Line ’em up, boys.
Ah, Monday…I am hiding in the basement, at my workstation, since the Real Feel is 103F out. This has allowed me to search for some links…but, be on guard. It’s a really stupid world out there.
Here, see what I mean?
- Don’t like it? DO BETTER, IDIOTS.
- How many times do we have to see versions of this story. KNOCK IT OFF.
- French Government. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- If you mess with wine in Switzerland, you are STUPID.
Comments are all yours.
IT GOOD THERE NO SUCH THING AS SPACE SMITH. HIM MIGHT GET BLAME!
I can easily imagine STEVE SMITH would never be stuck in a docking port — entry and re-entry always goes smoothly with all the thrust he needs.
HI STEVE! PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR ALL THE WILDFIRE AROUND THE NORTHWEST!
Wouldn’t want your hair to catch fire. That would be regrettable.
Rumor has it that these wildfires start because of friction sparks due to Steve Smith’s rampant, uh, activity.
Reminds one of the venture brothers episode ‘careers in science’. It happened to feature your cousin Sasquatch.
Nice to see you on the Zoom this weekend. I was dumb enough to do yardwork in the heat yesterday. Or maybe smart, because I have no reason to go out there today. Stay cool.
It was actually cooler here late last week / going into the weekend (only mid 90s or so, felt great). I really, really should have climbed on the roof in the morning and scrubbed the solar panels.
I did not… because I am lazy and I suck. But I did enjoy my weekend, lazy though it was.
“… and some are dumber than others.”
We need the trifecta — someone needs to fall off a cliff over a waterfall while trying to get a selfie with a bison.
DO BETTER, IDIOTS.
Failure is always an option.
This is the most diverse set of idiots every assembled!
Seattle Times has big article on who BA is throwing under the bus for Alaska Air.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/inside-boeings-factory-lapses-that-led-to-alaska-air-blowout/
It would be Master Chief, err, I mean…
Or perhaps waiting for the Keymaster from “Ghostbusters”. Both were put into some make work and after the union raised a stink “paid administrative leave”. So two guys one with basically only prior Taco Bell experience are completely to blame for this fiasco.
Also no idea that that the soon to be junked Starliner is named:
Calypso
It does not ask them to return — it will just let them go.
You are shitting me. Right?
The neighbors have a triple sized yard, which is nice because our house looks out on some nice scenery instead of another house. The guy is out there with a 4 wheeler, and his 3 year old kid has a mini 4 wheeler. They’re just riding around in circles. It’s like a new sound of summer. Welcome to Indiana.
I’d laugh, but we’re busy competing with the UK to be Harry to France’s Lloyd.
Music.
*uptwinkles*
KNOCK IT OFF.
Maybe those eyebrows dragged her over the edge.
Norwegians causing trouble at the Great Minnesota Get Together
Diversity is our strength!
I’m sure Gov. Walz will round up and jail any whitey involved in disrupting a mostly peaceful protest.
Still time for another Summer of Love!
I used to work a few blocks south on Snelling. We hated State Fair time. That was 30 years ago.
Should have worked more on her dismount.
Well, she does seem to have her tumbling down though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMoi_m2G6XU
It was a rocky start but she made it.
I, for one am not laughing. I know how quick a misstep can change a person’s life and not for the better.
/Gimp
The difficulty was high but it was poorly executed.
She definitely stuck the landing. Probably stuck it about 6 feet underground.
Philanthropy today
The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the country’s national parks.
The National Park Foundation, which Congress created in the 1960s to support national parks, will receive the donation from Indianapolis-based foundation Lilly Endowment Inc. The park foundation described the gift on Monday as the largest grant in history benefiting U.S. national parks.
The money will be used to address the needs of the country’s more than 400 national park sites, said Will Shafroth, president and CEO of the National Park Foundation.
Hire more neurodiverse managers.
I’ll applaud that. I set aside my libertarian hat when it comes to the NPs.
We have one right up the road. For years people wanted the Indiana Dunes to be a national park. Of all people it was Trump who signed it into law, which always gives me a little chuckle.
But I agree, I like the parks and I’m happy all that land is being taken care of.
We did Independence Hall in November of ’22 and I have to say the guide we had (forgot his name, but a tall, thin, older black man) did an absolute first-rate job. Clearly into the history, no wokesterism, very good presentation manner.
Me too.
Anyone who hasn’t visited Yellowstone NP is missing out. It’s about the only place my family visited often that I have fond memories of.
Yeah, it’s an amazing place. We’ve been to something like 24 of the parks. Glacier is probably my favorite. Although Yosemite, Zion and all three in WA are musts.
Next time you are in Oregon, Tundra, drop in on Crater Lake. It is very impressive.
@Zwak Been there! And it wasn’t even socked in so we could see it in all its glory!
Should have worked more on her dismount.
She really stuck the landing.
On Monday, the public prosecutor’s office demanded five years’ imprisonment for a Valais winegrower. He is accused of buying hundreds of thousands of liters of foreign wine and selling it under the AOC Valais designation.
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Or the prosecutor’s grapes of wrath.
It’s Switzerland, so it’d the the Crêpes of Wrath.
He is certainly wining about the punishment.
That comment was allowed to ferment,
He didn’t keep his anger bottled up did he?
STEVE SMITH STAND IN FOR CHEESE PERSON…
AND BY “STAND IN FOR”, MEAN…?
Go Shuushing! about the Alps, Teds.
My daughter used to like to get pictures doing handstands in places like the top of Angels Landing or on Caminito del Rey, but she at least was smart enough to not get too close to the edge and she only shared the pics to her gymnastics chat group.
Remember the planking fad? Lots of people fell off places doing that.
I dimly remember hearing about it — but was too board to look into it. Thought it was just a splinter movement anyway.
It is nice that Kamala is leading the way when it comes to stopping planking. She didn’t allow a single plank at her convention.
Two weeks ago, we had our windows open for a week.Today, it’s 100F with a wind chill of 113F.
I do not know how I survived a childhood without AC.
Right?? It’s only 80-something here but the humidity is cranking up again and dammit I will turn on the AC because I can.
The weather station in the yard said the temp was 97 and the dew point was 87. I thought dew point of 83 last year was pretty brutal.
XY failed to turn on his blinkers at every point in his driver’s test. Sheepishness ensued.
He got a baaaaad result from the inspector?
Couldn’t pull the wool over their eyes.
Oh ewe guys.
No blinkers? That is a good way to get rammed
You didn’t mention he was driving a BMW!
LOLOLOL!!! Shpip made that joke to me earlier and then had to explain it!
Yeah, that’s en easy joke to make here.
To be fair, out in the real world a lot of SOBs can’t be bothered to use turn signals either.
Turn signals are a sign of respect. I don’t respect any of these r-tards on my commute.
“I turn now. Everyone else good luck.”
Counting the number of A-holes who either put their blinkers on 10 miles before turning, leave them on after a lane change, or signal halfway through the turn, does it really matter anymore?
How much signal I need to cut across eight lane?
Tulsi Gabbard endorses Donald Trump
Hmm. Director of Homeland Security?
That would be delicious.
I could also see her as Secretary of the Army.
I’d like to see her clean house, get rid of the DEI in the military, go back to higher standards, and bring back up recruiting. Also she’s pretty hot so that couldn’t hurt.
Would still be on the Selectee list.
That was a great speech. Probably won’t convert too many people because all the Dems have been trained to hate her.
There are supposed to be a string of these converts, which is unique and I think a really strong play.
It certainly counters the “republicans for whorris” movement.
Even if they don’t convert, they may stay home. Gabbard and Kennedy are giving cover to those non-radical Democrats who feel disenfranchised, who feel they no longer have a voice in the party, who are looking for someone to tell them their feelings of disgust with and betrayal by the party are legitimate.
Good point Tonio. I am now getting this “everyone against the corrupt Dems” feeling. I’m really curious to see who else they bring on.
The Taibbi/Kern podcast had a good episode on Kennedy defecting. Basically, they think he gives cover for a lot of people to leave the party. That they think there is a lot of dissatisfaction outside the PMC, and this could be enough to get them to not pull the lever for the D’s.
Or, what Tonio said.
I’m waiting for Jill Stein to throw in the towel and endorse OMB. She was certainly pretty fired up about the way the Democrats are trying to kick the Greens off the ballot in the swing states. I think she is starting to realize that no matter how bad Orange Hitler is, the opposition is worse.
Stein flirted with it the other day.
Chaos
Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to dismiss Donald Trump’s criminal case in Florida could have a far-reaching impact on many other criminal cases, according to a report published Monday.
The federal judge ruled last month that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed because he was not confirmed by the Senate, and as a result she tossed out Trump’s indictment in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Legal experts say Cannon’s decision could now be used to challenge prosecutions by any interim official who’s not confirmed by Congress, reported the Washington Post.
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“There seems to be willingness of right-wing judges to say that everything that came before is of no consequence when it comes to determining history and constitutional power,” said Philip Allen Lacovara, deputy solicitor general during the Nixon administration who later served on the Watergate special prosecutor team.
Another tragic repudiation of precedent. Why do these judges want to make it hard for government functionaries to expand the power of the state?
So he’s saying that conservative judges are unburdened by what has been?
Why can’t you just follow the rules we set up when we were in power?
No fair.
The French also take wine tampering seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfsAH9HmQSA
Exactly the bit I was thinking of.
From the lunchtime thread, the Xter post claiming that Homer as Burns’ personal assistant was the apogee of comic writing: The bit from the Halloween episode where Homer is buying the evil doll is way funnier.
“The sprinkles contain potassium benzoate.”
I read something earlier about the Democrats’ convention in Chicago, in which the
reporterstenographer used the term “mostly peaceful demonstrations” unironically. I laughed.In sports news, the Phillies’ High-A affiliate in Clearwater has a golden retriever named Layla as their “bat dog.”
After thirteen years in the minors, Layla was retired last month, and a ten-month old pup, Lucy May, took over as of last week.
Needless to say, Lucy’s debut exhibited some rookie jitters.
There are supposed to be a string of these converts, which is unique and I think a really strong play.
There’s no way he could endorse Trump, but maybe Jon Tester will come out as an independent and say he won’t reflexively vote with the Democrats. That would be hilarious.
They’ve got a commission looking into the Trump shooting, and they brought in Dan Bongino.
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1828121983747567947
I wonder what Eric Prince was doing there? I’d gotten the distinct impression that Eric was trying to stay out of the ‘States as much as possible these days…
Lots of work if he wants it – they just pulled RFK’s Secret Service protection.
I’ve heard that a lot of the very wealthiest are stepping up their personal security with those dudes.
Ban football
The death of an Alabama teenager at a high school football game has brought new scrutiny to the safety of participants in the the US’s favorite sport on campuses.
Caden Tellier, 16, died in hospital after suffering a “severe” brain injury during Friday night’s game between John T Morgan academy and visiting Southern academy in Selma.
Tellier is at least the fourth fatality among high school football players in recent weeks, following the deaths of three others in connection with medical emergencies – including heat exhaustion – in Alabama, Kansas and Virginia.
The headmaster of Morgan academy, a religious private school for which Tellier was playing quarterback, said its community was heartbroken over the teenager’s death.
How many teenagers got killed in car crashes, or boating accidents?
Tellier’s death came the same day as the Guardian published an article authored by two experts in youth participation in sport questioning if high school and college football was safe – or “morally tenable”.
“The brutal fact [is] that every time we watch football, we are actually witnessing players suffer life-altering head trauma – harm that is essentially invisible to us for it occurs inside the helmet and skull,” said professors Nathan Kalman-Lamb of the University of New Brunswick and Derek Silva of King’s University College.
Better stay inside watching tiktok vids.
Reminds me of this old ’70’s meme:
https://www.ehscity.com/file/upload/201507/02/08-52-05-83-1.jpg
Also saw this:
https://images.deadspin.com/nzfadbntpqcgee2ekb10.png
With the minor difference that American youth aren’t being shipped over there, you fucking dumbass.
Called it yesterday – commies are restarting the campus fun right where it left off, and on the first day of classes.
But There is a GeNoCiDe!!!!!!!!!!11!!
/rolls eys so for he throws out his back.
“We had to accept that the only way to make ourselves heard is by targeting the only thing the university administration truly cares about: property,” the vandals said in an anonymous statement to the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper that broke the story.
“They made us do it.”
Universities suffer it because they need these students on campus. Were it not for these useful idiots, their classrooms would be empty, and their coffers to uphold the DEI scam would be severely compromised.
Boeing employees are “humiliated”
Good, so they still have shame.
NASA
https://x.com/watchTENETnow/status/1827757093526421679
Aren’t they supposed to wear dunce hats and be pelted with rotten fruit while they confess the sin of whiteness?
They are doing struggle sessions wrong.
Made it to the general Cleveland area, met The Hyperbole, and somehow we did not engage in an escalating match of pedantry and contrarianism…
I don’t even know who we are anymore.
You two have fun. I hope your holiday is going well.
I don’t know who you are, either! That is shocking!
He wasn’t even wearing gloves! But he did remark that his chicken sammich was too spicy.
I said the Nashville hot chicken snuck up on me, because the heat was back-loaded and the initial bite was mild.
See, kids, when two people love each other very much…
This explains it.
https://autos.yahoo.com/ford-loses-44-000-every-142800440.html
Ford’s been sending me emails every week begging me to buy one of their EVs. This week’s email was trying to sell me an ICE pickup.
And they wonder why I don’t give them my email address.
If I buy a vehicle once a decade, that’s too often.
They are in serious shit. I think the auto industry is gonna look really different in five years.
Agreed. More like ten years though. Lots of new players will enter once we finally lose the chicken tax and tariffs.
The interest rates are what gets to me. 5 years ago, everyone was offering 0% and all kinds of incentives and shit. Now it’s like “2.9% is the best we can do, take it or leave it”
“take it or leave it.”
Ok.
Someone around here has been saying hyperbolic things like “EV’s are the dumbest idea since the square wheel. ” since the inception of this genius idea.
Rhetoric like that doesnt help.
VW couldn’t give me one for free. Literally.
I hated it.
I just bought my truck six months ago. Apparently they either think I’m in the market for every other one of their vehicles or they feel destroying any goodwill is a great marketing tactic because emails are cheap.
“…destroying any goodwill is a great marketing tactic because emails are cheap.”
There is an awful lot of that going around of late.
Another Dem defection
What are the odds another Kennedy is fixing to be “assassinated”?
I don’t know. Either way he is just voting for a different democrat. Trump is a conservative democrat vs. Kamala is a progressive democrat.
That has crossed my mind.
Let’s hope Dr. Weinstein at the last minute doesn’t decide to ‘reluctantly and strategically’ vote the Calamity/Tampon ticket.
Drinker says:
The Crow – The Worst Movie Of The Year
Oh, Hollywood says “hold my organic carrot juice.”
Just you wait, Drinker.
Torchinsky weighs in on Boeing.
https://www.theautopian.com/nasa-is-going-to-get-starliner-astronauts-home-on-a-space-x-dragon-after-all-so-get-ready-for-the-smugness/
I think I have had it with incompetence. Here on earth and elsewhere. I have no patience for useless assholes any more.
Amen!
Yeah, because the covidiots were never smug little shits when someone unvaxxed failed a covid test.
Bret Weinstein, a lifelong Democrat and influential podcaster, has signaled that he is open to voting for Donald Trump following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of the former president.
Can’t any of these worthless douchebags make a decision on their own?
They are herd animals. Waiting for the animal up front to make a move.
I think he was going to vote Kennedy as a protest vote but now that he’s off the ticket he’s going Trump.
He’s in Oregon where I think Kennedy will still be on the ballot, so he can safely vote for Kennedy.
Kennedy will still be on the Minnesoda ballot. Why do I suspect that the DNC will now insist on keeping RFK on the ballots in as many places as they can?
Hoping his dumber supporters won’t realize he isn’t running and will waste their vote on him instead of giving it to Trump.
No one on zoom and that’s likely best. My brain’s all aflutter. My dive into phlebotomy was five 9-10 hr shifts in a row. It went…remarkably well! (Semi-predictable.) I was praised for learning the machine swiftly and a few times for my people skills. I had today off and work 730-630 tomorrow w hour lunch. I’m supposed to be shadowing someone different tomorrow, and they (on paper) aren’t on the floor, but rather in admin. They did say they were gonna see how I was doing and see where I did best. Possibly allocate my skills in certain directions.
Last week was abnormal cuz I have a dr appt this Wed and have the weekend pre-scheduled off. So only Tues, Thurs/Fri. This continues to be a fascinating start to methinks something bigger than expected. First paycheck will be a massive alteration of my life. Wowza.
I don’t think Mondays are big zoom days.
But congratulations on doing well. I told you you could. Keep it up.
Thanks. I’m quite unconcerned, really. I’m quite good at adapting. It’s going well and I expect it to go onward.
My minimum is 6mo here. Barring something profound, I’d like at least a year. Doing slight napkin-estimate math, I’d make near $30k. Obvious expenses are obvious, but I’d be rent-free as long as I stay with my ‘rents. After half a year a lease of my own is gonna be in the works. This is a slightly strange journey, directly on par (IMO) with moving to Korea in ’09 and diving into Managing Editor of the Peru Tribune upon return to America in ’22.
Strange, but somehow familiar territory. Doing well with the set-up process, and the disconnect process to follow. Then, I ‘spose pokin’ comes up next! (They stab much differently than in a hospital setting. Uh. More slapstick. No shit, even “intramuscular” injections are talked about in training. Fuck.
But congratulations on doing well. I told you you could. Keep it up.
UCS: I hope you were wearing your special Back Patting gloves when you posted that.
Nah, those were his Handshake Glove. Gotta say, it was a good shake. Eye-to-eye, single pump. Not too hard, nothing suggesting dominance. Not there to prove anything. Firm enough to know he was there.
His Back-Patting Gloves are reserved for emergencies, chest percussion and slappin’ to loosen brachial vibes. Infants, frequently involved.
We don’t do Zoom on school nights except for Wednesday.
Yeah. My clock has been off all week from working Wed-Sun. Yesterday felt like Friday and today is… well. Today. Hrm.
It would be nice if true, but I wonder if this claim might not have been made if it wasn’t an election year? I also wonder how long it will be before King Walz takes credit for it.
For me the acid test would be to say that now that there are officially no homeless vets, those agencies can be disbanded. I bet those agencies know where they could suddenly find some homeless vets.
This.
The most dangerous thing you can do is discover an easy, economical solution to a problem that has some organization dedicated to solving that problem. You would have one hell of a price on your head before you could let the world know what the solution is.
“Oh my God everybody! It’s so easy! It was right in front of us the whole time! I found the cure for canc…” *head explodes from bullet*
* American Cancer Society blows smoke from end of a gun barrel*
How tough are women in my old neck of the woods? Let’s just see what their criminal boyfriends are out there stealing for them, shall we?
Dude stole her a concrete vibrator, but no lube?
KK.
I saw this and thought of you.
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/hands-on-timex-x-pan-am-day-date-watch/
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