The holidays are here, and I find myself unable to think of anything but my wife. So it goes, I guess.
But there are links.
Idaho is just going to sit up here in the corner and continue to be competent.
In case anybody still had questions, we’re probably headed to war in Europe.
OKay, I’m done. Peace out, Glibbies. Hug your loved ones.
The important thing is to make sure Trump is distracted from focusing on anything domestic.
I hate politics so much.
*looks down at Retired Reserve paperwork*
Dang.
I suspect this is just another breathless pile of BS.
If OMB gets everyone to sit down and stop shooting, Nobel Peace Prize? Just to anger the proggies?
Not even if he changes his name to “Obama”.
Trent Tripple, a Republican who had worked in the Ada County clerk’s office and was elected to lead it starting last year, said he was convinced there was a solution that could help people gain confidence in their elections once more: It was time to publish the ballots for everyone to see.
Explains the quaint affinity for ballot security and accurate counts.
The extraordinary effort is being watched by elections officials around the nation who are looking for ways to restore confidence among voters amid years of distrust, stoked in large part by Mr. Trump’s false claims about a stolen election in 2020.
I assume this is just boilerplate, since the millions of missing Biden “voters” who apparently vanished into the ether this year give credence to Mr. Trump’s claims.
The vice president is the daughter of Marcos’ predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, whose police-enforced anti-drugs crackdown when he was a city mayor and later as president left thousands of mostly petty drug suspects dead in killings that the International Criminal Court has been investigating as a possible crime against humanity.
Now I see where President Dudebro got his inspiration.
Hugs to you, Spud.
Ditto.
I hope he doesn’t mind hairy man-hugs.
When Spud’s involved it is, by definition, a hairy man-hug.
*also hugs Spud*
Presents manly hand-shake and shoulder clap.
I can only imagine how you must feel, Spud, but I send my warm wishes. We’re glad to have you here to share your thoughts.
Matt Gaetz is following in the footsteps of another Republican who left Congress under a cloud of controversy … by joining Cameo.
$250 gets you a brief appearance.
$500 if you want him to wear a g-string.
Need to raise money to pay for him to do a Butt Head impersonation.
Worked for George Santos.
Ilhan Omar has already signed up for option 2
He was from a voting standpoint technically a way more libertarian congressman.
Too bad he was a creep.
Btw, can’t help but notice Trump straight up lied about appointing a libertarian.
Prepare for more disappointments.
CommaLa lost. Everything else is a bonus (hole).
Yes. I have no expectations, so if anything goes right, I also consider it a bonus.
How Scott Bessent Went From Democratic Donor to Trump Treasury Secretary Pick
https://archive.fo/DTfPa
Interesting choice. No all good not all bad.
Well, the(we) Libertarians had a chance for a seat at the table, but screwed that pooch, I don’t know why they(we) expect anything more.
Swinging by philstar.com – one of the papers I used to read fairly regularly in the 90s – is just weird. There’s still the bizarre pinoy habit of publishing nicknames for most politicians or famous figures – and just publishing full conversations. Sounds like that threat thing is tied to an ongoing story I hadn’t been tracking with internal corruption trials, etc – seriously don’t recall hearing that Duterte’s daughter was Veep because the big takeaway at the election was that Marcos (son of old Marcos and his shoe-fanatic senator wife) was so much more anti-China than Duterte and willing to play ball with us in the SCS.
Except the products are not interchangeable, in my experience. And how did some supermarket employees come to their conclusions here I wonder. Everything’s been jacked up so much in the last few years how do you even decide that something’s fishy in frozen potato products in particular.
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Karn Evil 9 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Hope everyone has a few minutes.
I had the record. Bought it at the local head shop.
Cum inside, cum inside…
It seems quiet. I guess you’re all hiding to jump out and yell, “SURPRISE!”
Id join but no mic/video tonight so would just be weird silence
U.H.F. – Supplies
U.H.F is such a classic.
Id join but no mic/video tonight so would just be weird silence
From my heart and from my hand,
why don’t people understand?
I wish I could, but I’m in a Drury Inn outside of Louisville with Mom & Dad. Bro and youngest two nephews, 4 and 9, are next door. Kidney stone either shall not pass, or has already passed on through without my knowledge. Still no barking pain, only mild scrunchy-ness, but even then more in my lower stomach. Much gas. Lack of affect.
Family has made a few wry comments re: The Coming Doom, but I’m wisely remaining mum. Bro was talking to Dad about not being able to talk with people if they “aren’t willing to learn” why things are the way they are. Seemed like people need to ‘know their proper place’ type of thinking/ reasoning. I ignored it all and focused on the 4 year-old’s swimming. He’s very good for his age. And a curious li’l monster who eats his ice cream sundae face first, without a spoon, and loves language. Me likey.
I wish I could partake in the conversation along with the wracking pain of a kidney stone. I still await further developments and my moment of Reckoning. Still, later I may partake in the quiet, matter-of-fact confidence knowing my body apparently can take down Big Boy rocks without much ado. I’m upset I got days off work as I got into a good groove and I feel the need to embellish my misfortune. (Though wisely won’t.)
That’s Dreary Inn.
Was stuck in one for a week for training.
WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE?!?!
I was there. Nobody else was. Hmpf.
I checked every 10 or so minutes no one was there….I blame KK
4 of us are there now!
I Am trying to get shit done.
“Arby’s. Roast beef sale.”
I wish that I could join the festivities, but I won’t make it tonight.
Thoughts and prayers to those who will be lost without my listening quietly in the corner of the room.
It’s an actual party in here!
Windows 11 24H2 Continues to suck. I built my new machine with a clean image of it and it’s still buggy as hell.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/23/24304313/microsoft-delays-windows-11-24h2-update-ubisoft-star-wars-outlaws-assassins-creed-valhalla-crashes
including french fries, hash browns and tater tots
Is Tater Tots not a trademark of Ore-Ida? Or, like Xerox and Kleenex, has Ore-Ida lost control and the name has entered the vernacular?
Wiki says yes.
Did you google it?
They have been tatoring on the brink of death for a while.
I believe it has been shredded and reshaped
You really have an eye for those things but hey, no skin off my nose.
Many pints of ale will be hoisted in Big College Town tonight, as our gridiron lads vanquished a (now formerly) Top-10 foe.
I can certainly tell you that Blondi was stoked.
Awww terrifyingly adorable!
Thanks, guys. Self pity time is over and it’s time to get on with it.
It’s been 4 years since my dad’s death and 8 since my grandmas…..still reflect on them, hit low points and everyday things remind me Spud.
If one thing can unite humanity it is grief.
World on fire yet? No? Alright back to learning pixel art
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/jaguar-new-branding-cars-donald-trump
When even the Guardian has you pegged as dated by DEI, you done fucked up.
Wow. Losing the Guardian is remarkable.
From my reads the marketing was all done in house which is shocking.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14106133/American-marketing-guru-Jaguar-rebrand-BLM-New-York-British.html
It goes to show that the C-suites are just completely out-of-touch.
This one seems they put the ad in production just prior to the election and it didn’t go the way they thought but felt they needed to run it anyway. The double-down though is what is odd; except it is someone who is fighting for their job now.
Stocks tanked already, I think.
What Rhywun said.
“making it relevant for a contemporary audience”
There it is. In the particular micro bubble apparently inhabited by marketing and ad people. The contemporary audience is gay and trans and edgy and shit.
Those people have no money.
I heard someone say, “There’s a reason Lamborghini doesn’t need to advertise.”
Heh I remember being edgy and flat broke.
The Bulwark had an interesting article. Which I think was the basis of the DNC campaign team. Otherwise, why run it? Why highlight it?
Its a clarion call to the DNC for sure. This was their demo they thought would help carry them over the line.
lol Transgender 1%? Still way overguessing.
YouGov polls are paid polls if I remember right.
So a particular group of people sign up and participate doesn’t really mean it represents anything.
1/3 gay? Only in tv commercials and quiz shows. Also would say 1/3 couples are interracial based on same
At HH 2 years ago there were 4 Asian ladies, married to honkies. They quickly found each and formed their own group.
Some people are just evil:
https://youtu.be/ijrxm8XVYUk?si=qdwmUptZnCgP-8Xe
“Drugs appear in many shapes and sizes, but every now and then we come across special things,” Dongemond Police said in a translated social media post.
These euphemisms
What’s happening on pistoffnick’s farm:
Thawed the turkeys today. One will be brined and roasted. The other will be brined and smoked.
Washed the comforter. You would not believe the amount of cat hair I removed from the drier filter.
Did the grocery shopping the week.
We both got haircuts. I needed one more than her.
Weeds burned in the garlic plot. Soil amended with sulphur in the garlic plot. Soil tilled in the garlic plot. Garlic planted in the garlic plot.
White bread cut and dried for stuffing.
For tomorrow:
Wash the futon cover.
Set up the guest bed.
Water the houseplants.
Boil eggs for work snacks for the week and for devilled eggs.
Wash clothes.
Put the chains on the rear tractor tires.
Change the forks for the snow bucket on the tractor.
Cook the macaroni for the smoked mac ‘n’ cheese.
Cook the cheese sauce for the smoked mac ‘n’ cheese.
Cook the gravy.
Make the punkin pie.
Put plastic on the windows.
So your soil is such that you don’t need to add calcium to the garlic bed?
Glibs plant grifters in the garlic plot. Plenty of calcium.
I have not hear of adding calcium. Maybe next year?
I used to add lime to my tomato and pepper plants to try to avoid blossom end rot. It didn’t seem to make much difference and I quit.
I filled and watered 12 peat pots. Tomorrow I’ll put some apple seeds in the mix, hoping that some may germinate and be ready to transplant outside in late April-early May.
I’ve started and given away about 30-40 baby trees to friends and neighbors over the past 3-4 years. A friend told me that it will take 6-7 years before the trees are productive.
My answer was, “Yeah, I know” They are Honey Crisp but will revert back to Minnesota Apples. I have about 10 growing in the enclosed garden and some outside the fence.
A couple of the trees from 2021 are 6-7 feet tall, may have blossoms this year.
British Icons at Jay Leno’s Garage
Alright, I had some time on my hands and did some research to partly answer Suthen’s question in the last post about where the 8 million D votes went, in the 6 stolen states- Harris gained 130,00 in Georgia, Lost 100,00 in Arizona, Lost 60,000 in Michigan, Gained 2,000 in Nevada, Lost 3,000 in Pennsylvania, and gained 30,000 in Wisconsin. She lost 2,000,000 in California and 800,000 in New York.
I could check the rest, but I’m not that bored (there’s always Backgammon to play) but it appears that in the “stolen” states she more or less broke even with Joe’s total and she lost a bunch of votes in the “safe” D states.
Well, just checking one of your numbers, you are wrong. She lost 34,000 votes in Pennsylvania.
You are correct, I was fast and loose with my math
Here are revised more accurate numbers according to the Wiki pages on Presidential Elections
Georgia +74,384
Arizona -89,283
Michigan -67,507
Nevada +1,711
Pennsylvania -34,141
Wisconsin +37,363
So -80,473 in the stolen states
Maybe I don’t understand the “8 million missing votes proves the election was stolen” thing, but those 8 million votes aren’t missing form the states that Joe stole.
I believe that it isn’t in the “stolen” states, but in toto, IE Obama didn’t get those votes, Biden did, Harris didn’t. And they are part of the popular vote, swing states all squeezed out wins for Biden with just enough to get him past the pole. So, a couple million extra votes in CA, NY, etc. that have never been seen before or since.
Pushing that “popular” vote agenda.
The NL makes more MDMA than tulips. Fantastic stuff when it’s pure. A dose that would put a perma smile on your face for several hours was the price of a couple beers. Gnome fooling around.
Saw a Jag in the wild today. Elderly dude was filling the tank our my regular convenience store. Saw him 10 minutes later tooling around in small town Iowa.
Very strange.
I had an older one until recently when some drunk dude in a Deep Ellum (Dallas) parking lot decided to total mine while I was seeing a show.
Insurance decided to pay it.
That was a fun car.
I was given an ’83 Jag XJ-S by my dad 2 years ago. Got it running earlier this year after a 30 year stretch of not running and now it’s back to it’s natural state of not starting. They say they have finicky electronics, which was the problem last go around. I’m sure transitioning to full electric won’t be an issue though.
Alice passed away:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alice-brock-arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-dead-rcna181486
you can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back just a half mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant
* Except for Alice
actually (pedant on)
“excepting Alice”
(pedant off)
Dead in a massacree?
+1 dump closed on Thanksgiving
Rhywun isn’t the only Glib with Sandra in their library, although only a few singles not entire albums.
RIP Chuck Woolery
Oh no… I was just wondering about him the other day.
lol The Wikipedia page does its best to tarnish his image, because of course it does.
Morning Glibs, lurkers, and soon to be fired .gov watchers!
😂☕🌇
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHC6I7v-1Pc
🎶🎶
Mornin’ Sean,
Looks like it’s you and me this morning.
I think a payout for voluntary quitters on some sort of sliding scale would be cheaper and acceptable. Money talks, even for gov employees.
😁✌
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/north-carolina-supreme-court-gop-candidate-challenges-60000/
Two weeks later?
GTFO!
Reminds me of playing one on one Bucketball. Loser always wanted to play another round. I always had a tough time to get the winner to play another game.
Me: “C’mon, let’s go again, you chicken or what?”
Other guy. “Naw, I’m tired after six games. Anyway, there’s some girls that want to challenge you.”
Good morning all.
Having coffee and killing time I was listening to some rants about the Brits. If half of that is true then they have reached near Nork level totalitarianism.
This couple of dingleberries dont have a very high opinion of Kier Starmer. C’mon, not one redeeming quality at all? Their rant is reminiscent of some borderline personalities I have known over the years. That doesnt mean they are wrong.
I am particularly amused by the Limeys summoning Elon Musk to testify about ‘misinformation’ on X. His response is to summon them here to explain themselves about threatening US citizens.
Not quite Nork level but not good. I feel bad for them.
Morning Suthen
A crisp 26 American this morning, a little snow scheduled for tonight and cold days in the forecast. I want a recount
OK, it’s a crisp -3C.
So far we haven’t heard much from Walz. Hopefully he’s taking a 2 year vacation before he gets back to work ‘helping Minnesotans’. If he’s busy trying to line up his next grift he may have some problems with that.
He’ll have time for hunting/fishing, which shouldn’t be much of a threat to wildlife, unless he’s driving.
Don’t know, he might see a pheasant on the ground and start blasting away, pull a Nodak and kill “his” dog.
So, fun thing yesterday, kitchen sink is not draining. OK, pour a little Draino in there, no problem. A couple hours later, I go check, still not draining, and slight drips in the basement through the floor. It is now 8pm, and i am in my sweats and slippers. Pull the trap, run a cheapo snake to see what is going on, get mud, about a foot down , long before the pipe hits the basement. Standing water in the dishwasher is what is leaking t this point, as it cannot drain due to said blocked pipe.
Fuck.
Now, I am waiting for dawn and seeing if the plumber responds to the email I sent, thinking about a big, industrial snake and where to rent, not sure if worth my time or effort to explore this, as I am a middle aged handicapped man with good insurance. All my other drain lines are good, so the real question is if this is a separate line, now blocked by age and bad pipes as it is a 110 year old house, or is it a small blockage and not worth the wait and BS of dealing with a plumber. I am happy that my insurance deductible has been covered this year, but that was on the other house, so different policy. I will have to check Monday with my agent.
At least it decided to do this before Thanksgiving, ’cause that is the usual day for this kind of BS.
Zwak,
Had a similar problem a couple years ago, since I had plumbed my own house I knew , if I still remembered after 30 years, every bend in the drain. My 25 foot snake wouldn’t quite reach the 90 degree bend down where I thought the problem was. Finally called the roto rooter guy, an hour after he arrived and $275 lighter all was well.
Another problem I had was when the dishwasher drain hose was lower and the backed up sink drained back into the d/washer. Finally figured that out with a little help from the ‘net and all is well at the Fourscores.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
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