Hey guys, sorry I missed you yesterday. I’m too old to go to a music festival, drive home hungover and be okay to do the links in the afternoon. Or else I just don’t like you guys as much as I like sleeping. I hope this doesn’t hurt our relationship.
Good dog. Also, Ohio is weird.
I mean, you trusted a man who called himself a sorcerer. Is being a moron really a defense against extortion?
If only this was a totally unprecedented thing the Trump administration was doing, ordering administration members not to testify before Congress.
Trans-Am Joe wants to repeal Trump’s tax cuts. I’m sure that’s at the top of the focus group list for bringing blue collar whites in swing states back into the fold, Joe.
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Dang it, Brett….you were supposed to go with the Bath Saltz Zombie Abduction story!!!!! Not this “truth” crap.
Good dog. Also, Ohio is weird.
A friend on facebook posted a note that a thief broke into one of their friends houses. In addition to stealing several valuables, the thief stole the pit bull that clearly wasn’t of a threatening nature.
“Oh look, Dinner”
A lefty friend is visiting Oslo and complaining about how expensive everything is. Heh.
As long as you aren’t a black-furred roughly Labrador-shaped dog you could steal either of my pits with anything that smells like peanut butter, cheese, or meat. Or in the fat one’s case, anything that looks vaguely like it might be edible. They’re loud and terrifying and utterly, completely harmless.
Harmless isn’t quite right. They have a tendency to step on feet and that can hurt. Also, the one dog’s tail is like right at the perfect height to whack me right in the tip, and she gets a hell of a lot of force at the end of that tail. Plus both of them will fart pretty much constantly making whatever room they’re in smell like a sewer. One dog woke herself up by farting at her nose. The other I think has given himself brain damage by Dutch ovening himself for hours at a time while sleeping in our bed.
One dog woke herself up by farting at her nose.
LOL
My pitbull used to live in the fenced back yard. I would keep the back door to the garage open so she had a place to get out of the sun (I lived in SoCal then). One day, I came home from work and found the front garage door had been jimmied open, and the dog was laying contentedly in the driveway. Nothing was missing.
Not hard to piece together what had happened. “And behind Door Number 3, we have… a large snarling pitbull!”
The dingo saved my baby!
Chris Reccardi who was the animator responsible for “Ren & Stimpy” and “Powerpuff Girls,” died while surfing.
That’s the right way to go.
Wiki says heart attack while surfing.
I can’t help but wonder if that’s what happened here too:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Santa-Monica-Police-Officer-Accidentally-Drowns-in-Hawaii-508736271.html
I’ve jumped off that cliff dozens of times (it’s actually in my avatar photo). It’s not a difficult swim at all, even in high surf.
Capt Ed Hocken: That’s no way for a man to die.
Frank Drebin: You’re right, Ed. A parachute not opening, now that’s a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine, or getting your nuts bitten off by a Laplander, that’s the way I wanna go!
Died how?
Manatee attack.
Oh, the huge manatee!
*applause*
*narrows gaze*
Oh! I get it now.
Suthen, I just read your article. It was a great explanation of modern tree farming. I’ve planted about 4 K, we call a kibble a spud but its the same thing. We could plant 500 in about 6 hours, Me working the spud and my wife who is shorter doing the bending over part. Pine grow well here if we don’t have an extended drought. One year I had about 8 survive from 400. One year I planted the wildlife package, 10 different trees, 50 each. Only the white pine survived, all the deciduous died or rather didn’t grow. Too sandy and dry that year One year I made a mistake and ordered scotch pine, thinking that they are nice Xmas trees. They grow fast and are ugly as hell but most survived. Now I have a yard full of non native trees but at least the squirrels enjoy them and someday they’ll be firewood.
I enjoyed hearing how you folks re-plant. My property borders Potlach and Boise-Cascade. They plow a furrow, then a machine with big teeth rolls down the furrow and sticks a tree into the hole made by the teeth. I’ve never seen that work, only the results. They don’t have to clean up the area too much before re-planting. Not super pine but the native red pine (Norway) grows plenty fast anyway.
Good job on the article and being a helluva lot greener than the little missy from NY.
Trans-Am Joe wants to repeal Trump’s tax cuts. I’m sure that’s at the top of the focus group list for bringing blue collar whites in swing states back into the fold, Joe.
Unfortunately there are a lot of stupid people who believe that because they got a lower refund, they paid more in taxes.
If the GOP were smart (hahaha) they would be running campaign ads every day correcting the record on the tax cuts. In the linked article it even quotes NYT saying most people got a cut, and the only reason people don’t think they did is because of the media lying. Just literally ctrl-c and ctrl-v from NYT into a campaign ad and run it.
Or even better, run some ads showing how much MORE the average american would pay if Creepy Joe does what he says he’s gonna do.
^This. They should have had that stuff ready and rolled it out along with the cuts.
Really, they should’ve heeled the IRS before rolling it out. They done fucked up the withholding calculations, probably intentionally.
So you are saying govt officials should make sure the govt receives less money?
Those lying shitweasels usually talk a good game pretend to try but int he end we get fucked yet again. Fuck the R’s.
No, I’m just saying the tax cuts should have been a big political win for the R’s. But it’s all been erased by misinformation, and they’re too incompetent to fight back, even though it would be incredibly simple to do.
“…they’re too incompetent to fight back, even though it would be incredibly simple to do.”
Thus my suspicion that they speak with forked tongue. They aren’t that stupid or incompetent. They are mendacious as hell.
Of all of the things they swore they needed both houses and the presidency to accomplish they did jackety fuckin’ shit when they got them.
I wasn’t criticizing you, just them.
I misunderstood your first comment. I completely agree with you. There aren’t many alternative explanations as to why they refuse to do things that would ostensibly be in their own self interest (i.e. running ads to show how they’ve actually helped americans by lowering taxes)
The only plausible alternative is what I believe to be the truth. Political parties are loose conglomeration, not tightly run organizations. There’s a reason that they have “whips” in each party. 90% of their effort is in herding cats, not in PR or maintaining a coherent message.
The effort required to make a message resonate in a hostile media environment isn’t worth it. It’s better for them to spend the time getting the John McCains of the world on board with their agenda.
A ‘sorcerer’ promised to help people find love.
If you’re lucky I’ll show you my magical staff and sorcerers stones.
O, the wizard’s staff had a knob on the end.
It does! It does!
O, the wizard’s staff has a knob on the end.
It does!
O, the wizard’s staff has a knob on the end
And the wizard’s staff is the wizard’s friend.
It is! It is!
O, the wizard’s staff is long and hard.
It is! It is!
O, the wizard’s staff is long and hard.
It is!
O, the wizard’s staff is long and hard;
And the wizard plays with it in his yard.
He does! He does!
O, the wizard’s staff proves he’s a man.
It does! it does!
O, the wizard’s staff proves he’s a man.
It does!
O, the wizard’s staff proves he’s a man.
he gripes it firmly in his hand.
he does! He does!
Is that a filk song?
top link in a google search
*pours one out for Sir Pratchett
I heard that sorcerer had a glass eye. And a crystal ball.
Barely related but you gave me an excuse to post it.
A song about a wizard
Yesterday ARS, today Rainbow. Winning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04P0QAJAMqE
“If only this was a totally unprecedented thing the Trump administration was doing, ordering administration members not to testify before Congress.”
Trump is 100% in the right here. They didn’t ask Barr to testify before congress. They asked him to show up to a mock trial, which he is not required to do.
What good is an “Upgrade” that throws out the history, produces new output in a format not compatable with the previous output, and forces manual reconsiliation if you have an account spanning both before and after the change?
Worse, the data I need to do that reconsoliation – ISN’T IN What They Output Now!
The very best sort!
The web site doesn’t show any transactions before May 1, doesn’t show the balance after each transaction, making harder to tell which subset of the account they got applied to (interest, escrow or principal), and the archived statements don’t show my april transactions, which I was trying to get into my local records (a spreadsheet that does some payoff predictions).
I’m getting frustrated, since divining the escrow, principal and interest payments for April has got my ire up.
“Trans-Am Joe”
I thought it was Camaro Joe? OK, sure, GM probably built them on the same platform, but still.
The DEMS made alot of their politicians using the same platform as well
Firebird Joe
Has a better ring to it
Yeah, but it’s Trans-Am Joe.
It’s definitely Trans Am Joe.
FUCK
BARCELONA
Can’t they both lose? And it sucks that Pep got a goal late in the game yesterday.
Yeah but, that strike though…
I hate Man City more than I hate Barcelona. (I don’t actually hate Barcelona at all – I just want them to lose.)
Yeah but, that strike though…
Didn’t see it; I don’t watch Man City.
I mean I didn’t watch the game either, but you can still enjoy the highlight and appreciate what an awesome goal it was.
I’ve said it before, but the EPL fans here could have coached Pep’s Bayern teams to Bundesliga titles, and you all would have been coaching Bayern to lose.
Then there’s the Man City fan I know who, after the crashed out of the CL declared it was really all about winning the EPL.
EPL is more important than euro friendlies.
I came to watch Barcelona but they put Team Argentina on the field.
“First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts,” said Biden.
Higher taxes, gun control and an endless sea of regulation. Team Blue knows what you need.
He’s always complaining. Bitchin’ Camaro Joe
He ran over my mother.
Before or after he sniffed her hair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwkdKfkncok
You forgot about the taxpayer-funded murder of innocent babies
I cant keep up. Is he running himself or is he working for the Trump campaign?
Don’t forget unlimited, uncontrolled immigration!
Good dog. Also, Ohio is weird.
One of our family stories is that one time when we were kids and Mom and Dad went away for a day, Grandma and Grandpa came over to look after us. Grandpa went to get something out of the car, and our sheepdog didn’t want to let him back in!
My wife’s grandmother accidentally left her at Sea World when she was a child. In her defense, the woman had nine children and God knows how many grand-children at that point, so she was probably expecting her to have already developed the skill of keeping track of your parents.
So your Wife was then raised by sea lions until you stumbled onto her?
It explains her thing for sushi.
She’ll eat it out of a bucket?
She can balance balls on her nose?
You’d be amazed at what Naptown Bill’s wife will do for a fish.
“Is being a moron really a defense against extortion?”
No, but according to the Supreme Court, it is an adequate qualification for the police force.
“Bud Light Celebrates World Pride with Rainbow-Inspired Bottles Benefitting GLAAD
Bud Light is partnering with the LGBTQ media advocacy organization to pledge up to $150K toward GLAAD’s work
The new bottle is the latest effort in a 20-year partnership between Bud Light and GLAAD. The bottles will make their debut at the upcoming GLAAD Media Awards this weekend in New York City before arriving in bars next month. In addition to the updated color scheme inspired by the LGBTQ Pride flag, the reimagined Bud Light Pride bottle also swaps out the iconic Bud Light creed that’s printed on the crest of the bottle for words of inclusivity and support.
“Bud Light has been a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community since the 80s and we are excited to continue our long-standing partnership with GLAAD by collaborating with them on this new commemorative bottle that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and everything GLAAD does to support it,” said Andy Goeler, Vice President of Marketing for Bud Light. “The way we see it, our beer is for everyone to enjoy, so we are looking forward to seeing Pride bottles at bars throughout the month of June and beyond. With the release of these new bottles, we hope to create something that everyone can feel proud to hold during Pride month that also makes a positive impact for GLAAD’s initiatives and the LGBTQ+ community overall.””
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bud-light-celebrates-world-pride-with-rainbow-inspired-bottles-benefitting-glaad-300843477.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkcwevtCrYA
Woops, wrong link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOSejS1SSY
“our beer is for everyone to enjoy”
I think they’re using the word “enjoy” a little loosely. “tolerate on occasion” might be more fitting.
Bud light is like sex in a canoe….
Exciting at first but ending in disaster?
The best thing you can say is that it was wet?
…it’s effin’ close to water.
somethingsomething.. Hitler?
Yes to all of the above
Up shit creek?
I would have guessed you’d say they’re using the word “beer” a little loosely.
well yeah, that too
This is sure to play well with the blue-collar portion of their market.
Does anyone other than the super-woke actually pay any attention to this horseshit?
From my observations, the average person gets vague warm fuzzies. They don’t really know or care about the details, but they’re happy that bud lite cares.
The instant I hear LGBTAQZXOJL…or Trans….my brain just shuts down. I dont hear anything after that. Those assholes have become so tiresome.
Yup, but most people have internalized the Marxist oppression narrative, whether or not they buy leftism whole cloth.
Does anyone other than the super-woke actually pay any attention to this horseshit?
If we’re all complaining about it on the internet, we’re all paying attention to it.
Oh FFS, can you just make and sell beer and let everyone else worry about their own feelings?
^This
DILLY DILLY!
Dammit, Helen, I said a butt light!
Or else I just don’t like you guys as much as I like sleeping.
Can’t fault your priorities here.
That’s OK, it’s not like we care much for him, either.
I mean, you trusted a man who called himself a sorcerer. Is being a moron really a defense against extortion?
His customers’ judgement really is suspect: from the picture, he looks nothing like a wizard, which should’ve raised red flags. He’s got a lumberjack’s beard at best, it’s nowhere near the length befitting a proper wizard. Should be at least five times longer.
Definitely NOT sorcerer material. Maybe a druid or perhaps a mage, but clearly not a sorcerer.
It says he’s a sorcerer on the internet. They can’t say that on the internet if it isn’t true.
When in doubt, double down.
“Bring it, Bible Bullies! You are bigots, sexists, and misogynists and I see right through your fake morals and your broken values. #BeReal.” …
Sims, who offered $100 to have three pro-life teenage girls doxxed for daring to pray for unborn babies, then labeled pro-lifers criticizing his antics as “bullies,” “haters,” “p**** grabbers,” and “baby cagers.”
“‘Don’t discriminate against our discrimination. Don’t bully our bullies. Don’t hate our haters.’ – P**** Grabbers and Baby Cagers,” the self-styled LGBT activist wrote in a tweet on Monday.
Sims made headlines on Saturday when he live-streamed himself harassing an elderly pro-life woman outside a Planned Parenthood in Pennsylvania.
“Shame on you!” Sims screamed at the woman, LifeNews reported. “You have a problem protesting in public? Don’t protest in public!”
Sims also attempted to have her doxxed so he could show up at her home: “If you know who this woman is and you can give me her address, we’ll protest out in front of her home. Let’s go protest out of her house and tell her what’s right for her body,” he said.
Nice guy…
That’s walking the line of actionable threat pretty closely.
He’ll continue until somebody beats the tar out of him, and probably thereafter.
“You are bigots”
Isn’t there a word for people who are intolerant of other peoples’ beliefs? Now what would that word be……hmmmmm
Dutch?
Christ, what an asshole.
Sims is a POS. It’s shameful that some people revere him as a hero. Hopefully he’ll never move beyond the PA statehouse.
I think he’s just ensured it. Good riddance to trash.
“Brian Sims: Wrong for America. Wrong for Pennsylvania.”
Sims is a friend of a friend. He’s a complete ass.
^Yep. Same here.
‘Sims, who offered $100 to have three pro-life teenage girls doxxed for daring to pray for unborn babies, then labeled pro-lifers criticizing his antics as “bullies,”… ‘
It’s always projection with the left. They are exactly what they pretend to hate.
I’m curious why a non breeder cares.
“The community” has been just another arm of the DNC for decades.
Dammit.
I mean, it’s the reason I gave up even my pretty minimal contact with “the community” – Pride parades, for example. The relentless leftism is a real turn-off. This 40-year-old man walking around stamping his feet like a teenager is the product of that shit. It’s toxic.
yes it is toxic. In the minds of the people not part of the community that kind of poisonous leftism gets conflated with ‘being gay’. The do a huge disservice to homosexuals and to society in general.
The truth is most straights dont care one way or the other what other people’s sexual preferences are but that endless politicizing of it grinds their gears.
This times 10^100
Identity politics, Scruffster.
“Anxiety about global warming has become such a concern that the American Psychological Association created a 69-page climate-change guide to help mental health care providers.”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1125743294988914688
“Climate anxiety is real, but there’s something you can do about it
(CNN)A student in Wendy Petersen Boring’s climate-change-focused class said she woke at 2 a.m. and then cried for two solid hours about the warming ocean.
“This is a computer science major,” Petersen Boring said.
Petersen Boring, an associate professor of history, religious studies, women & gender studies at Willamette University in Oregon, has been teaching about climate change for a little over a decade. In that short time, she has watched her students’ fear, grief, stress and anxiety grow.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/07/health/climate-anxiety-eprise
Where does the professor of “history, religious studies and women & gender studies” have any sort of expertise to teach courses on climate change?
It’s like you don’t even intersectional.
She sciences so good though!
Women and children hit hardest by climate change. Duh.
“In that short time, she has watched her students’ fear, grief, stress and anxiety grow.”
I would put it to you that she has nurtured and cultivated that fear, grief, stress and anxiety.
That’s the point.
Get scared. Vote D.
Well hurricanes are named after women and she teaches about women so there you have it!
Makes sense, I’d buy that for a dollar.
Since it seems that she’s more into the Cult of Climate than the science of climate, I’d say it qualifies under the “religious studies” portion.
So she’s been making doom predictions long enough to start checking them against actual outcomes. Wonder how she did.
Climate anxiety is real
Of course it is. Decades of fear-mongering propaganda has ensured it.
So… job done?
Deliberately making your children this neurotic should really be considered abuse.
“This is a computer science major,” Petersen Boring said.
LOL, as if being a CS major makes you less susceptible to idiocy.
The most intelligent person I’ve ever known, a guy who has a mathematical theorem named after himself, a guy who graduated with a CmpE degree at Purdue with a 4.0 GPA, a guy who I watched automate his entire internship his first day on the job, has the emotional maturity of a high schooler and tends to fall for the technocratic and emotionally satisfying falsehoods that are blatantly transparent to me.
Intelligence isn’t some sort of moral imperative. Usually it’s just a good memory combined with good pattern matching skills.
That kind of intelligence trend to Foster a belief that people act logically, which is the biggest mistake you can make.
https://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/frontsquare/lg-go-away-tshirt.jpg
I think that guy would mean it.
Hrmm… I think I own that shirt.
That kind of thinking isn’t going to make you too popular around these here parts.
*discreetly slides glorified CS degree under the rug*
Just because I rightfully mock people trying to apply a literary theory in any other context doesn’t mean that I don’t realize there are idots everywhere. I work for a living after all.
I could easily be convinced that the distribution of particular flavors of idiocy is correlated with particular professions.
Higher taxes, gun control and an endless sea of regulation. Team Blue knows what you need.
I really think they’re living in such a bubble that they really think this is a winning formula. The media just keeps feeding them affirmation of their existing wishes. So, they never get much of a reality check. It’s like I said before with the Three Stooges. The Democrats shouldn’t be throwing them under the bus. They should be throwing them under the bus, backing up over them again, and running over them again, just for good measure. Instead, the media tells the Dems that they are The New Face of the Democratic Party(tm) and they accept it. In theory, the Democrats should have been in a good position to run against Trump in 2020. All they had to do is keep an even keel. Instead, they’re running on who can be the most repulsive.
This ain’t anywhere close to new. The dems have been the tax and spend party at least for my whole life.
True. But, they were usually a bit more subtle about it.
It used to be “We need to do X. It will cost this much.”
Now, it’s “We need to spend this much, which means we could do X.”
They’re just looking for ways to blow money, results be damned.
Blow money… I need some blow money….
That money isn’t going to just waste itself.
“We need to spend this much, which means we could do X.”
It’s called osvaivat’ sredstva (осваивать средства) in Russian. I always thought that there was a reason why it had no good equivalent in English.
Since about 1896 natch…
They learned absolutely nothing from 2016 and they just keep sliding further down the road of insanity.
So much for Trump driving all the libertarians into the Democratic party…
In other news, it can get a bit chilly in London
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7000585/Pamela-Anderson-Julian-Assanges-prison-visitor.html
Honk, honk.
I hate to be a cynic, but I just have to wonder if they’ll not counting on Assange having an ‘accident’ in prison
I’m not sure what your point is, seems reasonable to cover with a blanket…*scrolls further* nevermind!
I need a drink after that Liverpool game.
But I can’t drink.
Anyone know where I can buy some pot?*
* To our DEA friends monitoring this: I’m kidding
Too early for me but I’ll raise one for you later. What a game.
Anyone know where I can buy some pot?
Colorado.
Bit too far a drive.
Williams Sonoma?
I thought he was being hyperbolic, but it turns out Rufus was right! Proof that Canada is being overrun by religious extremists!
Colorado sherrif’s department reporting shots fired at high school
An “unstable situation” was unfolding at a Colorado school Tuesday afternoon with reports of shots fired and multiple injuries, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said.
Two people were thought to be injured in the incident that took place “at STEM school at Ridgeline and Plaza,” the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office tweeted.
Authorities responded at 1:53 p.m. local time for a “call of shots fired in school” and deputies are actively working on “identifying and locating shooter(s),” they later added.
When the columbine shooting happened didn’t ‘identifying and locating’ amount to ‘waiting outside in an armored vehicle until the shooting stopped’?
I am not filled with confidence.
The historian John Lukacs, whose books I (mostly) enjoyed, has died at age 95
Thanks for the links, been spending some time with my family for a wedding and got my birthday today so haven’t been able to check out too much lately.
They really don’t like that tax-cut do they?
Antique gun-knowledgable peeps: Can anyone help Mr. Greenfield here? https://twitter.com/ScottGreenfield/status/1125871543257403392
Maybe Colt 1851, .36. I don’t know enough about it, though. Where’s Animal?
AOC encounters a garbage disposal for the first time, fearful and horrified. She really, really, really is that clueless about the lives of ordinary Americans and how attached we are to our little creature comforts.
She really has no idea about anything outside of NYC, doesn’t she?
FIFY
I tried to be a bit generous to her.
On the balance, I find the garbage “Disposal” a negative. I’d rather have a normal drain.
But that doesn’t reduce her stupid.
I have two regular drains. I’d happily give one up for a disposal if I wasn’t on septic. The main benefit being that I wouldn’t have to clean out a strainer filled with soppy leftovers every couple days.
Don’t leave it for days then.
Eeeew.
Try doing it when you finish washing dishes, unless you like flies.
That’s how often he washes the dishes.
Its more of the occasional scrap here or there, and enough to be noticeable after a couple days. If we actually have kitchen scraps in the strainer, we empty it immediately.
“I need access to a two-and-a-quarter inch drain and a two twenty outlet.”
To be fair: Garbage disposals were actually illegal in NYC until like 20 years ago (so, so stupid), and most buildings still don’t have them, so she might never have been exposed to one.
But still, yeah.
She grew up in Yorktown, though.
New New York has them in the year 3000.
What was the logic for that?
Worry about damage to ancient sewers.
No, she was exposed to them. It is possible for a 18 year old who has rarely been outside of NYC to possibly have never encountered one but even they would almost certainly have seen them used in movies and TV, especially if they watch any kind of horror movie.
A 30 year old who has traveled around the country a fair bit and also lived in Boston has absolutely seen one before even if she has never used one.
Also, I just discovered I share a birthday with her, 20 years to the day older.
For all my fellow Libra’s out here we apologize.
What odds do you give that she believes in astrology? I give it fifty fifty.
Why is that creature comforts lead to more socialism when it was supposed to be the opposite?
A lack of appreciation for how hard life can actually be and was.
Also more wealth means lots of free shit can be taxed and redistributed and raises the question of “If we are so rich then why are there still poor people”?
I guess a more technical answer would be a mistaken belief that scarcity no longer exists.
Good times create weak men
Welch, Gillespie, Boaz and Jeff Tucker have a sad…
Also isn’t the inability of libertarians to realize this a good example of a backwards 19th Century attitude?
So we have to wear hair shirts and engage in daily rituals of mortification of the flesh lest we are overrun by the Mohammedan horde?
Is that anymore rational than blabbering about how being a gay Mexican pothead with a Huawei phone is automatically a libertarian?
Also I’m clearly referring to how 19th Century liberals did not foresee how once people became wealthy they might reject laissez-faire economics in favor of socialism. Or the ones that did were fine with that and became socialistic…
I said it in the last thread, I’ve only ever seen a garbage disposal in movies.
I’d also be curious to know why they’re colloquially called “garbage disposals” when every Insinkerator I’ve ever seen says “food waste disposer.”
I can confirm that when I lived in NYC I did not have one. Every other place I lived has had one.
Had one in our last condo. Ripped out the anemic one that had been installed in the early 90s and replaced it with The Mother Of All Garburators, rated at 30 CPH (Chihuahuas per Hour). Damn near silent, too. It’s about the only thing I miss from that condo.
30 cph…. I larfed
Think of ’em as teensy-weensy woodchippers.
Bait for teensy-weenied prosecutors?
Given that they were illegal in NYC until recently and thinking that she might have been joking around, I was prepared to cut her some slack on this one. Then I watched the video. Is it environmentally friendly? You flush your poop don’t you? I don’t see how food scraps are worse.
I was surprised by how many of you says you’ve never had one or only recently. I’m young, but all the apartments and houses I’ve lived in are old and I think I’ve always had one. (Except maybe my first apartment).
Only 50% of American households have one. I was definitely not in the 50% growing up.
Same. Although I’ve never used them for actual disposal, only for the little bits of food and such from washing dishes that slip by the strainer. We’re on septic and I’d still have one for that same reason plus whatever comes out of the dishwasher. Better to grind it up before it goes into the tank is my thinking.
To be fair, if you don’t know what it is and that it is there, you might be a bit startled if you flip it on thinking its just a light switch.
Picking up on the ‘peach 45 thread from last post :
The Democrats seem to think that impeachment is to be used as a partisan sword, to wield at whichever Orange boogerman they see fit.
But, the way it’s set up, it’s a shield to protect against a President who, due to High Crimes and Misdeameanors, is a threat to the country. Both sides have to agree on that.
They didn’t learn anything from the Republicans impeaching Clinton, and, if I’m not mistaken, a whole bunch of them were in Congress back then.
They can depend on favorable media coverage this time…
They’re not going to impeach. They’re going to try and and drag it out until the 2020 election.
I think impeaching at this point would help Republicans. It’s never been less popular in polls.
I think Biden is soaring because he’s familiar and boring, though, so Trump will have to contend with that. No one else is even remotely a threat if any political data is still to be believed.
“Democrats seem to think that impeachment is to be used as a partisan sword”
Of course they do. They see any power as such including all of the fed agencies. They are banana republic monkeys so that is all they can see.
48 hour rule is in effect, but a first take could be: it is a good thing Colorado implemented gun control.
So all of those Mexicans sure turned Colorado into libertopia…
I don’t follow…
Mexican immigration is good and it is one reason Colorado has turned prog?
To be fair, for a large portion of those Mexicans we can say that they didn’t cross the border – the border crossed them.
Is that you Ryan McMaken?
I still have a full head of hair.
In case you’re wondering McMaken not only approves of those Mexicans moving into Colorado but he thinks the American Revolution was a mistake and American should rejoin Britain since Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May obviously have libertarian solutions for America’s ills.
Of course he is Colorado so he should advocate rejoining Spain and bask in the Rothbardian radicalism of Pedro Sánchez.
This occurred at a charter school in Highlands Ranch. Do you have any idea of the cultural and ethnic makeup of that part of CO?
No but I am guessing proggy as hell.
I was referring the politics of Colorado as a whole (You did mention gun control by the way) not this incident.
Okay, let me spell it out for you. I mentioned it because it was relevant to the incident, which that article very clearly indicates was somebody shooting kids at a school in suburban Colorado.
Colorado implemented gun control in 2012 in response to a shooting that occurred in a theater in Aurora, and at another school in Centennial a few months later. For some reason, they seem to have one every other year there.
Even IF illegal immigrants vote in favor of gun control, your comment about Mexicans is non sequitur.
*vote explicitly for gun control, assuming they vote at all.
Your remark was as tiresome and galling as most of yours are, W.
Fair enough. My point is more that Mexicans immigrants aren’t leading to the libertarian moment. Even if they aren’t the ones driving the progginess they sure as hell aren’t stopping it. Maybe there is more to the political culture then open borders vs. closed borders?
Fair point. Perhaps you could’ve made that from the beginning? Might avoid confusion in the future.
Last time I was in Highlands Ranch, even the landscapers were white.
Too bad. That guy could be getting paid to hide in the parking lot right now.
Obviously they haven’t gun controlled hard enough if there was a shooting. More gun control until the shootings stop.
Holy shit… a politician making sense?
Dammit you mean pot legalization is only about pot and not about the idea that the government shouldn’t control your health habits?
Interesting that a Norwegian anti-immigrant populist has such a view since our vaunted elite open borders people believe the opposite…
Clearly, a far-right Nazi and therefore wrong about everything.
On the identity of the two pistols upthread: The one on the left is a Colt Navy in .36cal. Too big and heavy, not too much punch. Easy to identify. On the Walker the barrel screwed into the frame. On the Navy version the barrel and the front of the frame are machined from a single piece of steel.
The other is a mystery to me. It appears to be double action and might have a conversion cylinder in it. Barrel screws into the frame, rear sight is on the frame forward of the cylinder. There are a number of British revolvers that might match that description but I dont know them very well.
But ’51, not ’61. The 1861 Colt Navy had a longer barrel, except for a few special models.
I didn’t open the pics. You are right. As for the other it looks a lot like the British first double actions except for the absence of the top strap. German? I dunno.
Oh, and it has a spurred hammer.
They we’re speculating down the Twitter thread it is an Austro-Hungarian cavalry model with which I’m totally unfamiliar. Gasser.
…And apparently some of the Gassers were pinfire
Suthen,
Since we’re talking about guns… I wanted to ask you for a while. Didn’t you mention your P938? What holster do you use? I bought two cheap but well rated holsters (IWB and ankle) on Amazon but they are not comfortable at all.
I’ve got one of these for my M&P Shield. I love it.
https://www.remoraholsterstore.com/product-category/inside-the-waistband-holsters/
I picked up a Shield since it was on sale for $240. The extremely oval grip means I’ll need to adjust my grip to keep on target (though at 5 yards or less it will still be a very dead bad guy). We live in an age of wondrous manufacturing when quality handguns can be had for so cheap. And phones. And cars. And…
I added Talon grip tape to mine to bulk it up a bit. I do have a tendency to pull to the right a few inches when I squeeze the trigger(lefty) but at the range it would be used at, it doesn’t really matter. And with the Remora holster, I just loosen my belt and tuck it in. It isn’t going anywhere.
If you followed my advice, you wouldn’t have to bother with aiming. Stop fucking around and get a BFG9000 like a real man.
Pretty hard to fit that IWB.
Hard to beat leather holsters.
Give this guy a call http://www.hbeleatherworks.com/pro.html
Going high end, eh?
https://www.miltsparks.com/products-nexus.php
In stock, no wait https://www.topgunsupply.com/milt-sparks-vm2-sig-p938.html
Thank you all guys.
The Atlantic has an article up about the difficulty of making predictions, and it had an interesting bit about a study done of expert predictions:
That’s a Danish proverb? I had no idea that Yogi Berra was Danish.
I predict that I am not going to click on a link to The Atlantic.
I miss when going into any retail establishment was the opening to Taxi.
Sure, Jan. ?
I would buy out the entire stock of any store that played this in the background.
Dude sure can play that Casio!
This is why you are the most cruel and terrible of glibs, HM.
Thank you.
I don’t hear much elevator music anymore. The halal market across the street does play music and not surprisingly it doesn’t sound anything like this.
“US man who chopped off his own penis and testicles to become a ‘nullo’ says he enjoys intimacy more than ever
A man sliced off his own penis and testicles using an ultra-sharp ceramic knife so he could become a genitalia-free ‘nullo’ – and then kept his severed organ in the freezer until his mother threw it out.
Trent Gates, a 23-year-old from Washington DC, removed his testicles in a DIY surgical procedure performed in his own apartment in April 2016, before chopping off his penis in a North Carolina motel room eight months later.
Gates, who says he sanitized the blade for safety and took only painkillers in preparation, was inspired to perform the radical procedure after seeing another famous ‘nullo’ called Gelding at the age of 15.
A ‘nullo’, also known as a ‘smoothie’, is someone who has undergone extreme body modification by having their genitals, and sometimes nipples, surgically removed.
The subculture does not necessarily relate to the person’s sexuality, though many consider themselves eunuchs.”
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1125779750322970626
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7001531/Man-chopped-penis-testicles-nullo.html
Time to restore the Manchus…
Damn, that takes balls.
*narrows gaze *
The horror…
‘A man sliced off his own penis and testicles… so he could become a genitalia-free ‘nullo’ – and then kept his severed organ in the freezer until his mother threw it out. ‘
“Aw, Mom! I was savin’ that!’
That dude’s nuts.
Maybe he got the idea from Lou Reed. Someone should ask Lou about it.
https://youtu.be/7kLqtNxTBo4
Stunning and brave.
Yikes I didn’t open the twitter link first, honest.
Nah first is good. Some Feminism will praising him for dispensing with toxic masculinity?
Amazing how the cultural warriors keep portraying howl-at-eht-moon, shithouse rat crazy as something deserving of societal acceptance.
It is almost like they are pushing demoralization to destroy our culture.
He really dicked himself.
Isn’t a penis removal extremely dangerous, in a it-will-probably-kill-you-without-surgical-intervention sort of way?
Nah, he probably consulted a DIY youtube video.
h8er
I can’t believe none of you have linked to an article about Gelding (with pics!) yet.
Of course Gelding and this kid are paragons of sanity compared to Mark and his story about becoming a nullo
A very, very disturbing story. Read at your own risk
Yes, I remember that one the last time it made the rounds.
I can’t believe I’m not going to click that.
Is this why Brett was missing yesterday?
https://miami.cbslocal.com/2019/05/07/drunk-florida-man-crashes-lawn-mower-police-car/
I’m not sure why, but I found the end line hilarious:
“Anderson’s lawn mower was towed.”
“Trans-Am Joe wants to repeal Trump’s tax cuts.”
Soooo, Biden is now Congress? Well, he does seem more than a little confused these days.
But he means well.
Meh, all presidential candidates promise stuff that is actually Congress’s responsibility. I wish they’d stop doing it, but Biden is hardly alone in that. And of course, if we had a competent press corps, they’d ask the candidates how they would do this stuff that really is up to Congress.
Don’t you even Pen And Phone, brah?
“AKA why GOP donors are losing their minds and throwing money at lame YouTubers and social media content producers to make videos justifying $300 insulin, defending racism as acceptable because “it’s just a joke” and other Conservative Argument versions of Freebird”
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1125772892808077312
Beyond parody.
At least there is some reason that can be found in the comments, you have to dig through the mud but there is some.
This bird you cannot change.
“Instagram to “Fact Check” & Remove Memes
Because the left can’t meme.”
https://summit.news/2019/05/07/instagram-to-fact-check-remove-memes/
Fact Check memes? Really? And I assume the DNC will provide the fact checkers?
SPLC.
Will they be removing anything that implies that socialism works?
Social media is becoming a leftist propaganda bubble. Private business so that is fine but their legal protections as platforms are far past due being revoked.
If only the R’s had both houses and the oval office….
So much for the “California Ideology”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
HA!
I am not sure what a post-capitalist society is. I am sure that people who use the term do not understand what capitalism is nor do they understand the basic dynamics that the universe functions on. The term is no more or less absurd than unicorn farts.
Do you know what communists used for light before candles?
Electricity.
An oldie but a goodie.
oh, and +1 Green New Deal
They usually mean a post-labor society, either of the economically illiterate institutionalized theft sort or of the technically illiterate technotopia sort.
I really like Tripel Karmeliet Belgian Ale.
The love ritual began with candles, alcohol, vegetables and photographs, all carefully arranged. Then clients were told to send photos and videos of themselves reciting graphic statements and performing sex acts to a Paraguayan business specializing in witchcraft to finish the magic spell aimed at finding a soul mate.
Seems legit.
“First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts,” said Biden.
That might play well in the Democrat primary, but I think it will fall flat on its face in the general election.
Bourbon County 2013 Vintage for tonight. It’s good.
…in his video to the Paraguayan witchcraft service.
That stuff rocks.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/04/liberal-values-are-life-support-only-internationalism-can-revive-them
And all of the racist democrats defected to the republican party and all of the noble R’s switched to democrats because reasons.
These fuckers have to constantly lie about their past.
Oh, and hint: You shouldn’t brag about the NHS. It wont be too long now they will be disavowing it.
grrizzly had a holster question for you upthread.
By creating the NHS they are referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge_Report
Also Keynes was a Liberal by the way…
By Liberal I mean member of the Liberal Party of the UK. Oh and this article was written by a LibDem MP. The LibDems being a merger of the Liberals and Social Democrats.
Aren’t we forgetting that it was Labour and Conservatives that have run Britain since 1922? And that the Liberals got only 12 seats in 1945?
Grizzly: I have a black Tagua paddle holster with the thumb snap. High quality, reasonable price and so comfortable that sometimes I forget I am wearing it. Easy to slip on and easy to twist and take off. I wish I had one for every pistol I own.
I dont see one just like mine on their site.
https://taguagunleather.com/238-paddle-holsters
Mine looks just like the one on the top right but does not rotate. Mine fits snug to the body.
He does not make one for my gun in a left-handed variant. >8^U
Thank you. Also got lots of recommendations upthread.
I use this for a holster:
https://stickyholsters.com/holsters/size/small.html
I carry my P938 in my pocket when I carry it instead of my Springfield 1911 EMP in a shoulder harness.
I have a laser site installed on my P938. This complicates getting holster for it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MYQ795U/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I haven’t found any nice holsters that accommodate the under-the-barrel laser sight.
Yeah, that might be kinda tough. what laser sight do you have?
See the amazon link above
Uffda. I have no idea why OMWC would leave Baltimore. It sure seems like a lovely place.
That is the question that got a news anchor fired from her job in Baltimore. According to the Pitchfork Brigade, the question was racist AND sexist. I won’t even ask if anyone is going to go after all the proggies who are demanding that the nominee in 2020 can’t be another white male.
Uh…I think their politics and policies are important, their skin color and gender irrelevant. It was a stupid question, but then the white male angle is equally stupid.
“Baltimore City is struggling under the weight of decades of historical divestment, systemic inequality, redlining, and a disconnect between the people in power and those who are being impacted by their decisions,” Whitehead added, saying that she has been discussing the controversy on her WEAA show this week.
Symptoms of a problem. The question is why did those things happen?