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But caraway seeds: yes, no, duh?
*narrows gaze*
no
They only go in rye bread
I am aghast. They go in the dumplings for corned beef and cabbage.
Just say no to corned beef and cabbage.
Have a Reuben instead.
I don’t like Ruebens. Never have.
Heresy.
A local restaurant does a boxty reuben. Gorramn delicious.
What about Irish Soda bread??
I thought Irish Soda was whiskey.
I like sauerkraut with caraway seeds.
At least they didn’t pull down his shorts and put the snake on his genitals.
Small favors.
Ah…. Indonesia. The Florida of Asia.
Well, he was stealing cell phones.
They’ll just need to sell those apartments to exhibitionists.
I see those glass apartment buildings and assume only an exhibitionist would live there.
How soon until one of those apartment owners gets arrested because a Tate Modern tourist reported seeing a racist gesture inside their apartment?
They sat down to pee, which is a stark denial of the existence of transmen.
*head explodes*
It’s England so 3…2…1….
Never buy a place for the view unless you an afford to buy the view.
Absolutely.
I work in downtown Minneapolis. From my office window, I can see into luxury apartments just across the alley. People cooking, watching TV, playing with the dog and whatnot. I don’t see what the big deal is. And I assume they can see into my office. Which is why I always work naked.
I once read that the highest per capita ownership of telescopes was in New York City. People in tall buildings like to peep at other people in tall buildings.
Back when I worked in DC, our building was across a narrow alleyway from a Doubletree Hotel. My office faced the hotel. At least a couple times a week we had someone open up the blinds in the morning and proceed to walk around the room butt naked. In their defense, my building had privacy glass where it just appeared to be an opaque green window from the outside, so they weren’t always aware that there were people over there that could see them. We had the room numbers memorized and would call them to ask them to close their blinds again…
“Flat owners whose £2m properties are overlooked by Tate Modern’s new wing LOSE High Court bid to stop ‘hundreds of thousands of tourists’ peering into their homes after gallery told them they should simply ‘draw their blinds’
Um…one way mirrors? They are rich enough.
The local council’s zoning commission would deny the permit, and fine them for every day they had the “unapproved” windows in.
/not researched but predicted.
By golly….links on time!
Of course, they are Swiss Links!
That’s what’s surprising. The Swiss are mythical.
But their flag is a plus!
Such accurate. Much precise.
They’re full of holes?
But enough about Winston’s mom.
She doesn’t have any more than normal.
But those holes are full.
Wow! I know he brings this grief on himself but he hasn’t even shown up yet. Not that I’m complaining about mother jokes or a good pile on.
Or a good pile on mom.
Everyone in the pile gets a turn.
+1 Sleestak
I………….yeah.
/I was gonna reference Moms Demand Action, but, that…. Just wonderful, really.
Of course, they are Swiss Links!
But I don’t speak Swiss.
Look at this troll comment at the end of the last thread:
Lachowsky on February 12, 2019 at 3:02 pm
Cole slaw is best served on pizza.
Is Lachowsky trying to give people a stroke? Just so uncalled for
CPK used to have a carne asada pizza with lettuce.
It didn’t sell well for some reason.
I would try that
Hold the lettuce…
Special orders don’t upset us…
The other nun couldn’t reach that far.
I love that joke!
I think he reported being concussed by an I-beam.
That, uh… sounds alright, actually.
Granted, I eat garbage pizza.
I ate garbage pizza all through college and probably up to this day.
The one sure way to tell that you’re eating garbage pizza is that you have to dip the crust in ranch dressing.
As long as there was no pineapple on it it’s okay.
THERE WAS NO PINEAPPLE RIGHT?
Everyone knows cole slaw is a dish best served cold.
It is very cold….in space.
I don’t know about cole slaw, but that other proper form of cabbage (sauerkraut) is great on pepperoni pizza.
Sauerkraut and most any type of sausage. nom nom nom
I dont mind cole slaw on my pizza…as long as the cole slaw is made of sausage.
Suthen gets it.
A local placed has a nashville hot chicken pizza that has coleslaw. It’s wonderful, actually.
Dave Weigel, ladies and gentlemen!
Unwilling to work means “retirees”, dummies! What are you, stupid?
Waddle desperately wants to keep his job at WaPo
He is a truly pathetic individual. I’d feel sorry for him if he weren’t such a dickhead.
Weigel has me blocked.
Related:
https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/1095417688443289601
Probably blocked you so you wouldn’t keep after him to pay the Palin’s Buttplug bet.
Nah, they meant what it says.
Yep.
They just boiled the pot a little too fast.
Complete with AOCs bunny.
Essentially a big Kinsley gaffe. In writing. LOL.
Socialism: It’s not what we meant!
It’s funny because there’s this generational split between lefties who knew which lies they had to keep on telling, and these new lefties who are dyed in the wool true believers who actually think “Pay people who are unwilling to work” is actually popular.
“coding classes”
So much butt-hurt.
WTF is end of their working life? It’s either they have enough to support themselves (aka retirement) or they’re dead. I’ve worked with people well past the supposed retirement age that either keep working because they like what they’re doing or they need more money. Unless it’s a physically demanding job (and if you’re still doing that at the end of your career, I’m sorry), very few people are unable to work when they retire.
You’ll go nuts trying to parse a lie.
WTF is with journalists trying to bail out a politician? This just shreds the pretense of objectivity.
It’s almost like they’re members of the democratic party pretending to be journalists.
Sadly, yes.
What is this ‘pretense’ of which you speak?
You remember on WKRP in Cinicinatti, how Les the news guy had pretenses about walls around his desk. Well other journalists have pretenses about objectivity in their reporting that exist on that plane of reality.
I dont understand why anyone would support pols or parties that constantly put them in the position of having to defend the indefensible. They have rocks in their head I suppose.
My boss thought I was unwilling to work when I was still on the payroll. He was right, too.
She can leave her curtains open:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/02/16/5701926-6346829-image-a-98_1541176278011.jpg
Toronto Skydome style, amirite?
Hmmm… the carpets do match the drapes in that picture.
The floors are bare.
And there are no drapes.
I the flatowners are more worried about being exposed as woolheaded idiots with more money than sense.
*I think
I’m not sure why the viewing platform is extended to that side of the building. There’s literally nothing to see but the building where the residents live. It doesn’t appear you can see past it.
Only on that side. Until the next monstrosity is built, that is.
Step 1: mount biggest big screen TV you can find in room that faces gallery
Step 2: 24/7 porn
That’s how you negotiate. Threaten their family friendly rating.
I was thinking of moving the shitter out there but your idea is better.
One out of ten visitors to the Tate Modern become visibly aroused.
They could charge extra for the blumpkin show.
We’re all stars now, in the blumpkin show.
+1 Marilyn Manson.
Casablumpkin!
Maybe sell add space that you can turn on via a projector or something when you’re not home, or during hours the museum is open. Hmm.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/super-bowl-ad-media-bias/
Stolen from Ace.
“The poll found that more than two-thirds of the public (69%) think the news media “is more concerned with advancing its points of view rather than reporting all the facts.” Only 29% of the public disagrees with that statement.
In other words, nearly seven out of 10 adults in the country think the Post ad’s blather about “gathering the facts” is bull.
That includes 72% of independents, 95% of Republicans, and — surprisingly enough — 43% of Democrats.
There’s more. Fifty-nine percent say that the press covers issues in a way “that seeks to delegitimize the views held by President Trump and his supporters.”
Sixty percent of independents and 93% of Republicans agree with that.”
I laughed – literally – when I saw that ad.
Yeah-k.
Pile of blathering shit it was.
The best and brightest in the news media have finally managed to make me trust Fox news for learning what is going on in the world. That’s rather astonishing.
As soon as I saw the picture of the Saudi/Qatari propagandist, I started yelling at the TV.
It’s stunning that whoever was in charge of that thought that people would just go along with such an offensive fiction.
A newspaper with a notorious lying problem airs a Super Bowl commercial about how they’re truth tellers. That shit is straight out of North Korea.
Are they still calling him a “journalist”? haha
Did they poll what percentage of the public thinks laid off reporters should learn to code?
They did, but they really, REALLY, don’t want to report on the results.
“…pushing their agenda — a basic failing of the profession brought into high relief over the past two years.”
Past two years? Who wrote that? Rip Van Winkle?
Something more fulfilling to watch today.
Awww. That’s great!
My pup used to do agility. It was a blast to watch all the different breeds lose to the border collies.
We did agility with our two shelties. One was fearless and would jump off the equipment from 5 or 6 feet up. She eventually hurt a hip, and we had to stop.
I love Shelties. Especially the Merles.
I don’t understand how people can say there are better dogs than border collies when the proof is so clear.
They’re too hyper for me. I need a dog as sedentary as I am.
Adopt an ex-racing greyhound. They’re lazier than union employees.
Until your cat gets involved
I have a dachshund. She was hyper as a puppy, but since her legs are about four inches long, she couldn’t get too far, and ever since age 4 or so she’s been a couch potato.
We have a very strange mix of a dog. Everyone who saw him asked what he is (he’s a shelter dog, so no parentage was available), and we got guesses that included dachshund, doberman, german shepherd, basset hound, lab, and various terriers. We finally got the dog dna test and it turns out he is a mix of pit bull, collie, and dachshund.
He’s got the stubby legs of a dachshund, but the energy levels of a collie. When he was a puppy we’d play fetch for 3+ hours and he’d never get bored. Now that he’s a bit older an hour of fetch and swim time and he’s done…
Greyhounds are the best.
I wouldn’t mind a couple, but the weather here just isn’t conducive to skinny short-coated dogs.
Great Pyrenees for the win
It’s true
Border collies need to work or they go nuts.
Shelties have similar personalities, but are far better suited to normal house living. But they shed like muther-fuckers year round.
Former Border Collie owner here — with a decent sized yard to patrol (0.75 acre) and a friend to play with, they do just fine.
She was just awesome. Also the first one I had to put down. I don’t know how vets deal.
I have a mini Aussie with border collie markings
#bestofallworlds
It’s not them, it’s me. I don’t have the energy or creativity to keep them from being a complete pain in the ass.
E for effort.
Did you see Macaroni?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=27895&v=O-BYe8JqnZg&feature=youtu.be
He’s great
They just got empirical evidence that a supermajority of the public think that they are lying shitweasels. That 43% of Democrats has to hurt.
Maybe, But of that 43% how many want the media advancing its points of view which they feel matches their own.
You’re right.
Sorry for pulling a Brooks.
I dont want them advancing any agenda at all. Not mine and certainly not the commie horseshit that they are advancing now. Just tell me who did what and who said what and then shut the fuck up.
Tbh it’s gotten to the point at which whatever angle they take, I know it’s wide off the mark. There’s some value in reliably being wrong.
I think there’s a significant majority of partisans who recognize bias in the media and think it’s just dandy. Fox would run stories about the Obamas that were pretty much just featurettes of shit-talking with no real substance, and MSNBC and CNN do that with Trump for pretty much all their programming. If that wasn’t paying off in ratings, they’d do something else.
Paying off for Fox, maybe. There’s lots of blue ocean available on the right, so I have to assume that news outlets refusing to go after that is mostly due to ideological reasons.
October 2018 Ratings: Fox News Channel Averaged More Total Viewers Than CNN and MSNBC Combined
Little Caesar’s is the best pizza.
Are you high?
1/5 on the trolling.
The courage to speak the truth.
Phoning it in.
^^^ This
It’s the only pizza I’ve ever thrown away. And that includes hospital cafeteria pizza.
This is the reason why Twitter started banning people
Spud is speaking in code!
It’s a euphemism?
For coprophagia?
Bad pizza is still good. I’ve never had LC’s though.
It’s on the sweeter end.
Not good, but will put carbs and fats into your system.
You might have pizza that’s worse regionally, but LC’s is by far the worst nationwide brand. Inedible.
My daughter worked as manager for a short bit at a Little Ceasers. I was offered free pizza all of the time but I never wanted it. It’s cardboard.
Please don’t tell me you like Papa John’s
Nope. My judgement of acceptable pizza is if I can eat it cold the next day. Papa John’s doesn’t pass. I do like the garlic butter and peppercini though
My judgement of Pizza is if there’s any left the next day it must have been bad.
I always get more than we need so I have leftovers. Like Thanksgiving turkey and Christmas ham.
this man also speaks the truth
Like New Years hookers?
^ this is why I’m still fat
This man speaks the truth.
If she came out the other end alive, I’m sure it built character.
If you like sloppy wet grease balls. /no euphemisms
The last time I had LC was in Florida in the the early to mid-80s.
You know what? I realize there’s no way you can seriously mean that, but I’m going to go ahead and say that I actually do like Little Caesar’s from time to time. There is a niche for greasy, fried bread, the vaguest hint of sauce, and meat and cheese melted on top. It isn’t good pizza, or arguably pizza at all, but it scratches an itch now and again. If you don’t think of it as pizza it’s not a bad…open-faced sandwich, maybe? Some kind of unrolled stromboli?
And it’s five bucks and I can pick up a few in 30 seconds so my kids and their friends don’t do the locust thing through our pantry.
I always keep a frozen pizza on hand. There not good either but they’re better than LC.
Frozen Red Baron is a hundred times better. Literally 100 times better.
A hundred times zero is still zero.
Well 100 times a negative number is REALLY negative!
French bread pizza, basically. It’s a guilty pleasure…
I like LC from time to time as well*. As implied above, it is REALLY hard to mess up pizza. Plus they have been expanding and doing some new stuff lately. I tried their thin-crust and it was close to Pizza Hut* in style, if not quite the quality. And it is worth it for the price (you get what you pay for…).
*Mostly because I am cheap.
**I like Pizza Hut thin-crust. It is the best one of the chains. Fight me.
You are correct, sir.
Pizza Hut is not terrible. It beats many of the other national chains (except Sbarro) but not the local pizza joints here in NYC.
Before I bought my house, my local pizza joint was a single location establishment, and I could point out the owner. He was usually the one making the pizzas.
Two local joints here in Pitt Meadows, both family owned, both families known to the community at large, and both are excellent (and quite different from each other). One’s run by the same family that owns the 5-star French bistro (yeah, it’s true, here in Piss Meadows! and the two establishments share a common kitchen, which is totes brill), the other’s claim to fame is Sicilian-style in a true wood-burning oven. Both are competitive in price with the major chains.
Damn. Now I want pizza.
Yup. They are (unfortunately) the best I can get delivered.
However, there are two legitimately good places that I can pick up from on my way home from work. Which frankly is pretty damn good for upstate.
Little Caesars is the one pizza brand my 4 and 5 year-olds refuse to eat. It just ends up going to the chickens every time we try it.
In college, we called it Little Sleazer’s.
Lol
Papa Murphy’s ain’t bad for what it is. $10 for a big-ass pie I can doctor at home if I want, and cook as crisp as I please.
Too bad Rodney Dangerfield passes, he’d make a great Trump in a Hat and Hair movie.
No doubt. Dangerfield in Caddyshack was the original Orange Man Bad
Good idea. Especially in that filthy wife-beater he wore in Natural Born Killers.
Back in the TOS days, I used to pine for a Rodney Dangerfield presidency… and here we are.
No respect is just another way to say Fake News.
US Ambassador to the UN.
Why don’t you call me sometime when you have no class?
Is anyone else having formatting problems on their phone? I’m viewing this on an Android phone and text scrolls way out past the right border of my phone.
It’s an issue with Chrome browser. I occasionally see it in Firefox too.
Thanks. It’s weird because it’s intermittent.
It happens all the time to me lately, including some times making the text so wide you can only fit both sides of a paragraph by shrinking the text so small you can barely read it.
Since drapes are on topic today, I have a drape story.
My wife had a co-worker who bought their dream house in Bedford Mass. A 150+ year-old colonial fully restored. They were hanging their new (and very expensive) drapes when two policemen showed up at their door. They wanted wanted to see their permit. Permit?! For drapes?!
Seems they hadn’t done much research and the house was in a historic district and anything visible from the street needed a permit. They went to he historic commission for the permit and were told that in a few weeks they would be told what kind of drapes they would hang. “But we already have drapes!” “Come back in a few weeks and we’ll tell you what kind of drapes you will hang.” Hint, they weren’t like the ones they had already purchased.
They did as they were told and put the house up for sale.
Use this for drapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Flag
Heh. A weapon and armor? How problematic. The whole revolutionary war this has become an embarrassment in that part of the country. Did you realize that the Minuteman statue in Lexington Common is actually holding a military assault rifle? It’s removal is inevitable.
Probably a white man, too, isn’t he?
Make the drapes from the skins of the historic commission.
+1 flayed man
The remnants of House Bolton approve.
Yes, Historic Districts are insidious. They will lie through their teeth that “this is only so we can use the designation ‘historic,’ nothing will change.” And they don’t actually need to be on the National Registry of Historical Places to use the term “historic.” But once the feds have defined the area and declared it historic it’s an easy matter for city council (or whoever) to pass laws, establish boards and compliance, etc. And taxes.
You’ll soon be begging to get your merely oppressive HOA back.
Mom was excited when someone approached her about listing her childhood home as a historic property, given a single, small, nondescript stucco archway which was apparently in vogue when the neighborhood was built. It was ridiculous, and I have no idea what angle the preservation people were working, but her architect friend eventually talked her out of it. At the very least, it’s pretentious crap: the house was in bad shape and badly in need of updating. The neighborhood was mostly downscale. Absolutely no need to encumber it with that happy horseshit.
Some similar bullshit was pulled when I was living downtown. RVA is in the midst of converting what was the industrial sector into apartments. There was a stipulation in my lease that allowed for city employees to enter the apartment when they wanted to in order to “inspect” the place “because history”. They did have to give prior notice but it was still bs. The place was a factory converted to an apartment building with modern amenities and better appliances and counters (granite) than the house I have now.
The intersectional battle between historic preservationists and progressive GND dicks could be epic.
We have a family house at the shore. It is in an historic district.
The family calls the governing body the Hysteric Commission.
Never buy in a historic district or one with an HOA unless you are in for a fight. If you do I dont want to hear any bitching about it later.
That’s what gets me. I don’t like HOAs one bit but everywhere I’ve lived for the last 35 years has had one. You are literally handed a copy of the CC&Rs when you sign the final papers.
And now I find myself the VP in our current HOA. The President is a retired SEAL and his wife is the Secretary. Our CC&Rs are literally only 1/4” thick. We’re the most easy going board you’re going to find but people still bitch and moan when they’re told they can’t do something or need approval.
If everyone complains, why don’t the members just get together and vote to end the HOA.
I’m sure if everyone currently bound by the contract agrees to terminate it, it dies.
Oh wait, they want to screw over their neighbors, don’t they?
A lot of modern homes come with a deed restriction not only requiring the homeowner to always vote to maintain the HOA but to require the same of all susbequent buyers. Another requirement is that you are compelled as part of the deed to always vote for the HOA to be professionally managed so the only control the actual property owners have over the HOA is the choice of who manages it.
So basicaly by buying the home you become contractually unable to terminate the HOA.
My understanding is that more and more municipalities are requiring developers to include this language in the deeds in order to get permission to build the subdivision so that the town can offload more of the infrastructure and maintenance onto the HOA
Then it is clearly void on its face, and the municpal cunts should be dragged through the streets, horsewhipped bloody and tossed out of the boundaries of the polity.
Really? I’d almost be tempted to buy a house under those conditions just to shred the thing in the courts (and/or firebombing anyone standing up for it).
HOAs are useful for areas in which it is legal to decorate your front lawn with a car on cinder-blocks and unkempt grass so that people who don’t want to live in a neighborhood like that don’t have to. Lots of people like their neighborhoods to look nice, and it is much better handled through private agreement than public force.
Idaho requires HOAs. We have a management company handle as much as they can. 90% of what I do is take care of the pressured irrigation system.
Long time residents aren’t a problem. Most of them have done time on the board. It’s the new people that consider the rules just to be a formality that can be ignored.
So what’s you’re saying is, Idaho is anti-property rights. You can’t use the “It’s voluntary” canard when it’s mandated.
Nothing so sinister. The HOAs take pressure off local government. And the rule only applies to planned subdivisions, not individual plots.
That doesn’t make it less sinister.
Fuck HOAs. Fuck Zoning Laws. Fuck building codes. Fuck land taxes. I want my Allodial title.
Yep. I feel the same way. I also know that ship sailed long before you and I were ever born.
I have lived in an HOA community once. Never ever again. It’s my house, and I’ll do whatever the fuck I want with it.
Some HOAs are just ridiculous. You can’t leave your garage door open, you can’t park on the street, that kind of bullshit.
Mine is professionally managed. I like them. Not petty, effective, and budget things efficiently.
This. I’m in a non-HOA neighborhood. Yeah, some neighbors don’t maintain their yards to my standard, but they also don’t complain when I don’t mow for 3 weeks and when I leave the trash cans on the curb an extra day.
My first house had an HOA, but it was pretty good. $40/month for a pool, tennis courts a park with a playground. My neighbor was the president and was pretty laid back. That said, one of the benefits of my new home is that there is no HOA. While my neighbor was a good HOA president, he wasn’t going to be president forever.
Has anyone noticed media reporting the Senate found no evidence for collusion with Russia?
Huh.
Sorry no time for that when the important news is that some congresctitters couldn’t make it to Dingell’s funeral because of the snowstorm. Sad!
TRUMP TEAR DOWN THIS SNOWSTORM NOW AND STOP ASKING FOR A WALL AND SIGN THE GND….NOW!
/Alex from the Bronx.
Dear Prudence:
Help! My Boyfriend Keeps Waking Me Up in the Middle of the Night to Have Sex!
“there’s a part of me that feels guilty, like I shouldn’t turn him down, so I didn’t”
That’s all that’s important.
Paging ZARDOZ. Mr. ZARDOZ to the white courtesy phone.
Gah. I wanted to troll that comment thread so hard.
“Two kids and he still wants to have sex with you? DTMFA!”
Here I am, sick and exhausted knowing I have to work in the morning, and I feel bad saying no. Then I ended up being up a couple hours later with sick kids.
And what is he doing if you’re working and taking care of the kids and taking care of the house?
You’re sick and he’s still wanting to bang you? I’m guessing you don’t have the flu. Maybe he’s hoping you’d be zonked out in an Ambien like state when he was making the moves.
She lost that loving feeling. I’d go inverted with her anytime.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/first-female-viper-demo-team-pilot-removed-from-position-after-2-weeks
“I call this my danger zone.”
LANAAAAAAAAAA
Five bucks says she fucked someone she’s not allowed to fuck.
That was my first thought as well.
Yet it was fine for Maverick and Goose? I mean, props for the pro-LGBT message but that’s still pretty sexist.
Maverick and Goose were in the Navy, they have different rules.
Gayest movie ever!
https://youtu.be/gSV35A1cQDM
See this is why I read this site. Retired military insight.
I was trying to figure how you fuck up this big in only two weeks without killing somebody or losing an aircraft.
Oh I’m not retired military.
Hey she can handle my joystick anytime she wants
Yep. A demonstration team like that is more like a social club than a military organization. Everybody volunteered and is in it for the fun and prestige – no real leadership required. Being the “commander” is more a figurehead position than a military function. IOW almost impossible to screw up.
She was boinking a Master Sargent. Wouldn’t be this first time
Yup. Maybe one of the pilots in her squadron, maybe some enlisted guy on the flight line, but dollars to donuts you’re right.
Talk to me, Goose.
“F-16 Viper demonstration team”
Is that something I should recognize?
“Watch her take the pleasures from the serpent that once corrupted man.”
+1 Committee on Moral Decency
Yes. Recognize it as waste of fuel, resources, aircrew, and flight hours on aging airframes.
I thought the Thunderbirds were the USAF demonstration team. I’m with you Drake. I never heard of this team.
I thought the Thunderbirds were a puppet-animated show from the 60s or 70s.
Some 4 star wanted one of his own to play with.
I thought the Thunderbirds were the USAF demonstration team
Correct. However not every air show in the country is able to book them. Having a regional team not only allows for F-16s to be showed off to the public, but also will put on a bit of a show for AF personnel stationed at a base they happen to be stationed at. Like Shaw AFB, SC, where I was stationed between 07-10.
So what you’re saying is, they’re the JV team?
Yes. I have posted a vid of them before. Do you even airshow, bro?
And I agree she probably had a scandalous affair.
No, Rebel Scum – there are too many people at such events. I do not take crowds well.
The F-16V is apparently called the Viper now.
Can you imagine her grip on the stick?
Air Force Times comments are lit.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/02/12/first-female-viper-demo-team-pilot-relieved-after-two-weeks/
More Teachers in Congress, Please
During the committee hearing, Hayes—the 2016 National Teacher of the Year and one of New England’s first black congresswomen—shined as she passionately advocated for funding public education while rejecting the hemming and hawing from other committee members that teachers or schools can get additional funds, but not both.
“The confusion lies in the fact that we’re thinking that it’s one or the other—pay teachers, or improve facilities. I want both. It’s not a trade off,” Hayes said. “We’re talking about this from an economic standpoint, and dollars and cents. That’s not what education looks like.”
“This is not an economist’s problem,” she added. “If we’re looking at it as a business, if we’re treating education as a business…like corporations, the I would say that we also need a $2 trillion bailout. We need for a government to save teachers, to save schools. We’d like that bailout.”
More teachers in congress, less DOE.
“If we’re looking at it as a business, if we’re treating education as a business…”
We are not treating public education as a business. And nobody here advocates for bailouts for business.
“The confusion lies in the fact that we’re thinking that it’s one or the other—pay teachers, or improve facilities. I want both. It’s not a trade off.”
I see the source of her confusion. She thinks there is an endless supply of taxpayer dollars to be poured down the rathole that is the US public schools. Make do with the budget you have.
There’s 3.6 million HS Seniors in the US. Roughly 20% of them score 1250 or higher on the SAT. That’s 720,000. We could give those kids 100,000 dollars in scholarships for 72 billion. The US Dept of Ed has a 68 billion dollar budget, and that was in 2016. We could do that for the next 20 years and it still wouldn’t cost 2 trillion dollars.
2 trillion dollars is a metric fuckon of money.
The New Horizons spacecraft is traveling at 36,000 miles an hour, or about 10 miles per second. It’s been doing this for 13 years. And it’s about 4 billion miles away. It will take it another 6500 years to be 2 trillion miles away.
Yeah space is really really big.
But seriously, think about that….if we got rid of the federal Dept of Ed then any kid who scored in the top 20% on the SAT would basically get a full ride to college, and it wouldn’t affect the budget at all. Would probably be revenue plus as those parasites had to go get real jobs.
You’re assuming that the 68 billion spent isn’t the reason why 20% of students score so well on the SAT’s. Take that money away and it’s paste-eaters all the way down.
No it isn’t.
Willing to bet actually, that five years after we start handing out cold hard cash for good SAT scores, that they have to move the payout to the the top 20% and not the over 1250 crowd.
The government wouldn’t be spending all that money if it wasn’t having a positive effect. I haven’t checked the numbers but more money has to equals higher scores, that’s just science.
We really need to run train on education spending!
When you do this, nobody can bite on your other trolls.
Is this a word problem?
I was told there would be no math!
A meritocracy? No, comrade, we must apply the intersectionality matrix.
“2 trillion dollars is a metric fuckton of money.”
That is why she is demanding it.
You do realize some of the brightest minds in history learned their material by candlelight.
Frederick Douglass taught himself to read on pain of having the skin whipped off his back, and now his works are printed with annotations to explain his vocabulary to American high school students.
The American education system is a crime.
The biggest mistake of the classical liberals?
The education system was not the classical liberals. It was the progressives that did it, and John Dewey was the architect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_Education_Act_1870
The American education system was not established by a Act of Parliament in 1873.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_Amendment
The classical liberals supported public schools to save us from the Pope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann
There’s obviously a continuum of state schools in America, but I specifically refer to Dewey’s model, and Dewey absolutely intended the schools to produce the New Socialist Man.
Dewey, Cheatham and Howe
Public education was around since colonial times, but it wasn’t really state run until the mid 19th century. It was proto-progs who pushed it, mainly as a way to fuck over the catholics.
Someone that has zero understanding of federalism and that schools are a local matter is both a teacher and a congresswoman. Totally fits.
She had absolutely nothing valuable to say and of course splinter claps like a seal.
An enlightened teacher may have said “US schools are funded very well, and yet good teachers are not paid well. Something else is wrong in the system.”
And they’d still be wrong. Teachers get paid quite well in the US. All the shit about buying school supplies out of pocket is a dishonest and sleazy talking point progressives concocted based around a minuscule sample size.
The teachers unions have the best motte and bailey of any progressive group. They have made the great teacher who suceeds in spite of the union and the administration the face of education, despite them being a tiny minority of teachers.
Most teachers are there because they get weekends and summers off. Education majors have the lowest SAT scores of any college department.
I would have thought journalists.
Uncle Sugar is there for you baby.
Brooksed it.
https://twitter.com/susanferrechio/status/1095435832016752641
Why do people keep calling out Dave Waddle on his obvious partisan lies? The man has the diebeatus and skinny wrists. You tell me what other job he could perform other than a child predator in an after school TV show?
https://www.thestar.com/amp/opinion/contributors/2019/02/12/what-canada-needs-now-is-a-green-new-deal.html
Naomi Klein’s hubby lurves the Green New Deal
“which are never subject to the “but how will we pay for it?” smackdown
Well, not by Serious Politicians. Only kooky nutjobs like Ron Paul.
Yes, a great leap forward. That’s what every country needs. Full employment and improved quality of life (because they’ll be getting lots of physical exercise in that fresh air working those subsistence farms).
Fucking moral equivalent of war horseshit. These people are so god damned tiresome.
I thought their health care system where they forced you into exile if you wanted to go private was their big national project.
Better yet, hire Christo to cover all of those buildings entirely in fabric. They are fucking hideous.
I found this to be quite amusing and well done:
The 100% Factual Re-Creation Of The Jussie Smollett Hate Crime (That He Committed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utFmwotHjwg
Nice.
He fought off two guys while staying on the phone and holding a sandwich? The whole thing is such obvious bullshit.
Bloomingdale’s Apologizes Over ‘Fake News’ T-Shirt, Pulls It From Stores
Department store giant Bloomingdale’s apologized on Monday after a customer flagged a “fake news” t-shirt in one of its stores.
“Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we apologize for any offense we may have caused,” the company said in a statement posted to Twitter. “We take this feedback very seriously and are working quickly to remove this t-shirt. Again, thank you for taking the time to alert us.”
The shirt was first identified by Allison Kaden, a journalist at New York City’s CW affiliate PIX11, who chided the company in a tweet that went viral.
Hey @Bloomingdales,” she said “This isn’t funny or fashionable. It further delegitimizes hard working journalists who bring REAL news to their communties [sic].”
Someone needs to learn to
codeproofread. I guess this snowflake was too incensed by the deserved mockery to do so.The journalists who began the social media campaign demanding that a private store stop selling shirts that offends their sensibilities are totally concerned about threats to the First Amendment or something
The only reason why people mocked the Religious Right was because they were not wealthy people with influence. It most assuredly was not because they were preening scolds. That seems blatantly clear at this point.
It’s always about the rubes vs the anointed.
When the anointed shriek of climate doom, that’s serious political ideas. When the rubes talk about the coming Rapture, that’s hysterical nonsense.
It’s amazing how much the rubes and the anointed have in common. Particularly their obvious hypocrisy. They’re just a hot cup of asshole
Yesterday I couldn’t spell journalist, today I are wun…..
COMMUUUNNNITEEES…urgh…ACCESSS TO HEALTHHHCAAARE…bloorg…UNDOCUUUMENTED IMMIGRAAANTS…derp…CORPOOORAAATE GREEEEED…
/prog zombie pub crawl
” It further delegitimizes hard working journalists who bring REAL news to their communties”
They have more of a God complex than surgeons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETWoOSEfwfo
I don’t know why but I cringe when I see men carrying enviro-grocery bags.
“men”
My neighbour is all man so it claims even them i’m afraid. That’s more disappointing.
But the hipster-douche-cuck make me cringe as they sip their stupid $10 kale drink.
A couple of weeks back I a couple of the educators and my sisters were talking in the office as I walked in. They were talking about which of the *men* were bullied by their wives. Meaning, they know exactly which of them are “cuckish”. I was surprised but not surprised and I even asked them who they thought were so I could compare them with my own impressions. Pretty accurate.
Women know.
That’s why the Gillette Ad was a joke.
Was Costas going ‘woke’ a problem? I think a legend like that was probably better off taking his talents to Netflix if he wanted to discuss the social aspect of sports. It’s very hard to do that in a corporate setting with an audience conditioned to not hear personalities talk about, say, gun control or concussions.
http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/25914913/inside-story-how-legendary-nfl-broadcaster-bob-costas-ended-excised-football-nbc-espn
Is it going woke, or was he trying to claw out a niche by substituting social policy for having an interesting, relevant perspective?
If you’re a football announcer, what you should realize pretty quickly is that you are the most replaceable element of the program.
and Costas called a decent baseball game; he stank as an NFL announcer.
As an aside, I find Tony Romo to be one of the best, even though he talks a little bit too much.
That story goes out of its way to fawn over Costas. No one ever turned into to hear Bob fucking Costas. There’s not even any evidence the NFL actually did anything here. Not even circumstantial. NBC paid a shit ton of money to the league, but they also may have no wanted needless controversy or a message that would potentially harm their own investment. Meaning, it’s entirely reasonable for NBC to act on their own with the NFL having to say a god damn thing.
And seriously – Bob Costas never added value to anything.
Footage has been released that shows police in Nduga Regency, Indonesia, using a live snake to torture a terrified man suspected of stealing mobile phones.
Arizona cops are taking notes.
Only if they can attach a taser to the snake’s head and then have it repeatedly bite the man’s perineum while tasing his dick.
KFC is the best fried chicken.
Not gonna get any argument here. I don’t care if we’re Philistines.
I’m not philistine. I just havne’t had fried chicken in so long that I can’t remember…
Now I’m sad (especially since I’m not supposed to eat anything tonight.)
Who told you that you’re not allowed to eat? We’re not the boss of you.
KFC crispy only though
I did.
We’re our own worst critics. Be strong, UCS
Garden hose up the butt tomorrow?
Nope, reached caloric limit, went “That’s enough for today”.
The garden hose up the butt can help with that.
Everyone’s gut biome needs a spa day.
Wow. You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Only if I stick to it properly.
No, it’s inferior to Popeye’s. And my brother makes a fried chicken with cream gravy that’s better than any other chicken I’ve ever had.
My hierarchy of fast food fried chicken is Bojangles>Lee’s Famous Recipe>Popeye’s>KFC
I’d eat any of them though, hard to make BAD fried chicken. It’s just that some are better than others.
Lees is better than all of them.
But the best fried chicken I ever had is from Gardners in Rocky Mount NC.
I wasn’t all that impressed with Bojangles; I wouldn’t rate it better than Popeyes (and they have a consistency problem from store to store).
Is Gus’s considered fast food or does having Dom P. on the menu kick them out?
Mmm Von’s day old fried chicken at one in the morning in college, that was the best…
Golden Pride or GTFO.
I’m not a big fried chicken partisan, though.
Not only their chicken, but their Carne Adovada Burritos are the best around, certainly for the value.
And their Green Chili Stew is, hands down, the winner.
Worth the trip to Albuquerque.
I thought the best fried chicken in ABQ was Los Pollos Hermanos
Now you’re just trolling…or have not yet discovered Bojangles.
How haven’t the SJW’s gone after a chicken restaurant called Bojangles yet?
I think cause it’s a NC-based restaurant and everyone there loves it. They may have learned a lesson from when the tried to fuck with Chik-Fil-A
Also, Mexi is right. Every time I fly home to visit, the first thing I do is go to the Bojangles in CLT airport that’s near my gate and grab some food from there.
They’re a mob so I’m highly skeptical they learn of anything. The fact that it may just be great chicken could be the secret ingredient.
The found of Bojangles.
ROFL!
Yeah, I didn’t believe it when I typed it either.
My real guess is that Bo’s is too small potatoes for them.
I just checked locations. Bojangles are mostly in flyover country. A prog would risk losing his/her cred just admitting awareness of this chain.
Stround’s pan-fried chicken in KC was great. Haven’t been there in many a year though.
I knew someone was going to say that.
No. Just … no.
Not a fan? It was a classic. I heard it’s not as good since they lost their place near the overpass.
Naw. My whole family went twice, two different locations, thinking the first time was a fluke. Nope. Awful both times, both locations.
I live close to the original location, too.
Nobody here ate Church’s?
SMDH.
I love Church’s. There’s a gas station/convenience store on the way to our cabin that get’s their fried chicken fixins from Church’s. I stop in for a couple of chicken thighs every time I drive through.
Harold’s Chicken Shack. The slice of white bread on the bottom to soak up the BBQ sauce and the bullet proof glass in the restaurant make it awesome.
Our version of that in NYC is called Kennedy Fried Chicken.
Way too many carbs in fried chicken.
Grilled chicken, though, is the bomb.
A nice nap rejuvenates my immune system to fight off this crud.
http://archive.is/CXGGJ
#2 = Montgomery tubercles are sebaceous glands in the areola surrounding the nipple. The round bumps are found in the areola, and on the nipple itself. They can become exposed and raised when the nipple is stimulated.
Also #32.
Mr Fetherstonhaugh, for the Tate, said ‘the claimants’ remedy for what they perceive to be a nuisance lies in their own hands’.
He added that the claimants complained about having to draw the blinds or put up curtains, but pointed out that ‘there is no right to a view’.
And next week’s story will be about the Tate suing one of the residents for Air-B-and-B’ing his apartment out to a string of Florida Mans. When asked about the rentals, the defendant responded, “There may be no right to a view, but I’ve made sure they get a right good view.”
BREAKING: Lyndon LaRouche has died. Devastating LP leadership that had hoped to draft him as the presidential nominee after Bill Weld abandoned the party.
I have… no idea who that is. Wait! Is he the crossdresser from the TV show?
How do people not know who Lyndon LaRouche and his movement are?
Who?
He got a Simpsons mention back when they were good so he must be somebody important:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_vV5sIi8Y
That doesn’t mean anything. They ran out of famous people decades ago.
And don’t forget Bloom County’s “Great LaRouche Toad-Frog Massacre.”
It’s been awhile since his brand of kookiness was relevant. I can see why people wouldn’t know who he was.
Like Moonies or Hare Krishnas.
Some famous positions held by LaRoche:
– Barring straight land bridge
– The Western embrace of Aristotle over Plato was a disastrous mistake
They were kind of both cunts.
If you’ve ever passed an obese white guy sitting behind a table on the sidewalk in an area with high foot-traffic and the table and space around it are plastered with dozens of hand-written or cheaply-printed placards covered in tiny print… then it’s likely you’ve witnessed a Lyndon LaRouche supporter.
I don’t think Lyndon LaRouche would believe those reports.
Winner.
Linky?
I haven’t heard that name in years. I thought he was already dead.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
I thought he died years ago.
Buy some curtains.
Those are million pound flats, surely they could spring for one way mirror windows or some such thing if they value both their privacy and their view.
Probably not allowed to have anything too reflective
If requiring an ID is too hard for you, then you shouldn’t be voting anyway.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/study-voter-id-laws-dont-stop-people-voting/
Like it matters who votes. It’s who votes on the absentee ballots that are found in car trunks with no knowledge of the chain of custody.
And of course questioning the legitimacy of those ballots is racist.
I always liked the video of the guy who went into poor neighborhoods in, I think, the Bronx and asked all the poor minorities about these requirements and they all said, “Of course I have id. Do you think I’m an idiot? I have a bank account. I drive. Etc.”
These links are ok. Not the best, but not the worst. They’re links. You can read them and you can click on them and they take you to other pages. So, kind of linky. So so.
Certainly not 1,000 comment Sloopy links quality.
As the one true libertarian, I am offended in my critique of linkers being questioned. These things can’t be judged on one isolated spike in commenting.
But Sloopy’s links were better. I clicked on his links and then the links within the links.
They were the bestest links.
They were the worstest of links.
They were the links of wisdom.
You fucking moochers not writing them mid-day material is artificially inflating the comment counts. TPTB don’t need that kind of ego boost.
They’re not sending us their best links.
Mitch did something amusing.
That’s hilarious. I love the picture.
This is not Yertle’s first rodeo. He does know how to play the game.
Passing judgement in London today, Mr Justice Mann dismissed the claim
Yhe judge was seriously named Justice Mann? Is this story from the Onion?
Goddamnit! I just shovelled and now the plow comes through.
I’m more worried about the possibility of ice.
That is one of my pet peeves, too. And we’re on a circle, about at the place where the snow piles up on the plow, falls off, and mounds up in front of our driveway.
Call Mr. Plow, that’s the name, that name again is Mr. Plow.
Fucking nonsense makes it over here. So instead of using a straw to stir my coffee I’m using a plastic stir stick. Ugh.
https://imgur.com/a/IXDxJRv
I can’t read that.
No straws. Save the planet. Blah, blah, global warming blah, blah.
Straws are not endangering the globe.
Even if the anti-straw campaign weren’t running based on numbers a schoolchild pulled out of their ass.
We live in shoeboxes, take packed trains to work and drive tiny cars. Now they take away our straws. Back broken.
I see the Denny’s logo (in Japan?!) and the universal sign of the ban-hammer through a straw. Damn, Japan is further gone than I imagined.
Denny’s here is great. Imagine an American Denny’s but spotless, cute waitresses and normal customers.
Normal as in “Normal for Denny’s” or normal as in “Mythical creatures who are not in some way strange”?
Normal as in not on meth.
I have never seen anyone on meth* at the Denny’s I’ve been to!
*…while they were in the restaurant.
They were in back preparing your food.
I assume they still charge $15 for a couple of eggs.
Those qualities will cost you extra here in the states.
(Soft) Drink bar too?
I thought it meant no high sticking
Naturally – both plastic and straw are loanwords. What did you expect?
A country that uses foreign words for cup, mug, door, and cherry… but creates their own for corn and potato.
During WW2 there was a big patriotic campaign to get rid of as many English loanwords as possible.
Naturally they are all back plus even more.
When in doubt as an English speaker in Japan pronounce the English word using a Japanese accent/pronunciation add the verb “to do” or “suru” and you’ve got about 50/50 chance of comprehension.
That lead me to this: The hero we need!
LOL now no one goes to heaven.
Did it at leave come shrink wrapped and placed in its own plastic handle bag?
Wendy’s has the best French fries.
While not true, not completely out of left field. I think you’re starting to sober up.
Nay my frizzy haired scientist, it’s the other way around.
Compared to only BK and McD’s – probably.
I stopped going to Wendy’s when the changed the fries.
Is if we are restricting the competition to places with a drive through window then I would agree with this statement.
If places you need to go into to get food count then I am gonna go with Penn Station with 5 Guys a close second
Five Guys fries are actually kindy soggy and greasy.
Right out of the fryer, they can be sublime. A few minutes later and they’re close to inedible.
Eat them in the store, under no circumstances should you get them to go.
If you order online they actually suggest not getting the fries to go.
5 guys is overpriced.
Penn Station FTW. Likely gonna be one of the 1st places I pillage when I go off low-carb.
And this is why starvation diets don’t work. Once you leave them – boom, back up to big. And yes, low-carb is a starvation diet.
Oh, such little faith. Ive been doing a keto-esque diet since mid-August; I think my resolve has been galvanized. I have yet to allow myself a “cheat day”, which is what I meant by “going off”.
I’ve heard that before.
If you can buck the trend, more power to you.
Time will tell.
It’s not a diet. It’s a lifestyle.
I like a good crispy crinkle cut fry occasionally.
Shake Shack
This place gets it.
http://www.boisefrycompany.com/menu/
Been there, shortly after they opened. Meh at best.
They’ve really expanded since. The place on Broadway isn’t even there anymore.
Nope.
I am going to agree with this given that McD’s has been off the mark for quite awhile and I think Wendy’s is doing “fresh-cut” again.
That is, of course, limiting the field to fast-food chains. Also, and for reasons unknown to me, the Chick-fil-a near my office is hit or miss on cooking theirs properly, whereas the Wendy’s is more consistent. That said, I frequent the Chick-fil-a and haven’t been to a Wendy’s in about 6 months.
We don’t have a Chick-fil-A around here.
I’d like to try them some time, but the nearest one is a couple of hours’ drive south of here in Washington state. :-/
Spud is the handsomest Glib.
The best eyes and skin.
And barely bruised at all.
Truer words have never been written.
I have to disagree. The man looks like a potato!
I’ll be in my bunk.
Ahem. It’s pronounced “dad bod.”
Wah wah. Liberals everywhere should flock there to keep the dream of totalitarian government alive. They can implement their green plan there too! And UBI?
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/12/new-york-governor-florida-stealing-population/
We’re only three election cycles away from Trump being memory holed like Dubyah and the proggies advocating for walls around their states to keep people in.
AHA!
Part I of my trip to Sri Lanka has been submitted.
It is…uh….a bit of a departure from what I’m used to writing. FEELINGS DAMMIT!
Look, I told you “Vulcanization” is not a process for taking the emotions out of people.
Though it does work well for that if you run the process long enough.
Liberty Doll: Panera Cares Learns That Socialism Doesn’t
///SubtleHotness
She doesn’t take off one piece of clothing during that entire video. I haz disappoint.
Yeah that black net top all by itself would have been nice.
///SubtleHotness
Fries, tater tots, sweet potato fries, or onion rings? I vote for tots.
Fight me.
I don’t care who he’s related to, BAN THIS ASSHOLE!
What? Bro? I’m just trying to help Swiss get some of those sweet comment counts. Sloopy and banjos got it dicked. I’m just trying to help a bruddah out.
You’re doing a god’s work, Spud.
Trust me, he’s no relation to anyone running this place. Not an Irishman among us.
That’s part of your problem. You need a reliable Irishman to help keep the wheels on around here.
Where do I find one of these reliable Irishmen? All the ones I know are more like you.
It’s a bell curve kind of thing.
I do not understand. These things are not in the same categories except fries and sweet potato fries.
Yeah, I’d go with tater tots. Onions rings if cooked correctly are pretty damn good though. Sweet potato fries are an abomination. Potato Skins are great beer food as well.
Tater tots are a choice her at almost every diner type place. Tots from the fryer are awesome.
I have a similar issue.
I have a ribeye tomahawk.
Demiglace, or jus?
I wouldn’t even need a sauce for that.
That is indeed a tough one. I love a good demiglace, but I would probably go au jus.
Both are from Minors, if that narrows it down.
https://www.amazon.com/Minors-Sauce-Concentrate-Glace-Ounce/dp/B005AK8G6U/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J4B1B5E/
FWIW, the jus at Charthouse? Minor’s au jus prep and sweet red wine.
I would go Demi and thin it down with a little red wine. Served on the side.
Ain’t nothing thin about Demi.
I think the American public have long since decided that one.
Crisps!
Tots in the a.m.
Onion rings after noon.
Tots make the best breakfast tacos. Anyone who disagrees is wrong.
Waffle fries.
I don’t like sweet potatoes and have to avoid fries/tots so onion rings become the default. That said, it’s hard to find them done well.
OMWC votes for tots, too….
You know, when I met him, he kept talking about tots. Silly me, I thought he was talking about the potato kind.
The onion rings at Ringside in Portland, OR. I have no words to do them or the dipping sauce justice. I will only relay the words of our waiter there when I asked if we should order the rings and he replied “yes, it’s the law”.
How long ago did you eat at Ringside? It’s slipped over the years.
It’s been several years, sad to hear that.
Indeed. Used to be legendary.
Well, let’s see. If you’re talking the onion rings at Mustards, well, there’s no other choice. But I know you’re not. So the answer is… deep fried cheese curds.
I want to be a fun guy.
https://www.circa.com/story/2019/02/07/health-wellness/its-not-just-cannabis-some-researchers-are-looking-into-the-medicinal-effects-of-mushrooms
Good shrooms are the best.
It’s been decades for me:(
I spent a summer while in collage with access to fresh shrooms and took them frequently*.
There was one time that I took a massive dose and had an opportunity during the euphoria phase to take my soul out and talk with it.
It turned out to be a life-changing event.
I realized that I had spent my life up to that point like a person watching a movie. I never felt like I was a participant. I came to the realization that someone had to be part of the minority and it was OK to have beliefs that were outside of the norm. In short, I realized that it was OK to be me.
I am an individual and if others don’t agree with my opinions then it is their problem.
*Best was a Trinity double-feature at the drive-in. I laughed so hard I thought I’d pissed my pants.
Jussie Smollett hired a crisis PR firm.
Hmmm….
His best bet would be to shut-up and go silent. Hope the matter dies and they that they can’t prove he’s a lying piece of shit. Continue to collect his paycheck on that Fox show for as long as it lasts.
Where’s my money, Jussie? And what the fuck kind of name is Jussie, anyway?
The investigation is well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And, yes they can prove he’s lying, and now they’re motivated to.
He was fucked the second he refused to hand over his phone. They could have pinged the tower, found out exactly where he was +/- 2 feet with differential GPS, and then pulled tower data for anyone else who was in the area at that time.
For some reason, he didn’t want that.
And, I guarantee you that’s what they’re doing right now. 2 weeks later. With a search warrant.
And what the fuck kind of name is Jussie
Parents drunk/drugged trying to say “jessie”?
Finnish?
Who the fuck is this person?
Why should anyone care?
Does anybody really know what time it is?
25 or 10 to RAAAACISM!!
I hope this wasn’t the Sloopy family:
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/02/11/Houston-family-overcharged-1600-for-pizza/6141549900550/
Anyone who buys Dominos gets no sympathy from me.
Too much flavor?
They delivered a charred brick of grease and tried to claim it was a pizza.
Their sauce is so spicy!
For what I can only assume is recycled cardboard topped with a cheeselike substance it’s not so bad.
I’m fine with dominos. I have it 1-2 times a month when I’m busy.
It’s no Valentino’s, but it’s also not as expensive as Valentino’s.
When you compare Dominos at this point to the chain pizza places nation wide, it sadly wins out.
Who shops chain? I’d make it from scratch before I did that. At least then I know what went wrong.
You?
It’s difficult to get the dough perfectly round. I admit it, that step causes trouble.
Yeah, it it always wants to shrink back after you stretch it.
If you’re having problems tossing your dough you haven’t allowed it to proof long enough.
That was definitely a euphemism.
If you toss your dough for more than 4 hours, seek a professional.
He keeps a spreadsheet.
UCS was once accused of being joyless, but no: there was no joy there to begin with.
Donatos mariachi beef isn’t bad if the jalapenos are hot and you get plenty of sour cream.
We have a local pizza place that makes a decent Tator tot pizza with bacon, scallion, and sour cream. Taste like potato skin pizza. That’s the only pizza they have that I like though and it fails my next day cold leftovers taste.
decent Tator tot pizza
I recognize these individual words, but they don’t mean anything put together.
I’ll support Domino’s just for their libertarian pothole-fixing.
Boom.
Whoever thought that up was a freaking genius.
I just saw a Trump 2020 bumper sticker on a Prius in the Bay Area. Hell must be freezing over.
Insurance scam in progress.
Undercover cop.
I should get a bunch of those and put them on every Prius and Tesla I can find.
None dare call it a hoax.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/12/jussie-smollett-turns-over-limited-and-heavily-redacted-phone-records-in-probe-of-alleged-attack/
The longer he lets this go on, the steeper the penalty is going to be.
Since we’re trying to up comment counts:
Circumcision.
Deep dish.
No thanks, already had mine.
Where else am I going to stash my smegma?
CIRCUMCISION DOES NOT AFFECT SEXUAL PLEASURE
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881635/
MORE
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160414114249.htm
BOW TO YOUR SENSEI
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1743609515301727
How can you compare without a pre/post circumcision experiment?
Duct tape?
I don’t remember my actual circumcision, but I know it had to hurt like hell- I couldn’t walk for a year!
/be here all week
Hey-oh!
Actually, I was told that when I was born, around the same time another boy was born w/o eyelids. Since I was getting circumcised, my tissue was going to be given to a plastic surgeon to fashion eyelids for the kid.
I’m not sure what ever happened to him, but the last I heard he was doing fine. Just a touch cock-eyed.
/try the veal
Hate to think what must happen when he sneezes.
There was a Mohel something something saved snippings something something ‘when you rub it turns into a suitcase.’
Extra crispy.
Would you abort your child if you knew they were going to grow up to love pineapple in deep dish pizza?
Um, that’s not going to cut it.
Well, g’night folks. I need to wake up TedS early to dig out my car and get to work tomorrow. Luckily not Yusef early.
The Mazda Miata is the best sports car.
Miatas are absurdly wonderful.
Sounds like maybe the beta sports car.
It is and is not. The vid is from RegularCars. He does reviews that are comical in nature and he makes an interesting case here.
I’ll keep my GTI.
Drove a GTI once while my car at the time was in the shop. It was nimble and fun. But it was also kinda squirrely. There was a ramp around here that had a bump that I used to test cars on. My daily at the time, with its modified suspension setup, took it with ease as if it was not even there. My current car also did. While not to the level of the other car, it was pretty good for a factory setup on sporty trim of an economy car. The ramp has since been modified and smoothed out, but the GTI allowed for significant tail wiggle when hitting the same ramp before it was altered.
I got rid of my mk6 after 3 years, but this one….I love it.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/QlbtUc9vTJ2E1IpQoVR_ug.iYpqd6efK2bP09Yj6lveyJ
Nice I really like the way the GTI looks. It might have been my first choice, but at the time my son and a friend were having reliability and repair expense problems with their VWs.
“….the GTI allowed for significant tail wiggle when hitting the same ramp ”
Feature not a bug. Perfect handling isn’t so much fun. Quirks that you have to pay attention to and respond to keep it more interesting. My FiST would less much fun without the torque steer. YMMV.
Perfect handling isn’t so much fun.
My lightly and tastefully modified Mazda begs (well, begged..) to differ. I could plant that thing in a corner and smile. ///ZoomZoom
They make a pretty sweet second or third car but are kind of impractical for a primary.
I drove a BMW Z3 as an only car for 7 years… in Texas. It was pretty awesome in Houston traffic,
Bimmer’s from that generation have very weird clutches and awkward shifters.
I must respectfully disagree. The damn thing was telepathic.
Doubtless. Went to the dealer to try one on – a 4/5’s scale me would probably love it. Sitting in one is like wearing shoes two sizes too small.
The Toyota MR2 Spyder looked awesome on paper. When I went to drive one I discovered that you lie flat in the cockpit. Did not buy.
“Only for chicks that hate their dads”.
Beautiful.
“But only for chicks who hate their dads”
And?
I like his Model T review.
Thx
The answer is always Miata, but I wouldn’t go that far. RX-7s still exist in the wild.
Same challenge as Honda fans, try finding a good, unmolested one.
Random note: Arby’s traditional Greek gyro isn’t bad. The tzatziki sauce is a bit lacking, however.
I have yet to try their reuben.
Tzatziki: Cucumber, yogurt (preferably Greek, natch), boatloads of mint, salt, pepper, and garlic. Occasionally a dusting of oregano and/or marjoram. That’s the way it was made on Crete when I was there, and that’s the way God intended it.
IT’S NOT THAT HARD!
Caraway?
They would slaughter you in a dark alleyway in Heraklion for suggesting that.
Also, no friggin’ dill!
OMG – just spotted on my TV schedule:
Hoarders – Season 10 Sneak Peek – tonite at 9:58 PM
Sweeeeet
Move over and pass the popcorn.
It better not be all rehashed stories, either.
But yeah every time I think it’s disappeared for good – it comes back.
Love love love Matt Paxton. Every time I’m feeling blue, I remember something he said on one episode: “We’re all 5 bad decisions away from shitting in a bucket.” I like to think he meant ALL of us.
Yeah he’s fun when he gets riled up too. Whatever variety of southern accent that is gets even thicker.
I have watched every single episode of Hoarders.
I regret nothing.
They need to stop torturing those people!
I can get you some footage of my neighbors’ back yard if you need a fix.
It’s the cleaning part that’s cathartic.
*Glances around at desk full of construction plans to reference from projects that have already been completed*
They don’t do a job-oriented version of that, do they?
I charge $50 an hour, travel, and per diem.
What? Do you work for the government? The consultation could be done in 10 min via Skype.
Consultation. Pffftt. I toss you out of your office and clean it.
My desk is just like my assembly lines: squared away. I was 5S before there was 5S.
But it’s not about cleaning: it’s about how you work. I almost never touch anything more than once; I don’t have things I use once a year in the way of things I use every day. I manage projects the same way: everything thought through and documented on the front end.
The arguments never end about how it’s easier to stack stuff, look for stuff, step over stuff; I always congratulate anyone who has the energy to touch the same thing three times: I’m too lazy to work that way. Do it once, do it right, forget about it.
This is my thought process as well. HOWEVER… the forgetting about it part has caused me no end of trouble in my subordination to supervisors and such. Cuz, well, I did it. Did it right, but whatever. Can’t remember doing it or what the hell it was even about. Put me on the spot I will swear on my not-yet-dead mother’s grave I never touched it.
Now I’m in a position where everything’s electronic and I can go back and search and refresh my memory when something/someone comes back on me and says, “Hey, do you remember…?” *search search search* *refresh refresh refresh* “Yep, sure do.”
*shudders*
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/12/veep-writer-heard-rumor-sen-klobuchar-staffer-shave-legs/
If she’ll belittle me while I do it I’ll pay her.
Buzzfeed votes to unionize:
https://twitter.com/business/status/1095461649409036289
YES! YES!
Coffin, meet nails.
LOL dummies.
Oh yes, the CWA will protect them. Lol.
Well, it worked at Gawker didn’t it?
And all those CWA call center employees whose jobs are now in India.
Wishing they had learned to code.
[muntz laugh]
Had my annual employee review today. Apparently I am very productive even though I spend (in my perception) an inordinate amount of time
shit-postingassociating with youdeplorablefine people. My department is doing well and we have plenty of work. So that’s good. There are a few areas (relatively minor) I already knew I needed to improve on that were pointed out. So no surprises. Being able to self-reflect is a net-positive. Also, I am going to be getting trained and more intricately involved in more intricate aspects of what we do. So that should be fun while.That aside, cats > dogs.
Scratch the ‘while’. Idk how that got there.
Obviously you deserved to be fired and blackballed.
Well–looky looky at who’s racist all of a sudden!
Couldn’t just say, “balled”, could you?
Gratuitous gun pic of the day https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/m-gBltLEQU2LPnpZeYcPNg.iS88UkWoURjxfMLFTKFU5i
And a bonus pic for Suthen.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/ur72jyPNTZKLY2nWYLR8DQ.JYUfpAe4qZrz2Kjh3nPfKl
Both are good.
Noiyce.
How do you like it? i’m thinking about getting one for my carry once I have lived here long enough to get an unrestricted permit.
It’s an absolutely fantastic pistol. For me, it would be too big for edc.
I’m contemplating getting a 229 Legion Sao too.
EDC is going to be an odd thing, since I choose to obey my workplace’s rules of no guns onsite. So I’d only be carrying on evenings and weekends, and because of the weather up here, clothing helps.
I”m hoping that all the kinks are worked out of the P365 before I get my unrestricted carry for summer.
I like those grocery store refrigerated pizzas you get in the deli or processed meat area. Not frozen ones, but the ones that are refrigerated and sitting on cardboard and wrapped in cellophane.
Fight me.
I bought one Friday, got it home with a bunch of toppings to add, unwrapped it: moldy. It’s been sitting in the freezer till garbage day tomorrow.
Walmart has some really nice ones – massive amounts of mozzarella, etc. (haven’t seen that one as much recently – but they cook up very nicely and survive well in the fridge for reheating). – and under $10.
Well, second night in Madison and I was taken out for Indian. That follows last night which was Laotian. And of course, I order it native hot. And wonder of wonders, that’s how they served it to me.
/seared anus
Bouta start dropping seared bricks?
Needed: ice cream bidet.
Obviously, they assumed you were an Arab and liked hot food.
Where’d you go? Still up for a drink somewhere? Or packed in. They were good at plowing
today.
I’m around tomorrow evening if you are.
Last night, the old Willie Street location for Lao Laan-Xang. Tonight was Swad on Monona.
Tomorrow works. Can you get my email from my registration here?
Sadly I don’t really like asian spicing, I’ve heard though that they’re
both very good. Madison I think really has excellent food, especially
considering it’s size. As I told a friend from out of state during a
visit here, Wisconsin people aren’t fat because the food is bad.
I’ll drop you a line. I’m a guest of the supplier I’m working with and the guy who is my equivalent there (who has been taking me out) is also a major food and music enthusiast. Super nice guy, and he thought Hat and Hair was hilarious. So he may have some suggestions.
OMWC, any chance you are around Thursday night in Madison? I’ll be in town (Stoughton) to see a really good jazz duet and have an extra ticket. It’s mostly 30’s and 40’s jazz standards with similar type originals. It’s just a guitar player and male and female singers. Female singer is fantastic.
I was taken out for Indian.
Dots or feathers?
Oh my golly-gosh, indeedy do.
Your tag line there, so to speak, reminded me of one of the oddities (they were numerous) in the book Memoir from Antproof Case. The protagonist was served turkey anus with the assurance that it was kosher turkey anus.
Actually, I escaped better this morning than I had expected.
I did that at a Thai place once. I ended up drinking everyone’s beer at the table.
So you met up with Steve Smith?
SNOW SMITH.
Martinis.
So a “dry martini” has very little vermouth and a “very dry martini” has even less. I’ve heard of a method to make a very dry martini is to swirl a bit of vermouth in the glass before discarding it and filling the glass with chilled gin.
I’ve discovered what I call “The Lazy Man’s Martini”.
At my local grocery I found olives that were pickled in vermouth. I pour a couple of jiggers of gin over ice and add three of these olives.
Good enough for me!
I’m a bit of a martini heretic in that I like a significant amount of vermouth. I like to taste the combination of gin and vermouth, not just gin. If I wanted just gin, I’d pour myself a glass of gin.
This exactly. You want a gin up, order a gin up.
The oldest martini recipes are 2:1.
Also, refrigerate your vermouth after opening. (Dry and sweet.) When most people say they hate vermouth, they are often talking about rancid vermouth.
That’s often called a “French martini”.
Once I’ve drained about 1/7 of the gin bottle, I fill it with vermouth and keep it in the freezer.
/lifehacks
Gimlets work well that way, as well. But make your own lime cordial.
I keep my bottle of Antica in the cupboard and it holds up quite well. But it’s also the 375ml, so it doesn’t take as long to go through it.
I hated martinis until I had one made correctly – with vermouth.
Same here. I like about a 3:1. As you say, if I just wanted a cold glass of gin,
I’d have ordered one. Similarly, I know they’re trying to be “nice”, but I
don’t like it when bartenders make the drink strong. The drink has a ratio,
make it with the right ratio. If I want more alcohol, I’ll order another drink
when I’m done with this one.
Yes. The extra pour is for drinks like Morgan/Cokes or 7/7s. If someone orders something like a Manhattan or a Martini, make it the way it’s supposed to be made.
I’ve heard a “very dry martini” means that you wave the cap of the vermouth bottle over the glass of gin.
That was my understanding. Apparently I’m a bit of a heretic.
Martini meant pickle brine for my and my brother.
And topping off the martini jar with tap water and salt and garlic powder and whatever happened to be in reach.
You re not wrong….
“Wave a bottle of vermouth over the martini glass, then fill with gin. Be sure to use good vermouth.”
Best martini EVER was one that RAHeinlein made for us.
The best one I has was from the Continental in Quebec City. 60 year old waiter, never saw the bartender. And I didn’t even get the “luxe” one.
“I’ve heard of a method to make a very dry martini is to swirl a bit of vermouth in the glass before discarding it and filling the glass with chilled gin.”
It’s swirled in the shaker, not the glass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAU4B4Fmhkg
OT: Had my first dentist’s appointment in 13 years… Amazingly, only one cavity. I was seriously expecting no fewer than four and possibly a complete removal of at least one tooth (I do tend to assume the worst).
I guess I’m on point with my flossing and brushing game.
I’m dreading my next dental visit. It has been 2 years, and I know that a filling has fallen out in the interim.
Use Mi plus paste. It can undo minor damage pretty quickly.
I am kindof ashamed that I have not been to the dentist in, probably, 5 years, all the while having dental coverage. Luckily I have not had any apparent and/or major dental issues, but I now dread the day I do finally schedule an appointment.
I never go to the dentist. The few times I’ve gone they’ve always told me I needed some procedure such as getting a cavity filled, root planing, or some other shit. I never did it, and nothing ever came of it.
I need one pretty badly but I’m having a hell of a time finding one. There are dozens in my neighborhood, who the fuck knows how to choose one?!
If you don’t have any symptoms, just schedule a cleaning and check-up. If they say you need work done, then schedule a cleaning and check-up with someone else, and see what they say.
I have symptoms. The problem is online ratings are completely useless and I don’t know anyone trustworthy in my immediate area. My previous dentist is a long haul away to Manhattan – screw that. I’ve narrowed it down to 3 or 4 choices so far but holy hell what a PITA.
Yea, finding a reputable dentist is the hard part. Luckily, I just went to the dentist who took care of me in childhood and who is still patronized by my whole family, so I know he’s on the up and up.
Surely, things would be better if the government ran healthcare and you only had one state-appointed dentist to choose from. /sarc
What I want is a one-stop-shop – I need it all. I found one with 3 (!) docs – that’s top on the list so far. My last one was literally just the doc and her receptionist. That has some advantages but one big disadvantage in getting shuttled around to specialists who knows where.
Why, what’s wrong with your teeth, if you don’t mind me asking? Not that I’m an expert or anything. What I do know is dentists often try to sell expensive procedures.
I won’t go into details but there is a pretty obvious problem in one corner. I’m aware of the upselling – that’s just another thing to consider but the current issue needs addressing sometime soon.
It’s been about 11 years for me. I keep meaning to go but just haven’t gotten around to it. No problems with my teeth.
I think it depends on your how well you clean your teeth, diet, body chemistry, and immune system. Some people might need dentistry, and some might not.
I floss, brush, and mouthwash two times a day religiously, and I rarely drink soda or other acidic/sugary beverages. I also go through a routine after every meal where I pick my teeth (including the occlusal surface of the molars) with a toothpick, swish aggressively with water, and chew a piece of sugarfree gum.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that my insurance covered 100% of the cost of the exam and cleaning, so I’ll probably go every six months from now on.
Unless I got one since my last dentist visit I’ve never had a cavity. They just seem to to get pissed and take it out on my mouth.
“They were good at plowing
today.”
Someone else is going to have to take this one on. Several hours of trolling has worn me out.
You’ve done so well.
Normally they tell him that if he finishes his drawing without eating all the crayons.
Dammit.
I was way off.
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Spud, you need to mock this guy.
I beat him to it.
I can’t even…
Is that your wallet getting incinerated on the other burner there?
9.99/lb, Choice.
My wife told me this afternoon that she was going out to dinner with friends, and that I could come al….. and then she heard the tires screeching as I raced to the store.
So like $15/lb minus the bone handle that needs to be trimmed down/off now?
I don’t get it. Looks like a tasty handle of meat.
It barely makes contact with the pan. I preheated, threw it in for a sear, and only the edge was sizzling.
Had to throw it in the oven at 450 with butter to save it.
Uh…hacksaw?
I… uh…
How often does a hacksaw come into play when you’re cooking dinner?
For those of us not on a first-name basis with their butcher, rather a lot.
^^^This guy gets it.
-1 Jeffrey Dahmer.
Cleaver.
That comment was a cut above.
Mojeaux, if you weren’t married, I’d be angry with myself I’m not haunting your dreams.
Awwww. *blush*
Ahh, that makes more sense.
You don’t own any saws?
Yes. They’re in my dirty garage.
Scotch-Brite, Barkeeper’s Friend to clean your saw, and Silpat mat to hold the steak still while you cut off the bone.
I may as well just punch a cow to death in my front yard.
You’ve never done that?
So missing out.
This is the closest I’ve ever gotten.
I may as well just punch a cow to death in my front yard.
The vet did that a month ago in our backyard. About 10 yards from my kids’ playsets. Of course, he punched with a .357.
And then?
Don’t forget to pre-dial 911 and lay out some tourniquets.
What makes Barkeeper’s Friend better than regular cleanser (Bon Ami, Comet, etc.)?
I don’t know, myself. I bought some and it doesn’t do the wonders on my stainless steel pan that I was promised.
I have always been a fan of Comet. One day I picked up BKF because I needed something quickly.
For some reason, it took off the black marks pans make on my white enamel/ceramic sink more easily than Comet did.
Less elbow grease, basically.
Bar Keeper’s friend is oxalic acid.
If you have anything stainless, it’s your, um, friend.
Oh, yes, stainless. I forgot.
I have two very expensive, very large stainless cookie sheets I use to roast spatchcocked birds on. They get nasty.
After one Thanksgiving, I thought they were unsalvageable. A little BKF made into a paste and rubbed in, left for a while, scrubbed off, and it was good as new.
I’m glad you mentioned the paste. I’ve accidentally bought the liquid, and it’s worthless. Shaker can or GTFO.
PS. Wear gloves
Maybe I’m not using enough. Also, I didn’t make it into a paste first, I just shook some on like it says on the can and then added water.
Looks like Rhywun (I have no idea how to pronounce that, it’s like I’m trying to read Beowulf) and Mojo disagree on the stainless thing.
Don’t make me go all Luther again.
Anyway I’ve admitted I might be using it wrong.
BKF undoes oxidation. That’s it.
If my Shuns have pitting or rusting, BKF immediately, rinse, dry, and then oil.
“Anyway I’ve admitted I might be using it wrong.”
It’s cool. I would have no idea anyway.
Ah. I was expecting it to ungunk the pan too.
My pans ungunked. Burnt-on gunk was ungunked.
It might. I use Easy Off for tough carbon deposits.
P.S. Open a window. Or don’t.
Well I’m convinced to keep at it then. It’s really just some tiny streaks of gunk that soap does nothing against. Not even a big deal – it’s not like it’s stopping me from using it 🙂
I dunno if anyone involved in this discussion is still around, but, if you need an excellent food/gunk remover for things like grill grates and non-seasoned pans, you might give this a try.
For grilled-on foods on a ceramic coated grill plate-used on an induction cook top, it’s the best stuff. I think I’ve used it on a couple of pans, too (not very often).
I throw my grill grates on the sidewalk, to knock the chunks off, run a ho over them and then start a fire under them. Makes the food taste better. A little Iron in for your blood.
I figured you for a ho runner, but…damn.
I, uh..that seems disproportionate….
Looks still frozen. I think it’s just out to thaw. Or was the point the size
of the bone?
(cue another joke in 3..2..1, apparently I’m just setting them up today)
I had a Mustang from this generation. It was fun to drive but shitty to own.
I drove an ‘89 LX 5.0 for a number of years. Loved that car, until it got stolen from a golf course parking lot.
Never trust paid companionship with your keys.
Of course, you know that now.
Public course a few miles from the get-toe. It reappeared in the same area six weeks later with another 7,000 miles on it and some damage. The cop I talked said that it had probably been running drugs from the border to the Bay Area.
Is the course within spitting distance of Tilden?
No. Franklin Canyon. Homies came out of Pinole, most likely.
I worked ambulance in Richmond for several years in the ‘80s.
Totally worth it to be near In N Out.
That was ’90s, though. My stomach has a good memory.
I lived in central Contra Costa county for 30 years. We moved to Idaho in 2012. I’ve eaten a pile of In N Out.
There was a place in Vallejo called Bud’s Burgers. What In N Out would like to be. And twice cooked fries.
For us poor Berkeley kids, we had the choice of Pinole or the Oakland airport for In N Out. I don’t exaggerate when I say that we planned weeks ahead.
Oh, and McDonalds has twice cooked fries. First cook is at the Golden State Foods facility.
And yes, they’re the best fast food fries. Fight me.
Simplot(THE ag company here) has a French fry line dedicated just to McDonalds.
McDonald’s fries cooked in beef lard were the schnizzle.
I have property in the Sierras. The In N Out in Auburn is the halfway point. I ate there going both directions.
That was like me and Kettleman City.
Another guy with a 5.0
https://youtu.be/rog8ou-ZepE
After reading good review of the 2019 Mustang, I have tempted to buy one as a fun car.
“have been tempted”
Petco is shutting down Drs Foster and Smith. Goddamit.
I’m surprised it took them 4 years to close it down.
I didn’t even realize they’d been bought until a year or two ago.
I didn’t know until 10 minutes ago. That’s too bad. They had to know or suspect this would be the end game. But, I bet they got a fat payday.
That’s disappointing. They’ve had some good deals on dog meds.
Jeffers and Valley Vet Supply are worth checking out.
Thanks also. I haven’t started looking for a replacement yet. I really liked their Septi Soothe (chlorhexidine) shampoo. Did a really good job of treating the irritated skin on my dog’s feet.
Because I am sufficiently inebriated, I will now praise the USPS.
I had two packages scheduled to arrive today. One was some of those insulated work gloves that were recommended by a Glib over the weekend, and the other was a couple of “value packs” of 22/45 magazines that I had a discount on.
We had a bit of a snowstorm today. When I got home, both packages had been wrapped in a plastic bag and tucked up against my garage door. The poor government worker had to exit his vehicle to make that happen.
I will leave a present in my mailbox. Probably some salsa from Texas.
Which gloves?
These: https://www.galeton.com/rough-rider-trade-gloves-thermal-insulation-3-pairs/26603PR-product/?krypto=xXJLEtlSFLFNkBXT73feeCoa82Z9t9IbIY549FMBcEav5ZaJJujyOkLSwmp2L%2BVA%2BhNB9wH9xiT%2B%2ButxWXsrR7vtT5X1y3%2FtLC2iswa0dIgb%2FbinmJiwPy1m3CTH8VTUTXsevm9hfc%2BxvGIDT91HjapQH1kW3NFQ48rkI1KL%2FIWhZXsp5cHj%2BVvhzTFK3gfp
I think they might be factory seconds, as the tag has been cut off of each left glove.
Thanks, I’ll have to check those out.
I’ve never had an issue with a mail carrier. An occasional fuck-wit at the post office, but never a mail carrier.
I will make up for your praise.
I am waiting on a package from Alabama.
On Monday, the tracking information page said the package would be delivered on Monday and that it was “in transit to the next facility.” I thought, “Hmmm, I bet it will be here Tuesday”. The package didn’t arrive Monday.
This morning, I checked the tracking information page. There is no longer a delivery estimate. The tracking information shows the package left an Alabama sorting facility sometime early Tuesday morning and is “in transit to the next facility.”
Given the storm, I expect the package will arrive Thursday or Friday.
Deep Impact is a horrific movie.
You need the one with Stormy Daniels.
That’s called Soft Impact.
Deep Impact is an horrific movie.
FIFY
Ooh la la
Ooh La La!?
Ted S’s lost cousin
Lost BRITISH cousin.
I thought “ooh la la” was French?
What’s British for touche?
Bum.
LOL
I’m conflicted about this article on the Fyre Festival:
https://newrepublic.com/article/153095/fyre-festival-huge-scam-netflixs-fyre-documentary-scam-too
On the one hand, I preferred the Hulu documentary.
On the other hand,
“Both movies seem to channel the spirit of the times, bedeviled by grifters and cheats, all presided over by the occupant of the White House”
So… if they’re against Netflix, I’m for it.
What the fuck did Trump have to do with the Frye festival?
He presided over it. It’s right there in plain English.
Que?
I heard the Hulu doc was more Trump-this, Trump-that than the other one.
Don’t really care either way, though.
The Netflix doc had the true believer site manager.
They played up the stereotypical aloof gay character who was going to blow some guy to get supplies through Bahamian customs.
It was not amusing, and bordered on the offensive.
So you’re saying it was good?
I would say Jesse hardest hit but:
1. It’s been awhile since he’s posted and
2. It’s not fair to Rhywun who’s a regular.
Aren’t there around a half-dozen gay posters here? Not that you should collectivize people.
At least. My joke is in the same spirit as every other off color joke on the site. It’s a play on ridiculous stereotypes and no one, including me, means a word of it.
Like I tell my NSA handlers every week, 90% of what I say on here is in jest.
It’s the other 10% we need to worry about.
700!
We did it for you, Swiss. Not because we wanted to, but because we lo..like you, ya big lug.
While I could find holes in that intention, I prefer to remain neutral.
“Nasal spray made from KETAMINE wins FDA panel’s backing in a major step toward using the party drug to treat depression”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6697129/U-S-FDA-panel-recommends-approval-J-Js-depression-drug.html
Ketamine is legal as an anesthetic. So I don’t see why a shrink couldn’t use it already. Doctors prescribe drugs “off-label” all the time.
You need the paperwork to back a scheduled prescription.
If a shrink prescribed ketamine in significant quantities, they’d get their ticket pulled pretty quickly.
Yet, there are plenty of GP’s who hand out SSRI’s like candy with no idea what they are doing.
And what schedule are those?
Not disagreeing here. This is why things are they way they are.
I see your point. The controlled substance thing is completely retarded.
My niece has problems with anxiety related to her other problems. But the docs won’t give her anything to help with the immediate problems because she might become DUN DUN DUN!!!! ADDICTED! Yet they’re putting this teen girl on all kinds of anti-depressants that are known to cause suicidal thoughts in teens. That’s some great doctorin.
Sorry CPRM. That’s a miserable situation.
Sorry 🙁
Benzodiazepines are not addictive. Deductively, there is no pharmacological model for addiction because they aren’t dopaminergic. Inductively, the CDC, nor any other epidemiological research, has not been able to find a population of addicts.
Part of the reason is the WOD and the “opioid crisis”. The other reasons are that there are the usual dumbass puritanical objections to “feelgood” medicines, and that they are all so old there is no money in them.
There’s already ketamine infusion centers for depression run by psychiatrists. But it’s via IV, not nasal.
Not yet, anyway.
I don’t know about the rest of the slackers round here, but for the two year anniversary tomorrow you’re getting DP’D with Hat and The Hair from Sugar Free and me.
Technically, wouldn’t Hat, Hair, and you be considered “air tight”?
I’m a Cartoonist, not a Vacuum Cleaner Jim!
I think you sell yourself short. I have no doubt you could suck it up and get the job done.
I’m no Shark. Sure I might Hoover down all the beer at night, but I Bistle at the thought..
What was the saying from The X Files? I want to believe (maybe? It’s been a long time.)
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/02/12/cant-be-a-coincidence-wait-is-this-why-gavin-newsom-killed-the-high-speed-rail-project/
It is curious given how on-board Gov. Dreamy
isclaims to be with the whole rest of the green enchilada.That’s the only reason I give this any credence. It’s more likely he realizes how much money the state will waste on it, it won’t be completed while he is in office, and he’ll have nothing to brag about when he runs for senator or president.
*Sad Trombone*
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/watch-msnbc-reporters-squirm-during-live-update-no-collusion-intel-committee-news
Even Glenn Greenwald is laying into MSNBC. Sad trombone indeed.
Yeah, I’m standing way back to see how all that shakes out first. I’m not even sure if Trump’s tweeted about it yet.
It doesn’t really matter, the House is going to ‘Investigate’ until 2020.
I’ll fall over if he hasn’t. I’m not on Twitter so I’m relying on news reports.
Update: yes he did.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/12/us-senate-finds-no-collusion-trump-russia/
Oh FFS.
Classy. Very classy. The classiest.
I Tweeted today as well. Very meta.
“Thank you to @MSNBC!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1095470726436569088
The President also retweeted this:
“I don’t feel an ounce of empathy for all of the imbeciles who bought into the Russian collusion hoax now that it’s been entirely debunked. You were warned for over a year about this scam & you fell for it anyway. You did this to yourself.”
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1095454563547660288
“But Robert Mueller knows things that the Senate investigators (a.k.a., the Senate Intelligence Committee) do not have access to.”
Translation: “Help me, Robiwan Kenobi, you’re our only hope!”
Russia seems to want to go the China route with controlled internet access: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/12/russia_disconnect_internet_intranet/
Saying it’s just in case of cyber-attacks but if it works I won’t be surprised if they try to go completely offline.
Reminds me of this Gem from Armenia.
Oh that’s gold
Now all her friends have to listen to her brag how she shut down the internet.
But she didn’t ‘blow it up’ so Kim K still is one up on her.
I’m out. It’s up to you overnight Glibs to get this thing over 800 comments.
Do it for Swiss. Do it for the Glibertariat. Testudo my friends. Testudo.
I’m working as fast as I can. Sheesh.
You know who else worked hard at achieving a numerical milestone that would be referenced for decades to come?
Euler? Avagadro? Descartes?
Well you’re slow. I’m watching videos between posting to not flood the comments and look like somebody who has nothing better to do. That’s right I said look like I have nothing better to do.
We did it, chat! We did it!
Let’s hear your acceptance speech PZ.
Ahem…
What in Davy Jones’ locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I’ll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I’ve led numerous raids on fishing villages, and raped over 300 wenches. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o’ swag. I’ll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o’ pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o’ monsoon that’ll wipe ye off the map. You’re sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o’er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o’ the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I’ll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o’ the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn’t, ye didn’t, and now ye’ll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I’ll shit fury all over ye and ye’ll drown in the depths o’ it. You’re fish food now.
Thank you, and God bless America.
Bill DeBlasio continues to sniff his own farts.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/12/new-york-diversity-school/
Lots of prime derp but this stands out –
We already know that translates to more teachers getting beat up. Forward!
Sure but the beatings will be egalitarian. Really that’s what is important.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
https://quillette.com/2019/02/10/public-educations-dirty-secret/
I just read that excellent article (and comments) on Quillette about the public “education” problems in the US. It confirmed what I’ve believed for a long time – that a huge part of the problem is the push to hand every single kid a diploma (regardless of performance or behavior) so that you can paper over any embarrassing “disparities”.
They’re not doing anyone any favors at all by leaving the most disruptive kids in class. For one, they’re wasting resources by keeping a student there who refuses to learn. And since they have to constantly stop class to deal with the disruptions, they’re diminishing the quality of education that all the other kids are getting.
I’m just getting sick to fucking death of this “well-intentioned, feel-good” mentality of so many Leftist policies. It’s ignorant madness.
Without the feel good mentality all they would have is identity politics and redistributive economic policies. Hmmm. Now that I think about it, who does that sound like?
Except for the last line of ‘Good night and God Bless’ (which he probably did say, but I couldn’t stand to watch the whole thing) in tomorrow’s cartoon all of Trump’s lines were from the the SOTU, just think about that while watching and you’ll understand how my brain works, and it will be scary.
That makes it the greatest SotU address in history.
I’m glad you seem pleased with the outcome of your ‘investment’. *Grabs another beer paid for by Pan*
Pleased enough to consider upping my investment.
CPRM needs a new contribution level: Patron Saint.
Trshmnstr might earn it, once he ascends from Supreme Overlordship.
trshmnstr would have surpassed the MAGA Supreme level several times over already if he went through Patreon. That’s how he earned that honorary title.
I miss the letters to Penthouse. Even more so when I read this.
https://quillette.com/2019/02/11/the-confessions-of-a-male-feminist-sex-addict/
I once spent a night at the Happy Hooker’s place in Amsterdam. I met this American girl that was staying there, and she invited me along, which I accepted without reservation. Xaviera was a lovely host, she regaled us with stories betweeen puffs on a large spliff. Sex was in the air. The American girl was a redhead, with a toned body and eager attitude. I couldn’t resist grabbing her ample ass as I passed her a joint and she was happy to return the favor. You can imagine where the tension could lead to…
I’m running out of gas. Where’s Sir Digby when he’s needed most?
Naked and intruding I’d guess.
Hmmm. Not sure I want to ask for pictures.
(his screen name here for a bit was ‘not a naked intruder’)
I completely forgot.
Uh, excuse me, but it was NOT a Naked Intruder.
I think I paid for correct punctuation…
Working at a country music station when I find this to be slow and sold out really makes me question reality some times.
CPRM, I stumbled upon this YouTube channel. You might be interested. I’m not sure.
https://youtu.be/xJ463y3pMcc
I duno, I find her cute, but she also reminds me of my 8yr old niece, I don’t know shit about music, I’m tone deaf, and half deaf…
800?
I was going to post an interesting (but ultimately false) factoid I learned, then double-checked it to make sure I didn’t show my ass, but wanted to help hit 800 anyway. So I’m posting this instead.
send bobs and visine
Bobs
The ass showing you mentioned. Is it still on the table?
She’s Mormon, so you have to get the church elder’s go ahead first. (sorry bout the Mormon Joke Mojoux, but grew up with a bunch of you’s, and you know it’s true)
*snortle*
Do I strike you as a person who lets other people boss her around?
Well, if you ever want to try it, I can recommend some folks that are good at bossing people around…
It’s in a recliner at the moment.
You’d have to be a contortionist to show it from there.
read that as ‘cartoonist’ and felt very proud, until I re-read it.
“The Fetid, Right-Wing Origins of “Learn to Code”
How an online swarm has developed a sophisticated mechanism to harass and gaslight journalists—and to get mainstream media outlets to join in.
GamerGate. A campaign originating on Reddit targeted a South by Southwest panel on online harassment at which Mitchell was scheduled to speak. It received thousands of “down-votes” when audiences were encouraged to vote on proposed panels at the festival. Mitchell and others involved with the panel were bombarded with abuse and threats, accused of being biased against GamerGate.
“I was overwhelmed,” Mitchell told me. “They collected our information, created lists of our names, then made up accounts to pretend to be in a rational debate while attacking us on the back end.”
In the end, South By Southwest convened a separate Online Harassment Summit, at which security was so tight due to threats of violence that, Mitchell told me, she “had a security detail the whole time.”
The attacks on Mitchell and other panelists were vicious, while wrapped in a thin guise of concern about “ethics in games journalism.” This was the rationale for the entire GamerGate harassment campaign, an ugly welter of death threats, stalking, SWATting, and precision targeting of women, particularly women of color, for abuse. But that rationale was taken seriously by both media outlets, which wrote up the controversy as if it were a genuine conflict between two sides of equal legitimacy, and by advertisers, which pulled support for media organizations targeted by “Operation Disrespectful Nod”—a GamerGate brigading campaign.
GamerGate was essentially a public test of weapons online trolls would use to inflict hell on anyone who they perceived as enemies, with a central focus on journalists. Its tactics have only grown in sophistication in the intervening years. In particular, it was notable for the way it used a consistent, specious narrative—ethics in games journalism—to cover for its ugliest actions.
“The basis was that only white male gamers are actually good at games. So everyone else needs to go through some ‘ethics’ screening,” Mitchell explained. “That women sleep around and minorities are only given jobs because of their skin not because they are qualified. So that became the ruse. The narratives are used as cover.”
GamerGate used sympathetic journalists to add a patina of legitimacy to its cover narrative—a tactic that has been repeated with the ongoing harassment campaign called “Learn to Code.””
https://newrepublic.com/article/153019/fetid-right-wing-origins-learn-code
https://twitter.com/LordScrump/status/1093623356421754885
Remember kids, everything is Gamergate, and everyone is literally Hitler, who invented video games to oppress white women.
Oh, I thought it was journalists telling coal miners and factory workers to adapt to the new economy and learn to code. My bad. I’ll stop with jokes now.
Why does the media keep acting like “threats of violence” are likely to be an actual safety risk? What’s the ratio of fulfilled vs. unfulfilled “threats of violence” from the Internet?
And of course, I’ve skipped over the point that alleged threats from the Right are always taken as dead-serious premonitions while threats from the Left are glossed over as mere words from anonymous persons.
Holy crap, it’s like a dog who can fly.
https://twitter.com/emzoticofficial/status/1094328370064707588
It’s weird how some animals on an island grow smaller, while other grow bigger.
I did not see that coming.
“Cursed Boomer Memes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9O5aIIWH8w
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1095008081652666368
“Kamala Harris says she smoked marijuana in college while listening to music that didn’t exist yet
Sen. Kamala Harris, California Democrat and 2020 presidential hopeful, appears to have fibbed during an interview Monday about smoking marijuana in college while listening to music by Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.
Ms. Harris cited both rappers during an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” radio program in response to a question posed moments after she acknowledged smoking marijuana in college.
“What were you listening to when you [were] high? What was on?” she was asked during the segment. “Was it Snoop?”
“Oh yeah, definitely Snoop,” Ms. Harris responded. “Tupac for sure,” she continued.
Neither of the future rap legends had released music by the time Ms. Harris completed graduate school, however.”
https://twitter.com/WashTimes/status/1095383813113475073
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/12/kamala-harris-says-she-smoked-marijuana-in-college
Great Scott!
sin,
Dr. Emmitt Brown
Alright, this does it for me. Sleep is up next. See you bastards tomorrow night so you can tell me how great my cartoons are.
So…
Is it just me and C. Anacreon doing the posting now?
Chafed? You rang?
Actually, after seeing the awful shit some of you like to ingest, maybe being late to the party is OK. Gott im Himmel, Cole slaw? Well any “slaw”, really. Cabbage and acetic acid-based solutions are the Dave Weigel and Amanda Marcotte of food.
And, Domino’s pizza? I would have thought that the smell of something akin to a sweaty gym sock stored in the ass of a homeless man would have clued you in to the awfulness awaiting you. I see now that I was wrong.
Yes, and it’s not even bedtime yet here in California.
Wish this place didn’t always die down so early — at 11pm Pacific time I’m finally done with everything and can actually sit at my computer, but nooooooo, everyone is gone except me and Sir Digby. Well at least he did a nice rag on the entire thread in just two short paragraphs, quite impressive!
I guess I might as well hit the hay as well. G’night.
‘Night, yo.
I’m up.
I’m sure you’re thrilled by that.
I was up then, but I don’t tend to stop by here before work.
And my car was plowed in, mandating I break out the shovel to disinterr it. We didn’t even get a lot of snow, but all of it got pushed onto my car (I exaggerate).
Oh, and you were right to worry about ice. After the plow came by, the snow turned to freezing rain, and encased the snowbank in a crust of ice along with the car.
The problem is, you’re using Pacific time. Move to a real time zone and you’d be more snchronized with the population here.
Good morning Ted. I’m just home from work.
Regarding slaw – The key is to keep it on the dry side; although, the Colonel makes such a toothsome product I suspect witchcraft (or MSG). I prefer it on the slightly sour, very peppery side; mine varies with making. Pretty much mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, black pepper, salt, poppy seeds, large grainy mustard, maybe a splash of buttermilk or dollop of sour cream – tinker and taste. Slaw is yummy on burgers, fried fish sammiches, falafel, fried chicken sammiches, most any sammich really.