I now can check tornado off my list of disasters to experience. No damage to my house, but we’re without stable power (ETR is the 14th).
Are we still pretending it isn’t a cold at this point?
Why yes, I did send this to the girlfriend. And I have an opinion on the new Browns stadium location. I can walk there.
Because PA was feeling left out.
Not sure how they compare to ill tempered sea bass.
That’s a pretty shitty prank.
Even the lack of power at home and a discounted ticket isn’t going to entice me to see this. I will absolutely watch it when it hits one of my streaming services.
Sorry all, due to technical difficulties (and author frustration) you’re on your own for music and cocktails (whiskey neat is the current trend here).
What could possibly go wrong?
Why won’t you let my children in?
I noticed that pharmaceuticals are not on the list.
I’d shut down our gym if we had that law.
Does it prevent you from excluding all minors from the property?
Our insurance prohibits anyone under 18, which we follow very strictly.
Wait- I thought the so-called Browns just got a new stadium.
You mean the stadium that was built for their return back in 1999? Remodeling that is the other primary option.
1999, when the New Cleveland Browns started operations.
I now can check tornado off my list of disasters to experience.
I have earthquake, hurricane, and tornado for major natural disasters. I don’t want to experience volcano.
I only have derecho on my card.
Fortunately the 2012 derecho only knocked down some tree limbs in my neighborhood.
We’ve had 70ish mph straight line winds on three occasions since we built the house 19 years ago. I’ve had about 6 or 7 trees break (3 were total losses). No serious damage to the house.
The derecho in 2020 produced 100+ mph winds less than 10 miles from my house. We got lucky that time.
That’s a bit windy. I’ve only had trees knocked down because of a lighting strike or excessive snow.
Derecho is on par with hurricane minus the water.
After the 2020 derecho, the media was mostly silent on the chaos and destruction in Iowa. Some wrote an article trying to explain to the coastal dweller that it was basically a 100 mile wide, straight line hurricane.
In the midwest, these always seem to be driven by stormfronts. So we get water and potential flash floods, but nothing like the 10-20 inches that come with a hurricane.
The derecho this summer started near where I live. So we got 60ish mph winds. It was over 100 mph by time it hit Illinois.
10-20 inches? Yikes, Katrina gave up to 30 feet in some places. The following one…Gustave?….gave lake Charles 15 or so feet if I remember right. Both were stone killers. None of the body counts on either were correct.
I meant . . . . per hour . . . .
midwesterner hangs head in shame
I’ve seen an amazing pair of baboons…
Jesus, Neph, that looks like a close call. Gaia can be a real asshole.
What could possibly go wrong?
There were too many small businesses already.
Are we still pretending it isn’t a cold at this point?
I can’t believe people are still testing.
Music.
That picture is around the corner from my house. A couple blocks is close enough. I went from laughing off the warning (skies were partly cloudy, sun out, and light breezes) to getting into the basement in under 10 minutes (skies darkened, wind picked up, power went out).
I’m right on the border of two areas with (apparently) stable power. Getting out and about is tough due to closed roads and unpowered traffic signals. Ice is becoming difficult to source, and I’ll likely need to write off a large amount of stuff from the chest freezer unless I can get more dry ice for it (or the power stabilizes enough for me to leave it plugged in for a while).
When the sky turns green, we’re still out watching until the sirens come on. And then we’re still out watching. We only go in when it starts to hail because we don’t want to get pummeled.
It’s been 30 some years since the last tornado touchdown even in the same neighborhood. Up here they aren’t common.
Now when they say to stay off the roads due to snow, that’s when the locals ignore the warnings. Ice we treat as the dangerous threat it is.
ETR is the 14th
Wow. Sorry. Hopefully it goes a little faster than that.
I’m glad to hear at least everyone is OK and there is no damage to your house.
How much public money are they going to slosh at a new stadium?
That’s the sticking point of the negotiations. Cleveland finched first and out the details of their offering into the public asking the Browns to respond by a specified deadline. Brook Park is pulling for it, as it’s a big empty eyesore now.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Maryland small business plans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly canceled.
My kids used to go to this place for birthday parties, etc.
Twice we got there as some kid was being taken out on a stretcher. Most fun involves risk.
“I followed the laws and regulations” is not a deterministic defense when the plaintiff’s lawyer is waving a broken bloody 7-year old in front of the jury, screaming “negligence!”
My son and I enjoyed playing Borderlands. (Borderlands 2 was the best) I agree – I’ll wait to see it for free eventually just to see how bad it it.
Yeah, me too. When I heard they were doing a movie, I thought “Hey, that could be a lot of fun!”.
Then I saw a trailer. Oof. I’ll still watch it eventually. Probably.
“This law is a giant win for the
consumerambulance chasers,” said Jonathan Lieberman, a principal at the Law Firm of Stein Sperling in Rockville.FIFY, Johnny.
As Lieberman explained, the upcoming law will no longer allow liability waivers to shield businesses from lawsuits resulting from their negligence.
No unintended consequences in sight.
Of course. Rules for thee, etc.
I sometimes forget that there are people who didn’t attend a college with a decent football program.
Haven’t lost a game since 1992.
A long time ago in a romancelandia far away, there was a review posted at a popular American review blog of a book set at the University of Alabama, specifically, in their football program. This book was written by a Brit. She got almost NOTHING right and the book was reviewed harshly. The non-USians didn’t get the fuss. So what, just a little rinky dink college football team. No big. Then somebody said, “Roll Tide!” and the non-USians thought that was a reference to menstruation.
Um.
They had to be schooled on the American college football culture, and by the way, the University of Alabama is not exactly rinky-dink. That was the most glorious day that blog ever had. Nothing brings out and unites a bunch of Americans more than the world shitting on our football.
Some of us never even attended college. I kind of default to tOSU because my dad went there, and it’s easy up here.
I attended a college without a football program (unless you count the European black-and-white ball variety, in which we were highly-ranked, along with swimming). It was a deliberate choice.
If memory serves, my undergrad college team lost all of their games my freshman and senior years. They had no business being in Division 1.
So X just suspended @ukgov’s account for violating its rules. LOL
God bless Elon.
Excellent.
So great.
Wrong account, sorry to say
The real one (gray check) is https://x.com/GOVUK
DAMMIT! I even tried to fact-check that.
First really good Kamala impression I’ve seen.
https://x.com/mommyrn88/status/1821939486080524413
There are people who think the real Kamala has a drinking problem. She does seem drunk to me at times, anyone else think so?
Oh yeah – although permanently sedated on mood meds is at least as likely.
For a long time I was very good friends with alcohol. We had kind of a nasty falling out and dont speak anymore but…yeah, she is drunk. That is not speculation.
My dad is middle-of-the road when it comes to COVID nonsense. He got a couple of boosters. Anyhoo, he goes on cruises a couple times a year and he gets sick every single time.
I’m just, like 🤐
Brutal
No damage. Good. For me – lost count of hurricanes, 3 tornadoes (lucky each time), one earthquake, no volcanoes, two wildfires, a few floods. I should probably stay away from volcanoes.
I am assuming Lyles is vaccinated? That would be my first guess.
Alligators are easy to find and catch.
Bombs in toilets? The zillion self-writing jokes aside, who the fuck would do that?
Tort law has always been a fucking train wreck. Every time I hear some pol campaigning about tort reform I think “Haven’t y’all finished fucking things up enough already?”
Places where people take a shit are historically good spots for an ambush or an anti-personnel device. Everything that one knows about situational awareness and personal security tends to fly out the window when the turtlehead starts peeking…
A perfect day
It would be a good start Tommy.
Thomas Massie offers a compromise on Selective Service.
So glad your home escaped damage, Neph! That’s WAY too close for comfort!
WTF? A week without power… seriously?
When the dry remnants of Hurricane Ike passed through Ohio in September ’08, we were without power for ten days. Weirdly, the cable was restored before the power was – TT had his PC running off the generator, and suddenly his antivirus software updated. The one saving grace was that after the wind subsided, the weather was perfect the entire time the power was out.
Weekend Da Fuq-a-thon
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
The world’s been crazy this week. Hope none of you quit drinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8fYf53SMg
Let’s roast the fuck out of the UK government and ensure none of us can ever enter that country again
How many is that now? I have the UK and Canada on my no-go list.
Australia, New Zealand
It saddens me very deeply to see this happening in the Anglosphere.
Places like Hungary, Poland, and Russia are back on the list which feels weird having grown up in the 70s and 80s.
Unless I’m not allowed to leave here…
Another big win for the UAW?
Automaker Stellantis plans to indefinitely lay off up to 2,450 U.S. factory workers later this year as it discontinues production of an older version of its Ram 1500 pickup truck in Michigan.
The truck has been largely used as a low-cost pickup to sell to entry-level buyers and fleet customers since the automaker introduced a new generation of the Ram 1500 in 2018. It is produced alongside the Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant, located near Detroit.
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The discontinuation of the Ram 1500 “Classic” vehicle is not unexpected, but the company has not announced a vehicle to replace the truck. That is concerning for local governments, workers and the United Auto Workers union, which represents the plant.
Another “affordable” vehicle becomes unaffordable to build? Or another example of a manufacturer telling people who just want a basic work truck for, you know, actual work to fuck off?
a manufacturer telling people who just want a basic work truck for, you know, actual work to fuck off
You mean all the plastic doo dads, cheap electronic actuators and low quality interior materials doesn’t hold up to years of regular use by working men?
*clicks submit on RockAuto order for plastic doo dads and cheap electronic actuators*
Are you trying to suggest that not every vehicle needs 17 cameras placed all over the vehicle and a 20-inch touchscreen in the dash?
No damage to my house, but we’re without stable power (ETR is the 14th).
Glad to hear there wasn’t damage!
That seems like an excessive amount of time. We lost power (some of the weirdest electrical behavior I’ve seen) when the tornado came through less than a mile north of us. It cut a 15 mile path through the power grid and hit our area the worst. We had power back after 8 hours. I guess y’all have some transformers on back order or something.
We recently had a drunk smack into a fire hydrant and that shut down a huge part of the water distribution system. It happened on a Friday afternoon. There were no spare fire hydrants to replace it and the wholesaler had to order one which wouldn’t be processed until the next Monday. Power is one thing…water is a different game.
In Sandy we were down for 14 days… and a similar time for the Ice storm the previous year. I have a 15Kw PTO generator for my Kubota now. It takes a little while to set everything up (in the rain), but can run everything.
Same here in my part of northern NJ.
The 14th is the timeline for the county. All of those downed poles in that picture are the problem here. Based on the original outage maps I saw, I was on a border of three different outages. One has been resolved.
At least overnight Wednesday the power was stable, so we had things plugged in overnight.
It’ll also be nice when our corner isn’t the detour route on both streets.
Set up a lemonade stand.
Glad your home is unscathed.
Sean:
Depending on the freezer situation, I may set up out there grilling everything I can Sunday.
If you’re buying a truck for your crew of landscapers to drag a trailer loaded with lawnmowers and weedeaters around townon their rounds, do you really want leather seats and a big screen infotainment center?
You need the seats with the built in back massager to relax after your crew ran over all of the customer’s sprinkler heads with the mower.
Konstantin Kisin on UK censorship: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/DIl-HO9Ng3I
Explosive Trap Toilet, or, The New Browns Bowl er, Stadium!
You Be The Judge!
Hmmm…..
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyx0xq0n74ko
Glittery pigeon poo.
How avant-garde. 🙄
The Dems on Twitter are wallowing in conspiracy theories that Trump was involved in staging his assassination attempt. Barely any damage to his ear! Just one example.
Half of those people aren’t even putting together coherent sentences. Either leftist Twitter has their own language thats halfway to Pidgin, or those people are illiterate on top of being morons.
I’m confused here. I don’t know who to root for.
A.C.L.U. Must Reinstate Employee Falsely Accused of Racist Language, Court Rules
The case put the legal group on the spot for taking positions on free speech and workers’ rights that seemed at odds with its mission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/politics/aclu-employee-racism-false-accusation.html
https://archive.fo/lfpTj
This is how I feel when Michigan plays any of the big Florida schools, if only there were a way for everyone involved to lose.
“The case essentially revolved around the question of whether Ms. Oh’s complaints against A.C.L.U. managers added up to racism or were just harshly worded and occasionally belligerent criticisms of bosses who happened to be Black.
In one instance, she told a manager that she was “afraid” to talk with him. In another, she said that she had considered a conversation with a superior to be “chastising.” And in a meeting, she repeated a satirical phrase likening her bosses’ behavior to suffering “beatings.”
The final straw leading to Ms. Oh’s termination, according to the A.C.L.U., came when she wrote on social media that she was “physically repulsed” having to work for “incompetent/abusive bosses.”
A.C.L.U. managers and their lawyers argued that the language Ms. Oh used may not have been overtly or intentionally racist, but that it nonetheless caused harm to Black employees. ”
All she did was bitch about the bosses. I see no examples of racism. To Hell with the ACLU.
You would first have to assume that “abusive/incompetent bosses” == “black bosses.” So the ACLU first had to assume that to make the argument against her.
Their argument is that anything that makes a black person feel bad is ipso facto racist.
Maybe they shouldn’t have bailed on freedom of association.
Bake the cake, ACLU.
^^ how I feel, too
ACLU lost me when they hired Chase Strangio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQHW-hNUXzo
her real name: Kate Bachrach
What a shame, though there is some cosmic justice that women pretending to be men look just as absurd as men pretending to be women.
Trans-pretenders: please, get help, or just save cosplay for weekends and conventions.
Truly believing that you are trapped in the wrong body is a torture I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Reality can be cruel. It’s easier to change your insides than your outsides.
As I recall the ACLU swore off defending freedom of speech not that long ago.
Didn’t they start out as legal defense for communists in the USA? They have occasionally done some good things but only by accident.
Iceland is on volcano watch again. My dad seems to attract volcanoes – he’s due to be in Iceland in a couple days on a cruise. He saw Kilauea and La Palma as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
A.C.L.U. managers and their lawyers argued that the language Ms. Oh used may not have been overtly or intentionally racist, but that it nonetheless caused harm to Black employees. ”
That seems like a clear and reasonable legal test.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-u-s-secret-service-breaks-massachusetts-hair/
That’s fucking crazy.
Hoo boy, that is a lot of felonies.
Fortunately, the SS is just rolling in goodwill right now, with nary a PR disaster or catastrophic failure in sight.
Of which they will not be prosecuted.
https://www.businessinsider.com/secret-service-busted-salon-use-bathroom-owner-2024-8
On Thursday morning — the day after BI reached out to the agency for comment — the head of the Secret Service’s Boston-based field office called Powers to apologize, she said.
“He said to me everything that was done was done very wrong,” Powers said. “They were not supposed to tape my camera without permission. They were not supposed to enter the building without permission.”
Powers said the Secret Service representative she spoke to offered to have the salon cleaned and pay her alarm company bill for the day. Powers said he also offered to visit and apologize in person over a cup of coffee.
Powers said she’d take him up on it.
At least they are admitting it. And in a shitty way trying to make up for it. That’s more than usual that happens here.
“Whoopsie! How about a latte?” seems pretty fucking lame.
In a world of genuine freedom of association and employment at will, firing an employee for being a giant pain in the ass would never even come to the attention of the legal system.
A dude just became the fastest woman to ride from Canada to the Mexican border. https://bikepacking.com/news/austin-killips-tour-divide-fastest/
I went to the meet-the-teacher event at the charter school that just hired me. It’s not official as the bureaucracy moves at the speed of sloth, but since the principal helped me set up my classroom towards the end and assured me profusely I’d be teaching there, I feel it’s in the bag.
The students, parents, and other teachers were excited to meet me. I felt like celebrity getting mobbed to sign autographs. They liked it when I showed them my old Army ID, NSA memento card, and a pic of my oil-cooled computer. And of course, my resemblance to Rasputin:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/05/who-wore-it-better-rambo-or-me.html
Everything’s coming up Milhouse.
Beware of the groupies.
If a woman tells you she’s 18 and looks 15, she’s 12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yBPcn8IqU
The nice thing about young women is that know older women. Older single women.
Rasputin???
Well I screwed that joke right up.
Anyway, congrats. Well done.
You’ll like this:
Ra Ra RasPutin animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDW53rXqlRw
And now for a shot of vodka…
The administration of shit for brains just keeps getting dumber and dumber.
US to lift ban on offensive weapons sales to Saudi Arabia
The Biden administration has decided to lift a ban on U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Friday, reversing a three-year-old policy to pressure the kingdom to wind down the Yemen war.
The State Department was lifting its suspension on certain transfers of air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia, a senior department official confirmed. “We will consider new transfers on a typical case-by-case basis consistent with the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy,” the official said.
Look Boeing is having a tough time…
And the aircraft pictured is made by BAE, le sigh.
/devil’s advocate on
If we want the yobos that are messing with Red Sea shipping to stop, the Saudis are one of the best-positioned entities to do so (if you don’t mind a war crime or three).
/devil’s advocate off
It appears to me the Obama policy (currently being pursued) is to deliberately create a world war. No place better to start it than the ME. In my opinion, yeah I know what that is worth, nearly everything they have done in the ME rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. They dont need to be in power, they need to be in prison.
My HP 8610 (which I loved) took a shit. Not sure I need color anymore since the girl is gone, but what are your thoughts about inkjet vs laser for home offices? We had a Brother laser at the old office that was un-killable. Feeder and duplex are important.
Thoughts?
If you see this – l love my Brother laser. It’s duplex printing, but single sided scanning.
Laser unless you print enough to run though an entire inkjet cartridge before it dies. I have a 10 year old Canon color laser printer that still works like a charm. It’s mostly on homeschool worksheet duty these days.
I am still chuckling but a bit disturbed by the limeys saying we cant have freedom of speech because they can hear us over there. Chuckling because I cant think of a ‘Fuck off and DIAF’ that really captures how I feel about that and disturbed because I can see the ruling party getting on board with it.
If we dont shut this shit down soon I fear it will come to blows.
Did everyone on the zoomies die?
Good question. Was thinking of trying again to see if my audio would work, but I’ve also had an odd day. Many ups and a (maybe fairly) big slip w my only US friend.
Unsure my mood would translate well, but am tempted.
I’m asleep.