I mean, don’t get me wrong.
Sixty degrees today here in Spudsville with a bright, blue sky. We are hurting for precipitation at this point, but I ain’t complaining. March will just have to save us again.
Anyone for some warm, toasty links?
Can you imagine the uproar if Texas said “we’re keeping the oil”?
They did not stick the landing.
Buffet is clearly too old to still be in charge.
I’m trying to work up my shocked face, but it isn’t happening. Ready the chippers.
Time for a patio cocktail. Enjoy your evening!
I didn’t realize Steve Harwell lived in Boise. He drank himself to death last year.
Sorry Tonio 🚀 🛸 🌙 😞
Did the lander finally fall over and couldn’t get up? Shoulda had lifeline
“Clap on.
Clap off.”
Okay we didn’t stick the landing. Womp, womp.
But we did soft land, and are getting telemetry, and the stock is up, and we have a spacecraft design we can reuse and fine tune, and a network of ground stations whose lunar data capacity we can resell to other companies, etc.
You were involved in the project?
Family is 20 mins away at a Indiana casino…to go or not is the question. I have won 600 off of 100 there a couple months ago….happy Saturday Glibbies.
Kitchen renovation is nearly complete. Some final mudding and sanding is to be had.
Nah…stay in and Zoom
Ha! Possible but also a hockey game at 1030
Remember the casino business model, despite your past earnings. They’re not in business to give money away.
I once stayed at Belterra and off of $20 I was up over a grand just on slots. Since we often stayed there for work, over time they got their money back. And some extra.
I spend most of my casino time in a bar.
Practically nobody leaves a casino money ahead, net-net.
Gambling is one vice I’ve decided not to pick up.
Yeah. Despite my vices (past and current) losing money isn’t one I acquired a taste for. I can walk away from a table and blow my money elsewhere.
Casinos for me are … a nightmare.
Too many lights, too much noise, too many people.
Agreed.
Yes. They make me want to curl up in a corner in a fetal position and rock.
So bright and jangly, with such a thick, oppressing layer of despair and zombies.
You forgot the smell of stale smoke
We used to go with another couple on Crableg specials, all you can eat buffets. Covid stopped that and also the price was putting people out of the market. We never gambled so hard to make up the difference.
No idea what a crableg buffet costs now but the Chinese places have had to increase the prices as well. With all the newly arriving Chinese folks I’m expecting every small town to have a Chinese restaurant.
Casinos are a losing bet for the masses. If you play blackjack, you can win, not every time, but over time it is possible. I am a net casino winner, but I have discipline and adhere to ‘the book’ (Edward Thorp – Beat the Dealer). The book, while not foolproof is mathematically sound. I go in with $500 and come out with between $800-$1,000 nearly everytime. I’ve strayed from the book when a day isn’t going anywhere (looking down at your initial buy in and realizing you’re only up $20 after an 8 hour grind) and both beaten and blown it. I also like craps and when I have a good day and get up early at blackjack, I will take a couple hundred over to the craps table and give it back. The best day I ever had at blackjack, I either hit or pushed 27 hands in a row at the Westgate before the auto shuffle jammed and fate told me to cash and run. I made nearly $1,500 at a $10 table in 45 th minutes and it was the first table I sat on that week. It paid for the trip and I ended up closer to $2,000 before the trip was over. This was my net after expenses including food/entertainment/lodging. A year later at the Freemont, I hit a hot craps table where the shooter ahead of me hit 20+ rolls, I hit 42 rolls (and hit hard 10 an absurd number of times during that 42) and the following shooter hit almost 30 rolls. That table paid for that trip. I got cocky the next morning and gave 1/3 of it back in the high roller room at the 4 Queens just before leaving. I left for home up just over $1,000 on that trip. It wouldn’t make a good part time job, but for me at least, gambling is cheap entertainment.
Thoughts?
No.
Yeah, none here.
I’ve previously expressed mine.
In a message on X, the former Twitter, Milei denounced the southern leaders as “fiscal degenerates.”
Wastrels and spendthrifts.
I would have stood up and applauded if he had said that. Maybe even bought a t-shirt.
For some reason, the smash mouth video reminded me of this:
https://youtu.be/1e0u11rgd9Q?si=8KbuheRaXrUBVCVE
The Netherlands is so happy because they euthanize you if you’re sad.
“Just relax and let the hooks do their work.”
^^ I seen what you done did just there.
Canada takes notes.
-1 Happiness Patrol
Another name headed for the dustbin of history
“Now what is more important here is Anish Melwani, who is the CEO for LVMH North America, will be on the board of Lotus Tech,” Lee said. “This is a huge opportunity for us to develop a potential partnership in terms of co-branding, co-marketing, and others in a way to help Lotus execute a strategy and develop our full potential in the fast-growing, underserved EV luxury segment market.”
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“If I look at Oliver Wyman’s research, you’ll see that this particular segment [$80,000 – $150,000] is the biggest volume contributor in the whole luxury space. At the same time, it’s very underserved,” Lee said. “Now, based on this market research, this particular segment is going to grow about 35% CAGR [compound annual growth rate] for the next 10 years.”
With a strategy tailored to the high-end luxury market, financial backing by China’s Geely, and a new partner in LVMH with its SPAC merger, Lee believes Lotus is set up for success. The big question is whether Lotus’s pricey luxury offerings will resonate with high-end buyers.
According to my model, we can’t lose.
Electric Lotus?
Wasn’t that the first Tesla?
Yes.
If that dustbin is atomic…..Ned ?
“This is a huge opportunity for us to develop a potential partnership”
If people gave a crap about fiduciary duty and conflict of interests, it would be no such thing.
Thoughts?
What kind of country will we descend into if we spend time with people we are supposed to hate? Next thing you know you’re talking with them and you find out you have more in common than the stuff that should be driving you away from them. No bueno.
I don’t know who I’m “supposed” to hate, but my grudges are born from familiarity.
You mean like Russia and China and Iran? No way, they’ll just try to sell us stuff cheap and take our jobs.
That’s what the illegals are doing.
Sure hope we’ve seen the last of Wilbur Ross and Lighthizer.
If we don’t have enemies who are we going to be unified against with our common hatred? Without that, we have no national purpose!
Emmanuel Goldstein?
“you have more in common than the stuff that should be driving you away from them.”
… Until they try to force me to inject myself with poison, steak all my money and pay their disgusting idiotic ideology on my children.
Sorry, no.
Thoughts? Yeah, BlazeNewz is crap.
That article exists on a number of different websites, and feel free to step up and do the links anytime you like.
No, the problem isn’t with you putting it up, it’s mostly that I can’t make head or tails of what he is really thinking without going back and reading it over and over, attempting to parse the guy. It is just poorly put together.
But, I have said it before, I think forgiveness is the way to go, if you want to change people minds about the trans thing.
Electric Lotus?
Colin Chapman would have loved seeing his brand on a three ton car.
[golf claps]
It’s what happens when you add too much lightness.
It’s prime time.
I’m off to start the airbrush.
For those so confoundedly lazy they can’t even go to the homepage
I’m out of pink drinks
It’s Tennessee Honey and Pepsi tonight
I may pregame
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Also, what shenanigans will STEVE SMITH be up to in this week’s profile pic?
odds and ends
That time a zeppelin captured a ship in history’s only case of air piracy:
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On April 23, 1917, L 23 brought the Norwegian ship Royal on the North Sea 85 nautical miles (157,42 km) off the Bovbjerg Lighthouse. They were able to stop the ship by dropping a bomb right in front of it, forcing its Norwegian crew to board the lifeboats. The airship then proceeded to gently hover above one lifeboat, whereupon Commander Bockholt demanded the ship’s papers and sent an officer and 5 sailors over to the vessel to investigate if the cargo ship was carrying contraband in violation of Norwegian neutrality. Royal was indeed illegally carrying timber to England, namely pit props destined for West Hartlepool. This discovery allowed the legal confiscation of the ship as a prize of war.
A swiftly selected boarding party consisting of boatman Bernhard Wiesemann, chief mate Ernst Fegert and chief mate Friedrich Engelke took over the sailing ship. The Norwegian crew was initially locked in their quarters, but when the Germans struggled to maneuver the ship’s sail, the crew were set free and ordered to sail the bark to Cuxhaven, where they arrived after 43 hours.[2] There the navy confiscated and sold Royal, who then went on to serve with various German shipping companies both during and after the war until the ship in 1924 sold for scrap.
This action was quite an achievement and boosted morale of the Zeppelin corps, but it annoyed the German command as it put the Zeppelin at considerable risk for little reward, and instructions were given to not repeat the capture.
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from MSN: At the Florida Man Games, big crowds cheer competitors evading police, wrestling over beer
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Spectators paid real money — $45 per ticket or more — to watch the games at Francis Field in downtown St. Augustine. Yusuf El Shihibi said he and his wife made the 180-mile (290-kilometer) trip from Port St. Richey “to watch stupidity occur on the grandest, most spectacular scale.”
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Florida’s claim to being the strangest state goes back much further, said journalist Craig Pittman, who wrote the book “Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country.” He noted that the first flag to fly over its Capitol in 1845 bore the motto “Let Us Alone.
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Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing…
I had to go see this flag. It’s fantastic and absurdly bad. It should still be the flag. I want that big scrollwork on a bumper sticker.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fgetvhw1a7cy11.png
“Legend has it that Captain Jack designed the town flag.”
-from the Simpsons episode where they go to Florida and accidentally kill Captain Jack, a town’s beloved alligator
I like the Florida flag with the gator:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMzz2-DXoAISNTC.jpg:large
Nice links tie in. That episode featured Kid Rock. Best line of the episode was Kid Rock picking up Joe C (RIP Joe C) and saying “let’s give this fool a Joe C section.”
We used to have our own version here in SW Ohio (GT may remember)…the “Tough Man” competition, held at Hara Arena.
Any idiot off the street could walk in, sign up, get weighed, and box the other idiot.
I have a friend named Pat. Nights out in the bar he would get drunk and try to fight whomever. To say the least, “bark more than bite” applied to him.
Little did he know, a couple of us signed him up for “Toughman”. He thought we were going to spectate, but when he learned he was on the list…..
A couple of beers and he was in the ring against some gorilla. Took about 7 seconds and 2 punches and he was out like a light. We hoped he learned his lesson.
Despite his near immediate KO, the experience only emboldened him, and nights out after that got turned up to 11 as he would drunkenly taunt someone, “YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT MY ASS? I FOUGHT IN THE TOUGHMAN, PUSSY!”
“Port St. Richey”
I think they mean new port Richey…
Anyway, sounds amazing, though the ticket price is dumb.
Dungeons & Dragons disses the Portuguese:
https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-no-longer-in-portugese.702796/
If you give a bully a pulpit
President Joe Biden is embracing his bully pulpit as he calls out resistance from former President Donald Trump and Republicans on Ukraine and Russia.
The tactic – which is playing out mostly in off-camera fundraisers and in public events – has become more pronounced in recent days as the president has latched on to House Republicans’ refusal to approve additional aid for Ukraine and Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn Russia for the death of Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s top critic.
The president has turned up the heat on Trump and Republicans in California this week in a series of fundraisers, venues where the president tends to speak a bit more freely and bluntly.
Scoldin’ Joe, we calls him.
How do we know Biden didn’t do it as a vote-getting measure.
Watched Trumo speak at CPAC today. Last in a long line of speakers. I was interviewed by Newsmax. Interesting time.
I’ll write up some sort of report for y’all when I get back to the Great Land and catch my breath.
*Trump, obviously.
Did you see Milei?
I know! Forget Trump, did you get a glimpse of Milei?
*Swoons like a teenage girl
I did. He wasn’t at all was I was expecting. He was a little subdued, and came across as a very dry technocrat. I don’t know if it was the setting or what.
I did hear later that he had quite a “moment” with Trump backstage. Seems they are going to be buddies. In his speech, Trump said Milei was “MAGA – Make Argentina Great Again.”
That doesn’t surprise me, he’s somewhat of an intellectual, was my understanding. I think he just plays a madman on TV.
At a San Francisco fundraiser Wednesday, Biden referred to Putin as a “crazy SOB” and said Trump’s comments on Navalny were confounding.
“He’s comparing himself to Navalny and saying that because our country’s become a communist country, he was persecuted, just like Navalny was persecuted,” Biden said. “Where the hell does this comes from? If I stood here 10 to 15 years ago and said all this, you’d all think I should be committed.”
That’s clever. Were things different during the Booosh administration? Maybe just a little?
I think Biden should be committed, anyway.
I used to think he was a goofy, just-left-of-center, Standard politician.
This guy has serious problems, though.
Who knows what he believes. He is a conveniently empty vessel for the Deep State to pour its evil through, though.
Absolutely. The guy has always been a weather vane within Democratic circles. He has no fixed beliefs beyond saying whatever is necessary to win the next election.
Trump is already projected to win South Carolina.
Less than 10% of the votes are in.
Haley’s got the Columbia metro area locked up.
She also has part of the coast
Around 400 people have voted for “other candidates”, and I am now curious who those people are.
Says he’s got it on CNN. “Trump delivers another lie-fill CPAC speech”
Classy. Teehee!
I don’t know about you, but the prospect of Mexican cartels and timeshares in the same story scares the shit out of me.
“Looking back, that was the first sign that he was getting duped by a telemarketing scam, one that would end up costing him nearly $1.8 million as he tried time and again to sell his timeshare. ”
They would have stopped fucking with me after about $10K.
Not obvious, but I was stating that in Talladega Nights out-take style.
“Stephen” isn’t really a financial writer out of Brooklyn who also doles out $50k cash in shoe boxes, is it?
I have really got to make more of an effort to do a house inventory. I have LOTS of craft supplies and expensive books (I have a $250 coffee table book from Spain) and I never really understood you can claim all that stuff if you can document its cost. Never mind our electronics. That’s the easy part.
But is it about coffee tables ?
How do I do a valuation for something like my warhammer collection. They do have a resale value that fluctuates wildly over time, but their value is in the fact that I made them.
This is me spitballing. You’d have to actually ask an agent.
1. Replacement value of the figurines at the time of the claim plus supplies to mod them again.
OR
2. What you paid for it. Most people don’t have this, so I think that’s where replacement value comes in.
I’m going to be taking pictures of my things, too.
“We go over there, we’re talking to him, actually a great conversation, and at some point he was telling me how he got the video and he was actually down at Texas doing some hunting,” the rocker continued. He then told the beverage CEO that he “seem[s] like somebody I’d be friends with, that I’d hang out with.”
Sycophant confirmed.
I remember that, back in the Bush W era, Kid Rock was asserting that war was how we got rich.
Best part
“got f**ked up on Bud Light … ”
No one has ever got fucked up on bud light.
Maybe he is a lightweight.
He’s Kid Rock, not Adult Rock.
I haven’t been paying attention to the primaries, so Indont know what tack DeSantis and Haley have taken.
If I were going to run against Trump, I’d have focused on the mRNA shots and “Operation Warp-speed”.
I’d have taken whatever dumb nickname he gave me with a, “That’s cute. Now, about inflation…l
I’d have talked about Trump’s promise to cut two regulations for every new regulation enacted, and whether he actually did that.
I’d have focused on how important cutting government spending is.
I’d have praised Trump for not starting a major war while President, and talk about getting us out of current entangling alliances.
I’d stress that the strongest national defense is a well-armed populace, point to the recent 2nd Amendment wins in the Federal Court system, and promise to extend those on the Executive Branch side.
And you would attract all of the votes of this esteemed community.
Do Tulpas count as separate votes?
Do the dead vote Democrat?
Ive never paid enough attention to his campaign speeches to know…..does he go directly to the ad hominem attack?
Because as an opponent, it would be so easy to go with “Wrinkly Don”, “Darth Cheeto”, or “Badger Head”.
Fuck push-ups- Id go full on “drop your pants. I guarantee my dick is bigger.”
/would suck if he hoisted out some Milton Berle-esque donkey wang
Trump doesn’t insult people until they insult him, and he never has to wait long for that.
“I have to say, how can anyone argue with Donald’s business sense? Do you know anyone else that bankrupted a casino? No one can bankrupt a casino, but by god, Donald Trump did.”
There’s the kill shot.
I don’t see a single thing on that list that promises more cash without working.
Where’s increase the minimum wage? Where’s increase farm subsidies? Free day care? Abortions, first one free, second one 1/2 price
Those are the things that sway voters
My standard reply would be, “Those are all state issues.”
See JI’s reply
This.
“Sorry, my opinion on abortion is meaningless. Talk to your governor.”
In an earlier age this might have worked. But now everyone must have a stated opinion on everything.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others! Kang & Kodos 1996
All have mentioned those and more, except Vivek.
No one cares.
The Republican party is determined to go down with Trump.
I was busy being an amateur logger in my yard and making multiple dump runs so I missed MS’s review. The beer sounds interesting and I will look for it.
After the discussions on slurs I was surprised none of our esteemed body linked this gem from “Rescue Me.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egAMgNY84do
And nobody linked Dirty Harry.
Even more direct.
I’ve never seen this before:
A home video made by Charles Bronson in Dallas, on November 22, 1963:
https://youtu.be/SBMgIIR398k?si=7ACpSj0eHDO43DWJ
And I expected LBJ on the shitter trying to get support for the CRA.
Since I was watching Jekyll & Hyde and went down a Mark Blankfield rabbit hole….
A sketch from “Fridays” that may have been prescient. Or South Park ripped it off.
Transphibians
Whycome only me and mo on the zooms?
Because I’m trying to paint space elves. The hobby room isn’t zoom enabled.
Because I don’t do zoom.
I don’t even have a webcam.
I’d be light on conversation, I’m afraid, which is strange for this Chatty Cathy.
Having a small room at your parents has a few downsides. (Plenty of Up, however.)
That Novalny story sounds vey Jesus-y.
A) AB isn’t a charity
B) AB execs didn’t care about those employees or their company’s future when they decided to push their crap, or thought it didn’t matter in any negative way
C) it’s only going to end when the people ok’ing these decision start paying prices, starting with loss of their own job
D) none of that has happened so far, nor has AB shown anytime of contrition or true repentance
Correct on all counts.
Trump is a moron who believes his own bullshit. He thinks there is a cult of Trump and his word is sacrosanct.
In reality, he’s the flaming pile of dogshit people want to leave on the front steps of DC.
He should be more worried about outliving his usefulness in that regard.
He’s not a moron (although some of his policies are moronic), he’s a con artist. That people think he believes his own prattle is testament only of how good a flimflam man he is.
A FIRST OFR AN EYE!
The law of the Firster.
Why on Earth is Haley staying in the race? To keep collecting donations while praying Trump gets convicted of something?
Asking and answering in side the same question takes a bit of the fun out of it.
Well, I suppose she could be holding out hope for the VP nod, on the theory that “nobody liked Harris either, so…”
She is holding out hope that the lawfare forces Trump to bow out. In the meantime, she’s racking up all the anti-Trump money and votes and hoping that the powers that be in the GOP coalesce behind her and she somehow gets anointed like Joe and Hillary against Bernie.
I agree: She’s got Lady Bits. This came up today today, another group talking ’bout ‘Who Trump’s VP should be?’
Me: Was likely DeSantis. Can’t think of a ‘viable’ woman. Vivek… would be a DIE checkbox (who I at least used to like quite a bit)… Interesting.
‘Best Play’ for Trump? Don’t bother to announce. Let Team Blue panic over Joe. They’ll own-goal just trying. Then, Trump wouldn’t have to ‘worry’ as much about who-for VP. Trump isn’t a ‘Smart’ Player.”
I think my ‘Smart Play’ idea *is* bar far the most sensible.
Should be or will be? My money is on Pence.
She thinks she’s the best woman for the job and there are four months until the convention and why not give the people an option?
Looking ahead to 2028? If so, she’s got to find something important to do in next four years to polish her credentials. Try to replace Sen. Lightloafers Graham maybe?
Note to Self: Forgo flippant, off the cuff, honest assessment comments when conversing with the company owner and the executive office manager during a surprise “company lunch”. Especially when said “company lunch” is comprised of exclusively office staff while you’re the only blue collar asshole from the field who bothered to attend…sidelong, considering glances from upper management is no way to leave a business lunch two months into a new job. The worst thing is that I didn’t even realize what I was doing while those thoughts slipped into words…sounds familiar, eh?
https://youtu.be/O95fnszzI6I
Welp, that didn’t take long. Still, unless you really showed your ass and pissed off the boss, it’ll probably be forgotten.
You can be weird or a bit scary or whatever.
It’s all good as long as long as they don’t think you’re a chump.
Whenever Dems talk about Ultra MAGA, my brain goes to Powerman 5000 and Ultra Mega, and makes me wish Trump would use that as a campaign song.
It has gone beyond parody. The only description we get is a long list of laughable xyz-phobias and some nebulous bullshit gibberish.
Like ‘fair share’ it is never definitive. How do they get away with that?
when they start talking about super-ultra-extra-mega-magnum-magas I just roll my eyes and tune them out.
upthread 4×20 summed up their platform succinctly – just listen until they get the part about giving people money for not working.
Morning all.
Good morning!
Corfee has been drunk. Bread is proofing. Time for the park!
Mornin’. Coffee is being thought about.
evergreen comment
The bread obviously didn’t proofread the spelling of “coffee”. :-p
Ni hao!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvknOXGPzCQ
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Good morning, Seah, rhy, and NA! Chai latte is being sipped after having been narrowly rescued from boiling over on the stove. Temps in the twenties right now, but forecast to rise to the fifties by this afternoon! And sunny all day! 😎🌞
Morning.
Still haven’t forced myself to go mix up more silver gray for the airbrush.
I really should get laundry on too. 🙁
Oh, yeah. I need to do a bunch of that today, too. 🧺😕
I just started some, rather than keep procrastinating.
😁
I washed my car yesterday, might do a quick spray wax today.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement
it will all be paid off in 2031….we only need 6.4M more donors.
give generously: billionaires need your help…you’ll be glad you did !
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
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