So I had a bit o’ the coof this week and since I’m a libertarian I took the responsibility to not spread it on myself. However, a certain furball still needs exercise and mental stimulation, so I took her for walks when other people weren’t present. Therefore, no wrestling vids. A more placid look at my life here instead.
Lily likes to scout ahead, but doesn’t want to lose me. Therefore at forks or intersections, she waits for me to tell her which way we’re going.
This week is a pretty good one stellar-wise, and moreso if you’re one of those Seagoat types. The latter get a particular bonus to success in competitive endeavors by hosting both Mercury and Mars along with the Sun. For the rest of us, the stars recommend fidelity in relationships. If you’re going to break one, do it sometime during the alignment of Mercury and Venus which happens from Thursday through the end of the week. Though this is an even better time to start one if you’re single (the Sun is also involved, which is more of a birth/growth influence than an ending one).
She loves finding burrowing animals and digging them out. My yard is now devoid of chipmunks and groundhogs. I still see rabbits, but I assume they’re hopping over from somewhere else.
Capricorn: 3 of Wands – Feeling like a boss.
Aquarius: The Empress reversed – your go-to doesn’t pan out this week.
Pisces: People who owe you results are distracted.
Aries: The Hierophant – People will be less stupid and recalcitrant than usual.
Taurus: The Sun – Good times.
Gemini: The Emperor – sometimes you gotta smack a bitch.
Cancer: 5 of Wands – Games, fake fights, kayfabe, status-seeking.
Leo: 9 of Coins reversed – There is a danger of losing something valuable.
Virgo: 2 of Swords – Stand your ground.
Libra: 3 of Swords – Heartbreak.
Scorpio: The Devil reversed – Out of the frying pan, into the fire. But then out of the fire.
Sagittarius: 6 of Swords – Going somewhere new, but bringing along your problems.
I’m leaving the sound on for this one. Just crows and juncos.
And back into the frying pan? 🙁
Nice dog videos.
There is a danger of losing something valuable.
Sufficiently shitty.
The dishwasher broke catastrophically a few moments ago.
Oh-oh, water all over or just stopped working?
Shut off under the sink?
Yes, water overflowed from the drip tray. The main motor, which drains water has died.
Sorry.
Plumbing. OMG triggered.
That’s terrible. Is your wife okay?
*runs away and hides*
I was worried about RJ
Sagittarius: 6 of Swords – Going somewhere new, but bringing along your problems.
The walls are closing in?
” Stand your ground”
Sufficiently vague.
Is the new doggie going back? 😉
Stay away from teens eating skittles.
Stay away from teens
Bought and paid for
The challenge for Biden is convincing farmers, who lean heavily Republican, that he’s been just as good if not better for their bottom lines than Trump, should the two face a rematch in 2024. For Democrats, chipping away at Republicans’ margins of victory in rural areas is critical to their 2024 hopes of maintaining the White House and Senate — and winning back the House.
The administration has leaned heavily on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and USDA to try and change voters’ minds in agriculture-heavy areas. In the past several months, the former Iowa governor has visited Minnesota, Maine, Washington and the early primary state of New Hampshire to tell farmers about the gravy train Biden has brought to town — and how his administration is working to distribute the recent surge in ag profits to farmers across the spectrum, not just the largest ag conglomerates.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his vote.
“For Democrats, chipping away at Republicans’ margins of victory in rural areas”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Shoot some ads with trannies driving tractors. That’ll bring ‘em in.
Had about five minutes of whiteout conditions here. Then it stopped.
Gemini: The Emperor – sometimes you gotta smack a bitch.
Are you saying I’m supposed to smack Lily?
I thought about it yesterday… she was being particularly entitled.
Conditions like in the vids are why I like living here. Unfortunately the snowfall has been extremely lacking the past couple of winters.
Those pics look like here except it’s frozen ice sheet, not snow. Damn pup won’t poop because her spot is covered. And now won’t nap because she can see all of the birds from the window.
the guy who paved the way for westernsloper
Mad Mike Hoare’s birthday isn’t until March.
Now you’re just being ridiculous.
Best. IFLA. EVER.
My reaction is more like.
I made the mistake of going to Gov Hochul’s Twitter. She’s breaking her arm patting herself on the back, and suddenly, I’m infuriated.
Dear Buffalo. I’m sorry your governor’s such a fucking cunt.
(Apparently she had the option to let the game go in ATL, and DID NOT TAKE IT. Why? Control. Power.)
What does this mean?
I didn’t phrase that well, did I? The NFL proposed moving the game to Atlanta. https://www.si.com/nfl/steelers/news/report-nfl-nearly-moved-pittsburgh-steelers-game-atlanta
I’m not at all clear how the governor can approve moving an NFL game to a city in a completely different state. Hell, I’m not clear how a governor can approve (or block) moving an NFL game to a city in their own state.
Does the snow pack into Lily’s toes? Some dogs wear snow boots/socks, courtesy of the owner.
Sometimes, but she just stops and removes it.
My Pyrennes would get ice clumps in her toes. When Id let her in she’d lay on the floor and pick them out.
She also chewed her own nails. Great doge but weird at times.
Apparently today is the 6th anniversary of this miracle
I remember that! I was in the hospital with flu and pneumonia, and had the game on in my room.
I’ve never had such good service from a nursing staff. They found any excuse to come and linger in my room: freshly warmed blankets, pudding cups, cranberry juice, extra pillows—anything for a glimpse of the game.
The head nurse figured it out and chastised them, but they kept it up anyway. I found the whole thing rather amusing and was glad to see that they seemed to relish defying Nurse Killjoy.
https://imgur.com/gallery/AD767KC
It’s a balmy 12 degrees here now. I know it’s nothing to you northern folk, but it doesn’t do this very often around here.
When I picked up Tres V 2.0 this morning, truck said it was 3º.
Currently my watch tells me its 8º. Pert near shorts weather.
Apparently she had the option to let the game go in ATL
Que?
Quick googling
Um… no.
That is not acceptable under any circumstances.
Which? Moving or postponing?
I vote neither. Let them play in the weather God intended.
Moving.
Postponing one day – a holiday for many – is as far as I will go. Postponing another day is also unacceptable.
OTOH, I’ve looked at the forecast a couple times today and it snowed for like an hour. It’s snowing all day tomorrow.
Oops.
Govt decision making at it’s finest!
I should think there are some people who had flight/hotel/etc. reservations who will be screwed by the move.
This is a mostly rhetorical question, but how does a governor (male or female) get to be a participant in NFL decision making?
She declared a state of emergency before the storm.
She declared a state of emergency before the storm.
Depriving people of the chance to say, forever after, “I was at that game, and you weren’t! We froze our balls off, and it was awesome.”
What a fucking spoilsport nanny.
One of many Gov. Karens that we are burdened with. AZ has one of its own now, and she combines “mediocre” and “insufferable” in ways I had not thought possible.
Bazinga. Truer words are rarely spoken.
OTOH, I’ve looked at the forecast a couple times today and it snowed for like an hour. It’s snowing all day tomorrow.
Oops.
Maybe it will be one of those games where the snow comes down so hard you can’t see the lines on the field.
ANNOUNCEMENT! FED ZOOM HAPPY HOUR!
Feds Only…No Plebs…I repeat…this Zoom is for Feds only. DO NOT JOIN IF YOU ARE NOT A FED
AGENDA
20:30 ET
-Tax Money Waster of the Month
-Most Creative Pronouns Award
-How to safely watch pr0n on your GFE
-Invasion plans for Switzerland, Northern Italy, Austria, Hokkaido, Southern New Zealand and Patagonia
-Best nap spots in HST, RRB, and SA-44
-Update on Operation Spy on Glibertarians Dot Com
-Holiday Celebration (aka Dedication of The Pentagon Day)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I can’t Zoom and watch the game, ya know, so I’m sacrificing for you people like a good Fed
YOU FUCKERS!
Democracy in action
Local restrictions in Michigan derailed more than two dozen utility-scale renewable energy projects as of last May, according to a study by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. Nationwide, and at least 228 restrictions in 35 states have been imposed to stop green energy projects.
The conflicts have hindered many states’ aggressive timelines for transitioning to cleaner energy production, with the ultimate goal of eliminating carbon pollution within the next two decades.
Michigan and more than a dozen other states are seeking to upend the decision-making process by grabbing the power to supersede local restrictions and allow state authorities to approve or disapprove locations for utility-scale projects.
The shift has sparked a political backlash that may escalate as more states seek to simplify getting green energy projects approved and built.
Following the science, no matter where it leads.
Yeah, the state announcing they are going to put in a couple of square miles of windmills over the objection of the locals is going to go over real well.
Yeah, that’s kind of terrible. While generally I’m not a huge fan of zoning, I can only see the state advising that power.
“We can’t allow projects of statewide importance that are critical to our state energy security to be vetoed on purely local concerns,” said Dan Scripps, chair of Michigan’s Public Service Commission.
Fuck off, slaver.
Up is down, left is right…
I’ve now pushed 2 cars out that were stuck in the driveway today. Stay safe out there kiddos. And remember, if you’re still moving you’re not stuck. Even if you’re barely moving. Don’t start spinning the tires right away.
Sounds like you need to put up bollards so cars don’t get in your driveway. 😉
My driveway is cleared. This was 2 different driveways nearby
I misread it as cars sliding on ice into your driveway. 🙂
Yeah I didn’t write that very well. Should have said nearby driveways.
So my AdBlock is finally choking on Youtube. Youtube is pretty much unusable with AdBlock Plus turned on. I still don’t see ads, but it loads like cold molasses.
I’ll have to check and see which adblock I was using on firefox – didn’t notice any performance issues – because my old laptop has been choking for the last couple of years.
Just got a new laptop so I need to confirm all the plugins I want to use on it – speaking of which – where can I d/l monocle?
uBlock Origin appears to still be working. Although I only tested it on some of my car channels and the rest was Japanese content.
Yeah, the state announcing they are going to put in a couple of square miles of windmills over the objection of the locals is going to go over real well.
Just imagine the outrage if you know who was trampling the rights of the locals.
Those locals are fly-over types, no one that matters cares about them.
So…if UCS pops up – my cheapo airbrush from Christmas seems to be working pretty well. I did a set of figures black primed this past weekend and then primed in zenithal white Friday night. I think my error with the spray cans was that I was mistakenly trying to prime directly overhead – but after reading some more I should be at no more than a 45 degree angle – and there should be a lot more white when I’m done.
Also put in some blue speed paint and painted legs on a couple dreadnoughts. Just did some more black primer this afternoon – hope to white prime them tonight and then do a long day of painting tomorrow.
So far…seems pretty good – think it’s a little better if I add a few drops of thinner with the primer (all Vallejo stuff).
Now…the cleaning process is a little frustrating – particularly with needing to go through the whole process just to swap colors or other things – gets a little messy in the sink even with the airbrush cleaner, etc…but not a huge deal if I can maximize efficiency with each color, etc. I did prime some terrain this week too – so I may try using some colors with that one – in addition to the dreads/vehicles (wanted to save these large flat areas for spraying vice brushes).
May post some pics a little later for reference.
That’s funny, I’ve been painting up a few of my heroQuest figures (nostalgia ftw) . I’m painting by hand, priming with spray paint and clear coating the same way. Seems to work fine, very relaxing past-time.
I’d use my spray cans for priming (convenience) if it was warm enough and not windy – to do it out back like I was earlier in the fall.
Makes sense, I forgot about my weather privilege.
Finally cold enough here too enjoy my fireplace. I love it.
Found a new little stitching show (i.e., a good TV show to watch while stitching), Surreal Estate. It’s a SyFy show, so the worst thing about a SyFy show is they kill a concept too soon. Looking at you, Eureka. We’ll see how long this lasts.
Don’t get me started on their fuck up canceling Farscape.
Packers wild card about to start and I predict will get ugly early. Won’t see much Love in Jerry’s World.
A Prescott pick-six would make it ugly.
Poof! Your wish was granted.
🧚
Game is getting good.
*disclaimer: I have no love for Packets or Cowboys
Poof! Bonus pick!
🧚🧚
Yeah, I had to get up to make dinner for Dad, who eats on Old Fart Time, and came back just to see the Savage pick-six.
What was it you were saying about it getting ugly?
Jerry’s World looked a lot more like Wayne’s World.
I came in from the race and saw that the Packers ruined Jerry’s playoff run in Texas. A nice day got suddenly nicer.
Plus 2d place equals free drinks, Woohoo!
Those locals are fly-over types, no one that matters cares about them.
Greater good, greater good. Gooble gobble, greater good.
Into the fire you say?
That’s what I was expecting.
Just reading about this unprecedented snow storm in Buffalo. It’s 2-3 inches of snow and 2-3 inches more maybe expected.
This is all such horseshit and people just shrug and accept it. If a football game being moved was the worst of it, oh well. But this shit, this thinking, that shrug paved the way for covid restrictions and hysteria. We’ve become a nation of pussies and that has real, disastrous consequences.
People look to government to determine whether something they’ve experienced and survived just fine first hand is safe. Government declared it an unprecedented emergency, so it must be so actual evidence on the ground be damned.
2-3 inches of snow in Buffalo is unprecedented? Of course it is. They usually get 2-3 feet, dont they? It is unprecedented.
I have a vague memory from…late ’80s? They got some unbelievable amount of snow, 8 feet or some such. I remember being incredulous at that amount. The weather spokespeople were telling us that Buffalo was consistently the most heavily snowed city in America.
The weather people were wrong.
The heaviest snow is to the east of Lake Ontario. There are no large cities there.
Rhywun: did you end up deciding to buy one of those digital antennas to pick up over-the-air stations?
No. What was that for – MeTV??
I can live without the hassle.
Toony and Svengoolie hav a sad. ☹️
I know….
Cheap and simple: just get one.
It’s a common misconception that you need a “digital” antenna for picking up modern broadcast TV. Any old rabbit ear analog antenna will do. Just a matter of where you live relative to the towers and whatever structures are in between.
Also, doesn’t need to be active (I.e. powered). Passive is fine.
Here’s one I like:
https://www.amazon.com/RCA-ANT121Z-Durable-Passive-Antenna/dp/B00009W3E2/
Watertown and Ft. Drum – yeah, that’s not even a good suburb.
I’m seeing 11 inches, with “another 15 inches expected in the next 48 hours”.
*shrug*
I’m not there so who the hell knows.
I don’t think COVID was planned, and I don’t think they knew what to do about it for a while, but they sure made hay, didn’t they?
That said, what do you do when the governor says, “Nope, sorry,” when you KNOW if you play anyway, she’ll have the national guard out after you?
I am not so sure given their legions of malthusian pronouncements over the past 5 decades. Remember, no matter how bad you think they are, they are exponentially worse.
The fact that they were working on some kind of apocalypse virus to start with doesnt speak well of their intentions.
And apparently already had a “virus” to supposedly deal with it.
As was tangentially mentioned in the AM Lynx, the World Economic Forum meets in Davos this week. The Wall Street Journal does a takedown (archived to avoid paywall).
My favorite bit:
Looking forward to next week, The World Economic Forum announces:
Convening under the theme “Rebuilding Trust”, the Annual Meeting 2024 will bring together more than 2,800 leaders from 120 countries.
In 2022, the theme was “Trust-based and action-oriented cooperation.”
In 2020 the forum said that 2021 would be a “crucial year to rebuild trust.”
This alleged trust-building exercise has been going on for a while. A 2010 Journal report on various Davos events reported:
… former President Clinton, special envoy to Haiti, will be prodding the world’s rich and powerful not to forget the devastated nation as they bask in the glow of the powerful assembly. And the theme of many of the panels – “Germs and Globalization,” “The Next Global Crisis,” and “Rebuilding Trust in Business Leadership” are just a few – will remind guests of what is keeping political and corporate leaders awake at night.
To be sure, nothing says trust like a Bill Clinton appearance.
Saving the planet from all us Dalit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12961819/Global-elites-Davos-debauchery-caviar-champagne-escorts.html
This is the same crowd that proclaimed ordinary people having ideas is a threat to world order? Is that a key part of their trust building effort?
Absolutely. Don’t think, just trust. Dammit, it was good enough for The Church in the middle ages – why won’t you people be like them???
FTFY.
Would be nice to count Dallas out, but wouldn’t be wise for GB to take foot off the gas.
I don’t know; why take the foot off the gas when the Cowboys are doling out gifts?
Yeah; Joe Barry can fuck anything up.
Now I’m counting the Cowboys out. Too bad I’m in the anybody but Green Bay camp.
Even Tosu? You’re some kind of monster.
Cowboys are doing their best to keep it interesting. No doubt they have a lot of talent but they completely wasted the first half.
2 minute warning is just too late to get 16 points.
Joe Barry is doing his best to keep it interesting.
I don’t think COVID was planned, and I don’t think they knew what to do about it for a while, but they sure made hay, didn’t they?
I don’t believe in vast complex conspiracies, but I sure as Hell believe in incentives and self-aggrandizing opportunism.
I believe Fauci arrogantly funneled money through EcoHealth Alliance to Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research after that research was forbidden in the US.
Then when the 3 WIV researchers got sick with “flu-like symptoms” in Nov 2019, as the emails show, Fauci and his colleagues immediately shifted to covering their asses and lying about the lab leak. That has been proven. But Fauci managed not only to escape blame but also to paint himself as a hero and make a pretty penny along the way.
He and his ilk who needed to save their own skin welcomed any opportunity to distract from the truth and had zero fucks to give about the effects the lockdown and school closures would have on the rest of us.
He is evil.
Worse, in my book, are the cogs in the propaganda machine who played along and lyonized him despite all evidence to the contrary. Even today, they continue running cover even as the proof has long been incontrovertible that they are peddling lies.
He and his ilk who needed to save their own skin welcomed any opportunity to distract from the truth and had zero fucks to give about the effects the lockdown and school closures would have on the rest of us.
He is evil.
Nothing short of the sight of that quack hanging upside down from a lamppost could ever satisfy me.
I’d be ok if he was mauled by bears. Bears with Covid.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0f/16/b4/0f16b4aaddf54c64c55d270e034ec315.jpg
How about by dogs?
A bit of sunshine on a snowy day.
Aww.
A lot of cute ones on there
The Official Vehicle of “I couldn’t get into a college with a decent football program.”
At least their delusional, obnoxious fanbase will crawl back under their rocks and we won’t ever hear “WE DEM ‘BOYZ!!” again… until August, anyway.
/former ‘Skins fan
I for one am tired of “America’s Team.”
Says who?
ICYMI Iceland erupted again. This time the town of Grindavik is screwed. A few houses on the outskirts have been lost already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAQzsB9ev9Q
The Blue Lagoon is temporarily closed.
guitar music
It was a bit of a trick getting the first one out of the mold, but I have succeeded in making applesaucicles! 😋
Sounds delicious
one month ’til the sap runs?
Hmm, did you leave your applesauce outside in the freezing weather?
Someone left my applesauce out in the rain….
I certainly could have. It’s currently a balmy 8 degrees in SW OH.
Yeah, we had 80s today, but it was a breezy 80s…..
I have decided San Diego winter is like Michigan spring,
Layersup
Layerdown
Cheers
Finger Lakes winter is like NYC summer. “Do not go outside.”
Bah.
The insanity deepens
https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/news/faas-diversity-push-includes-hiring-people-with-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disabilities/
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
Just when you think it cant get any worse….
Now y’all know why I keep having to take breaks and disappear for a while. I am living in an insane asylum.
Poor OBE.
OMG
I thought about this in the midst of my recent experience terminating an employee whose behavior had become completely intolerable.
Two days later he had a complete meltdown and was hospitalized at a mental hospital. I had a ringside seat because he texted me relentlessly between his firing and his involuntary admission. (He’s either bipolar or schizophrenic; they haven’t decided.)
I counted us lucky to have parted ways before it was clear that he had a mental illness and then wondered if there would come a time when a company couldn’t fire such a person because it would be discriminatory,
And here we are. Clown world.
This is where i would start to rant about the conditions of mental health care facilities and the lack of true options. There are 3 or so places in the greater ok city area. All of them are like prisons and health insurance only allow for limited stays.
Clown world indeed.
The good thing about workers with complete paralysis is they don’t talk back. And they’re only slightly less productive than the median pubsec union worker.
🤔
Good morning! It’s always a good morning when the Packers put a beat beatdown on Dallas.
Morning.
Good morning, Ted’S., U, NA, and hayek!
Good morning, all of the above plus GT.
A crisp -16 this morning, coldest day so far but a week from now is forecast for mid 30s. Hope so. No snow though
Good morning, 4(20)! Glad to know you haven’t been snowed in.
I don’t need tropical, but when there is a minus sign on the temp, that’s too damn cold.
Good morning Glibs and assorted .gov lurkers!
Brrrrr. ☕😨
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YwENuEZ7XPc
Great song. Deserves more love. 🎶🎶
Bit of a You got lucky vibe to that video.
That link is not so lucky.
Well, Damn (the torpedoes)
One shouldn’t be expected to go to work when it’s no degrees outside.
I’ve got 4 you can have, as I don’t plan to use them. At most, I’ll go out this afternoon to clean off my car before I have to go back to work tomorrow.
It’s well into the double digits here. And almost time for the park.
BTW, NA, at first I read the title of this week’s post as “Chili Dog…”
I also have 4, the sheep were fine yesterday. Cows were upset.
Need to break the ice in the stock tank and check on chickens when sun come up.
When you milk the cows, are they giving ice cream yet?
Screw it, The Hyperbole Design and Construction company is going to recognize MLK day and give it’s employees a paid day off as long as they promise to spend the day drinking and contemplating their white privilege.
Meanwhile, in Ecuador…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ecuador-2024-prison-hostages-freed-in-war-with-narco-drug-gangs/
-4 here this morning. But we’ve got a similar “long range” forecast to FourScore — mid 30s and rain next week. People complain about rain in the Winter. I point out that no one ever died of a heart attack while shoveling rain.
That’s great news Beau, it’s something to think about but as a Glib I’ve been known to be heartless.