On This Day in History
1901: 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She survived. But didn’t become rich and famous as she hoped. So, no point in trying this, kids. Also, it’s illegal on both sides of the border.
1945: The United Nations Charter is now effective and ready to be enforced. And look how THAT turned out!
1969: Richard Burton purchased a $1.5 million diamond for Liz Taylor. Moral: don’t waste your money on bullshit expensive gifts; she’ll divorce you anyway.
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This is an amazing story.
This makes as much sense as any other wall.
This annoys me. Get the US out of the Middle East.
This just doesn’t matter. She doesn’t stand a chance.
This guy. (Who?)
Music
Have a great rest of your day, or you can do whatever the hell you want.
SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch
Tim Ryan is out, leaving us only a mere 17 remaining Democratic primary candidates.
Row 1: Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar
Row 2: Beto O’Rourke, Tulsi Gabbard, John Delaney, Eric Swalwell, Tim Ryan
Row 3: Pete Buttigieg, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson
Row 4: Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, Mike Gravel, Julian Castro, Joe Biden
Row 5: Seth Moulton, Wayne Messam, Tom Steyer, Steve Bullock, Bill de Blasio
Delaney, Williamson, Bennett, Messam and Bullock didn’t qualify for the last debate and are probably just going to hold out until after the off-year elections. Or these crazy kids might be waiting to roll the dice in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Sanders should have dropped out by now, but his ego is still fighting against all reason.
Booker, Harris, Klobucher, Gabbard, O’Rourke and Castro are effectively waiting for some sort of Hail Mary, Warren blowing an underage mule or Biden stroking-out. Or they skulking as VP fodder.
At this point, outsiders Yang and Williamson are probably just duking it out to be the Green Party candidate, but they should learn the lesson of Jill Stein: Don’t offer yourself as a scapegoat for the DNC’s failures.
And, waiting in the wings and popping pills, is Hillary, ready to make a meal of what remains after the debates. Will she announce before Iowa? Or wait until it settles down to just Warren and Biden? There have been at least three trial balloons in the press this week. And the kooky Gabbard-is-a-Russian-asset wasn’t an accident. She’s appealing directly to the TDS shocktroops to sway them to her cause. Hillary as the firebrand… OK. At least it will be funny to watch…
leaped on the chance to point out the geographical gaffe.
I see his laser pointer still works.
If we could grow mountains on the border, we wouldn’t need a fence.
maybe a 700′ wall of ICE?
Talk about creating havok with the climate….
I’m in a cynical mood. I can’t help but think if a white guy had refused a black face, the story would have a different tone.
I was reborn a poor black child.
Pertaining to the picture on the front page:
The Gaucho
Congressman Tim Ryan Drops Out Of 2020 Presidential Race
Haven’t seen him since the first debate. Wonder what took so long.
Waiting for the fundraising to completely dry up, I expect.
I didn’t know he was a candidate or who he was and I’m from Ohio.
At this point, outsiders Yang and Williamson are probably just duking it out to be the Green Party candidate, but they should learn the lesson of Jill Stein
Williamson would fit in with the Green party. I don’t know if “It’s Too late to save the coasts” Yang will be liked much by them.
This annoys me. Get the US out of the Middle East.
But it’s like a sandbox, with lots of little brown people in it. How else can State Department, CIA and DOD folks get to play their Patirot Games without their sandbox?
Sandboxes are for shitting in.
And unlike an indoor litter box, you have a choice to not bother cleaning it.
Can confirm.
Shitting, crap I thought you said shooting!
-Every President for decades
The US DoD; putting the “hole” in holy land!
I though Booker was almost broke. Shouldn’t he be dropping soon?
He got a money surge out of threatening to drop out. But his poll number are still dismal. He seems to appeal to none of the important Dem sectors.
He’s solidly in the VP sweepstakes.
If Booker had held to his support of charter schools then he would have at least been interesting. In his current incarnation, he’s just another progressive loon without a good back story.
*hums funeral dirge for Ryan*
This annoys me. Get the US out of the Middle East.
Yeah, but F-15E’s are badass.
Flying planes like that just has to be incredibly fun. A friend of mine has a boss who made bank in a couple of pharma start-ups. He has a demilitarized Soviet fighter that he flies for a hobby. Gotta be a rush.
It was fun fixing them.
I was an avionics tech in the first unit to get the E model when they first came off the assembly line. When I got to the unit out of Tech School we had 2 planes, over the course of the next year we got up to our full compliment
I had friends from training in Pensacola who went on to be I level techs working on F-18s and Harriers – we went through the same basic aviation electronics course and then I went on to ATC while they went to their school. They got to wear flight suits, for which we ATC types were extremely jealous.
For awhile. Then it becomes a job.
yeah, my plan coming out of High School was to do 4 years in the Air Force for the educational benefits, get out, get my degree, then go back in and go for flight school. 2 years working in flightline maintenance and seeing just how boring the job really is (if they are lucky they get 12 hours a month in the air and the rest of the time it is paperwork and bureaucracy) and having to deal with the military bureaucracy convinced me that an Airman’s life was not for me.
For me, towards the end, even the flying became a grind. Unlike many jobs, ya can’t half-ass it when you’re having a bad day. It’s like a sporting event. You have to be in the right mental state before you start. Takes a lot of energy to put yourself there 5-10 times a week.
That shit’s fun when you’re 30. It became exhausting at 45. Young man’s game, I guess. And I don’t have a second of combat time, which certainly has additional stressors.
Yet another thing that looks like loads of fun as a hobby, but making it a job sucks all the fun out.
Hobbies we do for free. We only work for money.
The ones I always wonder about are the long range recon and transport pilots. How the hell do you stay at a high level of alertness for that long ? I like long distance drives, but I have scenery, and can pull over and stretch when I get hypnotized. How do you stay alert for 10-16 hours above the clouds?
The transport pilots have the luxury of an augmented crew. They swap out. The U-2 guys suck it up.
The B-1 and B-2 don’t have provisions for a second crew. They pass out amphetamines (go pills) to the pilots.
My longest flight was just under 25 hours, Ellsworth to Diego, non-stop. I wasn’t checked out on the go pills so it was Vivarin for me. But you can get out of the seat to stretch and even sleep (in the aisle), though I didn’t.
Fighter guys can’t, obviously, but they generally don’t fly for more than 8 hours or so.
Diego? San or Garcia? 25 hours seems too long for San, but nonstop to Garcia?
DG
That would be rough, but awesome to have done.
Only time I’ve ever shit in the jet.
My interpretation of the 2nd amendment would not require demiling.
Mine too. But it’s not just weapon carriage. Civilian aircraft are prohibited from having ejection seats.
Speaking of Hillary, was her loony-toons rant about “flashing videos on the dark web” already discussed earlier today?
Welcome to Crazy Town!
These are our leaders.
In her defense, it’s not really anything crazier than any number of congresscritters could come up with.
I’m starting to think “Says crazy shit” is polling well in focus groups.
Hillary Clinton proves that Conspiracy Theories are only called that because the deep state doesn’t want people to believe them.
*HONK HONK*
I’m surprised Glibertarians isn’t on the dark web after the wood chipper incident.
Like this?
JFC. That’s worse than anything Ted’S could come up with.
I was thinking this, but it’s the wrong town.
Mine was worse. *Thumb’s nose.*
I’d vote for anyone you want me to vote for, even Hillary, to avoid ever hearing that song again.
Cripes! You’d think, at this point, her handlers would just keep her under the radar. Between that and the “everyone who isn’t me is a Russian asset” schtick, it’s pretty clear she’s not well. Something or another just isn’t firing. She’s managed to build a (entirely undeserved) reputation with a large swath of the country. But, if she keeps shooting her mouth off she’s going to start treading in punchline territory.
She gets loonier and loonier every time she talks now. The woman has blown a mental fuse.
The woman has blown a mental fuse.
I’m not sure. It could be dementia or it could be alcoholism. Something just isn’t right there.
Worked for Trump
But she’s trying to be the anti-Trump
Meh, going off the deepend about Manbearpig made Gore a very rich man.
Yeah, I seriously doubt this circle will get squared in the minds of any significant number of Americans but the fact that Hillary ran the State Department without a single shred of operational security meant that she was giving the store away to the Russians (and anybody else who wanted to listen in) and was de facto a Russian asset.
Benghazi was a direct result of her inability to keep some things secret.
Benghazi was because some bad person made a video making fun of Allah. I lurnt that on the news, same way President Obama found out. Get lurnt!
In this case I’m assuming she is just old and out of touch.
Flashing video = pop up ad
Dark web = difficult to trace PAC that placed the ad.
Ok, Ok. Yes she’s a loon. But I think this is just old person talk. Someone probably mentioned Flash Video and internet together, and everything bad is on the Dark Web, and this is the gobbly-gook that comes out of her brain.
Even if you give her a pass on the technical aspects, the idea that she lost the election because of some Internet ads is absurd.
Out of that gallery of Dem hopefuls, who is the most annoying?
I’m going with O’Rourke.
No way, he’s just a squeaky little mouse.
Klobuchar is nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying.
I don’t know what any of them sound like. Other than Hillary & Biden.
Horizontal Harris.
Warren’s pretty darn annoying.
Harris is more alarming.
I find Buttigeige annoying.
Most Evil? Two way tie between Harris and Warren.
What, no Beto? Beto no bueno. Beto malo.
Beto is a bitch. Evil bitches boil bunnies, Gulags require a man of Steel.
Robby O’Rourke or the Booty Judge is the most annoying, Harris the most hateable, Warren the most insidious.
“Out of that gallery of Dem hopefuls, who is the most annoying?”
1. Beta.
2. Harris.
3. Warren.
Hi SP!
I hope you are well.
Thanks for the lynx, particularly the face transplant. It was indeed an amazing story, although I’m a little disappointed that the guy didn’t go for the lighter complected face to see if white privilege truly exists. I guess we’ll never know.
Ratio of people who truly appreciate Bob to those who just want to get high? I’m gonna say 1/100.
I used to love positing that Bob was actually the least talented of The Wailers and watch supposedly peace-loving people lose their shit. Good times.
Toots and the Maytals > the Wailers
This.
My wife always cracks up when Broadway Jungle comes on my playlist.
Showed her this and she was blown away.
I’ve seen both. I’d like to add the Skatalites and Buju Banton to the list as well.
There was a ska-punk band from NYC called the Pilfers that went on tour as the opening act for Buju. Talking to the band they were referring to the tour as their humility tour.
I saw the Skatalites 25 years ago. They were old then… and amazing.
Well, we all have face privilege.
Rita Hayworth gave good face.
He missed an opportunity to live the Steve Martin joke. “I was born a poor, black child. I’m still black from the neck down and the shoulders in.”
Did you forget about Buttigieg in your analysis? Or has he reached the level of popularity when it’s no longer embarrassing to have run in the primary?
What? You sayin a small town mayor from po-dunk Indiana should be embarrased for trying to run for President?
He’s exceeded expectations, for sure. But there were and are still many unknown candidates who haven’t made a splash. It should be embarrassing for Seth Moulton, Tim Ryan (who?) and similar. Even if they are not mayors of New York City.
If they had come out as gay or trans they would have got some attention.
I just forgot. He’s so wee.
But he’s hoping for a surge in the polls after Iowa. And maybe a VP slot with Biden. “I gave America its first gay VP!” is just the sort of narrative Biden is drawn to.
And here i thought Biden sucked Obamas dick…
NTTIAWWT
I don’t know, I’m kind of thinking Biden would do it wrong.
Have you seen those chompers?
‘Did you forget about Buttigieg in your analysis? Or has he reached the level of popularity when it’s no longer embarrassing to have run in the primary?”
Buttgieg reminds everyone of the dorky hall monitor kid they hated in high school.
Maintain Air Superiority from WHO?
First off the Strike Eagle is not an Air Superiority fighter. I suppose it could do the job in a pinch but it does not have the Air to Air performance of it’s C and D model breathren. Second, who in that region has any hope of possessing an Air Force which would be capable of defeating a squadron of Vietnam era F-4’s flown by American Pilots?
They are not fooling anyone, those planes are there to drop some bombs between the minarets somewhere in the region, Oh look the UAE is located right outside of the Straights of Hormuz, wonder if that is a coincidence?
The 60 year old haven’t had parts in 40 years F5s from Iran.
Late addition to the horror movie post:
My wife loves vampire movies so we’re watching one each night through Halloween. I would love some recommendations – it would be nice to show her some she hasn’t seen.
One on our list that was a pleasant surprise is A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
That’s a good one. Shadow of the Vampire is a spoof of nosferatu, as if the vampire were real.
Very good movie. Malkovich and Dafoe were great.
That was a new one for both of us – was good.
Let the Right One In
Heartily seconded. Great film (meaning the original Swedish filim, haven’t seen the unnecessary “sorta remake”)
Yep. Original is on the list. We’ve seen both versions.
What We Do in the Shadows was great.
Have you seen the series. I was worried it wouldn’t live up to the movie, but it was good.
I have it DVRd, but haven’t gotten to it yet. I’ll be sure to watch.
30 Days of Night is shit
Stakeland was gritty but probably not a movie to watch with the wife.
She can do gritty. She just won’t appreciate cheesy. Looks like it’s worth a shot at first glance. Thanks.
Fright Night scared the bejeebus out of pre-teen me. not sure how it holds up.
The remake with David Tennant was pretty good.
was it? i caught snippets and the CGI bugged me enough to turn it off.
/vampire movie snob
I may be a lil biased. I’m smitten with Imogen Poots.
https://www.google.com/search?q=imogen+poots&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5jZPj4rXlAhXqYt8KHUIXC5EQ_AUIESgB&biw=1600&bih=764
I recommend Gas-X.
You had my curiosity, now you have my attention.
I see your Poots and raise you a Lovibond.
(although Imogen is quite the cutie)
(Mmmmmmm! David Tennant!)
Another remake? I’ll pretend that one doesn’t exist too.
It also starred (the gone too soon) Anton Yelchin.
Have you watched Odd Thomas? You might like it.
Thomas the Tank Engine becomes a slasher killer?
That would be odd.
C’mon, Mr. Conductor’s had it coming for a while now…
What do you think Sir Topham Hatt keeps under that lid?
DEATH!
Srsly. No thumbs.
No, but I liked the book.
I never read the book.
The movie has Willem Dafoe, do I need try sell it past that?
The remake doesn’t have a naked Marcy Darcy. Nonstarter.
Brides of Dracula, but set your TV to black and white.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053677/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5
Thanks
I’m sure a lot of you will laugh at me about this, but I still say my favorite vampire movie was a made for TV piece, the original Salem’s Lot. The scene with the kid in the window still gives me the creeps.
It’s pretty impressive, if you think about it. Toby Hooper got the go-ahead to make it after Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Now, you’d think that the change in rules in going from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to a television movie would destroy the director’s ability to make a good scare. But, damned if he didn’t show he could scare the hell out of you without blood and gore.
I totally agree with you. I forgot all about it and that one freked me the fuck out.
Good call.
What Tundra said.
Definitely the made for tv ‘Salem’s Lot.
For some reason I can’t explain Dark Skies was the best scary movie I’ve seen in a while. I think part of it was no gore, very few if any jump scares, but it was downright creepy and built up over time.
Yeah, that was real good.
Monster Squad?
80’s schlock is probably a no-go.
Scream Blacula Scream?
Not sure she’ll be game for that one. Though we did watch Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Twilight plus a best-of selection of Vampire Diaries ought to keep her happy.
/sigh
We will be watching Twilight. But only the first one – I drew the line at sequels.
HK: Mr Vampire
S. Korea: Thirst
Mexico: Kronos
UK (Hammer): Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
also: Fearless Vampire Killers
Sold!
It’s Park Chan Wook – you can’t go wrong with him either way.
I’m guessing is this one?
Yeah, messed up the spelling from the Hammer flick above.
Love At First Bite.
Warren blowing an underage mule
Sounds like a good way to wound her knee.
If that happens she’d need apache on her jeans.
I’m think I’m gonna toss ho-chunks…
Then she could Sioux the mule for damages.
I like the cut of your Ojibwa!
From the day forward she shall blow no more, forever.
That’s okay, she can always Sioux.
watch yer toes! don’t want to get..
blackfoot.
That line is what really reinforced that it was SF‘s Dem Deathwatch.
She can always clean her knees in the Creek.
There’s no Hopi for y’all
She spat out
Most of it, but swallowed 1024th of it. That’s enough, right?
Fucking phone.
It is pretty Seminole.
It’s nothing to Crow about.
She’s ugly, but nothing compared to this one Chickasaw.
Ah, Ute today. What they’ll put up with, smdh.
I’m not gonna pun. I don’t want to gamble on getting a narrow gaze.
It can be quite savage. But sometimes you just have to have a drink and deal.
The drinks today aren’t Apache on the firewater we used to get.
Miwoking away on this one.
Here at Glibs, we use all of the parts of puns.
I knew I could count on you guys to feather the thread.
It doesn’t matter what Dem is the nominee, Trump will wampum
“He’s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care”
With all due respect to the man, his before picture immediately brought to mind political cartoon caricatures of Jimmy Carter.
Hillary Clinton Accidentally Posts Condolences For Tulsi Gabbard’s Suicide One Day Early
https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-accidentally-posts-condolences-for-tulsi-gabbards-suicide-one-day-early
Michael Bay, one of the world’s most successful filmmakers, caused a stir when in an interview when he said, “Movies without lots of explosions aren’t real cinema.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/michael-bay-movies-without-lots-of-explosions-arent-real-cinema
hahahaha
oh man, this one…
“Honestly, I still prefer killing your kids in ritual sacrifice or aborting them,” he said at a press conference. “I guess I’m old-fashioned like that. But coercing your kids into undergoing harmful surgery and hormone treatments works just as well, I suppose. As long as you’re sacrificing your kid’s future to the progressive, humanistic agenda, it doesn’t matter one way or the other.”
Moloch said that parents who encourage their young children who haven’t hit puberty yet or started thinking about sexuality at all to think about changing genders will be under the protection and favor of his evilness. “I am appeased by such sacrifice. A child’s life is ruined so that a parent may appear woke in the eyes of her friends—truly a diabolical ritual that I wholly approve of.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/moloch-will-now-accept-forcing-your-kids-to-become-transgender-in-lieu-of-actual-sacrifice
On point
Ouch
“BIDEN 2020” — A Bad Lip Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWISyLpF8yg
Lindsay Graham
“If we were doing this, you’d be beating the sh– out of us,” Graham bluntly told a reporter at one point, accusing Democrats of selectively leaking testimony from their closed-door hearings, without affording Republicans the opportunity to subpoena or publicly cross-examine witnesses. “And, I think it says a lot about people in your business, with all due respect.”
He continued: “We’re not telling the House they can’t impeach the president. What we’re telling the House is, there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it. … This is one part legal, and two parts politics.”
“…with all due respect.”
I think that translates as, “you effing assholes.”
I don’t think the Democrats even really expect to do much with this impeachment.
They’ve pretty much thrown out the historical conventions for dealing with the issue. I guess that’s their right. But, I don’t think they’re really dumb enough to think they can do that and not have the Senate throw out all conventions of deference to the House when the issue comes to any Senate trial. My guess is that, if it does come to the Senate, Cocaine Mitch is going to sign off on issuing subpoenas on the House Democrats for evidence.
Everything they’re doing points to trying to undermine or distract from the results of the IG report and Barr’s investigation into the Russia probe.
What ever happened to obstruction? I guess that went away when It came out that Trump wanted to find the source of the Russian conspiracy theory.
Adam Schiff is hiding the proof.
It’s sad that I get better and more complete reporting from Hannity than any of the major outlets.
Who’s Hannity?
A blowhard with a double digit IQ, just like a CNN reporter except from the Right.
Some lousy Irishman
Hey! I’m right here.
No way you are Hannity, you are literate.
I may have to reach through the interwebs and cut Scruffy.
7 Undeniable Signs We Are Living In The End Times
Well that one is accurate.
More evidence that BB is lurking here?
That creature in the lower left looks like a could be an H&H character.
That’s not a hyena
Harris is more alarming.
I understand why you think that, but I have to disagree. Harris is utterly obvious. And really not all that bright. The best she could come up with on her own was “Trump should get kicked off Twitter”. Yeah, she’d have no problem being a statist, but shows her hand going out the gate.
Warren scares me a lot more. If you look, she’s pushing a pretty systematically authoritarian agenda. And each piece fits undermining the liberty of her opponents in support of the other pieces. And it’s all plausibly implementable with enough frills about vague, innocuous, politically popular bromides.
Just remember, it was Warren who designed the CFTC, which was designed as an utterly unaccountable agency with the ability to shake down the financial system and redistribute the proceeds to left-wing activists. It was a clever and very evil strategy. And if Trump hadn’t effectively killed it, it would still be part of our government today.
Totalitarianism? Yeah, Warren’s got a plan for that.
This
Harris is the typical opportunist Dem grifter. Warren is downright frightening.
Hence why Wallstreet is scared shitless of her.
And shoveling duck tons of money in her direction should she get nominated.
https://thewealthybum.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/duck-money-pile.jpg
I believe they’ve threatened to bail on the Dems if she gets the nomination.
Agreed. And the only ones in the circus who dare to call her out on it are the ones who have dropped out.
Via Instapundit. WTH?
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29561101/tv-auto-reporter-loses-job/
That boy needs a beatdown.
I’m imagining the insurance claim on the TV station. Won’t be huge, but certainly interesting.
“I’m the wacky morning show on-location guy. I get to do anything I want!”
+1 modern journalism.
That is part of the problem….who would want to do that?
According to magazines from my younger days, a lot of hot chicks in bathing suits.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon…
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
My thoughts exactly. What kind of person has no respect for other’s property because there is no one there to police him? The amount of time and money put into restoring/maintaining those and he thinks he can just shit on it because the owners aren’t looking? He should end up in an alley giving blowjobs for Sterno money.
Meh, some jackass sat on a couple tons of steel with a pretty paint job, if he caused any damage make him pay for it and move on.
Hyperbole speaks truth.
Millennials. Amirite?
Herpity derpity doo, Bed, Bath, & Beyond pull black jack-o’-lanterns after a whiner complains of blackface:
https://www.westernjournal.com/bed-bath-beyond-removes-black-jack-o-lanterns-backlash-extreme-lack-sensitivity/
And of course they caved and pulled them off the shelves.
Bed, Bath & Beyond is stupid.
We used to call that store “Sheets ‘n’ Shit”
Did drugs fall out of their ass when they did it?
Oh well…
I’m going shopping and when the clerk asks if they can help I’ll ask if they have any.
Niggourd, please.
Bravo!
LOL
That is fucking funny, right there.
??
I LOL’d.
Ceding power to the perpetually aggrieved doesn’t work.
Yep. Super dumb move.
Apologies if this has already been asked, but who is Les Nessman (D)? (Middle guy, second row, next to Tulsi).
Also, col 2 row 4 looks like Todd Packer from The Office.
And if I’d scrolled down a tad more, I could’ve found out on my own. Never mind.
Row 2: Beto O’Rourke, Tulsi Gabbard, John Delaney, Eric Swalwell, Tim Ryan
I thought he was a character from wrkp in Cincinnati?
What a story about the skin graft.
“Five years after his accident, Chelsea insisted that his appearance didn’t bother him, in large part thanks to the deep-seated Christian faith that helped him through his recovery.”
Never under estimate the power of Christianity. It helps people even if some of us don’t get it or have a mistrust of organized religion.
A picture of the guy before his horrific accident would have been nice.
Had the same thought.
Steve Smith meets Fight Club for millenials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mF9MvksTU
”1901: 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She survived. But didn’t become rich and famous as she hoped. So, no point in trying this, kids. Also, it’s illegal on both sides of the border.”
No, I think she is famous, isn’t she the person with the old black and white photos at the little museum we went to near the falls? I mean like 90% of people on the planet have been to Niagara Falls, right?
Not me
Slowly I turned….
step by step….
…step by step…
(Damn!)…inch by inch…
…millimeter by millimeter…
nano second by nano second….
In less than 12 parsecs…
Not sure why, but they didn’t have the helmet cam video of her famous plunge.
Dooooommmm
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-boosts-amount-of-liquidity-offered-to-financial-system-11571924640
Somethin’ ain’t right.
At least you are in a good spot if it all falls apart.
We’re going to fall back to the cabin and blow the bridge.
No shit.
This might as well be Greek to me.
Re: Experts
My Grandfather once was trying to decide where to put a drill bit and said to my father (grown and with a degree in metallurgical engineering specializing in mining)
“I sure wish I knew as much as all of those fancy geologists”, to which my father replied “Why? They cant see down there anymore than you can.”
*At that time the industry average was one in ten wells made oil. My grandfather averaged 3 out of 4 making oil.
I have less confidence in ‘economists’ than I do in psychics.
^^This^^
It never seems to occur to anyone to ask why economists are working. Shouldn’t they have made themselves fabulously rich with their vast and deep understanding of the economy by simply investing so they don’t have to do the 9 to 5 grind?
Well, here’s the way I see it, Suthen. In physics, I mean if you’re a physicist or an engineer, you have to actually make stuff work.
In economics, you have a Nobel prize winning economist who writes TDS driven articles all day for the NYT, believes that socialism actually works better than free markets, and has never contributed anything valuable to society.
He found a prosperous niche , good for him , and fuck society, I ain’t doing shit for society either.
Replace society with ‘the human condition’, something which physicists and engineers have contributed greatly too. Nobel prize winning economists, zero.
Eudaimonia is what you are talking about.
Still not seeing the problem, 99% of everyone every didn’t contribute to “the human condition” if some asshole can make a good living telling people stories they want to hear who am I to criticize that.
So, someone telling a story stopped Smallpox and people from dying at 30 after a life of hard labor and no fun at all? If you say so.
I said that? I’ve said some stupid things but I don’t think I said that.
If we get to a point where 99% don’t contribute to human flourishing we will starve. I don’t know what you do, but you have made comments that indicate you work in the building trades. If so, you do in fact contribute value. You don’t have to uncover the secrets of the universe to contribute value. The penalty for not contributing value is self imposed, we all crave meaning.
Of course I contribute value, but it’s on an individual level, I don’t contribute to ‘Society’ or ‘The Human Condition’ Neither do any of you other glibs (I’d be willing to wager), The Imposter’s bitch – that economist don’t contribute is bullshit, If someone wants to buy the economist’s musings that exactly the same as the people who want to pay me to tile their shower stall.
Hyperbole you are selling yourself short. Contributing to the well being of individuals is how you contribute to society at large. Unless you are doing evil crap like using drywall as backing when you tile that surround you are making people’s lives better in exchange for your pay. The question of Krugnuts is more complex. Does the guy selling heroin contribute? His customers want what he is selling, but it manifestly doesn’t make them better off. I suppose it is arguable either way.
but it manifestly doesn’t make them better off.
And therein lies the rub, showering in a $15,000 solid marble and gold shower stall isn’t manifestly better than warshing off under a makeshift garbage bag and hose nozzle camp shower. Sure no one needs Krugnutz ‘s asinie rambling but no one needs an oild change either, it’s all wants.
Wants or needs doesn’t matter. If you do your job well you are making people better off. If you do shoddy work you aren’t, and rip off your customers you aren’t. Does a conman provide value? If Krugggie is selling entertainment then he may actually be providing value. If he is guiding policy with his nonsense probably not. I think it is a tough question in the abstract, but I also think if you drill down a guy spouting nonsense as economic wisdom is probably not providing value over all.
There are economists working in fund management who are getting quite rich. You are basing your objection on the ones working in Government, and they are also getting what they want. Power.
Yep. Public Choice Theory does an excellent job of explaining what economists are really doing working for the government.
For the same reason financial advisors are still working or hawking a book on how to get rich.
This made me laugh, but Jarflax is right. There are some out there quietly being successful but we never hear about them. It is the blustering incompetents that grab the spotlight.
I somehow have found myself going to be configuring TFS on my new servers tomorrow. I have it installed and no idea what I’m doing. Never done it before, not my job, but here we go, I guess I should consider it an adventure. And I can’t do jack shit with the app on these new servers until I have source control working. I mean sure, I use TFS, but I just check stuff in and out or add it to source control, I got no idea how this shit works, it’s like magic you know.
/boring work life
You just described most of my previous career as an IT consultant.
Likewise.
It helped working in a very high level language.
I can’t stand any of that type stuff, C# is fine for me, and very little visual designers, I don’t like anything messing with my code.
Tawdry Foot Sex?
Album name.
And NPR is talking about getting rid of gas stoves. Their reservations about it? Hurting Chinese restaurants.
Lunatic assholes that have no idea how the world works.
Vancouver bureaucrats had the same bright idea when Mayor Moonbeam was still around. Pretty much every leftist foodie in Vancouver went apeshit when they realized it would be the end of most of their favourite restaurants.
Meh, everyone should be digging their own roots and eating them raw anyway.
Why? If we ban gas stoves we can just order delivery. That food doesn’t have to be cooked, it comes already cooked.
And when we get rid of fossil fuels completely to save the planet, I can just plug my iPhone into my Prius at the charging station, right? Because charging stations run on magical rainbow unicorn dust, right?
They run on electricity. Electricity comes from the plug. Why would fossil fuel be involved? How hard is this to follow! Food comes from the store. Electricity comes from the plug. Rights come from Government. Prosperity comes from Socialism. Evil comes from White Males. Lrn2NPR
You’re almost woke now.
…I would be all right if I could go on sleeping…
“And NPR is talking about getting rid of gas stoves.”
First.World.Problems.
Giant Meteor 2020!
I often wonder why I care about any of this stuff. Most of humanity are fucking retards, I’ll be dead in few decades, if I can make it that long, and let them eat mother fucking cake. They deserve the boot on their face that they’re begging for.
They’re never going to get any of their utopian socialist dreams anyway, because everyone is not yet retarded. The loud minority are the same retards who have always been with us, it’s just that they have a voice now, called the internet. The curious thing is why businesses think they should even care about all of these tards who aren’t going to ever buy any of their products anyway. Like they say though, what cannot last forever, won’t.
Yeah, eventually it all topples over. The debt, the lies, the false religion. How many more ditches full of bodies until people learn though.
Good thing is that here in the USA, we’re still armed.
I will not comply. Plus I have nothing to turn in because of the boating accident.
Same, I dindunuthin, I donnonuthin, I dinsenuthin.
I’d love to see these NPR entitled assholes try and survive in the Luddite Nobel Savage existence they pine for. They would be dead in a week.
They love Thoreau. They want to live on Walden Pond at Emerson’s expense.
They might last a few months, but it will be pure misery. The one’s who are more fortunate will be gone in a week.
Starting off with a just over a pint bottle of Southern Tier Pumpking 8.6 ABV. Not the biggest Pumpkin beer fan but I try to have few during the season. I’ve had this before and I think it’s decent but I prefer their Warlock. I like all of the other beers in my fridge better so I figured I’d get it out of the way. Plus the ABV is a nice kickstart:) It taste like what it is. An Imperial Pumpkin Ale.
Carlsberg, it’s OK.
I’ve got a lot of good beer to choose from in the fridge after this. Wanted to get this out of the way since it’s weird and I won’t want it later. I’m still debating whether to go out for the game or watch it here. Wife works late on Wednesdays and Thursdays and I’ve got about 8 weeks until those opportunities end. Already in my gym shorts and T-Shirt though so prolly staying home:) The quiet is nice anyways.
It’s not like I can’t go to the bar whenever I want anyways but I did take tomorrow off.
At home, the only transportation issue is fridge to sofa to bathroom.
I like that commute schedule. And I’m currently on it for the rest of the weekend.
It’s true, and I have pause and my own instant replay. Maybe I’ll pick a game when they’re not on TV to go watch with other Vikings fans.
I’m WFH tomorrow and will sleep in until 9-9:30, so I can feel free to imbibe a little. My beer fridge is pretty full right now, no one has been over for a while, so I have a pretty good selection. I had a Stella and then a couple Carlsberg, not really in the mood tonight for anything heavier. When it starts getting a little chilly, maybe mid November, then I’m in.
I wfh today until 3. Attempted a nap afterwards but evidently had too much coffee.
You’ll be playing the Outer Worlds.
I didn’t even know it’s been released. I’m playing Greedfall, but I haven’t had time to play since last weekend.
This talk of banning gas stoves just baffles me when the same powers-that-be spent the better part of the 70’s 80’s and 90’s encouraging everyone to switch their home heating from electric and fuel oil, even offering generous rebates in the process. Wood heat is going to be a thing of the past if the nannies get their way, too.
Hey Festus!
Hey Jar! Brooksed my comment, sorry.
Some day they’ll be telling us we need to buy coal burning stoves because solar panels and windmills cause cancer. As long as they get to have arbitrary power and their friends make money, that’s all that really counts.
LOL, I thinks JB is a prophet, because I can see exactly that happening with no irony!
The yutes won’t know any better, just like the yutes today don’t remember the left’s dystopian predictions in the 70’s of global cooling and over population among I’m sure other bullshit.
“don’t remember the left’s dystopian predictions in the 70’s of global cooling”
I remember it. I also remember during the reign of Jimmah, how they told us that we’d be out of oil in 10 years.
Peak Oil is like Peak Derp.
Nah… too easy to get your own supply. I’m waiting for them to go to propane. It’s easy to ration how much of that you can get.
I’m going to have a coal burning stove in my retirement house. Will probably just burn wood in it but will be nice to have the option.
Funny that almost every home, not all, but a majority of the homes the wife and I have on our radar, have a wood burning stove in the house, or a wood burning fireplace. I’m sure wood is expensive here even though the entire state of MD is covered with trees, there’s literally nowhere that is not covered with concrete or a building that there is not a tree. when I was a young man, it was practically free.
I’m waiting to buy my mini-fusion reactor and my supply of fuel that runs it for the next 100 years for pennies on the day.
And a house wired with superconductors.
Hey, we have Yusef, I hear he can wire a house right up with superconductors.
I want Lachowski to wire mine! I want death rays and I think that requires moar power!
Well I think we may be on the verge of workable fusion. Mini not so much.
I’ll just buy a bigger house by saving on energy costs.
20 years away?
. . . and always will be.
(That’s the joke, right?)
I bet we hit net energy generation from a fusion reactor within 5 years. By we I mean people much smarter than me. But my understanding is that the key to getting net energy generation is likely to involve massive scale reactors. It will be a generation tech, not a get off the grid technique.
No, I think it’s 40 years. It’s a difficult problem, but like quantum computing, it will be solved, probably not 20 years from now, but I would guess less than 40 for fusion, quantum computing probably in less than 10.
I’m not betting in use in 5. Just net energy gen. ie more energy out than in. Stability, safety, sustainable reaction long term, and efficiency including the absolutely massive installation cost, may take longer. 40 sounds long to me though.
Quantum computing is going to speed up all the rest by the massive amount of computing speed in solving complex problems. So after we’ve go that going, we’re probably going to see a huge speed gain with other technologies. I think Samsung just invested a lot in quantum computing after they saw the progress Google has made recently.
Fusion + quantum computing = singularity?
Human desires always will outpace our production. The more we have the more we want, it is hardwired.
“Fusion + quantum computing = singularity?”
+nanotech+3D printing = I think we’re getting closer
“Human desires always will outpace our production. The more we have the more we want, it is hardwired.”
Of course it is, and our desire to explore and learn. It’s who we are. And fortunately, the luddites, once again, cannot stop it.
Good to see you, Fest! Hope you’re feeling better!
Thanks GT! I’m okay, just sorta tired all the time. That’s why I haven’t been commenting much. Will know more in a couple weeks.
Get well soon!
Sure hope it’s good news. In the meantime, I hope we can keep you entertained.
Thanks Count! Yeah, I’m an inveterate lurker even if I’m not adding my .02!
How ya feeling, old man?
Gonna go eat a little something and have a nap. Might pop in later tonight. Bye for now!
They encouraged windmills until they discovered that the windmills killed birds. So they had to tear down all the windmills near me and replace them with larger ones that rotate slower. To be sure, there are more raptors now which has kept the pigeon population down, which is good.
California likes to tout how much renewable energy they generate, but a vast majority of that is hydroelectric, and dams are bad.
Sometimes I think they just want us to go back to living in caves eating bugs.
When you don’t value human beings more than other beings it becomes hard to formulate a working energy policy.
They want you to do that. Them, not so much.
Of course. Some animals are more equal than others.
Redskins vs. Vikings? Meh.
Eh, fuck the Vikings.
Poor Ted.
“Is Joker an Incel Folk Hero?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgKhEZedTVU
I think he is an antifa folk hero, at least from the movie.
I’ve officially blocked CNN from my news feed. There is literally nothing that I trust them to not lie about anymore.
yes, embrace the bubble, yes, yes.
Hypebubbly.
I’ve done something even better — I don’t have a newsfeed. In fact, I quit watching most news quite a while ago. My blood pressure thanks me every day.
My phone has a News app it tries to push in my face once in a while. I had to delete all the default sources (NYT, WaPo, CNN, HuffPo, one or two others).
These things are such a pain.
A new phone requires a lot of time to just delete/hide/disable all the BULLSHIT that comes on it.
“Here Is The One Crucial Detail Everyone Is Overlooking In The Case Of The ‘Transgender’ 7-Year-Old”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1187098236655415296
https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-here-is-the-one-crucial-detail-everyone-is-overlooking-in-the-case-of-the-transgender-7-year-old
The judge awarded joint custody. Both parents have to agree on medical. The hysteria was premature.
Not really, this shit has been going on for four years already.
Joint custody? The dad gets the penis and the mom gets the rest?
My immediate thought: Can Mom be trusted to abide by that? I don’t know how such stipulations are enforced. And that doesn’t address the psychological pressure she may be putting the kid under to “be” a girl.
Does the judge overrule the jury without the “hysteria”?
I’m pretty sure the Judge did not overrule the jury. As I understand it the jury refused to grant the Father sole custody which was reported as awarding custody to the Mother, but I do not believe that is accurate.
I thought another interesting detail is that the mom is not in fact the bio-mom.
I hope I am sitting on the jury when 19 yo James takes an axe and gives his mother 40 whacks.
Beer 2. Founders Breakfast Stout. 8.3 ABV. One of my favorite Stouts for sure. Coffee, chocolate, great depth of flavor. Great fall/winter beer.
I love drinking beer in the morning when I can do it, very rare event these days, but it’s great when you can do beer breakfast. Oats and beer.
Not oats and hall?
No, I can’t go for that, no can do.
Tastes like victory.
Charlie don’t surf
I like that song. Nothing like walking out of a dark bar in the afternoon with a slight buzz into the bright sun.
This is a oatmeal Stout:) Has a baby eating oatmeal or something on the lable. They got in trouble for that with the state of Michigan because evidently baby’s might be drawn to buy it.
Kids are the worst.
Kinderwurst