As OFFICIAL COMPTROLLER for this insane asylum I’m pleased to report that we held a meeting of the Supreme Council of Masters of the Universe and decided this year to disburse our excess funds to a pair of charities that we believe you, the filthy lumpen-proletariat, will really approve of.
Minutes ago (as of my writing this; God only knows when it will be published) we donated $500 to FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), which dedicates itself to fighting off the worst excesses of the Kampus Kommunist Kids and their lackey administrators. We also donated $1,000 to the Institute for Justice, which has done so much to fight the army of radioactive bears that have overrun the western 1/3 of our once beautiful continent.
Thank you all for continuing your generous donations, which makes all this possible.
Excelłent. I am pleased.
This is my intro post, but it should also delight your fiscal sensibilities. Yesterday at 8:41am we welcomed a new xx tax deduction to the world, and a new xy tax deduction at 8:44.
Tulpa twins! Congrats!
Now go fuck off, Tulpa!
YAY!!! Tax deductions #FTW!!!
Also, fuck off, Tulpa.
Mazel Tov!
And fuck off, Tulpa!
I see you’ve gotten the traditional congratulatory fuck off and welcome.
Congrats on the tax deductions.
And, what the other’s said…fuck off Tulpa.
Tulpa Nation!
Congratulations. Looking forward to the arrival of two grandchildren in the first month of 2020
Will they be bringing you an avatar?
Agreed. Get some clothes on. Nobody wants to see your blank box.
I thought I had a pitchur…
Nobody wants to see your blank box.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
that’s so 2015
L’chaim !
Now fuck directly off, Tulpa
Congratulations!
Fuck off Tulpa!
Congratulations on bringing two new
batteries for the matrixhomo sapiens to breathe their shitty CO2 onto helpless Mother Gaialives into the world!And… fu- well, you know.
Thanks, all, for the well wishes and collective fucks-off. Now I really do need to get back to the thankless busy work of mining orphans.
Now get married before midnight for the trifecta!
We also donated $1,000 to the Institute for Justice,
PERRRRFECT.
But seriously I love IJ and the work they are doing.
They are my smile.amazon recipient.
#MeToo (they got $36.05 from me this year(Humble brag))
Wait that can’t be right, that must be all time.
Or you have been low-balling how well business has been.
Just a hyperbole.
Speaking of smile.amazon.com the Amazon app now allows you to route your purchases through Smile.
Really? Ima have to check that out
In the app go to Settings, and you should see an AmazonSmile option in there. At least on Android, I know nothing about the walled garden that is Apple.
So how much was spent on a lavish, Red Cross style holiday getaway for the board of directors?
None. They couldn’t decide on which tranny burlesque dancer to hire.
Wait… People will pay for you to just take your clothes off….
How would one sign up for this job and are there any requirements?
There are requirements – people must want to see you unclothed.
Hmmm. Is that negotiable?
No.
I haven’t been to many strip clubs, but that bar seems rather low.
Especially for the day shift.
Relevant story…
There was an old strip club down the road called the Goldfinger (known as the Stinkfinger amongst the soldiers).
One sunny winter day, I drove by and two of the day shift were out sunning themselves on the rock on the south-side of the establishment.
Literally like lizards. Probably to help them digest the patrons they just ate.
The horror… the horror.
“Put it on! Put it on!”
sounds like another revenue stream to me…
If you don’t mind being hit with quarters, it could be lucrative.
Have you ever bit the head off a live chicken?
Simple, you throw your hat into the ring as a libertarian candidate. Further instructions will be given shortly before you take to the stage at the convention.
*Golf claps, nods, looks around*
Word.
Institute for Justice, – sounds white supremacist to me!
No, justice is misogynistic.
Perfect. Happy New Year!
Supreme Council of Masters of the Universe
Supreme Council of Universal Masters has a better ring to it.
SPLITTER!
Hype is a spitter? Oh, wait…
Valerie Solanas’ estate has very aggressive copyright lawyers.
Supreme Council of Masters of the Universe – did you find out who killed Epstein?
No ACLU?
That hate group? They’re the lawyers for the Communist Party. They only ever actually support civil liberties by accident.
But they need to fight the Trump
’s anti-LGBTQagenda.SJWs wearing a civil rights organization as a skin suit??? You’ll get nothing and like it!
Trump’s anti-LGBTQ agenda
I’ll take things that don’t exist for $1,000.
Haha, no shit. I’m supposed to believe that the guy who waved a rainbow flag on stage is suddenly going to fire up the crematoria for gays any minute.
Meanwhile, Obama spends the vast majority of his career touting the “marriage is between a man and a woman because the Bible” and goes down in history as a gay rights hero.
Look Obama had to lie about his feelings to get elected in this bigoted country. As soon as it was politically feasible to do so he opened up about his feelings. That’s how we know what a good person he is.
Look Obama had to lie about his feelings to get elected in this bigoted country. As soon as it was politically feasible to do so he opened up about his feelings.
You know, the thing is, I actually believe that is mostly true. But, in a way, doesn’t that make him even more a monster? If you take the position that denying gays marriage was a moral wrong, what this says is that he went along with it actually knowing it was wrong. Not, oh, damn, he was really in the wrong on that issue, but he knew the position he was taking was wrong and did nothing about it, because that was what was best for his political career.
And he would have kept the same false front up if it wasn’t for Biden forcing his hand on the issue.
Oh that most assuredly was Obamas take. It is just funny to me that people will adore him for being a moral coward.
I concur and – would add – that this is the defining character trait of politicians. “Evolving” on the issue is really just Progspeak/Political Code for, “I didn’t and don’t have the necessary moral courage to be principled, but now that you all appear to be cool with this position, I’m going to lecture you about morals now.” See also, Clinton, Either.
To a certain extent, however, we’re all to blame. Remember middle and high school elections? One of those ‘practical civics lessons’ we did? Did it not always go to the most vapid, and/or mouth-breathing, and/or narcissistic twats who promised insane shit we all knew they couldn’t deliver?
“I WILL MAKE THE TEACHERS LISTEN TO OUR VOICES AND PUT PLAYBOY MAGAZINES IN THE LIBRARY AND MJ CIGARETTE DISPENSERS IN THE LUNCHROOM!” To cheers and laughs – and an easy electoral victory. As opposed to the smart or thoughtful kids who actually talked sensibly about issues that mattered to students. They got pantsed or given a wedgie while we elected either the hot, but incredibly stupid and stuck-up chick, or some moron…
I swear to you, I have a close friend who’s a proggy lesbian and she gave me almost exactly that line.
In her defense, she thinks the whole tranny sociology is beyond stupid, but she has training in genetics.
“We also donated $1,000 to the Institute for Justice, which has done so much to fight the army of radioactive bears that have overrun the western 1/3 of our once beautiful continent.”
I thought that is why we had Godzilla.
Godzilla can only be in one place at a time.
I should have mentioned my personal charity before.
“The Institute For Nerfherding And Other Pertinent Life Skills”
Please keep me in mind.
I donno, the spokesrodian is scruffy-looking.
Why do New Yorkers put BBQ sauce on ham?
Why not?
We already have BBQ Pork ribs, etc. why fuck with Ham? it didn’t hurt anyone….
how is ham defined?
Salt-cured, often smoked pig leg
right the stuff you cut thinly and add next to cheese on a wooden board to accompany the wine
only uncultured rubes would put BBQ sauce on that
Yeah, I gotta agree with Pie on this one.
You know Eurosnobs have no taste.
BBQ sauce goes on meat that comes from a pitmaster, not a deli clerk. Preferably the vinegar style sauce.
You’re being too limited.
Sauce is cheap.
Fine, I guess grilled chicken would also apply, but who wants grilled chicken when you could be having steak or pork?
My people!
ITT: UCS argues that something needs more flavor and everyone tells him he’s wrong.
Now I cannot wait to find out what Romanian BBQ sauce is like.
No garlic, that’s for sure.
Ever cut your lip? Oddly similar taste.
Romanian BBQ sauce is literally garlic. You mince garlic, add a little oil and salt, rub it all together, add some water or sour cream depending on taste.
https://retetedelabunica.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/tn4_dsc03541.jpg
We call that “aioli”
No, the stuff you stack on bread with cheese and mustard.
Spam?
I should have been more specific.
“Leg”
Oh look at mister fancy pants.
No, ham bbq is made with ham manufactured in the traditional way:
1) Butcher the pig into recognizable cuts for the rich folk.
2) Sweep up all the shavings, cutting, and anything the dog didn’t eat off the floor
3) Pound it until the protein expresses out to the surface
4) Mix in salt and celery juice
5) Put into a ham press
6) Boil until fully cooked
7) Chill, remove from press, slice thin enough to see through
Peep the monocle, yo.
Lips and assholes. Pressed into shapes?
You guys don’t have hotdogs?
Yeah, we called them “Jumbo dogs” because they are made the same way Jumbo is.
Oh, I should mention that what the cafeteria here serves is actual ham, sliced ~3/8″ thick, with BBQ sauce on it. Typical side dishes offered are mac & cheese, cole slaw, and/or fries.
Well, not really actual ham, boneless ham.
Damn, should have figured someone else here would be familiar with this dish.
Grew up in western PA. Learned to put barbecue sauce on ham. Not ashamed. This seems about right, except it should be made in a slow cooker manufactured in like 1953.
“Chipped chopped ham is a pressed ham loaf sold at deli counters”
When you put it that way, it sounds so appetizing.
I went to college with a nice Appalachian boy from hill country. He literally did not know that ham came any other way than in a tin like this. He thought he hated ham. We made him a smoked city ham and his eyes bugged out when he took a bite.
Sounds better than the Boars Head crap that’s taken over here.
Boar’s Head was crap. Except for some reason here. I don’t understand it. They must have one factory for NY and a different one for the rest of the country.
That’s explains the NY love for the brand. Which has been hq’d in Florida for close to twenty years.
There’s a lot of New Yorker’s in Florida anyway.
Which New Yorkers are we talking about? East and West are very different.
Which side is “The Capital Region” on?
It’s the cancerous cyst metastasized from downstate at around armpit level.
Yeah, I don’t really know. I would say East. I think West starts around Syracuse. At the soda/pop border, in fact.
Which part of NY is the gravy on fries region?
Canada.
Also Tulsa, but they use sausage gravy, not brown.
+ Buffalo
Rhywun, I expected that as a reply to my description of Syracuse.
I’ve never been to Syracuse. But I’ve been to Schenectady, if that counts.
Syracuse is like Detroit with more buildings.
Just to be clear though, BBQ sauce should not be put on anything
Have you even had any?
well I have had stuff from various bottles which said BBQ sauce on them
There’s like a 85% chance its shit bbq sauce if it comes out of a bottle. There are a lot of local US brands that are good, a small handful of national brands that are good, and a lot of national brands that are shit.
If you got an imported American brand, its likely shit. If you have access to American ketchup, you can make really good bbq sauce at home pretty easy.
I also had a1 sauce which I assume is the same thing.
Not even close.
Guys I literally can’t even with this shit right now.
A1 is a British condiment in the great British food tradition – tastes like shit and designed to be eaten with overcooked beef.
American barbecue sauce is a mash-up of two things:
1 the ‘organic’ development of barbecue sauce as a condiment to barbecue – as barbecue was brought to the Americas by African and/or Caribbean slaves, it was sometimes dressed in acidic, pungent sauces that use vinegar, tomato, mustard, and/or pepper flavors.
2 was a marketing ploy created by the HJ Heinz corp (the countries’ largest ketchup producer) to sell more ketchup. It started as a recipe attached to ketchup bottles that called for simmering ketchup with… uh, I think molasses and vinegar and spices, but I can’t remember.
American barbecue sauce is usually a mix of ketchup, vinegar, a dark agent (soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, or molasses), sugar, and spices. It ranges from thicker-than-ketchup to thin as vinegar, but most store brands are on the thick side.
And then on top of that, every region has a particular style. One is all mustard based. One is mayonnaise based. Kentucky basically has a different sauce for every county.
The mustard-based sauce was awesome on pork ribs.
I’ve made several sauces listed in the Joy of Cooking 75th Edition, and they’ve all been good. Matter of fact, just had some pulled pork this past weekend with a thin, vinegar-based sauce.
http://www.thesmokering.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1359
This mustard sauce is far and away my favorite sauce on pulled pork.
Oh, man, mustard sauce is awesome on pork. I’m also a big fan of basically just apple cider and pepper flakes. However, my all-time favorite is Alabama white sauce. That’s up there with Old Bay for me in terms of being a universal condiment.
Just gonna leave this here.
A1 has its place. It is NOT BBQ sauce.
Ponderosa steakhouse?
On my baked potato.
Also, on cheap ham for a quick meal. Yes, yes, I do. I will banhammer myself now.
I like it on hamburgers.
I was reaching back to happy childhood memories…and then things got weird…
?
To further solidify the fact that I do not belong here, I don’t really care for pork much. It’s generally my last choice after beef and chicken.
Like A1, it has its place (e.g., sausage [specifically kielbasa], eggs Benedict).
Mojeaux – I’m pretty sure at least some of the founders never eat pork either…
Look, however much we champion our preferred flavors, at the end of the day, we won’t exile you over what you eat.
Don’t feel alienated because we get into hyperbolic language. It’s not serious.
Just kidding, y’all. I know you
lovetolerate me in your sick and twisted ways.Oh, now Hyperbole has a language named after him? This is nothing less than a sign of the apocalypse.
No, it’s a sigh of the apocalypse.
On the Whataburger A1 Thick’n Hearty burger.
Nuuuyope. That’s “steak sauce,” not the same thing at all.
That recipe Leap linked is a good representation of “BBQ sauce”
Also, fun fact: American BBQ came about to make trash cuts of meat (e.g., brisket) slaves/poor white trash got edible.
This was an interesting video about the origins of BBQ.
It happens in areas of PA as well, but then only with the chipped chopped ham.
So I can assume this is an open thread?
You can assume whatever you like.
Though it would be better to conduct a test in attempt to falsify the hypothesis.
OK lets OT something for testing purposes
18 USC §247(a)(2) makes it a federal crime to intentionally use force to obstruct a person in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religion, in or affecting interstate commerce.
https://twitter.com/CrimeADay/status/1211755880926076933
Did there need to be a specific law for that?
As always, if it doesn’t start out that way, it will be soon. Herding Cat Theory says so with a 100% prediction record to back it up.
Barack Obama 2019 favorites include Watchmen, Fleabag and Lizzo
https://www.cnet.com/news/barack-obama-2019-favorites-include-watchmen-fleabag-and-lizzo/?ftag=CAD-03-10abf2a
So Tonio, that’s someone else who likes Fleabag!
I like Ij too. Someone has to counterbalance the ACLU and SPLC.
I toss a few bucks to Wikipedia each year too because I get value from their product.
I read your last response to me re seizures and that was fascinating. Thank you!
Mojeaux, I read your post last night about the story issue you were having re: your hero’s aversion to brunettes. If you gave a previous lover of his (who was supposed to be the one) a specific endearing trait, you could give it also to the new woman as motivation for him to get over his aversion. You could revise the previous woman to have a tragic end, which might help from a storytelling perspective as to why he never wound up with the girl from the past. Also, added drama.
I still like my handjob with no eye contact idea.
/run in. screams ‘Glibs!”. spikes football.
Laughed so hard my wife walked into office and roller eyes at me.
I still like my handjob with no eye contact idea.
That’s your solution to everything.
I addressed this last night but it was buried deep, so you probably didn’t see it.
I had them try that. It did not go well.
That is a good idea, and I have used that sort of, but not to the good. He lost a male childhood friend over something he did, and he grieves the relationship. He is using the heroine as his replacement BFF. He not only prefers to think of her as his BFF, but as almost male.
In other news, his fetish for blonde-haired, blue-eyed fetish is from his first woman, who still lives with him and is the mama of two of his babies. All his other women look like her.
His raven-witch fear is deep because it happened very early in life (which wouldn’t have been a problem if he hadn’t actually been attacked by ravens when he was 8-9ish.
So he has never had a brunette at all. He ignores them because they all look like the raven witch to him and he’s been with his first since he was 15.
IOW, I would have to rewrite the entire book.
However, that is a good idea for the sequel to this one, which involves a different romantic couple, since this hero and heroine’s romance is settled. That male character can’t have female friends because of the problem of one or the other catching feelings, so that will definitely work.
You’re welcome! I am glad for an opportunity to educate about epilepsy and seizures in general so that people don’t keep stigmatizing us.
I am not woke, but I despise the term “epileptic” as a nown for a person. “He’s an epileptic.” As if that’s his identity.
No, he’s a person with epilepsy.
I am a reasonably successful engineer turned manager with a corner office. I do not have a mental health problem. I have a seizure disorder that is blessedly well-controlled.
How do you feel about diabetics?
The only ones I have any emotion about are the type twos who flagrantly do nothing to curtail it and rot in almost real time as a result.
Let’s not pretend the USDA’s brilliant food pyramid didn’t have something to do with that, among other things.
But that’s their problem, not mine. It doesn’t affect me; thus, I don’t care what they do with their bodies.
Yes, it’s their problem, but I still have the emotional reaction when I come across it.
Totally understand. I have that with some types of people also.
Well, a pulmonologist once was looking over my sleep study and wanted to send me to a neurologist because he suspected epilepsy. I didn’t go and I was NOT going to have that label slapped on me not because I care about a label, but because it would affect my ability to drive. I currently take an anti-epileptic that has an off-label use as a mood stabilizer (Lamictal), so I actually have reason to suspect I have it.
That said, everybody identifies as something, even if it’s just what they do for a living. First thing people say after meeting someone is generally, “So what do you do?” (Which, I’m told, is a very weird thing to Europeans because that’s what those barbarian USians do.)
If it’s a visible thing (e.g., fat, black, hijab, yarmulke), that is your identity as pinned on you by the viewer. If it’s not, people still want a way to pigeonhole you for mental filing purposes. Shorthand.
I can’t say I’ve ever heard “This is X. He’s an epileptic/alcoholic/diabetic/invisiblediseaseofyourchoice.” It usually comes up when someone displays behavior and then it generally becomes a secondary identity.
That is in no way to diminish your lived experience (no sarc). It’s just something I’ve thought about a lot.
I had a female coworker at my old job in Minnesota when I was diagnosed at 33 yo who wanted to be kind and express support .
She said in all sincerity, it’s ok to be mentally ill.
I managed to suppress my anger and frustration.
Nobody calls a person an “epileptic” to their faces, fyi.
You’re a better woman than I, Gunga Din.
I would not have been able to contain my look of impending doom.
“the filthy lumpen-proletariat”
But with Top Hats and orphans!
You know, if ya’ll wanted to really do good, you’d give 90% of your filthy lucre to the government and let ‘experts’ decide for you.
Huzzah!
NBA’s Top 60 Clutch Plays Of The Decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMIzIDbclZQ
I initially read that as Top ‘Butch’ players of the decade.
That’s the WNBA.
I thought it was those soccer gir… errr, I mean guy… umm, xes?
Huh, I just assumed hookers and blow.
That’s under the categories “Office supplies” and “Temporary employees”
In that order?
Well, they were high at the time.
Ill need to see some 1099s and W-9s
I’ll pretend this isn’t really off-topic, since it’s vaguely related to “where (somebody else’s) money is going”, but just an observation that I’ve occasionally had…
I go to the movies about 1.5x/yr on average. This year has been an anomaly, since we did Aladdin with a bunch of kids, then Midway, and finally Knives Out (twice, even). Previews suck in general to me, but watching the awful previews sitting in Knives Out with Mrs. Tree last night, I put voice to something I’ve often thought: “Somebody actually thinks that was a worthwhile investment. I can’t fathom that.”
Now, I’m a curmudgeonly redneck glib INTJ, and obviously de gustibus non est disputandem, but really, it blows me away to see this and think “who pays for this?” I say/think this ALL THE TIME.
I don’t know. With ticket prices what they are, I haven’t been to a theater since… *checks external chronometer* 2008.
Gotcha beat – I haven’t been since 2006! 😉
… Although I’ve heard such horrible things about that “Cats” movie that I’m almost tempted to go see it.
In by defense, 2008 was an aberration. My dad was in town, and I don’t recall who paid.
For some reason, he still goes to the movies even these days.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
I’m not up-to-date on the intricacies of Tulpa things; is this basically “Happy New Year!” in this context?
Not a Tulpa. Has 332 posts going back 2.5 years. Yes, I looked. I always do.
Me, you mean? Yeah, I just don’t post much. Hyperion, I think at some point we figured out that you and I even went to the same school, though I may be thinking of someone else (North Ave. Trade School).
I don’t recall your moniker, but that’s me, not you because my remembery is shit and I skim.
Very nice to make your acquaintance!
Thanks. You too. I always wanted to be an author on the side but never got my act together on that front.
Do you want to write, or do you want to have written?
“always wanted to be an author on the side”
Me too. Problem is my writing is not that good. Wanted to be an artist too, same problem, just not that good. Oh well, I guess it will remain boring computer stuff for me.
Then hopefully you’ll like my next post. ?
That hasn’t stopped me from writing and making ‘art’ for you sorry lot.
Here’s the thing about art: If you’re interested enough, you’ll make time for it (*koffstraffinrunkoff*). If you’re not, you won’t.
And that’s okay.
I suspect I may have expressed similar sentiments with regards to writing at some point.
“Me, you mean? Yeah, I just don’t post much. Hyperion, I think at some point we figured out that you and I even went to the same school, though I may be thinking of someone else (North Ave. Trade School).”
Wasn’t me. But I do remember you now, just haven’t seen you post for a while.
I think it’s been that way for a while. Movies as a way to blow other people’s money.
When the third Lord of the Rings movie was released, they did a special release called Trilogy Tuesday. The tickets sold out almost immediately, but I managed to score two tickets. The first two movies were the extended editions, and it was the earliest showing of the third one. The seats we got gave me a good view of the studio reps who were there to judge our reactions to the trailers. One of those trailers was for Son of the Mask, the silence was deafening during that gods awful trailer. There were furious notes being taken after that.
*nods along*
Wife usually drags me out to the theater once a year. I hate every minute of it. We have a 5.1 sound system and a 120″ projector screen for a reason…. Mainly so that I can watch it from the comfort of my recliner, pause it when I go to the bathroom, and have decent food that doesnt cost an arm and a leg.
TPTB: There is a new Tulpa awaiting approval in the pending queue.
BURN IT! Wait…does it float?
We don’t know, it’s pending.
Well, it* was responding to ME, so of course I have a vested interest.
*Not assuming gender as I so shamefully did with Toxteth O’Grady.
Now, when saying “vested” are we talking an undershirt, or a sleeveless waistcoat?
Maybe Xe owns a home with a vestibule?
Undershirt = vest? Whu?
British usage.
Like pants being underpants there.
I think an athletic tank top or a “wifebeater” undershirt is called a vest by Brits and Irish.
There’s a big stocky beer-swilling Irish dude in my neighborhood (hung out with him a few times; hilarious guy) and he said he saw me jogging in my vest the other day. After much confusion about what he was talking about, we finally got it clear that he was referring to a tank top.
In the early 20th century US, those were called singlets.
I did not know the British called them vests.
“In the early 20th century US, those were called singlets.”
That’s what we called them when I was a kid (in Oz). Still retailed under that name apparently.
Try saying Fanny to a Brit to refer to a rear or a “fanny pack.”
Brits: fanny = vajayjay
“front bottom”
Hi-X: tell a Brit or Ozzy that you “root” for a particular sports team.
Got it, thx.
The Bee blasting away with both barrels:
Media Disappointed To Learn Armed Citizen Stopped Mass Shooting
That one’s actually too close to the truth to be that funny. CNN says that ‘it’s just too complicated for you deplorables to understand. Our EXPERTS will be along shortly to try to explain to you why that was so bad’.
And I’m sure Snopes is “fact checking” it as we speak.
I posted this waaaayyy late last night, so sharing again the magical snark of Mark Steyn.
https://www.steynonline.com/9961/values-complications-and-evasions
That’s just a snippet. There is some weapons-grade snark in the whole thing.
You just have to scroll past the opening programming notes.
That snark is well-deserved. Some of the hottest takes I’ve seen from mainstream journalists on this are absolutely shocking. My favorite has got to be the person who bemoaned that focusing on the race of the attacker distracts us from the real issue, which is white supremacy. I mean, if it’s possible to overdose on irony that tweet should be the textbook example of a lethal dosage.
They really have been so indoctrinated that their logic center is ruined.
Such a waste of human capital.
I don’t know what’s worse, the idea that someone is so laser-focused on their particular thing that they shamelessly exploit any tragedy in order to promote it, or that someone legitimately believes that, somehow, white supremacy would cause non-white people to attack Jewish people. It’s like, one person is so immoral that there’s probably no fixing them, but the other is so deranged there’s nothing you can do.
I’ve had a couple of people here comment to me that the Orthodox Jews here are not friendly and often just rude and don’t even speak to we Goyim. OK, well, maybe. But they often do speak to me when I’m out walking, so that is not entirely true. But I brought up the point to the last person who said that to me ‘And? They also do not bother me. I’ve lived right beside of them for 6 years and never once have they ever bothered me, at all’. Recently I’ve noticed that they have all of these police lights and cameras outside of the Synagogue right down the street from me and I typically see a couple of police cars parked outside there on Saturday. I have to assume that it’s because they fear for their safely. In my opinion, the left started this shit and it’s just another reason why I despise the left more than any other humans on the planet.
There isn’t a big Orthodox presence down here so I don’t have a sample to judge from, but plenty of run-of-the-mill Annapolitans are jaw-droppingly shitty. And yet, I have never attacked any with a machete. Yet. Which is why I’m in the market for a house at least thirty minutes south.
I have heard something similar about the Amish in southern Maryland from friends who grew up down there. If it’s even a thing, and not just bias based on the fact that they’re an out-group, I could see people from a subculture or group or whatever who’ve maybe not had the easiest go of it being proactively defensive.
“Which is why I’m in the market for a house at least thirty minutes south.”
Yeah, I remember us having that discussion, looks like we’re moving in opposite directions. I find that the farther you get from Baltimore or Annapolis, the friendlier people are and less likely to be biased against ‘pick the bad people’ who are oppressing me. Exactly the opposite of what our MSM would have you believe.
Yeah, we have had this chat before. You’re thinking of heading north, right? Lancaster area? We’ve got friends up there who love it. It’s a little weird for my tastes–not bad, just different–but I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t friendly as hell. You’re right though, once you get away from the metros, at least around here, you realize how routine hostility is the norm here for some reason. I’ve had strangers from out of town that I was chatting with at bars say stuff to the effect of, “Are you actually from here? Because nobody else I’ve met here would talk to me.”
“Yeah, we have had this chat before. You’re thinking of heading north, right? Lancaster area?”
We’ve dropped the PA idea altogether because of the property taxes. We’re focused on Carrol County now. I have a couple of friends up there and they love it. It’s very pretty country with low taxes and better property value.
“Are you actually from here? Because nobody else I’ve met here would talk to me.”
Yeah, my wife has been actually shocked by the difference in people once you are outside of the metro area. She even recently joked with me saying ‘Hey, I like the rednecks a lot better than people in the city’. And I just said ‘Yeah, I told you’. Being up there compared to Baltimore is not like being in a different country, it’s like a different planet.
. I find that the farther you get from Baltimore or Annapolis, the friendlier people are
Out this direction it feels like we’re right on the border between asshole-land and decent people. Went into the city on Saturday, and it was all assholes. Can’t wait to move far enough away from the swamp to avoid its impact.
Hyp, didn’t the Jews take over Eldersburg?
“Out this direction it feels like we’re right on the border between asshole-land and decent people. ”
Yeah, it’s where we are, right on the edge of the city. It’s not exactly like Baltimore, but it is.
This is timely;
I try to give to Glibs monthly and just made two good-sized donations last night: to FIRE and IJ :-/
Either I’m doing things right, or very, very wrong.
It’s going to be absolutely heartbreaking when either FIRE or IJ gets skinsuited by leftists.
Any group not explicitly right wing will become left wing.
I don’t know much about FIRE, but IJ does seem to be explicitly “right wing” in the sense that they are pretty explicitly a form of orginalists
you should listen to FIRE’s podcasts. They want to be left, but they are liberal and horrified by what the progressives are doing to trample people.
Interesting, i’ll give it a listen. I think it was you that recommended Short Circuit podcast, which i love. I mean apart from the continuous flow of qualified immunity nut punches.
Wow. I had no idea that SP and OMWC could get that much loot from selling stolen bikes.
The beach cruiser? The one I lent OMWC a couple weeks ago? The one I been asking him about?
From the last thread:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/SAVOGRAN-1-lb-Box-TSP-Heavy-Duty-Cleaner-10621/202935861
Thanks, good to know.
For the dishwasher, use Cascade Fryer Boil Out. Used to be labeled as Cascade Professional.
Playa, have you tried STPP for laundry?
No. I use STPP for cooking (brisket and chicken).
I use TSP in laundry, especially when the kids’ clothes are covered in dirt and god knows what else.
This is why I’m thinking about trying STPP for the wash
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?71300
I use STP myself
Fun trivia: neither of us are on the Board or have any contact with or control of funds. SP merely keeps the site running (after all, she created it) and I drop in from time to time.
No skimming? No profits? All charity? What kind of libertarian website is this!?
Smart. It’s best to keep the criminal operations separate from the front organization.
Spending the last day of the year waiting out a 20hr video render. Times like this are the times I wish I had a video game console instead of just using my PC for gaming.
Lets see… I can find… a 3DS. But your render will have finished by the time I’m able to loan it to you.
I get nauseous looking at small screens anyway.
More 2020’s Predictions:
Fashion:
2020-2022: Due to the extreme popularity of Cyperpunk 2077, A Japanese cyberpunk design takes over the world of fashion
2023-2025: A Counter Cultural fashion trend begins with individuals wearing long flowing white and black outfits.
2026-????: Rags and burlap come into vogue. This will assuredly have nothing to do with the ascendancy of President AOC.
Look, without cyberware, it’s just punk. Neural inputs and controls are still lo-fi.
I’ve started wearing suspenders to keep up the like 9 lbs of edc crap I carry every day. They’re terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future
I might have to retry suspenders, it seems like either my pants are too tight when I sit down or they fall down while I’m walking. There seems to be no middle ground.
I got a steel-core, infinity adjustable belt, and it changed my life: https://www.bluealphagear.com/product/low-profile-edc-belt/
You can adjust it to any length, and it keep itself fairly flat.
Then I wear a pair of Dicky’s perry suspenders if I don’t have to wear a tucked in shirt. Its like having a robot butler that automatically hikes up the back of my pants when I stand up, and take some of the load off my non-existent hips when I’m walking around.
Highly recommend both.
Ah, a belt and suspenders kind of guy.
Sounds like he enjoys breakfast for dinner too.
My son left some pancakes and bacon in the fridge from yesterday’s stop for breakfast. I’m going to eat it for dinner if its still there when I get home tonight.
Reference for that quote. from Bob’s Burgers.
I have this.
https://www.koreessentials.com/collections/gun-belts/products/x3-buckle-black-reinforced-belt-set
Looks normal, holds gun n stuff easily.
Leather? Get of of here hippie. No renewable materials for me. Mine is made out of 100% healthy crude oil, refined into usable material in no less than three different factories.
Mine: https://www.doublealpha.biz/us/daa-idpa-leather-belt
Although I typically don’t wear it, since I pocket carry.
https://aliengearholsters.com/sig-p365-shapeshift-pocket-holster.html
That looks nice except the outer shell mimics the pistol rather than smoothing out the shape. Does it print much?
Not at all in jeans. It looks likes something nondescriptly rectangular.
Nice!
You hipsters and your infinitely adjustable belts.
*spits*
Belts are supposed to have holes.
This is my go to: https://www.thebeltman.net/
‘gun n stuff’
In a better world, this would be a store name.
https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89ad621d68797ebf%3A0x269512fed9b845a9!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipO4MROGfS61uJP8DfoMyrDqA0b80_AqC9CRj8QX%3Dw213-h160-k-no!5sgun%20n%20stuff%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipO4MROGfS61uJP8DfoMyrDqA0b80_AqC9CRj8QX&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgzNfX4ODmAhXCneAKHVDADOkQoiowE3oECA0QBg
Rejoice in our utopian timeline.
But what would happen when they sold their gun?
Clips or buttons? I thought about suspenders for a while but I’d want the kind that button to specific suspender buttons, and none of my pants are bespoke enough to have those instead of belt loops. Plus, you never know when you’ll need to improvise a zip-line or wrap your fist in leather gladiator-style.
perry style that clip onto the underside of your belt. Ostensibly for holding up a tool belt I think, but I wear them under an untucked flannel or button down shirt. They aren’t leather, and they don’t look nice, but the elastic is more useful.
I have a few pairs of silk braces that I wear with suits, and all those attach to buttons I get sewn into the pants I wear.
https://www.loggingsupply.com/products/bucksaw-logger-buttons
Great, now another place for me to blow way too much money. But how could you say no to this shirt?
Easy. I wear long sleeved button-downs.
https://www.loggingsupply.com/products/hickory-shirt-long-sleeve-zip
Leap,
A true lumberjack would EDC a Calk Wrench
https://www.loggingsupply.com/collections/rugged-work-wear/products/phillips-caulk-wrench
You know, to tighten up you calk when it gets loose.
:^)
I feel like this was a set up for a joke.
“What do carry in your pants that’s 9 lbs?”
“Well, mostly my penis.”
“Knife, flashlight, tourniquet, handkerchief, pen, hemostatic bandage, keys, wallet, fire starter…”
“I know baby, I know. Just keep digging you’ll find it in there somewhere!”
OT: Related to the 2019 year-in-review stuff.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/12/30/2019_was_the_year_that_democrats_went_off_the_rails_142041.html
The party of Thomas Jefferson was given the keys to the nation’s future and told, simply, don’t drive it off the road.
You mean the party of Hamilton sycophants is the party of Jefferson? I think those days are long dead.
I thought Jefferson was involved with parties that went by the name Democrats and Republicans at different periods. But the Republicans we know today are the former Whigs that were and remain the mercantilist party of Hamilton. There was a time early on where the Democrats are the small govt, low tax party with their primary fault being support of slavery. That is when they were Jeffersonian-ish.
Jefferson’s part was the Democratic Republicans, that eventually morphed into just democrats. The Whigs were a separate party, and didn’t really transform into the modern Republican party, it was more the Republican party replaced them, but it probably did absorb a lot of people with Whig philosophies.
100 comments, give or take, about barbecue sauce. That’s one of the reasons I love this place.
Happy New Year, you goofball earthlings.
Yup, tackling the hard hitting issues here at Glibs.
We clearly need a BBQ taste test. For Science!
*rolls up sleeves*
And we didn’t even get into sloppy joes being called barbecues in the upper midwest.
One of the times I was driving through Wisconsin, I got to hear a local tell a Texan that they had BBQ sandwiches. The confusion in that conversation shows that while we all may speak English, we’re not always talking the same language.
They have bubblers, too.
We had water bubblers in NH when I was a kid. Yuh, it’s true.
Bubblers on the best coast too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Bubbler
That’s because of kkkapitalism!
That’s weird. I wonder how that started. I try and say sloppy joe, but admit to saying barbecue plenty of times, too.
I just assumed it was because people put BBQ sauce in them.
I don’t think I’ve had any with straight-up BBQ sauce, but yeah, I bet a lot of recipes are exactly that.
You should see the night shift. A slumber party of drunken/sleep-deprived amateur philosophers.
HAH!!
All of them wrong.
Great charities! Very pleased to see both get donations.
PS – Has SP / Glibadmins many any further attempts to register as a creator with Brave? I still have BAT tokens to give away!
https://creators.brave.com/
It’s only a pittance though, so if it’s not worth the trouble of signing up, I understand. I think you have to sign up with Uphold.com too, which a lot of people hate.
I second that. I don’t know what the level of effort is either, but I’ve got a ton of BAT sitting here with Glibertarians.com’s name on it.
These are like gift certificates for Bring A Trailer?
Exactly!
Achsually… BAT is actually an interesting idea surrounding advertising. It’s currently tied to the Brave browser, but could separate in the future. Brave is a great browser on it’s own and it can be used without messing with the Ads / BAT system at all. I prefer it over Chrome, partly because it’s not google. The Ad/BAT system just rolled out recently. I found it a fascinating concept so decided to check it out. You can read about it at this link, and I recommend reading the white paper for more detail.
https://basicattentiontoken.org/
*takes hit from joint* In a future when AI / automation has solved much of humanity’s problems regarding scarcity, human attention will still always remain a scarce resource. Face it, humans are dumb and slow, but humans decide where to spend their wealth. Thus, the competition for even a moment of attention will be in very high demand.
OMFG.
Trying to prove to someone that they are seeing something that’s not there is difficult.
The CFM manager (contamination-free manufacturing) was swearing up and down that some isopropanol was discolored, even though it was an optical illusion from someone putting a dark-colored label on the container.
I did a trace metals analysis (biggest contaminant was magnesium @ 0.26ppb)
An FTIR on the residue (sp3 C-H bonds)
A TXRF of the residue (nada)
An anions by ion chromatography (zilch)
A spectrogram of the sample, showing that it is identical in color to a reference isopropanol
AAAaaand, I photographed some in a different container, alongside the same container of the reference material. I didn’t label which was which. He tried to pick apart my report by pointing this out, at which point I turned it around by saying that obviously if he couldn’t tell, it wasn’t discolored.
I was so proud of myself for not jumping up and thrusting my pelvis in his face.
No fair!
Whatever the truth — and Ghosn himself did not elaborate in a statement attacking the “rigged Japanese justice system” — such an escape would have required elaborate planning, and not inconsiderable resources. Hironaka, the lawyer, said he must have had the help of a “large organization” to have fled.
What seems certain is that, somehow or other, he evaded surveillance in Tokyo. Ghosn certainly has form for disguising himself: When he left jail after being freed on bail, he left court dressed as a maintenance worker, in an apparent effort to evade the gathered media. (It wasn’t successful.)
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In Japan, meanwhile, there was consternation. Junichiro Hironaka, who represents Ghosn, told reporters Tuesday that his client’s flight from Japan was a “complete surprise.”
“We are puzzled and shocked,” he said, explaining that Ghosn didn’t have his passports and “could not possibly use them.”
Masahisa Sato, a lawmaker with Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democrat Party (LDP), said Ghosn had plainly jumped bail. “If this is true, it was not ‘departing the country,’ it was an illegal departure and an escape, and this itself is a crime,” he said, according to AFP.
“Was there help extended by an unnamed country? It is also a serious problem that Japan’s system allowed an illegal departure so easily,” said Sato, a former minister of state for foreign affairs.
There was fury in France, too, where Ghosn had engineered a complex and sometimes uneasyalliance between Nissan, Mitsubishi and the French automaker Renault. The French government was “very surprised” that Ghosn had left Japan, economy secretary Agnès Pannier-Runacher told France Inter radio. Ghosn is “not above the law,” she said, adding that “if a foreign citizen fled French justice we would be really angry.”
“All things considered, I’d rather be in
PhiladelphiaBeirut.”Ghosn is “not above the law,” she said, adding that “if a foreign citizen fled French justice we would be really angry.”
That part just made me laugh. The impotence laden in that statement is hilarious.
I for one strongly condemn whatever he’s accused of doing, and I’ll be writing a letter to the editor to that effect.
He ugh… reportedly didn’t report all his income from Nissan… or something. Which is interesting since it would have been Nissan accountants who should have informed the Japanese how much they were paying the guy. In other words, it was a palace coup and set-up just to lure him into Japan.
I think there was also something about which entities between the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi web was paying what. But I don’t really trust anything that’s come out from either side. I’ll split the difference and assume that he had his hand in the cookie jar for some extra, as many execs are/were doing there, but still pretext for torpedoing Renault’s takeover of the others.
he must have had the help of a “large organization” to have fled
Uyoku dantai? Told them he’d leave and never return to Japan?
The guys is worth over $100 million and 65 years old. The Japanese seemed perfectly comfortable keeping him jailed for most of the remainder of his life on the trumped up charges. Good for him for getting out of there.
I doubt it was all that dramatic. That sort of money can buy a private plane on a one-way trip with pilots who never intend to go near Japan again.
I hear Japan had a lot of pilots like that back in the war.
I am at my dining room table perusing the only paper magazines to which I still subscribe.
They are side by side. One is the NRA’s America’s First Freedom rag with a cover feature of a confidant looking armed lady with the headline “The Rise of the Armed Woman.”
The other is World magazine with a cover featuring Hong Kong protesters taking cover from water cannons behind umbrellas and wearing gas masks and goggles.
The contrast and connection between the two cover pictures are unmistakable.
Nice sidearm in avatar, just for looks or does it shoot?
That was supposed to be in Hawk’s post.
Crap, Hawk = Hayek.
It is, sadly, a replica.
For a little cosplay, ya know.
Look Bro. There can only be one Brooks. And until you meet in mortal combat and come out victorious, you better thread your replies.
Legit LOL
+1 FINISH HIM!
BANALITY!
Bravo. That was excellent.
Sweep the leg!
I know it’s premature schadenfreude, but there’s already chatter about getting rid of AOC’s district when New York loses a seat after the 2020 census.
because she has too many noncitizen residents.
I was actually thinking about that this morning. How do state legislatures decide which districts go caput?
The same way they decide everything else.
They try to take over the world?
Usually In whatever manner gives their party the most seats. They’ll probably try to carve up one or more republican districts while they’re at it. They tend to be big and covering a lot of upstate grounds as it is.
You rang?
Technically, her district won’t disappear; the 27th district that covers western NY between Buffalo and Rochester will disappear. All of the district lines will be redrawn though, and while they can’t legally set out to disfavor any specific candidate they’ll be sneaky about it. Exactly how they go about it will probably depend on potential 2022 challengers and who they think will give her the most trouble.
*snort* Unless the Dems lose the House, a Dem is not going to lose any seat in New York.
Of course not. But they can rejigger the districts to get rid of her seat and split a purple district into two blues.
That’s the usual modus operandus
(Or the Assembly, if it’s the state that decides)
It’s the state.
And the dems will never lose the assembly in New York until post Venezuela phase of collapse has passed.
Why wouldn’t they try to get rid of one of the remaining Republican seats, especially Stefanik?
Her district takes up a quarter of the state:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_21st_congressional_district
The Browns aren’t done firing people yet. They just got rid of the GM as well.
You know its sad when Riverboat Ron takes a look at your organization and says “You know, I think I’d rather work for Dan Snyder than you guys.”
Dude, you would think Dan Snyder was struck by lightning around here. There are people calling into local sports radio shows almost in tears about how they can finally have hope for the team again. People are, and I’m being entirely serious, saying things like, “Well, you know, Cam Newton really flourished under Ron Rivera, and Dwayne Haskins is a lot like Cam, so maybe…”
Good.
Glib Michigan meet up.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-drunk-driving-horse-buggy
so apparently Ruger rechambered a striker-fired pistol to 5.7x28mm. i’m sort of at a loss as to why. obviously, one could respond “why not? are you some godless heathen communist??” but really this smells like a money losing decision.. unless it costs nothing to retool their line and they’re aiming for a big Euro contract by undercutting FNH’s Five-seveN price.
“Our purchasing manager selected the wrong value in the drop down, and we didn’t notice until the station got changed around.”
I have no desire to own a 5.7.
Yeah, but you’re still gonna pay $.40/per round of plinking ammo.
MAIN POINT OF SELLING BELGIAN FIVE SEVEN PISTOL IS EXTREME PRICE OF WEAPON AND CARTRIDGE. BELGIAN FIVE SEVEN IS WEAPON OF MAN WHO WEARS EXPENSIVE ITALIAN FASCIST SUIT OF HAND SEWING, DRIVE HUGE EXPENSIVE NAZI MERCEDES OF A.M.G. SHOP, SAIL ON MASSIVE YACHT TO GREEK ISLANDS. I THINK YOU GET PICTURE. BELGIAN FIVE SEVEN IS WEAPON THAT SAYS IS NO SUCH THING AS CONCERN OF MONEY. FOR MAN WITHOUT EXPENSIVE SUIT, BIG BLACK MERCEDES, AND MASSIVE YACHT, BELGIAN FIVE SEVEN IS FOR PRETENDING OF BE RICH LIKE BLACK GANGSTER OF AMERICAN CITY WITH GOLD CHAINS OF LOW QUALITY AND JEWELS OF COLORED GLASS. WHEN YOU EXPLAIN USE OF BELGIAN FIVE SEVEN PISTOL IS ONLY FOR SHOOT MAN WITH BULLET VEST WITH CARTRIDGE ILLEGAL TO CIVILIAN, THIS MAN HAS NUCLEAR RAGE. WHOLE IDENTITY OF THIS MAN IS SPENT IN PRETEND PISTOL SHOWS HE IS RICH. IS VERY AMUSE. FOR REST OF WORLD THERE IS 9 MILLIMETERS OF LUGER WHICH IS SAME WOUND FOR COST LESS.
In all seriousness, Rugers MO these days is to make better versions of meme guns. The Wrangler is a Rough Rider that will still be working in 10 years. Their AR offerings are basically PSA rifles you can get at your local fudd imporium. Their LCR was basically “Like that Kel-Tec, but it actually works.”
This is a Five-seveN for half the price.
All caps, didn’t read.
Your loss. Is very amuse.
I IS ENTERTAINED BY IT
That’s some quality gorilla level copypasta.
i was expecting a Steve Smith hook in there somewhere 🙁
I haven’t looked at the ballistics of it, but they chamber 20 rounds in a non-extended magazine, right? And I would have to assume there are AP rounds that would work. So what’s the threat model of 1) need to carry only a side arm 2) need to defeat soft body armor and 3) need to defend against multiple targets.
That’s, what, BRINKS drivers. Maybe?
Maybe kind of specific military applications, like boarding parties or something? I mean, besides the gee whiz factor I’m not sure why I’d want that instead of a 9mm or a carbine of some kind, depending on what I’m trying to accomplish.
Ruger is now producing a firearm for urban bank robbers. that’s just brilliant.
Apparently it’s a smidge better than .22 WMR, and Paul Harrel doesn’t hate it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPi3Yv47QA
My bad, it’s a lot hotter than .22 WMR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBAQoxHcBq4
Can anyone translate this to English for me?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/ex-trans-man-reverses-non-binary-sex-designation-in-blow-to-lgbt-movement/
He’s no longer woke.
He was a participant in a fraud upon the court to set precedent to allow for change of records regarding sex, and is now wanting to get the records back to what he has always been.
She
ex-trans-man = F
My bad.
note to self: RTFA!!!!!
The text of the headline in the link does not reflect the content of the article.
He started as man, was pressured to transition to woman, that failed, got declared non-binary by an activist judge, and is moving to have the documents set back to male.
F –> M –> F
F –> X –> F
If you read the whole article, it’s basically that he had mental issues and people claimed transitioning would somehow correct them, but only added physical issues to the mental ones. So he’s going back.
Reading through it it is clear that this guy has a host of mental problems and it just so happens that people like to use him for whatever political point he is useful for at that time. I hope he get the peace you desperately needs.
Sound like he might have lost his piece.
I think I remember reading about this dude.
*reads TFA*
Yeah, this guy. It’s kind of a sad case in a way, because he obviously had long-standing mental health issues and then metaphorically blew up his family to go live as a transgender woman. He went on the hormone therapy and everything, had all kinds of medical issues, and still wasn’t happy. Now, after kind of going through a “de-programming” phase he’s kind of one of the advocates against transgender…-ness being treated as a regular, normal situation instead of a symptom of some sort of at least mental irregularity, and he’s been excommunicated by the alphabet people as a result.
Very sad.
Many years ago I saw a show about self mutilation and mental health & sexuality.
It had a doctor on saying “If you’re an unhappy ugly man, getting a sex-change operation [that term was ok in the 90s], you’re just going to be an unhappy ugly woman, not a perfect princess. You have to get to the core problem and address that.”
That seems to be what he and a few other people are saying, but because you can’t imply that gender dysphoria is a mental health issue or that it’s anything other than perfectly normal you can’t treat it as a manifestation of some deeper psychological trauma. Because, you know, it’s totally normal and fine and something to be celebrated. I’ve had a few relatives who were paranoid schizophrenics–I don’t recall the modern, sanitized term–and one swore up and down that she had wires in her head that transmitted her thoughts to the FBI, and so she had to watch soaps on TV in order to help the FBI monitor the secret messages in them. We went along with it because she was in her 70s and already on medication, so there wasn’t much else to do at the time. Imagine if she was 15, and we had to act as if she really was transmitting messages to the FBI, and expected everyone she encountered to believe the same thing? Would she even be on medication to help her control her thoughts, or would they just hand her a badge and say, “Congratulations, Agent Della, you’re a real patriot”?
We need to return to communicating real thoughts through words instead of social signaling, PC, and wokeness.
How else do we solve real problems?
so apparently Ruger rechambered a striker-fired pistol to 5.7x28mm.
So they’re bringing back the .25 acp?
Or .22 Magnum
https://www.chuckhawks.com/5-7x28_cop_killer.htm
yep, that’s pretty much what i’ve gathered.
Now I want a 1908 Vest Pocket new manufacture.
Beautiful. This is why I’m proud to hang around the edges of this community and kind of be part of it but not really.
Hey, Tul… oh wait, that’s just you, Warty, never mind…
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.
Hotel Glibertonia ?
One of us! One of us!
TPTB, thanks ever so much for this place.
This morning I made raspberry muffins for breakfast – from fresh raspberries purchased in our little market for $1.50. The market is in a little cow town in the middle of nowhere. Economic area maybe 4,000 folks. Next market is 30-40miles away. It’s December and it’s snowing.
Fresh fucking raspberrries. A dollar and fifty fucking cents.
This capitalism thing sure does screw things up.
Single-payer food for all!
“Single-payer food for all!”
Jeebus fucking Crikey on a stick, do NOT give them ideas or it will be gray gruel everyday for all of us, forever, because equality.
Single payer food has historically lead to politically imposed famines
*Stalin Approved*
Made from organically sourced bugs.
What do you suppose food deserts is all about?
Of course, you can’t merely open up a Walmart Corner Market in a food desert to sell McRasberries at your McGrocery store, because that would be gentrification, or something. No, you need a community garden that gives away food on a needs basis, and it must be funded by state and federal grants or else you’re a bigot.
Some sort of job seeking requirement for welfare benefits= meanie conservatives
Working in the
fieldscommunity garden for subsistence food= caring leftistsSome sort of grain slave, you’re saying?
One of my FB friends just shared a post of a Chinese market with a long row of freshly roasted rats laid out on mats on the ground for sale as food.
How’s that 5 year plan and Great Leap Forward workin our for ya?
Gourmet comfort food. If they were on the North Korean plan, the rats wouldn’t make it to a non-existent street market.
But are they cage-free, non-GMO rats?
I shudder to think.
There’s an old-style market a few blocks from the hotel we use in Dongguan (outside of Guangzhou). Mix of old-ish and new residential and shops/factories all around it, and this is a set of metal sheds with tables and stalls under it.
Lots of vegetables that frankly all look alike to me, and lots of attractive fruit, but striking part is the meat section. Some of it is fish tanks and tables where the mongers kill and cut stuff up for shoppers, some are pens of ducks/chix. The already-dead section is chunks of pig and poultry hanging and stacked up. I always try to walk through there, and especially to bring noobs if they haven’t been. Some folks just can’t do the smells. But it’s the pervasive flies that keep me from eating anything there.
It looks pretty foriegn to me, but I suppose it’s not that different from what you’d have seen in most western cities about a century back.
And I bought British brandy butter at a reasonable price at a local market halfway across the Earth.
Brandy Butter sounds like an adult film actress.
what a fine actress!
Fresh fucking raspberrries. A dollar and fifty fucking cents.
You stole those raspberries right out of the mouths of a Chilean farmer’s children, you monster.
Ugh.
These people were not worthy of American blood.
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I thought we were supposed to ignore diplomats until they were killed and then blame everything on a terrible YouTube video.
But a US embassy is. You let them get away with taking over an embassy and it repeats itself. Put them all into the dirt.
Evacuate everyone, let the protestors overrun it, and turn it into a 50 foot deep crater?
Great minds and whatnot…
No chance that place has a self destruct button? Just let them in and boom.
Evacuate everyone, let the protestors overrun it, and turn it into a 50 foot deep crater?
Muh Green Zone! That’s a big expensive compound. Too nice to surrender. We’ll just have to stay there forever.
That was the hot destination for younger foreign service guys in the mid 00’s. Everybody wanted to make their career there.
Can confirm.
“Iraq has been shaken by major anti-government protests for months that have been blamed largely on dissatisfaction with official corruption and incompetence but also have targeted the political system imposed after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 as well as Iranian influence among Iraq’s political elite.”
From the rabbit hole I went down from that article.
People who have a government imposed on them by a foreign invader tend to view that government as illegitimate and get pissed when people they know gt blown up by said foreign invader. Weird.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2019/12/31/the-backfiring-iran-obsession-and-the-baghdad-embassy-protests/
Decent article explaining the situation. It’s good to remind yourself now and again that Trump might give the left and deep state fits but he’s still a tard.
What it’s like to live in a California ghost town
Lots of snow out here, the peaks are covered, all the way to Vegas, and colder than I like,
Nothing left to cut.
Excellent choices for charities. What are you guys doing with all the filthy Koch brothers (is it still right to refer to them as brothers when one is dead?) lucre that must be pouring in?
I think we’re the icky sort of libertarians that don’t get those KKKoch bucks.
Well, duh! Of course you take your montlhy Kochtopus check and make sure your 3 yuge SUVs are parked outside your mansion, running all day. All to rape the planet and kill Gretel, that’s what it’s all about.
And that, kids, is how you ShitLord.
Damn right! Back next year, new and improved, with MOAR SHITLORD!