Tree
Heating isnât an issue, the Gas bill is,
The sky isnât Grey, your eyes just havenât adjusted,
Lack of vitamin D, doesnât mean you donât have scurvy,
Just because you drive, doesnât mean you know how,
Being born conveys no rights, Even in America,
Be still my child, that I may smother you,
The new old, born in fire,
And the people wish it werenât so,
To build up, as it crashes,
 A fools game, Sobriety is no cure,
No solace in technology,
Not Moon nor Mars, will we ever see,
Bets are paid, and deals once kept,
Are mere cries in the darkness,
Soon the last light comes,
As we wait, and watch,
Heat warms the soil beneath us,
That last gasp of life itself,
As life strains into the sunlight,
And circles, drain or sky,
Amidst the dying embers,
Of the world we once knew,
Ekeing out our existence,
We threw away our chance,
There is a point to the tale I tell,
Not really sure how it goes,
No prophesy or vision,
Just a thoughtâŚ..
The hardest part of winter hasn’t happened yet.
For me, it’s March.
Mid February through March.
But I’m older than you.
In proper latitudes spring happens in March.
The first time I realized I had acclimated to local conditions was at a St. Paddy’s day party with my bare hands on a steel railing in 20 degree weather without discomfort.
But sometimes it’s 60 degrees on March 17th, so who the fuck knows what’s going to happen?
In mid-March every year, we have a sphynx moth that emerges from hibernation and begins fluttering around the house. My kid named it “April.”
The damned little critter is like a three-dimensional laser dot for the cats as it flies tantalizingly above them, causing numerous leaps and much bounding over furniture in a frenzied, yet futile attempt to corral the winged intruder. Numerous tchotchkes and objets d’art get broken by the kittehs every year because of that damned bug.
Indeed, April is the cruelest moth.
That moth is fantastic.
I saw a Luna moth âin the wildâ once. The fanciest moths are prettier than the fanciest butterflies, IMO.
once?
you can have ’em all and I will have 2x as many tomatoes
Being born conveys no rights
Bullshit.
ultimately, only You can defend them, not the State, not even God,
Every human being is born with rights. How they’re stolen has nothing to do with a person being being born.
That they are Are stolen, negates them from the get go, still feel free? Not sure I do anymore,
Stolen rights are still inalienable rights. Rights are stolen all the time, wrong is done all the time. It does not change the fact that every person born has them. Stolen or not.
“You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it and you wave a flag celebrating it.” – Doug Stanhope
Nick gets it.
Nice, Yusef!
I will note that we had 18 minutes more daylight today than on the Solstice.
Oh, yes, I have noticed, we are heading back to the Sun!
Cheers!
I look every day, checking the lengthening of the daylight. I usually get cabin fever about this time of the year but since the Great Shutdown the depression has been even earlier.
I look at Jan 15th as mid-winter, Feb will see some warmer days, March bring melting and mud and I love it.
OTOH so far this winter has been a wienie. Not cold, some snow, my wood pile has not gone down so much this winter as in the past.
Hi Fourscore!
I’m glad you are here – I had a busy day so just got to your story. It annoys me how gifted you are!
Yeah, the winter has been a cake walk so far. I hope it continues.
#metoo
Easiest “true” winter I’ve experienced in at least a decade or more.
“Drunken Couplets”
I remember a particularly nice “drunken coupling” in Puerto Rico…
Well, first you get Drunk, then…..
Mine was in Boulder.
Another on the Longville airport runway (uncontrolled, obviously)….she wore a blue sweater. We got caught by the local cop. I was nearly THERE!
The woods east of Emily.
Did you lay your shirt down for her? I did. And gladly suffered the mosquitos.
’46 Ford. Mind you, I used to be a pretty tall guy but where’s there’s a will(y)
Pics?
*blinks*
So…
I got one of those youtube advertiser verification questions (“which of the following brands are you liekely to buy from?”)
And they were body armor companies. (AR500 and Safe Life)
Does this mean youtube is taking adverts from icky gun-adjacent companies?
“Which politician is your white supremacist militia hate group most likely to target?”
Yeah I wouldn’t answer that. Maybe click on the ad feedback thing and click “I’m not interested”.
Yes. And they are paying attention. That is why my youtube is bikini hauls, snow/water sports and the occasional mtn biking vid. I am hoping they think I am a harmless pervert. I mean fuck, we are all on govt lists but now the tech platforms? Fuck them all.
Yeah, I think I may privatize or remove my gun videos.
I guess they replaced Trebek. Pretty heartless to kick a guy off his show just because he has cancer.
Pretty sure this comment should have been posed as a question.
I’ll take “Limits of Necromancy” for $200.
You’re right, of course. The only proper thing to do would have been to give him to a taxidermist with instructions to make him safe to wheel out under the studio lights for the next forty years.
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die.
Lord I want to go to heaven
But I donât want to go tonight.
Fill my boots up with sand,
Put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die.
Jeopardy at Bernie’s
Wonder why they didn’t get Lou Reed to sub in?
The end of winter, or the thought of the end of winter, usually makes me sad. But this winter has been suck a clusterfuck, I may even look forward a little bit to spring (but never summer, aka the Season of Hate)
I concur. I get seasonal affective disorder in the summer (my diagnosis) – but this winter is sucking so much in terms of masks, and limits to the places I normally enjoy going (ie. movies) that it’s just irritating – I like my new place and sitting around playing video games – but I like some variety (and the gym being off limits still sucks too).
Walking around yesterday I had to rub my eyes. Sign on the outside of the cinema on the corner now reads “Thank you Chuck Schumer for saving NYC’s oldest theater something something”. I guess the state is throwing some pork around. Before yesterday that sign was still listing a bunch of movies I don’t remember and wishing somebody named Justin “Happy birthday” for the last ten months.
SHuT uP SNOWTARD
I like Summer as long as it doesn’t f%$&ÂŁ# rain all the time.
Trade you limey summer for DC summer in a NY minute!
I think my main objection to that might be the location, but point taken.
Been in London in August during a heat wave. It was upper 80s and dry, but nobody has AC so it got tiresome,
Nice.
We don’t get the “dry” part in NYC.
We don’t here in KC either. Only it’s upper 90s and not-dry.
My outdoor thermometer only goes to 88 but on the bottom end it’s a long, long ways down there.
I’d just go to Scotland
Oh we did. It was freezing.
*shrug* I like spring almost as much as fall. Those warm-ish days near the end of winter are glorious.
But yes, summer absolutely blows.
Glorious because it tells us the world as we know is coming back to life. Living an Ansel Adams photograph 6 months of the year can be depressing.
“My stepdad isn’t mean
He’s just adjusting”
LoL
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266452/mediaviewer/rm2518259712/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErdnHUmXAAAY700.jpg
Of course, none of these people got banned from anywhere.
It’s fine, everyone’s wearing masks and face shields.
Re the harm being done by lockdowns this morning. Thaddeus Russel has a good podcast guest this week who estimates the harm at closer to 100 to 1. Good discussion.
Doing a cost benefit analysis of anything so complicated might be impossible.
Especially when the benefits are to the policymakers and the costs are paid by others.
Cost/Benefit analysis?
How dare you put a price on people’s lives!!!!
Is that the one with Ivor Cummings?
Ivor has written and said some very helpful things to understand what has been wrong with our Covid response.
None of this rhymes!
Too easy,
Parcheesi.
Oh ya? what rhymes with world.
Orange
How in the world do you pronounce Orange? They don’t rhyme.
Throatwobbler Mangrove.
Sandhill crane marsh. The chair is against the wall.
Whorled,
Furled.
Girdled.
Aargh. Girled.
Pearled.
Squirreled,
Burled.
“Anybody wanna peanut?” -Brute Squad member
Thanks for the post Yusef. Have a great night all.
Jesus Came, looked around, and said,
NhAAA!
Dragging over from the dead thread…
So Williamson defends an Establishment, and I agree with him. You’re nuts if you think we’ve ever been governed by the masses, or that that would be preferable. This little community here ain’t exactly roiling with real populists – we just hate the establishment we are currently stuck with (and I really don’t get that KDW loves it all that much). And that establishment deserves contempt – it failed to play it’s part properly. But there will be an establishment, because the real majority of Americans doesn’t want to think about govt, let alone actually be responsible in/for it.
People want effortlessness and pat answers to problems. Establishments offer that. It’s part of why chain restaurants are popular.
So after Biden institutes nationwide lockdowns and kills off independent restaurants, heâll put us all back in chains?
I’m a little miffed… more than a little miffed, I’m filled with contempt for the right-wing commentators who instantly fell into the Covington trap again. They immediately approbated the leftist narrative, whatever its veracity, and immediately accepted responsibility on behalf of Trump and on behalf of conservatives. Rather than pointing out how few people were involved, how little the actual damage was, how nearly all fatalities were suffered by the rioters, the rank hypocrisy of leftist pearl-clutching media propagandists and their useless idiot viewers crying about “the coup,” how ridiculous that assertion was, the mainstream right immediately went supine and started babbling that “we’re better than this.” Who’s we, asshole? Were you “storming” the capitol building, too? Ten months of rioting by leftist retards burning down businesses and assaulting and murdering citizens and you can’t even point out the indifference among leftist commentators who are now pulling out tufts of hair because some guy carried off the speaker’s podium? Forget defending conservatives or defending the rioters (your rioters, apparently, since you’re so keen on taking responsibility), you can’t even bring yourself to speak out in defense of innocent citizens?
Serious ‘demonstrators’ would have targeted the IRS and the rest of the alphabet.
Serious demonstrators would have targeted the IRS and the rest of the alphabet
Looks like the squirrels got agitated about the IRS.
Damn it, the squirrels SHOULD be agitated about the IRS. Those nuts were for her survival!
Never. Apologize.
An awesome rant. Agree with every word.
Well, yeah, there has always been an establishment. I don’t think anyone is arguing that there wasn’t. The point is that the DC establishment today is staggeringly corrupt, venal, and has enthusiastically promoted any number of divisive, destructive paths (anything “woke”, undermining the 1A, promotion of transgender nonsense, encouraging rioting, etc). I’m not sure why I’m supposed to get the vapors over a complete rejection of that establishment.
I don’t have answers. Wish I did. I feel reasonably certain, however, that the NR crowd’s prescription of more Liz Cheney and Ben Sasse is not the answer. Pretty much all Williamson does anymore is grouse about how much he dislikes Trump voters.
So Williamson defends an Establishment, and I agree with him.
I read that article, and he didn’t just defend an establishment, he defended the current establishment. He’s pining to be ruled by the Harvard crowd, which is the current status quo. Which, I guess, is the ur-conservative position – lay down and take it from your betters.
Thank you – that was a much more succinct way of saying what I was trying to in my long-winded way.
One advantage of going to Harvard is an option of condescending to the Harvard-wannabees who failed to make it.
My mindset is that I would like for it to be that deciding who is president (or any federal and most state officials, for that matter) is as consequential as deciding whether to get an extra slice of swiss on my Ruben sandwich. Sadly most seem to fear not having a daddy to tell them what to do and what is moral and immoral.
“extra cheese?” should be MORE consequential, it has profound implications on handling and digestion.
I like the part before that, although it was mild compared to what we have:
10 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, âThis is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[c] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.â
The Big Guy gets 10%.
I’m off to work, kids. No ‘peaceful protests’ while Im gone.
You don’t tell me what to do! Fweedom!
Don’t worry I will just sporadically yell, “Black lives matter,” and “No justice, peace,” as I am firebombing all the government buildings I can find and it will be totes okay.
I.e. the Portland get out of jail free card
Well, isn’t that convenient.
Nothing to see here.
I suppose I could grouse about Donald waiting so long to tweak China here but at least it lays bare Biden’s suckupage for all who give a rat’s ass to see.
I was being fatuous, a bit. I think it’s telling that this was cancelled.
Yup, got it.
All we are, is dust in the wind, dude.
“Popular rabbi warns followers COVID vaccine ‘could make you gay’
In addition to purporting a false link between vaccines and homosexuality, Rabbi Daniel Asor also claims that both the virus and the vaccines are the work of a “global malicious government” trying to “establish a new world order.””
https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/01/11/popular-rabbi-warns-followers-covid-vaccine-could-make-you-gay/
Depends on how you take it.
1. I take my vaccine like I take my coffee.
2. All over my face and chest.
c. the butt
Nothing like a nice coffee enema to start the day.
He’s not wrong.
Lab leak hypothesis is getting closer to being confirmed by the day. China did this either accidentally or not.
Here.
https://www.minervanett.no/corona/the-most-logical-explanation-is-that-it-comes-from-a-laboratory/361860
That article is from july, and states the paper had not been published at the time. Has the paper been published?
“a novel receptor that the HIV virus uses to enter human cells.”
*sigh*
Be funny if it DOES turn you gay.
What if it just flips your sexuality?
Yo! Tonio! đ
Well, now you’re just being ridiculous.
Don’t be ridiculous!
Oh, I was expecting Balki Bartokomus
No, but several of the mRNA “vaccines” could conceivably cross the BBB (blood-brain barrier) and give you either MS-like or ALS-(Lou Gehrig’s disease)like symptoms of demyelinization of your nerve pathways.
As I’ve stated previously, my nightmare scenario is that we’re unwittingly giving hundreds of millions of people throughout the world a “cure” that’s worse than the disease.
I don’t wanna wake up in a world a year from now where several percent or more of the developed world’s citizens are dying because we were too stupid and too frightened to properly vet our vaccines before we administered ’em to most of the planet.
G’night, everyone.âI’m done for now.
The possibility of Guillian Barre is what concerns me. You may as well have polio and it’s a well established though admittedly rare problem even with vaccines that have undergone the standard development period.
‘unwittingly’
Interesting. Is there research on that?
If he wasn’t a rabbi he would be a Q Anon loving anti-semite. What a nut.
This is one of my favorite videos
It is almost 4 minutes long. The first 2 minutes and 45 seconds are a level of cringe brutal that certainly resides in Dante’s 7th level of hell.
But at 2:45 our hero emerges.
And he tells a street joke.
A miracle happens.
Happiness.
That was great.
Lol
As long as we continue to beat in group jokes to death and keep up the snark, weâll be fine.
Circumcision or ending the fed – what ya got?
Defeatism. Thatâs always popular.
As long as there is pineapple for my pizza I will never surrender!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BArHKQmu9lI
Goodnight, peeps!
Also, fried chicken.
Would this make OMWC laugh or cry?
https://news.avclub.com/king-crimsons-robert-fripp-and-toyah-wilcox-adorably-co-1846041865
Umm… Do they not have central heating?
Thanks for sprinkling us with some of the pixie dust from your poetic brain, Yusef.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CuVFr-FRM0M
?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pet-food-recall-sportmix-dogs-die/#app
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mega-millions-winning-numbers-tonight-2021-01-12/
$750m
That’s a lot of hookers and blow.
*Hunter perks up*
https://www.nationalistreview.net/2021/01/13/wire-alert-man-charged-in-capitol-hill-protest-commits-suicide/
Sad.
suh’ fam?
My life is dope cause I do dope ish.
Mornin’, homey.
How’s Mr. GT’s rehab coming along ?
He’s home & doing great. PT once a week, and he hasn’t used his walker since Friday except to hold as necessary while he does his home exercises.
Good to hear.
Mornin! Hope you guys have a grab bar for the shower. I’ve not had a stroke yet but my vertigo makes me lose balance when I close my eyes sorta like a fainting goat. I keep one hand either on or near that thing. Aside from the obvious joke set-up, I’m glad that TomT is feeling better and that you are less worried, too. All the best!
Thanks, guys. We have a seat for the tub for the time being, but the plan is to go for a badly-needed re-do of our ’50s-era tub/shower enclosure, which will include grab bars and, if I have my way, as little grout as humanly possible.
Grout is of the Devil! Find a good insert if you can.
Um…what?
I take them at their word.
Absolutely.
*racks AK*
Well that’s not very reassuring. I want my new normal to be more like I dunno, 1994? I was mostly pretty happy that year.
Just because you drive, doesnât mean you know how,
Welcome to the DMV. Which is the worst is still under debate. I vote M.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/health/coronavirus-masks-transmission.html
Nope. Nope. Nope.
I already have a medical note saying I can’t breathe with one mask on, A second won’t make that any better.
How about we lock up the people who want to push this and let the rest of us alone.
The virus fails when asphyxiation wins! I can barely breathe through a flimsy one and granted, I’m not playing soccer but this is getting to Joopider is stoopider territory. 10-15 miles a night at a brisk pace is nothing to sneeze at (heh!) while doing various and sundry tasks at the same time.
Even one thin mask can causing breathing problems. I know that a few times at work where we have to wear them and my heart rate gets up for whatever reason I have to go out of the way and take the thing off so I can catch my breath. Screw all of that nonsense and of course more material will increase efficiency but if thatâs the case why not strap a mattress to your face?
Why don’t all of us deplorables just go home and duct tape a pillow to our faces? For Unity.
My pillow is a heavy memory foam unit. I’m knocking a bitch out in a pillow fight.
My primary is as flimsy as fuck so that I may fold it this way and that to achieve total reading satisfaction. Nobody will be murdered by my pillow!
đ
I had planned to have brown bread and yoghurt for breakfast, but after I opened the bread can, I checked for the yoghurt and found I’d eaten the last of it at some point.
Now I just have bread.
Which leads me to ask – other than brown bread, does anyone know of any (pre-cooked) bread in a can?
I’ve never heard of such a thing.
/shrug
Technically the canned version is “Boston Brown Bread”, it’s a molasses-sweetened bread cooked in the can during the canning process. It does tend to be a tad dry when eaten on its own.
Huh, I was right about something.
Some sort of bread pudding? I’m flummoxed, as well.
No, it’s literally just bread, slightly dense, slightly dry, and slightly sweet.
“bread in a can”
I find the idea quite repulsive.
Like powdered milk…
I get it… but I’m not eating it.
If I served you a slice, you’d never realized it was from a can unless you looked really closely at the edges and saw the ridges.
Something, something, C-rations, circa a long time ago