We celebrated the holiday weekend with the flu! Hooray for 4 germ vectors. Family is mostly better today. We dug out the blowup water slide that we bought in the fall of ’21 on super-sale. I’m shocked and impressed that we’ve probably used it 10 times over a year and a half and it still lives. I remember spending the $80 and thinking, “if we get 2 uses out of it, I’m counting it a win”. The littles really loved it. Having family over for dinner. I’m going anti-tradition and making a really nice seafood chowdah. I hope everyone else had a great Memorial Day or just monday.
Florida Man really got lit up in this argument.
Instead of giving us tax breaks, I’d prefer they just lower taxes at this point. It all started with let’s give everyone a break on back to school stuff because every dollar matters for poor parents, and now its just a political grab bag of vote buying. Lower the damn taxes.
I think this would improve Russia and the US Senate.
Here’s a nice relaxin’ classic for a slow day with friends. (Link magic work this time!)
We are trying to salvage the above ground pool. We hope but I think the battle is lost. The pump cannot clear out the winter silt…so either drain and clean or try and get a bigger pump.
Well this is ‘merica! dammit! And bigger means better! Time to Tim the Toolman Taylor this bitch
MORE POWER!
RAW POWER!
UNLIMITED POWER!
Most excellent!
Molten core of earth has been breached, sucked out and spewed into the atmosphere, destroying all life as we know it.
But the pool is clean and ready to go. Isn’t that what’s really important here?
A pool … *le sigh*
Could be worse — Newsome just raids the state Treasury (because there was a surplus!) to send out “relief” checks just before elections that might topple him. something something vote themselves other people’s money something something…
I don’t think it would help Russia all that much to be stuck with Lindsey — even in a Siberian Vacation mode. But the US Senate, possibly…. depends who SC would find to replace him.
Prisoner exchange to dollow
or follow, even
“ Dolow is a town in the southern Gedo region of Somalia. The city sits on the Jubba River near the Somali Region in Ethiopia, just 50 km (31 mi) north of Luuq.”
Didn’t I see that CA is running a stout deficit?
Yup. Hence was a supposed surplus. (Federal COVID money really, and an overgenerous estimate of capital gains taxes).
But buying votes with your money is a crime.
You mean long honored tradition.
Sorry for ambiguity. It is a crime for a politician to use the politician’s money to buy votes but legal to raid the Treasury.
“’I’m going anti-tradition and making a really nice seafood chowdah.”
Wife and kids “took me out” to dinner for my b’day last night, lobster bisque was my appetizer. Guess who paid.
Money, or on the can?
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
¡Porque vete a la mierda, por eso!
Yo quiero Taco Bell.
Heh, look at the chew whewy whewy!
Hopefully you had a better experience.
It wasn’t fatal.
“Guess who paid.”
Self answering. Every married guy has been there and done that.
That’s a strange grab-bag of tax breaks. When NY does it, it’s usually clothing.
Florida does different sales tax breaks according to the season. Later this summer, it’ll be hurricane prep sales tax breaks, then Back to School tax breaks, etc. I might use the former this year to get a new generator and chainsaw, since it’s effectively a 7% discount on top of any sales the stores might have.
More patriotic babes!
https://archive.is/IuG1q
Instead of giving us tax breaks, I’d prefer they just lower taxes
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Lazy day song
Thanks Brooks. Always enjoyable.
First time fishing in 3 years, with a high school classmate and friend. Catching may not have been up to expectations but fishing was great.
TPTB: got an article in draft status. There are some pics but I’ve lost my knowledge of how to add titles and/or alt text. A couple of years back SP sent me some info on alt text but that doesn’t seem to apply to the screen I was editing in. Looked up the Help menu in WordPress but no help. I think most of the images are self-explanatory, but if there’s an instruction page I’m missing, please let me know.
Also, on my current schedule, I’d prefer an 11am slot M-F.
Thanks
RN
Click on the photo you have inserted, then click on the little pen in the menu (edit):
then put any title you want in the Caption Field. The Alt-Text is in the Image Title Attribute field. You can also change size, alignment, etc.
WHAT HE SAID…
Thank you!
Reposting from the dead thread:
I was reading a little article today about the boys from my high school who have given their lives overseas — eleven in Viet Nam, one each in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was while reading about the last that I came upon something that kinda bothers me:
He died in a helicopter crash on a training mission. Not an enemy for dozens of miles in any direction. When his body was returned to his hometown, his hearse was driven by a couple of schoolchildren standing at the side of the road waving American flags. He was buried after a small service in a local cemetery. Maybe his parents still come by on his birthday or Memorial Day, but other than that, he’s largely forgotten.
Meanwhile, the West Point grad who made a rookie mistake and suffered spatial disorientation and flew the chopper into the ground, killing the entire crew and destroying a multi-million-dollar asset, was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
I don’t know why that irritates me, but it does. Maybe it upsets my sense of fairness, is all.
When his body was returned to his hometown, his hearse was driven by a couple of schoolchildren
How ’bout “driven past a few schoolchildren”
Geez, I’m only two beers in…
Just figured they were precocious (and they know just what it takes to make a pro blush….)
Observations from today’s parade. Larger and more enthusiastic crowd than usual. However, fewer men take off their hat when the national colors pass by. Next time you are in a cemetery and see a flag -marked stone, say the service member’s name and “You are not forgotten. You are remembered.”
I have a huge pet peeve here in Vegas and now with Dallas in terms of their hockey teams.
They feel the most proper time to scream out their team name is when “through the night” is sung in the anthem to scream “Knights!” And same with Dallas…with “Stars!”
While I think the anthem prior to a normal hockey game is silly, it is being played. Stand the two fucking minutes in reverence. This even spilled into the boys graduation here in Vegas with Knights fans and Stars fans screaming their shit while the local color guard was presenting. Alsos
“Nearly” as in he put in your ass instead?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22502261/drunk-nearly-had-sex-boss/
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Because he’s fucking your sister and your best friend.
He’s looking forward to the winnings from the sexual harassment suit?
Target marketing VP holds senior position at org pushing secretive transgender policies in K-12 schools
A Target Corporation senior executive in the marketing department maintains a position with a controversial K-12 advocacy organization called GLSEN – Target’s Pride Month partner – which is focused on integrating gender ideology at all levels of K-12 schools, from curriculum to district policy.
Carlos Saavedra is a vice president of brand marketing at Target and a treasurer at GLSEN. GLSEN focuses on getting districts to adopt policies that will keep parents in the dark on their child’s in-school gender transition, providing sexually explicit books to schools for free, and integrating gender ideology at all levels of curriculum in public schools.
The rot is everywhere
Not even a little surprised.
Next thing you know parents will want to look at their kid’s report card.
One man is in custody after authorities said he poured gasoline on another man and lit him on fire after an argument at a Tampa gas station on Sunday afternoon.
Note at end of article:
ABC Action News Mugshot Policy
When a mugshot is used:
If the person is still on the loose and a potential threat to the community; if there is a good chance that showing the suspect would help identify additional victims or otherwise protect the public from a serious threat or if the crime or the suspect is of such a significant note that seeing them in a mug shot is in the greater public interest.
In other words, “We don’t want to reinforce racial stereotypes with regard to high-profile street crimes.”
Well, there’s more than one Tampa-area news source out there, so consider your stereotypes reinforced.
Yet another domestic terrorist attack by a far-right white supremacist. /SPLC
Considered innocent until proven guilty. I’m ok with not showing mugshots.
Yep. Mug shots as a matter of public record are wrong until after trial.
All Florida men want to be Burt Reynolds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3PGjkVtdNrE
First time fishing in 3 years, with a high school classmate and friend. Catching may not have been up to expectations but fishing was great.
Nice, fourscore.
Something I noticed this weekend:
I took the Bosslady to a community along the Atlantic coast for the weekend, one where there’s a seaside / surfer bar approximately every thirty feet on the streets near the beach. Typically, there’s a distributor-supplied Bud Light sign on a window facing outward to the street.
Now… not an illuminated Bud Light sign to be seen.
Business owners know. No dude wants to be seen drinking the “tranny beer,” and to advertise prominently that you sell it is to invite customers to walk another thirty feet to the next bar.
Tranhauser-Busch has really stepped in it this time.
For years now, my uncle has been showing up with a case of Stella to every event at my house. At the kid’s bday party last month, he brought a case of Yuengling.
My uncle has formerly shown little interest in culture wars and given even less of a shit over anyone’s sexual orientation. Busch may have done some actual damage to themselves over this.
Relevant
I think I said it this morning, but the left pushed way too hard on this shit, and right now people are getting even for “just bake the fucking cake”, tampon machines in the boys locker room, “girls” on the girls swim team, pronoun patrol, and a host of other small and large indignities that have been adding up over the years. Well, now it is payback time, and the fallout is gonna hurt.
Wink wink, nudge nudge
The U.K. government said it is engaging with the food sector amid attempts to reduce the inflation-driven strain on British households — but dismissed the possibility of mandating price caps on supermarket goods.
“The government is not considering imposing price caps. Any scheme to help bring down food prices for consumers would be voluntary,” a government spokesperson told CNBC by email.
Wage and price controls? Here?
Maybe they can bring back ration cards until the World War Ukraine ends and they pay down their war debt again.
When making my Great Tour of the midwest this month, I came across this stanza on a sign in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville. A friend who recently visited the cemetery at Gettysburg noted that the same poem is displayed there. By Theodore O’Hara:
The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat
The soldier’s last tattoo;
No more on life’s parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame’s eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
More in line with the open post, but it will have to go here.
Thank you for that.
In the same vein, yet different:
No, no, no, they were brave for us,
And bright were the lives they gave for us;
The land they struggled to save for us
Will not forget
Its warriors yet
Who sleep in so many a grave for us.
On many and many a plain for us
Their blood poured down all in vain for us,
Red, rich, and pure, like a rain for us;
They bleed — we weep,
We live — they sleep,
“All lost,” the only refrain for us.
I have an important announcement. The new season of Hoarders starts tonight. 🥹
😮 OMG what channel?
nm found it. A&E
A&E
👍
LOL I was traveling some back roads in upstate NY this weekend – it’s been a long time and I forget how many outdoor hoards there really are in such places.
He needed killin’.
Ugh Masked Hoarders.
Though to be fair, I might even wear the fucking thing walking around that mess. Yikes!
Yeah, in this one, it might be all the dust.
I made tri tip for dinner. Om nom nom.
Smoked wings and dogs…they only yelped in the beginning
Smoking pork butts for my girlfriend’s son’s high school grad party.
The first 45 lbs. are finishing in the oven.
Second 50 lbs. are in the smoker.
The remaining 45 lbs. will have to wait until tomorrow evening.
That’s a lotta butt!
150lbs? How many are you doing???
6 butts of varying weight.
She has a huge family
Wow!
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Sir Mixalot approves
Zoom is still up…I am sinking into a Belgian Quad and see one other person with the meeting open, but not present.
Maybe I’ll be there…missus…might have objection
Hmmm….. One moment
I’m all out of cigars and I’m drinking cabernet not whiskey.
pace Sean, 2 in thick NY strip with grilled veggies and a salad – consumed, just more wine to sip.
Lindsay Graham will be popular in a Russian prison.
Cause he speaks Russian? /proggies
The Russians won’t arrest Graham for the same reason the Allies didn’t really want to kill Hitler: His incompetence is a gift to the opposing side. We’ll, that and the fact that they can’t but still…
Authorities said after Earl Hargrove, Jr., 34, and the victim got into an argument, Hargrove bought gas, poured it on the victim, and lit him on fire.
Was that wrong?
The tax holiday begins on Monday, May 29, and ends on Monday, Sept. 4.
You could just repeal that sales tax permanently.
Time to wat h Vegas lose
Well…g’night Dallas. 3-0 is a tall order to come back from even in today’s NHL
Back from a great four days of sailing. We did 1 1/3 laps around Oahu with much calmer seas than normal. Not sure where we will end of finishing once they dtermine the results but it was good sailing, good weather, and good friends.
Remembered Memorial Day on the water with friends in the pre-starting line calm just after sunrise.
After dinner I’ll walk to the beach after sunset and remember some Soldiers with cognac and a cigar.
I hope everyone had a Memorial Day that was the best for them and their family.
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
BY RANDALL JARRELL
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.