Holy shit, made it through another week alive. Barely. Which is more than I can say for Peter Mayhew. But whatever.
And many happy birthdays to a survivor of the Princeton disaster (unlike poor Armistead); arguably the best living bass player; Christopher Kimball’s spirit animal; and urban legend portrayer of Anne Frank (“She’s in the attic!!!”).
And now the news:
EVEN MORE NOOSE! EVEN MORE RACISM!!!
Team Red really is Team Stupid. If you stop giving her attention, she becomes just another back bencher.
I think I’m falling/ Falling in love again. Maybe not.
STEVE SMITH origin becomes clearer.
Several things are missing from this story. Like pix.
We always were a disappointment to him.
“You have a bouncing baby boy!” Oh wait, too local.
One more reason this strong 2A advocate won’t ever join the NRA.
Old Guy Music celebrates the onset of summer with this fun cover of a Loudon Wainwright III song. I would like to mass murder the audience, but that’s another story.
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Present
Tense.
Dammit!
Tureen.
Nobody?
Birthday? Anniversary?
The utes should have had a different set of lyrics.
I suggest AC/DC’s “Balls to the Wall”.
Accept’s “Balls To The Wall”
Accept did their best to sound like AS/DC, so not an uncommon mistake.
The video is unintentionally hilarious, like a Spinal Tap outtake.
+2 ballss too duh vall!
Thanks MikeS. I slept in.
Teamwork!
This band plays at our neighborhood barthe Park in Burbank
Here’s some Anna and Kate, https://youtu.be/upsZZ2s3xv8
That poor man. We’re such a disappointment to him.
I can hardly bear the shame.
We done wrong and now we feel shame….
“How Obama saw Trump’s victory as a ‘personal insult,’ watched the movie Dr. Strange to distract himself from election results and blamed Hillary for the loss because of her ‘scripted, soulless campaign’”
He’s not entirely wrong. I hope it still burns him up.
I liked this part; “Obama even likened himself to Michael Corleone in the Godfather movies”
So he thought of himself as a Mob Boss, the mask slips even further.
More like a lazy overrated actor in a shitty movie unexplainably beloved by a large number of people.
Obama was in “A Christmas Story”?
YOU TAKE THAT BACK, RALPHIE WAS A GENIUS
*cradles Red Ryder BB gun*
That was great.
HM’s comment that is.
He really identifies with Dormomu. Stupid Dr. Strange wouldn’t listen, like the peasants wouldn’t listen to Obama. So they got Purple Man Bad.
Is the Swimming Song anything like The Clapping Song?
Nice! You found a Pia clip and stitched it into the thread. Well done! You Glibs. Signs and wonders…
“Those wacky yoots!”
So shocking. *rolls eyes*
In a phone call to Obama Clinton said: ‘I’m sorry for letting you down’.
Of course she did.
“Now we’re fucked!”
“I don’t care how many people have to commit suicide, we’re gonna make this right!”
Really slow on the uptake, Glibs. Does someone have a hurty-head? Yes you do! Who’s gotta hurty-head? You! Who’s a bad bad Boy? You are! Woosha woosha woosha!
Pia Zadora was also in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
She was also in an issue of Playboy or Penthouse that was lost in the great flood of 2003. She was shiny and nubile.
Pepridge Farm ‘members
Ugh – Firefox screwed something up, and now AdBlock Plus isn’t working. It’s amazing how many websites appear to be absolutely covered up in ads that float up from the bottom of the page, or pop up and block the whole screen. They need to get this shit working again, soon!
Yeah. I’m right there with you. I noticed AdBlock was disabled this morning, and now they’ve broken Tab Mix Plus so nothing is working as I expect. I am… unhappy.
Expired signing certificate(s): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
They’re working on it.
I’m just grateful Monocle is working again. Can’t keep up here without it.
I’ve not been able to get it to work.
I’m aware. If only that was something that was scheduled…
Oh… wait.
I took it as a good reason to finally give Brave another try. So far so good.
I take that back. There’s too many small things I use everyday on FF that Brave doesn’t have. Don’t know if that’s because it’s built on Chrome and Chrome doesn’t have them or in Brave just still needs work.
Back to FF I go…as asoon as they get this add-on nonsense fixed.
I’ve been using Brave for at least a year and have been happy with it.
Who the fuck is building web pages these days?
Web Devs
Out of work journalists?
On this page, down in the comments, I found this fix:
It worked for me (and others in the comments). So far, so good.
“the company that hired her postponed the production after seeing that she had body acne”
C’mon, there’s gotta be a fetish for that somewhere.
“Throughout their high school years, students are often told to follow their dreams and pursue what they love[…]Caitlin Fink, an 18-year-old senior at Bear Creek who recently started a career in adult entertainment, is doing just that”
But you should always have a backup plan. Something like accounting in case taking BBC up the back door doesn’t work out.
“People think sex work isn’t work but it is work, you’re just taking off your clothes”
They don’t call it a blow *job* for nothing amirite? And getting that double vaginal technique down took months of burning the midnight oil.
“As for Fink, in an interview with The Record, she said school officials went overboard and ‘they shouldn’t have made this into a deep situation’”
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
And for pics:
https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/caitlin-fink/
Plain Jane without the makeup and a pretty used-up 18.
Would, depending how bad the acne is.
The after-glow would involve some pimple popping. I hear some folks are into that sort of thing.
She has Groucho Marx eyebrows.
I sense a very sad story behind that.
Spurs being Spurs-y.
Why did I pick this stupid team?
Same reason I became a Liverpool supporter. Masochism.
Former Canucks fan nods in agreement.
*TWO* red cards. Against a team they should roll over. Who does that?
And it should’ve been 3. Dier was lucky to still be on the pitch.
But Son! How does Son get a red card! He’s like the nicest player in the PL!
Yeah, Dier could have caught a red for that.
Son’s first ever in the EPL. Yellow, sure – red seems like overkill.
He was provoked, but it was a definite red under the rules for violent conduct.
I suppose.
*grumbles, kicks rock*
Liverpool supporters don’t get to wallow. Liverpool has won things before, was in CL final, and is again in the semi (yeah, Wednesday was tough). Can also win PL still, I see LC tripping up City.
“90′ minute – maybe the Spurs can sneak a point out of this debacle”
*ball hits the back of the goal .5 seconds later*
I didn’t know there was a fellow Glib who also chose a poor team to follow.
This might be peak Spursy. I know there is no peak to most, but this has to be it.
Also, no Son now for Everyone, but he should be very fresh for Ajax.
Everton*
We still have a shot at 7th. Go Fulham!
“That’s so Spursy!”
*cue laugh track*
Could be worse – my wife is a Hammers fan.
(not a euphemism ).
Other than Liverpool I’ve mostly checked out of the EPL this year, with the assistance of NBC choosing to charge extra for most of the matches.
Same – we were dedicated watchers when they were showing everything; I’ve barely watched this year. Even today was happenstance – I had to be up to walk the hound.
If you are a top 6 fan, NBC generally always plays your game anyway.
The arrogance of Obama is limitless. It makes you wonder to what lengths he might have gone to to secure his legacy and protect us from ourselves.
Well…
he did use the most powerful surveillance apparatus in human history to try and sabotage the presidential campaign of the opposition. When that candidate won (against all odds), during his lame duck months assisted in setting up an “investigation” that can only be described as an attempted bloodless coup.
Typical stuff for a Central American banana republic; unprecedented for what is supposed to be the world’s example of governance. And he’ll never face any consequences or backlash since the press is still busy wiping his cum from their chins.
His underlings will probably jump on the grenade for him except for Clinton if it reaches her.
Gotta protect the “most transparent”, “scandal free” administration evar!
Alright all, have fun today. I’m off to spend my Saturday taking the nephews to Free Comic Book Day, and the largest candy store in the US. When I get home, I really hope the Mozilla foundation has fixed this add-on blockage.
/best uncle
May all of your encounters with Cosplay girls be hottie and not nottie! It’s excellent to have a cool Uncle. Mine taught me to fly fish and throw a curve ball.
Gold Star! Maybe I can take the heir to that, too.
So, remember back about 10 years ago when the San Francisco BART police “accidentally” shot a man in the back and the guy got off with involuntary manslaughter because he said he went for his taser but “accidentally” grabbed his gun and everyone called bullshit?
Well, surprisingly, it was bullshit. He was always going for his gun.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Internal-Investigation-Reveals-Details-of-Oscar-Grants-Fruitvale-Station-Shooting-509369871.html
That movie was pretty good, if not depressing as hell.
I always wonder “where are they now” for notorious cases like this. I mean, what do guys like this do for a living for the next 40 years?
Work for the NRA
Perjury charge?
I guess too hard to prove.
Interesting article, but why do I get the sense that it was written as a recruiting tool?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-warrior-class-of-their-own
All these multi-degree holding dudes end up as enlisted, not officers?
In the gaurd it’s not uncommon. I knew a doctor who was a first sergeant in the guard.
Not uncommon in the SF. I even had a NCO turned officer and then returned to NCO to stay active duty SF.
The article is skewed. The X Ray program is generally considered not that successful and was established wen SF could meet their numbers during the Iraq/Afghan mess.
I think I’m going back to bed.
With those five? Enjoy yourself. I’m off to install a tombstone of a guy who died 148 years ago.
Well since I’m already up I might as well just run for the Democrat primary.
Why not? Everyone else is.
So not being Americanese I sometimes wonder is this shit really how the american male is grown because it saunds rather inplausible
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Toxic masculinity—and the persistent idea that feelings are a “female thing”—has left a generation of straight men stranded on emotionally-stunted island, unable to forge intimate relationships with other men. It’s women who are paying the price.
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a27259689/toxic-masculinity-male-friendships-emotional-labor-men-rely-on-women/
Shorter Harper’s: “Men are defective women”.
Pass.
Even shorter: “Men are defective”
It’s just fever dreams of progs looking for something else they can pin on “toxic masculinity”.
Two things that I think have developed in recent history:
1. There is a lack of organized “men’s clubs” that used to be ubiquitous. It’s rather absurd for feminists and White Knights to complain since they’re the ones who killed them. Men’s gatherings are mostly informal at places like bars and sporting events now
2. Largely, men do seem more reluctant to marry/settle down. It’s not to the level of “marriage strike” or “the whole country is MGTOW” but I think there’s a larger realization that there’s not a whole lot to be gained from it since men can easily get sex without marriage and family courts are hideously biased against men. Marriage is mostly downside with little upside.
When’s the last time you heard about an event sponsored by the Moose Lodge? It’s all NPO’s run by women now.
1 million men die in war, women hardest hit.
The men get off easy, they are dead. The women have to survive as widows.
“unable to forge intimate relationships with other men. It’s women who are paying the price.”
Women and children hardest hit. Seriously though, they are saying that these men are terribly emotionally stunted, but that the true victims are all the women that they can’t connect with.
Well, gee. Why would he when you hate all his friends and berate him every time he spends time with his pre-marriage friends?
So make some guy friends, do guy activities together, and stop puking your emotions all over your women?
I mean, that’s basically what the red pill guys would tell you to do. But I guess that advice is misogynistic if it’s coming from other men.
Sorry, that was meant to be a reply to the OP.
Lawlessness
Attorney General William Barr’s refusal to appear before the House Judiciary Committee did accomplish one thing, according to Rep. Jaime Raskin, D-Md.
“They have succeeded in building a near unanimous sense in the Democratic Caucus that the executive branch of government is in defiance of the Constitution and the rule of law,” said Raskin, a former constitutional law professor who sits on both the House Judiciary and Oversight committees.
Yes, yes, of course. Prior to this, Congressional Democrats offered nothing but deference and mutual respect between themselves and the Executive.
They have had that unanimous sense since Herself lost.
The upper echelon is in panic and want the middle managers to keep flogging the narrative in order to muddy the waters.
When the first indictments start coming out they will be screaming that this is nothing but political retaliation and Trump and Barr have turned us into a banana republic.
Crocodile tears. In reality they’re creaming their pants at everything *their* guy will be able to do once they win again.
They were planning on doing that stuff anyway.
I mean if this is what gets the house to start impeachment, then maybe DT is playing 3D chess. Impeachment will be a political nightmare, and is risky for the Dems.
So much for getting to the bagel place before a line forms.
Euphemism?
Hrmm… it could be, but not in this case. The breakfast sandwich is a rare treat for me. Wife gone until Monday, so the Weekend of Gluten continues.
Silicone Saturday eases your worried mind.
http://archive.li/zbXLT
Hey, a bunch of those weren’t silicone! I think…
Why is a facial expression looking like a retarded animal appealing to men??
Are they intimidated by a full-on gaze of an equal? A woman who knows what she wants?
“Why is a facial expression looking like a retarded animal appealing to men??”
It’s not, but in these particular galleries we don’t tend to be looking real closely at their faces.
And a big natural smile is preferable to almost anything IMO.
So true, a genuine smile really makes an attractive face amazing.
Indeed. (maybe that’s not the most natural smile, but still)
Ok, fair point. It’s just pics, not a human relationship.
“Why is a facial expression looking like a retarded animal appealing to men??”
It isnt.
Why is a facial expression looking like a retarded animal appealing to men??
Because it is a quick filter to figure out what gals I have a chance with?
The term “bedroom eyes” doesn’t mean making them up so you look like some aging hoor.
Some guys are into stupid.
The downside to silicone.
And I’m with hayek here- besides the fake tits, fake lips, and bad tats, the stupid facial expressions are a major turnoff to me.
Are you saying their tits might explode?
All joking aside, this is a company that I know really well. I’ve been in that facility dozens of times, know the owner, top management, and tech staff. I’m torn between trying to contact everyone and trying to respect that they might be a bit occupied at the moment.
Hopefully they’re ok.
Damn. That building looks like it went through a shredder. That’s terrible.
Old Man knows what’s what.
“We’ve always been a big disappointment to him,”
One of the things that continually irked me was whenever one of Obama’s initiatives fell flat with the public, he always “humbly” blamed himself for not explaining or communicating the policy to the people, thereby implying that of course he was right, but we the benighted public weren’t up up the task of appreciating his genius.
Fuck off, slaver.
The guy is practically the definition of an empty suit. In every single one of his “accomplishments”, he was carried over the finish line by his handlers. He was, and still is, a cipher people can project their own thoughts, hopes and dreams onto. The handsome, dark-skinned gentleman with the mellifluous voice who’s going to “heal the nation”.
Except he tore the nation limb from limb and we continue to see the fall out every day.
Does anyone here have any good allergy remedies? I’ve moved a lot over the past decade and recently landed in an area with a much higher plant/pollen count.
I grew up in such an area and never had allergy issues, even during my stint in the DC area which is apparently notorious for giving people allergy issues. However, I’ve spent the last few years living in arid high deserts and appear to have lost all my allergy resistance.
My throat has been killing me and it feels like I’ve been sick for a week but its clearly just allergies. Ive been taking benadryl and allertec but they haven’t helped. Any tips would be great.
Loratidine works best for me and doesn’t make me drowsy.
Claritin is the original brand name.
There’s 3 major OTC antihistamines and they are all available in generic form OTC. Claritin, Allegra, and Zyrtec. I’ve tried them all, and they work so-so for me.
In searching the net because I couldn’t rememeber “Allegra”, I found this article. Very interesting. I will be giving the recomandations a try:
Thanks guys!
I just wrote essentially this. See below!
Claritin non-drowsy indoor/outdoor. Takes maybe 3 days to really control things. Without it I sound like an 80 year old Korean war vet with a 2-pack a day habit.
The 24 hour OTC nasal steroid sprays have been a godsend for me. Brand names are Flonase and Nasacort.
You need to use them continuously as they won’t work immediately. After you damp down the reaction you can cut the dosage in half, but you will need to use them everyday during allergy season.
Right now since you are having a reaction you will need to use an OTC antihistamine for a few days to a week until the reaction goes away. Most potent OTC is brand name Benadryl, but it’s a first generation drug and most people don’t like the sedating effects.
The other ones people have mentioned are 2nd and 3rd generation, but for me don’t work very well. I suck it up and use Benadryl until my reaction subsides.
What Sensei said. And since Fluticasone was made OTC a couple years back you can get it super cheap now. It’s been a godsend for me, I had allergies so bad during high pollen days I’d sneeze a couple hundred times.
Try Allegra.
Watch your reaction to Flonase, some people can have rage issues (my wife for one)
I’ve never heard that! Do you have any sources for literature noting that problem?
It’s a steroid. You’ll find anecdotal evidence of it on the internet, mostly with kids. But my wife’s ENT acknowledged that the reaction does occur with some people. He seemed kind of excited that it happened to her, like it was something cool to talk about with the other docs.
Same with Rhinocort.
Steroids are nasty and powerful! Reckless use of even topical ones can cause problems.
I’m not surprised about unwanted reactions to the nasal ones, but since it is topical I wouldn’t have expected something like the personality change.
What I find interesting is how children and sometimes women, but rarely men can have stimulating effects with Benadryl.
Allergies and humidity already give me rage issues. Dont need anything making it worse!
Another loratidine (Claritin) user here, almost year round. I’ve tried the nasal sprays but they didn’t really do it for me and I don’t like the nose delivery method. In the height of allergen season, particularly after working all day outside, I might take an extra one in the evening.
I also take Sudafed occasionally, as long as I don’t have to sleep shortly afterwards. Make sure it’s not the pseudo-pseudoephedrine the drug warriors have been pushing. Also more effective than caffeine for off label use.
Phenylephedrine is crap for any use.
4 hits of pseudoephedrine will wake you right up. They don’t use it to make meth for nothing!
That said, it hasn’t been helping my allergies at all
Zytec, flonase and eye drops. These couple weeks until the trees are done kick the shit out of me.
I’ve used loratidine successfully for years, until a month ago it suddenly stopped working. Switched to Zyrtec (generic name cetirizine hydrochloride) and it cleared up in a day. But Zyrtec does warn about possible drowsiness; I haven’t notice much of a problem with that.
My wife eliminated dairy and eggs from her diet. The rest of her allergies went away. Totally anecdotal of course.
I need to careful with dairy. Too much and I am blowing my nose or even get a sinus headache. But, I love cheese.
he always “humbly” blamed himself for not explaining or communicating the policy to the people, thereby implying that of course he was right, but we the benighted public weren’t up up the task of appreciating his genius.
The peasants are so revolting. And dumb.
Boy, are they ever.
Certain People = People who don’t like murderers
This does seem like an exceptionally stupid move by the NRA, even for them.
It’s the Ollie North/Wayne LaPierre show, what did you expect?
One half is gone now.
Certain people did certain things…
Anybody got Kentucky Derby party plans??
Gettin’ drunk with friends downtown. I know nothing about the Ponies but I’ll take any excuse to get drunk with lovely ladies in ridiculous hats.
I’m trying to decide between my outrageous rose and feather studded hat, my Rennie Cavalier hat, and my sweet steampunk hat.
So many hats!!
Cinqo de Mayo is a thing here ….. not sure why. Excuse to party with margaritas I guess. Wait, the neighbors are coming over tomorrow with margaritas. . . hmm 🙂
I am going to the Ole Piper Inn to hit their bloody mary bar with a friend and send pics of our Cinco de Mayo celebrations to a mutual friend who is from Spain. We bombard him every year with Cinco pics because he gets bent out of shape about us being “dumb Americans” who don’t realize that it is a Mexican not Spanish holiday.
*He actually knows now that we know better, but his personality is such that he can’t just ignore us.
Does he have a daughter? Ask him when her Quinceañera celebration will happen.
You should follow it up with a “no mames hue!” Sure to piss him off more.
(Mexican slang for “don’t tit suck”, or “deal with it”)
With the wife out of town, no.
I had planned to hit my old local to watch the Bruins, but w/ the Derby on right before that, I think it’ll be a shitshow.
I’m sure they’d be ok with her going to jail like other murderers
Told my brother about GOA the other day. The above story cements my view that was a good call.
This makes me wish I had voted for Trump; just so I could be a tiny piece of that sting, that hurt.
Now go the fuck away, Barry. And take Chewbacca with you.
You’ll get your chance next year.
The Kavanaugh debacle was the tipping point for me to vote for him in ’20. Everything that’s happened since has confirmed to me that it’s the right decision.
Raises hand…
I did vote for Trump, knowing it would go no good in Minnesota but wanting to make a point about hilldog.
He almost won MN.
Ilhan is bad news and trouble.
If you stop giving her attention, she becomes just another back bencher.
RACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII – oh, wait. OMWC said “back bencher”. “Back”. I guess that is OK
I voted for Johnson, secure in the knowledge that Trump would take West Michigan /he did.
This was my logic in voting for Johnson in Florida.
I mentioned this previously – at one point, there were 4 lawn signs for him in a 1 mile radius from my house (and I didn’t have one). After his stumble bum campaign, and picking possibly the most unlibertarian VP candidate ever, there was one.
Saw a ‘Make Obama President Again’ sticker. He’s from Chicago living in Montreal.
They want incompetence, mediocrity and scandals again.
Obama NOT GONE ENOUGH.
If they want that, they can vote for Beto.
Re that Philly story. Gonna bite my tongue lest I say really bad things.
Welcome to the new improved America!
North Americans are extremely naive about all this.
We have to learn to be ‘furbo’. Cunning.
You should hear the crap they say about Christians (infidels) in my wife’s inner-city class at school.
They’re learning that shit at home and teacher’s are the first line in society to actually see it unfold.
I asked her if teachers feel they should speak out. She said yes but don’t want to be called racist.
This is the stage we’re at.
Easy for me to say, but until teachers do start speaking out, it’ll only get worse.
Absolutely it will get worse.
Ilhan and Rashida are firing shots. Flairs.
Nip this shit in the bud.
But we won’t.
Because we’re useful idiots and we don’t realize it.
Now you know why Quebec does what it does. It’s the only jurisdiction on the continent willing to call the bull shit out.
PC culture has its limits here.
In a way, I’m thankful.
But things like the Mosque shooting don’t help.
No, they do not. In fact, quite the opposite.
I live in a neighborhood with lots and lots of these folks. It’s mostly great – low crime, reasonably quiet. But I do wonder what goes on behind closed doors.
This is where we should be ‘furbo’. My wife’s extended family tells us ‘do assume the worst’.
We owned a building in the Jean-Talon market. Residential/commercial split. The commercial tenant was Tunisian Muslim. The apartments were mostly French-Canadian/Hispanic. A tenant complained that she kept hearing prayers at 4am and 5am. It was the son of the commercial tenant who also had an apartment. When we investigated we discovered the dude was brining in as many as 15 people into a 3 1/2 to pray.
So. We decided send a Muslim real estate agent we’ve done business with and asked him to do us a favour and go snoop around. We were negotiating selling the building to the tenant so it was all ‘furbo’. He got back to us and said, ‘I dunno what that kid is up to but I wouldn’t trust it’.
Upon hearing that we called the RCMP after it persisted out of curiosity. At first, the officer said ‘meh. Maybe they just lack class. Now whether it’s something more…” There was a really long pause on the phone and then he said to my sister, ‘Ok. We’ll monitor the building’.
They bloody well know what goes on behind the scenes. An acquaintance of mine is former RCMP and he staked out these places and confirms this happens.
Ignore it all you want.
Needless to say, we expedited the sale. We wanted no part of that shit. The once great Jean-Talon market is slowly going to the dogs.
Gee, I wonder where is Ilhan about this Philly story.
Is “furbo” some weird Quebeckian slang or am I just not hip to it?
I assumed it meant he’s into furries.
Now pull out your Machiavelli and learn how to do it.
If only we had common sense rope control.
Denver may be a prog shithole, but at least they do some libertarian-ish stuff too.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/05/03/Denver-voters-might-decriminalize-magic-mushrooms/2891556821811/
NB: I get really sick of the marijuana legalization being framed as a partisan Dem thing; people don’t realize that only two counties that went for Romney *didn’t* also go for pot.
Plus: even conservative Utah voted to make medical marijuana leagal.
Same for North Dakota.
The drug warriors still trying to frame it as Dem vs. Rep are just coping. They can’t beging to admit to themselves that they have conservative freinds and neighbors who have come to realize the futility and damage done by the drug war. They must tell themselves it’s just those hippie democrats pushing it in order to stay sane-ish.
The Dems in the northeast sure have no interest in this stuff. Why would they? It’s not like they have any opposition.
You’d think it could be a factor in the primary at least, since that’s the election.
Of course, actually following through after election day is another matter.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-latest-drop-in-the-unemployment-rate-was-for-the-wrong-reason-2019-05-03
Perhaps the most damning quote for the Trump Economy is some financial advisor saying the Economy is in good shape.
well if labor fore participation dropped lower unemployment can be misleading depending on the factors..
Labor Participation rate can be misleading as well because it includes students, homemakers, and retirees as people not looking for a job. So as baby boomers retire and as we become wealthy enough for more mom’s to stay at home or for more kids to go to college, that rate will drop.
And a big natural smile is preferable to almost anything IMO.
100%.
A big happy smile is sexy sexy sexy.
Much patriarchy, a woman doesn’t need to smile to show that they are happy. You don’t smile always! / Single feminist
I 100% agree. My favorite picture of my wife has her making the biggest happiest smile. Much hotter than the sex pot face she tries to put on.
I 100% agree
My hub’s favorite pic of us is a goofy one indeed. Out of focus but smiley.
https://i.imgur.com/yqUFrXn.jpg
Very cute:) Love your hair.
Before you thank JB for the compliment, remember he is a dwarf.
Nice!
How did his first gig go?
Good picture
A disaster of epic proportion and unimagineable consequence
Following Trump’s election, it wasn’t clear that any public institution had the credibility to establish the truth about Russia’s attack. A probe by the House Intelligence Committee imploded in a blaze of partisanship. A Senate inquiry has ambled on for two years, to little result. Into this void, kooks and charlatans across the political spectrum have offered their own feverish theories about “what really happened” — and a lot of otherwise reasonable people have listened to them.
A better approach would have been to appoint an independent panel on the model of the 9/11 Commission, one that could have held open hearings, questioned witnesses, assessed classified information, and published a report establishing the facts.
The election of Donald Trump makes the Shuttle Disaster look like a grocery store parking lot fender bender. Of course we need a Congressionally appointed Commission of Inquiry. Anything less would be the end of democracy.
In some ways, the reaction to Trump’s election have embraced the classic idea of conspiracy theory. That is, it just isn’t possible that this person won the presidency so there must be some other explanation.
With apologies to William Manchester:
“But if you put Hillary losing on one side of a scale and that wretched waif Trump, winning, on the other side, it doesn’t balance. You want to add something weightier to Trump. It would invest Hillary’s loss with meaning, endowing her with martyrdom. She would have lost for something. A conspiracy would, of course, do the job nicely. Unfortunately, there is no evidence whatever that there was one.”
Happily, Bloomberg has decided I can’t free-ride their articles anymore. Naturally I am devastated.
Am I wrong, but is the extent of the Russian meddling that they shit posted on FaceBook? Is there anything else?
What are the odds that people who bitch about Russian’s meddling by shit posting on FB have multiple entries on their own FB account bitching and moaning about Brexit? And I’m sure none of them ever posted anything negative about one party or another in Israel’s recent elections.
That’s pretty much it. I’m expected to believe that the relatively paltry sum of a couple of million dollars that the Russians may have spent somehow destroyed Hillary’s chances when she spent a billion.
And now, the DNC contacts with the Ukrainians are coming out.
With the left, it’s always projection. Whatever malfeasance they claim of their opponents, they are engaged in.
The first thing you need to do is evaluate the threat level. Black means shoot.
Man’s $1M Life Savings Stolen as Cell Number Is Hijacked
That was covered on Bogleheads – a little digging showed it was his sketchy Bitcoin holdings that were taken.
A SIM swap wouldn’t be enough to empty, say, a Vanguard account.
That said, SMS for 2FA sucks. OTP authenticator app is the way to go.
We have both kinds of analysis- doom *and* gloom
In his recent book “The Grand Food Bargain,” agricultural expert Kevin Walker of Michigan State University traces the history of farming over the past 100 years, as big agriculture has systematically pushed small farms to the margins. In the U.S., just four corporations account for anywhere between 50 to 95 percent of seed sales, agricultural chemicals, animal breeding and farm machinery. As these firms have come to control markets, the quality and nutrition in food has decreased, and diets have shifted increasingly to processed foods high in sugars and fats, which earn bigger profits.
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life,” Walker concludes, “but only for its ability to generate profits.” As the rise of C. auris suggests, such a narrow focus risks sacrificing the effectiveness of some of our most valuable medicines.
Cause? Effect? That stuff’s for chumps. We see what we’re looking for, everywhere we look. And we’re looking for evidence that capitalism is killing us.
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life,” Walker concludes, “but only for its ability to generate profits.” – valuing for is for broke people
Oddly, this happens to match a time where the poorest among us are mostly overweight.
evil corporations making junk food
Soda sales are on a long term decline in the US. If people don’t want it, they don’t buy it.
My point was that now we’ve reached a point where nobody’s starving. We really don’t have to try and sustain life with our produce because it’s all covered. Now the question is what do you want rather than what do you need.
Prove they are colluding with each other or STFU.
I guess Bernie was right when he said bread lines were proof that communism was working.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
I don’t mean to criticize………………………………… BUT
OMWC, your list of links tends to be a bit long. Their very length tends to discourage us from even looking at one of them. Maybe you could shorten them up a bit?
For example, do you need those first three links? You know what they say. No noose, is good noose.
I think your criticism comes up a little short; if only you had your feet on the ground.
My guess is OMWC is going to hemp and haw about my advice and keep doing his own thing.
That’s what happens when you hang around too long.
But he didn’t keep us dangling…
We should take those links and give them to people who have less. How many links does one man need, anyway?
Universal Basic Link-come?
I felt like something was missing. He left us hanging.
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all these items are going to go into our landfill
They probably already are. Metal and glass are the only things worth recycling, and recycled glass is only useful to a point. Plastic and paper, the largest volume of what gets put in curbside recycling bins, are not cost effective to actually recycle.
Until the recent China ban on imported recyclables, cardboard was profitable. Plastics are ok, metal is still a winner.
Glass is a loser these days. My buddy who owns a large recycling firm tells me he absolutely can’t get rid of it for a profit, and this is a guy who handles hundreds of tons of recyclables a day.
Having worked at a recycling center it’s only metal and clean fiber.m that are worth recycling. Glass isn’t worth the transportation cost. Throw it away.
Why is it always the uggos?
Maybe it is because opportunities are few and far between? We’ve learned that you strike while the iron is hard.
You pretty people don’t know the trouble I’ve masturbated to.
You pretty people not only know how to close the deal, but how to close and <em> tag.
Look, it’s the Heroic Mulatto light!
Or are you pleading for some Q?
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Any of you lot have a link to the 1st gifs that TPTB hand out from time to time? I have a friend that did the 10K portion of Cincy’s Flying Pig, and Id like to pass along either pole-position girl, or butt-slap #1
Find one on a comment thread, right click and google search
Lazy, thy name is Tres.
Why do you think I turned to you ?
My wife is at the Flying Pig as well – just finished the 5k, first race since breaking her ankle.
When I manage to cut another 10 lbs or so, Im may start running again.
I need to take a break from Imgur
Not sure what I just witnessed, could technically be NSFW?
*paging HM*
So did that just fall in your lap or were you looking for something specific?
It’s trending first thing on there. I swear! I’ve always heard if you play with it too much it would fall off. I had no idea it would crawl away.
I am so disappointed, there isn’t a version that has a speech bubble added that says “Where’s the white wimmen at?”
C’mon! This is Trump’s America now. I shouldn’t have to ask for something like that in this new racist timeline we are in.
I feel like I should keep this one handy
You’ve never seen a Bobbit’s caterpillar before?
His logic is both valid and sound. I move for acquittal.
This is the best argument for jury nullification I’ve ever seen.
stupid Fulham.
Now I want Wolves to win next week, and then Watford to win the FA Cup and deny Wolves the Euro spot.