This is where we are in the world. But there are yet unanswered questions, Like, which of the following might Pusher Robot forget? A. A shoelace. B. A greenhouse. C. A dartboard. D. Al Gore.
Today: a skull and a bone; a legal hot dog; a flight risk; a guy who reached behind you and discovered…; someone whose grasp of a bear ended the domino effect; chest-bursting pride of the Jews; electrifying our future for our own good.
Now here’s where it gets stranger.
I’m a level 5 Sausage, in puppet-world. I’ve got a magic beard and everything!
Breadbaskets and bras – they often get together and behead me.
A librarian in the chimney is worth two in the machete.
Use the leather-upholstered manuscript!
Ooh, I could fire rockets at a waiter.
And the inevitable. With John Gilmore doing the most smokin’ sax solo that can be realized in our universe.
RIP Lou Grant.
mornin’
Aww.
Mawnin’.
As far as I know he’s not dead.
Tres is day drinking.
Well, since Ive been working overnights, its evening in my head. Dont judge.
A couple years ago we saw Ed Asner do a one-man show in our little community theater called “A Man and his Prostate”, written by one of the Mary Tyler Moore show creators. He was old and fragile; for his role he wore only a hospital gown and slippers, and had to be walked to the stage by a strong escort. And all he did was sit and read the script from a lectern. But it was hysterical, the man is extremely talented. Despite his uber-lefty politics, I can’t help but like the guy.
Breadbaskets and bras – they often get together and behead me. – election over it don’t matter no more
The Saturday Night Live crowd should be coming up with a Hunter Biden recurring character they could lampoon.
But they won’t because they are True Believers.
It would be cruel to mock a politician’s child struggling with addiction.
If Don Jr. was a demonstrably a raging coke-head, do you think those writers would even bat an eye ?
No.
That’s a fucking funny idea, and no, they won’t go there even once.
they won’t go there even once
Which is why most people don’t watch them anymore.
There was a time they would have done it. Imagine if Chris Farley had played Hunter Biden.
I think OMWC links have the highest % blocked in the EU. It is either too local or antisemitism or both.
I guess you don’t use a VPN?
no. I should but never got around to it. I occasionally google the best ones.
Same here. I will do it eventually but I keep thinking “I’ve already looked at the most depraved porn without one, so…”
My coffee has luminescent dreams of Fusilli Jerry.
“It was a one-in-a-million shot, doc!”
A Gilbert woman ordered a shirt to honor Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
Yeah, okay.
I’d wager sh clicked “buy it now” on the first shirt that mentioned biden and was surprised when it arrived.
Alternatively, she knew full well she was ordering that and wanted to set up another ‘hate crime’.
HARD NEWZ.
*checks links*
Oh good, everything is still stupid.
I’m going to have a good day in spite of that. I hope you all do too.
From previous:
To Hayek: USDA? Sunset is more granular. Do you have the Sunset Western Gardening Book?
And I’ve mentioned this before but this is fairly interesting to anyone even remotely interested in The Police: Stewart Copeland narrates his home movies. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492968/
It’s not that I hate the Police, I just always feel better when they’re not around!
What’s sad is, I can’t exactly remember where that quote came from, I think it was an R. Crumb comic, so I searched it on google. Line after line of BLM recruitment bullshit. I just want to know which character used this line. It may have been one of those 70’s movies, or the fabulous furry freak brothers, IDK.
As I waited for the site to injest my comment, I remembered. It was Tommy Chong.
It’s a Bukowski quote. It shows up first in Barfly, but they also use a second version of it: “I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they are not around”
Yeah, I prolly saw an appropriated version of it. I can’t find Tommy saying it, maybe it was the FFF.
Copeland made a movie in the 80s called “The Rhythmatist”, where he allegedly scoured Africa in search of the “perfect beat”. Its wholly self-serving, and groundbreaking since this was years before Bono became a colossal asshole. To me, its interesting enough on the veneer.
Thanks!
I’m a fan of those pretentious assholes. I’ll check it out.
No, I haven’t seen any of those resources.
Thanks!!
How is Cuomo not the cartoon villain in this universe.
Because Soros isn’t dead yet? Oh wait, he is the Bond villain.
Ok, I got nuthin’
Darth Soros is a Star Wars bad guy, duh!
The Empire becomes more powerful through its fiendish plan of taking control of key SoS offices, but unfortunately noone felt the great disturbance in the Force, and by the time the Rebels realised what was happening, it was too late.
“Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research”
Timely report. In any event, it’s hard to imagine this would have made a nickel’s worth of difference. That the Bidens are graft mongers should have been common knowledge a long time ago. The Twitter intelligentsia would have declared this a nothingburger and gotten the article censored for misinformation anyway.
Besides, Biden’s corruption is the least of my worries with the guy. Him placing me under house arrest is a bigger concern…
Let’s find out whether the MSM finds enough spine to ask questions about administration actions and motivations again.
Call me a pessimist, but I have a hunch on that one…
Hayek, it’s wonderful that you can bring the humor on a Sunday morning with such an absurd statement. I, for one, am looking forward to a return of the media telling us al that everything is fine as the world burns.
That all is true, but it sick that Biden sets up a charity that I assume is in memory of Beau only to use it as a slush fund the whole time anyway
Biden = sick.
It ain’t easy paying for thousands of dollars worth of hookers, crack and internet porn when you gotta give “pops” half your money.
See: Hillary Clinton
My guess is that all of the pols, or nearly all, have charity orgs for laundering bribes.
They all have them. Not only for laundering bribes, but also to provide employment for each other as they rotate in and out of office. They are truly useless parasites that produce nothing.
The only politician charity that was/is worth a damn was Carter’s.
They run the largest printing company in the world.
Crane’s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_Currency
Back in Chicago it was usually legal fees. Rostenkowski took things to a new art form. He’d rent space in a building he owned for his “campaign” HQ, and then charge the campaign exorbitant rents thereby pocketing the campaign contributions.
Being a relative of Richard Mell was a great way to get rich and powerful, though Rod Blagojevich found out the hard way what happens to a family member who crosses him.
This is who these people are, but because they support the “right things” it gets tolerated. The most common thing said about Rostenkowski in Chicago was “he may be a crook, but he’s out crook.”
So ultimately it’s our own damned fault.
Yes. But you’re supposed to spend at least a little money on the charity it supposedly represents.
Only if you’re a Republican. The media will cover for democrats
And no state prosecutor is going to go after him.
a guy who reached behind you and discovered…
Yet another symphony?
Im sure it was a bittersweet symphony.
Nice.
This friday was Black Friday in Romania, an idea borrowed from you lot with a changed date and overprices things pretending to be discounts. There are a few deals though if you are fast enough and I wasn’t and I am annoyed at myself. I want to buy my mom a new laptop and due to the school from home thing all cheap laptops were usually sold out last few months and if I was faster on the click I could have gotten a good one but I wasn’t
The booze store also had very underwhelming offers this year compared to the last few years when there were great deals.
I did buy a couple of bottles of cheap Jap gin on a good discount. I don’t spend much on gin but like to have some in hand for the occasional cock tail
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iGxSWkbEfhI4fb9peQ6m19_7pJu_AV1R/view?usp=drivesdk
The one on the left smells and tastes like you would expect of gin, the one on the right is different not usuall at all
The one on the left is Suntory so unsurprising that they’re standard taste.
Their domestic (and cheaper) gin
https://youtu.be/4LwuwBy-WOE
A bit of word play as same sounding “jin” is people.
Something seasonal too
https://youtu.be/-9u8uIUkQyU
What do you suppose the odds are of Trump pardoning Snowden?
I hope he does; let the chips fall where they may.
smaller than me getting a good Black Friday deal would be my guess
I doubt Trump sees Snowden as hero or done wrong. His advisors will not say any differently.
So sadly a pardon is not gonna happen
I suspect he’s more favorably inclined toward Assange, as he might have helped him get elected.
^This, when it comes to Snowden and similar people Trump’s probably a fairly conventional thinker.
But ES and RU are worthier.
RU?
Yes. Mr. Foreals.
Oh, Ross Ulbricht. I doubt it. Trump is anti-drug.
“What do you suppose the odds are of Trump pardoning Snowden?”
None or zero, one of those things.
He should pardon Snowden, move to Russia, and then him and Putin give all the deplorables visas to move to Russia. MRGA!
Great link titles. I’ll some of what OMWC is a having.
>have some<
https://katzsdelicatessen.com
Moranis assault: Antifa or BLM?
The D’s seem to be following the blueprint move-for-move of the Bolshevik revolution with Cootie sauce and no one seems to notice. Now they have likely gotten the Whitehouse. I dont think the morons who voted for him know what they have done. I hope every goddamned one of them get ass cancer.
who cares he probably had it coming walking around like that
I have no idea who he voted for but if I had to put money on it….
Check out Andy Ngo’s Twitter account for dozens more examples of the same behavior in DC last night. All completely ignored by the media.
If a conservative family gets their asses whipped in the middle of a forest where no one’s around to see it did it really happen?
No, the media claims the Trump rally turned violent. Way down at the bottom it hints that antifa might have been the aggressor, but maybe not. On Andy’s feed, it’s pretty clear.
I am sure there was no coordination there. That’s why Antifa showed up at the rally. Did CNN have cameras there before Antifa showed up?
Antifa has a list of “approved” journalists who they allow to cover them. All the mainstream outlets have a few on the list. They gloss over anything that’d make them look bad.
Ngo is a bit of a propagandist. At least one of those sucker punch victim was brawling just prior.
Btw, Andy Ngo’s twitter feed makes me so disturbed, I have to close it after a few seconds. I really feel inclined to hurt those people. That’s why I avoid “protests,” I would likely get beat badly or killed by antifa/blm. I have no patience for that bullshit.
#metoo. I dislike bullies and that’s what all of these Antifa idiots are. It really sets me off.
+1 third-floor window
(for viewing or recording, that is)
More or less effective than half-helicopter rides?
You won’t necessarily die falling out of a third storey window, but you’d probably get a bigger audience to warn.
People get mad but have to put up with it because governments and their police departments approve of it and allow it to keep happening. Try organizing defense against it and you’ll be in legal trouble.
I’m assuming he doesn’t vote in this country, but I could be wrong.
Had the white privilege knocked right the fuck out of him he did.
I have a feeling that this was good old fashioned Harlem anti-Semitism.
Yeah, the knockout game was going on long before the current woke fascists started punching “Nazis”. I bet he didn’t even know it was somebody famous.
Also it occurs to me that middle school would be rough if your name sounds like “More Anus”.
I don’t understand. Is it because blacks figured out (((they))) were using them as muscle?
They dun a good job with that! Not straight anymore either.
Canadian Privilege!
Why are Hollywood people so upset? I’m sure Moranis has health insurance so that will take care of him.
They didn’t get this worked up when Thugs literally burned down entire sections of cities, looted and murdered.
Maybe it dawned on some of the useful idiots that the monster they helped make is going to eat them too.
Poor guy is only 5’5″. Doubt the perp even recognized him.
Didn’t have to be either. The knockout game, or polar bear hunting as it is sometimes called, is a racial sport and not politicized.
NPR just stated that the “pro Trump rally in DC turned violent”. No mention of who was committing said violence. Their dishonesty is quite amazing.
My brain read Morris assault as Alanis Morissette.
Fun with numbers, no numbers required version
South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn’t require masks. Now its hospitals are filling up and the state’s current COVID-19 death rate is among the worst in the world.
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Both North and South Dakota now face a predictably tragic reality that health experts tell USA TODAY could have been largely prevented with earlier public health actions.
Pandemics require people to give up some of their freedoms for the greater good, University of British Columbia psychiatry professor Steven Taylor told USA TODAY. In conservative regions like the Dakotas and elsewhere in the world, it’s common to see push back like an “allergic reaction to being told what to do,” said Taylor, author of “The Psychology of Pandemics”.
But months of lax regulations have contributed to a growing public health crisis in the Dakotas.
How widespread is COVID-19 across North and South Dakota?
The current rates of infection and deaths per capita in South Dakota and previously restriction-free North Dakota are what Dr. Ali Mokdad would expect to see in a war-torn nation — not here.
“How could we allow this in the United States to happen?” asked Mokdad, a professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle. “This is unacceptable by any standards.”
North Dakota’s COVID-19 death rates per capita in the past week are similar to the hardest hit countries in the world right now — Belgium, Czech Republic and Slovenia — according to Saturday New York Times data. That data also places South Dakota’s recent per capita deaths among the world’s highest rates.
And there’s currently nowhere in the U.S. where COVID-19 deaths are more common than in the Dakotas, according to data published by The COVID Tracking Project.
Then, after a great deal of similar hair-on-fire Chicken little wing flapping, we get this:
Noem also criticized New York’s total death rate during the pandemic, which is higher than South Dakota’s. Fury said the South Dakota’s death rate is below the national average.
Mokdad said such comparisons are misleading, given how early and hard New York City was hit this spring.
More misleading than a bunch of nonspecific innuendo and utterly contextless assertion?
Can the outrage machine be any more flagrantly dishonest?
I fail to see this “crisis” that the author insists is unfolding before our very eyes in the Midwest.
And then drugs fell out of Mokdad’s ass.
That’s a win-win for the media, They could have not had the rally and then, the region would plummet into poverty. Many Daks live off the money they make that week. Either way, scaredy clicks
“Can the outrage machine be any more flagrantly dishonest?”
No, but that won’t stop them from trying.
Old Guy Music
Was expecting something like this.***WARNING: CLICK, BUT DO NOT PLAY***
I didn’t listen. I played the video. I tapped out at the ten second mark.
Yeah, it was so bad even I couldn’t finish.
It was as close as I could find to that band playing “Take the A Train.” It DOES have “A Train” in the title. What a shocker that they never covered the Strayhorn tune. : /
I’m still not sure what the symptoms are. Some advisories say fever and stuffy nose, some say runny nose and sore throat… It’s winter in Wisconsin, I have a runny nose every time I’ve been outside for more than 5 minutes.
Lack of taste if you have any in the first place.
If I take down my velvet painting of Elvis will I be cured?
Yes.
My mother left me Elvis plates. Really, Mom?
Ebay, that is all.
Elvis’ Smith and Wesson is up for auction at RIA this December.
Is it the one he used to shoot his TV?
RIA thinks it is possible.
Elvis also shot a lot of TVs.
can’t hurt to try tbh
If it saves just one life…
You’ll have to take down the dogs playing poker one too.
You have to play the paw that you’re dealt.
relevant
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TdSf1GTS3PM
Noooooooooo!
Okay, that made me laugh.
“Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research”
Lois Lerner will be on that like white on rice.
Why even have a charity if you can’t run a skim?
Remember that time the NRA was brought under charges for not spending donor money the way they want?
[pause] Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon… you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
*I hope Johnson just Streisand Effected the name “Princess Nut Nuts” to stick to her forever.
DC sounds like a useless weirdo hypocrite, but if it’s true that he kept Britain off the Euro…
What is a Euro anyway? I’d have been so pissed off 20 years ago if my ancient currency had been scrapped for Monopoly money.
Not even Krugman likes the Euro… But for Money printer goes brrr reasons.
The discordant trend in jazz never had any appeal to me.
Why do we have such a disparity in the infection rate and mortality rate in Covid? Because some communities don’t have the same access to health care.
Golly, I’m not sure. Maybe because it’s not especially lethal, unless you concentrate it in your most vulnerable population.
That whole interview reads like it was puked up by a random phrase generator.
Speaking of a random phrase generator has anyone figured out the common thread in the link texts today? It reads like Joe Biden beginning a story.
Trigglyfizzenpop?
And? Some communities don’t have the same access to supermodels or mansions either.
Ohhhh… they mean “free” access.
The discordant trend in jazz never had any appeal to me.
On the rare occasions I have found myself subjected to it, I catch myself thinking, “That poor piano. Why is that guy so pissed off at it?”
#metoo
I finally caught up to Joe Rogan Experience Dave Smith podcast and found Dave Smith quite more ignorant than expected and not particularly persuasive.
He’s young, but ignorant is a little aggressive. What did you find so off-putting?
he was talking about university education, Rogan brought Europe where it is mostly “free” and he had no idea how any of the non US systems work, good or bad, at all. I is the first example in mind, but noticed others throughout the podcast. It seems like typical American libertarian who has a strong sens of liberty and for him that is enough to advocate for it, does not seem to understand that to be persuasive to others you need to know a lot about other systems and why they don’t work as good as lefty propaganda makes them seem. The whole education segment, even his arguments when it was only about the US system seemed very lacking to me.
Now if you don;t care about persuading others fine, but that is not what he claims
I have seen multiple libertarians on joe rogan that get stuck at some of his questions and don’t know how to offer a proper answer which I would have had readily
Sounds like you need to get on Rogan
“Rogan brought Europe where it is mostly “free” and he had no idea how any of the non US systems work, good or bad, at all.”
Every prog I have ever known here would go on constantly about Europe, how great it is, how everything is free and everyone is happy all of the time. Almost all of them never having been there and not knowing anyone there. The ones who did actually know Europe would just lie and say the same things. And neither just up and move there despite the USA being a shithole and Europe being paradise.
well a libertarian should have some idea how to counter the Europe fantasy
50-60% income tax and a 25% VAT tax on everything is enough of an argument for me. Just listen to them whine all over the internet about how much more expensive everything is in Europe. At the same time they’ll say non-sensical stuff like ‘Yeah, things are more expensive here than in America, but we have a higher standard of living’. The real plague occurring today is not the vid, it’s cognitive dissonance.
Of course, you’re not in Western Europe, so maybe you’re escaping some of their problems. I’m just going to take a wild guess that you’re not busy right now trying to figure out a way to relocate to France.
east is poor so the living standard is certainly higher west than here. Dunno compared to US but compared to Romania it is.
He is a bit more persuasive when allowed to speak uninterrupted.
I love these old Twilight Zone episodes.
Syfy channel, Sunday mornings.
Same.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning to the rest of you lovable miscreants.
That’s a cool painting. I’m not a modern art dude, but the surrealists are my favorite of the bunch. I like Miro a lot.
So from your lynx I discover that people are shit. Whoda thunk it?
Sun Ra was a weird cat, but man, could he play. I’ll never have the love for jazz that you do, but I appreciate the education.
Have a beautiful Sunday, people!
Miro is fantastic. You should check out Paul Rebeyrolle too.
And in local new the covid IC unit of a hospital here had a big fire and a dozen people died most of them covid patients that were intubated. That is a shitty way to die, burned alive while intubated
So another dozen covid deaths.
Saw that, the fire anyway, not the details.
Damn, that’s sad.
🙁
That is sad.
Random observation:
Fire was domesticated so we wouldn’t have to eat meat cold and raw. Some people have yet to figure this out.
I like tartare
#metoo
And sushi too.
And Mett.
I think I would like it.
I have to settle for raw meatloaf—the poor woman’s tartare.
It doesn’t matter how technologically advanced we’ve become, you still have to explain to every person things we have learned. You still have to teach them that you can’t get something from nothing, that there’s no free lunch.
Hear hear. I keep trying to tell them.
You can take my sashimi from my cold dead hands!
Not even Krugman likes the Euro… But for Money printer goes brrr reasons.
Yeah, the Greeks and Italians are being unfairly oppressed by the Germans, who won’t allow them to inflate their debt away.
Why do the Germans hate those poor Brown people? / Sticking to Krugman canard
What is that painting?
Here you go.
wikiart? merci!
It’s a cool site.
Today’s Artwork of the Day.
Thanks 🙂
I have been looking at the coronavirus numbers in Kansas. I suspect our state is intentionally delaying the reporting of numbers to make the spike seem more severe. For example November 12th 526 cases were reported, followed by 5,779 on the 13th. This pattern of up and down has been occuring for the last 2 months. No other state has up and down numbers like this extreme. Our secretary of health got called out for a misleading chart back in June, I suspect he’s up to more shenanigans
Somebody should queue up news headlines from each week since March and match them up to graphs on hospitalizations and deaths. I’d expect near constant freak out, no matter what the graphs show.
Somebody smarter than me would have to come up with the layout.
The state keeps saying our hospitals are almost overrun, which I really doubt.
I’d think about believing actual numbers. It’s usually “some” hospitals are at or near capacity. In all these months I have yet to see any time series of real numbers of actual patients in actual hospitals getting treatment for the Wuhan virus.
Until some verifiable numbers come out, it’s all lies and scare stories to me.
All those stories about NYC supposedly being overwhelmed when 1,000 people a day were dying, the refrigerator trucks, the makeshift hospitals, all of that kind of vanished in the ether. If it was real you’d think there would have been some mention of it over the last few months.
Unless that’s where the rest of the country is headed, I don’t believe any of the current stories either.
They were saying this in Arizona throughout July and August. The facts were:
ICU occupancy never got above 91% (on average it usually runs at about 80%). And there were plans for significant numbers of additional ICU beds being created if that number got over 100%. It never got close. Hospital occupancy overall never even got remotely close.
But it doesn’t matter. We’re not in charge and they are so, to quote our esteemed Dr. Fauci, “now is the time to do what you’re told.”
A lot of beds were converted to ICU beds in AZ. That 91% includes the converted beds.
That doesn’t change your point. In fact, it reinforces it. We adapted to meet the demand. And can do it again, if need be.
Yeah, Oregon did the same thing. And I have the same opinion.
This morning : it is the best part of the weekend, just listening to music and drinking coffee on the sofa with Lord H. The topics range from dogs, to weather, to relatives, to Rona, to jobs. . . .
Then:
He tells me “yeah, you do an awesome job getting bonuses, but you don’t seem to buy anything with them . . . ” Me later: searching for shoes and jewelry on ebay.
Nice.
You misspelled guns. This is a libertarian site after all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMS5-4Q4jNM
…for room clearing. ?
My favorite shoe site.
My favorite shoe site
We used mine last night on dinner. Expensive, but holy shit, worth it.
human blood is getting pricey
We looked for Romanian wines on the list and were disappointed. Some nice Austrian Gruener Veltliner helped assuage our feelings.
If we can snag a reservation while Tulip is out here, she’s going to be very, very happy.
Same here Old Man. Wifey and I enjoyed a nice dinner, some jazz that wasnt bad.
Sadly, I only wear Birkenstocks and for jewelry, charm bracelets on Etsy.
Have you considered diamond studded Birkenstocks?
“yeah, you do an awesome job getting bonuses, but you don’t seem to buy anything with them . . . ”
I say the same thing to my spousal unit, who still works for her former employer as a part-time contractor. I finally convinced her to spend some of her hard-earned gains on stuff she wants.
The area rugs from Wayfair arrive on Thursday, I’m told. 😉
“Ooh, I could fire rockets at a waiter.”
Wasn’t this assault about a year ago? If only the police treated all crime so seriously.
Also, 35 is way too old to be randomly attacking people.
Yeah, Imma say 4-5 is the upper limit. My kid knows better and he’s 8.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8949359/Demi-Rose-debuts-stunning-new-shorter-hairdo-chopping-waist-length-locks.html
Nope. Can’t be tamed.
“An arthritis drug has been found to cut deaths in patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 by a remarkable two-thirds – giving medics a powerful new weapon in their armoury against the disease.
The daily pill, first earmarked as a potential Covid game-changer by a British firm, reduces deaths by 71 per cent in those with moderate or severe illness, researchers say.
Importantly, it works in the elderly, raising hopes that it will save the most vulnerable.
Called baricitinib, and marketed under the brand name Olumiant, it is a relatively new drug for rheumatoid arthritis that has been available for only three years.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8949605/Arthritis-drug-cuts-elderly-Covid-19-deaths-two-thirds-say-researchers.html
Blasphemous Art
@ArtBlasphemous
Here’s our Lord Rama & Prophet Muhammad sketch with more colouring. Details to be added soon!
Next design will be Goddess Kali & Prophet Muhammad, enjoying BDSM together
https://twitter.com/ArtBlasphemous/status/1327881365849706497
Our kitten’s name is Kali. She is solid black, 7 months old, and opens up new wounds on my ankles nearly every day.
Ummmm ok? 2/10 shock value. Try harder.
Speaking of firearms, what do you think of a Mossberg Shockwave for a “behind the picture frame” gun?
I tried the .12 gauge with a wrist brace and found (due to a broken shoulder a few years ago) it to be a bit too much for me. The .20 gauge is, for me, pure perfection; light, dependable, and able to lay down a decent curtain of #4 birdshot down the hallway to the front door.
“Man, 23, is banned from keeping pets for verbally abusing his Rottweiler after he was recorded calling her ‘dirty little mutt’ and telling her to ‘get in f****** bed’
Veterinary Surgeon David Martin said: ‘It is my expert opinion that undoubtedly Lulu suffered as a result of mental fear and terror as a result of the verbal abuse from Mr Ponsford as demonstrated on the audio recordings.
‘It is well known and understood by the public that dogs respond to the tone and volume of the voice and that dogs are susceptible and will suffer from fear and distress if verbally abused particularly if this is recurrent or long lasting.
‘Training and discipline of dogs is nowadays recognised as needing to be reward based so that positive achievements are rewarded and that negative behaviour is ignored and not reacted to.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8950641/Man-23-banned-keeping-pets-verbally-abusing-Rottweiler.html
Chug down all of your coffee, before you click this!
We had a neighbor who used to scream at her dogs, including calling one of them “you black bitch.” Those dogs loved her though, and seemed pretty happy.
Why are the left so uncomfortable to acknowledge Taiwan? It seems like The Narrative hasn’t quite figured out where and how it fits in, so the relevant taking points haven’t been generated and disseminated. This is something I expect to see develop in 2021 as China forces the issue.
Because the CCP is one of their role models for good governance.
They’ll manufacture some evidence about how Taiwan is a racist apartheid society and should be destroyed by PRC or some such nonsense.
They’ve managed to convince themselves that Israel (y’know, the only country in the ME that has any semblance of basic rights) is Nazi Germany and needs to be wiped out. They miraculously find themselves coming down on the side of evil on basically every issue, so why not this one too?
“REVEALED: Muslim activist was kicked off American Airlines flight and spent four hours in custody after she hounded a first-class passenger and videoed him in his seat because she was unhappy he boarded faster than her
A Muslim activist was removed from an American Airlines flight and detained for four hours after she reportedly confronted a first class passenger over alleged special treatment.
The incident happened on Saturday when Amani al-Khatahtbeh, a congressional candidate and founder of Muslimgirl.com, attempted to travel from Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey to Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to a statement from American Airlines, the incident between Al-Khatahtbeh and an unidentified white passenger began during TSA screening.
‘Our understanding is that Ms. Al-Khatahtbeh believed the other passenger, who is enrolled in PreCheck, was getting favorable treatment because he was allowed to proceed through security while she was removing her shoes,’ the statement read. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8949351/Police-kick-Muslim-activist-American-Airlines-flight-dispute-white-passenger.html
CWAA
How incredibly stunning and brave of her.
Well, there goes PreCheck.
Millennials are the worst.
“Trump reveals his ‘truly great’ legal team: A conspiracy theorist accused of antisemitism and his wife, a lawyer who retweets QAnon and a campaign legal adviser who says gays are ‘sinners’… all led by Rudy Giuliani”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8950261/Trumps-fab-five-president-names-legal-team-fight-election-courts.html
IANAL, but I think he needs better lawyers.
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IANAL always sounds to me like a high tech sex toy
Not knowing what it stands for, I’m just going with this.
“Your Honor, if you would just grant me the smallest bit of leeway, the relevance of this iANAL I hold in my hand will become very apparent. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury…”
I am not a lawyer.
DM is correct sometimes.
I think Trump has really jumped the shark with this one. Right when it really matters, he employs these guys in what might be one of the most important landmark legal cases in the history of the Republic? I just don’t see what his endgame is other than playing to the base, laying the groundwork for some provocative cable news punditry gig. My God. Am I becoming an NYT columnist?
welp. he is an idiot.
also he has some bad qualities.
I’m distrustful of how anything not explicitly left-wing is presented by the media. I assume that for any lawyer on Trump’s team, the media will dig through every record they can to find the smallest discrediting detail and then present that as the overriding characterization of that person.
Yeah. No matter who he picked they were going to do this to them.
This. I was telling the wife a few years ago, every single thing they have been saying about Trump and by extension Obama, is to be regarded as complete BS. So, anything you think you know about either of them through the media cannot be trusted.
“Republicans pounce!”
I’ve been saying for nearly 4 years now that Trump’s downfall if anything will be surrounding himself with the totally wrong people. Sessions, Barr, Guliani? What more proof is needed?
I’ve been looking at the Peruvian Pres. It’s pretty interesting. He was not affiliated with a party and was rooting out entrenched corruption. The government tried unsuccessfully to impeach him. Then, they come back and impeach a second time and it stuck. They elected some other dude. The populace is furious and rioting about the whole thing. It sounds like a fantastical thing that could only happen in a banana republic. Seems eerily familiar though…
The Oxford comma wins again.
https://twitter.com/fablor/status/1327678595381260289
Good morning everyone. Thank you for indulging me on the Zoom thingie (3 cocktails + 3 Benedryl + the dulcet tones of you lovely folk = l0b0t lulled to sleep).
This burger video was in my feed this morning. If there are any NM Glibs who have chilies to get rid of, I would love to purchase some for a Green Chili Burger.
https://youtu.be/448QblQxsGY
don’t encourage unhealthy eating
the green chile one looked good
“Lady Mandalorian’s have boob armour? Oh come on seriously.”
https://twitter.com/anitasarkeesian/status/1327790541870796801
“Sorry to burst your bubble but the jig is up y’all. Star Wars isn’t some niche exclusive tree club where you hang up a “No Girls Allowed” sign and dictate the terms of the discourse. It never was and that is not changing any time soon.”
https://twitter.com/anitasarkeesian/status/1327844637122301958
SECRET TREEHOUSE!!!
Re boob armor: She isn’t wrong.
I’d rather have cotton bindings, though.
Greeks had cuirasses with pecs and abs
Were there female knights?
joan of arc?
She wasn’t a knight. She was also trying to pass as a man, so definitely no boob armor.
In England at least, some noblewomen who were widows were required to go fight if she couldn’t find a man to represent her. Now, what positions they served in, or whether they were support for the troops, I don’t know.
My (I think OP’s) point is that I would not want boob armor. Sticks out too far and impedes range of motion.
I would think any armor with boob cleavage would be counter productive as it would channel the force of a blow into the center of one’s chest. I think the trend was toward curved or peaked chest-pieces that would direct the force away from the torso.
Yes. I saw a whole video about the engineering behind a suit of armor. If I find it again, I’ll link it.
Is she saying that women don’t want to protect their tits?
SINNER REPENT
meh that armor does not look like fantasy boob armor
How the fuck is Anita Sarkeesian still a thing? If Milo Yiannopolous is beyond the pale, this grifter should have been binned a long time ago.
She’s a lefty. That’s the only reason she still exists.
Female soldiers I was forced to serve with hated their standard plates. They wanted some room.
I hated them for other reasons. Statistically I was not going to be shot or blown up but 52 pounds of IBA and other crap wasn’t good for three herniated disks.
Slutty Sunday sez you must be a pyrophiliac because these babes are on fire!
https://archive.li/ZcRbJ
I tapped out at #1. Bad opening to the gallery.
#1 sucks but at least make it down to #5.
i’m happy with 3
#14 epitomizes slim thicc, and the attached gallery has plenty more of that
“Not to get all partisan but I think the president inciting right-wing vigilante violence is bad”
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1327826361986281472
CWAA
Y’know, I’m beginning to think that maybe, just maaaaaybe, these Sun advice columns are bullshit…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13198169/sex-with-pt-on-a-whole-different-level-to-husband/
My whole world has fallen apart!
Dear Penthouse…
Don’t expect to call the boss’ girlfriend “Princess Nut Nuts” and not get fired.
Wow.
The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement. But it gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.
Nice gig if you can get it. I’m certain if I set up something like that, the IRS would fuck me up.
“The whole family we were sitting together watching and just had a lot of pride,” says De La Torre.
So much so, that she went straight to amazon to order two shirts baring Harris’ name./em>
This person needs help.
“That’s not smart. It’s definitely dangerous. That will just cause an outbreak and it just won’t end well at all,” said Brandon Ewing, who graduated from Basha High School in 2019. “I feel like it’s pretty risky right now to be playing sports out there with COVID, especially if you’re doing it without anyone knowing. So I think right now it would be best to let it go and come back to it in the spring when stuff clears up.”
Go fuck yourself.
Preview of 2021:
1. Stacey Abrams is named Undersecretary of State for diversity something or other, with direct access to Kamala
2. Ms. Abrams suddenly scores a seat on the board of the Clinton Foundation at a $300K salary, “plus expenses”
3. Donations to the Clinton Foundation start rolling in again.
“…especially if you’re doing it without anyone knowing.”
Says a kid that might not use a rubber, and is carrying HPV and chlamydia.
“Obvious, unoriginal, entirely applicable point: If it were right-wingers doing these things to women’s march participants, it would be covered like a national emergency & every elected Republican would be chased down & hectored to repeatedly (and rightfully) condemn the violence.”
https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1327802524963844096
“Punching women is an idea.”
It’ll be pretty funny when the Commies get through with Republicans and move on to what’s left of milquetoast Dems and UAFs.
Remember:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3otTkPVMAEBiEb.jpg
True.
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1327636930666897409
Funny how no one in the MSM remembers this.
“Ok, but to be fair, back in March science hadn’t yet caught on to the fact that viruses are contagious”
I lol’d
Early days… the hive mind hadn’t yet worked out how use this shit to its advantage.
Informative thread on recount results:
https://twitter.com/YossiGestetner/status/1327972165975756802
There are other instances of vote recounts changing results.
In my town, several Republicans and one Democrat gained votes during manual verification/recounting. One Republican lost votes.
I see my town did not make his thread.
General question: did any of you who actually voted participate in a race where your one vote made the difference? I haven’t since voting in a Vice Chair election in the LP back in the 1980s.
Not for me.
There was a race near me that was decided by a low single digit number of votes. I went looking for it but couldn’t find the story.
A former coworker of mine was a town moderator for a town west of me. He mentioned that more than a few town elections were decided by one vote.
I might have. Voted for myself for our HOA board. Will find out Tuesday if it was won by me, or by what appears to be a Republican candidate, or my arsehole neighbor who appears to be a Democrat.
Howdy, everyone.
Not too much excitement here in the land of happy unemployment. Detoxing from 19+ years of IT Support stress; spending time with the dogs and working out.
I did buy this not-working, needs repair, not-OMWC approved Audio Research preamplifier
And yesterday I finished another album, which, as always, is free. Seven
That preamp is very pretty and would fit quite nicely into any sci-fi set dressing from the 1950s – 1980s.
Sexy. I like the mode switch.
Hey, I just left my software job after 19 years too. The dogs like all the extra walks they’re getting!
an interior shot of the preamplifier sans tubes except for a 12BH7 used for regulator duty
AR always had the philosophy of never using one tube where three will do.
As always, any help or parts donations you need, you know how to find me. I just sent off some 7199s to a guy trying to restore an old ST70. Apparently, they’ve gotten stupid pricey and the poor guy couldn’t afford a set. It kills me to see old tube gear get neglected…
Yeah the SP-8 is essentially a Dynaco PAS/Marantz 7C circuit in Audio Research form. ie 12AX7 with feedback but at least it has a decent cathode follower though I’m a bit mystified with the solid-state portion of the circuit. I would have had a current source but this looks like the SS device in in parallel with the cathode resistor??? Meh.
It apparently needs repair – I don’t know the exact issue yet but apparently something with the solid-state power supply portion popped.
7199s, even back in the early 90s, were hard to find. I used to convert 70s and Mark IVs to use the 6GH8/6U8A. These days I would buy one of those Triode Electronics board which mirrors the original circuit but using EF86s and a 12AU7. Of course that darn phase splitter – hello Ed Laurent! – could be improved on.
Yeah, I’ve gutted and rebuilt maybe a hundred of them over the years. Always changed out the input circuit and the power supply. But he wants one restored to the original design, a different goal than I had.
I am unhappy to find that I’m within spitting distance of Antique Electronics Supply/Tubes and More.
Ah, rack-mounted audio gear. Is there anything that’s simultaneously cooler and more pretentious? ;-)
I got a new mattress delivered yesterday. It it bliss. I don’t have any incentive to get up.
Th old one was maybe 13 years old. It was high time for replacement.
Yeah, I’m riding a cheap one that’s about the same age. I need to drop some real money on a good one but for now I put one of those “memory” foam pad thingies on it and it’s “better”.
Need I ask the obvious question about ‘break-in’ or ‘christening’ ?
You don’t need to ask and I don’t need to answer.
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Good morning all. I had a great time meeting some of you Glibs virtually last night. It was nice to put faces to names, but I already felt like I knew all of you a little. Thanks to Neph for hosting, I really like the anti-doxing steps you took. Very classy touch.
Anti-doxxing?
Everyone was named “Bill” like at a AA meeting ?
No, I used my work account so my name would have showed up, but he changed my screen name to Tulpa until I told him who I was.
Only Tulpa would say that.
Ha, I had someone confused when I showed up for a zoom meeting with my JI handle.
And a very happy early birthday sir; it was quite nice to see you there.
SQUEAL!! I just got a 3 1/2 hour fan edit of Lynch’s Dune. I know this movie is divisive, but the costumes, props, and set dressings are inarguably fantastic.
NERD!
“Will you die for him? WILL YOU DIE FOR HIM?”
…wait, sorry—wrong Jürgen Prochnow flick.
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
That’s a classic. I have the DVD.
Nice!
The Lynch version had good visuals.
So far, this is fun.
https://ifdb.fanedit.org/dune-the-alternative-edition-redux/#changes
That looks interesting.
For you Liverpool fans of old: I received a BBC Sports alert on my ‘phone that Ray Clemence passed away. Nothing on their website right now though.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54953093
So, I just wanted to say thanks to the Zoomies. I might only be able to pop in for an hour, but it really means the world to me. Thanks, especially to Nephfor setting it up.
Yeah, I gotta figure out what the Hell’s wrong with my headphone/mic setup — Win10 keeps reporting there’s no issues with it, but I can’t seem to make myself heard for love nor money.
Plantronics’ new motto should be: “We’ve been building these things forever, and have learned nothing about how to improve them!”
This is the Tamil sci-fi movie I was too muggled to explain on the Zoom – https://youtu.be/otB9lYNeR1Y
And this is a clip from the recent RA One (where the robot from Enthiran has a cameo) – https://youtu.be/dhPpLkv-VvQ
I’ve been emailing a bit with the history prof that wrote The Longest Afternoon. I didn’t approach him about the possible error I found, because he can only go by his source material, and the source material had the information (I checked). But I did tell him about my ancestor and his life both during and after the Napoleonic Wars, and he wrote back right away thanking me for the info (he had a section in his book about what happened to some of the men after Waterloo, so I thought I’d give him my own family tidbits).
Cool
My gf is reporting that the panic buying is back on at Wal-Mart. ?
Panic buying or Turkey Day shopping?
“TP and other bulk items”
My dad bought some extra TP because he’s been seeing shortages in other things. We now have 100 rolls of toilet paper in the house.
I’d wager it’s that. The former will not be back until end January 2021.
Can confirm. Was at the Walmart in Redmond, OR yesterday and some aisles looked like a wasteland. Several good ports to choose from still so all was good. Yeah, 10 year vintage ports in Walmart. Oregon be crazy AF, but whatever.
A recent book I read: How To Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman.
Ruth is one of those weirdo “let’s live this historical era” archaeologists, and someone you may have seen in some BBC shows like Tudor Monastery, Secrets of the Castle, etc. Anyways this book, as the title says, is about the Victorian life described from the moment they awake, work, and then go to bed, including frank discussions about sex. It was actually a riveting read and highly recommended.
You can get a video taste of it for the series on the Victorian Farm.
Well, it’s a little late I think. Weren’t the Victorians a curious bunch who were into all that enlightenment stuff and all? I think it’s hard to be a Victorian when you’re on facebook all day trying to prove how woke you are and how you’re the most victimest of victims.
“Members of Parliament, from both the Conservative and Labour parties, hailed the departures, according to the Guardian. Lawmakers had blamed Cummings and Cain for a macho culture and a string of PR flubs that dogged Johnson’s premiership.”
Can’t be having that “macho culture” in national leadership, can we Brits?