Hoping for a repeat of this classic.
Another auction in the books, although there’s still a lot of post-sale work to do. Thanks to those who picked up the slack Thursday and Friday.
Apparently there was a crazy ass MMA fight Saturday night. I missed it. Congratulations to the Yankees for avoiding the four game sweep by winning last night. Curious to see if they can turn things around. I think they’re safe either way, since they built such a big lead coming in to the all star break. The Astros are staying at arm’s length from the Mariners. And the AL Central is going to be a lot of fun down the stretch. Across the pond, Man City managed two late goals to salvage a draw at Newcastle. And Chelsea got driller by Leeds. Liverpool-ManUre play this afternoon in a colossal matchup of two teams that have started the season like ass. And that’s it for sports.
“We’re doing it for the kids!” No you’re not. You’re doing it for yourselves.
Closing arguments today in the retrial of the goofballs who got duped by FBI agents. Hopefully it’ll end the same as the other cases, in an acquittal. But we won’t know that for a day at least.
One of these posers will win.
The results of this will be amazing. All they ever talk about is identity politics and how useless each other were, even though they were all buddies two days before the new congressional maps were drawn. It’s hilarious.
We need more of this. A lot more. This is what that city wants to be: a sanctuary. I say we send tens of thousands of the people crossing the Rio Grande there (if they want to, obviously) after explaining to them all the free things the city is willing to give them. It would be a win-win.
The grift is gonna continue after the election. I hope none of you are surprised. This shithead isn’t qualified to be anything but a parasite. So there’s no way she was going to go get a real job.
What a fantastically crazy dude.
The Worm is headed to Moscow. I can’t help but like this guy even though I really don’t care if he’s successful or not.
I’m sorry for your trouble. Go complain to someone else. Namely the government assclowns who have caused the price hikes and shortages to begin with.
Texas Pride! In the immortal words of Han Solo: Great, kid. Don’t get cocky.
Here you go. Dig that sweet sax. And here’s one that goes a little harder. Enjoy them both, dear friends.
And enjoy this magnificent Monday. I’ll be at the dentist’s office, so my odds are low.
Da FUQ is that pic up front?
It’s the links genie providing you with wholesome entertainment.
Wholesome?
What’s next? Pics of deep dish pizza covered with pineapple slices and no pork products?
It’s art man, you wouldn’t get it.
Even more horrific when you can see the whole thing.
FIXED LINK: https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/evil_genie.jpg
Phew… I was skeered that the pic would hurt my sensibilities….
Sorry. Fixed.
That’s some Halloween kid version of Kali gender bending? Yikes…
“It would be a win-win.”
Not for the taxpayers.
Sure it would. Texas taxpayers, who largely feel like they have too many illegals flooding across every day/week/month/year, can get slight bit of relief while NYC taxpayers, who largely support their city’s sanctuary policies and believe in a very big and costly social safety net, can take care of them.
I don’t think NYC taxpayers largely support their city’s sanctuary policies and believe in a very big and costly social safety net. Only around 20% of people vote. Probably because elections are always between some asshole and some other asshole.
And how many of that 20% are actually net tax payers? The Dem base is mostly grifters and wealthy elites, and the march through the institutions has successfully turned any opposition into the devil.
Exactly. The guy who works for a living and reads the NY Post is “fuck it, why bother?”
Because not voting gets you what you have now.
Sigh. I don’t think I trust the system, so I stopped voting. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
I was toying with the idea of grudge voting in November, but it depends on a couple factors, such as:
– elimination of mass vote-by-mail
– no diaper theater at the front door
I disagree. Their policies wouldn’t fly in a lot of places.
It’s more like 20% disagree, 20% have given up, and 60% agree with the policies.
By not voting, they are saying they are OK with the status quo. That is its own form of voting.
“By not voting, they are saying they are OK with the status quo.”
I don’t see how.
And by voting you are saying you agree with the system and its results.
Ain’t mindreading fun?
So the guy in your front page image just wants to give people a hand?
Looked to me like he was taking any hands offered to him…
So, it’s a redistribution effort?
Now that’s a good way to look at it, sir…
Will you lend me a hand?
Be careful what you ask for… Government always is in the business of taking two to give back one…
The beard means it’s not Kali, and she carried heads on her belt, not hands.
“So there’s no way she was going to go get a real job.”
This is CNN.
Phase 1: Start a PAC to go after Trump.
Phase 2: Go after people other than Trump
Phase 3: Profit!
Phase 2 isn’t even needed as long as she can tap into Trump hatred for donations.
Anyone in the private sector that pulled a stunt like this would be going to pound-me-in-the-ass-prison….
There will be token work. Most money will go to consultant fees, travel, and other means of siphoning money. Unfortunately for her, PACs can’t use the campaign loan scam.
How is the Lincoln Project doing these days?
Heavily invested/overleveraged in Tiki torches?
““We’re doing it for the kids!” No you’re not. You’re doing it for yourselves.”
There is but one entity that I will accept as proof of systemic racism when the left calls the country that, and it is the public school system. No system or institution has done more to destroy minorities chances to participate effectively in society – by filling their head with stupid shit instead of preparing them to be successful in the workplace an society – in our country. Yes, it has done more damage than even the welfare state.
Q for the auctioneer:
In re: Evil Sheldon winning an engraved G17, what affect doe that have on the sale price of the gun? I can see three different possibilities, but have no idea which one would actuall be true:
1. The engraving increases the price, ’cause fancy.
2. This particular engraving decreases the price, because it makes reference to a specific event which will have little/no meaning for the 8 billion people on the planet. Therefore people wouldn’t buy it for it’s collectability, and shooters wouldn’t buy it because why shoot a gun from an event you didn’t attend/win?
3. The engraving has zero effect on the price, because 1 and 2 cancel out.
If people bought Glocks for their looks they wouldn’t be in business.
The Bauhaus of the gun world.
Yeah. They’re not ugly, they’re “all business.”
This is an ugly pistol. Actually, the long-nosed rounded ass early Colt automatics were pretty ugly.
*dodges incoming .32 ACP rounds*
It’s got more going for it in the looks department than any Glock.
You think the Model 92 is an ugly pistol, and you eat your eggs hard-fried. And you haven’t shown up to a steel shoot in forever.
Because It is Ugly.
Yolks should not run.
My overloaded calendar does not change facts 1 and 2.
Better looking than a 1911.
/stands proud against incoming fire.
Easy to stand proud hiding under a bridge like that.
It won’t matter at all unless the gun is already at collectible status. Otherwise, people will buy the gun based on the value of it’s utility. You may see the slightest of slight bumps in price if someone who loves that particular event finds out its for sale. And you may see a slight decrease in price if the engraving is otherwise distracting to someone while shooting. But the difference either direction will most likely be negligible.
At least that’s my opinion. I don’t sell firearms or collectibles very often, although I buy both routinely at auctions. So consider my opinion “somewhat informed”.
Thank’ee.
It also matters somewhat when/where the engraving was done and if the gun is in NIB condition. If it came from Glock engraved with a COA, I suppose it could add a bit of value. But only for regular fans or participants of that event or from the event organizer.
Plus, since there is only one destination of importance, it would be a perfect application for high speed choo choos! Win-win-win!
Amtrak just got to the point where they could run the Acela at 100 mph on parts of the Eastern Seaboard, mostly due to track issues IIRC.
Those 200-300 mph euro/japanese trains that make progs sploosh would require entirely new tracks which would mean a fuckton of eminent domain which would mostly happen in poor people neighborhoods. Higher speeds require gentler turns to avoid derailment. Also, currently all the train tracks North of DC have overhead electrical to support all-electric locomotives, tracks South of DC don’t so require diesel locomotives. One of the joys of east coast train travel is the hour layover in DC where they switch out the locomotives. These layovers often take longer, but don’t dare de-train to shop or get lunch in Union Station.
Well, you’d run a local from Tijuana to someplace in TX, and from there, an express to NYC.
Or, hear me out, we send them to their coutnries of origin.
Yep. It should be daily flights of C-130s to the capitals of these countries. Open the back door and back on the tarmac you go.
2 weeks of that and you’d see the numbers plummet.
“Closing arguments today in the retrial of the goofballs who got duped by FBI agents. Hopefully it’ll end the same as the other cases, in an acquittal. But we won’t know that for a day at least.”
Think about this… We have a second attempt to use the legal system to protect the corrupt FBI’s doing in a case where it clearly ran an entrapment operation on some morons. After the first shitshow, the system should have demanded all the participants on the FBI side be prosecuted for those acts of criminality. Instead they promoted the FBI criminal that was behind this shit to run the D.C. office which is now hard at work trying to come up with a new hoax to hang around the loose cannon the deep state fears because they can’t control. The machine wants to make sure the uppity serfs are kept in their place. That means they have no option of using any system to hurt the machine and its agenda. That’s the existential fight we are in today.
Why would Hawaii be concerned about saving Koalas?
It’s a fig leaf to cover their racism and NIMBYism.
That’s what goes into making SPAM?
They want to encourage tourism to other places? They do.
“We need more of this. A lot more. This is what that city wants to be: a sanctuary. I say we send tens of thousands of the people crossing the Rio Grande there (if they want to, obviously) after explaining to them all the free things the city is willing to give them. It would be a win-win.”
Making the people pretending to support horribly stupid ideas have to put their money where their mouth is, is the best way to show that they are all cattle and no hat….
These cuntes love shit as long as other people pay for it.
All hat and no cattle?
Why the hate for millinery?
They are ACTING as if they are the good guys (the ones that know/do)…
That’s why the inversion..
Eh, it’s still “All Hat and no Cattle.”
Not everyone can be a rancher.
Whats the most hilarious possible result for Man U – Liverpool today? Because that is what I am rooting for. All 3 results have potential.
Liverpool 6-0 ManUre would be fantastic.
But better than ManU 6-0 Liverpool?
Cause I think that would be awesome.
0-0 might be best of all.
0-0 would most likely mean it was a boring game. Unless Liverpool has two guys sent off in the first 20 minutes and it still ends up 0-0 with ManUre not managing more than a couple attempts on goal. That would actually be hilarious.
I am not going to watch the game, I just want to witness maximum fanbase meltdown.
0-0 might be the best for that.
+1 for 0-0
Definitely Man U losing since then they would be at the absolute bottom of the table.
But Liverpool with only 2 pts would be pretty sweet too.
A tie, with Pool at 3 pts and ManU at 1 would probably be the best. Four points combined after 3 games?
“But defense attorneys for Fox and Croft say they were a bumbling, foul-mouthed, marijuana-smoking pair exercising free speech who were incapable of leading anything as extraordinary as an abduction of a public official.”
I don’t think “I was high” is a defense.
“‘People say things that are offensive and, you know, may sound violent but there’s a difference between actually physically doing violence or just being around a group of people and talking c***,’ he told Click on Detroit.”
Juvenile bluster?
Bong Hits 4 Jesus agrees with you.
Did they really block out the word “crap”?
Stop.
It’s Firster time.
That kid with the mullet is going to make a great Firster one day. I’d say he’ll be in the top quartile of the craft.
The original mullet master approves of mulleteers?
Re: We need more of this…
Yes, yes we do. Make the sanctuary cities and blue state voters “pay their fair share.” Remember that those people love to use that phrase about raising taxes, turn it back on them.
When these people talk about “paying your fair share” or “social justice” what they means is making other people suffers so they can grandstand on that misery and act as insufferable cuntes…
I paid more than my fair share, where do I get my refund?
That’s never how it works… Nobody pays their fair share… They will make sure to remind you of that..
If you still have something left, you didn’t pay your fair share.
“I came to New York to get away from the delinquency in Venezuela, cops in the streets, armed people. I want to work and progress.” -Luis Quintana
Uh, Lou, I’ve got some news for you…
Boy did he choose poorly.
*chuckle*
It’s sobering to realize that NYC is less bad than Venezuela or even the NYC of the 70s and 80s.
IOW it can get a lot worse than it is now.
Well there’s no cops in the streets anyway…
What will it accomplish? The response of people who believe in such policies is always prog harder.
If recent history is any indication, the loon who is furthest to the left will win each race.
*checks my district* Hm, my (GOP) incumbent has a challenger who talks the talk. Incumbent creature voted for one of Biden’s blow-out bills, IIRC. She ought to be punished for that.
I get a special election tomorrow, amd a newly-drawn district.
I can’t vote in primaries. Woe is me.
Once upon a time there were tig ole’ bitties.
https://archive.ph/Nliuq
Mammary Monday.
Gimme a break, you knew what you were getting into.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/playboy-bunnies-say-hefner-coerced-unprotected-orgies-i-just-wanted-to-be-done/
And if by “coerced” you mean that you did it voluntarily because you wanted access to his money and power, then yes it was “coerced”.
“But I regretted it! Pay me!”
I really despise grifters that feel when the person they want to take advantage of forces them to give tit for tat, and then whine about it…
This pretend victim status, after the fact, hurts people that are actually blackmailed or really coerced.
It is despicable that we allow people that now pretend they didn’t understand what the parameters of the deals they engaged in to act as if they were victims. They were not.
Victim alright, of her own poor decision-making. Tough shit toots.
At the end, only one of his “girlfriends” would fuck him, and he wrote that one out of the will.
*thatsthepoint.gif*
This is evidence that he coerced?
Somehow, I don’t think this is kosher
Careful, they’ll charge more for ‘added protein’.
It’s a little strange that they call an order to recall product “voluntary.”
No step on snek. Also, no eat snek.
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Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s sweet.
Thanks, Pontiff of the Prairie.
There you go again, PJ. How can I maintain my Curmudeonery Credentials if you keep that up?
Excellent.
Shut them down
BitChute has boomed as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook tighten rules to combat misinformation and hate speech. An upstart BitChute rival, Odysee, has also taken off. Both promote themselves as free-speech havens, and they’re at the forefront of a fast-growing alternative media system that delivers once-fringe ideas to millions of people worldwide.
Searching the two sites on major news topics plunges viewers into a labyrinth of outlandish conspiracy theories, racist abuse and graphic violence. As their viewership has surged since 2019, they have cultivated a devoted audience of mostly younger men, according to data from digital intelligence firm Similarweb.
Online misinformation, though usually legal, triggers real-world harm. U.S. election workers have faced a wave of death threats and harassment inspired by former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, which also fueled the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Reuters interviews with a dozen people accused of terrorizing election workers revealed that some had acted on bogus information they found on BitChute and almost all had consumed content on sites popular among the far-right.
Free speech kills.
BitChute’s search engine is basically useless. That is the one thing that has stopped them from really carving into YouTube’s business.
“Once-fringe”.
1) There’s plenty of fringe ideas floating around on “the Big Brother Three”
2) Fringe ideas – like early treatments that are standard of care in half the world, including some English-speaking ones.
3) Conspiracy theories – like large news organizations conspiring, for example
It’s rough out there on the internet. I don’t know how those brave warriors manage to cope in the sea of death threats.
“Searching the two sites on major news topics plunges viewers into a labyrinth of outlandish conspiracy theories, racist abuse and graphic violence. As their viewership has surged since 2019, they have cultivated a devoted audience of mostly younger men, according to data from digital intelligence firm Similarweb.”
That describes the early days of YouTube almost to a T
Good morning, Sloop!
Listening to Bowie is the proper way to greet the day.
So buy it.
Also, $1.2 million seems pretty reasonable for a condo on Kauai.
NIMBYs don’t want to shell out what it costs to own the land they want to leave undeveloped.
Spending money on aesthetics completely destroys the aesthetic value. Stealing it on the other hand enhances the aesthetic value.
She wants it donated (for free), and then she wants the governments to pay her nonprofit to be caretaker.
Other people’s money, forever and ever, amen.
I thought we were going to trade some arms dealer for Brittney Griner?
Why would we want him back?
We have to take Griner back, but a guy who can potentially sell me guns gets set free… Sounds like a good deal to me.
It’s like Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn are in charge of trades.
Unfortunately, I get that. But don’t leave Jerry Reinsdorf out of that, cheap asshole that he is.
Some academics who have researched BitChute and Odysee say their relaxed content-moderation practices result in sites that are dominated by incendiary content that most online publishers routinely reject. Benjamin Horne, a social scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and two colleagues reviewed more than 440,000 BitChute videos and found that 12% of channels received more than 85% of the engagement. “Almost all of those channels contain far-right conspiracies or extreme hate speech,” their report concluded.
Reuters searches of the sites show that their most popular videos are often full of abusive content and misinformation that grossly distort news events.
In other words, content contrary to the DC steno pool narrative.
We didn’t seize the institutions to allow their authority to be bled away.
I thought we were going to trade some arms dealer for Brittney Griner?
He was insulted by such a lowball offer, and refused to go.
Having an argument with a guy who objected to my characterization of threatening public officials on public internet forums as a bad idea.
He interprets that as an endorsement of the regime and its intimidation tactics.
What started the back and forth: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/gab-users-revolt-andrew-torba-cooperating-fbi/
Looks like Torba coughed up data on a user without a subpoena. Maybe they pulled an NSL, but then we probably wouldn’t even know about it.
Awful.
Don’t make that claim on a public forum.
Don’t on a private forum.
This guy is a bit volatile. He responds five times in short succession for every comment I make.
And now I’m not fighting hard enough for liberty because I think making public threats against government officials is a stupid way to resist.
He, by his own admission, texts himself daily with threats to kill the president so as to make certain he’s being monitored. I think his logic is that by being on all the lists he’s confusing them? I’m not sure.
Why are you bothering?
I’m not anymore. He’s obviously off his meds.
Why did that immediately make me think of Hihn?
*Shudders*
Bully!
He is prolly FBI.. Tolling you into telling him you will show him who fights harder….
That’s a distinct possibility.
Having an argument with a guy who objected to my characterization of threatening public officials on public internet forums as a bad idea.
Rule 1: Never talk about things you are actually going to do. To anybody.
Sign language or GTFO
I would be bad at conspiracy , having to talk to someone
Meet the new enemies of the globalist movement…
Where Im currently sitting in my reinforced, Faraday-caged, bunker, deep beneath the Palatial 2X-Wide, between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago a mile-thick sheet of ice (glacier) sat over my head. All of the climate-change worshippers that Ive met cant (or are willing) tell me how or why it melted in spite of no heavy industry or CO2 belching automobiles.
I start every discussion with the flat earthers (environmentalists) with a long and detailed rundown of astrophysics, geology, and so on, to point out to them that the one guarantee we have is that things will change, and since nature is something beyond most of our comprehension in its scope, it is some serious crazy shit to pretend people suddenly have more impact than nature and that the fix is marxism.
I always point out to them that if they really wanted to do something with some real impact they should worry about pollution, but you can’t sell global marxism on that premise…
BUT HUMANS ARE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE!!!
Charges filed against former Pakistani PM
That’s the kind of thing that only happens in a third world shithole banana republic.
They must have called the Biden admin for help on how to deal with their problem pol.
I don’t know the details of the Griner story but are we feeling sorry for her or is this a ‘you made your bed’ sort of thing? I’m sure there’s some payback on the part of the Russians for Ukraine.
SLD: drug laws are bad.
What’s the penalty for smuggling hash oil into the US?
You have to play in the WNBA.
Thats not so bad – no crowds to witness my lack of athleticism.
She is not the only American political prisoner in Russia but she is sucking up all the attention, which I find annoying.
Plus the guy they’re floating to exchange her for seems like a Bad Dude.
Who?
No one in the media is saying she made her bed, but I certainly say she did. She ignored warnings from the State Department about traveling to Russia. She (probably) tried traveling through an international airport with drugs on her, ignorant of the laws of Russia and just how keen they would be to prosecute her because they don’t care that she is a gay female basketball player of minority descent.
One of the things I’m curious about is, since she’s a regular international traveler, how many times did she bring her hash oil into the country? And was it not detected, or did they not prosecute her if it was?
One thing that became painfully apparent during the Covid hysteria is teachers don’t give a rat’s ass about kids.
They were willing to use them as human shields just like all the rest of the despicable cowardly adults.
You still have teachers incapable of any rational or logical thought and sense calling cops on children for not wearing an amulet on their mouths.
I have little sympathy for her. You travel to other countries, you should understand and respect their laws, particularly ones concerning illicit substances.
Easiest way to not become a pawn in some foreign relations payback scheme? Dont give them a reason to arrest you in the first place. (Or don’t go there, thats always an option)
That became apparent to me in first grade.
Personally, I can’t muster any sympathy for Griner. What the fuck did she think was going to happen?
“Don’t you know who I am?”
I’m with Brooks on this one.
“I brought that to treat my pain.”
“I accidentally left it in my bag.”
Pick one.
She’s an idiot, but she didn’t kill anyone. She’s probably being used as a bargaining chip. We should try to get her back as we should for any other American, but hopefully we don’t give up too much to get her.
She wants it donated (for free), and then she wants the governments to pay her nonprofit to be caretaker.
Other people’s money, forever and ever, amen.
And they all lived happily ever after.
Russian journalist / daughter of Russian conservative assassinated.
“though the influence of Dugin’s thought on certain Russian political circles is clear. He’s long been central to developing the so-called ‘Russian world’ ideology, but his influence on actual Kremlin policy circles has been marginal at best especially since 2014, given he’s been much more hawkish and maximalist when it comes to the Ukraine crisis, at times uncomfortably so for Russia’s political leadership”
When this story dropped a couple days ago, I had it at 40% Ukraine, 40% CIA, and 20% Putin. If ZH has a correct analysis of his true influence on Putin and foreign policy, I may have to up my odds for Putin having done it. CIA is still a strong contender.
If the Russians had done it, the daughter would be alive and Dugin dead.
Clinton Intelligence Agency?
German economy minister rules out keeping nuclear plants running to save gas
They are so screwed.
I think I see the problem.
I say let the EU self-immolate. We need to focus on here, there’s no saving those assholes.
I look forward to the next incarnation of the Green Party, as Soylent Green.
Green as in Greenland
There isn’t, because the population is fully on-board with the lunacy.
I’ve never seen anywhere as eco-nutty as Germany – been that way for decades.
Germans never really gave up being Romantics.
Huh?
Sorry, Europe. You are fucked.
And here I thought electricity in Germany had more than doubled in price as they switch to “renewable” (really, intermittent) sources.
I’m not going to accept the assertions of cost from an activist.
Their plan was to import and store as much Russian gas as possible over the summer. So the Russians are slow-walking pipeline repairs.
If only someone could have seen something like this coming!
How was our brilliant plan so easily thwarted?!!
Do storage facilities spring up like mushrooms?
Gasometers aren’t used as much these days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_holder
Germans will just spend more time this winter vacationing in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal…
Delayed maintenance and burdensome regulatory costs. I’d bet good money that much like in California, politicians pushed money away from the plants and into subsidizing pet projects.
Like “Renewables”
saying it would save at most 2 percent of gas use
Good to know the threshold for action. German households don’t need to conserve since each household would only reduce use a fraction of a percent.
What did the serfs supporting environmentalism use before wood and candles?
Electricity…
cHeNeY 4 pReZ! is about as big of a joke as I can think of. Where is her constituency? She’s alienated about 90% of the GOP and there’s no way any Dem is going to vote for her. Even if I were a proggy billionaire, her usefulness as a cudgel against Trump has run out so I wouldn’t be funding her. She has maybe one more round on the Sunday shows left in her and then it’s off to the glue factory.
She’ll get a cushy gig at a “think tank” and become a regular on the talk show circuit.
She made $6 million in 6 years as a Congresswoman – nice gig. Best of all, she’ll never have to visit the obnoxious rubes in Wyoming again.
She’s deluded herself into thinking she’s part of the club where “It’s her turn” gets fraud machines moving to push her into higher office.
See also John McCain
Bowie was a legend. Did you know Al Green did backup vocals on that first track? It was one of his first gigs.
I also enjoy good sax. Slow is good, but sometimes hard and fast sax is also fun.
Yes, you did something there. And I saw it.
Huh Did not know that.
Insanity.
Like everyone else in the Biden Administration, she’s never had a real job in her life – and nothing in her education or experience prepared in the least to be Secretary of Energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Granholm
She believed the right tropes and bullshit and she was loyal to a fault to the machine…
That’s why..
No problem, just borrow the money, while interest rates are… rising.
insulating houses can be double edged sometimes, not counting the fire hazard. In no AC houses in Europe the ones that do well in winter can be difficult to cool down in a heatwave in summer. I don;t know why you would expect if the cold is kept out so is the heat
Well, she’s not wrong. Look at how Blackrock or Berkshire-Hathaway are buying up homes to turn into rentals. They get the deductions for all the programs she mentioned when they pour that money into the homes they bought.
Where the fuck are you going to put the solar panels in the projects? Stick ’em out the windows?
Any opticians in the house?
I’m picking out some frames to try for my new shooting glasses and I’m looking at the temple widths listed. Is that measured as straight line between the temples, or along the frame?
Today would have been my dear Ma’s 81st birthday. I like to think I got some small part of her amazing genetics & personality. In many ways, I’m like my dad, but in many ways I’m just like my Ma:
-I look just like her
-I love bright colors & sparkles
-I drink Pepsi
-I hate – hate – ingroups/outgroups/cliques/cabals
-I have a disgusting sense of humor
-I love language, both spoken & written, including grammar, pronunciation, annunciation, and etymology
There’s probably more…
Happy birthday Ma!
She sounds like a cool chick.
HBD 🙂
I think about her many, many times a day.
“Ma would have gotten a kick out of this”
“Ma would have wanted to kick that guy’s ass”
“Ma would have loved that handbag”
Thanks Tundra & CP.
Mama Tres would have been 81 (in May). I miss her daily. She could be as sharp as any critical thinker, yet play the dumb blonde (think Georgette from Mary Tyler Moore) on a whim.
I often accused her of playing the dumb broad bit just to get people to do shit for her. She would smile and just play…dumb.
I’ve found it useful to play dumb broad at the poker table
“If you sit to play cards and cant tell the mark- its you”
“Ron DeSantis is doing a rally in Miami today and we are flying a banner over the city that says DESANTIS IS A FASCIST. This is how you treat wannabe authoritarians like DeSantis. You ridicule and mock them.”
https://twitter.com/tomaskenn/status/1561410917560193024
“Organizer, writer, immigrant. Democratic National Committee member. Bylines:@latinorebels, @HuffPost, @truthout & others. IG: @tomaskenn”
Yeah, that’ll work.
That’s some real ridicule and mockery there. I’m so amused….
What an idiot.
“I think DeSantis is great! I’m going to his rally! Go DeSantis!”
* sees banner *
“Oh no! I didn’t know he was a fascist! I’m voting Democrat!”
/Florida voter, probably
“This is what they actually believe!”
Victim
Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s media affairs show Reliable Sources which was cancelled last week after 30 years on air, used his final episode on Sunday to make a pointed rebuke of the network’s new bosses and their intention to pursue a more “neutral voice” to its coverage.
“It is not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue,” Stelter said in his final monologue, which he stressed was unvetted by CNN management before he delivered it live. “It is not partisan to stand up to demagogues – it’s required, it’s patriotic.”
He added: “We must make sure we do not give a platform to those who are lying to our faces.”
CNN gave Stelter his marching orders last Wednesday, just four months after the network came under new leadership appointed by its owners, Warner Brothers Discovery. CNN head Chris Licht, who took over after the February departure of Jeff Zucker, has indicated that he wants to tone down the opinion quotient of its shows and “return” to an older, straighter and in his view less overtly leftwing style of reporting.
It is perhaps predictable that Stelter was to become one of the first casualties among CNN’s stars under the new leadership. As NPR’s media correspondent, David Folkenflik, explained, Stelter was a thorn in the side of the Donald Trump White House, regularly exposing its lies and misinformation.
This pantomime saintly martyrdom is so fucking tedious.
He devoted his life to saving the nation from people with ideas he scorned and despised. Where is your heartfelt love and gratitude? You don’t deserve Him.
Bosses should’ve had him walked to the door and denied him their platform for his rant.
The most tedious thing is hearing people whose beliefs are completely at odds with the constitution talk as if they are its utmost defenders. The ones whose entire arguments make a mockery of democracy pretending that they really view it as the most sacred of all things.
https://www.jsanilac.com/dispelling-beauty-lies/
I found this post a couple of weeks back and thought it, while obvious, to be fun and insightful. NSFW for the most part due to images. Turns out men like curvy women with big boobs, crazy.
That font looks okay until I try to read a whole article in it.
Good lord you’re right. Who does that? I thought the “creative” font craze died out in the 1990s with geocities or members.tripod.com
Pretty sure he has a link to change it to a normal font, but yeah it hurts.
I like curvy women with small boobs. Try and find that unicorn.
Seems most chubby broads come from the factory with DD cups as OEM.
It’s because of how the female body stores fat.
You’re not a biologist!
Huh. I must not be a woman.
It’s a matter of averages, hormones, and age.
Don’t leave out genetics.
Did you vote for Hillary?
I don’t store fat in my tits and I didn’t vote for Hillary. I’m practically a man, baby!
curvy women – as long as curvy is curvy not obese.
big boobs – not all men. I don’t especially if the boobs be fake
“If I can put my mouth on them, they’re not fake to me”
-said by a contractor I hired once, who had a fetish for strippers with giant cans
Turns out men like curvy women with big boobs, crazy.
More slender B cups for me.
Yum.
She can vault our poles any time, right?
Avg today: 45-39-48 with E cup
Avg 1951: 37-28-39 with B cup
is that right?
Ehrm, possibly. The thing about averages is that I don’t really count women below my personal cutoff for “attractive”. Average usually means average attractive woman. People are freaking huge these days, women especially so.
“In discussions of reducing car dependency, one often hears, “What about people in remote rural areas?” And my gut instinct is — people shouldn’t be living there in the first place. The solution is to give them generous grants to relocate among other humans.”
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1561367698587750400
CWAA
Tell me you don’t know where food comes from without telling me you don’t know where food comes from.
It comes on a truck, duh.
Philosophy professor, they’re usually the worst of all.
Well, their job literally has no connection to the production or distribution of anything real. They get paid for claiming to think about thinking and producing papers plausible enough for whoever signs the checks to keep signing the checks.
I’ve known a couple philosophy majors and they are really a chore to be around.
No institution allows people to come up with the worst ideas possible like academia, where nobody ever has to deal with or experience the consequences of their own stupidity..
Hold on there bub – you really gonna leave govt out of that?
Academia and government seem to be totally interchangeable entities… The miscreants come up with their crazy shit while doing a sting in academia, then come to government to have it fail repeatedly…
I had some surprisingly good philosophy professors for my philosophy minor (took to balance the hard science major), but I agree that goes against the mold.
The best had spent nearly 30 years traveling the world while working odd blue collar jobs to support himself and doing a lot of drugs. He looked like the professor from back to the Future. He’s what I imagine professors were like back in the 50 or 60s. Things like, it’s a nice sunny day today, let’s sit around in a circle outside on the quad and talk about how high I got from eating a type of cheese in Denmark. Then bridging that into a discussion on Descartes and how we can assume reality. May have been my favorite course.
The take is, everywhere should suck like Chicago?
These are the people that can never see why others don’t agree with whatever twisted view of the world they have…
Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen
Humans like you? Thanks but no thanks.
More from this asshole, who feels betrayed by his hero.
Somebody please show me how the state blunted corporate power at any phase of this pandemic or had any intention of doing so.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/02/giorgio-agamben-covid-holocaust-comparison-right-wing-protest.html
We’re not worthy of such keen insight.
I was happier being totally oblivious to his existence. Now I simply want him dead. That’s net negative for me.
Where is her constituency?
Suburban collegegoodthinkz womyn, of course.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Z_0JUHiXM
I want to start a “Factist Party” and put videos about objective reality on bitchute.
And then sit back and watch the money roll in.
you really need to avoid typos with that
Well, if it’s Fat-ist I’m all in.
Yeah, the “Fatist Party” would be misconstrued.
He could reel in a lot of Democrats looking for a Fascist Party.
Became aware of this over the weekend.
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/wikileak-cables-saudi-arabia-oil-reserves-overstated
This seems to comport with the Saudis inability to increase oil production over that amount and their moves towards becoming brokers as well as producers. And if true, Biden was pissing in the wind when he went begging for oil output increases recently.
All the more reason for the US to bring on production.
Meh, it is far simpler than that: increased production would drop the amount of money they would be making per barrel both immediately and in the long run. The Saudis used to be willing to take that sort of hit back when. They no longer will lose money just to help out the idiots in the western world. Especially idiots that fucked with them, correctly or otherwise…
In the past, I definitely would have agreed with you. Now I’m not so sure it isn’t a convenient overlap.
I’m going to have to read a bit more before I make up my mind though.
In the past Saudi Arabia worked with the US, often against their own interests, to keep prices low. During the times of Pax Americana that made sense. The age of Pax Americana is coming to an end (or already here) and the Saudis are hard at work making sure they get as much money as they can for their product while it lasts. They really have a grudge against the current admin.
And I would be far more inclined to believe the problem was the logistics of standing up more wells to increase capacity (both a investment they might not feel is worth it if they will be told to shut it down right after the election cycle in the US anyway by the environmental douches) than the supply itself. We keep discovering more and more oil, most of it previously ignored because the teach to get at it simply didn’t exist. In the past the Saudis would have tried, and that would have been enough to affect prices. Now they no longer even feel the obligation to play nice with a US they feel is falling the fuck apart because of incompetent and corrupt leadership (think that through: the corruptocracy in SA sees ours as more corrupt).
Huh. A little bit of rain, and the weeds in my “yard” are starting to turn green.
I did manage to chop down a(nother) stand of chest high weeds yesterday morning. Whatever it is, it’s taking over the driveway.
Roundup in my friend and can be yours, as well
Existential Comics
@existentialcoms
Socialism will never work, because of human nature (humans are too dumb to realize we should be doing socialism).
later tweet
“I don’t think people should pile on when someone comes out with a really stupid “leftist” critique of a novel or whatever, because here’s the thing, we can’t expect every leftist to be smart.
Complete and total dumbasses must have a place in our movement too.”
I think I can spot a complete and total dumbass in the movement
Freddie de Boer’s position is it’s unjust to make dumb people live under a meritocracy, therefore we have a moral obligation to be Communists.
Somehow FdB is popular among the self-proclaimed intellectuals.
Progtardism appeals to people that feel being accountable and having to deal with consequences of actions/choices sucks. I get it. Nobody wants to lose. But no system that stops making people learn from mistakes is viable. Sooner than later the amount of stupid that would be happening from people unconcerned their actions would have disastrous consequences will overwhelm it.
If they’re too dumb to realize that then how are they going to be smart enough to overcome the calculation problem?
This is just gnosticism in a new bottle.
From Scruffy’s link:
As I contemplated this chapter of Agamben’s intellectual life, I realized that if there is any truth in his embarrassing pandemic screeds, it is one that we did not need to hear from him, and certainly not in the form his reflections took—namely, that there is more to life than sheer survival.
Have another glass of Victory gin, oh wise one, and tell us more about the inside of your asshole.
The FSB claims it has solved Daria Dugina’s murder. Predictably, Russia is blaming Ukrainian secret services: the FSB says a Ukrainian woman named Natalya Vovk rented a flat in Dugina’s building, trailed her, planted the car bomb, and escaped to Estonia.
A lot of odd details in this claim by the FSB:
– Natalya Vovk apparently carried out this professionalized car bombing with her 12-year-old daughter in tow
– She allegedly followed Dugina in a Mini Cooper with Kazakh, Ukrainian, and Donetsk People’s Republic plates
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1561677815187230720
A James Bond Mini Cooper? Now I suspect the Brits.
Video of Ms. Volk.
https://www.rt.com/russia/561318-dugina-suspect-vovk-video/
Did they track her by her SIM cards?
Maybe Bill Gates can fund a Stelter/Cheney podcast. They could call it, “Sit Down, Shut Up, and Do As You’re Told.”
Bro the Japanese have a Youkai that the only way to survive is by calling her Mid.
https://twitter.com/UberThe3rd/status/1561036929889701888
Japanese p0rn themes baffle me…
Negging, it’s the only way to survive in this world and the next.
Yeah, that one is pretty famous.
In North Korea, no taxation shows off the advantages of their socialist system
https://twitter.com/RevStatus/status/1561520358653657090
Hard to tax people that own nothing… Shit Kim has a hareem of some 2k women because the only property those women have to trade for food is their NK version of poon-tang…
When the state owns everything it would be taxing itself.
Greta Thunberg
@GretaThunberg
I started striking from school on August 20th 2018 ahead of the Swedish general election. It has now been 4 years since then, and a new election is on its way. We are still here, but the climate crisis is still absent from the debate.
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1560981404447539200
To be fair, no one mentions the climate ever
PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEeeeeee
Ummm… leopard print? Really?
Isnt that kid like 25 years old now?
Obviously, she hasn’t learned anything since 8/20/2018. Irrespective of her foolishness, she ought to realize by now that “climate debate” only means rich and elites get to fly somewhere exclusive (usually by private plane) to live in the lap of luxury while meaninglessly passing “resolutions” concerning the imminent demise of humankind.
Be careful. You are only useful as long as you support the narrative.
“the climate crisis is still absent
from the debate.”Morbid Monday: We Asked Him If He Wanted To Live, But He Didn’t Respond
Fingers were pointed
Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as White House coronavirus response coordinator during the Trump administration, said on Sunday that the fact that early data on the COVID-19 pandemic came from Europe should be an “indictment of our system.”
During an appearance on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan noted earlier remarks from Birx that she did not trust the data she received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during her tenure, specifically pointing to delays in information regarding the race and ethnicity of COVID fatalities.
“First and foremost, in March of 2020, all of our data that I used to warn Americans of who was at risk for severe disease, hospitalization, and deaths came from our European colleagues,” Birx replied. “That in itself should be an indictment of our system.”
Birx also said that her requests to CDC to improve its system and develop partnerships with clinics, hospitals, and laboratories went unheeded.
——-
“Well, the way you rebuild public trust is be transparent. And I think that’s in the report: better data, better accountability, better transparency. But they also have to believe, and this gets to the culture piece, people can understand complicated issues,” Birx said. “It’s your job as a public health official.”
If only we could have buried contrary data more effectively. The CDC needs guns and police powers to muzzle anyone who attempts to contradict them. That’s how SCIENCE! works.
It would be a tragic loss to the nation if somebody accidentally dropped a safe on her.
More from Birx on her own
subterfugetransparency…https://www.patriotsfortrump.us/post/dr-deborah-birx-admits-she-deceived-trump-to-push-covid-measures
But she was fooling Trump.
She is a hero.
We knew from Europe that old people were most vulnerable. Somehow that word didn’t get to New York. The problem wasn’t with the source of the data. The problem was with how the data was disseminated.
It’s nothing personal, it’s strictly business.
I think the upstart, even more super-prog kid is going to win that one.
So…Jefferson and Adams?
Old white people. It’s the future we need.
You can actually be prosecuted for bribery and insider trading if you aren’t a member of Congress.
Maloney’s face looks like the bottom of a Coach handbag
Fauci is quitting!
In December.
Right before that new Congress gets sworn in! Well the precedent is there, that he can be subpoenaed just like anyone else.
Next gig: consultant/lobbyist for Pfizer
TV spokesman – “I am SCIENCE and you can trust this Pharma corp!”
Tales from the Road #1: During a cruise on Lake George, NY, the steamboat narrator spotted a yellow rubber ducky float in the water near one of the house docks. “And it’s fully inflated. Just like the economy. (pause) Thank you, Joe.” The crowd responded with warm applause and laughter.
Are you a dentist that wants one of the Mopar muscle cars, but don’t want to be seen in it at the country club?
We have the solution. Hopefully, this should open to the part of the video that explains what you need to buy…
https://youtu.be/2rfhXDxnDwk?t=331
“Walmart strip club”
Hey, hey, it isn’t wednesday.
It’s almost as good and they got big sizes.
Go on. You have my attention.
Definitely more of the 45E-39-48 than 37B-28-39.
Is it me or do I keep hearing a turbo pop-off ?
It’s supercharged.
Big business
McDonald’s board is gaining three new members and losing one longtime director.
Sheila Penrose, who leads the board’s sustainability and corporate responsibility committee, will retire on Sept. 30 after 16 years on the fast-food giant’s board. Earlier this year, billionaire Carl Icahn targeted her seat in his unsuccessful proxy fight with McDonald’s over animal welfare, but she handily survived the challenge.
In a statement Monday, Enrique Hernandez Jr., chairman of McDonald’s board, praised Penrose for overseeing the company’s progress on its climate, responsible sourcing, and diversity, equity and inclusion targets.
How will they survive without her?
They will replace her. It’s a required box ticking exercise for a Fortune 500 company.
And I would be willing to bet a fair amount of cash that whoever replaces her will not be white man.
Sure hear about the WEF a lot these days…
Are you a dentist that wants one of the Mopar muscle cars, but don’t want to be seen in it at the country club?
I was expecting the Hellcat-powered SUV (whatever they call it).
Good second choice, but you can’t hoon that.