Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another absolutely wonderful day and the links!
The Cheney dynasty is over, thrown in the ash heap of history with Bush and Clinton
Unfortunately, she’s completely fucking delusional.
Seriously, out of her fucking mind.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka advance in Alaska Senate race
Biden signs massive spending and tax bill into law while we are in an inflationary recession
Border encounters in July soar 325% from Trump administration average
Biden Takes Credit for law signed by Trump
“Dr Doom” Nouriel Roubini dumps almost entire stock portfolio
Fifth set of human remains is found in Lake Mead
Co-pilot, 23, jumped to his death from aircraft
Wolfgang Petersen, director of ‘The Never Ending Story’ dies at 81
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song dedicated to the Cheney’s and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Ding Dong the bitch is dead.
Hey! I think I liked The Never Ending Story as a kid. I honestly remember nothing about that movie.
I remember thinking the title was apt and being bored out of my skull.
The title was fraudulent!
sin,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL_pRiXov7Q
I wasn’t referring to Wulfgang.
https://youtu.be/2WN0T-Ee3q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHukzSIOw8
I read maybe half the book. Never saw the movie but I do remember this.
15 minutes is a long time to remember.
She could have gone with *Das Boot*.
That one and NES were the highlights when I visited the movie studio in Munich where those were made.
Das Boot was wonderful. And brutally depressing too.
And Teds is corrects.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
E-girls / 「THE NEVER ENDING STORY ～君に秘密を教えよう～」 -Long ver.-
https://youtu.be/DyfHGxdRUkE
Short version: https://youtu.be/Fsa8qCQJ1gg
YMCA
I think I liked it. Just because it was so fantastical, more like imagination fuel than a good story…
The weird thing about Cheney is that was pretty conservative on a lot of stuff. She seems to be another person whose brain was broken by Trump. I wonder how much Cheney (& others like CATO) could have got done if they’d said, “look there’s a lot of things about Trump we despise, but we can work with him on X & Y.”
Since He entered office as a squish and a reputation as a deal-maker, they could have walked all over his bona-fides by getting compromises of red-line issues had they not lost their minds, just because he would have called a deal a victory when it was worse than status quo.
It’s not about the politicians. It’s about the agencies, and the agencies despise Trump, absolutely loathe him. They would JFK him if they thought they could get away with it.
The pols and think tanks are just picking sides in the war between the administrative state and the people.
“They would JFK him if they thought they could get away with it.”
Scruffy is Steve Bannon confirmed.
It’s hard out here for a hobo.
ATOMIC HOBO
Not a good look. My friend Tom looked like that right before he died.
I see what you’re talking about. Those wide-open window curtains are a sniper’s dream.
Hell, if the Dems were smart they would have whispered into his ear about how legendary his administration would be if he made a Deal with them on gun control, the budget, etc. and Donald would have gone for it.
… if the Dems were smart…
I think I see the problem…
Yes he would have.
I never noticed it before, but JFK can stand for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or Just Fucking Kill.
Or, “jumping’ frijoles, Karen!”
So much this.
If they really wanted to get something done, they should have played to his ego. Instead they went the opposite direction.
That is truly WTF worthy.
Yeah, and it just gets weirder.
Bizarre.
I wonder if he has a family history of mental illness.
Fear is the mind-killer.
It sounds like a panic attack. Having never experienced one, but having seen it up close, it is plausible.
I had a very smart and confident coworker who had a panic attack. He was convinced it was a heart attack. I drove him to the hospital and he was really far from being able to make rational choices. I totally could have seen him jumping out of the car in traffic…
Good morning everyone. I’m off to work to make breakfast for all the wonderful folk in this bucolic town that I am not firmly convinced is real yet. I hope y’all have a wonderful day.
Stay out of the corn fields.
It’s real insofar as a town physically exists there.
If there is a dark side or a seedy underbelly, well, I can’t speak to that beyond the infestation of universities which tend to breed evil.
I’m pretty sure it might be a massive Genestealer coven. Or, maybe one of those towns where infiltrators are trained; like in The Experts. Hell, it could even be reboot of <a href="https://youtu.be/_qW6rSpJQ1Y" title="The Village” target=”_blank” >The Village
Oh that’s unfounded. To put your fears to rest, there’s a meeting of the Church of the Four-Armed Emperor at the univerisity you might want to attend…
Ooh!! There is a genuine Games Workshop retail store in one of the nearish places (Rochester maybe?) to which we have to drive to get restaurant supplies. I thought those had all closed; the outlets in NYC gave up years ago.
I stumbled onto it on the day they were doing previews of the contrast paints before those first came out. It’s somewhere in the suburbs east of Rochester.
Don’t know about the town, but Hops IS Real.
Seriously, New York?
Well… it’s not wrong, considering it’s a brewery site.
What is wrong is blocking the site because of that reason.
You left NYC?
Yeah… went out to Western NY, tiny college town near the Finger Lakes. Everybody knows everybody, many are related to one another, and nobody locks their doors.
For me that would be a big improvement in scenery.
USPSA NYS Championship in Rush this weekend! Evil Sheldon and I will be there, come say hi if you can figure out which ones we are. I won’t have my monocle, but I will be wearing a glibs jersey.
I do not have a jersey any more, but I may be wearing a Cowboy Bebop t-shirt.
Original, or NetFlix adaptation?
There was a Netflix adaptation?
Well, it’s a common meme…
ES – Nice.
Will you be shooting a Jericho?
Jeez, I almost should. My Shadow 2 will have to be close enough.
I did change it back to Production mode though. Carry Optics with 10-round mags is a downer.
Practiscore still has you CO (if you are who I think you are — squad 202?)
Squad 202. Dunno why they didn’t switch me over to Production…
Because the change management heam hasn’t signed off on the migration request, so you’re not getting out of UAT any time soon?
You’re the highest-classed person in the squad, unless one of that pile of Us is slumming it from their normal division. Not sure why you’d do that at a major though.
Also, laser-engraved polymer looks terrible.
You’ll be happier, but everyone knowing everyone shrinks the gene pool. Good to hear that you made the move and are transitioning (into a less urban setting)
everyone knowing everyone shrinks the gene pool.
He’s doing his part to expand the gene pool.
Good luck. I hear the boss is a real asshole. 😉
lobot reporting for work
https://youtu.be/2agDWVNi23U&t=27s
🙂
Avoid the redheaded kid. He’s weird.
Man-of-the-People-in-Chief
In remarks, Biden noted that every Republican in Congress voted against the measure.
“Let’s be clear. In this historic moment, Democrats sided with the American people and every single Republican in the Congress sided with a special interest in this vote,” he said. “Every single one.”
Right.
I hate him.
51-50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8Ncoenewg
So, divided senate vote, or just plain crazy
“Thanks for the endorsement, Joe!” say the Republicans presuming they have sense. “Biden and ALL the Democrats think throwing you back $2k at best if you spend near $100k is ‘helping the middle class’. They think raising taxes on struggling businesses and your families, and hiring over 80000 new IRS agents to enforce it is what you need to get through a recession. They think crippling the energy industry helps you get to work, helps your groceries make it to the store, helps America get working. Biden and the Democrats want you poor, they want you desperate, they want you to be their peasants to look over in their castles.”
I apparently am not an American person. Who knew?
You’re worse than that. You’re evil because you do not unquestioningly support the Praetorian Guard.
I was going to joke “If you don’t vote for me, you’re a traitor!” (ala “You ain’t black!”)… but in the current climate… frankly, it doesn’t seem like a joke. I could see them pushing that narrative after the “unvaccinated are the wreckers and kulaks!” push last year and all.
I just really hope: 1) There aren’t enough True Believer Blue Koolaid drinkers out there (I know part of it is that they dominate social and other media so it seems like they’re everywhere… but there does seem to be a chunk that would vote for Lucifer (D)) to keep the Dems in play.
2) The Short Attention Span theater doesn’t come into play and folks remember not just the inflation, but the mandates, the Afghanistan withdrawal and every other way this crop of incompetent grifters has shanked this country over the last couple of years. Add this new law to the pile, but they have a lot to answer for and I hope folks remember. Because I don’t have faith that the Stupid Party will remind them properly.
vote for Lucifer (D) and his running mate Hitler (D)
It’s Lucy Ferr, and she’s got all the intersectional boxes checked!
They are pretty good with the memory hole.
Afghanistan is gone. Bidens lockdowns are completely forgotten. Heck, the BLM/Antifa riots are largely forgotten.
The push to change the subject is really strong. Abortion and Jan 6 dominate the national story these days… unless you watch or read something other than CNN, NBC, NYT, etc.
Given the ratings for CNN, and NBC and the distribution numbers for the NYT, I don’t think very many people follow them at all.
From what I can see, abortion and Jan6 have been pushed aside by Trump nukular spyer with the nukular codes stuffed in his socks drawer.
Well, cronies *are* technically “American people”.
Democrats sided with the American people and every single Republican in the Congress sided with a special interest in this vote
The special interest in not flooring it over the tax/print/spend inflation cliff?
I’ll give the 5G nutbaggers credit, they’re persistent. Stupid, but persistent.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-5g-war-technology-versus-humanity_4665181.html
The X-Files did an episode on that kind of thing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751106/?ref_=fn_ep_tt_11
I remember that episode.
Bryan Cranston was the guest star of the week.
Was it his break-out role? Was he good or bad?
Yeah, it was all the electricity — nothing else like mechanization, TV and difference in “relaxation” habits, diet changes happened out in the rural areas… Nah… all the magnetic fields, MAN!
I still like air conditioning.
“Biden signs massive spending and tax bill into law while we are in an inflationary recession”
America is the most illiterate country. The communists never studied Marx, and the Keynesians haven’t read Keynes.
We’ve had military intelligence for a long time, why not inflationary recession?
Jumbo Shrimp!
I think Liz Cheney should grow her whiskers out, if she wants to run for President.
Do lesbians have beards?
Wrong Cheney. You’re thinking of her sister Lez
On Monday, Roubini told Bloomberg that the Federal Reserve needed to make significant financial adjustments to stave off serious consequences.
He suggested that to stave-off inflation, a doubling of the Fed’s current interest rate was needed – but admitted that taking that step would cause a ‘hard-landing’ recession as the US economy contracts.
Positive real interest rate? That’s crazy.
SJWednesday: Classic Word Salad Edition
I too was born a poor black child.
Did anyone offer you a job?
That brother gonna get his ass whipped on the street talkin’ like that.
I tapped out laughing after the first paragraph.
Yup, we’ve really come a long way in our understanding and treatment of mental illness.
“Whereas black cisgender men have generally approached feminist discourse through the academic texts and writings of black women,”
Yeah, she has never met a black dude.
I think Liz Cheney should grow her whiskers out, if she wants to run for President.
She needs to work on that BMI, too
Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost her Tuesday primary challenge from Harriet Hageman, less than a year-and-a-half after she was removed from House GOP leadership for her continued criticisms of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
The witch is dead.
Liz is just like Lincoln. Warmongering asshole who’ll do anything to gain and keep power. She’s not wrong.
Dishonest Abe, Lying Liz.
Sic semper tyrannis!
“The primary election is over,” she said in a defiant concession speech in Jackson, Wyo. “But now the real work begins.”
“I can finally leave this deplorable backwater state.”
The “real work” she’s referring to, as pointed out by Dave Smith:
Liz Cheney still has a bright future. She can do so many things: CNN contributor, spokeswoman for a weapons company, work at a think tank funded by said weapons company. The sky’s the limit.
Token “Republican” on panel show. She has months of experience in that role.
Did Liz also praise Lincoln’s suspension of habeus corpus, and say he was the inspiration for the imprisonment without bail of J6 detainees?
Maybe she wants to imprison the legislature of Maryland and level Atlanta.
I would not be opposed to imprisoning the legislature of Maryland, or New York.
Or just generally start a civil war that will kill hundreds of thousands of people and destroy what little is left of the Republic.
Secession happened before he was sworn in. Gotta get out in cause he said mean things about debutant balls and mint juleps.
I thought debutant’s having balls was a SJW thing.
If by start you mean South Carolina declaring secession before he was inaugurated and the Confederacy bombarding a Federal fort before anyone from the Union fired a shot, then Lincoln getting elected and reacting to that, then yeah I guess you could say he started it.
They fired on the fort because the US government intended to enforce the tariff regardless of secession and dispatched a forced to do so. Pre-emptive strike was pre-emptive and hardly warranted a full scale invasion of Virginia.
the Confederacy bombarding a Federal fort
After secession, that would be a fort occupied by a foreign army without permission.
At least, from the perspective of South Carolina.
It all starts with whether you think secession was valid. The Constitution is silent on it (at least, nothing explicit either way), which gives considerable . . . freedom for each side to argue their corner.
She also quoted Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address and claimed that Americans’ “highest duty” is to “protect the foundations of this constitutional republic.”
By destroying it from within, I presume.
“We must be very clear-eyed about the threat we face and about what is required to defeat it. I have said since January 6, that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office,” Cheney said.
All I am hearing is that Trump or someone like him must win in 2024.
“They are angry and they are determined. But they have not seen anything like the power of Americans United in defense of our Constitution and committed to the cause of freedom.”
It grinds my gears how these cuntes wrap themselves in the Constitution that they are bent on destroying.
If nothing else they can just indict Trump on made up charges and hold him in pre-trial solitary confinement through 2024 to prevent him from campaigning.
Like Biden in 2020?
SJWednesday: Foolywang Edition
Why would illegal aliens want to go to Texas when New York offers them more benefits? Will Adams send the Gestapo to round them up and put them on the buses?
Mayor Adams isn’t threatening to bus Illegals to Texas, he’s threatening to bus volunteer campaign workers to campaign against Gov Abbott. Imagine the hilarity that will repeatedly ensue when those folks knock on Texas doors and smugly harangue Republicans in a grating accent.
It’s things like this that make me believe that they’re really just incredibly stupid.
I was hoping I could get one of those bus tickets and housed long enough prior to getting fired to find a real job.
I know I’d get fired because I’d be sabotaging the door knocking by eliminating my political filter.
When you knock on your first door, just let them know you’re a NY refugee seeking asylum, and they’ll give you space to crash while you search for a job.
You should do household chores while that happens.
Don’t forget to submit a request for a box truck for all your, uh, support supplies, yea supplies.
Let him waste his money on such endeavors. I hope enough encounters are caught on video like the pro-Cheney media interviews in Wyoming.
“Hey, yooze best vote Union, er, I mean Democrat!”
New Yorkers prefer to be sent to Florida. Midwesterners like TX. They seem to be going voluntarily and at their own expense.
The businesses and wealthy people fleeing Illinois seem split between Florida and Texas….anywhere but here.
Foolywang? Dare I ask for a definition? Is it a play that he’s a Tricky Dick?
“Ey, yo, I came all the way hea from frickin’ Brooklyn to tell youse who to vote for governor!”
:sound of shotgun racking:
You forgot to add, “Weez brought our own saalsa for you to et as well.”
Irrational fear
The targeting of children’s hospitals is just the most recent in a spate of online abuse aimed at institutions that promote pro-LGBT ideas and events.
“They’ve received just an absolute torrent of abuse, oftentimes, with real, in-person, consequences,” said Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic and LGBTQ+ advocate.
Caraballo cited recent anti-LGBT arson attacks in Baltimore and Brooklyn, widespread threats against organizers of Pride events and Drag Queen Story Hours, and instances where far-right hate groups showed up to protest and were arrested for incitement of violence.
“We’ve already had months and months of this reinforcing propaganda, that LGBTQ people are groomers, that they’re pedophiles, that they are threats to children,” she said. “It’s very disturbing to see people justify attacking a children’s hospital because of their transphobia and their hatred of trans people.”
“You just don’t understand. We’re helping those children.”
Definitely White Christian nationalists…
It’s possible to be against top/bottom surgery and unnecessary hormone therapy for children and not be motivated by hatred of trans people.
I don’t hate them. In fact, I don’t want them to be irreversably surgically mutilated by activist doctors when they would be better served with therapy and mental health treatments. I don’t want them committing suicide in droves, I want them to get the help they need, and that’s not going under the knife.
Inside every
gookchild there isan Americana tranny trying to get out.Oh GFY. You don’t get to latch onto the alphabet soup as protection for your butcher-shop practices.
Apropos
Daily Quordle
https://mobile.twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1559878777295015936
Meh… I’ve had much, much worse.
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I assume the complaint is about upper right.
https://mobile.twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1559898423821844481
Well, yeah.
Top 5 twitter.
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I got 4-5-6-9 – and yeah, top right is asshoe.
Man, I thought I had it twice and then just stared at what I had left.
Finally “sounded” my way to it.
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Biden signs massive spending and tax bill into law while we are in an inflationary recession
C’mon, man. It’ll cost exactly zero dollars.
It has already created or saved billions of jobs.
“A song dedicated to the Cheneys”
I guessed right! Could it hvae been any other song?
Eh — I would have accepted this as well.
Not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-foSal5IQmU ?
This is what came to my mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n8fBJmKFzgI
My contribution
Thermofisher is running Youtube ads… for their human cell lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk
“Pictured: German monkeypox patient whose nose started to ROT because his undiagnosed HIV and syphilis left his immune system ravaged”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11119463/Pictured-Monkeypox-patient-nose-started-rot.html
Don’t click on that.
One of the comments my buddy who just got back from Germany made was that German ER and GP doctors are generally incompetent.
In more German news. Germany has decided the environmental and human costs of operating existing nuclear reactors is less than war with Russia.
Germany to Keep Last Three Nuclear-Power Plants Running in Policy U-Turn
https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-to-keep-last-three-nuclear-power-plants-running-in-policy-u-turn-11660661914?st=z4rh018ydikg4w4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This is great news because the Germans would otherwise have had a very cold winter. It will also be a big blow to the global environmental movement.
I think it’s too bad they didn’t shut them down, so that the Greens could bear the full brunt of the public approbation they deserve for their quasi-religious insanity.
Highlight the discrepancies.
Anyone know how old these nuclear plants are?
Definitely a victim of the racist name of the disease and nothing to do with a high-risk lifestyle.
Syphilis, HIV, and monkeypox? What is the connection? Must be unmasked, unvaccinated school children.
It’s all those years as an abstinant hermit in the wilderness, clearly.
I’m guessing the untreated syphilis and AIDS were his biggest problems.
I wonder how many people he infected before the ‘pox got ‘im?
Not gonna.
Just wear a mask.
The one from the witch doctor convention, preferrably.
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I screwed up and repeated an option on try 3 or would have had it in 3. When 4 didnt work, I went back and realized what I did. Doh!
You keep using that word…
“It’s been pretty amazing. This committee, just outside of Liz and I, this is like probably never happened in history and likely will never happen again. You have a committee that is focused on getting the truth, getting to the answers, getting done what needs to be done. We thank Kevin McCarthy for pulling his members. It’s made it a lot easier for us to get to the truth.”
…but I do not think it means what you think it means.
Kinzinger concluded, “She will chase Donald Trump to the gates of Hell, that’s for sure.”
Well she is certainly going to hell regardless.
‘We thank Kevin McCarthy for pulling his member’
Ewww.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
FACKEBOOK!? There’s no sunshine there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICIOJqEb5c
Love it.
Thanks, Holiness!
Holy crap – a crow just landed on my fire escape and started making noise. Startled the hell of me.
I have never seen one of the damn things around here before.
Crow or Raven?
How big was it?
As I understand it is a matter of a pinion.
Fun fact, Corvids get big in New York, our Crows are the size of seagulls, and our Ravens are almost as large as the redtailed hawks.
That is all. Carrion, while I Scavenge more ornithological tidbits to share.
Yep, the crows here are bigger than Tower ravens.
Huh, as a native I never realized that. I just assumed that’s how big they are…
I dunno. The one that goes “caw!” very loudly. Thing looked like one of those improbably huge Hitchcock birds, if only in comparison to the pigeons and doves and sparrows that are my usual visitors. I’d guess about nine inches tall.
Only nine inches? That’s a Crow. New York Ravens are fuckoff huge.
Ravens don’t caw, they croak.
It’s kind of unfortunate, but young crows make all sorts of interesting/entertaining noises. Then they hit crow-puberty, and it’s nothing but hopeless cawses.
Source: raised a baby crow in the Boy Scouts.
The Walkin’ Dude is just around the corner.
Within a year or two you will see those things everywhere and see less of pigeons and doves and such. They will take over, they did it here.
Eventually, the owls will take over.
That would be sweet. Those crow/raven birds annoy the fuck out of me. They are loud and really good at getting into garbage cans and attack other birds. I never thought I would miss pigeons.
My favorite cover of War Pigs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YEFSGALk4f8
Holy crap that is haunting.
Can’t watch at work. Who did it?
Sarah king is the name of the artist.
Interesting article on Harriet Hageman. While Cheney was the champion of the Neo-conservative elite, Hageman is a throw-back to the kind of local elite who used to run the Republican Party.
Our salvation is at hand, if only those evil Satanists from the Republican party would stop lying about it
This past week, when I left California to go to Washington and vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, I gave both of my young kids a big hug, filled with more hope than ever in my adult lifetime about the future of our country and the planet we are going to leave behind for future generations.
I’m hopeful because the Inflation Reduction Act is going to improve the lives of countless families in the communities I represent and tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our country.
This landmark legislation is going to lower the costs of prescription drugs and health care, fight climate change, lower energy costs, and reduce the deficit without raising taxes on families making less than $400,000. The bill does that by ensuring massive corporations pay their fair share by implementing a 15 percent minimum tax on the largest 150 companies that make more than $1 billion in profits.
Unfortunately, many Republicans are spreading misinformation about this bill out of political expediency, and I believe it’s essential to set the record straight. It’s especially important because the vast majority of the American people support the policies in this bill.
They should have called it the Cake For Everyone Bill.
the vast majority of the American people support
Show your work.
Pollster: The IRA will solve all your problems. Do you support it?
Hell no, Those terrorists want to bomb me!
/Irish Protestant of Ulster extraction. (No, really, my ancestor who got off the boat during the famine came from Ulster)
*Nick Cave music plays, ringside bell rings*
One of the links above is making me think I should cash in (or is it out?) my IRA before it’s DOA.
Unfortunately we forgot to put in a clause that prohibits corporations from passing along the tax through higher prices/reduced quality or reduced hours/pay. If those happen it is the corporation’s fault, not ours.
I voted for this because I love my children.
DON’T YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN TOO?
REPUBLICANS DON’T LOVE THEIR CHILDREN.
Next step — Republicans eat Democrat babies.
If it is in the Atlantic, they’ll just get that Canadian to say that they’re stealing Democrat babies to make matzoh and the Communion wafers. Might as well stick with the classics.
Hell, I had to click on that just to check if it was the lickspittle they installed in my district or not back in 2018 (the start of ballot harvesting in CA… funny how so many R congress critters went away when that started, isn’t it?). It wasn’t, but it sure could have been.
First and foremost, this bill does not raise taxes on any families making less than $400,000. As the Associated Press confirmed in a fact check, “nothing in the bill raises taxes on people earning less than $400,000.”
What Republicans are really talking about is the 15 percent minimum tax on the largest corporations. These companies bring in billions of dollars every year and then exploit tax loopholes to avoid paying their fair share. Many line the pockets of my colleagues with huge political contributions. (As an aside, I’m proud to be among the 50 or so members of Congress who don’t take corporate PAC money.)
The source for much of the GOP misinformation comes from a report commissioned by Senate Republicans that only looked at the indirect effects of corporate taxes on shareholders. However, the Republicans’ analysis conveniently ignored all of the benefits that middle-class families and others will receive from tax credits for everything from health care premiums to clean energy upgrades. When you look at the full picture, middle- and low-income families are going to be far better off thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, and they certainly aren’t going to see higher rates when they go to do their taxes next April.
So what if everything you buy is more expensive? You can’t point to an explicit tax rate increase on your 1040. Hidden taxes are hidden (for a reason).
Cheney won two counties:
She squeaked out Albany County, which has the University in it, in Laramie.
She won Teton County big, which is where Jackson Hole is located…the rich libs of Wyoming, IIRC.
She lost everywhere else.
Guess which two counties Biden won in 2020?
It’s almost impossible to find a home for less than a million in Jackson. Even less than two million is a very limited inventory.
Head of recruitment for the Royal Air Force (RAF) resigns in protest after an “effective pause” on offering jobs to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities.
It sounds crazy since the indigenous people of Britain are in fact white. I visited there in the 80s and saw exactly zero non-white people outside of London.
When I was there in the 2012ish time frame, I’m not sure I saw very many nonwhite people in London either.
Mind you, My time in that city was limited to the morning rush hour metro from Heathrow to Paddington so I could catch a train out of there.
They need more child molester rings in the RAF to make it equitable.
The UK is about 85% white so about 42% white male. They must not be hurting for recruits if they can be so selective.
Made an offer on a large plot of rural acreage yesterday adjoining my land. It’s essentially unusable for anything except expanding my
empirelittle compound and giving more a buffer from neighbors. The land is mostly wooded but can’t be timbered, nothing is cleared for pasture, there’s no well, and no cleared build site.I thought my offer of $2,300/acre in cash with immediate closing was fair, considering that’s what my own land is valued at. And my land is actually cleared for farming and has parts that can be timbered. The seller, a young woman who just inherited the land, wants $8k/acre. I think that’s insane, but has anyone else been seeing prices like that for unusable rural acreage in the middle of nowhere? I left my offer on the table and hopefully will hear back at some point after she’s not able to sell it elsewhere.
Honestly, I’d say you’re a little low, unless it’s all slope and nothing level. If she has no reason to sell it’s going to take a sweeter offer (even if not all that she thinks). Is it restricted, or the timber just isn’t mature? I’ve watched the land prices around me and even land like you describe is going at least $3k/ac if not more. The stuff that is nothing but the side of a mountain might go for less.
That’s helpful, thanks. $3k/ac is at least in the same ballpark compared with her $8k/ac. The land is not restricted but was just timbered a few years ago. It is sloped enough to prevent building anything without a lot of expensive evacuation, but not mountain-side slope. There are no nice views or anything scenic about it other than being woods. I would not buy it as a property to build a house, even if there were a prepped build site already.
She is not local but has no reason to sell other than turning an unusable inheritance into usable cash. I have no reason to buy other than to increase my property boundaries. I figure I’ll win either way. If I get it at around that price, then I’ll be happy with getting some more land. If she is actually able to sell it to someone else for a great deal more, then the value of my own property goes up quite a bit (especially being useable land and all). We’re not moving so I’d actually prefer the former, but the latter wouldn’t be such a bad scenario either.
I can also say that the land prices in SW VA are still better than most anywhere else I’ve looked, i.e. under-valued relatively speaking.
As far as I can tell buildable lots around me are going for $50k/acre, or more if a prime location. Not sure what land in the condition you describe would go for, but the market here is still crazy.
There is no voter fraud! Also, we need to come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who shows how trivial it is to commit voter fraud.
“Intentionally using someone else’s identity to subvert the system does not demonstrate a flaw with MyVote, but rather a flaw with that person’s conduct.”
That is a cyber security expert right there.
Look fats. The first step of cyber security is to trust all users and packets. The second step of cyber security is…
The third step of cyber security is PROFIT!
It’s
MuellerMerrick-time.Democratic strategist James Carville has a message for people who are doubting Merrick Garland: Just wait.
“People are like, well, but let’s wait and see a little bit. And this is like the top of the first inning. I mean, remember Merrick Garland is like a pit viper. He prosecuted the Oklahoma City bomber case, the Unabomber case, the Olympic bomber case. And I think these guys are really methodical,” Carville says on this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast.
Even if he didn’t have faith in Garland, Trump and the MAGA Republicans are not doing themselves any favors, Carville says.
“Their defenses are just literally absurd. I mean, absurd. Like ‘he can declassify anything he wants,’ says Carville. Plus, “you ask ‘Why did Trump want all these documents?’ And the answer is the most logical reason: He was gonna sell them.”
Dem partisans have a unique ability to be insane and dishonest.
The reality is that it doesn’t matter.
Half the country doesn’t believe a damned word that comes out of the DOJ or the FBI a this point. Their credibility is shot, and it’s not because of Trump, it’s because of them.
he can declassify anything he wants
I hear he also claimed he can pardon anyone he wants. How absurd. Why would he want to pardon anyone? The most logical reason: He sold the pardons.
“Merrick Garland is like a pit viper”
A snake? If you say so, Jim.
“this is like the top of the first inning”
They’ve been at this for six years. At this rate, we’ll get to the end in 50 years.
Don’t pit vipers lie in wait and strike at prey that happens to be passing by? That seems like exactly the opposite of what you’d want in law enforcement.
I thought that was antisemitic.
Merrick Garland is like a pit viper. He prosecuted the Oklahoma City bomber case, the Unabomber case, the Olympic bomber case
Well, if your goal was to make me suspicious about the behavior of the feds in those cases now, you’ve succeeded.
Plus, “you ask ‘Why did Trump want all these documents?’ And the answer is the most logical reason: He was gonna sell them.”
Right, he was just waiting for over a year to do it. Classified information only gets more valuable the older and more outdated it gets, yup yup.
You have to age it in proper bankers boxes before it reaches the peak of flavor.
The enrichment argument was made back when Trump was running for president back in 2016. Like he tasked his financial advisors with figuring out how to turn a buck, and their answer was, “How about going to all the trouble to win perhaps the most quixotic presidential run in history. Or, you know, invest in the market. Whichever.”
Hmmm.
I didn’t know the FBI had a Precrime Division.
Two actually.
One instigates crimes, the other plants evidence of crimes that never happened.
“These are their stories.”
They just gave away their motivation for the raid.
I would expect they can keep that buried by waving the TS docs around.
It is shaping up to look like there was no justification for it other than desperately covering their own ass for previous misconduct.
There is a huge silver lining in the widespread delegitimization of these institutions.
No actually there isn’t. The delegitimatization is bad – but it is because it proceeds from the decay prevalent in these institutions. It is only good for it to be exposed such that the institutions can be demolished.
Narrator: They won’t be demolished.
Question for Alaska…why the fuck do you need to waste money on a primary if the general election uses ranked choice voting?
The answer is pretty fucking clear why.
Speaking of the minkeypox: I find it incredibly amusing to watch the mental gymnastics people engage in to avoid stating the obvious about who is most at risk.
Why are these cases almost exclusively restricted to promiscuous gay men? No one knows. Wash your hands.
Unrelated, I was reminded by Rhy’s crow comment of an observation I made recently.
The parking lot seagulls around here are turning gray. A lot of them are still bright white, but a distinct number are now sporting speckled gray plumage. I’m wondering if this is camouflage for their more urban habitat.
They’re just younger seagulls.
Darn.
Well, it is possible…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
That is what came to mind when I was keeping an eye on the gulls while crossing the lot.
Great minds think alike… and so do ours.
Test
C- You passed, barely.
I keep getting server errors this morning. I think it was related to a quote I was pasting in about the IRS losing 50,000 agents year over year. Maybe some hidden HTML issue?
You forgot to use the <noerror> tag.
sigh. You forgot to close your tag. Let me enact your labor .
Where did you learn to code Facebook?
Uffda. It lets you get away with an opening tag? <noerror>
Double Uffda!
</noerror>
< >
Sheesh, I thought you knew HTML.
Thomas Massie: These are not auditions for the next Police Academy sequel. This is an actual IRS recruiting program
What is the plan? When 87,000 of these morons are unleashed on the American public and people start shooting them, declare martial law?
WTF
And there is some seriously shitty pistol gripping going on in those photos.
Well I for one am so happy that they are training all those IRS n00bs to shoot us while wearing a mask. It would really suck to get the Rona after being shot at my audit.
They are not fucking police. Goddam it. Federal agents, but not police.
Give guns and authority to a bunch of sjw npc’s. What could go wrong?
You see, when you’re collecting taxes, you really need to point your service weapon at the back of the guy’s head who’s already cuffed.
If you’re in a wheelchair and unable to physically control someone, just shoot them.
Friendly fire should help keep ranks thin.
Lord knows the physical fitness standards won’t.
I praise their use of disabled officers so when they raid homes of disabled people they won’t feel as intimidated.
They also get to add charges for those who haven’t made their houses available to the differently abled.
Robby, as squishy as ever.
Robby has gotten progressively dipshittier since he got his new gig.
Maybe a representative that only cares about one issue (and takes the opposite side on that issue) isn’t doing the job that her employers in Wyoming sent her there to do?
it was fear that Trump might “weaponize” the information, including for personal gain, the official says.
You mean like write a book?
“The Downfall of DEMOCRACY!- How I Did It” by Donald J Trump.
How I Did It
Isn’t the correct form If I Did It?
“How I Did It”. Young Frankenstein reference?
Gawker is back, baby! I wouldn’t have known, had my browser not kept feeding me this article, which posits that perhaps not all of your personal problems are the fault of capitalism writ large.
https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capitalism
Making everything political seems to be a bad idea.
I blame capitalism.
It was easier to cope when we free to gambol about plain and forest, before the robber barons invented capitalism.
a certain kind of person, personal problems, anxieties, and dissatisfactions are illegible or illegitimate unless described as political problems
A retard; retarded by their own actions and the actions of the people that raised them.
“It’s just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson!”
That was actually pretty good right up until the last line…
I certainly give the author some credit. Sure, the framing of the article is ridiculous, with the notion that “capitalism” is a repressive force that is responsible for some quantity of life’s problems. But, at least she is ultimately arguing on behalf of taking some personal responsibility.
“This is your life. You do not have time to wait for the revolution to begin living it. You will always be able to find someone to give you permission not to live it. But no one is coming along to live it for you.”
Maybe a representative that only cares about one issue (and takes the opposite side on that issue) isn’t doing the job that her employers in Wyoming sent her there to do?
What? They’d rather see her yanking Deb Haaland’s leash, and doing her best to prevent the EPA from litigating the coal industry into oblivion, than pursuing her personal vendetta against the Cartoon Villain? That’s crazy.
All those poor benighted souls need to be led to what is in their own best interests – no Republican can do that. They need a Democrat appointed to the task because the fools will never see reason on their own.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/16/report-44-percent-of-pregnant-women-in-pfizer-trial-lost-their-babies-fda-and-cdc-recommended-jabs-for-expectant-mothers-anyway/
A sane country would hang everyone involved in this mass murder.
*cusses under breath*
I may need to take a longer and more disconnected vacation from current events than I have been. This shit’s atrocious.
Don’t do that. Running away makes it worse.
I will cheer you up with this find. Archie McFee was out of premade tinfoil hats so I discovered this place. Snark away!
https://tinfoilcap.co/
Running away makes it worse.
Not for me, it doesn’t. I’ve been blissfully ignorant for the last month or so, with only the most tenuous connection to the news. It has been very nice.
What? Pfizer was just giving them free reproductive health care!
You sir are a PR genius!
A regular Don Raper right there!
Imagine the sociopathic mentality required to do this.
*helicopter emoji*
How does a cis-shitlord like you know they didn’t really want abortions?
That site isn’t exactly completely reliable.
I hope something isn’t getting properly reported because that is horrible.
Also I’ve no idea how far along. So I’m not sure what the miscarriage rate in the first trimester is normally, but I’m willing to go out on a limb and say it isn’t 40%. But 25% wouldn’t surprise me.
I certainly wouldn’t take opinions there as fact, but every underlined statement is linked to a source document.
In the article I believe it says 5-7%.
Damn.
That sounds low to me. I’ll have to ask an actual OB/GYN, if I remember to.
I’ll give Wolf credit, she’s spearheading an analysis of the Pfizer data dump when nobody else is stepping up.
An excerpt of the submissions: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9g918lxdeuqdggtomb2o8/Pfizer-Findings-as-of-8-12-22.xlsx?dl=0&rlkey=mmhra071dgpbqviuwi0lv8326
This is a classic method of gaming trial results.
It was 22 out of 50 women. That’s actually slightly more than 40%.
That’s the data. 22/50 pregnant women miscarried.
Theresa Long found that miscarriages had increased among military women by over 300%. She did her MPH on the DMED Database. She knows it better than most people.
The DOD shut down the database, claimed the data was corrupted (via a press release, not an actual admission), and they refuse to answer interrogatories or any discovery on the DMED database in every court case I’m aware of in which it has been raised (a handful so far).
It’s worse than anyone even guesses. It will become impossible to hide it if they keep pushing it.
Only complete lying, removing data, shutting down databases, and an unrelenting Gaslighting Media campaign sustains it right now.
The more I look into it, the less sure I am.
Obviously there are many trends that get layered on top of one another, but shouldn’t we see a decline in fertility then?
I am not seeing that in numbers from 2020-2021, which show slight increases.
I sent a copy of that to my wife (RNC-Baby Nurse).
She wanted to know if it was true.
Whenever we compile a list of the shortcomings of EVs, we keep leaving off the fact that Once ignited, they just don’t want to stop burning.
if they never stop and they do not need additional matter as fuel, that is endless energy right there
“War Pigs” is a good song.
If feel like only expressing myself in Iron Sheik Tweets
https://mobile.twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1559265122790547459
You’re free to do that, but it does slow down finding out what you think.
Especially when it turns out the real culprit is capitalism.
Free exchange of goods and services is the ultimate form of slavery and societal self destruction.
Isn’t it always capitalism who done it?
PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR THEMSELVES!!!! /reeeeeeeeeeeeee
VDM The Label 2023 Collection in Ultra 4K (OFFICIAL UNCUT SHOW) | EVOKE x Miami Swim Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p-Vn7cAIrs
“Dr Doom” Nouriel Roubini dumps almost entire stock portfolio – meh I don;t buy this guy as a great predictor he was one of several. Also that Michael Burry fella dumped most of his stocks. Kept one for aprivate prison company it seems
Fifth set of human remains is found in Lake Mead
I blame the American Mead Makers Association myself
Hey now. I take that personally.
Well, if you had kept the lake full, this wouldn’t have happened, would it?
You see, when you’re collecting taxes, you really need to point your service weapon at the back of the guy’s head who’s already cuffed.
Tax cheats are the very worst of the worst. A person who is willing to steal from the government is capable of anything, no matter how heinous or shocking.
It only reinforces the fact that taxation is theft, and taxes are taken at the barrel of a gun.
Remember when some people poo-pooed that at TOS?
Pepperidge Farms remembers…
Mathematics.
You only have one button press to receive a potentially nice monetary award. Which do you press?
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1559638499569049616
red tbh
Easy. Press red then invest it all in Beanie Baby futures.
Who is financing these buttons?
Big Button
Where does the 1 million come from?
warren buffet
Lol, it’s fiat dude.
A bird in the hand.
Does someone you don’t know die if you push a button?
Yes, but it’s because both buttons launch nukes.
At what?
DC?
*pushes all buttons*
Hurtful, dude, just hurtful.
Someone you don’t know gets debilitating constipation for a week.
Red. $1 million is sufficiently large (even post tax). Drop one zero and it is a harder choice. Drop 2 zeroes and I would go green.
whaddayamean tax you a commie? Tax free I would assume
THIS.
It is proof of the law of diminishing returns.
It is simple. The larger the value for red, the more likely I will select red. The larger the difference between red and green, the more likely I will select green.
I think its a little more complicated, especially if one is a guaranteed payoff. Its an interesting look at how math is just the beginning of the decision, which has many other inputs, including subjective ones.
Mathematically, green is a “no-brainer”, with a discounted value that is 25X red. But a decent-sized bird in the hand can be preferable to a chance at a bigger payoff. Much depends on the delta, the size of the payoffs, and very definitely the relative size of the payoff compared to your other assets.
There’s another question – how is the 50/50 decision made if Green is selected?
Randomly?
Which method of randomness? There is no perfectly random source.
Real randomly or house randomly?
Another way to look at it…how much money would you be willing to spend to get a chance to push green?
Elon Musk would spend the $1M to push green. Mathematically it is a no-brainer, as you say, and losing $1M (the opportunity cost of not pushing red) doesn’t change anything for him.
A big money professional gambler also pushes green. The EV is too good.
For me the calculation would be different. $1M provides N utils of value.
$0 provides 0 utils of value. $50M provides less than 2N utils.
The life difference between $1M and $50M just isn’t that great because N is so large.
At 100k, and 500k, I would have to strongly consider pushing the green.
“I’ll push a button after I find out the results of the 50/50.”
“Well, if you had pushed it, you would have won, Its a new 50/50 every time.”
I’m with you. $1 million is significant enough to change my life. I’m not willing to risk $1 million for $50 million.
$1 million is a pittance. Not even remotely enough to buy a modest house in Key West. Too little to quit my job. Green is a no-brainer.
Basically UCS would get nothing for asking too many questions.
CPA, I am trying to understand all of the parameters.
Biggest of all – what does the group that presented the buttons get out of the transaction?
How many people I can trust will be pushing these buttons?
I’ll form a collective and split the proceeds.
Just you and Nancy Pelosi
Fuck Zodiac signs, whats your favorite Communist Party of Nepal?
https://twitter.com/Radical420101/status/1559455811767779328
Fascinating. WP’s doing that thing where trying to put in a particular comment throws an errer.
WP REALLY doesn’t want me sharing this particular youtube link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzN5YwMzv0
Yup. Been there a few times.
Intentional obfuscation, or outright lies?
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) on Tuesday issued an executive order that bans conversion therapy in the state, joining more than a dozen other states in at least partially condemning the discredited practice.
State agencies under the executive order are directed to promote “evidence-based best practices” for LGBTQ+ youth and adjust their policies and procedures to better serve Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ+ community.
The order also directs the state Department of Human Services, Insurance Department and Department of State to ensure that state funds, programs, contracts, and other resources are not used to provide or endorse conversion therapy, which Wolf in a statement on Tuesday said is a practice that “actively harms the people it supposedly seeks to treat.”
“This discriminatory practice is widely rejected by medical and scientific professionals and has been proven to lead to worse mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ youth subjected to it,” Wolf said. “This is about keeping our children safe from bullying and extreme practices that harm them.”
How about a clear concise definition of “conversion therapy” so we can know precisely what is being done?
So conversion therapy is out, but mastectomies and chemical castration are in.
That is affirming therapy.
Totally different.
It isn’t among evidence-based best practices and it actively harms the people it supposedly seeks to treat. You know, like puberty blockers and cosmetic surgery.
Watch me pull this number out of my ass.
Why did I read that in Bullwinkle’s voice?
That improves every block quote.
$9.23 billion
That would be PA’s entire Medicaid layout for the year (not including federal match funds, which don’t cunt as costing the PA government anything).
Yeah, so strange, at first I was thinking ‘great, no more unethical surgeries on minors’ of course it’s pretty much the opposite.
On Tuesday, Wolf cited another recent finding from The Trevor Project that rates of negative mental health outcomes among LGBTQ+ youth are much lower in communities, schools and families that are accepting and supportive of their identities.
“That’s why I signed this executive order to protect Pennsylvanians from conversion therapy and the damage it does to our communities,” Wolf said. “Because all of our youth deserve to grow up in a commonwealth that accepts and respects them.”
“Conversion therapy is causing horrific consequences for the mental health and well-being of a generation of young LGBTQIA+ individuals. But there is something very simple that we can all do to help,” Wolf added. “We can stand up and tell LGBTQIA+ youth that we hear them and we accept them exactly as they are.”
We accept them exactly as they are. That’s why we hand them over to the vivisectionists at the earliest opportunity.
How many instances of conversion therapy have actually taken place in PA in the last ten years?
I like how the alphabet soup gained a couple letters just within the quoted section of the article.
Conversion therapy is causing horrific consequences for the mental health and well-being of a generation of young LGBTQIA+ individuals
But teaching boys they are girls and vice versa while mutilating them and fucking with their hormones is totes ok.
Since we’re in the “posting random moderately interesting tweets” part of the morning:
Election Wizard @ElectionWiz 12h
Donald Trump has now ended the Cheney, Bush, and Clinton political dynasties.
I, for one, am not prepared to let down my guard until HRClinton is dead, cremated, and her ashes dispersed via a nuclear warhead. Or one of those things they blow up at baby “gender reveal” parties, whichever is more destructive.
*the Obamas wave hi*
*shivers*
Long live the Paul dynasty.
Careful what you wish for. Part experience indicates that reach successive generation is less useful than the last.
The Bush, Cheney, and Clinton dynasties didn’t have to wait for successive generations.
It was obvious that Cheney was going to lose, but it was nice to see this morning that she lost by “opposition candidate in Venezuela” numbers. Too bad that Alaska is now under ranked choice voting which somehow tends to favor the most progressive of candidates. She will win in November by a comfortable margin once all the votes are tallied by the end of the year.
I am pro-ranked choice, who it leads to winning probably depends on area. If GA had had it, instead of run-offs, the Senate would have been radically different the last 2 years.
In places where libertarians currently do well, we could see their true level. GA, IN, etc.
The William F Buckley method would likely produce a far better legislative body than what we currently have. I just know that after California went j7ngle primary and SF went ranked choice that the Dems took total control of the state and we got progressively progressiver.
I think Mencken had something to say about that.
California got what they wanted, good and hard.
That may be the “flaw” of ranked choice, it is more likely to get you what you want.
Of course, as you and Not Adahn point out, random would be even better/worse.
Yeah, ranked choice seems better than FPTP, but SCIENCE! says that the only way to get a truly representative body is to randomly select its members. All electoral systems select from people who want power and are arrogant enough to think they deserve to have it. It guarantees aberrant and morally inferior results.
Hmm, I like it. Kind of like jury duty.
Except you are forced to live in DC or your state* capitol for 2 years.
*depending on the state, you might be able to commute.
You get comms gear, which anyone can tune into for official business, and WFH. Senators get spaces provided by their states’ governments
The U.S. Capitol gets turned into a museum.
I am totes against Rank Choice voting. It does the opposite of what it has been claimed to do, which is select for the most moderate candidates. Instead, it selects for the most “aspirational” candidate, in that people chose ideals as a second and third choice, as opposed to someone who has a basis in rationality.
It has nothing to do with Lib/Cons split, but a rational vs. irrational split.
Also too, it removes the idea of “one man, one vote” from the system. It comes to represent “one man, many votes”
I wonder about these internal job postings for my group. The pool of state employees eligable for any given role is fairly large from a title perspective, but the required PeopleSoft experience is fairly rare. So I wonder how amny of the staff from the three big peoplesoft shops will A: notice the posting, and B: apply given our reputation as an awful place to work. I can guess the number of people from one of the three who’ll apply, since that’s us. The other two might have some people who’ll apply just looking for that grade bump. But the postings are so poorly advertized that you have to actively look frequently to spot them.
Aaargh! So many unknown variables.
PeopleSoft sounds so fucking lame as a name
Blame the people who made it.
I just keep it running.
I think he means the shootings either is like Airsoft…. except with people
Here’s a thought:
I wonder how many of those new IRS agents will be put to work cross-checking 1099s from sites like Etsy and Ebay to make sure all the billionaires who supplemented their income by a few hundred bucks properly declared it.
Sometimes I’m a clever (and skin-flinty) sum’bitch.
My girlfriend’s daughter hit a deer with her car 2 months ago. The appointment at the autobody place was yesterday (that’s how far out autobody repair places schedule in this post Covid apocalypse). While the car drove to her house after the hit, it sat for 2 month, and then wouldn’t start. A tow truck would have cost over $400. I rented a u-haul trailer for $60, borrowed a come-along and some ratchet straps from work, drove up there, loaded the trailer, delivered it to the autobody shop before they closed at 5 pm, and returned the u-haul trailer before they closed.
Then I found a set of 20″ rims and tires (less than 5,000 miles on them) for her son’s car for $600.
/Solving problems and kickin’ ass
How was the venison?
pulverized
so tender
Nice. You didn’t have to resort to redneck towing.
Done that back in the day.
Girl friend? Something new in PONick’s life that I missed. She needs to come to HH and meet “The Boys” and “The Girls”. OTOH, maybe not such a good idea.
Good deal, Nick, you deserve it.
SCIENCE! says that the only way to get a truly representative body is to randomly select its members. All electoral systems select from people who want power and are arrogant enough to think they deserve to have it. It guarantees aberrant and morally inferior results.
This.
Nobody ever ran for office so he could leave me the fuck alone.
Well, for what it’s worth, Brooksy, I would run to leave you the fuck alone.
That would be my campaign platform, too – “I’m running to leave Brooksy the F Alone. Vote for Ozy… and Pedro.”
(Cuz ya gotta have some diversity and I love Mexican food, street tacos in particular. Plus, I found Jesus in Mexico!…
…Him and his brother Julio run the best fish taco stand north of Ensenada.)
Down by the school yard?
I ran on the “see how fast they impeach me” platform last time around.
Unfortunately, Pelosi and Trump conspired to wreck that slogan
So I am gonna have to go with “see how quickly I get assasinated” this time around.
Zeroing out the budget and vetoing anything that isnt a 1 item at a time bill would get it done. The bonus requirement of sticking to enumerated powers would also be sure to inspire an assassination.
Senator Roland Gutierrez
@RolandForTexas
70% of school shootings are performed by individuals UNDER 21 years of age.
Almost ALWAYS with AR-15 rifles.
We need a special session to raise the purchase age to 21 NOW before another massacre occurs.
https://twitter.com/RolandForTexas/status/1559658310093225987
eh make it 25
I thought most of the shootings were gangland wars with Saturday Night Specials.
I’m not following the logic here.
I guess they’re not counting drug deals gone bad at schools, usually a pistol with 2-3 victims.
Dead-end-ers
But others have accused the CDC of allowing political pressure, rather than public health, guide the decision to ease its COVID recommendations. They argue that, regardless of how tired the public is of the pandemic, the fact that hundreds of people are still dying every day means the emergency is far from over. The harshest critics say the agency is effectively giving up on the public response to COVID and leaving individuals to fend for themselves — an approach they say creates outsized danger for vulnerable people like the elderly and immunocompromised.
Hundreds of people a day- SRSLY?
And- you can’t let people decide for themselves. That’s a job for public health experts!
Everyone stay inside and type emails to each other. Forever. It would be unfair to the vulnerable to do otherwise.
George Costanza Political Compass
https://twitter.com/MrPrudentialist/status/1559540491611430914
I think this was done before
yes the previous one is in the tweet answers
BOB HOSKINS with a sobering thought after finding out the Super Mario Bros. (1993) film was based on a video game.
https://twitter.com/ATRightMovies/status/1559510294581465089
This is your white supremacy speaking in so, so many ways
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1559762776889118720
I needed a plumber at my house in NW Minnesoda a couple weeks ago. He had a very thick southern accent. I asked him where he was from. (Turned out to be Louisiana) Then I shared how I had lived in Memphis for a while.
Had no idea us two white guys were white supremacy-ing each other.
Just proves it’s cheaper to rent a northbound U-haul trailer. Obviously a need for diversity in NW MN. The Sugar Beet workers were all busy working so no illegals to do plumbing?
Halalcoholism? Try Hafezces!
Everyone in Israel is in an uproar over Abu Mazen’s “50 Holocausts” statement but no one seems to mind that Israel has allied with some of the most antiSemitic leaders- Orban and Trump.
https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1559814686928928769
Ah yes, “Trump is the real antisemite.” Haven’t seen that one in months.
This person writes for the Washington Post. Sometimes being a complete blinkered ignoramus takes years and years of studying and piles of credentials.
Me flirting https://mobile.twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1558981070409924612
The cryptid all caps really works for Iron Sheik.
Iron Sheik is my 3rd biggest crush at the moment