You know what this means, right? Yeah, it means all the leaves are on the friggin’ ground.
So what’s going on in the world? Anything? I mean other than tip toeing our way into WWIII? I need to toss a couple of links in, but I will try and see if there’s something else worth talking about on a Saturday evening.
Let’s link!
Tayyip wants attention. I think this could also be interpreted as “please don’t start rioting in Turkey”.
So long, Mike. We hardly knew ya. Actually, we did know you, and that’s why you’re dropping out early.
Much targets for derision here.
Have you ever wondered what happened to “piss Jesus”?
Oh, wait! There’s still a war in Ukraine. Here’s some propaganda.
Okay, folks. That’s it for me. Time to watch Boise lose to Wyoming.
Fuck Mike Pence.
I’d vote for Obama before ever thinking about voting for Pence. Yeah, I said it.
I can’t go that far. I do understand your intent.
@EricBoehm87 Mike Pence realizes he won’t win the nomination of the Hang Mike Pence Party after all
This. Dumbass did more to piss off the base than most of team blue.
I wonder if Mike Pence feels any shame in having fired the starting gun in the movement that shut down all the churches in the United States for months or even years. It was he who elevated Fauci and Birx do be the people in charge of Covid management. It was he who shielded them from the immediate pushback they got for their idiotic ideas. Without Pence’s support, the lockdowns would not have happen.
I would think a devout Christian would feel some regret if he unleashed the minions of Caesar to shut down the House of God. I would think he would demonstrate contrition publicly for the harm he did.
For someone who wears his religion on his sleeve, he’s been remarkably quiet.
Pence is first and foremost an establishment politician. No shame, no regret.
He will get the best Shirley Temples at all the cocktail parties.
The good Italian cherries?
Yes, the supposed Nice Guy Republican was an enthusiastic Covidocrat. Cause all we need are Nice Guy technocrats to fix everything.
The Christian thing was a shield. Or that is what he was thinking it was.
I’m not sure that it is even necessary any longer.
At least as far as the “elite” are concerned.
The “elite” have really not studied the history of Christianity. Went up against the world order…subsumed the world order. Became the world order.
I would not bet against it.
How did Pence pull this off without the consent of President Warp Speed?
He didn’t. Pence can barely pull off his own socks as near as I can tell.
Before you rant against me…he accepted the VP position back then.
If he did it to rail against the admin…well…
First of all, he was guilty of treason wasn’t he? He must have been working against the constitutionally-elected administration of which he was part of.
Again…treason.
I’m assuming that he was not guilty of that, so I guess the best that can be said is that he was a goddamn idiot.
HERE…we can agree that Trump was a fucking moron for keeping enemies so close to him.
I would argue it was trust…you can argue it was idiocy.
We agree.
I argue we are all screwed and it is way too late.
If you go through your presidency and hired one asshole, well you hired an asshole, If you go through your presidency and everyone you hired is and asshole…
You are surrounded by assholes. Let’s stipulate that.
The only primary question is if hiring only assholes was your intent.
If not, then why are you surrounded by assholes? Surely, you would have made sure it was not so.
Except…maybe there are outside powers making it so.
Secondly…you just might be surrounded by people that do not bear you good will.
Their only purpose is to make sure that the assholes get into your inner circle.
It’s happened before. Not outside reality.
No excuses for Trump.
Just need for everyone to apply it to every cocksucker before and after him.
Bidenomics?????
If your presidency requires hiring in Washington D.C… Everyone you hired is an asshole, and it says nothing about you.
You are the President you hire who you want to, there are no requirements.
You are so, precious.
I think that has already been answered.
LOL “suspends” his campaign. I forgot about that chestnut.
Ideally, he hangs it by the neck until it’s dead.
It’s the most comically transparent bullshit euphemism evar.
Sorry, Mike, your campain is d-e-d.
It’s important as a legal distinction so that the debts incurred by the campaign survive as belonging to the campaign as a going concern rather than to the principals.
Ah, clever.
And still receive donations, I believe.
Yes.
I had no idea Moll was that old.
Only Dan and Roz are left.
Errr, Quon Le? John Astin and Yakov Smirnoff!
Brent Spiner.
He’s a hoot in Out to Sea
He was on Night Court? Surely not a regular. THough I did not watch to the bitter end.
7 episodes per IMDB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NrNlzstKzo
“arrested for vagrancy”
Wow… truly a different age.
That Yugoslavian menace.
John Larroquette lived in the Ninth Ward back before white people ever thought of blowing the levees
https://youtu.be/5GP-k5cn1O0
Larroquette is a hardcore book collector, which was featured on his solo show, the John Larroquette show.
That show was quite good. Got to thinking of it again during my 9,000th viewing of Galaxy Quest.
It was a favorite of mine during the run up to my first marriage. I was well ensconced in the book business that whole time.
I thought he was already dead.
Uuuuu-kay.
That was his catchphrase? (I read in an article.)
That show seems to have vanished from the airwaves so I forgot all of it.
Is it still on Laff?
I don’t know what that is.
One of those over-the-air sub-channels.
Ah. Unknown to me.
Since moving to smalltown it’s sometimes a challenge figuring out exactly what is available to me, especially the “local” channels – which are not actually local – and their subchannels.
Look in the mirror. If you even know who Moll was…you are oldish.
59+ here.
It’s a shame that Barbara Tuchman wrote an excellent history of how World War I started, since the title she used for her book would be a great title for the history written about what’s happening with the west right now: The March of Folly
Now someone will have to come up with another title and it just won’t be as cool.
The Dumbs of August?
*Standing ovation*
Slow Thighs
is still available
Missed the cider review. Think the last time I had one was when Woodchuck was the only option long before this silly cider craze started.
I do like regular apple cider. Frost last night, time for a hot mug of it.
Oh, no. The Ukrainians have been upstaged by Gaza. Not fair.
At least there is some sense of national interest in helping Russia lose. Not sure what a bunch of desert people messing with each other has to do with us at all.
A lot of Americans have family in Israel. Not to mention the number of Americans who were kidnapped by Hamas recently.
Also, guilt from the Holocaust runs deep with many people.
I dare say there’s likely more people with Russian (which is to say, also Ukrainian) heritage in the United States than Israeli. Although I don’t think there’s one iota more national interest in helping Russia lose than helping Israel win, except for some leftover cold war jingoism, which doesn’t seem to be the motivating factor in light of the fact that the strongest proponents for regime change in Moscow are the same people who spent the ’60s through the ’90s castigating America as an imperialist hegemon while Russia was still a worker’s paradise.
There are roughly 7.6m Jews in the U.S.
I’d take a flyer and say at least 50% likely could name an Israeli relative.
There’s about 2.5 million self-reported “Russian-Americans,” but considering the historical assimilation of “white people” into an American collective, the number of people with Russian ancestry is probably a lot higher — including a substantial number of American Jews who came by way of Russia. In any case, I don’t think either group’s familial ties to their respective motherland in a population of 320-some million is sufficient to justify our involvement in either shit hole.
I’ve never advocated our involvement in either spot.
I also pissed off more than a few Jews here when the US was guaranteeing Israel’s loans.
No idea if that continues, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
Stay out of all of it.
Once again…please explain the negatives of isolationism again?
Bring manufacturing back here again. Bring any derivative of our intellectual property on shore again.
We are the biggest consumer pool, right?
It will not happen overnight.
I suspect that we will be in a much stronger position on trade during this transition.
Unless, our stronger position is a bad thing.
I didn’t mean to suggest that, I was just expanding on the connection Zwak brought up with regards to Jewish-American ties to Israeli influencing our interests there.
That’s the trouble with a global marketplace. China and India are each 4-5x larger. Granted, they have less purchasing power at this moment in time, but that represents a growth opportunity, whereas America is economically stagnant and would be declining rapidly in population if not for huge population influxes from immigration (legal and otherwise).
Those markets can be 4-5 times bigger. If we are the sellers…isn’t that a good thing?
Understanding this will take decades to happen?
We have more buyers during those years.
I thought that was good.
Jeebus. I’m feeling stupid.
Explain it to me.
Access to those consumer markets can be combined with labor cost arbitrage for the dual benefit of creating a new consumer class for your products while also exploiting the differential in labor cost in the mean time, such that you produce goods less expensively while selling them to a larger (and expanding) overall market of consumers. Or: why make money only on the front end when there’s as much to be made on the back end? Free trade means not having to choose one or the other.
At the end of the day…isn’t it more important to care about the people around you first?
I’m sure you do.
Everything you said is what the globalists have said the last 3 decades. We are all so very much better off after all of this…right??
A lot of commodities are cheaper. TV’s. Electronics.
Can’t eat a TV.
I have seen the little towns I grew up in disappear. Still not sure how that is a good thing.
I know that even if we started bringing it all back, it would take decades. Still…the process would give those people hope. Is that a bad thing?
how that is a good thing
markets and choices; economics explains most things, but it doesn’t score them as good or not
Economics happen because of humans.
Self-evident, right?
Humans decide to move most of their manufacturing outside their nation. Makes sense on paper.
Most of what is defined as the middle class disappears over the next 40 years.
Now, we have our leaders actually interfering with stopping illegal immigration over cutting border fences.
Causation..blah, blah.
Blow smoke up the other one.
Only your morals can decide if something, anything, is good or bad.
Mostly we, and I mean both the country and this forum, are trying to stake out what team they are on, and maybe, maybe get someone to join.
I’m trying to do the same as far as getting someone to think a different way.
Our morals have already agreed on certain things, yes?
Murder is bad. Rape is bad.
Don and Zwak pretty much answered this: free market economics is amoral. That is to say, it’s concerned only with the most efficient allocation of goods and services. It’s a pretty lousy guiding principle for the manner in which humans ought to treat one another because it lacks any ethical guidance or limitations. Theoretically, you participate in the free market in accordance with your personal ethics, understanding the limitations of economics. Practically speaking, what this means is that those with the fewest personal ethical limitations will achieve the best allocation of resources, with the predictable result of elevating sociopaths to the highest economic success. Libertarianism, because of its deliberately ecumenical minimalist ethics constrained strictly to the realm of the political and not the personal, causes the same problem in political economy. Basically, despite the Utopian pretensions of the classical liberal Enlightenment political theorists and their modern libertarian progeny, you can’t really have a moral society with amoral governance. I’ve begun several articles on the subject over the last year or so, but ultimately scrapped them all, and that’s basically what they amounted to anyway.
I appreciate your answer.
Pure freemarket behavior without the last few hundreds of years of guidance…your term…would be a very dark thing.
I propose that it is dark enough. Given its history.
What my argument is; is that the engine that moves the economic engine along is the humans behind it.
Otherwise, it would not exist.
True enough. But how do you put the genie back in the bottle? Self-evidently you get the most economically optimal outcomes by discarding high minded ethical considerations. Whatever comforting fibs we’d like to tell ourselves, we all tacitly acknowledge this every time we walk up to the checkout register with a basket full of goods produced by the hands of half literate children, and ethnic and religious slaves. We may outsource the dirty work to places we don’t have to look at with our own two eyes, but we nonetheless benefit from it. The corrective is either to use the violence of a government powerful enough for the task to forcibly produce ethical behavior, in which case that government becomes an instrument of oppression a thousand times worse than the object of the correction, or to set oneself to the utterly impossible task of convincing every human being to act contrary to his own self interest in order to advance a higher good.
Incidentally, that’s also why I finally reached the conclusion, after half a lifetime of cognitive dissonance, that you can’t be a libertarian and a Christian simultaneously.
That went in the wrong place, obviously.
Why not? I have a very personal reason to know your thinking.
Why not? I have a very personal reason to know your thinking.
I don’t think you can plausibly lay claim to Christian morality personally while advocating a system of governance that necessarily undermines Christian morality corporately. Such individual/corporate dualism is a fiction by which one can pretend to hold to inviolable, absolute moral truths, yet hold no one accountable to them.
The Israel/Arab thing is muddled by being the focus of a bunch of shitstain commie assholes, for some reason that completely escapes me.
Arab nationalism was some degrees socialist, had support from the Warsaw Bloc, or was just anticolonialist. Also good old fashioned hate Amerikka or whatever the political establishment/cultural majority supports.
It is the old Oppressor/Oppressed dynamic of the Marxist dialectic. If you switch to a Conqueror/Conquered dynamic, and look at is as the movement of peoples, the axis being – is your people expanding or contracting, much of history makes more sense.
Or, as someone in a French book I am reading says “never get caught stealing without an excuse. Make the dialectic work for you!”
A lot? About 6 million, or .5% of the country. Of course given the positions of power and the geographic location of said peoples in NY, it seems like a lot more.
Quick Google says a bit over 1m Americans of Ukrainian origin.
I work with two…
I used to have one who worked for me. Insane in the Ukraine, girl was nutz.
We have more illegals than Jews. Sad!
Imagine a world with matzo carts on every corner.
‘A lot of Americans have family in Israel.’
That sounds like a ‘you’ problem, not a country’s problem. Sorry if that sounds crude, but national policy shouldn’t get driven by such concerns. Perhaps it is inevitable, that’s why Russia is in Ukraine right now I guess.
‘Not to mention the number of Americans who were kidnapped by Hamas recently.’
This is a much better justification in my mind.
‘Also, guilt from the Holocaust runs deep with many people.’
That is weird, do we have that many ex-nazis living here?
The Ukrainians need to understand that the US can only let down one ally at a time. Israel outranks Ukraine, so Ukraine is out.
WE MUST SUPPORT ALL WAR IT IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY!
Feel bad for teen#1. His retail job at Harbor Freight is hounding him because he isn’t getting ‘enough numbers” (read personal information) per sale. He does his job, asks once and on a no he respects it.
My only advice to him was that is what retail, especially one that works on selling that information, is. If you want to stay on retail, find a small business and sell your skill set and personality.
Apparently a Play It Again Sports opened up and the owner came into his current job and said he should swing by. Now that could be come buy equipment or him poaching him. Doesn’t hurt to go check
Ugh, the Radio Shack business model?
I bought a pair of shoes today and they wanted my phone number.
Tight-lipped, “I’d rather not.”
She didn’t press or anything, remained cheerful.
“no thank you”
He hates it. ‘Why would you give a number for a $2 tool?” Is what he said
“Thanks, but I don’t date chicks.”
I had a few phone numbers memorized. Disneyland. The NSA, …
Pre internet the radio shack catalogue and sales circulars were a useful tradeoff for your name and address.
– former salesperson.
Also, be prepared to jump around. There are really good jobs in retail, such as at an industrial supplier like RSI or Grainger that you can work up too, but being at the low end of retail at a place like Harbor Freight is a dead end of low pay.
For out of high school…he makes 17/hr. Now I know with inflated minimum wages it’s not great but he shows up to 4am shifts, picks up extra shifts, stays longer when asked. I cannot believe they would be like ‘nah we need more personal information not a reliable person’
I cannot believe they would be like ‘nah we need more personal information not a reliable person’
Believe it. I did two years of retail middle management between technical gigs, and while I loved the people with whom I worked directly that shit really matters to the higher-ups.
So weird as Pat mentioned. They can buy that cheap. I guess numbers favor high turnover for phone/email harvesting.
B&M retail outlets trying to harvest such trivial data at the expense of annoying and alienating their customers is pretty stupid when they could buy it from any of the online surveillance companies for pennies. As if you’re going to gain any significant insights by collecting my fake phone number and fake ZIP code when I come into Harbor Freight to buy some disposable chinkshit tool for a one-off job because it’s not worth buying a decent tool from a reputable supplier.
He has that read on his customers. He knows they are in for one and done cause they are in a pinch.
Whistling past the graveyard
“Joe Biden is on the freedom, democracy and opportunity agenda that beat MAGA Republicans in 2020, in 2022, and will win again in 2024,” Ben Wikler, the Democratic party chair in the top battleground state of Wisconsin, told CNN. “Every hour that someone spends fantasizing about some other ticket is an hour they could have spent calling voters or raising money to help reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris.”
Best President in history!
Well, if you compare him to Woodrow Wilson maybe
Taller than James Madison so there’s that
In latest poll in swing state PA,Biden leads Trump, even though comfortable majorities think Trump is better on economic and military preparedness issues. Seems Biden is deemed “more trustworthy.”. Looks like Hunter investigation still hasn’t washed over Joe.
I can’t imagine why.
What percentage of partisanship is just a reflection of identity politics? Does anyone think a significant percentage of the electorate is making thoughtful analyses of facts with respect to timeless principles? How many Americans have changed their minds about anything in the past decade?
Lots of Never Trumpers changed their minds about decades of ostensible arch-conservatism and committed themselves fully to Blue No Matter Who.
Enough that the Overton window has shifted from “should gay marriage be legal?” to “should parents who refuse to cooperate with their underage child’s gender transition lose custody?” and the Millennials who yucked it about over Mitt Romney’s anachronistic Boomer gaffe about Russia being America’s chief geopolitical rival are now unironically agitating for a ground war with Russia.
it was a trick question given my hopeless caveat about timeless principles
If they run on abortion again like they did in 2022, Joe’s a shoo-in.
Really? That is so depressing.
Vote for the brain dead.
According to the campaign ads I’m getting, Democrats will run on killing babies and porn in schools.
That’s what I’m seeing too.
LOL it’s never going to come out in theaters, is it? At best it’ll get quietly added to Disney+ (if that’s still around in 2 years).
The real suspension of disbelief is that the lead is somehow hotter than Gal Freakin Gadot?
Sure.
Almost 50 years since the items were invented, mood rings, as well as other emotion-related accessories, have found a following again.
The jewelry is brimming with nostalgia and the current cultural movement of being more open about feelings, according to The Financial Times.
As long as bell bottoms don’t come back
Bell-bottomed girls,
You make the rockin’ world go ’round….
Chicks dig big collars.
Yoga pants with flare legs…
Dude…bell bottoms have already come back and gone.
“We don’t collect or show scandalous or controversial works in the museum. We show works in the museum that have been censored, assaulted, violated, banned,” he told AFP.
The Buddhas of Bamiyan and the November 2011 edition of Charlie Hebdo were unavailable for comment.
Doucheholes & assbags
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
ASSBAGS UNITE!
I’m a sad assbag now
I am here…drunk and alone. 🙁
I just logged in, now I’m sober and alone. I can rectify one of those myself…
Sorry dudes. It was a heck of a night. I just went to bed.
Nothing says stunning and brave like exhibiting 35 year old shit that was displayed in museums and critically fellated to stick it to those awful Christian theocrats during the fucking Reagan administration.
35 year old piss. Please, get it right.
I once saw a Damien Hirst (I think) rotting sheep’s head in plexiglass. Worst thing I’ve ever smelled.
Halloween party again tonight. So, so not into it. Very loud. Many kids. Wish to be at home.
Wish to be at home.
Click your heels together three times.
I’ll be doing that tomorrow morning in hopes Frontier makes their flight
Harry Kane’s second goal today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-prYwnCnI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo
Christ, I liked this guy’s Roman History videos. But going full Commie? Oh and the comment section has a lot of support. Oh and he uploads about twice a year and has a patreon account. Then again he was an obvious lefty judging by his previous videos so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Everybody is going commie. The South Park guys are going to have to redo the “Everybody is Gay” song.
Why is it that Communism is more popular then ever 30 years after its collapse?
And this is after massive increases in prosperity, diversity tolerance, legal weed and secularism .
Because its actuality is now outside of the historical memory of a significant portion of the collective West, and, restored to its pristine theoretical Utopianism, it seems once again both noble and achievable.
The inability of people to comprehend what life was like before them
Screwed that up: The inability of people to comprehend what life was like before them is a common problem. The average person is more concerned about modern problems and not how much better off they are than a medieval peasant.
Ironically the classical liberals were very guilty of this sort of thinking. They focused on the flaws, not benefits of society and dismissed the past as Dark Age nonsense. And what happened when people began to look at the problems of Industrisl and Commercial society and thought liberalism was Dark Age nonsense? It collapsed very quickly
Because we no longer have the Soviet Union to mock and disdain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MwB5PZciVA
+1
– 4million starved Ukrainians
THIS!!!!!!!
It’s outside their memory by design. Their textbooks do not even mention it.
okay, but we’re talking about people who unironically support ideas that are failing in Europe all day every day
Because of…
How old are they?
It isn’t age, its insulation.
They are in a place, physically, mentally, economically or socially, that protects them from the consequence of their actions, which happens in a wealthy society.
The promise of utopia. A whole generation of college students have been inundated with Marxist theory in some form or other, and have entered into a society that is moribund. Combine this with that some generation having been raised by helicopter parents, it is no wonder that communism is appealing. It is bullshit on stilts, but there you go.
The saving grace is that only 30% of the country have gone to college.
But socialism sounds so good, we have Social Security and you don’t have to pay in (much) to get some back. My mother, who didn’t pay in much got some ’cause my dad and her next two husbands had paid while they worked. I’m not sure which generation is going to get stuck with my bill but it’s waaaaay in the future. The Shit Will Hit The Fan at some point and the young will rightfully turn against the old.
I have said anyone getting money from the government should forfeit their vote, conflict of interest and one reason I don’t vote.
anyone getting money from the government
good stuff, and I thought the same way until I started reading here that, well, I’m just getting back a bit of the money that was taken from me against my will; I find no fault with that logic
In principle. Technically speaking, Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system. The money that was heisted from you was used to pay the previous generation of beneficiaries. The money that will be used to pay you when you become a beneficiary will be heisted from the next generation of beneficiaries. It’s not a ponzi scheme if the government does it…
pay-as-you-go
everyone knows that, and it actually makes the case better: I’m paying for things I don’t believe in and am not actually getting myself and I don’t mind getting some of it back one way or the other
I think it’s RCDean’s observation; all I’m saying is it’s a generally fair observation; FourScore started with SS, but RC’s rationale doesn’t turn on it, and I regret if anyone thinks that observation stood on it or needed it at all
I don’t really disagree, money also being fungible, but there are those who, on the basis of the accounting technicality, will argue that you have no entitlement to the spoils of future thievery as recompense for the thievery to which you were previously subjected. It would be an interesting conundrum in the event of an orderly dissolution of a government, in that government has no resources other than those which it confiscated from another, and therefore can’t make recompense to its victims from its assets without further violating its victims. Thankfully, it’s a purely theoretical conundrum since governments are never dissolved peacefully.
Umm, hello, real Communism hasn’t been tried, so like, how could it have collapsed?
https://www.aier.org/article/how-trump-and-biden-are-blowing-up-the-free-trade-system-america-worked-so-hard-to-build/
Didn’t Joe Biden vote for NAFTA and the WTO? Weathervanes are nice when they go in your direction.
“tariff negotiations” “free trade”
Yeah…
Why would we need government in between a willing buyer and a willing seller? As in some sort of covenant that restricts ‘those people’ from moving into our neighborhood.
it’s for your own good
That may mean deals for us.
Oh, wonderful.
https://www.businessinsider.com/oleg-tsaryov-thought-putin-new-puppet-leader-ukraine-russia-war-2023-10
CIA should be deemed a worldwide terror organization
Color me skeptical. After almost 3/4 of a century of Soviet intel agencies, plus a few years with National Socialist agencies, and plenty of talent from those times I think the Ukes can pull off targeted murders w/o the CIA.
I just finished a book about the CIA’s meddling in SouthEast Asia in the ’50s-’60s-early 70s. Downright frightening and it certainly has to be a South American -Central American thing now, remaking the world in our own minds.
I was born in The Year of Living Dangerously
+1 Quiet American.
I’m re-watching episodes of the original Japanese Iron Chef.
If I hear “Fukui-san?” one. more. fucking. time. 😡
I had no idea the chairman was saying, “allez cuisine”.
At the time I watched it years ago I thought it was Japanese.
Sadly I’ve never heard the show in the original Japanese. But food commentary on Japanese shows is hysterically over the top. The English dub probably under sells it.
Needs reaction bubble/picture in picture of the hosts.
OMFG won’t somebody please think about the actors with dwarfism already.
I wonder how much shooting is required to replace the seven magically creatures of diversity. Or maybe they just wiped them out in the editing room.
Speaking of shitshows, at this party are dogs with some stomach bug. A dog just shit on a kid’s shoe, then my daughter threw up in the kitchen. Whole place smells like a giant turd. Help.
LOL sorry.
LOL
I just got home. So loud. I have Svengoolie on mute, nice calm cats on the bed. No shit hounds. I may be done with Halloween altogether.
It’s what they do.
I got home and hugged my cats. They are so trouble free and quiet.
Hmph cats shit all over too, at least as a means of telling you where they want the litter box this week.
+1 Fat Freddies Cat.
From The Guardian?! Well, heavens to Betsy.
*snort*
Apparently, Matthew Perry has died .
Ohhhhh, Chanandler Bong, my favorite Friend.
Damn. They ever reliable TMZ says no drugs. But I know he struggled with addiction.
Yeah, passed out in a jacuzzi ?
Who hasn’t been there, amirite ?
Could that BE any less believable?
Yeah, he had struggles all right.
You can see them on the show.
“Thin Chandler, I was on Vicodin. Fat Chandler, I was drinking.” (or something to that effect)
college Perry: Justin got all the hot girls
But didn’t MP beat him up or some such?
*looks down, notes how very much more accessible booze is*
Seemed like a nice enough fella.
Good journey.
Glibs’ Silicone Saturday After Dark.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Hedy Lamarr
It’s Hedley.
That’s Hedley!
I’m watching the tOSU v. Rutgers game.
Commercials- NCAA is all in on repairing Bud Light’s image.
As long as the checks clear…
We’ve already established what you are, now we’re talking about the price….
Tres, are you posting from the future? OSU is playing Wisconsin today and Rutgers next weekend.
w/e…red helmets
Im kinda drunk, too
And whaddup in the 513?
yo its been a hot minute yo
Tall tumblers for the *checks notes* 607!
Life’s been good to me. The Mrs and I recently returned from a trip to Utah to hike the national parks.
How about you? I keep seeing you posting from various work trips.
Lol, understandable. But I’m kinda disappointed – hold you could enlighten us on what happens over the next week.
*hoped* you could
I hate to say it, but I really hope that when the (you know who) game up north rolls around, Harbaugh has a lot of injured players.
I think we’re gonna get killed.
I’m not sure OSU will get killed, but yes, I see weaknesses that a good team can exploit.
OSU is playing the Wildcats. I don’t know what you easterners are talking about.
My internet is out- do you have the Cal score?
Cal hates its football, so, no.
I’m surprised, it really does nuke the NFC.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/25/apple-to-fix-iphone-15-bmw-charging-issue/
At first, I read that as NFL.
So I’m taking Tres V 2.0 to the range tomorrow. Earlier this year I got him a tiny Ruger LCP, but Im looking to subject him to something with a bit more punch, something he has to think about controlling to put a round where it should be. Any recommendations? I’m thinking something in a .40SW. Also, we’re gonna double up with a rifle. I’m leaning to a .22 just to teach breathing and trigger squeeze. And its cheap.
Thoughts and or recommendations appreciated.
I’ve had great success teaching with the 1911: it’s simple and fits a lot of hands and sight lines and is a gentle round/action combo….which I don’t think .40 is
consider whether you want a sort of early and easy success (1911) versus randomness and spray (Luger or any of the new little strike-fire jobs) which, while frustrating if you start at too much range, exaggerate (highlight?) poor trigger work…which is a good thing if the student is calm and patient and coachable: you really see the problems and can focus on improving form
I like Sig. Glock is Tupperware.
But thanks for your comment. Noted.
.22 is a great caliber to learn the discipline of shooting. Plus you can hunt and plink with it for cheap. It is a lifetime plus gift. I still shoot my great grandfather’s .22 and a British Lee-Enfield training rifle in .22.
9mm is your best choice. Big enough to think about, not so big as to make you stupid. Common enought to get at the corner store.
I mostly shoot .22lr now, great for learning trigger control and repeatable body position, but I did just pick up an old .22 Hornet, Ugly Gun.
I like .40, but Zwak is correct in advocating for 9mm.
Either way, a Sig P229 is an superb choice. Keep an eye out for LEO trade ins, although I think most of those are in .40.
If you’re insisting on a .40 in plastic, https://aimsurplus.com/products/leo-trade-in-smith-wesson-m-p40c-40s-w-handgun
They’re great shooters, decent ccw sized and you will want to do an Apex trigger upgrade at some point. It goes from ok to magical. FR.
Ford to GM. Sorry guys, but we couldn’t hold out they threatened our cash cow F150.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/10/28/uaw-gm-spring-hill-assembly-plant-tennessee-strike/71365399007/
Spring Hill was built for the Saturn (motto: our first dealership was in Memphis). The labor contract was novel in many ways regarding union roles in management, no punch clocks, I’m sure I’m missing other important details.
The whole Saturn concept to take on Japan was really interesting.
Shame the original 4 banger was a vibration machine first. Typical GM bean counting.
But there was no comparison between a comparable Honda and Saturn at the same price.
no comparison
great Scott! I wasn’t saying I’d own one of those turds!
Well everything cheap in that era still had those fucking mouse seatbelts including from Japan.
Loved GM putting them on the door too.
I’ll argue that one of the good things Japanese automakers did in the 80s was forcing the Big 3 to up their reliability game. Detroit couldn’t compete with Honda/Toyota et al with a reliable car that could get you to work and back every day.
The guys on NPR “Car Talk” made the same argument about “suburban sprawl”. Until the Japanese, you couldn’t buy an American car reliable enough to let you live 30 or so miles from where you worked.
Hah! A little overstated.
I wonder how much the dip in quality was due to cost cutting in the 70’s and government mandates, particularly fuel and emissions.
I mentioned a Halloween decoration I was creating earlier, here is the first iteration,
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPDtANKQAqok4RnHwd_BVSriPXJU2p2weUDiYmj
“water water every hare”
BOO
It’s wants a login 🙁
Yeah. And even then it failed.
My grammar failed.
Try this one,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/n8wegtfnpFkqJYy28
Nice. Is that neon lights? I love neon lights.
no, it’s LED in a shadow box to mellow out the birightness
Looks good!
Thanks! the tower is cut out but waiting for the actual display, this year is purple and spiders, it’s looking good already,
I love property,
Creating stuff is good for the soul.
Baby don’t First me…don’t First me…no more.
Mornin’ all!
Couple more blasts from the past. I like the animation tha leads the first. The second is considerably darker.
From Sniffing The Tears, Driver’s Seat (long version).
From The Normal, Warm Leatherette.
Share and enjoy!
Sup Glibs? Happy Sunday morning!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc
Such a great song 🎶🎶
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Mornin’ Beau,Sean and TC
All is well, cool, 19 F
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