Heavy lies the crown of the Boy-King, Justin the Supple, The Twink in the North.
*HONK HONK*
Courtiers cooed and fluttered around him as he brooded, ministers made plans in hoarse whispers, courtesans swooned. Justin ran a jeweled fist under his chin.
*HONK HONK*
“Were they not told a court has ruled that they shall no longer…” Justin swallowed forcefully, “Honk?” He wanted to spit the taste of the word from his mouth.
*HONK HONK*
“They were, Most Gracious,” his Grand Vizier said, eyes downcast. His bald pate was sheened in sweat.
*HONK HONK*
“And, yet,” Justin mumbled. He sighed heavily and waved toward the Mounties guarding the door. “Let them in,” he told them.
*HONK HONK*
The reporter rushed into the room like excited puppies, clambering over one another to reach the King. “Justin! Justin! What are you going to do about the honking? The honking, Justin!” one yelled. “Why aren’t they being towed, Justin?” another asked. “Where is the military? Call in the military! Does Canada have no missiles, no bombs?!?” shouted another.
*HONK HONK*
“Please, my pets, calm yourselves,” Justin said. “I have done what I can to this point. I have called these men Russian spies, American spies, and Americans, and racist Nazis and homophobes, transphobes, biphobes, bigots, sexists, misogynists, xenophobes, incels, and unmutual nogoodniks. If I, the proud product of a druggie whore and the Hero of Cuba cannot sway them, who can?”
*HONK HONK*
“Cut off their fuel supplies!” “TOW THEM! TOW THEM!” “Pull their licenses to operate! End all commercial trucking!” “TRUMP!” they screamed.
*HONK HONK*
“Have you given any consideration to ending the mandates and restrictions?” one reporter asked.
*HONK HONK*
Justin squinted. In their obsequiousness, they all looked the same. Ah, that one, he thought. He motioned to his headsman to take the fool away.
Beautiful. Fooking beautiful.
Thank you for this diversion on a Wednesday.
Awesome
Proofreading:
Also I’m getting a real Pilate/Barabbas vibe here.
I dreamed–I met a simple trucker
A most amazing man
He made that sound, you very rarely hear
Honking–torture to the ear
I asked him to say what had happened
How it all began
I asked again
He never said a word
Just honked, as if I hadn’t heard
And next, the town was full
Of loud and honking trucks
They seemed to honk at me!
They honked at me and then
They honked again
Then I saw thousands of millions
Honking along with them
And then I heard them mentioning my name
And leaving me the blame
Awesome.
for example… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex0YEDcIZU8
I knew that. Hence, awesome.
Thanks!
😛
Got security cameras in the north too, I see.
What else could he be expected to do?
They have bouncy castles, pizza ovens, and plinko games. Next thing you know they’ll have bags games. (cornhole) These monsters must be stopped.
I guess it’s not a terrorist threat if you’re undermining public trust in the governments of other countries…
*applause*
” Ah, that one,” Definitely a Glib,
Bravo!
The Twink in Da Norf! Poutine in trenchers. The Windsor Ballet. Casks of Maplefire.
So many ideas if this goes on.
This didn’t ruin my lunch, I demand a refund and an eldritch horror.
Eldritch Horror. That’s 56$
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/146021/eldritch-horror
That’s a fun game, and I don’t own a copy, so I reiterate my demands.
Current Events, perfect, SF, you captured the moment.
The mission statement of the truckers includes “To piss off the Big Guy” and they are doing a great job. At some point he’ll realize that Canadians need truckers far more than the Ottawa politicians.
Now do the US, SF, we have to play catch up.
Riddle me this – under what grounds can the police issue a “move this car or it will be impounded” threat to a vehicle in a legal parking spot?
And why would they ignore the cameroa that was abandoned for far longer?
Did someone call them to try and get me out of my spot?
Are they plowing?
Or is it the ubiquitous FYTW clause?
The roads are too clear to plow. My car hadn’t moved because they’d plowed it in and I couldn’t break up the ice that resulted.
Wichita had a city ordinance that said cars couldn’t be parked for longer than 24 hours in the same spot, unless it was inside a garage. This included your driveway or your backyard.
This included your driveway or your backyard.
Seems legit.
Cape Coral, Florida… pickup trucks, trailered boats, or any vehicle with commercial livery may not be parked overnight in any driveway or yard within city limits.
And the people drew and quartered the city council, repealing the stupid law.
Right?
Yeah, that’s some bullshit right there.
In NYC, it’s seven days. The catch is, NYPD has to come and chalk the tires every day for a week (they will NOT come out to do so unless you posses the political juice to compel them) to see if the vehicle moved. If the vehicle moves, even a fraction of an inch, the clock resets.
No chalk marks, just and orange sticker on the window that doesn’t come off cleanly.
In the category of “This fucking day…” I also managed to break my ice scraper trying to disinterr my car.
Maybe I should have let them impound it. At least then the cops would have had to dig it out for me.
I’m amazed at how shitty the ice scrapers are up here, I guess because there’s not a lot of ice.
The ones in OK were 3/8″ Lexan.
“Cut off their fuel supplies!” “TOW THEM! TOW THEM!” “Pull their licenses to operate! End all commercial trucking!”
Was it The Way of the Gun which featured the girl goading her boyfriend to kick somebody’s ass in the parking lot? I believe it was.
How did that turn out?
Great movie
Indeed. Especially because Ryan Phillippe really did punch out Sarah Silverman during the first take of that scene.
Really?
Really.
Apparently he felt really bad about it and apologized over and over again, which is a little disappointing. But it did happen.
Great movie on its own merits, too.
Riddle me this – under what grounds can the police issue a “move this car or it will be impounded” threat to a vehicle in a legal parking spot?
Something to do with plowing, perhaps?
Hey! What UCS does to his car is between him and his car!
Odds and Evens? Calendar days, I dunno but would guess if you never moved our car for a couple weeks someone would call the city wrecker and report an abandoned car. Unless you live in the inner city.
I hear reports of stripped cars left on the street. Here folks just abandon them in their own front yard and called them landscaping decor.
It hasn’t even been a week. Tomorrow it would have been a fully week since I’d last moved.
I wonder if anybody has had the effrontery to point out his refusal to communicate (much less negotiate) might have had an adverse effect on the situation.
He can’t look weak. Why the rabble might rise up for every affront.
He can’t look weak.
And yet, here we are.
One of your finest, SF.
Trudy appears to be utterly disconnected from reality.
I imagine that he has received a stern warning from DC not to capitulate, because if the truckers win in Canada it will embolden a similar attempt here.
See also the recent DHS memo stating that misinformation is a tool of terrorists. They’re getting very frightened in DC and letting everyone know how they view the situation.
Why would he negotiate with Nazi terrorist insurrectionist Nazis?
“Cut off their fuel supplies!” “TOW THEM! TOW THEM!” “Pull their licenses to operate! End all commercial trucking!”
I must admit, these are all gleaned from the comments section on a Slate article about the protests. And the calls to bring in the military.
comments section on a Slate article
No wonder why you’re “touched”. Why seek out purgatory like that?
I must keep my bile levels high, for the sake of my art.
There is nothing more violent than the pent-up violence of a Canadian. It’s like a pipe bomb, it’s the confinement of the explosive which creates the lethality.
That explains hockey.
My favorite one.
See, it’s OK to fire all those truckers because trucking is unskilled and anyone can do it. (Seriously the argument a bunch of them used.)
I wanted to send that article to Gordy, but I didn’t want him to stroke out.
Just decree that self-driving truck are now
permittedrequired. Poof! Done.The fun part is when they do that, the next time they try to regulate the trucking industry the monocle wearing trucking tycoon will simply direct all the self-driving trucks to blockade the capitol.
I just assumed they’d mandate a LE accessible back door into the controls.
“I’m sorry but the law enforcement account appears to be locked. Can we get the answers to your questions, your MFA code and a sample of vitreous fluid for verification?”
More likely the LE account will just have a default password (“Password1!”) which can’t be changed.
We need to send all the troublesome urban intellectuals out to the country to
farmtruck.Problem solved.
The North Vietnamize already tried it – https://youtu.be/UdUgc_gwM44
China too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiu_Xiu:_The_Sent_Down_Girl
Good movie by the way.
Pol Pot too.
But who would change the flat tires for them?
Im trying so hard to think of a Robbie joke…but its kinda already made itself.
My guess would have been Jalopnik, which is now 100% a car enthusiast site read by people who hate cars.
So true.
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
“Have you given any consideration to ending the mandates and restrictions?” one reporter asked.
*HONK HONK*
Justin squinted. In their obsequiousness, they all looked the same. Ah, that one, he thought. He motioned to his headsman to take the fool away.
How did that one get through the vetting? I think the headsman has more work to do.
Russia, obviously.
“The person responsible for beheading the traitors, has been beheaded.”
Of interest:
Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s Dad. Nobody Has ‘Debunked’ Anything
Wow. I had no idea there was any meat to that rumor.
Oh yeah. Maggie was a grade A slut.
What I find amazing is that Pierre got a piece of Margot Kidder.
Not even a doubt.
But if he were, wouldn’t he be better at being a dictator?
Not without his real dad guiding him.
The West thinks it can pull off totalitarianism with nudges and minor coercion. They’ve been boiling the frog ever so slowly, but COVID encouraged them to turn the heat up too high.
Trudy isn’t emotionally or mentally equipped for the bloodiness that his daddy understood was required. Yet.
I was just wondering about the source of this allegation earlier.
It really ramped up when he was blubbering at Castro’s funeral.
One would think that if you were trying to debunk something like this, you’d want to try to explain the presence of Trudeau’s parents on an “undisclosed island” in the the middle of their trip around the Carribbean, when all of their other stops on that trip were publicly announced.
The key point in this article is that Pierre Trudeau was likely infertile. All right, let’s assume that Fidel was Justin’s father. But who fathered the two younger siblings of Justin? That cannot be Fidel; they were born before the second meeting of Castro and the Trudeaus in 1976.
The two key points were Pierre was shooting blanks and Margaret was a bit of a… loose woman. Who knows what other partners she had.
She slept with half of The Rolling Stones, and god knows how many other randos.
Mom got around.
I never knew about the personal trips. I knew about the official trip, which timing doesn’t line up right for Castro to be Justin Trudeau’s father. If that unnamed island is Cuba, I’ll buy Castro is Trudeau’s father.
I’d bet $100 of my own money on the DNA test.
Me too, after reading this and looking at those photos.
Justin’s generic DNA test would be sufficient. A 23andme test shows to which ethnic groups you belong. If it’s about 50% France then Pierre is the father. If 50% of it comes from Spain then it’s Fidel.
23andme now shows likely relatives (if they or close relatives are in the databases). It has caused no end of grief for adoptive (and biological) families, in vitro fertilization kids, etc.
I have a friend who thought her sister was the product of her mom’s infidelity, but was pleased to find out otherwise when 23andMe suggested her sister as a close relative with a close enough match to make that highly improbable, although it was known that both her mother and father had had affairs.
A year or so before the Old Man died my sisters got together and had the whole family (Mom, Dad, us five kids) go through the 23andMe thing.
We’re cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUFACvZl1cM
My husband had some doubts about the parentage of his youngest son, but AncestryDNA showed that all was well.
His other concern was that his sister, who was 16 when he was born, might have been his mom. We haven’t had the opportunity to get a test that would show that, and we don’t plan to do so. The people who raised him as his parents are likely just that, even though his mother wasted no opportunity to let him know that he was unplanned and had really messed up their life plans when he showed up.
After dealing with that family, I can see why he had issues. At least he and his sister have a good relationship now.
Buddy of mine just found out he has a daughter and a granddaughter through 23 and me. Hes 60 years old and barely remembers the mom.
Some years back I remember reading about study done in the UK on genetic links in family trees. The geneticist in charge of the whole thing refused to release the results, as “…the amount of casual bastardy in Britain proved to be truly shocking,” and he didn’t want to stir up trouble.
IIRC, another study showed it was possibly as high as 20% in Liverpool.
I am avoiding that, past indiscretions need to stay in the past.
Ah, that one, he thought. He motioned to his headsman to take the fool away.
Sublime. Thanks, SF!
He can’t look weak.
That train left the barn and sailed over the horizon a long time ago.
a great read
See, it’s OK to fire all those truckers because trucking is unskilled and anyone can do it. (Seriously the argument a bunch of them used.)
Let Doordash do it.
because trucking is unskilled
Also: farmer, automotive tech., carpenter, etc.
Shit, my main reason I don’t look at RVs is because of the hassle of trying to move such an oversized vehicle through traffic and local roads.
Unskilled is office jobs. There’s no skill required to do my job, just a bunch of useless knowledge and a tolerance for bullshit.
+ 1 drone Standard Form.
I could stick my wife (no formal training in any relevant study) at my desk and let her try to do my job. Except for meetings, I doubt they’d figure out what’s going on inside of a year.
Put a thumbprint on the lens, and she could do the meetings too.
“Something’s off with your voice, trashy, did you get a new microphone?”
How DARE you! I’m genderfluid! Somedays I present as male, and some days as female! I’m filing a complaint!
“For our next order of business – Reduction in Force.”
“For our next order of business – Reduction in Force.”
At my company, everybody would be fired who dare question my gender fluids. Thankfully we haven’t gone down the pronoun rabbit trail yet, but it’s coming, I’m sure.
It’s job for Dick Slashballs!
I miss Dick Slashballs.
Justin the Supple
Impotent tyrants are the worst.
Impotence is what makes them angry in the 1st place.
HONK
I would like to announce that I identify as a Peterbuilt 389. My pronouns are: HONK!/honky.
That is all.
Sometimes, when I identify as Michael Jackson, my pronouns are He/Hee
I just made, and am now consuming, one of the great Statesmen of the Sandwich World, the B.L.T.
Lukewarm take: BLT is a top 5 sandwich.
Hmm, not spicy enough. Top 3 sandwiches: BLT, club, beef and horseradish.
*Ruben pulls out a machete*
My Top 3 are Reuben, BLT, and maybe a nice roast beef and Swiss.
Special mention goes out for PBJ, and maybe a M.L.T, when the mutton is nice and lean…
I did shamefully drop crab cake sandwich from my top 3. In my defense, I would rather eat one not in a sandwich.
Reuben, Beef on Weck, Cubano.
1. Reuben
2. roast beef and Swiss on sourdough
3. BK sausage, egg, and cheese croissanwich
I forgot Greek gyro.
Hot pastrami on rye. At a kosher deli. Served by a waitress with a thick Jersey accent.
There is a place about 45 minutes from my house that made the best rueben.
Homemade sauerkraut and homemade thousand island.
Drove there one day when I was hungry and was told they no longer make a rueben.
I almost cried.
#firstworldproblems
Sucks when you’ve got your mouth set for something.
Worst Reuben I ever had was in NYC. They put YELLOW MUSTARD on it!
Now, I like mustard. No, LOVE it. But not on a Reuben.
I was in Waco, TX, and had a “Philly Cheese Steak” at a dive restaurant near the Baylor campus. They put yellow mustard on it, along with a heaping helping of E. coli, which had me spewing out both ends for 3 days, sleeping in the bathroom of my room at the Residence Inn.
Oh, that’s disastrous. I felt that in my gut. We’re here for you, man.
That sandwich was so good, I made myself hungry typing about it.
The secret is the mayonnaise.
Yes!
8 ounces of NY Strip.
Thick cut smokehouse bacon, thick cut beefy red tomato, red/green romaine lettuce, Hellmann’s mayo on toasted Italian white bread.
heaven
Yes, it’s one of the joys of gardening, to make a blt with homegrown lettuce and tomatoes. I end up eating them over the sink because of the juice running down my arm.
Sounds wonderful. I’m hoping to actually get my garden going this spring. Going to start peppers and tomatoes soon so they’re ready…
Yes, I’ll start stuff in early March.
WITH CRISPY BACON! RIGHT? Right?
I’m more a fan of bacon that doesn’t shatter when I bite down, and that has crispy edges on the fat, but still retains some chewiness.
I thought I knew you.
I’m shocked. I thought you and I agreed on this.
crrrrrriiiiiiiissssssspppppeeeeeeee to the point of almost-burnt. But not burnt.
I agree with Moj, 100%.
de gustibus non disputandum est
I was watching a guy make mashed potatoes once, and he was describing the many ways for mashed potaoes to be done: creamy, lumpy, wet, dry, whipped ect, ect.
He concluded with the fact that the only ones who were truly wrong were the ones who thought their way was the best way for everyone.
Ooh, and Chili’s leaves potato-skin bits in theirs. I like that, but I wouldn’t dare do that for Thanksgiving.
I do mine with little red potatoes in it with the skin still on.
The best potato salad I’ve ever had was made by my grandmother–it was very mayo- and sour cream-heavy, no potato peels, with celery and celery seed, onion, hard boiled egg…
But I do really like potato salads with skins as well. But I lean more toward the mayo-forward rather mustard-heavy versions.
No mustard in potato salad.
I make Chef John’s Mustard Green Potato Salad about once a year for a cook out or somesuch thing, it is always a big hit.
Bacon should be crispy.
Bacon in a sandwich should break off when you bite it so that you don’t pull it out of the sandwich and burn your lower lip when it flops down.
You have to cook it to the point where it isn’t floppy, but doesn’t dry out either. You need to be able to have the fat be juicy.
To achieve this, you must remove the bacon from the frying pan just before it looks actually done the way you want it. Cooking bacon is a precision endeavor.
I bake it on the broiler tray.
I also learned the hard way about removing it before it was done.
Frying pan? Bacon in the oven is the only way to go. More consistent and even, easier to get crispy without overdoing, less mess, less need to baby it. You are already taking years off your life eating the bacon, no need to take years off from the frustration of cooking it too.
Hellmann’s mayo
You mean Best Foods? *runs away laughing*
My local Fresh Market has both Hellman’s and Best Foods mayo. Every time I go there, I have to fight the urge to interlace the shelves…
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_f2fSxk8G6Y/UPG7srOp5aI/AAAAAAAAADs/Hns9ThnAkF4/s320/east+side+nigga.jpg
Become ungovernable
Become ungovernable
Become ungovernable
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/121/854/105.jpg
The top 5 needs to include the hamburger.
My top 5 also includes the Cuban.
My guilty pleasure sandwich is the Elvis (bacon, bananas, and peanut butter), which I suddenly have a craving for.
A French Dip should be on the list
*jokingly referred to as “Le Macron”
One of the local unhealthy (but delicious) places sometimes (monthly special) does an Elvis with some sweet cream cheese that they then batter and deep fry, served with a side of strawberry jelly. They also do a deep fried Monte Cristo.
I’m still hunting for the best Cubano in the Cleveland area.
Oh, is that where Justin Trudeau is hiding out?
I would submit that a hamburger is a hamburger, not a sandwich, at least for purposes of comparison. You shouldn’t be trying to decide between a hamburger and a Reuben, you should be having one of each.
I agree. I love burgers, but didn’t include them in my consideration of Sandwiches. I also love open faced sandwiches, but similarly discount them in the discussion.
The Elvis sounds great. I always love trying new and unconventional food pairings. Further proof that both bacon and peanut butter improve any food.
Well, since I just broke my ol $14.99 ice scraper/snow brush combo I got from KMart in 2007, does anyone have recommendations on a high quality replacement not made in China?
You’ve been to two smithing classes. Forge one.
I believe these are French.
Get a Frost Blocker. Then you won’t need the fucking scraper.
You made me check. Only thing I could find was this with most certainly bimodal reviews.
Interesting concept. You make a hole with the scraper part and after that use essentially a funnel. No idea if it works or not, I watch one video where it was chewing off the ice nicely while comments said it was crap.
https://scrapercone.com/collections/all
I used to have a frost scraper with a brass blade. The brass is soft enough to not scratch the glass, yet pliable enough to match the curvature of the window. I haven’t been able to find another for years.
I found a bunch, but they appear to be cheap chinese crap with quality control issues.
Upgrade to a flamethrower?
I wouldn’t recommend that.
(Makes a note to write up that Allamakee County tale)
Yeah, you can damage your wiper blades that way.
Any Bon Jovi CD will work
This week’s favorite.
A couple days ago I had to explain to my best friend about JT’s questionable heritage. He’s a mechanical engineer, with his PE.
I also had to point out that Pierre Trudeau, power hungry during Le Crise d’Octobre, was his assigned Father. He had no idea.
Id think I need better friends, but he’s a solid dude that’s always been there for me. Plus, I bailed him out of jail when he got caught with a “hooker” that was really a vice cop.
I didnt stick around when I dropped him off to his wife. This is why we’re Glibs.
Boris announces the lifting of restrictions “a full month early”.
A month early/two years too late. Potayto/Potahto.
Can’t he retroactively end the restrictions, that way all the parties become kosher?
And admit being wrong?
Not a chance.
In similar news, Kathy has decided to let her illegal order lapse for normal businesses.
(It’s official now)
But… if the restrictions were annulled, then they never existed in the first place… and the Queen can annul things as head of the CoE…
NYC is “expected” to impose one of its own. As if I give a shit. I’m done.
Party at Downing Street!
He’s avoiding the Ottawa outcome.
DC is doubling down and making threats.
This guy can’t catch a break.
Armed police raid the home of Pastor Artur Pawlowski, the morning he was scheduled to speak to the truckers.
I just spoke with Artur’s son. The raid was done by an undercover SWAT team that had staked out the home.
We are crowdfunding his lawyers.
Serves that terrorist right.
Religious fanatic! And not the good kind!
“Leaving a House of Parliament room filled with portraits of French kings—where I heard him sing an off-key verse from Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”—Trudeau points out a portrait of Louis XIV. ‘He was the original believer in ‘sunny ways,’ ’ Trudeau tells me. He chuckles. (Louis XIV was known as the Sun King. I got the joke after I looked it up.)” – from a Rolling Stone article.
A moron writing an article about a moron. Fitting.
Out of curiosity I found and read that article.
I immediately regret that decision.
The subtitle:
I hope the author was able to get the stain off of his nose.
That was every bit as fawning as what the “press” would write about Obama.
SpaceX looks like it’s about to lift and stack Starship S20 on a booster at their launch complex–first time using the “chopsticks” on the launch tower sometime this afternoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Y__hUYrQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
So do they use that to lift the Starship, then put the booster under it?
Booster is on the pad already, then the “chopsticks” will lift the ship on top of the booster. Then the chopsticks are actually supposed to catch the booster when it flies back to the pad.
When do they expect to get clearance from the FAA to actually fly the thing?
Not sure. From what I understand, a few weeks ago there was a question about certifying the liquid methane storage tanks at the LC that was holding things up, but I’m not sure if that’s been resolved.
Get a Frost Blocker. Then you won’t need the fucking scraper.
I don’t know what a frost blocker is, but if you Rain-X your windows, it’s a lot easier to get the ice off them.
I just park in a garage like a king.
Yup.
Sure, you people with your little cars. My truck won’t fit in this tiny CO garage.
Some houses here don’t even have garages!?! It’s a wonderful place, but seriously, would it kill you to build an oversized three car garage?
Wen I lived in Bryan (TX) I had a house with a “garage.” I mean, it was a non-climate controlled enclosure with a roll-up door on the front attached to the house, but it was so shallow that I that to manually push the Z3 in to get the garage door closed without damaging the car or the walls.
Considering that the house was built in the ’50s, I have no idea what you were supposed to store in it. Kettle grills and bicycles, maybe?
I have a three-car garage. It has my 350Z inside. The rest is too full of crap to allow the other vehicles to be parked inside.
In my old three car garage I fit a Passat, big-assed F-150, Spitfire and Beetle.
Garage Tetris is a fun game.
One side: Car
Other side: Dog habitat, workbench, snowblower, trash cans.
That requires owning a garage you can afford to waste on a car.
Are you going to fund my new house?
What possessions more valuable than your car do you store in the garage?
The workshop? A lot of stuff that can’t withstand the weather and will walk off if left outside?
What are you talking about, you are supposed to park a car in a garage. I have a shed for my tools and workshop.
And your house is your problem. If I am saying anything, it’s that I would not buy a house without a garage.
Not everyone is made of money.
My house with a garage cost less than my house without a garage.
My secret is I found a job that paid more in a lower cost of living area.
Ancient Chinese secret.
When I was living in Austin, I garaged my car at home and had a parking garage at work. In TX you need to do that to prevent your paint from subliming off.
And the hail storms. At least, that’s what my niece was told when she moved down to Texas after college.
And no matter what you do, the digestive juices from crushed bugs will etch the paint off of the leading surfaces.
I just start the car with the blowers on the windows and rear defroster on.
Something like this
They work beautifully.
I can just see that freezing to the window on the underside and then getting covered with more ice and snow.
Well, I can assure you that after many Minnesota winter mornings that happened exactly zero times.
Thar’s your problem, you stayed below freezing too long.
We have those.
Even in freezing rain, they can be peeled of the windshield with ease.
Our come with two covers for the side view mirrors.
They are a “must have” if you need to park outdoors.
Thanks Tundra! it’s the ice that pisses me off, These should help a lot.
Hearing you took some of that stuff out of the comment section just makes this even better.
I used to have a frost scraper with a brass blade. The brass is soft enough to not scratch the glass, yet pliable enough to match the curvature of the window. I haven’t been able to find another for years.
Same here. That thing was awesome.
Republicans in VA are trying. but Democrats still control the display text
The Senate is going to stop anything it can, which is almost everything.
It’s supposed to say “Senate” not “display text”.
He who controls the display text controls the agenda.
You can’t stop the display text.
“The bad guys with the guns are not going to follow these ordinances,” Chase said. “I think that’s a very naive view to think that if you take the guns away from the good guys that it is going to reduce crime, as we have seen in the City of Richmond.”
What a dangerous true thing for my senator to say.
In defense of keeping the decision-making power with localities, Morrissey said, “Those closest to the governed, govern best.”
Leftists really love to torture this Jefferson quote. In this case those closest to the governed violate the constitution best.
Speaking to the committee on zoom, a member of Moms Demand Action said the policy gives her peace of mind. She said, “That firearms are not allowed in these places, along with libraries, rec centers and other sensitive spaces, makes our family and our community safer from gun violence.”
It makes these places soft targets. So the opposite is true.
“I think it is more important that we save lives and that everyone operate within the same set of guidelines in Virginia instead of people trying to evade them,” Ebbin said in response to that criticism.
Then we should have universal respect for Article 1, Section 13, you cunte.
Every time that shite opened his yap to support some increase in state power, I would cram that down his piehole.
“So your family is safer in the “gun-free” zones where mass shootings occur? OK, lady.”
Sure, Jan.
Name one.
It is known, RC.
There is no need for your violent rhetoric here.
Moms demand action?
Sounds like a porno title.
Hey!
Happy National Pizza Day!
Most excellent, SF. *HONK HONK*
But on Tuesday, police revealed that demonstrators were trying to subvert officers by filling jerry cans with water, or just leaving them empty.
“It does provide a layer of logistical complexity to us,” said Steve Bell, Ottawa deputy police chief.
He said the increasing number of gas cans being delivered to protesters presented challenges to conducting stop and searches.
“It identified a level of sophistication and a level of ability of this group to try and subvert police efforts,” he said.
ZOMG Subversion!
And also, carrying a gas can is sophisticated? Not covering yourself in glory there chief.
He’s a bright one, he is.
That’s the kind of language they use when they’re on the cusp of rounding up a bunch of people as conspirators…
That’s the feeling I’m getting too.
Yep.
The jerry can jihadis are relentless.
This is another example where Canucki is different from English. Because those are most assuredly NOT Jerry Cans.
Correct. I once read an article about Jerrycans and the origins and purposes of some very specific design features of them, some of which were copied by the US. From what I recall, original German cans were highly prized in WWII because they held up to abuse far better than ones supplied by the US, until the US wisely copied the German design.
Lemme tell you, when you’re the 11 year old tenderfoot who’s been assigned the duty of gathering water for the camp. Jerry cans suuuuuuck.
They’re practically carrying incendiary devices right out in the open, without an Antifa permit!
Yes, compared to the counterintelligence capabilities of the typical urban police force, a bunch of dudes carrying empty fuel cans is the fucking Canadian Caper.
They can’t grasp emergant order. The possibility that all these people independantly decided to show solidarity by confusing the ability to disrupt the protest, thus joining the protest in their own, decentalized way
That’s a very good point. Without the comforting notion of Leadership, those fools cannot understand anything of the real world. It’s a real failure of their world view.
Sounds to me as if maybe the police should refrain from operating, then. For the children.
Sounds like a fucking threat to me.
Hey cops, it’s time to resign you fucking pinheads!
Sounds like a fucking threat to me.
#metoo. I’d love to see one of the truckers respond as if it were. “Can you believe the Trudeau administration is now threatening to sic their cops on our children? Have you no decency, eh?
Government agents have no problem with roasting children.
If it saves just one child…
Taking the children isn’t a threat, it’s nobly saving them from the clutches of terrorists!
Appropriately enough in several dimensions, I’ll reference Elian Gonzalez here.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/02/hudson-mayor-suggests-ice-fishing-could-lead-to-prostitution-in-ice-shanties.html
If you find yourself a girl willing to get down in an ice fishing shanty, you know you got a keeper.
Gettin’ jiggy wit’ it!
*shakes wedding tackle furiously*
Welp. That I did not need.
pistoffnick is just making up for the relatively tame fare from SF this week.
I’ll work in some more asswiping next week just for you.
Some inspiration for next week
Come on, Swiss. A little trolling and you could get a real keeper.
Well, that would certainly make it more interesting.
The world’s most pressing problems….
And worse, prostitution can lead to dancing!
/Baptist
It sounds like you’ve got a pretty solid outline started for a sequel to Footloose. Footloose 2: Swinging with the Fishes.
Yessir, we got trouble
Right here in River City
With a capital “P”…
The mayor sounds a little nuts, and they bring up a claim he made about the school board having child porn.
It wasn’t child porn, but the author says this:
“Some of the prompts were criticized as inappropriate”
Why would anyone want their kid writing about this and then letting a teacher read it?!?
The Teacher: the subject of schoolgirl fantasy…
They’re practically begging for it.
“Miss Smithers slowly unbuttoned her blouse, her nose right glinting in the afternoon sun. The Che Guevara tattoo between her breasteses was slowly revealed . . . . “
Go on…
I know that when I was in high school, several of us would have written stories about the Principal taking sexual advantage of the assigning teacher if we received such an assignment. Just put that teacher in the most degrading circumstances possible. These days, you could even get all indignant about being kink-shamed if they tried to give you a bad grade.
Oh stop it you prude. This is just healthy exploration of child sexuality in a safe space. Nobody would ever use this to sexually abuse their students, manipulate them, or otherwise indoctrinate them into deviant worldviews.
I know, I’m the crazy one.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate teachers?
All this talk of jerry cans reminded me of a radio spot from the 1970’s, a decade the current crop of übermenschen are hell-bent on revisiting.
Hey, Jerry, what’s the story?
Complete with references to depression and inflation, and pandering to union and government employees.
1974
I posted a while back that the current economic situation looked a lot like 1974. So we are looking at 7-9 years of misery assuming some savior (like Ron Reagan and Paul Volker) show up to fix things. Except, I don’t think there will ever be another Reagan/Volker to fix things.
“So we are looking at 7-9 years of misery”
I got through the seventies with the assistance of copious amounts of booze and drugs. Those are not options this time around, might be tough.
Spotify is serving up some good, wholesome 90’s treats.
Like this.
NOW – PM Trudeau: “Canada has never been so strong and together as we are now.”
https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/107769772824201966
He’s not wrong.
Remain calm, all is well.
I can picture him hiccupping from the remnants of a good cry while saying that.
I wish I could just sleep until tomorrow, but I have to get stuff done this afternoon.
🙁
Here’s hoping the day doesn’t keep going the way it has been.
Called my congresscritter about this totalitarian abomination.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/ntas/alerts/22_0207_ntas-bulletin.pdf
I was informed they’re getting heavy feedback on it, none of it good.
Good for you. And us.
Those people need to take a step back and think about what they’re saying there.
They know exactly what they’re saying. That’s what concerns me,
A while ago, someone posted a link to a site that compared all of the available COVID vaccines by various levels of clinical trial completion.
Can anybody point me to that link, or one like it? I’m having trouble finding up-to-date info on whether the vaxxes have gone through Phase III trials (or whether what they’re calling “Phase III trials” are very much compressed in time compared to other vax products).
That’s easy. No they haven’t.
And the FDA is stonewalling on providing the data for the one, approved mystery vaccine that nobody can get.
Sadly, I can’t find any info demonstrating that. I’m in a bit of an argument with someone claiming that *all* the vaccines in use in North America for COVID have completed Phase III trials (yeah, that’s right, all of ’em!). The last time I saw this comparison chart was probably months ago, so I’m wondering if anything’s changed, but damn me if my search-fu isn’t good enough to find the info again.
Phase 3 is generally a two year study.
Moderna started in December 2020 and is ongoing
J&J is the same.
Pfizer cut short theirs because “it was so good,” so they call it completed.
You can find links to the data here: https://coronavirus.dc.gov/vaccine-trials
Thanks, mang. It’s not quite what I was looking for (I’ve also found a Health Canada page that has similar info on more trials of as-yet-unreleased vaccines), but it’ll have to do until something else comes along…
Tucker gives zero fucks.
fucking hilarious
Become part of the control group
vaxcontrolgroup.com
haha, genius?
They offer an ID card. I know that some people have been using it to flummox the police in Australia.
The ruse won’t last forever, but still….
From their website, they claim to be working with another organization to make it an actual clinical study in some way or other. But who knows when/if that could happen?
not sure how I feel about providing personal information to them though
I might sign up. The whole world already has my info anyhow.
Had a washing machine delivered and hooked up today. Turns out the delivery dude is a potential participant. We had a very nice little chat.
I think I will, Thanks!
*applause*
*HONK HONK*
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10493235/740-000-painting-ruined-security-guard-draws-eyes-faceless-figures-Russian-gallery.html
LOL
That’s Project Mayhem level there.
I didn’t know the rouble had fallen so much…
Oh, it was an editorial fail
A balmy 50 degrees in SW OH! Makes me want to break out the shorts and flip-flops and get a pedi!?
I got my car washed. It’s low 50s here.
My car said it was 53, but it was in the sun. Thermometer says 40.
Don’t cars usually report the temperature of induction air as read by the MAFS?
I don’t know where the car themometer is in the chassis, but it always reads hot when the car has been in the sun.
Second Quebecois Liberal MP breaks ranks with the Trudeau government!
HONK!