Its bad enough they know my business hours and call for favors after closing anyways. But then they gotta go and call me in last minute before I lock up?
Here’s your dumpster fire Thursday, bitches.
This is why people gravitate towards Trump: open cruelty.
The Clinton foundation had to first go away for it to be back.
Let me tell you something about Call Sagan: FUCK CARL SAGAN.
Did Project Veritas go woke and get broke, or did they get rid of their only real product? You decide.
How may Pollocks does it take to start a nuclear war? About fucking time, reetards.
I have a better idea. Show up naked.
We know, doctor. We know.
and. Finally!
Nobody is surprised at all to know Krugabe doesn’t at all think about the Roman Empire.
Nuke the fish?
Gotta nuke something.
“Nobody is surprised at all to know Krugabe doesn’t at all think about the Roman Empire.”
Does that mean he’s trans?
I bet he thinks about Emperor Caligula a lot.
He’s more like horse Caligula appointed Council of Rome. Or at least one end.
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-who-doesnt-ever-think-about-the-roman-empire-worried-he-might-be-trans
SHE’s trans, you gender nazi.
C’mon man, the Romans didn’t know how to bureaucratize – that was only late stage.
Now, the Byzantine Empire, now you’re talkin’!
I’d say it started happening in earnest under Nero, with his freedmen. Plenty of currency debasement under Diocletian as well… all the hallmarks of modern governance.
*snort* Governance
The second part of Sagan’s warning was even more profound. The University of Chicago-trained astrophysicist pointed out that science is not simply “a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking,” one based on skepticism and questioning. It was imperative, he said, not just that people be educated in the sciences and grounded in healthy skepticism, but that people be allowed to question and challenge those in authority.
Why does he hate The Science?
Good thing he’s dead, they would have had to cancel him.
Did Fauci become The Science later or was he always The Science? Or is The Science eternal and Fauci is its vessel?
From Sensei’s link in the last post.
They’re interviewing for their next jobs. No non-woke corporation is going to touch them so they have to double down publicly and hope to get picked up by a like-minded entity.
To quote Biden: “Good Luck!”
I don’t think any AB-InBev employess are “Bud Light workers”. No one is making just that.
My guess is it is the nuked marketing people.
They would be the only people who worked specifically on Bud-Light.
A factory making that much volume wouldn’t have employees that only worked on a single line?
“The only difference between the pisswaters is the label at the end.”
-Lies
Factory/Line are questionable terms in a brewery. I mean, sure there is a bottling line, but that is pretty much automated. And it wouldn’t be brand specific either.
Except for Tank 7 at Boulevard, fermentation tanks arent brand specific either. Same for the rest of the equipment.
Tank 7 is people?
GT, nice!
“Tank 7 is people”
I AM THE NEW NUMBER ONE!!!
Tank 7 is a saison that messed up the tank so bad that nothing else can be brewed in it. Anything else gets an off flavor, despite multiple attempts to correct it. So Tank 7 is only used to make saison, and the saison is named Tank 7.
Also Tank 7 is damn tasty.
They need to think harder about the word ‘cowardice.
When you fire your mechanic because he billed you for blinker fluid, it’s not because you hate mechanics.
Science is great. Scientists are people who are subject to the same temptations, incentives and failings as the rest of us.
The worst are what I call the Professional Skeptics, like Shermer.
I’d bitchslap that fuckstick like Will Smith if I ever met him in person.
The line starts over here.
I got a bill for Blinker Fluid once. I said show me the bottle. Sure enough he came out with a greasy plastic bottle that had been empty for at least a couple days. It said Type F Transmission Fluid.
So I put the bottle in his ass. One of the more satisfying ways I got my oil changed for free.
Not paying is not the same thing as free, Ma’am.
Don’t you forget it!
Did they check your gender fluid with a dipstick?
A high degree in the ‘scientific’ community. Not a high degree of confidence in Science.
So the parties switched again? Imagine that. Everything about that is nonsense.
Krugman would have been a court eunuch in Rome.
I doubt Krugman would have survived to adulthood in Rome.
The Praeco extolling the merits of the grain dole.
Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
A court eunuch implies he would be considered useful.
The problem is that he is useful to someone.
I noticed that lately at least some in the criminal class are talking his idea of ‘a fake alien invasion’ seriously.
It truly is a clown world.
A couple of drunk guys in a flying saucer is not an invasion. They can kiss my ass.
“Within the last 48 hours relations between Poland and Ukraine quickly spiraled to their lowest point since the Russian invasion, and it is directly related to Warsaw leading a handful of EU countries to extend a grain export ban on Ukraine, amid continuing anger and outrage from Polish farmers who are suffering due to their country being flooded with cheap Ukrainian wheat.”
Wasn’t Ukraine once known as the “bread basket of Europe”, producing around 80% of the wheat?
Wait, how is Ukraine growing wheat? I thought the whole place was a bombed out wasteland with only a ragtag band of misfits and n’er-do-wells keeping the Russian army from invading the rest of the world.
Those ragtag misfits are other abled trans inclusivity freedom fighters for democracy, you bigot!!
I’m glad Poland is giving up the weapons shipments, but they are only doing it for mercantilist reasons. since the Russia/Ukraine grain deal fell through, Ukraine has been shipping most of its grain into Poland. This has sunk the price and the Polish grain lobby threw a fit. The Poles demanded the ukes quit sending so much grain, and when they refused, that’s when the poles dropped their military support.
Either way, maybe mercantilism will save the world from nuclear annihilation.
STEVE SMITH last night and Winston’s fine ass Mom today?
Life is good.
Indeed it is.
Carl Sagan is why I was a coin flip from putting myself in hock to Uncle Sam to attend Cornell.
Now Rhywun is moving there. Small world.
Ithaca is scary at night.
It is also the most blue dot in upstate.
Of all the places for Rhywun to move, he had to pick Ithaca?!
Yeah obviously I don’t move for politics. Libertariantown doesn’t exist and I may lean right but I’m not prepared to live in Republicanville.
The infection is everywhere. Live wherever the fuck you want and try to surround yourself with the right people.
Bingo.
Word.
Up
You just need an Ithaca ’37, Then nothing is scary.
Me too but I chose Buffalo (UB) instead.
(Not the Sagan part but it was down to those two schools.)
He enacted multiple draconian immigration policies, such as splitting children from their parents at the border and limiting protections for asylum-seekers.
Everybody who is arrested is separated from his or her children, because we have separate detention facilities for adults and children. And the “asylum seekers” are full of shit. They’re economic migrants.
On Wednesday, he vowed to send troops to the border if he returns to the White House.
As long as we have a standing army, why not use them to repel invaders?
It’s almost too late. Texas has an entire city of illegal aliens.
https://reduceflooding.com/2023/09/17/colony-ridge-now-50-percent-bigger-than-manhattan/
Can we lay siege to it?
Wall it in and burn every living thing inside, from illegal alein, misplaced NGO worker, to the roaches and mice that got caught in the wrong place. It should be so lifeless that you could perform surgery in the smoking crater.
IE “Kill them All, and let God sort it out.”
Richard the Lion Hearted.
Sweet, sweet shanty town.
A Shanty Town you say? Perhaps we should send in double o 7.
Did he enact that? I thought that was a leftover Obama policy and the pictures of “kids in cages” were from 2015?
splitting children from their parents at the border
Hey, Biden’s doing that too, and since Joe has never had an original thought in his life, I’ll bet he borrowed it from Obama.
^This^
Not on my bingo card for today.
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1704796318604943504
Threaten me with a good time India?
So double down on the stupid.
The Progressive: This is the way.
Wow, they must’ve been really angry at his subcontinental cosplay.
I hope Tonio’s absence is due to activities in flagrante
It totally is. That man has Barry White playing in his house 24/7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB54XUhA9_w
Thanks, kids. Yes, I am on “vacay.” Lots of untz, untz, untz and pew, pew, pew.
I’ll be back next Thursday and may even have a piece of fiction for next week.
Happiness is a warm gun?
Bang, bang, shoot, shoot.
“This is my rifle, this is my gun.
this is for fighting, this is for fun”
I FUCKING KNEW IT
How may Pollocks does it take to start a nuclear war? About fucking time, reetards.
This.
Ukraine got fucked hard. They are never getting back the territories and now their best dudes are dead. They’ll be pushed into a peace deal, the US, EU and BlackRock will swoop in and “rebuild.”
Tragic, but not remotely surprising.
If the Ukrainians hoist up Zelenskyy by his own petard I’ll have a hard time mustering much sympathy.
Or, Poland, Romania, and Hungary all carve pieces out of Western Ukraine and the rest is left as a landlocked neutral rump state.
👆
Nobody predicted this. Nobody.
Seems to me that the only big question mark left if Poland really is bailing is Odessa.
That story about the Fetter-Man saying he’ll wear a suit is amusing.
Everybody knows he isn’t smart enough to put pants on.
I bet he makes a great Jason Vorhees on Halloween. Just slap a hockey mask on him.
Jason in a hoodie and sweat-diapers??!?
Good God, man.
Where we’re going we don’t need pants.
Scotland?
“These studies have been bought and paid for mostly by the US government, UNICEF or NGO/astroturf organizations working on their behalf.
This is basically taxpayer-funded market research to garner compliance for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Marketing research and methods to coerce large populations by the US government for the likes of Pfizer and Moderna.”
Besides primarily benefiting two specific corporations, this doesn’t strike me as all that profound. The government has been spending money on getting people to alter their behavior for supposed health reasons for a very long time, and they have often been very wrong.
When have they been right?
Not smoking, exercising, eating vegetables, etc.
Not smoking? YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!
The government has been spending money on getting people to alter their behavior for supposed health reasons for a very long time,
Especially diet.
Got Milk?
Carbs should be the basis of a healthy diet.
Avoid high calorie fat.
Margarine is good for you.
Poly unsaturated fat!
Generally speaking, it’s been “Eat the cheap shit so you don’t realize that real food is getting more expensive.”
LBJ famously asked his surgeon general to tell people that eggs were bad for them because egg prices were rising. And the SG did exactly that.
UNH’s latest presidential primary poll
Once viewed as the most likely Trump slayer in the GOP presidential field, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has fallen fifth in the latest UNH Survey Center poll. But his fading fortunes aren’t benefiting former President Donald Trump, whose support among Granite State Republicans remains below 40 percent.
The CNN New Hampshire Primary Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, found Trump at 39 percent, 26 points ahead of entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy at 13 percent. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley was at 12 percent, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was at 11 percent, and DeSantis at 10 percent.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, who was in New Hampshire campaigning Wednesday, was at six percent. Nobody else was above two percent.
“Venezuela’s Tocoron prison raided: Moment 11,000 cops storm notorious jail to find a ZOO, casino, nightclub, pool and supermarket after the Tren de Aragua criminal gang was allowed to roam free for years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12545507/Venezuelas-Tocoron-prison-raided-Moment-11-000-cops-storm-notorious-jail-ZOO-casino-nightclub-pool-supermarket-Tren-Aragua-criminal-gang-allowed-roam-free-years.html
Zoo?
Might as well use the jail cells for something.
Sounds kinda nice. Can they come spruce up my company?
If that picture of guns is supposed to be menacing…. It isn’t. Looks like somebody raided grampa’s closet.
Yeah, but those guns aren’t something one would expect the prisoners to have.
Well, SOMEone hasn’t gone bicycling out at Folsom lately!
Sounds kind of like the Mexican prison in Get the Gringo. Which I believe was based on a real prison, that was eventually torn down.
Underrated flick that. Gibson was great in it. Some hilarious scenes.
I loved it. Plus it was essentially an unofficial sequel to Payback, which is awesome.
That sort of thing is not uncommon in Latin American prisons. Since the prisoners are walled off from the outside world and mostly left to their own devices they form themselves to replicate towns, albeit funhouse mirror images of towns.
I cod think they might try it just for the halibut, but the idea gives me a haddock.
Those puns fillet me.
That is a crappie reply when we are perched at the edge of a world war.
Gar. Swissy’s going to come along and put our heads on a pike.
Eh, he is too buy breeming in front of a mirror.
I would never hold him in such eel regard.
Last time we got into ichthyological wordplay, people shad all over the thread.
This is neither the time nor plaice.
Whale, looks like Swiss is gonna let this one skate.
I don’t know what to mako this, but I have a serious urchin to do more of these.
I was floundering around to find an apt pun…and wahoo, I did it inadvertently (not).
“Courtney Stodden – the pinup who married Doug Hutchison when she was 16 and he was 51 – models pink lingerie after turning 29”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12545489/Courtney-Stodden-pinup-married-Doug-Hutchison-16-51-models-pink-lingerie-turning-29.html
She looks way better now.
Yes. Her legs were far too thin when she was younger.
I don’t know who any of these people are.
Thankfully.
John Burn-Murdoch, a data reporter at The Financial Times who shared the data in question on Twitter, said Republicans are now “essentially the anti-science party.”
Indubitably.
By contrast, the Democrats are the anti-math and anti-biology party.
“Devastating risks of transitioning to ‘green’ energy: Mining for electric-powering minerals has left 23 million people exposed to toxic waste, 500,000km of rivers polluted and 16 million acres of farmland ruined”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12545855/Devastating-transition-green-energy-metal-mining-23-million-people-toxic-waste-rivers-polluted-farmland.html
to protect the environment
Nobody here cares because that’s on the other side of the world and they’re just poor brown people. And the people in those countries have no problem killing their own people while making a quick buck off the stupid Americans. Makes me sick.
Oh I thoroughly enjoy pointing this out to the pale white liberal environmentalist types.
The Europeans have been pushing “organic” farming on Africa for decades.
Poor and starving is what they want for them.
Africans are icky people, like those of us in Flyover, USA.
So the migration into Europe is a fairly just payback?
That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the abuse of African colonies. You reap what you sow. Of course it’s the average European that gets fucked, not the ones who really benefited.
But at this rate, the EU isn’t going to be in a much better state than Africa within a few years. People will start leaving after the banks fail.
So I’m guessing 2024.
Who cares? They are brown people in countries far away. (Not endorsing the attitude. Just observing.)
After more than a year of aggravation and fucking around, there is a crew in my back yard installing a new septic system which should never have been needed.
Realtors are parasites and swindlers.
“NFT crash: 95% of the market is now ‘worthless’, study finds – as value of ‘Bored Ape’ artwork owned by Justin Bieber plummets by 97%”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-12545589/NFT-crash-worthless-value-Bored-Ape-artwork-Justin-Bieber.html
No one could have predicted this.
Sounds like it still has a ways to fall.
Still at 50k. For a token that points at a piece of clip art. That he doesn’t even get ownership over.
Yeah…. still a ways to fall. Clearly a fancy-pants version of the ponzi scheme.
I guess the lawyers representing the companies that were pushing these things will be swimming in retainers for years now.
To be fair, they were always worthless, most of us just realized it from the word go.
The peasants are revolting
The international campaign against the dollar’s dominance of global trade and investment flows is pulling more countries in – Indonesia is the latest to join the movement.
The island nation has announced it’s formed a National Task Force to widen the use of local currency transactions (LCT) with partner countries, according to Indonesia’s central bank.
“Bank Indonesia is confident that the National LCT Task Force will be an effective coordination forum to strengthen policy synergy between government ministries and agencies in an effort to increase the use of local currencies in bilateral transactions between Indonesia and major trading partners,” Governor of Bank Indonesia, Perry Warjiyo said in a press release.
The move will also help promote efforts to increase the stability of the rupiah, and enhance the resilience of domestic financial markets, the central bank said.
Let’s weaponize the dollar. What are they going to do about it?
“Silverman’s sprawling list of allergies includes peanuts peanut oil; tree nuts and their oils, including almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts and macadamia; all seeds and their oils, aside from sunflower seeds, including chia seeds, flax seeds and sesame seeds; monosodium glutamate; eggs; butter; cream — and flavorings and colorings….
Silverman is also allergic to all fish, as well as varieties of fruit and vegetables such as kiwi, watermelon, mango, apples, peaches, pears and cherries. Lentils, chickpeas, sulfates, latex and whey are also on the life-threatening list.
Some of the less common allergies she suffers from are chocolate, coffee, saffron, lupine, certain red food dyes, milk, cheese, tarragon, sumac, tahini, za’atar, eggplant, zucchini, annatto, carotene, red wine and paprika.”
https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/im-allergic-to-almost-everything-i-feel-like-an-outcast/
doubt
She looks sickly, so maybe.
Look at the shit she is eating. Of course she looks sickly.
I know people with severe autoimmune issues and they aren’t eating at fucking dunkin donuts.
Try the carnivore diet for 60 days and get back to us.
Carnivore? Try the “get away from the mom with Munchausen By Proxy” diet and live a little/lot.
This should be fun. It’s the right thing to do of course…
https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/hochul-warns-migrants-coming-to-ny-we-are-truly-out-of-space/
Shitter’s full.
Hey NYC, that huge pile of shit. you are in…your bed, you made it. What do you want me to do about besides laugh?
Fuck ’em.
I am almost ashamed of my pleasure upon learning of the MN pol who called for the defunding of police getting the shit beaten out of her by some rando thug criminal. Almost….nah, I am not ashamed.
Indonesia’s move is the latest among a series of actions by nations from China to Russia and India to to move away from the dollar in global transactions, a movement that’s come to be called de-dollarization. Beijing and New Delhi have initiated trade arrangements to be settled in their respective currencies, while the BRICS bloc has been looking at the possibility of a shared tender.
De-dollarization is an “irreversible process” that’s gaining momentum, Russian president Vladimir Putin said in a video address at the BRICS summit last month.
While some experts perceive de-dollarization efforts as a threat to the greenback, others have dismissed the movement as a nothingburger.
And there you are.
Yep, got the adults back at the table!
I am back you knuckleheads. I will catch up.
1. A joke in some quarters? I wonder which quarters…..the quarter that is all team hacks and liars? Progressives that have no sense of humor about anything at all?
My empathy for invaders…doe-eyed women and children all…has long since evaporated.
2. The Ukraine situation is already full of grifters top to bottom. The Clintons are horning in. Who could have seen that coming?
Disaster capitalism? I am sorry but their grift and capitalism have nothing in common.
3. I remember him narrating a documentary for public consumption about the Sun. Every detail he described was rock solid evidence that the Sun is 99.99% of the factors driving climate on all of the planets. Few people will point out that the climate on all of the other planets mirrors that of earth’s climate because….THE SUN. At the end of the documentary Sagan just had to add in that none of what he had just described came close to man’s influence on the earths climate GLOBAL WARMING GLOBAL WARMING GLOBAL WARMING GLOBAL WARMING.
I ;thought then…you know what…..fuck that guy. What a sell out.
4. Dunno what to think. I never paid that much attention to them. Their upcoming bombshell revelations often proved to be more poof than bang.
5. No one has the excuse of “But, I didn’t know” about Zelenski being a con artist. No one can say they didn’t know that he sparked the war, probably. just for that purpose. Good on the Poles.
6. No. Just no. Fetterlump is too good just like he is as a Dem mascot.
7. Ya’ don’t say!!
I dont see ‘what caused vaccine hesitancy’ on that list. I wonder that it could be. I wonder.
Damn phone just started screaming with a push alert about….
dun dun dun…
storm surge
FFS
Wasn’t that the name of Thor’s ax?
“In response to the protest, the City of Toronto flew the trans flag in front of City Hall, writing on X, “The City of Toronto stands with 2SLGBTQ+ communities and youth. There is no place for transphobia and intolerance in our city and everyone should feel safe in being their authentic selves. Today, the Trans Flag was raised at City Hall.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/leave-our-kids-alone-parents-in-toronto-protest-gender-indoctrination-in-schools
Surprised these protests in cities across Canada have been reported so little.
We don’t care about what you citizens think. PS Don’t try to make a withdrawal from your bank any time soon.
“Hey nongroomers and taxpayers, suck our dicks.”
He’ll wear a tuxedo for some nuclear war.
Ten bucks says the brain-dead monkey has no idea what he is saying. Well, ok, it is self-evident so no one is going to take that bet.
Meanwhile, at the border.
The BP guys need to do some serious soul searching. “Just following orders!”
Halloween costume idea.
Senator:
Basketball pants, black hoodie, basketball sneakers, and a shitty beard/mustache combo. Don’t forget the lumpy neck.
I was thinking of dressing as Hunter, but it’s too cold to be outside in that getup.
Full length mink coat which you flamboyantly discard as you make your entrance.
WHITE mink, you heathen!
Pantomime madhouse
Moderate Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., who is facing a tough re-election bid next year, has been describing the GOP dysfunction as a “clown show” and warned that pragmatists would work with Democrats to keep the government funded.
“For my colleagues, they have to come to a realization: If they are unable or unwilling to govern, others will. And in a divided government where you have Democrats controlling the Senate, a Democrat controlling the White House, there needs to be a realization that you’re not going to get everything you want,” he said.
“And just throwing a temper tantrum and stomping your feet, frankly not only is it wrong — it’s pathetic,” Lawler added.
When Democrats refuse to negotiate it’s principled statesmanship.
“Moderate Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.”
So….a snake in the grass Democrat. Got it.
The House Republicans’ CR also would include much of their border funding bill, known as HR 2, and would create a new commission to study ways to tackle the national debt.
FUCK YOU CUT SPENDING.
Where’s my ten bucks?
Study the ways to tackle the national debt. Just study it, not do anything about it….just study it.
The commission will have an answer…on the second Tuesday of next week.
Dear Glibs,
Late reminder (because I only now noticed) – This Sunday is the last Sunday of the month thus WAWR day, If you want to have your reading accomplishments, reviews, and/or recommendations published in the meat of the post like a boss and not merely add them in the comments like a dog, send them to HeyBuddyStopDoingThat@protonmail.com posthaste.
Thanks in advance, Hype
Done. Now quitcher bitchin’!
Thanks, bitchin’ winding down.
Sent some stuff.
Gracias.
The folks who are always calling for more choo-choos are getting their test case.
The first big test of whether privately owned high-speed passenger train service can prosper in the United States will launch Friday when Florida’s Brightline begins running trains between Miami and Orlando, reaching speeds of 125 mph (200 kph).
It’s a $5 billion bet Brightline’s owner, Fortress Investment Group, is making, believing that eventually 8 million people annually will take the 3.5-hour, 235-mile (378-kilometer) trip between the state’s biggest tourist hubs — about 30 minutes less than the average drive between the two cities. The company is charging single riders $158 round-trip for business class and $298 for first-class, with families and groups able to buy four round-trip tickets for $398. Thirty-two trains will run daily.
Yep, millions of folks are going to give up the ability to leave and arrive at the destination and time of their choosing while spending hundreds of dollars in the process — all to save a half hour.
What I want to know is, when this goes tits up, are taxpayers on the hook?
Two guesses. First doesn’t count.
I wish them well. It sounds like a route that might make some sense. If they are successful it will show that you don’t need to waste a bunch of taxpayer money on these things. Unfortunately, the other side will probably take it as evidence that they should waste a bunch of taxpayer money on these things.
I don’t think there is any taxpayer money in this. They seem to be successful – though I don’t know how. It is pretty expensive.. I want to say it was $20 to go from West Palm to Miami — on sale. One way.
These things go very fast…. but… people keep getting killed. South Florida is one giant city area for miles and miles. All the way from West Palm to Miami. It is all urban.
So this 70mph train is dangerous.
It is amazing. And amazingly quite. Too quite. You can’t hear it coming. So people drive around the gates and get killed. Or walk in front of it and get killed. A lot.
So they had to slow it down. A lot.
Which defeats the point.
I don’t understand the business model. It is more expensive than an Uber if there are a few of you. More expensive than renting a car to go to Orlando too. So I’m not sure what the market is.
I suppose business travelers who are using the company card is a good target. In fact, hopping the Brightline to Orlando to catch a cheap flight out of Orlando would probably be a good use case. Total travel time could be comparable, if the train went to the airport.
earlier today there was some discussion of redneck roots in west Tennessee. I was out of pocket, so i missed out on the chance to tout my redneck connection to my fellow Glibs. So for the West Tennessee crew:
My dad’s sister was married to the commissioner of McNairy county in the 70s. I actually went with them a couple of times to bust up stills. She was my favorite relative as a kid. He was pretty awesome too, as were the kids.
Dad was from north of there in Union City, where a chunk of the family remains. They are scattered to the winds, and there were only 2 boys out of the 11 who survived childhood, so the family name isn’t nearly so widespread. I haven’t been back in ages… I miss going down to Reelfoot lake to fish and then stopping at this oversized screened porch of a restaurant that served fried catfish, fresh from the lake. Dang, was that stuff good! And beautiful views of cypress knees silhouetted against the setting sun over the lake. You really can’t beat that.
They were still finding stills in the ’70s? Those moonshiners were pikers. My family was still making ‘shine into the 2000s and no one had found one of their stills since prohibition. They learned all of the tricks. Of course they had the advantage of using gas wells on their own property instead of pine knots like everyone else.
Do you rememba, the 21st night of Septemba?
I do!
Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders!
Blah blah blah.
You need a hug, dude?
Yes. It’s been a difficult week. I think the horoscope for Leo was wrong.
Shocking. The UK, reconsidering it’s retarded gas car ban? I bet this becomes an annual push back. Kind of like Princess Bride. “I’ll be back to ban you later.”
https://www.autoblog.com/2023/09/20/uk-gasoline-car-ban-delay-possible/
Yeah, everyone will ban gas cars shortly after they are no longer an economically viable option.
Cubs down 2-0 mid 4th. Hope Hendricks, my favorite current pitcher, keeps us in it. It’s the first time I’ve seen him use the belt beeper-thingy to call his own calls in game. Me likey.
I’m three weeks into a broken femur. I went for a 30 min walk today, and…things are going predictably smoothly. Walking with only one crutch on the Monon path. Kinda-sorta don’t need the crutch. It certainly isn’t ready to go solo, but much improvement. Two weeks til doc and I should be more than ready to go. I’m guessing in a week I’ll be about right.
Last night and this morning are the first in I-can’t-remember-when I slept and awoke alone in the house/hospital/detox/etc I slept til my body was ready to wake. About 8.5 hours or so. A Good Night’s Sleep was in demand.