Got through a series of Christmas parties this weekend…and have discovered I am getting old. Wait, I am old. Oddly enough, what hit me most was eating too much and much of it was not-so-good for you stuff. So, being a bit sluggish today – you get some pretty meh links.
- Remember, just be for 9-11-01, we had the Summer of Shark Attacks? What is this then?
- You know who else called for snap German elections?
- “Unsteady and frail” or was she really just “tired and emotional”? IYKYK.
- Why do people think the Swiss are odd…?
Music…you all will have to pitch in, nothing comes to mind.
Comment section is open and yours.
*Late Breaking Info*
Apparently we now know more about the NJ objects!
Why do people think the Swiss are odd…?
Would definitely play.
And yes, we went to a Christmas part on Saturday night and my stomach still feels like shit. Getting old is brutal.
Saturday the girlfriend and I went to see the Pietasters play. It was a strange night, there was the red head who wanted to make it clear that she wanted to dance with ME, not anyone else (and ignored the girlfriend), and her friend (I assume) who wanted me to have a set list for being a calming influence on the dance floor (she forced it on the girlfriend after I said I didn’t collect those).
Your girlfriend is a good sport.
Tundra:
She did get thrown early in the show when she realized she couldn’t just look for a bearded white guy with a scally cap to find me.
I thought the Swiss national sport was hiding “German” gold…
/too soon?
Anyway, Music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANyeMUzfqZE
I have no idea what you mean…
*wipes brow, tugs collar*
I thought it was using their neutrality to sell weapons to anyone and everyone.
I hate these filthy Neutrals.
The rest of the lawmakers on the trip have returned to D.C. for the last full week of legislating before the Christmas break.
“Legislating”
right.
Go away! Legislatin’!
They’re busy cloning Pelosi in Germany.
The sequel – The Girls from Brazil!
Man… nothing is safe from sticking a chick in it and making it gay, is there?
Actually, it’s a movie about Nancy Pelosi getting a Brazilian wax.
Multiple Pelosi clones would be called a coven, right?
“Despite playful attempts at arbitration, the Hornussen games were often followed by wild brawls,” according to Switzerland TourismExternal link.
The real ruckus started when one village was accused of bringing in paid ringers to help the local squad.
If there’s anything that the Swiss are united against, it’s mercenaries.
Is that more of the papal bull?
“I have a hunch that that Quasimodo guy playing for the other team is a paid ringer!”
I see they took her to a US military hospital. I wondered about that.
Got to keep the shell alive until it is time to dump the memory in to the clone.
How quickly will either side run out of young men to feed into the meatgrinder?
Well, just throw ALLl the North Koreans into the meatgrinder. There are … 26M of ’em!
“That’s a big T̵w̵i̵n̵k̵i̵e̵ sausage.” (Just shove that… wherever it is ya wanna shove it.)
So true to form we know more about the gun than the chromosomes of the school shooter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14198619/madison-wisconsin-school-shooting-abundant-life-christian-updates.html
Another tranny?
The longer they stonewall the more likely. I’d also like to know what flavor of SSRI he/she was on.
CNN says female.
So dude pretending to be a girl.
I’m waiting for a manifesto to be discovered, then disappear into some courthouse never to be seen again.
Hoo-boy…. How many legit female school shooters have there been? In living memory?
Rhy:
Just the Nashville chick and this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHHAbze03Z4&ab_channel=EnhancedMusicVideos
Her next parole hearing will be some time in ’25.
🎶 🎶 👍
Also true to form, newsertainers wondering where the metal detectors are.
Because schools aren’t prisony enough?
And maybe I’m heartless but why is this national, non-stop news even?
Because the tools to keep a fascist like Trump from destroying democracy are evil and no one should have them even though Trump is literally about to destroy democracy.
This is how you know their “But Muh Democracy!” stuff was nothing but nonsense. Why would you do everything possible to disarm people if you really believed FASCISM! was imminent?
I can’t verify the veracity of this: https://x.com/slatzism/status/1868795614491800032?s=61&t=h5BOKTRU9mc6OIfm7REElw
Can we ban voting for that populist party first? Can’t have anybody advocating wrongthink, now. Limit the voters’ choices, and they are more likely to make the correct one.
The tiefer Staat wants to ban the AfD, but for now they are settling for refusing to partner with them, without which the Nazi candidate cannot possibly win.
Unfortunately for the other parties, the more popular the AfD gets, the more likely any government they do manage to form will be even less popular and respected than the current one that’s failing.
Correct.
People are pissed. Doing the things they’re pissed at harder isn’t like to quell the mob. They’re doing the same thing in France by doing everything possible to thwart what people actually want, which is the “far right” party.
Mammary Monday year in review.
https://archive.is/NVvzD
That trick never works
The grow-your-way-out-of-debt claims frustrate economists who specialize in budget policy because “the causality is just the opposite,” Smetters said. “The way you grow the economy is by fixing the fiscal [problems.”
Fuck you, cut spending.
“…fixing the fiscal problems.”
Details? Specifics?
MOAR TAXES!!!
We went to one party this weekend, for roller derby end of season. The theme was “Renaissance”, which of course meant lots of fetching lasses and their cleavage. Those derby girls sure do clean up nice. But neither I nor Mrs. TOK could take the noise for too long.
Won’t we all be embarrassed when Nancy’s gone and Paul continues to make 700% on his investments!
I am sure he will keep hammering it down.
Democrats argue that one partial fix could come by allowing some provisions of Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to expire. Extending individual tax cuts made under the law could cost $4 trillion. Even though allowing those cuts to expire might weaken growth in the short term, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the economy would actually grow more quickly over time as deficits shrank due to higher revenue.
And, of course, they cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promise the additional revenue will only be used to bring down the debt and not pounded down some rathole of political expediency.
*clears throat*
FUCK YOU, CUT SPENDING.
They’re only worried about the deficit when taxes are involved.
“Extending individual tax cuts made under the law could cost $4 trillion.”
No, tax cuts don’t cost anything, because they aren’t spending.
And the CBO is claiming that raising taxes causes economic growth, as long as deficits shrink? Removing money from the productive sector of the economy causes growth?
Regardless, I don’t suppose the CBO could look at the historical record, of what happens to spending when revenue goes up, could they?
Pay no attention to spending citizen, trust us – there is nothing left to cut!
Keep in mind these evil morons are malthusian limited growth adherents.
music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR9F12CVIM
It’s a shame they took so long to get that second album out. The guitar work on Second Coming is so good.
better late than never
I feel like we’ve had this argument before but I never got into the second album.
Too baggy for my taste. I suppose I could give it another chance 30 years later.
I got to see them live when they toured for that album, they were amazing.
In Peter Hook’s book, he claims the Stone Roses’ manager contacted New Order’s US manager to get a tour set up in the 80’s. But he wanted the US manager to guarantee there would be a crowd of screaming girls at the airport like the Beatles. The US manager was not willing to do that, so no US tour.
I like both, but if I’m choosing I’ll have to go with the first.
Still, what an amazing band.
I feel like we’ve had this argument before
Yes.
They are two bands: the early stuff and the later stuff. I like the second band. Someone else here, really didn’t.
Yeah, the first album knocked my socks off. It was just what I needed at the right time.
A Beatles comparison is certainly appropriate; it’s obviously their biggest influence early on.
Death in the kitchen
That black plastic spatula in your kitchen drawer? It may be time to toss it. Recently, there’s been lots of buzz about the dangers of cooking with black plastic utensils — think spoons, spatulas and more. The main claim: Using black plastic to stir things in your pots and pans over heat can release chemicals into your food that you will ingest. One study even suggests that the main problem is the use of unregulated recycled plastics in these cooking utensils, so you may be getting items that have flame retardants in them — which can become toxic when exposed to heat.
Anything will kill you in a high enough dose. but let’s all panic.
Spoiler alert- it’s a ploy by Big Stainless Steel Spoon to get your money.
Hah!
I already use bamboo. Nice try Big Stainless!
Those harbor bacteria.
Ur ded, dood.
Not if you use mineral oil!
I use gray plastic. Does that mean I will die less quickly?
You’ll envy the dead.
I like the silicon ones, but some of my plastic utensils still work better for certain things.
“there’s been lots of buzz about the dangers of cooking with black plastic utensils”
There has? First I’ve heard of it.
Recycling makes spatulas of color toxically masculine.
So, the recycled plastic buying, virtue signalling, public hoisted on their own petards?
BLACK UTINSELS MATTER!!!
What, nobody went with “once you go black, you never go back”?
I haz disappoint.
As with the Zed left hanging in the earlier thread. We are all off today.
unregulated
There is the money shot! Some pol has a Cousin Eddie who needs a job as deputy assistant to the undersecretary of recycled plastics.
Will the winner of the German Snap! elections sing “I Got the Power!”? https://youtu.be/H11nzBI-2oI?si=TH1Wq-o4Qc0QCPd6
LOL appropriate as they are a German group.
The winner’s last name will be Addams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5IWRz78DY
Well, the Swiss are getting a real Karin for their pres!
Is she a Swiss Miss?
Late afternoon Daily Ray:
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1868774802254696690
What a good boy!
Obligatory.
I love that movie.
A guy in the neighborhood has a bloodhound. Amazingly cool dogs.
We saw it with a group of dog people, including some who were show people. They were all hysterical because they knew real people that were like the characters – they’d be going “oh, that’s so-and-so” and laughing their asses off.
Also of note, a bloodhound did win Westminster Best in Show in ’22.
For having such a metal name, bloodhounds are adorably derpy.
“What is this then?”
A pretext for deploying even more surveillance technology, apparently.
Something heartwarming and romantic
For lots of ya’ll:
https://x.com/Rothmus/status/1868778809572659576
Released State Dept docs show that didn’t much care that Gonzalo Lira was arrested and eventually killed in the Ukraine for telling truths.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/judicial-watch-foia-bombshell-how-biden-state-dept/
Note to self: Do not leave the United States.
Depends, are you a black lesbian who plays for the WNBA?
Plenty of nice places to go to but Ukraine in wartime ain’t one of them, places slightly above Haiti in my book.
My empathy is low. He laid down on the tracks all on his own.
This chart of GDP per capita is going around. Germany is the only country in Europe that beats (barely) Mississippi.
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/1868737083319419166
What is it about Mississippi that it can’t seem to climb the ratings?
Reputation. Actually Mississippi isn’t a bad place to live. I would live there over any country in Europe and most of the US.
No, Mississippi is a fucked up state.
This isn’t Yankee snobbery. It is from living just across the border in Memphis. Maybe the Gulf Shores part of the state is nice, but the rubes around Memphis were terrible.
I wonder how comparable the figures are – and this one’s been floating around for decades, long before the recent self-destructive habits – because having lived there, Germany never came across as “poor” to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They use that example implying there is something wrong with Mississippi. There isn’t.
Jeebus, the Imperial Capitol is even more bloated than I would have guessed.
That one is an eye catcher.
That does jump out doesnt it. That is a VERY serious problem.
Because it’s a city, not a state. Throws off the statistic.
I bet NYC’s would be even higher.
Japan’s lower then Boppity Boopyland where they eat pasta and drink wine all day? Who compiled those numbers?
Three different institutions…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
I wonder how much of that is because of Japan’s weak Yen?
Shit is really cheap here. Much nicer (for me) than when I was here in ’87 or so and the Yen was crushing the dollar. Didn’t help I was an E-3 nonrate making something like $200/month.
The thing that would kill me long term in Japan is the crowding. I’m staying on a man-made island right now so it isn’t too bad, but the older parts of Kobe/Osaka are super claustrophobic with the way people are stacked into apartment buildings.
Honestly after NYC even Tokyo subways at rush hour don’t faze me.
I don’t like it and wouldn’t want to it by choice, however.
That’s a bullshit chart, as there is no GDP in Washington DC. There may be income – but no productive economy.
Entertainment News: Kraven the Hunter Flops at Box Office.
No
fucking
way.
Never heard of this one or “Moana 2”. Come to think of it, I don’t see any movie ads anymore.
If it’s not dick pills or Medicare, my television seems uninterested in advertising it to me.
Oh, c’mon my tv is nonstop snake oil in a thousand flavors every day.
We saw The Return and thoroughly enjoyed it – save for one tear-jerking moment.
There is at least one female Glib who will find this adorable.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1868757003025498187
Awwwwwwww. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I like her.
The true leadership of the free world.
Want!
Jay Leno & Jason Cammisa Drive a BMW 325i Touring
This one goes out to Nancy. Wicked Gravity.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aaitsG1hdeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusZXECS0mM&ab_channel=Soma
I hate hate hate giving a quote for ebook formatting, then having to tell the client that their cover is unsuitable and I can fix it, but it’s gonna be more money. I HATE upselling. HAAAAAAAAAATTTEEEEE
That is some nice transit planning Lou. Alternate Headline: How you don’t have to stop losing money on light rail after opening a new line – losses now, losses forever!
Our light rail lines don’t have anything preventing you from just walking on the choo-choo. Everyone is on the honor system. Even when you get caught, you rarely get fined. One of the changes to the law was to reduce the fine because the old fine was so high that everyone who was charged with fare evasion wasn’t prosecuted because the fine was too much for the poors. The thinking was that with a lesser fine, maybe some people would actually have to pay it.
The new
hawtnesscoldness is turnstiles to make people pay for a ticket before getting on. Turns out the cost of installing them is prohibitive. And in some cases, the fare evaders would just walk on the tracks to get around the turnstiles. So of course, you know some idiot would get killed and his relatives would sue the shit out of the city.Minneapolis is so fucked.
One of the “setbacks” on the light rail line was this story about two transgender people being assaulted.
“Refugees”. Thanks Walz.
Given that there were no descriptions of the six men who beat them up, I’m going to say that they were all from our new vibrant, diverse, Somali neighbors.
“a group of six men making “derogatory remarks” towards them.
The police report further states that when the two women confronted the group”
I think I see where they went wrong. I guess the entitlement and outrage is so strong with these people that they think nothing of walking up a bunch of men talking shit and calling them out. As one does when one is “scared and unsure”.
Residual toxic masculinity is what I would call it.
Que?
You won’t believe this…
https://alphanews.org/surveillance-video-challenges-media-activists-narrative-of-alleged-downtown-minneapolis-attack/
Only thing missing in that “confrontation” was one or both of them grabbing their crotches while they were across the tracks.
“…getting people out of private vehicles…”
The money shot.
The money shot.
PHRASING!
“Minneapolis is so fucked.”
Now do St Paul.
St Cloud, anyone? Anyone?
People who live in glass fish houses shouldn’t throw frozen minnows Fourscore!
Did you see my link this morning about Cross Lake getting all worked up about Big City folx coming in and building fancy pole barns? You need to clean up your own yard before you start throwing shade at St. Paul and St. Cloud.
What’s Sauk Centre? Pudunksville? Oh, yes. Yes, it is. The whole town has problems with basic phone/internet service, so I’m told.
“Fuck Sinclair Lewis.” ~Munchkin.
Sauk Centre is a suburb of St. Cloud now.
I did see that, late, but new to me. It’s been very , very good to me. There’s enough slop over that the noveaus are priced out of Crosslake and are having to settle for seconds.
Prices are skyrocketing here. I may add on to my metal building, put in a game room with slots and hire a couple Real Americans to make it authentic.
Munch strongly disagrees, but she hates St. Cloud. (I, on the other hand, love hockey.) She’s a legal clerk for family services up in Todd County. I’m doing my best to lure her here. She’s on our page, though FAR more harsh than I. She seems around Suthen’s level of (deserved) apathy towards humanity.
That’s a pretty nice BMW Leno’s cruising around in, but I’d rather have a euro spec ’78 323.
Gorgeous.
One of the best things about those old cars is that you could order them without all the shit.
“Mitch McConnell’s preemptive strike on GOP isolationism”
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/16/mitch-mcconnell-trump-foreign-policy
Please retire you repulsive old fool.
“He supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and then the 2007 troop “surge” pushed by then-President Bush”
Of course he did and it worked out swell, unless you were an Iraqi
“It is unclear when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will return to the U.S. as she recovers from hip replacement surgery after a nasty fall in Luxembourg.”
Oh, li’l cupcake! I’m well-aware of how fun *that* is. I wonder how many screws they’ll drill in. My hip with two feels better than the one with a solitary screw. (Good band name; vending machine sex (also not bad); possibly a depressed prison guard.) And hon, don’t think your femurs’ll be A-OK now! I’ve broken each one post surgery as well, both via falls.
The first one, the one I *really* broke, as in clean-thru – the titanium was the only solid structure left connecting the leg – was from a jackass sucker-punching me for legit no reason and I fell against a curb. (Koreans and expats hanging outside a 7/11 drinkin’ late nite – dudes were respectfully sparring, purposefully w/o contact. We’re all watching, having a good time. Then some fuck popped me from behind, in the Decisively Bad way. That was interesting punctuation for the evening.)
I hope you feel that pain soon, Nance. Ya’ve earned it, hard as that is. It’s tremendously unpleasant, so please remember to savor each moment.
$20 bucks says it costs 6 figures on a fully staffed military med-evac flight to haul her wrinkled old ass back to the states.
My 16 mile ambulance ride was 7 Grand.
Maybe she’ll ask Luxembourg for asylum since Trump has vowed to lock up his enemies, allegedly. She can be Luxembourger Queen.
Grand Duchess.
Burger Queen. https://youtu.be/SlTk0NzOF9s?si=NmOy2FPip7NVkR_Z
I worked with a kid from Serbia who had brain cancer. Kept coming back and he finally decided to move back to Serbia to be with family as he wasn’t going to last much longer. Had a stroke on the flight and died in midair.
Imagine if Nancy passed away during the trip. Anyone want to take the chance she wouldn’t come back as a zombie?
(Much respect for that kid. That’s a heavy downer.)
With Modern Left Art Couture being what it is, they’d dress Pelosi’s zombie-ass up, slice and serve her as fucking charcuterie to whatever fawning pawns remain at the trough. (*That* was an interesting fad. Presumably just as/more popular now, only no cameras allowed anymore.)
Here is another one for our girl Nancy and Kamala
https://youtu.be/YtGRLKVzzdg
Grand Marnier or Cointreau for intense orange flavor?
Neph is your man, but my vote is GM. What are you making?
Donald Trump.
Depends on if you want it to add sweetness, or just the orange flavor. I would also say not to forget about curacao as well. But Grand Marnier is the more potently flavored of the two.
I want to make a orange Milano cookie in cocktail form, and I found orange vodka is disgusting. So I was thinking Mozart liqueur, Grand Marnier/Cointreau, and either plain or vanilla vodka
(and no, I don’t want anyone to Google a recipe – I want to work it out for myself to my taste)
Well, the recipe I found on google says…
orange vodka is disgusting
That is because you think orange vodka is doing a body shot off Trump? Especially because you are filling his belly button up with the vodka.
GM. My choice for crepes suzette as well.
If you liked the band video I posted this morning, something similar for all you martial artists
Part of my soul just died. Given the piss poor state of most martial arts these days, it doesn’t surprise me to see a black belt around his waist.
Walz rehearsing his return to governing. Sure glad I don’t live in the suburbs with the big shots from United Health.
So XY is thinking about putting in an application as facilities manager for Chipotle, but it would require he move to Minnesota. Thus far, with regard to Chipotle, he’s made some decent decisions, so we encouraged him in that. And facilities (of anything) has always been where his heart lies.
Which part if Minne?
Hornussen is actually one of three Swiss national sports – the others being Schwingen (wrestling) and Steinstossen (stone-throwing)
No shooting?
Hornussen looks neat.