Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a fantastically wonderful day it always is!
Bidenflation pushes producer-price index up 11.3% in June
Average American Family Has Lost $6,800 in Annual Wages Under Biden’s Inflation Administration
Biden’s top 68 appointees have just 2.4 years of business experience, analysis finds– including 62% with no private sector experience
Republicans Demand DOJ Release J6 Surveillance And Police Body Cam Footage
AOC accuses Capitol Police of ‘opening the doors’ on Jan. 6
Bombshells undercut the ‘Big Lie:’ 21 confirmed illegalities, irregularities from 2020 election
Starbucks CEO explains why they’re closing stores
Mass Layoffs: Victoria’s Secret Is Going Broke After Making the Mistake of Going Woke
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Bidenflation pushes producer-price index up 11.3% in June
Average American Family Has Lost $6,800 in Annual Wages Under Biden’s Inflation Administration”
Double yikes!
I already had this discussion with my employer 2 months ago during my annual review. When I brought up that the 4% raise was going to make me actually lose income, the HR person there was very supportive but told me she could do nothing about it then by company policy, and that she would go back to see if they could increase my bonus considerably to overcome the agreement that we were looking at a minimum of 8% inflation. She was supportive until I told my manager who complained about it that Bidenflation was going to make us all poorer. The HR person immediately clammed up and basically checked out of the conversation. I ended up not getting much of a bonus bump at all, and I suspect I know why it happened. I guess I should have kept in mind that she was unlikely not to be a wokester and butthurt because wokism is disastrous.
HR person liberal and/or woke? Nahhhhh – she cares about people!
So it’s fine to talk about inflation as long as you don’t blame brandon, got it.
My chances of being among wokesters at any given time is ~50%, greater if I have to talk to someone in another department.
If I had called it Putinflation or transitory, I suspect the HR lady’s orgasm would have led to my bonus – at a minimum – being doubled….
I would have slipped you some bullion.
Beef or Chicken?
Is this a Three Kings reference?
When I brought up that the 4% raise was going to make me actually lose income
I know what you mean, but this still hurts to read.
It is the truth though. When my earnings are losing double that inflationary increase, anything that doesn’t match or surpass tat number, means that you are taking a pay cut. I work hard to make my money. And I am not very happy when I get taken advantage off in that respect.
Everyone has the same story.
Unions would start a work slowdown.
And that’s my conundrum. I am never going to put my name to a mediocre job. So I am stuck feeling like I lose either way. If I was younger I would have jumped ship and gone to work elsewhere for a lot more money, but I don’t want to deal with the hassle of being the new guy and needing a year or two to establish the fact that I know my shit with the people I work with. There is a lot to be said for working somewhere where your track record makes it very easy to interact with your peers because they know you know what you are doing and can get things done.
I think CPA meant the writing was not really correct. We know that inflation was eating that raise and then some, but an increase in your pay does not really mean “lose income”…it is more “this raise does not keep pace with inflation”.
Yes.
This. You didn’t lose income, you’ve lost purchasing power.
I’m sure she will be shocked when you decide to go elsewhere for a 40% pay bump. One of the contributing factors to my recent move was a 3% raise (when inflation was only at 6%). It wasn’t the money, it was the insult of it.
Especially given the fact that everyone in IT is bleeding people because there doesn’t appear to be enough warm bodies to fill the seats. Another factor at the last job was that we had lost several people and we were told that they weren’t even getting qualified applicants.
You’d think someone down at HR would figure out that giving people a 6% raise and keeping people is cheaper than losing people and then having to hire others back at even higher rates.
Current place I’m working has been bleeding people on one team, and not getting approval to backfill them. It’s caused… tension… especially on All Hands Calls where they cheerleaders are talking about record sales and big contracts sold.
/looks at my 3% raise, finishes polishing up resume
A friend of mine is a manager at a huge corporation. In the past they have used lots of contractors because they can easily hire/fire them.
Now? He says most of their teams are at less than half strength and all the local contractors have left for greener pastures. Their past behavior of burn/churn has also hurt them because all the contractors for some reason don’t want to work for them anymore.
May I refer you to my Swiss Masters?
*greedily eyes $2500 referral bonus*
Swiss Masters
Aren’t they notorious baiters? Then they switch the terms later?
“You’d think someone down at HR would figure out that giving people a 6% raise and keeping people is cheaper than losing people and then having to hire others back at even higher rates.”
How are they going to show you who’s boss if they let logic dictate their decisions rather than bullshit ideology and petty games?
That’s just it, HR isn’t supposed to be ‘the boss’. Whenever they start acting like that, they need to be bounced from the organization.
lIt’s no longer HR at my company. It’s the People Department
Can we go back to Personnel?
Do you even need HR? I’ve never worked anywhere where they did anything helpful.
HR’s job is primarily to make sure to protect the company from the employees and their shenanigans. I constantly have to remind people that want to go bitch to HR about something or another, that….
Complain about someone and you too get a file….
HR is purportedly there to insulate management from the issues involved with benefits.
However, they’ve managed to expand their roles into some kind of social engineering bullshit because they usually don’t have enough to do and it’s sexier than managing insurance problems.
If we didn’t operate corporations like surrogate families which provide health care and psychotherapy and instead just paid people in cash, HR wouldn’t be needed at all and everything would be better.
The big problem is that HR is staffed by women with bullshit degrees and it doesn’t pay well.
Then their job is to manage the pay of (mostly) guys with STEM degrees who are in high demand and pulling in big $$. And a lot of those guys are pretty independent and willing to argue that they want more money.
Can you even imagine how irritating it must be to some 50 year old HR manager who is making $45K and still paying off college loans for her English degree have some punk 24 year old programmer tell her he needs at least $100K or he is going somewhere else?
This is also why HR is so vindictive when the bust happens. They make sure those 24 year old punks are the first to be thrown overboard.
Yeah, I dated an HR girl over a decade ago, right after my divorce, and she carried a chip the size of an aircraft carrier on her shoulder because she felt it was unfair she was making less than $50k a year after a decade plus of work, while some junior STEM employee was raking in the fucking cash and starting at $15-25K above what she made. That toxicity came through in everything about her. Lucky for me this was someone that was not working for my company (I have some stories about dating at work and those relationships ending, sheesh). Needless to say that relationship didn’t go on for to long. She was as dumb as they come, but
felt“knew” she was smarter than the people she felt were getting paid more than her.If she’s smarter than them and wants that level of pay, she could just go into that line of work.
You’re right about the salary envy. HR employees are the only ones besides your direct management chain (sometimes not even past your own boss) who see your salary.
At my employer, we are losing tech people (various reasons), and one coworker told HR that he had another offer and that out company needed to match or top it for him to stay. HR said “Nah” so he is going to resign within the month.
His boss is going to lose it.
I have some stories about dating at work
My dad taught me not to shit where I eat.
“HR said “Nah” so he is going to resign within the month.”
My company’s HR policy is that they by default will NOT counteroffer. Ever. I know for a fact that was not true because I got a counter offer (my boss forced the issue). What you need to understand though is that it is not a good move. HR will remember they got strong armed, and you will spend the remainder of your time fighting with them as they try to punish you for going over them. It has been 5 years, and I still have to fight, tooth & nail, to make sure I avoid getting fucked over when it comes to raises/bonuses, as they try to recoup what they see as a loss (counteroffer to keep you).
In her defense, *everyone* knows they are smarter than most other people.
It is a pretty consistent psychological phenomenon. Polls of drivers consistently find that most people judge themselves to be well above average. This is consistent across our whole lives. We judge ourselves to be above average at most things, and no worse than average on negative things.
Very few people even attempt an honest look in the mirror. Nobody is really capable of it.
@Hayeksplosives
I don’t get why he would go to HR first, before his own boss. That seems odd. In our company it would be considered a snub to your boss to sidestep him or her about a salary concern, especially since they have to budget for it.
I thought it was weird too. But he’s a physicist PhD on his first “real” job so maybe he is just clueless.
I suspect that he didn’t want his boss to know he’s considering leaving. He thought the other offer would be enough to force a raise.
He will learn. I won’t miss him.
“I’m sure she will be shocked when you decide to go elsewhere for a 40% pay bump. One of the contributing factors to my recent move was a 3% raise (when inflation was only at 6%). It wasn’t the money, it was the insult of it.”
I had this happen to me ~6 years ago. I told the manager that he was cutting my pay. Then he acted shocked when I took another job ‘you should have talked to me’. I did dumbass.
My wife left after getting a 40% raise at another company.
Her decision was WFH based initially. But when she saw that she was being severely underpaid for someone with her experience and skill set, she decided not to even bother asking her company to match.
Leading indicator of what the CPI will do in a month or two.
Sounds about right.
*frowny face*
I will leave you with a couple of Thomas Sowell quotes to help make some sense of this shit:
““It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.””
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.“
College -> Non-Profit -> NGO -> Think Tank -> Political Appointee
Zero real world experience + zero consequences for failure = The Crisis Of Competence
“And then right afterwards, you have a massive– you know, you just have this idea that throwing money at that problem is gonna make it go away, without any accountability and so this is where these things are breaking down,” she stressed.
By George, I think she’s got it.
No. She doesn’t.
There are two main categories of people. The first is that group that sees government as a source of most of our ills. A necessary evil entity that needs to be watched and held accountable to keep society safe from its machinations. The second group sees government as the entity to solve all problems, especially the idiotic social justice shit that claims it can fix the fact that decisions have consequences, and they can override reality to make that go away, sort of pick winners & losers to make life just, and the bulk of that group thinks all government needs is more money.
The idiots in that second group are the ones that give us every single instance of government that results in mountains of bodies and abject misery for humanity.
Ivana Trump dead at 73. Occupy Democrats keeping it classy.
https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1547679005867880451/photo/1
Occupy Democrats may be the dumbest and most reprehensible of the partisan orgs.
They are targeting a dumb audience.
Ah, the power of inaccurate observation.
Occupy: is that the imperative tense?
““From every camera on the Capitol grounds – including body and fixed surveillance cameras – every second of footage from January 6, 2021 ought to be in the public domain by now,” Norman told the DCNF. “It is baffling to me why the Attorney General has failed to make the entirety of footage available, especially while the Select Committee is cherry-picking clips to suit its narrative.””
It’s not baffling at all to me. It’s the same reason Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube banned “unofficial” video. I remember watching CNN right after it happened, and they kept playing a loop of the same cherry-picked snippet over and over and over again.
Legacy media doesn’t do news: it programs the lemmings to believe what the machine wants people to believe is going on in a world where the machine is manned by a bunch of credentialed but absolutely inept and downright stupid & evil bunch of idiots with criminal ideas they want to inflict on others.
The night that Trump was elected I was staying at a downtown hotel in Chicago. I got a call from my wife asking if I was safe. She told me to turn on CNN because they were showing protests in Chicago. I turned on the TV and it looked like a huge crowd was going crazy. But it was only 2 blocks from where I was staying and I didn’t hear anything. (For reference, Cubs fans had kept me awake with their hooting and hollering when they won a playoff series).
So I went out to check it out. I bet there 250 people crammed into one section of a bridge that led to the Trump Tower. They didn’t even block the entire bridge. But CNN framed it so it looked like a mass of humanity was ready to overrun the mounted cops blocking the bridge.
I also would guess that there were 50 people like me. Looky Lous who just wanted to see shit.
This is a common phenomenon.
When I worked in medical research, PETA style groups would sometimes protest. This was during the “free the lab animals” days, when sometimes violent people would break in, smash stuff and “liberate” lab animals.
More than once, I walked past demonstrations on my way to the lab. Never were there more than 25 people. Usually less than a dozen.
But it always looked good on the news and in the paper. They would align their shot such that the group was 3 people wide and five or six deep behind the reporter, making it look like there were hundreds of people… Yet they did not even fill a public sidewalk.
This is 30 years ago or more.
Some of it is just part of being a photographer… If you are sent to get a shot, you are going to frame it to look good. Stepping back 3 feet would show the small nature of the group. But it would not make the front page. So a closeup of 3 people with angry, yelling faces as they hold signs is used.. even though there are only 5 people at the “protest”.
Ivana Trump dead at 73
I presume OMB is the prime suspect in her murder?
On the Ivana Trump thing – this is just me navel-gazing about a particular way my brain works, and a little curious if any of y’all do the same:
I “think in maps”. So basically the first thing I did was find the address in a news story, and look it up on Google Maps. I looked at it zoomed out, zoomed way in, 3D, street-view, everything. Checked out the neighborhood, etc. That’s my go-to first action (given the opportunity) for pretty much anything I see or am thinking about. I at least come out with a shallow, basic understanding of the site, and then all my other thoughts are pasted onto it. Sometimes I find (rightly or wrongly) that I’m looking way into it for subconscious or historical implications for the story, the people involved, me, etc.
Map nerd, so I often do that, yes.
Only for local stories where I’ve heard of the neighborhood/street, but I’m not sure of the exact location.
What’s the address?
I felt for bombarded Eric yesterday.
From a Fox News link, quoting an NYPD spokesman:
“‘On Thursday, July 14, 2022, at approximately 1240 hours, police responded to a 911 call of a aided individual at 10 East 64 Street , within the confines of the 19 Precinct. Upon arrival, officers observed a 73 year-old female unconscious and unresponsive. EMS responded to the location and pronounced the victim deceased at the scene,’ the spokesperson said.”
So, a really nice urban neighborhood just east of Central Park. For all my cracker country boy introvert nature, the history/architecture buff in me loves walking and seeing interesting cities. Not really the tourist places, just the normal streets.
Ooh, 10! Just off the park.
Yeah, am a nosy mapper (G. and paper) myself.
The best thing about National Geographic back in the day were the maps that were included as inserts. I would pore over those for hours.
Oh my god! Yes! +1 if it had tiddies adjacent though.
Usually they weren’t the finest specimens, by my standards though.
+2 Pancakes
I was like 10….there were no standards yet established but helped formulate said standards into what they are today.
Yep. The only standard was naked or not?
Lou Grant had the moon maps diptych, no?
Or constellation map? I had that one.
Er, maybe or perhaps probably.
I think the moon was on there too. But yeah, I recall having the same map as Lou.
I had a couple NG maps hanging up on my wall along with my Lamborghini Countach poster.
Nat Geo started going woke a few years ago. I let my subscription expire last year, I had been a subscriber since 1982.
And there is another group who has to perform the rule 34 search on every topic…..
“”In my view,” Schultz said, “at the local, state, and federal level, these governments across the country and leaders … have abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental illness.””
That’s because those governments are run by mentally-ill criminals.
Just because our rulers are sociopathic narcissists doesn’t mean they are mentally . . . Oh, wait.
They are doing it because – they claim – our society is unjust. So I can only assume their thinking is that letting criminals commit crimes somehow makes it more just.
It depends on the crime and the criminal. There’s 400 years of oppression to make up for.
I can’t remember. Was it the Pitchfork Mob or our leaders in government that forced Starbucks to allow anyone off the street to use their bathrooms?
Back in the late ’80s I worked at a Radio Shack in downtown Minneapolis (glamor life amirite?). I wasn’t out of the Marines for that long by then and one of my jobs was to bounce the riff raff out of the store. Walking home from that job could be dangerous at night.
I can’t imagine having a job like that where you couldn’t eject the dirty crazy people.
“if any of y’all do the same:”
No.
Federal Judge Sentences 69-Year-Old Grandmother With Cancer to 2 Months in Jail For ‘Parading’ in the Capitol on January 6
Unbelievable. Wait, no. Completely believable. Travesty.
Welcome to our multi-tiered justice system.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnOpenSecret/status/1547780757849980931
A paedophile got the same sentence
Pour encourager les autres!
Poor Ray Epps, a victim of a conspiracy theory he is!
Most federal judges get real persnickety when they feel the legitimacy of the system they exist in is being threatened. It’s like contempt of court writ large.
Yeah, that was the vibe I got from that asshole. “How dare you come into my world and do as you please!”
Wow. When you’ve lost the CEO of Starbucks….
ISTR Schultz was never that far to the left – he was and is a businessman, first and foremost. That’s was one of the complaints about him, in fact.
Remember the “conversation” disposable cups from a few years ago? Trying but failing to find a picture.
Hemphill, Nielsen insisted, “repeatedly asked the police for help while consistently undermining their efforts. She needlessly drew resources from the police at a time they were desperately needed.”
“As tempting as it is to be lenient in this kind of situation, what I have discerned is it is such a serious offense because it’s such a serious event in the history of our country,” Judge Lamberth said. “I have to agree with the government’s recommendation in this case. I believe that there has to be a penalty when there is a serious offense like this.”
“Justice system”
Those people are the scum of the earth.
The second quote is where I decided to tap out and find something else to think about today. No trial dealing with the Fed should be held anywhere near DC, and this line of crap is infuriating.
You must credit the dnc crime syndicate with their brilliant move of completely coopting and corrupting what passes for the DC justice system so they could rig any and all criminal action taken against their own and their political enemies….
Serious offense? Die of ass cancer Your Honor.
We have no justice system anymore. What we have is a system where the criminals running it use the system to defend & protect their crime syndicate allies in politics, the government bureaucracy, and the left leaning entities in the education/entertainment industry, while turning it into a weapon to beat down their political enemies.
Amazing we’re doing as well as we are (we = Glibs and their address books, I suppose).
Bonus link: What is this snake up to?
This seems like an important story that the MSM might want to highl— LOL I almost got it out.
…and nothing else happened…
I was really hoping for an article about an actual snake doing something funny…
You’re not the only one.
2.4 years of business experience on average? That’s not so bad.
In the subject areas (economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy and finance)?
“The report found that 62 percent of Biden appointees who deal directly with business matters – economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy and finance, have ‘virtually no business experience.’ Only one in 8 were found to have ‘extensive’ business experience and their average business experience was 2.4 years. ”
I would expect a lot more, especially if appointees, these aren’t counting the receptionist or anything, or even the typical drones. These are the high level people setting policies.
This comes back to the school of thought that you don’t have to know much or anything about the discipline you are managing as much as you just need to know how to beat the people into complying with what you want. I saw it decades ago when GE forced me to take up management even though I was and wanted to be technical, and I attended a management class that made this ludicrous assertion. They ended up with a ton of idiots that had no clue wtf they were dealing with telling the tech people to cut the cost and time by some arbitrary percentage and holding them to some arbitrary delivery date while the scope was a moving target, then claiming they “managed’ the project…. Immelt’s GE isn’t doing too good these days..
That phenomenon is doubled in the level of destructiveness when it comes to government “leadership”, because at least private companies have some fiduciary responsibility and will end up delisted as the company’s value plunges, while the government actors have nothing like that (unless you want to point to inflation) to force correction. Especially if you understand that government leadership checks the top people for their loyalty to the “social justice’ cause their real objective is to pick winners & losers. Not to help the private sector be effective and productive.
Yup, these people are being picked for their ability to say ‘yes’ to the far left plan, and hopefully implement it- costs be damned!
TEST!
Damn, I seem to be unable to post a replying to Lackadaisical (keeps getting banned by the server).. Does the site check for and block replies with certain words? I am not cursing, but it still will not go through. Let’s see if it works if I split it..
PT#1: The biggest problem with top down collectivist movements is the inherent built in failure mechanism that requires the “top men” to be picked for their loyalty to the cause over actually exercising expertise in their area of concern. The marxist system is doomed to failure because of this problem (see USSR). The fascists – disillusioned marxists all of them – thought they came up with a solution by creating the veneer of legitimacy when you pretend there is a free private sector. What you really have is government picking the winners & losers. Collectivists love that.
PT#2: One can make the case that modern western nations have a version of that system (less nationalistic but just as stupid in nature as the old kind) that runs their governments. It worked for a while. But now that people with marxist beliefs run the system it ended up broken again.
Alex, we’re completely on the same page. We’re just doing watered down fascism, edging into communism as the state engulfs society.
Lack, when “there is nothing against the state, nothing outside the state” does it really matter whether you call it fascism or communism?
Perfidious traitor
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and his staff told Democratic leadership on Thursday that he’s not willing to support major climate and tax provisions in a sweeping Biden agenda bill, according to a Democrat briefed on the conversations.
Instead, Manchin, a key centrist who holds the swing vote in the 50-50 Senate, said he is willing to back only a filibuster-proof economic bill with drug pricing and a two-year extension of funding under the Affordable Care Act, the source said.
Manchin’s move upends lengthy negotiations with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., most likely forcing the party to scrap climate change policies and new taxes and delivering a major blow to some of President Joe Biden’s priorities heading into an already challenging midterm election landscape for Democrats this fall.
Manchin “was explicit that he will not support a bill in August” with energy or climate provisions or one “closing tax loopholes exploited by the wealthiest” and large corporations, “despite his support for those specific things throughout the entire negotiation,” said the Democrat briefed about the discussions.
He’s singlehandedly thwarting our transition to utopian fascism.
What system allows one person to block the will of the people?!?
A sane one.
The mob is fickle and deranged.
One person is not doing that, 51 people are.
Every one of them should be impeached for blocking the majority!!!
Schultz blamed elected leaders of the Democrat cities where the stores are closing “at the local state and federal level, these governments… and leaders, mayors & governors & city councils have advocated their responsibility in fighting crime & addressing mental illness.
Advocated, abdicated. Same difference.
They advocated abdicating.
“Instead he uses it as an excuse to put his testicles all over me!”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088794/mediaviewer/rm826256129
Great film.
Love that movie — that Cusack wants to disown it from his repertoire tells me all I need to know about his pretentious ass.
It was on Showtime the other night.
What!
Next he’ll want to get rid of One Crazy Summer. The fact that I can’t stream Better Off Dead for free shows the failures of free streaming. FFS, the DVD was $5 forever back in the day.
$13 / $6
https://www.amazon.com/Better-Dead-Blu-ray-John-Cusack/dp/B00511N76C/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Better+Off+Dead…&qid=1657890560&s=movies-tv&sr=1-2
I’ve got it, but it’s much easier to send a yout’ a link to watch it in these modern days.
Don’t remember much about OCS, except that the grandma Billie Bird presents a bill for her home cooking.
Ferrari boat races
GODZILLA!
(As played by Bobcat Goldthwait).
Why in the world would he want to disown that film? I think it’s his greatest.
It was all downhill after that.
Counterpoint:
Grosse Point Blank
A highlight in his career, for sure, and competitive with BOD.
I had not heard that either.
Two… Dollars…..
That is a great movie.
Friday Funbags would do a better job handling the economy than Biden’s team.
https://archive.ph/fVblp
That’s how you would get a soft landing.
Or, that’s how you get the economy to perk right up!
Democrats had insisted that funding to help combat climate change, a high priority for many, would be paid for.
“If we make a real commitment on the climate front and we pay for it by making big corporations pay their fair share in taxes, that’s going to help us,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
The likely failure of clean energy funding is a major setback in efforts to mitigate climate change, which scientists have warned will require aggressive action to move away from fossil fuels to stave off disastrous impacts. The House-passed Build Back Better Act approved $555 billion to combat climate change, but Manchin rejected the bill and slashed the proposed funding to $300 billion in recent negotiations. Now, Congress may not pass any climate funding this year.
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., expressed his dismay at Manchin’s position.
“I’m not going to sugar coat my disappointment here, especially since nearly all issues in the climate and energy space had been resolved,” he said in a statement. “This is our last chance to prevent the most catastrophic — and costly — effects of climate change. We can’t come back in another decade and forestall hundreds of billions — if not trillions — in economic damage and undo the inevitable human toll.”
That’s it. We’re done for.
Climate change has allowed the elite criminal class to rob the productive of trillions of dollars. This racket is so lucrative for this credentialled rich white collar criminal class that they will not let it be stopped until the people get hardcore and a bunch of the criminal AGW class pushers are hung from lampposts or having their heads hacked off.
They are so out-of-touch it’s comical.
While not much of a patron of the “old” Victoria’s Secret , I did shop Dick’s once after they decided to get out of the gun business. Now I don’t have to worry about either. Starbucks is a quicker learner but I am not a customer there either, mainly ’cause my minders don’t let me go anywhere where I might get in trouble.
So… not much for the ladies’ unmentionables but out shopping for disk… glad you feel comfortable enough with us to let us know that, good sir. 😉
(Sorry — too good of a setup line to pass up.)
#SnarkFail
Sigh. Yep — I’d make a comment about blowing it and how much I suck…. but I’m more of a Victoria’s Secret guy.
https://youtu.be/l1JWqxHh208
Last time I was at Dicks was close to more than a decade and a half ago to get my kid and a couple of his team mates some baseball gear. It was a big mistake and I never went back. Was a good move. Last time I hit up Victoria secret was more than 5 years ago when I had to help my then girlfriend upgrade from her granny panties cause it was a crime to not put that ware in better packaging.
Weak sterling: go for it. https://www.agentprovocateur.com/us_en/lingerie
(Uh, for current GF, not for then–.)
Still like a nicely tanned, flat chest?
oof, thats not cheap. But looks good.
Hah, accidently f’ed the comment…
I will forever be grateful to AP for the Kylie Minogue commercial, but Alex may as well go high end.
Tres would say only if he gets to take it home after making her wear that stuff for a week straight…
Dick(less)’s gobbled up Galyans, which had a really good gun and hunting section for a big box store, not to mention a pretty good line of backpacking and climbing gear. Pissed me off…
I miss Galyan’s. I was based out of Indianapolis. I think part of what did it in was the customer who shot himself in the gun section at Christmastime. That really left a bad taste in peoples mouths.
For years, even after it became Dick’s, you could go to that store and see the carpet that was reaplced didn’t match the rest of the store and there were marks on the metal ceiling. .
I was mostly staying away from Dick’s because of the gun thing, but they were one of the first to offer money for abortion tourism. So now it’s a hard no.
Doesn’t surprise me. Dick’s is run by hardcore progs. Making money is secondary to the Message.
Their prices tell me that they are not completely disinterested in making money….
Don’t want no itsy bitsy teeny weeny short dick man.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19169470/husband-too-small-one-night-stand/
She needs to go shopping with Fourscore.
DA FUQ?
She feels nothing? Are we talking about a guy throwing a hotdog down a hallway problem here perchance cause she once was into donkey shows? Maybe the “guy” she is with is a chick pretending to be a dude, and the clit while impressive at 2 inches, fails to work as a male member? Don’t laugh. we live in crazy times.
They have 3 kids. It must work ok.
So are we now going to find out none of the kids are his?
Sleeves are also a thing.
To the extent that anything of this letter is true, she isn’t doing it because of size. She would be doing it if he was John Holmes. Some people are just not wired to be faithful.
It is the female version of the old saying…. “No matter how hot she is, somewhere there is a guy who is tired of banging her.”
It’s not his choice, it’s all yours.
BELIEVE HER!
Dad went in for bladder surgery this week (tumor removal).
Your dad stole my line!
He was pissed afterwards because he didn’t think to say “I’m donating two inches of my dick to a poor black child.”
I told him it was probably best he didn’t.
And yes, he’s always been this way.
My kind of fella.
Hope your dad gets well soon.
Thanks, he seems to be doing as well as can be expected. Certainly hasn’t lost his sense of humor.
Why worry so much about probably fictional missives?
This was my initial reaction. Nobody writes that letter about themselves.
It is like the old loveline calls… “My dick is so big, it keeps scaring dates away! What should I do??”
Wow, what a horrid human being. And the guy is a doormat.
“He’s a good man, though, and doesn’t deserve an unfaithful wife.”
Is he though? Sounds like someone who is being taken advantage of. Something about being a man also means standing up for yourself- and how will this effect his kids? Because there’s no way he couldn’t have suspected something was happening behind his back.
When faced with this scenario, there is no “make her be faithful” option.
Pre 1960, beating the shit out of your wife and shooting any guys she is banging was somewhat tolerated. We even had “crime of passion” defenses.
But what are his real options today? Complain? Yell? Demand that she stop?
Yeah.. right. She likes casual hookups. It is clearly her thing. I doubt she can change that herself… He certainly can’t.
He has “divorce and child support payment” as an option, with a woman who is likely to be vindictive about time with his kids and leaving him impoverished by comparison as one option, and “try to improve the relationship while trying not to find out definitive proof” as the other option.
This is the Kobayashi Maru. His best hope is that she goes out with one of these guys and he DUIs it into an oncoming 18 wheeler, taking her out of his misery. Barring that, he should definitely dump her and move on, difficult as that isl ogistically.
If “take the kids and make her pay child support” was on the table like it has been for women these past few decades, I suspect the outcome would be different.
“Mom of Ohio girl, 10, who was forced to get abortion in Indiana after ‘being raped by illegal migrant’ says daughter is ‘fine’ and defends the SUSPECT: ‘Everything they say about him is a lie'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11016277/Mom-Ohio-girl-10-got-abortion-Indiana-raped-defends-SUSPECT.html
This story keeps getting more convoluted every day.
That’s because the story involves some real horrible criminal activity, supported by the policies of the people that need to convince you we need to let crazy bitches that think they are fighting the patriarchy by being able to murder their offspring, even after they are born, that they desperately need to keep the common person from finding out about while using this child as an emotional cudgel to beat people not suffering from the murderous insanity into compliance.
The left loves to use people as political pawns. It’s sick. This one was too far, and finally someone called them out on it.
Where’s my shocked face…?
Local news had a story from the Indiana doctor’s lawyer.
Lawyer says actions of Indiana doctor who performed abortion on 10-year-old girl were within law
I wonder when that report was really filed. I’d like to see very difficult to falsify corroboration that it was actually filed then.
There sure were a lot of people looking for it.
“…, ella dijo en español.”
So, she was in on it. Trafficking her kid? The scumbag is her “boyfriend” (not unusual in cases like this)? He supports her? All of the above?
¿Los todos?
PJ Media did a great job of pushing this story. They kept asking, if a 10 year old was raped, why aren’t they going after the rapist?
Now that doctor is under investigation by my old school mate for a HIPPA violation and failure to report.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/07/14/abortionist-caitlin-bernard-under-investigation-by-indiana-university-and-attorney-general-of-indiana-n1612884
Whycome every time we look under te hood, we discover that the wokesters and their insane ideas/beliefs are far, far, worse than we believed was possible?
Deferred maintenance?
FTA: The AG also noted that ‘Ohio’s heartbeat law has a medical exception, which is broader than just the life of the mother.’
‘This young girl, if she exists and if this horrible thing actually happened to her – it breaks my heart to think about it – she did not have to leave Ohio to find treatment,’ he explained.
SO they didn’t need to go to Indiana? Interesting if true. Sounds like the doctor wanted to make a political statement when it wasn’t needed.
I’m seeing hysterical over-reactions here. I wouldn’t be surprised if the doc actually refused to perform a perfectly legal abortion because he/she is an hysterical nitwit.
Ray Epps is the only person repeatedly caught on camera telling others to enter the Capitol building on Jan 6 that the NYT has written a puff piece about.
https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1547396003690577921
Even if I buy into the assertion that he was doing all of that of his own volition (which I don’t), he’s still a royal asshole for loudly and repetitively encouraging others to do something he was unwilling to do himself.
Ray Epps can enjoy the remainder of his years hiding from the mob.
They’re going after people who were supposedly supportive of the protests on Twitter. People who weren’t physically there. But this guy was literally on the ground encouraging people to commit a crime, and he gets nothing?
That can’t be true. The NYT told me he was telling people to go home and remain peaceful.
Talk about a gaslighting. Trump says those exact words and Ray Epps says the opposite….
Revolver has a story up about the NYT piece, and the documentary from the NYT – feature Ray Epps in the role of bad guy. You think if they’re going to air-brush his role, they’d memory-hole the old narrative.
Also in “rage inducing” category today — Quordle. Grumble.
Daily Quordle 172
8️⃣5️⃣
🟥4️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Don’t blame me, I had a hard time too.
Daily Quordle 172
9️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
Daily Quordle 172
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
too many rhyming words for bottom right. I lost the 50/50, but I think it was more a 33/33/33, that I got lucky on 2nd guess.
Daily Duotrigordle #135
Guesses: 35/37
0️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣
0️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣
3️⃣2️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣
1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
0️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣
1️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
Now you’re just trolling us.
Nope nope nope
Daily Duotrigordle #135
Guesses: 37/37
0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣
0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣
1️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣
2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣
3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
1️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
Weird as hell — feels like you easily run out of guesses just because of how many words there are unless you get lucky and get some without even realizing (I had more than a few where I had all the letters before I scrolled down, just not in the same guess!)
Daily Duotrigordle #135
Guesses: 35/37
0️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣
0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣
1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣
1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣
2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣
2️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
So, after trying for the first time, my impression was very much like solitaire or word search. With 37 guesses and 32 answers, there really is very little margin.
So I tried a practice with this in mind. A new strategy… My usual would be to eliminate as many letters as possible in the first 3 or 4 guesses. This time, as soon as I *knew* an answer, I guessed.
So I went with “pause” and “choir” to open, to get every vowel. That gave me cheap. And I was off. I had shockingly few consonants already on the board, but each time there was a really good one that was not terribly risky. Introducing a new letter.
So… Two guesses to start gives a +3 if played perfectly after that. I really don’t see getting any higher than +3 without just getting really lucky. And a couple of bad guesses can doom you quick.
Practice Duotrigordle
Guesses: 34/37
2️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣
0️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣
2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
0️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
LOL
Daily Duotrigordle #135
Guesses: X/37
0️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣2️⃣
0️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 🟥🟥
3️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣
1️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣
2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣
0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣
1️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
I like this. Takes enough time to make it feel worth it.
I agree. And as a bonus, it’s really gonna drive UCS crazy. 😈
Daily Duotrigordle #135
Guesses: X/37
1️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣
2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣
0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣
🟥🟥 2️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
This all reminds me of this
I tried it and got 37/37, albeit with a couple of stupid mistakes. (I won’t post the whole array.)
Daily Duotrigordle #135
Guesses: 35/37
0️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣
0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣
1️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣
0️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣
3️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣
2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
Ok, that is kinda interesting…
Daily Duotrigordle #135
Guesses: 36/37
0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣
1️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣
1️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣
1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣
1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣
0️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
It is very much an exercise in getting the first letters down and then never making a mistake after that. It reminds me of playing solitaire cards, except with words.
It is also an exercise in patience. I guessed a few times when I should have looked for a better spot.
But after the first few words, you really don’t get the chance to make many real choices. You just have to do everything in order such that you are given the answers.
9 7
8 6
Daily Quordle 172
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Wow. That sucked.
7 5
3 x
And waffle just about fucked me, too. Bad day for word games.
I have a cold, so I’m gonna blame that on my terrible score.
9️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Daily Quordle 172
7️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
“CCTV captured the moment one of the assailants got out of a dark-colored SUV parked up the road and approached his victim walking down the street in a blue t-shirt.
All of a sudden the pair are engaged in a tussle as the man in the blue t-shirt heroically grabs for the gun in the thief’s hand before he can take aim and tries to wrestle him to the floor.
Just as the man in the blue t-shirt is getting the upper hand, a second robber gets out of the black SUV and approaches to help his accomplice.
The second robber hesitates to fire as his accomplice is used as a human shield.
The victim finally gets the gun into his hands and a brief shoot-out ensues at just yards’ distance.
The second thug falls to the floor apparently shot, firing back at the hero, while the original thug flees for his life in the opposite direction and the pair then flee together in their dark SUV, which police said was possibly an Infiniti.
The victim was transported to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital and was listed as in stable condition.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11014161/Dramatic-robbery-moment-victim-shot-fends-two-attackers-crime-ridden-Philadelphia.html
I hope he doesn’t get charged, like that bodega guy.
Filthadelphia ain’t NYC.
The DA in Filthy is even worse.
Pennsylvania gun laws are tough. He was in possession of an illegal handgun, that much we know for sure.
That wrist control/underhook looks like something he might have learned at an ECQC. Good moves.
TFW you try to rob Jason Bourne.
It’s “bogeda”
Daily Quordle 172
4️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
#waffle175 4/5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 streak: 21
🏆 #waffleelite
wafflegame.net
“Canadian family hold gender reveal party for their eight-year-old daughter after she told them ‘I don’t feel like a boy inside’ at the age of six
‘One Halloween we decided to let Ella pick her own costume and she wanted to be a cat so she wore a skirt and cat ears.
‘Neither of us knew what the right thing to do was so we showed Ella books of trans people because she didn’t have the words to say it.
‘Eventually, she did. She said, “I’m not a boy, I don’t feel like this inside”.’
Nikki [the mother] has now set up a page on Instagram documenting Ella’s transition journey.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11016773/Canadian-family-hold-gender-reveal-party-transgender-daughter.html
Not at all suspicious.
Child abuse.
Maybe I should have gender reveals for my kids similar to how Catholics have confirmation.
Yeah, and some kids want to be dogs or dinosaurs.
You know you have a problem when your kid wants to be a politician or a government bureaucrat. You are better off if they want to be a serial killer…
Nikki added, ‘Grade one was confusing because some peers were saying she wasn’t a girl.
based first graders
All you need to know.
Nikki is the worst.
Anyone know what happened to her? I just assume she off’d herself.
Wasn’t she also part of the other Reason splinter group, the ones that left earlier?
She was active at Grylliade back when I was there.
I liked her and didn’t think she was the worst.
Even when she wanted the municipality to get tough on the 83 year old woman next door that couldn’t shovel the sidewalk and it inconvenienced her?
She wore that badge with pride.
‘Neither of us knew what the right thing to do was so we showed Ella books of trans people because she didn’t have the words to say it.
Tell me you’re abusing your child without telling me…
How did she know she wasn’t actually coming out as a cat?
With no hope of winning Republican support for the package, Manchin’s position leaves Democratic leaders with a grueling choice: They can either drop the package entirely or pass the provisions he supports, which congressional Democrats overwhelmingly support.
No hope? What about Susan Collins, and Mittney? There must be a few pretentious dupes on the Republican side willing to throw themselves on the grenade of global warming. Think of the soccer mom votes you’d get.
I’ve stopped using the word “gender” entirely. It was of course in common use as a polite euphemism for “sex”, in things like “gender reveal” party, but has been basically co-opted to be the “whatever you feel like” definition. So now I deliberately only use the term “sex” in those circumstances. So like at supper, talking to some of our best friends about their daughter and son-in-law: “Hey, aren’t Matt and Ashley going to do their sex party when we’re all at the beach?”
My gender is “Multi-megaton, strategic, MIRV nuclear weapon”…
aren’t Matt and Ashley going to do their sex party when we’re all at the beach?
Alright alright alright…
GIGGITY
My husband and I have been filling out a lot of medical forms lately as we find Nevada-based specialist doctors (since leaving California). Ophthalmologists, cardiologist, dentists, neurologist, and general practitioners.
The fact that reality can’t be denied is clearly illustrated by each and every medical office having exactly two choices for sex: M or F.
One form actually specified “Biological sex at birth.”
It’s almost like sex is relevant to medical diagnosis and treatment…
That sounds very trans-phobic… – Nut job professor from CA
I apologize for the lateness, but I just submitted the weekly stoic article.
Wherever you go, there you are?
Either the best or worst movie ever made.
If the Stoics are not addressing tardiness or punctuality I will be sad.
You control your own punctuality by action or inaction.
There was an injury accident on I-40!
Accidents happen all the time. Not accounting for the possibility, is an inaction.
Deciding that being late is an acceptable risk is an action.
(Police chase on the 10?) Ever worked in SoCal? People are generally understanding about traffic.
I’ve never even been to california. And I’m talking philosophy. It sounds like a lot of people have chosen to accept tardiness due to the difficulty of scheduling puntuality.
https://www.sigalert.com/?lat=34.08467&lon=-118.28684&z=2
Keep refreshing.
Its all good, set and ready.
Don’t apologize. This is an opportunity for them to practice stoicism.
Cuck.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/she-made-hire-manny-now-27486855
yeah, nothing to add to your commentary there Q. You nailed it.
I admit that sleeping with our last paid, female childminder was a big mistake on my part. I let myself down and should have behaved better.
But, in my defence, I did confess all to my partner when the nanny left to get married – and I didn’t have to. My partner was furious when she discovered the truth, especially when she heard that the affair had gone on for months, again, something I’m not proud of.
You were fucking your last nanny for months, only stopping when she left to get married, then only after she was gone did you decide you weren’t proud of what you’d done. Now your wife insisted on a slab of beefcake so she can get some strange on and you feel inadequate.
You made your bed, putz.
The story (I think it is nothing but a story) sounds like the plot to a 70’s porno (back when they had plots). Nobody has any self-control and it ends with an orgy.
Don’t forget the pizza delivery guy that hangs out behind some potted plant jacking off and says “I like to watch”….
Hotter when it’s a chick doing that.
Relevant
Technically SFW, but only if they have a sense of humor.
I forget that Jimmy Kimmel was once funny.
It was probably Carolla carrying his sorry ass.
Not probably. For sure… Kimmel is a fucking idiot.
Now that’s an understatement.
All I’m hearing that it’s time to get two nann’y’s and become swingers.
Astute observation good sir, astute indeed.
I’m assuming this is Japan.
WTF
All those oriental languages look alike?
To be fair, Kanji is the same script as Chinese.
Chinese- standard East Asian squiggles
Taiwanese Chinese- standard East Asian squiggles w/ extra density
Japanese- standard East Asian squiggles interspersed w/ single lines
Korean- quadrant squiggles
(Also the prominent HAACP label makes it likely to be Chinese or Korean)
Looks like Hangul to me, but the fine print is hard to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
Agree, it definitely looks like an ingredients list written in Hangul.
I could ask my wife to look at it, but I’d have to cajole her because she’d have to put on her cheaters to attempt to read that.
I have to wear the cheaters for English, but on Japanese it is 100%.
Freaky Friday: When You Have a 1300hp Hot Rod, Make Sure Your Throttle Doesn’t Stick Before You Take It Out For a Sunday Drive
And you might want to actually buckle up first.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
D’awww….
Narration was cheesy but the video is cute. That dachshund doesn’t reflect much of his breeding as a varmint getter, does he??
Well, he finds them, he just doesn’t seem to know what to do with them.
I need one right now. I popped a rabbit in our garden with the pellet gun. Unfortunately he was wounded and managed to duck under our shed before I could head him off.
Brought our cat out to see if he’d chase him out, but being a cat he just looked at me like I was stupid and went over and chewed on more garden plants.
Yesterday the wife informed me that when she went out to the shed there were a lot of flies and a big stink, so I did reduce the population by one.
Wise cat.
I love Dachshunds.
Thanks, Holiness!
My family too.
What’s the over & under that the CCP legal system AI always rues in favor of what benefits the CCP top members?
Victory for the mouthbreeders that give us party that tells you they are all about science….
Party of Science!
Animistic culture.
“mouthbreeders”
I was expecting a story about Xenomorphs.
I was thinking more piscine.
But get yer’ boosters!
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/stunning-official-canadian-data-show/
I’m sympathetic to the idea that getting the vaccine might make you more vulnerable. stuff like that can happen when you rush a product to market. But you’d have to control for a lot more factors than just age to get truly convincing data because of the self selection bias in getting the shot in the first place.
Yup. Mostly at risk people with other medical conditions are vaccinated.
And now that we are doing toddlers they generally have low mortality.
Mortality equity?
True, but the correlation that the vax provides protection isn’t there at all. And they have the burden of proof. Let the cherry-picking begin!
EU to adopt on Friday new Russia sanctions, tweaks to avert food shortages
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-adopt-friday-new-russia-sanctions-legal-tweaks-avert-food-shortages-sources-2022-07-15/
Bold move to make while hoping that Vlad turns the gas back on next week. Keep cutting that firewood.
Where have all the chandlers gone??
Long time passing…
🌸 🌺 🌹
Fucking morons.
Germany still likely to shut down perfectly usable nukes. Greens pitched a fit.
You know, if they want to eat windfallen fruit and only burn animal dung and such, why can’t they leave the rest of the populace alone?
“Recent data indicate that success for the abortion-gun control-January 6th strategy, to the extent it is working (and might work in the future) is attributable to those voters for whom these issues loom large and are less likely to be influenced by current economic problems. Such voters are disproportionately likely to be college-educated whites and it is here that Democrats have been demonstrating unusual strength.
In the just-released New York Times-Sienna poll, Democrats have a 21 point lead in the generic Congressional ballot among these voters. Shockingly, white college Democratic support in this poll is actually higher than support among all nonwhite voters. This is remarkable and has much to do with anemic Hispanic support for Democrats, who favor Democrats over Republicans by a scant 3 points.
More broadly, the lack of Democratic support among working class (noncollege) voters is striking. Democrats lose among all working class voters by 11 points, but carry the college-educated by 23 points. This is less a class gap than a yawning chasm.”
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/working-class-and-hispanic-voters
College-educated whites are hoping they’ll be the ones holding the clipboards.
College educated whites are the most heavily propagandized demographic in the country, and they largely paid handsomely for the privilege.
I started pointing out some 15 years ago that college degrees, unless you were doing STEM, medicine, economics/accounting, or business, were a horrible investment. I was ecstatic when my kid decided he wanted to be a car mechanic first, and maybe later look at options to get whatever education he would need to run his own business eventually, and he stayed away from college. He avoided getting brain washed, learned a valuable and lucrative trade, and actually is productive.
Today, even in the fields I mentioned as exceptions, a college degree tends to be a serious liability. People that should have been told college was not for them, are told to chase their dreams, and end up either dropping out and having to make due with loans that are crippling for that experience, or graduate with worthless degrees that make them incapable of working in any kind of productive job.
The most evil and dumbest ideas foisted on humanity in the last 2 centuries all seem to have come from the educated classes. College seems to be one of the few places where people can have horrible ideas, foist them on society, and never feel the consequences of them (exceptions do happen, as Pol Pot made sure to show these idiots how what they believed in would work out in real life). When their is no consequences to evil/stupid shit, you get not just more of it, but you get people that tell you – in earnest – that previous failures happened because you didn’t prog hard enough.
I learnded some useful stuff via my BA but it was both cheaper and saner back then. (Any causation in that correlation? Nahh, couldn’t be.)
Man, this JD sure hasn’t paid off… oh, wait, it has!
I hear that JDs are not as valuable as they used to be Swiss….. In fact, the amount of money people pay for one more often than not is a bad investment unless you can successfully chase ambulances or something… What’s your take on that?
It’s bimodal.
Go to an inexpensive law school that is good and qualifies you to take the bar.
Go to a prestigious school and make connections and/or have the resume to get a high end gig.
Don’t go to one of the many expensive, but not prestigious schools in the middle and loan yourself out. You have good chance of a negative return there.
Hopefully kids are told this before they commit to the wrong model….
BigLaw is paying jaw-dropping salaries for first year lawyers – I think in the mid-$200K range. Maybe higher.
But that’s a small percentage of graduates from the top 10 (5?) law schools, no?
I think my sister is still paying off her (unused) JD from University of the Pacific. That was a terrible, terrible decision by her.
Pretty broad brush there, Alex.
My son just graduated with a MechE. Three paid internships and a terrific job waiting at the end. Daughter is a junior at the same school, working a $30/hr internship for a company that already wants to hire her. Both have managed to remain decent kids throughout and I am happy so far with the ROI.
It is indeed a broad brush Tundra, and yes, exceptions do happen, but they are that: exceptions. Your kids are well grounded, smart enough to do college it sure sounds like, with a good work ethic, and those are ingredients that will spell success. I bet they will also finish college with minimal, if any, debt. My guess is they knew very young what they wanted, and worked their asses off to get there. Was the same for me when I was younger, so I know the model. But they, we, are in the minority. Most people I interact with tell different stories.
I also want to point out that I was close to many of the kids in my kid’s high school (coached baseball & football leagues) and I will tell you too many of them were sold a raw deal about chasing your passions in college (a lot of them kids that had zero chance of succeeding). I personally talked 4 of them into changing majors to make sure they could pay back the loans (their parents couldn’t afford it). Helped one go into the military to have someone help them pay for it. They all still reach out to me to thank me. I also know a bunch of them that are now not able to make enough money to keep up with their loan payments, and feel they were hosed. and I agree with their feelings (but do not want to end up the one paying for their bad choices).
Yeah, about Ruy.
“Shockingly..” Not to anyone paying attention. They still like to pretend, but the Democrats are the party of white college educated people.
We have credentials dammit!
clipboard apparatchik: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/mediaviewer/rm1938029569
I am dissappoint in the girlfriend. The Meteors are coming to town, and she’s not interested in going.
/buys a single ticket
I’ve had to do that. Usually beats not going at all, I find.
It’s at a little hole in the wall just north of me, so it should at least be an inexpensive Lyft/Uber.
A lot of Meteor fans get burnt out on them.
A good shower might perk them up.
*narrows gaze*
My friend is putting on a show in August:
Flatfoot 56 and Blanks 77. I’ve never seen Flatfoot, the sound pretty good. Blanks I’ve seen. I like their music and dislike the singers voice.
I haven’t seen Flatfoot 56, but I like their music. Unfortunately, my August is getting pretty booked.
Barbecued beans and weenies in the oven. I have been craving these, but it seems my ulcer surgery didn’t make my excess stomach acid problem go away, so I have to be careful. I only know how to cook for a potluck, so there are a lot of them. Fortunately, XY likes BBQ beans.
You use grape jelly? Appropriate
She don’t use jelly.
*clicks*
*Not disappointed*
As I hoped. Danke
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E07/705620
That is one of the wife’s faves to cook.
It appears my childhood/adolescent taste memories have betrayed me (yet again). They’re just okay. Not a lot of flavor. What’s your wife’s recipe?
Baked beans, franks, onions & bacon across the top. I think she doctors up the sauce with mustard, ketchup and worcestershire.
Well, yeah, that’s what I did, only I doctor with bbq sauce, molasses, and brown sugar. What does she doctor with?
I swear, none of my childhood (mom’s) recipes are holding up for me nowadays. They did in my twenties, but now? No. Probably having a baby did something to me. I lost my sense of taste and smell just after my baby was born, where apple juice, chocolate, and some other things tasted rancid. My perfume smelled rancid. It took 5 years for it to right itself.
Do you have any luck taking Prilosec (omeprazole) daily?
I’m trying to get a preapproval for pantoprozole (Protonix) from the insurance company. Works a treat.
👍 good luck!
Actually starting to suspect a hiatal hernia.
My GF had a really bad time with something that they could only diagnose as “GERD” a few years ago. Nothing helped, nothing worked, she was miserable on a limited diet for years. Then she started taking pantoprazole and everything got better magically. A year or so later she stopped the pantoprazole and it stayed fine. With the pregnancy she is back on the pantoprazole for a while, but it did wonders. They did multiple endoscopies and other things to diagnose whatever she had but never came closer than “GERD,” which is kind of like saying “you’re sick, but we have no idea what it is, except we have a special name for this kind of sick. Here, have some drugs; they may work, the may not.”
BTW, hiatal hernia was considered and no evidence for it was found with her.
Pantoprazole works, but I am starting to have chest pain when I swallow and BRAAAAAP.
ew, that’s miserable. She had similar problems.
“U.S. Public Health Agencies Aren’t ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say
“It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch and I can’t close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”
That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.”
https://www.commonsense.news/p/us-public-health-agencies-arent-following
“The trouble is that this sweeping recommendation was based on extremely weak, inconclusive data provided by Pfizer and Moderna.
Start with Pfizer. Using a three-dose vaccine in 992 children between the ages of six months and five years, Pfizer found no statistically significant evidence of vaccine efficacy. In the subgroup of children aged six months to two years, the trial found that the vaccine could result in a 99% lower chance of infection—but that they also could have a 370% increased chance of being infected. In other words, Pfizer reported a range of vaccine efficacy so wide that no conclusion could be inferred. No reputable medical journal would accept such sloppy and incomplete results with such a small sample size. More to the point, these results should have given pause to those who are in charge of public health.”
WTF??
The FDA is nothing more than a marketing arm for Big Pharma.
I’d love to see someone be honest for once. “Pfizer found that when vaccines were mandated for 2 to 6 year olds, there was a 100% increased chance that profits would exceed last year’s.”
Excuse me, we’re in an EMERGENCY here. Just get that shit into your small child’s bloodstream and STFU.
“First, they demanded that young children be masked in schools. On this score, the agencies were wrong. Compelling studies later found schools that masked children had no different rates of transmission. And for social and linguistic development, children need to see the faces of others.
Next came school closures. The agencies were wrong—and catastrophically so. Poor and minority children suffered learning loss with an 11-point drop in math scores alone and a 20% drop in math pass rates. There are dozens of statistics of this kind.”
That isn’t a failure to these cretins though, that just means they can whine for more funding now.
About the only positive thing I can say about the Rona Panic is that it completely crushed Minnesoda’s Pandemic Chicken Little Michael Osterholm. I bet he is the person who hates Fauci more than anyone else in the world.
Osterholm spent so much time setting himself up as THE Pandemic expert. He basically got booted from Minnesoda’s Dept of Health because his schtick got so old.
Then the pandemic hit and Trump was in power. If Hilary had been in power, Osterholm might have had a chance of being a big time Pandemic Guy.
Now? Fucking peasants are doing home tests and how can you ride a case number panic if people are just testing at home and not reporting the numbers?
Good news, everyone ! 🦞
You’re having crayfish for dinner?
Whoooop whoop whoop!
Now Toxteth is the popular one!
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the rage-inducing lynx! Especially this one:
Federal Judge Sentences 69-Year-Old Grandmother With Cancer to 2 Months in Jail For ‘Parading’ in the Capitol on January 6
Is it wrong to wish the transference of the poor lady’s cancer to a more deserving monster? This is some Soviet shit.
Starbucks CEO explains why they’re closing stores
Huh. Just rampant inner-city crime. I thought for sure that it was because their coffee tastes shitty.
Mass Layoffs: Victoria’s Secret Is Going Broke After Making the Mistake of Going Woke
My wife on occasion buys workout stuff from Athleta. Awhile back they had a gigantic woman on the cover of their catalog. Not pleasant. Then there was one with a mixture of fatties and not-fatties. Now it appears they’ve quietly gone back to just fitness chicks.
Go figure.
Starbucks doesn’t sell coffee, it sells sugary drinks with a lot of flavoring syrups.
*They don’t sell good coffee. The sugar and syrup masks the awful burnt taste.
👆👆👆
The sugar and syrups are to cover the charcoal flavor of cremated beans. Whether the beans were coffee beans, I couldn’t say.
They sell what people ask for.
Their iced Americanos are solid. I imagine all the true espresso drinks are.
As much as I prefer to go to local places vs. national chains, at least 2 of the local cafes have much worse espresso than Starbucks.
Walked through a mall for the first time in years this past weekend. Victoria’s Secret now has fat mannequins and photo models with bellies that hang over their low cut panties.
To some extent, I get it. America is fucking fat as hell and they have to adjust to their market. I saw at least a couple teenagers walking around whose ankles were hidden by rolls of leg blubber hanging over them.
Ewwww.
+1
“Secret now has fat mannequins and photo models with bellies that hang over their low cut panties.”
GUNTS FTW!
What we need in this country is common sense gunt control!
Universal backend checks!
PAGING SWISS!
Sorry for repeat:
https://www.agentprovocateur.com/us_en/lingerie
https://trashy.com/ (Latter carries plus sizes)
(meant as relief, not for exacerbation of misery)
The woke thing destroying them is probably a bit overblown. They didn’t pivot very well to ecommerce. But also fatties.
That way, you can wear shorts but still concealed-carry with an ankle holster!
I suspect they’re going to have difficulty bending over to reach their ankles in an emergency.
Just got back from a beach-y vacation;
For the 20-something ladies, bathing suits have gotten ever smaller. But asses have gotten bigger, and not in a good way (not GlibFit, Warty-approved squat butts, just eat-too-many-carbs butts).
It was a little depressing.
My mom said the same re a trip to London a few years ago. “How’d they all get so fat??”
Food pyramid.
Lager and chips and lad culture, was my guess to her.
I’m betting they have the same problem we do, cheap crap to eat versus more expensive healthy stuff and an unwillingness to cook. Also, candy.
Not true.
Eating healthy doesn’t cost anywhere near what processed & fast food does. I bought 6 lbs of ground beef the other day for less than $24. That’s like a meal for 2 at most fast food places now.
Processed food isn’t nutrient dense, contains shitty ingredients and does a number on hormones. It’s not that hard to eat healthy, but people choose not to (obviously).
Agree with you Tundra.
I never got the ‘fast food/junk food is cheap’ argument. I guess it saves some time, but it is always going to cost more. Chips, etc. are all kind of expensive, which makes sense because it takes a lot to process those foods. Rice and beans are cheap as dirt, onions and potatoes the same., squash etc…. Buy a couple dollars of spices and you’ll be set for a while.
No food stamps, but Family Benefit. And subsidized food prices, as one of our Glibs said recently?
Eating healthy is an investment of time and care more than money. We’re a nation of lazy motherfuckers (in the middle of the bell curve).
Yup.
I am jealous of the dirty old men of the past, they actually had something to ogle. Now when I get old, the hottest people will be those thin 70-year olds.
The exceptions were pretty great, I’ll admit.
Honestly, the highlight (aside from my wife, of course) was probably the 30-something(?) GlibFit MILF at one of the beaches – defined abs and shoulders but still totally feminine. She looked great.
I _think_ that was her dad with her & the child. Otherwise, wow, someone was really going outside the ‘half your age plus 7″ guideline.
Monogamy enforced by default?
Who, me? Sort of comes with the whole marriage thing.
I assure my wife that I’m much to lazy to ever cheat on her – the whole process of sneaking around must be exhausting.
Leg Blubber was the name of my first album.
The rhythm was guntz guntz guntz guntz?
“A federal judge has sentenced a 69-year-old Idaho grandmother and cancer patient to two months behind bars for parading in the Capitol, a misdemeanor.”
The nature of the offenses aside, I hate this appeal. ‘oh, I’m old, and have a disease so you can’t enforce the law against me’. Fuck that.
Well, how serious a disease? They’re going to get effective medical care in stir?
Agreed with Lack, but it does raise the issue I’ve brought up before. If you’re going to imprison someone, you have the duty and responsibility to care for that person now.
And as for your question, I have no idea what type of care prisoners get. It’s kind of a Hollywood trope that super rich mobsters get to continue to see their doctor, but I have no idea how true that is or under what circumstances it’s allowed.
That’s a fair question, and if the answer is ever ‘no’ then obviously that ought to be changed, rather than letting someone off the hook.
https://www.massnews.com/hungary-has-military-plans-for-ukraine-minister-analysis/
Poland already has troops inside the Ukraine. Maybe Romania takes a slice. A year from now, “The Ukraine” may just be a worthless slice of buffer-state between them and the Russian centric republics.
Site ate my comment, but suffice it to say that Ukraine is done and we’ll be lucky to avoid living in the Fallout videogame universe.
*Fires up Fallout, starts prepping*
I already keep having New Vegas thoughts when Hayeksplosives talks about the Mojave and all…
Hmm, should go to Goodsprings and plan my route.
Through Cazador Country, past the deathclaw quarry, and into the fiends camp.
/Leeeeeeroy
You not say Ukraine weak!
Cheer harder, it may happen yet!
I’m not cheering. I don’t like Russia or Russians, and I do like the idea of the Red Army getting a pasting, especially at the hands of irregular forces.
But it’s not happening and it’s not going to happen, and all the western cash and hardware is just delaying the inevitable. Not to mention talking our way into a conflict that we may have to shoot our way out of.
I’m not cheering either. I am wondering why the fuck we’re not doing whatever we can to end this stupidity.
Because we don’t actually give a fuck about Ukraine and our leadership is infested with psychopaths who think they can and should bring down Russia even if it risks all of us.
Lvov was always Polish.
Bring back the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth!
They still were about 15% Polish speakers when I was there in ’03.
Why don’t I believe all the stories the local newspaper runs about how Downtown Minneapolis is coming back? Because there was a huge water leak for several hours in the largest sky scraper in the state and no one noticed.
If workers were back in the downtown office cube farms, you wouldn’t be able to close off 25 floors of the most expensive real estate in town. It is also funny that one of the offices most affected was a legal office containing the #1 ambulance chasers in town. I’m sure they won’t get any money out of Minneapolis for this.
“The water expansion tank in the building’s chiller room overflowed Tuesday following the replacement of a water meter by the city of Minneapolis, according to a statement put out by the building’s owner, Accesso. That affected the building’s electric equipment.”
You dun goofed.
Sounds like they should send the bill to the city, because the city workers done fucked up and forgot to turn a valve back on.
The nature of the offenses aside, I hate this appeal. ‘oh, I’m old, and have a disease so you can’t enforce the law against me’. Fuck that.
Talk about your ongoing threat to Society. Perfect suicide bomber. Nothing left to lose.
In further Russia is totally whipping the whole world’s ass and has already conquered news…
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-13
Here’s where the the interpretations of the data start to vary wildly.
Pro Ukraine Woke Western media: “Russians scraping bottom of barrel for sufficient militia troops to continue war.”
Pro Russia Media & bloggers like Andrei Martyanov: “Russia winning war while using very small percentage of their regular army” (at least since the initial campaign)
Imagine the US using National Guard troops to fight in and occupy a foreign count… oh.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/USAR.OneWeekendMyAss.jpg
Seeking oldsters is not the action of a winner.
When Bill Clinton had to go beg idiot Reservists like me to volunteer for Bosnia, I should have figured out we were not in a great place, readiness and manpowerwise.
“Last weekend, anonymous 4chan users claimed to have cracked the password of Hunter Biden’s iCloud account and leaked data from his iPhone and iPad to the site. In addition to disturbing videos and chats that have since been leaked, it was revealed that Hunter Biden had tagged someone in his contact list with the name “Pedo Peter.”
At the time, it was not clear who “Pedo Peter” was, but that question has now been answered. Breitbart News has learned that Pedo Peter is the name assigned to his 17-year-old niece, Natalie Biden—the daughter of his late brother Beau, and of Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow, with whom Hunter had a romantic relationship after Beau’s passing….
This new development raises all sorts of questions. Why was 17-year-old Natalie listed as “Pedo Peter” on the iCloud account? Hunter Biden had a two-year relationship with Hallie, and likely spent a significant amount of time with her kids. There are several photos that have been shared on Twitter, reportedly from Hunter Biden’s iPad, of Natalie Biden allegedly taking drugs, sleeping in Hunter’s bed, and even being really inappropriate on a couch. I won’t share them here, but they’re out there. As I said, I have some serious questions.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/07/14/we-now-know-who-pedo-peter-on-hunter-bidens-ipad-is-and-i-have-serious-questions-n1612848
I’m sure CNN will get right on this.
4chan, Weaponized autism at work.
Yup.
Why am I not fascinated by the tawdry peccadilloes of others?
Obviously I am a flawed human being.
As I say of another venue I inhabit, we are an island of misfit toys.
Sick of ’em?
Ahem: someone who is sick of hearing about peccadilloes might profess as much.
Can we all put a shot of brandy in our morning coffee? In honor of the poor Amazon workers who are busting their humps to get all that stupid shit we bought our to our houses?
Before we decide we really didn’t want it and cancel those dumb orders.
How is this good for the US?
Well it’s good for those who want to get us into a war with China.
Who wants that? Seriously.
What is the end game here? I can’t imagine anything worse than a shooting war with Russia and/or China.
Here’s some, but they’d probably be satisfied with just a hot war with Russia for the time being.
https://www.mccaininstitute.org/
Farkas was on record supporting a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Russia wouldn’t dare escalate in response.
To some extent I would rather be prepared for war, with many allies, than have the Chinese pick off their neighbors one by one, before coming for us.
It is funny to hear the aussies crying. Half of them just want to be China’s bitch I guess.
Looks like somebody is trying to set up a shooting war with Russia AND China.
After the Kung Flu was foisted on humanity – whether as an accidental release that they let go global to make sure everyone suffered, or by design, to kill boomers as China faces demographic collapse because of aging population – and people no longer could turn a blind eye to the CCP’s agenda, even the most rabid globalist has realized that the CCP can’t be trusted. It’s not so much that they want to get into a war with China, as that they have realized their actions have made that conflict inevitable unless the world simply accepts a new colonial order with China making all the decisions (in the CCP’s favor). Anyone that thinks we can just stay isolated and avoid that shitshow will be in for a rude awakening.
It might actually allow the US to get paid by Australia for what they are already doing?……Sorry I crack my self up.
All the way with Joe & K!
A rare musical ray of sunshine!
Ted’S has hacked His Holiness’s account! 😨
The ATM at the bank in front of Fred Meyer ate my card yesterday. I guess I had better go see if I can get it back.
At least I got the cash, since I only had about thirteen bucks.
Aw, geez.
This is fucked up.
It’s not all inclusive, but still depressing.
*hands Sensei an SSRI*
I wonder what the per capita rate of self medication plus prescribed medication is. In other words, what percentage of the population doesn’t drink, do recreational drugs, or take psychiatric medication?
Are the mormons and the amish the only sober people in our country?
Mormons, Amish and recovering addicts, maybe.
I think very few people anywhere don’t self medicate. Especially now.
[[[We]]] self-medicate with sugar.
So Amish, then.
Amish folk will make wine out of anything. Dandelion wine is one of their favorites.
They just don’t drink to excess.
Not all of us squares are Mormon. 😉
My 13 y/o’s recommendation for Glibs. “The people on that site you go to will like this”
I’ll admit it’s mesmerizing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yep-z6zd44
Hey, I like Sekai No Owari…
The name is timely that’s for sure.
True that.
Techno / dance music seems to work well even when you don’t know the language.
Wtf is that?
Spoof of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OZDgBmehbA
What did I just watch?
All the kids are making spoofs of that song. It’s a big hit which means I’ll hear it constantly for the next half year.
Thanks, that was as bad as a Te’dS link.
DA FUQ DID I JUST WATCH?
And nobody said me so Orney…
“13 year old” and “mesmerizing” — I expected the Carl’s Jr. ad that spawned MS’s animated gif…
So Volokh has a pair of ’20 election pieces if anyone is interested.
I’ll say this – the fact that Navarro was a source for the argument on fraud is an argument against it. The man is a total nutcase with zero credibility (right to the point of I wouldn’t believe the sun rises in the east if he said it and I had no other evidence). Also, Trump played the same game in ’16 – arguing that if he lost it was because the election was rigged. I think even without any of the pettifoggery (and there was), Biden would legitimately win because there were just that many people sick of Trump.
My lying eyes and the Mythical Fulton County Water Leak (amongst other odd “shutdown in the middle of the night, kick out the ‘observers’ and spring into action!” in other states) is enough to convince me that there was at least a very high likelihood of fraud, no other arguments needed. That crap should never, ever happen and that the same assholes who have been lying to us about everything else try to smooth it over doesn’t convince me that “It was nothing, really!”, sorry.
I’ll grant you there was shit that absolutely should not happen – including what the PA Supreme Court did (which I don’t think the report covers).
I still think Biden could win, just because enough people were that fed up with Trump.
We voted n the Nevada primary in June. The machines were Dominion; all touchscreen, no paper ballot.
The next day it emerged that on some people’s on-screen ballot, the leading candidate for a certain office (county commissioner, I think) was missing from the choices!! All her opponents were listed, but not her.
She won anyway, but naturally the issue raised a lot of concerns about the machines and what other “glitches” could occur.
I must say, it was confusing at the end too; no clear “Submit ballot” or “Finalize” button.
The General election will be a mess.
IIRC, Missouri just passed a law that all ballots must be paper, and all absentee voting boxes were to be stationed at the voting precincts.
I can’t for the life of me figure out how and why there were two versions of the GOP ballot.
I have no confidence in Dominion.
We had paper ballot issues here in red-as-red-gets York County, PA. Our elections people are doing all they can to destroy our confidence in their competence.
I keep thinking I’m going to volunteer as an election helper/monitor, but I haven’t taken any steps toward it yet.
Dominion / touchscreen in CA gubernatorial recall. Maybe I should just de-register.
Worth mentioning again that the US judges other countries’ election integrity with a checklist of items every one of which the US broke in 2020.
Yep. I would like to see a relatively unbiased write-up of this. It seems you can’t read anything questioning the perfection of the US election of 2020 (and 2016) without the author stuffing something in there that’s guaranteed to piss off one side or the other–and it almost seems intentional.
We’ll never know who would have won an honest election, which I don’t think anyone can say we had. We do know that major audits in several states showed many, many ballots that were counted illegally or couldn’t be validate – multiples of Biden’s margin of victory in those states. The problem ballots mostly seem to show up in jurisdictions controlled by Dems and/or overseen by a Dem (and in some cases a Soros) Secretary of State, who in some cases have been confirmed to act illegally. It would have been close either way, but if I had to be, it would be that Trump would have won an honest election.