I guess since I’m out of the school season, and we don’t exactly have seasons here, my biorhythms are off. Well, maybe all my rhythms. It’s very confusing. New Years is only a couple weeks off, Yom Kippur right behind that. I don’t have my shul tickets, they don’t give senior discounts, so I guess I’ll continue my 51 year track record of disappointing Yahweh. But I’ll try not to disappoint you, the Glibertariant, eagerly awaiting my links and snarky comments.
Birthdays always lead, though, and the first of September honors a true gentleman; the guy who named Tarzana; the woman who immortalized the lily; the original and best Rocky; a guy who smoothly glides between being a moron and an interesting voice; a woman who was very funny but is generally a moron; and a reliably mendacious attention whore of no great accomplishment.
News coming up next.
Good luck with that project, guys.
Millennials can’t spell. Lawyers incoming!
This guy may have been one of the online dates Tulip was lining up.
Shockingly, if you attract business investors to New York, they tend to be rich. Note the careful, deliberate, and mendacious conflation of target market with workers and newly-created jobs.
Watching SP trying to explain this to Mom was amusing.
Team Blue never bothers waiting for the bodies to cool before standing on them.
The Vikings truly will never change. Perfect irony if he ends up back on the Ravens, waiting to be used again for another free draft pick.
Old Guy Music today asks the question, “Did you hear that there’s a new Tool album?” and then answers it.
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If someone would have told me a decade ago that Id spend the morning of my 50th b-day going to church with my best friend and an aged neighbor, I would’ve asked to have w/e they were smoking.
Uh, what did you think you’d be doing at 50? And Happy Birthday!
Waking up in a pool of my own vomit, covered in nacho cheese and stripper glitter?
Quality nacho cheese, or that semi-edible stuff you can buy in a can? It matters.
Velveeta and Rotel
It’s not too late, Tres. Start now !
Congrats on another milestone, thank your parents, they did a good job.
Happy Birthday, Pardner
That’s reserved for under 30/over 80,
Definitely not for the over 80 crowd, I learned a long time ago what was causing those discomforts. Under 30, I’ll admit to the guilt of youth.
I have underwear older than you.
I assume they are crusty juggler’s namesake
Are you currently wearing them?
It’s 6 am, I’m still commando.
Now there’s a mental image I would have happily gone the rest of my life without.
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh
Yes–Happy Birthday. You missed birthday well-wishing in the last thread by….well, an hour.
Happy implied birthday !!
Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday ???
https://www.cnet.com/news/people-who-use-emojis-have-more-sex/
They are not wrong.
/humblebrag
Happy Birthday, Homey.
You rock.
It was either that or this. I made a judgment call.
Happy 50th, my man.
Happy 50th dude! I spent my 50th in Pattaya Thailand and won’t get into details, but, ya, yours sounds fun too.
“Happy Birthday!” — Frosty the Snowman
Happy birthday, Tres!
Here’s to fitty more!
Happy Birthday!
“Mr. Scaramucci’s development in New Orleans offers a portrait of how the tax break works. His investment company, SkyBridge Capital, is using the so-called opportunity zone initiative to help build a hotel, outfitted with an opulent restaurant and a rooftop pool, in the city’s trendy Warehouse District.”
And this hotel/restaurant will employ zero people, or perhaps only employ the super wealthy, right NYT?
And the structure itself will be built completely by robots, or perhaps just spring forth, whole, from the ground.
And the supplies this hotel/restaurant will need after construction will be produced by no one, and delivered by nobody, every day.
See, in Timesworld, if your job involves customers who are rich, it’s not actually a job.
What if you’re a hipster ripping off trustafarians?
Word!!! If you love what you do it’s like not working at all and 20 bucks is 20 bucks.
Built with slave labor and stolen material.
-TImes.
Look, let me be clear… the failure to invest in our cities and in neglected, lower income areas is because of racism. Failing to invest in poor neighborhoods is racism, pure and simple.
Now, to be sure, there are those who will say that our cities are a bad investment. But I say they are the greatest investment opportunity. But we must have responsible investment. Those seeking to profit from investing in our poor communities by building stores that target poor people will not be tolerated. This is racist. And those who would seek to build things that do not serve the poor, like distribution warehouses that employ 25,000 people, will not be tolerated. This racist exploitation of the poor cannot be allowed.
So when those who would exploit our poor by building fancy hotels catering to the rich and seeking to exploit the poor by offering them jobs move into these areas, we will fight them! We will expose their corrupt profit motive and protect the poor from this racist exploitation.
Because it is racism that has left these areas poor and these people behind.
Well, you saw what happened to Amazon when they refused to guarantee that all those coder jobs were going to go to the residents of the nearby housing project.
Last year, an employee called police on two black men sitting in a downtown location, and they were led away in handcuffs.
WaPo writers. SMDH. Nothing else happened between that comma and “and”?
Hey Mike S, I recommend Schaum’s Outlines for math classes. I would sometimes have trouble understanding they way the professor explained stuff and the outlines provide worked examples that are helpful. I used them all the way through topography.
+1000. The *only* way to gain math fluency is doing lots and lots of problems. The Schaum’s guides gave me plenty of problems to work, and concise explanations of the concepts.
Agree in all – especially doing lots of problems.
My dad had Schaum’s Outlines in the family bookshelf so it just seemed normal to have them on mine. I even had some of his on mine.
Several of our faculty still use Schaum’s Outlines as textbooks. Last time I taught linear programming, I found the Schaum’s very helpful for some alternative ways of looking at things, esp duality (although I didn’t make it the textbook). They are a great series. OMWC is spot on.
Wow, HS flashback. Neat that they’re still around.
Used Schaum’s Outlines a lot in Economics, Finance and Statistics courses. Invaluable, and quite inexpensive to boot. Unlike the effin’ textbooks . . .
Math is racist. Next thing we know, you’ll be putting up a dude wall.
I have an ex I stayed friends with who has a dude wall in his home. Kind of tacky if you ask me.
Thanks, Tulip! I am heading to Amazon to find them now.
Stanly County Police Captain Chris Huneycutt said because she did not harm anybody or make any threats, the woman wouldn’t be charged with any wrongdoing. “Obviously we’re gonna suggest no one take a gun to a bus stop to pick up a child,” Huneycutt told WSOC, “but as far as it being a criminal behavior, we cannot find a criminal violation.”
How can this be? Call a special session of the legislature. If you let one mother bring her scary assault rifle to the bus stop, everybody will want to do it. Don’t normalize that thing that goes up.
I’m beginning to have hope for the future. Here we have two stories in a couple of days about moms with guns getting into a little thug school trouble without committing any crimes.
I’m hoping this makes other moms more discerning about “mom” movements for the children etc.
Women are bitches. We should know better than to empower other bitches over us.
Dave Chappelle had a really good bit about this. Ostensibly coming from a pro-gun-control point of view, he told a story about being black in rural Ohio among all of the “poor whites”. After seeing a white dude with a hunting rifle on his property, he goes to Walmart to buy a gun. A white redneck employee happily helps him chose a shotgun and ammunition for home defense – a story that is very subversive to the racism narrative.
Then he goes on to explain how black people can be the saviors of the nation and bring about strict gun control. He urges every black person to go out and register a legal firearm. The joke, of course, is that white people are racist and will clutch their pearls and ban guns.
But his story of his own gun purchase puts the lie to this – as does the position of the NRA.
Very subversive, this guy.
And the left has noticed. There are a lot of proggie articles up decrying him as a race traitor who is appealing to Americas white nationalist movement.
It was a great bit, although I’m not sure I’d call Yellow Springs, OH that rural.
“Bird shot will just pepper a man, it won’t kill ’em.”
True Story:
When I was newly and unhappily divorced, a couple of buddies took me out to go barhopping. The first place we went there were two attractive blond ladies sitting at the bar. As we approached them, you could see that one was smoking a cigarette. So I told my buddy – you get the smoker. As we started talking and joking with the girls, we learned that they were sisters out celebrating one of the ladies divorce. Things were progressing fairly well and getting rather flirty very quickly when my buddy pointed to her beer.
Huh?
“You might want to rethink that trade-off about the cigarette.”
I looked again and as she lifted it to her lips she didn’t take a sip. She was dipping…..
Yeah, they were from Ohio.
Therefore, all of Ohio is rural. And redneck. Except downtown Cleveland.
I’m not in downtown Cleveland, and it’s not rural where I am… there is a strong redneck contingent though. But I’d rather have cars on blocks, illegal chicken raising, above ground pools, and duct taped on bumpers then an HOA or progs as neighbors.
And they were probably from south of Columbus, everything south of Columbus is pretty much Kentucky.
/dodges fire from the Kentucky glibs who don’t want ownership of southern Ohio either.
Yeah, I met one set of chicks from Ohio when I was dating. Therefore they are representative of all chicks in Ohio. Therefore all of Ohio.
Sorry, you are stuck with their label. All Ohio women smoke and chew tobacco. It is known.
But perilously close to Springfield, Xenia, and Hubriar Heights.
Although the proximity to Xenia may only mean a greater threat of tornadoes.
The was a gas station in Huber Heights that sold sausage sandwiches that were pretty good. I’d always stop and get one (and a sixer of Busch) as I traveled the 70. Haven’t been there in 27 years, but man I loved that sausage.
The school my boy goes to has a big sign out front that announces that the faculty are armed, and the principal stands at the drop off point every morning while open carrying.
Today is also the birthday of my younger twin brothers. I always thought they caught a hell of a break getting their birthday on labor day weekend every year. They got to throw the best parties.
Meh. My birthday is the middle of April, on rare years, it syncs up with Easter. Being a young kid and
gettinghaving to go to church on your birthday can quickly help you start questioning religion.My birthday is on Flag Day every year, same as Burl Ives and Steffi Graf.
And the Army!
Mine is early April, so I had the same problem as a kid.
At the opposite end, I once dated a girl whose birthday was December 31. And my wife’s birthday is St. Patrick’s Day, so everybody celebrates her birthday.
There were three generations in my family who had the same birthday in early March. And I always feel bad for those who have their birthday on Christmas, because they always get the short end of the stick on gifts, and they get stuck with the terrible holiday themed names (Holly, Carol, etc).
#metoo
Even worse, it syncs up with tax day every year.
My sister and I are 2 years apart and our birthdays are 2 weeks apart so we usually had a joint bday celebration.
A couple of times it was full Monty pool party with cake and party favor bags?etc, but usually just a family affair.
One year my harried parents put our gifts, unwrapped, into 2 paper grocery bags, one for her, one for me. They folded over the bags, stapled them shut, and slapped bows on them.
We thought it was the best thing ever, like a Christmas stocking. It became annual tradition.
Wait, you and your sister went the full monty at family pool parties?
I knew there were some wild folk around here…. but dang, girl!
Full Monty = a moose once bit her sister
One year my harried parents put our gifts, unwrapped, into 2 paper grocery bags, one for her, one for me. They folded over the bags, stapled them shut, and slapped bows on them.
My sister did more or less the same thing one year, although in her defense it was because of the TSA bullshit about wrapped gifts. Another year she bought a bunch of gift cards at the last minute and let everybody pick out which one they wanted. Personally, I don’t mind getting Amazon gift cards.
My other sister used to send me Dunkin’ Donuts gift cards, but now she lives in one of those shitty states without Dunkin’ Donuts and sends me Starbucks cards every year.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted directly at President Trump urging him to “DO SOMETHING.”
How about STFU, Andy? That would be something.
“New Years is only a couple weeks off, Yom Kippur right behind that. I don’t have my shul tickets”
Jew stuff is confusing to me.
Just become Calvinist. You’re either in or you’re not. Nothing you can do about it.
From the little I’ve talked to them, Jehovah’s Witnesses have a similar belief. They did not look kindly upon me when I said I’d just play the odds then.
No, seriously, this bag has my actual Jew Gold in it.
Possibly best South Park of all time
Pretty great…
But I gotta go with either Scientology or Mormons.
Mormons is my pick, because they spent a half hour destroying everything about the Mormon faith. And then just as you are sitting there all smug about it they hit you with the kick line, delivered by the little Mormon boy to Stan:
“All I ever did was try to be your friend, Stan, but you’re so high and mighty you couldn’t look past my religion and just be my friend back. You’ve got a lot of growing up to do, buddy. Suck my balls.”
Absolutely perfect, pointed directly at the audience sitting there smugly judging the Mormons.
Mormons https://youtu.be/tPWWMVzjJXE
Holy cow, that is fantastic!
http://www.when-is.com/rosh-hashanah-2019.asp
Yom Kippur? I think OMWC is just laying the groundwork for some time off with a new employer because that sounds made up.
Like Robomadan ?
So many lynx!! Finally worked through them all.
I am notorious for the length and girth of… my links.
STEVE SMITH SAY, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
“Moment Texas cops corner and kill white gunman in a parking lot after he shot dead FIVE and injured 21 – including a 17-month-old girl – while firing ‘indiscriminately’ from a hijacked mail truck during high-speed rampage sparked by a traffic stop”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415079/Multiple-injuries-reported-active-shooter-incident-Odessa-Texas.html
Because you have to put his race in the headline?
Unless he’s the Navy Shipyard shooter, yes.
When it’s a white guy you publicize the race so people don’t think it was a minority. When it’s a minority you don’t publicize the race because you don’t want to stigmatize minorities. It’s simple really.
Or as one of the UK blogs puts it, “Men of no appearance”.
Whites aren’t prone to violence and crime like the blacks and browns are so it is newsworthy when one of us breaks bad.
RE: cell signal boosters.
Regulated or not, does anyone have any experience with them? I have thought about getting one for a long time. My house is way out in the boonies and my service can be pretty sketchy.
Depending on the carrier, you can often get them to provide a local cell device for your house for free. I know T-Mobile used to offer a device that connects to your internet and acts as a little cell tower.
Of course, many rural places use the cell network as their internet provider, so that’s not much help in that case.
My cell network is my internet too, so yeah, probably a no go.
We have one provided for free by AT&T. It works great. Prior to that our service was worse than sketchy. It was nonexistent.
Sounds like white privilege…
his Islamic name pronounced ah-zeez.
And he couldn’t possibly have an accent that makes the z’s sound like s’s, thus making his name sound like isis to the cashier.
There is no chance that someone bombarded by hundreds of names per day could ever mis-hear anything. And surely they know the correct spelling of every name ever invented in any language.
No, this is clearly racism. He is right – an apology is not enough. They should cut off the left hand of every employee at that starbucks, and every executive up the chain to the CEO. This is the only way that people learn. It is known.
Relevant
People mispronounce my last name all the time. I have a single syllable common word for a last name. Doesn’t stop people from flat out getting it wrong All. The. Time.
Your name is really Trash for reals?
Same here. It’s a common single-syllable 3 letter word, but apparently people think that would be too obvious so they insist on saying it wrong.
Our apologies, Mr. Ass.
But it was in the same city where a Starbucks employee last year called police on black men for sitting quietly! The racism is obviously endemic to the place; all Philadelphians should hang their heads in shame for the part they’ve played here.
“‘You will never know me’: Tiffany Trump posts quote from Persian poet to Instagram in the wake of her father ‘forgiving’ his former personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout for telling reporters the president thinks his daughter is overweight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415741/Tiffany-Trump-posts-quote-poet-Instagram-wake-reportedly-called-overweight.html
She is a little overweight it looks like. As long as he wasn’t belittling her that indicates concern.
More or less overweight than Demi Rose?
Both, strangely enough, depending on the angle.
That’s it? She told someone that Trump thinks his daughter is plump? So what? Firing her for that?
“She allegedly told them Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out from a crowd, and shared details about his 13-year-old son Barron ”
Oh, ok. I can see firing.
And for buddying up to the press and trying to ingratiate yourself by dishing on your boss.
And the press guy is a grade A dick. He was at an explicitly off-the-record lunch and he burned everyone’s source and her job just so he could get 15 seconds of glory.
That should be the story really. He screwed a lot of ‘anonymous’ sources and a lot of true reporters by printing it. Why would you speak off the record knowing they are just going to print it anyway.
And even absent that… he’s the dude at work who has lunch with a bunch of people and someone vents about something you did and he comes to you and says “I just think you should know…”
Just stirring the pot for the sake of stirring the pot.
He should be shunned, but he’ll be lionized by his peers – because orange man bad.
I have been putting it off for a couple of years now but we had to break down yesterday and buy a new 5 ton central air/ heat system. I thought I could keep the one we have now limping along forever but it is not to be. I am having the new one installed downstairs and we are losing a sizable pantry. While they are at it we are having the water heater replaced and installed downstairs as well. Both of those systems are nearing 14 years old – the end of their lives – and I hate hate hate the current ones installed in the attic. Who the hell thinks it is a good idea to put systems involving water in the attic? That is certain disaster.
I am consoling myself about the money spent ( a mere 16K…*ack agghhh choke* which is probably cheap by what many of you would be paying where you live) by thinking about both systems being downstairs, easy to service and I will never have to repair or replace sections of the ceiling again.
They are showing up Wednesday morning and swear they can do the job in one day. We will see. In the mean time I am having to turn the house upside down to make room for the new systems. I will be quite busy but don’t think. you can get away with anything. I will be looking in on y’all now and then….
That sucks. My central unit is about 20 years old. It’s still trucking along and all I have ever had to do to it aside from regular maintenance stuff is change the contactor once and replace the condenser fan bearings. I hope I get a lot more life out of it. As you well know, new systems ain’t cheap.
That was what I was hoping to do. However since R22 is being phased out and our complete unit is 20 years old, we decided to get a new outside unit since the coils and furnace is still good. Still was not cheap though.
That said price spread for new compressor to the new comdenser unit was only an extra $1000 or so.
I bit the bullet last year at this time and purchased a new furnace and water heater. Both should last over 20 years. The previous ones were over 30 years old. It was a big check, but no more fears of having my pipes freeze if my pilot light gets blown out while I’m out of town for the weekend.
I’m going to be replacing my central air/ heat system — both the outside and inside units. Any advice on what to buy?
Fortunately, the new one should just fit where the old one is now, so I don’t need to turn the place upside down.
My buddy in the business says the computer controlled electronic units are crap. They’ve started moving back to simple solid state electronic controls. So look into that.
When I had a problem with my older unit, simply replacing parts like capacitors and electric motors did the trick. Really easy to diagnose and really cheap and easy to fix yourself. The computer boards apparently go bad much more frequently, and you have to buy the manufacturer’s part for hundreds.
^^^this.
An A/C is a fairly simple machine. To control it, all that is needed is a few relays, some switches, and a thermostat. Putting an expensive control board on one does little more than add cost and complexity.
I’m thinking of the Carrier Comfort series. I have no idea what kind of control circuits it uses.
Day of the AC replacement it seems. Had to decide to replace our compressor that took a shit on the hottest weekend in Vegas or get a new condensing unit.
Went with the condensing unit and found a local family owned business that we bartered part of the price down with our grooming business.
No greater sin than central air.
I’ve got a new furnace on the road map for replacement at some point in the next year or two. It’s around 30 years old, and past EOL, but it’s needed one (relatively) cheap repair so far. The difficult part is figuring out if the 98% efficiency one will pay for the price difference over the 95% efficiency one.
If the old one is 30 years old, the new one is going to be way more efficient, regardless. Although, I looked at the same thing. From what I can tell the high-end models are diminishing returns. Unless there is a massive increase in the price of electricity, the difference in efficiency will never pay off the difference in price.
Natural gas here, not electric. And that’s what a quick run through was showing to me as well (unless the replacement furnace lasts 50+ years). The problem is that there’s going to need to be some duct work involved in replacing the furnace. But it will mean that there’s an actual filter to replace after the replacement.
It also depends on what you do with the price differences. If you invest it, that could make more money that investing the tiny difference in your gas bill for the life of the furnace.
Right?
Electricity has remained quite cheap, making this tough calculus. If the price of electricity should move to catch up to inflation, it would completely flip the math. But how do you model that into a 10 or 20 year projection?
Be sure to consider that the HE units need yearly maintenance and will have a earlier EOL than the less efficient units. The second stage in the exhaust is what gives the higher efficiency, but causes the additional maintenance and early failure.
https://www.bassetheating.com/high-efficiency-furnace-problems/
In 2005 I went to work for a company that manufactured 3 phase electric motors that were in the 20-150hp range. When I started, we manufactured bothersome standard efficiency and high efficiency motors. We sold a lot of both types. Around 2007 or so, new regulations came out that said all our motors had to meet certain efficiency standards, so we discontinued out standard efficiency line.
The main difference in high vs. Standard efficiency motor is the air gap between the rotor and the stator core. HE motors have a smaller gap. This allows for a more efficient transfer electromagnetic force from the stator windings into the rotor. That all sounds good, but there is a problem. As with all things, there is a tradeoff.
The only wear part in an AC motor is the bearings. Bearings wear out and can be replaced fairly easily. However, if the bearing wear allows the rotor to come into contact with stator core, then you have a blown up motor that needs a total rewind. This is not easy at all, and vastly more expensive. Further, AC motors rarely fail for any other reason than this. There is not a whole lot else that can go wrong with one. By forcing everyone to buy HE only motors, the stateIn 2017, three of the top five costliest hurricanes on record hit. has vastly increased the failure rate of all AC motors.
Trade offs, trade offs, trade offs.
Who the hell thinks it is a good idea to put systems involving water in the attic? That is certain disaster.
This.
I’m contemplating whether or not to be stupid enough to replace my own air handler. I want to move it from the attic to the basement and run new ducts. The miser in me says that I could figure it out if I took it slow and did my research. The realist in me says that I know very little about any of it, and I’d screw up more than I could possibly know at the outset.
I’ve often read that most hvac systems are comparable, but it’s the quality of the installer that matters most. *shrug*
You can do it.
Ouch. We replaced both in the past two years and it was less than half that, but ours did not require relocation. Also, we got my BIL family discount for the heater/A.C. replacement.
I was talking to someone who works at a hvac company this week. She told me she was having a bad summer, due to a really high amount of warranty claims. Seems there was a bad batch of coils made last year and a lot of new units were failing.
DOOOOOOOOM
Emergency managers are sounding this alarm for several reasons. The first is climate change. Weather patterns are simply more unpredictable. In 2017, three of the top five costliest hurricanes on record hit. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated that the cumulative damages from weather and climate-related disasters in the United States totaled more than $300 billion in 2017.
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the population density along the Gulf and East Coast — areas prone to hurricanes — has increased since 1980. Meanwhile, income inequality is growing more pronounced, which can exacerbate recovery efforts.
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Regardless of what President Trump is telling you, heed the advice of real experts. Emergency managers will always say “we are never as ready as we should be” because you can’t foresee everything. But the Trump Administration has not prioritized disaster preparedness, and despite the efforts of professional emergency managers, we have plenty of work cut out for us in the years ahead.
Trump ruins everything, man.
The mendacity is strong with this one.
Trump: check.
Climate change: check
Income inequality: check
Underfunded unnecessary government: check
Never change CNN and by never I mean please do.
In the name of God, go!
“In 2017, three of the top five costliest hurricanes on record hit.”
Do not look at the national flood insurance program that incentivizes building costly properties in hurricane prone areas behind the curtain.
Or simple inflation and population growth.
That too.
One question:
How in the world do you draw the connection to income inequality?
Income inequality hampers recovery efforts? What the hell? That literally makes no sense to me – it is complete gibberish.
By that estimation West Palm Beach Florida should never recover – you have the Palm Beach folks who are all billionaires, and poor downtown areas like Riviera Beach. But they’ll be back up and running quickly after any hurricane, because they are as well prepared as any area in the nation. FPL has replaced most power poles with concrete monstrosities that are not going anywhere in a hurricane.
In fact, because of grid priorities like hospitals, water and sewage facilities and schools, some poor neighborhoods might be up and running faster than the islands of billionaires.
“This… is CNN.”
Tenacious clinger
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just finished three weeks of radiation treatment for a tumor on her pancreas, but she told a crowd on Saturday that she is “on [her] way to being very well.”
Ginsburg, speaking with NPR’s Nina Totenberg at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., said she would be prepared for the start of the Supreme Court’s term in October.
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Ginsburg’s health remains a constant subject of scrutiny, because if she were to leave the court before the end of President Donald Trump’s term, Republicans would likely move quickly to replace her with a conservative justice and solidify a 6-to-3 conservative majority.
“They’ll have to carry me out of there, feet first.”
If trump gets to replace her, the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the corporate media will be heard all around the world.
Whoever may be nominated to replace her is going to be the rapiest raper that ever raped.
Which puts me to mind of something that nobody in the media has noticed.
“The called shot”.
Should Trump get another nominee, this will be a called shot. Long before he/she/they/it existed, everyone knew that they would violently oppose the nominee and use illegitimate smear tactics.
Which is what brings me to the Epstein story. They enjoyed harping on the “conspiracy theories” as being unfounded and nutty. But that wasn’t the point. The point was that it was a called shot. Long before it happened, everyone was saying “he won’t make it to trial”, and “The Clintons will take him out”.
So when he offs himself in a suspicious way, normal people said, “Hey, wait a minute! We were just joking about that! WTF??”
And yet the media conveniently leaves out the most important bit. That everyone was joking about it in advance.
So be prepared to be labeled racist because you question the accuser of the next nominee who says he/she/it/they was insulted by the racist nominee in kindergarten.
I am sure he has already raped a half-dozen women who don’t have any idea who he is yet.
Here’s my called shot.
It won’t be a he. It will be that anti-abortion Catholic chick. Because Trump knows how to troll like nobody else in history.
And it won’t be sexual misconduct. It will be something about being a racist. Because the think tanks decided that they have to go with the racism angle this time around – to gin up the black vote to Obama levels.
It will absolutely be a woman, of that you can be certain. And IIRC that woman has already been short-listed in the past.
Watching the Dems go anti-Catholic (again) is going to be the popcorn event of next year.
“That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive,” the justice said.
Trump level snark.
ZING!
How long will it take for Ginsberg to go from revered icon to stupid evil bitch for croaking during Trump’s Presidency instead of graciously stepping down for the good of the nation in order to allow Obama to appoint her successor?
Ain’t gonna happen, the tough old gal’s gonna see 100 from the bench.
100 what? Unconstitutional opinions?
No way she sees another 14 years.
Cheetos dust is magical.
Two thumbs up for Old Man music.
The new Tool album is amazing. I had my first listen last night. So far I’m loving the tracks 7empest and Pneuma which I’ve now listened to multiple times. Danny Carey is a monster on this album, Bonham and Peart territory.
I haven’t had time to listen yet. I really hope it’s good. I have loved Tool for a long time, but I never really got into 10,000 days, and since it took roughly 10,000 days for them to make another album, I hope it was worth the wait.
10,000 days was my least favorite Tool album. This new album is extremely layered and complex. It’s going to take a number of listens to digest it all. Overall it’s fantastic and worth the 13 year wait. It reminds me a lot of the Lateralus album, except more modern if that makes any sense?
Alright. Time to bang out some work so I don’t have to wake up even earlier on Tuesday.
Stupid people asking for massive changes over a holiday weekend.
Labor day is a socialist holiday. I will be going in tomorrow morning like a good libertarian.
Agreed. I got work to do.
Congrats on the new position. When does that start?
I accepted it yesterday. Head boss man said we would get together this week and come up with a transition plan.
Excellent.
I’ll be taking my contractual agreed upon pay for a day of not working, like a good Glibertarian.
Same here, for a half day anyway.
“WATCH: @chrislhayes on the electoral college: “The weirdest thing about the electoral college is the fact that if it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.” #inners”
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1167590061719937027
“Really makes you think”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1167803407610068997
But Hayes is technically correct which is the best kind of correct.
Check out their insightful weather reporting:
“Freezing. Frigid. Frosty. That’s what you can expect this winter if you’re in the United States, according to the Farmers’ Almanac.”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1168014630230224897
So winter..??
It’s quite the breaking story, aye?
Minnesoda hardest hit
LOL!
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1167873971062095873
A failure of the free market that there is no lesbian sex tape?
Hmmmph! If she’s THE Red-Headed Libertarian, I get to be The OTHER Red-Headed Libertarian. Bitch!
You would think the lack of souls would make all gingers libertarians.
Under the heading of “why there are no libertarian women”, the comments are almost exclusively “you are hot”.
While, as a dude, I’d enjoy that treatment even once in my life, I can understand that women generally find that off-putting.
You are so hot.
Show us your tits, cyto!
I’m in my 50’s, so that moment is coming soon. No moobs yet… but they ain’t what they used to be either.
Of course the other side of being older is …. I don’t give a shit. Look all you want. I know I ain’t impressing anyone any more.
There is a definite freedom in giving zero fucks.
“If you ever forget where to find the saddest people on twitter, just check out the people who reply to Stefan Molyneux’s tweets”
https://twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/1167905849018212353
https://twitter.com/birdarchist/status/1167951265294274565
“High heels are a crass sexual display.
They make breasts look larger by over-arching the back.
They make buttocks look larger because heels hoist them.
They make hips/buttocks sway more when walking.
They are giant codpieces for women.
Just low-rent lizard-brain manipulation”
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1167608530284818439
Not untrue. Failing to see how any of it is a bad thing, however.
I don’t know what’s more sad, those replies to Molyneux or those replies to the replies. Of course I’m replying to the replies to the replies so I don’t have much room to talk.
Which is why I’m not replying to you.
“The man, who has been hospitalized, had at least 39 guns, multiple grenades and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, according to police.”
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1167260445528526849
“Philadelphia police seize massive arsenal of weapons from suicidal man’s home
Police who were responding to a report of a suicidal man Wednesday discovered a cache of weapons which included firearms, grenades and ammunition inside the man’s home.
The 72-year-old man, who was not identified, was reported to police by his son who feared for his father’s wellbeing and told officers that there were firearms inside the home, Lieutenant Dennis Rosenbaum of the Philadelphia Police Department said Thursday.
Officers discovered what appeared to be a grenade after the man’s son asked police to remove his father’s weapons from the home, Rosenbaum said. Bomb squad experts who were called to the scene found that the grenade was inactive.
His family has the right to petition for the weapons, which have been put into storage. If not, or if the police deem the weapons unsafe, they will be destroyed and melted down after a certain period of time.
“I don’t think they’re going to be trying to get the weapons back,” Rosenbaum said. “I’ve talked to the family today as of an hour ago and they just don’t want them to wind up in the wrong hands. They seem to be very nice people.”
Pennsylvania law does not restrict a resident from owning hundreds of firearms, though it is unusual, according to Rosenbaum.
“As of right now we don’t have any crimes committed but the investigation will take some time,” he said. “As we go through we can make decisions as the information comes back.””
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-seize-massive-arsenal-weapons-suicidal-philadelphia-man-s-home-n1048116
?
“39 guns”
QED, the man’s a nut. Fire up the gun shredder.
Some suicider if he needs at least 39 guns
You can buy inactive grenades all over the place. They are just empty shells – usually used as training grenades – with spent fuse assemblies screwed in. They are no more dangerous than a pool ball. I’ve got one sitting on my desk right now.
As for his “arsenal” hell, I’ve got him beat by several guns and several thousand rounds of ammo.
Disarmed grenades make excellent paperweights and good conversation pieces and possessing them gives zero indication of one’s mental state. Nice how they put it in the headline like they were ready to explode at any moment.
My dad has late WW2 Japanese grenade. It’s pretty neat. It was made when the Japanese were basically out of metal, so its ceramic.
I’m sure the king men won’t auction off this despicable cash of Seth machines.
Death machines. Pardon my spellcheck
I’d be suicidal too, if I raised a son like that.
That’s 2,000 murders prevented or evaded.
Philly residents can sleep safe tonight, and wake up fresh for another day of racisming tomorrow.
“As of right now we don’t have any crimes committed but the investigation will take some time”
Known in “law” enforcement circles as “the Mueller”, also “Muellering”.
This is more fun than it should be.
https://thevisualiser.net
Landing page SFW.
I am thinking they could have come up with a better name. Perhaps something with sausage in it.
I heard on April 1 they tweak the algorithm to make you feel like you’re king of the world.
I thought you would prefer the Bounce Test.
Never forget. Never forgive.
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has apologized for wearing blackface during a skit at Auburn University more than 50 years ago.
Ivey said Thursday she still doesn’t recall the incident, but after a recording surfaced of her discussing the sketch with her then-fiancé and later first husband, Ben LaRavia, Ivey admitted it must be true.
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In a state like Alabama — infamous for its violence against and treatment of African Americans during the civil rights movement — Ivey’s admission could draw even more scrutiny. Ivey alluded to those tensions in her apology, saying it’s “not what my administration represents all these years later.”
“I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes, and I will do all I can — going forward — to help show the nation that the Alabama of today is a far cry from the Alabama of the 1960s,” Ivey said. “We have come a long way, for sure, but we still have a long way to go.”
In February, the Auburn student newspaper uncovered yearbook photos of members of Ivey’s sorority appearing in blackface, but the governor denied she ever participated.
Rep. Terri Sewell, the state’s only Democratic House member, tweeted that “Gov. Ivey’s admission today only deepens open wounds” and her “words of apology ring hollow if not met with real action to bridge the racial divide.”
A bridge built of money is what we need.
Odd how since it’s an R we have a struggle session and coverage from NPR, with Northam it’s been fully memory-holed.
NB: I think the trend of digging up embarrassing/inappropriate things from decades ago is bullshit no matter who did it.
Meh, They tried. The Northam thing went on for a few weeks (search NPR for “Northam blackface” there was tons of coverage), but he was smart and just waited it out. This lady could do the same, he made apologies too. Now if she refuses to step down and the demand for that continues for more than a couple weeks you’ll have a point.
The move is not to refuse to step down, it is to ignore it.
But we’ll see if the press lets that happen. Or if they only ask “when are you going to step down for your racist behavior” from now on.
Oh I agree, ignore it is what I’d do, But Northam did give a few apologies, remember at one his wife had to stop him from moonwalking, then just waited til the news cycle advanced. There were continued calls for him to quit but as the weeks went by it became old news and Trump picked a fight or did something else stupid and the spotlight shifted.
Joker Wants to Be a Movie About the Emptiness of Our Culture. Instead, It’s a Prime Example of It
Phoenix overacts, and the movie isn’t good.
Joker Is Powerful, Confused, and Provocative, Just Like the Character
Wait, the movie IS good!
At least it’s interesting.
Is it possible to overact when playing The Joker?
IMHO, a lot of the best moments (or pretty much the entire episode “Joker’s Favor”) of Mark Hamill’s performance as the voice of The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series were when the/The Joker (is the “the” before “Joker” supposed to be capitalized or not?) is in regular conversation mood rather than maniacally enjoying himself or venting in anger. Less subtlety in his performance would have ruined the quality of these moments (or the episode). Anyone else here remember “Joker’s Favor?”
/raises hand
Now who wants Chinese?
/different episode
For those Glibs other than Nephilium and Donation Not Taxation who are sadly lacking in the area of 1990’s pop culture:
honest-trailers.fandom.com/wiki/Honest_Trailer_-_Batman:_The_Animated_Series
“A few years ago, TV celebrity Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University to hand out a prize that’s given each year to a prominent female scientist. As Maddow entered the auditorium, someone overheard her say, “What is up with the dude wall?”
She was referring to a wall covered with portraits of scientists from the university who have won either a Nobel Prize or the Lasker Award, a major medical prize.”
This conspiracy theorist who lost her mind with Trump and Russia is a Rhodes Scholar. Let that sink in.
“One hundred percent of them are men. It’s probably 30 headshots of 30 men. So it’s imposing,” says Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist with the university and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.”
Well Leslie. Forget that and move forward. You know, by winning awards yourself and being better than those ‘dudes’.
The anti-male thing is starting to get a tad too troubling if you ask me. They’r basically asking to get rid of successful figures and replace them because feelings.
We’re screwed aren’t we?
Ooohhhh yeah.
No.
Wasn’t Bill Clinton a Rhodes Scholar?
He sure was. But he wore it well.
Friend of mine works at the State Bar Association and they recently did this. Pictures of famous justices and sheriffs from the territorial era and early statehood. Shocker, all white men (as justices and sheriffs were in those days).
All gone now. Winston Smith smiles.
At the top of the Empire State Building there are pictures of the men who made it happen.
All male and white.
I say tear it down. Start over and make sure the staff is diverse and reflects the population.
Fun fact: the only thing lamer than feminists whining about white men is white men whining about feminists whining about white men.
Fun fact: You’re an ass.
If you don’t like my opinion either a) have the decency to shut the fuck up or b) actually answer instead of being a smart ass.
This is amazing. It is straight out of The Onion from maybe 10 or 15 years ago.
All of those “that could never happen” jokes are now not only happening, they are kind of in the rear view mirror. They are really plowing new ground these days.
What I Know About Famous Men’s Penises
And sincerely wish I didn’t.
My penis looks like if a scrambled egg and over-cooked hamburger were placed into a cock-shaped mold – a huge cock-shaped mold.
“And especially when you live in a state, like New South Wales, Australia or a country, like the United States, where a recurrent theme in public debate is the control of female bodies, but not men’s”
Lord knows there’s nothing I love more than sitting around with a group of my favorite toxic patriarchs discussing how we can better exert oppressive control over women’s bodies. And not in the fun way.
When will our national nightmare of private firearm ownership end? Chuck Todd wants to know.
With SMOD.
I’m guessing the Texas shooter was not a lawful gun owner prior to his spree.
I could be wrong, but the odds are way in my favor.
Exceptions made, of course, for Nomenklatura such as himself.
About Beto being the first one to climb the body pile………………Yes, we are going to take your guns.
The responses give me a slight boost in my estimation of humanity.
Who the fuck is “we”, asshole?
“We don’t know how many have been killed. We don’t know the motivation. But here’s what we do know: This is fucked up.”
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1167954084122353664
edgy af
*swoon*
That aught to get his poll numbers up above 2 percent. Real winning strategy there dumbass. We have already had the national conversation about guns. And guess what. The gun rights people won.
“We need to buy back every single assault weapon.”
I will gladly sell to the government any guns I purchased from the government.
Here’s exactly how long to grill your burgers
My God.
The Fresh Market has fantastic burgers with bacon and cheddar mixed in. Highly recommended if you have one nearby.
All of our local chains have the bacon/cheddar burgers, as well as jalapeno burgers, and buffalo chicken burgers. A few of the burger places up here also offer a 50/50 blend of bacon to beef as an option for their patties (downside is they’ll only cook them to well done).
The ones we’ve gotten from Giant grill funny. They must add some sort of fillers because the end result is not very burger like. They sort of solidify.
Use a pat of butter if you don’t want a nice area of raw in the middle.
The 72-year-old man, who was not identified, was reported to police by his son who feared for his father’s wellbeing and told officers that there were firearms inside the home, Lieutenant Dennis Rosenbaum of the Philadelphia Police Department said Thursday.
SWATting the old man? Sounds like somebody’s getting impatient for the reading of the will.
Looser gun restrictions go into effect in Texas after deadly mass shootings
Blood in the streets, crusty. Deep red blood.
Trump Heaps More Tariffs on China, Still No Deal in Sight
We’re winning!
More red flag Laws! TOO MANY GUNS!
I’m guessing the Texas shooter was not a lawful gun owner prior to his spree.
I could be wrong, but the odds are way in my favor.
I’m guessing he was “known to the police” prior to that “traffic stop”.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Also a little strange they haven’t released a name yet.
Biden makes gaffes.
TRUMP LIES.
The 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019
Rushie, Atwood, King, and then a dogpile.
“Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election”
Are we really still running with this?
Rhodes Scholar, dude. She knows things we mortals do not.
Slutty Sunday setting off red flags everywhere!
http://archive.li/Cqvuf
Julian Castro is a retard.
My impression is that he is mendacious.
BREAKING: Max Boot Is An Idiot
“I will vote for any Democratic nominee, even Warren or Sanders, despite my profound disagreement with their far-left agenda. Saving American democracy from a mad king matters more than the specific policies of his successor.”
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1167850984946700288
He’s descended into 5-year old “LOOK AT MEEEEE!!!” territory.
This is one of the goofier projection narratives. That Trump is acting the dictator.
This, after Mr. “elections have consequences” found his phone and his pen and started unilaterally ordering the execution of Americans and the invasion of foreign countries without even notifying congress. And that’s without even mentioning spying on an opposing presidential campaign and sabotaging his successor.
Yeah, Trump’s a delusional king in the making because he’s managing trade policy.
Sheesh, these people are lunatics.
I think we have been living in the era of the elected dictator since at least Bush the lesser.
Probably before that. But that is why leftists are so hysterical about who is president. They want a dictator, but it has to be THEIR dictator.
Yeah, if you brought the guys who signed the declaration of independence forward and gave them a briefing, I think they’d have lost their minds by the time FDR came along.
“Saving American democracy”
How can one save that which does not exist?
Yeaaaaah, what was I asking yesterday about never-trumpers?
“I will go full-blown commie and betray every ideal this country was founded on before I let BadOrangeMan destroy our pseudo-aristocratic elite”
/Max Boot, incompetent piece of shit extraordinaire
Ask A Music Critic: What Is The One Iconic Concert You Wish You Had Seen?
Click to find out what it is!
If you have Kanye on you list of greatest anything (other than tools), you can safely be ignored.
I should leave it at that… but I got more!
Kanye is probably the worst live performer of all time. He’s worse than Millie Vanilli when they didn’t lip sync – and that’s saying a lot.
I’ve heard the exact opposite. I have friends that have seen him performing on his “flying stage” and said he puts on a great show.
Ok, admission – I have only seen him live on TV.
He has uniformly been horrible on live TV, in my experience. But that might be due to the venue. I’m open to believing that he might be better in a full concert.
But then again, I have no idea what his fans see in the first place, so I’m probably not qualified to judge.
That being said, I have seen the Ruff Ryders in a couple of incarnations, before Eve and DMX hit it big. Not my genre, but you could definitely see the high level talent in action.
With Kanye I just see a self-important no talent hack.
“All we want is to end some babies, reset the entire economy, take away your self defense, have blacklists of political opponents, replace private companies with govt agencies and redefine reality with language tricks. What are you so concerned about?”
https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1167829942471548929
Tulip: another very funny comedian who has specials on Amazon is Chad Daniels. He manages to be incredibly funny even though he is from Minnesota.
RED FLAG!
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/08/an-ex-marine-said-hed-slaughter-antifa-the-fbi-using-oregons-new-red-flag-law-took-his-guns-away.html
The descent into police state continues apace. It will be interesting to see what kind of tortured logic the Supremes come up with to justify these laws (I’m 100% certain they won’t strike them down); exercising your 1A rights invalidates your 2A and 4A rights.
Oh, and a bonus: he was involuntarily committed too. Can we BE any more Soviet?
Suddenly, all that Russia!! Collusion!! Makes sense.
*sad trombone*
It will be interesting to see if any of the police organizations out there go after antifa web sites. They openly post their intentions to violently disrupt conservative rallies and attack Trump supporters.
Another interesting place for them to go is Police One. I’m sure they all have accounts… and that place is full of threats to harm people, violate their rights and otherwise cause mayhem.
Yeah, that would be really interesting.
Serious question for you gun nutz, is there any action short of shooting someone that you’d consider grounds for taking someones guns and/or committing them? I get the slippery slope argument but this dud seems pretty unhinged, mailing off manifestos about how he has plans to slaughter antifa if the gov’t wont do something, his dad wouldn’t even vouch for him and he admits he was trying to be threatening and scary, he’s taking crazy pills. Akin to how Michael Brown wasn’t a great example for the police brutality crown to get behind. Maybe just maybe this dude needs to get some help.
Serious answer: words are just that. If the guy is truly dangerous, aren’t there already plenty of avenues to take him off the streets? Otherwise, all you do is facilitate the slavers.
Liberty is scary and messy.
Of they are too dangerous to be free in society then they need to be imprisoned or committed. Otherwise, you get to keep your guns.
Maybe he was dangerous, maybe not. Either way there is already laws to have him committed if family thinks he is, which looks like what happened. The Red Flag law was not needed. There are existing laws as Tundra said. And if you have a diagnoses of a violent mental condition, I am pretty sure that bars you from legally owning weapons. Again, no red flag law needed. Red flag laws do not require a medical diagnosis, it is merely the opinion of a judge and is why they are so dangerous. No he is no poster child for the anti red flag law campaign, other than pointing out the law was not necessary in this case because he obviously had some issues.
Now lets do it to some Antifa goons saying they are going to kill Nazis. I think extreme TDS and seeing anyone who disagrees with you as literally Hitler to be some what detached from reality. Should they be institutionalized?
Convicted of committing a violent felony or being diagnosed as harmful to themselves or others. If someone’s making serious threats of murder, the police can bring them in and have them evaluated by a shrink to see if they’re a threat. They should have the right to independent evaluation. Due process must apply.
He said he would defend himself against attack which he has every right to. What wasn’t clear to me was if he was saying that he would kill any Antifa that were trying to kill him, or if one Antifa person attacked him, he would kill them all. That is an important distinction although even the latter could just be bluster.
Credible threats are not protected speech. He should be charged with a crime and a judgement made by the court with psychiatric advice as to whether the guy is genuinely a threat to himself or others.
I don’t think anyone has a problem with getting disturbed, dangerous people off of the street. What we have a problem with is circumventing due process.
“⭐️NEW VIDEO ⭐️
The creator of the kid’s show “twelve forever” is apparently a SELF ADMITTED PEDO who lusts after underage boys.
*TWELVE FOREVER*
CAN’T MAKE THIS UP
HELLWORLD”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1167966282324463618
“Kid’s Show Creator is a PED0?? Reading her Creepy Tumblr Post”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoOwF4sK8Y
I remain flummoxed how someone otherwise so intelligent can self-identify as a Democratic Socialist.
She doesn’t. Not that she isn’t terrible on economic issues.
“social democrats want good safety nets for the poor within a capitalist economy. many countries have this.
democratic socialists are well.. socialists.
i jest that social democrats should call themselves ‘nordic capitalists’ to save themselves from rage but we really should lol”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1167876633040060419
Including ours.
What they want is to turn it up to 11 and make everyone poorer.
Unfortunately, she doesn’t get that.
So many yutes don’t. All that K-12 brainwashing. Once they start paying taxes and seeing politicians throw that money down the toilet at least some of them will wise up.
Fired for inappropriate behaviour. I bet.
Strip steak for lunch, with protection.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/C6CRPXpkShWaN70qcQS-jA.qd2j10bTQQhpnl3GwSviN1
Salted and left in the fridge overnight. They’ll be grilled and finished with a pat of Kerrygold.
?
Looks good, I’ll be getting my carbs on today at the local Oktoberfest. Beer, brats, schnitzel, and strudel on a sunny day.
Life can be good at times.
Nice looking Rugar and Steaks.
Mmmm. I’m gonna salt some down today to grill tomorrow. Finished with bacon grease.
Today is gonna be jerk wings.
We are living in The Age of Donald Trump.
Yeah, okay. Whatever that means.
It means you’re a racist and a Nazi.
The desperation of the people on Meet the Press is palpable.
WHO WILL SAVE US FROM THE BAD ORANGE DICTATOR?
Oh goody, they’ve made a new Rambo movie.
*eyeroll*
John Rambo in a Taken-like scenario where he has to rescue his niece or some shit from the cartels causes you to roll your eyes?
You get your ass up up to Canada or some other gay Commie country because there is no place for your kind in my America.
HE EATS THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE A BILLY GOAT PUKE!
Good morning, Old Man and all you ruffians, raconteurs and rapscallions!
Thanks for all the lynx, especially the Vikings one. I give that move, however, only 2 of a possible 5 Herschels (a scientific measurement of bonehead Vikings moves).
Nuking the youngster Carlson after drafting him in the 5th last year rated a 3.5.
The Vikings are a joke.
That link was specifically targeted at you.
Thank you.
The really pathetic thing is that I am actually looking forward to football. I’m like that chick who goes back to the abusive husband. “This time it will be different”.
Pathetic.
#metoo.
spank me harder, daddy
/ Volunteer
Yikes. I saw that yesterday. That was bad.
FWIW, I dont see arkansas doing any better than maybe doubling last years win total.
at least you have a grown-ass DC
/cautiously waves Cleveland Browns flag.
I remember one flight I was on, someone was wearing a Detroit Lions shirt, and some people were giving him shit for that. I pointed out that I can’t hate on the people who still root for their underdog teams, I save that hate for those who deserve it, like Yankees fans, Steelers fans, and Broncos fans.
be true to your school
everyone’s got to be from somewhere and from sometime; it’s all good
except Notre Dame
fuckem
I can’t hate anyone over a team except Raiders fans.
Bandwagon jumpers and people who root for the hometown rival just to be an ass..
They need OL more than a new kicker to begin with.
Supposedly the OL is upgraded. It better be, because our QB is a fucking statue with apparently zero spidey-sense.
Yeah, we’ll see. Should have kept one of the 3 decent QBs they got rid of. I think they’ll be a playoff team.
3? Just Sloter and Browning, I thought.
I was talking about Bridgewater, Bradford, and Keenum.
Ah, gotcha.
Bradford sucked bad, though.
He couldn’t throw the long ball.
Obligatory labor day story about unions
While Younis says the major factor of Americans’ view of labor unions seems to be the economy, he says the prevalence of labor stories in the news could also play a part, as does one’s proximity to labor unions and their issues.
“While the short-term news cycle is not at play as much as reflections of how the economy is doing, we have found within our polling, generally, that the news does tend to affect people’s awareness and opinions of unions.”
He points out that because the percentage of Americans involved in a union is very small — 10.5% — most people who have opinions on unions aren’t in one themselves.
“Literally 90% of people involved in this poll aren’t members of a union, so they form their opinion on unions from other sources, whether it’s the news or a family member who belongs to one,” Younis said.
I don’t think that’s how it works.
Also boo fucking hoo:
“People will react to a lot of these very politicized terms and institutions,” he says. “A very liberal person who is pro workers’ rights, who happens to be living at a time when workers’ rights are being violated, or when there is a president that may be colliding with unions, that’s going to affect their outlook.”
Bad Orange Union Buster is bad.
The deplorables in the labor union where I work overwhelmingly support the bad orange man.
I think they are misguided, but it is what it is.
My local news routinely prints stories about how the pubsec unions are grotesquely overpaid, corrupt, etc.
It doesn’t seem to have any effect given that they run the machine that runs this town.
Look. you can’t form a valid opinion just because everyone you know who is in one, hates it.
And no one has to pay for it!
Oh man with EF”s new job I’m having visions of Porsche Caymans (used – ‘natch) – YOLO and all that. The wise, sensible man of my age would be thinking of retirement but nooooo – I want a stupid car.
You just need to enroll in one of those toxic masculinity classes.
Great car. I like them way better than the 911. Leaner and more primal.
My buddy drives one – it was a screaming good buy.
I say go for it!
Oh, look what we have here!
dammmn that’s nice.
Of course, something like this would also probably work.
So is that like a replica? I don’t get the $15k bid for a 2016.
Auction with 4 days left. It will go up.
Fuck the future, blow your money now. It will all be worthless in 20 years anyway.
The world is going to end in ten years.
EF will just have to work longer, that’s all. She won’t mind.
Oh, and for those who like the nature shots. This was what the lake looked like yesterday. At least on the east side, downtown by the breakwalls (and the air show, which screwed up traffic and riding for a bit), waves were crashing over the breakwalls and up onto the pedestrian walk ways.
Youtube is pissing me off (if you can believe that).
Suddenly, I have a sign in / create an account message on my Roku youtube channel. WTF?
I’m sorry you’re going through that.
Thoughts and prayers?
This is how life is now in Trump’s America™
Sad!
You guys are brilliant!
Cruel, but brilliant.
Good Morning Glibs! Its AZ day!
Guten Morgen, Yusef!
Tall glasses of orange juice!
Howdy! Just some coffee, then load the Kia and a four hour drive, then AZ tall cans at the River
It means you’re a racist and a Nazi.
*puffs out chest, struts around room*
Someone here said it best, Im a Nationalist, not a Socialist
Jim Mattis, Marine legend who became Trump’s ‘Mad Dog’ Pentagon chief, prepares for media blitz
Instead of BaT, you get this
Just in case you know a suicidal person who’s afraid of guns.
Love it. At least the guy installed a roll bar. ‘Cause you’re gonna need it.
Is this what they mean by “just because you can…”?
AFL-CIO head ‘would have a hard time supporting’ ‘Medicare-for-all’ that eliminates union plans
Hells yeah
I would be surprised if all the Dem plans didn’t already have a union carve-out.
And a mandate that all healthcare providers be union certified.
So good it’s got to be compulsory.