Nice day yesterday downing beer and pizza after a little 6 mile hike down a snowy trail. Prime ranted about entitled kids, idiots who mask, total retards who double-mask, and the issues dealing with a largely Bengali clientele at one of her practices. She’s seeming far too perfect. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop… we will have some conflict tonight, however, as one of us will be trolling the other. Preferably me trolling her. I will confess to wearing my Ravens cap to the brewery, prompting her to warn me not to get into a bar fight.
Birthdays include a guy who taught us that absolute power corrupts absolutely; the true spiritual father of all of us; a loser loser loser; the pride of Baltimore (and there’s a story involving Spud there, but perhaps it will be told another time); a dude who was, like, totally spherical; a guy who came to dinner, but nowhere else; someone who famously blew Leonard Cohen; the owner of the most famous tits in American history; and SP’s favorite artist (ducking for cover as the ghostly rusty tin can lids come flying from beyond).
And from beyond come the Links.
Our collective national IQ temporarily rises. But worry not, Trump will lower it again.
This is 1979 Jimmy Carter-level madness. I can only hope Israel will go full Sherman when inevitably Hamas starts fucking around.
Are they going to take his Oscar away?
I came for the guitar playing (and Gatemouth didn’t disappoint, it’s insane) but stayed for the crazy-great bass.
GO BILLS!
The key stats to remember are… 35-10.
I am not nerd enough to get that but I will assume some sort of slam against the Bills. 😡
Final score of the last game between them.
The playoff version of Lamar will be showing up today. Bills 27 Ravens 18
Lamar throws an interception and loses a fumble.
I’m with you rhywun.
Go Bills!
This is the signal!
She might just pass the SF filter.
Good chance. Next test will be with erstwhile commenter (and still close friend) JW in about 2 weeks.
The Bee of course captures the Tiktokalypse perfectly.
They say that in China TikTok shows educational stuff, or maybe that is just confirmation bias I dunno.
Based on whose definition of “educational stuff”? Gen Z’s or the CCP’s?
(Go Bills!)
Is there a distinction?
To me that’s always sounded like the claims from the Japan Scare of the 1980s about how Japan was going to take over the US economically.
Yeah, the Japan Scare was ridiculous – they didn’t even openly declare their global empire intentions the way China does.
https://youtu.be/Km6bFBSVty4
Happy birthday Melvin Williams?
Happy birthday Spiro Agnew!
Happy birthday Beck David Hansen?
Happy birthday Jayne Mansfield?
I was expecting less literal, like Audubon or something.
I was hoping for Pam Anderson.
Hers were Canadian with an assist from Dow-Corning.
Happy birthday John Waters?
Nancy Pelosi?
Happy birthday Frank Zappa!
Don’t hassle the Hoff!
I’d go with H.L. Mencken.
Stringer Bell?
Are they going to take his Oscar away?
Why I was cheering for the Texans yesterday. I don’t care who, just someone please beat these simps.
I only watched for a few minutes but I caught that performance art. Even I recognized the fakery but it was worth watching the replaaaaaayyyyyssss.
The Refs should just let him know that the other team now gets one free egregious late hit on Mahomes. That should ramp down on the theatrics.
Johnny Most used to call those flops a “Stanislavski”.
A timely warning, coming as it does only a few days after Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment ratified.
If only the power of Trump to feed delusions to the mentally ill could be put to some more useful purpose than just making me laugh… oh what the hell am I talking about!
Yeah, I expect Germany to recall this ambassador over this to save the embarrassment of having us declare him a persona non grata and boot his ass out.
It’s a professional analysis. None of his political priors crept in. 🙄
Would have been an oracle if he said it 4 years earlier.
$25 for pasta?! You could go to a local restaurant run by actual Italians for much less.
“My Auntie Mame kissed me a great deal and introduced me to a lot of strangers, a Mr. Benchley, who was very nice, a Mr. Woollcott, who wasn’t, a Miss Charles, and a good many others.”
Doubt it nowadays.
It’s one banana Michael, what could it cost, 10 dollars?
In Maggiano’s defense, last time I went there with a group, we all left with enough food for 2-4 additional meals.
Of course, that was long before the lockdown era.
I’ve had my say on this stupidity of this deal. So instead I will chuckle at the “most viewed” side-links on that page – peak Guardian. A combination of “minorities hardest hit” and “Trump terror”.
If I believed for one minute that Hamas was capable of complying with a cease-fire for any length of time, I would agree that it’s stupid. I think the Israelis figure this cease-fire will last a few days at most, they might get a few hostages back, and they get some PR cover when Hamas breaks it and they start pulverizing them again. In which case, it’s not a bad deal.
Nope. They don’t get any PR cover. They should, but they won’t.
This is my take, and along with that is Bibi shoring up his left flank.
Yeah, I’ve seen that take. It seems like fanciful 4D chess even if that’s probably how it will play out.
The stupidest part to me is they’re sending hundreds of terrorists back to Gaza at, what, 30x the rate of innocent hostages received in return?
But they have explosive tracking chips implanted, like Hezbollah cell phones.
Pretty sneaky, Sis.
Since they know they won’t get any PR cover, why bother even pretending to care? Just bomb the shit out of them as soon as you get the hostages back.
“The legislation would mandate federal detention of immigrants without legal status who are accused of theft, burglary and assaulting a law enforcement officer, among other things.”
I guess I’m a little confused about why federal detention of illegal immigrants isn’t mandated, period.
If we just detained illegal immigrants willy nilly there would be no one to pick crops and change the shitty diapers of the children of upper class dual career households. Is that what you want?!?!
Me, at the motel check in desk : “Why isn’t the bed made?”
Check in clerk: “Here, I’ll give you some clean sheets. All the maids are hiding until after Trump’s first day”
Help me out; I didn’t RTFA but wonder, by this legislation, who is being told to do what and by what authority.
The main problem with enforcement of federal laws was expecting local folk to do and to pay for it. “Theft, burglary” being governed by state code, one wonders how the feds would ever know any such “accusation” had been filed in a resistant (eg: SFO) jurisdiction.
I’d instinctively resist any breakdown in federalism: the states owe the feds no actions and no reports whatsoever. [1]
The proper vector for detention of illegals is for the feds to find them themselves and go get them based on the laws that are already on the books.
1) I know, I know; that ship has already sailed.
I agree; and I also think the point of the legislation seems more to be signaling than anything helpful. Much like that is the point of “sanctuary” nonsense.
Imagine the headlines! 🙄
What’s the over/under on burning cars tomorrow? I think the money taps for the Democrat’s Blackshirts have been closed or at least dialed back, thus I will take the under.
I’m not a fan of the Imperial Spectacle that the inauguration has become. Just swear the guy in, in the Oval Office, and everybody goes home and gets back to work on Monday.
You know, like normal people.
I am not a fan either. My least favorite thing in my military career was change of command ceremonies. The full text of the assumption of command speech of the best battalion commander I had was, “All policies and procedures remain in effect until further notice. Enjoy your weekend.”
Yeah; Calvin Coolidge’s first swearing in was at his father’s house in Vermont, sworn in by his JP father and witnessed when they could get the local US Representative there. It took place in the middle of the night.
Hopefully there will still be wailing in the streets.
And disappointment between the sheets.
I suspect that the cold weather was a convenient excuse to move it indoors – because of security threats.
What’s the over/under on assassination attempts?
In the run up to the election I felt certain he was going to get plugged before inauguration day if he won, but at this point I doubt it. The tech and finance industry suddenly deciding they have always been at war with Eastasia is telegraphing something. Not that they’ve had any genuine change of course, but possibly a shifting of strategy.
Given how highly organized the “grass-roots resistance” has always been, yeah I’m getting the sense that the word has gone out, “not now”.
At least we will be spared a pissing contest about “largest inauguration crowd ever.” Still, maybe there will be a pre-emptive strike by Trump in tossing an insult at some D-list Hollywood or TV “celebrity.”
I am reminded of Russian tennis pros being pressured to denounce their country at international tournaments.
What’s that blather about “harmony” or some shit they always drone on about at the Olympics and such?
That harmony is of the same type as diversity and tolerance. It requires the unfavored to love the favored, not vice versa.
And there is a strict hierarchy from “most favored” to “least favored”, just to keep everyone on their toes!
Go Buffalo Ravens? I find myself not caring about this season in the slightest.
Today in the Adventures of Mama Mojeaux:
Mom informs me there are documents of an unknown type secreted deep in the bowels of a breakfront in the family room at the House of Ill Dispute that my Mom wants to look at. I also know that Aunts Selfish Cunt will be going to church. I also know the garage door code and that the ASCs will not have changed it because they don’t know how. So I will be going on an incursion to fetch said docs and the other stuff Mom has on her list.
It’s not that I can’t go there and say, “Hey, I’m coming to get Mom’s stuff.” I can. But I highly doubt they’d let me take a pile of papers that aren’t Mom’s.
Mom is starting to think to her future not, in fact, involving a casket. This would involve a skilled nursing facility and then assisted living that she wanted to do years ago, but Susie browbeat her out of it. Skilled nursing to get her a little mobile, we can afford. Assisted living would have to wait until the House of Ill Dispute is sold, but she has a home with me as long as that takes or as long as she wants.
Honestly, I think she was so ready to die to get away from Susie (and Milly, who is, according to my mom, not exactly a blameless victim here). But now Mom’s in a place where she’s not having to take care of her abusers.
I’m trying to follow this; why would your Mom care about such documents?
Possibly mortgage documents, which she doesn’t have. But your point is solid. We thought there was some funny business with the initial mortgage, but we think we ironed that out.
If they’re nothing, I’ll just leave them.
That sounds very complicated. Thankfully, we had severed ties with our dysfunctional clan by the time my parents died, but my dad once secured a mortgage through his sister due to his credit issues, and to say it was a disaster would be a colossal understatement. I’m glad your mom is coming into better circumstances under your care. Better late than never.
Happy that my family was normal, all getting along, no jealousy. The beauty of not having much when we were kids. I think my kids are pretty much the same but nonetheless we have a trust to minimize conflicts, hopefully.
[cues sfx: Mission Impossible theme]
Good luck with your retrieval mission.
I love your descriptions for the things (HOID) and people (ASC) involved in this.
Hoping for the best outcome for your mother.
House of Ill Dispute is fantastic. May steal.
I wish you luck on your Mission: Probable. I’m glad your mother is in a better place. ASC’s spiteful selfishness is a fun read, but reminds me how blessed and thankful I am to not have any of that bullshit running through my family. Yikes.
TikTok – We dont owe the Chinese free speech protection. We are not bound to let them spy here. Shutting down TikTok is not taking anyone’s freedom of speech. Letting our enemy freely spy on us and collect info on everyone in the general public is stupid.
On the other hand that may be caveman thinking on my part. The technology we have now may make all of that argument moot.
What Carter and Biden did is not madness. It is malevolence. I cant imagine an argument that would make me change my mind. The left is both Machiavellian and Faustian. Prove me wrong.
Another situation where stupidity cannot explain what is plainly, on its face, motivated by malice. So plainly so that it is baffling why we even have to debate about it. The Dems invited and accommodated people to come here illegally. They have to go.
If the worst of us don’t have free speech, none of us do.
From what I have been able to glean, the decision wasn’t made along first amendment lines and it all comes down to the corporate ownership structure and federal authority under national security precedent. IOW, the ruling had nothing to do with the content exchanged via the TikTok platform, and everything to do with whether congress can mandate a foreign government divest itself of its ownership interest in a corporation doing business in the US as a matter of national security. I’m not really comfortable with the feds having that authority, except perhaps during a congressionally-declared war (note: not an “authorization to use military force;” a declared war), but 9 out of 9 SCOTUS justices think the law permits it.
I am saying that free speech is nt the issue. China is not guaranteed the ability to simply provide a platform. Doing so is not speech and tossing them out does not deprive anyone who wants to speak an opportunity to do so. Many other platforms exist.
They are enemy spies. Kick them out.
*actually may have little to no effect in th end.
That’s another thing about this case. The TikTok platform wasn’t made illegal. If tomorrow the CCP sold its ownership stake and transferred the relevant IP to an American investor, the platform could continue operating as it always has. But the CCP will only divest itself if it can retain the algorithm that makes the platform function.
Now, what exactly is so fucking magical about TikTok’s algo compared to every other content farm, I haven’t the slightest idea. “Serve up content based on these 900 points of personal data per user” is how all of these social media factories work. There were dozens of short form video platforms that predated it, including Vine, which was killed by its corporate overlord shortly after being acquired. It doesn’t seem technologically unachievable to me for an American company to acquire the name and branding and slap their own backend in.
If the worst of us don’t have free speech, none of us do.
Us? The issue is not Americans speaking it is a generally hostile foreign State collecting information. Does your free speech absolutism extend to protecting foreign collection of information? Is it different because it is a shotgun approach? Would you extend the protection to targeted spying?
I get that. For me, the USG shoving it’s weight around is the issue, not their target. The precedent is that they can shriek National Defense! any time, and it’s their QI/GetOutOfJailFree/FYTW card for doing whatever they want to do.
Everyone should be free to do whatever business they want in the states….free to talk, free to walk, free to carry……….
otherwise this shit boils down to Lincoln’s I’ve-gotta-destroy-it-to-save it
There aren’t any free speech issues for an American spying for a foreign power, even though it necessarily involves “speech acts” (gathering and transmitting information).
Using TikTok is not spying for a foreign power, though. I’m also not thrilled by the “there’s an alternative way to do X, so prohibiting this is OK”. That’s how we got all the restrictions on flying – “hey, if you can’t fly, you can always walk”.
Even with all that in mind, I’m having a hard time opposing barring a foreign government operation in the US that also is used by citizens for speech.
The users aren’t spies, they are self installing surveillance devices. I see no issue banning a foreign government from playing the data mining social media game, even though domestic companies and the NSA also play that game. I’d love to see all of it ended, but I am nationalist enough to prioritize ending the hostile foreign power version over the others. Yes, national defense gives the Feds a broad excuse to wield power, and is often abused as an excuse for erosions of rights, but it is also their primary responsibility.
I don’t know that it would fall under freedom of speech, but I don’t see how the government has the authority to do this except under the FYTW clause.
170 million Americans use Tik Tok. If they don’t care that China is hoovering up their data, that’s their individual decisions. Just as when Americans use Facebook and the Feds are doing the same thing. The Fed’s argument is that only they have the right to spy on us. I’m more comfortable with the Chinese collecting that data than the FSA.
Dear Europeans – I have carefully considered all of your carefully crafted arguments and the multitude of subtleties from every angle.
My answer is: NO. GET A JOB.
“the most famous tits in American history”
Non-bullshit story: I remember when I was about 5 or 6, I saw Dolly on TV and being absolutely blown away. Who is that and what are those?! Thus began a lifelong obsession. These busty ladies are dedicated to her.
https://archive.is/2Xxkv
Slutty Sunday reminds you that a good fuck is an onomatopoeia.
I recall having seen both #9 and #31 in previous editions of Slutty Sunday, but it was worth confirming that my opinion remains unchanged.
This previous week I was visited by an amply bechesticled female companion, of whose company I had been deprived, and missed more than I realized. While it does not take oversized breasts to titillate me, there’s a time and a place for everything, I suppose.
Titillate. Well played.
Food: Politics should not be in food. Eat what you like. Someone wants to offer recipes and advice? Good. Consider it on its own merits, as in – is it good?
I have no opinion o n what you like.
Unless it is cilantro. That one is illegal for humans to consume. And avocados. Avacados too. Other than that, just those two things…
Licorice/anise/fennel
Yum, Cilantro and Avo on a fish taco,
Heathen
Durian.
It’s like you hate tacos or something.
“Licorice/anise/fennel”
Less I need to share then….
I’m not sure how durian tastes, I couldn’t get past the smell…
It’s a lot easier to win a football game when the other team beats itself.
Now I have a vision of a Washington-Baltimore stupid bowl. I’ll be rooting for the terrorists.
Her babydaddy’s simp level: UNPARALLELED.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/19/my-one-night-stands-mean-my-partner-refuses-to-marry-me
Why do I get the sense that if the sexes were reversed here, we wouldn’t get a deep dive on insecurity and self-worth; we’d get “you’re a toxic male pig who needs who doesn’t deserve your partner”.
Anybody’s guess
Ray of sunshine.
https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/fairbanks-alaska-bald-eagle-rescue-release-video?dicbo=v2-EUs1SiN
Obama banging Rachel Green?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/barack-and-michelle-obama-living-like-just-friends-amid-rumours-involving-jennifer-aniston-report/ar-AA1xshgr
I thought he was gay…
Good God, I thought she had better sense than that.
But yeah, that marriage always seemed like one of convenience. They learned it from the Clintons, perhaps.
I don’t think there’s a single person in federal office today who has what normal people would consider a conventional marriage. Across party lines and offices. They’re all curated for status and public consumption.
Could be sour grapes on my part, but whether it’s a genuine feeling or a coping strategy, I’d rather be dead ass broke and alone than put on that sort of a charade for money and power.
I would say the same for any people in positions of power; CEO’s, generals, ambassadors, etc. You marry into that level of power, and you know what you are getting.
“I’d rather be dead ass broke and alone than put on that sort of a charade for money and power”
Dood, living in a sham marriage is one of the *least* immoral things these people do on a daily basis.
Barry fooling around with a woman?
*chuckle*
Sure he is.
Yeah, I think that is what they call a “modified limited hang-out”.
Although if Big Mike really is a dude, then this gets really weird . . . .
I have little interest in Americanese football but for some strange reason I find myself rooting for the Bills. I think that out of curiosity for the draft process I read a bunch of stuff about it when their current QB was drafted and he seemed like an underdog type and that made me want him to succeed. So Bills for the Superbowl. I am not particularly rooting against anyone but I guess the Chiefs had enough recently so no more for them.
The Chiefs are the Tom Brady of football teams now. (Everybody wants them to go away already.)
so an overrated system team?
Underdogs?
Why not the Browns?
not the team the QB pre-draft
Josh Allen is the name
PieInTheSky:
For that, you want the 49er’s. Brock Purdy was drafted as Mr. Irrelevant, the absolute last player picked in the draft.
The Bills may well make it to the Super Bowl, but then they’ll remember that they’re the Bills and fuck it up.
And yet… when Jackson was drafted, the critique was that he shouldn’t be a QB. Wide receiver, maybe, or a running back. He’d never be able to develop passing skills. And his career would be over in two years. This continued for the first several years of his NFL career and finally started fading out as he racked up record-breaking passer ratings.
Huh.
Jackson’s main problem is that he’s so bad at speaking that he’ll never get the advertising and endorsement opportunities that Mahomes has gotten.
Josh Allen enters the room. Nobody notices.
I am surprised Jackson hasn’t RG3’d his knees yet, but it will happen. It always happens with run first QBs, unless a portion of their career is put on pause because people have an attachment to dogs.
Well, Michael Vick *spits* is the reason I will root for anyone, even the Commies, to beat the Eagles.
Politics ruins everything.
I blame the… well you know
This channel is mildly amusing but this one is insane
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/guhFWIjghFA
My little 750 square foot, $60,000 shit hole is like the shangri-la compared to that. But I suppose what you’re really paying for is living asscheek to asscheek like caged rats.
Aussie vs. Erie, it really comes down to what kind of weather you like. Both are a bunch of drunks (positive) with oppressive laws (negative).
I will take the castle.
I would too, but the maintenance and upkeep are part of the lower price. Those stately Eurohomes are the timeshares of housing.
America, beacon of hope, snuffed out
For the second time, Donald Trump will be inaugurated Monday as president of the United States.
It represents a pivotal time in American history, a new period beyond the world order created by the United States and its allies post-World War II.
For the right, it presents hope for a future of a country it sees as lurching too far to the left. But for millions of others, it’s the dawning of a dark era, one more nativist, inward-looking and mean-spirited that could leave the marginalized more vulnerable than ever.
Trump has spent years convincing his followers that he’s been victimized by political targeting. Their belief in that, and a conservative media buoying his message, helped insulate him from the kind of consequences that have sunk most other politicians following controversy and misdeeds.
A noxious cloud of hate and paranoia sweeps over the nation. Our future is naught but despair and ruin.
Boy who cries wolf shocked to discover that no one responds any longer when he cries wolf.
It’s a remarkable twist of fate, given Trump’s low approval ratings when he left office amid the COVID pandemic. And yet, even though the pandemic barely came up during the 2024 presidential campaign, it was a big reason why Trump wound up winning.
Americans largely disapproved of the way Trump handled the pandemic, but because of the supply-chain shortages it created, it is largely the reason for inflation going as high as it did.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, bub.
Yeah, prices were 9% higher per annum 4 years after the “pandemic” ended because of material good shortages and not because the money supply expanded to the tune of 10 trillion bucks.
I wonder how they compare to President NPR’s final approval ratings.
Chris Williamson | Fin vs the Internet | Season 4 Ep 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1kCxMaNj7E
I don’t particularly like Chris Williamson and don’t get his fame but this was kinda funny.
Wish my plumbing godspeed…fixin to be ~9 degrees tonight
That’s rough. It got down to 18 here, but I was prepared this year. My hot water line to my kitchen sink (but not the cold line, for some reason) froze up last year. Lucky it didn’t burst. I’m not all that familiar with the plumbing system in an RV. Can you do the leave a tap trickling trick, or does that just fill up a greywater reservoir?
I leave my gray tank open all the time, so I can drip the water. I have been leaving my black tank open also, as the valve to open it is outside under the RV. I’m afraid it will freeze and I won’t be able to get it open to dump it. I have tank heaters also.
I have had running water down to 13 degrees, so I’m hopeful. The big thing this time is that it won’t get above freezing for about 3 days (including during the day), so if it freezes, I’m SOL.
Are the pipes exposed where you can get to them with a hair dryer?
In all my years working on heavy equipment, I never gave a thought to this.
Consider running to a hardware store and grabbing several feet of heat-tracing and foam pipe-insulation? $100?
Skirt below the bodywork and a space heater?
Hot water loses heat faster than cold water. Therefore that line froze first.
Saruman is wise in the ways of science.
Get a milkcrate style heater that runs on propane, hook it to a spare tank and use it to keep the lines warm. Very important for winter.
“Wish my plumbing godspeed”
Oof – these euphemisms.
We’re, umm, rooting for you, KK!
Republicans say they want to slash the federal debt, which now sits at more than $36 trillion. But extending Trump’s tax cuts would add almost $5 trillion to the federal debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Despite that, Trump’s Treasury Secretary-nominee Scott Bessent, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, claimed it would be an economic “calamity” if the cuts are not extended, disagreed that ending the cuts — even for the wealthiest — would help pay down the national debt, and he is against raising taxes even on billionaires.
“I think that these are the job creators,” he said in response to Sen. Raphael Warnock’s, D-Ga., line of questioning during his confirmation hearing this past week.
And there’s the juicy center.
“Rich people; how we hates them. Kill the robber barons and distribute their ill gotten capitalist spoils equitably among those I deem worthy.”
Ten trillion, a hundred trillion, a million billion squillions….these numbers have become as irrelevant. We still have the same amount of stuff.
I’m going to stock up on paper and print my own, it’ll have the same value.
Even though receipts have historically remained equal or greater after tax cuts owing to broader compliance and increased growth. It’s all the government’s money, and every penny of which you deprive them immediately adds to the debt.
Left unstated: the federal government cannot possibly return to the austerity budget of 2019, which spent $4.4 trillion, because reasons.
Not taking is giving blah blah blah. The same rationale as every thief, extortionist, grifter, entitled socialist ever.
“Republicans say they want to slash the federal debt…”
Surprise, surprise!. I don’t think we’ll have to wait four years to see if they are serious.
Raise the debt limit!! Just do away with it! Dick Cheney was right!
It’s like you’ve seen this play out before.
Cuck level: NE PLUS ULTRA.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/bonnie-blues-real-name-revealed-34506792
The husband of the woman who “fucked” (read: stick it in, wiggle it around a bit and leave) 1000 men in 12 hours wants nothing to do with her? Unpossible!
I strongly suspect the whole thing is theater meant to turn notoriety into money.
Realistically this husband would have seen this coming a long time ago and he is not ok with her screwing other guys he would have been gone a long time ago.
“I was OK with it up until that 999th guy, but 1,000…”
Can’t say I get the logic. Once you’ve agreed to let your wife whore herself out, setting a body count threshold seems like quibbling.
Also kids, cosmetic surgery is some bad shit. That 25 looks like a mile of bad road already.
Not sure if it’s a euro thing or I’m missing something…just picked up an import 6 pack of [award-winning] French import Meteor Pils for $3.50…I can definitely live with these prices even if the prices for US booze are about the same.
Is there a Class VI store or Navy liquor store in Naples? EES Delicatessen?
I remember a Rod/Gun Club 60 years ago.
Most bases now just include liquor/beer in the NEX (sometimes the commissary will have basic beer, but I think overseas it’s all in the NEX) – haven’t seen a package/class 6 store since Dam Neck in 2014.
No joy yet on a rod and gun club…it’s possible that the “shotgun” option may be limited to legal residents/immigrants to Italy vice personnel in a SOFA status….I’ll try and get some details from the horse’s mouth soon though. May still be possible to order something pre-PCS (a ways away for me) to be shipped directly to the US.
I was at Torrejon AF in the late ’60s, we were allowed 6 long guns to import. Prices were right and I came back with 6.
Yeah…haven’t seen any solid details yet. Weirdly the orientation didn’t even cover safety stuff like pocket knives…so I still need to confirm whether the limit is 2″ blades or not – since the NEX sells much larger ones but I’m 100% certain they’re not legal for Italy.
It is legal to buy pepper spray from Italian stores for safety – but you can’t import it since the % mix is different.
All the houses available for rent here have security systems – I guess pretty popular in general among the locals too. The apartments and most houses have steel shutters on every window…but this apt is 4th or 5th floor and the 2 floors below don’t have balconies…so I’m not too worried compared to some I’ve seen.
I will also be looking at picking up a nice 100/240V generator (I guess technically more like an oversized power bank with a solar option). Landlords also have to provide drinking water (approx a gallon a day per person every month). Not great, but I don’t need to take any chances. I may see about the boil + Brita option too for convenience…
I still have the folding Buck knife I bought at the R&G in Torrejon. Dressed out many deer, carry it every deer season.
12 Chefs Make an Omelet (Michelin Star, French, Airline & More) | Epicurious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHy7U-FuY4k
170 million Americans use Tik Tok. If they don’t care that China is hoovering up their data, that’s their individual decisions. Just as when Americans use Facebook and the Feds are doing the same thing.
But muh Yellow Peril!
Had a nice walk around downtown Caserta today after church – figuring out the approximate time/distance to the apt I hope to rent (gotta check on that with housing tomorrow). Definitely in an interesting part of town with a good selection of restaurants, etc. Some small roads, but generally in good condition – lots of older buildings around too.
Sounds like fun. I’d love to see some pics when you have a chance!
Left unstated: the federal government cannot possibly return to the austerity budget of 2019, which spent $4.4 trillion, because reasons.
Millions would be left starving in the streets. Is that what you want?
I don’t recall 2019 being an “austerity budget”.
Act of God
To Cohen, the finger-pointing that has ensued since the deadly fires broke out in Southern California — amid reports that hydrants ran dry, a reservoir was empty and extra firefighters were not positioned where fires erupted — is “nonsense.”
“The latest dribble with regard to too few crews, too little water, pre-positioning — what crock. None of that is relevant. None of that would have made an ounce of difference in the results,” he said.
A dozen experts — top fire officials, academic researchers, conservation advocates and scientists — told NBC News that instead, Southern California and other vulnerable areas need a transformational shift in mindset away from heavy reliance on firefighters to control blazes, and toward an understanding that vulnerable homes are themselves the primary fuel for these kinds of fires.
“Once the initial ignition comes into a community, the homes become the ignition source and you’re totally in a whack-a-mole situation,” said Dave Calkin, a research forester at Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Montana. “It’s not a forest management problem. It’s really almost not a wildfire suppression problem. It’s a community design problem, and thinking about the amount of work to retrofit these communities is really staggering.”
\There it is. Those people should never have been allowed to build and live there. We should relocate them to a more suitable place, like Nebraska.
I wonder if any of the NBC factcheckers asked them how their ongoing push for greater density squares with their notion of buildings as fuel waiting to erupt.
One apartment high rise every quarter mile.
I wonder if any of the NBC factcheckers asked them how their ongoing push for greater density squares with their notion of buildings as fuel waiting to erupt.
This type of thinking is a widespread phenomenon, especially in organizations with a narrow focus such as bureaucratic agencies and NGOs. You see a single problem and a solution seems obvious, the fact that the solution creates a half dozen other, possibly more severe, unrelated problems doesn’t get noticed. I believe is related to the ad hoc fallacy, or at least reinforced by it.
Meh, just as building in a flood zone or a tornado/hurricane alley is dumb idea so is building where wild fires are common. Not saying that people shouldn’t be allowed to just that it’s a stupid idea that the rest of us shouldn’t have to protect them/subsidize or bail them out after the inevitable happens.
The (or at least a) big thing they need to get ahead of is largely taken care of – brush control.
“the amount of work to retrofit these communities is really staggering.”
You will live in the pods and like it. You will eat the bugs and like it. You will take the communal showers and . . .