The Veto Party.
This past year I finally hit the age requirement for running for President of these here “United” States. Now, I could try running as a Libertarian. But, I have a different idea. I actually came up with this idea many years ago, back in high school when I identified as a conservative Republican (I’d argue I was always libertarian, I just didn’t know how to label myself quite yet). Yes, this year I am running for President in affiliation with my self-created party, the Veto Party.
The Veto Party’s philosophy is simple. All bills that make it to my desk as President will be vetoed regardless of their content. It does not matter if I hate the bill, if I agree with the bill, the popularity of the bill, or the importance of the bill. It will be vetoed. If it is important enough that it needs pass, Congress can do so with two-thirds of its members. Yes, I know many awful bills will still pass, but if I can slow the onslaught even one iota, I think that would be best.
Now, an idea I have toyed with, is signing all bills that make the government smaller or increase liberty. I, however, have my doubts about even making this exception. It takes away from the simplicity of the party and the entire philosophy. It occurs to me that if I make this one exception, that it could lead to a slippery slope of other exceptions in the future. Please feel free to argue the pros and cons of this in the comments, I might even read them, but I reserve the right to veto any suggestion.
TL;DR
Veto Party Platform: Veto Everything.
Presidential Candidate: BangingLC1
“As unstable as I am, I’m still better than the alternatives!” – BLC1
I like it.
I also agree with your reservations about making any exceptions. KISS.
PS. You will never, ever receive a bill to make the government smaller or increase liberty, so there’s that I guess.
Seconded on both counts. Veto party is cool; exceptions are worthless.
Oh, here it is.
I knew you’d find it.
That’s what my parents said about my penis.
Were they right?
Sorry for the delay answering, I was in my bunk. What was the question again?
Count me in.
Write in BangingLC1!
I haven’t been this excited about a political party since the Meadow Party back in ’88.
You’ve got my vote.
Currently sitting at the Bar at the Peppermill in Reno drinking a Smokey old fashioned.
Dammit.
I am trying to close out February as light as possible, or I’d be working on perfecting my Old Fashioned variant.
Instead I’m drinking Few rye. I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in two weeks, so I’m trying to ethanolicaly induce a coma.
As in put in the little smoke chamber glass thingy and smoke flavor infused?
Yep. You get the smoke on the first two sips. Pretty gimmicky but a good cocktail. Vanilla syrup instead of sugar.
Whatcha upta in Reno Spud? I kinda love that town, one of my best friends moved there years ago, I’m actually going this weekend to visit and ski with him for a couple days. If you don’t already know Louis’ Basque Corner you should. Thank me later.
My brother jokingly ran for office on the premise that he’d pass no laws, only repeal laws.
Of course, same brother also toyed with running for state Attorney General on the grounds that he’d put more criminals in jail than the District Attorney. Only problem with that strategy was that he’d been the public defender whilst “putting those criminals behind bars.”
Ooh….that stings a bit. Did he, at least, promise to keep his focus on government criminals.
‘Cause, I might be inclined to move, if that were the case. I’d have to invest a metric shite-tonne in popcorn, but, it’d be epic.
What’s the Veto party’s stance on tranny bathrooms?
Veto?
Correct
Asking for a friend?
Veto.
Nothing like a classic.
Huh. I never noticed before that the elbow stripes have changed.
Also, no matter how bad Alan Alda was, you’ve got to credit the writers of M*A*S*H for recognizing the greatest comedy team of all time.
Phil Harris and Alice Faye?
Wheeler and Woolsey
(Woolsey is the one with the glasses.)
More Wheeler and Woolsey
LOL now the moderators are piling on Bloomberg.
The fix is totally not in.
It is a congressional Black caucus sponsored debate, isn’t it?
Which CBC is worse? Congressional Black Caucus or Canadians Broadcasting Corporation?
The propaganda station from the largest socialist country in the Western Hemisphere (by land area).
Yeah, and the pandering is off the charts.
Third question in a row from the moderators attacking Bloomberg. Wow.
One Word Shouter versus Random Gibberish Generator tonight.
So you’d veto the repeal of oppressive laws?
Yes. And as They says above, that won’t happen, so it will have no effect.
Sorry, that was for UCS above
Political party platforms make my mind foggy.
Plus I’m doing dishes, so there’s a good chance I skimmed the content.
Phil mickelson is a multimillionaire who genuinely seems to have a great time golfing, win or lose.
What a life!
He’d have a better time if he were golfing right-handed.
Throws left-handed putter at Ted¬s°
I wonder if I had Played golf as a youth if I would have been good. I went with my wife’s uncle last year, never having swung a golf club Before and was out driving him and his friends. I got an eagle on the third hole. Imagine if I had lessons. Oh well, such as life.
I’ve confirmed that I am in fact a shitty golfer.
Hell, I’ve been playing disc golf far longer than Yusef and he already easily outscores me. Guess I’m shitty at that too. Of course, it helps if one actually cares about improving. I’m just there for the fresh air and exercise.
That was probably why I did well. I was just having fun and these guys are “serious golfers”. Probably doesn’t hurt that I’m 20 years younger too. ?
I think I’m fifteen to twenty years younger than Bob so I have no excuses.
Ha!
You know what they say about Phil and his wife?
With his wife, the boobs are fake but the smile is real, and it’s the opposite with Phil.
Harsh.
The old joke: why is Mickelson different than his wife? The smile is phony and the tits are real.
I put the DNC debates for less than 5 minutes.
I had to switch back to Tucker. My gf was getting…mmm…a bit too upset. Yelling at the tv and such.
?
Put a ring on it.
*ahem*
I don’t need the state or church to sanction our love.
We’ve exchanged weaponry and have a mortgage together. In Glibertopia, we’re already wed.
?
K, but buy her a ring anyway.
I had a garter made for my favorite tango partner. Putting it on her was fun.
Not exactly a spoof-title like those from last night, but it works.
No need to marry, unless you get tax benefits.
No tax benefits. Though I reserve the right to get married when we retire and have nothing else to do.
You all are invited if that happens.
We’ll register at sgammo and Trijicon.
Excellent.
If I find out you got married without announcing it here I will be quite peeved.
Obligatory:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vXpsT3e8UsM
Just put in on myself. It’s fun.
What—put on the ring or the DNC debates??
He means a cock ring. Don’t encourage him by giving him attention.
He meant a garter. Probably a fashion trend, over there.
Fashionable when used as a cock ring.
Wow….this is, like 75-80% more cock ring mentions than normal.
I am in favor of cod rings.
Based on the pic, I can’t imagine why…
…and retroactively sunset all current laws? The new proposals are bad enough but the old ones have got us in the trouble we’re having now.
Veto and Retroactive Sunset Party and I’d even start voting again.
Tom Steyer is going for the non Socialist, pro social/racial/environmental justice vote. I hope that one voter chooses him.
How that shithead managed to accumulate so much money with such a tenuous grasp on reality is beyond me. At least with Bloomberg you can see a spark of intelligence and drive.
Yes; much like MCP, or, the Matrix.
Wasn’t part of it hedge funds (operated by others, I’m sure) and a giant coal mine in southeast asia somewhere?
My favorite part of his ‘policy ideas’ is how he made tons of money off the things he wants to kill for others. My, how convenient, Tom.
Sorry, I’m voting for Almanian.
I am too
why is SMOD not an option?
Truly sad part is that Alamanian is probably going to cast a vote for which his corporeal form would never have supported.
I miss him.
To clarify, I’m talking about voter fraud.
“ probably going to cast a vote”
I know what you meant.
I miss Almanian too. RIP.
*pours out box of ballots on ground for Almanian!*
Kmele 2020.
This guy gets it.
Fortunately (or, unfortunately), the “Yeah–good ‘n’ hard” joke doesn’t really fit in that scenario.
Bloomberg: “All the democrats that came in in 2018, I bought…uh, got them in.”
“150 billion people have been killed since Bernie 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt gun manufacturers from liability.”
That is verbatim.
/Biden
To clarify:
Do you mean “verbatim” as in “a transcript made by a disinterested English speaker would document this” or “verbatim” as in “literally?”
Totally.
Which Biden is that? Three one running for Senate?
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-the-blockades-are-a-clash-over-socialism-not-indigenous-rights-and-climate-change
Turdeau Jr is pushing through the Leap manifesto beloved by Naomi Klein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_Manifesto
Great. Let them freeze to death in Canada with their “clean energy.”
Wait, what’s that you say, most of these actors and musicians have homes in sunny California? Huh, who’da thunk it. The impact on them will be minimal.
Fucking commies, the lot of them.
They’d just as soon have the plebs live in squalor in the Stone Age. Of course, they don’t think they’ll be impacted by it, which is another reason the majority of these commie celebs are dumb as a box of rocks.
I wonder if tar sands rich Alberta would simply secede and ask to become a U.S. state?
So, about 20 brain cells – combined.
Alright, I’m taking a little heat for a glib Facebook post.
A lady had posted a photo of hideous fake fingernails that would absolutely proclaim “I don’t do anything useful” on a neighborhood based site.
Her question: “ Best nail place for thin square nails?”
My reply: “The furthest corner of the known universe. Preferably with no human attached.”
Apparently the local spoiled trash of Escondido don’t like that answer.
My you know how to make friends
Aye, I know how to filter them.
A vital part of the process. Coming out to Dugway anytime soon?
Maybe in March. I’ll hit you up if so.
Are you Tooele county, Leon? My wife’s brother and his family are in Erda.
I am. Erda is a nice little town, and is nicely situated near the amenities of Tooele, but still get the rural vibe.
Yep. It helps that he’s a VP at an engineering firm in SLC and can afford to live there.
I have a buddy from Tooele. He didn’t like it when I joked about him glowing in the dark.
I actually really like that area, though.
Tooley? Toil??
Too-ill-uh.
Again I recommend Wikipedia article “Dugway Sheep Incident”
I have no doubt that Dugway/Tooele/skull Valley have physically harmed me permanently.
Ah, of course. ?
2 Ella.
Re: Glowing. Haha. Yeah some people are touchy about it.
Yeah… Don’t kick up the dirt at Dugway.
I’m sure of it too. He takes a few minutes to take a joke. Heck of a good guy, though.
Rhyming, welcome to the world of Utah names.
Another gem is Mantua. Any guesses on how to say that one?
Gah, damn autocorrect. Rhywun, not rhyming.
Man-TOO-uh? Probably not, too obvious.
That would be too on the nose. It’s “Manna-way”.
Now you know.
Cat fight. Keep it light no matter how much they freak out.
She replied “OK…” and I replied “to each his/her own. I hope you get great service from the salon you choose.”
Switching off Glibmode for the normies is a bitch, ain’t it?
Huh. I have the opposite problem — keeping the “real world” out of here.
Yeah, I really should take some psychology classes and learn to deal.
Or the Normies can just lump it.
I solved this conundrum by dropping all other social media (are we social media…?).
Anti-social backwater, thank you very much.
*flips Rhy the bird*
I think we are sorta social media— we are a community with sufficient distance that we feel safe to share.
But we aren’t social media in a self serving and signaling way.
We want what happens in Glibs to stay in Glibs, not go viral.
That’s a good way to put it.
CAn you imagine the damage the Glib Virus would do?
‘CAn you imagine the damage the Glib Virus would do?’
Well we have already infected the Babylon Bee, so…
Maybe a bit of both? It sometimes hits me throughout the course of the day that I’m probably pissing some people off. And it pains me to say, I usually don’t care. I’ll address the fact that I might be coming off as a dick and apologize if I’ve upset them, but I’m also usually thinking to myself that if they weren’t being so vapid or generally nonchalant about work or their surroundings, I wouldn’t be so irritated.
People piss me off, a lot. But goddamn, being annoyed all the time is exhausting and ultimately unproductive. That’s what I tell myself, it still hasn’t taken root.
I’m a bit of an introvert so I rarely piss anyone off, mostly by just not talking to them.
I lean introverted myself. But I think the way I look and my demeanor along with being relatively quiet comes off as hostility. I also tend not to smile much in public. I think that puts a lot of people on egg shells with me and they’ll take things I say as being more negative than I intend them to be. It’s on me to do my best to clarify.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People But I disagree with that name-repetition advice.
Well, XX TD said something in class today that got her dirty glares and she’s upset about it. Topic: “Is stoned driving better or worse than drunk driving?” or something like that. I don’t know how it was worded. So she says, “It’s not as bad as drunk driving because I looked up the research.”
So she approached me with it. “So, Mom, is stoned driving worse than drunk driving?” Me: “Equally bad. That’s why we can’t have nice things.”
Then she started to cry, and it finally came out that the people giving her dirty looks are tight and are always trying to gate-keep Those Who Do Not RightThink. She’s not upset about being “wrong,” per se, but upset about being essentially fenced in as to what she can say without getting a bunch of people down her throat.
Me: Look, it’s all bad. When you’re driving a 3,000-pound death machine, it really doesn’t matter HOW you’re impaired, just THAT you’re impaired. Drunk, stoned, tired, texting, GI bleed that makes you dizzy and you’re stumbling all over the place. The stats don’t care.
I reminded her that my cousin’s husband is a paraplegic because he went out on an icy morning when he hadn’t slept all night. No drugs. Just tired.
Anyway, all that is to say that generally, she is part of the out group because she does not RightThink.
I’d rather be the stoner’s passenger, not that either of you asked.
I’m just sad I have to tell her to watch her mouth lest she end up all over the internet and her life in ruins.
Hop on in! Hope you’re not in a hurry.
/never had a speeding ticket.
I would vote for but you’d be impeached and removed before your first term.
Tom Steyer – the only person on this stage who supports reparations.
He’s ornery tonight. About what? I dunno.
Last chance to play with the big kids? Just learned that Bloomberg increased life expectancy by THREE YEARS during his time as mayor.
Heard that. Can’t possibly be true, can it?
Makes sense – live longer and keep our rent-controlled apartment for the next generation. Loved Bernie’s proposal to create black, Latino, and native American businesses to sell marijuana.
Complete fucking horseshit.
Buttjudge came out for them a few weeks ago.
In 2016, i did surgery on the sticker, changing it to “I vetod”. Not exactly the right spelling, but close enough.
A few people at work noticed.
Noice
Bloomberg praising Trump’s policies towards the military.
Holy crap – Biden saved “millions of lives” on Ebola b/c it didn’t get here.
The cure for corona virus is out there in the head of some child and Klobochar is going to fucking get it out of him.
Biden just burned a trans-fatty cell…
He’s ornery too. Imma stay off his lawn.
Uh-oh, Bernie’s going after Obama’s Cuba comments. Don’t make Biden call Jay-Z and Bey on this.
Finally, they’re piling on Sanders, a bit. Well, Biden is.
Pocahontas is suspiciously quiet during all this.
Thank God.
She’s eyeing a cabinet post.
Which one is in charge of beads, trade blankets, and firewater?
BIA
Putin is pouring extra vodka shots with his comrades as they watch the US implode.
Lots of Cossack dancing tonight.
It’s utterly bonkers, and the MSM are complicit in it.
I feel their anger rising. *Leans back in chair*
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/venezuela-seat-on-un-human-rights-council.amp
The constant gotcha approach to debates has become tiresome. I feel like we turned our politicians in to 14 year olds trying to get the perfect burn on Twitter.
I’d prefer a simple Jane you ignorant slut.
Bob Dole’s golden opportunity gone to waste.
This is what it feels like but by better actors.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK0ZiJh3LFM
We have to… we must … we’ve got to…
Pocahontas starts every answer this way. She sounds like a psycho.
On day one…the first thing…build a coalition…I’m the only one…it starts with…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4oF6FVHqJuE
Commercial break. Shout out to RH, Rhy and Timeloose. What kind of libertarian board is this where only a few of us are providing commentary on the debate?
Hey now.
I’ll listen to the Lions of Liberty wrap up of it.
I like to see the debate before I get it filtered down to me even if the filter is someone I like.
Why should I watch them bicker when they’ve already made their intent clear, and any lowlights will be plastered all over the ‘news; sites for days?
Hot takes? They are quoting the bible now. Doesn’t get any better.
You expect us to watch this shit? I’ll just sit back and enjoy the snark – they could be a little more productive with it though.
I’m not watching shit. I’m commenting on why I don’t want to watch them.
No one is watching. This is America.
We’re free riding on your labor. Sounds libertarian to me
I’ve been watching the Bruins game. Plus, I’m 35k feet above ground. A couple of minutes of the debate that I happened to watch during an intermission were disgusting enough.
I caught maybe a grand total of five minutes. Thing is, every time you flip over, what they are saying is so outrageous it’s impossible not to comment on it.
I come here for the commentary, not to have to watch hot garbage myself.
I’m already pissy. Watching it in real time would just cause me to lose sleep. My thirst for cringey schadenfreude has been pretty low recently. As others have expressed, just knowing the fact that roughly half the voters will pull the lever for any of them is kinda depressing. The (R)s are the (R)s, and my confidence in there being a political reset to some sense of sanity in the long term is middling at best.
/Debbie Downer
I have better things to do than watch a bunch of overgrown children try to score points against each other.
Sorry. I was working.
I declare Klobochar the winner. (Trump technically, but…) She kept pressing the point that “We need someone who does X”. She almost never says what she’ll do, but what this mythical person will do. Interesting strategy.
Today was last day to vote early for Super Tuesday in TN. We don’t have an LP primary.
I voted against all the crazier Democratic candidates by voting for Amy. I don’t think she’ll will win or even show, but I was frustrated that there’s nothing this cycle I want to vote for. I voted against Bernie and CornPop. I registered dissent and little more.
And I voted for court clerk. There were a dozen in the primary; one had lots of experience in the department, in accounting, and had worked for prestigious firms.
I got a sticker.
I went back to work.
There can’t be anyone worth voting for on Team Blue’s stage. They’ve either directly or indirectly accepted intersectionalism. If the core is rotten, doesn’t matter what the rest of the apple looks like.
I am voting for Tulsi on saturday, but they wont invite her to the debates, so why watch?
“I am voting for Tulsi on saturday, but they wont invite her to the debates, so why watch?”
I think that I understand your point of view, robc.
I need to come up with rules for revenants, but I’m also getting pretty tired.
Maybe I’ll come up with something after some sleep.
“I need to come up with rules for revenants, but I’m also getting pretty tired.”
Many of us are more wearied than others. Nonetheless I present these two (perchance) pertinent links:
Revenant “…one that returns after death or a long absence.”
“Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.” <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54316-sleep-those-little-slices-of-death-how-i-loathe"
Netflix just served me up “Untamed Romania”
Yeah, I clicked it.
Ok, the trailer/ intro has me in tears already. Time to pause and make a drink.
Beautiful. Someone tell Pie.
So glad I got the 65 inch 4K tv. I had no idea what a difference it would make.
We just got a 55 inch TV. It’s just too big, but you probably have more distance from the TV to the couch at your place. We’ve got about 5 feet.
That hurt my eyeballs just reading that.
I watch one show a week, Walking Dead. The wife and daughter dominate the TV. Muh balls are fine.
My couch is so far from the TV set, the 3D thing with glasses no longer works. Yep, we have a large plasma TV bought in 2011, when 3D was a thing and there was no 4K.
For sure distance is a part of it.
That is why the Guggenheim museum is a shot display area for paintings.
Guggenheim building itself is a marvel and an art work . But the spiraling stairs means the viewer of a painting can’t pause and reflect at 2 feet, 10 feet, 15 feet away and reflect on a particular work.
Instead you can only back up maybe 4 feet and there is constant traffic pressing you onward, like cattle in a chute.
No me gusta.
“Shit display”
Yeah, once was enough.
“Have you tried the Guggenheim?” (@ 1:27)
oops, URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R4JM5c5TSS8
I got the big tv mainly because hubby’s vision is turning to shit.
I’m functional enough to be gobsmacked by the clarity and definition.
You take your husband into account when making household decisions? Our house is the Galapagos of houses. I adapt or perish.
Wow. Justice Department: 45% of Blacks at Harvard Admitted Through Illegal Race Preferences
“Race discrimination hurts people and is never benign,” said Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband “Unconstitutionally partitioning Americans into racial and ethnic blocs harms all involved by fostering stereotypes, bitterness, and division among the American people.”
Who hired this guy?
President Trump.
Sucks to be part of that 55%. But they have to shoulder the burden of the 45% because of justice.
Hoo-boy, bless their hearts.
Racial quotas are disgusting, but not as disgusting as the law interfering with private enterprises making their own decisions about how they operate. Harvard shouldn’t have to bake the cake either.
^
It’s not like it’s exactly a state run institution either.
If they were truly “private”, sure. No college in the US is.
That argument gives the Feds a back door into everything. I understand it, and it makes sense, but unless we first chop the Government back so it isn’t spending money in every field I can’t go along with it.
The govt already came in the back door, is sitting on the couch and eating your Cheetoh’s.
What, too much cock ring talk?
Hype is right. Y’all remove parts of quotes to fit your narrative. Shame!
What–am I supposed to start putting words in your…
Never mind.
Didn’t the law get a front door with the “public accommodations” bullshit? It’s not just getting rid of money; gotta get rid of laws that destroy freedom of association.
First, start arguing that the danger of racism is overrated. You might find cutting government spending and power trivial after that.
Good grief, There’s no bigger advocate of “government tit” and socialism than Harvard.
I agree, as long as we as a society stop worrying too much about racism.
That was sarcasm. That won’t happen in the near future and your position is equivalent to endorsing racism against some races and in favor of others.
No my position is that it is not the Government’s place to get involved. The reality is that the Government has spent much more time shoving the quotas down peoples throats than it has trying to get rid of the quotas, and as soon as another Democrat is in power it will go back to doing so. I do think that racism is an utterly overblown, and undefined concern, Government overreach on the other hand is the biggest problem we have. Is this the place to draw the line? Maybe not, but I am not setting policy just pointing out that this is the flip side of the bake the cake nonsense.
Equal application of the law, for me. Either everyone can discriminate, or no one can.
So much for intersectionality.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/02/25/former-gop-candidate-joe-walsh-confirms-being-never-trump-means-campaigning-for-bernie-sanders/
Former Tea Partyite will campaign for Sanders. Trump has caused some weird ideological shifts. The “principled conservatives” now support a Commie.
Never apologize.
You can’t fool me. That’s the first successful chimp/human hybrid.
Yep. Who cares.
Y my pipi hard?
https://tribunist.com/technology/do-you-need-a-handheld-minigun-of-course-you-do-video/
The perfect home defense weapon.
Remind me not to move within 5 blocks of you.
Just to remind everyone how far we’ve fallen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgBFiCmYedc
That was before Bush and Trump taught us how we need Democrats to rule us all.
Get what you pay for. ¥1000 haircut. She spins the chair around, gives me my glasses and asks me what I think as she gestures to the mirror. Hair is feathered in a way that would make 70’s Farah Fawcett jealous. Maybe I’ll rock this for a while. Or maybe there should be a law against Japanese people cutting white people’s hair.
Or…maybe you can start up a “Caucasian Cuts” salon?
You could even include a sign on the door: “Darker skin welcome”.
Me likey.
On a somewhat related note: https://www.theblaze.com/news/man-forces-his-way-into-familys-home-in-middle-of-night-but-dad-has-a-gun-and-shoots-intruder-four-times-once-in-the-head
You can just hear the Sheriff’s talking style.
Another feel good story.
For almost everyone!
Took a round in the head and lived? Dammit, physics and biology!
Chafed–I apologize. I thought I was replying to you on 38.
I mean–that is something to crave.
$9.05
OMG
But, that doesn’t include a shampoo & rinse, does it?
DOES IT???
10 minutes/¥1000. ¥100 a minute. They’re everywhere and vacuum your head when done.
But, it’s not a flowbee cut, right?
I remember that. The vacuum doesn’t cut, though. Used to suck all the loose hairs off your cheap, ill-fitting salary man suit.
I am a hair enthusiast; in that, I’m all aboard people trying out new styles. So, I’m rather intrigued at your Farrah feathering.
Don’t hate me because I’m pitiful. *Flips flaxen locks out of face*
HAWT.
And, not just Burning Bed HAWT.
I finally got my ballot (since i register independent I had to obtain a crossover ballot, so I picked Dem). My god what a list of clowns for president on that list. A few are already gone, a few I’ve never heard of so I don’t even know if they’re officially done or not, and then… the main six, or wherever we’re at. Think I’ll vote Tulsi just as a general fuck you to those trying to keep her down, even if I’d never vote for her in the general either. At least she’s got ONE decent policy idea.
And let’s see Prop 13 – WE WANTS MOAR MONEY. Much like banginglc’s VETO, my philosophy of CA Ballot initiatives is basically always NO. Either it’s a bad idea, or (occasionally) a good idea but poorly written.
Can’t vote with your feet?
My husband needs to retire and my kid get to college, then we’ll go. For now, though, nope.
I hear you OTA. I always vote no on the propositions except for the handful, if that, of times it was to lower taxes or repeal a law.
OMG Warren just quoted the Bible on Twitter.
What verse?
My guess is Matthew. Maybe Leviticus.
The comments are funny.
She quoted that in the debate.
So she’s talking about what she personally is going to do to lift people up, not what she is going to order others to do,right?
Did Twitter catch fire?
The passage about the Good Samaritan whipping out his sword and forcing other travelers to feed, clothe and provide medical care to the robbed and beaten traveler?
I’m not sure why all of you are surprised Warren would look up to someone who beat the shit out of moneylenders.
It wasn’t THAT they were lending money. It was WHERE they were lending money.
*checks username*
Oh. HM. k, nm
Jesus saves, but Moses invests.
What does Mohammed do?
Draws interest?
Sticks it into a 9 year
oldCDSo the British Left (am I being redundant?) are just as determined to as stupid as possible.
*Looks at name, looks at picture haz confuse*
You aren’t the only one.
Meanings have words, and they aren’t using them properly.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Yes, please.
Tell me about your childhood.
Lack of breastfeeding? Too much?
Not at all. Go on.
RIP David Roback
https://youtu.be/2FdP0eS47ts
Some very old guy is laying dead on a stretched at the department store. 4 medics milling around him, but it looks like business as usual. Shoppers walking right past the scene and barely taking notice.
Maybe they’re just waiting for the price to go down.
#DayOldBread
#depachikaclosingtime
3割
50円引
すごい!
It’s that famous Japanese compassion.
Polite but not compassionate. Many western countries are the opposite.
Fat Tuesday is in the books, now no meat! Tuna sandwich lunch it is!
Umm….
JESUS SAYS IT’S OK! #CatholicLife
But, tuna IS meat….
Fish ain’t meat! It’s doctrine, and why the filet-o-fish exists.
Huh….well, I’ll be.
Learn you some catechism!
Yeah, if you got time for a video, there is a Today I found Out about the Filet-O-Fish.
TIFO makes a Saturday appearance this week (or, will, once I submit it).
Kudos!
This is why you don’t wash cottons in hot water and dry on high heat.
Well, you do, if you want the subsequent effects on that cotton. I usually don’t.
Also–for me, not a lack of Catechism knowledge, so much as an Oxford/pedant argument. 🙂
/watching the video now, btw.
You can eat beaver during lent too…
https://thefisheriesblog.com/2017/03/01/beavers-are-fish-during-lent/
It’s like you don’t even Friday Night Fish Fry bruh!?
Bruh, I’m in Texas–of course we fry up all that catfish. It’s just usually available all the time.
/well, the spousal unit don’t like catfish, so…
*Sees cornmeal mix, shivers* You monsters!
No offense meant against beer batter, as it’s quite lovely. But, sometimes, you just want…flavor.
SHAME! NSFW, make sure no one can see the screen bud.
You want her beer-battered??
First time I ate catfish was a day or so after arriving at Benning School for Boys in scenic Columbus, GA. The humidity just about knocked me on my ass. In October. For some reason I started gagging and ended up throwing up in the chow hall.
No problems eating it later and frankly, I like it although it’s a bit hard to find around here. Baked, grilled, or fried, I’ll take it.
I like catfish, but I don’t like that gritty cornmeal most of it is served in.
I salute you, my old school catholic friend!
I miss Eddy. That’s pretty sad.
I miss non neurotic Eddy.
Sad that you miss him?? I mean, I do too, so….
/I don’t know how to end that thought.
Somebody quit, so after my second week I might get moved from 2nd to 3rd shift. New times, new people, possible DTs. Doesn’t sound fun. and here I thought I was making good progress so far.
Is it considered busier? Or, is it a matter of, that’s where the gap in the staffing is? Do you happen to get a shift differential?
Yeah, a gap, low man. No mention of a bump. I worked nights when I was younger and liked it, but have found out that now if awake past about 2am my body might just decide it doesn’t want to sleep for 72 hrs. And when do I get to drink?! I can’t be drinking at 6:30 in the morning! That would mean I’m an alcoholic!
I would imagine that you’d be hearing about a differential by now, if it were a thing in the job. That said, unless your body has an underlying issue, it probably won’t take too many > 2AM situations before it adjusts.
Sucks, yes. But, It should figure it out fairly quickly. Treat the AM beer thing like the subversive you are.
no, looking back, my bouts with insomnia were because I hadn’t observed my bodies predilections over a long enough time frame. When I was working overnights I had bouts of insomnia that went to 72 hrs. Being older and having a greater sample size, I’ve figured it out.
I can stay up all night as I have always been able to. I just can’t THINK or WORK all night like I used to be able to.
I have no idea what your job is CPRM. If, as you say, you may get 3rd shift because you are low man on the totem pole then it won’t last long. There’s obviously some churn in the staffing. Soon someone will be below u ou.
Yeah, I was told I might be able to stay second shift because a new hire was expected soon, but that was before we were once again down a person. If someone else volunteers to fill that shift I won’t have to move. I was told I would know by Thursday. Changes all my days off for the next month as well. good thing I’m someone who makes plans.
*NOT someone who makes plans.
Planning to drink is a type of planning.
But that’s the same thing we do every night Brain!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more beautiful documentary than Untamed Romania.
It should get ALL the Oscars. Cinematography blew my mind.
Netflix. Look it up.
I did! Tis also on Prime.
Was Pie the star?
What I was wondering! I’m checking now.
I think his screen name is Nosferatu.
Does he sport a rich, chestnut, or, auburn coat in the Fall?
No bats were harmed in the making of this film.
You are NOT kidding about the cinematography…
I literally cried.
It was a spiritual experience.
Ya big softie!
Men are only allowed to cry when watching Brian’s Song or at a funeral, way to show your female privilege.
I love the line from Thst 70s Show where Redd proclaims “Crying is for babies and Italians!”
I work for Dick Jones!
Man, I wish I could’ve scrubbed the screenplay on that and made a “good” movie into the classic great it should have been.
Side note: I love Peter Welles’s history series.
Um, Robocop is perfection! Heretic! and yes, I would have shit my pants if I took a history class at Dartmouth and THE Peter Weller was the guy that walked into the room. He started teaching about when I entered college I think, but I didn’t go to Dartmouth. And his Engineering An Empire episodes are great.
Peter Weller is an odd looking fellow who actually “grew in to” his looks with age.
Yup. Bitchez be cryin, yo
+1 Up
Now, why haven’t you carried that over to Redbubble?
Because I don’t think business like? Or I do, and thought Gropey Joe would be better, or because I’m drunk all the time, pick one.
Were you limited as to what you could upload?
Oh, right–drunk.
I tried watching a replay of the Democratic debate. I lasted ten minutes. Bloomberg isn’t going to win. No one respects Steyer. Warren wants the VP slot or cabinet post. Biden is dead.
so you felt the Bern?
I’m concerned we all will. He really is a communist. It’s more than a little scary.
But, at least the mask will be off. Communism will be the face of the Democratic party. Only then can we have an open discussion with all the people who denied ObamaCare was meant to lead to single payer. But, sadly it will also move the ‘right’ more left, as the repubs are already lead by a 90s Democrat, and some fucking how seen as ‘far right’. What are we?! Chopped Flavor-aid?! (a joke you’ll get tomorrow night and Digby should get tonight)
If you’ll forgive me but–Bernie wished he had hair this great.
I really do think a Vice-a-Versa episode would be fun, just gotta see what the characters think. It is so weird to see my voice come out of two different characters and how odd it looks when they are reversed.
Well, you do have a goodly amount of time in/with the characters. Here’s hoping you can figure something out.
I might just go word for word of the Vice-a-versa transformation scene with a kicker joke from Donald. We’ll pen that in if there is no breaking news by the next cartoon.
I feel like the DNC and RNC are enacting a line from the Simpsons, regarding presidential candidates.
We don’t know so we’ll tell you to panic.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/25/centers-for-disease-control-cdc-warns-americans-coronavirus-spread-home/
Panic isn’t the right word, i don’t think. Prepare for a likely possibility.
The gay candidate doesn’t want to be known as flappable. Is that homophobic? Discuss.
I can’t even with this guy!
Wait–is it the term that’s in question, or, his desire not to be known as such?
Short answer: Yes, with an ‘if’
Long answer: No, with a bu-Hey, waitaminute!
BedfutonDocumentary Time. Enjoy the cartoon tomorrow, Digby already has. #FYTWLater! Or, earlier…
I’m presuming that all that Dem bullshit has just worn everyone out. Or, required a lot of alcohol.
I’ve been waking up at five am, so I need to get to sleep before midnight. The start of this week has been as regular as my sleep schedule has been in a loooong time, and I’m not jinxing it.
I am up between 3 and 4 am every morning. Years of having to do so for work programmed me. I dont use an alarm, I just pop awake. That means 8pm is my ‘late’ bed time so I miss all the nighttime banter.
Some thoughts: The UN is the Potemkin village of political institutions. It exists as a barely disguised money laundering front to funnel US taxpayer dollars into the pockets of third world monkeys. Otherwise it is completely useless and hopelessly corrupt.
Donald Trump is going to be re-elected. My worry is that the refugees from the collapse of the Democratic Party are going to shift the Republicans leftward. What will happen to the crazies that have taken over the party, I dont know. Hopefully the lunatic fringe will end up crawling back under their rocks.
The Corona Virus is out of hand but the panic is overblown. It is loose now and unstoppable. Only a small percentage of people who catch it die. Most of those are. in places with poor hygiene habits or compromised immune systems. Most apparently are asymptomatic or suffer something like a common cold. The greatest effect it will have will be economic and that wont be anything to sneeze at.
That’s my….three cents.
I am a chronic insomniac, so getting a steady sleep pattern has been difficult. I suspect my natural wired sleep time is between 2am and 10am. When I was doing nothing but writing, I slept midnight to 8am. Neither of these would work for a 7am shift, but all the commute and parking BS of a later shift is another stress/delay I don’t care for either.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a parking job as bad as the one in front of my car this morning. Being streetside, there’s a point where someone wishing to park will be forsed to parallel park in an available space. This guy apparently decided that having more than half of his car hanging out into the traffic lane was fine. Naturally, the car he was parked
directlyhalfway in front of was mine. At least I got out first try without vehicle to vehicle contact.I then somehow managed to arrive at the store before they even opened. So I sat there for eight minutes listening to the rain. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to just sit and listen to the rain without worrying that it was going to cause some problem to my house. I miss that.
*forced
Happy to report that the epubs got downloaded to the laptop and side-loaded to the Nook like buttah. And besides the extra reading time I’m likely to have this evening and tomorrow evening, the boss is off today and tomorrow, so I MAY even get some sneak-reading in at the office.
It’s good to know there were no technical issues.
Don’t get in too much trouble at work 😉
That’s part of the beauty of an e-reader – it can just sit innocently in that top desk drawer and doesn’t have to be held open. Try doing that with a paperback. #Technology!
It would work with a scroll.
Clay tablets might be a bit hard to get away with 😛
You’ll be pleased to know (or not), that I flushed a gigantic wax turd out of my left ear last night (the biggest I’ve ever seen), and one half as big out of my right ear. I’d just done the right one last time hence the asymmetry. I can now hear that the microwave oven is making a high-pitched ticking sound when it’s running.
#TheMoreYouKnow
Even the little sounds can be reassuring at times. Has your balance improved?
Yeah, I’m feeling much better, thanks.
I would vote for you if I was ‘murican. Even Dr. No himself had exceptions did he not? But, this absolute standard seems like a good idea. Like Rhywun said, KISS.
Your link worked after I simplified it. ; )
It doesn’t work at all, now! What was wrong with it?
*mumbles to self* can’t get the bloody staff these days
It was apparently the URL for this page and for the video run together, so I trimmed off the first bit ahead of the “https” for YouTube.
Oh dang it. I’m going to fire myself from doing links. I just try to put the nullrefer on links so places don’t see a whole bunch of traffic (relatively speaking) from glibs.
Do you use Monocle or Eyepiece? Monocle is my little friend. It makes special text formatting, linking, and blockquotes easy peasy for a chick like me who knows just enough about online posting to be dangerous.
I just type my tags out manually like a schmo, or, in this particular case, like a putz. How does one use Monocle and/or Eyepiece?
Monocle/Eyepiece for Dummies
It was the least I could do, which is why I did it. ; )
Monocle is the stable old happy Glib augmentor for desktop only. Eyepiece is the newer, occasionally updated Glib overdriver for desktop and mobile.
My phone is already falling over and crapping out. It’s due a factory reset I think. One every few months ought to do it. I use it for occasional posting here but I stick to desktop and Monocle seems just the ticket.
https://www.ajc.com/news/weird-news/english-woman-wins-annual-pancake-race-with-kansas/wBlPsogqOUIQTWzIUHllEK/
“Katie Godor, from Olney, in Buckinghamshire, ran the 71st International Pancake Day race with a time of 1:06 seconds. That just beat the time of Whitney Hay, a student at Seward County Community College, who won the Liberal, Kansas, leg of the race in 1.09 seconds.”
Sad! We should not be getting beaten by a Limey.
Ha! In your face, bubba!
*launches into stirring rendition of ‘God Save the Queen’*
I was going to ask what a pancake race was, but that was in the article. Unfortunately, it left me even more confused as to how this made the news.
Or, how something so apparently insignificant in Kansas made the news in Atlanta.
Slow news day in America I guess. It happens from time to time.
380 meters in 1.09 seconds puts Bolt to shame.
I suspect the journalist got something wrong.
Huh the guy from the profitable branch of the company has bounced Iger as Disney CEO
I’ve been thinking long and hard about this for several months now, and I’ve decided that working for others is for the birds. Here’s the goal: Owing my own small business by the end of the year. I’ve got the knowledge, skill, and most but not all the equipment. So, as long as I maintain some financial discipline(believe it or not, I’ve already cut my weed budget in half) I should at least have the things I need to do it by then. Now for a client base…
Good on you, and good luck.
Thanks.
For a long time now, I’ve been content with basically making an extra $1000 or so per working year. Example: age 20, $20k, 21, $21k, ect, ect.
I’ll be 40 in the Spring. And while I’m currently outpacing that trend, it isn’t by much. And I have fuck all to show for it. No savings, no woman, no house(renting),…I’ve been stuck on autopilot for nigh a decade. Add in minor yet constant conflicts at work(I need to face facts, I’m not a people pleaser, at all. Customers get the expectation, co-workers, not so much) and I dread going in around twice a week.
Life’s too short and I’m tired of being somebody’s lackey.
As long as you know your priorities, follow the path that’s right for you.
Welcome to life, I’ve been on autopilot for 56 years, owned a business, all that,
now I’m sitting here with a pile of house that I need to get rid of,
I’ve gotta take a shot, man.
*Beavis/Butt-Head laugh*
Do it. I look forward to reading a glib success story, or at least learning some things by proxy along the way! If you don’t mind me asking, what sort of services are you offering?
Interior/exterior painting, wood staining and enamel.
Always be networking!!!
Ethernet? Token Ring? Frame Relay?
220, 221, whatever it takes,
See, being a curmudgeon makes that difficult.
I need a mental reset, somehow.
Remember, the self-employed can work 1/2 days any time they want. In fact, they can even choose which 12 hours that will be.
If have owned 2 small businesses: 1 reasonably successful, although not as much as I planned. The other crashed and burned. There are advantages to working for the man, but I encourage you to go for it. I may go for #3 some day, in fact, it is kind of my “retirement” plan.
I have no problem putting in the hours, lots of free time. But yeah, getting burnt out is a concern. Just need to stay focused.
A decade of being on call 24/7 did me in.
Thank god that isn’t really apart of my profession. I mean, I fully expect to get concerned calls from a home owner in the evenings from time to time, but there’s no worry about getting a Drop Everything and Go! call.
It was rare, but it was a theoretical possibility. My best client would wait until 8 AM. They didnt sweat the late night stuff, it could get fixed in the morning. But I knew it was them if my phone rang at 8:01.
“Now for a client base…”
Also known as, the hard part.
I say go for it.
Oh, on my thoughts, one more question.
Has anyone heard anything about where the Chinese got the Corona Virus? I am hearing that perhaps it was given to them by a scientist from British Columbia – but that sounds kinda conspiracy theorish to me, but these days so many conspiracy theories are turning out true so I am waiting for more info.
*most of the stuff the Chinese do is tech stolen from the west and replicated cargo cult style (have you tried using any of their tools?) so it would not surprise me if they were incapable of actually creating the virus themselves and instead had it outsourced.
The tools thing is different – as I understand it they have the manufacturing capabilities to make things to a high standard, but willingness to make something to just about any price point. So if a company goes about negotiating for manufacturing a product in China, there’s little chance they’ll say “no we can’t assure you a quality product at that price”, they just make shit and dump it, letting the market decide what’s worth buying. Also, I understand quality control over there is difficult to manage, and having much control over processes is difficult, too, for small to medium concerns. In terms of their “biosecurity” or whatever, I think that’s a different game entirely. They don’t seem competent at managing anything like that safely.
“Making” a corona virus isn’t like setting up and running a laptop production facility. You only need a handful of top medical scientists to make a virus. Of course stealing bits and pieces of the tech side of things makes that easier. What you do need is a few hundred really good medical technicians to do a lot of the grunt work and ensure it doesn’t get away. I think they scrimped a bit on that part.
The corona virus itself is very common. SARS is a corona virus, I believe. Makes sense the Chinese would be researching it. They didn’t need to get it from anyone.
The question is, where did this variety come from? Was it a natural zoonotic mutation, or engineered? Either could have come from China.
Perhaps, They got it from Canadians and pulled a Harbor Freight, and it turned out like it always does, just a little cheaper…….