If this was truly authentic, the candles would be real…
Grüezi mitenand. Ah, almost Christmas… so these links may just have a theme… heh heh.
Here you go.
- Killer Christmas Dronez! But not in New Jersey.
- I am not having my heartstrings tugged by this pity piece.
- Do they also train to observe a Christmas truce, like in 1914?
- Merry Swissmas, and may Schmutzli not swat you.
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Editors Note: I am setting Christmas eve up like any other day. Christmas will begin with links, have most of the day covered by an open post, then later on the CPRM Christmas Special.
@ rhywun, this is the video I was referring to in the morning links.
WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO OF PERSON ON FIRE
https://x.com/idiotsincamera/status/1871104222416224510?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
I didn’t need to see that. A little warning would have been nice.
I apologize for not saying something. That was my mistake.
Yeah, no kidding. TW: footage of woman burning to death.
Apology accepted.
That’s going to leave me disturbed for a while.
– Stop, drop, and roll.
– Have you seen the floors?
Too soon…
Tosu fans
Am I missing something about Dolly Parton?
He’s standing witha Tennessee fan. Perhaps they’re together and it was laudatory.
Saw it a while ago. Sickening.
That fucking cop. Seriously, what the fuck would you say you do here?
Also, the Sabres are attempting to make loser history tonight. they have two 14 loss streaks in their history. The entire rest of the NHL has 3 total. Tonight could tie it up!
Thanks for the heads-up 🙄
I can’t even with this. The cop, the assholes filming it, the murderer just sitting there and then fanning the flames.
Assuming this is all real (??) we live in a sick society.
I don’t understand why she’s just sort of standing there. Maybe take the coat off? Stop drop roll?
Also, nice job fanning the flames at the end there, dingus.
I don’t get that either and the media’s not talking.
WTF?
“I am not having my heartstrings tugged by this pity piece.”
Hos gonna ho.
On-topic music
I just went to Walmart and bought the cheapest 51R battery on the shelf. In and out through the back (auto dept) door. Ba-da-bing ba-da-boom. Merry Xmas, Element.
Related to the conversation in the dead thread. I just had a car battery die after only two years, most of that in AZ since I relocated there. I bought it at Costco and noticed that it comes with a three year warranty. I pulled the dead battery out of my truck and drove it to Costco in my wife’s car.
I get to the line at the tire shop and there’s almost no line (a rarity at Costco), only one guy ahead of me who’s also cashing in his battery warranty. I watch him stack his dead one on a pile with three others. When it’s my turn, I tell him I’m here for the same reason as the guy before me, he say throw mine in the boneyard with the others and gives me a new one with a reimbursement for $25 since the one I needed has actually dropped in price over two years.
I asked him how many of these they get. He told me they send back at least a full pallet per week. I asked how they can afford to keep doing that and he said, they just changed their policy to a prorated warranty nationally just because AZ and TX have such an issue with it. Apparently they still pay out like 80% of the original cost even towards the end of three years, so I’m not sure they helped themselves that much. Still I’ll take a new battery every couple of years for $30.
Still, I want the battery to last out the warranty, pain to take a battery back. I took one back and they prorated it heavily towards the front end. It really didn’t matter, I needed a new battery anyway.
“Do they also train to observe a Christmas truce, like in 1914?”
I give them credit for observing Current Day near-peer warfare and training for it.
Of course, when the suicide drone fleets number in the five and six figures, all bets are off.
It just astounds me that people used to put actual lit candles on Christmas trees.
Survival of the Un-litist.
Used to? They still do in a majority of Swiss households.
Who around here speculated that the drone panic may be akin to the clown panic of a few years ago? It is starting to look very likely to me that is what it is. We sadly have a sizable number of people that wet their pants any time they think there is something afoot that government doesnt have a firm hand on. What the hell is that? DRONZ BAD is all we need to know. There oughta be a law….
The side dish article is a joke, right?
Speaking of the war to end all wars, there was an awful lot of complaining at the time that the war was being run for profit by TPTB. ‘War Profiteers’ is an old term. It is hard for people to really understand the gravity of that until they see it with their own eyes. I think we are getting a good look for ourselves now.
Schmutzli? I always heard him called ‘Black Pete’. Black because a) he is the one that does all of the up and down the chimney work and laying out of gifts or b) he is black. Or both.
There is another take on it that comes to my mind but hey, it is the season of joy, let’s leave pederasty out of it.
Seems to be quite a few people out and about.
It is chilly but not cold, and drizzling rain. Supposed to turn to snow. The roads will be fun when the temp drops.
I think black Pete is the dutch dude.
Or Trudeau.
It just astounds me that people used to put actual lit candles on Christmas trees.
Open flames were everywhere. what’s a few more?
About that subway video- I watched Fail Safe a while back. Ginning up a reason to nuke NYC is kind of appealing. You’d need to do DC, too.
Hit DC first and then see if you can hit NYC as a bonus while everyone is confused and distracted (by which I mean high-fiving and cheering wildly).
What woman doesn’t enjoy the seasonal gifts and cosy meet-ups, the touching gestures and all those social invitations that really validate a relationship.
Unless, that is, you are the other woman. The one who’s not meant to be there at all.
This isn’t even the main article. More of a side piece, I reckon.
“married men will never leave their wives.”
Cite?
I did and got custody of two kids. That married was over, fini.
“Schmutzli” (“little dirty one”), whose face is hidden beneath a dark and heavy hooded cape. He is in charge of “punishing” disobedient children by swatting them with a broom made of twigs.
The Moor, the merrier.
Oh, I’m sorry, the card says “Moops”.
Not quite Merry Swissmas
Stop worrying
Everyone involved in this debate agrees on one thing: There are real challenges to electrifying New Jersey’s fleet, particularly when it comes to the very largest trucks. Not all heavy-duty vehicles are available in zero-emission versions yet. Or those versions aren’t practical for every need, like long-haul trucking. The upfront costs of buying electric vehicles are significantly higher, and switching to electric trucks requires building charging infrastructure. And while 7% might not sound like a lot, as of last year EVs were less than 1% of heavy-duty truck sales in the state, according to Atlas Public Policy.
But regulators and environmental groups say those problems are actively being addressed.
“This program is not just feasible. It’s already well underway,” Shawn M. LaTourette, New Jersey’s commissioner of environmental protection, told NPR in an interview.
There’s nothing wrong with the rules. They’re just being undermined by a bunch of naysayers and footdraggers.
Not to mention the Kulaks, wreckers, saboteurs, and counter-revolutionaries.
Don’t worry, be happy.
What am I, chopped liver?
/Reality
Yes, there. are real problems with perpetual motion machines. At least we agree on that.
Cost = resources required.
Cost of production and cost of operation could be looked at separately. In both cases the cost is higher.
What does that mean?
PT Barnum comes to mind.
Weather looks to be mild this week in Nebraska and Wyoming, so yay! Still piling the blankets, water, food, hand/feet warmers in the car. Just our luck a blizzard will make the Wyoming highway patrol shut down I-80.
Where are you headed? Utah?
Yep, Orem. Raven Nation already suggested we take I70 and stop by for a hangout, but I LOLd. I70 in the winter? Or ever? No.
If you change your mind I’m down (and buying).
Tundra: for some reason thought you were out of town. We were in Golden last night; although TBF, may not have had time anyway. Perhaps in January.
That’s correct. Currently in Mexico.
I’ll see you in January. TOK is coming out in January too. Maybe we’ll get lucky and synch
Ah, got it. Back at your same spot in Mexico?
Yep. I love it here. My wife tells me we are going somewhere else next year. Not happy.
Festivus Zoom…I got a lot of problems with you people
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I should qualify: If you want an electric car I think it is great that you can have one. You should have one. I dont have a problem with people wanting one or people producing them. I have a problem with subsidies, the mandates, the coercion and the bald faced lies.
All of the issues, mostly conjured out of thin air, that we have to deal with are this way. They are not so simple with a black and white, with us or against us, on the right side of history bullshit.
Pick a big issue and it has been oversimplified and any opposition to the leftists have been slandered and demonized.
I dont really want doe-eyed children to die. I am. not against vaccines. Electric cars are fun. Sadly there are cases where abortion is the least worst solution to a horrible problem. And so on.
Every person belongs to themselves. Their mind, body and conscience are exclusively their own property and that goes for their extended property as well (possessions). I am not the one violating that principle. The people who do violate it offend me immensely. Sometimes I suppose I sound like I am over the top.
I have a problem with subsidies, the mandates, the coercion and the bald faced lies.
If the manufacturers and fuel refiners were truly free to tell California to get fucked regarding their extra special environmental regulations, it would be different.
In the beginning, the rules weren’t so different or onerous that compliance was impossible. But now they want to ban internal combustion and mandate “zero emissions”. I’m pretty sure I know what Henry Ford would say. “Get a horse.”
And the subsidies are preventing reality from asserting itself.
It’s just a giant fucking sinkhole of wasted billions, probably trillions before all is said and done.
Its not “wasted”. The grift is on, and the right people are getting theirs.
What Henry didnt know is that what would follow would be endless howling about ‘free the horses!’, ‘You are enslaving and torturing animals!’ and so on.
These activist types are disrupters. There is nothing they will not disrupt. This is why Yuri Bezmenov said once the power mongers have their power locked in no disruption will be allowed thus the activist/disrupters are all taken out and shot.
So when my ICE car won’t go some good Samaritan will give me a jump from his car (I carry jumper cables in the truck in the winter) and it works both ways.
If my EV (theoretically speaking) won’t go I need a long duration charging station. Logically ICE seems to make the most sense.
They are pretty handy for city driving, short distances. Not so much for country driving or long trips. And most of them are too pricey, I think they would sell better as cheap second cars.
Definitely. My neighbor just got one for his wife. Their youngest just started driving so they gave her the old Camry to drive. His wife puts on almost no miles and the lease deal was ridiculous.
They didn’t. They were silent when the equines were shipped off to the rendering factories.
It is really quite astonishing how quickly the horses (and the mules of the cotton fields) vanished from the landscapes and cityscapes of the country.
Well, that is the problem. They can’t be both cheap and useful. The economics doesn’t work.
That’s why the government is throwing my tax dollars at it and it’s STILL not enough.
Good riddance. The stench and foulness must have been off the charts with those fucking things everywhere.
But EV don’t do anything better than ICE. Tractors replaced horses/oxen easily.
My little Farmall cub sits for months at a time. 70 years old. A few turns with a hand crank and it’s ready to go to work. The battery has been dead for a couple years but the tractor is easy to start, burns (cheap) gas. It doesn’t replace a car/truck but it’s good at what it can do.
But in the city, say you live in an apartment. Are you going to plug it in? Or run a long-ass extension cord from your walk-up?
IIRC, in the 1920s NYC had to dispose of ~2 tons of horseshit every day. I bet that was pleasant. I also ate horse in Kazakhstan! It was.. horse. Not bad, not much. (Assuredly not ‘primo.’)
When I was a kid there was a comic in the Sunday funnies called “The Little King”. One Sunday, near Christmas, the comic showed the Christmas tree with all of its candles that had just been blown out by a puff of wind. Then the scenes were the Little King re-lighting them one by one. The last panel had him saying, “It’s funny how it’s always the last one you check.” This tickled my funny bone enough for me to remember it for the last 60 years.
Saw it in action when I was in Germany in Xmas ’85.
I suppose a big difference is that the Tannenbaum is only up for one day, at least where I was.
RIP Crocodile Dundee.
I was mistaken. It was the alligator from Crocodile Dundee. He has gone to be with Harambe. Very confusing article.
LOL I saw that earlier today and couldn’t believe what’s-his-name was still alive and kicking.
Paul Hogan was born in the 1930s, I think. He has to be getting up there.