The First Seal is Broken – part V
An Isolated Incident I, II and III The First Seal is Broken I, II, III, IV
Frank shook Conor’s hand and said “thanks, I’m Frank”.
Conor said “well, you look like you could use it”. He nodded to the TV (and the news), “helluva thing isn’t it?”
Frank concurred “they won’t get away with it”.
Conor gave him an odd look, “what do you think they’re trying to get away with”?
Frank paused. “Killing people, without trials, for a start.”
Conor asked, “is that all they are doing – just killing people, randomly?”
Frank eyed Conor, “not entirely randomly. But killing people doesn’t solve corruption.”
Conor said “no, no it doesn’t. It is quite the disincentive though.”
Frank asked “you think they’re justified?”
Conor considered that for a minute, sipped his whiskey and said “I don’t think it is a matter of justification. Justification is tied to justice, and if there is an absence of justice, then there isn’t much point to discussing justification.”
Frank puzzled, “There’s no absence of justice. We have courts and lawyers, we have laws and trials; that is how you resolve issues, not by shooting people or burning down buildings.”
Conor smiled, “sure, when the system works as it was meant, not when it has been reduced to a cruel façade teetering on a crumbling foundation. Would you really stake your own life on what it is, right this very moment?”
Frank’s face turned to stone, “you seem to sympathize with them.” He didn’t move for his Sig, but he was comforted that it was an easy reach to the holster.
Conor gulped down the last of his drink. “Perhaps I do. Not that I matter much in the grand scheme of things. The question is, what will you do when you face the choice – of going along with what you know is wrong, or standing up for what you can’t deny is right? It’s a hard choice, always, and you can end up dead no matter what you choose. All of the laws and lawyers, and courts and judges can’t tell you… but your conscience will.”
Conor stood up, “you know the history of Michael Collins? He was a leader in the IRA during the Anglo-Irish War – now that was a bloody bit of business. He rode a damn bicycle around Ireland, through all of their checkpoints, and they never knew who he was. He didn’t act like a guerrilla commander out in the open; he even used their own intelligence against them. When he went to negotiate peace, he knew he was sacrificing his own life – eventually, but he did it. And in the end, it wasn’t his enemies that killed him, it was those who he had fought beside against the Brits. Was he justified in what he did? Were they that killed him?”
He dropped a $20 bill on the bar, “you’ve barely touched your drink Frank. Enjoy. Next time we meet, you can buy.” And he strolled to the door.
Frank asked the bartender for a plastic bag, and when he got it, he carefully lifted Conor’s glass from the inside and deposited it into the bag. It was almost rote, and even as he did it he felt that it wasn’t going to yield any information. He then knocked back his shot, and took a couple of swigs of the Guinness, put the bagged glass into his coat pocket and left. He hadn’t planned on going back to the Hoover building, but then, he hadn’t planned on the strange encounter either.
Frank asked the bartender for a plastic bag, and when he got it, he carefully lifted Conor’s glass from the inside and deposited it into the bag. It was almost rote, and even as he did it he felt that it wasn’t going to yield any information.
Frank knows something is up.
So does Conor.
Insert “It’s a Trap!” gif here.
Does every story have to be about LGBTQ?
By the way, I am really enjoying this story.
Do you think Frank turns?
CAN g-men be turnt?
Don’t First…don’t First so close to me.
OK, Number 2
Again… when he says it to himself, the r is silent.
I just saw this and I can’t stop laughing.
He wishes he was only 71!
Lololol
classic
That is fucking priceless.
I can’t stop watching!
The quick cut to the other anchor is wonderful!
Yeah, the look on his face–I think he saw it.
🙂
hahahahaha!!! Whomever is responsible for that got fired…and has a fucking glorious story to tell for the rest of their lives.
Yep. Worth. It.
??
Frank thinks he’s onto something but what we don’t know nor does he. Conor knew that Frank would pick up the glass though.
Another great episode, JI, I’m in for the long haul.
Yeah, this one hooked me in.
Yup. Good stuff.
I’m going to take this time to share some Firsting facts with all of you. Wholesome truths that will further your knowledge of the advanced art of Firsting.
While no one has ever accomplished it, it is believed that if one Firsts fast enough, one can create a polar vortex to another dimension that will reverse all global warming, manmade or otherwise.
The First Firster’s name is now lost to us, but it is believed that he was the first human to carve images of his penis into the side of a cave. Regardless of his name, his works, like those of all Firsters, will live on for all of eternity.
The world’s fastest Firster, not to be confused with its greatest or most prolific Firsters, Firsted so fast that he was able to open up rifts in time and space. He was unfortunately forced to go into hiding during WW2 to keep his powers from falling into the hands of Nazis. He wrote a diary of his time in hiding which the US government keeps locked away from the public. The Firster died in an air raid near the end of the war.
*furiously takes notes*
If you’re bored and don’t mind being streamed (private) and come shit talk about the SOTU
https://streamyard.com/7jmrdvvwww
I can accommodate 8 more people
Nice try, Fedboi!
Don’t much care what the doddering fool has to say (How do you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.)
OBE and I are doing a live stream via Rumble of the State of the Union.
Here’s the Rumble stream, and OBE will post the Streamyard link soon, in case any wish to join (up to 10 participants).
https://rumble.com/vw6sn7-test-5.html
Biden could take a shit in his pants, stick his hand in and walk out to smear it on the cameras and the talking heads at all the three letter networks would trip over themselves to talk about how stately he was, particularly now that we are on the bring of him starting a war like a real president should.
Must see TV.
Nice try, Fedboi! Not falling for your Fedboi trap.
Is he wearing purple suit?
Well done, bring us more please!
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Agree with the Kia driving Cat Stevens dude.
Cat Stevens rides a Korean?
“Cat Stevens” is now Yusuf Islam after he found Mohammed. He still plays a mean acoustic guitar, but like most musicians who find Jesus/Mohammed/Krishna his songwriting has suffered (see Bob Dylan, Tommy James, Dave Mustaine, Lou Graham…)
If you want to increase your blood pressure read this.
I don’t know how someone tweets something like this.
The pudgy little Colonel who thought his own policy preferences should take precedence over those of a sitting president…
The guy should be the subject of scorn and ridicule everywhere he goes.
There’s another fucker that should have been chaptered, just for his jowls.
“natsechobbyist” Interesting hobby – national security.
They have had any native ability to make observations and rational judgments based on those observations completely obliterated by 12-17 (or more) years of the US education system, followed by surrounding themselves only by news sources and “friends” who agree with them.
I would be willing to bet that the average brain of an American today contains significantly fewer neurons than the brain of an American raised in 1930 with only an 8th grade education.
I don’t know how to explain the hatred though.
As the family archivist I have run into this 8th grade education before.
You know what? At 8th grade a student 100 years ago was fully prepared. He knew grammar, writing, and could cypher arithmetic and basic algebra. He knew enough history to know that the US is a Republic, more than the modern kids seem to understand.
“High School” was reserved for college-bound folks or for kids going into a non-traditional career. My grandmother had a high school education which qualified her to teach in any school in the state.
When Jethro Bodine said, “I made it all the way through the 8th grade” he was bragging that he was a fully-educated man of his time.
Today it takes a college degree and student debt to be able to learn how to make coffee.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/JTRqi99vg28
The problem today is we expect everyone to do 12 years of college prep and call anyone who isn’t “good enough” a “dropout”.
The system in this country completely fucking broken.
Mark Steyn didn’t go to college so his critics frequently call him “uneducated” or “unlettered” but he went to boarding school in England (hence the accent even though he’s Canadian), and learned Latin and Ancient Greek in the equivalent of junior high.
I took a year of Latin in HS… I would have taken Greek if they had it. Hell, my senior year was all electives cuz I was mostly done with everything and we didn’t have study hall.
I was fortunate enough to be in a town with a well-funded public school system due to the relatively high numbers of engineers, scientists, skilled machinists, etc working for an oil services company even though the population was only 22k.
So I had options like Advanced Chemistry (Chem 2), Physics 2, Advanced Biology and Human Physiology, AP English, and Calculus.
Still needed one more so I took French and remember none of it. At all.
Je veux un railgun.
My school was a ghetto magnet school well-oiled by all the industrial might that used to exist in Rochester, NY. I took all the STEM AP’s and completely rejected that path when I entered college because I was an idiot.
I was the Math Club MVP for three years in a row FFS.
I’ve watched enough TV to be pretty sure Jethro had a 6th grade education, 8th grade would be crazy talk.
He’s trying to restart the cold war.
Crowder’s drinking game rule about Bidenisms is going to give me alcohol poisoning.
There is a Tim Pool Lauren Southern one if you are interested.
Lauren Southern is tempting. Then again she fucked up her face with plastic surgery.
Really, I thought she just got older and had a couple kids. Still looks good though.
+1 Scranton
I see the Ukraine virtue signaling is strong tonight.
A pound of Ukrainian people?
A ruskie in the hand is worth two in the borscht.
He keeps talking about freedom. I’m pretty sure the average politician in America does not believe in freedom.
Politicians believe in Freedom. The freedom to do as your told.
Oh they want the whole world free – free to do exactly what we think they should do, and not a damn thing else.
Freedom? Sounds like far right talk to me. Maybe even ultra-far right. Oh, for Ukraine, not the US, makes more sense in that context.
KEEV!
“something something Ukraine…the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.”
We invaded Iran?
Not yet.
I thought I was too drunk to hear that right.
I’m sober and hadn’t realized the war with Iran had started. My TV set is too old and misspeaks to often
Kidding. I’m stone cold sober. I don’t get drunk any more, close to it on weekends but not on school nights.
Lame. ?
I like how one day he’s talking about how great the economy is and how people just don’t know how to be happy. They’re too psychologically damaged to realize how great he’s been for them.
Then the next day he’s talking about how he’s going to fix that rapid inflation done good.
Now he’s just making shit up.
I like the part where more Americans than ever are working. Uh-huh. Who will be available to
do all this infrastructure stuff that’s need doing?
He’s going to make everything free, and your taxes won’t go up. Unicorn Farts and Faerie Dust.
Sit down Schmoobs.
And I got a pretty good tax cut from the previous administration, in the range of hundreds of dollars per month. Asshole.
The feds had nothing to do with the return in jobs canceled by state governments because of the scamdemic. Asshole.
I can’t keep up with all the bullshit in each sentence. The dishonesty is bad for my blood pressure.
I had to turn the TV off. Why wasn’t he doing this stuff the first year? Oh, yeah, the covid tied his hands.
We’re going to do it by buying America?
Buzzword bingo is my favorite game as well.
“C’mon, man. I’m gonna co-opt Buy American just like I whipped Cornpop.”
$1B sent to Ukraine. Are they going to strap it to a pallet and drop it at night? Don’t forget 10% for the big guy!
How is going to lower “costs”? Is he talking about the government setting prices for goods??!?
The open calls for fascism are so heartwarming.
“Bring me the bill and I’ll sign it!”
WTF?
Uh-oh his drugs are wearing off
He is driving up energy costs and hawking for coal powered (electric) vehicles that are practical for many millions outside his blue enclaves.
HTF is any of that going to lower costs?
ARE NOT…..
He doesn’t mean any of what he is saying.
It’s just platitudes to cover for new get-rich schemes for his cronies.
Is the dipshit dementia patient going to impose price controls now?
If it was good enough for Nixon, why not for Biden! That’s bound to win over Republicans.
I’m pretty sure that is exactly what he means.
And he wants to get support for it by railing against “obscene profits.”
OFFS!
I can only assume Nazi P is pre-tearing the speech right now.
How the fuck is he going to lower all these prices?
Price controls have never resulted in disaster, comrade.
True price controls have never been tried!
I hope his cost cutting starts in the White House and extends through all of DC.
It ain’t my responsibility to pay for your childcare. Get government out of childcare and that will enable prices to come down so you can pay for your own kids.
That ain’t fair!
As Governor Ventura famously said to the lady at a Town Hall meeting who said “I’m a single mom of 2 kids. What are you going to do for ME?”:
“Lady, I didn’t get you pregnant.”
I miss him.
Me too.
He’s living it up in Mexico now. He’s a tad nutty, but doesn’t want to control anyone.
Me too.
He’s living it up in Mexico now. He’s a tad nutty, but doesn’t want to control anyone.
Uh oh.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoLh1tAOFM&t=12s&pp=2AEMkAIB
Thanks for the kind words. The last couple have been a bit of a struggle, but discipline in writing is part of the experiment for me. I’d like to hit a spell like when I started and the first 3 just kinda rolled out on their own.
Lord knows, the source material shows no sign of drying up.
Then the light bulb clicks on over your head and away you go.
Embrace the grind. What is coming out the other end of the meat grinder is good. I’m looking forward to the next one.
Add me to the MOAR crowd. Good stuff.
I’m not a big fiction reader, but these have got my attention. Keen them coming.
Keep, not keen – dammit. Anywho, good stuff.
I am really enjoying this story! Glad you are keeping it going.
McConnell looks like a hemorrhoid flareup is causing him some discomfort. Cruz is thinking he (Cruz) should be president.
Keep vaccinating….for a virus that mutates constantly to the extent that the current “vaccine” is at least several thousand generations behind the current… Seems legit.
I wondered whether his handlers would deliver up a message of shared sacrifice to stand with Ukraine because Democracy etc, and the inflation we’ve experienced over the last year that Putin inflicted on us since last month is the price we’re happy to pay for the Free World, etc.
Instead it sounds like he’s promising new catastrophic failures in time for the midterms.
I would be worried about Democratic prospects in the mid-terms, but the only threat to them is Republicans.
And even if Rs win, we still lose.
But I can at least revel in leftist tears.
South Park little leaguers competing with every other Colorado team to lose the next game.
The problem isn’t that the democrats are going to lose the house/senate. It’s that they will be replaced by republicans.
*flips over*
“We’re going to continue to vaccinate the world!”
*immediately flips away, sputtering a string of curse words*
Copmala is super-serial.
Liar
The fuck? Rifle rounds of a hunting caliber go through kevlar, Joe.
https://youtu.be/8rt67AqrR74
Just a friendly reminder:The vast majority of “Great Men” were cynical, opportunistic, sadistic, power hungry, foolish, corrupt, unethical counted.
Part two:
https://youtu.be/POHNhn3WcCc
It’s a shame this cat pretty much disappeared. I enjoyed his cynical nature.
…also, time to read/digest the story.
*cuntes*
Piss off, autocorrect.
This spelling has been established.
Okay, fucking off now.
*smiles and waves like a maniac*
Final link:
https://youtu.be/JTRqi99vg28
His biase is obvious at this point but it’s still an interesting, if not kinda shallow take.
Is that old fucker still awake?
Government childcare is because Biden doesn’t want to have anything to do personally with Hunter’s love child.
Imma guess there are more than one.
Go get him!
Hunter is on walkabout?
How short is Milley? No wonder he’s a fuck up. He’s got Napoleon syndrome.
Also, he’s a fat fuck. No way is he actually within height/weight standards
Yep. I wonder when the last time he passed a real not pencil whipped pt test.
The new test is in effect, and no one has had to pass a test in two years. They’re still ‘norming’ it.
That’s why I’m wondering how long it’s been. Because he didn’t put on just covid pounds.
The cancer research Joe talked about is going to take a lot of dead Beagles, but somehow, we’ll reduce the death rate of cancer by 50%. We’ll get there. Together.
Getting half of the earth nuked won’t help either.
Well, that speech sucked.
As I told the others in the Livestream (OBE, DB, and whahappen), I’m glad it sucked.
It was so unremarkable, there will be no good clips the MSM or DNC can use to create excitement for the agenda. The content was blah, delivery was blah—nothing to it.
Neutral at best as far as effect on the midterms.
Didn’t watch. So, how is the state of the union? United?
Jake Tapper tells me it’s very united. There were lots of bipartisan applauses, particularly over Ukraine. Then he told me that it’s going to be very hard for anyone to argue against any of the positions Biden took.
“He said he’s going to cut costs without raising your taxes – who could be against that???? It’s sheer genius!”
This was Joes exit music
https://youtu.be/-OO9LloDSJo
“Dream Into Action” may have been the first album I ever bought.
I know enough abut Biden’s father I could write a biography
Build a time machine instead. Make a move on his mom.
TFW you believe Putin’s inner circle doesn’t believe what Putin believes.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1498507645610860549
The guy with the Heath Ledger Joker avatar assures me we have missile defense systems so there’s nothing to worry about with regards to Russian nukes. What more do you apologists need?
I’ll be here next week. Same Glib time, same Glib channel.
Will Biden hang a gold star in the window of the White House now?
Along with all those other poor majors who caught the cancers and died from all their trips to the burn pits.
Because majors pull trash duty all the time.
YOU DON’T KLNOW WHERE BEAU’S HOOCH WAS LOCATED!
Officer country is always located next to the trash pits and/or latrines.
Of course. Field grade officers always get the shittiest digs possible while us nonrates live high on the hog
How I misjudged them!
Pepperidge Farms remembers when the bear rolled over Georgia and world did squat.
But that was during Pax Obama; nothing untoward happened in those years!!
Well, how about Crimea?
It was also during Pax Obama (2014), just like Libya. So nothing happened.
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
Curses! Foiled again!
They did that because of Trump, of course
River?
Lol
Nope, summer 08 was before the election…
Huh. I thought it was 2014.
I like this story.
We’ve been off topic for like the last two hours, Mo. That makes the off-topic posts on-topic. You are officially off-topic.
My compliment on the story vaporized between my typing it and hitting “Post Comment.”
I hate it when that happens. It’s a good story.
Owww, my ears. The IA gov is killing me.
Hey dipshit, it doesn’t matter if lockdowns did work or if the costs didn’t outweigh covid, they’re inconsistent with a free country and a free citizenry.
She signed a tax cut today. Good enough for me.
She’s pretty fucking bland. So it doesn’t surprise me that the guys at the RNC think she’s a rising star.
That part I’m jelly about.
Question for homebrewers and frat boys: I am having a shindig the weekend after next and am getting two kegs from my favorite brewery. I will need to taps for said kegs. Is this the way to go? I’d really rather not spend over $100 for two taps I may never use again. Ideas for saving some money on this?
They don’t rent them with the kegs? Mios dios, even in 1970’s AZ each keg came with a tap. When you returned the keg and tap you got your deposit back.
The brewery does not, I asked. I guess I haven’t asked the liquor store I have to buy them through. It’s a very small town so I just assumed not, but it is worth asking. I’ll do that tomorrow.
Fancy lads had their own tap, to save the nominal tap rental fee. But it wasn’t that expensive.
Only an issue when you got some weirdo tap that had the pin style (Bass, maybe) instead of the common ball style.
Speaking of which, I haven’t had a Bass in ages. It was my default order forever.
I should rectify that. It used to be ubiquitous on tap around here, not sure I’ve seen it as often these days.
This, also, some kegs have different taps. Only buy a tap if your gonna install something permanent.
Any place that has kegs should rent a tap, or possibly even a cooler.
Ask a few friends that have parties a lot ot social clubs and church groups. See if you can borrow or rent. Here we can rent from beer stores that sell kegs.
You apparently have a different class of friends than I do. I will ask the off-sale joint. I don’t have high hopes, but you never know.
My friends would have had taps from years ago or their dad or sibling had one. Is there a party rental place in or near town? They might have a tap or CO2 system to rent.
There really isn’t…I don’t think. This is also the first time I’ve thrown a party where I was supplying the refreshments. I’ll do some looking around.
What are you, 12? No one pumps a keg once they graduate from junior high! Co2 or GTFO!
Cold plate _would_ be the superior choice.
You are buying commercial beer. I will come in a sankey keg. So you will need an sankey tap. The amazon one you linked will work.
However, . . .
You are pumping air into a keg to keep up the pressure. This will oxidize the beer. If you drink it all in one sitting, it will be OK.
Try to rent, if you don’t plan to do it again.
If it becomes a regular habit, go all in and by a CO2 tank, regulator, and taps. It’s better for the beer.
Thanks, kinnath. I’ve been thinking about a kegerator, but for this situation it’s not in play.
It should get drank the day of, maybe a bit left over. How long do you think the leftovers will last before the oxidation becoming an issue? A couple days? A week?
I assumed the small town liquor store wouldn’t have a tap to rent, but I will ask before purchasing one. You never know.
The amazon listing has information down below that talks about party taps versus couplers (CO2). They note that you are also pumping bacteria into the keg with the air. On ice, you are good for a day at most. There should be no leftovers or it will go to waste.
You can buy a tank, regulator, coupler, and party tap now and reuse most of it for a kegerator later. Something to consider if you are interested in setting up a kegerator later.
Note that hoppy beers (IPAs) are going to oxidize fastest.
It’ll be a hefe.
Bring it up again tomorrow. Robc is the Hefe guy.
Forgot about Rob being a Hefe guy. Yeah, I’ll bring this up again tomorrow and/or hit you guys up in the forum. When I look at that hand pump for $50, I’d much rather put that $50 into a kegerator setup.
Get the kegerator setup if long term goal, otherwise rent.
Hefe has nothing to do with it. But they are awesome for parties.
Mine got nicknamed roofieweizen.
It is/was a long term (low priority) goal. It appears that this party is going to be the catalyst to make it a reality. I’m cool with that.
Message me on the forum or message Neph. We can help you sort things out if you plan to go with a kegerator later.
“two taps I may never use again”
Why not? Heck, with two taps on the counter, you’ll practically have to put them to use.
Why does your tap look like a penis enlargement pump?
Why do you know what a penis enlargement pump looks like?
I watched Austin Powets: International Man of Mystery.
I am having a shindig the weekend after next
That’s odd, my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.
Well, you know how unreliable the delivery services are around here.
The best parts of the speech were Moobs jumping the gun on applauding and then sitting down with a dumbass grin on his face when he realized no one else was getting up, Commala sitting there with a sucking-on-lemons face, and Pelosi doing whatever that weird shit was with her hands.
What, she didn’t rip the speech up?
Behold
She comes off as the most impotent of Bond villains.
Wrinklepussy.
Goldbondfinger
LOL at both of youse
PussyNomore.
Wait, better one: Octagenarianpussy.
Drunkfinger. Bonefinger.
Fuck all of you, now I have horrible images in my head.
Pelosi kept directing her rictus to the right and I couldn’t figure out WTF was so interesting in that direction.
I don’t think there was better evidence of how out of talking points the left currently is than Biden making curing cancer a major talking point of his speech tonight. The guy was looking for anything and everything he could to get some cheap applause. And he still failed.
I caught maybe three minutes total and yeah that seemed to be theme.
IF YOU DON’T AGREE WITH BIDEN YOU LITERALLY WANT CANCER AND PUTIN TO KILL PEOPLE.
In that order?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://archive.md/vlRu3/c28a63d0300695becc704ad72954119dc612b10a.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/Y9PXb/d4d0fca721a3d55b949cc91be2925a3d8838927a.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/TDNPm/725a2b69ac3a937f80e78e8405f09c9ccfa59c0c.webp
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/ModernFilthyBuckeyebutterfly-mobile.mp4#t=0
NSFW.
Good work Q! keep it up, I’ll be in my bunk………
Bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2kOu6J2Zhc
Rawr.
Athletic beauty.
The state of the union is strong.
Ukraine is sure ripping the mask off of a lot of people. Mark Levin has gone full on American Greatness Let’s Go Bomb the World into Pax Americana! Get a plane ticket, Mark, and have at it 3-5 second rushes at a time.
Levin is a spittle flecked moron who occasionally says good things.
IMPASSABLE, THE RUSSIANS ARE FUCKED: “Denmark is sending 10 million Lego blocks to Ukraine to be used as infantry obstacles.”
Well, if they’re barefoot, anyway.
“And so the stories tell that the reason Copenhagenland survived the Great Firestorm was they made the madman laugh by sending toys, and so he nuked them last…”
Foot shooting virtue signaling has made its way here
https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/02/28/oregon-pulls-russian-vodka-from-liquor-store-shelves/
Going to store indefinitely already purchased liquor. Can someone explain carrying costs to those idiots?
Not successfully. They’re idiots.
State owned liquor stores. There a much larger problems than carrying costs.
State controlled & licensed stores. They don’t actually own them.
Oops. Not state-owned stores, rather state owned distribution. Not sure which is worse.
Ugh…maybe not owned distribution, but at least controlled.
Fuck it. Going to bed.
Ive brought this up before and maybe I am way wrong, but hasn’t the manufacturer and distributor already made their money if it is in inventory or on the shelves and the seller at that point is trying to recoup the cost? I guess if you are on a 90-day account or something then it would just hurt the distributor.
I think your mistake is trying to apply logic.
I know how we can hurt Russia! We can ban flights that originate in Russia! What a god damn maroon. Also…Boeing will deny maintenance and support for their aircraft…yeah that will hurt em!
They are basically looking for anything symbolic right now to show that they are against Putin. The stuff that would actually hurt Putin is off the table because it would also hurt the elites and go against their preferred policies. Better to pretend you are sticking with green policies with goals decades down the road than do the things that are actually effective.
They’ve already screwed themselves and us with the SWIFT ban.
Russia and China are going to de-dollarize and take a lot of other countries with them. The dollar’s global reserve currency status may be over shortly.
When I lived in NYC there were 2-3 Aeroflot flights into/from JFK a day. Losing that income stream will cripple Putin.
Here is biden’s foreign policy theme music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLegSgWi0cI
Lately it was 5 Aeroflot flights a week from Moscow to New York. Delta hasn’t been flying the route for a few years.
If the Russians handle this without it spiraling completely into the ditch the sanctions will quietly be lifted after a year or two as the West finds it profitable and the propaganda value fades.
But the damage to the dollar will be done. I think we’re underestimating the repercussions of the SWIFT sanctions.
Good opportunity to recommend the true story Operation Odessa. I think it’s off Netflix now but on Amazon Prime.
Facts stranger (and more hilarious) than fiction.
On my watch list. Thx
I’ve been told I’m non-promotable at work. But good news! If I stick around another half decade, I can make what the bottom tier employees in the position I want make because they lifted the pay cap for me at my current position. Aren’t I loved?
Sounds like your workplace doesn’t appreciate Firsters. Quit maybe?
This….
https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1498938358004813825/photo/1
is why I drink
Carrying the Firewas in my opinion one of the better Apollo autobiographies.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip
That started with a rendezvous
on board a tiny ship
The mate was a mighty test pilot, the skipper Young and sure
The 2 crewmen set sail that day on a 43 orbit tour.
a 43 orbit tour.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/03/a-new-driving-law-quietly-debuts-tuesday-here-are-the-new-passing-rules.html
Just avoid NJ.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/03/01/unused-Michael-Jordan-debut-game-ticket-auctioned/2541646162559/
Why?
It’s still unused. The ticket must still be good.
Weather bimbo @CBS Philly just admitted she’s too incompetent to pump her own gas.
🙄
I’ll be amazed if NJ eliminates the law.
*looks around confusedly*
I thought it was a law that everybody hated, but Big Gas Attendant was lobbying to keep for the jobs. There are people who are actually afraid of pumping gas?
One second you’re pumping your own gas, the next you’re engulfed in flames and the quick shop’s on fire. I’ve personally seen it happen dozens of times.
Well, if you don’t keep getting tazed, that wouldn’t keep happening.
[FO4] Last night was a two for. Still picking up things I missed before. Missing just a couple more, which is amazing after all the hours I’ve played.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/h_vQJ0KTSrWJB0O3dUAL8Q.wtlNSQqjbXD4gQgzedgW6F
https://nypost.com/2022/03/01/loud-sexloud-sex-is-ruining-hundreds-of-new-yorkers-lives-311-reports-show-is-ruining-hundreds-of-new-yorkers-lives-311-reports-show/
Staircase orgies.
https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_2523,w_4485,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_908/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1646194586/2022-03-02T032639Z_282012826_RC2ETS9ZU0XB_RTRMADP_3_USA-BIDEN_pjo5mq
Begging to be a meme.
Looks like a well dressed highschool pep rally. Good to know they’re in charge.
yea, we are so safe now.
Good morning, Stinky, Sean, and trip! [point of order: Are you a “trip” or a “tri”?] And I think I saw Scruffy upthread. I hope not too many Glibs are laid low this morning by their SoTU drinking games.
Morning GT.
I skipped the silliness last night. Did i miss anything?
I didn’t watch. Too much to do today to indulge in a drinking game, and too smart to try watching without drinking.
How are your lambs??
They are cute and and perfect.
I have another sheep with a leg issue, so I have to get a vet down here.
Is it Baahd? Or do you think the leg will be okay?
I think its a hoof problem, wife says its bleeding, she is limping.
we will see.
I didn’t dare participate in that. I would have been raging and throwing things at the TV.
So you saw me the night Obama got elected.
I broke a TV w/o drunkenly falling into it on a Zoom call for once. I was going to go “Full Elvis” and put a load of 00 buck through it, but that night my girl at the time (OG-1X-OG) had hidden most of the firearms, and all of the ammo.
While I was out that day she also took away my chainsaw, golf clubs, and any other potential instruments of destruction.
*sad trombone*
She was smart. I shouldn’t have let her get away. And the last redhead I was involved with.
Then again, OG-2X-OG was awesome, too.
Thankfully Im stopping at the current one, OG-3X-OG. I don’t need 44 women.
suh’ fam
whats goody?
Ash Wednesday Cans !
Good morning, homey! Hey, just want to make sure you know – the “bridge” over the Stillwater on Philadelphia/Peters is closed until November. If that’s how you get Jugsy to the airport, plan on an alternate route.
She likes to go that way. I prefer straight up Main to 70 then over.
Currently all the properties she’s responsible for are within driving distance, and her stays are only for a few days. Unlike when she was in NYC for a fortnight at a time.
And with shorter stays Im less prone to getting myself into trouble….
Mornin’, Tres!
Ash Wednesday Cans
My youngest turns 21 today. I think he’ll be raising a few tonight.
Ah, yes! I remember my 21st birthday….
No, I don’t.
I remember mine. I was laid up with a broken leg.
When I turned 21, Id already done nearly 4 years and had been married for 1. Ex-wife is older, so getting alcohol was never an issue.
Kind of a ‘meh’ moment for me.
I was actually more excited to hit 26 since my car insurance went down.
*done nearly 4 years in the Army
::counts on fingers:: You enlisted at 17?? I didn’t think you could do that.
There are some conditions under which you can join the army at 17.
You could actually enlist at 16 years old with 2 weeks to your 17th birthday under certain circumstances back in 2004…
Yup.
My mom had to sign for me, as my “guardian”. I was a precocious teen….I used to joke to her that when the recruiter was at our house she couldnt find a pen fast enough to sign that form.
I had my 18th birthday in basic training.
That was not my first thought ?
I was 9 months into my two year probation for possession and consumption of unapproved substances. Unemployed, broke, semi-homeless, basically a complete mess. Probation wasn’t bad, I would meet with my probation officer in a bar where he would buy the beers (drinking age was 18 back then).
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning, U! In the office today?
I woke up way too late, so I’ve connected remotely
suh’ cuh
Not me apparently, because I marely had time to log in before I had to start work.
Ear better, I hope?
Not entirely, and there’s what’s probably a wax clog making it harder to verify.
Try a plunger?
To JI – “Cool story Bro!” Also applies to the SoTU. My appointments got set back for a day so I wasted skipping a night’s drinking for nothing. Here’s hoping my lipids aren’t too fucked up today. Chest X-ray shouldn’t be affected. Ct scan and neurologist await although one is a week out and the other, who knows? Knew that I should have stayed home and kept my gorram mouth shut. This is going to follow me forever like a one-eyed stray kitten. I’ve crossed the event horizon. The place where even taut bungholes can not escape! Pray for Festus, he has entered the maelstrom…
Mornin’, Festy. The maelstrom doesn’t stand a chance, you are strong!
Good morning, Fes! Hope you get to the bottom of whatever’s making you fall on your bottom.
Mornin’, all.
Last night was so inspiring! A bright future awaits, thanks to our exalted leaders! Peace on earth, prosperity for all. The lion shall lie with the sheep (might be on PornHub). The sun is just a little brighter today, the birds are happier than I’ve ever heard. O blessed day!
Damn, those were some good drugs.
I miss good drugs.
What time was that shit-show?
Either I was (over) sleeping or at work.
I was kinda late last night, and likely still a bit tipsy after yesterday afternoon’s shenanigans.
All of the time.
I’m just glad we’re sticking up for the rights of the Iranian people.
So we’re going to be doing another regime change operation to free them from the Ayatollah?
That would be a horrible decision, so probably.
He is precisely what I don’t want to become. The clenched hands, the stiff walk. The outre statements (that’s too late!). That’s why I’ve been forced into the tender mercies of the Canadian healthcare system. Losing that contract last week will be either a boon or more probably the end of me.
I’ve decided to keep doing what I do for the next month at the best of my abilities until termination. I have my pride. Gonna be a long March, though.
Have you considered?
I can walk. I just can’t climb or even run. I walk ten miles per night on a light one. That’s why I AM ASKEERED.
I was trying to lighten the mood a bit. Be well, Festus!
I passed a column of bitches on the right hand side this morning.
None of them were firsters.
None.
Full size pick up trucks don’t belong in the left hand lane.
Not the way YOU people over there drive.
Who are these assholes doing the speed limit or under on the expressway?
JFC. #BringBackCovid
In jurisdictions unknown to me, I tend to drive close to the speed limit, to avoid having to contest a ticket several states away from home.
PA law still restricts radar guns to only the State police.
As a nonresident, I didn’t know that.
“On This Day: Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA single-game scoring record”
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2022/03/02/On-This-Day-Wilt-Chamberlain-sets-NBA-single-game-scoring-record/1491646152911/
Wilt’s other scoring record is far more impressive.
Wilt’s tale is as tall as he is.
Everyone should have a gun in their workplace. Maybe 2.
Her face symmetry is off-putting.
The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!” -R Dangerfield
Some of her photos are more flattering than others.
A war time 6 – at best. She amuses me though.
I’m a cynical old man. I don’t believe much of anything, anymore.
Whelp. Good Day, Free folk!