Biden: "Before I begin today, I want to say a word about the news that came out relative to the economy. I want to say a number. Zero. Today, we received news our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July. 0%." pic.twitter.com/wNfR8jRIQj
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 10, 2022
All it takes is like 5 seconds for Joe Biden to forget he shook Chuck Schumer’s hand.
Scary. pic.twitter.com/c4dNRRaDVO
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 9, 2022
Nothing says "American strength" quite like an elderly President who is so weak and confused that he can't even put his own jacket on. pic.twitter.com/8NeNlPTWI6
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 8, 2022
How to Befriend Crows and Turn Them Against Your Enemies
Why crows?
Unlike ducks, crows are intelligent, self-sufficient animals that don’t have to be outfitted with diapers. They solve problems and communicate with one another. They’re smart—maybe as smart as a seven year-old human child. They even seem to have rituals and something like a culture. But most importantly of all, crows can recognize human faces. They will come to recognize my face as that of their master. Behold my visage ravens, rooks, and blackbirds, and heed my mighty caw, for I am Stephen Johnson, Master of Crows.Is it legal to keep crows as pets?
It’s illegal in a lot of places to keep crows as pets. I’m planning to let the birds in my crow army live their own lives because I’m too lazy to take care of them, but if you’re planning on having an actual pet crow, you might have to hide it from the authorities, who often frown on the special love between a person and their crows.How to attract crows
The first step toward crow mastery is to gather your crows. These birds want a safe, quiet place to do crow stuff, and that could be your yard, especially if you live in a city or suburb. Crows who live around people are less likely to be spooked by you—rural crows are far more suspicious.You may have to make some modifications to your yard. Crows are not going to hang out around known bird enemies like dogs and cats, so you’ll have to give your current pets away. It’s a sacrifice, but worth it. If you have any wind chimes or other noise sources, get rid of those too. Crows don’t want to be startled.
Crows like bushes and trees—places to hide and plot—so make sure your yard is verdant. Crows also like having water sources, so install a birdbath so they can clean themselves and their prey.
Lady Gaga Got Hit In The Head By Something While Performing, And This Needs To Stop
Does it?
Built To Spill
“You Were Right”
Keep It Like A Secret (1999)
You were wrong when you said
Everything’s gonna be alright
Yeah you were wrong when you said
Everything’s gonna be alright
You were right when you said
All that glitters isn’t gold
You were right when you said
All we are is dust in the wind
You were right when you said
We are all just bricks in the wall
And when you said
Manic depression’s a frustrating mess
You were wrong when you said
Everything’s gonna be alright
Yeah you were wrong when you said
Everything’s gonna be alright
You were wrong when you said
Everything’s gonna be alright
You were right when you said
You can’t always get what you want
You were right when you said
It’s a hard rain’s gonna fall
You were right when you said
We’re still running against the wind
Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone
You were right when you said
This is the end
Do you have to think about it?
That handshake vid, holy shit.
He didn’t hand me a pudding cup.
It’s really going to become problematic when he can’t read more than one sentence at a time off the teleprompter.
I think SF ordered them from bad to worst. The jacket and sunglasses drop is incredibly pathetic.
No you see Scruffy, he was pointing with his hand to tell Chuck where to go next. You MAGA people just cannot accept that Joe is the greatest ever.
No wonder he keeps getting COVID, with all that double hand shaking.
I like crows. My wife hates them.
We’ll eventually divorce or murder/suicide over it, I’m sure.
Must be a Philly thing.
Just don’t dress up as The Crow cause you wanna look hot and hook up. It’s lame!
Burn…..
*recalls every Halloween party I attended during the mid to late 90’s*
Indeed.
*hides black hotpants and eyeliner*
One crow is an attempted murder.
Yup… that was my immediate reaction basically. SF is advocating adopting murder(s)… never thought I’d see the day.
murder
Do you really need more than one crow?
No one needs more than one crow./Bernie Sanders
The good part if you win, is that there will be crows around to clean up the mess.
Thousands of crows make my town there winter home every year, It’s neat watchin the huge flocks flying around, until they decide to roost for the night in the trees over your house/driveway. talk about a literal shit show. Bottle rockets will scare them off, but you have to time it just right, too early and they will scatter but come back later, too late and they won’t go anywhere.
I had a pet crow as a kid. That bird was very smart and a total character. He would play tricks on my mother by stealing the beans she was picking or pulling out her clothespins. Which also almost got him killed. He would sneak sips from my parents’ Manhattans then stagger around making the funniest cooing sounds. He also could say a few words and could follow commands. Loved that bird. He did however have the annoying habit of showing up and land on me when i was hunting and stalking a rabbit or squirrel
… And This Needs To Stop
Tom Jones hardest hit.
I was hoping GaGa would be harder hit, but you do you.
How to Befriend Crows and Turn Them Against Your Enemies
Sounds like a bad omen.
I love the Magpies we have here. I would consider raising an army of them.
You know what else I love? SF music Wednesdays.
What a great song/album/band!
I want an army of cats, air force of mockingbirds, and navy of otters.
Pretty much all but forgotten, which borders on criminal.
And Kevin Smith (or the studio) kinda screwed them: “Big Dipper” from There’s Nothing Wrong With Love (1993) was used very prominently in a deleted scene in Mallrats, which would have been a big boost to their career.
It does boggle the mind given how much bizarre stuff was left in Clerks and Mallrats that there were any deleted scenes. Besides the One True Ending that would have prevented Clerks 2, of course. Given how much Kevin seems to want to go back to the old turnip for blood of course — it probably wouldn’t have stopped him anyway.
Probably depends. I’m somewhat irritated that Clerks 3 is coming out before Mallrats 2.
Why Kevin Smith Wouldn’t Make Clerks Today
Well, besides the getting picked up or distribution problems, can you imagine the film getting made today? Main character actually comes into work on his day off instead of quitting in a huff and posting it to reddit, his ex-girlfriend fucks a dead guy in the john, his current girlfriend has made him Number 37.
Then there’s Randall’s “snap out of it” rant:
“You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulders. Like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn’t here. Jesus, you overcompensate for having what’s basically a monkey’s job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You… You’re so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante! And badly, I might add!”
Any Gen-Z type working an entry-level job who heard that and had a moment’s self-reflection would immediately be unable to even. Instant righteous indignation mode.
One word:
Schnazi.
Bummer. Those scenes can really propel a band. See: Plimsouls in Valley Girl or the Rave Ups in 16 Candles and Pretty in Pink.
Probably my favorite.
I know what I’ll be listening to for the rest of the day.
Damn, I did not know that.
At least he picked a great tune. Zach Braff made The Shins famous off the back of the most boring song James Mercer ever wrote. But Built to Spill had at least a couple gold albums and were one of the few “indie” bands to get a major label deal with Warner right out the gate, so they still did OK. From what I understand Doug lives modestly but comfortably in Boise still after all these years and was part-time hosting a sports talk radio show.
At least he got out of Twin Falls.
I lived in Boise when I was three. I sometimes wonder how dramatically different my life would have turned out if my mom didn’t get us out of Boise, Idaho.
Here you go: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G3tklu9Kzns
Lovely. Thank you!
Relevant
Yup. Just love them.
My favorite, from the previous album.
Man, their first handful of albums were fucking solid.
Yeah, just one amazing record after another. Kind of petered out toward the end, though.
There Is No Enemy was nearly as good as anything they’ve ever done, IMO. They should have stopped there, it would have made a good swan song. Untethered Moon… well, at least it wasn’t as bad as Modest Mouse’s offering that same year. Talk about falling off.
I’ll give that one another chance.
My music player reports that I have “loved” one track, “Hindsight”. But I don’t recall it and I haven’t listened to that album in ages.
Not sure I’ve ever listened to Untethered Moon, even though it is sitting there in my library.
Yeah, I have it saved, but I can’t recall ever listening to it!
I’ll fix that.
Thanks, Pat!
Planting Seeds might be the album highlight for me. Good Ol’ Boredom has a special place in my heart just because the lyrics were a good fit for that period of my life (and this one, actually, for that matter). Oh Yeah is a bit of a throwback to the more prog-ish bits of Perfect From Now On.
I came to express my appreciation as well, although that’s my least favorite song on that album (which isn’t to say it’s bad, just the shortest giant). I was extremely fortunate just a few months before I left Spokane to get to see them play a show at the Bing Crosby theater in which they really gave it up for the old-school fans. They played no songs newer than 1999.
Temporarily Blind may be my favorite on that album. Scratch that. Carry the Zero.
(I’m sampling as I type.)
Hard to pick a favorite, it’s such a good album from front to back. Broken Chairs is probably my favorite, but Else and Time Trap are hot on its heels.
I love Broken Chairs too.
FWIW, Keep it Like a Secret was always my favorite album overall but yeah, it’s splitting hairs.
Same, although I also have an irrational soft spot for Ancient Melodies of the Future, as a chance hearing of Strange from that album is what first sparked my interest in Built to Spill. I seem to be the only Built to Spill fan that doesn’t loathe that album.
There are some killer tracks on that album.
Alarmed and The Weather come to mind.
I started to lose faith with You In Reverse despite the absolutely stellar opening track.
Alarmed is my favorite track from that album by a pretty good margin, and The Weather was a perfect closer. I also love Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss, as silly as it is.
How the hell do you choose?
The Plan and Center of the Universe are also spectacular!
I just listened to There’s Nothing Wrong With Love while I lifted. The Hidden Track still cracks me up!
Some of the joke tunes are better than real pop music. I’d love to hear one or two of them fleshed out, if only for more laughs.
Eh, SF choices usually ring true with me, but, sorry, bts is just a Pavement ripoff to me.
summer babe (winter version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLGA_bvfqh4
To be fair, a lot of ’90s to mid aughts “indie” rock pretty much all sounds alike. You could just as easily say Pavement sounds like a Dinosaur Jr. ripoff.
Totally disagree with both of you,
90’s Matador and Sub Pop stables were amazing. With the exception of the big name acts, there was some amazing stuff. No way Pavement, Yo La Tengo, BtS, Sleater Kinney, GBV or Dino Jr. sound anything alike!
Do you guys have onions on your belts?
Eh, there’s enough similarity that they’ve been bunched together into a loose genre category. Let’s face it, nobody’s exactly writing symphonies here, we’re talking about a signature guitar tone, lyricism, and vocalists as the main points of distinction. However, I will freely admit that I’ve never heard a singer quite like Doug Martsch. His plaintive nasal delivery should be off-putting but isn’t. The contrast of he and Calvin Johnson trading verses with The Halo Benders is aural ambrosia.
We don’t have crows in Alaska (at least not hereabouts), only ravens. I like ravens better, even though they are really just crows with better marketing. Crows have too much of a well-deserved reputation as nest-robbers; back in Allamakee County the Old Man always shot every crow he could lay gunsights on, which wasn’t many. They’re canny birds.
But I still like ravens better. Also, the raven is Mrs. Animal’s totem and helper bird. There’s a long story behind that. One day I’ll tell it.
If it involves her seeking sweet nepenthe from the memory of the maiden the angels call Lenore, I think we’ve heard it.
Look, he doesn’t say the N-word.
Best not to piss of crows and ravens, they’re psychopomps.
“Nice little soul you got there, would be a shame if it got lost on the way to the afterlife.”
Poor Christopher Moltisanti…
Crow season starts at the beginning of September here in Minnesoda. It is a nice way to get your wing shooting eye tuned up to go shoot a few of those hoodlums.
They are super smart. You can call in dumb young ones once – maybe twice – but they learn very fast to be wary.
At our house, if myself or the Altar Boys step out on the deck the crows will abandon the tree they like to sit in and caw at each other in the morning because we have plunked a few with a pellet gun. My wife and daughter can walk all over the back yard and they are ignored by the crows.
Today, we received news our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July. 0%
Reminds me of bad project managers extrapolating bug trends based on a brief drop in numbers.
So still about 10% since last July, right Joe? Is that what you are bragging about?
I’ve been too busy to pay much attention to the news (except for here) but is that even true?
Doesn’t seem like it. Noted MAGA MSM CNBC says it was 8.5% in July.
Did Brandon offer any proof of this?
As I said in the earlier thread, 0% over the past month; 8.5% over the past year.
At least, those are the *official* figures.
That is 0% increase WITH a 20% drop in gasoline costs. Not something they should be bragging about. Because they aren’t likely to get that same drop again.
The fluctuation in gasoline price has everything to do with EPA regs on summer gasoline blends. The oil price spike coincided with the switchover to summer gas. The switchover to winter gas is in October so there will probably be another 25-cent drop around then. Except that any entities that suspended gas taxes will reinstate them then so it may not be noticeable.
Remember that the summer gas blends are different in each urban area and are patented. So on top of the limited supplies when the summer gas switchover begins, you are also paying a royalty on every gallon.
*insert “the more you know” gif*
Joe vs Jacket-
Doktor Grandma is right there, and sees he’s struggling, but leaves him hanging for a while.
Nice.
“Zero inflation.”
Prices are back to where they were before you were elected?
Meanwhile, those two Marines(?) are desperately trying not to bust a gut laughing.
I got a different take on it. To me, they looked embarrassed. Hell, I would be.
Even the pilot is looking out the window like…take your time…we have money to burn.
I feel bad for those two. Locked up at the position of attention and serving as little more than decorations. Everything about Dementia Joe aside, the command in chief is struggling with his jacket in the wind. Help him get it on, then return to the statue.
Yeah, seemed like a dangerous moment for your career.
Remember that crow in It’s a Wonderful Life and other movies? Well, he was a raven, and has his own IMDB page…
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1827306/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Gadzooks!
The Biden administration has promised to make a decision on student loan forgiveness within weeks, or even days. And yet, college affordability will remain an issue for years to come, experts say.
Increasingly, high school students are rethinking the value of a four-year degree. Many now say it’s just not worth the sky-high cost.
“More and more people are asking ‘is college even worth it?’” said Jason Wingard, the president of Temple University and author of “The College Devaluation Crisis.”
Where’s Nelson Muntz when you need him?
All I can say to that is, “it’s about fucking time”.
Yeah, there’s a reason why a relatively fixed percentage of the population got a college education for hundreds of years. Because you don’t need to have written 50 cobbled-together-from-wikipedia essays on lesbian Nazi hookers abducted by UFOs and forced into weight loss programs to answer phones, type reports, brew coffee, flip burgers, shovel horse shit, drive a truck, or pour a foundation. I honestly learned little if anything in college I couldn’t have learned in a year or two of self-study without the interdisciplinary fluff courses. There’s no reason business or IT schools should even be in the university. They’re much more like trades than, say, philosophy or physics.
And what a groundbreaking analysis, too. So giving idiotic 17 year olds subsidized loans to study subjects with no practical application and then forgiving the debt makes it more expensive to attend college? How strange and counterintuitive…
I wonder what the 87000 new irs agents will be looking at. The sudden income people get with loan forgiveness?
Wife and I were in Ketchikan, Alaska a few years back…
Bosslady: Lookit the size of that crow!
Me: That’s not a crow, that’s a raven.
Boss: ??!
Me: Birds have long feathers on their tails called pinions. Crows have three pinion feathers, ravens have four. So when you see a large black bird, whether it’s a crow or a raven is… (slips on sunglasses) a matter of a pinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kpb8eu1pEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47jWLMiY
Somebody pissed Swissy off.
It was probably just a Stray thought on his part.
Catbutting for puns seems way excessive.
inflation
Biden’s America.
That was not me!
Well, shoot. Now I’m curious. To paraphrase our noble spud, I always thought cat bottoms were for more egregious violations of decorum than (admittedly horrific) puns.
Eh, I’ll live.
A one-eyed narrowed gaze
Oh bravO!
Ooh, the coveted cat butt award! Congratulations.
I turned Swiss into a wild-eyed, raven lunatic.
No need to crow about it.
At least one of us is a sock.
No need to crow about it.
No need to crow about it.
No need to crow about it.
Alright, I think y’all got your murder here.
If we had fifteen more we’d have…
(Puts on sunglasses)
Corvid-19.
I died.
That’s a pretty Poe pun.
No, but you definitely deserve…
*narrows gaze*
I appreciate the artists who weave a story and create a vivid landscape within which their puns can live and frolic, prosper even. It shows a dedication and love of craft that is missing in the cheep one off puns.
That. Was. Beautiful.
He deserves to be put on a rack for that pinion pun.
Thanks for steering these puns in a different direction, but at this point what differential does it make?
DFW meet up, this evening in Grapevine. 530pm. Details in the forum.
I *thought* I heard something going through there.
Just posted this on deadthread, moving here:
So, when I changed jobs last summer, I rolled my 401-k from old company into an IRA. There was a $25 withdrawal fee. Okay, whatever.
In December, unbeknownst to me, the company added more money to my 401-k. I think it was one of those bonuses that legally have to go in proportion to how much you made during the year, so they had to deposit it into my account. I found out about it a few weeks ago. Just did the transfer…another $25 fee. Sigh.
If they had told me this was coming, I could have just waited and rolled it all at once. Every year the bonus was structured different. Cash bonus first year, stock bonus second year, I guess 401K bonus last year.
That company was a total CF, glad I am out of there.
A smallish investment firm owns 25% of the company now. They are trying to clean house in the boardroom. Probably will save the company if they succeed.
Mine only charged a fee if you wanted an electronic transfer of funds. I opted for the slow check option. I took a week instead of a day.
This was for the slow check option.
Any idea how common that is, rob? As in, the company you left paying out their 401k match even if you leave mid year (ours is paid in one lump at year end)? I may be changing jobs in the near future, and although missing out on the match wouldn’t be enough to prevent me from leaving, I’d still be missing out on a decent chunk of change.
She’s getting angry again
“Quick! Shovel another $800 billion to our cronies! That’ll calm her down!”
“Higher education — for the first time — has to pivot in order to be relevant.”
NEEDZ MOAR INCLUSIVITY
(By which we mean vilifying western culture.)
Want to be more relevant? Start actually providing education, wisdom, skills, etc.
“I’ve worked in the private sector — they expect results!”
I mean, you’re asking them to actually provide value for what they charge. What kind of strange concept is that?
The video of Biden trying to put on a jacket while standing in the downdraft of a helicopter is not exactly a “gotcha” to me. I could see that happening to anyone. Plenty of other stuff to prove the point, but this one is like all those videos posted of Trump stumbling and the left claiming he was mentally unfit because of it. It makes either side look stupid when they cling to stuff that can happen to any regular person.
Ever see someone trying to get away from a bee? That shit’s hysterical, but if anyone caught any president doing that on camera it’d be IRREFUTABLE PROOF they’re unfit for office.
I agree.
But add to it the sunglasses drop and the “where do I walk?” look and it doesn’t help.
Maybe I’m suffering from dementia too but I’ve done that exact same thing. Flailing about for my jacket and had my sunglasses fall down because I forgot they were on my head.
Maybe I’m just sick of everyone doing this “gotcha” game in the age of perpetual surveillance. People pouncing on every little flaw in each other as if they’ve never tripped on a bump in the sidewalk.
Ok, but this guy, the thing’s he’s done… If that was a video of my beloved brother I’d laugh my ass off at him and joke about it for years, as he would to me.
But this guy, Biden, who participates in stealing my money and laundering it to in part fund the crackhead whoring lifestyle of his own kids? Fuck him. He deserves derision at every misstep.
My anger and antipathy is more directed to his handlers. They must know he’s not well but they keep trotting him out there because of their own need for power.
As I said the other day, he’s surrounded by horrible people because he is a horrible person. He’s now reaping the seeds he sowed. Fuck. Him.
I don’t know… I get what you’re saying, but it definitely has a “confused grandpa with dementia” vibe.
I haven’t seen any video in the last year where he didn’t have that “confused grandpa with dementia” vibe.
Good point.
I still think he does have dementia, but I just don’t see it in this video specifically.
Well, having lost several people to that horrible condition, I’m going to strongly disagree with you. His mannerisms, especially the confusion, are classic. I promise you that when you are having trouble with your glasses and jacket, you look nothing like that.
He’s late stage. This is some sick shit.
His gait is always messed up now too.
Yup. The fragile shuffle.
Yep. And we aren’t talking about our dad or grandpa, here. This sick old man has nominal control of nukes.
I thought General Tub’Olard said he had control of them…. or was that just Trump.
I agree. There are certainly better videos out there. I’m fond of this oldie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknWsvZ3Gp4
I agree with mustang. Don’t let the corrupt bastard get away with a dementia defense.
And they WILL play that card eventually.
Something I had not considered about the under-reporting of COVID that doesn’t play into the state’s narrative.
When the even more transmissible omicron variant BA.1 hit from December through February, the rate fell to 0.34%. The most recent data with the omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 from June and July show a rate of 0.38%.
That’s still about three times deadlier than the official flu rates for recent pre-COVID seasons. But Lemp noted that many people use rapid at-home antigen test kits and don’t report the results, so experts estimate true case numbers likely are two to four times higher.
That would conservatively put the death rates from the current omicron BA.5 variant around 0.19%, a more flu-like level, he said. Though death rates are progressively higher with age, they have declined in all age groups.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/10/is-covid-losing-its-fangs-and-becoming-more-like-the-flu/
Now split it out by vaccination status
I bet it’s even lower than 2-4x. Most people with flu aren’t reporting it either nor were they getting self tests. I’d bet that more people with influenza are taking COVID tests (and getting negative results) than getting tested for actual influenza.
Lisa Murkowski and ranked choice voting
Project Veritas Action released a new video today exposing two paid staff members for Senator Lisa Murkowski’s re-election campaign in Alaska.
In the video, Josiah Nash, who works as the campaign’s Interior Coordinator, is recorded admitting that while Sen. Murkowski was publicly neutral, she secretly supported the implementation of a ranked voting system in Alaska because that is her route to victory.
“She stayed quiet and honestly it was probably best she stayed quiet on that,” Nash said, adding that “she supports it, yeah.”
“You’re not going to see the campaign come out and necessarily support progressive things. I mean, behind closed doors we’ll have talks…” Nash continued. “We’re being strategic with our messaging. Walking a fine line, I guess is what I’m saying, to try to get her elected,” he said.
I don’t criticize people for doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
So, yah! Way to go!
Nothing helps libertarians more than ranked choice. It ends the stupid “waste your vote” argument immediately.
It also saves money in those states that have run-off voting. Anyone else think GA election results would have been different with ranked choice instead of run-offs in 2020?
Libertarians need to run better candidates and target winnable offices. Like what a group Spike Cohen is associated with is doing. What the FSP is doing. They don’t need Ranked Choice Voting.
Ranked Choice Voting in Maine helped Progressives and Democrats at the expense of everyone else.
This. KSuel will tell you the horrors of Rank choice, as that is what leads to Boudin. People will select, as their second choice, a more radical candidate. If that area is liberal, you get far-left candidates. If it is conservative, you will get far right. Libertarians need to make their own stories and push other candidates to be for freedom.
In practicality it makes little if any difference because of the way districts are drawn. The top 10 candidates in a 70% blue district are all going to be flavors of blue, the top 10 candidates in a 70% red district are all going to be flavors of red.
I already do ranked choice voting.
I give 1 point to the asshole I hold my nose and vote for, and zero points for all the other no-way-in-hell candidates
I would hate to have to rank a no -way-in-hell candidate any higher than that.
Conversation in the car with my dad:
Dad: “I was talking to my leftist friend and he asked ‘don’t you care about humanity?’
Me & Dad simultaneously: “Nope!”
I care about humanity enough to fight the climate change agenda.
There are over 8 billion people on this planet. Most of them are assholes. It’s ok to not love everyone. Hell, everyone should be encouraged to be picky.
That’s discrimination, dude.
NOT COOL
“Love of humanity” has caused literally hundreds of millions of deaths over the course of history
Would he consider adopting me?
“Father accuses water park of racism after it canceled birthday party for his teenage son when 500 of his friends turned up and left staff feeling ‘uncomfortable’
Chris Evans and his wife (left) confronted a Park employee (right) about the cancelation on Saturday. Evans signed a $2,000 contract to host 250 people, but officials said it failed to properly prepare and that it was uncomfortable with an alleged crowd of 500 people”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099431/Missouri-man-accuses-water-park-racism-abruptly-canceled-large-birthday-party-son.html
Math is racist.
Had a kid gotten hurt because the park couldn’t keep up, he would have sued too.
Dad’s an asshole
Say it with me…
Klaatu barada nikto?
Necktie
So say we all.
ooo eeee oooo ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang
That happened in my metro area.
Bad touch?
Today, bunch of assholes news.
“How college freshman was shoved overboard and onto propeller by his girlfriend who now faces jail along with four pals for concocting fake story about his death on Austin lake party boat in 2019”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099453/College-freshman-19-pushed-overboard-boat-lake-girlfriend-drowned.html
“Outrage as woke protestors storm LA City Council meeting banning homeless encampments within 500-feet of schools”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11098939/LA-City-Council-meeting-banning-homeless-encampments-500-feet-schools-erupts-chaos.html
DrugHobo Free Zone.insurrections everywhere
So much stupid in that second story, JFC.
Sure looked like a violent insurrection to me.
Im sure it will be reported as such.
Back in Cali there is Crow time.
Close to sunset they fly, first a trickle then an air armada all headed in the same direction. Cemetery? Parks or golf courses? We never knew
We had a rookery near our house when I was a young ‘un; we were suburban, but the rookery was in a classic two-acre wood about three klicks from where we lived. If you went to that area after dark, it was eerie.
raves? or is that only ravens?
No twitter misinformation label.
Numbers are an abstraction and time is a simulation, so we rate this one mostly true.
For all you hardcore Zoomsters, here is a link to the Glibs Humpday AutoZoom.
What’s an AutoZoom, you ask? Webdom has setup a self-starting Zoom meeting which will kick off at 19:55 Central, and automatically admit folks. Yes, even you.
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom. Der AutoZoom.
Combine AutoZoom and Autotune? It would make for interesting conversations.
Ummm…. I’m not getting the expected result.
19:55 Central
It’s a weeknight, why so late?
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Please forgive this issue, the parties responsible have not been flogged, as they may enjoy it.
i r smart reedr
SugarFree cries when someone else fucks up a link.
Email from colleague, at 5:30pm: “we need to have this done before 9am tomorrow”
Bitch it’s after 5
Uhhhh yeah… I’m gonna need you to go ahead and finish this tonight. That would be great…. Mmmmkay?
[takes Scruffy’s red Swingline stapler]
Okay, but that’s the last straw.
[looks for matches]
High-five.
Why do you even check your email after 5? I wish I had that kind of dedication.
Wait, no I don’t.
I work a split shift one week a month. I’m working 7:30-11:30am, and 5-10pm the whole week.
Thing is, the colleague that sent the request does not know we have a late shift person on call, so it’s still ridiculous.
Gah, that sounds awful.
It’s a fucking nightmare. Due to the incompetence and retardation of some of Biden’s appointees, I might add.
I missed my boss calling at exactly 5:00 yesterday. He ought to know better than that by now.
I actually start at the expected time, 8:00 (unlike him). I ain’t staying one second longer than I have to.
KK has embraced the RV lifestyle.
Before deadlines I get emails about things that have to be finished right now after midnight. Also, on Saturdays and Sundays.
We need this by COB today.
I can get it to you by noon the day after tomorrow.
I’ve actually had that conversation.
Did you see the memo about filing your tps reports?
Uffda. Minnesoda Nice ain’t what it used to be.
Of course, you can’t have cops show up in force and arrest all the street racers. You just have to put up big concrete blocks in the road with nice messages on them.
They are lost. They don’t understand what has happened and still think it’s 1990.
Pretty sad, actually.
More sad news from Minnesoda
Why would you allow kids to come to your day camp if you can’t shoot arrows at the little snots? And to put this heroic camp counselor on trial? Talk about blaming the victim!
Yikes. She’s fucked.
Good. WTF?
You don’t think the “he could have moved” defense will work in a court of law?
Its a bold strategy, Cotton
William Tell breathes a sigh of relief for the statute of limitations.
So WTF are they going to do with those stickers in January? Even in MN, January is not “patio season”
Needs less motivational messages and more Gods of the Copybook Headings
Minnesoda Nice was always a myth.
Myth! Myth!
Thank goodness.
This was in the sidebar:
Kermit hosts the Tonight Show.
Check out the Mercury Capri ad! We were freer in 1979, but man did a lot of the cars suck!
Lol. And the Chevron ad at 6:50.
We’ve gone fucking backwards!
Who’s voice is doing the Chevron commercial? I wanna say Casey Kasem.
Today’s silly SJW Outrages is… Minnesoda Sioux really mad that sheriff didn’t give them skull found on a river bank until after carbon dating said it was 8000 years old.
Not so sure about the “obviously” claim made in the lede. The Sioux lived around Lake Superior and northern Wisconsin before 1700. They were pushed out of there by the Ojibwe after that and moved into the rest of the state.
Oh fuck off, it’s a a skull fragment of someone who has been dead 4 times longer than Jesus Christ, not your fucking grandmother.
Pat wins.
“We have always been here, despite all the proof that we’re recent arrivals. The only people who moved us where the white devils. No, you can’t do DNA testing that might prove otherwise, bigot!”
“Social media posts by the judge who signed off on the Trump FBI warrant.”
https://twitter.com/Breck_Worsham/status/1557413189511712768
Totes non-partisan.
He’s a fan of Robert Reich…
That’s justification for psychological evaluation right there.
The part about the FBI insisting that all the surveillance cameras be shut off is very suspicious.
“Wow @EliErlick is sending drugs to children across the country without prescriptions, parental consent, or any legal authority whatsoever. This is a crime on several different levels.”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1555656973772853248
That’s dangerously insane.
Has anyone ever noticed the less passing a trans person is the crazier they are?
We sure as hell better hear about this person getting arrested. That’s nuts. And banned from social media.
A boy can dream…
https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1556344579661742081
I’m convinced that’s human meat.
“Imma get me a beer!”
Such a staged picture. Why do uppity folks pretend to be normal.
Political consultants
The real questions are why she is holding the spatula like an autistic child and wearing white while supposedly grilling.
Incompetent consultants?
Right. At least throw on a grill apron. For extra effect, make it a Yankees apron.
white with creases from the packaging, besides. and the grill burgers are cooked (maybe frozen?) while the one on her lizard-claw spatula is raw. The background is also in awfully sharp focus, which makes it feel faker even if it’s actually real.
amazing how both her and Whitmer went to the same skinsuit factory, though.
lol
Yeah, the whole thing is so ridiculous. How do they not see it?
First reply got me:
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/08/august-full-moon-may-be-another-big-bright-supermoon-heres-when-to-see-it.html
Sturgeon moon.
I’m waiting for the Beaver Moon. The Amtrak Moon was last month.
Prety sure “Beaver Moon” is the ndn broad with a OnlyFans.
No good deed goes unpunished. Monday night I went to Mass. Tuesday morning woke up stopped-up with a scratchy throat.
Didnt feel the best last night, but since I was ambulatory, went into work.
Came home this morning and collapsed with my throat ablaze like Id gargled bleach, and a 101.5º fever.
2 covid tests from yesterday were (-).
The ‘vid is smart. It is learning how to avoid detection to get by defenses.
Monkeypox!!!!!!!!
A lil something for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdje6vlVXuA
I would turn her taint into a t’isnt.
Which one was your good deed?
Showing up.
That’s not a fever. It’s THE FLAMES OF HELL for daring to set foot in church. 😉
Hope you feel betterquickerfaster!
I hadnt been in THAT church in likely 30 years. You should visit- dope af
East side, eh? Never seen that one. I’m afraid the whole building might burst into flames if I set foot inside! 😳🔥
Being used to OUR neighborhood, driving home from the church Monday night down E. 3rd showed me the dichotomy of our Gem City.
Have you driven the God-forsaken Santa Clara stretch of North Main any time lately?
Oh just the other night. I always sigh when I see the building on the corner that used to be Upper Crust.
And the one just down that I always thought of as our version of the Flatiron Building.
Yeah – Upper Crust had great sammiches, but that’s where I began to learn that I can’t eat pastrami. (Not their fault.)
As soon as I pass that, I figure it’s safe to get in the right lane in preparation for getting on SB 75. And sometimes I get stuck behind a daggone RTA bus. 😒
I just got up to get another b̶e̶e̶r̶ hydration-cylinder and bitched to Jugsy how I ache all over.
She said “maybe you have the flu”
I replied, “Now there is a word I havent heard used in a while.”
When will dudes learn?
The hot/crazy matrix was developed for you stupid fuckers.
What if…. he’s the crazy one?
See? This is why the hot/crazy matrix fails.
Never
“An OnlyFans influencer”
“influencer”
I had 3 apples on my trees this year, first ones ever. Today I was looking, found 1 on the ground, the other 2 missing. Only critters around are ravens. They are hear every day, waiting for the garbage to come out. They absolutely clean up every morsel, even the green on the watermelon rinds, leave the outer skin.
Biden has his doctor always by his side, she should be ashamed for letting him go out. I have some of the similar problems (occasionally the coat, etc) but it’s because I’m uncoordinated rather than demented. Biden likes to shake hands, makes him feel wanted and liked. He’s wrong, people kiss up to him because he’s the prez.
The bees took the apples just to fuck with your head.
When do they start throwing rotten fruit at him and how can I participate?
https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1557190912517672961
Sounds like mostly claps & cheers to me.
I heard a mix and saw some thumbs down. The claps and cheers drowned out the boos later in the video. I wonder what a camera in a different area would pick up.
Just came here to day, I know I was not a nice person around here many times. Please forgive me for that.
To say
Is your real name Earl?
(Am I still the worst?)
I am probably the worst of all time, but I won’t say it, I’m not proud.
Get the fuck outta here!
whats a reverse-tulpa ?
Soon, I am sure, but not because I don’t love all of you.
Hold up now Hyp.
What’s going on? Are you ok?
Yeah. What is going on?
He’s had too much hipster juice.
Just giving you hell, bud. What’s up?
Whoa. Is this Step 8?
Of course you would know that.
Welcome back.
For my part, I can’t really think of a time when you were not a nice person around here. Could be my slipshod record keeping or the fact that I’m often a twat myself. It’s why I give you guys breaks from me periodically.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TFIe8-a3Rvw
Your daily dose of Sanford and son.
Thanks. I loved that show.
It’s a bit I’ve been doing for a couple weeks.
“President Nixon’s not gonna run!”
“If he comes through Watts he will!”
This show is so fucking good.
Must be there version of ‘get off my lawn’
Florida Man And Woman Arrested Brutally Attacking Snorkeler Too Close To Their Waterfront
What if it had been Ursula Andress?
Just smack her around a little like Connery would.
In NJ from memory you do have certain property rights in the water surrounding your property.
So if somebody is hanging off your dock or casing your boat it is trespassing.
That doesn’t allow you to beat them however.
/their
/thar
OMG the mug shot! I’m ded.
https://www.foxla.com/sports/marshawn-lynch-arrested-for-dui-in-las-vegas-police-say
Wanna bet?
Looks like me when I’m reporting for work at 8am.
Hey folks, it’s been almost a year since I’ve posted. Been busy the last few months and kinda needed to take a break from online life, as I had become some one I didn’t like. I’ve been lurking the last few days and thought I’d drop in and say hey.
OMWC: my deepest condolences, I know she will be missed by all of us.
leon!
Welcome back!
Thanks. How are things up in the great white north?
Hah! You have been away!
I moved to Colorado a year ago I fucking love it, but miss my peeps back in the Land of Sky Blue Waters.
What’s new with you, brother?
Haha. Not much changed on my part. Work is the same but busy and interesting so I can’t ask for much more. Socially been working with the young men at my church which is a blast.
Socially been working with the young men at my church which is a blast.
Fondling the altar boys?
/ducking
Whats black & blue and doesnt want sex?
The kid locked in the rectory basement.
Excellent, leon!
What’s your read on the kids? I keep hearing how everything is so horrible, but I keep meeting kids that are pretty much awesome. Way, way, better than me and my boys at that age.
Pretty much like you say. The kids we have are much better than I was as a kid.
Hey.
Howdy! Started watching some psych again the other day. IIRC you enjoyed that show.
😃 correct.
*waves*
:waves back:
It’s been fun seeing the familiar faces again. Also fun to see who has changed avatars and not.
There’s been some WordPress related shenanigans with avatars recently. Keeps things interesting. Glad to see you back!
My avatar never changes.
Hello!
I’ve recently returned after a long hiatus as well. It’s been good to see a lot of old familiar names.
Yeah, sometimes you just need a break. Don’t know if I will be as active as I used to be, but wanted to say hey.
Hey!
I’ve been meaning to say “glad to see you back”. I took a hiatus a while back as well. Sometimes a person just needs to change things up a bit.
Danke schoen, it seems I missed a few others’ hiatuses during my own, but it’s good to see you back as well.
Welcome back
PSA:
Honey Harvest is coming soon! September 18 in beautiful Emily Minnesota!
I have the List, so if you want to be one of the elite, shoot me an email at minnetundra AT the gee mail fucks and I will make sure you get the updates.
I will be spamming threads until you comply.
Seriously, if you can, you should.
Fourscore’s compound is only rivaled by his family and friends. And you might learn a thing or two!
Fauci vents about Americans’ opposition to forced masking: ‘It’s almost inexplicable’
“No matter how hard I beat these oarsmen their fucking attitude never improves!”
I wish there was some way to hybridize COVID and AIDS and inject it directly into his blood stream.
He should hug men infected with monkeypox. It will also test a theory how monkeypox spreads.
We’re not vaccinated because we’re not morons. As too many people are.
Christ, what an asshole.
Only a booster? Do better, Fauci. Pfizer is counting on you.
Martin Kulldorff:
Not trying to start any sectarian violence, but I’d say that for many protestant denominations, the laity still understands more than the pastors.
leon comes in hot with the ZING!
Welcome back, leon.
😉 thanks ozzy
It wouldn’t hurt my feelings, incidentally, if the “laity” here in the U.S. started treating the “holy priests” of the CDC/NIH/FDA as pederasts and heretics, and trying to see if a few weighed the same as a duck.
And iff’n they din’t, well… same as witches.
I still struggle with the whole concept. Jesus came in and simplified the shit out of things and yet we are still outsourcing.
“Some hippy comes along telling everyone to be nice to each other for a change, and he gets nailed to a couple pieces of wood”
Speaking only from my own experience, I can think of exactly one pastor in the 17 years I spent attending church that wasn’t abjectly theologically illiterate. My youth pastors in particular were abysmal. The youth programs of our Arminian-leaning denominational church and a neighboring deeply-Calvinist denominational church attended a joint leadership retreat in the woods when I was 14-ish. Inevitably, predestination and TULIP came up as late night bunk debate points. Of the four pastors in attendance, two of ours and two of theirs, I believe our senior pastor beclowned himself the most thoroughly, but it wasn’t exactly an ecumenical council. I’m a 14 year old kid who’s simply read the Bible and visited a lot of websites having to explain basic issues in reform theology to a salaried pastor in his late 30s. And somehow I’m the only one embarrassed by it.
Well that does make Fauci the Pope. With the same claims of infallibility.
The priests are doing his bidding so comprehension isn’t as important as obeying.
Hence, the Reformation. Now that said the competing Protestants weren’t exactly besties.
We have Pay, Hyperion, and Leon!!! Huzzah!
Where’s limey???
A lot of people say, “What’s that?”
It’s Pay.
A much more frequent typo of my name is Oat. That one happened so often in an old Skype group I was part of that we created an entire character lore for Oat [last name redacted].
The last name was clearly McOatface
Oat Chex?
Oat [Brimley]
For the sake of clarity [last name redacted] because it’s my actual last name.
What fun is that?!
I thought it was 19:55h CENTRAL
Suthenboy?
I knew there was somebody I hadn’t seen since I returned.
Well in that case, you’re free to go.
Drug Suspect Caught In Act Assured Cops That, “Meth Is Legal Now”