If you haven’t read SF’s Subaru House of Horror feature for today, go do that and come back. Someone else already got the first comment anyway. I love SF story time as a reader of Glibs, but a man could feel a little pressure following that act as a poster.
Happy Halloween, to each and every one of you. The one night where you can go around dressed as your real self without being arrested. Well, many of you. Be careful where you go with the “chaps only” look on the bottom.
I’m going to disagree with our President on this one. Now if he said “US history”, he’d still be wrong, but he’d have a case.
Vampire bats are highly social creatures, and will share blood meals with hungry bats. Speaking of sharing blood meals… (t/w 2nd link is infowars, but its a fun link for Halloween)
I wonder if these people understand their system would be illegal in a post-capitalist society with “free” healthcare. God bless ’em, though. They’re engaging in consensual exchange of goods and services for the betterment of each other and their community. I’m all for that.
Boo! First?
“If you haven’t read SF’s Subaru House of Horror feature for today, go do that and come back.”
Don’t tell me what to do.
If I asked you real nice? Pretty please?
Well, OK, if you are drawn like that.
She should get giphy and be animated.
Seems a bit sketchy to me.
As I child, I never understood why she didn’t look like a rabbit.
It was her married name.
It is spectacularly well written
Ron Paul Frightens Trick-Or-Treaters By Jumping Out And Telling Them About The National Debt
As the first trick-or-treaters rang his doorbell for the evening, Paul leaped from his front door and cried out, “The national debt is rapidly approaching $23 trillion!”
The kids froze in fright, their candy bags extended, their eyes wide in terror. “This has at least three dire effects on the country: higher taxes, a weaker U.S. dollar, and a cycle of increased borrowing to make up for the expanding deficit. You see, the Fed is an unregulated beaur—”
Finally, the kids found their voices. “AHHHHHHH!!!!” they screamed, scrambling to escape from Paul’s front porch.
“I’m going to disagree with our President on this one.”
Well, he put “witch” in a Halloween tweet.
I just read SugarFree’s post.
*Begins shaking uncontrollably*
suuuuuuu
baaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ruuuuuuu
I think this one was special. Yes, it has the usual SugarFree flavor of pain and awfulness, but in all seriousness I read this one and ended up actually mad that SF seems to restrict his talent to those shock subjects. I think I am a talented writer, and generally think I could improve most things I read. There are some writers; however, that I read with stunned admiration. Saki, Hardy, more recently Zelazny, early Orson Card (before he started writing the book of Mormon over and over, early Harlan Ellison. This piece was on that level. SF maintained a tone throughout. It is really hard to keep the same tone into the payoff on a twist ending story like this, and the tone was not gimmicky. If you read that piece and do not find yourself emotionally responding to the dog, you are soul dead.
OK, sue me! I really really get off on excellence in anything. This was excellent. The best thing I have read here.
I posted a comment on that dead thread, but I’ll just say “here here” and second your comment, Flax. That’s great writing.
Nice work, SF.
(And he does a very good sangria recipe, too, this guy!)
Was it really a twist? I saw it coming. But, yes, excellent.
That’s probably not the right word, or at least implies more than I meant. There isn’t really a “twist” at the end of “Quittters, Inc.” so much as there is confirmation of what we’ve already been led to believe, but the confirmation isn’t where/what we expect. That’s part of what I meant about why I found them similar (or that they “rhymed” I believe I wrote). I should have used a different word there, I think.
“The clip was posted without any additional information but it could be related to Raúl Escuín, a woodcutter from a remote village in Spain who makes sausages from human blood, claiming it’s vegan friendly because no animals are harmed.”
So Pie is a vegan? Who knew? If there only was some sort of book that explained what words mean. Then no one would read it.
Trump Awards Medal Of Bravery To Chewbacca For Heroic Deeds During Battle Of Yavin
The Wookiee had been snubbed by other presidents, who turned him down for the award despite his being nominated numerous times.
“AMERICAN HERO!” Trump tweeted along with a pic allegedly showing the ceremony. “BEST WALKING CARPET MAYBE EVER!!!”
But not so fast, said some fact-checkers.
Snopes, The New York Times, and dozens of other unbiased, austere truth-tellers immediately debunked the image, pointing out that the Wookiee could not have been presented with the medal since Wookiees are not real. They also scoured charts of the universe but could not locate the gas giant Yavin or its fourth moon, suggesting that such a place may not exist.
The Austere Media
Now I think both Trump and the Bee are lurkers.
Here’s Chewy’s metal…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPV9NNvtL20
They spent some real money on the set and costumes!!
Speaking of costumes, I liked your photo on Trump’s wall. Too bad we couldn’t see your face in the frame. Hehe.
While I would imagine it would be annoying to be ripped off without attribution, otoh I could derive satisfaction from being an influencer and knowing I made a difference. Sometimes people get attribution later in life.
Or the afterlife.
Yeah, they’re cribbing from you.
Congratulations?
You know, if I were the POTUS, I’d still come here every weekday.
Woohoo, it’s snowing.
It would be more unusual if it wasn’t snowing on Halloween.
We’re getting tornadoes tonight. It’s a little early for snow around here.
Supposed to be a dark, stormy Halloween night in central VA. The high-winds could be an issue. But it should be fun.
Damn global warming.
Indian Summer 2: Dripping Sweat Boogaloo here.
I hate humidity.
Damn global warming.
“Weather is not climate!”
/the same “Climate scientists” who insist every wildfire or hurricane is proof of global warming
no snow here, but it’s cold enough for it.
We have 76 degrees here now in San Diego North county.
And a freeze warning tonight from midnight to 10 AM.
Nature is entertaining.
Current conditions at
Miami, Opa Locka Airport (KOPF)
Lat: 25.91°NLon: 80.28°WElev: 10ft.
Fair
87°F
31°C
Prime conditions for skimpy Halloween costumes.
I’m going as a slutty blueberry muffin
Slutty ?
I’m going as a slutty blueberry muffin
And good news is there’s already a theme song for that costume.
Muffin top confirmed.
are you implying that 87 is a good thing? Cause you’re wrong if you are.
83 anticipated high here. Low last night was 70. Trades blowing. It’s almost winter temps.
I’m sorry you still live in the glacial zone and haven’t adjusted to modern temperature.
Yeah, I hate mosquitos and lizards big enough to eat me also.
That is FL and not HI. We are remarkedly low in reptiles. Geckos of all types but that is about it, except for sea turtles.
WTF? dbleagle, just because y’all act like gators are as normal as squirrels in the back yard doesn’t change the fact that they are murder lizards.
Slight correction- evolutionarily extremely successful murder lizards.
My wife is in Miami. I am not. I am where there are 35 mph winds and a wind chill.
When exactly are women allowed to make their own decisions?
Are you talking about Hill or Pelosi?
Yes…but mostly Hill.
When it’s a decision of which woke male feminists such as Moore approve.
Does he not realise that *Pelosi* is the one making her resign?
Her husband is just an anonymous whistle blower.
Euphemism?
Whistling in the wheat fields?
: standing ovation:
I love the “this would never happen to a man” claim. Are they using a can of varnish as a bong?
Yep – 5 minutes on a search engine and I’d have a long list of men fired for banging the help. Politicians and business leaders alike.
She’s not being fired. Pelosi, who unlike the rest of the Soviet is not an idiot, is pushing her out because she is now likely to lose the seat in 2020 and if she quits they can run someone with a better chance to keep the seat D in a special next spring. No one cares about the whore.
“Whore’ is a tad strong.
Is she a member of Congress? Then she’s a whore. Oh wait you thought I meant because she was part of a throuple? No that makes her a slut.
whore > slut
/shitlady
Slut shaming is wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself. first TGA now you, this site is going down the drain.
Are you talking to me or Jarflax?
Sluts don’t charge for their labor. This is shameful.
I’m not shaming her. I’m simply stating facts about her, and members of Congress. Her sexual escapades are between her and her husband. I do dislike her, but that is because I think the Democratic party is trying to move from robbing the treasury, having unaccountable sex and pretending to matter into outright tyranny. Therefore I dislike Democrats. For the record I like whores and sluts. I don’t think they are evil, although I recognize that indiscriminate sex is likely self destructive.
I was speaking to Jarflax, but as a poor person I don’t care for this attitude of yours either, sluts preform a valuable service to society, giving freely of ones self is never shameful and should be celebrated.
Sluts usually end up costing more that whores. This is the kind of penny wise and pound foolish thinking that keeps you poor!
Fuck you, pay me.
You don’t pay a whore for sex.
You pay a whore to leave.
A whore is a professional, after all.
As a sole practitioner I say who I say who!
That she flaunts the House rules about fucking the help I care somewhat about. But that is an issue for the citizens in her District.
No, violations of House rules should be dealt with by the House. Otherwise, what’s the point of having rules, if they aren’t enforced?
You join the House, you are accountable both to it, and to your constituents.
Don’t get me wrong. I have no issue with the House leadership taking up the issue about banging her legislative aide. Even though the aide is playing by big boy rules and has made no complaint. Hill entered a club and then flaunted the rules.
But have no doubt Nancy took this up because Hill is in an expendable position and a special election may save the seat. Every member of “the squad” has bigger skeletons in their closets but they are untouchable by Nancy.
We are all whores, it’s just a question of price.
My general behavior toward a potential client I do not want to take is to either:
1) jack the price up so high that he will either go, “Naw, fam,” or “Okay,” which will make it worth my while to put up with Lord Dipshit
OR
2) say something totally offensive so that he (yes, he–they’re always he’s) will go, “Nope, don’t wanna work with you.”
One day a dude calls me up and he’s arrogant as all get-out. Has NO idea what he’s talking about and when I try to correct his assumptions he talks right over me.
Finally he says, “Well, is this something you’d like to help me with?”
“Sure, but it won’t be cheap.”
… “What do you mean by cheap?”
I throw out some ridiculous number.
… “Well, that’s…kind of expensive.”
“I may be a whore, but I’m not a cheap one.”
… “A…whore.”
“We’re all whores.”
“Okay, thank you for your time.”
That made my day. LOL.
Her claims that the husband are being taken at face value. They were posted years ago on public web sites. They are free range photos. They first appeared in the Brit press.
I could not care less about her home life or who she decides to combine friction and lubrication with. Since she has never said she wanted to increase drug penalties I don’t care she uses(d) bongs.
That she flaunts the House rules about fucking the help I care somewhat about. But that is an issue for the citizens in her District. IMHO Pelosi is throwing her over for the reason that Jarflax stated. She can be sacrificed for the greater good of the Dem Party and the other House members are probably hoping for a change in the rule so they can fuck the help as well.
!@#$%^&*(
I say who
For some reason, I was expecting Foghorn Leghorn.
I’ve been to FLT dozens of times, and it’s not in CA25.
FNT
/ obviously not lately
He deserves condemnation if he actually did post “private” pics but the main question is did she actually do that stuff or not and the implications of the rules violations and the terrible judgement. If they don’t get rid of her now she’s liable to do something far stupider in the future.
Moore seems to be unaware of the fact that she unethically if not illegally hired her lover to be on her staff and then later had an affair with yet another member of her staff. Had it merely been that she lived an unconventional lifestyle and that leaked out, with pics and all, there would have been no pressure at all on her to resign and given where she is from it may not have even impacted her reelection chances.
It just goes to show that the people least mentally stable are the ones with the most lust for power. They are not capable of building something from the ground up by inspiring people. They are entitled, selfish narcissists drawn to whatever entrenched platform that caters to incompetence and corruption. A twat like her could never be a great leader of people, so she pandered to the worst instincts of the majority of her constituents, and got elected. She thought she would be free to do whatever she wanted, but she didn’t have the support to be the scum everyone around her already is.
continuing the national anthem discussion from the previous thread……it has always amused me that the former Yugoslavia’s national anthem was “Hey, Slavs”.
In Russian the name of the song is “Gay, Slavs.”
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9,_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B5!
I always heard it as “Hey, Slobs”.
according to his comments, it’s not a witch hunt if there’s no witch. which seems to completely miss the point.
From the subura lesbian article:
Everyone who penned a letter said they’d never buy a Subaru again. But the marketing team quickly discovered that none of the people threatening a boycott had ever bought a Subaru.
If only modern companies could learn from Subaru’s example.
I’m not seeing that link above.
Sorry. It was the previous thread.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/how-subarus-came-to-be-seen-as-cars-for-lesbians/488042/
Cool. Thanks.
People who threaten boycotts generally have more time than money.
Kind of like Chick-fil-a?
The Problem With Dressing Up as a Witch for Halloween
First, at its most basic, because it is a privilege to pretend to be a witch and not die. We live in a world where people are murdered on a regular basis because others in their communities believe that they are witches. They are killed by individuals, kangaroo courts, or mob violence, in a variety of torturous and horrific ways. In a world where “witch” is a label used to excuse the murder of marginalized women, children, and more than a few men across the world, it is a privilege to embody that label for a fun night out and suffer no consequences—and those of us in the United States who are considering dressing up as witches for Halloween are mostly not in danger of being killed for it.
Translation: we don’t live in a shithole, so we should feel bad that other people live in a shithole.
I feel bad for starving children in China, too, but that doesn’t mean I must eat everything on my plate.
are kids still starving in China? Damn it, I ate all my meals, they need to do their part.
It’s Africa where they kill witches.
Alternate Translation: We’re all butt-hurt because the US went from burning witches to tolerating them, despite our yammering about Socons being in control.
“women, children, and more than a few men across the world”
>>>>Grammarly translate>>>>
“people”
It’s a privilege to dress up as a mass murderer and not be arrested or killed.
I can’t imagine how that person even gets out of bed in the morning. Xer life must be miserable.
If by “a world” you mean Sub Saharan Africa and maybe parts of South America sure. In the countries that actually celebrate Halloween however we have not killed witches in some 3 centuries.
The problem is they want to bemoan ignorance and murderous intolerance, but they also want to attack white European males, who are the most tolerant group ever to live on this planet.
Worse, they hate the suburban MILFs who like to show off their boob jobs.
First, at its most basic, because it is a privilege to pretend to be a nunand not die. We live in a world where people are murdered on a regular basis because others in their communities believe that they are nuns. They are killed by individuals, kangaroo courts, or mob violence, in a variety of torturous and horrific ways. In a world where “nun” is a label used to excuse the murder of marginalized women, children, and more than a few men across the world, it is a privilege to embody that label for a fun night out and suffer no consequences—and those of us in the United States who are considering dressing up as nuns for Halloween are mostly not in danger of being killed for it.
FIFYA
BTW, it’s okay for gay men to dress as nuns on roller-skates in gay pride parades.
My new neighbors – artists, musicians, shop owners, builders, gallerists, restaurateurs – treated me like family. Our community was diverse in age, but we all had our independent creative pursuits in a place with scant economic opportunity otherwise. Thus, many of us shared the same problem: a lack of access to healthcare.
Stop drinking the paint thinner.
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!!!
This person decided to move to a place without doctors, nurses, pharmacists… Apparently not as diverse a community as they thought.
If only they could ban together and hire their own doctor. Maybe trade some restaurant meals and artwork for medical services, but realize that your doctor will need actual cash money for mortgage, equipment, training, etc.
When the shit hits the fan, nobody is going to trade antibiotics for swap meet art or a poem.
It’s just a delusional fantasy.
You don’t think some burnt out hippy’s pastiest menstrual bleed smear is worth as much as life saving care provided by a highly educated individual. For shame.
Fortunately, under their system, you think what they tell you to think.
Reminds me of this classic from the onion
https://www.theonion.com/u-s-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money-ju-1819571322
There’s a documentary on Woodstock right now, which I watched in hopes of some good music footage, but… At one point they described it as a “functioning city,” after they’d just told how they ran out of food and medical supplies. Fortunately for the attendees, the surrounding charitable townsfolk cleaned out their pantries to donate, and the national guard helicoptered in medical supplies and personnel. Hippies!
*severe eyeroll*
The hippies have been trying to colonize towns north of NYC for decades. I suspect the old-timers shake their heads at them and go on shitlording like any capitalist pig.
Yes, we do. I live in the Catskills just west of Kingston and have never heard of this O+ or any of these businesses they talk about (with the exception of Radio Kingston, which is no better than any other outlet if you need actual news).
For a system in shambles, it sure manages to deliver better care than any other healthcare system. Costs a lot more, too, but you know the saying – “Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick any two.” We’ve picked Good and Fast, so it ain’t Cheap.
What is she babbling about “where single-payer care was available”?
Indian reservations?
No healthcare? Seems there are any number of healthcare workers (at least willing to put their putz in front of tv cameras) that are hot to trot for government run healthcare. Are you telling me these healthcare folks aren’t really willing to move to Kingston and trade their services for a basket of rutabagas or jar of artisanl mayonnaisse?
“lack of access to _________”
Any time I see that, I immediately know it’s BS.
The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!
People always exaggerate in this way. And “American” is usually taken to be in reference to the US. No need to be so literal, bruh.
So the Boston Tea Party is _______ history?
Terrorist?
English
Masshole
Racist
The McCarthy hearings?
The actual McCarthy hearings about Soviet infiltration of the American military, or the much larger house unamerican activities commission often erroneously attributed to McCarthy? Either way, witchhunts sometimes find actual witches.
Buckley pointed out the difference: there weren’t any witches in Salem but there were commies in our government.
I’m loving the replies:
The obvious implication being that if he’s not impeached, he’ll win the election.
First, at its most basic, because it is a privilege to pretend to be a witch and not die. We live in a world where people are murdered on a regular basis because others in their communities believe that they are witches.
Whatever you say, Katie Killjoy.
I prefer my blood sausage to be HIV and hepatitis free. No human blood for me, thanks.
HIV can only survive for about fifteen seconds outside a body, for which we are duly thankful. Hep, OTOH, has good extracorporeal survivability.
“extracorporeal”, lernt a new word today, thanks!
How does that work? Oxidation?
https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and-reproductive-health/hiv-aids/faqs.html
So, apparently longer than I had thought. Could theoretically be transmitted by human blood in sausage if not cooked and handled properly.
Raise the temperature or change the pH and it’s done for.
https://www.healthline.com/health/how-long-does-hiv-live-outside-the-body#how-it-spreads
At least hep C is curable now.
It’s probably illegal under the shit system we have now as well. This article might bring some undue attention from regulators.
Hell hath no fury as a regulator ignored.
One things for certain, after the collapse artists will be in high demand.
Stringy, and perhaps disease-ridden, but still…
Human blood sausage. Just saying penis is faster, ya know.
Define “greatest”.
The largest number of people calling to burn the witch. He may be right there.
Moar Halloween tuneage:
Dead Souls
Dead Kennedys
Dead Bela
Dead Moon.
Werewolf
Frankenstein
? For all of the above
Dead Skin Mask
Dance of Death
??
Swingrowers – https://youtu.be/JKPD8jChw94
Top Men
As America’s most skilled knowledge workers gravitate to the biggest cities, policy makers elsewhere in the country are trying to stem the flow out of concern about a widening wealth gap.
Those efforts are misguided, economists at Princeton University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond argue in a new paper.
The study says “cognitive non-routine” or CNR workers are more productive when they’re clustered in the same place, typically a large metropolis. They’re “too valuable” to be distributed across smaller towns, which would amount to a “waste of resources,” the authors write.
They argue that any resulting inequality is better addressed via taxes on the high-earning urban hub workers and subsidies for their lower-paid peers outside — essentially a version of Universal Basic Income for the latter group. The authors calculate that with a transfer of around $17,000 per high-skill worker per year, everyone can come out ahead.
Sounds legit.
“The authors calculate that with a transfer of around $17,000 per high-skill worker per year, everyone can come out ahead.”
Look I can write complex papers about my D&D campaign too, but no one calls me a great economist.
Anyone who thinks you can do these kinds of calculations legitimately needs be redistributed some damn sense.
Let’s test this $17,000 per high-skill worker transfer, maybe start by imposing it on economists at Princeton and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and then see how it goes?
How exactly is losing $17,000 coming out ahead?
Then they can use that 17k to buy more bacon?
That’d create a permanent rural/small town underclass with an immense sense of entitlement and a hellatious level of government dependency. Not a good idea at all.
If only there was some natural way of allocating resources to their best use. Some sort of invisible hand if you will.
Fuck you, cut spending.
Look Bobby, I don’t care if you don’t want to move to the big city and live in a high rise apartment and pay through the nose for things. Society needs you there. So just forget about fishing, hunting and owning 100 acres to putter around on.
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do
/name’s not Bobby
Bull Fucking Shit
With modern communications technology there is absolutely no need or benefit for them to be clustered. There is literally no one on my team who works out of the same office as me and one of the developers I support does not actually live anywhere as near as I can tell. He is an American expat who continually travels the globe and might call into meetings one week from Ukraine and the next week he is somewhere in South America.
Clustering all of those knowledge workers into one place benefits the financiers and in some cases large tech firms but it absolutely does not make the knowlesge workers more productive.
Um, tell me this Mr. Smarty Pants. If all those people aren’t in a central location, how can you schedule a 2 hour meeting to hash out what the Definition of Done is for your Agile process? If people are working remotely, there is no way a manager can be sure they are paying attention and contributing to the discussion.
Those remote workers could be simply ignoring the meeting and concentrating mostly on writing code (or commenting on Glibs).
Plus the $100 million cafeteria/playspace you built would be completely worthless.
But look what happens when everyone works together
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World*
* Except John Denver
Agile died in a fire, the PMI pissed on the ashes by including it in their certification scams.
If you’re doing agile by the book, you’re doing it wrong.
I was there near the start, I worked it, I watched it grow and then metastasize, and then turn into the shambling hulk it’s become. I’m glad I’m out of it.
I remember when Agile was just called “Extreme Programming (XP).” We used to use XP practices in the software DevCo I was part-owner of.
It worked well back before the natural-born bureaucrat wannabes turned it into Agile.
Yup, exactly.
You may need a translation layer between your XP practices and corporate project management, but you’ve got the stories and the rate, so conversion is not exactly hard.
We had a decent agile-scrum thing going before I left my SW job. At the cost of daily 5 minute stand ups and 3 hours/month of regularly scheduled meetings, I could walk out the door each evening know exactly where I sat with regard to my sprint goals and the rest of the BS was just gone.
I think that having a good project manager who bought into the spirit of agile really helped.
I’ve tried to introduce certain aspects into my department in legal, and people look at me like im crazy. “Track all your tasks on a Kanban board? But having an inbox full of unprocessed stuff is the way everybody does it!”
Yeah, I was the application group manager, and sorta/kinda the project manager. We worked hard at the kickoff to keep the drivers coming from the bottom up.
Focus on what the team members felt were problems, picked XP practices that would impact the top / most heavily supported as serious problems, took our known goals and wrote stories. It all flowed very organically, which I think is why it worked.
I loved having the visible progress from the wall with story cards. I got an overview every time I walked past, as did everybody else.
I’ve done all of that, still a pretty big fan of XP. Where I struggle most with my current clients is that they cannot seem to grasp the concept of an application as an always work in progress continuous improvement entity. Sometimes ‘We have to release this now, you aren’t getting every bells and whistles you want right now, that’s version 1.01’. That shit seriously frustrates me to no end. Every time they ignore me on that, everyone suffers, but they never learn from it.
Or to say it another way, you release stuff in increments. Anytime you think you’re going to release the full product with all the bells and whistles, you never get anything done. Why can’t people get that with software, no matter how many times you explain it. I have a huge enterprise level app releasing Dec 10 that’s been in progress for 3 years. It could have been released 2 fucking years ago and we would have saved $$$$$, and time! Idiots!
Ah, this must be the new euphemism for ‘tarded.
A cognitive non-routine worker sounds like a stand-up philosopher.
If these fuckers would just quit raising the minimum wage and required benefits most of rural America could live in peace without the artificial cost of living increases.
“Leading thinkers in the field of system change and transition” will discuss key themes for an inclusive, holistic, “just transition” away from capitalism to something new … whatever that might look like.
“We could, like, take on individual responsibilities utilizing our skills to trade and interact with one-another in a voluntary way that, while selfish on a certain level, actually is a net benefit to the group of people at large.”
When the shit hits the fan, nobody is going to trade antibiotics for swap meet art or a poem.
“Can I at least recite the poem while you fuck me?”
“No. Shut up and focus.”
The rest of you posers can suck it! Minnesoda is now the only state with 3.2 beer!
Wait….. That isn’t good at all. Why am I celebrating?
The more I learn about Minnesota, the more horrible it sounds.
Snow and ice for months; all you need to know.
It’s not all bad!
Nice, but FLA is going to win that contest all year long.
I think you can see that Minnesoda gals can hold their own in a bikini contest.
That might be a bit NSFW depending on how your boss feels about slutty FL gals in bikinis.
+12 erect nipples
That’s the part we want everyone to believe. Its awful, mosquitoes the size (and speed) of hummingbirds, snow so deep most dogs can’t walk, hot dish for breakfast, lutefisk for dessert. And 3.2 beer
That’s hamburger meat and tater tots with cheese on top, right?
Topped with a couple of fried eggs, and that sounds like an awesome breakfast.
You like being sober while having to pee a lot?
Can you still buy stronger beer?
I was waiting for the answer in the article. Surprisingly, it wasn’t there!
Oh yeah, you can buy normal beer. 3.2 was always sold in small road houses that didn’t want to hassle with getting a full liquor license. And it used to be the only beer that could be sold on Sundays.
Growing up, the Canadians would always come to town and drink all their beer up Saturday night and then be flummoxed that the liquor store wasn’t open on Sunday. So they’d buy cases of 3.2 beer and get rip roaring drunk on pure quantity alone. Then they’d have to drive back on Monday with a hellacious 3.2 hangover.
The 3.2 flu
*Hands His Holiness some paint thinner* Buck up champ, at least you still have…um, things can always get better.
No way, you start drinking paint thinner next thing you know you wake up in a seedy alley with a piece of cheese on your head.
And the T-Shoppe on 42nd and Fremont Avenue North is the only 3.2 beer bar in the state.
You have my thoughts and prayers, Jimbo.
3.2 joints were the bomb when we were underage drinkers. Most of those places (and the cops) don’t give a shit if you are only 17. As long as your money is green, they will server you a beer.
At 3.2 can you really call it beer?
If you are a punk kid.
Says so right on the can
The cop or the bar?
Conversation with Jim at the Blue Goose in northern MN
Me: I’ll have a Budweiser.
My Buddie: I’ll have a Miller Light
Jim: You boys aren’t even 18, are you?
*I start to dig out my fake ID*
My Buddy: Well, technically…pause…no.
Jim: That’s OK. Just don’t tell anybody that I served you.
Later, back at camp, we told everybody that you could get served at the Blue Goose
Log Cabin?
Me: I’m waiting for my Dad
Jim: Oh, OK, what’ll it be?
I got excited about Utah because I’ll be in Salt Lake City in January, but then the article said the new Utah limit is 4%. Little difference.
You can get higher percentage beer, wine, and spirits in state run liquor stores, most of which are in SLC. Alternatively, you could just do what I do when going to Utah…make a stop in a neighboring state.
I’ve been to SLC before and even visited one of the liquor stores. But I recall drinking their 3.2% beer in restaurants–I guess some of them didn’t have anything stronger.
To my understanding, restaurants are not exempt.
More Minnesoda bragging. Is there nothing our vaunted state IT department can’t do?
These electronic heroes also botched the MNSure health care rollout and spent $100M on a failed auto licensing system (before spending another $73M to buy off the shelf software).
Yet, I’m sure no one will be fired and no pensions will go unfunded.
People don’t quit jobs. They quit managers.
People don’t quit jobs. They quit managers.
True dat.
Socialism. Pretty much nailed it
https://youtu.be/ysmFfWRUQiY
Today would be an appropriate day to announce. Also, I told you the cunt is running.
On Wednesday night at Georgetown Law’s second annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture in Washington, D.C., former President Bill Clinton said his wife Hillary could run for president again.
Clinton said, “She may or may not ever run for anything, but I can’t legally run for president again.”
That ain’t true, Bubba. You could run for mayor of some small, NE town or something.
Nebraska doesn’t want him.
All those chubby corn fed Husker gals need loving too….
Just think, if it hadn’t been for Bill Clinton, thicc would never have come into style.
but I can’t
legally run forget away with running for president againLike that MFer cares about what’s legal.
She’ll run for the good of the country, we can’t have Russia running things for four more years.
The thing to keep an eye, if its possible, is donations to their nonprofit. It would basically be a futures market on her Presidential chances.
I know donations collapsed when she lost 3 years ago (almost to the day – hard to believe), because they had no more influence to peddle. If donations start coming in again, it will be because people will be betting that she will have influence to peddle again.
Mooseport? What a lousy movie.
Maura Tierney, dude.
Thank god for the 22nd Amendement
RIP Moby Dick’s. I worked with a guy who managed Moby Dick’s back in the day. He had some great stories about the place. This book makes me think that he might have been telling the truth about some of them.
Jesus, even your bars are depressing.
How is a free night of drinking depressing?
I meant the physical structure. Also enabling alcoholism is depressing.
A free night of drinking 40 years ago.
Memory Lane trip, Jimbo. I remember passing the 620 Club on the street car, The lights flashed around in a circle on the sign. Young Fourscore was mesmerized by the technology that could do that. Strangely, I’d never heard of Moby Dick’s but its been nearly 70 years since I left Mpls as a kid. I’d have been a club member of the 620, if I’d stayed a few more years.
My original Hennepin Ave story (it was legendary in Outstate Minnesoda as the most decadent place in the state) was as an 18 year old kid going into a sex shop and being confronted with a wall of vibrators. They had all been hooked up in a display case like car stereos. You could hit a button on the display wall and a certain vibrator would begin humming and oscillating.
Like you, my rube buddies and I were all mesmerized by the technology.
Do you read Lileks?
“First, at its most basic, because it is a privilege to pretend to be a witch and not die.”
Not getting murdered is a privilege, not a right.
“My new neighbors – artists, musicians, shop owners, builders, gallerists, restaurateurs – treated me like family.”
Not exactly Galt’s Gulch is it. I wonder how long post-capitalist before these morons would be eating each other.
I get it. When you’re a loser you don’t want to hang around a bunch of winners. The problem is, losers still need what winners produce.
Well, of course.
*ROSIE✔
@Rosie
watching the republicans lie to us – so pathetic- “obsessed with impeachment” – no sir – obsessed with truth – trump deserves impeachment – and these bozos – jordan please
**Patton Oswalt✔
@pattonoswalt
Donald, those are just trick or treaters. Put the net down.
***George Takei✔
@GeorgeTakei
GOP: We demand public hearings! We demand transparency!
Pelosi: Okay. Let’s make it official, completely public and open. Let’s vote to do that.
GOP: No! You’re just trying to publicly humiliate the President politically!
*Sure.
**///sickburn
***That, uh, doesn’t reflect reality.
*puts envelope to head*
Who are three people whose careers are dead.
This really is the Democratic Party’s base. If you’re making under $400,000 why would you vote for Democrats?
ROFLMFAO
Pelosi: Okay. Let’s make it official, completely public and open. Let’s vote to do that.
Pretty sure their new rules allow for closed sessions.
“You can change your profile picture on Gravatar.”
WTF???
I almost feel in that trap. Just use a picture from your photo library.
Ignore that section. Look just above it for an upload button.
Or maybe below it.
Anyway, look for the upload button.
My previous picture was over 1 MB so it wouldn’t accept it.
I had to keep narrowing it down until it was really only the eyes before Gravatar said it was OK.
Wow, maximum 1 MB photo capacity! How 20th Century of them!
Scroll down and change the picture in the next section, the one that doesn’t mention Gravatar.
Exactly this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9ZQSZ9G9I
Excellent Halloween song
“Baby it is spooky outside” is very problematic. Too much white supremacism for this day and age.
When I was a kid, my dad got stuck bringing me and my buddy out trick or treating. We went to pick up my buddy (who was black) and he was dressed up as a ghost (home made costumes for the win) wearing a sheet. My dad asked him if he was a ghost and my buddy shouted “No I’m a spook”. My dad said he nearly swallowed his cigarette trying not to laugh. Then he looked at the kid’s dad who was also shaking with laughter.
That story is going to be illegal to tell if the people at the NYT get their way.
Because I don’t get to keep up like I used to….
Re: SF’s Subaru Cheer-You-up: Some years back about a dozen and a half perverts got caught giving each other blowjobs in some kind of weird, public pervert orgy in a public park in broad daylight. They were all arrested and their mug shots published in the local paper. My father mentioned it in conversation. He said upon seeing all of their photos at once next to each other he noticed they all had a certain look. I agreed. We both kinda knew that but had never seen so many at once so it had never jumped out at us. After that I can spot them a ;mile away….kinda like the dog in SF’s little tale. I cant quite put my finger on what it is, but I can spot them. It is a combination of appearance, dress, mannerism, eye movement….I cant quite say, but my radar damn sure goes off. If that little voice in the back of. your head starts nagging you, pay attention.
I bet there are more skulls buried in back yards than we care to know.
I’m guessing a lot of SS checks keep on a-coming to the those same addresses, too.
“I Would Have Sex With an Entire Major League Baseball Team If Given the Opportunity”
https://jezebel.com/i-would-have-sex-with-an-entire-major-league-baseball-t-1839501599
TW: jezebel
Alternative and more accurate title: “I Have Daddy Issues. I Mean Why Didn’t He Ever Come to My Dance Recitals? Fuck You, Dad. Seriously, FUUUUCK YOU!”
To all the fathers out there, go to your daughters’ dance recitals. Otherwise she’ll end up working for Jezebel
OK, OK. You’ve scared me to the point where I’ll go to some recitals. I figure if I go to one or two she won’t end up working for Jezebel. Her life will be on track and she’ll end up as a stripper or a slut.
Ohhhhhh wait till you read my David Bowie’s cod piece.
You will be very skeert.
I’m always a bit nervous when salt water fishing because I have done so little of it. And fishing in the North Atlantic for cod is even scarier because of the weather conditions.
Maybe there could be a story for us prairie dwellers? Like something about Prince’s crappie?
The Yoopers wrote a song for you, Jimbo, about crappies
Stop it, Mojeaux!
Who me? What’d I do?
When I see things like that, I am reminded of the words from the wise bear, Baloo.
Stay away from… something… something… nothing but trouble.
Every man on this site expresses his desire to ‘would’ every other whore that gets mentioned and never once are our ‘mommy issues’ raised. Fucking sexists and you’re double standards. Let the slut be a slut for god’s sake.
Damn, that cut deep Hyp. You’re like a feminist or some shit
Not all of us are into cougars you granny banger! Some of our issues aren’t Mommy related
FTR: I agree with you muchly Hyp. This is no exception.
Get in the kitchen and make your hubby a sammich! Double standards are the best standards!
I really can’t argue with that.
Besides we are Men. We are known to be bad and horrible. We were sort of counting on you gals to be better than us.
It’s not even necessarily double standards. Men with mommy issues tend to behave in the opposite manner. But, to be honest, I never took a gender studies class so I’m not well versed on the topic
Is mama’s boy problematic now too?
“Every man on this site expresses his desire to ‘would’ every other whore that gets mentioned and never once are our ‘mommy issues’ raised. ”
I don’t
leon’s besetting sin identified as pride!
Just tweaking you although pride in righteousness does convert it to self righteousness. 😉
;$ hes a witch!!! Burn him!!
Just a failing seeker after truth. Not a witch. My besetting sins are all based in sloth, and fear although the Christian ethic does not list fear as one of the 7.
Well done.
I’m glad you saw what I went for. 😉
his desire to ‘would’ every other whore
You are lucky that your handle is ‘The Hyperbole’. Otherwise I’d take issue with that statement for being so over the top. I think we desire to ‘would’ waaaaay more than 50% of the women who’s pics are posted on here.
Not me, just the women that black widow their mates.
Oh, horseshit.
It’s more like every third whore. Maybe fourth. I’m discerning.
I don’t recall ever giving a would or wouldn’t
A-HEM!
Some whores have penises.
About half of ’em, I reckon.
*Points upthread*
Demi Rose ain’t my type.
Mr. Garrison type daddy issues?
Female Gaze?
As if they would want her for their team train.
That’s an awful lot of words used just to say “I’m a slut”
Maybe the Astros manager should have used that as motivation? You fuckers lose and I’m sending Jezebel writers up to your rooms!
Bret Baier’s makeup makes him look like Thanos.
Yes, and I’d bang a women’s olympic volleyball team if I had the chance. What’s your point?
Slut? Meh.
Of course you could write some stupid article about it, as if someone would need to read about it.
I’m mocking the Jez twit BTW.
If I banged a women’s olympic volleyball team, not only would I write a story about it, I’d provide audio commentary for the Blu-ray of the event.
Let me know when Netflix has the Blu-ray. I love a good documentary.
Blu-ray is still a thing? I gotta an ancient device plugged into my entertainment center that can play the ancient disk things called Blu-ray, but I wasn’t aware anyone outside museums still use them.
Ok smartypants, there are movies that are not available on streaming services yet.
Pulls up DVD(BD) queue:
WTF! This is Mojeaux’s fault!
1. David Bowie’s Cod
Not on Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.
“Ok smartypants, there are movies that are not available on streaming services yet.”
Mostly 4K, otherwise, why would I care?
Mostly 4K, otherwise
I’m not understanding. If I can’t stream something
I wantmy wife wants to watch, how else do I get it?I don’t – and will never – stream movies.
I want the thing in my hand.
I see Jezebel staff was told to “focus on sluts.”
No Halloween play set is complete without Iron Maiden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-iRf9AWoyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVLMS_Yhe4
Some solo Ozzy too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UZeHvMYZA
And anything by Black Sabbath, obviously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfqrZvKI_1g
And a deep cut from the Alice Cooper band just because it’s a bizarre and awesome song
The sound quality on this isn’t great, but I still prefer it to the studio version. Much rawer.
Power, pride, contempt, and lust
All these things, I give to you
Riot – Outlaw.
UFO – Lights Out.
UFO – Rock Bottom.
Dragula
Shout at the Devil
My favorite Zombie is this little slice of ’90s heaven
That’s way better than the concerts I went to at the Thomas and Mack Center. All the bands I liked played at the House of Blues when they came to town.
Happy Halloween!
For a “libertarian” Trump support site this seems to obvious. to not have been posted.
Of course I’m just going have this on repeat all night.
And this in honor of Sugarfree’s masterful prose this afternoon.
Why do you hurt the people you love?!?!?
He was insufficiently loved as child and lashes out. We need to show our love for Hyperbole as extravagantly as needed to make him feel accepted. There is literally no level of love for Hyperbole that is too much. It is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing ever to show our love of hyperbole!
But I hate the SOB…
I hate you all, but most of all I hate myself.
Self hate is the best hate.
Well, it’s certainly the most well-informed.
Maybe it made him excitable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDlpETyqweE
I’m literally shaking rn.
Yeah, I hate nurses too!
I only hate nurses who keep me awake at night, disturb me 4 times a night to take vitals, keep my door open (Why am I on telemetry anyway?) (Fall risk, WTF?), and can’t find a vein without stabbing me 16 times.
I let the NA or phlebotomist wake you up then I do the middle of the night assessment
You don’t fool me. Phlebotomists know their business, so they can take my blood anytime they want. BUT I ALSO know a nurse told them to wake me up.
Hey, now!
Just kidding. The girl that broke my heart was a nurse. She was also responsible (although it wasn’t her fault but my own denial of reality) for me becoming a lawyer. That was not a good thing btw.
I know it was in jest. Sorry to hear that girl turned you into a lawyer
I had several nurses who broke my heart. And I’d do it all over again. Glutton for punishment — sweet, sweet punishment . . .
If you didn’t marry one, you know nothing of punishment.
My unit skews younger more 20-30 yo nurses. Most range from cute to hot.
Speaking of which I am off to work. I wonder how many drunks we’ll get from the local university
I wonder how many drunks we’ll get from the local university . . .
Er, all of them?
Hopefully most of the drunks can stay in the ED
When young Festus was doing social work he had a thing for nurses, so much so that his friends made much sport of him.
“My unit skews younger more 20-30 yo nurses. Most range from cute to hot.”
/humblebrag
I loved giving blood cultures at 3AM. I would have threatened the phlebotomist, but I’m pretty sure she could have taken me in a fair fight, even if wasn’t feeble.
The nurses were nice and attentive, but I think it’s because I didn’t ask for anything.
Well, it’s about time to shepherd my flock around the ol’ neighborhood. I leave you with one of my favorite Curb scenes – “No treat – trick. It’s a threat!”
I’m glad ya’ll talked me into reading the last article. Wow, that is epic stuff, well written, SF! Really gifted writing.
Glenmorangie Lasanta is tasty, and pairs quite well with pistachios. That is all.
Why did I read that as Glengarry Morgue?
Because your faith calls on you to sacrifice by foregoing the beauty that is Scots whisky!
I can actually taste the sherry barrel aging on this one.
SCOTCH, not Scots.
It’s very specific.
When the Mormon corrects you on your booze vocab, it’s time to do some refresher education.
How do you know that piece of drinking trivia? To a Scot, the only things that are Scotch are whisky and broth. Everything else is Scots, or Scottish.
I don’t need to DO something to KNOW something.
I have characters who drink so I must quiz my drunkard friends about what’s what.
Oh, and eggs.
Scotch eggs.
Mmmmm.
I read it as Glenmorgan Lasagna.
Always Be Closing (the drawers)
I’m drinking some Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout, I made it my Halloween beer for this year.
About 25 years ago I stole a really nice large glass logo ashtray off the tabletop at Samuel Smith’s pub in London.
Still have it, and it looks brand new to this day.
And no, I won’t sell it to you.
It’s the perfect size for a Churchill.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIOpyVPXUAAfS5y.png
Photoshop?
Biden does love him some bitches
Has the NYT weighed in yet?
Aren’t they busy whipping their writers into a impeachment article marathon? There’s no time for little stuff, they got him this time!
Should have had him sniffing the dog’s ass.
I have to get out of here. I’m looking for a house pretty much 24/7, but we’re stuck here until June next year because of our lease. But wife is all bummed because she can’t decorate the house for Halloween, we just don’t have any space to even store any more stuff, and she’s bummed because she wants to see kids Trick or Treat and we don’t get any out here, the entire community is retirees, there are basically no kids, we never get any for Halloween. I mean I don’t care, but she does, she’s like a little kid, and I feel really bad about it. Oh well, drink!
Get lawn chairs and take candy to a park in a kid neighborhood?
People do that? I mean besides guys who own a van with free candy on the side?
There were people who did it when I was a kid. I don’t know if it would be seen as creepy, but I am sometimes naive about that stuff.
When I was a kid and when my kids were younger, kids would go trick or treating and adults would decorate the house and hand out candy. When I was a kid we went everywhere in the neighborhood, but by the time I was an adult, you pretty much had kids only going to the homes of people they know.
Really, I think the wife would be happy to just decorate the house, but she wants new stuff and we have no more space, we outgrew this place more than a year ago, time to go. I offered her a consolation of prize of dressing up as a slutty witch, but she’s not amused.
When I was a kid we went everywhere in the neighborhood, but by the time I was an adult, you pretty much had kids only going to the homes of people they know.
We took the then 18 month old out last year in a friend’s neighborhood, and it was a big todo. Most of the neighborhood was out either roaming the streets with little kids or having impromptu campfires and passing out candy.
I think the community aspect of Halloween still exists, even if it’s a bit dampened by a lack of general community.
. . . we don’t get any out here, the entire community is retirees . . .
Just moved into such a community — although my neighbour says he’s sending his grand-daughter over to our place for treats. We’ve got enough to give her the diabeetus.
Go to the nearest university to see (slutty) costumes.
That reminds me I really should go down to my regular tonight and check out the talent, but it’s kinda cold and rainy outside, and I’m comfor…OMG I’m an old person!
I just went to the local French bakery today. Young lady behind the counter was wearing a dirndl costume that accentuated the positive (and she had a lot of positives to work with). Lovely. Had a good sense of humour, too. Bonus: the spousal unit really liked the pastries I brought home.
HEY NOW.
I’m the opposite. I set out the punkin and a big bowl of candy in the carport, turn off all the lights and rely on the honor system. 23 years and we’ve only gotten teen-age shitlorded once so I’m sticking to the old tried and true.
Went inside to take the dogs upstairs (or else they would bark at the door) and the candy bowl (a big plastic pumpkin) was at the edge of the yard and half the candy gone.
I had half a mind to turn off the porch lights and close up shop then and there.
We are not doing Halloween this year. Kids are too old plus they are also in the doghouse. We don’t get many kids at our door, so I don’t feel like sitting there waiting to spring up to hand out candy.
My avatar change is the only thing that’s happening in the Mojeaux Household for Halloween.
I just suggested to the wife after we buy our new place next year, that she can decorate and invite friends over for food and drink. That cheered her up a little. We could have went down the new pub, but she was all bummed out, so I opted to drink beer at home.
It’s kinda funny how similar our relationship dynamics are.
Were waiting 2 – 3 years before moving, but my wife is also looking forward to being about to entertain on holidays once we get the next place.
“My avatar change is the only thing that’s happening in the Mojeaux Household for Halloween.”
Your’re such a downer, you’re almost worse than me… wait, you are the worst! I almost forgot!
Nikki’s the worst.
OFFS, who?
Who’s on first.
I can’t remember when that happened. Was it already a thing, pre-Trump?
If you mean “Nikki is the worst,” that long predated Trump, but I never knew what the joke was that made Nikki the worst.
Hyperion’s insistence that I am the worst is recent.
Is this Nikki you speak of, a Glib? I was unaware.
Just like we’re all whores, we’re all the worst… something.
I seem to remember there was a time Nikki wasn’t the worst. But I drink, so what do I know.
“I seem to remember there was a time Nikki wasn’t the worst.”
I’m pretty sure she ran off with the one named Episiarch to join the journalist crew at Jezebel, or maybe it was Vox… or Salon.
Anway! Enough! We need an existing WORST! And I nominate this one! The glow in the dark one! Can I get a vote!? Here here!
No, she quit TOS when people noted a discrepancy between her purported “anarchism” and her insistence that the police should force her neighbors to shovel the snow off their sidewalks.
“No, she quit TOS when people noted a discrepancy between her purported “anarchism” and her insistence that the police should force her neighbors to shovel the snow off their sidewalks.”
I’m pretty sure there was more than that. She was basically the neighborhood SJW bully wannabe with her crummy little today following her about.
My only lasting impression of her is that she hates kids and resents the married-filing-jointly and all tax breaks associated with children.
That is not a judgment against her. I do not blame her because I remember those days of childlessness and paying taxes on a bare-minimum-wage job.
Nikki was a regular back at TOS, back in the day. Running joke was that she was “the worst” because she was anti-natalist, etc.
“My only lasting impression of her is that she hates kids ”
No, I’m pretty sure she would hate everyone here right now. She’s a triggered to the core SJW all the way.
Ah, Episiarch. Now there was a lad…
I think only two of the original “Axis of Glib” are glibs.
She’s a triggered to the core SJW all the way.
So always the worst then. Fine. I remember the sidewalk crap and some no kids stuff, but I thought there was more to it.
“Ah, Episiarch. Now there was a lad…”
I actually have very fond early TOS memories of Epi. I blame the harlot for corrupting him.
There was something about her very defensive position on abortion too, as I remember. She was pretty huffy about that.
“She was pretty huffy about that.”
Huffy about things was what she did. She wouldn’t survive a day around here. Which is why I nominated Moj for the new Worst title, at least she deserves it for putting up with us shitlords, it’s an honor!
Oh, I’m the worst because I can wrangle you lot like the Mean Mommy I am?
I can accept that.
“Oh, I’m the worst because I can wrangle you lot like the Mean Mommy I am?”
I don’t even know what you just said…, do chickens have large talons?
I thought we said mommy issues were not an issue here.
oh yeah.
Welp, off to the neighborhood Halloween party. Time to stuff some sausage into buns and drink a couple of beers,
I thought you were supposed to smoke Mexican pot when stuffing your sausage into buns?
“Time to stuff some sausage into buns and drink a couple of beers”
Euphemisms. But I was already under the assumption that any adult Halloween parties are really drunken orgies.
Didn’t I just say that?
That’s the world you want, you little turd.
Right up until little turd gets it.
Zuckerbergabsolutely dunks on Sorkin.
Well, that was a bit of marketing genius. I mean business common sense. In my business 101 class, one of the first things they taught us was ‘don’t piss off half your customer base by talking about politics or religion’. It seems that everyone on the left has completely forgotten that basic lesson these days. Maybe Zuck had an experience, who knows, but the rest of his ilk are not going to like it one bit, he’s supposed to be a high prog disciple, because.
Man, I’d be the first to crap on Zuck, but, well . . . GOOD FOR HIM. ”America is advanced citizenship.” Man, if only someone could say that about Canada with a straight face.
Let’s just see how long he can hold off apologizing to the angry mob. Should be interesting. Get the popcorn, the show never stops.
See. He is Secret Libertarian Tech Overlord!
I may have to turn it into a comic strip.
OK you little southernish shits: It’s still well above freezing, the rain stopped, and it’s not a big subdivision. Come here and get some damned candy! Buncha pansies.
It’s 77 here right now, patio doors open.
Naturally, our media has focussed on the trivial (Rep. Omar’s abstention from the vote), but the Armenian genocide was formally recognized by the House (albeit 100 years too late).
Of interest, this article makes the argument that, although the Armenians were the largest ethnic group exterminated by the Turks, Assyrians and Greeks (all Christians) were also slaughtered, making it not so much a genocide of Armenians by Turks, as a genocide of Christians by (Turkish) Muslims.
What difference at this point does it make?
Not exactly a surprising conclusion to arrive at. But yeah, I’ve never heard that angle either.
Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.
So, like, we’re square now, or something.
The latter Crusades were all to take back (the Reconquista among them) what the Muslims had taken, all the way up into northern Spain. I don’t know if you’re aware of that facet of the Crusades, but you’re post suggests not. Not an attack, but the popular revisionist history line about the Crusades has it *completely* backwards. Islam wasn’t even founded until 623 AD, that is, more than 6 centuries after Christianity and Judaism (much longer) were being regularly practiced by big chunks of people in the area. The only reason Muslims are currently in Jerusalem is because Mohammad got a ride on a pegasus (a no-kidding winged-horse) and God took him to Jerusalem and told him that was where he was supposed to go build what is now the Al Aqsa mosque. Islam took Africa, particularly northern Africa, by conquest and people were put to death if they didn’t convert and the women were raped and the young kids taken. The western world made a stand at the gates of Vienna in 1683. Pepperidge Farms remembers!
Similarly, the inquisitions have been caricaturized by history. Bad things happened, many people died, but it wasn’t the genocide implied by some.
It is likely that more people were killed in the 911 attacks than by the inquisition. It was wrong. It was bad. But the whole narrative of the Peaceful Religion Islam which conquered everything East to China in Asia, West to the Atlantic in Africa, and was barely stopped by various legendary figures at every doorway to Europe over 8 centuries and then forcibly converted millions, with slavery for nonconverts is bunk.
Mmmmm, but Vlad Tepes had a huge hand in keeping them out of Europe in the early 1400s, when England and France were fighting over France.
Just clowning on Obama.
Ah, gotcha. And I wish I could read that, but I’m not paying WaPo to watch the “republic die in stupidity.” And yes, he was one of the more egregious offenders of history for recent Presidents, and he got a complete pass on it from the sycophants in the Media.
I kind of hate Congressional Resolutions.
Mitt Romney’s grandson dresses as Pierre Delecto for Halloween
Tagg? Why I am not surprised that ‘Mittens’ has a son named Tagg?
Named after Gramps’ favorite watch?
The thing is, is that most people have fond little nicknames they give their kids. They just typically do not go public with is unless they are pretentious elitist assholes.
His first name is Taggart.
Well, it does sound better than Shinola…
Wow, it is a blustery day outside now. Halloween in the 100 acre wood…, which oddly enough, is right out back here. I think I just heard owl…
Sexy slave Leia costume.
I was gonna ask if there was any other sort of slave Leia costume, but I don’t want to ignite the HM signal.
Well… there’s this.
Is that you?
I wish I had confidence like that. I’m only a little north of fighting weight and I’d be embarrassed to change shirts in public.
I saw an actual sexy woman wearing one of those at the last ComiCon I attended.
Oh, fuck off!
Punchable face ratings, please?
About a 9 on the Hogg scale.
It seems the rain tamed down the neighborhood Halloween festivities. Yay. ?
LOL
Those first 60 seconds of Tucker were hysterical.
What did he do?
Ripped on Schiff while referencing a young Jodi Foster. It was good.
I’m sure the internet will provide clips.
Wut? Link?