Everything is really coming up Brett today. First, I scheduled the Uber to the airport about 20 minutes later than I really should have, but it turns out that at 5am you can make the drive to the airport in under 30 minutes without speeding (more than usual). I was expecting more like 45. The desk guy at the hotel we always stay at recognized me and got my room cleaned first, so I was in way early, and then I found a sixer of Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest at the drug store on my way back from lunch. Now I should probably do some work.
Damn, but they rolled this ship good. I’m surprised it was able to get fully 90 degrees tilted, and also, it appears to be pretty high in the water. Maybe they had to blow a lot of ballast to get out of the port?
These whiners. Listen, you don’t lose 59-10 because the coach called the wrong plays.
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These whiners. Listen, you don’t lose 59-10 because the coach called the wrong plays.
At least they contained Lamar Jackson to 3 rushes for 6 yards.
They’re angry because a player was traded.
You can either go full Spartacus, or you can do, you know, your jobs.
They’re bad but give the effort. People will respect that.
Republican Activist Returns To West Baltimore For Another Cleanup
For the second time in less than a month, Scott Presler, the Virginia-based conservative activist and President Donald Trump supporter, is in West Baltimore Monday to clean up trash and debris.
Presler organized a cleanup on Aug. 5 that collected 12 tons of trash and debris in 12 hours.
Cleaning up Baltimore by actually cleaning it up? Crazy.
That’s got to really sting. It’s a totally effective form of shaming, and one for which their only response heretofore has been pissiness and butthurt.
+ Baltimore Sun editorial staff.
+1. Mammafucker.
How far they have fallen since Mencken.
Is there really a “need” to clean up litter or is it just an eyesore? I say we accept our new trashy overlords.
Florida Man likes rats!
HE IS THE RAT KING!
The people’s champ! The Fonze with the Bronze! The RAT KING!
An under appreciated TMNT villain in my opinion.
Well, of course we accept Trashy.
It’s a brilliantly thought-out PR strategy that hits the left where it hurts.
Where are the leftists who claim to care so much about the poor and their plight. Not picking up a ton of trash an hour, and nowhere near that neighborhood for sure. Remember, right-wingers are supposed to be mean, icky people who fear and loathe poors and blacks; yet there they are doing good works for those people. It goes way deeper than that, but that’s the best, most accessible reason.
I can;t believe that racist white guy is trying to gentrify that neighborhood!
That’s one of the major issues I have with the black community. We are always asking whites to hold themselves accountable for the real or perceived abuses along with forking over a shit ton money and resources towards our communities, but yet we treat our neighborhoods like trash bins and tear everything down.
Why should white people give a shit about our communities when the level of apathy is high among us.?
Where my parents live, my neighbor (Mr. Barry) used to go out everyday along with the other retirees and clean up the area around the park and our block. He’s gone now but my parents and others are trying to pick up the slack. It shows because our bloc is clean but if you travel 4 blocks east the streets look like shit. Everyone pisses and moans that city isn’t willing to invest shit but yet can’t even take a couple of minutes to pick up the trash in front of their houses or on the block.
Tragedy of the commons. Happens in all public housing.
Absolutely. It’s generational as fuck though. Like the older folks are proud of living in that community because at one time, it was mostly known as a middle class community and moving in that area meant that you have sort of made it. They remember the days when the whites did everything they could to keep them out the community, so they figured that they should (collectively) do whatever it takes to keep everything looking nice.
As far it goes as a neighborhood, it’s relatively a safe neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago because for one thing a lot of city workers live in that area. But you’re starting to see the seeds of a decline coming along because the younger residents aren’t as inclined to maintain the neighborhood.
It’s certainly generational. The “greatest generation” worked extremely hard, so their kids didn’t have to. As a result, a some boomers are lazy and entitled. And some of the children of these lazy hippies turned out to be extremely successful. Now, we have a generation of millennials that, by all measures, will not exceed the standard of living of their parents.
I would guess that the younger residents of your neighborhood aren’t inclined to maintain it because
-They see it as someone else’s job
and/or
-No interest in putting down long term roots, so why bother?
I live in a black neighborhood. I have watched people not just standing next to a garbage can, but LEANING ON IT, toss their trash on the ground. Some humans are simply shit and always will be.
Yeah, “the city” is only going to do so much. Pride in your surroundings is another one of those traits that used to be a lot more common among all “communities”.
My stepfather used to do a lot of work in the community but got burnt out because none of the neighbors would lend him a hand. He used to attempt to arrange weekly 1-2 hour meetings about clean ups, funding programs to help kids stay off the street and other shit, but the community with a couple of exceptions wasn’t interested. But heaven forbid that someone got shot, when the cameras came into the community, you couldn’t get the folks from in front of the cameras.
Kudos to your stepfather. That’s work and someone always complains that it’s not being done right.
I live in a neighborhood with a citizen’s association (we can make the local pols come talk to us and listen to our pothole complaints). Twice a year we do a neighborhood clean up around storm drains. It’s always the same few people and never the complainers. I don’t think it’s unique to the black community.
This is one of the reasons why the city providing certain services is a poison. If your neighborhood looks like shit and the city is supposed to clean it, it’s someone else’s problem. If your neighborhood looks like shit and the city isn’t supposed to clean it, it’s your problem.
Meh, communities neither succeed or fail. Individuals do. Sure some communities have higher numbers of individuals who do well than others, but frankly I think a big cause of that is community based thinking. (which is kind of what you are commenting on so I am not really disagreeing with you)
I agree in some regards. At the end of the day it is up to the individual to care and clean up their community but it would be a lot easier if other individuals within that community actually gave a shit and keep their shit clean.
“The black community” IS the problem. Why is it expected that black people are supposed to be groupthinkers stuck in 1890’s Chicago segregated on ethnic grounds? I grew up in the 70’s thinking black people resented that shit but all the behavior of “black leaders” seems to indicate that they just want to flop-flop between color-blindness and separate-but-equal to maintain their power bureaucracies.
A: You’re special
B: No we’re not, we’re equal!
A: OK, you’re equal
B: No we’re not, we’re special!
Some weird attempt to maintain popular contrarianism, a la Nick Gillespie.
It’s fucked up. That’s how I’ve always felt about affirmative action. You can’t angry when you force an institution to have a quota system and the result is that some people will think you got in in order fulfill the quota and not because you’re capable of doing the work. You can’t have it both ways.
I think it was the worst thing that possibly could have been done to undermine black achievement. It reinforced the racism of low expectations and conditioned upper middle class whites to think of it as their noblesse oblige, while screaming “RACIST!!!” at anyone who disagreed.
I have a thought experiment that I came up with: I noticed that every Top 50 guitar players list is stacked, statistically significantly, with black players. If blacks are roughly 1/7th of the population, you’d expect 7 or maybe 8 “all-time” great American guitar players, maybe fewer depending upon “structural inequities,” yet blacks dominate guitar. Then I looked at comedy. Hunh. That’s weird. Then athletics. Hmmm… it’s even true of piano, though not quite as pronounced as guitar, but there are some all-time great pianists (Art Tatum) in what is quintessentially a rich white man’s instrument.
The one thing about all of those (to my eyes) is that in endeavors of the most pure competition, where there are absolutely no breaks for skin color: either you can play the song, act, sing, dance, do comedy, run the route, hit or catch the ball… Blacks succeed at rates in excess of their ratio in the general population, sometimes in staggeringly high numbers. And it’s not just sportsball or physical endeavors or even related skills – it’s in the fine arts and sports.
No one ever addresses why Blacks need “special government help” given that reality. Nothing could have been worse than affirmative action for undermining black success.
Blacks are protected when doing comedy. I watched Chappelle’s Sticks & Stones the other day. No way a white guy could get away with it. To put it differently, at least black folks can say things that the rest of us cannot.
We are always asking whites to hold themselves accountable for the real or perceived abuses along with forking over a shit ton money and resources towards our communities, but yet we treat our neighborhoods like trash bins and tear everything down.
I’m listening to Black Rednecks and White Liberals on my commute these days, and it amazes me how much of that culture is inherited from the English hinterlands. It’s a case of arrested development. White English evolved out of that culture first, then White Southerners were essentially forced out of that culture, but for some reason it hasn’t just persisted in Black American culture, but has thrived and grown. I’m sympathetic to Sowell’s opinion that the 1960s had some unintended consequences, but I don’t know enough to say whether that was enough to derail the previous cultural evolution.
Not all whites. More than one social worker I have known personally told me that they have worked in rural white places in the north and the behavior and problems of the people they worked with were identical to what they see in southern black populations. There are still a lot of whites stuck in that culture.
My apologies. I meant to say northern urban whites. Dunno why I typed rural, though it does exist there as well. I was thinking of adding that at least in the area where I live the whites living like that constitute a small minority.
Not restricted to urban. In my area I maintain that the main occupation locally is ‘bad backs’. While I may be exaggerating some what there seems to be a lot of folks that are able to get by with a minimum of output. Disability must be contagious. A lot of Help Wanted signs.
Being clean is just a fashion statement.
No, it’s RACIST!
I say we accept our new trashy overlords.
*beams in regal pride*
Is the industry finally ready to rise from the ashes of the Hindenburg?
Not with nay-saying like that, you nabob of negativism. LOL
So, it’s the annual gee-whiz press article on how LTA aircraft are just around the corner. Like useful nuclear fusion.
Kudos on the illo, Brett. You could have also slipped in a Skytanic one.
Is there a single sector of anything that isn’t a “major contributor” to Climate Horror™ at this point?
Climate Horror. Damn, are you going to do anything with that?
It does have a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
The maritime shipping sector is a major contributor to CO2 emissions
I seriously doubt that. What percentage of anthro CO2 is emitted by cargo ships?
This new estimate places international maritime emissions in 6th place in the world between India and Germany and nearly three times that of international aviation. The bulk of shipping’s emissions stem from cargo vessels, with passenger ships representing only 3% of total ship CO2 emissions, a share which is declining.
http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2600/Sea_fairer:_Maritime_transport_and_CO2_emissions.html
Huh. More than I thought.
To get an idea of how much ship traffic there is, check out marinetraffic.com online or get their smartphone app. It shows near real time ship positions pretty much all over the world. Take a look at the English Channel, major Chinese ports or the Malacca Straits to be impressed at the volume of maritime shipping.
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I need to run to CVS. BRB.
How come I never get invited to parties like that?
What are you doing this weekend?
Going out for drinks with my hot Asian neighbor who looks and (I think deliberately) dresses like Diane Nguyen from Bojack Horseman. You straight guys would die for that oppo, die I tells you, but for me it’s just a girls’ night out with the soccer mom down the street.
Sooooo…no crab/pig party then?
Huh.
Diane Nguyen cosplay is a thing and it led me here: https://pikabu.ru/story/diane_nguyen_cosplay_5474583
Not bad.
Maybe if you weren’t so off putting. Would it kill you to smile a little bit. Face it, you are too crabby in social settings.
Resting bitch face, bro. It’s a thing. I have to take a ton of selfies so I get one where I only look annoyed instead of totally psycho.
Coconut crabs.
Lovecraft would be proud.
Sweet Jesus!
See, that right there is the argument for full-auto weapons for everyone.
Yes, but are they delicious?
Are you getting medication for your crabs?
I was afraid the joke may be too subtle.
Why the hell does the fact that bones were missing after 3 years lying rotting on an island through storms, winds, animals etc require a detailed explanation?
Why do you have to suck all the fun out of seeing how long it takes certain indigenous fauna to skeletonize and disperse a human skeleton, or reasonable stand-in for one?
Police: Missouri man fatally shot 2 women at apartment because he ‘never felt welcome’
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/police-missouri-man-fatally-shot-women-apartment-because-never-felt-welcome/oAr9KyhA34BEcgZ24iiugN/
So he’s on the receiving end of micro-aggressions.
NOT GUILTY!
I read that as “finally” shot at first.
I wonder why.
Deadspin ponders Title IX Compiance
In reporting about the Utah girls’ football league, a Title IX coordinator was deposed. He said that because the number of sports (10 for boys and 10 for girls) was equal, the school was in compliance. That is not how Title IX compliance works. There have to be an equal number of athletic positions available.
It’s not just the sheer number of athletic opportunities that decides whether a high school is Title IX compliant. Everything has to be equal: locker rooms, play facilities, fan opportunity, and provided gear. That means if a high school boys team has better jerseys, or a better weight room, or fancier soap in their locker room, or fields closer to the school, or nicer playing surfaces, or even better nights to play on than the girls teams, that high school is not in compliance with Title IX.
Title IX means feeling slighted, no matter what.
Time to remove sports from all schools. Play in a rec league on your own dime.
^This. It’s a way to chip away at the monolith that is government K-12 education.
I’m in, kill the NCAA too.
Absolutely. I mean all public schools. If private schools want to waste money, that’s their business.
Also, make it illegal for parents and other adults to come within 200 yards of any kids playing any sport.
There are activists who litigate against institutions down to this granular level, causing the institutions to run through piles of resources in the process, and at the end feel like they’ve performed something noble.
Causing the taxpayers to hemorrhage even more money, to support inept educrats on the front end, and to defend their actions against other bureaucrats on the back end. It’s almost a closed system.
A sort of perpetual emotion machine?
It’s quotas all the way down. The government of Virginia got a Director of Diversity today. No patronage jobs, no make-work, no soaking of the taxpayers.
WTF is “fan opportunity”?
Keep the snack shack open?
It used to be that they said the boys and girls should play the same sports, in the same season, on the same night. They no one went and watched the girls. So now they play the same sport in different seasons on the same nights…and no one goes to any of the sports other than football anyway (soccer dad with boy and girl on HS teams).
You don’t get to relegate girls’ sports to some back field where parents have to bring their own folding chairs. Fa-cil-I-ties. Bleachers. Vending.
Insanity. And people wonder why their children come out of school unprepared for the real world.
Hi Brett!
I hope the trip goes well.
Want to blow us all to shit, Sherlock?!?
Great scene.
What part of helium aren’t you getting?!?
All of it, I guess
[Inhales helium from balloon, lights lighter, exhales extinguishing lighter, talks until voice becomes high and squeaky]
“Yeah, we do need an OT, but he plays for the Dolphins.”
Imagine playing for the Dolphins and believing that you’re not at fault for them sucking.
Have the Dolphins been any good ever since they bounced Richie Incognito and banned hazing?
They need to get back to basics and realize what the Marines, biker gangs and frats have known for a long time, HAZING IS FOR WINNERS.
IF YOU WONT FUCK TOGETHER YOU WONT
FIGHTPLAY AS A TEAM TOGETHERgah!
Remember to hold the laces out.
The healthcare is free, if you can afford to park your car.
Piece of shit commie.
This is a weird tweet, because in a follow-up he said “I will ban parking lots and the evil sprawl that it enables. Anyways, if you don’t live in a big city do you even exist? #GreenNewDeal”
Well, it’s easy to keep costs down if you delay people’s life-saving treatment by a few months to years and let a bunch of them die off.
He’s a senile old fool.
I don’t know why this is isn’t common knowledge:
Bernie has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It explains why he’s never been able to hold down a job.
Feeble Alcohol Syndrome? I’d buy that.
Newfoundland’s Premier went into exile to get surgery.
Bernie thinks he has a quality haircut, too.
Well… there’s also the funeral after they refuse your treatment.
You still have to pay for the parking.
If you afford a car
If they have to ride that high in the water to get in or out of port, they’d have no way to get through laden.
Maybe if they had stopped blowing Ballast and let him steer the ship, none of this would happen. But when have sailors shown any ability to resist a quick BJ from another sailor?
I was waiting for someone to make that joke.
I’m still waiting.
It’s a RO/RO ship – looks like it just onloaded vehicles for export (or movement). Generally a lot lighter/less dense than a container ship IIRC – but still…never seen something like that either. Would be interesting to see why it happened – there are special programs to arrange/balance weight – and consumer vehicles are a LOT less complicated than military cargo.
Dem Congressman’s Wife: ‘Mind-Blowing’ Our Insurance Doesn’t Cover Marriage Counseling
Bro, that’s a nice looking lady so I suggest you get to work. On the other hand RUN!
Why in the holy hell should insurance have to cover marriage counseling? Pay for it your damn self.
What’s next? Are you going to say that insurance shouldn’t pay for transgender surgery or abortions? I bet you think people should exercise personal responsibility and pay for their own contraceptives. Why are you such a misogynist, bigot?
See now Jimbo, this is where the joke belongs…
“If she didn’t “mind blowing”, they wouldn’t need counseling!
“How the hell should I know? You’re the c*er!”
Her instagram is…. a hot mess
In the budget: all inclusive beach vacation to Riviera Maya
Not in the budget: saving her marriage
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud after reading this.
Totally serious.
Also, she’s a one stop shop for all of your web design and yoga needs:
https://www.amandabyoga.com
Experience includes designing a website about yoga.
After looking at her yoga poses, now I know why he married her
She is a very pretty lady.
Then why not CONNECT? She says (and I quote). “I’d love to hear from you”
That is good snark from PM!
Hey, you gotta have priorities.
“Hey hon, that was really helpful of you to blast our marriage troubles into the national media spotlight. Maybe you could post a little rant on Instagram about our insurance not covering dick pills.”
I bet her health insurance doesn’t cover flooding or auto damage either.
Yeah, it’s not the best thing for your husband’s political career to go blabbing in the press about needing marriage counseling. Sounds like someone is deliberately trying to torpedo her hub’s political career because she’s tired of all the appearances and fundraisers and crap.
Buried lede:
all of my mental health therapy sessions are denied, in addition to all of our marriage counseling sessions.
Not helping her husband’s career, at all.
Funny, in the private market it’s easy to find coverage for mental health care.
“EXCLUSIVE: Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti embezzled $2.5 million in a settlement meant for NBA player Hassan Whiteside’s ex-girlfriend, spending most of it on a private jet, lawsuit claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7443761/Micheal-Avenatti-embezzled-clients-settlement-buy-private-jet.html
Remember all the responsible “journalists”, who are definitely not propagandists, who alleged that Kavanaugh ran some super secret gang bang party circuit based upon Michael Avenatti?
I remember when some CNN asshat was saying he could be the next President.
and you think this disqualifies him? Have you seen the Democrat field?
Didn’t some slobbering simpleton on air claim he wanted Avenatti to run for president?
It wasn’t the final nail in the coffin of my willingness to consume news. That coffin was nailed shut, cremated and had its ashes scattered years ago. But I thought it was a great indication of how pathetic they’d become.
The clucking hens on the View along with a bunch of others.
https://youtu.be/oAjN-CJTQSg
I gave up on believing the corporate press back when the whole WMD thing fell apart and they didn’t want to talk much about us funding ISIS in Syria.
The crazy thing is that if you say that the corporate press is propaganda people now assume that you love Trump. I mean, even far-left people like Chomskey have remarked that our corporate press is propaganda that would make any dictator jealous.
Avenatti is the least of their humiliations, but a humiliation nonetheless.
I tell people to ween themselves off the ‘news’. It’s pure hysterical garbage.
Once they do, their rational functions are restored. Not to mention peace of mind.
“Avenatti was entitled to $1m in fees, but allegedly took $2.5m and used a colleague’s bank account to buy a share of the Honda Jet”
When $1 million in fees isn’t enough for a few days’ work.
Those Honda jets are sweeeeet.
His client will be thrilled to learn that she’s a part owner.
“Megyn Kelly beams at Napa wedding of Guy Benson and Adam Wise after they met because the Fox News contributor came out as gay on her old TV show”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7445067/Megyn-Kelly-beams-Napa-wedding-Fox-News-contributor-Guy-Benson-Adam-Wise.html
Looks like Kennedy was the officiant.
It looks like pretty much everyone from Fox News was invited except for Hannity and Lou Dobbs.
They were having their own weekend off together?
The two grooms look an awful lot alike.
Kind of like how straight couples are often analogues for one another. It’s just more obvs with same sex couples.
That’s a surefire way to get someone to call off their wedding. “Your soon-to-be wife looks like she could be related to you. It’s basically like doing your sister.”
Time to remove sports from all schools. Play in a rec league on your own dime.
Gateway to professional;ism and exploitation.
“Parents of YouTube’s highest-earner Ryan Kaji, 7, who has made $22MILLION testing toys, face investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for failing to declare paid sponsorships”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7443977/YouTubes-highest-earner-Ryan-Kaji-hit-investigation-Federal-Trade-Commission-adverts.html
What, they didn’t put that tiny disclaimer text at the bottom of the screen that nobody without a magnifying glass could read? Tragic.
What could possibly go wrong? Minneapolis plans to create six ‘cultural districts’ across the city
Maybe they could clearly label the amenities in those areas with signs that say something like “Colored” so that the crackers know not to use them?
The Paris Model, funded by your tax dollars. It’s all the rage in American cities. Wait until you see that your tax dollars are going to support “affordable housing” and then when you drill down you see that those “affordable housing” units are “artist lofts”.
Move the poors out- get the rich whites in. Is basically all urban planning is nowadays.
Those crackers will steal the hood! How dare they try to clean shit up?
Bardot or Birkin?
Related: Gainsbourg is a legend.
How women are supposed to look. Without the heavy eye makeup, of course.
What could possibly go wrong?
Minneapolis has no culture?
Being passive aggressive is a kind of culture
I do not believe any of the cultural areas that were identified were majority Norwegian/Swedish neighborhoods. And our new Somali brothers don’t seem to have any problems with passive aggressiveness.
That’s just aggressive.
That’s what I was thinking. Let’s segregate the colored folks in Minneapolis!
The ghettos of the future!
Does each district have a train station for the cattle cars in case a group falls out of favor?
The new red-lining. “Sorry, only poor people here.”
*counts the days until departure*
We used to call those districts “ghettos”.
Most of what we call ghettos in the US started out as middle-class neighborhoods. They only became ghettos due to a combination of “white flight” and racist policies that ended decades ago but which remain to this day a convenient tool with which to bonk anyone over the head when politically convenient.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-jojo-rabbit-is-taika-waititis-marvel-presents-mein-kampf/“>Review: Jojo Rabbit Is Taika Waititi’s Marvel Presents Mein Kampf
I don’t think he likes it very much.
Sometimes I link well. Sometimes.
Jojo Rabbit, Your Life Is Calling.
I prefer Chloe Dancer…
Causing the taxpayers to hemorrhage even more money, to support inept educrats on the front end, and to defend their actions against other bureaucrats on the back end. It’s almost a closed system.
Nobody makes a profit, so it’s okay.
License plate melee shows New York missed the mark — in multiple ways
jfc
That one WAS the best of the awful options they put up.
PS. I like the current ones. A throwback to childhood.
Well that is settled. Special K is going to be the bestest President ever! Jennifer Rubin says so, so it must be true.
It is nice that a rube from Minnesoda can make crazy accusations just like a big time pol from the Beltway or East Coast.
“destroying our democracy with dark money and voter suppression, and allowing a foreign country to make mincemeat of our democracy”
That’s a word salad of nonsense.
“At a time when Donald Trump wakes up every morning trying to divide us”
Unlike his opponents, who definitely don’t divide people into small groups and and then demand total allegiance from them.
“using immigrants as political pawns”
OK
“belittling people who don’t agree with him”
Well, yeah, but it’s funny and they kinda deserve it…
“destroying our democracy with dark money”
Huh?
“and voter suppression”
How’s that?
“and allowing a foreign country to make mincemeat of our democracy”
Loony tunes…
“we need a candidate for president who understands that what unites us as a country is greater than what divides us, that has a track record of winning Democrats and independents and moderate Republicans in every place, in every race, every time.”
Great. Let me know when you’ve found one.
She’s as stupid as she is ugly as she is shrill as she is nuts.
Democracy in chains!
“As a general rule, when either party has an incumbent president in the White House, there’s no rationale to hold a primary,” South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick said about the move.
That’s generally true. South Carolina didn’t hold a Republican primary in 1984 or 2004 when Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were running for second terms. In 2004, in fact, 10 states canceled their GOP nominating contests.
But there is a big difference between those past examples and 2020. Actually, three big differences, named Bill Weld, Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford. All three of those men — two former governors and a former House member — are running against Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination, each promising to take back the party that the billionaire businessman seized by the throat in 2016.
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But just because Trump is very, very likely to be the Republican nominee in 2020 doesn’t mean that states shouldn’t give GOP voters the chance to have their say on his presidency.
“This is not North Korea or Russia. Donald Trump is trying to eliminate elections,” Walsh told MSNBC of the cancellations. “That is undemocratic BS. It’s wrong and that’s the kind of thing that should piss off Republican voters.”
Now, obviously, states do have the right to decide whether to have primaries or caucuses. Why? Because these are intra-party races, meaning that the state party in each state gets to decide the parameters of how they work or if they happen at all.
And there are legitimate reasons to decide against holding primaries — especially at the presidential level. It costs a big chunk of change to stage a primary and often cash-strapped state parties either don’t have the money or don’t want to spend it on a meaningless vote.
But this isn’t a meaningless vote! Yes, Trump is a heavy favorite, but there are three credible former Republican elected officials running in the race as well. This is not a walkover situation!
Waaah. Make the Bad Orange Man go away. Illegitimate President is illegitimate!
Remember just a year ago when Beltway Libertarians were trying to convince everyone that Bill Weld would be a great LP nominee? And now that he’s running as a Rockefeller Republican again he’s open about opposing guns and being an all around statist dick.
Gee, I remember when he was the “original libertarian”.
Woody Allen Says He “Couldn’t Care Less” About Hollywood Backlash, Insists He’s Poster Boy For #MeToo
Innocent until proven guilty! Fuck all yalls haters!
Alec Baldwin Gets Burned By Robert De Niro At Comedy Central Roast
That’s good.
Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, files for divorce over ‘incompatibility of temperament’
Apologies to Enough About Palin.
Well, yeah. He had her at her prime. Now she’s not even a governor or VP. What’s the point anymore?
She’s too old to be the VPILF, anymore.
Uffda. What about the kids? What do they think about that? Is Trig down with it?
What you did there, I see
K2 banned from bodegas, but it gets into city jails, causing inmate hallucinations
I THINK WE SHOULD ROUTE ALL MAIL THROUGH FLORIDA BECAUSE THEY CAN HANDLE ALL SUBSTANCES
Uhh… I know I’m out of date. Last time I heard of K2, it was a brand of ski equipment.
Here ya go. Don’t listen to them though, it’s fine.
https://www.centeronaddiction.org/the-buzz-blog/what-k2-and-why-it-dangerous
More info and bad advice from the norms.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/synthetic-cannabinoids-k2spice
Ive seen people overdose K2. It is not a pretty thing to watch. Its reminds one of the first 15 minutes of every zombie movie ever made…..dude will feel sick for a few minutes, then will go totally unresponsive for a minute or 3, and then its rage zombie time.
That sound suckie.
I literally had a guy snap awake from total unresponsiveness and try to bite me while I was strapping him into a gurney. Luckily his chest was already strapped down when he decided to do so.
You know what would curb the spread of K2? Drug legalization.
isn’t that what Aaron Hernandez smoked before he wrote a bunch of illuminati shit in blood on his wall and hung himself?
Hey Rufus, since you were asking in an earlier thread: Don’t do it.
Men are being urged to stop rubbing TOOTHPASTE onto their penises to last longer in bed over fears the odd trend could cause burns and blisters”>
Your mom didn’t mind when I did it.
toothpaste is a dish best served cold
ew dude she has chronic yeast infections.
That’s a lot of dough.
She looked at it as a two-fer? She got $5 for the BJ and didn’t have to pay to brush her tooth (she only has one left)
Yeah, there’s actually OTC numbing gel for that shiznat. Totes safe. Although, since topical, can also reduce vaginal/anal sensation for your partner if not used in conjunction with condoms – but those also reduce sensation for you ‘eager’ young lads.
Exactly! Buy Roman! (promo code Crusty).
You don’t have the range of flavors, though.
Or think about Elizabeth Warren.
Sure, if you need practice at stuffing rope.
Ha. The problems of dudes who clearly don’t masturbate at least 3 times a day.
Losers.
Blimps calling, my ass. Someone is looking for subsidies.
There is a market in tethered surveillance blimps for USCG coastal waters monitoring activity, aka drug interdiction.
We’ve been using them overseas for base security for years (spotting indirect fire, etc) – also useful along a fixed border – great cameras, optics, FLIR, etc.
Surveillance seems like an appropriate use. Heavy cargo transport, not so much. I don’t see mentioned in the article the very high cost of hydrogen/helium production.
We would need a blimp the size of the moon to transport what one large cargo ship can hold. The idea is moronic.
Although this is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-0aYicv26M
Plus, “Fringe” said it could happen.
One we get fusion reactors going, helium will be a waste product that you’ll have to pay people to go and put in blimps!
There’s these https://www.hybridairvehicles.com
I do like the “Diamond Age” concept using ultra-light carbon fiber, etc. – don’t recall what the lift gas was in those though.
Period Tracker Apps Used By Millions Of Women Are Sharing Incredibly Sensitive Data With Facebook
Men, I suggest you poor your lady a glass of wine and read this out loud to her – it will be hilarious. Also, maybe she will stop using Facebook.
*pour*
Spelling, linking, Et cetra, Et cetrca, are difficult to do (unlike the mother of Glib Mike S.)
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It’s really not right this data is just used to sell them shit. It could be used for the greater good of dismissing female complaints at certain times of the month.
OT: Day 7: Hyannis to Boston
Went to the Plimoth Plantation, which is supposed to recreate the life of the Pilgrims. It was interesting. They were basically commies.
It was a bit awkward, because the reenactors stayed “in period”. Example:
Young guy: “Welcome, brother and sister. On which vessel did you arrive?”
Me: “The Toyota”.
Young guy: “Oh, I’ve not heard of that one”.
Plymouth Rock is bullshit.
Driving in Boston is much like driving in Montreal. A bit insane.
Tonight, Yankees vs. Red Sox. Not the matchup that I thought it would be when I bought the tickets.
My thoughts and prayers are with you. Pee as soon as you get there – the last time I was there tinkling was a nightmare.
Also, the Cape is great during the early Fall – I hope you enjoyed it!
Do they still have tbe troughs or am I thinking of the old Foxboro Stadium and the old Garden?
And they came close to suffering the fate of all commies. However, they weren’t imbeciles, so after a long, hungry winter, they decided a free(r) market system would work better.
They obviously just didn’t do communism correctly.
All this while no supplies were heard of, nor did they
know when they might expect any. So they began to con
sider how to raise more corn, and obtain a better crop than
they had done, so that they might not continue to endure
the misery of want. At length after much debate, the
Governor, with the advice of the chief among them, allowed
each man to plant corn for his own household, and to trust
to themselves for that; in all other things to go on in the
general way as before. So every family was assigned a
parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number
with that in view,—for present purposes only, and making
no division for inheritance,—all boys and children being in
cluded under some family. This was very successful. It
made all hands very industrious, so that much more corn
was planted than otherwise would have been by any means
the Governor or any other could devise, and saved him a
great deal of trouble, and gave far better satisfaction. The
women now went willingly into the field, and took their
little ones with them to plant corn, while before they would
allege weakness and inability; and to have compelled them
would have been thought great tyranny and oppression..
The failure of this experiment of communal service,
which was tried for several years, and by good and honest
men proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other
ancients, applauded by some of later times,—that the taking
away of private property, and the possession of it in com
munity, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and
flourishing; as if they were wiser than God. For in this
instance, community of property (so far as it went) was
found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard
much employment which would have been to the general
benefit and comfort. For the young men who were most
able and fit for service objected to being forced to spend
their time and strength in working for other men’s wives
and children, without any recompense. The strong man or
the resourceful man had no more share of food, clothes, etc.,
than the weak man who was not able to do a quarter the
other could. This was thought injustice. The aged and
graver men, who were ranked and equalized in labour, food,
clothes, etc., with the humbler and younger ones, thought it
some indignity and disrespect to them. As for men’s wives
who were obliged to do service for other men, such as cook
ing, washing their clothes, etc., they considered it a kind of
slavery, and many husbands would not brook it. This
feature of it would have been worse still, if they had been
men of an inferior class. If (it was thought) all were to
share alike, and all were to do alike, then all were on an
equality throughout, and one was as good as another; and
so, if it did not actually abolish those very relations which
God himself has set among men, it did at least greatly
diminish the mutual respect that is so important should be
preserved amongst them. Let none argue that this is due
to human failing, rather than to this communistic plan of
life in itself. I answer, seeing that all men have this failing
in them, that God in His wisdom saw that another plan of
life was fitter for them.
William Bradford, “Of Plimouth Plantation,”
Hmm, apologies for “Ken-ing” the thread.
I know the whole “dindu it rite” has become a tired joke, but really, it’s perfectly legal to form voluntary communes in Western nations. I wonder why ostensible communists never seem to take this route. (With the occasional exception of crappy artists who aren’t going to sell their crap for any real money anyway.)
“Actually, three big differences, named Bill Weld, Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford.”
Who? Wait…the first one was on a ticket as Vice President and endorsed the opposing candidate. The second one….I am not sure how being on the list of greatest 100 guitarists would qualify one as president. The third guy I have never heard of.
It’s different this time cuz OrangeManBad.
They’re just ordinary, average guys.
But life’s been good so far?
They all should just walk away.
Joe Walsh represented my area in the House. He’s a fucking moron.
His guitar work is derivative.
They say he’s crazy, but he has a good time.
I hear his Maserati does 185.
He’s got a Dodge, his friend has a Chrysler. They’re just regular chaps.
I’m 100% behind him.
A campaign for the ages.
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
I believe it because it seems logical to react to a loudmouth without a filter running his mouth about something he shouldn’t, but also it is the CIA and CNN so I don’t believe it. But it is probably true. But also it probably isn’t true.
I, for one, have learned to believe every John Bircher conspiracy peddled by the corporate press and leaked by the intelligence community about Russia. They have never been wrong, except every time.
In all honesty, I am really disappointed that that piss tape never emerged. That would have been amazing.
“Oh this golden shower is so classy. I hire the best whores. Oh, piss on me, Ivank…er…whore.”
Unnamed sources I see. I’ll take the offered explanation for the agent’s extraction with a boulder of salt.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.
Now do Barack Obama’s administration.
UnNamed sources. OrangeManBad. Treason. Guilty. ‘peach fowteefie!
Yeah, I am calling bullshit. Are they still using compulsive liars Clapper and Brennan as sources of OrangeManBad stories? I bet Anderson Cooper is on the case.
That could have only been successful with Putin’s assistance. COLLUSION CONFIRMED!
Did it involve Whoopi Goldberg and a Rolling Stones song?
Israelis improving an Austrian design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDiJn_oOJ8Y
He can play songs on his range.
When he shoots in the winter, all the snow getting kicked up by the bullet splatter is an excellent reminder why you don’t shoot steel up close.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/period-tracker-apps-facebook-maya-mia-fem?origin=web-hf
Period Tracker Apps Used By Millions Of Women Are Sharing Incredibly Sensitive Data With Facebook
“Period tracker apps are sending deeply personal information about women’s health and sexual practices to Facebook, new research has found.
UK-based advocacy group Privacy International, sharing its findings exclusively with BuzzFeed News, discovered period-tracking apps including MIA Fem and Maya sent women’s use of contraception, the timings of their monthly periods, symptoms like swelling and cramps, and more, directly to Facebook.”
Who the fuck uses this crap?
I can imagine it wouls be useful to men if there was some kind of proximity warning on it.
Men, so naive. There are women that truly suffer every month. My sister was one until she had her first child. I didn’t believe in PMS (what? It’s a surprise to you every month?) until I went on birth control pills. They made me seriously crazy. I knew what was happening and was absolutely powerless to stop it. Thank God I could just stop the pills. Other women aren’t as lucky. Some want to use this to get their doctor to take them seriously enough to actually get help. Mine dismissed my complaints. I just stopped the pill on my own, and it fixed the problem. Many also want to track to try to get pregnant.
There are many reasons women would use this, and this is shitty behavior by these companies.
Eh, we just think women are crazy all the time.
/This is why there are no female libertarians….
It’s really creepy and really weird. I know that some churches that don’t endorse contraceptives promote the cycle method which I know there are apps likes this for.
High five
Welcome back!
Hi Ted!
Hey! You’ve been gone too? I just returned last week or something.
6 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes.
But who’s counting.
*warm fuzzies*
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Hi!!!! So good to see you!!
“Men, so naive.”
Good luck on the dating scene with that attitude! /sarc
My point being: if you don’t want your data getting out do this on paper. Same way I do my finances. For the same reason.
Big tech has ZERO credibility and I wouldn’t trust them at all. If this information is so sensitive why the hell would anyone fork it over?
I’d have more to say about this if I had periods, but I don’t. My family just has to survive menopause.
I’m looking forward to it. Not the hot flashes, but just being done
Actually, it’s been very kind to me. I had an endometrial ablation in 2011, and although I could have had a hysterectomy, I was too busy to take the time off to recuperate. I had a hysterectomy in 2017(?) after certain things jarred loose while I was picking up 2x4s.
I had two 1/2 cycles in August – all of the cramps, but less bleeding. I THOUGHT I WAS SUPPOSED TO GET FEWER PERIODS.
I’ve been sold a bill of goods!! Hoodwinked!! Bamboozled!
I’ve always had a long cycle (when not on the pill) and it’s gotten longer, but unfortunately, my period now lasts longer too. Fuck!
For the last year or so, mine have been as long as they were in high school (never-fucking-ending), until last month. I’ll take 2 semi-cycles a month over a really long one, any day!
By dog, if I’m bleeding when I go to the UK next year, I will have a SHITFIT. Knowutimean?
Yes, yes I do. I was so relieved it didn’t happen on my England trip
OK, stop already. I live with a 51 yo (hottie, literally) and a 17 yo challenge.
NO MORE GIRL STUFF!
Then you should be desensitized.
Do you live with two women?
Do you live with two women?
On a bad day, yes.
Only 1. That seems like plenty.
/no libertarian women
JUST DON’T READ IT!
Oh…
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Hi Glibs After Dark! I’m so sorry I have been absent so much this summer. Now that my commuting routine is (kind of) back to normal, I hope I can re-integrate.
So how about that ThinkProgress union-busting, eh?
They can union bust all they want – no money saving measures will help a company selling crappy products no one wants.
Also – welcome back! Wondered where you’d gone.
I just think the irony of a supposed “progressive” outlet flagrantly and deliberately busted its union. It is sooooo yummy & delicious
Or the Bernie campaign.
You are referenced frequently. We missed you and I’m glad you are back.
Hello! Happy to be here!
One of the shitlords lamented that he couldn’t share his Aviation porn with you.
Speaking of, what do you think of this Kristen?
https://www.hybridairvehicles.com
I think a ride in one of those would be awesome!
Interesting! If they can make that work for cargo, I think it would be awesome. Seems like cargo is the real moneymaker in aviation.
*barf*
Aw, dang!
There’s some upcoming aviation pr0n down thread
Saw it.
Nice trip!
Somehow I completely missed this contract getting reactivated this year (I think the last time I searched for an update was early last year).
#Winning
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-05-07/marines-reactivating-unmanned-kaman-k-max-helicopters
HHmm….I wonder if those would be practical for civilian use?
They’ve been selling modded versions for rural fire-fighting, etc. I think CA or CANG was using them summer a year ago.
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2014-12-11/unmanned-k-max-tested-firefighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wwKh4SNYwM
KK! We missed you!
Howdy!!!
Ok, so I’m flipping through pictures. There’s a guy in a bat man mask. Not showing their face typically indicates married, but I laughed and clicked no.
Howdy neighborino!
Yay! Kristen is back!
I was on the Tinders this past weekend (that’s right ladies and young, confused, smooth men), and there was an alarming number of women wearing wedding/engagement rings.
Fake News. Men are dogs that cheap, not virtuous women.
I just assume they were old photos but also I am a positive polly and always believe the best in people.
It is a trend among younger women (where I go to school) to wear rings to indicate they are interested in a relationship.
Back in my day, single ladies wore ’em to “cut down on wrestling sessions.” No data on whether it actually worked, natch.
The ones I see at college are clearly “fashion” rings. The older crowd who are actually married tend to sport rings with real stones that are gold, not burnished silver or brass.
Updates:
Especially for MikeS in case I hadn’t said anything: I’ll be flying to Greenville later this month to meet my brother’s brother!
On another note: I am flying to the shithole known as the UK next March for some extreme AvGeekery. I’ll be flying BA’s A318 all-business class service direct from JFK to LCY. I’ll make my way across London to Heathrow and stay at the Renaissance for some wicked planespotting at the hotel and at Myrtle Avenue. From there, it’s off to Manchester for some airport pub planespotting and some time at the spotting mound. After that, a quick overnight in Glasgow for a Monday morning jaunt to Barra, Scotland. Back to Glasgow and Heathrow Monday night for some more spotting. Another business class trans-Atlantic from Heathrow to Dulles on a 777.
I want to get to the northern Scottish islands some time: Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetland.
Me, too! Would love to visit Skara Brae
The boy is going to Scotland for a semester this year. It’s in the shitty time of the year, but I’m still thinking of toughing it out.
I probably won’t hit those, though…
Where in Scotland?
Aberdeen.
Aye?
Have you seen the TWA swimming pool yet?
In pics, yes. I’ll be staying there in December for 2 nights! Probably not the best time for the pool, even though it’s supposedly heated to jacooz-level temps. Tryna make reservations for the Connie and the SUnken Lounge. Their online dining reservations system seems to be non-functional.
Well, it is Airstrip One, after all.
Can we do another open thread for the next Dem debate? That one earlier this summer was a gas.
Oh dear God there’s another one soon, isn’t there? I don’t know if my liver can handle it.
I am literally shaking right now.
I was sitting on the couch with my unconscious wife. She then woke up and saw me watching The Brady Bunch. She asked me “What the fuck? I responded with “What you mean? Me watching The Brady Bunch?,” and she replied, “No, I mean why the fuck did you hit with a frying pan? I’ve had fucking enough, I want a divorce.”
THE FUCK???!?!?!? Just because I watched two episodes of The Brady Bunch, she wanted a fucking divorce? “Why”, I muttered. She told me, “Because you raped my mother, sodomized my dad, and are constantly abusing me.”
The lying fucking bitch! In her final words, she lied to me! Instead of admitting she wanted to leave because I watched two episodes of The Brady Bunch, she makes up some bullshit about me being a domestic abuser? Well, I just had enough of that, so I strangled the life out of her.
I’m here to inform you all that The Brady Bunch is a show for cucks.
Preach!
Shouldn’t you be writing for Salon and explaining how this is all the white man’s fault?
(Boy will I feel stupid when this turns out to be true.)
I would never write for Salon.
This piece is going up on Quillette (the journal formerly known as “The New Yorker, but for Incels”) tomorrow.
OMFGLMAO
Oh, I see. Explaining how it’s the fault of people explaining how it’s all the white man’s fault.
Don’t hate the player, Tulip. Hate the game.
Were you in the tiki caves with Mr. Hanalei or something?
That’s why they call me the Brown Panther.
Uh, no they don’t.
The Brown Housecat?
The Beige Lynx last time the committee convened.
Sorry, dude.
Aren’t most lynxes beige?
Most, maybe, but not all.
It is a CRIME that they’re not getting paid as much as their male counterparts.
The Mocha Metalinguist.
The Tan Tabby.
You remember the episode with Joe Namath? That was great?
Remember when Joe Namath and Ann Margaret starred in 1977’s C/C. And Company? Remember when Tarantino included the trailer for C.C. And Company</a? in the movie Sharon Tate goes to watch in OUATIH? Remember William Smith – he has the fight scene with Broadway Joe in the C.C. And Company trailer? Remember when he had a fight scene with Rod Taylor and it was violent as a mug?
I remember.
The 70’s Gone With the Wind.
I remember roller disco and cocaine.
I could only afford to snort through a dollar bill, sometimes a 5 if I was flush, because I was just a toddler.
I remember a young Skywalker.
Doh!
https://youtu.be/LhkyV3W_fUk
Now I want some Pepperidge Farms.
It’s not easy to knock someone out for exactly 30 minutes.
Good thing Mrs. Brady had Alice..
https://www.aier.org/article/its-lightbulb-liberation-day
And the masses appear to be fine with this and the TOP MEN love it so I don’t know…
Personally two big problems are firstly the notion of the Educated Elites should be ruling us. The King and the Pope were hidebound reactionaries so fuck them. We can trust these Ivy Leaguers, why? And why would they desire to leave us alone?
Another is the idea that the Government is us. When the government is made up of a small class of rich aristocrats who hate the masses then the notion that they should leave us alone and not tax us, regulate us, etc. and we should be allowed to become as rich as possible and do what we want was very enticing.
Oh yes the liberals supported nationalism to destroy the notion of Feudalism, Absolutism and Theocracy. Now that they realize that nationalism has some serious problems they swerved to supporting internationalism. However internationalism has some pretty serious flaws with the biggest being the sort of person who desires unaccountable rule over the entire planet is not the sort who desires to leave people alone.
Have you listened to the Democrat presidential candidates talking about the internal combustion engine? Government mandated electric cars will be the incandescent lightbulb story writ large.
Paging Mr. SugarFree, Mr. SugarFree to the white courtesy phone.
Appears there will need to be a slight modification tothe Hat and the Heir.
What percentage of that is even remotely accurate?
Confirming what we already knew:
Robert Kraft will only pay AFTER a release.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/19/heres-what-i-learned-from-my-privileged-western-failure-to-go-plastic-free-for-a-month
I do not want to subscribe to that newsletter.
There is little to nothing more privileged than someone wanting the entire world to be brought to heel, for people to starve and be enslaved, for civil wars to rage and child soldiers to be conscripted, to consign everyone else to poverty and misery, just to make right your own personal moral failings.
Just as the train was about to pull into Self-Awareness Town, the driver said “fuck this”, stopped, turned around, went full speed away, fired a rocket launcher at the station, and then nuked the whole town from orbit just to be sure.
Based on a discussion a few days ago, I bought a baguette and liverwurst today. Comfort food for the win
That sounds tasty!
“Maybe the Earth likes plastic, and made us to create it?”
I wore my new black slacks today (had to drop a dress size—yay!) but in the sun they are more of a deep purple.
I remarked to my husband that I thought they were trying to go for black but missed the mark.
He said, “So the Rachel Dolezal of slacks.”
Awesome.
So you dressed up like Prince:)
Sounds like you have a keeper (not the slacks).
The slacks.
Submitted without comment.
I’m thinking of taking my dog to agility training
Good training and fun people.
Do it.
Yes.
An HM “submitted without comment” link?
I wouldn’t click on that with your mouse.
It’s fine, quite cool
It’s safe.
Where do you find this stuff? That was great
Bless the holy algorithm.
10/10.
Species Appropriation.
Something to brighten your day: UberNeverTrumper Max Boot’s column:
Brought a smile to my face.
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For the hypothetical rigid airship to be as effective as cargo boats are today, it would have to be over five times as long as the Empire State Building is tall. Beyond the logistics of building the thing, the docking of the airship would be a challenge due to limited control mechanisms, and strong winds could make it collapse.
But if these challenges could be overcome, the scientists say, a fleet of 1,125 rigid airship carriers “would be able to transport energy equivalent to 10 [percent] of current world electricity consumption.” Despite the obstacles, the fleet could be a support structure for the globe as it transitions to cleaner energy.
So… a pipe dream.
Or a retard circle-jerk.
You choose.
With that kind of a cross-section presented to the wind, any wind would make the damn thing pretty much uncontrollable. You’d need engines like on the Saturn V to keep that thing from going nuts.
Have some faith, unbeliever.
These guys seem to be on the ground with a lot of stuff in the Bahamas: https://www.padf.org/hurricane-dorian-royal
(I don’t trust the Red Cross that much, so I’ve been looking for other ways to donate. I vacationed in the Abacos many years ago. It was a really lovely place, even though beaches and oceans ain’t my bag)
Not enough snow on beaches, eh? Try Antarctica!
2022 is my Faroe Islands & Iceland trip!
My Ex-boss went to Ice Land earlier this year. Had a blast.
I’ve got a fellow photog buddy who’s been to Iceland six times already. He can’t get enough of that place, and keeps calling it a “target-rich environment for photographers.”
I love beaches in the winter with lots of wind.
To paraphrase a certain writer, the coldest winter I’ve ever spent was on the Oregon coast in the summer (July 1969, to be exact — saw the moon landing in a motel room in Coos Bay).