So many goings on in our little town, I feel like I ought to be channeling Peter Mayle. But the most amusing of all is not going on- yet. We’ll see. If I have anything to say about it… in any case, start with understanding that our current mayor is an absolute disaster. She is very Progressive, actively hostile to business, and put in place a massively unpopular parking program which made every space in town a paid one. Not just paid, but MUST be paid through an app to a contractor. The way things are structured, the city nets zero out of the massive expense and inconvenience they are attempting to inflict on the citizens, only the contractor benefits (speculate away!). Now personally, it’s no big deal because not only can I walk to work most days, but when I do drive, the cops know my car and won’t ticket me (it helps to be their primary caffeine source).
With that background, I was amused to discover that there’s an authentic grass-roots movement to get a new mayor, and specifically WebDom; the idea is she’d run for town council, then mayor. She is known to everyone and is massively popular. I think she could win, especially because her platform would center on stopping any parking enforcement relating to the stupid contractor and app. She is being urged by friends, acquaintances, and the chairman of one of the two “major party” locals to run. Fuck, I’d register just to laugh my ass off when I check off her name.
“All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now… 16 years old!”
Get on the Team WebDom train!
And of course, she will mandate celebrating birthdays, including the greatest of the Founding Fathers, the shithead who inflicted Teddy Roosevelt on us before getting a deserved retirement; a writer who ended up on the Enterprise; the greatest film comedian, period; a guy who was a monkey wrench in the works; someone with TERF bangs; an actress responsible for the deaths of millions of potential Jews; a guy about whom my mom would say, “I just want to spend hours stroking his mustache”; a chick who couldn’t even make it in Baltimore; and a guy whose diving did not include muff.
On to Links.
A perfect FFS moment. Cherish it.
HE’S HAD TWO WEEKS! WHY HASN’T HE SAVED US??? The desperation, it burns.
“Or lie down, as the case may be.” It’s sad and ironic to see so many ’60s “liberals” get on the censorship bandwagon.
Hey, guys, have Yellow Fever? Here’s your chance.
Did you ever say to yourself, “I like Keith Emerson on organ but I wish he played faster and more complex lines?” Well, Old Guy Music to the rescue!
Two Giraffes and a Hyena would make great campaign poster mascots, since you own the NFT.
But what about your fugitive from justice???
Maybe a Sunday Surprise?
She was last seen in the morgue.
O.o
Banging the assistant medical examiner one would hope.
Looking for old news stories on the mayor, no doubt.
You’re saying she knows where the bodies are buried and is assembling a corpus of evidence then?
A Morgue is also the room in the newspaper offices where they keep all the previously-published issues, ie the dead news. Well-played, Ted.
What happened to the 100M unmarried Chinese men (because of the 1 child rule and boys were the preferred)? Somewhere I read that Chinese men were getting Vietnamese mail order brides because of the local shortage of Chinese ladies.
Maybe they’re mainly rural? Just skimmed the article — but it looks like the women in the urban area of that county who put career before family and are now “older” (than 26) are being encouraged to marry unemployed men from outside the city, implying that what probably happened about 10 years back was an influx of women to work in tech fields / factories (sweatshops) or whatnot and now they don’t really want to settle for Johnny Lu from the equivalent of West Kalamazoo who stayed behind and just coasted.
Since I seem to recall articles a while back about a lot of the sweat shop workers being female, that would fit. Presumably all the likely males in the city proper are already taken — though I’m surprised the Party members haven’t picked up the slack with mistresses and whatnot.
There are substandard reports of Chinese crossing borders and snatching Korean chicks, Vietnamese chicks, etc to marry.
Thing is, natural selection happens, and when there is a new pressure on a civilization (natural disaster, overcrowding, etc), a balancing event will occur.
Unfortunately that usually means war.
“A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
― W.C. Fields
I think I prefer Terry-Thomas.
How many times were you dropped on your head as an infant?
obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOHGr8r5Cs4
HE’S HAD TWO WEEKS! WHY HASN’T HE SAVED US??? The desperation, it burns.
It’s going to hurt his re-election chances. 😉
The Covidians are really throwing tantrums now that they can’t force everyone to follow the cult.
Yes. My social media feed is awash with outraged progs. Their latest thing is flooding Youngkin’s rat-out-a-teacher mailbox with “my favorite teacher was…” emails.
Are their tears as salty as I’ve been told?
I though TDS was an isolated acquired insanity.
But it only got replaced by Branch Covidian lockstep.
Personal best today If I count the guy who I knew exactly whom it was but just blanked on his name.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gz3Stx1N14Y
Joey Defrancesco has a show on SiriusXM, he doesn’t sound that big on the radio.
Refuseniks in the mist
Less than 48 hours after I arrived here from New York, a close family member tested positive for Covid-19. As I stood in the local Walgreens late on a Sunday night buying as many rapid tests as I could, a man in his 20s bounded in.
“Do you sell pingpong balls?” he asked the clerk who was ringing me up. It sounded like he had a fun night of beer pong in the works. But what stuck in my mind was that he wasn’t wearing a mask.
Clearly I’d left indoor mask and vaccination mandates behind with New York’s frigid temperatures while visiting my family in Florida. Life seemed nearly back to normal here, though “normal” seemed audaciously carefree compared to the far more cautious environment back home in Brooklyn.
As the nation enters the third year of the pandemic, life cranks on for many — but the way it is experienced varies widely depending on where you live. Personal beliefs mingle with state-level restrictions, or lack thereof, to determine how common it is for people to wear masks in public spaces.
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Most servers at restaurants I recently visited around South Tampa weren’t wearing masks, a notable contrast with New York, where even customers have to mask up and present proof of vaccinations and photo IDs to eat indoors.
Admit it. Your panties get a little wet when you think about how brave and daring you are, tramping around on safari.
Or maybe, you know — paying attention to the data years back and finally reinforced recently that the damn things DON’T DO ANYTHING, YOU BLEEPING MORON!
I’d say “old man yells at clouds” — but around here I’m more on the spring chicken side so I can’t get away with that…..
Guessing our intrepid reporter hasn’t ventured outside xer progressive enclave. In my part of Brooklyn it’s closer to Florida than Park Slope, if only mostly in attitude. People are sick of this shit and there is plenty of refusal to COMPLY.
While many here in the ass end of Queens are still masking as a matter of habit, I haven’t worn one in 2 years and nobody says anything about it. Ditto vaccine passports; nobody is asking for them anywhere around here. I also see more and more folk maskless every time I schlepp to the grocer. People here are over it.
Here it’s the youtes who are still masking up. There’s also a divide between the class/culture differences. I haven’t been asked to put a mask on (even while taking the public transit which has signs everywhere) for the past year), but several venues (restaurants, breweries, concert venues) are requiring proof of vax or a negative test before allowing admittance.
I have shifted my spending away from those locations.
Good man.
“ seemed audaciously carefree compared to the far more cautious environment”
Do us a favor and shoot yourself. You clearly hate life anyway.
In an interview in Seattle, Beth Whitman, 56, the owner of WanderTours, a travel company that organizes women-only trips, said compliance with Washington’s state mask mandate in her city appears extremely high.
“You can’t walk into a store without being masked. You can’t go anywhere without being masked,” she said. “I did my own internal survey of things the other day when I was out on a run, and this is generous, and I’d say about 10 percent of people didn’t have masks on while walking outside.”
Land of the free, they said.
Home of the brave, they said.
I don’t think they were talking about Seattle.
Wet masks are the most effective.
People are sick of this shit and are so over it, They said.
Over here on the dry side of the state, Inslee’s orders have fairly low compliance rates. Only two places I have been to have been sticklers on masks; Fedex and the airport. I have never been asked if I have been vaccinated when entering a business and other than the fore mentioned, never been asked to put on a mask. About 50% of customers I see at Safeway and Walmart are masked.
Oregon has been the same. Dry side could give a fuck, wet side is all in a panic.
Meanwhile, one has zero percent chance of catching covid outdoors.
Too local: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/01/27/taste-with-tori-trolley-barn-public-market-quakertown-chris-labonge/
We get bbq there. It’s legit.
They also feature a distillery, winery, and beer. ??
Glad to see the old Quakertown Traction/Inland Traction barn is being put to good use. My ggrandfather was the trolley line’s ticket agent in Perkasie about 1905.
“My ggrandfather was the trolley line’s ticket agent in Perkasie about 1905.”
Neat!
Yeah, the ticket office was in his restaurant, “The Oriental.” He gradually went blind and had to sell the restaurant around 1910. The block where the restaurant was burned down in some huge fire in the 1980s (?) Perskasie was (is) a pretty cool little town.
Whitman added that she felt some tension over the issue.
“What I’ve discovered is that when you have these rule followers, and everyone is compliant and wearing a mask, is that what comes with that is a lot of judgment and shaming and finger-wagging and negative comments,” she said. “And I’ve had people wag their finger at me when I’ve been out for a run without a mask on.”
NOT OF THE BODY!
Props to WebDom if she runs — it sounds like she’d have a really good shot at it. And honestly, if there isn’t a serious bribery/corruption scandal with that contractor and the current Mayor I’d be stunned.
I’ve thought about running locally from time to time to try to push back on the madness. The increasing insanity even out here away from the cities in CA makes me think it wouldn’t go anywhere — plus there’s no way I’d find the time or energy to go out and meet and greet in person to the extent I’d need to. Probably part of why it is tough for small-l libertarians to get office, the tendency is more to be left alone — not schmooze. That and the whole “not voting bribes to the voters from the public coffers” thing.
Probably part of why it is tough for small-l libertarians to get office, the tendency is more to be left alone — not schmooze. That and the whole “not voting bribes to the voters from the public coffers” thing.
Nailed it.
Libertarians – secretly plotting to take over the world so they can leave you alone.
“And honestly, if there isn’t a serious bribery/corruption scandal with that contractor and the current Mayor I’d be stunned.”
If there isn’t, maybe it’s time to gin one up…
+1 I just want to make the son of a bitch deny it!
Poor Spotify. First Young, now Mitchell. They better watch out or next thing you know Country Joe McDonald will remove his music. Not sure they can survive that.
Not just paid, but MUST be paid through an app to a contractor.
No old farts without smartphones, or out-of-towners?
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. If I was randomly stopping in a small town for fuel, maybe grab a bite to eat, possibly do some quick shopping and saw that requirement I’d say Fuck This Town and keep driving.
This is exactly why 100% of local businesses are furious about it.
So many rural towns are dying/have died, this kind of nonsense doesn’t help much either.
How can the same people who claim that blacks face enormous barriers to getting an ID and voting also expect everyone to have a cell phone app??!??
My 81 year old mother is still very intelligent and “with it” but she can’t work a cell phone to save her life.
So I guess she doesn’t count.
https://youtu.be/Ax-2i71bqGw
Lol
I remember the original: “Keep Obama in president, you know!”
I marveled at the fact that she’s probably from a long line of American citizens but can’t speak English. How does this happen?
Simple. English is racist. Just like mathematics and white people.
“A county in central China has sparked controversy by offering a host of incentives to encourage “leftover” women to marry, including with unemployed men, local media have reported, amid rising concern about the country’s dwindling birth rate.”
Because there aren’t enough people in China?
Yeah, this is shocking. After decades of this, they are concerned about a dwindling birth rate?
It’s been a little over 3 years since they began to lift the restrictions. What’s the deal, people? Time to get busy!
If it weren’t for us, you’d all be dead
“Our hospital system is nearing a breaking point,” Sidelinger said.
That ongoing crisis is the reason why the state is keeping certain restrictions in place, including mask mandates in indoor settings, schools and health care facilities, as well as vaccine requirements for educators and health care workers, he said.
“These measures will not be in place forever,” he said. “But they are needed now.”
Oregon’s estimates for peak hospitalizations have been revised down several times, from more than 2,000 to 1,650 to 1,550 and, most recently, about 1,220. Sidelinger said the repeatedly downgraded estimates reflect the steps Oregonians have taken to prevent the spread of disease, including wearing masks and cutting back on social gatherings.
The latest Oregon Health & Science University forecast, published Friday, estimates hospitalizations will peak at 1,219 on Feb. 6, after which they will fall just about as fast as they grew.
The new estimates are significantly lower than projections made just before the omicron surge, when OHSU predicted hospitalizations beyond anything the state had seen before. Now, hospitalizations are expected to peak about 40 filled beds higher than the delta peak.
And there it is. Our SCIENCE!-tastic mandates saved millions of lives!
The models couldn’t have been wrong. That’s just crazy talk.
Positive tests go up, they run stories about hospitals being overcroweded.
Positive tests go down, they run stories about hospitals being overcrowded.
Narrator: The hospitals were never crowded.
If hospitalizations are going down, how is it they are reaching a “breaking point”?
And yeah, the bolded part is horseshit. These people can’t conceive of the notion that things just happen – no, they are manipulating all the pawns on the board and if some of them get out of line, well then it’s time to punish them some more.
Nature is under our complete control. All we have to do is turn the correct dials.
“If hospitalizations are going down, how is it they are reaching a “breaking point”?”
There’s no point in listening to any of these people anymore. It’s all panic, all the time for monetary and political gain, nothing more.
Maybe they fired a bunch of nurses too?
This is so cute. Channel roulette landed on the Today Show. They have cute chicks bundled up like Admiral Peary standing outside talking about the worst blizzard since like ever.OMG, dude.
Question: if you are hiring a female person to read the news, why would you hire the one whose voice is like nails on a blackboard?
Because she has big tits?
‘Cause she’ll say “Doctor Jill Biden” without wincing or putting a trace of chuckle in her voice?
BTW, I don’t think I saw anybody post (((this story))) yet.
(((engineering)))
I missed my calling.
Some kids like to assist in configuring regular elevators for Shabbat. Does Israel allow Paternosters?
Unfortunately, paternosters are dying out because of the difficulty for the disabled in using them.
Morning to everyone I missed in the last thread.
Thanks to NA and Rhywun for the ASUS suggestion, I will check that out.
My ASUS computer kicked ass.
Then I got an MSI….
Not ever going back.
I am happy with my ASUS server. It is a lot less expensive for the features than the big names. I’ve only been annoyed by a security feature that requires a jumper change to allow BIOS/firmware updates.
#metoo. But then you never know when quality will drop.
My current desktop is a bit long in the tooth now. MSI MB and RTX graphics.
Until the kids were teenagers, I used to just hand them down my old computers when I would assemble a new one. ASUS was almost always my choice.
That was a rather disappointing blizzard; I hope the snow continues through the weekend. We got about 4 inches but with the very strong winds, we have a couple feet in the backyard and on the porch.
OMWC, the girl who scoffed at the law died? That sucks.
WebDom, do it, do it, do it. You certainly have my vote, and my other votes if Alfred is anything like NYC.
Juris, I saw the news about your wife in the dead thread. HUZZAH!!!
Ted, as much as I love Terry-Thomas, and I REALLY love Terry-Thomas (particularly his work with the Boulting brothers), Field’s juggling, cigar box work, and curmudgeonly attitude make him a clear winner.
That’s “Winter Storm Kenan” to you, buddy. And it’s not a “blizzard”, it’s a “bomb vortex cyclone something something”.
OMWC, the girl who scoffed at the law died?
Did I say that?
And It’s A Gift is the greatest comedy film of all time. Period.
Capital L, small A, Capital F, small O, small N, small G. LaFong. Carl LaFong.
“Snow arrives in NYC as powerful storm Kenan bears down on the East Coast and 75million people prepare: Travel is in limbo after more than 2,000 flights were grounded Friday and Boston braces for historic storm”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10454267/Snow-arrives-NYC-potential-bomb-cyclone-bearing-East-Coast.html
What’s more stupid, naming regular ass storms or naming snow after a black guy?
And they didn’t even spell his name right.
ROFL!
Black guy? It’s a bomb cyclone, clearly named after this guy.
What’s more stupid, naming regular ass storms or naming snow after a black guy?
Silicone Saturday doesn’t give a shit about your golf handicap.
https://archive.md/siBwv
leg men everywhere recommit to niblicks, mashies, and whiskey, tits be damned
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/the-week-in-pictures-neil-old-edition.php
G’mornin’ Peeps!!
Mornin’!
Cheap shot, but I like it.
Ok, I laughed at loud at this one.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/01/IMG_6965.jpg?w=679&ssl=1
If the WebDom campaign needs a slogan, let me be the first to suggest “Let’s get this town whipped into shape!”
runs and hides
Opera-freaking-clap.
“A Long Island pediatric nurse practitioner and her employee are accused of making $1.5 million from selling fake COVID-19 vaccine cards, and her NYPD officer husband is reportedly facing an internal probe for his potential involvement.
Nurse practitioner Julie DeVuono, 49, who owns Wild Child Pediatrics Healthcare on Long Island, and her employee Marissa Urraro, 44, a practical nurse, are accused of selling fake vaccination cards after undercover detectives obtained one ‘on one or more occasions.’
DeVuono allegedly charged $220 for adults and $85 for children to enter falsified information to the New York State Immunization Information System – reportedly making $1.5 million in just three months, according to CBS New York.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10454315/NY-pediatric-nurse-practitioner-accused-phony-COVID-vaccine-card-scheme.html
Nice of her to offer a discount to the kiddies.
Let’s do the math here – 1.5mil divided by $220 over three months, equals a shitload of demand for false paper’s.
Maybe I don’t have to cancel that dove shooting jaunt to Cordoba after all…
Now multiply her by who knows how many dozens more and consider how many fucking LAW and ORDER resources they’re wasting on this situation entirely created by them.
“Pete Buttigieg’s plan to add more speed cameras to America’s roads as a way patrolling them more ‘fairly’ has been panned by critics who say it will only lead to more speeding fines under the guise of equity and road safety.
Buttigieg announced the plan yesterday and claims it will reduce the number of deadly road collisions.
The highway plan is receiving some $17billion from Biden’s $1.2trillion infrastructure bill, which will be used in part to pay for the cameras.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10453445/Youre-speeding-tickets-Pete-Buttigiegs-speed-camera-plan-SLAMMED.html
CWAA
It’s like he used to be a small-town tin-pot dictator or something. What’s next, nationwide speed bumps? A radar gun in every pot?
I was thinking about the covid nonsense and when people were bringing up Africa earlier.
Also this morning someone mentioned wryly that a guy’s whole family got the vid ‘even though they mask all the time’.
We know stress messes with your immune system pretty bad. How much of the spread of covid, especially to those covid-scared or ‘locked down’ is because of all that unneeded stress?
Dan Carlin has a new video up, this one’s only 90 minutes long,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJHvzoORoVQ
Admit it, you’re just upset because she gave you a 2/5.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17475704/ex-serial-cheat-instagram-sex/
Ignorant ingrates
Speaking with Insider on her first anniversary at the helm of the CDC, Walensky said Fauci’s experience “resonates with me.”
Walensky said there was a simple, psychological reason some people were so eager to point a finger and threaten her and Fauci.
“Certainly, there are people who are unhappy,” she told Insider during our exclusive Q&A, alluding to the toll the pandemic has taken on the nation’s mental health and the hit it has delivered to our collective economic and social stability. “Many people want somebody to blame. And so we become easy targets, right?”
Walensky and Fauci aren’t the only ones.
Amid the pandemic, nurses, doctors, and public-health officials in charge of pandemic response in states and cities across the country have been quitting in droves, and many said on their way out the door that they’d simply had enough of all the hate and death threats.
If only the peasants could be made to see the debt they owe us for saving them from certain death.
Yes, I’d say the guy who played a role in the entire thing happening in the first place is an easy target.
Joni Mitchell? Say it ain’t so Joni. I love Joni Mitchell. Oh well, I downloaded her entire discography almost 3 decades ago. Who are these people paying for the ability to listen to back catalog stuff that they’ve already purchased on vinyl, 8-track tape, cassette tape, and CD? Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.
Copyright infringementFair Use is your best entertainment value.“If you equate this pandemic to a natural disaster, which is what I think it is, we have many different ways that we can use science to try and cope and to improve outcomes, improve life, life expectancy, survival from this natural disaster,” Walensky said.
She acknowledged that the agency had room for improvement in its COVID-19 response, in terms of clear and honest communication to the public and in speeding up the science that undergirds recommendations and shifts in guidance.
Close enough for government work. It’s not as if there are any sort of consequences for being spectacularly wrong.
“Natural disaster” my ass. She really is a spectacularly poor liar.
I wasnt around yesterday, has anyone posted about the numbers the military doctors are seeing?
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-whistleblowers-share-dod-medical-data-that-blows-vaccine-safety-debate-wide-open
Yet Im still seeing vaccine for kids commercials everywhere. What has to happen for the vaccines to stop?
Anyone watching the Legend of Vox Machina? Liking it so far.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/legend-of-vox-machina-how-critical-role-turned-a-dandd-game-night-into-a-hit-animated-series
Rather jealous that I never played a bard with a glowing rainbow codpiece though.
I watched the first episode, wish they’d played it a bit more straight, the silly overly hokey bit are almost too much. I give it anther episode or two but I can see it getting old pretty fast.
My thoughts are similar, but the rest of my game crew loves it. I like that they don’t take themselves too seriously (after all, D&D is basically grownups getting together and playing pretend), but I like a little bit of drama mixed in there, too.
Most Americans are
idiotsmisguided, ch 7,948More than a year into his first term, Loren Ewing is disappointed that President Joe Biden hasn’t moved to forgive student debt. She remembers his vow on the campaign trail to deliver “immediate cancellation of a minimum of $10,000” per person.
“As soon as the election cycle got through, and he got in office, crickets,” said Ewing, 24, who lives in Cincinnati and owes close to $40,000 in student loans.
Along with Ewing, 57% of Americans say they want the president to make student loan forgiveness a priority, according to an CNBC + Acorns Invest In You Student Loan Survey, by Momentive. (The online poll was conducted January 10 to 13 among a national sample of 5,162 adults.)
Having been inmates of the government school system, most Americans have no comprehension of ripple effects.
Dear Gen Z and Millenials, we all already owe $80K+. I probably won’t have to pay, but I’m almost certain you will… with blood.
“57% of Americans say they want the president to make student loan forgiveness a priority”
I’d love to know how they phrased the survey question to get that result.
“Do you want Biden to do good things*?”
(in 2 point font) “*good things = student loan forgiveness”
The MSM is letting online surveys write their propaganda pieces for them.
FFS.
According to my quick Google search, only 1 in 8 Americans have student loan debt. That probably includes kids (they have debt whether they like it or not) but still, 57% want forgiveness?
To be clear, 57% of people who wanted to answer an online survey specifically about student loans want debt forgiveness. So on a national level… I’m guessing far far less than 57% want this.
If they did not lie they would have nothing to report. My remembrance of the interview was Malone was very much pro vaxine. He said it was great and he was up to date on his and boosted. My take was he compared the level of psychosis and freaking out to Nazi Germany because some people want to round other people up for not complying. Which is totally accurate.
The important part is Youtube made it go away so the world is safe again.
Rogan has also had Gupta on. Of course Gupta looked foolish, but he was still on.
Fourscore: which bio of Light Horse Harry Lee are your reading? The Ryan Cole book or another? I’ve been meaning to learn more about him (having read lots about his traitorous son) since I learned he probably rode through my front yard during Battle of Brandywine in 1777. I’m currently reading H.W. Brand’s book about America’s First Civil war that pitted the Insurrectionists against the Loyalists in 1775-1783. Some really good stuff about Ben Franklin and his tool of a son, William; how Parliament really blew it; and the vicious fighting between friends and neighbors over whether the colonists should submit to a King (and his Top. Men.) 3,000 miles away.
“Light Horse Harry Lee: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero” by Ryan Cole
I’m still in the Rise part but of real interest is how many of our early patriots were from wealthy families and inter related. Those with the most to lose (and gain), depending on the outcome of the war.
The government education I got had no depth of our Founding Fathers, I guess trying to cram 200 hundred years of history into a few high school history classes is expecting too much. Too bad, maybe we wouldn’t be where we are today.
I’ll have to see if that book is in the library yet. Yeah, history class would spend a week or two on the Revolution. Don’t know how much they teach today, now that a few classes have to be spent on Crispus Attucks and Quaker slavers and British offers of freedom to slaves who came over to the Loyalist side. Probably like you, I learned most of what I know about American history by continuing to read years after high school was over.
What has to happen for the vaccines to stop?
Sic Semper Tyrannus
I am not one to advocate violence but… I am unsure there is another way at this point
Homemade Sheet Pan Pizza by Davide Civitiello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_rlii1RpgA
“Yes, I’m drunk. And you’re crazy. Tomorrow I’ll be sober, and you’ll be crazy for the rest of you life.”
Go Webdom! That would be awesome.
Seconded. Springboard to governor?
I am not one to advocate violence but… I am unsure there is another way at this point
Is there any other way to treat gangrene besides amputation?
No historical precedent exists for the kind of sweeping student loan forgiveness the president is increasingly under pressure to provide by members in his party, advocates and so many borrowers who say the lending system is predatory and perpetuates inequality.
“Student debt is a policy failure,” said Thomas Gokey, co-founder of the Debt Collective, a national union of debtors. “We must cancel this unjust debt, which will also help build pressure to solve the root cause. We must fully fund public colleges and universities so that no one is forced into debt for an education in the future.”
The finest minds our nation has to offer.
If student loans are a policy failure, then get rid of the entire student loan program.
For Jeff Riesenmy, student debt cancellation is right up there with issues like climate change and income inequality that he wants to see Biden prioritizing. He currently owes around $170,000 in student loans, which, after more than a decade of payments, is still more than he originally borrowed because of interest charges.
“I don’t think people understand just how crazy it is,” said Riesenmy, 35, who graduated from Emory Law School in 2012.
Haha, sucker.
“I don’t think people understand just how crazy it is”
Many people understand this perfectly. You are not among them, Jeff.
Have we considered bringing back workhouses yet?
Originally read that as whorehouses.
See comment 45.
I’m sure that there could be a certain amount of overlap…
I recently watched a video about the Calcutta Light Horse and their raid on the German Navy in Goa. One fellow was too old for the commando stuff, so he was tasked with distracting the Portuguese and Germans in town. He sponsored a week long fiesta that culminated in a lavish party where all the navy officers and gubbmint folk spent the evening. But he also bought out every brothel in the city and made them free for all sailors for the week. The watches posted onboard the ships were a bit short staffed.
Nice! Sort of like Sherman in Savannah.
Having a trustworthy whore on the payroll, who will open a door at a critical moment, has a fairly storied history in unconventional warfare.
What would be “crazy” is if those of us who went through private colleges and graduated with no debt (or paid it off) vote for the clowns who think this dude and others like him deserve to leech off us.
it is sad that a degree in engineering at Cal Tech cannot get you enough money to pay your debt
Goes to most expensive law school in GA, takes out $170K in student debt, get’s IT job….
Also, this guy… “Ian Rhodewalt, an educator and union employee”……”He and his wife owe more than $130,000″….”graduated from Oberlin College in 2009 with a degree in creative writing and dance. He also is finishing a degree in labor studies”…
This next degree will be worth it.
Indeed it is.
Orgies for charity.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/ex-stripper-records-orgies-onlyfans-26063260
Maybe she can donate money to dumbasses like the lawyer above (#44).
$50K/month? WTF.
should also give those veterans the occasional blow job
My POS SIL is drawing a PTSD check. Can she get some cunnilingus from the stripper too? ??
pics?
Great, now I have PTSD too,
How about vets that don’t have PTSD? Asking for a friend
Good Cop / Tax Return Cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6MBZWvGneA
Good morning, Old Man!
I think being related to the mayor might make for some sweet grifting opportunities! Good luck to her!
Poor Joni and Neil think they are still relevant. Sad.
I really like Joni’s music, I wore out the vinyl on Blue and Court and Spark back in the day. This is idiotic, but if I stopped listening to artists because of stuff like this, I’d have nothing to listen to.
These two have made their millions and can afford to deplatform themselves. Talented but unknown artists who emulate them will suffer the consequences of alienating potential customers. “Starving artist” is such a wonderfully romantic thing, unless you are the one who is starving.
specifically WebDom; the idea is she’d run for town council, then mayor. She is known to everyone and is massively popular. I think she could win, especially because her platform would center on stopping any parking enforcement relating to the stupid contractor and app.
I remember the episode in The Mask animated series where the Mask was running for mayor on a platform centered around getting rid of parking meters (additionally limbo parties and a water buffalo in every garage )
ASMR BARBER – The POMPADOUR MULLET – Barber Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr1MvYw4u4
Does GoFundMe allow fundraisers for campaigns?
also running for office?
… No? …
I was asking about contributing to Webdom’s campaign fund, but I guess I was too vague.
Outside money in local politics is evil. Are you evil?
I’m here, aren’t I?!
She’s only like a 2 on the Soros scale.
Let them eat dust
Fuck the planet.
Would. I need 4wd though.
I like this one – https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1995-toyota-land-cruiser-fzj80/
YES!
I had a roommate (in 1989) with a 1979(?) Land Cruiser. I was so jealous of that thing.
Nice…how does the pistol grip shifter work? Was that a quasi auto thing like some of the other muscle cars?
Its just the shifter handle.
that is one ugly car though
Sooo…any tips for tracking down book titles? This is one of those situations where I have a fairly vivid memory of some aspects of the book – interested enough to pick up a copy (I think it was in the ship’s library during my 2013 deployment and I didn’t snag it afterwards) – but I can’t recall the title or author. I was reading some China Mieville at the time, but 95% certain it wasn’t his.
I think it was something weird like “Limbic Spaces” or something along those lines. May have been a large grasshopper illustration on the cover of my edition.
Had a lot of alternate history elements. Some 1800s prospectors found some hidden pool that resurrected folks or even created duplicates under different circumstances – but then went off on a centuries long vendetta against each other while simultaneously each building up an empire of clones. And then…there was some dimensional mixing as a result and I think the grasshopper aliens had something to do with it.
Pretty weird which is why my memories of it are fairly fond – so revisiting it in audiobook if nothing else would be interesting. If I can just figure out what the heck it was…..
go to the Bodleian library in Oxford and describe it they will find it for you
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.396.5182&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Not sure if serious….but nope
was there much acid on your ship?
You found my dissertation!
There’s
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification
New Real Peer Review
@RealPeerReview
Today in intersectional research defined by intersection of inceldom and Yudkism
P.S. The other joke is left as exercise to the reader
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/1487102207682093061
| It’s sad and ironic to see so many ’60s “liberals” get on the censorship bandwagon.
Somewhere along the line, together with a large percentage of the other “liberals” they morphed into progressives. At one point in the 60’s they were bravely fighting the man, but then their side largely won both the cultural and institutional wars and took over control. Principles like free speech weren’t their principles at all, but merely means to an end. When their voices were in the minority it was an important thing to fight for, but now it is no longer needed as the minority are the voices that are against their brave new utopia. For what it’s worth, Neil is big against GMOs and all the science behind them, so it’s a little bit ironic that he’s all in on the gene therapy that has far less evidence to back it up. Fuck him and his whiny ass voice.
Exactly this.
Some of them are just moral cowards, afraid of the judgement of their peers.
One thing that got pounded into my skull like a 16 penny nail from a burly carpenter with a framing hammer over the past two years is that the vast majority of people would rather be incorrect and in the majority than correct and in the minority.
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” – Hoffer
I had that book recommended to me by a great old school hard ass anthropology prof that wouldn’t last five seconds in that position today. Read it back then in the 90’s and loved it, I’ll have to pick it up and reread it.
I first read it about 15 years ago. I think its main value is as a warning to yourself.
I think of it as the opposite of the Stoics, it’s a “what not to do” for the everyman.
“When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.”
I disagree in one important regard. I don’t think they were ever principled. When they were yelling about “free speech” in the 60s, it was really about their speech being suppressed, not the principle of all people’s speech being suppressed.
They didn’t care about principles, except insofar as it prohibited them from screaming about how they wanted communism. What happened – as you point out KSue – was that they became ascendant; and now that they are, they want to shut up anyone who disagrees with them. Which is always what they really wanted, IMO – power. To be in charge.
Now that they are, we see exactly what they’re all about.
I’m a firm believer that extreme amounts of Power and Money don’t “change” people, they just reveal what was always there – the quiet part that was never said aloud. Once restraint is removed (by Power/Money), we see what’s really been hiding underneath that exterior all along.
(N.B. These are broad generalizations, but IME it’s the rare person who undergoes truly radical transformation of their character. How many of your high school or middle school friends have really undergone a complete transformation from what they were 20-30 years ago in school?)
I would say I’m more tempered than I was twenty or thirty years ago.
I would certainly have been on board with the technocrats back in my twenties. As time wore on, that tendency has definitely gone away.
It all started with reading Robert Ringer, 40 years ago.
Yeah Ozy, we are in agreement. I think they pretended to have those principles when really they were just convenient means for them at the time. Obviously there were old school 60’s liberals who actually did have principles like free speech, but I’d say they have been shown to be the minority, at least of the boomers that are prominent. I’d say we are also seeing the effects of age on that generation as they now hold most of the power and safetyism has becoming an overarching focus.
When they were yelling about “free speech” in the 60s, it was really about their speech being suppressed, not the principle of all people’s speech being suppressed.
Budd Schulberg (Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront) said much the same thing about Hollywood’s Communists and how they suddenly didn’t like free speech when he did things like point out that they were, in fact, Communists.
Nice…how does the pistol grip shifter work? Was that a quasi auto thing like some of the other muscle cars?
It’s a regular old four speed. That’s just the shifter knob.
Also- from the description: drum brakes all around. Scary.
Somewhere along the line, together with a large percentage of the other “liberals” they morphed into progressives.
“Question Authority”? Are you nuts?
Trust the Science!
Why do I have the distinct impression that most of what therapists do is tell their patients that their insane worldview is not in fact insane?
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1487412532386086913
As a general rule, the therapy industry is not interested in improving people’s states of mind. If they did that, they wouldn’t have regular customers.
Leave my chiropractor out of this.
My billfold needs a routine adjustment, a tune up.
The ideal therapist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw
ⓘ Dogs don’t have thumbs
@MorlockP
I’m drunk, so I speak the truth:
I hate 99.99% of people because they’re stupid and embarassing and simultaneously pathetically arrogant and deeply cowardly.
https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1487266074966081540
he is not completely without a point
that is one ugly car though
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder.
Remember what Enzo Ferrari said. “Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”
“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”
That is beautiful and brilliant.
tail spoilers: you had the whole car to get some downforce but here we are, out of time and space but plenty of rivets and bondo left
tail spoilers on a four door hatchback …
Says someone who’s probably never driven an older VW Beetle at 90mph+
The only way that’s possible is if you drove it off a cliff.
LOL……..naaaa, back in the day I knew some dudes who could get that and more out of old beetles.
Factory stock engines?
Hell no. These guys tuned the shit out of them.
So Enzo’s right. They could build engines, so aero didn’t matter.
I’ve been a very nervous passenger in some Beetles that were tuned up.
The front end starts to lift somewhere around 75 to 80.
I beat the hell out of my Beetle through driving and poor maintenance. It didn’t care.
William Wheelwright
@ploughmansfolly
REMINDER: if one in ten American households raised a 1/2 acre garden and kept 35 laying hens, there would be no industrial egg or vegetable production (level one)
William Wheelwright
@ploughmansfolly
· Jan 28
If those same households raised ten hogs per year, it would eliminate the industrial pork industry (level two)
ⓘ Dogs don’t have thumbs
@MorlockP
This is absolutely retarded.
A 1/2 acre garden is not a “garden”, it’s a small farm, and a full time job.
The Urban Farmer Curtis Stone runs production on this scale, and he has employees and facilities.
ⓘ Dogs don’t have thumbs
@MorlockP
·
Jan 28
Replying to
@MorlockP
2/
I raise 3 hogs per year, maybe every other year. The idea that one can “merely” just raise 10 pigs is … insane.
Also … pigs eat food. If you’re keeping them on 1/2 an acre (or far far less if you’re also gardening), they’re not foraging >
https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1487076292516319238
The astonishing lack of understanding of agriculture by the would be world controllers is something to behold. My favorite is when they trot out “it takes 25 acres to raise one cow but only 5 acres of gardening to feed a person for a year”……
Morons who think in slogans planning our sustenance…..what could go wrong?
There are places in MS that you can run more than four units per acre
There are places in TX that require more than four acres per unit
The whole trope is a canard that looks at an incredibly complex and location specific undertaking that intersects agriculture, ecology, etc and presents it in board game levels of simplicity. It’s a statement so stupid the speaker should be embarrassed to utter it.
I’m a fan of hobby agriculture. It makes people more self-reliant, and that’s a good thing.
But the end of industrial agriculture in 2022 would result in mass starvation. Full stop.
???
I do not want to experience anything close to that. Ever.
I love reefer trucks and combines, they keep me alive.
I love the guys at ThermoKing (Minnesoda)
the guys at Carrier (Brittany) not so much
Oh, ‘refrigerated’.
I initially thought a reefer truck was something else entirely.
oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUDxgYMdxI
To the original dillhole’s point, hobby agriculture can actually impact industrial farming practices without killing the industry. If enough people are willing to buy eggs from their neighbor or beef their local rancher because they value the benefits of those purchases over the price differential, there is pressure on the industrial side to reform.
Actually getting to the point where industrial farming goes away is a joke, massively socioeconomically regressive, and logistically impossible.
False. 1/2 acre it absolutely a garden. It is also waaaaaay too little space for 35 hens, not to mention ten hogs.
I dunno man my moms garden is like 40 square meters so 1/100 of an acre
I’m not going to quibble over terminology, but a half acre of vegetables done close to right is a lot of work. If not a full time job, likely every spare minute you have.
Of course the logistics of distributing produce from 30 odd million gardens to the other 85 million households are an exercise left to the reader, as well.
“Done right” maybe.
We had a half acre garden. The yield wasn’t nearly enough to feed us, but it also wasn’t a full time job for the stay at home mom, much less the three kids. The only things that yielded well were the typical squashes/cuckes and okra.
The yield wasn’t nearly enough to feed us
He’s positing gardens with enough yield to feed 4 households.
Can be done, but with a lot of pre-planning, experience, and the right strategy. You can grow enough for 2 families on 1/20th of an acre if you do substantial hydroponics, greenhouses, and vertical gardening. It’s very challenging, though.
Also, I am sure that one in ten Americans do not live on lots larger than a half acre.
We have a three acre lot, and there is not one square inch of it you could put a vegetable garden on. It is basically granite bedrock not far under the surface, with a thin layer of sand and gravel.
Mr. Wheelwright is also unacquainted with hog farming. You do not want hogs in a residential neighborhood. The smell is difficult to describe to someone who has never experienced it.
The pig shit smell permeates everything.
We used to provide centrifugal pumps to hog farmers for moving all the shit and piss into retention ponds. You literally could not get the smell out of the pumps, like it had penetrated the aluminum castings.
cast and even billet aluminum are surprisingly porous
the block for your AC compressor on your car is pressure-dunked in a chemical to impregnate the porosity or else all your refrigerant would pump right through the cylinder walls and into space
I would have expected cast, particularly sand cast, but not billet. Interesting.
Take a drive on I-35 in Iowa with the wind coming from the west, acquaints you with all the hog farming you’ll ever need.
Experienced that west of Ottumwa one winter’s day. It is amazing how much the pig farmers love us city dwellers to be able to put up with such stench and raise bacon and pork chops and ham so we can continue to eat and look down our noses at the rednecks and unwoke yokels.
We visited one of those “living history” working farms. They had a few hogs, and the smell was absolutely horrific.
1/2 acre is about 150 feet square. That’s a full time job in the growing season and no production in the off season. Feast and famine.
1/2 acre is about 150 feet square – ehm does that mean 150 feet by 150 feet or is it the same as 150 square feet cause I have a confuse
150 feet by 150 feet
acre is 43,560SF (a mile by mile is 640 acres, so 5280feet ^2 / 640 = 43560)
think of an acre as a tick over 200 feet on a side……or 70m
I think of an acre as 4000 square meters 2.5 to the hectare
yes
but UCS made sure to tell me it is not exactly 4000 square meters
…or one chain by one furlong.
One chain (four rods) by one furrow long. As much ground as a single horse can plow in one day. Out and back; out and back.
the other universally unknown fact is “what the hell is a gallon?” it’s 231inch^3
I ask people all the time how many gallons there are in a cubic foot; the universal reply is four
the answer is 7.48
almost no one who doesn’t work in the units has any idea….no one in the world would know, no Americans know
common application: an inch of rain on a square foot is 0.6gallons
so if you have a quarter acre back yard that is sloped towards your house (criminal!), figure about 7,000 gallons of water than washes under/through your foundation for every inch of rain…..the fines in the soil where all the bearing strength will pipe out in no time
Corn gallon, ale gallon, or wine gallon?
But a milk crate is 1 cubic foot and only holds 4 gallon jugs. Even accounting for the taper on top of the jugs, I don’t think another 3 gallons would fit.
I’m a grocer’s son
12^3/231 = 7.48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzzraD-PpDw
also in Texas and California you’ve gotta know your Mexican for mineral rights
much of that land was conveyed by the league, about 4400 acres…..seven sections of land today. That seems silly, but much of the land was barren, useless, and worthless in any pre-petroleum sense. For example, the XIT ranch in the Llano Estacado, 3 million acres, was won by the consortium that built the capital building at Austin for expenses of $3M dollars, so a buck an acre…..worthless…..took them decades to liquidate it even in parts before the whole mess rightly collapsed
50 yards on a side. Basically half a football field (not counting the end zones).
From later in the thread – “Homesteading Twitter is an absolute cesspit of poor thinking, rivaled only by … every single other corner of twitter.”
Yep.
Yeah, Morlock / Travis Corcoran (recommended his “Escape from the City” book here before) has a 50+ tweet thread on *some* of the bad thinking involved in the original message.
Morlock is Travis Corcoran? Cool, I got a hardback copy of Escape The City for Christmas and I’ve been enjoying it immensely.
obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUynRdzzsM
Lol, back when we had a decent garden two houses ago, our long term dream was a tenth of an acre garden plus a handful of fruit trees.
Half acre garden, lol.
My garden is about a 1/10th, 40 X 100. I plant a lot of vine stuff, cukes, watermelons, squash just to fill up the space.
Well….it’s 25 degrees outside, but I feel more like walking than driving, so I’m gonna go check out a new Mexican joint that opened recently – heard good to middling reviews on it, but it’s close enough to walk to from home = poss drinking location…. ;p
I love the heck out of weekends. Not just the whole “not having to go to work” thing.
I either go shooting or…
1. Wake up, have coffee and play with the dog.
2. Go get breakfast @ the diner.
3. Come home, get dog, take to the park.
4. Come home, dog naps while I watch TV and/or do household chores and make lunch.
I had terrible nightmares last night. PTS from an awful work week, or PTS (pre-traumatic stress) from the prospect of going back to DC. I’m exhausted. They were really bad nightmares (packs of dogs attacking each other, and me standing in the middle. Stuff like that)
have you tried drinking more whisky? I did and it did nothing for the dreams but others may differ
One of the major reasons I am a cannabis fan is that it keeps me from remembering my dreams in the morning.
I think I found mine.
Holy crap. This is a steal. That year and model is next to indestructible
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2002-toyota-tundra-10/
Ooooh, that is a steal. I’m horribly tempted.
I’ve got 200k on mine and other than replacing the suspension and brakes, it may as well be new. No leaks anywhere and runs like a top.
That thing is gorgeous. I’ve wanted one since high school, when you could pick one up in decent condition for maybe 3500. The red body with white hardtop is an awesome color combo.
I see a few of those around Tucson. One of the docs used to bring one to the hospital that had a matching trailer, as in, both the FJ40 and the trailer had the original paint (kind of a desert tan) and it matched.
Yes, I would very much like one. For no good reason, I like the ones that have the rear seat along one side. There was one that looked reasonably good (it had some work on it, undoubtedly needed more) parked For Sale by the road for, I want to say, $12,000 a few years ago. Very tempting, but we don’t have an empty garage, and cars left outside where we live are packrat snacks.
Nice. There is an outfit in my neck of the woods that restores old FJ’s. They get top dollar for them.
I am now completing the homework assignment from last night
Brian Cox with the subtle VT accent ?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6TwbysAXiWKQfv9GFWwsGhyjeMDShAqp
Brian Cox pronouncing the names of distilleries
I should probably stop posting these for Mrs R C Dean:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2019-mercedes-amg-e63s-wagon/
You just like to see RC squirm.
I’ll take that 72 Land Cruiser posted above. ESPECIALLY in hot red.
Not sure if the low mileage outweighs the deadly dull paint job. The price, for the mileage, is not quite out of range, but getting close.