Hey, you know what’s lots of fun? Hanging out with a nauseous three-year old all night. He had it timed so every time I’d fall asleep, 10 minutes later… BLEERRCH! I feel bad for the little guy. Its no fun to be dry heaving at 3am. He didn’t even get to enjoy being drunk before it. Anyhow, I’m tired and you’re gonna have to make some of your own fun this Friday afternoon.
NASA and FEMA prepare for SMOD.
Sneaky fucking Russians.
No doubt even after this bit of largess, I’ll still have a surly Uber driver bitching about the pay, or lack thereof.
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“NASA and FEMA Will Simulate an Impending Asteroid Strike Next Week”
* Closes eyes, repeats “please let it be on DC” *
TOK…it is still a simulation…unfortunately.
That’s what they always say to lure you into a false sense of security.
After DC in turned into a crater, does Jesus return and usher in the golden age?
That’s Ron Paul’s job.
“After DC in turned into a crater, does Jesus return and usher in the golden age?”
The IRS, DEA, FDA, DOE, and several other alphabet agencies will have been completely vaporized. So yes, no miracles even needed, sorry Jesus.
So you’re saying the simulation does NOT involve several tons of TNT? That doesn’t sound very realistic.
I know…but those pukes in FEMA were probably whining about clean up and cost and such.
Probably still recovering after the government shutdown. I get it.
Y’all and your violence to solve problems and so forth. Listen, here’s what should happen:
1. Empty the various Federal buildings in and around the DC area.
2. Turn them into museums, bars, and/or casinos. Maybe all three.
3. Put a collar around the necks of the various elected officials; when they get within three miles of another collar, both sound a warning beep. Within two miles, mild electrical stimulus coupled with a high-pitched squeal begins, increasing intensity and volume as they get closer together.
4. If at any time one of them voluntarily resigns, the collar comes off.
3a. Within 500 yards of each other, the collars explode.
So hostile! So Japanese dystopian game show!
I was thinking tranq needles embedded in the collar. Or maybe a stroke from the shock. But honestly, if you’re willing to stand within lip-reading distance of someone while you’re taking a continuous cattle-prod to the neck and hearing a test pattern sound at jet engine levels you must really want it.
“2. Turn them into museums, bars, and/or casinos. Maybe all three.”
Whorehouses and dens of iniquity.
No changes needed for that
So, change nothing?
Right! And that’s where all the Fed bureaucrats and staffers wind up working for tips! It’s perfect!
When the SHTF I want to be a judge. Lots of people may need to be re-educated.
Sneaky fucking Russians
“Well, technically he’s Uzbekistanian.”
“Uzbekistanian? I’ve been dealing with those sneaky Russian dogs!”
Judge in Mass. indicted. Democrats react predictably. Scoundrels.
“…US Representative Joseph P. Kennedy on Thursday evening said the indictment of Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph and a retired court officer “threatens the safety of our community and the independence of our justice system.”
https://www2.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/04/26/democrats-slam-indictment-mass-judge-for-allegedly-helping-man-evade-ice/vYQCGHR0Q16iJctxP0EdfJ/story.html
So court officers can disregard whatever laws they choose based on their ideological preferences and personal beliefs? Bet Kennedy owes Kim Davis an apology
Only members of America’s political dynasties can do that.
+1 “Wannafud”
Ugh. Where’s the damn bleach?
The horror, Trashy, the abject horror.
Wannafud, or Huma drinking Hillary’s labial puss.
Discuss.
OT (but no links, so…): I see signs all over that say “Company X bans guns on these premises”. Wouldn’t that imply that rifle would be permitted as rifles are not guns?
“This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting, this is for fun”
EAP, watch this instructional video and I think your confusion will clear up
[unzips]
What is that Pyle?! A jelly fucking donut?!?!
Private property, clear intent. I avoid such places. Idiots. A person with malicious intent isnt going to pay attention to that sign. That means a property rife with potential victims who cant defend themselves against a gunman.
I also live in Grant Parish, Louisiana and see open carry all of the time. Gas stations, grocery stores, etc. Nobody pays any attention to them.
Have to go watch the kid play some tennis, so am going OT early.
Evil Minnesoda GOP abuses the omnibus bill process to fuck over cities that have passed woke min wage/labor laws. One tiny change made in a massive omnibus bill at the Legislature would nullify Minneapolis’ and St. Paul’s $15 minimum wage ordinances
Basically, there was going to be a section of a huge labor bill that would stop cities from enacting minimum wage laws higher than the state. It got through committee and was added to the omnibus bill with the one tiny change that back dated the effective date to a couple years ago. That means Mpls and St. Paul’s local ordinances would be null and void.
As you can guess, the DFL is not happy with the shenanigans.
The best part of the story are the quotes from the proggies. I swear these are real:
*this one is funny because the anti-smoking people pushed it through to “level the playing field” statewide. That had to happen because bars in woke cities with smoking bans were losing tons of business to the shitlord bars in nearby cities who didn’t have a smoking ban. The only solution was to make everyone smoke free.
Good luck to Altar Boy 2. Who are they playing?
“Jihadists ‘blow themselves up’ as soldiers raid suicide vest factory in Sri Lanka and exchange fire with fanatics after seizing ISIS flags, 150 sticks of explosives and 100,000 ball-bearings”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6964127/Explosion-Sri-Lanka-soldiers-engage-shoot-search-linked-Easter-Sunday.html
“suicide vest factory”
That is my favorite term of the day, much better than “budget dust”.
Indie band name or “Black Mirror” episode?
Album title
I got to use that at our last safety meeting. During the reading of an sds, they read ” cytotoxicity” and someone asked what that was. I blurted out “a punk rock band,” and the whole room laughed for a long time.
Sri Lanka isn’t the UK or U.S. Notice it’s soldiers, not cops? They are going to show up and kill these people until there aren’t any more of them.
The Sisi Lankan’s had been warmed by foreign intel agencies that an attack was imminent and did not pass the info upwards.
However a few days later the powers that be already knew where to raid bomb factories and hideouts ?
If I were a Siri Lanken I would be major pissed.
“Teen with Asperger’s in courtroom confrontation with abuser she met in anorexia chat room and who did ‘unimaginable things’ to her after locking her in a dog cage for a YEAR, as judge lets him off with PROBATION”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6963991/Man-avoids-prison-keeping-teen-locked-cage-denying-food.html
Dad hasn’t shot him?
Marcellus Wallace-style.
+2 hard pipe hitting n*****s
Then he would be locked up for years.
I’m surprised he hasn’t shot the judge that gave probation.*
*
Preet I would never do that but I’m surprised that this guy didn’t.
Can’t blame ’em. They need that cell for someone who had one too many pills in his pain medication prescription.
*simultaneous sigh and golf clap*
Let’s check out glibs on this fine Saturday morning. *Sees this comment* Sonovabitch.
Wow…so the defense argument was that since she’d agreed to a BDSM-style relationship she was quite literally asking for it even when she wasn’t? Yep, it would be shotfun time. And I’m leaving the typo because I think it’s expressive.
shotfun
Nice typo.
… I’ll still have a surly Uber driver bitching about the pay, or lack thereof.
Really? Every one of mine has been wonderful. My last guy was from Ghana via Italy and we talked cars and F1 for the whole trip.
Or maybe you need to go Black…
Ever notice how Africans – those who learn it – speak excellent Italian?
No, but this guy was fluent. I gave him a stupid tip.
My grandpa was straight off the boat from Sicily. When I got my DNA results back, my wife was incredulous that I was only 3% Italian. I had to explain how Sicilians are a mix of every invader they’ve ever been conquered by.
It’s sometimes a struggle to get mainland Italians to accept Sicilians as Italian also.
Who did you do the DNA test with?
Ancestry.
Got a Moor in the woodpile, do ya?
Prolly moor than one.
Well, you know what they say, “the Moor, the merrier”.
Fucking vulture capitalists.
Here in Ohio, they’ve all been great. In Vegas (and other large cities I’m sure), it’s more interesting. We had a couple who spoke little to no English at all.
I’ve only taken it a few times in NYC but they were all superlative. Much better than cab or car-service drivers.
That’s what I was thinking when the question popped into my head.
I don’t know why this landed here.
Anyway, I had to take Uber for about four months to and from the office every day. Without exception every driver was great and they were from all over the world. Learned a lot from them.
Strangely, the immigrant drivers are uniformly awesome and the middle-aged wypepo who do it as a job bitch about their pay.
Random headline at google news:
“Woman Accused of Impersonating Socialite Found Guilty”
Off with her head!
Oh those sneaky fucking Russians….
Old school crime of Impersonating the aristocracy deserves an old school punishment.
Ruin?
She also stole more than $200,000 but that makes a boring headline.
Somebody explain the illegality here. Because apparently I’m too stupid to understand it.
“A federal judge sentenced Russia national Maria Butina to 18 months in prison on Friday, after she pleaded guilty to trying to infiltrate conservative political circles and promote Russian interests before and after the 2016 presidential election.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/26/politics/maria-butina-sentencing/index.html
Sounds like something lobbyists do every day. But she is Russian, and she was a gun rights advocate, and this is “Trump’s America” so…
I don’t get it either.
That’s what.
The NRA probably assisted the prosecution. Fuck them.
FTFA: “Conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign official.”
If you are working as an agent of a foreign government you are supposed to register as such. This was intended to cover things from the lobbyist who wants to let a Baltimore Seafood Restaurant market SE Asian crab products under that name. You know, trade representatives.
The Trump/Russia collusion narrative desperately required Russian perps.
“NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate
New York City is the first city in the United States to eliminate processed meats.
Mayor Bill de Blasio approved an ambitious $14 billion Green New Deal on Monday, April 22, to combat climate change. The plan will cut purchases of red meat by 50 percent in its city-controlled facilities such as hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities. The new commitment builds off of the Meatless Mondays campaign that was adopted by all NYC schools in 2017.
“It is a difficult plan. It is a necessary plan…. Estimates that tell us that we have only 12 years to get it right. Let’s be clear, we have until 2030 to change things fundamentally, or our lives won’t be the same,” de Blasio said at an Earth Day event yesterday.
By 2030, New York City’s Green New Deal will reduce greenhouse emissions by 30% while also creating new jobs. Additionally, all buildings that are 25,000 square feet or more, of which there are 50,000 citywide, will be required to make efficiency upgrades that lower their energy usage and emissions or they will face steep penalties.”
https://z100.iheart.com/content/2019-04-23-nyc-to-ban-hot-dogs-and-processed-meats-to-improve-climate/
https://twitter.com/Z100NewYork/status/1121113072104607746
NYC, Hot dog vendors rejoice.
By 2030, New York City’s Green New Deal will not reduce greenhouse emissions by 30% while also
creating new jobs.destroying the local economy.And Bill de Blasio will not be former president of anything grander than a PTA board.
It will probably reduce greenhouse emissions by that much, because we’re headed there anyways. More than that. It just doesn’t matter, because China and India’s emissions are increasing far more than ours are increasing – wouldn’t matter much if we reduced them to zero because of that.
It won’t take that long.
This must be more of that “laboratories of democracy” stuff I keep hearing about.
And if the experiment fails. Try again.
The issue is that these are meth labs of democracy. It doesn’t matter the result as long as somebody gets rich before the whole thing blows up spectacularly.
“meth labs of democracy”
[tears up]
I thought that was Arizona?
All of a sudden, proggies care about federalism…
It’s not just for racists anymore.
What a maroon
“The plan will cut purchases of red meat by 50 percent in its city-controlled facilities such as hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities.”
Nope, we can’t let the peasantry and lower orders have high protein diets. They get ideas.
“Honey, can you get me a hotdog? This hospital food sucks”
“Of course, there are about a dozen hotdog vendor stands right outside the main entrance”
“It is a difficult plan. It is a necessary plan…. Estimates that tell us that we have only 12 years to get it right.”
“The earth is 6000 years old”
I cant tell the difference…
[golf clap]
Wouldn’t processed meat include corned beef and pastrami? Why does the mayor hate the (((citizens)))?
Just don’t mess with pastrami, the most sensual of the salted, cured meats.
Nay, Iberico ham.
^This guy gets it.
Commies are always doing the same thing over and over. Next he’ll be extolling the virtues of manual labor for all. Fuck off slaver.
after she pleaded guilty to trying to infiltrate conservative political circles
She’d be a heroine of the resistance if she had infiltrated conservative political circles in an avowed attempt to bring down Trump.
All I can figure is they extracted a guilty plea to a non-existent crime by threatening to keep her in the process indefinitely.
It’s a god-damned travesty of justice and everyone involved ought to be tarred and feathered.
See above.
Here’s your song, Brett
SWIPE RIGHT Single women share their brutally honest and hilarious Tinder profiles in their last ditch attempt to find love
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8944502/tinder-single-women-profile-honest-hilarious-love/
This one is great!
She’s a keeper!
Thanks, I just got beaten some more. Why did I click on that?
Yeah, my wife’s making me buy her drinks until I get good looking enough. Gonna be awhile.
Chloe seems nice.
Thanks, I just got beaten up for being on Tinder. Ouch, that hurts! My wife can hit really hard for a little 5’2″ woman.
Some weren’t bad.
I’m drinking Balmer beer. Good thing the FBI raided City Hall and the mayor’s house, not the breweries. Resurrection Ale. This stuff is strong compared to the lagers I’m used to drinking, 7% ABV while my gotos are 5%.
I found Shiner at Publix. It’s a comfort beer night.
“He didn’t even get to enjoy being drunk before it.”
Proving once again that you are a bad father.
Greta has mental issues.
Is Greta the new Che Guevara?” asked the German TV-anchor Maybrit Ilner recently during a TV debate about the striking school children. ”
Then they wonder why some kids are fucked up.
And the parents still let her do this. Crazy.
https://quillette.com/2019/04/23/self-harm-versus-the-greater-good-greta-thunberg-and-child-activism/
The parents are god awful.
That anyone even pays attention to this child, is sad.
Yes, Asperger’s.
Good lord, that’s awful. And I bet this will just get more people to sign on to the madness.
That’s child abuse.
She hasn’t murdered anyone for being a political opponent or for being gay, so no.
She wants attention and stupid people allow her to engage in self destructive behavior to get it. She needs discipline is what she needs. But her cowardly parents can’t do it.
I don’t think they just let her do it. They encourage her and are using her for their own activism.
Yes, using naieve children for political purposes is all the rage these days for the left. That’s what happens when you have no morals or principles.
“Is this ‘Common’ Language?
A College’s Misguided Guide
I’ve written previously (here, here, and here) to express doubt about trends at elite colleges in the United States: the emphasis on students’ emotional “safety” at the cost of their intellectual challenge; the harassment of speakers; the cowing of professors whose views fall outside the progressive norm; the use of identity politics to mark off proprietary experience and deny standing to those who don’t share it. I often wonder: Do these attitudes constitute a kind of exquisite flower, growable only in the hothouse environment of an elite liberal-arts world, or do they signal what’s to come in society at large?
If it is the latter, we’re in for a big mess. Recently I spent a couple of laborious hours plowing through a remarkable document posted on the website of my alma mater, Amherst College. Formulated by the college’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and published under the title “Common Language Guide,” the forty-page glossary of terms purports to serve what its two-paragraph introduction calls “a need to come to a common and shared understanding of language…around identity, privilege, oppression and inclusion.”
As a collection of terms intended to structure and referee conversations on campus, the dictionary represents the apotheosis of identity politics, with fully two-thirds of it devoted to matters related to gender identity and sexual orientation. What the glossary contains is not “common” language by any normal reckoning. Its very first entry defines “accomplice” as “a term coined by Indigenous Action Network to critique the ways in which ‘ally’ as an identity term has been deployed absent of action, accountability or risk-taking.” Such definitions signal that we have departed the real world for an alternative progressive universe filled with specialized terminology and in-house references.
Some entries are almost comically tendentious. Here is the guide’s definition of “heterosexuality,” for instance: “A term developed as diagnosis of the hyper-infatuation with a different sex, first used by sexologist Karl-Maria Kertbeny in 1868…. [It] is used today to denote the normalized dominant sexual identity.” And while the guide’s definition of “equality” begins straightforwardly enough—“treating everyone exactly the same”—it quickly takes a sharp left turn, observing that “an equality emphasis often ignores historical and structural factors that benefit some social groups/communities and harm other social groups/communities.” Does that mean that emphasizing equality is not a good thing?”
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/common-language
Until students start burning these guides in defiance, it’s going to get worse.
They don’t want equality. They just want to invert whatever they see as the hierarchy of privilege today.
How about “fuck you”. Is that language common enough?
Trump’s America is failing. You’ll never guess what the solution is.
The contrast between superstar cities and the broader economy illustrates a fundamental challenge: America desperately needs more hubs of growth, where talent and money can converge to create new industries. It’s a problem that the government can and should address, by identifying and investing in the technologies of the future – and ensuring that the American people as a whole share in the gains.
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What to do? How can the U.S. revive public investment a way most likely to fund the right technologies in the right places and generate broad-based, long-lasting growth? Here’s what we propose:
Increase government spending on basic science enough to encourage private capital to follow through with longer-term investments in applications. We estimate the right level at about $100 billion a year — less than the cost of Trump’s recent tax reform.
Hold competitions, similar to Amazon’s contest for its second headquarters, in which cities would vie for federal investment. In this case, the winners would be those with the best ideas and infrastructure, not the biggest tax breaks.
Ensure that the public shares in the financial upside of successful technologies. This could be achieved, for example, through public ownership of real estate in the new hubs — property that could pay cash dividends to all Americans, much as Alaska shares oil revenue with its residents.
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As contenders for the U.S. presidency develop their platforms, what’s lacking is a strategy for generating prosperity, rather than merely redistributing the wealth that already exists. We do not need to live in a country with such deep anxieties, based on ever widening economic and geographic inequalities. Investment in basic science is the answer. America has been a leader, and it can be again.
I’m thinking of a word…
Jonathan Gruber. Where have I heard that name before
That incident that happened on Christmas?
3.2% economic growth in the first quarter. Failing hard. If he’d just quit the tariff wars it could be 4%
And of course news outlets are spinning it by claiming it’s unsustainable.
“Obama White House Sought Ukraine’s Help In Taking Down Trump: REPORT
The Obama White House brought in Ukrainian authorities to help jumpstart the Russian collusion narrative and to help then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son out of a jam.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46449/obama-white-house-sought-ukraines-help-taking-down-ashe-schow
All projection all of the time.
I’ve been reading about this for a couple of weeks. Sleepy Joe demanded Ukraine fire a prosecutor for corruption, or they wouldn’t get a billion dollar loan. Prosecutor was fired, Ukraine got it’s money. Prosecutor had been investigating a gas company for corruption, including a board member name Hunter Biden…
Liverpool are going to finish the season in second place despite having the 3rd or 4th best record in Premier League History. Fuck the UAE and their bought championships.
And being the first team to lead at Christmas and not win the league will be the icing on that shit cake.
That seems unlikely. Are we talking Premier only or the beginning of the English league? And I refuse to believe that all 30ish premier winners led at Christmas.
Not the first team to do that. The last one was Liverpool in 13-14.
One loss all season. One!
7 draws!
Just make sure you beat Wolves on the final day, so Everton can squeak into 7th.
*shrug* Just going by what some talking heads were saying around Xmas.
Hey, you never know. Palace won at City early this year.
But, yeah, unlikely. I think the only place they may drop a point is tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Chelsea, Man U, and Arsenal are fighting desperately for fifth place, loser gets 3rd.
When did everyone in soccer switch from giving 2 points for a win to 3 points? If both Liverpool and Man City win all remaining matches, then Man City will be ahead by one point. However, if a win gave only 2 points, then Liverpool would be ahead be one.
After the 1994 WC, I believe.
Actually, different countries adopted it at different times.
Interesting. England adopted it first, in 1981.
Alright all. I’m off to go see Endgame. Considering it’s over 3 hours long, I won’t be back until some cryptid links or the such pop up later.
Looking forward to catching this on the lunch screening after church – sounds solid on the whole.
Saw it last night, had the worst seats I’ve ever had (selling those was basically a crime), and I didn’t care because character moments were great, and big-whizz-bang battle was boring anyway. I could have watched it with my eyes closed and still enjoyed the movie immensely.
Audience was the worst, I’m never going to boonies again. It’s one thing to have cheering and clapping like seals, but talking to the screen and completing lines? Ick.
Also, when The Scene came (and you’ll know The Scene when you see it), some woman unironically screamed “WOMEN POWAH!”
Audience was the worst, I’m never going to boonies again. It’s one thing to have cheering and clapping like seals, but talking to the screen and completing lines? Ick.
That’s racist!
You’d think it’s race-related, but Surrey, man. Surrey. It changes you the moment you set the foot in.
I am serious, and don’t call me Surrey.
FTFM
Yeah, some of us actually live in the boonies.
https://www.ammoland.com/2019/04/cz-usa-chooses-little-rock-for-headquarters-production/#axzz5mElLOt4H
Hell Yeah. I’m gonna turn in an application after its built just so I can tour the place.
Test-firer is a job?
Gotta be, someone has to QA their stuff.
Lachowky (and anybody else)- Here’s something you might find interesting
From “Machine Thinking”; they have some cool stuff on youtube.
That looks neat Brooks. I’ll check it out when I get home tonight.
They don’t want equality.
The absolute last thing they want is equality.
Re that judge. It was really stupid what she did. She potentially ruined her life and rep over a false sense of righteousness via a criminal illegal alien. Her actions put a community in jeopardy. It’s one thing if these ‘woke’ civil servants are resisting and reacting to laws broken by a President, but he hasn’t so they’re doing it more out of blind hate for Trump. They’re letting their partisanship trump – EXCUSE THE PUN – serving the community.
GO BLUES ♫!
Fine. I’ll be a Blues fan for the duration.
My Grandpa’s best friend was a goal judge there for years, so I guess there is a connection.
GO BLUES ♫!
Cook County judge to prosecutor: why isn’t your defendant being given the same treatment Jussie Smollett enjoyed?
I’d like to see judges apply the same benefit of the doubt to being in fear of one’s life that they give to cops.
ouch…..that’s gonna leave a mark.
No it isn’t. Prosecutors and cops have no shame.
Well, this gem should come as no surprise .
Hey, you know what’s lots of fun? Hanging out with a nauseous three-year old all night. He had it timed so every time I’d fall asleep, 10 minutes later… BLEERRCH! I feel bad for the little guy. Its no fun to be dry heaving at 3am. He didn’t even get to enjoy being drunk before it. Anyhow, I’m tired and you’re gonna have to make some of your own fun this Friday afternoon.
Sorry about your kid.
I’ll drink for him. I’m drinking a bit of Gamay Noir from these folks. It’s not bad.
Luckily you didn’t get this.
I wonder if the old man or that retired fireman have some in their stores.
That shit be LOCO, yo!
Yikes. Yeah, I’m glad I didn’t.
I had a glass of the Gamay Noir last night. Tonight, I decided to finish the bottle. I’m done drinking tonight.
My advice, if you find yourself in the Canadian Maritimes, head on over to PEI and pick up booze from the local producers. I’ve never had bad booze from the folks in PEI.
Flathead Valley, Montana CRIME UPDATE !
“8:48 a.m. A Libby resident reported that something mysterious fell down a chimney.”
Well, shit. Be scared. We best create a new Czar.
The grinch who stole Passover.
Are there any of (((them))) in Montana?
A Libby woman called 911 to make sure she wasn’t going to be blamed for kidnapping her son.
I laughed. I liked that one.
Shit, guys. Why did I just pay $150 for a rain coat? I guess because it’s raining outside now. Damn, Columbia, this thing better make me toast in the mornings.
Heh.
I bought a The North Face Hyvent 2.5L rain slicker about a year after I moved to the Lower Rainland™. Damn thing was the second-most-expensive coat I’ve ever bought (the most-expensive being a really awesome down parka good to about minus 40 or so, which I bought thirty years ago and am still using). The main reason I bought it was because it was bright fluorescent yellow — most rain slickers/winter gear here are dark and very hard to see during winter nights when it’s pissing rain. If I could’ve found a cheaper coat in a similar bright colour, I would’ve bought it instead. I’m also not convinced that the Hyvent will last — feels really flimsy to me.
This one is actually orange and black, and $165 with shipping and tax. The most advanced tech as far as i Know, you can buy. I want it for when it rains a lot and I want to walk. And in spite of common knowledge, it rains a LOT in Balmore, more than in Seattle.
Rain Gear
Oooooh, very visible. Me likey.
Can you pay extra to remove the damn logos?
Sadly, no.
To be honest, Rhywun, I never thought about that except when I was looking at the Kelly Hansen coats. They seem to have problems with color coordination while Columbia does not.
*googles* Gah, those are aggressive. But yeah I just don’t like logos. I won’t buy anything with one that’s super-visible.
I paid $7.00 for a British desert camo military surplus and its very nice. Got a little British flag on it. I’ve worn it a couple times, the hood seems a little loose but I just let in hang down on the back anyway.
About five years ago, I bought a Cabela’s camo pattern rain jacket for duck hunting. $160. Best raincoat I’ve ever owned.
Who makes their house brand stuff?
Not sure, but this is the jacket.
https://www.cabelas.com/product/home/dry-plus-camo-rainwear/pc/105625080/c/297163080/cabelas-mens-rain-suede-trade-packable-parka-with-most-dry-plus-ndash-regular/1546822.uts?slotId=0
Oooooh, on sale.
I’d be afraid to wear that in the semi-urban enviros I find myself in — someone would probably run me over while I was walking the pooch.
Wow. That’s… a look, that is.
Works better in some places than others, fer sure. Would be right at home in Edmonton (where we’re moving) and certainly in most of Alberta farm country. Utterly weird in downtown Vancouver.
Yeah, I wear the city-slicker uniform. Black.
But I would totally be down for a bright yellow rain slicker. Classic!
Fits right in here. There are people that wear camo as everyday attire. Kicks ass when you’re sitting in a duck blind with the rain dripping through the straw. My Pacific Trails rain jacket finally gave up the ghost, so this gets even more use.
This was half the front page of our little town’s rag today – the most excitement we’ve seen in years.
High Speed Chase Ends in Crash
“According to Deputy [redacted], he attempted to make a traffic stop for speeding,
when the driver, who was alone in her vehicle, took off northbound.The chase, with speeds reaching
over 100 mph, continued northbound, as the driver of the Cadillac passed a large truck, in the right shoulder of the highway.
Deputy [redacted] lost sight of the suspect when he reduced his speed as he reached [redacted] city limits.
The suspect crashed her vehicle at the intersection of [redacted] Street and Broadway;
plowing down the stop sign at the corner of the [redacted] Bar. The suspect fled on foot following the crash. [redacted] pursued her behind the
[redacted] Bar, where a witness pointed to the location where the suspect was hiding in a shed. According to [redacted] , at
that time the suspect walked out and laid on the ground. [redacted], age 32, of Bozeman, Montana was booked into the [redacted]
County Detention Center at 8:12pm. Saunders is facing: Fleeing From Or Eluding Peace Officer; Unlawful Possession Of Open Alcoholic Beverage Container
In Motor Vehicle On Highway; Fail To Give Notice Of Accident By Quickest Means/Apparent Damage Over $1,000; Resisting Arrest; Driving Under Influence
Alcohol – 1st Offense; Criminal Endangerment; and a Parole Violation. Her Bond is set at $60,00”.
The intersection in question is the town’s only signal (a blinking red light) and a couple blocks from our place.
I see even small-time sheriffs are well-trained in larding on the charges.
Only picture was of the Cadillac (an old deVille) and the stop sign, but I’m guessing she’s a real rough 32.
Who’d have guessed about the booze and the parole violation?
Other half of the front page was an infuriating story of a local family that has had their bank account cut off by the local bank. The guy had set himself up as a (legal in MT) medical MJ dealer so he could get the stuff to help their son with his seizures. The bank sez they’re afraid of the Feds who still frown on such things.
Drug warriors truly are evil.
Jeff Sessions just nutted.
“wannabud”
“Wannabuddy…”
“Jeff Sessions”
Session is a POS, period.
It’s actually been a pretty exciting week in this little burg.
Earlier in the week the High Sheriff ran a dreaded Taco Truck out of town.
He’d been appearing at different spots for the last week and doing great business but one of the permit gods was not pleased.
The Mexican food around here sucks.
He’s back today – apparently the permit gods have been appeased.
Tacos and elotes for dinner tonight.
Another Montana glib? Fourth by my counting. Where are you located? I come up fairly often to visit Mom (Thompson Falls). Perhaps we could get together for a beer or something?
The Who ?
And in other tuber news, Big Idaho Potato Turned Into A Hotel.
I’m late but hello all!
Tall cans!
Sup Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
And it is in the middle of nowhere.
*sigh*
The drama with the crack smoking, klepto, hospice live in aid continues.
My gf put a stop payment on the last check to the agency, the agency is not reimbursing for the itemized stolen items, the agency admitted (!) they have a problem with their employees stealing stuff to my gf, and now it’s “we”* should file a police report time.
*I’m not directly involved in any of it, but I get it all explained to me. “We” refers to her family.
Scares the hell out of me. There will come a time in the not too distant future where I’m going to need to hire a part time caregiver.
You mean useless bureaucrats are less competent at providing care for patients than the patients’ doctors are?
https://reason.com/2019/04/24/the-authors-of-the-cdcs-opioid-prescribing-advice-say-it-has-been-misimplemented-in-a-way-that-hurts-patients/
UNPOSSIBLE
Tres likes his women like he likes is pasta sauce.
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