Actually, each track update yesterday pushed the storm further west of us, so it’ll probably just rain on us. We did complete the buying of water and toilet paper ritual, as is required to maintain our homestead exemption. I declined to do the ritual where we fill a 3/4 full gas tank and a bunch of random containers — “just in case”. This should drive a bunch of those new people back to wherever they’re from that doesn’t involve looking at a 5-day hurricane projection and seeing the whole goddam state inside the cone of uncertainty.
General Li should be careful. Not everyone lands the creek jump.
Has a lost herb of the Ancient World been found? Now do Soma.
Apparently, Canada just got hit by a hurricane.
This was just crazy. They didn’t let just anyone drive the skid-steers when I was on a job site. I’m also surprised the guy didn’t have or didn’t need a TWIC card.
More from the same musical well: Sinner’s Prayer.
Not possible, and also Claire Farrow of WTSP is a horrible, terrible, dirty racist.
During a news conference, the sheriff said they learned they were originally given a false name. Molina-Salles reportedly came into the U.S. illegally from Mexico back in October 2021.
He is 32 years old and has been in the Tampa Bay area since March, the agency explains.
You think DeSantis will make hay with this? I have a feeling he won’t even have to.
Get rid of the illegals and construction will come to a halt.
“Some are good people”
I hear that Martha’s Vineyard could use a few good men.
Cop was hit by a front loader, sounds like a construction accident. Seems odd to call it a hit and run, make’s it sdound like the driver was in a vehicle driving through the construction site. Unless I’m missing something.
A deadly hit-and-run accident involving a Pinellas County deputy is restricting access to the southbound lanes on the Howard Frankland Bridge, authorities say. And, deputies are actively searching for the driver responsible for causing the crash.
What are you confused about? Dude hit person and fled the scene…hit and run, quite literally
With a front loader? that seems like a construction accident, yes he ran, and it literally it is a hit and run but usually that term involves a passenger vehicle. If I ran over some dude with a back-hoe on a jobsite I don’t think I’d call it a ‘crash’, just seems like odd phrasing in the story.
How about if you hit him and then drove away?
Siphoning silphium to the sultan is sycophantic.
All right, don’t practice your alliteration on me.
*Wild applause*
Glad to read that you and yours are apparently out of harm’s way!
I used to do this Soma when I was a kid. Does that count? Mine was just plastic, though, not pretty rosewood. 😞
Morning, Brett — always nice when you can dodge the gators to grace us with your presence. Hope you little Brettlings are doing well.
Guess we need Party Deputy Leader Enos to let us know if General Li is really doing a coup. Interesting times.
Re: Canada and a hurricane — 1) I expect many more ‘CLIMATE CHANGE! REEEE!’ stories from our northern hat (there’s a guest appearance we need!) and 2) Having to resist the urge to link in Konya wa Hurricane being a classic Bubblegum Crisis fan….
Want to rant about some different news – but should probably check Spud’s evening links I was too asleep to see to make sure drugs aren’t trying to come out of my heinie and all.
I legitimately thought that said Breitlings on first reading. I was going to say, if you have one of these you can spare…
I have an older Aerospace. That reminds me, I need to send it in for a new battery.
https://www.breitling.com/us-en/watches/professional/aerospace-evo/V79363101B1/
Look at the people showing off that they can afford a Breitling.
It was my father’s. He gave it to me after the original one he gifted to me on my first solo flight was stolen in a burglary.
Very nice. Interestingly, that one is about 600 bucks more than the Navitimer despite the latter being mechanical, which usually costs more. Maybe the economies of scale are upside down on quartz now in that price range. If so, you have to love the irony.
My dad was a huge fan of the Breitling Co-Pilot. I’ve never been much for pilot watches, but the green dial on the Navitimer is gorgeous. I actually have a Soviet frankenwatch with a very similar dial.
That current price is about 2.5X what they were thirty years ago. All things considered, that’s not as much inflation as I would have figured.
And yes, the Navitimer is a beautiful watch, even if I can’t read the tiny print.
“superquartz”
I have a Superocean I don’t really wear anymore. It was the first nice watch I ever bought, when I had my first real job out of school.
They’re not really made that well. Bezel broke (doesn’t ratchet), sent it for service and they said they couldn’t fix it. I think I’d raise more of a stink these days about such an answer.
I wouldn’t buy another.
I’m a Bulova girl.
Good balance of “luxury” looks, good quality, and affordability.
Casio Illuminator, $20-$30. Gets the job done, and when I wear it in a foreign country (or even at home!) it doesn’t signal “rob me” to any miscreants who may happen to be near.
I have one “nice” watch (a Wittnauer something) I never wear.
These euphemisms.
Now do eagle, Scout
Let’s eat, grandma?
In Nova Scotia, shelters were prepared in Halifax and Cape Breton for people to take cover ahead of the storm.
“We have been through these types of events before, but my fear is, not to this extent,” said Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality. “The impacts are going to be large, real and immediate.”
Do these folks not get Nor’easters every winter? I mean, you’ve either built for wind and rain, or you haven’t. And even if a hurricane is only a once-every-ten-years event, you might want to think about planning your infrastructure around that.
Oh, well. As Super-Duper-Uberstorm Sandy taught us, there’s lots of
graftmoney in rebuilding. So they got that going for them, which is nice.It’s always about the money. You’ve got to get your game face on and trash talk your way to financial success!
Damn your nimble fingers! And yes, some of those Nor’easters are the equivalent of a cat 2 hurricane. Actually Fiona had transitioned to an extratropical cyclone (in other words, a Nor’easter) by the time it hit Canada. So, nothing new
“We have been through these types of events before, but my fear is, not to this extent,”
Bullshit. As if the Canadian Maritimes are not battered by storms every winter.
“Unprecedented” is turning into the new “literally”, in that it means exactly the opposite of its actual definition in common usage.
Storm of the Century, every decade.
Waiting for winter and this year’s snow
NOAA says it’s going to be colder than average. Farmers Almanac says warmer than average. No word yet from Herr Fauci.
Experience tells me it’s gonna be snowy and extremely cold this winter, same as last year and the year before, ad infinitum.
It’s called The North.
I concur.
Kayla Lemieux and the cult of validation
The cosmos loom large.
Even Camille Paglia is more judgmental than your average Reason contributor.
The gods of the copybook are going to come calling eventually, and it will not be pretty.
Good stuff.
Those ridiculous jugs might be just the thing to get average Americans to wake up to reality. Kind of like the Martha’s Vinyard 48.
Quantity over quality.
The afore-promised rant topic: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/09/24/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-pro-life-author-with-guns-drawn-in-front-of-his-screaming-kids-n632440
I still subscribe to the idea that they’re intentionally doing the most ridiculous crap possible to get their right-wing-uprising moment… but come on! A SWAT raid for a minor altercation as opposed to a letter / daytime visit? Jesus, Garland you evil little bastard… just keep rubbing in that you want to be the Schutzstaffel and at least get snazzier uniforms than the khakis and sunglasses look. If it were a solo thing, it’d be one thing — but it is a pattern. And the counter pattern of a complete silence on Jane’s Revenge and the like make their intentions abundantly clear.
Again, in a sane world we’d be talking bipartisan hearings, possible impeachment of the FBI Director (does that take impeachment?) and/or the AG. And if not that, defunding the Agency.
But we all know that isn’t going to happen, because we’re not in a sane world anymore.
They’ve completely and wholly subordinated the DOJ/FBI to political concerns. It was bad before, but now it’s all about the political needs of the administration. Biden needs to look good to the pro-choice fanatics, so he directs the DOJ to go hard after anybody who violates federal abortion access laws.
Why is this even a thing?
Because federal politicians need to signal on the culture wars.
Janet Reno must have pleased the gods the last time out. They made her prettier at least in this incarnation.
Breasts so ugly even Q wants no part of them. That shit would be laughably nuts in former times but now that it’s being backed up by people with institutional power it’s concerningly nuts. Dude should have been fired on the first day of that nonsense.
‘orning ‘ordles — warm up round was a dumpster fire, barely got through it after a couple of “surely it is this…. oh, crap… it isn’t!” early on guesses.
Main event was a stunning example of luck — shouldn’t have had scores anywhere near it… seed words didn’t give much, but what I saw as possibilities just happened to be the right words. I’ll take it.
Daily Duotrigordle #207
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 07:08.35
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Nice. I was lucky to get this
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#metoo
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There’s always got to be one word that breaks my tiny little brain.
Daily Duotrigordle #207
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:05.19
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Got the Chromatic Waffle today.
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Not great, but not in Chumptown.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the situation was critical, and promised to provide support through the army.
Have your Party card ready.
Again, in a sane world we’d be talking bipartisan hearings, possible impeachment of the FBI Director (does that take impeachment?) and/or the AG. And if not that, defunding the Agency.
But Joe Biden rescued us from Trump’s wanton out of control authoritarianism.
So, who wants to bet on this Li Xi afternoon?
“‘This is not the representation we’re looking for’: Netflix is slammed by ‘disgusted’ and ‘gobsmacked’ viewers after adding LGBTQ tag to Jeffrey Dahmer series”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11245839/Netflix-slammed-viewers-adding-LGBTQ-tag-Jeffrey-Dahmer-series.html
LOLOLOLOL
Stop othering necrophiles or DAPs as I like to refer to them.
Amazingly when movies or shows are made about shitty white folk the normies watch and that is it.
Remember lesbians protested Basic Instinct.
“MSNBC panel taunts Sen. Lindsey Graham’s pro-life views by claiming he’s ‘never seen a vagina or naked woman,’ days after Whoopi Goldberg implied lawmaker is gay”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11247355/Woke-MSNBC-panel-taunts-Sen-Lindsey-Grahams-pro-choice-views-claiming-hes-never-seen-vagina.html
Classy.
This is one of those situations where you hope they all destroy each other,
Straying from the plantation makes you fair game for ridicule based on the characteristics that would otherwise grant you an elevated position in the victimology matrix. It’s the woke version of outlawry.
I would say we need a Woke Iron Law guide but their positions and methodology are on an ever shifting basis.
Woke laws have the consistency of mercury.
Apologies if drugs, arse, etc.: Louise Fletcher has passed away at the age of 88.
Rather than speculate on which politician we dislike takes the most inspiration from Nurse Ratched, can we all pretty much say that we’ve encountered a Ratched sometime in our lives, as a school teacher or administrator, a supervisor, or some other authority figure? How did you deal with her?
I’ve had a couple, and they didn’t take well to mockery or ridicule, so I mostly just endured until I could make my escape one way or another.
Now the entire world is becoming Nurse Ratched. And I no longer feel I have any place to be left alone. Now what?
RIP, one of the best movie villains ever. Dealing with a manipulative sociopath person like that is difficult to say the least. If you have the balance of power over them send them on their way (and be careful doing it), if they have it over you, bail.
SHE WAS A STRONG, EMPOWERED WOMAN!!!
My first grade teacher, Mrs. Barker, which was no misnomer. One poor kid in our class sat at his desk and pissed his pants one day rather than ask to go to the bathroom and get his head snapped off for it. Because I was “gifted” and performing above my grade level, she drove me and the other two “gifted” kids in the class like a slaver. Terrible year that made me hate school after being really excited to start following the amazing kindergarten teacher I had. My parents tried to get me transferred to the other first grade class at the school. The teacher in that class absolutely loved me. But the headmaster, Mr. Button, also a miserable prick who once told my parents that the older kids who stole my basketball had merely “borrowed it without asking”, wouldn’t allow it. Being 6 years old there really wasn’t a lot I could do about it. During library time I’d read books I wasn’t supposed to and say mean things about her to my classmates. For 2nd grade I went back to the school I attended for kindergarten and basically repeated a year since I was doing 2nd and 3rd grade work the previous year. The teacher was a disinterested air head and I was bored out of my mind. I’m sure there was a happy medium somewhere between the two.
Chloris Leachman did a better portrayal in “High Anxiety” when she was Nurse Diesel.
Underrated flick.
DeSantis was doing those Venezuelans a favor, by getting them to safety in Martha’s Vineyard.
And you thought your ex was bad: New Jersey man is caught making daily visits to PEE on grave of ex-wife he divorced 48 years ago by woman’s horrified children – and he even took current spouse to watch
A dedicated ex.
She must have been something else, he’s still pissed off after all those years. Did the son Livestream this?
Maybe she liked golden showers.
Torello doesn’t sound German.
Either she was a terrible person or he is. If it motivates him to get out of bed in the morning more power to him.
Sounds rather extreme, but when I was growing up my dad had a friend who was exactly that way with his wife – who eventually became his ex wife. You have never seen a more dysfunctional couple, I promise you. I wish to god he had written an autobiography. If you sat and listened to him tell some of his stories you’d think he was a blowhard embellishing everything, but I witnessed enough of it first hand that I know he didn’t exaggerate much, if at all.
Boss
HoggPooh is gonna send the sheriff after the Du boys.This is interesting. Pearls clutched at a slight reduction in the delays built in to energy-related construction projects.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/09/environmentalists-say-they-fear-more-nj-projects-could-be-easily-approved-under-senate-proposal.html
Unintentional irony:
“Our drinking water, our air and the clean air and its quality are going to be put at risk by weak federal rules that try to accommodate every state in the union. They’re not specific to the needs of New Jersey.”
Now do emission standards. Or abortion. Or education. Or…
By all means, pass your own laws and leave the rest of us the fuck out of it.
“weak federal rules”
LOL
Not a real woman
A short speech defending the role of the family has become Giorgia Meloni’s calling card at campaign rallies. “I am Giorgia. I am a woman. I am a mother. I am Italian. I am Christian. You can’t take this away from me,” she said.
The woman widely expected to become Italy’s first female prime minister in Sunday’s election is far from typical, however: A far-right nationalist accused by political rivals and experts of spreading white supremacist ideas, who advocates naval blockades to stop unauthorized migration from Africa, Meloni is also a committed J.R.R. Tolkien fan and has embraced the internet memes and music remixes of her famously fiery speeches.
Her victory, as the leader of a right-wing coalition, would make Italy the latest European country after Sweden to see a far-right party win power, months after Marine Le Pen staged a strong challenge to President Emmanual Macron in France.
“When we say we want diversity, we aren’t talking about ideas.”
“When we say we want diversity, we aren’t talking about ideas.”
How did you acquire the transcript of our latest corporate meeting?
Yep, cookie cutter brains with differing skin tone only. It’s all about leftist ideology and it always has been.
There must be a meme out there with a row of NPCs in rainbow colors. If not, dibs.
I thought the narrative was that Italians aren’t white and were pressed into whitehood by American white protestant culture?
The “expert” class seems to be everywhere these days.
I think I’ll start identifying as an expert.
NO self-identified experts! Only those blessed by the priesthood of experts.
Yeah, but…but…who said THEY could be experts??? 😒
They took the expert test, designed by super experts, and they passed.
It’s experts all the way up.
Serious journalisming. She was accused!!
Meloni leads the Brothers of Italy Party (Fratelli d’Italia, or FdI), a populist party with roots in Italy’s post-war fascist movement. Fdl is predicted to get 25% of the vote on Sunday, six times more than it received in the last election, in 2018, and enough to give it a clear majority in both houses of Parliament.
How can this be? It’s inexplicable.
DEMOCRACY! is broken. I blame money, and advertising trickery.
You’re not supposed to judge the leftists on outcomes, just their intentions.
6% of Americans think they could beat up a grizzly bear. Further proof of the Atlantic voyage selecting for optimism
https://mobile.twitter.com/edwest/status/1573998483069100033
“Big spread on Goose, what happened there?” Lol
Only ~70% think they can take a rat?
rats are tricky and people are scared of them
I’m amused that 20% think they could take a chimpanzee.
And who thinks they can beat an elephant?
Once the landmines are placed I am unarmed.
Every Democrat.
*golf clap*
I rode one at the circus when I was a kid, how tough could they be?
I’m guessing Britons have simply encountered more geese. Those fuckers are as aggressive as a wolverine, as stupid as a turkey, and as resilient as a cockroach. My uncle lived on some acreage in an old farmhouse when I was a kid and had a goose. All of the local pizza places refused to deliver to him.
Counsellor: Yes, yes, yes, I do follow, Mr Anchovy, but you see the snag is… if I now call Mr Chipperfield and say to him, ‘look here, I’ve got a forty-five-year-old chartered accountant with me who wants to become a lion tamer’, his first question is not going to be ‘does he have his own hat?’ He’s going to ask what sort of experience you’ve had with lions.
Anchovy: Well I… I’ve seen them at the zoo.
Counsellor: Good, good, good.
Anchovy: Lively brown furry things with short stumpy legs and great long noses. I don’t know what all the fuss is about, I could tame one of those. They look pretty tame to start with.
Counsellor: And these, er, these lions, how high are they?
Anchovy: (indicating a height of one foot) Well they’re about so high, you know. They don’t frighten me at all.
Counsellor: Really. And do these lions eat ants?
Anchovy: Yes, that’s right.
Counsellor: Er, well, Mr Anchovy, I’m afraid what you’ve got hold of there is an anteater.
Anchovy: A what?
Counsellor: An anteater. Not a lion. You see a lion is a huge savage beast, about five feet high, ten feet long, weighing about four hundred pounds, running forty miles per hour, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and nasty long razor-sharp claws that can rip your belly open before you can say ‘Eric Robinson’, and they look like this.
I’m surprised by the drop off for eagle, I guess it matters what kind of eagle but if you think you can take a mid sized dog I’d think you could take an eagle.
You can’t kill an eagle, it’s against the law. You can’t even keep a feather.
Unless you’re an injun.
The liberal superego and the conservative id
Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside, you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican…
https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-liberal-superego-and-the-conservative
Add this to my litany of reasons why psychology is rank quackery.
…progressivism is a form of runaway liberalism in which people often competitively take ever more extreme viewpoints for reasons of status or pathological empathy.
I wonder if this is what Joe Rogan is referring to when he coined the term “recreational outrage.”
What’s this “secretly” shit?
“Govern me harder, Daddy!”
“Fentanyl being seized is more proof that the border is not actually open.. The vast majority of the seizures happen at the legal ports of entry.. and the vast majority of the time it is being brought in by US citizens or legal residents”
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1573803231905456128
CWAA
So many logic failures…
Don’t read the comments.
Dealing with a manipulative sociopath person like that is difficult to say the least.
I’m starting to think that is exactly where I am, these days.
I’m a lot harder to manipulate than some people, though.
Work meeting starting late.
“If there is anything the federal government can do to help, we will be there,” he said,
Even if you help out truckers?
Fried Seafood: the perfect frying and the way of preserving it by chef Pasquale Torrente
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1xYkniw7-Q
She has compared her party to the center-right Conservative Party in Britain, but Meloni’s views will be familiar to anyone who has followed the rightward movement of Poland, the self-styled “illiberal democracy” of Hungary, and the nationalist populism of the Republican Party in the United States.
She has defended Viktor Orban, Hungary’s authoritarian leader, who is accused of demolishing democracy by packing his country’s judiciary and Parliament with supporters and giving himself the ability to easily create or change laws.
How do you say, “executive order” in Hungarian?
J’accuse!
‘This should drive a bunch of those new people back to wherever they’re from that doesn’t involve looking at a 5-day hurricane projection and seeing the whole goddam state inside the cone of uncertainty.’
Lacky hardest hit.
23 romanian shepard dogs at a sheep… well I am not sure americans have a word for stână google says sheepfold but sounds dubious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFVIBO9rQAw
trigger warning: scenes of milking and cheese making
+ Amish pr0n
Sheepfold is a perfectly cromulent word in America
Expert analysis
If Biden doesn’t run again, a number of Democrats are expected to wade into the presidential waters. But even Vice President Harris isn’t seen as a definitive leading contender in such a situation, Democrats acknowledge privately.
You can start working on your concession speech today, if you’re planning to run Harris.
Never underestimate their ability to fortify.
She couldn’t even win a single delegate to the Democratic convention.
You can run pretty much anybody you want when you’ve permanently amended election rules to allow unsigned, undated ballots with no chain of custody to be counted for a week after election day, made challenging the rules or results illegal, and mandated the VP to rubberstamp the resulting outcome.
What is going to be great is if a republican does win we will see how that applies differently and it is the duty of the opposing party to question.
Just like they did after the elections in 2000, 2004, and 2016.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4CzteDucRHo
CWAC
Knew it would be her
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
According to the Hill, the seven most likely Democrat candidates in ’24: Harris, Buttgig, Whitmer, Newsom, Warren, Sanders and AOC.
Holy fuck, what a parade of horribles
It will be Newsom
I don’t think it will be any of those, but of the bunch I’d say Warren or AOC. Newsom is – and god help for me having to type this – too normal. White, male, handsome, has executive experience. There would be no value in electing someone like that. The candidate will either be a mushbrain puppet like Biden, or a minority with the most extremist views imaginable. The goal is to rub the deplorables’ nose in it. “We got away with it again, and there is nothing you can do about it.” Demoralization. They need a terrible candidate to make sure the point is not lost on anyone.
I disagree, Newsom plays ball and is corrupt to the core. FFS, that SOB got Bells Palsy as a result of the vaccine and he still pushed it, even while shielding his own kids from it.
The actual people in charge will want him because he’ll polish whatever turd they want to sell.
I’m 90% sure it’ll be Newsom. He’s white and handsome, he’ll make the soccer moms giddy. Heck, they voted for Biden’s wrinkled butt. The only prerequisite is a (D) after their name, everything else is just signaling. It’s not like they’ll suddenly vote Republican, even if they ran a gay woman of color.
D overrides all other considerations. They will fight during the primaries but memoryhole after.
Can’t be – he’s just not diverse enough. Even if he came out gay, that wouldn’t carry the nomination.
Tampa should be fine. They didn’t have a hurricane for 100 years until I moved there. Then Irma threw a tree through my house and I got the fuck out of that state. I’m pretty sure I was the problem so y’all should be good now
Bitter? Moi?
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said on Saturday that she will not vote for Harriet Hageman, the Republican nominee for Wyoming’s at-large House seat, in November’s election.
Hageman, who was endorsed by former President Trump, defeated Cheney in the state’s Republican primary in August.
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The congresswoman pointed to Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona, as an example of another “dangerous” candidate that has denied the results of the 2020 election. Cheney said she will do everything she can to ensure that Lake is not elected, including campaigning with Democrats.
Keep it up. MSNBC will be calling with a job offer any day now.
She thinks she the white hat for “democracy” and that makes her dangerous.
She can sit next to Bill Kristol.
Had a blast at the annual Greek Festival. However….Greeks are pretentious and smug but can they make some good food.
My brother and his second wife used to go to the one in Reno every year. My wife and I would join them and it was good times.
That stopped when they fell apart as a couple. Kinda sad, as I loved going to that festival.
The great part was find open seats at any table and make friends…share wine, Ouzo or beer.
Big Fat Greek Weeding does their people justice. I should take back pretentious and say proud. They are very proud of their heritage.
Lol weeding….
Lol. Imagine being proud of Greece… I mean sure, 2000 years ago it was pretty cool, but since then….?
They are the Uncle Rico of western civilization
P.J. O’Rourke wrote – “The Greeks built the Parthenon, invented democracy, and then pretty much called it a day.”
I used to have the body of a Greek God. Now I just look like a goddamned Greek.
The Macedonians ran them over, then reorganized things and ran over the known world, but Alexander dies early and the portfolio fell apart. Then Rome happened. I think that’s the arc?
But here I sit in the South making a living with logic and geometry, physics, Greek making up at least 10% of my vocabulary, because some Kraut clans on a neighboring island let some Vikings who spoke bad French overrun them and bring a bunch of Greek ideas that the Italians stole with them, built some great boats, killed a bunch of Indians, started letting commoners go to university, got distracted in Iberia and forgot to hang a fat, short lawyer from Boston and his rowdy friends and really the whole shit just went sideways for two centuries after that. Who in 323BC had that on their bingo card?
each track update yesterday pushed the storm further west of us, so it’ll probably just rain on us.
Same here. Friday morning the forecast track had a big M plastered right over my town on 8am Wednesday.
I decided (per usual) to hold out and wait a couple of days before panicking. Now we are almost outside the cone, so I’m not even getting the generator out.
I have friends on the *East* coast who have already put their storm shutters up and laid in a supply of food and water.
The “what’s happening in China” question is indeed intriguing, with potentially world-wide consequences.
The Iran protests are also significant and should be all over the news but aren’t. (Remember during Iran’s Green Revolution, Obama poured cold water on the peaceful would-be revolution against the islamofacsist state by “urging restraint on both sides”. What a douche.)
And then there’s the COMPLETELY UNDERREPORTED attacks/invasion by Azerbaijan against Armenia since Sept 13. Armenia can’t catch a break, and apparently can’t even catch a 1 minute news item in the international press. Fuck Azerbaijan.
One festival down..next weekend is Oktooberfest. Weekend following is Age of Chivalry renfair.
Ooh. I need to get tix for the Chivalry thing.
I assume Spud and the Count will be there.
Random question:
Why is it that people say you’re acting against your own best interests when you decline to do what they want?
*yes, that was a rhetorical question.
Context is needed. Say its a life-saving medical procedure you’re declining because you’re afraid of doctors. Or preventing the suicide of a mentally ill individual that’s committed to ending it?
Voting is against your best interests but several people continue to expect different results the next election.
Oktoberfest half-time report from the Wiesn.
One day…
I’ve been twice. It’s a good time.
And there’s more to Munich than Oktoberfest.
” The ever-increasing range of vegetarian and vegan dishes is in the same high demand as in 2019.” Holy shit! I’ll join you.