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Last links (for me) of 2023 and I have to report that the Browns have made the playoffs? Boo! But I also get to announce that Liverpool are halfway through the season at the top of the table after Arsenal shit the bed yesterday. Spuds lost as well. Which are both good news to civilized soccer fans. And the big bowl games start tonight with the Cotton Bowl! But now it’s time to do…the links!
Short answer: yes. Long answer: yes, of course he can. What a retarded question. Also, this one is even more egregious than Colorado, as this is a single person making the determination without due process.
An invasion by any other name…
Meanwhile the real insurrection is happening right before our eyes. Or is deliberately ignoring the border and allowing what’s effectively become an invasion no big deal?
This is cause for a celebration. For real. It’s fantastic news.
Damn, dude. Relax. I never understood shit like this.
Never forget, lol!
Was the password “GUEST”? And yes, I know the question mark is in the wrong spot, but it didn’t make sense the other way when I first wrote it.
Did he not read his contract? I don’t think he read his contract.
Play stupid games…win stupid prizes. Looks like they’ll all be ok, but I bet they learned a valuable lesson.
The court needs to tell the legislature to do better. This is a lazy ruling that doesn’t put the onus one the legislature to write clear laws. It makes no sense.
Here’s a beautiful song. Just beautiful. And here’s another. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this last weekend of 2023, dear friends. See you on the other side of the New Year.
Those are some Q-worthy moobs on the front page… morning, Sloopy.
What does that thing identify as?
An avatar of huge manatee?
“EXCUSE ME, IT’S MA’ANATEE”?
Is it pronounced Man-o-titties?
Because Bob Goulet was in it?
Silly Apple and their autocorrecting prudery.
They’re number one with a bullet!
Shouldn’t that be number two?
Re: Maine SoS — yeah, nothing like defending Democracy by making a unilateral decision outside of a court on something he hasn’t been charged with, much less convicted of.
They do seem to be in overdrive to prove that their wing of the Uniparty can be Evil and Stupid, don’t they?
I still can’t believe we’re seriously looking at Trump v. Biden again in the general though. Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich indeed.
The government deciding who the opposition candidates can be is a tactic used in most democracies. Like Iran and ALL of the People’s Democratic Republics.
The Browns may save us from a rematch. Who is rooting for the apocalypse?
My social media feed has been awash (in the sense of sewer backflow) in people celebrating the Colorado decision as “saving our democracy.”
Ask them how they would feel if the other side did this to them..
Don’t ask them. Do it to them. Have Texas ban Biden from the ballot due to insurrection by not securing the border through deliberately ignoring immigration laws already on the books. Then have a bunch of other states follow suit.
MUH DEMOCRACY!
Unfortunately, that looks like the only way to make the point.
“Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich indeed.”
Who would be your preferred candidates?
Some other giant douche and turd sammich is my guess..
Most of the politicians are one or the other. I’d be fine with DeSantis on the GOP side probably (he’s only got a little douche in him!), can’t think of one on the Dem side — because most of their prominent members are Proggies and idiots.
I would have been okay with Sam Nunn or Zell Miller back in the day most likely — but Blue Dog Dems are either dying out as a breed or masked by the lunatic fringe… so, just don’t know. Sure as hell not the Hair Gel That Walks Like an Asshole in Sacramento. or Fraulein Governor Fuhrer in Michigan or whatnot….
Tulsi? I don’t trust her change of heart on guns but she’s good on war (as in avoiding it).
Also, easy on the eyes.
Maybe with vice president Sinema…
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I’ll be in my bunk.
Sam Nunn or Zell Miller
These guys aren’t pure as snow, but they are better than what we got to replace them.
John Tanner was a VN-era veteran and life member of the NRA*. Heath Shuler fought abortion and gun control. Both Democrats were voted out by straight-line red voters and replaced by much lesser men.
*whether Glibs like the NRA, most Team Red voters in the South then did and claimed it was a sign of conservatism, but, like voting for veterans, it’s just a sham position and goes out the window when the guy is on the wrong team
Gov. Josh Shapiro is angling to be a moderate Dem with a national reputation. Or maybe he’s just treading lightly because GOP still controls the PA Senate.
He doesn’t seem to be as bad as he was as AG, but that’s almost damning with faint praise.
I have a long running debate with Scott Sumner over whether Polis is libertarianish or not (my answer: no), but he is better than almost every other Dem out there. I wouldnt be totally upset with a Pres Polis.
Vote Animal/STEVE SMITH 2024!
I don’t approve of your running mate’s policy positions.
By policy position, mean…
I intend to put STEVE SMITH in charge of “foreign relations.”
It’s good to see some of the Glibhedrin are still here. I was afraid that either Mary Stack was on the loose, or that they were slipping off to Glib’s Gulch and abandoning those of us on Tier 2 or lower.
It isn’t if you’re serving the Davos crowd and you want the US populace to be neutered so your policies can be enacted world wide, apparently. Never have so many world “leaders” been clear traitors to the countries they’re supposed to be leading in favor of a proposed world aristocracy they hope to be petty barons in. Sigh.
Funny how those other leaders tend to actually enforce border security but think anything shy of opening ours to the world is a crime against humanity.
I still can’t believe the progs have twisted the definition of “refugee” to the point we are standing here waiting on the next wave of people from dozens of nations, or more, to simply wade across a river and be given a free pass to do whatever they want for several years before their case is even looked at.
Loved the article the other day about the Mexicans only allowing them to cross their southern border to pass right on through. All the way or no way Jose.
Yeah, AMLO is playing the US like a fiddle. Biden’s too stupid to notice and his handlers are fully on board with it.
Well, Biden has pudding for brains, but whom ever is in “charge” of that end of things (Mayorkas?) is f’ing loving this.
Heard that Chiraq, NYC and one other town were going to start turning back buses, so I guess OK and TX will turn THOSE buses back again, starting a perpetual motion machine of politics.
How will they turn them back? I don’t know what legal principle they plan to use to deny the free movement of people inside the country. And how will they justify forcing people to show their papers to determine their legal status without some justification for the police stopping them. And even if they have a legal reason to stop them, which would be doubtful, they still cannot deny them free movement unless they’re arresting them and taking them to jail on suspicion of a specific crime.
Of course, these people are the same ones who are saying we must take away democracy in order to save democracy. So I would t not be surprised if they resort to stopping buses with no cause and demanding the passengers show their papers.
Legal principle? You crack me up. It is, of course, a gross violation of the Constitution, which is, unfortunately, a dead letter.
I am curious how Chicago is going to both (a) seize the busses and (b) stop the illegals from staying in Chicago, though.
They’re going to machine gun them while in Indiana.
They don’t have much way to turn them back, and the motherfuckers are going to have to live up to their goddamn lying mouths. That part makes me rather happy.
“Never have so many world “leaders” been clear traitors to the countries they’re supposed to be leading in favor of a proposed world aristocracy they hope to be petty barons in.”
They are looking out for each other across borders, and have concluded that those that are not part of their circle are useless mouths they need reduce in number (by at least half if you go by the Gaia worshippers) and then lock in a permanent feudal system with them on top to keep the leftovers under control. All their decisions have been made for over a decade to end at that point..
Yeah — I can’t find the link, but some asshole in Britain let slip with reverse decimation out loud the other day (as in population reduction by 90%). They’re seriously insane enough to think AI and robots will tend to their needs and they can kill everyone else off.
Solaria at best for you Asimov fans… and I think it would turn out about as well.
Some asshole as in a prominently placed one? Because plenty of regular assholes happy to say out loud after a few drinks that they’re hoping to get rid of 90% of humanity, though they’re still not OK saying out loud HOW.
Like my FN brother.
I wonder if there’s a way to develop a disease that keys off of ideology. Something to flush the commies from the system.
Is there a biochemical byproduct of derp?
Ok, fine… I have to go dig up the link now…
Looks like a Club of Rome asshole. No idea how much pull they have these days.
Same pull they always had – on their own junk.
Right between the two World Wars, there was a lot of literature wishing for various secret societies of “Nobel and Good Thinking People” to work on controlling the worldand make it a better place, for certain values of better. Books like The Seven Clocks and whatnot. Same thing is happening now, people wishcasting the future they want, and not thinking about consequences.
None of this happens without deliberate, careful planning. The fairy tale that these “asylum seekers” are walking here from Africa and China is wearing thin.
The uniparty has decided they would rather rule over brown peasants than a white middle class. Minority racial identity politics has been going on here since WWII. White identity politics is coming to America in 2024 no matter how hard they try to suppress it.
There is resistance, while mild, against being completely dumbed down and a general mindset of what life in America should be that cannot be routed out via political mean so next step is to flood with people who meet that criteria.
Almost like the traditional societal engines working to impart emotional control in adults in general, but young men in particular were there for a reason.
I seriously wonder if we’re going to have hard times sufficient to reset things (i.e. complete societal collapse and rebuilding) because we’ve let things go so far and if we’ll be an example for the next 1000 years of What Not To Do. It sure looks like we’re off that cliff and on the parabolic arc to the canyon floor.
I am starting to wonder if this civilizational collapse we are heading to is not cyclical and that humans have let the idiots amongst them basically drag us back to the pre-historic age a time or two already. We literally replaced a system that mostly promoted merit and competency with one guaranteeing us cretins in charge of everything, and we wonder why shit is falling apart. It’s inevitable that stupid inept people will destroy the work of those that are not.
I assume the “unnamed internet provider” wasn’t Starlink because they wouldn’t waste the chance to dunk on Musk (“Nationalize Starlink! Nationalize SpaceX! National Security and Boeing profit margins!”).
1) We should have blown it out of the sky the minute it entered our airspace and we determined what it was and that it was unmanned.
2) If not that, at least we should have jammed the damned thing.
And if we don’t have the capabilities for (2) — our defense industries suck and are morons. Area jamming capability / ECM should be job one in the age of cheap drones – not burning $10 million missiles against $40k drones. But what do I know….
Well we didn’t because the government was seeking to hid it from the public until a local news station caught it on camera. Reports were they knew before Alaska and then laid on the claim they couldn’t shoot down because it was over populated areas.
Firings and impeachments SHOULD be had over that.
I don’t understand the “and that it was unmanned” qualifier. That shouldn’t have mattered.
Once it hit our airspace, it should have been brought down as hastily as possible. Preferably in a way that saved the equipment, but if that wasn’t possible then so be it.
I added the qualifier because if it is manned you give them a chance to land.
And if they refuse then you blow them out of the sky. Just polite.
I can see why people get mad at other drivers, it happens to me all of the time. It seems to have gotten worse here in the last few years. I’ve been honked at and tailgated turning onto my street, been passed more times than I can count by someone crossing the double yellow line, left turns from the right lane, right turns from the left lane, blatant red light running, excessive speed – 20+ mph over the speed limit. The list goes on. Are people just shittier drivers now or do they not care anymore?
My bet is on the latter — we seem to have a increase in narcissism across society (whether that’s an artifact of “you’re the most special snowflake just for existing!” teaching or social media “What you had for lunch is so interesting!” I couldn’t tell you). And if you’re the most important person on the planet in your own mind — well, all those rules are for those rubes in your way, not you….
Enough of it going on and you start bringing in the Chump Factor, of course.
I don’t think it is narcissism, but, rather, lack of consequences. Between driving apps telling you were there is a cop, and lack of enforcement for so many people, it is little wonder.
excessive speed – 20+ mph over the speed limit.
Those two aren’t necessarily the same thing. In residential areas or in town, I’d agree. On the highway, the speed limits are more often than not way too low. I drove all the way across Louisiana yesterday. Most of the way the limit was 65. In some spots it was thankfully 70. That’s insane.
That stretch of I-10 east of Port Arthur is an excellent place to find the top speed of your car.
Or the entirety of I-12, once you clear the Baton Rouge shitshow. But no…I’ve got to drive a vehicle with a top speed of 193 at 72 and hope the cops hiding in the median have already hit their daily quota of tickets for out of state drivers.
One of the reasons I love driving I-80 instead of I-40 when I make the cross country trip and weather permits. More 80 mph zones — and Arizona and New Mexico always seem to be speed trap happy. Kansas of course has its own issues — but Wyoming is typically a fun stretch.
The father of our current exchange student from Germany visited a couple months ago. Super great guy, even though he’s a huge Mercedes fan. Anyway, he commutes about 90 miles each way to work in Germany, and told me he makes the trip in under an hour. We were driving on HTR from the airport toward home and he was shocked that I wasn’t able to do 125 or so, as I puttered along at 85. Said it’s uncivilized to live like this.
Of course he almost had a conniption fit when he saw a 1 ton dually with a 10 inch lift kit and he said they should be banned after the dude rolled coal. But we’ve all got our blind spots, I guess.
Yeah, uncivilized, but look at Germanys gun laws…
When I first bought my ’06 Dodge Magnum SRT8, I ran it up to 140mph on that stretch while heading to Lake Charles to give some money away.
I’ve seen it both in city streets and on the interstates here in the Nashville area. The interstate speed limit is 70 mph, but most drive at 75-80 mph. It’s the 90 mph drivers, and especially the ones passing on the shoulder that are the issue. I’d be curious what our resident legal experts have to say about liability in these situations.
Most highways near me are 75 mph. Unless you’re headed into Houston. Then they’re generally 65.
When I’m on the former, I rarely dip below 95 unless some idiot is hogging the passing lane going the speed limit while looking at his phone, and I have to get on my brakes until the right lane is clear enough for me to pass him.
On an open stretch of highway with little traffic, is he the danger or am I?
The random whitetailed rat bounding accross the road causes both of you to crash.
I was all rechtfahren for decades: seriously committed to the dogmas of proper driving. I signalled; I never overtook on the right.
Fuck all that: life is too short, and there are too many sanctimonious morons in the lefthand lane.
I never tailgate because it’s slower: you need that space to accelerate through so you can hit the hole the second the opportunity safely presents. I behave when I can, and I blow the fuck around when I can’t.
I am absolutely liable for all the consequences of all the accidents I create….which are zero. I’m gone before they can even flinch.
Heh… don’t know why, but that makes me think of everytime I come in on I-20 and hit the Perimeter. I think the posted limit is 65 — every time I’ve driven it in the last 10 years, you better be going 80 in the far right lane or you’re getting run over. And the lane changing is…. aggressive to say the least.
I tend to come in on 75 nowadays and just cut over on the back roads to GA-400 instead.
I’ve come to the conclusion speed limits are the biggest reason for congested traffic around cities. Instead of traffic flowing you get large clumps of people all afraid to go ‘too fast’ that just hug each other and don’t leave any room around them for traffic to flow, then at each on ramp that clump grows until it is a clot.
On ramps really are a bane because people don’t understand that they must match and/or exceed the flow of traffic they are merging into.
You can’t exceed! Then yer goin too fast!!1!
On ramps are not engineered to allow you to reach highway speed by the time you’re on the highway. And there’s rarely any lane space to do so when it abruptly dumps you into harm’s way.
*pats New Yorker on the head*
The stretch of I-95 in my area has a variable speed limit. It normally drops from 70 to 65 at my exit but can be lowered to 35 when there is a lot of traffic, which is frequent.
This exactly, I drive like a saint in the city, but on trips I drive right and pass left and I’m routinely in the triple digits; however, when I encounter other traffic and such, I coast down to about 10% over the limit for a safe passing differential speed, unless the car I’m passing is dogging in the left lane. That asshole gets passed like he isn’t even there and doesn’t get the courtesy of a slow down.
Sounds like you’re trying to kill people.
I recall seeing that (one of?) the biggest safety risks is having people driving different speeds on the same road. So I would say driving 30 MPH faster than other traffic is pretty dangerous. On interstates/long drives, I generally go between the speed limit and 10 mph over, pretty much the flow of traffic. The half hour, maybe an hour, I might save on arrival just doesn’t bother me that much. I also don’t seem to find myself on roads that are basically empty of other traffic.
The one thing I avoid as hard as I can these days is driving at night.
Evening and night driving with my current eyes is one of the worst things about aging.
I mostly don’t pine for my youth but I’d like my sharp eyesight back.
I’ll never go back to cars without top notch, modern headlights.
It’s not my headlights that are the problem, nearly so much as other people’s headlights.
Yes, blinding oncoming traffic makes the road much safer.
It’s highway driving that bothers me the most – the oncoming lights really screw with my vision so it gets hard to pick out the cars in front and see what’s in my mirrors (“is that the right headlight of someone right behind me or a left headlight in the next lane?”)
Per the doctor it’s something about my astigmatism and difficulty with contrasts between light and dark.
I’m just fine during the day.
My only thing out here is the ubiquitous use of high beams and not turning them off when traffic is on coming. Use them, sure, its dark and most roads out here have no street lights (and I want it to stay that way), but damn people, its a simple flick off and then back on once you pass traffic.
I gotta say, the headlights on the 2022 Highlander are like magic. There is a sharp line, pretty much at the bottom of other cars’ windshield level, below which there is light, and above which there isn’t.
That’s a never on any road I’ve been on.
I almost never get to use my high beams.
For anyone car shopping, the IIHS does great headlight comparisons on newer vehicles.
different speeds on the same road
absolutely: hit someone going the same velocity as you and it’s just a small financial situation
and when that happens, it is still someone’s fault
the question for Glibs as elsewhere: is the urge for personal preference and safety more important than others’ right to be left alone
again, again, again: I never hit anyone, so why is my speed anyone else’s business?
this is like arguing over free speech on public campus: whose campus? the problem here: whose roads?
It’s a risk thing, which is a perennial problem in the public square (and roads). And the risk is both the severity and likelihood of accidents, not just the severity. Coming up on somebody at 30 mph over the limit is betting on them knowing that’s how fast you’re going, and not making a lane change that would be safe if you weren’t going that fast, for example.
You can engage in risky behavior “safely”, until the probability of the risk reaches one, and then somebody gets hurt. Thus, the concepts of “negligence” and “recklessness”. Which, granted, don’t come into play legally until somebody gets hurt. Still, I don’t think it makes sense to say everybody is driving perfectly safely until the moment they contact another car.
There’s definitely no clear answer. For me, the benefit of driving way faster than traffic doesn’t justify the risk. The benefit to other people of them driving way faster than traffic certainly doesn’t justify the risk to me.
benefit of driving way faster
The physics are unambiguous. I pick my way because it’s my ass, and I’m not the guy having the problem, but I am the guy being regulated. The only thing risky about my driving is the morons I’m dodging: they don’t use their mirrors; they change lanes without signalling and into others’ rights of way.
The “risk thing” is the very lever I’m bemoaning above. We seldom disagree, but this time you’re siding with the regulation gals. I understand, but I’m suiting up for that team. This is exactly the national problem: my freedom scares someone somewhere. Why duzz anyone NEED to drive that fast?
You are the one having the problem and causing the danger. Whatever you think your reaction time is, by opting for that speed, you’re the one requiring it of yourself and others.
I’m not going to tell you to slow down, but at least acknowledge your role.
I have found that if I hang out the window with an empty whiskey bottle and make animal noises that people give me a wide berth.
Me First attitude. The turns from the opposite lanes is what I notice the most and I attribute it to GPS and people not paying attention and rather than drive half a block to safely go where they want, they just do it.
I really wish the GPS / Map app people would be more aggressive with the “Take the 4 lane exit — you need to be in Lane X, turn Y and stay in lane Z after the turn because you’ll be turning again very soon” on the vocal directions. The driver shouldn’t be glancing down at the screen to check lanes if they can help it — and quite often (looking at you fucking California intersections for CA-99) you can’t really predict what lane to be in if you don’t know the area and the traffic locks into the lanes 3 turns beforehand.
My GPS can’t even tell which road I’m on.
It completely lost it in Dallas when I got on the exit it told me to, thought I was still on the highway and began giving me directions for having missed the exit. I wasn’t even sure if I was supposed to turn left or right off the exit because it had covered all that up with the “Take the exit” graphic, and then erased it completely when I was on said exit.
Since I didn’t know Dallas, I had to just pick a direction and then figure out a new route.
The Dallas area highway system was designed by a committee of masochists pretending to be city planners. It might be the most dysfunctional set of roadways in America.
Preach it brother. What a shitshow. It would be completely unnavigable without a GPS.
I’m assuming it is the parallel access roads with their screwed up onramp/offramp that Texas seems to like that confuses the GPS — they’re too close to the highway lanes to properly distinguish … and it is really easy to screw up the traffic flow if you’re not used to them (as I remember it, anyway).
Those parallel roads aren’t exclusive to Texas, and cause as much confusion for the machine as the stacked roads New York seems to like. There’s no way for the machine to tell what layer I’m on – when it doesn’t think I’m driving in the river.
DFW/HOU both have the 3D thing wreaking havoc with GPS.
The trick is to use it for the directions ahead of time, and not rely on it turn by turn.
In my defense, I had never been to Dallas before, so I was unprepared for the roads.
“The trick is to use it for the directions ahead of time”
Yeah, trying to memorize a series of three digit road numbers to navigate DFW ain’t gonna happen. Not to mention multiple exits for the same road because some are for the “toll” version of the road.
The latest incident was me waiting to turn left and a BMW pulling in front of me while the light was still red. Maybe the Germans haven’t figured out American streets yet. 😆
Blitzkrieg!
Maybe the Germans haven’t figured out American streets yet.
Don’t lump Bavarian cars in with those from Baden-Württemberg. Or the drivers of such with each other. BMW drivers have little in common with those who drive the better brands from Stuttgart. They’re uncultured, uncivilized, and dare I say a danger to all those around them. Tread lightly when in their vicinity.
He can run from prison and/or as a write-in candidate if it comes to that.
Apparently the CO election laws would bar the write-in portion and I would assume other states would too if it came to that. You know…cause Democracy!
The only way to save democracy is to make sure the majority can not elect a candidate the unelected bureaucratic kleptocratic machine ran by the most inept class of fools ever sees as an existential threat to the racket they are running!
It will be fun finding out.
If EULAs have trained the general populace in anything, it is in never actually reading contracts.
I fully expect lawyers have been taking advantage of this (and the rest of us) due to this sort of fatigue… unless you bring in your own lawyer, I bet most people don’t parse employment contracts. Maybe mortgages (I tried to as best I recall back in the day), but not employment and certainly not most lesser ones.
“Also, this one is even more egregious than Colorado, as this is a single person making the determination without due process.”
I guess slightly more egregious, since in CO it was four people making the determination without due process.
If we want to be technical, it was one in CO too. The district judge was the one that made the assertion and denied any due process for Trump to counter the argument. Similar to the NY judge just whimsically becoming a real estate arbiter and valuator on properties in FL
“Nature is vast, impersonal and does not care about you. And that’s just on our relatively hospitable planet.” ?
Learn a lesson? Dude, the only thing they’re still trying to figure out is who to sue.
Jeez, one missing / and things turn into 2003.
I miss Usenet threads — don’t sweat it.
Not in my style guide.
Unless the ? was part of the password, agreed.
Why not. Have to fund Ukraine and the Pentagon fails audits; so cut out support for troops that you force to foreign lands. That will make sure they are in tip top fighting mentality.
Apparently the order came back in October, kept quiet and once news caught wind the Army was like “We are drafting new policies!” Cuntes
Gee… I can’t imagine why recruitment is down when they show such care and concern for the non-brass-with-their-heads-up-their-ass….
Ok, to be fair given Colonel Puppy Play and 4 Star Admiral “IT IS MA’AM!”… probably their heads are stuck up each other’s asses… but still.
Wow.
That’s not the word I used when I saw this kick in the balls by the corruptocracy.
“This is cause for a celebration.”
It really is.
Minor pet peeve, though: the reference to gun “safety” training. Gun safety is the first hour, maybe, of training. A better term is gun handling, I think. But “safety” is an attempt to cater to the anti-gun nutters, which is why I find it minorly peeving.
they understand what type of world we live in right now
do they? which they? how many they?
A few more chicks packing is great,
but the greatest threat to freedom remains women voters: they vote for safety delivered…by bureaucracy. Their safety is someone else’s job, and they are going to nag and vote and spend until they restore the illusion of safety by installing a cadre of bureaucrats and officers who will squash anything they are “uncomfortable” with. They are the plurality: add a few pussy dudes and some childish flakes, and, voila: the majority we will never outvote in any sustained way.
“And yes, I know the question mark is in the wrong spot,”
No, it is not. Nothing should be inside the quotation marks that isn’t part of what you are quoting. I know the style books say different, but they are wrong.
I was unsure how to take this revelation. I mean, isn’t that how all great chefs are made?
The mistake that guy made was being a chef instead of an actor.
And by having his victim be an adult and not a teenage girl. Had he done that, every actor in France would be supporting him.
I never go to a top French restaurant without first confirming the head chef was “carroted”, at least a couple of times, if you know what I mean…
Probably. The cooking biz is mostly scumbags.
“…for hours with an apple in his mouth and a carrot in his rear…”
Isnt that how Anthony Bourdain went out?
I couldn’t get to the site yesterday afternoon, but it looks like other people could. Anyone know what happened?
Cal won.
Seriously, I tried a couple different browsers.
I would say it was ironic that one of those team blue shitholes -one that that constantly preached about how woke and leftard they were, and especially claiming to be sanctuary cities for illegals and demanding the places overrun by illegals just bend over and take it – now that they are getting to prove their sanctuary city claims, are whining and crying like bitches. Of course the problem, as they define it, isn’t that this illegal immigration is destructive and expensive, but that the old places they demanded take the invasion and shut the fuck up, have started shipping the horde to the sanctuary systems and those systems are collapsing under the weight of the horde’s demand for free shit.
As near as I can tell, the sanctuary cities haven’t even gotten their proportional share of illegals. Just as a rough number, their population should be 2% illegals, given that around 7MM have shown up in the last three years. NYC was bitching about, what, 10,000? They should be carrying more like 180,000.
I think it was around 120,000 last I heard.
Move them all to Martha’s Vineyard
It is delicious, and hopefully the beginning of the end of… something.
Also, I want to take a clippers to that smug prick’s hair.
Srsly. WTF is up with that pointy-headedness?
I (sadly, a very white woman) would like to start wearing a keffiyeh in solidarity, but am concerned it might be cultural appropriation. Thoughts? And if I should, any suggestions on a good place to get some (preferably some place that would actually benefit Palestinians)?
https://twitter.com/Dienne_7/status/1740076018172567761
Sorry, lady, that’s a Men’s garment. You’d have to wear a Niqab or Burka – A Hijab won’t cut it.
If you’re sad that you’re a white woman, I recommend therapy, by which I mean a slap in the face and the admonishment “Get over yourself!”
I’m not certain that isn’t satire. It’s just too on-the-nose “ignorant useful idiot prog”.
or a negroplasty
Terrorists ‘r’ Us
Walnut has a interesting etymology among European languages.
https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1740390880224395459t
Finns man we should kick them out
Dude, it’s a nut that grows on walls. What’s so interesting about that?
Ooh, can they do Brazil Nuts next?
*squints* hmmmm
What about Deez Nuts?
The only time Ive heard the n-word come out of the mouth of Tres Sr. was in reference to brazil nuts.
Toes?
where’d he grow up?
it was a staple of my underclass childhood…which was peopled mostly with kin
picking my own friends, I never hear it anymore
I really get pissed off by flakes who say things like “it’s worse than the sixties”…..utter bullshit and so disrespectful for how far we’ve come
hell, I sit on planes next to black kids wearing Ole Miss togs
In grade school, circa the ’40s, a class mate used the alternative Brazil nut name, not knowing, I also didn’t know but wouldn’t have known what the ‘toes word was either. We’d never had them in our house, growing up.
The teacher quickly corrected him, probably 2/3rds of the class learned something that day.
Not 3/5ths ?
*throws flag* Booo!
bad link extra t
https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1740390880224395459
“wal” in walnut means “foreign”
it’s cognate with “Wales” which basically means “land of those other guys”
It appears to be compound in most as adjective + nut. The Germanic “wal” is also used by some non-Germanic languages.
Plans to limit water use for residents at proposed redevelopment in Cambridge.
@camcitco
say water useage will be restricted to less than 99 litres per person per day, ‘to reduce the impact on local water resources’.
https://twitter.com/markrwilliamson/status/1738881210141577684
i wonder how many liters a good shower is
What type of water heater do you own?
And it will be more than 24.75 Gallons.
something like this
https://www.viessmann-us.com/en/products/vitodens/vitodens-100-b1he.html
but older
So, you don’t have to fret about the tank going empty.
I was thinking that’s overboard even for The People’s Republic of Cambridge but it’s that other Cambridge
These days we’re only about a year behind Britain’s latest insanities.
Is there a WAWR this month?
If Hype wants one, we can accommodate him!
Please do
“In a new report from NBC, the outlet cited two current and one former U.S. official familiar with the report as its source.
The report stated that the balloon was connected to a US-based company and communicating with China about its navigation.”
So it could be complete bullshit.
“The unidentified internet service provider company has denied all such claims.”
How did they deny it without identifying themselves?
They called “Not it!”
“A Hollywood special effects firm has been ordered to pay £112,000 after its male boss called a female employee an ‘old nag’ and told another ‘not to get her knickers in a twist’.
Artem Ltd has been told to pay the sum to finance director Karen Edwins after she sued the company over CEO Mike Kelt’s comments to female employees.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12909237/Hollywood-special-effects-pay-female-staff.html
“Karen”
So… what was the actual tort the company violated? The old nag shouldn’t get a farthing.
Ow! My optic nerve!
So, if he can’t prove something is 0%, the court determines that it must be 100%. I know that Limeyville is bad, but sheesh.
The court is clearly unable to engage in non-binary thinking.
“Bellows, who ran her own non-profit consulting business before entering politics, is not legally trained, but said she was fulfilling her duty under Maine law.
‘The weight of the evidence brought forward under Maine law in the section 336 challenge that was brought made it clear that Mr Trump was aware of the tinder he laid in a multi-month efforts to challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 election,’ she said.
‘And then, in an unprecedented and tragic series of events, chose to light a match.'”
I’m not legally trained, but I can come up with metaphorical bullshit.
“Bellows, who ran her own non-profit consulting business before entering politics, is not legally trained, but said she was fulfilling her duty under Maine law.
She’s full of hot air.
Surely she kept reading section 336 and followed the procedures in 337 right? Would like to know when the challenge was brought forward on eligibility, when they held their hearing and when Trump’s team was given time to petition against it.
Surely this hearing happened right?
Gaze upon the Friday Funbags and consider your future.
https://archive.is/DOnw5
PS: Today we start the “one bad weekend” for potty training q-ette. Pray for me.
Q: What do you call an Irishman who kills 3 men with one bullet?
A: Rick O’Shea.
no
Agreed. You’re more likely to get multiple kills if the bullet doesn’t waste energy bouncing off of other objects. Just through and through in a straight line.
I’ve got this buddy who works out every day, reads lots of books and has sex at least 4 times per week; and all he ever does is complain about being in prison.
the important think is which side of the dick he is
Yup… Pitchers might have a better take on it than catchers…
Ugh… tried to hold off on the hints and had to just take them and move on with life with about 7 words left. Bleck. Just wasn’t seeing them.
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Q: How does an alchemist satisfy his wife?
A: Elixir.
“A conservative ‘parental rights’ activist and former Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor has been arrested after allegedly punching a teenager while hosting an underage drinking party at her home.
Clarice Schillinger, 36, is facing charges of assault, harassment and furnishing minors with alcohol at her daughter’s birthday party in September, newly reported case filings obtained by USA Today reveal.
The mom, who denies the charges, is an influential player in the state’s school board political sphere, and reportedly plays a central role in a political action committee that has spent over $800,000 on Republican school board races since 2021.
Schillinger, an unsuccessful candidate for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor in 2022, is known to back right-leaning challengers who oppose COVID lockdowns and argue ‘woke’ ideologies are pervading schools.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12908263/parental-rights-Clarie-Schillinger-underage-party.html
So it could be politically motivated bullshit.
Maybe. Maybe not. Plenty of people try to be the “cool parents” to friends of their kids and do stupid shit like this. I wouldn’t be shocked if it was completely true.
She looks to be about a size 6 or 8, but I have made exceptions.
Wood.
As I commented in the overnight thread..would but you’ll probably get slapped and eventually wake up after she chokes you during sex
Sexy…
$20 same as in town?
I would guess skeet choke or full choke for trap.
Hard to imagine her hurting anyone.
She can punch me all she likes.
Democracy in chaos
The decision came on the same day that Trump’s ascendant rival in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley, tried to stop her gaffe over slavery from turning into a momentum-killer.
The idea that a presidential candidate cannot plainly state in 2023 that the enslavement of humans is what tore the country apart more than 160 years ago is stunning in itself.
But the drama surrounding the former South Carolina governor less than three weeks before voting starts is also having the effect of easing the scrutiny on Trump — who has caused many more scandals and outrages during his gravity-defying political career, many of which are related to the 2020 election denialism behind his swirling legal exposure.
Maine’s decision only deepened the unprecedented legal and political tangle surrounding the 2024 campaign – all of which stems from Trump’s refusal to accept defeat and his historic challenge to the fabled US transfer of power. After all, two states have now found that a former president engaged in an insurrection against the US government – an unheard of state of affairs at any other moment in history.
The only solution is to ban the Republican party and cancel the election. Hail Biden!
Me: How?
Them: Cause I said so!
Look, Presidents have had to use executive orders to get things done because Congress refuses to act. Now states are having to enforce federal laws because the DOJ refuses to prosecute.
I seem to recall states being told they can’t enforce federal (immigration) laws.
That has been a fun twist of illogical politicking hasn’t?
Since when is having to punch a wall so you don’t punch a person – fun?
Technically, five people, not two states, decided to ignore due process and go full commie on ballot access.
Six really. Don’t forget the catalyst that was the district court in CO that opened the door.
They are acting as state agents, so their actions are attributable to the state.
I have this habit of using random Space Marine Terminator minis to do paint tests. I have literally never deployed one to the tabletop. But this has led to a conundrum.
When I got my new brushes, I grabbed a primed termie from the drawer to test them out. I painted it up in a color scheme that was the inverse of one of my existing armies, and it turned out really well. I want to paint up an army in that style, but that would leave me with three space marine color schemes. Ideally, I want to be able to grab any of the painted units from a faction to use in a game, but don’t want to repaint all of the models already done in a previous scheme. Right now the gray scheme has most of my vehicles, the black scheme has most of my infantry, and this red scheme looks the best.
I do have enough unpainted plastic crack that I could bulk up the infantry of all three… but that’s a lot of painting. What I don’t have are vehicles, which are expensive as hell.
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie told “CNN This Morning” on Friday that actions like those in Colorado and Maine make the former president a “martyr.”
“While there may be – people may think there’s a justification for doing this, it’s not good in our democracy. In the end, Donald Trump should be defeated by the voters at the polls and defeated by someone like me, who is willing to tell the truth about him,” he said.
*outright prolonged laughter*
President Christie.
WHEEEE!
Oh, no. “Underage” drinking.
15, or 19? It makes a difference. To me, anyway.
Higher Muscle Protein Synthesis Rates Following Ingestion of an Omnivorous Meal Compared with an Isocaloric and Isonitrogenous Vegan Meal in Healthy, Older Adults
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022316623727235?via%3Dihub
You mean grains don’t get gains?
It’s vegan vs beef according to the methodology.
sad there are no cows in America
“his historic challenge to the fabled US transfer of power”
Well, depending on what you mean by “historic”. The losing party in the previous election participated in a conspiracy opposing the transfer of power, after all.
I remember the unfaithful elector campaign.
History lesson
But as Haley must know — after all, as governor of South Carolina, she presided over the removal of Confederate flags from the Statehouse — many Americans do question the fundamental fact that slavery precipitated the Civil War, and her equivocation played into a long-standing agenda to rewrite American history. Haley was effectively parroting the Lost Cause mythology, a revisionist school of thought born in the war’s immediate aftermath, which whitewashed the Confederacy’s cornerstone interest in raising arms to preserve slavery. Instead, a generation of Lost Cause mythologists chalked the war up to a battle over political abstractions like states’ rights.
With red states doing battle with American history, seeking to erase the legacy of violence and inequality that counterbalance the great good also inherent in our national story, it’s worth revisiting the rise of the Lost Cause, not just to remember how damaging it was, but to confront just how damaging it still is.
There can be only one Holy Truth. Anyone who questions it must be cast out into the wilderness. That’s how democracy works.
Only the author of that can make unnuanced declarations, not those mythologist who discuss other factor that contributed to the splitting of the states, espeically those weirdos that like states’ rights.
From the same author on a different piece “It’s quite easy, though, to cherry-pick historical examples that prop up an end in search of a rationale”.
Technically, the Civil War was caused by some states trying to exercise their right to secede, over both slavery AND taxation issues. The battle at Fort Sumter started because Lincoln was trying to resupply a fort that taxed Southern goods and then funneled the money up north.
And slavery was still legal in some of the Union states during the war.
But, first rule of politics — don’t try to jam nuance into a sound bite.
Indeed. And that question was a golden opportunity to remind people that it was Democrats who tried to keep Lincoln off the ballot, Democrats who supported slavery, and Democrats who committed insurrection* by trying to secede. But Haley is an empty vessel, and the question triggered her soundbite bot. Well, if this kills her candidacy, I won’t she any tears.
*Work with me here. It’s not insurrection because they weren’t trying to overthrow the federal government, but, sound bites.
Without slavery and without the south’s refusal to wind it down and eliminate it, there is no civil war. We didn’t admit high tax states and low tax states in equal numbers for a decade leading up to the war. States started leaving the union before Lincoln was sworn in. So it clearly was a war over tax policy that had not yet been enacted by a guy who hadn’t taken office.
Jesus you can light the moon with that much projection.
Why I’m Worried About The Rise Of Liberal Young Women
By Freya India
https://www.konstantinkisin.com/p/why-im-worried-about-the-rise-of
left-wing.
If they were liberal we’d be fine.
Something that anyone with a semi-functional brain could have deduced easily, but it’s nice to see data backing it up.
https://johnkassnews.com/do-you-want-a-dead-son-or-a-live-daughter/
From the heasline, I took the article to be advocating the useless surgical mutilation. I almost didn’t look at the text as a result, but wanted to check before I commented.
History is simple and uncomplicated. People gather together and act as one, with a pure monolithic singleminded purpose.
Ricky Gervais
@rickygervais
The best thing about owning a company is doing your own adverts 😂 Gonna do some more in the new year and then try to get it into America
https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1740409574715457606
what is the official glibertarian view on apple vodka? should vodka be grin or potato only? i think there is a french one from grapes, but that is just grappa imo
Distilled apple juice is apple brandy or calvados. If you strip out all the flavor, yer doin’ it wrong.
Flavored vodka, on the other hand, is, I dunno, not something I have ever, or ever plan to, drink.
Gin is flavored vodka. Change my mind.
Alright, not counting gin.
Good vodka is close to flavorless, so the source of the sugars makes little difference.
Bad vodka retains some flavor from the pre-distillate. But it’s also bad, so should not be anyone’s first choice.
“should vodka be grin or potato only?”
Both are fine. Grain is way more common, and the best Polish vodka has a picture of wheat on the label.
There is a couple great Idaho vodka brands and really the only type Mrs Obe can drink. They are potato derived.
When I drank such stuff, I believe it was some polish swill named “Monopolowa” that I enjoyed for the potato-y after taste.
Calculate the price of the taco
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1740739711860380052
I donno, Twitter doesn’t load from work… 73 Cents?
curious: does this work?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GChZiljXgAA5Mtv?format=jpg&name=small
It works.
I haven’t done integrals in twenty years. I forget some of the details. I think it comes out to $2.
Or I forgot how exponents work.
Screw it, I’ve forgotten more math than most people will ever know.
Shawarma tacos? That might be worth doing the math.
Isnt that really just a gyro ?
/now I know what Im getting for lunch
Depends on the sauce and veg, and whether they’ve subbed in a pita for the tortilla.
No, completely two different preparation methods of the delivery vessel.
I cant get my head around a hard taco shell, shwarma, and tzatziki sauce
/Protip- Kroger’s “Private Selection” tzatziki is Da Bomb. Heavy on the garlic.
A nearby taco place has a lamb gyro taco on a soft shell. It works.
https://whiteducktacoshop.com/menu/
I would gladly try that.
$3
You don’t need to add a constant when it’s a definite integral, right?
Perception vs reality
With 2023 ticking down, the nation is poised to finish the year with its biggest annual drop in homicides on record, according to preliminary data from law enforcement agencies both large and small.
The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet nearly 13% compared to 2022, meaning more than 2,000 fewer people were the victims of homicide this year, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.
The drop in homicides comes as more than three-quarters of Americans say there is more crime in the U.S. than a year ago and more than half of Americans say the same about crime in their local area, according to a Gallup poll released last month. Adding to that perception is the annual National Crime Victimization Survey published this month by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics that found the number of violent crime victims nationwide climbed from 16.5 per 1,000 people in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 in 2022.
Of course, the media’s incessant blaring hysteria about unconstrained “gun violence” and mass homicide could have something to do with perception.
“Adding to that perception is…”
…the truth?
Crime is more than just homicides, huh.
Dallas: Up 14%
Go Dallas!
The challenge faced by local law enforcement to bring down the country’s homicide numbers for the second consecutive year following a record jump in 2020 and a sizable increase in 2021, was achieved this year with a major assist from the U.S. Justice Department and bipartisan gun-control legislation passed by Congress, officials said.
Of course.
It had nothing to do with kicking out bad prosecutors and revoking previous efforts at de-funding police.
Have no fear… another Summer of Love is coming, I can feel it.
Been watching this on and off throughout the day. Out the gate, hammering The Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRC3HU4ZFY
“the sheer amount of suck will collapse in on itself like a dying star and explode in a supernova of unintentional genius”
Good Lord- they hired SF!
A friend who’s in liquor production
Has a still of astounding construction
The alcohol boils
Through old magnet coils
Resulting in proof by induction
Standing ovation.
I’m really not proud of what my answer would be….
Martha Stewart, 82, sets hearts racing as she stuns in sultry mirror selfie while wearing lacy nightgown
Blaeugh – she needs to consult a new plastic surgeon stat
So no one else had trouble getting here yesterday afternoon or evening?
Nope just you
Well, there was the time when I was asleep, which made commenting difficult.
No sir. Now I logged off before 9:00, and was back at 5:30 AM CST. I have had no problem. I did experience internet outages on the 5 Ghz band, but that was related to breaking in a new trash PC.
Well, that’s odd, because every other website I tried worked. I even tried two different browsers.
One of the multiple crimefighting strategies McManus attributed to his city’s falling homicide numbers was first suggested by a team of criminologists at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
“Actually, it was a very simple strategy that, quite frankly, I was somewhat skeptical of at first,” McManus said.
He said by examining calls to the city’s computer-aided dispatch system (CAD), the police department identified 28 areas of the city with the highest numbers of violent crime calls and even pinpointed certain days and times when the volume of calls is the highest.
“We will sit there at that location with our emergency lights on for 10 to 15 minutes. That’s about as proactive as it gets,” McManus said. “We’re not getting out stopping people or knocking on doors or anything like that. It’s simply a high visibility, hot-spot policing effort.”
No
fucking
way.
*cue profiling lawsuits from ACLU.
Space X turn around on Starship testing is impressive. Static fire of both the ship and booster expected today.
Thanks for the tip! I tuned in. Sounds like one static test happened already. I like the football style commentary.
Are we talking American football where they commentators spend six hours prattling on about anything other than what’s happening? Or South American football, where they’re exceedingly excited?
A general mix of the two.
Whew. Looks like a 33 engine attempt but the big thing was the duration. 10 seconds at least. Less than 45 minutes to load and light it. Amazing work.
Why am I imagining a gang boss going “Oi, you don’t get paid by the hour, get moving!”
“A Romanian property tycoon hitched a childrens’ sled to the back of his Ferrari for a souped-up sleigh ride through snowy hills, video showed.
Bogdan Capusan – a real estate developer and Ferrari collector – towed what appeared to be three youngsters through a picturesque hillside on his SF90 Stradale hybrid-powered vehicle as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” played in the background…
Capusan is the son of real estate magnate Chimu Capusan. The family is one of the wealthiest in Romania and has a net worth of around $33 million.”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/29/news/romanian-millionaire-hitches-kids-sled-to-ferrari/
That doesn’t sound all that wealthy.
That barely covers a mansion here. I suspect it goes further in Romania.
https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/boston-massachusetts-georgian-revival-estate-1235458229/
In Aspen it could get you a fairly decent tool shed.
Look at this.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/155-Ferguson-Dr-Cleveland-TX-77327/192593085_zpid/
Affordable paradise.
Too close to a river, not enough privacy with all those windows. Looks like a nightmare to cool when the sun is up.
Lost me @ $220/month HOA
Any HOA is, of course, a deal-breaker.
Didn’t see that one. I just grabbed the first lake house listing.
You know, if I had a shitton of money, I’d go around, find HOA neighborhoods, buy up a majority of the properties, vote to dissolve the HOA and sell them on, freed from that shackle.
never heard of the guy . 33 mill is wealthy in Romania and everywhere else i would think. but there is wealthy and wealthy
I wouldn’t turn down having that much. But that’s a successful small business owner (small chain of locations) around here.
How much body fat do you gain after short-term overfeeding?⏳
Seemingly, not much.
This study overfed 10 healthy men by +1500 kcal for 3 days.
The associated weight gain was mainly water, caused by excess sodium intake🧂
With no increase in fat mass.
Enjoy the festivities🎄
https://twitter.com/tecoughlin/status/1738855970774663293
Well, I think I found the cause of that.
“Here is a list provided by the Republican Governor of Nevada Joe Lombardo this week…
*Democrat Assemblywoman Michelle Gorelow voted to give $250,000 of taxpayer money to a nonprofit organization, then only two weeks later they hired her as Director. She immediately ended her re-election campaign in disgrace after this scandal was publicly disclosed.
*Democrat Assemblyman C.H. Miller voted to give $100,000 of taxpayer money to a nonprofit organization without disclosing he was just hired as President and CEO. He then resigned in disgrace after this scandal was publicly disclosed.
*Democrat Assemblywoman Bea Duran, a Culinary Union activist, ended her re-election bid in disgrace after it was disclosed she voted for a bill that handed $25 million to the Culinary Union.
*Democrat Senator Marilyn Dondero Loop removed all mentions of her affiliation with United Way of Southern Nevada, after it was disclosed she voted for a bill that gave $1.2 million to United Way of Southern Nevada.
*Nevada’s Democrat Attorney General Aaron Ford, who in his youth was arrested multiple times for stealing tires (you can’t make this stuff up), is now embroiled in a scandal after the media reported his former law firm was paid upwards of $65 million in legal fees from his own Attorney General’s office.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/wayne-root-what-happens-vegas-is-proof-democrats/
“The Pennsylvania legislature passed a resolution making 2023 the “Taylor Swift Era” in the Keystone State. Sponsored by Democratic state Rep. Danielle Otten, a vote passed the resolution 103 to 100 on Dec. 13, the pop star’s 34th birthday. ”
https://thepostmillennial.com/democrat-led-pennsylvania-house-passes-resolution-naming-2023-the-taylor-swift-era
OFFS!
There’s 103 people who should be thrown out of office, their assets confiscated, and banned from owning property or movable chattels.
You need to calm down, that wouldn’t happen in your wildest dreams, and there would be bad blood.
I write fiction. I need an overactive imagination.