issue.
https://drivetribe.com/p/michelins-airless-puncture-proof-FoscI1pwQSGdMg-hHwStkQ?iid=AGqsy-Q9S4eHE9MsheWwTg
I remember when that was called fiberglass.
Fiber reinforced plastic a “new material?” Can’t the news media get *anything* right?
/tips monocle
IKYSWIDT
I don’t think I’m trusting that with the way i drive.
Well, today was odd. I had the morning off as it got rotated for my normal Wed morning off. Taught my easiest day, only two hours. And now…uh…there’s a three-day weekend! Monday is off.
It’s a holiday that I knew of but forgot when it fell. It’s…a testament to how seriously the Koreans treat their history. It goes back 4000 years. It is also one example of why I think (South) Korea works so well. It’s a city-state. A big one, but its homogeneity is a great reason for it’s post Japanese rule success. Fifty-five million people in the size of Indiana. They all have the same heritage and it shows. To be lazy and quote from Wiki:
“Gaecheonjeol (Korean: 개천절) is a public holiday in South and North Korea on 3 October. [Day off is Monday cuz the 3rd is a Sunday.] Also known by the English name National Foundation Day, this holiday celebrates the legendary formation of the first Korean state of Gojoseon in 2333 BC. This date has traditionally been regarded as the date for the founding of the Korean people.”
That’s…um…a cultural legacy that I can’t think of anywhere else in the world. The Egyptians sure are proud of their heritage and the pyramids, etc, etc, but…I’m not sure, but I don’t think that they do this. I could be completely wrong about it.
Another great thing about their history and seriousness/their recent freedom from Japan’s stranglehold: Every single one of S. Korea’s presidents has been imprisoned or executed (one was given a late stay of execution, but was convicted) except for ONE. They take corruption and shit VERY seriously and won’t have any of it. They are like America when we were first starting out. They hold their leaders with constant vigilance, to bear out their oaths and to follow their own laws. It’s…something beautiful to see a country, as a whole, that still gives a massive amount of fucks about how they are being governed. It has helped them become the 11th biggest economy in the world. They give a shit, and it’s impressive.
They will one day go the same path that the rest of the world inevitably does, sadly. Hard times/strong men/good times/weak men/ and so on. But I’ll ride the wave for now.
I hate auto-correct. *its* post-Japanese rule…
Do they celebrate this holiday in North Korea?
According to wiki they do. I’m not sure HOW, but supposedly so. It’s a weird thing. My parents have been to the DMZ and so has my bro and SIL. But I’ve never done it, despite living here for 7+years in total. I know of a few people (friends of friends) who’ve been to NoKo through China, but I would never dream of such. It’s just giving them more money. That’s…a bizarre things to buy into doing. WTF do they think they’re gonna see?
I would never visit NK, just because I’d be too likely to say the wrong thing and get nailed on trumped-up charges or something.
Every single one of S. Korea’s presidents has been imprisoned or executed (one was given a late stay of execution, but was convicted) except for ONE. – I would say pour décourager les autres but it does not seem to discourage them if they keep getting imprisoned and executed
I think of it as a people that are happy to put them up on the lamp post for breaking the vows they made to the people that elected them. Park Chung Hee was assassinated and his daughter, who became president, Park Gyun Hye is currently in prison.
“On 9 December 2016, Park was impeached by the National Assembly on charges related to influence peddling by her top aide…The Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment by a unanimous 8–0 ruling on 10 March 2017, thereby removing Park from office, making her the first Korean president to be so removed.[ On 6 April 2018, South Korean courts sentenced her to 24 years in prison (later increased to 25 years) for corruption and abuse of power.[9][10] Park is currently imprisoned at Seoul Detention Center.
In 2018, two separate criminal cases resulted in an increase of seven years in Park’s prison sentence. She was found guilty of illegally taking off-the-book funds from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and given a five-year prison sentence, and also found guilty of illegally interfering in the Liberty Korea Party primaries in the 2016 South Korean legislative election, for which she was sentenced to two more years in prison.”
She’s in prison for life. For the first woman president in SoKo history! They don’t give a fuck who you are, though they probably cared cuz her father was a straight-up piece of shit. She got elected and then slammed. I wish we still had that ‘Liberty grows with the blood of tyrants’ fortitude here.
If only we could imprison our corrupt national politicians. Instead they fail upward.
(on a related note, since we were acquired by a Japanese company, I have taken to referring (in safe company) to some of our less capable higher-ups (Americans) as “FUMU-san.” I haven’t checked to see if that’s a real word yet.)
OK, so I felt shame for my laziness and looked it up–fumu is “to step on,” so it’s real and not particularly offensive.
Funny, my wife calls Koreans the most like Americans of Asian countries/cultures. And that’s not even getting into the politicians.
I wonder if that’s because of the relatively higher percentage of Christians.
The concept of a Confucian society is still most definitely there.
That is a very interesting point. There are many churches (교회) here. Like…just everywhere. I live right next to one. They just happen to be in normal Korean buildings. Certainly not cathedrals or anything. And Confucianism is inherently important here. I also live right next to a Buddhist…not temple…area. The kind that still uses the Asian swastika. Literally a minutes walk from my apartment. They have a mountain-side crop-area/community. I want to go up there but it seems rather private, or if I did they would want to talk to me and feed me and really I just want to look around. Very odd. It’s visible from my apartment. Haven’t had the compunction to explore. My Korean is fine for day-tp-day shit but I know that elderly folk (they all are there) and the subject matter puts me WELL outside of the meek abilities I do have.
I do have a three-day weekend…maybe that would be something I could explore. I don’t like talking to strangers. In Korean…multiply that by 1000. I love to be ignored. Though I love the ice-cream lady on my street that always happily says ‘Hello!’ to me (in Korean) when I come back from work. I’m the only foreigner in my neighborhood. I…stick out. They know who I am and they are all incredibly nice. It’s a very friendly place.
If they are anything like the Japanese they are really curious about foreigners.
For me the fact that I speak the language really makes them curious.
Oh, they are just as curious as the Japanese. I would say more-so. I’ve been to Japan four times and they were much more ‘open’ and ‘understanding’ of Westerners than Korea is, though I’ve never experienced any nastiness here at all. I totally understand! My Korean is shitty. Can’t make sentences, but I have a lot of vocabulary and I can function in public and do everything that I need to do. Just…I can’t have a conversation. But I get shit done.
I have gotten used to being a zoo creature for children, and it actually helps my profession and I have no problem with it at all. With one exception:
My young kids are always eager to see my face and my hazel eyes. I am used to being a bit of a zoo creature to them. But I hate that they get barked at when they try to take my mask off (these are 5-7-year-olds). They just want to see something/someone that they’ve never experienced before. It’s a terrible flaw of how they are attached to Mask Culture.
And I have permanent hearing damage and it is very important to be able to see people’s mouths when they talk. To have that stricken away is something that others don’t think about. (No you all. People in general.) You see all these ASL signers in US/etc public when they can just add subtitles to TV stuff. That can’t be done in person. It’s a distinct hatred that I have for all of this bullshit. People like me NEED to be able to see people’s mouths whenever they speak. People forget how important that is. Let alone that I teach kids phonics.
It isn’t possible to explain how an ‘f’ or ‘v’ sound gets made without showing one’s mouth. Or a ‘th.’ It’s…maddening. I detest all of it. I will again write ‘Under duress’ for my second vax next week. Assholes. No one ever thinks about how this actually affects people.
lol about the zoo creature stuff.
My wife’s family lives in a tiny farming village outside of Daegu (central Korea). When we visit, my niece would bring me to her elementary school for show and tell. My Korean was all learned from the ROK Marines, so I have been restricted to English only.
I just had to stand there and the kids would touch my red hair and pull on my beard. They really do treat you like some strange animal. The idea that you are just as human as them is totes off the table.
And it isn’t just the kids. Koreans don’t have much sense of personal space, so it isn’t uncommon to be touched or grabbed by adults in public. The most startling was to be touched by another guy in a bath house – no homo.
I forget where I heard it (PJ O’Rourke?) first, but I like the description of Koreans as the Irish of the East. They drink too much, fight too much and blame all their problems on old colonizers (instead of the fighting and drinking).
With family in Japan and Korea, the biggest difference I see is that you can really laugh in Korea without worrying about Face. If my Japanese brother-in-law slipped and fell on his ass there is no way I would laugh because he’d be super embarrassed. If my Korean brother-in-law slipped, we’d all laugh. In fact he’d have to watch us do humorous re-enactments.
Oh and the smells. Korea smells like kerosene and kimchi.
Okinawans aren’t nearly that serious.
Although my wife got pissed at my brother in law(he’s Okinawan) and I when we were playing drunken catch with an Obon Melon as we took it outside to place in the Haka.
My BIL was also a much older guy who owned his own business and a very serious man. So he was probably more concerned about Face than normal.
Still the only time I see most Japanese really laugh is when they have been drinking. The rule seems to be that if you’ve been drinking you can’t be held totally responsible for any acts of disrespect that might happen.
*Okinawans aren’t real Japanese
Speaking of Senator Hooker Boots, I find it funny (by which I mean completely sad and predictable) how intense the “Fire that traitorous cunt!” articles have become.
Fucking apostates, they are the lowest of the low. How dare she not tow the progressive lion.
In that sense, she is as faithful a Dem as McCain was a Repub.
“Surveys found a third of Republicans think the asymptomatic don’t transmit Covid-19”
Has that actually been disproven?
I Dr Fauci says so I choose to believe the expert
How many Democrats think the vaccinated don’t transmit Covid-19?
If the asymptomatic can transmit, how much do they transmit?
If you’re asymptomatic, then you’re not hacking and sneezing, so you wouldn’t spread much, it seems to me.
I don’t know at all, but it makes sense so I’m sure it’s against the science.
It travels by rays, this is known.
“The sovereign sets the null hypothesis”
Anything that doesn’t require jabbing every human on earth is false and anti-science.
Numbers
<em<Merck and its partner, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, said early results showed patients who received the drug, called molnupiravir, within five days of COVID-19 symptoms had about half the rate of hospitalization and deaths as patients who received a dummy pill. The study tracked 775 adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who were considered at higher risk for severe disease due to health problems such as obesity, diabetes or heart disease.
Among patients taking molnupiravir, 7.3% were either hospitalized or died at the end of 30 days, compared with 14.1% of those getting the dummy pill. There were no deaths in the drug group after that time period compared with eight deaths in the placebo group, according to Merck.
If You-Know-Who were promoting this, the media would be pooh-pooh-ing it as inconclusive and anecdotal and a distraction to the cause.
And the 85 or 90 percent who were not hospitalized? Irrelevant. This plague is LETHAL!
“called molnupiravir”
Needs a better name.
So not nearly as effective as Ivermectin or Hydroxycloroquine, but probably 100 times the price?
Imagine trusting your health to these people.
Maybe this pill’s success is the excuse Biden et al are looking for the walk back the OSHA vax mandate. Could be a compromise: Since they can’t get the vax numbers up high enough to satisfy whatever promised kickbacks there were, the magic pill will make up for some of that loss.
Asymptomatic spread is like the magic bullet that ricocheted off John Connolly’s belt buckle and blew the top of Kennedy’s head clean off.
It explains the inexplicable.
I thought the magic wasn’t just the trajectory, but that it was not at all deformed from impact.
Ignoring the PTSD drama (which I believe is PR spin to have the press back off) I’m rather impressed with Princess Mako. She’s stuck by this guy for for more than 5 years when the by far easiest solution would have been to dump him. The Japanese public really doesn’t like him.
She’s basically said I’m getting married, moving to NYC and since I’m not taking any cash you really can’t make any more claims on what I do with my life. I’m just hoping she isn’t divorced in a few years…
Japan’s Princess Mako to Marry as Palace Blames Media for Her PTSD
you are oddly obsessed with this Japanese chick
Who do so many Japanese women look like men with wigs?
You mean when
Nahh, just fodder for my weekly language conversation practice with my friends.
I try to pick topics that are interesting out of both the Japanese and US news that don’t involve real politics.
You ask them to discuss their fascination with fondling people on buses & trains and bukkake?
and tentacles.
and my favorite: loose white socks
https://kotaku.com/the-return-of-those-infamous-japanese-schoolgirl-socks-1450614462
That’s a bit of the usual pushback from the school uniform that all students, public and private, are required to wear.
Similar to my Catholic school days the girls also roll their skirts up to shorten them.
They also went the other direction in the 70s.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/28261/1/remembering-japans-badass-70s-schoolgirl-gangs
My friends are all married women in their 50s.
We do occasionally chuckle as we try to explain taboo words. For example (o)manko has about the same social acceptance and meaning as “cunt” in American usage.
And yet they named their princess that!
They’ve only basically only got something like 100 different sounds in the language. You’ve got to reduce, reuse, recycle…
Austria’s anti #nuclear insanity hits record low….
Extract from this week’s Competitiveness Council:
Austria asking that Member States who are strongly opposed to nuclear should not have to meet such stringent CO2 reductions as those who do use nuclear….
https://twitter.com/ajjohnson100/status/1443839382369284126
Member states that are strongly opposed to increasing energy costs should also not have to meet stringent requirements.
>>Initial jobless claims unexpectedly rise
No one expects the jobless claims to rise!
It travels by rays, this is known.
It baffles SCIENCE!
Five days later and I still feel a bit sick. Better, mind you, but still low on energy. Tried to workout yesterday and had to quit before I got to legs.
No fever. Very little classic cold symptoms. Just exhaustion: easily tired, leading to a lot of sitting around with a glass of wine, watching bad TV.
I do, however, plan to make it out to an estate sale so I can spread the disease around to strangers. Also stock up the antique booth. September was the second best month ever, which is great considering how poorly sales started at the beginning.
If you are sick, you should stay home.
Concur
Yah – I’m too tired to leave!
If you really think you have COVID, or anything else, yeah, please stay home. You could spread it to people who won’t have the same, easier, time of it.
It’s his diabolical plan to increase the number of estate sales in his area.
(I keed, I keed.)
This morning I skimmed an Indiana COVID update, and I find this little gem at the end of the article. Funny how in some places this type of thinking is heresy.
“For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness like pneumonia, or death.”
COVID may cause ‘restless anal syndrome’ – report
https://m.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/covid-may-cause-restless-anal-syndrome-report-680582
Have we finally found a replacement for drugs falling out of the ass?
+1 check the thermostat
+6 Cleveland Browns
We’re currently in a world with the Bengals at the top of the AFC North, and the Stillers are in last place.
Who could have predicted that?
I am glad that the only side effect I had from getting the Kung Flu was constant annoying calls to donate blood by the fucking Red Cross once they realized I had antibodies…
There might already be a cure for that. Sounds a lot like the Semen-Eating Anal Worm…
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/04/24/kuwaiti-academic-semen-eating-anal-worms-homosexuality/
Sounds like she could fit right in at the WHO or the CDC based on her scientific accumen….
Is that when the politicians take being assholes to the next level?
STEVE SMITH TAKE ASSHOLE NEXT LEVEL
like a freight train through a tunnel
STEVE SMITH LIKE FREIGHT TRAIN THROUGH A STRAW
Restless Anal Syndrome is the worst band name ever.
Big deal, I get that every time I eat at McDonald’s.
We got a new groovy radio for the kitchen:
Looks like this: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/62/71/e9/6271e9291ea20c83bf2b91e8e5311389.jpg
That’s an awesome old unit.
Pssst – I think you’ve been hornswoggled. That’s not new.
“California Governor Gavin Newsom hands back LA beachfront land worth $72 million to descendants of black family it was seized from almost 100 years ago – and they’re now free to develop it as they wish
The land, in Manhattan Beach, was bought by Willa and Charles Bruce in 1912 for $1,225 and taken from them by the local council in 1924, following Ku Klux Klan protests against the thriving beach resort operating on the site.
For decades the family campaigned to have it returned to them, and in April the city council agreed to hand the land back.
They will be able to do what they wish with the plot, and are exempt from zoning laws that require beachfront property in the city to be ‘used for public recreation and beach purposes in perpetuity.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10047755/Newsom-returns-Manhattan-Beach-land-Bruce-family-80-years-forcibly-taken.html
Has anyone seen Playa Manhattan?
I’m sure that won’t generate any resentment from their neighbors. ?
something something equal protection
“Smith & Wesson announces $120M move to Tennessee from Massachusetts – where it has been headquartered since 1856 – because of BAN on production of assault rifles that account for 60% of revenue”
Famed gunmaker Smith & Wesson will leave its historic 165-year-old headquarters in Massachusetts for a new home base in gun-friendly Tennessee, saying proposed legislation in the deep Blue state to ban manufacturing of assault weapons would devastate its bottom line.
The company announced Thursday that it will build a new $120million facility in Maryville by 2023 and eventually shutter the Springfield location that forged famed firearms like the .357 magnum – used by Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry movies.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10047597/Gunmaker-Smith-Wesson-moving-HQ-Tennessee-Massachusetts.html
It was a model 29 loaded with 44 special.
Why can’t news outlets get *anything* right about firearms?
They are virtue signaling.
Fixed that for you.
Thanks, I strive for accuracy and concision but your edit is both accurate and concise-er.
The media isn’t about giving you information through news so you can form informed opinions anymore. It is about assigning you the approved beliefs they want you to have.
Was it not a 44 Remington Mag?
Been nearly 50 years, I knew Harry when he was still taking a bath.
I see that the problem is your assumption that what they report isn’t what they want you to believe, facts be damned…
See they should have gone with “…famed firearms like the .357 Magnum – used by General George Patton in World War Two and which he referred to as his ‘killing gun.'”
*goes looking for the S&W jobs site*
I suspect that S&W’s Springfield plant is probably chock full of legacy machinery that is single-purpose, hair-raisingly expensive to maintain, takes up a huge amount of expensive floor space, and is too large and heavy to scrap out.
Better business climate + better political climate + a chance to build out a modern plant? I’m honestly amazed that they’ve stayed in Springfield this long.
“Private school is embroiled in racism storm after white boy asked white girl to homecoming with sign saying: ‘If I were black, I would be picking cotton, but I’m white so I’m picking you’: Her mom claims it was made by black boy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10047369/Kansas-City-high-school-homecoming-proposal-sign-sparks-outrage-racist.html
For every retarded, there is an equal and opposite retarded.
Who says things like that? Can anyone think of a single incident like this that was not a false flag?
Kids are stupid?
Not only stupid. But giant, raging assholes too.
Stupid. But also our country has done so good of a job of excising real racism that kids honestly don’t realize that stupid shit like that is truly inappropriate.
Picking cotton is just a joke to the kid because we don’t have a permanent underclass of black share croppers anymore.
“New footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows the scale of the problem facing the United States’ supply chains, with more than a dozen cargo ships and oil tankers anchored outside New York’s harbor, waiting to unload their goods.
The huge ships are loaded with products that cannot be offloaded because of a shortage of port workers and truck drivers to transport them to their final destinations.
Concern has been mounting for several weeks about supply chains worldwide, and the U.S. is beginning to be hit, with the latest clip showing the ongoing bottlenecks of cargo building up outside America’s most populous city.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10048127/Why-Thanksgiving-Christmas-expensive-warnings-supply-chain-collapse.html
Home at last! Home at last!
Thanks for the well-wishes and entertaining chat during my 6 hour stint in the ER.
Now that my body clock is hosed, I’ll be checking out now.
My kitty cat flopped hard right next to me as soon as I lay down. When I opened the door he greeted me like a doggy who hadn’t seen his owner for weeks. He’s a sweetheart.
Good morning Banjos!
Good morning, everyone!
HE, I’m sorry to read about your troubles, but I’m glad you are home safe and sound.
Have a great day people! I’m gonna take the afternoon off and go hiking in the mountains with my brother. No cell service and I won’t think about the shit state of this country for at least a few hours.
You and the brother going out in the woods for some “bear hunting”?
Angry parents arguing at school board meetings are clearly not trying to use “terrorism” to advance their cause; they are verbally addressing specie issues with the specific people with whom they have a bone to pick.
If the school boards start responding the way this looks, how long until parents decide that terrorism may be their only option? If showing up at a school board meeting and arguing your case is going to be treated as terrorism, maybe the rational way of seeking redress is tar and feathers or rope and lampposts.
Most people will put up with a ton of shit hurting them, until you come for their kids.
?
Maybe time for some mostly peaceful arson of the school board offices?
There are probably some nice metal desks we can loot while we’re at it.
Kids, we are about to travel into the heart of darkness. There will be no one asking for your COVID papers. You may see people not wearing masks. People here may largely be going about their lives as if the most deadly virus ever known is not just floating around in a heavy invisible miasma ready to infect you. When you do get infected there will be no help, as the hospitals are all overflowing with the soon to be dead. It’s time to adjust your second mask so it fits more snugly and put on your virus visor. Mommy no, please don’t make us go to Florida!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/fear-and-loathing-in-florida.php
Someone (Raven?) pointed out this is probably a parody. Look carefully at the quoted newspaper names near the end.
It is so over the top it seems like a parody, but I think it is not. This is the group that paid for it.
https://www.removeron.org/
Honestly, if I were less honest and knew anything about PACs, I’d probably start a PAC ostensibly catering to the left but using their donations to fund media campaigns that are over-the-top and actually serve to subtly discredit leftist views. And pay myself a handsome salary to do it.
That’s actually a really good idea for some intrepid group. Maybe the Babylon folks could partner up with someone to do so.
They’d want to avoid the “paying themselves a salary” part, otherwise it could discredit their whole organization. It would have to be legitimately a political operation, not for personal enrichment, to keep themselves above that particularl criticism.
At first blush you’d think that would be tricky and you’d have to walk a fine line. But nah, shouldn’t be difficult.
That would be fun. A sort of big, complicated Loki troll.
I saw the usual suspects in the media reporting that a senior Al Qaeda leader was droned in Syria and was a great success for team Biden. Anyone want to start a betting pool we will find out this story is bull and we probably droned someone innocent or inconsequential, if not some kids again?
It’s a great success for team Biden because it has the potential to draw attention away from their myriad other failures.
Plus, maybe it’ll get us into another war so they can pay off their MIC donors.
Syria?
Wasn’t that the shithole that Trump told the DoD to get the fuck out of? And then the generals ignored him and kept a bunch of special forces there?
Good to see that Milley and Friends can now openly drone wedding parties there.
Mornin’
Congress avoided a government shutdown Thursday hours before funding would have lapsed.
Congress always disappoints.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday she supports abolishing the federal debt limit, calling it a “very destructive” threat to the full faith and credit of the U.S.
Huh. Now do out-of-control spending.
Pelosi began the day Friday with an emboldened progressive caucus and growing frustration among her rank-and-file members at the prospect of continued negotiations over the weekend.
Even direct involvement by President Joe Biden on Thursday was not enough to break the intra-party stalemate that threatens his entire domestic agenda.
I’ll enjoy this good news while I can.
Two former high-ranking BLM officials that served under former President Barack Obama’s administration, including Obama’s first director of the agency, Bob Abbey, came out against Stone-Manning’s confirmation prior to Thursday’s vote, saying her involvement in the eco-terrorism case should be disqualifying.
This is interesting. I figured they would have been paid off to stay silent.
As school boards across the country have faced increasing backlash from parents over the past year, they have asked President Joe Biden to step in, suggesting that those parents who oppose their curriculum and Covid-safety mandates are like domestic terrorists who are guilty of hate speech.
The school boards can go fuck themselves.
abolishing the federal debt limit
Pretty sure its required by the Constitution, not that anybody cares.
Fourteenth Amendment:
I can’t find anything in the Constitution requiring a debt limit. The “authorized by law” bit above is as close as I can find to a limit, requiring the Congress to authorize by law any debt, presumably allowing but not requiring them to limit it.
but I just did a quick text search on “debt,” so I may have missed something.
Insert joke here…
Hyundai-Kia recall: turn signal can flash in wrong direction
Nice. Now do rudder control reversal on Boeing 737s…
Asian driver feature?
And here I thought it was a BMW problem.
Find the science: Fully vaccinated players to get UK travel exemption for international duty
Why do you want grandma to die?
The, Oma, the!
Democracy though.
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. It’s not two senators, it’s fifty-two senators.
I know math and logic has never been your strong suit.
You are using that old racist math.
If you used the new progressive math – the math that proves $3.5T bills cost NOTHING – you would also see that 48 right thinking Senators easily outnumber 52 wreckers and kulaks.
Is racist math where numbers are written in either black or red?
seriously, fuck that guy
So… to rephrase what Sanders said… 52 senators cannot be allowed to stop 48 senators.
DEMOCRACY!
If only 48 senators and 210 house members want it, 52 senators and 222 house members don’t.
Just got a quote to move JUST furniture. Holy smokes. ?
That stuff is expensive.
Glad to see you finally got out of the money pit.
Yeup, and maybe with less doom than we thought. Got a really nice place to rent.
Tried these guys? https://twomenandatruck.com/movers/mo/kansas-city
LOL That’s whom I hired.
They moved us into this house. They can move us out.
Paying $$ might ensure you get quality work.
I worked with a guy in Chicago who had a story about how he hired some cheap guys off of Craig’s List. Everything went well until they got separated at a red light on the drive between places and he never saw them or the truck full of his stuff again.
Yes. I was impressed by their work the first time, so I’m fully expecting good work this time. Last time I was in late pregnancy and couldn’t do a thing and they packed our whole house in a matter of hours. This time I’ve got two fully functioning teenagers and a pickup to help me with packing and moving, while My Dude brings in the dough.
We used them when we moved a few years ago in the height of summer at 115 degs. They got some fat tips for the work they put in.
Oh thank you for the reminder. Tips for all.