I spent the last week or so in California on account of a child’s soccer tournament. We could put them in a sport that is indoors, but that would make way too much sense. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So I might be spending more time there in the summer.
Meanwhile my new favorite person to be irritated by, is the coach.
Time for the links!
I swear I keep reading this story about avocado shortages yet have no trouble finding them in stores. Then again, I swear I wrote an article with this subject as a punchline.
¿Qué? ¡Yo también puedo echar a los comunistas!
Cool! I get to break out the helicopter joke! No, not that one. The now obscure Murdock crashing the chopper joke.
You fucked up by trusting the Colombian government to protect you.
More of this. How can we get more of this?
I don’t know what chuffs me to bits more, bitching out Gilbert Grape, or drawing the ire of progressives by building MoAr RoAdZ…through the Amazon.
NBC buries the lead on this one. Turns out El Presidente Dude Bro is actually really popular with Salvadorans. Although 90% seems suspicious. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks it has to do with the IMF crusade against his Bitcoin evangelism…nah.
Meanwhile in the poster child for simping for IMF loans…
A tune I heard this morning.
Murdock wants trash bags.
Jeeze, I heard the voice and relived the scene as soon as you said it.
TV kid of the 80’s.
I never watched that as a kid but one of the old-people channels just started showing it and I was surprised to see Lt. Broccoli is in it.
That’s Howling Mad Murdock to you!
‘The government didn’t do anything’
You were warned about pridepox.
“There hasn’t been an effort from the federal government to raise awareness in the population as to how you can get monkeypox, how it transmits from person to person, how you recognize the lesions in the skin and how it can transmit by close or sexual contact ,” Pasternak said.
What’s closer than sexual contact?
The shortest distance between two people is communication.
Organ transplants?
Cannibalism
Perhaps, some people believe that cuddling is not a sexual practice. But according to the public health experts, it could lead to transmission. Though I find it interesting that there’s a very high share of HIV+ men among the ones who got monkeypox. HIV is definitely not spread by cuddling or really anything but receptive anal sex.
But in the 80s I was assured much differently by Dr Fauci.
The droplets. /Fauci voice
I have to post this song. The droplets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bTM1Vs5Hg
Fortunately, I never heard of Fauci before February 2020. But even 20 years ago it was hard to find this information.
Shutdown the country like you did last time you asswipes. Stop pussyfooting around the fact that 98% of cases are a known demographic
You can get monkeypox from voting booths.
I knew it!
I knew that voting machine was fucking me in the ass!
Well, yeah, but it’s unrelated to monkey pox.
But that moniker has taken on a new irony for everyday Mexicans, who have watched prices increase sharply amid the converging crises of war, the pandemic, and extreme weather.
The pandemic and climate change. Is there anything those two can’t do?
It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping.
Reduce inflation?
In Duque’s case, it happened as often as every 30 seconds. The system could also remotely cut off the SUV’s engine.
What could possibly go wrong?
Ugly Americans don’t know geography.
That article’s author is a total douche. He fails to recognize that expats bring money with them to poorer areas. There’s a reason a lot of governments encourage expats to resettle.
But, but, muh gentrifications, yankee imperialism, ruining the last unspoiled place….
damned if you do
Thank you, that made me twitch too.
There’s a grocery store near me where the pigeon peas, jerk seasoning, and Ting soda are in the alleged Mediterranean section.
+1 WENDY
https://jokes.fandom.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Jamaica,_Have_a_Nice_Day
I could tell you, again, to give up your yacht before lecturing the world, but I know progressives: you want to change the entire world but never yourselves, so I will let you off the hook
Nice.
Somebody tell George Soros, stat.
This criminal arrived just in time to be *dons sunglasses* disarmed.
“He shot my arm off,” cries would-be robber after 80 year old #Norco store owner shoots him with a shotgun. Four arrested, one remains in hospital. Store owner expected back at work.
Lucky it wasn’t center of mass.
He got himself Rittenhoused.
Sped off in a black BMW…. I remember when crooks were actually poor.
Looks like the perp had some kind of an AR with a 30-round mag. A big no-no in CA for legal firearms owners.
Are you saying a criminal had an illegal weapon? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
Assuming they purchased the car.
The earlier article said the BMW was stolen.. So this was part of a spree… Back 30 years ago my car got jacked in Newark. It was used to rob a liquor store.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure it was.
This happened in Riverside County. The DA will gladly charge the robbers with everything imaginable.
NH Murder rate rising
Early Sunday morning, Hooksett Police found the body of Jason Wirtz, stabbed in the neck and bleeding, on Main Street. Later that day, they arrested Dillon Sleeper, age 26, formerly of Franklin, and charged him with second-degree murder.
It was the 17th homicide in New Hampshire, a state that’s averaged 18 murders a year since 2017. And it’s still July.
New Hampshire is generally one of the safest states in the country when it comes to violent crime in general and homicide in particular, according to FBI records. It’s certain to blow past its average murder rate this year.
How do averages work?
Sshhhhh…
They have to get their fear mongering on.
What’s going on in NE?
https://jalopnik.com/ferrari-812-gts-crashed-after-theft-from-valet-lot-1849348174
Jonathon Philpot would close the Memphis comedy club in the eighties with these tasty morsels:
“Don’t forget to tip your waitresses because doG knows I don’t pay them anything
and if you used our valet service be sure to come up to the office
so you can call the police because we don’t have valet service”
Somehow, Argentina never seems to get it. They just keep doing the same thing, over and over.
Commies are stubborn as mules, and even dumber.
Technically, they’re fascists but we’re splitting hairs here.
Proving, y
I suppose, that fascists are as dumb as commies.
We need to send our poor.
When will AMLO complain we aren’t sending our best?
A kilo of avocados cost 50 pesos at the local market in March 2020, according to González. He said the same amount, or about three avocados, now costs 125 pesos — a 250% rise in just over two years.
Journalos can’t do math. The rise is 150%.
We have plenty of avocados here, but they are expensive — as much as $1.28 for a small one.
Journalism Majors Should Not Have To Take Math Classes
*Urge to murder rising*
It was even worst in college because my professor was hard to understand and follow as she taught.
Math is the worse.
She can’t add or proof read.
‘Expats extract; Immigrants improve.
The movement of Americans to Mexico in particular reminds me of what happened at the turn of the 20th century, when American industry moved en masse and usurped billions of dollars in wealth while adding nothing to the country except exploitation. ‘
???
Fucking Commies
You know who else disliked commies….
This guy?
Major T. J. Kong?
Patton?
Larry Thorne?
The helicopter guy?
Hitler?
And how the fuck are expats responsible for that? If they were made susceptible, they’d leave in a heartbeat and take their money with them.
Good! /Idiot
Avocado — man I hate the Eagles.
We’re in this together.
Kamala: “While we send our prayers, and our love, we also, with each day, renew our commitment to the urgency of now and the ability that we have collectively, all of us in it together, to do something about it.”
She reminds me of one of those “early AI tries to write a story” things.
lol
At this point I think she is trolling.
Embryos can be listed as dependents on tax returns, Georgia rules
but of course
Makes sense. Ever have to feed and house a pregnant lady?
Four decades ago
HOV privileges!
Still need a SSN for the Federal return though.
‘More than half the states in America have either banned or are expected to ban abortion after the supreme court returned regulation of abortion to the state level’
We what? I didn’t think anywhere had banned all abortions. Maybe elective abortions after x weeks or other conditions.
I think Louisiana did, and maybe one other state had a similar trigger law (not sure which, Missouri maybe). Pretty sure that’s it.
One Republican up here in Ohio introduced a bill that banned all abortion. It’s lying D-E-D in committee, and will most likely never make it out.
The media like to keep it unclear. By their definition, Europe bans abortions. Ban has become another word that has lost its meaning, like sexual assault. It could mean something real bad, or it could be nothing much at all.
*faints*
A location listed on Airbnb as a “slave cabin” was removed from the platform after a TikTok user spoke out against the company profiting from a former slave location.
Wynton Yates, a black lawyer from New Orleans, blasted Airbnb over the listing labeled “The Panther Burn Cottage at Belmont Plantation” in Greenville, Mississippi.
“If you were to see just the pictures of the inside of it, you’d have no idea [of] the history of that building, and I think for me, that is a mockery of the experience,” Yates told USA Today. “It is the continuation of erasing what the experience of slavery was.” …
According to USA Today, the property changed ownership last month. The new owner, Brad Hauser, said he opposed the previous owner’s decision to market the building as a place where enslaved people once slept. He said that the cabin had actually not been slave quarters, but just a doctor’s office.
Speaking of homestay places… So, to attend SP’s celebration of life, I searched on Travelocity for a place in the celebration’s city. A listing came up as Shinglehouse Cabin. Not knowing the name was referring to the city of Shinglehouse, 40+ minutes from the party, I booked it; it looked nice and had good reviews.
Last week I went to look at the map of where we’d be staying to get a feel, and discovered my error. I went to get a refund and to rebook to closer lodging, only to find that Travelocity had booked it themselves through VRBO, and to get a refund I needed to deal with VRBO with whom I don’t have an account. Rather than hassle with it, I decided to stick with the booking.
Driving up Saturday, I’d plugged the address into Waze, arrived at the street, or dirt road, rather. But where the address should have been, there was a field, and no driveway. The wife and I drove up and down the road a couple of times trying to figure this out with no luck. So I decided to call the host. No cell service. Had to drive 20 minutes away to get a signal so stopped at a restaurant to figure this out. I checked the map and address again to find I’d not messed up. I left a message with the host, on his cell, but didn’t really feel like he’d get it because… no cell service there. It’s been 3 days since and I’ve heard nothing from them.
I booked at another hotel which worked out infinitely better – right next door to a VFW.
Travelocity has been impossible to get ahold of regarding a credit. So I left a scathing review, hoping to get some response.
I’ve since, still feeling like I screwed up somehow, figured out where the cabin was. Across the road, where the odd-numbered houses are – the cabin address is even – and totally out of sequence from the other homes’ address numbers. It’s also down another road and out of sight of the address road.
But other than that it’s easy to find.
Sorry you had such a bad experience.
I’d go straight to the credit card company on this one.
This is good advice.
Thirded
Sorry.
There’s not much up by Shinglehouse. Some relatives of mine used to live in Potter County. Not much up there. I drove through Potter County on my way up to the SP’s service. I think it was the first time in 40 years that I had been through there.
Playa is correct.
We have rented private homes many times both in this country and others (I hate hotels) on VRBO and Air B&B in rural places usually. That’s inexcusable to not give proper detailed directions in that type of situation. It’s not people who live in the area that are renting the place, you shouldn’t have to go through that to find a house.
And in this particular case, there’s at least one and possibly 2 layers of fraud. Travelocity represented themselves as the agent when they clearly weren’t. And that’s assuming that this “house” is even real.
Yup PM, it sounds kinda fishy actually. At the very least it was made much harder due to the extra middleman thing with Travelocity. Even when we have rented places without regular numbered addresses on VRBO the owners made sure you had very clear directions of what to look for and how to get access.
The last time we had a dispute with a biz was during the summer of 2020 when the kids summer camp was closed due to the Vid panic. The camp tried to say they wouldn’t refund and would only give credit, for the following summer. No f’n way. After a few emails went nowhere we just got the card company to refund the charge. Took one call.
Bro…
Senator Michael Bennet appears to have stated he may make investments based on legislation negotiated in Senate.
“I’m not buying or selling any stocks based on [the reconciliation bill] because we don’t know where Sen. Sinema is going to be.”
They sure are getting ballsy lately.
Not Senator Sinema. AFAIK she is still a girl but all grown up.
I’m going with a poorly worded statement. You could insert “I’m not going to take it to the bank because we don’t know where Sen. Sinema is going to be.”
Or, you know, a slip revealing the truth.
I accept both as equally possible.
Give me all the pronouns.
And expect everyone to know which ones to use when, and be angry and offended when they don’t.
Don’t think you can escape by not using pronouns.
FACT CHECK
Maybe she should give her pronouns a break.
Tell me again how all this pronoun bullshit is something other than trendfuckers fucking the latest trends…
A little from the column of “Pay attention to me” and a little from “Do what I say or else”.
They can all fuck off.
All your pronoun are belong to us.
Get over yourself, Toots.
It’s worth pointing out that she started all of this nonsense after suffering severe brain damage.
When she OD’ed on fentanyl or whatever it was, her brain was without oxygen for several minutes.
What I’m saying is: this will all make perfect sense if you have severe brain damage.
Makes sense to me.
Which part?
All of it.
/snorts some fentanyl
This tiresome nonsense is why I prefer amateurnouns. They do it for the love of the game and that is it.
Have you tried antinouns?
Only once, but turns out I’m a proper noun, so there was a bit of an explosion.
Again! Do I have to always be reminded of the proverbial antinoun?
Retronouns are returning.
Looks like a flock of Connouns to me.
Hey, she made it into a Remy song.
Nitpick: Gilbert Grape was played by Johnny Depp. I didn’t think Bolsonaro would take Amber Heard’s side.
Never saw the movie. I don’t intend to.
Is he single?
Bolsonaro, Depp, DiCaprio, or Ted?
Bolsonaro. He’s a little crazy. He and heard would get along terrificly.
Next thing you’re going to tell me that River Phoenix is a different person too.
+1 Setec Astronomy
“Black coffee.”
“Do you want cream or sugar in your coffee?
🤦♂️
Squeeze – Black Coffee in Bed (Stereo)
https://youtu.be/t9QZhLSKEps
tempted is my favorite squeeze
I had that exact conversation the other day when I visited a coffee shop.
“I said strong and black, like my women.”
Ground up and in my freezer?
Black bear enters Connecticut home, raids snacks from kitchen
Nobody likes a braggart.
Just because the bear is black he “raids” the kitchen. You know if it was a polar bear the story would be written completely differently.
Polar bears just oppress the kitchen with their supremacy.
#meneither
Both make me smile. It’s about time someone stands up to those hypocrite elites.
The links are smarmy agitprop, natch.
If I buy from Tacos Al Cartel, am I supported the Drug Lords?
Many small businesses are just a front.
Any mattress shop is definitely a front.
LOL. There are three mattress stores I pass frequently – never seen any customer cars there during the day, just what is probably a employee’s car in the back.
Around here, in the suburbs, it turns out most of the little screwdriver computer shops were all money laundering fronts for the Russian mob. It explains why all the equipment was labelled in Cyrillic.
Did they add malware?
Not that I’m aware of, and the Cyrillic thing was mostly a joke… mostly. It was all off brand stuff that had the feel of counterfeit, and the software usually came sans box.
There used to be a bank building we’d pass by on the freeway called TRIAD FINANCIAL. so basically, “money laundering R Us” but in chinese.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/01/george-soros-vows-to-keep-backing-woke-das-despite-urban-crime-spikes/
Here’s the entire op-ed if anyone is interested.
I’d rather have my tongue nailed to a wagon wheel.
Know thine enemy…
I see a lot of handwaving.
That guy is going to be a brain in a jar ala Futurama, still causing trouble.
Also T.S. Eliot quote “Most of the evil in the world is done by people with good intentions…”
Soros’ intentions are not good. His entire corporate model is to sow social chaos via political and economic means, then pick up real property at fire-sale prices.
No doubt. Regardless of intentions he is a never-ending PIA.
👆👆
I’ve just come to the conclusion that he is an evil, greedy POS.
He proved that at 14 years old
Soros was totally against lockdowns, right?
“I swear I keep reading this story about avocado shortages yet have no trouble finding them in stores.”
They’ve even been on sale lately.
On a related note, has anyone heard from Suthen?
Not for a very long time.
His last posts here were in late May of this year.
That is a long time.
He popped in a couple of months ago.
Local RHINO state senator is in a spat with a challenger about his residency. The RHINO’s district was changed so he “moved” and his challenger is calling BS.
The only thing that makes it worthy of posting here is that his challenger is Lisa Hanson. She is the bar owner who was put in jail for 90 days for flouting King Walz’s lockdown.
I would vote four times for her. Just to see her go after the asshole judge and Walz.
Was there an actual “law” or was the good judge referring to a royal commandment?
The royal lockdown commandments from King Walz.
I love the fact that you have to let The Man convict you first before you can appeal to a higher court about the constitutionality of the law. I’m sure the higher court will take the position that “since there has already been a conviction, there has to be clear uncontrovertible proof before it can be overturned”
“You’re a liar, your honor.”
I don’t know how I’d be able to restrain myself in that situation.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fp1THm8Mec
AG suing Idaho over abortion. Interesting they are saying hospitals must provide emergency care to patients….this was lacking for the last 2 years for dirty unvaccinated organ donors if I remember.
New Zealand gets their inner Khmer Rouge on: government releases plan for managed retreat from some areas of the country in the face of “the inevitable effects of global heating.” And by managed, they mean managed by the government.
OFFS. Grandstanding and panic. Government at its finest.
Thank you massah!
Here’s how they (and we) should handle the “managed retreat”. Tell all coastal property owners that big daddy gubmint isn’t going to be so generous with rebuilding money anymore. If you want to live on the beach, you must accept the consequences if shit goes south.
You can take my Federal Flood Insurance from my cold, wet hands
Your terms are acceptable.
When shall we schedule you for deletion?
Insurance is one thing. The FEMA tsunami of cash after the fact is another.
I live in constant fear of Lake Erie rising up and swallowing the city.
“Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis
In the days leading up to the mandate, transportation officials were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.
Among other things, the court documents indicate:
No one in the COVID Recovery unit, including Jennifer Little, the director-general, had any formal education in epidemiology, medicine or public health.
Little, who has an undergraduate degree in literature from the University of Toronto, testified that there were 20 people in the unit.”
https://www.commonsense.news/p/court-documents-reveal-canadas-travel
TRUST THE EXPERTS!!!
And nothing else happened.
It better be at least medieval French literature or such.
News that should surprise no one here
Project Veritas released a newly leaked document today provided by an FBI whistleblower, which shows how the Bureau classifies American citizens it deems to be potential “Militia Violent Extremists” [MVEs].
In the document, the FBI cites symbols, images, phrases, events, and individuals that agents should look out for when identifying alleged domestic terrorists.
2A live free or die mothertruckers
Desiring accountability for murderous acts is rebellious.
Is ‘Fuck off, Tulpa!’ on there?
Ancaps are listed. Close enough.
“You wanted to make money over the interest of public safety,” Bueltel said while reading the verdict. “You don’t recognize the law. You don’t think you’re subject to the law.”
As she was escorted out, Hanson shouted, “Liberty and freedom!” as bailiffs led her away, according to a report.
Would.
Indeed.
I also had a brief fantasy about sticking that judge’s head in a public toilet and flushing it six or seven times…
“You wanted to make money over the interest of public safety,” Bueltel said while reading the verdict.
She wanted to survive economically. The judge didn’t want her to survive.
No one in the COVID Recovery unit, including Jennifer Little, the director-general, had any formal education in epidemiology, medicine or public health.
Little, who has an undergraduate degree in literature from the University of Toronto, testified that there were 20 people in the unit.”
She was a vessel for the holy spirit of SCIENCE!
I am stuffed.
I may or may not have had some carbs. No one tell Tres.
Shot sporting clays today.
Went here: http://quecreekrescue.org/index.php *
*Side note: I’m never going underground again.
Went to a winery.
Done for the day.
Sounds like a pleasant day. I worked, biked to a brewery, definitely had some carbs, and biked home.
I misread that as Queer Creek at first. 😐
Sounds like a good day.
You’re missing out if you never do Mammoth Cave though…
“New England Journal of Medicine: Unvaccinated COVID Patients Are Contagious for LESS Time Than those Vaxed or Boosted.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/22/unvaccinated-people-remain-contagious-with-covid-19-for-shorter-period-of-time/
Who knows?
I know. The vax is pure shit.
If it contradicts Fauci, then it must be correct.
Anecdotally, I recovered from COVID about four days quicker than my vaxxed and boosted GF.
Anecdotally, I am vaxxed and boosted (I’m in a high-risk group by age and my wife is by age and medical problems) and got over it it 2 days (omicron).
Our resort room has two tvs. Feeling like a proper shitlord.
I went to an actual bar, this afternoon, and had two beers. I spotted this little pool hall on a corner down in the “industrial zone” by the railroad tracks, and said, “That place looks interesting.”
I might go back some time when there are more than three people in there.
You’re missing out if you never do Mammoth Cave though…
Did that as a kid. When they turned out the lights…
DID
NOT
LIKE.
Wild Cave tour at Mammoth is best. They torture you for 4-6 hrs.
The part I will remember until death is the single file crawl with the roof about an inch above your head. You had a helmet because it would bump. Near the end, there was a narrow part where you had to turn your head sideways, it wouldnt fit vertically.
The exit of the crawl, you had to reach back and help the person behind you. I looked back, couldnt fing the hole. Then a head popped out of a teeny crack.
I never thought I was claustrophobic, until that day.
Yup. And at the end of that crawl, you have to make a 180° vertical U-turn with the same inch of clearance.
That move pretty much cured me of my claustrophobia.
Really? That was my favorite part.
I didn’t do the tour, though. I was with my little brother, my Dad, and one of Dad’s friends who originally mapped the Flint Ridge unification back in 1972. It was one of the formative experiences of my life.
Many years back, my wife and I did a tour of the Cave of the winds in Manitou Springs. She’s a bit of a claustrophobe, and was getting panicky long before the turned the lights off. Held onto my arm all through the tour and when the lights went out. she clamped down. I still have the nail marks…
Shot sporting clays today.
I did that a few times, a long time ago. It could be addictive.
The most important thing I figured out was, “You have more time than you think you do.”