Had a totally decent weekend. My youngest had a ballgame and played pretty well. Got a timely hit that kept the rally going, scored a few runs. The team won their game. Unfortunately his season ended yesterday on a sour note. Where he is typically a solid fielder (for a 10 year old) one ball took a weird bounce and flew over his head while playing 2B. Then the next one came at him fast and he wound up trying to gator mouth a grounder with his throwing hand, and jammed a couple fingers. Broken play. It was downhill from there. His next at bat went the way it normally does: draws a walk, steals a few bases, slides safely into home on an attempt at a fielder’s choice. That last one though, he was up third in the last inning and watched awful base running from one teammate followed by a strikeout. He shanked a pitch to the outside corner towards right field just barely in play—where the 1B dives, rolls, and somehow had the ball a couple steps from the bag. A shitty way to end the season, but I am no longer worried he wouldn’t find a place on the team or if he can make the cut at next month’s tryouts.
Enough of that— ¡enlaces!
I present to you, the white pill:
Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury.
The jurors in the trial of George Alan Kelly were unable to reach a unanimous decision on a verdict after more than two days of deliberation. Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink declared a mistrial on April 22.
…but it is not all smiles and sunshine. Its as cringe as a helicopter 
joke, amirite Murdock?
Mexico is outraged—OUTRAGED, at the raid of their embassy in Ecuador.
Wait, I thought that Barbecue guy was running things in Haiti?
Milei cuts funding for schools, which I think is what this lady is complaining about. Its hard enough when she’s speaking Spanish, you know? Also, ¡la motosierra es eterna!
I can’t believe I missed this one—it turns out it is pronounced (((Milei))).
One day, Dave Grohl is going to eat that microphone. Today is not that day.
Baseball ends in April?
Average summer temperatures here means it ends in May.
Time to sign up for a travel/tourney team, so you can spend every free moment at a kid baseball diamond.
No
I just checked, here the High School (OHSAA) baseball season started at the end of March, and the final tournament ends in the middle of June.
But, it’s a dry heat.
Hockey is still going. I even have a tournament lined up in four weeks. One year at that tournament it was 90. In Minnesota.
Hey, TOK, do you play for a Blackhawks affiliated team, or are you a Blackhawks fan?
“Mr Henry agreed to step down last month after armed groups blocked his return to the country.”
“agreed”
“The White House welcomed the swearing in of the council, calling it a “critical step towards free and fair elections”.”
That’s like a fat personal trainer calling something a “critical step towards losing weight”.
It gets better…
Yes, that’s totally different than it was before.
UH-72 Lakota helicopter
Lakota? Working a little too far South. Should have been flying a RAH-66 Comanche
Vaporware is notoriously difficult to fly.
Fine the Apache
I’ve got a microphone Dave Grohl can swallow:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/08/12/here-are-the-bands-requiring-fans-to-provide-proof-of-vaccination-or-a-negative-covid-test-to-attend-their-shows/?sh=1490179c3ecd
During the height of the freakout but still.
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me
– another band of rich commies.
Dumbest masker I’ve ever seen was a guy, in the pit, at a Dropkick Murphys show… wearing a cloth mask.
But was is a Dropkick Murphys branded mask?
Nope. Just a plain white fabric mask. FFS, if you were worried about the ‘vid, why go to the show? Even more importantly, why pay MORE for the pit tickets instead of getting the assigned seating where you would be apart from people?
I’ll bet you 99% of attendees at a Green Day show wore masks. All branded by Green Day.
Yeah, but I was talking about a punk band. 🙂
The girlfriend claims to no longer like Offspring after finding out they fired one of their drummers because he refused (under doctors orders) to get the ‘vid shot. NOFX was selling a shirt at one of their Punk in Drublics that was a yellow shirt, with the caption “Please Tread On Me” (with the snake being crushed by dancers).
Excellent burn bro. You took that layup and dunked!
RJ:
There’s still true believers out there. When I caught Me First a couple weeks back, there were still maskers in attendance. They really are going to be an eternal fashion accessory, at least they identify the most gullible among us.
Sadly, people still wear tie-die.
But I just saw two maskers at the grocery store.
https://www.wankersstore.com/img/photos/newswag.jpg
It’s become a social signalling device among a section of the radical left. I just can’t figure out what the message is, though. “I’m compliant, fragile, and terrified of life!”
Black bloc chic? You get the look of someone returning home from a long day of protest.
Nah, rhywun, just broken people. I find it sad, really.
In the morning thread y’all were talking about large disparities between critic and audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. Behold:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fauci
It’s even on topic for this one!
I think that was one I had in mind.
Forgot that we had Maroon 5 tickets at the time and asked for a refund, but they gave it to us.
Foo Pfizers
LOL
Such a great song though, among several others they have.
Musicians being stupid? Why that’s never happened. Ever.
In other Mexican news,
“The wedding menu that put 80 guests in hospital and left more than 100 people vomiting is revealed – as one attendee says men and women were given different food, but all ended up sick”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13366705/wedding-menu-guests-sick-men-women-mexico.html
Still better than Chipotle.
Should have had the lasagna.
As long as it wasn’t the salmon mousse!
I wanted to watch a bit (any, really) of that last night, then I remembered I don’t own the DVD.
You can’t fix stupid.
Don’t drink the water.
Cuernavaca? I would have thought Montezuma!
Two U.S. National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent were killed and a fourth person was injured when a helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, on Friday, officials said.
Remember when a highway patrol helicopter went down during the Charlottesville kerfuffle and the tiki-torch knuckleheads were blamed for the deaths? I’m sure the same media mavens will be blaming the invaders for these fatalities, too… right?
It’s Trump’s fault for causing so much pent up demand for entry into the US!
Shpip, do you have a gallery of all the costumes you’ve put your avatar dog in?
Sort of. There have only been twenty-nine… until tomorrow.
That sounds like a potential article.
Content!
A Day in the Life of a Modeling Dog.
Why yes, I do. That was one of the most shameful government actions during that unfortunate shitshow.
“Arizona rancher” analogy I’d meant to add in earlier comment thread but was away: Can you imagine the 1939 Polish government prosecuting an old Polish farmer who’d shot one of the invading German or Russian troops? Yeah, me neither.
“The 2003 Sky1 British reality series ‘There’s Something About Miriam’ flew the boys out to a luxury four-star villa in Ibiza, with the aim of wooing the stunning Mexican model Miriam Rivera, then only 21, for a £10,000 prize and romantic yacht trip.
Yet the punchline of the show was an incredibly cruel one. After Miriam chose her winner, she told the unsuspecting contestants that she was a transgender woman who had not undergone gender-affirming surgery…
The producers had employed a series of underhand tactics to deceive the boys, including offering them an indecipherable contract, deliberately avoiding the use of pronouns, and even eliminating contestants if they began to suspect the truth. As a result, the boys were furious….
But the producers naivety was also shown in their treatment of Miriam herself, who tragically passed away in 2019, which Mexican authorities held to be ‘suicide’ – although her husband has always insisted she was murdered.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13365639/miriam-rivera-sky-reveal-transgender-lawsuit-death-threats.html
CWABOA
Absolutely nobody to like in that story.
But of all the dislike, the producers get top billing.
I don’t recall ever hearing about that.
Wow.
I think that was a Law and Order plot.
Fairly convincing. The obviously fake boobs are on point for “influencer”, but, man-hands.
I’ll be seeing the Foo Fighters on Sunday after Billy Idol. Can’t wait.
“Fulton County DA Fani Willis suffers embarrassing wardrobe malfunction while speaking on stage at Miami NABCO event”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13363275/Fani-Willis-Fulton-County-DA-wardrobe-malfunction-Miami-event-stage.html
No one needs to see that.
Could have been much, much worse.
Yes, it could have been Michelle Obama.
+ 1 bulge
Big Mike?
She wound up in an orange jumpsuit?
Thought this was an interesting story about Schalke 04: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ckr5yy29k82o
I can’t wait for the oil bubble to burst and teams like Man Shitty to wind up like Leeds.
Wow, there is a team that I haven’t heard from in a while. I didn’t notice they had gone down.
I think it was a Dortmund fan I saw refer to them as Schlacke 04 😉
LOL I was not familiar with that word but it fits.
And yet, I clicked on it anyway.
Looks like some industrial strength Spanks to me.
Yeah, not revealing at all.
Praise Allah.
I chose not to click on that.
And some dude threw his reputation, career, and marriage away to tap that. Criminy.
“Five anonymous sources told the Associated Press Tuesday that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will propose changing marijuana from Schedule 1, which has the highest potential for abuse, to Schedule 3, alongside the likes of ketamine and some anabolic steroids.
The proposal, which will be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), would acknowledge that it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs like heroin and MDMA.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13367971/dea-reclassify-marijuana-dangerous-historic-shift.html
How many federal agencies does it take to change a light bulb?
That story comes out every year. It’s about as real as the air force tracking Santa Claus on Christmas.
My favorite line:
“ The move comes despite evidence that nearly 300 children have died due to their caregivers using marijuana use in the past decade, with 95 including extreme violence.”
Please fuck off. More kids die of infected stubbed toes in a decade.
Stupidity… Stupidity never changes.
Children dislike peaches?? 🤔
I did.
I like peach-flavored things but the actual fruit is kind of gross.
Fresh or canned?
I could see how the fuzzy skin might be a problem to a kid.
I was raised on canned peaches (well…among other foods,) and I still prefer them. Fresh peaches seem messy to eat. (Granted, some of the best things in life are messy…)
I like peaches and want to shake your tree.
🤢
I still do. I admit, I honestly can’t remember the last time I ate a proper one. (I rather LIKE the cheapo, open-and-eat ones.) James and the Giant Peach was one of my favorite books growing up. Still fantastic. I wonder if that turned me off as a kid.
(Roald Dahl’s sexy espionage gig in the States is too perfect to describe. I hope most of it is real.)
If they do reschedule it then they can’t promise to do it in future elections.
Maybe not, but it stops short of full recreational legalization. Still holding out that carrot.
Ding ding ding!
+1 Menthol
Coworker just retired today. 38 years. I’m both sad and jealous.
He was a good guy and I’ll miss him. He was also grandfathered into a defined benefit pension.
Me and my 401(k) just laugh…
Something that can’t go on forever, won’t.
“Defined benefit” or not, might be a haircut in his future.
It’s fully funded and long closed.
It’s about as safe as any such plan could be.
In which case, jelly.
“EXCL: CDC’s Fungi fighter reveals why the next pandemic could be a mutant fungus that causes skin boils and brain swelling”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13363767/EXCL-CDCs-Fungi-fighter-reveals-pandemic-mutant-fungus-causes-skin-boils-brain-swelling.html
No.
Saw that on HBO.
They know because they’ve been working on it in Wuhan.
I took off the next 3 days to get ready to move, and I’m thinking of being irresponsible and drinking on Zoom tonight.
FYI.
Sounds perfectly responsible to me.
Relevant (I’m still game, though)
Administration “considering” rescheduling marijuana? Just in time for election season? They’re pulling out all the stops.
What’s next – Biden doing appearances at jazz clubs?
He’ll be hanging out with Corn Pop smoking menthols.
Sounds like Mexican Pee-shooter is gonna be a bis-boll hero, with stars in his eyes!
Baseball bin berry berry good to me
I see ball. I hit ball. Ball go far.
Its hard enough when she’s speaking Spanish, you know?
Yep, pretty hard. She should be a weather girl.
Is Naked News still around? That was fun.
We paid off our mortgage today. I can’t believe how retarded a wire transfer with PNC is. So much time was wasted and then at the last moment I had to run to their branch to get a bank check.
Congrats!
Interesting. We did the same. Logged onto the account with Wells Fake Accounts Fargo got the payoff amount and wrote a personal check. Roughly 60 days later got the release on the deed.
Awesome!
🥂 🎉
Congratulations.
Huzzah!
Congrats!
Grats!
Congratulations. Nice to get out from under a mortgage.
It’s quacks, all the way down
I wish people would stop calling Donald Trump a populist. He has, after all, never demonstrated any inclination to help working Americans, and his economic policies really didn’t help — his 2017 tax cut, in particular, was a giveaway to the wealthy. But his behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that he’s as addicted to magical thinking and denial of reality as any petty strongman or dictator, which makes it all too likely that he might preside over the type of problems that result when policies are based on quack economics.
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What’s really worrisome, however, are indications that a future Trump regime would manipulate monetary policy in pursuit of short-run political advantage, justifying its actions with crank economic doctrines.
Krugabe thinks Trump might attempt to manipulate the economy for his political benefit. That’s so cute.
It’s a good thing Team Biden has never stooped to magical thinking.
his 2017 tax cut, in particular, was a giveaway to the wealthy.
Yeah, the doubling of the standard deduction totally didn’t help anyone at the short end. 🙄
But his behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that he’s as addicted to magical thinking and denial of reality
Totally guilty. He listened and deferred to quacks like Fauci and the rest of the pharmaindustrial complex.
I thought there was no market for young idle opiners anymore.
I’ve stated it several times, but I made about $3K more in 2018 than 2017, and the absolute tax burden was within about 20 bucks. I also ran the numbers, and if the Obama-era tax rates had been in force, I would have paid close to $400 more than I did under the Trump rates.
Top of a tornado where it meets the cloud, just now in Westmoreland, KS from Reed Timmer’s livestream
https://ibb.co/kG0ZSwm
Damage to buildings. Very little warning. I watched it form live on the stream from nothing – took all of 3-4 minutes.
They’re checking on a destroyed house 😢
Secondary horizontal wraparound vortex
https://ibb.co/qxTPHWn
That storm system is headed this way, I believe, but it’ll probably fizzle out halfway here.
Heading into Topeka
Um. I’m eight days into gig. Pure math, that’s a bit over $1k. I have never made that much so quickly.
This will take some time to process. Luckily, I don’t have any expensive hobbies. (“Watch the pennies. The dollars take care of themselves.”) I’m gonna go walk Peabody. Hrm.
Peabody! What a cute name.
He better be a Mr. Peabody, Sherman. Fire up the way back machine!
*Sigh*
He *officially* IS Mr. Peabody. I refuse to give him the title. I have said such to his true Masters.
It is known.
Understood.
But what breed?
…beagle…
First Buddy, then Scooter, now Peeb. Our two cats growing up? (Not simultaneous.) Yoda, cuz his years were extremely expressive. Then K.C., whom older bro and I named for Kitty Cat. Uh. Huh. I don’t remember, but I don’t think *I* came up with that.
Is he* an escape artist? I know a beagle a few houses up who’s quite the character.
*assuming his gender
Hrm. Certainly no longer. He’s spry for his age, but he’s 13. (Neutered!) ‘Rents got him when he was ~6/mo or so. I was just into my Asian career, so missed out on much of his life. He properly views me as a Secondary Master. He is clearly One with Dad, and he with Peeb.
All dogs are ‘he.’ All cats ‘she.’ (This obviously isn’t true, but it is.)
Gave Uncle Sam a $300 interest free loan. Close enough to even for government work.
Don’t spend it all in one supermarket.
I have teenagers.
…not all on one teen, then.
🎉
Late to the show but LOL!
In a rare moment of Britain being correct, NHS declares sex is a biological fact.
Stopped clock?
Blind squirrel, even!
Found two nuts, it sounds like.
I like to think that they’ve come out the other side of years of craziness and hopefully the US will too but I fear that’s not it.
I don’t see the craziness here going away anytime soon – in fact it’s getting worse and worse.
In$o£vent?
“Get two birds stoned at once.”
For Ron, second Neph’s rec for PKD’s short stories. I have the Citadel Twilight edition but it seems to have gone out of print. This seems to be the current version of Vol 1
https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-Philip-K-Dick/dp/1399611232/
The short story about paranoid people in a bunker constantly shooting an a un seen and unknown enemy was great. I’ll see if I can find it.
They all qualify as good, many reaching excellent, and a few are some of the best SF short stories of all time.
I’ve always been quite fond of his short novel Clans of the Alphane Moon.
The Hanging Man was another good one.
Also, his story about Autistic people Null O.
I also have I have the Citadel Twilight The Collected Stories of Phillip K. Dick Volume 1 “The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford” 1990, copyright 1987, ISBN 0-8065-1153-2
“A shitty way to end the season”
I dunno. Sounds like he had a really good game. You’re not going to catch every ball, or hit every pitch out of the park. Those lessons are invaluable.
Yeah, my grandson was getting “player of the game” awards. So when I went to see him in action, he struck out three times.
“it turns out it is pronounced (((Milei)))”
“I’m not Jewish, but I’ve got a little Jew in me! *ba-dum-tish*
Re your hallmarks, do you have a loupe? Your avatar nearly does.
Good luck with that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/30/google-fired-israel-nlrb-labor/
Sure, invading your boss’s office to discuss work and refusing to leave is totes protected.
“No Tech for Apartheid”
JFC the stupid hurts
They will probably find a sympathetic judge, we will ratchet one step closer to commie paradise.
So who your company’s customers are is now a “working condition”?
Ordinarily, I’d say even the NLRB would laugh that one out of court, but now?
And I’m sure it’s the SF office too.
They could point to this ruling, it would be a stretch but not impossible for a lefty judge.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/06/morning-after-pill-contraception-judge-minnesota
Didn’t discriminate by refusing to dispense a morning after pill. Rather than trying to get from there to “your company’s customers are a working condition subject to labor laws”, I think it would be easier to just make it up from whole cloth. Like you said, not impossible for a lefty judge.
Welp. Our Wheel of Fortune watching has been interrupted by weather.
Ugh, sorry. We were getting dire “be prepared” warnings last night and this morning. Then a tornado watch at 4pm. But, it rained, one or two rumbles of thunder and then the sun came out. Looks like we dodged this one.