Day 2 of The Great House Hunt. I’m trying to find one with a gila monster in the back yard that we can name Irving. So far, no success. Day 4 of struggling with this stupid MacBook. It appears to be winning. Fuck it, let’s dive right in.
First, the customary birthdays. Guy on the $100,000 bill and the only Treasury secretary named after a fish, Salmon P. Chase; bridge specialist and Nobel winner Wilhelm Wien; Airplane! star Robert Stack; brilliant guitarist and incredibly nice guy Joe Pass; master of gimmicks and props Rip Taylor; tall baldie Richard Moll; pencil-neck with one foot out the door Rod Rosenstein; and our best vice president and president ever, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
And now the news.
As we’ve been saying all along, the so-called shutdown is really a free vacation for largely useless tax leeches, since they’ll end up getting paid for the entire duration of not working. Which massively passed congress and which Trump has signed off on. And unsurprisingly, Thomas Massie and Justin Amash are right there in the tiny group of principled objectors.
Speaking of which, World’s Smallest Violin. Fuck off, slaver.
Fake News is fake news. This might be the most meta story I’ve ever seen.
All we need now is Robespierre and a few guillotines. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Castro wants to be our Leader. And be joined by his brother. What could possibly go wrong?
Christians say to Muslims, “Hold my beer!” And at least you know that the Muslims won’t drink any while they’re holding it.
Proof again that petty outrage can direct anywhere. I love the poster on the podium, so very stylistically reminiscent of Chavez, Castro, or Maduro.
Part of being presidential is getting Mazie Hirono, in competition for Dumbest Person in the Senate, to spew her usual stupidities. This is a sign that Tulsi Gabbard might actually be a viable candidate.
This one is for Spudalicious. I love when the phrases “…and then the Internet lost its mind” or “…and then Twitter lost its mind” are used because, well, that starts with an incorrect assumption.
This could certainly cause some flight delays.
There’s a STEVE SMITH joke in here somewhere.
I’m always amazed that bugnuttery seems to follow patterns.
Old Guy Music is really old today. I’ll confess to a fascination with Hieronymus Kapsberger, and this piece may explain why. It really sounds remarkably modern despite dating back to the early 1600s.
Never laugh when STEVE SMITH around
Castro wants to be our Leader. And be joined by his brother. What could possibly go wrong? – how many people are in? whats the count?
People? Zero. Politicians? Probably 12 or so.
His slogan is “One Nation. One Destiny.”
That sounds like a threat.
It sounded better in the original German.
Sure you don’t mean Russian?
Not “One Nation Under a Groove”?
“Take that, American economy!”
Followed by shock it slowed down.
There’s a STEVE SMITH joke in here somewhere. – there rarely is a STEVE SMITH joke but glibs find it anyway.
All we need now is Robespierre and a few guillotines. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. – England should invade and retake their lands
Send a bunch of football hooligans and chavs, they’ll take the land quick and nice and make it back home before tea-time.
like so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFwViOiAqY
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That was exactly 100% what I was going with. Good shit, my man.
Macron, often criticized for a monarchical manner, is to launch a national debate on Jan. 15 to try to mollify the yellow vest protest
Wait 6 days and Macron could share a date with Louis XVI.
Macron would sleep with Marie Antoinette.
“But aides to Macron have said changing the course of Macron’s reforms aimed at liberalizing the economy will be off limits.”
So, what’s the point of the debates?
The point is to have “a conversation”. Kinda like the conversation the Dems want to have with the NRA/supporters in the US.
“Our side talks, your side listens”…
i think i have a cough and low fever. this is bullshit I don’t get colds, other people do
Colds are no fun. I hope you feel better soon.
also the paracetamol is getting in the way of my drinking.
Yeah, don’t mix those.
Take a different medication that allows you to drink??
“Don’t mix with alcohol.” No problem. *Pours drink, chucks pills*
No, no, no. Don’t mix them.
Swallow the booze first then wash the pills down with something else.
There was a comic who used to do a bit that the warning labels on medication were actually advice.
Take lots of NAC.
Sorry to hear that. My wife has the flu – I feel for anybody who has to give up a few days to be like that.
I hope you get better soon.
thanks my fever is down i still cough so i hope it aint flue
Get well soon!
Robert Stack, Nazi.
I called this last Tuesday.
The Ouroboros is never finished eating.
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yes i remember a link from you stating the same
To be fair, leftist infighting is a relatively unknown phenomenon to most of these types.
I guess white women and Jews didn’t make the intersectionality cut. I believe trannys are out too.
British subtext: Half of Americans wouldn’t be able to tell that a Briton is calling them an idiot
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2019/01/11/half-americans-wouldnt-be-able-tell-british-person
I don’t understand Arabic, so I may indeed have a tough time telling whether a Briton is calling me an idiot.
with the greatest, respect I do not think there are that many Arabic speakers in England
Quite good
Most probably more Urdu speakers
Yep. Bangla, too.
I don’t listen to passive aggressive twats in any case.
No shyte. If somebody doesn’t have the balls to tell me what he really wants to say when I am there in front of him then I don’t have the interest to acknowledge it.
Yeah, if you can only talk in code and feel all smug about it, then you are the idiot. If you need more proof, look at their fucking spelling and the crazy names they give car parts.
When dealing with the passive aggressive, I find taking the words at face value and ignoring the subtext frustrates them greatly. So, that’s my approach.
when I run into people I see rarely it sometimes amuses me when they ask how are you doing and expect a “fine” to tell them details of how I am doing in that moment and see the don’t care expressions
So what I get from that article is to always tell Brits to fuck off because they’re all phony assholes who are not worth conversing with.
That seems a bit inland for you.
The mask is slipping. SEA SMITH is actually…. STEVE SMITH.
Algerians and Moroccans in Italy seemed to enjoy a drink or seven
buff wonder woman. would?
https://twitter.com/JessiSheron/status/1083917669613613057
Would I get hurt? Yes.
for Q
https://twitter.com/FourEcchiTasty/status/1083767917475479552
Mesermizing.
Or Mesmerizing?
Yes, I’d accept the imminent pain.
Would … have to be the last task on my bucket list.
Hey, 3 bucks is 3 bucks.
Murdered over $3? Holy crap man.
My guess is they would’ve killed him regardless.
You do make a valid point.
Yeah I was thinking the same.
Stupid and evil drug dealer. Who kills a debtor over three bucks? Id say give them the chair.
Well I guess he showed him.
Day 4 of struggling with this stupid MacBook. It appears to be winning.
You could always shoot some holes through it and put it on the mantel.
Art!
That’s the McAfee approach. I like it.
Yes, the ultimate anti-virus!
“Over the past two years, the Senator has been attacked by right wing ideologues for her examination of Donald Trump’s ideologically-driven nominees to the courts. It is unfortunate that Congresswoman Gabbard based her misguided opinion on the far-right wing manipulation of these straightforward questions,” Will Dempster, Hirono’s spokesman, said in a statement.
“I know you are, but what am I?”
Hirono strikes me as a special kind of malicious and stupid.
She’s openly sexist, so she’s awesome to the left.
Hirono is a form of non-sentient life. An flatworm is significantly higher on the evolutionary ladder. But the people of Hawaii just reelected her to six more years right after her vile sexist performance surrounding the Brett K hearings.
Unlike DiFi or Kamela she is too dumb to be evil. She just apes the evil around her.
“McJesus,” a sculpture showing Ronald McDonald on a cross.
Hey, this McRib tastes like pussy.
I’m pretty sure there was an illustration of this image on the inner sleeve of the first Social Unrest LP, circa 1986. In case you never heatd Social Unrest, here ya go. https://youtu.be/a58KXZnwVQw
slow day
People just don’t want to catch whatever disease you have.
very interesting
TBH, as Joe Cocker would say, I’m not feeling too good myself.
The dueling events are a product of an ugly feud over what and who should be represented in the women’s marches.
A riot is an ugly thing.
And I think it’s just about time we had one.
More anal sex tips for teens will save the industry
look you can criticize a lot about these magazines but common blind squirrel…
also is there a clear understanding of potential health hazards of occasional anal?
also
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Is that due to the recent law that was passed over there? You people got screwed.
In an era of radical body acceptance and umpteenth-wave feminism, “I don’t want to read 2,500 articles a year on how to lose 10 pounds or get rid of my love handles. It’s reductive, and it’s superficial.”
Then read just one and drop the fucking 10 pounds.
Radical body acceptance? How dare she ignore transgender people?
To be sure!
Teen Vogue: “The magazine has also expanded its focus from fashion and beauty to include politics and current affairs.[3][4][5][6] In November 2017, it was announced Teen Vogue would cease its print edition and continue as an online-only publication as part of a new round of cost cuts. The final print issue featured Hillary Clinton on the cover and was on newsstands on December 5, 2017.”
Of course they would. Putting Hillary on their last issue was on purpose. Let’s put an unpopular, corrupted old hag loser who can’t relate to humans in any charismatic or honest manner on a FUCKEN TEEN MAGAZINE.
Idiots.
The Anal Sex Industry?
Nice set of links today
That “women’s march” story is a giant noissome bubbling cauldron of idiocy. Very amusing.
What do y’all think Castro’s chances of flipping Texas are? With the Beto showing it looks like Texas is trending blue even though Cruz is a uniquely off putting candidate.
With all the Hispanics in Texas (many who’s families have been there since it was Mexico) the GOP had to import one who doesn’t even speak Spanish all that well.
Yeah, having a punchable face isn’t really his fault. But he also seems to have a tin ear at times too….. a bad combination.
The beard helps the melty face, but yeah he’s not great.
A US Army officer who I know tells me that when he was sent on Civil Affairs-type missions into A-stan and surrounding countries he filled a number of his canteens with vodka to “sweeten” the tea they were offered. Of course he was sweetening everybody’s tea and after a while nobody was bothering with the tea anymore. Often it was a revelation to some of the less experienced advisors who were sent with him.
Dafuq? I was replying to a couple posts about Muslims holding one’s beer – and I guess the squirrels ate the original post.
Everybody’s? Including the Muslims?
Exactly that. The locals in much of the region don’t mind (mind, Hell, they enjoy it) imbibing if it is done surreptitiously.
Gettin’ some on the downlow.
Unfortunately, in their culture little boys can be gotten on the up and up.
I find it ironic (in the original sense of the word) that this whole thing – the basic beef which kicked off 9/11 – was how we in the west had this less-than-favorable view of people in the middle east. And now here we are a generation and more later when a huge number of our men and women have been sent to experience middle eastern cultures front-and-center.
So now we have tens of thousands of personally experienced tales of life “over there” – and somehow that doesn’t improve our view of them at all. IN fact, it seems to more than confirm what we were thinking all along.
In Kosovo I enjoyed a beer and discussion with the local imam as part of a civil affairs mission. Of course that was going on 20 years ago and I have been told that the new imams trained in Saudi are getting more wahabi all the time.
A refreshing spark of honesty in that Tulsi Gabbard story:
The column sparked an uproar in the normally tranquil world of Hawaii’s congressional delegations, where lawmakers traditionally work together to steer federal dollars to Hawaii.
“She’s breaking the Pickpockets’ Code.”
It’s the spirit of Robert Byrd.
England is fucked installment ten to the tenth power:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1068795/anna-soubry-Brexit-protest-nazi-attack-metropolitan-police-brexit
British remainer MP demands the arrest (and actually gets it a couple of days later) of protestors for calling her a Nazi. They didn’t seem to have any issues with that kind of behavior when Farage was on the receiving end.
But those other guys really are Nazis!
It’s been interesting seeing the evolution of Nazi from a serious and rarely leveled accusation to a euphemism for “people I don’t like politically.” They’ve completely ruined the word.
Jesus…..they call EVERYONE THEY DISAGREE WITH A NAZI.
Evil vile.
Canyons of cleavage beckon to courageous explorers.
archive.is/bLoa7
23 and 28 win in the enormous and fake division.
link no work
Consider yourself fortunate. Silicone, Photoshop, and duckfaces are known to cause cancer.
No duckfaces in this one, just a lot of poor young ladies who will have horrendous back problems later in life.
All the reason to continue my work to provide reasons and venues for them to lay down more often. It’s all in their best interest.
Maybe I’m not presenting it in the correct light.
This guy gets it.
Don’t act like you don’t love it.
http://archive.is/bLoa7
23 and 34 seem to have the largest Grand Tetons.
RE: “Idafornia”.
Talk about manufactured outrage. Must be a slow news day.
Lokkatmelookatmelookatme
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was embroiled in a Twitter spat this weekend after criticizing CBS News for an apparent lack of black journalists covering the 2020 election.
The democrat, who represents New York’s 14th congressional district, spoke out yesterday in response to a tweet from CBS producer Ben Mitchell which announced the team covering the upcoming election. In the Friday post, Mitchell published the headshots of the staffers.
Ocasio-Cortez wrote: “This WH admin has made having a functional understanding of race in America one of the most important core competencies for a political journalist to have, yet @CBSNews hasn’t assigned a *single* black journalist to cover the 2020 election.”
The newly-elected politician added: “Unacceptable in 2019. Try again.” The Twitter post has currently racked up close to 4,000 shares, with nearly 20,000 users “liking” the stance.
She’s starting to remind me of a roommate I had, long ago. I think he was afraid he might disappear if there was nobody around to see him.
She seems to need attention. Like an annoying puppy.
She’s well on her way to be a scolding harpie and she’ll fit in well.
She’ll get there once she puts on another 40 pounds, has a handful of ugly, public break-ups, and can no longer haul in any hunky guys to her place at will.
“functional understanding of race”
You mean its status as a totally artificial construct based on entirely superficial characteristics?
Also: You’d think that the legacy media propaganda machines would see how alienating she is to the voters they need to win in 2020 and ignore her accordingly. I guess they just can’t help hiding their adulation for an “attractive”, brown, vagina-owning Communist.
She’s everything they want, she’s everything they need, she’s everything inside of them that they wish they could be.
Keeping yourself in the news by twittering and attacking the media, wonder why no one thought of that sooner.
Ouch!
Could you imagine this illiterate commie knowing where the guns are?
Next you’re going to claim that Kim Kardashian did not, in fact, break the internet. SMDH
Hey now, her publicist paid good money for that headline.
“that starts with an incorrect assumption”
The assumption that “losing its mind” should imply that the internet-collective had any intellectual capacity to start with..
“Kim Kardashian did not, in fact, break the internet”
It’s not like she sat on it.
Tried out my new air fryer yesterday. It’s freakin’ amazeballs.
Made “healthy” wings and they kicked the shit out of anything you could get at BWW et. al. They also were significantly less greasy with no loss of flavor. Recommended.
What is this “air fryer”? Intrigued.
https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Collection-Airfryer-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B07KPQSTYV/
To my eyes, it essentially works like a convection oven blasting really hot air through the basket so it cooks on all sides simultaneously like hot oil. Got wings, added a dry rub and just a little oil. 18 minutes and done. Crispy and delicious.
We’ve been eyeing those. What kind you get?
See above.
Cool. Thanks!
Bought one for my I aunt. I love that thing, will buy one for myself soon me thinks.
…kicked the shit out of anything you could get at BWW et. al.
Low bar, but cool!
Someone needs to combine that with everything an instapot does.
Yeah, I was thinking “do I really need another kitchen gadget”.
Do I have to enact your labor?
Ninja Foodi 1400-Watt Multi Cooker, Pressure Cooker, Steamer & Air Fryer.
*tosses brand-new InstaPot in garbage*
Does it have Alexa?
My buddy smokes his wings for his restaurant (linked it here and on twitter before). Amazing if you’re near Fredericksburg, VA. Gourmeltz.
There used to be a bunch of “broasted chicken” places around here that were cooked that way. I miss them.
Huh. Ted Cruz has a beard.
*not a euphemism
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/01/30/ap_618432427109-a2a11b76da2078224ffdf3d747099c4f636bbf94-s1200.jpg
Looks like it might be a little chilly in there. Would.
Chuckie Todd is gnawing on the Rooshunz story like a rabid badger.
Don’t let go, Chuckie.
What’s this FBI thing? People who are desperate for impeachment are talking about this as if there’s a brand new investigation but it sounds like this is just the same old shit that’s been going on.
And somehow the Comey-led FBI is this wonderful, trusted organization. The Left and the FBI, historically speaking, certainly make strange bedfellows.
Yeah, is MLK Jr. chopped liver all of a sudden?
Dems’ cups runneth over. Pocahontas, hot Hindu and now an amazingly lifelike early model android.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/julian-castro-launches-presidential-run/
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Can’t quite make it past that uncanny valley though.
Why aren’t you guys here in Washington, grandstanding for the rubes?
And this right after you find out you’re definitely getting back pay.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/fed-union-sues-u-s-government-over-shutdown/
Shut it down permanently.
They furloughed 800,000 “unessential” employees. Why do they even fucking have any employees who are “unessential”, let alone nearly a million?
As we’ve been saying all along, the so-called shutdown is really a free vacation for largely useless tax leeches, since they’ll end up getting paid for the entire duration of not working. Which massively passed congress and which Trump has signed off on. And unsurprisingly, Thomas Massie and Justin Amash are right there in the tiny group of principled objectors.
I made the mistake of reading the comments. All 7 of the dissenters said they objected to the bill being permanent (all future shutdowns will guarantee pay). The comments still have them as evil people hating Republicans.
Whenever you doubt that Idiocracy was actually a documentary, go read the comments The Daily Beast.
Huh. So during the next shutdown, their sob stories will elicit the playing of even tinier violins.
“It really sounds remarkably modern despite dating back to the early 1600s.”
And despite being played on a lute. I get what you’re saying, though. Also the lute tablature in the vid was pretty cool.
I knew you’d get that. If it were done on a guitar by a contemporary folk artist, you wouldn’t even blink.
Is it a lute or a theorbo?
Either way, very cool.
I’m reasonably sure it’s a theorbo.
Theorbo made by Lars Jönsson, do you people even
read the linkswatch the videos?Good catch, Icetown.
And, just to be a dick, I’ll point out that a theorbo is a type of lute.
Sounds to me like the intro to a sappy hair metal band ballad from the 80’s, Tesla most likely.
Just inexplicably lost power. It’s not like there is a lot of ice build-up on the trees. And I was just about to make breakfast.
OMG muh DEKORUMZ!
That Trump is a rotten guy. He’s a traitor and an all around nogoodnik. I bet he uses a soup spoon to eat his ice cream.
True, false, mostly true, can’t fault a guy for having two scoops.
“Basically, all I’ve done is open up a forum for a bunch of haters that spew hatred,” he continued. “That’s not at all what I intended. In that sense, I’m really bummed. I’m proud to live in Idaho. I just meant it strictly as a humorous social commentary.”
THAT”S NOT FUNNY. REEEEEEEEEE!
Good grief. The entire Trump administration is working for Putin. They are engaged in a vast conspiracy to conceal that fact.
” the so-called shutdown is really a free vacation for largely useless tax leeches”
What I find amusing (and sad) is that they are being treated as absolutely necessary diligent and competent govt employees while simultaneously lacking the competence to prepare for these “shutdowns” that will temporarily interrupt their cash flow. It’s called a rainy day fund and/or emergency credit card, a-holes.
Saw one story, ‘My family now must eat canned spaghetti’ OMFG!!! The HORRUR!!
I want to see one reporter ask if these poor families have canceled there cable/internet yet. And per serving buying bulk pasta and maters is cheaper than Chef Boiardi.
“And per serving buying bulk pasta and maters is cheaper than Chef Boiardi”
How can you possibly expect them to know that?! That’s peasant food!
I heard some families are down to eating out only three days a week. They’ll have to use Uber Eats the rest of the time. Quelle horreur!
I remember, when I was a married college student, we used to go out to eat (usually fast food which we could afford) once a month just to feel like we weren’t really poor. We lived on hand-made flour tortillas and home-cocked beans a lot of the time.
And we still had savings building up for the occasional rainy day.
I interviewed for, but turned down, better paying government-related (mostly defense industry) jobs just because those positions are too often cyclic.
If these “workers” can’t manage their place in life with respect to reality I have no interest in supporting their poor decisions.
“home-cocked beans”
*snicker*
…and being part of the 25% of government so expendable that they can be pawns in shutdown theater.
If that’s your job, you will soon be replaced by a robot anyway so start looking for work now.
In case you don’t feel bad enough about the poor, suffering, goldbricking feds who make more money than you suffering a paid vacation, they’re also scamming unemployment benefits on top of it all.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/10/amid-shutdown-thousands-of-federal-workers-file-for-unemployment-.html
– IRS tax examiner – something like $72k median salary
– Has missed 1 paycheck? 2?
– 55 years old
– ONLY HAS $500 LEFT
WTF‽
If, at 55 years old, you can’t lose your job and financially get by, albeit at a lower tier than hoped for, then you were probably going to face a painful, stark reality sooner or later. Life was probably doing you a favor to point it out while you had some possible way to do something about it.
I try to remind myself that I don’t know what has happened to people. Maybe he got divorced and lost everything, or had an illness. I don’t think that’s a reason for policy, but I try not to judge too harshly.
No one claimed he was good with math or money.
The comments, and I’ve mentioned this before, at The Hill are splendidly retarded.
My God, wtf?
No kidding, the comments section appears to have been taken over by psychotics and morons (and psychotic morons).
“”There is a crisis today. It’s a crisis of leadership. Donald Trump has failed to uphold the values of our great nation,” Castro said.”
Really? He’s been about lower taxes, less regulation and enforcing American soveriegnty (and sort of sometimes rejecting the notion of us being world police…). Seems like American (and not political elite) values to me.
“And be joined by his brother. ”
I guess nepotism is only bad if you have an ‘R’ next to your name.
They’re twins, IIRC. Like the Schatz brothers in Hawaii, either one can show up for govt work and no one can tell the difference.
Well the left is pretty selective of which Democrats they punish for these things and which ones they don’t so we’ll see.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tulsi-gabbard-homophobic-remarks_us_5c3a6030e4b01c93e00a5952
My guess is she gets punished. She had the audacity to meet privately with Trump to talk about troop withdrawal. She has been sullied by his poisonous gaze and must be excommunicated.
She was also called out for not co-sponsoring an assault weapon ban bill but then signed on immediately after the call out I believe.
Wow, that is a lot of goal-post moving.
Oh oh. Sounds like the crazy base don’t like her.
Gabbard > AOC that’s for damn sure.
Gabbard has actually done things in her life.
Side note: in a lot of AOC photos, she looks like she has thick white makeup to offset the bright red lipstick. Is she auditioning for Kabuki?
Maybe she should add a mustache
https://me.me/i/linda-sarsour-mein-kampfy-hijab-linda-sarsours-kampfy-hijab-19961439
Now Chuckie wants to know if the government shutdown is just a diversionary tactic to keep the Rooskies off the radar.
But what about the tax returns, Chuck? The tax returns are the key. It’s all there in black and white.
9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB
To quote Mr. Plinkett “The 9/11 Moon Landing was an Outside Job!” That’s more the territory they are in.
Indiana police release body cam footage of officer accidentally shooting partner
Barney Fife shoots his partner in the back. Department rules that it is “not a result of an act of negligence, carelessness or otherwise reckless behavior” when it very obviously is.
So it was intentional?
That’s the only conclusion I can make… So are they going to arrest him for attempted murder?
Or did the gun fire itself.
Great goodness, it seems police departments are providing cover for cop on cop shootings now.
From the video: “Officer Wright’s gun went off…”. Damn those things, they have a mind of their own.
(The text, at least, correctly notes “Wright … suddenly shoots Butler in the left shoulder.”)
Well, at least it wasn’t premeditated.
Every defense lawyer in a negligent homicide case should be subpoenaing this footage and getting that department and the local DAs on the stand to testify why that’s not prosecution-worthy, but their client is.
I spent a week in Phoenix maybe 15 years ago. Wasn’t all that enamored with it. When we went to the Grand Canyon which is a must see I did like the area north of there quite a bit. Flagstaff seemed like it might be a nice retirement location although it’s too far from family for us.
The mountains north of Phoenix are a lot cooler due to elevation and a lot prettier as well. Unfortunately I think there are not a lot of jobs outside of the low paying tourism type.
Yeah, we’re not enamored of the place, especially the heat, but I go where the work is. Upsides are that we can hang out more with Mexican Sharpshooter and a couple of our old Reason friends, and the proximity to Flagstaff and some fine mountain hiking.
The city of Phoenix is remarkably ugly.
Yeah, gotta go where the work is.
PHX is LAX with a beach that has no ocean.
Or any water whatsoever, for that matter.
if you run the world why do you need a job?
Cover story.
Phoenix resident here. There are neat things. Camelback Mountain and Squaw Peak are neat and centrally located. You can get a 360 view of a major metropolitan area while standing on top of a mountain. In general everything is a mixed bag here. Every part that’s good comes with some bad.
Yeah, the mountains are a plus for sure.
What part of town are you in? We’re mostly hunting for residence in the east valley.
I’m in the East Valley. The area around Scottsdale/Paradise Valley/Phoenix. Like I said, it’s a mixed bag. But it’s my favorite area of town.
I’ve liked Scottsdale well enough the couple times I’ve been – the population trended towards the douchey* but good food, good hiking etc.
* yes, I’m talking to you, 48-year-old dude with the frosted tips, Ed Hardy T-shirt and True Religion jeans and Mrs. douchebag with your gigantic bolt-ons. This was a few years back, so replace the Ed Hardy & True Religion with whatever douch-bros are wearing these days.
“Not only does it break conventional wisdom, it’s very strange for someone in the Hawaii delegation to do this. They really think of themselves as a team and there’s this expectation among voters that they’ll operate as a team,” Moore said. “A criticism like this is unheard of.”
Don’t wander off the plantation, bitch. And leave your principles at the gate when you return.
These people don’t realize that this is precisely how the illiberal forces of the 20th century – Nazis, fascism, Marxism, communism and socialism (pretty much all the same thing just different transgender skirts) – talked.
The second you were received to stray from the flock…./makes cutting throat motion.
Oh, I believe they are well aware of who they sound like. They just think the general public is too dense to catch on…and for the most part, they’re correct.
Some bills are still getting paid. Also, my eyes are up here.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-fly-to-puerto-rico-amid-ongoing-government-shutdown
I thought your eyes were down there, on the tits.
Is that Nancy Pelosi?
One aspect of my neighborhood that I have a love hate relationship with is behavior during snow storms. It is mostly love. Someone will start shovelling, which means everyone else needs to get out there and help. My neighbor started shovelling out my car, (love) so I had to go help clean off his and other neighbors cars (still love). The hate part is doing it on someone else’s schedule when I wanted to enjoy the pristine loveliness with another cup of coffee. A more than fair trade-off, obviously, but now the view is dirty and messy and not winter wonderland. /end whine
I am very lucky in my neighbors.
I often hit several driveways when I do mine. I don’t expect any help, but the food and booze are always welcome!
I have a neighbor kid coming today to shovel my driveway. I don’t mind doing it but I like to support his entrepreneurial efforts. Plus I jacked up my knee a few weeks ago so well worth a few bucks.
You guys are lucky. Apparently we don’t get snow anymore. Just cold and grey.
/depressed
Oh I’m sure you’ll get in on the fun before the season is over:)
Go north, young man, go north
Don’t you fret now. It was that way here up until early this morning. Now we have about 6″ and still snowing.
Yeah we got 6″ where we’re at. Looks like it’s done though.
I’d be happy to ship you some of this fucking snow for a small fee. I have white, yellow, and ahhh, chocolate.
Despite my whining about losing the winter wonderland, it’s nice to be out with everybody else and their dogs. The work goes faster. There are some people who can’t help (neighbor that lost his foot) so others pitch in. But if you can help, you are definitely expected to get your butt out there. I think that’s as it should be.
Yeah, our soon-to-be-ex-neighborhood is similar. We have two guys with industrial snow blowers, and just about everyone does at least part of their neighbors’ walks and driveways as well as their own. The Honduran immigrant next door gets out there first and seems to have everything done AND ours as well before we can even get our coats and gloves on. The Mexican immigrants on our other side drink beer and watch. But they admittedly do shovel their own stuff pretty reliably.
My next door neighbor came over with his daughter to help out a little bit. It was more of an excuse to socialize and let the girls play in the snow, because we had it done in less than 10 minutes with shovels. The neighbor kids were going door to door with a blower, but they wouldn’t have gotten to us for an hour or so.
As much as I’m not a big fan of this house or this lot, or even this neighborhood, I much prefer the community in these small old neighborhoods over the lack of community in the massive cookie cutter subdivisions.
What are neighbors?
It’s a similar situation in my cul-de-sac – my latent Catholic guilt kicks in big-time when I see the neighbors out shoveling, so I must go shovel too.
The worse is that we have the only driveway and my upstairs neighbor is a 50-something lady – I’m content to leave the car for days but she drives to work every day, so when she’s out there at 10:30pm shoveling the driveway, I really feel I have to strap on the cold weather gear and go help.
If we get enough snow, that wears off and I’ll just shut the shades so I don’t have to see her.
(In truth I keep a mental tote board and will let her do it all if I’ve done it a few times)
This remains my favorite sign of winter here.
(I should ask Yusef if all that moisture in my furnace exhaust is cause for concern).
Propane? My propane furnace produces ice from all the condensation.
NatGas
I dunno, condensation from some where
I’m not Yusef, but I used to sell propane and propane accessories to large energy companies.
CH4[g] + 2 O2[g] -> CO2[g] + 2 H2O[g] + energy
I’d guess what you are seeing coming out of that pipe are just products of combustion.
Probably just condensation from the temp difference.
Fox staffer fired after TV station airs altered Trump video (and it’s a bizarre fake at that, somehow done in real time):
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/trump-tongue-trick-lands-seattle-tv-station-q13-fox-in-hot-water/
Why oh why don’t people trust the mainstream media?
Deep fake!
“These forgeries, known as “deepfakes,” can be hard to spot. BuzzFeed and Quartz have published guides to help you sort fact from fiction.”
Golly, we’re all good then.
BuzzFeed and Quartz have published guides to help you sort fact from fiction.
Haaaaaahahahahhahahahahahahahahaahahahahaaaaaaaa
The city of Phoenix is remarkably ugly.
Your elitist aestheticism has been noted.
There are other types of colors than pastel. Plus no grass. And the cinder block fences, what’s up with that?/
the cinder block fences, what’s up with that
Vinyl would melt, metal would sear flesh and wood would burst into flame, I assume.
Lol
Yeah, you’ll still be laughing when you have to run out with a hose to put out your white picket fence on a 118 degree July afternoon.
Also, when I was there the drivers were worse than here and that is no small feat.
Ever driven in NJ?
Michigan Report: Sunny, high of 29F. Going to be in the 30s for most of the week, and then, supposedly, they’re talking about the temps falling into the teens.
I went out running this morning – 3 miles – and, except for the artic wind blast, it felt more like early March than January. And I’m not complaining. More Mustang fun time, less Yaxtracks time when running.
Thirty hours plus now with no electricity at the house. All drunken posts for the day will be coming from the confines of the local Best Western. A real classy joint, let me tell ya. But it beats cold, dark silence. Cheers, shitheads.
That bites. My daughter also has no power. Luckily they have a fireplace in their apartment.
Yeah, I’ve grown to appreciate the wood burning stove from my longest tenured childhood residence. A few candles, a good book or two and I would have been snug as a bug.
So why – after all these years – has the Left finally let the mask not only slip, but completely fall off?
I blame Obama, and the Clinton loss – they thought they had it in the bag. An imperial president and a lefty Supreme Court meant that Congress wouldn’t be stopping them. That, and the power in bureaucracy. Now those dreams are thwarted – for another generation – and the tantrum is going full swing. I’m just disappointed (and partially surprised) that enough voters decided to get them power in the House.
We haven’t seen anything yet. Wait until the 2020 campaigns get fully underway and it’s an all out war to see who can go the furthest left and looniest.
Just looking out my window, it looks like a bad day to be doing anything from the road, like just being on the road.
So I bought a really cheap Epiphone guitar. It’s actually pretty nice and plays fairly easily – I’m a rank, rank amateur though. I plan to learn a few chords and use it for playing over synth music; also a chance to just stay busy, annoy my family, and keep the brain occupied. Anyways – just surprised by the (Chinese?) quality considering the $129 shipped price, which is what I was paying for piece-of-shit used and abused stuff from pawn shops back in the 80s/90s.
Epiphone makes some nice guitars. A huge range, as well. I’m pretty sure our pal EDG has one of their Les Paul versions.
Good for you to start again! I dragged my acoustic out the other day and two hours disappeared like nothing.
Looks like Ovations have gone up in price recently. Maybe due to tariffs?
My buddy went down that road for awhile. He ended up with a tele, a strat, a les paul, an SG and finally a 335 . The semi-hollow body was pretty nice, and it was kinda cool to see the whole group at one time. He eventually sold ’em all and bought an American strat and an American Les Paul. They are clearly better and worth the 5 times the price. I go over there and fuck around with them all the time. Still really like the 335 (which he kept.) Guitar center has easy payment plans here. You can buy a 700.00 guitar and pay 25 bucks a week forever for it.
Opinion poll:
So, have you hit rock bottom when you are banned from Walmart for hovering around the parking lot drinking wine from a Pringle’s can?
Not Florida
SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU ELITIST! WHY DO YOU HATE REAL AMERICANS? YOU SOUND LIKE WARTY!
Nah, Warty would archly hint that posters were racist.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ‘NOT FLORIDA’ MEANS YOU SHITLIB SOY BOY CUCK?
That’s not even close to being the least classy Walmart shopper.
I just couldn’t stop thinking that she didn’t wash the crumbs out of the bottom of the Pringle can before pouring in the wine. That really bothered me and triggered my elitism.
Potato starch improves the body, and a little salt makes everything taste better.
Glad I’m not the only one. That was my first thought. Well, after “red or white”? Me, I like a nice dry rosé in my Pringles can.
Wouldn’t a wine bottle been too obvious?
They don’t even show it on a real Asian model. That’s just sadistic.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/11/fashion-student-faces-backlash-for-bikini-that-fetishizes-asian-women/
I can’t find it pictured on any model. Regardless, the whole thing is ridiculous.
https://nextshark.com/instagram-bikini-asian-women-fetish/
Particularly because those fringes are fugly.
Now this is the internet losing its mind.
Just more lonely fat girls finding a voice on the internets. I mean ‘they’ couldn’t use that, must be for skinny privileged Asian girls. It would be like an illustrated SF story if ‘they’ tried to use it.
‘Danelle rejected that claim in her response to the criticism.
“It’s just fabric and if black people [can’t] use Asian fabrics [let me know] where that law is written,” Danelle wrote on Instagram. “Stop looking for a reason to be offended… I’m not going to entertain stupidity any longer.”’
Good for her.
Bottom news of the day: Tom Sizemore arrested for drug possession.
In other news, bear shits in woods.
Consented to the search. What a retard. I guess he thought they might not find it? NEVER consent. BPD are serious cunts and have never let anyone slide for anything ever. I made a literal federal case about an illegal search by them, and they didn’t even find anything (although they pretended that they found “traces of marijuana” as if that justified violating my rights to illegally search for it. They actually told me that my refusing consent was probable cause. The fuggin spokeshole who interviewed me about my complaint spent three hours dodging and weaving to finally just state: “we’re gonna have to just disagree.” fucking cunt.
refusing consent was probable cause
JFC.
“Miami Dolphins great Bob Kuechenberg, who was a member of the only team ever to achieve a perfect season in NFL history dies, aged 71”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6586679/Dolphins-great-Bob-Kuechenberg-team-perfect-season-dies-aged-71.html
Well, technically the Browns and Lions have each had a perfect season.
By that measure, the 2007 Patriots did too.
BREAKING: Minnesota Man Assaulted
Police cite Mercury Morris as person of interest.
-1 woodchipper
So, have you hit rock bottom when you are banned from Walmart for hovering around the parking lot drinking wine from a Pringle’s can?
I’d need more wardrobe info to make that call. Filthy, torn Tweety PJs? A union suit with the trapdoor hanging open?
I’d just like to know when society decided that it’s OK to grocery shop in your sleepwear? It’s becoming more common. We’re doomed, doomed I tell you!
Pictured: typical Glib sleepwear
We encouraged the yoga pants shopping. Now things are just reaching their logical conclusion.
It was worth it.
Speaking of progressive idiocy and 2020- I was just reading yet another battlespace prep thing (at CNN) about Modern Monetary Theory. We are going to be bombarded with that nonsense for the next two years. What, you want another giant limitless spending program to show the plebs how much you love them? Print some money. Print, and print, and print some more.
The best part? The Republicans have done a masterful job of destroying any credibility they may once have had regarding fiscal sanity, and will be beaten mercilessly with tales of their spineless hypocrisy whenever they make the slightest peep about bringing the budget under control.
Not to mention, all of the Gulag Barbie school of economics idiots are starting to poke their beady eyes out from under their slimy rocks. Now, we’re going to have to have another serious conversation about a non-serious idea, which no one wants to have a conversation about. 2 more years of that as well.
Hier
CNN: What size annual deficit would worry you and why?
Kelton: Inflation is the relevant risk, not the size of the annual deficit. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, budget deficits rose to more than 10 percent of GDP. They were big, by historic standards, but they were nothing to worry about. In fact, most economists seem to agree that bigger (and better targeted) deficits would have helped the economy recover much more quickly. Today, the government is running annual budget deficits that are expected to reach $1 trillion. That’s a lot of zeros, but so what? Remember, their red ink is our black ink. What worries me about the deficits we’re running today is not their size but their nature. A big part of the reason the government is running bigger deficits right now is because Republicans voted for tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the richest Americans and large corporations. Income and wealth inequality—already at alarming levels—will only widen. So I worry about the way these deficits are being used to funnel resources to the people who least need the help.
We should confiscate the wealth of the productive, and print money to throw at the “poor”.
Punish success, and reward failure. That’s what made America great.
“because Republicans voted for tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the richest Americans”
When you start out with a huge lie like that, nothing more you say should be taken seriously.
It benefited the wealthy so much so that the Democrats representing the rich counties in America are trying to reinstate SALT exemptions that only benefit the very wealthy
That’s a lot of zeros, but so what? Remember, their red ink is our black ink.
More money = more wealth.
Full steam ahead!