That’s Homer baying in the background.
This week has one of the nicest skies we’ve seen in a long time. There is a very lucky day on the 21st, and that continues through the 24th. This particular arrangement that includes both Mars and Venus has a similar meaning to the tarot card The World, so if we wind up drawing that things should go ludicrously well for those involved. When that arrangement breaks up on Saturday, Aquarians will see a particularly hard hit with Pisces benefitting from their loss.
Aquarius: The Star – Loss, hope, mixed blessings.
Pisces: 8 of Cups reversed – Misfortune turs out to be much less than originally thought.
Aries: Ace of Cups – Abundance, happiness, church related activities.
Taurus: Skilled labor, recognition, successful management.
Gemini: 6 of Cups – A good deed in the past bears fruit.
Cancer: Page of Wands – Service providers succeed.
Leo: 9 of Cups reversed – Mistakes, imperfections, truth, loyalty, liberty.
Virgo: 7 of Coins – Good stewardship pays off.
Libra: The Blank Card – No specific advice, but everyone else’s week is going well, so…
Scorpio: The Tower reversed – Did I say that everyone else’s week is going well? Yours is going to suck.
Sagittarius: 2 of Cups reversed – Do not rely on promises this week.
Capricorn: Ace of Wands – Creativity, inspiration, producivity.
And now … I shall clean my kitchen.
😒
Sagittarius: 2 of Cups reversed – Do not rely on promises this week.
No cake?
Nice dog videos.
Mistakes, imperfections, truth, loyalty, liberty.
Not sufficiently shitty.
“Cancer: Page of Wands – Service providers succeed.”
I’m getting serviced?
“Virgo: 7 of Coins – Good stewardship pays off.”
Sufficiently vague.
Gemini: 6 of Cups – A good deed in the past bears fruit.
So my music links are going to bear fruit!
I don’t like to laugh at the misfortune of others, but it would take a heart of stone….
This article was linked by Banjos this week and is well worth a read. Love that the woman who wrote it is a financial advice columnist for NY Mag.
| “If you talk to an attorney, I cannot help you anymore,” Michael said sternly. “You will be considered noncooperative. Your home will be raided, and your assets will be seized. You may be arrested. It’s your choice.” This seemed ludicrous. I pictured officers tramping in, taking my laptop, going through our bookshelves, questioning our neighbors, scaring my son. It was a nonstarter.
Read it and feel superior to a member of the NYC elite.
https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html#/
Wow.
I can’t decide between this and the library closure from today’s links for which was the better read. That someone could be that stupid isn’t surprising, but that they then go and write the story for the world to see just what kind of idiot they are, is truly precious.
That meme – a special kind of stupid, aren’t you?
It takes guts (or is it something else?) to be loud stupid.
It’s crazy-making to me that a financial columnist wouldn’t know one of the (probably) top 3 most common phone scams.
Also, she says “vague accent” and “slightly British accent”.
Lady, those were Indian accents and you fucking well know it.
Not Nigerian?
Nigerians are more into email and romance scams
I do like their accents though.
Heheh. Funny enough I just had an attempted scam happen to me. Even though it was all by text I think they may have been Indian by the syntax and grammar. One I’d never heard of before. I’m selling a motorcycle on CL and got a text about it. Guy pretended to be very interested in it and set up a time to meet tomorrow. Then he asked me for a vehicle history report. That set alarm bells already as it’s a motorcycle we are talking about, not a 2018 Mercedes. He then helpfully suggested a website to get one off. The site even looked fairly legit. I told him I’d prefer to do a CARFAX one if he insisted on one, and then came all the reasons why that wouldn’t be good. Fucking scammers.
But handing off a box of 50k to some random car that pulls up saying they’re the government and want to help?! The mind boggles.
‘Read it and feel superior to a member of the NYC elite.’
You’re not the boss of me, and i already do feel superior.
That’s amazing camera quality for 2006.
I don’t know my astrological sign. I’m always impressed that it took us a couple thousand years to get from astrology and alchemy to astronomy and chemistry, and then just a few centuries to get from there to the atomic age.
What’s even more amazing is how fast we’ll do that in reverse!
[Nods in postmodernism]
Dude, you need to get out more. I suppose you could if the global warming were not ruining Bidenomics and killing the trannies.
Age of science, my ass. I just saw smart pills advertised on TV. Maybe if we took some we could figure out how to make our dicks hard in 9 seconds.
(What the hell is that? A bottle of H2O2 in the ad, Minute Man brand.)
Re a.m. links:
California public library shuts down because of sex in the iasles between shelves.
Look…. if you attended a large university with a grand old library with massive stacks and study rooms, you can’t be publicly shamed for this, right?
Geez, have the back seats of automobiles become so small the kids have to resort to doing it in the darker aisles of the public library? {Laments the closing of so many drive-in movie theatres.}
I have fond memories…just not enough of them.
Whatever happened to ’57 Chevies?
We drove ’em to the levee but the levee was dry.
Slowhand got off on them.
I got the impression that the California case was about the homeless. That paints a much different picture than some 19 year old sorority sister and her frat boy boyfriend grabbing some alone time in a darkened basement aisle.
I once got busy with a big girl in a Ford pinto. Middle of summer, no a/c, and vinyl seats.
the sound of Velcro?
For OMWC:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1545897518/
Secret Jewish Space Laser pin.
I might have to get that for my boss.
In the grand scheme of things, Pork is for breakfast, chicken for lunch, and beef for dinner.
In any order
“Virgo: 7 of Coins – Good stewardship pays off.”
I really hope the week turns out that way. I’m on the hook for some controversial stewardship.
‘Taurus: Skilled labor, recognition, successful management.’ This is perfect. Was tryin’ to go to bed last night, and it came on me! I had… an apostrophe! ((“You mean epiphany.”) Hook is brilliant. Robin Williams and esp Dustin Hoffman are perfect. Bob Hoskins, always underrated, and Julia Roberts played a tough role (sizing, reactions, etc) and damn. *Claps* Love that flick and it don’t matter I was 4 when it came out. Onward:)
I’m going for it in slight-reverse. Today is taxes and Future Talk w family to get more order involved. I should NOT be working at this fucking elem school PT. It honestly isn’t healthy for me. And, need more money, independence, and everything about everything. I’ve got the best People anyone could dream of. I am the fundamental root cause of all my ills. One hopes to learn to NOT shoot every nail directly into your foot every time.
Management session today w ’em in a bit to focus my skills/labor in productive, healthy outlets with clear goals to them. I only care for deserved recognition. Though frequently, just showing up is devotion enough to be recognized. That counts for much, but I gotta get out of the Farm into The Show again.
For the music afficionado…. an odd choice for me.
https://youtu.be/ujdmR-CQxqc
Adam Lambert
Believe (by Cher)
Hated that song. The wife loved the singer on American Idol. Me? … not particularly a fan, but the dude has a voice. Oh, and I don’t really like “react” videos at all.
So when this react video to an Adam Lambert rendition of Believe popped up, I was incredibly disinclined to watch it. So of course I clicked on it immediately.
Holy shit.
Amazing. As a musician who has not been a musician for 30 years, I was amazed at his re-imagining of an auto tune disco song by a woman. It moved Cher to tears. And the react guy does a good job of breaking down the musical changes that make it work.
Color me shocked on all fronts. Maybe I should give My Little Pony another chance….
Lambert had one of the best voices to ever appear on Idol.
For some reason, that dredged up this all-time classic trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfMSCAU0ybo
I think because Lambert sang Mad World on Idol.
I’m intrigued.
Like, this kind of church?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SND2LY0s8FE
This church.
The best church…
https://www.meatchurch.com/
Haley says Trump must pay for Navalny’s death.
Is there anybody in American politics who isn’t certifiably insane?
Not Mr. I’ll have more flexibility after the election?
Insane would be an upgrade over dumber than bricks.
It’s hilarious that the only Republican left in the race isn’t remotely conservative.
She can’t say Trump added $9 trillion to the debt. She can’t say Trump locked down the country for a cold. She can’t say Trump did nothing about immigration.
All she can be is a Democrat.
War-whore.
isn’t remotely conservative
that’s okay: the folk voting Republican aren’t either
not that it matters: her problem is that she is less sexy and less interesting than an ancient, insane real-estate developer from Queens
Well she shares that distinction with Hillary.
I don’t know if conservative is the right word
Remotely interested in liberty? like, at all
Conservative != Libertarian.
Not even Vivek was saying anything about those issues.
Nobody even pretends to care for the most part.
Well Vivek just ran as a Trump appreciator. One of the weirdest campaigns I’ve ever seen.
Since Trump wouldn’t appear in the debates, Vivek Carsalesman stood in for him.
Your “adult” GOP choice, folks.
Holy crap.
Maybe she should concern herself with the political prisoners here in the US before fretting over other country’s tyranny.
Abundance, happiness, church related activities.
Well two out of three ain’t bad.
Yeah, GT was right – this NASCAR race ain’t happenin today
Yup. Doubleheader tomorrow…assuming it stops raining.
Maybe someone will crash into a jet dryer again. 🙄
I didn’t even bother tuning to the TV channel – I just took one look at the radar!
I just had a realization that the anti-war movement in the 60’s wasn’t because they were anti-war, it’s because they wanted the commies to win.
https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExaDd0ZW55MXd6ajl2Z3k3aXY0bDhwN2J6ZDFlMHRnOWI0M2xnbnRsdiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/AjYsTtVxEEBPO/giphy.gif
Took you awhile, huh? 🙂
They wanted the Commies to win AND it was self interest, The ant-war movement grew when the deferment for college rules were greatly tightened.
So some FU reason and a makes sense reason.
Now you are catching on.
See: Carter and bailing out the USSR twice, giving away the Panama Canal, Shortages, rationing, inflation….the usual commie playbook.
I am not sure they wanted the commies to win as much as they wanted us to lose. Toss up?
Yep, and their free speech advocacy only extended to ensuring that commies could speak.
Hanoi Jane was kind of a clue.
The birth of Take Me Home, Country Roads…one of the only good things to ever come out of DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNCJzYAoDA
I can post the full story later but Charlie Cooke has some great comments on the $50000 scammer story:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/about-that-viral-50000-scam-story-i-have-questions/
Also, don’t recall if I linked it but Charlie had an excellent podcast with Kevin Williamson guesting on it a week ago – sounded better than he did on the last year of the Mad Dogs podcast.
They want me to disable ad block.
They can go fuck themselves.
https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html
it’s so dumb it will make your hair bleed
Quite possibly the best comment:
His thesis was pretty good but I saw someone make a nice counter to it that made me go back to thinking it actually happened and she was just that dumb.
Yeah, the idea that she is just an imposter, and shouldn’t be at the cool kids table is a good counter argument.
Also, who an NR thought paywalling the article but leaving comments open was a good idea?
YAY!
I just gave $108 to North Carolina so I can put a 2024 sticker on my license.
Guess that’s applicable.
I thought you lived on the VA side?
My truck is still NC so I don’t have to pay the stupid property tax.
Four vehicles and three trailers. I have Iowa a cool grand about a week ago.
Nasty. Three of my trailers have permanent plates on them, $125 each, the other a five year sticker, I didn’t go permanent on it because I don’t want a state cop pulling me over for towing a ‘commercial’ trailer. I keep three commercial trucks lisenced, hige pain in the ass, about $1200 a year, pickup, blazer and the mom mobile.
I thought I was getting raped here in Idaho.
Idaho isn’t bad. You would be ass raped in California.
I was used to paying the $35 for years and then it went to fifty something. Bought a newer rig and felt like I was in WA.
Coffee_luke yahoo
All lower case not sure if it matters.
Hawaii auto taxes are based the vehicle weight so they never go down. Even driving a tiny car runs me almost $400 a year.
Plus, just before Da VID they raised the taxes by 11% a year three years in a row.
Now they are talking about dropping the $24/year tags for active duty and imposing the full freight upon them.
This state will never stop treating us as tax cattle.
That’s awful.
How many people run naked?
We’re technically remote, so our plates are permanent. Pay once, no renewal, plates are good forever.
That’s how it should be.
Pay your sales tax.
Done.
I get the pandemic inspired increase in the cost of fitness gear, but now two years later, can we please have some reasonable prices on free weights? They’re not exactly rocket science to make, and the material is cheap as hell. God damn $1/lb…. nonsense.
CL and FB marketplace.
When Kamala out-charismas you…
Radio host Charlamagne tha God on Sunday revealed that he hears blowback from the White House when he publicly criticizes President Biden, calling it the “stupidest shit ever.”
Speaking with ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday, the “Breakfast Club” radio personality called Biden an “uninspiring candidate” and urged the commander in chief to lean more on Vice President Harris, whom he called “more charismatic.”“Well, he’s, he’s just an uninspiring candidate, like … there’s nothing about … Joe Biden that makes you want to listen to him,” he said.
“He should be leaning on people who have — are more inspiring than him, who are more charismatic than him. And he should just be, I guess, if you want to call it ‘the brains’ of the operation behind the scenes. Like, that sounds crazy that we’re saying that about a president of the United States of America, but … he has no ‘main character’ energy at all. None.”
Asked if his opinion relates to the president’s age, Charlamagne said, “I don’t think it has anything to do with age … I think it has just everything to do with him. Like Donald Trump is, what? Four years, three years younger than President Biden? But he just comes off a lot more youthful. He comes off … like he has a lot more energy.”
Whoever that guy is, he ain’t authentically black, or he’d be telling everybody Joe’s asshole tastes like strawberry ice cream.
‘ Joe’s asshole tastes like strawberry ice cream.’
When he has the runs, maybe it does?
I doubt that man has had a solid shit in 2 decades.
When pressed on whether he gets blowback from the White House for airing his feelings on Biden publicly, Charlamagne said, “Yeah. And I think that’s the stupidest shit ever, because I think that … because I feel like you should be able to criticize whoever your elected official is, right?”
What kind of ultra MAGA horse shit is that?
Criticizing Biden is something Putin would do, Putin-lover.
Oddly, I was thinking about finding a Unitarian church when I move up to the Smokies. I’ve been to a couple of services when I lived in DC. I liked one of them (a small church in Alexandria). The major DC church, All Souls, was a hot mess on their Facebook page (lots of drama), so I gave up on that one quickly.
Anyhoo, odd alignment of early morning waking thoughts and horrorscope.
Aaaand the Unitarian church is maybe no more than 2 miles from my new RV Park come May.
how are you liking the RV life so far?
Love it…but I’m ready for some privacy. If the right property comes along and there’s no existing livable house, I’ll stay on the RV until I can get a permanent structure.
Glad to hear it, KK. Your sense of adventure is always inspiring.
What kind of a rig are you living in?
31′ Class C (Jayco Greyhawk)
Not too big. Get around fairly well?
The only thing I find nerve wracking is towing the car on a dolly. But easy to drive on the mountain roads and such. But I don’t move around too often.
Ford chassis: wonder if it was built in Oakville
the province of Ontario has poured a billion loons into that plant
I’m thinking about trying out a small church that’s less than a mile from my apartment.
I don’t know how to square church attendance with auspicious astrological indicators to attend church, but whatevs!!
Unitarians seem to embrace even atheists.As I recall, most consider Jesus as a wise man, not the Son of God. Looks like a smorgasbord of beliefs with individual conscience being particularly attractive to a libertarian. I had a high school buddy whose father was the local Unitarian minister and his sympathies always seemed pro-Soviet but that may have been my Cold War bias at the time
My mom’s side of the family had been Unitarians from about the 1930s-ish. I am pretty much an atheist. My major concern with the Unitarians is the comingling of political and spiritual. I’d like to just attend church for the spiritual stuff, but I think those folks kind of tie everything together. I figure it’s worth a look-see.
The one near me is more a shrine to BLM and illegal immigrants than any kind of church.
I hope you have better luck.
Making me recall this: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/how-the-unitarian-universalist-church
You led me down a rabbit hole that took me to a quote
Yes, groups that don’t obsess about race are less racist.
I was happy to see that Resident Alien has come out with a Season 3. Just one episode so far, but I’m all caught up now!
Shoresy has a whole 2nd season that came out last fall that I need to see when my brain needs silly, crude humor. 👍
We just started resident alien last week. Decent first episode. Stays worth watching I’m assuming.
Hope it’s better than season 2.
We almost quit watching, too much focus on the Mayor’s sex life and Darcy relationship drama.
Then they top it off with a poorly planned time travel twist.
Linda Hamilton is amazing in it though.
And the main dude still kills it as an alien.
Linda Hamilton was on Carolla again a couple days ago. I tapped out because I didn’t care to hear about her diet again, but I think they might have addressed Resident Alien too.
“Libra: The Blank Card – No specific advice, but everyone else’s week is going well, so… ”
I’m cool with ambivalence.
$21 for a 2.7 lb chuck roast @ my Kroger.
Thanks, Brandon. And fuck you to all you ethanol (fuel) loving assholes that diverted corn from feed to a shitty and damaging gas additive, raising the price of meat.
It’s not just the subsidies….increased costs on everything, increased regulations specifically calculated to increase costs on everything, particularly the watermelon shit. I see sales taxes and property tax hikes all over.
I got a 5lb roast on sale day of ‘best by…’ date for ten bucks and I chafed at that even.
Bring back gibbets.
You forgot to thank everyone that voted Brandon because OMB is bad.
Scorpio: The Tower reversed – Did I say that everyone else’s week is going well? Yours is going to suck.
Wait, I thought The Tower was supposed to be a suck card to start with (Destruction?) Reversed it’s worse not better?
I’m starting to think this Tarot business is just pulled out of someone’s ass.
It’s like a horror movie
Many draw parallels between Biden and the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who refused to step down from her lifetime appointment to the court while President Barack Obama was in office.
Had then 81-year-old Ginsburg stepped down before Democrats lost control of the Senate in 2014, critics argue, Obama would have had the leverage to push through his nomination of Merrick Garland, shoring up the Democratic presence in the highest court of the land.
Instead, Ginsburg, who had a long history of health problems, including multiple bouts with cancer, died in 2020, allowing Trump to nominate a third justice — Amy Coney Barrett — which solidified the conservative court majority and led to the rollback of abortion and voting rights across the country.
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“It was, quite honestly, very predictable,” Justin Buchler, an associate professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University, told Business Insider. “She was going to die, and she could have stepped down when President Obama might have named a successor — she chose not to, even though there was a high risk of her dying, and the result was that President Trump then named a successor. So that was a stupid mistake on her part. Bluntly speaking, it was a very stupid mistake.”
Now, a growing faction of Democrats who previously supported Biden are worried he’ll repeat Ginsburg’s mistake and are urging him to reconsider his campaign for a second presidential term.
They need to trade their dragon slayer in on a newer model, before it’s too late.
*Apparently they deal strictly in facts, not politicized wishful thinking, at Case Western Reserve.
OFFS not this shit again. Add to the pile of leftist lies that will never go away, I guess.
“…it was a very stupid mistake.”
She was a leftist, i.e. a dunce. The list of such dunces is very long. Yeah, I am looking at you Barry. And Jimmy. and….I will run out of pixels before I get half finished with the list.
Mind you there is plenty of shit to go around. Kelo was decided by a majority, 4 out of 5 being nominated by R presidents. Kelo is on the list of most egregious SC decisions.
I’ll repost later cuz I know folk are busy:
I think I have a good, simple idea for an article. Documented back-and-forths on The Book of Faces with a known Useful Idiot. I carefully write my posts for practice in real-life/ something practical. Hrm. Seems like putting what I spend time on writing… is legit germane to Glibs and should be shared.
A mission/purpose is kinda necessary in this Zombie’s life. (That’s become a new pet name for me from best friend (+hopefully(?) more later?). In contrast, she accepted Phoenix as her mirror. Pretty much: I refuse to die, and she is an orphan who lived in group homes and despises her final adopted family. She studied law and we were good friends in Korea for a decade. I’ve tried to get her to flock here… after her move back to MN… *hopeful face…hands in pockets, head up, whistle walks away…*
I still need to write up my interaction with Nikki Haley’s texting account. Obviously she likes me, because she kept sending texts after I did what Gender Traitor suggested. She said I should ask Nikki what she was wearing.
Harris is widely regarded as “unlikeable”
That’s a funny way to spell “incompetent”.
No I do think that for normies, ‘likeability’ is a larger factor than pedestrian concerns like ‘competence’ and ‘integrity’. )See Bill Clinton)
That creep is likable?
Middle aged women thought so in the 1990s.
Objectively speaking, he was handsome and charming and charismatic. He also remembers everyone’s faces and names, so he could make a person feel seen and heard and liked. That is POWERFUL mojo.
Subjectively speaking, he reminded me of my loudmouthed deadbeat abusive creepy Uncle Tim, so he gave me the oogies.
They didn’t call him Slick Willie for nothing.
Of all the presidents since Reagan. I’d wager that Bill would be the one you would want to have a few beers with. At the time when they were president, I haven’t heard or seen much of him lately.
Not ‘you’ as in rhywun but ‘you’ in general, guess I should have said ‘one’, but ‘…the one one would …’ sounds clunky to me.
I never knew LBJ didn’t have a VP until the 1964 election
Turns out he was quite similar to everyone’s creepy deadbeat uncle.
Buchler believes the reason criticism of the two politicians resonates so disparately with voters is simple, saying: “Biden is senile, and Trump is insane.”
“If we are honest, Biden has demonstrated significant cognitive decline. And Trump has shown some memory problems, but his cognitive issues are less age-related and more like mental illness,” Buchler said. “It’s hard to diagnose everything that’s wrong with Donald Trump, but he is deeply disturbed, and because he is subjected to delusions, and has been subjected to delusions unrelated to age for so long, there are other ways to explain his behavior — whereas Biden’s decline is clearly related to age.”
Seek help, professor.
I cant take the TDS blathering seriously anymore. My reaction is always ‘Yeah, whatever. Get some help.’
I barely pay attention to what they are saying.
Don’t watch 60 Minutes tonite. Going with the phoney Wisconsin electors meme
Wasn’t planning on it this century.
Jaguar XJ13 replica
That thing is wild.
I will take one of those, and a Porsche 904:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK36hI43T6c
Thank you.
Nice Jaguar. I prefer the C type.
I’ve reserved a spot for each in my own J Leno garage.
Heh. We post this a couple of days ago, and here is Torchy talking about it:
https://www.theautopian.com/that-article-in-the-cut-about-the-financial-columnist-who-fell-for-a-shockingly-obvious-scam-is-a-reminder-that-the-only-safe-place-for-your-money-is-in-non-running-cars/
I like his take on it.
The stupid is so thick in the air it is hard to breath.
Either call the cops or wait for the pickup with a .38. No cops? then no talking, no hesitating. No fuckin’ around. When they show up, shoot them.
I was thinking that slipping a box full of explosives through the window would be elegant and very gangster.
I love the fact that he admits to having a Yugo.
Thats like saying: I’m a brony.
Easy
Is Bronys still exist.
Diane Lewis: “Am I interrupting anything important?”
Ron Swanson: “Impossible – I work for the government”
I have a fan blowing on my sausage. (Seems way more important than the bullshit I read above)
Go on…
I am going to gently move it into warm/hot water later.
I hope it doesn’t have frostbite.
So no shrinkage?
This is a new sausage invention. Once I reveal it it will take the sausage world by storm. Everybody will be making it.
Making it with your sausage?
Whats his name ?
The little fellas
Saucisse minuit?
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My daughter who is not quite two loves Squirtle.
Back in the day, I had a 1987 Dodge Dayton Shelby Turbo. And (obligatory) mullet.
This just made me hard.
Mother’s Little Jalpa – 1989 Dodge Daytona Decepzione
Those were really nice looking cars. All of them were hooned to death.
I had the Turbo II. The torque steer was simply retarded. And given my lack of income at the time, had shitty tires.
The front end would often become un-hooked.
By 1987 did it have the flat front end, or did it have the frog eyes?
pop-up headlights
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement?qid=cc00c1d85afa4f8688059b29d369be77&_gl=1*hime2m*_up*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAiA8sauBhB3EiwAruTRJk2n54vjrs-SE3HAruBlpzcYL_p0__Xns6GEdAIzBe81NSQjpZPh5RoCjyAQAvD_BwE
it’s slowing down but not to worry, delayed is not dead: things will be paid off by February, 2030, and all we need is 7,500 more donations
don’t miss out: you don’t want it to be said that you weren’t true MAGA….contribute today; you’ll be glad you did
Yes, be a total tool and put money on a GoFundMe. Even if it is real it will be shut down shortly, the money confiscated, and all names passed to the FBI.
look, you gotta take these things seriously
even if we all buy the shoes, lots of that money goes to the cost basis
donate cash so it all goes to the bottom line!
“The recent legal battles he faces are not just an attack on him, but an attack on the very ideals of fairness and due process that every American deserves.”
She’s not completely wrong.
god help us
I finished re-reading “Playback” by Chandler a while ago. I finally looked up what the parrot was saying to him, in Spanish. It was an extreme vulgarism.
I think it is the first Marlowe novel that doesn’t have Marlowe get physically beaten by police officers. It is also the last Marlowe novel published during Chandler’s lifetime.
I was listening to a podcast a while back about the novels, and they wondered why Marlowe doesn’t have brain damage, since he pretty much gets coshed at least once a novel.
There is a young man and his girlfriend working the counter at the hotel. The guy complains that other guys are messing around with her. Marlowe replies with something, like, “She’s just teasing you; she glows whenever she looks at you.” Kind of a nice, “pet the dog” moment, and is one of the reasons Marlowe is likeable.
The next time he interacts with the couple, they are engaged.
Marlowe interviews an old-timer in town who tells him that Jews ain’t so bad.
He meets a guy who smokes marijuana who is a Hawaiian-Chinese-Philippino-Black man—except the man refers to himself as something other than black.
At one point, he uses a stethoscope to listen through a wall. I don’t recall him doing anything like that before; usually, Marlowe’s investigations involve him pestering people, stumbling across dead bodies, and getting coshed in the head. And drinking alcohol and smoking. Looking at the ladies’ legs. He’s a leg man.
He makes coffee using a siphon. Huggins Young is his favored brand. It was an L.A. coffee company that, sadly, went out of business sometime in the 1960’s.
I read once that Chandler and Theodor Geisel were drinking buddies in Santa Monica.
Not sure how true it is, but it makes me smile every time.
I was listening to a podcast a while back about the novels, and they wondered why Marlowe doesn’t have brain damage, since he pretty much gets coshed at least once a novel.
Ray Banks noticed that about many detective series, The PI is a raging alcoholic or druggie and never has worse than a mild hangover and he’ll get shot, beat up, stabbed … in one novel and by the next novel he’s were fine. Banks wrote a four novel series where he intentionally carried over all the damage and by the end the protagonist was a battered mess.
Butcher’s Harry Dresden carries his injuries from book to book, as I recall.
Lotta people seem to like those, I tried reading the first one and it didn’t take, maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood. I might give it another go.
One of the Craig Bond films, it was pointed out that he was old and beat up, and M falsified his physical fitness test results.
Was that “Skyfall”?
Yes! That one.
Thomas Crown affair- the original with Steve McQueen or the re-boot with Pierce Brosnan ?
Pierce Brosnan
seconded
I always thought he made a decent James Bond.
He was an amazing James Bond
He is an amazing human being AND amazingly attractive. 🤤
If by amazing you mean completely forgettable, sure. I know I’ve seen all the Bond movies and can’t for the life of me think of a Brosnan one that stands out. What was his biggest one Goldeneye? I couldn’t tell you the plot or anything else about it.
I think the best Brosnan 007 film was Cornhole.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK I WILL DIE ON THIS BROSNAN HILL!
Brosnan’s best roll was in The long Good Friday.
Pierce Brosnan is a tool. Lame as fuck. Brosnan is every tool included with build yourself furniture that never fits well with the parts that came with that furniture.
Troll.
You have put together box store furniture so you Know I am right.
That may be one of the best analogies to anything Ive ever read.
Craig’s “Casino Royale” is my favorite Bond film. I eventually read several of the early novels. Bond gets trashed worse than Philip Marlowe in each of them. His CIA friend, Felix Leiter, got half-eaten by a shark, and shows up in the next novel with a prosthetic leg and arm (I think)
I can’t decide if I like “You Know My Name” or “You Only Live Twice” better, as a theme song.
“Nobody Does It Better” or “The World Is Not Enough”
I’ve grown to appreciate Carly Simon music more, as I age.
Still, “You Only Live Twice” can send me down memory lane to the 70’s, when I was a young child, walking through the supermarket with my mother.
“You Know My Name” fits right nicely with a Bond reboot, and it’s really cool, and the opening credits are cool.
None of those songs are sung by Shirley Bassey so you are both objectively wrong.
Who?
Ah, the lady who sings “Goldfinger”.
And “Diamonds are Forever” and “Moonraker”
In the novel, “Moonraker”, they don’t go into space. They don’t even leave jolly ol’ England.
She’s no lady she’s a Dame.
“For Your Eyes Only” by Sheena Easton
Brosnan wasn’t a horrible Bond. He is the actor who most closely resembles Bond’s physical description in the novels. My first date with the woman who is now my wife was going to see “Tomorrow Never Dies”.
Roger Moore is a little too silly for my liking. I want to watch the Timothy Dalton movies at some point. I’ve seen most of the Connery movies, I’m pretty sure. When we were at the hospital, waiting for tax deduction #3 to be born, they had a stack of James Bond movies, and we binge-watched most of them.
I havent watched any of Craig’s movies except for “Casino Royale”. I get the impression that they were trying to mimic “Jason Bourne” with that one.
I’ve only seen Craig as Bond. I like him. He’s blond.
Craig was a good Bond.
The first three were great with Craig
And then evil half brother or whatever that was.
Spectre.
You should rectify that Mo, most of the Connery Bonds were fantastic, and I even like the Moore ones for 70’s nostalgia. Although really the only two “good” Moore ones were Live and Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me. I’m partial to Live and Let Die as Jane Seymour was a boyhood fantasy in that one and I dig the kitschy voodoo plot. The first Dalton one was excellent, the second not so much. The Lazenby one was very good, with a great Telly Sevalas appearance as the Bad Guy. Brosnan is actually my third cousin by my mom’s side of the fam. He had a couple pretty good ones and a couple bad ones.
Who Was The Ultimate James Bond?
and the Drinker says:
Brosnan was the second best Bond.
Brosnan was hampered by shitty scripts.
The World is Not Enough is the best theme song, unless you’re asexual.
“The study found that police were more than twice as likely to manhandle, beat or use some other kind of nonfatal force against blacks and Hispanics than against people of other races. However, the data also determined that officers were 23.8 percent less likely to shoot at blacks and 8.5 percent less likely to shoot at Hispanics than they were to shoot at whites.
When Fryer claimed the data showed “no racial differences in officer-involved shootings,” he said, “all hell broke loose,” and his life was upended.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-professor-all-hell-broke-loose-study-found-no-racial-bias-police-shootings
Does this site use or []?
or [ ]?
Less than – greater than or []
Great honk.
Uses the greater-than and less-than markup, not the brackets.
Happy to see I started a robust discussion over guys that play James Bond.
I will say about the new-ish Thomas Crown Affair….
+2 Rene Russo t0ts.
I’m sorry, Not Adahn, I was planning to be out at the range today, but Friday I hurt my foot, and it’s difficult to get a shoe on, let alone stand around for a few hours.
At least I’m pretty sure I stopped bleeding.
What did you do?
I tore open my big toe on something.
Don’t ask what, I’m not sure.
I think I’ll get to keep the nail.
‘Sokay.
There were lots of people bringing PCCs since next week, Saraspa is having an indoor 2-Gun match.
I was one of them. I put a dot on mine, and dots are totally cheating. Hard to keep hard target focus with a long gun though.
George Lazenby is the Pete Best of the Bond franchise.
Tres Cool know what’s what.
PLAY MY MOTHER FUCKING FIRSTING MUSIC.
/ sound of single horn blowing
https://youtu.be/_asNhzXq72w
I took advantage of my insomnia to read some datasheets, and I think reading thermocouple data won’t be as bad as I originally thought. I could go crazy and not use the modules designed to interpret the data into convenient serial output… but I don’t think I’m to the point of precise voltage math required for directly reading the thermocouple.
I’ve gotten half the resistors and much of the power and ground rails soldered up on the clock project. (The power rails still need the battery port, power eregulator and its associated capacitors, but is otherwise wired to everything else with a direct connection to power or ground)
It’s that time. Again. 🌄👀
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lF_C7BvAf_A
🎶🎶
*waves at Glibs*
I’ve got a long weekend, and I took tomorrow off, so I don’t have work until wednesday.
Lucky you. Enjoy. Sorry about the toe.
Thanks. I can walk some and run quick errands so I avoid starving. So I suspect I’ll recover.
Some quality animation.
What’s the message? Don’t hunt deer, or the deer ghost will come and get you?
Morning all.
Jeebus there is a severe deficit of imagination in the entertainment industry. Watching the latest True Detective. It is awful shit. Who wrote this? What is this? A Jr. High School class creative writing exercise? It is just cut and paste boiler plate proggie bullshit.
1: Hollywood is severely risk averse.
2: Hollywood hires for ideological purity,
3: Creativity entails risk and doesn’t follow the party line.
Accurate. Unfortunately that applies to much more than Hollywood. I think the midnight sun is setting and are in for a long, long night.
Buy the first three seasons of “The Andy Griffith Show”. It does not disappoint.
There’s one episode that leans on the fourth wall, in a way. A stranger rolls into town, and seems to know who everyone is. He knows details about people’s lives, and yet no one in Mayberry has any idea who he is, and they are freaked, and start to become hostile toward him. It is explained what’s going on at the end of the episode, of course.
I interpret the episode as a message to the viewers. You may want to go to Mayberry, you perhaps want to live there, but it isn’t a place for you. You won’t be accepted. You don’t belong there.
Create your own Mayberry.
::starts imagining “crossover” episode of Andy Griffith Show/Twilight Zone::
“I tell ya; the aliens got Opie, Andy!”
“Those weren’t aliens, Barn.” *sound of a pump action shotgun*
“Remember the episode when Aunt Bea turned into a werewolf?”
I like the one where every time Floyd cut someone’s hair, it got *longer*!”
Good Morning All.
Sorry about the toe getting jammed, UCS. Last year I had several toe nails surgically removed, All went well, I can get a pedicure @ 1/2 price, should I so desire.
I don’t believe I’ve ever had a pedicure.
🤣
I have. It can be pleasant, but may not be for those with ticklish feet.
You’re free to skip the nail polish.
Mornin’ all!
Good morning, Beau, 4(20), U, Suthen, cav973, Sean, and Roat!
I foolishly neglected to have a second mug of chai latte yesterday, so I woke up this morning with a caffeine deprivation headache. Luckily, there was a pot of coffee set to brew, so I’m sipping the antidote. Day off will start with an early trip to Sam’s Club.
My wife used to boil milk with loose tea leaves to make chai. She’d pour it through a strainer, and it was delicious.
To make it a “chai masala”, I dash a bit of cinnamon, ginger, clove, and black pepper. Maybe some nutmeg, too.
That sounds yummy! I’m lazy – I make it with a liquid concentrate mix that you add to an equal part of milk. Seven ounces of each is just right to fill my cat butt mug.
suh’ fam
whats goody