I’m driving back home from Vegas, hitting the road just as this posts, so this intro will be brief. But still, the links are ripe for commentary. Much like my underwear. But here’s a non-news link that absolutely delighted me, so I’ll leave it at that.
Birthdays abound, including a famous constipated Jew hater; the eternal partner of Butthead; an actor who was for the most part invisible; the spirit animal of all of us; and the greatest British politician ever.
News next.
The presidential campaign is serious business.
Et tu, Beauregard? Amazing the amount of hype over the past couple of years for this stupid thing.
OK, this might be the dumbest thing I’ve seen today. But it’s early.
Two of our commenters make the news.
Old Guy Music today is classical, just to raise the tone around here. It’s the third movement of what I think is a pretty cool concerto. And it seems appropriate somehow.
Where’s Pie?
Around. Just did not feel like commenting much
mornin’
Mornin’
Mornin’
Mornin’
G’ mornin!
Howdy!
Somewhere Minnie Pearl is chuckling quietly.
Story of my life…
Ladies and gentlemen, the new DA of San Francisco
perfect human for the job
I should feel bad for the residents there, but I don’t. ?♂️
LOL never change, San Francisco.
Trump is degrading the civility of our public discourse!
So nothings changes from when Moscone, Milk, Feinstein, and the rest were embracing Jim Jones and his cult.
Good point. It’s useful to remember that SF politics have been fucked up for a long, long time.
Holy shit – the “whistleblower” won’t testify? So this is just a Seinfeld episode? (A show about nothing)
Hasn’t that been the shtick since he was elected? Fill the headlines with ‘he’s guilty!’ and then when it comes time for evidence and trial they’ve already moved onto the next ‘He’s guilty?’
It’s just filler for fake news shows.
Seinfeld wasn’t originally a show about nothing, but a show about how a stand-up comedian gets his material. It was Jerry, the show-within-a-show that was pitched in the episodes they went out to LA, that was pitched as a show about nothing.
Maybe this will be a show about how Shifty gets his material.
The reason Jerry was pitched as a show about nothing was to playfully tweak the entertainment media at the time who had been calling Seinfeld a show about nothing.
The “show about nothing” came from an internal NBC research memo, where test audiences essentially described it that way.
you will be happy to know 5.4 million Romanians , or 30% of eligible voters have voted at ths time, plus another 500000 abroad.
and the stores are still not selling beer
You’re not happy being sober, are you? 😉
If we were happy being sober, why would we drink?
I’m happy when I’m sober because I know that it’s nowhere near time to stop drinking.
^^^This guy gets it^^^
Update !
34% at 16 00.
That’s 4:00 PM Celsius Standard Time.
we have reached 39%
43% at 1800. I don;t think we will make it to 50% till 21.
Fun football day yesterday. I love that Alabama is probably out of the playoffs because of their weak non-conference schedule. I wish somebody would do the same to Clemson.
I hope Minnesota keeps winning and can eventually beat Ohio State.
Alabama is probably out – the coach should be fired and never work again. This is a disgrace. I don’t know who that us but saw this on the internet.
According to the internet it is Nicholas Lou Saban Jr.. #FireNicholasLouSabanJr. Is Lou and actual name or short for something?
Both, actually. It could be short for Louis, but it doesn’t seem like that applies to him,
Nick Saban was the guy who created the Power Rangers, wasn’t he?
Okay, that was good.
Everyone needs to start masturbating more. It’s the only way we can defeat the Fascist threat!
https://twitter.com/SophNar0747/status/1192974152120127488
*salutes*
On it!
Right on “Q”
I liked #fapforfreedom
Freedom is in the palm of your hand.
Oh good, I learned a new slang word. I guess I’ll go take a shower and try not to coom.
“Like anyone who has been honest with themselves, I know I have made mistakes,” Warren said. “I am sorry for the harm I have caused.”
“Vote for me, and I’ll show you what sort of harm I am truly capable of.”
I can’t read that story about the San Fran DA. I assume he’s going to focus his energies on teh kkkorporate fatcats who are ripping off honest hardworking Californians by providing goods and services, and ignore street crime, which is just a manifestation of injustice and inequality.
“Whistleblower testimony is redundant and unnecessary.”
We all know he’s guilty. Get the rope.
” redundant and unnecessary.”
I wonder if the irony escapes them.
I don’t think so. Schiff seems like a dimwit.
the individual’s appearance before us would only place their personal safety at grave risk
Trump’s palace death squad will force their way into the hearing room and murder him in the witness chair!
Does he have dirt on the Clintons? No?
Then he’ll survive.
Survived two plane crashes in one day
OK, technically it’s a plane crash and a helicopter accident, but still….
LOL.
The ambulance did not crash.
I worked with a Vietnam vet who has the dubious honor of surviving 4 different helicopters crashes in Vietnam where he was the only survivor. He could’ve been lying out of his ass, but he didn’t seem the type. We always joked that there wasn’t much you couldn’t do to Johnny Long that hadn’t been done before.
Mornin’ Glibbies.
I will summarize the latest contention of the last few nights: Is the G-spot a myth or not?
Definitive answer: Not.
Given the female orgasm overall is a myth, debeting the g spot is superfluous
[insert exhortation to pay attention to her pleasure next time here]
I respect your mission.
It’s a pressing issue.
It might get a little friction from some people
Deserves some penetrating analysis.
anal-ysis would be missing the point altogether
Thank you! I teed that up hoping someone would bite, to mix a metaphor.
Can vaginalysis be my word the way cunte is Mojeaux’s?
This isn’t the first time I’ve been accused of being a cunning linguist!
With enough attention, I’m sure we can get this mystery licked.
Science!
Mornin’, Moje! Preach it!
On the left, the opening of a treason trial in 1696 at the Old Bailey, London.
On the right, the opening of a session at the Supreme Court today.
https://mobile.twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/1193438095351222278
I was going to make a lame joke about tuning forks and 440Hz; instead, I’ll just link this.
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Noice! Never heard her cover of this before!
This would never happen if the Post Office ran the banking system
A probe into Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s credit card practices has been initiated after tweets from a tech entrepreneur alleged gender discrimination in the new Apple Inc card algorithms that are used to determine credit limits.
In a series of Twitter posts starting on Thursday, David Heinemeier Hansson railed against the Apple Card for giving him 20 times the credit limit that his wife got, Bloomberg reported on Saturday.
Hansson, who is the creator of web-application framework Ruby on Rails, didn’t disclose any specific income-related information for himself or his wife but said they filed joint tax returns and that his wife had a better credit score, the report said. New York’s Department of Financial Services confirmed that an investigation was being conducted. Andrew Williams, a Goldman Sachs spokesman, declined to comment on whether Hansson had contacted Goldman regarding the concerns raised on Twitter because the bank does not discuss matters involving individual customers publicly.
The Apple Card, launched in August, is Goldman’s first credit card. The Wall Street investment bank has been offering more products to consumers, including personal loans and savings accounts through its Marcus online bank.
Just give everybody an unlimited line of credit. Why are we so afraid of justice and inclusion? What’s the worst that could happen?
Eh, I kind of sympathize. Mr. Mojeaux can get results with people (and algorithms) that I can’t for reasons nobody can explain.
David Heinemeier Hansson railed against the Apple Card for giving him 20 times the credit limit that his wife got
As mentioned, DHH is the inventor of Ruby on Rails, has a net worth around $40MM and spends it on things like Pagani Zondas and Koenigseggs.
I’m going to guess that, credit score and joint taxes aside, the algo took his high-spending and history of repayment into account.
Does Popeye’s use chicken laced with steroids or something? What is with all the brawls?
Well, they ain’t brawlin’ at Chik-Fil-A.
And they have long lines there. I actually went to Popeye’s to see if they had their sammich a month ago; they didn’t. I was prepared for this, as I knew there was a Chick-Fil-A a block over. They did have sammiches. And huge lines.
But those fries kick Chick fil A’s ass….
Oh, agreed. That why it’s good to have fast food places bunched up.
If CfA would use more salt I think those waffle fries would be great.
There’s a local chain that has what they refer to as cottage fries. They’re just deep fried slices of potatoes, but they don’t salt them! No salt! Even mentions that they’re unsalted in the menu.
It takes what could be a delicious side and just makes it bland.
‘Round these parts, we have a potato chip maker who, when they were just starting out, would include an unsalted variety among the flavors they’d sell at our neighborhood farmers’ market. I LOVED those things! They were just wonderful and crisp and potatoey. I’d buy a bag Saturday morning intending to save it for the Sunday NASCAR race. Then on Sunday morning, I’d be sitting out on the back porch craving them but feeling guilty about wanting potato chips before noon. I finally convinced myself that they were essentially extra thin & crispy home fries and thus could be consumed guilt-free for breakfast.
They eventually stopped carrying the unsalted ones. I must have been the only one who liked them. ***SIGH!!!***
Potatoes in any form without salt is a crime against humanity.
Rhy, I thought these chips had a great flavor, which could perhaps be attributed to whatever type of oil they used to fry them. Disclaimer: I got out of the habit of picking up a salt shaker during my first marriage. The Good Rev. GT believed that salt aggravated his tinnitus. That may account for me losing my taste for salt.
Trader Joe’s did an unsalted chip a while back which were alright. But salty snacks are my weakness, and in order for salt to stick to anything fried, it needs to be applied right after they come out of the oil. Otherwise the salt just bounces off them in a form of sadness.
Dudes: I get what you’re saying, but they do sell salt in other places. And bonus good news, it costs a shit-ton less than in Roman times.
Okay, you can slap me know.
We’re not allowed to identify most demographics anymore or we’ll hurt someones feelings, so… a mystery it will remain.
Popeye’s apparently draws clicks now so anything that happens at a Popeye’s is national news.
I.e. the media is creating the news again.
My expert opinion is; today is an exceptionally slow news day.
Wannabes. They ain’t got nothing on Waffle House.
I’m sure if they tried really hard, they could find enough meth heads to work at Popeye’s too.
The Department of Financial Services “will be conducting an investigation to determine whether New York law was violated and ensure all consumers are treated equally regardless of sex,” a department spokeswoman told Reuters in a statement.
“Any algorithm that intentionally or not results in discriminatory treatment of women or any other protected class violates New York law.”
Break up the banks. Let the government run them.
Wow. “Nice business you have there.”
“You will lend money to anyone who wants it, regardless if your confidence about their ability to pay it back.”
See also subprime mortgage, student loans.
Does Popeye’s use chicken laced with steroids or something? What is with all the brawls?
It’s a CIA plot.
Location, location, location.
RE-REANNOUNCED:
I’ve decided to host a Great Glib Debate Series that will consist of a point-counterpoint/support-dissent for various topics of interest. Since I would personally have logistical problems doing a before/after scoring, we’ll just have a survey monkey for who won the debate ex post facto. This will be held as a single elimination tournament and a topic will be randomly assigned to you and your opponent, so you may end up arguing something that you find stupid or irrelevant; keep that in mind if you decide to sign up (I know you can’t resist Hyperbole). Once I have a list of participants, I’ll post the list of topics and set the match ups in a random fashion. Once the match ups are set, I’ll email the participants the topic and their side. They’ll then have a week to write a short (let’s keep it to half a page) argument. They will then be posted simultaneously and the Survey Monkey to vote will be up for 24 hours. Rinse and repeat. I’d like to have a debate once a week (schedule permitting).
Please do sign up. As host, I will not be scoring, the Glibertariat will decide the winner. However, I reserve the right to DQ participants for personal attacks on the opponent (let’s keep this civil… as much as possible).
Sound good? Interested? Then reach out to TPTB and they’ll give you my email.
Already signed up:
Jarflax, leon, Larry Joe (Tulpa?), Ozymandias and straffinrun.
I’d love to get a few more for a true single elimination, but if this is it, I’ll convert it to a Round Robin.
?? Not yet. Thinking about it though.
TOO LATE
…fine *kicks pebble*
Debate lawyers? Only if we do it in Japanese.
Lawyers? I would think an engineer should be able to out-debate a lawyer.
i say your taste in tits is awful. I think I am much to good a debater for you lot. Also you lot are American biased so I would probably lose despite my superior argument.
Pffft. We’ll get Trump to withhold your foreign aid.
…so, I can count you in?
https://archive.li/6nRsb/e8e129b34223eb139474cea5d78eecd64a9f6153.jpg
I am not sure how one reaches out to TPTB. Am I not even sure who my handler is now. Last person I spoke to was SP
Cute girl. If her breasts were about half the size, she would be real nice.
submit (at) glibertarians.com
you must submit
@ this site’s name .com
Look out Lincoln-Douglass, the Glibertarian Rose McGowan-Alyssa Milano-Hottest Charmed Sister Debates will be epic and well reasoned.
Best of luck, JERKFACE! (I’m great at debating)
Speaking of standard tuning, I’m pretty sure the low E on this bass line is lower than referenced to 330 E.
Still, decent song.
Eh, shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjNpgZ4C5Q
Both good tunes with good bass lines.
If the bass line doesn’t cause involuntary bowel movements, either it’s not low enough or you need a better sound system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mjMTcM80RY
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I only got through about a minute of that Sean, but other than possibly producing the brown note by other methods, it seemed completely worthless. I could be wrong, it’s happened before.
Anyway, here’s another great bass line (although much more “blended” into the song).
Yeah, the whole point of the “song” is to rattle windows. If you’re not playing it on a system with a subwoofer, it’s pointless.
Ah – so it should be played only in a vehicle where the trunk consists of sub woofers.
Fair point.
Paul Simonon has always been a solid bassist. I like this one.
Also, TY, GT.
You’re welcome. Here’s an ode to the beauty of the bass line.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden in Ukraine.
Never change, CNN.
$50K per month for an unqualified son of a VP is evidence enough to dig deeper at least. The denial that this was obvious influence peddling at the least is the worst kind of gaslighting.
You’d think that might warrant a little journalistic investigation, but no. Awfully incurious bunch, these journalists. At least when it comes to certain people.
Speaking of wrongdoing, did you go and moon today’s parade? To start the new era off right.
LOL.
Remember the Exxon shakedown? How they were totally gonna pay for causing the Klimate Krisis?
Not so fast – it’s been downgraded yet again:
I wonder how many millions of tax dollars they blew on this shit.
Even that is false.
it’s important this fails. If successful, it opens the floodgates for all sorts of regulation via criminal litigation where there isn’t even a proven link between damages and the alleged causes.
Kill the rich
At least Bernie is honest:
For Mr. Sanders, preventing concentrated wealth from passing from generation to generation is the goal. He argues that such legacies undermine democracy.
“I don’t think that billionaires should exist,” he has said. In introducing his tax plan, Mr. Sanders, who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, said, “It eliminates a lot of the wealth that billionaires have, and I think that’s exactly what we should be doing.”
As for the rest of it, it’s all nonsensical bullshit about “We plugged some numbers into a spreadsheet, and social justice fell out.”
Maybe Gates and Buffett would have have a piddly few billion less, or maybe they’d be living like kings in some other tax domicile.
Forbes counts 607 American billionaires. A handful have stated that they support a moderate wealth tax. George Soros, Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Ian Simmons, Chris Hughes, Nick Hanauer and 13 other wealthy individuals signed a letter over the summer in support of such a tax.
“I definitely understand how that would make lots and lots of extremely rich people uncomfortable,” said Mr. Hanauer, co-founder of a Seattle-based venture capital firm and an early investor in Amazon. “But I’m more worried about our democracy.”
“Don’t get me wrong,” he added. “I would prefer 3 percent.” But even at 6 percent, he said, “we would all survive and continue to be rich and fly around in our planes.”
Pssst- Nobody’s stopping you from writing a big fat check to the Treasury, Nick. I’ll even borrow you a pen.
Some magnates, like Mr. Buffett and Mr. Gates, have pledged to give at least half of their wealth to charity during their lifetimes, which still leaves them — and not the government — in control of how those vast sums will be spent.
Some sinners are incorrigible.
I wonder if the are concerned about billionaires finding gun control?
if your net worth is stock 6% a year would wreck you fast, and probably all investment/pension funds as well
This totally won’t be defined down to government agents raiding your dead aunt Martha’s house for the silverware.
Forbes counts 607 American billionaires. A handful have stated that they support a moderate wealth tax. George Soros, Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Ian Simmons, Chris Hughes, Nick Hanauer and 13 other wealthy individuals signed a letter over the summer in support of such a tax.
Nothing is stopping you assholes from writing a check today other than your hypocrisy. Until they do, they liars.
*they’re
“It eliminates a lot of the wealth”
He is 100% correct.
More retarded: Married at First Sight or 90 Day Fiancé?
Refuse to watch either due to risk of dain bramage. “The Learning Channel” has to be meant ironically.
About a decade ago, TLC turned into reality TV for people who make poor life choices. A cautionary tale, if you will.
As a friend is fond of saying, sometimes your highest calling is to serve as a warning to others.
Despair.com classic
90 Day because First Sight has no excuses. 90 days had 89 more chances to escape.
Nothing, you say?
Anybody know anything about the 6.5 Grendel?
Nope. Sorry.
How would a Beowulf cluster of them perform?
/old meme is old
I place I worked at during my undergrad years considered setting up a Beowulf cluster. It never got off the ground. From what I remember, the technology was still pretty new and the systems we’d need were too expensive.
From Rhywun’s Exxon link:
At one point, he snapped: “OK, that’s the fifth time that he has given you the same answer.” At another, he all but accused the state of manipulating Exxon’s stock price on the basis of false information — in a trial where the state was trying to show that Exxon was doing that.
I’m sure the SEC will be at Letitia’s door at any minute. No knock, pre dawn raid, with media coverage.
Right?
RIGHT?
Anybody know anything about the 6.5 Grendel?
He loses to Beowulf, in the final.
well, duh, Beowulf is .50 cal
Just a reminder, the second Diplomacy game is not yet full, one slot still open:
Glib Diplomats
code:squatchcod
Not anymore. Game has started.
Still, Thursday’s final retreat, dropping most charges at the very end, was a shocker. It left the judge dismissing those charges “with prejudice,” so the state can never refile them. And Exxon’s infuriated lawyers say those claims “have cost in many respects the most severe reputation harm to the company and to the executives,” so they want still stronger sanctions.
Judge Ostrager has 30 days to issue a decision. The prosecutors are surely praying he’ll find the Martin Act gives them so much leeway that he actually has to find Exxon guilty. If so, it’ll be a blaring alarm to businesses to have nothing to do with New York, because they have no hope of a fair break here.
Otherwise, the judge should explore every possible option for censuring the state’s attorneys — whose abuse of power here has been utterly mind-blowing.
I’ll be over here, holding my breath.
This totally won’t be defined down to government agents raiding your dead aunt Martha’s house for the silverware.
I have been watching this old Robin Hood teevee show (on Prime), and in one episode, a serf has died and the lord of the manor and his bailiff show up at his little hovel and start taking stuff as the death tax.
A prescient tale of our near future. Serfs, indeed.
Oh, come on. The wealth tax will never be used to go after every day people. Just like the first income tax, which only affected the top 3%.
Slutty Sunday. Just for Pie.
http://archive.li/l0evG
This seems relevant to your interests: https://stylesatlife.com/articles/breast-tattoo-designs/
6 is just too weird.
“6 is just too weird.”
ewwwwwwww
No. Just no.
#13 likes guns.
Had his spinach but that guy should be charged. Completely out of line. Jesus, he could have killed her. Big shit if she said ‘nigger’. Just send her out and be done with it.
People are such fricken idiots.
Popeyes something something ghetto Chick-fil-a something
Speaking of Exxon, and their evilness
“They dumped millions of dollars into lobbying a campaign of doubt,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “That is exactly why we have to acknowledge that the climate crisis is not an accident.”
“The reason we are in this crisis is because oil and gas has been one of the most profitable industries of the modern era,” she added.
Gulag Barbie, climate scientist.
omglol
Keep it up, clowns. Enforced poverty is totally what Americans crave.
“Enforced poverty is totally what Americans crave.”
It’s actually pretty sad that half of the country don’t even realize that is exactly what they’re promising. Public education really has worked exactly as planned, half of the electorate are a bunch of dumbed down sheep being led willingly to the slaughter.
“we have to acknowledge that the climate crisis is not an accident.”
Well, for once, Karla Marx told the truth, even if it wasn’t intentional. She doesn’t even have a clue as to the irony of that admission.
In the grand tradition of treating the world like a petting zoo
There are no centralized statistics, but Summerton says demand for the critters is getting higher across the west, and she feels it in her own operation. State and federal land management agencies are also giving the practice attention it’s never before received.
“Goats have been banned in some areas, so we’re trying to fight against that a little bit,” she says.
Should pack goats be banned?
For the first time, national forests are formalizing pack goat regulations as they revise their forest plans. Those big documents only come along once every couple decades, and they govern wilderness, recreation, resources, and other uses. Some agencies are thinking about risks from llamas, too.
Agencies are devoting more attention to the animals because as pack goat numbers are increasing on public land, another species is struggling to maintain its footing. Before European settlement, more than a million bighorn sheep roamed across western North America. Entire cultures developed around the animal.
“By the 1950s, bighorn sheep numbers were fewer than 25,000,” says Kevin Hurley, vice president of conservation and operations at the Wild Sheep Foundation.
For decades, scientists have said domestic sheep grazing on public lands could transmit pathogens — in particular, Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, or M. ovi for short — to bighorns that lead to pneumonia, an infection that’s devastated bighorn populations across the west. In Montana, more than 25 bighorn herds have experienced die-offs since the ’80s.
“It’s pretty tough to watch,” Hurley says. “But it’s been documented over and over again across so many jurisdictions. And so respiratory pneumonia is considered possibly the biggest impediment to bighorn restoration west-wide.”
But the science isn’t so clear. Some studies suggest that transmission of the pathogens from pack goats isn’t likely, or severe. The question is: should pack goats be banned, or can backcountry users keep risk to a minimum?
Nothing should ever change. Who said you could do that?
And how does this affect the black folk, and transgenders? Has anybody even asked?
“6 is just too weird.”
ewwwwwwww
“Hey, where’d my boner go?”
Reminded me of this from the movie “Paul”
Haggard:
[Looking at Clive’s novel] What is this, nerd porn?
Graeme Willy:
Oh, no, that’s Clive’s…
Clive Gollings:
It’s my novel.
Haggard:
[Looking at an alien on the cover] Ha! Three tits!
O’Reilly:
That’s awesome. You guys should have given her four tits.
Graeme Willy:
[Looking disgusted] That’s just sick.
O’Reilly:
I was just sayin’…
Weirdo foreigners lining up for the latest food craze.
Check out the cgi recreation at 1:30.
LOL.
That’s the sandwich? Gross. I hate all that breading.
Are wa na des ka?
Finally home after a long week.
Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?
Humans: 1
Delta Smelt: 18
Bait fish have rights!
Is there anyone here who ever even thought for a moment that ‘The Whistleblower’ was going to testify? The person does not even exist except in Schiff’s teeny tiny squirrel sized brain. They’ve been running a coup attempt for nearly 4 years now. Just unbelievable.
I personally do not give much though to USistan political drama
The senate will get to question him once the trial starts and maybe before.
Never going to happen. They’ll just keep up this same game right up until the 2020 election. Their only hope is keeping the House, which they will probably do, but they’re also getting 4 more years of Trump and a GOP Senate, and much more than likely, at least one more right leaning SCOTUS seat. And they know it, obviously, or they would be trying to actually come up with some ideas besides massive health care and green deal debacles.
Good late morning, Old Man and his merry pranksters!
Loved the tuning conspiracy story. Question for all of you musicians: ear or electronic tuner?
The Gilded Rodents beat PedoU yesterday. First time since 1904 or something they have gone 9-0. Naturally, national rankings bureaucrats should move us down to 20 or so.
Safe travels. My favorite part of Vegas is seeing it in the rear view mirror.
A nice Vegas song
Make it a great day, people.
Don’t let me down.
By “rear view mirror”, you mean the day after the buffet?
What do you mean by coming here at this time of day?
The Useless Nuts (meant affectionately, of course) thank them for their service.
Great music pick! ?
I have to guess most musicians who play in bands/ensembles will go with electronic, as it’s so much easier to get everyone attuned. If you’re playing solo in a coffee house, so long as you’re ‘internally’ tuned, f do you care?
Also: here
Something different
I’d live in it, in a more forgiving climate.
Yeah, that’s in my watch list.
I agree with you, it’s beautiful. I like the deck they built around it.
If the trailer’s rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.
btw, Q, thx for the Keeley Hazrll pic earlier. She’s always been a fav.
Public education really has worked exactly as planned, half of the electorate are a bunch of dumbed down sheep being led willingly to the slaughter.
The stupid leading the ignorant.
The blind leading the blind straight off a cliff. Lemmings.
I hate everyone involved.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-for-stabbing-baby-trump-protest-balloon-at-alabama-lsu-game
“Hoyt Hutchinson, 32, was charged with felony first-degree criminal mischief”
Yet, leftists like antifa can get away with destroying both public and private property and not suffer any legal penalty. Sort of a double standard if you ask me.
Wife is watching a Trump hit piece one of her lefty friends sent her. It’s so blatantly dishonest, it actually makes me like Trump more and having the same effect on her. If you’re going to shoot all your toes off, just quit fucking around the shoot off your entire foot. Dummies.
I think the only thing I could even agree with the lefties on is legalizing weed. And as soon as they figure out that a lot of people on the right are coming around to the idea of ending the failed WOD, they’ll become the biggest drug warriors around, just like they’ve done with the foreign forever wars, joining right up with the neocons.
Lefties’ only interest in legalizing weed is taxing the shit out of it. Their only interest in the WOD is how they can use it to score identity politics points.
It’s getting even better now. They’re blaming Trump on Flint’s contaminated water and the high price of city water. Really, you can’t make this shit up. No wonder a semi-retarded petulant child is their new hero.
It just got even better, there’s a lefty on there talking about how something is Trump’s fault. And her name is Mary Stack. I’m not making that up.
I wasn’t around for the fabled Mary Stack days. I think I started lurking around the time she was either using multiple handles or had buggered off. But I remember the stories about her unhinged insanity. Didn’t she actually devot an entire blog to her HnR enemies or something?
She stalked my blog from time to time.
Lessons learned?
Many of Gorley’s friends have moved out of state. There was already a housing shortage — especially an affordable housing shortage — in rural Butte County before the fire. In search of cheaper housing, survivors have moved to states like Oregon, Idaho and Texas. Or they just don’t ever want to live in Paradise again because of all the horror they experienced that day.
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The Camp Fire, named for Camp Creek Road where it is believed to have started east of Paradise, was the single most destructive wildfire in California history and the worst in the United States in a century. Close to 19,000 structures burned. In Paradise, more than 11,000 houses burned to the ground. A year later, only 11 have been rebuilt. Eleven.
Paradise’s Mayor Jody Jones plans to add to that tally though. Standing at her new home site, as her contractor and his crew hammer away in the background, Jones says those few who are rebuilding consider themselves pioneers.
“We never were victims, we’re no longer survivors, we’re pioneers,” she says. “We’re building a whole town from scratch, we’re really proud of that.”
Jones says the town has passed some new, tougher building codes. That includes no more wood decks or fences and expanded setbacks between homes and flammable material. They’re also looking to reconfigure some streets for better escape routes. Some people died while trying to evacuate in the gridlock.
But is all this enough? The Camp Fire continues to prompt some tough questions. Should towns like this built into dense overgrown dry forests where the homes themselves become ignition sources, be rebuilt in an era of climate change?
We just need more government rules and regulations, that’s all. Utopia awaits.
And why, pray tell, are they dense and overgrown?
Why do you hate the spotted owl and mama Gaia? I mean, because everyone can agree that a roast spotted owl with some BBQ sauce is the best!
Cali is right now leading the way to Venezuela do Norte. Just imagine, we can all become artist and sit around smoking weed all day, in our tiny box car homes. And the spotted owl will be safe, that’s the most important part.
Hammering? Like using wood building materials? But it’s the decks and fences that are the problem?
I’m sure they’ve streamlined their permitting process given the catastrophic and widespread destructions…
Nope. They’ve added to them.
“Permits will not be issued untill you”
The beatings will continue until morale has improved.
Who is going to be dumb enough to insure the the rebuilds?
Let me guess: the taxpayer.
Tammy Waller is one of the rare people up here whose home survived the fire.
“The clean up has been way ahead of what I ever thought it would be,” Waller says.
One of the first things Waller did when she moved back into her neighborhood in Magalia above Paradise was pack a go-bag with camping gear. It now sits next to her front door as a permanent fixture alongside her dog crates should she need to evacuate again.
Near her neighborhood one afternoon, she pointed up to power lines still mingling low among dense stands of trees and branches. Folks here recently had their power shut off for six days amid the bankrupt utility PG&E’s new controversial safety plan.
Everyone’s cable, Internet and cell phones went dark for the most part.
“If there were another fire, how would anybody know at say two o’clock in the morning,” Waller says.
Tin cans and string. Drums.
My morning movement weighed 432g
Two of our commenters make the news.
Heh.
Back to this:
Close to 19,000 structures burned. In Paradise, more than 11,000 houses burned to the ground. A year later, only 11 have been rebuilt. Eleven.
How can this be? Don’t hold your breath waiting for somebody at NPR to ask why. Mysterious, immutable forces are at work.
CA doesn’t have home insurance, because Trump.
And Trump’s punishment of Blue Staters by reducing SALT deductions.
Why don’t you want to pay for peoples’s jumbo mortgage loans? You’re just being selfish wanting people to live within their own means!
Merced Property and Casualty Company was the only company providing fire insurance in Paradise. Why? Because they’re idiots.
The policyholder surplus was only $25 million for THE ENTIRE TOWN. That means enough funds, including reinsurance, to cover the loss of about 150 homes.
Needless to say, the company is in liquidation now.
Like I said, orange bad man, he everywhere, like the devil!
Stupid SEC fans
Paging Mad Scientist
Nice! But you can get a GS in decent shape for about 4 grand.
If you had a recently cleared spot for it in Paradise, California, that Spartan on BaT would be the bee’s knees.
Chambers Flintlock machine gun
Who is going to be dumb enough to insure the the rebuilds?
Maybe if they’re all built of cinder blocks, with tin roofs.
Rusted!
Sweet. And it will even make it back from lunch under its own power
I’d trade the 305 out for a 307 (better bore/stroke ratio) but all in all, it’s kind of a cool cruiser.
*I had a friend whose ultimate hotrod acid test was, “Can you take it to lunch and make it back without calling a tow truck?”
Damn that is nice.