FAITH AN’ BEGORRAH! Here’s a nice little tune to set the mood.
HOW MANY DIVISIONS DO THEY HAVE? World Court orders Russia to halt invasion of Ukraine.
IT’S NOT GASLIGHTING WHEN *THEY* DO IT: The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic.
CONSOLATION PRIZE: Stacey Abrams has a cameo on Star Trek: Discovery as president of United Earth. That’s like getting a year’s supply of Rice-a-Roni when you lose big on a TV game show.
FOR HYPERBOLE who says all Irish music sounds the same to him.
UNION THUGS BECLOWN THEMSELVES WHILE VIRTUE-SIGNALLING: So apparently the American Federation of Teachers decided to have some signs printed, in a union print shop, of course, to show their solidarity with Ukraine. Somehow, nobody caught that the flag of Ukraine was upside-down relative to the printing on the signs. They hastily took down the tweet, but not before it had been screen captured for the ages.
HOW NOT TO DO THINGS: Minor sportsball entertainment celeb busted for drugs in Russia at a very inopportune moment. Legacy media wonders why this isn’t the biggest sports story in the US today. Under normal circumstances, the best thing would be to let this be handled quietly through diplomatic channels. That goes double under the current circumstances. You want Otto Warmbier? Cause that’s how you get Otto Warmbier.
PAGING SUGARFREE: VP Kamala Harris has a new deputy press secretary, Ernesto Apreza. “Partner, son, brother, dog dad, & PNW native. Organizer and comms guy trying to do good. Currently with #46. Personal account. tweets = míos.” Will Strawberry take him under her wing? How long until Kamala makes him cry? How soon until we get a photo of him in kinkwear (NTTAWWT, of course)?
BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL BEEN SO VERY GOOD: Here is a completely gratuitous link to photos of drunken girls showing cleavage and making out with one another in honor of Saint Patrick. You’re welcome. Now go out and get your drink on.
“Stacey Abrams has a cameo on Star Trek: Discovery as president of United Earth.”
“The Klingons hacked the election.”
More like “Wait… someone watches this or cares?”
Stacey Abrams has a cameo on Star Trek: Discovery as
president of UnitedEarth.??
“Partner, son, brother, dog dad, & PNW native. Organizer and comms guy trying to do good. Currently with #46. Personal account. tweets = míos.”
Well I’m convinced he’s going to tell the truth. He’s a dog dad! Those guys never lie!
“Dog dad,” “cat mom,” etc, are completely obnoxious.
“Bear lover”, however….. 😉
here’s two big men and a bear
I, uh…
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”
LOL
How true
So precious.
Oooh. And he’s an “organizer.” There sure are a lot of organizers showing up in high-profile positions these days, and it never turns out that they’re good around filing cabinets, adept at the Dewey Decimal System, etc.
That roughly translates to “rabble rouser”
Could somebody translate “Currently with #46”. My first read is that he’s been dumped by 45 dudes? chicks? whatever.
I guess he counts working for the VP as working for the POTUS.
Technically correct I suppose? (Yes, I know, it’s the best kind of correct.)
Biden is the 46th President. But I like your interpretation better.
He may also be a fan of the 1985 Chicago Bears defense.
Here’s a nice little tune to set the mood.
I’ll take it up a notch: An Irish Pub Song
Sláinte!
Tonio your NYT link is FUBAR’d.
Here’s the NYP opinion article on it.
Now that Joe Biden’s president, the Times finally admits: Hunter’s laptop is real
The real questions are why now, who’s putting pressure on Biden and for what reason?
The glove of protection has been lifted.
Fixed. Thanks.
“dog dad”
Does that mean he identifies as a dog? Either way, that’s not how biology works.
Caniphobe alert!
Depends on the bitch he’s sticking it in?
Anyway, I’m sure SF will have him in flagrante delicto with Astra, Kayleighburrow and Seresto soon enough. Hopefully all three at once.
I don’t think Ernesto is interested in women, but I could be wrong.
I am sensing the return of Major here.
Well, he isn’t supposed to enjoy it.
I figured Major
“https://acidcow.com/girls/43960-drunken-st-patrick-s-day-girls-69-pics.html”
I find that URL misleading.
Heh. I noticed that, too. It’s a canonical number.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL BEEN SO VERY GOOD
Damn!
Im just curious how you got my camera roll …
Happy I am not going to remember tonight Day!
Obvious thought is obvious: Isn’t flying a country’s flag upside down the international sign of distress for that country? I mean… DUH there, teachers… ready-made excuse….
A lot of commenters on Twatter were trying to use that excuse. Like Pee Wee falling off his bike. “I meant to do that”.
I hate Irish music.
I love Irish rock bands, though.
Also these wonderful dudes.
And who could forget these guys.
Huh. I had no idea Thin Lizzy was Irish.
Another Irish dude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGkQ4mPiyoU
Yep, Irish. And awesome.
I was gonna be disappoint if that wasn’t on the list.
I strongly suspect I’d like more than a little of it — Brave got me interested in listening to more Julie Fowlis — and I enjoy that despite not understanding a bizarre word of it. So I have a weakness for Celtic roots, I expect.
That said, the Irish music I do listen to at the moment is a bit different.
I promised a proposed California bill for the ages in the last thread and I’m going to deliver.
I proudly submit unto thee Bill SB866 by Senators Weiner and Pan
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB866
Wait until they do “gender affirming” care.
There already doctors admitting they do surgery on minors that do not have gender dysphoria.
I’ll note that Pan is a professor of pediatrics and a practicing doctor.
I’m thinking the guy with the flute and horns is more trustworthy.
I see what you did there, I think.
Yeah, if that plus the “all kids regardless of home or charter schooling must get the jab” along with “all businesses that operate in the state must mandate all employees get the jab” pass, I’m definitely going to have to move. Really hoping with the narrative shifting (due to the politics shifting) even the CA legislature won’t want to touch that mess. But they probably will…. *sigh*.
There still aren’t any available FDA Approved Covid vaccines…
That doesn’t matter to me at all on this issue.
I’ll censor what I think should happen to Weiner and Pan for even suggesting this usurpation of parental authority.
And mark my words, if the kid is injured, the government won’t be accepting responsibility for it.
Oh, I agree, they just didn’t pay attention to their language very well in the bill.
Kids are the worst and I don’t care.
Let them learn hard lessons at a young age.
I’d probably feel different if I had kids…
Nikki is that you?
The court ruled by 13 votes to two for a provisional order that “the Russian Federation shall immediately suspend military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022 in the territory of Ukraine”. Only the Russian and Chinese judges on the court voted against the order.
How many extra long tables do you command?! *laughs in Russian*
Seems easy enough to comply with. “These aren’t the military operations we commenced on 24 February…
these are the ones we commenced on 25 February.”
“The ones we commenced on 24 February ran out of gas before they got to the border.”
Honest question, does anyone really believe that Biden is polling an approval rating anywhere near 40%? Who the fuck are they polling to get those results? It can’t even be humans living in the USA.
I believe it. Particularly in how they select for polling.
Well, that’s what I’m saying, who are they polling? Or I suppose I should ask ‘what are the questions?’.
Polling explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
Lol.
“Well, not the reputable ones, but there aren’t many of those.”
I need to watch that show.
With questions like “Do you think its good the president eats ice cream?” I can see that number up that high.
My MIL, who is so blinded by her hatred of Trump that she’d vote for a malevolent corpse instead.
Oh wait….
Yeah, pretty sure “At least he’s not Trump” is all that the people who voted for Biden have to say about him. Heaven knows he hasn’t done anything good.
He just needs more time.
“Trump left him such a mess it will take him two terms to even begin to undo that.”
*sends Tonio Journolist 2.0 password*
Weigel is that you?
Yeah, it’s amazing how a guy can do so many bad things and there’s not a single human on the planet who can name even one of them, or even has to.
Given that I’m in Metro NYC I think he still probably polls over 50% around here.
I could be wrong – I’ve got nothing that I’m actually supporting this opinion with…
Yes, given what everyone said above. Plus there are people who refuse to answer these polls ever. Also, there may be people who answer the polls believing that they are secret loyalty tests and want to give the “right” answer.
Sext St Patty’s Day men photos are in short supply, Tonio. I tried.
http://graveravens.com/2016/02/24/sexy-mens-st-patricks-day-costumes/
This is an odd place to be hitting on Tonio
It’s the least I can do after he posts chicks.
Next time I get called, I’m going to plead the fifth.
Propaganda runs deep. So does “muh-TEAM”.
Approval often means “He sucks, but I think he’s better than the previous guy or any likely alternative we’re going to get next time around”.
Raze them all and salt the earth where they stood.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAaaaa!
This is what it took? AYFKM?
Legit LOL.
There are more Marxists in the USA than there are in Russia today.
LOLWTF?
And you actually have to pay money to attend that school?
Our boys in blue seem to think they are in the Army. I just wish they were subject to the sames rules of engagement and accountability.
NYPD precinct faces outcry for ‘hunting of man’ Hemingway quote
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
I can’t understand any words other than the title in this one: The Rocky Road to Dublin
“Cost of living CATASTROPHE: Britain faces double-digit inflation for first time in 40 YEARS with mortgages, fuel and food prices set to soar, as the Bank of England hikes interest rate to 0.75%”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10624533/Britain-faces-double-digit-inflation-time-40-YEARS-prices-set-soar.html
Imma stick some FlexTape over this broken levy.
levee, dammit
It works the other way too.
Don’t they have Teslas in England?
Yeah, but you can’t drive them on the wrong side of the road.
LOL. My father took his new Nissan pickup to the mountains yesterday. He couldn’t figure out how to work the cruise control, and the lane departure detection started screaming at him on the cutbacks because he crosses over in the turns.
He was not in a good mood when he got there.
“he lane departure detection started screaming at him ”
LOL, I keep screaming at our SUV because it keeps doing that ‘I didn’t cross the fucking line you piece of shit tin can!’.
I turn that shit off. The Jeep has it. Texas paints lines over old lines so the steering wheel was perpetually vibrating (not in a fun way) I find lane correction useless. In comparison, adaptive cruise control is wonderful.
Best newer feature on a car is that eagle eye backup camera, I’m not even sure how I can drive a car now that doesn’t have that.
You can add those after-market without adding all that other safety bullshit.
Gopro bungeed to the trailer hitch?
The adaptive cruise is great until it isn’t. Mine tends to panic when people put their brakes on in front of me.
Bet Margaret Thatcher doesn’t look quite so confusing now, does she Phil Collins?
Barrels of Whiskey
Also Irish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XluslIGClRA
Irish related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urIsx9rxZ4U
So, I bought a 12 pack of hipster juice yesterday and I did not realize that ‘surge’ means it has 8% abv instead of 5. I kept wondering how I got so drunk on 10 little cans of it, lol.
Such stunning. Much brave.
They are so desperate to push their sexual agenda on kids. It’s sad and pathetic
We get it. You like dicks. More power to you. But leave the kids alone.
Hoffer had something to say about those who substitute the goals and achievements of the group for their own.
Love all the politically-correct
bumperlaptop stickers.St. Patrick’s Day carnage in NZ.
Not the whole story but deserves to be highlighted:
“Omicron is really affecting our resources as well and we can’t be everywhere at all times.”
He said there was a “blase attitude” among students about Covid-19 restrictions.
“There’s not a mask in sight … no social distancing. There’s sharing of vapes and bottles, and unfortunately, it’s not something we can completely control.”
Good for them
Go. Fuck. Your. Self.
Yeah that really stood out.
See, that’s the worst of it, they can’t even keep you shitlords from saying stuff like that on the internets.
I can’t even keep up with the Omicron variant’s variants. They are never going to let this thing go, are they?
Maybe it’s because I live in a deep red state, but it sure feels like Irish democracy has won the day on COVID. My wife is taking classes at Boise State, which isn’t the bluest school in the nation, but it’s definitely out of place in the state. She said right before spring break, everyone wore masks in class, while they were off the Ukraine invasion happened and when she went back, there wasn’t a mask to be seen.
Today at both Oregon State and at the University of Oregon I saw most students wearing masks still. Outside, no mandate.
Their brains are ruined.
Shepherd’s Pie is ready to go in the oven.
My Tournament Bracket is still intact.
Drunk chick peeing on the wall, would, but maybe at a different time.
People would probably care about Griner if they watched women’s basketball, but they don’t.
That’s some good peasant food, I mean mashed taters, hamburger, and corn. What is not to like?
That, and I don’t have the ingredients for corned beef.
I have not once seen corned beef in Ireland. Ham, potatoes cabbage and carrots would be a common meal. Shepard’s Pie would be as well and beats it hands down.
ISTR the association of corned beef with the Irish was due to the comparative wealth of the newly American Irish – it was a celebratory dish they couldn’t have afforded in the old country.
I’d always heard it was the Jews what done it. That the Irish lived in the East Coast next to the Jews and got the habit from Jewish delis. It’s definitely an American thing as it really is not common at all over there.
Yup.
Except… In the even older times, they ate corned beef
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGf_0_2Ji5I
Way to burst my bubble. Next you’ll be telling me that Mexicans don’t really celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
Lamb roast, taters, maybe some mashed peas or something.
Today in The Struggles of Strawberry.
Sucks to be her. But, since she’s a repellent twat, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Like I asked above, what has changed that they feel now is the appropriate time to go after Biden?
Somebody has an agenda here and it has nothing to do with justice or accountability.
Or the appropriate amount of time has passed where we get another “At this point what difference does it make” attitude and Dems can paint anyone who brings it up as baseless mumblings of a failing party?
I don’t think so.
Something has changed. Maybe the best possibility is that Durham is going to confirm it and they’re getting ahead of it.
Or perhaps Biden didn’t go along with somebody and they’re exerting pressure to get something, like… say… a no fly zone?
It’s damage control for the ’22 election. If they deal with it now, it might be containable. Later? Ticking bomb.
That, along with a bunch of Ukraine and upcoming wave of COVID to help push it down the page.
“He doesn’t work in the government.”
Sure. His dealings in Ukraine are exactly what he’d have been doing if Joe Biden were a cattle rancher in Montana.
“Well, he didn’t, but the laptop says his father, at that time the VP, was taking a cut. The VP works for the government, right?”
“What would you say it is you do here?”
“Fly around in private jets smoking crack or parm, banging family members widows and picking up envelopes from men in really nice suits addressed to “The Big Guy”. Normal senator son stuff.”
Exactly. “What Difference, At This Point, Does It Make?”
I think you’re right that it’s just the best possible timing. No one will be penalized for orchestrating a literal conspiracy with hundreds of actors working to manipulate the outcome of the election. They’ll just brush it off and let a few news cycles take place and it will be long forgotten by the time midterms really ramp up.
It does still seem like the very best option is still to just shut up about it all together. Maybe it helps NYT be able to claim they’re interested in their journalistic integrity?
Oh you!
We don’t have time for minor palace intrigue. There is a land war in Europe!
This seems like a reasonable take.
That’s definitely feasible.
Yeah. It would be totally characteristic of the media to suddenly release a bevy of think pieces decrying how irresponsible it is without ever acknowledging the very organization they work for participated or asking that anyone actually be held accountable.
Look at that teeth clenching!
I’m still convinced that Brandon only hired her because she has plugs just like him. If she doesn’t then what is up with all those weird hair parts all over her head?
That’s your theory. My theory is that Brandon hasn’t hired a single person in this administration and the appearance that he is at all animate is do to the work of the voodoo witch doctor from Weekend at Bernies 2.
Correct response form that reporter after she said “he’s not a government employee” would be to shout, “Right. But his father -the Big Guy– is!”
Now imagine if we had the same shenanigans but substituted Don Jr for Hunter Biden.
The Bush girls got busted drinking underage and it was national news for weeks.
Hell, it would be national news for weeks if Ivanka had farted in an elevator.
Melania?
Because her farts probably smell like cinnamon.
She’s a cabbage eater. Her farts probably stink to high heaven.
Is that a well known Slovenian stereotype?
It’s a Central/Eastern European stereotype. I’ve been there several times and don’t really remember the food. I think it’s like Austrian food, so schnitzel, potatoes and cabbage.
Disappointing lack of co-operation
President Biden’s latest setback with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who this week derailed his nominee to serve in a key post on the Federal Reserve, shows that the president continues to have serious problems winning over the most important vote in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Senate Democrats felt confident they would be able to confirm Sarah Bloom Raskin, a highly qualified nominee who previously served in the No. 2 position at the Obama-era Treasury Department, to serve as the Fed’s vice chairwoman of supervision.
So they were shocked and exasperated when Manchin announced Monday he would oppose the nominee, forcing her to withdraw her nomination the next day.
It’s “Why doesn’t Manchin play nice?” instead of “Why doesn’t Joe nominate people who can get confirmed?”
It’s not that Manchin wants to do that, it’s just that he knows his political career in WV is over if he doesn’t.
He’s got to wake up every day thinking he’s dodged a lot of bullets. Hell, 100 Democrats are asking Biden to ban all drilling on federal lands.
If even one of them realized that banning petro will lead to them being dead in less than a year, that would stop. But every one of them have never seen a difficult time in their entire lives and imagine themselves living in a TikTok simulation.
Isn’t it ironic that the one time you can actually point to someone feeling they need to be accountable to their constituency, they become the most demonized person in the senate. And by ironic, I mean incredibly predictable.
It’s amazing that there is only one Dem senator willing to put the brakes on the crazy train.
Sinema isn’t totally bonkers.
All we really need to know is how does her tits compare to Tulsi’s?
Well, now that’s a good question.
Kristin.
Tulsi.
I say Tulsi’s, while smaller, are superior
Concur, I like Tulsi, would not kick her out of bed for eating crackers.
Por que no los
dosquatro?Bravo.
Yeah, I remember now she joined him on something similar recently.
Just like I said, his political career is over if he doesn’t. Most of the dems are from commie states and will sill get voted back in by the dummies living there.
Carlton kick 7 straight goals in 9 minutes in the fourth quarter to beat Richmond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLWUDMhMKFA
Collingwood play tomorrow morning US time.
Dude lives in a state totally dependent on coal. If he fucks this up, his career is over, his kids will never have a career, and his name will be treated like Sherman’s.
Yep. Same goes for legislation. It’s not, “act like adults and compromise”, it’s “how can we ram this through with zero help from the opposition”. I mean, it wouldn’t take a whole lot to get Collins, Murkowski, or Romney to go along with some of this shit if they put in half the effort.
Here’s how you can tell the quality of a bill without reading any of the language bill itself.
– Fails to pass 70 to 30 with several members from each party crossing the aisle for a slightly mixed vote. This was probably a genuine attempt to do something useful or morally good. Grift amount = non-existent, which is to say it isn’t going to make anyone money or buy any votes. In other words, useless. Evil amount = as close to zero as government work comes.
– Vote is 52 to 48 with several members from each party crossing the aisle for a truly mixed vote. This is called the unicorn vote. It probably contains nothing evil, but it probably also doesn’t contain anything worthwhile or more than merely symbolic. Grift amount = smallish. Evil amount = Roughly equivalent to the cops beating a colored person and planting drugs on him for fun. Reprehensible to most people, but they call it foreplay.
– Vote is split exactly on party lines. We’ve all been here thousands of times. This only happens when one of the lobbying groups that has foolishly decided to put all their eggs in one party’s basket (ex. teacher’s unions to the DNC). Grift amount = considerable, but not as much as it would be if they were smart enough to grease all the pockets instead of only half. Evil amount = just be happy they’re not fire-bombing a third world country’s food supply.
– Overwhelmingly passes in both parties. You’re all going to get it good and hard now!!! Grift amount = 100% pure USDA prime. Evil amount = The earth is likely about to split in two and Satan himself is preparing to invade wearing his largest, spikiest strap-on. Don’t even try to pretend like you don’t like it, because it’s going to happen either way….
Is there anything that matters that Manchin has opposed that Sinema has supported? Seems to me they’ve got more than one vote they really need that they’re having trouble getting.
a highly qualified nominee
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“For an idea of just how long Nancy Pelosi has been around, here she is at JFK’s inauguration”
https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1504158754186698756
That would be Nancy DiAllessandro.
And at that moment JFK was probably wondering if he could get away with banging her.
Highly likely.
Heh heh.
No, he was probably wondering how many people knew that he banged her.
Good grief, from a time when Democrat’s did not love communism.
Future Joemala episode featuring Nancy chasing around Kennedy clones in the sub-basements?
“Wannafu… eww, nooo!”
Come on, no one is going to buy that. A Kennedy turning down some naive young socialite strange? Repeating the trajectory of the magic bullet is more likely to happen.
Mmm… JFK wouldn’t turn it down, but RFK would go home and flagellate himself with a rosary.
I’m talking old Nancy with one of the shambling wrecks from the basement.
JFK probably did young Nancy 15 minutes after the picture was taken.
Finished up the second season of Raised By Wolves
Easily the most pretentious, absurd, and overwrought science fiction in a decade. Laughably horrible.
And you still sat through two seasons of it?
Easily the most pretentious, absurd, and overwrought science fiction in a decade
Somebody didn’t see Lovecraft Country.
pretentious, absurd, and overwrought horror?
Right up my alley.
I wanted to like that so very much.
And it was horror, not scifi.
Tonight is Invasion of the Mushroom People so we cross both genres. I promise to have much bourbon and make the comments fun.
Invasion of the Mushroom People? If I’m going to watch a gang bang video, I’m going to shame watch and keep it to myself like a respectable person.
Did you watch the entire season?
And I’m not sure I’d consider Raised By Wolves is fully sci-fo. It’s heavy on fantasy elements.
I tried. I couldn’t make it halfway through.
Partner, son, brother, dog dad, & PNW native. Organizer and comms guy trying to do good. Currently with #46. Personal account. tweets = míos.”
Barf.
At least I’ve started round two.
Though, unfortunately, I have to go back to work and I have to be up early tomorrow.
So we didn’t do anything about it the first time, but don’t worry about it because we got him now.
Substitute teacher caught touching himself in school twice, police say
Dick Dunn done dicked himself.
Can we get an opera house applause gif here?
Appropriate.
The town ain’t called Nutley for nuthin’
⬆ ?
You’d think they would have seen it coming…
https://townsquare.media/site/385/files/2022/03/attachment-richard-dunn.jpg?w=980&q=75
Apparently someone just chained themselves to one of the goalposts during the Everton/Newcastle game. Stewards had to get boltcutters to detach them.
The good stuff only happens on Peacock. ?
I’d walk up to him with a hacksaw, stretch his arm out, and say “Now, this may sting a little.”
It does make one wonder, how many first world problems tactics like that would cure.
Wow, and Everton just got out of jail.
He’s back……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOk3ML8dsKQ&t=1s
He has face herpes, did Covid do that?
Fuck him. I hope he gets run over by a silent electric bus and every one hears his intestines pop.
Piss on him.
https://gifer.com/en/9SMx
Since he is the one true prophet and leader, we should send him to Moscow to negotiate with Putin.
Excellent idea. Let a KGB agent poke him with a poisoned umbrella.
Then put him in Lenin’s Mausoleum or bury him in the Kremlin wall.
If karma exists Karposi Sarcoma.
Very much this.
This is the guy who said, out loud, that maybe no one should shake hands ever again. And that airlines should have mask requirements for ever.
Fresh Prez episode 4 is out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRoFkw1Vlw&t=639s
That’s great.
I’d walk up to him with a hacksaw, stretch his arm out, and say “Now, this may sting a little.”
That would be barbaric. Just cut the chain with the gas axe.
I wouldn’t actually cut his arm off.* I just want to see him thrash around and pee his pants.
*Well, not all the way.
Just a pull back. Cut through the shirt fabric.
This is the only green I’m on today.
Ohhh, shiny!
I assume you had to liquidate your 401k for that.
No, just
solduh, rented out a couple of the orphans.Sweet rig.
Shame about all the snow. 71 high desert degrees and not a cloud in the sky, here.
Given your summer temps I’ll take the snow, but every cat its own rat, as they say.
You really look good, that machine sets you so off perfectly. I want one with a snowblower attachment, now that winter is over.
I have a Kubota with a front snowblower. It is perfect on the paved areas.. and will toss shear bolts on the gravel/dirt section of a rural driveway. Even if you keep it 1″ above the surface and try and scrape with a rear 3pt blade, it is inferior to a front angle plow. Just go with that either directly on the front or mounted on the loader arms.
10+ years ago we replaced it with a F350 and a 8′ Western plow… changed the plow time from 2 hours to 30 mins. The nbeighbor has a small (lawn mower) Deere, with an hydraulic angle blade.. it is better than a blower.
That big thing on the 3-point is a box blade, which a lot of folks up here use. We’re starting into the melting season here, but I reckon I’ll see how I get along with that and the front-end loader next winter. Key is going to be staying on top of it, of course.
We got a mower with it and will be buying a tiller for the garden patch. It’s a nifty little tractor, perfect for the size of our place.
Sweet!
Diesel?
Yup.
Logged a bunch of hours on one of those up at the lake. Who knew moving gravel and pulling stumps could be so much fun?
Cool!
My advice for keeping it in good working order is to always try to center the load on the bucket.
The smaller tractors and backhoe loaders are susceptible to racking which wears out the bushings and pins faster. Just a friendly tip.
I am keeping in my St. Patrick’s Day tradition alive by not doing anything remotely Irish this evening.
*sips mezcal*
I’m Irish as fuck, including being a passport holder and I’ll be skipping all Irish shit tonite. It’s amateur day in the pubs that is only rivaled by NYE. Plus I’m old and married now and have young kids so no need. We did our St Pat’s observed thing last Saturday and went to the SF Irish Center and socialized. It was great to see a thousand people gathered indoors and (almost) no masks and no vaxx papers bullshit. It closed down here March 16, 2020 so two years without. Luck of the Irish. We were any luckier and we’d be extinct.
How about the F1 start coming up this weekend? I can’t wait. So many good story lines. I want to see how Russell will do as Hamilton’s teammate. I see a bit of clash there as Hamilton will be all out to win a drivers championship and Merc will be top to get the constructors championship. Also want to see if Haas can pull out some better showings, they have a better driver in Magnusson. Ferrari could also be a real contender this year. I’ve been watching the breakdown of classic races on F1 TV and enjoying it a lot. Half hour episodes where they go over in detail key moments of all time great races. The Senna and Proust races are awesome. You may enjoy as I believe you said you have the F1 package.
Jay-sus, get out of my head, man.
I was going to post about tonight be one of the Two Great Amateur Nights, along with NYE.
Not quite Irish AF, but still at least half.
Still only about a quarter through Drive To Survive, but I’m ready as hell for F1!
I think you’re right that Russell may not be content to just hold Hamilton’s jock for a whole season – and who could blame him?
I have a soft-spot in my heart for Haas and losing Mazepin is a plus – I’ve always like K-Mags in general and he’s a decent driver (watched a bit of him in IMSA this year – not nearly as entertaining).
I’ll have to check out those classic episode when I finish DTS – those sound great. I did indeed sprint for the F1 TV package, as much as it hurt my miserly heart.
Heheh. Yeah I used to bartend and although it was great money it was a large pain in the ass on those nights. And as much as I love booze myself, I’ve never been a big fan of drunken belligerence, which those two nights have plenty of.
I had an Irish as fuck friend in SF who checked every box including when he punched a hole through our wall one night.
“punched a hole through our wall one night”
*checks box*
TBF, it’s not a difficult thing to do. As long as you miss the stud.
Would that be Irish Roulette?
“Yer drywall is fooked. Ye’d better have dat looked at. I know a contractor as a matter of fact.”
Allow me to share with you the wisdom of Australian singer/songwriter Jon Schumann (former frontman for the brilliant Oz socialist band Redgum):
“Just don’t sing [or talk] in an Irish accent if you’re not Irish, that’s all we ask.”
https://www.wsaz.com/2022/03/17/newly-discovered-saber-toothed-cat-found-southern-california/
I was hoping it was alive
He’s pining for the fjords.
That’s why I chose not to click the link. Now I can still pretend he exists and he’s making his way north to battle big foot. It’s going to be rad.
Since he is the one true prophet and leader, we should send him to Moscow to negotiate with Putin.
I like it. He’d make a nice decoration for the gate to the Kremlin.
I never said all Irish music sounds the same, I said all Dropkick Murphey songs sound the same (Particularly after watching two other Celtic/Ska/Punk bands open for them.) Obviously there are many great Irish musicians, Tom Waits and SAHB para ejemplo.
My bad. Happy St. Paddy’s day.
Back at you Tonio, and no worries, I’m just reminding Neph that I’ve seen The Interrupters and he hasn’t.
I think you’re right that Russell may not be content to just hold Hamilton’s jock for a whole season – and who could blame him?
I have pretty much lost interest in F1, but didn’t Russell do an extremely impressive stand-in for Hamilton(?) last season? Like impressive enough that Mercedes intentionally fucked him in the pits to keep him from doing “too” well?
I don’t know about being torpedoed but, yes, he came damn close to winning a race wire-to-wire the first time he was in a Merc.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.watch-the-story-of-george-russells-dramatic-mercedes-debut-in-the-sakhir-gp.tyNBYhhMco1JQzAncuftA.html
The puncture is what really did him in.
I mentioned yesterday about a part of the snow barrier had come down off my house. Today another piece of snow barrier is hanging over the eaves. The biggest problem today is one garage has that part of the chimney above the roof now on the ground in the snow. When the snow slid off off the roof it hit the chimney and took off about 5 cement blocks of chimney and tore the roofing up. I need to get the chimney hole covered ’cause it’s gonna rain in a couple days. Repairs will have to wait ’til the snow has gone.
I’m undecided whether to call my insurance company, the repairs may be less than the deductible.
What kind of roof / how many squares of damage? Chimney repair can be expensive. metal repair can be expensive
And- thinking about Russell being Designated Number Zwei reminds me of the
goodbetter old days, when it was Schumacher and Irvine at Ferrari. Irvine was paid handsomely to know his place, but when Schumacher broke his leg (if I remember rightly) Eddie drove the fucking wheels off that car until Michael returned.Do we have any Indiana glibs?
“A farm owner from Shelbyville in Indiana was transported to the hospital in a critical condition late last night with an extremely agitated hen more than half-buried in his rectum.”
https://newjerseybrief.com/2022/03/12/indiana-egg-farmer-transported-to-hospital-with-a-live-adult-chicken-stuck-in-his-rectal-cavity/
an extremely agitated hen
No shit.
For the hen’s sake I hope not.
Gross. That really is fowl!
Clearly no fowl play
He’s one lucky mother-clucker.
Gives a whole new meaning to “do you want the beef or the chicken?”
“I fell in the
showerhenhouse”A million to one shot!
He was in a ladder with his pants off and fell on to it, no doubt.
That might be good for Fauci too. It would be cruel to the chicken though.
And thus the Seventh Seal was broken.
I used to live there. The only thing worse is living in MD. It’s like trading the worst climate ever for communism. Not an advised trade.
Now there’s something you don’t see every day.
To be fair, how many of us can truthfully say we’ve never had an agitated hen half buried in our rectum?
Not with the gerbil already there.
/Richard Gere
Obligatory
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I thought it was going to be this one
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b9/8c/7f/b98c7f2ed28279822bf37f945dedf8f6.gif
I’ve never seen that before and I would like to thank you personally for bring that into my life.
That one dates to the early 2000’s at least. It’s in my archive of greatest internet achievements.
That’s what the hen said.
Rectum? Darn near destroyed him.
I’m trying to eat dinner and I can’t stop laughing at the thought of him ass up in the ambulance with a protruding chicken.
Chicken legs flailing in the air, wings flapping
That’s what I call pollo assado.
Okay, I’m laughing in the restaurant out loud now.
Luckily for him he’s not an ostrich farmer.
Apposite
Did you order the chicken?
Sushi
No strange urges to molest my food were felt
Fruit sushi?
The eel roll had some avocado in it. I guess that qualifies.
If you were a chicken and you knew that was your fate, would you escape and seek out the foxes?
“Kill me now you bastards!”
Could the man at least be attractive? Suffocated by a 500 pound farmer with a zitty ass. How horrible!
Is John Waters shooting another film?
“The hen was finally extracted around 7:30 this morning, suffering only minor physical injuries from its ordeal, while Mr. Adams necessitated 7 blood transfusions and more than 780 stitches.”
Wouldn’t have made more sense to kill the chicken first?
I see your chicken, and I raise, oh, just click through. It seems completely impossible, and it has imaging.
This time with the link.
Dear Christ.
The Other Kevin is from Indiana, I believe.
He coulda been a star.
O.o
Meant as a reply to the agitated hen story.
Done Round 2.
Gotta get back to work.
In the meantime, some links from NH: Updates on the lawyer that pushed back against the Lil Rona Panic Restrictions in NH.
Back in December, we wrote about Attorney Robert Fojo’s law license and how it seemed coincidental that the only lawyer in New Hampshire challenging COVID-related measures, like school district mask mandates, had his license suspended.
Fojo has been making waves and pushing buttons. It is not uncommon for people marked as troublemakers to find themselves the object of scrutiny from any number of government agents looking for anything to slow them down or derail them.
Since then, we’ve been following along and reviewing the public filings. It looks like the NH Attorney Discipline Office (ADO) may be using Fojo’s disruptive work in COVID cases as an excuse to cancel him.
In the Beginning
The ADO first contacted Fojo in late June after a client filed a grievance. In response, Fojo acknowledged that his record-keeping got the best of him, admitted the mistake, then provided the documents and information requested along with a request for assistance and guidance to prevent this mistake from happening again.
The records show that Fojo responded to all of the ADO’s inquiries in subsequent months, met with them twice, and prepared a spreadsheet to reconcile his trust account.
For some reason, during these meetings, the ADO repeatedly asked about his mask mandate cases and the parents he was representing in those cases.
After six months of “investigation,” on Friday, December 17, 2021, at 5:24 p.m. (the week before Christmas), the ADO petitioned the New Hampshire Supreme Court to immediately suspend Fojo’s license.
As I understand it a petition for immediate suspension is used for “emergency” situations or when an attorney poses “serious harm to the public,” but the facts on December 17 were no different than they were in late June. Facts the ADO had in September. Why wait three months to declare an emergency?
Everything must be political. Dissent cannot be tolerated in any venue.
So does Round 3 start around 10pm?
Unfortunately, no. I have to be up early tomorrow. I also have to work tomorrow and leave for PA after work.
F*ck them hoes DEG! Point me in the right direction and I will soak some pinstriped pants legs! I’ve had a lot of bourbon and I have a powerful stream! New Hampshire is only 21 hours away!
NH House Session updates part one and part two.
Other updates that I don’t have links to news stories on: HB 1033, which would prohibit taxpayer funding of lobbyists, is killed. HB 1268 which prohibits municipal mask ordinances passes. HB 1268 goes to the State Senate.
Taibbi hits the neo-cons about like a lion on a pack of hyenas…
They think this redeems them, that much is obvious.
As his spiritual heirs, they deserve the Trotsky treatment.
Only a neocon could celebrate turning a potential ally into an enemy or see it as validation of their policies.
All the snow has melted here and it wasn’t raining, so after dinner I took the dog for a walk on the trails in the state forest for the first time since the ice storm in February.
It was unsurprising how many trees were down, but still a sight to see. The bike club is going to have a fun time maintaining the trails this season.
Lido Deck at sunset. I’m a cliché
https://ibb.co/nPq0drg
That looks so peaceful.
Nope.
You are a cool chick on a fun adventure.
Cheers, KK!
She’s turned on by Isaac Washington’s afro.
Who isn’t? By far the best character on the show.
Except for Zsa Zsa, of course.
-1 coochie coochie coo
Ur old.
Isaac was one cool cat. As a kid watching that show I always appreciated the Charro appearances and her ample acting assets.
Nope. Captain Stueben FTW
*Stuebing
I always enjoy the “at sea” days. Nothing to do except relax with a cocktail and watch the ocean go by.
BTW, when you get to Charlotte Amalie, have lunch at Gladys’ Cafe. The whole steamed Ole Wife (triggerfish) is outstanding, as is the lobster-stuffed avocado.
Thanks for the rec!!
Get an empanada from a roadside stand or some chicken. Both tasty.
Another good episode from Thad Russell:
I think I linked the (Darryl Cooper/Jocko Willink) Unraveled episode with Scott Horton the other day, but I’m really digging Martyr Made podcast, too.
Cooper is legit.
I’m watching Restoration House on Prime. I’m always a little stunned at just how specialized some people’s jobs are. For example, a Victorian Stencil Specialist. Who knew there was enough work for that to be your job?
Guessing they have a different day job usually.
Roasted lamb and potatoes with cauliflower cheese…and guinness
In honor of St. Pat’s, IRISH MOTORCYCLE RACING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_oaaoapvww
“Here is a completely gratuitous link to photos of drunken girls showing cleavage and making out with one another in honor of Saint Patrick.”
You’re a good egg Tonio.