That screw.
Last week my watch began running fast. Now, the automatic movements Seiko stamped out since the 60’s aren’t exactly COSC certified but gaining 2-3 minutes per hour is hardly ideal. So I took it to the (((Russian guy))) on Indian School, who will fix anything including things that will get him sued by people in Switzerland. He agreed it was running way to fast but admitted his going rate was now $300 which he would charge had I brought in an Omega. Not happening. So after several hours of perusing Reddit where half the posters said have a professional regulate it and the other said to set it facedown on a paperback book and smack the shit out of it. Finally, I found one that explained the hairspring tends to get hung up if it gets knocked around, just make sure it’s spinning properly. So I cracked it open and did that, and tightened this screw. It is now running fine—just in case anyone else is having a similar issue…
Right, you’re either here for links or hardcore nudity:
The Mexican army fires on a truck full of migrants; they only killed one. Which puts them on par with most street cops. Probably works out for them since they can get back to their holiday.
Sergio Kün Agüero, one of the best soccer players in the world, rushed to a Barcelona hospital after clutching his chest like the STFU boomer meme in the middle of a fútbol game. Had he been kicked in the shin, he’d roll around screaming for a medic. For the conspiracy minded among us, he is not only vaccinated he promoted it for 12 year old children.
In other Argentine fútbol related news.
Venezuelan merchants now accepting…Shiba Inu Coin? Yes this is a real Ethereum-backed token. As of this writing it is worth $0.00007020 vs. …holy shit it actually is worth more than the Bolivar. (1 VEF $0.0000022871)
It probably helps that its an island, and the doctors are able to charge $80 per shot to Medicare/Medicaid for 2 minutes of work.
That brings a tune to mind.
Which puts them on par with most street cops.
Better than storm troopers.
They’re only good when shooting at Jawa.
Yes lets be more like Puerto Rico…. not.
“holy shit it actually is worth more than the Bolivar”
Well, I think so is Doge. Which started as a meme.
At $0.28, Dogecoin is over 5x the Mexican Peso and on par with the Qa’Tari Riyal
Sergio Kün Agüero, one of the best soccer players in the world, rushed to a Barcelona hospital after clutching his chest like the STFU boomer meme in the middle of a fútbol game.
He wasn’t whacking armed people in the noggin with a skateboard immediately prior, was he?
Voodoo.
Voodoo Too.
It is almost a wall of voodoo.
And we combine themes
I knew before I clicked it.
It was a softball.
True, obvious link is obvious.
Only doing this so I can reference these guys twice in a single day.
Election report:
There were seven open positions and six parties. No L’s. I decided against the “Moving Milton Forward” party as being code word for “progress” and the “United Milton” party as being too collectivist. So I wrote in STEVE SMITH, Banginglc1, Semi-bright Border Collie, Zombie Almanian, myself (for judge), Calvin Coolidge, and John McAffey.
And no on the constitutional amendments. The one designed to give the D’s power to run everything forever was the most deceptively worded one “change certain things about the makeup of the redistricting committee…”
I wrote myself in for two election judge / monitor positions, left some local things blank where there was only one candidate listed (seriously, local LP, couldn’t you find one person to run for County Auditor? ), and generally voted for the GOA-endorsed candidates otherwise. Also voted for some parents’ rights-focused school board candidates (who were incumbents), and voted “no” on all judge retention questions–I didn’t think to look up the judges, so I erred on the side of “throw the bastards out!” There were no ballot questions this time around. We’ll see what happens.
No ballot questions? You must have some of the covidcopter money left.
The corporate media and lefty activists are shitting their pants over Tucker Carlson’s documentary. Which means 1/6 was a false flag.
When you are getting flak…
And none of them have seen it because it hasn’t aired yet.
Parts 1 and 2 have aired, I think.
My mistake. There is some compilation video out there of media peoples’ reactions that were apparently made before it aired. Maybe that was fake?
I don’t think Grabien would put out a fake supercut.
I’ve got a couple of mechanical watches that got worn constantly for years and are obviously in need of work. They cost me $300 – $400, and that’s about what it will cost to have someone look at them. Replacements from the same company (Christopher Ward) are up to about $500ish.
So, quartz watches it is, unfortunately. I just can’t justify the cost to myself.
Speaking of Puerto Rico, I have on my desk a stack of bankruptcy paperwork. The bankrupt debtor is the “Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”, and also its pension plans and property holding . . . unit, I guess. I have no idea why I’m getting this, or what’s really going on, other than Puerto Rico apparently declared bankruptcy.
Basic military style watch for me. Inexpensive with hour, minute, second and nothing else.
GMT flieger for me.
That’s a pretty watch and I don’t like watches.
I like them simple. Plus I like orange.
I have never really looked at Laco watches – clearly that was a mistake. That’s a gorgeous watch.
I’ve been very pleased with it.
I sprang for the orange-stitched leather-y band for it as well:
https://www.laco-watches.com/en/accessories/leather-strap-nytech-gmt-black-orange
Pretty looks aside, it’s _really_ legible, which my aging eyes appreciate.
Easy to tell the time at a glance.
I’m barely recovered from falling out of my chair at the prices for the watches.
Yeah, that’s a no from me, dawg.
Heh, that’s downright cheap in watch world.
Don’t look at Rolexes. Or even Omegas.
It’s jewelry. Jewelry is expensive and useless, that’s the entire attraction.
That is nice. Very similar to the Breitling Aerospace I wear.
Those are nice.
I have a Super Ocean that’s more or less retired at this point. I should pull it out of the case for old time sake.
Certainly not current time sake!
Puerto Rico apparently declared bankruptcy.
Finally! Now we can disassemble them and sell them back to Spain for spare parts.
I don’t wear a watch. Or any kind of jewelry. I can’t stand the sensation /that’s what she said
I always did. Well, working some jobs I would put in my pocket. But now if I have a phone, I figure I don’t need a watch.
Using your phone to tell time is like wiping your ass and throwing the used tissue in the trash. It might be effective, but it lacks class.
I’ll hop on board this sentiment.
OK, Boomer.
Bingo.
I find it is less obvious if you are stuck in a meeting and are looking to see how much longer you are stuck there.
OTOH, you shouldn’t be looking at your phone during a meeting, either.
Thanks for the reminder. Back to the committee meeting for me.
Well you do if you want to send the message that the meeting should already be over.
Farting works too.
My wife was having an in-person meeting with her boss, who promptly lifted one cheek and let one out. And immediately looked horrified, as she realized that you can only do that during a Zoom meeting.
You can’t set your phone slow as an excuse for why you are always late to boring meetings.
?? This
They’ve been in bankruptcy for a while. The current proposal is a debt “restructuring” which cuts their obligations by 80%
I have an Orient that I really like a lot. It’s fucked up, though, and probably not worth fixing. Too bad. No way I’m springing for a many-thousands watch.
My Garmin runs like a champ, though!
Same. I have a vintage repro I bought for $150. Adjusting it was at least $200. I got a Jack Mason solar (Casio innards, I think) which has been flawless for a few years now. No more winding mechanical watches for me.
I have a military wind-up, mechanical in the trade, and it was only around $100 to get serviced last I checked. https://www.hamiltonwatch.com/en-us/h69439363-khaki-field-mechanical.html?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=(SH)%20Bestseller&utm_term=4584413744410493&utm_content=Bestsellers-Focus&gclsrc=3p.ds
My wife gave me a ’24 Illinois and that was a little more to have the lens replaced, as it has a weird shallow curve to it.
https://newworldjewellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Illinois-e1552583117727.jpg
Totally worth it to me, as they both have sentimental value
Those are both nice, especially that old Illinois – I love that shape.
I have a Seiko tonneau as my dress watch that I’m really fond of.
That’s one of my favorite pics on the front page. Thank you for doing the voodoo that you do.
It’s alright, but the volleyball ass-slap has moved into Lobster Girl territory on this site.
No argument here.
Edit fairy bringing the goods! BZ!
Best.
More of a crack smack but no complaints
Sayre’s Law applied to the football pitch.
Off to the camps, right-wingers.
I am not over 1/6. I will never be over 1/6. The only way to move beyond it is to deal with what caused it and what has been left in its wake.
I bet he is over Fake But Accurate.
Good lord – the comments. I can think of a helicopter ride that I would like to send these people on.
No kidding. “When those responsible are punished” blah blah. As if there aren’t people who’ve spent the last several months in solitary confinement without charges.
Yeah — another one that stood out for me: “Don’t you see it nobody’s getting arrested nobody’s being held Accountable!”
Just ignore all those people held in solitary f’ing confinement in *pre-trial* conditions and no bail, asshole. Typically just for being anywhere near the place. Disgusting.
I would say 9-11 months in jail awaiting charges and trial is punishment too much
Yeah — all I could think as I scanned them was that we really do operate in completely different realities.
I have a hard time believing those comments are real, but sadly they probably are.
Hahaha. What a noob.
A bunch of hooligans got into the nation’s Capitol building and was rowdy as fuck. Generally when there’s a insurrection, there’s a massive pile of bodies.
and guns, and several sites like police stations being taken over at once. Because if you just took over one building in the capitol then how would you hold it?
And having an army also helps.
deal with what caused it
So he plans to kill himself?
Oh For fucks sake. Dan Rather? Really?
Why isn’t that guy working the back of a garbage truck somewhere?
I’ve worked on the back of a garbage truck. It’s a real job.
No shit, and very helpful to society. That was my point. Why isn’t he doing something useful? Proven liar spouting bullshit propaganda is the opposite.
That’s sort of what I meant. He doesn’t have to work a real job because he spouts bullshit propaganda for the “right” people.
Well he’s 90.
OK, *didn’t* have to work a real job.
Why would you pick a profession that Rather is so manifestly unqualified for?
You have to pick something. The dude’s hardest real job was probably fetching coffee for a corporate executive.
Oh, I dunno. He’s moved a lot of garbage in his career.
REM – What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? (Official Music Video)
Possible modifications.
With a Twitter handle of @MidnightMitch, I was half expecting it to be Pierre Delicto’s feed of how he was going to work on a bipartisan compromise of $7 trillion instead of just #3.5 trillion on the “infrastructure bill”.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/footballer-collapses-on-pitch-after-cardiac-arrest-mid-game/ar-AAQeyrJ
https://fromthearchivesresearchingservices.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/wexford-ireland-mourns-for-roy-butler-23-who-died-3-days-after-covid19-injection/
Soccer players are dropping like flies from the vax.
23? He looks 14.
“‘This is your bride…please don’t beat her’: Heart-breaking moment Afghan father pleads with 55-year-old man as he is forced to sell his daughter, aged NINE, to him so he can buy food”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10156463/Heart-breaking-moment-Afghan-father-forced-sell-daughter-aged-NINE-55-year-old-man.html
WTF?
Whenever some western woman say that they are oppressed and live a patriarchal society, I want to throw them on a plane and abandon them in Afghanistan for a week. We take it for granted how well we have it and forget that women in certain parts of the world are treated like cattle.
Well Ed, you obviously need some sensitivity training or something. Next thing you know, womyn will have to register for the draft too.
Fuck
Somehow, I don’t think beatings are the worst thing in her future.
Afghanistan, that’s what.
I remember when I first met my wife and referred to that whole region as being overridden with savagery. She was pretty offended because she came from the school of thought that all cultures are equal. I dispelled that notion when I said that the concept of all cultures being equal and worthy of our respect is a pile of horse shit especially when some cultures put women and girls slightly above their cattle with no rights of their own whatsoever.
““Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs”
–General Sir Charles James Napier
But don’t you dare call it a third-world shithole, you islamophobe.
“‘Forgotten’ indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest have finally been made aware of the global Covid pandemic more than 18 months after the world was plunged into lockdown.
Mariano Quisto, a remote community leader deep in the dense forests of Peru, first learned of the global pandemic in October when health workers arrived by boat at his isolated village with vaccines.
‘We didn’t know about COVID-19. This is the first we are hearing about it,’ Quisto said through a translator from the village of Mangual, in Peru’s vast but sparsely populated Loreto region in the country’s north.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10157643/Forgotten-Amazon-tribes-discover-existence-Covid-time.html
I’m no epidemiologist, but I think it would have better to leave an isolated tribe alone.
The Sentinelese probably aren’t worried about Covid.
They can’t leave anyone alone.
Doing right ain’t got no end.
A football coach was shot in the shoulder during an Argentine third-tier match on Sunday.
Gun laws in Argentina are restrictive, how could this possibly have happened?
However, shaving off a few zeros from bolivars hasn’t really solved the country’s monetary crisis—this is the third reduction in zeros since 2008 and the second since 2018.
Shaving off zeros didn’t solve the problem? What next? Central planning doesn’t work?
Trillion
dollarbolivar coins to the rescue?Bumbling Biden.
Joe Biden apologizes for repeating himself, loses his place, then repeats himself again.
“EXCLUSIVE: It was the woke cover-up that electrified the Virginia governor’s race, now on election day the mother of skirt-wearing teen who raped a female classmate in girls’ bathroom says he is a troubled boy who identifies as male and just wanted sex”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10156749/Mother-skirt-wearing-teen-raped-female-classmate-says-identifies-male.html
Well I identify as a male and just want sex but I don’t go raping girls in bathrooms.
I do it in the backseat of cars like any responsible man.
The libertarian case for high school rape.
https://reason.com/2021/11/01/conservatives-wrongly-portrayed-the-loudoun-county-sexual-assault-as-a-transgender-bathroom-issue/
Well, it wasn’t a transgender bathroom issue.
The hell it wasn’t.
1) dude in skirt is given permission to be in the girls’ bathroom***
2) dude in skirt rapes girl
3) school covers up rape because it doesn’t look good for their trans bathroom policy***
4) “Republicans pounce”
*** = trans bathroom issue.
Supposedly they hadn’t implemented their trans bathroom policy yet. But I suspect they were already letting boys in skirts in the girls bathroom anyway.
Do high schools now have bathroom guards/attendants? It was a thing in my school to push the nerds into the girls bathroom, there was never anyone there to stop this, The only policy we had was that the girls would raise hell so
youthe nerd didn’t stay in there long enough to rape anyone.Also if they do have guards/attendants making sure only properly gendered peoples use the bathrooms wouldn;t they also stop gender on gender rape? Is there some rule that if you are in the same bathroom you can rape people?
“1) dude in skirt is given permission to be in the girls’ bathroom”
He wasn’t trans, and as far as I know the school didn’t give him, or actual trans people, that permission. The dude and the girl were using the bathroom to hook up. Then allegedly he forced her during their last encounter. That’s rape no matter where it happens.
While it’s a popular socon talking point, I don’t know of a single instance of an actual trans person attacking anyone because they were allowed to use a bathroom of the opposite sex. I’m not saying it can’t happen, but rapists are rare, trans people are very rare, and there is no reason to think trans people are more likely to be rapists. So it’s not a good basis for deciding policy.
More info here:
https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/police-logs-contradict-some-of-the
The school didn’t cover up rape because it didn’t look good for their trans bathroom policy. They didn’t have that policy yet, back in May, when it happened, they informed the police and the parents. Then during a school board meeting in June, Loudoun County Superintendent, Scott Ziegler, “publicly expressed skepticism that there were any reasonable safety concerns associated with the proposed bathroom and locker-room policy.” Which is reasonable. Then Ziegler went so far as to say “To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.” Which was a lie if he knew what happened in May.
You are giving the school, and the school board, a level of benefit-of-the-doubt that I don’t think they deserve.
What am I doubting? I’m saying it was a lie if he knew what happened in May.
Maybe socons are worried that men will wear skirts to pretend to be tans so that people won’t think twice about them entering the girls restroom, whereupon they will force themselves upon a woman. But that’s so far-fetched as to be ridiculous, right?
But that’s so far-fetched as to be ridiculous, right?
Absolutely! No possible way thousands of wannabe rapists would consider this.
That is what we were actually saying, but people kept burning the strawperson of “they’re saying trannies are rapists”.
And there were incidents that more closely resembled the actual complaint. But it’s been a while so I don’t have the links at hand.
Yes, it is. I’m not saying no one would ever do such a thing, but it would be very extreme behavior.
“Absolutely! No possible way thousands of wannabe rapists would consider this.”
OK, but why would they need some sort of trans bathroom policy? They could just disguise themselves as a woman without one.
However, if we are talking about students in a school, they would have to live their lives pretending to be a trans person.
At my kids’ (and my friends’ kids’) school, you are whatever you feel like being that day, so no. You would not have to go through school being trans.
“At my kids’ (and my friends’ kids’) school, you are whatever you feel like being that day, so no. You would not have to go through school being trans.”
Well, that’s a silly policy.
Anyway, how would that work? Billy gets accused of rape the one day he dresses like a girl?
It absolutely was because what Trashy said.
troubled boy who identifies as male and just wanted sex
Oh, well, in that case no harm no foul. Because that’s how this works.
Ya know, if I somehow raised a kid who raped and sodomized a classmate, I’d make a point of keeping my fat gob shut about it…
WTF?
Exclusive? I would think that would be more in the “No shit, Sherlock” camp….
https://breaking911.com/police-man-beat-daughters-boyfriend-to-death-with-cinder-block-stabbed-him-for-allegedly-selling-her-to-sex-trafficking-ring/
Doesn’t sound like he did anything wrong.
Well, I don’t know. He left the car where some passerby might wander upon it. Littering?
Many years ago I saw some footage where a man with gun walked up to a handcuffed and escorted prisoner in an airport and shot him.
It turns out the prisoner was a child rapist. It was a long time but I believe the man was tried but found not guilty.
Ah… I found it: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gary-plauche
They *said* he was a child rapist… but really he was from the future and trying to stop a pandemic and the army of the 12 monkeys….
But more seriously — yeah, as much as they try to demonize vigilante justice, deep in our reptile brains most folks know “Some folks just needed killin'”.
Hero.
Nope.
Although apparently his juvenile daughter had a 19-year-old boyfriend. WTF? The most charitable spin is she was 17?
“In October 2020 Eisenman learned his juvenile daughter was allegedly sold to a sex-trafficking organization in the Seattle area. Eisenman obtained information his daughter’s boyfriend (the deceased) may have been the one responsible for her sale.”
So it could all be bullshit.
“Eisenman was able to rescue his daughter and get her back to the Spokane area in October 2020.
In November 2020, Eisenman learned his daughter’s boyfriend was going to be at a location in Airway Heights, WA. Eisenman waited for the victim and confronted the 19-year-old as he arrived. During that encounter Eisenman abducted the victim, tying him up and placing him in the trunk of a vehicle. Eisenman subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the head with a cinder block and then stabbed him repeatedly, causing his death.”
The cinder block wasn’t enough?
I’ve got twenty bucks that says the whole sex-trafficing thing is bullshit.
Daddy killed the kid messing around with his daughter and ginned this up as a lame cover story. You heard it here first.
I think you’re right.
Things that didn’t happen in Rotherham for £500, Alex.
Those girls didn’t have fathers.
None of them??? I remember an article where a father was telling the useless neutered police his daughter was being raped in a house he was standing in front of, and they did nothing. Can’t find it now.
I remember feeling rage.
Other than allowing his juvenile daughter to be sold into a sex trafficing ring*, father of the year right there.
*assuming that actually happened.
I find this believable but would like evidence.
There have been several reports from voters who say they were told by poll workers that they are required to wear a mask in order to vote.
Me, too. Believable, but want evidence. I looked carefully for “masks required” signs at my polling place, but there were none. Poll workers were masked, except for the two loitering at the building entrance with their masks down to their chins.
Exactly Zero people were masked at my polling place – voters, poll workers, and random children not voting, all unmasked.
All the poll workers were masked, almost none of the voters.
The poll workers need to hide their identity.
One of the ‘poll workers’ (I don’t know her official title, if any) offered me a mask. I politely declined. She said nothing more on that matter, and gave me directions to the polling room.
There was no signage; I looked.
As the amplitude of the spring gets smaller the watch runs faster. They call that “how the hairspring breathes”. A device called the regulator grips the spring and shortens or elongates it changing the rate. I’ve never worked on a Seiko 5 movement. You’ll be happy to know that the screw you tightened was the holding down the plate called the “balance cock”. Since it was loose it must have been adding friction to the balance wheel decreasing the amplitude.
Assuming that’s a Seiko 5 – just buy another cheap one and use the movement. Put the old dial and hands on it and you are done. Likely much cheaper than an actual service.
If I read that right, Mexi was suffering from a loose cock causing too much friction?
Also when a watch ages all the gears (called wheels in watch speak) are lubricated with minute amounts of oil that evaporate.
So your cock requires proper lubrication for optimal running.
My right hand is a regulator that grips the spring and shortens or elongates it changing the rate
called the “balance cock”
*snickers*
That was similar to my theory. Its a SRP 773 (Turtle). I believe the new 5 uses the same movement. Buying a new movement and paying him $100 to install it was the other option. I figured worst case scenario I mess up something that was already broken.
Back of my 5
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/-tDV9z1sScSifcirAOl5mg.MWXH-eTvcjdJKfEAUgWXLe
Looks different and marked different.
Gonna put y’all back in chains.
Kaine said, “If you look at the Youngkin campaign, they’ve made it about kind of invented inflated issues like Critical Race Theory. To close their campaign with an ad featuring a parent who waged a campaign against Toni Morrison’s novel ‘Beloved,’ it’s just kind of unheard of. It’s unheard, and it hearkens back to a long tradition in Virginia history. My father-in-law was the governor who ended segregation in Virginia, integrated public schools, and he was hated for it at the time in the 1970s. He died just three days ago. People are writing about how courageous he is. Lynnwood was 98 years old. He thought he had helped Virginia turn away from dog whistles and appeals to segregationist attitudes. Glenn Youngkin’s preaching of the big lie about electoral fraud and copying Donald Trump’s line, which he started the campaign with and now at the end featuring this activist who went against Toni Morrison’s book Beloved, it’s harkening back to a day gone by in Virginia.”
Trump really do live rent free in these people’s heads.
I told my wife that the worst thing that can happen to journalism post 2020 Elections is Donald Trump dropping off the face of the Earth and the worst thing that could happen to Trump is people stop talking about him. As far as I am concerned, the media and Trump are intertwined with each other in the worst way possible.
A woman my wife considers a friend and has kids the same age as ours owns a hair salon in town. She’s fully vaxxed. She’d been feeling “cold” symptoms but was still working. A client she’d recently worked with tested positive for the ‘vid. Friend gets a rapid test and it’s positive. Now she decides to tell all her friends and those who have kids in the same sports as her kids, etc. Does anyone else notice the inconsistency here?
OH
MY
GOD
*masks up*
That the one thing that generally good human beings have changed is to stay the fuck home…vaxxed or unclean. But people are people and risk assessment has been unnaturally beaten out of our evolutionary progress apparently.
Greta went to the Kesha school for speechwriting.
Yelling at a rally of climate change activists, teenage environmental guru Greta Thunberg led them in astonishingly articulate chants directed at those who did not do her bidding regarding the climate, yelling, “No more blah, blah, blah!”
If that weren’t enough, Thunberg added some choice language, yelling, “No more whatever the f** they’re doing inside there!”
“No more exploitation of people and nature and the planet,” screamed Thunberg.
>>“No more exploitation of people
now that’s ironic. (does that really match the definition of irony? whatevs)
You know who else got hysterical and foaming at the mouth during his rallies?
Rabid Rhonda?
Secretariat?
Ozzy Osbourne?
She should watch Carlin’s bit on the planet…it is fine and will be fine until the Sun engulfs us.
So what you’re saying is, in order to save the planet, we have to move it away from the sun?
/Cathy Newman.
This fucking guy.
Here’s a take: if Elon solves world hunger, he can be tax exempt the rest of his life.
There are greenies who think Norman Borlaug was evil, aren’t there?
There is a very strong undercurrent of malthusianism with all of the leftists, so yeah, but not some. All of them.
Wow. How does this person not proof read? He’s literally saying he’d rather let all the starving people starve if it prevents one guy from getting a tax break and a medal.
It’s because dickbags like Dan Price could care less about solving the world’s problems. What they want is to punish people for having more than them good and hard. I hope that when the socialist revolution comes, they nationalize his company and line him up against the fucking wall.
Taxes aren’t about raising revenue either.
That Dan Price guy is such a smug dickbag. He can do whatever he wants with company and pay his employees what he wants but holy shit, fuck off with that sanctimonious attitude.
How many people in the world are suffering from honest to goodness malnutrition or lack of food?
If they are, where are they located? No land that can be farmed? No sea or lake to be fished? No cattle / sheep / other present?
I’m sure you could shower them with $6B worth of food over the years, but something something teach a man to fish.
If I wasn’t lazy, I’d find the Sam Kinnison bit about starving people living in the desert. . . . .
fuck it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNoJ2BzSRU
I really wish I could find some recordings of Kinison…his albums seem to be mostly out of print. Surely someone out there has an archive available?
If I’d known, I’d have saved everything — I used to have all his comedy concerts on cassette tape. My parents weren’t too happy about it. But I had his, Carlin’s, Pryor’s, and all the Monty Python audio cassettes. Probably still in my parents’ attic somewhere.
Three of his specials are on Tubi, uncensored. Oddly I was just watching Family Entertainment Hour when I read your post.
The one about seeing the commercials about starving children and thinking the crew could give out some of their food?
Those people really need cheap energy. Something else might be getting in the way of that.
All famines and hunger today are imposed by governments trying to rid themselves of troublesome or undesirable people. That 6 B is going straight into the pockets of third world dictator’s pockets and nothing will change.
Don’t forget 10% to the big guy.
Yep, learned that a long time ago. Almost every famine is man-made by the killers/crooks/idiots running the place. And the few that aren’t don’t get fixed by other people and countries trying to help because of those same killers/crooks/idiots.
In the United States? None, save a very few who are being deliberately abused by caregivers.
Worldwide is probably a different story.
No, Elon Musk is not going to donate $6 billion to help solve world hunger – or did you miss the part where he said you have to prove that it will end world hunger first? Instead of presumably ending up in the hands of kleptocrats.
Got the form to fill out for my exemption. I’ve been told there’s no personal belief exemption, just a religious one. The form is a Word Document that’s full of formatting errors, margin errors, and other just slapped together elements. Looks like I’ll spend the first part of work tomorrow filling that form out.
>>no personal belief exemption, just a religious one.
You’re a STEVE SMITH-atarian.
You should be used to getting a jab then.
Aren’t religious beliefs personal?
Seems like, from what Trashy posted in the previous thread, that there’s a strong argument to be made that there is no distinction between personal beliefs and religious beliefs.
Trashy, what’s the source for that, and does it have force of law/has it been cited in precedent?
It’s guidance from the EEOC, pulling heavily from SCOTUS cases.
If someone is intrepid enough, they could pull the link from the citations portion of my exemption paper. It’s a treasure trove of good info. I’d pull it, but I’m under my car right now.
IMO, anybody who files for an exemption will be on the “first-to-be-fired” list.
*runs away crying*
Probably not wrong…still have no word regarding my RA request nor any attempt to receive more information from me.
So make up a religion.
Flying spaghetti monster is already a thing. Use that as a big F U.
Bob Dobbs
More slack.
I already wrote a post comparing the Yetisyn to STEVE SMITH.
Ah you’ll vote yes anyway.
$475 billion btw ends a lot of world hunger from what I’ve heard.
Tax the rich! No, no, not those rich! The other rich!
It was fucking odd watching the Democrats lose their minds about the SALT deductions but then remember that they love the rich as long as the rich person votes Democrat and enriches them.
It’s also a wonderful way to force the low tax states to subsidize the high tax ones.
Yep, the SALT deduction, after Trump’s increased standard deduction, only kicks in at about $125K income. Which is already double the median income in NYC.
The Dems know who they’re catering to.
The correct action is to zero the SALT deduction, same with mortgage interest and charitable contributions.
Same with all deductions and filing. Just have either a flat tax or consumption tax with no if ands or buts and eliminate the IRS
I’ll take a flat tax of $0 and 0%
I would too but in reality we are never going to get that so I aim as close as possible.
Always leave room for negotiation. I won’t get everything, but I’ll leave the illusion of concession.
Also, I hate haggling.
I benefit from all of those things and agree they should be eliminated.
“According to media reports?” The great savior of the progressive dems isn’t in the loop?
So, XX starts at FedEx Thursday.
Congrats.
Wonderful. Good news.
Excellent.
All right!
Very nice!
Congrats to XX.
Nice.
You go, girl!
Congrats to the parents of XX for raising a child(ren) and instilling a work ethic in her/ them. You done good, Mojo.
/bumper sticker “If you can read this thank your parents”
So she delivers overnight?
I mean, congrats!
Where she will learn all the skills to run your monocle factory when you retire.
Kudos!
Ugh, Yuengling Light Lager…not good.
Light Beer……Not Good
light beer … not beer
Sex in a canoe.
Good music MS.
Anyone hear the tragic news about Henry Ruggs III?
Yeah, I’m a Raiders fan, but this is just awful stuff for everyone involved.
The pictures and video I saw, Rugg’s Vette is smashed to near unrecognizable, but the Toyota Rav4, you couldn’t even see anything but a huge fireball. What makes a car explode into a giant fireball like that? Either Ruggs was driving the speed of sound, or WTF?
Damn. I met Darrell Russell when I was in grad school at USC. Maybe the largest human I’ve ever encountered. Screwed up his life thoroughly then died.
Well, Ruggs was not a wealthy kid, his parents may have been lower middle class. Then at 21 years old he’s all of he sudden making millions of dollars a year. He’s now possibly fucked up his life beyond repair and has to live with killing someone, I mean if it was his fault. Damn horrible stuff all around.
With the temps dropping down to frost levels this week, gf picked a bunch of my peppers for me today.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/w5Tv1GbXRu-aJbHVkzfv_A.JkY7dfyEnnIwRKC7sPEPTm
I don’t know what to do now…
Have you gotten to a peck and pickled them yet?
Cut some tops and put them in vinegar in an easy dispense decanter to put over beans, peas, greens etc? I prefer tabasco peppers for that but from what I see there you can’t miss.
Like plain white distilled vinegar?
Do you refrigerate it?
I used cider vinegar, but that would work.
Take your pick on vinegar. I like rice.
No I do not refrigerate.
Did you make hot sauce yet? Pickle them. Do you have a food pantry that accepts produce?
I did not. I have an abundance of hot sauces. People like to buy them for me as gifts (apparently).
Had to stop my gf’s sister just last week. She called to see if I might need more.
Have you made any pepper butter yet?
Never heard of it until now. Huh.
I’ll get the recipe from my buddy, he just made a batch from peppers my father grew and I used it as the “sauce” for some pizzas this weekends… it was killer. sweet, but not overpowering, and it had a nice bite of heat on the back end. Really complimented the bacon, ham, onion, and mushroom toppings.
No pineapple?
I didn’t have any or I would have made at least one pie with pineapple, I also forgot to get a tin of anchovies, next time I’ll hit all the bases.
Ferment them into hot sauce!
Damn those are lovely
‘Sloper? https://babylonbee.com/news/man-declares-his-pronouns-are-letsgobrandon
‘Racism! COVID! Trump!’ Screams McAuliffe Over And Over In Desperate Last-Minute Appeal
Terry McAuliffe Shaves Head, Gets Nazi Tattoo To Warn Everyone About Glenn Youngkin
Massive smile on my face. Never change, Bee.
Fuck. Off.
Klaus Schwab: “…as long as not everybody is vaccinated, nobody will be safe.”
No one who speaks German could be a bad man.
Right… the vaxx is leaky; it doesn’t make one immune from carrying or even getting COVID. The Vaxxed are breeding a mutating disease.
Yep, it applies evolutionary pressure towards greater transmissibility. This stuff isn’t really rocket science.
The more I read Vanden Bossche, the more I realize how complicated the immune system is.
There’s a lot of hubris that’s gone into this vaccination effort.
I tend to think of the problem as filters. The vaccinated have pretty shitty filters while those with natural immunity have very good filters. Then there’s the remaining pool of unvaccinated and haven’t caught it with little to no filter.
It’s a selection process that’s running thru multiple cycles, but the real problem is the shitty filters in the vaccinated.
“Yep, it applies evolutionary pressure towards greater transmissibility. ”
People say that, and that the vaccine doesn’t reduce transmission. Both can’t be true at the same time.
Greater transmissibility or faster mutation?
Viruses don’t have a metabolism. So they can only mutate when they replicate. Most mutations are transcription errors that do nothing. Rarely, they make the virus function better, such as making the virus more contagious. That’s how new variants emerge. So in order to mutate faster, the virus would need to replicate more — either more hosts or more severe infections. If the vaccine works, it would reduce replication in vaccinated hosts, and therefore reduce mutation.
Didn’t Colin Powel just die of Covid although he was fully vaccinated?
I wonder how much Pfizer stock Klaus owns?
Possibly the founder of The Great Reset. Either way, he can fuck right off.
That is the new line they are using for FedGovs too. Not coordinated at all
This guy?
https://gab.com/ZZ611/posts/107141977033238416
That can’t be real right? I did see him in some black Dr. Evil outfit and it was definitely him though.
Ah, here it is. Not weird at all:
http://www.parolesdedieu.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/klaus-Schwab.jpg
What branch of Scientology is that?
Whoa, Antichrist much?
and Satan IS gay BTW,
What in the Freemason cosplay fuck?
Who control the British Crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do!
We do!
I’m just hoping it’s not real at all. That’s a crime against humanity.
The prosthetic penis is adorable though.
w t f
WTF? did I just see? If I were a raging Queen I wouldn’t dress in that ridiculous thing He ( I thinks its a he) has on, Good God!
Klaus does kinda seem like the type of guy to nurse a massive humiliation fetish…
Small penis.
Maybe he just got out of the pool….
+1 I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.
Strong legs and a positive attitude.
Uh . . .
Carefully
Out front and in danger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece#/media/File:Giovanni_Battista_Moroni_009.jpg
We stay clear of toddlers and dogs and generally things stride along like clockwork
What he said:
as long as not everybody is vaccinated, nobody will be safe.
What he wants you to hear:
“The unvaxxed are out to kill you. They must be punished.”
“The unvaxxed are out to kill you.
They must be punishedWe must kill them first.”FIFY.
If they just wanted to take a shot at killing me, I’d be okay with that.
It’s the wanting to break me first, that I object to…
Titty Tuesday is on topic!
https://archive.md/STFng
“Utopianism refers to the idea that perfection in society is possible. It is commonly mixed with the eschatological belief and expectation that an apocalyptic transformation of society and human life, delivered by a messiah, or the laws of history, is inevitable.”
https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2021/11/02/perfecting_humanity_by_destroying_it_801743.html
Climate change anyone?
Utopianism is a social disease.
See also: “…as long as not everybody is vaccinated, nobody will be safe.”
Utopia is equal misery, everything Grey, so yeah , The Socialist want Utopia, it’s their end game,
Everything gray.
Thanks! bookmarked for later,
This one is the real deal. Don’t watch the later remake, it’s garbage.
The book specifically calls for a sassy black lady as our hero the pasty white guy’s love interest – for reasons – so they cast… Lisa Bonet.
Everything Turns Grey.
I thought everything’s gone green.
Here’s a feel-good story to raise your spirits
I still have a couple of stick shifts in the delivery fleet. It’s near impossible to find someone to drive them.
“With the polls now closed we are calling the Virginia gubernatorial election for Terry McAuliffe.” – FNC
Heh…I am surprised it wasn’t called last night
I hate it when I have plenty of food in the house but my brain goes “I’m not in the mood for any of that”
I didn’t know my kids and wife posted here
For me it is usually “I don’t feel like cooking.”
I don’t want to cook, because then I have to do the dishes, I hate doing dishes, cookings fun, Cleaning isn’t.
So much this.
You poor people should get some kitchen help.
“Yes dear, I’ll be right down to dry the dishes!”
*grumbles*
I don’t mind doing dishes.
I don’t mind…just don’t want to. Though the new dishwasher makes that chore a hell of a lot easier.
Me neither.
I like doing dishes together but that ain’t happening right now.
I want that to be a euphemism. So I agree.
Yep, I decided on a Chicken pot pie, warm, yet bland.
Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiiie
Ronaldo is an egomaniac and, without evidence, I assume he’s a dick. But, damn, he’s a machine.
What gave it away, that constantly-playing commercial ogling all over his mostly naked body?
The early vote in VA is supposed to heavily favor McClinton. Supposedly the early ballots were allowed to be counted before the polls closed. Right now with 15% counted Youngkin has a pretty good lead. I predicted a 2 point win for him. I’d love to see the Dem infighting really kick into high gear tomorrow.
Who the hell is Princess Blanding…that sounds made up. Oh she is one of us.
Nah, Loudan, Fairfax and Prince Williams counties just rolled in some votes and that swung it hard.
A few counties that were blue in 2020 are now red. Instant results and a nice map:
https://redstate.com/redstatestaff/2021/11/02/live-results-virginia-governor-n468606
Jeff Zeleny
@jeffzeleny
.@TerryMcAuliffe is watching results from his home tonight with his family. He sends a note to supporters, saying: “When the results of this election come in — win or lose — we can rest assured that we did everything we can to create the future that we want.”
Maybe he needs to find John Podesta to concede a rigged election for him?
RealClear has it at 55/44 Youngkin with 48% counted.
So tomorrow when we wake up it will be 49.9999 to 57?
I predict a sudden pipe burst in Richmond will mean the vote counting will have to be stopped long enough to get the Republican observers out of there.
I’ve seen that movie…
It begins.
@nytimes reports that Fairfax County is delayed in processing absentee votes and will not meet it’s self-imposed 8pm deadline. So for now, it’s mostly red early in the night, per the traditional results patterns in #Virginia. http://vpap.org
I suppose the pipes will burst as well.
Scan until you win.
Jackie DeFusco
@Jackie8News
@TerryMcAuliffe’s campaign says Fairfax County will not meet their self-imposed deadline of 8pm to count early votes. Meanwhile, the campaign says they’re encouraged by voter turnout in Falls Church and Prince William, which apparently have surpassed 2017 totals. @8NEWS
NEW INFO: @TerryMcAuliffe’s campaign says a portion of the early votes in Fairfax County need to be rescanned and there is no set timeline for that yet. His staff says that could delay the results.
Fortified.
Odd he calls out Falls Church and Prince William, even if higher turnout..I would expect those were his anyway….unless internals are screaming higher turn out for the pubes
Like the 70’s?
Its making a come back…apparently men are tired of possibly having sex with what looks like a prepubescent girl and vice versa
Rescanned – over and over.
I know we’ve got a few NJ Glibs — here’s to hoping that they didn’t cheat enough!!!!!!!!
Anyone considered the possibilty that McAuliffe is the sacrificial lamb to be used to dull the “fortified election” meme in advance of the election that really matters?
Well Youngkin won in VA and the sacrifical Republican in NJ has a shot at winning. So the Democrats want to double down on what they have been doing in Congress because they haven’t been Progressive enough and that is why they lost in VA.