Summer FINALLY seems to show some signs of breaking here, and a good thing since we were about to start driving through a mall to beat the heat. I’m employed again, and I want to give a shout-out to all you folks who were so supportive and especially a couple of guys who really went the extra mile, Animal and Yusef. Y’all are the best. Every day is still a Mom adventure, but it beats the alternative. And what promises to be one of the best games of the year will be starting in a few hours- SP and I are preparing the alcohol.
Birthdays today include a guy whose brilliance let him beat the class system; a guy who was typecast, but did it well; a great cartoonist who ought to be better known; a famous but sad woman with a sad story; and a woman with a runaway success story.
The news is next.
I’m not sure how this reporter kept a straight face. Maybe he didn’t. Hard to tell.
The Atlantic can’t even get football right.
Because everyone knows that darkies don’t have agency and can’t help themselves.
You want a chaotic election? Here ya go, a chaotic election.
Why we got out of Illinois, Part 783.
Maybe the kids should all go on strike!
“Your world frightens and confuses me.”
Last up is Old Guy Music, from someone who’s feeling older than dirt. And it seems somehow appropriate.
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Best news du jour! Mazel Tov!
Also, dare I say…first??
Give her the ass-slap GIF !
And mornin’
Mornin’! I want a REAL ass-slap!
Tall…bottles! (Still in wine mode)
SP has certain rules, among which are, “You do not ass slap any women who aren’t me.” And given the rusty tin can lid collection, I’ll just give GT a knowing nod.
::winks, turns head & whistles, turning eyes skyward::
Congrats on the work situation!
Congrats!
Congrats, OMWC.
Good morning Glibs.
Glad to hear you are employed again. I assume you won’t have to move again which is a good thing to be certain.
Congratulations on rejoining the ranks of the employed.
Grats on the job. I thought the illegals took all the AZ jobs?
Re-employment is good! Congratulations!
Ditto. Congrats OMWC!
Congrats on the re-jobbing, OMWC!
Good news, OM!
Congrats!
BT, DT, dread the prospect of it happening to me. (Both sides of family. Soooooo screwed!)
Congrats on finding a new van delivery company that doesn’t perform background checks!
On the Illinois situation, the Constitution may not be a suicide pact, but the union contracts are.
The coming attempt at gun confiscation will certainly help alleviate the pressure on the police pension funds.
The general freaking out about Ukraine indicates there’s some meat to the story. Hell, Biden bragged about getting prosecutors fired over it.
I have full faith in the mainstream media and politicians ability to ignore Bidens kid turning his dads vice presidency into squillions for himself just as they did when he was doing it for eight years. My favorite one was the flying on Air Force 2 to China with daddy vp and coming home with a contract with millions in fees for managing a Chinese bank fund.
Just like they pounded the story about Russian interference without talking about Hillary and the DNC fixing the primary against Bernie which was the real story all along.
And Bernie went along with it even though he isn’t even a Dem. The threat of sudden suicide is real.
Congrats on the new source of a paycheck! And, I don’t think I have had enough coffee for the Old Guy Music.
Well, that is good news. We’re breathing a little easier for you here.
Firebird Joe don’t go changing.
The black QB “problem” comes back every season. Being a 6” tall QB is more unusual in the NFL than being a black QB. What aren’t there more 5’8” QB’s
Those darned 5G cancer waves are making the frogs gay and killing the bees.
OMWC, glad to hear you are no longer spending your days playing tea and dress up with the girls at home. Congratulations on the new gig. I hope you don’t have to move again.
So very this. Moving sucks. Moving while minding Mom would be that much more stressful – and upsetting to whatever routine she might have.
I haven’t had to move in 15 year or more. Barring a scare 10 years ago it hasn’t even been a consideration for my family.
Now I have roots for longer than anytime in my life. I’m open to moving if necessary, but I’m not looking to do so.
My work is very specific to certain locations and most of them are undesirable to me and my wallet.
Moving while minding Mom would be that much more stressful – and upsetting to whatever routine she might have.
Yeah, my parents’ computer got fried by a lightning strike (despite their having a UPS/surge protector) and the replacement necessitated going from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Mom couldn’t figure out how to operate Windows 8, so there went one more connection to the outside world earlier than it should have.
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/make-windows-10-like-windows-7
There is something of a cottage industry in retro-skinning Windows. As the boomer population ages there will be more demand for consistent look and feel. I can also see some creative use of the ADA to bludgeon Microsoft into offering this as an option.
Sorry about your mother.
Eh, she’s been dead 4-1/2 years. And she died before Medicaid could get its greedy paws on any of the family assets. And she had a vicious temper that only got worse as the dementia progressed, so in many ways her death was a relief.
Why would Medicaid go after the family assets?
I would guess it’s something like NYC does for children’s benefits. If a custodial parent signs on, the city will claw back anything they can get from the non-custodial parent (whoever is on the birth certificate).
If you require a nursing home in your old age and can’t afford to pay for it out of pocket, Medicaid requires you to sign over all of your assets to them in order to pay for it. It’s someone you want to try and plan for if you want to leave anything to your kids.
Nursing home.
She died there after just two months (heart attack, not the dementia), before Medicaid would have started “paying”.
The long-term care insurance should have paid about a third of the annual expenses anyway, but they also tried to dick Dad over.
Dad couldn’t get Mom to do it, so after she died one of the first things he did was to update the will and get the house put into a trust. Unless the feds change the rules again, the house should be immune from clawback in about a year.
Yeah, a trust is a good idea.
Yup. As she declined, Mom’s barely-repressed and justifiable resentment toward my dad was directed toward most males, making it challenging for my hubby, BIL, and any male caretakers in The Home.
The new gig is a 30 minute drive away. There’s a few complications, but there always are. All in all, it wasn’t a bad place to land.
Good to hear.
Glad you don’t have to relocate.
In what way exactly would it be illegal or even untoward for a president to suggest to a foreign nation to investigate corruption engaged in by a US citizen? I don’t get it. Is there some law against it? Second link on Uncle Handsy….the guy still wears an onion on his belt, what do you want?
Football: Here we go with the secret coded racist language again. Dog whistles that only dogs can hear, apparently. I cant read the WaPo link but no great loss. I see the header for the paper includes “The credibility y ou expect”. That is true, it is WaPo.
Election in Israel….I don’t know enough about the politics there to comment.
State pensions: They are making noise here now. How does that work? Isn’t some portion of the workers salary supposed to be invested to pay for their pension? For years we got statements showing how much was withheld, where it was invested and how much we should expect. Now all of a sudden they are short? I wonder how that could happen.
“What’s that? You can see it’s this ugly menace sitting there,” she said.
You can? In what way? That it is a mystery speaks to the diligence of journalists today. It is on public land dufus, look in the public record.
“Election in Israel….I don’t know enough about the politics there to comment.”
Exactly what I was going to say.
I tried reading the football/black racism stuff. Some people want to see evil spirits in everything
Hey! I was just logging in to post the same thought about the folk afraid of the radio waves and the mobile telephone service.
Spooks, some might say.
Well, in this case it is the son of a political rival. I don’t know if it’s illegal, but from the point of view of ethics, it draws the same “eewww” as a sitting President ordering wiretaps on a political rival, if you know what I mean.
There’s little reason to believe that Trump did what the media reported that he had done. The Ukrainians were approaching the U.S. Government with info on Biden and Ukraine’s role in the U.S. elections in 2016.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/462422-missing-piece-to-the-ukraine-puzzle-state-departments-overture-to-rudy
Except his counsel admitted it.
Never mind; read the link.
“Your world frightens and confuses me.”
What the hell does this story have to do with “Don’t waste your money”?
And the cell phones cause brain cancer stuff was nonsense 20 years ago. But the media always give these Luddites a respectful hearing.
A couple years ago, we went to see the Green Bank Observatory. I made a point to think about if I felt any different in the NRQZ. I didn’t.
Thanks for the link on Faraday.
His life story is pretty interesting. Second only to Heaviside.
A John favorite.
Agreed, I know a lot about the work and not the man. His shortfalls in math make his work all that more impressive. He was a great experimental scientist and engineer.
Rand Paul doing God’s work:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/22/rand-paul-liz-cheney-senate-wyoming-1506603
Of course politco frames it as ‘look at this stupid hillbilly feud’
“The assertion from Cheney that Paul has surrendered “to terrorists” and Paul’s response that Cheney is a “NeverTrump warmonger””
Just make out already.
Seriously though. I think Rand might have learned a hard lesson on foreign policy from his presidential bid.
But it is a stupid hillbilly feud. Cheney was always a clown, but it has been sad to see Rand’s decline as he has decided to drop all pretense of principle and serve as Trump’s catamite.
OT: successful block party on Friday hosted by LH and me. Another neighbor was our co-host, and she fronted the cost of a bounce-castle for the little kids, which was a huge draw. Two firetrucks came too (you can ask for these with the permit) and stayed for 1/2 hour, another hit.
LH gets major kudos for putting up with this nonsense while sick, then moving the cars back and taking the barricades down with no help from me, as the drinking hit me hard out of nowhere.
We brag how we live in the cheap seats of our burb, but we like it a lot. First time we have had true friends who are neighbors!
Oddly enough, the mayor – facing a contested election – shows up for the block party out of nowhere. . .
Mr./Ms. Mayor must peruse the party permits for potential politicking.
That’s what I was thinking too – filed with Public Safety office, so she’s right next door.
I’ve had parties where two fire trucks came.
911 calls and block parties with a permit are not the same thing.
It’s not a party until the National Guard is called in.
I’ve never seen the need for more than a single fireman at a time.
Good deal, OMWC. I remember those days of wondering why my talents/skills weren’t being recognized by prospective employers, ’til one day…
Now I worry that Mrs Fourscore might start answering ads for me just to get me out of the house. I’m happy for you, SP and Mom now that life is back in the fast lane.
In the words of that old Negro spiritual, “Free at last…”
Mr. GT is retired at only three score & change. I confess there are days when I want to say, “Look, you GOTTA get something going on besides the occasional musical gig.” He would be awesome working with little kids, but in this day/age/hyperparanoid culture, it would be way too risky. Sad.
“‘Total Massacre’ as U.S. Drone Strike Kills 30 Farmers in Afghanistan
Amnesty International said the bombing “suggests a shocking disregard for civilian life.
In a statement, Colonel Sonny Leggett, the spokesman for the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, said the attack was aimed at “Da’esh (IS) terrorists in Nangarhar” province.
“We are aware of allegations of the death of non-combatants and are working with local officials to determine the facts,” said Leggett.
However, Leggett said, the blame for the massacre is squarely on IS and the Taliban—not U.S. forces.
“We are fighting in a complex environment against those who intentionally kill and hide behind civilians, as well as use dishonest claims of noncombatant casualties as propaganda weapons,” Leggett said.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/19/total-massacre-us-drone-strike-kills-30-farmers-afghanistan
“U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labor in the fields, officials said on Thursday. ”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones/u-s-drone-strike-kills-30-pine-nut-farm-workers-in-afghanistan-idUSKBN1W40NW
I am still waiting on my answer….what the fuck are we doing there? Anyone?
Protecting our freedoms, duh….
Why do those Farmers hate our freedom so much?
Tilting at windmills?
Protecting the trade in poppies and poppy-derived products?
once upon a not so long ago war was about looting. It was a for profit enterprise. Removing that incentive was supposed to be the end of the horrible wars that had plagued us from antiquity.
Our efforts failed spectacularly.
It’s still about looting. Just who gets looted changed.
[golf clap]
Bravo
Rome: The Miniseries. Deals with that and a lot of other gritty facets of everyday Roman life. Also, lots of topless Polly Walker.
Romes expansion was almost entirely funded by looting other nations. I think the highest tax rate was 1% during the republican era.
Great scene when he’s showing off his “trophies” to his wife.
Man was that a good show, it’s time for a rewatch.
*searches for Polly Walker*
Bottomless, as well.
Spot on, good sir. The genius of Napoleon was to realize that fighting men can be just as motivated by trinkets pinned on their chests while he kept the plunder. It works, but nowadays, we don’t even get to keep any plunder. A successful war should turn a profit.
Only Trump would use drones to kill innocent civilians.
War cant end if you keep killing civilians…
-Bolton
They shouldn’t have been using their own bodies as human shields
“We are fighting in a complex environment against those who intentionally kill and hide behind civilians, as well as use dishonest claims of noncombatant casualties as propaganda weapons,” Leggett said.”
The ghost of Ho Chi Minh laughs from hell.
It’s been the same story since the end of WW2, yet they always act like it’s some outrageous development. They also act like we’re not tromping around in a foreign country. How dare they resist us in the most effective matter possible?
We killed plenty of civilians in WWII also, fire bombing Japan and Germany.
Now I understand the “War on Illegal Immigrants”.
The Facebook group SWORT, Southwest Ohio for Reasonable Technology
Sounds legit.
Am I the only one bothered that it’s not SORT?
Would be indistinguishable from “Southern Ohio for Reasonable Technology,” but ‘cept down yonder they don’t cotton to such high-falutin’ words as “reasonable” or “technology.”
It’s all Cincinnati’s fault.
In this case, I’ll agree to assign fault there, though in all other circumstances, I’m inclined to blame Cleveland.
Hey!
/shrugs
It’s a fair cop.
Sorta.
May the SWORTs be with you.
Tin cans and string?
Real tin cans, or these new-fangled, coated steel cans?
Hemp or cotton string or some fancy polyester stuff?
*faints*
Their headquarters is called “Compound W ?”
Congrats on employment. I hope it’s aimiable to you.
“Body positivity activists are at it again!
This time, they have a long list of dos and don’ts for people who want to date or *ahem* sleep with overweight women…
FAT LOVE: Body Positivity Activists Explain Fat Fornication | Ep 83”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1175573684997808129
“BODY POSITIVITY Activists Explain Fat DATING and… Mating | Ep 83”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fujnpP4ZGkw
“with overweight women”
Overweight men get no love?
I dunno. Do they?
::lights Tres signal::
…I just got home from church
/MESSAGE RECEIVED
Fatty girls need love too
“BODY POSITIVITY Activists” They’re few in number, but they wield huge influence. Movers and shakers, one could say
OT – Well, kinda sorta, I wanted to express my congratulations and joy to OMWC for getting jobbed up and my undying admiration for OMWC, SP, WebDom, and the whole family for caring for mom and for continuing to provide such a wonderful space for us here. Have one of my mother’s absolute favorite songs – Nanci Griffith with Ford Econoline
Yes Atlantic, only black QBs ever get asked to switch position once they get to the NFL.
“Crouch was initially drafted by the St. Louis Rams of the NFL as a wide receiver, but still wanted to play quarterback. Crouch, however, was seen by NFL teams as being too short to play quarterback. His athleticism was seen as better suited for playing wideout, but a hard tackle by a defensive player caused him to have 150cc of blood drained from his leg. Because of the injury, Crouch left the team before playing a game.”
Trace McSorley. I mean, this idiot writer didn’t even have to look beyond the 2019 Ravens.
Well, I went to Crouch because he won the Heisman, as a QB, and there still wasn’t any talk of him getting a shot to try to play QB in the NFL.
He belongs to one of the most privileged groups in the country, but let’s ignore our own philosophy to gin up outrage of racism.
Julian Edelman would like a word as well.
Wasn’t there talk of Tebow switching to tight end?
Yes, and/or fullback, which Tim refused to do, which is why he didn’t last long in the league.
CNN “Fact checks”… LOL:
https://news.google.com/articles/CCAiCzlBN1VMTWQycFRBmAEB?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
They’re impeccably impartial.
“An unproven claim that he and his son acted inappropriately”
Like unproven claims of collusion?
That Atlantic thing: what a tedious load of claptrap.
“The NFL conspires to keep the Black Man in his place.”
Just look at how they reacted to that Mahomes kid. He never had a chance.
Trump is the first President ever to make an attempt to influence a foreign government, or to apply an American legal framework to a foreign business enterprise.
*Justin Amash nods furiously*
It’s been the same story since the end of WW2, yet they always act like it’s some outrageous development. They also act like we’re not tromping around in a foreign country. How dare they resist us in the most effective matter possible?
STOP RESISTING!
I hadn’t thought of that, but the warmongers and cops suckers do tend to use the exact same excuses, just worded a little differently
Dereliction of duty
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared her exasperation with Democratic leadership for their refusal to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump as yet another controversy rocks his administration.
A two-month truce with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cracked just before midnight Saturday when the freshman congresswoman from New York fired a volley on Twitter attacking her own party.
“At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior – it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” Ocasio-Cortez said on her personal account, which has more than 5 million followers.
Feral child wants blood.
in the bar the bouncer would have kicked trumpy out days ago. Goddamn bastard dont drink no booze while occupying a bar stool
I agree with her. If the Democratic party thinks he’s a criminal, they have a duty to start impeachment.
“as yet another controversy rocks his administration”
Am I the only one that doesn’t give a flying damn about this supposed controversy? If the Dems push this nonsense they’re going to screw themselves again.
It’s another scandal double take by the Democrats, we’ve been caught doing really illegal treasonous shit, but we’re going to try to spin it as ‘how dare someone call us on it.’ See Hillary Clinton Russia, Hillary Clinton FBI, Barack Obama Benghazi… etc…
Exactly, even if there is some meat on the bone viv a vis Trump’s behavior it’ll be drowned out by the background noise and the outrage of the day. As far as the Bidens go, this has gotten people talking about them and looking into their Ukraine shenanigans which isn’t a good thing for them at all.
“Dem Candidate Pete Buttigieg Gets Smacked For Saying He ‘Can’t Even Read The LGBT Media Anymore’”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/52077/dem-candidate-pete-buttigieg-gets-smacked-saying-frank-camp
was he never literate or did politics make him dumber?
From cishetero shitlady’s perspective –
LGBT#$%& media to hetero world: Stop stereotyping us!!!1!
LGBT%$#@ media to prominent LGBT&*()s who don’t present a la the stereotype: Fit the stereotype!!!!!11!!
^This broad gets it.
It works for melanated folk as well.
And heaven help you if you admit to being bi. I have no idea how in the world the B got in LGBT, since they are the redheaded stepchildren.
Fun fact: I was a redheaded stepchild (though I was grown & married myself when Dad remarried) and have a redheaded stepchild, who is both biracial and bisexual.
(Clarification: I, myself, was married. I was NOT married to myself.)
I married myself, but it ended in a bitter divorce. I did get half of my stuff, so there’s that.
Grievance double FTW.
Now tell me the stepchild is female, and it’s a grievance trifecta!
My brother is gay, married, and a father. He doesn’t consider himself bi, but he feels men are for fucking and women are for nesting. Vehemently does not want a male partner.
Nope – my step is male, and was supposed to be gay, dammit! Then he stuck it in crazy chick and became a baby daddy. (At least it convinced his father to get him out of our house after nine years of no progress in his life.) When we figured out his imminent parenthood (he didn’t volunteer that intel,) I thought wistfully, “What happened to that nice boy you used to date?”
Your bro’s family sounds interesting. If it works for them, more power to ’em!
Everybody loves you when you’re bi.
All of the above plus the fact that the self-anointed “LGBT+ media” are without exception rabidly left-wing, not a good look if Buttercup wants to beef up his “moderate” bona-fides.
was
What is the Ideal Strategy for the Libertarian Party? A Soho Forum Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adou3a9g040
commented on?
Beyond the arguments I don’t like that Sarwark fella, the way he talks, the way he looks. I thin he wants to sound calm and collected but sounds self important and annoying.
That being said, I think I am somewhere in the middle.
Damn moderate!!!
Sarwark is a Class A jackass that got beaten in a debate by a comedian and said a lot of stupid things in the process. The LP deserves better but I doubt they’ll get it.
Small-L libertarians deserve better, but I think the party is beyond salvation. For each sincere libertarian in the LP there is another person who is there for self-aggrandizement, and a third who is an agent of one or the major parties there to discredit us. I would really like to know the real story behind Jimmy Weeks’ little number — my suspicion is that he was drugged by someone who couldn’t get close to an actual candidate and who also knew that the general public would not draw the distinction between a presidential nominee and a party official.
Imma say, NOT endorsing Hillary.
It were kkkapitalism what dunnit
You and I have the unfortunate honor of facing down a crisis the likes of which our species has never before seen. Rapid climate change of our own making is transforming every bit of ocean and land, imperiling organisms clear across the tree of life. It’s killing people by way of stronger storms and hotter heat waves and unchecked pollution.
We all can and should do our part—fly less if possible, buy local foods that haven’t been shipped thousands of miles, get solar panels and an electric car. But let’s not lose sight of the root cause of this crisis: rampant capitalism. Capitalism has steamrolled this planet and its organisms, gouging out mountains, overexploiting fish stocks, and burning fossil fuels to power the maniacal pursuit of growth and enrich a fraction of humanity. Since 1988, 100 corporations have been responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
All cost, no benefit. We’d be better off wearing skins and chasing buffalo over cliffs for food.
You and I have the unfortunate honor of facing down a crisis the likes of which our species has never before seen – wait I though our species was almost whiped out by a volcanic eruption a few hundred thousand years ago. And went through an ice age or two with minimal technology. And plagues and shit.
Since 1988, 100 corporations have been responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. – those corporations simply burn shit for no reason
Sorry, Wired, not joining your religion.
burning fossil fuels to power the maniacal pursuit of growth and enrich a fraction of humanity.
Before capitalism, 99% of the world’s population was grubbing in the dirt for roots to eat and dying in their thirties from diseases that are either curable today or no longer exist.
Well, 99/100 is a fraction.
More-
So what would an ideal system look like? How might we politically and economically get along better with the planet?
You would have to have a democratically controlled accumulation fund. I think that banking and finance have to be socialized because otherwise you’re continually at the mercy of big capital deciding what’s profitable or not.
What would the ideal world be like? It would integrate town and country, it would have cheap and low-carbon public transportation. We also have to look at the actual history of huge destructive events in the 20th century and its relationship to the web of life. I think about the willingness of countries like the US to, for instance, destroy Vietnam in that ecocidal way. That great quotation during the Tet Offensive: “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.” That will be the tendency of one or more great powers in the era of climate crisis, that as social justice politics and movements challenge the present regime, there will be an attempt to impose a devastating military solution on that.
It’s rainbows and unicorns, all the way down.
” I think that banking and finance have to be socialized because otherwise you’re continually at the mercy of big capital deciding what’s profitable or not.”
Instead of seeking capital from anywhere, you have to appear before the government economic finance board and justify why your business should exist.
Mass graves, monarchies, endless rebellions, state sanctioned ‘banking,’ state sanctioned ‘free speech,’ absolute control of energy…. here we come! It’s a brave new world, they’ll put the top men in charge!
I doubt any social justice brigades the form in the near future are going to be able fight their way out of a paper bag let alone turn the world into “utopia”, but yes, I would expect “the present regime” to fight back if they attempt to do so.
This fucking idiot must have spent his entire life inside a large city.
There would be nothing cheap or probably even low-carbon about this. As anyone who has spent any amount of time in the middle of the country can tell you. The USA is half of a fucking continent, you moron. You aren’t integrating the town and country.
…unless of course you mean to de-populate those stupid areas.
I believe this has been tried before.
Pertinent?
Or maybe this?
“At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior – it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it.”
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1175619319432196096
Projection. AOC with actual power should frighten ANYONE.
was he never literate or did politics make him dumber?
Politics makes us ll dumber.
tru dat
Idea: Once every 20 years there should be an election when all incumbent congress-critters cannot run again and have to make way for an entirely new congress. Discuss.
Would that reset all Senate terms? Right now every two years a third of their seats come up.
What would the elections in the last few years of a particular Congress look like? Would you make your first run for a House seat in year 18 of a Congress’s ‘lifespan’? If you won, you’d be barred from running again. Can you pull a Grover Cleveland and run again in year 2 of the next Congress?
You’re proposing an arbitrary (1) rule-based solution to a much larger problem. Addressing the symptom, rather than the cause. While the rule might change the details of how the corruption is implemented, it wouldn’t stop the corruption, so you’d be limiting liberty (2) for no gain.
(1) Why 20? Why not 10, or 18 or 24?
(2) Why should I be prevented from voting for my preferred candidate, just because he’s been in office for some arbitrary number of years?
so what is everyone drinking?
Château d’Aigueville
Côtes du Rhône Villages 2014
not bad but meh
Coffee… the shitty “keep me awake” folgers kind.
Though, I could really use a good Wheat Heff right now.
As per usual lately, this stuff, which I’ll stick with on the weekends ’til the weather turns cooler and I get back onto the hot candy coffee.
70% lower sugar – coffee and protein powders usually have almost 0 sugar. How is 15 grams 70% less?
Probably 70% less than this one, which has 48 grams of sugar. Is that 70% less? I was told there’d be no math on this website! ::Barbie squeak:: Math is hard!
Their regular stuff has over 50g of sugar apparently.
https://www.bolthouse.com/product/mocha-cappuccino/
Peets Major Dickason’s Blend With some real half/half and a level spoon of raw sugar.
meh I prefer single origin coffees, usually Ethiopian
“I like my coffee same as I like my women—black, bitter, and preferably Free Trade”
Football hasn’t started yet. I’ll see what SP has in mind. Last night, we chugged a bottle of a top-drawer Rhone syrah from ’98. Did not suck.
I just added a bottle of Romanian syrah to the aging cooler lets see it in 10 to 12
Jalapeno ‘wine’ from a local winery. It isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I’m trying to figure out what to cook with it, I might make a hot sauce out of it.
Cardinal Hollow?
Do you recommend it?
That’s the one. The jalapeno wine is interesting. I wouldn’t buy it again to drink, so I’ll hold off until I cook with it for a recommendation. Their meads are fantastic though.
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau
Nice twitter pic, assclown.
*swoon*
He’s so dreamy…all is forgiven Justin, all is forgiven.
I’m surprised he wasn’t performing fellatio on that dude.
One tweet for Canada, and one for Quebec. Ugh. Et je suis Quebecois.
Iran is Trump’s fault. They loved us when Obama was in office.
Yep, never had any troubles with them until Trump was elected.
Can someone please send me a link of Beto falling off his skateboard like a numbskull? I can’t seem to find it!
Gif
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/beto-campaign–version-201-redux-to-launch-new-bold-strategy/85280739/
Thanks.
How did he fall -under- a parked car?
Is that actually him? I don’t see his face. It looks like his body type. It still makes a good meme even if it’s not him.
He does have the right skill level.
OMWC! Congrats on the job. I missed where you lost the other one, so I hang my head in shame that I neglected you all.
Re adventures in Mom: I wish you all luck and whatever blessings you stand in need of.
Re black quarterbacks: My dad used to tell me all the time that there weren’t any because they weren’t smart enough, and that was in the 70s. It took me a long time to divest myself of his training (approximately one semester at BYU).
Yeah, so QBs: Chieeeeeeeeefs!!!!! My husband is such a Mahomie, I’m going to be obliged to shift my careful decorating scheme and knickknacks for sportsball ephemera.
I always grew up hearing that there weren’t black quarterbacks because black athletes were faster and taller on the average and so they always got put at receiver. White guys were either too average to be anything but quarterbacks or kickers, or they were big, dumb lummoxes from the midwest who became linemen.
What positions do Asians and Hispanics play?
Agents and kickers, respectively.
The dearth of Asians in the NFL is evidence that there is a hostile environment. We need to reach out to Asian youth and encourage them to switch from pre-med to whatever football players major in.
Communications.
Oh except Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who is an MD.
What is John Urschel, chopped liver?
I concede. Mathematicians > MDs.
Asians and Hispanics are white…this time.
Get used to seeing Sad Pat today.
Oh, no. No, no, no.
As a Pats fan, I will be watching with interest.
He means Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs quarterback. Chiefs and Ravens playing today.
Understood – as a fan of a team who will be playing both KC & the Ravens, I am interested to see which coaching staff, if either, exposes some weakness in the other team.
Wow. McCorvey’s story really drives home how Roe v. Wade is nothing like it’s depicted. It’s a mythicized ruling with a dubious premise.
“McCorvey revealed herself to the press as being “Jane Roe” soon after the decision’s issuance and stated that she sought an abortion because she was unemployable and greatly depressed” is far from being about how the ruling is viewed today.
She was messed up girl who was perfect fodder to challenge a law it seems.
It clearly isn’t was as intended.
It clearly isn’t being viewed as intended that is.
What a sad life, too. And if I’m reading that right, she was merely being used by a couple ambitious lawyers for their own ends.
Congrats on getting a new gig OMWC.
Austerity is killing us
Governments have been criticized — often by those overseeing monetary policy — for being slow to deliver fiscal support, which typically needs approval by hundreds of lawmakers who may worry about adding to national debts. Central banks can act faster.
The banks would get their hands on some powerful new instruments. But they’d likely have to accept that independence from politicians –- jealously guarded, especially in the age of Trump’s frequent attacks on the Federal Reserve and its chairman Jerome Powell -– has limits.
Where to draw those boundaries is the preoccupation of a recent paper published by BlackRock Inc. and co-written by Fischer, the Fed’s former vice-chair. It argues that monetary stimulus has run out of road as a way to boost economies, while fiscal policy hasn’t been “pulling its weight.’’
One solution is to combine them –- for example, by letting central banks create money to finance government budget deficits. The challenge, say the BlackRock authors, is to encase such “historically unusual’’ measures in explicit rules — so that central bankers retain their independence, and can apply the brakes if government spending gets out of control.
Their proposal involves an emergency fiscal fund that central banks could activate when inflation is dangerously below-target and there’s no room to cut rates. The money-tap would shut off automatically once prices are back on track.
Yeah, that’ll work. What could possibly go wrong?
Verizon says it’s not their tower. Probably a police Stingray.
I would like a phone app that remembers the towers that you pass by on a regular basis, and notifies you when a new “tower” appears.
Heya Mojo and/or any other LDS peep?
What is it with your people and UNO ?
https://imgur.com/gallery/OBYBXm6
Make it Strip UNO and we’ll talk.
Dunno. My mom and daughter play it. My mom also plays dominoes and gin rummy and Chinese checkers and anything else she can play to win and conquer. She is a very sore loser.
Me, I play solitaire games or matching games like Jewel Quest, if I play games at all. Winning doesn’t do anything for me AND I am a sore loser.
when I was a kid we played a game called simply gin and I was a sore looser. But it ws not gin rummy. In Romania Remi (similar i think to rummy) was a tile game
Yeah, we have that, too. Mom loves it.
the gin we played you got a number of cards and a there was also a trump suit and you had to bid exactly how many hands you are going to win and you got 5 points plus the number of hands won if right, or – the difference between the bid and the reality. And each hand you gor more cards, and there were a number of hands equal to the number of players where all cards were dealt and there were no trumps. The dealer had the disadvantage that the number of bid hands could not be the total number of dealt cards, so that each time someone had to be wrong. so as the dealer you could not bid whatever you wanted
That sounds a lot like Oh Hell (sometimes called Oh Pshaw in polite circles).
Okay, I take that back. When I was a kid, we played Boggle and Rook, both which I like. And I LOVE Pit.
Pit is the best! When I was a kid, a neighbor/friend (for a while, a virtual fourth daughter) had a vintage Pit game, with 20s/30s style illos on the box. We also played Authors and multi-day marathon Monopoly games that lasted until one of the cats scattered all the cards and game pieces overnight. Good times.
Yeah, we had that Pit set too.
I have so lied my ass off. I like gin rummy too.
Monopoly is … not good for me. I never played it enough to get the hang of it, and I can’t strategize on the fly. Mr. Mojeaux, OTOH, LOOOOOOOOVES monopoly. The first year we were married, I got him a special edition set for Christmas. We played and he trounced me in short order. It was a disaster.
As a “game”, Monopoly sucks. It was always intended to be an educational simulation of Georgist views on property.
I played UNO once. Found it pointless. It was similar to a local card game that was played with a regular deck. It seems silly to have a dedicated deck for this game. With the regular deck you can play a lot of games.
local game is called Macao
I think that was one of the selling points of UNO. The game company gets to maximize profits by having a monopoly on the equipment. And there are some institutional situations where regular cards or dice are not allowed for fear of gambling, but things like UNO get a pass.
institutional situations where regular cards or dice are not allowed – silly Americans
Many religions prohibit face cards, like some evangelical Christians.
Mormons don’t necessarily. I don’t think the church has an official stance on it. A church leader or three might have made some comment about them, which leads people to interpret it as “gospel,” but it isn’t.
It’s more of an Anglosphere thing in general, to be honest.
In the case of UNO it’s also easier to recognize the special cards like Skip and Reverse.
Right. There’s a bunch of special cards, why try and remember what the repurposed cards are? Make a new deck.
When I was little the rich kids had Uno and the rest of us just played crazy eights.
Why do you hate marketers, Pie?
Triggering to me, because the break room at work is insanely loud with both uno and dominos, every break. I refuse to enter it.
Best comment:
And Catholics be all
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/us-police-assess-potential-threat-rise-after-3-mass-shootings
“In some cases, it’s the so-called “contagion effect” in which intense media coverage of mass shootings leads to more people seeking to become copycat killers.”
So time for common sense media control?
Here’s an update from last night’s Glibs meetup.
So… two fire trucks showed up?
You knew I wasn’t lying when you read this:
Checks out
See?
Sounds about right.
We’re never letting jesse.in.mb procure the poppers again.
Look we have some chemists here. Someone should be making artisanal poppers. That someone should just not be me.
Ha-ha. Naive Midwestern boy here: I thought HM meant Jalapeno Poppers and I just didn’t get the joke.
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This maybe of use to you in the future.
funny stuff
Haha. I think I would’ve gone to party poppers (???) without any context, but I’d kill for some of the jalapeño kind right now.
This thread on TOS is a good classic Reason thread and is–IMHO–very informative on the topic of poppers.
and don’t worry, Rhywun got the joke or didn’t
I have no memory of any of this.
There are not that many references to poppers on Reason so it floated while I was looking for the thread I linked: https://reason.com/2015/07/28/the-rand-paul-is-over-wave-is-cresting/#comment-5475039
It’s a Libertarian Moment!