RIP to the lovely and talented Melanie Safka who left us recently. Her most famous song has been one of my faves since childhood, long before I understood the innuendo.
WHAT I AM WATCHING: Netflix series Kleo (watch the trailer) about a female Stasi assassin who reminds me of our own dear KK. The series is set at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and features lots of gunplay, synthpop, and Trabant-hating. I thought I detected a note of ostalgie in the series, but S1E6 contains an excellent takedown of communism at 37:37. I also learned that Margot Honecker was an early adopter of the purple-tinted hair which is now de rigueur for leftist matrons.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CANCELS CULTURE-SPECIFIC GRADUATION CEREMONIES: “Several culturally specific graduation ceremonies scheduled to take place at the University of Texas at Austin this year have been canceled after the school’s Multicultural Engagement Center was forced to cease official operations in compliance with anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion legislation passed in the state legislature.”
NOBODY TO LIKE: Navajo geneticist and bio-ethicist shakes down ASU for $700,000 and the return of Navajo genetic samples for which proper consent may not have been obtained to re-use the samples in studies of alcoholism and schizophrenia. Navajo nation then bans genetic research on tribal lands. Glibs will remember that this is the same tribe that tried to shake down NASA because some private companies tried to transport human ashes to the moon as a form of burial. (Link is to archive since Science News walls their content.)
FEDERAL JUDGE RULES CALIFORNIA AMMO RESTRICTIONS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: “A federal judge struck down California’s background check requirement for each purchase of ammunition and ban on importing or carrying in ammunition to the state, setting the case up for an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court, where two other California gun rights cases are under way.” And, for once, the Commerce clause did something useful.
FLORIDA MAN TRANSPORTS ALASKA BEAR CUBS TO FLORIDA WHERE THEY ESCAPE CAPTIVITY: This story made my day. It has everything.
CRASH TESTS INDICATE GUARD RAILS UNABLE TO HANDLE HEAVY ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Nobody could have seen this coming, just like nobody could foresee electric vehicle charging placing additional load on the electric grid. To quote the Iron Laws (thanks RC Dean), “foreseeable consequences are not unintended.”
ORBITAL DEATH RAY TO LAUNCH IN 2027: Last week I covered how this was possible. Today they announced plans for a 1 kW demonstration in 2027.
Japan’s SLIM lander did indeed achieve a soft landing, but came to rest upside down on the lunar surface, which means the solar cells are often in shadow. The brave little lander is now known as Slim Shady.
You need a machine to wash dog paws?
The boyfriend lives out in the country in a Very Muddy Place. New duck boots for me, and the contraption for the doge.
And it’s not a machine so much as a stadium cup lined with rubber spikes.
Why not just go to a movie with the boyfriend, and get some popcorn?
Is that better than something like a damp towel?
(Also, for mud the best thing is boots with a Panama sole.)
Have yet to field test it at the VMP. I like that you can quickly dump out the muddy water and refill, and that the process minimizes the production of dirty laundry.
Thanks for the sole tip.
Just the tip?
New duck boots for me
Don’t feel bad Tonio. I also often get the d and f keys mixed up when I try to type too fast.
wah-wah-waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
@robc, thanks for your article. I’ll read is when I get a minute, as I think my hoarding post may tie in a bit.
Concur. Great article. Makes ya think.
Some of my conclusions go against my natural grain of thought. I would have agreed with a lot of yall 20 years ago, or even 10. Well, I know I didnt, we argued on TOS, but in some of those cases I might have been arguing against my current self.
That has been my entire history of political thought. I didnt call myself a libertarian for a few years because I didnt support drug legalization. Once I finally got it around that I was wrong, I fully accepted being a libertarian. That was right at 30 years ago. Its been 30 years of changing my mind about things, and entrenching other things completely. If I seem inflexible now, its because I changed a lot.
Also, thanks, I am glad people enjoyed it.
“The “Black Graduation, Latinx Graduation, and GraduAsian” events have been canceled, meaning all students, regardless of their race, will only be able to attend the regular ceremony.”
So segregation basically? Also, the last two should be cancelled just because of their names.
Progs are beyond parody. Yes, it was segregation under the guise of inclusion.
We peaked in the 90’s and its only going to continue to go downhill.
But, you see, it’s based on culture, not race… /prog
It is so wild. Should we blame cellphones for all this desire to segregate again? I don’t know what else would make people want to be segregated.
You gotta keep ’em separated.
Thanks
So, wiggers were allowed at the Blaq-uation?
The pair appeared healthy and even tried to climb into a responding patrol car.
Friendly aren’t they?
They smell donuts.
Genuine LOL.
“Navajo nation then bans genetic research on tribal lands. ”
CWATOA
Gaze upon my mighty Firsts of fury.
Those scientists need to shine the death ray on Antarctica. I want to know whats hiding under all that ice.
Aliens.
Shoggoths.
Both?
Same.
A friendly predator will come to the rescue.
Rocks and dirt. Lots of rocks and dirt.
The dinosaur cities.
Danger 5 covered it in “Lizard Soldiers of the Third Reich” I believe.
The icefields and glaciers are steady sources of meteorites.
Parking lots.
Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, and Judge Crater.
A backup stargate
I don’t think those bears are going to be happy when Summer comes.
Maybe the bears and pythons can fight it out in the Florida swamps.
Gentle Ben liked him some air-boat rides.
Maybe they will head to the keys, like most Florida bears?
Last year, the National Transportation Safety Board expressed concern about the safety risks heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles.
Cannon ball vs ping pong ball.
*I still prefer my ping pong balls.
“*I still prefer my ping pong balls.”
/Continental Soldier
So does Wynnona Ryder
+1 “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”
“Electric vehicles typically weigh 20% to 50% more than gas-powered vehicles thanks to batteries that can weigh almost as much as a small gas-powered car.”
So 50% heavier but more energy efficient?
So 50% heavier but more energy efficient?
Zero emissions . . . . in that your emissions occur somewhere else . . . out of sight; out of mind.
Hybrids and all electric vehicles are more energy efficient in the city … don’t waste energy idling at stoplights, plus regenerative braking instead of turning momentum into brake heat.
On highways – not so much.
Stop and go traffic with regenerative charging. There is some efficiency there.
Bought the wife a Hybrid CR-V, way better around town mileage, slightly worse on the highway.
Some of the first functional automobiles were electric. But they pretty quickly lost out to internal combustion and steam powered models. For the same reasons people don’t want them today.
Studebaker’s original line-up was mainly electric. The Studebaker that ran the company at the time thought electric was the way to go.
Eventually reality set in.
Original mode didn’t fit well as time passed
https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2023/02/the-rearview-mirror-the-birth-of-studebaker/
And I completely forgot about their carriage making background.
—“just like nobody could foresee electric vehicle charging placing additional load on the electric grid”—
Just like nobody could foresee the added load on parking structures.
(Note to self: Always park on the roof of the parking garage from now on.)
Perhaps avoid garages.
I never park in our garage.
They aren’t much heavier than SUV’s that have been on the market for decades. Tesla Y weighs 4400 pounds and it’s their best seller. So less than the F150 with a 6 cylinder engine. Oh god, how will our poor roads ever handle such things?
“So far, we don’t see good vehicle-to-guardrail compatibility with electric vehicles,” Stolle said.
Put explosive charges on the guardrails, like reactive armor.
I like the cut of your jib.
“foreseeable consequences are not unintended.”
I thought is was:
“The dildo of consequences is not lubricated.”
Ribbed for the Government’s pleasure.
“What really needs to happen is more collaboration between transportation engineers and vehicle manufacturers,” Brooks said. “That’s where you might see some real change.”
I can’t wait.
Yay! More expensive roads! That’ll fix the problem!
Can we talk about these retardedly oversized pickup trucks everywhere these days?
You mean the oversized vehicles caused by CAFE fines for powerful engines on lighter vehicles?
Is the chicken tax still a thing too? I assume so.
A while back someone with a newer GMC Sierra 1500 parked next to my 2006 GMC Sierra 1500. It made mine look like the old GMC Sonoma.
How much did it weigh? Did bridges collapse when you drove across it?
Not to beat a dead horse (last thread) but our infrastructure is so retarded (more roads, wider roads, ROADZ) that the incentive to buy the biggest, safest, most comfortable vehicle you can makes sense in an arms race sort of way.
Prisoner’s dilemma.
The costs due not acrue to the users in anything resembling a responsible way.
do
“more roads, wider roads, ROADZ” Why are any of those thing retarded?
They arent being built based on market decisions.
You are right, we need to remove more houses and widen the roads, obviously. I mean, have you looked at LA or SF? Traffic, traffic, traffic. Too much for gov’t roads as they are situated.
We can solve obesity by loosening our belts.
Why do we want to solve anything here? And, frankly, this is my central issue with the midday thread; people are self selecting, and its somehow libertarian to dislike that?
Gov’t is self selection, at its core, and the actions of it do reflect the will of the people. They want zoning. They want roads to take them to work and enough parking for when they get there. Hell, what they really want is cold beer, hot sex, and a place to take a shit out of the rain. Everything else? They want that taken care of. That is why we are here, now.
Sounds expensive.
https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-crash-test-guardrails-nebraska-3ec299a7ad87d0f63a6dd9357f663fce
I am getting a LOT of scam calls since I told Nikki Haley to stop texting me.
She’s looking for another side-piece?
Send her a dick pic.
So I did ask her what she was wearing, which was suggested by another member. No response via text. But the scam phone calls started. You think she’s calling for some Big Broccoli Head Action?
She’s definitely asking for it.
Um, yes, she has an interest in something green of yours…
Another anecdotal sob story
Only days later, after they’d returned home, in late March, the pair drove back to Florida. This time, though, the drive was “surreal and devastating”, Kelly said. A series of catastrophic fetal diagnoses had led Kelly to decide to get an abortion – a procedure she could not legally get in Tennessee.
The only way to deal with these unique and rare situations is with universal unlimited access to abortion.
If it takes one life, it is worth it.
[golf clap]
I covered the bear story, as it happens, and wrote it up with our pal Swiss in mind.
Oh, sorry. I hadn’t seen yours when I posted the link.
No worries. I just wanted to make sure my pun-ditry was appreciated.
(-.-)
I love that you do that, and there’s no way to narrow gaze on Red State.
Bear fight! *Cartman’s voice
I had to grin and…
Hope Swissy can boar through that article and get this thing sowed up
If not, there will be some trouble bruin.
“Woke Squad member Ayanna Pressley claims Walgreens is RACIST for closing stores in crime-ridden areas because it is a ‘disruptive, life-threatening act of racial and economic discrimination'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13034023/ayanna-pressley-says-walgreens-racist-store-closures-high-crime-areas.html
CWAC
Maybe she could start her own drug store in those neighborhoods. Isn’t Maxine Waters’ husband a banker? He could finance it.
Wait, a few years back some city councilcritter was bemoaning the opening of a store in her district, claiming it would ruin so many young lives by encouraging them to shoplift.
Can’t find that now, but while searching for it I found that CNN is propagandizing about how there is no shoplifting crisis.
“Wait, a few years back some city councilcritter was bemoaning the opening of a store in her district, claiming it would ruin so many young lives by encouraging them to shoplift.”
OFFS, that’s worse than trying to blame Toyota for catalytic converter theft.
Ugh I was just watching the Leftist of the Day on The Five defending her with the phrase “crimes of necessity” and shut that shit off. I watched that show for a couple months but life is too short to waste it screaming at the television anymore.
I assume “crimes of necessity” include charging the front door of Walgreens with a shopping cart overflowing with Tide pods and fabric softener that eventually ends up on the black market.
Can we talk about these retardedly oversized pickup trucks everywhere these days?
That’s what everybody DEMANDS.
Well, lots o f people would like large, powerful sedans or even station wagons, but CAFE rules push those into luxury pricing
Unlike the behemoth pickups, which can be had for peanuts.
CAFE make it so that car companies can’t sell those large sedans, because no one can sell enough small sedans to offset the requirements.
There is only one american V8 sedan left and it is now going for >$100K (CT5).
“Michigan school shooter’s mom Jennifer Crumbley admits in court to ignoring his texts begging to see a doctor about voices in his head, leaving him alone while out drinking, SCARING him about ghosts and buying him the gun he used to kill four classmates”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13034541/Michigan-school-shooter-ethan-jennifer-crumbley-testifies.html
“Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s journal entries are shown at his mom’s manslaughter trial – as court hears she drained his bank of $3,000 after the attack and went on the run”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13034175/Michigan-school-shooter-Ethan-Crumbleys-twisted-journal-entries.html
Top notch parenting.
Holy cow!
Mom of the Year.
The Crumbleys are terrible people, but if we’re going to sue the parents for the crimes of their teenage sons, then I eagerly wait for the mass incarceration of urban moms that raised all the gangbangers.
“Purple Dildo” and “Your Mama” get write-in votes in NH
They didn’t recognize your vote for STEVE SMITH as out of the ordinary?
STEVE SMITH LIKE VOTE. VOTE HARD, VOTE MANY TIME.
The American people could do far worse than Purple Dildo.
Not could, will.
Yep, momentum picks up
+ Electrical Banana
We’d still have KJP as press secretary I suppose.
“Cease-fire” got 1,531 votes in the primary, according to a vote tally from the Secretary of State, after locals organized a campaign in protest of the Israel-Hamas war.
It didn’t win so the war continues. Maybe the Chicago City Council vote or the DC road blocks will do it.
Trump leads Haley in South Carolina by 26 points, poll shows
The poll comes as Trump seeks to derail the former South Carolina governor’s presidential campaign along with his recent victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. Haley has struggled to gain more support in South Carolina, consistently polling 30 points behind Trump.
Haley has committed to staying in the Republican presidential race through Super Tuesday but hasn’t made it clear whether she’d still be in the race by the time the party’s nominating convention rolls around in July.
Hanging on until the first conviction.
“Seeks to derail”
Hahahaha!
Horrific
A video taken by a high school student shows an Indiana lawmaker flash a gun to students who were visiting the statehouse to talk to legislators about gun control.
A student from Burris Laboratory School in Muncie told The Associated Press that she and four other students were at the state Capitol on Tuesday to participate in a day of advocacy with Students Demand Action, an arm of Everytown for Gun safety. Alana Trissel, 17, said state Rep. Jim Lucas asked the students what brought them to the Capitol and began to defend gun rights.
Lucas, a Republican from Seymour, and the group then conversed outside the elevator and one of the students filmed the interaction, as was first reported by the Statehouse File, a student journalism news site at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana.
In the video, Lucas told the students that people have to protect themselves and referenced failures of law enforcement to prevent mass casualties during school shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas,
In discussing places where firearms are banned, Lucas said people aren’t “truly free” unless they can defend themselves. A student off camera asked Lucas if he means carrying a firearm. Just over six minutes into the 10-minute video, Lucas said, “I’m carrying right now,” and holds open his suit jacket exposing a holstered handgun. It was not immediately clear what kind of gun Lucas was carrying.
We can only pray those poor, deeply traumatized gun violence survivors get the treatment they so desperately need.
Steve Smith treatment?
Wow what a shithole state we live in. Maybe those kids will move to somewhere safe like Chicago.
“Since a state legislator had shown a weapon, I felt all the more powerless,” she said. “I felt scared. I felt alone. I was timid and almost petrified with fear.”
Hide under your bed for the rest of your life. Please.
A while back someone with a newer GMC Sierra 1500 parked next to my 2006 GMC Sierra 1500. It made mine look like the old GMC Sonoma.
My full size long bed 4wd GMC pickup looks like a Toyota compared to the current crop of monsters.
I’m not in favor of Texas seceding (at least not yet), but I have to admit it’s pretty amusing reading arguments about how they couldn’t go it alone. “They rely on federal subsidies!” No, they send far more to Washington than they get back. “They’ll have no currency!” Uh, they can just keep using the dollar. “All the companies will pull out!” Why would they? It would be one of the world’s largest economies. “Nobody will buy their oil!” LOL, sure. “Nobody will trade with them!” Why wouldn’t they? Everybody will, including the US.
As a country Texas would be just fine. Imagine removing all federal restrictions on oil and building more pipelines to ports on the Gulf coast. They’d be the Saudi Arabia of the hemisphere.
Yep. And they could build additional nuclear plants, expand refineries, and so on without being handicapped by federal regulations.
How many of the refineries that the US and a significant portion of the rest of the world depend on reside in TX?
Quit a lot, I think something like half are in Texas.
$2.3TT and change in GDP, which would make them the 8th biggest economy in the world (between France and Italy). 9th if CA secedes.
Yeah, I think they’d be fine. And for every company that pulled out, I suspect 5 would move in.
If TX seceded, a bunch of other flyover and southern states would want to join the new nation, since Congress and the Presidency would slip into near-permanent Democratic rule.
Which is why the Feds would likely not allow it to happen without starting a civil war.
With only the tiniest of variations, those are all arguments made by Central Canadian Laurentian elites (and their many acolytes) against Alberta leaving Confederation.
Those arguments are also complete, utter bilge water.
I fully accept Alberta as the 51st state.
Yeah, everyone says they will pull out.
I’d rather not see what you’re doing there.
“Nothing about someone carrying a gun makes me feel safe,” a student said off camera after Lucas lifted his jacket.
I wonder how many armed cops those little snowflakes had to pass to get into the capitol.
Something must be done. This is something therefore it must be done.
I’m sure this will satisfy his left flank.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/01/biden-executive-order-israel-palestine-00139023
Oregon Supreme Court rules that Republican senators who walked out last year can’t seek reelection
In a unanimous opinion that could have reverberations for the upcoming legislative session, the court sided with Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade’s interpretation of Measure 113, the 2022 ballot measure that voters approved with an eye toward ending legislative walkouts.
In doing so, the court embraced a reading of the law that even the state acknowledged is difficult to square with its actual language – in effect ruling that the clear intent of voters in passing the measure was more important than the plain wording inserted into the state Constitution.
“While petitioners’ interpretation of the text may be the more grammatical reading,” the court wrote, “the text is capable of supporting the secretary’s interpretation.”
The end is nigh
Cool. Can we do that with the Texas Democrats too?
in effect ruling that the clear intent of voters in passing the measure was more important than the plain wording inserted into the state Constitution.
Hmmm, So Illinois residents can curtail government pensions in contravention of the Illinois State Constitution?
All of those R controlled areas aren’t going to flip, so, in theory all of the new state senators could walkout, and at the next election all of the original senators could be elected again.
The whole thing is stupid.
Seems like Tesla’s usual level of R and D is on display.
https://electrek.co/2024/02/01/tesla-cybertruck-wheel-covers-cause-unusual-wear-will-be-redesigned/
Are they being delivered yet? I did see one on the road here 2 weeks ago (and tbh they are pretty effin cool looking in person imo) but there are enough Tesla and Space x employees around it could be a beta testing employee driving it around so I wasn’t sure
Yes. Probably something like 1,000 units.
Typical Tesla initial quality. However, give them a year and it will be as good as the domestics. But everybody remembers the initial crap.
I’ve seen a couple around here.
If you mashed together a Honda Element and a Pontiac Aztec you would come out with something that still looked better than the Cybertruck.
It grew on me. Part of the shape is dictated by the stainless steel and bending it and part is the aesthetic he wanted.
I don’t love it. But if it holds up well in actual use I’ll forgive it.
LOL that’s wonderful. I was not aware of what a monster she was.
Pity this is on Netflix; I’m a sucker for late-stage East Germany porn.
Culturally-specific ceremonies my ass. They were racially segregated (black, latino, and asian). When somebody feels compelled to lie to you about what they’re doing, they’re not doing anything good (and at some level, they know it).
Separate the yellows so they don’t overshadow the browns and black?
Asians were separated from Pacific Islanders? What is the world coming to?
I wonder what the plan for the white hispanics was?
*faints*
Sorry, progressives. You can always be racist little tyrants on your own dime.
Will they segregated by majors? Then all the Asians could sit together, etc.
When I worked for Toyota in Indiana, they had a really nice cafeteria. It wasnt segregated other than “management” had a dining area separate from the hourly employees.
Not a lot of round-eye management. Just sayin.
Maybe gov. of NH can throw them a party to ease their suffering?
Update on my gym business for anyone interested. Last night we had a very long meeting with a friend who’s a serial entrepreneur. He thinks we’re very close, just need some runway capital and good marketing. He’s got some ideas for alternative financing we might be able to use, and we’re meeting Monday with the owner of a CrossFit gym who might want to partner in some way. Our friend owns a big marketing firm and he’s offered to help us revamp our marketing for free. The biggest thing is that we need to rent our our excess office space. Meanwhile we told the landlord about our situation, she was very sympathetic and is giving us a little time to work things out.
So things aren’t exactly fixed yet, but we have some possible paths forward. The funniest part was when we told him our sob story, he said that was normal and every business owner goes through this. I’ve been texting Tundra and he said the same thing – all normal. This is not a vocation for the weak-willed. 🙂
Fingers crossed!!! Bigly!
Good luck.
Good deal. Keep plugging.
Best of luck to you! You’ve worked hard for this, it would lift all our spirits to see it fly.
This sounds like good news.
Good luck, hope it works out for you.
Best wishes.
Rent that excess space out promising “employee gym on premesis”
Awesome TOK, that is great news.
And tell Tundra to get his ass back here pronto!
The joke of owning your own business is everyone thinks you are your own boss. Nope. Everyone who passes through the doors is your boss. It ain’t for the weak.
Former boss had a note posted on his (CRT) display- “If you dont make someone happy someone else will.”
😃🤞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB2yqeD0Nus
Go you!
Opening scene of Kleo – I wish I were that seductive!
Kleo was a fun series with only a few missteps.
Another good series is “Deutschland 83” then the years 86 and 89.
Only The Atlantic can take polyamory and turn it into a tirade against libertarians.
https://archive.fo/qj5NW
See, I would have gone with “therapeutic narcissism”, because that seems a better title for what they describe.
Many years ago a colonel told me in a private interview, “If you don’t progress you regress” While I didn’t understand it fully at the time I started my college experience at U of Maryland, taking night classes.
Some things worked out and I’ve been a believer. That eventually led me here.
If you arent growing, you are dying.
I’m still all reeling and confused and giddy from being drunk dialed last night
Sounds positively positive. Some things we’ll never know…
Give me your number…..
Denver update…
2017: Mayor hangs giant “Denver [hearts] Migrants” banner on city-county building.
2023: Migrants come, wreck city’s finances, wander streets. Nonprofits, guilt-ridden, well-off people establish network to accommodate them.
2024: Hahahahahahahahaha…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/denver-prepares-to-discharge-migrant-families-from-shelters-advocates-say-stop-allowing-more-people-to-city/73-f4482007-3450-4be4-baf4-41f13209a5ef
“There’s no more room. There’s no more funding,” Casas said. “Something has to be done. To the point that I even requested myself that we close Denver.”
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“I think you can go down the streets now and see the desperation in people as they try to find a job, try to secure work, and they find they’re competing with everyone else looking for these limited number of jobs, resources,” Ewing said. “That’s why we’re constantly telling people, you really may want to consider another city that has more to offer right now.”
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“Some of them have been in shelter for four months,” Ewing said. “When you’ve been in shelter for four months, we have to really buckle down and say, what’s keeping you here? What is the obstacle to you getting on your feet and getting out of this?”
#AccidentallyLibertarian
Now there’s a great short story – some proggie politician falls asleep under the burden of his own folly and wakes up as Milei.
Rip Van Sowell?
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
I giggled at this “DENVER — Denver’s policies to welcome and support migrants have led the city to a point where there is no more money and no more space. ”
What is that that you get more of…?
Why don’t they all just stay in small Texas border towns like they’re supposed to?
I know, right?
I think that issue was addressed decades ago by the esteemed ZZ Top.
So Casas says “No more casas” Surprise, Surprise!
Mi casa no es tu casa.
How about turn off the spigot?
A bunch of proggie Hollywood writ4ers who happen to be white are suddenly finding themselves frozen out of jobs, and are whining about it. Decades of helping the cause and then just cast aside. It must suck even worse than just being your typical closeted conservative in Hollywood. You were one of the good guys!
They cynically jumped on the bandwagon in order to not be attacked and to build cache they figured they’d manage to cash in later, are getting bit in the ass, and now they regret it even more. The only thing worse than being obsequious is having it turn out to not do any good.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
At the center of the recent discussions is More: A Memoir of an Open Marriage, by Molly Roden Winter, an unsparing account of a polyamorous life—at least, a polyamorous life as lived by a white, wealthy, heterosexual Brooklynite.
Aaaaand done.
LOL it’s gotta suck to wake up one day and realize you’re Archie Bunker now.
Only Murders in the Building is adorbs.
It was entertaining, but Selena Gomez’s voice grated on me after a while. I don’t know if that’s her real voice, or if that was part of her acting.
Acting? The Elgin Marbles are more expressive and emotive.
I’ve watched it maybe three times because we keep telling family and friends about it so we watch together. The second time through you catch details you missed and realize what a great job they did on writing.
It made the jump to broadcast TV, didn’t it? What night/time is it on? Can’t find it in the cable program guide. 😕
Look who decided to dummy up.
New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance — and the US is banking on it
The far left wackos will put an end to that any second.
I think they’re beginning to realize that our deplorable voices for cheap, reliable, energy are talking over the greenies.
However I expect pushback from the energy companies that arent postured to compete. Like 4-score said “progress or regress” most of these energy leviathans never learned “evolve or die”, thinking that a couple of solar arrays and windfarms (subsidized) that they write off is the cost of doing business to keep burning coal.
Other than TVA, that operates a handfull of nuke plants. Well, they used to.
PG&E had a few, but, really, all the energy companies know how to compete, they just have learned that the only competition allowed is for gov’t OK.
Self optimized, they are.
“Wind and solar now provide at least 12% of the world’s power, and in some places, like the European Union, they provide more than fossil fuels.”
AAaNd, you lost me, although SMRs are cool.
HEY YUFUS!
TALL CANS!
I think this is a very false claim.
Its all a numbers game. Find a couple of crappy islands in the Pacific where they rely 100% on it (cause it may make more sense there), and work it into your maths.
I mean there’s no way wind and solar provide more the fossil fuels in the EU. And not for any major country therein.
Germany can make the claim that most of the energy they “produce” is renewable, but they just buy fossil fuel energy from nearby countries. Especially in winter.
It is all a shell game. Same as EV’s.
The Erasure reactor, or the Yaz reactor?
More like Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.
What we need is Atomic Rooster
“What we are trying to do here is too important for us to be held back by math!”
What I heard a proggie say during the 2019 presidential campaign.
The only feasible replacement for most of the energy we use, save that of cars (never gonna work), is nuclear.
Windmills, unicorns, solar panels are fantasies on par with that guy who claimed he could live on sunlight alone.
Since I was digging through ZZ TOP, I thought something sounded familiar. Seems this song was covered by DJ DMD. Only DMD took the beat from Al B. Sure.
So, in ZWAK news, was talking to subZWAK this AM, as it is his B-day, and he casually mentions he is saving up for a ring and plans proposal to girlfriend around the holidays (she is a big Xmas person.)
I think I aged 10 years right then.
Oh man, don’t remind me. My only unmarried grand daughter is getting married in May. She’s about 32.
You sound like that Frank Thomas/Doug Flutie commercial.
“Yeah, happens to all of us”
At least Flutie had his own cereal.
/no comment from Johnny Manziel
Flutie Flakes wasn’t it? Solid cereal but a bit overrated.
I gave blood today, my blood pressure was excellent, and I filled the bag in 6 minutes flat, a new personal best. In return, I got a $25 gift card and a comfy fleece type blanket. Then I tried the new Subway footlong pretzel, which was so-so. All in all, yay me. Today marks my 4th blood donation since moving to Florida. I’ve been donating several times a year since 2015. I’m O positive, so I know it’s in demand.
Good thing you posted in the evening. Pie might hear if you posted in the morning.
That’s probably my favorite running joke on this site. My maternal grandpa liked to paint. He gave me a portrait of Vlad the Impaler for my 21st birthday. It looks like this:
When I get back to teaching, I’ll hang it on the wall of my classroom.
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/vlad-the-impaler-elena-ghita.jpg
I’d have to have an AV fistula put in to be able to give blood. My vessels are so tiny they have to use a pediatric butterfly on my right hand for a draw or IV. And heaven forfend I’m not properly hydrated.
Same.
Got a nurse last week who managed to find a vein in my elbow. She was the first (male or female) who could do that in many years. I don’t know what malady causes that. Fat?
Slammed today and missed the 9am, so I’ll leave this here instead
Fuck CommieTowns.org and the nimwhits who think it’s anything else.
I dont think you have read Marohn’s work. Is it true for some of the other authors, sure, but the founder leans right.
That’s the kind of reasoned discourse we’ve been looking for around here. 🙄
Joe Pesci vs Sesame Street – oh, how I laughed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3evXJqb54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ05oOZiZOA
Here is an update on America’s couple, in case nobody else posted it:
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/02/01/no-worries-gisele-fetterman-responds-to-divorce-rumors-on-social-media-n608953
FETTERMAN SMASH!!
They spelled Travis and What’s Her Name wrong.
Oopsy, posted this in the dead thread:
The Irish rebel version of Tonio’s favorite song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjk_aFdfF8
Started watching Kleo on Netflix today on the recommendation of one of the Glibs, and this weird doublethink disconnect jumped out at me:
The ‘protagonist’ female assassin gets pissed off at the East German Stasi turning on her and giving her the Enemy of the State treatment. So she seeks revenge against the individual Stasi agents who turned on her because they were ordered to do so, and didn’t take into consideration that she was ‘innocent’ and that the state was in the wrong. Because it was really hazardous to opine that the state was in way at all wrong about anything at all.
Except, she was an assassin who hunted down people designated as enemies of the state, because she was ordered to do so, and didn’t consider whether her targets were ‘innocent’, and whether the state was in the wrong. Because the state couldn’t be wrong, ever.
“It’s different when it’s ME!”
Yes, desktop fume extractors work, but they need to be close to the work. They won’t do much if they are three feet away.
+ Smokeless Ashtray
Thanks.
They did it already in Burn Notice and Grosse Pointe Blank.
(With apologies to Bill Engvall)
Hey, Florida Man! You think it’s a good idea to capture a couple of the largest, most ferocious apex predators in the world and keep them in your backyard? Here’s ursine.
That what you did was noted in an ocular capacity.
/stands and salutes
Eh, bears can be tamed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvKVGL95wDw
Male bear attacks female and pushes her cub off cliff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCLE6WKq0A
oops, 2nd one should be: male bear attacks female with cub
Fortunately, the aggressive male died from the fall, but the cub was separated from its mother.
“Eh, bears can be tamed.”
The only thing worse than a bear you can control is one you can’t.