So I’m here in Glibs Gulch for a couple of weeks. The shop is still undergoing renovations, so I’ve been doing what I can to help Webdom and l0b0t get their new place livable. It will be a cozy home once it’s done. And it is firmly in Applachia-stan.
Links?
Election shenanigans are just conspiracies.
They got him now! Teach you to support OMB.
Harambe looks down in approval.
Lots of pants shitting going on in editorial rooms right now.
Boeing needs to dump the MBAs and put engineers back in charge, pronto.
Okay, that’s good for today. Peace out, Glibbies. Have a pleasant evening.
I know. Too obvious.
Next thing you know, ol’ Jed’s a millionaire.
Back when a million dollars was a lot of money.
According to some simpering jackass at the Bulwark, it is a newspaper editor’s sacred duty to endorse the Democrat. Otherwise, society is kaput.
I’m okay with a society where a Bulwark editor’s place is kaput. Maybe he wants it to be even more personal?
Kaput.
The Guardian asserted, without evidence.
#BelieveAllGuardianReporters
The Guardian was hunky-dory with foreign invaders systematically raping the women of their country. Assess their outrage accordingly.
Noticed mailbox was leaning and went to check on it. It’s snapped about 4-6″ down. Guess what I’m doing tomorrow now?
Looking to have “a word” with the teenager who wrecked your mailbox?
I’m blaming the asshole mailman who jams everything inside and slams it shut, but given the age it could just be rot.
Getting blackout drunk?
Exacting revenge on those who disrespected your pole?
I hate when that happens.
Sitting in a dark bar on a big boat, sipping a “Texas mule”, listening to an incredible acoustic guitarist while we wait for our table at the fancy Eye-talian restaurant.
Life is pretty feckin’ good.
/keep on rockin’ in a (semi-) free world!
My mother hates the The Beverly Hillbillies the way I hate I Love Lucy. She hates that they were stupid and they never learned, and I hate that Lucy was kinda stupid and I hate physical comedy.
But DAMN “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” is a masterpiece.
I thought I knew you. 😐
🤷♀️
I was going to say ‘make up your mind already’
Just for you, Moje! 😁 (I didn’t know this video existed until last fall when the audience was shown a retrospective video while waiting for their 50th Anniversary/Farewell Tour show to start .)
@GT FUCKING ADORABLE!!!!!
Mojo’s got sum ‘splain’n to do.
Lucy drives me crazy, too, for some reason. Although I have to admit, some of the situations she gets in, like in the chocolate factory, are funny.
I’m with ya’ Moj’. And after watching the strong, smart “grrrrl power” role she played in Lured, I wonder what could have been.
Brilliant woman. Comedy just doesn’t tend to reveal brilliance the way drama does. See: Marisa Tomei winning the Oscar for My Cousin Vinny.
A lot pf familiar faces. Really great music,
I always liked this version. Some of the comments are gold as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af9wHDrkjfk
That’s a whole mess of banjos players who will be able to say they played with a legend.
Oh calm your tits.
BTW, the people leaving leaving the free hotel rooms after 4 years (!) are not the same people who are drugging up on the streets.
Here’s hoping our tits are calmer than when Banjos trotted out that line before.
Well bye
Two more members of the Los Angeles Times editorial board have resigned after the newspaper’s owner blocked the board’s plan to endorse Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Veteran journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein announced their resignations Thursday, a day after the editorial page editor Mariel Garza left in protest over LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s decision not to endorse a candidate.
Greene, a Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing, said in a statement shared with the Columbia Journalism Review that he was “deeply disappointed” in the decision not to endorse Harris.
“I recognize that it is the owner’s decision to make,” he wrote. “But it hurt particularly because one of the candidates, Donald Trump, has demonstrated such hostility to principles that are central to journalism — respect for the truth and reverence for democracy.”
What about detached logical analysis instead of petulant emotionalism?
I’m starting to think she’s toast.
Two more members of the Los Angeles Times editorial board have resigned after the newspaper’s owner blocked the board’s plan to endorse Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
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I hope Clarkson recovers well.
Pffffft. That ship left the port long ago.
“But it hurt particularly because one of the candidates, Donald Trump, has demonstrated such hostility to principles that are central to journalism — respect for the truth and reverence for democracy.”
‘Cause lying about, say, the condition of the president and censoring journalists is totes OK if done by a Democrat.
An editorial board operates separately from the newsroom, and its writers’ job is to present an issue and then take a side and lay out arguments to defend it.
“Icky doodoohead” is not an argument.
But have they taken in their fair share of Haitians?
Baffled
Former First Lady Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail for Vice President Harris in battleground Michigan on Saturday, blasting former President Trump and railing against what she cast as a double standard in the high-stakes presidential race.
“I gotta ask myself: why on earth is this race even close? I lay awake at night wondering: what in the world is going on?” Obama told a raucous rally crowd in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Spoiler alert: she’s calling the voters stupid
Laugh it up, fuzzball!
I can’t understand why the race is this close either, but not for the same reason.
Seriously.
nOt VoTinG iN tHieR BesT iNteReSt!!1!
An oldie but a goodie.
Mayhaps those jackpine rubes don’t see looting the country as being in thier best interest.
Her wonderment doesn’t matter to anyone except the people already voting for Harris.
That folk are freaking out newspapers aren’t endorsing a candidate is revealing as hell. “Information Decision Makers Aren’t Making Decisions!”
Me thinky papers don’t want to support either, as both presidencies would likely be disasters. If Trump pulls a Milei-Move, I strongly approve. Everything is against him and will be exploited to make his second term a worse disaster than they tried the first time, and Harris is fucking Kamala fucking Harris. Uh..huh. Big Shit cometh, and I only predict mass riots if Team Blue loses. If Harris et al win?… Much foot-stomping, I expect. Spitting, kicking dirt on the Umpire cuz ya sure as shit can’t touch him. (I do wonder if enough are too angry to remain silent.)
I am guessing that the owners are tired of paying full freight on a losing cause: TDS.
My Starlink is down. Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?
Cal is beating Oregon State 44-7 with 2 minutes to go. (Heh, look, it’s a Pac-12 game … oh, maybe not.)
ISU 7-0 – all that matters…
Fucking traitors.
ISU 7-0 – all that matters…
Yes! RAH, good to hear from you again.
Woh! PM sighting – it’s a good evening.
Apparently if enough Glibs ship out, some come out of the woodwork.
You need to update your avatar, unless you’re coloring your beard.
One of those moments where one would really hope you go home, reflect on what you did and seriously rethink how you’re acting. Given her lack of remorse in the linked video… not holding my breath.
Gal-Qaeda. Nice.
No, no, no, no, no.
Do not bring your children that near a crazy person. They are likely to lash out with physical violence.
You said it. Years ago, was protesting some tax plan of Gov. Shapp and brought my little daughter along. Long story short, the gov.’s dog snapped at her and came within inches of biting her before Mrs. Shapp and state trooper removed the animal.
JI: “…it clearly isn’t as God laid it down along with the foundation of the earth.”
I just read some old drunken greek dudes treatise ‘Politics’ and learned that the slave/master relationship is the natural order of things and thus subjugation of slaves, servants, children and wives is secret to a happy, prosperous life. When I explain to people that at the time everyone agreed with that and you would be laughed out of the room for suggesting otherwise I get the ‘why you hate freedom’ reaction.
*facepalm*
“No you idiot, that is not what I am saying. I am saying that individuals viewed as having inherent value is a very recent idea. You cant judge those people using your modern moral system.”
I am looking at your argument about the enlightenment and what I see is that much of the enlightenment was skin suited by commies. It was fuckin’ et up with them. That was not what was important about the movement and it was nothing new. The free shit problem has always been with us.
I recently saw one of those on campus change my mind stunts where a non-citizen was arguing with the host that he should have free college and be allowed to stay in the US on the American Taxpayer dime. He wasn’t being insincere, he was earnest and convinced he was on solid moral ground. When asked why he should have that he answered, with lots of approval of the crowd, “Because you have it and I dont.”
He comes from a collective culture, communist/tribal/extended family where individuals have no value and private property is seen as evil. One person’s sacrifice, discipline and success belongs to all.
Given the difference between 18th century French and American culture and economics it is easy to see how their revolution was hijacked by commies and turned into a shit-show while ours did not. At least not right away. We appear to be something of a shit-show now.
Christ I am exhausted. Also, I am a hypocrite. I busted my ass all day moving fill dirt, laying bricks and splitting wood. Who benefits? I did every bit of it for my wife. I even built it to her liking, not my own. I had different ideas about how to do it. Oh well, not important.
What was that I said about subjugating wives? I might want to re-visit that notion.
I am starting to come around to the argument that Marx was the natural outcome of the Enlightenment/Liberalism. I find it a bit unsettling and I have no idea what to do with that conclusion or what’s next.
Happy wife happy life. But you already knew that.
It isn’t a skinsuiting, at least not by the OG Marxists. The recent kind are still leaning in very heavy on EQUALITY. Same as the French did when they overthrew the ancien regime.
I will write up a piece in depth, but equality and individualism are both in play, and there are more equalitarian blocks supporting individualism than you think. It isn’t an either/or play, at all.
I tried to respond but was so tired I went to bed without submitting what I had written.
In a nutshell – the equality vs individualist crap has always been around, it is the notion of individualism that has recently been accepted.
Most of the ancients considered individualists as uncivilized wild men; ungovernable and unsuited for civilized society.
1000 years ago the lot of us would have been hunted down and hanged, not for doing anything specific but for having dangerous, non-conformist ideas.
I still think our philosophical journey has largely been guided by technology.
Harris rallying for herself: WE KNOW WHAT WE STAND FOR SO WE KNOW WHAT WE FIGHT FOR.
What? How does she make a man like Trump seem consequential and serious? Trump is such an insipid zilch, and she makes him look like a statesman by comparison.
WHO ARE WE FOR?
US!
WHAT DO WE FIGHT FOR?
STUFF WE WANT!
ABORTIONS FOR SOME
MINIATURE AMERIC
we all get the point
Exactly right
People want their Beyoncé:
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1850239559730401742
My God they are bad at this. The media and the tech needs that knuckled under to the DNC has really screwed them. They have no idea what to do when they actually need to win people over. Now that silencing their opposition and declaring them racisist isn’t working as well anymore, they are failing horribly.
And Trump may still, I think probably will, lose to her. May God take no mercy on our stupid, stupid souls.
And it is glorious. Breathtaking even.
I don’t know; with a promise like this, I don’t see how he could lose:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113375580361317831
See, this is just what I mean. It’s stupid, meaningless stunts like that. Nobody actually cares because nobody actually believes him. The McDonalds ice cream machines are permanently broken. There’s no repairing them. There will never be McDonalds ice cream again.
For the blackest of black pill, see groat scrotum.
Re McDonald’s ice cream machines as of yesterday.
Americans learning to live in their post-ice cream world
And Trump hasn’t even taken office again, yet.
Yesterday’s “America’s Untold Stories” offers an alternative view to the upcomin’
https://rumble.com/v5k3ht9-free-form-friday-10-25-2024-trump-is-surging.html
If they win they are going to have fortify so blatantly it will be obvious to more people and fewer people trusting the swamp is a net good. It’s a win-win situation in my mind.
It’s a win-win situation in my mind.
There is no fucking win if Harris gets in office through fortification. There is no upside of any kind.
I suppose I may be being overly lemons-lemonade about it. But the corrupt institutions losing more credibility is a good thing. How the race between everything burning down and the imperative for reform ends, I dunno.
Headlining Beyonce and losing votes. That takes effort.
From the replies, Venn diagram of note
It’s funny because it’s true.
Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?
I’m watching a different game. It’s Damien 3, God 0, middle of the third quarter.
I’m watching the Badgers unmask the Nitts’ #3 ranking.
I am starting to come around to the argument that Marx was the natural outcome of the Enlightenment/Liberalism. I find it a bit unsettling and I have no idea what to do with that conclusion or what’s next.
Call me stoic, or call me a fatalist. Call me a nihilist if you want. I cannot be bothered to waste the mental horsepower required to think deeply or at length about the absurdist minstrel show in which we live.
ITA
Ita, like in Anathem?
I mean, yeah. Wasting to much processing power on such things is going to be deleterious to your mental well-being. I leave that to the philosophy majors slaving away in the philosophy mines most of the time but when I do think of such things, that is what I conclude.
Just had one of the best meals ever. Buratta salad, bouillabaise, lobster, ice cream sundae. Fuckin-a
Also accompanied by an adorable animation https://youtube.com/shorts/1_UrOSAcPq0?feature=share
Very nice. Glad to hear the cruise is going well. How many days left?
Tomorrow is the last full day 😭
Prediction:
Trump wins the popular vote and the Electoral College on election night.
Ballots continue to be “found” for a few days until the EC (but not popular vote) flips to Harris.
Democrats pretend all complaints about cheating are actually complaints about the EC, all evidence is dismissed with a mocking “hurr I thought you loved the EC hurr durr”.
I wouldn’t doubt either. The ballot- fuck- uppery is already staggering. And just what we My prediction:
Trump wins? Large Lefty riots. Not sure how “large” I fear it could be. (I’m a great predictor. Many specifics.)
Harris wins? Oooh. If Red demonstrated en masse, it would look revolutionary. Which.. I probably would support to an extent. If there is more obvious cheating, with more hands-in-pockets, pebble-kicking, silenced fury as a response to Harris’ presidency.. uh. “Interesting times,” indeed, we would continue to live in. I don’t think it could be ‘silenced.’ (My predictions, like a box of chocolates.)
“If Red demonstrated en masse, it would look revolutionary.”
It would be. Lefty protests would be pro-regime. Righty protests would be anti-regime, hence, revolutionary.
“Revolutionary” as in ‘guns out, open outrage against the corruption/ etc’ sense of the word. Massive ‘how much and where’ questions. If enough non-Harris ppl all boiled over, I think their reactions would be ore intimidating+ than the burning+, looting+ the Left demonstrated.
Oooh, [I] intimidated+ ore. Rad.
*MORE ‘intimidating’ than past Lefty ‘mostly peaceful riots.’
Breaking: A photo of Kamala Harris wearing her uniform proves that she actually did work at McDonald’s.
We interrupt this breaking news with a story that, as it turns out, the photo was faked:
https://rumble.com/v5k93ga-fake-photo-team-kamala-spreads-doctored-photographs-of-her-in-mcdonalds-uni.html
Downtown areas of Burlington and Brattleboro, among other cities, were too dangerous to walk at night, following reports of passers-by being attacked by thugs, locals told DailyMail.com.
You got what you voted for.
My town calls it “reimagining public safety”. 🙄
The thing about “getting what you vote for” is, at least here, the votes for aldercritters are often in the single digits – i.e. nobody votes.
It’s not as bad as it sounds like in those towns but it’s getting there & one wonders what it will take to wake up the woke.
I reimagine public safety is increased lawlessness.
The thing about “getting what you vote for” is, at least here, the votes for aldercritters are often in the single digits – i.e. nobody votes.
I understand the “don’t give sanction to the system by voting” argument.
Didn’t the Guardian just tell us there are no unsafe downtowns?
Unfortunately, everybody gets what some people voted for. Even people who voted against it.
This. And it’s not uncommon for the majority to get what they didn’t vote for.
It’s hard for me to care when I see how long Vermont has been Bernie Sanders country.
And yes, I know folks like Richard are there.
Poor Brattleboro. Probably thought they were rid of bums when Marlboro closed down.
If you want some fun background noise – Mike Rowe’s podcast ep this week with Nathan Fillion is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCOCbBhHtdM&pp=ygUJbWlrZSByb3dl
I’ll be in my bunk
Did Nathan have some work done or something? He looks different from the last time I saw him (Castle?) and yet he also looks like he hasn’t aged much.
Hmmm, maybe it’s just the big glasses…
“The Ballad of Jed Clampett” is great.
I found the movie, to my surprise, was well done. Some inside jokes poked at the TV show, too. Jim Varey/Jed doing “Hot Rod Lincoln” over the closing credits was the cherry on top.
MA’s Question 2. I’m amused that the teachers’ unions and the Progressive Dem governor are on opposite sides.
I assume the teachers support. I’d also like to have a job with no need for results and guaranteed pay.
Well said.
For the graduating class of 2023, eight states (Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Wyoming) required students to pass a statewide assessment to graduate high school according to Fair Test: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing.
California required a test back when I graduated. It wasn’t difficult. I passed it in 9th grade.
https://archive.is/aZYt7/e906cb1d36544ca4ca41de0f4f7bc0565bdf7e0d.webp
NSFW.
Spudz Salacious Silicone Saturday Slootz.
https://archive.is/iiByY/34663c8b8dd584cf7ba61f8d1bfd353ba82607b2.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/Fe9Oe/775abce366797f5de90914ae571fc31ff5ce9051.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/XzQ8J/7b20db4516eb22a305c28eba2b0e9b619c6a64ed.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/3w58x/fa271d0b37ae420b46fcacbce70706bec8975b0e.jpg
NSFW.
I like green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbCI68eSNsA
I’m guessing it hasn’t hard for her. But you know what is hard…
Starlink has use cases, but as a broadband for all, it’s a crock of horseshit. Wired will always beat wireless and wireless IN SPACE is even worse. Yet the love for Elon trumps all.
If there’s phone/cable/electricity to a location, fiber can be ran there as well.
Seen no doom articles about Rogan/Trump…guess Trump kept it pretty level?
Watching the full thing now. It’s enthralling. Half way through and doesn’t feel like it. Also, Trump calls Milley a “dummy”.
Fucker needs to sign a statement of charges for Afghanistan.
I’ve seen quite a few… but they were from the sites that cater to the left.
We have pissed away our liberty and prosperity one seat belt law, one environmental regulation, one tax increase at a time.
I just made some toast. The ocean of the aforementioned has caused sliced bread to shrink to the size of a fucking cracker.
I will cajole the wife into baking a new loaf today. She makes a decent size loaf of bread for a tenth of the price of store bought bread.
As soon as the pols figure this out they will figure out a way to squeeze more money out of that too.
Again, we must live in alternate realities, the bread I buy is the same size it’s ever been, if I get the fancy Private Selection stuff it’s actually larger than and the good old Wonder bread stuff. And it’s regularly on sale for 3$, I guess if you don’t value your time you might be able to make a loaf of bread for 30¢, but I doubt it.
I’m sure Suthen has a just-so story he heard at the local gas station to refute this.
Your toaster is set too high.
Good morning to all! Time to wake up!
Cool fall day, the autumn leaves are falling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEMCeymW1Ow
/looks out window, sees ocean
No leaves here. Looking forward to getting back to proper temperatures (and my own bed).
If I’m gone for a day, shopping or visiting, I want to get home to my own stuff. I think the older one gets one finds more comfort in the familiar. In days gone by I enjoyed the traveling but it’s just not so much fun now. Everything is more difficult.
Fourscore:
For me it’s more about having an understanding of the situation and the area. There were times these past several days where I was a bit too much outside of my comfort zone for me, and the constant obsequious behavior by the staff on board makes me itch inside. I keep trying to tell them I’m not better than them, and I’m well aware of it. I’ve at least found a couple of bartenders who will now joke and at least make an attempt at busting balls.
Yeah, the trail where I went for a walk yesterday was surprisingly empty. But still pretty even though we’re past peak.
Good morning to all, except that fake ass bitch running for Prez.
🌄👀✊
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ616r5fOPk
🎶🎶