I blew a flat yesterday during my lunch hour while picking up some groceries. Tried to patch it, but the side wall was pretty much fucked once I re-inflated it.
I have new tires now. The worst part was the nearest tire place was Big-O tires, and they were out of their STEVE SMITH approved Bigfoot tires. I am sad now.
But its cool because in their haste to find the locking lug key, leaving my car’s interior disheveled, they turned up something I didn’t know was in my car…
Now for some links!
This is ideologically consistent, because Canadians are um…you know.
What happens when the world reserve currency inflates? Everyone else’s does too.
Ban bullfighting? Screw that.
Speaking of Canada, remember that one time Bolsonaro met Trudeau? Jair doesn’t either.
For everyone using avocado instead of mayonnaise, the nightmare is over for now. Soon they will have to insist on buying conflict-free avocados.
[Insert Edward the Longshanks joke here.]
Climate change made them build their favelas on the side of a steep hill.
“The 1980’s called, they want their foreign policy back.”
Damn, that midget had some pipes.
“But its cool because in their haste to find the locking lug key, leaving my car’s interior disheveled, they turned up something I didn’t know was in my car…”
Cocaine?
Look closer at the pic…
An ammo box full of cocaine?
Now yer talkin’!
Still cheaper than a box of ammo.
There was a tag on that box…
$31.95
It was an old box, then?
Its fairly old. I bought my 1911 in 2012 and used Golden Saber during break in because not only did they function, I got the best grouping with those. I use Hornady XTP now.
I’m just wondering how many times I drove to Mexico with that box under the spare tire.
Yes. No longer able to make a profit, Remington Arms gets into a business with better margins.
I wonder if GM will try the same business model…
Electric powered cocaine?
You probably could pay for your tires with that, if it was full.
“For everyone using avocado instead of mayonnaise, the nightmare is over for now. Soon they will have to insist on buying conflict-free avocados.”
There will be a documentary this Thursday night.
For everyone using avocado instead of mayonnaise, the nightmare is over for now
I’ve read this 10+ times now and I am still confused.
Some people do not like mayonnaise. They are sometimes known as “vegans”. One option for such people is to use avocado in its place.
They are sometimes known as “vegans”.
Say no more.
Vegans are just a myth. A bubbameister, invented to scare Sean.
It makes perfect sense when you realize they come from the constellation Lyra.
I don’t like mayonnaise, but am a committed carnivore. I am coming around on avocados, though.
People using god-awful shit in replacement of god-awful shit.
Some people put mayonnaise in guacamole.
I had to break my wife of that disgusting idea.
I went to a bullfight once. It’s hard not to root for the bulls, especially when the matador isn’t real competent. One of the bullfighters we saw couldn’t get the sword to go in right causing additional suffering to the bull. The crowd was pretty hostile toward him. We were sitting next to his family, and they tried keeping a pretty low profile through it.
Try a Costa Rican one next time. It’s much fairer and usually involves a lot more ambulances.
Imagine a bullring full of pissed-off bulls and drunks.
“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger…and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.”
/some guy in Key West
I attended a bullfight once in Madrid. Right after watching Ferdinand. I was actually kind of shocked when the first bull died.
Fuck bullfighting.
To me it ranks right up there with dog fighting.
^^ +1000
^x3
I’ll never understand why some people get kicks out of torturing animals to death. Those dog meat festivals in China are the worst.
“‘Drunk’ Florida lawyer, 49, ‘strips completely NAKED and refuses to put her clothes back on at bar after being refused service'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10538995/Drunk-Florida-lawyer-arrested-stripping-bar-refusing-clothes-on.html
It’s never who you want to see.
Yet another libertarian. They’re everywhere.
Apparently I don’t live in and have never been to “everywhere.”
You’ve never been to Florida?
Not that I would ever admit to publicly.
I’ve been to paradise
But I’ve never been to me…
I’ve been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run
I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me
I’ve been to Nice and the isle of Greece
While I sipped champagne on a yacht
I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me
Well I’ve never been to Spain
but I kinda like the music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLnzriWJf6o
I might file her under “would” if I was as sauced as she was.
You’d think that a lawyer would know not to get caught without her briefs.
After careful review, I going to rule this one admissible.
Next time she should just pass the bar and head on home.
I suspect she was just preparing for oral arguments.
The facts of the case are that you don’t have to take your clothes off for that.
Ex post facto, she may have had something else in mind.
Maybe this is how she passed the bar the first time?
The worst part was the nearest tire place was Big-O tires, and they were out of their STEVE SMITH approved Bigfoot tires. I am sad now.
This is a safe place to air out your frustrations.
Yeah, it’s nice to get a good bead on things, but you want to tread lightly with the wordplay.
When the rubber meets the road, we all just have to look past Swiss’s steely-belted gaze.
Very nice, you big lug.
Tread lightly, the lot of you.
Spare me these flat puns
I can tell this thread is going to wear down quickly.
I think it’s getting unbalanced.
Yeah, I think we’re just spinning our wheels now.
Damnit Animal already used that pun. Cornering through these threads is daunting.
No pressure!
Get a grip!
That one seems to have traction.
You should show your Big-O face after that one.
*rim shot*
STEVE SMITH SAD HIM TIRES NO THERE.
We ply our comments with our own bias.
It’s a good year for puns.
At least until Swiss gets his Eagle eye on this thread….
That’ll stem the flow.
I didn’t think STEVE SMITH had a need for rubber products.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS GET BIG O, NO MATTER THE PRESSURE!
LIKE DOUGHNUT WITH EXTRA BIG HOLE
Happy re-tirement, MS
I always thought “Big O” Tires was funny enough by itself, having come across plenty of women who called orgasms an “O”, and a great one a “Big O”.
Thus, one never Tires of a Big O.
Obviously they just like to play poker…
(For those of you who don’t get it, look it up!)
Only a Hoosier would need to explain a joke.
I fear Swiss will be burnt out by this tread.
Well, it’s gotten a bit tiring.
“New Mexico rep to introduce bill offering asylum to Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates.”
Let the Biden administration know so they can book some of those immigrant flights and keep stocking up on those sweet sweet miles.
“I am introducing legislation that would temporarily grant asylum to innocent Canadian protesters who are being persecuted by their own government. We cannot be silent as our neighbors to the north are treated so badly,”
If it’s anything like the “temporary” asylum we’ve granted folks from Haiti and Central America, the truckers will be here for twenty or more years.
We need some truckers right now.
Doing the jobs Americans won’t do…
This season’s bullfights in Mexico City may be the last, as legislators in the city assembly seek to revive a bill banning the activity.
That’s some bullshit. Quit poking holes in people’s cultural traditions.
Meh; if they ban bullfighting one day, the next day the sun will also rise.
I’m seeing red here.
I saw DIo in the ’84 Last In Line tour.
His voice was incredible – and I was young and dumb enough not to realize he had been in Rainbow and Black Sabbath until he did some of those songs later in the show.
My ears were ringing for a week – even more from the Twisted Sister opening show than DIo.
This sanctimonious, tyrannical twink can lick my balls.
Trudeau says “there is a lesson for all of us in what happened this month.”
The one that comes to mind is “Go ahead and depose the government before it gets organized and tyrannical” — but somehow I doubt that’s his thought here.
Correct.
What a preachy cunt.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2022/02/21/ottawa-occupiers-meet-the-fashion-police.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
:facepalm:
Contrary to this crazy lady — I don’t think many (any?) of the folks in the Convoy gave too loonies (loon hoots? hate bird gizzards?) for “fashion”. Especially not in the Canadian winter and all.
And who did — well, I suspect they would be more interested in leaping from tree to tree in British Columbia and all…
People who live in cold weather soon learn that warmth trumps fashion every time.
Over the years you will stumble across various pieces of outdoor clothes that are great. As you find them they become part of your every day winter wear. So you go outside with your Sorrel boots, an army surplus wool pea coat, a brown knit cap and choppers. None of them will match each other, but you don’t care because everyone else is dressed the same goofy way.
Only tourists, crazy people and the uber snobs who have a driver to drop them off right at a door wear matching clothes or give a hoot what they look like.
^ Can confirm.
There is one thing that trump’s warmth: Luck.
That is why I wear my quarter pull black polar fleece shirt. It is pretty worthless if there is any wind, but I have caught a lot of fish and shot a lot of game while wearing that shirt.
It is almost as lucky as my “Carp Haven” sweatshirt. That only gets worn in extreme emergencies because I think it can only be washed one or maybe two more times before it self destructs.
Yeah, but my rainbow snowsuit is fabulous and practical.
Your snow suit is fabulous. Keep a close eye on it when you visit Minnesoda.
Story: At a startup we had a weirdo come in and join up. It soon became apparent that he wasn’t going to fit in.
The strangest story about him: Weirdo’s sister-in-law either fell off a cliff into a canyon by accident or committed suicide. Weirdo and his wife were in charge of packing up her apartment. A few months after that Weirdo and another guy from the office went skiing for the weekend. When the returned his skiing partner told us that he showed up wearing his dead SIL’s pink ski suit (he was a small dude). Didn’t get why anyone would think that is weird.
I heard through the grapevine that Weirdo has moved back to the area. So watch your gear if you come skiing here.
I want a pair of those surplus air filled Mickey boots that are ridiculously priced.
I wore the Mickey Mouse boots in Korea during Team Spirit ’88 and thought they were worthless.
All the Sorrels I have owned were warmer and didn’t weight 800 lbs. Save your money.
I look forward to her column next week where she bitches about how women are always judged by their looks and it just isn’t fair.
If you were wondering whether or not the mask is a symbol of your subservience…
Philanthropist Bill Gates has been discussing mask mandates at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
“What is the downside of wearing a mask? You have to wear pants.”
He said without a mask on.
I’m beginning to fantasize about some good old-fashioned ultraviolence.
Remember that really stupid pee graphic that attempted to compare masks to people running around pissing on each other? That was fun.
Did they show as an alternative people wearing pants and then pissing and shitting in them?
No, just pee:
Holy shit. And they expect to be taken seriously.
Sponsored by R. Kelly and Sophia Urista
L O L
Good lord…
My pants protect you. Your pants protect me.
JFC
So you’re pissed?
I hope that doesn’t stain our relationship.
Urine trouble for that!
Gee whiz guys.
The pictures are accurate, but shouldn’t the accompanying text claim that the urine is really rain?
They best think twice before they equate masks with pants. I might remove mine in protest.
We don’t all talk through our ass, Bill.
Where is Pan to defend parliamentary democracy?
Stuck in a labyrinth?
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1495965672786231300
WTF, England?
This may be the most genuinely terrifying thing I’ve read, possibly ever. England learned about social credit scores and said “hold my beer.”
Just an extension of what they just did in Canada. And that’s been the knock on digital currency from the beginning.
It’s a knock on centralized crypto (nation state digital currencies), and centralized entities within crypto (exchanges for example). I don’t see how it’s a knock on crypto overall.
I pointed this out yesterday. If you make the crypto illegal for regular purchases, i.e. groceries and gas, all but the most hardcore will abandon it. Crypto is fine for the occasional Craigslist purchase if you can find a party also willing to deal with contraband currency, but most people will never have the patience to need to launder crypto constantly to live day to day. They would almost certainly begin tracking the history of your “legitimate” currency and just seize anything that came from converting any assets they don’t approve of. This may be the greatest tool for complete government control ever devised. Pure fucking evil.
I remember reading an article in Wired back in the nineties arguing the exact same thing. It was a definite step in my becoming a libertrarian.
Everyone in the Anglo world is racing to see who can go the most totalitarian the fastest.
A long train of abuses…
Hey now, don’t count out the Eastern world. China wants a place in the totalitarian race too. You can’t count out North Korea either. His dad was the strongest, most clever, most physically fit, but nobody else seems to rearize it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ
“Did she just seriously compare “honk, honk” to people saying “heil, hitler”??”
https://twitter.com/mysteriouskat/status/1495960601474048001
I read an article about this. She got her info from some Antifa-type person who cites 4chan as proof that “Honk Honk” = “Heil Hitler”. ??
Look, they have the same initials, what more proof do you need?!
So they still haven’t figured out that 4chan is 98% trolling by teenagers in their mom’s basement? They make these kinds of things up just to goad the corporate media into blowing a gasket and then laugh at them for taking the bait. The question is, does the corporate media actually believe this or is a symbiotic relationship where they know what’s happening and they’re happy to fan the flames for money and tricking people into supporting team blue? They’re not really as stupid as they seem right??? RIGHT?????
Related: I read an article some weeks back about someone flashing the OK sign. I think it was an SPLC talking head who admitted that the OK sign being racist was just a 4chan prank. HOWEVER, since then actual racists co-opted it as a racist symbol, so now it’s bad for real this time. ??
If you haven’t read Michael Malice’s The New Right he covers 4chan in pretty good detail. It’s a really good read about how the new lines in the culture war are drawn, although it probably already needs updating even though it’s only like three years old.
It feeds the narrative. They don’t know or care if it’s true.
??
All that matters is the utility.
“But good, loyal Democrats’ cars go ‘beep beep beep’ for ‘Build back better!'”
Everyone knows that Hitler was all about freedom of choice for minority groups.
Gas or electric?
OK, you win the internet for today.
+1
It keeps getting more and more absurd up north
Canadian truckers protest organizer denied bail, judge cites ‘safety of the public’
Lamp posts and woodchippers.
“Reoffend”
By protesting? Did she murder, rape, burn, and loot as well?
And she even promised to go back home to Alberta and not to any more organizing. But who could take the word of a
hockey momterrorist?I cannot be reassured that if I release you into the community that you will not reoffend
And yet those that are alleged to have committed acts of violence get out on bond all the time.
I guess the U.S. set an example with January 6th.
https://mobile.twitter.com/wef/status/1496164141207375875
With the Colombian congressional and presidential elections looming, and a leftist coalition leading the polls, it’s no surprise that the Western superpower is spending big. The United States has more spending power than all the country’s political parties, and is attempting to secure the population’s political loyalty traditionally tied to the declining right.
Russian Collusion is OK when we do it?
NO! IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
Herpity derpity doo we’ve got MODELS.
Maxime Bernier to plead not guilty to charges of violating Covid restrictions
A lawyer for People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier says Bernier will plead not guilty to charges of violating COVID-19 restrictions.
Not politically motivated at all, to be sure.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-fall-of-the-meritocracy/
Narrator: It wasn’t a meritocracy.
Ding ding ding
Because meritocracy was never what the idiots of that class thought it was? It was sheer, unadulterated credentialism that had nothing to do with any kind of merit, least of all intellectual?
Credentialism mixed with a hereditary aristocracy.
I think this misses a key element by restricting itself to COVID issues. The truth is that the West’s “meritocratic” elites had mostly discredited themselves across the board before the outbreak of COVID. From government to business to culture to the military to academia, the “solutions” proffered by meritocratic, technocratic, elites proved wildly unsatisfactory. Not only failing to adequately address emerging challenges, but often making things demonstrably worse. And no matter how incompetent or inadequate those meritocratic, technocratic, elites proved to be, there was never any consequences for them, even as their decisions had awful consequences for those not in those elites. That explains why you saw the emergence of Donald Trump, Brexit, or, for that matter, Bernie Sanders or AOC. Again, all before the emergence of COVID. The man on the street may very well not have the best answers. But, he knows that the answers our elites are offering aren’t working. And he sees he’s suffering through those bad answers while the meritocratic technocrats don’t miss a beat, or even benefit from shabby insider deals. And because there was no price, those elites were never really chastened by their failures. Because they could walk away from their failures unscathed, they could rationalize their records. And, as the public grew tired and skeptical of their failures, those technocratic elites became more reliant on on their technocratic authority than the merits of what they had to say. And that only breeds even greater, justified, skepticism.
The root of their power is their unaccountability.
Any threat to that aspect of their rule frightens then.
But, that unaccountability is a relatively new phenomenon. A failed general would be dismissed. A CEO whose company had lost half its value would resign (or at least wouldn’t receive an enormous bonus), an advocate of a failed policy would be disgraced. An academic whose theories made no sense would be roundly ignored. It’s only been, say, the last thirty years that failure is acceptable for elites.
I think it’s an outgrowth of monetary policy. We’ve been able to print the way to the elites’ prosperity over the last fifty years.
Exactly, it’s all rooted in the rise of, for lack of a better word, fascism. Private industry is getting filed down into the few select winners picked by the state and controlled via regulation. They can scratch each other’s backs infinitely with this new monetary policy. Corporations will do whatever the state needs them to do to create the world they want and the state can help them out with all the government contracts they could ever want to do so. No skin off either of their backs if there’s failure, they can just print their way out of it as long as they remember to stick together.
I think what you and Juris said are the root of the matter. It became not what you did but what credentials (degree, school you went too, beliefs, etc) you had. Credentials became the only measure of merit. And if you had the right credentials, then despite not getting anything right in your prior efforts, you were the right person for the job.
What juris said above addresses this. They really believe their own bullshit. “God is a man at Yale” is not an exaggeration to them. They have hubris and ambition that far exceeds their actual ability. They don’t realize that their impulse to shield themselves from failure is exactly why they’re so ignorant and ineffective. Centralizing and dictating policy has the same problems as controlling the economy. It’s like when you fix prices in the market – if you remove price signals i.e. useful feedback information to know whether or not you’re making good decisions, making what’s desirable and being efficient – you won’t know if you’re massively fucking up until it’s way to late. Even then, the ship is likely too large and unwieldly to change directions. The market is better because generally speaking, the individual actors (both consumers and producers) feel the effects of their own decisions most quickly and severely. Quick feed back, quick course correction. Progressivism explicitly looks to create what he’s calling “meritocracy” but it is, by design an army of unaccountable bureaucrats.
They, like the Marxists that originally inspired them, didn’t have the wisdom to realize that if there is such a thing as “top man”, he would be created not by hovering above the masses, emotionlessly observing and directing, but by taking part in his triumphs and tribulations. Unfortunately learning this way tends to feed you a heaping helping of humble pie that makes you realize the folly of thinking that you could possibly even try to begin controlling everything to account for each individual’s wants, needs and desires.
I hate avocados. The news about them lifting the ban is the pits.
You’re toast when Swissy finally shows.
Somebody must have some fondue and happiness given recent events.
If you put some lime juice on it, it’ll keep until he gets here.
If you mix a large number of avocado particles (say 6.02214076 × 10^23) with tomatoes and lime juice, that’s a mole of guac
And yes, it costs extra.
Engineering humor.
Heisenberg was driving down the Autobahn whereupon he was pulled over by a policeman. The policeman asked, “Do you know how fast you were going back there?” Heisenberg replied, “No, but I know where I am.”
The 1000 yard narrowed gaze?
A major narrowed gaze.
https://lawliberty.org/forum/can-europe-hold-together/
Gee, who would have thought that an unaccountable class of bureaucrats weren’t going to lead to either classical liberalism or Christian Democracy?
Ooooh…. oooh… pick me! Pick me!
I’m going with “Who was George Orwell?”! What do I win, Alex?
An unaccountable class of bureaucrats did lead to classical liberalism. About 1700 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Uffda. Looks like some more “heroes” may be putting their own interests above those they are supposed to be serving
It is also interesting that the Nurses union is willing to go to the mat to keep out those outside nurses, but didn’t lift a finger for their members who were fired because of the vax mandates.
Saw this article on The Federalist. The author used to work at Google but because he is a “Republican and Christian” he is not a Lefty.
Section 230 Needs To Be Fixed So Internet Companies Can’t Feature Child Pornography
This author cites the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for child porn stats. The NCMEC is the largest KNOWN collector of child porn in the USA.
While most of us will agree that abusing kids is bad, these fuckers are (1) trying to neuter encryption for Americans (2) drag adult pornography into this scheme. Assholes like this want parents to be able to sue adult porn producers because they cant control what their kids look at on the internet.
Child porn is already illegal.
“It’s not illegal enough! We’re going to make it double-illegal, so we really send a message.”
Pinky Swear: This is the last time the SCIENCE is going to change!
Yup. Anyone want to bet the SCIENCE will change the day after the mid-terms and we will have to get the 4th (and 5th) shots?
No Bet.
I’ll bet the answer will depend on whether or not the election is properly fortified.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-ottawa-truck-convoy-has-revealed-the-ugly-side-of-freedom/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Former Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court everyone.
Also this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_McLachlin
Surely George Orwell’s estate will be suing for copyright infringement?
So there is nothing that would prevent the government from deciding that those truckers and their families should be sold into slavery. Their “freedom” was granted to them by the government and the government can easily vote to take it away.
I can’t believe Christian bakers aren’t flocking to Canada where they won’t be forced to bake cakes for gay weddings.
Fly like a butterfly, First like a bee.
Bees usually die after the first sting.
Or rather “firsting”
Damn autocorrect
“Firsting is an orgy of disorder.”
Firsting brings spontaneous and natural order where there is chaos. For after the First comes the second. And the third. And the fourth. It all flows naturally.
Wouldn’t Brochsy need more people to have an “orgy”?
Fuck, I’m not certain his Cult of First has enough people to even put on a decent circle jerk.
Think hand job and oil checking yourself.
The Korean chicken is particularly spicy this evening. Neph might even find it slightly piquant
Ugh. Mark Lanegan has died. Screaming Trees singer who had a great solo career. 57 years old…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthYaPW465M
Sad news. I saw him with the Screaming Trees back in the ’90s and always dug his voice.
He also had some good stuff with Greg Dulli from The Afghan Whigs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meo7H63Djjs
I was just listening to the Twilight Singers the other day.
I have been on a big Gentlemen kick lately, Twilight Singers is pretty good also.
Will put on Screaming Trees.
As in the Gentlemen that contains members of The Figgs and The Gravel Pit? They’re great.
Oh shit. You’re talking about the Afghan Whigs album. Which is also great.
Women and minorities hardest hit
TW: TOS
Your broken link triggers me.
whiz whiffed.
You have to agree to his Terms Of Service before the link will work
Well, shit. That’s what I get for posting and then immediately going off to dinner. Well, I said it was TOS, so you can probably find it yourselves, but
here it is.
Crap!
I’m going to bed.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/some-republicans-hope-to-let-voters-decide-whether-pa-should-get-out-of-the-liquor/article_bca2fc70-9424-11ec-80bd-7bf3a25acf68.html
Get the state out of everything.
Another constitutional amendment to do an end-run around the governor? There’s also one about voter ID.
I guess it was inevitable when the Legislature broke the seal with the amendments to rein in the governor’s emergency powers. And I say that despite my support of those amendments.
I can’t imagine having to buy my booze from some union hack. How backwards.
LOL. I pissed off the union worker at the ABC store by picking up a bottle of Trump wine.
It was pretty lousy wine, but at least I got a scowl out of the cashier.
Locally, they’re ok. Helpful even. YMMV in more urban areas.
They weren’t when I lived in PA.
A women hit on me today, but I had to be cautious. I have heard rumors of the Homoarchy’s plots. One second you are getting intimate with a women, and then her male counterpart comes out of the closet and attempts to perform unspeakable sins on you. I never know who is or isn’t part of the plan to turn me. I have to suspect everyone. I can never let my guard down.
A women hit on me today
Asserts facts not in evidence.
Never mind the bad grammar….
Did she have an Adam’s apple?
I’m guessing that was a first.
Well played.
Bravo
*hearty guffaw*
I can’t tell if your describing a concern or a fantasy.
“Dear Penthouse…”
And here I thought I wrote some unbelievable fiction.
I blew a flat yesterday during my lunch hour
I at least hope you got the standard $20 fee.
Depends on how many flatmates there were.
“Press pause at 0:19.”
https://twitter.com/CaldronPool/status/1495738643180568577
Huh
I just wanted to chime in to say I appreciated the back-and-forth this morning on Russia and Ukraine, even if it boiled over a bit. I’m biased in the Scott Horton / non-interventionist direction, but I thought the push back this morning was for the most part reasonable.
KDW was a dick today, ragging on Taft.
In it, he finally trips himself…
The victory in WWII (preceded by the un-necessary involvement in WWI) were the death of the republic and the birth of the empire. True, we are an odd empire, but being ANY kind of empire is irremediably unconstitutional. Nice of you to admit that you – it would be even nicer for you to learn from it.
It’s always at least even odds that KDW will be a dick on any given day.
I haven’t been following the Phil Mickelson thing so there are probably drugs falling out of my ass, but he’s taking a break to become the man he want to be.
Apparently he called the Saudi Arabian government “scary motherfuckers” and now everyone’s piling on to declare his statements “idiotic” among other things. But, I thought after the Jamal Khashoggi thing there was general agreement that the Saudis WERE scary motherfuckers. Am I mis-reading something? If not, when did the herd change opinions?
Exactly. Because when I think of a law abiding, human rights first society I think Saudi Arabia.
China too…
Describing them as scary motherfuckers doesn’t go far enough. They’re monsters that rival the brutality shown by the Chinese and are scum. People are piling on him for saying that? Fuck ‘em!
That’s not my whole point: I read the story on BBC sports which published a whole slew of stories when the Saudi fund bought Newcastle United. There were debates about whether the fund was separate from the Saudi government which was tied to the Khashoggi murder. It wasn’t just what Mickelson said, it was he said pretty much the EXACT SAME THING almost the entire media were saying for about 2 years.
He’s sort of known for being a political conservative isn’t he? Consistency goes out the window when it comes to scoring political points.
I thought Phil was the one pushing for the Saudi golf league.
He was/is. It’s a very contradictory story. He called the Saudis names but said something needed to be done to shake up the PGA and professional golf in general and this was, apparently, better than nothing.
I doubt even the Saudis can make golf watchable.
https://countryask.com/us-news/mary-magdalene-woman-with-worlds-fattest-vagina-says-she-identifies-as-a-man/
Don’t click that.
She looked OK before she mutilated herself. Poor girl needed a psychiatrist, not a plastic surgeon.
True.
I was thinking she should have a high level position in the Biden administration. Maybe Chief of Staff.
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I should have listened.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1496266052228943875?cxt=HHwWhsCoyYCD58MpAAAA
Honk honk.
Accuse your enemy of what it is you are doing. Check.
A. A steady increasing realization that the government tyranny must end, leading to crippling disobedience.
B. Massive bloodshed then freedom.
C. Totalitarian subservience. B occurs long after my lifetime.
I thought A for a bit, but I think C is going to be the end state after all.
My irony meter broke.
Enough Saudi golf, have some mellow for your Tuesday evening/afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlfJcBFZ3U
I’m in an extremely good mood. For no reason and it is driving me crazy not knowing why
Did you lose track of your drink at a bar?
Holding out for free conflict avocados.
“Here kid, the first one is free. Tell all your friends.”