Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. My date this weekend… a gerontologist.
Age requires birthdays and today is no exception, with (for example) a guy who has something in common with me; a guy who played by the rule; a guy who inspired Keenan Wynn; the definitive sidekick; a guy who shared Roosevelt’s views about Jews, if not his foreign policy; a woman who insisted on a business class upgrade; the guy who inspired Hunter Biden; the co-Aquarium Parent (honorary) with Ralph Bunche; the guy who did the very best low budget horror film ever; a clue to George Bush’s judgement; a guy who elevated rock showmanship to a new level; and a guy truly living his best life.
Briefly… Links.
No explanation needed, just be a rat, Citizen.
Even a jury didn’t buy the political bullshit prosecution. 30 minutes.
Old Guy Music, a live version of an absolutely awesome classic from a birthday boy.
Did they save that Chinese kid yet?
“the guy who did the very best low budget horror film ever”
Lots of competition there.
Yeah. Happy birthday Val Lewton.
John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, etc.
We’re not Worthy!!!!
“You’re worhy… you’re worthy… not stand up already!”
I don’t care that much for Feed My Frankenstein (of that period, I really think Last Temptation is a severely underrated work of art), but his cameo helped make that movie.
Algonquin for
“The good land”
“Snow is racist????”
It’s white.
It can be yellow, too.
Just don’t go eating it.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/the-week-in-pictures-hot-air-balloon-edition.php
Wow… the part of that article giving the Superintendent’s response is the epitome of “Don’t apologize”. His reaction should have been more along the lines of “Are you kidding? Don’t you people have actual lives with actual problems? No we’re not going to apologize for you reading your own hysteria into innocent childhood actions you insane babbling nincompoops.”
The “diverse” caption was also stupid to begin with. Nobody would have used that caption until everything became woke and awful. That being said, “fuck off” is the correct response.
/shakes fist at cloud even harder
“Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. My date this weekendā¦ a gerontologist.”
will your insurance reimburse your dinner bill?
Never hire Scott Woods. Definitely not… love how most of the article is 100% devoted to being bummed whenever a black person is killed by police, no other races need apply apparently… but then right at the tail end is “Oh, no race is superior… I’m really not a racist, yo!”
I don’t think there’s a soul here that disagrees… but still pissed off that the 2020 situation got hijacked by BLM into Grifting… TO THE X-TREME! instead of actually looking at some solid police reform that would benefit everyone. What a missed opportunity that they instead channeled towards their apparently desired race war.
It’s almost like police reform isn’t the actual issue.
Sort of like climate change.
Look who’s the clever boots!
It’s what they do with everything. They’re always lying. It’s always a grift.
“On the heels of major protests in my city last summer, as of June 1, 2020, racism was officially declared a public health crisis. Civic leaders met about it, drafted some incontestably safe statements about how bad racism is, and made the appropriate announcements. Vague recommendations and action steps were presented with the veracity of a subtweet. Businesses and organizations trumpeted support for the measure. Media outlets broadcast the announcement far and wide, and so on.”
He thinks this is a valid argument.
I confess, this reference just flew over my head higher than that Chink balloon, but I would like for Ted’S to weigh in on whether one of her later starring turns, the TV movie I Love a Mystery, is a solid contender for worst movie (made for TV or otherwise) ever made (granting that the competition for that dubious distinction is stiff indeed.)
I don’t get that reference either.
However, she directed the previous birthday member in the movie The Hitch-Hicker, which is quite good.
It’s a reference to Adam 1-3’s incipient negritude.
????
DDG finally enlightened me here, with the appropriate title “Use your allusion: Is it funny if you have to explain it?”
Even a jury didnāt buy the political bullshit prosecution. 30 minutes.
From the article:
No bias there, no sirree.
Yeah. I was a few paragraphs in and scrolled back up top to see if it was an opinion piece.
I just start with the assumption that everything is an opinion piece, and then double check to see if it is actual news.
Seems to work better that way.
Yeesh, that’s a lot of words for “I am a racist.”
And a lazy, neurotic narcissist.
What pisses me off about articles like that is what could you write that confirms every stereotype of lazy black people, while assuming that every white person is a racist.
What a POS.
Wait, the Department of Environmental Conservation has armed cops and is doing traffic and criminal enforcement unrelated to Environment or Conservation? Whaaaaaat????
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Snow is racist????
everything is racist. why should snow get a pass?
My date this weekendā¦ a gerontologist. – as someone who hasn’t had a date since early 2020 how do people get dates these days?
By being well-groomed, charming, smiling, looking her in the eyes, and licking your eyebrows.
What sort of reptile are you?
Lounge Lizard.
Leisure suit confirmed.
Now that we’re past 30 minutes, in (((other news))) that I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned here yet, Solomon Perel died on Thursday.
For those who have never heard of him and don’t want to bother reading the link, his parents were Russian Jews who went west to Germany, where Perel was born in 1925. The fled east to escape the Nazis, winding up in Poland before the 1939 partition and, when Germany invaded the USSR in 1941, in what is now Belarus, which is where Solomon was captured. Because Solomon was born in Germany, he was able to pass himself off as a German* who had lost his identity papers, and made the difficult decision to try to survive the war and Holocaust by fighting for Germany and even being part of the Hitler Youth.
Perel emigrated to Israel, wrote his memoirs, and was the subject for the 1990 movie Europa, Europa, which I highly recommend.
*For those who wonder, the movie deals with the issue of Solomon not being able to pass as Aryan if anybody saw he was circumcised.
I am drinking this
https://www.vivino.com/US/en/chocalan-gran-reserva-pinot-noir/w/1362800
is ok,
What is the Official Glibertarian View on chilean pinot noir?
I’d rather be drinking a carmenere myself, but I can’t recall anything bad that I’ve ever had from there.
I’d rather drink Garnacha or Monastrell anyway.
I like Priorat myself which has some Garnacha usually
I’m with Juris- Carmenere, if I’m drinking Chilean red.
Indifference?
This. Ripple or GTFO.
Best served from this
I prefer Argentinian Malbec.
/not a wine connoisseur; I like Malbec and the stuff from Argentina is extremely afordable.
I prefer Argentinian women to Argentinian Malbec.
I am in favor of it.
“Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. My date this weekendā¦ a gerontologist.”
Well, now you people have your own hanky code:
“āSwingersā swap upside-down pineapples for color-coded loofahs
Residents from the Florida retirement complex the Villages, which The Post reported on in 2009 as being a āwild retirees getaway,ā have been caught on video displaying loofahs on their cars, allegedly to distinguish their swinging sexual styles…
A Reddit thread from three years ago posted a helpful guide called āLoofah Codeā as to what each color loofah represents. Loofahs come in seven different colors ā each with a different swinger meaning.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/03/swingers-swap-upside-down-pineapples-for-loofahs/
Cost of living: 109-year-old bakery closes due to rising costs
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64497692
“Paul Noakes, 76, and his family have run the shop for three generations.
He said even though the shop is still very busy, it is “impossible to absorb the increase in energy prices”.
Mr Noakes said he felt now was the time for him to retire and spend more time with his family.
The bakery is facing price increases in the cost of butter, oil and flour.
Since May 2021, the price of wheat, an essential ingredient for most products in the bakery, has gone up by 165% due to the war in Ukraine.”
Right. The war. No the money printing. I am not the type to go all conspiracy, but I could almost believe the fucking was is an actual deal between the west and russia to blame all the pandemic shit on it and start a new cold war to foster more control over the populace. I do not thing politicians sufficiently capable of all that but still
Yeah, and Russia’s invasion came well after May 2021.
Yeah… a claim like that needs numbers to back it up. You’d think Ukraine was supplier of everything to the world the way it keeps finding its way into excuses for rampant inflation.
“Mount Washington as cold as Mars with record-breaking wind chills of 110 below”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/04/mount-washington-as-cold-as-mars-as-polar-vortex-brings-record-breaking-windchills-of-110/
It ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.
From the Talman bio:
I think that explains the drug use, or the drug use explains the quote.
On the subject of grifting.
Yup, all it does is regurgitate variations on what it’s fed – that’s how AI, natural language processing, and the like work. There’s no magic or “thought” involved like some people seem to think.
Feed it academic papers and MSM content and guess what comes out?
apparently Romanian guy asks AI to criticize trump / praise biden and the other way around. these are the results
https://www.facebook.com/100039222436045/posts/pfbid05TbVosqY17Nm2SP2vtVg7Gzj85bnwrQicSk5Vbfn5EfQg8SDgekCuuEKADfpi3Fbl/?app=fbl
Yup, that makes it pretty clear.
Kayfabe.
As I said in the run-up to the 2022 election, the Republicans should have run a national campaign tying every Democrat to Merrick Garland and the desire to call parents “domestic terrorists”.
But, of course, they’re TEAM STUPID.
Most people would have no idea what they were talking about and another segment would think Garland is doing the right thing.
Morning, Glibs. Why is it colder than when I went to sleep?
Radiative cooling?
It was a complaint disguised as a rhetorical question. I know the mechanics behind why.
Chinese weather control balloon.
Here it’s warmer than when I woke up.
*than when I went to sleep.
need more caffeine
“NYT columnist brands HBO’s The Last of Us as CONSERVATIVE after episode three created ‘private paradise’ for couple who lived in ‘an upscale suburban version of a right-wing fantasy’ because they fenced themselves off from zombies
While the episode earned acclaim for its portrayal of a gay couple, journalist Michelle Goldberg claimed the episode ‘tricked sentimental liberals into rooting for a resource-hoarding gun nut defying evil pandemic authorities.’
Goldberg added: ‘If they weren’t queer, I suspect it would be obvious that this is an upscale suburban version of a right-wing fantasy.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11711753/NYT-columnist-brands-CONSERVATIVE-episode-three-created-private-paradise.html
This shit is so tiring.
Given that “queer” necessarily implies “leftist”, it sounds like they are not, in fact, “queer”.
Honestly, I’m not exactly sure what “queer” means. People we trying to “reclaim” it back in the early 90’s, way before everything got political.
“Queer” was political even in 1990, when the only guy I knew personally who used it to describe himself was a flaming lefty. It was all part of the in-your-face “Act Up” scene.
I should add that the likes of NYT reporters are gaslighting when they try to pass it off as some neutral term like “gay”. It is not.
So LGBTQ doesn’t include any more people than LGBT.
Queer is the guy with the ball that you try to “smear”
/10 year old me
Itās called Maul Ball.
I thought queer was the term for skinsuited gays. Kind of like the watermelons in the enviro movement.
OFFS
Just more evidence that gay men, and in particular gay men who aren’t overtly effeminate are no longer considered politically important.
Michelle Goldberg is seriously stupid. I have no idea how she has a job.
Birrion ā
@birrion
Socialism works. Capitalism doesn’t. History shows this to be true.
https://twitter.com/birrion/status/1621161767811555333
The sad part is there are millions of people who think this:
All those Cubans desperately padding north on rafts made of garbage just don’t understand how horrible Americans have it under capitalism.
Why is it colder than when I went to sleep?
According to what I saw on the news yesterday, it’s a once in a generation weather pattern, so don’t go pretending global warming isn’t real.
“The parents of a 14-year-old girl who was allowed to secretly change gender at school have accused teachers of making a huge mistake by keeping them in the dark after she was bullied, assaulted in the boys’ restroom – and ultimately ran away and into the hands of an abusive online groomer.
Michele and Roger Blair told DailyMail.com that their daughter, Sage, was allowed to change her name to Draco and use the boys’ restrooms at Appomattox County High School in central Virginia without their permission…
As tensions mounted at school, the parents discovered a hall pass bearing Draco’s name at home. The secret was out. That night, Sage left a goodbye note and ran away from home, unwittingly to meet up with a sex abuser who had been grooming her online, said Michele.
Sage, an avid 5′ 4” skateboarder, was not available for interview. Her parents said in the time she ran away, she was abducted and abused by numerous men in several locations before she was tracked down and rescued by law enforcement. She was then placed under court protection and spent nearly a year away from her family.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11668211/Parents-war-teachers-let-children-secretly-change-genders.html
Wood chipper sales looking to be good for 2023.
No words.
I canāt figure out why she was kept away from her family for a year, when they were the only ones trying to do right by her.
Because they didn’t immediately support her transition?
change her name to Draco
Yes, that screams the maturity to be making such a momentous decision. I really want to beat the shit out of the enablers.
A bullet would suffice
Too quick, not visceral enough.
With the numbers we’re looking at, quick and expedient will be necessary just to keep up.
change her name to Draco
Always with the Harry Potter shit.
Didnt she (he?) know that JK Rowling hates teh trannies?
Doesn’t matter. Rowling’s works belong to teh kweers now.
gettin stabbed, switzerland, 14th century
https://twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/status/1621643149830496256
They seemed to have been a pleasant sort of people.
*arches eyebrow, sips coffee*
Left, right, and center. Truly neutral.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning to all of you early rising Glibs!
I love Alice. Intelligent, funny and rocking good.
But in honor of our special Chinese visitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXBui11UWbs
What are y’all doing today?
Emboldened by having successfully made a set of homemade sofa seat cushions*, for my next trick I’m going to attempt to make myself a new case for my relatively obscure model of mobile phone out of leather scraps procured from Hobby Lobby.
*The cat urine-stained futon mattress they replaced finally went out to the curb yesterday morning, rolled up, wrapped in plastic, and affectionately dubbed “Uncle Louie.” Happily, it disappeared without uniformed agents of the local government knocking on the door to ask a few questions.
Take pictures. Write an article.
I think I really will do that this time. With any luck I won’t have as much trouble as I had with the cushion covers since I’ll essentially be reverse-engineering the current worn-out case (and recycling some of the component parts.)
Cats are pretty cool, but why the fuck do they need to pee everywhere?
Nice job on the DIY!
The feline equivalent of gang tags.
It’s 5 below and sunny. Perfect weather for a stroll through town and up the hill.
Try running
On my way out to the shop/home gym for a quick bike “ride”, then work, work, work.
I have to dig my smoker out of the snow so I can smoke my homemade bacon.
Helluva euphemism, Nick!
Have a great day!
Muskās decision to break away from his other responsibilities to sit in on the closing arguments even though he didnāt have to be there may have had an impact on the jurors, said Michael Freedman, a former federal prosecutor who is now in private practice working for a law firm that has represented celebrities and business executives.
āIt shows he has a presence,ā Freedman said.
Nicholas Porritt, an attorney who represented aggrieved Tesla investors, said he was disappointed after urging the jurors in his closing arguments to rebuke Musk for reckless behavior that threatened to create āanarchy.ā
Yeah, okay.
The dumbest take on Mr. Beast blind video
Were the subjects crying tears of happiness or tears of sadness from having their blindness cured? We don’t know, and that is problematic.
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Isn’t this effective altruism?
Apparently not:
“How dare he force these people to have their blindness cured against their will! The fact that as a result he’ll make money that may make it possible for him to do that to other people – with that or similarly ‘differently-abling’ conditions – just makes it that much worse!”/Twitiot
So altruism is supposed to be more affective than effective. Got it.
ššš
Altruism without the
appropriatemob-approved signaling is sinful.It’s more “charitable” to demand that the government force everyone else to adapt to these special people’s condition.
I see you’ve encountered the deaf community.
Admittedly I haven’t followed this, but in general this commentary says far more about the small-minded and black-hearted envious nature of the commenters than it does about Mr. Beast.
Well, the only way to apologize is to undo the damage by removing the eyes from those he cured.
Eye for an eye after all.
Better yet, remove them from the critics, since apparently blindness isn’t a problem.
Well, you know, it’s Buzzfeed.
I forgot to mention it could be AI.
I doubt they did the surgery without the consent of the patients. Ya feckinā retard.
Yes, helping vulnerable and desperate people is ādemonicā. Who could argue with that?
I mean really, one of the patients would have announced a lawsuit by now because they did not consent to free surgery and a briefcase with $10,000.
Nice work, Tundra. I haven’t heard Balloon Man in probably decades.
What sandwich is he ordering?
https://twitter.com/ask_aubry/status/1621650407037571072
The Small Penis – Lightly seasoned pastrami on toasted white bread with mayonnaise and lettuce and tomato.
The Vishnu, one PB&J divided into quarters, one for each hand.
During their discussion with Porritt, the jurors told them they found Muskās testimony that he believed he had lined up the money from Saudi Arabiaās Public Investment Fund without a written commitment to be credible. They also expressed doubt about whether Muskās tweeting was the sole reason for the swings in Teslaās stock price during a 10-day period in August 2018 covered in the case.
I bet none of those people ever went to Harvard Business School.
Over the course of a one-hour presentation, Porritt had implored the jurors to rebuke Musk for his āloose relationship with the truth.ā
āOur society is based on rules,ā Porritt said. āWe need rules to save us from anarchy. Rules should apply to Elon Musk like everyone else.ā
OH
MY
GOD!
Talk about petty vindictive envy.
And speaking of rebukes for loose relationships with the truth.
Dyche delivers the new manager bounce at Everton. Whether that will be enough to stave off relegation remains to be seen.
Nobody wants to ban gas stoves
The heated debate over regulating gas stoves is really about the burners in those appliances. That’s where natural gas, a fossil fuel, is combusted and air pollution is released into homes.
Four decades ago, the gas industry and appliance manufacturers developed a partial solution for this problem. They created a cleaner and more efficient burner. But you can’t buy ranges with those burners because the industry never manufactured those appliances for sale.
——-
This week, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed rules that would require all stoves to be more energy efficient. If approved, more than half the gas cooktop market today wouldn’t qualify under the new requirements, according to the DOE. The proposed regulations would take effect for sales of new stoves in 2027.
Even if the federal government only tightens regulations on gas stoves, that would boost efforts from climate activists who want Americans to switch from gas to electric appliances and heaters. Studies from Princeton University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Academy of Sciences, find that zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by 2050 will require electrifying buildings, making appliances more efficient, and powering them mostly with emission-free sources like renewable energy.
Just like the 200mpg carburetor, Big KKKapitalism conspired to keep better, more efficient burners off the market.
But now, our saviors are working on a way to force them to market, preferably at a prohibitively expensive price. Why ban what you can make unaffordable?
My inner Sam Kinison is beating at the lining of my skull.
OPEN THE FUCKING WINDOW
I can’t wait to go back to eating ramen out of a hot-pot every day. It’s like reliving my college years!
The thing that irritates the living shit out of me over this is that these are the same people who will insist on buildings being so freaking airtight for energy efficiency that CO2 climbs to Apollo 13 levels.
I bought a CO2 monitor and had my son take it to school because he was getting tired and light-headed in class. CO2 was busting over 3000 ppm. Of course he was falling asleep. I had to demand that the school open windows to get some airturns.
+1 https://www.usgbc.org/leed
Pretty much required for any public company’s new facilities.
LEED is such an incredible racket. Props to the guys who got it going, they’re making bank. The paperwork alone on a LEED single-family house can easily exceed $15K.
But it’s total bullshit.
Fixed Link
https://www.usgbc.org/leed
Nobody wants to ban gas stoves but here’s why it’s a good thing.
Not explained: why the industry invested in developing new and improved burners, and then junked them and never made any.
It is astonishing, the speed with which they go from āNobody is going to ban gas stovesā to āOnly a monster would opposed banning gas stovesā. The fact that a significantly percentage of Americans donāt see that, especially since itās done over and over again, just boggles the mind.
I didn’t realize how nimble they are until the COVID/Ukraine switch. They managed to completely upend and refocus the propaganda narrative in 48 hours. It was terrifyingly efficient and effective.
Agreed. It was Covid 24/7 for 2 years straight. Then all of a sudden it completely disappeared in favor or evil Putin.
The done over and over part is intentional. Itās easier to hide behind an onslaught than behind individual acts. The entire point is to keep the scale of crimes against us at ultra-high levels to keep us from focusing on any one of them.
Ice ribbons shooting out of the ground this morning
https://ibb.co/vBJBBbj
Surely a sign of the apocalypse.
Everybody’s anti-neocon until a balloon shows up.
ALOL
Things pop up!
“My date this weekendā¦ a gerontologist.”
So I initially read that as gynecologist.
Too bad she’s not, OMWC could have finally gotten that issue checked.
I had a 2 year relationship with a gyn NP, worked at Planned Parenthood. It was a fascinating experience that I have no desire to repeat.
You really are a glutton for punishment.
If she is that familiar with the equipment you have no chance…
$335 vs $18 Chili: Pro Chef & Home Cook Swap Ingredients | Epicurious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56slZ0N6C4
The Hudson is almost frozen over, there are a few patches where you can see the liquid water, but most of it is ice.
There was also a fire crew still fighting a fire along the route to the grocery store. The ice sea extended to the next block over where I saw a poor bastard trying to chip his tires out from the ice to get his car out. I had to drive over part of it.
Fun morning so far.
“That article about having books in the house being smug and middle class attracted a lot of comment and derision. But it comes from a long line of “Love something? This is why it is bad” school of journalism. Thread:”
https://twitter.com/DarrenJohnson66/status/1618914242840911872
Like this thread? You’re literally Hitler.
Guilt is so hawt these days.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/753438-many-were-increasingly-of-the-opinion-that-they-d-all-made
Casale says the CPSC missed an opportunity to address this issue and regulate gas cooking stoves in the 1980s.
“It’s 40 years of potential cases of asthma and missed school days and missed workdays that potentially could have been avoided,” he says. But he’s pleased to see the commission now “doing its job” by opening an information-gathering process that could lead to new regulations on gas stoves.
When Consumer Product Safety Commission member Richard Trumka, Jr. talked with US PIRG in December about “Pollution-free cooking for the holidays,” he spent time detailing the growing body of scientific evidence that shows emissions from gas cooking stoves can be harmful.
It was only after that he said, “That’s why I think we need to be talking about regulating gas stoves, whether that’s drastically improving emissions or banning gas stoves entirely.”
Then a few weeks later, Trumka said the same thing to Bloomberg. That’s when conservative politicians took up the issue, and it became part of the culture war.
Anything we say is reasonable and rational. Any objection to our assertions is culture war politics.
I think it was Charles C.W. Cooke that just made this point – that culture war is the left’s attempt to insist it isn’t about politics, it’s about evil culture warriors that only exist on the right.
Just ignore the fact that the climb in childhood asthma (an immune disorder) correlates quite nicely with the introduction of the expanded vaccine schedule.
Nope, it’s totally gas stoves.
Yo! My newspaper is out, and other than than the dog, this house-sitter is alone and has no responsibilities for the day.
I will be going to the grocery store. That needs to be done. I need to think about my new apartment. It’s gonna be mine around the 24th. Three weeks until my own place in a full year (well, 51 weeks).
I went to the wire more than I wanted to this edition, but I put a lot of fucking work into the mayoral race of Peru, IN story–along with a fun centerpiece about a play opening. It features bootlegging nuns.
For today…fuck. It’s just me and the dog. I can do whatever I want. That probably means watching Law & Order on background and reading online. Who knows…do people chat on weekends? I’ve never done that. That might be interesting.
I have plenty of weed and I’m already high. The place I’m moving into is smoke-friendly and I know I’m moving into a friendly area.
Anticipation, She Wrote.
Evan! How’s every little thing in PAY-roo?? š
Interviewed a mayoral candidate yesterday who is one of few who actually say “PEE-ROO.”
It’s such an odd little town. I’ve ingratiated myself quite well. I’m actually an incredibly good (sorry for boasting) People Person. I can make important friends and connections pretty quick.
It’s just…exhausting.
LEDE: “Five candidates are running this year for Mayor of Peru. Republicans Michael (Don) Sturch, Terry Smith, Sherry Raber and Wayne Bunker are contesting for the Republican Primary on May 2. Democrat Stephanie Graf is also running and will contend against the Republican candidate in the November election.”
CP: “āDrinking Habits 2: Caught in the Act,ā directed by Stephanie Wagner, debuted at Ole Olsen Memorial Theatre on Thursday.
Wagner and actress Alexis Nutt said they eagerly await the audienceās laughter with the sequel, though both insisted that seeing the original was not required to enjoy the new production.
āDrinking Habits 2ā is based on a nunnery that breaks the law to keep the conventās doors open. Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing begin to illegally brew wine to help cover costs in their efforts to reunite families. Their creation is an unexpected hit with customers. Reporters go undercover to investigate their actions to get to the bottom of everything.”
They both keep going.
Glibzoom usually starts at 7pm central
That…might be really fun. What, Neph or you will post the link?
Yes, Neph posts a link. It’ll be in the comments of Spud’s 5p links post.
The paperwork alone on a LEED single-family house can easily exceed $15K.
What’s the point of affordable housing if it’s just going to kill you?
Take a look at this checklist! (mid page)
https://www.usgbc.org/guide/homes
I evaluated getting involved in that program as a certified supplier when it was first taking off in the mid-00’s. I quickly realized I wanted nothing to do with it.
I get the occasional question if our products are LEED certified.
“Nope.”
“OK. I’ll send a PO.”
I think most people know it’s bullshit.
Just ignore the fact that the climb in childhood asthma (an immune disorder) correlates quite nicely with the introduction of the expanded vaccine schedule.
I wonder if there is also some correlation with the point when letting your babies crawl around in the grass and dirt became unacceptable.
So the big question these days is who is actually running the US government, because it isn’t Biden or Harris.
I’m going with the Yellen Theory, although it scares the hell out of me.
Yellen’s been on a worldwide tour as of late trying to shore up the Russian sanctions and treasury purchases, and while Blinken cancelled his trip to China over the OMGSPYBALLOON, there’s been no mention of whether Yellen cancelled hers.
It would make some sense that the Treasury Secretary would get control with an impending financial disaster on the horizon.
I donāt think anybody is really running the government at this point. Itās just shambling on with nothing more than momentum and disparate agendas.
Iām still trying to figure out how the Chinese balloon is both no big deal, probably a weather balloon, and even if it isnāt, it wonāt tell them anything of value AND worth cancelling a rare and presumably important trip by the SecState.
I think they’re blowing it up (pun intended) in order to refocus the attention away from Ukraine.
Same with Burns making public comments this week about war with China by 2027. Burns doesn’t make public comments and he’s been more directly involved with Russian negotiations than Blinken.
They’re switching narratives after yet another disaster.
Thereās definitely a jockeying for position going on, they canāt even maintain a consistent narrative. The freakout over the balloon would be kind of funny though if it wasnāt to the point that it appears to be a sign of a mass mental illness. I for one donāt want to go to war with China any more than I want to go to war with Russia.
The Obama Shadow Government in combination with George Soros, The Illuminati, and our future dictator Xi Jinping.
It is hard to look back at the Obama/Biden years and not come to the conclusion that they are working for the CCP.
Take a look at this checklist! (mid page)
Seems legit. You can’t have the Three Little Pigs throwing up leaky rickety flammable substandard houses willy nilly, you know.
The New York Post would like a word with these “journalists”.
When Americans Lost Faith in the News
TW: The New Yorker
Let me guess… “It’s not us, it’s you.”
“The press wasnāt silenced in the Trump years. The press was discredited, at least among Trump supporters, and that worked just as well. It was censorship by other means.”
Huh, so that’s what the inside of my skull looks like.
Now ask him to do arrests of journalists during Obama.
Just received a belated Christmas gift from my SIL & BIL, the best gift I’ve received since Tres Cool gave me a STEVE SMITH blender bottle – I’ve been catbutted! š
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Woohoo! Now we all know what to send Swiss (in bulk) this next Christmas!
Iām going with the Yellen Theory, although it scares the hell out of me.
Now that you mention it, she has always reminded me of The Penguin. And yes, it’s terrifying.
Follow the money.
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started out so well.
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A study in moppishness.
Daily Duotrigordle #339
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 05:02.33
https://duotrigordle.com/
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I can relate to that.
*sigh*
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Speaking of kitchen appliances. My electric kettle failed. I guess this means I’ll have to go to Walmart (first time in more than half a year!) and get another one. It’s way better than heating water on the stove.
I’m convinced that electric kettles are a not insignificant reason that Brexit passed.
EU pauses plans to ban super-strength kettles out of fear it would drive tea loving Britons towards Brexit
They caved, but it made Britons realize what they signed up for.
I have one from Tiger at work. That thing is awesome. Not enough counter space at home so still using the stove.
Iām still trying to figure out how the Chinese balloon is both no big deal, probably a weather balloon, and even if it isnāt, it wonāt tell them anything of value AND worth cancelling a rare and presumably important trip by the SecState.
I find it hard to believe we don’t have the ability to capture it in mid air.
It’s harder than it looks. I recall they missed a few.
CORONA (satellite)
Yeah, just shoot a big net over it and pull it down.
Who knew that the ballon goes up would be actual literal this time?
Not Nena — she thought we’d have at least 97 more of ’em from the Reds.
I wondered where these were uttered. Most of the English news doesn’t mention how the story broke.
Public expresses anger, concern at Japan PM aide’s anti-LGBT remarks
I hate the “on the record” and “off the record” BS. I guess for appropriate PC reasons it’s OK to break the code.
Burnin bridges!
Pussy.
āPublicā.
Sure. Although I would be interested in hearing from our Japanese Glibs what the typical attitude toward gays etc is in Japan.
At least among my friends roughly the same as here in the USA on a personal level.
In terms of marriage well behind the US. Also no desire for some āspecialā status.
There are far more homophobic countries.
“If you’re part of today’s woke revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control.”
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1621741159201800192
Worth watching.
Dayaaaaammnnn
That was excellent.
“Bloomberg reports that the White House kept the balloonās presence under wraps for fear of derailing the Blinken trip, until local media in Billings Montana published a picture of it on Thursday afternoon.”
https://twitter.com/james_t_quinn/status/1621728423222599680
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-04/from-china-to-big-sky-the-balloon-that-unnerved-the-white-house
It’s bad episodes of West Wing and Veep