Depends on whether or not the Masters are the ones tied to the track.
What a week. One very important thing we’ve learned is that the government does not like “no knock entries”. And now the Great Conservative Purge on social media has begun. I’ve pretty much tuned out on the news, but let’s see if we can find something that doesn’t require us to be talked off the ledge.
Looks like the media is learning about the law of unintended consequences.
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
The last time California recalled a governor, they replaced him with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I and I thought lithium batteries were dangerous.
Let’s go light and mellow tonight with a little Joe Pass.
Looks like the media is learning about the law of unintended consequences.
I don’t think they have learned anything other than to propagandize harder.
Happy Sat Night:
To Tundra: Yep, i’m the guy who recommends people should listen to the survival podcast with Jack Spirco.
he is a glibertarian at heart.
https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/shit-has-only-begun-to-hit-fan
Hard to be positive, but i think we should focus on what we can do to survive all of the crazy coming down on us.
Thank you. I’ve really been enjoying it.
Aircraft takeoff and landing systems on the USS Gerald R. Ford remain unreliable and break down too often more than three years after the $13.2 billion carrier was delivered, according to the Pentagon’s top tester.
Good enough for government work.
Even at $3.5 billion it could potentially save money if they get it working. Steam catapults are either on or off and as a result very hard on the aircraft. The electromagnetic ones promise the ability to ramp up slower and would be easier on the aircraft. Plus anytime you design anything new, they very rarely work as reliably as intended. Too many interacting parts to account for, including the structure around the catapult.
Steam is also very risky to work around (although those systems may have been less dangerous than Engineering steam systems). Of course…no idea what kind of EM exposure the techs get with the new systems.
Fact check: sadly true.
Bill Gates is accused of hypocrisy after joining bidding war to buy the world’s largest private jet operator – one month before he releases his book preaching about climate change
Narrative crashed and burned.
“I and I thought lithium batteries were dangerous.”
Yah, mon.
Pass the kutchie on the left hand side…
Dutchie,
No, Butchie (boy)
Sorry, Me Rasta boy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc
“Me not a Rasta Boy, me a Rasta MAN!”
https://youtu.be/2gcz0RVSG-E
The original with the weed reference was better. “Pass the Dutchie” was the cover.
The original with the weed reference was better. “Pass the Dutchie” was the cover.
So the original was “Pass the Doobie”?
Also, at Brett Kavanaugh’s high school parties, they used to play Doobie Brothers albums.
His favorite song by them was “Long Train Runnin'”
That’s quite a headline.
The CEO of a Chicago company said he was arrested after breaching the US Capitol during Wednesday’s Trump-fueled insurrection in Washington, DC.
Brad Rukstales, CEO of the marketing technology firm Cogensia, apologized for what he called a “moment of extremely poor judgment.”
“It was the single worst personal decision of my life,” Rukstales said in a statement posted on Twitter.
Cogensia, based in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, sought to distance itself from its CEO, whom the company said has been placed on leave of absence.
Actually, by BLM/Antifa standards it was exceedingly peaceful.
News outlets are publishing more and more videos, photos and testimonials from Wednesday’s pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill. And it’s becoming clear that as heinous as the attack looked in real time, on live TV and in our social feeds, it was even worse than we knew then.
It was even more violent. It was even more treacherous. And Trump’s behavior was even more disturbing.
And now my bp is up. Thanks, CNN.
Cnn don’t care. They will literally say anything.
Case in point
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/opinions/jarring-video-of-black-men-cleaning-up-the-capitol-bailey/index.html
OFFS!!!
Racity racity race race race. Race? Race!
$13.2 billion for one ship? Lord have mercy…
It has a lot of toilet seats yo.
You will never get another penny from me if you support censorship.
This is the most important moment in the history of social media.
The world’s largest platforms have banned the world’s biggest purveyor of lies, conspiracies and hate.
To every Facebook and Twitter employee, user and advocate who fought for this–the entire world thanks you!
Careful, he bite!
Cohen’s a holier than thou jerkoff who made his bones doing the same things he now condemns.
Why do you hate (((them))) so much?
/sarc
I’ve recently had to work with a full blown ‘tifa person. She loves the Borat movies because she hates Americans. She does this exaggerated emphasis when she says things like “THEY ARE SOOOOO STUUUPID” at a volume adjusted for everyone within 50yds or so to hear. A cynical take would be that she seems to think the rest of us are below her, but she puts on the pretense of being nice because she has to get on with us (incentives, huh). Anyway, even though she’s not from around my way, she knows where I live, and it turns out some of her friends are up this way. I get on okay with her. I avoid politics because that would be suicide. Sometimes she’ll be browsing news and FB on her phone and, even though the rest of us have no idea what she’s looking at, she’ll respond to what she’s seeing by saying “ohh”, loudly, and “oh dear” while smirking. Anyway, I don’t want to get involved, or be doxxed, and I’m fairly certain she thinks I’m a bad wrongthink person but I try to avoid those topics. When she asked me about Borat I did say that I don’t find it funny.
Say “Jews get thrown down the well but marxists end up in German canals”
That’s not creepy and Orwellian at all.
“At @ProjectLincoln we are constructing a database of Trump officials & staff that will detail their roles in the Trump administration & track where they are now,” he wrote. “No personal info, only professional. But they will be held accountable & not allowed to pretend they were not involved.”
Involved with what?
The desire to create a parallel criminal justice system for people you can’t prove are guilty of any crime is striking. Though at least (ideally) when you’ve committed a crime you’re supposed to get a fair trial and a defined sentence. For these clowns there’s basically nothing you can do to redeem yourself.
They are taking a page out of the university parallel “justice system” where accusations are enough to drum a student out of school and blacklist him.
Similarly, the NFL doesn’t just punish breaking NFL rules (doping, skipping out on required OTAs, etc) , now they also punish players for domestic abuse and other behaviors that are already crimes.
That is effed up. If you have enough of a case, let criminal courts take care of it. Otherwise, drop it due to lack of evidence.
This trend is very scary.
Running guns for political purposes
Droning American citizen without trial
Starting wars
Giving money to a country on the sponsor of state terrorism list.
Getting a foreign prosecutor fired to protect a family member’s corruption.
Need I go on.
But enough about Obama/Biden.
Trump sucks for sure, but I’m really struggling to see how his bad actions exceed those you’ve listed.
Sadly, all that shit will resume, and people will act like everything is back to some idyllic “normal” because a career politician is in charge once more.
He defeated herself…. And then refused to leave when they told him to! He should have just resigned in shame when they played the grab them by the pussy tape.
That was his real crime
“Also, we’re not Marxists. Nope, not at all.”
I guess thats fair.
I am never going to vote with anybody associated with those people. Never hire them for anything.
Swordfish steaks and baked potatoes.
I did NY strips and spinach.
Nice. Bought some NY strips today too. But the swordfish was calling to me from the fish stand.
Poached salmon, rice pilaf, and green peas.
Interesting.
“and I thought lithium batteries were dangerous.”
I keep saying, buy Kia…….
Happy Hondadays!
Would. ///’Murica
Yes.
It Ain’t Misbehavin’ when you hear Joe Pass a kidney stone.
OT: Completed my first knife tonight. It was just a blade with a block of wood and some brass pins, but now it’s a pretty sturdy blade that will serve as my workbench knife for opening packages, cutting twine, etc.
Also got about 80% done with a shooting board and will probably finish it tomorrow, so now the real joinery work can begin.
Nice! Functional is good
Very nice.
At least one BLMer was in the Capitol How many more? Who knows. Obviously, there were plenty of MAGA and assorted other wacko’s, but there might be some truth to the idea that it’s partly false flag.
*suspends blackjack’s account*
Take it. I didn’t realize I was one of the cool kids, still.
If it wasn’t for stunning, brave, peaceful protestors like him being there, it would have been even worse?
He says he was there to “observe and report” but I never saw him on a Segway. In fact, he was on film, walking the halls calling on others to “burn this shit down.”
Well, another thing that will be denied and memory holed.
I’m sure CNN will right to that.
I’m not saying it was aliens…
Several cities and towns in Pakistan plunged into darkness after a huge blackout, according to media reports.
The outage was reported shortly before midnight on January 9 almost simultaneously in many cities, the Dawn reported.
Residents of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, and others faced the blackout, the reports stated.
Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat tweeted that the National Transmission Despatch Company’s (NTDC) lines have tripped, causing outage.”It will take sometime before everything gets back to normal,” he added.
It was the Damned Indians again, sacred cows walking into powerlines……
Damned Indians? Excuse me?
They’re called the Cleveland Indians, thank you very much.
It’s the Yankees that are dammed.
Indians?!
*faints*
I thought it was the Cleveland Baseball Team.
Wait, do they sell oil or something also?
Nope. Still the Indians for at least one more year. Current guesses are that they’re going to become the Guardians, the Spiders, the Rocks (or something rock music related), or the Buckeyes.
I thought it was always (((them))) in that part of the world.
Hindus man Hindus….
It was Trump.
And I’m doing the ebook and print of a travel book (volume 4) on Pakistan. Pakistan has been very profitable for me this past year.
It’s a Saturday, so I’ll be kicking off the Zoom/Happy Hour/geek sign show tonight at 20:00 Eastern.
I’ll try again, I think I fixed my problem,
I’ll be there, maybe a bit late.
You should start listing these in the One True Time Zone.
I think you meant to link here.
Nope!
Why I Got the Russian Vaccine
A New York Times reporter juggled fears engendered by the politicized rollout of the Sputnik V vaccine with the urge to gain protection from the deadly virus.
Das link isn’t kaput.
And by isn’t I mean ist.
Sorry. The correct link.
Supposedly you can get it pretty much on demand of you’re 60 or older or you’re younger with underlying conditions or certain jobs. Not bad really if getting vaccinated for this is your thing.
Next he can get the Sinovac to see which foreign power works best.
Yep. Injured the fuck out of myself making chili. I need a better can opener.
Ouch! what happened?
Can opener skips a lot of spots, so I very wisely pulled up on the can lid with my hand. Nothing like a deep, jagged cut on ye olde finger. Luckily I had already gotten all the knife work done.
Yikes!
Put a little of yourself into everything you do…
Oweeee. I did similar this week when I sharpened a wood chisel and then proceeded to slice into my thumb with it. Salt and vinegar potater chips weren’t the wisest choice of food after that.
Done that. Even while making chili.
I recommend cauterizing. It’s the only way to be sure.
The only way to *really* be sure is to nuke it from orbit.
Hawt.
Ouch!
https://tenor.com/0orp.gif
Ouch.
Get a Swing-A-Way
I like this one – side-opener, that cuts the lid off from right beneath the rim. Not recommended if you want an intact can for some reason, but it does a great job.
Seconded. No sharp can edges and no gunk.
Thirded. Our side opener kinda sucks, but it’s still better than top openers.
I was just looking at the one that breaks the seal of the lid and half the reviews says it’s the best thing since sliced bread and the other half say it dumps sharp metal shards into your food.
LOL Amazon
The Hamilton beach automatic one? Yeah, it was the best thing since sliced bread until the blade dulled enough to start dumping shards of metal into my food. Highly disappointing when that started happening.
As seen on TV!
I wish-listed the one Slum linked to but I swear I’ve used something similar in the past and it was garbage.
But I hate the one I have now too. It keeps shredding up the paper wrapping the can.
Ah, yeah basically the same design.
Why would you use a can opener on a can with a pull off top?
Why do you hate the feeble and the elderly??!?
If you can’t open a pull top can you deserve to starve to death. It’s how we thin the herd.
Heh I just installed this and the fucking thing is a godsend. I’m not feeble or elderly but the thing works as advertised on those occasions when a lid is stuck.
The Hyperbole is bean dad.
OMG! what have you done to piss off SP? ;^)
Sorry about your injury.
Give your orphans the night off?
?
I haven’t watched it but Alex Jones had QAnon Shaman on his show either this morn or yesterday:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1xaQqGJ7Vl3T/
Yusef, I couldn’t wait to get out and try the disks out. Got 4 holes in before dusk, playing scramble rules with the 3 year old. Her reward for being a good sport was to play at the playground until it’s too dark to see, which is in about 2 minutes.
The muscle memory came back throw #2. Not quite getting the initial fade I expected on the leopard disc, but the ending draw was about right. Prolly not enough rotation.
Cock your wrist like a big dog at the end of your reachback, and that Leopard will fade late and hard. Glad to couldn’t wait, keep it up and have fun!
It was even more violent. It was even more treacherous. And Trump’s behavior was even more disturbing.
When the Reichstag is burning, throw gasoline.
Suddenly, their ire turned to him. Several men grabbed Minchillo by his backpack, pulling him down a flight of stairs. Others grasped the lanyard that identified him as media, dragging him through the throngs that wove flags reading “Don’t Tread on Me” and “TRUMP 2020.” “We’ll f—— kill you!” someone yelled. Then a man shoved him over a ledge.
Why am I skeptical?
“Poor or unknown reliability of new technology systems critical for flight operations,” including its $3.5 billion electromagnetic launch system and advanced arresting gear, could “adversely affect” the carrier’s ability to generate sorties, he said.
Sheesh. When will they learn?/ $3.5 billion is too little. MORE MONEY!
But news of Gates’ pursuit of the private jet firm has raised eyebrows given the company’s actions are at direct odds with his very vocal stance on climate change.
How did this story see the light of day? The Daily Fail uses Apple products?
A renewed push to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has attracted more than 1 million signatures, with 9 weeks left to collect the remaining 500,000 needed to place the measure on the ballot.
Overall, the effort needs roughly 1.5 million people to sign on by mid-March, which would trigger a mid-year election.
Oh yeah. Better than PornHub.
The latest recall covers certain model-year 2016 through 2018, and additional 2020 through 2021, Hyundai Tucson SUVs. The vehicles have antilock brake system computers that can malfunction internally and cause an electrical short. That can lead to a fire.
Hyundai should stop using South Korea’s version of Lucas. I’ve put a few thousand into my Hyundai to replace switches, connectors, etc. that failed due to corrosion.
Tonight’s music is good.
The protesters should have worn lanyards saying “Media”.
Haven’t been tracking any of the tech stuff on the Ford lately, but if/when they get the EM system working properly it’s supposed to potentially allow up to 1/3 more flights for the same maintenance/etc periods – which is a lot.
How much more money do we pour into it?
Amazon employees call for company to cut ties with Parler after deadly U.S. Capitol riot
Export the AMIs, Terraform and Ansible, and build an on-prem Open Stack cluster. Is it a lot of work? Yeah, but your user base is currently exploding and then you don’t have to be at the mercy of any Silicon Valley Stalinists political whims anymore.
They still need to get bandwidth, though, and I’m sure next Net Neutrality bill will have some fun provisions regarding transport of hate speech.
Every word Congress says is hate speech, including “and” and “the”.
That and not getting canceled by banks or other funding services.
?
The Dems are going to come after their enemies thru the financial system.
Because of people bringing them up this week, I brushed up on my history of the Reichstag fire and the Night of the Long Knives. It’s pretty scary how similar these were to the events of the past few days, even to the language the Nazis used to refer to the “traitors” who needed to be be purged for the good of the country.
As foretold by prophesy
OFFS.
Nuke us from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Dafuq do they know? They work for like two bucks an hour in freezing and unsafe conditions. I heard most of them are on welfare. Fuck them.
Looking at the trolley picture above, I can’t help thinking the 21st century version of the “solution” is to pull the handle, which blows up the full-to-capacity trolley car, killing everyone on board and levelling several square miles of homes and businesses, to save a handful of people who will die in a few weeks, no matter what.
There might be a lucrative future for you in DC as a Top Man; ya innerested?
When will Troy Aikman return Joe Buck’s heretofore unrequited love?
Silicone Saturday sez большие сиськи!
https://archive.li/demc7
(and yes, that is one of the first things I looked up while learning Russian)
Good gallery. A good number of good Chivettes.
Injured the fuck out of myself making chili.
Don’t do that.
Move along, nothing to see here.
The FBI in Georgia stopped the forensic analysis of shredded ballots, took the ballots away from the forensic team and brought them back to the shredder.
The FBI demanded that they had jurisdiction of the review of ballots in Georgia. Then yesterday the FBI took control of the shredding truck and materials and demanded the shredding operation be completed.
Mozilla is assho.
Mozilla, developer of the Firefox internet browser, has argued that more must be done to keep Donald Trump and other “bad actors” out of cyberspace, prompting many to vow to never use the group’s services again.
In a blog post titled ‘We need more than de-platforming’, the open-source software community said that Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Trump from its platform didn’t go far enough in weeding out “hate” on the internet. While blaming Trump for the “siege and take-over” of the US Capitol on January 6, the non-profit tech group argued that “white supremacy is about more than any one personality.”
“We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done. Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms,” Mozilla wrote.
The group proposed a number of measures to help protect the internet from verboten views. Internet ads should list who paid for them, how much they are paying, and who is being targeted, Mozilla said. There should also be “meaningful transparency” of platform algorithms so that people can examine what kind of content is being promoted.
“We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done”
Let’s call it Action T4.
Leftists are thinking more along the lines of Order 66.
It’s the new Hollywood Blacklist, from the people who think they’re so heroic for saying how evil the original Blacklist was.
Julius and Ethel are innocent!
Assuming the FBI story is true, it’s shenanigans like that that have people so angry. It’s not so much that the election was necessarily stolen, it’s that they really appear to be going out of their way to do the shadiest shit possible when looking and more importantly not looking into it. Did Biden actually win? Maybe, probably even, but ultimately the process was so sloppy that who the hell knows?
If Biden won, fair and square, why hide from it. If I won, and I knew it was legit, I’d be clamoring even louder than my opponent for an investigation. Every possible indicator is pointing towards a fraudulent election. The most prominent is the absolute insistence that nobody mention the possibility of fraud. Not that there isn’t a massive degree of doubtful elements elsewhere, just that the reaction to any slight hint of wrongdoing is an obvious tell that the left is lying.
That’s certainly the standard they applied to Trump during the Russia hoax. They said that his anger about the investigation was just more evidence of his guilt. After all, as they said, why would he worry about the investigation if he knows he’s innocent? Shouldn’t he welcome that kind of thing?
Funny how standards just fly out the window as soon as it’s convenient.
Meanwhile secret evidence and star chambers for the Russian hoax. Still haven’t named the supposed whistleblower.
How’s life inside of that vacuum? Other evidence matters. Context matters.
Absolutely, it’s extremely fishy to say the least.
Exactly. And why kick out the observers when you can rub their faces in it, watching vote after vote for Biden?
“white supremacy”
These people are nuts.
I stopped using Firefox after they got rid of Eich. I use his Brave browser now.
I stopped using Firefox when better alternatives came out. But yeah, not going back now.
The whole open source movement is getting taken over by Marxists just like every other institution in America and it’s fucking revolting. People used to say with a straight face that such folks leaned libertarianish—LOL those days are long gone.
LOL I’m sure Google will get right on that. ?
I can’t even keep up with the stoopid this week.
There might be a lucrative future for you in DC as a Top Man; ya innerested?
Only if I can work from home.
This is nice,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOgyNfHl1U
Celebrating the patriarchy are we?
Damn Skippy! Someone’s gotta hold this shit together,
Mozilla, developer of the Firefox internet browser, has argued that more must be done to keep Donald Trump and other “bad actors” out of cyberspace, prompting many to vow to never use the group’s services again.
Didn’t somebody from Mozilla get twattermobbed, a while back? I guess the only lesson worth learning is how to keep the right boot on the right neck.
The fucking founder got booted because he was a Christian.
Contributed to some pro life groups wasn’t it?
He donated to some “traditional marriage” organizations with his own money on his own time.
I’ve said it before but inventing JavaScript was far worse than his other crimes.
^^^ This guy gets it. ^^^
Still, it’s not PHP.
*shudder*
T-bone steaks, smashed fried potatoes and aspargus on the menu tonight. Life is good
Mmmmm. Tell me you wrapped the asparagus in bacon.
Not tonight. Tossed in olive oil with salt and pepper. The potatoes were fried in homemade bacon fat though…so does that count?
The fucking founder got booted because he was a Christian.
That sounds about right. I was thinking it had something to do with allegations of “homophobia”.
He helped, again, with his own time and money, the Prop 8 campaign in CA.
And silicon valley went berserk at that point.
I have no kind words for those people. None, they want all dissent silenced and are going to line right up behind a strongman who will promise to eliminate their enemies. Because they “care so much”
And silicon valley went berserk
at that point.several years later, after Obama had switched from anti- to pro- gay marriage.If I won, and I knew it was legit, I’d be clamoring even louder than my opponent for an investigation.
This.
We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.
That’s a storybook, man!
I’m not enthusiastically endorsing this “if I were innocent I’d call for an investigation to prove it” because it plays into the “if you’re innocent you should have NOTHING to hide” and puts the burden of proof on the accused.
Agreed.
At the same time, I wouldn’t be mustering the power of the entirety of American media and government to bury any attempt at such an investigation. It’s a tad suspect.
Methinks they protest too much…
Nope. Nobody is facing prosecution here. Biden and Harris are going to serve under a cloud. It’s the asterisk presidency. Totes different when you’re prosecuting someone. The President of the US should always welcome investigations into election fraud. I don’t really believe that Trump was accused of faking votes. Just allowing the Ruskies to sway opinions ( which is a stupid metric, anyway.)
This.
This is about legitimacy. The burden is on those claiming power, not those acquiescing.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-08-at-5.53.21-PM.png?resize=768%2C732&ssl=1
Lol.
And another took a cock.
*Obama and Michelle pic*
“#DELETED: ‘Outspoken Trump Antagonists’ Led Facebook ‘Misinformation’ Efforts”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/28/deleted-outspoken-trump-antagonists-led-facebook-misinformation-efforts/
A bit old, but worth reading.
Today I learned the word “lesbianics”.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1348075177809223681
Ssssssassy! https://media.tenor.com/images/5c761c8f98fcd5ba90d61fde5455fe40/tenor.gif
Ok, I just installed Brave browser for mobile phones. I’m gonna check it out.
Yeah, I may have to bite the bullet and live without Eyepiece for a while. Between Mozilla fucking up their android browser and going full woke marxist, I’m done with them.
I love the duckduckgo app on my android – never tried any enhancements though.
You will cream in your jeans when you see…
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1348015016159686658
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1348055794546257924?s=20
They’ve got him this time!
Fuck the police! Except for that one.
“He hasn’t said a word”
Gosh, I wonder why?
How do these mutha fuckers even stand themselves?
In other news, I see that Facebook has made it difficult to save all your photos you’ve uploaded over the years. You can export it all as a massive file in a proprietary Facebook format, but then it’s useless to you w/o Facebook. So I’m going to set aside a few hours and just save every photo manually. It’s way more than time to do so.
Did they do this really recently? I d’led all my stuff when I quit FB about three weeks ago, and it’s all packed up in a ZIPfile which, when unZIPped, creates an HTML directory that you can use to surf through everything on your account. (There’s a lot of it.)
Ok, I will recheck. I probably misunderstood what they were offering.
I think all of the RINOs and Never Trumpers are creaming their jeans at prospect of being able to WFB the deplorables and unwashed out of their party.
Like him
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelSteele/with_replies
WFB?
Work from bome.
William F Buckley. Alluding to his work to expel the Birchers from mainstream conservatism.
Oh. Throw in Rothbard while you’re at it.
Murray who?
Those aren’t Catholic high school girls in trouble.
Not a Tampa Bay fan but hope they smoke WFT. 7-9 team in the playoffs is ridiculous.
Apologies to our resident redskins fans.
Not a Redskins fan but I loathe you-know-who so there’s that.
That’s fair
War At Lucasfilm – One Side MUST Win
Haven’t watched the Mandalorian. Perhaps I should give it a try.
Everybody loves baby (?) Yoda. Personally, I could care less. I was too busy getting laid to be a trekky or whatever the Starwars version is.
I don’t click on Star Wars youtube links because then all YT will feed me is SW clickbait garbage, but the real problem is that the two ‘sides’ here are both awful. The woke side makes cardboard flawless ‘heroines’ and POC sidekicks with ‘diversity as their personality so can’t write a story worth the paper it’s printed on, but the other side only wants nostalgia pandering like that robotic Luke hacking at robots in a copy of the fanboy wank scene from Rogue One. If all you want is the OT, just fucking watch the OT again. I’m so tired of fans creaming their pants over that scene “It’s Star Wars!” — no, it’s a copy of a copy of Star Wars. It’s like the bit in TROS when JJ copies the “X-Wing lifting out of the water” but with no understanding that the moment was revelatory because it directly refuted Luke’s beliefs that it was impossible. Rey had no such belief, no reason to be amazed, so it’s hollow repetition to invoke nostalgia, with no meaning within the film itself.
Anyway, I’ll restrain myself there, but basically both sides are going to destroy it, just in different ways.
I’m a strict original trilogist – I like to sit down with those three films and a six pack now and then, but the rest of them don’t exist as far as I’m concerned.
Hear, hear.
Prediction:
within the next few months, the Mark Steyn books that I purchased in Kindle format will be deleted from my library.
I wouldn’t buy anything that could be deleted.
Yep, hindsight is 20/20. Or 2021. Whatever.
Whatever it takes.
Mr Mom FTW!
Irv, I was never IN aisle seven!
My favourite line is from Jack’s “Young and the Restless” discussion with Alex.
“Kevin’s a skunk!”
“Yeah, but Kevin gets all the girls”
“He sure got Nikki!”
God I love that movie
Prediction:
Dems do pack the Supreme Court with 4 more justices, to offset Trumps picks which everyone knows are illegitimate because Trump Insurrection at the Capitol.
Well the only one who is guaranteed to judge in terms of real libertarian principle is Gorsuch, and you will get a few opinions incidentally from Thomas, perhaps Barrett, Alito, on occasion, but in general I think you’re rarely going to get more than two or three justices taking the side of liberty. Six, eleven, thirteen; a majority is a majority. You only get one Gorsuch.
It will get very interesting if they try. Didn’t work when FDR tried it. Will it work today?
Mainly because FDR’s own party opposed it. Don’t see today’s Dems opposing.
Also, FDR lost the battle but won war.
-9 switches in time
I think that would lead to actual, for real, rightwing insurgency. Are the dems that stupid? Or is it part of the plan? Push the right so far that they react, then use that reaction to impose even more draconian measures?
I’ll just say that if I wanted to encourage the rise of an actual, no-shit white nationalist extreme right insurgency, I couldn’t think of a better plan than what the Democrats are currently doing.
Just make disaffected rural whites feel like they don’t matter, they’ll be defrauded out of their votes, and their speech will be censored. The ballot box and the soap box have been taken away from them – anyone remember what the next part is?
And I don’t say this with any glee at all; I’m non-white but fucking hate SJW/socialist shit. If civil war breaks out between those two sides, what the hell am I supposed to do?? I think peaceful secession really is the best possible option at this point, and a lot of powerful people don’t want that to happen.
I’ll just say that if I wanted to encourage the rise of an actual, no-shit white nationalist extreme right insurgency, I couldn’t think of a better plan than what the Democrats are currently doing.
I keep having the same thought.
I think there might be a rise in racist groups, but for the last 4 decades conservative popular movements have made a concerted effort to proselytize minorities, and have denounced the racists who try to co-opt the movement.
I doubt very much there is any significant rise in racist groups except for on the left. Its pretty white up here in E. WA and N. ID and I meet all sorts of locals. There are racist comments, jokes, ect. but I haven’t seen any actual hostile behavior and the main characteristic required for acceptance is no being a lefty.
I’ll just say that if I wanted to encourage the rise of an actual, no-shit white nationalist extreme right insurgency, I couldn’t think of a better plan than what the Democrats are currently doing.
I think an extreme right wing insurgency will happen far before a white nationalist movement will happen, so you don’t need to worry (well, at least not about that one particular thing). There are a lot of non-white conservative firebrands, so who’s going to kick out allies just because of their skin color? The left isn’t just targeting white people, they are targeting all non-left people, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Heck, it’s entirely possible that a non-white person could be leading the right wing insurgency.
Met some friends out for restaurant dining this evening. It was their first time out since March for indoor dining.
A lil tense to start…
Tense because they were afraid or what?
Afraid Sean’s thumbs were going to poke them in the eyes.
I thought maybe it was because his friends had forgotten how to use cutlery.
Yes. Covid scared.
Speakeasy, or legal?
PA is back to legal now.
Powerline Blog Week in Pictures Jan. 9th, 2021.
That Simpsons clip looks just like Buffalo guy. Either it was shopped or we live in a simulation run by Matt Groening.
LOL-worthy as always.
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Yeah, we binged the movies over New Years.
OMG the sidecar pups
They could have had Gary Coleman or a porn star. Californians make poor decisions.
Pretty sure everyone in CA was on the ballot that year. Gubernatorial candidates actually may have outnumbered Starbucks locations. I should have ran, myself, come to think of it.
By the way, if the recall is successful enough to get it on the ballot, Donnie two scoops needs to run.
https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1347628023252717575
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Well, Amazon just gave Parler the boot based on this Buzzfeed article.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws
Never used Parler or visited the site, since I’m purging all social media minus this shithole of wrongthink.
Since I read the article 5 minutes ago, I’ve already cancelled my Amazon HD Music subscription and I’ll be looking for other alternatives going forward when purchasing items online. Not that it will make a difference, but I let them know how I feel about censorship. I also let them know they can cancel my Prime account if they don’t approve of the way I think.
Guess I’ll have to do the same with my Amazon music. I’ve found it to be as buggy as hell on mobile anyway.
Just cancelled my Audible account through Amazon as well, and I won’t be buying or renting any more movies to watch on their platform. It’s nothing to them, but that’s $340 bucks a year they won’t be getting from me anymore.
Like many here, I’ve been purging or walking away from many things that used to consume my time and money. I’ve blacklisted all corporate news media for years, but I’m more diligent about it now. I quit Facebook and a Bears football blog that I posted at all the time this year and don’t miss either. Both turned into political shitfests.
I really hope there is a mass movement by people to start voting with their pocketbooks and eyeballs. Just stop giving these companies money and clicks. Kind of like the Democrat Walk Away movement.
Supporting companies that behave in ways I don’t like that deal in isolated markets doesn’t bother me that much but Amazon and Google and a few others that have their hands in everybody’s pie are especially dangerous when they decide to go this route.
I admire what you’ve done.
I know I will have to give up Amazon. It’s going to be very difficult for me.
All these companies that are falling all over themselves to censor non-lefties do realize that 75 million Americans voted for Trump, right?
Thanks Hayek. I’ll still keep using Amazon for now, but I’m going to cut out a lot of my bigger purchases, especially for business supplies. Many of these are once a year purchases that I can get direct from the supplier or manufacturer.
Maybe I’ll start using the Best Buy model for purchases: go to Amazon to look at the options, then go direct to the supplier or another seller to buy it.
I’ve already purged Google from my life, except for a burner email account. But, there is the big elephant in the room – Youtube. That is going to be VERY hard for me to stop using. I’ve cut back where I can find certain content elsewhere, but it’s like 90% of my screen viewing time, especially live music and how to videos.
Some people watch YT via a browser with an adblocker of some sort and supposedly no ads will play. All of the benefits to you with none of the ad revenue for them but I can’t say I’ve done it personally.
Yeah, I’ve never seen ads on youtube through my computer that’s hooked up to the TV. That’s the only way I use it. If I watch on the phone or through the Roku the ads piss me off, so rarely do it. Thanks for making me feel better about it!
I agree with what you said above about the distinction of Google or Amazon or Facebook compared to small businesses. I live in a college town, so lots of lefty businesses. I can roll my eyes about their politics because they don’t have the same effect as giant tech.
I have adblock plus. I generally see no ads while on youtube.
I’ll give it a try, I’ve been using YouTube Red but feel kind of bad about giving them money every month even if it isn’t much. Gracias.
I would gladly switch to an alternative to YT, but I haven’t found one. All of the alternatives either suck or are mostly political content.
When I can watch a live stream of SpaceX testing a rocket on a different service, I’ll switch.
I have never seen a Youtube ad.
That said, there are a couple models of adblocker. Some block the ads on your machine but still download them, and others block ads at the source and presumably don’t even download them and therefore don’t feed the beast. I am not certain if these principles apply to Youtube ads, which are of course more than just images.
TL;DR – I don’t know if my blocking Youtube ads denies them any revenue. I do get a “skip ads” button when there is an ad – do y’all?
I never see a “skip ads” button. Like DEG, I use Adblock Plus.
I use something called “Wipr” for Safari. I would like to know if it denies revenue but that information is difficult to find.
I get it after the current ad has run for like 5 sec
Trying to wipe 75 million people, and it’s really more than that, from the public square is not going to work out well at all. Inevitable disaster incoming.
Shit. I’ll never be able to give up Amazon.
Yeah, it’s an uphill battle for me to get the family off of prime. I guess I’ll have to broach the subject with the wife and start dropping hints here and there.
Easier than, say, dumping China for those so inclined.
Mt Bohemia report for PP:
I worked at the bottom terminal of their main lift all of the time I was there. I would say the mountain definitely has some challenging skiing for being in the midwest. I estimate that the top third of the mountain was relatively steep with a lot of varied terrain. Looks like they have a fair amount of tree or glade skiing. It is a ski area of the old school variety. No snowmaking and very basic skier services at the bottom. There was about 2 feet of snow there at the time but they won’t open until there is at least 3 at the top. They expected to open around the 15th of this month.
Yooper sure like their ditch banging (riding snowmobiles along side the roads). Snowmobile riders everywhere and despite MI closures, I saw a lot of bars surrounded by sleds but no one visible outside. I suspect that they were inside drinking and eating.
Thanks Plinker. I’ll have to check it out sometime. It sounds a lot like how Whitecaps used to be before they got groomers, but a little more challenging.
I’m guessing snowmobile traffic is really heavy up that way and all along Lake Superior because the rest of the UP and everywhere else has relatively little snow this year. We’ve only had about 6 inches total by me, and usually it’s at least 3-4 times that by now. Hopefully they get lots more in the next month before I go up there for a snowmobile trip. Otherwise we’ll probably ended up there, but not by choice on this trip.
Nice music selection, Spud!
Bonus Oscar Peterson.
Children of Time is so good, I’m considering getting it for mom. Imagine that, a book I was gifted from dad, I’m gong to gift to mom. I sing the praises of Neal Stephenson all the time, and Adrian Tchaikovsky is up there. Well, not really. Stephenson is, well, Stephenson. But this book is quite good. It’s not actually close. Stephenson is on another world. The Baroque Cycle is otherworldly.
If you have one book to read this year, make it Cryptonomicon three times over. And if you have four books to read, squeeze in a read for Children of Time, it’s very entertaining. But shame yourself for not reading Cryptonomicon again. And who reads just one book a year, you dumb illiterate fuckwit.
I’m re-reading Philip Jose Farmer’s “Dayworld” trilogy but it’s taking me forever because since WFH started I only read in bed now.
I only read in bed now
HOT.
I wish.
I’m going on four years now.
Every time NBC shows some Goodyear footage of the Capitol that’s my cue to flip to another channel for a couple minutes.
/that’s so 2021
“Washington “One-China” Policy Dead As Pompeo Lifts Restrictions On US-Taiwan Relations”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-one-china-policy-dead-pompeo-lifts-restrictions-us-taiwan-relations
Ha! Poisoning the well on the way out. Too little too late but bravo.
Wow. That’s huge but of course Beijing Biden will add it to the long list of initiatives he will claim to reverse on DAY ONE. And I suspect this one will get a bit more attention than the rest.
Should have done it four years ago, it’s the right thing to do but maybe not under the circumstances. This might get China’s hackles up right before Biden sells them out completely (if he has the balls that is).
This would normally make China go absolutely apeshit, but their reaction now should tell us a lot about how far they’ve got Biden in their pocket.
Wonderful! Should have been done years or decades ago.
RIP. More balls than most of our brass
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Qinxian
Yeah, RIP.
Wow.
Also, a timely reminder that things could be a lot worse here in the US than the current stupidity.
*checks back in on the news cycle for the first time in a few days*
So, Trump makes a few relatively innocuous Tweets, retweets the fact that many of his supporters are protesting in DC, ineffectual theatrics ensue, a few people die, amounting to little more than what we saw all summer, in many cases less, thus: An insurrection and the boogeyman of Trumpaloos that the Left always wanted finally happening. Oh, and the US Capitol is apparently a religious institution now. So that’s neat.
I mean, of course it was a legitimate attempt to overthrow the sitting government and implement their own leadership from among the tens of thousands in a disorganized mob and not a final fit of empty rage against a system that thoroughly defeated them.
Now, the authoritarian progressives have enough control to gaslight enough of us to implement everything they want over the next two years at the very least.
I mean, I kinda expected the the progressives to tighten the screws but I can only laugh at the Trump supporters in that crowd who thought that they would accomplish anything more than handing the DNC/Media another excuse to go even more authoritarian. What, did you expect a fair shake in relation to your actions in comparison to Antifa/BLM? Fucking idiots.
Next time, storm the Capitol armed to the teeth or stay the fuck home. You only hurt your own cause, jack-offs.
Yup. Although, I doubt there was much intention to actually storm the Capitol, seemed more like when my cat actually corners a squirrel on the balcony and then has no idea what to do. Or the guy at the bar yelling “let me go”, and then is horrified when his buddies actually let him go.
Exactly. That ties into my thoughts about the Capitol police. They led the protesters into a trap and they had no idea what to do because I think many didn’t expect to actually get there and had no real general desire to cause anybody physical harm. Just howling into the void before witlessly stepping over the ledge.
I suspect the Capitol Police were just as surprised as the squirrel my cat cornered. Did you watch the one with the cop retreating with his baton and the guy following him up the stairs? Neither one had the passion to actually attack the other, even though both had opportunities to do so.
I don’t buy into the “they were lured into a trap” theories. I kind of the feel that since none of the Trump rallies showed signs of violence, the capitol police were complacent and didn’t anticipate the Q wackos and other fringers that showed up too.
See my comment below.
Look, I know I’m just talking out of my ass but it’s Saturday night, I’m home, alone, bored, and have nothing better to do than spitball.
I’ll do as usual and give it the 48 year rule to sort it out 😉
I don’t have 48 years left 🙂
Neither do I, and I’m only 40. Over half a lifetime of hard living is catching up quickly. But no worries on my end. I’m sure our soon to be nationalized health care system will treat me as an individual who’s well being is their primary concern and not as a lifelong tax dodging borderline outlaw with a few harvestable organs worth ripping out of my still living body in order to get a return on investment. Nevermind that the way I choose to live has excluded me from every bailout check over the last ten plus years and I’ve never taken a penny in government subsidies. I’ll be one of the first late-middle aged people on the chopping block…at least they can’t make any money off my liver and lungs…fuck you, USHS!!!
“What’s on your donor card?”
“What’s on your donor card?”
No…
I don’t expect that to be honored in ten to fifteen years.
Coviaids179 demands that you sacrifice your organs for someone younger and better connected!
I did not. But I suspect any order that my conspiratorial mind has conjured up wouldn’t be passed along to the rank and file. I was thinking more along the lines of department heads making it a point to keep the boots on the ground unprepared with a select few in the proper areas opening the proverbial flood gates. I’ll concede that many cops in the Capitol building were legitimately confused and panicking. In no small part due to the intended lack of organization.
*adjusts tinfoil jockstrap*
Gotta keep the jewels safe… well at my age I guess not. I’d be in my seventies before the freeloader left home.
…misthread, or am I too stoned to follow?
Ah, just got it.
Yep, too stoned to follow…ha!
P.S.
This new weed is called Rainmaker…it’s really, really good.
God Bless Murder Mountain.
Cool cool. I’ve decided we’d doesn’t help my allergies, although appropriately sized hits of concentrate… well they make my sinuses go crazy too, but are easier to manage.
OMG baby is baking cookies for my mom, I don’t know if there will be any left to bring over tomorrow.
Try some shatter or diamond if you can afford it. Especially the diamond. It’s basically just THC crystal and should ease any sort of allergic reaction that you’re having with the plant.
Worth a shot, anyway.
It was an excuse to do what they were already going to do, just a couple of weeks earlier. Not exactly a swift move on MAGA’s part though.
Yep. And I don’t completely buy the ‘Response was slow due to bureaucratic red tape narrative’ even though it makes us feel better about ourselves. “Ha! Ineffective government!” …The Capitol police basically stepping aside for the protesters to me screamed: “We have orders to allow you to commit political suicide, welcome in.”
“Now, the authoritarian progressives have enough control to gaslight enough of us to implement everything they want over the next two years at the very least.”
They would have always come up with something. Hell we’re with the point with the media where they wouldn’t even report anything the government didn’t want them to.
NBC literally hired former CIA director John Brennan as an “analyst”.
As Dave Smith said, “If we did have North Korean-style state-run media, how would it look any different from what we have now?”
Brennan is a major scumbag.
“PBS is an American public broadcaster”
“Al-Jazeera is in funded in whole or part by the Qatari government”
Hey everyone. I’m sure somebody has already made the quip (about the first link) about “We need some muscle over here.” If not, consider it made and also I’m very disappointed with you people.
I will now read the comments backwards and screw up the threads beyond any hope.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErUHHRBXMAMaH7h.jpg
que?
It’s so much easier when they just accidentally leave a tentacle porn page open. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. This is not one of those times.
I have no idea what is going on there.
Thank you for the gorgeous music.
You’re welcome.
https://youtu.be/IR2QmRJNS4w
Sorry for the shit-posting.
Just killing time until it’s time to pass out. It’s about that time…I should type the word time few more times.
Time for your regularly scheduled programming…time.
Where the white bitches at?
I got to them first.
It should go without saying that the Bro don’t do sloppy seconds.
Sigh. I’m over the hill.
In fairness, your current avatar is misleading.
Well, that is true.
I made that FACEBOOK. Zip file that contains all my photos and videos etc,
In creating it, they gave all kinds of options on what to include or leave out, like comments you’ve made, pages liked, etc. Some of the options listed were surprises to me.
I’m going to pare it back, make sure I have an email address for friends I’ll actually miss, and eventually delete it.
I never joined Reddit, Instagram, or any of the others. I deleted my Imgur account.
Next up will be unsubscribing from as much as I can stand.
And no more kindle-only content.
Amazon will be more like a painful, messy divorce…
I reflected back on my life and asked myself when was the last time a leftist tried to persuade me in good faith of the correctness of the leftist approach to government by using logic (however flawed) and explanations rather than name calling or appeals to societal consensus.
I think the last time was in undergraduate college.
Instead of teaching how to present and defend a thesis, lefties teach how to neutralize an opponent by using emotional appeals, then elitist dismissal, then name-calling, then censorship, and finally character and career assassination.
I reflected back on my life and asked myself when was the last time a leftist tried to persuade me in good faith of the correctness of the leftist approach to government by using logic (however flawed) and explanations rather than name calling or appeals to societal consensus.
I think the last time was in undergraduate college.
Instead of teaching how to present and defend a thesis, lefties teach how to neutralize an opponent by using emotional appeals, then elitist dismissal, then name-calling, then censorship, and finally character and career assassination.
Next thing you know, they’ll send in squirrels saboteurs.
I was going to say that this all got worse under Obama, but I learned the above at about the age of 12 dealing with these people online. I don’t know if it’s just the sort of people that left wing ideology attracts or whether it’s a symptom of group think, for a lack of a better term for it. The major institutions, starting with the media, all reinforce their ideas. And they do so in a way that makes it seem like both the basic goodness and intelligence of the ideas are beyond reproach.
Now do firsting.
Firsting is about establishing a natural hierarchy. It is a battle of wills that when done fairly and squarely is the most libertarian activity one can engage in. And I am the First of Firsters.
Anyone still about?
It’s just you and me, Festus. Tonight you are an honorary Firster, The others, the day walkers, have all abandoned us.
But I done wanna be no fister…
You were just offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Like casting pearls before swine.
Here and accounted for!
there was a time not too long ago when I didn’t miss a word at Glibs
I can’t keep up. Too much work. I’m a completest so it bothers me.
Yesterday Suthen said some very nice things to me and even sent along many tunes. I hold him in the highest regard. High praise. High praise indeed!
Indeed. Suthenboy is certainly a man among men. I would trust him implicitly.
Yep. Although we’re about the same age, I told him years ago that when I grow up I want to be just like him. We share similar musical tastes, as well.
What happened to pita bread? Always used to be in the bread aisle since I was a kid. Now, only a few stores seem to carry it anymore.
It’s all flat-bread now. Give me a loaf of Wonder White and Kraft Singles, margarine and a can of Campbell’s and we’ll have a cozy luncheon.
Wonder bread, also hard to find and doesn’t taste the same. None of it does. First the bakeries added crap and fillers in. Then they took those and other stuff out. I don’t want a vitamin supplement. I just want a loaf of sliced bread.
The bakeries around here are Bimbo (which has fucked up Oroweat’s recipes), US Bakery (no longer the home of the good bread as their long time slogan went), or store private label. I miss the old days.
Maybe you are aware that the word “bimbo” in Japanese means “poor” as in having no money.
Not living up to their name. Grupo Bimbo has mucho dinero.
I just eat what Judi buys. I’m not really in a position to complain, overmuch. She braves the grocery store and I get what she brings home. In all honesty, going shopping with the mask on brings on a low-level panic attack.
That’s a good wife right there. I wouldn’t complain either.
Yes. First Rate. I love her to pieces.
Pita bread is surprisingly easy to make. I haven’t bought bread at the store since 2009.
What happened to breadmakers? Everyone had a fucking breadmaker at home and now no one does.
Mother would have turned 73 today. I wonder how much fun she is having chasing after ghostly banners in Purgatory.
https://newschoolbeer.com/home/2021/1/portland-brewing-permanently-closed-reactions
Well damn. Pyramid to be brewed in NY now.
More wheels coming off the bus. I think the high water mark for me was Fall 2000. Maybe Spring 2001.
Jeez, New York State has a climate more amenable to business than Portland or is it out of the frying pan and into the fire?
I’m out. Chicken noodle soup calls it’s Siren Song so I bid thee a hearty adieu!
suh’ fam?
TALL CANS!
Mornin
Mornin’, homey & Sean. Had to get up earlier than I’d have liked. Shut the cats out of bedroom because they disrupt the Mister’s sleep. Heard them fighting outside the bedroom door, and after that they wouldn’t leave me alone.
***SIGH!!!*** I’m a crazy cat lady now, I guess.
*waves hi*
Keto biscuits in the oven. This will be the first time trying this brand.
https://nutrail.com/products/nutrail-keto-butter-biscuits
Their nut granolas are delicious.
Have you tried carbquick ? Ive made biscuits with it, and they arent bad. Works well for gravy too, in lieu of flour
I have not.
These came out pretty good. Consistency was very good. Still needed more butter added though. Might be good with some herbs added next time.
Poro Tip: if you are declare idols of the state sacred, dectying thier desecration and you have gangs of similarly dressed people visiting violence on you political enemies, you are very nearly the text book definition of fascist.
Not that it is a useful term anymore, but still.