As more or less Editor in Sort of Chief (at least for Weekdays) I have given sloopy and banjos the day off.
You want links – enact your own labor! Or not. I am not your supervisor.
OK, so that means the post is open and all yours!
Labor Day Morning Open Post
About The Author
Swiss Servator
Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational.
Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.
Fine! I just will then! 😉
Sports — as mentioned yesterday, roller coaster of a race – very enjoyable.
What was that about offering a job in the administration to other candidates, Jackass Party? — of course, this is based solely on a “He said” (and we haven’t even heard the “She said”) — so grain of salt.
“Um… Have you seen me?”
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/discovery-of-consumer-grade-firework-prompts-bomb-squad-response-in-north-catasauqua/article_f383019a-688e-11ef-a3fe-a35f49f5a7f3.html
Lol. Over react much?
Depends — is this “Tennessee interstate sign consumer grade” (M-40 or above) or “CA Thou Mayst Have Sparklers At Most” consumer grade? Wide range there…
But yeah — don’t you just love Safety Culture? We used to have people go carve out settlements in the wilderness with little more than an axe and a musket… now we hyperventilate at every little thing. There’s presumably several essays written about how our lack of belief in an afterlife and concurrent hyperfocus on this life and prolonging it has made us risk adverse and all. I don’t need to try to come up with one.
I’m sure it was not a Komodo 3000.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3HEx3_r4zo
My god we are becoming a hive mind. I just looked up that same clip and checked before double posting.
Why not be more specific on what exactly the thing was; was it a freaking pack of firecrackers or a mortar like larger shows use for the 4th? Seems like that’d be pertinent and readily available information.
😂😂
😁
Great minds, and all…
Seems like that’d be pertinent and readily available information.
Awww, Stinky… You should know by now that the cops love to be vague so as to magnify the perceived threat, and their own utility to society.
Remember how pot busts were never given as n pounds of marijuana, but “drugs with a street value of…” And by street value meant, there was a formula for multiplying weight by the official cop numbers of marijuana cigarettes that would produce then multiplying that by the official cop street value of an individual marijuana cigarette.
Tonio, you know the equation, right? BD/#(X)
Whereas B=belly of largest cop, D=number of donuts consumed during the investigation, divided by the actual weight of marijuana to the power of the number of cops at the bust.
Thankfully the bomb squad thwarted the destruction of the whole A.B.E. metro area!
Iraq — the gift that keeps on giving. At least they didn’t leave helicopters in the desert, I suppose… not that PPP would even know.
Classic Liberal left by leftward lurch continues to say some things that make some sense. Will doubtless say stupid shit soon as well.
Classic Liberal – depending on the definition of classic liberal.
I am not having that argument — you, Alex and JI can go fight it out on your own time. 😀
Let’s say old school liberal instead.
It’s a lovely, slightly breezy 61 degrees here at Tranq Base! I intend to lollygag out here all morning, do some laundry in the afternoon, then, I hope, hear the local High A baseball team clinch a spot in the minor league playoffs for the first time since 2017!
Morning! Yes weather is wonderful this morning. Got 1/3 of the deck stained and sealed. Now for the rest of it today.
Supposed to be 73 here in the valley today, but reaching up to 98 by midweek. That should be the last of the hot weather though.
Only in the mid ’90s today I believe… we get back to 106 or so mid-week then back to the 90s next week (if you can believe 2 week forecasts). So typical September… we typically don’t start seeing actual cooling until November.
Lollygagging is such a lovely word. Have a great day.
“Right-wing on economics, left-wing on social issues”: on the breakdown of a political heuristic
For over half a century, it used to be a decent rule of thumb that a classical liberal is someone who sides with the political Right on economic issues, and with the political Left on social issues. That was never exactly right, and it was always easy to think of counter-examples. But for a long time, it used to be about as accurate as any political rule of thumb can realistically get.
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Some liberals argue that the political Right has given up on Thatcherite economics, and reverted to the more statist, corporatist conservatism of the postwar era. There may well be some truth in that, but it implies a level of consistency that does not really exist. It is not that the Right has consistently replaced Thatcherism with the economics of Edward Heath or Harold Macmillan. It’s more that the Right has given up on economic dynamism in general. The only consistent economic policy theme they have left is a nihilistic Nimbyism. This is hard to pin down exactly, because Nimbyism is a revealed ideology rather than a stated ideology. A Nimby is not someone who literally says ‘I am a Nimby’; it is someone who claims to be in favour of ‘the right kind of development’ in ‘the right places’, and then opposes every actual development.
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But to complicate matters further, I don’t think that in this day and age, a classical liberal can be ‘left-wing on social issues’ either. That association comes from a time when the Left stood for permissiveness in the social sphere, rather than a woke authoritarianism. When the 1980s Left opposed the idea that the state should force moral values on people, they assumed that that state would always be a conservative state, and that its moral values would always be conservative values. It did not even occur to them that one day, the major state institutions might have a progressive bent, and that the state could be used as a tool to force progressive moral values on people.
This does not mean that classical liberals now have to align themselves with the populist, anti-woke Right, which can be quite anti-liberal in its own way. However, you cannot meaningfully call yourself ‘socially liberal’ if you are only prepared to defend people’s freedoms to do things they can already easily do. It must also mean defending the unpopular, and the unfashionable. And nowadays, that mostly means defending the freedom to deviate from progressive orthodoxy.
What is that from, PIE?
missed the link
https://iea.org.uk/right-wing-on-economics-left-wing-on-social-issues-on-the-breakdown-of-a-political-heuristic/
Yeah, some variation on that was pretty common for awhile. It’s just that, whenever the economically (or whatever) conservative and the socially (or whatever) liberal parts didn’t align, somehow the liberal/leftist part always won out.
Probably already seen this — should have released it on July 4.
Freedom Foundation sums things up pretty well.
I see Sean’s chiming in… 6 from me is enough… Carpe piscem, carissimi!
stop putting unrelated links in the same comment.
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
My tulpa hates my girlfriend
It’s just like the title says. My tulpa (Janeppa) doesn’t like my girlfriend of two years. It has gotten to the point where Janeppa will lash out and call her names. The problem is, my girlfriend doesn’t believe in tulpas. Whenever she says that, it makes the problem worse, because Janeppa feels invalidated. Any tips?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/te8rua/my_tulpa_hates_my_girlfriend/
Hide and seek. Girlfriend hides while the author of this drivel seeks therapy.
I assume it is trolling of a form I am not acquainted with, but I posted it here for obvious reasons (my Tulpa made me do it)
The girlfriend should tell tulpa to fuck off.
Kamala HQ
@KamalaHQ
MAGA operative endorses Trump’s Project 2025 to give Trump total control over Americans’ lives: “Put the president entirely in charge of the government… [It should not be] checked and balanced”
Delicious Tacos
@Delicious_Tacos
Correct- Yarvin is the author of Project 2025, and a key Trump Campaign official. He has said that any woman even contemplating abortion will be shot with a death ray- and Trump agrees.
Do you want this man controlling your daughter’s body?
https://x.com/Delicious_Tacos/status/1830420509596545205
“death ray”
I thought only the Jews had that technology. Or was that the weather controlling machines?
I’m so confused.
They clear it up in the comments. It is actually tungsten rods falling from orbit in Yarvin’s case.
The technical term is space lasers.
Don’t say that on youtube, even as a joke, or you’ll get banned, just like my cartoon on Maui.
This 2025 canard is worse than the Russia canard.
Let’s start quoting Mao, Stalin and Castro then attribute it to Kamalamadingdong. Oh wait, that actually works.
Total control over my life is her job anyway.
Ok, one more — StarlinerGPT getting antsy about looming detachment from ISS apparently.
Nothing to worry about, disconnecting the HAL 9000 should fix that problem.
– “It was not immediately clear what was causing the odd, and somewhat eerie noise”
Aliens.
The castaways are screwing to pass the time. I thought this was covered already.
“Czechs Are The World’s Biggest Beer Drinkers… By Far”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/czechs-are-worlds-biggest-beer-drinkers-far
Our average annual consumption is less than a third of the Czechs? This country is going to shit, we can’t even drink right anymore.
Sad!
Makes sense — unlike the Czechs, we have balances.
What do you call a slovakian thats been thrown out of a bar?
A bounced czech !
they do got good beer
Also surprised at how low the Russians are but I assume they make up for it in vodka.
Cheap beer and beautiful women. It can be a pretty nice place.
Yeah but our baristas have master’s degrees—best educated bar staff in the world.
Next time you see an attractive Israeli
Remember this video
Remilio
https://x.com/xbtGBH/status/1829902756070687037
That’s kind of sad. I’ve always been partial to a somewhat prominent probiscus on a woman.
I was gonna say…I never saw that as a turn-off. They probably make jokes about our tiny noses.
VNs called Americans “Long Noses”. In some cases it’s quite accurate
The sun is barely up and we already have the best headline of the day.
I hope this has been covered already here and I just missed it, but Hollywood may have finally listened to its critics.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt30180830/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
I see it’s up now on the Showtime channels as well as Paramount Plus.
LOL – watch the trailer in the link – it’s gold!
Guardian most read containing multitudes
https://x.com/rcolvile/status/1830372488490156347
The Guardian, like a close relative of mine has mastered the art of never even getting the time right 2x a day.
Good grief, how does one do that? You would think they would occasionally get something right by accident.
not a fan of sexual choking I see
*two hands out, palms up and weighing*
Lets see…celebration of life….murdering someone with your bare hands….celebration of life….
I dunno, it’s a tough call.
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9. The Fifth Element (1997) – A selection of images showing the amazing miniature work behind the New York cityscape of the movie
https://x.com/tradingMaxiSL/status/1825373842048499989
Neat.
I will watch that movie any time it pops up on my television – which is a lot.
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/jaguar-owners-told-to-park-outside-away-from-buildings-due-to-fire-risk-all-electric-suv-i-pace-issued-warning-vehicles-sports-car-overheat-software-update-dealerships-temporary-fix-recall-expensive-luxury
Uh huh.
Chinese owned (yes, Chinese owned) company somehow degrades British quality and produces rolling fire hazards/deathtraps. I didn’t see that coming.
I was under the impression it was still owned by Tata, which is Indian.
Oh, well if there’s a software fix then I’m sure it’s safe.
Even after the software fix they recommend parking outside. The software fix is only temporary till they figure out a real fix, which they’re still working on.
Truck driver looking at phone barely avoids car broken down on the edge of the road and crashes
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy9e1pjyng8o
Very lucky that didn’t kill anyone.
There’s more than a few dumbasses in that video. Get your broke down car all the way off the road. Then stand behind it (and the railing) so if it does get crashed into, you are not dodging debris.
I should start loading my luggage into my car, get gas, and get on the road.
I don’t know if Laramie to Salt Lake has any of those dangeorusly long segments between fuel stations, so I’m going to top up just to be safe. I don’t believe I can make it on a single tank the whole way, but it isn’t far past that.
Not New Mexico level gaps as I recall, no. I assume you’re on I-80 already… I’ve made that part of my usual cross-continent trip and don’t remember it being a big problem. Stay safe and have fun — the curves going into SLC are a pip — especially since you tend to have people flying along in the left lanes and trucks jumping over from the right and all on downhill, curved sections.
I’ve been stuck on I-80 since Cedar Rapids and won’t get off it until Reno.
I do my worrying when I have time to think. I’ve got my gopro set up to record video of my driving. So far it’s been bleak, flat spans, but hopefully it’ll get more interesting to watch as I go west.
You’re spoiled by the East Coast — by the time I get out of SLC and towards Wyoming, I’m so happy to see greenery and trees that aren’t stunted shrubs due to actual rainfall that I enjoy the wide open areas of Wyoming and Nebraska. (Not to mention when I get to Missouri and back in the Southeast and there are real trees on the side of the road and all!
But that’s my own biases… I never would have moved West if I didn’t have to for work, let me tell you.
I need real trees.
I’ve figured that out.
I’ve never had an enjoyable drive along I-80 in Wyoming. Either lots of construction or being slowed down by trucker that seem to enjoy passing each other at 1/2MPH
We’ve packed the car and after dropping our daughter at the airport we’re going to visit our first Buccee’s north of Denver.
Do they sell fullerenes?
I visited my first one last year in Texas. It is pretty amazing.
They’re building a monstrous one a couple of hours away from Orlando, in Ocala, off I-75. 80,000 square feet and 120 gas pumps.
Assuming you are going out the 80, yes, there are places to fuel up. Rock Springs and Rawlings both have gas stations, what with being actual towns and shit.
(I know, assuming. Ass, You, Me.)
Bonus music link — because I feel like it.
And in honor of UCS’s drive and it being Labor Day.
UCS and other fellow travlers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvIL5FyFso
As long as he avoids this…..
“National Public Radio Confronts Election Season With a ‘Joy Czar’”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-29/national-public-radio-confronts-election-season-with-a-joy-czar
They should just change the name to National Public Harris/Walz Campaign.
Said Joy Czar pictured along with the rest of America having to deal with Kamala…
“I told you that Id shoot but you didnt believe me! Why didn’t you believe me!”
I bet they even decide to increase our chocolate rations soon.
Good Lord that is transparent.
The crazy train just keeps going further and further off of the rails. It is a wonder to watch.
Holy shit. Defund them now.
Why? A transparent campaign contribution, nay, not a contribution but actual campaigning on behalf of the ruling party using tax payer money? Banana Republic, indeed. That makes all of their private donors Kamala donors. Are they listed as such on the Dem party books? No? Clear violation of the law. If anyone in the R party had the stones this would be going to court without even having to conjure up fake shit Jack Smith-style.
If anyone in the R party had the stones….yeah, get a load of me.
TW: the book of faces.
CERO usually does much creepier & horror oriented work. This one is a delight.
Now I am reminded of Samurai Cat.
Helps if I add the link
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Samurai-Cat-Mark-Rogers/dp/0812576810
That’s gonna leave a mark
A manhunt is currently underway to find who put up these “hate signs” in Denver
And that is how you play the game.
Paging RJ-
OBLIVION
“A French woman whose husband is on trial for drugging her and allowing dozens of strangers to rape her while unconscious appeared in court for the first time after waiving her right to anonymity.
Gisele P., 72, was seen standing in the courtroom supported by her three children to witness the opening day of the trial of Dominique P., 71, which began this morning in Avignon.
He is accused of orchestrating a sick rape ring, using an online forum to invite a horde of men to his home in Mazan near Avignon before filming them assaulting his wife over nine years between 2011 and 2020.
Police counted a total of 92 rapes committed by 72 men, 51 of whom were identified and are being tried alongside the main suspect, a former employee at France’s power utility company EDF.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13804549/Woman-72-drugged-husband-50-men-rape-unconscious-appears-court-bravely-waiving-right-anonymity-goes-trial-men-filmed-having-sex-her.html
Nine years and she didn’t notice anything?
Not too surprising. Didn’t Democrats “not notice anything” wrong with Joe for three and a half years?
Democracy in flames
“The results for the AfD in #Thüringen and #Sachsen are worrying. Our country cannot get used to this,” Scholz said. “The AfD is damaging Germany. It weakens the economy, divides society and ruins the reputation of our country.”
People cannot be allowed to vote against our policies. Ban the AfD. Throw their leaders in jail.
They are trying exactly that.
That sounds almost like the language of…no, the exact words of every totalitarian ever. Have they already seized all of the press outlets?
Pity the fool
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Americans tuning into the presidential debate later this month will see former President Trump as a “bumbling fool” compared to Vice President Harris.
“I think that she wants to appear as if she is the adult in the room and she is,” Crockett told MSNBC’s Alex Witt on Saturday. “What we will see is this whining child who will sit there and won’t give direct answers and honestly will distract and be a bumbling fool.”
That’s all you need to know.
Not all you need to know. You need skin color and vajayjay.
“Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas)…”
You can safely ignore everything after that. She needs to take her meds.
Yes, I watched the Harris/Walz interview too.
Crockett added that no one is talking about the specifics of life under the Trump administration, including the COVID-19 pandemic response and national debt.
You might be surprised, lady, but a lot of people look back on the Trump
They keep saying that but as I recall he was mostly hands-off and reluctant to do much of anything. Granted, he kept Fauci on…big mistake…but the scamdemic was on the D’s, primarily on their governors. See: Creepy Walz.
All projection, all of the time.
Putting Fauci and Birx in charge of the response, pushed through the vax with no real testing, generally supported lockdowns (took swipes at Repub governors who opened early), enthusiastically supported the spending blowout – Trump’s hands are dirty clear up to his elbows on the pandemic response.
For those looking for non-woke sportswear: https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/1772208721193480210
Target is going to absolutely own the truck friendly segment.
Dammit AC – TUCK, not truck.
No idea what happened. Try again-
You might be surprised, lady, but a lot of people look back on the Trump administration as The good Old Days.
Or at the very least they go “Shit wasn’t all that bad then.”
Hell, _Clinton_ was the good old days.
After ’94, yes.
It wouldn’t have happened if you threaded properly. 😜
High drama
With just nine weeks to go until one of the most consequential elections in modern history, workers across America are at a crossroads. Early voting begins soon, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
At the heart of this election is the future of our workforce. There is a fierce battle underway to shape perceptions over which party can claim the mantle of standing with workers, especially union members and workers fighting to form unions — a critical voting bloc with the power to decide elections up and down the ballot in November.
But the facts are clear: Democrats are the party of labor, and the Biden-Harris administration has been the most pro-labor administration in our lifetime.
They need posters in the Soviet style, of Harris, wielding a sledgehammer like a sabre, leading the Workers’ Army into battle against the capitalist plutocrats.
I think they mean pro union apparatchik?
“…. the Biden-Harris administration has been the most pro-labor administration in our lifetime.”
True, but we are more concerned about American workers than Chinese workers so maybe they shouldn’t bring that up.
Pro-union =/= pro-worker.
Needs some work, but here’s a good start
I dont think of them as soviet style anymore since HopeyChangey had his posters made.
As we look ahead, the choice we face in this election couldn’t be more stark. One path leads to a brighter, more inclusive future for all workers — a future where economic, gender and racial justice go hand in hand. The other path seeks to turn back the clock, dismantling the progress we’ve made and putting corporate interests ahead of working families.
If Trump wins it will be 1840 again.
Oh, I thought Kamala was the latter description.
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Yes, I cheated and used a gibberish generator but hey…there were no democrats around to compose for me.
That’s some authentic frontier jibberish!
Utah Highway Patrol has a new series called Ride with the Hive. It’s pretty well done for an in-house video. COPS without the acting for the camera crew. Also, that polite Mormon culture.
Happy commie day, comrades!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/1esue11/face_the_wall_comrade/
Abbreviated holiday schedule or late post?
I think CommaLa’s campaign pulled the McDonald’s ads. I haven’t seen one in days now.
Yeah, PA ads have switched to how Project 2025 is Trump’s plan to become dictator for life, push granny off a cliff, and require women to get pregnant.
I seem to remember Trump having nothing to do with that, knew next to nothing about it, and when he learned about it said ‘some parts are extreme I dont agree with that’.
In other words, like all of the D’s issues it is a fabrication.
Yup, and the getting those “greedy corporations!”
Wanton destruction
“It’s causing a lot of anxiety, a lot of discomfort within the workforce, as you are faced with these strong, negative, anti-federal worker stances and this uncertainty of what might happen to your job, your home and your livelihood,” said Dodson, who is acting vice president of American Federation of Government Employees local 3403, which represents the USDA’s Economic Research Service.
The head of the executive branch wants to reorganize the departments he is in charge of. It’s an outrage.
“I think it is a positive factor for accountability that you have civil servants also operating as a check on political appointees, and this would be weakened by moving these people away from where the center of the government is, so I think from that perspective it would reduce accountability,” Campante said. “Obviously, then, it depends on whether you think this accountability is good or not.”
Checks (and balances)? I don’t remember civil servants being a fourth branch of government.
The District of Columbia has the largest number of federal civilian employees, with about 160,700 jobs, according to the Congressional Research Service. Maryland and Virginia are in the top four jurisdictions, with about 138,940 in Maryland and 140,400 in Virginia. California has about 142,040.
The proposals to move a large number of federal workers infuriate local leaders in the suburbs of Washington in both Maryland and Virginia. In Maryland, a heavily blue state where Trump is deeply unpopular, it’s viewed by many as retaliation by the former president, who received only 32% of the vote there in 2020.
Aww, that would be tragic.
I wonder if this ‘move fed workers to the hinterlands’ is a good idea. Didn’t we delude ourselves into thinking the Chinese would start shooting off fireworks every July 4 if they could only see the benefits of free markets? Culture doesnt change that easily.
Maybe we should be concentrating and isolating these federal ‘workers’ even more, penal colony style.
Moving them around would be like subsidizing Californians’ Uhauls. VA and MD would still be fucked and the new places would get fucked.
I don’t like it. It will turn into the military base closing debacle – you won’t be able to downsize a single department, there will be constant vote-buying across the country with expansion of federal bureaucracies now embedded everywhere instead of just the Imperial Capitol.
I’d like to Grover Norquist the federal bureaucracy instead.
I will entertain the idea once those numbers are reduced by at least 90%.
What the fuck do all those hundreds of thousands of people even do?
That employees of the USDA would be dead set against moving to the Midwest should be met with incredulity from the left, right, and middle.
If they don’t like it, they can quit, fuckers that they are.
32% is “deeply unpopular”. OK, then.
Karen Hult, a political science professor at Virginia Tech, said the move could harm Trump’s chances in Virginia.
“Federal workers around Northern Virginia, and in the D.C. metro area generally, are, in fact, a bit of a voting bloc,” Hult said “The other thing, of course, are all the contractors — the beltway bandits. They make a big difference, too.”
Those people would be locked in MAGA votes if not for this weird idea of moving their offices away from the inner hive.
I keep hearing this kind of talk. I am strongly inclined to think that at this point there isn’t anyone who is going to change their votes.
I see ‘man on the street’ interview where Kamala voters are adamant that they will vote D no matter what. No amount of history, facts, information of any kind will sway them. Same for Trump voters and the ‘undecideds’ can plainly see Kamala is a commie totalitarian and are saying so. They aint voting for her. I think things are locked in already.
I think there’s some reluctant Dem defectors out there who aren’t fully on the MAGA train yet.
Voting for Team, regardless of candidate.
Blue, No Matter Who.
Red, Even if Brain-Dead.
Pinko, because they don’t want to thinko?
The whole idea of moving government departments out of Washington into Flyoverstan requires the explicit exploration of who their “clients” really are. Nobody wants that.
Filipe Campante, a Bloomberg Distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University who focuses on political economy and urban and regional issues, noted that there’s a reason why capital cities exist, with the presence of federal employees nearby. Physical presence, he said, is necessary for face-to-face interactions that are important to maintaining accountability.
That’s not pretzel logic, that’s more like when the clown twists the balloons into funny animal shapes.
“ Physical presence, he said, is necessary for face-to-face interactions that are important to maintaining accountability.”
Spoken like a true Boomer.
I actually think he’s got a point. First, of course, you have to have accountability, before the problem of maintaining it can be addressed.
He assumes that these people actually serve the interests of the populace. They do not. Thus cloister them away from the populace. We can have them completely interact with AI’s pretending to be the populace. That way we dont have to bother with them and their decrees and they wont ever know the difference.
Anvils. Most loyal pet a man can have.
“Stay, anvil, stay! Good boy!”
See? Doesn’t move an inch.
One of my Dad’s favorite sayings after my brother and I did something stupid: “I swear you two could fuck up an anvil with a rubber mallet.”
Son?! Is that you?
Perhaps. Ive been told that in her younger days my Mother had a certain “zest for living” coupled with “moral laxness”.
The family was watching a cooking show earlier, where the challenge was to make the best tacos.
The winner made tacos using crickets instead of actual meat. I pointed out that that was not real, but propaganda.
Only stupid snotnoggins would think that cricket tacos would even be consumed, much less win a contest.
Eeeeew!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkV2oGPM2k
Most cooking shows now are unwatchable for exactly that kind of shit.
Another common trope is the vegan who has never cooked a piece of meat – that person is guaranteed to win any challenge that involves cooking a piece of meat.
I actually think he’s got a point. First, of course, you have to have accountability, before the problem of maintaining it can be addressed.
Accountable to whom is the real question. Heaven knows it’s not the saps (taxpayers) who actually foot the bill.
The winner made tacos using crickets instead of actual meat. I pointed out that that was not real, but propaganda.
They should try rat carne asada.
I caught a tree frog in the kitchen a few minutes ago. Maybe he was coming for “dinner?”
Whose avatar was “Pound Head Here”? I miss him.
Accountability is absolutely necessary. Managers must be accountable to the union.
https://www.nj.com/camden/2024/09/patient-fires-gun-in-nj-emergency-room-on-labor-day-weekend-authorities-say.html
My money is on it being a chick.
And a cop. Who had a desk pop trying to reholster a firearm.
Probably that SS agent at that possible shooting at who knows what during the Trump rally in PA. Rumor has it she’s still trying to holster her weapon to this day.
Seen on my Derpbook memories (and I think I lifted it from Glibs)…
An old-timey joke:
In heaven, the police are English, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and it is all organized by the Swiss.
In hell, the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organized by the Italians.
I didn’t realize there was an Asian version of the gag.
Heaven: Chinese cook, American salary, British house, Japanese wife.
Hell: British cook, Chinese salary, Japanese house, American wife.
History Lesson #1 today:
“It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past — a world founded upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice.” — Gen. Douglas MacArthur, September 2 1945
If you ever go out to Pearl Harbor, you can see the Missouri overwatching the Arizona and her 1100 sleeping crewmen. On Big Mo’s main deck is a plaque commemorating the surrender of the Empire of Japan to the Allies on this date.
So what is everyone cooking today? I have three New York strips, asparagus, and baked potatoes.
I grilled strips for lunch.
Nice. 9mm auto strips or 357 revolver sized strips?
Burgers. And shishitos from the garden.
Maybe a hot dog or two.
It’s not April 1st, is it?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/yikes-dealership-offers-15-year-loan-on-used-lamborghini-urus
Still sounds like an anal infection. “Got an itchy Urus? Try Analphadine! May cause bleeding from the eyes, explosive vomiting, and urinary leakage. If death occurs, call your doctor.”