My two year old went to a friend’s (read my wife’s group of toddler mom friends) birthday party at a petting zoo. It has a 1.6″ (1:8) scale railroad that he loved. Also featured was a feed corn tub that was offered in place of a sandbox (a great idea for them, but seems like a good way to get rats — or worse, deer — at my house. There were a whole shitload of fat, spoiled barn cats around the property, I noticed). Also fun was watching the kids on the pony ride: there was the “hell no!”, the “I’m going to regret listening to my parents”, and my son the “I’m a fucking cowboy!!” He had a big grin, waving one hand in the air like he was at the Houston Rodeo in the bronc’ busting finals. Also, observed one of the stabled kids ponies named Diablo. I guess our group weren’t shitty enough to get Diablo. They probably save that for asshole six year olds. Okay, okay… the links!
Sad news, hockey fans, Bobby Hull has gone to the great rink in the sky. I’d bet on him getting into heaven if St. Peter has to stop a slapshot.
Slowest invasion force ever. Hopefully, they sent the Hoveround brigade as cavalry.
I think he was pretty clearly out of bounds. Sad, though.
Huh, Florida is going to pass Constitutional Carry? Sweet. Time to start shopping for a new one. I never did get around to sending the Sheriff my fingerprints.
This guy passed away recently, so we’ll play his version of a pop hit that nearly everyone covered at some point. And then white people went and ruint it.
First of the firsters, in quality firsting.
Firstly done good sir, firstly done.
Does not reference any of the topics in any of the links.
A tainted first at best.
Tainted First was a great song, too bad Soft Cell couldn’t follow up with another hit.
One of my favorites from that era.
Tainted Fist is a hole different meaning.
Depends if they are dressed in pink or brown
Don’t talk about his taint.
It has a hell of a tan.
“My taint is an island between two black holes” -Kristin Schaal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmlCir27FQs&t=300s
Better a tainted first than a firsted taint.
Huh, Florida is going to pass Constitutional Carry . . . .
The schism accelerates as the states go in opposite directions on guns.
I have a permit so I can carry out of state.
We renewed our Iowa permits to carry last fall for the same reason.
Next year, we need to head up to MN to get the out-of-state permit to carry.
The article had to finish with an anti-gun quote. It’s mandatory nowadays I guess.
This. I was in Georgia last weekend and NC the week before. I don’t even think about it any more.
Same with abortion. Here in Indiana it’s banned completely, and in other states you can abort a teenager.
correct
Labs of democracy!
According to several experts on Fascism this is exactly what a Fascist state run by a Fascist would do to be more Fascisty.
“Fascism is letting the citizens carry guns willy nilly.”
Mussolini made it mandatory.
I think this is more of the “don’t make a rule you can’t enforce”, since Florida Man carries guns by his willy and Florida Woman by her nilly every day.
Fascaloni, the San Fransisco style treat!
Another week and another Im sorry, we cool bro?
Let me know when you are cast aside, digitally hunted by your peers and government, threatened to not be able to leave your house, denied healthcare, being told you are not essential, etc. Then we might talk. In fact, no, we won’t talk. Fuck you you fucking fuckity fucks.
I am not a vindictive person by any means, but I want my pound of flesh.
Recent video of the author: https://youtu.be/btmWWnQ-gAY?t=243
“I can see now that the scientific community…repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies”
Tell me WHY you/they did this and maybe we can talk. And none of that “abundance of caution” malarkey.
They did
The author knows exactly what they did and why they did it. They saw a power move and went for it.
He is also a medical student calling out his own tribe. I give him credit.
Yeah, that was my thought too.
Recognizing he is an MD/PhD so not exactly young, but still young in a relative sense calling his elders out.
The sort of power move that ends with hanging by the heels in front of a gas station.
“the only way anyone might expect them to: by resisting”
I will note that the resistance was peaceful.
This time.
I wonder if he is aware that peaceful resistance isn’t the only option. We saw how it went this time, and next time there may be some who decline to repeat a failed strategy.
Thousands line Bayshore Boulevard on Saturday as Tampa is invaded by swashbucklers participating in the Gasparilla Parade of Pirates.
Shiver me timbers.
Hookup post is over on the forums dude.
Photo #6 looks quite insurrection-y to me.
Skylar: would, oh yes indeed.
If this is true, it explains the Memphis cop beating.
I was guessing some kind of grudge.
If they set this kid up for revenge, we’re on a whole different level.
If it’s true, then at least one of the cops is looking at first degree murder.
From one of the comments it says that the victim’s family has expressly denied this.
Would the family know? Maybe, maybe not.
Assume it’s not true until proven otherwise.
Where’d that photo of the beat-up victim* sitting on the ground come from? Who took it, and why?
*I assume that’s him.
That EV tax credit should offset that $250K you just dropped on that monstrosity.
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1620138541937205250
Who the hell runs his social media campaign?
This guy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNV4FMpGh8%2F
LOL. Even better he promotes the EV tax in a vehicle that isn’t eligible for the tax. Look Bush the Lessor was a dolt but he looks like a Mensa member compared to Biden.
Below is a tweet from Dr Jill, identified as a US government official. No, she fucking isn’t.
First Lady officiates things.
On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified.
The great American road trip is going to be much shorter than it used to be.
And make sure it doesn’t go anywhere cold.
So much this. As EVs become a larger share of the market anywhere outside the sunbelt, the stories are going to emerge of limited range, people running out of power on the road, and general disgruntlement with the product.
“Turn off your electronics” signs over large grades?
Cabin heating and maintaining proper battery temperature is the issue.
But what really kills them is speed. So if you want the hypermill an EV just slow down to around 45MPH. Should make all the drivers around you very happy.
And dying after hitting the ditch in a blizzard
On our trip to Salt Lake City last fall (the weather was very pleasant) we saw two (2) Teslas sitting by the road, presumably out of juice. I think it was the up-and-down between Phoenix and Salt Lake that blew up their range.
That ain’t a call to AAA so a guy brings you some gas. That’s a full tow job to wherever there is a charger. That ain’t free.
To our betters that’s a feature, not a bug.
The great American road trip is going to be much shorter than it used to be.
WALKABLE NEIGHBORHOODS!
I can walk around my neighborhood.
Grocery store is still 30 miles away, though.
“You lie!”
The 15-year-old identified only by his first name, Fahim, was playing hide-and-seek with friends in the port city of Chittagong on Jan. 11 when he hid inside a shipping container and fell asleep.
It’s just a game. No need to get carried away.
Terrible way to die.
Kid lived no?
FTA, yes. Feverish and dehydrated.
Oh good. Thanks for RTFA!
I can barely contain my joy that he was found. I wonder if they opened the door and said “hi boy”?
Or maybe “hoo boy!”
Florida lawmakers’ promise to introduce legislation allowing permitless concealed carry of firearms, called “Constitutional Carry” by proponents, has been met. At a Monday morning press briefing, House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) and other gathered lawmakers announced House Bill 543, which would allow weapons and firearms without a license for concealment.
It’s a shame one has to pass a law to allow people to do something that the government is prohibited from preventing people from doing in the first place.
I have a permit so I can carry out of state.
How well does that work in New York?
Only in reciprocal states. NY is not one of them. Which means I will never visit NY, not that I wanted to anyway.
Guess what mountain state isn’t covered by my MN permit?
*eyeroll*
That kind of bigotry isn’t very progressive.
I’m told Minne got in pissing contests with a bunch of states over reciprocity.
Yeah, not risking that one. I’m reciprocal in 38 states, NY isn’t one of them. And I’m not, and never will be a resident.
I thought you bought a place there?
He’s just passing through.
Two months a year is not a resident.
Full Faith and Credit Clause has entered the chat.
As a medical student and researcher, I staunchly supported the efforts of the public health authorities when it came to COVID-19. I believed that the authorities responded to the largest public health crisis of our lives with compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise. I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters.
In other words, you’re a fucking moron.
I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters.
I’ve been looking around at new jobs lately. Virtually every company I looked at requires “up to date” Covid vaccinations, including regular boosters, as a condition of employment for new hires. My own company required us to get one shot and not boosters, but I saw requires the up to date boosters bullshit for new hires in job posts.
A sort of grandfathering in. I had no idea companies were pulling this shit.
Only in reciprocal states. NY is not one of them. Which means I will never visit NY, not that I wanted to anyway.
Utah license classes were pretty popular in Montana, because many more reciprocal states, for some reason. I never bothered to find out why.
Dear President Biden,
Where is your all electric plug-in Presidential Limo?
STFU you blathering imbecile.
Come on man, he’s a cool dude, tooling around in one of those new-fangled electric cars!
Filled with Bio Diesel?
Presidential limo breaks down ahead of Obama’s arrival in Israel
TW – CNN – Obama era
Yeah, they’re gonna have to have some big capacitors on that fucking thing. Maybe a diesel-electric with the diesel detaching for the 5 mile state processions.
I’d swear I saw somewhere The Beast has a very short range. Something like 8 miles.
Feds: Unionization rate takes a tumble in state
Any guesses on states/occupations with highest/lowest rates?
State Employees?
Which state employees?
Overpaid state employees?
police, fire, and teachers
It looks like I’m scheduled for the overnight article spot, which drops opposite Bowling, so I’ll be late to the party.
Can I change my moniker and pretend to be you?
I’d rather you not.
I’m not hearing a “no” . . .
Tense negotiations.
Depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
“Ahead of the first Trump impeachment, you said the committee had not spoken to a whistleblower. In fact, that turned out not to be true.”
ADAM SCHIFF: “I should’ve been more clear.”
Where “been more clear” means “not lied through my teeth, as is my wont.”
I’m a little impressed he got that out without screaming FUCK YOU FASCIST.
So Brett, have you picked out the stable for your horses yet?
I was planning on shipping the boy off to Sloopy and Banjos to work on a nearby ranch. Horses are mean, panicky, one-toed assholes who can spend more money on a vet bill than a purebred dog if someone sneezes in their direction. They are below the other 3 “F”s on things I would never buy unless I could afford to buy 20.
I warned my buddy about riding lessons when his daughter was small. Now he’s got 3 horses with all the accouterments. Makes shooting look like a budget hobby.
How much does it cost when your gun takes sick? Does the gunsmith look at your truck and then ask for 10% of the new price?
I’m also pretty sure you can transport guns in the vehicle you already own. 5th wheel sleeper trailer and a big dually ain’t cheap.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We’ve found our white guy!
A 6th Memphis officer is off the force as new details emerge from the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols
I sense a great disturbance in the force as if all the race hucksters ejaculated all at the same time.
Kill the
wabbitWhitey!Obligatory.
Also obligatory.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VtuYWlh6fJ4
It sounds like he wasn’t there for the beating, but let’s all go apeshit anyway.
But he said stomp his ass! STOMP HIS ASS!
We systematically minimized the downsides of the interventions we imposed—imposed without the input, consent, and recognition of those forced to live with them. In so doing, we violated the autonomy of those who would be most negatively impacted by our policies: the poor, the working class, small business owners, Blacks and Latinos, and children. These populations were overlooked because they were made invisible to us by their systematic exclusion from the dominant, corporatized media machine that presumed omniscience.
Go drink a gallon of ammonia as penance, you lying shitbag.
The dominant, corporatized media machine that presumed omniscience is still out there, working with our government to make sure the next time is even worse.
Invisible my ass. Everybody knew what was happening.
Are you fucking kidding me? There was hardly a story about the ‘Vid that didn’t push that button over and over.
What a sack of shit.
Gulp.
I think I just bought a house and 7.6 acres in the country.
Congratulations
Either that or a burned out shell of a house on a half acre in Detroit. We’ll have to see the deed to be sure.
Congrats, hope you enjoy the space and the quite. I live on about an acre and it’s lovely.
Congratulations!
She said, “Sonny, move out to the country”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BofvfVPFbiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrbPAt1_vc4
Hard to grow peaches up here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvcohzJvviQ
No, just no.
Yeah, that’s a no from me too dog.
But…peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man downtown
Sweet! Congrats, Nick!
Near Dooloot?
15 minutes north of the Duloot Airport
Perfect! Nice commute. Thins out pretty fast from the airport.
Congrats. What kind of country? “Neighbors grow a little pot” country, or “neighbors are cooking up meth” country?
“Neighbors wouldn’t notice nuclear war” county?
Neighbors shoot passing cars country?
Woodsy
I was thinking a big old vegetable garden, bees, chickens, and maybe a couple of pigs; but meth might be more profitable. Hmmm.
“What neighbors” country?
Congrats! Enjoy the country living.
Congrats!
Can you hear dueling banjos?
Congrats!
I think I just bought a house and 7.6 acres in the country.
Good for you. You’ll have plenty of time to repent later.
OFFS BBC-America is blurring out the special area of some dude in tightie-whities. Law & Order. I’ve seen them blurring out all kinds of shit in recent years that was perfectly acceptable on network television all of 20 years ago.
I love the new puritanism.
I thought we were supposed to celebrate the female penis.
*golf clap *
That’s ridiculous.
Don’t let them air Malcolm in the Middle
Lots of crap-gap* too – on words that are obviously not profanity.
*Stolen from Ebert or Siskel
Legit LOL
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Wow – don’t quote and try to turn into a link!
https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/ilhan-omar-says-she-was-unaware-of-tropes-about-jews-and-money/
Is this like being color blind is actually racist?
It is her wonderful outlook on life that is going to save her seat on the Foreign Affairs committee
Remember when Omar said it “was all about the Benjamins” and Pelosi went from preparing to censure Omar to passing a resolution condemning all bigotry including Islamophobia?
He’ll need Omar to restrain the Israel lobby. I would assume that’s his play.
So she’s channeling Eric Cartman?
It took all day, and a run to Home Depot for more kerosene, but my water just came back on.
Obviously, I need to open the faucet more when the temp goes below zero.
I only had one faucet freeze up during our last deep freeze. That’s the one I left dribbling before I left for work today. We’ll see what happens.
Do you think heat tape would work?
Water was slow coming out this morning at the house. Damn attic ran plumbing.
Attic plumbing?
Who does that?
Attic Greeks?
Moderate climate, on slab construction.
“Americans think the GOVERNMENT is the nation’s top problem over a slew of issues such as inflation, the southern border after the chaotic start to new Congress, new poll shows”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11693413/Americans-think-GOVERNMENT-nations-problem.html
Libertarian moment?
Problem is they probably don’t agree on if the problem is too much or too little government.
It’s because their people are not fully in charge of everything.
“California’s legal marijuana market goes to pot: Relatives of late stoner Jerry Garcia pull his cannabis brand out of Golden State as high taxes and regulation sees profits dive – and the black market surge”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11693323/Relatives-Jerry-Garcia-pull-cannabis-brand-California-regulations-let-black-market-boom.html
California managed to fuck up selling weed in California.
Leave it CA to screw up MJ legalization. It was sold as a way to bring all kinds of new tax money to the state coffers and was to be a solution to all the budget problems. And yet most CA voters will never look at this and say, if they can make even the legal MJ business unprofitable, maybe the government is a little overbearing.
It’s failing everywhere it’s being tried because they’re all doing it stupid.
Canada, ferinstance.
Ackshaually, in NYC you have a good situation. There are 1,200 (?) stores selling weed illegally, but no one is enforcing shit. So you can buy whatever you want, no questions asked.
Meanwhile, in nearby MA, weed is legal, but you have to give your name, DOB, have your ID scanned, etc.
KULAKS! WRECKERS!! HOARDERS!!! Running dog capitalist pigs.
Do you think heat tape would work?
I assume so, but I really need to some skirting off and get under this doublewide and do some serious retrofit, and I’m too much of a pussy to do it in the middle of winter.
There is what I thought was a pigtail for heat tape which I found the first time it froze, but it does not appear to be doing anything.
For now, RV drain antifreeze and run the taps. That’s what I do.
Less spiders in the winter. Just saying.
I haven’t given up pretending I’m just going to have this crappy old trailer hauled away (or demolished) and replace it with a barndominium or something similar.
Some of those prefab cabins are pretty sweet. Or just build a big garage with living quarters.
Sloper Villa 2.0?
I read this as Barndimonium.
And the war drums continue beating…
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/29/nato-official-says-alliance-is-ready-for-direct-confrontation-with-russia/
😂
I hope he ran that by his soldiers’ unions first.
Just what we need.
The other day I saw a house that wasn’t just flying the Ukrainian flag but also the NATO flag. SMDH.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and to the republics for which it stands, one multilateral organization under Brussels. Amen.
It seems all of Europe wants to self-immolate.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/01/27/diplomacy-watch-switzerland-weighs-break-with-policy-of-neutrality/
Why not? They caved to the rest of Europe and hopped on the road to a disarmed populace.
Annex Lichtenstein?
She was great in the Eurythmics.
Swiss dreams are made of cheese.
Who am I to dis a brie?
Lol
*standing ovation*
inorite
Meh… Swiss arms manufacturer employees have mouths to feed, too.
I thought Swiss neutrality meant they would trade with all sides? I recall reading that during WWII they had some pretty good commerce going with Nazi Germany, Vichy France and Fascist Italy. Being surrounded by them, If the Swiss hadn’t, how would they have survived? So allowing Swiss manufactured arms to be sold or given to Ukraine by other countries seems in line with prior conflicts.
Switzerland joined the economic sanctions against Russia. That’s why the country is no longer neutral.
Are we positive they are no longer neutral? Or are they merely grounded in the reality?
They’re no longer neutral.
And it’s created a bit of an uproar in Switzerland. As with most governments, the people in charge don’t seem to care what the populace wants.
Attempt to start a pun train FAIL.
And I though Scruffy was an EE?
Damn, I didn’t complete the circuit there.
Paging Swiss…Swiss to the Yt courtesy phone
Did you get your pie dish back?
Not….yet
Why you need Swiss when you know I’m right.
😀
Meh, six days probably won’t qualify him for the Olympics.
Some of those prefab cabins are pretty sweet. Or just build a big garage with living quarters.
Which is exactly what I had in Montana; a loft in a pole barn. I’d go back to that in a heartbeat.
Very cost effective. Up at the lake a dude I knew did that temporarily and liked it so much last I heard he hadn’t actually built a cabin!
“Except… something’s wrong, and we all know it. Shelves are often still bare. Prices are astronomical. Shipments regularly get lost. Drunks swerve down highways in broad daylight. Everywhere I go, people seem broken. You walk into a store and no one greets you. Often, there’s no one at the checkout counter at all, or the clerk is wearing earbuds. That’s not to mention the general crime and lawlessness. The little sorts of things that serve as potent portents of our age.
I’ve been trying to hide from this slow, steady decline—what Stokes calls “the crumbles”—but it’s just impossible to hide from. It can only be confronted.”
https://www.unprepared.life/p/is-prepping-over
Agree that the rot started before the plague but that sure helped ramp it up.
It’s a good question. How the fuck do you prep for a fundamental (monumental) shift? A few weeks of food and water is great. A bunch of ammo is wonderful. But most of us aren’t Kit Carson. If there is a massive breakdown, I wonder how long us normies could make it.
Seems that trying to get things headed in a different direction deserves some time and effort too.
“how long us normies could make it”
Depends on how successful we can be at forming our own ad hoc communities for resources and protection.
100%.
Community is often ignored in these scenarios. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the quality of dudes in my suburban neighborhood. Lots of hunters, fishermen and shooters.
Yeah. Things are going to get tribal pretty quick
*looks at belly*
I’ve prepped.
ALOL
#metoo
Mammary Monday still needs a permit for these guns.
https://archive.ph/08HJb
Alexa (which I don’t use EVER…I thought) just emailed me to tell the batteries in one of my Firesticks need replacing.
/mashes opt-out button
Kill it with fire.
Sweet, cleansing fire.
Wouldn’t that be fighting Firesticks with fire?
Based on your usage we believe we may be able to get you to buy more stuff from us.
Meh. Better than a message saying you touch yourself too often and recommending various lubes.
Oh man, you get that one too?
“I want my wife to consider a threesome with me and her cousin”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21208202/want-wife-consider-threesome-her-cousin/
Who doesn’t really?
Needz pix.