Filling in for Sloopy & Banjos today, I guess I’ll first mention that the Houston Astros won again last night. The Yanks and Indians Native Americans got rained out. Da Bears and another formerly Native American-named team also played. The Injuns eventually choked out the Bears in a sleeper.
Mrs. L went on a ladies’ weekend last night, and it was basically Mr. Mom, but without the comic relief. However, I was left with 4 boys, and there were at least 4 boys in the house when she returned, so I feel like I did okay. The hurricane missed us, we never even lost power. It’s amazing how 50 miles south or east make a huge difference.
This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.
If this was you, tell us your Glibs handle.
I may have a crush, in case you couldn’t tell.
I read this novel as a kid.
A reasonable finding that the State can’t just steal your shit for a tax debt and not pay you the remaining equity. (TW: TOS)
My second son has a different favor ex-Runaway, so I’ll throw this up for him.
“If this was you, tell us your Glibs handle.”
Richard Hurtz…
My friends call me Big Dick.
Big Dick Hurtz…
You realize they call you that ironically, don’t you?
If they do the joke is on them and I am gonna win that bet when I show it to them and they end up crying…
You know, that inflammation is treatable.
I don’t – I admit, possibly yet – take the pills that have a warning that if it stays up for 4 hrs you have to seek aid…
But I have seen all sorts of “documentaries” on how you can find some lady to help you with that problem…
“I read this novel as a kid.
Wait until we find the statue of liberty buried in sand…
I got more of a Secret of Nimh vibe.
Flowers for Algernon
I read that book when I was 16 or so.
I might reread it, I remember it being depressing, but excellent.
I’m curious if 51 year old me will like it.
Start with Flowers for Charlie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BNjJutK_4A
“This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.”
Then don’t get type-2 diabetes?
“A reasonable finding that the State can’t just steal your shit for a tax debt and not pay you the remaining equity. (TW: TOS)”
Shut up and know your place serf.
“This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.”
Woah… Give up drinking? Never… Might as well stop living.
Who would have thought Brett of all people, an upstanding Florida man would shut down the anarchy developing in the overnight thread as we gave up on adult supervision? 😉
More seriously — nice to see you, sir. Less seriously — if you were charged with 4 boys (so 5 total)… and there were only 4 boys in the house when she returned, what happened to the son you lost? Poor kid learning to make gator skin clothes and become Tarzania, Lord of the Mosquito Swamp?
“In another liveaboard incident in October 2019, a man living on a makeshift houseboat off Key West doused himself with gasoline and held up a lighter as Florida Fish and Wildlife officers came aboard to conduct a welfare check on his vessel. An FWC officer shot him three times to prevent him from igniting the cabin, according to police. The officer was cleared in the shooting.”
WTF?
We had to destroy the tiny village to save it?
I guess the moral is if you’re going to do liveaboards, make sure it is on something at least seaworthy enough to abscond to international waters when The Man comes to take you to task. Then you can free your willy in peace.
“We prevented to suspect from causing property damage and physical harm to a human.”
Quite frankly, at this point calling in a welfare check should generate a charge of attempted murder.
Swating,/welfare check ; to-may-to to-mah-to
The welfare check was on the houseboat and the brave officers saved it.
From fighting for the little guy to running a crime syndicate that hates and only uses the little guy in but 3 decades!
I think they just stopped pretending, but you knew that already.
So what’s the actual drawback? Which organs fail from using it and how many awful side effects does it lead to?
I heard it creates this irresistible craving to wear gloves all the time…
Some doctors don’t want to wait for the research
Stop me if you have heard this before.
The initial results look good though!
See also: adult circumcision in Africa to prevent HIV
You’re telling me that picture of Mr. Extra Chins was after he lost 80 pounds? Yikes.
October surprise, Biden style.
Are they talking about impeaching him yet for indisputably doing a quid pro quo thing to benefit the dnc in the coming election, and at the expense of the American voter?
It’s justified when they do it, otherwise those terrible MAGAts might gain control.
Yes, they need to SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY!!!!11!!!
Using foreign policy for domestic political gain… I ‘member when that upset Team Asinine.
Elon Musk is under federal investigations, Twitter says in court filing.
Of course he is.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-under-federal-investigation-224642540.html
I hear they have a video of him getting peed on by Russian hookers.
That has all the earmarks of a true story.
50 professional liars say so.
You see the fluff interview where they let one of these intel experts that had signed the letter actually tell the blatant lie that even though this clearly now is proven to be true, this level of destructive revelation seems too perfect to be anything but some foreign entity’s work, and the intelligence experts that put their reputation on the line to rig an election with their statement it was not real, need to get a pass? They knew it was false and still lied. That’s the truth. These people are scum.
He’s officially a Russian agent now.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/14/musk-to-yank-funding-for-starlink-in-ukraine-after-official-told-him-to-f-k-off/
If they can’t prevent him from buying one of their most important propaganda platforms without killing him and setting off alarms, they will make sure they have him by the balls and he is not able to prevent them from doing what the mandarinate crime syndicate wants.
“I read this novel as a kid”
I just started reading “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Ning” to my five-year-old.
I remember that book.
I’m back. Didja miss me?
First time I have even turned this thing on in nearly two weeks.
Too busy reading up on the beautiful ladies of the View?
Guess who’s back
Back again
Brooks is back
Tell your friends
Brooks is back
Brooks is back
Brooks is back
Yes Brooks is back..
I created a monster, cause…
No wonder threading has been so smooth lately
I’m in Columbus Ohio on business right now, was hoping for the chance to discuss with Sloopy on the links this morning. Seems like a nice place, but way way too much about the Ohio State football Buckeyes everywhere you look. But I guess it’s good the denizens support the local pro football team.
I had dinner in Columbus on our drive to Nashville, Hitsville USA.
The restaurant was located next to a real, dreary, sketch motel you would see in a horror movie. The vibes were shooting our bullets and knives.
/waves from two hours away
I thought most of the C-Bus people referred to the Crew as their pro “football” team.
Incidentally, it was the same trip where we met up with Nephilium and his gal on the 4th of July and had a nice time walking and chatting.
Did you go watch things explode?
Yes!
🧨🎇🎆✨!
Trip? Like, not working??
I’m always working.
In my head.
Maybe when they remember the Crew even exists. The Crew is the red-headed stepchild of Columbus sports, a distant third (possibly fourth) behind Buckeye football and the Blue Jackets (and possibly Buckeye basketball, depending on how they are playing).
True. I assume they must have fans, but I never met any.
But… the Modell RULE! Save the Crew!
You mean all those people were just signalling?
/runs to a fainting couch.
semi-pro football team
Well, someone has a semi for them.
Welcome to Average, America.
Well, it’s what happens when you have a inferiority complex about Michigan.
That’s what happens when you live in a state with two teams as bad as the Detroit Lions.
Daily Ray of Sunshine*
* Sunshine needed today because we got our first snowfall!
Tracking snow here, Jimbo.
Good that the guy got a job, now he needs to work thoug.
Nice!
It looks like she is still open, too. May merit a trip down there for lunch.
I just awakened to a kitty cat kneading my right boob and firmly latched on to my nipple and making a lot of noise.
I don’t know if I will be able to get back to sleep after that. He might come back…
But is that dread or wistful regret? (kidding! kidding!)
Go on…
“‘I’m going to punch him out and I’m going to go to jail’: Newly released January 6 footage not aired during Thursday’s hearing shows Nancy Pelosi threaten to HIT Trump, saying ‘I’ve been waiting for this'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11314419/January-6-footage-not-aired-Thursdays-hearing-shows-Nancy-Pelosi-threaten-HIT-Trump.html
Whatever.
Guess she thinks that because she bitch slaps that gimp ball wearing asshat she is married to regularly, she can take on all comers….
At least she didn’t challenge em to a pushup contest…
I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.
Why are we denying her happiness?
Meh, the shriveled crone would shatter her arm if she punched anyone.
“Just Stop Oil activists throw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and glue themselves to the wall at the National Gallery”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11315449/Just-Stop-Oil-activists-throw-tomato-soup-Van-Goghs-Sunflowers.html
Extinction Rebellion is a way better name. Anyway, these clowns belong in prison.
They should be beaten by an angry mob but an art gallery’s the last place you’ll find those types.
Depends on the city and the night.
That looks like a pretty good time in the making…
That’s the hope. Tonight is a bar crawl featuring nine collaboration beers from local breweries, Sunday is a beer brunch and then attempting to watch the Browns play. Then I’ll be taking the girlfriend to go see Blue Man Group on Monday.
One of that group’s protests blocked a city street near a hospital. The police did nothing so the public dragged them out of the road to reopen traffic.
Should have also put them out of our misery.
Nah, take away everything that contains or uses oil in the supply chain from them. See how long it takes before they miss modern comforts and maybe grow up a tad.
Oh, you might be surprised by what those little ol’ docents do if you f**k with Vinnie.
The protesters are so disconnected from reality that they actually believe vandalism will bring good attention to their cause. Someone has to have written a paper on that kind of mental issue.
But, throwing tantrums always worked with their upper middle class progressive parents!
It probably did start there.
It worked for BLM.
They staged a mostly peaceful art viewing.
…these clowns belong in
prisonan asylum.They want a ban on oil paintings?
That’s strange, because the traditional oil used in those is linseed oil.
SEED OILS!!!!!!!!
DON’T EAT THE VAN GOGH!
Keep them glued to the wall and take everything else away. Then put up a sign out of reach that says ‘Moron Art.’ Allow strangers to walk by and laugh at them. In a week, toss their corpses into the nearest furnace.
Glue tends to come off of skin within a few days. They’ll separate from the wall long before they die of thirst.
Not if you come by and helpfully refresh the glue for them.
That’s an art exhibit I would go see.
It’s getting close to helicopter time.
Keep pushing, commies!
MISINFORMATION!
Quick arrest people and accuse them of being terrorists and people that hate democracy (which means democrats always win, or something)!
Ok… since anarchy is again unleashed and the OT posts have started.
First, ‘orning ‘ordle thread: Preliminaries went well (for me, I know Hype will laugh and laugh). Main event was… Meh again. Had to burn a couple of guesses on LL and that obviously put me behind. But didn’t chump… so I’ll take it.
Daily Duotrigordle #226
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 05:29.62
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 263
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 263
8️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
Daily Quordle 263
5️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
Meh…
Chessle 244 (Expert) 4/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩⬛🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://jackli.gg/chessle
Its called the “normal variation” but I have never seen it played. It was easy to figure out though.
Daily Quordle 263
7️⃣🟥
6️⃣9️⃣
quordle.com
Awful. I got stuck on LL.
3 8
4 7
Daily Quordle 263
6️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I try to avoid cluttering things up with the full dump from quordle, but look at that top right section.
My TR was similar. My guess was a complete stab in the dark.
Daily Quordle 263
5️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Daily Quordle 263
8️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
Bad guess sent me one step over the Line.
Daily Quordle 263
8️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 263
4️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Hit a 50/50 on the last one, but everything else went smoothly.
Daily Quordle 263
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
Sounds like a decent drug if you’re a boozehound and you can always shift to weed.
“This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.”
Bastiat’s ‘unseen’ at work.
And from the overnight thread since I meant to post them here:
CWAA
I understand some amount of autonomy is needed for judges — but there has to be ways to rein in petty dictator crap like this beyond “Wait for their next election” or “Hope a higher court bothers to look” (because like all things legal, the last thing judges want to do is set a precedent of limiting judicial power).
CWABOA(That’s a bunch of, if you were wondering).
Given the VA Legislature and Gov, I doubt any of it would pass — but that they think they can put it out there speaks volumes (and I’m sure it will be coming to CA if that moron who wants to lower consent to 2 in the Bay Area has anything to say about it). Talk about “there have been revolutions for much, much less” and “unconstitutional as hell”.
Losing elections is supposed to restore some level of sanity to the vanquished, particularly when you lost the election for…exactly these sorts of policies, telling parents their kids don’t really belong to them, but to the state.
I’d imagine it’s very hard for the Dems to do that because they have so many of the right people with the right platforms cheering them on at all times. They have no sense of self-awareness or ability to admit they fucked up on anything.
They do seem to be the darlings of the media who are batshit loopy for the most part but actual normals who hold those views can’t comprise more than, what, 20 to 25 percent of the population tops.
I am still shocked the percentage is that high. But it really is.
Lawyer, politician – same difference.
Self-reflection is not one of their strengths.
Judges have always been tyrants with no real oversight.
My dad was a probation officer for more than 30 years and he had all sorts of stories about judges. Some good, some bad. But they all needed to be treated with kid gloves because they had so much power that if you got on the wrong side of them you were fucked.
I am going to take this First, and I am going to ram it into your stomach!
Get to da choppa!
The First of Anguish should be a thing. Still enjoying the Pear of Anguish.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/pear-of-anguish
‘Still enjoying the Pear of Anguish.’
TMI
I do suppose that “came out wrong.”
Just be happy it came out at all!
Relax and breathe.
U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 – 2030
Sex still sells, apparently.
Interesting the focus on male (to female) when the explosion of the last few years has been the reverse.
Who knows how they are using “male”?
According to a study conducted by Cedars Sinai in June 2020, approximately 78% of transgender males experienced gender dysphoria by the age of 7. The mean age to experience gender dysphoria was less in transgender males, which is about 6.2 years.
And what is your earliest memory?
I guess I don’t doubt it, the only question is how many people who experience some doubt or confusion at that age grow out of it. I would guess 95% or higher, particularly if you let them finish puberty without brainwashing, drugging or mutilation.
Push poll is push poll. If you ask enough leading questions, you are going to find he right answers.
Now we know where Blackrock and the other big dogs will put their money after they’ve stopped investing in icky fossil fuels. Add transgender surgery to weapons manufacturing and big pharma as perpetual winners for investors.
No mention that BoA cancelled Kanye?
Day that ends in “y” in the current US political climate.
AOC Responds to the war criticism:
That clears everything up.
I doubt she’s competent enough to steal that much money.
she might be saying she’ll never be rich if she doesn’t vote for war
I could see her controlling several PAC’s that have collected that much nationally.
The trick, I’m sure, is that she isn’t personally worth much, but she controls some PAC’s and NGO’s that have a lot of unregulated money. Only n00bs deposit the money directly into their own bank account. You launder it through a 3rd party if for no other reason than to avoid paying income taxes on it.
One of the richer people I have known told me that he is almost broke on paper. However, he controls the trust fund that has all the family money in it. The trust pays for his apartment, his car, etc.
I don’t think AOC has been around long enough to rack up that much graft yet. She also seems pretty slow on the uptake.
The link is worth clicking on to see the exchange between Musk and Bernie Sanders.
Answer the stuff that has no basis, ignore the stuff that does, and discredit through the association. She’s not as shit stupid as she may seem.
She got an earful but she doesn’t care.
Because she’s working towards that $29 million goal.
As if you can’t have debts and still be rich.
Notice, she doesn’t say how much money she actually has.
‘actually it’s only $28,982,000 one you net out my student loans’
She’s still hoping to get it cancelled so she doesn’t have to pay it off.
She is a first round draft pick who didn’t pan out. No way Nancy the P is going to let her in on the grift.
Speaking of Ohio-
I see the Ohio Highway Patrol continues their tradition of aggressive
highway safety enforcementroving tax collection.I almost visited the Wright Patt museum, but I evidently missed a sign, so I continued on through downtown Dayton and got back on the interstate.
Yeah the roads around that museum are awful.
I went to the Air Force Museum last weekend (first time in a long time) and the main road leading to the gate has been repaved. It’s no longer a series of patches.
There was a bunch of construction when I was there early september, but the layout of the roads was awful even when I was there last year before that construction. Finding the entrance to the facility was harder than it needed to be.
Of course, we want to get that money from out of state drivers so those of us who live here don’t have to pay for it. The same as it is in most states. I hope you also avoided Gold Star and Skyline chili as well.
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!
Skyline is gift from G_d !
::fist bump…or whatever the kids are doing these days that isn’t stupid::
I had some Skyline in the CVG airport the other day. A wonderful indulgence.
Are we talking about the same pasta sauce mislabelled as chili?
I’ve noticed that Chicago never tickets anyone speeding into town. You only see people pulled over on the lanes leaving Chicago.
My theory is that they don’t want to hand you a ticket on the way in because you will probably cut back on your spending if you know you now have to pay a fine. But on the way out, they already have your tourist bucks.
In Minneapolis, you only get ticketed on the major freeways leading in/out of downtown on weekends.
Our congestion is bad enough that during the weekdays the cops just let you drive as fast as you can because they don’t want to pull anyone over and slow traffic down. However in the early ’00s there was a stink because the Feds said they weren’t ticketing enough people on the interstates around the city. Obviously they were neglecting their enforcement duties. So now on weekends the cops aggressively ticket those interstates to juke the numbers.
It is funny because the drivers in the know are studiously driving 60 down an empty 4 lanes of traffic on a Saturday.
Never change lanes without signaling on I-70 between Dayton and the IN state line lest you arouse the suspicion of the Preble County DEA.
Why didn’t you offer that advice when you know I was driving from Dayton to Indianapolis?
I couldn’t imagine you changing lanes without signaling.
I always signal, but that’s not the point 😜
Brooksie, on the other hand, can’t/won’t properly thread comments. I shudder to think of what he does when he drives.
Using turn signals is a sign of respect. I do not respect other drivers.
I had a new Toyota Camry rental car last week.
Apparently I don’t use turn signals for lane changes if no one is near me.
I hate cars with lane awareness features and I don’t think that car liked me either.
So, if you don’t signal, the car fights you thinking you’re just drifting out of lane? Or just throws alarms?
It beeps and the steering wheel fights you a little and vibrates.
Not a fan.
I turned that shit off.
I turned that shit off.
I turn as much of it off as I can in the Mustang. The only thing I can’t turn off is the collision avoidance system. I can turn off automatic braking and turn the sensitivity down all the way, but the system is always on, ready to sound an alarm.
My Jeep has that. I turned it off. the steering wheel would vibrate in panic every time I took a 180 off ramp with cement walls. It was terrified I was wrecking. Doesn’t make me feel good about future AI.
My Driver’s Ed teacher, Mr. Hutson, (also the basketball coach) drilled the command “SIGNAL YOUR INTENTIONS!!!” into my impressionable adolescent mind, so I signal even when there are no other cars around.
It’s part of my habit for the driving operations, regardless of whether there are other vehicles. I signal because I’m too lazy to ask whether there’s anyone who can see the signal.
More than that, you keep in the habit, so it’s just good practice to always signal.
Considering there may be vehicles you don’t see or notice, it’s always a good habit. And a nice cyclist will probably wave you through to take the right turn on red (waiving their right of way), to let you go first if you signal.
Does such a creature exist?
Neph perhaps?
Why would anyone pay attention to turn signals? I look at what physics can do, and go from there.
It’s a statement of intent from the human whose actions will initiate those future physics circumstances.
Democrats proven right – Russians were behind it!
So the Russians colluded with a sympathetic source to plant a fake story about collusion in order to politically cripple a guy who was somewhat sympathetic to the Russians. Meta and ironic…
It’s 4-D chess. And you know who is good at chess?
Deep Th̶r̶o̶a̶t̶ Blue ?
This latest stuff is a little interesting, in that it seems to be exposing the corruption of the FBI more than I would have expected from Durham. I don’t see how you can bring up the $1M payout offer without implicating senior leadership.
Don’t worry — I’m sure he’ll find a way, even if it seems stupid to the rest of the country. Fig leaves will be sewn!
If the fig leaves were actually sewn to the skin, that would be worthwhile.
This should be a fun case to follow
I am looking forward to the lectures from people who have never set foot on a rez about how important it is that every Indian kid grow up on one. Perish the thought that they are placed with a stable non-Indian family.
I am hoping for the abolition of the reservation system and the BIA.
I have no idea what the case is about, but I’m always hoping for the abolition of the reservations and the BIA.
There is a law that says that any Indian kid pretty much has to be adopted by another Indian.
Congress approved the Indian Child Welfare Act in response to those concerns. The law mandates that the tribal court first try to place an American Indian child with an immediate family member. If that’s not possible, the adoptive parents should be members of the tribe. And if those cannot be found, the child should be placed in a tribal institution.
Better the kid grow up in an institution than be placed with white eyes. (Or even with another tribe)
Eh — I’m probably the weird one around here. BIA? Sure — but if we’re going to call these sovereign nations, treat them as such. Figure out what their territorial boundaries are and leave them to it. They want to open trade or other diplomatic negotiations, that’s fine.
Oh… but they’re conquered nations and can’t support themselves? Then treat them as such. They aren’t “nations” anymore, they’re loose collectives that can live together if they want and get no special status (well any more special than any of the other BIPOCLGQBBQRSTUVWXYZ+ crap these days). That’s probably where you’ve jumped ahead to, I realize.
It is just a personal gripe I have with our government. They’re either countries of their own, or they’re not. We made treaties with them which implies condition A, so live up to that and stop screwing with their internal policies. We aren’t responsible for their destiny any more than Canada or Mexico.
At this point, there is no evidence that they are sovereign. Delete the legal fiction and treat the people like any other citizen.
Agreed. It would be best for them and for society generally.
One time in Kindergarten I got in trouble when the teacher told us all to sit “indian style”.
I went and laid on the curb with a liquor bottle.
/too soon ?
Appropriate
Well, I laughed.
#metoo
I would have gotten in some shit had I done something like that in Ye Olde Catholic Schools.
But I still laughed.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1580662509421629440
It should be a pop up book.
As a junior high kid only wanted to get my newspaper route done quickly so I could throw the football around. I had no idea what the hell was going on but I noticed that girls were different than boys, for which I have been eternally grateful.
Life imitates snark: I jokingly suggested a couple of days ago that the Biden admin should take a monthly inflation percentage and annualize by merely changing the denominator to 12. Yesterday President Dementia did just that, except for a quarterly basis.
I want off.
Inflation is way down, fat!
I am looking forward to the lectures from people who have never set foot on a rez about how important it is that every Indian kid grow up on one. Perish the thought that they are placed with a stable non-Indian family.
The same people ho have taken it upon themselves to save the Red Man from the pernicious and debilitating racism embodied in the use of Indian-based names for sports teams and native maidens being pressed into unwholesome servitude by Big Butter.
I once got in trouble because I referred to having second thoughts about a reservation I made for a trip to a native reservation as a “Reservation reservation reservation”….
… and it was for a Cubist sculpture showing?
Nice.
I guess Tulsi Gabbard has officially left the reservation.
That traitorous bitch.
Wrong kind of indian.
Samoan
The best of all Girl Scout cookies!
Maybe if you get all the parents together, like in a camp, for this [re-]education.
The law. The only crimes which should be addressed by law are ones against life, liberty or property. Everything else is busy work for grifters. Fuck off.
It is much easier to cancel people’s ability to make a living these days… And nobody really cares about the homeless communities. Especially if the state takes the kids and puts them in schools where they get indoctrinated to be dependent on the state…
Sigh.
Those kids will do much better with momma and/or daddy in prison. Everybody knows foster care is the way to raise children if you can swing it.
The legislator who proposed this was a social worker – so merely making sure her guild is well supported.
A man who lost 80 pounds on a ‘game changer’ weight-loss drug also lost his desire to drink alcohol.
Where’s the fun in that?
That sounds like a “problem” more than just “desire”.
If I can take a magic pill to drop 40 or 50 pounds and still be satisfied with my usual intake of 3 or 4 drinks tops, sign me the hell up.
#keto
No pills.
I’d rather take a pill.
Heh.
If any of y’all really want th understand the Ukraine/Russia/Belarus/Poland mess, I urge you to read “The Gates of Europe”
Dives deeply into religious history, genetics, linguistics.
If you really want to understand the current war, you can’t skip this book.
(Also available as an audiobook)
Thanks, I’ll keep that one in mind. Just not in the mood for anything but fluff reading wise at the moment… probably because the real news is too danged depressing.
The section on the Cossack/Khazach linguistic mixing is particularly fascinating to me.
The whole book is an underrated treasure.
P.S.: the US needs to butt the fuck out of what’s happening there.
Listen missee – there ain’t no part of this here world that our Baptist-based-progressive vision doesn’t extend do. Peace be upon the ever-blessed Wilson!
How long have we been dicking around over there? Did it start in 2014 or earlier?
I think it was 2013 when they revised the total Lithium deposits in the Donbass to be worth trillions of dollars.
Dave Smith had a great rant about the Ukraine on Rogan’s show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXzwnU1H6U
RE: your PS.
The US needs to avoid anything between 15E and 75E latitude. The principle applies generally, but that stretch of the Earth absolutely.
Longitude?
Yes, longitude. My brain is stupid.
This is where the edit fairy fixes everything?
Nah, this doesnt require edit fairy. But I never mind her appearances.
Just wishful thinking.
Then again, there are a few of those fairies that I don’t want to see.
There is a semi decent Yale lecture series you can watch for free that is in progress now on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_
Also good: God’s playground by Davies. It focuses on Poland, but for a long time Ukraine was mostly in Poland. And it will give you a lot of good general background in the area. I haven’t read gates of Europe, so I can’t comment on that, not staying it’s not good.
I just finished that book. Definitely recommended. I thought he glossed over the more recent stuff too quickly, but overall it was very interesting. That said, I’m not sure I have a much clearer understanding of the history, but I think that’s a case of the more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
Audiobook borrowed from local library, e-book placed on hold, both via “Libby” app. Now that I’m going to water aerobics instead of to the exercise equipment room at the Y, I’ll have to figure out the best time/circumstances for listening to audiobooks. Maybe it’s time to break out a relatively simple knit or crochet project.
🏊♀️📖📱💦?
Pictograms are hard.
Your next challenge: write a novel entirely in emojis. ✍️📖
I would prefer not to.
/Bartleby
Morning, Brett!
But of course. Pigs do pig things.
Lita was my favorite Runaway, but this is a better Kiss Me Deadly.
Maybe there wasnt a dog available ?
Kiss Me Deadly?
Bad Reputation?
Solid song. I heard it today during my workout.
In a world where eve The First Of All Firsters has forgotten The First…Firstol Recall.
Things are tough all over
Joe Biden’s appearance this week on the campaign trail in Oregon says as much about Democrats’ struggles in the reliable blue state as it does about his own careful approach to the midterms.
Biden advisers and close political allies are worried about a confluence of factors that threaten to flip the open contest for governor in the state. A third-party challenger is pulling more support from Democrats than the GOP; four contested congressional races, including one over the border in Washington state, have resulted in a barrage of Republican TV ad attacks; and the uneven economic recovery and spiraling quality of life concerns around homelessness and crime are weighing on voters.
“It’s just a tough year for us,” a Biden ally conceded.
Those dumb voters, with their quality-of-life grievances; they need to see the Big Picture.
There are existential threats out there, like climate change, and people calling places “Squaw This” and Squaw That”.
Prioritize, America!
“Squaw This” and Squaw That”
I’ll say it again, simply rename them to Native American Woman This and Native American Woman That. It isn’t your fault if the deplorables start shortening it up to NAW This and NAW That.
Having the Woke Pitchfork Brigade too busy combing over audio files with Zapruder-like obsession to make sure they didn’t say Sqaw instead of Naw will keep them from other mischief.
I hope we get some snow this year so I can go ski at Siberian American Woman Valley.
Welp, the rain is long gone. I can see the different layers of clouds moving in different directions fast enough for me to tell they’re moving (using trees as a reference point)
I’m going to have to close the shades later as the sun comes around this side of the building.
Reminder:
Approximately 2 million Rus persons were trafficked as slaves through Crimea by the Muslim Tatars well into the 16th century. Ukrainians facilitated the slave trade, and this is not forgotten.
Or more recently Ukrainians recall the tender mercies of the Bolsheviks.
Reality is that man is a brutal creature and it was not until recently, where some people managed to create through ingenuity & automation, lots of wealth which then changed the old dynamic/paradigm where the low resource problem was solved by using force to take from your neighbors. We are heading back to those heady days apparently at a breakneck pace, though.
The adherents to historicism will not learn by any other means than brutal reality.
It’s been 500 years, maybe they should get over it.
Americans’ short memories are a blessing in many ways.
Yep. Nursing past resentments is poison, as are the people who encourage it.
Isn’t it the sale of all those slavs that led to the word “slave”?
Thought I heard that somewhere.
Correct. But I think Hayek has it somewhat backwards. Vikings were raiding the slavs, and later the pagan Lithuanians.
Kievan rus was found by Vikings… Not the native slavs.
Then the Slavs invented the “Goal Line” and the Vikings were never seen again.
Heyoooo!
I think Slavs will dispute that. I’ve heard them say it comes from slava, which is glory.
Slave is from Slav. Slav is from the Slavic word meaning ‘word ‘ guessing meaning people that can speak, whereas Germans are mute. (Because they don’t speak a language that can be understood)
Similar to barbarian- people who say ‘bar bar bar!’ according to Greeks
That makes sense. Word = slovo –> slav. German = nemec, mute = nemmy.
Nemec the Barbarian, scourge of the Hellenes and Slavs?
FWIW the German word for slave is “Sklave” so might be a different root. Or a confusion of two different roots (which does happen).
Now, hoping to avoid a devastating loss in a Democratic enclave, and with polls showing a dead heat for the governorship, the White House approached former Oregon state House Speaker Tina Kotek to arrange the presidential visit in support of her campaign.
“Suddenly, everyone figured out we have a real governor’s race out here,” said Jake Weigler, an Oregon Democratic strategist not involved in the contest. “People are waking up and thinking that losing could actually happen.”
Say it ain’t so. A governor who might represent the people in the eastern part of the state? That’s just crazy.
Then they have a better education system than we do (not saying much). Do American school kids still learn that our first foreign war was against Muslim slavers? Are Irish school kids still taught about the Sack of Baltimore?
Was supposed to be a reply to hayeksplosives.
And the lucky survivors moved to Skibbereen.
Everyone knows slavery only happened to black people in the USA.
And white supremacy, don’t forget that all slavery everywhere is because of white supremacy.
There was no red legged rebellion.
*cringe*
Pelosi’s response to hearing Trump might march to the Capitol is definitely worth watching
Also, bad look threatening violence on a former president.
*WORDS AREN’T VIOLENCE WHEN WE DO IT!!*
The comments are, umm, revealing. Not to mention lacking in any kind of self-awareness.
Lot of easily impressed sycophants.
Is it really so hard to include the webex information in a meeting invite? I mean the standard install includes the outlook plugin, so it’s a single button to press…
Make a point of being 5-minutes late – “sorry, couldn’t find the link”.
Do you want to be known as the guy too stupid to find his knuckle-dragging way to the meeting. The Missing Link Guy?
“I thought it would be in the invitation like my other meetings.”
Because the invite disappeared, I thought it was cancelled.
My favorite is when the meeting invite has both a Zoom and a Teams link.
If you expect me in the meeting, put the damn link in the calendar invite. I’m not rooting through my email to dig it up. And yes, I have not shown up for exactly this reason.
How about when there is a standing 30 minute meeting, then the host starts a separate 1 hour meeting on top of that and does not delete the thirty minute meeting? I had that the other day. Very classy.
It’s gotten to the point that I just ignore the team meeting in my calendar, as the supervisor keeps cancelling it (usually 5-15 minutes before it’s scheduled).
Recently had an interview invitation like that. Had to ask the recruiter to clarify.
Fascinating.
Daryl Cooper (MartyrMade) and Scott Horton are working on a book about the fuckery in Ukraine since the end of the cold war. From Cooper’s substack:
Can we talk about Ukraine?
He has become my favorite subscription. If you can’t read it, I’ll excerpt a few items, but the bottom line echoes ‘Splosives: we need to stay the fuck out of it.
McAleer said he now lacks a physical desire for alcohol — which he believes is an unintentional, though not unwelcome, side effect of the weight-loss drug semaglutide and other, similar drugs.
Since he started taking the drugs in the fall of 2021, “I’m just not interested anymore after a couple of beers,” McAleer said. “I’ve never had that before.”
He doesn’t look like a Reaver.
“Back then,” Lita Ford says, “people were like, ‘Do we listen to her guitar playing? Or do we just pin her poster up on our bedroom walls?’
Why not both?
If I had a poster of her, I would have been doing both.
For the first time in my career i am blowing a fucking deadline and have no idea when i will be done. In my defense i did 3 weeks of pointless work this year because the manager did not know it was not necessary and that set me back.
90,000 lives could be saved, 900,000+ hospitalizations prevented, and billions of dollars in medical costs averted with robust uptake of the Omicron booster this fall, according to a new analysis.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrTomFrieden/status/1580627018714005504
SCIENCE!¡!!¡!??!!?!!!
Or, hear me out, we don’t inject people with useless, harmful substances for political reasons.
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Can we get people to wear a mask???? This is just so freaking basic! I just don’t get what the big deal is about wearing an N95! Yes, it gets annoying but if it saves my life, my family’s life or the life of someone immunocompromised, then we have to do it!
We have toooo
I’d gladly sacrifice your life.
If you have immune issues – you have to take care of protecting yourself, not demanding the world bend to adapt to you. Especially with something laughably useless.
Well that’s that I guess.
No one will be allowed to drive within 3 miles of Dr. Frieden or his family. After all, the inconvenience is worth it if it saves their lives.
90K lives saved?
Meh. That is two Minnesoda’s of deaths
Anytime any of these asshats try to push something using one of their models, they should have the 2020 models thrown into their faces.
My model says give me money.
How long have you been dating her?
“BREAKING: An incel admits to planning a mass shooting at Ohio State University with his AR-15 rifle and wrote about wanting to “slaughter” women and hoped he could kill 3,000 people, particularly at sororities. RT IF YOU THINK WE NEED AN INCEL TASK FORCE!”
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1580218384473477120
“BREAKING: Google approves Trump’s fascist social media platform “Truth Social” for their Google Play Store — meaning its constant stream of racism and misinformation will now be easily available to Android users. RT TO DEMAND THAT GOOGLE REMOVE IT FROM THEIR STORE IMMEDIATELY!”
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1580617189551353856
“BREAKING: New footage of Jan. 6th shows Speaker Pelosi saying “I hope” that Trump “comes” with the rioters because “I’m going to punch him out” for starting the insurrection, adding: “I’m going to go to jail and I’m going to be happy.” RT IF YOU THINK THAT PELOSI IS BADASS!”
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1580901391257677825
“BREAKING: Google approves Trump’s fascist social media platform “Truth Social” for their Google Play Store — meaning its constant stream of racism and misinformation will now be easily available to Android users. RT TO DEMAND THAT GOOGLE REMOVE IT FROM THEIR STORE IMMEDIATELY!”
It’ll be modified like the Telegram app. Telegram installed via the play store has modifications to not show links to things Google doesn’t like, like links to Russia Today.
I just did it. It doesn’t block RT.
I would think even if that was done, you could side-load a version of the app that does not do that. Android does not necessarily need things in their Google App Store to load an app.
Trump’s fascist social media platform
Show your work.
Is this task force going to be tasked with making sure the incels get laid?
Sorority girls can take on for the team once in a while. Give them extra credit or something
I read that as, “Sorority girls can take on the team once in a while.”
Get your mind out of the gutter, Sheldon…
The task force is going to get shit done. They will not be fucking around one bit!
That’s the only real solution.
Yep – federal hate crime. No one killed, no one hurt, no real human actually even threatened in a way that self defense would apply.
Especially when the guy’s rantings/ravings are so silly. 3K KIA’s with just one AR-15? I know THE OSU students aren’t the brightest, but would they really stand around Navin Johnson-like shouting about how the guy hates cans?
I mean the trained FBI marksman was only able to kill 60 people with 1000 rounds. What makes this Buckeye think he is that much better?
Maybe he’s the reincarnation of Charles Whitman and has a new approach to avoid the counterattack?
OSU has (or at least had) a really, really good collegiate rifle and pistol team. Lots of them went on to the Olympics.
I wonder how easy it is to activate the bot army when they ask for retweets?
If you’re on the list of users, it is a trigger code.
It’s weird that the Left celebrates pedophilia but shuns incels.
The useful thing about being a misanthrope is that I can be consistent in my position of disliking both.
The correct term is MAPitude
Mi’kmaw astronomer says we should acknowledge we live under Indigenous skies
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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/oct-1-redirecting-an-asteroid-rainforest-politics-wildlife-and-covid-and-more-1.6599378/mi-kmaw-astronomer-says-we-should-acknowledge-we-live-under-indigenous-skies-1.6600279
We’re entering a new age of ingorance until we send these useless people to the guillotine.
“Glibs shit-posters says fuck off.”
Can we get the CBC to print that? It’s just as newsworthy.
Someone is angling for the casino rights to the moon and Mars.
The picture is a chubby white guy in birth control glasses. With a beard. He’s about as indigenous as a vanilla ice cream bar. Fight me.
Tommorow 12 o clock behind the liquor store
Excellent choice. Let’s get some decent beverages first.
Quit making fun of my glasses.
OMG LOL.
And nobody is allowed to point that out.
There is a generation of people who just won’t get it, and that’s unfortunate.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mypaynefulways/status/1580264725514194944
🙂
Perfection.
I don’t get it.
Movie Reference
Ah. No wonder.
I hate these meetings where we end up making negative progress and we end up with less completed and more to redo by the time we finish talking about something unrelated to what they decide to change.
And then there’s the guy who wants to create more work for everybody for reasons that escape me to solve problems that don’t exist and cause delays that are not needed.
I think that’s called job security.
Can we get people to wear a mask???? This is just so freaking basic! I just don’t get what the big deal is about wearing an N95! Yes, it gets annoying but if it saves my life, my family’s life or the life of someone immunocompromised, then we have to do it!
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I will not validate your cargo cult superstition.
I aggressively support the existence of age of consent laws. 25 across the board.
https://mobile.twitter.com/breaking2morrow/status/1580688779706523648
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consent is insufficient as a basis for sexual mores
consent and commitment required
at least 25 and married or its rape
Well, if that is also for voting, driving, drinking and being drafted – OK.
My tuping skils have have not improved.
My fingers are cold. Today I will investigate the operation of the heater and get a new filter.
Tuping is notoriously difficult