If you have anger issues, this one is a great tool, H/T mindyourbusiness:
Disclaimer: I’m not your Supervisor. These are my opinions after reading through these books a few times.
June 18
“Let Fate find us prepared and active. Here is the great soul—the one who surrenders to Fate. The opposite is the weak and degenerate one, who struggles with and has a poor regard for the order of the world, and seeks to correct the faults of the gods rather than their own.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 107.12
What ever happens I try to be ready mentally and physically. When he says “surrender to fate”, I take that as fate is outside of my control. I could not control my surgery and recovery weakness, but I can control what I do now as I work to get back in shape. I also can’t control the outside world, but I can control how much I interact with and depend on it. Struggling against what I can’t control, while ignoring what I can control is not productive or impressive.
June 19
“Don’t let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don’t fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it’s
so unbearable and can’t be survived.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36
I try not to worry about the whole end goal too much. 20 pullups seems like an impossibility right now, when I can only do 6. But if I focus on a smaller goal, last week I did 5 and my first week back in the gym I did 0, so I am improving. I started a new notebook because seeing what I used to do prior to surgery was depressing. Same with life, if I look at my total debt, it seems like a lot, because it is. If I make a plan and focus on the snowball(Dave Ramsey) it seems much more manageable. Sometimes it’s best to keep your head down and keep walking, eventually you’ll get to the end.
June 20
“If then it’s not that the things you pursue or avoid are coming at you, but rather that you in a sense
are seeking them out, at least try to keep your judgment of them steady, and they too will remain
calm and you won’t be seen chasing after or fleeing from them.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.11
If I know what I want and work to get it with what I control, that keeps a steady goal for me. If I try to bend the world to get it, that is unreasonable. It’s important to know what I am chasing and avoiding, and why. I also have to understand what parts of these things are outside of my control and leave them be.
June 21
“We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing.”
—SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 17.8
I don’t go on walks, but I do run. I usually listen to music and sometimes actually pay attention to the songs. Usually my mind wanders and I think about my life, my wife, a work situation, and whatever else comes to mind. Sometimes I have thought of solutions or a different approach to a problem while doing this. My wife usually walks while I run and after I’m done, we walk together for a few minutes. We don’t usually talk, but it is enjoyable in the silence.
June 22
“If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before, know in the end you’ll be so ill and weakened that eventually you won’t even notice your mistake and will begin to rationalize your behavior.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.18.31
I do this with Nutter Butter cookies. I will get a glass of milk and open a “Family Size” pack, intending on eating 3 or 4. I actually stop when I eat half of them. On the bright side, I have stopped lying to myself and when I get them out, I fully intend to eat half. This has helped me not do it as often. But, I have not told my wife to stop buying them, nor do I intend to. I also do this with reading, I tell myself that I’ll read until 10 so I can wake up at 5 feeling rested, but read until 1030 or 11 and hate myself when the alarm goes off. If I stop pretending I will quit early, and be honest with myself about how tired I will be, it might help me not go past the limit.
June 23
“You could enjoy this very moment all the things you are praying to reach by taking the long way around—if you’d stop depriving yourself of them.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.1
Does this mean I can eat as many Nutter Butters as I want? Or does this mean happiness and serenity are mine anytime I want to stop stressing out about things outside of my control? I am taking the long way around to happiness if I put a starting point to it. “I’ll be happy on vacation next month”, “I’ll stop stressing out after I finish this project”. Or I could choose to be happy and not stress out now.
June 24
“The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permits others to fight . . . this is the meaning of getting an education—learning what is your own affair and what is not. If a person carries themselves so, where is there any room for fighting?”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.5.1; 7b–8a
Fighting doesn’t help. On an intellectual level I know this, but I am not a Vulcan. When my mom said she couldn’t be around my wife because she didn’t get jabbed, and then smugly said “I’m following the SCIENCE”, I might have yelled a little. I didn’t talk to her for awhile after that. This got my wife upset, because she felt like she had caused it. This made me madder and had less desire to talk to my mom, even though it would have helped my wife. Now mom acts like nothing ever happened and I am trying to do the same. Looking back, if I had kept my cool and waited her out, it never would have been an issue.
I know nobody cares, but Eluveitie (pronounced El Vay Tee) has a new song.
The video starts with Carnyx horns, how is that not cool?
Hoping for a new album and maybe I will get to see them live.
How many songs are there denouncing Julius Caesar’s propaganda during the Gaulish wars?
Or one about the final battle?
We should take wandering outdoor walks,
Let’s get ready to gambol!
Is some frolicking allowed?
I torqued my back Wednesday and suffered sciatica all night and all day Thursday, but it has greatly improved today! Thank goodness for the pool.
I believe I will cavort.
I personally prefer capering.
I can get further on my bicycle…
Utilitarians. Pfeh. 😉
Neph rode his bicycle past your window last night
Wrong version.
Due to the girlfriend acquiring a business, and changes of vacation plans later this year, I may get to do a bucket list bike ride instead.
I’d feel mildly guilty about it… but long big bike ride!
Rambling, gamboling man.
… life is so much easier. Also, if I stop pretending and own that family-pack of Pecan Sandies, I’m less likely to buy any at all.
That’s the idea.
Wandering outdoor walks are good. Especially if they include sleeping outdoors. Ideally in a hammock.
That’s a great idea. I need to get my hands on a hammock for my planned Sunday of accomplishing nothing.
Hammocks are great.
I’m seriously considering an outdoor daybed/swing for the back porch. I had one at a hotel in Mexico, and it was naptastic.
Hammock chairs kick ass also and are more practical if you don’t happen to have ideally spaced trees.
There are cheaper ones, but these are sturdy and last for multiple seasons, even with fat asses like me. Canvas with wooden structural elements.
https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Sofas-Chairs-Sectionals/22407/subcat.html?featuredproduct=4834960&featuredoption=6646036&ci_sku=12725129-000-002&cnc=US&cid=319810&type=pla&targetid=pla-1654318552734&track=pspla&gbraid=0AAAAAD_EGx92clfTwYGrWoQafP1zJxHhi&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzLCVBhD3ARIsAPKYTcTQWYTxb2WkRKsmfh4VPHIkFqaZdXsVxfuBZ7SrAZv678-OjKAM2sQaAplMEALw_wcB
Yes, those are great!
Hmm, that looks either very dangerous or like some sort of sex device (or both).
This, and your personal example, really resonated with my Ron. I need to think -and act- on this one.
It’s too easy to lie to myself about what I want to do.
When I used to drink a lot, 3-4 beers was never 3-4 beers, it always turned into at least a 12 pack.
Thankfully, as a cheapskate, I have to limit the size of my nightcaps.
Same here, although its more “I need better sleep” for me. I have found that leaving it on the liquor station in the kitchen (not to be confused with the liquor cabinet in the living room) helps keep me from just sort of mindlessly downing it.
Ron, back in the days the only time I ever said No to a beer was if someone asked me if I’d had enough. Glad now that those days are over.
“We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing.”
—SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 17.8
I walk every day. Weekends my wife and I hike in the mountains. I need it.
“You could enjoy this very moment all the things you are praying to reach by taking the long way around—if you’d stop depriving yourself of them.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.1
This is so fucking hard. I fall into the trap of contingent happiness all the time. Things have been an absolute shit show at work lately and I’ve barely noticed any of my real blessings. Gotta stop that.
Good ones this week again, Ron!
It’s an easy trap to fall into.
Still dealing with a Corolla engine, and my truck decided now would be a good time to spring a main seal leak, but overall life is good.
Things have been an absolute shit show at work lately
Makes me wonder if we’re going against what we were created for when we sit in front of computers and spin our digital hamster wheels all day. Everybody is a ball of stress these days. Even the non-workaholics spend their free time decompressing and destressing after work. Then we wonder why everybody is on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.
I don’t know that I have stumbled upon any resolution to that issue, but it’s important to me to find one so I don’t die of a heart attack at my desk at 50.
If you don’t already have one, get a hobby that requires you to use your hands and body. It can be very refreshing and is a welcome change from just keyboarding all day.
Oh…got that one down already…
That’s not a hobby, unless you have a partner helping you out.
Why not both?
Masturbating isn’t a hobby, because it’s too universal.
Seeing how long you can go without masturbating could be a hobby, albeit a pretty unsatisfying *rimshot* one…
Sez you.
Evil, I’m back to pondering what red dot to put on my Para .45 (for when it gets back from the shop with a new threaded barrel for a suppressor). For about the umpteenth time, what do you recommend?
My go-to handgun micro red dot is the Holosun 508t-RD-X2. I have a few and like the reticle and durability.
There were some new releases at NRAAM this year, so you might want to hit up your local arms dealer and do some browsing.
I could not possibly agree more with this sentiment.
In fact, I’m gonna go one step farther – set aside some time for your hobby, ideally every day, and let *NOTHING* interfere with it. Not your job, not your family, not the machinations of the gods. Have something set aside that is for you alone.
Great point. People are forgetting to take time for themselves. It isn’t selfish, its healthy and helps center your mind away from the day.
I treat going to the gm as part of my job, not sure if that’s a hobby or not.
Almost every weekend I have something to do around the house or one of my vehicles.
Definitely keeps me sane.
Going to the gym probably counts as a hobby, but i think of it more as something I do so that I can do my hobbies.
It is a lot easier, mentally, to enjoy that third whiskey sour when I know I puked in my mouth in the squat cage a few hours ago…
I’m so very bad at that. There’s always something that gets in the way. Kiddo has to do X and I need to get them ready before heading off to work. Wife has to be out the door for Y, and I need to put the kids to bed. Work runs over by an hour and I sit at the dinner table 10 minutes after everybody else. There are 100 different things that take precedence.
The reality is that those are more important things than going fishing or playing disc golf or going to the shooting range or hitting the tennis ball IN THE MOMENT. However, when it’s time after time after time that they win out, it’s hard to retain identity and mental health. I’m quick to say yes to my wife’s requests for time out with friends or for the kids to go do something, but I’m slow to ask for the same.
That said, I’ve personally made strides in the right direction. We go out for a walk 3-4 days per week. I make time to tend garden and just be outside. I cook and grill on the weekends. They’re baby steps, but they have already paid off.
I do, however, recognize the same signs and symptoms in my friends and neighbors. It makes for a high strung millieu most everywhere.
All of that ties back to something that (I think it was ALeapAtTheWheel) wrote about quite a while ago here. The lack of outlets for guys to be guys which used to be taken up by things like bowling leagues, fraternal orders, and poker nights.
National Guard drill weekends.
I kind of miss that.
Government shouldn’t be providing those outlets.
Best part of the Marine Corps was when we actually did “Marine Corps” things.
Softball teams and league. In small towns every business sponsored a team, even if the players bought their own uniforms.
Whatever happened to Little League? Pop Warner football?
Of all the advice I’ve received (solicited and unsolicited) regarding my pending fatherhood, the one that seems to be most repeated is “Make sure each of you has at least one evening a week that is *yours*–make time to relieve her of her duties to go out with friends once a week and take advantage of the same for yourself”
Sound advice. Also, you don’t need to do grocery shopping as a family. One or the other if possible without the kids.
Yeah. I kind of don’t want my kids going in stores if at all possible anyway, after some of the behavior I’ve witnessed by others over the years. 🙂
I call that “2 people doing 1 people’s job”
We do the grocery shopping together sometimes, but my wife’s out picking up groceries while the 1 year old naps and the 5 year old is playing quietly. Or maybe she took them with her… It sure is quiet in the house….
We always took our kids grocery shopping.
I figured it’s part of teaching them how to act in public.
When they (rarely) acted up, I would put them in the car until they calmed down.
The wife and I would have date nights, but most times eating out was a family meal.
Hahaha! I know there were times when my boys were little there just was no way around it.
First day at the manager gig I told my boss “just text me, I’m not sitting at my desk all day” I know I would just sit there if I didn’t have the mindset to engage in something else and allowed me to step out for a bit. I also doodle a lot to clear my brain.
My wife, when we first started really dating would ask “what are all these papers with just boxes drawn on them”. They are just boxes…maybe I put a thought into them, maybe I just aimlessly drew them, but they were done for a purpose that I cannot explain.
get a hobby that requires you to use your hands and body.
There are only so many times I can wank it in a day.
WARTY HUGEMAN SEZ: LIFT MOAR!
Just got back from a lift, brah. I feel great!
Years ago I was consulting at LA County IT and one of the county employees died of a heart attack at his desk.
The joke among the consultants was they gave him a deadline.
My Dad had a friend who died of a heart attack alone in the office on a Saturday–he had gone in to finish up some work leftover from the week. he was 42.
I don’t go into the office alone, and certainly not on a weekend.
One of my friends, a county medical examiner, was found dead in her car in a grocery store parking lot.
And of course, she was within a year of her planned retirement.
This was in Illinois so I always wondered if she knew the Clintons…
I’ve barely noticed any of my real blessings
I try to always keep in mind that, regardless of the irritants in my life, I have it pretty damn good. I’m not going to miss any meals, I’m not going to sleep without a roof over my head. After that, its pretty much gravy.
Life could be better but it could be far worse – anytime when asked how I am doing.
Cheer up, things could be worse.
Sure enough, I cheered up and things got worse.
Even with all the aches and pains, I am grateful for the tomorrows and more surprises.
I’m not going to miss any meals
The Biden regime is working on that.
Don’t let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you
Bite sized chunks.
I am trying to ease myself back into the “habit” of working. It may sound stupid, but I have accomplished virtually nothing in the past six months. Buying this property basically represents getting a job.
Fuck.
Thirsty MDF will do that to one.
Ripping carpet and painting floors doesn’t sound fun at all.
It sounds like there’s a lot to do after that.
The Venn diagram for “fun” and “worthwhile” has some overlap, but not that much.
I like the music, but I’m not a fan of that singing style. I don’t hate it, just tough for me to get into it. That said, I do like Avatar.
It took me a while to get used to it, I first heard them when Larry Corriea said this was his song of triumph when he finished a book.
Music was so great, I eventually got used to the singing style.
Not sure about the Avatar, but they are interesting.
Yeah, their schtick is…interesting. Like you and Eluvetie, I liked the music so much I got used to the singing.
Hail The Apocalypse
Smells Like A Freakshow
Today’s Stoic is primed for some Tolkien quotes. #NERD incoming…
LOL!
That 91 is no joke.
The key pad wasn’t working, so I went inside and told the lady I wanted to fill up.
She said I had to pick an amount, I guessed $70. In the past that would be way more than required.
I ended up a gallon or two short.
I looked at my stats for Tesla charging over the past 31 days, which included a round trip to San Diego from Pahrump and many daily commutes to Las Vegas. Total: $ 121.
Yet I know that won’t last. It seems to be on a delay, perhaps a regulatory one, but inevitably the cost of electricity will have to rise along with everything else. Wind and solar aren’t going to cut it, and they’re not “free” either.
Well, the wind and the sun are free resources – it’s the devices to turn them into more useful energy that are neither free nor perpetual.
And when States get around to taxes mileage..especially all those internet-connected vehicles.
They’ll get you on inspection/registration times anyway.
You ain’t kidding! Registration on my new Model Y in Nevada was almost $1500!!
The ex is transferring the Rogue I’ve been driving for 5 years over to me. Registration is $100 less if I do it Alfred instead of Queens. However, NYC levies sales tax on title transfers, even on gifted vehicles. I have to come up with 9% of the bluebook value. Fuck you, Empire State!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/massachusetts-catholic-school-nativity-school-worcester-black-lives-matter-pride-flags/
Based.
Followed the link to make sure it isn’t my high school alma mater. It’s not.
The magic number.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month issued a list of safe activities for sexually active patients to engage in. Among the recommendations are avoiding kissing and “having sex with your clothes on or covering areas where rash or sores are present.”
Patients and prospective patients are also advised to “wash your hands, fetish gear, sex toys and any fabrics” after having sex and “masturbate together at a distance of at least 6 feet, without touching each other and without touching any rash or sores.”
Safe sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asouPYvrUtY
Good, I was worried you linked something else.
“…wash your hands, fetish gear, sex toys and any fabrics…”
Fucking hell, if y’all aren’t doing this already…
I showed that article to my husband last night and he thought it was the Onion.
In case you needed more evidence that the CDC is useless.
I wish they were merely useless.
They are blood soaked monsters.
*faints*
Teen Vogue published an op-ed on Thursday that claimed the Supreme Court is facing a “crisis moment” of legitimacy because of its conservative justices.
The piece by Molly Coleman and Tristin Brown began by claiming that Justice Clarence Thomas’ refusal to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6 events at the Capitol because of his wife’s connections was the latest display of “illegitimacy.”
“As egregious as Justice Thomas’s refusal to recuse is, it is merely the latest display of the current Supreme Court’s illegitimacy. The creation of a 6-3 radically conservative supermajority on the Court is the result of a conservative legal movement determined to seize power at any cost,” the article read.
“Radically conservative”…
Unelected and unaccountable judges are destroying this once great nation. The only way to fix this is to add more unelected and unaccountable judges. Do it to save democracy.
What litigation is before the Supreme Court with regard to Jan. 6th?
Seems to me the only bit I heard about was the rejection of Trump’s claim of executive privilege.
I thought there were some suits incoming related to the denial of bail etc to the Jan 6 prisoners who’ve been held without charges for over a year.
But that’s okay because there’s a lot of data to sift through!
/actual article from a couple months ago
My guess is they are seeing into the future
The approval rating of Congress is even lower than that of the Supreme Court, so by this spurious logic, I guess we should abolish elections altogether.
SHHHHHH!!! Don’t give them any ideas!
Don’t kid yourself, that’s the Left’s desired outcome in all this.
Skinsuiting is not quite the same thing as abolition. Though the end result (disenfranchising their enemies) is practically the same as far as we’re concerned, they will always have some kind of “elections”. Their worldview depends upon the belief that they rule with the consent of the people; they will redefine “the people” and “their consent” as needed but seem always to maintain this structure and illusion. Cuba, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Laos; I can’t think of a single extant communist regime (nor many extinct ones) that doesn’t have elections. Only reactionaries and absolute monarchists seem to sincerely abolish elections, and even then not consistently.
The next big thing is a song from 1985
We were just talking about Kate the other day. Nice article.
Wait, wait – Tiny Dancer? Tiny Dancer? All this time, he was singing Tiny Dancer?
I spent all these years wondering why Elton John wrote a song about Tony Danza. Damn it!
OK
Didn’t miss that song.
How is this a story? I bought the Jem version back in 2017 from the ST soundtrack.
One of my guilty pleasures: Kate Bush in the 80’s. I still have a Kate Bush calendar and the first 7 issues of a Kate Bush fanzine published by some outfit in Canada.
Tried to sell them on eBay, but no takers so far.
A sleazy used car salesman says “what”.
I just joined Trump’s Truth Social.
Going to be on there calling out Republican lies. This could get…interesting.
My first post — breaking down America’s red state murder problem.
We’ve already been over that one, bruh. But have fun by starting with something dishonest.
Huh. I figured it was going to be Nick Sawark.
Sarwark is already pimping himself out to MSNBC to discuss the LP’s racist problem.
Good to know all of California’s problems have been solved.
He’ll just include suicides and use “gun violence” statistics instead of murder, like they always do.
And that will skew red, since many of our vets are from/in red states, and they do have high suicide rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQy89tZ-mRU
Man builds underground bunker.
Wow. I’m going to have to watch his other videos.
The underground tunnel vids are pretty lit too. I’m on #3 now.
You fabrication/engineering nerds will probably enjoy.
He alwys showed up on the Science channel’s show Outrageous Acts of Science.
He is crazy in a good way. He even had a homemade Wall of Death.
Worst. Insurrection. Ever.
A January 6, 2021, rioter pleaded guilty Friday to carrying a loaded firearm on US Capitol grounds and assaulting police officers with one of their own batons during the insurrection. …
According to the plea agreement, Mazza, 57, carried a revolver loaded with shotgun and hollow-point rounds in a holster under his shirt during the “Stop the Steal” rally and on Capitol grounds that day.
Republican lawmakers and conservative allies have often falsely claimed that no weapons were brought to the Capitol to argue the attack was not the violent insurrection that it was.
Mazza lost the weapon on Capitol grounds sometime before walking to the Lower West Terrace tunnel where rioters were battling police officers, according to the plea.
He wasn’t apprehended with the revolver in his possession that day? What fucking idiot lawyers were in this game (on either side)?
seriously.
“We respectfully request that you attempt to prove our client had the firearm in his possession unlawfully at any point that day.”
also,
“We have no idea, nor any evidence to indicate, how the firearm came to be in the vicinity, nor how it was found. What have you got?”
This is in no way a false flag to be able to undermine the no weapons claim.
My suspicion is the idiot didn’t have a lawyer, which makes him an exceptionally useful idiot.
So one single protester carried a weapon and he lost it outside the Capitol Building? Wow. That’s a big gotcha. Welp…I now believe it was a coup led by Donald Trump himself.
We were a single (glowing…) revolver from losing our democracy.
If this was a glowie, he wouldn’t have been packing dutch loads (especially not with snake shot). Only complete retards do that, and the big law is evil rather than stupid.
It seems there were a few others carrying, though that hasn’t been “proven” in court yet, but I don’t think it changes anything, since many (most?) of them are from places where carry (concealed and/or open) is legal and they likely carry regularly. The “well developed plan” is a figment of Cheney and Kinzinger’s imaginations.
But apparently you can’t exercise the First and Second Amendments at the same time (or at all, if you’re on the wrong side, if we’re being honest about the intentions here).
Neither of them are calling the shots, but they are definitely the showiest of the theater actors here.
The off-duty DEA agent was carrying. He’s lucky he wasn’t a blue on blue casualty.
There was some from the previous thread (Ms. Hayek) about the garbage pop-up add-on on the Windows search bar. It’s easy to shut off, if some has not mentioned it already. Well, it’s easy when you find the damned setting, that is. Goodbye pride flag!
OK, so what’s the setting?
Right click on an open space on the taskbar. Under search > uncheck ‘Show search highlights’
Got it. Thanks!
You’re welcome. There is also a news and interest you can shut off too. I actually leave it on but with ‘open on hover’ unchecked. Then I can see the outside temp without clicking on anything.
Or just turn the stupid search bar off altogether. right click on taskbar -> Search -> Hidden
“We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing.”
I used to go for walks in the neighborhood at lunch at my previous job. I’ve stopped that. I should get back to it.
Forest bathing does not substitute for using actual soap and water.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/17/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-launches-the-talent-pipeline-challenge-supporting-employer-investments-in-equitable-workforce-development-for-infrastructure-jobs/
Prediction, this will do nothing to provide actual needed potential employees and is a shakedown effort with payoffs to certain NGO shams and unions. Fascism in action. You will participate, or else.
A small portion will go to some businesses for doing things they were doing anyway, another portion will go to scammers, and the bulk of the money will got to politically connected grifters.
Employers and training providers are encouraged to include a community-based organization working with women and under-represented groups in the training partnership.
White
menstanding-while-peeing persons need not apply.Fascism had grander aims than this. Even Tammany Hall can take credit for making NYC great.
This is just petty graft sloppily scaled up.
“Don’t let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don’t fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it’s so unbearable and can’t be survived.”
I have trouble with this one and have to actively resist the need to analyze and then over analyze everything. I need to keep this behavior compartmentalized to some aspects of my work (not all of them) and critical life decisions instead of day to day events and relationships.
Risk, safety, and failure analysis has been a important part of every job I’ve had over the last 25 years. It’s a skill that can help to reduce threats to projects, people, and products. If it is used in all aspects of life, then you will really annoy and push away your loved ones, avoid risk taking in personal and professional endeavors, and miss out on a lot of fun.
Pursuing edge work to your level of comfort and sometimes beyond can really enrich your life.
More from Joe
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/06/17/a-proclamation-on-fathers-day-2022/
So three generations of Bidens showered with their children??
Related: <a href="REVEALED: Hunter Biden accused Beau's widow Hallie of trying to 'ruin his life' and paint him as a 'pedophile with homicidal tendencies' after she threw his gun in the trash – and said 'there are 5 guns in dad's house'
Luckily for him, there’s no keeping a great artist down.
Dammit!
REVEALED: Hunter Biden accused Beau’s widow Hallie of trying to ‘ruin his life’ and paint him as a ‘pedophile with homicidal tendencies’ after she threw his gun in the trash – and said ‘there are 5 guns in dad’s house’
Who wants to call in the red flag complaint against Biden?
I remember my own father, who instilled in me some of the most important values that guide me to this day.
How to lie, cheat and steal.
He taught me to treat all people with dignity
That lesson didn’t stick.
My Administration is dedicated to supporting our Nation’s fathers and families.
But can you define “father”?
How much you wanna bet his pops beat him?
What’s with all the headlines about “recession fears” and “possible stock market downturn”? They’re already here, I’m spades!! “Possible” house price bubble? Here.likely inflation? Here.
That danged Putin!!
This never gets old (to me).
PUTIN!!!
ALOL. I like how they threw in a Kamala-esque “Passage of time!” shout-out.
The minute, last week, that Yellen said the recession was ‘unlikely’, it was known it was coming. It is following this administration’s script.
Speculation and analysis, along with some actual reporting says “This is happening/going to happen”
Admin rushes out and gets it labeled as ‘conspiracy’, ‘don’t have context’ etc
A couple of months later “Oh, there is a recession, we didn’t see that coming”
They always seem to be surprised that things don’t meet the expert’s expectations.
When the King’s soothsayer says what the King wants to hear, what do we expect?
People seriously look at me like I’m a wizard when I tell them that I’ve been planning for the housing bubble to pop since early 2020 and that I’ve been planning for inflation since early 2021.
This stuff isn’t hard to predict when you know what to look for. The timing is the hardest part.
Layoffs are coming. We’ve seen the first few companies jump, but mass layoffs will be here sooner than later. That will herald the start of the stagflation phase. If Biden starts tossing around cash again, we’re looking at a depression. If not, this may just end up as a bad recession. I wouldn’t be shocked to see fuel and various grocery items being rationed soon. Heck, our Sam’s club has a limit of 2 on certain kinds of meat. I also wouldn’t be shocked if TMITE manufactures some event in a couple weeks that kicks off another “summer of love”. Maybe it’ll be the Roe ruling?
Biden claimed yesterday that the US inflation was less than that of all other countries and defiantly asked the reporters to explain that.
As if the United States economy operates in a vacuum and affects no other economy. And of course our CDC actions didn’t affect any other nation’s policies.
#imissmeantweets
God I wish we had reporters to ask “Where did you get that information from Mr. President?”
-“He said, without evidence”
Hmm..I just lost my small freezer…just some edamame, couple of corn dogs and frozen veggies…but looking in the big freezer, it is at 65% capacity. Looks like I need to get a shoppin.
We recently bought a big ‘un. 21 cubic feet. We’re loving it – room enough for a moose with some space left over.
Though I’m aware of the firebombings of anti-abortion pregnancy centers, I don’t know that abortion alone can turn out the full-on riots they’ve managed over Rodney King, Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/Freddie Gray, or George Floyd.
Take away something that someone feels is their right, and you’d be amazed at what people will do. Toss in propaganda and state agent sponsorship and well…
Oh it will if a few of the morons attacking those facilities get shot dead on site.
Or if a counter-attack were to kill some soon-to-be-no-longer-pregnant girls, probably non-white, at a planned parenthood, especially with an AR platform rifle, particularly one without a serial number.
That said, it could be just about anything, but if it’s a regime op, I’d count on it somehow incorporating their altars to Molech.
I don’t know that abortion alone can turn out the full-on riots they’ve managed
The riots are communists rioting for communism. BLM, WTO, whatever the occasion may be is just an excuse. You don’t think all those pasty white misfits throwing Molotovs were really worked up about the plight of the black man, do you?
The lumpenprole horde that the Leninists can whip up may not care about the specific cause, but there are tiers of organization that have to be mobilized to get the big riots going. I won’t dare say it’s impossible but a dead or beaten black man is worth more than a shrieking white woman when it comes to motivating many of the organizers in the middle.
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LOL
Too incompetent to even effectively buy off the voters anymore.
Yep. A tax holiday would have a minor relief and similar effect, but you aren’t sending out money directly to the voters and they won’t make the connection you want them to.
If they cancelled the gas tax, people might notice how much the government is stealing with every tank full.
Local/state/federal tax breakdown in gas would be interesting.
hayeksplosives:
We have them on the pumps here in Ohio.
Behold the latest online political mag, complete with a modern feel to the website (which irritates the shit out of me) and fine-tuned for Millenials who want to feel smarter and more well-informed than their loser friends who still read Slate or Salon. It’s post-partisan baby!
https://www.thesgnl.com/about/
4 out of 5 of the editors worked for The New Republic or The Atlantic. Oh so post-partisan.
Wow, Liz Cheney is “tremendously conservative”. Unless the measure for “tremendously conservative” is how much money you shovel to the military-industrial complex, in which case apparently half the Democratic Party is also “tremendously conservative”, I’m not seeing it.
It’s a rather Trumpian turn of phrase – to be “tremendously conservative”.
Yes, all of the spectacle, but none of the substance. I’ll give AOC the limited credit that she’s much more effective at this game than Mrs. Piggy or Sir Cries A Lot have been.
Tremendously unprincipled? Sure. Tremendously grifting? Absolutely. Tremendously neocon? No doubt. Tremendously conservative in the more traditional sense? Hell no.
The only way it could be non-partisan is if no one in Congress ran the committee and they didn’t spend tax dollars on video editing, instead of just releasing the video straight.
[blinks] You mean, let people see everything for themselves and decide on their own? [he couldn’t possibly mean that could he?]
There’s a reason they won’t release all 14,000 hours of video.
They’re even selectively editing what they are showing with one scene being zoomed in so you can’t see Ray Epps in the original shot.
Or overlaying Trump’s speech that is nowhere near what is happening…but yeah, its all on the up and up and a real eye-opener!
Everything they are doing is the most sanctimonious, dishonest horseshit I have ever seen.
Reads like something written by a first year poly-sci major.
Poli-sci, even.
I urge you all to read this fill article.
Jill runs interference for Joe. Joe has spent a full quarter of his time in Delaware so he can avoid FOIA requests about whom he’s meeting. His “family” interface with lobbyists.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/17/joe-biden-and-cat-head-for-beach-with-jill-biden/
Poor cat.
Nothing these people do is surprising anymore.
Dr. Jill seems to be the only one really enjoying herself.
Wouldn’t you if you were president?
I need a new SugarFree article centered on Dr Jill.
Those are staples for some people.
Sriracha hot sauce and peanut butter are the latest additions on the list of hard-to-find products amid the supply chain crisis in President Biden’s America, joining other items such as baby formula and recently, tampons.
Fortunately we happened to over-purchase Sriracha earlier this year. I will miss the Sambal Batyak though.
I was going to make a glibbie, and say have you tried the new cricket butter? But it’s not funny.
At least real yellow jacket hotsauce is not real yet. But, it is a brand.