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Last week I managed to catch the Old Man and SP as they passed through town. So we got together for dinner and they asked me to pick a place. Given their dietary proclivities I found a Lebanese place. I never thought I would order something called “The Beirut Special” with a straight face.
Or if I did I would at least expect it would come served by a shemaugh wearing maniac with an AK.
Now for some links!
On one side of Mexico: Detentions of migrants remain on their downtrend for the third straight month. I’m sure the real numbers will come out next year after Judicial Watch sues ICE. On the other side of Mexico, they’re protesting a court ruling…with guns.
I like how they say “Cuban Government” rather than specifying “Cuban Army”.
Alien conspiracy is not just an American phenomenon.
I’d vote for this guy if I could:
Nationally, the Trotskyist Leftist Worker Front (FIT) won the third largest share of the votes, but it was the sudden rise of the far-right libertarian Liberty Advances party that dominated local coverage of the results.
The party’s wild-haired leader, Javier Milei, has refused to be vaccinated against Covid, denies climate change is real, and describes himself as a “lion”.
Milei rose to fame last year with on-air boasts of his sexual prowess, eventually converting media notoriety into votes and peeling away support from Together for Change, the conservative party of former president Mauricio Macri, who hopes to return to the presidency in 2023.
“Free souls; thank you for your roar,” Milei said after wining 17% of the vote in the capital city of Buenos Aires – previously unheard of for a third party in the nation’s capital. “This is a historic event. Being a liberal is no longer shameful in Argentina.”
I can’t top that one, so here’s a tune.
I’d like to see American journalists try to wrap their brains around this particular statement.
Most wouldn’t know it’s a reference to classical liberal.
They also refer to libertarians as being “far-right”?
“That’s our word!”
The quoted text is peak Guardian. ?
We are taking it back liberal as you mistreated it so badly. Look at how filthy you’ve made it!
Huh?
It’s Chiapas, no matter which way you turn, it sucks.
Chiapas really chaps your ass.
(there’s a song lyric there somewhere)
This is my state Chiapas, and my other state Chiapas.
+2 Daryls
Darn your nimble claws!
Its AP. We’re lucky they spelled Chalupa correctly.
One of them Chaipas.
No matter, I bet their weed was Michoacan. Back in the days long past, after all the Acapulco Gold Rush thing, any time someone had some weed and would say it’s Mexican. You would ask ‘What kind of Mexican?’. And the answer would always be Michoacan. One of them Michoacans, man.
Made famous from the ‘Sister Mary Elephant’ bit.
“Your students sure seem well informed, Sister.”
“Thank you SGT Stadanko.”
Dude, that’s like every Saturday for me.
I hope that guy wins, I’d love to see a H&H episode featuring his mane.
a Lebanese place
I like girls too.
This might be the feel-good Link of the Year!
I want to import the guy just for that doo.
Given our “issues” with The Hair (from TOS), and the temperament of our very own “Hair” (and his chapeau compatriot), I’d just say… that we should be very cautious about our follicle fetishizing.
Its 2021, reckless is the name of the game.
Reckless
How dare you leave out The Hair that walks like a Man.
Ahem.
That’s The Hair That Walks Like A Man™, if you please (though I gotta admit that I’m stoked that somebody here on Glibs actually remembered my reference to Our Dear Leader, Justin the Lesser Trudeau).
I didn’t want to infringe the TM.
With a foof like that, he ought to be leading an orchestra.
“Farmers in that area are demanding to remain part of Chiapas state and have vowed to resist plans to redraw boundary lines that will put them in neighboring Chiapas state.”
That’s some excellent reportificaton there, AP.
This story has been lurking beneath the waves, but I’d say it has teeth.
A shark advice has been issued for Thompson Bay off Rottnest Island, with a number of sharks feeding on a whale carcass this morning. Swimmers have been ordered out of the water with local beaches closed by rangers. See the story tonight at 6 on 7NEWS.
That’s a whale of a tale.
You’re gonna put Swiss into a frenzy.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
*thrashes about, narrowing gaze*
relevant
Oh, now don’t start to blubber.
Hmm, makes one ponder how a hammerhead shark would give a narrowed gaze.
Doesn’t matter. To them everything looks like a nail.
What porpoise could this possibly serve?
So this is what happened to Moby, that dick
This is getting to be Ahabit.
It is clear we are Swissy’s white whale
There is something fishy about that story…
The carcass may make it a rotten island, but I refuse to believe it’s the Rottnest.
Outstanding. You win this round.
Yeah, cute and all, but: quokkas, the cutest-ever mammal! https://theupsider.com.au/rottnest-island-glamping/11458
Dear Ms. Shark,
I never thought this would happen to me but just the other night…
“They’ve taken the bread from our mouths, they’ve stepped on our heads with taxes and regulations.”
Sounds like something cribbed from the Declaration of Independence. Obviously, a right-wing insurrectionist.
17% is amazing for a libertarian! And that glorious hair!
Apologies for the early OT – I’ve got to jump to conference call.
FBI Tracks Threats Against Teachers, School-Board Members
Again, how is this even remotely a federal issue?
Well when your financial nut holders squeeze you tend to jump
You mean all this “domestic terrorist” kerfuffle was just cover for a program they’ve been working on putting together for months? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Of course. States disavowed the national school board association, and they walked back their memo, but there was zero chance the FBI was going to give up a prime opportunity like this.
Right? And pass up gathering information on more Americans under a dubious claim they can state was a valid state action?
It reminds me a lot of the Russian collusion thing. Start with a flimsy excuse they basically made up, use it to start a surveillance program, and forge on even after the flimsy excuse has been disproven.
Right after this, they’ll investigate Antifa.
How is anyone taking this seriously? “Threats to teachers”?! Are they even listening to themselves?
Thcrew you guyth! We’re goin’ hoam!
Check your privilege, whitey.
An English teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools — the largest school district in Maryland — told students to take a “white privilege test” before reading a book that addresses themes of racism and police brutality.
Ninth-grade English students at Sherwood High School were given pre-reading questions for the book “All American Boys” on Monday, Nov. 8, according to a file reviewed by the Daily Caller. The questions linked directly to a Vox article titled “what it means to be anti-racist” and a test called the “white privilege test.” The Vox article promoted the work of “anti-racist” scholar and author Ibram X. Kendi.
The “white privilege test” was adapted by “research on white privilege” from anti-racist activist Peggy McIntosh, according to the test. Students were told to answer “yes or no” to 25 statements.
That’s not CRT though, because it’s not a college class.
Yet another reason to ask why we even bother with public schooling? Any idiot with a Facebook account can link to a derpy Vox quiz, why do I need to pay someone to do that?
Are we really teaching kids using tabloids as a source? That’s how far gone we are? Maybe I should just use Buzzfeed to teach my kids 23 different things that will blow their mind.
Yes I know there’s a lot more to unpack here.
lol
“scholar”
Should be in quotes.
Oh sorry Potato, I unwittingly pipped your joke….
Just don’t bogart those ass drugs, my friend.
One of very few good things to come from the pandemic is parents finding out what their children are actually taught. There is a reason public school enrollment is dropping.
Remember Auntie Mame (film or novel) and her nephew’s Fish Families lesson? (Ted will.) “…Articles by civic leaders and an outraged clergy that all seemed to begin, ‘Mother, What Is Your Child Being Taught?'”
Remember Auntie Mame (film or novel) and her nephew’s Fish Families lesson? (Ted will.)
+1 Roz Russell
(His Girl Friday, however, is better.)
+2 yogurt time
I don’t remember that but I have a vague memory of Auntie Mame making sure she educated the kid.
The scare quotes should extend around “scholar and author” as well.
He’s no scholar, at least not as I understand the word. Why do you question “author?” I assume he didn’t hire a ghost writer to produce his trash.
Peggy McIntosh, one of the original purveyors of the white “privilege” narrative and one of the top 1% of the most privileged to ever walk the planet. Talk about progjection.
If the Lebanon special didn’t come with your choice of a UZI or RPG then I am disappoint.
And a nice piece of that lovely blond hash…
Was it at least served by someone wearing a Toledo Mud Hens hat?
No respect.
On Monday evening, even as Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was holding a virtual summit with President Joe Biden, Chinese warplanes once again entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). It was the 14th such intrusion since the beginning of November.
Monday’s event was much smaller than the enormous Chinese military flights that raised tensions in the region last month. According to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND), this time it was two of China’s Shenyang J-11 fighters, two Chengdu J-10 fighters, one Shaanxi Y-8 electronic intelligence turboprop, and one Shaanxi Y-8 configured for electronic warfare.
Footage from the virtual summit
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Suspects seen stealing TVs from Wallingford store
There is a way to stop this…
Make it legal to shoot looters?
Apropos
To begin with, he attested, he’d grown up in Montana at the turn of the century and—presumably because everybody always had a gun somewhere near at hand—he’d never heard one grownup call another a sonofabitch or anything even remotely like it. Contrast that with the casually vile manner in which individuals relate to each other every day in New York City, which effectively outlawed personal weaponry in 1917.
Then there was an incident he described in which, for no reason in particular, a lowlife we’d refer to in these morally enfeebled times as “homeless” pulled up a tenderly-nurtured pear sapling in somebody’s front yard, and that somebody shot the sonofabitch dead. One gathered that there wasn’t even an inquest, since it was an obvious demise from natural causes: in well-armed Montana at the turn of the century, it was only natural for somebody to ventilate you if you ruined their property.
The fastidiously faint-of-spine today (yes, we have our share of them in the Libertarian movement) might not like it, but that act of mindless vandalism lived on in this old man’s memory for 70-odd years precisely because—in well-armed Montana at the turn of the century—it was the only act of vandalism he ever saw. And it was the only act of vandalism, not because people back then possessed a mysterious quality of character we don’t possess today (a claim conservatives are stupidly fond of making), but because it was the custom of the day to let character express itself—if appropriate, in a hailstorm of hot lead.
From the article:
“property is life. Local television anchor-people with six figure salaries may have difficulty
understanding this, but most folks exchange major segments of their mortal expectancy
—and indenture themselves to lending institutions—simply to come by the basic amenities
of civilized existence, say, a house or a car.”
I have stated before, not entirely in jest, that there’s
no moral difference between wasting my time and
killing me. Either way, you are depriving me of a
portion of my lifespan. The difference is one of
degree, not fundamentally of kind.
“BLM protesters scream at Kyle Rittenhouse supporters as tensions flare on courthouse steps: Journalists hire armed guards and police try to ease ‘anxiety’ as jury deliberations continue”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10209259/Tensions-flare-Kenosha-Rittenhouse-jury-starts-deliberations.html
This isn’t good.
The kid is going to get railroaded and the left will riot anyway.
This. These kinds of shitbirds can only be dealt with one way and that way is not appeasement.
Dude wearing a hat emblazoned with “Shoot Your Local Pedophile”.
The Trifecta
1) I’m still stewing about Tundra getting a shout out from Fourscore. All he did was send out emails! I pioneered the Glib discovery of the Honey Harvest. It is like Chris Columbus stealing Leif Erickson’s glory all over again.
2) Tundra has no ability to not listen to those songs, so I’m sure he’ll be in the fetal position in a few minutes
3) Wheel of Time will start this Friday! You Dune fan bois don’t have rap songs do you?
3) Wheel of Time will start this Friday! You Dune fan bois don’t have rap songs do you?
I’ll start cringing on your behalf now.
Ain’t no party like a fork root tea party!!
The whole attraction for WOT is if they will be able to torture viewers like the books did.
I think I bailed after The Fires of Heaven. I don’t regret that at all.
1) Hah!
2) Wrong!
3) Huh?
Sounds like someone could use a goblet of sacramental wine.
Wow, look at that braid puller.
Fourscore on November 16, 2021 at 3:45 pm
Sorry, the dumplings are gone, your chicken is but a memory. A retroactive shout out to my really great friend, uh,uh,uh, oh, Jimbo!
And thanks for your gift of books and electronics, oh so many months ago. I really enjoyed your visit in my time of need.
I’m not really mad. I just like to yank Tundra’s chain.
OnlyFans link?!
Pullleaze! Tundra isn’t worthy to lick the latex bodysuit of my gimp.
Is ‘gimp’ the next step up the career ladder for orphans who survive the monocle mines?
I always assumed you were the gimp.
Definitely not licking that!
“The corrupt liberal media came for me, just like they came for Kyle Rittenhouse, and if he decides to sue I say go for it and hold the media accountable:
By Nicholas Sandmann For Dailymail.Com”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10208119/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-NICHOLAS-SANDMANN-media-defamation.html
I’m assuming he ended up with F-you money. Which is nice.
He did!
Do we have any numbers? My memory is his settlement was confidential.
846 OTTOMH? How accurate was I?
What I have heard is it is not all that much. Barnes represents some of the other kids, and he intimates that it was not a large amount of cash, but that was never the entire point.
I’m not sure if I am remembering right, but didn’t one of the BlueCheck employees of one the sued outlets “brag” that it was only $100K or something?
Uffda. Minneapolis on the hook for $111M for police misconduct claims.
Oh, and don’t forget this cost….
That’s some fine governance Lou.
TRUMP: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!
LOL! Maybe the best Donald I’ve ever heard.
Not the voice I’d have expected to come out of that face!!
Good job.
“Trans university professor sparks fury after claiming sexual attraction to children isn’t always immoral: Wants to destigmatize pedophilia and use term ‘Minor-Attracted Persons’ instead”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10207985/University-professor-sparks-fury-claiming-sexual-attraction-children-isnt-immoral.html
No.
Yeah no. What the fuck.
The Biden Admin has a cabinet spot for that dude, Child Welfare Czar?
Not an Under Secretary of Education, Legal Emancipation for Sexual Services?
“‘I “died” during my first trip’: Mike Tyson says he smokes TOAD VENOM – a psychedelic drug that is illegal in the US and also has been touted by Hunter Biden and Christina Haack”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10208953/Mike-Tyson-says-smokes-TOAD-VENOM-psychedelic-drug-touted-Hunter-Biden-Christina-Haack.html
Who would pay to see Tyson vs. Biden?
Which? Art or fight? I’d take Tyson both on the art and fight.
I would, but only if it was meth’d up Biden vs. regular Tyson. Or Tyson was somehow Harrison Bergeron’d. Otherwise it be over in one punch. Hunter needs to be able to suffer for at least a couple of rounds to make it satisfying.
Hunter shows up with a borrowed pool chain and bike lock, he has learned well.
But did he remember to leave the straight razor in the rain barrel to get it rusty?
OK, but I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be the first time Tyson had to beat a crackhead.
*shocked face*
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Boris Johnson said the concept of what constitutes “full vaccination” will need to be adjusted – and said that getting a third jab would become part of that.
“It’s very clear that getting three jabs – getting your booster – will become an important fact and it will make life easier for you in all sorts of ways, and we will have to adjust our concept of what constitutes a full vaccination to take account of that,” he said. “And I think that is increasingly obvious.
“The booster massively increases your protection – it takes it right back up to over 90%. As we can see from what’s happening, the two jabs sadly do start to wane, so we’ve got to be responsible and we’ve got to reflect that fact in the way we measure what constitutes full vaccination.”
Jabs now. Jabs tomorrow. Jabs forever!
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/15/boris-says-he-cant-rule-out-xmas-lockdown
Limey, wanna become fond of one of the single Glib women?
I’m feeling very much inclined that way ?
Uh. If it wanes after two, what exactly do they think will happen after #3?
You will become a true believer!
/Mola Ram
Exactly. Perhaps when 3 becomes 4 some of the believers will become skeptics.
It will become like shaving razors. Two blades become three, then four, then five…
Lebanese food: nom!
It bears a striking resemblance to many other national and regional cuisines from across the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Levant. I think the best one I’ve been to was nominally Palestinian. My apologies if any of the proceeds of that business ended up being scattered across the sky by the IRON DOME®️. It was good.
Sailors always did have more fun than farmers.
Scurvy, sharks, and saltwater.
Rum, sodomy, …?
The lash?
I can’t marry you if you’re going to be Captain Obvious!
There’s a new-ish Persian place near here:
https://orderonlinemenu.com/MediterraneanGrillMassachusetts
clearly similar to the other regional cuisines, but different enough that I really want to try it.
That looks good.
Rise up fatties! You have nothing to lose but your chips!
Is that some new gender I’ve never heard of?
Lol. Give it time…
The destruction of language continues apace with a contrived piece of nonsense that would appear to correlate sexual orientation with bulk.
Man Sized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZcwT0uzwi0
cissize?
Meh. The struggle is real. It’s just how you think of it. I’ve been um. fat. my whole life [insert sob story here] but I do NOT want to see this “fat acceptance” movement. I do not think anybody WANTS to be fat and the fight to normalize it takes hope away.
I had a very naturally skinny friend 10 years my senior who couldn’t gain weight no matter what, who would say, “Why can’t you just put down your fork?” Well, it’s reductive and sounds easy, but not EASY. Her mother was very overweight. She just couldn’t understand how her mother could let herself get that way.
She’s not the only friend who asked me that, either. Another one (from an entirely different friend group) lectured me constantly.
Anyway, both my friends hit menopause. I didn’t say a word. I just let them struggle. To my surprise, they both apologized to me.
I know I’m responsible for my weight. I spent half my life not having the right tool, however, and getting the right tool is half the battle. You know that saying, you can’t outrun a bad diet? Yeah, tried that. That doesn’t work for very long, either. But then someone clued me in to Dr. Atkins. I credit Dr. Atkins with saving my life.
My manopause must have hit around 32-ish because that’s when I started to get fat.
You look slimmish from here, lass. Perhaps after effort.
Twentieth birthday present: freshman fifteen.
Oh, I lost about 25 pounds my freshman year. I had to walk or bike everywhere, but the real gift that kept on taking was the cafeteria food. It was yummy. And by yummy I mean lots of protein and a killer salad bar. I unintentionally ate almost exclusively low carb because that was what I preferred to eat. Yeah, I ate carbs, but I walked or biked those off.
I noticed neither what I was eating nor my weight loss nor that everything became so much easier for me.
So I’m walking by a plate glass window one day and I see that the butt of my jeans is down to my knees and I started laughing at how ridiculous I looked, but I was so happy because I finally got a clue.
I figure between 100 and 1,000 more repetitions of something along the lines of “You look sexy and totally f***able”, and my wife will finally internalize that I actually mean it, that I like her curves.
That’s a good hubby. Keep at it.
I guess diabetes, heart attacks, and increased susceptibility to COVID-19 isn’t a thing. You go girl.
Just got an email from a guy from another company I’m collaborating with. He says, paraphrasing, “my due date was supposed to be in early December but the doctors made a decision to induce today.” Is this how men now talk about their wives or girlfriends going into labor?
Maybe re paternity leave.
I had similar thoughts.
Must be it. A colleague of his did take a paternity leave several months ago. But that guy never referred to his due date.
“our” is acceptable, “my” is weird.
Men have babies too, you know.
Ladymen or Menladies? I find this stuff confusing.
Carrying The First That Will Change Everything has changed my perspective some. I have seen the bigotry directed at me as a birthing person with a penis.
I do not have a due date yet.
So will The First pop out of your ass, or your urethra? Enquiring minds and all…
“Oh, so how long have you been constipated?”
NPR continues to impress.
NPR slammed over story highlighting ‘disappointment’ over Boston electing Asian woman mayor
She’s American as my wife is.
To be fair, they’re probably right that there was a lot of “disappointment” – and you can lay that directly at the feet of outfits like NPR who have done as much as anybody to stir up all the racial nonsense that’s infected America lately.
You know NPR has really screwed the pooch when an MSNBC contributor chastises them.
Garage door repairman was here a bit ago. I told him about the door we put on our old house and how much it cost. He said, “That was a while ago because prices have skyrocketed.”
I said, “Let’s go, Brandon, amiright?!”
He was not amused. He said, “No, the other one. FJB.”
Anything with labor costs seems to really have skyrocketed. I’ve had a few things getting ready for winter, things I would normally have done myself. I’m waiting for the last one, install a gas stove, labor and parts were more than the new stove and a 6 week wait. Seems to be a seller’s market for service people.
We’re about halfway through the house renvo and it’s been very difficult finding even the basic supplies. Gang boxes, breakers, and pvc conduit are wiped out in some stores while others have this and that. I ended up having to drive to 5 different big box stores to piece together my list.
Let go, Brandon!
Right?!
Editor eye FTW.
“NEW VIDEO: Reacting to the MOST INSANE Woke Tik Toks (ft @michaelmalice)
https://youtu.be/yvQ6ppE7tKo via @YouTube”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1460729447959736329
Live now
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055849927/india-air-pollution-new-delhi-city-wide-lockdown
Ready for climate lockdowns? Like how their Supreme Court is calling for it. Judicial activism for the win!
Man hospitalized with seizures discovers tapeworm was in brain for decades
“A man hospitalized with mysterious seizures and an “altered mental status” had tapeworms living in his brain for decades, according to researchers.”
Altered mental status? Wonder if I have brain worms
FTA
Horse medicine! OH NOEZ!
You’re here, aren’t you?
Touché
It’s “Tear My Hair Out Tuesday”. I’ve been asking for a link to a Flickr album for 3 fucking days to complete the setup of a web page. Then, after total silence, I get an email: “can we go livve today?”
Fuck. Off.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/11/15/1055839727/austria-and-germany-impose-restrictions-on-unvaccinated-people-as-covid-cases-su
You know which other Austrians and Germans said that an unclean minority had no civil rights?
The National Anti-Scheizze Porn Association of Germany and Austria (NASPAGA)?
Naspaga sounds like some sort of pasta
I was a bit surprised to find they’re only at 65% vaccinated.
They seem like a higher government trust society.
I read (on BBC site?) that they and Japan tend pro-cash. How long ago was that?
(er, Austria)
I’m not, at least in the case of Germany’s 68%.
They also don’t trust credit cards or those Google vans driving around and taking pictures (a couple examples that come to mind). And they have a libertarianish political party that gets the kind of support the LP could only dream of.
cool
Given their history in the mid-1990s, I’m not surprised that a lot of people there aren’t particularly trusting of an authoritarian government pushing them to take unknown substances into their bodies.
On one of my trips to Germany, a friend of mine who was on a business trip to Amsterdam joined me for a few days.
I explained to him about Germans and credit cards. Carry cash. It went in one ear and out the other as he tried several times to pay with a credit card at places that took cash only.
Heh. We learned that lesson in Germany back in the 90s, although acquiring cash back then was also difficult if you were a foreigner (we carried AMEX cheques, which were better than nothing but not nearly as liquid as we’d been led to believe). France was much better, ’cause the French love their ATMs and technology, and had already gone all-in on debit cards by ’96 or so. The Netherlands was somewhere in-between.
Last trip to Europe (2019), ATMs that recognized our debit cards were everywhere, and life was easy.
Is the FDP really that libertarian?
I can’t say for sure. More so than any of the other major parties.
My dad’s house has one of those glass electric stovetops. I need to roast some peppers. I may just roast them over the gas fireplace, fukkit.
My house has those too. I hate ’em. I looked into what it would cost to run gas to the kitchen and it just wasn’t wroth it. When I need to roast, if I can’t do it in the oven, I fill up my chimney lighter and that works pretty well.
I have one of those now. I hate cooking on electric and would like a gas stove, but if I have to have electric, I like the glass top just because of how easy it is to clean.
I too have a gas fireplace.
One thing I didn’t realize (not that I had a choice as to which oven was in the rental) is that you can’t pressure can on glass cooktops.
I have noticed mine tends to run cool. For instance, I can put the large burner on 8 (10 being high) and it doesn’t give me the same result as on my electric at my old house. 8 was boiling-over hot, while here, I have to push it all the way to high to get boiling water and even then it’s a low rolling boil.
My stovetop runs hot (even a 3 or 4 can get to a vigorous boil), but takes forever to get to temperature. My oven runs cold, which makes baking a pain in the ass.
Overall, the glass countertop feels like driving a boat compared to the electric burner feeling like a school bus and a gas burner feeling like a sports car.
Glass *stovetop
I’ve cooked on both electric and gas. I prefer gas, but I can deal with electric.
The glass cook-top is easy to clean.
Natural gas isn’t an option where I live. Propane means work that I don’t want to do or pay for.
Glass smoothtops do not work well in houses with cats.
Our cats don’t get on the countertops. They get broken of that very quickly in our house.
A little spritz with the spray bottle goes a long way.
No oven? an electric element on broil should do the trick.
I’ll give the broiler a try, but I have done it that way before and I wasn’t thrilled with the results. Not enough char. But the oven here is fancy, so maybe it’ll do better than the crappy oven I tried last time.
In the glorious future our leaders have planned for us, we’ll all get to know the joys of electric stoves.
Yes, we were able to replace a gas stove in our in-law apartment, but soon new gas stoves will be illegal in California. Then we’ll all be able to cook with the reliable power of wind!
Let me guess, there’s an exemption for high end restaurants that are frequented by politicians.
There better be an exemption for all restaurants.
Well, there shouldn’t such a stupid law in the first place.
Toaster oven?
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-fanatics-took-over-the-world/
I find this line interesting. Until the lockdowns Tucker would have dismissed these fears as insane alt-right bigoted paranoia. Doesn’t really fit in with the creative destruction, dynamism and innovation talk.
I’m hoping to see it “catch on” and that the vengeance will make things better.
a small minority of crazy people with a cause prevailed over the humane rationality of multitudes.
Or, policy is impacted by small groups and 80% of people are asleep at the wheel and/or too pliable to bother objecting so long as the frog is boiled slowly enough.
I hope that’s the case, if not our scientific abilities are heading towards idiocracy levels.
Did they though?
I seem to remember most people going all in.
Lemmings.
Let me have my white pill!
Seriously though, I think we have to differentiate between the people actually doing something about it and the people just nodding along. It’s one thing to answer a poll in the affirmative when it comes to some vax mandate. It’s another thing to (as some of our friends are having to deal with) tell your family they’re not welcome at Thanksgiving without a vax card.
true
I find it worth noting that some of the early stuff like “two weeks to flatten the curve” blah blah blah didn’t seem all that horrible even though it seemed a bit suspect.
Despite being a skeptic, I figured any government that shut things down for too long would be really unpopular.
Man I was wrong about that.
it’s worth noting that lockdowns, forced masking, etc. were by all measures complete failures and STILL places are choosing them.
Man I was wrong about that.
You and me both. I predicted riots by Memorial Day 2020.
Joe is trying his damnedest, give it time.
Ozy, thank you for the late replies last post. At least I think thanks are in order, even though I can feel the thread holding up my last remnant of faith in this country thinning and fraying as I read. With what I observe of the senior officer corps of the Army, I thought I had plumbed the depths of cynicism, but surprise, there are dark levels beneath that.
Yes I do remember the Church Commission, and the bureaucratic blunder called FISC that we got out of it. I have no doubt that our domestic-oriented national security apparatus needs to be razed, burned and the ground salted. Winning WWII may have been a Pyrrhic victory for this republic.
Thank you for engaging, JI. I really appreciate that, too. I hope you know that I’m only half as strident in person and a lot more fun after a few bong rips.
It’s been a long coupla decades fighting this battle and living through “lose-win-lose-win-lose-win-lose…” Being able to share it here really does help ease the burden of it, somehow.
I know it is truly hard to believe, but we’re here because we’re funding our own demise. The bureaucracy is unrelenting.
Once someone convinces someone high enough up the chain to “do something” – like a giant DoD-FDA joint biologics program – and it gets funding, that thing is NOT going away. It simply “IS” – and there are hundreds of govt apparatchiks who are going to put their kids through college because of that program. And dozens of govt attorneys who get paid to defend it no matter how obviously absurd or wrong it is.
The mistake has always been in thinking that the Nazis were unique. Milgram was right (article forthcoming).
As I like to say, the government is its own special interest.
and it gets funding, that thing is NOT going away
Deeply familiar with that dynamic, I can give you a string of offices that serve no useful purpose.
However, in keeping with comments I’ve made previously – govt isn’t usually very good at accomplishing a thing, as in making perpetual progress toward it. The latter truly does pay for the bureaucrats kids (and grandkids if done right) education.
I think one difference, that we are rapidly losing, in this country is we have/had a skepticism toward govt. That of course is anathema to the credentialed elite, the meritocracy, in charge.
And right on cue…
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-whistleblower-claims-doj-used-counterterrorism-tools-against-parents-in-response-to-school-board-memo/
This is good of course, so my question still holds – where is this SOB in the FDA?
Busy collecting money and job offers from Pfizer.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonkay/status/1460677128090001410
Lol wut?
No mention of LGBTQMAP+ rights though…Reeeeeeee!!
What a steaming pile of unadulterated, hot buttered dogshit.
I got two of my degrees from the U. of A., and the place has become an enormous embarrassment for me.
If I didn’t know this type of character, I’d conclude from that signature that he hates himself and hangs his head in shame at all times.
But no, he is damned proud of his oikophibia and smugly displays it for all to see, thus absolving himself from any of the crimes he is benefiting from.
“ The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, the light of the world, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too.” – Hoffer
Aussie football matches now start with a “land tribute”.
It’s only a matter of time before it reaches the US.
Oh, it’s here.
I was terribly disappointed to learn that a ‘land tribute’ was just a bunch of whiny self-criticism, instead of an actual tribute to the tough and fearless warriors whose asses were kicked by our ancestors, back in the land rush era…
I figured a land tribute was a ceding of real estate to a suzerein.
It’s here, in universities and other uber-woke areas.
I mean at baseball games and shit.
Video posted by inhabitants of the hamlet of Rafael Cal Y Mayor showed about 20 men with guns — mostly hunting rifles. One of the men claimed there were 50 to 100 men under arms in the district.
I thought Mexico had strict gun control?
For weeks, activists in Cuba had been calling for a “Civic March for Change” on Monday to demand greater freedoms from the communist-run government, a follow-up to the massive, historic protests that shook the country in July.
Shame the Cubans don’t have more guns.
On the other hand, the folks in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising did more with less.
As the Sun’s first rays appear over the horizon, the members, in fairy-tale-like garments, chant their personal “emissions” – a ritual invocation of cosmic forces that fills the air with a collective drone.
These euphemisms.
The party’s wild-haired leader, Javier Milei, has refused to be vaccinated against Covid, denies climate change is real, and describes himself as a “lion”.
Milei rose to fame last year with on-air boasts of his sexual prowess, eventually converting media notoriety into votes and peeling away support from Together for Change, the conservative party of former president Mauricio Macri, who hopes to return to the presidency in 2023.
🙂
Most places claim to have strict gun control, but very few places actually have it.
Hey folks! Back from Florida! We made it home in 9.5 hours door-to-door, including having to jump-start the GF’s car (stored in the hangar for the week) from the airplane because the battery was dead.
Our friends left yesterday at 0600 and got home at 1900, including a layover. So, 9.5 hours for us, 13 for them. They had to be masked the whole time. General Aviation Wins!
Where is your Flight Aware penis pic?
I was IFR, so ixnay on the enispay.
Damn shame. Oh well, glad you made it back home okay.
Of course, wouldn’t wanna doxx your tail number
Welcome back!
Florida is a good place, especially in these times of insanity.
Too bad most of it will be underwater in 8 or 10 years.
5 years ago even.
We don’t have much BS here in western PA anymore, but even FL seemed like a complete DGAFAC paradise in comparison. Our Uber driver to the airport is a real estate agent too, so…
Excellent!
You have the right to a jury of your intimidated peers.
Legal eagles, please remind me – what’s the consequence of a hung jury? New trial?
I am not a lawyer, but my opinion is always First. Basically a hung jury would leave it up to the prosecutors to decide whether to go for another trial. Given what vindictive political cunts they are, I would anticipate that happening.
How hung does the jury have to be? Peter North?
Legal Eagles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaK_FgrIlYY
He would be home right now if it was a bench trial.
The Rittenhouse deliberations should have taken 5 minutes.
Trying to decide on lesser charges maybe?
Or not.
This could take until Friday or it could take 5 more minutes.
“We’re all decided. But, let’s just sit here for another day so it looks like we struggled with this decision.”
At least 5 of those people are going to be total Karens who will not understand why he brought a big scary gun or had to kill multiple people.
This is going to be a battle.
RE: Rittenhouse trial, Rekieta law livestream:
Judge is back in the courtroom. Judge is talking, sounds like he is playing trivia or something like that. Someone on the panel says the judge likes to play Jeopardy! with the jury alternates to kill time.
Jack Posobiec, citing an un-named US Marshall, that there are two hold-outs on the jury that are worried about backlash. I take this with a grain of salt as I’m not sure how the US Marshall would know.
Well they are apparently given the option of going home at 5 or to continue deliberating. So maybe they think they’re close?
Yeah Jack…hard to believe that guy. Judge being judge…
“Sources say” twitter is the very essence of jornalisming. If you had a degree from Columbia, you’d know that.
I would imagine that openly stating that you are scared of giving the correct verdict out of fear of backlash would get you tossed from the jury pool. Though I’m not lawyer.
I don’t want these people to go home and read about the scary dipshits outside the courthouse.
They aren’t sequestered.
I know.
Also if they flip on most tv stations they will encounter handsome well-groomed people all agreeing that Kyle is a white supremacist.
Jury is breaking for the night.
Ah. So much for that.
I’m calling Thursday.
I’d like to believe what Posibiec is saying, but that guy says a lot of stuff. Does it ever turn out to be true?
Yeah that sounds like a suspicious claim.
God I hope these people don’t log onto the internet tonight.
But I would.
Does it ever turn out to be true?
I’m struggling here.
I have a vague memory of something he said that turned out to be true, but I can’t remember what.
I was told by one of the guys (who asked to remains nameless) that brought the jurors their lunch that four or them want to keep this thing going as long as possible because ‘free food’ and they don’t want to go home to their nagging wives.
If only you were on the jury. No one would be able to get out of that room fast enough.
I wonder if the first one out the door would continually talk about it.
You two need to get a room together.
That sounds more legitimate than everything else on the net
That’s nice.
Having served on a jury, I can attest that the sammiches are sub-par.
I’d vote for this guy if I could:
#metoo. #thehair #voteforcrazypeoplenotevilpeople
So, what you’re saying is that the Libertarian party needs a Brazilian?
This latest bullshit from Fauci (basically flogging booster shots) is interesting to me in that he repeatedly uses keywords and phrases that indicate opinion, not fact, as if he’s acknowledging he really is guessing at this point.
“To me,…”
“I think…”
“For me..”
“We can’t predict…”
Article
https://news.trust.org/item/20211116201618-9nvu1
Bureaucrat speak – sound authoritative while being mushy and non-committal.
Well he is science, so everything he says is a scientific fact.
That evil gnome hasn’t gone into hiding yet?
Swam with sharks and rays today, which was pretty awesome. Unfortunately our waterproof camera wasn’t working because my wife put the battery in the wrong way. Not a euphemism.
So, no viral video of your wife being eaten by sharks?
How convenient for JR…
Zuckerberg’s yacht returned to the island today. However, he denies that it is his. This is the yacht: https://www.fraseryachts.com/en/yacht/andromeda/
OK, so, other than Zuckerberg, who else could afford that yacht? Musk? Bezos? Some Saudi royalty or Gulf Emir?
My first guess would have been Larry Ellison, he likes boats.
Some Russian.
Dinner tonight is bacon-wrapped Filet Mignon… served on a paper plate.
Classy.
As long as you don’t over cook it, I won’t judge.
Though I do hope you put some garlic butter on it.
Salt and pepper.
Fuck the type of plate. We want to know what sort of gloves are used to eat a bacon wrapped filet.
Scandalously, none whatsoever.
It’s amazing to me with white supremacy being the greatest domestic threat the country faces that juries are completely unaware of the dangers of not letting Rittenhouse walk. Did they not see what happened on 1/6?
This is written as if you are a chatbot that just crawled InfoWars and mashed a sentence together.
For every Rittenhouse they take down it spawns 6 more.
The vaccine cases will get heard by the 6th Circuit. 6 judges from Trump, 5 from Bush, 5 from Obama and Clinton. None of that should matter, BUT… I’m a lot less comfortable about the Bush picks than I am about Trump’s.
https://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=1056121842
And even then, won’t it just be a choice of three of them?
OK, so why not go from the 5th Circuit to SCotUS, or is this more than the injunction?
Joinder for all the others from various circuits? Because we can’t have States out there acting like they have sovereignty now could we.
This is the hearing on the order.
The order is stayed, but there has been no hearing on it.
I care about the Rittenhouse stuff, but this is way way more crushing to me. The government is effectively taking multitudes of objections to this mess, smashing them down to a single case, then tossing it to a court that will fall right in lockstep with their stupidity, and that will be that.
Legal Eagles, and we have more than I thought, without me having read the article yet, am I understanding that correctly?
I had hinged a ton of hope on the court stepping in and ending this before I lose my job, but that hope pretty much evaporated with this. In order to keep my job both the OSHA rule and the federal contractor mandate have to go away.
If there are 27 different lawsuits against this evil, then there should be 27 separate cases heard, any one of which could end it. And for any cultists who want to argue that this many cases will tie up a lot of courts and a lot of manpower, well that ought to tell you something shouldn’t it?
At a restaurant in Siesta Key, FL, where they encourage patrons to “customize” dollar bills with a sharpie and staple them to the walls (bills are stripped from the walls and donated to disaster relief charities when hurricanes strike), two were prominently situated by the entrance:
F J B in bold red; and
#LET’S GO BRANDON in heavy black
Excellent. We have a few places around the country with various slogans that my wife and I have jotted down on dollar bills over the years and hung them up.
I’m not a bumper sticker girl, but my husband just slapped a FJB sticker on his car.
I think the good citizens of Pahrump are largely on board with that sentiment.
I can’t keep up. What is FJB?
Frell Joe Biden
Now this is funny
Heh. If Kyle gets acquitted he needs to not be like OJ or Zimmerman or anyone else that has been found not guilty and go to a quiet place in the country to live his days out.
He could become an icon, but at his age, it’s possible it would destroy him, and do damage to whatever cause(s) lionized him.
Possible? It’s absolutely fucking guaranteed.
If Rittenhouse gets out of this with his ass intact, he should give serious thought to a legal name change, and/or leaving the country.
After he sues multiple media members into oblivion.
yep.
But yes, he still should get his rifle back.
Pedant alert.
The rifle wasn’t his at the time it was seized for evidence.
A friend of Rittenhouse’s bought it using Rittenhouse’s money with the understanding that when Rittenhouse turns 18, Rittenhouse will get the rifle.
Not possible, I’ve seen this movie, no matter where he hides someday they will come for him and he’ll be forced to once again kill or be killed, along the way he’ll meet a quirky side kick (who will most likely be gay and/or Asian) and a way to hot for him Betty who none-the-less falls for him before the final act.
The universe doesn’t love us enough for this.
Is that the plot to Transformers 2: We Couldn’t Think Of Anything Better?
Dude, you know that the dude who brings him back from the cold will be wearing a Covington Catholic letterman jacket.
That’s perfect, when I accept my Oscar for ‘best deplorable screenplay’ I’ll give you a shout out. No money, just a shout out.
Truly that would be the perfect world, but only if the judge had ordered the sight be replaced and zeroed, and he tossed a full mag over after the rifle.
Internet: broken.
Wow
I don’t get it
*Brandon Administration frantically scrambles drone for some “Afghani terrorists” *
A livestream?
How are we supposed to know what you had in mind?
A livestream?
Yes. It’s all the bad people in one place.
What’s with the Band-Aid down the left side of Malice’s nose? that’s very distracting.
Dog bite.
You know it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKP8mULHpP4
I got my Nevada driver’s license in the mail today.
When they took the picture I knew it would be awful because the camera was at desk level and the folks being photographed were standing, so the photos naturally add several pounds, a chin or two, and narrowed eyes.
Hayek the Hutt. Ho Ho Ho.
Had I been on the jury I would have voted self-defense. To my way of thinking it should have been a slam-dunk.
Well, it’s not. At this point I’m predicting self-defense on two charges and murder-two or manslaughter on the other. Wishy-washy legal system will not take a position and will choose the worst possible combination when push comes to shove.
Buh-bye to the Second.