Camouflage
High Summer at the course
As fall begins, I celebrate a year in Michigan, and everything that comes with living here, but right now is the best time to be here, cool, dry and no bugs. The color is coming in and you can feel a change in the air.
Coming my way fast
as the weather cools, I noticed leaves falling, and shrooms returning, but his time they were different, subdued, so I got out my camera and went hunting as I played a round of disc, let’s see.
Darker and earthier
A little guy hiding from Squirrels
The further I went along, I found little mini colonies, all hiding amonst the leaves, the squirrels have eaten the nuts by now, and eating what isn’t poisonous,
Mini World
Little, Yellow, Different
These have to be poisonous to be Red right now
Truffel?
To scale, the disc is eight inches in diameter
Typical Basket?
What? Why?
Now things get strange, Mycopia is as old as Coral, maybe older, but life tends to repeat, this next one is amazing,
Coral
Seashells,
Got my Eye on you
Not an acorn
Yellow
Sunset, looking West towards the Big Lake
Things change
I love my little park as you might have noticed, and as it changes again, I’ll post some more cool things,
Cheers!
Very nice Yusef. Having 4 seasons is great but I have to admit I don’t care for winter too much. I don’t like to be cold.
I abhor cold weather. I’d rather live in Recife, PE with an avg temp of mid 90s in the day and humidity of 75% than to freeze my freaking ballz off.
I’m aiming to be able to move to the mountains around Shenandoah, myself. You still get all the seasons there, including mid-Atlantic humidity. But I like the cold fine (there are limits, of course. I’m not moving to Minnesota or Alaska, for instance.). The only good part about summer is thunderstorms. I could do without the heat, humidity and bugs.
You talking about WV?
If so, heed my warning. DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
I already shoot and backpack in WV. I may as well change my address there…
NNNOOOOOO!!!!! STAY OUT! KEEP AWAY.
STEVE SMITH SAY STAY AWAY FROM WV! RAPE YOU FIRST AND MOST. AND ALL THE TIME!
Now you’re just threatening me with a good time…
Damn you! STEVE SMITH NOT GOOD TIME!
Nah, Virginia. Which is why I hope the state does not go to shit. It’s a nice place except for the government.
Oh good, make sure you stay over there. Do not come over here. The Black Bears and Wildcats, and Snakes eat your ass alive. And I hear rumor that STEVE SMITH COME HERE AND BY COME HERE MEAN…
Funny, that isn’t what my friends in WV say.
Those are not your friends! If they were, they tell you stay away!
Same here, just farther south & west. I am guardedly optimistic about the election results coming in.
I’m now looking very seriously at a new city in the mountain west. The rental prices and availability I see on Zillow is really promising. And close (relatively) to a major international airport and skiing.
I think I see the problem.
Can’t usually find rentals in the sticks, but if something comes up on Zillow…
(this particular city is of the red variety)
I never get cold, it’s called layers, and I have worked outside in -20 no problem, I’m sure others here would laugh, but hey Cali Boy!
Yeah, I can take cold.
I can’t take heat or especially humidity.
“mid 90s in the day and humidity of 75%” That’s fucking gross, we had a day that was 90/90 ,horrid,
Delightful, thanks Yusef!
Love the fungus! So many varieties in that little park. I am assuming, its just in that area of course.
Oh no OBE, they are everywhere in season, which types depend on conditions of course, Morels across the street for example,
I thought Morels were a spring mushroom.
“How not to be seen”
Damn interesting, Yusef. Me and my brother became avid mushroom hunters in NC Indiana. We had several books and learned everything about it. There are a lot of excellent varieties of edibles, both in the Spring and Fall.
Also, do not eat the bright red ones with the white spots. Those are bad for you.
What if you are an Italian plumber?
Then you want the green one with white spots..
LOL
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
https://archive.md/GdtYd
A MAZE ING! Some of everything, thicc? yes! Freckles, check, Boobies YAY!
Thanks Q!
You ever find Hen of the Woods?
Of course the Morels you find in the Spring are the more well known ones. You need a trained eye to find them. It’s too easy to practically walk on them before you see them.
Not here but we grew the heck out or them at Gourmet mushrooms,
Neat. My aunt and her bf get wild shrooms sometimes. Idk what is good or not so I’ll stick with portabellas from the grocery store.
It’s really easy. You just look them up online. For the ones that are more difficult to identify, spore prints will give a positive ID. But really, you can just tell almost 100% of the time.
Rule of thumb is, if you cannot ID it, don’t eat it.
Anyone know when the Arlington Cemetery votes come in?
Saw that joke on the comments on a site…its a good one.
Awww I figured someone else would make a similar or same joke.
As I understand there are a lot of dead Democrats in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
Well I think the count goes through Friday, so…
If he holds Northampton, Accomack and the counties south of Norfolk City, it will be very hard to fortify the results in my opinion.
Loudoun is underperforming but Fairfax is the county this year to pay attention to. Roanoke City flipping would also be a surprise. Not likely, but never know, it is tight there right now.
At this point last year, the bookies had Trump at -800 (which is an obscene favorite) and that got fortified.
It’s 55-44 favoring the GOP, so if the Donk gets on top by Friday, there’s going to be a lot of scrutiny.
Nah, the urban Dem districts are always the last to report. And in this case it could be by days.
A lot of previous blue counties went red. A lot. And there were only a few areas of blue in 2020. That advantage appears lost. Res State has great coverage.
They are linked to DDHQ. Slightly conflicts with what I am getting on local news.
“Winsome Sears”?
That sounds like a fake name.
Well, you know…you winsome, you losesome…
You winsome, you lissome.
I’m not so sure.
https://archive.md/qIEby/d1979ecaadbaf1ad5cc8621206cd8e5b0c05b4f0.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/1PfIx/e1ebeba8bd7477423b2e16cf884449f6a1c86567.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/2RUJe/7aa327a105c9024553ec8035aa35baea174827f2.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/pOsYu/adb2eabec550b2b2c33d1f41f2ece29ebaa44805.jpg
NSFW.
Winner.
This is something where there is no wrong answer
Truth^
#2 oh yeah.
And…done.
DDHQ calls it for Youngkin…
Showing similar margins for Miyares and Sears.
That is brave
Yeah, I thought it seemed a bit early.
DDHQ?
Decision Desk..they usually run a lot of the predictions on election night. Gotta put that statistician degree to work somewhere.
Dunkin Donuts
Drunken Donuts?
Yes,
Yeah, I’ll believe it tomorrow, maybe. Or next week. The Dems are going to pull out their last minute cheat soon enough. The counting will stop until 4am tomorrow morning when they call that Gaping Maw thing the winner.
I see those toadstools springing up all over in the yard, cool and a little more rain. There is one variety called Fairy Ring, smallish, growds in circles 5-6 feet in diameter. Often the circles are not complete, broken if you will.
I’m with the Reb, buying mine at the store. One tiny mistake… No, no,no, not talking about the vaccine
They look like this?
Magical Fairy Shrooms
If so, eat all of them.
Watching even more local results. It looks like the usual bond measure appeals for the schools, safety, roads, etc are going to pass. At least the public pool measure is losing significantly. Also waiting on school board results.
NY Polls are just abut to close, so no results here yet.
I can’t wait for the right to clean air or whatever the fuck that silliness is, that will quickly bankrupt the state. At least we’re getting it over with.
Great pictures!
I like this,
Glenn Youngkin
GOP
check_circle 1,096,800 54.59%
Terry McAuliffe
DEM
899,015 44.75%
Princess Blanding
OTH
13,180 0.66%
* = Incumbent
2,008,995 votes.Estimated 65% in.
DDHQ
Updated 11/2/2021, 8:57:47 PM
Wait for the 4am counting stop and then…
4 years ago there were ~2.6 million votes cast, of course the fortifying in 2020 resulted in a turnout increase of 11 points to the highest since 1900.
Interesting.
CALL: Republican Tim Anderson has defeated incumbent Democrat Nancy Guy in HD-83. 3rd flip of the night to the GOP
I’ve only been following my own district and the incumbent is likely to hold the seat, which is fine.
Hopefully: The great wokelash is upon us
Heh…
When Biden wakes up tomorrow afternoon, somebody’s gonna have to tell him he’s now officially presiding over the collapse of the Democrat party
Hm…interesting.
HUGE UPSET: Republican @WinsomeSears has been elected Virginia’s next lieutenant governor!
She was outspent 2:1 but overcame all odds and will be the first woman to hold the office in VA!
Congrats, Winsome!
Tim Anderson is a strong 2A supporter, but he’s also a bit of a SoCon. Nancy Guy is a loon. She sponsored the balloon bill which makes it illegal to release balloons; nobody has ever been charged under that.
I can deal with socon compared the modern Dems, considering modern Dems are full on authoritarian. Idk anything about the balloon thing, which does not seem enforceable.
That said, socon needs to not go full socon, or I’ll have a problem.
It would be great if we could convert the GOP from mercantilism and soconism to be the party of constitutionalism and small government (but I think the socons are losing influence anyway.).
I agree with Styx that Trumpism, while not ideal, is moving the needle in the correct direction.
Very cool photos, Yu! The coral one is particularly striking.
I should have looked down more before moving to the southwest. I did get a lovely crop of morels one year in my yard in Minnesota.
“The coral one is particularly striking” I agree, as to looking down, well it’s part of the game, then my curiosity took over,
Thanks HE
I’ve seen enough: Glenn Youngkin (R) defeats Terry McAuliffe (D) in the Virginia governor’s race. #VAGOV
“Just about the only places we’re seeing McAuliffe (D) exceed his vote targets are inside the Beltway. It’s not enough to win, but it is enough to keep Youngkin (R)’s eventual margin quite narrow, maybe 2-3%. #VAGOV”
Well that’s great news.
Until it’s fortified. McAuliffe in a landslide.
He’ll get at least 70% of the vote, just like in every other blue state.
Until 4am tomorrow morning when the voting stops and a few hours later Gaping Maw Gator Face is declared the winner.
I must keep my priorities straight. Tokyo Gore Police is now out from behind a paywall. Watching now.
https://tubitv.com/movies/609245/tokyo-gore-police-original-japanese-version?start=true
premise?
Crazed monster turns other humans into gory sexualized mutants. Perverse! Bloody! Really Perverse! Also I met the director. Nice guy.
Comedy?
…In the eyes of the beholder. I think my laughs were of incredulity. Pretty brutal. If you are unfamiliar with ultra-violent Japanese films, it may be a shock. Maybe start with the relatively benign “Meatball Machine” series before watching something like Tokyo Gore Police.
Tokyo. Gore. Police.
I mean, it’s right there in the title.
Yeah, when I went to bed on election night 2020 Trump was well ahead.
I won’t believe it until I see it.
The dems will win. No doubt about it. They got the memo: When cheating don’t work, cheat harder.
I might see some good news when I get up in the morning.
It doesn’t look good in NJ.
We’ll see what happens when I get up, but I have a feeling I’ll be happy with the Virginia results.
‘Night all!
G’nite Bro!
Let’s Go Brandon
Thanks, Yusuf, the shrooms are gorgeous.
VA Election results looking pretty good, too. NJ, not so much. Murphy 56% with 18% reporting, about what’s expected.
His lead has been steadily dropping, interestingly enough.
Down to 50:49. It was like 60:40 an hour ago.
Not-Murphy is leading.
Guessing that Newark and JC votes will trickle in overnight.
I thought Youngkin would win, but didn’t hold much hope for the Team Red dude in Joysey. That would be extremely fun to watch the Dem meltdown if that upset actually came to pass.
He campaigned on even more Covidism didn’t he? Get da hell outta Joisey.
And high taxes.
Pfizer approved for kids now:
https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/cdc-chief-gives-final-approval-for-pfizers-covid-vaccine-for-kids-5-to-11/
Inevitable but still a drag.
Sit down for this: The Democrat has won NYC mayor.
Shocked, I am.
We’ll see if the image of “not a crazy socialist” that he has cultivated holds.
If there is one positive, he appears to be a little less commie than de Blasio
Which one?
Eric Adams, the one who won the primary.
*faints*
Yougkin’s win:
He who controls the MILFs, controls the world!
If you’re talking about the dems, are you referring to the fugly MILFs with penises or the ones we’d all like to ****?
You mean the fugly ones that look like Sam Kinison?
There. He has been mentioned in three posts now. Will he magically appear like Candyman? I can only hope.
You and me both.
A little sanity is called for lately.
There’s a “Muad’dib” joke in there somewhere.
Is that from exodus or deuteronomy?
MSNBC in full meltdown mode.
Still going with several lies that will not die because they are freaking out nearly as bad as 2016.
(hopefully this comment does not age poorly…)
Critical Race theory is not real. But it’s totally awesome.
These people are delusional and it’s nice to see a bit of comeuppance come their way.
I guess election night is cursed, we just had a control domain crash and take out half of production. It’s particularly bad because we had taken down the other half for patching, so it’s all down.
Fun.
Of course, I’m not eligable for overtime…
You’re on call? Ouch, sorry.
I was already one because we had to cleanly take down the applications so the datacenter guys could apply the firmware patches. But now the work has doubled, and we’re still not sure what happened.
Do you work for Dominion?
No?
Fun fun fun.
I just love when people run off in an uncoordinated mess and we have to spend time figuring out what was and was not done before continuing.
RCP has Youngkin at 53.6% with 84% reporting, and 0.7% other. It would take Youngkin < 29% with the remaining votes to lose. That's entirely possible depending on which areas are last (including mail-ins).
*Fairfax ballot presses go brrrrrrrr*
Don’t harsh my buzz.
But yes, that is still possible I think.
Yup. Just coming here to connent on that. Republican up by @200k… boxes of mail in ballots to be discovered in 3, 2, 1…
Already counted the same number of votes as 2017. Now paused for the fortifying.
Last night I made my holiday aged nog. Tonight I shall sample some if the Dem loses in VA. A GOP woman appears to have won the Lt Gov race. In Democrats terms she is a negress, so even more mythical than a libertarian woman.
We don’t elect that position here. Do they ever get the Big Guy and the Lieutenant from different parties?
I think it’s happened, but I don’t remember the last time.
It happens in North Carolina. Both of Cooper’s Lt. Governors are Republicans (Forest for the last term, and Robinson for this term).
https://newjersey.news12.com/2021-election-results-new-jersey
“May not reflect total mail-in votes”
If the dems lose in Joisey, be sure to close your windows, because that pant’s shitty smell might get overwhelming.
May also want to bet on the Browns winning the Super Bowl.
“I love the smell of
napalmshit in the morning”.Too bad it probably won’t happen. Essex County looms.
Is this a particularly good year for fungi? In the woods a couple of weeks ago, I noticed three things: lots and lots of fungi; and lots of dead spruce.
Quite the year, Playing the Wooded Course in Scottville it was Mycopia extraordinaire, the trees were full of the stuff, too busy for pics that day.
Now with 87% in, Youngkin only needs 28% of remaining votes. His % of the votes counted is dropping, but not fast enough.
Of course, late votes are probably over and above when 100% of precincts report. But it gives some idea of how it’s going.
Fairfax is, by far, the biggest reserve of votes left, and 28% is just about right for that area. It’s still within the margin of fraud, if only barely.
We’ll find out after the voting stops at 4am.
McAuliffe is appearing to underperform in Loudoun, Prince Williams and Fairfax along with other counties. If Youngkin can retain hold of Northampton, Accomack and the counties south of Norfolk they will have to make it up in Fairfax.
From 2017 Gov Race
Youngkin appears to be flipping Prince Edward, Montgomery and Northamptons.
Republicans need to have people manning Fairfax at all times no matter what.
Still, I think that this margin will just be too big to cheat.
Also worth noting: he has waaaaaaaay outperformed the polls so far.
Dude, NOVA is not really VA, it’s Swamp overflow central.
The only way VA saves themselves is to secede from the Swamp, period.
Yeah, except Republicans are on the verge of controlling every single political branch in purple Virginia after tonight.
I use purple loosely. Really blue.
With 90% in, Youngkin only needs 24% of the remaining. McAuliffe is gaining, but not fast enough (modulo any funny business).
Ugh, still 90% in, but Youngkin’s % went down, and he needs 28.5% of the remaining. Could just be round-off error, the first 90% could have been 89.6% and the second one 90.4%, but still concerning.
Lots of places calling it for Youngkin now.
Yeah, and in normal elections before the big cheat, I’d believe it. They will project dems to have won all of these races before 10am tomorrow morning.
According to RCP, Murphy is now behind (barely) with 37% reporting.
And now back up….that one will probably be too close to call.
What the fuck is a Princess Blanding?
LP candidate for VA governor. ///OneOfUs
I guess she was royally dull.
Is her running mate named after a metallic solder?
“Virginians continue to face an array of uncertainties as we navigate through two public health crises: COVID-19 and systemic racism. Now, more than ever, Virginia is in need of progressive, courageous leadership that will put people over profit and politics.
Princess Blanding, an educator for over 13 years here in the Commonwealth and a grassroots activist, has a history of fighting to elevate the voices and concerns of every day, working-class Virginians and for increased accountability from our local and state elected officials to address the inequities in our Black and most marginalized communities.”
I don’t think she’s Libertarian, unless she works for TOS.
She’s married to Welsh and is also unable to grow facial hair. JK, I still have no idea who Xe is.
Single-issue candidate. Her brother was shot by a cop.
I misread something.
Princess Blanding (Liberation Party) is running for election for Governor of Virginia. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Blanding completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Liberation Party is a bit different.
Crap. Now I need to go find a picture of this person.
Dont
Found her site!
https://www.princessblanding.com/
She is libertarian in that she basically has a “Ill have whatever policies I want” based on that site. Good for her.
She’s listed on the VA Election site as a Liberation Party.
Pretty sneaky, sis.
LP? GTFO.
That’s bog-standard socialist Democrat stuff.
Liberation not Libertarian
Clever…
Yea. I’m sure it was intended to trick libertarians who would otherwise vote for Youngkin.
Very clever. She must have gotten 3 or 4 more votes by mistake that way. ‘Repuglican’ or ‘Demonrat’ would have been a more effective way to siphon votes.
Bazinga
https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1455719778706984963
I own almost that exact rifle. Mrs. Sears has good taste.
Hide your men!
I already hide, no one see me.
1. You don’t look like no princess.
2. No 1 reason you don’t look like no princess is that you fugly, bitch.
That’s Winsome Sears
That’s not Princess Blanding (candidate for gov) with the gun, but Winsome Sears (candidate for Lt Gov and probable winner).
Guys, I am sorry. I posted this under the wrong post. I know that. And I’ll just say, Winsome is not ugly, I apologize for that.
I thought you were doing your The Hyperbole impression.
What does that even mean?
Bazinga.
I’m afraid that doesn’t help.
Tweet A is saying that white suburban voters control election outcomes and are racist
Tweet B, in reply to Tweet A, shows a photo of Winsome Sears, who will probably win the Lt. Governor race.
Bazinga, in this context is tantamount to “sick burn, dude”
Muh-racisms.
LOL okay. Take your meds, racist.
RCP asks Will Dems’ Anti-Trump Attacks Be More Effective in ’22?
Yes…yes they will. Keep it at 11 and it will work.
More effective for the other side, maybe.
Good news the Libertarian candidate in New Jersey leads the socialist candidate by double the votes!
So L – 2, S – 1?
Yup until the mysterious UAZ shows up at 4 AM with 2 more mail in ballots for the Socialist.
LOL
Glibfit: I unloaded 270 12×12 porcelin tiles from the car to the house today. My shoulders were trashed before, they are twice as trashed tonight. Ethanol has not worked so far, might be a pain-killer night.
Most of say we just got laid
They’re stacked, not laid yet.
Oh, crap, I just said “stacked”.
I feel for you. Just finished painting for the day. New drywall so primer. I’m torn about using the bench ladder for ceiling work vs just using an extension on the roller. But makes a good work surface so not stooping as much.
Extension rollers suck for high ceilings. That’s how I hurt my shoulder. Go bench ladder.
OK, multiple outlets have called the VA Lt. Gov. race for Sears (R), but Youngkin’s margin is bigger and they haven’t called that race?
Lots have actually.
Haven’t watched it, but apparently McCunteface addressed his supporters and is not conceding.
I was wondering about that myself. Desperation tactic?
Dude has 30,000 votes in his minivan. He’s not conceding shit.
That’s about a quarter of what he’d need.
It doesn’t even have to be a centrally coordinated fraud effort. In fact, it would be better if it’s not centrally coordinated, because someone would squeal or boast.
All the Dems have to do is signal to their devoted rank and file that the future of the republic is at stake, and the minions will act independently to fortify their local vote tallies.
What has been done to elections in this country in the name of Covid is appalling. At this point, I’d welcome observers from France, Sweden, and Japan to check on our election process.
Votes need to be in person, one day of voting, purple dye on the finger, unless an absentee ballot is requested well in advance, with a reason, and is postmarked by the day before Election Day.
IOW “Election day should be election day.”
Sounds like some nazi insurrectionist talk to me.
All of this. Serious countries do this. We are not a serious country any more.
If this were done, I wouldn’t even necessarily be opposed
to removing all qualifications for voting. If you’re able
to show up at a voting booth, you can vote.
Of course, I’m not opposed to a poll tax either. Want to have
a say in how things are done, put your money where your vote
is. It doesn’t have to be high. Ten dollars. Twenty.
Same as downtown.
“Serious countries do this.”
Like interregnum Afghanistan. And I’m not being facetious, at the time they were more serious about their elections than we are.
And still allegations of fraud there.
Same with Iraq. People lined up to vote even will credible threats of death. People were suicide bombed, mortared, or shot and they still stood in line to vote.
In the US, not so much.
“someone would squeal or boast”
-1 Seth Rich
He learned it from Hillary.
Local media aren’t calling it either, fwiw. Thanks for your analysis above.
Me thinks that ‘right’ media is thinking call it even if numbers could flip that way there is an air of “something must have happened that was hinky”
Fortified.
Hard to be excited about this knowing the Republicans will be dipshits for a couple years then lose the house to Democrats who are even further left.
*going on the presumption that VA is an indicator of the 22 mid terms.
They GOPpers need to take leaf from Bill Clinton’s book on this one: it’s the economy, stupid!
But instead, they’ll prioritize legislating morality even though it’s been proven never to work and is guaranteed to lose moderates of both parties. People are either pro-life or pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage or pro “traditional” marriage, etc. I have an idea: how about “Mind your own business, and tend to your own moral choices”?
Then unshackle the economy and let us get on with it.
The Republican in NJ is running largely on the economy and he’ll still probably lose.
I honestly don’t think it’s the economy, stupid anymore. I mean, it should be, but a lot of people’s brains have been broken in the last few years.
Biden won by 16 points last election. This is still a good sign for republicans
Both parties love planned economies, as they give them the ability to pick winners and losers and shower voters with gifts.
They both try to legislate morality. Both versions suck.
*Sigh. Really all you can hope for is gridlock. Sadly they will be dipshits and push their social agenda. How about nobody push any social agenda, and we cut the government in half? Then we won’t have to hear about this shit anymore.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-sat-bombshell-footage-kyle-rittenhouse-shooting
TW: Gore.
re gore
Some time ago, XY was running through the garage, ran past a board that had a very long screw sticking out of it, and the screw ripped his calf open (this is called karma, people; he left that screw there [as per his wont] and anybody could have gotten hurt). Anyway, I took him to the ER and filmed the entire sewing-up-of-the-wound. It was awesome. I think he had something like 20 stitches.
I gotta catch up. All these new distractions… I owe a review of The Matador! I both saw in the credits and read an article about all the effort put into making sure people knew the bulls were computer generated and no bulls were harmed.
I have not seen it yet. I just remembered it was one I WANTED to see because Pierce Brosnan, which is all I really care about.
Found, watched, review started. It’s coming the week after Ash Lad this Thursday.
Whew, blood is OK, but I thought AlGore would be there.
*snark*
He never should have been charged. The FBI purposely sat on this.
Looks like both NJ and VA too close to call. It’s gonna be a long week.
Yes it is…yes it is.
Cheating in elections is a right!
It is also infrastructure.
Voter equity.
VA is done. NJ the cities will find more than enough votes for Murphy.
You guys are all caught up on Youngkin/McAuliffe. Out of left field it turns out that the winner of the gubernatorial race in Virginia is actually Stacy Abrams.
What about the Librarian party Candidate? She was always hawt, with the glasses and the ” I know what you did” Look.
Librarian Party. Now there’s an idea. Fund the government with overdue book fines?
And everyone has to STFU,
I like it, plus the Hawt Librarian,
Narrator: The vast majority of librarians are not, in fact, hawt.
You’re stompin’ on dreams, man!
Cheers!
I like you, don’t make me kill you,
/really, I like you though
Social Equity demands it.
Legit lol
With 93% in, Youngkin only needs 24% of the remaining. His lead is about 116k votes.
The cheat machine has sprung into action.
All depends where those precincts are located, IYKWIM
Uh oh, Youngkin had a 20k bigger lead than Sears a short time ago, now his lead is smaller than Sears’s. So a lot of recently counted votes went for McAuliffe and Sears? Fishy. I should have been keeping track of absolute numbers, as this might have been a case where the D got a lot of votes added and the R little or none.
Why do Democrats hate black women?
According to WRIC the margins are dangerously close at this point. I’d say the fraud machine either is engaged, or is about to be engaged, and/or Virginians are sufficiently propagandized.
If I read correctly, a little over 210,000 votes left to count and the current gap to make up is ~160K.
“a little over 210,000 votes left to
countfind in the trunk of a car”FIFY.
Rain showers my Ass! it’s Snowing, Dammit!
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/mi/manistee/44.25,-86.32
Tomorrow”s headline:
McAuliffe wins with a record 81 Million votes!
But what about the Thing?
Cool ‘shrooms. I saw a number of similar in September/early October. We had extreme drought this summer. Once the rain came the mushrooms went nuts. More and bigger than I’ve ever seen around here.
I didn’t know they had 2 seasons of growth, and both very different types, next Spring I’m going hunting for sure.
Where are you SH?
I’m in NE Minnesota near the boundary waters. We get 2 mushroom seasons, spring and fall, with some in summer if it stays wet. This year I saw almost no shrooms in the summer. I don’t hunt them but people I know go after morels in spring, then chanterelles later. We have a few others, but those are most popular here.
Mmmmmmm wild chanterelles. Where I hunt elk there are some great finds. I always put a bag in pack to put the chanterelles in.
I know we’ve got a few NJ Glibs — here’s to hoping that they didn’t cheat enough!!!!!!!!
Anyone know what’s the story with that blue VA county out there in the Shenandoah Valley surrounded by red counties? Isn’t that Stonewall country?
Charlottesville
Albemarle County and Charlottesville. I suspect the city has undue influence on the county.
I don’t know Virginia at all but my guess would be there is a college town there.
Probably Albemarle and the City of Charlottesville (prog heaven, home of UVA)?
Home of a bunch of environmental law students that know nothing about the environment or law.
I long for the more dignified days when a candidate who knew he was defeated fair and square would concede on election night and spare the country the drama of a long count and recount cycle.
Conceding has no real meaning. If you concede and then win the votes, you still win.
Nixon, 1960, he won Ohio, but didn’t want to make waves so we got Kennedy and Vietnam, my Dad thanks Him…..
Why would you concede when you know that they are going to manufacture the votes for you?
The Expanse trailer. w00t!
Grrrrr, No money for Prime, Grrrrrr.
Can’t watch because possible spoilers but I luv Crisjen (sp?).
Oh yeah, Chrisjean is a hot Lady, there I said it, and her voice, so sexy,
No spoilerage, and I LOVE HER TOO! She is a beautiful woman.
Having read the books, and observed the wokeness surrounding
the actor portraying Alex, I don’t know if I’ll be able to enjoy the
last season.
Recast the character if you really have to. Don’t despoil the story.
I’m a couple seasons behind; no idea what that is about.
He couldn’t keep his hands to himself at a con. People tattled. Etc., etc., etc.
I had forgotten about that (willfully, granted). So…thanks?
Oh my..last season. Better deliver….
OK, the last RCP update added 22k votes for Youngkin and only 6k for McAuliffe, so it must just depend on which precincts are reporting. Youngkin now +88k, with Sears +70k.
The % of the total vote reporting doesn’t seem to be consistent; of course, that’s something they can’t really know. ABC is reporting similar totals but different % reporting.
On election night, Trump was up by over 100,000 in some states like Wisconsin with supposedly 90% or more of the vote in. They found those votes.
Trying to do the math based on the number of votes that should come in is futile.
The absurdity of the whole thing is insulting. It races to 90% reporting in a matter of hours, then limps along in the wee hours and into next week as votes trickle in for the (D). Odd how when an (R) is ahead, the margin never grows as these things asymptotically approach 100%, it only shrinks. Yes, it’s entirely possible that these elections are on the up and up, but they sure carry the very strong appearance of fishy business and no one in a position of influence ever does anything to dispel that appearance.
It hasn’t been doing that though recently. Glad they counted the absentee votes first at least this time.
I just assume that is routinely down to incompetent urban precincts unable to report in a timely manner (I live in NYC, I can say that).
Questioning the integrity of the election is domestic terrorism . . . if a Democratic Party candidate “wins”.
Questioning the integrity of the election is the highest form of patriotism . . . if a Democratic Party candidate loses by any margin.
This reminds me of Benford’s law. It’s not that accounting ledgers
that have violations of Benford’s law are necessarily fraudlent, it’s
that it’s suspicious, and a reason to look into them further. Insisting
that everything is on the up and up and refusing to allow any inquiry
adds to the suspicion.
It could well be that there is some reason that votes that skew democrat
also tend to run late. I can even think of one or two.
But governments and societies run on a shared belief in their legitimacy.
It’s not my job to prove there’s fraud, it’s their job to prove or demonstrate
that there isn’t. If 40% of the people think the government is fraudulent,
that’s a problem, and it doesn’t even really matter if they’re right. The lack
of shared belief is what leads to breakdown.
I always stay up too late on election nights. But I barely sleep anyway.
Great stuff, Yu. I loved the fall in the Midwest. I never noticed that many mushrooms, but I wasn’t looking, either.
Thanks RC, I tend to observe the World in as much detail as possible, and as soon as I saw the first mushroom in the place I play at, I knew I could find more, it’s a blast seeing new things,
Congratulations, uneducated white women.
?
Probably this.
Virginia 2020 —> White women
50% Biden (D), 49% Trump (R)
Virginia 2021 —> White women
57% Youngkin (R), 43% McAuliffe (D)
A 15-point swing to the GOP with this group.
Gee. I wonder why. Could it be the “we own your children” narrative?
Branden,
Well white women are known to believe their children don’t belong to the community. Toxic whiteness.
Hey it takes Village to raise an idiot, oh wrong crowd?
They dragged their inbred asses to the polls tonight and pushed Youngkin over the line. (I’ve been watching Chuck Todd tonight)
Also note that Trump was unusually unpopular among suburban white women. Possibly because he’s such an asshole.
So those numbers may just have been low.
We were just discussing this a minute ago. My buddy says that it is two sisters-in-law Both hate trump with a purple passion. My wife is the same way, irrational hatred.
I think if was the grab them by the hoo-ha tape. Since then, he could say “nice weather” and they would decry him as an asshole.
Dems are very effective at playing into negative stereotypes and tugging on archetypal fears.
Ah. Now it makes sense.
Wait a minute, by what magic is a gaijin able to watch NBC?
Dial up.
You want my AOL CDs?
I stepped outside to feel the weather, looked up and saw a star! I miss the stars,
/Arizona Dreamin’
I am very disappointed. I was looking forward to watching Thunderdome from a safe distance.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/02/minneapolis-abolish-defund-police-ilhan-omar-george-floyd/
The bottom of the sign in the pic says all you need to know. Who else but grifters adds who “convened” the march by name?
Lady on NBC News just informed us that progressives have learned from this defeat in VA that they need to stop ignoring race and confront racism more directly if they want to win next year.
*Not the Bee
I love insufferable idiots. Let’s hope the DNC takes that advice.
MSNBC has been beating “racism triumphed in Virginia” for the last few hours.
They started planting that notion yesterday. White folks don’t believe slavery was real, the holocaust never happened!
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?
/hot tub punditry
Celebrity Hot tub?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeSwrFKFNFw
Jordan P talks about how the dominant rat lets the less dominant rat win fights 30% of the time. Higher % and he’d be a threat, lower % and he won’t play anymore.
No. Democrats are livid. They are neither strategic nor remotely clever.
They also pulled out all the stops: Obama, Biden, Harris, Abrams. They worked their asses off.
This too
No. Team Stupid did well in a number of VA statewide races.
I hate that moniker because they’re obviously both team stupid.
That explains why I have trouble telling them apart.
They’re both evil, and both stupid. One is the party of evil stupidity, and the other is the party of stupid evilness. You can pick which is which for yourself.
sounds about right
Letting the state go red across the board for the first time in 12 years isn’t a great indicator – and I don’t think anyone let him in on the joke.
OTOH…who else would let Randi Weingarten get on the stage with him the night before the election. Talk about not reading the room.
That’s exactly right. *thinks back to my comment last night*
Funny you say that. I thought that as I dropped off the trailer for the day. What if this race is one we want to lose to instill confidence.
However, they lost the whole state…so not sure.
Maybe it was a straight election
I have been contemplating that all night.
Youngkin has been blowing up in the ratings all week, and everything cannot go the d’s way. If they pulled a ’20 trick again so soon too many eyes would start opening.
Or…and I am going to channel Hyperbole here…Trump really did lose fair and square and humans are just terrible at sudden changes.
Bingo.
Virginia has been holding at 95% reporting for a couple of hours now. While 95% has been the number, the lead has gone from just under 85k votes to 80k votes to 96.5k votes.
WTH?
How hard is it to put the sheet on the scanner?
150k votes out in DC area. Needs to go 60/40 for D to win. counties are more than 60/40 so far.
Team R needs better poll watching and needs to learn to hold back all results until D results from cities are in.
“It is now week fifteen with no resultes returned from any district. when will the evil right stop holding our electoral process hostage?!”
What’s the explanation for how Youngkin gained but the percentage of votes counted decreased?
Yeah… Really odd.
I am not sure how you get a percent anyway. I mean, it is a sheet of paper. You put it on the scanner and it gets counted instantly. yet somehow they count how many absentee ballots they have on hand before scanning them? Seems an odd thing to do.
Maybe an estimate off of ballots requested? Which might mean there are 250k outstanding votes, or 12.
Fox News just explained that the estimates have been adjusted and they were originally based on last year’s.
sorry. not last year’s. last governor race.
About 130k votes have come in since 95%. (5% would be around 150k)
Lead has moved up and down, but still 86k.
Somewhat surprising that turnout would be so much higher.
New Jersey percentage counted also has not changed in hours.
that’s annoying. i expect a comeback in nj but i’d like va to be over now.
Its not odd. News orgs don’t have actually vote tallies from my understanding. They get whatever the Sec of State/clerks/etc releases or predictions based on past elections.
Team D let Team R convince themselves the only way to win was to cheat so Team R has some suitcases of ballots they released and they”ll be caught in the jaws of a trap by a Team D suddenly interested in investigating election irregularities?
/probably not but who knows anymore?
Thoughts from the hot tub
It is probably going to be close enough for a recount. It is going to be hilarious to watch them demand recounts and challenge ballots.
1% is the trigger for VA. So I guess we will find out Friday.
I don’t think that cheating (in elections or otherwise) is okay, even if those who laughably call themselves ‘my side’ are the ones doing it.
But if Team Red got caught stuffing a few ballot boxes, I would at least credit them with having grown some balls…
I like Glenn Reynolds,
“It’s that ol’ Irish Democracy:
“More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.
“Just keep screwing with them and know that it makes them crazy.”
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/11/why-they-fear-lets-go-brandon.html
“You know, maybe we are assholes, but just don’t know it.”
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1455745884856078338
Or maybe they are just profoundly wrong on every single major issue and they don’t have Trump to vote against.
Why not both??
He has been right more often than not in the ast few years, he may be a Black pilled mole at this point,
Missed the L, oops.
Don’t worry. Van Jones still says stuff like this: https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/02/van-jones-glenn-youngkin-delta-variant/
Favorite part: Anderson Cooper weakly clearing up the confusion as to who “we/our” is, as if he’s a straight journalist.
He did not bother making such distinctions last year. He proudly used “we”, both for himself and his network in referring to defeating Trump and Democrats winning seats.
At 15 seconds of that video, Van Jones was about to say ‘you don’t have Terry McAuffile you know doing dumb shit”…I swear that was what he was going to say.
I don’t care about baseball but this makes me happy because MLB must be pissed.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/braves-win-world-series
Oh how delicious….
/Go Braves!
Even better, you could hear the Indian war cry in the stadium in Houston.
Made me laugh
https://mobile.twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1455722067811180547/photo/2
Chicks with firepower, God I love America!
GAK!
NSFW unless you work for Larry Flynt Publications or maybe SugarFree.
I just puked, thanks….
There’s nothing like pulling your dick out at work.
Well, the servers are back up. The applications are running. I’m going to sleep.
Good night, Glibs.
Predict that Youngkin hangs on to win but Murphy squeezes by Chickfila as I-95 corridor continues to rule and ruin NJ.
Fox just called it for Youngkin with 96% of votes in in Va.
How are The Young Turks taking it?
They got out the Wet Vac to soak up the tears and snot,
Well, looks like even NBC is calling it for Youngkin at this point. The Dems have to be realizing they are in very serious trouble for the midterms and that the pro lockdown and woke shit aren’t a very winning combo for them. They can only fortify so much. Here in SF the three most progressive on the Board of Ed just got enough signatures for a recall along with the uberleft DA. Even though Newsom survived his recall as expected, they should have taken that as a warning to moderate and yet they thundered ever leftward and down. A year is a long time in politics, but at this point it looks as if they will be facing heavy losses next November. If we get lucky it helps totally disrail their spendapalooza bill.
Are Republicans peaking too soon?!?
I’ll believe the backlash is real in CA when those 3 assholes and the DA are recalled.
I still have not bought into the idea that it is primarily a problem of vote counting getting the Dems across the line. There undoubtedly are vote counting shenanigans, and those seem to come primarily from the Donks. Junk mail voting for sure lends itself to making it way easier. But it is not insurmountable, both Florida and Ohio seemed to clean up their elections quite a bit. It’s mostly cultural and institutional problems that are to blame for our current crop of elected critters. The Long March was very successful, there needs to be a counter movement. I don’t know if I’d be so optimistic to say this election portends that, but it’d be nice to see a counter progressive swing. Liberalism needs to be its replacement.
Yes.
Still, every place Republicans win they need to unwind some of these ridiculous mail-in rules.
For sure. Election integrity matters. So does the appearance of integrity.
I don’t go for the vote counting being a major issue either. Let’s see if the deepest blue city in a deep blue state will throw out 3 cretinous school board members who don’t care about children and a DA who appears determined to let crime run rampant.
I think there is a fair chance that those three along with the DA get tossed. Way more than I thought Newsom would have a chance getting recalled. I knew that would be a long shot. I really think they have badly miscalculated how quickly they could take over. Not here of course, that will take a lot more time of ever, but nationally. I think there is at least a fair chance that the Dems will become the Washington Generals of the duopoly before long. I’d prefer them to go more libertarian but Team Red could do worse than a Trumpless Trumpism.
New York times calls for Youngkin. Wow. Republican dominance in a state that was just considered solidly blue.
It’s pretty remarkable. Between Biden, Randi Weingarten, and I ram X. Kendi, they managed to fuck things up so badly it’s unmissable.
2 pts is good. Plus statewide trouncing.
NJ is by the skin of a uncircumcised newborn but will probably swing D
MSNBC on some of the theories on why Dems are struggling: I thought the public wanted us to leave Afghanistan, but turns out, they were upset about how we left. It’s like them figuring out Lets Go Brandon all of a sudden.
There is no way MSNBC will ever acknowledge the crappy policies they promote lead to this disaster.
You don’t say, though Repubs and their outlets do the same.
That is just on their front page….
Foul human beings
Saying the quiet part out loud:
As long as nothing changes overnight, pretty good night for the Stupid Party. VA looks like a sweep, mayoral flip in NH that has held a Dem since ’05. NJ, even if he loses, shows that a Dem majority/stronghold is not secure.
On another note, somehow Roger Stone is threatening to run against DeSantis if he doesn’t initiate an audit of 2020? I apparently missed that one on my 2021/22 bingo card.
“I’ll take Shit that ain’t happening for 800$ alex,”
Youngkin sounds drunk…don’t blame him, but he sounds drunk.
Who the fuck told McAuliffe that dancing is a thing he should do? He should lose on that alone.
He was being an authentic Man of the people, Dig?
My kids would slap me if I danced like that. At least throw in some old school stereotypical dance moves and not act like you are parachuting out of the sky.
I play Bass, so I groove, but Wendy told me long ago, don’t try to dance Bob, and She could dance,
I read “authentic” as “autistic” at first and nodded my head.
On a better note…Weird Al dropping new music. Just him and the accordion, no witty lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xzdy2cxqo
Thank You! That was Badass playing, odd how he never seems to age,
He can rap too.
Grrr…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yis7GzlXNM
Newton wins, the other two are Charlatens,
And Al Rocks!
I don’t know NJ, don’t want to know NJ…but can Ciattarelli pull off a win. 97% in with almost a 2pt lead…
Looks like the NJ race may be an Elephant pick up. This is what happens when you try and mess with peoples’ kids and lockdown their businesses. Perhaps the only silver lining out the Panic was that more parents got an up front look at their kids (lack of) education and propagandizing.
i’m reading 85%.
and a dead heat
RCP has it at 97%, its all tricknology anyway cause its all predictions. Now it has tightened according to them…less than .1% between them
NY Times now says 87%. Murphy now only down by 1000. Don’t think he can hang on.
Right, Ciattarelli wont hang on, but anything less than a blowout is good news.
16 point Biden margin last time. A democrat winning Texas would be way less surprising.
good performance
Even Youngkin’s performance against Northam was impressive. But a lot can change in 4 years.
Everything on RCP has stalled in terms of updating results. My guess…happiness turns to sadness in the morning.
I have no idea why, but fishing Porn, and it’s all catch and release, Huge fish!,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTmyPSYJYxM
I predict, based on election results, that my RA will be approved.
RA?
Religious Application?
I’m up early for the gym. I checked the overnight election results.
Wow.
I like the Virginia news. I like that Ciattarelli is in the lead in NJ, but it’s close that Murphy might pull it off.
In NH, Jan Schmidt who was on the Nashua Board of Alderman and is a state representative lost her re-election bid for the Nashua Board of Alderman. She and her husband were quite nasty about pushing masks and lockdown bullshit. Unfortunately, a bunch of other lock-down and masking supporters won reelection to the Board of Alderman and Board of Education.
Also unfortunately, Joyce Craig won re-election as Manchester’s mayor.
I’ll take the good news and ignore the bad for now. Off to the gym.
Philly retained Krasner. By a yuge margin.
Every wailing parent on tv (from Philly) will be getting a “haha, get fucked” from me when their kids get shot. Fuck em.
Burn that whole shit hole down and sprinkle covid on the remains.
Sorry ARV – time to move.
Margins of fraud have been overcome in some states?
Someone pinch me, I must be dreaming.
Fortification has its limits apparently.
More on topic: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/as-california-mulls-bill-decriminalizing-psychedelics-some-socal-veterans-turn-to-them-to-treat-ptsd/
Drugs are one of the few things Cali gets sort of right even if the regs on the legality are ridiculous.
I support decriminalization but some folk should avoid certain drugs. How you would manage that I have no idea.
Not sure it is something that needs to be managed. There are treatment options for those who have a problem and want to address it. What little evidence there is suggests that decriminalization does not lead to an increase in drug use. Netherlands, I think.
True, the borderline schizophrenics should probably stay away.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/11/michelle-wu-wins-historic-election-becomes-bostons-first-woman-and-asian-american-mayor.html
White supremacy strikes again.
Same day registration, permanent vote-by-mail, and partisan Dem redistricting all shot down in NY.
Whew! I wish I was a lawyer.
Yuck, positive rights are the illusory feel good path straight to Hell.
Yeah, the Dems can destroy the state with that one alone.
No need even for the three failed measures that were designed to keep them in power forever.
Falls off chair.
This is the guy who lost to the socialist in one of those no-turnout primaries. Not that four-term machine hack is anything worth celebrating, but the socialist got shown the door so I’ll take it.
Are people from Buffalo really called “Buffalonians”?
“Buffalloes” much like “Jiggaloes”
Yes.
Buffolites, Bufflans, Buffaloons…it’s actually the least ridiculous option.
I was hoping maybe “Buffaloers,” like “New Yorkers.”
Now I’m working about places like Indianapolis. And Minneapolis, for that matter.
Indianapolitans? No idea.
I grew up there and have no idea.
“Minneapolis Voters Reject Democrat Proposal To Replace Police Department”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/minneapolis-voters-reject-democrat-proposal-replace-police-department
I’m torn here, the cops blow but the supposed solution they proposed would have been an unmitigated disaster. Drop the unnecessary laws that lead to so many unnecessary police interactions, loosen up gun laws, and let people defend themselves and their property and the issue would be largely handled.
Mornin’ Friends! In all too local news the Plant Manager has decided to segregate the supervisors from the hoi-polloi by moving their offices up to some unused rooms on the mezzanine. This will add at least an extra hour to my chores. More importantly, it divides and conquers the generally friendly relations that exist between the two. I guess he thought that management and union were too damn chummy on the floor. I knew this guy was trouble right from the start. Who on earth shows up at a warehouse job in a shiny suit and pointy shoes? He’s been a thorn in my side for five years and now he’s gonna burn it all down for his overweening hubris. At least I can walk away or work through it. Can’t say the same for his pretty little wife and toddler-aged children. Just a loathsome, controlling creep. The very definition of the “company man”. Maybe as my last act I’ll beat the shit out of him. Probably not but it’s a nice fantasy to hold. I’ve seen this happen before and hopefully never have to see it again. /rant off
This guy rearranges his office furniture monthly. He leaves his pens arranged on his desk “just so”. Can you imagine what happens if his steak is under-cooked?
Any officemate with a preferred pen arrangement is just begging to be fucked with.
Yeah, he’s Dwight.
I leave a fart in his office and turn the key whenever I can. Fight The Power!
Don’t light a cigarette, you might get burned.
LOL
Shim his desk up 1/16″ every week.
Who on earth shows up at a warehouse job in a shiny suit and pointy shoes?
Why do you hate Puerto Ricans?
Mornin’, fellow reprobates!
So Murphy managed to almost lose in a state where the Donkeys hold a 1MM margin in voter registration. I say almost because the votes still to come in are from Dem strongholds. Crossing my fingers but not optimistic.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Yo, Tres.
I’m a free fartin’ man. That’s goody! It’s raining rather than freezing rain which shut everything down for about six hours yesterday. Virginia might flip. Justin Trudeau is a running joke. “Let’s Go Brandon!”
The early results from Virginia. They were pretty goody.
Morning all.
Would be rather impressive if NJ would flip.
But what would change?
The rush into complete world wide totalitarianism shifts back to first gear?
Mornin’ Glibbies!
I hear some team from area won some sort of contest or something.
*checks property tax bill* Fuck them.
:my area:
Yup. *looks at full tank of gas costing twice as much from one year ago*
Mornin’
Don’t think NJ will flip. What would change? Reduced likelihood of emergency vax mandate by executive fiat. Beyond that, not much; any substantive changes such as reforming education funding or pensions won’t happen even if the gov actually wanted this. The legislature won’t go for that. The speed of decline might slow down but the direction won’t change.
ZERO mention of election results on NPR during the drive into work. I guess Youngkin must have won.
The local news went through the litany of D incumbents winning.
Morning, Glibs.
Mornin’, UCS.
I may need to turn the furnace on in the evening now.
🙁
Frost outside this morning.
I’ve turned on my furnace since I got back in town to keep the humidity down inside.