Man, I am exhausted. I couldn’t fall asleep and then one kid or the other was up from 3:45am on. I barely know what is going on. My son has some sort of Holiday concert tonight, and I’m really not sure there’s enough coffee in the world to keep me awake while a bunch of kindergarteners flail away at holiday songs for an hour. Even the stern gazes of my mother and wife will probably not stay Morpheus’s hand.
I was disappointed that the “pro-impeachment group” in this article was not Move On.
We live in a world where the FDA is demonizing nicotine vaping, but approving “low nicotine” cigarettes.
World’s oldest married couple… 80 years. Wow. Live to be 105, and that’s the reward?
And Riven sends us… KITTEHS!
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Smack her on the butt for all of us. With consent of course.
Not only have they been married a lot longer than my wife and I but they look a lot younger too. That’s what really bothers me. Damn.
You’re a Florida Man. Just snort some meth.
Not all Florida men do meth. Some of us are on cocaine.
Ooh, look at Mr. hoidy-toidy here. Too good for Milwakee’s Best too good to watch the Dolphins lose. Huh.
I grew up in Miami in the 1980s. Either you were addicted to cocaine or you took it anyways because the air was about 65% cocaine.
I grew up in the Orlando area from 82 onward. It wasn’t quite that way, but it wasn’t like it was hard to find. In 85 or so, I had a friend offer me some coke base (the stuff they use to make crack) in a can pipe. I was only familiar with weed (and psychedelics) at that point, so I took a big hit. That was a mistake, and I spent the next 10-15 minutes just hoping to come down and not die of a heart attack.
After that, I never did coke again knowingly. The next day, however, I got on my bike and went to the Kwicky Mart to play a video game, and smoked a bunch of stems and seeds from the same can pipe. I didn’t get anything from the weed, but the coke residue bump allowed me to get a personal high score.
Never touched it since, although I wouldn’t mind chewing on the leaves, I’m guessing it’s better than coffee.
The leaves are great stuff, especially at altitude, but good for hunger relief and enduring. You chew it with an alkaline activator. It should be legal. I’d compare it to a combo of nicotine and caffeine. Wonderful stuff.
They should have a series of high school private eye stories starring lead character Nick O’Teen.
I hate to tell ya, your cocaine is cut with meth.
Hey! You got chocolate in my peanut butter!
WWII Austrian lady describes how Hitler took over Austria and transformed it into socialist tyranny. Includes some details on the his big gun grab that sounds like Virginia right now.
World War II Austrian lady
…And wow, those cats are stunning. I don’t know if they’re brave, but I wouldn’t mess with them.
Yes, stunningly beautiful and dangerous. And no, would not want to pet/hug them as some people seem to want to do. I know what damage a riled-up domestic cat can do, would not risk full thickness bites of limbs.
Yeah, my friend’s cat is enough to make me stop. Pet him more then once or twice, you’re going to come away with scratches. Pet one of those in a way they don’t like, you’d come away with muscle reattachment surgery. Still I get the urge – see Mojeaux’s comment below. Not casting shade, mind you – I totally get the urge, and it’d be fun to have a huge cat as a pet, but…
Yup.
Fuck, meant to link this.
FIF!
Kitties!
The panther’s all, Dude, stop.
The first leopard looks like she’s been a bad puppy.
Second leopard: “Moooom! Do I haaaaave to?!”
The first tiger looks like he just got really bad news.
The lion: “You will not believe the things I have seen. Do not make me hurt you.”
Objection: irrelevant
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday weighed in on President Donald Trump’s assertion that the impeachment proceedings against him should stop, saying he “is not a lawyer.”
It’s not a legal proceeding. It’s purely political. Climb back in your crypt.
Wow. A Supreme Court justice inserting herself into politics. Sounds like grounds for impeachment and removal.
Also, the senile corpse is so fuckingn stupid that she still doesn’t realize all the courts have is reputation. Once she’s finished tearing it down, what does she think will happen? Stupid dumbfuck Roperite.
But she has a black robe and a lace perky bow!
Yes, but are either of those her phylactery? My bets on the lace.
She’s inserted herself into politics on several occasions recently. In 2016 she openly spoke out against Trump. She does more damage to the court every time they wheel that mummy out to give a talk to a bunch of brain dead college kids
There is an action figure of her. How can you argue with that type of moral authoritay?
More like There is a non-action figure of her
To be fair, the figure is more life-like than the judge.
Ginsburg is not a judge. She’s a political meme come to life. The old bag needs to shut the fuck up
She’s like an old bag at a nursing home that has no family. She gets a bit of attention and she desperately wants to hold onto it by playing to her audience.
I’m sure she approves of today’s “joint letter” from 750 “prominent historians, professors and filmmakers ” who wrote “if Trump’s actions don’t rise to the level of impeachment, nothing does!”
I miss my cats.
The drugs didn’t fall out of his butt this time. But close.
Man arrested again for trafficking meth claims someone placed meth in his underwear.
Those cat photos are neat, but unnerving as hell. Thanks riven! Hope you’re doing as well as can be.
Pinkerton headbreakers
At 19, Kathryn Spiers was hired on as one of the youngest Google security engineers in the company. Less than two years later, she’s been abruptly terminated for what she believes is her involvement in internal activism.
Google’s firing of Spiers is the latest in a string of employee terminations apparently based on their internal activism—an escalation that portends a fierce ongoing conflict between workers and management within one of the world’s most influential corporations.
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Like the “Thanksgiving Four” fired before her, Spiers has filed an unfair labor practices charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with assistance from the Communication Workers of America. The charge claims that these interrogations and her eventual firing were “done to attempt to quell Spiers and other employees from asserting their right to engage in concerted protected activities.”
Perhaps as a sign of escalating tactics on Google’s side, several of these investigative meetings, according to Spiers’s notes, involved Elizabeth Karnes, a Google staff attorney. Worryingly, Spiers claims in a Medium post she was denied her own legal representation during these proceedings. Laurence Berland, one of the Thanksgiving Four, told Gizmodo his own set of lengthy interviews did not involve being questioned by members of the company’s legal team, and it’s unclear if this is standard practice.
In her Medium post, Spiers describes herself as an exemplary employee who consistently received high marks in her performance reviews and recently received a promotion. “I was very good at my job and Google has acknowledged this,” she writes.
So what did Spiers do to draw so much heat from Google’s hall monitors? Speaking to Gizmodo, she described pushing a bit of code that would generate a small popup in the Chrome web browser on company machines. “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities,” the popup read, when an employee accessed either the corporate policy document or the website of IRI, an infamous union-busting firm, the services of which Google recently retained.
Maybe you should focus on the work you’re being handsomely paid to do, instead of trying to run the company.
she described pushing a bit of code that would generate a small popup in the Chrome web browser on company machines.
How fucking stupid can you get?
Pretty fucking stupid
What a dipshit. 21 years old and think they know the world.
I’m guessing that wee bit of code wasn’t released through the normal software process. Being such a hotshot security engineer, she would know what a fireable mistake that is.
Also, her post termination antics prove Google was somewhat right, at least that she should be fired. Cancerous rot.
I wonder what she thinks of James Damore.
Here’s her Twitter page. You guess.
That’s different. He was a Wrongthinker. Off with his head.
I’m going to take a bit of a different take here. Google is partly to blame here. For years, they signaled to people like Ms. Spiers that they were in charge. They gave her every reason to think that she was perfectly justified in trying to dictate policy to her employer. They fired employees for the sole offense of getting on the wrong side of their social activists. Now they want to turn around and assert control? Now they’re surprised when their activist aren’t willing to toe the company lion? Some of us said this would prove painful for them years ago.
I don’t think it will be all that painful for them. This is a pretty straightforward case of misuse of company resources. Activist or not, I don’t think anyone with the power to do so authorized her to take the actions she did.
Huh, I’m siding with Google.
Feels dirty, doesn’t it?
I’m drinking the guilt away.
My parents made it to 71 years.
Mrs. A and I will hit 28 in May. 80, though. That’s a long time to pick up anyone’s drawers.
Congrats! Mrs. T and I will hit 28 at the end of the month.
No way in hell she keeps me another 52 😉
Congrats to you, T. And regarding your new avatar.
My contribution.
Nice. Thanks, boys!
Oh, and congrats to you, Animal. I don’t know your musical preferences, so no YT selection.
This seems appropriate.
I loved this song when it came out.
I’m a year or so away from living this one in real time.
I listen to both kinds of much – country and western.
*music. Dammit.
Ha, love the ref, Animal. I was going to post some Dolly, b/c she’s my favorite country artist. Re-hearing the lyrics, I thought it would be inappropriate. Then I actually listened to the lyrics of the song I linked for Tundra, and thought, eh, fuck it, they all made it 20-some years, if a song takes them down…well…
However, I’ll still go with the lesser evil of the options I chose.
That’s a long time to pick up anyone’s drawers.
That is why I go au natural!
That was fine for the first 10 or so years. Now Mr. Holiness insists that papal grundies be worn at all times.
Make up your mind, lady.
https://pjmedia.com/election/carly-fiorina-trump-impeachment-is-vital-but-i-might-vote-for-him-in-2020/
So shes like Mitt Romeny
She’s the same kind of cocktail Republican.
Carly is a clown who thinks her shit smells like roses.
“I very desperately want to appear to still be relevant.”
I don’t think that’s confused. She knows that “impeachment” will not result in Trump’s removal and she also knows that whoever the Democratic nominee is will undoubtedly be terrible, from her political perspective. It’s a perfect situation for someone like Fiorina to vent her frustrations with Trump while knowing that nothing will come of the entire process.
From that perspective, however, censure would be more appropriate than impeachment. Just sayn’. 😉
A very apt metaphor for how she attempt to run HP into the ground.
What seems abundantly clear is that Alphabet, now fully under the reign of Sundar Pichai, is attempting to steer against a company culture that has rapidly become one of the most outspoken among the tech giants, and doing so in ways the NLRB way well deem illegal. Given the appetite for mass activism and capabilities of engineers at Google who might chafe at management’s heavy-handedness and blunt disregard for their colleagues, a polite popup may soon be the least of the company’s worries.
Slavery.
All i know is that i’ve talked to people who have worked at Google and the culture sounds awful.
I can’t imagine what it’s actually like
given the selected snippets that have come out. The big downside to a Google collapse is that those poisonous employees will go out and infect other companies with their insane workplace ideas.
I interviewed there several years ago. Nearly every person I spoke with was very full of themselves. They made sure to let you know that everyone there went to the best schools.
a polite popup may soon be the least of the company’s worries.
Next up, releasing user’s saved logins in chrome or making all gmail accounts publicly accessible. Because if they want to really hurt google, they’re going to have to hurt the user base to do it.
Bernie Sanders Q&A: Inside His Fight to Protect Minor League Baseball
But in my mind, here’s the major point: Major League Baseball is not just another business. It is the national pastime. It is something millions of fans and people follow. Major League Baseball made $1.2 billion last year in profit. They are doing very well financially, and most baseball teams are owned by incredibly wealthy people, many of whom are billionaires. So you’ve got billionaires owning clubs that are making huge profits, they should not be shutting down minor league baseball in 42 communities.
They have got to understand that this is not just a bottom line business. This is the national pastime, and you don’t take away the rights of families and kids to see minor league baseball in order to just make a few bucks more.
That’s his best argument, preserving the rights of families and kids to see minor league baseball?
SI: Do you have a problem with publicly-funded stadiums?
Sanders: I have real concerns about it. I go to cities all over the country, where school teachers are inadequately paid, where drinking water in the schools is unhealthy for the kids, where school buildings are dilapidated, and yet somehow cities are coming up with hundreds of millions of dollars to help billionaires who own a baseball team. So on a personal level, yeah, I do have a problem with that.
The fuck? It’s not a resounding yes?
It’s socialist pablum, of course. Read between the lines on his first quote. Sounds like he’s justifying taxpayer subsidized municipal leagues on a much smaller scale that current minor league baseball.
No one needs more than 2 teams?
And why doesn’t he want baseball players to make a livable wage?
The Democrats and their corporate press allies are pissed that impeachment will be a political question in the Senate, foolishly not realizing that the whole reason why Democrats in the House will be able to impeach is because impeachment is an entirely political question.
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1207041040898768896
“.@Senatemajldr: “I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process. There’s not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision. The House made a partisan political decision to impeach…I’m not impartial about this at all.”
Nothing that McConnell says here should be “shocking”.
I don’t necessarily disagree with McConnell, but at least fucking acknowledge that the constitution requires that he be impartial in the trial, even though everyone knows he won’t be.
The Constitution does not require any such thing. You just pulled the reverse Trump when he just accused the House of abusing their power by forwarding a single-party impeachment. This is a political question. This is not a trial. The Constitution mandating that the Senate be the jury of an impeachment proceeding doesn’t specify impartiality anymore than “high crimes and misdemeanors” demands that high crimes and misdemeanors be proven.
No one gets to impose their own wishes on either house of Congress other than the majority party.
The Constitution requires the Senators to be under “Oath or Affirmation”. As of 1868, the impeachment rules specify the following oath:
So, unless the rules are changed, McConnell is required to take that oath by the Constitution and the rules of the Senate, should the Senate go forward with the trial. Of course, McConnell and 49 other Senators can change the oath before then, they could just never go forward with the trial itself and thus never need to take the oath, and even if he refuses to take the oath or violates it somehow nobody but the Senate itself can do anything about it.
It’s a basically toothless provision, and nobody can have violated it yet since it hasn’t taken effect.
Right. So nothing in the constitution as that oath was created by a previous congress.
The main thing is that this is nothing like a jury trial, because you don’t get to pick the jury. They’ve already been chosen and they are all political appointees.
Yes, but there’s a lot of sound and fury about him violating his oath, confusing the oath he gave when he took his seat in the Senate with the oath he has to take to preside over the trial in the Senate.
I know, but it’s all bunk. They’re forwarding the reverse of the “high crimes and misdemeanor” argument made by Republicans about the House proceedings.
Yes, but there’s a lot of sound and fury about him violating his oath, confusing the oath he gave when he took his seat in the Senate with the oath he has to take to preside over the trial in the Senate.
Umm, the Chief Justice presides over the trial in the Senate.
Umm, the Chief Justice presides over the trial in the Senate.
Yes, I picked the wrong word. McConnell takes an oath to do whatever verb it is that Senators do during impeachment trials.
The Constitution:
It certainly uses judicially sounding language. But it is notably absent on detail.
Jurors are sometimes “sworn in” with an oath or affirmation. Can’t find a decent version of it, the federal one on Wiki seems garbled to me:
I suspect Justice PenalTax is whipping his clerks like rented mules right about now to figure out what oath he is supposed to administer. But I think there is an expectation (again, vague and unenforcable) that the Senators will render their decision based on the evidence, that is, impartially.
My take: why would McConnell say that? How is that helpful?
The Constitution also states “high crimes and misdemeanors”, but you don’t need a “high crime or misdemeanor” to forward an article of impeachment.
McConnell said that because there is a full court press now by the corporate press to allow the minority party in the Senate to dictate the rules of impeachment which is utter nonsense.
Somebody vandalized the page. I restored it to the old version; the full oath is:
That having been said, that is some archaic grammar, and there is no citation for it anyway.
My take: why would McConnell say that? How is that helpful?
If we lived in a world where people were respectful to each other and politics was treated all around as a respectable business, his comments would be out of line and a censure would be in order.
Instead, we live in the world where he’s “Moscow Mitch” and somehow on Putin’s payroll to argle bargle while keeping even more of Trump’s damnable unspecific crimes from coming to light, in order to ensure the eventual Russian takeover of
Germany’s natural gas supplywho the fuck even knows what, so that the hammer can finally be brought down upon… you know what, this doesn’t make a goddamn bit of sense.If people started acting like they demand others to act, I’d give more of a shit about McConnell’s intemperance.
There will be much proggie tears, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments. They will claim that senators have violated their oaths to the constitution, yet fail to spell out how, exactly. The House Dems clearly want to influence the 2020 elections with sound and fury, signifying nothing.
After being in favor of impeachment for any reason or no reason whatsoever, why are you surprised that others are not interested in playing along in this farce?
From another article, from the same cop that escaped legal punishment and still has his job after passing out drunk off his ass in his car in the middle of the street after admitting he had gone home and drank vodka while on duty.
Dammit, replied to the wrong post. This is like a super P Brooks. See below.
impeachment is an entirely political question.
Well, not entirely. There is a Constitutional requirement that must be met (“Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”). Vague? Yes. Enforcable? Unlikely; SCOTUS would probably puss out.
Impeaching a President for jaywalking or being rude on Twitter would be both (a) entirely political and (b) unconstitutional, and thus illegitimate and possibly of no force and effect.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-north-carolina-under-fire-2-5m-confederate-group-silent-n1103251
I don’t know why but the whole “let’s equate The Confederacy with National Socialism and expunge it from all Publix spheres really bothers me, and I say that as the direct decedent of a union soldier of some notoriety.
I guess it’s because it’s cow-towing to a shreeking mob of know-nothings and the first step of completely tearing up the history books and rewriting history to their liking and evil ends.
*public…..thank you phone.
Could have been worse. Could have dropped the ‘l’, but kept the ‘c’.
If someone wants to shave the stars and bars into their nether regions, who am I to judge?
But a swastika is still right out?
Reasonable, Common Sense, Legislation of Pubic Hair Modification.
Unless you’re Hindu.
I was wondering why you had an issue with a southern grocery store chain.
I remember seeing this memorial:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rowland_Kirkland
several years ago in what turned out to be a very moving visit to the Fredericksburg battlefield. I remember thinking how these fucking social justice howler monkeys would denounce him as a white supremecist slaver and refuse to see that individuals are not always so easily defined by a collective and that no one side of any conflict has ever, in the history of humanity, hada monopoly on morality or virtue.
Look what our progressive friends in Madison, WI did if you want to see an example of how deranged they can become when someone mentions the Confederacy.
So yeah, you can’t even acknowledge the final resting place of 132 poor bastards from the other side who died while in your custody.
I’m glad Alice Waterman died back in 1897. The actions of the current mob would have broken her heart.
I’m sure the mob will be howling to rename anything named after Fairchild and Washburn once they discover their craven perfidy in treating the defeated Confederates.
Only monsters disturb the dead. What a disgraceful action by the People’s Republic of Madison.
Pretty damn pathetic and petty.
was supported by the Equal Opportunities Commission of the city government
Who knew the EOC has a remit to take a position on every issue?
Stalin would be proud.
Note: I was born in NH, and my sympathies would always be to the North.
But you don’t disgrace the honorable dead. The people who did this are scum.
These fucking idiots are tearing up, leave aside every thing else about the Civil War, any sort of reason why this country isn’t still racked by violent guerrilla groups to this day unlike pretty much every other country that tore itself apart. It’s still amazing how quickly after the guns going silent people went back to “Americans” by and large.
I don’t agree with that at all. All during Reconstruction you had groups like the Red Shirts, the White Man’s League, and the Klan (v. 1.0) running around causing all sorts of problems. All of these groups were the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, which used terrorism to stifle the Freedman’s Bureau and lay the groundwork for Jim Crow. During Jim Crow, you had the Klan (v. 2.0) and these goofballs who killed the father of Malcolm X.
I was told this would never go past the Confederate Battle Flag or result in the Founders, the Constitution or Locke being unpersoned despite the obvious evidence of what was going on.
What I mean is that these SJWs have been percolating in the universities for decades and their horrible views were out in the open but whatever only Socons yokel reactionaries cared so libertarians turned a blind eye until these SJWs went after them as they said they would.
Jeff Tucker supported Big Tech censorship of the alt-Right but it was only when it was obvious that he would be censored too that this became a problem.
Bull-fucking-shit. In 1995, I was in university fighting the good fight supported by materials from the Ayn Rand Institute while SoCons were only concerned about how to legislate against the scourge of Snoopy Doggy Dog and “the” gangster rap corrupting our youth.
What was this “fight” about if you mind me asking?
Okay my statement wasn’t the best so I’ll rephrase: It wasn’t so much that the “Socon yokel reactionaries” cared about this but the perception that they were the only ones who cared seems to have caused the cosmos and Sensible Republicans to turn a blind eye to what was going on.
The biggest campaign I was involved in was against the national movement to add “volunteering” as a mandatory requirement for high school graduation. It was one of those terrible, terrible ideas that came from Progressives but SoCons loved it too because “community” is where they meet on the Venn diagram.
They had that at my high school. I just faked the logs, for the most part.
Oh geez. I’m glad I graduated before that shit was mandatory in my high school…. even missed it in undergrad. Ended up getting misled into volunteering for Abortion Barbie’s TX gubernatorial campaign to meet my hours for law school… Rep. Collin Alred is a sleazy SOB.
Ah yes forced “volunteering” pretty god damn terrible idea.
Also Socons and Progressives are a lot closer then either of them like to think. Also more complicated then we would like to think.
For example Progressives grew out of Northeastern Protestant Social Reformers who had a history of abolitionism and prohibitionism and opposing “White Slavery”. In other words not ones who advocated “privacy of the bedroom” or “conservatism”. These types were traditionally associated with Republicans. And not to mention that plenty of these social reformers were eugenicists which played in with their support of birth control and minimum wage.
And modern soconism is associated with Baptists and Catholics both traditionally Democratic groups.
Or how Puritans were the ones who wanted to overthrow the Church, Monarchy and Aristocracy in English history. Not very “socially conservative” isn’t it?
Oh and in Ontario the Progressive Conservatives (who by the way were the ones who implemented “volunteering” as a mandatory requirement for high school graduation) were traditionally Anglican and never really liked prohibition and were in the past in favor big government and major advocates of public schooling. It was the Liberals (which caused trouble since they were the Catholic party) and socialists were the major prohibitionists in the past. And Social Gospel ministers were a key part of what became the NDP.
A major reason for Toronto’s liquor laws was due to this man:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Horace_Temple
A Methodist socialist trade unionist who loved to attack “the liquor interests”.
https://glibertarians.com/2017/02/the-burning-of-books-and-burying-of-scholars/
Your own article does seem to suggest that complaints about university students are very overblown.
Well that’s it boys. Time to pack it in, we had a good run. But now that Tom Steyer is throwing that much money at all those GOPers and independents that watch CNN and MSNBC, there won’t be any undecided voters left. And a bet a bunch of those viewers will see the errors of their ways and no longer oppose impeachment.
WTF? How did Steyer make so much money and think that ad buy will do anything?
My guess is that him and Bloomberg are in the race to push pet projects, global warming legislation in Steyer’s case and gun control in Bloomberg’s, and shape the race in a narrow fashion regarding those issues. There’s no way they’re stupid enough to think they have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning.
My guess is that rather than convincing people to hate Trump, that ad is intended to get him support in the primaries. Right now he’s been a single issue voter; stoking fears that his imaginary sky mommy is going to destroy the world if we don’t stop living comfortable lives. This has very limited appeal. Also he’s very rich, and the people whose support he needs hate rich people because the Democratic party has been encouraging its members to succumb to their envy and wrath. So he is telling them that he too hates Trump and despite being rich, is a true Soviet man.
It’s not going to work. This is yet another example of him wasting millions of dollars of his wealth trying to impose his twisted religious views on America and having no success to show for it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/12/16/trump-impeachment-2020-election-leads-democratic-rivals/2663659001/
The national survey, taken as the House of Representatives planned an impeachment vote and the Senate a trial, showed Trump defeating former Vice President Joe Biden by 3 percentage points, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 5 points, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by 8 points.
In hypothetical head-to-head contests, Trump also led South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg by 10 points and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg by 9.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be deafening.
First poll I’ve seen with Trump defeating Biden. Wonder if he’s trending up or it’s an aberration.
The Real Clear Politics aggregate polling is where it’s at as far as accuracy goes.
It changes slowly, though, as new polls come in. This one is from today so it will be interesting to see if it’s an aberration or a\start of a trend.
although now that i look biden’s average lead was only +5. considering the electoral map that’s not all that impressive.
Considering Biden will take the large populations in Cali and New York by crazy margins you’re right.
considering the electoral map that’s not all that impressive.
Indeed, considering Trump won with Clinton at +2. The key is that this election is shaping up to be like the last one: the voters dislike everyone, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see no-one win the majority yet again, so it will most certainly be decided by the breadth of the coalition, not the depth.
The X factor is the people who abstained from last election because they didn’t feel like holding their nose while pulling the lever. I’m still on the fence about pulling the lever for Trump despite not voting in ’16. My wife is in the same position.
Those are some scary pussies. Wouldn’t want to grab them.
And I’m off to the “Constitutional County” meeting for our area.
Should be interesting.
And there were about 200 people standing outside in the pouring rain.
Don’t need me and I don’t need the flu.
Hey, Dr. Who nerds: Season 12 is coming, and it’s probably gonna suck…
Season 12? So they’re airing “Robot” and starting Tom Baker’s run?
Sounds good to me.
I got in this argument about a decade ago. The person was apparently unaware of the long history.
According to Wikipedia, the first 26 are seasons, the last 11 (now 12) are “series”.
I was going to make a ‘TARDis’ joke, but restrained myself.
Meanwhile, UCS, enjoy your own joke, and enjoy Jodie Whittaker in the upcoming season…
MWAHAHAHAHA!
I haven’t watched that rotting carcass of a show in years.
Fresh carcass or GTFO?
We’ll accept ‘still living’ as well.
Good answer, good answer
I liked the rebooted series well enough but I dropped out after 3 episodes of Woke Chick Doctor.
I was just perusing the episodes (I dropped out after Capaldi) and one was a very thinly-veiled rant against automation.
Sounds like I made the right choice.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-sheriff-charged-with-assalting-three-people-in-custody
Here’s the sheriff of my county. The same guy who was in charge 3 years when his deputies tazered to death a teenager being held in the drunk tank. Maybe they will get him this time.
Yikes, make sure you keep yourself out of the jailhouse bud.
Puhleez. The bars would melt if they tried.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3779998/Surveillance-video-shows-20-year-old-inmate-tasered-eight-times-dead-jail-cell.html
Yeah, they kill people there.
http://imgur.com/a/vut44z8
Also, holy good god i have spent all damn day trying to get someone to sell me that spring. No luck yet.
You can enter that in the sketch challenge. C’mon, there’s a week left in it.
Does that spring have 2 coils?
Its actually 2 springs. One sits inside the other.
Eibach makes a lot of custom springs. Usually for vehicles, but a spring’s a spring. You might give them a try.
that’s hella stiff
I remember finding a place that could make one-offs, plenty expensive
I found that the notation indicates that the spring is made to a railway industry standard. Im talking to a company that makes suspension springs for rail cars. I think they are going to be able to get it for me.
“that’s hella stiff”
I’ve been told that before.
Inch and a quarter wire?
Yeah, that’s not going to be easy. 5/8’s is considered large for most applications.
Find out who supplies Caterpillar.
Hope Liverpool uses the same lineup in the FA Cup, rnd 3.
I would think their 2nd team would be better.
When I saw them scheduled to play in England today and Qatar tomorrow, I thought “wut?”
Then I noticed they were scheduled to play again on Friday in England (that one finally got postponed). I can kind of see why Klopp went apeshit over the schedule.
I cant. He chose to play in all the tourneys. He knew the schedule in August.
That the weekend one got rescheduled is fairly normal for cup conflicts.
Doesn’t mean he can’t bitch about it. And in effect, he did pull out of the League Cup anyway.
It helps Everton’s odds so, fine.
But he did kind of rip off the fans who bought tickets and the tv viewers. I am sure the Villa fans are ok with it, but any Liverpool fans who traveled to Birmingham would be pissed.
Yeah I figured Everton was on your mind. Perhaps if they get good they’ll encounter bullshit scheduling conflicts, too.
There’s an answer to the demand for a trial. Give them one. Good and hard. With Biden and Son as witnesses. With the “whistleblower” testifying. Hell, throw Schiff and his staff on the list for good measure. If the Democrats want to play hardball, there’s no need for the Republicans to respond with Marquess of Queensbury Rules. And show the Senate Democrats all the respect and deference in the proceedings that the House Democrats showed House Republicans. If McConnell wants to, he can make a trial a living hell for every Democrat in the Senate. Let Schumer bitch, piss and moan to the media all he wants. You can bet your bottom dollar they won’t refrain from covering the juicy bits the Republicans choose to lay out on the table.
I’d love for the Repubs to essentially adopt the House’s rules for the Senate trial. But teh Iron Law gives me pause: Me today, you tomorrow. Sure, let the Dems call fact witnesses – no more law profs bloviating and spewing hate – and let them cross-examine. We’ve seen how much they suck at it in the Kavanaugh hearings, so I don’t think there’s anything to fear.
R C Mitch might continue to bait the Dems into demanding all sorts of stuff for the trial, get them on record as demanding a trial-trial, and reward them with just what you said – full on exploration of every aspect of the impeachment, and wide scope to the defendant to put on his defense (hello, McCabe, Comey, Page, Strzok, and rest of the pustulent crew from the “INteragency”).
Much of what you list goes to the credibility of the witnesses, and there’s no reason they can’t look at the House process and the rotting superstructure of misc. agencies as part of a “full hearing on the merits.”
What would be the relevance of Hunter or Joe testifying?
To show that there was a legitimate purpose in Trump asking that they be investigated.
Is that the defense though? If (and you’ll have to suspend your disbelief here) the Biden’s did nothing wrong is Trump guilty? What can they testify to that changes whether Trump was justified. Their guilt or innocent is immaterial to the charges at hand, and as best I can tell Trumps defense as well.
The “charge” is that Trump was asking for a purely political favor — abusing his power. If there was sufficient reason to believe one or both of the Bidens was being legitimately shady, then there is a legitimate non-purely-political alternative for the question. Reasonable alternative, reasonable doubt. And if the Bidens either admit there was a good reason to investigate them, or act sufficiently guilty on the stand that the six or seven undecideds think “yeah, there’s corruption up in them thar hills”then not-guilty is established and/or political win.
But the ‘sufficient reason’ is there whether the Biden’s did anything or not. It sounds like your saying Trumps defense hinges on the Biden’s being dirty, I don’t see it. Either what he did was justified or not, the Biden’s testimony can’t change that. I guess in a purely gamesmanship sense , i.e. swaying jurors, you’re right, and unfortunately that is where we are now.
Corroborating evidence. You don’t rely on one path/evidence chain to your preferred outcome. You set up layer after layer of evidence so that those who aren’t convinced by a certain subset of the evidence are convinced by another.
Something like “this was well within the normal operating limits of the executive, but even if it wasn’t, Trump had a legitimate reason to suspect corruption”
It’s the other way around — the prosecution’s case is that Trump asked for the investigation for no legitimate purpose. ANY legitimate reason torpedoes that.
So Trump’s defense does hinge on the Biden’s being dirty, got it. Still seems odd. If the Russian collusion fever dreams had turned out to be true would that justify the FBI violating FISA procedure?
So Trump’s defense does hinge on the Biden’s being dirty, got it.
Not really. It depends on them looking dirty at the time. You could make the argument without putting them on the stand, but if they were really were clean, it would be the Dems who wanted them to testify to show there was no good reason to suspect them. The Repubs can put them on for the converse reason – not only did they look dirty, there was good reason for it.
Of course, outside of normal courtroom strategy, there are good political reasons for doing this (and good political reasons not to). But a defendant has broad scope to put on a defense, and even in a courtroom I doubt a judge would block a defendant calling the Bidens as witnesses.
Still seems odd. If the Russian collusion fever dreams had turned out to be true would that justify the FBI violating FISA procedure?
No. The FBI’s violations of FISA procedure (lying to the judges, breaking the rules, etc.) are inexcusable. Post facto justifications for violating somebody’s due process rights are not (theoretically) acceptable. But Trump wasn’t violating anyone’s due process rights. You don’t have a right not to be investigated. You have a right that the investigation follow due process. Comparing Trump asking for an investigation and the FBI conducting an investigation is apples and oranges.
I guess in a purely gamesmanship sense , i.e. swaying jurors, you’re right, and unfortunately that is where we are now.
If Hunter Biden can be forced to respond “I’m not able to answer that question on the grounds that it might incriminate me.” to pretty much any question, the trial is effectively over. Every Republican Senator in the room has a rock solid justification in the public’s mind for voting to acquit the President.
is apples and oranges
Fair enough, bad analogy. (I kinda knew that going in, but contrarian *shruggy thing*)
I do however stand by my initial point that the Biden’s testifying and anything that they could bring to the court evidence-wise is immaterial to the case at hand.
rock solid justification in the public’s mind
So gamesmanship/politics, got it.
also…If Hunter Biden can be forced to respond “I’m not able to answer that question on the grounds that it might incriminate me.
I get that taking a no-show cushy job because the company wants access to your dad is shady but I’ve never heard what crimes Hunter supposedly committed. Being under qualified and having a powerful father are not crimes as far as I know.
No, but misreporting the sources of your income are.
Yeah, nothing says ‘libertarian’ like busting someone for tax evasion.
I kid, I kid, I know he’s a swamp creature and it’s fair to hold hypocrites to their own standards… we gotta enforce bad laws so people will wake up and change them… other libertarian fantasies, etc… I just couldn’t resist.
So gamesmanship/politics, got it.
The entire charade is gamesmanship/politics. Trying to treat it as an honest trial of guilt or innocence is a surefire way to lose.
Being under qualified and having a powerful father are not crimes as far as I know.
Really, that’s beside the point. Biden would have to either plead the fifth or at least publicly acknowledge the employment for access quid pro quo. Sure, it’s not illegal. But, it would be even more damaging still.
There clearly was at a minimum the appearance of conflict of interest. To be honest, it shouldn’t even be necessary for Hunter to testify. It’d be gravy, but not the main point.
It would be fantastic.
They would just need to leave him a few lines on the table
Schiff probably thought his plan would work, too. Voters be fickle.
Politicians are a weird bunch
The voters could very well punish team red if they go for vengeance. Sure, we’d like to watch it, but if the polls are right, the voters are getting tired of the whole thing.
McConnell is an ass, but he knows politics. He rarely makes mistakes, so if he reads the situation as just shut it down and do nothing, he is probably right.
There’s no way Mitch hasn’t gotten a concession out of Trump over this though.
“The legislation includes $7.6 billion in funding for the 2020 Census”
http://m.theweek.com/5things/884573/congress-unveils-14-trillion-spending-deal
Isn’t that $23K per person?
Er, I think you’re off by three orders of magnitude — it’s just over 23 U.S. dollars/person.
LOL woops!
Which is still insane for a form that says, where are you? How many?
The data entry isnt even complex.
32¢ for the stamp and $22,999.68 for someone to feed the reply into a machine.
You haven’t bought a stamp in a while.
All my stamps say “FOREVER” on them – no idea WTF I paid. Maybe 50 cents now?
Something like that.
Man, I am exhausted
Wedges on the morning commuter train between an old fart with too much hair tonic and a junior high school boy suffering from a nasty head cold? ? Working 9am to 10pm. What a way to make a livin’ ?
I had to work til 1:30 today, damn near 6 hours, it was brutal.
Your acrostics got snubbed at the 2019 Leap Awards. They don’t love you, they really don’t. (Yeah, yeah. I got snubbed, too).
I know, and I was helping Leap in the WebDip game too, I thought we were going to be besties.
If it makes you feel better, about 4 of those hours were crawling around in an attic and now my face is itchy and red from all the fiberglass dust.
I hated crawling attics.
Police officer passed out drunk in his unmarked car in the middle of a road…
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/hes-a-little-intoxicated-body-camera-shows-response-to-aurora-officer-found-passed-out-drunk
Multiple people called 911 to report the passed out cop in the road. His colleagues showed up, and nothing else happened.
“But police never completed a DUI investigation into Meier’s actions and Aurora police Chief Nick Metz in an email to his staff defended his decision to allow Meier to stay on the force and explained in part how he came to his decision.”
The local evening newsreader explained to me that PTSD is a a serious issue on the force.
Why read anything into this? Of course they would’ve treated a non-officer the same.
Why yes, I have suffered a recent head injury, why do you ask?
Years ago my parents and brother were waiting to make a left turn and were rear-ended by a drunk. The guy just sat in his van. My dad had a collapsed lung. My mom was in the passenger seat, which was torn from the floor of the car, and wound up with a dislocated shoulder and torn tendons that required a few surgeries. They know the van driver was drunk because the paramedic said he could smell the alcohol on the guy as soon as he walked up. And then the cops appeared, discovered one of theirs had been in a car accident, and nothing else happened.
I’m a vindictive sort. I don’t know how I would deal with that.
My similar story.
Was driving on the interstate, in a downpour. I was in the right lane, and I was heading for the exit that was coming up. Car in the center lane was cruising along, in no hurry. I was overtaking on the right. My bumper was about level with the trunk/rearwindow intersection when that car decides they’re coming over into the right lane. I see it out the corner of my eye, brake hard, spin out, do a 180 degrees weaving across the whole road, and slam into the right hand guardrail with the left side of my car facing back against traffic. Car pulls over, she gets out, asks if I’m ok, I said “Yeah, but you just ran me off the road.” She jumps back in her car, drives off. I got the plate number.
Cop responds. I tell him what happens. He is very seriously taking notes, getting every detail. I tell him the plate number, he writes it down. I then describe her. “Black woman, middle age, 5’7 or so, 160 pounds…” He writes it all down “Wearing a white uniform shirt, tan pants, gold badge on left breast”.
He flips the notebook closed, and immediately begins to berate me about how I was overtaking on the right, and I’m lucky he doesn’t write me up for a reckless driving ticket right here and now. I get the message, collect the insurance money, move on with my life.
Awwww… poor cops….
Replied to the wrong thing, but here’s more on the same cop.
First, he wasn’t just passed out drunk. He was passed out drunk after going home while on duty and drinking vodka.
Also, same officer:
The New Professionalism
“Hire this man!”
He seems nice.
Hopefully, this goes somewhere — The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has issued a public order rebuking those involved in the process whereby the FBI used the Court to spy on Carter Page:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/12/17/when-the-fbi-does-it-that-means-that-its-not-illegal-120/
And also here:
https://www.cernovich.com/fisa-court-order-fbi-james-comey/
The butt covering has begun
If this results in more skepticism from the FISC, I consider that a good thing.
“BREAKING NEWS: Say goodbye to comfort breaks! New downward-tilting toilets are designed to become unbearable to sit on after five minutes. They say the main benefit is to employees in improved employee productivity.”
https://twitter.com/DaveVescio/status/1207028149873082368
“I can confirm that these toilets are tremendously uncomfortable. My wife and I installed one in our guest bathroom to prevent our son from spending too much time masturbating.”
https://twitter.com/limitlessjest/status/1207040205187891207
Kid lacks dedication.
I worked at a place where one of the employees would enter the restroom at exactly 11:40am every morning and rub one out.
He was not quiet about it either.
You were the weird one there if you kept going back to confirm.
Just saying.
No
I used to think Luddites were crazy, but i might support a group of people destroying these at their work
Lord, the replies:
https://twitter.com/Philosopha1/status/1207039582895820800
Communists say they have nothing in common with the management class. But clearly they share an affinity for meaningless graphs and pie charts.
The movers are currently three hours late. I left work early to be here at the appointed time.
Ahm-a not tippin’.
…and they just called saying they were going to be another half hour.
You’re going to punish the poor schlubs who are going to risk blowing out a knee or back because the asshole back at the office sucks at scheduling?
When we moved to Idaho, I was absolutely fucking furious with the guy running the company. However, the guy responsible for the move absolutely busted his ass and unloaded much of truck by himself. He thought for sure I was going to stiff him, but he worked so hard, I gave him $200. There was a major look of relief on his face.
They ARE the assholes back at the office. If they have an office.
“FLASHBACK: In 2000, a CA Democrat won his first House race, running hard *against* impeachment.
He urged voters to defeat a GOP incumbent whom he accused of pushing a “partisan impeachment” that “polarized our nation.”
That Democrat was…Adam Schiff:”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/12/17/adam-schiff-history-n2558063
https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1207000754663374848
Adam Schiff is a partisan hack? What a shock.
Good man
Wrong headline. Virgin Atlantic doesn’t have first class — only business.
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1205599633885450241
LOLOLOL
Leo, dude, I think it’s time to start dating someone your own age.
Proper permits my ass. Lol.
https://youtu.be/12fR9neVnS8
I can’t even imagine getting a permit for that.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1206976965112205312
Our American President
WTF are those things he covering the couch with tho.
Could you imagine him as someone’s dad. Lol.
McAfee is to “being awesome”, as Sarwark is to “being a clownish embarrassment of epic proportions”. God bless, McAfee
Completely phoned in this day. On Sunday, the wife let big dog get into it with another dog while walking him(and the other dog owner is a friend), and I had to help talk my oldest son, whose raising two children by himself while putting himself through school, off the ledge. It’s amazing how tired you can get while not doing much physically.
Every time I fat-finger my password, I worry that I might have gotten banned.
Need to Impeach is spending at least $1 million on new ads in the next few weeks, including a $350,000 buy premiering on CNN and MSNBC this week accusing the president of breaking his oath to the country, Politico reported Monday.
Hmm… “Brewster’s Millions” but with a less worthwhile use of money?
Later in the article:
The organization funded by Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer is mobilizing its activists to participate in nationwide “Nobody Is Above the Law” events before the House is expected to vote on impeachment Wednesday.
I got it!
The agency cleared applications from 22nd Century Group for its Moonlight and Moonlight Menthol cigarettes. Both products contain less nicotine than their peers, which the FDA hopes will help reduce the number of people addicted to nicotine.
Countdown to when the usual suspects bitch about these starts in…….
The couple’s wedding day was all the way back on Dec. 22, 1939, months after the start of the Second World War – and last month, John, 106, and 105-year-old Charlotte were presented with a Guinness World Record for the oldest married couple.
Excellent. The pictured roadster is cool too.
I’m enjoying a little White Rye.
I’m gonna have to give rye a chance, I’m a bourbon and beer guy usually, occasional vodka
Yes, Tulpa. You will, indeed.
how long does it take to not be tulpa? or is that the wrong goal? I’d rather be STEVE SMITH
We are all always and forever Tulpa and STEVE SMITH would rather be in you.
which is WHY I’d rather be STEVE SMITH
We are all Tulpa. The more you deny it, the more true it is.
but, if I just come out and admit it…
exactly what Tulpa would do
Fuck off, Tulpa!
shit
/Forrest Gump waves
I’m not.
Wrong again
Fuck off, Tulpa!
FYI- your last crossword puzzle was pretty amusing
Thanks, glad someone enjoyed it. I have an idea for another but I have too many irons in the fire right now, I hope to get to it next year.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/VM2NBrFDQSutISM7CAeRTQ.UfNYkbRq5FpwwF0PtF4shA
This is the bottle I opened the other night. It’s delightful. Recommended.
hmm…..
I think it’s the nicest rye I’ve had in a while. Priced reasonably.
My mid-range recommendations are either Bulliet Rye or Pendleton. Either age great rye’s for the price IMO.
So, nothing CNN and MSNBC viewers haven’t been hearing for years already.
So, you want to be a sniper, but you also want to use a revolver
Awesome.
I’m a revolver enthusiast. I loved this vid. Thanks.
“Russian network used BuzzFeed’s Community site to spread false news stories”
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50808296
Because everything you read on the internet was true before 2016.
wait, are you telling me everything I read on the internet is NOT true?
It takes guts to say “Jesus”.
NPR pushed Russian propaganda.
Back when the Rooskies were doing things like set up an anti-Trump protest and a pro-Trump protest in the same place at the same time, not only did NPR “report” on the upcoming protest (only the anti-Trump one, ‘natch), they did an on-the-air interview with the Russian-backed “organizer.”
Every time I hear something is Russian this or Russian that vis-a-vis media today, I imagine a couple of guys in tracksuits fucking around on old computers with CRT monitors drinking vodka laughing their assess off.
So new Star Wars film had its premiere last night. And yes everything I read on reddit is true!
What says Reddit? I can’t be bothered to look……..the last installment was once of the worst movies I’ve seen since “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
So okay to post spoilers? This will be out very soon.
I couldn’t care less but others may object.
All I’m going to say is that in the original script for Ep. 3, Lucas had Palpatine reveal to Anakin that he was responsible for his creation, and thus, was the closest thing he had to a father.
Because even Lucas knew Palpatine was gay.
Oh boy does Rise of Skywalker retcon that!
Gay or not at least he had a little bit of a story arc………unlike Darth Maul, General Grievious, Count Dooku, whoever the giant Snork guy was in the last one, and well, pretty much every villain except Darth Vader. Part of the reason I’ve come to hate the Star Wars franchise is it’s absolutely atrocious storytelling.
Well the sequel trilogy probably has even worse storytelling than the prequels which is saying a lot.
Snorks? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086802/
I was more of a Smurfs fan…
http://www.itsaturday.com/The-Smurfs-1981—1990-Full-Episodes
As long as there are no “Cats” spoilers.
The cat’s out of the bag
Cowboy dinner (beef chuck roast, baked beans and biscuits)……do I pair with Pendleton Rye or a Porter?
Also watching ‘Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ which is the best film I’ve seen in quite some time.
porter
Concur
Pendleton is for after dinner
Damn your nimble fingers!
Agree with both of you. Good call.
When I was a kid, Pendelton was generic for flannel shirt. It’s a brand name, but it was used to denote a flannel of any brand. Of course, if yours came from K-mart, you’d get teased mercilessly for that. Same with jeans , levis was the generic term for those.
Porter. Pendleton rye after dinner.
Pendleton makes a rye?
apparently
I mean, there’s Pendelton Whisky…a blended Canadian whisky which by definition would be high in rye content, but not a “Rye Whiskey”.
Pendleton 1910. It’s a Canadian rye, so it’s on the soft side, but it makes a great Manhattan.
Yep:
https://pendletonwhisky.com/whiskies/
Oh. The 1910. Interesting. I will have to seek that out. I wasn’t impressed with Crown Royal’s Rye, but I’ll give the Pendleton a chance.
/not a Canadian whisky fan
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Y’all motherfuckers need Alberta Premium.
If you want to mail some to North Dakota, or meet me at some remote border crossing, I’d be more than willing to purchase some from you.
And I seriously mean that.
Red wine.
could be a good choice, maybe
From a box.
(I’m thrifty and saving for another AR pistol.)
Ah, Cardboardeaux . . .
so, not an IT guy or shit like most of you, how necessary is monocle and such for this site? I keep my orphans polishing, but is your software/creation something I should install?
This is a trap.
thought it was, you guys can’t fool me that easy
I’m not falling for it, pig. Am I being detained?
yes
It’s pretty damn cool. The best thing is the “Preview” feature. And the html tag buttons. And the “jump to next unread comment” button.
And you want the new-and-improved “Eyepiece”
when I checked it out, I thought eyepiece was a phone type thing, I dont do the internet on my phone, GET OFF MY LAWN! Phones are for phone calls, I have a computer
Yeah, I thought the same for a while, but it works just peachy on Firefox on my Windows 10 tablet.
Trashy has basically abandon Monocle and is putting his time into Eyepiece.
(right, Trashy?)
Correct. Monocle works fine, but Eyepiece has more features and is also better laid out for phones.
I believe Eyepiece is intended to replace Monocle. It works on both according to Trashy (I don’t use my phone either).
I don’t use it. I’m too lazy.
…and have -and abuse- edit powers.
lol
Nah. I can only abuse my powers on my own posts.
Hmmm…a part-time super power. It’s a start!
I bareback the site. Not problems yet.
I use Brave and Monocle/Eyepiece.
Follow the installation instructions as if it’s Chrome/Firefox.
Also, is anybody familiar with the Brave browser(built on chrome) and the BAT (basic attention token) because, I would donate all the BAT earnings to this site. I feel at home here
My God someone perform a welfare check on this man!
yeah, the check would not produce optimal results
Nope. But there is someone here who keeps pimping that, I forget who.
been using it for a couple months, the ad blocker is incredible, some sites don’t recognize it as a browser, but I like it, its fast
Sudden sharp lower abdominal pain (no, not on the right). Dr. Google tells me I’m either pregnant or having menstrual cramps.
So very helpful.
Stay away from WebMD or else it will be cancer.
Best wishes.
Between another kid and cancer, I’ll take cancer, thanks.
Fortunately, I am spayed.
You have….leprosy.
Simpsons joke about self diagnosis
Congratulations!
could be cancer, my PCP tells me that all online symptom checkers say you have cancer
As long as it’s not another kid, I’m good.
yeah, enough is enough, fortunately I didn’t have to abort any of mine, but I hear theres still time if they mess up bad enough
“But your honor, it’s called ‘post-birth abortion.’ It’s legal in some states.”
should be legal until 18, if I gotta be responsible, I should have some say
It’s 21 now.
/truth™
26 with Ocare
I’m watching this TV show called Evil, where a priest in training, a skeptic psychotherapist, and a skeptic hoax-buster investigate possible possessions or miracles for the Catholic church.
One episode had a family with a budding serial killer child who was trying to kill his little sister. The parents thought he was possessed.
This never got determined one way or another because the boy almost succeeded in killing the baby. When our heroes return to the house for the exorcism the next day as promised, the boy has gone missing and their services are no longer needed.
Our Scooby gang turns away from the closed door and the priest says, “They killed him.”
Aaaannnnnd there was a little shock, but no judgment on that. Quite refreshing.
true fact, I had a brother like that, brain damaged due to injury, thought If he killed me he could be put to death(couldn’t kill himself cause in Christianity that is the ultimate sin, can’t ask for forgiveness) so I was injured, attacked, repeatedly. good times…
I will assume you don’t let him bring the appetizers to Thanksgiving dinner.
Gall stone? Intestine eating bacteria? A fistula the size of a mango? Psoriasis?
/my last biology class was in 12th grade
Sounds a lot like either superAIDS or shipyard eye.
Turned out to be a blister on my heel.
OK, grab whatever you use to
wipe away tearsdab a single manly tear from your cheek. A recent, very well written obit for a Vietnam vet:I’m pouring one out for Bill tonight. Godspeed, sir.
*tips a shot with you*
I read that earlier today. Rather beautiful to have such a detailed write-up for a man who seems to have had few family and little fame.
Yes. I was struggling for descriptors, and that single, simple word works very well: beautiful.
OMG
Tucker just made a Union Cabide/Bhopal joke…in reference to Elizabeth Warren
Are they going to put him down?
And eat him.
mmmm bacon
Right?!
WTF else do you do with a pig? FEED it for the rest of its life?!
Fastball.