“Just always remember how very, very much DeBlasio hates (((us)))…”
I woke up, checked the weather on my phone… 111°??? Oh, fuck, I forgot to reset it for the new location. That’s back in Arizona. Make no mistake, there were so many things we loved there, the 7 months of ridiculous heat notwithstanding. But, c’mon, there’s seasons. To wit, SP and I sat on our back deck last night, feeling the cool breezes and sipping some excellent Rkasiteli. This morning I stepped outside to drain the dog and I could see my breath. This made me unexpectedly happy. I then sat in the solarium with a cup of coffee and the news and became far less happy.
But at least birthdays cheer me up, and today’s include a guy who lived by a simple maxim; my personal hero and the godfather of us all; the first in a long line of dishonest shitheads; the guy who showed Hitler who was the Faster Race; a guy who, despite what one might think, was not a bot; the most punchable face in DC for many years; the best rabbi ever; a pretty decent drummer; and of course, Prime Cancel.
Let’s get to Links before I freeze out here.
Fuck you, Georgie. Fuck you with barbed wire. Shut up. You’re disgraceful and always have been.
Like this gift from Georgie that keeps on giving.
Whaddaya expect for a couple grand?
Well, they do make some damn fine pie.
It will be interesting to see which commenter is missing this morning.
Old Guy Music is a can’t fail pairing. And holy fuck, they do not fail!
*lifts coffee mug*
Responding to Tres’ ghettokitty, why isn’t this something sold by Sanrio?
Greetings from the best coast.
Good morning from the front lines holding back the Amish!
Well, I am on the Mennonite front, so I feel your pain!
Bush’s speech was dangerous and it indicates the natural progression the national security state will always take. Honestly, if what happened on the sixth was such a grave threat to the nation, and it wasn’t, then we’re more fragile than a Faberge egg and we’re doomed anyway.
When I checked the link, I thought “reformed gangster” meant a (((Reformed))) gangster. Thought, “Man, them Hasidim are tough on the less observant!”
Lol ?
“Will the Amish take over America?”
We could do worse.
Would be happier with the German Baptists (“Dunkards.”) They run a darn fine food market up the road a piece, and they don’t hold up traffic driving buggies.
You didnt have to go to school with them. I did.
They can be colossal assholes.
No kidding? Sorry to hear that. And no, didn’t have any that I was aware of in the Dayton Public Schools I attended (both of them.)
They make a damn fine pie.
Dunkard boys usually only attended school until 8th grade, if they were sticking with agriculture as a career. Some went to JVS for a trade like carpentry (no auto mechanics, duh). The girls usually went all 12 years, and were notorious sluts. Some guys have a thing for asian broads. Or maybe black or latina. My buddy Tim loved Dunkards in their bonnets and denim dresses.
That explains my next door neighbor with the denim dresses thing, I thought she was just a runaway amish gal,
Might also be Pentecostal, if I’ve been informed correctly. Long hair too?
Yep, constanly in braids, broad Germanic face, gap toothed, it’s a very common look for some folks up here, I’m not sure of the background, never asked.
We had a Hutterite community in our school district.
They mostly kept to themselves and seemed harmless.
Hopefully they don’t come out on top, they do a sort of communal living that I don’t think I could deal with.
I do have some pretty cute Mennonite cousins.
#Waits4Rumschpringe
“George W. Bush compares ‘violent extremists at home’ to 9/11 terrorists in 20th anniversary speech”
Hunter has his ‘art’ as a mechanism to launder money. Bush just bought a baseball team to fund his coke use.
“I then sat in the solarium with a cup of coffee and the news and became far less happy.”
Ugh. Why did I do it? I looked at the links. I think I am going to turn the Hallmark Channel back on.
I remember right after 9/11/01 seeing the whole of congress standing on the steps of the capitol with their hands on their hearts reciting the Star Spangled Banner. I accidentally said out loud “Oh my God, we are so fucked.”
The other people in the room, I am not going to say who, reflexively said “Whaaaaaaa? Hmmmmm? Whuuuuuuut? What are you talking about?”
I did not know how to answer that.
“Because the terrorists unified the powers of the donkey and the elephant and that’s bad for everyone, not just the terrorists”, might work, crudely speaking.
I naively believed that it would unite us all because everyone would see who are enemies are. So childish I was. Then I read the words Dept. of Homeland Security and knew fascism was inbound.
The most sickening part was listening to all the Connies cheering it on. You know… for safety reasons. I told several of them off. “Get the fuck out of here with your fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here bullshit.” The enemy has always been among us and now their army of useful idiots has achieved critical mass, sufficient funding, and 21st century inter-communication technology.
Congress: “Well lookee here, a whole pile o’ dead bodies to stand on”
Never let a crisis go to waste, you grandstanding cuntes
When Bush implored not to let the terrorists win, I knew they had won. He’s a fucking war criminal, why are we giving him a soap box now? Fuck him, he should be in prison for his lies that lead to the bullshit endless wars that killed Americans for no good reason.
He gets a soap box now in the same way the last but one R always gets a soap box “see, even XXX isn’t as bad as YYYY!”
Shit never changes.
G. Bush committed war crimes by allowing torture by Americans. He and his neo-con cronies set American moral high ground back. Congress let it happen. Americans let it happen. Bush was still better than Gore. Which is sad.
Democrats are so horrible that Republicans get tricked into putting up RINOs like G. Bush, Romney, McCain…
Trump changed all that. Trump put America first and tried to roll back Communist policy in government. RINOs hated Trump, which illustrates how well Trump doing behind the scenes. Commies and their RINO supporters had to get rid of Trump.
I’m writing (wronging) my first Glibs piece. My general rule is don’t say “I’m going to”, just do it/actions greater than words, but I wanted to mark this point right here to see how long it takes me given no idea when I’ll fit it in.
Ps – it is relevant to one of the topics in the links so please no catbutt.
Not catbutting : 1. It’s hard to find the time to do it. 2. It’s hard not to try to pick at everything you’ve written multiple times before you give it the OK (I suffer from this all the time at work) 3. It’s worth it so do it anyway. Try not to overthink. You are your own harshest critic.
Suthenboy’s rule of thumb: Wait two weeks and go back and read it again. Then start over.
Wow, I really hit that out to the park! After two weeks and a re-read I am usually thinking “Who broke into my computer and wrote this crap?”
I’m the opposite. I go to court and re-read my pleadings sitting there waiting for my turn, thinking: damn that was eloquent. But when I send the pleadings out I’m like : seems shaky.
I now have a thing if I am arguing first that I go over where “we” are at procedurally, in case the judge didn’t do that first. In other words, we submitted this on xx, 2021, and the other side responded on xxx, etc. etc.
I’m still reading the other half of my article-to-be – thought I would get to do some reading on vacation (don’t know where I got that silly idea).
Mrs. Suthenboy: “I wish you would quit procrastinating.”
Me: “I will. I am just waiting for the right time.”
Permit me to chime in here, limey. Just do it! Looking forward to reading whatever it is you come up with.
Scrawl it out one day when you’re drunk. That’s how I do it!
Words of wisdom.
Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda
‘Size matters not’ – Yoda/ cut to Episode 2 more than 20 years earlier where he struggles to Force lift an object lighter than an X-Wing. Yoda was a Damn Liar!
It’s only weird the first time you do it.
I look forward to seeing what you write.
It will be interesting to see which commenter is missing this morning.
Which one fell in love with a Mexican girl?
A ZZ Top fan ?
Did you see what the original link referred to?
I know I’m late but, dag, that’s a great song.
I assumed it would be Sloopy. He’s probably still rage-crying.
Upstate NY hospital won’t have enough staff to deliver babies thanks to vaccine mandate
I’m sure they can cut down the demand by refusing the birth unclean babies. Lots of yokels up there.
Psychopathic late night talk show host “comedian” agrees enthusiastically.
“Psychopathic late night talk show host “comedian”
That doesnt really narrow things down much.
Mr. Sarah Silverman in this case.
I think its hilarious that so many people are standing up to vaccine tyranny. Thats why I advocate making your employers fire you for that reason. There is strength in numbers. You dont know the numbers until people fight back.
Our Commie media does purposely not report on resistance numbers as much as they can or they spin the story.
Organization does help resistance movements.
I hit post comment before I wrote this:
Lefties hate that American organization doesnt need traditional organizational methods like propaganda, meetings, commanders, etc.
Americans answer the call to Arms in their own ways which foils Communist tactics to takeover that might work in other places.
Americans are mostly defeating Commies in America and we havent even used our guns yet.
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Never change, CNBC.
I eagerly await that blessed day when the ubiquitous “This product is known to the State of California to cause *insert disease here*” can no longer be found on everyday products. A man can dream…
I bought some completely innocuous food product recently – I wish I could remember what it was – that had a little box on the back reading something like, “California requires us to inform you that this product might contain blah blah blah.”
When everything contains cancer-causing chemicals….
Everything causes cancer, it is known.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQyru5ACmA
Sometimes it’s a de facto ban instead of a warning. Looked at a pressure washer yesterday that was “not for sale in California / 49 state compliant”.
Have you ever looked on the back of these packages?
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1aODLatzvK1RkSnfoq6zMwVXaz/Hengjia-8pcs-Fishing-Lure-Popper-Bait-with-Treble-Hook-Fishing-Tackle-9-5cm-18g-Lifelike-3D.jpg
“California blah blah blah” and then “Do not eat”
Anyone who is tempted to eat one of these, I strongly encourage them to do so.
I’m an advocate of letting Darwin do his good work.
It’s like every electronics product I buy. “Don’t ingest battery leakage”, “Don’t plug this in and take it into the bathtub”, herpity derpity doo.
“This product is known to the state of California to cause severe internal bleeding”
…and that’s just the packaging…
That’s a Hail Mary pass to try and make the election about anything other than COVID and Biden.
Another post for Deadhead
“Will the Amish take over America?”
We can hope, can’t we?
Fuck George Bush. That is all.
Climate change. Fuck that also. I was recently asked by a relative (HS graduate) why I don’t buy into the climatescam. “Oh I dunno, 60 hours of earth science. What do I know?”
At least I didn’t have to listen to any more bullshit.
Back in the Obama days when Bush re-emerged with his paintings I remember several articles psychoanalyzing them and pointing to signs of regret and self-contemplation. As with most pop psychology they were dead wrong, it’s obvious Bush II hasn’t learned a damn thing.
The motherfucker who started two pointless wars calling people “violent extremists”. Fuck him.
Millions dead…. millions.
5 regional conflicts in the Middle East prior to our invasions, now there are 22.
And yet the House of Saud is still passing out checks.
“Look! Iraq! Iran!”. Never mind that Usama was Saudi royalty leading a team of Saudi murderers. All about the money.
Saudis checks are huge and thats all you need to know.
Anyone else see the link between America’s oil fracking industry being hounded by the federal govt and Saudis not having that sweet American oil income?
You are keeping count? I lost count and gave up trying.
Someone here recently referred to DC as Panem on the Potomac. I think that is accurate.
Scott Horton keeps track for me.
Perfect tweet on Bush.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/084/698/451/original/01fdae3f3ffee35d.jpg
Yikes.
From the TSA article: ‘By doubling the range of penalties, we seek to reinforce the importance of voluntary adherence.’
Doesn’t sound very voluntary to me.
Also: ‘The federal mask mandate applies to individuals at airports, on commercial aircraft and in various modes of surface transportation, including passenger railroads, intercity bus services and other public transportation.’
So we’re going to see TSA agents at inner city bus stations now?
Just wait until they give the TSA authority over all private transportation.
Once there is a punishment in view, there is no such thing as voluntary compliance.
Bingo.
‘While Newsom has taken only moderate actions to curb climate change, replacing him could result in a rollback of green policies such as phasing out fracking and gasoline-powered vehicles…’
Moderate actions.
How could they reject their savior like this? We never learn, I guess.
The man oozes sleaze. Anyone who was willing to put up with someone as obnoxious and stupid as Kimberly Guilfoyle had no soul to begin with. Don’t care what her body looks like, can’t stand that women.
“The man oozes sleaze. ”
I used to work with a salesman. I thought he was pretty slimy. Then he quit the company we were with and worked briefly for a used car place. He came back and got his old job back because he said the used car guys made him look like a Sunday school Teacher and he couldn’t tolerate them.
When I see Newsome that is who I think of. Yes, he oozes sleaze.
He looks like what would have happened if Pat Riley ran a porn studio.
I have a vague memory of reading a sci-fi short story while my 1st?2nd? grade teacher was trying to teach my idiot cohorts how to read. The story involved a man fleeing from government agents of some sort….I cant remember why. He tried to get away from them in a chickenshit, underpowered electric car that was barely bigger than a go-cart. His government pursuers had full blown, high powered gasoline cars. I thought that would never happen.
Hey, it was grade school. I was naive.
Speaking of which, lately I have had half of a dozen people stop by and attempt to buy my Jeep.
Were they driving black suburbans?
“Vote No on the Republican recall. Sponsored by Reed Hastings* and SEIU.”
*Netflix CEO; apparently also a charter-school proponent (eh?)
Hastings is a colossal piece of shit that subsidized Obama’s retirement in return for him pushing net neutrality.
I’m really glad I gave up Netflix over a year ago. They had a couple original shows I liked but they got canceled and the third season of Stranger Things was a disaster of a memberberries shitshow. Didn’t know until later just how much the management was corrupted.
These people are seriously insane,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/weimar-its-us.php
Print money and hand it out to buy interest groups while debasing the currency and the accumulated wealth of the middle class. They’re not ignorant or insane though, they know exactly what they’re doing.
What cannot last forever, will not last forever.
I can’t be out of money. I still have check blanks.
Fall-like morning, sitting on a park bench (eyeing little girls with bad intent) next to the jogging/bicycle path. Coffee and a bowl of strong tobacco. Yoga pants in plain view. Snarky takes on the state of the world. Life is good.
::looks at ‘patzie:: Uh oh! May I offer you a tissue?
Well played!
Porque? No sniffles today. *ponders possible uses for tissues*. Um… Thanks, GT.
No Aqualung for you?
Lol. In a for real astounding coincidence, my nickname in grammar school was “snot-rag”. I do suffer from seasonal allergies.
Gah! Damn your nimble fingers Yusef!
Your article dropped while I was sleeping. Good read. Thanks for writing it up.
As for my way less consequential ‘where was I when the
wallstowers fell’; I was asleep in Las Vegas. My older brother was flying out of northern New York that morning and I get a frantic call from my oldest sister sometime after 6am Pacific, ‘He’s OK! He’s OK!’. Having no idea what she was talking about she told me to turn on the TV. As I was on the phone with her watching the second plane hit.Thanks, man. I see you have an article in the works, looking forward to it. Almost as much as the next H&H animation spectacular.
I caught up on your article, too, GP. Very well written.
Thank you.
Thanks. Looking forward to your next installment (where do you find the time?)
Aqua lung? Is that you?
So the 18 year old british chick with a Romanian name won the tennis.
First I hate 18 year old high achievers.
Second what was more important, the Romanian blood, the Chinese blood, the being born in Canada or raise in England part? Or was it all dumb luck.
The sportsheads were so blatantly favoring the other chick they didn’t spend any time on Raducanu’s intersectionality so it’s hard to say.
If she was raised in England, she probably wasn’t drinking Romanian blood.
So the latest anti-ivermectin story is that it sterilizes men.
Of course, it was a treatment study of men who were infected with a parasite that has a tendency to sterilize you.
They’re desperate to invalidate it as a treatment to a degree I’ve never seen, that’s for sure. Even if it does turn out to be ineffective it’s largely harmless if taken in appropriate doses under a doctor’s care. Probably no riskier than taking aspirin.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/decision-theyll-regret-australia-regulator-bans-ivermectin-use-covid-19-treatment
The only explanation I can think of is that they are some weird kind of malthusians and they really do want people to die.
This. Also, God forbid the Big Pharma not ream us up the ass for every penny they can get.
Desperate to feel morally superior and too lazy and/or scared to do the legwork required to discover that the government and media are lying to them.
I’m speaking of the people who spread the “fake news” around.
It’s the first drug ever prescribed for an off label use, if I’m to believe the media. And that’s only the media honest enough to admit it’s occasionally prescribed for humans at all.
The weather here has been good. 12 in the morning 25 in the afternoon. No AC needed nice to walk.
Still swatting at pigeons?
Yes?
“12 in the morning 25 in the afternoon.”
*does quick calculation*. What am I doing in Bucharest?
12 in the morning is noon? And 25 in the afternoon is 1 am?
Now the Biden (the president guy) is keeping us safe with the “Over the Horizon” doctrine can we bring all the troops home? Is the new mantra going to allow us to fight them here instead of over there?
My investment counselor is asking me lots of questions so he can decide how to advise people on their financial future.
Invest in ammo?
✔
It may be a good thing that Bush turned on the “domestic terrorists.” It’s not going to play well with the discontented right now.
Drive that fucker’s family out of politics forever.
Read my lips. No new Texans.
From the Mencken article on Wikipedia:
New strain last night: the tiki cookie. The fine folks of Fluresh …. dang that is good.
And the pretty packaging!
/Hits fresh Master Kush……
Oh yes… very much a couch lock kinds of weed…
Hmm, should I get up and make some dinner? Nah, let’s use UberEats!
Good Morning my fellow Gibbs.
Chickens and sheep are out doing there thing, the 13 year old girl’s birthday bash (oh wow, do they generate drama) are still asleep.
Our presidents slide into the 25th amendment seems to be increasing. I bet he does not last the year.
My “farm list” of things to gets done grows faster then i can get to it….
But i still believe that we as individuals have more creativity than those that would control us. For them, its just a job, and they are lazy.
Oh, lordy! You didn’t mention yesterday that it was a “slumber” party!
“Slumber” parties. With 13-year-old girls. Been there, done that. (Not as the parent/chaperone, thank goodness!)
Thoughts & prayers.
Twice, the girl was in tears hiding in the back shower. Would not tell me why.
When i return from putting chickens up, everything was all good. How can things change so fast?
Well at least i have pictures of her first birthday party. Hopefully its a positive memory for her.
I suspect the fact that you gave her one WILL be a positive memory.
The good thing about teenagers is they grow up and become responsible adults, mostly. My kids are late 50s now and they are constantly remembering the things I told them, that they mostly ignored, but have used through out their life.
Most important thing we did together was teaching and learning how to read, all good things came after that. I can sympathize with you, robo, now wait for the first lost love (and the 2nd, third, 4th) and then you’ll ignore the drama.
Remember, you are in a learning mode, too. Teenagers, “oughta be a law”
Those things are horror shows.
Keep me as far away as possible.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S03E10/244467
I’m pretty sure I once had some manner of soft drink poured in my ear while I slept at a friend’s slumber party.
I’m guessing you have horror stories of your own, dontcha, TO’G?
Frozen training bra. Other than that, just the usual “light as a feather” silliness.
::shudders and squirms at the thought::
+1 ‘could cut glass’!
Well, the temporary absence of a training bra isn’t much noticed.
Girls shouldn’t be allowed to have slumber parties until they are sweet…sweet…can…18.
He’ll still be around at the end of the year. Take a look at what they did with the corpse of Roosevelt or Wilson.
Hmm, a buddy of mine wants me to come over to watch football today. This includes a ride to and from so I can drink beer safely, generous amounts of weed and home cooking from his wife. Then again, fuck the NFL. What to do, what to do…
“I can drink beer safely, generous amounts of weed and home cooking from his wife.”
Not seeing a problem here.
It’s the endless sanctimonious wokeness and tut-tuting about what I’m suppose to think, say and do for the “collective good” baked into the programming and commercials that puts me off.
Suppose I could just get so drunk and stoned that I forget what I’m watching.
?
The other night my wife and I were speculating on who was paying for the endless vaccine ads – before getting fed up and turning it off.
How long before you realized that you were actually paying for it?
You mean it’s not a Public Service Announcement, provided by the broadcaster?
Every time I hear how they are safe, effective, and free – I know it’s 3 lies.
Fuck the wife instead of the NFL?
Heh…no. Though something tells me Tres would give her a go.
When I was able to be home to watch NFL games (or at a friends) I never saw most of the commercials, that was time to take a piss and get another beer. When I worked at the radio station running the game broadcast was my job, so I never had the TV audio on and I tuned out most of the ads we ran only focusing on making them run correctly. Now that the games are on either while I’m asleep or on my way to work I DVR them and skip all the ads and bloated commentary when I watch.
Ohmygod. There exists a profession which doesn’t require a license!
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/09/hire-at-your-own-risk.html
We need more of this:
“To get a license to give a $15 haircut in New Jersey, stylists must complete 1,200 hours of instruction at a state-approved school and take a state exam”
They obviously need more licensing requirements to be a reporter.
I think that idea has been floated before…by journalists.
“…and take a state exam.”
Well, at least they don’t have to pass it.
Well, let’s examine my state, CA. It’s a train wreck. Next.
standardized tests are racist
Wait till they find out that just this last year in TX, anyone can now call himself a plumber.
‘Criminals can also get a pass. While the state’s Home Improvement Contractor (HIC) registration application asks whether the applicant or any company officers have been convicted of a crime, a conviction won’t necessarily stop someone from receiving the HIC registration, according to the Division of Consumer Affairs. And because the statute explicitly does not allow criminal background checks, there’s nothing to stop a criminal from lying.
In the absence of greater protections, homeowners often have to fend for themselves.’
So? The HIC guys still have to carry liability insurance. And I hate break it to the reporter here but typically home repair/construction guys are a rough lot with a shady past. Vet too hard and you’d wipe out half that workforce then your home would either be still fucked up or fixing it would cost twice as much.
Can I get my driveway Quick Sealed?
Better yet, how’s about I mudjack it with real mud?
Can I give you a little incentive money up front, to insure that you know I’m serious, and not trying to rip you off.? Oh, and I have the 20% off card that I got in the mail.
Sounds good! I’ll be sure to bring my concrete and brick stretchers.
Women and children hardest hit?
Papieren, bitte.
https://www.nj.com/business/2021/09/how-to-store-your-covid-vaccination-card-and-show-proof-as-mandates-tighten.html
Carrot:
“You can even get free doughnuts all year long at Krispy Kreme when you show a valid COVID-19 vaccination card at any of the company’s U.S. shops.”
Stick:
“Employers, concert venues, and restaurants are beginning to require proof of vaccination, which means keeping your vaccination card safe and available is important”
And I will never shop at Krispy Kreme again.
I’ve already sworn to do everything in my power to never use CVS, Rite-Aid or Walgreens again.
We use a local independent pharmacy, good guy. Has a 24 hour phone line for emergencies, mixes his own formulations of vitamins and such, real old school.
Anti-vaxxer me got a Tetanus booster there about a month ago. Fucking Empire BC/BS will not cover it. So they will pay for an experimental “vaccine” which may or may not actually work, but not for something which is proven, effective, and necessary. Bizzaro world.
Good to have.
I’m using a local compounding pharmacy as well.
Yet, if you go to your doctor and get it there at a presumably higher actual cost, it will be covered.
What did Rite-Aid do?
Not pay-off the Kool-Aid man?
Wokery? OTT, I don’t know.
They’re refusing to fill ivermectin prescriptions.
Ah.
I’m surprised it isn’t already banned.
“Bake the cake” is OK, but not “Fill the legal prescription”.
Apparently the insurance companies are getting involved as well as the FDA.
Meanwhile, the evidence continues to stack up.
https://c19ivermectin.com/
Costco won’t give me a price.
Interesting bit about the geofence stuff in that article about the murder. No way that gets abused.
“Detectives are investigating the possibility that he was targeted because he was a suspected informant against co-defendants.”
Snitches get stitches.
Hey where did everyone go? ::voice echoes off into the distance::
Just finished giving myself a mani with those nail polish adhesive strips. Just got put onto ’em a few weeks ago, and I’m totally hooked. #GirlyGirlStuff
Well, you asked.
Y’know I always used to wonder why retired guys spent so much time on their lawns, or, in my old man’s case, updating everything in the house. New toilets? Sure. A $38,000 back deck? Why not? Paint the garage floor? Yes!
Even going to multiple estate sales and thrift stores a week, along with pricing things, cleaning and bagging records, booth maintenance, etc I still have too much free time on my hands. I suppose I should get back into book writing again, or making robots, or get an old car to work on.
But first things first. An hour or two early morning, like 6 Am-8AM, time in the local coffee shop, hanging with a bunch of other retirees that didn’t know each other before they retired. Then it’s time to mow the lawn for the third time this week, sweep the driveway (if you don’t have a nice riding lawnmower with a vacuum), straighten up the tackle box you haven’t used in 2-3 years and hit the garage sales on the other side of town. Buy anything you think your kids want/need (they don’t) because you got a good deal.
The internet before Al Gore.
Car. Go with the car.
FWIW, I took a couple of classes at the local juco.
Vacation is going pretty well albeit a couple frustrations – no beermosas at Bug Slide Brewery Brunch.
More importantly, I normally get caught up on some of my older movies while I’m up here with fewer distractions. First i forgot to pack my HDMI cable, then it turns out the battery in my bluray remote went bad – and apparently the remote is unusable….I’ll try cleaning it a little more later.
I did still manage a viewing of Battleship Potemkin using just the buttons on the front of the player. And why the heck did autocorrect just try to change Pokémon
Potemkin to Pokémon or potential. Stupid uncultured spellcheck.
youre vacationing by Lake Placid, right? I went there 2 years ago. I really enjoyed eating at The Hungry Trout. And the Au Sable Chasm is pretty impressive.
The 37 best cities in the world in 2021
We quizzed 27,000 city-dwellers to rank the best cities in the world right now. Ready?
https://www.timeout.com/things-to-do/best-cities-in-the-world
Who can guess number 1?
Portland! (The Oregon one, not the Maine one.)
#1, where you can smell a lot of #2
I certainly couldn’t guess it.
Why ask the people with Stockholm syndrome? Why not use some metrics? Who am I kidding, this is #SCIENCE!
What? No love for Pahrump Nevada?!?
(I keed, I keed—Pahrump is not a town, it’s a census designated place)
Saw your overnight post about the hubby. That has to be extremely frustrating.
Eh, whatevs.
Just got to shake it off.
The first time my grandfather had sepsis, my family took turns staying by his bedside. He reacted to us holding his hand or talking to him, and it seemed to help. Afterwards, he couldn’t remember most of the experience (which is probably for the best because it was horrible), and thought that he had been alone the whole time. It was sad that he didn’t remember us being there, but he knew we there at the time and it did make a difference.
I’m sorry that you and your husband had to go through the ordeal you did, and I’m sorry he doesn’t remember what you did for him, but I don’t think it was all for nothing.
You can play the slots at the grocery store, with any change you get back. Casino is smaller than Vegas but no waiting for a machine.
Sign me up!
Well your name will be on a list, anyway…
Constanța?
What a shithole
Ummm…
Why do you hate paradise?
They paved it and put up a parking lot?
Fuck cities.
There seemed to be a running theme of “What makes this city so great is all the parks that let you get away from the city.”
For all the professed love of urban living, urbanites do get out of the city whenever they can.
+1000000000000000000000
Rural people might go to cities to see/do something different.
Urban people tend to talk about leaving cities just to get out permanently/temporarily.
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO2qiE6s?si=9bmuKWy0S8O1kjFOIHDhkw&dl_branch=1
I find listening to Dean Martin very soothing and uplifting when I’m down.
Sorry for the Spotify link, but I can’t find any other app that’s as good.
No “Sway”? tsk tsk.
It should be there. One of my favorites.
Yet, it’s not. Spotify does change up the lists I think.
I’m sure this has been covered here. I apologize in advance if it contains, ” hateful language”!
*harmful. Harmful language alert.
Warning!: Humans are human.
Pretty sure when the government archivists label the founding documents of a nation “harmful” that signals the impending cessation of said country.
They’re at danger of finding out what actually constitutes harm.
And they was right!
Anti electricity propaganda from 1900s.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Iearnhistory/status/1436460325218312193
New York Tunnel Police – 1950s
https://mobile.twitter.com/Iearnhistory/status/1434810520922517506
I would like to have met this C. S. Lewis fellow…
I dunno, I’m pretty sure Aslan got it on with at least one of those kids.
Oh no you di’int!!!
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NOPE! Canonically, if one does evil, even is Alan’s name, one is really worshiping Tash. Conversely, any good deeds done, even if in the name of Tash, are really done for Aslan.
I never read the books. It was a Catholic joke, which I can do, being a Catholic and former Altar-Boy. Sheesh.
Why is everyone cross at Tulsi for calling out the poisonous religion of the Musselman?
I’m not cross at her.
Despite her iffy policies on the Economy, I’d vote for her.
Tulsi Gabbard
She has other horrible policy plans. There is a reason that she is a Democrat.
She might be one of the few Democrats who was against wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but there is a reason that she is a Democrat.
I don’t think a cross has anything to do with it. But I don’t have a divinity degree.
Why oh why do the people responsible for dressing the NFL talking heads, particularly the former players and coaches, insist on putting them in suits that are 2 sizes too small and mix plaid with paisley and generally look ridiculous?
I envision a room full of “fashion designers” who could never catch the ball back in high school now seeking revenge on the jocks.
I think you might be onto something – https://youtu.be/9Td0jz8kKx0?t=110
Wapo headline: “Texas abortion law causes some left-leaning tech workers to rethink job options”
Is that supposed to be a negative?
Also from the Wapo, now labeling the 1/6 participants as terrrorists since the insurrectionist label isn’t working.
I guess they just can’t live without their abortions.
Nothing stopping them from aborting their babies out of Texas by driving/flying to wherever.
At this rate they might have to consider the terrifying notion of moving to a state that is more compatible with their politics and we can’t have that.
Anybody else feel like they’re getting overly angry as of late?
I’m not particularly tolerant of idiocy at the moment and it’s starting to show up in actual discourse.
It doesn’t help that I’m buried with work (at the office right now) and my perception of everyone else around me is that they’re not getting shit done.
Yes. I’m skipping over most of the comments here if they don’t appear lighthearted.
For you: https://www.boredpanda.com/miniature-mice-family-house-simon-dell/
I knew there was a reason I
lovelike you tons and tons.It’s all fun arts and crafts until they move into your house and your wife makes you adopt them.
So adorable. Although, the Confederate battle flag bedecked motorcycle mini is problematic. Also, I can’t even with the two of them in the hollow apple; I can’t stop grinning.
Yes.
Yes. At the gym trying to burn it off. Then the rest of the day off-line. Steaks on the grill, a beer, maybe a trip to the ice cream stand.
I let emotions roll off me like Trump off of Milania, or water off a duck’s dick, however that saying goes.
Very angry lately. My brother is here this weekend and we’ve agreed to not talk politics anymore but underneath Im seething and dying to get into it with him about whats going on lately. He is in the NYC teachers union, so obviously very liberal.
I couldn’t do that. Kudos to you.
I am finding myself giving my opinions/positions in a more unsolicited manner lately. All those years of listening to others and I kept the discussions lite and brief.
If I have to listen to your Lefty nonsense, then youre gonna listen to me. Its a win-win-win because:
(1 win) They know you dont agree with them and their positions, so they know dissent is out there.
(2 win) If they walk away, they dont get to spread lies to you.
(3 win) If they stay and talk, you shred all their ridiculous lies with strong Libertarian positions emphasizing max freedom, individual responsibility, and limited govt.
So a co-workers brother in law passed away this week. He was the tender age of 37- went sober 4 + months ago but went to the emergency due to kidney issues. Then had a heart attack (same day), and died the next day as remaining organs shut down. His family is still reeling from the dad’s death less than 2 years ago.
Whoops – that was Elspeth posting as Lord H. Hoisted by my own petard.
Whycome we never get Lord H posting under Elspeth with some salacious story of banging some girl? Worst commenter mix-ups ever!
Sorry.
Damn, that’s much too young.
Confessions of a FB Karen: I just reported a post in my cross stitch group for being political (“get your vaccine”-like bullshit), which is supposed to be strictly apolitical and no drama. Unbeknownst to me, reporting a post to the mods gets the reply and add a comment functions disabled. That group is the only reason I stay on FB. I don’t want it coopted by Branch Covidians.
It will all be assimilated. They are Borg. Resistance is futile.
That would really piss me off, yet still be kind of funny too. It would have me in cross stitches!
That pun really threaded the needle, there, pal.
Hanging by a string buddy.
While I’ve sued it before, I’m starting to object to the “Branch Covidians” label.
The Branch Davidians were the innocent party in that fiasco.
I haven’t seen you say that, but you make a good point.
I meant that I’ve used that term before, but have stopped doing so.
Poor typing doesn’t help clear communication.
Religious cult ☑
Withdrew from open society ☑
Forced people into compliance with apocalyptic fear ☑
Made a big deal about inserting things into children ☑
Forced broader society, with various threats, to abide by their beliefs ❌
I may be coming around to your view.
I considered complaining to the state Stasi about a chain store that’s been particularly enthusiastic about enforcing the mask orders on customers but allows their own employees to wear no longer compliant face shields.
Well, they do make some damn fine pie.
Yes. The Amish do make fine pies.
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/09/oregon-school-boards-association-leaders-admonish-school-board-members-follow-the-law-like-it-or-not.html
“You’re not independent members representing your local community. You’re merely agents and enforcers of centrally decided policy.”
Also “Follow the ‘law’ (or administrative orders) when we agree with them but Resist when we don’t”
The head of the disgustingly named Members of Color Caucus is this guy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samialabdrabbuh/
A well educated Saudi who has been trying to break into local politics and spearheaded ripping the names of several presidents (not just Wilson) off his district’s schools.
A fucking Plato quote.
No doubt he perceives himself as a philosopher king.
Off to buy more Rkatsiteli. Damn, that stuff is too easy to drink.
Old Guy Music is good.