The Old Man is suddenly falling apart. Back in the hospital this week, with a delightful case of pneumonia. Nonetheless, after they stuffed me with bronchodilators and antibiotics, he persisted, and I’m heading to Cleveland tonight so I can watch the Christians get slaughtered by the lions in the arena tomorrow. Then back here just in time to run up to Buffalo to see the most recent NPR Lady again- my masochism has no limits.
Birthdays today include a guy who was toasty and nuts; a guy with a strong mustache who passed it on; a woman obsessed with her periods; an actor who could light up a room; a guy whom we can thank for the mullahs; a guy whose role in Brazil may have outshone DeNiro; one of SugarFree’s masturbatory fantasies; a man who Wasn’t there; a man immune to iocaine; and the second-most-famous chick from Jamestown, NY.
And from there, we have no-where to go except actual links.
My 48 hour rule needs to be invoked, badly.
If politics has affected your mental health, your right to vote should be rescinded.
Baseball caps off. Phil and Friends was the best Dead spinoff.
“She needs to hate Jews more.”
Over/under on this being total bullshit?
The article starts with a questionable premise, but is mostly correct.
Jewish apologetics is almost as cringeworthy as the Christian version. NB: the author is touted as a “star” physicist. He is not, by any definition.
There’s really only one choice for Old Guy Music today. And if you know the story of the song, you’ll know why I have so much trouble listening to it. It may be the most beautiful thing the Dead ever wrote and recorded.
Cant argue with …”In short, the Democrats are running on issues they care about, not issues that voters care about”
Kamala is imploding. It’s truly terrific to behold.
Ive got an account on DU to watch the tears….
But I also remember the “red wave” of last cycle.
She is merely achieving what she was destined to do.
100% with you there, robodruid — especially with the lack of actually shoring up election integrity. If it is at all close, I expect shenanigans… because LITERALLY HITLER! after all — so they’re morally justified in their minds.
Is she though? For the sake of your Republic and the West in general, I hope so. I fear, however, that I / we may be in an information bubble.
The polls and betting odds all seem to be trending toward Trump.
Five weeks ago, Harris led the betting odds 53-46. Now it’s Trump, 60-39. That’s a pretty big change.
This doesn’t feel like a Red Wave(tm) redux. The numbers aren’t the indicator, the way the campaigns are behaving.
Trump and Vance are exercising pretty good message discipline (Vance more so than Trump, as you’d expect) and seem to be having fun. While Harris and Walz ‘Trump is StalinHiltlerMussioliniPolPotHarveyWeinstine’ narrative reeks of desperation.
Good thing those swing states have excellent voter integrity.
I’ve noticed an upswing in articles that read like post-mortems of a campaign instead of something written a week and a half before the election. All spelling doom for Harris.
I’m not sure if it’s actual introspection, or just setting things up for a surprise that Harris is stronger than we all thought and won in a glorious election that was both an election and glorious.
Looking back I dont see many surprises. The losers all seem like they should have been obvious beforehand and not the nail biters they seemed at the time, yet here we are again.
I look forward to the retrospective how Harris blew the election .
Oh, the election. Yeah, that, too.
I think JI is right, but it might not be Blew, but Choked.
We’re going to be liveblogging and probably live-streaming on Election Day at RedState. It’s beginning to look like it’s going to be epic.
Before clicking (pinky swear!) I’m going to guess “Box of Rain,” because I think I recall the back story. (For most beautiful, I prefer “Ripple,” but chacun à son goût)
So sorry you’ve been ailing, Old Man! Hope you’re all better for keeps this time!
No doubt!! A world without OMWC is a sad place
Yay phase of life where that concern is ever increasing for friends and associates! (Too many stories of people dying of strokes at 50+… plus lost a good coworker last year who at least I considered a friend (being work, I didn’t really raise the issue… and being we were on opposite coasts not like I could have taken the guy for a beer after work) that way… so yeah — it isn’t in the phase where it seems inevitable — but it looms…).
So take care of yourself, OMWC and everyone else. Hope it clears up and you feel better.
Ripple has one of the most haunting lines in their oeuvre:
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men…
I think this may be referencing a passage in Acts, but who knows.
a man who Wasn’t there;
Happy birthday Ewen Montagu?
Random person: “That begs the question…”
Me: “No it mother fucking does not.”
It raises the question, or, if you name your child “Question”, it rears the Question.
Musk probably will at some point.
I’m sure some Justice League fan already has.
SDF-7:
One of the greatest sins of the DC live action stuff is they still haven’t done a Question series. Seems like it would be relatively inexpensive for a super hero show, and is built up for season long plot arcs.
Didn’t the CW do the Montoya version on one of their shows — maybe Batwoman? That’s why it doesn’t bug me — the current crop of live action DC has gone rapidly down into “crap” range… I don’t trust them to do it *cough* justice….
Dont give them any ideas Neph. The last thing we need is another superhero show/movie/story.
The entertainment industry seems to have sunk entirely into slapstick bullshit.
SDF-7:
They may have started to introduce her, but I tapped out of Batwoman when they recast the main character, to replace them with someone who checked nearly all the same boxes, and somehow was able to fit into the costume for someone else.
But I was talking about a flat out, stand alone Question show. Not a hint of one, or a background theme in an existing show.
From the later CW era, Stargirl was surprisingly good, and I also liked the first couple of seasons of Superman and Lois (and I’m not generally a Superman fan). For the modern ones, the Penguin has been amazingly good, and Peacemaker was a fun ride.
At the rate Musk is going he may have to resort to naming his progeny ‘Dave’ or ‘Meagan’. I mean what sort self-respecting eccentric billionaire does something like that?!
Thank you Hayek, I have few pet peeves but by God that is one of them. Drives me nuts.
Grammar Nazi confirmed 👍
Good morning OM,
Hope you’re feeling better but your schedule isn’t helping,
Looks/sounds like the latest NPR lady has made an indelible impression. That happens, even with lots of experience. Enjoy the weekend in all cases.
Yes – I’m still coughing and spitting up crap from the vid. Hope that clears out.
I would have thought it was Tres’s choice of ladies that’s more likely to leave indelible impressions….
In Soviet Russia, You leave impressions on Tres’s ladies. Is delible though.
and the second-most-famous chick from Jamestown, NY.
Happy birthday Roger Goodell!
Ok, that’s funny right there. I don’t care who you are. 😂🤣
Watch out for that getting sick business, it’ll kill ya.
“If it ain’t one thing, it’s another”
The calendar is not our (my) friend.
Thank you sir for the photo of the illustrious gathering.
Israel trying to invoke the old “no backsies” rule in a slap fight. It never worked when fighting with my siblings in the backseat on a road trip. I doubt it will work now.
“fighting with my siblings in the backseat on a road trip. ”
Being the youngest/smallest never got any sympathy. Everyone got the same “punishment” to make sure it included any and all the guilties.
I think Israel probably has longer arms than your siblings did. In any case, what’s Iran’s big power play here? Buy another 10,000 drones off Amazon so Raytheon execs can cash another round of checks when Iron Dome shoots them all down? Or do they just love the Palis so much they’re going to launch a ground invasion of Israel?
Iran seemed content to let it go. Israel is pushing a war now before the American Empire goes away.
A little chin music to remind Iran that they’re not quite a regional hegemon yet is one thing. I don’t think Israel wants a war with Iran anymore than Iran does.
Maybe Iran shouldn’t have lobbed a bunch of missiles at them.
If you’d like to learn how the current shitshow got started, read “A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948” by James Barr.
I believe the score was 2 attacks each. Now it’s 3 / 2 Israel.
Well, if you wan to win a war, you kill your enemies.
Everyone who seems to want a war with Israel, thinks Israel shouldn’t get to play too.
Something something Kharg Island something.
Just to remind you of what is on the ballot, here is your highest ranking Civilian General.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1850145691219230758?s=19
This is what they are prioritizing.
It was funny even with the sound turned off. My, my, how he world has changed.
Typo or hate crime?
They are a goddamned freak show, the progressives. Demoralization in the flesh.
“We can see you coming”
“You’re not gonna win this time”
Right. Think again boys. Every generation has to re-learn the same shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw
Looking at the “She needs to hate Jews more” story and thinking…always with the hate and violence with this bunch. Then I wondered have we seen any videos of people vandalizing Biden, Harris, Walz yard signs? It unsurprisingly seems to be Trump signs.
Ahhhh….next link – Vandals target house with Harris-Walz signs. Ok, not surprising, every group has it’s violent loons.
Then I see “…for the second time.” They claim it happened back in 2020. It was done by ‘unknown persons’
Why do poop swastikas come to mind?
Look, if you are going to fly a false flag a little subtlety is in order. Over-the-top stereotypical behavior by cartoon villains is a clue, dummies.
“a publication committed to justice must refrain from endorsing a person signing off on genocide”
/kidz these days
I literally cannot tell what is satire anymore.
See my response to cyto above
I live in California — it effectively has.
But more seriously — I’m afraid I think it has to some degree… because of the “politics won’t leave you alone” aspect. I went through a few months (and I know others here had it worth) of stress with the whole “I don’t want to take the jab” issue with HR a couple of years back, inflation stresses me out, the idea that CPS could get it in their heads to just take my kid because I have wrongthought, etc….. I’m at least stressed by current politics and at times probably at least a bit depressed. I certainly don’t try to let it affect me day to day — but I’d be lying if I said it has no effect on me.
When you live in an open air insane asylum…
I think you remember when it wasn’t.
“And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn’t just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!”
This.
I need to look at the thread last night to see if you responded to my late night delirious rant.
Absolutely scroe…kick ass…
Happy birthday Tom Selleck?
Happy birthday Helen Thomas?
Have fun and wish me luck all — been putting off buying the Halloween candy until today. Off to see just how bad inflation is in that category and hope I’ll find some instead of “Oh, we’re stocked for Christmas now! You should have bought it after the 4th of July!” 😉
I neglected to make the run to the candy store before leaving for the cruise, so I’ll be going to the store on the 30th. Thankfully, I don’t need to worry about them not having candy in stock.
I bought a 10 oz. bag of fun size Reese’s cups just on the off chance there are any local kids who are sufficiently intellectual disabled to be trick-or-treating in this neighborhood. $2.97 after digital coupon. The big bags of the cheap gummy and sour candies that I used to like as a kid, but all the other kids hated, was something like $16 at Walmart. It’d be cheaper to just hand out dollar bills.
I took out a home equity loan to fund the bowl of candy this year. I cannot betray my name.
Joking, not joking.
We picked up a couple of boxes of full sized bars at costco
20 bucks a box, on sale
Sheesh
I gotta find a place that has all the crap nobody wants… those caramel creme swirls, the little tiny individually wrapped licorice that is all stale and picks up the taste of everything else….
Eh, just hand out cash.
Looks like candy corn in a napkin, cyto. Kids won’t show up again next year either.
I made reservations at an Indian restaurant.
My dog would go nuts if we let kids trick or treat.
As a fun exercise, think about the level of corruption and graft just in this one family of pissant clingers-on, and then remind yourself that the federal government employs 3 million people, each with their own totally unique tale of nefarious scumfuck bullshit they’re perpetrating, and in many cases, have been perpetrating for decades.
Anyone watched the whole Rogan/Trump interview? How’d it go? I like my long form content as much as the next guy but I can’t handle 3 hours of, well, anyone.
I’d go on a fucking cruise before I’d do that.
As a misanthrope with mild antisocial tendencies going on a cruise sounds worse than prison to me. Only a Diddy party where I’m trying to secure a favor would be worse.
I was forced onto a cruise one (just a weekend). I discovered the ship library, found a book I loved and hadn’t known of.
*oncest
Sounds like you had an oncestuous relationship with that book.
Watched about an hour of it here – came in late on a stream and watched it to the end. Nothing particularly worth mentioning in that segment. Trump said he’d keep RFK Jr. away from the black gold if he put him in his cabinet; reiterated he won in 2020, but didn’t articulate any new information when very mildly pressed on it by Rogan, deferring to Molly Hemingway’s book on the subject. Called somebody a stupid son of a bitch. I can’t remember who, but it was funny. Reiterated that Kamala is not intelligent. Will end the war in Ukraine by negotiating with Putin and Biden’s garden gnome in Kiev; can’t disclose specifics for national security reasons. Likes playing golf.
If it’s vanilla but not too vanilla it’s a win for him. If the undecideds, all five of them, get a sense that he’s not a criminal racist Nazi nutbar he’ll win.
He told his story about how stupid Milley and the Washington generals were about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Long story, but the punchline was that they said it was cheaper to leave all that equipment. “You have a beautiful $100 million helicopter. Almost brand new. How can it be cheaper to leave it than a tank of gas to fly it to Pakistan?”
cyto:
It’s a write off! Doesn’t he understand write offs?!
Hahaha…
Yeah, I suspect that is closer to the truth…
“How can we buy replacement equipment if we bring this back”
The point of all of these regional proxy wars seems to be using up munitions and equipment so we can buy more.
Gotta keep the graft flowing somehow.
I only care about the numbers – they’re doing close to 1m views/hour, just on YouTube
Only 10 million on youtube so far. Seems low.
https://youtu.be/hBMoPUAeLnY
Like 15 million watch on Spotify. So maybe that makes sense if youtube is a secondary platform.
Yeah, it’s been up for 11 hours. That’s close to 1m/hour, just on YT. They’re on multiple platforms
Everyone who thinks Trump is an idiot, unstable, racist, etc. should watch it.
And watch Kamala on CNN with Anderson Cooper back to back.
It is the classic Joe Rogan Experience. 2 dudes talking about whatever comes along. He talks at length about what it was like coming to the white house and being so impressed with the history, but at the same time having people already working hard to destroy him.
You learn about how he uses things other than direct negotiations to get what he wants. He talks about getting a Chinese car factory in Mexico canceled simply because the Chinese believe he will win.
This is important – it explains his Ukraine-Russia strategy, which he also talks about.
He talks about keeping the price of oil low as a strategy to prevent Russia from having the money to fund wars. And of course, the democrats want oil high to encourage a “green economy”.
It is a lot. They cover more in the first hour than Kamala has since becoming the candidate. I only made it half way.
But you get to see rather quickly that the Hitler junk is a lie.
They have been saying “Trump cheats at golf” for a long time, trying to undermine his character.
I didn’t have a dog in that fight. I don’t know many who are good enough that they didn’t need a hand wedge once in a while.
But then this video popped up.
https://youtu.be/6Rb9b8rYhII
Professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau has a series where he plays best ball with various celebrities and tries to break 50. This is him trying it with Trump.
Trump at nearly 80 shoots an eagle on his own shots. And he tells a bunch of great golf stories.
Familiarity completely destroys their narratives.
Dude seems funny and relatable and is no doubt a very good golfer. (For regular folk)
Yep, I forgot about that. Quite a bit of talk about tariffs as a trade negotiation tactic.
I heard that Alice Cooper (handicap 4) said he cheated. When, I don’t know. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah… watching him play with DeChambeau and another with John Dailey…. I kinda doubt the cheating allegations. He just walks up and rips it. Doesn’t seem the cheating sort, didn’t even improve a lie, which is a go-to in casual golf.
💯% bullshit
I guarantee there is more “vandalization” of Trump signs and those victims aren’t running to the media for some reason.
No, they are posting the videos on Youtube and everyone is laughing at the unhinged lunatics.
On the kayak front the cheap sit in i bought is okay but i have not been in one in 10 years and i think i am wasting a lot of energy because i dont know how to paddle properly
20C and sunny the lake is looking nice today and the gray herons are flying about
https://photos.app.goo.gl/oj7itqoZfZADH3VD8
Oh, that looks lovely! Enjoy, but be careful and don’t overdo the kayaking unless your arms are in top shape!
Tomb Raider took me kayaking a couple times on one of the Finger Lakes. I will admit that it was a relaxing and enjoyable experience.
How do you know the herons are gay?
Punch with one arm as you pull with the other. It should come to feel very smooth and almost effortless.
Until the wife and kids get tired and you tie up their boats to yours and tow them back to the house against the wind and tide. Then it really burns in the triceps.
Also, the longer your boat, the easier to paddle. Shorter boats don’t track as well and you wiggle back and forth.
Oh, and once you get moving, if you get the rhythm right the motion is kinda all in the wrists. Much smaller and easier to maintain
First, you need an appropriately long paddle. Generally sit-on-top models take longer paddles because they are wider.
The ideal paddle stroke keeps the center of the paddle in one place, or in a small spherical locus. If the center point of your paddle makes a frown in the air then either the paddle is too short, or you’re doing it wrong.
The blade of the paddle should be as close to perpendicular to the long axis of the boat as possible for best stroke efficiency, and should be at least 3/4 in the water during the midpoint of the stroke.
You will have to rotate the shaft in your hands to achieve the stroke described above. Different paddles have different blade offsets. Zero degree blade offset (paddle lies on ground with both blades flat) sucks and you waste a lot of energy (and wrist strain) rotating the paddle. One hand is your control/grip hand; this maintains its grip on the paddle with your knuckles forming a line to the top of the nearest blade. The other hand (free hand) stays at the same place on the paddle but opens and closes slightly to allow you to rotate the paddle for best paddle engagement angle. You can practice this when not in the boat.
Both hands should remain at the same distance from the blade, slightly wider than shoulder width. Uneven hand position is a common noob problem, and adds to your frustration because it makes the boat spin out rather than going straight.
Good paddling.
A few years ago I decided that every toy would have an engine, preferably with electric start. Tiller, snow blower, lawnmower, boats and Farmall all have a key and a push button. Chain saws and 1 push lawn mower gotta a pull cord but I don’t use them much anymore.
If I had a kayak it would have an engine or motor of some sort.
That article could have been a lot more concise if the author had simply stated that the Dems are beholden solely to AWFLs now.
There has been several articles I’ve been seeing lamenting how young men are not listening to the Democrat party, and are leaving to go to Republicans. The especially interesting thing (to me) at least, is it’s not just white guys leaving, but men across the board.
What do the Dems offer young heterosexual men of any race? Nothing but condescension, condemnation, and contempt. It’s no wonder they’re bailing out.
Fewer men than women go to college; more men than women work in trades that are being targeted for elimination by team D policies. Even leaving aside the pathological genderfuck obsession, even the poor benighted sub-standard men who have to lower themselves to work in the trades earning 3x more than sociology majors can correctly comprehend: “We hate you, everything about you, everything you stand for, and everything you work for, and we want to take it away from you.”
“You want your woman to have access to abortion on demand, don’t you, you horrible person?”
That’s pretty much it. Turns out men like consequence-free sex as much as women.
Yes, I didn’t know so many men were for abortion until I saw them corralled behind Kamala. Stands to reason, I suppose.
I know Ermhoff is a big hit with the ladies. The guys – not so much.
Sad Beard stated the other day something to the effect that if you vote for Trump you will never get laid again.
Which, if true ladies, and you vote for the DingDong, you will only have a cat and a vibrator.
In reality, kids get horny and do it. It will work itself out.
I suspect the mental health and sign vandalism story could have been combined into one story. And I propose red flag voter laws for any state that passes red flag gun laws.
Look at the bright side Old Man the antibiotics probably clear up some of the STDs as well
Not the ones he has.
Do you want super-gonophylpes?
That’s how you get super-gonophylpes.
Oh, great. Now chess is turning violent.
https://people.com/teenage-chess-grandmaster-arrested-banned-tournament-striking-woman-after-loss-8733365
Did the vibrating anal beads he used to get the next move fall out of his ass, too?
Chess can be a dangerous game:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/russian-chess-player-suspended-after-allegedly-poisoning-her-rival
I saw that. Absolutely crazy.
We live under a tyranny of the self-righteous
[insert the shopworn C. S. Lewis quotation]
Oh, great. Now Spiked is mansplaining their misogyny
Am I the only person in the world who thinks we should be feeding our mammalian brethren squirrels rather than our failed dinosaur stepwhatever birds?
Squirrels are terrorists.
They used to go through my garden picking one ripe tomato, taking a bite and dropping it. Move to next tomato. Take a bite. Drop it.
Assholes.
Plus they denuded my pecan trees in 24 hours. I don’t even like pecans, but it still torques me.
But so are birds. I had a woodpecker decide my (wood sided) chimney was a good place to talk to chicks. So he hammered away… making holes all over. Cost me a ton to fix.
But the fact is, the former president has good instincts at self-promotion, unlike Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.
*pause to remove coffee from monitor*
Remember the McDonalds ice cream machine controversy? The machines are locked to only be repaired by the supplier, and they break often.
Well, a fix has arrived. They have granted a DCMA exemption to kitchen equipment, allowing 3rd parties to bypass DCMA restricted DRM software locks and do the repairs.
No word on why other equipment isn’t covered. (Farmers I’m looking at you)
https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/us-copyright-office-grants-dmca-exemption-for-ice-cream-machines
Thanks, Ray Kroc.
Bleedin’ obvious: 🧀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
Back in the early 90’s, I worked there. The machines are fine mechanically (or they were), but require regular cleaning to prevent bacteria or some such problem. By regular cleaning, I mean pretty much a complete breakdown of the machine, thorough washing and sanitizing, and reassembly. The process took almost a half hour. The regular cleaning was like every 2-3 hours. And of course, after cleaning it needs a few minutes to spool up and be cold enough to make the shakes.
So do the math – you are down 30 minutes out of every 3 hours so it looks like the machine is “always” broken.
How McD’s haven’t solved this issue in 35 years is beyond me, but make no mistake – McD’s has a laser like focus on consistency, simplicity, and profitability and they must have done a cost benefit and said “fuck it, not worth it.”
It’s not the run of the mill soft serve machines that were giving them issues, but the newer, high-tech McFlurry machines.
I can’t decide which of these is more idiotic.
“Minnesota congresswoman Angie Craig claimed it’s ‘appalling’ not to let trans women join female sports teams”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14003895/Angie-Craig-Minnesota-congresswoman-trans-women-female-sports-teams.html
“A woman who ripped down Greek flags from outside a restaurant, after mistaking them for Israeli flags, has been arrested.
In a pro-Palestine rant, the TikTok creator can be heard shouting ‘I don’t stand for genocide, I don’t stand for Zionism’ while videoing herself pulling down the bunting from outside Efi’s Gyro in Montclair, New Jersey. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14004125/TikTok-Greek-flag-Israel-arrested-Palestine.html
I am astonished at how the “trans women are women” slogan worked to convince the susceptible that this is reality.
About 5 minutes ago the strong pushback against the notion that trans women shouldn’t compete in women’s sports was “that never happens”.
How quickly we have progressed to “it is a good thing and you are a crazy bigot if you don’t support it”.
I cannot wrap my head around the support for this. I get being a trans person and wanting to be involved in sports with my chosen gender. That’s fairly obvious. But anyone else thinking it is OK? I just don’t get it.
Yeah, I don’t blame the individuals trying to do it as long as they aren’t doing it cynically but it’s up to the adults in the room to tell them no. Unfortunately there’s a dearth of adults in the room right now.
“Yeah, I don’t blame the individuals trying to do it as long as they aren’t doing it cynically but it’s up to the adults in the room to tell them no.”
The “individuals trying to do it” are crazy and it’s up to sane people to tell them no.
I, for one, am sad that Megan Rapinoe never had the pleasure of getting flattened on the pitch by a dude cosplaying as a chick.
If that had happened, things might have turned out a bit differently.
I, for one, am sad that Megan Rapinoe never had the pleasure of getting flattened on the pitch by a dude cosplaying as a chick.
You have me reconsidering my opposition to trans athletes.
I realize Alexander did take some human rights liberties on his grind to Persepolis but man, that’s really holding a grudge.
Perfect example of the Dems losing the plot. This position doesn’t appeal to very many people but they assume they will get away with it because they are counting on getting 90% of blacks, browns, union hacks, and so forth.
It also has the same characteristics of “Latinx” – used by the NPR crowd and a bunch of white dumbfucks, but nobody asked the Latinos about it.
Back in the hospital this week, with a delightful case of pneumonia. Nonetheless, after they stuffed me with bronchodilators and antibiotics, he persisted
It’s good you’re better.
Police have filed a report. At this time, no suspects have been identified.
It’s coming from inside the house.
At heart, Democrats’ biggest problem is that their insularity is much worse than that of their Republican counterparts.
At least the author didn’t sugarcoat it.
Old Guy Music is excellent.
Today’s powerline fun
Half inch
just a half fucking inch
That’s nothing to brag about.
Random rhetorical question;
Has K Harris offered up a single name for her turn the page cabinet? Or will be see the Biden admin continue unaltered?
Would you want to be in the Kamala Cabinet? Doesn’t like a career enhancing move.
I’d rather be a janitor and scrub toilets
So many names to choose from though: Al Sharpton, TaNeishi Coates, Paul Krugman, Ilhan Omar, AOC, Gretchen Whitmer…they’ve got a deep bench (of lunatics).
Plus the ex repubs that can use a hand up.
Whoops, you’re right, left out Cheney, Kinsinger, and the boys from the digital backwaters known as the Lincoln Project and the Bulwark. A fine bunch that’d fit in well.
Yeah, assume the worst crypto-fascist POS in every position. Whether that’s a continuation of Joe’s cabinet or if there’s even worse waiting in the wings, who knows.
Now is the time to move forward but to move forward, we need to look back at what has been and what will be is what has been.
Just got back from a tour of the bridge with the classy people
I thought you went with fellow Glibs?
I’ll clarify – got a tour with the people in the classy cabins. Somehow Shpip and I were allowed in that rarefied air
nooz tells me Trump had a three hour sitdown with that Rogan guy. What chance is there that Harris could carry on an unscripted interaction for half that long? She’d need a memory card upgrade.
She was on stage in Detroit for less than 7 minutes. I can’t even imagine her making it 20 minutes with Rogan. I’ve listened to half of it and these guys have jumped all over the place. No way her brain could shift that fast. Also, Trump talking about building stuff is actually pretty interesting.
I’ve been battling aquatic debris all morning while the wifey has been fighting the youngest.
Found out that my eldest has been hiding food he doesn’t want to eat behind all the furniture… Sigh.
Oh, also accepted an offer of employment in the private sector for a significant pay bump and better benefits(full remote).
It amuses me to see the various silly talk shows dedicated to humbling women who want ‘6-6-6’ men. We’re all already married. Anyway, time to enjoy a brewski.
Hahaha… I used to do something like that.
When I was young we weren’t poor, but we certainly didn’t have a lot of money. Meat was mostly a once a week thing, and it was usually cheaper, like cubed steak or maybe chicken.
Maybe once every 6 weeks or so mom would get a big cut of beef. Cheap cut, so she had to tenderize. She made “Swiss steak”, which piled a bunch of tomatoes on top of the meat to let the acid tenderize it.
Still shoe leather. Inedible for us kids. Cover it in steak sauce and try to get it down.
Or slip it to the dog.
One night I just couldn’t. Too tough. Ended up chewing a piece for a minute or more and spitting it out. (Do not chew meat that long, BTW. Nasty.)
Well, dad took offense. Dude worked his ass off and didn’t want me wasting food. So “sit there until you finish”
Later, after everyone left, I slipped the pieces of shoe leather onto a ledge under the table.
Flash forward decades.
My parents are selling the house.
My brother and I pick up the table and turn it sideways to carry it out.
My dessicated dinner fell out.
It was not alone. My siblings had used the same trick.
We got a good laugh out of that.
30 years that stuff survived there.
Ugh.
Y’all are the worst lol.
Some are married, the rest are cutting a swath through the dating sites and racking up a body count that would make a whore blush.
Very true. I never had that kind of game, and even to the extent I did, I was looking for something serious with someone with deep thoughts on serious topics.
Congrats on the new gig!
Thanks GT!
Congrats!
‘delightful case of pneumonia.’
Maybe steroids want the right choice? Sigh. Hope you recover quickly.
Rogan quickie
Indirectly addresses why stopping the end of free speech is so important.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1850194283984543833
It is astonishing that the left is openly campaigning on censorship and nobody gives a shit.
Meanwhile, in Houston
Kamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday, with the superstar telling the Democratic nominee’s biggest crowd ever that it was “time to sing a new song” as Harris warned that her GOP opponent was dead set on further eroding women’s rights.
The rally was set in reliably Republican Texas, to highlight the growing medical fallout from the state’s strict abortion ban, but the message was intended to register in the political battleground states, where Harris is hoping that the aftereffects from the fall of Roe v. Wade will spur voters to turn out to support her quest for the presidency.
“For all the men and women in this room, and watching around the country, we need you,” Beyoncé said in a rare political appearance. The megastar’s speech was lofty, joyful and optimistic — a temper to the seriousness of the topic and of the message Harris was there to bring.
“I’m here as a mother, a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in,” Beyoncé said. “A world where we have freedom to control our bodies, a world where we’re not divided.”
Lofty, joyful and optimistic: the world will end if you know who gets back into the White House.
“time to sing a new song”
Nothing says “change” like voting for the sitting vice president.
“I’m different!” “I’m not going to change anything!” “Donald Trump!”
Even Anderson Cooper looked like he was tired of carrying water for an imbecile.
Joyful and optimistic abortions!
What a message.
Speaking of soft ice cream machines- Dairy Queen seems to be able to keep theirs running reliably.
I think it is widely acknowledged to be a scam being run on franchisees.
Harris came out to huge cheers. She told the crowd that Trump had erased half a century of hard-fought progress when he appointed the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe and touched off a growing healthcare crisis.
She listed off downstream effects she sees from various bans. Women who never intended to end a pregnancy are suffering devastating complications when they can’t get care. They have fewer options, and fewer medical students are choosing to specialize in women’s health.
“For anyone watching from another state, if you think you are protected from Trump abortion bans because you live in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, California, or any state where voters or legislators have protected reproductive freedom, please know: No one is protected,” Harris warned. “Because a Donald Trump national ban will outlaw abortion in every single state.”
“All that to say, elections matter,” she said.
She forgot to mention the “Trump’s Project 2025” rape camp baby farms.
Go home Kammy, you’re drunk.
I heard that in a pro-Kamala ad. Also, “Trump’s Project 2025”.
“That’s why she and other advocates urge the cops to go after the sex buyers.
“You want public safety, focus on the guys,” she said. “No buyers, no market.””
https://nypost.com/2024/10/26/us-news/tren-de-aragua-might-be-pimping-migrant-women-in-nycs-market-of-sweethearts-cops/
Also no sellers, no market. The only way to get it off the street, and keep gangs out, is to make it legal.
Shocking thought
Harris was joined at the rally by women who have nearly died from sepsis and other pregnancy complications because they were unable to get proper medical care.
Sounds like a job for the medical malpractice lawyers.
Kamala reminds me of Tansu Çiller campaigning in 1993 in Turkey. Totally inaccessible, too academic and out of touch.
“Famous Yeti’s Pizza, of Stoughton, Wisc., was baking both pies and their customers this week when a cook unwittily grabbed oil infused with Delta-9, a form of THC, from a community kitchen – and used it to make a batch of dough, the Public Health for Madison and Dane County said in a release….
Yeti’s said in a Facebook post that the groovy oil was mistakenly grabbed from a shared space in their commercial kitchen. The Delta9 infused oil was used to make one batch of dough – which makes up to 60 pizzas which were served to customers over three days.”
https://nypost.com/2024/10/26/us-news/pizza-shop-serves-thc-laced-pie-to-dozens-of-sickened-customers-health-officials/
Bullshit.
women who want ‘6-6-6’ men.
I’ll probably regret this…
It’s as stupid and entitled as you imagine.
Don’t expect a 6-6-6 if you are, at best, a 6.
On the legalization front, we have what i suspect is a Trojan horse Marijuana bill. Pretends to do full legalization(but safe).
Meaning regulated and only cronies get licenses.
It is a weed. Why can’t wr have “grow your own” legalization. Weed should be stupid cheap.
On Monday, the news broke of Kamala’s talks with Rogan, and it looks like the Trump campaign sprang into action and scooped the interview. Trump had at least one advantage: he could handle three hours of unscripted interview without negotiating a bunch of rules, and Kamala probably could not. So it looks like there is a behind-the-scenes story of how Trump snaked the Rogan interview out from under Kamala’s nose.
Even before the interview began, Trump had already won, by denying Kamala access to Rogan’s show. Rogan says he’d still have her on. But there’s no way she’ll take that interview now, fearing inevitable and predictably brutal comparisons between her’s and Trump’s performance. And that is the point: Trump doesn’t need independents to listen to the interview.
He just needs them to know Trump took the three-hour unscripted interview, and Kamala didn’t or couldn’t. And that may be a sufficiently compelling reason to vote for President Trump, since it really does evidence a basic presidential capability.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/belief-models-saturday-october-26?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios
^^^From the same link:
What advanced techniques did FMG use to make the American public more compliant? What cutting-edge science did FORS bring to the HHS table, to earn their billion-dollar fee? Was it a blend of innovative AI and pioneering psychology?
Nope. They just lied. They lied, and they exaggerated stuff, to terrify people. Their lies were so bloody awful and so preposterous that nobody would have ever listened to them — except that they put the full weight and credit of the United States government behind their lies and fearmongering to make the whole grotesque scheme work. In doing so, they consumed every drop of historic trust earned by previous generations of hard-working public servants.
Even before the interview began, Trump had already won, by denying Kamala access to Rogan’s show.
What stupendously moronic nonsense. As if Rogan wouldn’t happily have her on.
Rogan says he’d still have her on. But there’s no way she’ll take that interview now, fearing inevitable and predictably brutal comparisons between her’s and Trump’s performance.
It’s bizarro how the slightly less annoying minor character in NewsRadio has become a major media personality.