I will cheerfully confess that I am generally not a fan of summer. It’s hot and it’s (here) humid. But there are some good points and I’ll confess that summer produce is screaming good right now, the girls are wearing far less, and the wineries all have their decks open where I can sit, sip something great, and watch the world go by with a great view of the lakes and hills. Mint has gone crazy in my back yard, and I always have mojito fixings on hand. It almost makes the weather tolerable…
I guess being born is also tolerable, and birthdays today include the king of frankenfood; a guy who tried to be a worse president than Wilson and almost succeeded; a guy who will be forever remembered for an oil can; a guy who should have been a lawyer; a guy who probably never played a Les Paul; a guy who should have been in Rocky; a guy who actually wanted to see the sausage being made; the reason that the Indians will never win a World Series; and a guy who always pisses people off when I use him in Old Guy Music.
And before I run off to drink some great wine al fresco, I’ll toss out some Links.
Do we have to fight those filthy redcoats again?
“Pay your own fucking bills and get your hands out of my pocket!”
Let’s be clear: Israel is basically a bag man for the military-industrial complex.
Someone is going to get cut off at the knees. Not that he’s getting any Team Red love for it.
AP doesn’t even pretend any more.
Warty laughs at this weakling.
Here’s the Old Guy’s way to piss you off with a birthday boy. And this was the very best version of this band playing a great song from their very best album.
After they put up the sheet: “This exhibit is closed.”
Did he blow his O-ring?
I would lean towards extradition would happen if Harris becomes president.
Yes.
Well, if you can’t trust what a Palestinian “health official” has to say, you might even question an American one!
I’d pay to see the AP do that.
No kidding. I had no idea it was going to be this humid upstate – basically at or near 100% for months at a time. I had assumed that the humidity could not get worse than NYC – boy I was wrong.
The heat has finally relented, at least. People assure me that this summer has been “unusual”. I hope so.
We were told too that this summer is an outlier here in the Ohio Valley. Wasn’t terribly bad and we have a nice week coming up of low 80s
Nice looking tomatoes, OM
Looks like 70s from here on out. Mosquitoes are mostly gone.
So, lots of bush?
“the reason that the Indians will never win a World Series”
Well, that, and there isn’t a team by that name any more.
They could’ve just called themselves the Cleveland Baseball Team, because being a fan of CBT fits.
Locally the fans I knew were pulling for the Spiders, the Naps, or the Tribe.
Most still refer to the Tribe.
This morning the power and Internet appear to be stable, so I’ve got that going for me.
I was hoping/assuming everyone just calls them The Indians.
The CBT, “Formerly known as The Indians”
rhywun:
The Indians is still used by most, and I think I may see more Wahoo gear out and about now than back when it was the Indians. It’s a badge of fan pride that you were one of the “old” fans.
When the Redskins were going through their name-change bullshit, one of my Prog friends, in response to my observation of how stupidly performative the whole thing was, challenged me, “So how would YOU like it if they named a team the New York Jews? Huh???”
“I think that would be AWESOME.”
I want a team!
https://www.saltlakeclothing.com/cdn/shop/products/caucasians_cb6c4339-101b-48de-9473-5db16d5c9422_2048x2048.jpg
OMWC:
Back in the day, when the protests first started, one of the local sports talk guys was Italian. One of the big hitters for the Indians happened to also have a last name ending in a vowel, and whenever he came up to bat, the scoreboard would show a big plate of spaghetti and meatballs. The sports talk guy asked what was different between the two.
I also think having the Cleveland Crackers, the Washington Whities, and the Kansas City Rednecks could work for team names. And never forget the team that tried to mock the whites.
Neph: I don’t remember this but as a huge baseball nerd I’ll give it a shot. Based on when I think the complaints started (and I don’t know if I’m right about that either LOL) I’m going to guess it was Paul Sorrento?
*Notre Dame has entered the chat*
We must not refer to anyone as any other race, culture, gender or even individual because anything other than ‘comrade’ is inherently bad. Sound familiar?
Ukraine can’t have all the fun.
“Testing. Testing.”
How else will the MIC know if it’s safe for the kids at home to use?
Classy
Bet she will still vote for her too
Geez, with all the money she* has raised, they could damn well spring for some portapotties.
*skeptical of how much credit she can claim for those $$$.
Biden was a co-signer. A joint account.
They could put a groundhog on the ticket and it would raise the same amount of cash. They’re not paying her, they’re paying the Party.
They’re not paying her, they’re paying the Party.
Specifically, they’re paying the party for removing Biden. It could’ve been Wet Sock/Used Condom 2024, and they’d still be paying the party off for putting ol’ Joe to pasture.
Or the party held up paying itself, to get rid of Joe.
Speaking of Old Guy music – watched this on blu-ray last night and highly recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdhiDjF_uSQ
Adding to my list of titles to pick up – movies or in some cases reminding me to look for the OST CD.
Thank you for the recommendation. I will definitely watch this.
Now I’m in the mood for spaghetti.
That UK thing is depressing. We are one election away from the dems packing the Supreme Court and passing some “defense of democracy” act that would be a dictator’s wet dream.
Meh. It’s a short hop to the end of the world from climate change anyway.
It is. Their politics are as rigged as ours so there’s no voting their way out.
They can revolt now, or submit to this Orwellian two-tier dystopia until the UK becomes an Islamic Republic – then enjoy living in dhimmitude.
Airstrip ١
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 08/10:
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📖 In the top 5% by bonus words
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⏱️ In the top 3% by speed
🔥 Solve streak: 401
“Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies of cancer aged 56”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13730035/Susan-Wojcicki-youtube-dead-cancer-son-months.html
She couldn’t just delete the cancer for disagreeing with her?
“Witnesses reveal how Brazilian plane carrying doctors en route to a seminar narrowly missed crashing into a neighbourhood before it ‘fell out of the sky and exploded’ to leave 61 dead – as aviation experts determine likely cause of ‘death spiral’
The ATR-72 aircraft that crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil, was cruising at 17,000 feet, the airline said. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13730181/brazil-plane-crash-witnesses-police-cascavel-guaurulhos.html
yikes
Flat spin stall….fuck that
Odd that it happened at 17k, though, isn’t it?
Yeah, it speaks to a high speed upset, which is rare. Last one I remember like that was the Air France plane that disappeared in the middle of the Atlantic.
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1821967351333695707
Nope
This will be blamed on climate change causing turbulent air.
Happy Saturday!
Lousy SugarFree!
Happy Saturday, take two
Cool link, bro! 😉
I corrected it before you posted.
Keep it up and I might start wishing for snow at Tranquility Base. 🙂
This should really help the brand image after all the DEI news.
Workers ‘pretty nervous’ after Harley-Davidson moves work from Wisconsin to Thailand
“French National Police violently arrested a Hell’s Kitchen man after he tried to take a photo with an Israeli flag outside an Olympic venue, the wounded tourist told The Post.
Neil Frias, who is Jewish, was posing for a selfie with the Israeli flag outside the Olympic Aquatics Center in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis when a trio of cops began interrogating him and asked if he was “inciting a riot, or a protest,” he recalled….
The cops seized Frias’ phone and “tried to rip” his flag, according to the complaint.
Frias, 35, was sent on his way after the cops verified his passport and saw he had a ticket to attend the France-Japan water polo match that afternoon.
Roughly 15 minutes later, however, as Frias stood in line at the facility’s main entrance to have his ticket scanned, a different group of five cops suddenly tackled him, he recalled.”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/10/world-news/jewish-nyc-resident-neil-frias-violently-arrested-after-taking-selfie-with-israeli-flag-outside-olympic-stadium-complaint/
WTF??
Boiling point is steadily getting closer
French Jews are painfully aware that it’s time to bug out. And the issue isn’t from the French, it’s from the French surrendering.
There’s a bunch of vids of IOC folks ripping down fan signs for Taiwan (even just posters that say “Taiwan”) on them due to CCP pressure. Just insane.
“Facebook bans #XX hashtag amidst Olympic boxing gender controversy
“Keeping our community safe: Posts with #XX are temporarily hidden here. Some content in those posts goes against our community standards.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/facebook-bans-xx-hashtag-amidst-olympic-boxing-gender-controversy
Just last week they temporarily banned the picture of Trump surviving a bullet.
#XxX
“Kamala Harris ordered the seizure of undercover videos that exposed the selling of baby parts from Planned Parenthood when she was the attorney general of California in 2016.
In a thread of undercover videotapes posted by journalist David Daleiden, top-tier Planned Parenthood officials talked about selling livers for $1,500 as well as ripping off the legs of unborn infants in order to avoid classifying a late-term abortion as a partial-birth abortion. Daleiden is now facing eight felony charges for exposing the abortion organization and may face jail time, per the New York Post.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/kamala-harris-seized-video-evidence-exposing-planned-parenthood-as-dealing-in-aborted-baby-parts-when-she-was-california-ag
Oddly, I think this helps Harris.
I agree.
I doubt it moves the needle at all.
The whole “abortion on demand up to birth” puts off a lot of normal people.
Nuh-uh. According to the MSM, it’s the Democrats’ triumphant issue. If you want to win an election, you must support abortion under any circumstances and use state funding to provide it.
Purgatory
“No more excuses,” Newsom said in a July 25 post on X. “We’ve provided the time. We’ve provided the funds. Now it’s time for locals to do their job.”
But members of the homeless community say they have nowhere to go.
“It’s absolute mayhem and craziness,” said Jeni Shurley, a member of the homeless community in Los Angeles.
“I honestly feel like I need to leave the country, because I have so desperately searched the entire country trying to find some kind of a solution, literally gone coast to coast,” she added.
Shurley, 48, said she has been homeless for the decade, holding down a string of temporary and itinerant jobs in one location or another in Oregon, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and now California, while also suffering serious health problems.
After Newsom announced his executive order on July 25, Shurley said she considered moving to another country because she didn’t want to be criminalized for being homeless.
No matter where you go, you’re still homeless and unemployable. Maybe the problem is you.
The bigger story is Newsome trying to offload the issue on localities while never pointing to his own policies
Won’t Canada kill her for free?
*lolsnort*
Notice how she went to some of the most expensive (and Dem-controlled) cities in the country to try to not be homeless anymore? Weird that she wasn’t successful in getting back her feet.
Wherever you go, there you are.
UK business: I could spend all day on that. Extraditing people for behaving in ways here that are illegal ini some other shithole country would be the complete sacrifice of our sovereignty. This is laughable. Can we extradite officials from Britain for disarming their own public? I suspect this is a road they dont want to go down.
“Rhode Island school district outsourced intimidation of activist mom to teachers unions: lawsuit
After getting too much national attention for threat to sue Nicole Solas for her flood of public records requests, South Kingston School Committee passed the baton to NEA affiliates, First Amendment suit claims.
Three years after Nicole Solas asked her Rhode Island school district for its curriculum and teaching materials related to critical race theory and gender identity before sending her daughter to kindergarten, the stay-at-home mother compelled South Kingston to turn over those records for free — not the $74,000 it demanded — and pay her attorney’s fees and a civil fine.
Now she’s going after the school district and former board members for “working hand in glove” with state and local teachers unions to sue Solas under the theory that records she sought would reveal teachers’ private discussions, names and personally identifiable information.”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/rhode-island-school-district-outsourced-intimidation-activist-mom-teachers
We can’t tell you what we are teaching, or even who is teaching it, but we want your taxes to pay for it.
The whole student loan debacle is a clusterfuck from day one until now, from one end to the other. The whole thing is a scam. There are no good guys in this story. Not the government, not the banks, not the naive students who took the money. Is there a way to punish them all?
I left out the worst offenders: The Universities.
Good morning all!
The good news – absolutely perfect poached eggs on toast this morning. Warm runny yolks, with perfectly collected solid whites, toast that’s just crispy enough, perfect ratio of butter to black pepper. I’m very proud of myself.
The bad news – my dead AC unit is leaking out the intake, and I didn’t notice until the water started running out into the living room carpet underlayment. So now, in addition to getting gangfucked for a new AC system, I’m looking at another couple thousand to have the floor redone. FML.
How’s everyone else’s weekend so far?
Oof. Sorry, ES.
Ugh. That sucks.
I did a vinyl floor at the old house by myself. It was pretty easy and I got the planks at Costco. May be an option.
Good luck.
That does look pretty simple. But, on the other hand, installation ’round these parts is only about $3/ft², and that covers things like moving the furniture, removing and disposing of the old carpet, and so on. Might be worth the extra thousand bucks. I’ll check it out though.
Your call, but the floor is insured.
The AC is a repair and not covered, but the floor is.
That said unless it $2k or more I’d avoid the claim.
Second the claims avoidance. Anecdotally hearing people getting dropped more frequently now. Belts are tightening.
You could have asked me for help you know
Oh, the AC in this condo is fucked. The unit is twenty years old and it wasn’t great when it was new – I knew full well it was on borrowed time.
If you have any advice on the leaking, though, I’m all ears. I only discovered that last night. You can reach me at EvilSheldon@pm.me if you want to take it to email.
And thanks!
Good deal. Insomnia helped me catch power being stable earlier today so while the items in the fridge will need to be sacrificed, the freezer items should all be good. Power and internet have both been stable for ~8 hours so far, so I think I’m through the worst of it.
Local liquor store has a new bottle. Going to caulk the pumphouse and then see if one is still there when they open.
Sorry 🙁
If it’s dead, how is it making water?
That is an excellent question. Backed up drain pipe?
Bag man for the MI complex? Israel? What is the rest of the world…ukraine especially right now? All of the wars save actions in Panama and Grenada since WWII have been fake-ass money laundering operations.
About Panama…..
The race is lost and the Dems know it. They put Dingdong and Putz on the ticket to get rid of them. Those two are poison. Anyone not keeping their distance deserves what they get.
Seem to be dominating in the polls right now while Trump makes one unforced error after another.
I think they could easily win.
I know. Polls show Hillary has a 97% chance of beating Trump and the election is in two days. He is toast.
War criminal
A California man who cracked the face shield of one police officer, unloaded pepper spray on others and bludgeoned countless officers with poles, boards and even his feet was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday, the longest sentence handed down to any participant in the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prosecutors called David Dempsey “political violence personified,” and U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth agreed, saying that even on a day that “will be seared into our nation’s memory as a bloodbath,” Dempsey’s conduct was “exceptionally egregious.”
Of the more than 1,400 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack — a violent assault by supporters of former President Donald Trump seeking to prevent the transfer of power to President Joe Biden — only former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to a lengthier prison term: 22 years. But Tarrio was not present at the Capitol that day. Rather, a jury convicted him of orchestrating a plan for his Proud Boys allies to breach the Capitol and help the larger mob overwhelm police.
Dempsey’s sentence outstrips even the one handed down to Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison last year for similarly orchestrating a plan to violently impede the transfer of power.
Twenty years for stuff that would get you 90 days in a barroom brawl.
Now do antifa, blm and their funders.
Warty laughs at this weakling.
So does this dude.
Powerline
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/the-week-in-pictures-who-is-tim-walz.php
She’s a hep cat, Daddio
So, how does Harris avoid her own cringe-worthy moments? The answer lies in cultural fluency.
“A good social media campaign is one that understands the ideal target audience and is able to speak credibly to that audience based on the message, the messenger, the tone, the delivery, etc,” explained Danielle Butterfield, Priorities USA’s Executive Director.
Harris’s supporters online are warning her against taking the “brat” comparisons too far, such as one TikTok video that has amassed 1 million views and over 190,000 likes.
“[P]raying someone on Kamala’s team has enough sense to ensure she NEVER does the apple dance. At the moment the memes are fun but if that were to ever happen I fear we’d be jumping the shark into pokémon levels of cringe,” the user wrote on the screen with Charli XCX’s aforementioned song, “Apple,” playing in the background.
The apple dance is a trending spin-off from the “brat” album.
Hundreds of commenters commented on the post with their own suggestions to the Kamala HQ account on thwarting a devastating gaffe for the campaign.
“I think if she engages with it too much, it might become more cringy,” Divyne said. “It has to remain in this way where it seems like the sort of goofy, fun part of it is the part that her people are doing.”
The digital-side of the Harris campaign is comprised of 175 staffers from the Democratic National Committee and the campaign staff, according to the campaign. The mobilization team, responsible for their social media strategy, all belong to Gen-Z.
Just what we need. More high school lunchroom social signalling.
Has anyone seen the interview where she was asked who the “best rapper alive” is and she answered “Tupac”? When it was pointed out that Tupac is no longer with us she then went into the old “Oh there are so many good choices…” bullshit without naming a single one, then she babbled something about how some rappers need to “stay in their lane”. I’m guessing that her brain did the “use any slang that you can think of!” thing. Hell I think that (insert your favourite old white actor here) could have given a better answer.
I bet the truth is she’s not a fan but can’t say so publicly because she’s trying to be “black”. Now favorite wine…
Of course. She knows nothing about it.
Gustave: That’s the explanation, no doubt about it. I don’t even think she is/was a Tupac fan, she could have just named someone who collaborated with him. Hell it should also tell the rappers that have endorsed her and/or campaigned for her something about how much she appreciates them.
‘High school lunchroom social signaling’
Vapidity on steroids. Every generation does it and thinks they have reinvented the world.
Two key things for us in NJ
1. Team Blue
2. Vagina
Rep. Mikie Sherrill “strongly considering” bid for N.J. governor
No unique positions of any kind or anything else she brings.
But a more immediate concern is how the campaign connects to users before November, and social media professionals say the biggest threat to the Harris campaign’s soaring virality is a lack of substance.
“Our theory is that the conversation needs to shift to substance and issues and contrast,” Butterfield noted. “Ultimately, voters are making their decision at the ballot box based on what candidates they think is going to improve their lives for the better.”
“I think we’re sort of nearing the end of the curve of, you know, enthusiasm just around a new candidate,” O’Brien said, “and there’s starting to be some curiosity of, okay, we haven’t heard specifically exactly what you stand for.”
The campaign’s digital team has limited material to work with. Three weeks into her campaign, Harris has yet to release a comprehensive policy plan, or add an issues tab to her campaign website.
Nonsense. Keep running on fluff and empty sloganeering.
“soaring virality”
Eeeeew
They have ointments to cure that now.
The root of leftism is what I consider barbarism – that individuals are simply means to an end, i.e. primitive collectivism.
It is no surprise that leftists are sympathetic to barbaric cultures. As for masks those have been trampled into the mud for some time now.
The globalists are simply international communists. Same old shit, different names and faces, same monster.
“By fucking a lot”
No shit.
guy who will be forever remembered for an oil can
Happy birthday Robert McNamara!
For now, KamalaHQ is largely focused on bashing the Trump-Vance ticket, and sculpting Harris’s cult of personality. Given their success so far, her social media team is already looking like the Democratic vanguard.
Harris’ cult of personality? Good luck with that.
Yearning for the good old days
The 2024 Olympic Games are serving up some less-than-subtle metaphors for how poorly we handle public health. Just after winning a bronze medal in the much-anticipated men’s 200-meter race, U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles collapsed on the track in exhaustion — not just because he’d completed a brutal run in just 19.7 seconds, finishing third, but also because he was sick with COVID-19, a diagnosis that he’d concealed from others. He had been favored to take home gold, as he did in the 100-meter race a few days earlier.
But seeing an American Olympic star sprawled out and gasping on the track, and then taken away in a wheelchair, was more than a shocking image. It also represented the general “mission accomplished” attitude toward SARS-CoV-2: We think we’ve won against this virus and we haven’t.
COVID isn’t just spreading like wildfire through the Olympic Village in Paris — we are undergoing surges across the globe, with the World Health Organization tracking steep rises in infections in 84 countries. After more than four years fighting this thing, it is still knocking us out.
Why can’t we go back to being unified by our common fear of the sniffles?
We can mask in public, especially in crowds. It’s never been fun to wear one, but masks really do work — though they’re a bit like condoms in the sense that their efficacy relies on being used correctly. A KN95 or N95 mask is best, and it needs to cover one’s nose.
We can keep up-to-date with vaccinations, which prevent infections from becoming severe or deadly and lower the chances of developing long COVID, even with just a single dose. Yet only about 28% of Americans received the latest shots, a decline from 69% when the first round of vaccines were released. (The reasons why immunization wanes from certain vaccines are complicated, but COVID is far from the only disease that requires boosters.)
We’re all suffering from pandemic fatigue after being put through the wringer over the past four years. But COVID doesn’t care how long we’ve been dealing with this crap. It doesn’t care if we’re bored or want to go to sports events or political rallies. It’s a virus, meaning it has no desires, no consciousness, no autonomy. It’s just a bunch of proteins that have been randomly selected through nature to easily and effectively hijack our immune systems.
Let’s get back to end-of-the-world LARPing. It’s fun, and makes us feel noble and important.
“We can keep up-to-date with vaccinations, which prevent infections from becoming severe or deadly and lower the chances of developing long COVID, even with just a single dose.”
How could one even prove such a thing?
And why would anyone believe such a thing?
We have plenty of tools to protect ourselves, but our strategy is instead denial, and it isn’t working. The virus doesn’t just take advantage of the ACE2 receptors in our bodies, it takes advantage of us, less directly, through conspiracy theories, misinformation, vaccine skepticism and regular old negligence and apathy. We all want to stop running this race against COVID. But to do that, we have to turn around and face it.
Okay, Chicken Little.
“If you scare people they will do anything you tell them to do.” – Goebbels? Hitler? Satan? I forget, it was one of those guys. Every time they start this shit it should be responded to with laughter.