HEY ASSHOLE!!!
You see, Spud likes his little birds flitting to and fro between the multiple bird feeders he has hanging. Two of them are not squirrel proof and there has been a running battle between myself and the hoard. The asshole above is #10 either dispatched or relocated. I will not be deterred from feeding my little chickadees.
Links?
No. Shit. Thank you Richard Nixon.
What I get from this story is that the USS Carney needs a paint job.
We are currently soliciting donations to have this placed on a billboard someplace where it will be ultra triggering.
Never going to happen. Southwest Idaho would have no place to buy weed.
I give you the starting forward for the Washington Generals.
“Hell, no. I want nothing to do with Gaza. Those Palestinians are cray cray.”
Okay, I’m outta here. Enjoy your weekend!
You’re welcome. The “squirrel” songs I could find made me instantly homicidal. I give you Susanna instead.
Are we there yet?
SMOD is still a longs ways off.
Shit
I was there before the video was over.
Biden can suck it.
He’s already sucked all the dicks he needed to suck to get to the end of his life in the White House.
I know. Thereβs nothing to be done.
Kamala can fill in for him.
I’m starting to think she isn’t even good at that.
She got in the white house somehowβ¦
Good Lord. I cannot think of a better sentence than that. Kudos.
Biden can sucketh and bloweth it.
I haven’t put my bird feeders out yet, I don’t want the deer hanging around before deer season, 2 weeks yet. Squirrels just go with territory, they hang upside down on the tube feeders, spill a little corn, blue jays fight the turkeys for the corn on the ground. The chickadees and nuthatches will be here in a couple hours after the sunflower seed feeders get hung up.
Were it not for the wildlife, winter here would look like an Ansel Adams photo.
I’ve got an eight cup feeder that they’ll completely empty in three days. They jump on it on the way to the ground, and then eat the spilled grain. My issue is placing the feeders under the tree canopy, to protect them from the raptors. And that opens access to the squirrels.
I had one of those squirrel slinger feeders for a while. Very entertaining.
You got the Mockingbird here. State bird.
This raucous piece of shit that is the bane of my existence. I hate those damn things,
Forget woodpeckers…these assholes run off every nice bird in existence. Then they dive-bomb your fat butt whenever you come out of your house.
I hate them.
Hate birds, my ass. Try a MOCKINGBIRD. They will peck those Canadian shitheads until they move on elsewhere.
OK. I’m done ranting.
I thought Democrats were in favor of secession.
Dixiecrats?
Carrying over a discussion from the dead thread:
The reason the GOP can’t elect a House Speaker is because their members are bitterly split between the dominant RINO wing, and the tiny limited government wing who are at least somewhat receptive to the POV of libertarians.
They can’t peel off * any * Democratic votes to break the deadlock, because the Donkeys range from hard-core statists to actual no-shit socialists.
These partisan splits represent the underlying sea of right-statists and left-statists who comprise the overwhelming majority of the citizenry.
So, the rebel contingent of libertarian-ish Republican congressional members hold a precarious balance of power, and so far have refused to settle for a RINO antithetical to their purported values.
IMO, this deadlock is the best outcome we few holdouts here can expect.
All this was brought home on the drive north yesterday to the Glibs meet up in Dallas, when Mrs Prole and I got into an extended … debate? argument? … over what libertarians believe. She asked me what sort of government we would like, and I said we were all pro-choice in the sense that we would like to get rid of a thicket of laws that limit choices of individuals, and because we couldn’t do jack about it because we are vastly outnumbered.
Then hilarity ensued for a couple hundred miles.
The permanent bipartisan progressive caucus is still large and in charge. The vast majority on both sides just want to take taxpayer money home so they can get re-elected. A conservative speaker throws a wrench in that endeavor.
The bi-partisan establishment is not progressive, they just want their place at the trough.
Even if true, they’re willing to be led by a progressive minority that will expand the government, thereby ensuring the trough stays full, so the practical result is no different than if they were progressive.
You need to read more from the progressive perspective. They seem to believe that even though they can’t drive the Democratic party enough in their direction, that the whole country is really at heart progressive and the only reason the Democratic party isn’t 100% in control of every political office in the country is that they keep selling the progressives out. In short, they offer the same complaint about Democrats that a lot of libertarians do about Republicans.
Well, sure, the radicals always want their pony to arrive by Next Day Air. Objectively speaking, they move the ball forward though. They have a party that’s sufficiently in thrall to their agenda that it will trickle out policy incrementally to placate them, if nothing else. Libertarians don’t. The only extractions that have been made from Republicans since the 1980s are tax cuts, and it’s hard to get psyched for trimming the top marginal rate by 6% every 8 years anymore.
They organize and we abhor doing so. There’s a lesson in that, but we can’t endure it.
True, the cat herding paradox is sadly unavoidable.
There apparently is a free lunch for many people, free to them in that they didn’t earn it or have to work for it. Who doesn’t like free money? If free money buys votes so much the better. Those paying for it believe that with the right people in office it can be stopped. The battle has been lost at the education office.
This, right here.
I am loving it. Fight away. Stop passing laws and spending money.
Nice seeing you, BTW!
Gaetz is not in any way, shape, or form, even semi-libertarianish. He’s a populist attention whore.
Who cares? Heβs making things tough for the uniparty. Nobody in politics is a saint.
Massie may not be a saint but he actually has principles, Gaetz wouldn’t recognize one if it pinched his nipple.
Massie was willing to continue supporting McCarthy after McCarthy reneged on the deal that put him in the speaker’s chair to begin with. Massie’s one of the good ones, but there’s no such thing as principle in D.C.
Politics is about knowing when you can win and when you can’t; knowing which fights are worth it and which are not. There are what, 10 people, in Congress that believe in the anachronism of regular order. Probably in the mistaken belief that it might somehow slow down spending.
“Politics is about knowing when you can win and when you canβt; knowing which fights are worth it and which are not. ”
And Massie, principled or not, doesn’t have the brains to figure this out.
People I like are pragmatic.
People I don’t like are unprincipled.
McCarthy reneged
what does it mean when someone promises something they don’t actually have any control over? was McCarthy dumb, or were the people who thought it could all come true dumb?
Yes.
In any case, he did renege on things he could control as well, namely the spending bill to avoid a government shut down. If he didn’t have the stones to follow through on the policy he promised, he shouldn’t have promised it. He caved on that because of “optics” (god I hate using that term) and political expediency, not because he literally had no choice in the matter.
he did renege
I’m not defending him or attacking you; not my monkeys, not my fight
I’m just saying it was all stupid, and some of it was impossible, so shouldn’t libertarians just shrug and giggle? As soon as someone promises me a perpetual motion device, I don’t start a fuller and wider list of their incompetencies: I walk away.
It’s like the Hamas arguments: is this or that a war crime? Who gives a fuck: it’s a racial land war, so everyone’s going to do whatever they want/need to plow the other guys into the sea, and the Hague can go fuck itself cause it’s just gonna be, sooner or later, a pile of babies of one flavor or the other. No list of war crimes is needed because no amount of hangings is going to change how anyone thinks about it.
I’m also not shouting shut up: this conversation is decent and thoughtful. But it ain’t Patton vs Montgomery.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m not invested in any meaningful way in the outcome of the speakership, I just don’t have any tears to shed for McCarthy, and I don’t blame the so-called “hostage takers” for holding him accountable by tossing him out on his ear, even if their defacto leader is doing it more for self-aggrandizement than principle. Enemy of my enemy type of thing, I guess. I’m to a point with federal politics where my level of concern for the functioning of Our Democracy is too weak to be measured, and I just enjoy seeing the masters of the universe humiliated, however it happens to be effectuated.
Principles are not a feature of the DC crowd. I am looking for the complete and utter asshole that makes them froth at the mouth.
He makes them forget their supposed principles and leads them to somewhere beyond that.
We are unfortunately past the civilized discussion that we both desire.
I feel so sorry for younger generations. They are in the “create strong men” phase of history.
leads them to somewhere beyond that
I’m not sure that’s a place I want to go to, though I’m sure my religious friends don’t doubt it is my final destination.
100%
Agree. Who the fuck cares if there is a “speaker”.
lolsorry
I recently had a house guest. Old friend of mine who wanted to meet up to welcome me to Texas after years of haranguing me to move out here. He brought his new wife. A lapsed Mormon, who recently succeeded at getting him to switch to (legal) alcohol instead of (illegal) weed after being a lifelong stoner. Inevitably the topic of drugs and the law came up. Let’s just say, I forgot there’s certain things we aren’t supposed to say in mixed company.
Texas
stay out of the Big Bend: it is so beautiful and tough and the folk there are so decent and genuine that it will leave you feeling like the rest of the state is just a suburb of Little Rock
Heh, everything is “Big” in Texas. Apparently I live in the “Big Country,” a fact of which I was unaware until I started mapping the road trip for my U-Haul. I don’t think I’m at any great risk of falling in love with the place, but I’m such a hermit that I’m fairly indifferent about where I live anyway. Cheap property, no state income tax and no big city bullshit is “good enough.”
Big Country
I don’t know that one unless you mean Abilenish, which is on the cusp of ecosystems: kinda plains, kinda cross timbers
the first Hilton was in Cisco
I’ve worked in Graham; there’s a great meat and three in Ranger
Yessir.
I had no idea. I’m about the same distance from Abilene as Cisco, but out west instead of east.
RCDean is from the Childress area (motto: not quite Oklahoma)
US287, the second longest highway in the US, runs through there, and I drove parts of it in CO and WY this month
the Hotter-N-Hell 100 in Wichita Falls is one the greatest things I ever did with my clothes on
Haha, I was actually looking in the Wichita Falls area when I was real estate shopping, but the fates conspired to bring me here.
Little Rock? Did you miss-type?
the tiny limited government wing who are at least somewhat receptive to the POV of libertarians
the underlying sea of right-statists and left-statists who comprise the overwhelming majority of the citizenry
this deadlock is the best outcome we few holdouts here can expect
correct; correct; correct
Then hilarity ensued for a couple hundred miles.
Sorry.
The major problem with this deadlock, is that normies hate it, don’t understand what the limited gov’t wing wants, and if they did would reject it out of hand.
And that could cost them the house in a year, which could cost us the deadlock, and any chance, no matter how miniscule, of picking apart the Gordian Knot we have allowed gov’t to become in this county.
I don’t particularly like Republicans, and i really don’t like social conservatives, but they are at least somewhat amenable to the libertarian cause. But shitheads like Gaetz have zero understanding of politics, and that to get this ship turned you need to start turning the population, not just a handful of Reps and Judges. And this doesn’t help.
Look at this shit.
Shitting Shrek Toothpaste Cap Kids Toothpaste Attachment https://a.co/d/crJXFKT
She asked me what sort of government we would like
Not picking on your wife. This is the essence of the problem. It is inconceivable to the vast majority of people to even suggest a radical reduction of “government”.
“OMG! Who would do [unnecessary gov’t “job”]?”
Susanna must be a little squirrelly cause she got my nuts moving.
That is one fine piece of woman flesh. Even now at 63.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Susanna sing this.
Agree.
This might help cure that itch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTtlm2xJ-g
Goddammmit. I spent ten mins replying to every link and the squirrels ate it. Fuckin’ squirrels need to go raid bird feeders and leave my comments alone.
Claims to Identify
Prosperity is the correct answer.
Susanna Hoff’s is a fine choice. A fine choice indeed. And not just because I am a lecherous old coot.
Me neither. *nervously jerks on collar*
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gov-richard-lamm-my-plan-to-destroy-america-35408
Posted without comment. It speaks for itself on more than one level.
Belgium and Switzerland have done well as multilingual and multireligious countries. They have much stricter immigration laws though.
I was tempted to add India to the list, but they fractured along those same lines not long after the British left.
“We’ve got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life” Gov Lamm
He is being somewhat simplistic.
I agree that the diversity crap is bad. I do not agree that introducing a foreign custom is bad.
Our problem is that the usual suspects consider anything outside our culture is bad. We used to consider things that were outliers as such. They are outliers.
We examine them. Mull them over, from a point of unapologetic cultural superiority.
Having passed that scrutiny, they were accepted and enmeshed into the whole.
Oh, how much better things are now.
“Honey, I’m just preparing to hibernate.”
This you?
I was thinking of something a little bit darker.
So tedious. This kind of thing isn’t happening, folks.
Can we please just focus on increasing freedom nationwide instead?
To the contrary, I think focusing on the local level is more likely to lead to practical advancements in liberty. Although I also don’t think rejiggering state borders qualifies as “focusing on the local level.”
No, they should just know their place as bitches to the Portland-Eugene axis? They either move, or they redraw the line – I think either option is equally valid.
I don’t mean that, I just don’t think there’s any chance of success with redrawing state borders. Something like the FSP, maybe even at the county level within an otherwise shitty state, would probably be more likely to see a meaningful improvement in liberty within the lifetimes of the reformers.
Vote with the feet then. More polarization, but the bitch of it is, we’re always going to end up outnumbered. This won’t end well, but when the busybodies become dead bodies, it may end slightly better.
I like the billboard idea. Here is a video of Hamas rockets falling on Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lix0CKIULvs
Al-Jazeera refers to hostages held by Hamas as “detainees” (mutahajazin), same as WaPo, until they got named and shamed.
So, in doodling with Cods & Cuntes II, Trebuchet Boogaloo, I have a problem because I am squeamish. Grimme is a soldier who was at Battle of Agincourt with Henry V. It’s where he earned his earldom. He was NOT at the Siege of Rouen, where Henry pretty much starved out 20,000 people. Now, Grimme’s castle is under siege and they are winning, but Not-Obvious Villain is not obvious and comes in to pretty much slaughter everything and everyone except 2 of our intrepid protagonists (tortured and left to die in the cold, on purpose). This occurs in 1422, just after Henry’s death.
Questions:
1. Would they wipe out EVERYONE, babies, children, servants, serfs, etc.?
2. They would take the war horses, but would they take or slaughter the mares?
3. Would they slaughter the war dogs?
4. Would they slaughter or take the livestock (sheep mostly)?
5. How much of the castle’s resources would they take, e.g., food?
6. How far of a radius outward from the castle would they lay to waste? For instance, can I have some people hide in a forest hut about 5 miles out and not be found?
(This is where nw pops up and asks me if I need a map.)
I need to know what my 2 intrepid protagonists have left to work with after they’re left alone to die.
My own short answers:
1. No, but they would take rich people hostage if possible.
2. No, not if they could be trained for their own use.
3. If the soldiers were hungry, yes.
4. Depends on how much raiding they did before the siege. See the section below on chevauchee.
5. They’d leave enough for whatever garrison they left behind at the castle. Enough for at least a few hundred soldiers, I’d say.
6. The medieval English would have raided the area around the castle long before attempting to capture it.
Some historical examples to answer your questions:
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Carcassonne became famous for its role in the Albigensian Crusades when the city was a stronghold of Occitan Cathars. In August 1209 the crusading army of the Papal Legate, abbot Arnaud Amalric, forced its citizens to surrender. Viscount Raymond-Roger de Trencavel was imprisoned while negotiating his city’s surrender and died in mysterious circumstances three months later in his dungeon. The people of Carcassonne were allowed to leaveβin effect, expelled from their city with nothing more than the shirts on their backs. Simon de Montfort was appointed the new viscount and added to the fortifications.
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The Warwolf, or War Wolf or Ludgar (French: Loup de Guerre), is believed to be the largest trebuchet ever made. It was created in Scotland by order of King Edward I of England, during the siege of Stirling Castle, as part of the Scottish Wars of Independence.
Warwolf at Stirling
When disassembled, the weapon would fill 30 wagons in parts. It reportedly took five master carpenters and forty-nine other labourers at least three months to complete.[1]
A contemporary account of the siege states, “During this business the king had carpenters construct a fearful engine called the loup-de-guerre [sic., War wolf], and this when it threw, brought down the whole wall.”
Even before construction could be completed, Scottish soldiers offered surrender, fearing the weapon’s potential to destroy the entire castle. Edward sent the truce party back inside the castle, declaring, “You do not deserve any grace, but must surrender to my will.”[1] Edward decided to carry on with the siege and witness the destructive power of the weapon. Reportedly, the Warwolf could accurately hurl rocks weighing as much as 135 kilograms (298 lb) from distance of 200 metres (660 ft) and level a large section of the curtain wall.[2]
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A chevauchΓ©e (French pronunciation: [ΚΙvoΚe], “promenade” or “horse charge”, depending on context) was a raiding method of medieval warfare for weakening the enemy, primarily by burning and pillaging enemy territory in order to reduce the productivity of a region, in addition to siege warfare most often as part of wars of conquest but occasionally as a punitive raid. The use of the chevauchΓ©e declined at the end of the 14th century as the focus of warfare turned to sieges. It is conceptually similar to the scorched earth strategies used in modern warfare.
In the Iberian peninsula, this type of raid was usually called a cabalgada[1] (older spelling: cavalgada). The Ghazi razzia is also considered similar in purpose.[2]
The chevauchΓ©e could be used as a way of forcing an enemy to fight, or as a means of discrediting the enemy’s government and detaching his subjects from their loyalty. This usually caused a massive flight of refugees to fortified towns and castles, which would be untouched by the chevauchΓ©e.
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The tactic focused on undermining the enemy government’s authority and destroying his resources by focusing on taking hostages and other material goods rather than engaging in large scale military battles.
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Thank you! I will add:
This is English-on-English warfare. So, two neighboring castles, Kyneward and Sheffield, are at odds with one another. Grimme Kyneward is the vassal to Sheffield, but Sheffield wants Grimme’s land. So after Henry V dies, who was Grimme’s only protection, and since the English throne is held by a baby, Sheffield tries to take Kyneward. Kyneward easily resists and ultimately wipes out Sheffield. Kyneward castle’s opened up. BUT THEN! A not-until-now-mentioned noble to the south, who has this newfangled thing called CANNONS, comes in and pretty much wipes Kyneward out because now he can have Kyneward AND Sheffield.
The predicament that I envision, but am willing to change to suit historical likelihood (hi, Theeeeeeeee Hyperbole!), is that everything and everyone is gone/destroyed/burned out except Grimme and his wife (because I can’t spell her name without my autocorrect), who have been tortured and are left to die.
Things to mention:
*Kyneward is a breeding estate for war horses and war dogs.
*They have almost no money on hand because it was taken to Italy to be put into a bank (cue quest).
The War of the Roses took place later in England, but the technology used for it was similar.
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The siege of the Tower of London was an episode of the Wars of the Roses, in which adherents of the rival Plantagenet houses of Lancaster and York were pitted against each other. In June 1460, several Yorkist nobles, who had unsuccessfully rebelled against King Henry VI the year before and had fled to Calais, invaded the south east of England at Sandwich. They enjoyed widespread support through popular discontent with the ruling court among the populace of Kent and the merchants of London, and were greeted by enthusiastic crowds when they entered London on 2 July.
The Lancastrian garrison of the Tower of London, commanded by Lord Scales, opened fire indiscriminately into the surrounding streets with cannon and wildfire, causing many deaths and injuries. While most of the Yorkist army marched north into the Midlands to engage the King’s Lancastrian army, 2000 men were left under the Earl of Salisbury to besiege the Tower. They were aided by many of the city’s aldermen and armed militia, who used bombards secured from a royal depot to demolish part of the Tower’s curtain wall, and blockaded the Tower to prevent supplies reaching the garrison.
On 10 July, the Yorkists won the Battle of Northampton and captured King Henry, who they treated respectfully for the time being. On 19 July, the garrison of the Tower were starved into surrender. Scales attempted to escape in disguise by boat, but was recognised and butchered by a mob.
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I’ve been to the Tower of London. It lives up to the hype.
I should add that they’d retrain the captured war dogs, if possible, but if the soldiers were hungry, they might just eat them. If the attacking army is confident enough to take a castle, they’re probably not starving.
You could have your main characters hide in a secret chamber in the castle only they know about. Then they can escape in the dead of night.
Or maybe have them hide in a box and friendlies rescue them later.
The hut idea still works so long as they are deep in the woods and no enemy can see the smoke from their fires.
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In 1621 Dutch author Hugo de Groot escaped from Loevestein Castle, where he was held captive, by hiding himself inside a book chest. He was then smuggled outside.
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Grimme is the earl and a soldier. He would never do that. Bridget would be secreted away, yes.
I’m undecided on the hut in the woods because I don’t know if I want to kill everybody or leave someone alive to help Grimme and Bridget (and Grimme’s brother) out of the country.
“Grimme is the earl and a soldier. He would never do that.”
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βThe better part of valor is discretionβ is a well-known quote from William Shakespeareβs history play Henry IV Part 1.
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Ah, Falstaff. He was Ye Olde Eric Cartman.
Well, this is a romance and women don’t like their heroes discretioning too much if it comes off as cowardly.
Not sure how hiding in a hut in the woods is more cowardly than hiding in the castle, but hey, it’s your book.
Is there any romance in having the foresight for a clever escape plan?
How do you feel about how the Count of Monte Cristo escaped? He ditched the body of his dead friend and took his place in the guy’s body bag.
I didn’t say my hero was the one hiding in the hut.
I’m trying to figure out which of my characters from book 1 I am comfortable killing off.
Let me add, which BELOVED characters from book 1.
Imagine which characters George R. R. Martin would kill.
[whisper] I’ve never read him [/whisper]
βKill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribblerβs heart, kill your darlings.β
β Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
I guess that’s why he killed Tommy and not Andy in The Shawshank Redemption.
Alfred Hitchcock, on the other hand, always said he regretted killing the kid in Sabotage.
“Kill your darlings” doesn’t refer to characters. It refers to words/sentences/phrases/scenes you are emotionally attached to and don’t want to edit out of your manuscript.
An escape passage maybe? Also, though it came a bit later, many Catholic houses and castles had priest holes, were the newly “converted” would hide the man of the cloth.
Hiding in the forest is probably a long term no go. Small branches and undergrowth were often cleared off by the locals for fires and larger trees were often in only small patches unlike today.
Maybe they hide in the ruins of a destroyed Roman building, or if near the coast something destroyed by the Norse. Locals would stay away fearing witches or ghosts, and there should be sources of water nearby. They biggest obstacle for a multi-year hide in a set location is food. The locals will not take well to their scarce resources going into somebody else’s stomach.
You could apply modern evasion techniques. Move at night, get away from the battle site, and avoid habitation unless you absolutely require something.
Funny you should say witch.
The person who owns the hut is the local healer that the locals call a witch, but they know she’s not actually a witch.
So the idea is, Grimme, Bridget, and Grimme’s older brother strike out on a quest to get their money out of the bank in Italy after they’ve recovered from their torture wounds. In the deep forest hut. With the healer witch. Who is Grimme’s sister.
years ago during la Tour’s turn along the northern coasts, some team’s tactical blunder induced Phil Liggett to refer to the road to Rouen; I’ve been giggling ever since
Brittany in general is lovely; I would gain 100 pounds a year if I lived in Rouen
Goodness, I ate my way through the boucheries and boulangeries of Belgium and France–and STILL lost weight.
No fructose.
I read that in Cloris Leachman’s voice.
it’s only 100 miles from Abilene to Anarene
*takes notes*
I’m sure the new Grand Unified Theory of Nutrition will be just as successful as the last Grand Unified Theory of Nutrition.
The Oregon Democratic Party, which makes up the majority of the Legislature, βhas not been willing to move our bill forward into committee, give us a hearing,β said Matt McCaw, spokesman for the Greater Idaho movement.
Of course, because you’re evil secessionists and insurrectionists.
/channeling the pushback NH legislators got when they proposed secession
Tucker on George Floyd
Good stuff but we’ve known all this for years.
At this point we are clearly in the territory of that shopkeeper who keeps a sign in his window espousing the correct slogans that everybody knows are ridiculous but it’s not safe to do otherwise.
“Burn, Loot, and Murder!”
lol this guy is off the hook
since you’re a car guy, you know about the Dale, a proported electrical car, and the tranny who came out in the middle of building it and its production firm? there’s a documentary about it that is quite the train wreck and you can’t turn it off
I could have posted this to the EV notes below, but I think Tucker’s dad was one of the main reporters on the whole mess. I don’t know shit about California and shan’t ever; the place reminds me of Grandpa Jones: “fact is stranger than fiction”
I was going to say I didn’t know about the Dale, but then as I read the article, I saw the picture of “Liz” Carmichael and said, “I’ve seen that picture before. Someone on Glibs linked an article about this car.” And I think whomever linked that article was making a reference to how Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos was not the first of her type.
Pretty ballsy of her to name it the “20th Century Motor Car Company”.
We are currently soliciting donations to have this placed on a billboard someplace where it will be ultra triggering.
TAKE MY MONEY! Where do I donate?
Yo. Come Zoom with us. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12657327/Samantha-woll-synagogue-leader-MURDERED-Detroit-jewish.html
This story is about a woman in Detroit who ran a synagogue and worked with Dem politicians on improving Jewish/Palestinian relations. She was murdered outside her home.
Everyone is assuming it was a terrorist attack, lone wolf, whatever.
But wouldnβt this be the perfect cover for a disgruntled spouse, love rival, etc to take advantage of the βobviousβ motive and dispatch oneβs enemies? Seems like questioning would be cursory at best.
+1 Ox-Bow Incident
+1 Chesterton story about an impostor
But wouldnβt this be the perfect cover for a disgruntled spouse, love rival, etc to take advantage of the βobviousβ motive and dispatch oneβs enemies?
Yes.
See, that doesn’t sell newspapers/ads/whateverthefuckmakesnewsmediamoneyinthesedays, so no one brings it up.
You scare me sometimes,
This may turn out to be a clever crime. But it would be negligent not to explore the obvious possibility.
ISTR someone murdering someone then claiming the missing person had been in the towers on 9/11.
I got a summons today to court. I got Jury Duty!
/they’ll be disappointed to know I agree with Doug Stanhope. Specially WRT Jury Nullification.
Wear your “woodchippers for everyone” t shirt.
Heh. Commie car reporter says what?
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a45586672/ev-demand-trends-gm-ford/
Itβs complicated to figure out only 10% of the populace wants electric cars, apparently.
Blue Oval is to come online in west TN in 2025; one imagines that many have over-invested in the project/area……Over-Rated?
LOL I don’t know who that is but he strongly resembles more than one hipster NYC dude I hit on over the years with zero success because they hadn’t figured things out yet.
You will virtue signal… . or else.
To TPTB I posted an email to the designated proton mail account of “What We Are Reading”
not quite Oklahoma
I’m no Leonardo DiCaprio fanboi, but he does an excellent job with Killers of the Flower Moon
deNiro fails to convince: if you know anything about OK, it is impossible to imagine any version of him numbering amongst them
It’s showing across the street. Zero interest and 3.5 hours GTFO.
Heh Evil Dead 2 next Tue. only. That could drag me across the street.
“It Follows” on Mon. only. Anyone seen that? I only know of it because the music is by a chiptune guru I like.
3.5 hours
it feels like 2, but if you don’t have some interest or experience in the area it might be quite dull
Joe Mantegna’s* family are from there and had a restaurant, I don’t know which town.
*I think it was him, anyway
*er, grocery?
Joe Grocery? You’ve got an odd auto-correct. :-p
McAllister has (had?) a large Italian population.
Ow! My optic nerve!
About bedtime…
Im laying in a ditch on a back road waiting to set off strob lights and Michael myers music for a hay ride. Why didn’t I move sooner
I’m off to bed, but, I gotta say before I leave: I can’t quite get a read on what is going onhere.
I think he’s been hitting the mint juleps.
I think he’s contributing to the “atmosphere” for a “haunted hay ride.” Those, and haunted houses, are very popular here in flyover country.
Bingo! I was rushing to type while I waited.
How did you get roped into that so soon after arriving in the area?
Family. It was fun
I hooked up with a coworker at a haunted house. I had assumed she would look better out of the decaying corpse makeup. Boy was I disappointed.
It wasn’t makeup?
Columbo here. The one where Nimoy is evil without a goatee.
I love the old nurse outfits. And doctors with ties. I feel like something is lost because they all dress like slobs now and I am a hypocrite because I dress like a slob too.
It’s slobs all the way down.
Remember the early years where we didn’t.
I’m lying. I always dressed slobbishly. The 90’s said it was grunge.
I did go through a period at work where I dressed better. Slacks…nice shirt…tie.
It never really worked out. Still ended up going out in the field to fix things.
I had to wear a shirt and tie at work in the aughts and I hated every minute of it.
I was jealous of chicks who could go comfort or slutty as desired.
I never liked workplaces where women were allowed to wear sandals but men weren’t.
There was a stricter dress code for teachers than students at the Florida school I taught at.
I committed the cardinal sin of wearing jeans on a Monday. At the same time, the entire last month of the school year was all sorts of wacky dress up days.
COVID really warped public education. I didn’t think that was possible. Turns out that issuing laptops to every student does not improve learning. Who could have seen that coming?
“Business casual” means “wear whatever the guy just above you wears”.
Good God, Derpy.
I just read both our comments. We are the Crane brothers from Frasier.
How so? I mean, neither of us is an effete wine snob.
Right?
I can tolerate either/or, but not both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJagAyCGZbg
I’m not. Wine is in a box here.
We just seem to be…something.
I’m sorry if I have offended.
And there you go.
No worries. I misinterpreted your comment.
I like box wine. In fact, if it’s wet, I’ll drink it. 3 days booze free. The struggle continues.
We’re like those two guys who got along well, Tesla and Twain. Or maybe Tolkien and Lewis.
I’m sure they had complaints about that time. Heels..in this dress??!!
The most comfortable footwear I have ever owned was some Redwings. Once I got them broken in, they were seriously the most wonderful shoes I have ever worn.
I was 24 at the time. I’m sure that had a lot to do with it. My fat 59 year old ass would think they are the most uncomfortable shoes ever made.
I wore a tie every day for work back in the ninties, kind of miss it. Part of it is Oregon culture, which is, at best, business casual. But it is also a dumbing down of culture. Getting a shirt that fits, learning to tie a tie, it is pretty comfy, and attractive. Gives you a little flair.
I did have to work in NYC for a week once, and the message sent out was business casual. So, I arrived California style, polo shirt and chinos, not realizing what NYC style was, button downs with your tie. Meh, it was a fun week anyway.
Yeah the Seattle-ish people I work with tend to dress like real slobs. And so many really big tattoos, men and women. With PhDs.
My own boss, a Vice President and the head of R&D, has a carefully curated SU casual style. His button down shirts are just a little too tight (even though he himself is slim due to his regular jogging), and his slacks are rumpled just-so and seem to have been washed enough times to fade a bit.
My firm belief is that he pays good money to achieve that look. His immaculate wingtip shoes give it away.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
That’s why I’m voting for bearded Spock.
How about man-scaped Spock?
I will gladly support any version of Spock over all the declared candidates.
You can choose between Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich.
This is a supposedly free country. We deserve better.
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. π
Glad they no longer wear those filthy never laundered ties in a medical setting. Need to stop wearing their scrubs as off prem/before/after work clothing. And wash their filthy fucking hands.
free speech, a common casualty of war
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According to her lawyer, Abeer Baker, she was accused of “disruptive behaviour” by police officers, who said her posts could incite violence among her followers.
The post that attracted police attention was an image of the Palestinian flag with the Arabic motto: “There is no victor but God.”
Ms Baker says the singer, who is well known across the Arab world for her songs about Palestinian heritage, was expressing a religious sentiment. Israeli authorities interpreted the singer’s post as a call to arms for Palestinians.
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, police in Israel have adopted what they call a “zero tolerance policy” towards social media activity deemed to express support for Hamas, an Islamist group which is committed to the destruction of Israel and designated as a terrorist group by Israel, as well as the US, UK, and many other countries.
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I’d say free speech was under assault well before this war.
USN ships consistently look like shit because of the current environmentally “acceptable” paints that don’t protect anything, or last. Combined with routinely neglected maintenance.
Yes!
Old squid. Surface ships need to mirror the surface. Under the surface…not so much.
SW Idaho would still have easy access to pot. It’s just SW Idaho would be a hundred miles further west. Ada County would be in Central or SE Idaho.
Also, fuck the degenerate dopeheads.
Wait, the Houthis are Iranian stooges? Not just innocent victims of Saudi marauding??
Good morning all!
After Soft Cell, Marc Almond became something of a crooner.
The Stars We Are.
Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart.
Share and enjoy!
Good morning, Beau!
And good night again. Iβm on the West coast and need MOAR sleep!
Hey Glibs!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RvML6X2p4C4
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Yo!
Sometimes coffee, bread and cheese is the best of all possible breakfasts.
/not keto
Make it bread cheese, grilled and served with some Rao’s pizza sauce.
https://www.wisconsincheese.com/about-cheese/bread-cheese
On tap for today is meeting a NYS IT Director for a first date at a winery where they are having a Days of Wine and Donuts event.
https://teara.govt.nz/files/27219-pc_1.jpg
Someone up UCS‘s chain of command?
You’re dating UCS?
NTTAWWT.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/2-drivers-killed-in-fiery-crash-that-closed-i-476-through-montco/article_76ea7b84-704d-11ee-b942-d73bf32b12a0.html
Good Samaritan got splatted. Sad.
Top o’ the morning Glibs!
Good Morning Gibs:
Its a difficult world out there. Hope you can hug your families.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Good morning, fellow rapscallions!
Just finished a find article on Quillette on people talking past each other because of ideographs. Have a look and see what you think of it.