Yeah, I have a backpack.
My current visit to Glibs Gulch has come to an end and I fly home tomorrow. It’s been an uneventful two weeks. I spend last week on the couch with ice on my knee. I spend the first five days of the New Year sick on the couch, and yesterday found myself in the clinic with a gout attack.
This couch has done yoemans work.
Links?
The Northeast is a cesspool of disease. I think this is the bastard that got me.
Oh, Ronny. Your mind is rotting. I always thought your dick was going to fall off.
“Taxes are for the little people.”
“Has anybody seen my skis? There’s a shark out there in the water.”
Okay, that’s it for me. I really like Ozzy’s new album.
Gout – allopurinol is your friend.
I stopped taking it 18 months ago. My uric acid level had been normal for some time and I hadn’t had an attack in over a decade.
Yeah, I haven’t had an attack since I’ve taken it and I’m not gonna risk it.
I broke out in hives from Allopurinol. Ulloric works for me.
I got gout earlier this year. The nurse diagnosed it almost as fast as when I had shingles, and they knew before I even got my shirt off.
I was mostly worried that it was a new sort of hallucination. The others I’m used to and can deal with, though I haven’t had a real one in a few months probably. I think I had an olfactory tinge a few weeks ago, nothing. But it was real pain! Just the gout variety. I got some amoxicillin or whatever and it was all gone in a couple days. It was never bad. Just a new flavor of the variety of limps that come and go. (They always eventually go.)
The weirdest things happen to me. *Shrug*
Ozzie’s new album.
Holy shit. That thing about drinking blood is true isn’t it?
Ask Keith Richards
I remember listening to Black Sabbath on my grandmother’s record player. It was one of those floor models in a big wooden cabinet. I was 12, lol. No wonder the name of it is Immortal.
I wish my grandparents or parents had the good taste to turn me on to Black Sabbath. I had to discover them on my own. I really hope they find a way to bury the hatchet with Bill Ward and make one more studio album before one of them dies.
Yeah, Ron’s dick was always the part of him that worked; don’t know why you’d think it would rot.
Too much pussy makes you lose your mind. Well, that is depressing.
“All hail Ortega’s leadership?”
I dunno. That is not on my list of most desirable locations to move to. When I think of that country, all I can think of is bad earthquakes and corruption.
The top 10 countries where people are always at peace
Nicaragua
Uzbekistan
El Salvador
You know, these polls are brought to you by the same people who have always said that Europe is like a paradise where everyone is happy all of the time. Finland and Sweden do something wrong to these commie fucks that they are no longer putting them on a pedestal?
I barely understand what it means that people are at peace. Is it something else than there’s no war going on? Not surprisingly, I am unable to express this idea in Russian. Asking bullshit questions in different languages in various countries won’t get you anything useful.
As long as the slaves aren’t rebelling, they’re at peace too!
Resting in peace?
“I barely understand what it means that ‘people are at peace'”
That means ‘communism really works’.
That was my immediate thought. What a stupid, pointless poll.
“What a stupid, pointless poll.”
Brought to you by the people who excel at stupid pointless stuff.
It’s strange that citizens of upwards of half of the countries in that top 10 list are walking hundreds or thousands of miles through dangerous territory to get to the U.S. border.
Another reason for the increase in cases and hospitalization could be that the Northeast has a higher proportion of elderly people who are more prone to infection, severe disease and death from COVID-19, experts suggest.
Which baffled me, but it turns out to be true.
But when you think about it — which oldsters from the rust belt or New England aren’t moving to Arizona or Florida when they retire? The ones who can’t afford to, that’s who. And poorer people always seem to have worse health outcomes. It would be an interesting study to chart the income / asset quintiles of people getting hospitalized for the coof, in all age categories.
This is fake news. The people in redneck places are having the worst outcomes cause they don’t have real healthcare like in good blue states.
Maybe they don’t like hot weather. The siren songs of Arizona and Florida are not going to work on me, that’s for sure.
November through March is awesome in Florida. Maybe even a bit later. Yeah, it’s great if you can afford a second home.
FLORIDA IS FULL
Were you the first to move in?
I am always First. You do the math.
We need a wall around all the beaches, too. Every waterway.
Maybe Trump can make the Cuban immigrants pay for it.
I want a wall with Georgia that makes that thing in Game Of Thrones look cheap.
You might recall, the governor tried to turn Pensacola Bay and the St. Marys river into moats.
TL,DR: unfortunately, it didn’t work.
MikeS begs to differ. Also, you supposed firsters miss some obvious wordplay.
Wordplay is the refuge of seconding scoundrels.
Seconders play with words to hide their secondness. Firsters say precisely what they mean loudly and proudly.
November through March is awesome in Florida.
People still remark that Florida has no seasons. Not true. We have:
Not that hot yet
REALLY FUCKIN’ HOT!
Hurricane season
February
FWIW, on the Gulf Coast at least, our snowbirds start trickling in around Canadian Thanksgiving, and typically head back north just after Easter.
I’ll hazard a different guess. The northeast had some of the earliest and most widespread use of the covid mRNA vaccines. If the critics are right, this has lead to “antigenic original sin.” So now there is a vulnerable population with less immunological ability to fight the disease.
I think that idea has merit, too. I was just going with Occam’s Razor.
You could be right but I’d like more demographic data before I believe the old in New England are poor. Nationwide, 65+ is the wealthiest cohort. I’d like to see some data that it’s primarily the poor elderly remaining in New England.
I don’t believe it either. Florida isn’t THAT attractive.
Wait until Republicans regain the White House and we are on the 234th strain of covid and another round of lockdowns in NY.
The ‘vid is over, even here. Except for medical establishments.
Now if it becomes unbearable here I’ll move but it will somewhere with better weather than Florida.
Like North Dakota?
👍❓
MikeS needs a neighbor.
Cellphones don’t work in the Dakotas, but you can do the string and two cans thing to talk at night.
In her shattered Philadelphia neighborhood, and increasingly in drug hot zones around the country, an animal tranquilizer called xylazine — known by street names like “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is being used to bulk up illicit fentanyl, making its impact even more devastating.
Xylazine causes wounds that erupt with a scaly dead tissue called eschar; untreated, they can lead to amputation.
What do you call a guy with no arms trying to shoot up?
Aaaaaand GO!
Neil N. Bob
My Sil’s dad is named Neil, we are fun at parties
Lol.
Back home?
Yes, and it was 25 degrees out when I got here, brought some Gander with me I guess😏
A pedi crook?
You’re going to foot the bill for any narrow gaze damage.
But people aren’t turning into alligators this time. These new scariest drugs seeping the nation are just lame.
Yeah, the junkies need to be chewing on people and turning their skin into rotting flesh – now that will generate a panic.
After the peak of the Covid panic pr0n, I guess it is hard to come up with an encore now. Maybe if Russia decides to launch the nukes the dems and their neocon buds are trying so hard to provoke.
Cold Turkey?
Has got me on the run?
Wait… didn’t we already hear about this when it was called krokodile?
Krokodile!?! I thought you said chocodile.
It’s a Saturday, and some forms apparently need to continue. The Zoom/Happy Hour/Third thing will kick off at 20:00 Eastern.
I am a little out of it. But I think these links posted early.
1700CST on Saturdays.
I agree with this guy.
I don’t know how anyone in touch with reality wouldn’t.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article270822672.html
No shit. Foreseeable consequences are not unforeseen.
These ungrateful workers complaining simply don’t realize how much more time this will leave them for leisure activities like creating art.
It’s all good. You see, these people can become artists now.
Great, that’s exactly what we need. More talentless Photoshop dorks…
You don’t want competition?
My favorite thing about taxes is getting a bonus or racking up incentive pay by actually performing well at my job and seeing it taxed to shit. But it makes sense if you realize the government doesn’t care about and maybe even doesn’t want you earning more money through merit.
The icky people must be kept as poor as possible.
We aren’t hiring 80,000 new IRS agents for nothing.
Bonus and incentive pay isn’t taxed any heavily than your regular pay. Withholding rates for supplemental pay is higher but that doesn’t translate into actual higher rates at April 15 unless it pushes into a higher bracket.
I wonder why.
My last bonus was taxed & feed at more than 50%. WTF?
There’s a reason (since I don’t currently max out my 401(k)) that I had my bonuses going 50% into 401(k). Cut down on the tax bite, and added to retirement savings.
I’d guess because regular wages are easier to calculate periodic withholding amounts vs one offs.
Supplemental wage withholding is 22% for fed, plus everyone else. But that doesn’t change the actual tax rate.
It’s simple math. Your employer is calculating withholding based on annualized rate. When you got your bonus, it looks to the computer like you are making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year so taxes are withheld accordingly. Also you are getting royally screwed by state and local taxes being in NYC.
I can’t imagine why because the bonus isn’t pushing me anywhere near into “hundreds of thousands of dollars per year” territory.
I thought you said bonus, not tip.
Hell, a tip would be better.
Our bonuses are either 2, 4, or 6 percent.
Guess which one everyone gets.
Now I have no idea why your withholding is so high.
Guess which one everyone gets.
“Bend over and bone-us?”
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15#en_US_2023_publink1000254842
Huh. Tips are treated as suplemental income, too.
Jebus, I’ve been doing it wrong, I pay my bonuses separate from my pay and tend towards 25% withholding, but even that’s not allowed, Had to be 22%, I thought the rule was “at least” 22%, but clear that it’s not.
It appears that the withholding used to be higher but was reduced from 2017 to 2026. That jives with my hazy recollection, I bet it was at the maximum tax rate (37%?).
Ugh,
Sorry, Spud. I hope Idaho fixes you right up.
I’ve listened to some of the new Ozzy and I can’t decide. Still, I love the fact he’s still going.
Sorry, Spud. I hope Idaho fixes you right up.
Seconded.
I’ll take a piece of that action too.
My current visit to Glibs Gulch has come to an end and I fly home tomorrow. It’s been an uneventful two weeks. I spend last week on the couch with ice on my knee. I spend the first five days of the New Year sick on the couch, and yesterday found myself in the clinic with a gout attack.
Makes note to never visit Glibs Gulch.
Sounds like when I visit my brother.
It’s quite a fun place. Until the local cops recognize you.
Glibs Gulch is a good place.
I never expected Glibs Gulch to wind up in familiar territory.
I would totally be down for a good Love Boat reboot.
I vaguely remember one from a few years ago but I don’t remember if it was any good.
Jackie Chiles played the doc so it couldn’t have been all bad.
Well, it would have to be good. I haven’t even checked out the Fantasy Island reboot.
There’s a new one, isn’t there. I thought I saw it on the schedule.
ISTR a reboot a few years back. I’ll watch the original if they ever air it again.
I remember that. Joan Severance played Julie. I love Joan Severance.
Blue jurisdictions are now playing hot potato with migrants…
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/new-york-chicago-mayors-urge-colorado-gov-polis-to-halt-bussing-migrants-to-their-cities
When virtue signaling gets real.
LOL what a humanitarian.
I’m loving this. Another progressive fantasy is hitting the wall of reality.
It’s fun watching blue on blue fighting.
The latest chapter in the Joker’s nefarious story arc may be the DC Comics arch villain’s most unusual yet: He becomes pregnant.
WTF?
I like the new Ozzy song.
Celebrate his vagina.
Yes. The Joker thing is messed up. Didn’t those morons learn from the gay Superman issue?
Was Superman a top or a bottom? Being a bottom introduces a lot of…questions.
Doesn’t he need a boy wonder to be bottom? How can you be a real super hero and not have a sidekick?
So, they finally did it? A pregnant man? It’s hard to watch a single series or film on Amazon or Netflix anymore that doesn’t seem to be stuffed full of leftist politics. But this time, they’ve really outdone themselves.
Picked up some Fee Brothers Walnut Bitters for my Friday and Saturday night Old Fashioned and Manhattan. Worked great in the Old Fashioned last nite, tonite I dig it in the Manhattan, but I think it would be better with several shakes of Angostura as well. The Fee Brothers standard bitters are also highly recommended for those that like bitters in their drinks, a change from both Peychauds and Angostura. Is it obvious that I dig bitters?
Now I want an Old Fashioned. I had a couple pre-mixed ones recently that were awesome. I have to check my ingredients…. I have some rye and bitters so I should be good to go.
All you need is sugar and you’re good to go. My method is to put some ice in a shaker and add two ounces of bourbon or rye, a teaspoon of sugar or simple syrup, and several healthy shakes of bitters. Stir till frosty and strain into a short glass that has ice. Add a cherry or a slice of orange peel. Enjoy. It really is the world’s best cocktail.
A Luxardo cherry if you are doing it real proper.
I just fill my shaker with cubed ice as I think crushed ice makes it a bit too watery. You can, of course, just do it all in a single glass, but I think it mixes better in a shaker. And then new ice in the glass to pour over. I don’t do any muddling or anything like that, pretty simple. If using an orange peel it is enough to rub it on the glass edge and twist once.
I’m sure you will dig the bitters RJ.
Just dun it.
I don’t do the frills because who the hell keeps that stuff around.
But it’s good enough if not as good as the perfessionals can make.
But yeah, it is a classic for a reason.
The shaker was LOL because all I have is plastic ice cubes and those gigantic real cubes which don’t really work in a shaker. I considered breaking one apart but I’m lazy.
It’s supposed to be a stirred cocktail anyway. The big cubes work fine for that.
I put too much orange Agostina in.
lol spell check
I just ordered some Fee Brothers Old Fashioned bitters. Looks good. I may get the orange bitters too.
😮My hometown.
*wishlisted*
Assuming you make your Old Fashioneds and Manhattans with bourbon or rye, give this a try.
Maybe it’ll work with brandy, too. Never tried it that way.
Yeah, I’m usually a bourbon guy, but I don’t discriminate against rye. Thanks, I’m now going to have to order those.
Hey, KSuell, I read your thoughts on Cambodia and I have the same reaction to Ireland. I was in Belfast in the late eighties, and it was totally surreal. No where in the US is there that level of casual violence and its aftermath on an everyday level. Just heartbreaking and insane.
I have a lb of broccolini to prepare tomorrow.
Should I roast it or steam it?
What is that? Italian Broccoli?
Roast it. Make some Hollandaise sauce to go along with it.
Excellent advice. Roasting beats steaming for taste.
Eat it. No sense making jokes about it, or getting it mad.
From ToS.
Every crime has a forever sentence. Land of the free.
Torn on this. Because I am not “all about rehabilitation”. I don’t believe prison does shit for that.
The only way to tell if someone has been “rehabbed” is to read their mind as far as I can tell.
Two things I do know. A judge shouldn’t proudly be declaring what political party they are affiliated with, and they shouldn’t be loudly and proudly declaring that they stand with law enforcement. It’s a gray area whether they should really be telling another judge who they can or can’t have clerk for them, I suppose.
A guy who gets out, goes through law school and manages to get himself a clerk position on a state court has probably changed his life quite substantially. Or at least realized that if you want to live off graft, government is the right way to do it.
*shrug* Judges are either elected or appointed. Everyone knows which Team they are on.
I’ll accept that putting that much effort into bettering oneself is a good sign.
I still think the real purpose of prison is nothing more than preventing criminals from criminaling for some period of time.
I’d be lying if I said I had the answer here, but there is probably a middle ground between American prisons where we treat people like animals and just reinforce their role in society and certain European countries that have turned it into an adult daycare.
And as high as recidivism rates are, a very large portion never find their way back there.
There’s also the final question which is it really just for the punishment for one crime to haunt someone in every aspect of their life until the day they die no matter how much they’ve changed. And the answer to that is…no. And it’s a problem that government largely helped create and which it perpetuates. If there is a real argument for systemic discrimination in this country, this is the most glaring and obvious area. It is very difficult to come out of prison after doing years of time and to live a productive life.
Also, it aint the violent offenders who are most likely to reoffend. It’s the ones in there for lesser charges, especially drug shit.
I get that. The guy has done his time. I don’t see any obvious connection between his past violent act and his current work. What’s the rationale for preventing him from being a lawyer.
I think there is a better argument if he had a felony conviction for theft or fraud. It’s analogous to prohibiting a drug dealer from becoming a doctor.
It certainly runs the risk of making him more sympathetic to criminal law reform issues. Worse, it runs the risk of leaving him skeptical of unbridled state power.
Can’t have that near the highest courts.
It’s a trope as old as time: fathers doing harm to their daughter’s boyfriend.
West Virginia woman puts a twist on things, getting stabby on boyfriend’s daughter.
She looks like, at 41 years, she’s lived a hard life. I guess it’s not going to get any better soon.
I have not, for a single minute, regretted moving away from that city.
I think I just saw J.P. Sears auditioning for ‘Son of Svengoolie.’
Live? Or is there a link?
Live, on Svengoolie. He was pretending to be old Will Robinson.
Interesting. I watch a lot of J.P.s vids on Youtube.
It sure sounded, looked, and moved like him. Hair or wig was dirty blonde instead of red. But that was J.P. I think.
I have been listening to Glenn Greenwald a bit over the last week.
That dude is full on black pilled.
He could easily be one of us. He has fully transformed from far left to hard core anti establishment libertarian. And he is fully aware of everything happening. Great rant earlier about my favorite topic… the way they keep repeating obvious lies. Jan 6 has pushed him from the edge to way over in “they are all part of a conspiracy” territory.
At the same time, I have listened to a couple of Tucker opens. Dude is also completely black pilled. He is now all in on the “it was all Pelosi and the FBI” and Ray Epps. He had a rant about the unanswered questions and did a chunk about the Jan 6 committee finally questioning him…. and lampooned the way they coached him through his testimony… Epps says “I was there and I was orchestrating it”.. Democrat operative immediately intervenes “what I hear you saying is that you became uncomfortable with the direction things were going so you left the area….” LOL….
Still, I have no optimism that anything will ever be done about this.
Biden just stuck his thumb right in our eye, awarding the Michigan secretary of state the presidential medal for “her work in the 2020 election”. You know, the one the court said she violated the law running?
You thought Time bragging about fortifying was as much of an admission as you were gonna get. All of the DNC operatives crowing about this award really underline it… they all know.
So not only is anyone getting investigated… they are getting medals.
It’s maddening. They are literally spiting the country.
Greenwald lives in Brazil or something, right? That probably helps.
Tucker is the biggest thing in cable news right now, FWIW.
Yes, Glen lives in Brazil. I remember a couple of months ago telling my wife that I thought he’s one of the only real journalist around and one of the best of those. She was like ‘what?’. She still remembered him as being a left. I said oh no, not any more, he’s completely changed.
He’s always been a good journalist regardless of politics. There are very few people walking around with the title of journalist who actually meet the definition of the word at this point, and fewer still who are genuinely driven by a desire to question authority.
I typically can’t engage people who defend the elections. I remember JI being exposed to the Time fortification story and saying by god you crazy conspiracy nuts were all right only to go back to his typical line of argument a week later.
The stuff that is public record and confirmed is enough so show how badly they wanted to prevent Trump from winning. They were perfectly willing to do things of questionable legality and constitutionality. Ethics? Yea, don’t make me laugh here…
And now they can’t stop.
Once you go down that road, it is very hard to reverse course.
This is just crazy enough to work.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gdny/man-legally-changed-gender-to-gain-custody-of-his-kids-trans-groups-are-concerned
*chef’s kiss*
The analysis of the Ecuadorian trans activist is what really sells it….
And OMG all the other headlines… yeesh wouldn’t want to go outside your lane, Vice?
Notice that men identifying as women to escape incarceration in men’s prisons does not bother them.
Nor using your newfound fame as a politician to draw attention to your online tranny porn.
Oh look, a noble usage of the stupidity.
It must be stopped.
I’m calling it – last! And as the bible says the first shall be last and the last shall be first, suck it Bro!
Last?
Not with us insomniacs
Morning.
Morning UCS.
What decision did you make with the job?
I decided to take the job, and get away from the awful manager who sidelined me.
Good morning!
Psych is on the Hallmark channel!
https://nypost.com/2023/01/07/customer-shoots-kills-armed-robber-at-houston-restaurant/
That’s walking it right up to the line.
Unfortunately the DA will think that’s over the line.
Way to distinctive a vehicle.
Maybe. Certainly in some states. I don’t know how it will play out there.
Probably past the line. Those last two trigger squeezes could be a problem.
https://www.kptv.com/2023/01/06/10-year-old-found-driving-stolen-car-n-portland/
That won’t be their last offense.
Did he use his turn signals properly, and not go slow in the left lane?
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/kevin-esterly-faces-more-legal-trouble-according-to-court-documents/article_b80e87fa-8f01-11ed-9037-5f79db9dd7c6.html
Continuing the crime links…remember this guy?
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/10/kevin-esterly-sentenced-amy-yu-case/
Another Dr. Kevorkian?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11611095/Canadian-doctor-whos-euthanized-400-says-helped-kill-man-deemed-incapable-choosing-suicide.html
While i agree you have the right to kill yourself, I know that it can be very disruptive to family.
Where is the line between advocate and monster?
More like Harold Shipman.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/3-shot-1-fatally-near-hollywood-walk-of-fame/
How’s that gun control working out?
You know the purpose never was to prevent plebs being shot.
https://media1.tenor.com/images/fb25b4c433a917f27138b7dca12b1ad3/tenor.gif?itemid=5084363
https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/01/dont-drop-the-baby-when-youre-taking-a-swing-at-hotel-management-orange-police-blotter.html
Solid advice.