SP and I have been horrified, saddened, and often amused. And then there’s our actual life. At least the weather has turned nice, we’re starting to break out our red wines, cooking outside, and offending the neighbors with our clothing-optional lifestyle.
Wait a minute, there were some birthdays today, and I almost spaced. And if I had, I would have missed a guy who killed a bar; someone who deserves a birthday cake; a logical choice; a guy whom we should thank for giving us the best president of the 20th century; a guy who could easily be the devil or an alien; a guy who spoke loudly; and a woman who sings loudly (and superbly). Whew, glad I remembered!
And sadly, I remember the news…
“Here’s your fucking transparency!”
This one will probably tie the pot-falling-out-of-ass story in the number of times we link it.
I may have been mistaken in my prediction of a Harris nomination and presidency. Normally, the most evil wins. This time, it will apparently be the runner up.
Where’s my fainting couch? Nothing left to cut.
A climatologist looks at the California fires. We’re all gonna die.
Old Guy Music features a birthday girl, and wow, what a voice. What… a… voice.
I like that Rick Perry’s spokes-ape is using the term “star chamber”
+1 Michael Douglas in a robe
Scruffy, Tonio wants you to email him.
Should I be concerned?
I swear that wasn’t me in the bear suit on Halloween.
Yes, I’m going to nag you to finish the article.
Yes sir.
Hey, what’s the recommended upper word count for a single post? Trying to decide if I should break it up.
72
Well I’ll never hit that number of words. Forget I asked.
The fact that the Dems oppose open hearings tells you all you need to know about this.
To be fair, I would blithely disregard “invitations” from the House that were unaccompanied by a subpoena, out of pure spite, derision, and disrespect.
Absolutely
It would be bad for me to go before Congress and have to deal with mental giants like AOC and Al Green. There’s no way I could hold my tongue. I can’t even restrain myself from ranting at NPR on my morning commute.
Wifey has Implicit Bias Training mandated as professional development training for all NYC teachers every Monday for 3 months. She is having a very rough time biting her tongue and doing the work without adding editorial commentary.
Things I don’t miss about working in a larger corporation.
OMG. The struggle sessions will continue until morale is thoroughly broken.
It would be bad for me to go before Congress and have to deal with mental giants like AOC and Al Green.
Put a little love in your heart.
It would be tempting to respond with a version of the “insanely idiotic” Billy Madison quote.
I think you get in trouble for cursing in front of Congress, but “Are you fucking kidding me? ” is the only appropriate response to most of their questions.
“I accept your resignation on behalf of the people of the United States. You may leave this chamber now, Ex-Congressperson.”
I give credit to the Boeing CEO who bit his tongue during the grandstanding at his testimony.
I mean, sure, his company is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people, but it would be awfully tempting to say something like :
“Well, I hope that using the dead bodies of these people as a soapbox secures you the votes you need, Senator.”
“So how many plane crashes do I have to cause to catch up to you Mr. Senator?”
I must admit that if I were called to testify, the phrase, “grandstanding assholes” would be used frequently.
I’d tell them to send the questions in writing and I’d respond in writing.
Fake news! We have offended Gaia and we must suffer her just punishment!
South Africa trounced England in the Rugby World Cup Championship game – 32-12.
Watching the game on Japanese broadcast TV the announcer kept prattling about how Rugby had always been a white man’s sport in Apartheid SA and how Nelson Mandela opened the sport to all races. DAFUQ? All that happened and was done and over before most of the guys playing on this team were born. Can you shut up about it already?
The Springboks were intergeated long before Mandela took over.
Lugby!
“South Africa trounced England in the Rugby World Cup Championship game – 32-12”
This was the desired outcome: #anyonebutEngland
KD Lang is one of the few women that if she said “I’m a man”, I’d have to agree.
I used to have a boss who refused to listen to anything she did. “I don’t want to hear anything from anyone who’s had more pussy than I have.”
Wouldn’t that preclude every rock band?
Maybe not Radiohead
Heart?
Veruca Salt.
Nope. My boss was quite… skilled. At the time we hired him (1980s), he was banging Vanna White.
You hired Pat Sajak?
Fun fact- I knew Vanna’s nanny.
Also, thats a great KD Lang song.
Queen?
That’s not the birthday girl… that’s a man, baby!
39F 5MPH at teetime
The temp and the velocity of your first tee shot of the day?
Damn man. It was warmer up here by a couple of degrees.
I predicted that Harris was going to get the nomination too, because she is superficially the best on the outside (black, woman) and the worst on the inside.
So blacks actually think of her as Black? She seems more indian to me.
She has the quintessential black American origin story, and if you have black friends this will sound really familiar. You know, dot-head mother, Jamaican father of Indian descent, teen years spent in the richest suburb of Quebec, etc.
American black experience, I’m not so sure but she’s at least had plenty of Brown in her.
Clearly the Dems and I have different definitions of best on the outside. Because I would say Tulsi.
But if they’re looking for a diverse female candidate, Warren should double down. Start showing up in Iowa with a feather headdress.
I may have been mistaken in my prediction of a Harris nomination and presidency. Normally, the most evil wins. This time, it will apparently be the runner up.
Warren may be more evil anyway, in her attempts to set up a permanent and unaccountable regulating class with the CFPC.
She’s definitely the biggest fascist of the group.
Does she really have any core convictions? Or does she take whatever position is expedient at the time?
Was listening to Ben Shapiro earlier this week talking about her time as a corporate lawyer. It certainly doesn’t square with some of her currently stated positions.
Working for the government means not only that you are smarter than everyone else, but you know more about everything than people who don’t work in the government.
I’m flattered, but it’s not true.
You’re too modest.
Well that is her core conviction.
I know it isn’t true but all her ideas tend toward one direction, a government program will solve any and all problems.
Thank you Tulsi?
Yup. Remember when the head tried to nominate his own successor when Trump was elected?
Power came back on a little after midnight but Cell service is still out. Oh well.
Thankfully cell service didn’t go out here.
Ha! Months ago I registered a complaint to Snopes using one of my burner emails. Their response is classic.
This was my original comment using their webform:
Glibs should get IFCN accreditation.
“Snoped did not, in fact, engage in physical attacks against the Babylon Bee, therefore your claim of assault is false.”
So legalistic…. and accredited.
We’re accredited! AC-CRED-I-TED!!!
Quis factcheckiet ipsos factcheckes? IFCN!
Wut? Like when someone else quotes them or something? I’m not aware of the Bee doing any such thing themselves.
That seems to be the case I just checked out Snope’s Babylon Bee coverage and unless they changed it after they started getting ridiculed the six or so I checked all simply stated that the Bee is a satire site in cases where people other than the Bee were forwarding their articles as real. I get that you people don’t like Smopes because of their liberal bent but if what i read is representative of their Babylon Bee coverage I think the reaction is a bit overblown.
STFU Libtard!!!
On a serious note, have you ever done any serious research in your construction knowledge about concrete damage and ice melt? As in do all of them kill concrete and some are just worse than others, or is there any out there that actually do not harm a sidewalk?
I’ve never looked into that so I have no idea, sorry.
They changed things after they started getting ridiculed.
Here’s some screenshots of the original.
Are you purposely forgetting the Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas “go back where you came from” story? One choice from the original (now edited) Snopes “debunking”:
But I do give you points for admitting there is a “liberal bent” at Snopes. Turns out you’re not always wrong!
I think you get in trouble for cursing in front of Congress, but “Are you fucking kidding me? ” is the only appropriate response to most of their questions.
You can only say, “That’s the dumbest question anyone has ever asked me” so many time before it loses its punch.
“Well, it’s true there are no stupid questions. You’ve shown there are definitely stupid people asking questions.
What was the question again? I think my brain flinched.”
Good morning Old Man! I hope you and your hench-people are well.
As for the rest of you reprobates, what the fuck are you doing up so early?!?
KD isn’t on my rotation, but that was a rockin’ good song.
Here’s what I’m listening to this morning. It snowed overnight and I’m in a mood.
Make it a great day, peeps!
I fell asleep when I got home from work and woke up at 2am.
Don’t know what anyone else’s excuse is.
Mornin’, Tundy! Wow – hell of a song AND video. If it weren’t bright & sunshiny where I am, I suspect the dust in the room would be getting to me somethin’ fierce.
Wow wow wow, excellent!
Thanks for that!! Never heard of them but their sound is right up my wheel house.
“Here’s what I’m listening to this morning.”
I had not heard that song nor of Trampled by Turtles before, Tundra. I very much enjoyed the song and video, so thank you.
Went in for an exercise class, got breakfast, and stopped at the grocery store to pick up something to make for dinner. Catching up now, then to roast some coffee, then brew a cream ale so it’s ready for Thanksgiving. Then planning on hitting up a local breweries new production facility that they just brought online in the past couple of weeks, as they celebrate Dia del Lupulo.
Another spin class? If so, how did you do? And how was the view?
It was. A different studio (figure I’ll try out all the introductory offers I can while trying them out), so no stats provided by the bike at this one. More men in this class (about 25-30% if I had to estimate), and they kept the studio darker. The one thing that keeps rubbing me the wrong way is both of them wanted people to stand when they’re sprinting. When you’re riding a real bike you (almost) never want to stand when sprinting, as it just increases your wind resistance. You want to be in the drops, and hunched over as much as possible when you’re sprinting. So I ignore most of that stuff (and sit in the back to avoid giving others my bad ideas).
This studio did some yoga in the saddle as the cooldown/stretching at the end. It was mildly interesting, but there were some issues. At one point we were told to extend one leg straight out over the handlebar (other leg was still clipped in). If I had done that, I would have been kicking the person in front of me in the kidney.
I’m pretty sure I don’t bend that way.
Some people there couldn’t. I can bend quite well, being double jointed. It also means I need to be more careful when doing quite a bit of exercises, because if I do something off a bit, I’ll easily twist something in a bad way or injure myself (and I’m at a higher risk to get arthritis… in more of my joints).
Good ‘un, Tundra!
Letters to the Local Rag: A Cry For Help
Also cried for help
“Ms. Henderson, we just asked you to not watch sasquatch porn in the public areas.”
STEVE SMITH BEG TO DIFFER.
Letters to the Local Rag: Interesting
How would she know it’s interesting if it never arrives?
It’s his subscription to “Interesting Times Monthly”
Inner’essin’ Tidbits
She never has a problem getting The Weekly Tedium.
The Post Office has an email service that sends images of scanned mail on its way to your address. Pretty much everything except advertising gets scanned these days. That might be how she knows it’s interesting mail.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/unhappy-over-traffic-ticket-legal-fight-woman-allegedly-threatens-to/article_c97fa288-fce4-11e9-9894-03bd4e8c1f82.html
“EASTON, Pa. | A Palmer Township woman reportedly unhappy about the outcome of her legal fight over a traffic ticket allegedly threatened to shoot a county judge Friday morning.”
How to make a bad day even worse.
Filed under: Things you really shouldn’t do
Yes. You should threaten to feed them into a woodchipper.
How do people that stupid make it through life?
Well, they don’t really distinguish themselves in their career and get pulled along by their cohort. The skilled ones become corporate lawyers, criminal defence lawyers, etc. The dummies become traffic court judges.
Oh wait, that’s not who you meant.
Well, some of them run for Congress.
Let’s demonize a class of people, and see what happens
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging residents across the state to not threaten or harass workers with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) as angry customers continue to vent their frustrations about widespread power outages aimed at preventing wildfires.
Some PG&E workers have reported objects being thrown at them and damage to offices and company vehicles.
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Customers have taken out their anger on PG&E, with one office being vandalized with eggs and a utility truck being shot at in Colusa County.
In one case, Newsom said a worker on the way to inspect power lines was run off a road. The utility has described similar incidents in recent weeks where its employees were targeted.
“I know the anger’s there but please, please don’t take it out on the people in the field,” PG&E President Andy Vesey said Monday.
Newsom has derided PG&E for making the outages necessary by failing to maintain its equipment. The company has been blamed for several devastating wildfires in recent years. Its power lines were found to have caused the Camp Fire, California’s most destructive blaze, which wiped out the town of Paradise last year.
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The Democratic governor said outrage should be directed toward the company’s corporate owners, not workers in the field.
“You can be rightfully outraged, and I will be right there front and center with you, about the corporate mismanagement,” Newsom said. “But the individual workers that are out there on the lines, please respect them.”
“Listen, you dumb hicks. Don’t you know the difference between political grandstanding and fomenting a lynch mob?”
Holy crap. The state controls PG&E’s budget, revenue, and strategy. It was the state that decided to shutter all their nuclear plants and stick PG&E with the decommissioning costs.
And then they blame “deregulation”, a tactic that they already tried in the Gray Davis era.
Newsome could jump into the 2020 circus and immediately steal the “most evil” crown from everyone there except maybe Warren. You know it’s coming, maybe not this year but somewhere down the line.
Department of Too Local: HS principal (and former schoolmate of mine) forced to resign because he used the “n-word” in a conversation with a student ABOUT the “n-word.”
Reason Infinity why I’m glad I dodged the bullet of a career in public school education.
I’d insist on being fired.
Well, what does that do to your pension? A firing might provide them grounds to revoke it.
It would give you grounds to contest at least.
I sure as hell wouldn’t trust the State Teachers Retirement System when 34 years’ worth of pension was on the line.
Considering my mom was a substitute teacher, and my parents are happily living on that pension. I think there’s room to cut it anyway.
Subs should make combat pay./BTDT
Outside of a short stint delivering pizza and a shorter stint as a stock boy at a women’s clothing store I have been self employed and never given a thought to pensions, but you’re telling me that people willingly take a job where part of their compensation is a retirement package that can be rescinded at the last minute? Who takes a deal like that.
Someone without a job?
/my story
Beaver-ditch!
Ex Mrs Tres Cool was a public school teacher, and toed the union lion daily. Then, she got knocked-up and when her daughter was school-aged, she magically quit and got a job at a private Catholic school. Where her kid attends.
WRT nothing, she was an amateur boxer on the weekends & evenings.
Coulda come in handy while she was still in the public schools.
My line was always, “the wife isnt much of a wrestler, but you should see her box!”
Ba-dump CHHHHHH!!!
If you’re awake in 2019 and don’t realize that is a career-ending conversation to have, well… SMDH. It sucks but that’s life today.
Sure, why not?
Now, Governor Gavin Newsom is suggesting that Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway should buy PG&E. While some may see Berkshire’s plans for the company as preferable to other vulture funds, the impact on most Californians will be similar: more power shutoffs, more fires, multibillion-dollar bailouts for investors and skyrocketing electric bills for the rest of us.
The billionaires won’t save us. It’s time to completely transform how we power our communities.
The old electrical system—shaped through backroom deals between billionaire investors and politicians—relies on nearly 200 dirty gas power plants to generate massive amounts of electricity and carry it across dangerously long distances. This system produces profits for a few at the expense of many: working-class communities of color who are getting sick from living near dirty gas power plants, the medically vulnerable who rely on powered medical devices, and all of the people whose lives and livelihoods are disrupted by prolonged power outages and wildfires yet still have to pay rising rates.
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Instead of pouring billions into propping up a dangerous, antiquated electrical infrastructure, Governor Newsom, our legislators and the California Public Utilities Commission must move California toward a safe, reliable, community-owned energy infrastructure that reinvests in local communities.
The contours of what a 21st-century energy system should look like are clear—we need a web of decentralized, distributed energy systems that generate, store and distribute clean renewable power locally and regionally. Workers and communities need to own and make meaningful decisions about our energy systems, not big corporations like PG&E. And we need to start building the 21st-century grid in working-class communities of color that have been unfairly burdened by this dirty energy system.
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In the short-term, PG&E should fund the clean renewable backup power that our communities need to survive their power shutoffs. We can turn our local libraries, recreation centers and designated public evacuation sites into hubs for climate resilience with solar-powered microgrids and storage. When PG&E decides to cut power to millions, climate resilience hubs can be a space for people to power their medical devices, access heat, breathe clean air, and refrigerate breastmilk and medicine. These climate resilience hubs can also serve as sites for community energy generation that help bring energy costs down for entire neighborhoods, not just individual households, and transition us to the safe, stable energy system we need.
Let’s dismantle PG&E’s dirty, dangerous electrical infrastructure—and truly own our power.
Sylvia Chi is policy director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network. Jessica Guadalupe Tovar is an organizer for the Local Clean Energy Alliance.
We just need to fine tune the unicorns’ diet to get the most farts, and our problems will be solved.
I’d like to hear Buffett’s response to that suggestion.
A hearty laugh? An offer that requres.the state to lift all regulatory control, followed by another chuckle?
Ban public utilities!
?
“PG&E should fund the clean renewable backup power that our communities need to survive their power shutoffs”
With what money? Isn’t PGE basically in receivership?
“And we need to start building the 21st-century grid in working-class communities of color that have been unfairly burdened by this dirty energy system.”
Tear down the ghettos and build nice clean wind farms in their place!
How much land would it take to build enough solar and wind farms to provide enough power for Los Angeles alone?
Courtesy of David Thompson: Trick or Treat the Profa way
At some point they’re going to screw with the wrong person.
George Soros’s Sturmabteilung is trying to get their very own Horst Wessel. Potential Horsts probably don’t realize this.
Raid brand Wasp & Hornet Spray (the outdoor kind that shoots about 20′), coupled with the savvy employment of a lighter, makes this problem go away with the quickness.
Your jib – I like the cut of it.
That’s what short-barrel shotguns are for
What were they going to do if someone opened the door?
Limp away crying if it’s ever my door.
Department of Too Local: HS principal (and former schoolmate of mine) forced to resign because he used the “n-word” in a conversation with a student ABOUT the “n-word.”
Something something don’t throw the stones until I tell you.
That word is magic.
::snicker:: “…until I blow this whistle.”
You’re brilliant!
https://youtu.be/FQ5YU_spBw0?t=133
At least the weather has turned nice, we’re starting to break out our red wines, cooking outside, and offending the neighbors with our clothing-optional lifestyle.
Wait until Mom forgets to put on clothes and goes outside. 😐
I may have been mistaken in my prediction of a Harris nomination and presidency.
#metoo
#methree
Also agree that Warren is even more evil – and probably the nominee now.
“Is it okay for foreign governments to interfere in our election?” The MoveOn representative asked. “Is that an acceptable thing to have happen? Congressman, it’s a simple yes or no question.”
Congresshole Dean: Russian collusion again? Don’t you think it’s time to . . .
*removes sunglasses*
Move on?
Is Soros considered American at this point?
*peanut gallery applause*
MoveOn is sticking cameras in the faces of Congresspersons and asking them TheToughQuestions and uploading it to social media. Lonewacko lives! Also, headbutting them is probably the correct response.
I’d like to hear Buffett’s response to that suggestion.
If those people thought they were getting screwed by PG&E, wait ’til Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett gets aholt of them.
https://www.insider.com/nyc-subway-vigilantes-redesign-contentious-fare-evasion-signs-2019-9/
New York, CA, what’s not to like?
Everything is free in America
Expecting everyone to pay is systematic racism. Just like everything else.
Related
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/brooklyn-anti-cop-protest-turns-violent-blocks-traffic-dont-let-these-pigs-touch-us
Perhaps we would have a nicer subway system if the NYPD cracked down even harder of turnstile jumpers, mentally ill/drunk/drugged out homeless, and those cuntes who sing or play music in the stations and on the trains while begging from the citizenry. This NYC taxpayer votes for NYPD busting more heads.
You no like the buskers? I don’t think I’d mind ’em in the station, although popular ones could block traffic if they draw a crowd. I wouldn’t let ’em play on the train.
Yeah, I’m perfectly fine with the buskers. A lot of them are actually professional musicians. The ones on the trains are generally panhandlers who taught themselves an instrument last week.
I doubt they are still there but the best cover of “Skintight” I have ever heard was played by the funk band at 125th street station on the 4,5,6. And they even dedicated it to “all the bitches in the skintight britches” standing on the platform.
The fare is deliberately calculated to be affordable by low-wage earners or victims of the city’s generous handouts. This crying about it is complete BS, as anyone who has seen the theft in action knows.
Being poor sucks… it’s supposed to.
Stupid old man just doesn’t get it.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/01/ny-times-opinion-president-obama-old-understand-cancel-culture/
Wow, even for the NYT that’s arrogant beyond belief.
They sure do love smelling their own farts.
You know you’re officially “old” when you’re now out of the graces of the NYT opinion-makers. Oh well, it was nice holding the levers of power for, like, five years.
holding the levers of power for, like, five years.
We just like to sit on the sidelines and watch the world burn.
Maybe still a bug or two in the system
Federal safety regulators have begun looking into Tesla battery fires. The probe covers all Model S and Model X vehicles manufactured between 2012 and 2019 and sold in the United States.
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration is casting a wide net in its action, which NHTSA does not technically classify as an “investigation” but rather as a “defect petition.“ In a letter sent to Tesla’s legal department dated Oct. 24, the agency demands that Tesla produce all documents that relate to “high-voltage battery fires that are not related to collision or impact damage to the battery pack” in the Model S and Model X.
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The media has reported several incidents where Tesla batteries appeared to spontaneously burst into flames — sometimes while driving, other times while the car was parked. If Tesla knows of other such fires that the media has not picked up on, NHTSA wants to know about them.
The Times attempted to reach Tesla’s media relations team by email and by phone Friday morning, but the company has not responded.
After a parked-car Model S fire was reported in Hong Kong in May, Tesla beamed a software update to Model S and Model X cars that limited charging to 80% of capacity and, many owners have complained, decreased the car’s range. The company said at the time that the update was issued out of “abundance of caution” to “protect the battery and improve its longevity” but offered to no detail on what the trouble was, and it has yet to address the issue publicly.
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The battery limitation update has sparked a class-action lawsuit and a barrage of customer complaints. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, claims that the range for the Model S and Model X, which sell for around $100,000, is less than what buyers paid for, and that the cars’ resale value has been reduced. NHTSA said early last month it had received a petition from a lawyer representing the car owners asking the agency to investigate.
Malibu resident and Model S owner Robert Karpuk is not part of the lawsuit, but he’s upset with Tesla about the range reduction. “We have two Teslas; I think they’re the greatest cars ever,” he said. But, he said, he wants a “straight answer” from Tesla. “What is it about this update that specifically affects my battery pack? They won’t tell me,” he said.
It’s a bauble. A lifestyle accessory. It’s not supposed to be reliable.
Yeah, I want a vehicle that can be bricked remotely.
It does seem like some sort of safety device which would detect a fire in the compartment and fill it with extinguishing chemicals would be fairly simple and not that expensive.
Is there one that works on Lithium Ion fires? I was pretty sure those were self-oxidizing, and the standard fire department response was to contain and wait it out.
For ordinary fires, sure, but there seem to be some special circumstances with these.
For instance.
No shit.
I don’t think it’s that easy
Forgot the quote:
Wow, interesting. Good thing they spontaneously catch fire.
“similar to the climate emergency”
So then, not an emergency?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/germany-dresden-nazi-emergency
They need to root out the ex-SED, too.
It does beg the question of why all the far-right panic is located in the former East Germany.
They aren’t Nazis, they’re people who remember, first hand and the experiences of elders what its like when rapey foreign invaders get the run of the place. Think of it this way, nothing much good happened in Eastern Germany from 1914 until reunification in 1991. Then a few years after things began to get better, Merkel’s Marching Million Muslims arrived and began hassling people again. The government told the people to suck it up because diversity and compassion. The people there don’t want to suck it up anymore.
Things were different in the West which, occupied by the US, Britain and France, had a much better time of it because their invaders and occupiers were relatively nice, that is, after they stopped starving and freezing the locals.
I was there about a month ago. Didn’t see any Nazis.
I lived and worked in that very area for 15 years and didn’t see any either. There were some skinheads, but not that many. They reminded me of the BPM and El Forestero biker gangs in Minneapolis back in the 1960s.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7640523/Jane-Fonda-arrested-FOURTH-time.html
“Fonda has been wearing the same red coat each time she has been arrested and she revealed on Friday that it would be the last piece of clothing she ever buys. ”
Bitch, you’re 81 and frail. That’s more of a prediction than a bold position.
She probably has an entire wardrobe of clothes she’s never worn.
Or someone else buys them for her.
Who was that guy who said life after 75 is not worth living due to consumption vs contribution? Some bioethicist or other. Maybe the brother of the only non corrupt mayor Chicago ever had if I remember correctly.
The value of your life is not measured in its ongoing contribution to others.
Anyone who says different is just evil.
Ezekiel Jonathan “Zeke” Emanuel I think it was. One of his brothers was mayor the other an agent
I don’t like to celebrate people’s deaths, but I may make an exception for this cunt.
“Better dead than red.” Looks like she’s gonna try for both.
I haven’t even bothered to read anything about the Beto story, but I cannot help but presume he’s dropping out to patch things up at home before the gravy train leaves him at the station with nothing but his toothbrush and a box of memories.
I saw he was dropping out so he could take more guns from his family.
Wanted to save them from being Nuked.
Campaign schedule conflicted with FurCon.
I would DDG “FurCon” to see if it’s a real thing, but I’m concerned it is a real thing and then that search is associated with my IP addy.
Running against Cornyn right?
Dudes, there’s only so much time in life to gleam the cube.
I’m in Orange City, Iowa for a funeral. I’m gathering from the architecture and the numerous cheesy windmills that the place was settled by the Dutch. Cute town, too bad it is stuck in NW Iowa.
I almost popped a stupid pheasant who was graveling up on the road this morning. However, when I was swinging around to Darwanize him, I realized I was already in Iowa (and I don’t have a license here). I hope he has an equally stupid cousin on on the Minnesada side of the border when I go back this afternoon.
I read that as “I almost popped a stupid peasant who was graveling up on the road”.
No season and no limits on peasants.
I might have also read that as “Grovelling” too.
Is it the zombie apocalypse already?
Could be worse. The town could be stuck in Minnesoda.
Read the local paper. Nothing but Dutch names.
Silicone Saturday gives you the wake up call you always need.
http://archive.li/b21iK
Here it is about 10 civilized degrees and people already started complaining of the weather.
I fin it amusing that every single season tey would say oh it was never this cold/hot/dry/wet whatever, they find something. Although most people do not remember the weather 2 years back. I guess this is why global warming is so convincing to some. It seems like every extreme weather is unprecedented to them.
Also #yanggang
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7642205/Demi-Rose-flaunts-cleavage-TINY-yellow-bikini-blonde-wig-sizzling-Instagram-snaps.html
Trying to decide if having sex with her would be more like a RealDoll or a pile of decorative pillows.
Honestly I’d give it the old college try, given the opportunity.
Hell, she doesn’t even have to take her pants off.
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“Those aren’t pillows.”
…John Candy in “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”.
While that razzmatazz hop skiddily-doo of Luka Doncic did not get them the victory, and while the refs did probably fuck up on the last possession – so did the mavs defense they should only have defended the 3 point line , Doncic has skills. Porzingis looks rusty. But he should be better in time.
No amount of freedom is tolerable in California.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/11/02/california-continues-wreck-gig-economy-writers/
It don’t get more free than the freedom to shit anywhere you want
Freedom for non-producers only then.
Kids say the darndest things
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg dismissed the idea of meeting with President Trump when she appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Friday.
“Would you sit down with him [Trump] to help him understand climate change?” DeGeneres asked the 16-year-old.
“I don’t understand why I would do that,” Thunberg responded matter-of-factly, as the audience erupted in laughter. “”I don’t see what I could tell him that he hasn’t already heard, and I just think it would be a waste of time, really,” according to USA Today.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin also weighed in on Thunberg’s U.N. speech, saying she doesn’t understand the complexities of the modern world. “I may disappoint you but I don’t share the common excitement about the speech by Greta Thunberg,” Putin said, according to Reuters. “No one has explained to Greta that the modern world is complex and different and … people in Africa or in many Asian countries want to live at the same wealth level as in Sweden.”
Child looks at the world simplistically? Say it ain’t so, Vlad.
I think it is a good point that 10 year olds would vote better than 16 year olds, they would vote random, 16 year old vote how it seems cool
I don’t like the guy, but it’s hard for an idiot to thrive in the KGB, survive the downfall of the Soviet system and place himself as all but a new Tsar. His path may be littered with more bodies than the Clintons, but Putin’s not an idiot.
And is making statements infinitely more measured and reasonable than most made the USA’s leftist politicians. Ponder that one on the tree if woe.
“I don’t see what I could tell him that he hasn’t already heard,”
She’s this close . . .
Justice.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/11/baton-attack-during-june-protests-in-downtown-portland-lands-man-in-jail-for-nearly-6-years.html
It’s not the guy who got attacked that’s going to prison? That *is* a surprise.
That article reads like Media Bias 101.
The victim is “right-wing”, the perpetrator has no affiliation. The fight was between the “far-right” and “anti-fascists”. Not a single mention of the word “antifa”.
“Austere peace scholar receives politically-motivated sentence”
Wow, interesting. Good thing they spontaneously catch fire.
User error. Nothing to do with inherent design flaws.
So Saturday morning is the morning I get up with the youngest tax deduction and as usual, we’re sitting on the couch. I’m watching TV (Roseanne reruns, best TV show evar, fite me) and he’s watching youtube videos. I can hear that they’re aimed at about his age (he’s 3), but one thing I’m totally offended by……there’s freaking campaign commercials before them. When did we lower the voting age to 3? I mean I know dems need all the help they can get, but I feel like that’s a bit excessive.
There are people of chronological voting age who will watch those videos unironically.
I can never tell new commenters from commenters who commented for a long time but rarely enough their name does not ring a bell. Which one is this?
Long time lurker, but I seldom comment. I just got a wild hair this morning and wanted to say something.
And haven’t picked an Avatar?
Oh I did, but I assume it’s been eaten by the latest issue with WordPress.
Love the avatar! ??
PS. Roseanne is a good choice. I might choose something else but that show is up there.
Avatar shaming will be a misdemeanor in the new America.
But you know, for now it worked. I’m gonna get one up on here.
Use uBlock, Tulpa.
Hey, they raised the voting age to 150, why not lower it to pre-birth; assuming the kid hasn’t already been aborted.
Sorta Tulpa. He’s been around for a long while, but hasn’t commented much.
He deserves a FUCK OFF, TULPA!
I think my long hiatus between comments means I deserve another “Fuck off, Tulpa!”
I had entertained the idea that you are Nikki The Worst in drag.
I can see why you would think that, but no. Been following you lot long enough to remember Nikki though. She really was the worst.
This sounds like chony talk to me 😉
Please to be fucking off, your Tulpaness!
Just wanted to change it up a bit.
Is that you, Shikha?
Not sure if this has been covered or not.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/lizzie-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-will-tax-everyone-and-bankrupt-the-country/
She gets points for finally being honest about the cost ($52 TRILLION!), but instantly loses points for extreme mendacity (middle class won’t be taxed).
Go back to the Rez lady.
She’s not going to tax the middle class, she’s going to eliminate it.
Mornin’, Glibs. I am just getting wound up in selling everything we own in preparation for moving. Not everything. Things I’ve had for years and I don’t want or things I must let go of to move forward emotionally. Culled my books and DVDs. That was not painful once I acquired their digital equivalents. Getting rid of knickknacks. This is cathartic, but I’ve always found purging to be cathartic.
Selling mainly in meatspace, or posting any online?
Craigslist and Facebook. I’ve been having my best luck with FB recently. Don’t know why.
Offerup isn’t bad either.
I’ve never felt more free than when everything I owned fit in one suitcase. 29, had money in the bank, no lease or rent and an airplane ticket out of the US.
Knowing me, I wouldn’t feel free, I’d feel lost.
We’re all lost until we find what counts and that wouldn’t have fit in my suitcase.
I did the same at 27 except it was a train ticket to SF 🙁
Story I’d love to hear.
Nothing much. Buffalo seemed a dead end so I moved to the “big city”. Left 11 months later for an even bigger city but more importantly one not in California.
On the run, then, eh?
Looks like Blizzard is in full on damage control mode, leaks of Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqeAgKInJDQklTVHpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NrSUtFUWlybmNlempvQU1FVmdfdFZBazcyQzNFaTFDYkdsNmVtRnlaQ0JoYm01dmRXNWpaWE1nUkdsaFlteHZJRWxXSUdGMElFSnNhWHA2UTI5dUlESXdNVGtvQUFQAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
And they mysteriously forgot about the Diablo 2 remaster. I probably put 10,000 hours into that game when it came out.
The forearm controlling your clicking finger must be huge.
It is. The wife LOVES it.
He’s… learning…
The moment I figured out I could just hold down the right mouse button as a Barbarian was life changing.
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-02/nancy-pelosi-is-worried-2020-candidates-are-on-wrong-track
She [Pelosi] spoke as polls show a significant tightening of the race with Warren edging up on Joe Biden at the top of the field. A New York Times/Siena College survey of Iowa Democrats released Friday showed the top four candidates — Warren, Sanders, Biden and Pete Buttigieg — all bunched up in a five-point spread at the top of the field.
The speaker’s concerns reflect those of many Democratic leaders and donors who believe that left-wing policies will alienate swing voters and lead to defeat.
Warren and Sanders are betting on a different theory — that voters who float between parties are less ideological and can be inspired to vote for candidates who represent bold new change in Washington.
Less ideological voters will jump on the rabid ideologues’ platform? Because they secretly want to wreck the system? That don’t make no sense to me.
Also- it says in there,
polls show a significant tightening of the race with Warren edging up on Joe Biden at the top of the field. A New York Times/Siena College survey of Iowa Democrats released Friday showed the top four candidates — Warren, Sanders, Biden and Pete Buttigieg — all bunched up in a five-point spread at the top of the field.
Butthead? SRSLY?
It’s possible he’s picking up the “Anyone but…” vote. Especially as the small fractions drop out.
The other three are DC swampers. I suspect your right.
I hesitate to say this about anybody after Trump won, but I see no timeline with a President Butttigieg.
Could maybe see a Warren/Buttigieg ticket. Gives them the “First Fem ale/Gay Ticket” that I’m sure they covet.
Warren gets the nomination and choose ButtGag as her bitch.
Welfare for farmers at 40% of their income. That’s great (sarc). It’s close to the % of people receiving government assistance of some kind.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2014/07/02/weve-crossed-the-tipping-point-most-americans-now-receive-government-benefits/#7d94c1a33e6c
We’re only racking up $1 trillion+ in new debt every years, what’s the big deal? It’s not like we’ve been out of recession for 10 years or anything.
Impeach? Let’s ask a dispassionate observer
Frank O Bowman III, author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump and a professor at the University of Missouri school of law, said that Trump’s having extorted actions with no legitimate US national purpose from a foreign country that is “literally at risk of losing its political and territorial independence” without US support was impeachable.
“It’s plainly an abuse of power, and it’s plainly impeachable,” Bowman said.
There you are, ladies and gentlemen. Your duty is clear.
Meh. Anything is impeachable if the House wants to impeach. Also, I’m pretty sure the President gets to define national interest in foreign relations. Remember the dust-up when Congress tried to go around President Obama vis-a-vis Iran? Something, something, my rules are not your rules.
There’s also the tiny detail that no such “extortion” actually occurred.
But yes, “impeachment” is really nothing more than a “vote of no confidence”.
When everything is impeachable, the nothing is.
I was not aware of the prop-up-foreign-countries duty laid out for the President in the Constitution.
Wouldn’t that be…..meddling?
Trump’s having extorted actions with no legitimate US national purpose from a foreign country
Investigating influence peddling by a former VP isn’t a legitimate purpose? Especially when the VP admitted on tape that he used his office to force the dismissal of a prosecutor?
You can’t investigate corruption if your political opponents are corrupt because it will help you politically. Geeze, it’s like you haven’t even been paying attention.
Well, I can’t argue with that sentiment. I still think you’d have to be nuts to hand your data to China like that.
Oh my God.
The problem with a fascist economy, and I think that’s probably the case with China, is that there is effectively no distinction between public and private. I’m not going to argue for government regulation of private industry, but in this case it’s a little like if the NSA staffed a company that made a chat app that was marketed internationally.
Yeah, I should probably add that none of this is any of Moob’s or the other one’s business.
Pornsicle
For DoomCo
I have an Avatar. WOOHOO!
You are a boat.
I has boat!
Now change your handle to “Boaty McBoatface”!
Excellent idea. I’ve got the perfect theme song in mind too:
https://youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM
Haha! That was pretty funny.
Also; Fuuuuuck do I hate Auto-Tune.
Those guys reminded me of this guy
Last night I got to see UFO on their final tour. I couldn’t believe the life still in 70 year old rockers with grey hair.
They were tight well rehearsed and rocked.
*Quickly checks their schedule* Dammit!
One one of my favorites.
Cue the music
A CNN poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire that was released Tuesday showed Harris’ support in the state at 3%, down from 9% in a July poll. The California Democrat made her last trip to the Granite State the first week in September.
Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you
I guess familiarity does breed contempt.
*snort*
As Cuomo might say, “She’s all yours, California.”
New dishwasher installed, yay! Found evidence of mice – boo! Put out traps, we’ll see what happens.
“How do you know you’re better than that other person?”
Weird conversation I had tonight. So, how do you know you’re better than someone else?
“Better” on what scale? More capable at something? More moral/ethical?
Alright, fair question. Let me rephrase: Are you a better person than Jeffry Dahlmer?
For hiding bodies he is the way better person. Why do you ask?
Are you a better person than Jeffry Dahlmer?
On what scale?
Moral/ethical? That begs the question of which moral/ethical scale. By my standards, I can confidently say I am a more moral and ethical person than Jeffry Dahmer.
That’s the question: define “better” and be careful of making judgments because you don’t know the circumstances. It helps hone that knee jerk reaction that we all have from time to time. And it’s why I love Christians even though I’m an atheist.
Jeffrey was doing his part to combat overpopulation. What are you doing? He should be celebrated as an eco-warrior.
(Length * girth) + (muscle mass / body fat)
“How do you know you’re better than that other person?”
Thirty seconds of observation.
Nothing wrong with the Randian interpretation in my book.
This got me wondering: Is it possible to revoke someone’s citizenship? Because these people should have their citizenship revoked. Maybe not the children, but anyone who made the choice to join ISIS should be ruled a hostis humani generi, the enemy of all mankind.
Is being granted something which the state automatically bestows upon you for falling out of your mother’s hoo ha in a specific geographical area really worth anything to start with?
Its being used to demand that the state rescue them from prison, readmit them, and I am sure support them for at least some time, so in this case I would say “Yes, citizenship is worth something.”
Granted, I’ve got a major axe to grind with the state attaching citizenship to me like tax cattle. Fuck the ISIS chicks, but I’d like to separate it from the citizenship issue.
I was wondering the same. I guess we’ll find out.
I heard the UK took hundreds of them back. I’m sure that will work out well.
Yes, it is but not under those circumstances.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/Advice-about-Possible-Loss-of-US-Nationality-Dual-Nationality.html
First there has to be intent to relinquish citizenship and the DoS has adopted a presumption for most clauses that US citizens haven’t without a specific declaration to do so.
Entering the armed forces of a hostile foreign state would require acknowledging that ISIS’ military is an legitimate armed forces (which could cause implications for the laws of war) and a bona fide state (again, implications for the laws of war and international law).
The last possible one would be bearing arms against the US, but as there isn’t a blanket declaration of war, so would that need a specific documented act against US forces?
If they can deport Lucky Luciano – who was American born I believe- they can revoke the passports of these animals.
Luciano was born in Sicily, the son of a sulfur miner. His family came to the US when he was 9.