Back to the grind.
I was going to beef about being back to work…but I am glad I have work. I have a couple of friends that are still looking, despite good experience and qualifications. That, and I still have some good leftovers from Thanksgiving. So, I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
Have some links, everyone.
- Blackberry was as fun as everyone thought she would be. SugarFree has an embarrassment of riches this week (month? Year?)
- I thought “Bum Fights” had been disbanded?
- Another day, another French political crisis.
- OK, which one of you caused this?
Music… how about a little mix.
Free Cascadia, ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN, etc. Comments are all yours.
I liked blackberries until you and SF ruined it for me. *stomps out and slams door
She could have been Black Cherry — but SF wouldn’t have had that last very long.
Buck Cherry?
I would’ve went with huckleberry.
She’s called Blackberry because she replaced Strawberry (Psaki). Am I the only one who follows SF cannon?
I still eat them.
Yep. Pretty much every day.
Melissa Cohen Biden seems like she needs to be defiled
Sorry….we all have to suffer for SF’s art.
“He just said it’s infected with politics!” the journalist exclaimed.
“So how deep is the rot? How many selective prosecutions are there at the DOJ?” the journalist pressed.
LOL.
“How can you start using actual logic on this administration now?”
Her answers were as good as usual.
Has she been under Kamala’s desk?
Politically infected? I wonder if that causes a drip or is it more of a burning sensation?
This burning sensation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulGwE_y9ib8
Fiery, but mostly peaceful.
“The president took action because of how politically infected these cases were,” Jean-Pierre told incredulous members of the press pool.
“Hunter was singled out and because his last name was Biden, because he was the president’s son, that’s what we saw,” she said.
Republicans pounced.
“Epidemic hits bison breeding station in Switzerland”
Personally, I think it was STEVE SMITH. It’s my firm conviction [Narrator: conspiracy theory] that he was training to celebrate Cascadia’s bison-tennial.
No one can buffalo you — you got a psychic to read STEVE SMITH’s aurochs.
STEVE FIND HER TO BE BOVINE
I was expecting The Great White Buffalo. Because I was having a senior moment with the name of the song.
You’re listening to Your Own Private Buffalo now Aloysious.
Careful, SDF-7. If you reference that song, you’ll catch the attention of Spud, who will be triggered as tubers are the natural prey of free range buffalo. Beware the eye.
During my brief time on TOS, my username was MyPrivateIdaho. I couldn’t fit in the whole thing.
I blame the trans activists. They stressed the cow so badly with the constant haranguing. You’d die too if you were always having the LGBTQ2+ crowd shouting “Buffalo gals won’t you come out tonight?!”
Just let them be!
In several European bison breeding stations, animals have died of bluetongue in recent months. The association emphasised that the species is still susceptible. According to the information, there were recently more than 10,000 bison in Eastern Europe and in conservation centres in Western Europe.
Is ten thousand a lot? I’m completely buffaloed.
The Swiss are just worried about ending up like the British guards — all hat and no cattle.
I once financed a Bollywood movie in the style of Cocaine Bear about buffalo that suddenly turned on their masters.
Predictably, it was full of blood and gaur.
I’m looking into my options if layoffs happen in my industry.
One possibility is highly focused bakeries. In particular, I was thinking of one specializing in re-creating pioneer food with a Manhattan twist. Oxen Bagels should sell well.
(Folks will hoof it on over… and if they don’t — well, I guess I’ll let the chips fall where they may!)
You had to horn in with that, didn’t you?
What makes this extra special is that it was Swiss who threw that big fat fastball over the middle of the plate.
He is the one who got his own ox gored.
Yeah, that’s what I herd.
>>I am glad I have work. I have a couple of friends that are still looking, despite good experience and qualifications.
At least in my line of work I’ve noticed less sales last month – compared to last year. I first thought it was the election putting people off late October/early November but it seems to be lasting.
Of course the kind of things I sell – along with the other vendors – appeal to ah… people with a more artistic side. ::ahem:: I guess Canada is filling up with these refugees 😉
Insiders are reportedly worried that this will devalue the MSNBC’s reputation as a reliably anti-Trump network.
‘Most of us don’t want to be part of that,’ the journalist told the US Sun. ‘Some are thinking about trying to join other media organizations where we can do our job with respect and values to bring truth to the table without being pressured by the people in power.’
Go down with the ship, you cowards.
I’m sure they’d extend the same offer to MSNBC.
No one at MSNBC is up to Bee standards. No one.
Not even close.
where we can do our job with respect and values to bring truth to the table without being pressured by the people in power.
I wonder what color the sky is in that world? Probably so far away it’s not even in our spectrum.
It’s particularly funny because MSNBC is for sale. Their viewership has plummeted.
The sky there is blue. Deep, coastal Blue.
Methinks this declaration will age poorly: Hunter Biden’s pardon is the death rattle of the elites
Margaret Love, a former pardon attorney in the Justice Department, says she has ‘never seen language like this in a pardon document’. Apart from in Gerald Ford’s blanket pardon for Richard Nixon in 1974, that is. There, too, the pardon extended even to offences not yet charged.
Witnessing history for the second time in my life.
Ford was trying to protect the country. Biden is trying to save his own ass.
Or Jill is. I’m not sure Biden knows where his own ass is presently.
In any event — I expect Jim’s will be coming soon… probably just go ahead and send them out to the whole family to cover their bases. Why not at this point?
Odds on PPP pardoning himself at 11:59 pm January 19th, 2025?
SDF:
I think that he is thinking too small. Why is he limiting it only to past crimes? You know those mean rethuglicans will just dream up some new charges in a few months.
Just issue a pardon that says: “Any Biden shall be pardoned for any past or future crimes”
As happy as I am with the rebuke the Dems just got, I always remind myself they are one Trump fuck-up away from getting back into power.
Yup — even in the absolute best case, we’re probably looking 8 years out at most for them to regain most of DC, if not just 2 for the House. Which is why they need to seriously make this count and tear down the infrastructure that’s been built up for abuse while they can. Which I’m not holding my breath for since Eyepatch, Minions of the Turtle, etc. won’t want that.
I keep coming back to “humanity needs a frontier to get away from these assholes — once they entrench, only full on cataclysm resets it”. Sigh.
Waaay back in the mists of time I had a bad premonition of how zany the left would get after Trump got out of office. My fears were proven right – and even more so than I imagined.
I look at the next four years as a respite from the left but fully expect them to come back with full DERP in force.
Get my ass to Mars.
We’ll see. I think it puts a stake through the pretension of Biden being decent, moral, etc.
They are charmingly optimistic over there at Spiked.
Ahh… A Mustang in it’s natural environment. You’d think after almost looping it the first time he’d have figured out that maybe he should have backed off and realized he was over his head.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1h4yjq2/oc_friend_found_out_how_to_completely_disable/
This is the sort of thing that balances out that little voice in my head that sometimes whispers that a ‘Vette would be neat.
I’m nowhere near qualified to really drive one — and what’s the point of wasting all that potential?
I’m in the camp of “I’d rather drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow.”
Me too Tundra.
My Model 3 does 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds. It’s fun occasionally and annoys the hell out of my passengers, but it’s mostly useless on public roads.
The car handles fine, but it is by no means a stellar sports sedan and it weighs 4,000 lbs. not exactly a back road star.
Sensei:
My old Triumph had a 1.5L motor, weighed less than 1800 lbs and was a fucking riot to drive. It was a comfortable go-cart.
I’m sure the 0-60 was horrible but whipping it through the curvy country roads was amazing.
That’s not gonna buff out.
Even my lil old 2014 Mustang V6 with 305hp (and an aftermarket 3.55 rear gear) could become a handful with a little overzealous driving. I can’t imagine having another 100-150 (or whatever) horsepower on tap. They are light in the back. I kept my traction/stability control on all the time just to save me from my worst impulses.
These days I prefer AWD – easier to launch on the street versus tire hazing RWD.
My 19 yo Z is more than enough to keep me happy.
I can’t imagine driving some of the newer high-horsepower cars on the street.
Our ’14 Challenger is an SRT/8 with the 392. Its a big car but will do 0-60 around 4.2 seconds.
Thank G-d that thing has traction control. Also thankful I never had anything like it when I was 20 years old.
Good piece.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-jobs-that-joe-biden-wont-get-around-to-filling/
key takeaway:
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Do you think Rachel Maddow is just acting? I picture her getting fired one day, painting her windows black, peeing in jars, and raving about Trump listening to her through the electric outlets.
Isn’t she doing that already?
Who was that blogger that became convinced about the whole mass conspiracy around the Palin’s kid?
Andrew Sullivan?
Yes, Sully kinda lost his shit there for a while.
He’s back to sounding saner these days.
What you see and hear in the media from both the members of the press and the pols themselves is all theater. It is performance art calculated to delude us into thinking we have some control, some say in what goes on while the looting continues unabated.
Exploring the intersectionality of Too Local News and Sensei’s Idiots in Cars, this is why I lost power for five hours yesterday morning.
If I get put on the jury for the fuckstain that was driving that car, he’s getting the chair.
Too bad it was the passenger and not the driver that kicked the bucket.
Looks like a Dodge Challenger?
When I was in HS there was a kid who had a really nice Olds 442 that his dad bought him. This 16 – 17yo was also – so I heard – running nitrous in it. Anyways, he was driving way too fast in a residential street, didn’t make a curve and ended up going into the ditch.
In the ditch was an embankment where an asphalt driveway was located. The Olds was launched into the air, went a dozen or more feet, and ended up landing on the roof. Two weeks later the same kid – who survived – had yet another muscle car. ::eye roll::
Maybe a year ago I was at the airport rental car booth when a flatbed rolled up with a trashed Challenger. The guy in the booth said people are always wiping out in them.
P. J. O’Rourke once wrote that “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
Except teenage boys don’t even need the whiskey most of the time.
There’s a fly-in community called Jumbolair just south of Big College Town (John Travolta used to keep his B707 parked at his home there). One evening, a teen decided to take dad’s M5 out on the runway to see how fast it could go in a straight line. As a bonding experience or for bragging rights, he loaded up four of his friends in the car.
You can guess how the story ended.
It’s a gated community. Who exactly should be responsible for the security?
Having barely survived the “speed testing” I did with my father RX7 back in high school giving my insight into this phenomenon, if it is a gated community, that kind of speaks volumes to who was doing the racing.
That’s posted on that thread in Reddit!
Uffda. Seems like a nationwide epidemic!
Or am I being naïve in calling it an epidemic? Should I call it a conspiracy instead? Is this the Resistance 2.0?
So Joe needs to pardon Jim, Jill, and himself before leaving office right.
Unless the puppet masters know that Joe will never live long enough to see the end of a future trial.
Im still holding out that this was an establishment move. There will be a fall guy/gal eventually.
Also this wasn’t a dad loving his son. I am holding firm it was a step-mothers hope to just ride off into the sunset.
That picture in the NYP of Jill, Hunter and Hunter’s wife – I’d always wondered what someone who sold their soul looks like, and looking at Melissa Cohen Biden, I now know.
Even if Joe pardons the entire Biden family, there has be be a large number of other people involved in the corruption with Ukraine and China. Each pardoned family member can be targeted for testimony in front of whatever congressional commission the Repubs put together for the next two years.
I am hoping for world class fireworks.
“I hereby pardon anyone who has ever worked in my administration from any and all crimes they may have committed, both known and unknown, during the past 12 years.”
Like I said above TOK, you better include future crimes too.
No way Hunter won’t be nut deep in some new trouble in just a few months. His art isn’t going to sell itself on merit.
Its gonna be another fun 4 years now isn’t it?
State courts aren’t bound by a federal pardon, correct?
Ah, district court. So still federal.
Hunter’s state court problems revolved around his spawn, and still will.
Ohhhhhh, you just gave me an idea. Hunter was resident in CA for the tax offenses, right? It isn’t likely he reported that income to CA Franchise Tax Board. And those fuckers are more ruthless than the IRS. I think they offer a bounty too.
I was thinking that as well – 9% of over a million in unreported income is a nice chunk.
Trump has, ummm, clarified his position with respect to Gaza.
Hell to pay.
Set the tone now.
Biden needs to send in a helicopter rescue force across the desert, fast!
You know who else sent a force across the desert…
Perhaps some tariffs might work? MSM thinks they are positively awful.
You know who else sent a force across the desert…
Pharaoh?
Thomas Edward Lawrence?
Omar Sharif?
Obiwan Kenobi?
Jimmy Carter ?
At this point I’m afraid they are no longer hostages. That’s a reason not to want (be able to) to release .
I doubt they are still alive.
To me, the bare minimum that a president should do is issue credible threats when our citizens are taken hostage. I don’t remember Biden mentioning them at all.
Not all dead yet.
They may not – so what do they gain by continuing to hold them? Threats? At this point, it’s just insane.
College students and the professional agitators they invite on campus to make the case for wiping out Israel don’t mention them much, either.
Until Iran’s nuts get cut this circus of horror will go on and on and on. We should stop fucking around and root out the cause of it. Stop giving money to Iran. Stop letting Iran sell oil. Blow up their fucking nuclear facilities. Drop a MOAB on the revolutionary guard headquarters. Smoke the fucking ayatollah.
Every time one of these types pops their heads up lop it off.
Rarely has the moral exhaustion of a government been on such frank and grim display.
And nothing else happened.
Poor Laptop Class folk. They might have to go back to the office.
Why is their “morale” down? Civil service is not designed to be political. The only reason for a government worker to have low morale (other than knowing his job is likely useless and that he’s a net drag on society), is if you made it political, and your team lost.
These are the fuck we want out.
Does Hunter get Secret Service protection after daddy is out of office?
There have to be a few wealthy & powerful people around the world that are pissed they had to kiss Hunter’s ass.
It would be a terrible shame if something bad were to happen to Hunter.
Husband: We should go get a new refrigerator. We have a rainy-day fund for a reason.
Me: I’m ear-marking that for taxes. We have no more child tax credits.
Husband: …
Me: Dafuq. I’m sending our rainy-day fund to the government?! We’re too poor to owe taxes!!!!
Husband: …
Me: How do I get to be an illegal alien?
How badly do you need a new refrigerator?
The refrigerator we have is adequate. Ice maker and water supply need to be fixed, but it suits my purposes just fine. I’m loath to throw it out for new.
I was reading quickly and thought you said “Mrs. Dafuq” which would be an excellent Glibs handle.
So shall it be written so shall it be done.
Mme. Dafuq is the one who knitted while watching French Revolution guillotinings, right?
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Excellent!
Using a rainy day fund to replace a functioning appliance is just begging the universe to make another appliance – or a car – go kaput. 😣
Yeah, I’m not a fan, but I also don’t want to spend money to fix its problems. I mean, *I* can live with its problems. Husband is irritated.
Three words: Ice. Cube. Trays.
He won a countertop ice maker. LOL
Dank Brandon has some words about pardoning his son:
https://x.com/MidnightMitch/status/1863452224237527378
zomg lol
That was excellent. Thanks for the link!
Love it
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