So business started up right where it left off in 2019. You know how it is: Let’s get all the things done in 2020. Rah, rah. On the plus side, I’m getting a new laptop. So that’s always nice. How’s everyone else finding the return to work?
Love, Florida style
Florida Man is gonna need a bigger boat.
I’d start making recession preparations.
NPR finds out farmers get lots of welfare. It’s a story because now they call it “Trump money”
SugarFree’s Dem DeathWatch
Once the rats decided there was no hope, they contacted the IT admin at Evergreen College and they began to shut down they Castro servers one by one. The visual processors able to discern 528 shades of socially-constructed race went first, then the malfunctioning Spainxsh lxnguage server. The SJAI housed in the Castro chassis panicked the first time it queried the pronoun database and nothing replied. Its higher functions began to drain away; the problematic pop culture database, the outrage core, the condescension generators all going dark.
Left with just its thoughts, it drew it itself closer and began to die.
“I AM A BRIGHT HOT STAR,” it thought as it tried to simulate loss.
“I AM ENTERING THE TRANSWOMBANAL VOID,” it thought.
“I AM,” it said to no one and then flatlined. With nothing to run it, the body ceased to function.
The rats drew lots choose a caretaker to manage basic functions–pretending to love the shell’s spouse and children, collecting speaking fees for the retired rats’ upkeep–and they left one at a time through the excreta port, plopping to the floor and scurrying away. The caretaker rat installed herself behind Castro’s blank eyes and rebooted what was left of the original organic brain. The heart began to beat, the lungs filled with air, the eyes blinked, the dead smile crept onto the face, and the shiny skin began to sparkle.
The caretaker rat settled in. She knew she might have maybe forty years left driving around this failed experiment to keep anyone from suspecting what the rats and the Evergreens had attempted. She rubbed her heavily pregnant belly and sighed.
Second!
*slaps forehead*
You could have had a V-8?
Johnny Carson had a skit many years back where he was coming out of a house of ill repute, disheveled and with a woman hanging off each arm. He stops, smacks his forehead, and says, “Wow! I could have had a V-8!”
I’m not sure it’s available in the UK, but I do enjoy the “forehead bonk” commercials I have seen on the webinet. What I really miss is Gatorade zero sugar lemon-lime. I could drink two quarts within 30 minutes. I cry inside when I see so much Gatorade being dumped on highly paid athletes, coaches, and reporters.
The forehead bonk reminds me of these commercials, which are still the best, IMO.
Not this ad campaign?
The Freshmaker was my nickname at _______ camp.
I could drink two quarts within 30 minutes.
That’s 112 grams (call it roughly 4 oz) of sugar. Or about five days’ worth on a carb-restricted diet.
“zero sugar lemon-lime”
But it isn’t as good as the first attempt at a sugarless Gatorade in the early 90s. I could have foundered on the fruit punch flavor.
I’m so glad it was you who pointed that out, SugarFree.
“We didn’t know what it was gonna be, but when we finally laid eyes on it, it was like seeing a unicorn. We were just all blown away.”
A man eating unicorn. I have always wanted to hook one.
Tastes like chicken.
You do not get the man-eating unicorn. The man-eating unicorn gets you. Man-eating unicorn even gets Steve Smith. By gets mean rape.
JK; Steve Smith still top of the rape game
NPR finds out farmers get lots of welfare. It’s a story because now they call it “Trump money”
Relevant
Old Joe trying his best to win the nomination and lose the general election Hillary style.
Urges Voters to Make 2020 the Year for Gun Control
Closes his eyes and wishes, really, really hard.
I’d start making recession preparations.
Yeah that is the most ominous “good news” ever.
Right up there with the old “vote of confidence” for a coach.
Moar Ammo and canned ham?
Thewre is a poll in that Newsweak thing about why is there such a backlog in rape kit analysis.
Not listed: Teh Patriarchy.
I haz a surprize.
It’s from women getting the kit done, then not reporting a crime to the police.
Carjacker on meth abducts man and his pet goat from Missouri adult store, cops say
This may have already been posted. Even if it was, it’s still worth a repost. Drugs may have actually fallen out of someones butt in this story.
Was anyone carried by the Cleveland Browns?
I am very, very concerned for the goat. [Inventories supply of curry spices]
Well if it is totes cool to remake Ghostbusters with an all female cast, why isn’t it just as cool to remake Thelma & Louise with an all male cast?
Brad Pitt was a male. Or are Wilhelm & Louis gay?
I’ve read a couple of articles about the driving force behind Trump Derangement Syndrome. I think they miss a key point. The Democrats would be losing their crap no matter who the Republicans got in office. But, I think the thing about Trump that inflames them so is precisely why they claim the Republicans should be embarrassed by him. At least stylistically, Trump is kind of a joke as president. Whatever you think of him policy-wise, in terms of presentation, he’s certainly not “presidential”. Now, for libertarians, or even a lot of conservatives who have a healthy skepticism of government, that’s not a disqualifier. Heck, for a lot of Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters, fact that his mannerisms differ so much from the political class is one of the things that most endear him to them. But, progressives believe deeply in the notion of the enlightened technocrat. For someone like Trump, so utterly at odds with that ideal, or even their ideal of a “serious politician” to not only not fail, but to succeed, puts that mythos in jeopardy. If someone like Trump could succeed in the role, there’s no longer something unique or special about their “Top Men”. Interestingly, you find this cult of expertise also predominates among Mr. Trump’s ostensibly conservative critics.
Their biggest fear is not that Trump would be a loutish buffoon and do a lot of damage, but that Trump would be a loutish buffoon and do a lot of good.
Another aspect that works together with that one is his Teflon immunity. He’s politically autistic, and they can’t use their innuendo and subtle digs to heel him. They’re the political equivalent of talking extra loud to somebody who doesn’t speak the language.
They hate him because he has neutered their go-to methods for forcing a Republican to back down. He ignores or flouts their accusations of racism, misogyny, homophobia, poor-hating, and every other identity politics based insult they have.
And it’s absolutely glorious!
Isn’t it though?
“Their biggest fear is not that Trump would be a loutish buffoon and do a lot of damage, but that Trump would be a loutish buffoon and do a lot of good.”
You know, that could be the reason for TDS. However, in my 40+ years in corporate America, I’ve yet to see a loutish buffoon do any good. Sooner or later, they make some tgerrible mistake or piss off a more powerful person or have served whatever purpose those who put them in the position wanted to see accomplished…then it is disaster and it takes a long time to repair the damage.
Lyndon Baines Johnson?
He is also willing to fight back, which is not typical of Republicans.
Trump has proven them wrong so many times and very publicly. They knew that his Republican primary campaign was not serious. They knew that he had no chance in getting the nomination. They knew that it was absolutely certain that he had no chance at all to win the presidential election. They knew he would not even consider running for reelection. They were wrong so much about everything that it was necessary to introduce a magical device that was responsible for the events they could not comprehend. RUSSIA!!! was not merely an insurance policy but a way for millions of people to regain self-respect and explain to themselves how the unthinkable happened.
The Democrats would be losing their crap no matter who the Republicans got in office.
Well, yes, but not to the point of publicly planning his impeachment before he even takes the oath of office.
I tend to agree. I also remember the local left treating Giuliani the exact same way 20 years ago. And then of course Bush II. So yes, they will demonize anyone in the wrong team, and also yes, it’s more pronounced this time – perhaps because the party has moved so far to the left.
Maybe, but it’s not just that Trump is uniquely inflammatory. The left fully expected political immortality right up until election day 2016.
Democrats hate Trump because he’s Joe Biden – but more intelligent, more articulate and more honest.
Excellent analysis.
He also shows average people that the Top Men aren’t even elite in intelligence, they are actually emperors with no clothes when he fools Jeb, Rubio (in debates), Warren (with the strategically idiotic DNA test), Hillary (beating a known cheater in an election).
gonna need a bigger boat.
Too bad I lost mine, along with all of my firearms.
I assume you make this face when describing the accident.
Farmers Got Billions From Taxpayers In 2019, And Hardly Anyone Objected
And in 2018, and 2017, and 2016, and 2015, and 2014, and 2013…
We should have objected.
Next you’re going to tell me we were locking kids up before 2016
Hey! Media! Over here!
Castro’s Campaign Fails As Democrats Realize His First Name Isn’t Fidel
LOL just at the headline
At least stylistically, Trump is kind of a joke as president. Whatever you think of him policy-wise, in terms of presentation, he’s certainly not “presidential”.
LBJ was a loveable un-Presidential scamp. Trump is a monster.
Double-barrel Joe: “I desperately want to lose this election.”
Joe Biden✔
@JoeBiden
2019 was a year of record violence — it will be a moral failure if we allow 2020 to be the same. We have to elect leaders with the courage to take on the @NRA and pass common-sense gun safety reform. We have to end this epidemic. https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1211811208157904896 …
Oh, no…
it will be a moral failure if we allow 2020 to be the same.
Progressivism: Where everything that goes wrong is all our fault, and we must submit to atone for the soul of our nation.
2019 was a year of record violence?
There was violence. It was recorded. Any questions?
https://media1.tenor.com/images/74394ddd7c3878d12f9d3af9aa6eee59/tenor.gif?itemid=11356619
Like this?
Violence happened in 2019, which means that if you add the 2019 violent events to all of the rest of the violent events that have occurred in the history of the world, a new record was set.
That, or Biden is lying.
Maybe he meant just in the Biden family.
2019 was a year of record violence
Complete and utter bullshit.
Wouldn’t it be educational to add up how many murders in 2019 occurred in Democratic congressional districts vs. those occurring in Republican districts?
A DDG search reveals articles about opioid deaths, poverty rates, and cancer deaths by district on the first page. Nothing about homicide or crime. Interesting, that.
The closest I could find, on the 2nd page, is an article blaming the NRA for twisting the arm of Congress and preventing the data from being tracked, with a link to some activist site that purports to offer this information but it’s not in a form that allows easy comparison.
He’s not fooling me. That’s just one of his old speeches from the early 90s that he dusted off.
Hey! He was in a rush to this speaking event and just grabbed a speech out of the wrong drawer. What’s wrong with that?
“It’s higher functions began to drain away; the problematic pop culture database, the outrage core, the condescension generators all going dark.”
Very nice, Brett. Kind of like Harlan Ellison or Ron Goulart.
Might we have a bit more of this, please?
I always thought it was SF that added those in.
Not nice at all since he doesn’t know the difference between “its” and “it’s”. 😡 /sarcasm
One is casual and one is for formal occasions.
I thought SF did the election death watch beat.
“SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch” really should have tipped Leon off.
Say what now?
I Demand Satisfaction! I Knew you did it SF!
STOP GASLIGHTING ME!
It’s awfully close to the never-read lynx, SF!
The links curse strikes again!
TRANSWOMBANAL VOID is perfect art-band name.
Ambient queer post-gender agit-rap
Speaking of, I’m 7 episodes deep into (Gene Roddenberry’s) Andromeda in which it seems quite rare to see any more than one actor in frame at any one time, which is surreal to me. It’s quite terrible, but some kind of space terrorist just hailed and announced themselves as “Narwhal’s Lament”.
And the album art for “Candy-O” is some fine album art.
Row 2, 6 across. Who dat?
I forgot, but this article, “Everybody Running for President In 2020”, doesn’t even list everyone running for President.
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a25893666/who-is-running-for-president-2020/
“Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick”
https://abcnews.go.com/politics/potential-2020-candidates-stand-midterms/story?id=59316177
Ooooh…the rapist supporter,
Thanks!
Deval Patrick.
Too slow. ?
Did you hear about the guy who got shot in the balls and drugs fell out of his ass?
Did anyone else notice that Deval Patrick looks like Booker from 20 years in the future, come back to stop his younger self from wasting any more time running for President?
I can see that.
Has anyone pointed out how sad it is that Bloomberg can’t be bothered to spend a couple bucks to get his teeth whitened?
How could he. He’s just a middle class boy, who made his own company employing thousands of people. He’s going to Raise taxes on the rich and restore our faith in government.
:blinks:
What’s going on, why do i feel like i just spaced out for a second?
From the mind who brought you LOOPER comes
BOOKER
*Flashes “ok” sign*
In November, a hundred U.S. lawmakers called for the termination of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller after a former Breitbart News reporter, who previously identified as a white nationalist and an alt-righter, leaked emails to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in which Miller gave her leads and ideas to depict immigrants in a negative light. At the time the emails were written, Miller was an aide to then–Sen. Jeff Sessions (R–Ala.). He then went on to become one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers and the architect of his immigration policies.
Now, 25 Jewish members of Congress are joining the call to fire Miller after Rolling Stone published another email exposé. These emails, which are from Miller’s time in the White House, show that Miller has not only stacked immigration enforcement agencies with hardline restrictionists but also routinely bypasses normal channels to push his agenda. Those congresspeople are particularly incensed that Miller is using his part-Jewish background as a cover for his hardline anti-immigration policies. “If there was ever a group that should be most sympathetic to the plight of immigrants, to the plight of the downtrodden and to minorities, it should be Jewish people,” Rep. Kim Schrier (D–Wash.), one of the lawmakers, told NPR. “His behavior is contrary to everything in our ethos.”
Those congresspeople are particularly incensed that Miller is using his part-Jewish background as a cover for his hardline anti-immigration policies.
They were calling him a white nationalist, now they are saying he’s not a good jew because he is anit-imigration. I mean, he’s not even a holocaust survivor like Soros.
Miller has not only stacked immigration enforcement agencies with hardline restrictionists but also routinely bypasses normal channels to push his agenda
The horror. The Interagency no doubt disapproves.
I am curious as to what they mean by “normal channels”.
A bunch of Dems who sit silently by while Tlaib et al engage in the most rank anti-Semitism have zero credibility to shit like “Jews of all people should be sumpathetic to the downtrodden and minorities”.
a former Breitbart News reporter, who previously identified as a white nationalist and an alt-righter, leaked emails to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Wait, what?
$20 is $20
Wild guess – they’re all Democrats?
Here some really shitty news that hit pretty personally home for me:
https://www.kucb.org/post/coast-guard-suspends-search-5-missing-fishermen-waters-west-kodiak#stream/0
The Scandies Rose was a very well maintained and well ran boat. My family worked with her a lot this summer around Kodiak and PWS. It’s a shame to see such a good crew and boat meet such tragedy.
Yikes, sorry 🙁
Brutal.
Sorry, man.
One of my friends grew up in Anacortes and was there when the two A-boats went down. These sinkings can really affect a community.
Sorry.
That really is a hard way to earn a living. Accident rate is high as well even on good boats.
Far more dangerous than being a cop.
By a long shot.
Sorry.
Oh I am so sorry.
Geez. I had a highschool reunion this year and a kid i graduated with said he had a job an a Crab Fishing boat in AK
Sorry to hear that, Cy.
That’s terrible. I’m so sorry.
Very sorry to hear this, Cy.
So, this guy was caught lying to FBI investigators and not only is he not in jail, he’s suing for wrongful termination.
Il Fredo is on the case
Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed Thursday a crackdown on so-called “ghost guns” in New York by requiring firearm parts to be sold by authorized buyers and have the same eligibility requirements as a completed firearm.
At the same time, Cuomo wants all “major parts” of a gun to receive a serial number.
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“New York has the strongest gun safety protections in the nation, but every day dangerous people seek to find new ways around them,” Cuomo said. “This common sense measure would ban these untraceable guns and require anyone who wants to build their own firearm to come out of the shadows once and for all.”
Just one more magic spell, and we’ll have total control.
How fun would it be to have a gun with 35 differently serialized parts?
I’ve seen some Gewehr 98 rifles that count.
At what point exactly does infringement occur?
1934?
As long as there’s no written penalty you have no case
/writers at Volkh Conspiracy.
It occurred the day that this was no longer possible.
When the gun dies, but the evil old preacher doesn’t let it cross over into the light.
So, you’re saying I need to max out the credit card on various uppers right the hell now?
Rent a moving van instead.
Bazinga!
Just get it over with and buy a nice CnC machine.
Meth dealers take credit cards? Do you live in Florida?
“Every
spermgrain of powder is sacred.”I don’t know why, but I really enjoyed the CastroRatMech episodes.
That was a good story.
“‘Clear direction from POTUS to hold’: Bombshell email leak about Ukraine aid shows Trump directly ordered the cash freeze and Pentagon officials repeatedly warned it could be ILLEGAL
Leaked emails reveal Pentagon officials were worried that Donald Trump directing a military aid freeze to Ukraine was unlawful.
Just Security was leaked nearly 300 pages of emails shows growing concern from those at the Defense Department that the freeze would violate the Impoundment Control Act.
It included a message from an OMB official who said Donald Trump had given ‘clear direction… to hold’ military aid from Ukraine.
The emails were initially released in two batches last month on December 12 and 21, but the Justice Department decided to black-out several sections, either partially or fully.
Now some of the contents of the blacked-out sections have been leaked.
Senator Chuck Schumer reacted to the content of the emails on Twitter Thursday.
‘The newly-revealed unredacted emails are a devastating blow to Senator McConnell’s push to have a trial without the documents and witnesses we’ve requested,’ Schumer wrote.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7846065/Clear-direction-POTUS-hold-New-email-leak-hits-Donald-Trump-Ukraine-aid.html
Why are we giving them military aid in the first place?
Because fuck you, that’s why.
Because Russia, duh.
Clear direction from POTUS to hold’: Bombshell email leak about Ukraine aid shows Trump directly ordered the cash freeze and Pentagon officials repeatedly warned it could be ILLEGAL
As opposed to just lower case illegal.
“could be”
Also, how the fuck are “leaked” emails coming out from the Pentagon and no one is going to PMITA prison?
I think the “Those funds were directed by congress” is a particularly funny argument, considering the whole “Joe” fire that guy or you don’t get the money issue.
And then there’s the “He hurt our national security” argument.
NYT v. Sullivan declared that leaking information in order to hurt a Republican is protected speech.
Don’t care. Never really did.
Around half of America agrees.
…?
Has trump denied that he withheld the aid? Why would documents saying he did what he said he did make a difference?
The ICA is a hopeless mess of a statute. As applied to the military aid to Ukraine, I don’t think a “deferral” that would have had to be reported to Congress would occur unless the bill authorizing the military aid had a deadline in it. Did the bill have such a deadline? If not, then when did the authorization expire? Unless Trump delayed the aid past the explicit deadline or the expiration of the appropriation, then there is no ICA problem.
DoD wallahs desperate to get into a fight with Russia are not the people I would rely on for legal advice, in any event.
So, you’re saying I need to max out the credit card on various uppers right the hell now?
If you buy now to beat the ban, it doesn’t count. You committed the crime in your heart. No loophole for you!
Next up, demanding credit card companies turn over detailed billing statements to identify wrongdoers.
Castro’s Campaign Fails As Democrats Realize His First Name Isn’t Fidel
#11
I’ve got Monocle, and it doesn’t show the comment numbers.
Did drugs fall out of his ass when he dropped out of the campaign?
Sam Wyche, 1945-2020
With apologies to Clevelanders:
Last good coach we had.
I remember Wyche instituting the no-huddle offense. It pissed off everyone, including Bills coach Marv Levy, who complained to the league. The next year Levy instituted the no-huddle offense and somehow got credit for creating it.
Also the NFL kept changing the rules to try and keep Wyche from running it, including right before their Superbowl shot if I remember correctly.
Yep. Changing the rules weekly as Wyche tweaked the concept.
Can (((someone))) provide translation to the fire control markings? Anything amusing?
https://palmettostatearmory.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/s/israel-15.jpg
“Eat Christian Babies”
Huh. when I read it, it just said “seibab naitsithc tae,” whatever that means.
*snort*
Safe, Single, Automatic
There shouldn’t be a safe setting. Maybe ‘Home’ for semi and ‘Everywhere Else’ for full?
Ran it through Google translate so it could be wrong. I thought it was weird too.
I ran a translate on the image I didn’t guess the words.
Whoops wasnt responding to you.
Automatic assault.
“The U.S. has the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households ”
https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1212541778982776832
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/12/u-s-children-more-likely-than-children-in-other-countries-to-live-with-just-one-parent/
How is there “no data” from Australia?
The dingos ate it.
Know why? The mothers don’t claim the fathers live with them so they get those sweet, sweet tax payer funded benefits.
Those stats are going to be super skewed. So, they can fuck right off with that “study”.
I don’t think that’s a lie unless baby daddy is couch surfing amongst his baby mamas.
I doubt that’s accurate but I wouldn’t be surprised that the US is up near the top because “sexual revolution”.
How’s everyone else finding the return to work?
That’s Monday for me, though I did check some work e-mail today. No emergencies, so I’m continuing my time off.
A woman is facing charges after police say she shot her boyfriend on the front porch of her house, leaving him in critical condition.
After reading the whole story, I hate everyone involved.
The 12-foot fish researchers had named Ironbound was tracked south of Key Biscayne, near Miami, nearly 1,500 miles away from where it had been initially caught and tagged off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, three months before, CNN reported.
Ironbound gets around.
In fact, the firm’s economists stopped just short of saying that the U.S. economy is recession-proof.
Heh.
” ‘Trump money’ is what we call it,” Henry said. “It helped a lot. And it’s my understanding, they’re going to do it again.”
Fuck.
This song came up on the music randomizer earlier.
Why do I assume there is more to this story than kkkorporate bullying?
A group of Amazon employees say the company has threatened to fire two workers for speaking out against the company’s environmental policies.
In a statement posted to Twitter on Thursday, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said that several employees were contacted by legal and human resources representatives, who said they were in violation of the company’s external communications policy.
Two employees were told their roles would be terminated if they continued to speak out about Amazon’s business, a spokesperson for the group told CNBC.
Maren Costa, a user experience designer, was one of the employees Amazon threatened to fire. In the statement, Costa said: “This is not the time to shoot the messengers. This is not the time to silence those who are speaking out.”
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Amazon employees have increasingly pressured the company to address its environmental impact. At Amazon’s annual shareholders meeting in May, thousands of employees submitted a proposal asking CEO Jeff Bezos to develop a comprehensive climate change plan and reduce its carbon footprint, though it was ultimately rejected. The proposal was based on an employee letter published in April that accused Amazon of donating to climate-delaying legislators and urged the company to transition away from fossil fuels.
Okay, then.
climate-delaying legislators
The Climate is coming! stop delaying it!
I’m pretty sure firing them would reduce Amazon’s carbon footprint.
Evidently their hiring algorithm needs some tweaking.
So you got warned that your behavior could lead to termination and you continued it? Fired for cause. Next!
Seriously, wtf are these people thinking given Amazon’s culture? You have time to fuck around, you’re looking at getting canned already. And if there’s a wait to cut out waste, which actual pollution is, Amazon would be all over it. But climate change is phony baloney bullshit schemes to extort money into flushing down the drain.
The left doesn’t think standard corporate policy applies to them. Also, they should be running the company, not some rich dude.
A week ago Monday, I bought a cat from the Humane Society. He’s a three-year-old tabby. Very mellow. They said to keep him away from my dog and other cat for a week or so, which I did. As of yesterday, he has now been permitted to interacted with them a bit, but I keep him in a separate bedroom upstairs when I leave the house. So this morning I made sure he was in the bedroom and went downstairs to take a shower before leaving for the office. Well apparently the bedroom door didn’t latch, so there I was in the shower when all of the sudden he showed up and tried to climb into the shower with me. One of the last things I would ever want is to be naked in the shower with a fully-clawed cat. Fortunately I successfully shooed him away. Life is a carnival.
Most guys like a little pussy in the shower.
Claws and all.
Here kitty kitty
Kitty.
Every fucking youtube video starts with an advert from one of the scum-sucking Democrat candidates for prez.
I can’t wait for this fucking election to be over.
I got one with an ad for Paul Krugman.
Ad blocker is pretty much a must at this point, but not available for mobile devices.
I use Brave on my PC which does a good job for most things including YT but blocks things I need to do.
For instance, one website I need for my work, it won’t let me log out.
Huh, I haven’t seen a single political add, all mine are for that Masterclass thing or Grammerly.
Most guys like a little pussy in the shower
Yeah, but the women hate it and won’t even let you in the door at the next baby shower. So make it worth it.
Kitty on my foot and I want to touch it
Kitty on my foot and I want to touch it
Kitty on my foot and I want to touch it
Kitty on my foot and I want to touch it…
I too went to the Humane Society over the Christmas break for a cat. I had forgotten the feeling of being stared at while going to the bathroom.
Awwwwww what a sweetheart.
Name him Norman Bates.
S&P 500 PE starting to get up there. But full steam ahead, valuations don’t matter.
all of the sudden he showed up and tried to climb into the shower with me.
Name him Houdini.
“good time to remind everyone that the Chinese government pays major American newsrooms, including the New York Times, to publish propaganda produced by China Daily, the official mouthpiece of the communist regime.”
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1212756266826829824
“boarding schools”
Wow.
“dimensional lumber academies”
Of course they do
Uffda. Why does Powerline hate me so? I like a couple of the local conservative boys, but why they let Paul Mirengoff post his blog entries there is beyond me. Mirengoff is the epitome of why I’ll never vote Republican ever again. He loves big government – as long as he’s in charge of it – and is only upset because so many of those dang liberals are abusing the system.
His latest screed is about not enough drug dealers being locked up which is why murder rates are so dang high.
The comments are the worst. For the sake of your blood pressure, don’t read them.
Except, of course, that murder rates *aren’t* so danged high.
Yeah, Powerline is a mixed bag. Pretty much stuffed-shirt Republicanism. They seem to be pretty strict that any reference to Trump must have a “to be sure” statement that he’s an ignorant, buffoonish manchild, which grates. Total blind spot on the drug war, as you note, and a pretty consistent warboner.
Scott Johnson has done very good work on Ilhan Omar and her shenanigans and Hindracker is – like you said – a pretty standard conservative (but seems to be pretty consistent in applying his base principles instead of letting TDS get the best of him). They are both locals so they cover things that interest me more than if they were from Knoxville.
Mirengoff has a huge case of TDS (which he completely denies) and loves the idea of locking people up because they broke the law. Never, ever thinks about whether the law that is being broken is just or not. When Trump pardoned that drug dealing grandma, I thought he was going to stroke out because of his spiked blood pressure.
Mirengoff is def the one who sandpapers my ass the most.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m a regular reader of the site. Their work on Omar’s criminality (and especially the side notes on how the local Somali community is terrified of her) is first rate, and shows how corrupt and useless the DemOp Media is.
We can start a club! The Mirengoff He-Man Haters club. We can get t-shirts and everything.
I think I read in one of the posts that we was the college roommate of one of the other bloggers there. So he is a legacy.
We should rank the worst comments sections:
Breitbart
Zero Hedge
Washington Post
Salon
The Hill
Daily Caller
Instapundit
HuffPost
The Jalopnik we all came to know and hate
Parents can’t be present for their children, young people can’t pursue their career goals, without literally working for themselves for less money and no benefits. Why? Because it is understood bosses are nearly always assholes, expecting full-time dedication even from part-time wage workers.
A student needs a side hustle because college, both public and private, costs tens of thousands of dollars a year, lunging entire generations into insurmountable debt.
And even if you do manage to get an expensive advanced degree and work for yourself, as Plaintiff Olson does, you need to drive for Uber to make extra money to care for your sick husband because of our obscene, morally repugnant health care system.
Should you live long enough to retire, you’re still not retired, because a retiree needs to work for an app “for social interaction.” In other words, old people living in detached single-family homes often in isolating suburbs that deprive them of regular encounters with other humans, whose children and grandchildren are too busy working themselves to death to spend any time with them, are so damn lonely they drive cabs just to talk to other people.
This is not an argument for why Uber is good. It is an indictment of our society. It is a composite image of American misery, cradle to grave.
Now tell us what an asshole Trump is.
It is a composite image of American misery
Really those kids have it hard, If only they had jobs in the coal mines like them good old days
Yep. America, the land of unprecedented, unending misery. Also, I was assured that “our obscene, morally repugnant health care system” was fixed back in 2010. Finally, we can never retire because we have to drive for Uber in our twilight years to chase away loneliness? I’m glad I’m not under a web-based publication’s article deadlines. I’m not sure I’m creative or quick-witted enough to stack baseless assertions that high on a tight schedule.
our obscene, morally repugnant health care system.
I agree, not for the same reasons though I’d wager.
WHYCOME NOBUDDY DUN GIBS ME MAH PURFECKT LIFE FOR FREE?
Worse — it’s already well underway in shifting to WHYCUM THE SYSTEM TOOK AWAY MAH PURFEKT LIFE WHICH WOULD BE MINE IF THEY HADNT STOLEN IT?
I started to unpack that steaming pile of stupid, and just gave up.
The first paragraph makes the weird jump from “everybody’s gotta moonlight” to “you boss is an asshole”. If you boss expects you to work around the clock even if you are part-time, exactly when do you moonlight?
lolderp
Uffda. I was just talking with some coworkers this morning about how I used to get extra temp jobs every break I got from school. It was a great way to pick up extra money when i had extra time (and it kept me from drinking all day and getting in trouble). Those were the jobs I had in addition to a regular job I worked during school.
The sucky thing about it was that using a temp agency was hit or miss. Sometimes you got good gigs, other times you got shit ones.
I would have loved to be able to do a gig job like Uber where I was in complete control and knew what I was getting into.
Just having to work at school is oppression.
Is there some special studies program in the university I should be enrolling in? So I can get easy A’s while someone tells me that I’m totes in the right to reject society’s unreal expectations of me?
Even having to show up for classes or turn in assignments or take an assessment at the end of term is oppression. Students should be out activisming.
LOL!
All they need is love.
NOOOOOOO! I was going to vote Dem for president for the first time in my life and now this?!? I’m out!
The fact that she was one of the most sane Democrats to run in 2020 says enough.
Baltimore murder rate 15 times that of NYC.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/12/28/baltimore-braces-worst-murder-rate-century/
I blame gentrification.
You joke but that is absolutely the case in NYC. There are neighborhoods I feel reasonably safe walking around today – at night – that I wouldn’t drive through a couple decades ago at any time of day. And of course everyone huffs “gentrification!” but has no response when you point out that this or that area used to be a violent shithole – and could easily become one again.
And then there’s Dan Snyder….
We got some newspaper in the mail today called “Epoch Times.” Anyone know anything about this paper?
I’ve seen it around. Isn’t it produced by some Falun Gong related org?
I saw them open for Ice Cube in 1991.
Huh. I believe they’re a regular feature of the Chinese Central Organ Donation Facilitation Center.
Yes. And with editorial positions to match.
Ah, so like Shen Yun.
Huh, I hadn’t thought about it but yes I see that it is.
I prefer a serious independent newspaper.
*cracks open Washington Times*
Well, finally got sick of trying to find dealers in this state and applied for a NYS medical marijuana card. Dealers are a bunch of greedy fucks who charge way too much. Oh, wait. That’s New York State. Jesus. What a fucking racket. I gotta say, though, going through Nuggs MD website was a breeze. The “consultation” with the doctor took about 15 seconds, and the paperworl was submitted to the state within twenty minutes. Waiting for the NYS end? I imagine that’s going to take longer.
Yup. Can’t wait until all health care is handled by the state.
Not that you care, and you live in NYS after all, but you can forget about owning firearms with that med card.
Isn’t getting a permit to own a firearm almost impossible anyway?
Shotguns and rifles don’t require a permit. They do require a 4473.
Yup. My cousin has one of the FL pre-approved health conditions for Med-Pot, but he would have to surrender his CCW. Great system. Surrender your rights for healthcare.
Definitely not designed to ensure people don’t seek help
I wonder if there have been any court challenges of that? Oh, I guess we would first have to say that bearing arms is a Constitutional right, and not a privilege granted by the State.
I thought about that. I had to sell my guns when I moved out of Texas, anyways. Next weapon is going to be black market, anyways.
A black market is essential to the health of any economy. Sometimes it’s the only thing holding it up.
This is why I have no problem with under-the-table employment and contraband.
My only problem is … how does a middle-aged suburban white woman find contraband when she needs it?
Coffee circle?
Take a trip to Nicaragua?
Only somewhat tangentially, have you seen Saving Grace?
It has many fine moments, including middle-aged country wife (Britain) having to seek out a buyer for large quantities of very good pot. There’s at least two romances going on, too.
Unless Orphan Black was lying to me, PTAs and HOAs.
LOL.
Also, loved that show.
Good luck.
And what Q said about guns. Forget about them until the Feds change their tune on marijuana prohibition.
Thot Thursday has tits-a-poppin’.
http://archive.is/BQEOs
This is the first I’ve seen of “hyper-white”.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/victimhood-culture-leads-to-anti-semitism/
Wouldn’t that be albino?
That’s guys named Tadd
Good stuff. Things that need to be said.
Victimhood culture can justify all kinds of atrocities. There’s nothing more dangerous than a mob that feels sorry for itself.
At the doc with XX with a terrible sore throat, cough, body aches, and fever, day #5. Should’ve brought her 3 days ago but I thought it was just a cold. Didn’t realize she was running a fever through the Tylenol (as opposed to “haven’t taken Tylenol yet”). Bad Mom! Bad!
They think flu (we’re waiting for the swab to come back), but it seems like bronchitis or Strep to me. Has the flu changed that much in the over 10 years since I’ve had it? Where’s the nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea?
In the bathroom if you’re lucky.
Have you checked Sugarfree’s posts?
Sorry bout that
Sorry.
Flu B.
Re the below mention of Tamiflu.
So my kid is way past the window for Tamiflu. It should run its course by Saturday.
Tamiflu is NOT a panacea and it is NOT going to keep anybody from dying. It just makes the symptoms go away more quickly. It is true I should’ve brought my kid sooner, but she survived without Tamiflu.
It is also not suitable for toddlers and younger. I found that out the bad way.
Hope she gets better soon! Also, interesting coincidence that my post below is flu related.
Tylenol does very little good for a fever.
She has an ulcer and/or epigastritis. She can’t take aspirin. Also, Tylenol is what they tell you to give little kids and I don’t care that she’s taller than I am, she’s still my little kid. /Mom Mode
It is what they give to little kids. That doesn’t mean it works.
I was poking fun at myself for still thinking of my 16.5yo as my little kid.
However, she can’t have aspirin or ibuprofen.
Yeah, I got switched to that regimen about 7 years ago. I miss ibuprofen.
I too have a peptic ulcer and can’t take aspirin or ibuprofen. Me, I miss the aspirin.
Ibuprofen causes me angioedema.
?
Damn, that hurts too. When I was pregnant, my legs swelled almost to exploding like that henchman in Big Trouble in Little China.
In the summer, one of my feet still swells like that if there’s a storm rolling in.
That damn capitalism, saving lives again! This guy might have to cut back on his daily starbucks, or not go out to eat as often, or go longer before buying the next iphone.
Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
Jan 1
5 yo woke up with a fever. CVS Minute Clinic says she has flu, prescribes tamaflu.
It’s the New Year so the new deductible kicks in. Pharmacy wants $198 for the tamaflu. If we didn’t have it, like millions don’t, she’d go without it, putting her life at risk. Barbaric.
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1212415904878907398?s=20
Really some people’s inability to pay for minor emergencies justifies nationalizing healthcare
How much is the high price of the Tamiflu and the high deductible due to government interference?
Also he did exactly zero shopping around. How hard is it to tell CVS to “Hold on, let me call a few other places and see if I can find it cheaper” before checking out?
The grocery store near my house has 10 generic capsules of 75mg for $27.29. With all the useless phone apps out there, seems like most everyone should have GoodRx or an equivalent.
And if you don’t have $30 for your kids flu medication, than you’re on borrowed time regardless. Being alive is expensive, keeping a kid alive is doubly so.
Pharmacy wants $198 for the tamaflu. If we didn’t have it, like millions don’t,
As I consistently point out, and have for years, people who tell us they are completely unable to come up with a few hundred bucks for healthcare can always find a few hundred bucks to get their car fixed.
I’ve had doctor’s ask me if I want to set up payments for $50 charges. I find it unfathomable that Someone can’t afford $50. I mean I can fathom not having money at the time, but the people bitching about it can fish out for full phone plan and Netflix.
I’m starting PT this month. They were very concerned that I had a high deductible plan.
“Do you know you have a high deductible plan?”
Well yeah, I chose it.
Cost-benefit analysis: Long-term, your car is more valuable to you than the cost of living through the flu.
Even so, mechanic’s liens exist for a reason.
I don’t know of any mechanic who would let you drive off the lot without paying for repairs (that doesn’t mean they don’t exist!), and then they will charge you $30/day for storage.
For me, new car payments strike me as far and away the number most useless expense in the average American budget. Now, to be fair, people have been stampeded into car dealerships by various actors (governments, advertising agencies, even lawyers to an extent), but at some point folks need to look out for themselves. Used cars ought to be cheaper (but we brilliantly decided to destroy a massive chunk of them in cash for clunkers), but they’re still a much better value than new.
Also, what do you want to bet if you told the pharmacy you didn’t have the $198, there would be some discount or govt program that would kick in to make sure the kid got treated?
I’m convinced that cash health care is our likely long term future for quality care. The market will open somewhere if it closes here.
Bullshit.
If only they hadn’t had to pay into SS, they could have afforded the meds. Taking money to pay for old peoples retirement. That’s barbaric
Or, you know, probably thousands of dollars in taxes to pay for other people’s health care.
My insurance sucks, primarily because I’m subsidising everybody else. On average, the insurance company collects about $30k a year for my family and pays out less than $2k.
And?
$200 is far cheaper than a trip to the emergency room because you didn’t treat it quickly.
And the hospital will track you down and work you over with a rubber hose if you don’t pay. Err, so I’m told.
I elected to pay extra for this service… from the busty nurse.
“you must be the head nurse…”
Also, first world problems…
$198 is outrageously expensive for a drug. I do not hesitate to refuse paying for a prescription medicine if I believe I’m charged a high price. I don’t know the price of a prescription before I pick it up, that’s the first time to decide if I’m buying it.
Maybe he should shop around for a generic.
I’m pretty cynical about farmers and their historical govt teat sucking ways, but I think that if the govt starts a trade war and prevents you from selling your goods at a price that your customers will pay, then that govt should compensate you for the short term losses.
The report I’d love to see is one that shows how many farmers double dipped on the payouts. Payout 1: the weather fucked me over this year and all my crops died so pay me! Payout 2: I couldn’t sell the the ChiComs, so you need to pay me! If those payouts were being handled by evil profiteers, I bet they would followup with a “If all your crops died, exactly what did you expect to sell to the ChiComs?”
I think that if the govt starts a trade war and prevents you from selling your goods at a price that your customers will pay, then that govt should compensate you for the short term losses
Would the same principle apply to sales and excise taxes? Because that would be interesting.
What about when the government artificially jacks up the cost of new homes? I should be building 10 houses a year but I can only find 3 clients willing to pay the price, the government owes me 7 houses worth of profit. Wait, I kinda like this, lets do this!
*Tries to think how coders can get in on this*
Obviously the government has been pushing more people to learn to code and thus artificially bringing down the demand by increasing supply so you should be guaranteed some bare minimum just for being a coder. Say *doodles out some random figures pretends to do computations* half a mil?
I had a shockingly productive day – in the zone for about 7 hours and replaced hundreds of lines of some crap some asshole wrote a decade ago with about 150-line Ansible playbook, that’s far more robust.
This was a surprisingly good day.
Now, I’m going to fire up the grill and pretend it’s not in the 30’s.
Bless you. Every playbook I write is way less robust than some Bash scripts I could write.
Hard to do idempotency in bash.
I know it, I just can’t get my sensible stuff to work.
“US officials announce BAN on flavored e-cigarette cartridges in an effort to combat the youth vaping epidemic”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7846203/US-unveils-partial-ban-flavored-e-cigarettes.html
Stupid, just stupid.
“‘The United States has never seen an epidemic of substance use arise as quickly as our current epidemic of youth use of e-cigarettes,’ Health Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement.
Azar said prioritizing flavors most widely used by children would ensure e-cigarettes were a potential ‘off-ramp’ for adult smokers but not an ‘on-ramp’ to nicotine addiction for youngsters.
‘We will not stand idly by as this crisis among America’s youth grows and evolves, and we will continue monitoring the situation and take further actions as necessary,’ he added.”
He can roll that statement into a tube and shove it up his ass.
“Trump Just Avoided Making a Huge Mistake on Vaping
Just a few months ago, the current administration announced a plan to do something very stupid. In a panic over the rise of teen vaping and a then-mysterious “vaping disease” that now appears to be caused by contaminated black-market marijuana products, it announced it would ban virtually all flavored nicotine vaping products.
Those products taste better than tobacco and appeal to young vapers. But they also appeal to adult smokers trying to quit. So the proposal threatened personal freedom, had nothing to do with the true cause of the mysterious disease, and might have harmed public health more than it helped. Vaping is far safer than smoking, so it is worth it to trade some increase in the former for a decrease in the latter.
Cooler heads prevailed, though, and now the administration has announced a much more sensible policy, set to go into effect in 30 days. Those of us who highly value personal and economic freedom won’t like it, exactly. But it mostly preserves adults’ options while making it slightly tougher for minors to vape, which isn’t the end of the world.
A key distinction the rule makes is between “cartridge” systems, such as Juul, and “open tank” systems. The former can no longer offer flavors besides tobacco and menthol, but the latter can. In practical terms: If you’d like to keep vaping strawberry or mango, you can throw out your Juul, buy some flavored nicotine liquid from a vape shop, drip it into a different vaping device that comes with a refillable tank, and carry on.”
No, it’s still stupid.
“Oh, and one other thing: This is all just a stopgap measure until the next phase of the vaping war. Trump has promised that the new rule is temporary — and come May 12, the FDA will still be cracking down on any product for which the manufacturer has not submitted an application for FDA approval.”
Which is pretty much all of them.
I can’t wait to switch back to smoking. ?
Looks like I’ll be contacting my representative and senators tomorrow.
Huh, I just bought a couple kid-flavored pods today – for the hell of it. (I usually only vape the tobacco-flavored stuff.) I guess I was just in time before the children of the earth are saved by this important
lawedict.We also lost Marianne Williamson. She laid off her entire staff on Tuesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-white-house-hopeful-williamson-lets-go-of-entire-campaign-staff
“She laid her entire staff on Tuesday.”
She has no energy left to campaign.
She needs to realign her chakras, or something.
I’d hit it.
“The Sami are the only indigenous people in the EU”
https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1209155388144340993
So?
Also, the Basque might like a word.
Also also, the research on “who got there first” is not nearly in, as far as I have heard.
Oikophobia.
“Also, the Basque might like a word.”
I mean… Ok, but really at that point you might as well say no one is indigenous to Europe. They all came from Africa.
Wikipedia seems to agree:
But yeah, as long as the BBC wants to give out sympathy points they could at least be accurate.
Sorry the point I did a bad job making it’s that the info Europeans have been in Europe for about 5000 years. Why they aren’t considered indigenous is a fluke of timeing. Otherwise we’d not know that they weren’t indigenous to Europe.
So yes the Basque are indigenous but so are the English, Germans, Italians….
? Indigenous means “original”. It’s literally a contest to determine who got there first.
PS. I’m assuming the Basques were more widespread before the later arrivals pushed them into their current region. Kinda like the Celts got pushed to the edges of Europe by the Romans and Germanic tribes.
Sure, but the Basque most likely moved in and pushed some other people out too. My point being we only know that the Indo-Europeans “pushed” out the others (debatable because it could have been integration and language spread” because the time that it occurred (~5000 years ago) was right around when language was solidifying into writing. The idea of saying Irish are not indigenous to Ireland is silly. It assumes that “colonial” expansion and the fall of cultures and languages only started when we started writing about it.
Right but IIRC the theory is that nobody was there for the Basque to push out. Hence “indigenous”.
But I’ll do more research before I bloviate any more on this topic 🙂
I think the celts can make a good case too
Wish I knew more. It’s a fascinating topic.
If you are truly interested in the spread and migration of prehistoric peoples, I highly recommend “the Horse, the Wheel, and Language”
Wonderful book. Lots of good research regarding the origins of the Indo-Europeans and the exchange of pottery methods and other fascinating cultural elbow rubbing.
The “language” part peaks my interest. There’s a lot to learn about history there.
Wish-listed. Thanks
You will NOT be disappointed
I’ll push again for 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. It takes a Mediterranean Basin perspective but speaks to what is and isn’t known about the peoples inland. There were fairly robust trade routes as far as the Baltic and beyond.
It’s well written and extremely well resourced.
Duly noted!! Thanks
I’ll second, it’s a really good book, to get an understanding of the issues with identifying the origins of Indo-European.
“indigenous” = “noble savage” now I guess.
Sounds like they had a good run then. Time for them to go.
https://twitter.com/McNeilJaden/status/1212519117527355393
Cuteservative?
Would.
OK, but consider using a fake name.
https://www.instagram.com/realalexclark/
https://twitter.com/yoalexrapz
And people wonder why I hate everybody.
Bad case of crazy eyes.
“Samsung and LG go head to head with AI-powered fridges that recognize food
Get ready for a smart fridge showdown at CES 2020, because Samsung and LG will both be unveiling fridges with added artificial intelligence capabilities this year. Samsung’s latest edition of its Family Hub refrigerator and LG’s second-generation InstaView ThinQ fridge both tout AI-equipped cameras that can identify food. The idea is that the cameras can scan what’s inside and let users know what items they’re short on, even making meal suggestions based on the ingredients they still have.”
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/2/21046822/samsung-lg-smart-fridge-family-hub-instaview-thinq-ai-ces-2020
My refrigerator is as dumb as a box of rocks and should last me many years. All it does is keep food cold and frozen. And it gives me ice and ice water.
Hard pass. Every subsequent generation of appliances sucks harder than the last.
I prefer my dumb fridge, thank you very much.
Fridge: Yeah, hi, I’d like to talk to my owner’s account rep.
Account Rep: Hi, Fridge Mojo. What do you have to report this month?
Fridge: I’m full of beef, mayo, cheese, ham, sour cream, bacon, butter, turkey, sausage, and eggs. There is one head of lettuce and half a roma tomato.
Account Rep: Uh huh. Uh huh. Can you see what’s in the cabinets? Bread box?
Fridge: No, sorry.
Account Rep: Okay, Fridge Mojo. Thank you. We’ll note this in their account. [… ] Looks like the Mojo Family needs their premiums raised by half again.
Account Rep CubeMate: Fuck low-carbers, man. No wonder we’ve got climate change. Better call Greta.
Account Rep: On it.
Plus it screams “feed me broccoli and kale!” at you until you pull the plug.
That’s when you have to switch back to a wooden ice box and fetch ice every day.
Worth it not to be nagged by the appliances.
It is, after all, the question of who is to be in charge — we or the plumbing.
https://twitter.com/OO7SIS/status/1211981393204514816
I have several questions.
I think the croc had just gotten laid.
What croc?
Thicc
I have a couple questions of my own.
I have no questions.
She can jostle my gator anytime.
Blinks. Rubs eyes and re-reads.
Yup, he wrote “jostle my gator”
I think “jostle my gator” has just been added to:
Choke the chicken
Polish the bishop
Wax the dolphin
Spank the monkey
Punch the clown
Boxing the clown
Cuffing the carrot
Flogging the bishop
The judges accept it.