After a week of deluge, the sun broke through, and I managed to build up a bit of Vitamin D. Other than the time I wasted inside commenting here. And doing morning links.
It’s February 24th, and February 24th does not just bring any ordinary list of birthdays: today is the birthday of Abe Vigoda, who Yahweh-willing, will always be with us. Also whiner Joe Lieberman and singer/songwriter Michelle Shocked (whom SP and I saw live a few years back, just before she destroyed her own career by saying un-PC things- it was a GREAT show).
But you little mamzers are here to ignore the news, not to ignore my patter, so let’s bring it on.
“But it’s not REAL socialism!”
Rub and Tug Gate expands. Could this be a triggering event to get government out of morality policing? Nah.
Follow up to my link from yesterday. Feinstein feels the rage of the Left, who love to use kids as talking props.
Not that it matters, we’re all dooooooomed! It’s SCIENCE!
Adjacent Jew Haters surprised once again, using kids as target props. “Wait, they’re going to shoot back???” Of course, journalist being what they are, they can’t even get the age of the dead rioting kid consistent.
The latest fashionable threat to our precious bodily fluids.
Here’s a guy who knows how to do it right- when opportunity knocks, answer. It’s all racism, I’m sure.
Well, this is a step down from Nikki Haley in every possible way. But it is fun to see the panic.
TERRIFYING new warship! Hide under the bed!
Could the entire North Carolina legislature be illegitimate? This judge seems to think so. (h/t Lt Fish)
A Cessna 172 is hard to crash. But the youth of today never says never and presses on!
Old Guy Music, and an interesting remake of one of my favorite songs and my theme for today. Listening to this, I wanted to grab my flute and start playing along, but I figured that SP and Wonder Dog would not be amused at being awakened at this time of the morning…
ZOMG! Plastic everywhere. Why I’m typing on plastic. Waiting patiently for the aristanal wooden keyboard.
It linked plastic to diseases such as cancer and kidney, heart and reproductive problems.
Who uses a plastic rubber?
The female condoms are polyurethane.
>>I wanted to grab my flute
Euphemism alert!
I know, right? Who doesn’t enjoy a good flute-grabbin’ now and again, but typically that sort of thing is kept to oneself.
Not to mention the rhythm.
And how in the hell did we get some kind of Welsh word to describe that.
A question for the (((glibs))) – what do you hope to accomplish once we are all gay like the frogs? Is is stealing the white woman? Or is it the gold?
I’m pretty sure step 3 is profit.
This goyim knows too much.
Did you sneak into one of (((our))) meetings?
Gold? What gold.. ?
Gold!
Gold
Thank you Ted, for saving me the effort.
Gold (LDS edition)
Oh wonderful!
Why not? I cannot think of many things that are less significant to our national interests, can you?
Hmm, no reason to be there – by GODS, CHARGE!!!
What’s another country to add to the “Build Later” roster?
In honor of his 72nd birthday today, this should have been the Old Guy Music.
A staple of drunk karaoke everywhere.
Quick google of “mamzer” and I’m confused. Are you calling my mother a) a slut or (b my aunt?
Why not both?
I like that when googled there is a picture of a real person next to the definition, doesn’t appear to be a stock photo either, some woman out there is literally the ‘when you look up mamzer on google it’s a picture of you’ girl.
How about some Japanese old guy music….
じょんから女節
This popped on my playlist as I was surfing Glibs…
Nice find, this music is my aesthetic. Excellent, very excellent. Many thanks for this oyaji music.
Younger Japanese people I speak with find it amazing I like enka. For them it’s the ridiculous stuff their grandparents listen to.
That a gaijin likes it seems to not compute.
Enka is the rough equivalent in Japan to what country/Western was in the US 40 or 50 years ago. And it only has two or three melodies. (Taiwan still has the same genre with the same melodies – in Fujian/Taiwanese dialect) No, I’m not clicking that.
Yes, that’s usually how I describe it to people. The old US kind where the dog died, the pick up broke down and the wife caught me cheating kind of US country music.
Yeah it’s great stuff and it’s funny watching them try to process that we can dig it too. Speaking of enka, you probably know this one, but it’s always a BIG HIT back in my neck of the woods.
津軽海峡冬景色
Wow that is a young 石川さゆり!
When I get dragged to Karaoke and forced to sing I bring this one out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Mj0A4VFaQ
It was a big hit back when I was first here in Japan – but I’m sure there are lots of facets to this video that might be problematic…
I like to be politically incorrect and do “Sukiyaki”.
Mostly because of how it was appropriated and absolutely politically incorrectly renamed.
上を向いて歩こう
Do that or anything by Smap. You can’t make it sound worse than the original.
Straff – Hey, let’s definitely meet up for beers. I sent a message to you at your address – (LAST NAME)in(COUTNRY-STANDING) at GMAIL – if you didn’t get that send me a message.
Yes, I never acquired any interest in Smap.
I would state that a group of Japanese dudes singing local doowap (in Japanese) sporting DA’s (look that up, young-un’s), in blackface somewhat transcends PC.
Nice songs the both of you, loved the doo-wop and Sakamoto Kyu was taken from us too soon.
As much as I hate legislatures passing ever more laws to slowly tighten government’s grip on our lives, these activist judges declaring such laws invalid simply because they don’t like the make-up of said legislature is really bothersome and sets a dangerous precedent.
Will judges start declaring laws that failed to pass as fully effective, because a properly representative legislature would have passed them? Judges are apparently micro-monarchs with the ability to make decrees which carry more weight then acts of the legislatures, so there’s not much stopping them. Law enforcement enforce laws based on how judges will rule on the law, not based on what the law says.
Yup. It’s the new world where we don’t have to accept the outcome of elections. This won’t go to a good place.
Unless the outcome is pro-socialism, then the will of the people cannot be questioned or debated.
Gerrymandering by party is racist but gerrymandering by race is not racist.
Its an interesting world where basing actions explicitly on people’s race is not racism. In fact, failing to act in accordance with a person’s skin color is now a very racist thing.
This is the complete opposite of what was beat into my head throughout my years of school, and I’m a millennial. Although my sister who came up a few years later had a totally different experience.
“Affirmative action” and the like have been around longer than I have been alive. Regardless of all the happiness and rainbow stuff we learned in school, we sure as hell weren’t practicing it. The difference today is that the cultural gatekeepers are more honest about it.
The whole anti-racist thing went completely off the rails when they decided that “disparate impatc” is the same exact thing as being explicitly racist.
Trump is taking a run at that.
Obviously the judge must forfeit all of his pay since this illegit legislature couldn’t pass a lawful budget/appropriations.
Re the R Kelly link, I do think he’s been going after young teens, but that article is so badly written and stupid. I mean, it says he met one victim when she asked for an autograph, making a point of pointing out that she was underage at the time. So, any music star who gives an autograph is suspect? It just is such a pointless detail. Of course he met his victims through being famous.
I haven’t studied this situation, but from 50,000 feet it just seems like everyone wants to manage consensual behavior. A grown woman’s father says she’s been brainwashed. Of course, the underage stuff isn’t popular. But that’s all really meddling. At the end of the day, women know what they want, and lots of them are doing things that at least some other part of the population does not approve – oh well.
Worse than that, this guy has had a certain reputation for over a decade that I know of, and I would certainly not be culturally apt to hear; i.e., EVERYONE has ALWAYS known what he’s about. And girls still line up for it.
Of course I couldn’t care less, even if they’re 13. Girls are going to do what they want, even if you make them wait until they’re 18. The biggest waste of time in the history of man is trying to manage the arc of a girl’s maturation and pursuits. Dad, a great many of them are just putting up with your ass until they scoot.
No legislature or police force will ever change any of these basics . . . what a waste of time and a clear microcosm of what’s wrong in busy-body America.
Off to Ye Olde Gun Show, which will probably not be worth the drive time or price of admission (or parking, now that the shows are at the state fairgrounds, parking is 5 clams). Still, better than no show at all, I guess. Hoping to come home with an A2 stock, and maybe a little something for the wife, if you know what I mean (wink wink 9mm nudge nudge).
Living as I do on the other side of the globe I would pay triple that cost to be able to be there. Heck, if you don’t find an M-16A2 buttstock there, and can be patient, I would ship one to you next time I’m in the US for the cost of shipping. (I ended up with one when I was building an -A1 version – have no need for it) No idea when I will be back in the US though…
I’m sure this thread is long dead, but I appreciate the offer. I did secure this adjustable-cheek-piece-and-length-of-pull model. If you get to central Ohio, let me know, we can generate some once-fired brass in the front field.
From the New Yorker article re: Feinstein:
Physics has supposedly set a firm time limit, but scientists have been warning about climatic tipping points and points-of-no-return for decades, which have all been passed now, and we’ve had record food production instead of mass starvation.
Funny how you can replace ‘scientists’ with the word ‘oracle’ or ‘high priests’ and the article suddenly takes on a whole new (and more truthful) meaning.
When I was growing up the meme of a disheveled guy screaming at passersby, carrying a sign stating that the end is near was used to denote some old kook who was off his rocker. Nowadays that kook has a federal grant and the media drooling to publish his rants and predictions.
Because “physics” is the same as what physicists say. They’ve never been wrong.
-Sent through the lumeniferous ether
+1 phlogiston
Talk about unreliable narrator. It’s hard to tell with that mag if they actually believe this stuff or are just lying through their teeth. Whichever, the overwrought prose is more than I can stomach.
The kids whom Feinstein was talking to are going to be dealing with climate chaos for the rest of their lives, as any Californian who has lived through the past few years of drought, flood, and fire must recognize.
Just look at what global warming has done to the Lake Tahoe region, lately. Those kids will be taking dog sleds to school in another couple of years.
FFS. California has been having these same weather cycles forever.
What’s different now is:
1) 24-hour news insists each new cloudburst is the Storm of the Century (although there were plenty of identical storms documented 100 years ago), and each storm is Proof Of Global Warming.
2) California now has 40 million people, many living in formerly pristine areas in high-density communities. So when a fire in the same region 20 years ago would have just been about acres of burnt forest, now houses and businesses are destroyed. So each new fire, flood or mudslide becomes the Most Expensive In History because the real estate now has higher value. But no, it’s because of Global Warming!
3) Green lefties camp out in tree houses to prevent sensible forest management out here. So after a stretch of drought comes a fire that burns on brush which should have been cleared. Then a rainy year comes, and with no rooted trees left to hold the soil, mudslides ensue. Rinse and repeat every few years. But no, it couldn’t be mindless tree hugging, it’s Proof Of Global Warming!
Remember how Trump said that lax forest management played a role in that fire, and the Left acted like it was the most patently absurd thing ever, but there was a NYT article from January 2018 that made the same exact claims?
orange man bad
This.
When I was a kid, there was a massive drought. All the pools were dry so we used them for skateboarding.
That was back when the alarmists were warning of the impending ice age.
I’d like to help you, son, but you’re too young to vote.
I knew where that was going without even looking, even though I was old enough to vote at the time.
An item checked off my bucket list: flying on the upper deck of 747. I’ve been flying long haul quite extensively for years but only today I climbed the stairs to the upper deck on 747 (BA, seat 62A). I’ve even flown already several times in the pointy nose of 747, including seat 1K in BA First, but not in the hump. Glad I’m done with that: the small cabin is nice and who knows where 747s will still be flying five years from now.
The champagne is good as always on BA, the Bordeaux to accompany ox cheek was forgettable. It’s time to switch to Glenlivet Master Distiller’s Reserve.
When I crossed off “walked away from a plane crash” from my list I pretty much put the list away. I will continue to fly in those vehicles but I guess the thrill is gone.
I had a road warrior relative who went through an aborted take off along with fire engines and a return to the gate.
He said a similar thing about putting the list away.
My brother took me up in a Cessna 172, out of Santa Monica. When we landed, the whole plane shook severely. He cut the motor and put the plane off the side of the runway. Emergency vehicles came flying from all directions. It turned out the nose wheel shimmy damper seal popped. Scared the shit out of all of us. Never was on my bucket list, though.
Hell. Fucking. Yes.
I was going from Incheon to Chicago via Hawaii. When I went to check in, they said they didn’t have my seat. WTF?! Well, they asked if it was ok to be upgraded to super first class even though I wouldn’t enjoy their food/beverage perks.
Easy decision.
I climb the stairs and am led to my seat. The emergency aisle. My hip was incredibly bum and she asked if I could fulfill the responsibilities associated with my seating.
“Oh. I’ve got it covered.”
A nine-hour flight in a fucking bed. That was an incredibly good day of travel.
The left really is something. How in the cowboyfuck do you manage to make Dianefuckingfeinstien look centrist and pragmatic? We really do live in strange times.
Very strange times we live in indeed, this calls for appropriately strong booze.
They’re hurling kids into a political debate like Palestinians use children as human shields.
They have scared the little crap out of kids emotionally manipulating them and now use them to manipulate public opinion. I can’t understand how anyone with a sober mind can’t see through this.
They’re hurling kids into a political debate like Palestinians use children as human shields.
An analogy I tried to make in the links. It’s all of a kind, only differing in degree.
Yes, they purposefully send in kids in dangerous places knowing they’ll probably die and then parade their dead, warm bodies around screaming whatever incoherent bull shit they scream.
The indoctrination starts early. By 1st grade the kiddos are well on their way of being ‘educated’. Saw the other day that we’re almost out of trees, good news for Suthenman. Potlatch/Boise Cascade hardest hit.
They can have some of mine, too.
Seriously, these goobers wouldn’t know deforestation if it kicked them in their withered, low-t nuts.
The Green New Deal is plumb nuts, so loony that it’s a real vote getter for the GOP. The Democrats have to quash it. Feinstein let a bunch of kids demonstrate the childishness of the thing, then talked to them like a grownup and sent them home. It was good theater on her part.
Waiting patiently for the aristanal wooden keyboard.
Note to self: get cracking on copper knife-switch-array keyboard design.
Steampunk.
Self-declared interim president Juan Guaido called on the international community to consider “all measures to free” Venezuela after clashes at the border crossing left at least two people dead.
One or two people die at the right time for a politician to capitalize on it and the press will eat it up. People having been dying in Venezuela for years and it was *crickets*. It’s similar to the drowned Syrian toddler. How do people not see that they are being manipulated? I’d love to see Maduro strung up as much as the next guy, but could we have some perspective and also consider how well our interventions have turned out over, say, the last 40 years?
The one and only flight lesson I took was at the Norwood airport, where this Cessna took off. It was the only attempt because I came to a conclusion that flying an aircraft was too scary for me.
I trained on a 152 and 172. Trust me, it’s really, really hard to make a 172 misbehave. The toughest part of spin training was getting it to go into a spin in the first place.
I was thinking the same thing. They even take off when they’re ready: one minute you’re driving an awkward car down a wide, lonely street; the next minute you hit 70MPH and suddenly your flying.
I can’t even put my correction under the right post anymore.
Again: what is our rule about when we can start drinking?
A rule about drinking? DAFUQ?
BLASPHEMER!
Same rules as in a knife fight. [/Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid]
You can’t drink all day unless you start drinking in the morning.
I got to fly takeoff in a 172 one time, and it basically did it by its self. I pulled slightly on the yoke, and that was too much. It wanted to rotate and take off on its own when it hit the correct speeds.
Cessna Skyhawk II for me.
Landing procedure: get the lights lined up, turn off the engine.
It’s not the end of an era because this era never started.
Sales averaged less than 20,000 per year, not enough to sustain the costly undertaking.
Erm, revisionist pap: OEM know they must have presence in certain ideas; this is just another one of those Dicks/Levis/Nike things about branding to the Millennials, who, ironically, don’t much like to drive and can’t afford cars.
At Tier 1 (the direct suppliers to the OEM) for years, I could never figure out why management couldn’t separate these things. I’d get beat up about a project that had never on its first day had a glimmer of profitability, which is fine, but the big dogs should just say so: we’re going to pour $3M down OEM X’s crawdad hole because we need to stay in touch, this might take off, we might learn something, it develops our departments and corporate capability . . . okay, all that’s good, now get off my ass about project ABC’s hybrid widget standard P&L . . . ’cause it was never standard anyway.
Maybe if they didn’t put airplane seats and cheap 90s plastic in a $40k hatchback, it would’ve sold more.
I’m not anti-EV, but if that’s the best they can put together under $50k, then I’ll stick with traditional ICE and hybrid motors.
Things in an electric car are necessarily going to feel cheap because it’s about reducing weight.
related – auto show last year I sat in the new Chevy Bolt. And yes it felt incredibly cheap/spartan on the inside.
When I was growing up the meme of a disheveled guy screaming at passersby, carrying a sign stating that the end is near was used to denote some old kook who was off his rocker. Nowadays that kook has a federal grant and the media drooling to publish his rants and predictions.
And, of course, there was a time when a staple of the New Yorker, itself, was the recurring cartoon image of a beard-and-sandals beatnik marching up and down a Manhattan sidewalk with a sign saying, The End is Nigh.
I’ll have that with extra irony, and nuts on top.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Retweeted Charlotte Clymer ?️?
Yup. If you don’t like the #GreenNewDeal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis.
Until then, we’re in charge – and you’re just shouting from the cheap seats.”
This fucken bitch.
The Democrats are in disarray if they can’t contain this crazy asshole.
Why are there cheap seats? All seats should be equal
Class-shaming? For shame!
on-scale
because electricity, cars, air-conditioning, and cellphones were all epic, generational, government-directed initiatives
you’re OMG you’re
what’s happening to me?
You’re too sober?
A couple drinks behind would be my guess.
come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis.
Sounds like she would approve of the plan to genocide China, India, and Africa?
Who’s this we, kemosabe? Also, okay, let’s talk an ambitious, on-scale proposal. WIpe out all of India, China, and industrializing 3rd world countries. Just bomb them all back to the Stone Age as well as ourselves. How does that sound now?
Sounds like a job for the You Got A Mouse In Your Pocket Party.
Whatcha doing?
Goin’ fishin’
Got worms?
Yeah, but I’m goin’ fishin’ anyways
Nuclear.
What do I win.
A horde of watermelons REEEEEING in chorus?
“On-scale” means appropriate for the problem to be solved?
My on-scale proposal is to do . . . nothing.
Classic: well what’s your plan,? We (YGAMIYP?) Have to do something, so our plan is better than nothing.
“Until then, we’re in charge.”
Thank you for owning what you’re really about anyway.
Better summation;
‘I hold the conch so shut up and do what I say’
come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis.
Deregulate nuclear to the point that its affordable to put thorium reactors in everybody’s backyard.
The arrogance is amazing.
She should leave the tweet trolling to the master. Unless she wants Pelosi to tell her to STFU again.
And they’re really not ‘in charge’ of anything – given there has never been a vote in the House on the Green Deal.
And it would never pass the Senate as it stands now.
And Trump would never sign it.
So it’s maturbatory vapor-bill until it becomes law.
No totalitarianist impulses there, no sirree.
Scratch a socialist, find a dictator.
I’ll bet that the NC Judge decided to overturn the will of the People based on… Feelings and some creative reading of the State Constitution.
I like how he as a judge can decide an amendment is invalid because even though it was voted on by the people, the legislature doesn’t represent them. But this judge totally represents the people.
Equal branches, except that one decided it can tell the others they have no power.
OK, this was a ruling by a NC Superior Court judge. Despite the name this is the lowest level court to which a case like this can be brought. So there are two more courts that have to agree to this – assuming anyone wants to appeal this ruling: NC Court of Appeals, NC Supreme court.
Fun fact: The guy who made this ruling was an elected judge. NC trial court judges are elected.
Ok. Still don’t like a judge deciding he can declare a separate branch of government null and void.
And let’s hope the voters who wanted the amendment dump his ass come next election.
Don’t hold your breath. Voters, other than libertarian voters, almost never vote against incumbent judges. You’d have to hate the very concept of justice to do that!
Superior court judges in NC are elected by the voters of the county over which the court has jurisdiction; the amendment was state-wide.
The thing I find troubling about the ruling is that he used a very circuitous route to void the amendment. He didn’t directly overturn it claiming that it was unconstitutional, but he overturned it on the grounds that the people who put the amendment on the ballot were not constitutionally elected. If this ruling stands then it could theoretically nullify anything those people did in the legislature. It’s a total shitshow of a ruling.
It is an unbelievable power-grab. “I will void the legislature until you hand me a map that I approve of.”
I’d say that depends on if the legislature was in fact illegitimately elected or not, if they were it seems reasonable to void any legislating they did. But they need to address that issue first.
I’d be very careful with that. Letting the judiciary dismiss the legislature is a bad idea. If there was mass fraud then maybe.
That’s why they need to resolve the underlying issue. We are a nation of laws, if the maps were redrawn illegally then the resulting elections should be voided, but there needs to be very clear evidence that laws were broken. I don’t like the idea of deciding that laws were broken but it’s too late to go back now so shruggy emoticon thingy.
The thing is that at some point the “law” was broken cause the SC told them to redraw. Does that mean that every law prior to that is void? The legislature was invalid.
If someone challenges a law that was enacted under a legislature that was illegally elected than yes I would say that law should be voided.
I refuse to believe it’s a coincidence that the cops have video evidence of Kraft getting a happy-ending. Nobody puts that much effort into busting the local handjob place.
The cops were stealing signals.
Inside job
I waa expecting at least one “deflated balls” joke.
I know we commiserate a lot about house problems, so I’ll leave this that I didn’t see linked here before: Plumber of the Year.
(I don’t know how many of them are fakes.)
Fake or not all but one of those aren’t a plumber’s responsibility.
so somebody belongs to the Society for the Preservation of Wooden Toilet Seats, otherwise known as the Birch John Society.
*wipes tear from eye*
Sundance from CTH wrote a thorough, yet still easily digestible summary of the spying/counter intelligence operation/coup on/against Trump. It’s depressingly unbiased–read to see what I mean.
Yup. If you don’t like the #GreenNewDeal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis.
A distributed network of small to mid-size liquid salt nuclear generators.
What did I win?
Dammit.
A trip to the reeducation camp?
Not that I actually think “global warming/cooling/whatever” is in any way an existential crisis, I just think it makes sense.
existential for whom?
jk/ I always get tickled about saving the earth; the earth will be fine, but we’ll see who gets to ride her.
Yeah, there are clear, easy to notice trends, especially with glaciers (because we’ve been measuring them for centuries) and on the north slope (because world-class operational and logistics programs must be managed against climate there).
Doesn’t prove they’re man-made, can be fixed, or that first term congresschicks should take over the economy.
Saw a post about the deuce and a half the other day. The days of useful surplus vehicles has surely passed, but that doesn’t mean that some companies aren’t going to try it.
With the old stuff you could diagnose problems, wire around controls you didn’t like, and even swap on a few common parts. I can only speak for vehicles, but I wouldn’t buy a 1998 Navistar X even if it hadn’t been driven through every hole and ditch on Fort Hood by a bunch of look-mom-no-hands E4 types.
The level of discrete, obscure, software-driven systems in cars is fairly ruining the used and surplus markets – oh well again.
That Growler is pretty sweet, never seen one of those before. Let me know when they start surplussing functional Abrams.
Saw some awesome Power Wagons at Barrett Jackson. They looked agreeably old school. Expensive as hell, though.
OT: I am not able to bring my doggy to work anymore. She’s too unpredictable, and can’t leave clients (mine or other attorney’s) alone.
How do I know this? Because on Friday one of the people I rent from tells me this in a “talk about your dog.” I’d been wondering if that was going to happen.
Sigh. I know that it may be better for her, but I am not looking forward to the change. She was good to have around for me – since I could leave for 20 minutes and walk her, etc., as a way to decompress during the day.
In other words, yes I am being a little selfish. But I am trying to be mature about it, and hope that I can just come in the office less, work at home, so that I can be around the doggy.
All that being said, she has come a long way since the first days, and I think the time downtown has de-sensitized her to a lot: loud noises, cars, buses, people with strollers/ bags/ dogs/ bikes etc. She’s just protective of her space in the office, so that’s the problem.
I bring the pup to work occasionally. I try to do it on days when there isn’t much going on. As it turns out government workers don’t show in large numbers on Fridays and those that do aren’t doing much. So the dog is a hit, nobody’s complained…..yet. all it takes is one asshole.
I think someone’s client must have complained a little for it to get to a “talk.” That, and I work with lawyers, who are always thinking, it only takes one bad reaction (from a human) for us to get sued, etc.
It makes sense. At a prior job my dog was allowed….until.other people followed suit. It quickly became unmanageable with 4-5 dogs around so they ended it. I really couldn’t blame them. I feel for you, it sucks being separated from the pup when you are putting in long hours.
That sucks.
Hopefully you can work from home more.
Any Rover people around? Ad dogwalkers seem rare now
Ugh, sorry to hear that. Hoping everything works out for you and your dog.
People are touchy about their dogs, and I can’t know everything from this distance, but
Either a dog is looking to its master for decisions and directions or it is not. “Protective of her space” means she makes her own decisions, mistake one. All defensive behaviors (guarding the house, barking/growling) go away when the master dominates his dog. Wolves bark in the wild . . . after the alpha starts; if you don’t bark, it shouldn’t either. You can tell when the owner is not the master: the dog pulls at the lease, takes marking breaks during a walk, guards his area, lunges at other dogs; any one of these.
People treat dogs like kids; they’re not kids: they want to be told what to do. A properly oriented (I don’t say trained: I don’t care if your dog can play dead) dog is often looking up to his master for direction. It almost never reacts to a situation without checking in or aping what its master is doing. It might even be that you’ve created a vicious cycle of expecting a problem, getting tense, and then the dog getting tense; being calm and assertive is the number one thing you can do to help your dog be its best self.
Sidebar: if you keep a junk yard and need a guard dog that barks to keep strangers off the property, disregard. But rest assured that a suitably dominated dog will alert enough to get you through the day.
I do love the walk thing. The number two problem with dog behavior (aggression, chewing) is lack of exercise. Run a dog into the ground: get up at five, get on your bike, and make laps around the block until he doesn’t have the energy to be in the wrong state of mind. I’ve seen Cesar Milan have one pull him on skates. Whatever works.
You can fix this: dogs are wired to be put in their place; he will always be ready to be oriented back to a way that fits better in your life. It’s never too late with dogs.
The non-Texan speaks wisdom.
Of course, I know this and still don’t consistently dominate the Dean Beasts. It’s hard to project dominance when you’re laughing your ass off.
I realize I need to be trained in order to train her more. She’s had a tough time and was chained outside a lot before she came to us. So I am going to try again once we have had more -slow – introductions for her back at the office. She’s three, not completely set in her ways, and has made some progress.
If I may – get professional training help. Even though I’ve trained several dogs, I still take the classes with new dogs , because I know I fall into bad habits with the older dogs. I’m sure there are good trainers in your area and the class setting brings good challenges as well.
Do a beginning obedience one and see what happens. It may turn out to be really fun for both of you. My GSD got so good I could put her in a down stay amongst a bunch of other dogs, leave the facility for 5-10 minutes and she’d still be laying there when i cam back. It was cool.
Looking worse and worse. No real availability on apartments, I don’t think ill be getting much of anything back from this lady. Might be able to get out of the lease, but even that looks murky. If I do, I might not get a dime back. Putting me with a uhaul of stuff, nowhere to put it, and no money. Probably have to push my start date back, and try to get a loan Monday. Hoping the law guys call me Monday morning.
Uhaul might have free storage for a month because we went one way. Nothing promised, but hopefully that’ll work.
Holy shit, kid! I went back and read your story – what a mess.
I hope you get some resolution tomorrow.
I missed this one?
Last night’s thread. Doom showed up to a shithole – landlord being a fuckhead.
Holy fuck, what a terrible situation.
“Well, maybe. But Feinstein was, in fact, demonstrating why climate change exemplifies an issue on which older people should listen to the young.”
Er, no. That means I have to listen to my daughter about debt? You don’t *listen* to kids on such gargantuan matters they scarce understand you dilapidated clown. That would be irresponsible. But what do you care? You NEED them to be scared to push your agenda. Troot bro. Troot.
“The kids whom Feinstein was talking to are going to be dealing with climate chaos for the rest of their lives, as any Californian who has lived through the past few years of drought, flood, and fire must recognize.
This means that youth carry the moral authority here, and, at the very least, should be treated with the solicitousness due a generation that older ones have managed to screw over.”
That’s one dubious claim. But what else is knew with the climate fear mongrels? /slaps McKibben off the side of the head: THEY’RE FUCKEN KIDS. They don’t hold no ‘moral’ high ground. There is no morality play here.
“This smugness stings—although, of course, it stings far less than the climate denialism emanating from the White House.”
Deny! Ye shall burn at the stake or float on water….or something! I smell smugness here and it’s coming from inside McKibben’s head.
“The irony is that, when Feinstein said she’s been “doing this for thirty years,” she described the precise time period during which we could have acted. James Hansen brought the climate question to widespread attention with his congressional testimony in 1988. If we’d moved thirty years ago, moderate steps of the kind that Feinstein proposes would have been enough to change our trajectory.”
Hansen? The guy that’s has a similar prognostication batting average asGore and Ehrlich? Uggla, Rob Deer and Chris Davis right there.
Question is: Who will be Bill Bergen?
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-worst-hitter-in-baseball-history/
Man oh man is The New Yorker some kind of rag shill.
“This means that youth carry the moral authority here, ”
This is the implementation of morally correct > factual right.
“OK, kid, let me ask you a couple of questions. What are the three laws of thermodynamics? Explain what the Second Law means. Define ‘temperature.’ What’s the selection rule for molecules absorbing infrared? Can you show what the basic equations for thermal transfer look like? Can’t answer these basic questions? Then shut the fuck up.”
Not that DiFi could answer these either, but she should also shut the fuck up.
“The kids whom Feinstein was talking to are going to be dealing with climate chaos for the rest of their lives…[t]his means that youth carry the moral authority here.”
That is the really scary part. It’s a weaponized version of “for the children.” This is a naked power grab. They can’t prove any of that will happen, yet they demand immediate, economy-destroying change. If they win, I guarantee they will start mass euthanization of old people as much out of vengeance as anything else.
Bonk bonk bonk!
Down with the grups!
The arrogance is amazing.
The less you know…
The easier it looks.
Ocasio-Cortez seems to have been grown in a lab to demonstrate the truth of the Iron Laws.
That’s what I thought too, she’s completely smug.
Know what? The guy is right. You don’t encourage this transgender behaviour in school with kids. I suspect you’ll see more and more of these parent/teacher confrontations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pyFQDl1pXI
Was that a CROSS on the wall behind her?
I’ll say it, since no one else will. Jussie Smollett took one for us. If hadn’t lied, FOS would still be here. Thanks Jussie.
I always got the feeling he was testing the waters to see what he’d be able get away with. My hunch was always that he’d have been an unbridled shit-poster given the latitude.
Yeah, he really escalated it, and it blew up in his face.
Oh you meant FOS.
LOLOL…glad you picked up what I unintentionally laid down
Speaking of the weather- we have a winter storm warning from now ’til Tuesday.
I don’t mind a couple of inches of snow here and there, but I’m not in the mood to deal with a foot and a half of snow and the drifts which will surely follow. Guess what- Mother Nature doesn’t give a shit. Somebody should tell Bill McKibben.
Nice the Meet the Press mob comes out of the gate talking about the “charges” and “guilty pleas” which have arisen from the Russia Probe.
None of those charges or pleas have anything to do with the election, but… it sounds good.
Nuh uh, they charged a Russian troll farm remember. Checkmate denier.
And how is that prosecution working out for ya Mr. Mueller?
The local news was on the same beat yesterday. Let’s remember how much Muller did and how bad everyone was. So we aren’t disappointed by the FBI failing at their coup.
Ocasio-Cortez seems to have been grown in a lab to demonstrate the truth of the Iron Laws.
I can’t wait for “tomorrow”.
I tried to crash a 172 while learning to fly.
I was short final and was asked by the tower to wave off the landing because of a jet coming in behind me. In my eagerness to get the hell out of the way, I raised the flaps before hitting the throttle.
Fortunately for me, the flaps in that 172 came up slowly instead of like a lot of small planes where they are mechanically connected to a parking brake style lever. Otherwise, I would have instantly stalled at about 25 feet AGL. Got a little pinch of the seat between my buns on that one.
Nice.
What is the attraction with engineering and GA?
My good friend who is the PhD EE also loves to fly and owns an airplane. My interest comes from my initial start in insurance where the firm I worked adjusted aviation claims. We’d get claim on a crashed Mooney and the first thing we’d ask was the pilot a dentist or a doctor?
lol. The Mooney is the anti-172. You have to thread the needle coming across the numbers or it’s prop strike time.
Not sure about why certain demographics are drawn to it, but in thinking about the people I know who fly, not one of them is a doc or dentist!
A big part is the lack of hours. Mooneys seemed to be owned by people who had means, but not free hours to keep the skills sharp.
See also Lancair.
That UN ambassador article says Trump demoted the position from the cabinet, hopefully he does this to more.
Noticed that. I wonder who came up with that silly idea.
Good.
Quote of the day:
furry frog
furry frog
1 month ago
I’m a trans vegan, I eat mostly meat but identify as a vegan.
Had me worried.
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/4034648-thousands-of-minnesota-liberians-fear-deportation/
To Somalia?
Stay safe Minnesoda Glibs!!!
Seriously though, question for Tundra/Jimbo, etc;
My limited experience with folks from the Twin Cities is they tend to be insufferably nice but also insufferably proggy in their outlook. Of course that’s painting with a very broad brush and is probably more reflective of the demographic I encountered but anyway….
Is my experience skewed? Is the common consensus that ‘good government’ fixes all up there? This has been on my mind because all those Minnesodans I knew back then are almost assuredly drooling over the GND.
Like Minnesota Nice®, the monolithic proggie block is a myth. The Twin Cities are heavily proggie, likely due to the concentration of universities and government addicted corporations. Outstate is a different story. The Iron Range was a Democrat shoe-in (unions dontcha know), but I believe they have finally figured out how hard the Dems are fucking them and appear to be flipping. Other parts of the state are profoundly conservative, despite their voting habits. A gun confiscation scheme would not go over well.
Politics in Minnesota have always felt like they were stuck in the ’50s. Milquetoast candidates, a strong economy and this silly mythology that we are a superior place to live all contributed to the shit show we have today. We had a brief, shining moment with Jesse, but of course he was bi-partisaned into exile.
We depend heavily on non-GND friendly industries, so I think the coming split between the Twin Cities proggies and the deplorbles will be interesting.
The union connection pretty well died when the mining here (Cuyuna Range) died. The upper ranges are a little more diehard. The 4-5 big metro areas skew the voting in the progressive direction. Yesterday was the 2nd Amendment protest at the capitol. I think even a lot of MN city folk are gun owners, even if they are Demos.
I think the way party politics play out gives the impression that blue regions are proggier than they really are. I mean, if my city actually carried out all the policies pushed by the nutjobs we elect, we would already be Venezuela.
“Outstate is a different story”
*Upstate NYer pounds chest in solidarity*
*Non-Denver/Boulderite joins chest pounding*
Hey Q.
The wife unit is on travel for work over spring break and I was thinking of heading down to the Springs to visit my family at some point during the week. You interested in getting a beer?
I think we have our own brand of Proggie. They aren’t as big on grievance bs as others are (we just don’t have enough minorities to run a self-sustained outrage industry). We do believe that while we pay a ton in taxes, we get really good services. Education is the biggest pillar in Good Govt when it comes to this. We believe that our great way of life is because we are so educated.
Like Tundra said, the Twin Cities are way more progressive than outstate Minnesoda is. However, I think that the heavily Scandinavian background of Outstate does lend itself to more collectivism than maybe normal. The Norwegians I grew up with believed in helping out your neighbor in a big way. Many of them feel that govt is the same thing, just on a bigger scale.
One of the dividing lines, though is the 2A support. Outstate folks won’t put up with much nonsense from the TC proggies on this, but the proggies are determined to pass gun control laws.
Does anybody have any good articles to refute climate change? I’m looking to become better read up on the particulars so it’s easier me to make my case when arguing with proponents. I’m woefully undereducated on it right now.
The climate is changing so any article refuting that wouldn’t be a good one.
What exactly do you want to refute? Bob Murphy at the Institute for Energy Research does a good job of showing that the economic policy’s are either toothless or more harmful than climate change itself.
Mostly all the hyperventilating that 1: We’re all going to die in 12 years
And 2: All the arguments of “The data is on our side1!1!1!1!
I know in the long run, it won’t make a difference, but I would like to be better informed. I will check out Bob Murphy
The big point I try to make whenever people argue in favor of “climate change action” is that tons of their predictions have been wrong. You can basically dig up an article from 10 years ago and see a bunch of failed predictions. By this point, we were told that the polar ice caps would be completely gone and NYC would be underwater. I always ask why I should believe these predictions today if they were wrong so many times in the past. Maybe their models are not as accurate as they think.
Another thing I bring up is that the climate is changing (as it has countless times throughout history) but that doesn’t mean that we must go with the Democrat Party’s policy ideas. They call you “anti-science” if you are skeptical of any policies, but they need to be called out on it. You can agree with the evidence but disagree with the conclusion, and you might even agree with the conclusion but disagree on what should be done in response. You might even agree that some drastic action needs to be taken but disagree with some specific idea (like the idiotic Green New Deal).
An analogy I use is this: 100% of dietary science says that refined sugar is bad for you. There’s no reason to have it in your diet. But if I went around saying that sugar should be made into a controlled substance like heroin, people would disagree. And it wouldn’t make sense for me to call these naysayers “anti-science”. Because when you start getting into political decisions, it’s less about the science and more about ethics and rights.
My favorite story about that is my son telling me about how one of his high school teachers kept showing them doom and gloom movies about climate change and environmental catastrophe. He told me, “She’s so dumb, she doesn’t even realize that the videos are old and that they are saying that all of this crazy stuff is supposed to be happening RIGHT NOW.”
Well, he’s a ‘denier’ then. Next!
Look up the “Manhattan Contrarian” site. He does a good job of it.
I’d start with geology papers. Even the geologists who accept CO2 as a driving factor, instead of a considering it may be a by product, are much more nuanced and metered than the crazy ‘weez gonna die’ climate ‘scientists’.
I listen to Tony Heller even though I don’t know much about him. But it’s interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btU1pJI1F8w
If what you want is a balanced view, read Judith Currie, John Christy, and folks they link to. Roy Spencer is mostly retired, but his blog is endlessly amusing.
Thanks everybody, this is some good info.
Couple more questions. Has anybody read Vaclav Klaus’s “Blue Planet, Green Shackles” and is it worth a read?
Also, I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the “97% of scientists agree” thing was blown way out of context and it was more like 20%-ish. Is that true?
The nature of funding is such that science is mostly bullshit these days. You say what you need to say to get the funds and get the paper published. Wifey is an evil denier and she has published papers that include warmista nonsense because that’s how you get the NSF grant and get through the peer review process. So she would be included in the “consensus.”
The game is rigged.
If you want to lose all faith in academia and the scientific establishment then go to grad school. Something very close to 100% of all published academic work these days is a shitshow of cherry picking, methodological errors, and outright propaganda.
“If you want to lose all faith in academia and the scientific establishment then go to grad school. Something very close to 100% of all published academic work these days is a shitshow of cherry picking, methodological errors, and outright propaganda.”
QFT.
Also: publish or perish has inculcated an environment in which the incentive is to publish as much as possible, as quickly as possible in any journal you can find. The actual quality of the publication is about tenth on the list of priorities for many researchers.
Add to that you essentially can’t publish negative results and the pressure to publish means that anytime your research didn’t pan out the way you thought it would, then you have to doctor the shit out of it to get something publishable.
Big tits and climate change. Get on it.
Research assistant: Amazing. Girls with large breasts fart more and therefore cause more climate change. If we want to fight climate change then every female in the world should get breast reduction surgery.
Q: Uhm, let’s change the data around a bit…there we go. Now the date shows that every girl needs larger breasts.
Research assistant: Yeah Science!
I’d believe it, it’s just that the people who I argue with have undying faith in intellectuals, academics, etc.
I don’t know about the 20% but the 97% stat is a sham. It reviewed literature and put the authors in categories. The thing is the reviewed all sorts of literature from non climate sciences, and if the author hinted at climate change they were put in the believe group.
That and you pick any point time and I can pick an idea that 97% of scientists believed that was then shown to be false.
From what sample size did they derive it from? To get a ‘settled 97%’ you would think they a) first have a full list of all climate scientists in the world and b) interviewed (or solicited opinions from) every single one of them.
That’s some survey.
That’s a good point, I hadn’t considered it from that angle.
That’s just it they didn’t limit themselves to climate scientists, the looked at sociology and economics papers, biology. Anything that they could find and then tried to tease out from the papers if the authors believed in CC
IIRC the original 97% paper was less than 100 individuals, all colleagues of the paper’s author, who “self-identified” as climate scientists.
That’s what I remember. I thought it was something like 70% of scientists were mostly undecided, and then they lumped them into the category.
Another thing to consider is that you can get a scientific consensus on anything if any dissenters are ostracized and drummed out of the profession.
I’m sure the scientists in Nazi Germany came to a resounding consensus that Jews were inferior.
Check on Manhattan Contrarian. He has a good series on how the historical data has been corrupted.
It will be a major eye opener for you. I was a mild believer until I started digging into some of the details, and it was definitely a “WTF?” moment when I saw how poorly the data we have lines up with anthropogenic CO2 actually being a major driver of the earth’s climate, let alone the laughable doom and gloom predictions.
I know hand waving when I see it, and there is a LOT of hand waving to be found in climate studies when actual data fails to match the predetermined conclusion.
I have always been in the “warming may be happening, but I’ve yet to see proof of the anthropogenic nature” camp, but I was solidified in that camp when I saw that anthropogenic sources are ~4% of annual CO2 emissions. The idea that a 4% change in a single variable can cause runaway of a global system implies a level of systemic fragility that doesn’t exist in nature. It’d be akin to saying that 20 extra wolves in Yellowstone portends Elk and Deer extinction within 20 years.
I’m late to the party, but I enjoyed Alex Epstein’s “The Moral Case for Fóssil Fuels”. Got it for a few bucks on the Kindle app.
I’d probably start with Judith Curry and Bjorn Lomborg. They both believe the climate is changing, which is reasonable, since it always has. They just don’t buy the gloom and doom. Lomborg isn’t a scientist, which is the big complaint about him, but he does a good job putting things into perspective.
Thanks everybody. This is good stuff. I’ve always suspected global warming is a hoax/ blown out of proportion, but it’s nice to know why.
Slutty Sunday THICCness.
http://archive.li/V09Ms
PS: I don’t wanna know where OMWC digs up the anti-Semitic memes and posters but I weep for his browsing history.
Ha I was tempted to visit the URL shown in the pic but thought better of it.
Self-Driving Cars Might Kill Auto Insurance as We Know It
23 million autonomous vehicles by 2035? Seriously? I guess this like how we’ll be on 100% renewable energy by 2035 too.
Speaking of cars, how’s the Subie working out?
lol great now that it’s fixed again. Pretty handy little car. Just go real slow while turning in an icy intersection across totally iced over railroad tracks and no one will have a problem like I did!
Car insurance is a right! and must be protected. Universal medicar for all!
“When you think of all these sensors and calibration, a little fender bender could be a much more costly proposition,” said David Ross Keith, an assistant professor of system dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
We’re already there, Sparky. One of the guys at the office had a $7,000 claim when some chick backed into the bumper of his truck in a parking lot!
Yep. I slid into a curb during a turn while the other day while it was snowing and icy (yeah yeah. I’m retarded. I’m from the south dammit fuck this ice nonsense). No visible damage except a microscopic bit of curb rub on the hubcap, but the alignment seemed slightly off so I took it in. Mechanics couldn’t even tell what was wrong by looking at it and had to call me to get the story and see what was up.
Had to redo the alignment of course but apparently the traction control and AWD sensors got munched too.
$1150 bucks.
This why I may well drive my FJ the rest of my life. It’s basically a Tacoma underneath, so I should never run out of parts.
Won’t somebody please think of the insurers?
RE: North Carolina.
I’m not sure why the legislature should be “flabbergasted” at the judge. The Left has proven that it doesn’t give a shit about rules or process in its quest for power. If they can’t do it legislatively, they’ll do it judicially; if they can’t do it judicially, they’ll do it through lawfare; if they can’t do it through lawfare, they’ll use the permanent bureaucracy; if they can’t do it through the permanent bureaucracy, they’ll use violence (see antifa)… etc. etc.
Further, I guess this sets a precedent that those ultra gerrymandered districts with D+30 are also illegitimate?
Damn – finally starting to get over this weird cold. Not much sinus issues – just sore throat and fever… and the urge to sleep all the time. Got 7+ hours of straight sleep last night. And proceeded to take a nap again.
Anyways -wind gusts of up to 60 miles today. Possibly more power outages though hopefully the ice storm of a few weeks ago already took care of the branches that were about to go.
I don’t know but maybe the mask doesn’t help? I can’t imagine all that humidity and sweat helps.
Totally nonpartisan Natsoc Propaganda Radio beats the drum
Democrats have been stung by the fact that President Trump’s victory marked the second time in five cycles that a Democrat lost the presidency while winning the popular vote. 2016 was the most egregious example, with Hillary Clinton winning 3 million more votes than Donald Trump, but losing the election. It was the largest margin ever for someone who won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College.
Proponents of the national popular vote measures have argued that it’s not political, but Republicans, who have benefited in recent elections from the Electoral College system, disagree.
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“The political power to the choose the president was basically given by the founders to the state legislatures,” Koza said. “And over the years they’ve passed different laws specifying how to allocate their state’s electoral votes.”
In fact, Maine and Nebraska do not have “winner-take-all” systems. They allocate their electoral votes to presidential candidates by congressional district, with an additional two electoral votes going to the winner of the state.
Colorado state Sen. Mike Foote, who’s sponsoring legislation, insisted that it’s not a partisan response to Trump’s 2016 win. Rather, he said, it’s about upholding the democratic principle of one person, one vote.
The states were given the role of determining how the Electoral College functions? That’s a loophole big enough to drive a battleship through.
That Muh Dumocarsee stuff is all well and good, but the “democratic principle of one person, one vote” is not actually what’s in the Constitution. But that’s just a fucking piece of paper.
Presidential elections aren’t won on the popular vote, so Trump didn’t campaign for it. If they were, he might have campaigned differently, and won the popular vote.
That’s…a basic feature of counterfactuals. You consider EVERYTHING that would be changed by your changed hypothetical.
Why are progs so stupid?
Why are progs so stupid?
Is that a trick question? If they were smart they’d be libertarians.
I’m sure Californians will be pleased when all their votes are for nothing when a republican wins.
Okay we change out minds! We want the EC back!
What I don’t get is the smaller states that have signed on to that nonsense which cedes their vote to California – perhaps it was done during Dem rule?
The funny thing about this is that the laws probably won’t mean shit anyway since, as I stated above, ProgDems won’t let silly things like laws get in the way of their power grabs. Once you let the camel get its nose in the tent by unmooring the EC votes from the vote totals within the state, the electors no longer have any motivation to follow any guideline.
So, say Trump campaigns the shit out of LA, NYC and Cook County to get the popular vote; these electors would just pull an NC judge switcharoo and say the vote totals are “illegitimate” and vote Dem anyway. They might as well just pass a law that says the electors will vote Democrat no matter what happens with any vote totals. In fact, I’m kind of surprised they haven’t already tried something like that in cobalt blue states.
Don’t give them any ideas. Not that they need such a law when they can just use the permanent bureaucracy to manufacture votes until the predetermined winner has enough to put them over the finish line.
Our plumbing problem is not fixed. Backed up again today and basement floor has 1/2″ water everywhere. XX’s bedroom is in the basement; her stuff is wet (that’s what she gets for leaving her shit on the floor). Mr. Mojeaux’s office floor is soaked. My office floor isn’t soaked, but water’s seeping in and the ceiling over my TV is damp.
Plumber back tomorrow. I see another 4-figure repair in my future.
That said, I’m not too upset because DOOMco’s in a lot worse position than we are.
Oh wow, that sucks. Sorry to hear that.
Thanks, AJB.
Did the previous ‘expert’ not know where the blockage or break in the line is/was?
DOOMCO’s problems are tough but there will be a solution, one way or another.
Well, he’s going to auger the drain where I originally thought it was, so Yusef’s question still stands: “Is it where you originally thought it was?” But now we’ve got our half-bath backing up, which has never happened before.
This augering is going to be covered under our home warranty, though, so that is another reason I’m not as upset as I might have otherwise been. No concrete breaking involved.
HOWEVER, that pipe is an old cast iron pipe, too, so if it’s broken under the concrete, we are screwed.
The other stuff he did needed to be done, so I don’t regret it, per se, because the problems would have persisted anyway.
For point of reference, we have another stack on the other side of the house. It had 3 separate leakage problems (bad ones) that took us years to find and kill. I’m not surprised we have to do it on this side, but damn.
Have they bothered to scope it? If they’re gonna keep charging you, they may as well put a camera down there and stop guessing.
We are hamstrung between what the home warranty will pay for and how much ready cash we have. We’ve paid out of pocket for two scopes and jets, as home warranty won’t cover that. Each fixed a problem. They will cover augering but not a scope.
I really really really hate this house. Have I mentioned? (ad nauseam)
Was the problem just normal clogging in the past, or was something else like tree roots going on?
I ask because you can get a cheap scope and power auger for the cost of a visit from the plumber (not covered by home warranty, of course). Then you can punch out normal clogs for the cost of electricity and time invested.
I definitely feel your pain. Our last house was a mess of plumbing issues. Thankfully the current house has fewer issues. . . mainly where the previous homeowner decided to use rubber adapters and worm clamps instead of properly fixing the pipes.
Normal clogging in different spots, then we’d find rusted or broken pipes that had to be fixed, which is where our money is going. Those are done. The main line just got jetted, so that’s running clear. but now we’re back to the drain I originally thought was causing one of the problems.
It’s probably just that we had that many problems and we’re just tracking them down and killing them one by one.
We have a power snake, but I am hesitant to auger myself because each time it’s been done, broken or rusted cast iron pipes were part of the mix. How would I know? Then I’d have to pay a plumber anyway.
True, that’s why I’m kinda surprised that they don’t scope the line as a basic part of the job. Their machinery will tear up the pipe just as much as yours will.
Molly Yeh on Food Network right now. Jewish Asian. Nice combo. Would all day.
Would all day.
Someone beat you to it.
The great thing about pregnant girls is they can’t get pregnent.
The other great thing is a visit from the Hooter Faerie.
WooHoo!
ProgDems won’t let silly things like laws get in the way of their power grabs. Once you let the camel get its nose in the tent by unmooring the EC votes from the vote totals within the state, the electors no longer have any motivation to follow any guideline.
You’d never get them to admit it, but they really long for the good old days of the “smoke filled room” electoral process.
“We (the political establishment) will save you lowly plebs from the heavy lifting of choosing a President. It’s too important to be left to chance.”
I would be willing to take our chances with the EC as originally intended. With ZERO campaigning for President – no primaries, no GE popular vote.
Based in part on Evan’s post this week and my own love for it, I’m making Siri Lanka chicken curry today to eat over the week.
It’s been a good week for Sri Lanka: http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18645/report/1144165/south-africa-vs-sri-lanka-2nd-test-sl-in-sa-2018-19
I really want to watch a live cricket match. I watched a documentary on a plane on a Asia trip and became fascinated by the sport.
Haven’t they always killed politicians?
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/24/nra-magazine-cover-triggers-democrats-phony-outrage/
It wasn’t even the cover. It was the first page of an article well into the magazine.
Hey, here is a judge doing the right thing.
*pops popcorn*
I was showing the wife my old card and a buddy from those days noticed it had that actual year’s address. He had never updated his, left it at his permanent address (mommy), which is fine. I never ever after 18 thought of mommy as my address: home is where your horse is.
Talking to JuniorWhoDidNotEscapeTexas: he’s 25 and his is up to date. To their credit they have a house free and clear, but, for a momma’s boy, I was still a bit surprised.
I haven’t been 1A since Reagan, but I’m thinking about trying to update mine just to see if they’ll mail me a new card.
If only it was illegal because of the involuntary servitude part.
Today’s mood: I owe my soul to the company store.
Good tune!
That voice … man, I have been remiss in my appreciation of it.