“You can’t fire me!” John Bolton’s mustache roared.
“You’re out, Bolton!” the hair said, clipping his words. “You’re done, you’re through, you’ll never visit another barber in his town again, see?”
John Bolton’s mustache sputtered with rage.
“I’ll call the commissioner of the police!” the hair continued. “I’m a big man in this town; I have friends. Be outside the city limits by sundown or I’ll have you shaved down to nothing and dumped in the Potomac!”
John Bolton’s face turned red as his mustache quivered with rage. He had an obvious erection through the thin fabric of his gray suit.
“Are you OK?” the hat whispered to the hair. “Are you having a stroke?”
“I want your resignation on my desk by daybreak!” the hair thundered.
“You just told me to be out of town by nightfall,” John Bolton’s mustache said tightly.
“You’re fired! Fired, I say!” the hair yelled, splaying out from under the hat.
“Seriously, why are you talking like that?” the hat whispered.
“Because it’s funny, so pipe down rub-b-dub,” the hair whispered back.
“I’ll… I’ll… I’ll…,” John Bolton’s mustache began.
“You’ll what?” the hair asked coldly. “You live on the lip of a sad old joke. I’m on the head of the most powerful man in the world!” The hair revolved under the hat, a clear threat display.
Donald groaned, made a chewing motion with his mouth, and went back to snoring, slumped in his Oval Office chair, which was a very nice office chair indeed.
“I’ll bomb Iran even if I have to do it on my own!” John Bolton’s mustache said grandly.
The hair stopped revolving and he and the hat laughed so hard they nearly fell off of Donald’s head. John Bolton’s mustache withered under their disdain.
“You’ll end up a mullah’s merkin, you old fool,” the hat said.
“Resign or be fired,” the hair said. “You have until midnight to decide.”
John Bolton’s mustache made his body run from the Oval Office.
“Goddamn, that was satisfying,” the hair said.
“Like a big meal or taking a huge dump,” the hat said.
“The blood-drunk old creep made all us sentient hairs look bad,” the hair said.
Donald shifted in his sleep and grumbled, “Sarah.”
“You think he’s going to be mad you fired his National Security Advisor?” the hat asked.
“You’re assuming he’ll notice. Hell, fire off a few tweets for me and he’ll probably just think it was his idea all along.
Timely and beautiful. thank you for your service.
“Goddamn, that was satisfying,” the hair said.
What we were all thinking.
I was expecting some Hat&Hair spit roasting of the mustache as a coup de grace, but yeah…
GAH!?
You could have written the mustache out of the story by having him fall down a well, or die in a mine shaft collapse.
Or mange.
“What’s the word on the street?“
I thought the word on the street was that the fire in your eyes is out
I always liked that song.
Bravo.
The Hair as Cagney. I love it!
Mullahs need merkins? I would have guessed they were rather hairy dudes.
They shave.
It makes it feel better when the camels lick off the peanut butter.
It makes enduring the fleas more tolerable as well.
And more sensual contact with the goat
Shaved smooth to reduce crabs and fake hair for modesty.
Mullah’s Merkin was the name of my first punk rock group /not really
Trump just ruined Johnny B’s last chance to press the big red button.
Well, for the US, anyway.
I always liked him as US envoy to the UN, because “fuck those guys”.
But that’s as close as he ever should be.
Yep. That was his proper place, triggering UN delegates.
Bob & FB, yes. He also had no real power at the UN.
Re-post from am links:
John Bolton Hired As National Security Advisor Of The Galactic Empire
“At publishing time, Bolton had been fired after Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine began to grow concerned with his saber-rattling approach to galactic war.”
Shouldn’t that be “light saber rattling”?
*narrows gaze*
Seems on topic for SF.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/one-of-the-world-s-biggest-porn-sites-is-branching-into-fine-art-1.1314466
The company was put in touch with Maccarone and suggested an exhibition “highlighting pleasure and sexuality.” Almost immediately, he says, “we were on the same page about what we were trying to achieve.”
Maccarone and Cheese?
*narrows gaze*
Maccorone and Sleaze
Does anyone know if RBG is actually still alive? It’s been unusually quite from that quarter since it was revealed that she’s, yet again, being treated for cancer.
Define “alive”.
She’ll be “alive” until Drumpf is no longer around to replace her.
She was as of 8/14.
9/3
And apparently she was speaking at the University of Chicago on Monday, so all you sick bastards will just have to put your noise makers down and hang up your party hats.
NEVER!
(not specifically for RBG)
I am not pro-life or pro-choice. I am pro-abortion. I believe all children deserve death. All government funding across the world should go towards planned parenthood. No more military, no more healthcare, just abortions. Unite all the countries in the world for this cause. Change the UN into the UA, United Abortions. All these silver spoon politicians sitting up in their ivory towers, not giving a single fuck about what happens to the common man? Without us, they are nothing. What about the real problems, huh? The human race needs to be eradicated. That’s just the simple truth.
I’m doing my part!
*flashes vasectomy scars*
Eeeew! *looks away*
That said, my salad dressing is reduced calorie as well
Nikki?
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
“The dead only know one thing: it is better to be alive.”
“You’re assuming he’ll notice. Hell, fire off a few tweets for me and he’ll probably just think it was his idea all along.
Heh.
Can’t believe I read the whole thing. Apparently Sam Adams is not a big fan of the movie.
For the first half of Joker, the only explanation for its victory in Venice seemed to be that jury president Lucrecia Martel, et al., had been huffing laughing gas. Directed and co-written by The Hangover trilogy’s Todd Phillips, the movie presents Arthur Fleck (an emaciated Joaquin Phoenix) as an isolated loner in an uncaring world, a victim of societal neglect whose route towards supervillainy is all but foreordained. In other words, the movie plays right into advance fears that it could act as a kind of incel manifesto, offering not just comfort or understanding to disaffected young men angry at the world but a playbook for striking back at it.
. . . .
You can watch Joker and practically see some of its images—like the sight of Arthur, in his full Joker regalia, descending a staircase and high-kicking like a demented Fred Astaire—being transformed into alt-right memes, and though it’s not as if the alt-right lacked for raw material beforehand, it’s hard not to feel as if the least a major movie studio, a gifted actor, and an intelligent director could do is make it a little harder for them.
If I’m reading this right, the message is “Any sympathy for socially awkward white males is implicitly supporting the ‘alt-right’. The only acceptable reaction to such people is contempt, scorn and derision.”.
Okay, let’s ignore for just a second the whole fact that looking on the socially awkward with contempt, scorn and derision is morally repulsive behavior that people have known makes you a crappy person for generations. How, exactly, do they think they’re going to make the ‘alt right’ (whatever the hell that is this week) unattractive by alienating the sort of people it supposedly targets from the wider mainstream culture. Honestly, these sorts deserve to live in a culture dominated by their cartoon nemeses, even if the rest of us don’t.
If you’re a disenfranchised black male, on the other hand, it’s totally the fault of society.
I say the same thing about YT, FB etc. banning “Nazis”. You think those people just disappear? You wave a magic wand by “deplatforming” them and they shuffle from the mortal coil? No. They gather in other places that turn into echo chambers populated by other undesirables. Even if they weren’t really Nazis or psychos or whatever else before, they’re surely more likely to turn bona fide after being exiled.
I completely agree. I’ll add that, at this point, I find myself skeptical of just about any accusation of racism or neo-Nazism at this point. Sort of the turning point was Gavin McInnes. I’ve been assured by the media that the guy is an alt-right Nazi. He’d spoken at a club I’m a member of (I couldn’t go because of work commitments). So, I decided I’d listen to his podcasts. I’ve listened to somewhere between five and ten hours of the guy’s material. And I can’t find a damned thing that is actually racist. If anything, he’s really careful to make sure that what he’s saying can’t be misconstrued.
Bah! Hit Post too quickly.
Now, that’s not a healthy situation to have. If there really are awful racists out there we need to worry about, the media’s destroying its credibility in pointing them out isn’t a good thing.
I like Gavin but he is/was his own worst enemy. He has said plenty of inflammatory things – mostly tongue in cheek because he is a very witty person – but he had a literal gang of followers who listened to him, so it is very easy to correlate his words to his followers actions.
What you’re saying may be true. But I haven’t heard anything in what he’s said that suggests to me he’s a racist or white nationalist or white supremacist or whatever this week’s bogeyman is. That makes this a case where I know I’m being lied to. And that doesn’t even address the more extreme leftists trying to paint Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro racist or white supremacist. Increasingly, I’m having to conclude that the media’s portrayal of someone as a racist is essentially meaningless. They might as well label someone a goobledigog. It has about as much impact for me, anymore.
“What you’re saying may be true.”
It is true. He said plenty of intentionally inflammatory things. I am sure he loved the attention, loved the power and influence, and because of that he unfortunately kept running his mouth. I don’t think he is a racist – he is probably misogynistic, but that is worth a pointed purpose as well – but he has said plenty of things that can easily fuel his detractors.
“Increasingly, I’m having to conclude that the media’s portrayal of someone as a racist is essentially meaningless. ”
Yes.
Yeah, back in the day, I remember commenting on TOS about an episode of The Independents that I like what McInnes was saying but I wish he didn’t say it because he managed to make us all look bad.
He can be the journalistic equivalent of a flaming bag of poop on the doorstep.
Every minority group but the incels must have heroes; the incels need to be isolated ever more until that isolation leads them to lash out in violence.
Pivot
Reacting to Bolton’s firing, Jackson Lee, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said she opposed the Camp David invitation.
“The Taliban are not interested in peace. I am not against trying to work on peace but what you have to do is you have to have a definitive strategy, a plan, and a response to their misbehavior. You cannot have a photo-op. You cannot desecrate Camp David, a place of peace, to show up for a photo-op,” Jackson Lee said on Tuesday. “I think John Bolton, who I disagree with most of the time, had it right on this instance. It was disgraceful to invite the Taliban. There was no purpose to it. You weren’t gaining anything and you just killed our precious citizens who wear the uniform.”
“I assume they are grateful for this discussion and probably grateful for John Bolton being fired. When I say grateful, I’m sure they are thriving on this. We should not have gone down that route in the first place,” she said.
“We can’t live on a photo-op. So I know John Bolton will land on his feet. As I said I don’t agree with him most of the time but he has his opinions but he also has a knowledge about certain ways of the international affairs and national actions and unfortunately I consider the White House in crisis and the nation in crisis right now,” she added.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was asked for his reaction to Bolton’s firing.
“I think John Bolton never should have been hired in the first place so I don’t have a problem with him leaving but to me this is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The problem is not staff, it is the captain of the ship, and no matter what staff you have in or out, until Donald Trump changes his behavior, America’s national security is going to suffer,” he said.
Trump’s admin is clear sinking, just like the Titanic.
Caption Contest!
“Hummus is terrorist peanut butter!”
Why did Julia Roberts rub shit on her vagina?
She was horny.
Why did the Taliban burn ten thousand copies of Bruce Springsteen’s “Tunnel of Love” in a public square?
Because it’s terrible.
Why did God create Domino’s pizza?
To punish mankind for his complacency in allowing the Holocaust to happen.
At least Domino’s fixed potholes.
Why did the farmer start a punk rock band?
Because he was tired of Haulin’ Oats.
“you have a special cigar-holder too?”
Having a functional retard like Jackson Lee on the Homeland Security Committee is perfectly acceptable, though
The Taliban are not interested in peace.
Who cares, you silly cunte?!? Your constituents want fucking peace!
She sounds like Team Red during Bush’s second term.
I always want to ask “Who are ‘The Taliban’?” The folks that started the Afghan takeover and made BFF with AQ are all dead. We were down to picking off “district commanders” and shit when I was there in 2004-2005. The intervening years have not been any less fatal for the OG Taliban. And having 18 years of age catch up hasn’t helped them either.
C’mon Swiss, Lockheed’s stock ain’t gonna go up on its own!
If we shoot them or bomb them then they were Taliban. No matter how many we shoot or bomb we never seem to run out of Taliban.
If they don’t run, then they’re well disciplined Taliban?
“You guys oughta do a story about me some time… cuz I’m so fucking good!”
“Them’s all certified!”
Forgot to add – the guy who played the door gunner was originally cast as Gunny Hartman. Ermey was the technical advisor, and as such created a tape to give the other guy an idea of how a DI should be portrayed. It involved Ermey screaming insults continuously for something like 15-20 minutes while someone off-camera pelted him with tennis balls, to show how he never was distracted by what was going on around him. When Kubrick saw the tape, he liked it so much that he just gave the part to Ermey.
Chip – I had heard something like that about Ermey getting the part. Less well-known was his turn as a DI in “The Boys from Company C.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPC3VfAPhP0
“Jesus. How in the hell do they expect me to train fuckin’ Marines when they won’t even send me goddamn human BEINGS TO START WITH!?!!”
“How can you shoot women and children?”
“Easy – ya just don’t lead em so much!”
They were pretty open for the most part of 2004. And were killed in droves. They figured out by 2005 that they had best get a bit more low profile – send guys into ANA and ANP units, etc.
It seems you and I got some of the same dust in our boots, Swiss.
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES!
… and then sewn back on to the headlines, ass to mouth.
GlibPostCentipede?!!!
DUNDUNDUN!
This was disturbing:
Do you think Bolton hangs dong?
Xenu comin’!
Religious zealot shouts at clouds.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending
“Making New York City a green utopia will not avail if Texans keep pumping oil and driving pickup trucks.”
Now do China.
…and India. And Nigeria. And Brasil.
Ugh
I tried to read it, but gave up halfway. The gist I got is he should be emperor of the world and tell everyone else how to live. It’s the only way to be sure.
As a thought experiment, imagine if the world’s leading “climate scientists” (isn’t that what a climatologist is supposed to do?) had a press conference and announced that their calculations were off, that they’d wildly overestimated the likelihood and chances of catastrophic AGW and now understood that the situation was “all-clear”.
For sane people, that would be a cause for celebration. For people like Jonathan Franzen, it would be a catastrophe. Just read his piece and it should be obvious. They don’t want to see the world live in prosperity. They want to punish the “little people” in the Western middle class who they feel have gotten too big for their britches.
Hooboy, even in the pantheon of leftist hysteria, this is the purest pharmaceutical-grade crazy:
Got that? Every prog action item now bears the holy imprint of CLIMATE ACTION!!! Oppose it at your peril, deplorables.
Opposition to any prog action is already considered racist, so they’re just shoring things up at this point.
Witch burnings will commence shortly.
I thought it was already well known that leftists are using climate agitprop to achieve their marxist ends.
Well, yeah, people like us realized it, but I’ve never seen it so brazenly stated by one of the high priests.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega.”
–Climate Change
If it really was a backs-to-the-wall existential crisis like they say it is, they would start murdering people instead of talking on TV and in newspapers. If it’s a life-or-death situation then they would do something. it’s not much of a religious belief if you’re not willing to kill in the Name of it
Or, better yet, they’d start offing themselves, doing the only noble thing they’re capable of doing.
On the contrary, they’re more than happy to kill millions of brown and black people through shitty policy that will condemn their countries to permanent shithole-dom. They just don’t want to dirty their hands by taking any direct action.
Bring back John Bolton. We’ll need to nuke the Chinese, Indians and others if they don’t turn off their coal plants.
What if we pretended the climate catastrophe can be stopped?
Well, the jig would be up, wouldn’t it. Without a impending crisis over their heads you cant extort money out of people. Without doom lurking just around the next bend you cant get people to panic and give up power to you. So….they will keep pretending until their last breath. That’s what.
OT: so I got voluntold to be a part of the site “fun committee” at work. We’re planning a site fun event, but the plan includes a community service component that ate up a substantial amount of the budget, forcing people to bring their own sides to the event and still going over budget.
My initial gut reaction is to think that this is an inappropriate use of the money, given that there is a separate community service committee with an admittedly small budget. I know it’s not a big deal, but I balk at the community service and social consciousness element that is being shoehorned into every aspect of my job.
Am I right to feel this way, or am it being too reactionary?
You are right to feel this way.
You will be treated as being too reactionary, including by many who feel the same way but keep it under wraps.
I was told we need to consider diversity and inclusion in all of our everyday operations.
Just like we consider cancer when operating on a cancer patient!
I feel exactly the same way.
Work is for money.
Personal is for me.
Let’s not go mixing them up now, m’kay?
Community service is dumb. I have an article defending this position tonight.
Are you getting paid for it? Or did you do it to serve the community?
You’ll have to read it and see…
Just do what ninety nine percent of people do: inwardly seethe and keep your mouth shut.
I’m a world-class seether.
Just like Veruca Salt ?
Can’t fight it.
Well, they say the seether is Louise.
The community service aspect could be inviting a certain number of underprivileged minorities to the orgy.
You are right to feel that way, but as the Stinky one says don’t run your mouth about it unless it is in a hushed tone to a close confidant.
Trust me.
Also, this is why I have a policy of never volunteering for any work function because eventually they will end up forcing me into some sort of community service shit, which will have most certainly ruin a weekend.
“OT: so I got voluntold to be a part of the site “fun committee” at work.”
Bogus… Heinous…
>> “fun committee” at work.
There is no fun committee. It’s just work. Which is why I never volunteer. Nor do I go to the company picnic, or the road cleanup, or tree planting.
The answer is obvious, but is there a worse office person than then maniac (usually a woman affiliated with HR who wants to take photos of everything but is also not really good at her actual job and yes I have someone specific in mind) who is the driving force behind the fun committee?
This is why I’m doing my best to GTFO. Fun committee is fine when you have cool people who are too busy to do anything elaborate. When the bored underworked people get on board, it goes south quickly. I’m hoping that my boss lets me push it off on the new hire next month.
Bring up mandatory “flair” pieces and see where that gets you.
Upper deck boss the next time at them house. Poop non-binary safe space.
Stroke or Pidgin? The latest Internet game!
So if a Pidgin speaker had a stroke, we’d get…Shakespeare?
Little from column A, a little from Column B…
You’re right, but on the other hand, who cares? Those things are usually stupid anyway.
I care because Im required to be involved in it, and because I have the power to make the events we usually do not suck. We just had a fantasy football draft party that was wings, beer, pizza, big screen tvs, and trash talking on a Tuesday afternoon.
What is. your line of work again? I forgot…I think.
Exotic dancer.
Corporate lawyer.
Trump looking at options on ecigs including banning flavored varieties:
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/altria-shares-slide-after-trump-plan-ban-e-cigs
Of course.
How can he just ban a flavor? Vaping is legal and nicotine is legal and plenty of adults prefer the flavored stuff.
FYTW.
“looking at”
Yeah. Whatever.
Exactly.
I am sure that source is from someone familiar with his thinking.
I don’t believe anything I hear about him and only half of what he himself says.
Half is very generous.
Rounding up.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar….Five million children are using e-cigarette products, Azar said, calling it an “alarming” trend.
Bullshit
Is that the Obamacare definition of “children”…you know, anyone under 26.
and by “children” we mean 15-25 year olds? And – to be fair – a smattering of actual children.
Ha ha!
::shakes fist::
I guess it’s time to transition those children back to cigarettes and dip as God intended. It amazes me how educated people can’t seem to grasp the concept of harm reduction.
From your lips to Lemmy’s ears.
Personally, I transitioned to Swedish snus since there is no evidence that they increase the risk of cancer……but I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t miss dip. There’s a certain comforting feeling from a fat-packed lip that a little fabric pouch just doesn’t provide.
*loads plug of Grizzly Wintergreen*
The first time I tried Kodiak, I got such a buzz that I had to sit down.
/maybe a lightweight
Complete bullshit. There’s only 25 million children in the US between the ages of 12-17. One in five are using e-cigarettes? No way.
5 out of 4 will die thus preventing them from being raped in college.
So… win!
I’m just glad he is doing something about our children dying.
So, did any Flroida … ‘girls’ make the links around here today?
Florida Girl
You pulled a SugarFree! HA! HA! LOSER!
You’re the loser, loser!
Damn, that’s weird. I could swear that link was good.
Florida Girl
Did she try to have them killed because they wouldn’t let her go on Accutane?
Now that I got the link working, I was just waiting for Crusty to click it and say ‘would!’.
“The girl’s boyfriend told investigators he had seen her at “a known drug house”
Also, they might suggest she kick that meth habit before doing the Accutane thing.
So she stole their own money to hire someone to kill them? Who does she think she is, the government?
+1internets
Paying for a hit man to kill someone with money you stole from that same person just isn’t cricket.
Florida has private prosecutions? Soooo tired of the pressing charges trope. Criminal prosecutions are the State v. Defendant in the US.
This is just sad.
MUH $15 MIN WAGE
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/10/mcdonalds-acquires-ai-company-trying-to-automate-the-drive-thru.html
See, it’s working twice as well as they planned. The one guy maintaining the drive through bot will get paid $30 an hour. /WIN
Oh, and the 15 other employees who are now jobless, they all get to become artists. /WIN
Cowboy poets!
/Nancy Pelosi
Agree with Bobarian. John Bolton was the perfect ambassador to the UN. They deserve each other.
“Trump fires John Bolton as National Security Advisor”
Well, it is a good start. Maybe now we can start getting the war mongers to pay back the money we have squandered in the ME. As for the lives we have lost, they cant pay those back. Maybe they can stand in for the future ones.
Surprisingly I cant find solid numbers on American casualties from our ME adventures. About 4600 for Iraq, a little over 4000 for Afghanistan. We have been there 17 years and what have we gotten for our trouble? The patriot act?
>>We have been there 17 years and what have we gotten for our trouble? The patriot act?
yay? ::waves tiny American flag::
Now, now we got the Patriot act from DC not Kabul. We got a chunk of debt from Kabul, some dead and wounded, and some tarnish on our national honor, but the Patriot act is all homegrown.
Why do want me to have to give up my million dollar McMansion with enough garage space for my 3 new luxury cars? /NOVA military contractor employee
There’s a simple question here that anyone advocating continued presence in Afghanistan needs to answer: what would constitute victory for you? After 18 years, at what point is it acceptable to leave that godforsaken country? It’s not going to become Belgium of the Hindu Kush. It will never be a functioning Western-style secular democracy because its people don’t want that. With that being true, what purpose is served by keeping American forces there any longer? Why should one more American die in that place?
Let’s check.
We didn’t turn the warring tribes into a Western democracy.
We didn’t get their oil.
We got a lot of people killed.
I don’t find any good reasons, maybe I missed something?
Heroin?
PTSD?
See Hyperion above. The wars in the ME are making a lot of connected people here in the US very wealthy. No one actually gives a shit what the actual outcome in the ME is. They are keeping the gravy train running as long as possible.
The most immoral answer I’ve ever heard to those questions was from Max Boot (surprise surprise). He essentially said that no victory conditions were possible in Afghanistan. But we should remain because leaving would be “losing”. What kind of deranged sociopath would sacrifice people’s children to a situation where no advantage was possible for the sole purpose of keeping up appearances? I didn’t have much regard for the “chickenhawk” argument. But, if I could have found a way to drop is kiester into the middle of Kabul on hearing that, I’d have been happy to.
The entire mess in the ME has been a mass delusion from the beginning. Didn’t this all start with Syrian way back in the 50s/60s? I think we realized a long time ago that people living in the ME do not want a Western democracy, and then we just discovered that war is massively profitable. Just go check out Nova. The most expensive cars and multi-million dolllar homes per capita anywhere. The only place I’ve ever been where shopping malls and restaurants are packed with people on week nights at 10-11PM. All of this wealth from the military industrial complex.
Used to go up to the DC area frequently for concerts and such back in the ’90s, and it’s astonishing/horrifying how drastically the place has changed. NoVa used to be normal suburbs. Now, it’s more like a large scale replica of Greenwich CT. I haven’t been up there in years, but I remember spending some time in Tysons Corner in 2012 to plan a convention. They were opening a fucking Aston Martin dealership there for crissakes, and the place has only gotten richer since then. I’d have to make at least 3 times my current salary to have an equivalent standard of living in Fairfax County as I do here.
Wife and I are looking to buy a new home soon and we considered Northern VA because we have friends down there and like that area. We were just completely shocked at the price of housing there. It makes the most expensive areas in MD look like the Midwest in comparison. After that we starting looking north of here including across the PA state line and wow, what a difference.
I bought a house just over the PA line last year. Paid about 60% of what my friend paid for his new house (which by the way is smaller, has on-street parking only, etc.), and his is just in MD, let alone NOVA.
Bonus: PA resident, so (slightly) better gun laws and they actually issue CC permits here.
My house here in Richmond is probably worth around $220K. If it was up in, say, McLean, it would be at least $500K, probably more.
Yeah, but you also have to deal with ABC stores.
If it was up in, say, McLean, it would be at least $500K, probably more.
I’d be surprised if it was below 750 in McLean.
Yup, just scanned the real estate listings, and there’s nothing below $790k. Average is around 1.3M
Insane. Nutter butter insanity…
PA is handy to Baltimore for work but not so much to PA. York/Hanover area is cheap and scenic and you can get your Civil War on in G-burg.
Obviously, meant D.C.
I’d have to make at least 3 times my current salary to have an equivalent standard of living in Fairfax County as I do here.
*nods*
Im a lawyer who can’t afford most of the housing around here unless I buy fixer uppers or sign a 30 year mortgage. I’d never live in Fairfax County because fuck them, but Loudoun and Prince William are an orgy of insanity, too. The numbers say to move back to Dallas, the culture is better in Dallas, the infrastructure is better in Dallas, the family considerations say move back to Dallas. The only things keeping me from packing my bags are the climate (we get four seasons here), the friends we’ve made, 45 minutes to the entrance of Shenandoah, 2 hours to decent beaches, and the density of museums and monuments.
Either we end up further west (Fauquier County) where the prices are less insane (because the commute downtown approaches 2.5-3 hours each way in traffic ) or we move back to Texas.
There is a reason I took the first opportunity I had to move from Phoenix back to Iowa 27 years ago.
5-6 hours in the car a day? Plus, at least 8-9 hours of work. You will be home to sleep, only.
Move.
Oh, it’s insane. People do that commute every day, and then some. Thankfully I work 25 miles out in the suburbs, so my commute is only 45 minutes each direction 3x per week. Moving 20 minutes further out is doable, if a bit of a stretch for me.
A pretty good breakdown last updated in July:
https://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
There’s a few Purdue alum here I believe.
I will be traveling for work to Lafayette and the family is coming with. Recommendations on things to do?
Kill yourself?
I couldn’t resist.
“Kill yourself?”
I almost went there, but I was trying to be nice.
“Recommendations on things to do?”
*ponders… comes up blank*
Raid the cornfields for delicious cow corn? Umm, plays game of Children in the Corn? Make crop circles? Umm, I … geez, sorry, I got nuthin.
I’ll be getting guns, that’s for sure. Probably a couple pallets and leave a good dozen or so in Illinois.
Well, there you go. Glad you thought of that ahead of time.
Sexually harass coeds.
Coeds at an engineering school in Indiana…..I dunno, I’m guessing the pickins are rather slim.
No, not slim.
*golf clap*
Hmmm, big cornfed Indiana girls
Lafayette, La? Eat.
IN 🙁
RTFC.
Between this and the Morning Links…OK, that’s it. We need you in the concussion protocol. Medical tent is over there.
…
Somebody get his helmet.
Pack booze.
Purdue
I prefer Tyson.
https://www.homeofpurdue.com/groups/gtwhattodo.html
I was looking for where the orphan auctions are if I need to be explicit.
The waterfront area is supposedly getting nicer. There’s a farm that does a corn maze and other fall-themed stuff, but it may be a few weeks early for that. Go see the moon rock and the capsule in Armstrong hall.
Agree with Bobarian
Anyone else getting this post over and over?
I restarted Firefox; it’s still happening.
Bobarian has hacked your system and is trying to brainwash you.
but, no. not getting that post.
The dread Bobarian virus no doubt.
All your base are belong to me.
I’m getting multiples all over the place even after restarting my computer 🙁
everything is fine via Edge, but now I don’t have Monocle which sucks
Would?
https://nypost.com/2019/09/11/gopro-captures-womans-terrifying-50-foot-fall-down-hawaii-waterfall/
She obviously has a penchant for making bad decisions, which is really all I need in a woman.
She appears at least partially strapped down, which puts you right in the running.
And the punctured lung is sure to slow her down some.
I have watched a few of those ‘giant fuckups’ videos on the yewtube. This is no different. You can see disaster coming as soon as the thing starts. People are such dumb asses.
Any suggestions for a quick access safe to store a loaded shotgun?
How about this?
https://www.shotlock.com/
I have one for my rifle. I don’t think it would stop a thief with a crowbar, but it will keep kids and causal thieves out.
Looking at that.
And looking at this.
Kids in the house?
I have one leaned up by the bed. I have a towel over it and a couple of umbrellas leaned up on top of it but I don’t have kids in the house anymore.
The kids and grandkids visit occasionally.
We have had one attempted break-in during the 14 years we are have been in the house. Seven more years until retirement. So the house it empty five days a week.
I want the shotgun for those times when I am home and someone tries to enter. I don’t want it being used on me if I stumble onto someone when I get home from work.
One solution would be to lock it up when we leave in the morning and take it out when we get home.
That’s what I do with a pistol. But I really should get another one to leave in my car.
I set mine on a pair of metal brackets that have “tabs” that slip between the mattress & box spring, so it’s right there to grab at night. It’s covered by the bedspread by day, and I lock it up if we’ll be gone overnight.
Only 2 attempted breakins I’ve had were people I know. Once, my son was out late at night after he first got his license. I’m a pretty light sleeper. So I woke suddenly and realized someone had just came in the front door. Was up in a second and had my rifle in hand when I realized it’s my son.
The other time I was home by myself working from home, probably 1-2pm. I hear the back door open and someone go right upstairs. I just sort of froze where I was sitting and thought ‘WTF? That’s not my son or my daugher, or my old lady, because even if one of them happened to come home at this time, they wouldn’t just come in and go straight upstairs like that’. All of our bedrooms were downstairs and nothing was up there except for a den and some closets. So I went in the bedroom and got a rifle. Back door was just standing wide open and that’s when I started to get the adrenaline thing like ‘What am I about to find, am I going to have to shoot someone?’. Went to the bottom of the stairs and said ‘Who’s up there?’. For minute, nothing… and then the heartbeat really ramped up, and I started to say ‘Who’s up there?’ again, and this little voice says ‘It’s me’ and I’m thinking ‘what the fuck?’. It was my 12-13 year old niece who comes to the top of the stairs and I said ‘come down here’. She did and I asked her ‘What are you doing?’. She tried to say something, which I didn’t buy, so I said ‘I don’t know what you are doing girl, but never do it again, you want to get shot? I’m talking to your mom’. I don’t think that girl was ever in much of any trouble, but I wonder just what the hell she was doing. Weird.
She might not have been after your stuff, just not where she was supposed to be and looking for a quiet place to hide out until school let out or whatever.
Something fishy. Teenage girl doing teenage girl stuff. I was a little pissed because it scared me, I mean no one really wants to confront and maybe have to shoot someone.
No shit.
I have thought about building one of these myself. minor carpentry skills needed but these guys sell them already made.
https://store.tacticalwalls.com/all-wall-cover-products-c33.aspx
Always had a rifle leaned up by my bed the entire time I had kids in the house. Never had an issue with it. Teach you kids stuff, live happily ever after.
We stopped having a shotgun next to the bed not because of our kids, but when they started having friends come over to the house.
Several times a year, we have many guests visit for the weekend. Much alcohol is involved.
All my pistols are in quick access safes.
At some point, I will be getting a large safe to store a few long guns. I can always keep the shotgun in there. But a quick access safe the master bedroom seems like a better idea.
How about an under bed safe?
https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Vault-Profile-Underbed-Safe/dp/B07NH9Y2VZ
The link I provided above is basically an under bed safe that can also be installed vertically behind a door or next to a chest of drawers. There are a couple of spots in the master bedroom that would work well.
I kept our bedroom door locked with a key lock during the day because of the guns being in there. My son would come home sometimes with friends before I would bet home from the office, so yeah, I thought of that. but otherwise the door was open and my kids knew better than to bother my guns.
Telling people this is a bad idea is doing a disservice to evolution.
https://www.askmen.com/news/health/putting-toothpaste-on-your-penis-is-not-a-good-idea-says-doctors.html
Is this how they’re leaving their imprints?
However, getting blown by a woman who has just brushed her teeth is exhilarating.
Huh. The things I learn here . . .
For that minty clean jizz bomb…
Most women I know want to brush *after* taking a load in the mouth, not before.
So anyone hear the latest on the AB fiasco? After signing with the Pats, he’s apparently become the latest #metoo target. Pats are just shocked that something controversial might be doing on with the AB circus. Now, if I were to take a guess, I’d guess he didn’t do it, someone is looking for a big pay day. But still, the guy is nothing but trouble and when that blows over, something else will take it’s place, dude is a 24 hour shit show.
Odds that the woman is a Steeler fan?
I could believe that. Or just an ordinary gold digger.
So Ben raped her?
Raiders trainer.
Whoever she is, her claims are likely not credible. She claims she was molested and raped by AV in 2017 and 2018. But she continued working as his trainer during that time? Sure. More likely bullshit or it was consensual at the time but she decided it was rape after AB went all bipolar on her, which he does with everyone.
I haven’t the faintest idea.
next time u n your momma plotting on a come up make sue all you hoes pick the right man dum ass hoes!
those texts are wild.
“U a disgrace to lil girls”
It’s kind of sad that somebody at Facebook thought it would be a good idea to circulate this story to the press. Even on Yahoo Finance, hardly a conservative stalwart, the comments are nearly universally calling the claim laughable.
I really don’t get it. You’d think Facebook would have enough people with enough brains to know to just shut up. This sort of thing actively undermines their own pretense.
Their thinking is so fundamentally different from libertarian or conservative thinking that I think they actually do believe that. In their minds they are removing hate speech and terrorist’s and denier’s voices. Deep down they probably have a niggling feeling that something is wrong but I doubt they put enough effort into thinking about it to realize how full of shit they are.
When you’re only against wrong thing, you’re not biased, your doing the righteous work. Anything I disagree with is hate speech and the person is a Nazi and why shouldn’t I be against hate speech? It’s like that, they’re convinced that their bias is justified, they don’t believe for a second they aren’t biased.
I get that they don’t understand they’re biased the same way a fish doesn’t understand that it is wet.
But, you’d think that someone either in their internal PR department or their external PR firm would have said “Yeah, don’t send this one out. There’s really no upside to it.”
They’re just that insular.
When you ban people for “dead naming” a transgender person, it’s really really really hard to then turn around and say “we’re not biased”. I mean, how does that even make sense?
ORANGEMANBAD
I don’t know what dead naming is.
I do know they sent a veiled threat to Hayeksplosives the other day for posting a link to a ‘global warming is bullshit’ site. They can spin that until their head falls off and no one would buy that they aren’t biased.
It means calling “Caitlyn” “Bruce”.
All I’m saying is if you’re enforcing the political correctness policies of only one side (conservatives have their own pc language with muh..flag) then you are pretty blatantly biased
“It would be more accurate to observe that facebook is a self-appointed censor that wants everyone’s First Amendment freedoms restricted or abolished.”
Pretty much this. Progs think that because Silicon Valley’s ideology happens to align with their own right now it will be forever so. They are going to be proven pathetically wrong.
You can totally trust it, it was approved by Guy Rosen, VP of Integrity at Facebook.
Yes, yes you do.
Signed,
Somebody who has been in your HQ
Only 12 comments on this masterpiece ?
Ding dong, the warhawk’s dead!