WDBH: This Post is Mostly Memes

by | Apr 7, 2021 | WebDom’s Browser History | 192 comments

Not a lot to share this week. I haven’t had much time for reading, but I did manage to find plenty of time for enjoying memes and other random bullshit.

We all know that mf

 

 

 

 

 

Laughed my ass off at Black Jeopardy on Monday night.

I have been reading a lot about St. Teresa de Avila, the Spanish Carmelite nun who was highly active during the Spanish Reformation.

Ever wonder why Converse have felt on the bottom that wears off really quickly? This is why.

And more duck sauce.

 

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192 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Tariff laws are just an increasing boondoggle of fuck.

  2. westernsloper

    Felt on your sneakers is there not for function, but for economics – shoes with fuzzy soles are taxed less when imported than those with rubber ones

    THE MOTHERFUCKERS!

  3. rhywun

    Ever wonder why Converse have felt on the bottom that wears off really quickly? This is why.

    I’ve never handled a pair of those but this explanation just raises the question of why doesn’t every shoe manufacturer do this.

    • blackjack

      And they don’t specify what country has this policy. Tariffs are not international most of the time.

  4. DEG

    I like the memes. I wonder if any will make their way into Powerline Blog’s Week in Pictures?

  5. blackjack

    It’s scary to imagine how much money we spend on hidden compliance measures. And I can only imagine what wonderous items we could buy if not for our keepers.

    • pistoffnick

      “…imagine what wonderous items we could buy if not for our keepers.”

      Kinder Surprise eggs
      Unpasteurized cheese
      Absinthe
      Cuban cigars
      certain automobiles
      certain guns

      • blackjack

        Gas cans that work, light bulbs that work, toilets that work, showerheads that work. Chrome and paint done excellently and right here in our neighborhood. Cars that don’t keep track of where you went and how fast you were going on the way.

      • blackjack

        And so many more, that I don’t even know about.

      • creech

        “Cars that don’t keep track of where you went and how fast you were going on the way.”
        Tiger would be first in line to buy one.

      • blackjack

        I’ve seen forensic accident investigations. They’re pretty wild. They use 360 degree cameras and basically create a video game of the scene and the cars separately and then mix them up and try various scenarios. The black box info is just part of it. It’s amazingly involved.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        lawn darts
        phosphated detergent
        incandescent bulbs

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The last made a brief reappearance at Ace thanks to Orange Guy.

      • Mojeaux

        I have a whole slew of incandescent bulbs. Some guy was switching out his entire house to LED at the same time and gave my husband all the incandescents. We’re set into the next century.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I leap on them at estate sales.

      • rhywun

        I don’t miss them much. The newest LED’s seem fine to me. ?‍♂️

        Those old spirally bulbs – before the LED’s – yeah, they were garbage.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        CFLs. Will let them live out their natural lives. LEDs don’t seem any hardier than the other two types.

      • Chafed

        I’m with Rhywun. LEDs produce decent light at a fraction of the cost.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        fraction of the cost.

        The bulb in my closet is a 60W incandescent that is on for 15 seconds per day. The cost of electricity to power that bulb is $0.00003 per day. The bulb cost $0.35 new. I am supposed to replace this bulb with one that costs $5 that will save me money?

      • Akira

        I like LEDs, but I find it hard to find any that don’t have that sickly blue color. The god-awful “school computer lab” shade.

      • rhywun

        My power company sold me a box of LED’s for under a buck each. Natural yellowy light, too.

        You probably helped pay for them 🙂

      • Gustave Lytton

        All of it bagged in a free plastic bag, too.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I would guess that, sans overregulation, wages would go up 30% and prices would go down 25%

      • Count Potato

        Double that.

  6. westernsloper

    I too laughed at Black Jeopardy. Thanks for the memes and links Webdom.

    • rhywun

      … Biden’s March 2 directive to make all school staff and childcare workers eligible to receive the vaccine

      Wow.

      A pretty clear demonstration of who has real power in DC.

    • blackjack

      Our bitch-assed teachers just demanded (and got) 500.00 per child for child care, since they might have to go back to work someday. Imagine all the people who lost their jobs because their kids couldn’t go to school and someone had to watch them all day. Hell, I had to work for most of this, even back when we were all going to die right now! My wife hasn’t done any real work in a year. Where’s my 500.00 ?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        You’ll get 50,000 dirty pennies dumped on your driveway.

      • limey

        Ha!

      • blackjack

        No shit. They somehow got by for 150 years before the ‘vid, what’s different now?

      • Chafed

        I thought hated teachers’ unions before the pandemic. Now my loathing of them is palpable.

    • DEG

      I’m intrigued.

    • blackjack

      I’m like her, I’m always huntin’!

      One of their top three or four songs.

  7. LJW

    Just completed a required survey for my daughter’s upcoming year in Kindergarten. The questions were your typical education level inquiries then it took a dark turn. “Does your child show an unusual interest or knowledge in sexual language or activity”. Clearly an attempt to identify children who might be victims of sexual abuse. Not sure how that is the schools business.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Sounds like the decades-old in loco parentis stuff; what parent either innocent or guilty would answer affirmatively I have no idea.

    • sarcasmic

      Doesn’t make the query less legitimate. Had I asked questions like that my 11 yr old daughter would know a lot less about a great many things.

  8. sarcasmic

    My daughter thought a cobra shooting guns would be a cool meme.

    *shuffles feet*

      • sarcasmic

        She drew it using the touchpad of my laptop. I was impressed.

      • rhywun

        Pew! Pew!

      • rhywun

        LOL

      • Chafed

        For the first time, I’m interested in something on Etsy.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        As am I.

      • blackjack

        Your kid has mad skills. Might have even beat Samuel L. Jackson on that plane!

      • Tejicano

        That’s pretty cool. I like how she attached the arms – looks correct even though snakes don’t have arms.

      • Chafed

        Wait. What?

    • egould310

      Hey! Sarcasmic, it’s been a while hasn’t it? Good to see you and dig the avatar.

    • slumbrew

      I’m not a fan of the modern trend towards quantity over quality.

      That said, that is quite the peach on 11.

      • Chafed

        I like the cut of your jib.

  9. Yusef drives a Kia

    I should be Asleep, instead I’m making 3 Dozen Cookies!, see you on the other side…

    • Tejicano

      “…vague federal definition of ‘domestic extremists’ will further endanger civil liberties”

      It couldn’t be that this is the point?

      • slumbrew

        The deuce you say!

  10. slumbrew

    Fun times in Casa Slumbrew over the last 24 hours –

    – dog whines to out at 01:30, clearly has a bad belly.
    – wife leaves dog out of crate under the assumption that dog will let us know if & when she needs to go out again

    This assumption was, sadly, incorrect. Woke up to several (bloody) surprises in the hallway and living room.

    I predict wife will never again walk around barefoot without her glasses on. On the plus side, I convinced her not to set her foot on fire and to just wash it instead.

    Trip to the emergency vet, since our local vet couldn’t take us for another week – looks like colitis. Prognosis is good and doggo is already in much better spirits after an anti-nausea shot and some fluids.

    Chicken and rice for a week, along with some antibiotics, followed by some probiotics and she should be back to normal.

    Fun fact – they just gave her fluid subcutaneously, so she looked like Quasimodo for a few hours.

    Good times.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Aw. E-vet is alway$ fun, no? Not to mention the panic.

      • slumbrew

        A mere $400 later… :-/

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Just 400?!

      • slumbrew

        I was shocked it was that low.

        Emergency exam, a couple of test panels, fluid & anti-nausea injections, a week of metronidazole and another week of a probiotic for $404.

        The equivalent would have be $23,000, I suspect.

      • slumbrew

        *human equivalent

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        May I identify as a dog the next time I’m ill?

        Glad she’s OK.

      • slumbrew

        Thanks.

        I’ve read that pricing for veterinary services is a good view of what healthcare would be like without government mandates wildly distorting the market. Pricing is fairly straight-forward, you can shop around, etc.

        That $404 isn’t nothing, but they’re not getting rich off of that (it’s a not-for-profit animal hospital).

    • Gustave Lytton

      Did they shave pupper’s leg for an iv drip?

    • Hank

      Poor dog, glad you got her patched up.

      • Hank

        Ouch – $400!

    • Mojeaux

      I convinced her not to set her foot on fire

      Fire > water

    • Bobarian LMD

      When my avatar was a puppy, he got parvo. My son had bought the puppy and then managed to get kicked out of where he was living.

      Brings it home and after a few days…Shit horrible smelling blood and intestinal lining all over the kitchen floor. Contacted an emergency vet who said prognosis not good, and it will be $400 just to put him on a table. He was not my dog, yet, so that wasn’t happening. “Make him comfortable and bring him in tomorrow.”

      My daughter was working at Waffle House the next morning and crying about the dog. One of the regulars turns out to be Doc Meyer, the local vet. He tells her to bring him in.

      I’m ready to just get him ‘THE SHOT’, because he’s practically dead. Instead Doc Meyer gives me a class, an IV bag, a shot of antibiotics for him and parvo vaccine for the older dog, and sends me home with “If you can keep him alive for 72 hours, he should make it.”

      So, an IV every 4 hours, Kaopectate every 6, shots for both dogs, and forced pedialyte every couple hours, and the meat baby food after 36 hours. After 48, he started getting pissed about IV and I knew he was gonna make it. 72 hours later, I had a rott(en)weiler.

      • slumbrew

        Wow! Good job. It sounds like an insane amount of work but it also sounds exactly like the sort of thing I would grind through for a pup.

        Today’s visit was a bit bittersweet, as it was the first time back to the hospital since our last doggo died in my arms there, last March.

        We went though a lot over the years with that dog, including 2 TPLOs. I dislike dog owners who compare themselves to human parents but, as a childless person, I get an inkling of what you can and would do when the situation demands.

    • Chafed

      Sorry doggo got sick but I’m glad to know he/she/it is better. Looks like a sweetie in the photo.

      Can’t believe the e-vet was only $400. That’s exceedingly reasonable.

  11. Mojeaux

    Some people in a FB group I’m a member of were going on and on and on about Chip and Joanna Gaines in Waco (hello, all you HGTV watchers). Anyway, she made over a midcentury modern home and I swear, if that woman EVER touches another MCM, I’mma fly down to Waco and choke the living shit out of her. Never mind that her designs are all alike, but she did the Provencal farmhouse shabby chic in a MCM home! Hello, that’s TERRAZZO you’re patching with hardwood, FFS. Like terrazzo is a suboptimal material or something. And THEN she put in 80s brass and glass in the kitchen. That doesn’t even go with Provencal farmhouse shabby chic!

    Ugh.

    • slumbrew

      I mostly like her style (and, yes, it’s much the same), but hated that one.

      • Mojeaux

        I can’t decide if the terrazzo patch or the brass’n’glass offended me the most.

      • slumbrew

        I have a wild hatred of brass, so that was the most offensive to me, but covering up lovely terrazzo was a close second.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Every single one of those shows (my Wife watches them all) has some example where they take their particular style and fuck up something they never should have touched.

    • Gustave Lytton

      https://www.oregonlive.com/realestate/2021/04/loomis-armored-car-founders-portland-mansion-is-for-sale-at-32-million.html

      Afterward, a series of owners altered the interior. An Oregonian story in the 1950s showcased a modern remodel. Oak hardwood floors and glass tile were covered in linoleum, red fir wainscot was buried by drywall and Douglas fir counters were hidden by Formica.

      Fortunately, original features were preserved underneath these midcentury materials, and cast-out moldings, mantels, balusters, newels, pilasters and built-in cabinets were found in scrap piles in the basement.

      There’s a very warm place for those people.

      • Mojeaux

        Indeed.

      • slumbrew

        Seconded. Those people were monsters.

        I love that place as it is now. Sadly, I couldn’t even afford that La Cornue range, nevermind the whole house.

        Though $3.2MM around here isn’t nearly as nice.

      • Chafed

        But you’re so close to Harvard. Which really makes it all worthwhile.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Hooray for laziness.

      • Mojeaux

        “Shiplap”

        DRINK!

      • Mojeaux

        I love you for this video and this YouTuber, by the way.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Aw, thanks. /blushes

        Inherited a lot of b/w (gingham and other patterns) from grandma so it must be a southern thing.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (That is: not being an HGTV watcher, their Target line is all I know.)

      • slumbrew

        I find myself nodding in agreement with everything he’s saying.

      • Mojeaux

        Barn doors were over the first time someone put one in.

        People who love shabby chic have never been poor.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Shabby chic was démodé 20 years ago.

        Trying in vain to find for you the episode of Kath and Kim wherein Kim subs s.c. for the French polish on her MIL’s table.

      • slumbrew

        I like barn sliders because they’ve got the space-efficiency of pocket doors without being the repair nightmare of pocket doors. (“Oh, there’s a problem with your pocket door? Let’s open up that wall…”).

        They can make sense where a traditional door wouldn’t work well. Especially for large openings.

        Really, I just want a beautiful set of mahogany pocket doors to close off the billiard room from my study. But I don’t actually have any of those things.

      • Akira

        My study and living room used to be separated by pocket doors, but someone walled them off and replaced them with regular doors, which open into the study and take up a lot of space. I used to just deal with them because I liked closing the room off in the winter so I could run my radiator in there and let the rest of the house be cold, but I liked having both rooms open in the summer. I just unbolted them and stuck them in the junk room after a while.

        I actually thought about putting some nice curtains in that doorway… They would at least trap SOME heat in there in the winter, plus they’d look nice whether they’re closed or open.

      • Mojeaux

        We have pocket doors. They’re great when they work.

      • slumbrew

        In the Boston area I have seen so, so many broken pocket doors that are just walled-off or bolted open.

        When they work, they’re awesome. When they break…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I didn’t know they were that fragile! Good to know.

      • slumbrew

        I’m not sure they’re even fragile, per se, it’s just that the ones around here are often 100 years old, 3 inches thick and weigh a ton – once they go off the track in a bad way inside the wall you’re basically screwed – you have to bust into the wall to fix it.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ah. The ones I know are only about fifty years old.

        (only?!)

    • straffinrun

      I’ll trust you on the horribleness of whatever that person did.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      You leave her alone. Because would.

      • Mojeaux

        And while you are wooding, smack her for turning a midcentury modern classic into a little boy’s clubhouse.

      • Mojeaux

        Welp. I just fell in love.

      • slumbrew

        It’s quite nice. I thought the sale price was pretty reasonable for the area, too (Lincoln is nice).

    • Akira

      Provencal farmhouse shabby chic!

      Oh god, is that the thing with clapboard, twine, and burlap all over everything?? SO overplayed these days.

      I guess my tastes seem pretty damn weird to some people though. To the extent that I decorate, I tend to go for something that I can only describe as “eccentric Victorian-era hoarder”.

    • Spudalicious

      Joanna Gaines? Would.

    • Agent Cooper

      My comment on Joanna Gaines “It must be easy to design every house to look exactly like yours.”

  12. straffinrun

    It’s not crowded at all. You can stand in front of the chair next to me where I put my bag as long as you want. I’m not moving it. Drink your coffee over there, creep.

  13. Hank

    This is curious. Well, maybe not, but to those who obsess over such things it’s interesting.

    So the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), some time back, donated a monument to Jefferson City, Missouri. Apparently the monument commemorates a non-event – Confederate General Sterling Price decided *not* to attack the Union-held town.

    Worth commemorating, I suppose, though why the UDC wanted to memorialize such a thing I’m not sure.

    Anyway, recently the city gave the monument back to the UDC and they erected a replica on private land, which just got blessed by a priest.

    “In dedicating this replica of an 88-year-old Civil War monument, we recall and are grateful for the intrepid dedication and courage of those Union soldiers and citizens of the City of Jefferson who on Oct. 7, 1864, defended our city from possible great death and destruction by turning away the Confederate invaders under Gen. Sterling Price.”

    https://www.newstribune.com/news/local/story/2021/apr/07/replica-civil-war-marker-placed-on-private-land/866406/

    • Hank

      The new private monument isn’t the UDC, some other fellows.

  14. Trigger Hippie

    Taking a break for a week or two.

    Reading the Links just seems to put me in a hostile, reflexively snarky state.

    Love you all and hope those of you dealing with health issues(4×20, E from E, C Ac and HKE in particular) find things improving soon…

    CPRM, hope your feet feel better…you can remove me from the H&H credits whenever you wish. I haven’t sent you grip via Patreon in a good long while. I wouldn’t begrudge you that, it’s only fair.

    Again, I love you all. Just need to take a step back for a bit.

    See ya!!!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      abbracci–

    • Ownbestenemy

      See ya Trigger. Always a good thing to recenter and refocus. Time and the universe will march on with or without us so we might as well try to get right with both.

    • Ownbestenemy

      8….and I had to tap out and go to Qs posts to cleanse.

    • Chafed

      You fucking monster. How am I supposed to sleep?

    • Festus

      Pussies! I did them all but I’ve a little problem with needing to complete things and now my dick fell off.

      • Sean

        *hands Festus a roll of scotch duct tape*

      • Festus

        Scotch tape don’t work for Scotch dick. You are a Man of Wisdom and Perspicacity. Duct tape it is!

    • Agent Cooper

      I made it though but that Jared Leto in bald-calp made me toss some cookies!

  15. hayeksplosives

    hey later night glibs. I have had an ordeal today with my dear spouse who is dealing with “ICU delirium”. it’s a psychosis where all kinds of out of touch thoughts can occur.

    Mr splosives now believes he is dead in either purgatory or hell. He has reverted to his catholic upbringing, which was not intellectual — just LEARN THE RULES. Even after 14 years of happy “sola scriptura” hasn’t displaced it.
    Anyway, i have been bearing it all with a stiff upper lip for weeks, months. Tonight i am broken and need some help.

    at today’s visit, he physically attacked me pretty effectively, requiring a quick trip to the ER for me. I just dont want to be alone tonight. Please let me know if if anyone wants to do a zoom. Otherwise you can email at my handle at proton mail.

    • hayeksplosives

      I should add that he thinks everyone around are demons. He thinks I am one who looks like his wife.

      In anyone’s experience, would a visit by a Catholic priest help?

    • straffinrun

      I’ll be around for a zoom in an hour or so if you’re still up. Sorry to hear what you’re going through.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      FUCK.

      Can you find my aforementioned phone number in forum?

      I remember observing ICU delirium; probably take little or none of it personally.

      • hayeksplosives

        Toxy, no i dont have your number. Worse. i have no idea how to host a zoom. I have zoom on this computer, and that is what i have used so far.

        can anyone help? I am at six one 2 – six wun 9-, and the 4 digits bringing up the rear: 3 6 97

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        heading is under GCC “for Festus” but I can just trxt you too

    • Q Continuum

      Holy shit. Do they have him on antipsychotics? They should as it should not escalate to physical violence.

      • hayeksplosives

        I asked about getting a psych eval, but they said the speech therapists have to do their eval first and havent!!

        I would love to have a psychiatrist on the team.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I could be there probably in an hour if I were showered. Am unfortunately not.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ah, sod the shower. Am awake and sober anyway.

      • hayeksplosives

        and thank you for the call!

      • Q Continuum

        That’s BS; if he attacked you I would think they’d be receptive to it. He’s in pain too and meds could help.

      • Q Continuum

        I mean they need to respect your wishes.

      • Chafed

        Q is exactly right. Physical violence means it’s time for a psyche evaluation now; not after their protocol says so.

    • Hank

      “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions”

      I wish I had some magic reassuring words, but since I don’t have those, I’ll just give my prayers and best wishes.

      • hayeksplosives

        thanks, hank. Prayers are more powerful than is commonly acknowleged

    • Mojeaux

      I just messaged you on the book of faces.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hopefully some folks were around.

    • Akira

      That’s terrible, Hayek… I’m sorry you had to go through that. I’ve never heard of ICU delirium, and I can’t imagine how hard that is for both of you right now.

      I wish I could get on the Zoom call but I don’t have a webcam.

      • Mojeaux

        You don’t need a cam, just a mic.

    • hayeksplosives

      thank you all for your public posted kind words, your emails, your links to potentially helpful resources. and of course to the Zoomers who joined us.

      I feel tremendously better mentally about the coming next few weeks. It will be hard, but there is hope!

      I sincerely love you guys.

  16. Tres Cool

    whaddup fam ?

    Its my night/day off. Im gettin’ crunk and doing laundry.

    • Plinker762

      You might already be crunk.

      • Plinker762

        Too much bleach?

      • Tres Cool

        I actually add peroxide (H2O2 30% v/v) instead.

    • hayeksplosives

      Huh.

      Because 15 to 25% of patients admitted to ICUs die there, physicians should know how to minimize suffering and help dying patients maintain dignity.

      The attitude difference between various care givers who are working with Mr Spolsives is somehow surprising to me. Some clearly care about him and notice small things and try to make him comfortable. Others don’t even look him in the eyes, answer his questions, or explain what they are about to do with his various tubes.

      The woman who was his nurse today was terrible. Hell. she hardly talked to me. But the young intern on the totem pole who was assigned to be Mr’s “sitter” so he couldn’t pull out tubes and get out of his restraints was wonderful. He noticed that when I played (iphone) Christian songs that Mr used to play in church, that Mr sang or mouthed the words. And the sitter knew them too, and tried to connect! It was awesome before Queen Beyotch decided to come in and sedate him further.

      The only reason she came in was that the sitter and I noticed liquid on the floor. I traced the source to an uncapped line on his big neck line. It’s basically a big inflexible manifold for sticking in bunches of different drip. So we asked for a nurse to cap it and replace anything that might have become unsterile, and the damned nurse just turned up his tranqs, even though he was silently complying with our requests to lean here or there or turn so we could fix his cords.

      This hospital is outstanding for their cardio surgery, but I would love to fire about half the nursing staff.

      • Gender Traitor

        So sorry you’re going through this! We’ve been much luckier – in many ways, but in particular with the nurses we encountered in Tom T’s various medical “adventures.” In particular, the ones who “tag-teamed” for him after his second (worst…so far…) stroke were wonderful.

        If they won’t budge from their rigid “procedure” and give him a psych eval pronto, would it be worth threatening to lawyer up? Especially since he attacked you while under their care?

      • hayeksplosives

        I thought about legal threats and immediately envisioned a board meeting in which they’d end all visiting for anyone for all time, so I decided against it.

        However, I am not only his next of kin but also his durable power of attorney so I can certainly insert myself further into the planning, I think.

        One wonderful nurse practitioner (who happened to have a day off today) put an exception to Mr S file, saying that I was medically necessary for his health. So they have to allow me to be there pretty much all day, not just 2 hours max between 11-3.

        I can’t get all his caregivers in a room at once, so I am planning writing several copies of a letter with my observations, questions, suggestions, and offer to help with getting him grounded.

        One thing I noticed yesterday and today is that he really needs a calendar. They write today’s date on his whiteboard, but he loses sense of how long he’s been there. He wants to understand but can’t without a calendar.

        So I’m going to go to Office Depot or something and get a big laminated calendar to hang in his room so mmm so that he gets the passage of time.

        I think one of his purgatory/hell issues is that he thinks he will never get to go home. A calendar might help set goals and believe in progress.

      • Festus

        Lived through this about a year and a half ago. So sorry that this is happening to you and him. Some caregivers are there to help and others seem more to be involved in the social aspects of the job. All the best to you both, sincerely.

  17. Ownbestenemy

    I must have missed the section in civics that allows an executive level department to legislate.

    According to the White House:

    The Justice Department, within 60 days, will publish model “red flag” legislation for states.

    • Akira

      The Justice Department, within 60 days, will publish model “red flag” legislation for states.

      When I encounter a person who likes the red flag law for gun owners, I always propose a red flag law for Muslims.

      If Ahmed in accounting has been a little fiery about Israel lately, there should be a DHS hotline where you can turn him in (for his own safety, of course). They can prevent him from getting on a plane, sending money through remittance services, or buying fertilizer until they make sure he’s not a terrorist.

      If they accept that a red flag law is OK for gun owners, there’s really no excuse for opposing it for Muslims.

  18. hayeksplosives

    Here’s a Christian song that is reaching me tonight. Peruse according to your taste in spiritual music.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUEy8nZvpdM

    I’m tired
    I’m worn
    My heart is heavy
    From the work it takes to keep on breathing
    I’ve made mistakes
    I’ve let my hope fail

    My soul feels crushed
    By the weight of this world
    And I know that You can give me rest
    So I cry out with all that I have left

    Let me see redemption win
    Let me know the struggle ends
    That You can mend a heart that’s frail and torn
    I want to know a song can rise
    From the ashes of a broken life
    And all that’s dead inside can be reborn
    ‘Cause I’m worn

    I know I need
    To lift my eyes up
    But I’m too weak
    Life just won’t let up

    And I know that You can give me rest
    So I cry out with all that I have left
    Let me see redemption win
    Let me know the struggle ends
    That You can mend a heart that’s frail and torn

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Welcome to Life, nothing but Soul crushing misery, No one get’s out,
      Been there, still doing that, take a few days off and sleep,

      • hayeksplosives

        I appreciate your words, and i grieve with you for your losses, but I’m not throwing in the towel yet.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a1WKcB7umU

        Matthew West: Grace Always Wins.

      • Gender Traitor

        Some mellow, subtly Christian music from down the road in Cincy, from my favorite album of theirs.

        “They’ve taken a toll, these latter days.”

      • Fourscore

        Miz Hayek, You have my Best Wishes,

        There is nothing I can offer other than to try to understand that Drs can fix a lot of things physically and not so much with those things above the ears.

        We don’t know or understand some things. I lived with that problem for 13 years. ’til a court resolved it. Mrs Fourscore and
        I just celebrated our 47th, while I was is the hospital 2 weeks ago with my current problem.

        Wishing you the best, sorry to hear about your travails and hope your world gets better soon.

      • Festus

        Immensely pleased to see you back, Fourscore!

      • rhywun

        I’ll add my best wishes too! Just catching up.

  19. UnCivilServant

    I need a vacation. I’m getting surly when I have to provide people at work with information – even when that information is essential to them to do what I want them to. Luckily it’s all over email, so the matter of fact bullet points of data don’t convey the grumbling at my end.

    • Gender Traitor

      I hope you can take one soon. If it’s any help, Indiana has dropped their statewide mask mandate, though individual counties may adopt or continue them. Happily, the county nearest us voted unanimously NOT to adopt one (against the recommendation of their health department, of course.) You’d have to get through all the crap in PA and OH to get there, but it’s one possible refuge.

      Has the weather at least improved enough that you could get out for a nice walk to clear your head after work?

    • rhywun

      I was cranky all day yesterday. Probably the headache.

      All better today and ready to fight the world in… 15 minutes or so.

    • Sean

      Lil road trip?

      You’re welcome to visit here in PA. I’ll supply the guns, ammo, food, & drink if you make the drive. Weekends best.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ll have to think about it. I know I can reach Delmarva in a single day’s drive, so that area is at least reachable.

        How’s the mask hassle in the area?

      • Sean

        Not required on my range or in my house. Required whilst walking to tables in restaurants, not while seated.

        Minimal hassle, but some minimal compliance required.

    • Cy Esquire

      If you make it down to DFW… I could use a night on the town.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s 25 hours of just driving to get to Dallas from here.

      • Festus

        Probably worth it for the hookers, guns and blow. Just think! After a weekend like that you could do that 25 hours in one straight shot and be working on Tuesday morning…

      • Festus

        From which, though?

  20. Sean

    Mornin’ y’all.

    • Gender Traitor

      Mornin’, Sean. I’d love to stay & chat, but the ‘net says there’s an accident along my commute route, so I’d best get ready to leave a few minutes early.

  21. Cy Esquire

    Hey hey various peoples!