Arright, here’s the stellar deelie-o: War. You’ve got Mars on one side of the sun, and Jupiter retrograde on the other. And neither of those planets move fast, so it’ll be a while before that breaks up. Sorry about that. Mars being in Scorpio, we should expect ambushes, hiding under rocks, and poison. Jupiter retrograde being in Taurus, we should expect a surprising lack of innovation, but endurance. Also slaiughter.
Libra: 4 of Wands – A nice party, but in the latter stages where the guests have moved on.
Scorpio: Knight of Cups – Arrival, approach, advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement.
Sagittarius: The Blank Card.
Capricorn: Ace of Swords reversed – Redlining the engine can make it blow up.
Aquarius: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection.
Pisces: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Aries: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude, also an armored car driver.
Taurus: Death reversed – When it’s reversed, it doesn’t mean death-death, just lying around being useless, depressed, potential as opposed to actual good things ending. Or failure due to you being lazy and/or mopey.
Gemini: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Cancer: 7 of Wands reversed – an uphill battle.
Leo: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Virgo: 9 of Wands reversed – doors closed against you.
I totally get why fans of a band don’t like it when that band changes. After all, they’re no longer producing the sound that made them fans in the first place. However, I also have respect for bands that do decide that either they’ve done all they can in their idiom or that they’re bored and aren’t willing to keep beating a dead horse for the paycheck (looking at you Aerosmith). But then there’s another problem to sticking with “your style” into old age: it can demonstrate how old you’re getting. Like this one for example. It’s a good song and it’s in the OG style (though Dave Navarro has evolved) and it’s got the same generally upbeat, wholesome moral lesson as so many of them do. And by itself it’s fine, but listen to it immediately after something from their pre-breakup discography and you’ll go “Holy Fuck Perry Ferrel really doesn’t have the chops anymore.”
How you treat the weak is your true nature calling.
How Nietzschean.
…also an armored car driver.
Hmm, that implies it isn’t my money.
What? You don’t move your gold reserve in armored cars?
Why would I ever drain my pool?
It’s your true call of nature.
Sagittarius: The Blank Card.
Is that anything like a blank check?
Printed on cardstock instead of paper.
It is whatever you want it to be. Who knew Obama was a Sagittarius this week?
Blank Check or alternatively Finance 101
So I should just go back to bed?
That sounds like you’re trying for la petite mort
Add one more anecdote to the “why I hate NY” pile…
In OH, I could get a liter of Rittenhouse Rye Bottled-in-Bond for less than a fifth costs me here. And I bought it in a Kroger.
In Ohio, even in Kroger, you still bought from a state store. The benevolent powers in Columbus just allow Kroger to act as their agent for liquor sales.
Other fun fact- if you see a Starbucks inside a Kroger, those are actually UFCW Kroger employees in the green aprons. Not Starbucks employees.
I’m still going to be treating that place like the duty-free on the way back from Montreal.
☹️
The fifth is $25 near me at the supposedly best liquor store in town. I don’t know how that compares to NYC since I never found that brand there.
Comparing vodkas, the prices are roughly the same as I am used to.
Which sucks because all other food and beverages are about 1/3 off what I am used to paying. I got 1.5 dozen eggs for 2 bucks today.
Now I’m hungry for an egg and anchovy sandwich.
“doors closed against you”
Well, since Im the dumbfuck that often charges in w/o thinking, maybe thats a good thing?
Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Not sure if that’s sufficiently shitty.
Nice dog videos.
Has Lily met her match? Look like a pretty evenly matched donnybrook to me.
“Leo: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, also difficulty, doubt, ignorance”
I have no idea how to assess that.
I don’t mind it when bands take a different direction especially if it’s interesting. I find that the bands that I love the most I’ll stick with a lot longer. But that song kind of sucks. You can you can tell when they’ve lost it when they need to engineer the vocals so heavily.
Still, good on them for keeping it going.
I have no idea how to assess that.
Like this!
* first half: Fruitfulness, action, initiative
* second half: the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance
– Deion Sanders
Deion – how dare Stanford do to us what we almost did to USC last week.
Something I’m not used to here is just how piddly, rinky-dink the “festivals” are up here. I went to Bennington’s “Harvest Festival” yesterday and it was about 10% the size of the Kolache Fest in the bustling metropolis of Caldwell, TX. Fortunately, the drive there would have been worth taking without any real destination to go to. Also, compare Butlerville’s 4-hour “Rennaissance Festival” with Norman which can at least sustain a weekend.
I am also wondering where the people are for Bennington to have a downtown/commercial district that large.
Re: bands — I still quite like some of their early stuff…
For those that didn’t see it:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_1342.jpg
I know Hyperbole wanted his two giraffes fucking logo thingy, but the winning one looks really good on a jersey.
That looks great.
+1
You have a snake under your arm.
“No Stick in Armpit.”
That does look great — do we sell those in the shop now or was this a custom job on your part?
I sent the art to https://techwearusa.com/ and had it made.
Sweet.
The lady taking the order said that there would be a sale announced soon, so she held the order until the sale dropped. Saved me 30%.
I bought a second jersey (for refereeing in) during that sale to pay back her kindness.
<==
That is awesome.
The 2 giraffes fucking was for OMWC’s coffee shop, the Glibs logo that got fucked over for the love child of Mr. Peanut and Millburn Pennybags was the katana wielding squirrel riding an eye laser shooting eagle carrying a rattlesnake with a Lee Marvin scale pattern.
Business news you can use
North Dakota is also hampered by weaker access to pipelines than the Permian Basin, where many producers can use pipelines that lie entirely within Texas, skirting federal regulation of interstate pipelines. That’s only one example of a relaxed regulatory environment in Texas, compared to places like climate-conscious Colorado, the nation’s No. 4 oil producer, where output is still down 3 million barrels per month, said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors in New York.
“There’s this place called Texas that doesn’t really know what energy regulation is,” he said.
We call it “The Suicide State”.
Damn I hate saying this, but good on Texas………………………………..also this doesn’t mean I hate the Jerryboys or Astros less.
I know. Remember when Bush’s lax environmental standards resulted in completely wiping Galveston off the map? Or Abbot’s refusal to tie the TX electrical grid into the rest of the country’s made everyone in central TX freeze to death?
/CNN
They kept waiting for rolling blackouts/brownouts this summer as we were hammered day after day w/100+ temps. You could here the disappointment in the media whores when it wasn’t happening.
We did have power outages here in Central Texas two years ago – when we got a once or twice in a century cold snap.
I would rather risk that again than have huge electrical rate increases so they could prepare for weather I might never experience again here.
Better that than the huge electric rate increases that are coming for most of us, for graft and appeasement to the climate gods.
I doubt Egypt is going to take in strays. All they have to do is look at the last 75 years, particularly Black September in Jordan and Lebanon generally. Terrible houseguests.
We could force them to take them. We could finance the whole thing. But we aren’t. Ffs, we’re not even pressuring Qatar to evict Hamas.
I wonder why we aren’t
Somewhat serious answer? Because the PPP administration appears to take direction from the far left (even though they were supposedly voted in moderate) and the far left is firmly on the side of Iran and Hamas because Israel is pseudo-European, Western Civ and “colonizers”. Anything the noble Arabs do against the West in general, Israel in particular is good — it is counterbalancing for past atrocities and colonization and keeping the Middle East down (maaaan).
If that’s not true — they’ve gone out of their way to make me believe it over the last 3 years. The two guiding stars of everything they’ve done: “Is it 180 degrees from what OMB did?” and “Does it degrade Western Civilization?”… okay and number 3: “Does it hide PPP’s personal corruption and DC’s corruption in general?” That one is plenty important.
That certainly seems to be the case, I mentioned it earlier this week in a comment, but I was listening to the local lefty radio stations and they said that explicitly. The attacks were perfectly justified to fight against a white, European, colonizer.
something something history written by the winners
JFC
Not-moping is the cost I bear to sustain my laziness. Otherwise I would be a hypocrite, which is worse.
Application, study, scholarship, reflection.
All I’m hearing is that I am bogged down at work.
More fabulist butthurt
“From Exxon-Mobil to Shell, Guyana to Cote d’Ivorie, those with fossil resources seek to boost production and delay action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” said MIT professor John Sterman, a senior advisor at Climate Interactive, an organization that models future warming based on countries’ proposed actions. He said that path will lead to “catastrophe.”
Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who heads the emissions-tallying group Global Carbon Project, said no country or company wants to cut oil and gas production if someone else is going to sell oil anyway.
“We’re in a fossil trap,” Jackson said.
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“So long as oil is demanded,” Gross said. “Demand drives production — we need to change the whole system to reduce oil demand.”
“Replacing oil in power production is a lot easier than replacing oil in transportation,” Gross said in an email. “We need changes in the transportation sector, along with policies to reduce demand for transport — like teleworking, walkable neighborhoods and good public transportation.”
Don’t forget the battery powered airplanes.
Well, the guy is half right. Telework and the like (and the whole walkable neighborhood thing for folks who like it, ditto public transportation [though of course, the idea is to make that mandatory for the plebes and all]) to reduce demand to decrease fossil fuel consumption? Fine… if that’s what the market can push for, and it should happen naturally through adaptation if prices stay high.
The half wrong of course is that there’s really nothing to replace it outside of widespread nuclear (imho anyway) and a good storage technology to translate the electrical generated into transport fuel (like making hydrocarbons for example… I don’t know if that would ever get economical with cheap enough generation, though I rather doubt it — I just don’t think strip mining for lithium and the like is a great plan either).
the idea is to make that mandatory for the plebes and all
You can have my sedan from my cold, dead hands.
Longroofs for the win.
Nice. Another ‘goon fan.
These people are________ .
A. Deluded
B. Insane
C. Evil
D. All of the above
You people (Democrats) are literally insane.
Democrat New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman has called on the United States to “welcome” Palestinian refugees as experts predict that one million people fleeing the Gaza Strip will need new homes.
“Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children,” the congressman told the New York Post on Saturday. “The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine while being very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas.”
As if we* are not currently importing enough questionable people. They’re Arabs. Let the Arab countries take them.
*By “we” I mean the criminal USG that is facilitating an invasion of the States.
She should start and OnlyFans.
Lauren Boebert, whose opponent raised $3.4 million last quarter, raised $853,840.
I’m sure those are all small donations from politically engaged citizens.
I’d watch that for a dollar!
Sweet! All my Uber and Lyft drivers this week will be soldiers or medieval knights! This should be interesting.
Knights Templar would be pretty cool.
Deus Vult.
I have a lovely crusader cross (made in Jerusalem) to wear while riding with my armored chauffeur.
Similar to this one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143241626084
When just a St. Christopher medallion wont do…..
Neato!
Going full palanquin?
“Cancer: 7 of Wands reversed – an uphill battle.”
You just don’t know.
Sounds like another week to me.
I guess it was insufficiently Democratic.
A U.S. District Judge ruled Friday that Galveston County violated the federal Voting Rights Act in 2021 when it drew new districts for its commissioners court.
Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled the county’s 2021 commissioners court precinct map “denies Black and Latino voters the equal opportunity to participate in the political process and the opportunity to elect a representative of their choice to the commissioners court.” As a result, the county has been ordered to redraw the map by Oct. 20.
The lawsuit stands as the first county-level redistricting case since the most recent census that drew intervention from the federal government.
Can they not vote? My choices almost never win. Where muh-representation at?
You’re only allowed to do it if it is explicitly racist minority redistrcting.
Cue the howls of lefty outrage if, say, Hawaii was court ordered to gerrymander some white-majority legislative districts (that would flip to Republican) to reverse the disproportionately Asian dominination of the legislature.
I would laugh and laugh. I doubt it would make any difference though.
A small difference. I’m sure I could gerrymander such a map through Kailua/Kaneohe, Hawaii Kai, and Laie that would go Republican every time in those three areas.
a good storage technology to translate the electrical generated into transport fuel (like making hydrocarbons for example
I did a little reading up on “synthetic” fuel a while back. Basically, you take the end products of burning a hydrocarbon fossil fuel and reassemble it, using the energy produced by the original combustion process plus the losses on both ends. Not what I would consider efficient. The process could be presumbly improved through development. And you have to figure out where to find “green” energy to carry out the process.
Yup — that’s what I remember from organic chemistry — you can get just about anything if you’re willing to expend the energy (the ratios and likelihood vary by pressure and temperature). So no reason why you can’t rebuild hydrocarbon bonds as an energy store (after all, that’s why the plants build hydrocarbons in the first place and all). So it would presuppose abundant nuclear power that would be better stored for transportation and a method to get to gasoline / petroleum that isn’t ridiculous (and how likely the latter is is what I’m unsure of… I know there was the Navy project to make JP6 [kerosene?] using excess reactor power in CVGs, so if that wasn’t a pipe dream and can scale, it seems like a good pilot project…)
Not what I would consider efficient
if you’re willing to expend the energy
One way (the bad way) I explain the second law of thermo: clamp an outboard motor in a drum of water, hook it up to a gallon of fuel, and fire it up. In a few minutes, you’ll run out of gas, and the water will be warmer. Wait another hour: the motor and drum will cool off, but the gallon of fuel won’t reconstitute itself. Disorder increases, and only tremendous use of energy can locally create order: disorder will win in the end.
There have been a number of ideas trying to run with this. The basic idea is using some sort of poop from sewage plants and plankton to transform human waste into usable fuel. You basically pump in poop to the organisms responsible for creating fossil fuels. It kind sort works on a small scale.
It was found unfeasible, by the same people who love ethanol subsiidies who love ethanol and Iowa and go to state fairs to pander.
experts predict that one million people fleeing the Gaza Strip will need new homes.
That much destruction should make Krugabe deliriously happy.
So Israel is trying to help Gaza with a massive broken window fallacy?
I was thinking that but you said it way before I was even thinking it.
You guys are always good about tampering down the rhetoric.
“House Republicans have selected as their nominee to be the speaker of the people’s House the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender in a dangerous way of dysfunction, and an extremist extraordinaire,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Friday on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by dozen of Democratic lawmakers. “His focus has been on peddling lies and conspiracy theories and driving division amongst the American people.”
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., labeled Jordan an “insurrectionist” and said he would be on a glide path to becoming speaker if not for the unified opposition of Democrats.
“He was directly involved in the right-wing coup that sought to overturn the 2020 election,” she said, referring to Jordan and the 147 congressional Republicans who objected to certifying presidential election results on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Every Republican who cast their vote for him is siding with an insurrectionist against our democracy,” Clark said.
“Everyone who disagrees with me and uses the legal process to challenge election results is a dangerous insurrectionist.” is just good messaging.
I wasn’t sure until I read this vitriol now I’m a fan.
Just because a group of morons hate someone doesn’t mean you should like him.
“But if you pick a RINO again, and need two Democrats like us to make it happen, the two of us and every single Democrat are gonna still vote against literally any Republican you nominate.”
It sounds to me like every republican needs a good ‘ol fashioned reprogramming.
Does the IRA have any budgeting devoted to building camps?
Does anyone want a Lego Star Wars advent calendar? It’s from a few years ago and not opened. I’d rather it go to a kid who would enjoy it than sit on my shelf.
My kids would love it, they’re Stars Wars and Lego fans. Obviously can’t pick it up as I’m not going to SoCal anytime soon, but could send you something for shipping.
Awesome! .Just send me your info at athenaofprogtown at Gmail
Great! Thanks Athena. My kids are going to dig it!
So Israel is trying to help Gaza with a massive broken window fallacy?
Economic stimulus. Jobs. They’ll be rich.
Why is he yelling?
Joe Biden one week after Hamas invaded Israel and went door to door hunting civilians and taking hostages:
“Who in God’s name needs a weapon with 100 rounds in their chamber?!?”
You’d have to fire 100 rounds for there to be 100 “in” the chamber. And I like the optics of angrily invoking “God’s name” from a fake Catholic who is trying to strip citizens of their rights in a clear violation of the federal Constitution.
“Half the country needs high capacity magazines so we can overthrow the government, just like in the 1770s, when you inevitably get too tyrannical and try something like confiscating our guns, or throwing us into the reeducation camps your party’s nominee in 2016 just openly advocated for.
Some good pieces at NRO this week. One of the few sites I actually like subscribing to – in terms of volume of content daily and avg quality if nothing else.
I Took My English Dad to an American Football Game
One more:
I Knew Africa’s Most Important Economist. It Needs Economic Freedom
When I see the Africans crossing the southern border I understand why. Bad government at home.
That is a lot of words to say that sub-Saharan African “leaders” are almost all kleptocrats.
Yeah, I never thought it would catch on in Europe. Now there are leagues everywhere. Germany even has promotion/relegation lol. I’m guessing the money isn’t quite the same as here.
The great Adam Vinatieri started as an Amsterdam Admiral.
His NFL career outlasted that farm league by many years.
On behalf of other non-subscribers, thanks for pasting!
Missing a sport…
Too bad, haters
A “‘diesel-powered” automobile, and not one that was battery-powered, sparked the widespread fire earlier this week at Luton airport’s parking lot near London, according fire department officials.
The blaze, which damaged about 1,500 vehicles in the car park and led to the temporary closure of the airport, was not instigated by an EV. “We don’t believe it was an electric vehicle,” Andrew Hopkinson, chief fire officer for Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, said. “It’s believed to be diesel-powered, at this stage all subject to verification.”
The Daily Mail reported that the fire started under the hood of a Range Rover diesel, caused by an electric fault or fuel line leak.
I’m sure the people who owned those other cars feel better.
If that had happened here, there would already be a dozen class action suits against Rover, the airport, and any other deep pocketed entity.
I find that hard to believe. Diesel burns slow and smoky. If that car burned long enough to start that big a chain reaction, it’s because their fire response was very slow.
An EV did it. Obvious causes are obvious.
The left does this all of the time. “See! See! We aren’t as bad as you say, you do it too!”
I am surprised the article didn’t start off with “I am a internal combustion engine guy but even I think….blah blah blah”
Again?
The current run of Ford’s popular Explorer has been hit with multiple issues and recalls since its debut in 2019. Honestly, it has been a real embarrassment for Ford. And, unfortunately, the recalls just keep on coming. In fact, the recall announcement today is a re-recall after owners came back to Ford dealers with similar issues after getting the first recall’s fix.
So today’s recall announcement is for the same 2020 to 2022 Explorers exhibiting rear axle bolt failures. Owners experience a loss of power while driving and roll away when in Park. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been investigating bolt failures after the first recall since June of this year.
What exactly is happening? The rear axle horizontal mounting bolts are fracturing. The result is that driveshafts can disconnect, which can cause a crash. Ford’s records show it has 396 incidents of axle bolt failures.
I thought the first “warranty repair” was a software patch for the parking brake.
Maybe those bolts were made of the same material as the intake valves which failed.
Ford’s first recall involved a software update to have the parking brake applied automatically when in Park. But, obviously, that didn’t address the fracturing bolt issues, which the NHTSA addressed in documents related to the issue. Now, the actual cause is the focus of this recall.
Replace the defective part? Ford has a better idea.
They tried to slow walk the cam phaser issue in my truck. They did the software update first, naturally. I asked the guy if it ever actually worked. He hemmed and hawed, but I knew the answer. I just kept on them until they fixed it – right before my warranty ended.
It wouldn’t go past “stun?”
Lost another Santa Monican:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-12633499/Suzanne-Somers-dead-76-Actress-passes-away-day-birthday-following-cancer-battle.html
She looked pretty healthy when Adam Carolla talked to her a few months back.
Cancer is weird. I had a friend die from brain cancer. It was only a couple months from diagnosis to funeral.
Yeah, my late friend was diagnosed May 30, died August 16. Nominally jaw cancer, but I’m not convinced the tumor they removed was the primary. Sigh.
Condolences. Damn.
Thank you. It was a rough time. He declined precipitously the last 2-3 weeks. I last saw him a week before he passed, and while I didn’t expect an end so quickly, that the end was looming was obvious.
I’m sorry. I’m old enough to have seen that too many times.
Cancer is scary as shit. A few of us went to visit another friend who was clearly days away. We had to gown and mask up, etc. It was heartbreaking to see a formerly big strong dude all shriveled up. Because I deal with pain with inappropriate humor, I told him “Jesus, Jimmy, you look like Yoda!” He laughed.
At the funeral his daughter came over to me and said it was one of the only times he laughed in the last few weeks. I think about that a lot.
I can see how that would be especially good medicine.
You’re a good man Tundra.
Two months ago, a friends mom thought she had pneumonia, turns out it was cancer. Today is her memorial.
Yikes.
Sometimes cancer chews on you forever, sometimes it strikes like lightning. In any case, fuck cancer.
+2 thighs
RIP
RIP pretty ’70s lady.
I suppose everyone knows by now that this was her in a wig:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d4/86/cf/d486cf59a8403ca39e80d18317658438.jpg
(Never wondered before why Jack is riding on the left. The Regal Beagle influence, I suppose.)
Ha, nope.
RIP wonderful woman
She was one of my faves.
Whoops.
RIP Piper Laurie, too. Nominations for #3?
A bunch. But I don’t need a visit from the Feds.
God, she was so good in The Hustler.
Actors only?
I keep expecting Joanne Woodward to die.
I’d say Lou Reed, but we’ll always have Lou Reed.
Didn’t know she was a pin up girl back in the day. Yawza!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/138837601003311792/
How old are you? (rhetorical)
She was a top sex symbol for quite some time in the ’70s.
She was on par with Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Teigs, Bo Derek…..that crowd.
Piper Laurie?
I think I misunderstood who you were referring to.
Suzanne Sommers was the bidness.
Well, Andy Bean just passed away, too.
My one Bean story: I caddied a pro-am in high school where he was the pro in our group. It was seeing him up close that day when I realized that no matter how much time I spent on the practice range and the putting green, I was never, ever going to make it to the PGA Tour. It seemed like the guy could make the ball do everything except grow legs and walk into the hole for him.
Gemini: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Woohoo!
What the heck are the Buccaneers wearing? Is the dreamsicle orange authentic throwback colors?
I love it.
Love.
it’s all about the uniforms?
Ooh, that’s rough! 🤣
Economic analysis
Economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has declared victory over inflation. “The war on inflation is over,” he said in a recent tweet. “We won, at very little cost.”
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Krugman’s chart seems to indicate that “inflation” has dropped below 2% in September 2023. However, the issue lies in the way he measures inflation. His chart uses the Consumer Price Index but strips out food, energy, shelter and used cars. Critics argue that this measure is simply too narrow.
“Ex food, energy, shelter and cars? What’s left, fax machines?” one reply to Krugman’s tweet read. The comment was apparently a dig at the professor’s infamous 1998 comment that the economic impact of the internet would be less than that of the fax machine.
Bidenomics is winning. You just have to squint a little.
He went from shilling for the smartest guys in the room, to President Pudding Pop. Winston’s Mom isn’t that shameless.
“Economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has declared….” <——- Stop right there.
I love how it starts off trying to pretend the guy has some credibility so dont bother criticizing him.
Where is my trillion dollar coin?
+1 fake alien invasion.
By the way, that one doesn't seem to be getting much in the way of legs despite the MSM's best propaganda efforts.
For most Americans, the battle against inflation isn’t over until they earn enough to support their families and survive.
You’ll never win a Nobel Prize with that kind of thinking.
Bill Belichick can’t seem to win without Tom Brady.
Have we determined whether it’s physically possible for “Chuckles” Belichick to look even more dour than when he was winning?
Im not watching that game. I just saw the score at half time of Iggles v Jets.
He’s as great a coach as he is a terrible GM. But he’ll never admit he can’t draft worth a shit and so the Patriots will have to dump him. They’re on their way to a top 5 draft pick and I do not want Belicheck in control of it.
Haley Reinhart “Can’t Find My Way Home”
I love that song. She did a nice job with it.
Great googly moogly!
Dem laigz….she thicka than oatmeal
She doesnt seem to have the chops to pull off White Rabbit.
But you know who does? PANK!
Grace isolated.
I have a soft-on and my bunk could be in the immediate future.
She was hot as hell back in the day but she didn’t age well.
/looks in mirror
/concurs
Yeah, well that happens to most of us, doesn’t it?
If you can handle Tony Visconti’s smug fart-sniffing, he breaks down “Heros” vocals.
Today’s surprises (at least to me):
Browns beat 49ers
Bengals beat Seahawks
Jets beat Eagles
I like sports upsets.
-1 Bills kthxbai
Ok, I’ll let the Bills win. 🧚♀️
(I don’t think they’re in danger)
They do need to wake up.
25 years in NYC and I never really gave a shit about the Jets or Giants – nice to be back in Bills territory. Sort of… the vagaries of NYS culture place Ithaca in Bills territory even though geographically I am closer to NYC.
Whelp now the refs are protecting Allen like Brady. That was a bullshit roughing call.
Heh. Help more, refs.
They need it.
OMG as a map nerd I should have known better.
I am actually about 80 miles closer to Buffalo than NYC. I don’t know why I thought otherwise.
In a just universe stupidity and mendacity would be terribly painful but treatable.
I am doodling around before bed watching YooToobs and I run across this: How Geography made the US ridiculously over powered.
That’s right people, magic dirt. I punched out right away but betting there is nothing about cultural values that include work ethic, lack of corruption and liberty.
In the sidebar I see a follow up: How North Korea became so insanely poor.
No doubt they lack magic dirt. It isn’t fair. We should give them some of our success.
It reads like crib notes from A People’s History of the United States.
I would try to watch these but I wouldn’t be able to get the taste out of my mouth even if I used some gasoline for mouthwash.
Magic fucking dirt. Never mind that culture is the root of it. Never mind that culture in the majority of the rest of the world is shit.
Russia has more majik dirt than the US and they’re a shitshow, always have been
PS: I’m known for saying “stupid oughta hurt”
Ditto : Africa.
Australia is not what I would consider geographically blessed and yet…
I forgot my favorite – Brazil. Now that is some serious magic dirt.
Brazil is the country of the future….and always will be.
God forbid we allow them to take advantage of their natural resources.
I think I see where things went off the rails.
I apologize for the rant up front.
My house payment 2 years ago was $412 a month. It will be $529 a month this coming year. Taxes…insurance. The escrow has gone up.
One more example of increasing the cost of energy increases the costs downstream. Oh wait, I’m an idiot for believing that.
The smoke up my ass the last few months about the economy has me smelling like brisket. Yet it is all I read about on the main channels. Thank Yahweh for this place.
I get a 3% COLA on my pension every year so far. I’m not complaining about that. It’s more than what a lot of people out there have. It’s more than what I had the last ten years of my employment. “We have to tighten our belts”. Found out some belts are tighter than others then.
I’m still falling behind. Groceries, gas.
I have had to cut down on trips to see my father in the home the last couple of years. If you don’t think that has me thinking negative thoughts about the proponents of the Green New Deal…well, there we are.
Cheap gas. Cheap diesel.
Kind of makes sense that is what is good. Unless you are a leftist, authoritarian asshole. Please notice I attached no party to that statement.
Again. Sorry for ranting.
I can just see the end of the rope from here.
You know, you don’t have to apologize for ranting around here. 🙂
Thanks, Mo. Still feel bad about it though. We all have problems. But, I don’t talk to many people in real life anymore.
Especially when the rant is spot-on.
Truth telling is not a rant.
I got an oil change at the Ford guy on Friday. $90. Luckily I drive little so that was 2 years worth. Everything was good, only brake pads wearing down but still OK. I’m pretty easy on brakes, don’t go too far or too fast.
Thanks, Hobbit.
I don’t know exactly who or what is responsible for everything getting so much more expensive the last few years, but I do know that I am getting very tired of the usual suspects telling me that everything has never been better.
To Hell with you, you lying piece of crap. It might be better for you and your ilk, but it is so because of a whole lot of peoples’ loss. And before someone drops in and says that is what socialists say…I agree. This kind of crap is what launched socialism. Kill the middle class. Kill the merchant class.
I don’t want it. I’m on the free market side.
Yet, once again, historically speaking. Here we are.
Lots of little policy decisions made by people who hate us – shutdown pipeline projects and cancelled oil drilling permits for instance.
One big one – our government keeps spending over a $trillion more money than it takes in a year. So they print up the cash, which makes the cash in your wallet worth less,
And I do think that is part of someone’s plan.
Or maybe it’s all incompetence.
I don’t understand why we even care what the reasons are.
REAL RANT ON.
If that makes me a Trumper, well then sign. me. the. fuck. up. As a matter of fact, as near as I can tell, most of us here agree. We only disagree on what to do. Libertarian Party? Pull the other one. It has a bell on it.
I don’t give a good Goddam who it is that shakes the regular shit up. IT ISN’T WORKING. And it hasn’t for my most of my life.
JFK. Johnson. Gulf of Tonkin. Nixon. EPA. DOE. Fucking Carter. Reagan. Iran. Clintons. Bushes. WMD. 9-11. Obama. Trump. Biden.
Incompetence, my hairy white ass.
Take a page from the Leftists. PIss THEM off for once. For real.
Not the faux rage they playact at. I mean, really piss them off for once.
Maybe then more people will wake the hell up.
RANT OFF.
I will be feeling so guilty tomorrow for spouting off.
Just has been a bad day. Dad is failing. Finally. And I feel guilty for feeling relieved.
Doesn’t negate what I said. Just wish I was more erudite and polite in saying it.
It’s totes okay to be mad
but stay based, stay principled in how you make your decisions; if anything, take time to reflect on your principles, where they came from, and think about how almost nothing you see going on left or right has anything to do with principles: it’s just identity politics that make people mad (notice that the good guys never do anything to fix anything that the bad guys, and their only excuses are unfalsifiable conspiracy theories). It’s a shit world, but it was not made to plan by some well-oiled machine.
Sorry for your troubles but you are absolutely right to rant.
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it either.
Just realized I could have done a Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start the Fire” thing.
Not a Billy Joel fan. That’s my excuse.
Thanks Rhywun. I will still feel guilty tomorrow but your comment helps.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-2023-deficit-was-really-2-trillion/
Oh yeah…, but since someone linked to the 1.7 trillion deficit piece earlier this week, Dominic Pino at NR had an article at the same time saying the deficit was actually 2 trillion because CBO used numbers that estimated “savings” resulting from the Supreme Court striking down the student loan forgiveness plan.
One day it will be over. There’s not even a discussion about the debt, only how to reduce the deficit (and not much on that either). The train of responsibility has long left the station. Firing them all wouldn’t help, since their replacements would be cut from the same cloth.
That is the crux of the matter.
No worries, rant on. We (the country) are being fucked with and it’s increasingly obvious to more and more. Whether that sinks in to the ACAB, tranny story-time crowd – who knows.
We’re the most accepting, functional dysfunctional group around. Vent away.
Had I hit that powerball ticket, knowing I have more years behind me than ahead of me, I pledged that once my fam was taken care of , GlibsInNeed would be a 501(c)(3) charity.
As it happens, Im going to work (in Georgia) in the morning.
where in GA ?
Cumming (HA!) and Oxford. My employer’s HQ is in GA, so Ive been asked to managed 2 easy projects this week before they drop the Hammer.
Ill be back in California for 2 weeks at the refinery next month, so this is how they make nice in the meantime.
“The Refinery” in Cali is where Im sure stack testers get sent to test their will to live. My last visit as a project manager- anything that could go wrong went wrong.
Including losing one of my guys that had to go home to a family emergency. Which is fine- family is always more important than work, and it was his Momma. But that left me a guy short. Then equipment started breaking. 1st I lost my data acquisition which meant I spent a day writing down 1-minute concentrations for 3 hours. Then the sample pump on my O2/CO2 anaylzer quit-a quick MacGyver-esque bypass of the pump and using my NOx instrument to pull gas through fixed that. Then I ran out of gas (60/40% H2-He) for my FID. Then the generator that powers the whole works nearly ran out of gas in the middle of a test. It was one thing after another. Then the lab (Enthalpy 4/10 may not recommend) lost 1/3 of the samples I sent them.
I was ready to arson everything and hang myself. But then I saw my direct deposit. “Fuck. I’ll do this shit for 1 more week. Im a whore.”
Speaking of Refineries in CA – though this was an interesting take.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/a-simple-solution-to-end-frivolous-climate-lawsuits/
Technically speaking…if all the CA special refineries shut down…CA wouldn’t have access to their “special” gas anywhere. A net benefit to CA residents and the rest of us if their standards aren’t arbitrarily imposed on us…but yeah – a hit to Exxon in the short term.
A, why would anyone leave CA when all your operating costs are getting easier by the day to pass on to clients? They’ve almost achieved utility status: people gotta have fuel, so charge whatever you (and your competition agree that you) want and by the way some of the competition went away.
B, closing shop and leaving the state does zero to change one’s liability in a lawsuit regarding old damages. If anything, after losing such a suit, they should stay and pump the locals to help pay for everything.
I though NRO was more generally logical and economics-based than this. What am I missing?
1000x all of this.
The whole thing is a hoax and a fraud and a grift of world-historical proportions.
But as noted above, it’s a religion now and therefore very, very difficult to fight.
It was a guest piece from a guy at the Manhattan Institute. Maybe tough, but I’m in favor of anything that invalidates the CA CAFE.
My standard, stock answer to the Climate Clowns is , “not my religion.” But that’s not good enough anymore.
It’s like the old Catholic thing about meatless Fridays, “not my religion, I’m having a steak.” But it’s now your religion whether you believe or not. Catholic or not, you cannot have meat on Friday.
The lefty loonies running the state that I live in have shut down the largest electrical generating plant in the area. “I don’t believe in your religion!”. “Shut up, your electric costs are going up and, oh, by the way, get used to brownouts.” “I can’t use an electric car!” “Shut up, peasant, our religion says that you have no choice.”
There is no arguing with people about their religion. “God is one” “Shut up peasant, God is three or we will kill you.”
“OK, God is three,” “God is one now peasant, believe or we will kill you.”
I’m feeling like a Jew during the Inquisition: “Eat this pork.” “What if I don’t want the pork?” “Easy choice. Eat the pork or die. See? We give you a choice.”
It is crazy.
But I have hope that there is an out and I believe this is it 👆🏻
They can’t draw blood from a stone forever and if we can figure out how to trust elections again, the people have to vote these crazies out.
Right?
If you watch Youtube and any social media, you are meant to believe that there is half of the country filled with these woke assholes.
I don’t believe it. I go out and the world seems about the same it was thirty years ago. Granted, I don’t live in a huge metropolitan area, but I imagine it is much the same there. Otherwise, there would not be people moving out; it would be more a plague of locusts invading the outlying areas.
Costs are rising to put pressure on everyone. Riots means martial law at some point.
Crap. My tinfoil hat fell off. Gotta make a new one…
I think it’s a matter of the left being so prone to shit all over everything.
I live in a college town and it’s very obvious when you walk around – they tag their leftist bullshit here and there, they rant and rave and get attention in the media.
It’s not so obvious when you actually talk to a broad spectrum of people like I do. Most people don’t like to shit all over their nest.
Exactly. The perception is meant to incite an overreaction.
There’s new billboard saying to only wash with cold water. Fuck that noise.
Seriously?
The future of my youth is merging with the past of my youth.
All temperature Cheer commercials?
Ha, I usually use cold. But it’s a need vs. cost thing. I usually don’t really need warm or hot.
Yes, I don’t have kids.
WRT this morning’s Old Man Music, one of my favorite Marty Stuart songs.
Fun fact- Pam Tillis is singing backup.
Other fun fact- it was originally a Del McCoury song.
Pam Tillis
her dad’s “Detroit City” is a top 100 country tune for me
I lied. It was originally a Ola Belle Reed song, that Del took, and Marty took it from him.
Pam Tillis always was as ugly as a mud fence. But still would- that voice
She was in a car wreck IIRC. Even after that, she was a good-looking woman.
You profess to love fat, small-breasted women for Chrissakes.
I happen to agree with the big girl vibe, but that’s just us Virgos.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28687432/
Michelle Wolf: funny because she’s fair
I haven’t seen her work, but something doesn’t add up, according to her bio:
“She graduated from the College of William & Mary in 2007, where she majored in kinesiology and was a member of the cardiovascular physiology lab.”
“Wolf was employed at Bear Stearns from 2007 to 2008, later at JPMorgan Chase, working for almost four years in mutual funds and managing accounts between the two banks. Around the time of the buyout by JPMorgan, Wolf started improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade and the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT).”
Unless there’s something about finance I don’t understand (a lot), how do you get to be an account manager at JP Morgan with that background?
Oral skills.
Re: Squardle; are you playing the “Got Salt?; 7×7” puzzle?
Me, I’ve got like 5 going at once but that is not one of them.
I think my brain is too linear to work on more than one at a time (apart from the daily ones).
TBF, it’s more like, “started, gave up”. But return once in a while if I’m bored.
So yeah, not concurrently.
Yes
I’ve been working on it about a month; 441 words, 11 letters erased.
“References Available Upon Request”
Or just call Willie Brown.
Be the right race and sex?
Wut?
Looks like a couple undefeated teams thought they could just show up and win today, forgetting the “any given Sunday” rule. 49ers had a chance at the end while Eagles just shot the bed.
Some given Sunday…
Every day is like that.
Let me gay it up for you.
I was trying to avoid the obvious, TYVM.
Never mind… that is a great tune.
Bloody Sunday would have been obvious.
To me, Smiths died after “The Queen Is Dead”
Strangeways was kind of shit, yeah.
But man, the older stuff. Sublime.
For the Japanophile Glibs, is this really a thing?
That’s rather nice. Better than waking up to a Sharpie penis on the forehead.
Fake. That is not “passed out”.
You are so right. Passed out does not include being upright. You’re lucky it doesn’t include waking up with your head stuck to a bloody piece of the carpet.
I wish I didn’t know that.
Yeah, I’ve seen passed out drunk in a gutter and that ain’t it.
Ha! You made me feel better!
Assuming you saw it from afar and not the gutter.
Seen buddies.
I’m classier than that; I’ve only been passed out in bars.
Good for you. Never got that drunk in a bar. I mostly ended up in fights from the periphery.
Not my fault. I swear…I could be standing next to a guy and he would get smacked by some butthole out of the blue.
Next thing I know, it’s full blown MAD MAX. I was fighting for my life from the floor. Kicking…sometimes biting.
Explains why I have not been in a bar for over thirty years.
This was after I got out of the Navy.
Fook all of you with the squid jokes. Like my skinny arms could have passed Marine Boot Camp.
My Dad did though. Don’t know how, but he did.
I’m more proud of that fact than anything I have ever done in my life.
Oh no, no fighting here. Ever.
Just drinking to excess and, to be fair, I have only blacked out once. I was probably on some drug, too – don’t remember which one.
Want to pay $150-190 for a shot that doesn’t work?
https://www.aier.org/article/why-pfizer-and-moderna-are-suddenly-charging-500-percent-more-for-covid-shots/
Good grief.
I notice that the CDC commanded all US clinics to dispose of all J&J vaccines they hadn’t used by now. It’s cheap, doesn’t need refrigeration, and has a long shelf life. Where’s the money in that?
By total coincidence, Fauci and friends don’t have J&J stock.
Elon is bad, hurts journalists feelings,
“What is more, who are these marvellous “actual world-class subject matter experts” that Musk thinks can provide the news without the need for anyone whose explicit job it is to gather it, scrutinise it, second source it, contextualise it, translate it into something intelligible, edit it, get it checked by a lawyer and make sure that it has some bearing on the truth?”
https://www.ft.com/content/6a304136-5983-4e2c-99c0-02a8977d05e9
It says that they know they’ve lost most people, but that the few still getting it are true believers. The ones who will pay anything to get it because they’ve been brainwashed.
Dammit.
I can’t think of the amusing anecdote. It’s right there…
The assholes that will keep taking the boosters until they die???
Unfortunately, a few members of my family. Not interested in fighting that fight.
They are all in on it. Backing out of it is a no go.
Kind of like seeing socialism succeed for a few hundred years. I would be gobsmacked.
I betcha that face mask grab on Giants’ part started it.
I’ve got nothing.
But this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIQFwLkNv1Q&list=PLX66jEixZe1y7v-O5J8Rz0MO22Awyuiz-&pp=iAQB8AUB
Turns out they were in Fort Collins a week or so ago. Ran into a neighbor wearing a SV shirt. Told her that I had just been listening to Trace.
If y’all haven’t ever heard it you should. Money back if you hate it.
I’m building a very special Bass, commissioned or not. Look me me up if you are interested 619629 Fore! Oh.4 tree!
Have to have a better clue, my man. I’m not seeing it.
I’m dumb. Musician…remember?
I bought a Fender P-Bass when we started our band. Ended up playing rhythm guitar.
Sold that P-Bass. Still miss it.
Tundra spoke a bass for his daughter, I just happen to have one on my build list.
Ooo, nice. Trace is one of my favorite albums.
“walking down main street, getting to know the concrete…”
Searching for the blue.
How much are the Giants paying Barkley again?
The last play of the first half cost the Giants the game,
Still, the game was much more interesting that I thought it would have been. I thought the Bills would make Giants into mincemeat.
That was nerve-wracking.
But very entertaining, and you must be pleased with the outcome!
😀
Get up and kick some ass Glibs!
☕🌄😃
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8
🎶🎶
The dancing makes the video, but it’s a good song anyway.
[kicks Sean’s ass]
Pffft, as if.
White boys ain’t got no rhythm. Oh, wait…
Good morning all!
Today I’ve pulled up two more goodies from Laurie Anderson. The first should resonate after the last few years. The second starts with one of my favorite lines.
Only an Expert.
Strange Angels,.
Share and enjoy!
Good morning, Beau, Sean, Ted’S., and Roat!
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning, U! How’s it going?
Dragged myself out of bed, got breakfast, and connected to work.
Maybe I’ll wake up soon.
No rush. It’s overrated.
Damn, I’m up and don’t have the excuse of work. The dogs are better than an alarm clock, they know they go out at 7.
Virginia is seeking nuts
Why is the state running a public nursery?
Species that aren’t profitable for private business maybe? Otherwise it sounds like a good old fashioned waste of money.
Among all the types of waste, I’m least bothered by this sort of project.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Stent-free patzer here.
<strikeNo rush
. It’sis overrated.>/em>Fixed that for you, GT.
Next up, fix my tags.
Your HTML needs work.
My HTML identifies as plain text.
I don’t play that.
Good morning, ‘patzie! 😄
Well, we’re at the “drive to work in the dark” time of year. Not quite at the “drive home in the dark” stage yet.
Kids waiting for buses in the dark.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Johnny Marr strumming with a drumstick, is whut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o76TepMrJI
(sorry about the jiggle-vision; I had nothing to do with it)
Morning all of ye that dare to venture here,
A crisp fall morning, sun will shine, coffee is in the cup, all is right with the world.
Ain’t turnin’ on the news though
Mornin’
Ain’t turnin’ on the news though
Right? Gotta keep the blood pressure down.
Just one more thing.
29 years ago Mrs. Patzer and I exchanged vows. Surprisingly, she hasn’t kicked me out yet.
Mazel tov! 🥂
Congrats to Missus P, the road is long, full of twists and turns, occasionally a little bumpy but ahead tends to be smoother and less traffic.
Oh yeah, Congrats to you as well, the music keeps playing and the dancing never stops
It is amazing what women put up with, isn’t it?