IFLA: The “Day to Day” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of February 7

by | Feb 7, 2021 | IFLA | 140 comments

I don’t usually break things down like this, but there are a lot of planetary whizzing-byes going on, and since enough of them involve MERCURY RETROGRADE, they’re probably worth warning you about.

Sunday starts of as normally as anything can with MERCURY RETROGRADE going on.

Monday:  MERCURY RETROGRADE – Sol – Jupiter.  Chaos and misrule with relation to governments.  Practical jokes going horrifically wrong.

Tuesday:  The Earth – MERCURY RETROGRADE – Sol.  Discord at home, Horticulture failures.  Beverages tasting foul.

Wednesday:  The Earth – Moon – MERCURY RETROGRADE.  Even greater domestic discord than Tuesday.  Hazards involving water.

Thursday:  Earth – Moon – Sun.  Compared to the others this isn’t bad at all.  It’s good for occult powers, subterfuge, shady dealings and the like.  But it can also indicate the end of a run of good luck.  Since nobody’s having one of those right now, that interpretation can be safely discarded.

In visitations, this week is very much like the last.  The position of the moon in Sagittarius indicates it’s a good time for hunting, though I have no idea if anything is in season.

While the skies promote a general overall wellness, some of you have apparently been poking karma with a sharp stick, because this week’s cards are even worse than last week’s  Stop doing that, whoever you are.

Aquarius:  Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity

Pisces:  Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord

Aries:  6 of Coins reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion

Taurus:  King of Swords –  Judgment, power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law

Gemini:  Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.

Cancer:  6 of Wands – Victory great news

Leo:  The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated

Virgo:  The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality

Libra:  Wheel of Fortune Reversed – Increase, abundance, superfluity, bad luck

Scorpio:  4 of Coins – The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.

Sagittarius:  Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.

Capricorn:  The World reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.

 

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140 Comments

  1. KromulentKristen

    Aries: 6 of Coins reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion

    Come on, man!!

    • Hyperion

      Y’all get it right. CCP SloJo is way too lazy and senile for that much enunciation.

      It’s c’mon man!

      • KromulentKristen

        He stole that schtick from Chris Berman! Anti-Semite!

      • KromulentKristen

        Wrong sportscaster. But SloJoe did steal it. Carry on.

    • Brochettaward

      I have been taking a backseat from Firsting lately. I’ve even tried to refrain from telling you people that you are doing it all wrong but you are doing it all wrong.

  2. egould310

    I just can’t get into astrology. I was never very good at physics. Went to visit NASA once as a kid, that was cool.

    The Night Before https://youtu.be/WwE5hUx2lMs

  3. Hyperion

    #CapricornsRpeople2

    FAKES NEWS!

  4. Hyperion

    Hate to interruptz the fake news with real news so soon, but…

    The coronavirus lockdowns was just the practice session. Get ready for the real lockdowns.

    Forever Lockdowns

    • KSuellington

      I don’t doubt they will try. The lockdowns seem to have caused some increase in global warming, but they can likely make those pesky numbers disappear if needed.

      • hayeksplosives

        I’ve seen a few “photo essays” of clearer skies in third world cities, animals reoccupying “human” areas, etc.

        Now they’ve started making the leap from feelz to crippling regulations.

        Never mind the costs in human or economic terms, proggies gots to have their control over everyone’s lives.

      • Ted S.

        The proggies think it won’t cost them, just everybody else.

        Shut down the Beltway, barricade every road leading into DC, and close the parking lots at the Pentagon and every other federal agency outside DC and let the government class deal with a car-free existence first.

      • hayeksplosives

        Good thought, but these elitist dicks always make sure that they get theirs, despite any privations they might impose on the little people.

      • rhywun

        The sooner a majority of people realize this has nothing whatsoever to do with “climate” and everything to do with “power”, the sooner we can hopefully put a stop to this nonsense.

      • Tulip

        Hah hah hah.

    • rhywun

      *gazes out the window at snowstorm, clears throat*

      No.

  5. Ownbestenemy

    Like death and taxes…these remain constant in the universe it seems

    Sagittarius: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.

  6. egould310

    I am obsessed with this song/video/performance. Four minutes of bliss.

    Formidable by Sylvain Sylvain https://youtu.be/ZvPfLcrXljg

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.

    Sentence first. Trial afterward.

  8. westernsloper

    Gemini: Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.

    Whatever. Have a Cigar.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Just the traits needed to overthrow Central African overlords.

  9. juris imprudent

    Discord at home

    Ha! The wife won’t be here this week – dodged that one.

    Aries: 6 of Coins reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion

    She’ll be visiting friends in Florida and I’m home with the dogs and the winter weather. Maybe I didn’t win this one.

    • Suthenboy

      Mrs. Suthenboy goes once per year to Florida with her buddies for a week to ten days. I stay home and keep the dogs. I enjoy the quiet time but that usually just means I drink far too much.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Re: the idiot woman and her Trump-loving neighbors who plowed her driveway-

    They probably realized, based on observation, she was much too feckless to ever figure out what to do on her own.

    • DrOtto

      I just tried to view the original Twat, it’s since been taken private.

  11. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Virgo: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality

    So I guess this week won’t be an appreciative improvement.

  12. egould310

    Just cracked a beer. Mac & Jack’s Resolution IPA. Gonna assemble my rib rub https://www.foodiecrush.com/dry-rub-for-ribs/

    I’m rubbing it on everything, we are gonna bbq some meat today. Baby back ribs, a quartered chicken, 2lb pork belly, 2lbs chicken wings, 2 Italian, 2 bratwurst, 2 chorizo sausages. I’m making bbq beans with smoked pork shank, collard greens, potato salad. I’ve got Old Grand Dad, Wild Turkey, Jim Beam, Evan Williams, Old Forester, Bulleit rye. Wine if necessary.

    Cooking, drinking, eating, football. Leftovers for weeks.

    • Cy

      ‘Murica, Fuck YEAH!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sounds good!

    • Pi Guy

      You had me at “Pork & Whiskey.”

  13. Ownbestenemy

    Gameday Menu if ai choose to watch hockey and maybe the SB.

    Blood & Honey American Ale
    Shiner Bock
    Bacon wrapped chicken and hotdogs.

    Eating like a king all alone

    • Suthenboy

      I am frying chicken wings tonight. I suspect my Wife may have married me solely for my fried chicken wings. She tells me they are better by far than any she has ever bought in a restaurant. Happy wife = happy husband.

      • creech

        “better by far than any she has ever” That’s what my wife says too, but she ain’t referring to fried chicken wings.

  14. The Other Kevin

    I’m going to watch the Blackhawks today. They don’t suck nearly as bad as everyone expected. It’s kind of fun to watch a team of mostly rookies. And they somehow have a good goalie.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    I’m behind the curve on this snowplow story.

    I also can’t give my neighbors absolution; it’s not mine to give. Free driveway work, as nice as it is, is just not the same currency as justice and truth. To pretend it is would be to lie, and they probably aren’t looking for absolution anyway.

    But I can offer a standing invitation to make amends. Not with a snowplow but by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration and, more important, by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed. Only when we work shoulder to shoulder to repair the damage of the last four years will we even begin to dig out of this storm.

    You can’t offer absolution, but you can demand that they confess their sins and repent their heresies and prostrate themselves before you and your co-religionists and beg forgiveness, and work off the debts they incurred by not agreeing with you.

    Do the world a favor. Go out in your garage and hang yourself, you miserable inhumane blob of protoplasm.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      She’s not considerate enough, unfortunately.

  16. KromulentKristen

    We’re doing a VERY traditional Super Bowl menu – takeout Ethiopian food, devil’s lettuce, and White Russians.

    • Cy

      Whew boy am I an idiot. I just googled ‘devil’s lettuce’ and actually face palmed.

      • KromulentKristen

        ???

    • l0b0t

      That sounds like perfection. If I may be so bold, perhaps make it a special day by upgrading those White Russians to a frozen milkshakey version with some vanilla or coffee ice cream?

      • KromulentKristen

        Fuckin-a

        * texts colleague to see if he has a blender *

      • Nephilium

        /taps KK

        Ice cream maker. It’ll work better, you just have to keep the alcohol content low enough that it’ll set up.

        If I’m still writing cocktail articles, that will be discussed come spring.

      • l0b0t

        Also, while likely too late for tonight, liquid nitrogen can be readily obtained from Tri-Gas or your local equivalent gas supplier and works a treat for making instant ice cream or boozy slushies. Put all your ingredients into a large metal bowl, carefully add a 1/4 oz. ladle of LN2, then whisk like the Devil (using a metal balloon whisk) until the LN2 has evaporated and your product has reached the desired viscosity. Anecdotally, frozen Bourbon melting into your mouth is rather sublime.

    • Pi Guy

      So 2/3 of the way to “That rug really tied the room together.”

  17. Mojeaux

    Superbowl party:

    Mr. Mojeaux: sweepstaking while watching the game.

    Me: stitching Mahomes while watching the game, hoping to get it done by Father’s Day.

    Menu: chips, dips (chains, whips) and Cracker Jacks

    • Timeloose

      Best movie reference about a guy named Gary.

  18. hayeksplosives

    If my ailing husband, who’s slept at least 20 for hours a day for two weeks now (or is it three?) is feeling alright, we might nip down to the golf course bar for the game.

    I suggested we stay in and he finds out it he’s well enough to even be upright at home for a while, but he’s having none of it.

    If he goes to the club snd drinks, he’s well enough to do the housework I’ve been carrying along with my regular job.

    Yes I’m a bitch. No, I won’t be taken advantage of.

    • KromulentKristen

      Sorry he’s still poorly 🙁

      Hope y’all get to go out for a bit and he gets some housework done

    • hayeksplosives

      20 hours a day.

      20 for—-> da fuq?

    • Mojeaux

      You’re not a bitch. That’s just common sense.

      • Ted S.

        It doesn’t have to be “or”. 😉

      • Mojeaux

        I know you’re joking, but I’ll answer seriously:

        It doesn’t have to be an “or”, but in this case, it’s not.

        It is not being a bitch to expect your partner to carry some of the burden. That is what a spouse is supposed to do. A spouse is also supposed to carry the load when the partner is in sickness, but if he’s well enough to go party, he’s well enough to do dishes.

        If he’s sleeping 20 hours a day for 2-3 weeks, it means he’s depressed and needs to get treated so that he can be the partner he’s supposed to be.

      • hayeksplosives

        The depression angle is what I’m thinking is possible.

        Not getting out of bed usually means not looking forward to anything. But he’s recently found a band he likes who are looking for a bass player, snd the weather is great.

        Dude needs a hobby. Professional-.grade kvetching is not a hobby.

      • Mojeaux

        I’d say he needs a job, but I didn’t want to be too harsh.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’ve had depression for my entire adult life. Of course some times are better than others. The last year and a half has been brutal.

        It’s normally a seasonal thing. Winter is generally worse than the rest of the year.

        Last winter was horrible in the depression dept, and just as things were looking up, HS baseball season was well under way and the travel team I coach was just starting to become active, and BAM!

        Lockdowns hit, which drove me in to as deep a depression as I’ve had since my first heart attack in 2010.

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve had depression for my entire adult life.

        Same. I slept nearly my entire freshman year of college.

        I do not know how I made it through all those years being able to support myself. I did it, but I was more interested in surviving than I was overwhelmed by my depression.

        What I did was get a second job in the winter in retail so I was in the light and noise after dark. I’d go home exhausted and drop into bed. I don’t know how I did that, either.

        That said, I was/am also severely anemic, so there was a physiological component.

        Low carb helped a lot. I always say Dr. Atkins saved my life.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        As a stay-at-home dad, my children aren’t quite yet old enough for me to get a job again, and even if I did, my wife’s work travel dictates that I be able to take time off at a moment’s notice.

        And a night time gig wouldn’t work because the one really productive thing I do, coach youth baseball and help run an adult baseball league, all take place in the evenings from March-October.

      • Mojeaux

        Not to be too nosy, but do you have a hobby? Something you love to do? Maybe something you feel guilty about indulging time in?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        That said, what I would truly like is a part time job that I could do during school hours.

        I’m not looking to make bank, but something where I can feel like I contribute to society more than just raising bright young men who might someday do something good.

      • hayeksplosives

        Man, that sucks. For anybody who was borderline depressed coming into this lockdown craziness, it must be awful.

        I feel for you.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yes.

        Guitars and music.

        Plus I have a small hobby chicken farm.

      • westernsloper

        Looked to me like your hobby was collecting guitar pedals. ?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Looked to me like your hobby was collecting guitar pedals

        Lumped in with guitars.

      • hayeksplosives

        Uh….thanks?

    • l0b0t

      [Dreams of some magical, mystical Cloud Cuckoo Land where I’m not the sole housework provider] You go girl! Nothing helps goldbricking shirkadays convalesce like pushing a broom/mop.

      • Tulip

        I also dream of not being the sole person responsible for cleaning.

    • DEG

      Sorry about your husband still being sick.

      • hayeksplosives

        Thank you.

        (Deletes third attempt at adding snarky comment.)

        He’s my dog, Ma. I’ll do it.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        You and my wife could likely have some lovely conversation.

        Were it not for her graciousness and selflessness, I’d have been in any number of horrible spots by now.

  19. Timeloose

    I’ve just finished my sausage and beer cheese dip for the soup bowl at my dads house.

    It’s straightforward with Italian sausage, velveeta, caramelized onions and garlic, rotell, cumin, pepper, and Fresno/chipotle powder. Lager beer.

    Cook the sausage till well browned, cook onions and garlic till caramelized, add spices and cook till aromatic, rotell and cook for a few minutes, add cheese and half a beer. Reduce till it gets to the right consistency on low.

    It’s mild enough for my mom while flavorful enough for me and my dad.

    • hayeksplosives

      I can’t believe the twisted freaks on this site have not yet made

      It’s mild enough for my mom while flavorful enough for me and my dad

      Into a tasteless joke.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        Looks like you just did.  ;-)

      • Timeloose

        I threw that one out there and no one bit.

  20. Ted S.

    Nothing special for me regarding the Super Bowl, since the season ended two weeks ago.

    Elsewhere in sports, the bad news is that a Bundesliga match was postponed. The good news is that it was snow-related, not coronavirus-related.

    • rhywun

      The worse news for some of us is that Liverpool just shit the bed yet again. Stick a fork in them.

      • Ted S.

        It’s too bad both teams couldn’t lose. I don’t want to see Pep have success considering how he shit the bed with Bayern.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I don’t want to even get started on who they lost to. It sickens me.

    • Raven Nation

      Interesting developments in non-league English football. The National League North and NL South were put on hiatus a few weeks back. Now there’s a complicated vote taking place to determine if their seasons (and that of the National League) are going to continue. However, League administration decided that, if the vote were to continue NLS & NLN there would be too much fixture congestion if they waited for the 4-week voting window to close, so they re-started the leagues yesterday.

      EXCEPT, a bunch of clubs refused to play games because doing so without fans, and without grants, would probably lead them to bankruptcy. Here’s one example: http://www.ketteringtownfc.com/news/club-statement-3

      • rhywun

        I was expecting entire leagues to fold worldwide – a lot of them are probably just running on inertia and fumes at this point. It’s a different world below the petro-dollar leagues.

  21. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Fuckin’- A, doG bless Greenwald.

    A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power. Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.

  22. hayeksplosives

    Derp. I only just got the cover photo for this edition of IFLA.

    Well played.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not seeing whatever’s hiding there.

      • hayeksplosives

        A Mercury, retrograde.

      • limey

        Everybody knows you never go full retrograde.

      • rhywun

        There’s that r-slur again. SMDH.

  23. DEG

    Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated

    Huh.

    Kinda fitting I think.

    I was at the Free State Project’s Porcupine Day fundraiser last night. As part of the festivities, we watched the Thomas Sowell documentary. I recommend it. There was an afterparty at an undisclosed location. I suspect I missed an opportunity at the afterparty.

    • hayeksplosives

      Ooh, the documentary! I saw a few sneak preview commercials and then forgot to look for it once the full length version came out.

      Thanks for the reminder!

      Sorry you missed your chance at some mythical libertarian tail.

      • limey

        Yeah it’s on youtube. I mentioned it recently when it launched, but nobody replied. I wish I was smart like the Sowell man. See Thomas Sowell.

    • limey

      I heard that you FSP people are a bunch of kooks that got an entire town raped by bears. I mentioned something about this the other day after listening to the Bee interview with the guy that wrote the book, but nobody said anything.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power. Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.

    Politics-as-religious-fanaticism. Journalism, if you can still call it that, is its handmaiden.

    • Fourscore

      They don’t make ’em like that anymore. Hope that’s yours

  25. l0b0t

    Mardi Gras is cancelled by orders of Mayor LaToya Cantrell. No parades, balls, parties, formals or gatherings. A great many houses on the St. Charles St. parade route have decorated as float houses, some with sponsoring Krewes distributing throws to passerby. The mayor is cross at the idea of the commonweal having fun os she has no closed all bars, forbidden alcohol sales at restaurants, and banned package sales in the French Quarter, CBD, Treme, 9th Ward, Irish Chanel, and the Uptown areas around Tulane. On top of this, I’m hearing rumors that Brooklyn’s Peter Luger Steakhouse, the steakhouse against which all others are judged, may be closing after 134 years of continuous operation due to the State/City’s terrible reaction to the snifflecooties. Sigh… https://youtu.be/YBsRDKdHJuA

    • Mojeaux

      If we win the Superbowl, the mayor has already declared there will be no parade.

      I’m sorry, but there will be parades. It’s just that the Chiefs won’t be there.

    • hayeksplosives

      How are these people not run out of town on a rail?

    • KromulentKristen

      I’m hearing rumors that Brooklyn’s Peter Luger Steakhouse, the steakhouse against which all others are judged, may be closing

      What. The. Fuck.

      • rhywun

        It turns out you can’t run a business when your revenue has been cut by ~90%. Who would have thought?

      • Jerms

        Jesus if they cant make it, imagine the beating the rest of these places are taking.

    • DEG

      Fuck.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Trust SCIENCE? No way!

    In many states, teachers lobbied to be among the first to be vaccinated after health care workers and nursing home residents. But they also argue the vaccines alone are not enough to open schools. They want low levels of community spread. They want as many school staffers as possible vaccinated, which could take months. And they want assurances that schools won’t relax masking, physical distancing and other safety measures. “We’ve had concerns about some districts being more lax even before the vaccine,” said Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union.

    Dr. Mark Schleiss, a pediatrics professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, agreed that health measures must be enforced even after vaccination.

    “It’s unfortunate that people think life goes back to normal, that once we get the vaccine, the masks come flying off,” he said. “Vaccination doesn’t take things back to normal.”

    Let your conscience be your guide. You’re free to decide what you are willing to do.

    BUT- no workee, no money. You are not irreplaceable. Not even close.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      The idea that I’m not going to burn every fucking mask I own once the vaccine trickles down to me is fucking hilarious.

      I wear masks now when I’m in places that ask it if me. Not for safety or whatever, but so they don’t run the risk of being shut down.

      There’s no fucking way I’m wearing it after I’ve been vaccinated. Everyone else’s opinion can all eat shit.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    He’s my dog, Ma. I’ll do it.

    Whack him on the nose with a rolled up newspaper?

  28. Raven Nation

    The MIL has Fox News on. Lynn Cheney is doubling down. Although, I did find one of her comments odd. She said if she was in the Senate she would listen closely to all the evidence before making a decision. Wouldn’t that have been helpful during the indictment.

    She’s also made it very clear that she is going to be cheering on all the prosecutions against Trump. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to her in 2022.

      • But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

        Yikes!

      • Raven Nation

        Holy crap! Glad no one was anywhere near when that happened.

      • l0b0t

        Damn! That’s some frightening looking shrapnel. The run that was coming out hot, does that have to get cut and thrown back into the electro-furnace? How badly does something like this back up a run?

  29. The Late P Brooks

    I blame YOU

    New Orleans’ tax-funded tourism marketing organization is shifting blame for repeated violations of COVID-19 safety rules on Bourbon Street and in other areas that cater to tourists by accusing locals of being the problem.

    In an email addressing members and colleagues, New Orleans & Company CEO Stephen Perry wrote that residents were behind the recent scenes of “egregious unsafe behavior” that prompted Mayor LaToya Cantrell to impose controversial new rules that will go into effect for the final few days of the Carnival season.

    ——-

    “Our own residents created a dilemma for government,” the letter asserts.

    Perry also urged city officials, who have been scrutinized for lax enforcement of rules, to re-examine the way they handle code violations and “blatant” illegal public gatherings.

    “It wasn’t the small number of responsible tourists we have been hosting or the majority of our citizens and businesses,” Perry said.

    Perry also criticized “young people” of New Orleans, specifically referencing a recent party at Uptown bar Monkey Hill that was attended by throngs of college students.

    Those damn locals are fucking it up for the out of town bingers. Such a shame.

    • rhywun

      and blatant “illegal” public gatherings

      Fixed the scare quotes.

    • hayeksplosives

      And to think the straw that broke the camel’s ? back for the US colonists was just a tax on tea…

      Here we are being denied our rights to peaceable assembly, free speech (in effect if not in law), bear arms (ditto), freedom of religious practice, and we just wait it out while assuming it will get back to normal soon.

      But will it?

  30. Nephilium

    So just got back from laying in beer supplies to take over to watch the Superb Owl. Holy shit are there a lot of for lease and boarded up buildings in downtown Cleveland still. Stopped at three breweries and got three different schwarzbiers, an Imperial Stout, and a nut brown.

    I also met the owner of one of the breweries, he’s an immigrant from a formerly Communist country. To say he is black pilled would be an understatement. On the other hand, he appeared happy to chat with me as it provided some hope that not all of us idiot Americans are just fucking sheep voting for a dog to take care of us. And he gave me a couple free samples of their Dopplebock (not my favorite style, but who am I to turn down free samples from the owner of the brewery).

  31. Jerms

    Aquarius: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity

    I hope this means im gonna win a bundle on the game today. Looking to hit the middle. Putting money on Bucs +3 1/2 and the Chiefs at -155.
    Also love the over 41 1/2 total passing attempts by Mahomes.

    • hayeksplosives

      I didn’t put any money on the game, but I did enter one sweepstakes: RocketMortgage.

      I am in the process of refinancing (closing Friday) and one of the little RocketMortgage perks was entry into the Super Bowl sweeps. I got to pick a square, then yesterday they randomly assigned numbers corresponding to the last digit of a score.

      At every score change, they draw from entries with that score, with the winner getting $50k. Two overall sweeps winners get $500k each.

      I could have forwarded my unique link to friends so they could enter too and I’d get rewarded with another chance to win. But I refuse to spam my friends in that way. Mortgage companies are relentless.

      (BTW Quicken/RocketMortgage was super easy to do, and I had a real agent who spoke English and answered all questions I had. Had a direct phone number and email for him too. I’ve always used brick and mortar in the past, but I have no qualms about these guys.)

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of politics as religious fanaticism

    Florida Democratic Representative Val Demings said Saturday that she believes former President Donald Trump would sell U.S. intelligence briefings, if given the chance.

    “I believe this former president, and I believe it with all of my heart, would use intelligence as a bargaining chip or sell it to the highest bidder,” Demings said during an interview on MSNBC.

    “We don’t trust our former president, and neither do many of our allies around the world,” added Demings, who serves on the House’s Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Intelligence committees.

    Demings’ remarks come after President Joe Biden said that there is “no need” for Trump to continue receiving intelligence briefings following his departure from office.

    Obviously Trump is possessed by the devil, or vice versa.

    • Cy

      Gee, you mean, like Hillary Clinton did for years?

      • hayeksplosives

        The Clintons selling of US missile technology in the 90s to the Chinese damaged US security in ways that last to this day.

        Many of us DoD contractor types wanted them tried for treason over it.

        All for money. Campaign money so that they could get more power to get more money.

        Utterly irredeemable traitorous criminals.

      • Cy

        I was referencing the “email server” that no one has any idea of who actually logged into, while the Clinton foundation brought in Billions of dollars. But yeah, the missile sale was pretty egregious. I guess the worst thing to happen to her was some people wouldn’t let her be President. Truly a different world for people with the right last names.

      • hayeksplosives

        I know, I got off the email server thing. Sorry.

        I still see blood red when I think of what the Clintons did, what they’ve done for years. Even democrat John Q Voter would be shocked if they saw the trail of crime and depravity those two have left in their wake.

        Fortunately for the Clintons, there’s a MSM blockade for that.

      • Timeloose

        Those Rad-Hard chips are not easy to make. They get much easier to make once you have a few to reverse engineer.

        Those supercomputers were icing on the cake.

        Goddam POS Clinton’s.

      • rhywun

        And Biden and friends are almost certainly doing now?

        It’s almost like Trump is a distraction.

      • westernsloper

        Almost?

    • hayeksplosives

      Does “believe with all my heart” stand up in court?

  33. LCDR_Fish

    On the plus side, my buddy is reporting that business is better than ever – setting sales records every day this week – including folks coming from out of state.

    Here’s hoping this holds out and the state just drops this BS. Esp after that last interaction they had.

    • westernsloper

      ?

  34. westernsloper

    My super bowl snacks will be this.

    +pickled jalepenos

    I don’t have any bread in the house so I have to make some. (too lazy to go to the store this morning) It’s in the bread machine now.

  35. Muzzled Woodchipper

    From the “climate lockdowns” article:

    I’d start stockpiling gasoline if I were you.

    Ammo too.

    At this point in time, in light of what most people feel about Covid lockdowns, I can’t envision any circumstance in which a “climate lockdown” would have any sort of real compliance.

    People here in the heart of flyover country would laugh. We’ve begrudgingly played the Covid game, but not enthusiastically, and in the case of Covid there’s a non-zero chance of something bad happening imminently. With climate, there is no such chance.

    In fact, I suspect people here would simply sit their massive trucks in parking lots with the engines turned on.

    • hayeksplosives

      I still belong to a group called “Minnesotans for Global Warming.”

      There are plenty of actual documentaries about geology and the forces that led to the ecosystems of earth, and about more recent climate shifts that affected human migration and history. People watch them and not unreasonably conclude that, in fact, the climate does change, that it does so without regard to human activity, and that the changes aren’t necessarily bad.

      Gaia gonna Gaia, yo.

      • Suthenboy

        9 hours of historical geology, 6 in lab.

        Total of around 60 hours in earth sciences.

        The whole global warming story is a laughable scam. It is completely absurd yet so many hysterical people gobble up whatever horseshit is shoveled to them. I need to go build a cabin in the Atchafalaya basin.

  36. Steve

    “some of you have apparently been poking karma with a sharp stick, because this week’s cards are even worse than last week’s Stop doing that, whoever you are.”

    My bad

    • hayeksplosives

      Hey buddy, stop doing that.

      #imember

    • Suthenboy

      Same here. Almost no one is paying attention to the face diaper nonsense.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    All for money. Campaign money so that they could get more power to get more money.

    Non profit foundation business plan: Panhandle for donations to fund the panhandling operation.

    • rhywun

      See also: public sector unions.

  38. But Enough About [this space intentionally left blank]

    Karma just gave you folks Biden and Harris. What more could she possibly want to torture you with?

    • Cy

      This sword has a long way to go before we get to the hilt.

      • Steve

        FedGov just hit my state’s Department of Public Instruction with some mandated “corrective action.” Fun meetings in my immediate future.

      • Suthenboy

        Yep. The great reset requires the crushing of all private business.