Spud is back in town and the cattle are nervous. Kaiser gave his editorial opinion- walked into the house, walked over to the expensive couch, lifted his leg and… I didn’t have the heart to tell Spud that I had already done the same thing before he got there. WebDom as well. Despite the unorthodox christening of the furniture, we still managed to polish off a couple 750ml bottles of spoiled grape juice (for Pie: a Beaujolais Blanc from J-M Brun and a single-vineyard Riesling from Forge, one of the great producers in this area).
Birthdays today include a guy who never met me; a guy who could actually outdrink Errol Flynn; the voice everyone trusted but shouldn’t have; a guy whose mind was always in the sewer; a guy who was killed by a nerd wearing a dress; a TV actress who always seemed cold; no joke here, one of the true greats of country and proto-Americana; the only First Lady who actually killed a man; a very under-rated photographer who was… creative; the finest rack on TV other than Bullwinkle; a guy of whom Justin Tucker could do a remarkable imitation; and SP’s favorite football player.
I guess it’s time to link…
Surprise, surprise, Hamas uses ambulances for troop transport. Now here’s the fun part: look closely at the pic of the ambulance. THAT’S A FUCKING HORSE UNDER IT!
Israel really has to keep Progs from immigrating.
The Squad threatens to support Trump.
This is what happens when you fight Elon Musk.
I love the opportunism in the legal profession.
The Old Man says that the only thing better than The Dead South is The Dead South doing a cover of a Trampled By Turtles classic.
Spud looks like he needs a shower in the top picture. Is that from sitting on the couch?
He made a career out of developing butt callouses.
He has some timing, showing up after the leaves have come down.
a guy who could actually outdrink Errol Flynn;
Took his name from a character he played.
the only First Lady who actually killed a man;
Didn’t the first Mrs. Biden kill multiple people in a car crash?
Yes, and Joe claimed the other driver, a truck driver, was at fault and drunk.
The truck driver was not drunk. Joe Biden’s wife ran a stop sign.
As far as I know, the eruption has not yet occurred.
Old Guy Music is good.
Gotta motor.
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I would like to buy an ‘E’.
What is the official glibertarian view on how long sausage lasts in a -20C freezer? Internet says 1 2 months i have some 10 months that dont smell rotten can I still eat it properly cooked?
*shrug*
I wouldn’t have a problem with it.
Frozen? I’d say a year. More so if it’s vacuum packed.
a properly cured sausage can last more than 2 months hanging at room temperature.
I go a year. Freezer burn is the bigger risk, and that isn’t much of a risk.
Concurred.
“a guy whose mind was always in the sewer”
Joseph Bazalgette?
I guessed Jeremy Bentham.
I first thought of John Snow, but he correlated the cholera outbreak with contaminated wells. It was several others who started the sewer project.
A book called “The Ghost Map” is an interesting read about London, cholera and sewers.
I guessed correctly.
Rare for me, with the Old Man’s links.
finally we got some rain. it was about time. Still yesterday I went outside at 9PM wearing only a t-shirt in fucking November. weird ass-weather
You went out wearing no pants?
It was also only about 283 kelvins here yesterday, but that was enough to do a nice walk in shorts and a hoodie.
Creatures of the Night do not need your silly mortal pants.
My job is done here, I am continuing my road trip.
No one complained about your lack of pants?
a guy who never met me
Howard Cosell is doing links today?
Not sure which Penn & Teller show this belongs on, Fool Us or Bullshit. The issue isn’t the ballots themselves – it is who is casting them.
OT: Swiss and others interested:
Mad Heidi is now available to rent for $1.99 streaming on most streaming services. We are on the countdown to having it free streaming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZBNuoxjmaI
Outlaw Johnny Black comes out on DVD Dec 13. I’ve got it pre-ordered.
We will see what happens when both sides play the same game.
Then the party’s base needs to step up or continue getting stepped on.
Silicone Saturday reminds everyone that Blippi used to do scat porn.
https://archive.ph/gpj9M
2 and 3 are hot. 4 frightens me.
“American men have escaped mandatory military service for two generations because millions of their patriotic brothers and sisters were willing to serve voluntarily, with thousands of them laying down their lives for their country.”
Umm, no I think it’s because we haven’t had any real enemies.
Oh we have plenty of real enemies. Many are all already inside the gates starting shit elsewhere to distract us.
Right, I should have been more specific. The real enemies we do have also happen to control our military.
“England is not short of homes – they are just unavailable, or unaffordable” | Writes @RosieP4
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1720184385880678632
Cats eyes glow because they have a special layer in their eyes called the tapetum lucidum, which acts like a mirror, bouncing incoming light back through the retina and giving them better night vision.
Watch this!
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1720537510541979681
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan on Friday accused President Joe Biden of supporting a Palestinian “genocide” and warned that Americans will remember when he’s up for reelection next year how he responded to the Israel-Hamas war.
Will they all vote for Cornell West?
Didn’t he already drop out?
Got to the BMV when they opened at 8 a.m. to grudgingly submit to the state for the sake of driving on their ROADZ!!! Driver’s license (finally the so-called Real ID in case I’m forced to fly commercially) and plates both renewed in under 20 minutes.
Our local DMV is like that. Never crowded, helpful people, you can get stuff done quickly.
Go to the city and it’s a very different story.
I love rural living.
“Real ID”? You mean like Joe gives all those “asylum seekers” so he can fly them all over the country?
Republicans across the country are looking to snag wins in state and federal elections in 2023 and 2024, and they’re embracing early and absentee voting like never before to do it.
And will the Democrats applaud the “unprecedented level of voter participation” or will they cry foul?
Unless they embrace illegal ballot harvesting and somehow get control of ballot counting in large urban precincts, I doubt it will make much difference.
It’s not just that you can get (some) more legitimate votes through junk mail voting. It’s that junk mail voting blows open any pretense at election security and allows rampant fraud. Should anyone care to commit it. Of course, why would anybody cheat, what with the stakes being so low?
The difference in PA in ’20 was not in the urban centers, where the traditional Dem control resides. As I recall from looking at it, Trump actually outperformed his ’16 results in Philly. It was literally in the swing districts in the suburbs.
Yeah, the message in the burbs was essentially “only high school dropouts would vote for Trump.”
Looking back at a few comments from the last few days – the more I see via sources like ADV China/The China Show (good video podcasts on Friday youtube), the less I’m concerned about China and tech. The AI demos they build for foreign and domestic audiences are hot trash tech demos mostly stolen from western companies. Even the ones from the biggest companies – ie Huawei. Their brand new Huawei “5G” phone is using a stolen Samsung chipset that’s over 2 years old and has a tendency towards overheating – that’s why they’re trying to ban Iphones in gov’t buildings etc – trying to promote their domestic stuff that folks don’t want. Every tech thing they try and do is dis-proven pretty quickly – whether it’s the recent room temperature superconductor testing or their attempts to build homegrown GPUs. See also their ridiculous electric cars and scooters that are just hot trash.
I’d be more concerned for Taiwan as China weakens economically, etc – they’re more likely to try something crazy as a last gasp before they lose all capability.
A good discussion just from the episode yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/live/kZcc98aifIc?si=abhSPde9JT20rwER&t=4642 – comparing provinces in China to different countries based on development index.
Another latebreaking China story they discussed: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/cnn-exclusive-chinese-jet-fired-flares-close-to-submarine-hunting-helicopter-in-south-china-sea-canadian-navy-says-1.6629936
“China has ignored the ruling.”
International court just as useless as the UN; in fact often worse than nothing.
True to a point – the question is how to realistically go about these extra-territorial claims and the hostility China exhibits to all their neighbors.
I keep hearing China is a “house of cards”. Been waiting for it to fall for nigh on two decades now.
But yeah… if and when it happens, it won’t be pretty.
“However Katey’s family chose not to attend the ceremony.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-husband-bonk-bridesmaid-wedding-31351261
THICC?
More Tres-approved than thicc, perhaps.
Does THICC also imply thick-headed?
Don’t be so hard on yourself, it’s not like you fucked them.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/24354497/drunk-kissed-three-men-after-row-with-boyfriend/
Muh environment
The massive funding cut proposed by the GOP has virtually no chance of becoming law in this year’s budget but marks a starting point in negotiations for Republicans as they look to negotiate with Democrats in the Senate on funding the government.
Republicans want every city in America to look like New Delhi.
LOL totally not biased
Why didn’t I have a book like this for all the other shit I had to take?
In addition to the top-line EPA cuts, the GOP bill would also rescind provisions from the climate, tax and health care bill that Democrats passed last year. It targets funding aimed at helping underserved communities combat climate change and pollution.
Genocide.
Ongoing saga
Trump attorney Christopher Kise hasn’t given up on the possibility of having the former president’s New York bank fraud trial thrown out.
Kise’s new strategy seems to be threatening to have the case declared a mistrial over complaints—mostly stemming from Trump—that New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s law clerk is biased, reported Forbes.
At the end of the trial day on Thursday, Kise raised objections to note passing between the judge and his legal aide, whom Trump’s attorneys have referred to as a “secretary,” implying that she was “co-judging” the trial. That was enough to set off Engoron, who pounded on his bench while threatening to expand the gag order against the former president to his entire legal team in light of the remarks.
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Come Friday morning, however, Kise was back to reiterating his explosive remarks.
“The entire country, if not the world, is watching this proceeding,” Kise said, according to The Daily Beast. “And the U.S. heretofore has been a model for integrity and impartiality in the judicial system, since its founding. Nothing in here should create any appearance that the adherence to those principles has wavered … Yes, as a judge you’re entitled to receive [assistance], but from someone who has potentially demonstrable bias … and the manner in which that has taken place, we at least have to make a record.”
Sore losers.
“Next pandemic deemed the ‘Big One’ could be the most contagious and deadliest disease known to humanity, scientists warn”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12699453/Next-pandemic-deemed-Big-One-contagious-deadliest-disease-known-humanity-scientists-warn.html
No.
Jeebus, these fucking people. Ooooga booooga booooga….go fuck yourself.
Fuck.That.Nonsense.
Reality intrudes
“This is a pretty brutal space,” said Mercedez-Benz CFO Harald Wilhelm, as quoted by Reuters. “I can hardly imagine the current status quo is fully sustainable for everybody.”
Japanese automakers seem to agree. This week, Honda announced that it was abandoning its plans to release a lineup of smaller, sub $30,000 EVs — which would’ve been a much-needed boon to buyers searching for a cheaper vehicle in a pricey market.
“After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV,” Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe told Bloomberg in an interview.
Chairman of Toyota Motor Akio Toyoda said that with the drop in demand for EVs in the US, the industry is having a reckoning about the technology.
“People are finally seeing reality,” Toyoda said, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal. He went on to suggest that EVs were not the only way of reaching carbon-neutral goals.
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All told, it’s too soon to sound the death knell on the tech — but it’s worrying that it’s the automakers themselves that are doing the doomsaying.
Clap harder. Tinkerbell is having range anxiety.
If you look at EVs as a performance niche, they make sense and get a similar slice of the sales pie. You can’t expect to sell everyone on your performance model though (unless you are Ferrari or Lamborghini).
An electric sports car sounds dangerous. You can’t feel or hear how fast you are going.
This.
It’s the failure mode that still keeps me from considering one – you run out of gas, you’re a gas-can away from being back on the road.
You run out of juice, you need a tow-truck.
If you look at EVs as a performance niche, they make sense and get a similar slice of the sales pie. You can’t expect to sell everyone on your performance model though (unless you are Ferrari or Lamborghini).
But cars, electrified or not, shouldn’t be fun. They should be utilitarian appliances; a (temporarily) necessary evil until we get the drone castes into their pod cities.
Much like the arrow in the FedEx logo, I can’t unsee this:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-02-at-9.36.40%E2%80%AFAM.png
Just hit reload if you get an error – they have “anti-hotlinking” enabled but if you hit reload the Referer (sic) header should be blank & it’ll let you load it.
(‘Referer’ was misspelled in the original RFC, so decades later it’s still the ‘correct’ spelling of the header)