The fun thing about Parents’ Weekend here is that no-one can figure out where to park their cars (usually SUVs and minivans). So many out of towners circling and trying to find a spot. Pro tip: there aren’t any. So park out of town and walk in. While you’re at it, I encourage you to fortify with fancy caffeinated beverages. And I just happen to know a great spot to get them…
Besides parents, today there’s birthdays, and those include a guy who parlayed his stunningly good looks into a movie career; a guy who shot at the king and killed him; a rather mixed bag on the Supreme Court; a woman who was of two minds about many things; Sloopy’s spirit animal; the only true Batman (and according to SP, a delightful and witty guy); a guy who was everyone’s uncle; a woman who inspired Spud’s favorite joke; a chef with some, ummm, novel recipes; and apparently the leading racist in the Senate.
Let’s do links before the parents get here.
Thank god Trump is gone and there’s no more hate for immigrants.
Drunk cops. Rolls Royce. What could go wrong? “The driver was placed on leave with pay.”
More Boomer stuff for Old Guy Music, this time some insanely beautiful acoustic guitar, courtesy of the Scruggs boy.
Global
IntifidaEnchilada!Better than a tostada, which is just a flat taco.
For some reason, “flat taco” made me think of Belinda Carlisle. Or maybe Joni Mitchell.
Quesadilla or GTFO. Vaya con queso!
Fish tacos, chicken mole, tomatillo enchiladas, carnitas tortas, tamales, … I do miss the SoCal options.
Nom. Stop it. No Hispanic aisle where you are?
I’m helping clean out a semi-hoarding situation down the street. The husband passed a couple of months ago. He was an engineer and a bit of a prepper.
But if I had to guess, he had a mild stroke about ten years ago because I’m finding multiples of the same tool in the garage. Like he kept forgetting he had one and kept buying it on impulse every time he went to Ace Hardware. I’m up to five of one particular garden hand tool. And I can’t even begin to explain how many boxes of trash bags and pairs of gloves he bought. The widow has told me to take what I need. I’m not going to have to buy trash bags for years.
As one of the remaining and younger in my family I’m not looking forward to this.
It’s the cans of pesticides, bottles of bleach, and other assorted chemicals that make it unpleasant. Crap’s leaking all over everything.
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I’m calling the EPA.
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There’s a fair amount of ammo too, so I’m ready.
Any chlorodane? Asking for a friend
LOL. Not yet.
That would have been the guy who lived up the hill from my father’s farm. When we were cleaning his place out there were several old containers of Flit and other assorted banned substances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLIT
My father had a bottle of that in California. It did keep the pesky Argentine ants out of the house.
Okay, well, I’m coming over to help. I LOVE throwing shit out and organizing.
#metoo
Yesterday Mrs. T threw out 3 full trash bags of old foodstuffs. It mostly baking stuff and a lot of my daughter’s inedible veggie “food”. Yay, I can find stuff in the cabinets and pantry again!
Dated September 2 and titled “important commuter info,” it advised recipients who were not fully vaccinated that they needed to visit the Wellsville Health Center to be tested and cleared to attend classes. It further states, “You should have gotten an arm band and a hang tag for your rear view mirror.”
Sammons verified the authenticity of the email.
“The email definitely did come from our team,” he confirmed.
However, Sammons acknowledged the precise wording of it perhaps left something to be desired and may have caused some recipients to draw the wrong conclusions.
So just ignore what we actually wrote. Thanks for today’s chuckle!
These are the people who attended history class and learned exactly nothing.
No, they learned right ideas, wrong Top.Men!
Lovely Old Guy Music indeed! Thanks for that!
One of my favorites from one of the birthday girls. One of my favorite voices.
“The fantastic lady of the now sound!”
LOL yeah baby! Can ya dig it?
Love that song.
Gives me an idea for a new poll/game: I’ve always liked to name the Worst Possible M/F vocal quartet, but how about the BEST Possible All-Chick Vocal Quartet (Never Previously Assembled,) with a breadth of vocal ranges high to low. My first list (admittedly mostly mellow):
Alison Krauss
Laurel Masse (the chick singer I wanted to be when I grew up)
Cass Elliott
Karen Carpenter
Now I need to start another list and figure out who to group with Ann Wilson…
She ate the other three choices…….
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Fleming McWilliams (from Fleming and John)
::DDGs FMcW:: Noice! Maybe add Chrissie Hynde for the low end. Also want to work Spanky McFarlane in there somewhere, though she may not rock quite hard enough for this combo.
Morning to the American Glibs.
Afternoon to the Euros.
And whatever to the Asian based Glibs.
“He did not only touch the men and women in this police department but the community as well.”
Sounds problematic.
Day for night in Asia for those of here on the east coast.
It’s the most God awful jet lag.
He will always be Steel to me. It helps that I’ve never seen that other thing.
He was also featured in an Outer Limits that scared the shit out of me at age 8.
Ah the man evolving, right?
“The Sixth Finger.”
If you can find a copy of Violent Playground, it’s an interesting British juvenile delinquent film with a climax that involves McCallum holding a class of elementary school students hostage.
Anti-Fascist Protection
RampartFirewall?Auf Wieder-bye-bye!
Oops…
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1439325498698575872
I’d imagine the event was dominated by feds hoping to cause a shitshow, journalists hoping to film a shitshow, and the dumbest of the dumb rightwingers who still think they can make a good faith attempt to organize and protest without being set up.
Greenwich, CT so it’s not shocking.
Do not give a 18 year old kid an automobile with 4 second zero to 60 acceleration.
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/pqxfdq/tesla_saved_my_life_and_the_drunk_driving_kids/
Tesla v Tesla.
That’s how baby Teslas are made.
BLM plans Carmines protest: Texas women filmed ‘attacking NYC restaurant hostess after she questioned their vaccination cards’ say they were racially profiled and N-word was hurled’
WTF?
The derp thickens…
Someone called her the ultimate slur, huh? Unless it’s caught on the recording it’s bullshit, just an after the fact justification for attacking someone.
Today in I hate everyone.
I assumed the black woman being carried away was the problem – and probably the one tossing N-bombs.
This was my assumption as well from the lawyer’s original quote. He said the word was hurled but didn’t make a specific accusation. Let the jorno list do that for you, which they have in this case.
Oh, for cryin’ in a cup*!
*of pizza
Re-posting from dead thread partly because I still can’t breathe.
My CPAP machine decided to stop working this morning after I got up for a nature break.
I came back to bed and pushed the button, but no air!! So I had to stand over it and read the message. It told me that the pump motor lifetime was up. (To be fair, it’s been warning me for months.)
There is nothing wrong with the motor. This is literally planned and PROGRAMMED obsolescence.
And now I can’t breathe or sleep. Nicely done, “medical” industry.
Ok, tinfoil hat territory.
Do the CPAP manufacturers just want me to pay again (basic greed—I can respect that) or does California know how I voted in the recall election?
So the firmware is saying the motor lifetime was up?
Part greed and part FDA making these things the easiest way to comply with requirements. That’s my guess.
I’m guessing a strange (convenient) intersection of reliability requirements and insurance payment qualification cycles. If Medicare will pay for a new machine every five years, I’ll bet the machines are designed to die at 15,000 to 20,000 hours.
Exactly.
A few years ago I read a really interesting story about the issue of parts availability for iron lungs.
Since there isn’t demand by new patients essentially there are no parts for the few remaining.
Probably an hour meter acting on a projected motor life estimation. Seems like it could be bypassed or reset somehow.
That sucks. I am currently in my second month of attempting to acquire a replacement for this:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/philips-respironics-cpap-bipap-and-ventilator-recall-frequently-asked-questions
It is a gigantic clusterfuck. The initial recommendation was to stop using the device. No fucking way, falling asleep at the wheel is not really an option. Of course, Philips does not have thousands of devices in stock to replace the defective ones, so you need to wait. Just to make it more pleasant, my insurance provider requires an additional home sleep apnea test before approving a replacement, a test I was finally able to get Thursday night. Because the three tests I have already had since 2007 don’t count. With any luck I might get a replacement before the year is out.
Long before I was diagnosed with sleep apnea (which has since been ameliorated via surgeries) , I flipped my Volkswagen Rabbit.
Back then I was living in southern NH and commuting to Lowell. It was the first snowfall of the year and I was coming home after dark. I remember singing “Caspar the friendly ghost…” to myself (although I have no idea why) and then the next thing I knew I had crossed the center lane and was headed over the drop off on the other side of the road.
In the brief instant when my vehicle and I were completely upside down, all I could think of was “This is really cool, but my mom’s going to be really sad”.
The hood of the car hit the ground with enough force that combined with the momentum already achieved from going off the road, the car landed on all four tires and was brought to a snug halt by a tree.
Turns out there’s a reason why the “why are you getting this sleep study” questionnaire has a “car-accident” check box.
So, falling asleep at the wheel is an option, but–like many of the paths I’ve traversed–it’s ill-advised.
Yowza. I managed to deal with it before that happened. I remember having to pull over for a brief nap on my daily commute – that was enough incentive.
Google around. I seem to recall something about “the dark web” community explaining how to hack the damn thing.
Must be a way to factory reset the thing.
Had to do that with the garage door opener yesterday, then reprogram all the doors.
My guess would be given it’s a medical device it can’t be allowed to run to a natural failure*. So they have the stats of where failure is likely to kick in and that’s when they shut it down (as you not with advance warning).
* Whether this is because of regulators or lawyers is left as an exercise to the reader.
re: regulators or lawyers, I’m going to go with “both”.
All I know is that my central apnea (means my epileptic brain thinks it’s hilarious to randomly stop telling my lungs to breathe once in a while) was being successfully treated until 2 AM.
What the actual fuck.
I’ll get it sorted. But what are poor or mentally challenged people supposed to do??
if it says it’s dead, crack it open and bypass the BS, it’s an air pump ffs,
It’s likely got a digital controller to control the volume pumped.
It’s still just a motor, it can be jumped out, there’s a way,
/Hacker
Vote Democrats into office who promise to fix the issues they helped to create?
I’ve used one for about 15 years. I’m only on my second machine, replaced the first one with a used one of the same model. So mine still doesn’t connect to internet and all that shit they do now. I have a newer one I got that does all that, but even after setting it to the same settings it doesn’t seem to push as much air so I went back to the old one.
Ugg, they tried to give me a CPAP, but I tried one night with that Rube Goldberg contraption and no f-in’ way! I would rather wake up every 15 minutes and all the other assorted BS “apnea” things than have that on my face a la Alien.
Doctor said I had the biggest one he’d ever seen, uvula that is. Chicks find that sexy, right?
I didn’t like it for the first month or so, but I can’t sleep without it at this point. Of course, I think my pre-CPAP apneas were something like 90 an hour.
I had a roommate who apparently had that, and was TATT.
Maybe some of you have narrow nares.
I hear you about the mask.
Fortunately an actual human got involved in design and came up with the “nose pillow” style.
Way more comfy. I cannot sleep without it now. Hence my angry rant.
I went to the recliner last (this?) night for a shot at some dleep. I don’t think I hit REM at any point. If you see me coming, better step aside.
I had a house burn down on me in college in the middle of the night. There is no way I can lose this much control of my surroundings.
I’ve used the cpap machine every night for at least five years. Yeah, it’s uncomfortable initially but one gets used to it. There was an ad on tv about “never wear a cpap mask again.”
I asked the pulmonary doc about it: she said they make three incisions in your body, implant wires and a device that regulates your tongue, and the battery needs to be replaced now and then which requires more surgery. No thanks, I’ll stick with the mask and “regulate” my own tongue..
Yipes! Best of luck getting it fixed.
But after an app advising opposition supporters on how to vote out Kremlin allies in Russia’s parliamentary election was removed from the app stores of both Apple and Google, advocates warned of another threat.
Now do “vaccine misinformation”.
These are the people who attended history class and learned exactly nothing.
Of course they learned. The Enemies of the State must be rooted out and disposed of.
*faints*
So the US is interfering in Russian elections now? Payback’s a bitch.
Old Guy music is way too mellow. How am I supposed to be full of righteous rage after hearing that?
Malthusians rejoice
Alabama had more people die last year during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic than births, a top health official said, as the US continues to grapple with rising coronavirus cases and deaths.
“This past year, 2020, is going to be the first year that we know of in the history of our state where we actually had more deaths than births,” Alabama Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said Friday during a news briefing.
“Our state literally shrunk,” he said.
Preliminary data shows that 64,714 people died in Alabama in 2020 while there were 57,641 births, Harris said. In 2019, the state recorded 54,109 deaths and 58,615 births, according to the health department.
Now we’re getting somewhere.
Something tells me the five year rolling averages don’t budge.
Need to clear space for all the imports.
Have a good morning. It’s now lawn mowing and toilet fixing hour. Off to work.
Are you in Frisco? Is someone is using your lawn as a toilet?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/aocs-tax-the-rich-dress-designer-in-debt-to-the-irs/
LOL
Rich is more than whatever they are making.
That made my morning. Thanks.
I guess payback really is a bitch.
I’d like to see a photoshopped version of her dress that instead says “eat mor chikin”
How about we compromise? “eat mor
the richchikin”There was one of exactly that in yesterday’s Powerline (?) picture gallery.
Ah, but of course! Thank you.
‘”Giant IT companies are going to have to think about how they operate in these markets, like how far they’ll go in terms of complying and cutting off the freedom of people to see things,” said Kathryn Stoner, a Stanford political science professor.’
Oh, they’ve thought about it.
A spokesperson for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office said that more than half of those who are seeking monoclonal antibody treatment in the south of Florida are “fully vaccinated” individuals amid supply issues.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/desantis-office-over-half-those-seeking-lifesaving-covid-19-treatment-south-florida-fully
Between this and FDA reveal on boosters, can we stop the vaccine madness?
Magic 8 Ball says no.
Unaffordable is apparently code for shithole
Meridian and the nine other cities represent a trend, according to U.S. Census Bureau officials. As the country’s biggest cities grow and become increasingly unaffordable to many, their suburbs have ballooned, taking on their own identities.
People don’t really want to move to the “suburbs”. It’s forced on them. They’d much rather walk home from the grocery store with their eight sacks of artisanal non-GMO food.
Maybe a bit of control over the rate of immigration would be in order?
Everyone wants to live above a bar, but most have to settle for other accommodations.
Goodness – a trend that has persisted for 70 years is still going on?!
We are spending millions in taxpayer dollars to build Border Guard facilities… in Tajikistan. I wonder what it would be like to be governed by people who don’t hate me.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/biden-halts-us-border-wall-helps-former-soviet-republic-stop-afghan-refugees
Historical preservation
Firefighters wrapped the base of the General Sherman Tree, along with other trees in the Giant Forest, in a type of aluminum that can withstand high heat. It wasn’t immediately known how the Four Guardsmen, which received the same treatment, fared, fire spokeswoman Katy Hooper said.
The General Sherman Tree is the largest in the world by volume, at 52,508 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters), according to the National Park Service. It towers 275 feet (84 meters) high and has a circumference of 103 feet (31 meters) at ground level.
The “General Sherman”? I’m surprised it hasn’t been dynamited.
Priorities. Once Confederates have been erased, they can deal with Union officials.
“The General Sherman Tree is the largest in the world by volume, at 52,508 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters), according to the National Park Service. It towers 275 feet (84 meters) high and has a circumference of 103 feet (31 meters) at ground level”
I wonder if that’s enough girth to satisfy Kristen’s volcano.
Historic drought tied to climate change is making wildfires harder to fight. It has killed millions of trees in California alone. Scientists say climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Obligatory boilerplate is obligatory.
Cry harder, pussy.
I’m unclear why the author is a pussy, or why his point regarding Apple and Google’s market positions, and the negative behaviors those positions permit, is unwarranted crying.
I am amazed that the Haitians didn’t go to Cuba. Doesn’t Cuba have the best health care? Isn’t is a grand destination that is much closer than Texas?
Whyfor no Cuba?
They are pining for the coming real communism in the U.S., knowing that Cuba isn’t “real communism?”
Heh.
Speaking of crying pussies…
The gloom among Never Trump Republicans is deepening this weekend, following Thursday’s announcement from Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) that he will not seek reelection.
Gonzalez is one of only 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment earlier this year. He was set to face a primary challenge from Max Miller, a former Trump aide who had received the former president’s endorsement.
As Gonzalez prepared to head for the political exit, he lambasted Trump as a “cancer” on the nation in an interview with The New York Times.
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Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), who lost her seat in the increasingly Democratic northern suburbs of Virginia in 2018, complained that the move toward Trumpian candidates will cost the GOP dearly.
“Trump doesn’t care whether Republicans win. It’s not about Republicans winning,” she said. “Trumpism is about revenge.”
And so om.
Revenge as a justification for political support?
I’ll allow it.
Yeah. The Gonzalez news has been all over local news… he’s my rep.
Because caving to Democrats’ every whim and slur has been so wildly successful for the GOP.
Whoever came up with the Harlem Globetrotters’ Washington Generals analogy for Team Red was spot on.
“Trump doesn’t care whether
RepublicansRINOs win. It’s not aboutRepublicansRINOs winning”FIFY.
Meanwhile, a columnist in the Phila. Inkwire blasted Sen. Joe Manchin as a narcisstic turncoat for not backing the $3.5 trillion “Screw our Grandchildren” legislation.
Had it been, say, Sen. McCain, he would have written about the courageous maverick standing up to the worst impulses of the heartless Republicans.
In good news for the day, there’s a new Bruce Campbell movie coming out soon.
⬅
With Devon Sawa and Michael Jai White.
Sooper-spreader event!
Other than the de rigeur “anti-vaxxer” slur, the article is surprisingly even-handed given the Post’s front page’s recent swing to the left.
I should have attended.
Those pictures show many people of the swarthier variety.
Where did they get the idea that they were allowed to have a divergent opinion from proggy white elites?
“The global dominance of tech giants serves as a convenient online chokepoint for authoritarian governments to crack down on dissent or rig elections, critics of Apple and Google said Friday.”
Isn’t there a word for when governments collude with private enterprise to implement authoritarian policies and control the population? Almost like they’re bundled together…
Slutty Sunday’s tits demand you undying allegiance.
https://archive.is/oxlgn
As I was saying yesterday about excuses to drink… Browns fans started lining up last night to get ready to tailgate for the game today.
That is not tail-gating.
Good luck – I’m stuck with Pats-Jets.
That rule is routinely ignored in the classic manner. Can in a koozie? It’s got to be a pop, it couldn’t be a beer! Red solo cup? Must be fine. Someone pouring something into a travel mug out of a flask? It must be a shot of syrup!
My best memory of the muni lot is walking through about 10 minutes before a game and some drunk idiot ran up and tried to tackle my buddy who is 6’7″ and about 300 pounds. Drunk dude bounced off my my buddy and fell on his face. Drunk idiot’s friends laughed and handed us some more drinks to make up for it.
“left-wing organizations marched to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in midtown Manhattan on Friday, wielding Palestinian flags and a banner reading ‘globalize the intifada.'”
I do wonder when/if (((Americans))) will ever get over their Stockholm Syndrome with the Left.
The large population of Hasidim near me are certainly over it.
+1 Dr. Zelenko
https://gab.com/ZZ611
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16176567/wife-cousin-baby-son-truth/
My sister found out when her daughter did the Ancestry DNA thing. While I concurrently found out by finding adoption paper work in old boxes I was going through. Would have gone smoother if my dad were still alive, I think.
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Your sister found out what? If there’s one person who should know, wouldn’t it be the mother?
Re: the Carmine’s restaurant articles where the “Texas” women attacked the hostess. I noticed the original articles that came out about it ONLY identified the tourists as “Texas” women, but didn’t identify their race/color. Based on their names I had a suspicion they were of a dark complexion. But since TMITE’s current narrative is to make people from certain states look bad, they identified them by their home state vs. their appearance. How many times have you seen that in the past? The original articles didn’t have any photos either, which seemed weird, unless you don’t want people to notice the skin colors of the participants.
I figured their race/photos would eventually come out. But I didn’t foresee the BLM protest twist.
One last thing: I believe I ate at Carmines back in the 90’s when I was in NJ for business and some of us took a side trip to Times Square. It was an excellent meal.
Florida Man/Woman? Ohio Man/Woman?
Of course… those are usually for the stranger stories.
And usually, when you dig in you find the participants are in fact the meth mouthed folk you imagined.
True. But that’s a usually, just pointing out that it’s not all that uncommon.
Protip: you’re not a stud when you have to pay them.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16153603/63-only-want-no-strings-sex/
Those damned futbol hooligans rousted im!
on a hillside desolate… ?
It happened a lot on The Old Main Drag.
By the dashboard’s lights?
I’ve been busy. Did I miss anything? I heard there was a Darth Vader convention at the capitol. Personally would’ve went with Elvis, but I’m not a Trekkie, so there’s that.
The USS Voltron was a better space ship than the Millennium Transformer. That’s why Battlestar Ninja Turtle is better than The Powers of The Toxic Avenger.
Alright all… time to walk up to the local to cheer on the Browns, drink beer, and eat chicken wings.
Superbowl!
Yes that is still a game that is played.
What time do bars open in your neck of the woods? I seem to remember that grocery stores cant sell booze until noon in Ohio.
I’m in an area with some third shift bars that open at 8 or 9. There’s different levels of Sunday liquor licenses now. Full service, liquor after 12:00, or no liquor. Waiting for the local I walk to to open up now. Last year there was a line for the opener.
I got the boot from a local bookstore for not wearing a mask yesterday. I’m sure the nearby bar that got my money was much happier.
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Sorry.
Mm, beer.
And probably had more well read patrons. (Hustler counts as reading, right?)
It’s a firmly blue collar joint. Lots of old or retired tradesmen and their wives. I got the name of a great boiler repairman from there.
Good morning Glibs!
It’s a gorgeous day here, but I’m a little bummed to be missing the HH. Fourscore said he would send pics of the debauchery though.
Have a great day, y’all!
Good morning!
I am sure that I am not the first person here to notice it, but as I haven’t seen anyone vocalize it, here goes.
Masks are the new necktie.
Look, everyone outside of the WOLK/Elect/Anointed knows that they do nothing, but many, many are forced at some level to wear them for jobs, family, etc. And so these unfortunate many will look to rationalize their use; “if it helps just a little” “it’s like the sneeze guard at the buffet” “it really isn’t so much to ask” and so on. Life is easier when you rationalize. And as the aspiring class goes all-in on wearing them, the plebs don’t. And as we have seen in the last few weeks, our “betters” don’t bother with them; the MET gala, Dame Pelosi’s party, Obama’s b-day bash, etc. Why should they care, and after all, the plebes working those gigs are masked and we all know this is now a lower class disease… No, masks are a part of fashion at this point, a way to show your team and that old college spirit.
The people who really want to be taken seriously by the powers that be (along with the hypochondriacs, who have been bred into the system for years now) will always dress appropriately, wear the smart garb that we are all supposed to like (remember knickerbockers back in the seventies, or Day-Glo after Madonna burst onto the scene? I am sure you can think of other stupid fashions that have been pushed by the rich) and generally go-along-to-get-along. But you will notice that city works people don’t bother, farmers don’t bother, in fact, all the people who never wore neckties over the last 70 years don’t bother. Because they already know that it has nothing to do with them. Unless they want to go out to eat, and then they need to dress appropriately.
Same shit, different day.
Er, IDK, I rather like neckties. Especially the little ditsy prints. But yeah, you wouldn’t voluntarily put one on on a weekend.
says the chick who can only tie a four-in-hand