I was laid flat by something all weekend. I probably slept 40 of the 60 hours between 5pm Friday and 5am this morning, but I recovered enough that my dad and I had our 15th annual raw oyster and oyster po’boy Christmas lunch. He doubts we will get 15 more together. I’m hoping to be bringing him to the same place when he’s 100. On the other side of the holiday emotion spectrum, my wife is doing the first holiday season without her father, and its a very bittersweet affair. There are many emotional things going on that I’m frankly too much of a left-brain autistatarian to really get without coaching, but luckily, I’ve had some coaching.
If you say “Betelgueuse” three times while looking in the mirror, sometime in the next 100 kiloyears you’ll be rewarded with a supernova.
Cocaine Mitch is one bad turtle.
12M seems low to me.
I’m frankly confused by the alternate scales on this graph. I’m pretty sure that this can be used to prove that either free-riderism is a viable strategy up to a point, or that union is a product that isn’t worth the price-tag to most new teachers in MI.
Unions have not offered a worthwhile product since they gained the authority to a closed shop.
They helped the coal miners when they were working in slave conditions. That was cool.
What have they done since? (In a positive way)
They were also illegal back then.
The coal miners had guns so….
Their itemized invoices can be hilarious.
Also: one of the movers I looked at was a union shop (Arnoff) Their bid was nearly double the people that I went with.
Every union contract comes with in implicit improvement in your “not likely to be burned down or blown up” score. So they’ve got that going for them.
Union contracts encourage mediocrity and punish industriousness and excellence.
You sound like someone who stored explosives under their car.
Naw, I moved them to the shop steward’s car.
whaddup ?
Not much.
“Do you think Chuck Schumer is impartial? Do you think Elizabeth Warren is impartial? Bernie Sanders is impartial? So let’s quit the charade. This is a political exercise. … All I’m asking of Schumer is that we treat Trump the same way we treated [President] Clinton,” McConnell said.
I can’t believe he would impugn those senators that way. To think that they don’t hold the constitution to be the most dear thing.
Sure i mean they wipe their ass with the constitution every time the go stumping for the campaign. A campaign against the person they are impeaching.
McC finally called ’em the way he (and everyone else, almost) sees ’em
He should say: If elizabeth warren were so in love with the constitution, she wouldn’t be campaigning as a fascist and Bernie wouldn’t be running as a socialist.
This is telling.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/475576-obama-talks-up-warren-behind-closed-doors-to-wealthy-donors
She seems to be the pick. I don’t understand it at all. Maybe they think the women vote will work this time. They could be right.
She’s polling in 3rd place right now (4th in Iowa), and the Iowa caucuses are 1 month out. Unless she’s counting on Bernie (polling above her) quitting and leaving her all his delegates, she has no easy path to victory. Second Place just means you are the last one to write a concession speech.
Poor old biden…
Part of me wonders what he can do to. I actually feel kinda bad for him, serving as Obamas Insurance Policy for 8 years, just to have obama go behind his back. shameful.
Oh, this is a totes minor betrayal by Dem standards.
It’s also a risky game pushing Warren who is basically Hillary with different baggage and policy objectives. How’d that progsplaining about how likeable their candidate was work out for them last time?
Two take-aways from that:
Hillary is going to have trouble breaking into the race if party elder Obama is fundraising for Warren.
Looks like the party establishment is rattled by Mayor Pete since they’re playing dirty pool and doing exactly what he did only through an intermediary.
Law school professors stand for each other.
During an interview with “Fox & Friends,” the GOP leader knocked the idea that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would act as impartial judges during the president’s Senate trial,
Have none of the Dems even looked at the Constitution? Because it says right there that the Chief Justice presides over the trial, not random members of the Senate.
I love the way Pelosi is blathering on about not having a fair procedure when McConnell has offered the exact same procedure used in Clinton’s trial.
I’ve changed my tune, BTW: Trump is impeached, regardless of whether the Articles have been carried to the Senate on a velvet pillow. That’s mimicking the legislative process, and this isn’t legislation and the Constitution requires no such thing. McConnell is wrong – he doesn’t need to wait for Nancy to decide to transmit them – he can start the trial any time he wants.
My brain isn’t working, but wasn’t a recent high-profile bill “deemed” to have been passed in one house by the other house of Congress a few years ago? I thought it was the PPACA, but a quick web search didn’t turn it up.
Serious question: where can a person lay down some cash on Trump 2020? I have tens of dollars to bet that he will cruise to victory.
Stossel made this one.
https://electionbettingodds.com/
Only if they have a trial. I suggest everyone looks at Nixon vs. United States (91-740), 506 U.S. 224 (1993)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-740.ZS.html
Looks like some folks are not union made or made for unions
What was going on in 2007 that there were so many unparasited employees?
I’m frankly confused by the alternate scales on this graph.
Unnecessarily complex. If they wanted to go with raw numbers they could have just gone with an extended graph that had the points charted on the same axis.
Even better would have been a chart of the share of teachers who were UEM members.
Deliberate obfuscation by self-interested educrats? Why, I never…
The chart was created by these guys which just goes to show you how poor data vis skills are on average.
The chart was created by SugarFree?
No, by DairyFree.
Did you use your edit fairy powers? Because I could swear the last time I tried to click on it it didn’t go anywhere.
Try 50M at least
I still hold the unpopular opinion that driving while intoxicated shouldn’t be a crime in and of itself. Until there’s a victim, there is no crime.
However, I still think driving while shitfaced is stupid, and would be open to increasing the punishment for hurting somebody or damaging property because of driving fucked up to deter people from doing so.
At a certain point, being reckless/endangering others becomes a crime. Otherwise, attempted murder is just “gee shucks, I guess I was being a little careless and the gun accidentally went off, but I didn’t hit the guy.”
Of course, that necessitates a way of telling that a person is being sufficiently reckless, and a (always decreasing) BAC isn’t it.
I think purposely attempting to end somebody’s life and being a reckless drunk are entirely different starting points to base criminal charges, even if the results are similar. But I get that to some extent. That’s why I added the caveat of adding time to the sentencing to factor in the reckless endangerment aspect.
The current punishments don’t seem to be getting the message across.
You think? While I’m not a fan of the system currently in place, I thought the actual physical and property damage caused by driving intoxicated has on average plummeted over the last few decades.
Just guessing but I think social pressure has been more effective for most people. I’m thinking of the rest. And anecdotes about drunks running someone over, it’s always “no license”, “third or fourth DUI”, etc.
I think social pressure is a big thing. But, here at least, they are assholes about catching someone with a BAC over .05 and will throw the book at you. A DWAI never leaves your record and even if it was 40 years ago you become a repeat offender. It is easy to get to .05 so I don’t get behind the wheel if I have had more than one beer. I know several people who have gotten popped here and after fines and mandatory classes the state racks up around 10 grand per DUI. It is a money maker.
The advent of Uber and Lyft has undoubtedly reduced the number of people on the roads driving drunk, they make it so facile and accessible to use that there’s really no reason not to skip driving yourself. My wife and I go see our favorite dance band at a nearby club quite often, and we always Uber there and back, it is such a relief to be able to have a few pops (which also make me a more fluid dancer up to a certain point at least, I believe) without having to worry about the drive home. So of course, given this fabulous development, California has been doing everything possible to destroy these companies.
Uber for the win. Couldn’t have gotten through my medical suspension of DL without it.
Tell us again when your family or loved ones are killed by a blacked out drunk driving the wrong way on the interstate
My buddy was killed by a repeat drunk driving bishop. Tell his two little girls or his wife your incredibly courageous position.
The existing laws didn’t stop him. You can’t point to a bad thing that happened in spite of a prohibition as an argument for that prohibition.
The question is would we see more incidents.
My point is it is very easy to be flippant about it when you haven’t been affected by it. To argue that drunk driving is ok until you hurt someone is callus and disingenuous
“Tell us again when your family or loved ones are killed by a [gun, overdose, immigrant, driving without a seatbelt, lung cancer, etc, etc]”
Thanks the same argument every prohibitionist has made, ever, dude. Your emotional appeal isn’t as air tight as you thin it is.
Happened to my cousin when I was nineteen. Dosen’t change my mind.
Oh, and sorry for the delayed response. I was driving around running errands while stoned.
I personally think this might be a more fitting punishment:
“Around the world, in the Asian nation of Turkey, drunk drivers are taken 20 miles outside of town and forced to walk back under police escort (who most likely are riding in a car).”
The message is sent without ruining the life of someone whom, as TH points out, has not victimized anyone.
“There are many emotional things going on that I’m frankly too much of a left-brain autistatarian to really get without coaching, but luckily, I’ve had some coaching.”
You are very lucky to have that coaching instead just being told that you’re insensitive.
“Coaching” is such a nice euphemism for “beatings.”
“What we can do is continue to explain to our members why membership is of value. Have we had to increase our efforts on that? Sure we have.”
“Why, if it wasn’t for us, you’d be teaching by the light of an oil lamp, using scraps of charcoal and a shovel for a blackboard.”
And Teaching 7 days a week 40 hours a day, with no summer breaks.
Public Sector unions should be illegal.
That’s my thinking.
Amen to that.
Wrong on every level.
^^Absolutely This^^
The Public Sector should be illegal.
I’m a member of one and I agree. I had a huge problem at my new gig, which I probably shouldn’t talk about on the Internet, and they refused to lift a finger. I had to complain myself to make it stop. They “negotiated” the exact same raise as what we got in the recession, despite the roaring economy and implementing it has been a cluster fuck of huge proportions. I am tempted to opt out of dues, if it wasn’t for the years long legal battle which it involves.
The state almost unionized my wife’s job a few years back, which would have resulted in 0 job changes, but a slice of every paycheck going to the union. A friend’s wife was a political coordinator for the union and was confused about why we would be opposed to the change.
I pay 1500 a year and I get very little in return. Few months back they had a “day of action” which turned out be a ruse to get employees to use 3 hours of vc time to go cheer for Kamala Harris at the terminals. Thank dogs I was on the mandatory work list for it. I’d have been pissed (as we’re most of the people who went)
Why you’re a some kind of monster, almost like FDR!
I’m glad you got better. It’s good that you and your dad got together. Sorry about your wife’s family.
The move has drawn criticism from the White House and allies of Trump, who argue that Pelosi is stalling on the issue to force a longer Senate trial that would be more politically damaging to the president.
That’s a possibility, but I wonder if she’s stalling in hopes of the Democrats taking the Senate?
“Driving under the influence of marijuana is a huge concern, and it’s a huge public health problem that we have such young people using marijuana,” said Helen Witty, national president of MADD, or Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Oh fuck.
The MEA just released its own annual report last month, and it confirms what the union officials feared. The report also reveals that the union lost another 6,397 members in the past year. Since right-to-work became law, the MEA has lost 38,790 members.
Boo-hoo-hoo.
Yo, fuck Hellen Witty.
Justice
American Airlines has started offering non-binary gender options for fliers during the booking process, according to a report.
The airline will now allow customers to book a flight over the phone and choose “U” (undisclosed) or “X” (unspecified) for their gender, USA Today reported.
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Two trade groups — — Airlines for America in the US and the global International Air Transport Association — have issued new best-practice standards that suggest accommodations for customers using “non-binary IDs,” USA Today reported. It’s up to individual airlines to make the option available on their booking platforms.
That’s swell. Are the seats any wider? Is there more leg room? Will the
trainsplanes run on time?Just self-identify as comfortable! I can’t believe I have to do all the thinking around here.
Hey, some of us have a wide stance!!
There’s no real reason to care about passengers’ genders to begin with.
^this
Get rid of it wherever it is not strictly necessary for the business. Like, hospitals.
I thought they did it partly to identify bodies after a crash. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are you serious? The next thing you’ll be claiming is that NO identity modifiers are needed. Like all passengers are equal or something.
Any other things you’re allowed to skip out on when the info you supplied to the airline doesn’t match your ID? Any other classes of people who can get away with this?
Which TSA employees get to molest those passengers with non-binary IDs?
Enbies, duh. Now there can be a new quota of jobs to fill.
Wait, maybe not enbies, maybe aces?
Run Run Rudolph
https://youtu.be/dsqC6HRS8Lc
Amazon, destroyer of worlds
In just a few years, Amazon has built a delivery system that has disrupted a decades-old business dominated by FedEx and United Parcel Service. But in its relentless drive to get bigger while keeping costs low, Amazon’s logistics operation has repeatedly emphasized speed and cost over safety, a new investigation by ProPublica and BuzzFeed News has found.
Time after time, internal documents and interviews with company insiders show, Amazon officials have ignored or overlooked signs that the company was overloading its fast-growing delivery network while eschewing the expansive sort of training and oversight provided by a legacy carrier like UPS.
One such incident hit particularly close to home. Just as the company began to build its delivery network six years ago, a delivery van carrying Amazon packages struck a cyclist in a San Francisco suburb. The cyclist was Joy Covey, Amazon’s first chief financial officer. She was killed, leaving behind a young son.
Bezos probably put out a hit on her to get out of paying her a pension.
Hahaha, i was gonna say the same thing. Looks like an In-House Job.
The mails show that Amazon hires only the shittiest drivers so they can pay them less? Is that what the anecdote is proving?
Every time my Amazon stuff has come via the Postal Service, it’s been left in my mailbox.
Part of my last order was delivered by UPS, and the driver left it in a ditch at the bottom of my driveway without informing me where it was. I was about to go through Amazon’s chat system to inform them of a lost package when Dad found it six days later. (Couldn’t do it via UPS because they wanted the phone number of the sender, which I didn’t have, being Amazon.)
I get a lot of packages through every service. By far Amazon drivers have been the best, they always leave it on the doorstep, and I get a picture of the delivery on my phone (usually while they’re still standing outside). UPS and FedEx drivers typically throw the package on your doorstep and run away like it was a bag of flaming shit, rather than something you ordered.
They’re penalized for being slow, leaving them with too little time per delivery.
By law, only the US Postal Service can deliver mail to your mailbox. Not a complete monopoly, but still monopolistic.
Yeah, but there are more visible places they could have left it, or they could have driven up the driveway, or notified me where it was. The tracking just said “driver release”, which means nothing. (I’m at the end of a dead-end road, so the risk of theft is lower.)
Last thread I wrote about how much UPS has been irritating me lately. I will be even more irritated if I show up in Latham tonight and hte package still isn’t there.
I wouldn’t trust an investigation by BuzzFeed any further than I could throw it.
In a statement, Amazon rejected the notion that it had put speed ahead of safety, calling the new investigation “another attempt by ProPublica and BuzzFeed to push a preconceived narrative that is simply untrue. Nothing is more important to us than safety.”
Amazon said that in the US, it provided more than 1 million hours of safety training last year to its employees and its delivery contractors, though it did not say how many people in its vast workforce — which numbers well in excess of 250,000 employees in the US alone — received training. Amazon also said that last year it implemented “safety improvement projects” totaling $55 million, which would represent about one-fifth of 1% of the $27.7 billion the company spent on shipping last year.
Amazon would not say how many people had been killed this year or in past years in crashes involving its network of delivery drivers. Internal company documents show that Amazon routinely tracks crashes and has developed a corporate protocol for responding to fatalities.
Do they pay a bonus for each person killed or injured?
“You missed the baby, you missed the blind man….”
Why am I imagining that the ‘training’ that Amazon provides their drivers is done by the same company that creates those wonderful and relevant online sexual harassment modules we have to sit through as a work requirement each year?
Here now what is this all about?
…but I recovered enough that my dad and I had our 15th annual raw oyster and oyster po’boy Christmas lunch.
That sounds like a great tradition. I miss being somewhere I can get a oyster or shrimp po’boy.
That’s the thing that is most ridiculous about this whole stupid impeachment. That cunte is a fucking wannabe tyrant. And they say Trump abuses his power. Not to mention that implying any sort of impartiality can be found in any of this BS is insulting.
Vulture capitalism!
Sears has sold the DieHard car battery brand as the struggling retailer continues to shed assets to raise cash.
The company, created by Sears in 1967, was acquired by Advance Auto Parts for $200 million, the companies said Monday.
Sears will still be able to sell DieHard goods in its stores. And it will still be able to create products for the brand as long as they are not auto-related, like the DieHard boots it currently sells.
Advance Auto Parts said it will sell DieHard auto batteries in its more than 4,800 stores and plans to expand it into batteries for other types of vehicles.
DieHard was one of the many brands launched by Sears during its more than 130 years in business. But as the company fell on hard times, it’s been shedding some of its famous names to raise cash. In 2017, Sears sold its 90-year-old Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker Inc.
Worth more dead than alive.
Paging Joseph Schumpeter, Professor Schumpeter to the…
I am vaguely bitter about Craftsman.
I was never sold on the idea that Craftsman tools were worth a shit to start with.
30 years ago they were
I have my dad’s Craftsman drill that is 40 years old. That thing has torque that could drive a school bus. My husband (who doesn’t do much DIY if it doesn’t involve a vehicle) has gone through 3 cordless drills with the torque of a toddler on a tricycle.
The only reason I got a new circular saw is because the 60yo Craftsman one I have was too heavy for my torn rotator cuff to use with one hand.
So yeah. Bitter about Craftsman.
OTOH, my Milwaukee Sawzall is a trouper.
My 25 year old Makita sawzall and angle grinder still work great. My new Makita cordless drill is made in China and has a wobbly chuck. 🙁
Lifetime no questions asked warranty is pretty bitchin’
Didn’t they start backtracking on that, I seem to remember it didn’t cover power tools only hand tools and didn’t cover sockets because you could over torque them. I know I tried to return a Tape Measure? maybe a chalk line? (It’s been 25 years) something that spooled anyways, and was told those things weren’t covered because moving parts.
It was only for hand tools yes. Now I need to get on the internet and see if the brand pre-existed the invention of electric tools.
Maybe covered in morning links but……Florida
ManCop.*snicker
oh fer fuck sake
Canine justice!!
Canine lives matter!
Happy Festivus to all Glibs. I got no problems with you people!!
You do now, Tulpa!
*drops gloves*
(Happy Festivus!)
Hey, now. He survived my waterboarding last week and is no longer a Tulpa. At least, I think I scrubbed all of it off.
Just what a Tulpa would say.
Happy Festivus!
Watching westerns leaves odd questions on the brain.
Like – how often does the rope on a gallows need to be replaced?
Depends on how big the guys you have been hanging were.
Were they reused? It seems like they could have been single use applications. Assuming they were, Wikipedia tells us for hangings intended to break the neck, depending on time, 840 to 1,260 ft-lbs of force was used. Now, I’m sure our legion of engineers and material scientists have the tensile strength of hemp handy and we can begin calculations.
They had to replace them every time because some asshole keeps shooting the rope just as they drop the door.
I wonder if they have engineering tables for wood fatigue, rope wear etc. I bet the Victorian era Royal Army had regulations specifying such things.
Interesting. I appear to have gotten the century and the continent wrong. A useful guide if you are looking to have someone hanged by the neck until dead.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/AR_633-15_4-7-1959.pdf
Note: This is dated 1959.
Gallows were generally built for each hanging and weren’t permanent structures, thus you didn’t ‘replace’ the rope. Those shots where the hero rides into town past a lonely gallows with empty nooses hanging ominously are entirely poetic license. Hangmen were responsible for the tools of their trade and would replace their ropes as needed much lke any other tradesman and his tools.
Like good ol’ Mr Ploppy
Like – how often does the rope on a gallows need to be replaced?
That reminds me of an old friend. He used to say, “You’d bitch if they hung ya with a new rope.”
Well, yeah?
So you’ve met my Dad ?
Travel adventure. After incidents in the past, I like to buy tickets through the airlines. For my current trip, the Delta website would not accept any of my cards, so I had to book through travelocity. So of course now I have to change flights because my customer was not ready and I have to go through travelocity’s wonderful customer service on the phone because Delta won’t do it. Grrr
When I used to travel frequently I made that mistake once. Just once. After that I always booked direct with the airlines. Sorry to hear that, good luck with that one.
Well, that only took about an hour on the phone.
Yuck, sorry about that. A friend of mine once booked flights through Expedia, and they screwed something up and booked the ticket for [first name] MasterCard. That took her forever to sort out.
1) Last thread I totally missed my chance to say I was “up to my eyeballs in cuntes and cods.” *sad trombone*
2) Just had a come-to-Jesus meeting with the tax deductions and they have promised good behavior on tonight’s family outing that means a whole lot to me. I will pause for all you parents to guffaw.
3) Rufus, I have been working. Therefore, I have not read the lynx or the comments above mine, and I must go take a shower before the aforementioned outing.
4) Timeloose, good job last episode. I look forward to reading today’s.
5) Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas Mojeaux!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
?⛄❄️ ?
Joyeux Noel Mojeaux!
Feliz Navidad. That covers one of the three pillars of Libertarianism.
Notice how CNN doesn’t engage with Trump’s central claim:
When one parses that meandering babble, two claims emerge that are true. Turbines cost 1 million per megawatt of energy produced and their manufacture requires rare-earth magnets (among other things). The mining, refining, and smelting of rare-earth metals is highly toxic if not managed well. (PROTIP: In Chinese mines, it isn’t.)
LOL sick burn, CNN!
From the link in the link.
Holy crap. I wonder what Eagle tastes like?
Kind of like spotted owl.
Without needing to spit out the buckshot.
I may, or may not have developed a reputation of occasionally pulling the trigger too soon. A friend sent me a picture once of eleven pieces of shot he had pulled out of a pheasant from one of our previous hunts. The joke ended up being on him. I looked at the picture and texted him back, “not me, I shoot copper”.
The property-value link-within-a-link doesn’t fact-check shit, either. Trump said “within sight” – the studies looked at distances up to ten miles.
Never change, CNN.
“You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe,” the President said”
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to luagh.
“Space is big.”
-Lao Tzu
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20191223/13000-donated-to-bethel-schools-to-clear-childrens-lunch-debt
Why would families that qualify for free lunches have lunch debt?
Why are schools extending credit for lunches? Either pay in advance or no meal. That’s how it worked when I was a kid. If someone forgot their lunch money or something, that’s one thing but continuing to provide something to deadbeats when they won’t pay? Ridiculous. I bet a large number of those paid off families will go right back to running up a balance. Everyone enabling this disfuncional behavior at the school district should be terminated effective today.
Sounds like you want unfortunate children to starve! Or have food insecurity!
(eyes average free-lunch-qualifying kid who is >100 lbs overweight)
(eyes average free-lunch-qualifying kid who is >100 lbs overweight)
Ahh! Malnourished. Isn’t getting the correct number of calories daily.
/government spin
They don’t. These are families that can qualify for reduced or full price but choose to spend their kids’ lunch money on cigarettes, lottery scratch tickets, and Mountain Dew instead.
Now I want a Mountain Dew.
HE’s plane pushed back from the gate 10 minutes ago. Hopefully she made it onboard despite the wine.
Woot!! I sure did.
Unfortunately there is a mom with a screaming toddler.
I sympathize with the poor woman, but she is continuously pacing the aisle with her child and is oblivious to the fact that he is reaching out and grabbing other passengers’ hair behind her back and that the straps on her cloth child carry “pouch” swing around and hit us in the face.
Also, the demon spawn enjoys kicking people as she paces the aisle. She has either no clue or no care.
I have no sympathy for people who travel with screaming toddlers. Some small children can handle flights, some can’t. If your kid is a screamer it should be an airline rule you have to buy the plane a round. The air of, “I am superior to you and you must bend to my needs because I am a mother” irks me. If your kid is a screamer drive!
Which cough syrup was it that Mojeaux mentioned the other day? The one guaranteed to knock kids out?
Dimetapp
Ketamine.
Cyanide.
Seriously, I just had a flash fantasy about clubbing a baby seal.
I hate this woman and her fucking spawn.
I bet she’ll vote Democrat, because she is an entitled cunte.
She is fucking passing by my every 15 seconds and I have to get kicked every time.
Has anyone actually told her her kid is assaulting everyone behind her back?
Good gawd, she’s still doing it.
The flight attendants are clearly annoyed because she’s right in the way and it’s a big plane full of peeps they’re tending to, but she has no fucks to give.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I have seen that. I used to fly a lot.
“ 12 million people drove while stoned in 2018”
That does seem low actually. I wonder which specific day they were referring to.
Here are some Star Wars Spoilers for everyone
I suspect drugs might fall out of my ass or whatever that meme is but here’s Rand Paul’s annual airing of Festivus grievances:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rand-paul-roasts-pelosi-butt-dialing-rudy-and-trumps-perfect-call-2019-festivus-rant
You would have to shoot yourself in the nuts first for that to happen.
Ha
“Neocon Apprentice wasn’t very well thought out.”
Too bad he isn’t taller and had better hair.
Are you talking about electability or fuckability?
Hah! Sadly, electability.
That’s how shallow the ahh voter is.
*sigh*
The next two days are action packed, full scheduled, with manic prep capped with both of our families coming here for Christmas.
I get to relax on Thursday, when I get back to work.
?
But for now, I have a glass full of rye.
I just finished a Manhattan. Time to throw some chicken on the barbie.
Got a sirloin roast in the sous vide for Christmas. Tacos tonight.
Nice.
I don’t buy that one and I suspect if this was fact checked it would be a percentage thing based on stoned passengers in the car and the fact there can be only one driver.
+ Low Rider
White privilege is chronic.
Can confirm
Its my 25th anniversary. I’m having a drink at the bar of our country’s oldest inn with the wife.
The Union Hotel in Port Deposit, MD???
Whose wife?
?
Congrats.
Ha! I wonder sometimes.
The Wayside?
Dind, ding, ding
Congratulations. Bet all 25 were smooth as silk, right?
Smooth as 25 miles of broken pavement – but still going.
Thanks all.
Sigh. Why is that relevant?
Sigh. That was in response to the racial breakdown of pothead drivers.
I have a crazy idea about how to end racism: Quit talking about it. Quit putting it on birth certificates and census reports.
Look at Patrick Mahomes. You seriously want to tell me he’s black?
Stop pigeonholing people.
The only folks who should think about your race are medical professionals, because diseases strike groups disproportionately and medicine affects some races different than others.
It’s not.
Cheech and Chong movies?
Back in my day Ben Affleck was an anti-hipster who spoke for those of us who believe in America
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo
Snootchie boootchies.
To me he was one of the dudes in Chasing Amy. And in some sci-fi-ish thing that was passable but the name escapes me.
“Batman vs Superman?”
I actually though he was a good Batman, much to my surprise.
He was. His scenes in those movies which aren’t good but also I enjoy but also aren’t good are very good.
Armageddon ?
“Daredevil?”
“Reindeer Games?”
I loved Dogma.
On my list. Love the early Kevin Smith movies.
I know it’s not “Gone Girl.”
Speaking of horror movies…
Found it… “Paycheck”.
Dude.
Not cool.
And I ordered that DVD the other night based on your urging.
*facepalm*
?
Not me.
I had no memory of the name of that movie until I looked it up just now. Hell, haven’t even thought of it in years.
He’s thinking of “Payback”, a few days ago someone mentioned that shitty Mel Gibson attempt at making the Donald E. Westlake novel “The Hunter” into a film even though the Zardoz director and Lee Marvin already nailed it like thirty years ago.
This DVD
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XM9MN1S
Sorry for the confusion.
LOL I never said I saw it
I know.
I was just riffing on the comment that you found Paycheck passable…
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OK, PCC assembled, cheap irons put on it. Tomorrow morning I can go out and adjust them
Unfortunately, the outdoor parts of the range don’t open until 9:00.
Early Christmas gift? Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sanchez sports a huge diamond ring as the pair enjoy a St Barth getaway with Karlie Kloss, Josh Kushner and Roman Abramovich’s ex-wife all aboard David Geffen’s $200million mega-yacht
I’m proud to say my Prime membership, Echo Dot, Amazon Music membership, and Amazon Fire tablet have contributed to this scintillating mistake.
Respect.
David Geffen is still alive?
Wow nice boat. The rest of the pics…….don’t care.
$64M. Ouch. Also, Go Vikings!
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/12/23/san-francisco-loses-oracle-convention-high-prices-poor-street-conditions/
Got a baaad feeling about this game. At home, but still think the Vikes lay an egg tonight. Hope not.
Well Devon Cook out is not helpful. They’re playing well at home though.
Hey nerds, I’ve been watching The Expanse and while I don’t pay near enough attention to concern myself with most of the plot points and weird shit going on, but what I am wondering about is why the space chairs inject milky fluids into the space people when they hyperspace or whatever. Is there some actual/plausible reason behind that or is it just spaceshow nonsense.
lol you’re so dumb
I inject milky fluids into your mom.
Look Fat, I didn’t ask what the libertarian position on space travel sickness remedies was. And I called you nerds upfront, I didn’t act like I just have a question and don’t already have an opinion on the matter.
*assumes push up position for inevitable contest*
It’s a trope loosely based on deep-sea divers breathing a helium/oxygen mix.
Supposedly it’s to make the body less squishable so you can accelerate/decelerate at higher Gs.
NO SPOILERS
I’m hoping Jeff puts it on physical media cuz I’m not getting Prime dammit.
Also, what Not Adahn said.
Central Nebraska man imprisoned for having sex with adult daughter takes deal
Even in Trump’s America Libertopia is still an unobtainable dream.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/v8pdm-getting-to-arizona?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&pc_code=ot_co_dashboard_a&rcid=78b0918f973242d18cfb699263ab9230
Depressed, and miserable, get to see the wife tommorow,help?
Done
I know what you’re thinking…
I’m thinking I’m sick and tired of this shit hijacking all discussion of sports.
Listen heya, Boy. That kinda talk ain’t allowed around heya. *Twirls handcuffs*
“A Revolution of Cinema”: Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig and the Director
Wouldn’t would but reluctantly wouldn’t would out of respect would and would
The “Old School” guy is a hero.
I’m going to commit murder on this flight. 2.5 hours to go but i honestly might crack.
I did tell the mom that her baby harness straps were flying around and hitting passengers in the face. She rolled her eyes like she was a fucking martyr.
Yeah, you had sex and gave birth. It’s the most natural thing in the world. Doesn’t make you a saint. Get over yourself.
“I’ve got a kid” entitlement on flights drives me up the wall. Curious if I’d see it the same way if I had spawn.
I agree with those above who commented that if you have a kid who’s a poor flier, then drive.
I would definitely pay more for a No Child flight if that were an option.
-1 Jeffrey
Also, new thread