A brief respite.
We are set to have the hottest August on record. This weekend, we briefly dip into the 80s. The downside is, it’s now cool enough to do deferred yard maintenance.
How about some links first?
I think I see where the situation went sideways..
Wouldn’t surprise me. We certainly deserve it. Well, not me, but the rest of you.
Remember the temporary “fuel surcharge” implemented by the airlines?
I’ll give you “head direction”.
I’m pretty sure this calls for wood chippers.
Courtesy of SugarFree.
So….they become zombies? Vampires?
Also…
Now they’re just making nonsense terms up.
That looks like one of those things that sounds good at the time but doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Or maybe trans people are really into life insurance fraud, I can’t really tell.
They become a statistic.
Charging people Hilton rates for prison stays does seem a bit over the top. Just another way to fuck over lower class people.
If prisoners are paying the costs of their own incarceration, then why are my taxes still so high?
FYTW
Rounding errors?
Also, Brittany Griner says “was sup?”
Interesting – I dont think I’d ever heard about that – and it certainly hasn’t come up in the discussions I’ve seen about criminal justice reform – unless I’ve missed them.
I do concur that it is despicable and far worse in practice IMO than cash bail.
That is some CCP level shit.
The hell is transmasculine?
Sounds like bullsbit.
Maybe the writer meant “transmogrify’.
Obligatory.
Posted to a dead thread.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5petLxrSbls
More retards flying with drugs? I got no sympathy. Did he deserve to die? Or course not, but it was all avoidable.
+1 Yemen
Rewriting history is fun!
“America’s role as the world’s police officer, resentful as that made some nations feel (everyone remembers the term “ugly American”), kept the world in check.”
Here’s a rifle and a plane ticket shitdick, now get to it or shut the fuck up.
It’s a weekend, and I’m home. I’ll kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Third thing tonight at 20:00 Eastern. As next weekend is a holiday, I’ll kick off the waiting room free meeting next Friday and leave it up.
Are you eating bugs? It’d be a lot cooler if you did.
I could get pretty fat on mormon crickets this year.
Er, “mormon crickets”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cricket
There’s was an invasion this year.
When it get’s down to -20F here in the winter, I need to remind myself that is why we don’t have shit like that.
Nooooo, not a Harvard graduate!!! Why couldn’t it have been some community college loser instead?
I’m bringing this over from the dead thread. The long covid story link is there.
Based on the average U.S. wage of $1,106 per week, the report estimates that 3 million people out of work due to condition translates to $168 billion a year in lost earnings. If 4 million long Covid patients are out of work, the lost earnings could be as high as $230 billion, the report says.
We need to get that money into circulation, to bring inflation down!
Can’t read it because it’s behind a paywall, but did “Wall Street Journal Articles” make the list?
Dammit. I checked to make sure it wasn’t.
I got in.
And no, WSJ has always charged for its content, although they may put stuff out for free at their discretion.
Subscribers can share a link to let everyone in, but apparently Spud has trouble with this.
I remember when people said it would be cheaper to send criminals to Harvard than to put them in jail.
Does that include the lifetime cost of the high-dollar Harvard parasite-on-society?
Domestically, politicians in opposing parties actually reached across the aisle and compromised on what was best for the country; elections were generally not contested; and the experiment in democracy set out by the founders of the US in the late 18th century proved to be sustainable. Or so we all thought.
– Continue reading –
No thanks.
“compromised on what was best for the country”
Good Lord.
“elections were generally not contested”
Oh, FFS.
Respite!? Gawddamit, I wanted links of repose!!11
Honestly, I expected more spite.
That’s me on Zoom.
I love how “reaching across the aisle” is uniformly construed as “Republicans agreeing to do what Democrats want because Democrats are like really smart and kind and empathetic and stuff.”
Last night I was at Ye Olde Brewpub for Happy Hour. There was a married couple two seats or so down from me. The husband was flipping off the TV and cursing the TV every time a Republican ad came on. At one point I overheard him say to his wife, “I used to be a middle of the road moderate. What radicalized me? The Republicans went insane when Obama was elected.”
Somehow the left got it in their minds that democrats have been marching rightward. Im not sure whwre they got this idea? I guess because outright communism hasnt been declared.
My dad and I were talking today about how unhappy we are with the political landscape right now. Everyone is just so angry and hateful, “owning the other team” is all it seem their cheerleaders care about. There doesnt seem to be anyone that can fix it, left or right. Trump or Desantis, as much as I do agree with some of their policies, arent going to do anything to heal the divide.
Which brings me to the next thought, Is it even the republicans fault? Why do they need to be the peace keepers? Republicans arent really ramping up the hate and fear I see, thats all being pushed by the media and TPTB.
What could a republican even do to help? Seems that liberals just arent happy unless its a milquetoast go along to get along republican like McCain, or Romney aka a corporatist politician that plays the deep state game. And thats how we got here to begin with, people were tired of constantly being pushed further left. Just givr and give and give while getting called idiots and deplorables. So they got mean. And here we are.
From what I have seen, there was a real belief that Obama should have been supported across the board. And that any dissent from what he wanted was racism, straight up. And because of this, they shut off all contact with conservatives. They have zero idea what the right thinks or believes at this point.
The left cannot get their heads around the fact that ANYONE on the left would have won after Bush.
The media pushed the narrative that Obama was a centrist. As an example, I was a subscriber to “The Economist” at the time. Obama as a centrist was prominent there. “The Economist” wasn’t the only news outlet that pushed that narrative.
I remember that. I was still mostly Dem then, and even I was going WTF?
This is all on the left, and their projection. The right is going to get sick of it sooner or later. They have been remarkably complacent so far.
That and one side owns the media and is (deeper) in bed with the administrative state. Look at the Jan 6 participants. All of that plus the kid gloves for antifa shows what would happen if they lashed out in a similar manner.
The problem with left is that any sort of feedback or short circuiting mechanism has been broken. The last 2-14 years has been, why not, who’s going to stop us?
You cannot heal the divide without eliminating the sources of it, namely the administrative state and government schools, including federal loans and research grants.
arent going to do anything to heal the divide
The worst thing possible for liberty would be for that division to be healed. The Dems and establishment GOP hate you and want you dead.
Iran has very little outward division. Same with North Korea. Same with Cuba. The divide here in America is good. Bitter division just means the Left hasn’t won enough power yet to put dissenters in reeducation camps.
Good point. The divide exists because the left has gone batshit insane – and they control every institution that matters.
I agree with this point as well. Any time a politician reaches across the aisle, it means we are getting screwed harder.
I dunno everything just feels like its coming to a head. Masks are flying off left and right, and sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading the takes i see on reddit and other social media sites, web articles etc.
I just want to be left alone and to keep my money and property dammit
Why so selfish?
Fuck.
You’re not my supervisor!!!
Oh…wait…
Insightful as all getout
Central banks will fail to control inflation and could even push price growth higher unless governments start playing their part with more prudent budget policies, according to a study presented to policymakers at the Jackson Hole conference in the United States.
No shit, Shirley?
Red Roof Inn still exists?
The wife and I stayed at one in Myrtle Beach about a decade ago in our last vacation before the first kid arrived. It wasn’t bad. We spent about 6 hours one afternoon and early evening shooting pool at the bar next door, called Daisy Dukes, getting invited to round after round of shots by a large friendly group, and eating pretty decent bar food. All fried of course. The shots snuck up, we called it an early night, handed over a bucket of sealed beers to another group, and stumbled back to our room. At some point, I ended falling backwards into the toilet while trying to get into the shower. Haven’t drank like that since then, but it was a fun time.
My head’s throbbing just reading this.
We parked at some bar on the beach when we were there a month ago….and similar results. Even tried to stream it on the zooms but connection was bad. And was a blast.
I stayed at one 10 years ago in the St. Louis area when I was preparing my mom’s house for sale. It OK for a cheap hotel. It had a nice desk area in the room.
It was also next door to a Hooters.
It was also next door to a Hooters.
Bonus!
I’m coming down from some rage. Teen #2 a year ago asked to get ears pierced and after setting conditions (no stretching or other piercings) he went and pierced his nose holes. It’s not the end of the world its disrespect of the house. Maybe another beer and getting Saturday night bbq/pool/fire pit ready will help
Three(?) words:
Cat-o-nine-tails.
I was in college when I got my first ear piercing so all I got was an eye-roll from mom.
I was a lousy teen rebel.
Clip a chain to the nosering(s)
Is each nostril pierced, or is it a bull ring?
My best friend and his wife have that. It looks ridiculous.
Was wondering the same – I don’t think I’ve ever seen double nose rings.
I have, but only with people who really love the goth/freak lifestyle.
And, yes. The bull ring is lame. I remember seeing it during the grunge piercing era, and it was lame then too, like most eyebrow and lip piercings.
Bull ring.
Tie it down to a stake in the backyard.
Well, now you have something to lead him around with.
Florida Man gets the seven year itch about 6.98 years early.
Something tells me he’s going to be in Dutch with the missus.
He was just trying to spice up his stale marriage.
He got married, the BJs stopped. Can you really blame the guy?
LOL.
Fucking sovereignty- how does it work?
Despite having a Republican governor, Virginia is on track to adopt the new Californian restrictions on the sale of gas-powered vehicles.
The California Air Resources Board issued the rule and held a final hearing this week requiring all new cars sold after 2035 to be electric. According to the same plan, 35% of cars sold in the state should be fossil-fuel free as soon as 2026.
Virginia will follow California due to a 2021 law signed by former Gov. Ralph Northam that tied Virginia to the Golden State’s emissions regulations.
“In 2021, Governor Northam and the far-left controlled General Assembly signed a law that binds Virginia to California’s emission vehicle regulations, which, among other things, bans the sale of gas-powered cars in Virginia by 2035,” a spokesperson for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares’ office said in a statement to Fox 5 DC.
The spokesperson added, “The Attorney General is hopeful that the General Assembly repeals this law and discontinues any trend that makes Virginia more like California. Unelected California bureaucrats should not be dictating the will of Virginians.”
Legislator Barbie says, “Thinking for yourself is hard.”
Suicide pact.
Narrator: Neither of these things is actually going to happen.
“35% of cars sold in the state should be fossil-fuel free as soon as 2026”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
So if by November only 10% of the cars are EV, does that mean you can’t sell any ICE vehicles in December?
They let Cali set their emissions regs? That’s so damn pathetic…for gods sake Virginia.
Apropos: CARB, ZEV, and smile states.
It has been a somewhat unusual summer. More heat waves than usual, hardly any rain.
Doom!
Retard free-for-all
Country music star Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany, responded to the backlash she received on Instagram this week from singers within the country music community following a “get ready with me” post where she thanked her parents for not changing her gender.
Brittany created a video reel on the platform where she showed her two million followers how she transforms from a relatively makeup-free face into fully ready glam with the flick of a foundation brush while Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “Upgrade U” played on the clip.
She captioned the post, “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life.”
So hateful.
Lesson learned: get off Instagram.
Narrator: Neither of these things is actually going to happen.
But it’s right there in the plan.
If only we were as good at carrying out our five-year plans as some other countries. Let’s make it happen, America!
https://www.wfmz.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/illinois-voters-may-opt-to-vote-by-mail-in-all-elections/article_1283b280-efaf-52ce-89af-64cc7ffb25fb.html
No.
No.
No.
In AZ, you have to opt out of mail ballots.
100% Repub Gov. and Legislature since forever, too.
They laugh at your silly ideas about “chain of custody”.
Lead Photo: I can’t sit on my grandma’s couch the same way ever again.
Nice music choice!
Red Roof Inn still exists?
Yes. I stayed at one during my FreedomFest 2021 road trip.
All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars, though not every state actually pursues people for the money. Supporters say the collections are a legitimate way for states to recoup millions of taxpayer dollars spent on prisons and jails.
Maybe instead of prison we should a) repeal all laws criminalizing activity where there is no criminal (i.e. drug laws) and b) bring back the weregild.
BEAM, if you’re out there, I saw the post on the dedthread about your aunt and uncle. Sorry.
I’m out there (at least according to the Spousal Unit).
Thanks, mang.
I’m out there (at least according to the Spousal Unit).
🙂
Thanks, mang.
you’re welcome!
“ARIES SPEARS CATCHES HEAT FOR TRASHING LIZZO, SAYS ‘SHE LOOKS LIKE THE SH*T EMOJI’”
https://www.outkick.com/aries-spears-catches-heat-for-trashing-lizzo-says-she-looks-like-the-sht-emoji/
Don’t know who Lizzie is but that’s funny.
Er, Lizzo…
One of the Lizzo people.
Stop it, the world. I can’t take any more crap like this.
It’s certainly not the art of grammar.
I look forward to P90X Twerkin’ Edition
Too local news: Anti-Sununu vote in NH?
Right-wing Republicans insist there is a secret anti-Sununu vote among the party’s base ready to topple “Sun-King Sununu.”
Democrats send out daily press releases touting state Sen. Tom Sherman’s fundraising success and a poll they claim showed the Rye Democrat just a point behind Sununu.
With the midterm momentum appearing to shift toward the Democrats and pr0-Trump Republicans on the rise in his own party, is three-term Gov. Chris Sununu in any trouble?
“One hundred percent ‘yes,’” said Thad Riley. He’s one of the Republicans challenging Sununu in the September 13 GOP primary. “It’s the conservatives. They’re ready for a change. I just attended my 68th Republican event. Organizers tell me that when I’m on the program, they get their biggest crowds.
“I feel this unwavering support from the people at these events. They all want to know, ‘How can I help you win?’”
And Riley’s already had a “win.” He got 71 percent of the vote in a straw poll at a Coos County GOP event last week.
Too Local News: Update on the Bitcoin 6
Renee Spinella, charged in the federal wire-fraud case centered on Free Keene’s Ian Freeman, will not go to jail as part of her plea agreement.
Spinella, 26, was sentenced to three years of supervised release on Thursday in United States District Court in Concord for her role in the money laundering and wire fraud scheme.
Spinella is one of six people charged in the alleged multi-million scheme, and currently one of three people to take plea deals. Her husband, Andrew Spinella, 36, pleaded guilty earlier this year and is awaiting sentencing. Free Keene activist Nobody, formerly Rich Paul, 55, was sentenced to two years of supervised release last month.
I’ve got a serious moral problem with charging inmates for their incarceration.
The compact with the state allows them to initiate force in order to protect our rights, but broader society has to bear some of that burden or it is incentivized to let the state run rampant.
There should be no private prisons and no billing to those who are incarcerated. If we collectively choose to use force against individuals, we must bear the responsibility and costs of such in a collective manner.
I agree with this, with the exception of private prisons. As long as the prisoners are treated safely and humanely, I could care less if it is a private company. It isn’t like state-run prisons are some bastion of well-run safe-havens. I mean, look at Corcoran out in CA, where Manson was. The guards were having chicken fights with prisoners, for Christ’s sake.
I struggle with allowing the state to delegate and transfer its power to initiate force.
We have a long history of armed guards who are not agents of the state. And a long history of agents of the state being thugs.
#metoo & I didn’t even know this was a thing.
The answer to lowering the cost of incarceration is to stop incarcerating people for victimless “crimes”.
There should be no
privateprisonsI’m not a big fan of prisons at all. My preferred approach would be to end all victimless crimes as crimes. Committers of non-violent crimes or involuntary violent crimes should be out in society working to repay restitution to their victims. Those who commit serious violent crimes, including rape, armed robbery, and murder, should be put down. There should be no reason for long-term incarceration requiring prison for anyone.
I realize I’m outlier among Glibs and libertarians for advocating an increase in the use of the death penalty. I’m not convinced that having the government steal from my pocket at gunpoint to pay for the incarceration of rapists and murderers is any more liberty-friendly than executing murderers. Such a system would also come with reforms like public defenders having the same budget as prosecutors and prosecutors being banned from becoming judges or running for any elected office. And any prosecutor found guilty of withholding or tampering with evidence would receive the same penalty that was being faced by the accused.
We need penal colonies. There is something particularly inhumane about trying to calculate how much of one’s life we’ll steal from someone and lock them in a cage, particularly for many of the already mentioned victimless crimes that the state loves so much.
There should be no private prisons and no billing to those who are incarcerated. If we collectively choose to use force against individuals, we must bear the responsibility and costs of such in a collective manner.
If prisoners are going t be forced to pay somebody, the money should go to their victims as restitution.
How is “justice” served by completely disassociating the punishment from the damage inflicted on the victim?
It isn’t. It’s been turned into a profit center for the government and its cronies.
Terrible, terrible incentives for the gov and the prison systems. Most things would do much better privatized but prisons aren’t one of those things.
The Pennsylvania judges who were sending kids to juvie for kickbacks is a prime example of such.
I would have sentenced those pieces of shit to public hangings. That betrayal of the public trust is beyond the pale.
I would have sentenced those pieces of shit to public hangings. That betrayal of the public trust is beyond the pale.
#metoo
The real victim is the State, which the criminal defied and disobeyed.
There’s a reason every criminal case is State v __________.
I haven’t dropped enough acid for King Crimson tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCnzDy2tSk0
I kind of want to try acid again. It’s been a couple decades.
Ever since I read about MDMA being used as an empathogen to treat PTSD, I’ve been very curious about it, but I’d only wanna try it under under full medical supervision (and a known pharma source for the drug). I have . . . some issues from my youth that I’ve never fully worked through.
“under under”
Heh. Typing be hard, yo.
Ecstasy is really nice. I would try it again any day, if I were adventurous enough to seek it out (I’m not). No side effects from the few times I tried it.
A friend of mine is going to be undergoing Ketamine therapy for undiagnosed chronic pain. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t interested…
You should be able to do it under supervision but it might depend on the state and whether they have ongoing studies right now. Seen a lot of stuff about it the last few years re: vets.
I haven’t dropped enough acid for King Crimson tonight.
I’d need several lifetimes.
What was the story recently about the group of jail guards selling “access” to female prisoners? I can’t recall the specifics, but I would willingly suspend my opposition to the death penalty in a case like that.
I thought this was an interesting essay on the real-life bank robbery that inspired Pacino’s “Dog Day Afternoon”: https://www.city-journal.org/the-deacon-and-the-dog
Continuing with the dancing theme today.
This is not sped up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJAgo51QRQ
I believe it.
This is at 300 or so beats per minute. Also not sped up.
I would break a hip if I tried any of that.
Those legs…
Exactly
Cirque is like porn, the “plot” is just to get you to the action.
The media pushed the narrative that Obama was a centrist. As an example, I was a subscriber to “The Economist” at the time. Obama as a centrist was prominent there. “The Economist” wasn’t the only news outlet that pushed that narrative.
I remember that. The incessant obsequious ass-licking completely destroyed my respect for the Economist. My dad gave me a gift subscription one year, some time after that, and I never even opened them. When he asked if I wanted it renewed, I said no.
I actually lost most of my respect for The Economist back in the early 90s when they started jumping on the global warming bandwagon; Scientific American started down the path of darkness at about the same time.
They’re both useless publications now, IMO. I still miss the old “Schools Brief” that showed up in The Economist from time-to-time; some of the best info you could get on economics topics, masterfully distilled into a page of text.
I enjoyed the snarky captions of the late 90’s/early 00’s. I think the scales from my eyes first as their competence (along with much of the media) dropped precipitously and second as their writers came out from the veil of anonymity and turned out to be know nothing pimply faced youths.
I liked Robert Guests’ Africa coverage.
“The Economist” was bad on guns too… but on the other hand, they are Brits.
https://youtu.be/9KJSnd8VzQw
” Obama as a centrist”
It worked too. I was in France in 2012, chatted a bit with our French tour guide and he told me Obama was considered a “right of center” politician.
WTF?
Huh. I think I like it.
That’s probably the most famous sculpture in the National Cathedral, even if it’s hard to spot.
Which is a goddamn shame, because Frederick Hart’s Ex Nihilo is an absolute masterwork.
Hart did the Three Soldiers set of statues that’s between the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, too.
That’s fantastic, thanks for linking it. I was not aware of him or the work.
Well, if you (or any other Glib) are ever in Nashville with a couple of hours to kill, the Frederick Hart Museum is a re-creation of Hart’s studio and is in the library at tiny Belmont University. Five bucks gets you access to hundreds of original works.
A lot of art types will deride Hart’s work, especially his acrylics, as the sculptural equivalent of Thomas Kinkade paintings. Guess I’m not an art type.
Thank you also. I knew his Three Soldiers but not him as an artist. The statue has grown on me over the years.
We are Fir-irst We are Fir-irst We ARE THE FIR-IRST
IN THE WORLD
Y’all need Jesus.
And if you are in the camp that thinks it’s spelled “Ya’ll”, then even Jesus can’t help you.
Ha! Awesome.
When I moved to Minnesota in 1999, they teased me for my use of “y’all”, thinking that it was interchangeable with “you”. So I explained the difference:
“Y’all” is you all, and refers in a general way to everyone in a group, even if not physically present.
When gestures are involved, y’all means just the ones induced in the gesture. A subset, if you will. Example: “y’all three get the generator set up for the test. “
A sweeping gesture while saying “All y’all” means every one of them.
Y’all is NEVER singular; that’s just silly.
The next time someone teased me about “y’all”, I said “Oh I’m sorry; I meant ‘you assholes’.”
There were no further objections.
I’m going to try a church in Pahrump tomorrow. I’m going in blind, except that I know the Catholic churches and the Mormon church are not for me.
It will be a bit of a chore; my husband requires good worship music, because that’s a big part of the experience for him (he played bass in the church in Minnesota for over 10 years, and frequently led when they needed a sub.)
For me, it’s scriptural soundness and intellectual pursuit of truth that matters most.
The two aren’t always compatible. The search might take some time…
+1 Ernest Angley
Here’s a libertarian song to cap off the night.
https://youtu.be/9o0rAvZtM7w
https://youtu.be/LVhJy-CR64Q
There we go.
Classic.
I was expecting Freewill.
*ducks*
https://youtu.be/LBYZoc9lnvE
USC (east) needs a new nickname for their live mascot. Much hilarity ensues.
Next to puns and dad jokes, juvenile humor is best humor.
Cocky McCockface, of course
-‘Triple Threat’? Man Diagnosed With HIV, COVID, & Monkeypox At Same Time
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/triple-threat-man-diagnosed-hiv-covid-monkeypox-same-time
No word on if he also acts, sings, and dances.
Ruby Keeler was a triple threat: she couldn’t sing, she couldn’t dance, and she couldn’t act.
Would also accept handsome, witty, and rich.
But I wouldn’t accept this guy now. I’m pretty sure I’m not his type anyway.
Maybe he’s only a little gay.
I don’t think GT is into gay midgets.
You are absolutely correct, sir.
Homophobe!
Crack whores have more sense than that walking contagion factory.
He just needs some vaccines.
Mornin
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S, and Stinky!
Didn’t wake up as early as I did yesterday, but early enough to catch a lovely morning here at Tranq Base. Just hoping it won’t get too hot before noon. Time to fire up my Sunday morning classical music shows! 😃🎶
😀☕
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/1-dead-2-wounded-in-shooting-at-toms-river-shopping-center/ar-AA11ammw
Clearly, NJ needs more gun control laws.
Clearly.
Indiana guns, of course.
Of course. They grow on trees there.
https://ktla.com/news/three-people-injured-after-temple-shooting-in-stockton/
Clearly, CA needs more gun control laws.
Clearly.
To be fair, it’s Stockton. That place would drive anyone to murder.
https://nationaltoday.com/national-red-wine-day/
Happy national red wine day!
🍷🍷
Sexist! We all know women prefer Moscato and White Claw.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqiP-9BDRk
Owls.
My sister thinks owls are creepy, thanks to the movie The Fourth Kind. It’s become a running joke between us.
Two summers ago, I was walking the down and suddenly saw a large shadow move past us. I looked up to see this.
https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/referee-shortage-could-put-an-end-to-some-states-friday-night-lights
Referee shortages. (Not midget related.)