Old Man is attending to family business this weekend, so you get back to back Spud today. Biden and Harris continue to beclown themselves, now adding an incompetent disaster recovery to the list. The hotels are filled with FEMA people, waiting for their bosses to tell them what to do. Meanwhile, the people they are there to purportedly help are outside or in shelters…because the hotels are filled with FEMA people waiting to be told what to do.
Okay, I’ll toss in a few birthdays.
A cuck was born on this day…a man who gave us obesity on a bun…a truly stupid man that needs to go back to stargazing… Oy! Oy! Oy! Rock and roll!…a man better known for Cricket than politics…Lyndon Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt, ___________.
Links?
We’ve been wondering where the Cajun Navy was. We needed to look up.
Tilapia vaginas, salmon sperm injections, we are RETVRNING to the ocean.
“‘Spot’ Will Never Be Weaponized”. Which is a guarantee that Spot will be weaponized.
“What’s one more poor, old n***** to the Board of Education?”
Okay, I’ve got to save a few for this evening. Y’all have a great day and I’ll see you in a bit.
I think I’ve seen that hentai.
Really? https://m.youtube.com/shorts/19If7xIlcf4
Welcome back, Straff!
Wassup, Ted? I been lurking.
お久しぶり!
I really have to get around to writing up a series of posts on hiking the Catskills.
I’m on year two of learning Korean. No more of that Jap squiggle crap for me.
I had Japanese class with a young native Korean speaker. She kicked my ass. Her accent was also quite good. I’ve also had Japanese class with native Chinese speakers. Their accent on the other hand…
Hopefully some of your Japanese learning transfers.
Williams > Old El Paso!
Whoa! Look who’s here. Was listening to a very Vulfy-y Neighbors Complain the other day and wondering where you were.
The reports of my demise were grossly overstated.
Yeah, it’s a good thing we saved those poor Europeans from the scourge of genocidal fascism that cost 15 million people their lives and selflessly gave the continent over to the genteel and kind Soviet Union, who politely eliminated 70 million subversive maniacs instead of advancing any kind of “controlling interests.”
Yeah that as is known to most is a truly midwit formulation. How dare anyone challenge the narrative of our noble victory.
Didn’t yesterday afternoon’s survey show us that agreeing with the herd is just common sense on such things?
It’s gotta look believable when the feebs finally field somebody who can hit a target from 100 yards. Say, is Lon Horiuchi still alive?
So peak negative is about like peak derp?
I’d say they were trying for peak asymptote — but even that would have its limits. Integral to the political process, though.
The article is a pile of shit, as expected, but TBH they couldn’t find someone better to oppose the awful Klobuchar?
Yay Republican primary voters!!!
To the extent they’ve become so fed up with continually getting cucked by the mainstream party candidates that they’re willing to vote for the crazies and eccentrics just to cause a stink in an election they know as futile anyway, they’re a cunt hair away from becoming full on libertarians.
It’s Paul Verhoeven’s world, we’re just living in it.
“ The effort is set to include new ads and harsher language on the campaign trail that highlights Trump’s past actions…”
Like dodging bullets?
At this point — I think the TDS afflicted are like Ben Folds’ nice summary of the mindset of our female partners:
Reality doesn’t matter for his past actions anymore.
I saw Trump at the crossroads cavorting with the Devil under a full moon. Honest injun…
“ But as Springfield has balked at the union’s demand for $1.1 billion in additional state funds, with even Democrats saying the request is unreasonable and unrealistic”
That’s like me telling my wife a 30 minute bj is unreasonable and unrealistic.
You have a way with words.
Lies, damned lies and statistics — but this feeds my preconceptions, so putting it out there.
Not to inflict Kamala speechifying on you — but thinking on her feet is not her strong point. How Presidential! (In the Joe Biden Pudding Brain tradition at least)
I’d want to know how comparable the vaxxed and unvaxxed groups are – age, risk adjusted, etc.
It’s interesting, but the confounding variable could be that sicker kids were likelier to get infected and likelier to get vaccinated in the first place. If so, the sicker pool of kids would be expected to have higher all cause mortality. They’re also playing the rhetorical trick of using a percent increase. We’re talking about 6 tenths of 1 percent of the vaccinated kids dying vs 1 tenth of 1 percent of the unvaccinated kids. Looked at in those terms, the major takeaway is more like “Kids were always at a higher risk of getting struck by lightning than dying from COVID.”
Apropos of nothing, for the first time in a long while, I’ve had absolutely nothing to do since I got off work 2.5 hours ago. No service orders at my other job. No resupplies or production for my side business. No yard work. Today’s lunch is already prepped. No laundry or cleaning until Wednesday. And after nearly a year of a much busier pace than I was used to previously, it feels uncomfortable now having the free time I’ve so missed. It’s like there’s something I’m forgetting to do. Fuck you brain, for robbing me of the joy of indolence.
Ballad. https://suno.com/song/297e44c5-0d6e-41d0-9ea2-f8e9bcd2f6f4
Nice. I was expecting this.
That was slight less obnoxious than Oasis.
🎵Fuck you brain, for robbing me of the joy of indolence. 🎶
/sways to the music
Pat is good lyricist. A regular Knob Dylan.
Try masturbation.
But what do I do when masturbation’s lost its fun?
First Oasis, and now (I assume) Green Day. Are you trying to kill us?
Correct guess, but I should cut you for besmirching Oasis by way of that comparison. (Although Green Day did borrow a chord progression from Wonderwall)
“Three big game hunters are facing felony wildlife charges after allegedly charging clients thousands of dollars to hunt mountain lions and ship them across the nation.
Chad Michael Kulow, 44, his partner Andrea May Major, 44, and LaVoy Linton Eborn, 47, are accused of leading unlicensed expeditions into the Idaho and Wyoming wilderness to hunt the wild cats.
The trio allegedly killed at least a dozen mountain lions and were indicted under the Lacy Act, a federal conservation law that criminalizes trading wildlife that was illegally transported or sold.
Kulow made no secret of his activities on social media and often shared pictured of himself and Major proudly displaying an array of cougars and other wild animals they had shot for sport.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13927011/Mountain-lions-hunters-charged-Kulow-Major-Eborn.html
Everyone is a genius.
I love big cats and think trophy hunting is self indulgent to the point of narcissism, but pumas can and do fuck up a lot of hikers every year, and the ecosystem will probably survive OK if a few of them are taken across state lines after they’ve been killed.
As is known to most, the best cougar hunting is done at the upscale hotel bar.
They prefer to call it hagmaxxing now.
Hello!
Huh. I sought going after cougars would have fallen under the Mann Act.
Typical RFP that has already determined the vendor or product.
State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles
Just like Jesus would have wanted 🙄 Nothing Jesus supported more than forced recitations of loyalty to a secular state based on materialist humanism and the total rejection of religious authority for $60 a copy.
Also, not for nothing, but the KJV is the only translation still basically legible in modern English that is copyright-unencumbered with no licensing or royalty fees. They could literally just put a copy on the DOE’s intranet to be used in classroom instruction. Or if they insist on having it on deadwood, order 55,000 copies on Amazon for .30 a pop.
Ahem, Douay-Rheims. Which includes the missing deuterocanonical books from KJV.
A Latin Vulgate translation? SCANDALOUS!
JFC. The Democrat campaign ads write themselves.
It’s the classiest grift. They greatest grift of all time. Only losers don’t love this grift.
“Mysterious ‘traffic’ signs with Donald Trump’s face pop up along NYC streets”
https://nypost.com/2024/10/05/us-news/mysterious-trump-traffic-signs-pop-up-along-nyc-streets/
LOL
HATE has no place in the big apple
May as well be the Totenkopf.
Plans for a new chippy have come up against a health board’s demands for fruit and veg on the menu.
Betsi Cadwaladr health board wants the proposed takeaway in Morfa Bychan, Gwynedd, to sell a “good selection” of fruit and veg.
It wants the menu to have less fat, salt and sugar and is worried an increase in fast food outlets is “detrimental” to people’s health.
It is unclear whether customers would relish the prospect of cod and broccoli on the menu.
The board said the location of the proposed new business was popular among holidaymakers, adding: “The food in these areas is targeted to meet the needs of tourists as opposed to local residents.
“This is of particular concern for local permanent residents where this food is available throughout the year and not just during holiday periods.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3zwz4025zo
also boil the fish do not bread and fry it healthier that way
What about fried bread?
A once great nation in the midst of regulating itself to death.
Pints Of Beauty
@PintsBeauty
It’s an art 😍 🍻
https://twitter.com/PintsBeauty/status/1841216754455859690
“I’ve had sex with 480 people this year but I’m very picky”
https://nypost.com/2024/10/04/lifestyle/ive-had-sex-with-480-people-this-year-but-im-very-picky-i-make-men-fill-out-an-application-form/
It doesn’t sound like it.
I mean you can pick the best trash in a large pile of trash. still trash but the discerning woman’s trash
Doug Stanhope says US trash is 3rd world bling. Not sure about Australian trash though.
NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏
In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1842163184838250764
*Jardiance dance*
All the fatties died from/with the ‘vid.
You and your nimble fingers!
Inflation has a sense of irony.
My thought as well — $3 a 2-liter soda and $5 to $7 bags of chips has an impact on consumption.
More rice and beans recipes in our future… maybe ox tongue will come back or tail or other cheaper cuts. (Kidding of course — they’ll push ze bugs first so they won’t want the market to adapt…)
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is planning to more aggressively attack former President Donald Trump in the remaining weeks ahead of the November election, a new phase aimed at trying to move the small number of undecided voters her way, according to five Harris campaign officials.
The change is driven, in part, by internal campaign data showing that sharper messaging against Trump could persuade some still-unsure Americans to support Harris, according to three of the campaign officials. The effort is set to include new ads and harsher language on the campaign trail that highlights Trump’s past actions and rhetoric that Harris officials hope will tip these voters away from backing the former president.
,/em.
Finally, an end to the mealymouthed pussyfooting which has plagued her efforts to roust the Nazi warmonger.
Some things never change, eh, Brooks?
🙄
Fumble fingers is an incurable disease, Straff.
“Slusser had noticed that “Fleming played volleyball with jumping ability and power that surpassed that of any girl on the team,” the lawsuit stated. She said it wasn’t until she overheard a conversation among students referring to Fleming as a “guy” that she realized why Fleming had those abilities.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/san-jose-womens-basketball-player-receives-death-threats-after-supporting-competitors-boycott-of-her-own-team-due-to-trans-player-report
That’s some passing privilege.
Men are always going to be better playing with their balls. Too many years of practice once puberty strikes.
This has to be fake news. Everyone knows that only progressives “receive death threats” emanating, of course, from MAGA deplorables and savages.
I went to a college women’s volleyball match last night. They are great athletes. If a man played it would clearly advantage his team. I could also see someone getting hurt if/when he spiked the ball.
So is Fleming actually a dude, or is it based on hearsay from other students? All the articles I’ve read are vague on the matter and it seems that SJSU is neither confirming nor denying it.
Literature posing as journalism
From the air, the coal and solar power facilities look like pieces like a gameboard. On the ground, the emotional weight of the energy transition is heavy and the complexities are palpable. Public Service Company of New Mexico, signaled years ago that it would decommission San Juan Generating Station; the plant burned its last load of coal in 2022. But the smokestacks are visible from hundreds of miles away. They have been a monumental presence on this landscape since the 1970s, and they’ve become powerful symbols to the people who live in the region — especially Navajo people.
The Aug. 24 demolition was a poignant moment in the Navajo Nation’s long and complex history with energy development. Over seven decades, coal and the energy made from it have become entwined with the Navajo’s cultural beliefs, community life and the Navajo Nation economy.
On the morning of the demolition, employees of Public Utility of New Mexico transported visitors in a passenger van to a dirt lot on site. We drove past the massive concrete block of a building, weaving between heaps of scrap metal slated to be recycled.
What an inspirational masterpiece. The perpetual war of light against darkness.
Oh fuck them — the various orchards along I-fucking-5 through the Central Valley that are now fucking solar panel farms are a ground level fucking eyesore (and should make you appreciate energy density if anything does…)
It’s a rather interesting drive between Sweetwater and either Snyder or Abilene. In the distance, there’s like 1,000 square miles of wind farms blanketing the utterly flat terrain (which, when the red safety lights are on at night, looks like a fleet of Close Encounters motherships), right alongside a few still-functioning century old oil pumpjacks closer to the interstate.
“But the smokestacks are visible from hundreds of miles away”
Umm, probably not.
Grandfathers, uncles and aunts worked at power plants and coal mines across the region, and eventually, Aspaas joined them as a utility worker in one of the mines.
“I worked two jobs before,” she said. “Both those checks put together, did not even come near the first check I got as a utility worker. And when they told me how much I was making, I thought I was rich.”
Decades later, she’s a journeyman electrician at Navajo Mine and a union member. Her income supports dozens of family members.
That job sucks. We’d rather see you starve.
Her income supports dozens of family members.
A regular miracle of the loaves.
Lots of people attacking this decision, but do you think YOU could pass the POST?
Here’s a thread of test questions.
Question 1:
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1842328223973060680
Wow. That’s ridiculously easy.
Agreed. It’s a middle school level word problem.
Question 15 is going to baffle a lot of people here.
Itz easy.
Huh, I just drink a cup of coffee for my own power on self test.
It’s impossible to overstate how much our government hates us.
https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1842254590458081565
Absolutely fucking shameful. I hope people wake up to this shit.
But abortion. My body my choice!
Omg! The parking lot has more spaces than units! Those poor immigrants should be forced to take public transit.
Doug Stanhope says US trash is 3rd world bling. Not sure about Australian trash though.
My dead teevee is sitting here waiting to be hauled off the the dump. Some twelve year old kid in the slums of Delhi could probably fix it with a bobby pin.
It’ll more likely be some Chinese kid boiling off the circuit boards over a burn barrel trying to salvage some gold or copper. That’s the final destination of the e-waste at most of those “Green Recycling” centers where you drop off your old devices to be safely and ethically and responsibly recycled.
I thought China stopped taking our recycling.
Remember That MacGyver episode shot in Mumbai?
In the span of a decade, thousands of middle-class Navajo people have lost jobs connected to the coal economy; many have moved out of state. When utilities decommissioned the Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., in 2019, the Navajo Nation lost more than $40 million in revenue. New Mexico labor data shows that displaced energy workers are making nearly $30,000 less a year on average since the San Juan power plant closed in 2022.
That’s what welfare is for.
Maybe votes have consequences?
Aella
@Aella_Girl
i feel like ive been meeting a bunch of really pretty, very successful women in their late 30’s who just can’t seem to find an equal, presumably because all their equals are off marrying downwards in terms of ambition
“I just wanna find a man i can’t outpower” meanwhile the 0.5% of the male population they can’t outpower has already married a girl with nice eyes from a good school with a stable mid-range salary
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1842284332615860356
twitters premier sex researcher on relationships
and this is a random photo from her NSFW account for reference
https://twitter.com/Aellagirl/status/1840788956008374505
Then again, there are normal people not obsessing about power dynamics who just want a woman who:
a) is kind
b) treats him well
c) he has chemistry with and
d) isn’t a current or former OnlyFans “creator”
but the point is “strong” women do obsess abut power dynamics.
also there is this point of view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOAcsTlvFic
“but the point is “strong” women do obsess abut power dynamics.”
Which is why these boss bitch-types are future Vance cat ladies. Men, even high power successful men, are turned off by that attitude.
e) doesn’t have red flags
Late 30’s is a bit late to start looking for a mate.
Vance’s cat ladies are simply female incels.
It never ceases to amaze me how there’s an expectation that female incels are somehow sympathetic victims while male incels are evil bastards who should be shunned even more.
Mostly harmless vs losers.
Somebody needs to just rehabilitate the word “spinster” instead of making us adopt new terms for ancient concepts.
Super-sized secondary sexual characteristics on Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.is/Vtr4V
In his new book, Ta-Nehisi Coates expresses his version of moral clarity: Palestinians and Black Americans share a profound connection, and it is the duty of people of conscience who would oppose Jim Crow to oppose the oppression of Palestinians.
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1842231683799482784
Yes, Arabs and black Africans do share a profound connection.
I can’t tell if he’s parodying himself now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He’s serious. It’s an incredibly shallow analysis.
Straight shooting
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is heading to North Carolina on Saturday as the state recovers from Hurricane Helene, arriving there one day after a visit by Republican Donald Trump, who is spreading false claims about the federal response to the disaster.
If Trump is saying it, it must be false.
I wonder why she doesn’t have her Vice President Kamala Harris hat on today.
Because Doug slapped it off her head?
More than 200 people have died. It’s the worst storm to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005, and scientists have warned such storms will only worsen in the face of climate change.
But in this overheated election year, even natural disasters have become deeply politicized as the candidates crisscross the disaster area and in some cases visit the same venues to win over voters in battleground states.
Trump has falsely claimed the Biden administration isn’t doing enough to help impacted people in Republican areas and has harshly criticized the response. He has, in Helene’s aftermath, espoused falsehoods about climate change, calling it “one of the great scams of all time.”
Climate cultists, assemble! Smite the heretic!
They’re going to wear out the typeset attaching “falsely” to everything.
Yup. It’s already gotten old.
…witness the campaign ad you’re reading right now.
George Bush hates black people.
CONSENSUS!!!1
Send money
A dozen current and former US Secret Service agents told NBC News that an increased workload and a lack of sufficient staffing have brought the agency to “a breaking point” and “a state of crisis” that is contributing to errors, a relaxing of protocols, and low morale that could lead to another catastrophic failure.
The concerns come as the agency is under enormous pressure to protect Trump two months after agency security lapses allowed a 20-year-old gunman to fire eight shots at the former president and wound him in the ear.
Two U.S. officials told NBC News that the visit coincides with the Secret Service “redlining,” meaning that staff are pushed to maximum levels and agents are working excessive hours.
“The US Secret Service is killing their people, and worse they are supposed to have a zero-fail protective mission on zero rest/sleep,” said one former agent. “I love my agency but they are setting themselves up for another incident.”
Once Trump has been disposed of, things will return to normal.
The concerns come as the agency is under enormous pressure to protect Trump
Yes, that’s the breaking point and he’s the only one they’re protecting. No longer protecting Biden, Harris, Obama, Bush, or Carter and their family members.
There’s 6 living US presidents. The Secret Service budget for FY2023 was $2.97 billion. If you paid every secret service employee $200,000 a year, you could employ 14,855 people. To protect 6 people. Obviously a lack of funding is the problem.
But they also protect foreign heads of state! And investigate financial crimes!
I remember when the crazies decided to end SS protection for future former presidents. Thankfully that was repealed before it could go into effect.
The current agents asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The former agents said they wished to remain anonymous so they could speak candidly about what they see as a major inflection point for the agency.
The challenges at the Secret Service are well-known throughout federal law enforcement. One law enforcement official told NBC News that the Secret Service is “stretched virtually to the breaking point.”
“I’m not putting my name on a bunch of unsubstantiated rumors and half truths. That would be crazy.”
“I just wanna find a man i can’t outpower”
You want a man who will boss you around? You’re a traitor to feminism!
There’s 6 living US presidents. The Secret Service budget for FY2023 was $2.97 billion. If you paid every secret service employee $200,000 a year, you could employ 14,855 people. To protect 6 people. Obviously a lack of funding is the problem.
You can’t expect the Secret Service to protect a vegetable in a nursing home on a measly $100 million a year.
Guglielmi said that Acting Director Ron Rowe has developed a plan for an agency-wide paradigm shift, “which focuses on increasing and retaining the agency’s personnel, modernizing our technology, and building a training plan that is sustainable.”
Working closely with top notch academics in the field of human resource development, no doubt.
Ramp it up?
I’ll take it
But seriously, how much harsher can they get? Trump is already the spawn if Hitler and Satan. Are they going to throw in some Thanos references next?
Get ready for PEE PEE DOSSIER 2.0!
No way. Thanos was an environmentalist.
Although if you think about it for a minute….
1) P. Diddy arrested, in jail for being a pervert.
2) Lawyer indicates in unbelievable list of people partied with P. Diddy, but does not release the list.
3) My bet, the list is fabricated, has all republicans + Trump on it, and it is released two weeks before the election, so no chance to refute it.
4) P. Diddy will be in isolation so he won’t even be able to comment.
Well. I’m officially on “paid administrative leave” as an “investigation” is underway re: Me at work. I was told to go home Friday after a couple hours on the clock. I have the weekend and Tues off. HR isn’t open over the weekend, so next week I ‘may’ make Monday’s money, doubtful Wed-Thurs, Fri-Sun’s. My mistake was being humane and moral, though equally dumb and without point. (Pretty much? Young guy hated needles and hated seeing any blood. He was a heavy bleeder and freaked out: I got him off the machine and REPEATEDLY don’t him I couldn’t cuz it ain’t how business works, but I’d like to give him $20 for my self-perceived fuck-up. Told him that wasn’t the way it works and it ain’t ever gonna happen. Apparently this kid snitches on me. (why? he already got paid as company policy for such. Got pulled into a meeting with Boss and BossBoss, who said he’d have to call HR and be in touch. They all called me later that day and we ‘discussed’ things further. I sent both an email clarifying side.
I didn’t cry when I broke either femur, but I did yesterday. Probably of this working out in my benefit? Near nil. Would assuredly be remarkably dumb or them to let me return to that location, at the least, and the other Indy locale is quite a distance. May be able to continue this work elsewhere, and would be thrilled to, especially as I’ve certainly got the hang of it now.
Well, Life and Nature don’t play. I’ll see what happens next with Octapharma and will be looking for additional plasma centers in the meantime. I was dumb in a very dumb way, but I’m at least happy I tried to lean morally to try and make this panicky kid feel better. So, dumb? Yes. Well, pretty much all of it was dumb. Should be an interesting weekend. With the abhorrent universal DH and no one to really route for, go Detroit and KC! I have some fondness for Schwarber and the Phils. I don’t want LA/NYC teams to win anything.
Jeez Louise! I hope it does resolve well. Should be one strike, lesson learned.
Agreed. Certainly A lesson learned, though perhaps not the one they think. It was really dumb, but as I said it I knew how crazy it would be if *I* paid folk. (I don’t have much $ among more.) Hence, repeatedly telling him it wasn’t gonna happen. So the kid’s pissed I *didn’t* give him $20 in addition to the up to $100 he got from the company? Doesn’t make much sense. Well. Poor folk lookin’ for a buck aren’t always the most sensible among us. See also: Me.
Work could have audio, though it would have to be quite focused to hear one ‘conversation.’ It would catch what I *did* say, though. Boss does know about my disabilities and that could come into play as well. It couldn’t hurt me *further* in this instance. I’d say it’d be pretty dumb to hire a phlebotomist who can proudly show you a pic of his skull on a table and the dead part of his brain. That doesn’t exactly look good for a plasma center, me would think.
I shall see it develops from here. At the least, a good skill was learned and it can still benefit me in the future. I’ll be far wiser next time ’round.
“Any morale that may have existed in this agency is just absolutely down the drain; people are really starting to despise this agency,” an agent said. “Unfortunately, I truly wouldn’t be surprised with the state we’re in that agents could become compromised or sell information.”
Talk about prefabricating your excuses…