The enforcement arm of the potato world.
Weird weather here, signalling the winter is going out and our schizophrenic spring is on it’s way. One the plus side, masks are slowly going the way of the dodo.
Let’s see what we can find in the news to trigger ourselves!
If true, Joe has some decisions to make, or not. But he will.
If you know Highway 1, this is known as winter.
Bill Gates has done such great things with his money, remember the genetically modified mosquitos he released in Brazil that created a breed of super mosquitos? He’s far from done.
Welp, that’ll get you through until Zoom starts. Peace out, Glibbies.
Whipping Post is far superior to Freebird, and I am a fan of the latter.
I concur.
Holy drum sets batman!
So.. at the Music Instrument Museum down in Arizona, they did have this drum set. If you can’t read the little card:
Two fantastic albums.
I liked the Music Instrument Museum. There was really cool stuff to see and you get to hear music too.
The biggest set I’ve seen live was Mike Portnoy’s 2 Headed monster kit during the Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence tour in 03.
Or
Neil Peart on any of the 8 times I’ve seen Rush.
Sure but for overlong southern rock dreck you can’t beat “Dreams I’ll Never See”
Molly Hatchet > Lynyrd Skynyrd > Allmans Bros
Molly Hatchet’s original line ups. What happened to that band after Lightning Strikes Twice, I think it was, was very sad.
Truth.
I’m not surprised you like Free Bird.
Gawd I hate these people.
Then drugs fell out of their asses.
It was in there before I checked the morning links. I was too lazy to take it out.
I did not need to look at Janet Yellens face again. You are the wurst.
Our long national nightmare is over
“Lady Gaga’s stolen French bulldogs were found tied to a pole by a mystery woman who will to pick up a $500,000 reward as the singer’s dad calls for the dognappers to face attempted murder charges for shooting walker”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9307273/Lady-Gagas-dad-calls-dognappers-charged-attempted-murder.html
*wipes brow* I have been on the edge of my seat over that one.
At least dad’s head isn’t jammed so far up his own ass it pops back out up to and looks normal.
My aunt told me about it. Isn’t it crazy. I’m like WTF.
There doesn’t seem to be too much faith that this vaccine works….
They want you to continue wearing masks (double or triple masks are even better!), and getting tested, even well after your second dose. This shit isn’t about science.
And it’s clear that the bureaucrat doctors and the actual doctors seeing patients are not together on this one. My wife went to the doctor twice in a week because of a cough, and they did not feel the need to test her either time because she didn’t meet very specific criteria (wasn’t around someone infected for an extended period), which says the doctors on the ground seem to disagree with the “we need people to continue getting tested furiously” bullshit being spouted by bureaucrats.
https://www.wkyt.com/2021/02/27/health-experts-push-importance-of-getting-covid-19-tested-even-if-youre-vaccinated/
It’s not a traditional “vaccine” if I understand correctly, so I don’t expect any of this theater to end unless the people are revolting.
My understanding is that the end result is the same (immune response to the virus) but the concern is that people may become asymptomatic carriers even with the vaccine.
It would seem to me that it’s an even more ridiculous concern than regular asymptomatic spread, which is a rounding error.
You said it they stink on ice!
I don’t know about revolting, but the very second I get my second shot (I don’t even have my first, and am in no hurry), I won’t wear a mask at all under any circumstances. Not even as a courtesy to businesses.
I’m already at the stage just below, which (for me) is to wear no mask as the default, and only out one on if a representative of a company asks me to, and there’s a good chance I’ll just walk out if he/she does rather than comply.
So neither was smallpox vaccine. Or at least the historical cowpox version of that vaccine.
“unless the people are revolting”
“They sure are!”
/Wiz of Id
The trial for the J&J vaccine had 7 deaths in the placebo group of 22,000 people. A 0.032% mortality rate. There’s nothing for the vaccine prevent. This is like when Baghdad Bob did his propaganda thing with American tanks in the background.
I have not reviewed the trial details, but I’m assuming they excluded the very old and those with severe comorbidities. If so, this would be the true mortality rate of covid for the majority of the population.
They did exclude old people.
When the FDA issues the EUA, it will likely be for people ages 18-65.
I doubt it. Moderna’s trial didn’t have anyone over 80 in it. There is no upper age limit for use.
‘The trial for the J&J vaccine had 7 deaths in the placebo group of 22,000 people. A 0.032% mortality rate.’
If true, that’s a mortality rate roughly on par with receiving a colonoscopy.
We should destroy the world’s economy and implement a mixture of Marxism and Fascism until we purge the world of deaths by insurance covered ass probing.
Hello covid anal swab tests.
The CCP truly are engineering the future…one indignity at a time.
As mentioned, it’s a Saturday, which means there will be a Zoom/Happy Hour/Third thing starting up tonight at 20:00 Eastern.
Hrm…maybe after my cajun feast. Gumbo and dirty rice. Could not find okra..not even frozen, file it is
“Could not find okra…”
There are very few things I don’t like. Okra is one of them.
I thought you had serious problems, and this confirms that suspicion.
Okra is disgusting. Nick has some serious problems but that is not one of them.
Word.
Sometimes you get lucky, OBE, this is your day
Oh yeah. I like that song.
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell didn’t rule out running for California governor after teasing a potential challenge to Gov. Gavin Newsom in his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Yuck. A swamp creature as a possible replacement for Newsom if the recall goes through? Assuming he is a swamp creature, he did work for Trump. Did McConnel suggest Grenell?
Orbital Assembly Corp., a California-based startup that wants to pioneer construction and infrastructure in outer space, has hit its $1 million fundraising goal and aims to open an operational luxury hotel in orbit in 2027.
Screwing in space would be interesting.
Do you get a tax writeoff for holding conferences at space hotels, or does the new global tax eliminate such loopholes?
Screwing the motion of…nothing?
$1mil? Christ…
Yeah, that’s not enough money to launch a bedbug larva into space.
White hippie gangster killer lives matter
“Outrage as San Francisco DA reveals his Weather Underground militant father has received his COVID vaccine while serving life in prison for 1981 Brink’s heist that left a guard and two cops dead”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9306371/Son-Weather-Underground-militant-says-dad-vaccinated-prison-serving-life.html
Why am I not shocked that the kid of a weather underground terrorist is a DA in San Francisco?
Ya, I kind of did a double take and then said, “yep, makes sense.”
He’s a true red-diaper baby. Supposedly funded by Soros, to boot.
He was raised by Barack Obama’s good friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn since both his parents were in prison. He also worked as an interpreter for Hugo Chavez.
That may sound all like Alex Jones conspiracy theory stuff to say about the San Francisco DA, but no it’s 100% true.
This kid was given every advantage and opportunity in life because of who his parents and his parents’ friends were. Being chic terrorists is apparently more advantageous than the being the normal kind.
Because fucking of course she was.
Terrorism is only bad when right wingers do it.
She meant well. Because she cares.
Yes, the outrage that elderly prisoners in congregate living that the state has assumed the responsibility for their care and safety should be vaccinated ahead of lower risk persons. Outrage!
Hooray! That’s going to suck for Ireland.
Set corporate tax rates to zero. Problem solved.
They’ll blame Brexit for their Troubles.
I read one version of that story (not sure if it’s the same one linked), and what struck me about the tone of the piece was that it was all centered around the logistics and mechanics of how to tax these profits. There was no discussion of the purpose of taxes or the need for income or anything. It was just: here are profits, they must be taxed.
https://twitter.com/Boogiiqueen/status/1365299996963328010
I wonder what the original picture was.
Quality.
This is thegovernor of my state. What a jackass.
When that breaks open, do HCQ tablets fall out?
Out of its ass?
Do you want people to die?
Politicians and government-health people foisting the lockdowns on us? If somebody has to die because of the pandemic, why not them?
I was joking about the HCQ killing people. Follow along.
27th-o de Februario? Mexican-Americans gonna be pissed the way he’s torturing that virus
Fun random diversion
As I’ve mentioned, I have a true crime themed “page a day” calendar. Today’s crime is a bizarre escape from the grim news.
First, the discovery:
What kind of wierdo breaks into a museum for feathers? This kind:
But how?
Why?
Rist’s use of his loot:
That’s…disappointing after the oddity of the rest of the tale.
The justice:
Sounds like a Will Farrell movie pitch.
To be fair, high quality musical instruments can get very expensive.
“tens of thousands of dollars he made on the feather underground”
This gives me hope for this timeline.
*Chesa Boudin’s ears perk up*
When I was working in the Smithsonian as an AV contractor, some cow-orkers and I came up with a plan to clean out the Blue Vault (contains the Hope Diamond, among other things) that I’m pretty sure we could have pulled off.
The security in all of the Smithsonian museums is not great. The biggest reason that they haven’t been hit more often, is that they just don’t have a whole lot of stuff on display that you could sell.
Every couple years I hear about some major art theft, Munch’s The Scream was one, and the paintings always seem to turn up unsold, tucked away somewhere. These objects are so famous that no one would take them off the thieves’ hands.
‘…where he makes heavy metal flute videos.’
Jethro Stole?
“Ex-classmates of Rep. Madison Cawthorn say he sexually harassed women at the Christian college”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9307645/Ex-classmates-Rep-Madison-Cawthorn-say-sexually-harassed-women-Christian-college.html
Couldn’t they just run away?
Story checks out.
Euphemisms all the way down?
Reading the details, it’s a big nothing. He hit on them, they didn’t take him up, the end.
But he was a yucky broke dick so he shouldn’t have tried!
The rest, who know how much is bluster and how much is actually true. Except for limited circumstances, you get an appointment to a service academy, you don’t apply. And even if he was rejected, an injury of that extent certainly derails a future application or appeal.
Completely ignored is someone that young with almost zero life experience shouldn’t be in Congress in the first place.
I will give Cuomo credit…he at least hit on pretty women.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/governor-wanted-sleep-me-cuomo-accused-sexually-harassing-second-former-aide
OMG……I am going to hell for laughing.
As am I….. Fuuck.
You are a horrible person Yufus.
Back atcha Old Fucker!
#metoo.
C’mon guys. Too soon!
holds hand over mouth while chuckling
The Coming to America reaction was perfect.
LOL. I’ll see ya both in hell.
#mefive
That was fucking funny. Sorry for the kid with the club feet though.
/not going to hell
OT: sorry I didn’t reply in the dead thread. Took the wife out to Thai and got distracted.
Leaving aside the less 100% efficacy of all vaccines, polio vaccine is a perfect example of vaccines not providing full sterilizing immunity yet are good enough for purpose- IPV has been shown to have viral shedding in challenge studies while OPV has led to vaccine derived polioviruses and corresponding outbreaks.
MrFamous is exactly right in his reply about the lack of proportionality in assessing risk. I’d also add the danger of arguing against the authoritarians on utilitarian grounds, despite the emotional appeal. It concedes ground and accepts that under some scenario, they’re acceptable. And they are not, even if the IFR was 80%.
HAHAHA…We don’t need no water, let that motherfucker burn!
We’ve already opened (and mostly consumed) a bottle of excellent wine. So. Watch out Zoomers!
So where is the Zoom link these days?
Never mind. I’ma gonna jump in after dealing with this steak and this box of Merlot…
Riunite is not excellent.
Decent enough for cooking in some dishes. Drinking. NFW
Based on the commercials, it’s supposed to be on ice.
This one is just fun to watch. Nothing important about it. Just a “WOW!” at the skills demonstrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVuIVP6Pef8&list=RDGMEMQ1dJ7wXfLlqCjwV0xfSNbA&index=4
I could probably name less than 10% of those movies/musicals.
Well, all of the movies used are in the description of the video.
It’s unlikely that I’d be able to match the movies in the list to any of the clips.
The only clip you really need to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8
The usual suspects outshine the others: Astaire, Kelly, Charisse, and of course… the Nicholas Brothers, the likes of which we will probably never see again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t521jxF8tyc
Here they are with Dorothy Dandridge in a song that earned Glenn Miller an Oscar nomination.
True masters.
Baryshnikov is a huge fan of theirs. Their skills were superhuman.
Gregory Hines said that he and his brother were compared to them when they were young. At the time, he had never seen them dance and thought to himself, “Well, I’m pretty good, they must be pretty good too.” Then he saw them dance and said “Yeah, I’ll never be that good.”
Harold at 69 years old: https://youtu.be/_Iwx44N0K4Y?t=217
Just unreal.
Here they are in 1990 recreating a dance they did in 1935. Incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR9u7KzlMw4
Did someone say Dorothy Dandridge?
Bing & Bob, Mickey Rooney, Gene Kelly a couple times, Sammy Davis makes an appearance, lots of old people I recognize
Ann Miller is another underrated dancer
Ann Miller and Ricky Ricardo
I saw The Allman Brothers at the Beacon and I was blow away by their stamina. I felt like paying extra when I left.
https://twitter.com/donutcrimez/status/1365379127117828107
I hope he grows up to be President.
Re: Earlier beer discussion
Isn’t the independent brewery movement getting a little silly? Here’s what “Naked Brewery” in Kennett Square, PA, is touting (from today’s local newsrag):
“a fluffy and full-flavored hazy double dry hopped IPA” called “Cat-a-Pillar.” The label features “a cat grooving on a mushroom” and the artwork is described as “Woodstock psychedelic Alice in Wonderland-esque.”
Breweries often double as Taprooms/Pubs, I know I enjoy lunch and some good local beer from time time, many people do,
There’s some pushback from some of the newer breweries just naming their beer by the style instead of coming up with new and unique names for every beer. It also doesn’t help that with all of the breweries trying to come up with new and unique names, there’s been several instances of multiple breweries using the same name for different beers.
Every market has a stoner brewery. Usually they’re terrible.
Marshall Tucker Band Live
Oh lord can’t you see . . .
Pretty sure our world is being run by 8chan. We’re all its pawns.
Too good not to share (which of you wrote it?)
“It’s bound to backfire. In our frenetic necrophobia, we flee death, avoiding contact with others, locking ourselves in our homes, obsessively washing our hands, avoiding public places and gatherings—all for the sake of survival. But a life without human touch, a life in which we never venture, a life without risk is no life at all, but a living death. To preserve bare life at all costs is suicide. To elevate bare life as the supreme value, we have to make the supreme sacrifice of life itself. And so we flee from death, and find ourselves rushing to death’s embrace, strangely comforted. Our necrophobia becomes necrophilia.”
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/02/canceling-love-in-the-name-of-love
Thanks Hank, when I go into a rage with some of my masked friends that’s what I sound like, only with out the big words.
My daughter works in a nursing home, required to mask up. She lets her mask slip so the old people can see her smile, when she’s alone with a client.
Old folks need that, especially. They are already on the downhill side. I really can’t understand my friends being so frightened, we see the pages of the calendar slipping away, it’s like saving the ice cream for later.
We’re past the best used by date and we’re supposed to be worried? WTF is that all about.
Thanks, and like Fourscore I am inclined to express similar sentiments far less eloquently. Life is far too short to waste worrying about its inevitable ending.
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been saying since the beginning that there is more to life than the elimination of all risk.
The cheesy line from Braveheart comes to mind: “Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.”
One of the things that 4 years in the Marine infantry as a young man taught me was that death smiles at us all; the best we can do is smile back.
Arkansas governor lifts most Lil Rona Panic restrictions
Effective immediately, Arkansas is lifting nearly all restrictions on businesses related to the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Friday that all capacity limits on businesses and large gatherings will only be recommendations, and not enforceable by law.
Speaking in a news conference at the state Capitol, Hutchinson said the goal is to give businesses more flexibility to tailor public health guidelines to better fit with their day-to-day operations.
“They are incentivized to follow the guidelines because that gives them business liability protection, because the business liability protection is based upon following public health guidelines and making a good faith effort to make sure everyone is safe in their employment,” Hutchinson said. “And so it does not mean a change in behavior that you will see.”
Hutchinson says the statewide mask mandate will remain in effect until at least March 31. He says if the state meets certain criteria, including having a seven-day rolling average of positive COVID-19 tests under 10%, or fewer than 750 Arkansans hospitalized with the virus if testing is diminished, then the mask mandate will end on that date.
I should stop with the Daily Mail links, but they’re like a cornucopia of clickworthy material, much of it newsworthy (more newsworthy than at certain other media sources, anyway).
Let me try to outdo their headline writers in describing this.
Begorrah! Irish High Court gets case of 30 Facebook moderators who were traumatized by the content they were moderating
The recruiting companies who got them jobs at Facebook are also getting sued
PTST symptoms alleged, including attempted suicide
Facebook settled a similar case in the U. S. last year
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9308337/Dozens-moderators-sue-Facebook-severe-mental-trauma-exposure-violent-images-work.html
Holy shit. I work for an outfit that provides analytics to the digital advertising world, a business which requires among other things categorizing website content. I signed an employment agreement which included language to the effect that in carrying out my responsibilities I might be exposed to offensive content and this was part of the job. In other words, don’t work here if this is an issue.
Sounds like FB has something similar, but that apparently does not matter. There are plenty of snowflakes at my shop who would delight in this kind of stupidity. I sincerely hope this does not give them any ideas.
I am a seriously uncultured individual; for example, I have never seen “Network”. I am in the midst of rectifying that omission, and just dropped in to say…
I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!
Back to watching Howard Beale having a breakdown…
Rosebud was his sled.
What are you trying to say, citizen?
my favorite pizza ever Lombardi’s opened 1905. https://www.firstpizza.com/
Watching “The Toolbox Murders”. Real crap-fest. Lots of boobs, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toolbox_Murders
Im off to work kids. Mind ye olde shoppe.
Now I’m watching “Rage To Kill”. This movie is real shitty too. Hopefully there will be boobs. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093821/
Columbo double feature. This is what my Saturdays have become?
I keed. I love these.
I’m giving Columbo a break right now. Not for me; I’ll watch it every day. But I went through all the episodes twice in the last year and my wife is like, “More Columbo?”
I’ve seen most of them during the new normal but tonite’s 2nd feature is new to me. Yay!
Enjoy!
Uh, just one more episode…
What you did, it has been seen.
Charles Darwin: Strange new *dis*respect?
“…I’m angry with him and don’t want to give him a part of me”
https://www.dw.com/en/what-darwins-descent-of-man-got-wrong-on-sex-and-race-and-why-it-matters/a-56661400
When the home health nurse came out today and showed me how to give the daily infusion of antibiotics into my husband’s PICC line, she had to ask various questions for the form.
One section was about social health and interaction.
“Do you have a group outside the home, like a church, you meet with?”
“Not since lockdown.”
“Do you go to any other club meetings?”
“Not anymore. The Moose lodge is closed and so is the VFW.”
“How often do you see relatives?”
“It’s been over a year now.”
She made some “Hmms” and other sounds of surprise/concern.
Where the hell else are supposed to go meeting people? Even the golf club is closed to indoor dining so we don’t see friends at the “corner pub” any more. He can’t play with a band or even go see live music.
It’s definitely affecting his mental health. Looking at the internet is a mixed bag, and generally has more rage inducing material than cute cat videos.
I can only imagine the effect this has had on people with clinical depression pre-lockdown.
Yep, I couldn’t go to a club and meet girls if I tried, no Clubs….
/Sigh…
STEVE SMITH SAY TRY DIFFERENT CLUB.
I saw the updates about your husband. I hope he pulls through.
These lockdowns have been fucking destructive.
It is rage inducing. Impotent rage, at least in my case. If Dante were still around he would need to create a tenth circle to house the vermin who perpetrated this disaster.
Sorry about your situation, hope it gets better soon.
Indeed. Maybe sentence them to wipe Satan’s ass in the innermost circle??
Seriously though, anyone who took part in the decision to ban Hydroxychloriquine should be in fucking prison.
I think I’ve found peak woke.
These “Imperfect Foods” commercials. It looks like a subscription service for food that grocery stores were going to throw out. One of the commercials has some snotty girl preaching about how responsible her parents are now.
They’re worse than the “Boll and Branch” commercials.
You need to go to their website for the full experience. They do not disappoint.
I would have guessed it is a Bee parody if I didn’t know better.
*quietly slides Imperfect box out of view*
Imperfect box, my carpentry.
Are your children so proud of you?
Man, I didn’t even know i had children. This is worse than I thought.
(I’ve never seen the ads and it was something my wife signed up for – it’s been fine; I suspect they’re losing money)
Looking at the prices, I suspect you’re right
They provide refunds at the drop off a hat as well – one egg cracked? The whole dozen is credited. Etc.
They’re just trying to grow market share at this point, I’m sure. That can be good for the consumer.
I mean 17-19 pounds of produce for $22? Even if it’s “imperfect”, that’s dirt cheap.
Maybe they have some deep-pocketed investor who is willing to eat major losses to get it off the ground.
You get some humorous produce – we got some limes this week that were maybe an inch and a half wide.
Camp Pendleton has been firing away all day, and still going into the night.
I feel conflicted.
They have to prep up for whatever else Biden wants to them to do…if he remembers.
tell Sgt Hacker to pipe down or shove off or whatever
I always loved the blending of southern boogie-woogie and up-tempo jazz in that tune. Good stuff.
There is a version on Youtube from the Filmore East in 1970. Smoking track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUvxRjYqjEQ&feature=emb_rel_pause
Yes.
I got a huge amount of mushrooms today, we get the freshest stuff, because, us, way more than I and my Sister can eat, Yikes!
Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/iMbGYnPEZrwTDcse6
the three boxes in the back are 6 packs of the Maitakes, which are delicious,
/Fringe Benefits….
Nice!
It’s a great place to work, I came in today and ran 120′ of Copper line for a new water system, boss texts me around 7 tonight thanking me for getting shit done, pretty cool.
I’m the Electrician,
Sounds like you are in a good place.
I like that.
Yes Sir, I actually don’t mind going to work, my bills are in order (Kind of), now I just need to find a Lady Friend,
and it’s thanks to You and the rest of the Glibs,
Cheers!
🙂
I’ll be honest… when you mentioned “mushrooms” some days ago, I had something else in mind.
These look great.
Sister is going to show me how to cook them tomorrow, we will feast!
there is a story about a former worker I might tell sometime regarding certain things growing that shouldn’t have been,
My Company, David Law, the owner is way cool,
https://www.mycopia.com/
I’m happy for you, dude. 2020 was an incredibly shitty year for you. Glad to see you find a measure of happiness this cycle around the sun.
Awesome dude!
I’ve learned to love mushrooms again… When I was about 6, I ate a can of mushroom soup and threw up, then I never liked them. In my late 20s, I got sick of having to avoid them and ask for “no mushrooms” at restaurants. So one day, I bought a box of mushrooms, fried them in butter, and forced myself to eat every single one. Seneca was right – the things we’re afraid of are not a fraction as bad as we imagine them to be.
Now I can chow down on some fungus with no issue. In fact, one of my favorite foods is Neapolitan-style pizza with capicola and portobella mushrooms. Da bomb.
Ha I had something similar. At a pretentious fart’s house for lunch – he served a bunch of 16-year-old kids a plate of mushrooms each. WTF? I couldn’t eat it.
I still question the texture but I love the flavor in stews and such.
Mushrooms are one of many items on the list of things I hated (or thought I hated) when I was younger that I love now.
The Shop people say Maitake is the best, and I have plenty, and I guess I can get them whenever I want, cool Job,
Yea, the texture can be odd. My favorite way to enjoy them is sliced very thin and roasted or fried, e.g. baked on a pizza or in a stir-fry.
I’m even thinking about starting a shitake mushroom farm in my yard, but growing mushrooms is a whole science in itself.
I like stuffing an omelet with fried onion, bell peppers, ham, and mushrooms (all diced). The mushroom adds an element which really enhances the experience.
In case NJ was not already a laughingstock, this just in from a local shopping center:
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/fortlee/news/update-suspect-charged-in-blank-ammo-shooting-at-route-17-shopping-center/804101/
They went into lockdown because someone fired a fucking BB gun.
BERGEN STRONG!
This is truly la-la land. In my nabe there are signs on lawns objecting to bear hunts, presumably because the bruins are so cute in suburban settings.
I have lived in major bear habitats in the western states and I never saw bears on some many different occasions as when I did the NJ portion of the Appalachian Trail. They were everywhere. NJ needs a hunt to both cull numbers and to remind them they are not #1 on the food chain.
(Note about grizzly bear country. Man is wise to remember that he is number 2 on the food chain there and act like it.)
You bet we do. The Appalachian trail is God’s country, not surprising to see bears there. I am 12 miles from Manhattan and woke up one morning to see a black bear cub (cute little guy, when they caught him they estimated 180 lbs) in my next-door neighbor’s driveway. Did not stick around to see if mama was nearby.
Mike Wallace interviewing Aldous Huxley in 1956, wow,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40
Here’s a radio play of BNW, with Huxley narrating, old timey Radio!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0FDwfNE6YE
There is an Italian Netflix movie called “Rose Island” out there on the aether’s. If’n you can find it, it is worth the watch.
Based on a true story, basically a newly graduated engineer gets sick of all the regulations and builds an island in international waters off of Italy.
Gets overrun by barbary pirates?
Close, Italian navy.
So, boats that look nice but overheat in any traffic and rust before they are launched?
They sailed imports.
I will try to remember that.
I need a Glibervention. Ive gone bottom shelf. Duggans Dew and Teachers are my Scotch and picked up a bottle of Old Granddad instead of Woodford.
Love yourself, dude.
(drinking Suntory Toki, so I shouldn’t talk)
I have some Bitchin Local Ale in the the fridge,still drinkin’ Natty Ice, go figure…
I got orange juice.
Kind of “meh”.
A year without booze as of yesterday. I don’t miss it. I do miss the ceremony a bit, the comradely.
hmmm,
Are you enjoying them or wishing for something better?
Hine cognac while watching film noir this evening. I do approve. For other brown liquids I have Remy VSOP, Tullamore Dew, Buffalo Trace and Glenmorangie.
Your latter two are some of my favorites.
I’ve been in rotation between Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Glenlivet, and Jameson’s. I need to pick up a nice Anejo to round it out a bit more.
I actually am enjoying them.
Completely unrelated, I’m considering using Entry of the Gladiators for a coworkers’ ringtone.
Episode 1844 if Tom Woods podcast is about restaurant owners (a husband and wife team, Woodchips BBQ, trying to defy Michigan’s draconian and baseless virus lockdown “rules”.
One infuriating thing they shared was that when Michigan courts said the Governor doesn’t have the power to put those rules in place, the Michigan Health & Human Services issued the exact same rule the Governor had.
When the restaurant decided to open up anyway, the local sheriff said he wouldn’t enforce anything against them. The police said they’d have to file a complaint if anybody did complain but otherwise wouldn’t mess with them.
The judicial branch did the right thing, the law enforcement did, and the legislature abdicated its powers to the executive.
So the executive took total command and pulled the restaurant’s liquor license because they’d committed a crime on premises, and the crime was an unconstitutional executive fiat.
What the heck happened to balance of power? We have elected emperors and near-hereditary bureaucrats.
(Link to episode: https://tomwoods.com/ep-1844-restaurant-owners-resist-lockdowners/ )
And the people who say Trump is a “threat to Democracy” are cheering while governors and unelected health bureaucrats trample the separation of powers.
I forgot how fun this movie is.
suh’ fam ?
Time to rock out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfs7kxE8Guc
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I like this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKZTdkvr4qo
That’s brilliant, but I’d still rather watch the chick.
She is easy on the eyes
No argument here.
Know what you call a midget, psychic, felon, that’s on the lam ?
A small medium, at large.
Meanwhile, in Portland…
https://mobile.twitter.com/The_Justice7/status/1365909954226511873