Okay, the Browns are pretty good this year, but the busting of balls still must take place.
Joe friggin’ Flacco. That’s all I have to say about that.
Links?
Speaking of losers, they should all be wearing skirts for the game.
About all I can muster for this story is “whut?”.
You know how you get rid of low paying jobs? Push the issue until you’re replaced by a robot.
Umm, did you consider taking the headset off?
Okay, my glass is empty and the game is on. Peace out, Glibbies!
CJ is good.
That touchdown pass was a lovely touch.
Bears fans wonder why they got a lame OSU QB.
Yes we do. To be fair I think CJ may be the only good NFL QB from OSU.
So far.
Jim Karsatos ?
Art Schlicter?
FWIW Justin Fields is from Kennesaw. He looked better than Fromm at UGA when he was the backup, but he transferred instead of waiting. I thought he was the ideal college QB who, like Bennett, had no business in the NFL, but there he is.
This story would be perfect if Olbermann had to give back every award he’s ever been given (if he has any – I can’t be bothered to check.) And return every cent ESPN ever paid him.
Legal awards are just as manipulated as media awards, but I’d be out on my ass for “ethical considerations” lickety split if I was within pissing distance of a scandal like that. Somehow, I think “nothing else happened” is going to be the end of this one.
I was recently told that AI and Ozempic would change the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxCdh1Ps48
AI thinks using a binary code. The human brain does not. They are good but they will never match us or beat us. The handicap is just baked in.
Ozempic…yikes.
In 100 years the world will look much as it does now and I still won’t have my flying car.
You have won the “Speaker of Truths” award for January. Next time I head east I will drop it off.
You dont want that car. In addition to DMV registration and licensing and fees, then you have to be a licensed pilot, FAA certification……
Chinese firms own more than $2billion worth of US farmland, up from just $162million a decade ago, according to the latest US Department of Agriculture (USDA) figures.
Department data shows CCP-linked firms had a stake in 346,915 acres of American agricultural land as of December 2022.
I read this and immediately thought of the Sowell quote: “Is that a lot? Compared to what?”
My medium-sized county in Florida (ranked 22nd in size out of 67 counties) is 620,000 acres.
It’s not exactly like the Chinese have bought the entire state of Nebraska or anything.
The paperwork is lost? Then they dont own anything.
Yeah, that’s about 0.21% of the land area of Alberta. If someone told me tomorrow morning that the Chinese owned that much of Alberta for any reason, I’d just shrug.
Lemme know when they own half of it, and have figured out how to beam it back to China.
Beam it back to china in the form of metals that they managed to strip mine. To make batteries for proggies here.
*shrug*
You know they’re plotting something. We just don’t know what yet.
They are catching and releasing thousands of military age Chinese males at the southern border. I would bet money that they are headed to the farmland. China likes to import their own workers.
That doesn’t sound unlikely.
I thought that the Japs already bought all our land back in the nineties.
They bought resorts and malls, and got their ass handed to them. The Chinese are going after farm land. Look up the Saudi owned farm land in Arizona. People are not happy.
Arent they the ones “stealing” all the water for hay production that they send back to Saudi for their racehorses.
Or something like that.
Close. It’s alfalfa, but yes, that’s why they are buying land in AZ and NV or just buying the Alfalfa.
Unfortunately, that leads to using the underground water to turn desert into farmland, draining the precious water needed for the nearby communities.
Laugh all you want, but industrial water mining is a serious problem in the desert.
I am not laughing at all. I was shocked to learn it. I lived in a desert community appropriately named “Artesia” for the well water, and saw some alfalfa farms pop up.
The water watchers (not sure what agency or org) periodically look down observation wells and check levels. It used to be still water, but they started seeing rapidly flowing water and traced it to the alfalfa farms.
The Saudis can’t legally purchase freshwater from the US but they can purchase water in the form of alfalfa for their animals.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/in-drought-stricken-arizona-fresh-scrutiny-of-saudi-arabia-owned-farms-water-use
That’s still half a million more acres than any foreign power should own or control.
If one truly owns one’s land than one should be able to sell it to whomever one choses. Who you think ‘Should’ own it has nothing to do with anything.
Im not saying its either right or wrong, but many countries have clear laws against foreign land ownership. Or they make it very difficult.
The Philippines, Thailand, and Australia immediately come to mind.
Since we have to pay annual rent on it, we clearly don’t own it.
Bill Gates already owns it.
An inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy is a bad sign.
Isn’t that the point of gender studies, race studies etc.?
Also TikTok videos.
Browns sorrow-drowning here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Attention Cinderella- your pumpkin is in the no parking zone and is about to be towed.
Another pick six. Browns letting their fans down again. Should we send a wellness check for Neph?
Didn’t Flocco know it was bad form to retire from football during the game?
*snark*
Ok the way home from a friend’s house (girlfriend is driving)
I’m just going to leave this here.
https://youtu.be/tRBDMMVctu8?feature=shared
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/80/7c/48807c51641211b88d0aff82171c6168.gif
Sorry, dude.
It’s alright. We know our place.
It would at least be better if the color commenters weren’t talking about how the Texans had rebuilt from “a down period” when the team was playing the team that went 1-31 over two seasons…
Re Bills: Just Big Daddy Gummint lookin’ out fer us st00pid icky folks.
Good thing too. What do people in Buffalo know about dealing with child weather?
What about parent weather?
Dam auto collect.
I know, right?!
Yup, sad to see, but not unexpected at this point. The main reason I don’t live there anymore.
I’m pretty pissed about this. I guess I’m just old man yelling at clouds here, but football games have been played in weather for decades.
I see even old timers saying this was the “responsible” thing to do and I call bullshit. It’s government once again putting its two cents in where it doesn’t belong.
Agreed. Football’s been played in the cold and snow for 150 years.
I see some people talking about 60+ MPH winds and I’m like…they don’t even cancel school for that in Florida.
Buffalo got more snow than this just last year.
This isn’t some storm of the century here. It’s a new precedent. Another new normal that just makes everything less enjoyable.
Hochul declared a state of emergency. If everything is an emergency, nothing is an emergency.
That miserable cunt seems to be there just to get people to pine for CUomo’s sorry ass.
I guess the “frozen tundra” in Green Bay for the Ice Bowl is safe. If Pitt and Buf, both famously cold wx teams, get cancelled then the nannies will stop at nothing.
“they don’t even cancel school for that in Florida”
If you say so. Just last week they cancelled everything because of the storm today blew through and it was about 30 minutes of 50mph gusts. People are sissies here too.
The local uni never ever closed when I was a kid. Now it shuts down whenever there’s a slight hiccup. Just bizarre.
GenX: Raised on hose water and neglect.
Same. I was lucky enough to get the trail end of people actually trying to take things seriously and not close at the drop of a hat.
Holy crap. Fuck off, slavers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-bring-bill-prohibit-armed-citizen-militias
It’s long past time to criminalize the passing of legislation.
Does that include Antifa and BLM?
Of course it doesn’t.
FTA
Mr. Markey and Mr. Raskin made no mention of any left-leaning organizations while announcing their bill on Thursday. Mr. Raskin told The Washington Times that the legislation was not written with a particular ideological viewpoint in mind.
Meaning they fully expect this to used only against right wingers as nobody can possibly view left wingers as a violent political movement. They will scream and holler if Trump or a Trump-like figure were to misconstrue this law and go after leftists.
Thereby destroying democracy in this country.
Spoken like any good totalitarian.
the weather station says -4 degrees and dropping. the next week is going to suck.
29 here. Hitting 16 tonight.
We had our low of 12 F here in Mukilteo overnight/this morning. Peaked at 24 F this afternoon.
Will slowly warm up over the week, although tomorrow’s low will be 18 F.
Good weekend to snuggle up under blankets and watch football.
54 going to 48.
Practically freezing.
South Korea passes major dietary change legislation.
Old-timers used to this delicacy will find the goings particularly ruff.
‘ as dog meat is said to have fallen out of favor with diners over the past few decades.’
As usual show how legislation is not really a solution. Anyway, I have no problem with people eating dog, just like I don’t think it’s a problem to eat other meats.
Also, yep. I also don’t give much of a fuck. The dogs are raised specifically to be eaten. They aren’t stolen pets or strays off the streets. Just a cultural thing that I, many, can’t and won’t stomach.
Alright, now they’re going too fur.
“The South Korean parliament on Tuesday passed a law to ban trade of dog meat by 2027. There were 208 votes in favor and two abstentions for the bill, which bans the breeding, butchering, distributing and selling of dogs for meat, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported.”
Never had it, but we knew of it. It could certainly be found, but highly unlikely they would sell to Weigukin (foreigners) they didn’t know. It was kept pretty underground AFAIK, rather a “don’t disrespect your elders” so keep silent.
I’ve eaten live octopus. One must chew quickly, as the suckers do like to do their thang on your lips and cheeks. Another time, the creature was brought to us, cut up live over the grill. Much wriggling. It was… an experience. One bandmate sat with us but refused to take part. I ate horse in Turkey. See below w Dream Girl who is mine if I can be a man: She dreams of going to Istanbul+ w me. It’s in my Top Tier of places I’ve explored.
Interesting.
I’ve always wanted to see Constantinople, but… Reasons. Also, horse I do want to actively find and try.
Today is my first hospital-free day in a long time. I’ve got a dream girl waiting for me. She don’t take no shit and I just gotta get on mine. She’s the perfect internal drive.
Must pick myself back up, once more. I’m pretty good at it. I’m also quite good at coming in too steep. I lost this week, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Sincere thanks to everyone for helping me stay sane. (Which means outraged at humanity and global direction. Knowledge is d̶e̶s̶p̶a̶i̶r̶ Power.
Glad to hear it.
Dream girl? Sweeeeeeeeet. Good luck.
“One attacker sneered, ‘Don’t pretend you didn’t love it!’
I asked myself the same question… Why did you keep the headset on?
‘Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao bought 198,000 acres of US timberland in 2015, ‘
In the China article they’re whining that Biden isn’t keeping track, but who was in office in 2015?
And he was the point man on Chinese (and Ukrainian) grifting.
Biden was in office in 2015.
Turns out my household gets the Peacock Network. Pop up: “Do you want to verify your email, etc., with Peacock? We share it with NFL teams.” Fuck no.
How are you getting it without a subscription?
I periodically turn on the TV and find out that the rest of the family has subscribed to every available moneyhole.
Been there. Done that
My condolences.
Tyreek looks cold
Just got warm.
See below
STOP LOOKING AT HIS NIPPLES!
/3rd offspring used to call them “nibbles”
When I wiped out on the ice Thursday evening, most of the pain was in my back is unsurprising since it’s not fully healed from the car accident.
But I also did a very ungraceful performance of the splits, and those pulled muscles are making themselves known.
As Sam Malone might rap (badly) “A groin injury”
Sam Malone from “Cheers” ?
Yup.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9ruee3Vos&pp=ygUXc2FtIG1hbG9uZSBncm9pbiBpbmp1cnk%3D
I was hoping that was what you meant.
That show was so hit/miss. I love the episodes with Harry Anderson cameo tho.
Weird how it doesn’t seem to be in syndication anywhere. It was pretty darn popular.
NBC/Peacock owns it.
That explain$ it.
Speaking of Harry Anderson, hunt up the episodes of the original Night Court (the few episodes I’ve seen of the current revival strike me as meh) in which Brent Spiner (pre-ST:TNG) pops up as a frequent defendant.
Also, Kirstie Alley >>> Shelley Long.
Yup. She saved that show.
Bob Wheeler, ya Yugoslavian recidivist nutjob!
I really enjoyed the original.
Good God.
Boyfriend will be here in a week, so I’d better heal up. 😊
Who am I kidding? A few sore muscles/tendons aren’t going to stop us.
HaHA! Fight on.
Where there’s a will, there’s a lay.
Tonight’s dinner special is minced dolphin.
On ice?
With tartar sauce.
Brrr…better put on the band aids
👍
I hope it’s tuna safe.
It appears to be Tua safe.
The Kansas City Chiefs are playing the Miami Drop Iguanas tonight.
It feels like the Chiefs are completely dominating, yet the score is close, and low.
Speaking of losers, they should all be wearing skirts for the game.
JFC
Isn’t there a pill for that?
“Safe and Effective!”
Don’t worry.
“Household wealth stands at $142 trillion, a massive resource to fund debt, she said.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-debt-household-wealth-federal-default-deficit-interest-rate-costs-2024-1?amp
You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
So hand it over.
This is why I’m bearish on my 401k making it to my retirement in full. I’m sure something will be there, but it isn’t going to be the same as today. I’m betting on it being an underperforming vehicle over the next 30 years.
Same.
I work about this too, but it’s not like they’re is a better alternative for truly passive investing.
I’m focused on the other side of the ledger. Putting money into products and systems that reduce our costs long term.
I’m still putting my match into my 401k, maxing my HSA and dribbling some cash into my Roth IRA, but I’m not going to invest to the point that we have to sacrifice other things.
Hmm.
I did some similar stuff, like getting solar panels. I don’t think energy prices are ever going down. Not sure where else I can reduce long term costs though.
Money quote.
“The government can easily service its debt because of its unlimited taxing authority and ability to issue more US Treasury securities to repay maturing securities,” she wrote.
Literally “we haven’t run out of checks in the checkbook” logic.
I received one of those flyers in the mail today from my raging prog Congressperson that they send out on the federal dime touting accomplishments. It contains the sentence, “The Inflation Reduction Act continues to lower costs for Americans across the country.”
Someone, somewhere must believe this.
I expect the government won’t confiscate retirement accounts out in the open.
I think it was RC Dean that said the government would require investments in Treasuries. Confiscation through the backdoor. I think he’s right. That’s what will happen if the government decides to confiscate retirement accounts.
I could also see them setting up some sort of extra taxation on withdrawals.
Something that resembles the current situation up to a withdrawal of some low multiple of the median income (1x, 2x), and then an added “you didn’t earn that” penalty on any withdrawals above that for all retirement accounts. The mechanism is already there for early withdrawals. They’d just have to extend it to “large withdrawals”
when that passes….even as the idea emerges…imagine the run to liquidate and the plunge in underlying assets….twill be a bad month
I’m resigned to working until I’m dead.
Same.
GenX … if someone didn’t know that social security would not be there for us when we got old, they weren’t paying attention. I never met a peer who talked about/thought about retirement.
I turn 67 in a couple of months. I am resigned to working another 10 years or even beyond.
GenX … if someone didn’t know that social security would not be there for us when we got old, they weren’t paying attention. I never met a peer who talked about/thought about retirement.
GenX.
I’ve known Social Security couldn’t be counted on for damn near ever. If I was ever going to be able to retire, it was something I would have to make happen myself.
Well, that’s what I mean … we knew we’d have to do it ourselves and there was always the kind of sinking feeling we might not be able to do it. It was when pensions were fading away, 401k’s were this newfangled thing, IRAs were a little suspect, and nobody knew *quite* what to do. Enter Charles Schwab hocking its wares to Everyman.
Now, me … I didn’t think I’d live this long, so I didn’t bother to try. Oops.
I have somehow managed to trend “more work, more responsibility, lower pay.” And I’m older than all of you.
My first employer in 1976 told me not to think I would ever see a dime from SS. He also let me wear as my name tag “John Galt”, so he knew the deal.
He was pretty cool guy. I could exchange silver coinage from the change for clad at face value and the same for silver certificates.
They fuck with my savings, and I won’t mind too much. I won’t have use for it given the killing rampage I’ll go on. And I’ll damn sure get some of the ones responsible.
This is the second hill I’m willing to die on. The first was the vaccines for my kids and wife. Fortunately, that first one passed us by. But yeah, I triple dog dare them to touch my retirement. Go ahead and backdoor devalue it, there’s ways around that as far as changing what you invest in, but confiscation is gonna cost.
JFC.
Never change, Business Insider.
When you start eyeing the golden goose for dinner, you know you’re depraved.
Yea! Societal goals like developing covid vaccines are far more important than debt that you will saddle your children with!
Imagine that.
Until they can successfully reproduce the cleavage of the average 42 year old drink servers, I think they’ll be fine.
Tyreek looks like he’s warming up.
Sleet, freezing rain, sleet, freezing rain all day long. It’s 19F and falling. Everything is covered solid around here and doesn’t look like it will unfreeze until Tuesday or later. Glad we did the grocery shopping yesterday.
The hunddog loves it, of course. Could stay out and play all day long.
It hit 60 today.
Got about 7 inches of snow a week ago.
New England, man.
(Hands on hips)
Sounds like someone hasn’t been eating enough bugs!
If you don’t like the weather, just wait an hour.
TIL we have Peacock.
Not something I explicitly signed up for 🤷♂️
I was surprised to see I have it too. Don’t remember signing up.
I wouldn’t watch it on Peacock even if I had that bullshit.
NFL are the biggest welfare queens around and then want to paywall block their post-season games. Fuck’em.
Gang raping someone in the metaverse is such a waste of time. Gang Firsting is where it’s at.
I just saw an ad for America’s Got Talent new show. Looks totally moronic. I understand the AGT has been on for years. Was it always bad or has it just jumped the shark like Survivor?
Spoiler: America does not, in fact, got talent.
Ackshually, it DOES, but the talented ones are trying to parlay success on their own terms, while AGT gets the shower singers who think they’re the next Taylor Swift.
You clearly missed the Steel Panther episodes.
https://youtu.be/gHfSRef0Scs?si=C0ZTl6_U1MZLqMxK
I see the Kansas City faithful are streaming out of the exits. Can’t blame them. It’s cold and their team has a comfortable lead now.
OK kids, time to play guess the crazy person:
That’s a lotta crazy. Can’t even guess.
Ah, shoulda been on my short list.
Da VID is not their concern. Gaza is seeing the outbreak of some of the great medical hits from the medieval and early industrial age. No bubonic yet but give it some time.
I’m sure Palestinians are big on wearing masks themselves? I don’t even know where to snark when there’s that much stupid.
Holy shit. TL immediately popped into my head, but I thought “Nah, Gaza is way outside of her beat.”
That sounds like the result of a Mad Lib where all the blanks were prompts to provide a grievance or a lefty buzzword.
I guessed Sadbeard.
It’s someone even lower on the IQ scale.
I like the drug ad that mentions you can get a fatal infection of your perineum.
What a way to go:
“So, how did Bob die? Heart attack?”
“Nope, infected taint.”
“Taint cancer. Natural causes. Could happen to anyone.”
I saw Infected Taint open for Butthole Surfers at the Roxy back in ’91.
+1000
Lol. What does it treat?
Declining profit margins?
Instead of paying $6 to watch the football game, we paid $7 to watch the music documentary Immediate Family about four of the best LA session musicians of the ’70s and ’80s who were all over the top pop/rock hits of that era (and beyond) and after all these years are now finally a really truly band in their own right. 👍👍
You are wise.
That sounds interesting. Mahalo GT!
You may like the movie “Festival Express” for a similar concert flick.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372279/
Thanks, dble! We’re also longtime fans of Standing in the Shadows of Motown about the Funk Brothers house band. (We also got to see the surviving members live on tour!) Highly recommend that one, too. Joan Osborne covering “Heat Wave” and…
Bootsy Collins covering “Do You Love Me” are worth the price of admission!
Looks interesting. I knew of Waddy Wachtel but mostly as part of the Xpensive Winos.
I watched Conquest , with Charles Boyer as Napoleon and Greta Garbo as Countess Walweska.
Walewska, of course, but then I don’t speak Polish.
I noticed that Denny Tedesco directs.
Tommy had mind-blowing versatility.
Morning, Glibs.
Morning Glibs:
I have a better appreciation of spring cleaning, its to cold to do anything.
Still have to break the ice for the animals thought.
Thank goodness for layers.
Good morning, ‘bodru, U, and Ted’S.! A balmy 7 degrees here in SW OH. 🥶
Good Morning GT,
I stuck a few apple seeds in some pots of dirt, inside, yesterday. Maybe they’ll grow and maybe not but it’s time to believe that spring will show up someday, in spite of the sciency guys. It’s never failed so far. I get antsy for something green this time of the year.
I’m trying to make some of my sister’s homemade applesauce into popsicles. 😋
I know I’ve posted a link to this song for you before, but what the heck – it’s early on a Sunday morning and there’s hardly anyone here right now. 🙂🍎🌳
fresh produce? house bands?
I give you Booker T and the MGs
I know what that is without even clicking! 😄
I’ve posted this song before, but it’s such a spectacular mess that it deserves another posting.
The Calder mobile set is a nice touch.
Later in the movie is this spectacular scene.
Mornin’ Fellers, with or without a comma.
-13, coldest of the winter but it could be a lot worse. No wind, very little snow.
No football in this house so no sadness.
Hey Glibs!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSUQxGjZZ4
🎶🎶
Almost didn’t make it. ☕😉
Good morning, Sean!
😃