So Sagittarians: life been kind of shitty for a while now? For the rest of you: rules working against you for the last few months? Well, things are about to (finally) change as Jupiter returns to direct motion, doing what it’s supposed to be doing bringing happiness and jollity for the first time in a long time. Saturn won’t get its leaden ass back to the straight and narrow until next month, but we’ll take what we can get.
The newly reformed Jupiter isn’t participating, but there is a positive alignment of Venus and the sun remaining aligned with us, so good on your home life, gardening and basic domestic bliss.
Leo continues to hoard all the planets. Love, war, whatever it may be, strength is going to win out. I will caution that because of the planetary shift, do not try and cheat in competition this week. You shouldn’t need to anyway.
In the Cards this week: Pretty Glib-standard. Lots of reversals.
Leo: 2 of Cups reversed – False love, folly, misunderstanding
Virgo: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, crowds, politics
Libra: Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, gold
Scorpio: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, public rejoicing
Sagittarius: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall decadence, ruin, perdition
Capricorn: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, loss, robbery
Aquarius: Page of Cups reversed – Seduction, deception, artifice
Pisces: Knight of Coins – Utility, service, rectitude, responsibility, interest
Aries: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, exaction, usury
Taurus: Ace of Cups – True heart, joy, contentment, abode, fertility, nourishment, felicity, abundance
Gemini: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassment, anxiety
Cancer: Wheel of Fortune reversed – Increase, overabundance, superfluity
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360 responses to “IFLA: The “It’s About Time” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of Aug 18”
I hate crowds and politics.
I’m going to identify as Libra this week.
Virgo: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, crowds, politics,
Where I’m working this week, it sounds about right,
Howdy!
“Lots of reversals.”
Like, 69ing?
Adhahn, my Birthday is next Sunday, what’s in the cards for me?
I’ll get the deck here in a bit and find out.
Cool
Ok, so, related: does reading the cards work retroactively? If someone were to tell you the day of their birthday in the past, would you be able to read the cards for that day?
Happy Birthday, Yusef!
Eh, no not really. Depending on the layout, the past will be described, but only so that you can see its effects on the present or future. I typically use a Magen David draw, and there is one card about the past in it.
“Ok, so, related: does reading the cards work retroactively? ”
I don’t think you are supposed to ask that question.
Happy Birthday Yusef. May you have many, many more.
It is still a week hence, but thanks!
I should be back in the desert by then, so I’ll enjoy this place while I can
Knight of Thermostats, reversed: oil slugging, frozen evaporator, loss of charge
That was good!
You forgot “bulging capacitor.”
WinkwinknudgenudgeknowwhatImean?
I’m actually shocked, because he is a legit sexual harasser.
Oh wrong thread. Well, whatever – deal with it.
I can’t decide if I saw what you did there or if I saw what you accidentally did there…
I didn’t do anything, so you saw whatever it is you saw.
“deal with it”
On a post about tarot cards.
…
Jeez, that sailed over my head too.
“I have also lived long enough to believe in the power of forgiveness, second chances, and offering a human being a path to redemption. ”
Of course. Absolution is given to all who agree to fight the enemy of our religion.
Looks more like a strategy for beating #MeToo. The TDS sufferers will forgive all who vow to defeat the Great Satan.
Euphemism or phrasing? I can’t keep up because SOME OF US WORK!
Report on the MSR: This was made NY legal by “permanently” attaching the magazine and loading this thing through the ejection port. So far, I’ve had five double-feeds during the first hundred rounds. I don’t know if that’s because of the reloading technique, or if it’s inherent to the gun. It’s pretty accurate so far, though I only spent the time getting it sighted in at 50 yds.
Now I feel like I need one NYS compliant via the chopped pistol grip, and one made legal(-ish?) by the addition of a bolt catch. As long as I’m shooting from a bench or pron, the pistol grip doesn’t add much.
That sounds miserable. Sorry.
Pics?
looks exactly like every other one.
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_20190818_122109.jpg
I pulled the scope off of my 10/22. When I find a rifle I really like, I’ll invest in some better glass.
What caliber?
5.56
Just making sure it wasn’t a rimfire version. Rimfires tend to have more feed issues than centerfires.
That’s a lovely boomstick you have there. Take any hogs with it yet?
That is a good looking gun.
So when closing the bolt it’s picking up an extra round and jamming? Is that what you mean?
yup.
Well sounds like the magazine was attached too high and then the back of the mag was cut lower so the bolt wouldn’t catch on top edge. If you think about a normal mag, only one round is exposed at a time.
It could be pitched incorrectly as well.
I’m shooting from a bench or pron
I like that typo.
Sorry about the NY legal bullshit. One good thing about New Hampshire: we don’t have that crap here.
New Hampshire is essentially New Boston.
And aren’t they all essentially New England? Redcoat scum
Also, did you break the bolt down first and properly lube it up?
Actually, no. I did follow the manual’s recommendation for breaking it in (thank Bob I have a chrome lined barrel not a stainless one, the recommended break in for those is redick.) It was weeping lubricant from various places and also burning it off.
Supposedly it’s broken in now, so we’ll see how much troubleshooting I’ll need to do.
Take the bolt apart. It’s simple. Lube properly. Reassemble.
Oh yes, taking apart guns satisfies the inner “five year old who has found a screwdriver” impulse.
Also: there is a “speed loader” https://www.meanarms.com/products/detail/ma-loader-for-ar15 to help with the reloading. I don’t know how long it’s going to last because it’s already started fucking melting.
I sure hope this is how people will be behaving towards me, because it doesn’t sound too fun if I’m supposed to be acting that way.
I would think just doing typical chores would meet those obligations..
Hmmm…I was planning on mowing the lawn. Tarot is real!
Didn’t Pisces just get this “rectitude and responsibility” shit? Where’s *my* decadence and ecstasy, assholes?!? [flips over table, storms out]
Sounds fishy….
“Capricorn: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, loss, robbery”
#CapricornsRpeople2
The resistance shall continue!
Apparently, my bookie is a successful crook. I fucking knew it!
Who am I robbing this week?
Sagittarius: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall decadence, ruin, perdition
Things are looking up!
Leo: 2 of Cups reversed – False love, folly, misunderstanding
Huh.. That’s every day.
More detail:
Sounds fun, huh?
That is a bit different but given my mood I’ll take my initial reaction.
For no reason, something completely different
I gotta get some pants like those.
I still wear mine…
How about pants like this?
*barf*
Can I tell you a romantic story
About the one-eyed lady in France
I guess the king decreed that all the various princes
Should try to get inside her pants
Another one
How about this one?
https://youtu.be/JwFE9tkq4KM
Let’s slow things down a bit.
This is another slow one. It was on the radio a lot when I was a kid. https://youtu.be/_0J6PWG0hok
AC is a heck of businessman. He owned a series of high end shops in the high end shopping district in Scottsdale, AZ and made a mint without advertising the fact he owned them.
Bitch fight!
https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2019/08/18/tlaib-calls-boycott-mahers-show-calls-bds-bullst-purity-test/
Hmmmm. So Maher is proof that the saying about blind squirrels is true.
Can’t that be said about any politician that’s ever existed? The entire left and 80% of the right?
Oh, ‘hoard’.
Read that wrong.
“Libra: Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, gold”
I could use a bit of contentment!
You can send me the gold if you don’t need it.
When did contentment having anything to do with being stupid?
Maybe some Ennio Moricone?
I remember that car commercial.
Umm… WTF?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/france-waiter-killed-sandwich-customer
Customer must’ve thought he was at Jimmy Johns.
Or too soon?
Was it not freaky enough or fast enough?
How can we decide whether that was an appropriate response without knowing exactly how late the sandwich was?
The waiter was French. What more reason do we need?
Not one name mentioned in the article.
But the restaurant, at least going by the picture, is named O’ Cheese Naan or maybe Mistral. So, Indian-Irish? Or it’s CULCHURAL PROPRIASHUNZ, which is (IIRC my Progressive Judgement Stack) worse than the murder.
happiness and jollity for the first time in a long time.
That’s no lie. When does it start?
Right after she handcuffs you to the bed?
This happened to some guy I know who brewed beer and added some honey. Bottles started going off like grenades in his basement.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/beer-recalled-risk-explosion-lakefront-brewery
I think Ive mentioned before that older brother was into brewing his own, and with it, root beer. Something about the sugar gave the same result you just mentioned.
Boy, was it tasty tho.
Bottle bombs are real, and dangerous. Always measure your priming sugar, and make sure fermentation is complete before bottling.
I had this experience with some Alsace Gewurztraminers. The winemaker usually filtered out micro-organisms and added some sulfites to make sure things didn’t re-ferment in the bottle. For the US market, the importer insisted that the wine be unfiltered and no added sulfites because of widespread misinformation from popular American wine critics- and of course, importers and wine critics know far better than mere winemakers, right?
Every fucking one of those bottles blew out the corks and sprayed wine all over my wine-cellar. At least there’s no broken glass, but I was out several hundred bucks for the ruined wine.
“How Slave Owners Dictated the Language of the 2nd Amendment”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-slave-owners-dictated-the-language-of-the-2nd-amendment
Ummmm…. no. More like “How Slave Owners Pioneers Gun Control to Keep Negroes from Owning Guns”.
Pioneered
By “Slave owners” don’t you mean Southern Democrats post Civil War?
Potato, potahto.
The 2nd amendment is racist…. God I hate proggies….
So slave owners were the original gun control advocates. I fail to see how this bolsters the gun control argument.
Ssshhhh, they are on a roll.
well obviously we should throw the whole Constitution in the trash if slave owners were involved. Why stop at the 2d Amendent?
The Daily Beast has no comment section? Unless I missed it…
“Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, gold”
Ideal week to buy a RealDoll.
If you want to go splitsville on one send me a dm.
Only if you promise to use a condom. Or if not, that your loads are of below average volume.
You’re in luck – the kid’s a chunky dribbler.
Jay-Z Helped the NFL Banish Colin Kaepernick
Jay-Z is a dumb coon that isn’t smart enough to know when he’s being taken advantage of by whites.
Or it could just be that Kaepernick isn’t good enough to be a first string QB in the NFL?
That can’t be true. It doesn’t involve a conspiracy.
Alright you clowns: I’m heading to Toronto all week for training so titposts may be sporadic, but I promise not to leave you hanging (like a nice pair of F’s) the whole time. On the to do list:
1. Poutine
2. Tim Horton’s
3. Strip Clubs
4. TFC vs. Montreal next Saturday
Any other suggestions?
Just one
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g155019-d8535401-Reviews-Archery_Circuit-Toronto_Ontario.html
All of those things will lead to disappointment.
Even the strip clubs?!
I went to a couple of strip clubs in Montreal years ago and they were the best I’ve been to outside of Vegas.
That depends entirely on what you expect.
The CNE is on. YMMV.
Also found this: https://g.co/kgs/uLd1Xh
Less 2, more 3.
Homo milk bags and All-Dressed potato chips.
Milk in bags is a Central/Eastern Canadian thing. Never seen ’em out west.
There is some good Canadian beer. Most of it comes from Quebec and the Maritimes.
When it doesn’t come from Ontario, the Prairies or British Commiefornia, that is.
Any other suggestions?
Yeah, leave Toronto and fly west.
Part of my last trip to Canada involved spending time on Cape Breton. I was in a restaurant eating breakfast, and I overheard the older guys at the table next to me swapping stories about why they left Toronto.
One of the guys was talking about how the Toronto city government busted his son. His son had removed a damaged tree from his property. The city found out, and if I remember correctly, the son had done it without getting special permits. The city fined the son several hundred Canadian dollars. The guy said something along the lines, “I’m never going back as long as they treat people like that.”
“How Slave Owners Dictated the Language of the 2nd Amendment”
I saw one not long ago about how preventing black people from exercising their Second Amendment rights after WWII proves the Second Amendment was a racist tool of oppression aimed specifically at black people by the Founders.
It’s About Time.
Hair bands SMDH
“after WWII ” should be “after WWI”
Gemini: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassment, anxiety
That sounds like the early 2000’s for me. Now I am just perplexed. I got over the others by an attitude adjustment.
Morning would
Cool!
Nice shape underneath too.
Yummm.
Bestest Vette with bestest wheels.
63 had IRS, though.
Another Chevy for sale. Literally on a trailer.
Spotted yesterday at a swap meet in Anaconda.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kBHUeMqgFBLXsJWMA
Psst, I know who you are already, but you just doxxed yourself there, dude.
shit. Now the local Antifa will be able to find me.
Back to Imgur.
Would you like me to make it go away so it doesn’t live on forever on the site?
Very nice.
That is a good looking car.
Racist, sexist, homophobic…
Log Cabin Republicans: Trump met his commitments to LGBTQ Americans. He has our endorsement.
Uncle Tom of Finlands
😉
That damn near sent Bourbon shooting from my nose. Thanks.
Not real gays.
Ha! It’ll come true this time! Drumpf is dunf!
Given the .01 chance he drops out. Who runs as team Reds candidate?
Hillary, duh!
Yeah, we’ll just choose between two Democrats from now on – like California.
Warren’s going to repeal the electoral college by executive order first day in office, confiscate all guns on her 2nd day. Maybe she should change the order of that?
Hey Fredo, you want to put money on that.
That was funny
The seller has added approximately 500 miles during 16 years of ownership.
What a cuck.
Yeah, that’s sad. Drive the fucking car, dude!
Limey shitbox notwithstanding, I’ve been watching this one.
Triumph kept trying right to the end and they’d get closed like with the Stag but the industry was just too effed.
I’d rather have a TR8.
Cedric Benson not bulletproof
investigating the crash in the 5600 block Mount Bonnell Road
so, returning from HIppie Hollow ?
Her husband is the county jail administrator. Or rather was.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-white-woman-black-teens-fundraising-gunpoint
I’m pretty sure they were just hiding from her face, nothing to do with the gun.
Seriously, that’s scary.
They’re lucky she didn’t eat them.
Boil their bones for porridge, she will.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-white-nationalist-anti-semite-arrested-threatening-shoot/story?id=65040200
Threats seems like thought crimes to me.
Also in Ohio.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/2-ohio-men-plead-guilty-to-charges-related-to-bomb-making/
What are the odds this guy is a member of antifa and that his social media is full of resistance posts? So the media portrays him as right wing extremist. Sounds about right. I’m just guessing since the left are about a million times more likely to be anti-semite.
Dozens?! Oh my!
The only reason anyone would have dozens of rounds of ammo is if they are planning on shooting a lot of people. Ban ammo now, no one needs ammo.
Threats seems like thought crimes to me.
Elaborate por favor.
Maybe she just moved there from NYC where this is a well-known scam many subway panhandlers use…?
Sick of NYC humidity? Move to Crowley Ridge AR !!!
It could be even worse. They might sign her up for 12 months of WaPo.
+ ∞ teens selling shoplifted candy bars in front of every damn grocery store.
Fun story: a few years back, when the various colors of “ribbon” bumper magnets were all the rage, a guy came into our office selling them. He got a few takers, and no one realized until they left the office at the end of the day that he’d pulled his stock off our employees’ cars in our parking lot.
That’s brilliant; mercantile rapacity FTW!
Sanders calls for ‘registry of disreputable federal law enforcement officers’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-calls-for-registry-of-disreputable-law-enforcement-officers
Sounds good to me. Can we have a commie registry to go with it?
Aren’t they all disreputable?
Don’t worry, we’ll be safe. Bernie’s going to replace them with his own Bolshevik troopers. Papers, please!
So a directory?
FTFY
I’m sure Bernie is ready to crunch those numbers and let us know what it will cost the tax payers to guarantee everyone a 30k a year government job at which they will never have to do any real work.
Sanders calls for ‘registry of disreputable federal law enforcement officers’
You’re on a list, and you’re on a list, and you’re on a list…
“You’re on a list, and you’re on a list, and you’re on a list…”
And that means that you, you, and you cannot own a gun.
Except Cops, because home safe at night
Cops and Congressmen. That will be the only two groups not on the red flag list.
Nice thundershower outside is making me sort of sleepy. Wife in the kitchen cooking something, smells good, fridge full of cold beer, lovely day.
Nicest day of summer for me, grille up some cheeseburgers, and have some denogginizer
and finish the laundry,
“It’s not surprising that Trump would side away from the folks who are the peaceful protesters working to safeguard their city from domestic terrorism. Just not surprised at all that the president sides with the white nationalists,”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/rep-haaland-d-antifa-are-peaceful-protesters-trying-to-safeguard-their-city/
What a retard.
She obviously does not have the twitters.
She obviously does not have 2 functional brain cells, or she’s just a shameless liar.
Or?
My bad, inappropriate usage of Or when should have been and/or.
“peaceful protesters working to safeguard their city”
He means the black-clad guys in masks using clubs, hammers and mace against people who haven’t lifted a finger against anyone? Sounds legit to me.
So now we have members of congress openly supporting the commie brownshirts who are actively trying to foment civil unrest to destabilize the civil society?
I am pretty sure we are getting into very dangerous territory.
“So now we have members of congress openly supporting the commie brownshirts who are actively trying to foment civil unrest to destabilize the civil society?
I am pretty sure we are getting into very dangerous territory.”
There’s no peaceful way to communism from where we are right now. The left know this, which is why they are going to resort to violence. Umm, I mean, they’re just resisting.
Last night someone made a bit of a snark about why young people are swayed by socialism and it hit me. Of course they are. They have’nt seen the effects of communism that we saw. The USSR was gone before most of them were born. For a few generations we have been saying and expecting our children to be better off than we were. A decade ago we began bemoaning that that would no longer be the case and that in fact they may be worse off. In some ways it is true but in the minds of the young who didn’t actually experience the life we had before them that might be magnified. We have also been raising scads of kids with the ‘everybody gets a trophy’ mentality on top of that. So I think there are more factors than just ‘I didn’t get what I wanted on a silver platter so daddy government needs to step in’ (which was the accurate comment, I don’t remember who) attitude. A lot of factors contributed to that attitude and coupled with economic realities and lack of experience it seems pretty clear to me how we got here. A pretty convincing argument could be made that we failed them in ways that made the allure of socialism inevitable.
“Last night someone made a bit of a snark about why young people are swayed by socialism”
Because they have been indoctrinated into it from the time they attended their first day of public school.
Plus, we’ve had former commies running the FBI, CIA, in Congress… and academia is fairly riddled with the bastards. So unlike, say, Nazi fascism, communism/socialism has been praised and encouraged rather than vilified.
I think it has more to do with older generations living longer, hoarding wealth and not giving up the reins of power, both in government and business. Technology has also had a big part in job destruction. Younger generations are competing against more people in a smaller job market, while competing over fewer resources against more competitors than previous generations. That’s not even counting the job/resources pressures from illegal aliens.
I could see some kid getting kicked out of his house at 19, where he learned nothing, staring down a 15$/hr job and $1,000/month rent and just saying “Marx is my new best friend!”
“I could see some kid getting kicked out of his house at 19”
We used to just leave on our own, because we wanted to. Maybe that’s why we have all the jobs and money now?
Again, you weren’t competing in today’s real estate market for a place to live or today’s job market as a place to work.
You’re right, it was way tougher back then to get a good job. Real estate was a lot cheaper, but outside of that, there were just not as many opportunities then.
The other thing is, I see interns all of the time around my client’s offices. They want to work in IT and I’ve talked to a lot of them. This is how it typically goes:
Me: What type of IT work are you interested in?
Them: I want to make a lot of money.
Me: Then either work your way into management or be a developer.
Them: But programming looks hard, I want something that’s easy and to make a lot of money.
Me: It doesn’t work that way.
They aren’t succeeding because they are unwilling to do hard work. They’ve been taught all of their life that they deserve a trophy too. When I was first out of college, there was no such thing as an internship, you had to beg someone to let you in an IT shop to answer the phone and do other shit, like fixing printers, that on one else wanted to do.
Sorry, but I don’t feel any sense of sorry for millennials, they’re lazy. Sure not all of them are, just most.
It’s why many of the cleave to socialism. Here’s this philosophy that says “Hey, you’re entitled all of this stuff, without having to earn it,” by virtue of, I don’t know, being born? It fits right in with how they were raised.
Tell that to some kid from some sub-Saharan African shithole who’s been given nothing in life.
If you’re looking for privilege, there it is.
The minimum wage doesn’t help them.
*hoarding wealth
*job destruction
*smaller job market
*fewer resources
Cytations needed.
Not to bust your castanets, dude, but those sound like they’re taken from Bernie’s speaking notes.
It’s total bullshit is what you’re trying to say? Yeah, I agree with that opinion.
^ this ^
At first I thought it was going to be a sarcastic comment. But I fear it wasn’t.
hoarding wealth
Cy, could you explain the hoarding wealth? I’m trying to understand but don’t. I get the the living longer if viewed from the point of social security and medicare acting as a massive vampire on wages. I’m not too pleased about this massive intergenerational transfer of wealth scam either. I get not giving up the reigns of power. I’ve seen local government smash down the innovative food truck operators at the behest of older, established restaurateurs with brick and mortar places.
Hoarding wealth though, doesn’t wealth belong to the people who earn it? Assuming they aren’t stuffing mattresses full of money, that wealth is out there in the economy (retirement accounts grow business, yachts produce jobs, etc). Even if they stuffed mattresses though, how does that impact anyone else?
“Cy, could you explain the hoarding wealth?”
I get it. That means I should retire now and give my job to some snotnose brat who can’t and is unwilling to learn to do the job. Nope, ain’t happening. I will continue to hoard and greed as long as I’m able to.
That’s what I figured, but thought maybe Cy meant something else.
I will concede to Cy’s point that, when I was younger, I used to look around and think “Look at all these stupid old c*nts in positions of power who have no idea what they’re doing.”
Now that I’m older, I realise that there are a lot of stupid old c*nts with power who have no idea what they’re doing, but that handing over the reins of power to 25-year-old me wouldn’t have improved the situation.
To clarify, I’m not agreeing these are reasons leading to the appeal of Socialism… the social security and medicare ponzi scheme is already a form of socialism. I do think that SS/Medicade plus crony capitalism that protects established businesses are major problems that are significantly hindering the ability of younger generations to create jobs and build wealth.
A pretty convincing argument could be made that we failed them in ways that made the allure of socialism inevitable.
Whaddaya mean WE, white man?
Seattle turning into den of deplorables
Is there anywhere safe from these fascists?
Sure it does, fascist.
Leftwin pollsters polling lefties are never wrong, but sometimes there are Russians.
Paywalled 🙁
I really wanted to read the REEEEEEEing.
I didn’t have any issue reading it. Try doing the incognito thing in Chrome.
That worked. Thank you.
It was actually pretty even-handed, even if the author felt it necessary to insert the standard virtue-signalling.
Gosh, a candidate who has openly expressed support for taxing rich people up the wazoo gets less (and fewer) donations than someone who doesn’t? Color me shocked.
But Bernie is giving away free utopia for all those taxes. What’s wrong with people? Who doesn’t want free [fill in the blanks]?
“With nearly 15 months to go before the 2020 election, he already has drawn more donations from Seattle addresses than he did during the entire 2016 campaign.”
I’m guessing this is due more to the despicable behavior of the lefties in that town than to anything Trump has done. Everyone loves to fuck assholes.
“’m guessing this is due more to the despicable behavior of the lefties”
And when that backfires on them, they’ll double down.
I gotta say, I’d love to see a complete meltdown next November. Probably need to stock up on potable water.
Don’t forget popcorn.
Better double stock up on the popcorn and beer.
Fuck you!
Everyone loves to fuck assholes.
“Arnold Schwartzenpecker”
LOL
On the porn parody note, there is a “2 Broke Girls” porn parody coming out (or is out?) which stars Angela White in the Kat Dennings role.
Someone is just asking for a nekked Lena Dunham link…
Angela White and Kat Dennings are both far, far better looking than Lena Dunham.
You’re just not giving Lena a chance *goes off to find cleverly concealed Lena nekked link for Deg*
Meh, I wouldn’t worry. I hear Trump is going to drop out of the race any day now.
It seems like I heard that before a couple of times. I must just be imagining that.
Paywalled
Adblocker blockered, for me. Boo hoo.
I really wanted to read about those Trumpista cockroaches scurrying about in the dark corners of progtopia.
It’s all just propaganda spread by Russian bots.
Speaking of which.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/graham-igs-report-on-russia-probe-will-be-ugly-and-damning-for-fbi
We already know what went on, Lindsey. We just witnessed an attempted coup of an elected president of the United States. Noble gesture of you, but we all know nothing is going to happen to those people even if they just outright admit what they did. Obama and Hilary are up to their elbows in the shit.
Bloke on the Range stress tests a Lee-Enfield No. 4. There’s an interesting twist at the end.
Random post from watching slowball: some kid the Braves just pulled up from AAA hit a grand slam off some kid the Doyers just pulled up from AAA.
Speaking of sportzballz, who the fuck is the genius who picked Kyler Murray with the first pick of the first round in the NFL draft? Did I just see that? 3 for 8 for 12 yards, 2 sacks, and a safety, against the Raiders 2nd string scrubs. The kid looks like a toddler standing on an NFL sideline. WTF?
Ouch, bad start.
Mulligan?
Someone who can always go back and say “well, he won the Heisman” as cover. But yeah, 5′ 10″ is what…1 inch taller than former Heisman winner Doug Flutie?
Also, the guy who homered is actually 28, definitely not a kid, just up from AAA ball.
“Someone who can always go back and say “well, he won the Heisman” as cover. But yeah, 5′ 10″ is what…1 inch taller than former Heisman winner Doug Flutie?”
Sure. I mean he can’t actually see over today’s NFL offensive lines, but no matter. He’s just going to take off running every play. I mean, you know, the greatest scrambling QB of all time, Michael Vick couldn’t manage to stay healthy doing it, but this smurf is going to, yep. Someone needs to be out of a job for that pick.
He learned from watching Bellinger.
“Hey, that’s a good strategy! Maybe I should do that with another guy on base.”
Red Sox were down 6-0, now lead 12-6. Apparently, it’s good to have Baltimore in your division this year.
Wanna see a real Nazi? Check out this Bitch!
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/08/18/dem-rep-im-not-surprised-see-trump-taking-sides-peaceful-protesters-like-antifa/
She’s just resisting.
All they lack is a leader. They’re ripe for some real violence.
When they go out to the polling places, they’ll be able to pick out all those Russians in line trying to steal our democracy and give them the beat down that they deserve. Beat a Russian now with a crowbar, it’s your patriotic duty.
They are scum, no doubt, but they pale in comparison to the lunatics in the 70’s. The 70’s version used to blow up police stations and rob banks. There were plenty of bombings and violent attacks back then. These guys are pikers after that. I bet it was worse at even earlier times. I would aver that the civil war was a flavor of the same thing, basically.
Gun Jesus on a triple barrel pocket pistol which he calls a “steampunk pistol”.
The kid looks like a toddler standing on an NFL sideline. WTF?
*puts on general manager hat*
“The kid’s got a great future in this league. Give him time.”
Land of the Rising Blood Pressure
https://youtu.be/f81TVS88ifk
English summary
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/18/national/crime-legal/suspect-ibaraki-expressway-road-rage-case-arrested-osaka/#.XVmwrxplChA
Too local…… for straff
I don’t even know what the fuck I just watched.
Road rage on the mean streets of Nippon
Ah, the Nipponese, should have figured.
Moral of the story: use your car to defend yourself and don’t roll down the window so the jackass can punch you like a bitch
It’s a much understood rule in Bmore. If you happen to get detoured into a bad area and someone tries to block your way, run over them, don’t even think about stopping. I’m dead serious.
I don’t live in Baltimore and I understand that rule too.
Works for large ungulates too.
I actually read this, now my head hurts….
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/18/donald-trump-and-the-republican-party-hate-america-its-time-to-say-it/
“Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate America: It’s time to say it”
Keep it up, I totally support your efforts, thank you.
That’s called feeding your audience what they want to hear.
That guy is also an Obama worshipper, when Obama was the man who brought Chicago machine politics to the Oval Office. They truly yearn for a “benevolent” master.
Sharknado is more based on reality than that article.
It’s almost beyond fucking belief that a political alliance are willing to brand half of the country as racists, deplorables, etc. Fucking unreal. If someone would have said this could actually happen just a few years ago, I wouldn’t have believed it. But it’s where they are going, yeah they’re really going there. Congrats, lefties, you’ve totally removed any possibility of common ground or even dialogue.
When they hear Trump call Baltimore a shithole, they think he’s blaming the residents (despite the fact that he explicitly blamed the politicians) – because that is what they really believe when they call the rest of the country a shithole. They hate all Americans who won’t go along with their program.
80% of the city is a sprawling ghetto, I’m not exaggerating. How do I know that? I live here. The politicians are as corrupt as any third world shithole and the voters are just as stupid.
All that may be true but Salon is lying through their teeth when they claim that’s what Trump says.
It’s Salon. It’s what they do. When reality does not fit your narrative, lie.
It’s this extreme hyperbole where Romney is Hitler and wants to put you in chains.
Then comes Trump, indisputably more brash than Romney. If Romney was already a horrid sexist shit lord, what is Trump???!!! Horror of horrors!! We already used the Hitler comparison with Milquetoast Mitt. Now what?
They work themselves into a berserker frenzy and end up believing that they are in mortal danger. It’s the only way to cover for what fools they have been, even in their own minds.
Elijah Cummins claimed his nephew came crying to him asking “Uncle Elijah, are they going to put us in chains?”
Either Elijah is full of shit and made it up, or that kid’s parent/guardian is doing a terrible job.
“Romney is Hitler and wants to put you in chains.”
I’ve said it many times, but it is not Trump who is the target of their hatred. It is anyone who would have beaten their chosen candidate. Jeb Bush would have become Hitler if he were put in Trump’s place. The only difference is that Jeb would be constantly apologizing and even trying to kowtow to their most commie desires. But that wouldn’t make any difference at all, he would still be Hitler as well as everyone who voted for him. Trying to appease these people is not only useless, it’s dangerous.
Jeb Bush would have become Hitler if he were put in Trump’s place.
Quoted for truth.
Until the next election, and it would be why can’t the R’s nominate a reasonable candidate like Jeb? And twenty years later, it would be St Jeb.
Just like they did with Reagan.
Exactly.
Good Lord, I’m glad my wife turned off her novelas she recorded to watch today. A person could go fucking blind, how can I focus on shit posting? Where the fuck do they get those women? Jeebus.
From binders?
Umm, where can I find these binders?
Call up uncle Mitt. He has You covered
Mittens does not understand the thiccness. Maybe I should call HM instead?
Thicc binders?
Much thicc binders.
Any of you gamers that are out here this fine afternoon, anyone taken a look at Greedfall? Unless the comments on Steam are really negative the first day, I’ll probably buy it. I’m currently giving Technomancer a 2nd look and it seems a lot better than when it first came out. Not sure if that’s because they patched it up or I have a lot better monitor and GPU than I did then. But I don’t think it’s the latter, I remember the camera being all sorts of quirky, but it seems fine now.
That dog has one helluva nose.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/border-patrol-seize-nearly-four-tons-of-marijuana-packed-in-jalapenos/
“four-tons-of-marijuana-packed-in-jalapenos”
That was going to be some spicey smoke.
They do scientific tests that show the dogs detect scents more sensitively than our most advanced tech equipment.
Hell, they can sniff out cancer! That’s amazing.
Thye didn’t individually stuff the jalepenos?
What a ripoff.
It gives me a culinary inspiration if weed is ever legalized here in the People’s Republic of Murland. Roasted weed stuffed jalapenos. Most spicy buzz ever.
Aw, too bad. I was hoping for a 80’s Reese’s commercial parody.
From that Salon thing:
It does not require the discerning eye of Sherlock Holmes to notice that the geographic objects of Trump’s hatred are always metropolitan areas with high percentages of black inhabitants. If the far right were sincere in their concerns about urban decay, they would use their political power to provide assistance, in the form of targeted public policy, to poor neighborhoods.
Whycome them Republicans no think like me? The nerve o’ dem guys!
“they would use their political power to provide assistance, in the form of targeted public policy, to poor neighborhoods.”
I’m going to need some elaborating here.
I have a friend who just got on the TDSwagon, hard, this is what he sounds like, it’s amazing and sad.
That’s a curious way to phrase “more sackloads of cash”.
“That’s a curious way to phrase “more sackloads of cash”
That somehow disappear and so now we need more sackloads?
What they have in common is that they are solid blue controlled places that have run out of other people’s money. If only the far right white nazi nationalist supremicist deplorable pieces of shit cared they would give them more money. Now give them more money!
Sorry, but all of the taxpayers moved out. We have no idea why.
Yeah, that’ll solve the problem.
Cummings is dumber than a box of rocks. Exactly the sort of politician who will keep getting re-elected again and again in this city. If it wan’t for the geographic location of Baltimore, the natural beauty of the bay and the surrounding area, we would be Detroit on steroids already. Even with that, the city has managed to bleed 40% of it’s population in a decade. It takes a special sort of stupid to accomplish something like that. Pretty sure wifey and I will be gone in less than a year.
Also, I read your comment on telenovela chicas, and I raise you Yanet.
If you like T&A, Globo is your friend.
There was a dedicated group of soldiers who would gather in our barracks room every day to watch Xuxa back in the early 1990s.
I remember my wife talking about that. I think I saw one retro of that. Every year during Carnival in Rio, Globo has this dance contest my wife ‘makes’ me watch with her and try to pick the winner. She always goes for the best costume, but she always says I will pick the one with the best ass, and OMG there is some serious competition there.
LOL I remember Camille Paglia getting the vapors over that event one year.
As long as you can’t understand her, may as well listen to this dodgy bastard talk about her.
I like Ozzy Man.
That was funny! I hadn’t seen the 1year anniversary of his discovery of booty.
Thanks for sharing
Dark clouds rolling in, and lots of thunder in the distance.
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Might not be grilling up my ribeyes tonight.
It was a dark and stormy night…
I have more Gosling’s Black Seal Rum and ginger beer so I can make Dark n Stormies.
Oooh… is it the Goslings brand ginger beer? How is that stuff?
Yes. It’s very good.
Thanks. I’ve been looking to try it but the only place by me that carries it is the fancy beer store and he charges a lot for it.
I’m having to restrain my drinking tonight. I have to drive into the city to see a client tomorrow. Damnit.
I’m done drinking for the day. Work, gym, and physical therapy tomorrow.
Work and walking. My gym will be the mean streets of Balmer tomorrow, I typically get in about 3 miles on my lunch hour. Trying to avoid potential muggers and cell phone zombies makes it more interesting.
The grill hissed and sputtered as Sean yelled at the umbrella orphan to keep it covered.
As the moonlight broke the inky black,
And thunder called on queue,
At hayek
As rain poured down, in violent sheets,
On Sean’s bbq,
A little restructuring there and we could have a killer haiku
Haiku is the least sensical form of poetry.
“The night was sultry.”
Incorrect.
-10 Teds.
You obviously don’t get the reference to Throw Momma From the Train.
I’m going to need some elaborating here.
None so blind as those who will not see. The same sort of wise benevolent targeted public policy which has made places like Chicago and Baltimore the envy of the civilized world, you Nazi.
Cheeseburgers and potato salad.
Yum as hell! New York steak on electric skullet,
Bob Evan’s garlic mashies
We had a butterfly (Northern Swallowtail) emerge yesterday with some defects: hole in wing, gimpy leg. We fed and pampered it and hoped it would fly but a wing broke off on an attempt so I sent it to visit Youth In Asia a few minutes ago. I know it’s just a bug but I still feel like shit having to take an innocent life in a non-food capacity.
I’m not sure if was those or Yellow Monarchs, but a couple of months ago, we’d go out on our deck and there were dozens of those floating around in the forest, Pretty cool. We were getting a lot of fireflies, lightning bugs, whatever, last night.
Sweet! I love fireflies. When I was wee I would chase them for hours.
Y’all can go to Babylon Bee yourself, but i think this headline is really all you need to read on this one:
“Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That’s Where Israel Is”
If dudes get 72 virgins, what do loud CV mouthed idiots get?
Just you shut up and behold the power of the Twat Squad. I’ve been told they’re very powerful and are going to take down badorangeman.
That’s pretty good. Those guys are killing it lately.
I love them so much.
“I thought weather like storms and earthquakes were all caused by climate change”
So, tectonic plate shifts is weather? OK then.
Wonderwall works well on the Ukulele, and I sing it well, please note, I play what works well for the instrument, not always my favorite songs, but everyone likes some songs, so I m building a list for Uku
What’s the difference between that and a mandolin?
A mandolin has more strings.
Oh. OK. I’m pretty sure I’ve played one before (mandolin), but that was a long time ago. When I think about that sort of instrument, I always think Tommy Shaw.
I saw Styx about 8 years ago and Tommy Shaw looked like he did in 1985. I mean exactly like he did. It was Kansas, Foreigner, and Styx. Styx stole the whole thing by a wide margin. They ditched the show tunes guy and focused on the guitar rock. It paid off.
I saw Styx 2 times in Cincy. I think it was 78 and 80. They were the best sounding band I have ever heard live and Shaw was just fucking amazing. I might have my timeline a little off, it’s been a long time, but I remember Castle Walls at the first one and Renegade in the last one.
And you have to be, you know, talented, to play one.
I wasn’t going to go there.
Yeah, hence the preamble in my comment below.
Like this.
Tommy Shaw
At the very least, 4 strings.
Wife all of the sudden wants to buy me a guitar and amp for my bday. I don’t even know where that came from. I never play anymore. I have an old beat up Aria Pro guitar that I never even take out of the case anymore. I’ve owned some great guitars, but I sold all of them. Probably my biggest regret is selling my 1968 Gibson Rosewood Flying V. Probably a good down payment on a new house if I still had it.
Your wife wants to buy you a guitar because chicks are hot for guitar players. Mr. GT has never gone for Flying Vs – not an ergonomic shape, he says. His go-to has been Hamer Standards. (Same shape as Gibson Explorer.) He’s had some gorgeous ones – a goldtop and a blue quilted maple (bookmatched!) in particular. They’re gone, and Hamer’s outta bidness, sadly, but one might be found used. If she’s up for buying you a decent axe, why would you not let her? Play it a little and let nature take its course.
“If she’s up for buying you a decent axe, why would you not let her? Play it a little and let nature take its course.”
I don’t have any plans to stop her, I’m just surprised that she wants to, the topic has never even come up before, in 10 years of marriage.
Les Paul for the chunky solid sound, all day.
I can think of better uses for bullion.
Further proof that we are in the best timeline (or at least one with a killer sense of humor). In a nearby town, there is both a Schmuck and a Poindexter running for Council at Large seats.
I voted for the lulz, for the lulz, for the lulz…
“So Sagittarians: life been kind of shitty for a while now?”
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh… about that. Things gotta get better than this.
“Sagittarius: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall decadence, ruin, perdition.”
Oh joy.
Don’t worry, Not Adahn’s track record of prognostication is worse than the Climate Change alarmists. All of us Capricorns would have lone since been homeless and dead if not for that.
Normally I wouldn’t put much stock in any horoscopes, but goddamn… the last two weeks have sucked more than most. Really need the future week to be nicer for sanity’s sake.
He foresaw an uptick last Sunday, and I’m suddenly looking at a couple of positions. I might have to go back to work * kicks dirt *
A broken clock is right at least 2 times a day. Sorry Adahn, I’m not saying I don’t believe in this astrology shit, but I don’t believe in it.
I certainly don’t believe in it. Was just a silly observation.