So I survived a weekend in Cleveland despite sitting in the Dawg Pound rooting for the Ravens. Tomb Raider had a good time (she went off to the art museum while Neph and I were fending off hostile Browns fans), but she’s still grappling with the reality that I don’t do pronoun bullshit, I call Indians “Indians,” and I think BLM is a grift. Well, we’re keeping the strife to a minimum, but I’m still not sending her last week’s Fetterlump drama.
Speaking of drama, there are interesting birthdays today, and those include a guy to whom we’re indebted for the oldest and worst pun involving rabbits; a guy who many think ruined architecture; a woman who personified, “If it happens in Vegas, it stays in Vegas”; the original ignorant slut; the greatest wrestler ever, bar none; a guy who was a real blast; an actual Ferenghi; one of the few remaining honest liberals who won’t shut up (and that’s a good thing); and Team Red’s Gabby Gifford, but with a full brain.
Onward to Links.
“…and the United Nations has called for restraint.” Which means, “Jews need to sit there and die.” However, there IS a bright side to the latest Hamas attacks.
“As the University previously stated, it is decidedly unprofessional and unethical to flirt, make sexual comments, and masturbate while on the phone with a University vendor…” Was that wrong? Am I not supposed to do that?
Florida Man gets some competition from the Buckeye State.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a politician is a publicity hound. Unprecedented.
Team Red wants to give tax credits to the rich. Oh wait, did I say “Red?”
And Old Guy Music is a band that was a big deal when I was a Young Guy but seems to have been forgotten a bit. They do a nice job of jazzing up folk.
whaddup doh
Mornin’
My boss’ son is on active duty in IL, started his compulsory military service a few months ago. As much as I worry about my own kids, I can’t imagine dealing with middle east bullshit. Salt the earth.
America needs to leave. Why are we subsidizing the defense of rich countries in Europe and the ME. It makes us poorer and less safe and fuels conflict between various groups over there.
*it makes regular Americans poorer. It enriches the MIC and politicians, and that’s what matters.
That’s the one place we aren’t. Thank Yahweh.
Yahweh is still acceptable for (((you)))? About ten years ago IIRC, when I was still singing in local Catholic churches, the lyrics of every hymn which contained the word “Yahweh” were re-written (horribly) because it was offensive to Jews or something. This was about the same time that the word “He” was replaced by “God” because reasons.
Powerline
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/the-week-in-pictures-fire-alarm-politics-edition.php
All I see is Dick Van Dyke doing the penguin scene in Mary Poppins
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/10/IMG_7887.jpg
Damn… I don’t remember the chimney sweeps boffing the penguins…. you and I watched very different versions of Mary Poppins apparently….
Director’s cut.
Look at all the retarded merch surrounding leftist icons like Che, the “Notorious RBG” (barf), and others. It’s easy to see why politicians are going to seek celebrity.
DC is Hollywood for ugly people, after all.
And the mentality of junior high school to boot — so yeah… she wants to sit at the popular table and get that quarterback to notice her!
I saw this in a toy store while shopping for a baby shower.
https://www.amazon.com/Political-Action-Figure-BADER-GINSBURG/dp/B07K3C36NZ/
RBG action figure. I’m sure every kid in America wants one of these. They must be flying off the shelves.
She really is a cult figure, though. I’ve seen the worship in action.
EV subsidies are, in the end, just subsidies to icky coal and natural gas companies.
Heh… now that’s funny and a good point to make to the Cult of Gaia assholes.
Not to mention lithium mining and processing.
NJ has over 50% of its energy provided by nuclear. (Which amazes me given how anti-nuke the left is.)
I like to say my Tesla is nuclear powered.
Bonus – NJ has no state sales tax on EVs. Five years ago when I bought my Tesla there were very few of them in my affluent town. Now there are too many to count. They are absolutely subsidizing the wealthy.
NJ has over 50% of its energy provided by nuclear.
I did not know that. And this is after the closing of Oysrer Creek.
Good for New Jersey.
I feel dirty just for writing that.
Believe I feel the same.
NJ also has no vehicle mandatory vehicle inspection on EVs.
So a ticket free for all for lacking inspection tags?
NJ used to have safety inspections. Now emissions only to get that free government money.
EV has no direct emissions hence no inspection.
Absurd.
Either remove the emissions test for real cars, or mark the EVs as failed.
Food trucks, blacksmithing, mid-evil combat, live music, and fun for kids!
Small town stuff is cool, but you need to come to the big city for real entertainment. We’ve got daily full-evil combat, free admission.
I was in Cleveland. Plenty of that plus the burning river bonus.
🔥🔥🔥
So you tried the Cleveland chili?
Nothing like the government throwing
its big stupid dicka thumb on the scales of the market there. What next — force the manufacturers to just give them away so they can force their transition?Morning, all.
Aren’t Ds also still pushing to remove the SALT deduction limit.
We should remove the SALT Deduction.
Can we also throw out charitable donations and mortgage interest?
Yes.
That’s the plan.
From the Glibs Gulch sidebar, this looks really interesting:
https://www.nylandquest.com/property/lq101915/
Watch your step coming out the side door.
On the national register of historic places. I can only imagine how that screws you over in trying to do any renovations.
Yeah, hard pass
Yep. I was going to say the same. You mount one Vickers heavy machine gun on the roof of that barn and the historical society will breathe down your neck.
I know snow can be an issue but the house seems to close to the road.
My first observation but maybe only horse & buggy traffic so limited noise but gosh, Amish can be so rowdy.
Free speech hero Matt Taibbi was on Gutfeld last night. He didn’t have much to say, but he did laugh hysterically when Kennedy said that Hillary spanks the clam to Kim Jung Un.
Taibbi’s a good guy but I don’t want to hear “Hillary” and a reference to clam spanking in the same sentence.
So when does Mel Tucker trot out the bitch set me up line of defense?
Oh hold on, I hadn’t read the story.
So he didn’t even stick it in crazy, he just waved it at it.
Nothing says viable alternative to the internal combustion engine than what is essentially a government bribe to purchase a vehicle they wouldn’t otherwise buy and you’re correct about these tax credits being snatched up by the well to do and for a second or third vehicle no less.
So I was eating my ice cream sammich last night when suddenly there was something crunchy. It was my previously-cracked tooth completely disintegrating and sloughing off layers of enamel.
So that’s fun.
I did find an emergency dentist open on Saturday. Waiting for callback.
🙁
Oh, no! Hope you can get in ASAP! 😧
Nothing to worry about.
https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp4331742.jpg
/jk, good luck with that.
Luckily it’s a molar!
I broke a tooth at Five Guys once. No pain, thank goodness.
Five Guys once – sounds hard
Only pain at the moment is my tongue being torn to shreds
“Five Guys”
Sounds gay. NTTAWWT
back in the day people did their own dentistry or went to the barber
And luckily today we have things like Atavan, Valium, Novocaine, and opioids.
Party at KK’s!
Yikes!
The Miami Valley of SW OH hereby absolves itself of all responsibility for crap that happens Up Near Cleveland.
You tell ’em, GT!
@OMWC as I finished the last of a 3 day tasting of Feteasca Neagra – 12 a day – which was over all a bit too much alcohol I don’t thing I ever asked you if in tasting you are spit or swallow. I always swallow and this leads to a bunch of wine being drunk, but I do not enjoy it if I spit
Spit or swallow
Glib poll?
what is the official glibertarian position on …
For serious tasting, spit. When I judged at wine fairs, we’d do 200 wines a day so this was survival.
Jealous of the fn fest. I love that variety, thanks to you for turning me on to it.
the tasting showed one thing very well there is no such thing as typical Feteasca Neagra
One difference between Scotland and England – posh Scots pretend to be English, but all English people pretend to be working class. Even ones who are literally called Posh.
https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1710169100536655982
lol
One look at what has become of the BBC News reveals the current state of “posh” in England. A lower-class, unintelligible accent seems to be a job requirement now.
Nice job by Becks calling her on her ridiculous nonsense.
Celebrities – they’re just like us!
Going with the article picture: Someone is targeting (((‘Nazis)))
How large is the Chinese Ashkenazi community?
Yes, smoking is unhealthy but it does make you look cooler. Does the government really want the world – including our enemies – to think we’re a nation of dorks?
Soft power matters.
https://twitter.com/BenRamanauskas/status/1710030219690627394
This will mean it will be an offence for anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 to be sold cigarettes in England,
protecting an entire generation of young people from the harms of smokingcreating a thriving black market.Fixed. Also, banning something makes that thing much more attractive to younguns.
BoOk BaNs!!!
In which the product will probably be vastly more affordable than it used to be.
Holy shit. Unmolested slush box Supra Turbo. Second owner.
https://youtu.be/lxzTkooLzxw?si=N6RGbqCa7CDEr7Kh
Everybody mods the hell out of these. Sure a manual would be better and much more valuable, but I wouldn’t touch it. It’s a perfect time capsule.
Also nice that it found a good home with a young guy who loves it as is.
Yes to everything you said. Loved those so much!
Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal
After Ben violated the terms of our mediation agreement, I decided to break my silence about his deceptions and financial crimes. But I waited for an opportunity to hold him personally accountable.
When I and Anya Parampil confronted Ben about his crimes during a visit to Nicaragua this July (see video below), he was unable to muster a single word in response. Instead, he took cover behind his girlfriend and twin brother, refusing to even look me in the eye. This was the behavior of a fraudster who could not even conceal his own guilt.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1709662106277105744
Ben Norton seemed such a great guy too
Why the PSL will always be the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” for the ML Tendency
Blumenthal is a modern day Engels of sorts, a rear class traitor who is actually willing to challenge the establishment’s power. What happened here is the age old lesson about left opportunists: they stab people in the back as soon as they can.
Norton’s a Marcyite/Trot, run by Singham’s money and Becker’s iron fist. They walk like ML’s, talk like ML’s, but they represent the old “left opposition” lines and trail the concept being “on the left” as an existential state of being. Their plans always revolve around sublating leftist ideology.
Anyone who challenges this dogma is attacked and ostracized immediately. Make no mistake, Norton’s move was from a position of power. He might portray Blumenthal as “rich” and the aggressor, but Max is the one out on the limb who is risking something. Ben has the “movement” to lean back on.
https://twitter.com/CDMorlock/status/1709747642945986866
Who fucking cares?
Just a massive wall of text. I hate that.
Tried to skim it – no idea what that is saying.
It’s a hallmark of leftist drivel. Also means it is filled with lies the author is trying to justify.
What do personal seat licenses have to do with Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
oh shut the fuck up
And who are these people?
Ben Norton twitter used to amuse me a few years back
You are amused by tankies, and most of the rest of us are content to remain ignorant of their stupidity.
Bleah.
I took forever to play https://squaredle.com 10/07:
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A reflection on Conservative conf. I don’t think party is becoming more Trump-like as some suggest, it actually feels more like US Republicans under GW Bush. Economically free market almost libertarian streak; socially conservative esp rhetoric around immigration…(1/2)
https://twitter.com/RaoulRuparel/status/1709599160410788155
lol
New taxes and foreign interventions… Rolling over to democrats…
That reads as more a condemnation of US Republicans than Tories.
This Hamas thing is way too fucking convenient for the warhawks in DC. I swear I could hear Graham squeal in delight from three states away this morning.
Or maybe that was just him choking it to pedo snuff films.
I guess Dept of State isn’t in charge of foreign relations anymore. Goes right along with our “combatant commands” being the real pro consuls of American foreign affairs.
If I was President, the SecDef’s resignation would be on my desk this afternoon.
We don’t even have a President.
The agencies are going to run amok.
Didn’t Trump have to go around State to get the Abraham Accords done?
Yes
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/israel-at-war-what-we-know-about-the-barbaric-hamas-attacks/
Includes twitter links with video clips, etc.
My take is that it’s more of a response to the Saudi’s normalizing relations with Israel and sidelining the Palestinians in the short term…but given that it’s also the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, it’s probably been in planning for a long time.
All I’m saying is that there were significant incentives for a lot of interested parties to have let this happen without any interference. Is anyone going to seriously claim that Hamas planned an operation this size without anyone finding out?
Well if USG had info about an impending attack and in this case did not notify Israel, heads will roll one way or another.
<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-administration-deletes-post-calling-on-israelis-not-to-respond-to-hamas-assault/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=third" title="
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linkfail…..oh well.
Your point is clear.
I’m sure this is more emotions than logic talking, and I do feel sorry for Palestinian people who actually want peace….
But I think Israel has shown remarkable restraint over the last several decades, that they’ve been in an undeclared (and now declared) war with people who explicitly have said they do not want a peaceful solution beyond destroying Israel and that quite frankly — territory won in a war where they were invaded historically could and can be kept in the first place.
So my gut instinct is: Destroy Hamas. Destroy whatever thinks itself as the “Palestinian State”. Annex any “dispute areas” and criminally prosecute any captured or surrendering people who you can prove committed past acts of terrorism. Stop the indoctrination of the Palestinian youths to hate Jews. Give the annexed area people’s a choice — stay here and become Israeli citizens and live lawfully (and accept that you’re going to be watched more than the average citizen because we aren’t stupid — but do give them a chance), or leave and find somewhere to live with your Arab friends who have been stirring this pot since 1947 or whatnot. This shit is done.
No other country in history would have put up with this shit… I don’t see why we should expect it of Israel. (Then again, no other country in history would tolerate an invasion at its southern border fostered by its own government… so we’re in weird ass times…)
There’s no way Israel is going to do that, and therein lies the problem.
I found Marty Made’s extensive series on the history of the conflict to be very, very helpful:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pLd5KHmOO7axKd9gKz4WD?si=b3597207baf44913
It’s very long, but IMO worth getting the whole story.
Add in the messy Israeli domestic political situation with reservists saying they wouldn’t serve if called up.
Pretty convenient for Israeli leaders who have been under fire for awhile, too.
Take off your tinfoil hat.
The petroglyphs with swastikas, Gegham mountains, Armenia, between 8.000 – 5.000 BC.
https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1709569437626454326
Yes, but where are the penis petroglyphs? You can’t tell me ot didn’t happen.
Israel has been committing unspeakable war crimes, crimes against humanity, and illegal collective punishment against Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years. 15 years. Any comment or analysis that doesn’t take this fact into consideration today is hollow, immoral, and dehumanizing.
https://twitter.com/marwasf/status/1710558957281145126
not to detract from the message bu Palestinian feminist who lives in Berlin… I wonder how feminist Palestinian is…
Palestinian feminist made in Saudi
I’m sure the Saudi feminist movement is also going gangbusters.
It boggles the mind that the Israelis would be so harsh with the Palestinians for 15 years for no reason. / sarc
Et tu, CNN?
During a Friday speech about the September jobs report, President Joe Biden delivered a rapid-fire series of three false or misleading claims – falsely saying that he has cut the debt, falsely crediting a tax policy that didn’t take effect until 2023 for improving the budget situation in 2021 and 2022, and misleadingly saying that he has presided over an “actual surplus.”
At a separate moment of the speech, Biden used outdated figures to boast of setting record lows in the unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanics and people with disabilities. While the rates for these three groups hit record lows earlier in his presidency, he didn’t acknowledge that they have all since increased to non-record levels – and, in fact, are now higher than they were during parts of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Here’s a fact check.
Trump is worser.
Mate, that’s the most stupid answer I’ve ev… oh, hang on
https://twitter.com/riffraffhands/status/1710331112097005757
Wow. The stupid…it burns!
Remember, those people can vote.
Somehow I read “when it was built” or at least that’s what my brain interpreted. I knew the answer but then on re-reading I also knew the answer.
Yeah, that guy should get some partial credit for saying a President that was at least
in officealive when it was up.A black robed thumb on the scales of justice
That set in motion the lower court’s approval of a new map that does what the state wouldn’t, in providing two (instead of just one) so-called Black opportunity districts. Even then, only one has a majority-Black voting population, but the other, in tracking the ruling the state tried to ignore, comes closer to it.
As NBC News reported, Thursday’s ruling “is also a win for Democrats, who are expected to win the seat next year.” That takeaway further underscores the case’s sordid history, because before the Supreme Court’s surprise 5-4 ruling in June upholding the Voting Rights Act, Justice Brett Kavanaugh went the other way on the shadow docket, in a 5-4 ruling early last year that allowed the illegal map to be used in the 2022 midterms.
Sometimes democracy needs a helping hand.
Jesus it’s hard to read that and the related links through the thick soup of pretentious preening over the racist twaddle.
No shit, Sherlock – given that was the intent. Just as long as the n—–s keep voting correctly.
Horns down.
Although I do miss wandering along Guadalupe St on gamedays and enjoying the, ah, local scenery. Strictly looking as I was a taken man.
My son is so excited he can hardly contain himself today. If UT doesn’t win he’ll be depressed until next Saturday. Hope eternal.
Look out, 6th Street, win or lose
We watched the RRS one year outside of Talequah and people were insane about it. Oklahoma can go to hell for grocery stores not selling cold beer above 3.2%. Idk if they’ve since changed that.
While at University, failed former Greek Minister of Finance and senile old crank Yanis Varoufakis justified his appointment as Secretary of the ‘Black Students Alliance’ by arguing that “Ethnic Greeks are Black”
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1710406531412328588
They’re all Greek to me.
So was Cleopatra.
Proper restomod
Woo! Current bid is $75,000. Very nice but too rich for me.
how good are the airbags in that thing?
Pretty
Maybe ass/drugs, but I read an opinion piece that lead me to the transcript of the Clinton/Amanpour interview on Thursday. This bit was pretty amazing.
CWAEC
James Freeman was right:
They hate you and want you
deaddrugged and compliant.But they’ll accept dead too.
No. Death must wait until you have learned to love Big Brother.
It couldn’t be that the Democratic Party is absolute shit and people have good reason to want something else. No, it’s racism and sexism.
Using our natural rights is cult behavior now. Got it, The Left.
Now say the same things in bold about black citizens, and you’ve got the viewpoint of 1950s Jim Crow Democrats.
Meta-Analysis: Self-control is around 60% heritable – that is, genes explain around 60% of the differences between individuals in their levels of self-control (N > 100,000)
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1710422289626681526
Good morning, Old Man!
Renaissance Festivals are a nightmare. Miss me with your “huzzah!” bullshit, you freaks.
Mr. Clark’s RE auction and estate sale looks pretty cool, though! Also $549K for a 46 acre piece of land with a house and barn sounds amazing.
Small towns, ftw I guess.
Morning, Tundra!
Good morning! How are things up nort?
Had a dusting of snow on Thursday morning. Things are good otherwise. Spent some time out in the bush this week for work and I’m digging the new job. Less stress, which is good, and less pay, which is bad, but I’m aiming to use it as a springboard to a much more remunerative job in a year or so. Mowed this week for the last time of the year. Lawn didn’t need it, but the grass was just long enough and I needed to burn off the last of the gas in the mower before storing it for the winter.
…And nostalgic heat. Bring a chain saw and be prepared with lots of fuel.
I know those things
/Checks chain saw gas can
Finally dropped into the 30s overnight. You guys get a freeze yet?
60 here. Feels fantastic. I am going outside to set up the Halloween display while the weather is good.
Coldest so far here was 34 last night. Some places in SE NoDak got down into the low 20s. Sounds like Monday and Tuesday nights will be in the upper 20s here. Every day in the ten day forecast is sunny with highs within 2 degrees of 55. Perfect autumn weather.
he and his very negative, nasty form of politics resonates with them. Maybe they don’t like migrants. Maybe they don’t like gay people or black people or the woman who got the promotion at work they didn’t get.
They’re deplorable, really.
I’m in that basket.
Sounds like you’re in need of some kind of deprograming.
Clinton continued, “Because at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members, but something needs to happen.”
I never much believed that demons are real, but I’m seriously reconsidering that stance.
I like the Bee’s take.
That’s awesome.
I particularly enjoyed the part where she was thrown into a waiting van. That actually happened.
My god we dodged a bullet.
Unquestionably true.
No argument from me on that point at all.
Without a doubt
The funny part is, nobody knows why
The unprecedented flow of tens of thousands of U.S.-bound migrants crossing Panama’s treacherous Darién Gap jungle each month is “an unsustainable crisis,” Colombia’s ambassador to the U.S. told CBS News on Friday.
In September alone, more than 75,000 migrants crossed the roadless Darién jungle on foot, the second-highest monthly tally recorded by Panamanian officials, only a few thousand less than the 82,000 crossings reported in August. In total, more than 400,000 migrants, many of them Venezuelans headed to the U.S., have crossed that jungle this year to enter Central America, a record and once unimaginable number.
The flow of migration along the largely ungoverned Panama-Colombia border has fueled unprecedented levels of Venezuelan arrivals along the U.S. southern border, where American officials processed roughly 50,000 Venezuelan migrants in September alone, an all-time high.
“Irregular migration through the Darién Gap is indeed an unsustainable crisis that poses serious safety risks to all who attempt the trip — that is why Colombia, and the U.S. are working together to ensure that those who contemplate that dangerous journey do not take their first step,” Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombia’s ambassador to the U.S., said in a statement to CBS News.
U.S. officials have been frustrated by what they see as Colombia’s unwillingness to take aggressive actions to stem the flow of migration into the Darién. At an event last month, top U.S. border official Blas Nuñez Neto called the situation in the jungle a “humanitarian catastrophe,” citing a recent work trip there.
Why would all those people go traipsing through the uncharted jungle just to get turned away at the American border?
Colombia is currently hosting roughly 3 million Venezuelans, the most of any country. More than 7 million Venezuleans have fled their homeland in recent years due to its economic collapse and the authoritarian policies of its socialist government.
On Thursday, in response to the spike in Venezuelan arrivals, the U.S. announced it would, for the first time in years, conduct direct and regular deportations to Venezuela of migrants who crossed into the country unlawfully.
We wouldn’t want to encourage the Venezuelans to get their shit together, would we? That would smack of colonialist judgementalism.
authoritarian policies of its socialist government
Well, you can certainly tell this wasn’t an NPR piece.
After 3 fabulous weeks of work and play, my bestie has gone back to Cali, leaving me lonely in Washington until sometime in November.
I’ll be busy with work anyway so I’ll live!
In happy news the local vintage air museum finally reopened yesterday!!
It’s the “Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum”!! How cool is that? Today’s event is Battle of Britain.
Oh yeah. I’ll be there.
https://flyingheritage.org/
Super cool.
Slapped in the face
The worker and several other UAW members with Mack Trucks who asked not to be identified due to fear of retribution from the union or company said they plan to vote against the deal. Their reasons included the tentative agreement not meeting expectations, the length of the deal being a year longer than before and the pay increases and bonuses not being enough to offset inflation or reward them for working through the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Another Mack Trucks worker descried the deal as “disgraceful” and an “insult” compared to their expectations and what’s currently being negotiated by UAW international leaders with the Detroit automakers, also known as the Big Three.
“We are low man on totem pole, and we are getting no backing from international,” said a more than 10-year material technician. “They are just pushing this [tentative agreement] through so they don’t have to deal with us while the Big Three are negotiating.”
Eat the rich.
“reward them for working through the Covid-19 pandemic.”
They can fuck right off. Such brave heroes. smdh
doing your job and getting paid for it is now somehow a reward. well, okay. still better than the NEA mentality.