The Ravens beat the Chargers. Nobody cares. The Rays and the local government are having a Mexican standoff over the stadium. Nashville, here they come. The CFP rankings come out today. I guess we’ll find out of the SEC owns the committee or not. And there’s some big matches in the UCL over the next two days. Enjoy them. And that’s it for sports.
Stay in your lane, dickhead. Here’s their excuse: the other guys break literally every cease fire they ever sign.
The world continues to heal itself. This is always a good thing.
I’ve got some reality for this guy: You got away with murder, so shut the fuck up.
“Congratulations. You played yourself.” Even money says they drop the suit lickety split.
This gets funnier by the day. They ran this almost as bad as our government is run.
This will be interesting. Buzzer is a bulldog and a bit of a shakedown artist. But it’ll be interesting to see if he’s been pulling an Avenatti.
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
Fire up the shredders. No sense in keeping those docs now, right?
You’re supposed to wait until after Thanksgiving. I feel bad for the guy, but what was he thinking?
Sounds good to me. Might make the price more reasonable.
Yes. YEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! I could listen to these guys for a day straight. Politics aside, they were just so damn good. Enjoy the tracks.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
“Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan”. You know who else had a plan?
Loretta Lynn?
Nice… thank you. She’s in my “I like her music but have never gotten around to listening to much of it” (I’m more of a techno-pop guy, so while I enjoy some country, especially older country — I don’t often think of digging some up). Nice song…. particularly like the album title as well.
Baldrick?
A cunning one, right? So cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel?
Ed Wood?
He didn’t have just one plan…
Dutch van der Linde?
Doug Martsch?
Hannibal Smith?
Yes, and they always came together
Francisco Madero, just for MS.
The Ravens beat the Chargers. Nobody cares. – orly? not a one person?
I can think of an old guy that probably cares.
https://youtu.be/R3v_lnfQiS8?si=s3NK2RhClj7RbEMq
Ball and chain you say?
lol
Look, if Israel won’t let their sworn enemy regroup and rearm whenever they want, it’s Israel who is the bad guy.
sin,
leftist morons.
I don’t remember now where I saw it — but some news article or something in the last couple of days called it “Israel’s brutal war in Gaza”… as if they were the ones who attacked Gaza instead of being attacked in the first place (and brutally, frankly). Given Hamas a pause to rearm would be the height of stupidity.
Which is, of course, why the anti-Israel left wants it so much.
This time it’ll work for sure.
The world continues to heal itself. This is always a good thing.
To be fair, walmart should definitely keep fat acceptance, if the images on the internet are true.
Fat isn’t the only thing about the People of WalMart that make them… notable.
LOL bullshit
More like, everyone is sick of this shit. Walmart, like every other institution, is not paying any more attention to “conservative activist” than they ever have. But it’s a good excuse to throw up their hands and deflect attention.
A couple of mouthy conservative activists aren’t going to affect anything. There had to be a significant effect on paying customers.
See, that’s how those sneaky conservative activists work – they use their money instead of their mouths. And by that standard, there are a lot of conservative activists.
Fat people’s money is just a good-looking as anyone else’s.
I’ve got some reality for this guy: You got away with murder, so shut the fuck up.
An actor is the most suitable person to decide whether others are uninformed. Being famous makes you wise by default.
To be fair, he’s right if by “led astray by the mass media” he means they are feeding us a pile of lies.
Except further down he’s supporting boilerplate lefty klimate positions – the same positions that the MSM has been feeding us for decades – so honestly I don’t know WTF he is talking about.
He’s demonstrating how knowledgeable he is about being led astray by the media through example.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says we should drink raw milk—or at least have it available in the dairy aisles of our grocery stores.
“Raw milk isn’t for everyone, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be available,” Miller wrote in a Nov. 19 editorial.
THE LIBERTARIAN MOMENT IS HERE!
Raw milk should not be bought in stores, you buy it from the old lady selling her wares on the sidewalk outside the store. You people are so primitive.
I thought you had to buy it from dairy farmers outside of Green Bay or the Amish or something on this side of the Pond.
Less snarky — yeah, as long as it is labelled properly, fuck off FDA… it isn’t an inherent poison or anything, let the consumer decide.
And while we’re on the subject of the crap in food… maybe can we have a word about the Iowa primaries and high fructose corn syrup over the last few decades, you sanctimonious assholes?
Let’s not be hasty now.
::shoves entire corn dog in mouth longways::
Think of the farmers
Man does not live on ethanol only, ya know.
I buy raw milk from a local farm store. Like the taste and it seems to improve my digestion.
During WW2 sugar was rationed. Corn syrup was plentiful at the Fourscores. High fructose/low fructose, I don’t remember but it was it was available in light or dark
configurations.
I’m all for it not being illegal, but suspect stores probably still wouldn’t carry it. Just see people avoiding fast food chains from outbreaks. People don’t hear “from contaminated onions” they hear “from McDonald’s” and avoid the whole restaurant.
You’re supposed to wait until after Thanksgiving. I feel bad for the guy, but what was he thinking?
Is there not some minimum distance between high voltage powerlines and a home? I would expect some people to complain about electromagnetic fields and somesuch
Never underestimate the ability of a journalist to not know what a high voltage line is.
“That’s what you use for your weed farm, right?”
I think in this instance, they were correct.
Power lines and sewer pipes need to be underground, for different reasons.
Given the location of the tree (the one I assume the person was found hanging in) I see in the Street View of that address and where the service is; seems Darwin struck
This is fake news, the guy is Hispanic and everyone knows Hispanics don’t take Christmas lights down. They just keep them off the rest of the year.
So white trash and Hispanics do have things in common.
Are you sure the dude is really dead?
Kinda makes sense that a Kamala intern would end up at MSNBC.
co-founder of the Debt Collective
Wait, she was a sponsor of the Federal Reserve Act?
“Deficits don’t matter” Dick Cheney
Some folks get divorced for that reason. I divorced all politicians, even the “Cheney Lites”
https://www.panarchy.org/bourne/state.1918.html
Re: Christmas decorations, this morning I drove past an illuminated, inflatable Santa riding a velociraptor.
This is my own personal opinion, but I really would like Christmas to be unironic.
I would like Christmas to stay in December.
July seems a little early
Preston Sturges would like a word with you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July_(film)
This.
Have some pity for Thanksgiving at least.
Has anybody seen the trailer for the new Christmas movie where Jack Black plays Satan and some dumbass kid accidentally sends him his Christmas list?
It looks like complete shit.
I’ve seen the ad for it. The girlfriend and I are both planning to watch Red One. It looks to be a terrible garbage fest that will likely be right in our wheelhouse.
Saw the trailer. Are they trying normalize having a personal relationship with Satan?
Speaking of Red One and Dwayne Johnson.
Meh. There’s a house down the street from me that has put up a lawn inflatable that’s shaped as a mosque for several of the feasts (I believe it says Eid Mubarak on it). That is an assimilated family.
So like one knife when that’s what you need?
Yes.
I feel like I’m betraying my generation a bit, but fuck ’em.
Somehow I get the feeling that Santa riding a velociraptor isn’t ironic in the homeowners mind. Just idiotic.
But, as I live on the carriage ride street, all we get are tasteful strings of lights. I do hate it when carolers knock on my door though.
I do hate it when carolers knock on my door though.
Ebeneezer? Is that you?
There is a house up the road that routinely puts out a sleigh-pulled-by-alligators lawn ornament. I assume they moved here from Florida.
You don’t keep a supply of figgy pudding next to the door?
“Ebeneezer? Is that you?”
Eh, I didn’t sign up for that, and I am not much of a Christmas guy anyway.
On the one hand, yes. Irony can be overdone.
On the other hand, you can have my ‘John Denver featuring the Muppets’ Christmas CD when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.
CD? You kids and your technology.
For me, it’s Johhny Matthis Sings Christmas Songs on a scratched LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY3gWjWWBAA
My holiday rotation, aside from the aforementioned Muppet Christmas album, consists of Mannheim Steamroller’s Christmas in the Aire, Shadow Gallery’s Tyranny, and the complete Trans-Siberian Orchestra collection. Maybe sneak some random Bach in there if I’m in a traditional mood.
We had this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I
Here. Loving homage to an awesome Christmas song.
I HAVE THE POWER?
That show was great until that dickhead Snarf showed up.
There was a Thundercats crossover? (Because otherwise, I think you mean Orko The Moron).
Stuck in the elevator?
Exactly the clip I assumed.
Shit. Nevermind. I got my streams crossed.
Although there appears to have been a crossover in print form anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man/ThunderCats
Wasn’t Snarf Thundercats?
I thought he was making a joke I wasn’t getting.
He-Man was a poor shadow of Thundarr the Barbarian
Not the clip I thought it’d be.
There it is.
You supposed to shoot an admiral now and then to encourage the others, not give them massive amounts of money.
NATO is betting WW3 will be funded by the good ol’ USA.
This is a General who was in for 37 years. If we go to war, we’re fucked.
https://x.com/handleitgrips/status/1860941456724185094
😣
Just shoulder the stock properly. It’s not that difficult, man!
https://x.com/handleitgrips/status/1861279856077521214
That looks like a fun X account.
“Now those are single shots. If I wanted to fire this on full semi-automatic, all I do is keep firing.”
Huh?
The jets bravely flew over one of Mad Vlad’s most militarised territories
That’s some quality journalisming there, Sun. When the UK gets nuked, at least the fallout will drift back towards Russia. Sorry, western Europe.
I mean…over, alongside, international airspace….it is warboner porn.
I guess the plan is to get into some version of a NATO war before Trump gets sworn in so his choices are narrowed?
Yeah, no choice but to dump NATO… (wishful thinking)
Sure seems that way.
Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
there is no memetic vaccine just like there is no lactose intolerance vaccine
the only way is to chug ALL the memes & takes, go a bit insane, til you (hopefully) come out the other side with slightly better cerebral adaptation
just like this woman did
https://x.com/OrphicCapital/status/1861171926405697828
Wait wait are there actually people who care that all the screws in the light switch panel have the same orientation?
https://x.com/khsuxdik/status/1860871045005115742
wait why do you have visible screws in the light switches?
Wait wait are there actually people who care that all the screws in the light switch panel have the same orientation?
::gives Pi puzzled dog look::
Is this a trick question?
that was not my question
I mean aren’t the screws in light switch panesl supposed to be filled in with layers of old paint?
I had to replace all mine with plastic ones last winter. The static electricity here is redonkulous.
I care that the all have the correct orientation (timing, in the trade) on my British shotguns.
Oi! You got a loisence for that screwdriver?
Straight?
Yes, I am.
Mrs OBE said I was obsessive about ensuring that the screw heads were in alignment with the switches.
But then they’re not all going to be fully tightened.
Loctite on the threads will solve the problem
After 3 weeks of super legit vote counting, the Dems have flipped another seat in California.
https://x.com/DemocraticWins/status/1861246829037314312
Don’t seat anyone from California until they implement election integrty that is normal for the rest of the country.
End the rot,
How many staffers discovered piles of votes in the trunks of their cars?
Just enough!
Do they use RCV for this? Because as much as I believe that politicos will cheat if they can, if it’s an overwhelmingly blue district with multiple D candidates and RCV, the seat “flipping” makes perfect sense.
Oh for the love of all that is holy — looks like they’re only 207 found votes away from flipping mine that was a lot further apart before all the delayed counting. In a district that isn’t that big nor all that difficult to count in the past.
Lying bloody weasels….
Team blue believes you keep finding ballots (not votes, since nobody is really voting) until they win..
Check every trunk for a box full of ballots.
Cover pic: Ready for duty!
Working Paper 33188
DOI 10.3386/w33188
Issue Date November 2024
We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from 1940 to 1970 shows that nothing makes technological progress inherently impossible in construction. What stopped it? We present a model in which local land-use controls limit the size of building projects. This constraint reduces the equilibrium size of construction companies, reducing both scale economies and incentives to invest in innovation. Our model shows that, in a competitive industry, such inefficient reductions in firm size and technology investment are a distinctive consequence of restrictive project regulation, while classic regulatory barriers to entry increase firm size. The model is consistent with an extensive series of key facts about the nature of the construction sector. The post-1970 productivity decline coincides with increases in our best proxies for land-use regulation. The size of development projects is small today and has declined over time. The size of construction firms is also quite small, especially relative to other goods-producing firms, and smaller builders are less productive.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33188?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg24
I assume several million tax dollars were used to fund that.
well is it not important to study falling productivity?
All studies of productivity are ironic in nature.
Warren Buffett who is currently the 7th richest person in the world worth $150,000,000,000.00 just sent out this letter explaining his thoughts on distributing his wealth after he passes away
A thread 🧵⬇️
https://x.com/StockMKTNewz/status/1861280651564945807
X is blocked at work. Is he sending me a few million?
No, he’s keeping it in the family trusts
He is sending me 10 billion I will send a couple of mil your way when I get it.
Thanks! I’ll write you a nice recommendation for your permanent residency application.
Basic universal principles people make themselves willfully ignorant of:
1. It’s the money. It’s always about the money. – ex. War
2. Concentrate money and/or power and the worst kinds of people will swarm to it like flies to shit. – ex. Any government, religion or charity.
Advice: Give a generous but smallish amount of money to a worthy charity. If you give them a vast sum the worthiness of the charity it will become infested with vipers and leaches.
Huge new result:
Anti-racism trainings probably lead people to accuse others of racism even when they’re not racist.
That’s exactly the result of a new study on DEI trainings, with a special focus on the impacts of the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.
Let’s dig in🧵
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1861167486994980864
So they succeeded at their objective of sowing discord and labelling normal activity as racist?
Color me shocked.
So it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do?
Witch hunts always find witches.
Our mandatory sexual harassment training really helped me up my sexual harassment game.
“Coffee and a Mike” with Tom Luongo and LTC Steve Murray. Freewheeling discussion about the transition. I loved it when Luongo lost his mind talking about 1913 – when Congress should have been in recess but instead passed the (under suspicious circumstances) the 16th and 17th Amendments and the Federal Reserve Act.
https://rumble.com/v5t2bz8-coffee-and-a-mike-with-tom-luongo-and-ltc-steve-murray-musk-and-vivek-are-a.html
China is claiming a fully US-independent phone.
The Huawei Mate 70 has a 5G chip and now runs non-Android software.
The chip was supposed to be impossible due to Western limits on ASML. But apparently, DC’s sanctions incentivized China to build their own.
https://x.com/balajis/status/1861341889599057984
So what catastrophic shortcuts were used in the design and construction?
Don’t be so negative. Buy one and test it. Buy two to have a spare.
I will never buy a Huawei branded anything.
So you get to chose which government is spying on you. I guess that’s an improvement.
More power to them…. I’d certainly like to encourage US products that are 100 percent China free. Then we can move on to 100 percent forced labor free beyond that.
all labor is forced outside True Socialism (TM)
Calvin Coolidge shooting a trench gun.
My favorite president….or second. Maybe Washington. Can they both be first?
Looks like a Model 97 Winc. Security guards in VN were still using them in ’67.
Pie is this you?
In another case, discussed in internal Morgan Stanley documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, a self-proclaimed princess claiming to have more than $5 billion in assets was allowed to engage Morgan Stanley for weeks without the bank carrying out a basic background check or completing the appropriate due-diligence review.
She gave multiple unusual stories for the source of her wealth—among other things she claimed to be related to the last king of Romania and to be the owner of a drug company worth billions. Finally the bank’s global financial crimes unit pushed it to cut ties.
One of the financial crimes employees described the messy nature of the case in an internal company chat log: “Fantastic—it’s like the end of a tarantino flick…everyone just murdering everyone.”
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/morgan-stanley-wealth-management-investigation-f317c71d?st=LyuMvf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I am still waiting for the US government to send me my 5 billion.
Titty Tuesday makes the world go ’round.
https://archive.is/1Zy5b
This way you can avoid the intermediate step of actually producing weapons and have the cash go directly to your preferred politician.
Europe Can’t Make Ukraine Enough Weapons—So It’s Paying Kyiv to Do It
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-cant-make-ukraine-enough-weaponsso-its-paying-kyiv-to-do-it-f9b86bf0?st=rkY3uU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I don’t know where to start.
The only way this makes sense is if the elites somehow live in a world ruled by magical thinking in which nuclear war never happens and can’t happen.
Maybe they see a nuclear war as just one of the various catastrophic options they are contemplating for that reset they are desperate to enact?
It all makes perfect sense if you see that the war is drummed up for the purposes of creating the greatest money laundering scam in history. The mark is the American people, the only people on earth that it pays to make war on. The war is not in the ME or in Europe, the war is here.
Say that not one more penny for Ukraine, not one more penny for NATO, the UN or for Iran and *poof*, all of this shit will come to a screeching halt.
…and the Europeans vet the producers independently before agreeing to deals.
at first, [RCA dog]
then, BWahahahahahahahaha
Dubbed the “Danish Model” after Copenhagen developed the approach with Ukraine earlier this year
The new Danegeld ain’t like the old one.
Newly crowned Miss Universe faces heat after appearing to lip-sync racial slur in Jay-Z song
https://nypost.com/2024/11/26/world-news/newly-crowned-miss-universe-victoria-kjaer-theilvig-faces-heat-after-appearing-to-lip-sync-racial-slur-in-jay-z-song/
O.M.G! If humanity was suddenly and instantly put back 25,000 years ago, we’d be extinct.
I bet she’s already tired of everyone getting up in her business and telling her what to do and when. I bet she really hates naggers.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
One more!
For 20 miles along a stretch of Canadian highway a guy followed me, and when I stopped, he jumped out of his car. He had his son with him and the boy was autistic. He didn’t verbalize. I watched this boy run his hand along the car’s wing and then the nose. I looked at the dad—he was old and grizzled, a subsistence living kind of guy—and I said, “Put the kid in the driver’s seat.” So the kid gets in. He had this ear-to-ear smile, like he had never been happier. All of a sudden, all three of us were crying.
How to Enjoy a Muscle Car? Drive It to the Arctic Ocean.
Bob Jennings has made the journey from Indiana to Canada three times, each time in a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/how-to-enjoy-a-muscle-car-drive-it-to-the-arctic-ocean-476264e3?st=BULm4h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Stupid dusty house.
Even the dog was happy to see a Scottie walking
It appears CA has unlimited money! Sorry CA Glibs.
Newsom Vows to Offer EV Rebates if Trump Cuts $7,500 Federal Tax Credit
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/california-wants-to-offer-electric-vehicle-rebates-if-trump-eliminates-7-500-federal-tax-credit-3d1b6fbe?st=eVGDqg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
unlimited money – Well I need to start asking california for a billion cause the federal government does not seem interested.
Cali knows that they’ll get bailed out if they fuck things up too bad in the fiscal realm and their capped toothed perfect haired used car salesman sack of shit gov is well aware.
I wonder if he is going to just make it out of office before the SHTF?
New constituional amendment barring the federal government from bailing out states which go bankrupt.
Do it now.
Just show up unannounced and you’ll get all the room & board you want.
Bonus, you can commit all kinds of further crimes without any repercussions.
But not for Teslas – the only EVs made in CA.
He’s probably taking it from the increase in gas taxes CARB just passed “for the climate”. Because otherwise, we’re in a huge deficit situation.
gas should be $16 a gallon if it is any less it should be taxed more.
Love the way the Wal-Mart story is framed: bowing to pressure from conservative activists. Because, you know, there was no pressure to invoke DEI programs in the beginning,
“How do we get rid of this cancer?”
“Well there’s the twitter guy asking companies about it.”
“Brilliant! We’ll say it was to avoid a boycott.”
^Yeah, this too.
That wasn’t pressure, that was just little nudges to help people make the right choices!
“scale back DEI policies after pressure from conservative activists”
And pressure from the bottom line, a desire for basic competence, and a yearning to not be under the thumb of the drama queens and the Karens and the other lunatics while at the workplace.
The Vibe Shift Against Dogs
Who Wins in the Battle of Karens and Canines?
This week, an account on Twitter went viral for asserting that we “don’t hate Karens enough” because one very such woman attempted to enforce a law against dogs when a couple brought their emotional support dog on a no-dog trail.
I feel like a few years ago, people would have agreed with OP—and might have even gone a step further to find the “Karen” and ensure she never work again. But something has changed, especially since the pivotal year of 2020. People defended the “Karen,” and a community note appeared to assert that the ADA does not cover “emotional support dogs.”
It’s not that people don’t like dogs anymore, but the unwavering loyalty toward dogs (especially juxtaposed with a so-called Karen) has come to an end. People may still like dogs, but not all dogs, and certainly not all dog owners. A couple ignoring trail rules to bring an emotional support dog on their hike is no longer the default good guy.
The vibe shift against dogs is here—and it’s not just about dogs. It’s about society, families, and what constitutes “order.”
https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/the-vibe-shift-against-dogs
What about those of us who hate both sides involved?
cat people are the worst
People (mostly) love dogs, but they hate cheaters. “Emotional support animals” are a bullshit attempt to cheat the rules.
Absolutely nobody would complain about a seeing-eye dog on the trail.
Agree. People still love dogs. They just hate the overgrown “adults” who don’t seem to understand that their dogs are not children and cannot be taken everywhere.
I had someone’s “emotional support” bulldog have a halfhearted go at me about a year ago at a Home Depot (startled it coming into an aisle). The hell with all of that nonsense.
I can’t tell you how many “support” animals I see in NYC that are crazy tiny breeds too.
Why is there such a thing as a no-dog trail?
wildlife.
Why is there such a thing as a no-dog trail?
Haven’t you heard about the dangers of the trail wagging the dog?
I was going to knee-jerk argue this, but actually that sounds correct.
Here most of the bridle trails are also signed for no dogs.
“Here most of the bridle trails are also signed for no dogs.”
And this is just wrong! Ugly girls should be able to marry ugly dudes.
This. Also, I have no problem with dogs being able to go anywhere.
Key West, at least used to be, was a dog town where dogs could go anywhere. More than once I snuck food go other people’s dogs in restaurants while I was eating.
I am also a free association guy. Dont want dogs in your store? Put up a sign. Dont want to shop or eat with dogs? Only go to places that have that sign.
Meh. Dogs go everywhere here and I’m mostly cool with it. Not on trails where they are prohibited, though, because it’s often to protect wildlife.
Holy extrapolation Batman.
“I make £130K a year selling farts”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-used-work-chippy-now-34115661
Lights KK signal…
Who the fuck is the clientele for this shit?
Are they buying bottle farts as room odorizers? Is it to remind them of some life event?
I am Ok with soiled panties, but damn, farts? At the risk of being looked at as homophobic, and I am really asking out of curiosity and not out of any ulterior motive, is this a gay guy thing?
The same sorts of guys who purchase used panties from OnlyFans whores but, you know, they’re queer.
The Great R.J. Will now predict the answer to “who buys farts?”
*Presses envelope to fez
Ah, I have it!
What did Beavis and Butthead spend their lottery winnings on?
Probably a big market in Germany. Used to be just the perverts, but now even more so with their energy problem.s
I made a batch of scrambled egg bites for this weeks breakfast, and OMG did they turn out good. Eggs, ghee, sausage, spinach, mushrooms, onions, salt and pepper and a muffin tin I haven’t used since 2019. Perfection.
Do you use cupcake liners or is greasing the muffin tin enough?
Good euphemism.
Rawr!
Serious answer, I use olive oil cooking spray, and the egg muffins just fall out of the tin when you invert it. Cupcake liners might be good just for cleanup, though.
Cupcake liners are now officially, “Baking Condoms” in my house.
I’m all for devolving power down to the state and local govts as much as possible, but recently I’ve been rethinking my stance. I’m sort of hoping that Trump starts withholding Fed $$ from states that let illegal aliens get heavily subsidized health care.
Seems like a good time to stop sending Fed $ to any state that is letting illegal aliens slurp down tax dollars at the trough.
Likewise, I’d love to see the TSA tell any state that has “Driver’s Licenses for All” that their driver’s licenses can no longer be used as ID at the airport.
The people who can make the greatest impact here are insurance companies. They should simply refuse to write a policy for someone who is not a citizen or legal resident and should refuse to pay a claim if an uninsured motorist who is not a legal resident crashes into one of their insured’s cars.
They’re a huge lobby and that would probably put the pressure necessary on state lawmakers to abandon giving licenses to any swinging dick who rolls into the DMV in his janky Altima with no papers. Couple that with a federal law that says the state government who gave a license to an illegal is on the hook for the claim from the person they ran into.
And throw uninsured/unlicensed motorists who are here illegally in jail until ICE comes and gets them and takes them back from whence they came.
“rolls into the DMV in his janky Altima with no papers”
It’s like you live in my neighborhood.
How about killing the fed program in its entirety?
ok
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/31917808/brink-sexual-relationship-with-my-sister/
There is an entire movie genre on this exact topic, isn’t there?
I think it’s 50% of PornHub too. I’ve been told.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreimo
before reading I have no idea why my mind thought it was about two chicks who were sisters.
Cultures do not develop taboos about things that never happen. IYKWIMAITYD.
From the side-bar of the lawyer-shakedown story:
Baker Mayfield seeks $12M in lawsuit against his father’s company, alleges breach of contract
Sounds like his family decided Baker was a piggy-bank.
I’d love to know more about that – on a guess, Baker didn’t go with a big “faceless” private banking firm to handle his money but a friend or family-friend. Someone like Mellon Wealth wouldn’t just start transferring money to dad because “Baker wants this money moved”.
Sad it’s come to this point.
I bet he’s missing all that promo cash from Progressive too.
He just signed 3 years for $100 million, with $50 guaranteed, with the Bucs, so he should be OK.
Still has to burn to have your family stealing from you.
It’s pretty sad but very common in sports. People especially family members become greedy when it comes to one of their family member’s money.
When my grandmother passed away, my mother went to the funeral which was in Mississippi and after the service, she asked if she could go to my grandmother’s house to see her hat collection (my grandmother owned some awesome but expensive church hats) and just take one or two from her collection because my grandmother knew that my Mom loved her hats. My aunt who is not the most morally sound person told my Mom that she can’t go to the house because reasons. My Mom pushed back and my aunt admitted that she sold those hats to the and took some of them to her house in Jackson. Apparently when my grandmother died, my aunt before anyone could get to the house raided it and took the valuable shit out.
So, when is the Aunt’s funeral?
Yeah, that shit happens a lot. I was talking to a rare book dealer once, and he was suggesting that you sell before you die, and divide up the money to keep inheritances simple. I told him that it doesn’t matter, if you have kids who are going to squabble over it, how the receive the assets doesn’t really make a difference, they will still fight, tooth and nail. A friend of mines family is going through this right now, as they are from San Jose, and grandma had a small house a couple of miles from Silicon Valley. Paid for, now worth millions. Of course, one of the kids, who had power of attorney mind you, was selling things off and had borrowed against the house without telling anyone, lest of all grandma, who was going senile.
Real shit show.
Reminds me of the hyenas in my Dad’s family.
When my Grandad died, right after the funeral they went to the house he lived in and started going through everything.
We found out when the nice lady he was living with called my Dad.
My brother and I went there and I thought for sure I was going to have to fight my Uncle, because he was trying to take her TV.
We stopped them from taking most items.
They are dead now, but I hope there is a special place in hell for my Aunt Donna and Uncle Charlie.
I still HATE those people.
My great-aunt died. My great-uncle, whom I adored, remarried a woman with the same first name as first wife. My first-cousin-once-removed was my great-uncle’s daughter (whom I call “aunt”—she objects—and adore) and the executrix of his estate. She did not get along with Dorothy 2. When he died, she found out Dorothy 2 had taken EVERYTHING and disappeared, which included everything of Dorothy 1’s (cousin’s mother) that my cousin wanted.
I’m my mother’s executrix because neither of my brothers are capable of doing this job. I’m barely more capable than that (we all know my husband will end up doing it because his powers of followup are nigh magical). She has almost nothing of worth and her knickknacks are only sentimental to her. I have begged her to get a lawyer to do this, but she adamantly refuses.
We put our assets into a trust so kids/grand kids won’t fuss over it. If Mrs F leaves first I’m thinking of changing the trust and doling out the assets. While it isn’t much kids can get bitter if they think their siblings are getting over on them.
The executor is the same age as my kids and may not outlive them so there’s that.
We got one of them protests because a candidate we do not like got votes things here. I never got those things. If you support democracy than this is it baby.
“If you support democracy”
Assuming facts not in evidence.
After reviewing the FOB Sushi Bar, Lee’s followers commented on the post alerting him that there might be something wiggling in his sushi.
“At 1:50, the end of your sushi was moving,” one TikToker wrote.
Are you suggesting one should be careful about sushi that costs $14.99 a pound? I still remember the Simpson’s “so drunk I’ll eat gas station sushi”.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/11/20/keith-lee-sushi-video/76454145007/
“We have disabled chat and you will be muted for todays
propagandatraining session.”Literally took away means for arguing with their bullshit.
The thing most feared by propagandists are comments or questions that show the participants they are engaged in a bullshit struggle session that serves no good purpose…
On the plus side, I can snark them without fear of retaliation.
I can sympathize with the Christmas lights guy. The first thing I thought is that he’d fallen to his death. Mrs. TOK puts out lights up in October/November when the weather is nice, and we don’t turn them on until late November. Even in nice weather I’m having a heart attack picturing her sliding off the roof.
As fun as it is to put them up in blizzard conditions, I put them up last weekend because the weather was gorgeous. They will go on Thursday night.
It is very appropriate that both you and Mrs. TOK are Leos.
you and Mrs. TOK are Leos
I always knew Tundra was a cop!
There are people out there on the “news” talking about how a nuclear exchange wouldn’t be bad because we’d win it. These people clearly didn’t grow up in the 80’s.
To me they’ve always wanted a hot war with Russia and this is the last ditch effort to start one before The Orange Dictator gets into office and shuts the whole thing down.
It’s insane and we wouldn’t win it. Maybe our 40-year old Minute Man missiles work and we all die. Maybe they don’t and it’s just us dying.
Unlike us, the Russians have been steadily modernizing their nuclear forces.
There was some animation showing Russians launching a few nukes and the US carpeting the whole of Russia in response. As if Russia doesn’t have subs within range of both US coasts. At the very least, say goodbye to NY, DC, LA, Hawaii, and every Navy base in the US. That doesn’t sound like “winning” to me.
Russia has more nukes than we do – every population area would get blanketed. Maybe twice if the Chinese get in on it.
Yep, we’d be fucked Drake and we’d take a bigger hit than the Russians by more warheads with more yield. The Russians demonstrated full well that they’re very capable when it comes to ballistic missile payload delivery.
Those people are insane and/or suicidal and/or stupid. It’s an incredibly dangerous tack to take.
“I’ll be safe in my bunker, only a certain acceptable percentage of the rest of you will die.”
I would bet that this is exactly the thought process.
OK, Dr StrangeTOK!
From Ready.gov
It will be okay TOK. Just lay down and let it pass.
Don’t worry about the ruptured organs, it’ll be fine.
Just take a dirt nap and think of Davos.
“Duck And Cover” – original TV advert
https://youtu.be/zMnKNHNfznE?si=jXenKJi0_HX6AaVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5lv-56_KHk
I hear aloe is great for flash burns and if that doesn’t cut it I’ll break out the Bactine: I’ll be fine bro.
I’m on eBay looking for school desks I can buy to hide under.
OBE, I think you mean “Lie back and think of
Englandthe United States.See, if Regan had started a war against Russia, it would be bad, as he is a Republican. Biden? Nah, he is a Democrat, so it is a good war against Russia!
Did anyone catch Taibbi & Kirn’s America This Week last night – they were on about the same thing and played the clip of some officer discussing “an exchange” of nuclear and non-nuclear arms. Walter was like “an exchange”? Like this is GIFTS? They then had the obligatory Dr. Strangelove clip.
Iran’s Brian Drain is breathtaking
https://x.com/Fullantho/status/1861193885760004525
I didn’t know there were many Persians named Brian.
Dang. Beat me to it.
did not even notice
In my high school we had a kid named Brian who was not a super genius. Poor Brian made the mistake of misspelling his name on a test in Jr. High as Brain.
Of course, he sat in the back of the class so when the tests were being passed back, someone noticed that and we were still calling him Brain when we graduated.
It wasn’t as mean as it sounded. He was a nice kid and thought it was pretty funny too, so it wasn’t a case of long term cruelty.
There aren’t. They all left.
Sigh…
Biden administration to loan $6.6B to EV maker Rivian to build Georgia factory that automaker paused
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-rivian-loan-electric-vehicle-biden-2b7831551e0d31f29b7b05109606bdd1
Another parting gift from that asshole.
Can we just shred that cash and, I don’t know, fill pillows with it or something? Seems like that’d be a better return on investment.
What? And make more profits for the nutty pillow guy?
Question:
If for US president you had the same voting as in many other countries where there are two rounds and the first two would go on in a head to head, do you think it would change voting patterns in any significant fashion? E.g. you can vote for third party because you can still vote for lesser evil in the second round?
How about same thing for e.g. Senate? Or Mayor?
Would any glib support two rounds of voting?
All that kind of stuff gets contorted and the good intentions lost before the first vote is finalized. You always seem to end up with power-crazed loonies in charge. So I am against it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_qBsHuJb40
There is no reason to upend the basic process until after we’ve fixed the fraud problems.
Why would this be better than RCV?
It’s at least more visible when the shenanigans go on.
Yeah but “take the top two” is stupid. At least take sufficient candidates to exceed 50% of the votes cast or something.
RCV automates this process, and can be made at least as transparent as today.
Or, hear me out, if no one makes 50%, we can just hold a new round of elections and leave the office vacant.
I have long been a proponent of a binding “note of the above” option.
But it seems unfair to keep elections in a holding pattern because the thousands of candidates that should be on the ballot keep splitting the votes.
There should be no office so important that it can’t be left vacant for a few decades.
Or, hear me out, if no one makes 50%, we can just hold a new round of elections and leave the office vacant.
Successive rounds of Russian Roulette. Last one standing gets the office. If there aren’t at least two candidates, the office goes vacant.
Because anything is better than RCV.
Our primaries are essentially a first round. Wouldn’t make much difference in the Presidential race. Might weed some RINOs out of the Senate.
Gonna be that guy and remind you Trump is the RINO. The actual Republicans are the ones you dislike.
Would any glib support two rounds of voting?
Just the suicidal ones.
We’re used to media being prophetic, notably 1984, Idiocracy, and Demolition Man.
But who knew Wallace and Grommit would be?
https://www.eedesignit.com/robotic_shorts/
I could actually use those.
Why can’t you assholes slow down and enjoy life? Local proggie defends “road diets” (where you take away lanes from existing roads to slow things down).
This jackass has a semi-regular column in the local proggie news site and he’s always been at war with
Eurasiacars.I have no idea who this “we” is that he claims decided that slower traffic is a good thing. I know I didn’t sign up for that though.
The “We” is the same as the “Public” that owns public property: it’s everyone, except you.
But of course he is.
His old bio on that site used to be “Urban Geographer”.
I was trying to find some numbers on how many traffic deaths there are each year in Minneapolis to decide if the mayhem was truly “incalculable” (it was around 95/year) when I found this nice little govt sermon on traffic deaths.
I’m sure I’m supposed to feel bad because Indians and blacks are dying at higher rates, but it seems to me that those racists are claiming that the minority drivers are really shitty drivers. Or are they claiming that MN native Pete Hegseth has been driving around at night in his Klan Kar running down blacks and Indians?
in his Klan Kar
So going to hell. That gave me the giggles, imagining an endless pile of skinheads falling out the doors.
Fuck off. The buses don’t need to drop every kid off directly in front of their house. They can walk a couple of blocks, and the buses can stop less frequently.
When I was starting shool, the bus stop was always at the end of the street.
I found it odd years later when they started picking up dropping off at my door.
Listen, you fucking subhuman piece of shit, your unoccupied bike lanes and stupid ‘road diets’ and ponderous empty buses have added an average of 30 minutes to my daily commute. You’re stealing from me the one thing that I can’t ever get back – my time. Fuck your pathetic whimpering safety, fuck your kids, and fuck you. Strong message follows.
Good rant.
Even here where the weather is mostly awesome the bike lanes are empty. We’ve gone past full retard somehow.
Truth.
Strong message follows.
STEVE SMITH SINGING TELEGRAM?
The other week there was a bus on our backroad going to our house. It was in the main lain and I was going in the turn lane. Mind you, I don’t think I have ever seen the school bus stop there and just as I was about to turn, it started throwing on its red blinking lights. First, its a dangerous road to even let kids off there and second, I was already committed to making my left.
Apparently the bus behind that one decided I was evil and was honking at me. It also had the route down my quiet street and she stopped behind me after I pulled in the drive way. I didn’t get out just to see how long she was willing to not continue her route. Apparently 2.5 minutes until she decided to continue onward.
Also, the way we run busses now make it more dangerous as kids don’t even bother to look before running out from in front of the busses all on the assumption that everyone is going to stop.
Apparently the busses in Norfolk VA have cameras, my boss thinks he got a ticket from one the other day.
Not sure how that’s legal, but I’m sure they use the parking ticket strategy.
Lame duck spending spree
Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning.
The costly proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services immediately sets the stage for a showdown between the powerful pharmaceutical industry and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken opponent of the weight-loss drugs who, as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency, could block the measure.
While the rule would give millions of people access to weekly injectables that have helped people shed pounds so quickly that some have labeled them miracle drugs, it would cost taxpayers as much as $35 billion over the next decade.
Miracle cures for everybody!
Another parting gift from that asshole.
$100 says he pardons Hunter before he’s out the door.
Subscribers for life!
What could possibly go wrong?
Eat less, lardasses.
Eat less crap, lardasses
I talked to my sister-in-law about this (she’s an NP). The problem with Ozempic is you lose muscle mass as well as fat. So we’ll have a bunch of thin people with no muscle. I’m not sure if that’s any better.
It (GLP-1 agonists, which ozempic is) also delays gastric emptying – basically the main mechanism of action – by, essentially, partial bowel paralysis, sometimes catastrophically. Also has some indication of oncogenesis, specifically, I think, thyroid. And that lose of muscle mass is a big one: if you ever go off it without changing your habits/behavior, that fat is coming right back – the muscle ain’t.
Good primer on GLP1 (receptor) agonists. Side effects about 17 minutes in, but the whole thing is very helpful and, largely, neutral in tone.
There are people out there on the “news” talking about how a nuclear exchange wouldn’t be bad because we’d win it.
“I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed…”
+a few acceptable losses
“It’s a good day for anyone who suffers from obesity,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s a game changer for Americans who can’t afford these drugs otherwise.”
I thought being fat was liberating.
Healthy at any weight, right?
Re: Pie’s link on the racism study
What culture has produced the greatest prosperity in history? Western European cultures, speficially the culture in the United States.
What is the foundation of that culture? Private property rights and rule of law.
Why would one destroy that? Because they are uncivilized, desiring to acquire what they want by taking from others who produce that through force or deception. Prosperity gives individuals options, power over their own lives. People who crave power over others cannot abide the individuals they want to enslave having options (being able to defend themselves).
In my humble opinion leftist ideologies exist for the sole purpose of weakening or destroying western culture so that they can loot and enslave the people of that culture. Everything we see those ideologies doing, no matter the guise, works to that end.
Good news: These evil people always go too far alerting their victim’s feral sense of survival and are shoved back. People may not explicitly understand that the left is very deliberately trying to enslave them but they certainly get a feeling of “Wait a minute, something is very wrong here.”
Hey lefties, want to know why you lost? Because you gave yourselves away. Go ahead, double down.
Speaking of fools and their
moneyvanity projectsFormer Formula 1 world champion Mario Andretti will be a director on the board of the newly approved Cadillac F1 team, which puts a famous American car maker with racing partner Andretti Global on the grid in 2026.
It was a long and agonizing road. Andretti Global’s application was denied in early 2024 by F1’s commercial side. But after investor Dan Towriss took control of the organization from his son, Michael Andretti, and GM stepped up its commitments, the racing team is finally having its moment — albeit under the GM and Cadillac brand.
An elated Mario Andretti spoke to NBC News about achieving his dream and his role in the new team: advising on driver selection and the technical side. He said the team is in discussions with Ferrari to build an engine for the first two years before 2028, when it plans to have a Cadillac power unit. He said the target is to launch with one experienced F1 driver and one “young American talent.”
Huh. Not long after they push Michael overboard, the deal goes through.
Poison
Bird flu has been detected in a batch of raw milk sold in California stores, and the state’s department of public health said Sunday that the public should not drink it.
The virus was found during the testing of a batch of cream top, whole raw milk from Raw Farm, LLC. The company has issued a voluntary recall of the batch, which has a “best by date” of Nov. 27, at the state’s request.
No one has become sick nor contracted the disease from this lot of raw milk, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) noted. However, “out of an abundance of caution, and due to the ongoing spread of bird flu in dairy cows, poultry, and sporadic human cases, consumers should not consume any of the affected raw milk,” the agency said in a news release.
FDA approval is a guarantee of safety. Nobody ever gets sick from food from plants regulated by the health inspectors.
NATIONAL POLL
2028 Democratic Primary
Kamala Harris 37%
Gavin Newsom 7%
Pete Buttigieg 4%
Gretchen Whitmer 3%
Josh Shapiro 3%
Michelle Obama 2%
Bernie Sanders 2%
https://x.com/EmersonPolling/status/1861366009774387644
That doesn’t show the strength of Kamala. It’s an indication of what a weak roster the Dems have.
40 percent none of the above.
Not sure if that’s the same poll that was floating around earlier, but that’s just wild.
Shit, Buttigieg doing that well is wild.
Two movies, one screen.
Please, let’s not talk about 2028 yet.
Shoe on Head had a brutal take down of the Dems yesterday. The firewall at work is blocking it. So I can’t link to it.
It’s fairly long, but there are many killer moments in the video.
I can fix her.
What a laughable roster.
Awesome. Keep on losing folks.
I don’t understand why the DNC campaign workers are upset about being laid off. The election is over. It’s a temporary job Are you telling me you thought it was a permanent thing?
They figured they’d shift right into Kamala’s Reelection mode.
Re Christmas: That Jack Black movie looks cute. Red One is already on our radar.
I would pay someone to hang our lights if the services didn’t make younuse their lights. I want my multicolored icicle lights, thankyouverymuch.
Had a Christmas compilation from Columbia House (’member them?) that I loved. Had to go digging to find it, tho. So I put it on YouTube. I’ll have to fix the deleted video.
I have a Santa-gets-abducted story in the works, but he is found and saved by Krampus (who is a woman). If there is a yin, there must be a yang, so she can’t do her job unless he does his.
Re social media. Twitter. I absolutely adore that place. CNN is up in arms that it’s being allowed to exist. Or as one meme put it, They want to shut Twitter down not because they aren’t allowed to say what they want, but because you ARE allowed to say what YOU want.
I’ve given up on Facebook. I am unable to even.
Re nuclear energy. I don’t know what 1 megawatt could power, but damn. Small modular nuclear reactors. But apparently they create more waste.
A little gem from Uncle Ted.
Well, Billy Bob Thornton gets it half right.
Re Walmart DEI. These people won’t get fired. They’ll just get sprinkled in with the other HR parasites and continue doing what they did before.
I talked to my sister-in-law about this (she’s an NP). The problem with Ozempic is you lose muscle mass as well as fat. So we’ll have a bunch of thin people with no muscle. I’m not sure if that’s any better.
It is utterly absurd to think there is a magic potion which will make you thin and pretty (smart, too, probably), with no adverse effects. We should just prescribe amphetamines and LSD to anybody who asks.
Well, I mean. Yeah. We should.
People on Twitter were discussing the change in obesity from the 1960s and 1970s to now. Processed food, high-fructose corn syrup, cheap shit, yadda yadda yadda. Me: “A woman’s diet plan from the 1950s: coffee, cigarettes, speed.” People forget this.
My mom says my dad flipped his lid when he found out my mom was on speed (I was a very small baby then) and forbade it. As I got older and fatter, she would sneak me money to go to the drugstore to get me the latest diet pill and then we would share. In her defense, we were poor and she didn’t know crap about cooking healthy and so she made the same carb-laden shit everybody during the Depression made because that was what she was taught.
Also, her mother thought the unforgivable sin was being fat. Thief? Thin? All good. Bully? Thin? That’s fine. Murderer? Thin? Probably shouldn’t have done that, but all is forgiven. Smart, talented, accomplished? Fat? Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. So I don’t blame my mother for her mother’s sins.
“It is utterly absurd to think there is a magic potion which will make you thin and pretty (smart, too, probably), with no adverse effects.”
Smoking. We need to bring back smoking. Works as an appetite suppressant, it is sexy ASF, and, well, cancer. So, we finally have a solution for the retirement fund issue.
Win-win!
Ultimate Luxury Montana Home Tour with High Country Builders & Sotheby’s | Homes of BUILD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZFd6L7_8y4
i like the bar
OK, now that’s a good one. Absolutely stunning.
I love it.
Oddly enough, google nooz has puked up a batch of stories about the downside of “ultraprocessed” foods.