Today’s music is dedicated to Boeing, for reasons explained below.
A PERSONAL NOTE: As some of you have heard, I now have a special gentleman friend. This is going to take my life in a new, good, direction. Stay tuned for tales and pictures. I’ve been particularly slack about my Glibs editorial duties for the past few weeks because of this. I let the ball drop on proofreading and editing, and apologize to anyone who I didn’t follow through with.
PROGS ROLL OUT BRAND-NEW VICTIM CLASS, “BANK TENANTS:” While this article is ostensibly about a county government quietly raising property assessments, as they so often do, the thing that struck me was the new-to-me phrase “bank tenants.” Home ownership has traditionally been the dividing line between the middle class and the working class. Now it seems people are seeking to redefine that; expect more shenanigans and class warfare.
BOEING TAKES A BATH ON STARLINER CREW CAPSULE CONTRACT: “Boeing took another loss on its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program as the first crewed flight of that vehicle remains in limbo.” Never a good sign when the lead paragraph of a trade journal article uses that phrase.
HUNTER BIDEN TO BE DRUG TESTED AS A CONDITION OF PRETRIAL RELEASE: I finally found an article that speaks directly to the conditions of his pretrial release. While drug prohibition and unconstitutional infringements on 2A rights are both bullshit, it’s good to see a member of the political elite suffering some of the same consequences as regular people caught in the same circumstances.
NASA, DARPA PLAN 2026 TEST OF NUCLEAR ROCKET ENGINE: The DRACO Project engine is for deep space propulsion and doesn’t generate enough thrust to serve as an orbital booster. We should have had this decades earlier. Please note that SpaceX has a Draco (non-acronym) line of rocket thrusters and engines unrelated to this project.
LEGACY MEDIA SHITBAGGERY WATCH: Calling bullshit on that, Time magazine. Also, notice how they changed the apologia from “cannot catch a break” to “can’t turn the page.” Always remember, TMITE.
MOSCOW, IDAHO TAXPAYERS ON HOOK FOR SETTLING COVID LOCKDOWN LAWSUIT: “Moscow, Idaho has settled a lawsuit filed by three Christians who alleged the city violated their first and fourth amendment rights when they were arrested for taking part in a peaceful religious demonstration protesting Covid-19 restrictions.” That works out to about $11.79 per city resident. And none of the people responsible will suffer any personal consequences.
CHANDRAYAAN-3 NAILS TRANS LUNAR INSERTION: I really just wanted an excuse to link to this long animation of India’s Chandrayaan-3 Lunar lander and probe mission. Sorry, WION fanboys, but there are no MILF-y, sari-clad news presenters in this video. But here’s a special bonus tune just for you.
GLIBS CRUISE REMINDER: Shpip and KK are putting together a week-long Glibs cruise departing from Ft Lauderdale on Oct 21, 2024. Here’s a link to the details.
Fur trapping?
When a bear likes another bear very much…
Oh OK, so a more romantic version of bear hunting?
What’s a non-bear called?
Do you really want a deep dive into the gay taxonomy (NSFW)?
Sounds like that would be a real Boo-Boo.
I was hoping for this, but yours does a better job of explaining things.
That sounds more on the L than the G side of the spectrum to me.
But however you want to phrase it, congrats Tonio… hope y’all have a lovely time of it.
First-in-timer!
Nope. And not even topical.
Womp, womp.
More ghey than Tonio.
Also congrats Tonio!
Hahahaha
Ha
Tonio’s getting laid!
Good for you.
Well thanks for putting this in my head now! 😉
⬆️ What I was thinking.
#METOO
Pity Mrs. Dangerfield.
“As some of you have heard, I now have a special gentleman friend. This is going to take my life in a new, good, direction.”
Congrats 🙂
*adds that author to the list of people who should end up on the gallows*
I’ve been feeling rather French lately.
“A gun he owned had already been taken from him by his romantic partner at the time”
Wasn’t that his sister in law?
Doesn’t the Old Testament countenance the marrying of one’s brother’s widow? Then again, did the kanoodling start before or after the widowing?
I’m no historian, but pretty sure it was guillotines, not gallows.
Guillotines are too messy.
Matter of opinion. The Guillotine is quite a bit more consistent.
The Gallows can be quite messy as well. Drop too far and the head pops off, not far enough and there is a lot of kicking and struggling.
And pooping.
It’s hard out here for a political pimp.
Just can’t catch a break!
Wow.
Everytime he thinks he’s out…. they pull him back in!
Dude didn’t just blow Hunter in that article, he went for the rimjob and fondled the balls.
Salads were tossed.
Speaking of sexual favors
Why Kamala Harris Is A Better VP Than You Think
Yeah, she’s knocked them out of the park. Well, maybe the voting rights…
Remember that time that the U.S. invaded a country that had fuck-all to do with anything, and everyone had a big laugh at that Baghdad Bob guy saying the Iraqi military had everything under control?
“Even that courthouse where Hunter Biden tried to take responsibility was named for the three-term Senate incumbent his father ousted back in 1972”
Seriously? That’s an added problem?
But when you’re a Biden, nothing is ever that easy.
I am happy that this person is not within reach of my fist (or open palm – whatever is most appropriate).
You can’t fool me. That’s a one way ticket to their blood diamond mines in Africa.
“How to Serve Man”
For the Glibs?
The coca fields would be a more likely destination.
They do have cruises with multiple stops. I hear the slave markets in Libya are nice that time of year.
I thought they were just distracting folks while stealing their stock of orphans… and the orphans go to the blood diamond mines…
No worries. There will be a huge fire started over an IPA beer argument in the aft lounge. The ship will sink and the slaves shall be freed.
HONK HONK
https://twitter.com/truckdriverpleb/status/1684356139205509121
Well, they say “write what you know”… I guess “Be a Minister of what you know through personal experience” apparently applies…
TL;DR — Clown World. (honk honk)
“acronym”? So, she’s not actually coherent in English?
“Dimwit” appears to be her major qualification.
Not only is she the Minister of Mental Health, she’s also a client!
The Canadian Sy Sperling.
He’s the First Crackhead. I’m sure he can get someone to take the test for him, bribe the lab, etc.
“First Crackhead” for the win.
If Johnny Dirtbag From the Block can figure out how to fake a pee test, so can FCOTUS
(pronounced Fuck-Otis)
Whatever secures your ladder there, KK… I think if I weren’t married I’d be more into Miss Tessmacher (in her prime), but if Otisburg appeals to you and all…
Perry White is the only Superman character I’d fuck, tbh
Which Perry, out of curiosity? Lenny? (Smallville), Morpheus? (Man of Steel) or are we just talking Mr. Cooper here?
I’ve only ever seen the Reeves movies, so that guy. But I could be persuaded if the others are just as curmudgeonly
Kevin Spacey was a LL, as well.
And it sounds like he’s available…
*shudders*
Pish tosh, they’ll use the FBI Crime Lab! The paragon of professionalism!
I think I saw Pish Tosh play with Yellowman.
He’s a navigator?
A navigator, you say?
I’m not familiar with all this gay slang.
Wait until Tonio starts bringing up his stoker and his black gang….
The Guild Navigator (1984)
NASA, DARPA PLAN 2026 TEST OF NUCLEAR ROCKET ENGINE:
“So what would you say you do here?”
Other than eat SpaceX dust, of course.
Not a nuke pusher / Orion. More of a constant low thrust design using a heated propellent.
Yeah, and a really small proof of concept / test bed from the sound of it.
Small enough to be carried by a Falcon 9 — just the reactor and a cryo tank of hydrogen. Which will be the limiting factor (short term) for engines like that if you stick with hydrogen for the heated propellant gas… once you’re out, the reactor isn’t going to do you much good. Which is why I’m all in favor of using a (real) Orion once (not much worse than the bomb tests of the 1950s), loft enough to set up a serious Lagrange point station and/or Lunar base with actual industry, loft reactors for power as well, and get to cracking water for the hydrogen you can then build your interplanetary engines like this with if need be. Once you get a quicker trip to the asteroids and/or Jupiter, resources shouldn’t be an issue — using the Orion for all of it probably isn’t feasible (I haven’t done the math) just because we don’t have that many ready bombs.
Never going to happen, but bootstrapping a real space industry sector that way seems to me what needs to happen. Plus you can carry enough shielding to be feasible and all (so your people don’t croak long term).
“Let the ball drop”
We still doing phrasing?
I assume “bank tenants” is a step toward a campaign to cancel home loans.
I think it’s safe to assume that.
“Cancel mortgages! The president can just do that by executive order!”
I think we would need to nationalize the mortgage markets more first. Then make them guaranteed, and non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.
After that, we can set up
StudentHome Loan forgiveness programs.Like an idiot I just used our savings to buy a house with cash.
The way things are headed, it wouldn’t surprise me.
From each according to xer’s ability… to each according to xim’s needs….
Second verse… same as the first.
But when you’re a Biden, nothing is ever that easy. And when you’re Hunter Biden, it’s doubly complicated.
Boo fucking hoo.
Go cry in one of your mansions purchased with your bribes and grifts.
I guess my broader question is, “who is Time’s audience”? MAGA fascists are going to be persuaded. I can’t imagine a lot of hard-core progs need to be convinced. And I’d doubt more people who aren’t team players, don’t care one way or the other.
So, just another piece of journalism written to other journalists?
Maybe it’s like Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. Someone bet the author they couldn’t make a vile, privileged person sound sympathetic.
Hunter: The Modern Day Prometheus.
Are you kidding? Me! That shit is comedy gold.
He fathered, with a former assistant at his consulting firm, a child no one in his family has ever met.
They kept a stripper on the payroll? Or is that another one?
I’d go on the Glib cruise, but I’m pretty sure the FBI would be tailing me the whole way.
Today I learned about a the American 180, a .22 LR machine gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQEb6DPPVtU
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The weapon operates through a conventional blowback mechanism. It uses an open bolt with a flat pan magazine. It fires at a very high rate of fire of approximately 1,200 RPM. The American-180 was purchased mostly by private parties prior to the American ban on production of machine guns for the US civilian market. The A180 was adopted by the Utah Department of Corrections to arm correctional officers.[5][6]
Despite the low power of the .22 LR round, testing demonstrated that automatic fire could penetrate even concrete and bulletproof vests from cumulative damage.[citation needed] However, the target would have to remain still for some amount of time to allow the cumulative damage to amass in the same area to achieve this.[citation needed]
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Gun Jesus did a video on that weapon. Very cool.
The steampunk .22 LR gatling gun is neat too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuS3G7YKrj4
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1684576244745256961
I doubt it’s even the hottest in 120 years, but OK. It’s cute how they think they can know this with such precision.
Show me the records over that period of time.
Still haven’t even brushed up against 100 up here, which isn’t uncommon during the summer.
They’ve been keeping time travel secret.
GTFO
Yeah, we’ve had thermometers for barely 300 years. Those were, shall we say sparsely, distributed across a small portion of the planet for the great majority of that time. I call shenanigans, redundantly.
Shirley! Great to hear from you. Some folks around here (including me) had wondered about you.
I thought of you when we passed through Lansing last month.
with such precision.
If I remember correctly one economist said you can tell economists have a sense of humor when they use a decimal point in their estimate.
I think Russ Roberts has made that comment on Econtalk.
I get so tired of people saying “99.999999% of the time…” Oh, you have that many instances?
So, just another piece of journalism written to other journalists?
There are dozens of on-the-fence moderates in dentists’ office across the country who are liable to be moved by this sympathetic portrayal of a troubled boy in search of an identity all his own.
“cannot catch a break” to “can’t turn the page.”
I’m shocked…
Bob Seger – Turn The Page (1973 Radio Version)
There’s a post in the forum in the Meetup section about the Glubcruise. We’ll use it for info and roommate matching as needed.
Unfortunate titling there
I dunno – I think it may be an a propos typo
A real trip of Titans?
“We’ll use it for info and roommate matching as needed.”
You’re not just going to throw room keys in a big, beautiful, white USA hat?
“I paid my daughter $500 to go out on dates with 100 different men before she gets married because I don’t want her to settle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12345233/I-paid-daughter-500-dates-100-different-men-gets-married-dont-want-settle.html
Top-notch parenting.
From Utah. That’s like 3 Pr0nHub genres in 1.
Did he charge the men $20 each?
Do you how you can make even more money dating even more men?
Does math……
That makes her a $5 whore?
Did you just order a $5 shake?
inflation?
Ahem…
https://twitter.com/BoltzmannBooty/status/1684324789161189377
For Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d0f9G7lmzg
I suspect implants.
Ow…. no wonder they kept it short, that had to hurt after a little bit.
Attn: Scruffy
Christine LaGarde haz a sad.
Learning Japanese Through Banking
タンス預金
“DANSU yokin”
Literally, shelf deposit. It means depositing the money on your shelf instead of a financial institution.
This could possibly end if people get paid for deposits.
“Nearly half a million Americans have developed a red meat allergy after being bitten by a TICK – and majority are completely unaware of the link, CDC research says”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12345595/A-meat-allergy-caused-tick-spit-getting-common-CDC-says.html
I remember some globalist ass clown who wanted to infect people deliberately.
A friend of mine got a red meat allergy from that when he was in his late 30s. He does fine eating just chicken or fish but says he’d kill to be able to eat a steak once in a while.
Moloko Milk Bar second-hardest hit.
It’s happening all around me. Several close neighbors now have alpha-gal from tick bites and can’t eat red meat.
What a nightmare to give up burgers, steak, and brisket. I bought 27 guinea hens to clear the yard around the house and have stopped heading into the woods during summer.
I remember some globalist ass clown who wanted to infect people deliberately.
After Covid, it wouldn’t surprise me if alpha-gal had been made in a lab and deliberately released.
Do you have a news letter I could read?
See Plum Island and Willy Burgdorfer
Wild. Are you in Virginia?
Yep, southwest VA. One neighbor has even set up several rabbit hutches for meat.
Damn.
I could probably get by, but I eat many pounds of ground beef/steak a week.
Time lapse of a boy with ADHD watching a math video vs a Star Wars clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=167se17RNHw
I laughed.
“‘Time-traveling’ pathogens trapped for thousands of years in melting permafrost could spark next pandemic and wipe out microbes crucial to our planet”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12345535/Time-traveling-pathogens-trapped-thousands-years-melting-permafrost-spark-pandemic-wipe-microbes-crucial-planet.html
No.
Robert Reich breathes easier.
The number of people who have a hard-on for another pandemic is just disturbing.
And those archaic pathogens? They are way, way behind on the whole evolution thing. I suspect they are about as likely to cause a pandemic as a Chevy Belair is to win NASCAR.
Viral New Superconductivity Claims Leave Many Scientists Skeptical
Supposedly it’s pretty easy to replicate, so we’ll know pretty soon if this is real or just bullshit (the latter seems more likely). If it’s real, then this could be one of those transformative discoveries that change the world.
That’d be a huge breakthrough.
It’s probably bullshit.
Sounds like John Galt’s static electricity motor
Nope, it involves lead, so it will be banned in California. And without the California market to sell to…
From what I’ve seen on X this afternoon, it’s already been demonstrated that the results of the initial report cannot be replicated.
Room-temperature nuclear fusion from the 1990s, anybody?
Saw some comments that a few folks were planning on getting their teams together for some weekend work. Sounds like something OMWC could test in his lab too.
WARNING: Cheap, efficient energy contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
That Times writer has been on a retarded roll this week: Why Even Democrats Are Going Wobbly on Trans Rights in Sports
Now do affirmative action.
“I support the policy but didn’t expect I would have to pay for it.”
Yes, ask “Do you support transgender privileges and are fine with it being your daughter who gets kicked off the team to make room for trans person?”
“a question of competitive fairness than civil rights”
I’m so old, I can remember when making sure girls had their own teams was a civil rights victory.
The RV park owner just ran over a campsite spigot with a backhoe.
Hope that doesn’t affect my water pressure
(campsite was empty)
Yeah, we’ve had thermometers for barely 300 years. Those were, shall we say sparsely, distributed across a small portion of the planet for the great majority of that time. I call shenanigans, redundantly.
Tree ring denialist!
Don’t forget, they have ice cores from the south pole that show the exact temperature for any day in history.
Typical NJ driver.
Trains are hard
Very unsatisfying ending
As somebody who take NJ Transit trains three times a week I’m OK with that.
When you get a pedestrian or car strike it delays thousands of people for hours. It also happens just on my line at least 6 to 10 times or more a year.
The suicide by train people are euphemistically referred to as “trespasser incidents”.
I used the DC Metro for 32 years. There aren’t any street crossings but there are plenty of jumpers.
“Person under a train” in Britain.
Indeed. I need some smashy smashy today.
That’s what she said.
Will, schmill. Museum decides to break up collection of Native American artifacts een though the guy who gave them the collection stipulated that it shouldn’t be broken up. But what does that old dead half-Indian guy know about virtue signalling?
I like the precedent that this sets.
After Bill Gates dies, I think that a good team of lawyers working for the American people can amend his will and take all of his money and spread it around.
Maybe middle-aged, overweight white dudes will be on top of the victim stack that day. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
We walked off the job, and now the unscrupulous bastards are hiring our replacement!
https://www.denver7.com/netflix-faces-backlash-for-900k-ai-job-post-during-hollywood-strikes
“ According to the Screen Actors Guild, 87% of the guild’s actors make less than $26,000 per year.”
If so, why the fuck would anyone pay these idiots dues?
Adam Carolla had some good comments on his podcast yesterday – when he was younger looking at acting…you’re only doing it a few days a week – get a job! Do something on the side so you’re not relying on something that may or may not happen.
I think most studios won’t hire anybody who isn’t union for writing, acting, etc.
They’ve got him now
Former President Trump is not expected to be indicted Thursday in connection with the federal investigation probing his efforts to block the transition of power following the 2020 election, according to a court official.
The official said no indictments were returned and none were expected for the remainder of the day in D.C.’s federal district court, where the grand jury has been meeting to review evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe.
The grand jury met Thursday, and jurors appear to still be inside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington behind closed doors.
It remains unclear when the grand jury would convene again. It has tended to meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The SWAT team will frog march him into the paddywagon momentarily.
Special K is out there proving she really doesn’t understand the job of a Senator
She really doesn’t seem to understand that she is supposed to be representing the interests of Minnesoda. Not trying to give even more power to the central government.
And when I said the interests of Minnesoda, I meant primarily the interests of the state of Minnesoda. Not its dumb citizens. That job is for Ilhan Omar and her House colleagues.
That went out the window with the 17th Amendment.
Thoughts while baked:
What word do y’all use to refer to a small running body of water? When I was a kid in VT I used “brook”. Then at some point I started using “stream”. Down here in SC I think it may be “creek” but not sure. In Northern Virginia it was “run” (NoVA is fucking stupid)
In northern WV/western PA we called it a “crick”, but it was spelled creek.
A brook. As in “Behold yon diminutive brook. Bring thy hobo fishing kit and bourbon and we shall wile away the hours and feast on catfish.”
A rill. In 12 grade english class.
A crick is not a creek.
lol
Clearly a muse for you.
Hilarious!
Animal! (and 61 North),
We will be invading your land in Sep/Oct and would love to meet up with you.
jemezhobbt at the protonmail which is a com
crik {Iowan}
Creek or stream in CA.
It’s also “run” down here in Spotsyltucky. I don’t know how far that extends.
It looks like we have a mix of “run” and “creek”.
I think they’re all synonyms.
Creek or stream in NoDak.
You stole that from your educated neighbors in Minnesoda!
But yeah, same answer from me too.
There’s creeks, cricks, and streams. All three are different.
I prefer “rill”.
A trickle
No.. wait.. that’s the term I use when talking to my urologist
As a kid in Illinois, a creek (crik) was smaller than a stream and ran intermittently. A stream ran all the time but was small enough to easily walk across. Anything bigger was a river.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was the first I (teenaged) had ever heard of a crick.
That is too organized for Virginia.
Burn? if Scottish.
Creek (GA).
That’s if it’s pretty much always running. If it’s just the low wet ground (typically between fields, and too wet to be plowable) that flow to the creeks, they’re called a “branch”. The flow path through it is the “run of the branch”, and is intermittent depending on rainfall. When it’s flowing (sometimes for weeks on end depending on weather), it still doesn’t become a creek. Rather, the description is that “the branch is running”.
In New Mexico? A River.
There are places along the Jemez River that you can step across.
To my thinking (by size):
River > stream > creek (crick)
I would put a brook as a slow-moving stream/creek that is bordered by overhanging trees and vegetation. “Shady Brook”
In Southern AZ, it’s a “wash”. It’ll be dry 98% of the time.
If it has a name, it’s “______ Creek” (and pronounced “Crick” if you’re my mom and from PA).
Otherwise, “stream” or “brook” will do.
*scratches brain*
I’ve been in NYC so long where there are no such things, but now I recall that there is also “______ Brook” (named) and those things are smaller than creeks.
We have Runs, too, in Penna. which have names.
“Yep, that’s Chipotle Run. You don’t wanna go there.”
Obvious link is obvious
This results in one fired superintendent, increased insurance rates as well as a honking amount of taxpayer money for deductibles and self insured retentions and nothing else.
Nobody will be held politically accountable and it won’t bring back a dead child that the state wronged.
Family of New Jersey girl, 12, who died by suicide after bullying to receive $9.1M
I had a weird computer issue on my work computer today. It was extremely slow even after a reboot. I noticed the CPU was pegged at the equivalent of one thread. It appeared something was messing up power management. I tried remedies from Microsoft’s support site. It resolved when I unplugged and plugged back in.
Not a Windows kernel person — just assuming that the change in C or P states through ACPI forced a transition that signalled the stuck spinning thread to close down. Be glad the thread wasn’t spinning blocking interrupts. 😉
Trans Lunar Injection sound like a euphemism for pegging.
Who cares about the Glibs Cruise when there is the potential for the Glib’s Zoom to crash this virtual event?!
* I love the idea of the Glib Cruise, but I really love the idea of a drunken W. Sloper screaming and cursing at the other participants in a virtual meeting on health equity.
Holy shit yes! With his tiny head in the distance on Zoom!
I’m sure sloper could be persuaded to rant on a cruise, too
Yeah, but I would bet that the other people on the cruise would be a lot more resilient than those people voluntarily signing up for that meeting. They might even find him amusing.
Sloper would put all of those Minnesoda proggies into the fetal position after the first 5 minutes of one of his rants.
Which is even better, really. Would he sit way across the bar from all of us and yell at a distance?
Proving once again, that Mitt is a cunte.
* Romney stated “To say that no employee of the government from the president on down to that millions of people who work in the government can speak with a social media company or a Legacy Media Company and express their point of view that an article is wrong or that Avenue they’re going down is wrong, that would shut off free speech.”*
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-mitt-romney-argues-it-shouldnt-be-illegal-government-use-big-tech-censorship
Fuck that guy.
Yes he is.
He knows the distinction between acting as a private citizen and on behalf of the government.
Mind you government employees have more freedom on social media than I do working for a financial institution.
He also knows the difference between a government official speaking to a social media company or expressing a point of view and what was actually happening.
I don’t think that anyone is stopping Mitt from posting whatever he wants publicly on his Twitter feed. He can throw as much shade as he wants at any article he wants. What he can’t do is talk with the employees privately and tell them that an article is wrong and should be removed.
Of course, he knows this and is just being a jackass.
What he doesn’t like is the sunshine that comes with having to post his opinions in public, because it leaves him open to others responding to him.
In their capacity as a private person, no problem.
When acting as a government agent, big problem. Plus, government agents have no 1A rights, because the government has no 1A rights.
What we need, and will never get, is a private right of action so anyone who gets bungholed by the Censorship Regime can sue both the media company and the government agents in their individual capacity.
I WILL WEIGH IN ON THE JACKSON COUNTY TAX ASSESSMENTS.
Yes, I am yelling bcause this sort of affects me and is a YUUUUUUGE deal here.
My personal experience is thus: As my brother’s occasional admin, I have reason to know that last year he paid ~$4,000 tax on a tiny house in a not-great neighborhood. Because he is rich, he did not know this. What’s the problem? The year before, it was ~$400, and each preceding year a tidge less, as one would expect. I told him to get his lawyer on that appeal, but I don’t know if he did.*
The tax assessment issue has been going on for 2 years now and Jackson County is letting people appeal this, but not doing anything about it. EVERYBODY is pissed. So if you think this little group is claiming victimhood wrongly, you’re wrong.
*It’d be easier to be his admin if he kept me in the loop. Or, you know, let me do all his adulting for him.
Because what it really is is a county cash grab from people who don’t have any money, and therefore, a property grab. Jackson County is generally poor as dirt, except for downtown KC and a few chichi enclaves.
Not that you feel strongly about it.
Come to CA, where Prop. 13 (1978) is unfair to everyone. Or maybe the Mr. has already told you.
Nope. Dude was happy to leave CA in his rearview mirror and happy to never go back.
Fortunately, though we live in KC, we DON’T live in Jackson County.
Heh, not meant as a concrete invitation, but if youse ever do come back to his old homestead… (I don’t think I know where he’s from.)
Somewhere in LA, which I can’t remember at the moment. His dad lived in Baldwin Park. When he left California, he was living in Yucca Valley. We went when XX was 9 months old, so I could meet his family for the first time, who were scattered from San Diego to Santa Rosa. We drove up and down that state, and I can’t say it was one of my more wonderful vacations, in oart because I didn’t get to do the only thing I actually wanted to do which was to see The Price is Right live.
Oh, why didn’t you? Line too long?
My dad worked there a long time. Once let me around about 25 years ago backstage before things got strict; let me spin the wheel. That thing is heavy!
We were on a tight schedule.
Did your dad have any stories about Bob Barker sexually harassing the models?
Yucca Valley
That’s a… unique… area.
Well, I mean … he left, so …
And now we know how desperate the banking situation in the EU is. This is LaGarde’s answer to Powell’s rate increase.
https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1684542274032508928
“ OOPS! #ECB decided that going forward, the minimum reserves banks need to hold won’t receive any interest. In this way, the ECB could prevent the losses of the ECB and the national central banks from increasing too much.”
Dude and I have discussed it. Because of various variables, and the fact that our life is in no way stable or predictable (also known as various variables), we are not going to be attending the Glibcruise. We can swing a deposit now. We don’t know if we will be able to swing the balance next year. And other various variables.
This is Mrs OBE and me too. We have the new job/move and boys to Japan. Now if they fail to at least turn in paperwork for passports by September, we have the dough to go
Japan?? I must have missed something.
Grad gift. A week or so in Japan. Not moving there
Hope you’ll reconsider! Or finances improve!
I’m not sure how much the *UFO thing has been discussed, but it seems entirely reasonable that it’s the update to the war on terror. Think of the money to be made to protect ourselves from the aliens. Between climate change and aliens, the grift could go on forever!
* I know they call it something else now, but I’ve reached that age where you get to keep calling it what you’ve always known it as.
As a distraction/grift it’s ideal.
But the update to the war on terror, I think, is the focus on white supremacy and domestic extremists.
How’s things in God’s Country? I was just reminiscing with a friend about fishing Burntside.
See my link up above.
Even the CIA is out of fresh ideas.
Think of the boost to the economy!
I might happily accept our new alien overlords if they promise to anally probe Krugman for centuries on end.
Now that’s the bargain – we can extend your life for centuries, but we’ll make you miserable the whole time.
Yeesh, sounds kind of like being a committed vegetarian. No thanks.
What will be wonderful is if aliens do make contact and then refuse to let us emigrate to their planets. Especially if the lead alien is wearing a red hat and tells us that they are building a wall at the edge of the solar system.
It’s either the biggest con foisted upon the human race (my money’s on this but who knows) or the biggest catastrophe. If we really are being studied by these things from Omicron Persei Eight or wherever the fuck who expended more energy to get here than has been generated by all human endeavors on earth in the history of ever and they mean us harm there’s nothing, and I mean nothing, we can do about it.
Exactly. Point me to a moment in human history where contact with a higher-technology culture didn’t wipe out an existing culture. The natives in the Amazon who keep killing the folks trying to contact them have the right idea.
“Kill them and eat them” is the only policy that can save humanity.
On a sort of upside, if the movers and shakers try to use these revelations to increase military spending or crack down on civil liberties we’ll know it’s not real. Again, there’s nothing that could be done and the scientists and engineers informing these people would have made that abundantly clear so using this as a justification for policy changes reveals the grift.
The Crypt Keeper gets shut down/
I hadn’t watched the video yet. Wow.
“We don’t give a shit what you actually think. Just provide your reliable rubber stamp already, lady.”
That was pretty much it…we are so fucked
I actually feel bad for her. I’m a bit of a softie I guess.
I don’t. I’m struggling to come up with the kind of suffering I would feel bad about, if it was inflicted on a professional politician.
Cleaning the bathroom is unpleasant. I probably should have done this earlier.
If I lived with a Lady, or anyone, this wouldn’t be THIS bad. (It isn’t shockingly horrible, my apt. Cluttered w clothes and paper, but not dirty-dirty. My bathroom should be cleaner. If a Lady were coming over, and after *swish*, I’d have more incentive. Well. Last-minute rush is the best kind of productivity.
Vilde chaya, I bet you would be interesting to hang out with. Many people can’t accommodate visitors well at home.
That is, that’s what restaurants are for.
Or hotels. 😉
Are you trying to seduce me, Miss O’Grady?
Twice I tried to snark with Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay. This site hates me right now.
Editor guy: Why are you capitalizing “lady”? And close your parentheses.
Love ya; just looking after ya.
I’m stoned and wandering around putting my apartment together. This is Cubs baseball, chill w yall and eat for a bit time. I’m not at work.
Lady is capitalized cuz it’s what I refer to a girlfriend or a romantically special female. Usually used to not use (newspaper Ev laughs at the sound of that) the person’s name but still denote status. Were I to have a new Lady around, I’d be much more put together. I have my eye on a gal in Minnesota. We met in Korea and came Stateside after over a decade in Asia a month apart.
She won’t put up with my shit. And she’s just too good. But lord. She does have a fierce, legal personality at times. (Or just talkative.) Would make a nice Lady.
“Cluttered w clothes and paper, but not dirty-dirty. “
Except you can’t really clean something that’s cluttered.
I’m nowhere near being the vacuuming stage. Not much really in my life. I can just put it in bags, label which is which, and pretty much I’m good.
Bed, desk, the chair I love…and an old coffee table. Small life.
We fly out to Kentucky on a red eye tonight. Hitting up a summer in the Park type festival near by tomorrow and neighborhood shopping all weekend.
Happy hunting!
What part of KY?
The jelly part.
North near Cincinnati