So yeah, TPTB, including ones that are not part of Glibs, are gathered here for the weekend. On the plus side, as we get older, our bodies tolerate less and less abuse. I consider this the body’s self defense mechanism.
And unlike OMWC, I shoulder my responsibilities, and will therefore provide the only Links you will probably get this weekend.
Oh look, Arizona ‘tards for Kamala.
Yes, I have no doubt that Vlad is shaking in his boots.
You know it’s not going well when Celine Dion is the highlight of your ceremony.
There’s gotta be some jokes in here.
First taco I’ve seen with a tail.
Yay! More dengue fever! Plagues of locusts haven’t worked, send in the mosquitos.
Of course, they’re ready for their next bale.
I’m not sure Mexicans will really notice a difference. And yes Zambada, you were ratted out.
Okay, that’s it. The news cycle sucks today, but there you have it. Peace out, Glibbies.
Where is everyone?
Did I miss The Rapture?!?
I’m here.
I’m sure you’re excited about that, aren’t you?
Yippeeee!
I’m beside myself with joy! 🤪😝
I’m watching YouTube folks talking about the assassination attempt on Trump, the forcing out of Biden, whether those events are connected, etc.
I’m having unwanted thoughts about who’s in charge of this country.
The Big O is nearing the end of his third term. The day to day handler has been Dr Jill Ed.D.
I think there is a good possibility that the NYP from the morning links about biden naming the “Aldi Obama” (hat tip for the name) as a fuck you to his former boss might be accurate.
She has enough of a dismal record for OMB to run on that and to actively quash any DEI references. If he can beat the fortification efforts, then he can mention DEI all he wants during his inauguration.
Who is in charge of the country? That is easy. See who is making the money. The pols are just puppets and the money they steal is fair to middlin’. It isn’t them.
Who sold the stuff Ukraine bought with the money they got from us? That is a good place to start.
What do you mean “will become”?
“Unpragmatic” means Putin and his stooge Trump won’t be able to divide the spoils of Europe between them.
Harris, largely unknown to the Russians, is viewed with alarm. “The deep state will lead under Harris,” said Sergei Markov, a Kremlin-connected political analyst.
Balderdash, I’m sure Tan Qualye will be a force to reckon with and the deep state will kowtow to her wishes.
“He’s smart, he’s charismatic, he has a vision,” said Cindy McCain. “You look at his record and who he is as a person, he’s a very lovely man, and of course he brings Arizona.”
Compared to John McCain, maybe.
Is Bringing Arizona a sequel to Raising Arizona? If Kamala puts H.I. McDonough on the ticket I might vote for her.
“Her womb was a craggy rock upon which my seed could find no purchase.”
“he’s charismatic, he has a vision”
Well, he’s done a good job of keeping his light under a bushel, then. From here, he looks like aa nullity, a rubber stamp for whatever the Party wants.
The new object of political lust is someone who has climbed high on a nothing career, just so the opposition cannot paint the other as having done something that might bring disfavor on the party.
yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Uh oh.
no uh oh – I just don’t have a quippy quip
Ooooh zoomies! I’ll be around later and see if folk are still ’round.
Dinner+baseball w Dad at present.
WTF where are you losers?
That was a perky little tune.
It’s trying to rain. We’ve got wind and thunder, so far.
Nap of the earth
A Southwest Airlines passenger believed she was about to die when she witnessed her flight flying dangerously close to Old Tampa Bay waters, miles from the airport.
Nancy Allen was aboard Southwest Flight 425 from Columbus, Ohio, to Tampa, Florida, on July 14 when the plane dropped to below 200 feet over the water near the Courtney Campbell Causeway.
“I think the thing that I first saw that really concerned me was how close to the water we were. I didn’t know at the time that we were flying necessarily east, but I knew that Tampa Bay was way too close to us, and that was my big red flag,” Allen told WTVT.
At its lowest point, the Boeing 737 Max 8 was only 150 feet over the water, and still 4 miles from its destination.
Could she see the fishermen shaking their fists?
No, but the Lieutenant Commander on the bridge spilled his coffee on his khakis.
“Goddammit!”
The panic-stricken passenger, who had a window seat on the terrifying flight, took out her camera to record what she believed was her imminent death.
It’s Florida. Did she think they were going to slam into the side of a trash pile?
😥
I really want a burger but I’m too zooted to drive. And I don’t have any ground beef at home. Dammit.
I’ve got ground beef I thawed and need to use up soon.
Vague plans of poor man’s stroganoff tonight…
Hamburger Helper Stroganoff totally rocks my nuts off.
Use cream instead of milk, butter instead of margarine, and beef broth instead of water. Its next level.
And throw in mushrooms.
Hamburger Helper Stroganoff? Is the little hand on that package masturbating?
JR. Nice!
So, not really Hamburger Helper, then.
No HH here, but I have onion, mushrooms, cream of mushroom, sour cream appropriate spices, and egg noodles.
I will make it work.
There’s gotta be some jokes in here.
Noble Romans tonight, and Applebee’s several times with the ‘rents. Gotta say. They’ve upped their game. Large supreme for $30. Solid pizza for its cost. Applebee’s was damn good twice, with perfect medium-rarity on tasty beef. My parents (read: Dad) is into the same food we grew up with, as I suppose it goes.
I’ve said it out loud a few times, but don’t know… Has Olive Garden raised their game as well? *IMPORTANT NOTE: I live in Carmel, Indiana. It’s fantsy-pantsy affluent. I am aware that has a massive impact on how well things get done. I don’t go out to eat by myself, so I have no idea.
Little Caesar’s has it’s place too.
Dude. NO. Stop that.
Bad Tres.
Its cool. I still only eat the toppings.
I agree with Tres.
Little Caesar’s has it’s place.
Harbor Freight has its place.
Aldi produce, cheese, and meat has its place.
Burger King Classic Chicken sandwiches also have their place.
White Castle Chicken sandwiches also have their place
The French Laundry also has its place.
Snap on/off tools also have their place.
No. Little Caesar’s is OFF for good. One reason: They changed the fucking bread sticks! Their pizza sucked and everyone knew it, dammit. It was worth a side-quest (in high school) to go just for the sticks.
That remains baffling. I truly don’t understand. This wasn’t just a family opinion.
Dengue is caused by a virus spread by mosquitos in warm weather that spreads beyond its geographic reach due to climate change.
Oh my! Climate Change has made mosquitoes that normally live in the tropics gain a foothold in Illinois!
The CDC said that all 34 Illinois residents were infected while traveling as of July 11, the CDC said, but did not specify from where the infected people had most recently visited.
Ah… people were infected in some equatorial shithole before they
invadedmigrated to Chicago and surrounding areas. Ergo, Climate Change has fuck-all to do with the spread of the virus.Sell DDT to jungle countries, and let them take care of the problem themselves.
But birds! And, of course, that may not be true, but we can’t use it because it might be.
“If only africa had more mosquito nets, then every year we could save millions of mosquitos from dying needlessly from AIDS.”
-Jimmy Carr
No truth that this picture was taken in my back yard.
It wasn’t? Fuck. Well, at least you can get Chinese SKSs now.
About one in 20 people who get sick with dengue will develop the severe symptoms, according to the CDC.
So we need to lock the country down right?
Removing him from the criminal landscape could set off an internal war for control of the cartel that has a global reach — as has occurred with the arrest or killings of other kingpins — and open the door to the more violent inclinations of a younger generation of Sinaloa traffickers, experts say.
The AP is really going out on a limb here.
Sipping some port. I was at the gym earlier then worked in the yard. Dinner at a local bar. I think after I finish the port I’ll get a little work done inside the house.
I had one. If you wanted to do someone an injury with one of those clunkers, the best way to do it would be to grab the rifle by the barrel and use it as a club.
Then again, commies never were really into precision; they are more “accuracy by volume” adherents.
I had a Yugo SKS.
I sold it unfired.
I have some really nice commie weapons.
I don’t know what you people are talking about.
When the Albanian SKSs came into the country, I thought about getting one because of the rarity as supposedly only a few hundred were imported into the US. Most were destroyed instead of being sold on the surplus market. .
Judging by current prices and what I remember them coming in for, I was stupid not to buy one.
I had a chicom SKS back in teh 80’s. That was a solid piece of kit.
The deer here are unaware of the Chinese quality of SkS’s and I’m not the one to tell them. The venison still tastes the same to me. Never had a problem, though the deer have.
I remember the cheap surplus imports Big 5 used to run each week. Kicking myself now.
Remember when Zika virus was all the range and we were at risk of having a whole generation of tiny-headed kids?
And on Obama’s way out the CDC said they needed $1BN minimum to stop it?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/08/obama-to-ask-congress-for-1-8-billion-to-combat-zika-virus/
I’m in the Zooms, but I am watching YouTube so any zoom joiners might need to bark to get my attention.
…giving up and taking a nap.
Cheers all!
I need another AK74. 😒
I just built a nice original barrel Bulgy into a Post Sample. If you watch Gunbroker you can still get good deals on parts kits.
I want to be friends.
Heh. Well if you need one let me know I can definitely build one. Semi auto though unfortunately.
I have one Bulgy dressed in plum and a WASR-2 with upgraded wood.
We had some prime rib. I’m well fed.
I had Liver, Peppers, and Onion. It cost at most $4.
That’s a good meal to have before drinking because the alcohol gets confused as to which liver to attack.
Which liver?
I….did not know that.
The decoy doesn’t work. Cows don’t drink booze, so they don’t fool it.
Of course cows drink. They get…..tipsy
Prime rib is delicious.
They all look alike?
South Korea wrongly introduced as North Korea at Olympics
That’s silly. South Koreans are bigger than North Koreans thanks to actually having food.
That’s one slant on it.
I’m sure they said it was occidental.
Careful. You guys are on a slippery
slope
Where everybody is an asshole including the plaintiff attorney of the soon to be lawsuit.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/27/us-news/ny-mom-horrified-to-find-4-year-old-daughters-burger-king-meal-splattered-with-blood-fast-food-chain-deeply-upset-and-concerned/
They must have checked the wrong box while the rest of us couldn’t get a GPU for our home machines.
Ex-Twitter dev reminisces about finding 700 unused Nvidia GPUs after takeover — forgotten cluster was ‘powered on and idle’
So speculation for what customer has the ability to get SpaceX to modify its proven design? DoD or NASA?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/spacex-roars-back-to-orbit-barely-two-weeks-after-in-flight-anomaly/?comments=1&comments-page=1
Can we ever reach peak NASA?
The rover is complete and flight ready, but not fully tested. So you could fly it with a Hail Mary and hope it works, but that still eats up some cash. Instead they are going to fly a hunk of metal for $300m.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-cancels-its-viper-moon-rover/
NASA hasn’t been the same since they ran out of Nazi scientists.
So…now we are putting rocks back onto the moon?
This is what happens when a culture selects for incompetence. Buckle up people, we aren’t all the way there yet.
Grampa? It’s past your bedtime.
Bernie Sanders, 82, issues stark warning to Kamala Harris about major issue that could cost her the election.
Uh huh, sure that happened totally unprompted. 🙄
Some people just can’t stop digging.
Income inequality can be remedied in one of two ways.
Most likely is the one where the vast majority are much poorer. IOW keep on doing the same thing, overspending.
I love that classic clip from Thatcher’s last day/speech in the House of Commons where she calls them out on exactly that.
Tell me again why income inequality matters?
I assume everyone who complains about it thinks that wealth is some fixed-sized pie.
Spud, I will have to be the one to say that of course that isn’t you in your backyard.
We don’t see any nipple tassles.
He’s just trying to educate the yutes,
someone remind me where the add media button went in the new WP editor
under the plus button top left
I guess the Ruskies like drinking Peanut liqueur. Because there’s much better value at the same price point than Beam white label.
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I need you on here more. So that people can fully appreciate my greatness, I need a better foil.
I’ve got your foil for you.
Wakey, wakey peeps.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0CpMYL10fI
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Good morning, Sean!
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raining: quickly hoed the weeds popping up in the beds and then ran back inside
Mornin’ all! Gonna be hot & humid here today 🙁
Wake your neighbors with this.
😉
Good morning, Beau and DonET! Lovely weather so far down here, so I’m going to enjoy it while I can (before it gets too steamy!)
Watched Death of Stalin yesterday. I thought it was funny. Couldn’t help but imagine the White House looking the same way over the years and especially over the past month.
Today is the coolest morning we can expect for a long time, so the wife and I are headed out to the disc golf course (for her second round ever)