Do you know what’s really fun to do for Halloween when you’re too old to M-80 mailboxes? Go to the grocery store, buy a big bag of apples and a box of razor blades, then watch the reactions of people around you. It’s also fun to dress as Hitler and have SP dress as Anne Frank. Anyway, it’s dress-up day at our little shop, and there was a lot of tut-tutting about what sort of costumes would and would not be acceptable. I was about to suggest a flannel shirt, heavy boots, and a Subaru key fob for one of the (I think) girls, when SP shot me a look that could bring down a Russian laser weapon satellite. I wisely shut up.
And seriously, the kids have been having a lot of fun with this for the past few days, so bless ’em. Seriously.
In other personal news, I ended up at the ER getting a brain scan after a head injury. I wanted SP to not clean up the blood so I could use this as my costume, but for whatever reason. she seemed to think that it might look too realistic and freak someone out. Fucking snowflake kids.
Speaking of kids, many people were born on this date, including a guy who inspired Scarlett Johanssen’s shittiest movie; a guy who liked (((us))) and hated Jebbies; a guy known for never taking the extremes; a piece of shit who caused suffering that we still feel today; Abbott to Mao’s Costello; a singer who understood the climate we have here; a woman who was often Triggered; a guy with a real cn-do attitude; a guy whose name wasn’t actually Kenneth; the only American to inspire a Jethro Tull song; an example of Jewish cowboys; a guy who inspired the shittiest made-for-TV-movie ever; a guy who anticipated the MyPillow; a guy with some interesting ideas but badly in need of an editor; and proof that shitty food columnists make even shittier op ed columnists.
Let’s have some links.
Let’s be honest- this is still a tax on American consumers. Gratuitous global warming excuses included.
NPR tut-tuts. We have disappointed our betters.
Our national nightmare is about to get worse.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a class action lawyer has latched onto a grift energetically.
Old Guy Music today is a short one and a gimmick But so much fun!
Mornin’ Old Man.
At the shoot today, they’re giving bonus time to people in costume. I anticipate some cowboys showing up. There was a mention about a strict prohibition against costumes that required an “I identify as” explanation.
I will be attending as “guy attempting to keep his gear dry.”
Wear a photographer’s vest and 5.11s in matching shades of khaki, Ray-Ban aviators, and a pillow under your shirt, and say you’re an IDPA shooter.
Go as Alec Baldwin.
Sorry about the head injury old man.
I didn’t sleep much for aforementioned reasons.
Son has his first paid gig today. He’s a nervous wreck and his mother and I are trying to be positive.
It’s a rough moment in the Nerf household, this agnostic is requesting a prayer or two.
I’m one too, so I’ll address mine “To Whom It May Concern.”
Seriously, I’ll do so just in case.
Try not to stress. Let the attorney do what you are paying him to do and let him deal.
Prayers from a lapsed Catholic provided as requested. Hang in there.
Thank you all
Sorry I can’t help much with prayers (and Enkidu’s favor is probably not what you need right now anyway.) But I am sending some positive thoughts.
First paid gig? That’s excellent news. Hopefully it goes well.
I hope things work out with the neighbor drama.
Michael Landon was one of (((you)))? Really?
I guess (((Jesus))) was too.
I always thought he was a werewolf.
You thought Jesus was a werewolf??
Well, I guess he DID go off rather uncharacteristically when he saw the money changers in the temple…
I would think vampire, the blood and flesh thing and all.
…or zombie, post-entombment…
Jesus was a lich.
Good morning! I just watched a film called ‘Satan’s Slave’ on the Midnight Pulp streaming channel. Very enjoyable.
And here I thought he was a Capricorn. Wasted memory capacity for 40 years.
/Deletes and removes
Michael Landon, of course.
I was expecting Kinky Friedman.
SP shot me a look that could bring down a Russian laser weapon satellite. I wisely shut up.
She went trick or treating as a giant rusty tin can lid?
I will admit to liking the Jewbacca costume. Although it took me a while to figure out since my initial thoughts involved (((STEVE SMITHBERG)))
This morning’s rumination:
[insert name]
Stockholm Syndrome, or Cult of Personality?
*Is there a difference?
whaddup doh’
Either way, the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” quickly spread among conservative groups and continues to be used in place of the direct expletive toward President Biden, even among members of Congress.
“President Biden is an exceptional President. I have no doubt history will long study his legacy.”
He was not the most qualified candidate ever, but he will be the greatest, until the next Democrat.
But will DeSantis replace Trump as the worst presidente ever?
Sorry about smacking your head. It always ends in blood and tears when SP has to get the shovel out to make her point. ?
In seriousness, I hope it’s just a superficial injury.
I linked this last night, but it’s worth a re-link: Freeeeedommmmmm!!!
No means no.
It’s an MP4 file that will autoplay if you’re not careful.
Oops, sorry.
The German elf lady is not wrong. Full props to her — although there’s a bit of irony in a MEP saying not to trust the government (of course, said thoughts are almost certainly why we can’t get many small-l libertarians in government….).
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse starts Monday. What’s going on trial isn’t just the teenager accused of killing two men during a chaotic night in Kenosha, it’s also the idea of the self-appointed authority to take up arms — essentially, vigilantism.
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An acquittal wouldn’t just set Rittenhouse free, it would set a legal precedent for other citizens to grab a gun and take the law into their own hands.
You start making that OK and good luck getting that genie back in the bottle in a country with more guns than people.
Blah blah blah you can’t take the law into your own hands! Mayhem. Black blood in the streets!
Now do that Philadelphia subway rape story. And then tell us why people from Seattle doing a little Chaos Tourism in Minneapolis is okay.
One man’s vigilantism is another man’s “Fundamental right of self preservation that is obvious in nature – as is the right to have one’s own thoughts and ideas”.
Wacky wacky me thinking some rights are obvious and inherent…..
Which, just to get off on a rant (thanks, Mr. Miller) for a moment — is one of the things the contractor vax mandate fight is making me think about. My objections to the jab have a trace of religion too them (don’t like the fetal tissue involvement from abortions), but my real objections have more to do with self-determination, bodily integrity, etc. Yet due to the way juris prudence has interpreted the 1st Amendment over the years — unless I’m in the “special” classes of Religion or the Formal Press Corps — my personal beliefs are deemed insufficiently “worthy” for accommodation. (Because after all, then anyone and everyone could refuse! Pearl Clutching Engage!). The 1st really should have been written more clearly that no government entity has any business telling people what to think or say — that every person is the absolute sovereign of their own mind and their own speech. Maybe that would have helped — given the militia clause, probably not.
Well, Happy All Hallow’s Day Eve anyway, folks..
My objection to the vax mandate is that I own my body.
It’s the same reason why I oppose opt-out for organ donation. If anything, your estate owns your organs after you die, at which point selling those organs should be morally and legally acceptable.
What’s the difference between “cremate my remains,” “bury my in a coffin filled with my own money,” and “give my favorite sweater to my nephew Fred” in terms of how your estate must handle such instructions?
Yeah, why are my “sincerely held beliefs” less valid than someone else’s?
These “back the blue” pieces are nauseating.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a class action lawyer has latched onto a grift energetically.
I have no idea from the URL what that story is about.
It’s a delightful word salad. Though I may get sued for using “salad” to describe something with no lettuce.
You’re a vegetarian. You have never had a beet salad? A mango salad?
Mmmm, thai papaya salad.
One of my wifes favorites!
And one should never forget Larb. Mmm… meat salad.
+1 potato salad
I’ll be contrarion: If the government can shut you down for calling cow excretion milk if you don’t pasteurize it and add vitamin D, then a citizen should at least be able to sue for saying your product is strawberry when it’s really pear.
Also, I hate mobile keyboards. I do know how to spell contrarian.
Eek. Forgot the link.
L Z Granderson, noted jurist and Constitutional scholar
And, w2hile I’m at it-
In August, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that prosecutors had a video of Rittenhouse, sitting in a car outside a CVS, saying he that he wished he had his assault rifle so he could shoot at some men leaving the store.
The county prosecutor said in court papers that the video “demonstrates that the defendant fervently sought to insert himself as an armed vigilante into situations that had nothing to do with him. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the video proves that the defendant was ready and willing to use deadly force in a situation where it was completely unjustified.”
I thought mind reading was not permissible as evidence in court.
I’ve never understood what he did to become the face of ESPN’s (terrible) tennis coverage.
https://www.peopleofwalmart.com/mind-if-i-park-here-sir/
How does that happen?
Around here the People of Target are no better.
But the cars are a bit nicer and newer.
Fewer people with one shopping cart full of SNAP and another full of steak, alcohol and other luxuries?
That poor poor Vette.
And my money would be on confused driver (stereotypical of me, but my gut says “elderly”) who got confused and pressed the accelerator instead of the brake pedal.
“sudden acceleration”
“the vehicle lost control of itself”
Premature Parking is a serious problem. Seek help if necessary.
How does that happen indeed? How does the Focus wind up popped completely on to the hood of the Vette with very minimal visible damage to the Focus’ front passenger corner, which would have had to impacted first, or to the Vette’s driver side, which would have been hit HARD. Looks staged….
He wrecked a beautiful Corvette.
As for whether people will remember this meme in the future, Stall says it has likely reached the point where most people will know what others are saying when they say “Let’s go, Brandon,” just like many still remember Trump’s “covfefe” typo turned meme.
“I think it’s sort of past the point where enough people in the mainstream political audience in the United States have heard it that it will be remembered in the future,” he says. “It just maybe won’t have the same level of staying power [as covfefe].”
Yeah, okay, we get it. Former President Cartoon Villain is an irredeemably evil asshole. Joe Biden is a great American struggling to bring his recalcitrant backwards subjects into the Light.
Yeah, ok, NPR. ?
Never change &c
Ahhhh, NPR.
I haven’t thought of covfefe since the day after it happened. Let’s Go Brandon has multiple number one songs, tee shirts, hats, stickers, and various other merchandise. It gets mentioned on TV interviews and on the floor of Congress. But you do you NPR, keep livin’ that OMB fantasy.
I would have thought “What’s a Leppo?” was widely known….given all the traction it gets in libertarian circles as “being why Johnson lost.”
What’s more, they argue, the omission of provisions such as a national paid family leave program and a proposal to empower the federal government to negotiate lower prescription drug prices from the framework outlined by the White House this week amounts to a slap in the face to the progressive activists and groups who helped President Biden win in 2020.
What’s that you say? Sold you out? Nancy and Joe?
*po-faced astonishment*
the progressive activists and groups who helped President Biden win in 2020
I thought it was the big-city party machines finding hundreds of thousands of ballots for Biden that helped him win.
They need to learn from libertarians, that the only way to have their own say is to form their own party.
It’s a Dead Mans Party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I63_mjMJFI&ab_channel=RainbowSalad
Sorry about the head boo-boo. Those always do bleed like a stuck pig (or substitute kosher critter of your choice.) I’ll pass along the wise words of my late, remarkable mother-in-law lo these many years ago when TT had a similar incident after running beside the country club pool: “Maybe it’ll knock some sense into you.”
Where can one find the credits for that delightful Old Man Music? I recognize know the names of almost all of them, but I’m stuck on the name of the guy at far right and the chick on drums. I’ll also mention that it’s been said that “Jerry Reed is the only man in Nashville who’s entitled to call Chet Atkins ‘son.'”
At least he got the boo-book looked after, unlike Natasha Richardson.
He has a well edited horror novel?
Drummer is Irline Mandrell. I think the guitarist you mean is Steve Wariner, great studio player.
Thanks! TT & I used to do this pretty ballad of his!
I used to poo poo his songs back in the day, but I’ve come to appreciate them. He was one of the hosts and players at the Grand Ole Opry show we went to. Really glad I’ve gotten to hear him perform live.
Yeah, “Let’s go Brandon” is just like that! Thanks for the reminder, NPR.
Only racists opposed Obama.
Because Chimpy McHitler wasn’t a thing. Nope, not at all….
But there was no F word. So…
And it is in no way a resemblance to Fuck Trump!!!!1!!1
To be sure, the spending framework suggested by Biden on Thursday would still impose sweeping societal change, and what was left out of the proposal could become priorities for progressives after an ultimate bill is passed.
Many progressives are still lining up behind the framework, in some cases begrudgingly, believing that failing to pass anything at all would be politically self-destructive heading into a midterm election in which both of Democrats’ congressional majorities are on the line.
They see the $1.75 trillion spending framework as an opening gambit that could pave the way for Democrats to extend and expand their priorities later on.
Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, the president of the progressive NextGen America, said that the framework for the pared-down spending bill “represents a breach of democratic trust,” blaming a small group of moderate Democrats for forcing the majority of their party to “renege on essential promises.”
The defining characteristic of DEMOCRACY! is the rejection of compromise in favor of complete subjugation of the political opposition.
And if there’s anything this country was obviously founded on — it is the Federal Government imposing “sweeping societal change”. Yup, that’s their role alright….
Where’s a gorram cloud for me to yell at, already?
Sure, let’s pretend this isn’t how Democrats have operated for decades – advance socialism by any means necessary, take what you can get now and plot for more destruction later. Crocodile prog tears are hiding smiles inside.
No, no, those are real tears. They’re afraid they won’t be at the controls when the train crashes. That takes half the fun out of it.
They’re not even hiding the fact that their entire reason for being is to buy your vote.
Pepperidge Farm remembers when they were a little less shameless than that.
What’s the point in stealing an election if you can’t loot the coffers?
Power? Influence? The thrill of forcing people to do things they don’t want to do?
But they only want to make us better. [runs to the bathroom violently retching]
This^
You’re supposed to get your big payoff after you leave office. Remember when the Clintons left the White House poor as paupers?
They were poor because they kept giving away everything they had down to underwear.
Happy Halloween – the second scariest day this week.
“Young Americans expected the leaders they elected to act and act quickly – on solving the climate crisis, reducing income inequality and building an economy that works for ordinary people,” Tzintzún Ramirez said in a statement on Thursday.
“The Build Back Better Framework announced by the White House today doesn’t go far enough to address the economic and climate crises facing our generation,” she added.
Haha, suckers!
Stamp your little feet and hold your breath until you turn blue.
Young Americans are naive and exploitable and haven’t seen this crap-dance before. Or as you put it well: “Haha, suckers!” 😉
Nothing says “reducing income inequality” like impoverishing the lower and middle classes.
Was SP practicing her Ninjy can lid skills again?
At this intake/history interview, the nurse asked me, “Are you safe at home?” I turned to SP and asked, “How should I answer that?” Nurse frowned and started scribbling furiously.
Legit LOL. ??
I had a bruise under my eye from a self-inflicted accident moving some large fallen branches in the yard. A couple days later my wife and I were out with her parents and my mother-in-law asked why I have the bruise. I replied, “Sometimes I don’t listen and have to be told twice.” My father-in-law chuckled and my wife sarcastically said “ha ha.”
Heh.
You know that will only serve to inspire her – like when you have your next hangover?
Awesome.
Winning.
Excellent come back, even with a head injury. Get better soon.
Very nice!
Sorry about the head bump, I take it the brain scan found nothing.
Is SP wearing that Queen of Hearts costume again?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3YmUx1rM8M
“I take it the brain scan found nothing.”
Ouch.
I was thinking SP has grown up enough to have the upper body strength to swing a cast iron pan now.
Pie would never make it in Gilroy.
Do masks provide protection?
I watched the premier films for the Friday the 13th, Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises this week. I had forgotten they were either debuts or early roles for some big name actors.
Speaking of suckers:
How many of the Never-Trumper-adjacent saps who swallowed that hogwash about “Help us get rid of the Meanie-in-Chief. We’ll replace him with good old level-headed moderate Statesman Joe Biden. And then we’ll get back to business as usual.” are quietly seething in their buyer’s remorse?
There may not be any stories about them, but any “political analyst” with half a brain should be deeply concerned about the longevity of that coalition.
Maybe that’s what they’re really saying when they talk about that election in Virginia; a loss for McAuliffe portends national electoral doom, et c. Something something, fool me once…
A loss for McAuliffe portends that you are dreaming and need to wake up. Remember how Gavin Newsom’s career was hanging by a thread?
Sad but true. No democrats have wavered in support of this crap.Only independents. It’s no longer enough to really turn this tide.
I think so far the only lockdown governor to have an electoral rebuke is Wolf. The constitutional amendments to reign in the PA governor’s emergency powers passed, albeit barely.
Sununu and Scott won re-election. Newsom beat the recall.
Now Northam is not up for re-election, but I see McAulife as an effective stand-in for him. I think the best chance for a lockdown rebuke is in Virginia. I don’t see Murphy losing in NJ.
Shit, I forgot. Cooper in NC won re-election too.
Sorry hear about the head incident. I had a serious one myself which is why I haven’t been around much.
Ouch. Good to see you back, all is well I hope.
Ditto what Ghostpatzer said. I hope you’re on the mend.
Glad you are back!
Welcome back
Glad to see you’re back. Hope you are OK.
I thought you had moved to San Francisco to start a commune.
*Tulpa wave*
Get well soon.
Suthen! So happy to see you back!
Thanks everyone. Mentally I am back to normal. I am still impatiently waiting for the lacerations to heal, but yeah, I am ok. Wow, that was a surreal and nightmarish experience.
Never try to carry a heavy, sloshing bucket of mop water down slippery steps. Dump that old water in the toilet and refill in the bathtub. I was lucky when I fell. I. was able to use my face to break the fall. Is it break or brake?
Yes.
And I know exactly what you were thinking, oh this will be faster and easier… oh that was a bad idea.
My mother had insisted that I not do that. When I went back inside….I have no idea how long I lay there…I stopped outside the room she was in I stopped just out of sight and said “You know what I hate?”
Her – “What?”
Me – “When people tell me ‘I told you so’.”
Then I stepped around the corner, my face a mask of blood. She didn’t appreciate the poor joke.
Oddly, it’s break.
Technically both, as your face stopped the downwards travel and cracked upon doing so. Sounded awful, hope the lacerations don’t leave you as a libertarian Frankenstein. Looks like I need to start a gofundme to buy libertarians hard hats!
Good to see you are among us again. We need you and any others you can find. May take a while for the redness to go away but those scars are marks of distinction .
“Yeah, well, you should see the other guy, hope he can come home soon”
Welcome back! You’ve been missed.
Ow! Good to hear that you’re still in one piece!
Welcome back.
I hope you are healing up.
Sweet! I knew who all but 1 of the musicians were and I successfully guessed 5 of the birthdays just from the clues. Everything’s comin’ up l0b0t today!
Five? damn, my personal best is stuck on 3.
I HATE NYC #37 in a series –
the posts are at the wrong hour again goddamnit
Clocks change in a week.
Today, in superpower diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Chinese counterpart on Sunday that the United States opposed actions by China that have increased tensions across the Taiwan Strait, a senior State Department official said.
During an hour-long meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit, Blinken made “crystal clear” that Washington opposes any unilateral changes by Beijing to the status quo there, the official said.
Don’t invade Taiwan until we give the green light.
I thought the status quo was bad, Biden Regime? “Sweeping societal change”, right Biden Regime?
OT(?) Got a strange text from my son last night.
“It seems like I can handle alcohol decently well. Have had about 24 oz of a 15% mix and a shot over 40ish min and have felt buzzed more than anything else”.
On the one hand, I am glad he is finally doing what any normal college kid does. On the other hand, I have the Irish disease and was very fortunate to stop drinking before it was too late. Hope he can handle it better than I did.
As somebody that had to go to Irish disease support to visit his father institutionalized with Irish disease, just tell him what you wrote here.
Dad has been dry something like 30 years now. Was your son old enough to see and feel the havoc? That can send its own message.
I was already 13 years sober when he was born. My kids are well aware of my past, hoping that they will keep that in mind going forward.
In other personal news, I ended up at the ER getting a brain scan after a head injury. – sorry to hear that hope you are still allowed to drink a bit of wine now and then, although the doctor should forbid it.
An opinion that can never be sold short, mostly because it just won’t sell at all.
Robert Reich in the Guardian? I would have to be crazy to not want to read that.
“Colin Kaepernick is slammed for comparing NFL to SLAVERY in new Netflix documentary: Black players are inspected by white coaches before turning into slaves in shackles on an auction block”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10149161/Colin-Kaepernick-compares-NFL-SLAVERY-new-Netflix-documentary.html
What?
That’s not a Bee article?
White players are granted spots on the team sight-unseen; it is part of their privilege.
Shh, he’s on a roll.
And here I thought Reich was clueless:
“Lincoln Project co-founder refuses to apologize for smearing VA GOP gubernatorial candidate as a racist by planting fake supporters dressed as ‘Unite the Right’ protestors: Republican candidate takes the LEAD in poll”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10147447/Lincoln-Project-founder-refuses-apologize-trying-smear-VA-GOP-gubernatorial-candidate.html
CWAA
These are the people that backed the discredited Iraq War to the hilt and continue to do so. Don’t expect a mea culpa.
Why am I telling you this now? Because we have gone through a few very difficult years: Donald Trump’s racist nationalism and his attacks on our democracy, a painful reckoning with systemic racism, angry political divisions, a deadly pandemic accompanied by a recession, and climate hazards such as floods and wildfires.
We assumed everything would be fine again once these were behind us. But we now find ourselves in a disorienting limbo. There is no clearly demarcated “behind us”. The pandemic still lurks. The economy is still worrisome. Americans continue to be deeply angry with each other. The climate crisis still poses an existential threat. Trump and other insurrectionists have not yet been brought to justice. Democracy is still threatened.
Preach it, Shorty!
I would pay money to watch high school girls beat his skeevy ass.
GTFO, mendacious POS.
If only everyone submitted to our will and accepted our desire to fundamentally transform America.
Could you imagine how disappointed he would be if he got what he wanted. No one to preach at. Little shit is beyond clueless.
You mean the tourists who visited the People house and exercised their right to address the government for a redress of grievances? Well maybe just put them in solitary confinement for 10 months and torture and starve then without even bringing charges. Something like that, that’s justice, lefty style!
It’s hard to bring people to “justice” when you leave them rotting in prison cells.
And Biden and the Democrats have been unable to achieve the scale of change many of us wanted and expected.
If you’re not at least a bit disappointed, you’re not human. To some, it feels like America is failing.
No shit, Shirley. Keep up the good work.
Reminds me when freeloaders when dancing in the streets when Obama was elected: “Obama’s gonna pay my mortgage and my phone bill!”
You got some shitty presidenting, but you didn’t get that. It’s almost like, your politician gods will let you believe anything to get elected, and show what pieces of shit they are once they’re safely in office for life (because you’ll vote for any incumbent with a D behind his name, no matter what a horrible person he is).
Well, color me inhuman then. Not that I’m pleased with this country, but it’s impossible to be disappointed in something you have no expectations whatsoever about.
“Obama’s gonna pay my mortgage and my phone bill!”
You got some shitty presidenting, but you didn’t get that
“Obamaphones” (although the states and feds have been providing free or subsidized phone service for years.)
And the mortgage ones were technically from Bush
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Home_Affordable
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Affordable_Refinance_Program
I’d say he wasn’t far off from delivering on both of those.
because you’ll vote for any incumbent with a D behind his name
Oddly enough that’s exactly what Joe Crowley thought.
Well, color me inhuman then. Not that I’m pleased with this country
When polls show people disapprove of the direction of the country, Congress, etc, well it is clear that they want to prog harder.
If ethnic determinism requires blood is destiny and nationalism demands that soil is destiny, are these two ideologies not diametrically opposed to one another?
Now do Biden’s racist education initiatives.
Hope the head is ok. I had a brain scan once. They didn’t find anything.
Thanks folks I’ll be here all week.
/Rimshot
Your name came up. I was forced to stay in a wheelchair during the hospital visit, and started musing about making my escape down a hall at high speed. “I’ll do it just like Kevin!” SP pointed out that it takes upper body strength. “Kevin has it. You don’t”
End of plan.
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1454231701849317382
LOLOLOL
“Jack couldn’t deny his lies so this is how he responded. And his “broke” reference has a long history within racist structures. White enslavers boasted of *breaking* Black people (when they did not *break* Black people). The resistance never stopped then and it won’t stop today.
A White man is attacking a Black person with lies (which are violent). The Black person resists. The White man keeps attacking until he declares he “broke” the Black person. That’s the context. Seek a book about slavery.”
https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1454778970889719808
Wow, that’s Kendi’s handle: Dr. Ibram? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by that.
Someone needs to start trolling him with “why you have a white man’s title? Shouldn’t that be Witchdoctor?” or somesuch shit talking.
Maybe in pidgen?
That’s a big huge LOL alright.
While I was there I noticed something on the sidebar, and LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Ooops. I see below l0b0t beat me to it. Still major lulz though. (Is that what the kids say)?
How does that happen indeed? How does the Focus wind up popped completely on to the hood of the Vette with very minimal visible damage to the Focus’ front passenger corner, which would have had to impacted first, or to the Vette’s driver side, which would have been hit HARD. Looks staged….
“Ramp not shown.”
No visible damage to that fiberglass left front fender, either.
Ramp not shown
So Rick Rosner isn’t involved.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.md/BV7AU
“Good Sunday morning —
We have a brand new NBC News poll out this morning that’s filled with tough news for Democrats.
The country is headed —
In the right direction: 22
On wrong track: 71
President Biden’s job performance —
Approve: 42
Disapprove: 54”
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1454796424701431811
The comments are tarded.
“The comments are
tardedbots.”FIFY.
I just can’t believe this one: Approve: 42
I guess I’ll buy it, credulity be damned, but then my question becomes, who are the 42% of people who look at that loaded-Depends despot and say “Yeah this is fine”?
Rhetorical question. You know back when I cared about sports, I was a big Phoenix Coyotes fan (since renamed Arizona Coyotes). But as much as I liked the team, even if they were winning, I was always able to criticize them if they made dumb moves.
Gotta hand it to Team Bluers, their dedication to Party Above All Else is stunning.
“Gotta hand it to Team Bluers, their dedication to Party Above All Else is stunning.”
It’s a religion. People will overlook the most egregious shit under the Sun if it threatens their salvation (see: priests, cross-reference: pedophilia).
Ohhh, I may have another substack subscription to line up. This guy is good.
“Climate scientist Judith Curry, a doctor like Jill Biden”
I don’t think that’s true.
Check your sarcasm detector, your fall and knock on the head may have thrown it out of alignment.
That was great. Really great.
Good news everybody: My semi-annual auto insurance renewal went down $40. That’s right, $40! I’m gonna add two extra toppings to my next pizza delivery!
Also, my wife asked me if I wanted her to make homemade biscuits and gravy. I asked her, “How should I answer that?” She said, “You are definitely not safe here.”
Plus, ABBA is releasing a new album.
It’s a good morning. I may or may not be completely sober yet.
Was that 15% or more?
Teenage son on policy, so no.
Is he the reason my beloved Red Dog beer got pulled? Were there not enough dogs in in it for him? If so, then my Hamm’s I’ve defaulted to since may be gone soon. Ain’t no ‘sky blue water’ in Milwaukee.
That’s why I prefer Dixie to Abita. Abita uses water from a spring, Dixie uses water from the Mississippi River Delta. Dixie makes you strong; strong like bull!
I’m familiar with Mississippi spring water along the coast. It’s amazingly soft for ground water, and it comes out of the well at like 80 degF all year long. You have to grossly oversize your heat exchangers and can’t get very good cold sink temperatures but at least it doesn’t cause mineral deposits that have to be cleaned out of heat exchangers all the time.
“It remains unclear if Stavast misheard what the crowd was saying or if she purposely tried to change the message.”
Credit to NPR for at least acknowledging the possibility that she made it up (as obvious as it is that she did).
Good thread here:
“The American Medical Association has just released “Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts,” a strange document that calls for doctors to insert progressive politics into even plain statements of fact.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1454468272011743239
https://ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf
It’s loving fucking #science!
“in an effort that has vexed food companies and won respect from consumer advocacy groups”
And who gets fucked over in the end? Regular people of course when their food prices go up even more. This asshole should be disbarred.
I had a dream last night that I had jumped forward in time a short bit, maybe a year or two, and that for “Public Health” reasons, the government had declared that all milk bottles must now be vacuum sealed. So everyone was forced to go out and buy these government approved individual vacuum sealers that would sit on top of the milk bottles and re-seal them after every use.
Of course, being government approved vacuum sealers, they were made by favored companies, to minimum specifications, so they were these clunky battery powered units about 6″ x 4″ in plan and two inches in height or so. So they took up way too much space and would imbalance any milk bottle larger than a gallon. Furthermore, rigid bottles were not approved, so the same plastic bottles we have today were in use, so when the sealer would run it would suck all the ullage space out and collapse the bottle a bit, spraying a small amount of milk all over before the automatic cutoff would shut off the vacuum pump.
So everyone had these huge, misshapen, dried-milk-encrusted milk bottles making a horror show out of their kitchens and messing up their refrigerators. But everyone seemed to think this was perfectly fine, and that it was all being done to protect the people from some horrible milk-borne disease that could strike at any minute.
What did you dream of last night?
I mean to say they would imbalance and cause to tip over any bottle *smaller* than a gallon. So everyone had to buy milk in gallons, even if they didn’t use enough for that to make sense.
Was it at least Whale milk?
Not Approved 🙁
Nerd.
Well, duh.
Last night? One of Q’s cuties was asking me if I wanted to go to Aruba with her and “party.” I couldn’t find my passport.
Stress dream for the pork I was smoking overnight. Couldn’t open the back door, the smoker was inaccessible, etc.
And what MO said…NERD!
I don’t remember dreaming anything last night.
Friday night, I had a dream that featured Eddie Van Halen wearing a pink figure skating dress and high heels, playing a guitar, violin, kettledrum, and electric piano all at the same time (how this was possible I don’t know, but he was doing it, and it kinda rocked.) No, I am not making this up for attention. I really dreamed this.
I saw a guy like that in the tourist area of Boston once. Didn’t look like EvH but he had this mechanical one-man-band contraption he was playing quite well.
The Match Man?
Oh my!
“Youngkin Keeps Lincoln Project Away By Holding Rally Within 500 Feet Of A School”
Nice!
They have some witty people in their ranks.
Oh man, I just “got” it.
Ouch!
LOLOLOLOL
Daylight Saving Time forever, plzkthxbai.
Gonna get rid of those stupid oats I have today by making XX some cookies. I am also going to spend the next little while trying to reduce my stock of corn meal, which currently outweighs my stock of flour ? with cornbread. It’s cornbread weather and everybody’s looking forward to that. I wish my family liked navy bean and ham soup, but they do not, and I don’t feel like making a batch just for myself. I am not the best chili maker in all the world and I like beans in my chili, whereas My Dude does not, so that’s not going to get made, either. Finally, potato soup, which is cheap, is not actually cheap when you add in all the butter, milk, and cheese necessary to make it palatable. So much for poor-people food.
Welcome back, Suthen and hope your noggin heals soon.
Scruffy, you and your fam are in my thoughts. I’ve been a mass of raging curiosity since this started, but have not asked for followup because I felt it rude.
OMWC, be careful or eventually those orphans are gonna get fed up and push you down the stairs until you’re lying at the bottom with your neck all cattywampus.
#cofveve
If it’s “cofveve,” technically, are you allowed to drink it?
Dunno, but if it smells or tastes anything like “coffee”, hard pass. Ew.
[Disclaimer: I’m a cream-and-sugar sissy.]
Pro-tip: don’t search what a cream-and-sugar sissy is
Incognito mode, engage!
Ooh… I meant to mention this on the zoomy, but you can take oatmeal and stuff it into old panty hose to make a wonderful sachet for an oatmeal bath.
You can make potato and cabbage soup. That’s inexpensive.
There are plenty of things you can do with navy beans. You can even toss them in the potato and cabbage soup.
navy beans, navy beans
“The Navy gets the gravy but the Army gets the beans.”
“Daylight Saving Time forever, plzkthxbai.”
This is my white whale. I’ve said many times that I don’t care what we choose (DST or standard) just pick a G-ddamn lane and stay in it! No more fucking clock shifting!
Your white whale is alive and well in AZ.
I had four glorious years in college… *sigh*
Thisssssssssssss
*affixes sailing hat and grabs sharpest harpoon*
Don’t forget the bacon for the potato soup! About half a pound per person sounds about right…
Stingy.
Irish blood. I want to be able to taste the potato, too.
I see I spelt it rong. #covfefe
Oatmeal cookies in the ovfen, which foibles I have yet to learn. Sadly, I have enough oats for 2 more batches. It occurred to me to ask XY if he liked oatmeal cookies, too, and he does, so #winning. I never asked them before because neither I nor My Dude like oatmeal cookies. Choco chips subbed for raisins.
Which one of you is this?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16584042/husband-farting-burping-bed/
I’m thinking the sudden ‘we broke the code!’ in regards to Let’s Go Brandon is an attempt to swing people back to saying Fuck Joe Biden.
The first time when election results needed to be days or even weeks to be completed people I think wondered but ultimately let it go.
Now it seems preparation is underway in Virginia that results won’t be finished until Friday. I would hope the good people of VA question that.
I think I might volunteer to be an election monitor in 2022, just to get a firsthand look at the sausage being made.
You’d have to go to some shady part of town and get some papers drawn up that display your Progressive bonafides.
Your political lineage needs to sufficiently display your rightful place.
Seriously. Otherwise you’ll be thrown out by goons and not allowed to actually monitor shit, the courts will ignore your testimony and the media will call you a domestic terrorist.
Stick a fork in it, it’s done.
“Now it seems preparation is underway in Virginia that results won’t be finished until Friday”
The only possible reason for this is fraud. Credit card companies can process hundreds of millions of transactions per day with something like 5 9’s reliability. The fact that it takes four days to tally maybe 2 million votes (?) is absurdity of the highest order. They need to know how much to “fortify” the results.
This is why Biden’s dismal approval numbers are irrelevant; the election system is just as corrupt as the rest of our institutions and the outcomes are predetermined. Trump winning was the wake up call to our betters that they needed to become more aggressive in their “fortification”.
Interesting that you compare this to credit card companies. Not only can they process that many transactions per second reliably, but they can detect fraud pretty well, too. Imagine applying some of those heuristics to data from past elections.
“Imagine applying some of those heuristics to data from past elections.”
IIRC some people did just that to the 2020 election and found the results to be incredibly unlikely without fraud and/or mistakes.
Not that is matters. Bring it up in public and you’ll get fired, have your bank account frozen, be put on a no-fly list and get a visit from CPS. Our apparatus of bureaucratic tyrants would make Stalin cream his pants.
Drugs might be falling, but if anyone wants a good, long read on the Port crisis in LA, here you go:
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/an-unexpected-victory-container-stacking-at-the-port-of-los-angeles/
The best part, they were only allowed to stack cans two high after unloading due to esthetic reasons.
Tl:de market faliure
If you scroll down to original tweet, it’s a city of Long Beach zoning code that applies to the trucker’s yard.
Pictures of the actual port show stacking well about two high already.
https://thehelm.polb.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?slug=photos-videos&envira-downloads-gallery-id=8241&envira-downloads-gallery-image=8244
Bill Maher cutting through the covid bullshit and his guest Sen. Chris Coons just shills away.
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/10/30/bill-maher-nukes-covid-pandemic-pushers-with-truth-bomb-n466420
Credit where due. Bill sees the deceit.
I put Maher in the same boat as Shapiro. They know we’re all fucked and they’re willing to hold their high ground while the world burns around them. They’re happy to make fun of anyone trying to do something about it, while doing nothing about it.
So did the producer of The Wire; faith conquers what the eye sees.
Who do you believe? Me or your lyin’ eyes?
12 hours into the cook…pork shoulder is at 180 and should go fairly quick now to 203. Then a 3 hr resting period to be shredded for some pulled pork goodness. Ribs will go on here soon and I will employ the 3-2-1 method. 6 hours for that. Then the chicken quarters which should only take 3ish hours.
Sides will be asparagus and mushrooms, potato salad, mac-n-cheese with andouille and bacon, and coleslaw.
Homemade pomegranate bbq sauce and a traditional BBQ sauce.
That should give the teens enough energy to terrorize the town tonight
What’s your smoker operating temp?
In other personal news, I ended up at the ER getting a brain scan after a head injury.
Sorry. I hope you heal up soon.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters that the deal will maintain U.S. “Section 232” tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% aluminum, while allowing “limited volumes” of EU-produced metals into the United States duty free.
Former governor of RI?
/checks wiki
Yes. She was a lockdown governor. Fuck her despite doing something good here.
Tariffs should just be abolished.
As for whether people will remember this meme in the future, Stall says it has likely reached the point where most people will know what others are saying when they say “Let’s go, Brandon,” just like many still remember Trump’s “covfefe” typo turned meme.
I think they will remember it.
Hilaria worries Alec will develop post-traumatic stress disorder after the incident which killed cinematographer Hutchins, 42, and wounded director Joel Souza, 48.
Poor baby. I’ll pass on a pity party for him.
The strawberry Pop-Tart case is just one of more than 400 lawsuits he has filed
My first thought was, “What does this have to do with Jen Psaki?” Then I read the article. Bullshit his goal isn’t money.
What’s more, they argue, the omission of provisions such as a national paid family leave program and a proposal to empower the federal government to negotiate lower prescription drug prices from the framework outlined by the White House this week amounts to a slap in the face to the progressive activists and groups who helped President Biden win in 2020.
That slap in the face is a start. I suspect that there will be other motivating factors for voters to come out in 2022, and the Proglodytes will lose outside of fortifiable districts.
Old Guy Music is good.
Let’s go, Brandon,” just like many still remember Trump’s “covfefe” typo turned meme.
Difference was that the Trump team and supporters embraced covfefe if I remember. Haven’t heard it for a bit and they are really trying to focus the eye in a different direction here.
Lesco Brayden! /for our Canadian brethren
The field of equity, like all other scholarly domains
Wheeeeee!
Yeah, that got a chuckle out of me.
In other personal news, I ended up at the ER getting a brain scan after a head injury.
Bonk, bonk!
Awkward moment during teenager’s class’s carnival fundraiser last night. While chaperoning I brought some lawn chairs and snacks for the toddlers and a little boom box stereo. I had it on a random shuffle sd card. It was an impromptu they needed me last minute thing or I would’ve set up a play list. Put it on shuffle. Everything going well. SKip anything not too main stream or adult. Toddler had to potty. Take toddler to potty. Come back to boombox blaring Crazy bitch by Buck Cherry in my kids school parking lot, just in time to have it yell “I Like the way you fuck me!”
Whole lotta awkward, but I did change the song.
Well, do you like the way your boom box fucks you?
Not yesterday I didn’t!