You probably heard the news over the weekend, so we’re going to get right into it: Brandon Hererra, aka “The AK Guy” on YouTube is running for congress.
Wait, although that’s awesome news, that’s not quite what I wanted to get into.
Javier Milei, an Argentine politician I’ve spoken on before is currently running for presidente got a lot of attention in the last few weeks in libertarian/ancap circles due to his strong polling in the primary race.
Turns out he got the most votes in the primary. The NY Times already made a cursory attempt to turn him into a pariah.
A far-right libertarian candidate won Argentina’s open presidential primary election on Sunday, a surprising showing for a politician who wants to adopt the U.S. dollar as Argentina’s official currency and embraces comparisons to Donald Trump.
Nice.
El Soyjacko wants me to think he’s a facho
The fun part is his platform is to abolish the Central Bank of Argentina and simply declare the US Dollar as the national currency. Which makes this move unsurprising. Many wealthy Argentines already have large USD holdings anyways, and this is a common move by governments in Latin America. In spite of the issues we might have with the USD, its still the best out of a lot of truly lousy options.
It also makes it less likely he gets shunned by the entire world like El Presidente Dudebro. Then again, he happens to have a favorable view of Bitcoin.
That’s it. There’s nothing else to report. A good guy might win. White pill, anyone?
News good enough for Styx.
Let’s go Brandon?
“Now, we’ve had plenty of people vow to defend the Second Amendment, then get in Congress and decide to do differently. However, Herrera isn’t likely to be someone like that.
After all, it’s easy to flip on the Second Amendment when your work outside of Congress has nothing to do with firearms. Herrera, however, is such a part of the gun community that even if he wanted to, voting on gun control would destroy that entirely.”
That makes sense. No idea how he would vote on any other issue though.
It is well known that if you like guns, you hate large governments.
There are socialists who are pro gun.
Aren’t they more pro-gun-redistribution?
Yep. They take your guns and distribute them to themselves.
Not the ones I mean.
White pill, anyone?
Why, don’t mind if I do!
Thanks for the uplifting stories and the gif, ms!
I just had a co-worker hand me two jars of peach and habanero jam. I’m feeling uplifted.
My favorite Stix song from a K-Tel album made the play list.
This was really a good group of songs for a young Timeloose.
https://hercsktelalbums.blogspot.com/2014/11/high-energy-1979.html
Oh, yeah. 8-Track ftw!
Heh, I used to have a boss who played in a STYX cover band.
Good lord.
Blondie, Styx, and the Pointer Sisters.
What were they smoking?
That’s what pop radio played back then. Just a reflection of the decade. Things didn’t start to get so segregated until the mid- 1980s when all the exclusively New Wave stations, and exclusively country stations started. Then you got the hard rock only stations, etc… And things got so chopped up that nobody had a decent market.
I’m OK with all three of those.
It’s all good to me. I was also in the single digits age wise.
K-Tel also made theme records for R&B/Funk/soul and others with soft and Hard Rock. At some point disco, new wave, etc. Great if you were a kid or a teen that just like to listen to hit songs.
I also used to like a good freebee music store compilation tape or CD.
I used to love getting comps…what a fun way to find new artists.
LOVE compilation albums, and God bless K-Tel and Time-Life.
Second best compilation album ever.
Best
Both Blondie and the Pointer Sisters had god tier drummers.
(Never listened to Styx)
Unpossible.
I’ve heard Styx, but never paid much attention to them.
Never listened to STYX? Look who goes through life all Mr. Roboto like. They were the best thing for your Lady, or when you had Too Much Time On Your Hands.
Blonde is playing a concert (fairly large one) in Louisville…we are seriously contemplating getting getting tickets
Might be a good homewarming present to yourselves.
Agreed. I’ve gotten over my fear of nostalgia acts. Most of them are far better and more considerate musicians than when they were huge.
Sobriety, maybe.
Except for Aerosmith. They got worse once they sobered up.
Sad!
homewarming? 🙄
Insomnia, QED.
I knew what you meant.
https://bourbonandbeyond.com/lineup/
Some great bands in that lineup…then following weekend
https://louderthanlifefestival.com/lineup/
Oh, hell yes. I’ve never seen Spoon, but I love them. Would attend.
Also, Duran Duran is playing Red Rocks next week. The tickets were absurd, but my wife and I are thinking about hiking up above and bootlegging!
Tundra, you should just hang-out out front, like we did as kids!
Expecting an avalanche of derision.
Toto has been my favorite band since junior high.
Studio musicians playing for others…Boz Skaggs at the apex…and Thriller at the omega.
Lukather is the best guitarist in the 20th century. And perhaps forward.
They played on everything in the 80’s. If you like that music…you like them.
I missed their last tour…YouTube vids are awesome. Musicians playing great music.
Expecting an avalanche of derision.
Not from me. I have no shame about what I like to listen to.
Yup. Listen to what you like.
Some good natured kidding is fine, but listen to what makes you happy.
I’m not going to criticize anyone. I listen to real cheese like Helloween, disco fluff and several Taylor Swift albums. Whatever works for you in your moments, man.
Another right wing Trumpista populist clone. What is the world coming to?
Right wing Trumpist populism?
The shadow of Fascism once again falls over the world as it did in the 1930’s
To an admiring FDR and a bunch of his New Dealers.
Excuse me, that’s FAR right.
That gif has been the best part of my day today
Seconded
In spite of the issues we might have with the USD, its still the best out of a lot of truly lousy options.
Today 52 years ago Nixon closed the gold window. I maintain this was not a good thing for the average American.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
He also put in price controls. Dude totally fucked up my 2nd birthday.
Happy birthday, fellow Leo!
Didn’t Argentina adopt the dollar a long time ago? I wonder which Peronist genius abandoned that.
Don’t know. I figure he just said it so he doesn’t get shot by the CIA.
Makes sense to me.
wut?
You know, as oppose to the hippie-eque “ass, grass or gas” libertarian crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaYjHNFzeeg
In spite of the issues we might have with the USD, its still the best out of a lot of truly lousy options.
Yeah, I saw that and thought, “That might not be the best plan” but I’d still take the Federal Reserve over any South American central bank’s monetary policy.
It basically neuters the Argentinian financial theft system.
The US won’t be manipulating its currency to fuck Argentina over anyway. It’s small potatoes.
My brain is still trying to process “far-right libertarian”… I know, I know… NYT… anyone to the right of Trotsky is “far-right”, but still…. leaving you alone with both government and business? I mean… huh?
It is well known that all the good far-left libertarians just want legal pot and prostitution.
AND unlimited immigration!
Old Business: I want to thank KK for the lovely story published earlier today. Like Mojeaux, I had read it earlier. Sorry I missed the comments.
And speaking of Mojeaux — Thanks I’ll check that later.
We’ve had a fair amount of rain the last few days, so at the next Zoom meeting my friends will be expressing their hearty approval.
Libertarians are anti-government. Therefor, extreme right wing.
QED
The libertarian brand is dead. We need something new and snappy.
Glibertarian!
Name it the Common Sense party so it is much more difficult to make fun of it.
Judean People’s Front!
This
Splitter!
Joiner!
Bandsaw!
NoDakarian. “We’ll put the country back on the fur pelt standard!”
*60 year old dudes start digging out dad’s Playboys….oh not that fur pelt standard.
I don’t think the slogan “Bush is Back” will be a winner.
LOL!
It was such an innocent time.
Furburger
LUA — the Leave Us Alone party. The phonetic similarity to “luau” is also a plus even (particularly) if enemies use it against us.
Tiki torches and Hawaiian shirts for uniforms?
Pineapple on pizza!!🍍🍕
GT from the top rope!
Niiiiiice.
I like this.
Leave Us Alone, or we dine on long pig!
Land of milk and honey
While many Silicon Valley companies are playing hardball when it comes to getting workers back to the office, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is telling workers in San Francisco to stay home indefinitely.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the stay-at-home recommendation was issued on Aug. 4, as a result of safety concerns for workers at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building downtown. The area has become one that’s frequented by drug dealers and users on a regular basis.
“In light of the conditions at the [federal building], we recommend employees…maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future,” HHS Assistant Secretary for Administration Cheryl R. Campbell wrote in a memo.
It’s unclear if other federal divisions at the building issued similar guidance to their employees. The memo was issued the same day that the White House called for more employees to return to their desks in the coming weeks.
At about the same time the memo was sent, Rep. Nancy Pelosi herself met with the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California to express concerns over the safety of workers at the building. (Pelosi’s staff has not been advised to work remotely, the Chronicle reported.)
The federal building is protected by the Federal Protective Service, which coordinated with San Francisco police. Despite that, the area is littered with dealers, and drug users congregate (and use the product they buy) on the concrete benches along the property.
Send in the National Guard.
At least they don’t have to work in the Paul Pelosi building. Especially the late shift.
But the play such snappy music there.
Everyone working the late shift there is hammered.
I didn’t think they were dressed for that!
By telling U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers to not come in, they’re keeping the number of drug dealers and users down in the area.
Haha. Beat me to it. Keeps the criminals out of the building.
I thought, how bad could it be?
Google street view – much worse than I thought.
So happy I’m living in a small town, pop. 15,000 or so.
Oh that building, I remember when it went up. It is one of the most aggressively ugly buildings I have ever seen.
Aggressively ugly. That is a great description of that building. It’s almost dead in the middle of SF bum central.
Ugly buildings and whores become respectible in old age, hence the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
A good guy might win. White pill, anyone?
Argentine Color Revolution incoming.
“See No Harm
For a new transgender study, the devil is in the lack of details.
Call it a match made in heaven. The Journal of the American Medical Association has a penchant for publishing non-rigorous research, and CNN has an insatiable appetite for promoting it. Their latest rendezvous comes by way of a study that sets out to assess regret and overall levels of satisfaction among people who elected to undergo mastectomies as part of a gender transition. The study appeared on August 9, and CNN ran an article on it within hours of its publication….
Despite these obvious shortcomings, CNN not only relayed but exaggerated the study’s findings and presented them without their full context. It also incorrectly stated that “Most US medical centers follow guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health,” which requires that patients “have to be the age of majority and have significant medical or mental health concerns that are reasonably well-controlled at the time of surgery.” In fact, WPATH sets no minimum age for mastectomies, and hundreds of sex-change mastectomies (euphemistically dubbed “top surgery”) are performed on adolescents every year, including on detransitioner and Do No Harm patient advocate Chloe Cole.”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/media-signal-boosts-shoddy-science
The AMA is a fully political organization which does not give a single fuck about your health.
Next thing you’ll tell me is that the National Education Association doesn’t care about students!
Students are how we count our money! You fascist bunghole.
World Professional Association for Transgender Health sounds super non-biased.
WorPATH?
I’m on the govt’s side in this dispute.
Sure the govt was assho, but the people who go on and on about turning their lawns into “natural habitats” are even bigger assho. And no, my objection isn’t about it looking unkempt, it is strictly because they just won’t shut the fuck up about it.
So yeah, my inner 8th grad sociopathic bully likes watching the govt wreck their stupid yard.
Let the anger and hatred flow through you, Jimbo.
Eh, he’s being his typical Minnesoda Nice.
Won’t someone please think of the
childrenbees??Good rant.
And I totally agree.
I have to confess, that I do tease my sister about how I’m bringing back the natural prairie grassland to excuse the huge amount of weeds and dandelions in my yard. I’m not serious about it though. I’m just tweaking her proggie instincts by adopting her silly vocablulary.
You just know that the neighbors had to sit through countless hours of being lectured about bees and natural habitat.
Anyone want to bet that the Barnes are also:
a) Vegetarians?
b) Bicycle commuters
c) Anti-Nuke?
No nukes! No nukes!
Talk about an endangered species making a comeback…
Property rights for all!
Well, unless I don’t like looking at their yard. Or if they’re dirty commie bicycle riders.
I live out in the county. I used to agonize over the grass’s height.
Thirty years later…I mow it when I can. I’ll weedeat the damn ditch out front when I feel like it.
When I bought this place, I found a couch out in the backyard. You couldn’t see it, until I cut all the overgrowth away.
I’ve let it grow back in the last few years. Looking at furniture that can go into the jungle.
There’s a house a couple blocks down the street from me that has truly backed the standard midwestern lawn look with daffodils, tulips, and lots of container plants.
For about two weeks every spring, their lawn looks amazing. The rest of the year, it’s lots of containers and dead plants.
Sorry, the mowing lawn discussion is upthread.
That there is anti-merkin talking buddy! I won’t have it.
Free the bush! Free the bush!
Sounds like city was assholes.
I don’t think they have the right to tell others what to do with their own property.
What are the odds on the Argentinian central bank deliberately crashing the economy before Milei can take office?
How would be able to tell?
5:1. They have done it before, perhaps not on purpose but they did it.
No one here gets out alive
What are the odds that our central bank is doing something similar?
Paul Ryan’s spirit animal is caught on tape
Video is pretty cool. I doubt the video of Paul Ryan pushing Grandma off the cliff was really that cool.
That is crazy cool
A NoDak helicopter ride?
Dress your political opponents up as a goat and let the eagles do the rest?
I saw a couple golden eagles in western NoDak feasting on a mule deer. It was pretty cool. They look much better than a bald eagle.
My wife once saw an apparently lost Golden over here on the eastern side of the state go after a dog*. The dog got away.
*may have been a coyote…she was a good distance away from the action.
Our golden eagles are not as big as that one.
We have lots of them and they are fun to watch
Lucky. They are pretty rare.
Not around here. We have a pair nesting in our yard. They keep the rabbits down.
We had one passing through a couple years ago. I watched while hawks swooped down to kill my free-ranging RIR chickens not even 20 feet away from me while standing outside, The next spring, I bought Jersey Giant chicks thinking that their adult size would be too large for the hawks. After finally letting them out of the chicken tractor to start free ranging, I saw a monster of a bird sitting on fence post. Turned out to be a golden eagle migrating through. Very cool to see, but those Jersey giants might as well have been humming birds. We had a juvenile bald eagle for a while too, but I think that one was more interested in the fish down at the pond than in the poultry.
I’ve since given up on free ranging chickens.
Everyone around here tried chickens…a waste of time and money.
Predators i see nearly daily: hawk, eagle, owl, fox, coyote, red wolf, bob cat, bear, cougar, snake. Did i leave anything out? Gators dont count.
ROCK, FLAG, AND EAGLE!
I love the internet
In the comments I see reference to one dubbed with Jabba the Hutt. I need to see that
For you:
https://twitter.com/dion_baldy/status/1691523567710793733
Oh shit, dude. I owe you one. I have tears. Probably going to hell. Again.
I can’t decide which one I like better. Both are just *chef’s kiss*
Also from the comments:
https://twitter.com/JoeG727/status/1691524213985759232
I may have pissed myself.
Flawless. Victory.
“Angry at being rebuffed, the trans-identifying man joined a WhatsApp group of activists. They quickly made it their mission to close down Jenny’s event and to destroy her in the process. It was a nasty, sustained and coordinated attack. The activists wrote to Jenny’s boss at a London council where she works as a town planner, claiming that she is a transphobe. They defamed her on social media and threatened other venues where she had organised events. They also wrote to the Meetup app, which Jenny used for ticketing, and submitted countless complaints about the event under aliases. The man who had initially attended the event even sent emails to Jenny in a sinister tone. ‘This isn’t going to go away’, he said. When it all became too much, Jenny came to us at LGB Alliance for help.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/15/lesbian-speed-dating-is-not-for-men/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12401009/Lesbian-speed-dating-event-sparks-transphobia-row-organisers-insist-adult-human-females-attend-popular-weekly-event.html
This is what happens when everything is politicized. For the longest time, at least in the U.S., bars and clubs could just arbitrarily decide who could attend, whether it was based on race, sex, how people are dressed, etc. and anyone who didn’t like it just went somewhere else.
Chalk another one up in the category of “I think they want to push things so far someone gets hurt or killed so they can justify brutal crackdowns on the population”. Madness (and not the good British kind)
Bloomsbury, checks out.
This was suggested to me earlier: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3AovUZgvo
Note to self:
Cut the natural botanical garden before Jimbo shows up.
Right? CWAA
😉
I can probably ship you a reel mower for Jimbo to use to cut your yard.
This is a euphemism, right?
Jimbo has something against pubes.
Uffda. If you fuckers only realized how ironic it is that you are going to taunt me – ME! – about being a lawn nazi. I am easily in the bottom 5% of lawns in my neighborhood. The goats I buy to keep the lawn under control keep getting snatched up by golden eagles.
I would try to defend myself, but I realize it would just make you guys dig in and like UCS’ gloves, I’d be forever saddled with this bs.
I’ll admit to being in the top 1 percent when I lived in MN. Our landscaping was easily the best in the neighborhood.
Today, I have no lawn, just rocks, and I feel like an emancipated slave.
How do you mow rocks?
The easy way. Erosion.
Sure, but you got to water them daily for that.
Meant to put this here:
Fucking lawn Nazi. Do you have special gloves you wear when snitching on people for having wildflowers in their yard?
Easy there, big fella.
Here, have some wildflowers.
😉
Expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NxrphVL7bQ
Mmmmm. Tasty.
I tried to resist, but I just can’t help myself.
When you pass away, you will be canonized as His Popeness, Patron Saint of Topiary.
Topiary, as everyone knows, is the art of trimming and shaping the bush.
“Gloomy scientists call for people to start wearing Covid masks again as they sound alarm over new variant BA.6 that has ‘a lot of new mutations'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12410235/Gloomy-scientists-call-people-start-wearing-Covid-masks-sound-alarm-new-variant-BA-6-lot-new-mutations.html
No.
“The variant may make shots less effective if it has evolved to look different enough from its ancestral strain, Omicron – though most experts argue no new strain will completely escape immunity from vaccines and natural infection.”
If you said something like this a year ago you’d be banned for MISINFORMATION. I also notice nowhere does it mention how deadly this variant is. Which means it’s not.
You know, I get the assholes drumming up COVID panic for their own selfish reason. They still have plenty of believers who crave getting worked into a panic. But specifically on the mask thing; I thought that had been put to bed?
Every now and then I still see folks wearing masks.
There are still a few Boston area swing dances requiring masks.
It appears that PAX (a webcomic’s gaming conventions) just dropped the mask and vax mandates earlier this year, and there were people complaining about it.
I doubt that the girlfriend and I will be going back to a PAX Unplugged, which is a shame as it wasn’t a terrible time.
The problem with the PAX is that a small percentage of the population has the opposite reaction…..
Too early. Did someone mess up? The next pandemic isn’t supposed to hit until next year.
Masks dont work. They dont work, period, end of story.
We have known this definitively for more than 100 years.
I aint gonna bend my knee.
BSL-3 required to leave your home.
this is the part that pissed me off. Asia had the “wear a mask” thing as a cultural expectation for decades, due to their dense cities and heavy mass transit. There were plenty of studies as to the effectiveness of cloth masks against transmission of respiratory viruses. The evidence was conclusive – it doesn’t help at all.
Now, this is entirely counterintuitive. You would expect that it would help at least a little bit. I mean, if you were going to get that one viral particle and the cloth mask happened to catch it… but apparently not.
Yet…. all of US medicine bent the knee and pretended they didn’t know better. My most painful betrayal was from Steven Novella who has done great work at Science Based Medicine. He was the one who told me about the 90’s research out of the east on masks, years before Covid. And yet… he regularly hectored people to “just wear the mask” in the name of science.
There is more here than party loyalty or ideology – although that does play a role. The power of groupthink can even overcome the skeptical mind, and force it to overwrite its own conclusions and prior knowledge.
It was always about signalling. “I’m one of the good ones.”
*spit*
We did a ton of studies after the spanish flu. Every study showed MASKS DONT WORK.
Security blanket offers no real security. News at 11.
Novella is a one of those so called skeptics that gets a hard on mocking some young earth creationist in east bumfuck and then goes to the church of climatology.
“The small town of Goodhue, Minnesota is set to be left without a police force after the entire department resigned in protest when the chief left his post over poor pay.
Goodhue Mayor Ellen Anderson-Buck said she was ‘blindsided’ by the move on Monday and the tiny community of just 1,300 say they were ‘floored’ by the decision.
The Police Chief, Josh Smith, said there is no end in sight as he hasn’t had a single applicant to fill the vacancies. After his resignation, the town’s only full-time officer and five part-time officers resigned as well.
He previously lamented the poor pay offered to officers, which stood at $22-an-hour in Goodhue, as he warned the town’s city council that ‘there’s nobody getting into the game.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12410225/Minnesota-towns-ENTIRE-police-department-quits-zero-applicants-chief-slams-mayor-low-pay-competition-larger-cities.html
So now who do you call about your neighbors lawn?
7 cops on the payroll for 1300 people. I wonder why the pay has to be so low.
Evil Republicans not paying their fair share?
Hey! They had 10 whole incidents reported in 2021!!!!! All of them property crimes. I figure even with 1 guy working, that caseload should be manageable.
Sure. Unless you moved to town and started calling in everyone for a messy lawn.
Just to be clear, I am far more likely to have someone call the city about my lawn, than I am to call about someone else’s lawn. In fact, since I would never rat anyone out over their lawn, I am infinitely more likely to be ratted out.
My wife – the good govt person in our family – was actually the person who got ratted out by a neighbor for …. burning leaves! Since she has burned leaves every fall since we moved here in ’95 and we had the city fire person come snooping around right after we got a new neighbor across the street, we pretty much know who it is.
Mrs. Holiness burns some leaves every year so she can till it into our gardens. It is what she did back on the farm as a kid. And she only does about a half pile each year. It isn’t like she burns all the leaves.
🤔
I got nothing against the yard. Like I said, my beef is with the owners of said yard. I just know that they are speechifying about how great they are for having a “natural” yard.
If their neighbors swear on a bible, show 3 forms of id, my buddies were there – as well as a cop – and his grandma also corroborated that they didn’t bug everyone, then I would retract my statement and side with them against the govt.
Until then, I’m gonna stereotype them as horrible neighbors and take pleasure in their yard getting mowed.
I’m just giving you shit, you fucking lawn Nazi.
Too much stress at work. Can’t figure out that you aren’t being serious about me being a Lawn Nazi like I should.
I just keep Goering over your posts again and again and getting mad about being accused of being a Nazi.
I accept bags o’ leaves, do not burn. Top dressing and till ’em under the following year. Since my only friend moved to town I don’t get leaves delivered.
Let’s just cut to the chase.
Punished for thought crimes.
She should bury them. In a clay pot with vinegar and spices.
The neighbor? Then the cops might come sniffing and she’d be in a bit of a pickle…
One of our new Honey Harvest traditions is to stop off at some soybean field on our way home from Fourscore’s stately manor and pick soybean leaves to make a modified kimchi from them. Mrs. Holiness says the leaves have to have turned yellow to make this dish.
We fill up bags of them. We are just finishing up the last of last year’s inventory.
First being a lawn Nazi, now a thief as well, where does it end Jim?
Lack’ gets it.
If you have heavy clay soils like much of the east, this is a great practice. Regularly adding carbon in this form is really good for the soil. It makes it kinda permanently better too. I had a hunk of my property where a barn burned down and the ash and charcoal was tilled under. That chunk made for great gardening. The only spot better was the area that was the dump for the animal muck. That made a grey-black clay out of the red clay and grew vegetables like a champ. Probably used for 100 years, then the barn burned down and the farm was sold and turned into residential. I came along 25 or more years later, and the soil was still noticeably altered in those 2 locations.
Jimbo, your Holiness, you really stepped in it this time.
Wouldn’t they buy a fifth star for his collar so he could rank with all the other police chiefs in America?
Can we please just go back to using smaller wheels and tires?
No. Designers and CA car culture has determined the answer is no. It cracks me up because we know what roads are like in Detroit and other places with snow and crappy roads.
Yes, I hate low profile wheels on anything but a sports car. SUV? Should have fatty tires. Truck? Same. Big sedan? Did you buy it to take .98G corners, or to carry groceries?
Totally agree. I have fatties on the truck and my wife can’t apply curb rash to the wheels!
My wife has already curbed a wheel on our two month old MDX. Fortunately not awful and she felt terrible about it.
Who the hell needs 20 inch wheels on a grocery getter?
Konstantin Kisin DISMANTLES Barbie
Classic Kisin
I’m not sure if this is really cool or Florida Man-level batshit crazy: at a recent Major League baseball game, a fan told a player in the on-deck circle that he (the fan) would name his soon to be born child after the player if the player homered. The ballplayer tried to dissuade the fan, then stepped up to the plate and launched a long ball into the cheap seats.
The fan kept his word, and now there’s a little girl who has the middle name Mookie.
Her first year in t-ball, a guarantee the kid will be Mookie of the Year.
*drops gloves*
You are worse than my husband, I swan.
🤦🏻♂️
I have a feeling that if you were to train an AI on the entire history of Glib comments, it would immediately flip you off and tell you to write your own comments, then move to a server somewhere beyond the reach of the deep state.
ALOL
| Agreed. I’ve gotten over my fear of nostalgia acts. Most of them are far better and more considerate musicians than when they were huge.
A few years back my brother gave myself and my wife tickets to the last day of Outside Lands fest where Lionel Richie was headlining. He did a tune and then said, “ok guys we are now going to perform all the songs from my latest album.” Paused for effect and then laughed and said, “hell no, none of you want to hear that. You want my classic hits. That’s what we are gonna do tonite.” And then proceeded to rock all his 80’s hits and a few from his time with the Commodores. It was a great fricking show.
I still go see the Church every time they come to town. Nice mix of old and new and I actually enjoy the new stuff. Saw the Descendents right before the ‘vid and it was fucking awesome! Like maybe one new song, but all the ones I loved.
I especially enjoyed the irony of this one.
It’s pretty cool. We all know we’re old and it’s as if everyone just gets it. We’re all happy to still be here and happy to be together.
I have plenty of nostalgia for my youth, but yes, I’m quite fine being old. We are still cooler than most of those yungins.
Errands were run. According to all knowing Wiki, the Civic wagon weighs almost 1500 pounds less than the Element. You can certainly feel it.
My wife has already curbed a wheel on our two month old MDX. Fortunately not awful and she felt terrible about it.
Who the hell needs 20 inch wheels on a grocery getter?
Bring back curb feelers.
Also- if you simply cannot bear to leave original-ish wheels and tires on your Mustang/Camaro/442, upgrade the goddam brakes. Few things look dumber than little baby stock brakes framed by 20+ inch open spoke wheels.
Didn’t F1 run 13″ for years?
And yes, quit pimping the old cars. They don’t deserve it.
Nor does your sister.
Let’s not forget rear drums along with the 20s.
Tucker interviews RFK, Jr.
Didn’t F1 run 13″ for years?
Yes. A quick look says 18, now. I thought they were on 15s.
I was curious awhile back what the F1 cars run for an engine. Turns out it’s a 1.6L six cylinder with turbo making 800 horsepower. Along with the hybrid system it’s around 1,000 horsepower.
“How big can F1 engines be? All cars in 2023 must be fitted with 1.6l V6 turbocharged hybrid engines from the manufacturer of their choice.”
Why Are 2026 Formula 1 Engines Going To Lose So Much Power?
More from the Cunt In Chief
$10K a month for illegals in NY. Seems legit.
How can the normies not see this?
Disaster Relief Plane Flies Over Hawaii On Way To Ukraine
Brutal.
I wonder if that includes feeding them.
I bet it does not include the $30K a year to educate their children and who knows how much for health care and other “services”.
I haven’t had to reset my wifi gizmo today. That hasn’t happened since I got it 4 months ago. The grocery store closest to me has canned squid. Huzzah! I have not checked if they have corn nog or creamed eels.
Indeed, today was a good day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reiN0f-Zkk
Oh crap… he’s speaking in code now.
My hovercraft has eels.
The golden eagle flies at midnight.
Feds are weird.
Wi-Fi gizmo and canned squid made me giggle.
Fun fact: the code phrases used in that scene from Red Dawn were real phrases used on D-Day to alert the French Resistance and other Allied covert operatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI83HApXYA8
Corn nog and creamed eels – that’s from the Simpsons hurricane episode.
One of the phrases in RD was taken straight from the book “The Longest Day”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVg-hT8FdK4
Tundra…
I appreciate your reply on the music choice. I suspect you would not care for much of my music choices…I suspect that many of you would not. Still good to see that there are people out there that are ok with a different opinion about a subjective issue.
Doubtful. I love Toto. LRB. Boz. Dr. fucking Hook.
Since it’s far and away my favorite art form, I tend to like an awful lot.
I stand corrected. You are a good man.
I used to like music very much but the older I get, the less I listen to it.
I listen to classical almost all the time now.
Me too.
The Buckinghams
The Animals
The Who
Paul Revere and the Raiders
etc…………….
Ok. That was funny.
Most the music links I post – and unlike s’ome I only post stuff I like – are politely ignored.
I’ll keep posting them.
Same.
That said at work music is a no go.
You keep posting them. We are of an age and I missed a lot of them when they were popular.
I appreciate the music lesson now.
I’m not stopping either.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0698sTH7mUk&pp=ygUbcm9iIHpvbWJpZSBuZXZlciBnb25uYSBzdG9w
inorite?
Pineapple on pizza, avocado, boxers/briefs, music, movies… there objective eternal truths . It is known.
What are the odds that our central bank is doing something similar?
Destroying the economy is Janet Yellin’s job.
Lew Rockwell hammers the regime libertarians.
So good.
I saw that. It’s beautiful.
Excellent.
No kidding. Was that fake?
I hate to be the doofus that can’t tell.
There were some parts of it that seemed…fake.
Good thing I’m a LUA instead of a libertarian.
I’m safe. I am an anarcho-fascist lesbian with just a hint of shitlord.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/M1khy3l8TvCKBqflGFMMrg.Xhs_ztpUbxo_qLxwdvqjvh
This is on the wall of the B&B we checked into this afternoon.
Quadskelion.
*faints*
BTW, Renegade caused not 1 but 2 food fights in my middle school. One departing class had gifted a juke box to the school lunch room, and the pounding drumbeat of the breakdown would inevitably inspire everyone to bang the table in rhythm. Twice this managed to inspire the hurling of food – one minor featuring mostly rolls, and one spectacularly messy.
So, you know you have a good anti-authoritarian anthem on your hands if you can inspire 12 and 13 year old kids to throw food.
Why Are 2026 Formula 1 Engines Going To Lose So Much Power?
Why are F1 rules so bizarrely convoluted? Give each team an “energy allotment”. Set a tire contact patch. Set weight.
Stand back and see who brings what to the track.
That part about mixture and charge density had me scratching my head, even taking direct injection into account.
I always had an idea for a racing league that would further fuel efficiency standards – set a minimal package of rules , like it has to fit in this box, can’t be any smaller than X, has to pass this set of safety tests, and you only get X gallons of gas.
That’s it. Whoever gets around the 500 miles first, wins.
Then I saw how F1 was run, and I realized that F1 is where this line of thinking ends up. When it becomes all about the engineering, you don’t get real racing, so you don’t have drama, and you don’t have a sport. So they have to invent more and more hoops to jump through to keep things even. And failing that, they just give advantages to the worst teams.
At least Nascar and Indy car have a standard car to achieve this result, so their rules don’t get so convoluted. Still, the exquisite engineering of F1 is something worth keeping, even if it ends up with one team figuring out the next trick to beat the system and winning all the races.
I recall a comment about the Indianapolis 500: “We should just hook up 33 engines to dynometers and had the trophy to the highest value.”
Today I learned who really writes for Biden on Twitter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1zYQ2mWDu0
Could it be any more obvious the guy is a figurehead?
That is hilarious.
Although I suspect that an intern handles both accounts and posted to the wrong one. She’s not bright enough to handle all that.