He’s right, you know.
The Yankees suck. Which is fine with me. Messi and company are proving that MLS (and yes, I know these are “cup” games) is not up to Euro standards. This shit gets weirder every day. College football keeps inching closer. And that’s it for sports.
Welcome to the party, pal. Or should I just say “no comment?”
This sounds like a scam. $70k per home is absurd. No way would it cost this unless the government was involved.
The nose knows.
Now do trannies. Oh wait…that’s different. Also, it’s called acting. And sometimes that requires makeup.
Ok then. I’m not gonna kink shame. No wait, I am. These people are weird as fuck.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Also, how long does it take to get these results normally? I bet it’s not almost two years.
This is a solution in search of a problem. Also, “social media influencer” shouldn’t be a thing.
“Strike me down with all of your hatred!”
Do they not see the irony here? “She’s old and infirm and incapable of managing her personal and financial affairs. But she’s definitely capable of handling her professional duties at the same time.” Yeah, sure thing.
Gotta protect the scam. The legislature did screw up though. Passing a law that only impacts one municipality was probably the wrong way to handle it. Instead, they should have sent prosecutors to Harris County and started charging all the fraudsters involved that have completely ignored Texas election laws for years now.
Getting back to my roots. Especially since nobody got excited about the Monday music. And here’s another fantastic track. I could have picked at least a half dozen of their songs and made that statement. Anyway, enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely, hot Wednesday, dear friends.
what the duck?
This sounds like a scam.
Because it is.
They could always move where the electricity is.
/Sam Kinison’s ghost
Actor Bradley Cooper is facing mounting backlash over his apparent use of a prosthetic nose in his depiction of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming movie “Maestro.”
I guess we have to cancel Roebert Downy Jr.
They should have cast a black woman for the part.
Like casting a black woman as the Viking ruler of Kattegat?
As if it was Cooper’s idea and not the Director telling the makeup people to do it.
Looks up pictures of Bernstein – that’s a good-sized snoz. Not a stereotypical hook-nose, just big. Are actors not supposed to look like the people they are playing anymore? Was Karl Malden unavailable?
Isn’t Cooper directing and producing the film?
I thought he was still on the run. I guess he used that money to get into the movie biz?
No one reads the links.
I expect Sloopy does at least. (pedantic mode… off)
There are thresholds of disbelief. An actor doesn’t have to be able to fool the family of the person portrayed, but the farther you get it becomes farcical. Think Peter Dinklage as Michael Jordan.
How about Peter Dinklage as Toxie?
“Bradley Cooper is putting himself in an insanely large prosthetic nose to play a Jewish man in Maestro and we’re all just supposed to act like that’s cool and normal?” one commenter wrote in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Insanely large? I’d call that nose Jamie Farresque.
Should have gone with the Ann Brenoff (HuffPo writer) for the lulz.
“Bela Lugosi is putting himself in insanely large prosthetic fangs to play a vampire in Dracula and we’re all just supposed to act like that’s cool and normal?”
“Robin Williams is putting himself in insanely large prosthetic tits and wig to play a woman in Mrs. Doubtfire and we’re all just supposed to act like that’s cool and normal?”
The less about Lon Chaney the better.
“So Tom Mason is running around in a cape pretending to be Bela Lugosi, and we’re just supposed to act like that’s cool and normal?”
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e35d343c-7fb0-4444-b28d-9a56339c24f4
Dustin Hoffman put himself in a FAB-U-LOUS!!! red dress, and we are supposed to act like that’s cool and normal?
I’ve noticed the following line is almost like a journalistic tick at this point “X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.”
What? When did this happen? I need counseling.
Prince’s ghost is pleased.
I’m just waiting for the search and replace that gives us something like:
It’s probably being added to one of these types of extensions as we speak.
Have you seen the latest season of African-American Mirror?
No, but the African-American helicopters flew over my house last night!
Spike Lee prolly has “X” copyrighted and will demand money plus cease-and-desist.
Well, Malcolm Twitter just sounded silly.
🤣🤣🤣
Someone should already have come up with a portmanteau that encapsulates the Twitter rebranding.
Twix? Twixer? Xter? Xitter? Exeter? Duke of Earl?
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter marks the spot!
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
It’s no bigger than mine, TBF.
Nah, you’re supposed to act like, “Who cares?”
Did this person complain about Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights too?
Welcome to the party, pal. Or should I just say “no comment?”
And they will still overwhelmingly vote Democrat in the next election. Because leftists seem to be incapable of drawing the connection between the policies they vote for and the results of those policies.
The policies were supposed to work like they do in theory. Kulaks must have interfered.
I’m sure it was the damn Republicans. And Trump!
That’s where my models find the fault as well!
The science is settled!
If not for those dastardly Republicans, California Democrats could afford to lose a few of their own and still meet the 2/3 threshold to increase taxes. I believe I read that in some California rag.
For reference, I am currently living in a house that I purchased last month for less than that amount of money.
Well, if it was government housing, it would have cost $700,000 to build.
Congrats!
Does it have water and electricity?
Water, electricity, and even internet service, because I’m bougie like that.
Most of the money probably is spent on the distribution infrastructure (poles, wires, transformers, controls, substations) that delivers the electricity to the house. All that stuff costs a lot per dwelling when the houses are thinly distributed and far from transmission lines.
That said, much of that money will be wasted.
I’ve probably been in California too many years — but my instinct is “Most of the money probably is spent on ‘environmental feasibility studies’ and ‘land usage grants'” before anything approaching a physical artifact comes into play. (Actually, in California it would be — ALL of the money is spent on that… then at least five times more… and then after repeatedly asking for new bond measures to pay for it all, they might consider actually building something….
I usually think “I have to pee.”
“What do you think about when you wake up in the morning?”
“…Our democracy. I think everything is at stake right now” – Kamala Harris
Indeed, you cuntes are actively destroying the republic.
It makes sense once you understand that “our democracy” means Democrat power.
It really means “rule by the nomenklatura”
Has Sharpton paid his back taxes yet?
I’m pretty sure it’s racist to bring that up.
Am I the only one who sees this as really dangerous? I think it was Hillary the other day who said “If Trump wins that’s the end of democracy.” If a person REALLY believed that, wouldn’t it be their duty to do everything, even lying cheating, and committing violence, to make sure that doesn’t happen? What kind of an asshole would you be if you DIDN’T do those things?
And you’d also be stupid to think they WOULDN’T do those things if that’s what they believe.
Or democracy has already ended. And all of this is nothing more than a sleight of hand to keep the masses distracted from realizing it.
Meh, it’s the same job as “TV commercial actor,” just adapted for new models of advertising distribution. Marketing is the same as it ever was.
LOL what did he expect would happen?!
Totally unnecessary makeup, everyone knows the Maestro looked like Bradley Cooper.
Truelahintrantionurenapressure.
New ‘Biden Word of the Day’ just dropped: “Bipartfluxanicstructure”
“nobody got excited about the Monday music”
I did. Word to your mom.
Nearly one in five of the downtown apartments will be below market rate, boosting the city’s affordable housing stock by nearly two-thirds. Officials said they would give first preference to artists certified by the city.
That is positively Soviet. I have a friend that lives a few towns over who has family that lives in New Rochelle. His opinion and that of this article are about 179 degrees off.
Bonus trivia – New Rochelle is where Rob and Laura Petrie lived.
The Suburb That Defied Nimby
New Rochelle streamlined approval processes and engaged with the local community to speed development of thousands of new apartments
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-suburb-that-defied-nimby-a9bf4af9?st=n7k8zwppc4kdezc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That is positively Soviet.
This seems to be happening a lot these days.
https://static.greatbigcanvas.com/images/singlecanvas_thick_none/getty-images/soviet-propaganda-poster,2234054.jpg
Sounds like a cronyist carveout for one particular developer. Which means it’ll probably catch on like wildfire.
🙄🙄
New Rochelle already had a downtown with a history. It is more a “satellite town” than a “suburb”.
On the news today:
Ritalin shortage as schools open up.
Maybe there is something wrong with schools, society and the home if we need to prescribe mind altering drugs to a significant segment of the youth population?
Need to drug the boys into sitting still and behaving a lot less like young boys in order to make things more convenient.
I wonder if I can get my doctor to prescribe exercise midday and force the school to accommodate his medical needs… 🤔
I remember getting to run around at lunch time and at recess later in the day. At least in elementary school. Us boys needed to burn off energy.
I’ll just add that I’m seeing this affect my son as he has started school last week. He’s bouncing off the walls at home because they don’t have a real recess/run around time for the kids (they combined it with lunch for an hour of time total).
They don’t send the kids out to a parking lot to run around for 20-30 minutes in the middle of the day anymore?
When I was a wee bairn, pretty sure we had two recess periods, morning and afternoon, in addition to lunch.
Yep plus go home for lunch. We lived a long way from school, about a mile, we had to hurry to get home, eat and get back on the trail to school.
There were very few fat kids. On extremely cold days we could carry a lunch but had to know in advance, couldn’t make the decision at home.
Like the mail man, snow, cold, rain, we went to school. My mother kept us home if it was extreme cold, like more than a -20, didn’t ask the administration.
Same here. And it was outside where we could run around. Or read a book for some nerds.
Man, we hated rainy days as we would all be forced to sit in the gym and couldn’t scream and run about.
Pom-Pom Pull way was the big game for us kids, it was a libertarian game with no rules but lots of running, pushing and hollering.
Everything we needed in a game for unruly boys. Girls did not play, it was a boys game
My son’s school did that, and I found out that because of this, he rarely ate his lunch because he wanted to go outside as soon as possible.
I think we’re going to run into similar problems. My son had an eating disorder (physical ailment) as an infant and can still take his sweet time to eat. Either way, even a whole hour is pretty minimal for what a young kid needs in terms of exercise. Hell, that’s how much us adults should be getting…
Stimulants are so dangerous we have to spend billions of dollars on men with guns and large human warehouses to keep them out of the hands of legal adults, and subsidize them for children.
It is safe to assume a majority of the teachers are on SSRI’s. Junkie city.
Given the choice (and I was), give me the Vitamin R any day of the week. At least I can experience orgasms on Ritalin…
There’s no difference between males and females.
A trans-identified male set a Canadian women’s powerlifting record at a championship in Manitoba yesterday.
Anne Andres, who previously mocked female powerlifters, lifted a total of 210lbs more than the strongest female competitor.
It takes real balls to set a record like that.
I’m not showing that to Mrs. TOK. She would lose her shit.
Good. Smash every single record. Then go after the college scholarships. Shit all over Title IX.
Great tracks 👍
Dated AF 🙂
Sloopy’s morning music links are pretty regularly “Music I know because I lived thru the time, but while I didn’t actively avoid, it wasn’t what I listened to.”
I was more into 70s prog, with some exceptions.
“Cops praised after using SUV to sideswipe and save woman firing a gun in the air and holding it to her head in middle of busy Long Island intersection”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12411479/Cops-praised-using-SUV-mow-save-woman-firing-gun-air-holding-head-middle-busy-NY-intersection.html
WTF?
I’m gonna give the cops credit for not just drawing their weapons and lighting her up.
This is oddly similar to that situation a few weeks ago out in Oakland (except that the chick was morbidly obese and butt-naked.)
Is PCP coming back into fashion?
Found new angels to grind to dust?
Did it ever go out?
*HULK SMASH*
After a year, Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act praised though its effect yet to be seen
This is some quality journalisming.
JHTFC, government spending is not “investment”, and inflationary spending does not reduce inflation.
Y = C + I + G + (X – M)
You can exchange G and I interchangeably.
/s Paul Krugman
NPR was on this bandwagon yesterday, trying to explain how spending trillions will reduce inflation. One of the big points was the tax credits you can get if you spend thousands of dollars up front on your house for solar panels, heat pumps instead of AC, and switching your gas stoves and water heaters to electric.
That’s retarded twice over.
Wait, heat pumps instead of AC? Do they know what a heat pump is? What powers it?
JHTFC.
Freon? Dark Magic? Neutron Stars?
Switching to electric is the bigger wtf to me.
It’s an article of faith.
Because Drumpf is totally racist.
“Let me just say to be with you is such a privilege but also to cover some of the players here. And I’ve been struck with what Gwen had to say about her friend Fani Willis. I was reading up about Fani Willis, she went to Howard, an HBCU, a member of AKA, and she then Emory University Law School. And the allegation that she’s a racist are partially offensive coming at her. That’s something Jack Smith hasn’t endured coming from Donald Trump. So the strong black women standing up to Donald Trump is something to behold.”
You say “strong black woman.” I say “dishonest, piece of shit, totalitarian apparatchik.”
AKA racist.
“Virus alert in parts of Florida as dengue spreads across counties and number of cases reported across the state rises”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12412111/Virus-alert-parts-Florida-dengue-spreads-counties-number-cases-reported-state-rises.html
No.
Virus Alert
Encouraging hordes of furriners swarm over the border from shitholes that have little to no healthcare and populations that know little to nothing about pathogens and parasites seems like a fantastic idea if you want those diseases back in the US.
Anyone that voted Biden should be banned from ever voting again. They did not see this coming? Or is this what they wanted? What idiots.
Good news/Bad news
Good: My daughter said last night, “When you wee a teen, the music was really good.”
Bad: She was listening to “Shake Your Love” by Debbie Gibson.
Gah! Try to get her interested in the stuff that really was good.
I have…I think she knows Final Countdown by heart.
I have infected her by singing 80s tunes with alternate lyrics. From a very young age, I would sing “The Final Rinsedown” at the end of her baths.
Floppotron 3.0!
Oddly enough, all this time I assumed it was your stereotypical anti-nuke war song.
she knows Final Countdown by heart
I thought you said “good music”
The Final Rinsedown
Okay, that’s pretty funny
That’s awesome. Debbie Gibson was a treasure.
All things being relative. I’d rather listen to Shake Your Love than the absolute shite that blows up on TikTok nowadays. Hell, I’d take Call Me Maybe at this point.
Back in the day, I got Gibson’s phone number. I was too shy to take a shot at it.
/relives great regrets
“relives great regrets”
“The girl I have a crush on just put her hand on my knee…I wonder if that means anything?” — clueless 18 year old me
To be fair, I dodged a bullet, but it would have been a hell of a ride.
“Considering you’re a cloistered social retard who rarely goes out and haven’t met any available women since college, maybe you should at least ask this gorgeous woman who is being so obvious that even a turboautist like yourself can pick up on it for her phone number.” – socially retarded 28 year old me at a concert. Of all the stupid shit I’ve done in my life, that one still stings a bit.
Debbie Gibson played at the free Thursday night at the park thing here the other week.
Debbie Gibson’s best work, and a good candidate for the Glibs playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23WjYxllG64
Our
kleptocracydemocracy is saved.McCaskill said, “This is a tale of two very different indictments. We have one in the federal system that is lean and mean and targeted on the boss. And then we have Georgia, where this prosecutor has decided that she needs to go after the whole enterprise and all of this evidence would come in. The whole barrel of bad apples got indicted. You can’t assume in the federal indictment that those un-indicted co-conspirators may or may not cooperate, may or may not be charged. You just don’t know at this point.” …
McCaskill concluded, “The good news is we finally have Rudy Giuliani indicted. Whoo-hoo! That makes me very happy.”
Lavrentiy Beria smiles from Hell.
Have we discussed the Jefferson County (KY) Public School bus fiasco? As someone who rode JCPS buses for 10 years, I find it hilarious. Admittedly, my 10 years ended in 1986, so not quite current.
You mad, bro?
Geraldo Rivera verbally assaults @TuckerCarlson calling him ‘pathetic’ ‘malevolent’ and ‘unforgivable’ — Claims he has ‘NO beef’ with Tucker
“He made a mockery of the tenants of journalism.”
He’s not bitter…
Too bad Geraldo doesn’t even understand that it’s “tenets” not “tenants”.
No, he’s made a mockery of the rent seekers. Spot on.
Geraldo is less relevant than me.
He and I have come equally close to unearthing Al Capone’s hidden treasure.
Well, I am sure that Rivera is closer to Capone’s tax status.
“He also defended his costar Sandra, 59, who has received a slew of criticism for her involvement in the film in the wake of Michael’s accusations.
Some social media users even said that the star, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress thanks to the role, should ‘give her Oscar back.’
But Quinton urged fans to leave her out of it, especially because she’s still mourning the death of her longtime partner, Bryan Randall, who died at age 57 after a battle with ALS last week.
‘Sandra just suffered a loss and everything, so I’m pretty sure she’s probably trying to stay out of the [spotlight] and just handle her situation as best she knows how,’ he said.
I heard some pretty disturbing things people were saying about her, and I’m not behind that.
‘Leave her alone. Don’t come for my mama. I’m six-foot-eight, 400-plus pounds, and you don’t want those problems.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12410321/Actor-played-Michael-Oher-Blind-reacts-heartbreaking-news-NFL-star-suing-Tuohy-family-tells-fans-attacking-Sandra-Bullock-leave-alone.html
I see.
Yes, actors should be held accountable for the actions of the fictionalized characters based on real people that they play on screen. The gaffers who worked on the production should also give back their salary.
The Killers apologise for offending fans in Georgia with Russian ‘brother’ remark
I think I have spotted where things went south.
Georgian public opinion on the ongoing war is overwhelmingly pro-Ukrainian.
Oh good, another reason for the US to not be involved.
Since we have already gone full banana republic…
Gov. Katie Hobbs said Tuesday that Arizona should press charges against former president Donald Trump over potential election interference in the 2020 election.
Hobbs told reporters at an event in Phoenix that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes should follow suit with Georgia, which indicted Trump on Monday.
“Absolutely. I have been an advocate for holding folks involved in trying to overturn the will of the voters in the 2020 election accountable and this is part of that process,” Hobbs, a Democrat, said.
CWAC
I mean pressing charges dont cost nothing so why not
They need to get rid of the counter-revolutionaries before they go after the Menshiviks.
Because when we think absolutely clean and perfect election we think Maricopa County and “Run from the basement / running away (literally) from her opponent by the candidate in question”.
Much brave. Much ethics. No whiff of corruption to be found.
Since no one’s prosecuting real criminals anymore, this gives prosecutors a chance to stay sharp legally.
There is no crime! Only social disparity!
This is what Scott Adams calls “laundry list persuasion”. If you have a good argument, you only need to present one or two reasons. Giving a big list means your case is weak. Which is what’s happening here. If Trump was so guilty, charging him with one thing should be sufficient. I’m only hoping the Dems are doing their usual strategy of pushing things way too far.
I think we’re way beyond “way too far” already.
There’s no such thing as Dems pushing things too far anymore, because they will never face any real consequences.
“CHRIS WRAY STRIKES AGAIN! Georgia Election Workers Caught Jamming Stacks of Ballots Through Machines Multiple Times After Observers Removed from Building – CLEARED BY FBI – Jamming Stacks of Selected Ballots Through Voting Machines Is Now Legal!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/chris-wray-strikes-again-georgia-poll-workers-caught/
“The Muskegon Cover-Up: Gateway Pundit Investigators Visit Registration Fraud Epicenter and Find FBI Has Stalled Investigation and Silenced Officials, No Prosecutions in 3 Years”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/muskegon-cover-up-gateway-pundit-investigators-visit-michigan/
“Voter fraud can not prosper… because if it succeeds, none dare call it voter fraud.”
Apparently, anyway.
Alternately — “Did it help remove a threat to the IC and the Deep State? Then they did nothing wrong. QED.”
Bleah.
“They can call it whatever they want. Romney didn’t win, did he.”
I’m sure every other media outlet beside the NYP will be all over these, right?
https://nypost.com/2023/08/15/biden-retells-false-stories-about-his-dad-birth-wealth-amtrak-and-national-debt/
It’s kind of amazing that despite his massive cognitive lapses, he can actually remember his decades-old lies with such clarity.
That’s typical of dementia, they can remember stuff from decades ago, but recent memory is shot.
OK, I’ve known a couple people just starting into dementia. In my opinion, at that point, not one of them could accurately read a teleprompter. Dr. Jill’s husband still can, so I wonder just how far along is his dementia and can he bluff it out through the 2024 election?
Why come we don’t get regaled with stories about CornPop anymore? Those were entertaining.
He finally beat Bad Dudes so he doesn’t need to talk about Corn Pop any more.
“Walker Art Center holds ‘playful demon summoning session’ for families
The Walker Art Center has received millions of dollars in taxpayer funds through Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
“After designing your trap, Lilit the Empathic Demon will come from the dark side of the moon to lead you in locating your feelings using ancient Babylonian techniques,” the website explains. “This collective and playful demon summoning session will conclude with a somatic movement meditation, designed to help you befriend your shadows.”
“The exhibition parts with the historical gender binarism that associates Lilith’s archetype with unchecked violence and manipulation; here, Lilit mediates the inner demons and renegade instincts that are deliberately silenced,” the exhibition details read. One image shows Ettun washing what appears to be a placenta with a watering can.”
https://alphanews.org/walker-art-center-holds-playful-demon-summoning-session-for-families/
Your tax dollars at work.
Relevant
That’s some slippery slope.
Was expecting a tranny angle and got “non-binary” instead… close enough.
Can’t you people play D&D like normal nerds?
No, Hasbro decided they don’t want Nerds for customers and made crap of the franchise.
*raises X card*
What does Twitter have to do with this?
@dbleagle, thanks for the traingasm!!! I’ve seen that before, but I could watch that on repeat all day and night.
Bernstein got handsomer as he got older.
I’m awake. I’m going out of town later today and my mother texted me to get her peaches from an orchard near where I’m going, and I’m like, “This is not why I have you on my Do Not Disturb exceptions list.”
Are the peaches any good?
No idea. I hate peaches. She probably wants to make a pie.
(O.O)
Well, at least you get pie?
1) I don’t know if they (mom and 2 aunts) are really going to make pie (they’re so broken down it’ll take all 3 of them to do it), but she requested a specific type, so I suspect so, b: if I don’t like peaches, why would I like a peach pie?, iii. it’s not my pie anyway.
Usually I ask my mom to make me a cherry pie for my bday, but she has not been able to do so for the last 2 years, and her cherry pie is one thing I can’t seem to make as well as she can or I’d do it myself. So if she’s going to make a pie, well, 😡
” if I don’t like peaches, why would I like a peach pie?”
There are things I only like cooked?
Anyway, sorry I brought it up, I guess.
Rotten Peaches
It’s ashame they couldn’t find a Jew to play Bernstein.
There are no Jews in Hollywood.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Awesome. Thanks, Holiness!
Today in euphemisms: squeegee worker
Police identify squeegee worker who was shot, killed near busy NE Baltimore intersection
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/police-identify-squeegee-worker-shot-killed-near-busy-northeast-baltimore-intersection/
Who doesn’t want their window washed with a dirty squeegee and towel despite their protestations to the contrary?
I thought that was this guy.
These things were frequent in Romania up until say 2010 or so and now have competently disappeared, haven’t seen one in over a decade, and am always surprised they are still a thing in the US
Killed them all?
I mean I’m told we’re not allowed to just shoot them, but I figure a civilized country would have exterminated them.
They disappeared in NYC by around 2000 – I don’t know if they are back but it wouldn’t surprise me given how we’ve gone back to encouraging petty crimes.
Please…
https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/nycs-notorious-squeegee-men-are-back/
Because of course he was. 🙄
And again with the bullshit about “mental health support and job training”. I can’t believe people fell for his “law and order” routine.
They were a plague in Florida in the 80’s and 90’s, but I haven’t seen one in a long time.
I love how the first example of “difficulties that squeegee workers experience” is one of them’s act of homicide.
OK, this is the first time I’ve read of that. I once read that the revolver was damaged during the testing process, but not “because of the on set incident.”
That’s a fuckload of damage to have been done by a simple misfire.
“We wanted it to look like it could go off by accident.”
I was running a guy at the last steel match who had a case failure (blowback operated 9mm carbine) that was very… interesting and a bit ensootening to me.
I can’t help but notice that this has occurred only after a few guys have switched to 9mm major open guns. It would be polite for 9mm major guys to make their cases somehow to prevent this from happening to reloaders at non-lost brass matches.
“make” should be “mark.”
Marking your brass used to be a thing back when Open guns all ran .38 Supercomp. I still have one of the marking gizmos in a box somewhere.
“That’s a fuckload of damage to have been done by a simple misfire.”
Sounds like bullshit, or it was an unbelievably cheap replica.
I, too, was surprised at the lack of comment on your selections. That was some good shit.
:shrug: Sorry… I’ve never been a fan of rap. Gangsta or otherwise. Wasn’t going to rant about not liking it so just didn’t comment.
I don’t follow Glib youtube links from work. (And often not from home) You folx are dangerous.
We’ve got what it takes to make ends meet.
Rap is one of those super divisive things. A lot of people really hate, hate, hate it.
It’s kinda like country music. Oh, wait, it is exactly like country music as the breakdown is primaraly urban/rural.
That first song is a killer. That’s one I forgot about for years, then heard it and could sing all the words.
So, this is causing kerfufflery amongst the bay area “Rationalist” types.
https://twitter.com/lisatomic5/status/1690904441967575040
Some of them apparently truly believe if you take the red pill you are trying to kill the blue pillers.
So, we should kill the blue pillers before they decide to prevent it by killing us?
“I choose neither pill and work to take down the psychopath who is looking to mass murder one side or the other.”
That may be true in Canada.
So the options are either ‘Everybody Lives’ or ‘Red Pills Live, Blue Pills Die’?
How would anyone other than an utter moron choose the blue pill?
This has got to be some kind of IQ test in disguise…
Well, there’s another layer. The blue pill inherently believes the lie, so the outcome is clearly just a part of the lie.
Or I’ve just already put more thought into the metaphor than the author of the poll, who is willfully blind to the source material.
The most common thing I’m seeing is “well, some people will take the blue pill by mistake, and some people are suicidal, so to save them we all need to take the blue pill. Red pillers don’t care if people die.”
Not an IQ test, a virtue signaling test.
Whereas blue pillers don’t care if they themselves die. That doesn’t describe me at all. Sorry, the suicidal, the stupid, and the virtue signalers will just have to take their chances.
There’s no option for “Fuck your stupid test”
“If you choose not to decide you still have made a chooooooooice!”
*Warbles in Geddy voice
Filthy Neutral.
The Hawaii disaster just makes me sick. The people suffering, and the damage to that beautiful state, of course. But it’s also the perfect example of where our country is. The highest priority is sending billions to Ukraine, letting every illegal over the border, censoring people, and coming up with charges against Trump. Helping US citizens who are losing everything, including their lives, is not politically expedient or profitable, so they don’t care about that.
Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care
Hawaii is going to vote democrat no matter what. Why waste money and time on them?
Sounds awful but that is the attitude Biden has.
Exactly the thing I was just logging in (stupid logout timer) to comment. The DC Dems won’t be able to get their grift on helping Hawaii (unlike Ukraine), they’re already going to vote straight D party ticket, the media isn’t going to blame the D’s for not helping, so why help?
See also, Baltimore.
I would guess that Biden has no idea of the whole thing, and simply hadn’t been told about it by his handlers. But they have, due to the myriad gaffs and lies that have come out of him, beat “no comment” into his head.
And you are right, Hawaii will vote blue for ever and ever more.
Biden probably doesn’t even know Hawaii is a state.
Soon Dr. Jill’s husband will be touring Maui (“Where’s them hulu girls?”) and proclaiming all the great things FEMA will be doing for them. There won’t be any Republican governor there to genuflect to him (I’m looking at you Chris Christie) but the Dems will work in something about climate change and Trump’s fault for not turning on the sirens or something.
A preview of what’s coming to America.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/afd-bavaria-chief-beaten-organised-migrant-attack
There’s a reason why Pritzker wants to hire illegals as cops.
They are easier to control than mobs?
They’re more reliable when you need some jackboots to bust some heads.
Haven’t we seen this before? Like around the 1930s or so?
And it’s just getting warmed up.
We’ve had a Reichstag Fire. How long until Kristallnacht?
I thought the Mostly Peaceful riots were Kristallnacht. Certainly the SA *cough* Antifa folks got to run wild ever since….
Those are the Weimar street battles.
America is a rich country. Britain is a poor country with one wealthy region.
People love to compare the UK to Mississippi, but it’s far more informative to look at UK subnationally, too.
London ranks fairly well, the rest of the country does not
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1689950429403037697
ah but GDP does not account for true standard of living, inequality and such
Manchester == West Virginia.
Yep, seems right.
What is really hard to believe is how SF is still off the charts in comparison to everywhere else.
It’s the lingering Tech dollars.
They’ll leave soon enough.
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TOK, I hope your gym isn’t an exclusionary hell hole and everyone is welcome.
We’d probably let a turtle hang out, but we’ve decided to not let dogs in. The former owner of the equipment let dogs in the gym, and a lot of the rubber mats we put down and scrubbed smelled like piss. The last thing we need is that getting under the mats and sitting there.
“The resumption of student loan repayments is one of many factors that we’re watching really closely,” Target CFO Michael Fiddelke told Yahoo Finance on a media call.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-earnings-103038997.html
Also it appears the boycott was partially successful.
73% of applicants say they are likely to spend their extra money on non-essentials, including vacations, smartphone, drugs/alcohol
Non-essential spending is essential to Target’s profits.
Economic stimulus!
Religious writers often interpret pagan subjects through the lens of their own faith.
https://twitter.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1691358430332588033
They do say “Write what you know”… if you know you’re that fucked in the head — I suppose assuming everyone else is has some logic.
It must be 10am because all the spam email is showing up.
In praise of European laziness
Blame medieval monks for our work obsession
Today is the feast of the Assumption, a day when most continental Europeans get a holiday, a welcome break from their backbreaking month of hard grind. August is the time when many continentals traditionally take their extended vacations, an idea that inspired a popular tweet comparing American v European attitudes to holidays, which went like this:
‘Europeans’ out of offices are like “I will not be working until 18 September. All emails will be automatically deleted.”
Americans: “I am in the hospital. Email responses may be delayed by up to 30 mins. Sorry for the inconvenience! If urgent, please reach me in the ER at…”’
This difference in attitudes perhaps has something to do with America being far richer than Europe, as Sam Bowman recently outlined in this excellent piece. Yet there is something to be said for European laziness, or at least an argument to be made against overwork, and for people taking some time off to enjoy a genuine holiday rather than just ‘annual leave’.
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/in-praise-of-european-laziness
I don’t know how you get anything done with everyone just disappearing. Haven’t you heard of coverage? And why would you want to go on vacation when everyone is crowding the recreational areas because everyone takes the same time off?
Besides, August is the worst month for vacationing. Too hot unless you’re going down under.
I don’t get the holiday in August myself.
Don’t give them ideas UCS!
I look at all my German colleagues disappearing as a +1 Productivity bonus. No more having to coax and cajole the Germans into agreeing with our plans. Even though the plans won’t affect them at all, since we are technically a German company we need to run everything by them.
The good news is that this German company isn’t nearly as bad as the other German company I worked at before. These colleagues don’t have near the chip on their shoulder as the previous ones did.
Don’t tell them what you’re up to – then they can’t protest.
What are you talking about? I went to the Feast of the Assumption festival on Sunday.
You know what happens when you assume…
You reduce the number of variables you need to verify for your model, and thus make more efficient use of your grant funding.
You finally let your Son call his Mother and find her a retirement home?
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World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
For millions of people around the world #TraditionalMedicine is their first stop for health and well-being.
Which of these have you used?
🖐️ Acupuncture
🥣Ayurveda
🌿Herbal medicine
💊 Homeopathy
🍃 Naturopathy
💆♀️ Osteopathy
🍵 Traditional Chinese medicine
☀️ Unani medicine
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1690353139004674048
I prefer modern quackery to old quackery.
This is the same organization that wants to forcibly vaccinate with experimental gene therapies.
They’re getting us used to what’ll be available in the future…
Witchcraft, summoning demons, anyone noticing a trend here?
Lovecraft wasn’t writing fiction, was he.
/points and laughs at Catholics for believing in exorcisms
/starts talking about how I need my house to be a Faraday cage to block the electro-magnetic interference from the 5G towers and power lines.
So, I have a story in the works about a future witch who can pull energy from the air (whose day job is as a meteorologist), gets convicted of involuntary manslaughter (trumped-up charge) and has to be put in a Faraday cage for her punishment, because the specialized prisons for low-level magic-users can’t contain her.
A recent conversation:
The chiropractor working on my knee: Do you regularly take aspirin, ibuprofen, anything like that?
EvilSheldon: Not regularly.
TCWOMK: Okay, you’re more a holistic kind of guy?
ES: I dunno, does a double scotch count as holistic?
LOOK! A UFO!
ALIEN COVID! I hope the vax is homeopathic…
Who would have guessed back in the ’90s that the government finally admitting to deliberately lying to the public about UFOs for half a century would be a mere distraction from the far worse shit about which the government is deliberately lying to the public.
Wai? Poonani is recognized a legitimate medicine? My insurance needs to cover that!
It’s the WHO, not a legitimate medical organization.
Good morning, Sloop!
Anyway, enjoy them both.
Done. And a great way to start the day!
I knew you’d like that.
I know I rarely am around when you comment on the music but I always come back to see your thought later in the day to check and see if the choice was good or bad. I appreciate your musical tastes.
Have a great day!
Thanks!
They are the high point of daily lynx and are almost always the least depressing!
Except for maybe Bauhaus.
Anybody seen this?
https://archive.is/hkOMs
Ridiculous, and they should win their court case. But I don’t really see the link to Obergefell.
Yes. Sad.
Ridiculous.
Better a thousand orphans be denied adoption or foster care than for one religious family or religious adoption organization to discriminate against LGBT youth…
I wonder what option an orphan would choose if presented with two photos, a Christian family or a Blue and Pink haired family. Go to church or go to drag queen breakfast?
Children are only able to choose to chop off their fleshy bits, not what kind of household they want to live in.
This is purely hypothetical of course (my scenario, your comment is too true).
I wonder if they’ve denied any Muslim couples on the same grounds?
The Password Game.
Have fun.
I think I got to 14 time this showed up.
Pass.
Your password must include today’s Wordle answer. – yeah this is where I stop
marca11!PGA14cJuneShellVVII58b5m
Nice try, glowie.
And of course requiring overly complicated passwords means people will just write them down and leave them somewhere convenient because they can’t remember them.
Overall, I think this is a good thing. The words they use in the story bug the shit out of me though.
I’m glad that they found a reasonable compromise to allow people who have issues with blaring noises and flashing lights a chance to visit all of the Great Minnesoda Get Together.
The story could use less of terms like “neurodiverse” and “sensory processing challenges”. I’m wary of them because if you grant them those terms pretty soon they are using them for bad things.
My son had issues with fire alarms. The lights and sound were too much during fire drills at school. It was so bad he resisted walking past alarms wherever he saw them. It took time for him to overcome his anxiety.
Not to be an unsympathetic prick or anything, but if you have a neurological disorder that prevents you from being in an environment with bright lights and loud noises, maybe you should just accept that certain activities are going to be unavailable to you and avoid those environments. The version of the event you’re attending that’s been attenuated to your condition is not the “real” event anyway. Accept your limitations and let normal people fucking enjoy things.
Perhaps rather than this extreme approach of shutting down lights and sounds during key operating hours, the fair could open an hour earlier without the lights and noises. Then the traditional experience is not impacted and these kids could still enjoy the rides. If there’s a demand for it, the operators will make money. If not, then get rid of it the next year.
A lot of places open early or have special times set aside for this reason and make bank. Parents of kids with sensory needs are willing to pay a premium so their kids can enjoy kid things. Putting it to the free market forces to decide viability is always an winning option.
Something like Wings for All.
The accommodations aren’t extreme. A couple hours during what is likely a slow time. Sometimes an attenuated environment can help people get over their anxiety so they can handle a normal environment.
“Members of Antifa are gearing up to host a “radicalization & recruiting event” in Portland, Oregon this weekend. The “Fash Free Festival” is set to take place Saturday afternoon at Colonel Summers Park in the city’s eastern district.
Organizers have invited fellow activists to “wear a mask and stay a while,” tempting them with promises of free black bloc clothing, zines, and other far-left propaganda.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-to-hold-recruitment-and-radicalization-event-in-portland-park
Is there any napalm left over from Viet Nam?
Something new and exciting for Portland.
They voted for it, let them get it good and hard.
We’ve got him now
On Monday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced the fourth indictment against Trump — as well as 18 others — for alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. The indictment paints an incredibly damning picture, alleging an organized attempt by the former president and his allies to undermine the fabric of American democracy — something even the most sympathetic defendant will not easily be able to fight. Trump has denied wrongdoing, as have the other defendants who have made public statements to date.
Or, conceivably, an organized attempt to find out where the fuck all those after-the-last-minute votes came from.
Left unasked – where are Hillary’s indictments?
It’s really stunning just how seasonal emergency department visits and hospitalizations for suicide and suicidal ideation are for kids.
For many kids, school is bad enough that they actually want to die. You can clearly observe the effect of the school year in these statistics.
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1691637825018462657
eh I would not draw any conclusions from that
BREAKING: YouTube no longer has a “Covid-19” policy but an expanded policy to ban *any* “medical misinformation” that contradicts WHO or local health authorities (like CDC) regarding substances and prevention, treatment, or denial of health conditions.
https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1691652238819623361
So… we can’t post videos calling acupuncturists quacks and the like. Yay Google.
I begged my wife to let us move somewhere with an HOA, she refused stating “I like homes with character.”
Now look at the house next to ours:
https://twitter.com/pslohmann/status/1691438981248946176
He lives next to SWAMP THING.
I would bet that that house didn’t happen overnight. I bet that it looked very similar to that pic when they moved in. If so, you have no right to complain about it now.
Weed killer works…
Not very well on vines.
Absolutely Better than dealing with an HOA.
I’m good with it.
Georgia’s RICO statute differs from the federal version, however, in ways that made it applicable to the defendants’ conduct in Georgia, when it would not have been applicable in the federal system. In Georgia, the list of predicate acts that comprise racketeering activity is lengthy, and includes the offenses listed above, which were a fit for the defendants’ conduct. In the federal RICO statute, the definition of racketeering activity does not include crimes that are a good fit for the defendants’ conduct, with the exception of one: obstruction of justice.
The use of RICO carries various benefits for prosecutors, including the ability to bring in evidence that otherwise might not be admissible in terms of geographic scope and timeframe, and the ability to tell a coherent and comprehensive story about the actions of all members of the enterprise, even if defendants exit the case before trial. For example, Willis charged dozens of overt acts that were committed in Washington, DC, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and elsewhere. Importantly, even if the defendants to whom these and other acts are linked drop out of the case, Willis will be entitled to put in evidence of these incidents as part of the racketeering activity.
RICO also carries sentencing benefits. A conviction under Georgia’s RICO law would carry a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years, and most of the other 40 charges in the indictment likewise involve mandatory minimum sentences of one year.
We must give the prosecution every advantage. Force the accused to prove their innocence. Makes you proud to be an American, don’t it?
RICO fucks the constitution in the ass. So of course CNN celebrates it, knowing it will never be turned against their side.
Now look at the house next to ours:
There’s never a lawn Nazi around when you need one.
I was just on a work call! I’m back now. Who needs to be sent to a camp?
You do.
Sorry, Jimbo.
Do I at least get a first class seat on the train taking me to the camp?
We only have sub-economy class.
Usually it’s the beamer drivers that are the assholes.
This is hilarious.
BMW driver uses his engine to clear the road.
Climate Darwin Award.
Maybe still an asshole, but using his power for good.
None of the other charged cases include a mandatory minimum, upping the stakes for a Georgia conviction not only for Trump, but his co-conspirators, who will be deciding in the coming weeks and months whether they want to take a plea deal that might help them avoid this consequence by allowing them to plead to a count without mandatory minimum penalties.
You know what else you could do? You could tell Trump’s co-conspirators you’re going to kill their wives and children if they don’t co-operate. Stop pussyfooting around.
“The Texas Constitution’s plain text prohibits this sort of legislative meddling in a single county’s local affairs. Harris County, therefore, requests that this Court declare that SB 1750 violates the Texas Constitution and enjoin state officials from enforcing it,” court documents said.
Travis County’s case search is garbage, but Google found me an article which links to preliminary injunction. A trial is scheduled for Jan 29, 2024 in Travis County Court (scroll to the end).
From the injunction:
On August 8, 2023, this Court heard Clifford Tatum’s Application for Temporary
Injunction against Harris County, Texas. Mr. Tatum seeks to enjoin the County from taking
any action against Mr. Tatum or his office, the Harris County Elections Administrator’s
Office (the “Harris County EA”), due to the passage of Texas Senate Bill 1750 (“SB
1750”), arguing SB 1750, and the proposed new Texas Election Code Section 31.050
contained within SB 1750, are unconstitutional because they violate Article III, section 56
of the Texas Constitution.
I looked up Article III, Section 56 of the Texas Constitution. It starts with:
The Legislature shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, pass any local or special law, authorizing:
There is a big list, note 12 and 14. Yeah, it looks to me like the judge is correct here. The legislature fucked up.
Errr… temporary injunction.
Finally, some good news
President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii on Monday, the White House announced, as search, rescue and recovery efforts continue following the devastating wildfires there.
“The President and First Lady will travel to Maui on Monday, August 21 to meet with first responders, survivors, as well as federal, state, and local officials, in the wake of deadly wildfires on the island,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
The planned visit comes amid mounting pressure on Biden, who – despite signing a federal disaster declaration last week – had only sparingly referenced the disaster, which has left at least 100 dead. The relative silence did not go unnoticed by Biden’s critics, including former President Donald Trump and other Republicans, and the Biden administration in recent days has been promoting its commitment to helping local authorities recover and rebuild.
The Bidens, Jean-Pierre said, will “see firsthand the impacts of the wildfires and the devastating loss of life and land that has occurred on the island, as well as discuss the next steps in the recovery effort.”
The healing power of a Presidential photo op will be just what those folks need. Maybe Joe will examine the union cards of the responders, to ensure proper procedures procedures are in place.
This is a little bit of a stretch, but I’m gonna bet his handlers throw some casual anti-White racism in there somewhere.
Something about “native Hawaiians”, but making sure (even if it’s wink-and-a-nod things) “native” refers to skin color, not where you’re from.
And that’s the point
“It was awful to watch,” said the employee, who was not authorized to comment about the robbery.
Overall crime rates in Los Angeles are down from last year, and a recent surge in smash-and-grab robberies makes up little of the overall problem of retail thefts. Still, the audacious daytime incidents over the last few weeks have cast a long shadow, leaving people who shop and work at malls unsettled.
It’s called terrorism for a reason.
The LAPD responded to the robbery by beefing up patrols. But officials said they are concerned about the message the brazen mobs send about safety.
“The most disheartening thing here is that this is what we’ve come to here in L.A.,” said LAPD Cmdr. Gisselle Espinoza. “We are interviewing people and trying to find leads and strategies to find out who these people are.”
Mega-MAGA malcontents, I reckon. Extreme right wing radicals.